Palo Alto Weekly September 30, 2016

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXVII, Number 52

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Transitions 17 Spectrum 18 Arts 20 Worth a Look 22 Eating Out 23 Movies 25 Puzzles 64 Q Shop Talk Peninsula Hardware is closing after 63 years

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Q Title Pages Author weaves fantasy from modern events Page 27 Q Home Gamble Garden gussies up for Community Day

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Avenidas heads list of new Cubberley tenants Nonprofit, other groups to take over space vacated by Foothill College

by Gennady Sheyner

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ith Foothill College now completing its departure from Cubberley Community Center in south Palo Alto, the city is preparing to welcome a fresh class of nonprofit groups, studios, faith-based groups and educational programs into the sprawl-

ing former high school campus.

The most prominent new tenant will be Avenidas, the city’s main provider of senior services. The nonprofit is undertaking a major renovation and expansion of its present headquarters in the Birge Clark-designed building on Bryant

Street in downtown and plans to occupy 10,000 square feet at Cubberley during the construction period.

The other 16 tenants will occupy roughly 29,000 square feet of space at the Middlefield Road campus. They include the REACH Program, a nonprofit that serves stroke survivors; Genius Kids, an educational company that provides preschool, kindergarten and after school programs; California Pops, a nonprofit orchestra; Cardiac

Therapy, which provides cardiac rehabilitation services; and Art of Living Foundation, which offers yoga and meditation programs.

Ranger Taekwondo is a new tenant; so is Silicon Valley Karate.

Other tenants will be Acme Education, Brainvyne, Chinese for Christ Church, Dance Connection, Imagination School, Ivy Goal Education, Living Wisdom, Melody Music, Palo Alto Humane Society and Palo Alto Soccer Club.

To accommodate these tenants, the Palo Alto City Council on Monday night agreed to amend the 1991 “master plan” governing Cubberley, which is jointly owned by the city and the Palo Alto Unified School District. With the changes, buildings that were designated exclusively for education (and, in one case, for administration) will now accommodate nonprofits, commu(continued on page 10)

NEIGHBORHOODS

Faircourt feud over two-story homes heads to council City officials to weigh property rights against privacy concerns in the city’s latest request for ‘single-story overlay’

by Gennady Sheyner

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Is this how Cinderella’s fairy godmother did it?

Glass artist Michael Dickinson demonstrates how to create a glass pumpkin at the Palo Alto Art Center to visiting Peninsula School elementary students on Sept. 29. His demo is in conjunction with the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch sale happening this week. Other live demonstrations will take place every half hour on Saturday and Sunday during sale hours.

BUSINESS

Palantir charged with discrimination against Asian applicants U.S. Department of Labor suit could threaten Palo Alto company’s federal contracts

by Gennady Sheyner

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alantir Technology, the data-mining giant that has gradually become downtown Palo Alto’s dominant tenant, was charged Monday with systematically discriminating against Asian job applicants for three positions, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor.

In a suit that could jeopardize Palantir’s lucrative federal contracts, the department’s Office of Federal Contracts Compliance Programs alleged that the

company has been using since at least January 2010 a hiring process and selection procedures that discriminate against Asian applicants for positions of quality assurance (QA) engineer, software engineer and QA engineer intern.

The federal office reached its conclusion after a compliance review that it launched in July 2011 at the company’s downtown office, at 100 Hamilton Ave. The Department of Labor estimates that Palantir received about $340 million in federal contracts since

2010. This includes software and data-analysis services for the FBI, the U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. Department of the Army.

The lawsuit, which was filed with the department’s Office of Administrative Law Judges, seeks to nullify Palantir’s existing federal contracts and bar it from signing new ones. It would “debar” the company’s officers, agents, servants, successors, divi(continued on page 12)

or some residents of Faircourt, an Eichler tract in the Palo Verde neighborhood, a ban on two-story homes is the best way to promote architectural harmony.

For others, it’s the surest way to stoke neighborhood discord.

On Tuesday night, the City Council will be the judge. That’s when council members will consider the neighborhood’s proposal to create a “single-story overlay district,” a zoning designation that prohibits new two-story homes and second floors and that has become increasingly popular in the past year. The application from Faircourt follows similar requests from the Eichler neighborhoods of Los Arboles and Greer Park North, both of which succeeded last year in securing the overlay districts, and from the nearby community of Royal Manor, whose quest faltered after the level of homeowners’ support dipped just below the needed threshold of 60 percent.

The idea of residents seeking to restrict their own property rights to protect their privacy is far from new in the Eichler enclaves of Palo Alto. Between 1992 and 2004, the city approved nine single-story overlay districts. Then, after a decade without approving any new applications (Fairmeadow tried but failed to get enough support), the council has recently been confronted with a slew of requests. The council’s decision last year to formally waive the application fee that the city had

required (but had not, in fact, been collecting) may have contributed to the resurgence.

The argument for the single-story overlay is, by now, very familiar for council members and land-use watchdogs and neighborhood activists. Because Eichlers are built to “bring the outside in” through design features like sliding glass doors, floor-to-ceiling windows and sprawling backyards, second floors are seen by many as antithetical that indoor/outdoor lifestyle. As Faircourt resident and overlay supporter Harold Poskanzer told the Planning and Transportation Commission in April, the issue is primarily one of privacy.

“When we bought our house 16 years ago the outside space was just as important to us as the inside space, and a major factor in the outside space was its privacy,” Poskanzer said. “We spend a lot of time back there. We put a hot tub back there. And frankly, the thought of a two-story house looming over us as we try to soak is rather upsetting for people who love Eichlers like us and people who love the Eichler style.”

But while some see two-story homes and second-story additions as blights on the Eichler aesthetic, others note that these enlarged homes are often needed to accommodate growing and multi-generational families. Many opponents of the single-story overlay see it as a blunt tool that severely, and unnecessarily, takes (continued on page 9)

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Upfront

Palo Alto Historical Association PRESENTS A FREE PUBLIC PROGRAM:

Palo Alto Art Center Celebrating 45 Years Presenter:

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We have not yet met the situation with the appropriate level of urgency.

—Ken Dauber, Palo Alto school board member, on making budget cuts to address a budget shortfall. See story on page 9.

Around Town

MAN OF THE HOUR ... In his eight years as Palo Alto’s city manager, James Keene has weathered a financial recession, a political upheaval and citizen uprisings over everything from parking spaces to home heights, all while running an organization with more than 1,000 employees. There have been speed bumps along the way, including the startling clear-cutting of trees along California Avenue and the city’s secretive (and ultimately futile) negotiations over an office-andtheater development on University Avenue. There also have been success stories: the reconstruction of California Avenue and a carbonfree electric portfolio — not to mention the general recognition by the citizens of Palo Alto (as reflected in annual surveys) that their city remains a great place to live. While locals may have differing opinions about Keene’s performance, his counterparts from other cities this week awarded him with the annual Award for Career Excellence. In doing so, the International City/ County Management Associations recognized Keene for “enhancing the effectiveness of government officials and consistently initiating creative and successful programs.”

In the announcement of the award, Keene, who is known for quoting Bob Dylan and Emily Dickinson during his presentations to the council, reached all the way back to Aristotle, who defined “partnership for living well.” “The life of our cities will depend on the vision, courage and compassion we bring to creating and nurturing our partnerships for living well,” Keene said.

WHAT’S THE CATCH? ... Want to attend business school for free?

A new fellowship at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business will cover tuition and fees for master of business administration students, but there’s a catch: Students must agree to take a job in the Midwest. The idea is to funnel students to more “underserved regions of the U.S.,” according to the program’s website.

Within two years of graduating, students are required to find work in the Midwest, which the fellowship defines as Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin,

for at least two years. In its inaugural year, the Stanford USA MBA Fellowship will pay three students about $160,000 over two years to attend the university. Applicants must demonstrate financial need and have ties to the Midwest, including current or prior residency or graduation from a high school in the region. For more information, visit stanford.io/2aR2LRg.

GREEN LIGHT... Across the region, Palo Alto is as famous for its leadership on clean energy as it is for its skepticism toward new developments. On Monday night, these two values clashed during the City Council’s discussion on a proposal to install “solar canopies” on four city-owned garages, two in downtown and two on Cambridge Street. Once these structures are turned on, the clean energy will be sold to City of Palo Alto Utilities.

When the developer of the project, Komuna Palo Alto LLC, agreed to undertake the installation of the solar panels, it became a test case in the city’s newest clean-energy program, Palo Alto CLEAN. In January, Komuna signed a 25-year lease to install the new structures and to sell the energy to the city.

After months of negotiations with planning staff, the project found itself in front of the council. The big decision was whether to allow the structures to exceed the city’s 50-foot height limit (in one case, the top of the canopy would be about 55 feet above the ground).

Councilwoman Karen Holman found this somewhat alarming and wondered if this can be avoided by reducing the number of solar panels. Zach Rubin, founder of Komuna, suggested that doing so would threaten the project.

“Every panel we model for the site is significant,” he said. “If we lose one panel, it makes a big impact to my economics.” Other council members, however, decided that enough is enough and that the project should be allowed to advance. Councilman Cory Wolbach and Mayor Pat Burt both made the case for giving the green light, with each noting that the canopies will not only provide the city with clean energy, but also provide some welcome shade for cars parking on the top levels of local garages. The council agreed to approve the project as is.

Upfront ELECTION 2016

Gentrification, evictions, water supply and infrastructure funding top list of concerns

by Sue Dremann

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Why are you running for council and what do you hope to achieve if elected:

Goff: “The city has not been proactive on affordable housing (or) protecting residents from becoming displaced or homeless. I would work with other local jurisdictions and the tech industry to help solve the housing problem.”

Moody: “I hope to accelerate our economic-development strategy.

We need shovels in the ground and cranes in the sky, whether it’s housing projects or shopping plazas.

This will demonstrate that the water problem has been resolved.

Local job creation is possible with development. Also, I would like to be a part of a San Mateo, Santa Clara counties’ adoption of a $15 minimum wage, which would assist many of our residents who serve in those communities.”

Romero: “Design, fund, and initiate the construction of a pedestrian bridge at the University Avenue overpass; study and adopt a citywide parking/mobility plan that will address on-street residential parking and bike/pedestrian issues; update, revise, and adopt our existing First Source Hiring Ordinance; study and adopt a local minimum-wage ordinance; complete the revision of our Tenant Protection Ordinance to bring it into line with recent California Supreme Court decisions and continue to maintain its tenant protections; find, in aggregate, a 1.5 million-gallon-per-day permanent water source for the city; develop and adopt an affordable-housing subsidy and prioritization policy to guide the city and the community in developing affordable housing; develop a second unit/garage conversion code-enforcement policy that avoids displacement of

Most important issue facing the city?

Goff: “Affordable housing. The city ought to be sitting down with the folks who started this problem: the tech industry. The tech industry has been very helpful in other areas of society. It’s reasonable to expect to be able to discuss how tech companies have been counterproductive to our community.”

Moody: “Creating additional tax revenue for the General Fund.

Our present revenue levels hinder

Courtesy Carlos Romero

approved a plan to protect the southern part of the city from disastrous flooding.

They also acknowledge disappointments during their tenures, such as a lack of economic development and small business development and a failure to revamp the city’s First Source Hiring program.

Duane Goff, the challenger, said the council hasn’t done enough to protect residents from evictions and high rents, and he is running on a platform to make the tech industry and surrounding Silicon Valley jurisdictions play a role in solving the affordablehousing crisis.

The Weekly asked the candidates to weigh in on the most important issues facing East Palo Alto.

Courtesy Duane Goff

he Nov. 8 election could prove pivotal for the City of East Palo Alto as it faces an affordable-housing crisis, gentrification pressures, a dearth of water that’s hindering economic development, and a need for funding to maintain law-enforcement staffing and to rebuild roads and water infrastructure.

Amid so much uncertainty, three City Council incumbents are running for re-election, while a fourth candidate — a newcomer with decades of civil-rights experience — is hoping to snag one of the three seats opening up.

The incumbents, Lisa Yarbrough-Gauthier, Larry Moody and Carlos Romero, say they’re pleased with improvements in the city during their tenures, which include the launch of construction of the Sobrato commercial center at University Avenue and Donohoe Street; a 41-unit seniorhousing development; and the opening of the new Ravenswood Health Clinics. They funded additional police officers and hired a new police chief, Albert Pardini, and oversaw a reduction of overall crime by 35 percent. As part of the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority, the city

our ability to provide supportive services for our residents, such as the housing division, parks and recreation. I am also concerned about our ability to retain (city) personnel by providing livable wage increases.

Competitive wages for our staff and employees is important to me. We have Larry Moody to implement our economicdevelopment strategy once we have the water, which I’m confident we will obtain.”

Romero: “In order for the city to Carlos Romero progress, water-allocation procurement is arguably the most urgent issue if one views future development and equitable growth as a priority.

Coupled with this need and the need to develop, we must also attempt to address the displacement and gentrification issues brought about by development. Balancing new development and growth with the provision of meaningful and substantive community benefits is our most pressing issue.”

Yarbrough-Gauthier: “The waterallocation issue, along with affordable housing. We need to solve this unfortunate issue regarding water allocation in order to build additional affordable housing and to address the jobs/housing imbalance Courtesy Larry Moody

East Palo Alto council candidates address city’s challenges

Courtesy Lisa Gauthier

tenants and provides homeowners with assistance to bring these dwellings up to code; commence and complete an affordable housing development at 965 Weeks St. once the affordablehousing prioritization policy is adopted; in conjunction with the County of San Mateo Lisa Yarbroughand San Mateo Gauthier County Library Joint Powers Board, build a new library facility in East Palo Alto.”

YarbroughGauthier: “I have decided to seek another term in an effort to continue Duane Goff the work that I began. The council is currently working to resolve the water-allocation issue, affordable housing, parking and many other issues. I would like to see us resolve these critical issues.”

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ELECTION 2016

Opposition to new office space unites Palo Alto’s council candidates While they split on housing policies, everyone agrees that office development should be capped or halted

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tewart Carl believes Palo Alto needs to immediately enact a moratorium on office construction, a view that is shared by several of his fellow candidates for the City Council.

Lydia Kou thinks that the city’s recently instituted cap on office development should be expanded to Stanford Research Park.

Arthur Keller wants the office cap, which is set to expire when the city adopts its Comprehensive Plan, to be made permanent.

In a different year or a different city, such views could be outliers.

But in Palo Alto, where the number of jobs is roughly three times the number of employed residents, and where traffic and parking continue to dominate political discussions, opposition to commercial growth is a mainstream position that has been embraced by just about every candidate seeking a seat on the City Council, including

those generally seen as more amenable to growth and development.

The city’s crusade against more commercial construction has made national headlines in recent months, with newspapers far and wide expressing shock at Mayor Pat Burt’s comments that the creation of jobs should be moderated.

Yet when one looks at the positions of the 11 candidates vying for a council seat in November, it is clear that some would go far further than Burt in limiting commercial expansion. Candidates’ statements — in recent interviews, at election forums and in questionnaires — suggest that whomever the voters elect in November, commercial developers will have plenty of reasons for concern.

When asked in a questionnaire by the residents’ group Palo Alto Neighborhoods (PAN) about the council’s recently adopted office cap, all candidates but Leonard Ely

said they support it (Ely, a commercial broker, didn’t elaborate on why he opposes the cap. Candidate Danielle Martell did not respond to the questionnaire, but her position statement begins with the words “Stop citywide overdevelopment”).

Even Adrian Fine and Greg Tanaka, who both serve on the city’s Planning and Transportation Commission and who took a skeptical stance toward the office cap when they were reviewing it last year, now say they support the constraint on commercial growth. Fine last August called the office cap a “blunt instrument to address quality of life issues,” but wrote in the PAN questionnaire he would like to limit office growth to 50,000 square feet per year until the city adopts its updated Comprehensive Plan (consistent with the council’s current policy). Fine, who currently chairs the commission, also suggested that it may be appropriate to approve only those

Courtesy of the candidates and Palo Alto Weekly

by Gennady Sheyner

The Palo Alto City Council candidates, starting at top row (left to right), are Stewart Carl, Don McDougall, Leonard Ely, Adrian Fine, John Fredrich, Arthur Keller, Liz Kniss, Lydia Kou, Danielle Martell, Greer Stone and Greg Tanaka. office projects that reduce the city’s jobs-housing imbalance, presumably by also including new housing.

Fine doesn’t favor a moratorium on all office growth, however, noting in the questionnaire that most problems come from existing office projects and that such a mora-

torium would be a “serious threat to our economy.”

“Additionally, the office and traffic problems are regional, so even if we do pass a moratorium, office growth will occur in Menlo (continued on page 12)

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PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp

AGENDA–SPECIAL MEETING–COUNCIL CHAMBERS October 4, 2016, 5:00 PM Closed Session 1. CONFERENCE WITH CITY ATTORNEY - Existing Litigation - 1 Matter Authority: Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(1) Eileen Staats v. City of Palo Alto Santa Clara County Superior Court, Case No. 1:15-cv-284956 Study Session 2. Potential List of Topics for Joint Meeting With the City Council and the Library Advisory Commission (LAC) Special Orders of the Day 3. Appointment of two Candidates to the Planning and Transportation Commission for Terms Ending December 15, 2020 and one Candidate to the Planning and Transportation Commission for an Unexpired Term Ending December 15, 2018 Consent Calendar 5. Adoption of a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager or his Designee to Approve a Base Contract for Sale and Purchase of Natural Gas With Sequent Energy Management, LP, and to 7\YJOHZL H 7VY[PVU VM [OL *P[`»Z 5H[\YHS .HZ 9LX\PYLTLU[Z <UKLY :WLJPÄLK ;LYTZ HUK *VUKPtions During Calendar Years 2016 Through 2022 6. 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PUBLIC HEARING: Adoption of Nine Ordinances to Adopt 2016 California Building Codes, Local Amendments, and Related Updates: (1) Repealing Chapter 16.04 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code and Amending Title 16 to Adopt a New Chapter 16.04, California Building Code, California Historical Building Code, and California Existing Building Code, 2016 Editions, and Local Amendments and Related Findings; (2) Repealing Chapter 16.05 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code and Amending Title 16 to Adopt a New Chapter 16.05, California Mechanical Code, 2016 Edition, and Local Amendments and Related Findings; (3) Repealing Chapter 16.06 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code and Amending Title 16 to Adopt a New Chapter 16.06, California Residential Code, 2016 Edition, and Local Amendments and Related Findings; (4) Repealing Chapter 16.08 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code and Amending Title 16 to Adopt a New Chapter 16.08, California Plumbing Code, 2016 Edition, and Local Amendments and Related Findings; (5) Repealing Chapter 16.14 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code and Amending Title 16 to Adopt a New Chapter 16.14, California Green Building Standards Code, 2016 Edition, and Local Amendments and Related Findings; (6) Repealing Chapter 16.16 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code and Amending Title 16 to Adopt a New Chapter 16.16, California Electrical Code, 2016 Edition, and Local Amendments and Related Findings; (7) Repealing Chapter 15.04 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code and Amending Title 15 to Adopt a new Chapter 15.04, California Fire Code, 2016 Edition, and Local Amendments and Related Findings; and (8) Adopt a New Title 16, Chapter 16.18 Private Swimming Pool and Spa Code, 2016 Edition and Local Amendments and Related Findings; (9) Amending Title 16, Chapters 16.36 House Numbering and 16.40 Unsafe Buildings for Local Amendments and Related Findings. Adoption of Categorical Exemptions Under Sections 15305 and 15308 of the CEQA Guidelines 11. PUBLIC HEARING: Faircourt #3 and #4 Single Story Overlay (SSO) Rezoning: Request for a Zone Change of the Faircourt #3 and #4 Tracts #1921 and #1816 From R-1 Single Family Residential (8000) to R-1(8000)(S) Single Family Residential With Single Story Overlay (SSO); Environmental Assessment: Exempt From the California Environmental Quality Act per Section 15305; Planning and Transportation Commission Recommended Denial of the SSO Request 9L]PL^ 6W[PVUZ HUK 7YV]PKL +PYLJ[PVU MVY *P[`^PKL )PRL :OHYL :`Z[LT 6WLYH[LK I` 4V[P]H[L LLC and Finding That the Project is Exempt From Review Under Sections 15061(b)(3) and 15303 of the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines 13. PUBLIC HEARING: Adoption of an Urgency Ordinance Amending the Urgency Interim Ordinance (Ordinance 5325 Extended by Ordinance 5330) Preserving Ground Floor Retail Uses on a Citywide Basis to Allow Educational Uses on the Ground Floor of Parcels Zoned RT-35 Along Alma Street and Finding the Amendment Exempt From Review Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) Page 8 • September 30, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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News Digest Road-rage suspect nabbed near Stanford A man who Palo Alto police said brandished a gun at another motorist during a road-rage incident on Embarcadero Road Tuesday morning was arrested that afternoon near Stanford Shopping Center after a police search that included a lockdown at Nordstrom.

The man, 28-year-old Charles Christian Simbulan Blanco of Fremont, received a criminal citation for brandishing a firearm and for possession of a concealed firearm and was released at the scene, according to police.

Officers learned about the incident shortly after 10:40 a.m., when they received a call from a man who reported that he had just been threatened by another motorist.

When officers arrived at the scene, they found Blanco’s unoccupied car, parked in the Nordstrom parking lot, at 550 Sand Hill Road.

Officers proceeded to search the department store, instituting a precautionary lockdown that lasted 40 minutes.

During the course of the search officers learned that Blanco worked at Stanford Health Care, at 300 Pasteur Drive. He was detained at about 12:40 p.m. Police then returned to Blanco’s vehicle and recovered an unloaded .45-caliber Glock pistol from the frontdoor pocket of the car and found loaded magazines for it in the glove compartment. Blanco had legally possessed both.Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff

Palo Alto approves plan for $15 minimum wage By a unanimous vote, the Palo Alto City Council joined a movement led by the Cities Association of Santa Clara County and Santa Clara County mayors to gradually raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 by 2019, up from the current level of $11.

Palo Alto Vice Mayor Greg Scharff led the committee in endorsing the Cities Association approach in August. On Monday night, he was one of several members who made the case for the common path even though it is longer than the one the city had previously been on. In April 2015, when the City Council agreed to raise the local minimum wage from $9 to $11, it also endorsed a $15 by 2018 plan.

Councilmen Marc Berman and Cory Wolbach on Monday proposed staying on the faster path, but the other seven council members favored following the regional blueprint.

Councilman Tom DuBois made the motion for moving ahead with the Cities Association schedule.

After Wolbach’s proposal to stick with “$15 by 2018” died by a 2-7 vote, the council voted unanimously to approve the slower path.

Council members also agreed not to carve out exemptions for tipped workers, despite pleas from local restaurant owners who argued that “back of house” staff would lose out on higher wages. On the other side of the debate were supporters of the higher wage.

The council needed no further convincing on the subject of a higher wage, though there was debate on whether tipped workers should be exempt, with city officials concluding that they would be on shaky legal grounds if they were to create this exemption, opting not to move ahead with it. Q — Gennady Sheyner

School board: Innovate at current schools The Palo Alto school district has no compelling need to look into opening a new elementary, middle or K-8 school, a majority of the Board of Education decided Tuesday, given declining enrollment and an already tight budget. They expressed support, however, for repurposing district property into sites for innovative programs that can be connected to existing schools.

Board President Heidi Emberling supported the staff’s idea to bring in a consultant to look at the feasibility of opening a combined elementary and middle school.

Member Ken Dauber, too, said there is still room for conversations about the benefits of smaller elementary schools.

There is, however, no money in the budget for any new school given the district’s current $4.2 million deficit, he said.

There was support on the board for directing available funds to support innovation at the district’s existing schools.

Early staff ideas for this program range from an expansion of the district’s early-childhood education services to growing the high schools’ freshman-cohort programs or specialized interdisciplinary “pathways” programs.

Vice President Terry Godfrey and Member Melissa Baten Caswell also suggested that the district tackle a recurring proposal to look at redrawing enrollment boundaries given uneven growth in some areas of the city.

McGee said he will work with staff to further refine their ideas for repurposing existing school properties. He is also currently leading a team of teachers charged at the board’s direction with proliferating innovation at the existing schools.Q —Elena Kadvany

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School board approves first round of budget cuts to address shortfall

How would the candidates vote?

One trustee pushes for more long-term, non-instructional savings

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s part of the Palo Alto Weekly’s election coverage, we will be asking the non-incumbent candidates for Palo Alto Board of Education how they would vote — and why — on significant issues that the board takes action on before November.

This week, the Weekly asked how they would have voted on the two budget options presented to the board Tuesday night and if they would have seconded several failed amendments proposed by board member Ken Dauber. One option, which staff recommended and the board ultimately approved, proposed slightly higher budget cuts for the district office — $485,000 compared to $300,000 — but less for certificated and classified personnel.

Jay Cabrera: I would vote “yes” on the recommendations of the staff.

In regards to my overall perspective, we should be cutting less line items affecting student education and reducing the amount of money in the reserves.

I do not agree with the budget process and want it to be much more participatory. I also do not agree that 10 percent of the budget should be in reserves. The taxpayers pay the money to be spent on student education, not just (to) sit there waiting for a rainy day. I understand having some reserves, but we are talking about the ability to spend an extra million dollars a year for over 30 years.

Editor’s note: Cabrera said in a separate email that while rescinding managers’ raises is

by Elena Kadvany that I think we should be instead looking to close through cutting spending that isn’t related to our educational mission,” Dauber said.

Dauber unsuccessfully advocated for finding more long-term, recurring and non-instructional cuts in this year’s budget. He proposed that the board direct the superintendent to come up with potential ongoing expense cuts instead of borrowing by using the bond funds for technology updates and spending reserves; rescind the most recent salary increase provided to non-represented senior administrators effective Oct. 1; further reduce non-instructional spending and redirect savings from unfilled teachers and specialists positions back to the classrooms; and eliminate the district’s full-time communications coordinator position, effective Nov. 1.

