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Castilleja plan creates rifts among neighbors School and residents face challenges to reaching consensus in proposed campus expansion by Sue Dremann

astilleja School is hosting a meeting on June 6 to inform neighbors about its proposal to expand the campus and enrollment, but rifts between residents over the plan are running so deep that some said they will not attend what they view as

“a dog-and-pony show.” The division in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood, which surrounds the all-girls middle and high school, has become so wide that there are neighbors who no longer even greet one another when they pass by, residents said.

“We went from having neighborhood barbecues and going to baby showers to now it’s ‘their group’ and ‘our group’ and we don’t even look at each other to say hello,” said Melville Avenue resident Nancy Tuck, who supports the expansion. For some neighbors, the problems with Castilleja began when the school changed from a dormitory-based school in about 1995 to one that is commuter-based,

longtime residents said. Traffic and parking issues became frustrating. Next, the school exceeded a conditional-use permit, established in 2000, that capped school enrollment at 415 students. Current Head of School Nanci Kauffman alerted the city in 2012, when she took on her current position, that the school was violating its use permit, allowing 448 students. Castilleja paid a $285,000

fine, developed a program to manage traffic and instituted gradual annual reductions in student enrollment. The city allowed the school to pause enrollment reductions in 2015 while Castilleja studied adding access to the campus from Embarcadero Road, which would ostensibly end neighborhood traffic problems. The school also (continued on page 7)

EDUCATION

Another sexual assault reported at Palo Alto High Father, daughter reveal 2015 on-campus incident and fault district for failing to properly respond by Elena Kadvany

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Under the sea Muralist Morgan Bricca, with help from fellow muralist Bill Plumb, adds details to “Year of the Ocean,” a mural at the California Avenue Caltrain underpass originally designed by artist Oscar Castillo. The mural, which has sustained peeling, fading and deterioration over the past 19 years, has now been restored.

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City eyes new path for creating fiber-optic network Palo Alto now focuses on bringing high-speed internet to neighborhood ‘nodes,’ with future extensions to homes and businesses by Gennady Sheyner

wo decades after Palo Alto launched its mission to bring ultra-high-speed access to the internet to every home, the tortuous path is taking another sharp turn. The new plan puts on hold the original goal of what is known as “Fiber to the Premises” — expanding the city’s underground fiber-optic ring to every part of the city, effectively creating universal broadband access. Now, officials are mulling a new model called

“Fiber to the Node,” which calls for extending the fiber network to neighborhood “nodes” and only later pursuing the “last mile” connections between the nodes and individual homes and businesses. The shift was prompted by both the high cost of building out a complete fiber network and by a rapidly changing technology landscape. More customers are choosing to go wireless and telecommunications companies like

AT&T and Comcast are preparing to launch their own high-speed broadband services. Palo Alto’s Chief Information Officer Jonathan Reichental outlined these trends at Tuesday’s meeting of the City Council’s Policy and Services Committee, which then voted 3-0 to endorse the city staff’s latest vision. The committee’s vote directs (continued on page 11)

female Palo Alto High School student who said she was sexually assaulted on the school’s quad by a male student in November 2015 and reported it to school authorities has become the latest person to accuse the school district of mishandling her report and failing to immediately initiate a legally required investigation. The female student and her father, whose names are being withheld to protect their privacy, are now speaking out about their frustrations, adding another voice to growing concerns about the school district’s failure to properly respond to sexual misconduct involving its students on and off its campuses. The male student in this case, who was a senior at the time, is not the same Paly student accused of other assaults that have recently come to light. Two weeks after the November 2015 alleged assault, the female student, then a junior, reported the incident to a Paly teacher, according to her father. The teacher notified the administration, which immediately called the Palo Alto Police Department. The father found out about the incident when police called him that day to pick up his daughter from school. Parallels between administrators’ response to this incident and to more recent accusations of sexual assault, which have roiled the community since they were disclosed publicly two weeks ago, seem to indicate persistent lapses in the administration’s handling of sexual

misconduct allegations. In the 2015 case, the Paly administration’s primary failure, the father said, was in not conducting a Title IX investigation into the incident and not informing him of his right under district policy and federal law to file a complaint through the Uniform Complaint Procedure (UCP), a district process for investigating discrimination-based complaints. Paly Principal Kim Diorio declined an interview request, directing questions to district Communications Coordinator Jorge Quintana. Quintana declined to answer specific questions about the case — including whether Paly had notified the district office and whether the incident was reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which was investigating the district at the time for Title IX violations at Paly and Gunn High. In a statement, Quintana said that the district “previously resolved the matter, with full cooperation from the parents and students involved, as well as concerned school site personnel, to ensure that the best interests of students were served. “If it is determined that other sources raise any new information that was not part of the district’s prior review of the matter, the district will fully and promptly investigate the matter according to the provisions of the law, including Title IX and the Office for Civil Rights (continued on page 8)

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Those Emerson neighbors went ballistic. I really can’t blame them. —Tom Shannon, Kellogg Avenue resident, on Castilleja School’s expansion plans. See story on page 5.

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AIR TIME ... Dozens of residents brought stories of fatigue and frustration to Tuesday’s public hearing on airplane noise at the City Council’s Policy and Services Committee meeting. Some complained about sleeping with earplugs and still being awakened throughout the night and in the early morning hours. Others waxed nostalgic for the quieter days of yore when they tended their gardens or entertained guests in their backyards. “Every day, over 300 jets fly over my house,” said Joel Hayflick, a Midtown resident. “Low and loud — every single day.” While most were Palo Alto residents, the meeting also attracted a few speakers from Mountain View. They encouraged the committee not to support any solutions that would shift the problem to their community — a proposal that was well received by the committee. “In neighboring cities there is a perception often that Palo Alto is interested in taking our problem and shifting it to other communities,” said Councilman and committee chairman Cory Wolbach. “I don’t think that’s ever been our position.” His colleagues agreed and joined him in directing city staff to clarify the city’s position on airplane noise and to explore new alliances between Palo Alto and other cities in the region, possibly as part of a new ad hoc committee. THINKING SMALL ... Should Palo Alto favor startups over tech giants when it comes to downtown development? That’s the question that stirred the most debate on Monday night, as the City Council was updating the city’s Business Element (a chapter of the Comprehensive Plan). On one side were council members like Greg Tanaka and Mayor Greg Scharff, who argued that large companies should be just as welcome as small ones. Both favored revising an existing policy that specifically recognizes the importance of “small” businesses to downtown’s continued vitality. Tanaka and Scharff challenged the plan’s emphasis on “small.” “I think large companies are great for downtown,” Scharff said. But Council members Tom DuBois and Karen Holman suggested that small businesses — whether tech startups or professional services — are better suited

for downtown, and the large companies can have a detrimental effect on the area, whether by gobbling up real estate and pushing out smaller businesses or by abruptly departing. “If you have a large tenant and that large tenant leaves downtown, it can be really devastating,” Holman said. Ultimately, the council unanimously rallied around a compromise proposed by Councilman Cory Wolbach: “prioritizing” smaller businesses and startups without excluding larger ones. MCGEE FELLOWSHIP ... The Palo Alto school district’s nascent but growing Advanced Authentic Research (AAR) program, the brainchild of Superintendent Max McGee, has been honored by Stanford University’s Peace Innovation Lab, which works at the intersection of technology, social behavior and global peace. The curriculum and instruction director of the Peace Innovation Lab surprised McGee and AAR staff and students this week with the tentatively named Superintendent McGee Advanced Authentic Research Award, which will provide funding to AAR graduates who continue to pursue their research as undergraduates in college. The program connects students with mentors to craft and execute on a research proposal, from science, technology, engineering and mathematics to humanities topics. The first “McGee Fellow” is Samuel Vasquez, who attends San Francisco State University and was presented with $5,000 at Tuesday’s school board meeting. In a statement, Freedom Cheteni of the Peace Innovation Lab hailed AAR as an “innovative and empowering approach” to advancing student voices and instilling values of collaboration, discovery and agency. AAR’s own international, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary academic research journal (dubbed Journal A2I3R) “will increase the ability for high school students and staff at PAUSD to drive discovery in areas vital to our world and especially, our intellectual life,” Cheteni said. AAR, which started in 2014 with 11 students, grew to 155 students this year researching topics from the influence of semiconductor companies on the economy to the social-emotional impact of learning at Palo Alto High School. Q

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filed a new conditional-use application that would allow for higher enrollment of up to 540 students. Some residents’ anger has not subsided over the yearslong enrollment violation, and the temporary moratorium on shrinking the enrollment only added fuel to their suspicions. Then the school proposed building an underground parking structure that administrators said would reduce traffic and parking on neighborhood streets — an idea that did nothing to quell resident anxieties. The garage had been mentioned in discussions between some neighbors and the school as far back as 1999, according to letters to the City of Palo Alto Planning Department by some residents who later joined a small neighborhood group working to iron out an acceptable proposal with Castilleja. It also was considered by some residents as a potential solution in neighborhood meetings in August 2013 and October 2014, according to school documents. Castilleja officials point to these documents as proof that residents were in favor of exploring the parking-structure idea. Those in attendance at that meeting, even if they did not suggest the idea, were certainly aware of it, said Kristin Neirinckx, director of communications and marketing for Castilleja. But some of those same residents insist they never wanted the garage. Last month, a group of 47 residents signed a petition opposing the underground structure and submitted it to the city.

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An underground garage proposed by Castilleja School administrators as part of an expansion plan would have an exit on Emerson Street at Melville Avenue. Minutes from some of the neighborhood meetings confirm there was early push-back on the idea. Residents wanted a clear understanding of traffic impacts of a garage on their streets. The idea of ingress and egress on Embarcadero Road also did not sit well with residents who live along the busy arterial street. Former Palo Alto mayor and councilwoman Yoriko Kishimoto, whose two daughters attended Castilleja, said during a meeting she strongly opposed the concept of adding a lane on Embarcadero as part of the design. The school should either keep its current enrollment or the added enrollment must travel by bikes, transit and walking, she said during a May

5, 2016, residents meeting held by the school. Some residents worked with the school for more than two years on what they hoped would result in a collaborative plan that could be satisfactory to all. They supported the garage in concept when it was proposed to have ingress and egress onto Embarcadero, which would in theory remove traffic from circulating through the neighborhood. But city traffic engineers rejected the proposal as infeasible due to the existing volume of traffic on the major thoroughfare and the inability for cars to turn west on to Embarcadero, where many drivers would want to go. About two weeks before the

school submitted its expansion proposal to the city, on June 16, 2016, Castilleja administrators showed working-group members plans for the garage with an entrance on Bryant Street and an exit on Emerson Street — not Embarcadero. The proposal and its timing surprised the working group members, who said they had no time to review the proposal to make recommendations to Castilleja — a proposal they knew would certainly never be accepted by the residents if it meant putting traffic onto the residential streets, said Tom Shannon, a longtime resident on Kellogg Avenue who was part of the fourperson working group. Now that group’s members say they feel their efforts were largely wasted. They won’t back the existing proposal. It was as if no one at the school considered their input, they said. “There was no communication to the neighbors. Those Emerson neighbors went ballistic. I really can’t blame them,” Shannon said by phone this week. “It didn’t have proper airing. If it did, the neighbors would have been completely resistant.” Although school officials contend they would have street monitors to direct traffic only to the right and onto Embarcadero Road during peak hours, Shannon pointed out that about 70 percent of students are from out of town and many live west of Castilleja. With only a right-turn option from Emerson onto Embarcadero, those motorists would want to loop back through the neighborhood onto Bryant and Waverley streets to get to Churchill Avenue and Alma Street to go home. “All of us totally embrace the

mission of Castilleja. It’s accomplishments are laudatory,” he said. But “how do we alleviate this merry-go-round of traffic through the neighborhood?” “I think it’s almost time to push the reset button,” Shannon said earlier this week. The school’s approach to public meetings also aroused suspicions, said Alan Cooper, another working-group member. “Castilleja was very careful in organizing meetings the way they wanted them to run,” he said. At the Environmental Impact Report scoping meeting, for example, meaningful input from neighbors was not possible, he said. The school set up information stations that gave participants aspects of the proposal, but they were not given the same 10 to 15 minutes to speak that the school took to describe its own position, with only a few minutes allowed for residents, he said. “It’s been very upsetting from a process standpoint,” he said. “I am disappointed, and I feel somewhat deceived.” Carla Befera, also a member of the working group, said in an email that Castilleja has not yet come up with any plan that reduces the negative impacts on the neighborhood. “We dedicated hours and hours and hours of time meeting with the school to convey the neighbors’ concerns. We hoped to explore solutions such as: moving all parking to a satellite area and only allowing ingress via shuttle (something many other schools and institutions have adopted to minimize impact in residential areas), increasing local enrollment percentages to heighten (continued on page 9)

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Residents along Melville Avenue say that relationships among neighbors have become fractious over the proposed expansion of Castilleja School, which includes a garage with a driveway on Emerson Street and Melville. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • May 26, 2017 • Page 7

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Gunn High School principal resigns

