Palo Alto Weekly August 25, 2017 by Palo Alto Weekly

Vol. XXXVIII, Number 47

August 25, 2017

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Survey assesses sexual harassment at high schools District finds 88 percent of surveyed students who were harassed on campus never reported it by Elena Kadvany

espite the fact that 10 percent of Palo Alto Unified high school students have experienced sexual harassment at school at least once in the past 12 months — and some more often than that — the vast majority of those students did not report the incidents to anyone at school.

This problem of “non-reporting,” Superintendent Max McGee said at Tuesday’s school board meeting, was illustrated in results of a survey the district was required to give to students, parents and staff this spring under a resolution agreement with the U.S. Department

of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The federal agency is currently monitoring the district after finding it violated antidiscrimination law Title IX in multiple cases of sexual harassment, assault and misconduct involving students and staff at the district’s two high schools. As the district works to improve its procedures and culture around sexual violence, the new survey results provide insight into how frequently students experience

“unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature” that includes “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature.” Most of the harassed students, 73 percent, said they didn’t report the incident because they felt that they “did not need help.” In open-ended responses, the students also indicated they

sexual harassment at school. Sixty-seven percent of enrolled students, or 2,549, took the survey. A total of 243 students from Palo Alto and Gunn high schools indicated on the survey that they had been sexually harassed at school in the past year, and 88 percent of them never reported it. A similar percentage (81 percent) also said they never reported it to anyone outside of school. The Office for Civil Rights defines sexual harassment as

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EDUCATION

School board fails to OK superintendent raises in public With no open-session vote on pay increases, trustees violate law by Elena Kadvany

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The blooming Baylands Cynthia Botello, left, and Liz Bergeron take an evening walk on the Renzel Trail at the Baylands in Palo Alto on Wednesday.

Palo Alto looks to curb ‘idle’ cars Four City Council members propose adopting an anti-idling ordinance by Gennady Sheyner

hey run without going anywhere, and Palo Alto resident Shelly Gordon Gray believes they should be stopped. Gordon Gray is leading the city’s campaign to adopt an ordinance that would target idling vehicles — those that stand by while their their engines keep running. A board member for the local Sierra Club chapter, Gordon Gray was inspired to take up the cause about five years ago, while vacationing in Jackson, Wyoming. She was at a shopping center

when she saw a “Please do not Idle” sign. If a red state can do it, she figured, why can’t Palo Alto, a city in a blue state where green pride runs deep and where the streets are filled with tech buses, delivery trucks and solo drivers who are texting or talking on the phone while their parked car emits gases that damage the environment. It’s the lattermost category that for her was the biggest pet peeve, she told the Weekly. “I think what it symbolizes

for me is the indifference that we sometimes have,” she said. “We don’t think we make any difference in terms of climate. It’s someone else’s problem and someone else should do something about it.” So earlier this year, Gordon Gray got in touch with Palo Alto’s transportation officials, who put her in touch with volunteers for the Safe Routes to School program. In March, she attended a Safe Routes meeting at Hoover (continued on page 8)

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TRANSPORTATION

or two years in a row, the Palo Alto school board made a “mistake,” board President Terry Godfrey said, when it approved pay increases for Superintendent Max McGee in closed session — outside of public view — violating both his employment contract and state law. Under the Brown Act, the California law that guarantees public access to meetings of local government agencies, employment contracts for senior execu- Max McGee tives must be ratified in open session at a regular meeting and reflected in the minutes. The Brown Act also bans discussion of or action on the compensation of top executives in closed session. McGee’s contract also requires the Board of Education to approve any salary increases or contract extensions in open session at a regular meeting “so that the public remains informed about the superintendent’s current salary and contract term.” The district paid McGee $270,416 his first year in the district, the 2014-15 school year. (Although his base salary was $295,000, he could not leave his previous job until later, resulting in fewer total work days.) Under

his contract, he was scheduled to be paid $300,900 in 2015-16; $306,918 the next year; and this year $313,056. McGee told the Weekly he received his contractual raises the last two years. This year, with the district working to make up for a multimillion dollar budget shortfall, he did not ask for a raise, he said. He recently announced that he is planning to retire when his contract expires in 2018. Annual closed-session evaluations of McGee were listed on agendas for school board retreats in both June 2015 and June 2016, but there is no record of opensession action in either the district-compiled minutes nor in the video recording of those meetings. In July, before the district had itself reviewed the minutes and videos, Godfrey said it was unclear if it was a failure by the board or simply a “record-keeping issue.” She had been unable to find any “definitive record of us making that approval in public,” she said. (Godfrey was on the board in both years but not yet serving as president.) This week, she acknowledged the board made a “mistake” and said the board will take a retroactive vote in open session at an upcoming meeting in September. Godfrey, who first learned of the board’s failure from the Weekly, said that “once it was (continued on page 8)

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CELESTIAL EVENT ... Monday’s solar eclipse was a not-to-bemissed spectacle that led a handful of Palo Alto residents up north to the path of totality, where a total eclipse was visible. Tanya Buxton and her family witnessed the show from Culver, Oregon, a city about 150 miles east of Salem, at a farm where she had an unimpeded view of the eclipse. She described it as a sunrise and sunset happening at one time. “It was awesome, it was just epic,” she said. The crickets made noise during the roughly two minutes of darkness. Buxton, a biology teacher at Menlo School, took the opportunity to be a citizen scientist by collecting weather-related data. She recorded a drop of 4 degrees Fahrenheit during the total eclipse. Julia Nelson-Gal and her husband went to Madras, Oregon, a popular viewing spot that drew tens of thousands of people. “It got very dark, and it was pretty amazing,” said Nelson-Gal, who added that people also were skydiving during the two minutes of totality. “It felt like something very rare and very special.” Her only wish was that her two sons, ages 20 and 24, were with her to watch the eclipse. Jamie Formato, a physics teacher at Menlo, headed up to his family’s vineyard in Amity, Oregon, which conveniently fell within the path of totality. He called the eclipse an “eerie, ghostly thing up there,” and felt a “weird” aura as totality approached. “I’ve followed astronomy my whole life and learned a lot about these things, but nothing prepared me for the actual experience,” he said. SISTER ACT ... Palo Alto’s global family expanded on Monday night, when the City Council voted to make Heidelberg, Germany, a seventh sister city. Spearheaded by Neighbors Abroad, the relationship will focus on both cultural exchanges and on the cities’ shared interest in technology and sustainability. To underscore that, Neighbors Abroad President Bob Wenzlau displayed on Monday a sculpture of a redwood tree that was made by Palo Alto High School’s glass program and that city officials plan to deliver to Heidelberg during a scheduled trip in late September. “It represents art, it represents education, but there’s something

else sequestered in this tree — this tree is made by Palo Alto green gas, so it also stands for our story of sustainability,” Wenzlau said. The newfound sisterhood is just the latest evolution of a relationship that began about four years ago, when the two cities signed a “Smart City Partnership Agreement,” an accord that staff said fostered intergovernmental exchanges and furthered business and community relationships. The decision to take the friendship further advanced without any dissent. “Heidelberg is just the perfect city to be sister cities with because (we) have so much in common,” Vice Mayor Liz Kniss said, just as former Mayor Pat Burt, Wenzlau and a delegation of Neighbors Abroad headed out of the Council Chambers and toward Dan Gordon’s, a restaurant and brewery where they were preparing to partake in another activity cherished by both cities. SCHOOLS GO SOLAR ... An effort long in the works to add solar panels at Palo Alto Unified schools took a step forward on Tuesday night, when the school board gave the green light for staff to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to find a vendor to build solar panels at six campuses. The six schools — Palo Alto High School, JLS and Terman middle schools, and Nixon, Escondido and Ohlone elementary schools — were selected through a feasibility study commissioned by the district and conducted by a private energy consultant, ARC Alternatives Inc. While other campuses have physical constraints, from too many trees to aging roofs, these six schools are viable for solar panels, the study determined. An ARC Alternatives Inc. consultant urged the board on Tuesday to act quickly to take advantage of the city of Palo Alto’s existing net energy metering program, which is near capacity, for greater cost savings. Trustees were enthusiastic about the project’s environmental benefit and waived their twomeeting rule to approve the RFP and expedite the process. “I don’t think we ever thought this was going to be some huge cashgeneration machine,” said board member Melissa Baten Caswell. “It’s more we wanted to do the right thing for sustainability.” Q

Upfront UTILITIES

Audit finds errors in nearly 600 water bills City of Palo Alto Utilities did not accurately record sizes of water meters, prompting more than 500 errors by Gennady Sheyner

undreds of water customers in Palo Alto received erroneous bills after the city failed to accurately record the size of their water meters, according to a new audit from the office of City Auditor Harriet Richardson. The audit, which was released last week, specifically focused on 577 errors that city officials attributed to mistakes involving water meters. The size of the water meters determines the flat monthly fee customers are charged: Those with 5/8-inch mains pay a fee of $16.77, while those with 1-inch mains are charged $34.26. The errors involved 2.8 percent of the 20,633 meters that the utilities department had installed citywide. Altogether, the billing discrepancies resulted in $227,900 in errors, which includes $184,000 in underbilling and $44,000 in overbilling, according to the audit. The underbilling occurred when the city replaced customers’ smaller meters with larger ones but did not register the change in its billing system, said

Senior Performance Auditor Mimi Nguyen, who physically inspected the meters. The audit, which the City Council’s Policy and Services Committee discussed Tuesday night, found that City of Palo Alto Utilities “has not adequately prevented, detected, nor corrected water billing errors.” It cites 240 errors that Utilities had identified and corrected in 2015 and 2016, along with 214 more errors that the auditor’s office identified by physically checking meter sizes and uncovering discrepancies in the city’s records. Auditors also pointed to 123 “potential errors” that it had not physically verified but that stemmed from discrepancies in purchasing records and water bills. More than 100 mistakes involved the Southgate neighborhood, where the city replaced a water main in 1998 and upgraded some customers from 5/8-inch meters to 1-inch meters. At the time, the difference in water-bill fee charged was only $1.50. In February 2014, utilities workers discovered that they had been charging 115 customers for

the smaller meters even though the larger ones were installed and back-billed customers a total of $45,000, according to the audit. The audit said the city’s errors — and the growing difference in fees charged for the differing meters — raise the question about equity: whether neighbors in similar homes should be paying different rates. The audit found that most of the errors were caused by a system that requires manual data entry at four different points in the installation and billing processes. In some cases, the meter shop changed a water meter to a different size but did not notify billing; in others, it could not verify the meter size being installed and assumed it was correct in the inventory records. The audit recommends that the utilities department correct all the records, investigate the 123 meters that do not match their purchasing records; explore options for addressing equity issues when changing meter sizes; and ensure that its new enterprise-resource-planning system has automated controls in place to prevent

discrepancies. Utilities officials largely agreed with the audit’s findings and recommendations, though General Manager Ed Shikada pushed back against the auditor’s characterization of the billing problem as widespread and that the errors resulted in equity issues. He noted that the utilities department has recently taken steps to reduce errors, including monthly reconciliation of installation record and billing records. Shikada acknowledged that quality assurance was lacking prior to 2015 but wrote that staff has “developed new business procedures and quality assurance controls for the meter life cycle from procurement to installation, operation and retirement. “Since the 2015 meter audit, there have only been two new water meter billing errors identified in the audit — a significant improvement that deserves recognition,” he wrote. In addition to the billing errors, the auditor’s office also scrutinized the city’s decision in 2013 to install 1,178 water e-meters, which rely on ultrasonic signals to gauge the amount of water passing through a meter. In a separate finding, the audit stated that there are currently “no testing standards, and the accuracy, performance and reliability of these meters are uncertain.” Shikada disagreed, but he acknowledged another point made by the auditor’s office, that the city’s transition to e-meters was not executed appropriately. The audit found that the city’s purchase

of the water e-meters was made through what’s known as the “sole source” process, which bypasses the typical competitive solicitation process. Normally, when a department wants to request sole sourcing, it has to “demonstrate that the product is necessary for the health, safety or welfare of the city or that a significant cost savings can be realized.” Normally, the purchasing division in the Administrative Services Department reviews and approves such requests, particularly if they refer to “standardized” products that the city had used in the past and that have been shown to be effective. The new e-meters had not been approved as a standardized product, the audit states, and “did not undergo the typical new product review and scrutiny.” Shikada wrote in his response that all customers with e-meters will be immediately notified of the audit and that procurement and installation of e-meters will remain suspended until new standards for testing are adopted. Staff will also address any accuracy concerns with e-meters already installed, Shikada wrote, and any request for removal of an e-meter will be completed at no cost to the customer. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be reached at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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EDUCATION

