Palo Alto Weekly October 21, 2016 by Palo Alto Weekly

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Vol. XXXVIII, Number 3

October 21, 2016

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Huge political contributions spark outcry, suspicion After Kou and Keller get about $100K, the city’s former mayors warn of ‘undue influence’ in local politics by Gennady Sheyner

s September wound down, Palo Alto City Council candidate Lydia Kou’s campaign had plenty of endorsements but not a lot of cash. Kou, a longtime neighborhood activist who in July became the first person to declare her candi-

dacy, had received nearly $17,000 in contributions by Sept. 24, according to her financial disclosure forms. Despite enthusiastic support from the city’s slow-growth “residentialists,” including contributions from council members Tom DuBois and Eric Filseth

and from Cheryl Lillienstein, president of the grassroots group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning (PASZ), Kou found herself in the middle of the pack in terms of campaign cash. Then came an October surprise: a sequence of large checks, each totaling $6,000 or more, that collectively pushed her total contributions received to more than $40,000. Additional checks arrived at the end of last week,

leaving Kou with a war chest of $78,537. Arthur Keller, a former planning commissioner who is also popular with the limited-development crowd, did somewhat better than Kou by the end of September, with contributions of slightly more than $24,000. But both he and Kou lagged far behind fellow candidate and planning commissioner Greg Tanaka and council incumbent Liz Kniss,

who each had more than $45,000 in their war chests, along with endorsements from the Democratic Party and the council’s moderate members. But like Kou, Keller found his fortunes shift for the better in the first two weeks of this month. A series of contributions, ranging from $2,100 to $6,500, pumped nearly $60,000 into his campaign, (continued on page 8)

ELECTION 2016

Six compete to lead Foothill-De Anza district Community-college board has three seats and one incumbent in the race by Kevin Forestieri and Elena Kadvany

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Aaron Benson uses a drill to secure the approximately 1,000 2x4s of lumber that make up the installation “Running Wall” created by his father, artist Aaron Lee Benson, in Palo Alto’s King Plaza on Oct. 20. The installation will be up until spring; afterward the wood will be donated to the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity.

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Hundreds beseech East Palo Alto council to end evictions City Council votes to look at amending ordinance, create housing task force by Sue Dremann

acing a chamber overflowing with hundreds of residents Tuesday night, the East Palo Alto City Council addressed how the city could best turn the tide of recent evictions from red-tagged and illegal dwellings while responsibly keeping its residents safe and enforcing the city’s laws. City leaders listened to a litany of concerns from residents, land-

lords and housing advocates, who outlined the impact of the recent ramp-up of code enforcement, which has forced about 50 people out of their homes, according to the city’s own estimates. The city has red-tagged 53 structures deemed hazardous, according to a staff report. In the end, the council voted unanimously to direct staff to form a community task force to

find solutions to the problem. The council also unanimously directed staff to look into changing the city’s current ordinance, which requires evictions after a 10-day notice for a dangerous or illegal structure. The city could extend the notice to 30 days. East Palo Alto has long been troubled by illegal second-dwell(continued on page 7)

his November, voters in several north county and west valley cities will decide who will lead the Foothill-De Anza Community College District. Six candidates are vying for three seats on the district’s board of trustees. The election marks only the second contested race in the last decade. The Foothill-De Anza district serves 64,000 students each year and encompasses Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Stanford and parts of Saratoga and San Jose. Whatever the outcome, there are sure to be new faces on the board this year. The terms of trustees Laura Casas, Betsy Bechtel and Joan Barram end this year, but Casas is the only incumbent on the ballot. Other candidates are Cupertino City Councilman Gilbert Wong, former Cupertino councilman Orrin Mahoney, Cupertino resident Patrick Ahrens, Los Altos resident Peter Landsberger and former Foothill employee Eric Rosenthal. The district has an unrestricted general fund budget of $204 million for operations and a total budget of $322 million. FoothillDe Anza has only recently gotten back in the black, having run a budget deficit from the start of the 2008 recession until the 2014-15 school year. Following deep budget cuts, the district is still on the road to recovery, and some big problems remain today. Candidates agree that deep decreases in enrollment, which began in the 2008-09 school year and never rebounded, need to be

addressed by the new board. At its peak, the district had 38,000 fulltime equivalent students attending Foothill and De Anza colleges, but that number has since dropped to about 31,900 students. The district is also wrapping up construction with the $490 million Measure C bond, which voters approved in 2006. Final projects include a $41.5 million education center at the former Onizuka Air Force Station on Moffett Field, as well as a $20 million district office.

Patrick Ahrens Age: 27 Education: associate’s degree, De Anza College; bachelor’s degree, political science, University of California, Los Angeles. City of residence: Cupertino Occupation: education policy adviser and senior district representative Website: patrickahrens.com Patrick Ahrens is a former De Anza College student who couldn’t stay away from the district for long. After launching a fast-moving career in politics and landing himself a senior staffing job for California State Assemblyman Evan Low, Ahrens decided in April to throw his hat in the ring for the Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees. At 27, Ahrens is the youngest candidate in the field by far, and he vows to bring “new energy” to the district by addressing the problems that students face. As a for(continued on page 9)

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People ... are concerned the city isn’t going to move quickly enough to avoid the immediate additional displacements. —Jennifer Martinez, executive director of Faith in Action Bay Area, on the eviction of residents from redtagged housing units. See story on page 7.

Around Town MIND YOUR MANNERS ... To remind Caltrain riders about the importance of respecting the rules of the rail system and displaying best traveling practices, the transportation agency has launched a lighthearted social media campaign called #CaltrainManners. The campaign, based on a recent online survey, features the top three annoying onboard gaffes. Last week, Caltrain’s social media team posted a gif depicting the third-most egregious onboard behavior: placing a personal bag on an empty seat. Some trains operate at 120 percent capacity, the social media post noted, so every seat should be reserved for people, not possessions. The second-most abrasive faux pas? Loud cellphone talkers. Caltrain will reveal the No. 1 thing passengers find the most bothersome next week. For more information, visit caltrain.com/ riderinfo/Caltrain_Manners or check out Caltrain’s Facebook and Twitter.

PERFECT MATCH ... Tinder is swiping right on Palo Alto. The dating app, which lets users swipe through profiles to find potential dates, is opening an office in the heart of Silicon Valley so it can better recruit employees with tech skills, CEO Sean Rad said in an interview with Recode. The new 471 Emerson St. office, which opens next week, won’t replace Tinder’s Southern California headquarters, Rad said, but will be more of a “small satellite office.” Tinder has already hired 20 people to work at the Palo Alto office, Rad told Recode, and plans to add about 20 more people over the next year or so. ROAD TO NOWHERE ... To say that Elizabeth Wong’s journey to construct a four-story development at 429 University Ave. has been bumpy would be a massive understatement. Since the process began more than three years ago, the project has gone through a batch of public hearings, a shortlived approval, a citizen appeal of the said approval, a rejection by the council, a slew of design revisions and a sequence of architects that came and went like Spinal Tap drummers — all seemingly to no

avail. On Thursday, it fell to architect Joe Bellomo, to make the case that the latest design merits approval. “We’re really trying to design a building that fits in to the University Avenue streetscape,” Bellomo told the Architectural Review Board during the board’s umpteenth review of the project. Neither the board nor the appellant, Michael Harbour, bought it. Harbour argued that the project still fails to address many of the issues that the council highlighted when it sent the project back to the drawing board: namely, insufficient design linkages to nearby buildings and too much massing. “It’s still a colossal building on the narrowest street of downtown Palo Alto,” Harbour said, referring to Kipling Street. The board agreed and voted 3-0, with Wynne Furth and Peter Baltay absent, to deny the proposal. “I’m thoroughly worn out at this point,” board member Kyu Kim said before voicing his reservations about the new design. “We seem to have gone backward,” Chair Robert Gooyer said. “We’ve seen numerous iterations and I think none seem to be addressing what we ask for.” NEW ADDITION ... The Palo Alto History Museum has a new director of development in Laura Bajuk, a Palo Alto resident and former executive director of the Los Altos History Museum. Bajuk brings more than 20 years of “invaluable museum and nonprofit management experience” to the newly created position, Board President Rich Green said in a statement. Bajuk will be tasked with growing the museum’s development efforts. Under her leadership, the Los Altos History Museum saw its net worth double and its membership and staff grow. Bajuk also successfully expanded the museum’s reach into the community and expanding its fiscal support. The Palo Alto History Museum is scheduled to open in 2018. Fundraising efforts to convert the historic Roth Building, which will cost $20 million, is in full swing. The museum currently has donations and pledges totaling $6.5 million, according to Executive Director Myron Freedman. Q

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Evictions ing units on properties and overcrowding in single-family homes that have led to, in some instances, mountains of trash and problems with parking and vermin. Residents have died after illegally constructed structures caught fire. The city began stepping up enforcement of its building and safety codes earlier this year after it hired additional code-enforcement officers to respond to complaints from citizens. But the efforts have had an unintended consequence on evicted families, who have had to split up, residents said. Advocates presented a document Tuesday addressing the issue and outlining possible long-term solutions. The report — which was created by St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Faith Missionary Baptist Church, Tokaikolo Church, Project Sentinel and Faith in Action Bay Area — recommended the city consider an immediate two-year moratorium on redtagging any unit other than those posing a life-threatening hazard. Illegal dwellings would be allowed to stand and an amnesty program would be instituted with reduced fees, which would allow property owners to upgrade their units and comply with regular inspections. A task force would help come up with a reduced-fee schedule.

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Residents and landlords packed the East Palo Alto City Council chambers on Oct. 18 to demand a moratorium on red-tagging evictions. The report also strongly recommended the city develop an education program for landlords and tenants so they will understand the codes and construction standards. The instructions could be in a handbook translated into multiple languages, which resi-

dents speak, including English, Spanish, Samoan and Tongan. Advocates asked for a 30- and 60-day notice for imminent hazards, allowing tenants to find alternate housing. The report also asked the city to define an “imminent hazard,” noting that families whose

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dwellings have been red-tagged have not been clearly informed about the violation. The determinations appear to be arbitrarily made by the code-enforcement officer, the report alleged. The community would also like to have an independent third party present during

inspections, which would include persons with planning and codeenforcement experience. But council members said Tuesday that they find themselves impeded in large part by state and lo(continued on page 14)

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raising his total to $84,000, far more than anyone else. Keller and Kou say the contributions were unexpected. Kou said she knows donor Gabrielle Layton, a Downtown North resident who supported Kou’s bid for council in 2014 and more recently served on a committee that crafted downtown’s new Residential Preferential Parking program. The other contributions, Kou said, came as a “surprise” in that she has never talked to the donors. The contributors include venture capitalist Tench Cox and nonprofit executive Simone Cox, who between them gave $12,000 to Keller and $12,900 to Kou (they had also made smaller contributions earlier in the year). Gabrielle and Thomas Layton gave $12,500 to each candidate; Helyn MacLean, whose husband Asher Waldfogel serves on the city’s Planning and Transportation Commission, likewise gave

$12,500 to Kou and $12,500 to Keller. Rounding out the list of the major donors are G. Leonard and Mary Anne Baker; and Michael and Paula Rantz. The total contributions by these donors to the Kou and Keller campaigns, as well as to the PASZ political action committee, added up to $162,000 as of Oct. 19. Keller wasn’t as surprised as Kou when the funds began arriving. Donors had contacted him, he told the Weekly, to offer their help. Keller said the donors alluded to the fact that four other council candidates — Adrian Fine, Liz Kniss, Don McDougall and Greg Tanaka — had just won the blessing (if not the outright endorsement) of the Chamber of Commerce, which emailed members encouraging their support of the quartet. “They did contact me and indicated their desire to help my campaign and Lydia’s campaign by making these donations so that we could better compete with the Chamber of Commerce-endorsed candidates,” Keller said. “I fig-

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ured we can use the help.” Keller said he has not had any conversations with the donors about any specific issues and noted that they did not ask for anything in exchange for their donations. Kou said the same. The donors indicated that they want Keller and Kou to “continue along the policies that they know we’ve espoused for some time,” Keller said. “They know that, in my case, I’ve been scrutinizing developments carefully and that I do understand issues of development,” Keller said. Donor Tench Coxe concurred. He told the Weekly that he and wife Simone decided to support Kou and Keller “because we believed they best represented our goals of intelligent growth for Palo Alto.” He said he is particularly frustrated by the city’s lack of planning on traffic and parking management, as well as by the city’s “lack of willingness to speak about what a bullet-train corridor would mean.” “I am not anti-growth, but I believe we should have a traffic and parking plan (first) and then a plan for low-income housing,” Coxe said in an email. The couple’s donations to the two campaigns are so sizable, he said, because “we perceive the developers to be spending a lot of money (on other candidates)

and not to have the best interests of the city in their focus.” He stressed that he and Simone have “absolutely not asked either candidate for anything in return for our support.” Others offered similar reasons. Waldfogel — who made a $500 donation to Keller and a $100 to Kniss in September, but no major contribution this month — told the Weekly that he and the other donors discussed the candidate pool. They agreed that they want to support Keller, a former member of the planning commission, and Kou, a Barron Park resident who helped lead the neighborhood’s opposition to a new housing development on Maybell Avenue in 2013 and who was edged out for the fourth open council seat in 2014. “Arthur knows more about development issues in Palo Alto than anyone else,” Waldfogel said. “And Lydia is a community organizer with a big constituency, and she is able to get things done.” MacLean noted that her contributions to Keller and Kou were the single largest that she has ever given to any campaign. “I made them because I have lived in Palo Alto for 25 years,” MacLean wrote last week on Town Square, Palo Alto Online’s discussion forum. “I like its suburban, college town character. I’m afraid that we are in danger of losing that. Many candidates

seem to be supporting growth to benefit large corporations and developers.”

Developer money trail Developers have indeed made contributions to Fine and Tanaka, though these contributions pale in scale when considered alongside the recent inflow of cash to the Kou and Keller campaigns. The exact amount of contributions from developers is difficult to peg because only a few identify themselves as such on campaign forms (for example, Roxy Rapp, a prominent downtown developer who contributed $1,000 each to Tanaka and Fine, has his profession listed as “Keeping Palo Alto Beautiful and Prosperous” on Tanaka’s campaign-finance statement and as “self-employed” on Fine’s). Tanaka did receive contributions from Jim Baer ($250), a land-use consultant who developed many of Palo Alto’s “planned community” projects; John Goldman ($1,522), partner at Premier Properties; Sam Hawkes and Brittany Davis of King Asset Management ($1,000 each); David Kleiman, whose two recent downtown projects faced unsuccessful citizen appeals ($250); and from developers Boyd and Lund Smith ($1,000 each). Al(continued on page 12)

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mer student trustee, Ahrens says he has the experience he needs to make the right decisions as a board member. His background is also bolstered by his work in Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state capitol, out of which he said he better understands how statewide decisions affect community college districts. Ahrens was the first in his family to go to college, and he credits De Anza with giving him the springboard to succeed in his career. He says his recent De Anza experience makes him acutely aware of what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to juggle the high cost of textbooks and classes while working part-time to stay afloat in Silicon Valley. Ahrens said he believes the district needs to find â&#x20AC;&#x153;new and innovativeâ&#x20AC;? ways to support students in trying economic times. If elected, one of his major goals would be to provide students tuition-free enrollment for their first semester. The West Valley-Mission Community College District already has a similar offer, he said, and it would be a good fit for Foothill-De Anza as well. Although Ahrens cites the achievement gap as a big problem that needs to be addressed, he said the district canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it alone. He suggests that Foothill-De Anza could partner with local high schools to make sure all students, including low-income and minority students, are ready for college when they graduate. Summer semester classes for incoming Foothill and De Anza freshman could go a long way towards helping illprepared students, he said. Campus safety also tops

election. After serving for 10 years on the board, Casas said she has the know-how to maintain stability and that she has learned how to be an effective board member. Casas said she believes community colleges play an important role in giving everyone an opportunity to participate in higher education. If re-elected, she said she will push for a balanced budget without making any compromises. The district must maintain high-quality academic programs even as the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enrollment declines, she said. In her view, an important part of staying financially solvent is making sure the district can meet the future pension security and medical-liability contract obligations it has with current and retired employees. Casas said she would also advocate for student services that would eliminate the achievement gap and aid in course transfer and completion rates. During the recession, Casas said, statewide decisions led to an enrollment, and by extension funding, decline for the community college district. Because the state no longer provides funding for students who take the same class more than once, Casas believes many of the community members who enjoy taking classes like tennis or painting were lost. As a member of the California Community College Trustees, Casas has fought to introduce legislation that brings at least some of the funding back. Casas has built a record as a stalwart advocate for education and social justice outside of the Board of Trustees. She co-founded a 35bed transitional home called Harbor Community, aimed at helping

Ahrensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; list of priorities, including improved responses to emergency calls and campus-police escorts for students who feel unsafe walking to their vehicle at night. Ahrens believes that the district is â&#x20AC;&#x153;very well run,â&#x20AC;? but the board needs to refocus its energy on reducing the financial burden on students whenever possible. Textbooks can cost students hundreds of dollars each semester, and Ahrens said faculty members on sabbatical used to help out by creating free, online textbooks. This practice ended in recent years, and Ahrens said it would be a big priority for him to bring it back. As a student trustee, Ahrens was part of a successful studentled effort to adopt the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eco Pass program, which grants all students free bus and light rail passes with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. He also helped launch a textbook rental program.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greg Tanaka reaches out to the community, listens to all sides of an issue and makes balanced decisions. We need Gregâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thoughtfulness on the Palo Alto City Council and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Congresswoman why Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve endorsed him.â&#x20AC;? Anna Eshoo

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News Digest Avenidas scores victory in expansion bid As Palo Alto’s senior population continues to grow, the city’s premier senior-services provider is preparing to do the same by building a three-story addition to its historic center on Bryant Street. The plan, which was more than two years in the making, scored a huge victory Thursday morning when the city’s Architectural Review Board voted to approve the project. The two approvals mean that unless the project is appealed, Avenidas can move ahead with the project. On Thursday morning, members praised the latest design changes: a flatter roof, a 9-inch height reduction and a 532-square-foot reduction in new floor area. With the changes, the board agreed that the addition is now compatible with the rest of the site. The two recent approvals belied, however, the long road and the intense scrutiny that the project has been facing over the past two years and the criticism that it continues to face from some local architects, residents and users of Avenidas facilities. One particularly thorny question surrounded the one-story garage that was designed by Birge Clark on the north side of the building. While Avenidas had initially intended to demolish the garage as part of its project, an analysis deemed it a historic structure, prompting revisions in plans. But last week, the historical board agreed with Avenidas’ decision to retain the garage. Board member David Bower, initially troubled by the addition’s size, said on Oct. 11 that the project “now is compatible in its massing and material selection and does not overwhelm the original design.” Q —Gennady Sheyner

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Under a plan that the City Council approved Monday night, Fire Station 3 will soon be shut down, demolished and rebuilt to modern standards at its location on Embarcadero Road. A temporary station will be built on Geng Road, a property near the Baylands. The council voted 8-1, with Councilman Cory Wolbach dissenting, to accept the recommendation from the Palo Alto Fire Department and to choose the Geng Road site over several others that are closer to Rinconada but, for various reasons, present their own obstacles. There is one drawback to placing the temporary station on the other side of U.S. Highway 101: an expected delay in response time. To account for this, the fire department plans to station an engine from Rinconada at the Alma Street fire station during the day and then relocate it to Geng Road after 7 p.m. This, according to the fire department analysis, would improve response time in downtown and on the Stanford University campus. At the same time, the move would roughly increase by about 60 seconds the time it would take to respond to the Station 3 area. While Wolbach said he was concerned that the city didn’t spend enough time considering the other options, most notably the tennis courts, other council members agreed that the Geng Road location is a solid compromise in the interim. Work on the Mitchell Park station is expected to begin in 2018, after the new Rinconada station is up. Q —Gennady Sheyner

Parents, students favor weighted grades There was a stark difference in opinion at the Palo Alto Board of Education meeting Tuesday night on the value of reporting high school students’ weighted grade point averages (GPAs). A district proposal to maintain the status quo of only reporting unweighted grades on students’ official transcripts but to end a small difference between how Gunn and Palo Alto high school counselors report weighted GPAs to colleges and universities — Gunn counselors automatically add the number in a counselor report section on the Common Application, while Paly staff does not — struck an emotional chord with many in the packed board room. Upset parents and students from both high schools urged the board to give students the choice to report their weighted GPA if they need it for admissions or to qualify for a merit-based scholarship. Out of 27 people who spoke during the public comment section of the meeting, only four, all Paly teachers or staff, opposed weighted grades for their potential negative impact on student well-being. Superintendent Max McGee said he would provide a short-term proposal at the board’s next meeting on Nov. 1, and the district plans to hold student lunches and focus groups at Paly and Gunn, as well as at least one town hall meeting and online webinar to further discuss the subject. Q —Elena Kadvany LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com

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battered women and children, and has chaired the Adelante Higher Education Conference to encourage underrepresented high school girls to go to college. She currently serves as a board member of ALearn, a Santa Clara-based college preparatory program for low-income, Latino and immigrant students in middle and high school.