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Denise Herrmann, who has served as principal of Gunn High School for the last three years, announced her resignation on Wednesday evening in a message to students, parents and staff. Herrmann confirmed to the Weekly that she was appointed associate superintendent for instructional services in the Fremont Unified School District at that district’s school board meeting in Fremont on Wednesday evening. Her resignation is effective June 17. In her message to the Gunn community, she described the move as the “right decision for my professional career and personal well-being.” She told the Weekly that after 11 years of working as a high school principal she was ready to move to a position with a wider K-12 impact. In her new position, she will oversee curriculum, instruction, assessment and other services for Fremont Unified’s 35,000 elementary and secondary school students. This will be the first district-level position for Herrmann. Herrmann’s years at Gunn have been marked by both progress and tumult. She oversaw the school’s shift to a new, more forgiving block schedule in the 2015-16 school year, helped bring to fruition a long-stalled plan to create a teacher advisory program at the school this year and led a district-level social-emotional learning curriculum committee that will pilot programming at Gunn next fall, among other changes. The accomplishment “dearest to my heart,” Herrmann said Wednesday, was progress the school has made in “breaking down the stigma for students seeking help for mental health and wellness support.” Her tenure as principal, however, was marred by conflict with her staff, including a formal grievance the teachers’ union filed in 2015 accusing her of violating their contract by asking all Gunn teachers to use online management system Schoology to post their homework assignments. Teachers eventually agreed in a new contract to comply with her request. Superintendent Max McGee told the Weekly Wednesday night that he will be meeting with Gunn’s instructional council and union representatives Thursday to discuss next steps for filling the position. McGee described Herrmann as a “great systems thinker” who has made a lasting impact on both Gunn and the district. Q —Elena Kadvany

City may ask voters to help pay for new parks Palo Alto’s new plan for improving its popular park system has something for just about everyone. Its staggering list of proposed amenities includes new dog runs, park bathrooms, natural habitats, sports facilities and green spaces in park-deprived neighborhoods. All that’s missing is a way to pay for these things. On Monday night, the City Council tackled this problem during a wide-ranging discussion of the new Parks, Trails, Open Space and Recreation Master Plan, a vision document that is now being finalized after about two years of resident surveys, demographic analyses, park evaluations and heavy lifting by the Parks and Recreation Commission. The council lauded the vision document even as members acknowledged the biggest obstacle to implementation: funding. To address this dilemma, Mayor Greg Scharff proposed on Monday night bringing a funding measure to the voters in 2018, the next general-election year. In developing the plan, the commission also wrestled with this problem and proposed several ideas for paying for the proposed improvements. In addition to a bond, the list of options identified in the plan includes the creation of an assessment district, higher user fees, new public-private partnerships and an endowment fund fueled by donations. Commission Chair Keith Reckdahl told the council that the city should also seek more partnerships with nonprofits and organizations that use the parks, many of which are willing to pay for the privilege. While some capital projects will be funded through the General Fund, the plan also includes a laundry list of items that would require new revenue sources. These include the renovation of Cubberley Community Center; the construction of Baylands Athletic Center next to the city’s remodeled golf course; the development of a 7.7-acre parcel in Foothills Park; and acquisition of parks in high-need areas. Scharff suggested Monday that funds from a potential 2018 measure could supplement contributions from community partners in paying for improvements. The council didn’t make any decisions Monday pertaining to park funding, though the subject is sure to re-emerge when the council approves the plan. Council members gave the document rave reviews Monday, even as they disagreed over some details. Q —Gennady Sheyner Page 8 • May 26, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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n Nov. 10, 2015, the male senior allegedly assaulted the sophomore on the quad during school, according to a letter addressed to the male student that she posted on the website Medium last week. “In a split second, your hand was down my pants and the other one was holding onto my shirt so I could not get loose,” she wrote. “Then you moved from my pants to inside me. I tried to tell you to stop weather (sic) that be hitting or yelling, but no motion or words came out.” She did not immediately tell anyone what happened, she wrote, but later “broke down crying and confess(ed)” when someone at school brought up his name. The district’s first error in its response, her father said, was a misunderstanding that the two students did not share any classes. They had a first period class together, which the father said he had to point out. Feeling unsafe after the incident, his daughter did not attend that class until the student was removed, her father said.

responded. Paulson had been updating her about the situation, she wrote, and she would “be in touch soon to meet.” The father said he never heard back from her after that. Paulson informed the father that the male student was suspended the week of Thanksgiving, he said. Quintana declined to answer any specific questions about student discipline, citing confidentiality. No Paly administrators informed the father of his right to pursue a formal process under the Uniform Complaint Procedure, he said. It was not until he met with a Board of Education member this weekend that he learned of that procedure, which directs all allegations of unlawful discrimination, based on legally protected classes, to be handled at the district level. Under current district policy, a formal, written complaint is not required to launch a UCP investigation, however; an oral report made to any employee or administrator should immediately start the same process in sexual harassment or assault cases. The district’s 2015-16 UCP log does not show any investigation was opened in the fall at Paly. The police department forwarded the case to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, according to the father, but no formal charges were filed against the male student.

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‘There doesn’t seem to be a lot of information for us to go on to determine how safe she really is at school.’ —Father of student who was allegedly assaulted, in an email to Paly Assistant Principal Adam Paulson, on Dec. 1, 2015 On Dec. 1, the father sent an email to Paly Assistant Principal Adam Paulson, copying Principal Diorio, discussing the firstperiod class transfer. Also frustrated by a lack of information about the incident, he requested a meeting with the administrators. “There doesn’t seem to be a lot of information for us to go on to determine how safe she really is at school,” he wrote in the email, provided to the Weekly. “I have yet to get a full account of what actually transpired between the two of them. I’m not going to force (my daughter) to recount the incident another time, but I also haven’t received anything from the school as to what occurred. “Had this been a fist fight between two students, I’m pretty sure I’d have received much more detail about what transpired,” he wrote. T hat even i ng, Dior io

ver the course of the next few months, the sophomore’s mental health worsened, the father said. She began cutting herself and expressed suicidal thoughts. In her Medium piece, she connects the campus incident with thoughts of blame, self-doubt and suicide. Last November, the student’s Individualized Education Plan team suggested that she might benefit from leaving Paly for a smaller learning environment at other local public or private schools, according to a letter a special-education coordinator sent to her parents in January. They declined this option at the time, her father said. In the fall, the district also offered a weekly regimen of specialized academic instruction, speech and language and therapy services that could be provided at Paly under Free Appropriate Public Education, an educational right provided to children with disabilities, according to the letter. The father expressed frustration at the fact that alleged victims are often the ones who bear the burden of disruption to their educational environment. Later in his daughter’s senior year, she left Paly temporarily for a treatment program. Similarly, in the most recently reported sexual assault case, the female student left Paly and moved out of the Bay Area after being unable to secure the remedies she felt she needed

to feel safe at school. It wasn’t until May 17 that the family heard from Diorio, after the female student expressed an interest in having Paly’s student publications print her Medium post. Diorio met with the student and her guidance counselor. They discussed with the stu-

‘The memory she will carry with her forever is the day she was assaulted in the quad.’ —Father of student who was allegedly assaulted dent the “unintended consequences of disclosing such personal information online,” Diorio wrote in a May 17 email to her father, “and suggested she make sure that she had people who could support her in place before she made a decision either way.” The father perceived this as a desire to sweep the incident under the rug — “an attitude of managing the message,” he wrote in a response to Diorio, with copies sent to the Board of Education and Superintendent Max McGee. In the wake of the district’s handling of separate sexual assault reports, the father said he is concerned a failure to properly respond to such complaints is entrenched within the “culture” of the school. Understanding and empathetic to the fact that schools are unable to completely prevent sexual violence, he said he’s hoping for more transparency and a statement of responsibility from the district. He believes Diorio should be held directly responsible and has joined other parents calling for her firing. The school board has directed a national law firm to investigate administrators’ handling of the more recent Paly sexual assault reports and will use it to inform an annual performance evaluation of McGee next month. “I look forward to the day when (my daughter) walks across the stage at graduation and puts Paly behind her,” the father wrote to Diorio on May 17. “Sadly, the memory she will carry with her forever is the day she was assaulted in the quad.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

HELP IS AVAILABLE Immediate in-person crisis assistance and counseling services is available through the YWCA of Silicon Valley’s 24-hour Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Support Line at 800-572-2782. More information is posted at ywca-sv.org.

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walking/biking to school, etc. “The school has rejected these options,” she said. On Oct. 7, 2015, Befera and Shannon met with city officials, including City Manager James Keene, to convey that while meetings had been taking place with representatives of the neighborhood, no consensus was being reached. “We made it clear that these meetings were not to be later construed as proof that the school had been accepting and responding to concerns,” she said. They and others reiterated that concern on July 25, 2016, with Chief Planning Official Amy French and Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello and others, she said. “We were hopeful that by communicating concerns to the school that we could find an equitable solution, but the current proposed plan doesn’t achieve that,” she added. Befera said that in her opinion trust is broken. Some Castilleja neighbors, including two who live directly across from the school’s main entrance, said they disagree with characterizations that the school has not been forthcoming. They said the school’s impacts are overblown by a small group of residents. Gerry Marshall and her husband have lived across the street since the 1970s, and she is not concerned with traffic issues. Since Kauffman came on board in 2012, Marshall said she has seen a change in the school for the better. “We have seen the traffic be reduced. (Kauffman) has done one-on-one lunches and met with small groups. She has tried to find out the impacts. She can’t control the past (regarding the over-enrollment). For Nanci to bring up the fact that she wasn’t in compliance showed that she was committed to being transparent. If she kept quiet, no one would have known. I applaud her for that. That made me convinced that she really wanted things to improve for the neighborhood,” she said. Nancy Tuck, who lives 500 feet from the school and whose daughter is a senior there, agreed. When Kauffman asked her to host a coffee at her home for neighbors so that concerns could be addressed in greater depth, Tuck personally left invitations in the mailboxes of residents on Emerson and Bryant, but only three people attended. “I would disagree that they were manipulated,” she said of neighbors who attended meetings and feel they were not given a voice. She recalled one of the meetings in which every person who wanted to speak wrote their name on a piece of paper and had a chance to speak. While the opposition claims it was outnumbered by parents of

Castilleja students at the Environmental Impact Report scoping meeting, Tuck said she has a different view. Many of those parents are not outsiders, but are people who also live in the neighborhood, she said. “I take it that it’s a sign that there is more support than opposition. How is that not fair? I live in Palo Alto; the parents you see live in Palo Alto, and we support the school,” she said. “I truly would like the neighborhood to be happy and proud of the school.” Tuck said that parking woes are not all Castilleja’s fault. The neighborhood is impacted by traffic and parking from Stanford students and Palo Alto High School, particularly during those schools’ events. Many of Tuck’s neighbors also have second-dwelling units on their properties, and the additional residents park on the street, she said. John Stucky, another Bryant Street resident who lives across from the school, agreed. He isn’t bothered by the peak-hour parking and traffic, which he said is only for perhaps 20 minutes twice a day. As for Castilleja’s approach to residents, “I do believe there are times in school presentations that they have delivered information or given a specious argument. That has not helped their cause,” he said. Stucky said he would like to see more civilized discourse, but he isn’t sure how the neighborhood will get there. “It has gone to the point that people who are against Castilleja are so determined and dedicated to their cause that they are not listening anymore,” he said. Castilleja officials, for their part, agreed that they must take the lead in changing the discourse. They hope to reset the dialogue at the June meeting by letting the lead opposition group have more visibility and say in the structure of the meeting, said Neirinckx. The residents’ group has presented the school with conditions of how they want the meeting to be run. They informed the school that they will not attend the meeting if the school doesn’t accept their conditions, she added. Neirinckx said there was never any intention to hide anything from residents. School officials also feel disheartened by all of the rancor, she said. “We are trying to adjust and move forward. We are looking at changing the meeting format. We truly want to calm it down,” she said. The city, meanwhile, is likewise taking steps to ease the residents’ suspicions of Castilleja and the city: Keene sent school officials a letter on May 23 informing them that enrollment reductions must restart, now that the conditionaluse permit and other applications associated with its master plan have been submitted. Enrollment reductions must begin again in the 2018-19 school year at a pace of about four to six students annually, according to Keene’s letter. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Community building weekly day camps for girls K 8th grade. A unique combination of sports, art projects and mentorship designed to build confidence. Sports: tennis, volleyball, yoga, fitness, and self-defense and more. Themes: Connect & Communicate, Love & Express Yourself, Unleash Your Happiness.

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With options for every age, schedule and interest, J-Camp has you covered. Traditional camps focus on variety and building friendships, while specialty camps include fantastic options like Robotics, Ceramics, Ocean Adventures, Food Truck Challenge, TV Studio Production and more. We’re looking forward to our best summer ever and want your family to be part of the experience.

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PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities! We are excited to announce all of your returning favorites: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.), PACCC Special Interest Units (S.I.U.), F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V. Sports and Operation: Chef! Periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer Camps! Open to campers from all communities! Come join the fun in Palo Alto! Register online.

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Junior Overnight and Day Camps for boys & girls, ages 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult Weekend Clinics (June & Aug). Camps directed by Head Men’s Coach, Paul Goldstein, Head Women’s Coach, Lele Forood, and Associate Men’s and Women’s Coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Come join the fun and get better this summer!