Though none of his colleagues seconded these amendments, several did express support for considering some of his proposals for the 2017-18 budget and beyond.

Some also said they support revising the district’s longtime practice of automatically providing senior administrators the same compensation increases negotiated with the teachers union.

Dauber also reiterated concerns the budget shortfall could affect class sizes at the district’s two high schools, which are starting to see increased enrollment as a large class moves through the middle schools.

While the district has set aside dollars in the budget to hire more teachers to accommodate enroll-

ment growth, “the risk that we’re running in not cutting our non-educational spending now is arriving at that point without the funds to hire those teachers,” Dauber said.

His colleagues, by contrast, supported the staff recommendation without much hesitation.

They argued that using the bond funds for technology upgrades is appropriate given it’s what voters approved those dollars for; that the district will not dip into the reserve to the point that it drops below a required level; and that looking for more savings at the district office, for example, successfully keeps cuts away from students in the classroom.

Member Camille Townsend reiterated criticism of the district’s decision to enter into its firstever multi-year contract with the teachers and classified unions.

Promising three years of raises when the district receives much of the significant budget information, such as property-tax revenue, late in the fiscal year, was a “huge mistake,” she said.

Vice President Terry Godfrey also recounted a meeting she and President Heidi Emberling had with the Santa Clara County Assessor last week to better understand how the district can avoid being surprised again by lower-than-projected property-tax revenue. District staff have said they are now in more consistent communication with the assessor’s office, as well as with Stanford University officials to monitor property exemptions

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When the Planning and Transportation Commission considered the Faircourt application in May, support was at 59 percent.

The borders of Faircourt’s proposed single-story-overlay district have also changed since the application was first submitted to the city, with the applicants agreeing to eliminate six properties abutting Talisman Drive from the district, bringing the number of properties down from 50 to 44. The six homes are different from the rest of the tract because they all back up to houses that are not Eichlers, according to Roland Finston, one of the applicants. As such, Finston explained in an email to the city, the six property owners would be giving up their rights to a second story but not receive the same benefit from their backyard neighbors, who would not be part of the district.

The proposed overlay area is now bounded by Louis and Ross roads and Talisman.

In making its decision, the council will have to weigh the vote of

the planning commission, which denied the application, against the opinion of city planning staff, which is recommending approval based on a resurgence of neighborhood support. According to a report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment, several property owners have changed their votes since last spring, and as a result, the current support level is at 63.6 percent.

Aside from the Faircourt request, city planners are undertaking a parallel process that they hope will obviate future disputes over building heights in Eichler neighborhoods. When the council voted in May to deny Royal Manor’s application, citing concerns over the signature-gathering process and the declining level of support, council members also directed staff to draft Eichler-specific design guidelines. Once completed, these guidelines would help property owners design homes that are consistent with the Eichler aesthetic and that do not intrude on

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away residents’ property rights.

At one of the planning commission hearings, Faircourt resident Alison Cormack said she is perfectly happy with her one-story Eichler but argued that changing the rules retroactively about how other homeowners deal with their properties is inappropriate.

“There are much less restrictive ways to preserve the open space feel in our backyards,” Cormack said, noting that a two-story home next to her house is a “thoughtful addition that does not affect my backyard or raise any privacy concerns.”

The debate in Faircourt closely mirrors the one in Royal Manor, where the petition for the zone change initially cleared the 60 percent threshold of approval of homeowners but then dropped.

Just like in the larger subdivision, support in Faircourt dipped after the signature-gathering drive.

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majority of the Palo Alto Board of Education backed a series of budget measures — some ongoing, some short term; some non-instructional and others closer to the classroom — to start to mitigate a $4.2 million deficit, despite the continued urging of one member to take a more “prudent” approach.

In a 4-1 vote, with member Ken Dauber dissenting, the board approved $3.4 million in budget measures recommended by staff. The list of 13 proposals — some budget cuts and others, alternative revenue sources — for the 2016-17 year include trimming $612,000 at the district office, using voter-approved bond funds instead of General Fund dollars to pay for $1.2 million in technology upgrades and spending an estimated $773,000 from reserves, among others.

Calling the district’s approach fiscally irresponsible, Dauber proposed several amendments to this list, none of them gaining support from his colleagues.

By Dauber’s analysis, just over half of the measures the board approved are temporary (about $2.4 million) and the rest (about $1.8 million) are long term. They’re also closely split between non-instructional and instructional cuts, he said — about $612,000 of the former and about $500,000 of the latter.

“I don’t believe that this recommendation represents a fiscally responsible approach to our budget problem ... in that it relies substantially on spending district reserves, the fund balance and on borrowing to close a gap

“very difficult and has other consequences,” Dauber’s other proposals are “quite reasonable.”

Todd Collins: I would not have voted for the budget-balancing options presented. As I said last night, the proposed approach — relying almost exclusively on spending reserves, borrowed funds and not filling instructional positions — actually increases the risk that we’ll have larger class sizes, fewer electives and fewer student programs later, when the inevitable cyclical downturn comes.

We’re using reserves that we may need later, without even considering potential expense cuts — that’s not prudent.

I would have seconded the amendments proposed by Mr. Dauber, since they called for the superintendent to provide options to the board for cutting expenses this year, as an alternative to spending reserves and borrowing. This is what the board has needed all along. “Good options make good choices” — the board has needed meaningful options to look at and discuss, but none have been presented.

Jennifer DiBrienza: I would not have voted for the option that went forward. We have a structural budget deficit, and I prefer to fix the problem sooner rather than later. Currently, we are addressing the immediate shortfall for this year, as well as looking ahead to next year to make cuts that bring us within budget.

Last night’s proposal draws too significantly from temporary buckets of money that will not

Homes along Evergreen and Talisman drives in the Faircourt tract in south Palo Alto are part of the proposed single-story overlay district that the council will consider on Oct. 4. the privacy of neighbors.

Planning staff is currently negotiating a contract with a consultant to help develop these guidelines, according to the new report from the planning department. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Where are Palo Alto’s single-story overlay districts? See an interactive map at tinyurl.com/PAoverlays2016, or just go to the online version of this article on PaloAltoOnline.com.

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nity organizations and recreational and childcare programs.

In addition, the council agreed to give Avenidas a discounted rate of $1 per square foot, while nonprofits are typically charged $1.31 per square foot. In approving the discount, the council generally agreed that the nonprofit has a unique status because it offers essential services for seniors that, in its absence, the city would have to provide on its own. Under the longstanding agreement between the city and Aveni-

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of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Sept. 26)

Wage: The council approved raising the city’s minimum wage to $15 by 2019.

Yes: Unanimous Cubberley: The council approved short-term leases for Avenidas and 16 other new tenants at Cubberley Community Center. Yes: Unanimous

Board of Education (Sept. 27)

Addison project: The board approved a schematic design for a major construction project at Addison Elementary School, including that it will be built as a three-strand school. Yes: Unanimous Budget update: The board approved the 2016-17 budget, filled the 2015-16 unaudited actuals and adopted appropriation limits for 2015-16 and 2016-17.

Yes: Unanimous Budget management: The board approved a series of measures for the current year to address a budget deficit. Yes: Baten Caswell, Emberling, Godfrey, Townsend No: Dauber

Parks and Recreation Commission (Sept. 27)

Master Plan: The commission reviewed the recent analysis of the city’s Aquatics Program and discussed the Parks, Open Space, Trails and Recreation Master Plan. Action: None

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

Slick roads coming with first rain of season Roads will be slick on Sunday in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas as the first rain of the rainy season falls that day, officials with the National Weather Service said. (Posted Sept. 29, 7:40 a.m.)

Bike Palo Alto hopes to draw large crowd In past years, Bike Palo Alto has welcomed hundreds of cyclists and encouraged many residents to ride their bikes for local shopping and other trips around the city. The event reached a record number of 600 participants last year, according to event planners, who hope to draw another large crowd this year with the addition of a new Bike and Roll Expo. (Posted Sept. 28, 2:06 p.m.)

Loma fire impacting air quality Smoke due to the Loma fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains is contributing to poor air quality in Santa Clara County, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department said in a statement Wednesday, Sept. 28. (Posted Sept. 28, 1:19 p.m.)

New gun bills inspired by Kate Steinle The shooting death of Pleasanton native Kate Steinle in San Francisco last year by a gun stolen from a federal ranger’s car has given rise to new state legislation and a recently introduced federal bill each aimed at stopping law enforcement firearms from getting into the wrong hands. (Posted Sept. 27, 2:41 p.m.)

Burglars break through wall at Keeble & Shuchat Burglars broke through layers of plaster, plywood, sheetrock and a display case to get inside Keeble & Shuchat Photography in Palo Alto over the weekend, making off with thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, according to store owner Terry Shuchat.

(Posted Sept. 26, 2:56 p.m.)

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nonprofit deserves the city’s help, though Councilwoman Karen Holman wondered why Avenidas would get preferential treatment over other valuable nonprofits.

She pointed, as an example, to Friends of the Palo Alto Library, a nonprofit that is also located at Cubberley and that donates about $250,000 annually to the city’s library system. Why, Holman asked, isn’t the Friends group getting the $1-per-square-foot rate?

“Avenidas provides great services for the community, but show me one of these groups that doesn’t,” Holman said.

Councilwoman Liz Kniss countered that Avenidas offers something “truly unique” to the community, while Councilman Cory Wolbach called its contribution’s “critically important.” Ultimately, Holman joined the council majority in the unanimous vote in favor of the discounted rate.

While the new lease agreements solve the immediate vacancies in Foothill’s wake, allowing the city and the school district to continue collecting rent revenue, the longterm future of the 35-acre community center remains undetermined.

In December 2014, the city, which owns 8 acres, and the school district, which owns the remaining 27 acres, signed a new five-year lease agreement that commits the parties to jointly plan the future of the center. Both parties see it as a critical asset, with the school district considering it a potential site of a future school (Cubberley was once the city’s third high school), and the city looking to create a fresh mix of community-serving amenities.

Both parties also agree that the community center is in urgent need of repair, with the city committing $1.8 million annually to an infrastructure fund (before 2014, the city paid this sum to the school district as part of a covenant in which the district agreed not to sell its other school sites; the new lease scrapped the covenant).

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that come in from the university’s major hospital construction.

Parent Todd Collins, who is running for a seat on the school board in the November election, echoed Dauber’s criticisms, arguing that the approach of using reserves and bond funds is “actually increasing the risk to the things we really care about — preserving electives and favorite programs, reducing class sizes, funding our special ed and achievement-gap programs.

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das, the nonprofit pays no rent for its existing facility on Bryant Street. It is, however, paying for renovations to the city-owned building.

Lisa Hendrickson, the former CEO of Avenidas who is leading the capital campaign, told the council that even with the discount, the rent payments present a challenge.

“The rental expense, while not a big number, is an incremental cost for operations and one for which we’ll have to fundraise,” Hendrickson said, “especially at a time when we’re asking the community for a lot of money: $13 million for a new building.”

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On other aspects, there is no clear consensus. In March 2013, a stakeholders’ committee conducted a thorough assessment of Cubberley and released a report calling for the city and the school board to jointly fund a “master plan” for the center.

While both sides have conceptually embraced the committee’s recommendation, the broad planning effort has yet to get off the ground.

On Monday, staff from the Community Services Department assured the council that the new rent agreements will not preclude any long-term options for Cubberley. All leases are short-term, from three years to the time when the city’s lease with the school district expires.

Even so, several members of the stakeholders’ Cubberley Advisory Committee urged the council not to lose sight of the goals to im-

prove Cubberley and make it work better for both the school district and the city.

Diane Reklis, a former school board member who served on the advisory committee, requested that the council proceed with more urgency on the type of “needs assessment” for Cubberley that her committee had recommended. The analysis, she said, is needed for both sides to make the best use of Cubberley.

“Our conclusion was that we didn’t have to choose,” Reklis said.

“We can build a thoroughly modern community center at Cubberley and, when the time is right, we can build a school — a full-sized school. ... This can only happen if we work together and plan together.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

serves now so we have them when we really need them,” Collins said, pointing to projections that show at least five years of multi-million dollar deficits — deficits that grow substantially depending on the size of compensation increases for teachers. (Teacher compensation accounts for 85 percent of the district’s overall expenditures).

While Tuesday’s discussion was mostly limited to this year’s budget, the largest proposal for savings next year by far is an estimated $2.5 million in compensation of the district’s teachers and classified unions, which the district plans to re-negotiate, as well as adjusting raises provided to senior adminis-

trators. The district’s current fiveyear budget forecasts use 1 percent raises from 2018-19 through 202021. The current union contract promised a 12 percent base salary increase for teachers over three years, starting last year.

The board will hear more concrete staff recommendations for the 2017-18 budget at a special meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 18, which Emberling called a “great opportunity” to evaluate $13 million in programs, services and positions the district has added over the last four years. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

in support of Mr. Dauber’s amendments. Class size is an issue and must be addressed by the board, but the three unnecessary elementary positions do not solve this issue. And, while I support ending the “me, too” raises, I am not in favor of rescinding what has already been

provided to our principals who are balancing a monthly budget.

Editor’s note: In a separate email, DiBrienza clarified that she would have supported Dauber’s first proposal to direct the superintendent to identify ongoing expense cuts for this year. Q

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Park or Mountain View, and then Palo Alto will suffer from cutthrough traffic,” Fine wrote.

Tanaka, who chaired the commission last year, favors a moratorium on office development, at least until the city completes its Comprehensive Plan update. And when it comes to office development in general, Tanaka indicated that he prefers small startup spaces over large corporate headquarters. In the PAN questionnaire, Tanaka said he favored limiting “Class A” office space and maintaining height limits of 35 to 50 feet for commercial development in the city’s main commercial areas. This, he said, would help protect Palo Alto’s heritage as a “renowned hub for incubating new economic sectors in startup spaces like bedrooms, garages, coffee shops, plug & play suites.”

On Palo Alto’s political spectrum, both Tanaka and Fine are generally associated with the wing of the council that is more amenable to growth. Each has been endorsed by Marc Berman, Greg Scharff and Cory Wolbach, council members who often find themselves clashing with the council’s slow-growth “residentialist” wing.

But distinctions between adherents to the two competing philosophies are almost imperceptible on

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sions and subsidiaries from entering into any federal contracts and subcontracts until the company demonstrates compliance with Executive Order 11246, which requires government contractors to ensure equal opportunity in employment.

In making its case against Palantir, the federal compliance office pointed to data about the company’s hiring pools and decisions. For the QA engineer intern position, 73 percent of the 130 qualified applicants were Asian; however, the company hired only four (of the 95) Asian applicants and 17 (of the 35) non-Asian applicants, according to the suit.

“The likelihood that this result occurred according to chance is approximately one in a billion,” the suit states.

For the other two positions, the odds were less astronomic but still long enough to raise red flags.

For the QA engineer position, the pool had 730 qualified applicants, about 77 percent of whom were Asian. Palantir hired six nonAsian applicants and one Asian applicant, according to the lawsuit. The odds of that occurring by chance are about one in 741.

For the software engineer position, Palantir received applications from 1,160 qualified applicants, about 85 percent of whom were Asian. The company hired 11 Asian applicants and 14 nonAsian ones. The suit states that

the matter of office space. Greer Stone, a candidate who has the endorsement of the four “residentialist” council members, shares Tanaka’s belief that small startups should be given preference to high-tech giants. In fact, the city should change its zoning code to limit research-and-development downtown to companies with 50 employees or fewer, Stone argued in the PAN questionnaire, “to facilitate more startups and (fewer) large companies.”

While Stone does not advocate for a moratorium, some of the policies he proposes would create new obstacles for commercial developers. Stone suggests conditioning approval of every new development on the developer’s ability to cut down by 30 percent the anticipated traffic that the new building would bring. The developer would have to come back to council within a year to prove that his traffic-reduction plan worked or face a penalty.

“Too often developers promise mitigated, or no impact, from their developments, and then we are left with more clogged streets and dearth of parking after it is built,” Stone wrote. “I would require the developer to pay for, and conduct, a study on the various impacts their development will have. After the study is complete, they will have to sign an affidavit swearing to its accuracy.”

Others in the “residentialist” camp share Stone’s suspicions

when it comes to developers. A central plank in Lydia Kou’s council campaign is the need to protect residents from the cumulative impacts of commercial development.

She wants to expand the annual office cap — which today only applies to downtown, California Avenue and El Camino Real — to Stanford Research Park. And in forums and public comments, she has often talked about the negative consequences of growth — both commercial and residential — on the quality of life of residents. In the past decade, she wrote in the PAN survey, “rampant building of office space without regard for road capacity or parking has created the problems we’re dealing with today.”

While proponents of growth maintain that the traffic problems from new developments can be eased through “transportation demand management” plans (which typically rely on a mix of transit subsidies, rideshare services and bike amenities so that commuters don’t drive solo to work), Kou isn’t convinced that these programs are the solution.

“Part of our traffic and parking problems are the result of the City approving projects based on assumptions that many of the employees would use transit,” Kou wrote. “But these claims were simply ‘aspirational’ — there was no enforcement mechanism and thus the landlord and occupant put little if any effort into promoting

the odds of this result occurring by chance are roughly one in 3.4 million.

One problem, according to the complaint, is Palantir’s fourphase hiring process, in which Asian applicants were “routinely eliminated during the resume screen and telephone interview phases despite being as qualified as white applicants with respect to the QA Engineer, Software Engineer, and QA Engineer Intern positions.” The company’s policies for referral of new employees exacerbated this trend, the suit states.

“In addition, the majority of Palantir’s hires into these positions came from an employee referral system that disproportionately excluded Asians,” the lawsuit states. “The overwhelming preference for referrals, combined with Palantir’s failure to ensure equal employment opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, resulted in discriminatory hiring process against Asian applicants.”

The suit states that the company had several opportunities to address its hiring deficiencies before enforcement proceedings began. Both the Office of the Solicitor and the contracts-compliance office had attempted to secure Palantir’s voluntary compliance through conciliation, the suit states. After efforts at voluntary compliance proved unsuccessful, the compliance office sent Palantir a notice in October 2015 requesting the company to show cause for why enforcement pro-

ceedings should not be initiated.

In addition to canceling current contracts and preventing future ones, the suit seeks to require Palantir to provide “complete relief” to the affected Asian applicants, including “lost compensation, interest and all other benefits of employment resulting from Palantir’s discriminatory failure to hire them, including, but not limited to, retroactive seniority.” The compliance office is also requesting an order requiring the company to hire Asian applicants from the affected class list.

In a statement, compliance office Director Patricia Shiu said that federal contractors “have an obligation to ensure that their hiring practices and policies are free of all forms of discrimination.”

“Our nation’s taxpayers deserve to know that companies employed with public funds are providing equal opportunity for job seekers,”Shiu said.

Palantir disputes the allegations. In a statement, company spokeswoman Lisa Gordon said Palantir is “disappointed that the Department of Labor chose to proceed with an administrative action and firmly denies the allegations.”

“Despite repeated efforts to highlight the results of our hiring practices, the Department of Labor relies on a narrow and flawed statistical analysis relating to three job descriptions from 2010 to 2011,” Palantir’s response states. “We intend to vigorously defend against these allegations.”

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transit.”

In another case of meeting in the philosophical middle, Don McDougall — who has the support of Scharff, Berman and several members of the pro-housing group Palo Alto Forward — and Keller, who is firmly in the residentialist camp, both favor limiting office growth and, as McDougall wrote in his PAN survey, “actively control(ling) development impacts.”

Former planning commissioner Keller advocates for linking future growth at Stanford Research Park to “binding targets for reducing traffic on Page Mill Road, Oregon Expressway, and the CharlestonArastradero Road corridor.” In other words, commercial growth would only be allowed at Stanford Research Park if Stanford comes up with a way to reduce traffic on some of the city’s most crowded thoroughfares.

“By tying the rate of growth to a requirement to address the impact of growth, landowners can be motivated to work with commercial tenants to minimize project impacts,” Keller wrote.

For some candidates, commercial growth is just one of many factors that must be balanced for Palo Alto to remain vibrant while retaining its family-friendly, residential character. Liz Kniss, the only incumbent in the race, cites the city’s transportation problems as a top priority (housing, health

and safety are others) and says she supports downtown’s new Transportation Management Association, a new nonprofit charged with reducing traffic. She voted to institute the office cap and said she would support expanding it, though limiting commercial growth is not a major part of her platform.

For Carl, on the other hand, stopping office growth is a top priority.

During a candidate forum earlier this month, he noted that an office worker today can occupy as little as 75 feet of space. To house this worker, however, the city would need to build about 750 square feet of new development. This, Carl wrote in the PAN questionnaire, creates a tremendous opportunity for housing developers while placing a “tremendous burden on our infrastructure of schools, roads, retail, parks, trees water, our unique quality of life, our seniors, and our residents of moderate means.” The city, he argued, needs to immediately create a moratorium on all new office construction.

“The moratorium needs to stay in place until the city can determine how much growth our infrastructure can really support,” Carl wrote.

The 11th candidate, John Fredrich, aligned with nearly all other candidates in his PAN survey response: He said he supports the office cap and also a moratorium. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Affordable housing

Goff: “As I said previously, the city ought to be sitting down with the folks who started the problem — the tech industry. Also, many people aren’t familiar with East Palo Alto’s history and sense of emotion about the city.

We are very proud of our community.

The tech industry doesn’t appreciate that history. People see themselves as East Palo Alto residents, not residents

of another place. Even if they were given money to go somewhere else, they would still want to live in East Palo Alto.”

Moody: “I have voted in favor of establishment of a housing fund, which now has about $6.2 million. I have voted in favor of the creation of a Capital Improvement Strategy to address the infrastructure-demands issues of the city. I have assisted in identifying county funding to support the Glory Way Well project.

I have approved of the housing recommendation of the Strategic 4 Corners plan. I am prepared through my role on the League of Cities Executive Committee to raise the issue of more regional involvement in providing affordable housing in the

county. I recently completed a oneyear assignment on the San Mateo County Jobs & Housing Task Force led by Supervisors (Warren) Slocomb and (Don) Horsley and discovered some creative approaches toward creating affordable housing. For example, the workforce housing plan of San Mateo County Community College District or ways to assist churches to develop the land for housing.”

Romero: “Indisputably, affordable housing is a major issue in the city. I believe I am the staunchest supporter of affordable-housing preservation and development on the City Council.

I have introduced most of the legislation and programs in the last 20 months that have tried to address displacement and affordable housing issues. Unfortunately, we will not be able to build our way out of this crisis in four short years. However ... I hope to move on a 100-unit development on the 965 Weeks St. site on cityowned property as soon as an additional water supply is procured.

In addition to new development, preservation of existing units and protection of tenants from evictions is equally as important. The current Measure O, the Business License Tax on Large Rental Properties, if passed, will provide some funds for these activities. Second units and garage conversions serve as essential affordable housing that we must prioritize as well as determine how we can bring these sometimessubstandard units into conformance with current planning and building code standards. ... We must develop a program to help homeowners bring these units up to standard lest we risk losing many of them.”

Yarbrough-Gauthier: “I have voted in support of affordable housing while on council. We need to address the Costa Hawkins Act (state law that prohibits municipal rent increase limitations on certain kinds of exempted residential units), continue to strengthen our Rent Stabilization Ordinance and develop affordablehousing projects.”

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ELECTION 2016

Who is running for East Palo Alto City Council?

T

he four contenders for three seats on the East Palo Alto City Council all come with a long history of either public service or civilrights experience.

Duane Goff, now retired, has been a longtime activist.

He was heavily involved in the United Farm Workers in the 1970s and was a member of the board of directors for the Northern California Legal Aid Society for 20 years.

He is the current chair of the Committee on Social Justice for the League of United Latin American Citizens of California, serves on the board of directors for the East Palo Alto Senior Center and East Palo Alto Today and leads a fooddistribution program.

Larry Moody, elected to the council in 2012, currently serves as vice mayor. He is works at the nonprofit Veterans Resource Center of America and is executive director of the Glad Tidings Church of God in Christ, executive director of the Community Development Corporation, a board member of Making it Happen for Our Children EPA and a veteran.

He is a former member of the Ravenswood City School District Board of Education,

Procuring an additional water supply

Goff: “Somebody fell asleep while the barn was burning down. It’s been coming for years and years. I would talk to other water boards around here to share the water they don’t use.”

Moody: “Great strides have been made on the water issue. I was recently appointed to represent the council on the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA) board. We recently presented before the board of directors of the SFPUC (San Francisco Public Utilities Commission) to address our position. ... We have as a council been successful in raising the socialjustice implication of a lack of water to support the development of our community. Our approach of working the networks of water is proven to bear fruit. We are discussing water transfer with Mountain View. The Gloria Way Well is coming on line soon. Pad D is identified as a usable well. I recently joined the WATER NOW organization and continue to work with Gary Kremen of the Santa Clara Valley Water District on water issues.”

Romero: “The council has been working on water issues since my first term in 2008. This is one of the reasons the Gloria well is funded and is so far along in design and development. In addition, the Pad D well, identified in 2012, is also fairly far along in the entitlement phase.

Nevertheless, groundwater alone

the East Palo Alto Sanitary District and numerous other boards for the past 16 years.

Carlos Romero was first elected to the council in 2008 and served as mayor in 2011.

In 2012, he ran for San Mateo County Supervisor, unsuccessfully. He was appointed to the council in May 2015 to fill the seat vacated by Laura Martinez. He is an affordablehousing and land-use consultant who formerly served on the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) Regional Planning Committee.

He is the former chairman of the East Palo Alto Community Law Project and a co-founder of EPA CAN DO and has 34 years in public and community service.