Peter Landsberger Age: declined to state Education: associate’s degree,

political science, Santa Monica College; bachelor’s degree, political science, University of California at Berkeley; law degree, University of California, Berkeley; Institute for Educational Management, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Harvard Negotiation Project, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School City of residence: Los Altos Occupation: Member, Foothill-De Anza Foundation board Website: plandsberger.com For more than four decades, Peter Landsberger has been

deeply involved in higher education throughout the state, serving in roles ranging from teacher to chancellor. Now Landsberger seeks to carry his experience over to the Foothill-De Anza board, where he says he’ll be able to improve both Foothill and De Anza colleges and make sure everyone in the community can receive a quality and affordable education. Landsberger’s experience with the district goes back to 1978, when he was selected to be the district’s first general counsel. He served as vice chancellor for the district for three years and later worked as a faculty member

and the dean of business and the computer systems division at De Anza. He served seven years as the president of the College of San Mateo, and then moved to southern California to serve as senior vice chancellor and vice chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District. He worked for three years as a special trustee for Compton Community College District. Community colleges, Landsberger said, offer affordable education that is “essential to building a society that is fair and an economy that is prosperous.” Over the next four years, Lands-

berger believes, it’s critical for the board to maintain or increase enrollment in order to earn all of the state revenue available for Foothill-De Anza. Currently, enrollment is trending downward, which Landsberger believes is a serious problem that can lead to financial instability. He said he has tackled dwindling enrollment before, and would be able to deal with any “structural” problems in the district that could be hindering enrollment growth. Landsberger said the current board has done a “commendable” (continued on page 13)

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together, the contributions from the developer community added up to a little over $9,500, according to the Weekly analysis. This does not include architects, real-estate agents, real-estate attorneys, environmental planners and members of other professions associated with construction. An analysis by PASZ of “developer money” included donors in these professions. Fine, for his part, received only about $6,000 from developers as of Oct. 19, which includes $2,500 from Stephen Reller of R&M Properties; $1,000 from Hawkes of King Asset Management; $250 from Goldman; and $500 each from Jaime D’Allesandro and Tod Spieker, whose development company Windy Hill Property Ventures is looking to build a 60-unit housing complex on El Camino Real and Page Mill Road.

The push back While donors to Kou and Keller say they are looking to level the playing field and counterbalance the developers’ influence, the large infusion of funds into the election has sparked concern and suspicion from other council candidates — as well as from eight former Palo Alto mayors. In a letter provocatively titled, “Is someone trying to buy Palo Alto City Hall?” former mayors Betsy Bechtel, Larry Klein, Bern Beecham, Sid Espinosa, Dena Mossar, Leland Levy, Lanie Wheeler and Gail Wooley characterized the large amount of cash raised as “disturbing,” noting that it sets a tone that “many, if not most, of us don’t want in our town.”

“Not only are these contributions shocking and deeply troubling, but checks for $5,000 or more are unprecedented in our City Council elections!” the letter stated. “In the past, individual donations rarely exceeded $500, and for good reason: Candidates did not want the appearance of undue influence from big donors.” The letter states that, as former mayors, the signatories are “deeply concerned about the unprecedented role that large contributions are playing in this year’s election at the last minute.” “No one knows how these funds will be used, if attacks and negative campaign tactics are coming, or (whether) new City Council members ... will be beholden to big money.” The mayors are hardly nonpartisan bystanders, however. Almost all have endorsed Fine and Tanaka, the two candidates who are generally seen as moderate on growth. Bechtel is an honorary campaign chair for Fine’s campaign while Beecham and Klein (along with Assemblyman Rich Gordon and Susan Rosenberg) serve in the same capacity for Tanaka. Fine also has the endorsements of Klein, Mossar, Espinosa, Wheeler and Beecham. Tanaka, meanwhile, has the endorsements of Espinosa, Levy, Mossar and Bechtel. Espinosa said his biggest concern with the recent big donations is the prospect that it will make running for council a much more expensive proposition, potentially shrinking future candidate pools. “If this sets a precedent, it will really limit who decides to run for council in this city,” Espinosa told the Weekly.

amplified after an online ad began making its way around social media targeting Fine, the candidate who chairs the Planning and Transportation Commission and who sits, along with Kou and Keller, on the citizens’ committee that is working on the Comprehensive Plan update. “Developers and candidates like Adrian Fine want to push through many high-rise office and luxury condo projects,” the ad states. “The result? More traffic and crowded schools.” The ad then encourages viewers to support Kou and Keller. Fine, whose pool of contributors includes business professionals, former mayors (among them Bechtel, Peter Drekmeier and Greg Scharff), architects and members of the citizens group Palo Alto Forward, said the ad completely misrepresented his position. “I never said I was in favor of high-rises, offices and luxury towers,” Fine told the Weekly. “I put forward a balanced vision for balanced growth for Palo Alto to address housing and transportation needs that I heard residents call for.” Fine said he was surprised both by the huge amount of money donated to Kou and Keller and by the candidates’ decision to use the funds on what he referred to as “completely unfounded attacks.” He also pointed to the fact that the same donors who made the recent contributions to Keller and Kou have also contributed to the Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning Political Action Committee. The committee’s campaign statement shows that Gabrielle Layton, Helyn MacLean and Mary Anne Baker contributed $5,000 each to the committee, as did Rita Vrhel and Michael Rantz. Tench and Simone Coxe contributed another

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss labor negotiations with the Palo Alto Fire Chiefs’ Association and with the Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto. The council is also scheduled to adopt the Professorville Historic District Guidelines; pass an emergency ordinance banning the outdoor cultivation of marijuana; and provide direction on the creation of a stakeholder committee to advise the council on a potential local tax to raise funds for transportation programs and projects. The closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. A regular meeting will follow in the Council Chambers. PARKS AND RECREATION ... The commission plans to hear an update on planned special events; consider the “Healthy Cities Healthy Communities Resolution”; and discuss the Parks, Open Space, Trails and Recreation Facilities Master Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hold a study session on the Comprehensive Plan update; hear an update on transportation projects along Middlefield Road; and consider a request by Kohler Associates Architects on behalf of Greg Xiong to subdivide an existing 30,837-square-foot parcel into three parcels. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to see a presentation from Mary Gloner about Project Safety Net; discuss the Library Volunteer Program; and review its recent study session with the City Council. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

$5,000. Until recently, the group’s treasurer was Tim Gray, who stepped down to become treasurer of Kou’s campaign. On Wednesday, the committee contributed $10,000 to the Kou campaign, according to campaign-finance documents. “Palo Alto has never seen this before,” Fine said. “This pales in comparison to what other candidates have received from any types of residents or business owners in the city.”

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Keller and Kou stood by the ad, noting that Fine had previously voiced opposition to both the city’s 50-foot height limit for new developments (he once called it “arbitrary”) and to the annual cap on new office space that the City Council adopted last year (he called it a “blunt instrument”). As a commissioner, Fine initially voted against the office cap; he now says he favors keeping it at least until the update of the Comprehensive Plan is complete. He also said recently that he would be in favor of retaining the 50-foot height limit. Keller said the ad “accurately represents Adrian Fine’s positions before he changed them to run for council.” Kou concurred and said that Fine is now “pivoting” on these issues. “You have to have some consistencies with what you stand for,” Kou told the Weekly. Other candidates share Fine’s concerns about the outpouring of cash. Leonard Ely, who is not affiliated with either the slowgrowth or the Palo Alto Forward crowds, told the Weekly that the donations make it look like “someone is trying to buy the election for Kou and Keller.” The fundraising, he said, is “getting out of hand.” “I’m concerned, as a citizen, that this sort of fundraising is taking the race out of the realm of ‘I’m just a guy that wants to help the city,’” Ely said.

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job leading the district in recent years but is opening itself up to instability with two longtime incumbents stepping down this year. He believes even one problematic or weak board member can cause big problems, which he said happens all too often in other school districts in the area. If elected, Landsberger vowed to make the transition from high school into college as seamless as possible, and said it’s important to foster a close relationship with local high schools in order to eliminate or minimize any hurdles students face during the switch. In addition to offering the right classes and quality teachers, Landsberger said the district also has an obligation to provide stronger career counseling, financial aid, library services and tutoring — services he hopes to boost as a board member. Over the last two years, Landsberger has served as a member of the Foothill-De Anza Foundation, where he has worked to promote the district and raise funds for scholarships, stipends for internships, and vouchers for school supplies and textbooks. He says his work on the foundation has helped usher in new STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) programs and support services for low-income and minority students through the Extended Opportunity Program.

Orrin Mahoney Age: 71 Education: bachelor’s degree, industrial administration, Carnegie Mellon University; master’s degree, mechanical engineering, Stanford University City of residence: Cupertino Occupation: retired Website: mahoney4foothilldeanza.com Orrin Mahoney, a longtime resident and active volunteer in Cupertino, believes his combined decades of experience as a manager at Hewlett-Packard and as an elected official makes him a prime candidate for the FoothillDe Anza Board of Trustees. Mahoney, now retired, spent 35 years in managerial positions at HP, where he learned the “importance of solid strategic and financial planning,” he said. After retiring, he served on the planning commission and City Council in Cupertino, including two terms as mayor, in 2009 and 2013. Mahoney said strong fiscal management, aging infrastructure and the region’s high cost of living are the top three issues facing the community college district. He said the school district is in need of “other funding options,” including a possible parcel tax. When the district put a $69 parcel tax on the ballot in 2010, it failed to gain the two-thirds majority required to pass. He was critical of the current board’s approval of a $24 million renovation of De Anza’s Flint

Center for the Performing Arts parking garage, primarily driven by a need to upgrade the four-level garage for earthquake safety. The board had considered demolishing the aging garage and building a new one, but ultimately opted for the less expensive option of retrofitting. Proposals were also brought to the board for constructing a transit center to help address student and staff parking needs. While a “necessary project,” Mahoney said that “more time could have been spent on the future role of the Flint Center space and what an integrated plan would look like for the combined site.” And like most academic institutions in Silicon Valley, both K-12 and higher education, the Foothill-De Anza district must find ways to mitigate the impact of a rising cost of living on its ability to attract and retain highquality professors and staff, Mahoney said. If elected, Mahoney said he hopes to establish “stronger” relationships with the district’s feeder schools, city governments and high-tech companies to build meaningful partnerships, his campaign website states. He has been an active supporter of the community college district, particularly De Anza, for many years. He is a 14-year member of the De Anza Commission, which works to promote the community college within the community and to “engage in projects, activities and fundraising in support of educational excellence for students,” the commission’s website reads. He has served as the group’s co-chair for the last three years and for the past five years has led a major fundraising event for the community college, he said. The De Anza Commission has also advocated for partnerships with the City of Cupertino, he noted, and helped with the district’s last parcel tax campaign. For the past three years, Mahoney has worked on various fundraising activities through his role on the Foothill-De Anza Foundation Board. The foundation’s “key initiative” this year was on social equity, Mahoney noted, with a focus on programs that support low-income students, veterans, exposure to STEM and student engagement. Mahoney also served on two bond oversight committees for the Cupertino Union School District, where his four daughters attended school. In 2005, he was named Cupertino’s “citizen of the year.”

Eric Rosenthal Age: 55 Education: bachelor’s degree, chemistry with biology emphasis, San Jose State University City of residence: Los Altos Hills Occupation: sales Website: eric4trustee.com Eric Rosenthal spent 13 years observing the inner workings of

the Foothill-De Anza Community College District as a supervisor of Foothill College’s Student Success Center, now called Online Student Services. Rosenthal was one of the founders of the center in 2001, which offered a “one-stop shop” computer lab for students to get help applying for financial aid, enrolling in classes and other services, Rosenthal said. He said he also helped the district set up its database with CCCApply, the statewide online admission application center for California Community Colleges. In his time as a Foothill employee, Rosenthal said he “found many issues that needed to be addressed,” prompting him to run for a seat on the board. Cybersecurity is high on Rosenthal’s list of key issues. He is most critical of a 2014 board vote to create an additional database with students’ and employees’ log-in information — a database he believes is “easily shareable with little or no security.” If elected, he said he would push for an open-session discussion of the “merits or faults” of such a separate database. Also concerned about lax sharing of student data with external organizations, he wants to “stop unauthorized access to student accounts” and would “impose strict rules on when a student’s data can be used,” including requiring an opt-out option and a notification or permission system for students. Another top priority for Rosenthal is helping Foothill and De Anza increase enrollment. The colleges should work to promote themselves more online and also provide better support and guidance for interested students from admission through registration and attendance, he said. More collaboration between departments that currently operate like islands, Rosenthal said, could help better support students. The two colleges could also attract more students by giving their online courses, which are less expensive to mount than traditional courses, more visibility, Rosenthal said. “We can use our renowned locations in Silicon Valley to market nationally and internationally our online classes,” he said. Rosenthal also proposed replicating at Foothill and De Anza a program in place at other California community colleges that provides a tuition-free semester to qualifying local high school students. Long Beach Community College, for example, covers one semester for local students who enroll in the fall immediately after their high school graduation. A third issue is facilities upgrades and safety. As a board member, Rosenthal would work to closely monitor construction projects “to ensure the contractors adhere to their contract, finish on time, and produce a safe learning and working environment.” Among the six candidates, Rosenthal is the only one to have

raised less than the cap required to file a campaign finance statement. Rosenthal wrote in an email that he expects to receive “very little (in) donations.” Rosenthal also worked as a grant supervisor in Foothill’s Office of Economic Development and served on various committees, including on safety and hiring. As a longtime neighbor of the campus, the Los Altos Hills resident said he has volunteered in various activities over the years, including with Foothill Music Theatre.

Gilbert Wong Age: 49 Education: associate degree, business, West Valley Community College; bachelor’s degree, business administration, minor in Asian studies and political science, San Jose State University City of residence: Cupertino Occupation: Cupertino City Council member Website: gilbertswong.com Gilbert Wong, the first in an immigrant family to attend college, describes himself as a passionate “education advocate.” He graduated from Los Gatos

High School and went on to West Valley Community College, then San Jose State University. He later became an active community volunteer, from serving on his daughter’s school site council to the Cupertino Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors to the city’s planning commission. Wong was first elected to the Cupertino City Council in 2007 and again in 2011. In his second term, he became the first American-born Chinese resident to serve as mayor of Cupertino, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Wong sees the Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees as a natural next step in his public service, and he views equity and access as one of the top three issues facing the district. He’s concerned that declining state dollars and a tight budget means the district is “making tough choices to cut classes” that affect students’ abilities to graduate in two years, find the classes they need and repeat courses if necessary. As Cupertino mayor, he met quarterly with local school leadership — Cupertino’s school (continued on page 16)

Clarification

The Oct. 14 article on Measure A stated that San Jose Evergreen Community College District Measure G funds for rebuilding a vocational center were later “slated” for an arts/theater complex instead. That complex was not built, however; the money was spent on the vocational center. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, jdong@paweekly.com or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Oct. 17)

Fire station: The council supported the temporary relocation of Fire Station 3 to 200 Geng Road. Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Filseth, Holman, Kniss, Scharff, Schmid No: Wolbach Retail: The council directed staff to make provisions in the city’s new retailprotection ordinance to define what sorts of uses would be allowed on University Avenue, as well as on downtown’s more peripheral streets. Yes: Berman, Burt, Filseth, Holman, Kniss, Scharff, Schmid, Wolbach Absent: DuBois

Board of Education (Oct. 18)

Budget: The board discussed a series of proposed budget cuts for the 2017-18 year. Action: None GPAs: The board discussed a proposal to align grade reporting practices between Palo Alto and Gunn high schools, and to continue to only report unweighted grade point averages on official transcripts. Action: None

Council Finance Committee (Oct. 18)

Finances: The committee approved a reappropriation request for funds to be carried over from fiscal year 2016 to fiscal year 2017. Yes: Filseth, Schmid, Wolbach Absent: Holman Gas: The committee supported a recommendation from the Utilities Advisory Commission to pursue a carbon-neutral natural gas portfolio, with the rate impact of no greater than 10 cents per therm. Yes: Filseth, Wolbach No: Schmid Absent: Holman

Architectural Review Board (Oct. 20)

Avenidas: The board recommended approving a request by Avenidas to renovate and expand its facilities on 450 Bryant St. Yes: Gooyer, Kim, Lew Recused: Baltay, Furth 429 University: The board recommended upholding a citizen appeal and denying the latest design proposal for a mixed-use development at 429 University Ave. Yes: Gooyer, Kim, Lew Recused: Baltay, Furth

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cal laws, which limit their ability to take immediate emergency actions. Councilman Carlos Romero and city staff noted that the city must enforce the state building code, which requires an abatement of the hazard within 30 days or sooner if deemed necessary for health and safety reasons. Therefore, a moratorium would not be legal. But the city could change its 10-day rule for red-tagging to 30 days, and it could seek funding to help property owners bring second-dwelling units up to code, at least minimally. A city staff report found multiple points of agreement with the community’s report, but both staff and council members expressed regret that the community’s white paper wasn’t received in time for staff to meld its contents with the city’s. The staff report recommends issuing a request for proposals for

an organization to provide help for those who are displaced, including motel vouchers, first- and last-month rent assistance, relocation help and other services. Many residents are not aware of their rights, including that landlords are required to provide financial assistance for relocation, staff noted. Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto provides help in compelling landlords to provide that assistance, but many residents don’t know about the services. The city could expand its affordable-housing strategy by involving other communities and seeking funding from state and federal agencies. It might also try to find ways to get an estimated 100 units available at Woodland Park Apartments to be subsidized at lower rents, staff noted. The proposed community task force would also help identify resources in the community that could help create educational programs for landlords and ten-

ants and identify ways to bring the community’s talent pool of construction workers, plumbers and other laborers to help make many of the structures habitable. But the city also recognized that it must identify funding sources to make those options viable. If there was any good news on Tuesday, it’s that the codeenforcement effort has produced results: 81 percent of the homes that have been red-tagged have been abated or are in process of abatement, the staff report noted. Jennifer Martinez, executive director of Faith in Action Bay Area, said the council’s direction was a good start, but it doesn’t get to the heart of the problem. “I’m hearing people say that they are concerned the city isn’t going to move quickly enough to avoid the immediate additional displacements. They have to move quickly,” she said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

Online This Week

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

Voters to decide on half-cent sales tax Voters will decide next month on a measure that would raise billions of dollars to help address many public transportation issues throughout Santa Clara County. Measure B, a half-cent sales tax for 30 years, would raise between $6 billion to $6.5 billion for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to extend BART into Silicon Valley, reduce crowded freeways and repair roads throughout Santa Clara County. (Posted Oct. 20, 9:10 a.m.)

Health organizations to merge Two Bay Area nonprofits aimed at helping populations in need are joining forces to strengthen behavioral health care across the Bay Area. The merger brings together Caminar for Mental Health and Family & Children Services of Silicon Valley to create a combined organization that will provide services to more than 14,000 people annually in Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, Solano and Butte counties. (Posted Oct. 20, 8:57 a.m.)

County suspends business with Wells Fargo Santa Clara County will temporarily end business with Wells Fargo Bank in response to the revelation that the company created more than 2 million fake accounts. (Posted Oct. 20, 7:56 a.m.)

Skateboarder wanted in park robbery attempt Palo Alto police are looking for a man who they said tried to rob two dog-walking pedestrians as he was riding a small skateboard through the streets of Crescent Park on Tuesday night. (Posted Oct. 19, 10:26 a.m.)

Police seek man accused of harassment Police are asking for help tracking down a man who they said harassed a 10-year-old boy while he was walking on a sidewalk in the 900 block of Webster Street in Palo Alto on Monday. (Posted Oct. 18, 8:55 p.m.)

School board gives budget-cut feedback The Palo Alto school board mostly refrained from giving lineitem feedback on a list of potential budget cutbacks for the next school year at a special meeting Tuesday morning, save in a few categories that board members characterized as being too close to the classroom. (Posted Oct. 18, 4:43 p.m.)