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staff to develop a business case for a Fiber to the Node network, which could ultimately be used to support wireless communication for public safety and utility staff and to enable “smart grid” and “smart city” applications. The network would establish nodes at multiple neighborhood access points, leaving last-mile solutions for later phases. According to Reichental and staff from the Utilities Department, a fully built-out and city-owned Fiber to the Home network has an estimated price tag of $50 million to $78 million. The estimated buildout cost for the node system is between $12 million and $15 million. Another key difference between the old approach and the new one is the role that wireless technology would play in the network. Before, the city was effectively choosing between fiber and wireless technologies. Today, the two technologies are expected to work in tandem, with the fiber system providing the “backhaul” for what would ultimately be a ubiquitous wireless system. In presenting the new vision, Reichental told the committee that it’s become very clear for him that “the future is going to be wireless-intensive.” He noted that the share of American households that relies exclusively on wireless internet access had doubled in three years, going up from 1 in 10 in 2013 to 1 in 5 in 2016. Furthermore, telecoms all over the globe are now working to implement fifth-generation wireless systems (known as 5G), which are expected to be mainstream in 2020 and which would enable speeds roughly 400 times faster than today’s broadband. “Whether it’s smart homes, smart cities, wearable technologies, connected cars, self-driving cars, internet of things or nextgeneration health care, they will all be powered by wireless technology,” Reichental said. Even so, the city isn’t completely pulling the plug on Fiber to the Premises. Under one possible scenario, Fiber to the Node, which would require construction of about 62 miles of fiber, could serve as a first step toward the broader system (which would require about 230 miles). The city’s existing fiber backbone consists of about 49 miles and continues to be a cash cow for the Utilities Department. Last year, the Fiber Optic Fund had about $25 million in reserves, according to a new report from Information Technology Department. The network serves dozens of commercial customers and generates between $2.5 million and $3 million annually. The report states that building a Fiber to the Node network “would be an incremental approach for fiber expansion and may lower the barriers for potential FTTP providers to build the last mile from neighborhood access nodes to individual premises.” A node system “would provide

the City with a phased and economically viable deployment approach to push fiber closer to residential neighborhoods and create a potential ‘jumping off point’ to bring fiber to individual premises,” the report states. Jim Fleming, senior management analyst at the Utilities Department, said one of the cornerstones of Fiber to the Node is to “push more fiber out to the community.” Once there, private companies could take over and deliver the last-mile service, which is the most expensive portion of the network. Reichental said the collaboration between the city and a third party could take different forms. It could involve a private company coming in and owning the last-mile connections or the city retaining full control of the whole network. “We definitely want to explore different business cases before we make a financial commitment to it,” Reichental said. “That’s what we’re proposing.” The council committee largely embraced this vision, with

Councilman Tom DuBois calling the idea “interesting” and urging staff to provide more information about estimated revenues and potential strategies for rolling out the network. Council members Cory Wolbach and Lydia Kou supported his recommendation, which will be presented to the full council in August. DuBois also favored coming up with a rollout plan for the program, with an option of halting the experiment if it’s not going well. “I’m glad to see the discussion shift from just wireless and fiber to how they work together,” DuBois said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hold a study session to discuss the proposed U.S. Highway 101 pedestrian/bicycle overpass at Adobe Creek; hold a scoping meeting for a proposed downtown garage at 375 Hamilton Ave.; and consider a request for a conditional use permit to allow the sale of beer, wine and liquor at 260 California Ave. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31 in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to hold a study session on 250 and 350 Sherman Ave., the preliminary designs for a new public-safety building and six-story garage, with two underground levels; hold a preliminary review for 4115 El Camino Real, a 16,747-square-foot mixed use building with ground-floor retail, secondfloor office and third-story residential; consider approving 744-748 San Antonio Road, a proposal for two five-story Marriott Hotels with a combined 294 rooms; review a proposed three-story mixed-use project at 3265 El Camino Real; and consider the director’s tentative approval of minor changes at 260 California Ave., which include an outdoor seating area. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 1, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE ... The committee will meet to discuss policies including on class size, bullying, social media and student use of technology. The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday, June 2, in Room A at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave.

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Get the Facts Castilleja, the only non-sectarian, all girls middle and high school in Northern California, has called Palo Alto home for more than 100 years. We have an incredibly diverse student body, and 20% of our students receive tuition assistance. Now, we’re on a journey to modernize our campus to better meet the educational needs of these talented young women and girls. We invite you to learn the facts about this important project by visiting our website: CastillejaMasterPlan.com.

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CityView

Online This Week

City Council (May 22)

Allaged hacker appears in federal court

Board of Education (May 23)

A San Francisco man accused of a cyberattack on Palo Alto Online and other websites owned by Embarcadero Media appeared in federal court in San Jose on Wednesday. Colby was charged by a federal grand jury in a sealed five-count indictment on April 6 after an 18-month investigation by the FBI’s Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property unit in San Jose. (Posted May 24, 4:10 p.m.)

A round-up

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

of Palo Alto government action this week

Supspected bank robber nabbed A man who allegedly robbed a bank in downtown Palo Alto Monday afternoon was captured about a block away after leading officers on a foot chase Tuesday afternoon, police said. (Posted May 23, 10:27 p.m.)

Parks: The council discussed the Parks, Trails, Natural Open Space and Recreation Master Plan, which it plans to approve in the fall. Action: None Comprehensive Plan: The council approved the revised Business Element in the Comprehensive Plan. Yes: Unanimous

Budget: The board directed staff to make the following allocations in the 201718 budget: up to $750,000 from reserves for teaching resources at the middle and high schools $150,000 to support nonprofit Palo Alto Community Child Care; and funding to hire an additional administrator to support Palo Alto High School’s special-education caseload. Yes: Unanimous Facilities plan: The board authorized staff to move forward with an updated facilities master plan for the district. Yes: Baten Caswell, Dauber, DiBrienza, Godfrey Absent: Collins

Police arrest man for indecent exposure A man who allegedly exposed himself to a woman on a Palo Alto street has been identified and arrested in large part due to the quick thinking — and cell phone photo —of the victim, Palo Alto police said in a statement Wednesday. (Posted

Parks and Recreation Commission (May 23) Swimming: The commission recommended that Team Sheeper provide operations and services for Rinconada’s lap and open swim programs and that staff report back to the commission in June on oversight of the Rinconada Masters and Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics programs. Yes: Unanimous

May 24, 3:49 p.m.)

Council Policy and Services Committee (May 23)

Pedestrian struck by vehicle dies One of two elderly pedestrians who were hit by a car as they crossed the street on May 9 has died, according to the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office and Palo Alto police. (Posted May 24, 2:44 p.m.)

Airplane noise: The committee directed staff to affirm the city’s position on modifying flight patterns and to advocate for a seat for the city on any new ad hoc committee dealing with the issue. Yes: DuBois, Kou, Wolbach Absent: Kniss Fiber: The committee supported staff’s proposal to develop a business plan for a “Fiber to the Node” system, which would potentially allow private companies to provide last-mile service for broadband connection. Yes: DuBois, Kou, Wolbach Absent: Kniss

Mountain View sells water rights The Mountain View City Council signed a $5 million deal Tuesday night to sell off water rights to East Palo Alto to help end the city’s yearlong moratorium on development. (Posted May 24, 9:38 a.m.)

Historical Resources Board (May 25)

250 and 350 Sherman Ave.: The board held a study session to review the preliminary plans for a new public-safety building at 250 Sherman Ave. and a new six-level garage, with two levels below grade, at 350 Sherman Ave. Action: None 640 Waverley St.: The board held a preliminary review for a mixed-use building at 640 Waverley St., which would replace two structures. Action: None

Train strikes car at Churchill A southbound Caltrain car clipped a vehicle on the tracks at Churchill Avenue in Palo Alto on Monday evening, delaying trains by up to 48 minutes, transit officials said. No injuries were reported. (Posted May 22, 8:52 p.m.)

$674M Caltrain project approved Caltrain’s electrification project can move forward with $647 million in assistance from the Federal Transit Administration, which plans to sign a grant agreement for the long-awaited work, the agency said Monday. (Posted May 22, 12:53 p.m.)

Man killed in highway crash identified A motorcyclist who died in a collision with a pickup truck on U.S. Highway 101 in Palo Alto Saturday night has been identified as 47-yearold Anthony McMahon, according to the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office. (Posted May 22, 9:25 a.m.)

Weekly receives statewide awards The Palo Alto Weekly took home six awards from California’s most comprehensive newspaper contest, including first place for editorial comment, education and environmental reporting. (Posted May 20, 3:18 p.m.)

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Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Vandalism to vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 6 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Disobey court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Internet scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misappropriation of found property . . . 2 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Offense committed by use of telephone1 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 3 Terrorist threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Menlo Park Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Embezzlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 7 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Vandalism to vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Domestic disturbance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Gang information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prohibited weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Spousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto Encina Avenue, 5/17, 3:47 p.m.; assault. 855 El Camino Real, 5/18, 9:34 p.m.; strong arm robbery.

Menlo Park 500 block Market Place, 5/22, 5:33 p.m.; battery.

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Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

Duncan Matteson Duncan Matteson, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died peacefully in his home on May 12 after battling heart disease. He was 82. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1934, and grew up with a focus on sports. At the University of Missouri, he majored in business administration and played basketball and golf. After graduating in 1956 and marrying Shirley Matteson, his childhood sweetheart, he joined the Air Force. He was stationed in Houston, Texas, and later Riverside as a navigator in the Strategic Air Command. Following his service in the Air Force, the family moved to Palo Alto, where he went into the securities business before moving into commercial real estate. He was a partner at California Lands Investment Co. and later co-founded Stanford Financial Co. In 1992, he became chairman of the National Multifamily-Housing Council. In 1989, he co-founded Housing Industry Foundation, which provides emergency grants to people threatened with homelessness or unstable living conditions. In 1999, he helped raise $45 million in private contributions for a new Palo Alto Medical Foundation facility. He also served as an elder at Menlo Church and co-chaired the Stanford University Medical Center Cardiology Fund Development Program with Shirley. He is survived by his wife, Shirley of Palo Alto; his sister, Nancy Lewis Hoke of Glendale, Arizona; his daughter, Melissa Matteson Badger (James T. Badger) of Atherton; his son, Matt Matteson (Betsy Hirsch Matteson) of San Francisco; and his grandchildren, Brady, Brook and Brig Badger, and Courtney and Sydney Matteson. A celebration of his life will be held at Menlo Church at 950 Santa Cruz Ave. in Menlo Park at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, June 6. A reception at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton will follow the ceremony. Donations in his memory may be made to the hospice organization Pathways; the Cardiovascular Program at Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Department of Philanthropy; or the Church of the Pioneers Foundation, c/o Menlo Church.

John Andrew Dahlquist John Andrew Dahlquist, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died unexpectedly but peacefully on May 1, while vacationing in Mexico. He was 83. He was born in Cambridge, Minnesota, on Dec. 5, 1933, and worked as a physicist for

Measurex before it was acquired by Honeywell. According to his family, he enjoyed classical music, art, dance and theater and dabbled in woodworking as a hobby. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Mary Dahlquist; his son and daughter-in-law, Brian and Patty Dahlquist of San Jose; his daughter and son-in-law, Lynn and Will

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Dr. Solon Finkelstein Dr. Solon Ira Finkelstein of Palo Alto, California, passed unexpectedly but peacefully on Monday, March 20, 2017. Solon was a longtime resident of Palo Alto and physician at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. He was 80 years old. Solon was born in the Bronx, New York, to Dora and Hyman Finkelstein. He attended Bronx High School of Science, the University of Rochester, and NYU Medical School. Solon came to California for a residency at Stanford University Medical Center and became chief resident. He served as a radiologist with the United States Air Force Reserve, retiring with a rank of Major. Solon joined the Palo Alto Medical Clinic as a radiologist in 1967, where he stayed until his retirement in 2014. He was department chair of Radiology and a division head, and served as an ombudsman at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Solon taught radiology to residents at Stanford Medical School for 35 years. He was known for his generosity, kindness, compassion, and good humor. Solon was married to Diane Finkelstein for 55 years, and they raised their four children in Palo Alto. Solon was very active in the community. Solon was a regular reader at Recording for the Blind, served as an adviser to pre-med students at Stanford, and led the construction of a new playground at Escondido Elementary School. After retiring from the Radiology department, he continued to volunteer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation until the time of his passing. Solon is survived and sorely missed by his wife Diane; his brother Martin (Diana); his four children Doreen, David (Carol), Myra (Brad Keitt), and Mark (Laura); by his seven grandchildren Jacob, Zach, Josh, Mitchell, Leah, Alex, and Nico; his step-sisters Joan Benjamin (Gil) and Susan Warshaw; and by six nieces and nephews and numerous cousins. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Lupus Foundation of Northern California or the Breast Imaging Center at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. PAID

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Editorial A moment of truth School board faces critical leadership test over sexual assault revelations

n a well-run organization, mistakes are acknowledged, their causes assessed and practices are corrected. The organization emerges stronger because its leaders accept responsibility and are held accountable for improvement, or dismissed. This is not the way the Palo Alto school district has been functioning, and these failures are propelling the board and the community toward a critical day of reckoning in the next few weeks. Not satisfied with the answers it was getting from Superintendent Max McGee on how the district has responded to reports of sexual assaults on the Palo Alto High School campus and of a student’s juvenile conviction for an off-campus sexual assault, the school board has retained an independent law firm to conduct an investigation into the actions of school and district administrators. This step, viewed by some as either unnecessary or designed to push the matter into the summer months when families are away, is an appropriately measured response as long as the investigation is done quickly and the results are shared with the public. A rush to judgment is not fair to anyone and exposes the district to avoidable litigation that could arise from precipitous personnel actions. It is the same step that we urged the previous school board to take four years ago when the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued scathing findings about how district officials had handled the bullying of a disabled Terman Middle School student. At that time, the school board chose to dig in, attack the OCR and stand by its administrators. With four of five members new to the board since the Terman fiasco, this board has a chance to demonstrate it puts getting it right above protecting administrators and the Palo Alto school brand. Having engaged an outside investigator who will report directly to the board, trustees have signaled they share the community’s concerns over how top administrators have responded to numerous sexual harassment and assault incidents and that it is prepared to act. We now need to give them a chance to gather the facts and do their jobs. Unfortunately, many parents still do not understand that the school district’s obligation to investigate reports of sexual assault applies regardless of whether an incident was initially viewed as consensual or an assault, and has nothing to do with whether criminal charges are filed. Under both state and federal law, school officials have a duty to initiate a formal investigation any time they learn of possible sexual harassment or assault involving students or employees, make findings, take appropriate steps to support victims, conduct any needed training or educational sessions and provide the parties involved with a written report summarizing the outcome of the investigation. The law requires that such reports be handled under the district’s Uniform Complaint Procedure (UCP), a policy that sets timelines and procedures and requires disclosure on a public log. This duty to investigate is unrelated to any involvement of law enforcement and is required even if the victim fails to make a complaint. The purpose of the requirement to conduct investigation is to gather the facts and to make findings as to whether the incident created a hostile educational environment for the victim or potentially other students and what steps should be taken to create a safe campus for all students. The district has repeatedly failed to conduct these investigations. It did not conduct proper and timely investigations into allegations against former Paly Principal Phil Winston, English teacher Kevin Sharp, science teacher Ronnie Farrell and into several reports of student sexual assault or harassment at both Paly and Gunn. Similar failings have occurred with bullying incidents at the middle schools. Wednesday night’s announcement by Gunn principal Denise Herrmann that she will join the exodus of senior administrators and become an associate superintendent in the Fremont Unified School District is just the latest jolt to a district which has seen unprecedented turnover within leadership. In choosing to leave Palo Alto and take herself out of consideration for a new top assistant superintendent position here, without saying a word Herrmann is speaking volumes about the state of our district and raises additional questions for examination by the school board. As obvious as it may seem where accountability should lie for the district’s failures in handling the sexual assault incidents, it is important for the community to withhold judgment for a few short weeks until all the facts are known. Then, we expect the board to take action to ensure our schools are being led by people who respect and follow the law and district policies and who are committed to changing a district culture that is infuriating more and more members of the community. Page 16 • May 26, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Changing perceptions of Muslims over a meal Editor, I deeply agree with this article (“Changing perceptions of Muslims over a meal,” Palo Alto Online, May 3). The perceptions of Muslims in our country and community today are quite negative. I believe that the best ways to fix this would be through personal interactions with Muslims and through spreading the word using media. This article has expressed both, which will definitely be effective in changing the stereotypes and prejudice that Muslims face in our community. This will ultimately help to eradicate Islamophobia in our welcoming community. Tejas Shete Elsinore Drive, Palo Alto