New Gunn principal aims to provide steady leadership for school in transition Kathie Laurence brings two decades of experience in Palo Alto Unified

unn High School’s new principal, Kathie Laurence, doesn’t see herself as a hard-charging catalyst. With 22 years under her belt as a Palo Alto Unified School District teacher and administrator, she plans to bring a sense of stability and support to the school, which in many ways is at a turning point after several years of significant change. In the past three years, the school has implemented a new bell schedule, created a teacheradvisory program for students, developed professional learning communities for teacher collaboration and just this fall started a major construction project that will revamp the center of campus and piloted a new social-emotional curriculum, among other changes. Laurence was appointed one month after former Principal Denise Herrmann announced her resignation, despite some suggestions that the district fill the post temporarily and conduct a broad, external search.

“I felt like I’m the right person for the school at this time. I didn’t come over here to be a change agent,” Laurence said in a recent interview in her new office at Gunn. “I came over here to support teachers in their learning and students in their learning.” This commitment was tested on day two of the new school year, when a Gunn senior died by suicide, rocking a community that has experienced two youth suicide clusters since 2009. Since last week, she has been trying to strike a balance between providing space and support for students and staff who need to grieve the loss — extra mental-health support has been offered, and she said she gave teachers permission to have a “soft landing” in terms of work for both themselves and students — and setting a positive tone for the new year. It’s likely her leadership will be further tested this year in a school district that has done much soul searching in recent years about how its academic culture and

treatment of mental health impacts teenagers. Laurence, who described herself as a relationship builder who takes slow, intentional steps before effecting change, has spent her entire educational career in the Palo Alto school district. She graduated from Gunn and started as a social studies teacher at Palo Alto High School in 1995. (Her husband, Scott, was also a teacher, coach and vice principal at Paly before working as Gunn’s principal for eight years, and her son graduated from Gunn.) es and psychology at Paly before becoming an assistant principal in 2010. In that role, she had her hands in all aspects of the schoo l, from Paly’s own shift to a bl ock schedule in 2010 to overseein g guidance and athletics. She was also a teacher-adv iser for 17 years, an experien ce she said will help inform Gun n’s move to a similar student-cohor t program this year. During the las t school year, Laurence oversaw i

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Kathleen Laurence, the new principal of Gunn High School, was most recently the assistant principal at Palo Alto High School and is a Gunn alum. nnovation and learning for Paly , including as a member of the s chool’sChallengeSuccesscommittee, which aimed to move a school cult ure away from grades and test sc ores and toward balance and wellnes s. She also oversaw Paly’s “l earning strands” — monthly meeti ngs for teachers who lead professi onal learning for other teachers. Among Laurence’s top goals at Gunn: continuing teachers’ professional training and supportin g an initiative intended to i mprove education for students at all levels. New techniques in the first “tier” of the initiative include untimed tests (to as-

sess what students have learne d, not how quickly they can take a test) and allowing students t o use notes during tests. Tiers tw oandthreewouldintroducemorespeci alized supports for struggling stud ents. The tiered approach, she sai d, is simply a more systematic appro ach to “good teaching for all stud ents.” Laurence is a strong believe r in the school’s pilot social-em otional learning program, whic h Gunn rolled out this fall wi th all freshmen. Grou ps of 20 to 24 freshmen are mee ting weekly in a new “Social (continued on page 8)

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Elementary School at which other parents and school officials agreed that the problem is worth addressing. She also found willing allies among students, who enthusiastically took up the cause and, at one point, spent four days monitoring the idling habits of parents picking their children up from Hoover. Over that period, the group counted 162 cars idling for at least a minute and 40 doing so for longer than 10 minutes. Tanli Su, a Palo Alto High student who serves as youth chair of the local Sierra Club’s Climate Action Committee, and her peers made a video explaining the menace that is idling and shared it with teachers and administrators. “Since children’s lungs are still developing, they are especially at risk of developing health issues like asthma,” Su said. “The greenhouse-gas emissions from idling cars contribute to this.” Schools aren’t the only hot spots in Palo Alto, Gordon Gray said. Cars idle around Stanford and at local shopping centers, where someone may leave the engine running while they run into a coffee shop for a beverage. Gordon Gray also found allies at City Hall. In June, Councilwoman Karen Holman made a pitch for including an anti-idling

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approach to “good teaching for all students.” Laurence is a strong believer in the school’s pilot social-emotional learning program, which Gunn rolled out this fall with all freshmen. Groups of 20 to 24 freshmen are meeting weekly in a new “Social Emotional Literacy and Functionality” (SELF) advisory class with a teacher-mentor, who will be their adviser for all four years of high school. The program is a preventative effort to instill life skills in students, from interpersonal to coping strategies, and to build small, tight-knit communities within a large school. Laurence said that the socialemotional learning effort remains critical after last week’s student death by suicide. She used a common metaphor to describe the school’s different tiers of mental health support: a lake that runs into a rapidly flowing stream and then a turbulent waterfall. The goal is to support all students in the lake through efforts like the social-emotional learning program to prevent them from floating into the stream, where they might need more intensive support, and ultimately from a crisis that could send them over the waterfall. After years with students near the waterfall, the district has improved its support for students in crisis but less so for those still swimming in the

ordinance as a component in the city’s master plan for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. “It’s low-hanging fruit,” Holman said at the June 5 meeting. “A lot of it is education probably, but having the enforcement mechanism of an ordinance to be able to speak to people about idling and the impacts of that would be most helpful.” While Holman’s proposal did not win approval at that meeting, other council members are now on board. Vice Mayor Liz Kniss, Tom DuBois and Eric Filseth have all joined Holman on a colleagues memo urging a citywide anti-idling ordinance, a measure that they said would make a “modest but measurable contribution” to the city’s goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent by 2030. According to a Department of Energy estimate, idling accounts for about 30 million tons of carbon emissions in the United States a year. Filseth used that number and, adjusting for Palo Alto’s population, concluded that idle vehicles produce roughly 6.2 tons of emissions. Among the biggest culprits, according to the memo, are construction vehicles that idle while making deliveries or picking up materials — a problem made worse by the fact that they use diesel fuels. There is no good reason, the memo claims, for such extended idling. Q

lake, she said. “That’s really the next place to focus,” she said. “I still feel that our most important thing is working on that upstream work because it provides students and staff with tools to help them manage emotions and experiences that may be challenging for them. “It doesn’t get rid of the stream and it doesn’t get rid of the crisis of the waterfall, but the reality is the more we can do in that upstream part, the fewer (crises) we hope to have.” For many Palo Alto students, whose lives are “well-managed” and often focused on academic accolades, Laurence hopes the new social-emotional learning curriculum will help them foster more dialogue and empathy. “I think in our country right now there’s way too much debate focused on winning. We as a school, as a society ... need to be more focused on dialogue, which is seeking to understand as opposed to ‘I have to win this argument,’” Laurence said. When she was at Paly, she said, small things made a difference in fostering dialogue and building relationships with staff, like having conversations in person rather than over email. Teachers would also often drop by her office to bounce ideas off her for classroom strategies, she said. She’s bringing that approach to Gunn, where she said relationships with both the faculty and students are in need of mending. In 2015, the Gunn teachers’ union

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A new City Council memo targets cars that sit idling for more than a few minutes, emitting greenhouse gases. People in Palo Alto have been idling at schools and shopping centers, according to anti-idling advocates. “Modern vehicle engines do not suffer wear and tear from simply being turned on and off and now use very little fuel in start-up,” the memo states. The memo, which the City Council will discuss Monday, acknowledges that there are plenty of legitimate reasons for idling — fire and police vehicles responding to emergency calls; Public Works vehicles operating under “certain specified and detailed conditions”; or health conditions that may require a driver or a passenger to maintain

a certain temperature. These exceptions would be considered in the new anti-idling ordinance. In most cases, drivers would be “required to shut off their engines after two or three minutes of stationary idling, if not in an active traffic path,” according to the memo. The new law would be patterned after similar ordinances in Minneapolis, Salt Lake City and Ann Arbor, the memo states. By Filseth’s calculation, the local ordinance could reduce idlingrelated emissions in Palo Alto by 10 to 20 percent annually, which

is roughly equivalent of taking 120 to 240 cars off the road. The primary cost of the new ordinance, the memo states, would be the posting of signs at schools, truck-delivery stops and employee-bus stops; education materials and — potentially — enforcement. The memo notes that the cost of enforcing is “unclear,” but argues that “even just signs and education are likely to have at least some impact.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be reached at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

filed a formal grievance against Herrmann, accusing her of violating their contract by asking all teachers to use online management system Schoology to post their homework assignments. Students also criticized the administration for not giving students a seat at the table in decisions that impacted student life. Gunn senior Arjun Prabhakar, a member of the selection committee that unanimously recommended Laurence as the new principal, said in a district announcement that it was clear she has “prioritized student voice — not only through rhetoric, but also through action. We, as Gunn students, can expect that transparency and cooperation will soon become the norm under this new leadership.” Another search committee member, Gunn English teacher Marc Igler, was impressed by her sincere “enthusiasm” and “warmth” for school as well as her years as a teacher and administrator at a large high school. “That level of experience can’t be underestimated,” he said in the district announcement. Laurence said she plans to have lunch with every department and to invite students in for open-office hours to talk with her about what’s working and what isn’t at the school and their ideas for how to improve any problems. “I always think it’s better if people who see a problem also are thinking about what are possible solutions because that’s where the learning is, right?” she said. Q

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stipends for master’s and doctorate degrees and a $450 monthly car allowance, according to her three-year contract. Approvals have not yet taken place for other new district hires announced this summer, including Assistant Superintendent of Strategic Initiatives and Operations Yolanda Conaway, whose appointment was effective July 3. She will be paid $196,063 plus stipends for degrees and a car allowance of $450 per month per her three-year contract. At Tuesday’s school board meeting, trustees acknowledged they violated the Brown Act in both the superintendent’s raises and the May approval of Hendricks’ contract. The new Brown Act provision requires the board to summarize the financial terms of Hendricks’ contract at a regular meeting, which McGee did on Tuesday. “I apologize to the community for our sloppiness on this,” Vice President Ken Dauber said. “None of these will change anything substantive, but it’s really important that we be compliant and transparent.” The board will take a second vote at its next meeting to approve Hendricks’ contract, which has also been slightly amended since May, and still has to report in open session and then formally approve the terms of Conaway’s contract. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be reached at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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clear we couldn’t find a record of having done it, it seems we need to remedy that error.”

