Palo Alto Weekly December 9, 2016 by Palo Alto Weekly

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXVIII, Number 10

December 9, 2016

City of Palo Alto faces $6M deficit Page 5 w w w. P a l o A l t o O n l i n e.c o m

D R A C T R O P RE Inclusion Test scores Expectations

Grading special education Advocates critique Harvard review of Palo Alto program

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10:30 a.m. Worship Choir Cantata – Bach: Sleepers Wake! 4:00 p.m. Chamber Concert The Covenant Brass 10:30 a.m. Worship Christmas Around the World 7:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 10:30 a.m. Worship Moravian Love Feast Rev. Dr. Margaret Boles Covenant Presbyterian Church, 670 E. Meadow Dr., Palo Alto 94306 (650) 494-1760 www.CovenantPresbyterian.net

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Parents urge deeper push to improve special ed Trustee: Harvard report has ‘limited value as a guide to action’ by Elena Kadvany

t was supposed to be the “golden ticket” for the Palo Alto Unified School District’s special-education program: an in-depth, comprehensive review conducted by a well-known Harvard University researcher who, parents and administrators hoped,

would help the district finally address longstanding issues with its special-education services. The much-anticipated results of this study, launched more than a year ago, have been released after several delays and will be discussed by the school board on Tuesday, Dec. 13.

The report confirms much of what is already known by parents and administrators in the district about both the good and the bad in special education. Palo Alto sees high rates of inclusion of specialeducation students in mainstream classes, and the researchers found a strong commitment across teachers, administrators and parents to improvement. But teachers who feel unsupported and parents who are distrustful and frustrated have

bred a low level of confidence in the district’s ability to effectively support students with special needs. Noticeably absent from the report is what the district’s specialeducation advocacy group Community Advisory Committee (CAC) requested when the review first launched: a detailed analysis of sub-categories of students — by race, disability, income, school — and how they fare in Palo Alto. “We hope that this type of

fine-tuned analysis will allow PAUSD to identify where additional expertise related to specific disabilities and evidence-based program options might help us improve our ability to support students,” the parent-led CAC wrote to Harvard researcher Thomas Hehir in an October 2015 letter. After Hehir and his team of two Harvard researchers released the (continued on page 8)

CITY HALL

Palo Alto braces for budget deficit Growing expenses drive projected shortfall of $4 million to $6 million in coming year by Gennady Sheyner

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Little nomads Sidhant Vats, left, Ladi Oluwole, center, and other kids in the Club J afterschool program at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center in Palo Alto play in the new desert-themed playground, which is open to the public.

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Tennis and tutoring program provides educational support Local students visit college campuses through Holiday Fund grant

he East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring (EPATT) program has long sought to show disadvantaged students new possibilities in life, whether a new sport, better academic skills or a local college. It’s also aimed to empower kids to have a voice in their own futures. So when several students asked about the possibility of touring colleges in southern California, Tennis and Tutoring took action. “There was a push for it,” said Amy Kohrman, program development and communications manager. “They wanted to see what

by Rick Eymer else was out there. Alumni who attended southern California schools would always stop by, and the students kept asking if there was a possibility for them.” This past year, with help from the Palo Alto Weekly’s Holiday Fund, seven juniors along with the program’s High School Group Coordinator Maribel Zarate and Operations Director Adrian Amaral made the trip, visiting campuses such as the University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology, Loyola Marymount, University of California, San Diego and Occidental,

among others. Of the seven colleges visited, students applied for admission at six of them. “We wanted to help them see more that is out there,” Zarate said. “They may never have the chance unless you plant the seed. It inspires them to keep plugging away at school.” The students had to each research a campus and serve as “guide” for that school. Caltech got on the list because one student was matched with it through QuestBridge, a locally based nonprofit that provides scholarship opportunities to students. He (continued on page 11)

espite a thriving economy and growing revenues, Palo Alto is heading into the new year with a financial cloud on the horizon: a projected budget deficit that could be as high as $6 million. The numbers, which are reflected in the latest projections from the Administrative Services Department, present an early challenge for the City Council, which will have three new members next year and which is scheduled to start reviewing the Fiscal Year 2018 budget in April. The budget challenge comes at a time when the city’s main revenue sources continue to show robust growth. Sales-tax revenues are expected to be $30.3 million in fiscal year 2017, which ends June 30, $1.2 million more than the city budgeted for, and $31.8 million in 2018. Hotel-tax revenues also have been increasing steadily since fiscal year 2015, going from $16.7 million in that year to $22.4 million in 2016, and to an expected $23.9 million in fiscal year 2017. In 2018, the city expects to collect $24.8 million from hotels. Property-tax revenues are also showing healthy growth, rising from $36.6 million in 2016 to a projected $39.1 million in 2017 and $41.5 million in 2018. Yet expenses are growing just as fast. The costs of salaries and benefits (which make up 61 percent of the General Fund) are expected to grow, fueled in part by the city’s recent efforts to align local salaries with the regional marketplace. In addition, the city has recently made new commitments to funding Project Safety Net (a program that promotes youth well-being). It is also

facing a $1.1 million increase in its tree-trimming contract; a protracted negotiation with Stanford University over fire services; and a reallocation of electricity costs associated with streetlights and traffic lights from enterprise funds to the General Fund, which pays for most basic city services, not including utilities. The result is a General Fund shortfall of $4 million to $6 million, according to staff projections. And the number doesn’t include the additional funds that the city would spend if it wants to purchase the downtown U.S. Post Office, invest in improvements to its animal shelter and move along with a series of expensive planning efforts, including the new master plan for Cubberley Community Center and an update to the city’s Comprehensive Plan. Compounding the challenges is the rapidly rising cost of construction. Given this trend, City Manager James Keene made the case Tuesday night for speeding up the city’s process on major construction projects such as a public-safety building and new parking garages in downtown and around California Avenue. “While the economy is doing well, that’s why we need to be getting these projects done as fast as we possibly can,” Keene told the council’s Finance Committee during a Tuesday night discussion. The financial picture is by no means as alarming as it was six or seven years ago, when Palo Alto was slashing City Hall positions and flirting with outsourcing (continued on page 12)

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It’s such a motherhood-and-applepie program, and now there’s a problem with the apple pie. —Bob Wenzlau, president of Neighbors Abroad of Palo Alto, on the decision of student performers from Mexico to cancel their visit. See story on page 7.

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MARKY MARK AND THE FUNKY BRUNCH ... When Mark Wahlberg and his two brothers make you an offer you can’t refuse — specifically, to buy your downtown Palo Alto seafood restaurant — you don’t turn them down. The owners of Sam’s Chowder House at 185 University Ave. announced last week that they sold the space to Wahlburgers, the Wahlberg clan’s rapidly growing burger chain. Sam’s, which opened in November 2013, will close this Sunday, Dec. 11. The original Half Moon Bay location will remain, as well as the restaurant’s “Chowdermobile” food trucks, co-owner Julie Shenkman wrote in an email announcing the sale. “After receiving an ‘offer we can’t refuse’ to turn this location into a Wahlburgers gourmet hamburger restaurant, Sam’s has now been SOLD,” Shenkman wrote. Wahlburgers, which now has locations in Massachusetts, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Canada, was started in Boston in 2011 by the Wahlberg family, including celebrity actor-producer Mark and his brothers Paul and Donnie (also an actor-producer and singer-songwriter). In the midst of a massive expansion effort, they plan to open 30 more locations this year, including the one in Palo Alto. “We are on the road to bringing Wahlburgers to a city near you,” Mark said in a March press release announcing five new franchise groups and other openings. “We’ve created this family business with a mission to welcome families and friends from around the world to a place where they can break bread, enjoy some great food and lots of laughs.” The menu includes burgers, sandwiches, salads, sides and specials (complete with stamps indicating the Wahlberg family members’ favorites, like “Donnie’s fave” and “Mom’s fave”). The family and its restaurant chain are also the subject of a reality show on the A&E network. SAY, YOU WANT A RESOLUTION? ... “It really is a rarity that we have such a group of people retiring at the same time, who have served this community for so long at such high levels in the organizations and have had such impacts,” Mayor

Pat Burt said during Monday’s council meeting. He was referring to four City Hall veterans who, between them, racked up 116 years of service to Palo Alto. Three of them — Joe Saccio, Joe Teresi and Jane Ratchye — have been among the more visible figures in their respective departments of Administrative Services, Public Works and Utilities. Each has been heavily involved in some of the city’s biggest projects of recent decades, whether it’s construction of new libraries (for which Saccio was managing the debt financing), floodcontrol near the San Francisquito Creek (for which Teresi has been the point man) and the city’s recent switch to carbon-neutral electricity (for which Ratchye was credited as a “pioneer”). Each attended the Dec. 5 meeting an received major props from the council, in the form of a unanimous resolution filled with accomplishments and superlatives (the fourth, Scott O’Neill, departed with less fanfare after 30 years of service in Revenue Collections). Each thanked the council and praised their peers for enriching their lengthy tenures at City Hall. “This is the first time I’m at the mic without having to answer any questions,” Saccio said after the council approved his resolution. THE ART OF INTERVENTION ... Calling all design geeks, tech gurus, digital-media impresarios, tinkers, muralists and art enthusiasts: Palo Alto wants your help in reimagining downtown alleyways. The city this week put out a call for artists to come up with design ideas for downtown spaces and to create what will amount to a new-media festival that will begin on June 1 and end on June 3, which happens to be the National Day of Civic Hacking. According to the city’s announcement, up to eight “urban interventions” will be selected, with each receiving a $4,000 stipend and technical assistance for creating the installations in downtown’s underused alleyways. The initiative is funded by National Endowment for the Arts as part of its Code:ART program. Applications are due on Jan. 1. For more information, including application guidelines, visit http:// bit.ly/2gHkb7z. Q

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Group of student dancers from Palo Alto’s sister city change plans because of safety concerns by Gennady Sheyner happen under the new government and are not prepared to risk sending their child.” Given the number of cancellations, it is “no longer artistically or logistically possible to undertake this trip.” “We are incredibly saddened to have to notify you of this ... and we would like to thank you for your continual support of the project,” the email states, adding that next year the group will consider if a trip in fall of 2017 or spring 2018 will be possible. Even so, the cancellation has dismayed some of the program’s longtime members, Wenzlau said. “This is a charitable organization, it’s worked smoothly for years

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building should go up on what is now a parking lot on Sherman, between Birch and Ash streets, kitty-corner from the Santa Clara County Superior Court building. Construction of the three-story headquarters would only begin after the city builds a garage on another parking lot, off of Birch and behind Antonio’s Nut House.

‘Fast decision-making and execution on capital projects is really in our best interests because those costs are going up faster than our revenue stream.’ —James Keene, City Manager By moving ahead with the contracts in its final meeting of the year, the council looks to achieve some long-awaited progress on a few of its most pressing infrastructure priorities. One is a new public-safety building, which would be across the street from a new parking structure on Sherman Avenue. Another is a new downtown garage, which would go up on a city-owned parking lot at the intersection of Hamilton Avenue and Waverley Street. The biggest contract that the council is set to approve is with the firm RossDrulisCusenbery Architecture, which has spent several years assessing the city’s public-safety needs and drawing up plans for a new police headquarters. In December 2015, the council agreed that the new

The parking structure will add 160 new parking stalls to the site, for a total of 460 spaces and also include retail space. Both the public-safety building and the new garage near California Avenue are included in the Infrastructure Plan that the council approved in 2014. The police building in particular has been a high city priority for more than a decade, with several independent assessors and citizen committees concluding that the existing police headquarters at City Hall is too small and seismically weak. A citizen committee that the city established to review Palo Alto’s infrastructure needs concluded in a 2011 report that the existing structure is “unsafe and vulnerable.” According to the city’s request for proposals, the parking garage

and the public-safety building are expected to take about three years to complete. Much of 2017 will be spent on design reviews and environmental analysis, work that officials hope to complete by the end of the year. Under the city’s tentative timeline, completion of the parking garage is targeted for late summer 2018, while the public-safety building would be up in late spring 2021. Yet there is at least one cause of major concern: construction costs have been rapidly escalating since the council adopted the Infrastructure Plan. The plan pegs the cost for the public-safety building and the garage at $57.8 million and $10.3 million, respectively. But as the new report from Public Works points out, costs may go up both because of the changes in the construction market and because of changes in the project, most notably a recent decision by the council to add retail space to the new Birch Street garage. Lalo Perez, the city’s chief financial officer, told the council’s Finance Committee the rising construction costs are driven in large part by the high number of projects currently being built in the area. The heavy demand and high competition for labor has pushed up costs, he said. City Manager James Keene put it succinctly: Time is money. “Fast decision-making and execution on capital projects is really in our best interests because those costs are going up faster than our revenue stream,” Keene said. The new Birch Street garage is

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and philanthropic organizations. For Neighbors Abroad, the nonprofit that administers the longstanding partnership between Palo Alto and Oaxaca, the cancellation was a disappointing — if not entirely surprising — development. Bob Wenzlau, president of Neighbors Abroad of Palo Alto, told the Weekly that the students’ parents got together after the Nov. 8 presidential election and decided not to send their children to Palo Alto. The email notifying Neighbors Abroad of the cancellation cited the “sociological-political situation in the U.S.A.” and stated that the parents “don’t know what will

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he election of Donald Trump to the White House has cast a shadow over Palo Alto’s relationship with its sister city in Mexico, with a group of more than 30 student dancers from Oaxaca recently canceling their scheduled trip to Palo Alto because of the shifting political landscape. The group of students from Instituto Blaise Pascale was planning to arrive in Palo Alto in April for a performance of traditional Mexican dance. Known as Grupo Folklorico, the middle school and high school students have performed dances in more than 30 different countries, raising money for Oaxacan charities

for the quint, according to an email that Chief Financial Officer Lalo Perez sent to Wenzlau. City Manager James Keene is seeking a contribution of $50,000 to “justify our procurement of the Wild Land Rescue vehicle still leaving us short approximately $30,000. “We recognize that this is a significant increase to the offer from our sister city, but given our financial position and the difficult budget decision (ahead) ... we need to close the gap as much as possible,” Perez wrote. Wenzlau noted that these setbacks are coming at the exact time when Neighbors Abroad has been expanding its ambitions. The group is now working to formalize sister-city relationships with the Yangpu District in Shanghai and Heidelberg, Germany. “I feel this is a time when really, the role of our local government and sister cities should be stronger and not weaker,” Wenzlau said. “This is what’s gotten a lot of our membership worked up. We’re actually trying to be a stronger sister city recently, and we’re finding that harder because of the things going on.” Q

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Citing political upheaval, Oaxacan students cancel trip to Palo Alto

and an interruption like this is unheard of,” Wenzlau said. “It’s such a motherhood-and-apple-pie program, and now there’s a problem with the apple pie.” The cancelled field trip isn’t the program’s only recent setback. For the past few months, Palo Alto has been considering selling to Oaxaca a fire apparatus called a “quint” (which doubles as an engine and ladder truck). The agreed-upon price was about $25,000, even though the estimated value of the used truck is about $80,000. However, because the amount committed was in pesos, not dollars, and because the value of the peso has dropped by about 15 percent since the election, Oaxaca now has only about $20,000 to offer and the deal may no longer be feasible, Wenzlau said. While Neighbors Abroad is still hoping that the deal can happen, Palo Alto’s own budget challenges are limiting the city’s ability to offer any new subsidies. The city faces a projected budget deficit of $4 million to $6 million in the next fiscal year. As a result, city staff has changed its position and is now seeking a contribution of $50,000