The opinion of neighbors matters Editor, In this matter (of Castilleja school’s expansion), the opinion of someone who lives several blocks away should not be given the same consideration as the opinion of the families who live surrounding the school, as does ours. For those who write in favor of expansion, the Weekly needs to inform its readers how far away that person lives from the school. We live half a block away. The city seems to have forgotten that the school already absorbed into its campus the second block, dead end of Melville. We have had a Castilleja student speeding down Melville crash into a car exiting our driveway. We have lived here more than 30 years and have seen the quiet neighborhood we chose changed by the school, which for years violated its agreement with the city and enrolled more students than the agreement allowed. Marie Macy Melville Avenue, Palo Alto

When will great be good enough? Editor, I have lived in the area since 1983 and Palo Alto proper since 2010. My commute home takes me down Alma, and I’ve been surprised and saddened at the continued anger toward Castilleja. I’ve followed this story since, during a Master Plan update, the school shared it was over its numbers and has worked diligently since then to correct and improve all of the areas that have been voiced. Castilleja has been in Palo Alto for over 100 years, well

before most of the houses built in the neighborhood. Anyone moving into that area knew there was a school. All over the Bay Area, the traffic has picked up, new businesses have been built; El Camino alone has been under construction around California Avenue for years, and have you noticed all of the hotels? People can’t afford to live here, so they live in the valley and drive over Monday and then back home on Friday. The school needs to upgrade to meet the academic needs of their students. Construction impacts the neighbors — it is a fact of life whether you are beside a school or the remodel of a home. Their Master Plan on their website gives a very detailed and well-thought-through plan that includes more parking and a better drop-off and pick-up design to get cars onto campus and off side streets. How can they be more transparent? They have listened to all of the voices and made changes to bring peace to this situation. With all of the fines and lawyers, one must ask how much of this could have been directed to financial aid to support the lower- and middle-class families in the area? When will great be good enough for the voices that continue to beat the war drums? Jennifer Hawks El Camino Real, Palo Alto

Preventing further incidents Editor, Sadly, “consensual underage sexual activity” (as law enforcement has described the Palo Alto High School incident) is bound to be fueled in places where teenagers have all-day use of their smartphones.

Such use is nominally “banned” in our high school classrooms but nevertheless takes place there (kids are expert at hiding it) and also occurs at brunch, lunch, during passing periods and study halls. Thus, kids have access to the means of setting up campus assignations and also to share sexualized photographs on Snapchat and across the internet. They can Instagram and text throughout the day about the latest sexual gossip. Boys can send requests for nude photographs; girls are forced to reckon with this amid natural adolescent concerns about popularity. Photos can be snapped, even in class, of “revealing” clothing and postures and distributed immediately. Kids check their phones so frequently during learning time that the Gunn social studies department this year instituted its own, separate policy requiring kids to check their phones at the door. Among the six stress-reducing proposals of the 560-member community alliance I lead is a measure to require our high schoolers to keep their phones put away and turned off, first bell to the last. Consistent enforcement and strong repercussions for violators can easily turn this tide of youthful dependence that quite naturally includes something of great emotional power in their lives: sex. Unfortunately, even as phones help give our kids the social support to survive the grind of the school day, they also communicate thoughts, feelings and desires that can lead to encounters such as the one at Paly. We adults must step in. Marc Vincenti Los Robles Avenue, Palo Alto

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Guest Opinion With ideal climate and landscape, why aren’t we biking? by Russell Hancock ne of the reasons I love life in Palo Alto is because our city has made a serious commitment to bicycle infrastructure. Among Silicon Valley cities, we have been out front, and it has been this way for decades. Wouldn’t it be great if this were the case throughout the region? Shouldn’t it be possible to bike easily from city to city? Shouldn’t the bicycle be the dominant mode of travel for local trips? In Amsterdam, 38 percent of the people list bicycling as their most frequent mode of transportation on a typical day. In Copenhagen, ranked by some as the most bike-friendly city in the world, 36 percent of all citizens commute by bicycle to work, school or university. In greater Silicon Valley the bikecommute rate is a mere 1.7 percent, and that just doesn’t make sense. We have a Mediterranean climate, a flat landscape, we’re a health-conscious population, and we’re rabidly committed to the environment. So why aren’t we biking? The reason, it seems, is that we haven’t provided continuous, seamless infrastructure or addressed all those impossible intersections and freeway crossings

improvements and other upgrades where where the cyclists feels unsafe. But I’m proud to say we’re working the network is discontinuous. All cities in the Managers Mobility to change that. For starters, four Peninsula cities — Palo Alto, Redwood City, Partnership have agreed the bike corridor Menlo Park and Mountain View — have should be suitable for riders of all ages, launched an unprecedented exploratory serve as an artery linking the partner citprocess to develop a high-quality, safe, ies, be identified by suitable signage and north-south bicycle corridor linking provide access to downtown areas, job centers and other intense land uses. those communities from end to end. At the same time, Joint Venture and All four city councils have adopted an identical resolution kicking off a Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition have just published “Silicon collaborative process Valley BikeVision,” on the interconnected the first report of its route. The four cities kind to lay out a plan and their managers are ‘In greater Silicon for our region to bemembers of the Mancome one of America’s agers Mobility Part- Valley, the bikegreat biking capitals. nership facilitated by commute rate is a The report — and the the organization I lead, mere 1.7 percent, vision it lays out — Joint Venture Silicon and that just doesn’t also has the backing Valley. of big-league compaIncreasing the num- make sense.’ nies like Google and ber of bicycle commutFacebook. ers is a shared goal of The study details the health, environthe four cities in the partnership, which mental, economic, safety and social eqalso includes Stanford University. For the Peninsula bike corridor, the uity benefits of bicycling with extensive first such joint project of its kind, each data for each category and highlights city will engage in its own community visionary programs in such cities as outreach and coordinate closely with the Eugene, Boulder, Minneapolis and Salt partnership cities to articulate the route Lake City, along with Davis. It further presents the current state of for the dedicated corridor. The community engagement and biking in Silicon Valley — where bikeplanning process will be inclusive and ways are located, who bikes to work, how lengthy. Funds for the project are not yet bike commuting has changed and bikeidentified. In the intervening time, exist- safety improvements. Finally, the report shows the existing ing north-south bike lanes will be examined and enhanced with signage, surface gaps and network barriers and how to

design better freeway, railway and arterial crossings in the future. Over the long run, we plan to identify resources and spearhead a regionwide initiative to make the Silicon Valley Bike Vision a reality. It will happen only if we work in new and innovative partnership with cities up and down the Peninsula and across Silicon Valley. We recognize it is going to take time, money and a lot of political will to make the same progress as those European capitals that started to prioritize bicycling decades ago. But that means we need to be working feverishly now, so that we can enjoy the benefits in our lifetime and that of our kids. Join the effort! Read the report, sign on to the vision and let your representatives know this matters to you personally. Q Russell Hancock is a resident of the Saint Claire Gardens neighborhood in Palo Alto. He serves as president and CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley. The Silicon Valley Bike Vision can be downloaded from the Joint Venture website at jointventure.org.

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What — if any — local organizations or people do you follow on social media? Asked at Philz on Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Sarah Mason.

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John Dawson

Fund Manager, Private Equity Thomas Drive, Palo Alto

Retired Architect Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

Musician/Author Waverley Street, Palo Alto

Scientist Clifton Court, Palo Alto

Graduate Student Kenneth Drive, Palo Alto

“On Twitter I follow the Palo Alto Weekly, the Palo Alto Police Department, The Palo Alto Fire Department. ... Gosh, there are so many. ... Oh, and the superintendent (of the school district).”

“Just the Midtown Association and the paper.”

“I follow Philz Coffee on Instagram and Caffe Frascati and Red Rock Cafe on Facebook.”

“I follow Siggraph, which is focused on computer graphics, Bay Area Unity Users, Sierra Club and Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), and I also keep track of what my friends are doing on LinkedIn.”

“I pretty much exclusively follow WOPAC — it’s the Wellbeing and Openness for the Palo Alto Community — and occasionally I check up on Green Foothills via Facebook.”

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Public art gets interactive Palo Alto’s alleyways and plazas to host three-day art fest by Karla Kane

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the National Endowment for the Arts, and additional support has come from Palo Alto company Houzz and others, forming a public-private partnership. During the festival, volunteers will help answer questions from the public, assist with setup and breakdown and conduct surveys. The winning proposals include “Sensory Garden,” which will be located in the alleyway between Bell’s Books and Mac’s Smoke Shop on Emerson Street. Designed by Elaine Uang, Sandra Slater and Megan Stevens, the installation plays off the names of the two businesses it’s wedged between. Footsteps will trigger bell-like chimes, while a scent installation will offer a whiff of flowers. Dangling lights overhead and a mural also will be present to take visitors’ minds off the dumpsters, abandoned payphones and other unsavory connotations one might have with an urban alley. “The idea is to create a kindof calming space that refocuses and re-grounds you, to hear the chimes and bells and smell the flowers and the pleasantness,” Uang said, citing Mitchell Park’s Magical Bridge playground and Stanford’s Windhover Pavilion as inspirations. Uang, a local architect, called the installation a “dream project.” “We’re all really committed to transforming public spaces into comfortable spaces for people,” she said of her team members, noting that Stevens has been involved with the Palo Alto Children’s Theatre and Teen Art Council, and has created colorful murals and painted utility boxes recently in Redwood City. Over at Lytton Plaza, the “Caustic Chasm” installation will feature a simulation of the ways in which water and light interact, inspired by geometric voronoi cells. The ever-changing, brilliant light effect is designed to resemble a glittering “cave of wonders.”

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Plaza, in hopes of engaging these passersby, as well as residents. “We were hearing from the city council that they would like these people to participate, but they aren’t going to come to city council meetings. We wanted to work out a way to engage that brain trust, animating these underutilized spaces,” DeMarzo said. So a committee was formed and a request for proposals put out, inviting artists and community members to come up with ideas to transform the alleyways and plazas of downtown into a temporary laboratory for playful experimentation and interactive works of art. “What we really hoped for is diversity of applications,” said DeMarzo said — and she was not disappointed. Thirty-seven individuals and groups, ranging from Palo Alto high school and Stanford students, to local businesspeople, to San Francisco artists applied. “We were just thrilled with the response,” DeMarzo said. “I only wish we had the space and the funding to do them all.” The city applied for and received an Artworks grant from

ctivated alleyways, a sensory garden, a murmur wall and a cave of wonders, among other attractions, will emerge in downtown Palo Alto June 1-3, when the city hosts its first Code:ART festival. The event includes seven “urban interventions” that will be on site for the three-day duration and one longer-term temporary artwork, “Murmur Wall,” which will remain in place at King Plaza through the summer and early autumn. According to Palo Alto Public Art Program Director Elise DeMarzo, the idea for Code:ART came from the outreach efforts conducted during the city’s Public Art Master Plan formulation last year. She said that while Palo Alto’s population swells during business hours as commuters, Stanford University affiliates and city-based employees flock downtown, these non-residents, “felt a little disconnected from the actual community.” The Public Art Program has been dedicated to trying out new-media and interactive public art installations, especially in King

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Artists Elaine Uang, Sandra Slater and Megan Stevens begin work on “Sensory Garden” in the alley between Bell’s Books and Mac’s Smoke Shop. “We started out thinking about what are called caustic patterns; when light is refracted by moving water, you get these amazing light patterns,” co-creator Danielle Asptiz (along with Autumn Austin and Devon Myers) said. “We’re still experimenting with dichroic film (a shimmering, colorful material used to decorate glass),” she said. “The wind and sunshine will cast different colors and shadows, and when it moves it’s sort of similar to water moving. We started being fascinated with water and now it’s sort of biomimicry.” Aspitz, a Gunn High School graduate who grew up in Los Altos Hills, like Uang, has a background in architecture, and said

she first tried her hand at publicart installation at San Francisco’s Market Street Prototyping Festival (which DeMarzo also cited as an inspiration for Code:ART). While Aspitz has more experience in design, “I really fell in love with the fabrication side of things,” she said. Palo Alto Architectural Review Board member Kyu Kim and partner Hanna Joo are creating a “Pavilion” with an environmentallyfriendly focus in the lane adjacent to the former site of Bon Vivant, working in partnership with GreenWaste of Palo Alto. Their piece will be made out of the familiar blue recycling “buddy bins” used by the city.