‘None of these will change anything substantive, but it’s really important that we be compliant and transparent.’ — Ken Dauber, vice president, Palo Alto school board The district also recently violated a provision of the Brown Act that took effect on Jan. 1, 2017, requiring that the details of executive pay increases be orally announced at a public meeting prior to a vote. Gov. Jerry Brown signed this provision into law in 2016 in the wake of a scandal over the misappropriation of public funds by the city government in Bell, California, with the goal of making high-ranking public officials’ pay transparent. No such announcement was made when the school board approved, in open session on May 9, a contract with the district’s new assistant superintendent for human resources, Karen Hendricks. Her starting salary is $209,200, plus additional

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Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

Around the Block NEW MARKET, NEW NAME ... Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center’s owners have taken two steps forward toward filling the long-empty grocery store building that once housed The Fresh Market. Crystal Springs Produce in San Mateo, which plans to take over the 20,600-square-foot space at 2170 West Bayshore Road, applied on July 31 for a City of Palo Alto Use and Occupancy permit under the official business name The Market at Edgewood Inc., according to city records. The store has received approval from the Santa Clara County Health Department, a prerequisite for receiving a use-and-occupancy permit, the application states. The owners are hoping to open the grocery store sometime this fall. PARKING DISRUPTION ... The second level of the Lot 5 parking structure on the 400 block of Cambridge Avenue in the Evergreen Park neighborhood will be partially closed during the week of Aug. 28 to make way for a construction of a solar roof. atop the garage. The entire second floor will be closed to parking Sept. 5 to Oct. 6 for the installation. The solar roof is one of four the city has planned as a way to fuel electric-vehicle charging stations. A second Cambridge Avenue garage also will receive a solar roof, and two parking structures in downtown Palo Alto had roofs installed in late July. When finished, the four solar roofs will add up to 1.3 megawatts of solar capacity. A NEIGHBORHOOD OPENS ... Residents of the College Terrace and the Peter Coutts neighborhoods will get some new neighbors in the coming weeks. The first Stanford University faculty members are now moving in at University Terrace, the school’s 180-home faculty-housing development, the university’s news service noted on Aug. 16. As many as 19 families could move in by the end of this month. When the development is completed in 2019, University Terrace will comprise 58 detached single-family homes, 10 attached single-family residences and 112 condominiums. The first 58 condominiums could be occupied as early as October. The development will open in phases. More information about the neighborhood can be found at tinyurl.com/ybucm3an. Q

Send announcements of neighborhood events, meetings and news to Sue Dremann, Neighborhoods editor, at sdremann@paweekly.com. Or talk about your neighborhood news on the discussion forum Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com.

Sharlene Carlson, president of the Palo Alto Redwoods Homeowners Association, stands on her patio, which is across the wall from the parking lot of 4256 El Camino Real, current home of Su Hong Eatery.

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In south Palo Alto, a battle is brewing Plan for hotel on El Camino Real encounters vocal opposition from neighbors by Jocelyn Dong

ust outside of Sharlene Carlson’s secluded condominium patio, redwood trees tower overhead and filtered sunlight dapples the cool dirt floor below. “I love living here,” said Carlson of the Palo Alto Redwoods, a 117unit complex in south Palo Alto built on the site of a former redwood-tree nursery. “I thought I was going to buy and then move up, but I’m in a serene place. It’s almost a spiritual place. I look at the redwood trees and feel peaceful and calm.” But that calm has recently been disrupted as plans have emerged to develop the property next to Palo Alto Redwoods: 4256 El Camino Real, the current site of Su Hong, a Chinese restaurant. The proposal to build a 69-room hotel and eight townhomes has galvanized to action not only Carlson, head of the homeowners association, but other Palo Alto Redwoods residents as well. Seven condo owners voiced their concerns at last week’s meeting of the city’s Architectural Review Board, which held an initial study session on the 51,600-square-foot project. Developer Mircea Voskerician and a principal architect from Studio T Square of Oakland, representing the owner, described the

plans to the board: The building would be shaped like a U with a row of three-story townhomes on the north side stretching from El Camino back toward the rear of the property, the hotel lobby fronting El Camino, and a 50-foot-tall hotel wing to the south reaching from El Camino to the rear. In between the hotel wing and townhomes would be a courtyard with a fire pit and lounge chairs and tables, according architectural plans submitted to the city. The FRQWHPSRUDU\ KRWHO IDʹDGH ZRXOG feature glass, stone and stucco. Homeowners, whose complex wraps around the north side and rear of the Su Hong site, say the whole plan would lower their quality of life. “There is not one single thing about the proposed development that benefits our community, but there are many harms,” Carlson said at the meeting. Among those alleged harms: noise pollution from the hotel courtyard and a rooftop terrace, especially from events such as weddings; tall buildings that would block sunlight and views; invasion of privacy, given that the Palo Alto Redwoods’ wall is only 11 feet tall; and traffic and pedestrian safety hazards on El

Camino, among others. The development team and the homeowners have met three times over the past two months as the hotel plans have developed. The residents’ objections frustrate Voskerician, who told the Weekly that he had initiated discussions with the homeowners and has made efforts to address their concerns. Among the accommodations, he said: A swimming pool that was proposed for the rear of the property has been eliminated; a fire pit that was going to be next to that pool has been moved to the center of the courtyard; the layout of the townhomes’ third floors has been flipped so that they don’t overlook the Palo Alto Redwoods pool area; the townhomes rooftop “beaks” have been flipped to reduce shadows on the condo pool; and landscaping adjacent to the condo pool’s wall has been altered so it protects privacy but does not cast shadows. Even before meeting with the neighbors, Voskerician said, he decided to distance the underground garage from the rear property line by more than 20 feet so as not to harm the redwoods. “I understand the worries that Palo Alto Redwoods residents have and want to help, but cooperation has to be mutual,” Voskerician wrote in an email to the Weekly. “I have not seen any efforts from Palo Alto Redwoods to ‘work with their new neighbor.’” At a meeting with the homeowners on Aug. 10, attended by more than 30 residents, Voskerician said one man was so upset he started yelling at Voskerician. “They’re not realistic,” the developer said. “Everyone has their own demands. ... They’re not engaging in constructive conversation with us.” Unlike other developments

proposed in Palo Alto, the hoteland-townhome project is not asking for any land-use exemptions and fits into the parcel’s “service commercial” zoning, which allows it to be developed with retail, hotel and residential buildings. Because of a City Council decision to prioritize the construction of hotels, the building also can be twice as dense as its lot would normally allow. But just because it can be built doesn’t mean it should, the Redwoods residents argue. Already, the stretch of El Camino from Charleston/Arastradero Road to the Palo Alto border is home to seven hotels. Ironically, one factor working against the residents in their protest is not the hotel site’s zoning but their own complex’s, which also is service commercial. The identical zoning allows the hotel and townhomes to be 10 feet from the property line — closer than they could be had the condo complex been designated as purely residential when built in 1983. “If the Palo Alto Redwoods were zoned correctly as multifamily residential, then the developer would have to restrict the height to 35 feet maximum within 150 feet of the Palo Alto Redwoods lot line,” 18-year resident Anne Mason told the board. Mason lives in a condo whose large double-paned windows look directly out onto what is now the Su Hong parking lot. She called the project “aggressively dense and offensively taller than any other building on El Camino.” Architectural Review Board member Wynne Furth acknowledged the predicament of the Palo Alto Redwoods neighbors. “I’m really troubled by this (continued on page 12)

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PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/knowzone/agendas/council.asp AGENDAâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;SPECIAL MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COUNCIL CHAMBERS August 28, 2017 5:00 PM Study Session 1. Joint Meeting of the City Council and the Historic Resources Board 2. 3709 El Camino Real [17PLN-00189]: Request by Palo Alto Housing for H 7YLZJYLLUPUN [V *VUZ[Y\J[ H -V\Y Z[VY` )\PSKPUN >P[O (É&#x2C6;VYKHISL Housing Units Including a Building Manager Unit; 2,412 Square Feet of Commercial Space; and Additional Amenity Space for use by the Tenants. The Proposal Would Require at Least one of the Following: Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Rezoning, and/or Zoning Text Amendment. Environmental Assessment: Prescreening is not a Project. The Formal Application Will be Subject to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Review. Zoning District: CN (Neighborhood Commercial) Consent Calendar 4. Adoption of a Resolution Authorizing the Submittal of a Financial Assistance Application to the United States Bureau of Reclamation for the WaterSMART: Title XVI Water Recycling Projects Under the WIIN Act and to Enter Into a Financing Agreement Under the Program 5. Approval of a Multi-year Contract With Abbe and Associates in the Amount of $499,016 for Technical Support for the Zero Waste Program That Includes; a Waste Characterization Study, an Update to the Zero Waste Operational Plan, and Refuse Management Contracting Assistance 6. Acceptance of the Hewlett Foundation Grant, National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and Code:ART Private Contributions; and Approve a Budget Amendment in the General Fund and Public Art Fund 7. Adoption of Three Resolutions Approving the Submission and Management of Three Grants to the California Natural Resources Agency for Junior Museum and Zoo Exhibits, Baylands Boardwalk and Trail Signage and Interpretation 8. Adoption of a Resolution Amending Utility Rate Schedules G-1 (Residential Gas Service), G-2 (Residential Master-metered and Commercial Gas Service), G-3 (Large Commercial Gas Service), and . *VTWYLZZLK 5H[\YHS .HZ :LY]PJL [V 9LÃ&#x2026;LJ[ [OL *HYIVU 6É&#x2C6;ZL[ Charge, as Adopted by City Council in the Carbon Neutral Gas Plan, and Terminate PaloAltoGreen Gas Schedules G-1- G, G-2- G, G-3- G, and G-10- G 9. Approval of an Agreement With the County of Santa Clara Providing $3.2 Million in Transportation Impact Fees for the Design, Review, and Construction of Improvements at the Intersections of Page Mill Road/ Hanover Street and Page Mill Road/El Camino Real; and Approval of an Associated Budget Amendment in the Stanford Research Park/El *HTPUV *: AVUL ;YHÉ&#x2030;J 0TWHJ[ -\UK 10. Approval of Amendment Number 3 to Contract Number C15156501 With SP Plus in the Amount of $16,335 for Additional Services for Parking Permits and On-site Customer Service; Approval of Amendment Number 3 to Contract Number C15156763 With Serco, Inc. in the Amount of $115,140 for Enforcement of Southgate Residential Preferential Parking (RPP) District; and Approval of Amendment 5\TILY [V *VU[YHJ[ 5\TILY * >P[O 4J.\PYL 7HJPÃ&#x201E;J Constructors in the Amount of $142,155 for Construction Services for Southgate Residential Preferential Parking District (RPP) 11. Approval of a Memorandum of Understanding With the Santa Clara Valley Water District to Assess the Feasibility of Developing Water Reuse Alternatives, and an Amendment to the Recycled Water Supply Agreement With the City of Mountain View 12. Approval of Contract Number C18167808C With DeSilva Gates Construction LP in the Amount of $9,243,797; Amendment Number 2 With Mead & Hunt, Inc., Contract Number C15155208B; Page 10 â&#x20AC;¢ August 25, 2017 â&#x20AC;¢ Palo Alto Weekly â&#x20AC;¢ www.PaloAltoOnline.com