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one of several actions that the city is now undertaking to address growing citizen unrest over inadequate parking. Next week, the Planning and Transportation Commission is set to discuss the new Residential Parking Permit Program for the Evergreen Park neighborhood, which is next to the California Avenue Business District. Once the program is in place, area employees will no longer get free all-day parking on residential streets. The new Evergreen Park parking program would be modeled largely on the one that was recently implemented in downtown. Much like the downtown program, permits would be sold only to residents and area employees, with the number of permits for workers capped at 250. According to the city planning staff’s presentation in October, Evergreen Park would be divided into two zones, with 125 employee permits made available for each zone. Residents would get one free permit per household, with an option of buying up to three more for $50 per year. For employees within the district, the permit would cost either $149 or $50 per

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year, depending on income level. The new downtown garage, meanwhile, is expected to provide a fresh option for employees who can no longer rely on residential streets for all-day parking since that’s where the downtown parking-permit program was launched. The plan calls for a garage that boosts the number of parking spaces on the corner lot from 86 to 300. On Monday night, the council is expected to approve a $1.9 million contract with the firm Watry Designs to provide design and environmental-assessment services for the new structure. While the council has budgeted about $13 million for the downtown garage, staff plans to present an updated estimate during the preliminary design phase. In the likely scenario that the costs for the two garages and the the public-safety building exceed expectations, the council will be able to tap into a $30 million contingency fund in the city’s capital budget. The council can also draw up to $4.8 million for the downtown garage from the Downtown In-Lieu Parking Fund, according to Public Works. Q

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preliminary results of the review this summer, CAC chair Kimberly Eng Lee talked with Hehir and one of the researchers. She said she came with a long list of questions based on what she presumed was just the start of their work in Palo Alto. The researcher was “forthright,” she said, that the team would not be conducting that level of analysis in their “systems-level” review. It was both beyond the scope of what they had been contracted to do, Lee said, and the data necessary for that analysis was not readily available in the district. Board of Education member Ken Dauber said that without a full review of staffing, training, communication and the special-education department’s goals and progress, the Harvard report provides “limited value as a guide to action.” “What we still need is a direct analysis of how well we’re doing at delivering services to students,” he told the Weekly. “Are we formulating goals and meeting them for students in the district, and do we have the right resources allocated to doing that? “I’m disappointed the report doesn’t really go there.” The district, for its part, sees the report as an important, objective tool for setting goals and addressing parent concerns. And what might be missing in the report can be supplemented by the district, said Chiara Perry, director of special education. “We now have a foundation or a blueprint that we can build upon,” she said. “It’s going to be a tool we use to address some concerns from parents and staff, to be able to move forward and do what’s in the best interest of the students.”

Lawsuit: Stanford acted with ‘deliberate indifference’ to reports of sexual assault A female Stanford University student who says a male student sexually assaulted her and several other women has filed a lawsuit against the university, alleging Stanford violated federal anti-discrimination law Title IX and acted negligently by failing to protect her and others from a “known sexual predator on campus.” Equal Rights Advocates, a civil-rights organization, along with San Francisco-based The Liu Law Firm and Colorado-based Hutchinson Black and Cook, filed a complaint for damages on behalf of the anonymous woman on Monday with the U.S. District Court of Northern California’s San Francisco division. The complaint details unsatisfactory experiences the women had reporting the sexual and physical violence to Stanford, alleging the university was “deliberately indifferent.” She is seeking a jury trial to determine the amount of damages she is owed due to Stanford’s negligence, deprivation of equal access to education, emotional harm and past and future financial costs, the lawsuit states. Stanford spokeswoman Lisa Lapin said that Stanford “will be vigorously defending the lawsuit as we believe that Stanford has acted appropriately in this matter.” Stanford first became aware of the allegations in 2012, when one of the women, identified in the complaint as “Ms. A” (and as “Sara Ortiz” in the Weekly’s story), reported that while dating the male student in 2011 he had choked and raped her in her dorm room. A second woman, Doe, made a report in 2014, when she said that the same man assaulted her on campus. Three of the four women reported the incidents to Stanford.Q —Elena Kadvany

Bad-tasting water due to reductions, blending Palo Alto and other local cities’ residents who have been complaining about nasty-tasting water coming from their taps can blame it on water reductions from the Hetch Hetchy supply and blending from other sources, according to City of Palo Alto Utilities spokeswoman Catherine Elvert. But despite the nasty taste and smell, Elvert said the water is being continually tested and remains safe. Palo Alto receives its water allocations from San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), which manages water from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir near Yosemite. SFPUC began blending changes on Nov. 28 with water from the Sunol Valley Water Treatment Plant. The change stirred up sediments in a pipeline causing taste and odor issues. The agency conducted taste and odor tests on water from locations in the regional system on Monday, and no odor has been detected, the agency said. The Hetch Hetchy supply was reduced from 145 million gallons per day to 105 million gallons of water, which is coming from surface-reservoir sources, Elvert said. The SFPUC did not indicate that there would be any changes to taste or smell, but after receiving a number of complaints, Palo Alto Utilities asked the agency if there was anything unusual in the water. Water-quality analysis showed that the water has a hardness that is nearly twice what it was on Nov. 22, according to the SFPUC. Alkalinity also rose. In addition to the normal flushing the city does, SFPUC is also flushing the system to try to push out the matter.Q —Sue Dremann

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What the report found

he 29-page report identifies areas of strength and improvement and provides five recommendations for how to support the good and address the bad. It comes at a time of transition for Palo Alto’s special-education program, with a new director at the helm of a reorganized department. The review, for which the district has paid about $55,000 to date, was launched at the CAC’s request. Hehir, an education professor and longtime special-education advocate, and his researchers spent a week in Palo Alto last October, visiting schools, observing classrooms and speaking with teachers, administrators and parents. They also surveyed parents, teachers and principals and reviewed student data provided by the district. Positive findings include high rates of inclusion of special-ed students in general-education classrooms, strong test scores of students with disabilities, a districtwide commitment to improvement and some examples of “promising” inclusion practices, particularly at the elementary schools. Palo Alto’s inclusion rates are higher than both the nation’s and

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A man and woman who were captured by surveillance cameras allegedly committing a daytime residential burglary last month are still at large, and Palo Alto police are asking the public to help identify them. Police responded to a call reporting a burglary on the 1000 block of Moreno Avenue in Palo Alto on Friday, Nov. 18, at about 1 p.m. A man in his 50s reported that unknown persons had burglarized his home while he was gone between 8:20 a.m. and 12:20 p.m. The man’s surveillance system showed that a man and a woman were involved. After knocking at the front door to see if anyone was home, they donned gloves and went to the backyard, where they forced open a locked sliding door. The couple made several trips to their car carrying armfuls of the man’s property, police said the video shows. A neighbor’s surveillance camera captured their car — a black, mid-1990s, four-door Honda Civic — as it left the scene. The man and woman stole jewelry, camera equipment, electronics and miscellaneous personal property, police said. Police have released still images of both suspects and their vehicle. Police said the number of reported residential burglaries in Palo Alto has dropped each year since a high of 226 in 2012. Thus far in 2016, there have been 88 residential burglaries, according to police. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Palo Alto Police Department’s 24-hour dispatch center at 650-3292413. Tips can be emailed to paloalto@tipnow.org.Q — Sue Dremann

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Math teacher Daisy Renazco, center left, and co-teacher Jackie Selfridge, center right, work together to help students in their Algebra 2 class, as the students prepare for their final on Dec. 8. state’s (70.5 percent of students with disabilities are inside regular classes for the majority of the day, compared to 63 percent nationwide and 53 percent statewide), according to the report. Inclusion is “one of the most important factors associated with better academic and life outcomes for students with disabilities,” the report states. Hehir and his team also praised the district’s use of co-teaching, or having a general- and specialeducation teacher in the same classroom, as a way to increase students’ access to more rigorous courses and to diversify previously segregated courses. Later, however, the report notes that coteaching “has the potential to limit student’s access to classrooms with high expectations” and that parents reported content in cotaught classes is often similar to less-advanced courses. Students with disabilities also perform well on standardized tests, though the researchers said they expected to see higher achievement given Palo Alto’s high rate of inclusion, affluence and level of resources devoted to students with disabilities. The researchers were heartened by examples of “promising” inclusion practices in the district, including a high-quality classroom at Greendell School where the teachers had “designed their classroom and their instruction to not just ‘allow’ students with disabilities to participate but to encourage and support it.” The report also highlights Fairmeadow Elementary School’s efforts to include more students with autism and a strong emphasis on social-emotional learning for all students. The examples illustrate how a truly inclusive educational environment cannot be a “series of add-ons of programs or people, but rather intentionally designed into the school and supported by teachers and principals,” the report states. In speaking with and surveying parents, teachers and administrators, the researchers also said they found a strong districtwide commitment to inclusion and equity. Hehir and his team found that the school district lacks consistent, proactive and measurable practices when it comes to special education, a deficit that has far-reaching impacts for students and families. The program is rooted in a “wait

to fail model,” the report states, “that tends to delay evaluation of learning disabilities until students have failed to make progress.” This has caused deep mistrust between families and the district, according to the report. Some parents said teachers or administrators had told them that a special-education diagnosis was only for students who are in “really bad shape” — rather than being viewed as a legitimate disability, the report states. One administrator responded in the survey that students are left behind if they “lack advocates, supportive families, and have needs but do not have a diagnosed disorder or structured intervention plan.” Parents who responded to the survey — mostly white and Asian English speakers — expressed low confidence in the processes for identifying students with special needs. Forty percent of parents indicated that the process was “not at all positive” or only “a little bit positive,” citing a lack of evaluation and consistency across teachers, subject areas and schools. The researchers also found disproportionately high numbers of black and Hispanic students in special education — nearly double the rate for these groups of students nation- and statewide. In Palo Alto Unified, 27 percent of black students, 22 percent of Hispanic students and 27 percent of low-income students are identified as having a disability. An important policy for Palo Alto Unified to articulate — and put into place with fidelity — is that special education is “not a catch all for students needing academic remediation,” the report suggests. Teachers surveyed requested more specific and ongoing training — examples of lessons, ideas for possible interventions or strategies — as well as more time to collaborate with and learn from their peers. While many parents surveyed were “emphatic” about needing more clear, transparent and timely information in special-education processes, some shared positive experiences. One parent of a student with a learning disability wrote: “PAUSD is very focused on meeting the needs of the student, which is great. They are meticulous and take parent input into account. They have a team approach, which provides a complete picture of the child — and provides insight into his overall

Upfront growth.” Unfortunately, the report notes, “these types of experiences were not common enough.” The researchers also found that the district lacks regularly collected, “instructionally useful” data on students with special needs. They themselves said they “encountered several barriers” when seeking data to analyze. One parent lamented that staff did not show data to guide their child’s goals. “Every year they would write new goals regardless of whether the previous goals were even met or worked on,” the parent wrote. The researchers recommend assessing students’ performance in the fall, winter and spring — using a “brief, reliable and valid” universal screener to provide continual feedback for teachers and parents. Such a test would also allow the district to track performance not only for individual students but also across classes and across schools — exactly what the CAC had requested last year.

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he review affirmed issues the Community Advisory Committee has long been working to address. Lee and Christina Schmidt, a longtime specialeducation parent-advocate, agree with the report’s findings, particularly the “lack of information for measuring special-education

effectiveness ... insufficient classroom supports and evidence-based practices,” they wrote in a letter to the school board on Wednesday. The high rates of inclusion are heartening, they wrote, but by itself inclusion is “not sufficient to ensure access to the supports and specialized instruction students with disabilities need for effective learning.” What was new to Schmidt and Lee in the review, and most telling, they said, was a clear call from both administrators and teachers for better support and training for teachers. Stronger partnerships should also be formed between specialed teachers and general-education teachers as well as school psychologists, case managers and other specialists, Lee and Schmidt wrote in their letter to the board. The report’s tangible recommendations, such as to create a parent handbook or to bring the differentiation-oriented Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Palo Alto, are positive, but will fail without district-level leadership, they wrote. “The CAC agrees that UDL ‘embeds challenge and support into the classroom’ by design, but its success depends on the support and leadership of general educators and school principals,” their letter states. “As such, it is not a feasible near-term approach.” Independent of UDL, the district still needs to be successful at special-education basics, Lee told the

Weekly. “It’s delivery of services that you have committed to doing.” In Schmidt’s eyes, management issues are at the root of Palo Alto’s special-education woes. Without deep commitment and proactive communication from the district level, accountability “falls away immediately,” she said. “If you don’t have a management team in there that understands how to implement and get accountability and have follow-up and check in and have that communication open all the time, you’re not going to make this work,” she said. Dauber, too, said that “the key issues aren’t programmatic issues; I think the key issues are management issues. That is what I want the senior leadership and the board to be focused on.” The report’s final recommendation also calls for a shift in district administrators’ views of special education. “The role of the central office will require an adjustment away from ‘running special education’ to assisting the schools in meeting their responsibilities to effectively educate all students and effectively intervening when necessary to ensure that the rights of these children to appropriate education are maintained,” the report states. The next steps for the district, Perry said, include aligning the report’s recommendations with the school board’s overarching goals and developing a three-tofour-year implementation plan

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Dec. 5)

Smoking: The council voted to ban smoking at multi-family buildings. The council also voted 6-2, with Holman and Wolbach dissenting, to create a permit program for tobacco retailers. Yes: Unanimous Carbon: The council approved a proposal for a “carbon free” natural gas portfolio, achieved through purchase of offsets. Yes: Unanimous

Council Finance Committee (Dec. 6)

Finances: The committee heard a presentation about the city’s latest financial projections, including the anticipated budget deficit of $4 million to $6 million in Fiscal Year 2018. Action: None

Historic Resources Board (Dec. 8)

Greenmeadow: The committee discussed 303 Parkside Drive, a proposal to add an accessory structure and update the pool and deck area in Greenmeadow Community Center. Action: None

with measurable outcomes and built-in evaluation. The department will also work on a professional-development plan, she said. Lee and Schmidt wrote in their letter that they hope the district will form a task force focused on special education to ensure “rigorous accountability” for any reforms, instead of placing it on the backs of one or two administrators. Perry said the district is eager to address parents’ concerns. The report is “not the end all be all” but rather a “first step,” she said. Both Perry and the CAC leaders said they are eager to work cooperatively to improve special education.