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“Caustic Chasm,” seen here in a rendering, is inspired by the interplay between light and water. festival that we think about doing every two years?” she said. This year’s festival will kick off with a panel discussion, titled “Artists as Futurists,” held at the Institute for the Future, featuring Stanford Vice President for the Arts Matthew Tiews and Palo Alto City Manager Jim Keene, among others, discussing the role of artists in shaping the future of the community. “It’s not just that we want to have a three-day fun festival, we’re trying to learn as much as we can and put that knowledge to use,” DeMarzo said. “We really are trying to offer diversity of public art. We like our beautiful sculptural objects, but we also want to offer new ways to bring the community together; having more interactive artwork will help with that.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com. What: Code:Art Where: Downtown Palo Alto (see online for map and guide to installation locations) When: June 1-3; 1:30-9 p.m. on Thursday; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. A panel discussion will take place at Institute for the Future (201 Hamilton Ave.) on June 1, noon-1:30 p.m. Cost: Free Info: Go to cityofpaloalto.org/ gov/depts/csd/public_art/ codeart.asp

Ben Flatau assembles his “Ghost in the Machine” installation at his East Palo Alto studio.

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About the cover: Artist Ben Flatau tests the mechanics of his installation, “Ghost in the Machine” outside his studio. The piece will feature two “clouds” that billow up and down when users move in front of sensors located on the opposite sides of the clouds. Photo by Veronica Weber.

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“We want not only to create an architectural form and space, but we also want to inform the public on recycling and doing our part to keep landfills from filling up more quickly than they have to,” Joo said. “We will also be giving away the bins on the last day of the installation so that local households and businesses can do their part to reduce, reuse and recycle.” DeMarzo named East Palo Alto artist Ben Flatau’s “Ghost in the Machine,” on University Avenue — which consists of overhead, interactive moving “clouds” — as one of the projects she and the selection committee were most excited about. “Another one that I think will be really fun offers opportunities for spontaneous interaction between strangers,” she said, referring to King Plaza’s “Safe and Sound,” by Tomo Saito. “Safe and Sound” invites passersby to sit down on one of eight chairs, each of which is connected to a track of music, which is triggered by the sitting. When all eight chairs are filled, the full musical composition can be heard. “Murmur Wall,” by San Francisco design group Future Cities Lab, will remain at King Plaza until October. The wall, a lattice made of stainless steel, LED lights and screens, wired to the Internet, aggregates trending search terms from within a half-mile radius and displays them, serving as a window into the city’s mood and interests at any given time. People can also — either onsite or remotely (at murmurwall. net) — type messages (or “whispers”), which are displayed on the wall briefly, then “disappear into the ether” (the information is not saved or stored). “The work that Future Cities Lab does is interested in the relationship between the things that we build and their surrounding environments,” co-founder Nataly Gattegno said. “These installations essentially become a barometer of current events.” One iteration of “Murmur Wall” has been installed in San Francisco for the past few years, where Gattegno said the flurry of pre- and post-election messages made for interesting reading. She said Palo Alto was a great fit for the project, not just because of the city’s tech connotations but because of the very public nature of the King’s Plaza setting. “We’ve been really interested to give people the ability to use the wall almost in a sense of urban graffiti,” she said “It will be interesting to see how this registers.” For DeMarzo and the Public Art Program, Code:ART is not only a fun way to bring art to downtown, but also as a pilot for potential future installations and events. “This was intended to dip our toe in the water into this kind of creative placemaking, to find out what do people like or dislike, are there elements that we might want to think about integrating into our future plans downtown, or do we think about this as a

“Murmur Wall,” seen here installed in San Francisco, pulls search results from within a half-mile radius. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • May 26, 2017 • Page 19

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Palo Alto Historical Association June Dinner with Palo Alto Councilwoman and former Mayor Karen Holman speaking on

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“A Community Defined” Dinner and Talk at the El Palo Alto Room Mitchell Park Community Center 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Open to all

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Palo Alto-based vocal group the Bay Choral Guild will take on centuries of Shakespeare-inspired music for its spring concert.

6 pm Social Hour, 7 pm Gourmet Chinese Buffet, catered by Chef Chu’s A cappella group Vocal Network

Bay Choral Guild celebrates the Bard Spring concert to highlight ‘400 Years of Shakespeare’

(which has performed at Carnegie Hall)

Please make reservations ($60 per person) by June 2. Mail to PAHA, P.O. 193, Palo Alto, CA 9430 or call (650) 329-2353

by Sophie Pollock nspired by the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Sanford Dole, artistic director of the Bay Choral Guild, has created a spring program that celebrates four centuries of choral music. The group will perform Dole’s compilation of music inspired by Shakespeare’s work in Palo Alto on June 3. “I had been thinking about this theme for a while, but when the 400th anniversary came up, the timing just seemed right,” Dole said. “It felt like a good idea to use Shakespeare as the hook of the program.” Founded in 1979, the Bay Choral Guild is a 40-person ensemble based in Palo Alto, composed of a diverse group of members. “Music and math go together well, so a lot of people who work in the tech world also perform in various musical organizations,” Dole said. The guild’s song selections are also diverse, incorporating styles from baroque to modern. As the artistic director, Dole is responsible for choosing the upcoming season’s programming and arranging it for the group. He did a lot of research to arrange an entire concert for a choir after discovering that most songs from Shakespeare’s time were arranged as solos. “My goal was to create a musical survey that catalogued

musical styles and techniques as they evolved from one era to the next,” Dole explained in the program notes for “400 Years of Shakespeare.” “Sadly, although there are plenty of song lyrics found in his plays, I was unable to find any true choral music, in the sense that we think of it today, from his days in the 17th century.” The group will perform the pieces in chronological order, highlighting musical changes across the four centuries. This method of organization is intended to help focus the audience’s ears on a particular musical style (a preview lecture will be held 30 minutes before the concert for those interested in gaining a bit more background information). The program begins in the 1700s with the work of three composers. Thomas Arne, the most famous of the three, wrote “Rule Britannia” as well as the British national anthem. His solo song “Blow, blow, thou winter wind” has been arranged by Dole for the lower voices of the choir. The two other 18th-century English composers included in the concert are Benjamin Cooke and Samuel Webbe. Moving on to the 19th century, Dole has included a piece from editor, critic, adjudicator and composer David Emlyn Evans that sets the scene for the opening monologue of Act V of “Merchant of Venice.” Deemed the most-well

known piece of the concert by Dole, “Three Shakespeare Songs” by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams will represent the 20th century. The second half of the concert covers the 21st century. This section includes an English composer and Oakland resident, Paul Crabtree. His music style combines popular culture and art music, Dole said. The program also features rising stars such as Dominic DiOrio, to highlight the significant change in sound since the 18th century. “It is truly fascinating to see the progression of how the pieces change over time,” Mary Holzer, a singer and publicity chair of the group, said of how the same text is interpreted differently by different composers. “The progression is a very cool aspect of the concert that I hadn’t expected.” Q Editorial Intern Sophie Pollock can be emailed at spollock@paweekly.com What: Bay Choral Guild’s “400 Years of Shakespeare” Where: All Saints Episcopal Church, 555 Waverley St., Palo Alto When: Saturday, June 3, at 8 p.m. Cost: $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $5 for students Info: Go to baychoralguild.org

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Eating Out Family meal is a time for staff to decompress before going into a high-pressure service. Above, Manresa staff eat a casual dinner together in the restaurant’s back parking lot.

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ust after 4 p.m. at Manresa Restaurant in Los Gatos, you’ll find some of the kitchen staff in an unlikely setting: sitting in a nondescript parking lot behind the three-Michelin-star restaurant, eating out of ceramic dishes filled with chicken parmesan, pasta, Caesar salad and garlic bread. Welcome to family meal. Before the restaurant opens at 5:30 p.m., the 60-plus staff members not only prep for that evening’s dinner service, but work together to prepare their own meal. Two days a week, the sous chefs come up with an idea for the dinner and the entire kitchen pitches in to make it. Thursday through Sunday, a staff member is assigned to plan the meal and enlist others to help execute it. For restaurants like Manresa that place a high value on family meal, it’s more than just dinner. It’s a collaboration, a chance to learn about other staff members through the food they make (which often reflects their heritage or family recipes) and, above all else, a time to decompress before going into a highpressure service. Family meal, chefs say, is central to the culture of their kitchens. “It’s the one meal of the day that everyone can sit together, talk, relax and see someone’s different culture of food that they’re really good at,” said Mitch Leinhard, Manresa’s chef de cuisine. “It’s a very special time of day for us.” Not all family meals are created equal. Manresa’s — consistently ranked on the annual World’s 50 Best Restaurants list — might be the pinnacle. A pre-planned, monthly calendar posted by the walk-in refrigerators maps out who will be in charge of dinner. Some staff prepare far in advance, like Kristofer Lord, an Icelandic chef de partie, who often makes his own kimchi to use in his family meals. Most recently, he made a duck ramen with kimchi that used duck legs leftover from a duck breast dish on Manresa’s $255 tasting menu. Since there isn’t much Asian cuisine in Iceland, Lord said he treats staff meal as learning opportunity. Other recent Manresa staff meals, documented on a dedicated Instagram account (@

Behind the scenes, staff at local high-end restaurants turn their talents to family meals

manresafamilymeal) run by the restaurant’s pastry team, range from Moroccan lamb stew or golubzy (Russian stuffed cabbage) to pastrami sandwiches “with all the fixings” made by the renowned chef-owner of Manresa, David Kinch. Other days there’s fried chicken, tacos, Chinese chicken salad or sloppy joes. One of the cooks is known for making great salsa. Another staff member would cure and smoke meats and make pickles in advance of his assigned day. Leinhard said someone made a joke recently: “’Three stars at night, one star during the day.’ We have one Michelin-star staff meal.” The best family meals, Leinhard and other chefs said, are the ones created by individual staff members. Staff meal wasn’t always that way at Manresa — the previous structure had the whole kitchen contributing. “We realized we would lose out on those people who are really good at that specific area. Their staff meal days are the ones we always look forward to,” he said. At most restaurants, kitchen staff rely on leftover ingredients to make their dinner. On the high end, Manresa uses leftover duck legs to make ramen. At the low end is what Robbie Wilson, chef-owner of Bird Dog in Palo Alto, calls “cream of walk-in (refrigerator) soup.” Most chefs have a horror story about working in kitchens where staff meal was such an afterthought. For a recent staff meal at the Village Pub in Woodside, which has one Michelin star, staff repurposed stale garlic-parmesan bread from Mayfield Bakery and tomatoes from an earlier photo shoot into a bright panzanella salad. The bread was tossed with olive oil and garlic, roasted in the oven, and then tossed in a simple balsamic vinaigrette with the tomatoes, micro-greens, burrata and mozzarella di bufala. It was served with roasted chicken (coated in an Asian marinade made by a line cook), vegetables, potato mash and a watermelon salad. For dessert, pastry chef Vivian Hussein made two fruit cobblers, served in cast iron pans with a large bowl of silky, fresh whipped cream on the side. Village Pub chef de cuisine John Madriaga said they aim for healthy meals, always

making a protein and a vegetable dish to keep things light before going into a fourhour dinner service. “We want to make sure that we nourish the staff,” he said. “A lot of us have been here for a few hours now and we’re going to work all the way through the night. For most of us, this is our one big meal of the day. The rest of the time we’re coming in here with shakes or juices or a light breakfast.” Now that Bird Dog serves lunch as well as dinner, the restaurant has two family meals each day. Everyone’s favorite, Wilson said, are traditional Mexican meals prepared for lunch by a new staff member named Maria. “With Maria, everything is from scratch and there’s a lot of love and soul,” Wilson said. She indulges his “fetish” for chilaquiles, making the tortillas herself from masa, topped with fresh salsa roja, cotija cheese and eggs. Wilson, who hails from Texas, said he has made frito pie for staff meal (an uncomplicated mess of chili, cheese, corn chips and other toppings). The kitchen often makes curries, rice and vegetables, he said. The pastry team will sometimes pitch in by making a special

drink (recently, boba tea from scratch) or dessert. Dishes tend toward California, Mexican, Spanish and Asian cuisines. Despite its importance, family meal is a meal to be enjoyed — not a burden on staff, nor a time to “show off,” Wilson said. You won’t find staff eating dishes like Manresa’s iconic “winter tidal pool,” an elegant bowl of ingredients like foie gras, sea urchin and mushroom gel. “Essentially, they’re doing family meals as something they want to eat,” Wilson said. But the purposeful investment in family meal signals to staff that “’this restaurant cares,’” he said. Leinhard said he believes Manresa’s staff meal, infamous in kitchens throughout the Peninsula, is one reason that the restaurant has low turnover. For Wilson, family meal is “a privilege, but at the same time I think, as the owner of the restaurant, I feel like it’s a requirement. “We’ve been open over a year now,” he said. “We’ve never missed a family meal.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@paweekly.com.

Village Pub chef de cuisine John Madriaga serves himself at a recent staff meal, which included dishes like roasted chicken, panzanella and potato mash. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • May 26, 2017 • Page 21

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ummer means some of the “biggest” movies of the year. The sequels, the superhero movies, the sciencefiction extravaganzas. Comedies with big stars. A Pixar adventure here, a horror movie there. Although we’re already hip deep in blockbuster movies, summer also holds scrappier movies looking for attention, in what’s come to be known as “counter-programming.” The movie studios know there’s an audience out there that doesn’t want to see “Baywatch” or even, heaven forfend, “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” So, for them (or those who get shut out of sold-out screenings of “Transformers: The Last Knight”), different kinds of movies get counter-programmed each week against the presumed box-office leader. We can’t talk about them all: Upwards of 100 movies will roll out between now and Aug. 30. But put away those metal detectors and allow me to sift the sands for the hidden gems

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Movies to watch (for) this summer of the summer movie season ... and to spot a whale or two.