and Amendment Number 4 With C&S Engineers, Inc., Contract Number C15155208A for the Airport Apron Reconstruction Capital Improvements Program Project AP-16000; and Approval of a Budget Amendment in the General and Airport Enterprise Funds 13. Approval of a Contract With York Risk Services Group Inc. for up to Five Years in a Total Not-to- Exceed Amount of $1,206,015 for Workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Compensation Claims Administration Services 14. Vote to Endorse the Slate of Candidates for the Peninsula Division, League of California Cities Executive Committee for 2017-18 and Direct the City Clerk to Forward to Seth Miller, the Regional Public (É&#x2C6;HPYZ 4HUHNLY MVY [OL 7LUPUZ\SH +P]PZPVU 3LHN\L VM *HSPMVYUPH *P[PLZ the Completed Ballot for the City of Palo Alto 15. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance Authorizing an Amendment to the Contract Between the City of Palo Alto and the Board of Administration of the California Public Employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Retirement System (PERS) to add Cost- sharing Pursuant to Government Code Section 20516 (FIRST READING: August 14, 2017 PASSED: 9-0) Action Items 16. PUBLIC HEARING: Adoption of a Finding That the Fire Station No. 3 Replacement Project (CIP PE-15003) is "Substantially Complex" Under Public Contract Code Section 7201 and Direction to Increase the Retention Schedule From 5 Percent to 10 Percent 17. PUBLIC HEARING / QUASI-JUDICIAL: 3877 El Camino Real [14PLN00464]: Adoption of a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan and Approval of a Site and Design Review for the Demolition of the Vacant 5,860 Square-foot Commercial Building and Construction of a new Mixed-use Project. The Project Includes a 4,027 Square-foot Commercial Building and 17 Dwelling Units (Flats and Townhouses). Parking for the Project is Provided in a Basement. The Applicant Also Requests Approval of a Design Enhancement Exception to Allow the Basement to Encroach Into the Required Rear Yard Setback Below Grade. Environmental Assessment: A Mitigated Negative Declaration was Circulated Between March 6, 2017 and April 7, 2017. Both the Planning &amp; Transportation Commission (March 8, 2017) and Architectural Review Board (May 18, 2017) Have Recommended Approval of the Project. Zoning Districts: CS and RM-30. (Continued From August 21, 2017) 18. Colleaguesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Memo From Council Members Dubois, Filseth, Holman, and Vice Mayor Kniss Regarding an Anti-idling Ordinance (AIO) 0U[LY .V]LYUTLU[HS 3LNPZSH[P]L (É&#x2C6;HPYZ 19. Support for SB 797 (Hill), a Senate Bill Allowing Regional Entities and Residents of Santa Clara, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties to Vote to Increase the Sales Tax by 1/8 Cent for Caltrain Operations and Capital Purposes

AGENDA-SPECIAL MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COUNCIL CHAMBERS August 29, 2017, 6:00 PM Closed Session 1. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; Title: City Clerk, City Manager; Authority: Government Code Section 54957 (b)

AGENDA-SPECIAL MEETINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;COMMUNITY MEETING ROOM August 30, 2017, 6:00 PM Closed Session 1. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; Title: City Attorney, City Auditor; Authority: Government Code Section 54957 (b)

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Harassment (continued from page 5)

didn’t report because they considered the behavior to be “no big deal,” “ordinary” and even “normal,” according to a staff report on the survey results. Twenty percent of surveyed students also said that most peers at their school accept “minor” acts of harassment on an almost daily basis. About 18 percent of the students also had witnessed sexual harassment, and the majority also chose not to report it inside or outside of school. There’s a similar trend among parents: 8 percent said that their child had been sexually harassed in the previous year at school, but only 31 percent of those reported it. Some parents said this was because it “’did not rise to the level’ of being important enough to report,” the staff report states, “immediately after reading and responding positively to a (survey) prompt that defined sexual harassment as unwanted.” Most parents who did report an incident, 61 percent, said the school’s response was “not effective at all” or “slightly effective.” Most students and parents do believe, however, that their schools would take reports of sexual harassment seriously, according to the survey. Six percent of staff members who took the survey said they had witnessed an incident of sexual harassment directly in the last year, while 27 percent said it had occurred “to their knowledge.” Most staff — 81 percent — who witnessed an incident reported it to their school administrator, and they felt more positively about the effectiveness of the schools’ response, according to the survey. All of the staff members who took the survey reported that if a student tells them they have been sexually harassed, “I will do something to help.” The survey also indicated a lack of awareness about resources that are available to students to prevent sexual harassment. Only half of surveyed students said they had been exposed to education about appropriate boundaries between students and staff. The survey results come at a time when the district is working to address the violations identified by the Office for Civil Rights in its yearslong investigations in the district, including by revising its policies, increasing staff training and hiring a dedicated, district-level Title IX coordinator to oversee complaints. The survey results provide insight into where further effort is needed, McGee said Tuesday night. “There are many different reasons for this,” McGee said of the low reporting rates. “To be sure, some of it is about the school response, but the primary reason was that this behavior was ‘just joking,’ or ‘no big deal,’ or ‘kind

of kidding’ or ‘just that’s the way it is.’ That’s going to change, and it’s going to change now.” The district plans to increase education around sexual harassment, including by partnering with Paly’s and Gunn’s student governing bodies as well as parent groups to come up with impactful ways to do so. The district is already required to train staff members on their legal obligations to comply with district policy and federal and state law related to sexual misconduct; more intensive trainings were completed earlier this month and will be offered again in September, staff said Tuesday. The district will continue to administer the survey annually to assess perceptions on sexual harassment as well as school climate, safety and school responsiveness. On Tuesday evening, the school board discussed related policy changes required under the federal resolution agreement to make sure the district complies with Title IX. The updated board policy would lay out three paths for students or parents when reporting sexual misconduct: They

can proceed under the district’s formal Uniform Complaint Procedure; they can pursue an informal resolution, with the consent of all parties involved; or they can opt not to pursue any formal process, though the district is still obligated to evaluate its responsibility to investigate and address any misconduct. Policy requires school administrators to explain to students and parents how each option differs and for staff to follow specific reporting timelines and documentation requirements. “Each one of those pathways ... involves some amount of investigation, involves keeping the parties updated as to what’s happening, documenting the decisions that are made along the way, providing a written notice of outcome and all of them are completed within 60 calendar days of the district’s receipt of a report,” said Eve Fichtner, an attorney from firm Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo who has been working on the policy revisions for the district. Most board members said they were encouraged by improvement in the draft policy changes,

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

Survey: fewer downtown workers driving alone The percentage of service workers reporting that they drove alone has dipped from 80 percent in 2016 to 70 percent, according to a recent survey by the Palo Alto Transportation Management Association (Posted Aug. 24, 9:27 a.m.)

Large crowds expected at arts festival The Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce will host the 36th annual Palo Alto Festival of the Arts on University Avenue this Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Palo Alto Police Department is warning residents to expect significant delays. University Avenue will be closed between High and Webster streets from the early morning hours of Saturday until 11 p.m. on Sunday. (Posted Aug. 24, 9:11 a.m.)

Attorney General sides with Recall campaign In an emergency application for intervention filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose Tuesday morning, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra urged the court to reject claims recently made by the embattled Judge Aaron Persky in an effort to block his opposition from gathering the signatures required to place the measure on the June 2018 ballot. (Posted Aug.22, 5:40 p.m.)

Council backs new fiber network vision Palo Alto’s exhausting effort to expand its “dark fiber” ring and make ultra-high-speed internet broadly available to businesses and residents took a new direction Monday night, when the City Council directed staff to design a system of neighborhood “nodes” that would allow residents and businesses to plug into the growing network. (Posted Aug. 22, 8:14 a.m.)

Plan to transform animal shelter advances On Monday night, the council voted to approve a letter of intent with the nonprofit Pets in Need, with the idea that the organization would take over the shelter’s operation from the city in early 2018. As part of the same 7-1 vote (Mayor Greg Scharff was absent), the council also agreed to spend $60,000 on a study that would evaluate the capacity of a fundraising campaign for a new and larger shelter. (Posted Aug.22, 1:10 a.m.)

but as a board they decided to postpone approving the policies until a later meeting so they could further digest them. Vice President Ken Dauber said he was “uncomfortable,” however, with new language around staff sexually “grooming” students. The draft policy prohibits sexual relationships between employees and former students “if the employee’s pursuing behavior took place in an educational setting,” defined as any school or district program, activity or physical site. Dauber worried that this definition could limit the district’s ability to protect students fully from inappropriate relationships with teachers or staff, arguing that inappropriate behavior that takes place at a coffee shop, for example, has the same “negative effect” on a student. Fichtner said the district does not have jurisdiction over noneducational settings but that it is required to respond to any offcampus behavior if it impacts students on campus. The board’s policy review committee will discuss the revisions at its first meeting of the year on Aug. 31. The Office for

Civil Rights has approved the updated policies and has instructed the district to do the same by particular deadlines in September. At its meeting the school board also unanimously approved an increased legal services budget for the 2017-18 school year that includes an additional $200,000 to investigate recent reports of sexual violence in the district. The law firm in charge of those investigations, Cozen O’Connor, is close to issuing a much-anticipated report on how senior leadership responded to a student sexual-assault case at Paly last year. In other business Tuesday, the school board unanimously voted to replace a law firm that has provided personnel services for the district, Lozano Smith, with an existing district firm, Dennis Woliver Kelley. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com. The Palo Alto Weekly has created a Storify page to capture ongoing coverage of sexual misconduct in the Palo Alto school district. To view it, go to storify.com/paloaltoweekly.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Aug. 21)

Animals: The council agreed to spend $60,000 on a feasibility study for fundraising for a new animal shelter and approved a letter of intent with Pets in Need. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Holman, Kniss, Kou, Tanaka No: Wolbach Absent: Scharff Fiber: The council supported a staff recommendation to make a business case for a “Fiber to the Node” system. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Kniss, Kou, Wolbach No: Holman, Tanaka Absent: Scharff

Board of Education (Aug. 22)

Policies: The board discussed proposed revisions to policies on nondiscrimination, harassment, sexual harassment and Uniform Complaint Procedure. Action: None Legal services: The board authorized staff to increase the district budget for legal services by $450,000 and to contract with Dennis Woliver Kelley to provide personnel services, replacing Lozano Smith. Yes: Unanimous Solar panels: The board waived its two-meeting rule and authorized staff to issue a request for proposals to add solar panels at select school sites. Yes: Unanimous JLS pool: The board waived its two-meeting rule and authorized staff to solicit bids to renovate JLS Middle School’s swimming pool. Yes: Unanimous BPRC: The board discussed policies that its policy review committee will consider in the 2017-18 school year. Action: None Contract: The board discussed an amendment to the contract for Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources Karen Hendricks. Action: None

Council Policy and Services Committee (Aug. 22)

Billing audit: The committee recommended approving the new audit on the accuracy of water meter billing. Yes: Unanimous

Parks and Recreation Commission Commission (Aug. 22)

Zoo:The commission heard an update on the planned reconstruction of the Junior Museum and Zoo. Action: None

Historic Resources Board (Aug. 24)

Garage: The board held a study session to discuss the proposed five-story parking garage planned for 375 Hamilton Ave. Action: None Baylands: The board held a study session to discuss the former International Telephone and Telegraph property at 2601 East Bayshore Road. Action:None 526 Waverley: The board discussed a proposal to reclassify a Birge Clarkdesigned building at 526 Waverley St. from Category 3 to Category 2 on the city’s Historic Inventory. Action: None