The school board will discuss the report on Tuesday, 8-10 a.m., at the district office. Perry said the full survey results will be presented then. Schmidt said she hopes that the board will see the report for what it is: an affirmation but not a roadmap for special-education in Palo Alto. “My thinking is that the board will be wise enough to look in between the lines and read this and say, ‘It’s not enough and we need more,’” Schmidt said. “The board has to be courageous enough to say, ‘This is not acceptable.’” Q A longer version of this article is posted on PaloAltoOnline.com

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applied after the visit. Zarate, a graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz, is something of a role model for her students. Zarate came to the United States from Central America in the third grade without speaking a word of English. She taught herself the language, becoming fluent by the sixth grade. Given that the program’s student population is 76 percent Latino, Zarate has become a valuable resource as well as a passionate educator. Tennis and Tutoring began its existence as a tennis program and morphed into an academic program. The program is housed at the Taube Family Tennis Center on the Stanford University campus, and Stanford’s Director of Tennis Dick Gould also has an office in the building and serves on the program’s Board of Directors. “He’s our biggest champion,” Kohrman said. It was one of Gould’s former players, All-American Jeff Arons, who set it all in motion. Arons started a summer tennis program for kids in East Palo Alto to get them off the streets and onto the courts. While maintaining its tennis component, Tennis and Tutoring rapidly developed into a year-round program to help underserved kids in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park. “I helped Jeff get hired by the East Palo Alto Recreation Department at the time to serve as a summer tennis instructor for youth just after he left the Pro tour,” Gould said. “He taught after school during the school year and was a pied piper. We put in more courts, and he still filled the courts. It was his idea to add tutoring so that if the kids came to tutoring on Monday

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Kesha Weekes, far right, lead instructor for the middle school group at East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring, checks in with students about school and discusses ways they can improve their study skills to boost their grades. and Wednesday, they could play tennis on Tuesday and Thursday, or vice versa.” The program was held at Ravenswood High School and then Cesar Chavez Elementary School for 10 years, until a fire consumed the buildings, and Stanford allowed the facility to be constructed at its current location. The program’s partnership with Stanford resulted in one-on-one tutors. East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring’s Tutor of the Year and Stanford graduate student Alina Liao, for example, saw a need to help at-risk and underserved youth. Liao shifted her focus in graduate school to a double major in education and business administration. She’s a leader with the Graduate School of Business’ nonprofit Challenge for Charity program, helping to develop students’ commitments to community involvement and raising funds. Tennis and Tutoring sponsors its own tournament-tennis teams that participate in United States Tennis

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Buena Vista closure challenged in court A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge is considering whether Palo Alto city officials were adequate in holding hearings surrounding an application approved last year to close the city’s only mobile home park. (Posted Dec. 6, 8:48 a.m.)

Mother’s boyfriend charged for girl’s death A 2-year-old girl died of blunt-force trauma and her mother’s boyfriend now faces murder charges in her death, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. (Posted Dec. 6, 9:33 a.m.)

Facebook donates $20M for affordable housing Facebook announced on Friday that it is committing $20 million to help create badly needed affordable housing in East Palo Alto. (Posted Dec. 2, 8:47 p.m.)

Edgewood developer: fines are not ‘warranted’ The developer for Edgewood Plaza in Palo Alto, who has faced steep daily fines for the vacant grocery-store space at the shopping center, has fired back at the city in a new letter that calls the penalties “excessive,” unlawful and unwarranted. (Posted Dec. 2, 3:52 p.m.) Want to get news briefs emailed to you every weekday? Sign up for Express, our daily e-edition. Go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com to sign up.

Association junior tournaments. “We’re not grooming masters, but it’s nice to have,” Kohrman said. “It gets kids active and teaches them a skill. They learn other things.” Tennis and Tutoring is a kindergarten through high school academic program, and even with five full-time and two part-time employees, along with the hundreds of volunteers, there’s a lengthy waiting list. To help expand its impact, the program has developed “Project Rally,” which is designed to help shrink the achievement gap in kindergarten and first grade. Students from six different school districts participate in the program. Most are bussed from East Palo Alto. Kohrman said most students are up early and won’t get home much before 8 p.m. every day. Participation is a commitment from both parents and students, some of whom attend Menlo-Atherton, Menlo School, Palo Alto, Gunn and Pinewood. “Most don’t read at their grade level when they enter EPATT and over 70 percent of them are on track to becoming the first generation in their family to attend college,” Kohrman said. The program isn’t just about getting kids into college, though. There’s a young man with a vision of attending culinary school and becoming a chef. He’s getting the support needed to follow his dream. Kohrman said the high school senior has cooked for Tennis and Tutoring and she gave him a great review. The program is also as much about educating parents, Kohrman said, many of whom don’t understand the importance of a college degree. The parents do, however, fully support the idea of giving their children a better chance. The program is also dedicated to helping parents understand the resources available, so they can become advocates for their kids. And just as the program gives individual attention to the kids, there’s one-onone parent coaching as well. Q More information about the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund, including a list of agencies funded this past year and instructions on how to donate, can be found on page 10. Sports Editor Rick Eymer can be emailed at reymer@ paweekly.com.

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contracting out for services when doing so would save money. Councilman Cory Wolbach urged staff and his colleagues to “keep an open mind” when it comes to looking for new revenues. “If we have any land or office space we’re not using, can we lease it out?” Wolbach asked. His colleagues had other ideas. Councilwoman Karen Holman urged staff to look for cost-sharing opportunities with the Palo Alto Unified School District. Councilman Greg Schmid pointed to Palo Alto’s status as a regional job center and argued that a critical component of financial health is making sure that businesses pay their fair share to help fix the problems that they create. “How can businesses participate in at least covering the cost of mitigation of parking, traffic, congestion that they cause?” Schmid said. “It’s crazy that they’re not participating actively in a funding way.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council will consider updates to the city’s belowmarket-rate program, including changes to the in-lieu housing fees for new developments; consider updates to the municipal fee schedule; and discuss colleagues memos pertaining to reaffirming Palo Alto’s status as a diverse, supportive, inclusive and protective community and establishment of a funding source for the Barron Park Donkey Project. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The Board of Education will convene for a special study session to discuss a review of its special-education department. The board will also discuss its Uniform Complaint Procedure (UCP) policy and procedures on Tuesday, Dec. 13, from 8 to 10 a.m. at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... At its regular meeting, the board will hear a report on enrollment projections, discuss the 2016-17 first interim financial report, the allocation of $60 million for elementary school improvements and a conceptual design for Hoover Elementary School, as well as vote to ratify benefits for its teachers and classified unions. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 13, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss data collection and privacy policy guidelines; consider new requirements and restrictions relating to basement construction and dewatering; and discuss the 2017 City Council priority-setting process. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 14, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider an ordinance limiting the conversion of ground-floor retail to other uses and expanding the ground-floor combining district; consider changes in the zoning code relating to the residential-density bonus; and review the new Residential Preferential Parking program proposed for Evergreen Park. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 14, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission will consider accepting the Draft Parks, Trails, Natural Open Space and Recreation Master Plan and directing staff to perform an environmental analysis on the programs and policies included in the plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 14, in the Downtown Library, 270 Forest Ave. CITY/SCHOOL LIAISON COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to meet at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 15, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to consider 233 University Ave., a request for a renovation and addition to an existing commercial building; consider a request for a new four-story mixed-use project with three residential units and 1,843 square feet of office space at 3265 El Camino Real; hold a public hearing on a new Biomedical Innovations Building for the Stanford University School of Medicine at 240 Pasteur Drive; and review a proposal to demolish an existing six-story commercial building at 2600 El Camino Real and to replace it with a new four-story, 62,616-square-foot building. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 15, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

Pulse A weekly compendium of vital statistics

POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

Nov. 30-Dec. 6 Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Attempted vehicle theft. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 7 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Stolen vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 5 Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Arson/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 B&P/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disobey court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Elder abuse/financial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Muni code/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psych subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Sex crime/lewd and lascivious . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 3 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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Nov. 30-Dec. 6 Theft related Attempted burglary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 2 Expired registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CPS cross report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbance/annoying phone calls . . . . 2 Forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Juvenile case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resist arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Ferne Avenue, 12/02, 12:52 p.m.; domestic violence/battery. Dartmouth Street, 12/03, 9:07 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;SPECIAL MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COUNCIL CHAMBERS December 12, 2016, 5:00 PM Study Session 1. Discussion of the Challenges and Accomplishments of the City Council Consent Calendar 4. Adoption of a Resolution Declaring the Results of the Consolidated Municipal Election Held on November 8, 2016 5. Approval of Site Finalization of Lot D, Located at Hamilton Avenue and Waverley Street, for the new Downtown Parking Garage, and Approval of a Contract With Watry Design, Inc. in the Amount of $1,899,591 to Provide Design and Environmental Assessment Services for the new Downtown Parking Garage, Capital Improvement Program Project, PE-15007 6. Approval of a Contract With RossDrulisCusenbery Architecture, Inc. in the Amount of $7,007,992 to Provide Design and Environmental Assessment Services for the new Public Safety Building, Capital Improvement Program Project, PE-15001 and new California Avenue Area Parking Garage Capital Improvement Program Project, PE-18000 7. Adoption of a Resolution Amending Utilities Rule and Regulation 27, Generating Facility Interconnections 8. 450 Bryant Street [16PLN-92]: Consideration of an Appeal and Adoption of Findings of Approval by the Director of Planning and Community Environment for Architectural Review of an Expansion to a Category 2 Historic Resource (Avenidas) and Associated Approval of a Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation, Monitoring and Reporting Plan 9. Adoption of a Resolution Approving the Standard Form Edison Electric Institute Master Power Purchase and Sale Agreement, With Special Terms and Conditions (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Standard Form Electric Master Agreementâ&#x20AC;?), and the Standard Form Master 9LUL^HISL ,ULYN` *LY[PĂ&#x201E;JH[L 7\YJOHZL HUK :HSL (NYLLTLU[ (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Standard Form Master REC Agreementâ&#x20AC;?) 10. Review and Approve the Process to Solicit Applications for a Stakeholder Committee to Advise the Council Regarding a Potential Tax and Other Funding Options for Transportation Programs and Projects 11. Approval of a Contract With Pierce Manufacturing Inc. in the Amount of $399,915 for the Purchase of a Type III Wildland Fire Engine; and Approval of Budget Appropriation Amendments in the General Fund and the Vehicle Replacement and Maintenance Fund 12. Approval of a Contract With Pierce Manufacturing Inc. in the Amount of $680,666 for the Purchase of a Triple Combination 1500 GPM Fire Pumper 13. Adoption of the Annual Amendments to the Employment Agreements Between the City of Palo Alto and Council ApWVPU[LK 6É&#x2030;JLYZ *P[` 4HUHNLY *P[` ([[VYUL` *P[` (\KP[VY and City Clerk) 14. Approval of Amendment Number Nine to the Agreement With the County of Santa Clara for Abatement of Weeds to Change the Method for Setting Abatement Fees and Costs 15. Approve and Authorize the City Manager to Execute Contract Amendment Number One to Contract Number C14150749 in the Amount of $138,719 for Project Consultant MIG for Additional Services; and Approve a Budget Amendment in the Capital Improvement Fund (Project PE-13003) 16. Approval of Contract Number C17166591 With Artist Susan Zoccola, LLC in the Not-to-Exceed Amount of $90,000 for the Design Development, Fabrication and Installation of Artwork Associated With the Charleston-Arastradero Corridor Project 17. SECOND READING: 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 (FIRST READING: November 14, 2016 PASSED: 7-2 Berman, Kniss absent)

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Editorial A lost opportunity Prime city-owned parking lots should have been candidates for housing

irtually every Palo Alto politician and community activist has been talking for months about the Bay Area’s housing crisis and the need for the city to develop strategies to encourage development of more “affordable” housing. It was a major issue in the recent City Council campaign, as all 11 candidates positioned themselves as housing advocates wanting to pursue innovative ways to create more housing, particularly for low-income service workers. And it’s been the subject of hours of discussion in connection with the pending update to the city’s Comprehensive Plan. So given this clear need, why is no one focusing on the most important resource the city has to encourage development of this type of housing: publicly owned surface parking lots in commercial districts close to public transportation? Why aren’t city planners, elected officials and housing advocates advancing proposals to develop these precious but underutilized parking lots into combinations of an underground parking garage and multi-floor apartments, perhaps even exceeding the city’s 50foot height limit to achieve greater numbers of units? As we learned all too well during the 2013 debate over Measure D and the failed senior housing proposal on Maybell Avenue, the biggest obstacle to any affordable housing project is that the skyhigh cost of land in Palo Alto, combined with zoning constraints, make it practically impossible to build an affordable-housing development without massive public subsidies. In the case of the Maybell proposal, the Palo Alto Housing Corporation (now called Palo Alto Housing) tried something it had never attempted: generating maximum profit from selling adjacent land to a private housing developer (after securing upzoning from the City Council) and then using those profits to subsidize the cost of an apartment building. In essence, the already congested neighborhood was being asked to accept the traffic and other impacts of the single-family homes and increased density in order to achieve the broader benefit of creating lower-income senior housing. It was a bad miscalculation and resulted in the City Council’s plan approval being overturned by the voters in the 2013 referendum. Bad feelings on both sides unfortunately persist to this day. But unlike with Maybell, city parking lots are owned by the public already, eliminating the land costs that are otherwise major obstacles to developing affordable housing. They are also located in commercial districts more conducive to higher density development. On Monday night, the City Council is being asked to approve contracts for the design and environmental review phase of two new parking garages — one downtown at Hamilton Avenue and Waverley Street and the other at Birch and Sherman avenues (behind Antonio’s Nut House and Starbucks) in the California Ave. district — as well as for the design of the new public-safety building to be constructed on the existing parking lot behind Kinko’s and across the street from the county courthouse. The contracts are on the council’s consent calendar and will likely be passed without discussion, quietly moving along these projects that will forever pre-empt the opportunity to more ambitiously utilize these valuable public resources to achieve both parking and housing. The locations for the two new parking garages are ideal for creative, mixed-use housing development projects because they are near public transportation and are surrounded by existing commercial enterprises that could easily share the parking — resident parking at night and employee and customer parking during the day. And given that the affordable-housing projects would be citysponsored and on publicly owned land, city leaders should also be able to persuade the community of the value of allowing exceptions to the 50-foot height limit so that, for example, four or five stories of apartments could be on top of one or two levels of above-ground parking and two levels of underground parking. If community leaders and Palo Alto Housing are serious about creating more affordable housing for low-paid service workers and seniors and retaining some modicum of diversity in Palo Alto, it will require persuasive advocacy and leadership and a lot more creative thinking than has so far been demonstrated. Our housing challenges will not be addressed by requiring a few units of below-market rate housing here and there as a condition for approval of a housing development that only wealthy professionals and high-tech engineers can afford. Publicly-owned land in high-priced Palo Alto is golden — a resource from which we need to get maximum long-term community benefit. Since we need both more parking and more housing, why not achieve both when we have the chance, and remain open to going above 50-feet for these public projects? Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Saving groundwater Editor, In February, Palo Alto’s City Council directed Public Works to meter (measure) all groundwater extracted during the construction of residential basements. Metering would provide accurate and valuable data useful in determining if additional regulations on groundwater extraction were necessary. Previously the amount of groundwater extracted per residential basement was estimated at 10 million gallons or less. Given the length of dewatering, observed groundwater flow and the depth of some basements, many believed 10 million gallons was too low. This required metering was going to finally provide real data. Wrong! Installation of the meters and measurement of the total amounts of extracted groundwater and the flow of gallons per minute was left up to the contractor. In November, Public Works admitted they had not required standardized meters, overseen meter installation or checked installed meters for accuracy before groundwater extraction began. The meter on Heather Lane was reported to be off by 52 million gallons. Additionally, this and other fill stations frequently did not work. Contractor metering of extracted groundwater for eight residential basements was reported at 125 million gallons. But who knows? It was most likely much, much more. The contractor did not pay for the extracted groundwater as it is not “used.” Storm drain fees were also not assessed. On Dec. 13, the Policy and Services Committee will meet at City Hall to discuss Public Works’ recommended 2017 dewatering regulations. Those who are tired of saving water and seeing millions of gallons of community groundwater wasted can attend this meeting and/or email the City Council at city.council@cityofpaloalto. org. There are alternative ways to build a residential basement without wasting community groundwater. Additional information is available at savepaloaltosgroundwater. org. Rita Vrhel Channing Avenue, Palo Alto