Palo Alto council favors new retail rules Retail in downtown Palo Alto isn’t broken and doesn’t need fixing. It could, however, use some protection, particularly when it comes to ensuring a diversity of uses and preventing conversions of shops to office use, the City Council agreed Monday as it considered a new law to address the issue. (Posted Oct. 18, 12:44 p.m.)

Jobs donates to incumbent’s campaign With less than a month left until Election Day, Palo Alto schoolboard trustee Melissa Baten Caswell’s campaign for re-election has received a large cash injection from Laurene Powell Jobs, Palo Alto resident, education-reform leader and widow of technology pioneer Steve Jobs. (Posted Oct. 18, 8:44 a.m.) VOTE!

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board president, superintendent and De Anza College president â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to strengthen ties and talk about common issues, such as traffic. He said he valued these regular collaborative meetings as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;healthyâ&#x20AC;? way to â&#x20AC;&#x153;create a sense of open communication and transparency.â&#x20AC;? If elected, Wong said he would also continue already aggressive marketing efforts underway to attract more full-time students to the community colleges. Another top issue facing Foothill-De Anza is retaining part-time teachers and striking a balance between the community collegesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; full-time and part-time faculty, Wong said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part-time teachers do not have the full-time benefits of full-time faculty, which causes an inequity in our system,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;However, we need to be nimble and flexible as enrollment is going down

but could also increase in a short period of time.â&#x20AC;? He said he would direct the district to start conversations with the schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; part-time teachers during contract negotiations and to â&#x20AC;&#x153;provide assistance programs for these teachers until they have an opportunity for tenure.â&#x20AC;? Wong is critical of the current boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s process and ultimate decision to retrofit De Anzaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flint Center parking garage. He called the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hiring of a consultant to develop four plans for a public-private partnership feasibility study, looking at concepts from housing to retail to more classrooms, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;waste of taxpayer money.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main goal of Foothill-De Anza is to provide students with an education and not to be in the business of retail/housing,â&#x20AC;? he said. Wong â&#x20AC;&#x153;strongly feltâ&#x20AC;? that the district should have pursued a transit center for the campus by partnering with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency, the city of Cupertino and Caltrans. A transit center with ample publictransportation options could help to mitigate traffic and make De Anza a more attractive option to students, faculty and staff. Wong also serves on the De Anza Commission and volunteers with the collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute. Q Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com and Elena Kadvany at ekadvany@ paweekly.com

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their reasons for supporting Kouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Kellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaigns. In observing the run-up to the election, they say they saw â&#x20AC;&#x153;pro-developer candidates campaigning on a slateâ&#x20AC;? and misleadingly â&#x20AC;&#x153;shift (their) positions on affordable housing, parking and traffic.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We support affordable housing,â&#x20AC;? states the letter co-signed by the Bakers, the Coxes, the Laytons, the Rantzes, MacLean and Waldfogel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We support groundfloor retail. We support candidates who are the best choice to achieve positive growth for the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we saw the developer money and the Chamber weigh in just before the ballots were mailed, we realized that helping our candidates get their message out quickly was important. So we stepped in to help. Disagree? Then vote your conscience. We will.â&#x20AC;? Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Madge Venable McEldowney Jordan, 83, died peacefully at her home in Chico, California with her family on September 27, 2016. She was born at Fort Sill, Oklahoma to Colonel Rochester F. McEldowney and his wife, the former Bonney Venable of San Antonio. Madge graduated from Incarnate Word High School in San Antonio. She received her BA from Trinity University in San Antonio and married George Whiting in that city in November 1955. Madge lived in San Antonio, southern California and for nearly fifty years in Los Altos Hills and Palo Alto. She was active in the Altar Guild of St. Bede’s and Holy Trinity Churches in Menlo Park, Peninsula Volunteers, Allied Arts Guild, DAR and the Assistance League. In 1983 she married Thomas Jordan of Palo Alto who survives her as do her children, son Mark (his wife Brigitta), daughters Bonney and Hilary and grandchildren Natalie, John, Adam and Martin. She is also survived by her brother Harry McEldowney and his family of San Antonio and by her husband’s children Amy, Thomas, Ann Foster and Kate Carlisle. Her brother Rochester (Sandy) McEldowney predeceased her. She will be laid to rest in Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto at a private family service. Her Memorial Service will be at Trinity Episcopal Church, 330 Ravenswood, Menlo Park at 11AM Friday December 16. In lieu of flowers please make a donation in her memory to Trinity Church @www.trinitymenlopark.org. PAID

Thomas Joseph Harley, Jr. died on October 5, 2016, in Palo Alto, California, at 87 years old. He died peacefully at home with his family. He was born in Philadelphia to Thomas Joseph Harley, Sr. and Margaret (Ritsert) Harley. He is preceded in death by his sister Jeanne (Harley) Stilwill of Spring Hill, Florida. Tom graduated from Northeast High School in Philadelphia in 1946, and from the University of Pennsylvania with an AB in Mathematics (1951), a BS in Electrical Engineering (1958) and an MS in Electrical Engineering (1965). He was awarded the Charles LeGyte Fortescue Fellowship for 1958-1959 by the IRE (now the IEEE), and was a life member of the IEEE. He worked as a cryptanalyst for the National Security Agency early in his career. Tom served in the Army from 1954-1956 at Aberdeen, MD. In 1959, he joined Philco Corporate Research Labs in Philadelphia. At Philco, he made significant contributions to the first practical implementation of Optical Character Recognition and image pattern recognition. He remained with Philco’s corporate successors for 41 years, moving to Palo Alto in 1975, to join the Ford Aerospace Western Development Labs. In 2001, he retired from Lockheed Martin, and continued to work as a systems engineering consultant for several years. Tom is survived by his wife of 64 years, Barbara (Langdon); his children Rebecca Martin (John) of Carrollton, TX, Thomas J. Harley III of El Sobrante, CA, Carolyn Harley (Joanna) of Palo Alto, and Robert Harley (Christina) of New York City; three grandchildren – Kaitlyn Martin of Lubbock,Texas, Katerina Brownstein and Leo Brownstein of Palo Alto; niece Judy Klimas and great niece Heidi Muenger (Charlie) of Florida. A celebration of his life will be held at the Harley home in Palo Alto on November 5, 2016, from 4-6pm. Donations in his memory may be made to the Palo Alto Family YMCA, 3412 Ross Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303.

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Candidates appointed to the independent, volunteer Measure C Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee review and report to the public on the district’s Measure C bond expenditures. Applicants must reside in the district’s service area, which includes the cities of Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and portions of San Jose, Santa Clara and Saratoga. Applicants may not be an employee, contractor, consultant or vendor of the district. The Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee bylaws are available at www.measurec.fhda.edu or by calling (650) 949-6100. Currently, four committee members are needed for two-year terms in the following categories: ࠮ ([ SHYNL YLWYLZLU[H[P]L ࠮ )\ZPULZZ VYNHUPaH[PVU YLWYLZLU[H[P]L ࠮ :LUPVY *P[PaLUZ» VYNHUPaH[PVU YLWYLZLU[H[P]L ࠮ ;H_WH`LYZ HZZVJPH[PVU YLWYLZLU[H[P]L This committee is responsible for reviewing expenditures related to the district’s $490,800,000 general obligation bond, Measure C, approved by the voters on June 6, 2006. Interested applicants should submit a resume and cover letter detailing their qualifications, and noting which of the above categories they would represent, to any of the following: E-mail: chancellor@fhda.edu Mail: Office of the Chancellor Foothill-De Anza Community College District 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 -H_! (650) 941-1638 *VTWSL[LK HWWSPJH[PVUZ T\Z[ IL YLJLP]LK I` W T -YPKH` 5V] For more information, please call (650) 949-6100 or email chancellor@fhda.edu

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Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . . . 4 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Reckless driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . . 13 Vehicle code violation Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle/stored. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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Vehicle related

Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bicycle stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . . . Exhibition of speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Expired registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . . . Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Alcohol or drug related

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Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graffiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Receive stolen property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . . Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Lytton Avenue, 10/14, 7:52 p.m.; domestic violence/battery. Pasteur Drive, 10/15, 4:07 p.m.; domestic violence/threats. El Camino Real, 10/15, 10:02 a.m.; domestic violence/battery. El Camino Real, 10/15, 11:15 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Menlo Park

1300 block Carlton Avenue, 10/11, 7:07 p.m.; spousal abuse. 900 block Hermosa Way, 10/12, 6:33 a.m.; spousal abuse.

Transitions Joan Lenore Winsor Joan Winsor, a Palo Alto native and longtime resident, died on Oct. 5. She was 71. Born on Jan. 3, 1941, she obtained her bachelor’s degree from San Jose State University and later received a Ph.D. in Minnesota. As a speech therapist in the Palo Alto Unified School District, she was active in the Palo Alto Children’s Theatre, the Palo Alto Community Theatre and West Bay Opera. She sang and traveled with a choir, wrote an operetta that was performed by Palo Alto schoolchildren, taught in Darmstadt, Germany in the 1960s and maintained friendships with colleagues. She loved gardening and viewing the wildlife online camera at Pete’s Mashatu in Botswana. She is survived by her sister Janice Winsor of Perth, Western Australia, and her brother Richard Winsor of Morgan Hill. There will be a private family scattering of ashes. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the food bank.

Helen Chenn Helen Chenn, a former resident of Palo Alto, died on Friday, Oct. 14 at home in Logan, Utah. She was 91. Born on Nov. 29, 1924, in Shanghai, China, Helen (Chen Hai-Han) resided in the San Francisco Bay Area for 47 years, living in Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos Hills and Foster City, prior to moving to Utah in 2010. She graduated from the University of Shanghai in 1949 and studied at W.S. University in Kunming, China. She and her husband opened Wylie Photo in Palo Alto in 1964. In 1977, they opened the August Moon Tea House. Helen was an avid reader who had a love for mystery novels, watching the 49ers and New England Patriots football games, and golf tournaments. She was known for her passion for traveling the world with her husband. She is predeceased in death by her husband, William, and her grandson Andrew William Chenn Miltich. She is survived by her children Wylie Chenn (Lynelle) of Logan, Utah; Helena Chenn-Junker (Hans) of Cupertino; Steve Chenn (Julie) of Houston, Texas; and Frank Chenn (Vicky) of Seattle, Washington; Grandchildren Nathania Apple, Jennifer Isom, Marc Chenn, Todd Chenn, Mason Chenn, Alicia Abelmann and Andrew Chenn; and 19 great-grandchildren. A funeral will be held at AllenHall Mortuary, 34 E. Center St., Logan, Utah 84321. A visitation will take place on Friday, Oct. 21, 6:308:30 p.m. and funeral services will be on Saturday, Oct. 22, 11:00 a.m.

Kathryn (Kay) Macaulay Alexander

Ehud Krauss July 15, 1946 – October 15, 2016 Ehud Krauss, 70, beloved Palo Alto dance teacher, Founder and Artistic Director of Zohar School of Dance passed away at his home on October 15, 2016. Ehud Krauss was born and raised on a Kibbutz in Israel. Ehud was a member of the Israeli Olympic Volleyball team when a back injury led him to discover his passion for dance. Ehud studied dance with Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Robert Joffrey, Gus Giordano and Luigi in New York, and performed as a soloist and principal dancer in Europe, Canada and the United States. An accomplished performer and choreographer, Ehud has been a fixture in the Bay Area dance community for over 35 years. Ehud started teaching in local high schools and community colleges and founded Zohar School of Dance in Palo Alto in 1979. A gifted choreographer, Ehud’s innovative jazz works inspired and moved audiences with their beauty and range. Always forward thinking and wanting to bring the dance community together, he began Dance Mosaic, an annual summer dance festival bringing all dance forms together in a single program. It was during this time that Ehud’s true vision of making dance available to all began when he started the outreach program IndepenDANCE for children in East Palo Alto that had no after-school programs. That program, which began with 30 middle school-aged girls being bussed to Zohar’s dance studio on California Avenue, soon expanded to 6 elementary schools in East Palo Alto with Ehud building a dance studio with sprung-wood floors at each site. At its peak, IndepenDANCE was at 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 10 elementary schools and included 4 instructors with classes in East Palo Alto, Redwood City and San Jose. Never shying away from a challenge, Ehud worked with the most serious offenders in Juvenile Hall and taught Juvie Jazz at both Santa Clara County and San Mateo Juvenile Halls. His influential work led to the development of a course at Stanford University entitled “Dance in Prisons” and provided graduate students with first-hand exposure to the Hall, teaching dance to youths that had never had formal dance lessons and hearing about their stories. With his constant desire to grow as a teacher, Ehud taught children with special needs. He had a special gift of making everyone feel as though they could dance. No matter what the disability — sight, hearing, wheelchair-bound, Autism or Downs Syndrome, Ehud would work his magic and make even the observer participate. These programs exemplify Ehud’s vision and commitment to serving the community through dance and sharing the splendor of dance. Zohar Dance Studio under the direction of Ehud and his wife Daynee, has brought the joy, artistry and spirit of dance to the community through classes in jazz, ballet and modern dance in Palo Alto since 1979. The studio continues to offer adult classes with the Bay Area’s finest teachers committed to providing professional dance instruction and the opportunity to perform. Students range from beginning aspiring artists and dedicated amateurs to professional dancers all enjoying the splendor that dance brings. In his spare time, Ehud loved to fish, bike and spend time with Daynee and their daughter, Maile. Ehud is survived by his wife, Daynee, daughter, Maile, mother, Yehudit, sister, Michal Sadur and brother, Nir in Israel. A Celebration of Life will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 25 at the Oshman Jewish Community Center Freidenrich Conference Room, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Zohar School of Dance www.zohardance.org/donate.html or sent to Zohar, 4000 Middlefield Road L4, Palo Alto, CA 94303. PAID

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Arts Activist, Educator, Artist and Loyal Friend … … brought a fierce passion and expert touch to her career as an arts education advocate and teacher/consultant, and to her lifetime as an acclaimed watercolor artist, world traveler and good friend. Every aspect of how she lived reflected dedication, high expectations and perseverance to her vision and goals. Kay passed away September 25, 2016 in Mendocino, California at the age of 92. Following high school, Kay attended the California College of Art and Design and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Masters in education administration from California State College, Long Beach, which launched her into a colorful, and rewarding career in education. Beginning in Anaheim, CA, as an elementary teacher and then district director of one of the state’s first gifted and talented programs, Kay found her true niche early when she became the district’s elementary art education director. With a move to northern California, she achieved leadership roles in state and national art associations and organizations, and finally retired from the Palo Alto School District after 20 years as a celebrated art coordinator, a job she thrived on, with colleagues, children and parents she loved. She was honored as California Art Educator of the year in 1983. Retirement was only an opportunity to pick up speed, and Kay spent most of the rest of her life developing national art curricula, videos, DVDs, an internet series, and posters on art techniques and art history for children. She was a prolific author and a sought-after consultant for such organizations as the J. Paul Getty Center for Education in the Arts, the Edison Schools project, the U.S. Department of Defense, and schools in Mexico, Canada and Switzerland. During this time Kay was also a docent at the Cantor Center for the Arts at Stanford University and an ardent supporter of the Palo Alto Art Center, which named a wing in her honor. In time, Kay organized activities closer to her home in Los Altos, including a number of years developing and teaching “Artventures,” an art program for seniors where she made lasting friendships. On her birthday of 2015, Kay embarked on her last adventure when she moved with son Douglas and his wife Kathleen to the home of her dreams in the place her heart always yearned for near the town of Mendocino. She spent quiet days at her window and on the deck enjoying the constancy of the rugged coastline and the spectacular scenery she had painted most of her life. Kay is preceded in death by her husband of 66 years, Earl (Don) Alexander, and granddaughter Genevieve Alexander, and leaves behind for a while three children: Steve Alexander of Ramona, CA, Lauren Hildebrand (Rick) of Minneapolis, MN, and Douglas Alexander (Kathleen) of Mendocino, CA. She will also be missed by grandchildren Kristin Kuzma, Candice Hardin and Adam Marks, and great-grandchildren Sophia Kuzma, and Gideon and August Hardin. Kay’s family thanks her friends who shared her interests and enriched her life with adventure, humor and great kindness in the last years as she transitioned to her forever home. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be directed to the Sierra Club, Habitat for Humanity or Doctors Without Borders. PAID

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LOCAL RESULTS View online Nov. 8 at PaloAltoOnline.com

Editorials, letters and opinions

Keller, Kou, Kniss and Fine for City Council

wo years ago, during the last City Council campaign in Palo Alto, a chorus of longtime community leaders who had dominated city politics for many years made dire warnings about electing the three leading “outsider,” so-called “slow growth” candidates. Those candidates — Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth and Lydia Kou — along with incumbent Karen Holman, were channeling residents’ concerns over excessive office development, parking and traffic congestion and the failure of the council to protect the quality of life in Palo Alto. Their campaigns challenged the status quo by giving voice to more diverse elements of Palo Alto, especially those who felt city policy was being overly influenced by a political establishment rooted in the north part of the city and too sympathetic to development interests. At the time, some of that political establishment labeled these candidates as opposed to any new development, including housing, and a whisper campaign suggested they were libertarians or Tea Party members masquerading as residentialists. In short, electing these folks would be bad for Palo Alto. When the balloting was over, DuBois, Filseth and Holman were elected, along with incumbent Greg Scharff and newcomer Cory Wolbach, who beat Kou by just 135 votes. The newly constituted council went on to elect Holman mayor, and for the first time in more than four decades, the city had a council philosophically split roughly down the middle. So how has it turned out? Have DuBois and Filseth turned out to be the obstructionist no-growthers the political establishment warned of during the 2014 campaign? Hardly. They have served the community well over the last two years and have brought healthy, intelligent and substantive debate to council meetings. Their presence has forced the entire council to look for common ground, and with a few exceptions, the political split on the council has improved outcomes and eased, not deepened, community angst. When all segments of the community believe their views are represented by at least someone on the council, confidence in the process grows in spite of sincerely held differences. Without the new political alignment brought about by the 2014 election it is almost certain that the city would still be granting special zoning in exchange for so-

called community “benefits” (the infamous “planned community” projects), would have no cap on office development, may not have stuck with a nascent downtown residential-parking program and would have approved a commercial office building at the corner of Page Mill Road and El Camino Real, among other places.

nfortunately, in this year’s City Council campaign emotions and lingering hard feelings from two years ago have led to an almost identical dynamic, with two groups of four candidates once again painting the race as a clear choice about the future of the city and once again distorting positions of the other side. While everyone avoids the term “slate,” each side calls the other a slate and urges voters to support their group of candidates. It’s déjà vu. Both of these “sides” have engaged in regrettable campaign tactics — a turn-off to those voters more interested in electing the best qualified candidates who will neither be tools for development interests nor afraid of change and innovation. The Chamber of Commerce embarrassed itself and did the community a disservice when it sent a shrill email to its members supporting the set of four candidates (incumbent Liz Kniss, Greg Tanaka, Adrian Fine and Don McDougall) it found most sympathetic to business interests and containing blatant inaccuracies and mischaracterizations, especially of the views of Mayor Pat Burt. The chamber, which used to temper its advocacy on behalf of businesses out of a desire to build bridges to the broader community, is responsible for triggering acrimony that most in the community don’t want to see in their local political contests. Then Arthur Keller and Kou crossed the line with a Facebook video ad warning incorrectly that Fine was advocating high-rise office and condo development. And finally there are questions surrounding the enormous donations made by five Palo Alto couples in the last two weeks to the Keller and Kou campaigns and to the Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning PAC (which supports Keller, Kou, Stewart Carl and Greer Stone). These donations, totaling more than $160,000, are unprecedented in Palo Alto politics and are a huge departure from the tradition of grassroots fundraising in which $1,000 has been considered

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a large donation. Had a developer, architect or large property owner made campaign contributions of this size, voters would have legitimately questioned the independence of the candidate who accepted them. And while the donations are perfectly legal and the five donor families insist that their only interest is in making sure that Keller and Kou are able to wage effective campaigns comparable to the opposing group, the donations have triggered distracting and unsupported conspiracy theories about the donors’ ties to Castilleja School and allegations that they are trying to buy the election for unknown reasons. The indignant reaction of a handful of former mayors, who each support the opposing candidates, was equally disappointing for its sweeping assertions and innuendo. There is nothing to suggest anything other than political inexperience and poor judgment led to these donations.