JUNE This week brings a whale, with “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” the fifth installment of the Disney franchise based on an amusementpark ride. Johnny Depp teeters around the screen for two hours in a formulaic rehash of what’s come before. New directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg (the Norwegians behind seafaring Oscar nominee “Kon-Tiki”) somewhat streamline storytelling that became intolerably bloated, but the movie is still a creatively redundant venture with short bursts of genuine amusement in bits of banter or hugely expensive set pieces. One buzzy blockbuster looks genuinely promising: “Wonder Woman” (June 2). The original female comic-book superhero was a TV star in the mid-to-late ‘70s, and appeared in last year’s

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“Wonder Woman”: Gal Gadot plays the comic-book super hero in what could give Marvel a run for the money.

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”: Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) leads deadly ghost pirates against Jack Sparrow in a formulaic rehash of what’s come before. “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” but she’s never headlined a big-screen feature until now. “Wonder Woman” has been in development for 20 years, passing through the hands of Joss Whedon (“The Avengers”) and Paul Feig (“Ghostbusters”) on the way to Patty Jenkins (who directed Charlize Theron to an Oscar in “Monster”). With Israeli actress Gal Gadot already welcomed by fans as golden-lasso-swinging Diana Prince (and paired with love interest Chris Pine), the preview footage has DC Comics enthusiasts excited to see their brand give Marvel a run for the money again. “Wonder Woman” looks to be tough, cheeky, colorful fun for kids and adults of both genders. Arriving just one week later is a feminist film with a tiny fraction of the budget of what was spent on “Wonder Woman,” but just as big a chance of being the movie of the cultural moment. “Beatriz at Dinner” (June 9) concerns the clash of personalities at a dinner party when John Lithgow’s loudmouthed, racist, hotel-owning billionaire (sound familiar?) meets Salma Hayek’s liberalminded Mexican massage therapist. The social satire’s Trumpian overtones already have people talking, and the film marks a reunion of writer Mike White and director Miguel Arteta, the tested

kids, “Cars 3,” “Despicable Me 3,” and “Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.”

JULY July brings Marvel’s heavyweight “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” with Tom Holland’s Spidey and MCU’s still-potent core figure — Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man — battling the Vulture (erstwhile Batman Michael Keaton). But how’s this for counter-programming? The same day brings “Patti Cake$” (July 7), a low-budget indie drama in the Rocky mold about an aspiring New Jersey rapper. At the Sundance Film Festival, Australian newcomer Danielle Macdonald was crowned one to watch for her work as the titular rapper, a.k.a. White Trish, Juicy Luciano, Marilyn Mansion, Jane Dough, Killa P or simply Patricia Dombrowski. Picked up by Fox Searchlight (the house that “Little Miss Sunshine” built), “Patti Cake$” is rumored to be a heckuva crowd-pleaser. Summer also tends to bring one or two early Oscar contenders, and that we have in “Dunkirk” (July 21). If Ben Affleck has positioned himself at Warner Bros. as their next Clint Eastwood, Christopher Nolan would like to be their Stanley Kubrick, thank you very much. Since Nolan made WB a mint on (continued on next page)

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“Dunkirk”: Aneurin Barnard, Harry Styles and Fionn Whitehead play Allied soldiers in this World War II story that could be an Oscar contender.

team behind “The Good Girl,” “Chuck & Buck,” and HBO’s late, lamented “Enlightened.” Expect a wickedly funny revenge fantasy, although if you’re a big fan of our increasingly beleaguered Commander in Chief, proceed with caution. Two other June titles have built up significant buzz in their filmfestival debuts. The runaway hit of Sundance was “The Big Sick” (June 23), a romantic-comedy starring and co-written by Kumail Nanjiani of HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” Nanjiani plays a PakistaniAmerican comic whose love interest (Zoe Kazan) winds up in a coma, putting their relationship in a very strange zone. Five days later, fans of hip, stylized, funny actioners will get their heart’s desire in the Tarantinoid “Baby Driver” (June 28). No, it’s not directed by Quentin Tarantino, but rather cult fave writer-director Edgar Wright (“Shaun of the Dead”). Wright’s outing about a getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) has a quirky cast (Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm) and rubber to burn. What else does June bring? Tom Cruise in “The Mummy,” gal-power black comedy “Rough Night” (with Scarlett Johansson and Kate McKinnon) and middleage, middle-class comedy “The House” (with Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler), “Transformers: The Last Knight” and, for the

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“Baby Driver”: Edgar Wright brings together a quirky cast (Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Edagar Wright, Flea and Lanny Joon) in this thriller about a getaway driver.

“The Emoji Movie”: Gene (T.J. Miller) is a multi-expressional emoji who sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.

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his Batman trilogy, he’s gotten pretty much carte blanche, and though “Interstellar” didn’t connect with audiences, he’s on more traditional ground with his WWII epic about a mass Allied evacuation in 1940. He’s got a prestigious ensemble of “made” stars (Tom

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AUGUST which is apparently just for him. August brings an even more surefire Oscar contender in “Detroit” (August 4). Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal both won Oscars for their collaboration on “The Hurt Locker,” and now they’re applying a docudramatic approach to the 1967 Detroit riots that pit police against civilians. With civilian shootings by police and the “Black Lives Matter” movement still very much in the news and the public conversation, “Detroit” carries with it strong resonance, not to mention a diverse ensemble (from John Boyega to John Krasinski). After a much-publicized apparent retirement from filmmaking (which turned out to be a new commitment to television), Steven Soderbergh returns to the big screen with “Logan Lucky” (Aug. 18). On paper, the premise of a speedway robbery sounds a lot like Kubrick’s “The Killing,” but “Logan Lucky” is obviously shooting to be a funny-sexy lark. The cast is a tipoff: Channing Tatum and Adam Driver (“Star Wars”) play brothers, and they’re

supported by Katie Holmes, Seth MacFarlane, Daniel Craig, and Hilary Swank, among others. August selections tend to get a little less expensive and a little more interesting. Yes, there’s the Samuel L. Jackson-Ryan Reynolds buddy comedy “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” (Aug. 18), horror prequel “Annabelle: Creation” (Aug. 11), and the longawaited Stephen King adaptation “The Dark Tower” (Aug. 4), starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey in a mythic Western out land. But there’s also the

latest drama from Belgian masters Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne — ”The Unknown Girl” — , John Travolta as mobster “Gotti,” and Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan back for a third go-round as gastronomical mates in “The Trip to Spain.” Amazingly, all that represents just a sampling of what’s on your summer-movie menu. Add your pile of beach reads and your Netflix queue, and vacation starts to seem like a lot of work. Good luck taking it easy! — Peter Canavese

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“Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets”: Based on the comic-book series, director Luc Besson’s new adventure film is visually spectacular.

Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, and recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance) as well as stars in the making (Fionn Whitehead and first-time actor Harry Styles — yes, of “One Direction” fame). Nolan also has a sizeable budget, which he put behind a combination of 70-millimeter IMAX and 65-millimeter photography to shoot his sweeping historical war drama. July promises other big-budget distractions — threequel “War for the Planet of the Apes,” the animated “The Emoji Movie,” and Luc Besson’s sci-fi eye-popper “Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets” (here’s hoping that’s wild fun) — but scan the margins, and you’ll find lots of options: the fine documentary “City of Ghosts,” about Syrian citizen journalists risking their lives reporting on the Islamic State; freshly minted Oscar winner Casey Affleck in David Lowery’s uncategorizable “A Ghost Story,” another Sundance sensation; and the peculiar comedy “Brigsby Bear,” starring Kyle Mooney (of “SNL”) as a man who

“Dark Tower”: Nicholas Hamilton, right, teams up with Idris Elba, who plays a gunslinger in this mythic Western.

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Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (R) +++ Century 20: Fri. - Mon. Guild Theatre: Fri. - Mon. Paris Can Wait (PG)

Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Mon.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Mon. Century 20: Fri. - Mon.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Mon. Century 20: Fri. - Mon.

Everything, Everything (PG-13) + Century 16: Fri. - Mon. Century 20: Fri. - Mon.

Singin’ in the Rain (1952) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 3:35 & 7:30 p.m., Fri. - Sun.

The Fate of the Furious (PG-13)

Snatched (R) Century 16: Fri. - Mon.

Century 20: Fri. - Mon.

The Wedding Plan (PG)

Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Mon.

Century 20: Fri. - Mon.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Mon. Century 20: Fri. - Mon.

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

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Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 327-3241) tinyurl.com Aquariuspa Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View tinyurl.com/Century16 Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City tinyurl.com/Century20

CineArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (For information: 493-0128) tinyurl.com/Pasquare Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (For recorded listings: 566-8367) tinyurl.com/Guildmp Stanford Theatre: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 324-3700) Stanfordtheatre.org

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OPEN HOME GUIDE 47 Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com

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

Home Front LEARNING ‘BIRD’ ... Common Ground Garden will offer a class on “Using ‘Bird Language’ to Design Your Edible Garden,” tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The class will explore the world of bird language and its importance in permaculture design. Participants will learn how to incorporate lessons learned from bird behavior in designing an edible garden, such as plant selection, placement, and maintenance. Bring lunch to eat in the garden and something to share. Instructor William Mutch is a permaculture designer and teacher. Register online at: http://bit.ly/2pxtt9U WALKING ART TOUR ... The Palo Alto Art Commission will host a one-hour walking art tour on Wednesday, June 21, starting at 10 a.m. The tour will be followed by light refreshments in the city’s sculpture garden. Highlights will include public art at Rinconada Library and the Palo Alto Art Center galleries. To register, go to gamblegarden. org. Fee is $35. Meet at the Rinconada Library entrance, 1213 Newell Road. WATERING TIP ... With the ongoing drought, it has become easy to forget the need to water our yards. Now that we’ve had enough rain to relax a bit, Common Ground Garden of Palo Alto wants to make sure we don’t forget how to water and how to manage soil moisture. During the winter, inadequately covered clay soil becomes compacted, and develops “hardpan” when it dries. Then as the weather heats up, the water you put on it rolls right off or sits on top and evaporates. During late summer and leading up to the first rains, we should transplant our fall crops into beds closely spaced together. The plants’ leaves will create a cool, damp micro-climate at the soil and help prevent the rain from compacting the soil. When watering, using a “water-wand” with a nozzle aimed upward, so the water falls like rain and will help prevent hard-pan. 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.

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Thinking outsidethe box

Dense plantings soften the front yard to make the home blend in with the traditional homes on the block. Once the Sheas realized they couldn’t easily remodel their original bungalow, they decided not to worry about matching their neighbors, and go modern.

Architects’ tour showcases cutting-edge designs by Carol Blitzer photos by Kevin Ng Photography

igh ceilings, walls of glass, most rooms facing greenery. This is not the home John Shea’s father built in 1940 in Old Palo Alto. But it’s the new home on the same spot Shea grew up that will be featured on the American Institute of Architects, Santa Clara Valley’s third annual, self-guided Silicon Valley Home Tours on June 3, which will include four other homes on the Midpeninsula. When Shea inherited his family home in 2006, he and his wife, Carolyn, thought they’d be able to remodel the 1,400-square-foot bungalow to allow them to age in place in his childhood neighborhood. But, John said, “It was obvious that the expense of bringing it up to code would be about equal to starting over.” At first they thought they’d build something that matched the traditional architecture on the street. But, “I had always admired the Eichler open floor plans and wanted one like that,” Carolyn said. After interviewing a number of architects, the couple chose Burlingame-based architect Gary Diebel “because he listened to what we said,” Carolyn said. When Diebel asked the Sheas to bring in photos of what they liked, he pointed out that they were all modern. Diebel designed a single-story home on the

10,000-square-foot lot, with a permeable paver driveway running the length and curving into a three-car garage at the very rear. Dense plantings soften the the front yard, blending the low home with the rest of the block. Glass is a key building material throughout the house, from the sliding pocket doors separating the public spaces from the bedrooms to the clerestory windows in almost every room.

At the very front of the house, facing the street, is the office. One wall and the opposite corner are clad in aluminum, blending with the window valance. A bathroom, with a 14-foot ceiling, those clerestory windows, honed Calacatta Gold marble on the floor and tub/shower walls and a blue glass bowl sink, sits between (continued on next page)

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the office and the guest bedroom. The hallway is lined with John Shea’s photographs. Here the windows are at floor level, to prevent fading of the artwork. In the living room, below the very high clerestory windows, sits a circular light shelf. “We wanted to balance how the light comes in,” Diebel said. Another architectural challenge was the desire by the Sheas to keep their furniture, including a tall china cabinet. “We told Gary to build the house around it,” John said. (He even managed to incorporate a stained-glass window that they had made for a San Francisco condominium.) A large piece of art hangs from a flat bar over the fireplace; roll it to the side and it reveals the flat-screen TV. Radiant heating was used throughout the house, and no air conditioning is required, since there is adequate cross-ventilation from the many windows. Most of the flooring is wide-planked walnut. Two wide openings lead to the kitchen, which features “rain” glass windows over the sink and stovetop, offering privacy from their nearby neighbor. It took two-and-a-half slabs of blue granite to create the long countertops, which complement the darker porcelain tile flooring and stainless-steel appliances. “There’s enough light so we can have dark flooring,” Diebel added. On the other side of the public spaces is the laundry room and master-bedroom suite, which has a high-enough ceiling to accommodate the couple’s antique hanging lamps. “They go with us where we go,” Carolyn said. The master bathroom features a sink in each vanity, with granite counters and honed

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The kitchen features “rain” glass windows over the sink and stovetop, offering the Sheas privacy from nearby neighbor. It took more than two slabs of blue granite to make the long countertops. porcelain tile floors. With a nod to aging in place, there’s no curb to the shower, and the bottom is a non-slick rock pattern. Sliding glass doors lead outside. A key piece of landscaping is a 60-foot-plus redwood that John recalls his dad planting from a seedling purchased from the Boy Scouts more than 50 years ago. Other homes, which range from 2,200 to 10,000 square feet, on the tour include: Q A re-interpretation of a “farmhouse style” home in Palo Alto (Fergus Garber Young Architects, Palo Alto). Q A midcentury-influenced townhome

with a skylit, steel staircase in Menlo Park (John Lum Architecture, San Francisco). Q A double-gabled Eichler remodel in Mountain View (Klopf Architecture, San Francisco). Q A structure that interlocks with the land in Portola Valley (Square Three Design Studios, Palo Alto). The focus of the self-guided tour is to walk through the homes, see the materials up close and to meet the architects, who will be on hand at all five homes. Q Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at carolgblitzer@gmail.com.