Keeping dogs leashed Editor, The community needs to unite in its effort to have healthier kids. The problem at hand is that Barron Park Elementary School’s field for kids has become a dog park with irresponsible owners

who do not leash their dogs and do not clean up. Dog waste has millions of bacteria that are harmful for our kids if ingested. For some children it could be lethal. Sure enough, their shoes, balls, hands and faces are covered with dog poop as they play in the school field and then sit down to eat their lunch. When approached, trespassing dog owners affirm their entitlement to walk dogs unleashed on school grounds. Have they gone mad? It’s Palo Alto city ordinance to keep dogs leashed. The district superintendent and City Council were informed last week and a request was made for banning dogs from elementary school grounds and implementing signage for those who violate. Schools are for kids and kids only. Failing to employ our common sense puts not only children’s health but also their lives at stake. In reality, a majority of dog owners are very respectful and comply with city rules. I hope that their example combined with ability to understand the repercussions of harvesting dogs’ waste on school grounds is sufficient

to encourage every community member to support intelligent behavior. Victoria Low Laguna Avenue, Palo Alto

Minding the water Editor, I think the City Council needs to remember an extremely important item when it comes to crafting policy about growth of any kind in this city: water. If we’ve already had to enact water restrictions during the drought for our current population, just where will all this extra water come from when the city has ballooned to thousands more when the tongues wagging about more housing get projects pushed through? Are we headed to become the next Los Angeles, siphoning water from far-off regions to support growth that is clearly not sustainable with the resources we have access to? I believe this city needs to keep a sharp eye on the resources they can provide to the people already here and less on the developers. Lori Harrenstien Torreya Court, Palo Alto

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Raising speed limits? Better to re-open Pandora’s Box by Jay Thorwaldson

ome re cent studies show that a slightly higher speed limit might actually slow down traffic on 14 key stretches of Palo Alto streets. The suggestions instantly stirred up a vigorous debate online and at city meetings. The problem is that on some four-lane streets — such as wide Embarcadero Road between U.S. Highway 101 and Alma Street — traffic does not travel at (or even near) the posted 25 mph. But state law prohibits using radar to help control the over-limit offenders because 85 percent of the traffic is exceeding the posted limit. That law purportedly stemmed from an incident in which a state legislator’s wife got caught in a rural “speed trap” in a small town in outback California. Most of us know of those little towns on two-lane roads when suddenly the speed limit drops from 55 to 25 and a police car is parked within a block — a sure revenue generator for local governmental entities. Now, decades later, this “anti-speed trap law” still haunts communities such as Palo Alto, wherein traffic and the speed of traffic (and fear of future speeding traffic) have combined as a major theme of city and neighborhood politics for a half-century. Well, don’t panic this time around. The City Council late last month threw cold water on the idea, dampening any nearterm chance for significant changes.

Anyone who thinks the issue is simple or subject to rational analysis or civil discourse should check out the excellent report by the Weekly’s city reporter Gennady Sheyner, as well as the many comments attached to the online story at tinyurl.com/PAWspeed-16. The issue of fighting traffic volume and speed has been around since the fastgrowth 1950s in Palo Alto, when the Stanford Research Park (formerly the Stanford Industrial Park) was in its formative years, before it became the “heart of Silicon Valley.” There was a bitter 1963 battle over a county plan to convert the jammed twolane Oregon Avenue to the four-lane Oregon Expressway, which city voters narrowly approved after heavy trucks were banned. But the battle left political scars. That led to the election of a six-member bloc of “residentialists” to the 13-member City Council and to another bitter election in 1967 — the so-called “recall election” of anyone not facing regular election, in which four of the six residentialists were defeated. Among them was Byron Sher, who entered city politics because of concern about traffic from the Oregon Expressway. In the 1967 campaign, Sher posed for a campaign-ad photo with his wife, Linda, and their children on a curb looking fearfully for a break in oncoming traffic. The ad urged residents to fight back against “King Car and Czar Truck,” which I discussed in a column last May (see tinyurl. com/PAWTraffic-16). Others trace their political involvement to traffic issues and concerns about growth and speed. Those include current council members Eric Filseth and Tom DuBois,

whose political involvement stemmed from the controversy related to adding housing on Maybell Court in southwest Palo Alto. Former Councilwoman Yoriko Kishimoto was politically motivated by traffic concerns, as was Nonette Hanko in the 1960s (both now serve on the board of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District). Residentialists made a comeback in the early 1970s, when Sher was returned to the council, later becoming a state assemblyman and senator. Establishment candidates surged back in the mid-1970s, continuing the local political see-saw that exists even today. Former city transportation director Joe Kott, now a consultant, ran into the traffic/ speed issue head on when he tried to convince people that putting in traffic circles along Embarcadero Road would expedite traffic movement without increasing volume or speeds. An earlier traffic engineer, Ted Noguchi, observed way back in the 1970s that Palo Alto actually had 56,000 traffic engineers — the approximate city population at the time. An added complication has been the creation of the citywide bike-lane system in the 1970s, expanded later in an attempt to reduce the “conflicts” between cyclists and vehicles. Palo Alto’s attempts to better accommodate its many bicyclists actually date back to the 1950s, when the city adopted a “Guard and Go” system of alternating stop signs on every other block in residential areas. Attempts at “traffic calming” by narrowing and reducing lanes invariably stir up opposition. Resulting back-ups may calm traffic but often don’t calm drivers,

fostering a “lane-reduction rage.” One commenter on the Weekly’s recent story points out correctly that bicycles are defined as vehicles and are legally entitled to take up a traffic lane. The writer says he travels about 15 mph (up to 18 mph with a tailwind) in the outside “slow” lane, irritating drivers behind him. Anyone wonder where driver hostility toward cyclists might originate? Yet many cyclists who breeze through stop signs feel their bikes are a special breed of vehicle and feel tickets they get shouldn’t count against their driving record and car insurance ratings. They do. Back to Embarcadero: In the 1970s the police department instituted a hard-line enforcement effort to slow traffic from the 35-40 mph range to something closer to the 25 mph posted limit. Alas, someone expressing the inherent rebelliousness of the American public sabotaged the effort by posting warning signs of the “Speedtrap Patrol” a block or so ahead of the police presence of the day. The officers hated that moniker but were stuck with it. I once observed that the only way to curtail speeds along Middlefield Road would be to have police cars driving up and down all day going 25 mph. The idea is that virtually no one is going to pass a police car, whereas a “pace car” experiment failed. I suggested that a uniformed officer would need to be in the patrol car and that that might be a good job for the young police cadets. Ah, but is a mind-numbing job the best training for future officers? Q Form er Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@ well.com. He also writes periodic blogs at PaloAltoOnline.com.

Streetwise

What is your favorite aspect of the holiday season in the Bay Area? Asked outside of David’s Tea on University Avenue in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Patrick Condon.

Don Miller

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Retired Hawthorne Avenue, Palo Alto

Retired Nurse Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto

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“The spirit of the season and the lights.”

“Having group activities that are open to all traditions. It is really important to be inclusive.”

“All of the different holiday food.”

“I like kicking around and looking in the (shop) windows for sales.”

“I like the decorations and all of the lights.”

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Transitions Keith Clark Longtime Palo Alto resident, tennis coach and folksinger Keith Clark died on Oct. 2. He was 94. He was born on Nov. 8, 1921, in Wheaton, Illinois. He later received an master’s degree from the University of Illinois, where he lettered in varsity tennis. He met his future wife, Harriet Sorenson, while working as a camp counselor at the Chicago Boys & Girls Club for underprivileged

youth. They married in 1942. Together, they enjoyed hiking, camping, visiting the Peoples Republic of China and Soviet Union on peopleto-people peace initiatives and serving as co-presidents of Palo Alto Neighbors Abroad. Before moving to Palo Alto in 1962 and establishing himself as an English teacher and tennis coach, he taught and coached in Ottawa, Illinois, where, as the city’s recreation director, he initiated many sporting and arts programs such as the building of the Ottawa Barn Theater on the Clark family farm. While pursuing an additional master’s degree at the Middlebury

Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont, he played on a softball team with the poet Robert Frost, who encouraged him to take up guitar and write ballads about the history of his hometown. He went on to become an active folksinger, songwriter and concert promoter. His first recording, “Ballads of La Salle County,” for Folkways Records in New York, is still available from the Smithsonian Institution. Appearing in folk festivals across the Midwest, radio host Studs Terkel proclaimed him the “unofficial Poet Laureate of Illinois and another Carl Sandburg.” In retirement, he continued

Tracy Herrick

Davis Walsh Baldwin Palo Alto resident Davis Walsh Baldwin died on Nov. 22. A memorial service will be held at Stanford Memorial Church at 2 p.m., on Tuesday, Dec. 20. A gathering for friends and family will be held from 3-5 p.m at the Menlo Circus Club.

February 12, 1931 - November 25, 2016

dispense career counseling to any person wiling to listen. His favorite saying was “it never hurts to ask.” The most painful event in Tracy’s life was the death of his son Alan in a car accident, at the age of 24. In his memoir “Tales to Tell” (2012), he wrote: “I cannot describe the feeling that the loss of a child brings to a parent. There is nothing like it. It is profound loss, way beyond anything else in life. And it is a feeling of helplessness where one is at sea with waves that never cease. The only way to survive is through the gift of closeness to one’s spouse, children, family, loved ones, and friends. They held me up, and they continue to hold me up. And I am so deeply grateful. I cannot ever give enough thanks to them.” Parkinson’s disease got in the way for the last fourteen years of his life, but Tracy persevered and never complained. He was an optimist, a realist, a dreamer, a planner, a gentle man in the true sense of the word. Longer than he should, he rode his beloved sleek Italian bicycle, and he never left the house without his Panama hat. Tracy spent his last day working on projects in his home office, overlooking shimmering leaves in the gentle autumn light, with classical music playing in the background. He was making plans to attend a special dinner with his friends at the Palo Alto Club, his favorite place away from home. He died on November 29. The preceding happy Thanksgiving days were spent with Maie, his wife of 53 years, daughter Sylvi, son-inlaw Matthias Herzog, granddaughters Noora and Siena, and special friends. Family was the core of his cosmology. “I would not trade my life for anything. I would gladly live it over, even the tragic moments which have been painful beyond description. Each moment has been precious. I am grateful for all these years. Life is all we really have.” A celebration of Tracy’s life is planned for January 2017. PAID

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held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 11, at the Palo Alto First Congregational Church, 1985 Louis Road, followed by a gathering of family and friends. Memorial donations may be made to Neighbors Abroad of Palo Alto.

Jack Paul Edelstein

1933 - 2016 “I have been unaccountably lucky. I mean luck in the big sense of the word.” Tracy Herrick was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to Palo Alto with his family in 1970 when he joined the Stanford Research Institute as a Senior Economist. While a Vice President of Bank of America, he wrote Bank Analysts Handbook, which is still the authoritative reference on the subject: a description of the special characteristics of banks which can develop their strengths and endure. He retired from Jefferies and Co. Inc. as a member of the board of directors, following a quarter of a century with the firm. He was a leading spokesman for free markets. One of the founders of the Private Bank of the Peninsula (now Avid Bank), he served as a director and chairman of the board’s investment committee. Co-correspondent to surveys by the Wall Street Journal on the outlook for business and money market conditions, he was the most accurate contributor twice. He held advanced degrees in economics from Oxford University and Columbia University. These are highlights of Tracy’s professional and scholarly achievements, but they only scratch the surface of his immense accomplishments in the business of life Integrity, hard work, honesty were values he practiced and taught. His drive and curiosity took him far and wide. He was a talented writer, able to simplify the most complex concepts. He possessed the rare ability to connect the past, present, and the future and to provide meaningful insights into each. Tracy loved playing his Steinway often delighting guests with Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. He had a passion for classical music which led him to countless concerts around the world through out his life. He was a lover of words, corny jokes, Spike Jones, beauty in the smallest of places, conversation, surprising details, ice cream, family meals, ’47 Packards and big hugs. He followed his dreams and encouraged all around him to do the same. He loved to

performing and collaborated with his friend Pete Seeger in writing children’s songs. He performed them in Palo Alto schools and was known to a generation of children as “Mr. Teddy Bear Man.” He also released CD recordings and regularly appeared on public television. He was predeceased by his parents, Ernest and Elsa, and his sister, Carol. He is survived by his wife of 74 years, Harriet; four sons, Keith (Doris Dressler) Clark, Christopher (Marta) Clark, Robin (Mary Mackiernan) Clark, and Jonathan (Leslie Friedman) Clark; four grandchildren; and one great-grandson. A memorial service will be

OBITUARY

Jack Paul Edelstein MD, age 85, died on Nov. 25, 2016 in Palo Alto, CA. He is survived by his wife, Marcia, sons Mark, Scott and Peter, sister Vivian Nelson, and six grandchildren. Jack was born to Irving and Hannah Edelstein on Feb. 12, 1931 in Bayonne, NJ, where he and his younger sister, Vivian, grew up. As a boy, he loved the fact that his birthday, which he shared with Lincoln, was always a school holiday. Jack was a drummer in high school, graduated from Syracuse University and earned his MD at the University of Chicago. In 1955, Jack married Marcia Cecile Swiren, a graduate of the University of Chicago and daughter of Max and Reba Swiren. Over the next 10 years, during which his three sons were born, the family moved around the country as Jack completed his internship at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, pediatric residency at the Mayo Clinic, a stint as a Captain in the Army, and his general psychiatric, child and adolescent psychiatric and psychoanalytic training at The Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. In 1965 the family moved to Palo Alto where Jack established one of the first child psychiatry practices on the Peninsula. Jack was beloved for his gentleness, kindness, humor and intellectual curiosity. He was a devoted husband, enthusiastic father and a born teacher. He loved science and nature, including stargazing with his homemade telescope. For fifty years, he and Marcia were part of a close-knit group of friends and the Reform Judaism community. Ever a kid at heart, he was known for his jokes. He enjoyed travel, spending time with grandchildren, and music, from classical to Sousa marches and Dixieland jazz. Jack was a fixture in the child psychiatric community, specializing in psychotherapy for children, teens and young adults. For many years he supervised Stanford residents, receiving an Outstanding Teacher Award and rising to the rank of full Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. Through clinical service, teaching and consultation to other mental health professionals, he helped improve the lives of countless youngsters and families. “Dr. Jack” volunteered at the Alzheimer’s Association. He was a generous blood donor. For years, he served as a reading mentor for grade-school children. One second grader, Elizabeth, wrote: “Dear Dr. Jack, you make me smile if it is rainy or not. Through thick or thin, you are always there to make me happy.” In his final years, the staff of the Moldaw Memory Unit and Pathways Hospice took loving care of Jack. Even as Alzheimer’s Disease slowly overtook him, his warmth, sweetness and humor shone through. Donations in Jack’s memory may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association: http://www.alz.org/norcal. PAID

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

Stanford DJ and lecturer champions the music of the Middle East by Karla Kane

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une into KZSU 90.1 (Stanford University’s radio station) and you’ll hear hip-hop, electronica, folk songs, indie pop, rock ‘n’ roll, interviews with leading luminaries and everything in between. And that’s all in one program: Dr. Ramzi Salti’s “Arabology,” the eclectic show that introduces listeners to the best music and culture coming out of the Arab world today. The infectiously enthusiastic Salti, who’s also been a lecturer for the Arabic program at Stanford for the past 16 years, said listeners are often surprised at the breadth of indie music now flowing from the Arab region — and the progressive topics explored in it. “I bank on that surprise,” he said. “I myself was initially surprised when I discovered the new kinds of musical genres that were emerging.” Arab culture is more than the traditional, monolithic world of Western stereotype. But because many listeners don’t speak Arabic, they may be missing much of the music’s impact, he said. “If you’re going to play one of these songs that are addressing freedom of speech, women’s rights, gay rights, things like that, I felt like what was lacking was someone telling you what the song was about, because the lyrics would be in Arabic,” he said. Salti, who broadcasts in English, breaks it down for his audience by providing plenty of translation and context. “I think on my radio show, half the reason for the success is the music, obviously, but also before I play a track I contextualize it for listeners.” Salti’s enthusiasm for showcasing Arab indie music has allowed him to connect with many artists who are excited for the chance to speak out to a wider audience. “Some of my interviews led to creating a dialogue that centered on certain issues that would have been otherwise censored,” he said. When Salti interviewed Lebanese band Mashrou’ Leila’s lead singer, Hamed Sinno, in 2011, Sinno did something unprecedented. “During my interview with him, he came out as gay. That was probably the first time ever that an Arab musician living in the Arab world would proudly talk about being gay and record songs that celebrated love and attraction between two males,” he said. “Once that interview aired, I think it generated much-needed discourse. Through him, you could start hearing a whole new discussion that centered on Arab sexuality, and it happened because his songs were so good.” Salti first encountered the band on a trip to Lebanon. “I was so moved and so impressed,” he said. “They were just students in Beirut who got together for jam session.” Since then, and following Sinno’s coming out,

KZSU DJ and Stanford University lecturer Dr. Ramzi Salti hosts the “Arabology” radio show and podcast.