n deciding whom to recommend in this year’s race we find ourselves in a dilemma similar to two years ago — how to balance candidate knowledge and experience, views on issues, ability to work with others and ability to effectively articulate their positions and philosophy. We also are mindful of the political orientations of the incumbents who are leaving the council — Burt, Greg Schmid and Marc Berman and the effect on the balance on the council. Four years ago three incumbents were seeking re-election (Holman, Greg Scharff and Nancy Shepherd) and this year only one, Kniss, is running. None of the challengers in 2014 had served on city commissions. This year we have two current (Tanaka and Fine) and one past (Keller) planning commissioners, but the other candidates have little or no public record on which they can be judged. Stone has been on the Human Relations Commission for three years and is currently chairperson. McDougall is vice chair of the Library Advisory Commission. Kou, along with Keller and McDougall, is on the Comprehensive Plan Citizens Advisory Committee (Keller is co-chairing the group) and Carl is the founder of Sky Posse, the group that is advocating for changes to the new airplane routing system. Len Ely and John Fredrich are running independently and have not served on any city commissions or advi-

sory committees. Danielle Martell declined to be interviewed. The Weekly published extensive profiles of each candidate on Oct. 14 and has posted videos of our endorsement interviews held the week of Oct. 3. We urge voters to read and watch this coverage to get their own sense for the capabilities and styles of the candidates. For voters who wish to make strictly philosophical voting decisions, the choices are clear. If you are most concerned with controlling future commercial development and making sure that traffic congestion and parking needs are addressed prior to, not after, development is approved, then your candidates are Arthur Keller, Lydia Kou, Stewart Carl and Greer Stone. To varying degrees, these four all support low annual limits on new commercial development and oppose relaxing parking requirements for developments without stronger evidence that alternative transportation methods will be successful in our suburban community. They generally reject the idea that Palo Alto’s housing affordability problems can be successfully addressed by building lots of dense, market-rate housing for all income levels, and instead advocate a more focused strategy of subsidized housing for service workers, seniors and low-income residents. Voters who believe the city needs to move aggressively and creatively to encourage development of higher density housing for all types of income levels, including young families and highly paid tech workers wanting to live in Palo Alto, your candidates are Adrian Fine, Don McDougall and Greg Tanaka. These three, along with Kniss, are more welcoming to new development proposals of all kinds and want to see the city be more experimental, innovative and less restrictive in building new housing, especially with regard to height and parking. Ely is the candidate most supportive of new commercial office development, but mostly emphasizes his belief that city government needs to be more efficient, learn quickly from its mistakes and focus on getting stuff done rather than talking problems to death.

s we recommended two years ago, we urge voters to consider not simply picking one group of candidates or the other, but to consider which four candidates will best complement the five holdover councilmembers and successfully work together to shape the future of the

community. In terms of knowledge and experience, Kniss and Keller top the list. While Kniss sometimes frustrates us for lapses in homework on the issues and over-reliance on her extensive personal network of friends for input, she knows this community better than any other candidate and is a practical politician who is good at reading and following the political winds. She has moved toward the middle with the rising community concerns over development and traffic and looks for ways of bridging differences and building consensus. Keller is a lover of data who understands planning issues and trade-offs more than any other candidate. He can frustrate and irritate both his political allies and opponents because of his obsessive analyses and strong opinions, but he also has the most to offer after serving for eight years on the planning commission. To succeed on the council he will need to adjust his approach and pick his battles carefully, but he will be invaluable as the new council reviews, approves and implements the new comprehensive plan. The best candidates for the other two slots, in our opinion, are Kou and Fine. Kou has grown tremendously in her knowledge and understanding of the community and issues since the 2014 election campaign. She has a strong following among neighborhood activists, has learned a lot from serving on the Comprehensive Plan Citizens Advisory Committee and would add important gender and ethnic diversity to a council that needs more of each. Fine is young, relatively inexperienced and untested, but is the most passionate and enthusiastic of the candidates about keeping Palo Alto a community welcoming of young families and open to new ideas and strategies for the city’s future. His two short years on the planning commission have been bumpy and his opposition to the temporary development cap (which he now says he supports) conveys some naivete. But he is representative of a generation that will eventually assume the leadership mantle for the city. While we expect to disagree with some of Fine’s actions, he will bring a needed voice to the council that is rooted in a sincere desire to see the community he grew up in evolve in a way that preserves its character yet embraces change. (continued on next page)

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Letters ‘No’ to negative tactics Editor, This weekend, two City Council candidates, Lydia Kou and Arthur Keller released a negative hit-ad on Facebook spouting blatant lies about a third city council candidate, Adrian Fine. The video charged Adrian with wanting to “push through” high-rise office and luxury condominiums in Palo Alto. Adrian has never uttered such a ridiculous statement. Ironically, this video was financed through the largest infusion of money a Palo Alto City Council race has ever seen. Five families alone have contributed over $128,000 to the campaigns of Lydia Kou, Arthur Keller and the political action committee (PAC) of Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning (PASZ). Compare this to national individual contributions limit of $2,700/individual, and historical Palo Alto City Council campaign budgets of $30-$40K. Palo Alto has no campaignfinance contribution limit, so this is technically allowed, but it is unprecedented ... and dangerous. Elaine Uang Kipling Street, Palo Alto

Rejecting a three-story addition Editor, David Hirsch’s Guest Opinion (Oct. 14) was a wonderful lesson in architectural design, especially design applied to the renovation or addition to a historical building. Avenidas in downtown Palo Alto, like many of Birge Clark’s buildings, is warm and inviting even if it was formerly a police station. Adding a three-story addition with a glassy facade to it is like painting a toothy, “have a nice day smile” on the Mona Lisa. I would be glad to contribute to the cost of redesign if the City Council would reject this unfortunate plan. Bob Roth Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

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Among the remaining candidates, we believe Stone, Carl and McDougall each offer qualities and viewpoints that could help create a well-balanced council. They are all well-informed, have thoughtful positions and articulate them well, and we’d love to see them continue their activities and return in two years. Tanaka, with eight years experience on

Prioritize growth wisely Editor, Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning (PASZ) recently commissioned a statistical poll to explore issues Palo Altans care about. Top issues were overdevelopment, traffic, parking and affordable housing. Residents expressed displeasure with uncontrolled office growth driving out small businesses, turning neighborhoods into parking lots. Residents want low-income housing for people who serve the community, and for employers to solve our commuter traffic problems. The survey shows voters want growth to be done responsibly, with great care for the city we love. For those of us who live here, each small building made larger displaces longtime tenants who may never return, creates more traffic and parking issues, drives up housing costs, and results in lost stability, charm and diversity in our city. This put the interests of developers and residents at cross purposes. Developers benefit from building higher, denser, and with minimal parking. In an election where emphatically prodevelopment candidates claim to be moderate, the money trail provides some clarity. PASZ analyzed developer and property-interest contributions to city council campaigns. Results are posted at http://www.paszaction.com/developer_money. As of Oct. 1, 90 percent of development and property-interest contributions went to Fine, Tanaka, Kniss, McDougall. Both Fine and Tanaka received 30-40 percent of their total external campaign fundraising from these interests. Thankfully, some residents aligned with desires for a beautiful, family-oriented city took an active interest by donating generously to candidates Kou and Keller, Carl, Stone (KKCS). These donors deserve thanks for caring enough about this city to get involved and level a playing field historically dominated by powerful development interests. The coming council will ap-

the planning commission, surprised us by being unable or unwilling to answer basic questions about planning issues, such as his position on whether and how commercial development should be controlled. While we respect and agree with his desire to reach out and seek consensus, his reluctance to articulate his own views and values was, in our opinion, disqualifying. With the election of Keller, Kou, Kniss and Fine, the current split on the council will be preserved, but with a slightly stron-

prove the Comprehensive Plan that shapes this city for decades. Let’s not carelessly become a high-density commercial center choking on traffic and pollution. Let’s prioritize growth wisely, and provide a quality of life for all to enjoy. Cheryl Lilienstein Manzana Lane, Palo Alto

Get to know the candidates Editor, As a longtime family day care provider and a parent of schoolaged children growing up fourth generation Palo Altan, I had never had much exposure to City Council issues until the rent for our modest single-family home rental in Midtown was raised to a level we couldn’t sustain. My housing situation is not unique. Even as a native Palo Altan, struggling to keep up with rising rents while we wait five years and counting for our spot on the BMR waiting list to inch up, I know I am not alone. Many Palo Alto families struggle to stay in their homes and far too many have left quietly. Rather than rely on the recommendations of friends who are concerned about change or friends who urge more change is needed, I set out on a quest to come to my own conclusions about the City Council candidates in this race. I invited candidates to come to my home and walk with me in the neighborhood while in conversation and had the opportunity to meet with 7 out of 11 candidates. After getting to know as many candidates who made time to meet with me as possible, I have decided to endorse and support the following people for Palo Alto City Council 2016: Adrian Fine, Greg Tanaka, Don McDougall and Liz Kniss because I believe that they, each for their own strengths and perspectives, have a genuine interest in listening to and working with a variety of views within the community. On housing in particular, I have found them each to be effective advocates for affordable housing

and realistic about the regional challenges we face. Most meaningfully, I found a deep sense of empathy they had for families like mine and those less fortunate. In this wonderful city my family has called its own for decades, those are qualities we should hold near and dear as we look for solutions to the challenges we face. Jessica Oakson Clark Heron Way, Palo Alto

Put Palo Altans’ interests first Editor, All elections are important, but this one is critically important to the future of Palo Alto. We all have seen and felt the impacts of virtually unrestrained office development over the past 10 years. Buildings three-, fourstories tall built out to the sidewalks without setbacks to offset the bulk of those buildings where one-story buildings used to be. Traffic congestion on all major roadways in Palo Alto with little relief during daylight and early evening hours. Residential parking-permit programs are needed so residents can

park in their own neighborhoods. All this has been brought to us by City Councils that have not been sufficiently protective of the interests of the residents of Palo Alto. The pro-development Chamber of Commerce has recommended four candidates who are supported by council members (and others) who have brought us to where we are today. Do we really want or need more unrestrained office development? We, the residents of Palo Alto, have to do better to maintain what vestiges remain of the quality of life we want to enjoy in the years ahead. I urge you to vote for candidates who will put the interests of Palo Altans, not developers, first and foremost. There are four who are not anti-growth (as portrayed by some) nor are they anti-business (as portrayed by the Chamber), but are for slow and intelligent growth that respects the concerns of the residents of Palo Alto, who will have to live with all new developments for decades to come. Joe Hirsch Georgia Avenue, Palo Alto

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ger slow-growth majority due to the departure of Burt, who had become a swing vote on a council divided 4-4 on many planning and development issues. The next few years will see the council adopt a new comprehensive plan and hire a new city manager, two of the most important and consequential actions of any council. We think a narrowly divided council, with a tilt toward continued restraint on development, is the best formula for meeting these challenges and moving the community forward. Q www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 21, 2016 • Page 21

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Follow the Developer Money As of Oct 10, Development and Property Interests had spent $34,000 on the Palo Alto City Council campaign.

89% of the money went to four candidates (and 70% went to two candidates)

INSTEAD vote for

All Others Combined

Adrian Fine

Liz Kniss

“I never felt we had much of a parking problem.” - Adrian Fine, 6/2016 www.paloaltocompplan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/06-21-16-CAC-transcript-1.pdf

Don McDougall

ARTHUR KELLER and LYDIA KOU

Details: www.paszaction.com /developer_money_part_2

Greg Tanaka

Developers give candidates money for a reason. On November 8, don’t vote for a City Council funded by Developers Paid for Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, FPPC # 1359196 Page 22 • October 21, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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

Upstage Theater gives teens creative control

From left: Sinead Chang, costume designer for Upstage Theater, adjusts the costumes for Ethan Dowsett, Ethan Walker and Kaizen Betts-LaCroix as they get fitted before a rehearsal of “Punk Rock.” going through.” Garber first read and fell in love with the play in 2014, and seeing it performed in San Francisco convinced her she needed to work on a version of her own. The eightmember cast has been working on its English accents and enjoying learning new slang terms. More importantly, the “stripped down” play says something “real and true about life,” she said. (Next up, in the spring, will be the popular and sometimes-controversial musical “Spring Awakening.”) Because none of the Upstage team is over 18, legal challenges can arise. Garber’s parent, a lawyer, helps with signing contracts when necessary. Otherwise, though, the teens do it all, from costuming and set design to scheduling auditions and rehearsals. Most of Upstage’s outreach is through word of mouth and online networking, with participants coming from all over the Bay Area (rehearsals take place in a rented classroom in San Bruno). Auditions are held seasonally, and people interested in working on design or in tech, for example, can fill out an application on Upstage’s website. “Teens are always on social media. We now have a network of teens who all go to different schools, from Livermore to San Francisco to San Jose, all coming together,” she said. Jessa Mellea of Los Altos, another Nueva School student, has been involved with Upstage since last autumn, and has worked in (continued on next page)

Kaizen Betts-LaCroix (playing “William”) and Veronique Plamondon (playing “Lilly”) rehearse a scene from Upstage Theater’s production of “Punk Rock.”

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The company is founded upon “three main pillars,” she explained. Its productions are put on completely by teenagers; the shows chosen are works that are relevant to teens/about the teenage experience; and anyone can participate in productions without any cost to them. “We are dedicated to creating safe spaces to examine what it means to be a teenager through material written by or about teens that they would typically be unable to participate in in a school or community theater,” Upstage’s online mission statement reads. “Heathers,” the initial production, staged in May of this year, was financially supported by an online crowdfunding campaign, which allowed the purchase of the rights. Garber approached the leadership committee of the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, with which she was already familiar thanks to her work with PYT, and asked for a fee waiver to rent its black-box second-stage space. The show, which had a cast of 16 and a crew of six, plus two stage managers and a director, was a success, with most performances sold out. Proceeds from that first production were enough to fund the next one (with extra money coming in as donations and additional crowdfunding). Upstage’s second production, the play “Punk Rock,” opens in Mountain View at the end of the month. Written by Simon Stephens, “Punk Rock” tells the story of eight British teenagers in an elite prep school as they prepare to face the end of their childhood, mock A-Level examinations and the uncertainty of the future. The play resonates strongly with Garber and her Upstage colleagues. “It’s a vulnerable display of what it’s like at this time of life,” she said. “This show very much displays the realities of high school, the things that everyone goes through and everyone hates

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n the words of the old maxim, if you want something done right, do it yourself. Local teens have taken that credo to heart by forming Upstage Theater, an independent company that allows teens to take charge of all aspects of theater production. Julianna Garber, now a high school junior at The Nueva School in San Mateo, has been involved in theater from a young age, including through Peninsula Youth Theatre (PYT) and at school. As a freshman, she decided she wanted to try her hand at directing and producing. “I was enjoying the programs but realized I really wanted to branch out to creating a show rather than just being involved with the acting,” she said. Initially planning an in-school project, she and her likeminded peers decided that in order to have complete creative control and managerial responsibility, they’d need to step out of the educational establishment and go fully independent. “In order to make this concept work and really have a place where students could be the sole creators, we needed to create something all its own, so we decided to go out and stage our own production,” she said. They went to Samuel French, Inc., to obtain the performance rights to the dark comedy “Heathers: The Musical,” booked space at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts and eventually decided to not only mount that production but also form an entire theater company. Thus, Upstage Theater was born. “Upstage served as the mechanism by which we were able to be taken seriously,” Garber said. “We’ve occasionally been underestimated in our ability because we’re teens. People say, ‘You know how to do that?’ Yeah, yeah I do,” she said. “We’ve gone through an entire entrepreneurial process, creating something we didn’t know could be a thing until we created it.”

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a number of theatrical capacities. She’s currently serving as stage manager — coordinating

meetings, taking blocking notes, working with both cast and crew, calling cues and basically running the show — which she said suits her affinity for working on many aspects of a production. “I really love seeing all the dif-

ferent parts of the process. They all come together in stage managing,” she said. She’s had experience learning the trade while involved with other youth-theater organizations and at her previous school managed a large middle-

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school production. “I’ve been learning as I go,” she said. “I love doing theater so much and it’s fun to be able to help create a space for people to do that.” Both Garber and Mellea say they plan to study theater in college and hope to work in the field professionally. But they also have plans for Upstage to continue on after them. They’re training other teens as assistant directors and stage managers with the goal of the company expanding and carrying on into the future. “We really want to be able to pass it down to kids who have these same ideas and wants that we had,” Garber said. “Part of our

program is that we want to train the people coming and learning about these different things so that they can then help younger kids and pass it on to them.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com What: “Punk Rock” Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (second stage), 500 Castro St., Mountain View When: Oct. 28-30 at 7:30 p.m., plus Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Cost: $17, $22 adults Info: Go to upstagetheater.net

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Doll Piccotto, Meredith Hagedorn and Maria Giere Marquis play three intrepid explorers on a time-traveling adventure in â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the Verge (or the Geography of Yearning).â&#x20AC;?

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Sister sojourners Dragonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;On the Verge (or the Geography of Yearning)â&#x20AC;&#x2122; is an atemporal adventure by Karla Kane

n previous reviews, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve mentioned Dragon Productions Theatre Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (and my own) inclination toward stories that involve some element of time travel. Perhaps none better exemplify this than its current production, Eric Overmyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surreal â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the Verge (or the Geography of Yearning),â&#x20AC;? which is full of (to quote one character) mindbending â&#x20AC;&#x153;chronokinesis.â&#x20AC;?

The play, which premiered in 1985, revolves around the adventures of three intrepid Victorianlady explorers. At showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s start, the trio has joined forces (and left all porters, sherpas and other assistants behind) to undertake an exploration of the mysterious, uncharted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Terra Incognita.â&#x20AC;? Stalwart Mary (Doll Piccotto), the elder and leader of the group, is a Boston anthropologist especially

experienced in African travel and prone to anecdotes about cultural rites and behaviors. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s joined by Fanny Cranberry (Dragonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founder and executive artistic director, Meredith Hagedorn), the most politically and socially conservative of the three. The only married woman on the expedition (hubby Grover stays at home), Fanny writes about her explorations for the tabloids and illustrates a series of generic postcards to send from Terra Incognita back to Terre Haute. Rounding out the group is Alexandra (Maria Giere Marquis). The youngest of the crew, Alex is full of youthful exuberance and an appreciation for new-fangled technology (Kodak cameras) and ideas (women wearing trousers). Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a linguist, obsessed with wordplay and rhymes (to the irritation of the others at times), and started her explorer career in the Himalayas, amongst magical monks and abominable snowmen. While they get on each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nerves by trying to one-up one another with adventure tales, they also form a tight bond as sisters-in-travel. The ladies set out on their journey (beginning with a memorable scene of them packing up) and traverse beach, dense jungle and snowy mountains. Soon, though, they (and we) begin to get the sense that Terra Incognita is unlike any place theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve encountered before. They meet odd and unsettling characters, find artifacts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Richard Nixon photos, cream cheese â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be invented until well after 1888, and find themselves suddenly using (or â&#x20AC;&#x153;osmosingâ&#x20AC;?) terms their 19th-century selves should have no way of knowing. And whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up with those enigmatic eggbeaters? It becomes apparent that the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s location is not merely a question of where but, more importantly, when. Progressive Alex embraces the

future wholeheartedly; ethnographically-minded Mary is intrigued by it; Fanny fears it. They eventually wind up in 1955, where Alex finds herself right at home, Fanny surprisingly finds herself in love with a smooth-talking nightclub owner and Mary finds that her wanderlust is leading her even further into the future. The concept, story, characters and actors are all appealing, as is much of Overmyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smart script. However, at 2 1/2 hours, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overlong, and by playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end, I was hoping for a bit less rambling and a bit more in terms of resolution and explanation as to the point of it all. Is it metaphorical or literal? And why the special emphasis on 1955? Must be the same zeitgeist responsible for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back to the Future,â&#x20AC;? that other well-known time-travel tale from 1985. On the whole, though, â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the Vergeâ&#x20AC;? is an enjoyable, unusual adventure, and the Dragon team does splendidly with the material. All three women do a terrific job of bringing their characters to life. Piccotto, an experienced Shakespearean actor, imbues Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lines with poetic cadence worthy of the Bard and one canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but admire her blustery, unsinkable spirit. Giere Marquisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Alex is a perfect mix of sass and sweetness, naivety and smarts. And Hagedornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fanny, though at first the least interesting of the three, has plenty of endearing and interesting moments. Special mention must go to the fourth cast member, Tom Gough, a master of playing multiple, scene-stealing small roles. In â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the Verge,â&#x20AC;? he appears as, among others, a German-accented cannibal, a fortune telling dragon lady, a beatnik/ greaser bridge troll who speaks in rhyme and even a baby yeti (yes, really). Part of the fun of watching the show is wonderding in what incarnation he will next appear.