The walls of the shower are covered with honed Calacatta Gold marble, and the bathroom has a 14-foot ceiling for maximum light. What: AIA Silicon Valley Home Tours When: Saturday, June 3, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Five homes in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Mountain View and Portola Valley Cost: $75 general admission; AIA members $59 before June 1 (https:// aiascvym.site-ym.com/store/ViewProduct. aspx?id=4876671) Info: http://aiascv.org/page/2017Homes; 408-298-0611; hometour@aiascv.org

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300 SAND HILL CIRCLE, SUITE 205, MENLO PARK 3 BEDROOMS

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LISTED - $2,195,000

SELLING: Scarcity- one level condo with elevator,One of 1 8 ( 15 , 3 bedroom) at Sand Hill Circle. Location - Q uiet side of building and Circle. Easy access to I 280 and both airpor ts; 3000 Sand Hill Rd; Rosewood Hotel; and Stanford University, Hospital, and Shopping Center. Views- E XPANSIVE 2nd floor views of Sharon Heights Golf Course fair ways from Living Room , Dining Room , Balcony, and three Bedrooms . Sq. Ft .- 2350 sq. f t . per county records . (B uyer to verif y)Excellent L as Lomitas Schools .

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Stylish Menlo Park Home 775 16th Avenue, Menlo Park Offered at $1,549,000 | 3 Beds | 2.5 Baths | Home ±1,897 sf | Lot ±3,638 sf Mature trees and lush landscaping welcome you to this beautiful four year old home in North Fair Oaks. Airy and bright, with oversized windows, skylights and high ceilings throughout, this stylish property draws you in. The living dining great room with a central fireplace opens to a spacious cook’s kitchen on one side and an expansive entertaining deck on the other. Whether you’re hosting a crowd or relaxing at home alone, this well-designed, open floor plan promotes easy indoor / outdoor California living.

Rich Tigerwood flooring in the main living areas provides a warm undertone to the soft, muted color palette. A traditional main staircase leads to the upper level with the master bedroom suite and two additional well-lit, generous bedrooms. If you’re a young family, a working professional, a soon-to-be-empty nester or retiree, you’ll find friendly, active neighbors here in this wonderful community which is located just a heartbeat from the center of Silicon Valley. Welcome home — you’ve arrived!

Downtown Menlo Park 640 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park 650.847.1141 GoldenGateSIR.com Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated.

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Colleen Foraker 650.380.0085 colleen@colleenforaker.com colleenforaker.com CalBRE 01349099

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9 Sylvian Way Los Altos Offered at $3,288,000 Palatial Abode Showcases Elegant Character www.9Sylvian.com 6 5 0 . 6 9 0 . 2 8 5 8 | i n f o @ d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | w w w. d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | C a l B R E # 0 1 9 2 1 7 9 1

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SNEAK PEEK SUNDAY May 28, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM UPDATED LIVING WITH VINTAGE APPEAL IN DOWNTOWN

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MENLO PARK • Updated circa 1935 home with vintage character • Excellent location just two blocks from downtown Menlo Park • 4 bedrooms, office, and 3.25 bathrooms over three levels • Approximately 2,160 sq. ft. of living space • Beautiful parquet floors with inlaid marquetry • Remodeled kitchen with granite slab countertops • Front porch, deck, and rear yard, perfect for indoor/outdoor living • Lower-level workshop plus darkroom • Attached 1-car garage and ample off-street parking • Outstanding Menlo Park schools

Offered at $2,498,000

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127 Pinon Drive Portola Valley ff d at $16 988 000 Offered $16,988,000 Lavish Woodland Sanctuary www.127Pinon.com

15 Arapahoe Court Portola Valley Offered $4,788,000 Off d at $4 788 000 Stylish Refuge with Exciting Outdoors www.15Arapahoe.com

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UNDERSTATED ELEGANCE IN THE HEART OF ATHERTON 74 Barry Lane, Atherton • Premier Circus Club location at the end of a cul-de-sac

• Signature rotunda outdoor dining pavilion with ﬁreplace

• Renovated by architect Andrew Skurman

• Hardwood ﬂooring in the main living areas

• 5 bedrooms, 4 full baths, and 3 halfbaths arranged over two levels

• Pool and separate spa on a private terrace

• Approximately 6,890 total sq. ft. • Main level: 3,815 sq. ft. • Upper level: 2,870 sq. ft. • Storage/mech room: 205 sq. ft.

• Built-in barbecue center

• Main level: living room, formal dining room, kitchen, family room, ofﬁce, wine cellar, theatre, laundry center, formal powder room, 2 half-baths

• Electronic-gated circular driveway

• Upper level: master bedroom suite, family room/study center, ofﬁce/5th bedroom, bedroom suite, two bedrooms and bath

• 3-hole putting green and sport court • Approximately 1.01 acres (44,131 sq. ft.)

• Excellent Menlo Park schools

Offered at $12,475,000 For video, ﬂoor plans, additional photos and information, visit www.74Barry.com

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SOLD IN 7 DAYS 10 OFFERS $485K OVER ASKING

1701 Bryant Steet, Palo Alto Premier Palo Alto Location

By Appointment Only • Magnificently renovated circa 1913 home • Rare non-through traffic location on Palo Alto’s bicycle boulevard • Three levels with 4 bedrooms, office, and 3.5 baths in the main residence • Fitness center, playroom, and wine cellar – lower level • Exquisite two-story 1-bedroom, 1.5-bath with full kitchen guest house • Beautifully landscaped lot of almost one-half acre (20,012 square feet) • English gardens, bocce court, brick terraces, and level lawn • Excellent Palo Alto schools

Offered at $15,895,000 www.1701BryantSt.com

835 La Honda Road, Woodside One-of-a-Kind Mid-Century Country Estate with Amazing Views in Sought-After Woodside

By Appointment Only • Magnificent, iconic, contemporary compound perched atop idyllic Woodside, grandly overlooking the Bay, Stanford, and beyond • The 7.7 acres of park-like grounds—every inch perfectly thought-out and manicured • Pinot Noir vineyard with over 400 plants with first harvest in 2017 • Four bedrooms, three and one-half baths • Breathtaking views from entire main level • Huge pool house with vaulted ceilings, full kitchen, and stone fireplace • Beautiful one-bedroom guest house with living room • Exercise studio with twin-peaked vaulted ceiling • Vast round pool patio for entertaining and relaxing • Tennis court and grounds mostly surrounded by the Thornewood Open Space Preserve • Masterpiece of design, details, and drama

Offered at $12,395,000 www.835LaHonda.com

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31 Artisan Way Menlo Park Offered at $1,488,000 Modern Style Near Downtown www.31Artisan.com 6 5 0 . 4 8 8 . 7 3 2 5 | i n f o @ d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | w w w. d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | C a l B R E # 0 1 8 5 4 8 8 0 ®

746 Partridge Avenue Menlo Park Offered at $2,398,000 Inviting Charm in Ideal Location www.746PartridgeAve.com 6 5 0 . 4 8 8 . 7 3 2 5 | i n f o @ d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | w w w. d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | C a l B R E # 0 1 8 5 4 8 8 0 ®

2063 Gordon Avenue Menlo Park Offered at $2,688,000 Desirable Location, Designer Luxury www.2063GordonAve.com 6 5 0 . 4 8 8 . 7 3 2 5 | i n f o @ d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | w w w. d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | C a l B R E # 0 1 8 5 4 8 8 0 ®

3428 South Court Palo Alto Offered at $2,998,000 Stunning Home Boasts Custom Style www.3428SouthCourt.com 6 5 0 . 6 9 0 . 2 8 5 8 | i n f o @ d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | w w w. d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | C a l B R E # 0 1 9 2 1 7 9 1 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • May 26, 2017 • Page 37

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0 Spanish Ranch Road, Los Gatos

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See our entire luxury collection at www.InteroPrestigio.com ©2017 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved.

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114 New Brighton Road, Aptos | $5,000,000 | Listing Provided by: Mark DeTar Lic. #01156251

www.114NewBbrightonRd.com Customized to the unique style of each luxury property, Prestigio will expose your home through the most influential mediums reaching the greatest number of qualified buyers wherever they may be in the world. For more information about listing your home with the Intero Prestigio International program, call your local Intero Real Estate Services office. Woodside 1590 Cañada Lane Woodside, CA 94062 650.206.6200

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

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525 Center Drive, Palo Alto

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14700 Manuella Road, Los Altos Hills

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3452 Cowper Ct – Palo Alto This brand new home offers the best in convenience and class

Open House: 5/28, Sunday 1:30 – 4:30 pm Tucked away on a peaceful cul-de-sac, this light-filled brandnew home is conveniently located in one of Palo Alto’s most desirable Midtown neighborhood, within walking distance to all Midtown facilities, schools, and 21-acre Mitchell Park that offers a wealth of active recreational opportunities. The moment you step into this exquisite home, you’ll be overcome by its loveliness and comfort, classic beauty and contemporary sophistication, and modern amenities that satisfy your every need. • 6 bedrooms, 5.5 baths, plus an office and a detached studio offers flexibility for a variety of needs, including office, hobbies, or fitness. • According to architect plans, total of 3,628 sq.ft., including a detached 1-car garage on approx. 9,200 sq.ft. lot. • Beautiful solid hardwood floors throughout. • Superbly equipped kitchen with garden window by the sink, large central island, beautiful granite countertops, top-of-the-line appliances, 48” Thermador vent hood and cooktop, 42” refrigerator and ample custom-built cabinetry; breakfast nook w/large windows & window seats. • Two tank-less water heaters; two furnaces, and two A/C units. • CAT-6 Ethernet data and dual coaxial for cable & satellite. • Surround sound with 5 built-in speakers; security system with 8 surveillance cameras and DVR system can be set up and controlled for easy home monitoring from anywhere with internet access. • Within walking distance of excellent Palo Alto schools & 21-acre Mitchell Park.

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Jshen@cbnorcal.com | www.JudyShen.com www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • May 26, 2017 • Page 41

12008 Adobe Creek Lodge Rd Los Altos Hills Offered $5,988,000 Off d at $5 988 000 Rich Living, Alluring Serenity www.12008Adobe.com

21724 Regnart Court Cupertino Offered at $2,998,000 Upgraded Living in Desirable Location www.21724Regnart.com 6 5 0 . 4 8 8 . 7 3 2 5 | i n f o @ d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | w w w. d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | C a l B R E # 0 1 9 0 3 2 2 4 ®

21311 Sarahills Drive Saratoga Offered at $3,988,000 Captivating Villa with Privacy www.21311Sarahills.com 6 5 0 . 4 8 8 . 7 3 2 5 | i n f o @ d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | w w w. d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | C a l B R E # 0 1 8 5 4 8 8 0 ®

1187 Portland Avenue Los Altos Offered at $3,998,000 Sun-Lit Residence with Open Floorplan www.1187Portland.com 6 5 0 . 6 9 0 . 2 8 5 8 | i n f o @ d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | w w w. d e l e o n r e a l t y. c o m | C a l B R E # 0 1 9 2 1 7 9 1 Page 42 • May 26, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

R E B U I L D I N G

S A F E A N D H E A LT H Y H O M E S F O R E V E RY P E R S O N

T O G E T H E R

Rebuilding Together Peninsula (RTP) has provided critical health and safety repairs for 28 years. RTP envisions a safe and healthy home for every person, with repair programs serving seniors, veterans, people with disabilities, and families with children. RTP’s free repair services ensure that neighbors without ﬁnancial resources can live independently in warmth and safety in their own home. RTP completes approximately 200 repair projects each year, targeting income challenged residents throughout San Mateo County and northern Santa Clara County. MISSION: Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners. For more information about the program or how you could help, please visit RTPeninsula.org.

During the months of April through June 2017, Sereno Group Real Estate and its Palo Alto agents will be contributing 1% of their gross commissions to Rebuilding Together Peninsula. HERE FOR GOOD

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Sereno Group is a proud sponsor of the Dreams Happen Gala & Playhouse Auction at Stanford Shopping Center on June 3rd, 2017 beneﬁtting Rebuilding Together Peninsula. The 13 amazing playhouses that will be auctioned off are on display at Stanford Shopping Center. For more information please visit DreamsHappen2017.com.

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SCENIC. SECLUDED. PRIVATE. CENTRAL. 280 Family Farm Road, Woodside | 7‫ ٺ‬MZML I\ !! !