Mashrou’ Leila has been touring the world, including a recent soldout show in San Francisco. “People like me started playing their music and writing about them. It proves this kind of music, given a chance, can reach a global audience,” Salti said. “It wasn’t just an Arab audience in America, either. Look at the audience and you had all colors and shapes and orientations.” “Arabology” covers a diverse range of music styles, from subcultures all across the region. Tunisia, for example, where the Arab Spring began, provided Salti with his first exposure to Arab hip-hop. “I had thought that was such a Western thing, but with the Tunisian revolution there was a new kind of hip-hop that started to fill the streets: Arabic hip-hop songs that were so applicable to what was going on, crying out against the unjust dictatorship, crying out for women’s rights, for freedom, for rising up against the system,” he said. The rapper El General rose to fame with his incendiary song “Rais Lebled” (a twist on the phrase meaning “president of the country”), which became an Arab Spring rallying cry. “This powerful, young Tunisian rapper was speaking to the president through song, saying ‘your people are starving, your people are afraid,’” he said. “It led to the singer being arrested but the government’s attempts to censor it didn’t work. The song became almost an anthem; it showed how hip-hop can be used on the global level.” Another Tunisian musician,

singer/songwriter Emel Mathlouthi, also faced governmental persecution and exile and arose as a prominent revolutionary artist (and later performed at the Nobel Prize ceremony). Salti was instrumental in bringing her to perform at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall this October as part of Stanford Live’s “Islamic Voices” series. He called this experience one of his personal highlights. “She’s such a healing voice, such a voice for equality,” he said. Standing on stage and introducing her to the Stanford audience, he said, proudly, “was the best moment of my life.” Though Salti’s show is mainly music-focused, he recently interviewed the renowned comedian Bassem Youssef, who’s been called “the Egyptian John Stewart” and his program “The Daily Show of the Arab world.” “He really shook things up during the revolution,” Salti said of Youssef, who’s currently a visiting scholar at Stanford. “Through comedy and satire he was poking fun at the government but also exposing some of the corruption. Unfortunately his show was then cancelled because of censorship, but instead of him folding over and giving up he continued to do shows through the Internet and continues to bravely and humorously talk about his experience in Egypt.” Salti named Lebanese composer, singer and oud player Marcel Khalife as someone he’d love to have as a future “Arabology” guest. Khalife, he said, often sets classic poetry

to new music, the combination of which allows his work to bridge the gap between generations of listeners. “To me,” he said, “he’s one of those musical giants that would be great to interview.” Music has always inspired and sustained Salti. Born in Lebanon and raised there and in Jordan, Salti came to America at age 17 to study at Santa Clara University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in French and English. His parents approved of the choice because of the school’s location close to relatives living in the area, but teenage Salti had his own reasons. “For me it was the dream of being near San Francisco,” he said. “I’d always dreamed of being there. I was so happy to be accepted.” Salti enjoyed his studies and collegiate life in the U.S. but naturally felt a certain amount homesickness. “When I missed home, what kept me going, what helped me get through the lonely times and culture shock, was music. I would listen to music from back home and that would put me in a good mood,” he recalled. Music helped him settle into his new home, too. “I would save up and get vinyl and listen to that. Looking back, I’m so glad I did. Music enabled me to understand the culture, whether it was Arabic music from back home or new American music that helped me understand the new culture I was in,” he said. “I always have relied on music to get me through difficult times.” His two musical realms were

largely separate, he said, until the Arab Spring ushered in a new wave of artists, playing a fusion of Arab and Western sounds. “I felt my two worlds were coming together,” he said. “It had this beautiful melange of East and West together. I felt that fulfilled me as an Arab-American.” Since then, he’s been a champion of fusion music, seeking out and sharing the freshest sounds and most important voices on his radio program, podcast and accompanying social-media sites. He began by playing some of his favorite discoveries for his Stanford language students, who loved what they heard. “They were first of all very surprised; secondly, they were really able to relate to it. Music is a great way to explore a culture and retain language. Why not expose more people to this kind of music?” He began blogging about it (at arabology.org), and eventually the KZSU DJ “byrd of paradise” took notice, inviting him to come on as a guest when the Arab Spring revolutions and corresponding surge of Middle Eastern voices garnered international attention. “The response we got for that show was phenomenal, with listeners writing in saying how much they enjoyed the selection of music,” Salti said. That reaction led to more guest spots. “Finally byrd jokingly said, ‘You’ve been on this show so many times at this point, Ramzi, you should have a show of your own.’” Salti duly went through KZSU’s technical training and became a full-fledged DJ in 2012. His own life as a music fan has been influenced by a perhaps-surprising source: “Grease.” No, not Greece, the Mediterranean nation, but “Grease,” the 1978 musical film starring Olivia Newton-John. In fact, Salti’s something of an expert on the Australian singer. “OK, so, you know how we all have our guilty pleasures?” Salti said, laughing. When he was 10 years old, “Grease” was released in theaters worldwide. “I just remember falling in love with the music. I didn’t even realize it had been a play. I loved the film and I loved Olivia NewtonJohn’s voice,” he recalled. “I was a 10-year-old Middle Eastern boy trying to learn English. I would leave one screening and pay for another ticket and see another screening. Everyone thought I was the craziest kid in town,” he said. “I would not spend my allowance on anything but this film. I watched ‘Grease’ a good 20 times and by the time I was done, every one of my friends knew the lyrics.” He especially admired how Newton-John’s character, Sandy, undergoes a metamorphosis, showing him, “you could be more than one thing; the character wasn’t binary. I (continued on next page)

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loved that,” he said. “Fast-forward to me coming to America,” he said, to when he was getting his doctorate at University of California, Riverside and finally had a chance to start attending Newton-John’s concerts, eventually writing articles about her for several periodicals. He’s now met her about a dozen times and credits her openness about her battle with breast cancer with his being able to educate the women in his own family about the importance of early detection. “Her music differs greatly from the indie Arabic music I love and play, but when no one’s watching maybe I’ll put the ‘Grease’ DVD on at home and sing along or dance to ‘Xanadu.’” Salti has no plans to slow down on his mission to broadcast the best music from the Arab world. On a trip to visit family in Jordan over the summer, “people were coming up to me and saying, ‘there’s a new band, go see them!’

I ended up spending half my vacation meeting musicians,” he said. Not only did he discover more high-quality music that would appeal to his audiences back in America but also, once again, that music was serving the vital purpose of helping people in times of crisis to feel connected. “The Jordanian people are hospitable to Syrian refugees,” he explained, “but the music especially empowers them to try to help.” He pondered the fact that many refugees themselves are able to carry on writing and recording music and sharing it with the world via the internet. “They’re recording in tents; Refugees doing hip-hop, uploading it. I don’t know how they’re able to do it,” he said, his voice rich with awestruck emotion. “It sounds amazing: so raw and so beautiful and inspiring.” Q For more information, go to arabology.org. Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com

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Stranger than ‘Fiction’ Dragon’s drama rewinds moments from a marriage by Karla Kane ccording to playwright Steven Dietz, “there are really three ‘pasts’ — the past we remember, the past that we record and the past that actually happened. I think they are seldom the same thing.” The blurry lines between truth, fiction and memory are explored and displayed to riveting effect in Dietz’s “Fiction,” as staged at Redwood City’s Dragon Theatre. Long-married writers Linda and and Michael (Laura Jane Bailey and Michael Shipley) have what appears to be a loving, healthy relationship after a fateful meet-cute, albeit one rift with plentiful competition and good-natured bickering. Their writing careers have taken different turns: Linda’s first novel, a harrowing fictionalized memoir, was met with great acclaim but she’s since worked mostly as a creativewriting professor. Michael, formerly in Linda’s shadow (he doesn’t even like the act of writing, he confesses at one point, he just likes to have written, to call himself a writer), has become the kind of bestselling author with tons of blockbuster movie adaptations to his name that he once purported to loathe. When Linda is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given only weeks to live, she asks Michael to read her extensive journals after her death, seeking some sort of immortality through her writings. Michael agrees but is rattled to learn that, in her time left, Linda also wishes to read his own diaries. And, of course, there are long-suppressed

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Michael Shipley and Laura Jane Bailey play a married couple with long-simmering secrets in “Fiction.” secrets within their words, just waiting to be revealed. At the centerpoint of those secrets is Abby Drake (Emily Keyishian), the cool and enigmatic writer’s-workshop administrator who serves as a muse of sorts to both Linda and Michael in various ways. Through Dietz’s clever construction (and Erin Gilley’s direction at the Dragon), the audience gains a window into moments from different periods of Linda and Michael’s lives, most notably in the form of scenes from their journals. To differentiate the various time periods, the top and back of the Dragon Theatre’s stage serves as Linda and Michael’s home in their “present.” One side of the lower stage represents a cafe in Paris and on the other side, a desk serves as Abby’s surprisingly important writing colony. When the house lights brighten, Linda becomes a lecturer at a university and the audience her students. Strong performances anchor the show. Bailey is a force of nature as the feisty, bold Linda. It’s easy to see why Shipley’s quick-witted, slyly self-deprecating Michael would be attracted to her. The two have good chemistry and it makes

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sense that their relationship involves equal parts affection and combat, as we see them revel in wordy arguments over trivial matters, their barbed banter crackling with seduction. Nice touches in Dragon’s production help further show their personalities. Michael’s journals are uniform in style (plain black), painstakingly organized and kept in labeled, chronological order. Linda’s are a hodgepodge of sizes, patterns and colors and stored chaotically. Keyishian as Abby gives a more understated performance. It’s unclear, at first, what it is that makes her so irresistible and worthy of comparisons to great muses throughout literary history. Abby, though, is willing to do what others perhaps are not — call out Linda and Michael for their aggrandizements, hyperboles and inflated egos — and that makes her quietly powerful. In Dietz’s script, the characters deliver too-clever dialogue and diatribes at high speeds (akin to an episode of “Gilmore Girls”), throwing out pretentious references left and right and, in the hands of less appealing actors, could become quickly tiresome. Does anyone, audience members may find themselves wondering, really speak this way? But that’s just the point. These characters are writers, after all. No matter how their real-life conversations may have played out, the versions they invent for themselves can be as improbably articulate and smoothly delivered as they like. We are constantly our own memories’ editors, constructing and deconstructing our versions of reality. So how much of what Linda and Michael write (and read) about their pasts — and how much of what we, as the audience, see — is actual fact, how much is misremembered or misinterpreted half-truth and how much is pure fiction? There’s no way to be sure, but attempting to mentally unravel the tangled web of marital drama makes for top-quality entertainment. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com What: “Fiction” When: Through Dec. 18, ThursdaySaturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. Where: Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway St., Redwood City Cost: $25-$30 Info: Go to dragonproductions.net

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Ragazzi Boys chorus celebrates the season

BEAT THE WINTER BLUES AT AVENIDAS!

Local choir offers holiday concert and a brand-new CD by Karla Kane

Keep your body ﬁt: Exercise classes for all ﬁtness levels Blood pressure checks & health screenings Therapeutic massages & Reiki treatments

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The Ragazzi Boys Chorus has recorded a new album, “I Dream a World,” which is available in time for the holidays.

he Ragazzi Boys Chorus has a lot to celebrate this December. Not only do the choir members (local boys ages 7-18) have their usual busy lineup of holiday performances, but this year they’re also celebrating the release of their brand-new album “I Dream a World.” The boys recorded the 15 tracks (their first new CD in a decade) at famed studio Skywalker Sound, over the course of four eight-hour days. The album’s theme and title is inspired by Langston Hughes’ poem “I Dream a World” and explores the ideas of unity, peace and relationships, according to founder and artistic director Joyce Keil. The collection includes pieces from a variety of faiths and traditions, such as the sufi melody “Adinu,” the song “Glory” from the civil-rights film “Selma,” and J.S. Bach’s “Domine Deus,” and is available on CD for $20 at the group’s upcoming concerts and through the chorus’ website at ragazzi.org/watch-listen/ cds/. It can also be streamed online via Spotify. The boys, around 85 of whom were able to participate in the recording process, were thrilled to spend time at Skywalker Sound, not only because of the high-quality of recording it affords, but also for its connection to George Lucas and “Star Wars.” “My favorite thing about being at Skywalker is that we were making a permanent record of what we were doing that year ... I’ll be able to listen to that recording 70 years from now and be able to remember all the times we had together,” Palo Alto resident and chorus member

Partha Rao, 16, said. “Plus, Skywalker Sound is really cool! We were surrounded by all the memorabilia and the facilities are so amazing. For a high school student, that was incredible.” “As you get into high school, you wonder, ‘Am I going to continue in music?’” Paly student Max Usman said. “Your immediate response is ‘yes,’ because it’s been such a big part of your life.