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Public Agenda

Redwoods (continued from page 9)

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a joint session with the Historic Resources Board; consider a proposal by Palo Alto Housing to build a four-story development with 61 below-market-rate housing units at 3709 El Camino Real; consider increasing the rention schedule for the Fire Station 3 project from 5 to 10 percent; hold a public hearing on a proposal to demolish an existing commercial building at 3877 El Camino Real and construct 17 dwelling units and a 4,027-square-foot commercial building at the site; and discuss a memo from council members DuBois, Filseth, Holman and Kniss about an anti-idling ordinance. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 28 in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to evaluate the performances of the city clerk and city manager. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 29, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to evaluate the performances of the city attorney and city auditor. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 30, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hold study session to discuss initial traffic study findings related to Stanford University’s General Use Permit application. The commission will also consider an ordinance prohibiting marijuana dispensaries and continue its review of the proposed Transportation and Land Use elements as part of the Comprehensive Plan update. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 30, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE ... The Booard of Education’s policy review committee will tentatively discuss policies on: nondiscrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, Uniform Complaint Procedure, bullying, class size, access to district records and involuntary student transfers. The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 31, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave.

anomaly, that we have this residential development that’s big, and while our code does not protect denser housing the way it protects single-family housing ... I want to know that the building we approve does not diminish the quality of life on this parcel,” she said. Board member Peter Baltay noted that, in addition to the zoning requirements, developments must meet others city standards ranging from pedestrian- and bicycle-friendliness to effective parking design to the acceptable building mass and distance from property lines. “I find this project has quite a few of issues that need to be resolved before it moves forward,” Baltay said. Sensitive not just to the project’s architecture but also to the brewing neighborhood discord, Baltay had words of advice for both sides of the divide. “You’ll save yourselves and us a lot of trouble if you can find a way to work together a little bit,” Baltay said. “(To) the applicant: This is a challenging project and if you really want this big of a building it’s going to be difficult. (To) the community: He has the right to develop this property. ... There’s a possibility he’ll make it better, not worse, as an amenity to you and everybody else. “Listen to his concerns, allow him some latitude. ... As an

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A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week

As viewed from the rear of the property, a proposed development for 4256 El Camino Real in south Palo Alto would include a 50-foottall hotel (upper and right wing) and eight three-story townhomes (left) surrounding a courtyard. Palo Alto Redwoods, a condominium complex, wraps around the lot on the north (left) and west (bottom). applicant, try to make it so it’s better for them, not worse,” Baltay said. Voskerician, who is himself a Palo Alto resident, told the Weekly that he intends to go back to the property owner and partners to discuss the architectural board’s and residents’ feedback and to decide on changes to the plan. He said he also hopes to meet with homeowners again, if they are willing. Q Watch the Architectural Review Board meeting at YouTube. com/user/PACity2013 (discussion

of 4256 El Camino Real starts at 2:15:00) A longer version of this article is posted at PaloAltoOnline.com. Editor Jocelyn Dong can be reached at jdong@paweekly.com.

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Aug. 16-22 Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . . 4 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in City parking lot . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Disobey court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Felon in possession of firearm . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Muni code/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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August 27, 1929 – August 5, 2017 Longtime Menlo Park resident Diana M. Laraway passed away peacefully surrounded by loving family members on Aug. 5, 2017. She has joined her husband of 49 years Charles W. Laraway who passed away in 1999. She was born and raised in San Jose, Ca. She graduated with a teaching degree from San Jose State University. Taught kindergarten until starting her family. Once her children were grown, she went back to teaching special education for the Las Lomitas School District until retirement. 40 plus years of special times and great memories were made by family and friends at her vacation home in Lake Tahoe. She positively impacted and inspired many lives as a teacher, mother, grandmother and friend. She will be dearly missed by all who loved her. Diana was so passionate about the family she leaves behind, 3 children Leslie Pentecost (Ricki), Joni Woodside (Jack), Brian Laraway (Eve), 3 grandchildren (spouses), and 4 great grandchildren. The family will hold a small, private celebration of life to honor their loved one at a later date. PAID

Notice is hereby given that the City of Palo Alto has completed a draft performance report for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program for Fiscal Year 2016-17. The Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) is available for public review and comment prior to its submittal to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The CAPER represents the second year of the City’s Five-Year Consolidated plan covering the period 20152020, and covers the accomplishments under the CDBG program for the period July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. It JVUZPZ[Z VM ZWLJPÄJ WYVNYHT UHYYH[P]LZ HU HZZLZZTLU[ of annual performance, and an assessment of progress toward meeting goals and objectives contained in the Consolidated Plan. Public Review and Comment Period: The draft CAPER will be available for public review and comment for a 15day period, beginning on Monday, August 28, 2017 and concluding at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 12, 2017. Written comments may be submitted during the review period and should be sent to the City of Palo Alto, Department of Planning and Community Environment, Attention: Erum 4HXIVVS *+). :[HɈ :WLJPHSPZ[ /HTPS[VU (]LU\L 5th Floor, Palo Alto, CA 94301. Comments can also be submitted via e-mail to erum.maqbool@cityofpaloalto.org. Public Hearing: The Human Relations Commission will hold a public hearing to take public comment on the draft CAPER on Thursday, September 14, 2017. The Public Hearing will be held at 7:00 p.m., or as soon as possible thereafter, in the Palo Alto City Hall Community Meeting Room, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto. To Obtain a Copy of the CAPER: Copies are available at the Planning Department reception desk, City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, 5th Floor, the Development Center located at 285 Hamilton Avenue during regular business hours, by calling (650) 329-2561, or visiting the City’s CDBG website: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/ pln/cdbg.asp. Persons with disabilities who require auxiliary aids or services in using City facilities, services or programs, or who would like information on the City’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, may contact: ADA Coordinator, City of Palo Alto, 650-329-2550 (Voice) ada@cityofpaloalto.org Page 14 • August 25, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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OBITUARY

Kató Mendelssohn Reis Kató Mendelssohn Reis, greatgreat-granddaughter of composer Felix Mendelssohn and longtime resident of Palo Alto, died on Aug. 15. She was 98. Born in Budapest, Hungary on Jan. 29, 1919, she was the only child of Gabor and Klari Mendelssohn Székely. She began formal musical training at age 6. At age 8, she received a full scholarship to the Franz Listz Academy of Music in Budapest, where she spent the following decade devoting herself to lessons and piano practice. Though she was offered a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at the age of 14, the family decided to wait until after she graduated from the Franz Listz Academy in 1938 to immigrate to the United States. With the encouragement of two uncles already in the United States, the family moved to Los Angeles to allow her musical career to flourish. Shortly thereafter, she began giving piano lessons and performing for schools, civic organizations and private parties, eventually becoming the teacher-of-choice for Hollywood elites such as Mary Pickford. Using her great-greatgrandfather’s surname, she began playing concerts with world-class orchestras. In 1940, her performance of a concerto at Stanford University’s Memorial Auditorium caught the attention of Stanford student Robert Stanley Reis. They would later marry at Stanford Chapel in 1946. Prior to marriage, she volunteered her talents during World War II, giving concerts for the troops at USO venues and military hospitals. Meanwhile, her husband served in the army. After marriage, the couple settled in Atherton, where she resumed teaching piano. She and her husband had four sons, all of whom were included in her full roster of piano students. She continued teaching piano into her 70s. Once her sons were grown, she volunteered at Allied Arts, the MidPeninsula League of the San Francisco Symphony, Peninsula Family Service, Peninsula Volunteers-Little House and Meals on Wheels. After her husband died in 2008, she filled her days with her family, playing bridge and giving frequent impromptu concerts on the grand piano in the Vi’s lobby. She is preceded in death by her husband, Robert. She is survived by her children, Ronald (Barbara); Tom (Julie); Brian (Prudence); and John (Karen); grandchildren, Klari, Peter, Michael, Annie, Robert, Scott, Ryan, David, Julia, Nicholas and Jack; and nine great-grandchildren. Anyone wishing to honor her is encouraged to donate to either Peninsula Family Service, 24 Second Ave., San Mateo, CA, 94401, or the Mid-Peninsula League of the San Francisco Symphony, 201 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94102.

A show of one’s own

Former principal ballerina takes another bow by Anna Medina

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Dancer Stephanie Herman rehearses for her autobiographical show “Ballerina: A One-Woman Play,” which will debut Aug. 30.

eorge Balanchine. Mikhail Baryshn i kov. Rudol f Nureyev. Martha Graham. Alvin Ailey. These are mythic figures in the dance world, but for former principal ballerina Stephanie Herman, these greats were cast members in her life — people she knew, studied under and danced with and for. Next week, at the age of 66, she will take to the stage once more in a debut performance of “Ballerina, a One-Woman Play,” which she has written and choreographed to reflect her journey as a dancer. In her show, Herman will, effectively, perform her life story — one defined by a love for the artistry of dance, the struggle to please others and the emotional and physical hardships of working through and overcoming injuries. Herman said that she is aiming to communicate the story of how she has had to please others in the different situations she’s been in — situations in which she “learned early to survive by doing what other people wanted and how to do what they wanted.” The cost? “If you keep doing what everybody wants, you’re not really owning yourself, and so there starts to be this conflict between your mind and your soul,” she said. “So, your mind is going, ‘The director said I have to do more turnout,’ and ‘The director said I have to get my leg up higher,’ and ‘The director said I have to get my passé up higher,’ and ‘The director said ...’ You get the idea. There can be a brutal emphasis

on technique in ballet, as in other artistic endeavors. “(Meanwhile), my mind is (also) like, ‘Oh, my soul feels this music so much, I just want to give my love to this music,’ and the artist wants to —,” Herman paused and then cut in, mimicking the other part of the dancer’s mind, “‘No. You have to do your pirouettes more! Higher leg!’” Even in conversation, she dramatizes the mind’s push-and-pull, so it is no wonder that later in life Herman has returned to the stage after taking acting classes. This time, though, she has the freedom to be herself — wisdom that comes with perspective. “What I’ve learned in my wise years now is — and just recently through acting lessons — that it’s okay to be yourself,” she said. But, at the age of 19, Herman was just setting out on her journey to this realization. In 1969, she moved from New York City to Geneva, Switzerland, to be part of a company that Balanchine had started there. She described the experience as, “educational” — emotionally and “just learning about the world firsthand and also cultural differences.” She recalled adjusting to a Swiss diet that included cheese, fondue, bread, chocolates and potatoes and, for the first time, having a “weight problem.” (Later, revisiting pictures of herself during this period of life, she would laugh at the idea that she had thought she was overweight.) It was after she had been dancing in Geneva for a few years that she sustained her first significant injury. While rehearsing, she recalled trying to do the best

she could do. As a result of her efforts, she fell one way and her knee went the other way. “Nobody knew what to do, so I took my knee and put it back in its place,” she said. She was flown back home to New York with a three-foot cast from her ankle to her thigh and advised to recuperate. “It was hard to go back home injured,” she said. She focused on getting stronger. “I felt that the only way I could get back to where I needed to be ... I had to get strong,” she said. She was introduced to Pilates and “learned a whole new way of understanding the body.” While recovering, she went to auditions and was told she was too tall. “’Thank you No. 15,’ they would say,” she said. “It was emotionally very difficult for me ... It was an identity crisis.” Nevertheless, after a couple of years, she was on a plane back to Switzerland, where Nureyev hand-picked her to dance the lead — his mother — in a ballet he had choreographed: “Manfred.” “He believed in me, and because he believed in me, I believed in myself,” she said. Herman would spend the next seven years touring the world with the likes of Baryshnikov before moving back to New York where, once again she was faced with being “too tall” and, this time, being older, too. Eventually, she found herself “feeling a little injured,” but continued performing nonetheless. When she was asked to fill in for an injured dancer, she did it, but her spine wasn’t ready for the number of backbends she had to do. She was confined to her bed and