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License# 01142061 License# 00917768

4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Beautifully landscaped grounds: Master suite with spa inspired Private backyard with mature landscaping, bathroom Lush expansive lawns Beautifully remodeled kitchen with Multiple patios for outdoor living stainless steel appliances Centrally located near schools, parks, Spacious, light-filled living room with shopping and transportation wood burning fireplace Excellent Palo Alto schools Welcoming covered front porch 1,443 sq. ft. of living space, approx. Quality finishes including: 7,744 sq. ft. lot, approx. Hardwood and bamboo floors 01330133 Cell: 650 650.380.4507 380 4507 Jane@midtownpaloalto Jane@midtownpaloalto.com com DualcalBRE# pane windows OFFERED AT $2,350,000 Tankless water heater

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525 Center Dr, Palo Alto Offered at $7,995,000 Michael Dreyfus | 650.485.3476

3433 Kenneth Dr, Palo Alto Offered at $2,450,000 Annette Smith | 650.766.9429

692 Creek Dr, Menlo Park Offered at $2,198,000 Omar Kinaan | 650.776.2828

311 Linfield Dr, Menlo Park Offered at $1,995,000 Annette Smith | 650.766.9429

58 Lorelei Ln, Menlo Park Offered at $1,598,000 Omar Kinaan | 650.776.2828

775 16th Ave, Menlo Park Offered at $1,549,000 Colleen Foraker | 650.380.0085

83 Tuscaloosa Ave, Atherton Offered at $10,998,000 Annette Smith | 650.766.9429

151 Laurel St, Atherton Offered at $9,988,000 Jakki Harlan | 650.465.2180

166 Almendral Ave, Atherton Offered at $4,495,000 Mary Jo McCarthy | 650.400.6364

27500 La Vida Real, Los Altos Hills Offered at $68,000,000 Michael Dreyfus | 650.485.3476

14700 Manuella Rd, Los Altos Hills Offered at $3,800,000 Michael Dreyfus | 650.485.3476

14510 Manuella Rd, Los Altos Hills Offered at $3,750,000 Chris Iverson | 650.450.0450

11523 Summit Wood Rd, Los Altos Hills Offered at $2,695,000 Colleen Foraker | 650.380.0085

1250 Cañada Rd, Woodside Offered at $14,995,000 Michael Dreyfus | 650.485.3476

2190 Ward Way, Woodside Offered at $4,498,000 Chris Iverson | 650.450.0450

19 Anchor Ln, San Carlos Offered at $2,995,000 Brian Ayer | 650.242.2473

120 Hildebrand Rd, La Honda Offered at $2,500,000 Marian Bennett | 650.678.1108

1672 Redwing Ave, Sunnyvale Offered at $1,468,000 Omar Kinaan | 650.776.2828

1300 Alamo St, Montara Offered at $2,000,000 Marian Bennett | 650.678.1108

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45 One of four on a diamond

6 Sailors’ uprising

46 Brothel owner on a pogo stick?

6 Center of attraction, so to speak

50 Word in multiple “Star Wars” titles

7 “A Little Respect” synthpop band

11 Like some answers

53 Neighbor of Morocco

14 Judge’s place 15 Kazakhstan range

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37 “Learn to Fly” band ___ Fighters 38 Barry Manilow’s club

8 They get greased up before a birthday

39 Increasingly infrequent dashboard option

54 Acid in proteins, informally

9 A.L. Central team, on scoreboards

43 Full of complaints

16 Marriage starter

56 ___ District (Lima, Peru beach resort area)

10 Schnauzer in Dashiell Hammett books

17 Gloss over, vocally

57 Maggie Simpson’s grandpa

11 Swear word?

18 Grab a belief?

60 Queen of paddled boats?

12 “Hello” singer

20 Pizza ___ (2015 meme)

62 Injured by a bull

21 Disturbance

64 Ginormous

49 “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” bassist Charles

23 Low tattoo spot

65 The first U.S. “Millionaire” host, to fans

13 Completely, in slang (and feel free to chastise me if I ever use this word) 19 Calendario starter

50 Brand name in the smoothie world

24 Bar tests?

66 Bring together

22 Slick stuff

67 Part of IPA

24 Frequent chaser of its own tail

27 “M*A*S*H” character’s cutesy Disney Channel series?

68 Having lots of land

25 Mt. Rushmore loc.

31 Four-award initialism

69 Ford Fusion variety

27 Make a mad dash

32 Charmed

Down 1 Lyft competitor, in most places

28 Give creepy looks to

2 Bauhaus song “___ Lugosi’s Dead”

30 “Snatched” star Schumer

3 “Don’t bet ___!”

33 Word before kill or rage

4 ___ Soundsystem

34 “Let It Go” singer

5 Stanley Cup org.

35 Consider

26 Holes in Swiss cheese

36 The whole thing 37 Airwaves regulatory gp. 40 Planetarium depiction 41 Call for Lionel Messi 42 Northern California draw

29 Tattled

44 Political placards in your yard, e.g. 45 Sheep’s sound 47 Made out 48 Miracle-___ (garden brand)

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Jobs 500 Help Wanted Associate, GIB Associate, GIB sought by Merrill Lynch. Reqs: Bachelor’s or equiv & 1 yr of exp. 1 yr exp in: Preparing presentation materials in connection with investment banking transactions & pitches; Performing comprehensive valuation including Discounted Cash Flow, Public Comparables, Precedent Transactions, & Sum-of-the-Parts analysis to form view on valuation; Building 3-statement integrated operating models including Income Statement, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow Statement by analyzing historical financial performance & business drivers; Creating financial models including merger & acquisition, leveraged buyout & other ad-hoc models to support deals; & Using FactSet & S&P Capital IQ to conduct research, screen for precedent transactions with similar characteristics & analyze financials. 5% domestic travel, as necessary. The employer will accept a Master’s degree in a stated field in meeting the Bachelor’s degree requirement. Job site: Palo Alto, CA. Reference # 1641978 & submit resume to Merrill Lynch NY1-050-03-01, 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020. No phone calls or e-mails. EOE. BUSINESS HP Inc. is accepting resumes for the position of Compensation & Benefits Advisor in Palo Alto, CA (Ref. #HPIPALJLEE1). Plans, designs, develops, analyzes, communicates, and implements Total Rewards (TR) strategies and programs consistent with HP Inc. business and Human Resources (HR) strategies across the businesses, functions, and/or geographic areas of HP. Design and implement high-complexity programs. Mail resume to HP Inc., c/o Andrew Bergoine, 11445 Compaq Center Drive W, Houston, TX 77070. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE. Business Intelligence Engineer 23andMe, Inc. has a Business Intelligence Engineer position in Mountain View, CA. Conduct MicroStrategy development work including the development of schema, applications, configuration objects, and distribution services. To apply, please mail resume to 23andme, Inc., Attn: Grace Moeller, 899 W Evelyn Ave, Mountain View, CA 94041. Engineer Hydrologist Engineer-Hydrologist sought by Hydrocomp, Inc. in Menlo Park, CA. Req Master’s or foreign equiv degr in Civil Eng, Hydrol or rela field, & 2yrs of exp in the job offered or rel eng pos. Exp must incl spreadsheet analysis of water resources syst; develop cust softw code for watershed & reservoir simulation using Visual Basic programmg lang; & utilizing linear & dyn programmg softw for operational mgmt of water resources syst. Send resume to norm@hydrocomp. com (Job Code: 21094)

FINANCE HP Inc. is accepting resumes for the position of Senior Financial Analyst in Palo Alto, CA (Ref. #HPIPALHORD1). Partner with the business to ensure that the capital strategies are operationally supported and strategically focused to secure the greatest return on investment in the global company. Gather financial data and perform financial analyses and reporting. Mail resume to HP Inc., c/o Andrew Bergoine, 11445 Compaq Center Drive W, Houston, TX 77070. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE. MULTIPLE POSITIONS C3, Inc. d/b/a C3 IoT has following job opps. in Redwood City, CA: Sr. Software Engineer UI [Req. #SSE19]. Dsgn and dvlp web frontend apps for energy utility co. portals using Ruby on Rails and Javascript. Product Manager (Software) [Req. #RMP82]. Define specs. to drive dvlpmt of indstry leading entrprise SW apps on C3 IoT pltfrm. Director of Products [Req. #GFD44]. Dsgn and dvlp SW prodcts for the internt of things and artificial intel. indstry.

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751 General Contracting A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor’s status at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752). Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

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995 Fictitious Name Statement ALL ABOUT CASH ATM’S FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN629462 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: All About Cash ATM’S, located at 5646 Keymar Dr., San Jose, CA 95123, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JUAN J. SAUCEDO

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THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM 5646 Keymar Dr. San Jose, CA 95123 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/27/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 3, 2017. (PAW May 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017) LIVING WISDOM HIGH SCHOOL OF PALO ALTO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN629579 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Living Wisdom High School of Palo Alto, located at 456 College Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): LIVING WISDOM SCHOOL OF PALO ALTO 456 College Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on May 1, 2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 5, 2017. (PAW May 19, 26; June 2, 9, 2017) YH LANDSCAPE DESIGN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN629897 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: YH Landscape Design, located at 3357 Saint Michael Ct., 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): YU-WEN HUANG 3357 Saint Michael Ct. 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 May 12, 2017. (PAW May 19, 26; June 2, 9, 2017)

you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado

inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte. ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): Santa Clara County Superior Court 191 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95113 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado es): Larry Q. Phan, Esq./, SBN: Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora, LLP 10 Almaden Blvd. #1250 San Jose, CA 95113 (408)275-1300 Date: Nov. 17, 2016 (Fecha): Clerk, by David H. Yamasaki, (Secretario) Chief Executive Officer, Clerk, A. Floresca, Deputy (Adjunto) (PAW May 26; June 2, 9, 16, 2017)

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FOODSPACE+CO FOODSPACE&CO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN629930 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Foodspace+Co, 2.) Foodspace&Co, located at 111 North Market Street Suite 300, San Jose, CA 95113, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): FOODSPACE&CO 111 North Market Street, Ste. 300 San Jose, CA 95113 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05/15/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 15, 2017. (PAW May 19, 26; June 2, 9, 2017)

997 All Other Legals FIRST AMENDED SUMMONS (Citacion Judicial) Case Number: 115CV283061 (Numero del Caso): NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (Aviso al Demandado): PETER TRAN, KITTY KITYEE SO, and Does 1 through 20, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (Lo esta Demandando el Demandante): KEVIN KHANH NGUYEN NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney,

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DIVE IN . . . Many of the United States’ top swimmers, including several Stanford Olympic medalists, will be in action at the Arena Pro Swim Series at Santa Clara’s George F. Haines International Swim Center for a final tune-up ahead of next month’s Phillips 66 National Championships. Cardinal freshman Katie Ledecky and Stanford junior Simone Manuel are expected to highlight the field for the June 1-4 event. The Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics Club also sends multiple competitors to the meet, including Palo Alto senior Alex Liang. The four-day meet opens Thursday with a 5 p.m. timed-final, distance freestyle session and continues through Sunday, June 4, with daily prelims at 9 a.m. followed by finals at 5 p.m.

ON THE AIR Friday College baseball: Stanford at Washington State, 4 p.m., Pac-12 Networks IAAF Track and field: Prefontaine Classic, 8 p.m., NBCSN

Saturday College baseball: Stanford at Washington State, 1 p.m., Pac-12 Networks IAAF Track and field: Prefontaine Classic, 1 p.m., NBC

Monday College men’s golf: Stanford at NCAA Division I championships, 1 p.m., Golf Channel

Tuesday College men’s golf: Stanford at NCAA Division I championships, 8 a.m., Golf Channel

Wednesday College men’s golf: Stanford at NCAA Division I championships, 7:30 a.m., Golf Channel

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Cardinal senior Taylor Davidson won a third-set tiebreaker in the semifinals, spent time in the hospital, and was back on the court for the finals.

Leaving everything on the court Another classic court confrontation between Stanford and Florida goes Gators way

by Rick Eymer tanford senior Taylor Davidson gave everything she had to get Stanford into the championship match of the NCAA women’s team tennis tournament. A visit to the hospital shortly afterward for tests and fluids were proof of that. The sixth-ranked and seventhseeded Stanford women’s tennis

team fell one step short in its bid to repeat for the first time since 2004-06, dropping a 4-1 decision to No. 1 Florida in the title match in Athens, GA. The latest chapter of the sport’s best rivalry was won by Florida, which beat Stanford for the second time this season but only for the fifth time in the last 12 meetings overall.

Stanford and Florida have combined to win six of the last eight NCAA crowns. This time around, Stanford (26-3) was unable to capitalize on another postseason in which it outperformed its seeding. The No. 7 seed Cardinal knocked off No. 2 North Carolina and No. 3 Ohio State along the way, and has now won 16 of

its last 19 NCAA matches when seeded lower than its opponent dating to 2010. In the semifinals, 10 hours after the match was originally scheduled to start, Davidson delivered one of the biggest moments of her stellar career, coming from behind to win a third set tie-breaker (continued on next page)

CCS TRACK AND FIELD

The season comes down to one big meet Several local prep athletes have opportunity to qualify for state meet by Glenn Reeves his is what the top performers from all over the Central Coast Section have been working and pointing toward. The Central Coast Section track and field championships take place Friday at Gilroy High. The top three finishers in each event advance to the state finals in Fresno. It’s all about being in the right place at the right time. A fast time earlier in the season does you no good now unless it can be repeated at the big meet, on the big stage. The Palo Alto girls 4x400 relay team appears to be peaking at the right time after running a seasonbest 3:58.71 Saturday at the CCS trials. The team of Brianna Miller, Titilola Bolarinwa, Maya Reuven

and Ella Ball had the third-fastest time at the trials, behind Santa Cruz (3:56.72) and San Lorenzo Valley (3:58.69). Bolarinwa also had the fourthfastest time in the open 400 at 58.45. “I certainly think it’s going to take a sub-58,’’ Palo Alto coach Michael Davidson said about Bolarinwa’s chances of finishing in the top three and qualifying for state. “I think she is ready to do that.’’ Ball also qualified for the 400 final with a time of 58.92, seventh out of eight qualifiers. Castilleja’s Claire Traum, who qualified with the second-best time (2:15.25) in the girls 800, won’t lack for motivation. She (continued on page 55)

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