And at Skywalker, we actually go a taste of what it would be like to be part of a professional choir, in a professional studio and setting.” The chorus’ next local performance will be its winter recital on Saturday, Dec. 10, at 5 p.m. at the First Methodist Church of Palo Alto, 625 Hamilton Ave., which will showcase Ragazzi’s programs and the boys’ progress over the year. The concert will conclude with an audience singalong of traditional carols. Tickets are $17-$29. For more information go to ragazzi.org. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com

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Eating Out

Crab season gets cooking Local fishmongers dish on recipes to make the most of this year’s catch

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he Dungeness are back. After last year’s unprecedented shutdown of the Bay Area Dungeness crab season due to a toxic algae bloom, fishermen, chefs and consumers alike are enjoying access to the local favorite once again. The recreational season opened in early November and the commercial season last week. And it couldn’t come at a better time, with crab taking a starring role on many holiday dinner menus. Though there are still warnings out about consuming the innards of Dungeness crab caught in a few areas of the coast, it’s a huge improvement from last year’s washout of a season, which left consumers missing the local delicacy and many fishermen struggling economically. “It created a whole interruption in the economy and lifestyle and livelihoods,” said Pietro Parravano, a Half Moon Bay fisherman who has long sold seafood at the downtown Palo Alto and Menlo Park farmers markets. Parravano is president of the Institute for Fisheries Resources and also serves as treasurer for the San Mateo County Harbor District Board of Harbor Commissioners. Ian Cole, a Palo Alto native and co-founder of Ocean2Table, a community supported fishery that sells local, sustainable seafood through a subscription service, said last year’s season reminded many fishermen that they are not only at the “whim of mother nature,” but of the devastating impact of increasing climatic changes, from change in populations and sinking ocean conditions to the algae bloom. “Last year was really quite a shocker,” he said. Cole said for many local fishermen, crab is their most important revenue source. And while the Dungeness is back this year, the season is not in full force, he said. The going has been “rough” anywhere south of the Farrallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco, he said. Portions of the coast are still closed due to elevated levels of domoic acid, the naturally occurring toxin that can accumulate in shellfish and poses a health risk if consumed. “There’s just not a lot of crab,”

Patrick Guyer of One Ocean Seafood holds a freshly caught Dungeness crab at the Portola Valley Farmers’ Market. and parsley, he said. Making Cole said. king pasta Parravano, however, is optimistic. is an involved process, butt it’s a fun He said both the demand and the family activity during the holidays,, said Parravano, who enlists supply have been strong this year. sts an as-- is another subscriber to the “less really make sure that you’re sourc“I think it really galvanized the sembly line of younger err ffamily amilyy is more” philosophy. He goes for ing your fish locally, or at least community, with the chefs, the res- members to help. melted butter and lemon or Vince’s know where it’s coming from,” Cole of Ocean2Table prefers gartaurants and the media ... getting ref efer ers rs gar r- Seafood Cocktail Sauce with his Cole said. people ready for this year,” he said. lic toast with crab. The one silver lining from last crab, he said. He typically steams the “Get ready for the crabs; it’s time.” hee cr crab iinn Unsurprisingly, all of the fisher- year’s dark cloud of a crab season, To mark the start of the new sea- salted water (add other spices spic ices iiff man made a pitch for buying crab Parravano said, was that many son, the Weekly talked with local you like, he said). Then, hhee ttoasts oast sts locally rather than at grocery stores, consumers became more informed with fishmongers about their favorite sourdough bread slices topped ppe pedd wi ith particular in light of last year’s about the local fishing economy ways to eat crab at home, from garlic, adds a mix of cheeses sees (ched(che hedd- season. Cole, who worked for the and food supply chain. This year, dipped in butter and lemon to slath- dar, Parmesan and asiago) o)) an andd th thee National Marine Fisheries Service Dungeness crab enthusiasts have a ered on toast with garlic and melted crab meat. Broil it quickly lyy “so “so the thhe before starting Ocean2Table, said little more appreciation for the local cheese melts and crab warms cheese. warm wa rms up local ports in Half Moon Bay, Santa delicacy. Most say you don’t have to do nicely,” he said. Cruz, Monterey and elsewhere have “They’re here and it’s time to be Another seasonal favorite much to crab to enjoy it. rite is us- been hurting in the last decade due festive and appreciative of another “Crab speaks for itself,” said Par- ing wild mushrooms to make a to regulation and climate change. product that we’re so blessed to ravano, who prefers to either eat the pasta. Chanterelles and porcinis are Grocery stores often ship crab from have throughout the coast,” he in season at the same time of year, the farther flung parts of Northern said. Q crab plain or marinate it. To make marinated crab, he said so he sautés them with white wine, California, Oregon, Washington or Staff writer Elena Kadvany that after an initial boil, he cooks olive oil, garlic and Italian parsley. even Canada, he said. can be reached at ekadvany@ the crab for about 12 or 13 minutes, Add crab to the mushroom pasta “It’s more important than ever to paweekly.com. cracks it and marinates it with a dish and top with Parmesan cheese. Kirk and Camilla Lombard, the mix of olive oil, garlic and lemon husband-and-wife team behind juice. Parravano said he recently start- seafood subscription service Sea Where to find these vendors: ed using the leftover shells to make Forager, which delivers locally, said stock. Boil the shells for about 30 they have been “up to our elbows Menlo Park Farmers Market: Santa Cruz and Menlo avenues; Sundays, minutes, strain everything through in crab and haven’t gotten sick of year-round, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; bit.ly/1RXBQSD a sieve and use the liquid to make it yet.” Downtown Palo Alto Farmers Market: Gilman Street and Hamilton AvThey like to steam their crab (tip: soup, rice or cook vegetables in it, enue; Saturdays through Dec. 17, 8 a.m. to noon; pafarmersmarket.org he said. He uses it as a soup base they remove the guts beforehand so Ocean2Table: Pickup locations in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Los Altos. with vegetables, beans and rock fish the house doesn’t smell like an “inGo to getocean2table.com. dustrial crab boiler”) and then eat it or calamari. One Ocean Seafood: At the Portola Valley Farmers’ Market, 765 Portola Like many Bay Area residents, with melted butter, a crusty loaf of Road; Thursdays, 2-5 p.m. (winter hours); oneoceanseafood.com crab is a staple on Parravano’s sourdough bread and a side salad. Patrick Guyer of One Ocean SeaThanksgiving table. His family Sea Forager: Pickup locations in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Mountain View typically makes ravioli stuffed with food, the Portola Valley Farmers’ and Redwood City. Go to seaforager.com. crab meat, Parmesan cheese, garlic Market’s regular seafood vendor,

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Eating Out

ShopTalk by Daryl Savage

RECIPE FOR SUCCESS? ... Mix together three young children; blend in two restaurants; add a heaping 80-hour work week, and that is the recipe for the current life of Rocco Scordella. As co-owner of the monthold Vina Enoteca, along with the already-established Tootsies, the little Italian cafe next door, Scordella’s ubiquitous presence in the restaurant, along with his excitement, cannot go unnoticed. “We don’t sleep much,” said Scordella, referring to both he and his wife, Shannon, who is his business partner in the two restaurants. Vina Enoteca, at 700 Welch Road in the Stanford Barn, bares little resemblance to its former occupant, California Cafe. A nearly three-year, top-to-bottom renovation has transformed the 7,200-squarefoot-space into a work of art. During the massive remodel, the second floor was removed to create a spacious, airy look, complemented by floor-to-ceiling windows. A 40-foot-long, red-brick wall, built in 1886, separates the dining area from the bar, and is a stark reminder of the rich history of the building, which is classified as an historic landmark. “The brick wall is part of the original

Stanford family farm. You can still see where the windows were,” he said. Serving authentic Italian, farm-to-table cuisine in a palatial atmosphere is what separates Vina Enoteca from other restaurants in the area, according to Scordella. “We’re more upscale than most other Italian places and our customers feel like they’re getting quality dishes. Plus, everything is made in-house.” Pointing to several viewing windows into the kitchen, he said, “Our specialty is fresh pasta and you can watch it being made.” And beginning in 2017, the restaurant will begin serving Sunday brunch. Scordella also has plans for the adjacent Tootsie’s. “It’s been about 10 years since we opened there so it’s time to revive and refresh. We’ll start remodeling sometime next year. It will still be a sandwich shop but we’re going to expand on our baked goods,” he said. TV CHEF COMES TO ANATOLIAN KITCHEN ... Anatolian Kitchen, the Turkish restaurant at 2323 Birch St. in Palo Alto, just got a little more authentic. As the restaurant enters its seventh year, owner Dino Tekdemir has scored big time. He

was able to snag one of Istanbul’s most renowned chefs. Labeled in his country as a distinguished chef and Turkish TV personality, Korhan Buyuksuda, whom Tekdemir describes as a “bigger-than-life personality,” arrived at Anatolian Kitchen this week. It is there that the new chef is creating a special menu for the restaurant, featuring “Old World Ottoman cuisine, techniques and flavors,” Tekdemir said. “The dishes he will be making are very unique with the use and mixture of exotic spices. We will be upscaling our menu with traditional Ottoman food that evolved along the historic spice roads crisscrossing historical Ottoman Turkey.” It wasn’t easy for Buyuksuda to get to the U.S. from Turkey. “We had to hire immigration lawyers. There was lots of paperwork. And it cost a lot of money and time too. It took a full year to get him here,” Tekdemir said. Buyuksuda is familiar with American culture and language because he attended culinary school in the U.S, according to Tekdemir. Since that time, he has worked at several highend hotels in Istanbul as an executive chef and had his own TV cooking show. Said Tekdemir, “We’re very excited everything has worked out and he’s finally here. Finally.”

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OPENINGS

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Jessica Chastain, center, plays a lobbyist who will do whatever is required to win in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Miss Sloane.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sloaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on the uptake Silly lobbyist drama has a powerhouse in Chastain 00 (Aquarius & Century 20) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bill! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a law! No, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Super-Lobbyist! These are the phrases conjured by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Miss Sloane,â&#x20AC;? starring Jessica Chastain as a spike-heeled warrior whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s both off-puttingly ruthless and â&#x20AC;&#x153;a conviction lobbyistâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that is, a lobbyist who is more about the issue than the money. Whether in conference rooms or congressional hearing chambers, Elizabeth Sloane choke holds everyone she meets to her own standard of professional ethics. At every step, that standard gets second-guessed by colleagues. In short, Sloane is a powerhouse, and Chastain renders her so with a powerhouse performance of tongue-lashings, steely glares and

unromantic sexuality. The debut screenplay by Jonathan Perera isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite so imposing. With Sloane announcing at the outset that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lobbying is about foresight,â&#x20AC;? about the long game and seeing at least â&#x20AC;&#x153;one step ahead,â&#x20AC;? weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re primed for a rug-pulling, day-saving twist when matters look bleakest. The anything-goes power-plays may say â&#x20AC;&#x153;House of Cards,â&#x20AC;? but in its structure, its dialogue, and even its casting, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Miss Sloaneâ&#x20AC;? heavyhandedly evokes Aaron Sorkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The West Wingâ&#x20AC;? (the Washington, D.C., setting and wonky sausage making) and his more recent â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Newsroomâ&#x20AC;? (hot-button issues and shared cast members Sam Waterston and Alison Pill). Here, the issue of the week is gun control, a MacGuffin to serve the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character portrait of Sloane.

Or is the character portrait of Sloane a MacGuffin to conceal a procedural about masterful politicking? And two hours into it all, will anyone care? At the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outset, Sloane works for the high-powered consulting firm of Cole, Kravitz, & Waterman, but when her boss (Waterston) presses her to spin â&#x20AC;&#x153;guns as tools of female empowerment,â&#x20AC;? Sloane balks at the idea of being a â&#x20AC;&#x153;gold medalist in ethical limbo.â&#x20AC;? And so, she pulls a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jerry Maguireâ&#x20AC;? and jumps ship to a boutique firm called Peterson Wyatt to work the other side of the gun-control issue. As the stakes intensify, Perera fills the film with florid characterizations of the lobbying profession, such as Sloane being â&#x20AC;&#x153;the poster child for the most morally bankrupt profession since faith healingâ&#x20AC;? or identifying â&#x20AC;&#x153;James Bond sh*tâ&#x20AC;? as par for the lobbying course. But director John Madden (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Debtâ&#x20AC;?) canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spin the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overstatement into a serious-minded consideration of the lobbying profession. Sloane is too much of an outlier for that. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a professional genius who pops pills to compensate for insomnia and frequents male prostitutes (notably, Jake Lacyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Forde) to attend to her pesky sexual needs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never know where the line is,â&#x20AC;? she muses, which would seem to explain why she would throw Gugu MbathaRawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yet more sincere conviction lobbyist Esme â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whose personal life was touched by gun tragedy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; unwillingly into the limelight in order to win votes for a guncontrol bill. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all building to an only-in-themovies twist that divorces â&#x20AC;&#x153;Miss Sloaneâ&#x20AC;? from a truly thoughtful and credible treatment of the unpleasant realities of Washington lobbying; instead, we get a hothouse melodrama that teases an ice queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meltdown while actually doing the hustle. Rated R for language a nd some sexuality. Two hours, 12 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter Canavese

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MOVIES NOW SHOWING Dear readers: We have heard you. We are again publishing a list of the movies that are playing in local theaters over the weekend. However, we are not restoring the specific movie times, given that theaters often change the times after our press deadline, resulting in errors. To find out when movies are playing, we ask instead that readers call the theaters, check the theatersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; websites or look on movie sites such as Fandango.com. Allied (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. & Sat. Arrival (PG-13) ++++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. & Sat. Bad Santa 2 (PG-13)

Century 20: Fri. & Sat.

Befikre (Not Rated)

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

The Cocoanuts (1929) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:45, 9:25 p.m. Fri.-Sun. Doctor Strange (PG-13) +++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. The Eagle Huntress (G) ++

Aquarius Theatre: Fri.-Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. & Sat. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Edge of Seventeen (R)

Century 20: Sun.

From Here to Eternity (1953) (Not Rated) Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Hacksaw Ridge (R) Incarnate (PG-13)

Century 20: Fri. & Sat.

Palo Alto Square: Fri.-Sun.

Lion (PG-13)

Loving (PG-13) +++1/2

Palo Alto Square: Fri.-Sun.

Manchester by the Sea (R) +++1/2 Century 20: Fri. & Sat. Guild Theatre: Fri.-Sun. Miss Sloane (R) ++

Aquarius Theatre: Fri.-Sun.

Moana (G) +++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Moonlight (R)

Century 20: Fri. & Sat.

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Century 20: Fri. & Sat.

National Theatre Live: National Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s War Horse (Not Rated) Aquarius Theatre: Sun. Nocturnal Animals (R) +++1/2

Century 20: Fri. & Sat.

Office Christmas Party (R) +1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. & Sat. Swing Time (1936) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sun., 3:50 p.m., Sat.-Sun. Trolls (PG)

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

Century 20: Fri. & Sat.

Note to readers: Not all Sunday movie showings at Century 20 were available by press time.

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ooks often end up on a variety of holiday checklists either as travel companions, a special gift or the opportunity to share family time together during winter evenings in front of the fire, making this a good time of year for families to expand their home libraries. We’ve put together a list of books for children and families that cover everything from Ansel Adams’ work to local ghost tales and family struggles set in the 1700s.

“Antsy Ansel: Ansel Adams, a Life in Nature” by Cindy JensonElliott, illustrated by Christy Hale; $18; Henry Holt; ages 5-9. Ansel Adams “never walked — he ran.” What he loved most was to be in nature, even when nature rocked San Francisco: a brick wall broke his nose in the 1906 earthquake. He often played on the beach at the Golden Gate. Finally liberated from traditional school at age 13, Ansel studied piano, languages and algebra at home. Outdoors, he explored widely. Teenage Ansel Adams continued to teach himself by visiting daily the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. At 14, Ansel went to Yosemite for the first time, where his parents gave him a camera. Photography became his focus and his passion. The world took note.

New books for children and families by Debbie Duncan This biographical gem of one of the most famous Californians of the 20th century is gorgeously rendered by Palo Alto illustrator Christy Hale, using colorful collage art that is as stunning as an Ansel Adams classic black and white photograph. Young readers will enjoy seeing what Golden Gate beach looked like without the bridge, and understand and appreciate the photographer’s love for Yosemite. Many will identify with Ansel’s inability to pay attention as well as his joy in finding a passion in life. “Antsy Ansel” includes a two-page biography.