faced “with the reality of, ‘Who are your if you’re not a ballerina?’” Herman’s injury led her to learn more about the body. She spent her time delving through medical books and researching different approaches and exercises such as gyrotonics. After an operation in her knee didn’t take her pain away, she decided to take the matter into her own hands, eventually finding that all she needed to do was to strengthen one small area of her knee and that was it. It wasn’t long before Herman was helping other people work through their injuries, creating a therapeutic program set to music called “Muscle Ballet,” which she trademarked in the early 1990s. Around this time, she moved to the Bay Area with her partner and has since resided in Menlo Park. Today, Herman continues leading workshops and working with individuals one-on-one, helping people overcome chronic pain and working with people to design a fitness regimen that works for their body. She’s trademarked an educational system called “Pilates Ballet by Stephanie Herman.” “A lot of this stuff I learned from other masters — Franklin Technique, Pilates, Gyrotonics, physical therapy, kinesiology — and I think of myself now as a chef ... I put my own twist to it,” she said. “In Pilates you learn you’ve got this choreography ... but when I look at a person’s body and they don’t fit into this format, I’ll build a new choreography just for them so that they can naturopathically own what they really need to own to learn it.” In a recent workshop, participants went around the room

stating what they were working on or focusing on. There was a variety of ages, stages and areas of focus in the group, including Jordan Hammond, a ballerina, formerly with the San Francisco Ballet, who was traveling from Walnut Creek to take individualized sessions with Herman after having sustained an injury to her psoas muscle. “I wanted to find someone who understood what it’s like to be a dancer and come back from injury, and there’s so much mentally that you have to deal with and emotionally, too because ballet is so all-consuming, and it’s really hard when you don’t have that in your life,” she said. In a way, Herman’s therapeutic class and her one-woman show have one underlying message: reclaiming oneself, body and soul. “I want to motivate other people to have the courage to be themselves,” she said. “... The more I own who I am, the more honest I am with the audience. And, this is who I am at 66.” Q Editorial Assistant and Internship Coordinator Anna Medina can be reached at amedina@paweekly.com. What: “Ballerina: A One-Woman Play” Where: Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto When: Wednesday, Aug. 30, at 8 p.m. Cost: $15, students (with ID); $20, members and J-Pass holders; $25, general public Info: paloaltojcc.org/ballerina

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Arts & Entertainment

Clay Lancaster

Mechanical Turk (from left: Can Yucel, Sedat Parlaticibilek, Kaan Tariman and Sonat Karakas) is a local Turkish rock band with a big following.

Turkish delight Mechanical Turk brings Istanbul-influenced rock to the Peninsula by Karla Kane ack in the late 18th cen- incorporating well-known riffs tury, a “mechanical Turk” from Western rock music. Their took Europe and the Turkish influences include Americas by storm. Ostensibly Mazhar-Fuat-Ozkan, Mor ve a chess-playing automaton, the Otesi, Duman and Athena, while device skillfully battled and de- some of their English-language feated many human opponents, favorites are Queen, The Beatles, dazzling viewers along the way. Michael Jackson and Rush. “Kirmizi” (which means “red” Only years later was it revealed to be an elaborate hoax, with a in Turkish), is a song that fronthuman chess master, not an early person Tariman wrote more than computer, hiding inside all along. 15 years ago. Though it’s an older When it came time to decide on tune, it’s a recent addition to Mea name that would cheekily con- chanical Turk’s setlist after a sucnect their Turkish roots with their cessful jam at rehearsal. “Every song has its own story, Silicon Valley audience, the techloving musicians (three of whom and some start off with a phrase also work as computer engineers) and others might start with a guitar forming a Mountain View-based lick,” he said. He’s excited to play rock-pop band decided that Me- the song at the Red Rock show, in chanical Turk was the perfect its stripped-down, acoustic-guitar and brush-drums arrangement. choice. They’ve toured around CaliforKaan Tariman (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Can Yucel (lead guitar, nia, including stops in Los Angebacking vocals, flute), Sedat Parla- les and San Diego, and are eager to ticibilek (bass) and Sonat Karakas expand their reach. “The band gets along great, and (drums), with manager Arsal Asal, have been playing together since it’s always a delight to meet our 2015. They’ll perform an acoustic fans in a new space or play at a concert at Mountain View’s Red space that we are familiar with,” Rock Coffee on Saturday, Aug. 26. Parlaticibilek said. Their next goal is to film a few “Sonat and I knew each other back from Istanbul; we actually high-quality music videos and played a couple of times together. they are currently working on When I moved to the Bay Area building a new website. Then, if 3 years ago, I sent him a mes- all continues to go well, eventually sage just to say ‘hi,’ and after they’ll make a full-length record. The local Turkish population, a few messages, the conversation changed its course to form a Tariman said, is small compared to those on the East Coast, but enband,” Yucel said. “To be honest, we were all long- thusiastic and encouraging. Fans ing to be back on stage, so that don’t have to speak Turkish to dig message just triggered a series of the sound, however. “We’ve also been getting feedevents,” Karakas agreed. “Kaan was also a well-known pop-rock back from many people saying singer so we figured he would be that they love the energy of the a great addition. Then, finally, Can band even when they don’t uncalled a former bass player he also derstand the lyrics,” he said. “So, knew from Istanbul, that lived in honestly, we’ve been witnessing our fan base grow and grow everyLA at that time.” After a few months of rehearsal, day, expanding beyond the Turkish the band played its first show, in community, which is amazing.”Q San Francisco, and the result was Arts & Entertainment Editor encouraging, to say the least. Karla Kane can be emailed at “We knew we were on the right kkane@paweekly.com. path,” Tariman said, “when our first gig was sold out.” What: Mechanical Turk Their shows have drawn hunWhere: Red Rock Coffee, dreds of fans: quite impressive 201 Castro St., Mountain View for being fairly new on the localWhen: Saturday, music scene. The band identifies Aug. 26, at 8 p.m. its genre as “Turkish pop-rock” Cost: TBA and “Turkish fusion,” playing a Info: Go to redrockcoffee. bouncy, harmonized mix of songs org and facebook.com/ from their native Turkey, original mechanicalturkband/ songs in Turkish, and mash-ups

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Eating Out All about tomatoes

Grilled, marinated, pickled, raw: advice and inspiration from local experts

by Elena Kadvany Photos by Ana Sofia Amieva-Wang

here’s something about peak-season tomatoes that makes you feel ashamed to eat them at any other time of the year. They’re flavorful, indulgently juicy and need barely any enhancement beyond a healthy drizzle of good olive oil, fresh basil and flakes of Maldon salt. The tomato season is fleeting, which adds to the allure — generally from mid-July to early fall. This time of year, farmers market stands are piled high with tomatoes of all colors, shapes and sizes, and they’re appearing on many seasonal restaurant menus. Read on to see how local chefs, a baker and tomato farmer are putting the summer fruit to use this season.

Charlie Parker, Flea St. Cafe, Menlo Park When Charlie Parker was growing up in Menlo Park, lunchtime at his uncle’s meant a grilled New York strip steak paired with two hefty heirloom tomatoes and a ramekin of crunchy sea salt on the side. “That’s all you really need,” said the Flea St. Cafe chef. “It’s pretty much the signature of summer.” Tomatoes are one of his favorite ingredients. Come late summer, he has to restrain himself from using them all over the menu. “Right now I could get so carried away with tomatoes, so I’m trying to find a balance,” he said. The Menlo Park restaurant grows tomatoes in a small garden in its back parking lot, including smaller varieties such as Sun Gold, Sweet 100 and pear tomatoes. Parker is currently roasting the Sweet 100s for a California halibut dish. The fish is served over a stew of butter beans, yellow wax beans, haricot vert and the tomatoes. He’s also using dry-farmed tomatoes to make a smoked tomato and caper sauce for short ribs and combining the Sun Golds with peaches on top of a yellowfin crudo with cucumbers and sea salt. Fried green tomatoes are served with crisp pork belly, pepper relish and a smoked jalapeño yogurt. Parker said he typically seasons tomatoes with kosher salt and finishes them with fleur de sel. The sooner you season tomatoes, the more moisture is drawn out — which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, he said. Improvise a sauce from the juices with olive oil and vinegar, he suggested. Tomatoes’ natural acidity makes them “the perfect sauce” ingredient, Parker said. He also said to avoid refrigerating farm-fresh tomatoes, as they’re best at room temperature. “When you have them, flaunt them,” he said.

Rocco Scordella, Vina Enoteca, Palo Alto If there’s a tomato on your plate at Vina Enoteca in Palo Alto, chances are that it

traveled a short distance — 1.2 miles, to be exact — to get there. The O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm supplies the nearby Vina Enoteca with produce of all kinds, but this time of year, owner Rocco Scordella is particularly excited about the farm’s vine-ripe cherry tomatoes, heirlooms and red beefsteaks. “I’m a big fan of tomatoes,” he said on a recent afternoon, walking through rows of tomato plants at the campus farm. “It’s a short season, and people love it.” For Scordella, an ingredient-driven chef who hails from Bologna, Italy, simplicity is the name of the game. Tomatoes currently star in the Italian-Californian restaurant’s classic caprese salad and linguine with cherry tomatoes, clams and mussels. “A good tomato with a little salt and olive oil, that’s good enough. That’s the main focus of Italian cuisine, too — if your ingredients are top notch, then you don’t have to (add) that many ingredients to it.”

Avery Ruzicka, Manresa Bread, Los Altos Tomatoes’ high water content makes them a challenging ingredient for bakers. “In bread, controlling the hydration of dough is key to a high quality product,” said Avery Ruzicka, head baker at Manresa Bread, the Manresa restaurant bakery spinoff with locations in Los Altos and Los Gatos. “Concentrating the flavors of the tomato is the best way to approach baking with them.” She recommends oven- or sun-drying tomatoes if incorporating them into a dough, or using them as a simple, savory topping. Dryfarmed tomatoes and small cherry tomatoes have lower water content, she said. Or, combine store-bought puff pastry with goat cheese and thinly sliced tomatoes. Bake and finish with lemon zest, she said. At Manresa Bread right now, Ruzicka is incorporating roasted Early Girl tomatoes into a quiche with lemon thyme, capers and feta cheese. She also roasts tomatoes to create a savory bread from house-milled emmer and spelt flours, confit garlic, roasted tomatoes, toasted pistachios and sumac. At home, Ruzicka likes to use tomatoes to make “the simplest of salads: white onion, white vinegar, tomatoes, Maldon salt, black pepper and California olive oil.”