Direction by Karen Altree Piemme keeps the action briskly moving along with well-crafted bits of choreography as the women pantomime hacking their way through the jungle, climbing mountains with rope and bursting into spontaneous dancing (although the theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s configuration means that audience members in some seats will not be able to fully view that baby yeti cameo). The set, lighting and sound design, by Jesse Ploog, William Campbell and Brittany Mellerson, respectively, is simple but effective, with moments of genuine delight, such as a bursts of twinkling starlight and sounds of wildlife. Costumes, by Natalie Barshow, look lovely. And while the use of props isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always crucial to a production, in this case, the astounding array of trinkets and tools hidden around the stage and used by the characters means the well-done prop design and placement (thanks again to Ploog) is much appreciated. Dragonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2017 main-stage series will have the theme â&#x20AC;&#x153;Women Take Center Stage,â&#x20AC;? in keeping with the largely women-run theater companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision. While that series doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t begin until January, the skillful direction and acting by the women of â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the Verge,â&#x20AC;? make for a great preview of things to come. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com What: â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the Verge (or the Geography of Yearning)â&#x20AC;? Where: Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway St., Redwood City When: Through Nov. 6, Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. Cost: $30 general, $25 students/seniors Info: Go to dragonproductions.net

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There are still a few more weeks in which to catch Bryant Street Galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s October exhibit, Tracey Adamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cause and Effect: mapping a dialogue.â&#x20AC;? Adamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; abstract work, influenced by her longtime fascination with music and science, represents conversations and dialogues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because of my background as a musician, I have a strong feeling for musical metaphors and serial systems. My interest in music is especially present both in terms of the visual intervals and patterns that appear in my work; physical engagement and a sense of performance is always part of my studio practice,â&#x20AC;? Adams wrote in an artist statement. The gallery is located at 532 Bryant St., Palo Alto, and is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Thursday until 7 p.m.). Go to bryantstreet.com.

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Family concert â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Green Eggs and Hamadeusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Would you listen in a box? Would you listen with a fox? Stanford Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bing Nursery School, which hosts an annual performance series for kids and families, presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Eggs and Hamadeus,â&#x20AC;? a kid-friendly opera based on Dr. Seussâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Eggs and Ham,â&#x20AC;? on Sunday, Oct. 22. The show includes references to classical and popular music and features Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resident group St. Lawrence String Quartet (which includes two former Bing parents), soprano Claire Kuttler, Stanford chamber music students and child actor Hayden Wall. Composer and host Robert Kapilow will hold pre-performance interactive sessions with the audience, introducing the instruments and pointing out some of the musical themes in the opera. Performances will be held at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. at Dinkelspiel Auditorium (471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford) and last for one hour. Tickets are $10. Go to sto. stanfordtickets.org/single/EventListing.aspx?k=175.

Film Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival The 25th Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Oshman Family JCC (3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto) with a screening of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebration: The Story of Israeli Cinema.â&#x20AC;? The film is a documentary about the history

of Israeli cinema from the 1960s to the current day, and producer Arik Bernstein and actor Mike Burstyn will be present as special guests. Admission to the opening-night event is $45. The film festival runs through Nov. 20, with films playing at both the Palo Alto venue and in Saratoga. Other standout screenings in Palo Alto include â&#x20AC;&#x153;Potsdam Revisited: Overture to the Cold War,â&#x20AC;? a short documentary about Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin visiting Berlin and listening to a young violinist in 1945 (Sat., Nov. 12, 6:30 p.m., followed by a live performance by that very violinist, plus a panel discussion) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Last Laughâ&#x20AC;? (Nov. 20 at 5:30 p.m.), in which leading Jewish luminaries and comedians consider the question: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can the Holocaust be funny?â&#x20AC;? Go to svjff.org.

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Scottish primer Martins West Gastropub balances ethnic fare with Scottish libations

Martins West’s bone marrow appetizer features two large bones filled with creamy marrow, served with toasted baguette and a kohlrabi, radish and mustard salad.

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ho doesn’t like haggis? If you don’t know what it is, brace yourself. Haggis is sheep’s innards, hearts, livers, sweetbreads and kidneys. In Scotland, the lungs are also used, but not in the U.S. The organs are mixed with suet, onion, oats, spices and stock — haggis typically resembles corned beef hash when finished. At Martins West Gastropub in Redwood City, the ingredients are boiled and minced to a pudding consistency, stuffed into sheep casings and become sausage-like. A stick is inserted. The haggis is breaded and deep-fried. The result is haggis on a stick ($8) and it looks like a corn dog. Rutabaga-apricot mustard accompanies. It’s an appealing, fun and unusual way of serving the national dish of Scotland. Martins West is all about Scotland. Though co-owner Moira Beveridge’s family lived in Menlo Park, they operated a hotel in Scotland for years and she

spent summers living in different parts of Europe. She graduated from the California Culinary Academy with a degree in hospitality management. Beveridge’s husband and Martins West co-owner Michael Dotson, a San Diego native, has cooked extensively in top restaurants in Europe and California, including as executive chef at Evvia in Palo Alto for four years. It was at Evvia the couple met. Dotson was an early proponent of farm-to-table and cooking what was local, fresh and sustainable. It was the warmth and energy of the Scottish pub that inspired the couple. A gastropub is a tavern serving highquality food. Martins West balances food and beverages with a massive lineup of scotch, domestic craft whiskeys, imported whiskies and malts, smallbatch craft beers from across the globe and a wine list that won’t disappoint. Martins West has been open since 2009 in the historic Alhambra building

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Martins West’s delectable fish and chips, with meaty and crisp beer-battered Pacific cod, also comes with tandoori roasted chips (fries) and a creamy celery-root tartar sauce. on Redwood City’s Main Street, where Wyatt Earp was a regular at the downstairs saloon when his common-law wife, Josie, sang at the adjacent upstairs theater more than a century ago. Tamer today, but the interior still exhibits its no-frills past with sturdy wood tables, a long bar and quiet lighting. Besides haggis, the rest of the fare fared well. Haggis is a staple while the rest of the menu evolves seasonally. On a recent visit, the bone marrow appetizer ($14) featured two large bones filled with creamy marrow that was easily scooped onto of hunks of toasted baguette. Anthony Bourdain called marrow “God’s Butter,” and it’s hard to disagree. At Martins West, it’s served with a kohlrabi, radish and mustard salad. The fish and chips ($19) was delectable. The beer-battered Pacific cod was meaty and crisp. The batter was just right — not overly breaded, but enough to keep the fish crunchy. The generous portion was served with tandoori roasted chips (fries) and a creamy celery-root tartar sauce. The pork belly buttys ($12) were slider-sized scotch-cured pork belly, served with shredded apple, fennel and frisee.

The pork belly in Martins West’s pork belly sandwich is scotch cured and cooked for 36 hours, then served with a misomustard mayonnaise, apple and fennel. The larger-sized pork belly sandwich ($15) used the same pork belly, cooked for 36 hours, with miso mustard, mayo and apple. The chicken breast ($21) was served with chanterelles, pear and thyme velouté sauce, preserved lemon pistou and a white pudding made from chicken suet, oatmeal, bread and other ingredients. It had a great flavor profile with the pistou and velouté pooling like a soup in which to mop the chicken. I was intrigued by the roasted tomato pudding ($19). It wasn’t exactly a pudding — more like a fried patty held together with tomato gel. The two patties had more flavor than I would have thought, delicate but decisive. Braised shiitakes, braised lettuce and avocado mousseline made the dish memorable. Desserts were less memorable. The “Not Grandma’s Cobbler” ($10) of peach com-

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Champagne’s On Us! Martins West’s sticky toffee pudding consists of date cake and almond bastilla (pastry), topped with brown-sugar ice cream. pote, nectarines, pluots, thyme ice cream, mini buttered scones and orange-blossom crème fraîche did not come together. The peach compote was overripe and watery nestled under notclose-to-ripe nectarines. Only the pluots were just right. The bland mini buttered scones added nothing. The whole was much less than the sum of the parts. The Guinness ginger bread ($10) — key lime curd, espresso emulsion and Chantilly crème — sounded better than it was. It didn’t taste bad, it just lacked pizzazz. Sticky toffee pudding ($9) was a flavorsome round of date cake and almond bastilla (pastry), topped with brown-sugar ice cream. It was the best of a weak dessert lineup. Service was on point but the kitchen was sometimes uneven. Some courses came too quickly, others took too long, amplified by how busy the restaurant was. At Martins West, the food is certainly worthwhile and the haggis on a stick so memorable I purchased one of their “I love haggis” T-shirts. Come on, try it. You’ll like it. Q Freelance writer Dale Bentson can be emailed at dfbentson@ gmail.com. Martins West Gastropub, 831 Main St., Redwood City; 650-366-4366;martinswestgp. com Hours: Monday–Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Thursday–Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 11:30 p.m.

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and a cat. A widower talks to his wife’s gravestone. A suicidal man repeatedly fails at offing himself. All three are a man called Ove, and his story proves both entertaining and moving.

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Isla Fisher plays a suburban housewife who becomes embroiled in an international espionage plot in the action comedy “Keeping up with the Joneses.”

‘Jones’ing for something better There’s nothing funny about new spy comedy 1/2 (Century 16 & 20) Ever wonder what it must be like to be a Hollywood actor attending a red-carpet premiere while knowing — or, worse, discovering — that the movie you sweated to make turned out to be a steaming turd? Well, Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher and Gal Gadot know what it’s like, and the turd has a name: “Keeping Up with the Joneses.” Surely these hapless stars looked at the talent signing up, including director Greg Mottola

(“Superbad,” “Adventureland”), and thought, “We can polish the turd by screenwriter Michael LeSieur” (“You, Me and Dupree”). But only in a well-populated movie theater can one truly appreciate the sound of silence when Gadot’s character boasts she could crack a walnut with her vagina. And that, my friends, is the funniest joke in the picture. Admittedly, those ‘Jones’ing to see Gadot in her underwear will get their wish (though it’ll

The Swedish comedy-drama derives from Fredrik Backman’s popular 2012 novel, and in the hands of writer-director Hannes Holm and star Rolf Lassgård, the material proves surprisingly cost them about $3 a minute). Everyone else unfortunate enough to wander into this unfortunate movie will have to suffer a mirthless spy fantasy with no such satisfaction. Galifianakis plays Jeff Gaffney, who lives on a suburban cul-de-sac with his wife, Karen (Fisher), and two kids. Jeff works as an HR manager at the local aerospace and defense firm, making him an attractive sap — or is it asset? — to spies going by the names of Tim and Natalie Jones. Hijinks ensue. From the musty premise, one can see every joke coming right up Maple Circle. Experienced humor artistes get set adrift, comic timing goes out the window, and 101 minutes will feel like 101 episodes of “Chuck,” except without the entertainment value (for the record, “Chuck” only filmed 91 episodes, a bit of trivia that’s also more entertaining than “Keeping Up with the Joneses”). With no seeming clue where to go, or even what a joke is, “Joneses” plays out a played-out spy scenario by marking time with tired tropes (the suburban marrieds in a sexual slump) and pointless visual distractions (Jeff and Tim go indoor sky diving!). The story lacks romance and intrigue, and it basically musters one action sequence, a thrill-less shoot-’emup vehicular chase. “Joneses” earned a delay from early April to late October, which is evident from the terrible wig

affecting. Ove (pronounced “ohveh”) seems older than his 59 years, weighed down literally and figuratively. Still reeling from the loss of his beloved wife Sonja (Ida Engvoll), Ove lumbers around his quaint little gated community nitpicking at those not following the rules. Ove has history — lots of it. He’s a former president of the condominium association, deposed after bad blood developed between himself and his ex-best friend. Ove was the bright boy of a loving father, in whose footsteps the son followed. Mostly, though, Ove’s history is a life well spent with Sonja, the sweetheart who became his bride of decades. Ove keeps promising his wife he’ll join her in the great beyond, but life has a funny way of intruding on his plans. A choice selection of Ove’s neighbors see something in him that he can no longer see in himself, and keep forcing him out into the open. Principal among these is Parvaneh (Bahar Pars), a pregnant Iranian wife and mother who enlists Ove to give her driving lessons. The film’s secret weapon of poignancy is its exploration of

how time changes (and doesn’t change) the individual. In addition to Lassgård’s bull of an older man, we see Ove as a 7-year-old boy (Viktor Baagoe) and a young man (Filip Berg). Holm pulls off the trick of making us believe that all three actors are the same person, and one shouldn’t underestimate the heart-tugging power of alternating between the suicidal, elephantine 59-year-old and his head-over-heels younger self, shyly sweet on Sonja. It doesn’t hurt that Holm succeeds in establishing a very tricky balance between the, at times, black comedy and the film’s dramatic underpinnings. Lassgård won the Swedish equivalent of the Oscar (the Guldbagge) for his take on the Scrooge-y grump with a heart of gold. Though Holm’s film can be plenty sentimental and emotionally manipulative, it’s also a film about sentiment and emotional manipulations, and how those aren’t necessarily bad things. Indeed, they’re not bad at all as concerns “A Man Called Ove.” Rated PG-13 for thematic content, some disturbing images, and language. One hour, 56 minutes. — Peter Canavese

slapped on Jon Hamm for the reshoot of a cobra-themed restaurant scene. Reshoots didn’t help. Comedy cannot exist in a vacuum. “Keeping Up with the Joneses” totally wastes the time of a handful of very funny actors, a hardworking crew and everyone else

unfortunate enough to wander into this unfortunate, unpleasant, unfunny movie. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, action/violence and brief strong language. One hour, 41 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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Century 20: 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05 & 10:45 p.m.

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The Magnificant Seven (PG-13) Century 16: 10:15 a.m., 1:30, 4:35, 7:50 & 10:55 p.m. Century 20: 7:25 & 10:40 p.m. Masterminds (PG-13)

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Max Steel (PG-13) Century 16: 9:30 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 9 a.m. Century 20: 12:05 p.m. Mayerling (1936) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. 7:30 p.m. Mayerling to Sarajevo (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. 5:50 & 9:20 p.m. Met Opera: Don Giovanni (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat. 9:55 a.m. Century 20: Sat. 9:55 a.m. Palo Alto Square: Sat. 9:55 a.m. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (PG) Century 16: 4:35 & 7:05 p.m. Fri. & Sun. 11:30 a.m., 1:55 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 1:35, 4:10, 7 & 9:30 p.m. Sat. 9:30 a.m. Miss Peregrineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home for Peculiar Children (PG-13) Century 16: 10:10 a.m., 1:15, 4:25, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:50 a.m., 2:55, 6:50 & 10:05 p.m. Sat. 9:30 a.m. National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera (Not Rated) Aquarius Theatre: Sun. 11 a.m. Ouija: Origin of Evil (PG-13) Century 16: 9:05 & 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 7:40 & 10:20 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 12:01 a.m. Century 20: 12:25, 3, 5:35, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m. The Queen of Katwe (PG) +++ Century 20: 12:55 & 4 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat. 9:50 p.m. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1957) (R) Guild Theatre: Sat. 11:55 p.m. The Shining (1980) (R)

Century 20: Sun. 2 & 7 p.m.

Snowden (R) +++1/2 Century 20: Fri. & Sat. 6:45 p.m. Fri. 12:15 Sun. 10:50 a.m. Guild Theatre: 6:45 p.m. Fri. 12:15 p.m. Sun. 10:50 a.m. Storks (PG) +++ Century 16: 9 & 11:30 a.m., 2 & 4:30 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:25, 4:05, 6:55 & 9:25 p.m. Sat. 9:40 a.m. Sully (PG-13) ++ Century 20: 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:25 p.m. Taxi Driver 40th Anniversary (R) Century 16: Fri See theater name for showtimes Sun See theater name for showtimes The Third Man (1949) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. 3:55 & 7:30 p.m.

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Policy and Services Committee Recommends That the City Council Approve its Motions Regarding the Cable Franchise and Public, Education, and Government (PEG) Fees Audit 8. Adoption of a Resolution to Amend and Correct Salary Schedules for: Managers and Professional Employees, Service Employees International Union, Local 512 (SEIU); Service Employees International Union Hourly, Local 512 (SEIU - H); Limited Hourly, Local 512 (HRLY); International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 1319; and Utilities Managers of Palo Alto Professional Association <47(7( " HUK (TLUK [OL ;HISL VM 6YNHUPaH[PVU PU [OL *P[` 4HUHNLYÂťZ 6Ń?JL .LULYHS -\UK HUK Utilities Department Enterprise Funds Action Items 9. PUBLIC HEARING: Proposition 218 Storm Water Management Fee Protest Hearing and Approval of a Resolution Calling a Mail Ballot Election for April 11, 2017 to Submit a Storm Water Management Fee to Owners of Parcels of Real Property Subject to the Fee and a Resolution Amending Utility Rule and Regulation 25 10. PUBLIC HEARING: Adoption of a Resolution Adopting the Professorville Historic District Design Guidelines. The Project is Exempt From the Provisions of CEQA per Class 8 Categorical Exemption (Actions Taken by Regulatory Agencies to Protect the Environment) (Continued From September 12, 2016) 11. Adoption of an Emergency Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Adding Chapter 9.17 (Personal Cultivation of Marijuana) to Title 9 (Public Peace, Morals and Safety) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code to Prohibit Outdoor Cultivation of Marijuana and Informational Update on Proposition 64 and Finding the Amendment Exempt From Review Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) 12. Adoption of an Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Adding Chapter 9.17 (Personal Cultivation of Marijuana) to Title 9 (Public Peace, Morals and Safety) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code to Prohibit Outdoor Cultivation of Marijuana and Informational Update on Proposition 64 and Finding the Amendment Exempt From Review Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) 13. Review and Direction on Formation of a Stakeholder Committee to Advise the Council Regarding a Potential Local Tax to Raise Funds for Transportation Programs and Projects 14. PUBLIC HEARING: Adoption of an Ordinance Approving Revisions to the Architectural Review Findings in Palo Alto Municipal Code Chapter 18.76 and Approval of an Exemption Under Sections 15061 and 15305 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines. The Planning and Transportation Commission Recommended Council Approval of the Ordinance (Continued from September 12, 2016) STAFF REQUESTS THIS ITEM BE CONTINUED TO A DATE UNCERTAIN

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Home&Real Estate

OPEN HOME GUIDE 60 Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com

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

Home Front GHOULISH GARDEN ... Bring your kids to Gamble Garden’s Halloween Treasure Hunt on Sunday, Oct. 23 from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Come dressed as pirates or in your favorite costume and explore for treasures in the gardens. X marks the spot at the final treasure hunt stop with a magic show. Tickets are $20 for members (adult/child entrance) and $30 for non-members. Gamble Garden is located at 1431 Waverley St. in Palo Alto. For more information go to www.gamblegarden.org/event/ halloween-treasure-hunt/ or call (650) 329-1356 ext. 201.

NEW HOME FOR TARLTON ... Last week Tarlton Properties, Inc. announced the opening of its renovated offices at 1530 O’Brien Drive in Menlo Park. Tarlton Properties was founded in 1980 and provides commercial property development, asset management, construction management, and property management services. Its largest project is the 50-acre, 900,000-square-foot Menlo Park Labs. HOLIDAY HOME DECORATING? ... Do you decorate the outside of your home for the holidays? Blow-up figures, lights, snowmen and Santas? If so and you think it might be worth mentioning in an article about home decorating for the holidays, please email Elizabeth Lorenz, the Home and Real Estate Editor, at elorenz@ embarcaderopublishing.com and your home might be featured in a story in early December. 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.

join ‘em How the Midpeninsula real estate market uses online websites to its advantage by David Goll

or Midpeninsula real estate agents, online real estate websites have dramatically affected the world of home buyers, home sellers and real estate agents.