“Ghosts” by Raina Telgemeier; $11 paperback; Scholastic/ Graphix; ages 8-12. San Francisco author/illustrator Raina Telgemeier earned best-seller status as well as literary awards with her first three graphic novels, “Smile,” “Drama,” and “Sisters.” Her new book, “Ghosts,” is a masterpiece of storytelling and art. Bonus for local

kids: it’s set in a foggy Northern California coastal town Telgemeier has said is based on Half Moon Bay. Field trip! Middle-schooler Cat’s family moved to Bahia de la Luna because her little sister, Maya, has cystic fibrosis. The cool air is good for her lungs. Cat wants Maya to be well, but she also misses her friends and warm Southern California. When Cat and Maya explore the town, they find something they didn’t expect: ghosts. Maya, who is goodnatured about her illness and her limitations, is curious about death. Cat, on the other hand, is afraid of Maya dying. She needs her sister, with the help of townspeople and friendly spirits, to teach her how to be brave. Whether Cat’s problem is moving to a new town, worrying about her dead grandmother or her sister’s chronic illness, or dealing with a cute boy and his friends the ghosts, she learns that the best thing to do is “Just go with it.” Not a bad philosophy! “Ashes” by Laurie Halse Anderson; $23; Atheneum/Simon & Schuster; ages 10-14. It’s the summer of 1781, five years into the War of Independence. Seventeen-year-old escaped slave Isabel is determined to find her younger sister, Ruth, who’d been stolen in 1776 in New York City and, Isabel is certain, is being held in South Carolina. What Isabel doesn’t count on is Ruth’s rejection. This is only one of the battles Isabel wages in this brilliant conclusion to Laurie Halse Anderson’s “Seeds of America”

trilogy that began with a National Book Award nominee, “Chains.” Curzon, the main character in “Forge,” the second book, is a black soldier in the Rhode Island regiment who helps Isabel find Ruth. The young people manage to walk to Virginia, where Curzon re-enlists with the Patriots and Isabel and Ruth work for a wretched laundress. Isabel lives in constant fear of being captured and ending up on the auction block. She gets them out of town just in time, and finds the camp where the Continental army is preparing for the battle of Yorktown. There she and Ruth help take care of the troops, including Curzon, before, during and after the famous Revolutionary War battle. “Ashes” is a survival story, a war book, and an important historical novel. Young fans of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” will be especially drawn to it. Importantly, “Ashes” illustrates the hypocrisy of the Patriots,

including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, for securing freedom for white colonists while continuing to hold black people as slaves. Laurie Halse Anderson’s books are copiously researched and terrifically told. “Ashes” was well worth the wait. Huzzah!

“Hundred Percent” by Karen Romano Young; $17; Chronicle; ages 9-14. Tween readers fortunate to get their hands on this novel will, I suspect, come away feeling wonderfully reassured: “I’m not the only one who finds sixth grade confusing!” It is such a “middle” year, whether it’s the last in elementary school or the beginning of middle school. In Tink’s case, she’s in a Connecticut elementary school. Though still going by the childhood nickname of Peter Pan’s fairy, Tink is now the tall girl in the back row of the class picture who matured faster than most of her classmates, especially her cute best friend. But BF Jackie is the one invited to the boy-girl party. Jackie gets whistles, Tink (continued on next page)

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hears â&#x20AC;&#x153;Woof!â&#x20AC;? Ouch. Also: reallife sixth grade. Jackie thinks Tink deserves a more grown-up name and suggests Chris, since Tinkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real name is Christine. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stick. Few things stay the same as the school year progresses. The popular kids sometimes invite Tink to join their circle (because of Jackie), but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always temporary. Crushes come and go, failing for the right reasons. Again: real life. Tink gets barked at (by a previous crush, who liked her for the wrong reason) and Jackie is slut-shamed. That also happens in sixth grade. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not always easy to stay best friends. Tink and Jackie struggle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they argue, hang up on each other, and are critical of the other girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choices. But they sit next to each other on the bus and continue to talk on the telephone. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what friends do. Tink may stumble and fall and do stupid things, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all part of growing into her true Christine self by the end of the school year and this special book. Q â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Debbie Duncan is a Stanford writer and author of books for children and adults.

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exquisite topiaries by working with the night gardener, and the neighborhood is transformed.

Ages 8 and under

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Used to Be a Fishâ&#x20AC;? by Tom Sullivan, Balzer and Bray (ages 4-8); $18. Brilliant depiction of the science of evolution.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Night Gardenerâ&#x20AC;? by the Fan brothers, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (ages 4-8); $18. A boy learns how to sculpt

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nanetteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baguetteâ&#x20AC;? by Mo Willems, Disney-Hyperion (ages 4-8); $18. Nanette wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget her first trip to get a baguette.

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Ages 8 and over â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Kindness Club: Chloe on the Bright Sideâ&#x20AC;? by Courtney Sheinmel; $16; Bloomsbury (ages 8-12).

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

Home Front YEAR-ROUND VEGGIES ... The Palo Alto Adult School will offer a class on the “Success in the Year-round Vegetable Garden: How to grow more, work less and reduce your environmental impact,” Wednesdays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. starting Jan. 11 through Feb. 15. the instructor will be master gardener Candace Simpson, who will teach anyone, including the novice gardener, about growing a productive vegetable garden. Classes cover soil, irrigation, seeds and seedlings and pest management. Cost is $96. Go to PAAdultSchool.org to register.

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.

“Every house that’s been lived in needs to be freshened up, from a teardown to a three-yearold house,” said real estate agent Tim Kerns.

Veronica Weber

FREE PAINT, OIL AND CLEANERS ... The City of Palo Alto has added new “reuse cabinets” to its Household Hazardous Waste Station. Residents can pick up free usable household products from the reuse cabinets. Products include paints, cleaners and unused motor oil. These items are screened by the City of Palo Alto before being placed in the cabinets for reuse. For more information call (650) 496-5910. For the Household Hazardous Waste dropoff, residents of Palo Alto can drop off unwanted or unused toxic household items every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and the first Friday of each month from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Holiday closures this year: Saturday Dec. 24 for Christmas and Saturday Dec. 31 for New Year’s Eve. Limitations: 15 gallons or 125 pounds of household hazardous waste per visit and the person must be a Palo Alto resident (driver’s license or vehicle registration). The station is located at the Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control Plant, 2501 Embarcadero Way in Palo Alto.

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SUSTAINABLE HARVEST ... Common Ground Garden will host a workshop on “Intro to Permaculture: Abundance through Applied Ecology,” on Saturday Dec. 17 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The class will discuss practical ways you can use permaculture design in your life to grow your own healthy food, harvest and clean your own water, build your own home, transition your career, reduce your carbon footprint and increase your carbon ‘rootprint’ while building lasting, quality community relationships with people that share your values. Take an afternoon to reawaken your hope for the future of the environment and people everywhere. For more information and to register online: http://bit.ly/2fMYptk.

For a home that he expects to sell for upwards of $4 million, Kerns suggests investing in fixing things and upgrading appliances.

On the

market Realtors offer inside tips on getting your home ready to sell for its maximum price by Elizabeth Lorenz

etting a home ready to sell is like getting dressed for the prom, says Coldwell Banker realtor Tim Kerns.

It’s all about first impressions. That online photo may be the first time a potential buyer sees your home and decides whether to see it in person or click on the next home, he said. Staging also plays a significant role in presentation. Every piece of furniture and decor should be strategic with only one goal: to make the home appeal to as many potential buyers as possible. “You are doing yourself a disservice if you don’t do decluttering, depersonalizing and staging,” he said. “It could be the difference in two offers or five offers, if it sells in the first week, or in 30 days.” Kerns says a seller should fix the little “handyman items” that make the home’s disclosure packet “clean.” “It makes a huge difference. It’s not as much work as you think,” he said,

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and its good for high-end homes as well as regular ones. “I sold a two 16 to 22 million-dollar houses this year. The stager we got was out of L.A. and New York. It was eighty to one hundred thousand dollars in staging costs,” he said. The stager brought all new never-lived-in furniture for everything including the children’s rooms, as well as details like bottles of wine to stock the wine cellar. In these high-end home sales, buyers usually have the option to buy the furniture. A little less than half of these buyers do. Even if a home is relatively new or luxurious it needs to be prepared for a sale. “Every house that’s been lived in needs to be freshened up, from a teardown to a three-year-old house,” he

said, from cleaning the refrigerator to the windows to attending to the pool. His rule of thumb is for clients to spend about 1 percent of the expected value of the home, although most sellers don’t spend that much. “There are people that go the extra mile,” he said, but if a client doesn’t want to spend the extra money and Kerns knows the home will sell, he will foot the bill for painting and carpet cleaning and other maintenance items. For a home that he expects to sell for $4 million, he would advise a client to spend about $40,000 investing in cleaning, fixing and things like upgrading appliances. Judy Citron, a Menlo Park agent for Alain Pinel, echoes Kerns about first impressions. “It sets a feeling about (continued on page 28)

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Don’t try to time the market, says Alain Pinel’s Xin Jiang. We are still at historic highs in terms of home prices. It’s always a good time to sell. Veronica Weber

The goal, said Judy Citron, a Realtor in Menlo Park, is to get the home looking its best, with mostly “neutral” finishes with just a bit of personality.

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the house,” she said. “I’m actually a very big believer in landscaping. It evokes a feeling that the house has been cared for. Homes are handmade and hand crafted.” Citron, who says about 50 percent of her clients are sellers, goes into every sale by managing it as a project. “I bid everything out and get everything approved. The goal is to get the home looking its best.” When she hires painters, she has them sand and prime.

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.

Los Altos Hills

11872 Hilltop Drive N. Osborne to M. Wang for $3,000,000 on 11/15/16; built 1978, 5bd, 4,088 sq.ft.; previous sale 06/22/1995, $760,000

Mountain View

901 Arietta Drive Bad to M. & Z. Baz for $1,400,000 on 11/16/16; built 2014, 4bd, 1,601 sq.ft. 427 Chiquita Avenue Modern Day Homebuyers to X. Lu for $2,558,000 on 11/15/16; built 1948, 3bd, 1,268 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/17/2015, $1,500,000 938 Clark Avenue #10 J. & C. Lomard to M. Shih for $875,000 on 11/14/16; built 1978, 2bd, 982 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/18/2012, $420,000 1392 Cuernavaca Circulo Aalfs Trust to R. & A. Dsouza for $2,000,000 on 11/14/16; built 1986, 3bd, 2,249 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/19/2007, $1,150,000 1738 Pilgrim Avenue Risso Trust to Dutchints Development for $1,900,000 on 11/14/16; built 1949, 2bd, 1,193 sq.ft. 861 San Luppe Drive J. & M. Williams to H. Hondori for $1,260,000 on 11/14/16; built 1962, 5bd, 1,796 sq.ft. 741 San Pablo Drive Lundell Trust to S. Ladda for $1,250,000 on 11/14/16; built 1962, 3bd, 1,302 sq.ft.; previous sale 04/09/2013, $745,000 421 Sierra Vista Avenue #8 Augustin Trust to Y. Li for $1,080,000 on 11/16/16; built 1987, 2bd, 1,300 sq.ft.; previous sale 02/28/2006, $605,000 1968 Silverwood Avenue A. Sherlock to X. Mao for $784,000 on 11/15/16; built 1974, 2bd, 984 sq.ft.; previous sale 01/24/2007, $469,000 54 Tyrella Court Sprague Trust to H.

Most window treatments, she said, are trendy so it’s best to have none. She also doesn’t necessarily advise clients to redo their kitchens just to sell their homes. But she does point out that oak hardwood floors are “timeless,” while the new wide-planked gray-washed floors are just a fad that may be gone in a decade. Citron says she focuses on making the home “neutral” but with “a personality.” And, she’s not against painting a wall navy blue. Don’t try to time the market, though, said Xin Jiang, a real estate agent with Alain Pinel Palo Alto. “No one has a crystal ball to predict the future, and we are still at historic highs in terms of home prices. Except for avoiding major holidays, it’s always good time to sell,” she said. “I try to educate sellers that putting the home on market serves the best interest to them, as you never know who out there will be putting an offer. The goal of preparing a listing is to attract as many potential buyers as possible, as competition among buyers

SALES AT A GLANCE Los Altos Hills Total sales reported: 1 Sales price: $3,000,000

Mountain View Total sales reported: 10 Lowest sales price: $784,000 Highest sales price: $2,558,000 Average sales price: $1,438,700 Li for $1,280,000 on 11/16/16; built 1990, 3bd, 1,545 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/16/1997, $355,000

Palo Alto

721 Barron Avenue Willoughby Trust to D. & I. Ashworth for $2,550,000 on 11/14/16; built 1953, 2bd, 1,760 sq.ft. 1071 Embarcadero Road Y. Chung to K. Ding for $1,820,000 on 11/16/16; built 1948, 3bd, 1,093 sq.ft.; previous sale 11/03/2010, $968,000 127 Hawthorne Avenue Hawthorne Palo Alto to D. & C. Sander for $2,300,000 on 11/14/16; built 2015, 1,617 sq.ft. 2711 Louis Road W. Phelps to X. Sun for $2,298,000 on 11/16/16; built 1962, 3bd, 1,775 sq.ft.; previous sale 02/27/1991, $335,000 355 Parkside Drive Hays Trust to C. Zhang for $2,650,000 on 11/16/16; built 1954, 5bd, 2,346 sq.ft.; previous sale 08/16/1976, $93,700 355 San Antonio Road R. & E. Wen to S. & S. Kothari for $3,100,000 on 11/15/16 850 Sharon Court Poll Trust to B. Chen for $3,600,000 on 11/16/16; built 1956, 4bd, 2,433 sq.ft.