Lisa Yarbrough-Gauthier, elected in 2012, served as mayor in 2015. She is an executive assistant with a background in the venture-capital industry.

An East Palo Alto native, she attended the city’s schools and raised her family there. She has served as an adviser to College Track’s Kiwanis Key Club and as a volunteer for Ecumenical Hunger Program and Kiwanis, among other community-service roles. Q —Sue Dremann cannot resolve the city’s need for water. Additional allocations of water are necessary. At present the city has three options it is working on simultaneously: an SFPUC additional water allocation through the adoption of a 2018 Water Map; negotiations with Mountain View to permanently transfer portions of their water contract with the Bay Area Water Supply & Conservation Agency to East Palo Alto; similar but somewhat more incipient discussions with Palo Alto.”

Yarbrough-Gauthier: “I believe the city has been working to address the water issue for some time, but the issue is getting more attention now.

I have been assigned to the water committee and have spoken at an SFPUC meeting regarding our water needs.”

Recent red-tagging for code violations/evictions Goff: “I understand what the city is saying regarding enforcing its codes. But what they have done to a city that is very poor by enforcing these evictions is that now you are causing two families to potentially be homeless: the people living in the garage who are evicted and the people in the (main house) who could be homeless in two months (without the income revenue).

These ill-thought-out attempts to protect people from substandard housing are speeding up the gentrification of East Palo Alto. ...

Numerous organizations in the Bay Area — nonprofit and some quasi-

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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a closed session to discuss existing litigation, Eileen Staats v. City of Palo Alto. It will then hold a study session with the Library Advisory Commission; appoint three members to the Planning and Transportation Commission; adopt a series of new ordinances relating to building codes; consider a request for a single-story-overlay district from Faircourt Tracts #3 and #4; provide directions for changing the citywide bike-share program; and amend the existing ground-floor protection ordinance to allow educational uses on several parcels along Alma Street. The closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Regular meeting will immediately follow in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider a Net Energy Metering Transition Policy; design guidelines for the 2017 Gas Cost of Service Analysis; and energy storage and microgrid applications in Palo Alto. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

government — exist to address the problem of housing and make the second-dwelling units more livable.”

Moody: “The recent red tagging is a result of code enforcement identifying unsafe units, which are in violation of the municipal codes.

Code enforcers have come under attack from those who have been identified in violation because the violators have refused to come in and work with the Code Enforcement Division. Avoidance and cancellation of inspections have influenced the relationship. If we can assist in getting these units in compliance I would support such an effort. I have always supported second-dwelling units as a part of the city’s housing strategy. ... I am undecided on the (proposed) eviction moratorium to date because ... allowing these unsafe units to continue is not the will of many in the community and creates a tremendous liability burden for the city.”

Romero: “We must develop a codeenforcement policy and program to help homeowners bring these units into compliance. ... I think this can be accomplished by pooling city housing funds, County of San Mateo’s Housing Innovation funds and philanthropic foundation funds, and collaborating with groups like Building Together and the local academic architecture programs to put together a low-cost program to help homeowners. A well-developed and regulated residential parking program will need to be created to address the concerns of neighboring homeowners affected by the additional cars on the street.

“As for a moratorium on evictions in structures deemed unfit for habitation, I doubt the city can institute one given the California statute that governs this area of the law. However ... we could extend the 10-day eviction period to the more generous 30-day state eviction requirement and possibly allow for additional 30-day extensions if the homeowner is making reasonable progress toward correcting and legalizing the unit.”

Yarbrough-Gauthier: “Evictions on any level are tough to handle and with the need for affordable housing being so great, we must handle this matter. I will not go into a great deal regarding this matter because it is on our agenda for Oct. 18, but affordable housing and safe living conditions are important.”

Gentrification — a foregone conclusion for the city?

Goff:”Everybody tells me the best we can do is slow it down and not stop it. The city can take steps. The city is not being proactive. If I was on the council I would constantly be raising and urging us to take steps to meet on an equal footing with surrounding communities to solve the housing problem. I firmly believe the communities surrounding East Palo Alto are ready and willing to assist us.”

Moody: “It is certainly alive in EPA. We have to come up with a regional strategy to assist family members who desire to remain in the home in which they were raised to identify and qualify for housing loans which would allow for homes that go to market to be purchased by residents and family members and not investors.”

Romero: “This is an emotional topic that I struggle with both professionally and as an elected official. Unfortunately there is no single solution; rather the answer may lie in a mix of many policies that can blunt the effects of hyper-inflated housing markets. We have among the widest array of anti-displacement policies of almost any city in the Bay Area. These policies run the gamut from First Source Hiring to commercial linkage fees to possibly a rental gross-receipts tax on this November’s ballot. Where we face the greatest challenge is in the possible loss of housing in our rentcontrolled housing portfolio to future development. Restrictive land-use rules and increased discretionary approvals for the removal of any housing units is an appropriate mechanism to preserve these affordable units. The Westside Area Plan is attempting to put in place such regulations.”

Yarbrough-Gauthier: “Gentrification is still a huge problem. Many people who want to remain in their community have been pushed out due to high rents. The reversal of the Costa Hawkins Acts might allow us to provide some protections for single family homes, but outside of that we encourage residents to follow-up with Community Legal (Services) and the Rent Stabilization departments with questions or concerns.”

Public safety:

Goff: “There is always room for improvement. I think the police department of East Palo Alto is the

finest, most community-oriented police department I have ever seen in action. We are not showing our police chief enough support. The department needs more staffing — two or three more officers — and it needs a public-safety building. It’s an embarrassment that our department is operated out of mobile units.”

Moody: “I provided a strong voice in the budget sessions to prioritize our Public Safety Division by add funding for police officers’ raises; added four new code-enforcement officers; promoted a code-enforcement officer to supervisor; supported the (police) chief’s restructuring of the (police) department. We need to create incentives for local recruitment to the police department.”

Romero: “I have voted on our public-safety union’s collectivebargaining agreement, which we successfully negotiated a year ago.

The hiring of Chief Pardini and his open engagement with the public has done much to build a rapport with our residents. Along these lines, we need to continue to improve our community-policing approach to public safety. In addition, the chief and the council, through its budget authority, have made significant progress in achieving full staffing in the department.

“The area where I would like to focus more attention is on our joint policing efforts in EPA with other jurisdictions.

I believe the community has to understand the level of engagement we have with those outside agencies and also understand the oversight provided by Chief Pardini. Given that, on its face, we have less control

over this latter form of policing because the personnel are not direct city employees, it’s vital that as a community we have sufficient understanding of how we are engaging with them.”

Yarbrough-Gauthier: “The community policing project has really worked pretty well in our community. Violent crimes have been reduced significantly. We need to continue building positive relationships between the police and community.”

How you would vote on city ballot measures: Measure P: Half-cent tax increase for neighborhood safety and city services

Goff: Undecided, but he might support.

Moody: Supports. “I co-authored (it) with Romero.”

Romero: Supports. “I was instrumental in getting measures P and O placed on the ballot. It strengthens our current rent-control law; simplifies the ordinance to make it more understandable; saves tenants, city, and landlords time and money; strengthens eviction defenses.”

Yarbrough-Gauthier: Supports. “It would provide funding for necessary city services.”

Measure O: Business-license tax for large property owners

Goff: Undecided, but he might support.

Moody: Against. “I thought it could have been added to the 2017-18

ballot. We have made great strides in the landlord/tenant/city relationship.

Because of new ownership and our city staff doing a great job of implementing the goals of the Rent Stabilization Ordinance. I’m concerned the voters may not be clear that this is a tax to the landlords, not the residents.”

Romero: Supports. “It provides $600,000 yearly in new city funds paid by a 1.5 percent tax on large landlords to help prevent displacement, help homeowners avoid foreclosure, support homeless housing efforts, and preserve and develop affordable housing. Rents cannot be increased by landlords to pay for this tax.”

Yarbrough-Gauthier: Supports. “It would provide much needed funding for affordable housing.”

Measure J: Strengthens the Rent Stabilization Ordinance

Goff: Supports. But “there are gaps in the ordinance, particularly related to substandard housing evictions.

Evictions are different for apartment owners than for single-family homeowners.”

Moody: Supports.

Romero: Supports. “It maintains and improves public safety, community services and public-works projects by capturing $1.8 million in additional sales taxes of which over $1.3 million will come from non-EPA residents who shop in EPA.” Yarbrough-Gauthier: Supports. Q

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Violence related Assault with a deadly weapon . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Spousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Financial elder abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Residential burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 2 Expired registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle collision/no injury . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Assist outside agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Brandishing weapon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Citizen assist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Information case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Juvenile report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Truant juveniles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unlawful possession of firearm. . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Verbal disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbal domestic dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Alma Street, 9/21, 6:08 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

3894 El Camino Real, 9/24, 12:28 a.m.; battery/simple.

Pasteur Drive and Sand Hill Road, 9/26, 3:20 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Pasteur Drive, 9/27, 12:30 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Menlo Park

1400 block Modoc Avenue, 9/21, 9:58 a.m.; spousal abuse.

1600 block Oak Avenue, 9/22, 3:30 p.m.; battery.

1600 block Marsh Road, 9/22, 5:27 p.m.; battery.

800 block Cambridge Avenue, 9/22, 8:12 p.m.; Assault with deadly weapon.

Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

Patricia Pryor Cullen Patricia Pryor Cullen, a resident of Palo Alto for over 50 years, died on Sept. 12 from natural causes.

She was 91.

She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and, after graduating from Emmanuel College in 1945, she worked for the Human Engineer ing Laboratory. She moved to Chicago in 1946, where she met her husband Michael and became head of a laboratory.

In 1949, the couple moved to Stanford Village where Cullen worked as a technical editor for the Stanford Press. Shortly after, she served in the book division for Sunset Magazine for four years.

She and Michael raised their four children in Palo Alto, where she became an active member of the community. She helped work on the committee to establish a new library in 1954 and served as president of the Addison School PTA. Later, she also served as the president of the Palo Alto High School PTA. Additionally, she was a member of the Palo Alto Planning Commission for 13 years, serving as chair for two terms. After retiring, she and her husband enjoyed their summers in Ashland, Oregon.

Cullen is predeceased by her son Philip (Jennifer) and survived by her daughter Anne Marie Cullen of Pismo Beach, California; sons Paul Cullen of San Jose, California and Charles Cullen of Mountain View, California; and eight grandchildren Ian, Katie, Michael, Christopher, Fiona, Jacqueline, Jamie and Kevin.

A Visitation was held on Sept. 20 at Alta Mesa Funeral Home, as well as a prayer service that took place at the same location the following day.

Memorial donations may be made to Lucile Packard Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital.

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Lane Carroll Tronson January 20, 1926 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; August 8, 2016

Lane Carroll Tronson was born in Minot North Dakota and grew up in Idaho and Washington. He was graduated June 1943 from Lewis & Clark High School in Spokane, Washington. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as a Fire Controlman aboard the USS Bergen in the South Pacific. In 1945, the Navy sent Lane to Officer Training at Stanford University where he met Nancy Raybould, to whom he was married for 70 years. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and worked for IBM for 35 years doing system engineering, research and marketing. After retiring from IBM, he attended the College of Financial Planning and had a second career as a Certified Financial Planner.

The family spent many vacations at the family cabin at Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe where they especially enjoyed fishing and skiing. Lane enjoyed going to Stanford sports events with his family. As empty-nesters, he and Nancy enjoyed winter trips to Mexico, summer trips to Maine and taking cruises. For many years, he was an avid golfer.

Lane was very active in his community. He belonged to the Saratoga Senior Center, Rotary Club, Saratoga Sister City, Hakone Foundation, Saratoga Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club, Sons in Retirement Branch 125, Stanford Alumni Association, Saratoga Presbyterian Church, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.

Lane and Nancy have lived in Saratoga for 51 years. They have a son Cary, a daughter Lynn, a granddaughter Zoe, and step grand children Eric and April. He was a great husband and dad and will be greatly missed.

A memorial service was held Saturday September 24th in Saratoga .

PAID

Stephani Ann Klibo

May 8, 1987-September 20, 2016 Stephani Ann Klibo, born May 8, 1987, made our lives exciting. She was raised and went to school in Palo Alto attending Grace Lutheran Preschool, Fairmeadow Elementary School, JLS Middle School and Gunn High School. Upon graduation she attended FIDM in Los Angeles and San Francisco for fashion design.

She worked many places including the VA Security Department, Stanford Park Hotel and Stanford University. She modeled for agencies and independently, acted in movies and commercials, and consistently worked with children and developed her art.

Her lifelong passions started when she was very young. With an eye for beauty she focused on fashion design. Starting at 3 years old she had strong opinions about what to wear. Halloween Costumes were the first vehicle of her creativity. Every year -well into and after high school - she designed costumes, made them for herself and her friends, and then shared the joy of wearing them.

Another lifelong passion was children. She started her childcare business when she was 10 and continued the rest of her life.

Children would ask for Stephani to come over and take care of them because she never just sat. She taught cooking and sewing and art and dance and singing; she listened to the children, gave them a voice, allowed them to ask questions and express their opinion even if no one agreed with them.

Stephani struggled with pain yet continued for many years to work, create and dream about new projects. On September 20th her struggle ended. She is now free, at home in the arms of Jesus. She had a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faith â&#x20AC;&#x201C; she accepted the Lord at a Vacation Bible School when she was three. Jesus wanted little children, the very young, to come to Him, and Stephani did.

Stephaniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very short life ended but her effect on us has not.

She left a mark on every single child that she cared for; she sent love with every letter; she gave us music and laughter that we hope to rediscover. We will and are missing her tremendously.

She was such a big part of our lives. Though the interactions with her were unpredictable and exciting and challenging, life around Stephani was never dull. God used her to stretch us beyond our own capabilities and, through her, taught us to depend more deeply on Him. Stephani is survived by her brothers, Kristian and Erik Klibo, and her parents, Pamela and Rolf Klibo.

Her memorial service is on October 15, 2016 at 1p.m. at Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto.

In lieu of f lowers help someone in need; a budding artist, a stray cat, someone thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hungry, take a moment to give a smile, listen to a child â&#x20AC;ŚThese are things that made Stephani happy.

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Editorial County tax measures: yes on A, B Funds for affordable housing, transportation need challenging two-thirds vote for passage

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wo important measures on the Nov. 8 ballot ask Santa Clara County voters to approve a $950 million bond measure to build badly needed housing to serve homeless and low-income residents and a half-cent sales-tax increase to fund transportation projects over the next 30 years.

Together, these measures seek to provide some relief to the region’s two biggest and most urgent problems, and we urge a “yes” vote on both. With two-thirds voter approval required for passage, the success of neither is assured.

Measure A, the affordable-housing bond measure, was placed on the ballot by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors in a unanimously vote and is part of a larger initiative to reduce homelessness and provide subsidized housing for very low-income individuals and families. Most of the funds would go to projects serving the homeless and those with incomes of less than 30 percent of the county’s median income. Smaller amounts would target those making up to 50 percent and moderate-income individuals who are seeking to become first-time homebuyers.

Current property-tax rates would increase by $12.66 per $100,000 of assessed valuation. A resident with a home assessed at $1 million would pay $127 per year more in property taxes; $2 million assessed valuation would mean an increase of $254 per year.

The funds generated would be leveraged to attract matching funds from state and local government as well as nonprofit and philanthropic investment, with the hope that as much as $3 billion could ultimately be invested in new housing.

With a survey last year showing that the county had more than 6,000 unhoused residents and long wait-lists for federally subsidized housing, Measure A is the result of extensive work by county leaders to put together a plan that would more aggressively tackle the housing needs of our most vulnerable populations, including veterans, seniors, the disabled, low and moderate income individuals or families, foster youth, victims of abuse, the homeless and individuals suffering from mental health or substance abuse illnesses.

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easure B would raise the sales tax in Santa Clara County by a half-cent to fund more than $6 billion in transportation improvements over the next three decades.

It would be in addition to two previously approved transportation-related county sales tax increments totaling five-eighths of a cent, one for a half-cent expiring in 2036 and another for oneeighth of a cent expiring in 2042. With the passage of Measure B, the sales-tax rate in most cities, including Palo Alto, will rise to 9 3/8 percent.

This new tax, like those that preceded it, has been spearheaded by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, an organization funded by major Silicon Valley companies, and the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA.) Its timing — during a booming local economy and amid high frustration over traffic and commuting — creates the best chance of passage by voters frustrated by the state of local transit, but the measure must overcome a lot of discontent about the BART-centric approach to the use of tax measures already in place.

To address this concern, Measure B has emerged as a consensus plan after some tough bargaining by cities, particularly in north and west county. These cities have felt burned by the allocation of funds raised from the existing sales taxes and made clear that their support for Measure B was dependent on firm limits to spending on BART and the commitment to fund transit projects local communities consider priorities.

The result is a spending plan that will provide funding for the BART extension to downtown San Jose but that caps the allocation for BART at 25 percent of the total estimated $6.3 billion to be raised (in current dollars).

Funding for Caltrain improvements, including grade separations in north county, improvements to highway interchanges and expressways, local street maintenance and bicycle and pedestrian projects make up the bulk of the funding.

The VTA will issue bonds secured by the future tax revenues, a financing strategy that will reduce the total money actually available for projects but that will enable spending in advance of the receipt of the tax revenue.

We have many concerns over the VTA and transportation planning in Santa Clara County, but Measure B shouldn’t fall victim to those frustrations. The region has severe transportation challenges requiring huge investments, and Measure B is a fair compromise of interests that will bring substantial improvements benefiting everyone, regardless of the means of transportation they utilize. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

This week on Town Square Town Square is an online discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square Avenidas heads list of new Cubberley tenants Posted on Sept. 28 at 11:45 a.m. by Gale Johnson, Adobe-Meadow neighborhood I selfishly look forward to Avenidas coming down to my end of town. It will be a five minute drive or a nice long walk from my home. Then there will be no reason for me to go downtown at all for a while. I’m guessing it will take closer to two years to complete the project. Projects of that magnitude seldom get completed in the estimated time frame.

Peninsula Hardware closes after 63 years Posted on Sept. 28 at 10:50 a.m. by Miriam Palm, Old Palo Alto neighborhood Another loss similar to Keeble & Shuchat. I love this place and patronized it as my first choice when I needed hardware. They don’t make ‘em like this any more.

Posted on Sept. 28 at 11:50 a.m. by Mark Meyers, Leland Manor/Garland Drive neighborhood Great store, I have been shopping there since the 60s when my dad would go to buy a washer or a bolt or anything he needed. It was an icon of a place, there is more stuff packed in this little store than you can imagine. I will miss you Gary and Charles and all of the times we had together.

Posted on Sept. 28 at 2 p.m. by Michael Jalone, a resident of another community I remember this store opening and shopped there for many years until leaving Palo Alto. It is the last store of the Midtown I remember which included the Rainbow Market, Leo Nomolini’s Sport Shop, Fremont Pharmacy, the Toy Store on Colorado, Bungalow Market, Bergmans, Midtown Bakery, Toy World and more. Thank you for the

Letters to the editor Get to know the candidates Editor, The Foothill DeAnza Community College District Board of Trustees needs new faces. After many years of not having an election because there were no challengers to the incumbents, this November there are six candidates running for three seats.

The five-member board has the fiscal responsibilities for the $200 million annual budget of two colleges and the $490 million Measure C bond passed by the voters in 2006. In the coming months, the trustees will approve a construction bid for a $20-plusmillion new two-story district building and a one-story boardroom project.

This trustees’ election is too important to take for granted. The

years of service and advice!

Palo Alto approves path to $15 minimum wage Posted on Sept. 27 at 11:02 a.m. by Penny Mcdermott, a resident of another community It is a ridiculous discussion. Restaurants are having a tough time hiring anyone for less than $15 right now. Also, somehow the state of California passed a most unfair law that does not permit the pooling of tips, i.e., when you tip on your bill, only the waiter gets the tip. It is not pooled to be shared with the back of the house. How can the waiters do their job without back of the house support?! Basically, if I could have my way, all employers would provide appropriate salaries and benefits and do away with the tipping protocol.

Please note that downtown Palo Alto restaurants are adding to your bill an “Employer Mandated” amount of money to cover the costs they now pay for health insurance for which they should be paying. I have wondered what would happen if you deducted that from your bill.

Guest Opinion: Deciding Palo Alto’s future growth Posted on Sept. 26 at 11:54 a.m. by Judith Wasserman, a resident of Leland Manor/Garland Drive This is my height limit rant: People are confusing height with density. Height limits do not control density; it’s floor area ratio (FAR), the relationship of square feet of building to square feet of lot area, that controls how much can be built.

Why does it matter that a building has high ceilings? Are you afraid it might be too attractive for the tenants? Make a limit on number of floors, or FAR, or people per square foot, or parking (parking controls more development than anything else around here), but give up this silliness about height limits. Please.

Mountain View-Los Altos League of Women Voters will hold a candidates’ debate on Thursday, Oct. 13, 6:30-9 p.m., at the Los Altos Library.

Ken Horowitz Homer Avenue, Palo Alto

Blocking inappropriate content Editor, Can we please put porn blockers on public computers at public libraries? I was just at the Menlo Park library, and a boy of about 13 years of age was viewing hard core porn on the computer next to me. I think we can all agree that porn is not good for kids.

The same thing happened at a Redwood City library a year or two ago. Is no one noticing that this is a problem? Can we do the right thing for the kids in our community?

Christine Ricks Avy Avenue, Menlo Park

Responsibility for veterans Editor, Congratulations on a very informing and inspiring article about a great program for our veterans! However, there is something that bothers me. It’s fine that we, as local citizens and local governments, are trying to help our vets. But it would be a hundred times more helpful and more appropriate for us as US citizens and taxpayers to help them by asking — no, by demanding — that the federal government, in payment for their service and the sacrifices to their well-being and normal life that they were obliged to make, whether they wanted to or not — would undertake to house all of them according to their needs, just like in the program described: dormitories for the down and outers, rooms for those on the way up and small apartments for the ones with families, paid for by the nor-

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Book program for African kids illustrates ‘power of one’

by Jay Thorwaldson

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n 2004 Chris Bradshaw of Portola Valley was on a trip with her family of four to Lesotho, a small mountainous nation completely surrounded by South Africa.

T hey wer e “pony trekking” because there were no roads, electricity or running water in the small nation. Becoming bored with the steady plodding of the pony, her high school-age son, Ben, began reading a book he’d pulled from his pack.

That book on that pony ride triggered an insight that changed Bradshaw’s life, the lives of her family (husband Steve Levin, son Ben and daughter Mariah) and the lives of uncounted children and adults in villages and communities throughout large areas of rural Africa.

She spoke with the headman of the village they were visiting, and he confirmed there was a paucity of books for the children and said he had long wanted a small library.

When back in the United States, she took action. She began exploring ways to collect “gently used” children’s books and get them to Africa. She began making connections, locally and in Africa.

Her idea and efforts went viral, in today’s tech-world jargon. The result was the creation of a nonprofit organization called the African Library Project — widely known by its initials, ALP (almost an echo of a mountain-to-climb such projects can seem when starting out).

The project has exploded to the point where books are shipped by large ship-

mal standard of one-third of their income.

I was shocked to read that instead of giving Moffett Field over to veterans or for a University City like the one outside of Paris, we are renting to high tech, exacerbating the jobs-housing imbalance that has messed up our cities so completely. When every city tries to hog all the jobs, leaving the other cities to educate the workers’ children, you’d think the federal government would help out by taking on some of the housing burden, not just grab even more money for itself, leaving the local communities to grapple with the thousands of homeless. Anna Eshoo’s a pretty good congresswoman; why aren’t we hammering on her door? Speier, Honda, Lofgren are outstanding — surely they’d be responsive to such a demand because there’s no political alienation price; everybody appreciates Veterans, peace and free-

ping-containers to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Cameroon, Lesotho, Nigeria, Botswana, Swaziland, Malawi, Ghana, South Africa and Sierra Leone. One container is due to be shipped out in mid-October to Sierra Leone.

As of now, ALP has created 1,911 libraries and distributed approximately 2 million books, working with countries and villages over a wide area of Africa. The effort is done in partnership with governments and nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs — the overseas term for nonprofit organizations. ALP currently has more than 1,300 partners internationally, Bradshaw said.

She said ALP expects soon to surpass 2,000 libraries.

ALP groups have been formed across America and in Canada. Age is no barrier. One effort created 13 libraries, spearheaded by Gordon Simonson, now 88, and his local Lions Club of Northfield, Minn.

The “Leo’s Club” of Mountain View High School also sponsors a book drive.

“Public buildings are not an African tradition,” Bradshaw noted, which makes the achievement even more phenomenal. Each community provides the space, forms a committee and names a librarian, she said.

The libraries often are in schools.

ALP will be holding a fundraising celebration Saturday, Oct. 8, from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club, 2900 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park.

The event is, appropriately, called Harambee!, the Swahili term translated as “working together for a common purpose,” or “collaborating on a common goal.” Are you listening, America, in this election year?

There will be feasting, an African marketplace, both a live and a silent auction, traditional African dancing of Zimbabwe

dom people like me, capitalists, socialists, the Tea Party, Occupy, saints, racists — everybody. We should just do it.

Stephanie Munoz Alma Street, Palo Alto

In the name of efficiency Editor, Thank you for the article on Phytophthora (“In Pursuit of a Plague,” Sept. 23). While Sue Dremann accurately describes many aspects of the threat, she stops short of noting that Phytophthora infestations are examples of how we use dishonest or delusional accounting to justify destructive behavior that benefits few at the expense of many.

Those who advocate “globalization” in the name of economic efficiency often ignore costs like those associated with Phytophthora. Though people who ex-

and a performance by Stanford University’s African a cappella ensemble, “Talisman.”

The auction includes an African safari and a week in Botswana at the 2017 “ALP Summit” of those involved in the project, and some local trips.