More than 10 years after the launch of the online pioneer – Seattle-based Zillow Group Inc. – industry professionals say they’re increasingly using Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com and other online residential real estate resources to their advantage, while trying to educate the home buying and selling public as to both their strengths and shortcomings. “There’s no question they have brought more information to the consumer and that’s a good thing,” said Ron Gable, vice president and managing broker of Alain Pinel Realtors in Menlo Park. “It’s not that they’re not trying to do a good job, but the information is often very general and home values can be off anywhere from 15 to 25 percent in either direction. They don’t take all the details into account. More buyers and sellers understand that better today, as well as the need for a skilled Realtor to help them grasp those details of a given property, neighborhood and community.” Chris Isaacson, an agent in the Woodside office of Coldwell Banker Real Estate and former president of the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors, credits online services with creating a more knowledgeable group of home buyers, especially those buying for the first time and those moving to the Midpeninsula from outside the area. The dynamic shifts a bit for veteran buyers. “Second- and third-time buyers realize that while the websites are a useful tool, they also

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know how much a Realtor can do for them,” he said. Isaacson said for industry professionals like himself, the wildly popular websites have brought about a change in marketing tactics. “They have had a big role in shifting advertising dollars from print to online,” said Isaacson, who has advertised online for the past five years. “Aggressive agents can spend lots of money to have a presence there. But we still advertise in print, too. It’s a good way

‘... the information is often very general and home values can be off anywhere from 15 to 25 percent in either direction.’ —Ron Gable, vice president and managing broker of Alain Pinel Realtors on online real estate websites to remind people you know you are still in the business as they thumb through the paper while having their coffee.” But it would seem more people are thumbing through their cell phone screens to get real estate information these days. According to officials of Trulia.com – a fully owned subsidiary of Zillow Group that offers mobile and online resources for properties for sale or rent – more than 168 million unique users visited real-estate websites operated by Zillow Group each month during the second quarter of 2016. The sites contain information from more than 400 multiple listing service (MLS) sources and 13,000 real estate brokers nationwide.

“Trulia is a great resource for both consumers and industry professionals,” said Paul Levine, Trulia’s president. “Trulia can help agents reach a wide audience and ultimately move their inventory faster, as well as help them identify new home buyers and potential clients, and build their brand online.” Another major online player is Realtor.com, a service that Santa Clara-based Move Inc. created in collaboration with the National Association of Realtors. The website draws more than 50 million visitors per month, according to Lexie Puckett Holbert, communications director for Move Inc. She said Realtor.com displays listings for virtually all MLS-listed homes for sale nationally. Information on prices, open houses and photos is updated every 15 minutes. She said Realtor.com is an online partner for real estate agents helping them with things like free agent profiles that list their past sales and current homes on the market as well as client ratings and reviews. There was a time Realtors saw the online sites as more competitor than collaborator. Early on, some home sellers would stubbornly cling to prices they saw online – something often referred to as the “Zillow effect.” There were even fears they would cull the ranks of human brokers. Those concerns have been allayed for some. “Nowadays, the websites are considered more of a tool in your box of tools,” said David Barca, also a former SILVAR president and vice president and broker for Pacific Union Real Estate in Menlo Park. “Realtors even suggest that clients use them for searches and we work together on data they find there.” Some brokers have joined the online game themselves, creating their own websites for mobile devices, Barca said. Q Freelance writer David Goll can be emailed at David.w.Goll@gmail.com

Photo illustration by Kristin Brown

STEPS AND STONES ... Lyngso Garden Materials in San Carlos will offer a workshop on hardscaping on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 10 a.m. to noon. Catherine Fraley from the Lyngso staff will present a palette of ideas for incorporating stone in your garden from pathways and walls to water features. The clinic will conclude with a tour of the Lyngso yard and display garden to demonstrate the applications of the different materials and show the range of available products. Lyngso is located at 345 Shoreway Road in San Carlos. Register at www. lyngsogarden.com or call (650) 364-1730.

If you can’t beat ‘em,

820 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $3,279,000 Posh Desirability in Crescent Park Occupying a neighborhood with a distinguished pedigree, this tri-level 4 bedroom, 2 bath residence of nearly 2,200 sq. ft. (per seller) built in 1920 stands on a lot of nearly 6,000 sq. ft. (per city) within a stroll of exciting downtown Palo Alto. French windows and authentic fixtures endow the home with a sense of history, while upgraded bathrooms and a tastefully remodeled kitchen deliver contemporary luxury. The lower level is ideal for media entertainment, and outdoor retreats include an upper-level deck and an idyllic backyard haven. Stroll to Addison Elementary (API 947) and alluring University Avenue, or quickly bike to Caltrain and other ®

outstanding Palo Alto schools (buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.820Hamilton.com

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

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Home & Real Estate HOME SALES

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

SALES AT A GLANCE East Palo Alto

Los Altos

86 3rd Street #201 Mccarver Trust to H. Yoshitsugu for $1,850,000 on 09/30/16 5350 Arboretum Drive Childress Trust to B. & K. Tessone for $2,100,000 on 09/27/16; built 1950, 2bd, 1,735 sq.ft. 1102 Covington Road Green Trust to X. Song for $2,210,000 on 09/28/16; built 1956, 3bd, 1,880 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/1980, $205,000 10421 Creston Drive N. & S. Sharan to P. Menon for $2,180,000 on 09/29/16; built 1955, 5bd, 2,242 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/17/2013, $1,800,000 116 Del Monte Avenue M. Hicks to M. Lai for $1,830,000 on 09/27/16; built 1947, 2bd, 1,522 sq.ft. 464 Heather Court Lutz Trust to Cooper Trust for $2,800,000 on 09/27/16; built 1957, 4bd, 2,726 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/29/1995, $545,000 1264 Miraflores Way Hall Trust to Larson Trust for $2,500,000 on 09/28/16; built 1952, 3bd, 2,219 sq.ft.

Total sales reported: 8 Lowest sales price: $599,000 Highest sales price: $2,619,000 Average sales price: $1,364,060

Los Altos

East Palo Alto

1035 Alberni Street M. King to K. Sinclair for $690,000 on 09/09/16; built 1944, 3bd, 960 sq.ft. 2678 Fordham Street Working Dirt to Social Good Fund for $580,000 on 09/08/16; built 1953, 3bd, 1,070 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/17/1976, $23,700

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $580,000 Highest sales price: $690,000 Average sales price: $635,000

Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $1,830,000 Highest sales price: $2,800,000 Average sales price: $2,210,000

Total sales reported: 9 Lowest sales price: $1,525,000 Highest sales price: $4,300,000 Average sales price: $2,632,220

Los Altos Hills

Portola Valley

Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $5,265,000 Average sales price: $4,483,300

Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $2,684,000

Woodside Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $1,171,000

Menlo Park Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $2,000,000 Highest sales price: $4,200,000 Average sales price: $3,194,330

Los Altos Hills

26901 Beatrice Lane Stefanki Trust to A. Zoufonoun for $4,250,000 on 09/30/16; built 1965, 5bd, 3,011 sq.ft. 23500 Camino Hermoso Drive Temmermand Trust to M. Eichner for $4,250,000 on 09/28/16; built 1953, 3bd, 2,724 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/31/2001, $3,300,000 25608 Deerfield Drive KDCI Development to T. Shaukat for $5,265,000 on 09/27/16 13725 Robleda Road Goetz Trust to T. & C. Shaked for $4,801,500 on 09/28/16; built 1957, 4bd, 3,753 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/1977, $189,400 10850 West Loyola Drive Lynch Trust to S. Beringer for $3,850,000 on 09/29/16; built

Source: California REsource

1926, 3bd, 5,104 sq.ft.; previous sale 01/19/1996, $975,000

di to C. Chuang for $1,575,000 on 09/30/16; built 2014, 4bd, 1,904 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/18/2014, $1,483,500 505 Cypress Point Drive #294 S. Rodgers to R. Wong for $599,000 on 09/30/16; built 1971, 1bd, 662 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/19/2005, $371,000 143 Laurel Way H. Chui to D. Rogoff for $1,474,000 on 09/29/16; built 1996, 3bd, 1,339 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/10/2013, $1,150,000 2507 Mardell Way M. & Y. Krivokon to B. & J. Thomander for $1,600,000 on 09/30/16; built 1958, 4bd, 1,216 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/11/2012, $855,000 1400 Marigold Court R. Lew to F. & C. Lin for $2,619,000 on

Menlo Park

1 Pepperwood Court L. & M. Kanavy to G. & P. Liu for $3,383,000 on 09/09/16; built 1998, 4bd, 3,290 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/26/2007, $2,795,000 120 Royal Oaks Court Arzang Trust to S. & D. Kaveripatnam for $4,200,000 on 09/09/16; built 2011, 3bd, 4,630 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/16/2010, $1,500,000 459 University Drive E. & E. McDearman to S. & R. McNiven for $2,000,000 on 09/09/16; built 1940, 3bd, 1,240 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/30/2012, $1,125,000

Mountain View

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CalBRE # 00911615

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650.917.4267

cfeldstein@cbnorcal.com

650.814.6682

CampusRealtorTeam.com

Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

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sornstein@apr.com

09/30/16; built 2010, 4bd, 2,238 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/27/2010, $1,742,500 412 Mountain Laurel Court G. Thirumalai to A. Sudhindra for $1,180,500 on 09/28/16; built 1988, 2bd, 1,225 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/18/2013, $770,000 1742 Spring Street G. Reynaga to J. & H. Wu for $1,100,000 on 09/28/16; built 1955, 3bd, 1,104 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/31/2003, $244,500 532 Tyrella Avenue #22 Sana Trust to A. Atienza for $765,000 on 09/29/16; built 1971, 3bd, 1,128 sq.ft.

Palo Alto

1182 Almanor Lane E. Oung to Z. & R. Sivan for $1,585,000 on 09/30/16; built 2011, 3bd, 1,679 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/12/2011, $860,000 2190 Amherst Street Hawkins Trust to M. & E. Rudman for $2,550,000 on 09/28/16; built 1928, 4bd, 1,514 sq.ft.; previous sale 01/1971, $30,000 700 Chimalus Drive Y. Kim to K. Huang for $3,000,000 on 09/27/16; built 1949, 4bd, 2,676 sq.ft. 660 Coleridge Avenue N. & K. Verghese to Q. Tan for $3,996,000 on 09/29/16; built 1919, 3bd, 978 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/10/2016, $3,100,000 550 Everett Avenue #5 T. & D. Hokama to S. Chiu for $1,525,000 on 09/28/16; built 1982, 2bd, 1,412 sq.ft. 1510 Hamilton Avenue D. Law to SLJH Residence for $4,300,000 on 09/30/16; built 1950, 4bd, 2,937 sq.ft. 2663 Marshall Drive Cady Trust to L. Teng for $2,626,000 on 09/29/16; built 1946, 3bd, 1,701 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/14/1992, $449,000 425 West Meadow Drive Gar-

field Trust to I. & O. Gelfenbeyn for $2,400,000 on 09/30/16; built 2010, 5bd, 2,131 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/03/2010, $1,368,500 4084 Wilkie Way I. Chuang to Z. Ma for $1,708,000 on 09/29/16; built 1930, 3bd, 980 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/28/2012, $976,000

Portola Valley

896 La Mesa Drive Brent Trust to M. & N. Bakker for $2,684,000 on 09/09/16; built 1961, 4bd, 2,430 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/20/1991, $620,000

Woodside

215 Chapman Road ToddDepaula Trust to J. Beaman for $1,171,000 on 09/09/16; built 1943, 2bd, 1,050 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/29/1999, $619,000

BUILDING PERMITS

1400 Byron St., relocate existing furnace to attic, create new closet 660 Towle Place, remove existing roofing and replace with new heavy fire-treated cedar shakes. $20,000 4148 Baker Ave., remove/replace water heater 115 Waverley St., new detached single-car garage 200sf. $11,226 180 El Camino Real, Suite# K300, tenant improvements to existing tenant (Bobbi Brown): interior work to remove flooring and relocate electrical/patch back new floor (357 sf). $22,000 115 Waverley St., new pool house 346sf (not a dwelling unit). 385 Calcaterra Place, remove existing composition and wood shingles. Apply 1/2” plywood. Install approximately 4,200 square feet of a composition shingle.$28,000 180 El Camino Real, Suite# 351, existing tenant Louis Vuitton retail tenant improvement. $700,000

1492 Webster Street, Palo Alto MAJESTIC NORTH PALO ALTO CRAFTSMAN ESTATE • 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) • 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)

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

1550 Waverley Street, Palo Alto PRIME OLD PALO ALTO CRAFTSMAN GEM • 5 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms arranged over 2 levels • Approximately 3,540 sq ft (buyer to conﬁrm) • Approximately one-third acre (13,235 sq ft; buyer to conﬁrm) • Tucked away pool and cabana with half-bath • Acclaimed Palo Alto Schools(Walter Hays Elementary, Jordan Middle, Palo Alto High- buyer to verify enrollment)

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

622 Leahy Street, Redwood City ELEGANTLY APPOINTED END-UNIT TOWNHOME • Offers resort style living close to Atherton • 1,900 square foot property features 3 bedrooms, including a master suite and 2.5 bathrooms • Spacious living room with high ceilings, ﬁreplace, and sliding doors open to a private patio • Updated kitchen with eat-in dining area has access to the front balcony • Attached two-car garage • Hardwood ﬂoors, 2 balconies and a private patio • Complex offers a beautiful pool and lawn area

OFFERED AT $998,000 WWW.622LEAHY.COM

OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30PM

(650) 475-2030

lhunt@serenogroup.com CalBRE# 01009791

(650) 475-2035

laurel@serenogroup.com CalBRE# 01747147

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1052 Ray Avenue, Los Altos Offered at $3,288,000 Elegant Spaces, Excellent Setting Enjoying a peaceful cul-de-sac setting on a lot of over 9,800 sq. ft. (per county), this 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath residence of approx. 3,000 sq. ft. (per county) built in 2011 offers a world of elegance and comfort. Columns, fine molding, and floors of walnut define the richly appointed yet highly livable spaces, which showcase a gleaming chef ’s kitchen and a sumptuous master suite. Highlights include energy-efficient features, a private guest bedroom, and an office. Spacious, freshly landscaped yards surround the home, encouraging outdoor living and entertaining. The unbeatable location is within strolling distance of shops, cafés, and

top-ranking Los Altos schools.

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.1052Ray.com

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

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

Price Reduced on this Spectacular Property! - Open Sunday 2:00-4:30pm

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

www.280FamilyFarmRoad.com

HELEN & BRAD MILLER (650) 400-3426 (650) 400-1317

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OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1:30–4:30PM

PROFESSORVILLE

COMMUNITY CENTER

1320 Webster Street, Palo Alto Offered at $5,750,000 | 1320webster.com

1404 Harker Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $2,195,000 | 1404Harker.com

SOLD

DOWNTOWN BUILD OPPORTUNITY

ATHERTON ESTATE

847 Webster Street, Palo Alto | Lot ±7,500 sf Offered at $2,998,000

393 Atherton Avenue, Atherton Offered at $8,500,000 | 393atherton.com

SOLD

DUVENECK

CRESCENT PARK

5 Phillips Road, Palo Alto Offered at $4,300,000 | 5phillipsrd.com

1145 Lincoln Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $2,349,000 | 1145Lincoln.com

MICHAEL DREYFUS Broker 650.485.3476 michael.dreyfus@dreyfussir.com License No. 01121795

NOELLE QUEEN, Sales Associate 650.427.9211 noelle.queen@dreyfussir.com License No. 01917593

ASHLEY BANKS, Sales Associate 650.544.8968 ashley.banks@dreyfussir.com License No. 01913361

DOWNTOWN PALO ALTO 728 EMERSON ST, PALO ALTO | DOWNTOWN MENLO PARK 640 OAK GROVE AVE, MENLO PARK | DREYFUSSIR.COM Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated.

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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

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Alain Pinel Realtors®

COME ON IN ATHERTON CITY $PRICE $13,995,000

PALOCITY ALTO $PRICE $10,888,000

LOS ALTOS CITYHILLS $PRICE $8,995,000

MENLO CITY PARK $PRICE $6,988,000

74 Barry Lane | 5bd/6ba Joe Bentley | 650.462.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

3120 Alexis Drive | 7bd/9+ba Grace Wu | 650.323.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

23750 Julietta Lane | 5bd/4.5ba Stefan Walker | 650.941.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

1020 Hermosa Way | 5bd/6ba N. Moritz/M.Corman/M.Montoya | 650.462.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

WOODSIDE CITY $PRICE $6,495,000

LOS CITY ALTOS $PRICE $5,999,000

MENLO CITY PARK $PRICE $5,850,000

PALOCITY ALTO$PRICE $2,898,000

340 Jane Drive | 6bd/5.5ba Helen & Brad Miller | 650.529.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 2:00-4:30

663 Jay Street | 6bd/4.5ba Kathy Bridgman | 650.941.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

1730 Holly Avenue | 6bd/5ba Liz Daschbach | 650.462.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

318 Hawthorne Avenue | 3bd/2.5ba D. VanRycheghem/D. Langley | 650.323.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

PORTOLA CITY VALLEY $PRICE $2,795,000

LOS CITY ALTOS $PRICE $2,395,000

PALOCITY ALTO$PRICE $2,199,000

PALOCITY ALTO$PRICE $1,895,000

60 Linaria Way | 3bd/3ba Ellen Ashley | 650.529.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:00

755 Alvina Court | 4bd/2.5ba Jim & Jimmy Nappo | 650.941.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

775 Garland Drive | 2bd/2ba Carol & Nicole | 650.462.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

2160 Middleﬁeld Road | 3bd/2ba Irene Yang | 650.941.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

REDWOOD CITYCITY $PRICE $1,775,000

SAN CARLOS CITY $PRICE $1,698,000

MENLO CITY PARK $PRICE $1,645,000

SUNNYVALE CITY $PRICE $1,549,000

156 Springdale Way | 4bd/3ba Loren Dakin | 650.462.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

1561 Greenwood Avenue | 3bd/2ba S. Yie/C. Chang | 650.323.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

2451 Sharon Oaks Drive | 3bd/3ba Stacey Diodati-Jamison | 650.462.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

1219 Townsend Terrace | 3bd/2.5ba Derk Brill | 650.323.1111 BY APPOINTMENT

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The AW Team is your trusted real estate advisor that is committed to your personal and ﬁnancial success.

Adam and Wendy bring together complimentary expertise and skills to deliver innovative, yet practical real estate services for sophisticated buyers and sellers. Recognizing that information is ubiquitous in today’s technology-driven world, The AW Team helps you translate data, trends, and analysis into meaningful insight to better understand real estate markets, identify the most suitable options and, ultimately, make the best choices.

Visit us at TheAWTeam.com/about and view our Meet the Team video or contact us directly.

Adam M. Touni Broker-Associate | Attorney C 650.336.8530 | atouni@pacunion.com

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437 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301 | License #01880106, #01425837

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

(buyer to verify eligibility).

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.437College.com 6 5 0 . 4 8 8 . 7 3 2 5 | i n f o @ d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | w w w. d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | C a l B R E # 0 1 9 0 3 2 2 4

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Gorgeous New Home

2516 Webster Street, Palo Alto OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:00 – 5:00

Location, Location, Location! This brand new home is steps from the vibrant midtown shopping center, while sitting in a quiet cul-de-sac. - Large 8836sf (per city) lot with park-like yard - Two story 3400sf (per city) house with 5 bedrooms and 5 full baths - Elegantly curved stairs lighted by elegant chandeliers - Dual walk-in closets for master bedroom

- Insulated walls inside and outside for best soundprooﬁng - Health friendly paint with zero VOC from Benjamin Moore - All custom designer closets with high quality wood - High end appliances, lighting and plumbing ﬁxtures

Offered at $4,688,000 Jennifer Liu 650.575.7035

jenliu888@gmail.com CalBRE# 01933885

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

Sand Hill Estates, Woodside

5 Betty Lane, Atherton

11627 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills

$35,000,000

$24,800,000

$15,995,000

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

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

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

91 Selby Lane, Atherton

291 Atherton Avenue, Atherton

26880 Elena Road, Los Altos Hills

$14,900,000

$14,688,000

$10,988,888

Listing Provided by: Catherine Qian, Lic.#01276431

Listing Provided by: Nancy Gehrels, Lic.#01952964

Listing Provided by: Dan Kroner, Lic.#01790340

10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills

27466 Sunrise Farm Rd, Los Altos Hills

40 Firethorn Way, Portola Valley

$11,488,000

$9,500,000

$6,888,000

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

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208

1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside

161 Willow Road, Menlo Park

1250 Miramontes Street, Half Moon Bay

$5,800,000

$2,998,000

$2,800,000

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

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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The Solution to Selling Your Luxury Home.