BUILDING PERMITS

2652 East Bayshore Road, Use and

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Palo Alto Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $1,820,000 Highest sales price: $3,600,000 Average sales price: $2,616,856 Source: California REsource

occupancy and interior-only office tenant improvement for “Stanford Health Care.” Firm to occupy 5784 sf on ground floor, $424,864 434 Forest Ave., New two-unit detached condo building (4495 sf) with attached garage 778 sf; address changed to 434 & 436 Forest Ave. for two attached townhouse units. $700,000 2500 El Camino Real, Fambrini’s Cafe. tenant improvements and use and occupancy for a 795 sf space on the first floor. Scope of work includes new rooftop equipment. $100,000 355 Parkside Drive, Interior bathroom remodel (40 sf), laundry room (48 sf). $10,673 1651 Page Mill Road, Stanford School of Medicine: remodel of existing tenant space. Scope of work includes changes to the first and second floor and casework. $12,000 430 Forest Ave., New detached trellis 2387 Santa Catalina St., revised plans include structural changes. $15,000 430 Forest Ave., New 11-unit multi-family residential building. 17968 sf (basement/underground garage. $2,800,000 823 Gailen Ave., Add a subpanel 2747 Park Blvd., Demolish building, 6200sf 271 Iris Way, Replace sewer line, no work in the public area 2747 Park Blvd., Demolish parking

brings high price for seller, Jiang said. She advises sellers that there are three things that should be top priority: floors, paint and landscaping, because they bring the biggest visual impact and generate the highest return on investment for the seller. Most agents advise sellers that if possible, it’s much better to move themselves as well as their stuff out of their homes. “Rearrange furniture to create space. A dollar put into staging can gain you 10 dollars back,” said Jiang’s colleague Sophie Tsang. She also stressed the importance of the little things, like pet odors. “Something familiar to you may be unpleasant to a potential buyer. We all love our pets dearly. Not so much someone else’s. “Pack up all the personal photos. Anything with a face can be distracting to potential buyers. You want them to look at your home, not your family history.”Q Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and Real Estate Editor at the Palo Alto Weekly. She can be emailed at elorenz@ embarcaderopublishing.com.

structure 950sf 925 Forest Ave., New pool and spa and associated equipment. $75,000 925 Forest Ave., New sewer ejection pump at pool bath. Redlined on original plans 3001 Bryant St., Demolish existing pool and related pool equipment 539 Madison Way, Residential flush mounted photovoltaic unit. 894 Colorado Ave., Upgrade panel to 200amp, replace 3 underground 100amp with 210 cables (200amp) 2801 South Court, Change exterior siding from wood shingle to clapboard, change roof type from composite shingle to standing seam metal roof. 2490 Louis Road, Residential secondstory addition (1055 sf) and remodel 769sf. Scope of work includes new tankless water heater, service upgrade 200 amps in new location. Relocate existing air-conditioning. $369,646 2945 Alexis Drive, New roof mount photovoltaic panel 2035 Oberlin St., Replace tank water heater 2020 Tasso St., rebuild patio and barbecue/sink area 4050 Ben Lomond Drive, Electrical for new accessory structure includes four outlets, switch, four lights, motion sensor. 2975 Greer Road, Residential addition 422sf and associated remodel. Includes partial conversion of garage. Service upgrade to 200 amps. $68,000 840 Sutter Ave., Cap sheet sections only. Tear off old roof, replace any dry rot. Install new cap sheet roofs. $9,191 520 Bryant St., Loggon: use and occupancy only for a 575 sf stationary and gift store on the first floor. 832 Warren Way, Add new light-well. 801-809 Altaire Walk Remove stucco and sheathing at balconies to check for and fix dry rot. All exterior work to be replaced like for like including materials and color. $24,000 155 Walter Hays Drive, Residential

remodel of master bathroom within footprint. (36 sf). $8,900 631 St. Claire Drive, Replace six windows with the same size and replace one window with a taller window. No change to header but dropping the sill height to meet egress. $14,000 420 Adobe Place, Replace air conditioner and install new condenser unit (side of house) 511 Byron St., Repipe gas line from city meter to building. No excavation. 741 Josina Ave., Remodel existing kitchen (125 sf). Scope of work includes removal of an interior wall and adding a garden window. $16,000 3883 La Selva Drive, Replace water heater. 1620 Escobita Ave., Demolish house (1475 sf) 1110 Waverley St.. Replace tank water heater. 343 Oxford Ave., New level 2 electrice vehicle charger on exterior wall of house 720 Charleston Road, Service upgrade to 200 amps 760 Colorado Ave., 200 amp electric service replacement 789 Los Robles Ave., Residential level 2 Tesla car charger in garage outlet 1620 Escobita Ave., New two-story single-family dwelling (2476 sf) with covered porches (163 sf). Scope of work includes a tankless water heater. $404,917 3251 Hanover St., Install jib crane at loading dock.$62,000 356 Lincoln Ave., Residential sewer line replacement: spot repair in driveway, add a cleanout. No work in the public right-of-way 1620 Escobita Ave., Demolish detached garage (324 sf) 836 Southampton Drive, Install 30amp level 2 electic vehicle charger, wall mounted on side of house. 3775 Corina Way, Remove/replace water heater 2304 Oberlin St., revision for an updated panel layout

555 Madison Way, Palo Alto Classic Design, Contemporary Drama Bask in the elegant, open warmth of this highly versatile 5 bedroom, 5 bath residence of over 3,500 sq. ft. (per plan), including garage, that occupies a lot of just over 9,600 sq. ft. (per city). Tucked within distinguished Crescent Park Addition outside the 100E1-> Ĺ&#x152;;;0 F;:1 @41 4;91 .A58@ 5: VTUY 5? 91@5/A8;A?8E 01?53:10 C5@4 /A@@5:3 1031 -A@;9-@10 21-@A>1? -:0 8ADA>5;A? 59<;>@10 01@-58? 8571 @-85-: 9->.81 -:0 Ĺ&#x152;;;>? ;2 A>;<1-: 4->0C;;0 A8@5<81 >1:/4 0;;>? ;<1: @; <>5?@5:1 ;A@0;;> ?<-/1? <>591 2;> 1:@1>@-5:5:3 ?4;C/-?5:3 - /;A>@E->0 - .->.1/A1 -:0 - Ĺ&#x2039;>1 <5@ %@>;88 @; 81-:;> "->011 "->7 -:0 AB1:1/7 8191:@->E I " ]YZJ -:0 =A5/78E >1-/4 1D/5@5:3 ':5B1>?5@E B1:A1 -:0 ;@41> ;A@?@-:05:3 ?/4;;8? I.AE1> @; B1>52E 18535.585@EJ For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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222 Camino Al Lago, Atherton

5647 Wylderidge Drive, Murphys, CA This 3 bedroom, 3 bath, single-story luxury home is located in the Heart of the Sierra Foothills in California’s scenic Gold Rush Country. The xeriscaped grounds offer a handsome, rustic appeal. Large native trees flank the curved pathway that extends from the front of the large three-car garage to the covered front patio and welcoming entryway. The 1600 sq. ft. stamped concrete deck make this the ideal space to entertain any time of year. The large den could be 4th bedroom. Enjoy your favorite music through the integrated sound system or simply enjoy some solitude in this inviting and beautiful living area.

Situated on the corner of a flawless Central Atherton neighborhood road is this serene 1.14-acre (approx.) property. Wondrously park-like, with towering redwood groves, heritage oaks and myriad flora enveloping the home and sprawling grounds. A sweeping, shady driveway leads to the original 1952 ranch-style home—one of only a few left in the prestigious Menlo Circus Club locale. At approximately 3610 square feet, the 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath home flows openly from voluminous room to room offering vintage amenities throughout. The home offers a clean canvas for renovation or can be completely replaced with a new custom home to complement the splendor of its land.

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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

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3385 Stockton Place, Palo Alto Offered at $1,988,000 Updated Living and Leisurely Outdoors Luxurious, sky-lit living distinguishes this delightfully remodeled 4 bedroom, 2 bath home of nearly 1,700 sq. ft. (per county) occupying a sizable lot of over 7,700 sq. ft. (per county). Excellent amenities like stone countertops and rich cabinetry enhance the bright, open floorplan, which flows freely into fascinating outdoor spaces with a fire-pit and a barbecue. Also included are a two-car garage, fruit trees, and radiant floor heating. With prime access to Highway 101, this home allows you to stroll to Seale Park and Palo Verde Elementary (API 961), and quickly drive to other top schools like JLS Middle (API 943) and Gunn High (API 917) (buyer ®

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427 Saint Emilion Court, Mountain View Offered at $988,000 Open Living in Quiet Setting An immensely peaceful complex in a principal location holds this generously appointed 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath townhome of approx. 1,400 sq. ft. (per county). Sunny, free-flowing gathering spaces include living and dining areas with a fireplace and a flexible den, while the skylit kitchen offers tasteful updates. The enticing backyard provides leafy surroundings for privacy. Other excellent amenities include an attached garage, Milgard windows, considerable storage, and luxuriously upgraded bathrooms. Enjoy living on a quiet culde-sac within a mere stroll of Monta Loma Plaza, bus services, serene parks, and high-performing schools like Theuerkauf Elementary and Crittenden Middle (buyer to verify eligibility).

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300 Almond Avenue, Los Altos Offered at $2,488,000 Elegant, Practical, and Near Downtown This thoughtfully appointed 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath residence of approx. 2,000 sq. ft. (per county) on an immense lot of 14,000 sq. ft. (per county) enjoys a central location within moments of charming downtown Los Altos. Versatile, comfortable living is embraced by the functional layout, which includes a living and dining room ensemble and separate family and breakfast areas. French doors, crown molding, two fireplaces, and new stainless-steel appliances add sophistication, and the expansive backyard is perfect for outdoor leisure. Within steps of Almond Elementary (API 955) and Los Altos High (API 895), you can also easily bike to Egan ®

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950 Matadero Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $3,750,000 Can’t-Miss Opportunity in Barron Park This immense, tree-lined property of nearly one acre (per appraiser) forms an alluring blend of urban convenience within a pastoral setting. The property includes an updated 4 bedroom, 3 bath residence of over 2,300 sq. ft. (per county) with an office, a flexible layout, and stylish kitchen and bathroom features. Prime for new construction, these premises offer a potential maximum floor area of approx. 12,800 sq. ft., including a main residence of 6,000 sq. ft. Boasting peace and natural privacy while standing within moments of El Camino Real, Caltrain, and California Avenue, this enticing location also permits you to stroll to Bol Park and ®

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215 Collectibles & Antiques

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) Got Knee Pain? Back Pain? Shoulder Pain? Get a pain-relieving brace -little or NO cost to you. Medicare Patients Call Health Hotline Now! 1-800-796-5091 (Cal-SCAN) MAKE THE CALL to start 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) 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) Class: Health

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245 Miscellaneous DIRECTV. NFL Sunday Ticket (FREE!) w/Choice All-Included Package. $60/mo. for 24 months. No upfront costs or equipment to buy. Ask about next day installation! 1-800-385-9017 (Cal-SCAN)

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757 Handyman/ Repairs 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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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 622666 The following person(s) registrant(s) has/have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): 1.) DMP, 2.) DMP USA c/o POSI 970 W. 190th St., Suite 920 Torrance, CA 90502 FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: 12/07/2011 UNDER FILE NO.: 558790 REGISTRANT’S NAME(S): DIGITAL MEDIA PROFESSIONALS USA INC. c/o POSI 970 W. 190th St., Suite 920 Torrance, CA 90502 THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: A Corporation. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 21, 2016. (PAW Nov. 18, 25, Dec. 2, 9, 2016) THE WESTIN PALO ALTO THE WESTIN HOTEL - PALO ALTO THE WESTIN HOTEL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 623341 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) The Westin Palo Alto, 2.) The Westin Hotel - Palo Alto, 3.) The Westin Hotel, located at 675 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PAHDV, INC. 400 S. El Camino Real, Suite 200 San Mateo, CA 94402 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/22/2000. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 9, 2016. (PAW Nov. 18, 25, Dec. 2, 9, 2016) BRADY NEW MEDIA PUBLISHING PALO ALTO PUBLISHING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 623393 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Brady New Media Publishing, 2.) Palo Alto Publishing, located at 3340 St. Michael Dr., 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): HOLLY BRADY

3340 St. Michael Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2/15/2012. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 10, 2016. (PAW Nov. 25, Dec. 2, 9, 16, 2016) KARMIC BIKES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 623548 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Karmic Bikes, located at 3843 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): CHOMPIANS, INC. 3843 Louis Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/01/2014. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 16, 2016. (PAW Nov. 25, Dec. 2, 9, 16, 2016) RESTAURANT SOLEIL SOLEIL RESTAURANT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 623689 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Restaurant Soleil, 2.) Soleil Restaurant, located at 675 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Partnership. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PAHDV, INC. 400 S. El Camino Real, Suite 200 San Mateo, CA 94402 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/22/2000. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 21, 2016. (PAW Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23, 2016) GO FISH POKE BAR 2 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 623846 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Go Fish Poke Bar 2, located at 244B Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA 94304, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): GO FISH POKE BAR 2, LLC 1183 S. De Anza Blvd. San Jose, CA 95129 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/29/2016. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on November 29, 2016. (PAW Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23, 2016) THE COOKOUT LLC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 623888 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as:

The Cookout LLC, located at 3394 Birch Street, Palo Alto Cali 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): THE COOKOUT LLC 3394 Birch Street 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 November 30, 2016. (PAW Dec. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2016) ELEGANT WOOD DESIGN OF CALIFORNIA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 624041 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Elegant Wood Design of California, located at 18280 Serra Place, Morgan Hill CA 95037, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ADRIANA CALDWELL 18280 Serra Place Morgan Hill CA 95037 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 December 5, 2016 (PAW Dec. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2016)

997 All Other Legals Title Order No.: 150014345 Trustee Sale No.: 15-00553A Reference No.: 14-01048 APN No.: 160-19-098 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A NOTICE OF DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT DATED 2/21/2014. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 12/15/2016 at 10:00 AM, A.S.A.P. Collection Services, as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Notice of Delinquent Assessment, recorded on 2/25/2014 as Document No. 22526759 Book n/a Page n/a of Official Records in the Office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, property owned by: Ketan Banjara WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a State or national bank, a check drawn by a state of federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state.) At: At the Gated North Market Street entrance of the Superior Courthouse at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA Said sale shall be subject to a 90 day right of redemption period per the requirements of the California Civil Code section 5715(b). All rights, title and interest under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment in

THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM the property situated in said County, describing the land therein, under Assessors’ Parcel Number: 160-19-098 The street address and other common designation, if any of the real property described above is purported to be: 92 Flynn Ave Apt B Mountain View, CA 94043-3846 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum due under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment, with interest thereon, as provided in said notice, advances, if any, estimated fees, charges, and expenses of the Trustee, to-wit: $23,643.13 Estimated Accrued Interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale The claimant, Middlefield Meadows Homeowners Association under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (916) 939-0772 or visit this Internet Web site at www.nationwideposting. com using the file number assigned to this case 15-00553A. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone

information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE A DEBT COLLECTOR Date: 11/8/2016 For Sales Information Please Call (916) 939-0772 or go to www.nationwideposting.com A.S.A.P. Collection Services, as Trustee by: Platinum Resolution Services, Inc., as Agent Stephanie Strickland, President NPP0295963 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY 11/25/2016, 12/02/2016, 12/09/2016 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MARJORIE L. MILLER Case No.: 16PR 179963 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MARJORIE L. MILLER. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SCOTT BLAU (also known as M. SCOTT BLAU) in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: SCOTT BLAU 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 January 12, 2017 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: Heather Ledgerwood WealthPLAN, LLP 1960 The Alameda, Suite 185 San Jose, CA 95126 (408)918-9030 (PAW Dec. 9, 16, 23, 2016)

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TURNING PRO . . . Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey will give up his senior to enter the NFL draft. He announced it through Twitter and with a statement on the school’s athletic website. McCaffrey, the son of former NFL and Stanford star Ed McCaffrey, rushed for 1,603 yards and 13 touchdowns, averaging 6.3 yards per carry. He gained more than 100 yards in each of his last five games, including a pair of 200-plus games. McCaffrey won last year’s Paul Hornung Award as college football’s most versatile player when he broke Barry Sanders’ NCAA record for single-season all-purpose yards as a sophomore (3,864) and was the Heisman Trophy runnerup. McCaffrey was named AP Player of the Year. “I love Stanford more than anything,” he wrote. “It will be extremely hard to leave.”

LINKS TO THE TOUR . . . Stanford grads Lauren Kim and Mariah Stackhouse will be among the 31 rookies on the LPGA Tour next year. Both earned their cards through a year of qualifying tournaments on the Symetra Tour. The final tournament ended Sunday in Daytona Beach. Stackhouse placed 21st overall with a five-round total of 3-under 357. Kim placed 29th with an even par 360.