There are still some openings for the Harambee! event, Bradshaw reported this week. Details are online at africanlibraryproject.org/harambee2016.

The raw facts underlying the importance of ALP remain as a reality, outlined on the ALP website: Q Most African children grow up without books, while U.S. bookshelves and landfills overflow with books no longer read.

Q Africa has the highest percentage of illiteracy in the world.

Q Books are the key to increasing literacy, and literacy is the No. 1 tool out of poverty.

Q Many African teachers teach reading, writing, math and English without even a single book to use as a resource.

Q Many adult Africans lose their ability to read due to a lack of reading materials.

Much of Bradshaw’s work has paralleled a priority of the United Nations, which decreed 2003-2012 the “United Nations Literacy Decade.” The idea was “to underscore the importance of literacy and basic education as major tools in building a cohesive and peaceful society for the 21st century.”

Bradshaw said she fell in love with Africa in the early 1970s, when she spent her junior year in college studying in Sierra Leone and traveling.

My own personal interest in Africa was stimulated some years back when my partner, Patricia, learned of a planned trip by a social-worker colleague at Folsom State Prison, Charles Odipo, and his brother and sister to their home village of Yimbo in

ported Phytophthora hosts to the U.S., and those who imported and sold them here may have shown profit on their books, all who lose benefits of plants killed or damaged by Phytophthora, whether on public or private lands, whether for food, or ornament, or simply as part of an ecosystem that provides myriad services often taken for granted, subsidize that profit with costs far greater, costs that will continue to be inflicted long after the last imported host plant and those who profited by importing it are dead.

Our society is rife with such costs. Those resulting from anthropogenic climate change are an enormous and increasingly widely-recognized example.

Only by learning to predict more accurately costs and benefits of our actions, and by ensuring that these flow together so that those who profit do so only after bearing full costs, will we better

Kenya. The trip was to dedicate a library, funded by the fledgling Friends of Yimbo group to honor their father, who created the local Muguna Primary School and a regional high school.

The trip was life-changing. Each of us in the small group of 14 lugged an extra suitcase containing about 50 pounds of books.

On my return to Palo Alto life, I heard of Bradshaw’s work and met with her to explore links between the Yimbo group and her immensely larger project, and to encourage her to add Kenya to her list of nations. The Yimbo group still exists and funds scholarships and local micro-economic activities.

Kenya recently joined the list of African countries receiving books and creating libraries.

There also are several upcoming book drives, including three in Palo Alto and one in Portola Valley, for the Tom Mboya Memorial Hospital, Kenya; Kamasengre Mixed Secondary, Kenya; the Rapogi Mixed Primary School, Kenya; and the Kitere Primary, Wanyama Mixed Secondary, Kenya.

Bradshaw’s son, Ben, who pulled out that fateful book on his pony trek, is now 26 and works with a Boston-based consulting group. Yet he has a broader vision, Bradshaw said.

“His goal is to do something more important than pulling out a book in Lesotho.”

As if that wasn’t enough.

It triggered the proverbial “power of one” in a person of initiative and vision, which blossomed into the power of many, reaching across the world. Q Form er Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@ well.com. He also writes periodic blogs at PaloAltoOnline.com/blogs.

protect our common future. As Dremann made clear in her coverage of “restoration” efforts, imagining that we can wreak havoc upon an ecosystem that evolved

over billions of years and then recreate it in a few is folly.

David Schrom Oxford Avenue, Palo Alto

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

Courtesy of Pace Gallery

This full-wall, bas relief piece, “Cascade, 1979,” is made up of myriad pieces of wood arranged in small, stacked boxes.

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ace Gallery inaugurated its new downtown Palo Alto space with the light and color-filled work of contemporary artist James Turrell. For its second offering, the gallery has reached back into the past, exhibiting the work of sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899-1988). The exhibition is an opportunity to see the many facets of Nevelson’s work, from small maquettes to the large-scale wall pieces that won her acclaim back in the 1960s.

“We really wanted to do a Nevelson show because she is such an iconic figure and has been represented by Pace for so many years,” explained gallery director Liz Sullivan. In fact, Nevelson has been affiliated with Pace since 1960, when owner Arne Glimcher saw her groundbreaking installation “Dawn’s Wedding Feast” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. “Arne has a wonderful eye,” said Sullivan, “but for him it is all about the artist and his relationship with artists.” The two would have a close friendship throughout her life.

Nevelson was, no doubt, a risky choice for any gallery. As a woman artist working in large-scale and found materials, she was years ahead of her time. But being a nonconformist was a way of life for Nevelson. She was born in Kiev and emigrated to Rockland, Maine in 1905. As a child, her memories were of not fitting into suburban America but also of knowing from an early age that she wanted to be a sculptor. She studied with Hans Hoffman in Germany and witnessed

Courtesy of Pace Gallery

Courtesy of Pace Gallery

“Colonne, 1959” is a tall, totemic piece with three distinct sides arranged to create a structure that forces the eye upward, like a skyscraper.

“Untitled, 1964,” which is made up of bits and pieces of objects such as chair legs, is a good introduction to Nevelson’s work in black.

Turning theintobanal the beautiful Pace Gallery features the work of trailblazing sculptor Louise Nevelson

by Sheryl Nonnenberg the influence of Cubism in France. Nevelson eventually found her niche in New York City, which she proclaimed was “one big sculpture.” She began to collect pieces of wood and cast-off materials that she found around her home. Not wanting to compete with artists who were casting and forging with bronze, Nevelson found her expression in simple materials joined together in a unique style that became her trademark.

Entering the Palo Alto exhibit, the viewer is confronted by a very large wall piece, “Untitled, 1964.” It’s a fabulous introduction to Nevelson’s work in black (Sullivan explained that the artist’s white pieces are not represented because they are very rare).

Like much of Nevelson’s work, the piece consists of hundreds of different shapes of wood painted black. The eye travels in and out of the stacked boxes, which hold bits and pieces of recognizable objects that have been transformed by their juxtaposition with one another. There are pieces of bric a brac, ends of dowels, bits of decorative molding and rungs and legs of chairs.

Just behind “Untitled” is another full wall

piece, “Cascade, 1979.” In this bas relief, myriad pieces of wood are arranged in small, stacked boxes that are both flush with the wall and project outwards and hinged.

Nevelson is credited with uniting the disparate artistic styles of her time: She had the mammoth scale and bold composition of the Abstract Expressionists and the single color focus of the Minimalists. Her love for Cubism and collage can be seen in a series of framed works executed in cardboard. In “Untitled, 1970,” pieces of cardboard incised with semi-circles offset a remnant of antique quilt, further embellished with two tiny mirrors. Sullivan said she wanted to include the cardboard pieces to show the artist’s ability to work with color. They provide a warm contrast to the predominately black pieces in the first two rooms.

Two pieces from the artist’s “Northern Shore” (1966) series show that she was also capable of working in small scale with exacting precision. In these pieces, Nevelson has cut intricate shapes from flat pieces of wood painted black and placed them in pleasing, almost decorative arrangements. They could

be flowers, they could be abstract design, they could be anything the viewer ascribes.

“Colonne 1959” is a tall, totemic piece with three distinct sides. It demands to be seen in the round, so that the viewer can take in each and every piece of wood scrap, arranged to create a structure that forces the eye upward, like a skyscraper of the most humble material.

Nevelson eventually began to accept commissions for monumental outdoor sculptures, and the bronze “Maquette for Dawn Shadows 1976-83” displays her ability to compete with her male counterparts in Cor-ten steel and grand scale.

At Pace, all of the individual pieces are beautifully installed and lit (not an easy task with such layered work), with enough space to enjoy each one and yet see the arc of the artist’s work. Note the dates of the pieces and be impressed with Louise Nevelson’s innovative style. It would lay the groundwork for countless women artists working in sculpture, installation and assemblage in the years to come. Q Freelance writer Sheryl Nonnenberg can be emailed at nonnenberg@aol.com.

What: Louise Nevelson exhibit at Pace Gallery Where: 229 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto When: Through Dec. 11, Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Info: Go to pacegallery.com

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Outside the ‘ethnic box’ Emel Mathlouthi brings her revolutionary voice to Stanford

by Karla Kane

W

hen Tunisian musician and activist Emel Mathlouthi created her new record label, she decided to name it Little Human, as a reminder that “even as little people in a world run by giants, we can sometimes create and become bigger versions of ourselves in ways that touch others and help us all find truth in life,” she explained in an email interview.

As an artist who’s been called “the voice of the Arab Spring,” Mathlouthi has been making a big impact on her world throughout her career. Her heartfelt music mixes the personal and the political and defies genres, led by her powerful vocal prowess. Banned by Tunisian radio for her outspoken, pointed songs and facing government oppression and censorship, she moved to France in 2008 but has remained a strong presence throughout the Middle East, performing across the region, as well as in Europe and Canada. Mathlouthi will perform locally as part of Stanford Live’s “Islamic Voices” series, which explores the diversity of modern Muslim music, on Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Mathlouthi grew up with a jazzand-blues-loving father and began singing at a young age. She found inspiration in artists such as Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and, perhaps surprisingly to those who think of her as an electro-folk artist, from heavy-metal musicians, too.

“The metal guys are real rebels, and they had something they wanted to say and don’t get enough credit as artists and changemakers,” she said.

At university, she formed a metal band, then moved on to solo performance, playing guitar and covering protest songs. Outraged by Tunisia’s repressive regime and lack of

opportunities for young people, and moved by those speaking out for change, she then began writing her own songs. Her music quickly resonated with her peers and became a soundtrack to the revolution.

“My songs spoke to a new generation of young people craving for change and for free voices and speech,” she said. “The revolution that we have begun in Tunisia is a very interesting thing, really a powerful signal to ourselves and to others that people can take their destiny in their own hands. But still we have challenges that need to be addressed — poverty, unemployment, inequality, discrimination, lack of dignity and most of all a general climate of repression that we cannot shake so quickly.”

Her songs explore issues that have a reach far beyond the Tunisian revolution. “Layem,” for example, focuses on the problem of homelessness.

“To me it is still unfathomable that societies leave so many people on the margins, alone. Maybe they have mental problems, family problems, and they are just left to suffer.

I don’t accept that, and at home we always cook something extra and bring it to the homeless. But that is not enough,” she said.

In 2015, she performed at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony, to a stadium filled with 8,000 people and accompanied by a 60-piece orchestra and 10-member choir. Comedian Jay Leno, who hosted the event, told her it was the first time he’d heard someone singing in Arabic and that it made him curious in a positive way.

“Music can help open people’s minds and fight against the smallness that some politicians want people to be attached to. In short, a pretty cool night!” she said.

At her Stanford performance, where she’ll be joined by keyboardist Pier Luigi Salami, and drummer Shawn Crowder, her concert will be preceded by a discussion led by professors Ramzi Salti and Joel Beinin on the Arab Spring and music’s role in it.

Mathlouthi is well aware that when she performs for Western audiences, she is representing modern Middle Eastern culture, and sometimes confronting the stereotypes that go along with that.

“I wish to present an image that’s not exotic; that’s not necessarily speaking about any tradition. As a Tunisian artist, I don’t feel the need

to represent a specific cliched picture, or to carry a flag everywhere I go,” she said. “I want to fight for my right to build the music that I hear without being kept in an ethnic box, to be allowed to transcend all genres.”

Her first album, “Kelmti Horra” (“my word is free”), was released in 2012, and her second, “Ensen,” is due out soon. The new album blends sounds from traditional Tunisian instrumentation with contemporary electronic production, and represents a blend of all Mathlouthi’s influences and interests.

“I sing in Arabic, yet it is not

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‘world music’ with all of its ethnic typecasting,” she said. “It is something different that I hope will show people that artists from everywhere are artists before anything else — not just symbols of what a culture might be or should be like.”Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

What: Emel Mathlouthi in concert Where: Bing Concert Hall, When: Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m. (pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m.)

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Measure A, approved by Santa Clara County voters in 2000, is a 30-year half cent sales tax dedicated to enhancing the county’s public transit system. Although revenue collection did not begin until 2006, upon expiration of a previous measure, numerous Measure A Program accomplishments have been achieved during the first nine years, all significantly benefitting county residents and commuters.

Commuter Rail Projects (Caltrain, ACE, etc.) $8.4

A few key Fiscal Year 2015 accomplishments are:

Bus Projects $62.1

r Extending BART to the Silicon Valley cities of Milpitas and San Jose, which will provide more transportation options and reduce congestion. The extension to the Berryessa section of San Jose is ahead of schedule and under budget. Service is projected to start late 2017. r Extending and improving light rail service with projects such as the Mountain View Double-Track and Tasman Drive Pocket Track projects enabling enhanced service to the new Levi’s Stadium, Sunnyvale and Mountain View.

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r Completion of environmental and planning to increase Caltrain service and electrify the system from Palo Alto to Gilroy.

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Tunisian musician and activist Emel Mathlouthi will perform at Bing Concert Hall on Oct. 5. Banned by Tunisian radio for her outspoken, pointed songs and facing government oppression and censorship, she moved to France in 2008 but has remained a strong presence throughout the Middle East.

It is the conclusion of the CWC that, for the period of FY 2015, 2000 Measure A tax dollars were spent in accordance with the intent of the measure.

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Printed copies of select Measure A and CWC reports are available at libraries and other public buildings throughout the county, and at the VTA offices at 3331 North First Street, San Jose, CA, in the Building B Lobby.

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Los Altos honors renowned Chinese brush artist Event Location: Palo Alto Art Center 1313 Newell Road Palo Alto, CA 94303

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The Los Altos History Museum will host a solo retrospective exhibition of the works of longtime resident and internationally renowned artist Hau Beiren, beginning Oct. 13 in the main exhibit gallery. Many in the community know Beiren as Paul Hau. The artist, who recently turned 100, moved from China to Los Altos with his wife and two children in 1962. The family’s “old apricot villa” in north Los Altos has been the major inspiration for his groundbreaking work, uniting Chinese ink tradition with modern Western artistic techniques. This retrospective exhibition focuses on the artistic development of his work from traditional Chinese ink brushpainting to the introduction of vivid colors to dramatic and bold abstract representation.

Beiren’s unique and innovative “splash ink and color” painting style integrates both Eastern and Western aesthetics. Mark Johnson, MFA, director of the Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University and professor of art, will guest curate the retrospective. This exhibit will be on display Oct. 13 to Nov. 13, with a free opening reception 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 16, at the Los Altos History Museum, 51 S. San Antonio Road. Go to losaltoshistory.org.

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‘Second Sundays’ for Families The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is launching a new program for families on Oct. 9.

“Second Sundays” is a free, family-focused day of art talks, hands-on art projects and gallery adventures for visitors of all ages. Families will have the opportunity to spend the day exploring the galleries and participating in programs designed to help visitors look and think about art in new ways. Activities include docent-led gallery tours, art making in the drop-in studio and the use of art packs for sketching while touring the galleries.

Second Sundays occurs on the second Sunday of each month from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford. Go to museum. stanford.edu/family.

Music Schola Cantorum’s new season Schola Cantorum will celebrate its 53rd season with fresh interpretations of great choral works, rarely-heard commissions and award-winning poetry set to music. Music Director Gregory Wait has chosen pieces he loves and wants to perform again, including two Baroque masterpieces — Handel’s “Dixit Dominus,” and J.S. Bach’s “Christ lag in Todesbanden” — which open the season on Saturday, Oct. 15, and Sunday, Oct. 16. The season concludes on May 20 and 21 with a retrospective of original pieces by Schola’s founder Royal Stanton, Joseph Jennings, Kirke Mechem and Libby Larsen.

“We want to challenge ourselves and do what’s new and current as well,” Wait said. The May concert

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will premier “Love Poem in Blue,” an original composition of last season’s poetry contest winner Sonnet Phelps, with music composed by Assistant Music Director Dawn Reyen. For concert times, locations and season ticket information, go to ScholaCantorum.org or call 650-254-1700.

Exhibit Step back into time with film artifacts Explore a variety of motion picture artifacts dating from the late 1800s to 1980s, including the rare Visionola, a Kerosene movie projector and a Scopitone, at a free exhibit at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto. The new “Evolution of Film” exhibition will also feature film news and movie reels that show the ever-changing landscape of film. The reels can be played in the gallery. Toy models of the zoopraxiscope, zoetrope and praxinoscope will also be available to tinker with. Check out the display at the museum, 351 Homer Ave., through Feb. 26, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Go to moah.org/index.html. Q

Above: “Autumn Glam” is among the work by Los Altos resident and renowned Chinese brush artist Hau Beiren that will be on exhibit at the Los Altos History Museum.

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by Elena Kadvany photos by Veronica Weber

Clockwise from top: 1.) Srasa Kitchen takes advantage of the increasingly popular fast-casual format, through which customers build their own Asian-fusion bowls from a variety of fresh ingredients. 2.) The “Bangkok” bowl comes with brown rice, grilled strips of lemongrass chicken, charred corn, green beans, papaya salad, fresh herbs, Thai chilies, crushed peanuts and a made-from-scratch red curry sauce (pictured with the restaurant’s Thai iced tea). 3.) The “Cali” bowl comes with mixed cabbage, tofu, charred corn, cooked kale, tamarind sauce, fresh herbs, cucumbers and pickled daikon and carrots.

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he New York Times declared earlier this month that “understaffed ‘fast-casual’ restaurants — frozen yogurt, cupcake and tea shops; poke bars; and salad stations where customers order from the counter” are increasingly replacing mom-and-pop restaurants in Silicon Valley.

Mountain View’s Srasa Kitchen would seemingly fall into that category. Customers order at a counter from menus displayed on flat-screen TVs and watch employees compile their customizable pan-Asian bowls from an assembly line of ingredients. They’re left to their own devices when it comes to service — get your own plastic silverware, chopsticks, Sriracha sauce or water. Yelpers compare Srasa to another local Asian-fusion fast-casual chain, Asian Box, and to Mexican

food chain Chipotle.

Yet Srasa Kitchen is family-owned and arguably still a mom-and-pop restaurant, just wearing different clothes.

The Poon family operated Express 7, a fast-food Chinese restaurant, for 17 years at an aging Middlefield Road shopping center before closing to open a new concept, Srasa Kitchen. At Srasa, diners can choose from pre-set combinations or build their own Asian-fusion bowls by drawing on an array of fresh Cambodian, Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese ingredients. (Srasa means “fresh” in the Cambodian language Khmer.) The curry sauces are made from scratch, the lemongrass and garlic are ground in-house. It’s the kind of stuff Brandon Poon’s mother, a na(continued on next page)

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PENINSULA HARDWARE SAYS GOODBYE ... A longtime fixture of Palo Alto’s Midtown neighborhood, Peninsula Hardware is closing. Gary Burke, whose family has owned the 63-year-old store for 52 years, decided to retire and attend to family matters, according to retail consultant Richard Rabb, who is helping Burke close the store, located at 2676 Middlefield Road.

Burke sent a special invitation to customers and Midtown residents to an invite-only store-closing sale on Thursday, which will be followed by a sale for the public. Clearing out the store, including selling off furniture and all fixtures, will take about six weeks, Rabb said. Burke could not immediately be reached for comment, but in a letter to Midtown residents, he summed up his decision to shutter the business, which sold all kinds of items, from garden tools to odd-sized bolts.

“My family and I are so grateful to be able to be a part of this wonderful community. But the time has come to focus on our family,” the letters states. Peninsula Hardware opened in 1953. Bottle cappers,

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washtubs and meat grinders were big sellers, Burke said in a brief history published by the Midtown Residents Association. Burke’s father, Allen, bought the store from its original owner in 1964. Burke started working there at age 13 and through high school, Rabb said. Charles Scott, a longtime Midtown resident who worked at the store for 26 years, said he was sad about the closure.

“I spent a lot of time there,” he said.

“It’s been a wonderful thing to be working there. The people I worked with there were wonderful people.”

Scott said one of the reasons the store is closing is because suppliers don’t want to sell to small retailers like Peninsula Hardware, and he couldn’t order the merchandise he needed.

—S.D. CALAFIA LAUNCHES DAILY BREAKFAST ... Calafia Cafe in Town & Country Village now serves breakfast daily. The restaurant, which emphasizes fresh, locally sourced, whole foods saw crowds increasing during its weekend brunches so it decided to take the plunge and

and the prices are affordable, Poon said.

This combination has clearly paid off. About a year in, there’s a line out the door at lunchtime on weekdays at the Middlefield Road location, and the family opened a second outpost on restaurantheavy Castro Street this summer.

The original location still manages an authentic feel, despite the TV-screen menus, wood paneling and diners holding chopsticks in one hand and iPhones in the other.

It must be due to the food, which has a higher-quality and more authentic taste than other fast-casual chains.

A D.I.Y. bowl with half brown rice, half “fresh salad mix” (an undressed cabbage mixture) topped with grilled lemongrass chicken, charred corn, zucchini, sautéed kale, cilantro, pickled daikon and carrots, slices of fresh cucumber, bean sprouts, a lime wedge and homemade kimchi (an extra 50 cents) was extremely satisfying.

The restaurant’s name is an apt descriptor. The strips of chicken were tender with a nice char and complemented, but not overwhelmed, by the many toppings.

The pickled daikon and carrot stood out in freshness and flavor; I wouldn’t order any bowl without them.

For sauce, I went with soy ginger, served on the side, which was good but got somewhat lost in the crowd of of other ingredients.

Build-your-own bowls start at $8.95, with some proteins and toppings costing extra. Custom-

open early on weekdays. “We saw how popular our weekend brunches were becoming,” said Chandra Lama, Calafia’s general manager.

As for the weekday breakfast menu, Lama said, “We wanted to keep it simple.” With only eight items on the breakfast menu, no argument there.

The basics seem to be well-covered: eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, hash browns — it’s actually all a bit reminiscent of another restaurant that was known for its breakfasts in Town & County, Cookbook. That restaurant, the family-style, comfortfood eatery, closed in 2005, following a successful 20-year run. It had been given a 30-day notice by Town & Country management in preparation for the major overhaul of the center.

—D.S. HERMES, CARTIER COMING TO STANFORD ... French luxury house Hermes and high-end jewelry and watch designer Cartier are coming to Stanford Shopping Center.

Hermes, the family-run retailer that has manufactured luxury goods for six generations — including the $300,000-plus Hermes Birkin mattee Himalayan crocodile handbag that has been billed as “the most valuable handbag in the world” — will open a 6,000-square-foot store in the heart of the newly transformed shopping center, near Neiman Marcus. The store is set to open in late 2017 or early 2018. The Hermes

ers start by choosing from several bases (cold vermicelli noodles, white jasmine or brown rice and the cabbage salad mix; you can also go half and half on two options), then move to the proteins.

There’s the grilled chicken as well as pork and chicken meatballs, eight-hour roasted pork belly, grilled beef short ribs and tofu.

Then you go wild with toppings and sauces.

One of Srasa’s suggested “inspired bowls,” the “Cali” ($9) comes with the mixed cabbage base, tofu, charred corn, sauteed kale, zucchini, seasonal vegetables (which last week was cauliflower), cilantro, cucumbers, pickled daikon and carrots, all topped with a tamarind sauce. At the new Castro Street location on a recent evening, what’s advertised as “crispy” tofu was nowhere near that. It was limp and bland, like it had been sitting around for too long. Good thing the fresh ingredients dressed it up.

The roasted pork belly in the “Cambo” bowl ($12.25, with vermicelli noodles, seasonal vegetables, papaya salad, cilantro, bean sprouts, cucumbers, crispy onions, Thai chiles, hard-boiled egg and a lime, topped with a green curry sauce) is served as flavorful cubes, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. They paired well with the green curry, the most spicy of three curry sauces.

Drinks include home-brewed teas, lemonade, horchata, sodas, local beers and ciders.

Service is minimal, given the setup, but it was friendly and efficient on all visits. Despite the

Palo Alto boutique, which is the first new U.S. location for Hermes in more than five years, will offer a collection of men’s, women’s, home and equestrian collections.

Cartier will open adjacent to the Hermes site this fall. The new Palo Alto boutique has been designed in-house to reflect the look and feel of French architect and designer Bruno Moinard, who is known for creating smart, modern interiors.

He has designed 350 boutiques for Cartier, the Hermes headquarters and galleries in the Musee des Arts in France among other visible projects. Hermes and Cartier aren’t the only new additions at Stanford.

Alex and Ani and Anthropologie are set to open their doors later this fall, and British fashion house AllSaints ( the first U.S. location for women’s Italian fashion brand Luisa Spagnoli), The North Face, British perfume house Penhaligon’s, Pink Posy Bake Shop, UNOde50, Allen Edmonds and Amour Vert, Jenni Kayne’s and Peloton all joined the roster at Stanford Shopping Center this summer. Q

—L.T. Got leads on interesting and news-worthy retail developments? Daryl Savage will check them out. Email shoptalk@paweekly.com. Sue Dremann and Linda Taaffe contributed to this column. lunchtime rush at the Middlefield Road location, the line moves quickly — a perk of the assemblyline model.

Poon said The New York Times got it right: It’s incredibly difficult to operate a restaurant in Silicon Valley, and the Midpeninsula’s restaurant rows — namely Castro Street and University Avenue in Palo Alto — are increasingly populated by chains. He said his family decided to close the burgers-and-baos focused restaurant, Buffalo, and replace it with another Srasa in part because a large burger chain, Eureka!, was set to open down the block.

“Changing to Srasa was kind of our way to at least still provide a mom-and-pop, local business — just to stay competitive,” he said.

“It was worth the change.”Q Staff writer Elena Kadvany can be reached at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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The ‘well from hell’ ‘Deepwater Horizon’ plumbs the depths of disaster 000 (Century 16 and 20) mer home what the news media didn’t much convey in 2010: the human-level horror of being on the rig and the sheer scope of the unnaturalness of the enterprise.