106 Sacramento Avenue, Capitola, CA 95010 | $5,495,000 | Listing Provided by: Jennifer Cosgrove Lic.#01334273

www.106SacramentoAvenue.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 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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NEWLY BUILT 5 BR HOME + GUEST HOUSE N 1- 4 AT/SU S N E OP

331 OAK COURT MENLO PARK

7965 Pool Station Road Angelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Camp, California

2Ď&#x192; :RRGODQG

3350 sq ft NEW CONSTRUCTION 10,663 Sq. Ft. Lot (approx 1/4 Acre) Near Silicon Valley, Stanford, downtown PA Perfect for multi-generational living! Main House â&#x20AC;˘ 5 BR 3.5 BA (2720 sq ft) â&#x20AC;˘ Two separate bedroom wings â&#x20AC;˘ 2SHQ ĂąRRU SODQ RQ OHYHO

Guest House â&#x20AC;˘ 1 BR 1 BA (630 sq ft) â&#x20AC;˘ Completely separate house â&#x20AC;˘ Ideal for parents, nanny, or rental

6É&#x2C6;LYLK H[ Please Visit www.331OakCourt.com

Marie Straube Broker 650-906-6902 BRE #00520530

MarieStraube@me.com

CALIFORNIA GOLD! Spectacular views of Bear Valley, Yosemite, Blue Mountain and Kirkwood, the seasonal stream in spring and fall, and 15 olive trees, complete this picturesque and secluded vineyard landscape. The 3 bedroom, 3Â˝ bath home also boasts a huge gourmet kitchen, butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pantry, a 1,000 bottle wine cellar and a 2 person jet tub in the master bath and much more. Gated in its entirety, with a road surrounding the vineyard, the property is excellent for maintaining and riding horses and is close to the innovative Dignity Health Hospital.

Offered at: $2,250,000

www.7965PoolStationRd.com

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

Mia Park

Heather Victoria

Broker Associate

REALTORÂŽ

408.836.4442

408.482.5886

MPark@InteroRealEstate.com

www.TeamMiaPark.com

HVictoria@InteroRealEstate.com www.InteroRealEstate.com

Lic.#01390597

Lic.#01401841

GINNY KAVANAUGH Open Sunday 1:30 - 4:30 PM

166 CORTE MADERA ROAD, PORTOLA VALLEY

$2,350,000

4 Bedrooms | 3 baths | Wooded Views | 166CorteMadera.com GINNYKAVANAUGH.COM | CALBRE# 00884747 | 650.400.8076 | GKAVANAUGH@CAMOVES.COM ÂŠ2014 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell BankerÂŽ is a registered trademark licensed to Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. An Equal Opportunity Company. Equal Housing Opportunity. Each Coldwell Banker Residential %URNHUDJH 2É?FH LV 2ZQHG E\ D 6XEVLGLDU\ RI 157 //& 5HDO HVWDWH DJHQWV DÉ?OLDWHG ZLWK &ROGZHOO %DQNHU 5HVLGHQWLDO %URNHUDJH DUH LQGHSHQGHQW FRQWUDFWRU VDOHV DVVRFLDWHV DQG DUH QRW HPSOR\HHV RI &ROGZHOO %DQNHU 5HDO (VWDWH //& &ROGZHOO %DQNHU 5HVLGHQWLDO %URNHUDJH RU 157 //& &DO%5( /LFHQVH

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151 Seale Avenue, Palo Alto Luxury Craftsman in Old Palo Alto Style, grace, and function harmonize in this contemporary Craftsman 6 bedroom, 4.5 bathroom home of over 4,600 sq. ft. (per <8-:?J 5:/8A05:3 3->-31 @4-@ 5? @A/710 C5@45: 45348E /;B1@10 !80 "-8; 8@; 813-:@8E -<<;5:@10 -:0 Ō1D5.8E 01?53:10 @45? .>-:0

:1C 4;91 1:6;E? - 05B5:1 5?8-:0 75@/41: @C; 8-A:0>E ->1-? -:0 - C-87 ;A@ 8;C1> 81B18 C5@4 - .-> -:0 - <;@1:@5-8 C5:1 /188-> The property of 7,500 sq. ft. (per county) is immaculately landscaped, and the garage can serve as a studio. With just moments to %@-:2;>0 ':5B1>?5@E -852;>:5- B1:A1 -:0 &;C: ;A:@>E (588-31 E;A /-: -8?; 1-?58E .571 @; ?;A34@ -2@1> "-8; 8@; ?/4;;8? For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.151SealeAve.com Offered at $5,688,000 6 5 0 . 4 8 8 . 7 3 2 5 | m i c h a e l r @ d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | w w w. d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | C a l B R E # 0 1 9 0 3 2 2 4 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 21, 2016 • Page 49

Vast Views Over the Vineyard in Central Woodside 970 Mountain Home | Woodside | Offered at $12,900,000

Just Listed — Please Call for Appointment. Open Sunday 2:00 – 4:30pm

ffering visually stunning 200-degree views of the Western Hills from the top of a 5.53-acre quiet, rolling private sanctuary, the property is comprised of an elegant 4 BR / 4 BA (3 full) elegant main home with spa and 3-car attached garage, a 2 BR detached guesthouse, a recently refinished tennis court and a nearly two acre mature vineyard. It’s estimated 7,200 total sq ft of building area includes a nearly all one-level approx. 4,700 sq ft main home with nearly 1,100 sq ft garage and storage and an adjacent guesthouse with just under 1,500 sq ft (including one-car attached garage). Located on one of Woodside’s most prestigious corridors, the home is within easy access to Sand Hill Road, Woodside Town Center’s shops and restaurants, the I-280 Silicon Valley freeway and has some of the West’s best cycling and hiking right out your front door. Come see it for yourself!

www.970MountainHome.com

HELEN & BRAD MILLER

(650) 400-3426 (650) 400-1317 helenhuntermiller@gmail.com bradm@apr.com www.HelenAndBradHomes.com CalBRE #01142061, #00917768

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SOPHISTICATED PENTHOUSE LIVING 800 HIGH STREET #415 | PALO ALTO www.800High415.com • This stunning penthouse has been meticulously updated with a modern design and high end finishes throughout. The gourmet kitchen features stainless steel Viking appliances, sleek black cabinets, and recessed lighting. In the living room area, soaring ceilings and a cozy black granite fireplace make it perfect for entertaining guests. An outdoor balcony, connecting to the master suite and living room, provides a beautiful space to relax at the end of a long day. A quick walk to dynamic downtown restaurants and boutiques provides easy access to all that Palo Alto offers. • Featuring a state of the art master suite with custom full blackout blinds, a large walk-in closet, and custom built-ins. This penthouse has been thoughtfully designed for the working professional. OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY FROM 1:30-4:30pm

www CondoConnectRealty com www.CondoConnectRealty.com

OFFERED AT $1 , 898, 0 0 0

650.543.8536 | CalBRE #02012195 | info@condoconnectrealty.com www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 21, 2016 • Page 51

HOW TO CREATE, BUILD OR REMODEL THE HOME OF YOUR DREAMS Thursday, October 27th, 2016 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Please join DeLeon Realty at our October Seminar. Gain valuable insight from Ken DeLeon, the founder of DeLeon Realty, on how to obtain the home of your dreams. Whether you are looking for tips on locating the best piece of land for construction or how to select the right property to remodel, we will explain the processes and help you avoid pitfalls. Also, meet DeLeon Realty’s talented area specialists who focus on specific communities in Silicon Valley.

To RSVP, please contact 650.543.8500 or by email at RSVP@deleonrealty.com Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club, Grand Ballroom 3000 Alexis Drive, Palo Alto Seminar is for prospective clients only, no outside real estate professionals permitted.

650.488.7325 | www.deleonrealty.com | CalBRE #01903224

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GINNY KAVANAUGH Open Sunday 1:30 - 4:30 PM Visitors can enter for a chance to win a gift certificate to Ladera Garden & Gifts and the first 10 will receive a fall arrangement.

20 CORDOVA COURT, PORTOLA VALLEY

$4,350,000

5 Bed | 3 bath | 1+ acre | Pool & Spa | Views | 20Cordova.com GINNYKAVANAUGH.COM | CALBRE# 00884747 | 650.400.8076 | GKAVANAUGH@CAMOVES.COM ÂŠ2014 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell BankerÂŽ is a registered trademark licensed to Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. An Equal Opportunity Company. Equal Housing Opportunity. Each Coldwell Banker Residential %URNHUDJH 2É?FH LV 2ZQHG E\ D 6XEVLGLDU\ RI 157 //& 5HDO HVWDWH DJHQWV DÉ?OLDWHG ZLWK &ROGZHOO %DQNHU 5HVLGHQWLDO %URNHUDJH DUH LQGHSHQGHQW FRQWUDFWRU VDOHV DVVRFLDWHV DQG DUH QRW HPSOR\HHV RI &ROGZHOO %DQNHU 5HDO (VWDWH //& &ROGZHOO %DQNHU 5HVLGHQWLDO %URNHUDJH RU 157 //& &DO%5( /LFHQVH

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Exceptional

Woodside estate

Extraordinary renovation • All-encompassing, two-year renovation • Inspiration from the Wrightsman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City • Exceptional views of the San Francisco Bay • Hand-crafted plaster architectural moldings, antique rock crystal chandeliers, custom draperies, and Sherle Wagner fixtures • 5 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms plus 1-bedroom, 1-bath guest house • Cabernet sauvignon vineyard, wine-cellar, and tasting room • State-of-the-art home automation and security • Approximately 19 acres Offered at $12,995,000

Hugh Cornish

ExceptionalWoodsideEstate.com

650.566.5353 hcornish@cbnorcal.com

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CalBRE# 00912143

Erika Demma 650.740.2970 edemma@cbnorcal.com CalBRE# 01230766

GINNY KAVANAUGH

OPEN SUNDAY &RDOPLQH 9LHZ 3RUWROD 9DOO\ 5DQFK EHG _ EDWK _ %RQXV URRP _ 9LHZV _ _ &RDOPLQH FRP

GINNYKAVANAUGH.COM | CALBRE# 00884747 | 650.400.8076 | GKAVANAUGH@CAMOVES.COM ÂŠ2014 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell BankerÂŽ is a registered trademark licensed to Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. An Equal Opportunity Company. Equal Housing Opportunity. Each Coldwell Banker Residential %URNHUDJH 2É?FH LV 2ZQHG E\ D 6XEVLGLDU\ RI 157 //& 5HDO HVWDWH DJHQWV DÉ?OLDWHG ZLWK &ROGZHOO %DQNHU 5HVLGHQWLDO %URNHUDJH DUH LQGHSHQGHQW FRQWUDFWRU VDOHV DVVRFLDWHV DQG DUH QRW HPSOR\HHV RI &ROGZHOO %DQNHU 5HDO (VWDWH //& &ROGZHOO %DQNHU 5HVLGHQWLDO %URNHUDJH RU 157 //& &DO%5( /LFHQVH

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 Ä˘ 4 : 3 0 P M O R S H O W N B Y 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 with fireplace 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 $ , ,000

www.321Everett.com

Nancy Goldcamp Direct: (650) 400-5800 Interested parties should verify scale, details, and dimensions

nancy@nancygoldcamp.com www.nancygoldcamp.com CAL BRE# 00787851

www.PaloAltoOnline.com â&#x20AC;˘ Palo Alto Weekly â&#x20AC;˘ October 21, 2016 â&#x20AC;˘ Page 55

4 bedrooms and 2 remodeled bathrooms 1,568± sq. ft. of living space on a 6,525± sq. ft. lot Cul-de-sac location

2960 OTTERSON COURT, PALO ALTO OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 1:30-5:00PM

2960Otterson.com

Formal living room with skylight Gourmet kitchen w/ s/s appliances Family room opens to backyard Dual pane windows and skylight Italian ceramic tile and Brazilian FKHUU\ ÀQLVKHG KDUGZRRG ÁRRULQJ Freshly painted exterior & interior

Palo Alto

Attached 2-car garage w/ storage Excellent Palo Alto schools: Palo Verde Elementary, JLS Middle & Palo Alto High (buyer to verify enrollment) Less than one-mile to Midtown Shopping Center, Greer Park & Winter Lodge

OFFERED AT $2,295,000

UMANG SANCHORAWALA CalBRE # 01471341

650.960.5363

usanchor@apr.com UmangHomes.com Page 56 • October 21, 2016 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

*Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

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

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Midtown Realty, Inc. â&#x20AC;¢ 2775 Middlefield Road â&#x20AC;¢ Phone: 650.321.1596 â&#x20AC;¢ www.MidtownPaloAlto.com

6 4 5 L O M A V E R D E , P A L O A LT O LARGE LOT IN DESIRABLE MIDTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD

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OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1:30-4:30 PM

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

Midtown Realty, Inc. â&#x20AC;¢ 2775 Middlefield Road â&#x20AC;¢ Phone: 650.321.1596 â&#x20AC;¢ www.MidtownPaloAlto.com www.PaloAltoOnline.com â&#x20AC;¢ Palo Alto Weekly â&#x20AC;¢ October 21, 2016 â&#x20AC;¢ Page 57

Woodside Large Stylish Traditional Home $BMM GPS "QQPJONFOU This Woodside Traditional 6 BR/ 5.5 BA approx. 6,465 sq ft home on 3.14+ acres offers an enviable blend of privacy, proximity to open space and elegant living. Situated at the end of a private cul-de-sac in one of Woodside’s only gated communities, this property is minutes from Town Center shopping, restaurants and the acclaimed Woodside School (preK-8th). The home has unusually large common areas which include separate living, dining and dual family rooms each connected to a light-filled kitchen & breakfast room. Set up for entertaining, a large outside deck & patio with built-in BBQ overlook a luxurious custom pool & sp www.340JaneDrive.com

340 JANE DRIVE WOODSIDE Offered at $6,495,000

Build Your Dream Home Across The Bridge $BMM GPS "QQPJONFOU

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

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

HELEN & BRAD MILLER

650.400.3426 650.400.1317 helenhuntermiller@gmail.com bradm@apr.com

www.HelenAndBradHomes.com CalBRE #01142061, #00917768

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ColdwellBankerHomes.com Woodside

Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$6,475,000

Atherton

Sun 1:30 - 4:30 NEW PRICE! $4,695,000

Palo Alto

Sat/Sun 1 - 5

$4,688,000

245 Olive Hill Ln Gated vineyard estate on aprx. 3 ac in Central Woodside. 60-ft pool, cabana, gazebo & TC. 4 BR 4 BA Berdine Jernigan CalBRE #00679045 650.851.2666

90 Macbain Ave 3 levels, office, wine cellar, beautiful yard, close to downtown MP, Circus Club location. 5 BR 3.5 BA Hugh Cornish/Karin Riley CalBRE #00912143/01725481 650.324.4456

2516 Webster Street Brand new home, quiet cul-de-sac, great location, large lot! Park-like yard. 5 BR 5 BA Jennifer Liu CalBRE #01933885 650.325.6161

Menlo Park

Los Altos

Palo Alto

Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$3,875,000

Sat/Sun 2 - 5

$3,575,000

1150 Hidden Oaks Dr Elegant & timeless classic Colonial. Beautifully blends comfort of daily living. 5 BR 4 full + 2 half BA Carrie Davis CalBRE #01983911 650.324.4456

1083 Valley View Ct Quiet, peaceful, updated, great schools. Come by & see! 4 BR 3 BA Deniece Smith CalBRE #01295757 650.325.6161

Menlo Park

Palo Alto

Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$2,650,000

Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$1,998,000

Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$2,900,000

321 Everett Avenue Dramatic downtown home w/many custom upgrades. Chef’s kitchen - great rm. Yard and garage 3 BR 2.5 BA Nancy Goldcamp CalBRE #00787851 650.325.6161

Menlo Park

Sun 1 - 4:30

$1,588,888

1009 Santa Cruz Ave Located in desirable downtown Menlo Park. 1,810 sq. ft. offers luxury & convenience. 3 BR 2.5 BA John Spiller/Janet Dore CalBRE #01155772/00621176 650.324.4456

101 Alma St 1203 Spectacular mountain and city views. Updated 12th floor 3bd/3ba condo w/ hardwood floors. 3 BR 3 BA Dan Ziony CalBRE #01380339 650.325.6161

638 18th Ave Almost new. 3 BD/2 BA separate unit (office). AC. Close to shopping. 3 BR 2 BA Enayat Boroumand CalBRE #01235734 650.324.4456

Shearwater

Los Altos

Palo Alto

Sun 1 - 4

$1,398,000

Sat/Sun 1 - 4

$1,345,000

Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30

Call for price

307 Hartstene Dr 5 year new townhome w/ gorgeous views. High ceilings, ample light & stunning water views. 2 BR 2.5 BA Lyn Jason Cobb CalBRE #01332535 650.324.4456

73 3rd St 31 Updated kitchen w/ skylight, granite counters. Floor to ceiling windows, balcony w/ views. 2 BR 2 BA Beth Leathers CalBRE #01131116 650.324.4456

4173 El Camino Real 15 Only 1 owner. Large kitchen w/ breakfast bar, patio in landscaped yard. Peaceful location. 2 BR 2.5 BA Nancy Goldcamp CalBRE #00787851 650.325.6161

Redwood City

Menlo Park

San Jose

Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$985,000

1101 5th Ave It’s a 10! Fully updated. 8,750sf corner lot w/1,060 detached garage, 800sf loft. Zoned R2 2 BR 1 BA Cristina Bliss CalBRE #01189105 650.324.4456

Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$949,000

665 Monte Rosa Dr 914 Newly remodeled ground floor unit. New: Hardwood floors, kitchen, baths, paint and more. 3 BR 2 BA Elaine White CalBRE #01182467 650.324.4456

californiahome.me |

/cbcalifornia |

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Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30

$924,888

5597 Carew Way Beautiful home in Blossom Valley. Close to shopping, Cal. train and fwy. Great schools. 4 BR 3 BA Sarah Park CalBRE #01938878 650.325.6161

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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 13686 Page Mill Rd Sun Sereno Group

ATHERTON 3 Bedrooms 86 Mesa Ct Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$4,988,000 324-4456

4 Bedrooms

$6,295,000 323-1900

6 Bedrooms 26991 Taaffe Rd Sat Deleon Realty

$7,998,000 543-8500

27466 Sunrise Farm Rd Sun Intero Real Estate

$9,500,000 206-6200 $9,988,000 543-8500

6 Tuscaloosa Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,480,000 462-1111

4 Surrey Ln Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$5,995,000 462-1111

28500 Matadero Creek Ln Sun Deleon Realty

41 Maple Ave Sun Deleon Realty

$3,388,000 543-8500

7 Bedrooms

40 Isabella Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$6,800,000 462-1111

282 Camino Al Lago Sat Coldwell Banker

$5,780,000 325-6161

MENLO PARK

375 Walsh Rd Sun Deleon Realty

$4,988,000 543-8500

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

$1,418,000 206-6200

1230 Sharon Park Dr #63 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,498,000 462-1111

5 Bedrooms 399 Atherton Ave Sun Coldwell Banker

$6,399,000 324-4456

90 Macbain Ave Sun Coldwell Banker

$4,695,000 324-4456

6 Bedrooms 84 Nora Way Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$7,938,000 462-1111

EAST PALO ALTO 3 Bedrooms 1226 Laurel Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$699,000 323-7751

HILLSBOROUGH 5 Bedrooms 475 Pepper Av Sun Coldwell Banker

$4,188,000 323-7751

LOS ALTOS 4 Bedrooms 881 University Ave Sun Deleon Realty

$2,488,000 543-8500

1083 Valley View Ct Sat/Sun 2-5 Coldwell Banker

$3,688,000 325-6161

22805 Aspen Dr Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate

$2,548,000 206-6200

1052 Ray Ave Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$3,288,000 543-8500

5 Bedrooms 345 W Costello Dr Sat Deleon Realty

$3,288,000 543-8500

200 Valencia Dr Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,879,000 851-2666

62 S Clark Ave Sun Sereno Group

$3,998,000 323-1900

14123 Tracy Ct Sun Deleon Realty

$7,788,000 543-8500

1 Bedroom - Condominium 800 High St #415 Sat/Sun Condo Connect

2 Bedrooms 734 Channing Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,500,000 462-1111

255 N California Av Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

$2,495,000 321-1596

2 Bedrooms - Townhouse 4173 El Camino Real #15 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

3 Bedrooms - Condominium 665 Monte Rosa Dr #914 Sun Coldwell Banker

$949,000 324-4456

3 Bedrooms

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

$4,250,000 462-1111

24 San Juan Ave Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$3,980,000 462-1111

5 Bedrooms

645 Loma Verde Ave Sun Midtown Realty

$2,495,000 321-1596

$3,279,000 543-8500

5 Bedrooms 2516 Webster St Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker

$4,688,000 325-6161

PORTOLA VALLEY

1150 Hidden Oak Dr Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,875,000 323-7751

100 Coquito Way Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,095,000 324-4456

520 Wayside Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,395,000 323-7751

9 Coalmine Sun Coldwell Banker

$2,595,000 851-1961

505 Cypress Point Dr #208 Sat 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty

$819,000 644-3474

3 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms - Condominium 1 Baldwin Ave #817 By Appt Coldwell Banker