Cynthia Sandberg, Love Apple Farms, Scott’s Valley “Right now on my countertop, I’m looking at 10 different colors of tomatoes and the same number of different sizes and shapes,” tomato farmer Cynthia Sandberg said during a recent phone interview. It’s this diversity that made Sandberg fall “hard” for tomatoes years ago and open her own farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She now runs the largest tomato plant sale in California and offers gardening classes on

Evie, 5, helps pick out tomatoes at the California Avenue Farmer’s Market in Palo Alto. her farm, both of which she said are regularly attended by Midpeninsula residents. (Sandberg, whose vegetable farm exclusively supplied Michelin-starred Manresa in Los Gatos for 10 years, said she often informally drops off tomatoes at other local restaurants.) This season, Sandberg grew about 100 different varieties, from the Ananas Noire (which means “black pineapple,” and was made by crossing a bicolored tomato with black tomato) to the Delano Green, a chartreuse tomato she uses to contrast with red beefsteaks in her homemade caprese salad with fresh mozzarella and basil. After caprese, Sandberg’s go-to tomato snack is a toasted sourdough English muffin with mayonnaise and an inch-thick slice — and “it has to be inch-thick,” she warns — of homegrown tomato, topped with French gray sea salt and cracked pepper. For those growing tomatoes at home, now is a good time to start pruning and fertilizing, Sandberg said. Use your fingers to pinch off any “suckers,” or small growths that emerge between stem and branch and would eventually flower, so the plant can “concentrate on what it already has going,” she said. For fertilizer, she recommends a homemade concoction. Buy worm castings (a.k.a. organic worm waste), put a double handful into a five-gallon bucket of water and let it steep for two days. Strain it, put it into a garden sprayer and give everything in your garden, not just the tomatoes, a healthy spray every week. The castings decrease pests and disease, she said. If you’re grossed out by this recipe, buy a quality liquid organic fertilizer and spray or apply to the roots of the tomato plant, Sandberg said. Sandberg contends the tomato is “the world’s most popular fruit.” “That’s why we have tomato festivals all over the world, but we don’t have spinach

festivals all over the world. It’s their myriad colors and shapes and flavors,” she said. “It’s not just your red, tasteless orb that you might buy from your local supermarket. They really are fantastically diverse.”

Anthony Ruth, Village Bakery & Cafe, Woodside Marinated, blistered, fried — tomatoes are being treated in every way in the kitchen of the newly opened Village Bakery & Cafe in Woodside. There’s the salad made with tomatoes marinated for at least four hours in a mixture of lemon juice and Italian olive oil, then mixed with cucumbers and shallots and topped with feta cheese. Green tomatoes from SMIP Ranch, the private farm that supplies the Woodside restaurant, are fried and topped with herbs and a buttermilk dressing. And earlier this week, Chef de Cuisine Anthony Ross made a steak tartare with blistered cherry tomatoes and tarragon oil. Because SMIP Ranch is high in the hills above Woodside, it has a slightly cooler climate, which means a longer-than-usual tomato season — into October or even November. The farm supplies all restaurants operated by Bacchus Management Group, including the Village Bakery and The Village Pub in Woodside, and Mayfield Bakery & Cafe in Palo Alto, so don’t be surprised to see tomatoes on their menus throughout the fall. When at home, Ross is keeping it simple: He likes to grill Early Girl tomatoes whole and serve them with a rib eye steak. Lightly coat the tomatoes with salt, pepper and olive oil before grilling. He said he looks for a “hard char” on the tomatoes, when their skin starts to blister and a popping sound indicates they’re done.Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@paweekly.com.

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Steve Coogan rides past windmills during a six-part episodic road trip through Spain with Rob Brydon in “The Trip to Spain.”

Tilting at windmills Third ‘Trip’ with Brydon & Coogan still worth taking 001/2 (Aquarius) and season to direcThe recipe remains OPENINGS tor Michael Winterthe same in “The Trip bottom’s taste with to Spain,” the third in a series initiated by 2010’s “The comic banter and personal woes. Trip” and continued in 2014’s If the dish has lost its pizazz, it “The Trip to Italy.” Take comic remains comfort food for comedy actors Steve Coogan and Rob connoisseurs. Though not exactly a valid exBrydon, knead them into “Steve Coogan” and “Rob Brydon,” bake cuse for the films’ slapdash feel, them into a foodie travelogue, it’s worth remembering that each

film has been pared down to a feature from six television episodes broadcast on U.K. television. In most respects, “The Trip to Spain” demonstrates diminishing returns: We’ve seen it all before, and better, in the previous two entries. That makes the third film best for die-hard fans of the talent (or the series), or for those who skipped both previous films. Anyone in between can take a pass. Winterbottom wastes no time establishing the premise. In the first scene, “Coogan” calls up “Brydon” and asks if he’d like to go off again on a fine-dining tour, sponsored by newspapers; he would, and off they go. As usual, the men occasionally get on Skype or the phone to deal with career travails and familial discomforts, but most of the running time finds the two friends entertaining or annoying each other, in a heightened version of their real-life friendship. Since Coogan is the bigger star, his character’s problems get a bit more play. He’s a single dad, still playing the field, while Brydon’s enjoying a break from his generally pleasing domestic life. Coogan enjoys an internationally prominent career, so his pressure to maintain contrasts to Brydon idly wondering if he should step up his ambitions. The two men share one significant worry: what it means to be 50 (they quickly agree they’re in their prime of life) The minor dramas don’t find much purchase in “Spain,” but

“There’s no place like home.”

sequences, “Spain” finds the series at its most tiresome, and the filmmakers attempt to wriggle out of the necessity by commenting on it: a “Spanish Flea” singalong seems deliberately, self-reflexively annoying, and in one pointed scene, Brydon runs his Moore impression into the ground. What people will mostly remember about “The Trip to Spain” is its Cervantes motif, an obvious joke that through repetition seeps to some depth: Coogan’s Quixote and Brydon’s Sancho Panza try not to get lost in La Mancha while fighting the good fight to make sense of an absurd and trying life. Not rated. One hour, 48 minutes. – Peter Canavese

the characters’ insecurities prove as vivid as ever. Fragile egos prod each man to constantly try to one-up the other; when one preens or boasts, the other takes him down a peg (perhaps, unconsciously, their mirrored need for such checks and balances is what keeps them friends). At their best, they run with each other’s comic premises with a seemingly improvisational flair (an impromptu sketch on the Spanish Inquisition being a highlight); at their worst, they obnoxiously break into dueling impressions. The recently departed Roger Moore gets a particular workout this time, with Marlon Brando and Mick Jagger close behind. In these

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GIRLS WHO CODE... Reshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit organization championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai and John Legend, will be at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, today at 7 p.m. to talk about “Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World. “ She is the former Deputy Public Advocate of New York City who has galvanized industry leaders to close the gender gap in STEM education and empower girls to pursue careers in technology and engineering. To RSVP, go to keplers.org.

LINCOLN’S WAR SECRETARY ... Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller “Seward,” will be at Books Inc. in Palo Alto on Monday, Aug. 28, at 7 p.m., to talk about his new book, “Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary,” which tells the story of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton. Stanton was the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union. He supervised the army of a million men who won the Civil War. He organized the war effort. He directed military movements from his telegraph office, where Lincoln literally hung out with him. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for “war crimes,” such as resisting the draft or calling for an armistice. Stanton was so controversial that some accused him at that time of complicity in Lincoln’s assassination. He was a stubborn genius who was both reviled and revered in his time. Books Inc. is located at 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto.

Finding resilience in ‘Last Things’

And the boys give him theirs.

Widow creates graphic memoir to share story about husband’s death by Michael Berry

ithin two weeks of the death of her husband, Harvey Stahl, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Berkeley author/illustrator Melissa Moss began writing about the medical crisis that had engulfed her family. More than 15 years later, the creator of the best-selling “Amelia’s Notebook” middle-grade series and the founder of Creston Books, has published her graphic memoir, “Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love.” Moss will read and sign “Last Things” at a benefit for the ALS Association’s Golden West chapter at Books Inc. in Palo Alto on Saturday, Aug. 26. Moss attended Palo Alto’s Henry M. Gunn High School, and her parents still reside in the city. Melissa Moss In 2001, Moss and Stahl, a medieval art historian teaching at UC Berkeley, were wrapping up a sabbatical year in Rome, when they noticed his sudden shortness of breath during routine outings. After they returned home to the Bay Area with their three young sons, Stahl underwent various medical tests until he was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. At that point, Moss says in her book, “our lives exploded.” “Last Things” chronicles the family’s attempts to deal with Stahl’s impending death. Suffering from Bulbar ALS, a form of the disease that generally progresses more rapidly, Stahl undergoes a swift transformation, physically and psychologically, over the course of only eight months. The children — Simon, Elias and Asa, ages 13, 10 and 6 — handle their parents’ dire new circumstances as best they can, wanting to engage with their sick father while fearing and denying the daily evidence of his decline. The book has been met with praise from general audiences and medical professionals alike. In a telephone interview, Moss talked about Stahl’s struggles with ALS, what she learned by writing and illustrating “Last Things” and how the experience changed her family forever. Asked how she was able to recall certain emotion-filled events, Moss said, “Because I started two weeks after Harvey died, everything was super-fresh. I didn’t have to search to remember. You’re in this hyper-intense reality where you’re in survival mode.” According to Moss, many of the conversations in “Last Things” are verbatim, “exactly what people said.” That sense of immediacy combines with the simple, yet expressive, black-and-white illustrations to produce a memoir that’s clear in its storytelling and devastating in its impact. Moss said that she could not sell “Last Things” as a proseonly memoir.

I should have written something, too, but I didn't. I couldn't face a blank page with all the feelings I have for Harvey. I don't dare think about all he means to me. Because that means realizing all I'm losing.

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THE SCIENCE GUY... Tickets are still available to see Bill Nye at the San Mateo Performing Art Center, 600 N. Delaware St., San Mateo, on Saturday, Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Nye, who gained national fame as the Science Guy on television, will talk about his new book, “Everything All at Once” with awardwinning science journalist Kara Platoni. Tickets for the event, sponsored by Kepler’s Literary Foundation, are $20 per person or $40 for a book and a place in the signing line. For more information, go to Keplers.org.