The film succeeds in cultivating a harrowing “you are there” feeling, bolstered by outstanding production design, special effects, sound mixing, and editing, and mitigated only by familiarity with the principal actors. In most respects, “Deepwater Horizon” proves one of the most technically proficient films of the year.

Though the film begins awkwardly by literally having a child explain the work of the rig, non-engineers may soon long for that blunt exposition, given the complicated jargon and action geography to follow. The script alternates mostly between saltof-the-earth banter, portents of doom, finger pointing at BP’s “money-hungry sons of bitches,” and shouted hope of survival.

Berg’s sympathies lie with the Transocean crew operating the rig, and particularly Williams and Harrell as keep-their-cool, all-American heroes of incred-

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The new historical disaster film “Deepwater Horizon” has more facts and figures than a presidential debate. There are 126 crew members on board the titular floating rig, drilling on behalf of $186-billion-company BP, and 390 broken machines, according to chief electronics technician Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg). The project is “43 days and $53 million over budget,” which explains why — according to Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell (Kurt Russell) — BP site manager Donald Vidrine (John Malkovich) doesn’t want to know about the rig’s failings. This all leads up to one Dantean inferno, which will go on to spill 210 million gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico over 87 days.

In telling the tale of the worst oil disaster in U.S. history, director Peter Berg (“Lone Survivor”) and screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand (working from the book “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours” by David Barstow, David Rohde & Stephanie Saul) ham-

Mark Wahlberg plays chief electronics technician Mike Williams in “Deepwater Horizon,” the historical disaster film about the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. ible endurance. As with his “Friday Night Lights,” Berg captures some local color (Cajun and Texan) and takes an effective fly-onthe-wall visual approach.

The pressing question of such films as this are their value as entertainment and art, especially in covering such recent history.

No question: The film’s action is blisteringly intense — at times suggesting a truth-based horror film. After all, 11 people died in the incident, which the film sear-

ingly recreates, with its terrifying rush of oil, fireballs, deadly projectiles and bodies tossed and battered like rag dolls (the film ceremoniously memorializes the victims).

But Berg also seizes a vital opportunity to celebrate American heroism by standing with those good workers caught in the American Dream’s nightmare, and “Deepwater Horizon” cannot help but be an implicit sociological statement. It’s not natural what

we’re doing to the environment with deepwater rigs, not in dayto-day operations and certainly not in disasters. The film indicts BP, but so too the viewer for supporting an oil-based lifestyle with such dire consequences for the planet.

Rated PG-13 for prolonged intense disaster sequences and related disturbing images, and brief strong language. One hour, 47 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

Board game of thrones ‘Queen of Katwe’ a chess movie with girl power 000 (Century 20 and Palo Alto Square) teaches Mutesi that she “can do,” the 9-year-old Mutesi applies a strong work ethic to the game. But along with lending her newfound confidence, her wins threaten her perspective and drive a wedge between her and her fiercely determined single mother (Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o).

A co-production of Disney and ESPN Films, “Queen of Katwe” unsurprisingly has a calculated quality to it, a certain brand of stylistic polish. Disney has found success with the sports film (“Remember the Titans,” “Miracle,” “The Rookie”), and the new film plays many of the corny notes we’ve come to expect. Still, “Queen of Katwe” is something of an outlier as a mid-range-budgeted drama with an all-black cast and a respected filmmaker behind the camera.

Mira Nair (“Monsoon Wedding,” “Salaam Bombay!”) began by making documentaries, then moved into narrative films, of-

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Movies about chess as a vehicle for social mobility and selfdiscovery seem to be becoming a sub-genre into themselves. The 2012 doc “Brooklyn Castle” follows “the chess team at a belowthe-poverty-line inner-city junior high.” Earlier this year came the domestic release of “The Dark Horse,” in which “A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.”

Now comes “Queen of Katwe,” based on the true story of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi.

The film covers Mutesi’s 2007 to 2012 trajectory from illiterate slum dweller to a precedentsetting chess champion able to offer her family a better life. As Mutesi, new discovery Madina Nalwanga capably projects a sharpness of mind, a centeredness and a strong will to succeed. Once can-do chess coach Robert Katende (David Oyelowo, “Selma”)

Madina Nalwanga, left, and Lupita Nyong’o star in the real-life story of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi in “Queen of Katwe.” ten featuring first-time actors for authenticity. “Queen of Katwe” capitalizes on Nair’s experience (including her familiarity with Uganda through her 1991 film “Mississippi Masala”), as well as her optimistic tendencies, to put forward a story of sports as educa-

tion and salvation, with plenty of Ugandan local color. If the slums look just a bit more colorful and clean than in real life, chalk it up to the film’s ambition to be essentially honest without traumatizing its family audience.

That said, it’s fair to say that

“Queen of Katwe” is the first of the Disney sports films to deal frankly (although tastefully) with prostitution, a constantly available source of income to the desperate in Katwe, a district of Kampala. (continued on next page)

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

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

The Blue Angel (1930) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. 5:30 & 9:30 p.m.

Blair Witch (R) Century 16: Fri. & Sat. 12:01 a.m.

Century 20: 9:15 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 6:40 p.m.

Bridget Jones’s Baby (R) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:20 a.m., 1:20, 4:15, 7:15 & 10:10 p.m.

Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:45, 4:35, 7:35 & 10:35 p.m.

Deepwater Horizon (PG) +++ Century 16: 9, 10:25 & 11:40 a.m., 1:10, 2:30, 3:55, 5:15, 6:45, 8, 9:25 & 10:45 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:01 a.m.

Century 20: 11 a.m., 12:20, 1:40, 3, 4:30, 5:55, 7:15, 8:35 & 10:10 p.m. In DBOX at 12:20, 3, 5:55 & 8:35 p.m.

Masterminds (PG-13) Century 16: 9:20 & 11:55 a.m., 2:25, 5, 7:35 & 10:25 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:05 a.m.

Century 20: 12:15, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05 & 10:35 p.m.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (PG-13) Century 16: 9:30 a.m., 2:15, 3:50, 8:35 & 10:10 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:45 p.m. In 3-D at 11:05 a.m., 12:40, 5:25 & 7 p.m.

Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1:50, 4:50, 7:50 & 10:45 p.m. In 3-D at 11:50 a.m., 2:50, 5:50 & 8:55 p.m. In X-D 3-D at 12:50, 3:55 & 10 p.m. In X-D at 7 p.m. In DBOX at 10:50 a.m., 1:50, 4:50, 7:50 & 10:45 p.m.

No Manches Frida (PG-13)

Century 20: 2:20 & 8 p.m.

Don’t Breathe (R) ++ Century 16: Fri. & Sat. 11:05 p.m. Sun. 11 p.m.

The Queen of Katwe (PG) +++ Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:50, 4:45, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 10:10 p.m.

Double Indemnity (1944) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. 5:30 & 9:20 p.m.

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

The Dressmaker (R) +++ Guild Theatre: 1:30, 4:15 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:40 p.m.

The Secret Life of Pets (PG) Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 2 & 4:25 p.m.

Hell or High Water (R) +++ Aquarius Theatre: 2:15, 4:40 & 7:05 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:30 p.m.

Century 16: 2:10, 4:50, 7:25 & 10 p.m. Fri. 9 & 11:35 a.m.

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

Snowden (R) +++1/2 Century 20: 12:25, 3:45, 7:10 & 10:20 p.m.

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

Kubo and the Two Strings (PG) Century 16: 9:10 & 11:45 a.m., 2:20 & 4:55 p.m.

Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:35, 4:10, 6:55 & 9:45 p.m.

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

M (1931) (Not Rated)

M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (Not Rated) Century 16: 10 a.m., 2:10, 6:25 & 10:35 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 11:30 p.m.

The Magnificant Seven (PG-13) Century 16: 9:15, 10:10 & 11:15 a.m., 12:30, 1:30, 2:40, 3:45, 4:45, 5:50, 7:05, 7:55, 9 & 10:15 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:15 a.m. Sun. 11 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., noon, 1, 2:10, 3:10, 4:15, 5:20, 6:20, 7:30, 8:25, 9:35 & 10:40 p.m.

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

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

Sully (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 9 & 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:40 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 10:50 a.m., 1:15 & 3:50 p.m.

The Woman in the Window (1944) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. 3:40 & 7:30 p.m.

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

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

To be held at 4:00P.M., Wednesday October 12, 2016, in the Palo Alto City Council Conference Room, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California.

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2121 Webster Street [16PLN-00115]: Request

by William Neidig for a public hearing on the tentative approval of a Single Family Individual Review to allow the demolition of an existing two-story house and the construction of a new 3,225 square foot two-story house with a 1,917 square foot basement. Environmental Assessment: Exempt per CEQA Section 15303(a). Zoning District: Single-Family Residential District (R-1). For more information contact the project planner Graham Owen at graham.owen@cityofpaloalto.org.

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Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)

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A more benign temptation is the food the volunteer chess coach uses to entice children to join his learning environment (the children, chosen for their great character faces, make for an appealing set of “Bad News Bears,” chess style). “Follow your plans,” he tells them, “And you will all find safe squares.” The sports action comes in a series of tournaments, including one in (culture shock!) wintry Russia, but even anxious violin ostinatos can’t make them very exciting.

What’s thrilling is the story’s girl power, with Phiona described as an aggressive player of “astonishing power.” That and the inspirational moral “Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong” are messages that girls and boys alike should hear.

Rated PG for thematic elements, an accident scene and some suggestive material. Two hours, 4 minutes.

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Book Talk

STEVE YOUNG BOOK SIGNING …

San Francisco 49er legend Steve Young will be at Kepler’s Books on Oct. 15 to sign copies of his new book, “QB: My Life Behind the Spiral.”

Young, a three-time Super Bowl—winning quarterback, began his career at Brigham Young University, then played professionally for more than 15 years, most of that time with the 49ers. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005.

In his memoir, the Palo Alto resident gives readers an unprecedented look at what it takes to become one of the most celebrated professional quarterbacks of all time, and he writes honestly and openly about playing in a league of giants, the pressures of living up to one of Americas most incredible sports fandoms, and his constant quest to compete.

Young will begin signing books at 2 p.m. at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Tickets are required. Cost is $35 per ticket, which includes one copy of the book and admission for two. For more information, go to keplersbooks.com.

ZIGGY MARLEY SHARES FAMILY RECIPES… Ziggy Marley is coming to Menlo Park but not to play music. The Grammy-award winning musician is taking a night off from his North American concert tour to talk about the release of his first cookbook, “Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook: Delicious Meals Made With Whole, Organic Ingredients From the Family Kitchen” at Kepler’s Books on Oct. 19.

The book is inspired by the meals he grew up eating in his family’s Jamaican home.

As the oldest son of Bob and Rita Marley, Ziggy was raised with both traditional Jamaican food and the more natural and healthy “ital” food of the family’s Rastafari culture.

“Our Rasta culture was different

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Sabaa Tahir spins Tahir’s “An Ember in the Ashes” series weaves modern-day events with fantasy

by Anna Medina

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n a bright day outside of the Starbucks at the Village at San Antonio Center in Mountain View, local New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir nibbled on a croissant, incognito in her oversized sunglasses. She had just recently returned to her Midpeninsula home after a tour for the release of her second book, “A Torch Against the Night” — the much-anticipated sequel to her 2015 young adult fantasy book “An Ember in the Ashes,” which debuted at the end of August. Though it’s only been a few weeks since her sequel’s release, Tahir is already making plans to write two more books in the series, and Paramount Pictures is working on a movie based on her books.

The author gained national attention earlier this year when her first epic fantasy novel “Ember” — the story of struggles in the Martial Empire, where defiance is met with death — debuted in the No. 2 spot on the New York Times’ Young Adult bestseller list, with critics saying that the work could launch Tahir into JK Rowling territory.

Tahir recently sat down with the Weekly to talk about her success, how she got her start and what’s in the future.

Though she now has a large and growing fan base of die-hard “emberlings,” she spoke of her humble beginnings, a time even before she was a reader, when she was just a girl who liked telling stories. Tahir, who is Pakistani, grew up in a small town “in the middle of nowhere” California — the Mojave Desert — a town she described as “pretty racist.”

“I used to listen to people say these horrible things to my parents and brothers ... and people just, they really made us feel unwelcome at times,” she said, adding that as a kid in that reality, it was easy to feel lonely and scared.

Instead of speaking out and being confrontational, in response to the hostile environment, Tahir immersed herself in stories. She found fantasy to be the safest

place of all because it served as an escape.

“I didn’t necessarily see a young, brown girl,” she said, “but I did sort of impose myself into the landscape and pretend that I was travelling with Frodo to destroy the ring, or I was looking for the sword of Shannara or whatever the case may be.”

Tahir loved to read and write in her spare time while growing up, but she never thought it could be a career. Instead, her parents encouraged her to consider going to medical school or to become an engineer.

“My parents are South Asian and ... this idea that I would go off and become a writer, they were just like ‘Um, no.’ I mean, they weren’t mean about it, they were just like, ‘No, that’s not practical, hun,’” she said.

After volunteering in a hospital her senior year of high school, she realized medical school wasn’t for her and opted to study communications and journalism in college. It was while working as a journalist for The Washington Post that she got the idea to start writing “An Ember in the Ashes.”

One story, in particular, stayed with Tahir. It was about women in Kashmir whose fathers, sons and brothers were taken from them by local military forces and thrown into prisons, sometimes without charges. She was struck by the complete lack of recourse for these women who didn’t know what was happening to their families, sometimes belatedly discovering that they’d been taken in the first place. “(Writing “Ember”) was me sort of saying ‘Okay, I’m going to write a book in which this does happen, and the world is just as bad as ours, but my character can fight back, and she can get her family member back,” she said.

Indeed, Tahir’s writing is very much informed by what’s happening in the world. She said that while writing “A Torch Against the Night,” the Syrian Refugee Crisis was on her mind and had a large impact on the way that she portrayed the lack

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WORLD-PEACE AND MARRIAGE...

Martin E. Hellman, the Stanford professor who co-invented public key cryptography —the technology that, among other uses, enables secure Internet transactions — and has spent three decades studying how to diffuse nuclear threat, is now using his research to help build better marriages.

Hellman and his wife, Dorothie, recently released “A New Map for Relationships: Creating True Love at Home & Peace on the Planet.”

The book shows how the changes needed to build a strong intimate relationship are the same ones needed to build a more peaceful, sustainable world.

“A New Map for Relationships: Creating True Love at Home & Peace on the Planet,” is available at amazon.com. Paperback is $14.99, and Kindle is $9.99.

A monthly section on local books and authors

Local resident and New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir recently released of her second book, ‘A Torch Against the Night,’ the much-anticipated sequel to her 2015 young adult fantasy book ‘An Ember in the Ashes.’ of dignity afforded to groups of people in the book.

Tahir likened the experience of writing the books to therapy — a way to process the real and horrific narratives in the world and create an alternate, redemptive story in which a young woman of color seeks to save her family member, even in a very broken world. But Tahir didn’t intentionally set out to create a part of the canon dedicated to women of color.

“It was actually more that I wanted to write an honest book, a book that reflected the world around me, and the world around me is filled with color and badass women,” she said adding that women’s strength is natural to them.

“This idea of ‘strong female characters’ has always bothered me because, well, if you’re female, you’re strong; it’s a part of who you are,” she said.

But Tahir takes care to imbue her characters with different kinds of strength. She expressed that it’s not always knowing how

to fight or shoot a bow. Sometimes strength is determination and loving your family.

Not only did Tahir draw inspiration from current events, she also interviewed “modern-day warriors” to understand the mind of main characters Elias and Helene — characters who attend a brutal, militaristic academy and are forced to live by a ruthless moral code.

“Laia was not a difficult character to write because 17-yearold me was very similar, but Elias was a difficult character to write because he’s a 20-yearold warrior, and he’s unafraid of anything, and I didn’t have experience with that,” she said.

Her research included talking to local figures in law enforcement and the military. She said that she talked to a police sergeant about what it means to have a “Plan B and a Plan C and a Plan D”; a local FBI agent who told her about the difficult balance between the personal and the professional; a police officer

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Title Pages

‘Best American’ editors bring new collection of sci-fi/fantasy to Menlo Park

By Michael Berry

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ork by some of the country’s top genre and mainstream writers will be showcased at Kepler’s Books on Oct. 4 during a special launch of the newest volume of “The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy.”

The event will feature series editor John Joseph Adams, guest editor Karen Joy Fowler — author of “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” and “The Jane Austen Book Club” — and contributors Charlie Jane Anders and Liz Ziemska.

This second-edition book, which features a collection of 40 short science fiction and fantasy pieces from both veteran storytellers and promising upand-comers, walks the line between literary and genre fiction.

Among this year’s contributors are Adam Johnson, Salman Rushdie and Kelly Link.

“We are trying to shoot for that crossover audience between the literary readers and the science fiction readers, and hopefully make more science fiction readers,” said Adams, who spent a year reading stories from hundreds of print and online periodicals before Fowler made final se-

lections for the volume.

“The Best A mer ica n” series has a long and venerable history of collecting excellent short stories, essays, sports writing, travel writing, infographics and more, but publisher Houghton Miffin Harcourt had never dedicated a volume to science fiction and fantasy exclusively until Adams and his agents were finally able to convince the company that the genre deserved its own volume.

“Short fiction is at the heart of the field. It was always puzzling to me that there was never a ‘Best American’ volume,” Adams said. “But I think it was because of the way science fiction and fantasy is typically thought of as not ‘real’ literature. Those walls are definitely eroding. If you look at any media, science fiction and fantasy is in the ascendency right now.”

Part of the reason for that dominance may be that the writers in the field are willing to write about more than just white male protagonists having adventures

Susan Wolfe releases second Silicon Valley thriller

by Rachel van Gelder

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usan Wolfe had no plans to become a writer when she began practicing law as a corporate attorney in the heart of Silicon Valley. The Palo Alto resident says she was very focused on developing a career in the burgeoning high tech world while working for the up-and-coming high tech law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati.

Throughout her years as a Silicon Valley lawyer, she gained a premier view of the people and the behind-the-scenes workings of the fast-moving tech world, which ultimately became the inspiration for the characters and story lines in her crime novels.

Wolfe, now an award-winning author, is set to release her second Silicon Valley thriller, “Escape Velocity” during a special launch party on Tuesday, Oct. 4, at Books Inc. in Palo Alto.

“Escape Velocity” tells the story of Georgia, a woman who moves from Arkansas to Silicon

If you’re going What: “The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy,” with John Joseph Adams, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders and Liz Ziemska Where: Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park When: 7: 30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 4 Cost: General seating (no book), $10. Premier seating (with book), $20 Info: Go to keplers.com or call 650-324-4321

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Local lawyer turns crime novelist

in space or pseudomedieval alternate worlds.

“There’s still a lot of work to be done,” Adams said, “but (the field) is definitely becoming more diverse and inclusive, in every sense of those words. Not only just in terms of subject matter, but in terms of the sorts of authors and voices being represented. That’s something that’s important for me to showcase in the series.”

Palo Alto author Susan Wolfe will release her second Silicon Valley crime thriller, “Escape Velocity” on Oct. 4. The novel is based on her experiences as a corporate lawyer representing high-tech companies.

Valley to work as a paralegal at Lumina Software and escape from her family of con artists.

She quickly realizes that some of the Lumina staff are crooked and have a death grip on the company. To impress her boss — and earn enough money to move out of her car — Georgia decides to adapt her extensive con artist training (just once) to clean up the company. Soon, she finds herself teetering between life as an avid paralegal by day and a masterful con artist by night.

Wolfe’s experience and extensive corporate legal knowledge, combined with her ability to seamlessly incorporate real places and quirky details from her daily observations into her story lines, provide readers an insider’s glimpse into the local culture and legal maneuverings of the tech

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industry. She cleverly puts her characters in recognizable hangouts popular among the real-life tech crowd.

The result is a fun, witty and suspenseful read with well-developed characters.

“Escape Velocity” is already receiving positive reviews.

Wolfe, who earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Stanford University, said she has always had a love of writing.

“Writing has always just seemed to me like the finest thing you could do to populate that little room of creativity outside a person’s head,” she said.

She didn’t consider writing professionally until a friend suggested that they each write a book and get together to discuss them.

Wolfe agreed and quickly became enamored with writing her first crime novel, “The Last Billable Hour,” which published in 1989 and led her to take a break from her legal career to finish writing it. The best-selling book received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and earned her a firm following.

Wolfe said the book ended up being much more successful than either she or her publisher had thought it would be. Her publisher later convinced her to write a

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who fought in the Battle of Fallujah and talked to her about what it feels like to leave the military, miss your comrades and lose people; and a West Point cadet who told her why he wanted to go to West Point.

Tahir said that these interviews helped her to understand what it meant to have the “soul of a warrior,” but that they also helped her to see the person — the one with “feelings and loves and hurts” — behind the uniform and the demanding job.

Tahir’s decision to write from different characters’ perspectives — Elias, Laia and later Helene — comes from her background in journalism. Namely, the idea that every story has more than one perspective and more than one way of being told.

In order to tap into these different perspectives, Tahir did not stop at interviewing people.

While writing in different characters’ voices, she turned to music and media. She would ask herself ‘What does the person sound like?’ ‘What’s the cadence with which he or she speaks?’ ‘What kind of music reminds me of them?’ ‘What kind of environment reminds me of them?’

“When I was writing Elias, I was listening to a lot of rock music, and I watched “Apocalypse Now” … And, when I was writsequel, but Wolfe found herself unable to write.

“What I like to do is find a character at a key moment in their life.

Once I have seen that, I do not know how to carry on,” Wolfe said.

She put her writing on hold for 16 years and returned to law as a criminal defense attorney and an in-house lawyer.

Now that Wolfe is retired and has released her second novel, can readers expect more Silicon Valley crime stories?

“Readers may just want another book about Georgia, but I feel that I was following Georgia at a key moment in her life. I have thought about another book showing her 10 years from now, but I do not know if she is going to want to speak,”Wolfe said. Q Editorial intern Rachel van Gelder can be e-mailed at rvangelder@paweekly.com.

If you’re going What:”Escape Velocity” book release party Where: Books Inc. at Town and Country Village, 855 El Camino Real (at Embarcadero), Palo Alto When: Tuesday, Oct. 4, 5:30 p.m.

Cost: Free

ing Laia, I was listening to music that was more angsty and sort of reflected her pain more, and I read a lot of poetry because the way she speaks is a little bit different,” she said.

Tahir tackles profound, weighty topics and yet her books are Young Adult fiction, a genre that some take more seriously than others. But Tahir gravitated toward writing Young Adult fantasy fiction because she sees it as a genre where “story is king.”

“It’s not about fancy literary devices or trying to reach for something that’s not there. It’s just about story. Good, solid story.

You get lost in it. And that, to me, is the best type of storytelling.

The old ‘let me tell you a yarn’ type of story,” she said.

Tahir, who has called the Bay Area her home since 2012, said that she loves it and never wants to move.

“I just feel like the creative spirit in the Bay is unmatched. You have all types of creators. You have artists. You have visual artists. You have entrepreneurs. You have designers. There are just so many types of creation happening, and I think it’s so inspiring and wonderful,” she said.

“A Torch Against the Night” (Razorbill-Penguin Books) is available at Amazon.com. Q Editorial Assistant and Intern Coordinator Anna Medina can be e-mailed at amedina@ paweekly.com.

Book Talk (continued from page 27) than regular Jamaican culture.

We used to have both side then, because my auntie would cook the more traditional Jamaican food. On the other side, our Rasta culture drew us to a different way of eating. My father would always have a lot of juices and greens and nuts. We were introduced to ital food — fresh, organic, and nutritious, less salt,” Marley says in the book.

For three decades, Marley has built a music legacy both alongside his siblings with Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers and as a solo artist. Marley has won seven Grammy Awards and an Emmy. He also leads U.R.G.E. (Unlimited Resources Giving Enlightenment), his nonprofit organization that focuses on uplifting children’s lives through education around the world.

Marley’s book release will be held at 5 p.m. at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Tickets are $10 for students; $20 for general seating; and $40 for premier seating, which includes a hardcover book and a guaranteed spot in the signing line. For more information, go to keplersbooks.com.

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Home Front

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING? ... When you planted those green beans it seemed like you’d never have to many but now your harvest is overflowing. You can give some away, but you can also pick them, cut the ends off, cut in equal pieces, blanch in boiling water for exactly three minutes, put in an ice bath, spread out in Ziploc bags, and freeze. That way you can have fresh green beans even in winter!

Before putting the bags in the freezer, Garden Design columnist Kevin Lee Jacobs suggests using a straw to “suck” the air out of the bag, effectively forming a vacuum.

Too many sprigs of rosemary or thyme? Try this: spread the sprigs out on a paper towel-lined baking sheet and freeze. Toss gently and the leaves will come loose from the stems. Discard the stems, shape the paper towel into a funnel, and store the leaves in a container in the freezer.

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.

The goal of Gamble Garden’s 30th Community Day is to help people cultivate their own gardens.

Gamble Garden to welcome locals for a day of activities and community building

by Rachel van Gelder

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PRUNING HOW-TOS ... If you look up at your trees or look at overgrown bushes and wonder how to prune them back without making them look like balls or a bad haircut, the city of Palo Alto has a workshop for you. “Pruning, Propagation and Deadheading” will be held Saturday, Oct 15 from 9:30 a.m. to noon in the Lucie Stern Community Center Community Room. In this class you will learn how to prune, propagate and deadhead plants to improve and maintain their health. Bring your shears and a few sample branches from your garden. You will learn how to properly prune and how to maintain your shears. Go to cityofpaloalto.org/workshops.

Veronica Weber

WATER USE RULES ... The city of Palo Alto has launched a new Water Efficiency Compliance web page, explaining the current water use requirements for landscaping projects. The city’s Development Services department began enforcing the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance on Feb. 1.