SARATOGA 3 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms 813 Cedro Way Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,285,000 323-1111

SUNNYVALE 1219 Townsend Terr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,549,000 323-1111

WOODSIDE 3 Bedrooms 285 Heacox Rd Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,195,000 851-2666 $6,475,000 851-2666

$2,350,000 851-1961

280 Family Farm Rd Sun 2-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors

$8,599,900 529-1111

6 Bedrooms

20 Cordova Ct Sun Coldwell Banker

$4,350,000 851-1961

155 Kings Mountain Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

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$2,150,000 851-2666

245 Olive Hill Ln Sun Coldwell Banker

5 Bedrooms

Bank of America, N.A. and the other business/organization mentioned in this advertisement are not afﬁliated; each company is independently responsible for the products and services it oﬀers. Bank of America may compensate select real estate companies and builders for marketing its home loan products and services. Bank of America, N.A., Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender. ©2014 Bank of America Corporation. Credit and collateral are subject to approval. Terms and conditions apply. This is not a commitment to lend. Programs, rates, terms and conditions are subject to change without notice. ARK69DJ5 HL-113-AD 09-2014

$950,000 325-6161

$2,599,000 324-4456

1 Bedroom

A variety of home financing solutions to meet your needs

4 Bedrooms

120 Coquito Way Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

PALO ALTO $3,500,000 462-1111

SAN JOSE

4 Bedrooms

5 Bedrooms

738 Channing Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

76 Nevada St $3,175,000 Sun 1-4 Cowperthwaite & Company 851-8030

3 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

4 Bedrooms

STANFORD

820 Hamilton Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,998,000 206-6200

MOUNTAIN VIEW

$1,398,000 325-6161

783 Kendall Av Call for price Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 323-7751

161 Willow Rd Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate

$3,788,000 906-6902

28 Circle Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

20269 Argonaut Dr Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$6,988,000 462-1111

331 Oak Ct Sat/Sun 1-4 Straube Associates

$985,000 324-4456

2960 Otterson Ct Call for price Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

1020 Hermosa Way Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

6 Bedrooms

Coldwell Banker

SAN MATEO

3239 Maddux Dr $3,680,000 Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 520-3407

228 Princeton Rd Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

1101 5th Av Sat/Sun

240 Emerson St $3,998,000 Sun Stephanie Savides, Broker 464-3581

$2,650,000 323-7751

$3,695,000 462-1111

3 Bedrooms

$899,000 (510) 813-3745

1009 Santa Cruz Av Sun Coldwell Banker

1888 Camino A Los Cerros Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,398,000 323-7751

1158 Pembridge Dr Sat/Sun 2-4:30 Marvin Gardens

850 Sharon Ct $3,710,000 Sat/Sun 12-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

$2,800,000 529-1111

307 Harstene Dr Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

4 Bedrooms

$1,588,888 324-4456

980 Lassen Dr Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

$955,000 325-6161

$2,900,000 325-6161

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

4 Bedrooms

REDWOOD CITY

5597 Carew Way Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

321 Everett Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

LOS ALTOS HILLS $5,988,000 543-8500

$1,998,000 325-6161

3 Bedrooms

166 Corte Madera Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

27811 Saddle Ct Sat Deleon Realty

$1,325,000 325-6161

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

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

$1,898,000 543-8536

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$16,795,000 851-2666

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

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202 Vehicles Wanted

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DONATE YOUR CAR 888-433-619. FAST FREE TOWING -24 hr Response - Maximum Tax Deduction UNITED BREAST CANCER FDN: Providing Breast Cancer Information and Support Programs (Cal-SCAN) DONATE YOUR CAR, TRUCK OR BOAT to Heritage for the Blind. FREE 3 Day Vacation, Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care of. Call 800-731-5042 (Cal-SCAN) 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)

USED BOOK SALE

133 Music Lessons Hope Street Music Studios Now on Old Middefield Way, MV. Most instruments, voice. All ages and levels 650-961-2192 www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com

210 Garage/Estate Sales

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Palo Alto, 2580 Waverly Street, Oct. 8, 10:30-1:30

Diwali Celebrations, October 29

230 Freebies CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $40/Box! Sealed and Unexpired. Payment Made SAME DAY. Highest Prices Paid!! Call Kerri Today! 800-413-3479 www. CashForYourTestStrips.com (Cal-SCAN)

237 Barter DID YOU KNOW 7 IN 10 Americans or 158 million U.S. Adults read content from newspaper media each week? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916-288-6011 or email cecelia@cnpa.com (Cal-SCAN) Diwali Celebrations, October 29 Please join us to celebrate Diwali on October 29th from 6:30-9:30 pm. Enjoy the beats of Bollywood music with DJ, dance, food, arts and crafts, Raffle and much more! For questions: melange.ca@gmail.com

240 Furnishings/ Household items

145 Non-Profits Needs

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PA: 716 Gailen Ave., 10/22, 9:30-3:30 Household goods. x-Charleston

245 Miscellaneous

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150 Volunteers ASSIST IN FRIENDS BOOKSTORE ASST SECTION MGRS FOR FOPAL

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Kid’s Stuff 345 Tutoring/ Lessons K-12 Math Tutor (Taught 10yrs) - TBD

Mind & Body 425 Health Services ELIMINATE CELLULITE and Inches in weeks! All natural. Odor free. Works for men or women. Free month supply on select packages. Order now! 844-703-9774. (Cal-SCAN)

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235 Wanted to Buy

135 Group Activities

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Los Altos, 430 Lassen Street, Oct 22 & Oct 23

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Susan Jackson Piano Instruction (Mus. Bac) Classical, jazz, theory. Beginner to advanced. 650/326-3520

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MAKE THE CALL to starting getting clean today. Free 24/7 Helpline for alcohol and drug addiction treatment. Get help! It is time to take your life back! Call Now: 855-732-4139 (AAN CAN) OVERWEIGHT? We have helped thousands of people since 1980! 100% money-back Guarantee on our USA made products! “Trial Pack” available and product Discounts! Linda (800)319-5558. (Cal-SCAN) Safe Step Walk-In Tub! Alert for Seniors. Bathroom falls can be fatal. Approved by Arthritis Foundation. Therapeutic Jets. Less Than 4 Inch StepIn. Wide Door. Anti-Slip Floors. American Made. Installation Included. Call 800-799-4811 for $750 Off. (Cal-SCAN) Struggling with DRUGS or ALCOHOL? Addicted to PILLS? Talk to someone who cares. Call The Addiction Hope & Help Line for a free assessment. 800-978- 6674 (AAN CAN)

Jobs 500 Help Wanted

Computer Systems Associate Embarcadero Media is looking for an Information Technology professional to join our IT team to support and manage our Windows and Mac infrastructure. We are looking for a person who can work as part of a support team, troubleshooting hardware and software, while providing Windows server administration and network management. You would provide computer support for both of our Bay Area locations (Palo Alto and Pleasanton) based in our main Palo Alto office. This is an entry-level position, but an ideal candidate would have helpdesk and troubleshooting experience. We want that special someone who is technically savvy with excellent people skills. Windows server administration would be a huge plus. Your own transportation is a necessity. Mileage is reimbursed. This is a full-time, benefited position. Please email your resume and cover letter to Frank Bravo, Director of Information Technology, with “Computer Systems Associate” in the subject line. Embarcadero Media is an independent, award-winning news organization, with more than 35-years publishing. http://www. EmbarcaderoMediaGroup.com/ employment/computer-systemsassociate Golf Course Maintenance Worker Callippe Preserve Golf course is looking for full or part time employees. No experience required but it is beneficial. Benefit package available to all full time employees. Must have valid social security card and pass a drug test. Positions available immediately. TECHNICAL Informatica LLC is accepting resumes for the following position in Redwood City, CA: Principal QA Engineer (AKN-CA) - Participate actively in functional, system, stress, longevity and regression testing activities. Please mail resumes (reference job title and job code AKN-CA) to Informatica LLC, ATTN: Global Mobility, 2100 Seaport Blvd., Redwood City, CA 94063. No phone calls please. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.

Business Services 604 Adult Care Offered A PLACE FOR MOM The nation’s largest senior living referral service. Contact our trusted, local experts today! Our service is FREE/ no obligation. CALL 1-800-550-4822. (Cal-SCAN)

624 Financial Do You Owe Over $10K to the IRS or State in back taxes? Our firm works to reduce the tax bill or zero it out completely FAST. Call now 855-993-5796 (Cal-SCAN) SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY benefits. Unable to work? Denied benefits? We Can Help! WIN or Pay Nothing! Contact Bill Gordon and Associates at 1-800-966-1904 to start your application today! (Cal-SCAN) Structured Settlement? Sell your structured settlement or annuity payments for CASH NOW. You don’t have to wait for your future payments any longer! Call 1-800-673-5926 (Cal-SCAN)

636 Insurance Health & Dental Insurance Lowest Prices. We have the best rates from top companies! Call Now! 888-989-4807. (Cal-SCAN)

640 Legal Services DID YOU KNOW Information is power and content is King? Do you need timely access to public notices and remain relevant in today’s hostile business climate? Gain the edge with California Newspaper Publishers Association new innovative website capublicnotice.com and check out the FREE One-Month Trial Smart Search Feature. For more information call Cecelia @ (916) 288-6011 or www. capublicnotice.com (Cal-SCAN) Lung Cancer? And 60 Years Old? If So, You And Your Family May Be Entitled To A Significant Cash Award. Call 800-990-3940 To Learn More. No Risk. No Money Out Of Pocket (Cal-SCAN) Xarelto users have you had complications due to internal bleeding (after January 2012)? If so, you MAY be due financial compensation. If you don’t have an attorney, CALL Injuryfone today! 1-800-425-4701. (Cal-SCAN)

560 Employment Information PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000 A Week Mailing Brochures From Home! No Experience Required. Helping home workers since 2001! Genuine Opportunity. Start Immediately! www.IncomeStation.net (AAN CAN)

Home Services 715 Cleaning Services Isabel and Elbi’s Housecleaning Apartments and homes. Excellent references. Great rates. 650/670-7287 or 650/771-8281 Silvia’s Cleaning We don’t cut corners, we clean them! Bonded, insured, 22 yrs. exp., service guaranteed, excel. refs., free est. (415) 860-6988

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748 Gardening/ Landscaping J. Garcia Garden Maintenance Service Free est. 25 years exp. 650/366-4301 or 650/346-6781 LANDA’S GARDENING & LANDSCAPING *Yard Maint. *New Lawns. *Clean Ups *Irrigation timer programming. 20 yrs exp. Ramon, 650/576-6242 landaramon@yahoo.com MLB Landscape & Concrete Service CleanUp/Landscaping/Driveways/ sidewalks/patios/pavers/stamp concrete, etc... Call for a FREE estimate at (650) 771-3562.

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 Since 1985 Repairs • Maintenance • Painting Carpentry • Plumbing • Electrical Lic. #468963

(650) 453-3002

781 Pest Control

J & G HAULING SERVICE Misc. junk, office, gar., furn., green waste, more. Local, 20 yrs exp. Lic./ins. Free est. 650/743-8852

771 Painting/ Wallpaper Glen Hodges Painting Call me first! Senior discount. 45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325, phone calls ONLY.

Attic Clean-Up & Rodent Removal Are you in the Bay Area? Do you have squeaky little terrors living in your attic or crawlspace? What you are looking for is right here! Call Attic Star now to learn about our rodent removal services and cleaning options. You can also get us to take out your old, defunct insulation and install newer, better products. Call (866) 391-3308 now and get your work done in no time!

STYLE PAINTING Full service interior/ext. Insured. Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577

795 Tree Care

775 Asphalt/ Concrete

Arborist View Tree Care Prune, trim, stump grinding, root crown excavation, removals, ornamental prune, tree diagnostic. Jose, 650/380-2297

Mtn. View Asphalt Sealing Driveway, parking lot seal coating. Asphalt repair, striping, 30+ years. Family owned. Free est. Lic. 507814. (650) 967-1129 Roe General Engineering Asphalt, concrete, pavers, tiles, sealing, artificial turf. 36 yrs exp. No job too small. Lic #663703. (650) 814-5572

779 Organizing Services Classified Deadlines:

NOON, WEDNESDAY

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809 Shared Housing/ Rooms ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM Lonely? Bored? Broke? Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at Roommates.com! (AAN CAN)

759 Hauling

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Alex Peralta Handyman Kit. and bath remodel, int/ext. paint, tile, plumb, fence/deck repairs, foam roofs/repairs. Power wash. Alex, 650/465-1821

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Real Estate 801 Apartments/ Condos/Studios Palo Alto, 2 BR/2 BA - $3900

803 Duplex PA: 1BR Furn. Close to Stanford. $3000 mo. 650/321-1085

805 Homes for Rent Palo Alto, 4 BR/2 BA $5200/mo. A classic Eichler with an atrium on a cul-de-sac in midtown. Tile floors, bookshelves. 702-419-4833 Redwood City, 2 BR/2.5 BA - $3700

825 Homes/Condos for Sale Sunnyvale, 3 BR/2 BA - $1,700,000

830 Commercial/ Income Property Professional Office Space

840 Vacation Rentals/Time Shares Answers on page 64

855 Real Estate Across 1 Language in which many websites Services

Authentic Italian Villa www.selvamica.com

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement PRIME MAINTENANCE SERVICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 621474 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Prime Maintenance Service, located at 539 Alma Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PREMIER PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC. 539 Alma Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2004. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 16, 2016. (PAW Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 2016) GB ACCOUNTING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 621552 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: GB Accounting, located at 539 Alma Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PREMIER PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INC. 539 Alma Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 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 September 19, 2016. (PAW Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 2016) SEEBLICK PROPERTIES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 621050 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Seeblick Properties, 824 San Francisco Ct. Stanford, CA 94305, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ROBERT A. HUGGINS 824 San Francisco, CA 94305 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/1/1994. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 31, 2016. (PAW Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 2016) SproutU, LLC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 621582 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: SproutU, LLC, located at 4049 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SproutU, LLC 4049 Middlefield Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 7/27/2016. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 20, 2016. (PAW Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2016) PENINSULA PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 621721

The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Peninsula Property Management Company, located at 2450 Watson Court, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: Copartners. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JASON D. PEERY 2450 Watson Court Palo Alto, CA 94303 DAVID W. PEERY 2450 Watson Court Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/01/2006. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 22, 2016. (PAW Oct. 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 2016) EFFICIENT SPACE ORGANIZERS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 622284 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Efficient Space Organizers, located at 3980 El Camino Real #87, 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): UMBELINA MARTINEZ 3980 El Camino Real #87 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 October 7, 2016. (PAW Oct. 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 2016) KATRINA EDEN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 622353 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Katrina Eden, located at 4136 Payne Ave., San Jose, CA 95117, Santa Clara County.

THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KATRINA CHRISTINE EDEN DI GIANNONI 4136 Payne Ave. San Jose, CA 95117 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 October 11, 2016. (PAW Oct. 21, 28, Nov. 4, 11, 2016) BOOCOO MUSIC BOOCOO RECORDS STRINGHOPPER MUSIC PUBLISHING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 622467 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) BooCoo Music, 2.) BooCoo Records, 3.) Stringhopper Music Publishing, located at 2796 Ramona St., 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): BHI BHIMAN 2796 Ramona St. 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 October 14, 2016. (PAW Oct. 21, 28, Nov. 4, 11, 2016) ALOHA LEI SHOP FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 622493 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Aloha Lei Shop, located at 1690 Blue Jay Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): GESMYNE BELL

1690 Blue Jay Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94087 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 October 17, 2016. (PAW Oct. 21, 28, Nov. 4, 11, 2016)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARCEL VINOKUR Case No.: 16PR179653 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MARCEL VINOKUR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: CHRISTOPHER C. SLOAN in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: CHRISTOPHER C. SLOAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not

grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on November 18, 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: Jan Marie Hales, Hales & George 19040 Cox Avenue, Suite 3 Saratoga, CA 95070 (408)255-6292 (PAW Oct. 7, 14, 21, 2016)

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Sports Shorts OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Stanford senior golfer Maverick McNealy maintained his No. 1 position in the World Amateur Golf Rankings released following last weekend’s action. Cardinal freshman Andrea Lee rose to No. 7 in the world after a second-place finish at the Stanford Intercollegiate. Stanford freshman Albane Valenzuela, an Olympian,checks in at No. 4 . . . Stanford freshman Katie Ledecky joins teenagers Maddie Ziegler, Simone Biles, Yusra Mardini, and President Barack Obama’s daughters Sasha and Malia on TIME magazine’s list of the 30 most influential teenagers.

ON THE COURT . . . The Stanford men’s doubles team of Sameer Kumar and Yale Goldberg survived a long weekend of rain delays to play their way into the finals of the ITA Northwest Regional doubles main draw in Berkeley and then beat Oregon’s Jayson Amos and Simon Stevens to earn a spot in the ITA Indoor championships in November.

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SOCCER HONORS . . . Stanford junior forward Corey Baird earned Pac-12 men’s soccer Player of the Week honors for his effort in two wins last week. Averie Collins was named the Pac-12 women’s soccer Offensive Player of the Week . . . Menlo College earned a spot in the NAIA men’s soccer Coaches Top 25 for the first time in program history. The Oaks rank No. 20 in a season that sees the team atop the Golden State Athletic Conference with an 11-2-1 overall record and 5-0-1 mark in conference play . . . Gunn High grad Cameron McElfresh, the senior goalkeeper of the UC San Diego men’s soccer team, was named the California Collegiate Athletic Association Player of the Week. He posted two more individual clean sheets as UC San Diego swept a tough home weekend against top foes.

Paul Jackson III scored in the final minute to lift Palo Alto past Wilcox last Friday.

Palo Alto looks to repeat winning formula PAL Bay, Ocean football teams still have plenty of postseason motivation by Glenn Reeves

ust call it the upset of the year ... for now. Hard to imagine a more unlikely outcome than Palo Alto’s 25-21 win over Wilcox last Friday. Wilcox was coming off a game in which it rushed for 630 yards and beat Saratoga, 83-48. The previous week Palo Alto had lost to Saratoga, 35-21. So the Vikings went into the Wilcox game 49-point underdogs on the basis of comparative scores. “I’m still trying to find someone who thought we could beat Wilcox, other than our immediate group,’’ Palo Alto coach Danny Sullivan said. Paly trailed throughout, but

remained in contact. It was 14-6 at halftime and 21-12 early in the fourth quarter. Paul Jackson III’s 5-yard run with 50 seconds left completed the comeback. Jackson, Palo Alto’s offensive standout all season, rushed for 98 yards on 20 carries, bringing him to 787 yards rushing on the season. But his winning touchdown would not have come about without a fourth-and-10 completion of 22 yards from sophomore Jackson Chryst to Paul Thie that kept that final drive alive. Chryst had his best game of the season, completing 6 of 11 passes for 120 yards. “That was big time,’’ Sullivan said of the completion to Thie and

of Chryst’s overall performance. “We had him in charge of doing a lot of different things.’’ Palo Alto’s defense, the team’s strength more often than not this season, kept Wilcox from running away with it. “To hold them to 21 was pretty special,’’ Sullivan said. So now the Vikings get to rest on their laurels all the way until Friday when Los Gatos comes to town for a 7 p.m. game. “There’s a big buzz around campus right now,’’ Sullivan said. “The kids are coming forward, the community too.’’ Los Gatos is in first place in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division after

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The Peninsula Athletic League is an anomaly. There are 18 teams in the league for football, set up in the 6-6-6 power league struc(continued on page 67)

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College volleyball: Stanford at UCLA, 8 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

Palo Alto looking to past for future inspiration

Saturday College football: Colorado at Stanford, noon, Pac-12 Networks

Sunday College field hockey: California at Stanford, 1 p.m., Pac-12 Networks College men’s soccer: Stanford at UCLA, 5 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

Vikings clinch SCVAL title tie

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by Rick Eymer iona Green remembers attending Palo Alto girls’ volleyball games during the state title years of 2010-11 and being aware of “outstanding players,” but she didn’t have much interest in the varsity games. Her older sister played on the JVs and that’s where she directed her focus. These days, with the Vikings assured of at least a co-title in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division, Green

College volleyball: Washington at Stanford, 7 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

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College men’s soccer: Oregon State at Stanford, 5 p.m., Pac-12 Networks College women’s soccer: Stanford at Arizona, 7 p.m., Pac-12 Networks