The rules reflect aggressive water use requirements for landscaping projects. The requirements apply when an applicant submits a building permit that includes a minimum landscape scope of 500 square feet for new landscapes, 2,500 square feet for rehabilitated landscapes, rehabilitated projects with an aggregate landscape of 2,500 square feet or less, or projects using treated or untreated gray water or rainwater captured or stored on site.

When you’re done getting dirty you can head to the craft area and make art that reflects life in the garden.

ne way the Elizabeth Gamble Garden hopes to reach the community is to actually get people to put their hands in the dirt. And even dig for worms. No standing on the sidelines for real gardeners.

Gamble Garden will host its annual Community Day on Sunday Oct. 2 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The free event is open to the public and will offer a variety of children’s activities, a plant sale, horticultural resources, gardening demonstrations, food and entertainment. This year will mark the Gamble Garden’s 30th community day.

“Throughout the day we hope to entertain, educate and inspire our neighbors, friends, volunteers and families. It is a chance for us to meet them and for them to get acquainted with the garden,” Gamble Garden President Susan Benton said. “Gamble Garden is such a wonderful resource, we just hope that more of the community becomes familiar with us and enjoys what we have to offer.”

One of the most popular children’s events is the “digging for worms” contest, which has children compete to find the largest worm in a plant bed, said Gamble Garden Public Resource Director Katie Schoeben, Other children’s activities will include flower-arranging, magic shows, story time with the Palo Alto Children’s Library, arts and crafts, educational displays and activities from Canopy. Activities will all be garden-themed.

The plant sale will include plants from the Gamble Garden and this year it will be set up for the entire event.

The event’s goal is to help community members cultivate their own gardens. The Garden will provide an array of informational resources, including educational displays from Canopy, master gardeners who will be available to answer questions and a gardening discussion led by the Gamble Garden manager.

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858 Northampton Drive, Palo Alto Offered at $3,788,000 Fabulous Location in North Palo Alto Bask in the alluring charm of this updated, centrally located 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of over 1,900 sq. ft. (per plans) on a lot of approx.

10,000 sq. ft. (per county). Nestled alongside a tree-lined street in an ideal neighborhood, the residence offers skylights and oversized windows to allow sun-drenched spaces. The family room is flexibly suited for multiple uses, while both the dining and living rooms connect to the soothing backyard sanctuary. Also included are a two-car garage, Andersen windows and doors, and new landscaping. Stroll to Rinconada Park and outstanding Palo Alto schools, and easily bike to Stanford University, popular ®

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Gamble Garden

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Left: Gamble Garden’s garden manager Ella Ancheta and volunteer Lina Roark wear aprons and can’t hide their exuberance about the joys of gardening. Above left: Lots of dirt, trowels and other garden tools will abound so that young gardeners can get a feel for soil, worms, and the delights of planting.

the event. The Soo’s Moo’s ice cream truck will be serving two flavors: salted caramel and vegan chocolate chip.

Visitors are welcome to explore the garden on a regular basis any day of the week, free of charge. The garden also rents out space for small events and weddings. Additionally, it is a popular photo destination, welcoming both professional and amateur photographers. Many locals visit the gar-

dens to take a quiet stroll and relax.

The garden is not the only reason many visitors enjoy the Gamble Garden. Many are intrigued by the rich history of the property. The main house, built in 1902, is located in the center of the property and looks out upon the grounds designed by Walter A. Hoff in 1908.

The property was once home to Elizabeth F. Gamble who donated the house

HOME SALES

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

Atherton 149 Tuscaloosa Avenue Sharkiah Trust to Pink Sunset for $13,000,000 on 08/16/16; built 1975, 5bd, 4,980 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/01/1977, $515,000

East Palo Alto

2647 Fordham Street R. Delgado to R. & D. Butler for $750,000 on 08/19/16; built 1953, 3bd, 1,010 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/13/2016, $490,000 2507 Hazelwood Way A. Nava to S. Hasan for $750,000 on 08/18/16; built 1956, 3bd, 1,150 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/30/2010, $360,000 930 Weeks St. Shah, Juliana to Chu, Joseph for $847,000 on 08/22/16; built 1922, 2 bd, 1,010 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/03/2014, $574,500

Los Altos

1050 Alegre Avenue Cullen Trust to Folden Trust for $2,410,000 on 09/07/16; built 1954, 3bd, 1,433 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/30/2012, $300,000 456 Gabilan Street #4 M. Ammen to N. Parravi for $1,400,000 on 09/09/16; built 2003, 3bd, 1,447 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/31/2013, $1,150,000) 861 Hierra Court Arora Trust to D. Shapiro for $2,800,000 on 09/08/16; built 1985, 3bd, 3,306 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/21/1998, $225,000 1721 Joel Way Lillie Trust to G. Leung for $2,273,500 on 09/06/16; built 1961, 3bd, 1703 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 06/13/2014, $1,650,000) 11120 Mora Drive Traugott Trust to A. & L. Frenkel for $2,595,000 on 09/07/16; built 1950, 4bd, 2,393 sq.ft.

1683 Parkhills Avenue Hanneman Trust to W. & C.

and garden to the City of Palo Alto before her death in 1981. The city decided to recognize the land as a historic property and opened the gates of the Gamble Garden to the public in 1985.Visitors can now walk through the historic gardens during daylight hours and are allowed to tour the house on weekdays. Q Editorial intern Rachel van Gelder can be emailed at rvangelder@paweekly.com.

Gamble Garden Community Day When: Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016 Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto More information: www.gamblegarden.org

Trust for $928,000 on 09/12/16; built 1978, 3 bd, 1,215 sq. ft.; previous sale 11/15/1991, $236,000

SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton

Los Altos Hills

Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $13,000,000

East Palo Alto Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $750,000 Highest sales price: $847,000 Average sales price: $782,330

Los Altos Total sales reported: 8 Lowest sales price: $1,400,000 Highest sales price: $2,800,000 Average sales price: $2,341,688

Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $5,400,000 Highest sales price: $10,300,000 Average sales price: $7,466,667

Palo Alto Total sales reported: 17 Lowest sales price: $800,500 HIighest sales price: $7,795,000 Average sales price: $3,012,618

Menlo Park

Portola Valley

Total sales reported: 11 Lowest sales price: $715,000 Highest sales price: $4,575,000 Average sales price: $2,460,900

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $1,550,000 Highest sales price: $3,150,000 Average sales price: $2,390,500

Mountain View Total sales reported: 11 Lowest sales price: $599,000 Highest sales price: $3,008,000 Average sales price: $1,614,400

Woodside Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $1,075,000 Highest sales price: $8,250,000 Average sales price: $2,977,500 Source: California REsource

Leung for $2,330,000 on 09/09/16; built 1954, 3bd, 2,115 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/11/1987, $310,000 1430 Ranchita Drive K. & B. Curtin to Dedominicis Trust for $2,625,000 on 09/09/16; built 1955, 3bd, 1,899 sq.ft.

517 Tyndall Street Hodges Trust to Poltrack Trust for $2,300,000 on 09/02/16; built 1940, 2bd, 1,094 sq.ft.

Los Altos Hills

26875 Elena Road ChangCheng Trust to J. Li for $6,700,000 on 09/09/16; built 1997, 6bd, 6,382 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/23/2010, $4,400,000 11030 Magdalena Road J. Chang to R. & K. Verma for $5,400,000 on 09/07/16; built 1998, 4bd, 5,401 sq.ft.

12775 Viscaino Road Sundace Trust to W. He for $10,300,000 on 09/07/16; built 1903, 6bd, 7,240 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/25/2004, $12,700,000

Menlo Park

511 6th Ave. Peterson, Katrina to Makani Trust for $715,000 on 08/23/16; built 1946, 2 bd, 760 sq. ft.; previous sale 04/27/2010,

$400,000 2035 Avy Avenue Bethany Lutheran Church to T. Teng for $1,550,000 on 08/19/16; built 1953, 2bd, 1,130 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/31/2007, $530,000 1931 Camino A Los Cerros Camino Los Cerros Limited to Kothari-Daryani Trust for $4,575,000 on 08/22/16; built 1954, 3 bd, 1,400 sq. ft.; previous sale 08/07/2015, $2,375,000 1834 Doris Drive Linn Trust to Mizrahi Trust for $3,200,000 on 08/19/16; built 1952, 3bd, 1,870 sq.ft.

410 Gilbert Avenue N. & J. Sequeira to Pellican Trust for $2,850,000 on 08/16/16; built 1940, 4bd, 2,740 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/28/2011, $1,370,000 112 Laurel Avenue Rose Trust to S. & D. Madison for $2,000,000 on 08/16/16; built 1956, 4bd, 1,910 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/21/2004, $1,053,000 1053 Menlo Oaks Drive Azalde, Victoria and Christopher to Saidha, Shalini for $1,610,000 on 08/23/16; built 1945, 3 bd, 1,680 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/02/2012, $1,150,000 315 Pope St. Kurpius, Justin and Amy to Marinkovich Trust for

$3,850,000 on 08/22/16; built 2015, 3 bd, 2,729 sq. ft.; previous sale 10/17/2013, $1,325,000 564 Sand Hill Circle Gunther Trust to Jaros Trust for $1,750,000 on 08/19/16; built 1975, 3bd, 2,330 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/21/1995, $472,500 361 Vine Street Cerros Partners to P. & E. Hwang for $3,950,000 on 08/17/16 1134 Windermere Ave. Branner, Shelia to Tan, Zheng for $1,020,000 on 08/22/16; built 1952, 5 bd, 1,700 sq. ft.

Mountain View

933 Barbara Ave. Roselle Trust to Jagralapudi, Puneet for $1,903,000 on 09/12/16; built 1948, 3 bd, 1,953 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/17/1974, $49,000 1147 California Street D. & E. Wilson to Chandhok Trust for $1,498,000 on 09/09/16; built 1916, 3bd, 1,424 sq.ft.; previous sale 02/14/2012, $996,000 1120 Carlos Privada B. Grimm to A. Chen for $1,880,000 on 09/07/16; built 1986, 4bd, 2,493 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/31/1998, $623,500 1033 Crestview Drive #105 M. Seip to J. Ragent for $752,500

on 09/07/16; built 1969, 2bd, 1,140 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/21/2007, $450,000 505 Cypress Point Drive #207 E. Compton to C. Valerio for $599,000 on 09/09/16; built 1971, 1bd, 784 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/15/2004, $310,000 195 Easy Street J. Cioffi to R. & V. Daquigan for $2,395,000 on 09/08/16; built 1979, 2,808 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/04/2006, $1,020,000 123 Gladys Avenue Bohanon Trust to J. Zhou for $1,310,000 on 09/09/16; built 1993, 3bd, 1,581 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/10/1999, $429,000 140 Hamilton Avenue Rawson Trust to A. & R. Philippsen for $1,515,000 on 09/09/16; built 1955, 3bd, 1,280 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/19/1997, $330,000 765 Lola Lane Rafferty Trust to Rafferty, Laurette for $1,970,000 on 09/12/16; built 1955, 4 bd, 1,490 sq. ft.

1717 Pilgrim Ave. Lee, Mei to Moseley, Audrey for $3,008,000 on 09/12/16; built 2015, 4 bd, 3,172 sq. ft.; previous sale 09/12/2016, $1,504,000 905 West Middlefield Road, #964 Ha, Timothy and Lillian to Barnett

Palo Alto

2111 Barbara Drive Kwik Trust to S. Goldman for $7,795,000 on 09/09/16; built 2015, 4bd, 3,538 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/30/2013, $2,800,000 1855 Bret Harte St. Turkington Trust to Rofman, Alex for $2,625,000 on 09/12/16; built 1948, 3 bd, 1,668 sq. ft.; previous sale 07/31/1984, $280,000 541 Bryson Avenue Brown Trust to Y. Sheng for $3,000,000 on 09/07/16; built 1952, 4bd, 2,710 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/1970, $39,000 1042 Cowper St. Lee Trust to Doherty, Sean for $5,750,000 on 09/12/16; built 2004, 6 bd, 4,490 sq. ft.; previous sale 03/01/2010, $3,595,000 288 Creekside Drive R. & L. Barr to M. & D. Secor for $2,350,000 on 09/02/16; built 1954, 3bd, 1,765 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/16/1991, $463,000 727 De Soto Drive Copenhagen Trust to W. Wang for $3,250,000 on 09/09/16; built 1952, 5bd, 2,240 sq.ft.

719 Florales Drive K. & S. Shami to Y. Huang for $2,889,000 on 09/07/16; built 1948, 6bd, 1,959 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/16/2009, $1,500,000 3125 Greer Road qian, minxue to Liu, David for $1,975,000 on 09/12/16; built 1952, 3 bd, 1,004 sq. ft.; previous sale 03/19/2014, $1,620,000 3454 Greer Road M. Jaret to S. & S. Avasarala for $2,300,000 on 09/02/16; built 1957, 3bd, 1,437 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/07/1994, $330,000 121 Lowell Avenue Hiwell Inc. to Timpson Trust for $3,480,000 on 09/07/16; built 1932, 3,923 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/15/2013, $2,500,000 590 Military Way Virk Trust to Hilbert Trust for $3,600,000 on 09/08/16; built 1989, 5bd, 3,594 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/05/2012, $2,515,000

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967 Oregon Avenue C. Berg to K. Salek for $1,800,000 on 09/09/16; built 1955, 4bd, 1,639 sq.ft.

252 Seale Ave. Miller Trust to Gupta, Mukul for $3,900,000 on 09/12/16; built 1940, 4 bd, 2,104 sq. ft.; previous sale 12/23/1987, $662,500 280 Waverley Street #8 D. Liu to Y. Wang for $975,000 on 09/08/16; built 1973, 2bd, 865 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/31/2014, $830,000 2551 Webster Street W. Wang to J. Liu for $2,660,000 on 09/02/16; built 1947, 4bd, 1,962 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/21/2016, $2,650,000 2466 West Bayshore Road #9 G. Ji to R. Relova for $800,500 on 09/08/16; built 1972, 2bd, 906

sq.ft.; previous sale 09/03/2014, $675,000 4030 Wilkie Way X. Dong to H. Tang for $2,065,000 on 09/07/16; built 1968, 3bd, 1,517 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/21/2013, $1,550,000

07/31/2015, $2,000,000 15 Siesta Ct. Soloman, Jeffrey and Jessica to Zhang, Shunmao for $2,850,000 on 08/23/16; built 1959, 5 bd., 2,950 sq. ft.; previous sale 05/19/2015, $2,640,000

Portola Valley

12465 La Honda Road D. Schultz to K. & J. Buser for $1,075,000 on 08/16/16; previous sale 12/31/2013, $1,030,000 890 Patrol Road S. Merrill to M. & K. Finnegan for $1,200,000 on 08/19/16; built 1964, 3bd, 1,480 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/14/1996, $525,000 2 Quail Meadow Drive Blakely Trust to S. & K. Miranda for $8,250,000 on 08/19/16; built 1987, 4bd, 4,790 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/15/2012, $4,290,000 170 Swett Road Sullivan Trust to I. & J. Kiselev for $1,385,000 on 08/18/16; built 1991, 3bd, 2,880 sq.ft.; previous sale 03/31/2008, $1,464,000

115 Brookside Drive Day Trust to Roschelle Trust for $3,150,000 on 08/18/16; built 1947, 2bd, 1,080 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/04/2010, $2,225,000 116 Foxwood Road S. Aagesen to H. & K. Byron for $1,550,000 on 08/17/16; built 1935, 3bd, 1,600 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/19/2006, $1,130,000 108 North Balsamina Way Roselle Trust to Cheema, Faisal for $2,430,000 on 08/23/16; built 1953, 4 bd, 2,770 sq. ft.

142 Pecora Way Anderson Trust to Gabriel Trust for $1,972,500 on 08/16/16; built 1960, 4bd, 2,470 sq.ft.; previous sale

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567 Barron Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $1,998,000 Central and Charmingly Updated Boasting an alluring ambience, this graciously updated 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath residence of over 1,300 sq. ft. (per county) includes additional loft and lower-level areas of approx. 240 sq. ft. (per drawing) and occupies a lot of approx. 5,400 sq. ft. (per city) alongside a central, tree-lined street. Enjoy an interior brimming with fabulous spaces, and a private backyard that showcases a deck and a hot tub, ideal for outdoor entertaining. Other amenities include central cooling, vaulted ceilings, and a potential wine cellar. Stroll to Starbucks, Bol Park, and Barron Park Elementary, and easily bike to Terman Middle (API 968) and Gunn High (API 917) (buyer ®

to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.567Barron.com

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

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RECENT SALES IN THE AREA

SOLD WITH 3 OFFERS

JUST SOLD

1717 PILGRIM AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW 4 Bedrooms | 4 Bathrooms ±3,125 SF Home plus ±420 SF Garage ±11,376 SF Lot (can add companion unit up to 748 SF) Schools: Bubb ES, Graham MS, Los Altos HS

3396 PARK BOULEVARD, PALO ALTO 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms 2,053± SF home | 5,012± SF lot PA Schools: Barron Park ES, Terman MS, Gunn HS

SOLD WITH 4 OFFERS

SOLD WITH 2 OFFERS

250 SANTA FE TERRACE #111, SUNNYVALE 2 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms (1 Suite) Dining area, Living Room, Patio 1061 Square Feet of Living Space

230 DAVENPORT WAY, PALO ALTO 6 bd, 3 ba (Master Suite) ±2,684 SF home, ±7,080 SF lot Juana Briones ES, Terman MS, Gunn HS

JENNY TENG

M 650.245.4490 jteng@apr.com License# 01023687

DELIA FEI

M 650.269.3422 dfei@apr.com License# 01217572

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78 Cuesta Drive, Los Altos Offered at $1,498,000 Luxury Townhome by Downtown Enjoy calm, luxurious living without compromising proximity to downtown amenities. Built in 2012, this beautifully maintained 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath corner townhome of over 1,600 sq. ft. (per plan) radiates warmth and charm while boasting energy-efficient features.

Open gathering areas and a stylish kitchen with a breakfast bar centralize the thoughtful interior, which is elegantly detailed and offers vaulted ceilings in all bedrooms. A low-maintenance outdoor retreat, an attached garage, and sizable storage provide further convenience. Quickly access Foothill Expressway, stroll to popular parks, shopping, dining, and Covington Elementary (API 975), and easily reach Egan Junior (API 976) and Los ®

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

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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

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This grand estate of nearly 4.5 acres is one of the 10 largest and most private residential parcels in the city of Palo Alto by nly n o ow ent h S tm in po ap

With awe-inspiring organic views and voluminous interior dimensions, this 5 bedroom, 6 ½ bath residence represents the pinnacle of a vibrant Northern California lifestyle.

931 Laurel Glen Drive

Enjoy 7,450+/- square feet of living space on a 4.38+/- acre lot with striking golf course views, masterful architectural design and top quality finishes.

This extraordinary home includes a gourmet kitchen, executive library, regal master suite, multi-media recreation room, craft room, and connoisseur’s wine cellar.

billy mcnair

Offered at: $8,500,000

www.931LaurelGlen.com

broker associate | attorney | mba

#1 Coldwell Banker agent on the Peninsula for 2015 #54 in the nation per Wall Street Journal rankings www.mcnairgroup.com | Cell: 650.862.3266 | billy@mcnairgroup.com CalBRE#01343603

www.facebook.com/mcnairgroup | twitter.com/billymcnair Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Buyer(s) should review any and all information to their complete satisfaction. Square footages are approximations received from a variety of sources and have not been verified.

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Palo Alto

919 Oregon Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $2,998,000 Central, New Contemporary Home Chic, sun-lit living defines this 5 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom residence of over 2,800 sq. ft. (per project data), including garage, built in 2016 and occupying an excellently located lot of over 7,000 sq. ft. (per city).

Seamless living areas flow freely into a lushly landscaped backyard retreat with fruit trees, and well-appointed bedrooms are designed for flexibility. Integrated Bose speakers provide functional convenience, while wide-plank oak floors and oversized picture windows add contemporary elegance. Extravagant features include two fireplaces, Italian kitchen cabinetry, and handcrafted walnut accents. This ideal setting places you within mere moments of luxuriant parks, local shops and cafes, ®

major commuter routes, and sought-after Palo Alto schools.

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.919Oregon.com

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

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321 Everett Avenue D O W N TO W N PA LO A LTO

O P E N H O U S E S AT & S U N 1 : 3 0 - 4 : 3 0 P M O R S H OW N BY A P P O I N T M E N T

Dramatic, upbeat, creative, fun and conveniently located

for the urban lifestyle. Cook up a

storm in the well-equipped kitchen. Enjoy travertine stone floors, a TV concealed in a zebra wood cabinet, polished plaster walls, European oak cabinetry, and a playful banister as a few of the many custom features. A family room withfireplace has French doors to a yard designed for year-round fun.

Close to the Caltrain Station, Stanford Shopping Center and other world-class amenities.

List Price $3,150,000.

www.321Everett.com

Nancy Goldcamp Direct: (650) 400-5800 nancy@nancygoldcamp.com www.nancygoldcamp.com

Interested parties should verify scale, details, and dimensions

CAL BRE# 00787851

JUST LISTED 350 IRIS WAY, PALO ALTO CHARMING HOME READY TO MOVE IN A wonderful opportunity to live in one of the best neighborhoods in North Palo Alto! Beautifully remodeled with lovely gardens, this home offers traditional style, high-end appliances and a family-friendly street only a block from Duveneck Elementary School. Welcome home! $2,798,000

TWILIGHT TOUR Friday, 9/30 5:00-7:00

OPEN HOUSE Saturday, 10/1 & Sunday, 10/2 1:30-4:30

Realtors who know your neighborhood JENNIFER BUENROSTRO

650.224.9539 jbuenrostro@apr.com BRE #01733750

ISABELLE COLE

650.814.0360 icole@apr.com BRE #01996039

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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237 Mapache Drive, Portola Valley Fabulous Resort-Like Compound 991>?10 5: :-@A>-8 <>5B-/E @45? 3-@10 />117 ?501 <>;<1>@E ;2 W WW -/>1? I<1> /;A:@EJ 2;>9? ;:1 ;2 @41 8->31?@ Ĺ&#x152;-@ 8;@? 5: ";>@;8- Valley. The luxuriously upgraded estate is every entertainerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream, and includes a guesthouse, a poolhouse, and a studio for a total of 5 bedrooms, 7.5 bathrooms, and a living area of approx. 8,100 sq. ft. (per drawings). French doors throughout the singlelevel main home open to the exciting grounds, allowing easy indoor-outdoor enjoyment. Excellent amenities include six-car garage parking, a sauna, and a heated pool and spa. Stroll to trails throughout the surrounding woodland paradise while easily accessing local shopping and scenic open spaces.

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.237Mapache.com Offered at $8,888,000

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday

1:30 - 4:30

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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

APPOINTMENT ONLY

APPOINTMENT ONLY

OPEN 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

OPEN SUN 1:30-4:30

APPOINTMENT ONLY

APPOINTMENT ONLY

28 Sneckner Court, Menlo Park $3,490,000 4 BD / 4 BA

1 Quail Court, Woodside $2,158,000 5 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.

this beautiful home has ocean and sunset views and sits on a largely flat 2.6-acre lot with a barn and pasture.

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.

Darcy Gamble, 650.380.9415

Greg Stange, 650.208.5196

Greg Stange, 650.208.5196

LeMieux Associates, 650.465.7459

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SOLD

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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14 Plover Circle, Pajaro Dunes

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ast Coast meets West Coast in this private ocean front home situated on the sand in the gated community of Pajaro Dunes. This beautiful original well built and well cared for home is fully furnished and ready to be enjoyed on warm ÃÕ Þ `>Þà > ` V âÞ wÀi« >Vi } Ìð / iÀi >Ài > Þ Õ«}À>`ià V Õ` } Ü ` ÜÃ] « Õ L }] wÝÌÕÀiÃ] >«« > Vià > ` } À}i Õà Üi>Ì iÀi` V ««iÀ À w } > ` ÌÀ ° i iÝ« Ài Þ ÕÀ «À Û>Ìi L>V Þ>À` Li>V ÛiÀ } i v -> Ì> ÀÕâ V Õ Ì޽à ÃÌ «À ÃÌ i ÃÌÀiÌV ià v Ã> ` Ü Ì LÀi>Ì Ì> } ÃÕ ÃiÌ Û iÜð

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OFFERED AT $1,900,000

PREVIEW A VIRTUAL WALKTHOUGH BY VISITING: WWW.VRGUILD.NET/TOUR/W47255

Erika Reid 831.212.0240

ereid@baileyproperties.com

BRE# 01446351

call or text for private property tour

www.cruzagent.com

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12008 Adobe Creek Lodge Road, Los Altos Hills Rich Living, Alluring Serenity Located along an exclusive cul-de-sac, this regal, gated 6 bedroom estate of 6,480 sq. ft. (per county) includes 6 full and 2 half baths, and exudes peace and privacy on premises of approx. 1.67 acres (per county). Reached by an extensive paver driveway, the mansion 5:/8A01? - 2;A> /-> 3->-31 @4>11 ŋ>1<8-/1? - 85.>->E - ?A991> 75@/41: -:0 :A91>;A? >;;9? 01?53:10 2;> B1>?-@585@E ->.81 ŋ:5?41? -:0 /;8A9:10 85B5:3 ?<-/1? A:01>?/;>1 @41 8ADA>5;A? -9.51:/1 C4581 @41 5991:?1 3>;A:0? ;Ŋ1> - 41-@10 <;;8 %@>;88 @; @>-58? 81-05:3 5:@; $-:/4; %-: :@;:5; !<1: %<-/1 ">1?1>B1 =A5/78E .571 @; 5001: (588- -:0 1:6;E 1-?E -//1?? @; <>591 ;?

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For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.12008Adobe.com Offered at $6,988,000

OPEN HOUSE

Saturday

1:30 - 4:30

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

Sand Hill Estates, Woodside

11627 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills

5 Betty Lane, Atherton

$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

161 Willow Road, Menlo Park

1250 Miramontes Street, Half Moon Bay

$2,998,000

$2,800,000

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

Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305

See our entire luxury collection at www.InteroPrestigio.com ©2016 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved.

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4541 Comstock Road, Hollister | $3,500,000 | Listing Provided by: Don Barnes Lic.#01791580

www.4541ComstockRd.com Customized to the unique style of each luxury property, Prestigio will expose your home through the most influential mediums reaching the greatest number of qualified buyers wherever they may be in the world.

For more information about listing your home with the Intero Prestigio International program, call your local Intero Real Estate Services office.

Woodside 1590 Cañada Lane Woodside, CA 94062 650.206.6200

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

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

www.InteroRealEstate.com www.InteroOpenHomes.com 2016 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker.

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1245 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto Exquisite Luxury in Crescent Park Captivating gardens trim this recently remodeled 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath residence of over 4,100 sq. ft. (per plans) that provides a poolhouse -:0 018534@2A8 3>;A:0? ;2 UV TTT ?= 2@ I<1> /5@EJ :6;E - Ĺ&#x152;1D5.81 C-87 ;A@ 8;C1> 81B18 -:0 ?;;@45:3 ?A: 85@ ?<-/1? 5:/8A05:3 -: 1813-:@ 3;A>91@ 75@/41: .A>?@5:3 C5@4 /8-??5/ /4->9 -:0 9;01>: -91:5@51? : A<<1> <-@5; ;B1>8;;7? @41 <;;8?501 >1@>1-@ C4581 - B->51@E ;2 2>A5@ @>11? ->1 2;A:0 @4>;A34;A@ @41 C>-<->;A:0 3->01:? %7E 85@ -:0 B1>?-@581 @41 <;;84;A?1 ;Ĺ&#x160;1>? - C1@ .-> -:0 - C-88 .10 %@>;88 @; <;<A8-> ':5B1>?5@E B1:A1 81-:;> "->011 "->7 -:0 AB1:1/7 8191:@->E I " ]YZJ I.AE1> @; B1>52E 18535.585@EJ For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.1245Hamilton.com Offered at $7,988,000

OPEN HOUSE

Sunday

1:30 - 4:30

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Renuka Ahuja (650) 430-0011 Renuka@Interorealestate.com www.RenukaHomes.com 496 First Street, Suite 200 Los Altos, California 94022

85 LEON WAY

Atherton, California 94027

$3,998,000 A rare opportunity to rebuild or remodel/expand in prestigious West Atherton.

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2,130 square foot classic ranch home on 31,020 square foot grounds.

Ideal location,private and secluded yet 3 blocks from downtown Menlo Park, Menlo School and Sacred Heart.

Easy commute to Stanford, Sand Hill Road and Facebook.

Open Saturday 1-5pm Open Sunday 1-5pm Sandwiches and tea

See the Virtual Tour! www.tourfactory.com/163094 Equal Housing Oppoortunity| All Information Deemed Reliable but not Guaranteed www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 30, 2016 • Page 53 DRE#01783141

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

1492 Webster Street, Palo Alto SHOWN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY 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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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

www.LeannahandLaurel.com

1550 Waverley Street, Palo Alto OUTSTANDING OLD PALO ALTO CRAFTSMAN STYLE GEM OFFERED AT $8,599,000 — WWW.1550WAVERLEY.COM — SHOWN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

(650) 475-2030

lhunt@serenogroup.com CalBRE# 01009791

(650) 475-2035

laurel@serenogroup.com CalBRE# 01747147

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NEW CONSTRUCTION IN LOS ALTOS HILLS FIRST OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30PM – 4:30PM 13686 PAGE MILL ROAD • WWW.13686PAGEMILL.COM • OFFERED AT $6,295,000 5 Bedrooms Suites | 2 Powder Bathrooms | Swimming Pool | Flat Acre | Lower Page Mill | 1/2 mile from 280 | Palo Alto Schools

BOB KAMANGAR Broker Associate, Attorney, General Contractor

Bob’s personal attention to every aspect of your real estate transaction

Cell (650) 245-0245 bob@serenogroup.com www.BobKamangar.com CalBRE # 01229105

This information was supplied by reliable sources. Sales Associate believes this information to be correct but has not verified this information and assumes no legal responsibility for its accuracy. Buyers should investigate these issues to their own satisfaction.

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619 MAYBELL AVENUE, PALO ALTO OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 1:30-4:30PM

3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms | 1,646+/- sq. ft. | Lot: 7,815+/- sq. ft. | Offered at $2,198,000

L

ocated in the sought after, Green Acres neighborhood, this charming cottage offers freshly landscaped grounds - ideal for gardner/entertainer aficionado with vegetable garden, drought tolerant plants, a welcoming Connecticut blue flagstone walkway that leads to quaint porch. Inside, the light-filled home offers refinished hardwood flooring, new carpet, freshly painted and much more.

With the convenience of Juana Briones Elementary across the street and Juana Briones Park neighboring the home, its the perfect addition to enjoy outdoor activities as an extension to your private background.

578 University Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301

DD Desiree Docktor 650.291.8487 ddocktor@apr.com DesireeDocktor.com CalBRE # 01808874 Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

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â&#x20AC;˘ Gorgeous landscaped backyard with multiple fruit â&#x20AC;˘ 4 bedrooms trees, mature screening, and space for relaxation, â&#x20AC;˘ 2.5 bathrooms play and entertainment â&#x20AC;˘ Large family room off a completely â&#x20AC;˘ Located on a quiet, highly desirable street with remodeled kitchen and overlooking the easy access to schools, Mitchell and Hoover parks, gardens shopping and transportation â&#x20AC;˘ Vaulted living room with marble fireplace â&#x20AC;˘ Excellent Palo Alto schools including Gunn High and gleaming white oak floors School â&#x20AC;˘ Serene, private master suite with huge â&#x20AC;˘ 2,088 sq. ft. of living space (excludes garage), walk-in closet calBRE# 01330133 Cell: 650.380.4507 approx.

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OPEN SUNDAY OCTOBER 2, 1:30 – 4:30pm • New Construction • Exceptional materials and attention to details • Large living areas with gas fireplaces and natural light • Open concept kitchen, dining area, and family room • Stunning kitchen with stone countertops, custom cabinets, and top-of-the-line appliances • Downstairs en suite bedroom • Four upstairs bedrooms and three bathrooms • Magnificent, serene master suite • Landscaped sunny backyard with lawn and patio • Convenient, central location adjacent to Atherton

Offered at $2,365,000 www.1774Stockbridge.com

A FRESH APPROACH JUDY CITRON • 650.543.1206 Judy@JudyCitron.com • JudyCitron.com License# 01825569

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711 ADDISON AVENUE PALO ALTO Open Saturday & Sunday, 1-4pm COMMUNITY CENTER

Traditional home located in Community Center, near Lucie Stern Community Center, Rinconada Park, Children’s Library, Museum and Zoo. This is a great opportunity to restore this classic Palo Alto home or build a custom dream home!

4 Bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Interior: 2,450± sq. ft. (Buyer to confirm) Lot Size: 5500± sq. ft. (Buyer to confirm) Floor plan offers a formal living room, formal dining room, and bright kitchen with breakfast nook/family room that leads to second staircase U Details include: Oak hardwood floors on main level, arched entry ways, Palladian style wood window, crown molding, crystal chandeliers U Backyard offers a gazebo and detached garage U U U U

OFFERED AT $2,699,000 TERRY RICE 650.207.4142 trice@apr.com

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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

ATHERTON 4 Bedrooms 40 Isabella Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 91 Belleau Ave Sun Deleon Realty

$6,800,000 462-1111 $2,798,000 543-8500

5 Bedrooms 399 Atherton Ave Sun Coldwell Banker 50 Tallwood Ct Sun Coldwell Banker

$6,399,000 324-4456 $6,395,000 324-4456

LOS ALTOS

$1,449,000 323-1900

127 Hawthorne Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

3 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms 980 Lassen Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,800,000 529-1111

228 Princeton Rd Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$4,498,000 462-1111

2087 Sharon Rd Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$3,149,000 (408) 335-1400

1225 Whitaker Way Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,785,000 462-1111

$3,950,000 269-4097

$3,288,000 543-8500 $3,386,000 947-2900 $3,800,000 325-6161 $2,689,000 206-6200

161 Willow Rd Sun Intero Real Estate

$2,998,000 743-9337

965 Berkeley Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,998,000 543-8500

LOS ALTOS HILLS

6 Bedrooms 331 Oak Ct Sat/Sun 1-4 Straube Associates

$3,888,000 906-6902

1730 Holly Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$5,850,000 462-1111

MOUNTAIN VIEW 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 400 Ortega Av #205 Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$798,000 947-2900

505 Cypress Point Dr #208 $819,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

4 Bedrooms $4,988,000 543-8500

5 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms - Condominium 223 Horizon Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,150,000 325-6161

2140 Santa Cruz Av #E209 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 1280 Sharon Park Dr #33 Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate 1230 Sharon Park Dr #63 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,788,000 543-8500

619 Maybell Av Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,198,000 323-1111

1774 Stockbridge Av Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

711 Addison Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,699,000 323-1111

SAN CARLOS

645 Loma Verde Av Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

$2,495,000 321-1596

4376 Silva Ct Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Los Altos

$2,798,000 941-1111

3166 Kipling St Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

$2,398,000 321-1596

1299 Forest Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,098,000 323-1111

350 Iris Way Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,798,000 323-1111

113 Walter Hays Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,700,000 323-1111

1 Baldwin Ave #817 Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

1131 Parkinson Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,998,000 543-8500

3239 Maddux Dr Sat/Sun Keller Williams

$3,680,000 520-3407

SUNNYVALE

4 Bedrooms

5 Bedrooms 1245 Hamilton Ave Sun Deleon Realty

$7,988,000 543-8500 $2,595,000 323-1111 $2,998,000 543-8500

2522 Katrina Way $2,198,000 Sun 2-4:34 Pacific Union International 314-7200

6 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms 18 Patterson Ave $2,300,000 Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker 325-6161

3 Bedrooms 1071 Tehama Ave Sun Coldwell Banker

858 Northampton Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$6,988,000 543-8500

2 Bedrooms

$1,749,000 324-4456

360 Everett Ave #5B $1,898,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

3 Bedrooms - Condominium 101 Alma St #1203 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,998,000 325-6161

3 Bedrooms 663 Waverley St Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,882,816 462-1111

4271 Ponce Dr Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

$1,699,000 321-1596

1320 Webster St $5,750,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

$1,250,000 323-7751

$1,998,000 543-8500

919 Oregon Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$858,000 323-7751 $1,418,000 206-6200 $1,498,000 462-1111

2737 Bristol Way Sun Coldwell Banker

567 Barron Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

1595 Morgan St $1,350,000 Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

$1,299,000 324-4456

$3,150,000 325-6161

4 Bedrooms

MENLO PARK

728 Crompton Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

321 Everett Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$6,295,000 323-1900

PALO ALTO

$2,345,000 462-1111

340 Kipling St $2,689,000 Sun Keller Williams Of Palo Alto 454-8500

355 Parkside Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

6 Bedrooms 12008 Adobe Creek Lodge Rd Sat Deleon Realty

8 Artisan Way Sat/Sun Sereno Group

1140 Deanna Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate

62 S Clark Ave $3,998,000 Sun Sereno Group 323-1900 714 Arroyo Rd $3,988,000 Sun 1-5 Pacific Union International 465-1651

13686 Page Mill Rd Sat/Sun Sereno Group

REDWOOD CITY

5 Bedrooms

5 Bedrooms

13920 Mir Mirou Dr Sat Deleon Realty

3060 Cowper St $2,498,000 Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 520-3407

$1,498,000 543-8500

4 Bedrooms 476 Border Hill Rd Sat Deleon Realty 23281 Partridge Ln Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 1083 Valley View Ct Sat/Sun 2-5 Coldwell Banker 22805 Aspen Dr Sun Intero Real Estate

$1,588,888 324-4456

28 Sneckner Ct $3,490,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200

3 Bedrooms - Condominium 78 Cuesta Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

638 18th Ave Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker

4 Bedrooms 345 King St Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,995,000 324-4456

5 Bedrooms $2,365,000 462-1111

2 Bedrooms 1381 Alameda Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,475,000 325-6161

4 Bedrooms 113 Mirabel Pl Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,895,000 529-1111

SAN MATEO 2 Bedrooms - Condominium $950,000 325-6161

4 Bedrooms 692 Vanderbilt Dr Sun Deleon Realty

$1,698,000 543-8500

1096 Polk Ave Sat 2-4 Sereno Group

$1,798,000 (408) 335-1400

1159 Hollenbeck Av Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$1,468,000 947-2900

WOODSIDE

151 Seale Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$5,688,000 543-8500

PORTOLA VALLEY 3 Bedrooms 1 Wintercreek Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,595,000 529-1111

100 Coquito Way Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,195,000 324-4456

4 Bedrooms 245 Olive Hill Ln Sun Coldwell Banker

$6,975,000 851-2666

12424 Skyline Blvd Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

$3,999,999 324-4456

4 Bedrooms 280 Family Farm Rd Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$8,599,900 529-1111

5 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms 120 Coquito Way Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,649,000 324-4456

1 Quail Ct $2,158,000 Sat Pacific Union International 314-7200

6 Bedrooms

5 Bedrooms 237 Mapache Dr Sun Deleon Realty

$8,888,000 543-8500

340 Jane Dr Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$6,495,000 529-1111

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115 Announcements

202 Vehicles Wanted

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HUGE USED BOOK/CD/DVD SALE Neighborhood Art Show and Sale Saturday October 8,2016, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. 112 Almendral Avenue, Atherton —”Forms and Feelings” Backyard Art show and Sale. Featuring oil Paintings by Alice Marston, long time Atherton resident and artist. Affordable.

Got an older car, boat or RV? Do the humane thing. Donate it to the Humane Society. Call 1-800-743-1482 (Cal-SCAN) Old Porsche 356/911/912 for restoration by hobbyist 1948-1973 Only. Any condition, top $ paid (707) 965-9546 (Cal-SCAN)

The Art of Sustainable Living

130 Classes & Instruction

210 Garage/Estate Sales

How to Paint Your Home Learn what tools to buy and use in your home. 40+ years exp.

(650) 380-4335 bljpainter@yahoo.com.

Menlo Park, 1141 Sherman Avenue, Sat. Oct 1st, 9-12 Palo Alto, 2580 Waverly Street, Oct. 8, 10:30-1:30

133 Music Lessons

230 Freebies

Christina Conti Private Piano Instruction Lessons in your home.

Bachelor of Music. 650/493-6950

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245 Miscellaneous DIRECTV. NFL Sunday Ticket (FREE!) w/Choice All-Included Package. $60/mo. for 24 months. No upfront costs or equipment to buy. Ask about next day installation! 1- 800-385-9017 (Cal-SCAN)

Hope Street Music Studios Now on Old Middefield Way, MV. Most instruments, voice. All ages and levels 650-961-2192 www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com Paul Price Music Lessons In your home. Piano, violin, viola, theory, history. Customized. BA music, choral accompanist, arranger, early pop and jazz. 800/647-0305

135 Group Activities Boot Camp

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150 Volunteers ASSIST IN FRIENDS BOOKSTORE

Kid’s Stuff

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152 Research Study Volunteers

345 Tutoring/ Lessons

Anxiety Treatment for Adults 60+ This project uses a DVD-based psychological treatment to help people learn to manage anxiety and stress.

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K-12 Math Tutor (Taught 10yrs) - TBD SAT/PSAT 1on1 prep/tutoring Tutoring with Dr.Pam: 404.310.8146 Youth Debate/Oratory Program

Mind & Body 425 Health Services

155 Pets Yorkshire Terrier Puppies Male 2 AKC Yorkie Males(Sacramento Area) avail Oct 6. Raised in our living room Mom is our pet. Their tails not crop, it is inhumane. $700.00 530-598-0331

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Excellent references. Great rates.

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751 General Contracting A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

757 Handyman/ Repairs AAA HANDYMAN & MORE Since 1985 Repairs • Maintenance • Painting Carpentry • Plumbing • Electrical All Work Guaranteed

Alex Peralta Handyman Kit. and bath remodel, int/ext. paint, tile, plumb, fence/deck repairs, foam roofs/repairs. Power wash.

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759 Hauling J & G HAULING SERVICE Misc. junk, office, gar., furn., green waste, more. Local, 20 yrs exp.

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement 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.

The name and residence address of the 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.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

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.

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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.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JAEHYUN KIM 500 E. Remington Dr. #29 Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 07/13/16.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 6, 2016.

(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.

This business is owned by: Copartners.

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.

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

(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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The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): THE EXPERT NETWORKS, INC. 8109 Cabernet Ct.

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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 JUST PERFECT . . . Seven Stanford freshmen baseball players were named to Perfect Game’s Top 400 Incomong College freshmen, led by lefthander Erik Miller, who was ranked 37th overall. Sacred Heart Prep grad Andrew Daschbach was rated No. 58. The other five include shortstop Daniel Bakst at No. 55, catcher Maverick Handley, at No. 93, righthanders Jack Little and Jonathan Worley at Nos. 145 and 181 respectively and Kyle Stowers.

The Cardinal baseball team begins workouts for its fall competition this week.

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PAC-12 HONORS . . . Stanford junior defensive lineman Solomon Thomas was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week for his first efforts in a 22-13 win over UCLA last weekend.

Thomas anchored a Stanford defense that held UCLA to just 13 points, 77 rushing yards and 2.3 yards per carry. The communication major had three tackles, two tackles for loss and one sack on Saturday.

He returned a fumble 42 yards for a touchdown on the final play of the game to seal Stanford’s 22-13 road victory over the Bruins.

Menlo School hosts Half Moon Bay on Friday afternoon in a battle of undefeated PAL Ocean Division teams.

A MLS RECORD . . . Stanford grad Jordan Morris scored two goals in the Seattle Sounders’ 4-2 win Sunday over the LA Galaxy to give him 12 goals, the most by an American rookie in MLS history. He is one of only five rookies who have scored 10 or more goals in a season. The Sounders ended an 11-game road winless streak against the Galaxy dating to 2009. It was also the Galaxy’s first road loss of the season.

Morris put Seattle ahead, 2-1, with the first goal and added his second 10 minutes later. He’s second all-time in MLS rookie scoring. Morris was named to the MLS Team of the Week as a result of his heroics.

THIS AND THAT . . . Menlo College’s Megan Thompson successfully defended her title at the Pacific Union Cross Country Invitational on Sunday, racing a 21:07 to complete the 5K course in Angwin and beating a foursome from UC Merced, which won the team title . . . Isaac Miselewicz scored late in the first half and the Menlo College men’s soccer team made it stand Sunday in a 1-0 victory over host Biola in a Golden State Athletic League match.

The Oaks (2-0, 8-2) ended their first weekend of conference play atop the standings.

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Four teams are undefeated heading into league openers on Friday

by Glenn Reeves eague play starts Friday in the Peninsula Athletic League. And just like last year the PAL’s Ocean Division -- the league’s middle division -has four of its six teams with 4-0 records heading into league play.

Last year Hillsdale won the Ocean Division title and advanced to the Central Coast Section Division IV championship game. The Knights were moved up to the Bay Division this season as a reward.

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Hillsdale won the Ocean Division crown thanks to a 37-34 win over Half Moon Bay. That was one of only two games the Cougars lost all season. (The other was a 38-28 loss to Terra Nova in the annual coastside rivalry Skull Game). They went on to win the CCS Division V championship in a 54-7 rout over Pacific Grove.

Half Moon Bay is one of the 4-0 teams this season. So is its opponent, Menlo School, which will host the matchup, Friday at 3:30.

“That should be a competitive game, I’m looking forward to it,’’ Menlo coach Mark Newton said.

“It’s a very difficult opener for us.

Half Moon Bay is a great team, really strong in all three aspects, well-coached.’’

Half Moon Bay has wins over two “A” division teams, Burlingame from the PAL Bay and Saratoga from the SCVAL De Anza.

Woodside and The King’s Academy are the other 4-0 teams from the PAL Ocean. Woodside,

which opens with Sequoia, has a win over Hillsdale. TKA has probably the best player -- certainly the most highly recruited -- in the entire PAL in sophomore quarterback Michael Johnson Jr , the son of the team’s head coach.

He already has offers from Cal, Arizona, Florida State, Louisville and Mississippi State, according to 247sports.com.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

McCaffrey held to a higher standard The junior running back averages 145.3 yards a game, second in the nation

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hristian McCaffrey rushed for 138 yards on 26 carries against UCLA, a 5.3-yard average, and had 165 all-purpose yards. His four-yard pickup on a third-and-3 play in the final minute was crucial to No. 7 Stanford’s victory.

Yet, there were observers who thought the Bruins kept him under wraps for the most part.

Cardina1 football coach David Shaw was having nothing to do with it.

“We are unbelievably spoiled,” Shaw said. “That when this kid

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doesn’t get 300 yards in total offense, we say he got ‘bottled up.’ He was phenomenal. Those 2-yard runs became 7-yard runs.

Those 8-yard runs became 12yard runs. He finds those hidden yards on every single play. It’s uncanny.”

McCaffrey averages 145.3 yards a game, up from last year’s 144.2 average.

“The tackles he bounced off, the tackles he ran through, the guys he made miss,” Shaw said.

“He didn’t have the signature 80(continued on page 71)

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Rio Paralympics PARALYMPICS

Paralympics bring out the best in competitors Holloway thrives in the team environment

by Rick Eymer “It’s really exciting to be part atie Holloway earned a of something so amazing,” she scholarship to play wom- said. “It’s more than I could of en’s basketball at Cal State dreamed.”

Northridge. The six-footer ran Four years after joining a swim the court so well, many coaches club she was named to her first recruiting her did not know she Paralympic team and finished wore a prosthetic leg. fifth overall in the 400 Holloway, who works free in London. She bein recreation therapy gan her sophomore year with the U.S. Departin high school that fall. ment of Veterans AfBy age 16, Bro began fairs Palo Alto Health working with a video Care System, was born production team, started missing her right fibula her own foundation and and had the lower porbecame a role model for tion of her leg ampuall girls everywhere. tated when she was four She’s helped break months shy of her sec- Katie Holloway barriers for young womond birthday. en in nearly every facet A record-setting career with of life. Bro was smart enough to the Matadors morphed into three get into Stanford, active enough Paralympic Games appearances, to realize she can do whatever she in which she earned two silver wants and swims well enough to medals and, this year, a gold med- qualify for the Paralympics twice. al with the United States women’s Even while playing Division sitting volleyball team.

I basketball at Cal State NorthStanford sophomore Brickelle ridge, where she’s the singleBro also competed in the Para- season record holder for shooting lympics as a swimmer. She’s cur- percentage (.653) and second allrently a member of the Cardinal time (.532), Holloway began trainwomen’s swimming and diving ing with Team USA. team and competed at last year’s She received all-Big West recPac-12 Championships. ognition all four years and after Bro’s teammates include world graduating in 2008, smoothly record holder Katie Ledecky and transitioned into elite status with Olympians Simone Manuel and Team USA. Lia Neal, along with several other As a senior at Cal State Northveterans and newcomers who ridge, Holloway led the team competed in the Olympic trials. with a 14.5 scoring average and

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Brickelle Bro competed in her second Paralympics in September.

7.2 rebounding average. She also blocked 36 shots.

Holloway was Team USA’s leading scorer at the 2008 Paralympics, and was named Best Spiker at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. She’s a twotime USA Player of the Year.

It became possible when, during her sophomore year with the Matadors, the United States Paralympic women’s sitting volleyball team came to Northridge to train.

Holloway told the official publication of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System of meeting the team for the first time.

“The team was all amputees

and wore no prosthetics while sitting on the ground,” she said. “I thought it was weird.”

After the season, then-Matadors coach Staci Schulz called Holloway into her office and told her the team wanted to have her join them, in Oklahoma, for a training session.

Having been immersed in high school and college competition, where she was recognized for her athletic ability first and her prosthetic leg second, Holloway began the slow journey of learning a sport from a different perspective.

Sharing in her teammates’ sto-

PARALYMPICS

She’s looking for the next challenge Gunn grad has her eyes on World Championships

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“I was extremely satisfied,’’ Watt said. “It was definitely an eye-opening experience. I wasn’t close to my best marks, but the whole experience, just being there, it’s something so many people don’t get a chance to experience. I’m just so grateful I got to go. I would really like to qualify for the 2017 Paralympic World Championships in London.’’

Watt turned her primary focus from soccer to track and field after arriving at Gunn for high school. Titans coach PattiSue Plumer, a two-time Olympian, 9-time All-American while at Stanford, and American record holder in her own right, was asked if having Watt on the team was an inspiration to the coaching staff or to Watt’s Gunn teammates.

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by Glenn Reeves he more you learn about Amy Watt the more you realize how little she has allowed her disability to define her.

Watt, the 2016 Gunn High graduate now at Pomona College, was born with one arm shorter than the other, ending just after the elbow.

She recently returned from Brazil where she competed at the Paralympic Games. She took part in track and field in the 100- and 400-meter runs and in the long jump. She made the finals in the 400 and long jump and took sixth place in each.

Watt completed the 400 in 1:04.21. China’s Lu Li won in a time of 58.09, edging Russia’s Anrune Liebenberg, who ran 58.88.

Gunn grad Amy Watt reached two finals at the Rio Paralympics.

“I don’t think so, not really,’’ Plumer said with a laugh. “She was just like a regular kid on our team. You forget very quickly when you’re around her about her disability. She doesn’t expect to be treated differently.’’

Watt’s first sport was soccer.

Her parents signed her up when she was in kindergarten. Were

there ever any concerns about her safety playing against kids with two fully formed arms?

“It never crossed my mind,’’ Watt said.

Has balance ever been an issue in soccer or in track and field?

“I’m not sure,’’ Watt said. “I never ran or jumped other than the way I am, so I have nothing

ries became therapeutic, allowing Holloway to accept a new point of view. The one trait that never changed, though, was her competitive nature.

When she competed in her first world championship, her future course was charted: two more years at Cal State Northridge and then going all in, moving to Oklahoma to train full-time for the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.

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to compare it to. I guess I found ways to subconsciously adapt.’’

And then some.

Watt was not just a good high school long jumper for someone with a disability. She was a good high school long jumper, period.

She had a best of 17-5 as a senior. That ranked her No. 10 in the Central Coast Section. I don’t know how many girls long jumped last year in the CCS, but it had to be well into the hundreds. So we’re talking about a very high-percentile performer.

She made it to the CCS finals and placed eighth, not that far off a trip to the state meet.

Even more impressive taking into consideration the things she can’t do.

“She can’t do pushups,’’ Plumer said. “It impacts your weight lifting, your start out of the starting blocks and the baton pass on the relay. But she adjusts and adapts so quickly. She improved greatly the last four years. I think you’ll see even more progress over the next four years. She’s a great young woman. I’m really proud of her.’’ Q

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Sports VOLLEYBALL

The Bears control their own destiny M-A has won 10 straight after a four-match losing streak destiny.

The Bears (5-0, 11-4) won their 10th consecutive match Tuesday, beating host Hillsdale, 25-27, 2517, 25-9, 25-19.

Senior Kirby Knapp, who had 31 assists and 10 digs in the win over Hillsdale, missed a few matches to allow an injury to heal. Fellow senior Casey Olsen stepped in and led the Bears to a series of victories.

Eliza Grover, nine kills and 10 digs against the Knights, has stepped up when needed and Jacqueline DiSanto continues to play consistently well. DiSanto had 11 kills and 13 digs Tuesday.

Alicia Letvin turned in an overall fine performance against Hillsdale, recording a team-best .312 hitting percentage and four blocks to go with five kills.

Menlo School junior Ashley Dreyer has her own cheering section. Every time the left-hander powers a volleyball for a point, the Knights’ start what looks like the Seminoles’ chop and chant ‘Ashley ... Ash-ley.’

For the most part, though, the students use their right hand.

“Maybe they’re just being ironic,” Dreyer theorized.

There was nothing ironic about Menlo School’s 25-19, 25-17, 2325, 25-21 victory over visiting Sacred Heart Prep on Tuesday night in a West Bay Athletic League Foothill Division girls’ volleyball match.

The victory gave the Knights (2-1, 15-4) a chance to refocus their sights on Notre Dame-Belmont, who came over from the

Prep football

While the PAL Ocean is a combined 18-6 at this point, the PAL Bay, the league’s top division, is a combined 12-13. Strength of schedule is certainly a factor, but Aragon, Burlingame and Hillsdale are a combined 2-3 against teams from the Ocean. MenloAtherton, Sacred Heart Prep and Terra Nova haven’t played any teams from the Ocean.

Who is the Bay favorite? In my mind it’s Menlo-Atherton (2-2). The Bears have played an extremely difficult nonleague schedule with wins their last two times out against Sacred Heart Cathedral and Los Gatos.

“I think the Bay is one of the top leagues in the CCS,’’ M-A coach Adhir Ravipati said. “Every year it’s very competitive. Every week you’re going up against a quality opponent.’’

The Bears host Terra Nova (1-3 after a 49-6 win over Novato was ruled a forfeit loss). Senior RB Saini Saini leads the Tigers

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considered the favorite?

“I think it’s safe to look at Half Moon Bay,’’ Woodside coach Justin Andrews said. “They might not be as flashy, but you can’t argue with their success and results.’’

Sequoia moved down from the Bay to the Ocean to switch places with Hillsdale and now has a league opener with neighboring Woodside.

“There’s no secret this is one the kids have circled on the calendar,’’ Andrews said. “And it being the first league game gives it added excitement.’’

Marcelous Chester-Riley has rushed for 574 yards and nine TDs for the Wildcats.

Sequoia, which runs a version of the Oregon offense, is led by QB Nick DeMarco, who has passed for 824 yards and rushed for 265.

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by Rick Eymer hen the Menlo-Atherton girls volleyball team reached the state finals last season, coaches Fletcher and Lauryn Anderson knew they wanted to schedule that caliber of competition early in the season.

Their first choice was to schedule Mitty of San Jose, the defending state Division II champion.

That didn’t work out.

The Bears had to “settle” for Mater Dei, which reached the second round of the state Division I playoffs.

Mater Dei was ranked No. 1 in the nation and had not dropped a set when it arrived in M-A’s gym.

The Bears took care of that in the first set before losing in four.

M-A opened its season with a five-set victory over Menlo, a team that also reached the second round of the state playoffs in Division II. Then there were a series of fiveset losses to WCAL teams St. Ignatius, coached by former Paly coach Dave Huan, Valley Christian and Presentation.

Those four teams are currently a combined 64-17.

M-A had a 10-match winning streak entering its match against Terra Nova on Thursday night, having dropped a total of three sets over that stretch.

The Bears have used a variety of players without much of a drop off this year.

In the Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division, MenloAtherton is in control of its own

Menlo Atherton is on a 10 game winning streak after losing 4 straight, looks to continue its winning ways.

West Catholic Athletic League (a three-year process) after capturing the state Division IV title last December.

The Tigers beat Menlo, the defending WBAL Foothill cochampion, in five sets earlier in the month. Dreyer thinks her team is getting closer to beating Notre Dame.

“The past two times we’ve lost in the fifth set and it seems to come down to the final point,” she said. “We can beat them and we fought so hard both times. We’re getting close to beating them.”

The fifth-set went to 15-13 this year. In the second round of the NorCal playoffs last year, the fifth set went to 17-15.

The Knights still needed to focus on Sacred Heart Prep, which beat the Knights at Spikefest I at the beginning of the season, its first win over Menlo in two years.

“We are more consistent with our serving,” Menlo coach Marco Paglialunga said of his team’s improvement since. “That’s the main difference. We know what we have to do.”

Sophomore Grace King led the Knights with 11 kills and Dreyer added 10. Selina Xu and Mia Vandermeer, Menlo’s top returning attacker from last year, each had eight.

The Gators (2-1, 13-6) matched Menlo from the attack standpoint, with Cate Desler recording 14 kills and Natalie Zimits adding 11.

The Knights managed to get to more balls and kept rallies alive.

A lot of that has to do with senior libero Jessica Houghton, who recorded a match-high 23 digs.

Kristin Sellers and Riley Holland were also effective, combining for an additional 25 digs.

“Our confidence is improving

a lot,” Paglialunga said. “We’re starting to understand that we have the ability. The third set, when we came back to tie it, 2020, was a clear sign that we’re never goinvg to give up.”

The Gators also displayed some fortitude during that set. Menlo kept whittling away at an eightpoint deficit and took the lead at one point before Sacred Heart Prep gathered itself and responded with a winning rally.

Haley Martella’s set point was a marvel. She initially had to dig a difficult ball before delivering the winning strike.

“This was an important game for us,” Dreyer said. “It’s a rivalry game, but I think Notre Dame has become a bigger rivalry and they’re the ones we have in the back of our minds.”

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with 606 yards rushing and 10 TDs through four games. Junior QB Nate Gordon is the younger brother of record-setter Anthony Gordon, now at Washington State.

“The kids know what Terra Nova is all about, a perennial power in the PAL,’’ Ravipati said.

“Their offense is very prolific with a very impressive, athletic kid at running back. Gordon’s little brother is real squirmy in the pocket. Their defense is much improved. They could easily be 3-1 or 4-0.’’

Speedster Jordan Mims has rushed for 683 yards thus far for M-A. Sacred Heart Prep has played a schedule comparable to M-A’s, and are 0-4.

“Last year we were 1-2 at one time and things didn’t look so good,’’ SHP coach Pete Lavorato said. “But then we did OK in league. So I look at this as a new beginning.’’

SHP opens at Burlingame in a 7 p.m. start.

Aragon and Hillsdale don’t begin Bay Division play until next week.

Palo Alto broke out its running game in a big way in a 44-31 win over Santa Clara in an SCVAL De Anza Division opener. A week after a shutout loss to Oak Grove the Vikings got 264 yards on 29 carries from Paul Jackson III and 143 yards on 10 carries from Sione Latu.

“We really stressed the notion of our guys getting upfield,’’ Paly coach Danny Sullivan said.

A game at Saratoga is next on the schedule.

“It’s a team I’ve known for a bunch of years,’’ said Sullivan, the former Los Gatos assistant. “This is one of the best teams they’ve had in a long time. Their D-line is very good.’’

Will Liddle, a third-year starter at QB for the Falcons, is someone Sullivan has worked with in the

off-season.

While Sullivan was pleased with his team’s showing in the running game against Santa Clara, he’s very concerned about a couple of other issues.

“We have got to find some consistency in the passing game,’’ Sullivan said.

Sophomore Jackson Chryst was 4 of 15 passing versus Santa Clara. On the season the team is a combined 30 of 92 (32.6 percent).

“That’s frustrating on my part,’’ Sullivan said. “And we scored 44 points while turning it over six times. That’s something we’ve got to fix or it will cost us a lot more in games to come.’’

Gunn (2-3, 0-1) will play at Cupertino at 6:30 in an SCVAL El Camino Division game. The Titans, coming off a 2-2 record in non-league play, lost to Fremont 49-21 in their El Camino opener.

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Sports ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

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Menlo’s Sam Untrecht takes a shot against Menlo-Atherton.

Eliza Grover

PREP WATER POLO

Staying in the moment Menlo looks within for improvement

by Rick Eymer Niko Bhatia and Atreya Iyer he Menlo School boys’ wa- also scored for Menlo, and Ben ter polo team, off to its best Rosenblatt played in goal for most start in a decade, has two of the contest.

PAL Bay Division matches reGiorgio Fatica and Ryan Toumaining after beating host Wood- louse each scored for the Wildside, 19-2, Wednesday. cats, who face host M-A next The Knights (4-0, 14-0) are Wednesday. The Knights travel to overwhelming favorites to run Bellarmine in a nonleague game the table, with Menlo-Atherton, on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. which enjoyed a bye this week, Sacred Heart Prep, which plays seemingly the lone team in the West Catholic capable of challenging Athletic League, emthem. ploys a similar strategy.

Despite that, MenThe Gators beat visitlo takes nothing for ing St. Ignatius, 16-2, to granted and focuses on remain atop the league being at their best in standings, sharing the every match. Instead of lead with Bellarmine playing conqueror, the (3-0, 10-1).

Knights work on themNine different players selves without regard to scored for Sacred Heart the opponent.

Prep (4-0, 7-3), includZoe Banks “We’re not seeking ing goalie JC Marco, to be better than the first 15 (or who played in the field as part of 20, or 30) teams we face. We the Gators’ Senior Night. are striving to be the best team Michael Sonsini led the way we can be,” Menlo coach Jack with three goals on four shots and Bowen said. “So whether we’re a pair of assists. Andrew Chur7-7 or 14-0, we’re still pursu- ukian, J Clevenger, C.J. Box, Alex ing this goal. It’s actually quite Tsotadze and Jack Burlinson each motivating and one of the things added a pair of goals. that keeps me going with such a Walker Seymour and Corey group of guys.”

Tanis also scored, while four othNine different players scored ers took shots, including Patrick for Menlo, led by Miller Geschke, Tandy, who attempted four.

Jayden Kunwar and Noah HouseSacred Heart Prep goes to nbold each with a hat trick. Sam Valley Christian for a 3:30 p.m.

Untrecht, the Knights’ leading WCAL game next Wednesday bescorer, added two goals. fore taking part in the S&R Sport Scott Little, Gary Marston and Invitational in Irvine.

Connor Enright also scored a pair The Gunn boys’ water polo of goals each as the Knights are team completed the first round of off to their best start since going SCVAL De Anza Division play 28-1 in 2006, when the only loss unbeaten after knocking off viscame during the North-South iting Los Altos, 16-9, earlier this tournament in October. week.

“Other than that, this is defiFor the Titans (7-0, 8-4), there’s nitely the best start we’ve had still unfinished business. in the history of the program,” “We’re confident but we’re still Bowen said. “It’s all a balance: hungry,” Gunn coach Matt Johncelebrating what we’ve achieved son said. “We come into every while still understanding that we game with a couple of goals in have a bigger goal ahead of us.” mind and one is to get better ev-

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ery time out. We’re definitely not satisfied with where we’re at.”

Aaron Babian scored six goals for Gunn, which took control of the game with a big first quarter.

The Eagles were never allowed to get any closer than three goals the rest of the way.

Quinn Hamilton added five goals for the Titans and Jack Mallery had a pair of goals.

“This is a good, hard-working group,” Johnson said. “We’ve beaten some good teams and we’ll keep working. It’s all about league right now and getting better.”

Palo Alto (6-1, 8-7) kept pace with a 7-4 victory over host Homestead. Jared Stanley scored four goals to lead the Vikings.

Girls water polo Minhee Chung, Anika Adzich and Madison Lewis each scored three times to lead Castilleja past host Carlmont, 15-5, in a PAL Bay Division contest on Wednesday.

Kenzie Macdonald, Claire Pisani and Serena Rivera-Korver each added two goals for the Gators (3-0, 9-3), who travel to St. Francis for a nonleague match Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

Georgia Lewis recorded 12 saves in goal for Castilleja.

Sacred Heart Prep stayed unbeaten in WCAL play, beating visiting St. Ignatius, 18-6, as Layla Waters netted seven goals and Maddy Johnston had five.

Maddie Pendolino added four goals and Jane Rakow needed to make five saves for SH Prep (4-0, 9-4), which travels to Miramonte for a nonleague game Tuesday at 4 p.m.

Mikaela Wayne scored three times, Zoe Banks made 14 saves and Gunn remained undefeated in SCVAL play with a 9-0 victory over visiting Los Altos on Tuesday night. Kara Jacobsen added two goals for the Titans (6-0, 10-1). Q

Quinn Hamilton

MENLO-ATHERTON

GUNN

The senior volleyball player helped the Bears win two league matches last week, including a key match against Carlmont. She recorded 34 kills, 25 digs and had a hitting percentage of .409 for the week.

One of the leading scorers in the SCVAL, Hamilton had 11 goals last week in helping the Titans remain undefeated in league play at the halfway mark. He’s also a strong distributor and defensive presence.

Honorable mention Sara Choy

Niko Bhatia

Sacred Heart Prep tennis

Cate Desler

Menlo water polo

Jonas Enders

Sacred Heart Prep volleyball

Maddie Escher

Gunn cross country

Paul Jackson III*

Pinewood volleyball

Palo Alto football

Sophie Siminoff

Sione Latu

Menlo golf

Palo Alto football

Katherine Sung

Jack Mallory

Palo Alto golf

Gunn water polo

Stephanie Yu

Alex Tsotadze

Palo Alto golf

Sacred Heart Prep water polo * Previous winners

Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

OF LOCAL NOTE

Ogwumike earns WNBA top honors

by Palo Alto Online Sports os Angeles Sparks forward and three-time Stanford All-American Nneka Ogwumike was named the 2016 WNBA Most Valuable Player on Tuesday.

The fifth-year pro from Cypress, Texas earned 31 of 39 firstplace votes from a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters.

The award is the first for Ogwumike and the first for a Stanford women’s basketball alumna.

She is just the second Cardinal to win a league most valuable player award, joining San Francisco 49ers quarterback John Brodie, who was selected NFL MVP in 1970.

“No one could be happier for her than me,” Stanford’s Director of Women’s Basketball Tara VanDerveer said. “I’m so proud of her. For me the MVP isn’t just for her play, but for the person she is. She is a great teammate, is resilient, encouraging and positive.

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It could not happen to someone more deserving.”

Ogwumike, a six-time Western Conference Player of the Week, concluded her regular season third in the league in scoring (19.7 ppg) and rebounding (9.1 rpg) in leading the Sparks to a 26-8 overall record, a double-bye and the No. 2 seed in the WNBA Playoffs.

Ogwumike finished the regular season as the most efficient shooter in the history of professional basketball. Her 66.5 field goal percentage is second alltime in WNBA single-season history to Tamika Raymond’s 66.8 percent clip in 2003, but the 6-foot-2 forward also shot 16-of26 from 3-point range (.615) and 146-of-168 from the line (.869).

Combined together, Ogwumike ended the year with a true shooting percentage of 73.7 percent, clear of Candice Dupree’s previous WNBA record of 69.97 percent in 2010. Q

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Top-ranked Stanford women look to stay unbeaten Cardinal hosts large cross country invitational on Saturday

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from the Paralympic team.

When she returned to training, she was on her own. She found a coach at the Riekes Center in Menlo Park and a willing group of athletes for training.

She is one of the founders of the NorCal Sitting Volleyball program and has seen the crossover effect on her work with the VA. She’s opened the door for fellow employees to participate in after hour sporting programs.

Holloway also finds time to write for USA Paralympics, producing the occasional fact-finding article that helps clarify any mis-

candidate a year ago as a sophomore and has picked up where she left off with an impressive junior campaign. The defensive midfielder has started all nine games and is tied for second on the team with 10 points, accumulating three goals and four assists.

Sullivan’s impact goes beyond statistics. Her leadership, defense, distribution and ability to attack with pace makes her a unique centerpiece. Sullivan is an elite defender with a blistering shot from distance and shoulders a majority of the free-kick and corner kick responsibilities.

“Andi is making a huge impact on our team. She’s the engine in our midfield and has excellent technical ability, speed and power,” Ratcliffe said. “It is very rare to find a player with all of the attributes Andi possesses. Yet, Andi’s strongest quality is her leadership. She is one of the strongest leaders that I have ever coached.”

Stanford has not allowed more than two goals in a match over its past 267 contests, not since a 4-0 loss to North Carolina on Sept. 11, 2005, in San Francisco. During that stretch, Stanford allowed two goals 27 times, which comes out to once every 9.85 matches.

Cross country The 43rd annual Stanford Invitational cross country meet will be held Saturday at Stanford Golf Course, beginning at 9 a.m. The meet provides a glimpse of the Stanford teams that are regarded as national contenders and serves as a showcase for some of the best high school runners in the state and beyond.

The college races begin at 9:50 a.m. and are sandwiched among 12 high school races, six each for boys and girls covering five enrollment divisions and seeded races. There will by 37 colleges competing. Overall, there will be more than 3,000 runners. Q conceptions or strives to inform in a light-hearted manner.

For example, the word “Paralympics,”she wrote, means “Parallel to the Olympics.” No, not Paraplegic or Paralyzed.

Holloway added: “There are more medal events in the Paralympic Games (503) than Olympic (302) because of the multiple classifications in each sport. Persons entering the Paralympics must have a qualifying physical disability.”

Holloway’s career highlights, and further reading, can be found at http://www.teamusa.org/Athletes/HO/Katie-Holloway.aspx.

General information can be found at http://www.teamusa.org/ us-paralympics. Q

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he top-ranked Stanford women’s soccer team continues Pac-12 play and wraps up its nine-game homestand this weekend, playing host to Washington State and Washington.

The Cardinal (8-0-1, 1-0 Pac12) takes on the Cougars (5-3-1, 0-1 Pac-12) on Thursday at 7 p.m.

(PT), and concludes the weekend Sunday at 2 p.m. against Washington.

Stanford scored three secondhalf goals in an eight minute span to secure a 3-0 victory against Oregon in its Pac-12 opener this past weekend. The Cardinal improved to 13-0-3 in conference openers since 2001 and 10-0-3 under head coach Paul Ratcliffe, who took over in 2003.

Tegan McGrady and Averie Collins recorded their first goals of the year, while Jordan DiBiasi scored her team-leading sixth goal of the season. Jane Campbell registered her second shutout of the year and 32nd of her career, moving her into sole possession of third place on Stanford’s all-time shutout list.

MAC Herman Trophy candidate,Andi Sullivan, continued her impressive season with a strong game against the Ducks in the midfield and assisted Stanford’s third goal.

The Cardinal has scored two or more goals in seven-of-eight games this season, while limiting opponents to one goal or fewer in all but one match. Stanford has not trailed in a game at any point this season.

Both games will be televised on the Pac-12 Network.

Stanford’s game on Sunday will be a “Pink Game.” The Cardinal will wear pink uniforms to create awareness as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Sullivan established herself as a legitimate MAC Hermann Trophy

Stanford coach David Shaw discusses things with an official.

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yard run, but at the same time, this kid played one whale of a game.

We have a different standard for him than everybody else.”

McCaffrey ranks second nationally in rushing yards per game (145.3) and all-purpose yards (211.67). He’s 15th in total rushing yards (436).

McCaffrey will again be the focus when Stanford travels to play Washington at 6 p.m. Friday night on ESPN. While he had 300 total all-purpose yards against the Huskies last year, “only” 109 came on the ground.

Of Washington, Shaw said: “Speed everywhere. Running backs have speed, receivers have speed. You saw the beginnings of the offense come together last year. Now, you’re seeing it coming to fruition. They can run it, they can throw it, they have a solid offensive line, and they’re playing at home.”

Washington coach Chris Peterson was just as effusive in his comments about Stanford.

“Stanford’s an awesome program,” he said. “I’ll start with that, program. It isn’t just an awesome team, it’s an awesome program. They know how to do it right Ö play good football and win championships.

On McCaffrey, Peterson said: “Unbelievable vision, extremely explosive, and as patient as anybody I’ve seen. It’s a unique combination ñ his vision is so good, and he’s so patient. So many times it looks like there’s not really anything there. Then, he’ll find it. And he’s not going down with one guy grabbing a hold of him. You’ve got to tackle him with multiple guys. He’s unique and rare. You don’t see guys like that very often.”

The switch of offensive tackles Casey Tucker and A.T. Hall to

different sides before the UCLA game was done quickly. When it became evident that each would be more effective on their ‘natural’ sides, Tucker was moved to left tackle after starting every game on the right last season, and Hall was moved to the right.

“After the USC game, we saw it was it was probably going this way, so we figured why wait another couple of weeks. Let’s do it right now and allow them more time to settle in,” Shaw said.

“Both played well. I think they can play better as they get more comfortable in those positions.”

Shaw said pass protection was the key. Whereas, former standouts such as Kyle Murphy or Andrus Peat could play either side, most seem to favor one side or the other.

“Casey’s so much more comfortable and fluid setting up on the right than on the left,” Shaw said. “Some guys are better on the left, some are better on the right. I don’t know why.”

A hit on receiver Francis Owusu has caused Shaw to plea for a change in how helmet-to-helmet hits are officiated. Owusu received a concussion on a play that was not penalized. Even after replay review, targeting was not called despite clear helmet-tohelmet contact.

A key element in whether the rule has been violated is the word “defenseless.” Owusu apparently was not considered defenseless because he had taken several steps with the ball.

“It’s not about being defenseless or not, it’s about making the game as safe as we can possibly make it,” Shaw said. “We should not lead with our helmet against someone else’s helmet.”

“As a college football coach who Ö has to sit in these living rooms year after year and say that we’re going to do the best thing we can for their young people in the classroom and on the football field, and that we’re going to try to

take care of them, plays like this should be penalized so they stop happening.

“If we don’t penalize them, they will continue to happen. To me, that’s common sense Ö There is language that obviously needs to be amended, preferably sooner rather than later. I think that you will get relatively unanimous support for specific language that takes helmet-to-helmet collisions out of the game. I’m telling you what I believe as a college football coach, as a leader of young men who loves this sport and wants it to be played physically, and also wants it to be played as safe as possible.

“I understand the letter of the law ñ it’s been quoted to me several times in the last 24 hours ñ but to me it’s immaterial.”

Owusu will not play Friday.

This is first time both Stanford and Washington enter a meeting ranked by the AP since 2013 (No. 5 Stanford beat No. 15 Washington, 31-28) and first with both teams ranked in the top-10. The programs have split the 10 meetings in which both teams were ranked.

Stanford’s series with Washington is its second oldest, and the Huskies are the Cardinal’s most common out-of-state opponent.

Stanford has won seven of its past eight meetings with Washington, and with a win on Friday, Stanford will hold the upper hand in the series (tied at 41-41-4).

The Cardinal has won 15 of its past 16 outings, and matched a school-record seven straight Pac12 regular-season road games (2010-11). No Stanford team ever has won eight straight conference regular-season road games.

Stanford ranks eighth nationally in scoring defense (12.0), 17th in rushing defense (95.3) and 33rd in total defense (337.7).

Conrad Ukropina is tied for first in field goal percentage (1.000), converting all six attempts. Q

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1071 Tehama Ave 3, 1.5 & 8,400 lot. Open flr plan. Sep family room. Bonus room for office/gym. MP schools.

3 BR 1.5 BA Billy McNair 650.324.4456

1381 Alameda de las Pulgas Beautifully redone w/ lovely taste. New kitchen & baths, crown molding, Samsung appliances 3 BR 2 BA Shawnna Sullivan 650.325.6161

223 Horizon Avenue Charming 3bd/2ba end-unit TH w/ valuted ceiling & wood floors. Serene community w/ pool.

Dan Ziony 650.325.6161

2737 Bristol Way Located in the desirable Woodside Plaza Neighborhood. Approx. 1,020 sf on a 6,272, sf lot. 3 BR 1 BA Julie Ray 650.324.4456

Sat/Sun 1 - 4

$1,150,000

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Menlo Park

Sat/Sun 1 - 4

$858,000

2140 Santa Cruz Ave E209 Popular stretch unit.

Updated kitchen & bathrooms. Overlooks inner courtyard & pool. 2 BR 2 BA Beth Leathers 650.324.4456

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