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Children’s author Marissa Moss uses comic-strip illustrations in her memoir “Last Things” to help tell the gut-wrenching story about her husband’s struggle with ALS more effectively. ‘It’s still sad, but it’s not unremittingly sad,’ she says. “I was re-writing it for 10 years, because I would send it to agents, and they would say, ‘Very strong writing. Can’t sell it. It’s too sad.’” The switch to a comics format made a significant difference. “I realized, just a few years ago, that I was working against my own instincts.” Even though she had plenty of experience combining words and pictures in the Amelia books, Moss didn’t immediately make the leap with “Last Things.” “I guess I thought that for adult books you couldn’t do that.” She said the art helps tell the story more effectively. “It helps open (the book) up. It’s not as claustrophobic. It’s still sad, but it’s not unremittingly sad. There’s a lot you can do with art that you can’t do with text.” As his health worsened, Stahl shut himself away in his home office, insisting that he needed to finish his book on Louis IX and became impatient with any attempts to draw him out. “We have this overarching narrative in American culture that these serious illnesses make you into a nobler, better person,” Moss said. “But I think when people are dying, they’re often angry and cold and in denial the way Harvey was.” Moss now understands that Bulbar ALS patients like Stahl sometimes exhibit lack of empathy as part of their symptomology. Moss said that one of the hardest scenes to depict was the time when Harvey coldly denied 6-year-old Asa’s pleas to be allowed to

unlock the door to his office at Cal. “The problem for Asa is that he doesn’t remember his dad as a good person; he only has the bad memories of his dad being an ogre,” Moss said. “He’s had to replace that with stories from his brothers and other friends, who tried to create a picture of who his father really was.” Asked how her husband’s illness affected her, Moss said, “I learned how to forgive myself.” “Last Things” is a sometimes difficult read, but in its honesty and straightforwardness, it provides a means of grappling with frightening circumstances. “I think the book is, in fact, positive,” Moss said. “Because it ends up being a story of resilience and of how you can come through something like that.” Q Michael Berry is a regular contributor to the Palo Alto Weekly. You can reach him at mikeberry@mindspring.com. What: Marissa Moss will read and sign “Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love” as part of a fundraiser for the American ALS Association. Where: Books Inc., 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto When: 4 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 26 Cost: Free. A portion of proceeds from book sales will benefit the American ALS Association. Info: booksinc.net

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

Home Front TIME FOR A GARAGE CLEANOUT ... If you’re one of those people who needs a “day” to get motivated to clean your garage, how about National Clean Out Your Garage Day on Saturday, Sept. 9? Many garbage-collection companies offer a free pickup of over-sized items or extra trash cans if you call ahead, or you could rent a Dumpster, hire a junk-removal service, or post your available “free” items on social media. Or, how about a garage sale? CONTAINER-GARDEN CLASS ... Create a long-lasting living container garden in autumn colors. Baylor Chapman, author of “The Plant Recipe Book” and founder of Lila B. Design, will demonstrate how to combine sturdy plants with temporary ones to create an ever-changing miniature landscape. The class will be held at Gamble Garden on Saturday, Sept. 23, 9:3011:30 a.m. Chapman’s work has appeared in Sunset and Better Homes and Gardens magazines. She has been a guest on PBS’s “Growing a Greener World” and a DIY expert on HGTV’s online network. To register, go to gamblegarden.org. Cost is $80 members (Use code IRIS), $95 non-members. All class materials are included in the fee. Gamble Garden is located at 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. ITCHING TO GARDEN? ... If you live in Palo Alto and want to garden or try to grow vegetables but you don’t have enough space at home, consider signing up for a community-garden plot. Scattered throughout the city are plots of land dedicated to providing residents with a place to dig their hands into the soil and plant vegetables, flowers and herbs. If you are interested in applying for a garden plot, email the Community Garden Coordinator at catherine. bourquin@cityofpaloalto.org. Provide your home address and a daytime phone number. You will be added to the wait list and then contacted to discuss available plots.

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Beekeeper Kenneth McKenzie uses an “oldschool” method called “capping” to scrape honey from a comb. McKenzie suggests that an aspiring beekeeper prepare as much as possible before purchasing any equipment or setting up a hive.

A centrifuge spins a honeycomb and separates it from honey, which falls into a bucket. Bees collect around the entrance to their box, entering and exiting to get more pollen or drop it off in the hive.

enneth McKenzie always had an interest in bees and pollination, so he decided to take a daylong beginner beekeeping course to learn the basics. The following Monday, McKenzie went to work as usual and noticed a beehive hanging down from a building. This felt like his moment, McKenzie said. Newly trained, he didn’t feel confident enough to take down the hive on his own. He called the Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers Guild and asked for help. Instead, the group encouraged him to use his new skills and take it down himself. After some consideration, McKenzie put together some makeshift gear, including a cardboard box and wire screens. He was able to take down the hive on his own. Today, McKenzie is the president of the Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers Guild and has produced over 1,000 pounds of honey in the last year. Once a rather obscure pastime, beekeeping has become more popular in the last decade, McKenzie said. Many new beekeepers begin out of personal desire to have bees pollinate their gardens. The hobby can be very creative and very specific to the environment. McKenzie described it as an “intimate and personal experience.” He suggests that an aspiring beekeeper prepare as much as possible and get the proper equipment. This should include extensive reading as well as making sure the environment where you want to keep the bees is conducive to success. McKenzie’s Bee Guild colleague Elizabeth Victor said aspiring beekeepers can get their hive equipment from many reputable dealers online. Mann Lake, Dadant & Sons and Brushy Mountain all have the full complement of tools, equipment, hive parts, and protective gear, often assembled into starter kits. Locally, there are a few retailers that sell hive components and beekeeping supplies. Victor noted that new equipment is preferable to used equipment, as there can be mismatched or odd-sized hives or damaged equipment. Altogether a new hive setup with bees and protective gear will start at upwards of $500, she said. If homeowners discover bees or see a regular flight pattern of honeybees (make sure they are not wasps) in an opening in a wall, masonry, flower pot or irrigation box,

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Local guild helps residents appreciate bees— without the sting by Sophie Pollock h photos by Ben Hacker The lower part of the centrifuge allows honey to drip into the bucket. then they may have a colony that has set up its nest, Victor said. As a courtesy, the Bee Guild lists professional beekeepers who are trained in colony extraction on their website. A beekeeper contracted to remove a colony in a structure should have excellent references, aa license and insurance, Victor said. If you are planning to keep bees, it is also important to check local ordinances to see if beehives are allowed within a certain distance from the street. Midpeninsula cities vary wildly in their acceptance of beekeeping although many are softening their stances. In the City of Palo Alto, beehives must be 25 feet from any property line and no more than two hives may be kept in any one lot. In Mountain View, hives must be at least 10 feet from the property line, and at least 20 feet from any public road. It’s also crucial to follow and know the natural patterns of bee hives. Before establishing a hive, make sure the direction in which the bees may fly is acceptable for the surrounding community.

“Many people get emotionally (involved) before they are logically ready,” McKenzie said. “Beekeeping is a very experimental and creative hobby for me,” he added. According to Victor, bees produce honey whenever abundant nectar from flowering trees and shrubs is available, usually in early spring through midsummer. Bee colonies build to maximum size by the middle of summer, she said, “all the while the older bees are bringing in resources to build their honey reserves to get the colony through winter. “A beekeeper will make sure there is abundant honey stores in the hive to sustain the colony during the fall and winter before they remove any honey for their own use,” she added. “Once a beekeeper has brought a hive through a winter in good shape, there should be extra honey to harvest in spring. Honey production is part of a year-long, seasonal cycle.” Local honey can also be extremely beneficial for seasonal allergies to pollen and grass. All it takes, bee enthusiasts say, is a spoonful of local honey per day to alleviate allergies, although this claim is not necessarily supported by scientists. The guild itself does not sell honey because it can be a long process to become county certified, but many of its approximately 230 members sell their own honey. The Bee Guild recommends that people interested in beekeeping attend a few of its free monthly meetings. The guild offers instruction for beginners at the start of each meeting and also recommends taking a class on hive management. The Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers Guild is a nonprofit organization for beekeepers within the Santa Clara Valley. Members are beekeepers of all levels, from backyard hobbyists to professional apiarists. Q Sophie Pollock is a former intern at the Palo Alto Weekly. Home and Real Estate Editor Elizabeth Lorenz contributed to this story. Local beekeeping resources: Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers’ Guild, meetings the first Monday of every month (no meeting in September), at Dwell Christian Church, 1292 Minnesota Ave. in San Jose. Contact the Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers’ Guild at 408-634-BEES or email president@ beeguild.org.

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SERENITY MEETS CENTRALITY 631 Torwood Lane, Los Altos Harmoniously blending a central location with a peaceful setting is this enchanting 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath home of over 1,500 sq. ft. (per county) on a spacious lot of 9,500 sq. ft. (per county). Sun-lit gathering areas boast hardwood floors, crown molding, and handsome fireplaces inspire warmth and character, while sophisticated features like Nest climate control and plantation shutters offer style. Easily access a myriad of amenities, including the local library and museum, Lincoln and Shoup Parks, and downtown Los Altos. Children can stroll to excellent schools like Santa Rita Elementary and Egan Junior High, while state-ranked Los Altos High (#8 High School in California) is also nearby (buyer to verify eligibility).

Offered at $2,798,000

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.631Torwood.com

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3842 MAGNOLIA DRIVE IN PALO ALTO

Cross Street: Whitsell Avenue, off Barron Avenue ountry charm behind the gates in a quiet Barron Park neighborhood

Gwen Luce

OPEN HOUSE THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AUGUST 26 TH AND 27 TH , 1:00PM - 4:00PM

Previews Property Specialist Seniors Real Estate Specialist Direct Line: (650) 566-5343 gluce@cbnorcal.com www.gwenluce.com www.facebook.com/GwenLuceRealEstate CalBRE #: 00879652

Offered for $2,495,000 To view Virtual Tour online go to: www.3852MagnoliaDrive.com For more information: www.gwenluce.com

3624 EVERGREEN DRIVE OPEN SAT 8/ 26 & SUN 8/ 27 1-5 PM

PALO ALTO

ALLURING SERENITY, CHARMING SANCTUARY IN SOUTH PALO ALTO

et along a serene cul-de-sac in the sought-after South Palo Alto neighborhood, this updated 3bed/2bath (plus office/den) Mackay home integrates contemporary amenities with zen-inspired landscaping. Standing on an immaculately landscaped 8,050 sq.ft. of flat lot, this residence offers plenty of entertaining and living space and the versatile office/ bonus room which can be used as a 4th bedroom. Banks of windows and multiple skylights allow cascades of sunshine to highlight openconcept areas and gorgeous interior features including designer paint colors, beautiful hardwood floors, cozy fireplace, recessed lights. Carefully chosen upgrades modernize the interior’s subtle elegance, including chef ’s gourmet kitchen with huge center island, high-end appliances such as built-in SubZero refrigerator, Dacor 5-burner stovetop, built-in Electrolux double ovens and Bosch dishwasher. Master suite is a stunning retreat with floor-length windows overlooking the zen gardens and huge customized walk-in closet with skylight is infused with natural light. The spa-like master bathroom featuring designer tiles, sunken tub and separate show stall is a perfect for peaceful leisure. Loaded with natural privacy, tree-shaded backyard retreat is truly enchanting and offers covered patio, elegant pavers, citrus trees....perfect for outdoor entertainment and relaxation. Also included are attached 2-car garage, new water heater, forced air heating system and inside laundry area. Moments away from Midtown Shopping Center, major Silicon Valley employers and commuters’ routes, local parks (Ramos Park, Mitchell Park), Mitchell Park Library, community/recreation centers (YMCA, Eicher Swim & Tennis Club, Cubberly Community Center, JCC Community Center). Excellent Palo Alto schools (Palo Verde Elementary, JLS Middle, Gunn High schools - buyer to verify).

Offered at $2,195,000 | www.3624Evergreen.com David Chung & Sunny Kim Alain Pinel Realtors

650-489-6251

davidandsunny@apr.com

www.DavidandSunny.com Lic #70010023

www.DavidandS unny.com

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Downtown Penthouse Condominium

119 EMERSON STREET, PALO ALTO OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 1:30-4:30PM

1,445± SF

Licensed Since 1992 700+ Closed Transactions

OFFERED AT $1,698,000 119Emerson.com

650.464.3797 sroberson@apr.com ShellyRoberson.com LIC# 01143296

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Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.

Open Saturday, August 26, 2:00-4:00pm | 1301 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto Zen-like Retreat in the Heart of Crescent Park • Located on premier street in Crescent Park • 3 bedrooms and 3.5 baths • Plus dedicated study or possible 4th bedroom • Exceptional-quality, concrete radiant-heated ﬂoors, and attention to detail • Soaring 12’-14’ 9” vaulted ceilings • Vast, open-concept living, dining, and stunning kitchen with lovely outside views • Amazing private backyard with steel sculpture, linear gas ﬁreplace, and lawn • Oversized lot of approximately 15,155 square feet • Designed by renowned architect Fergus Garber Young • Excellent Palo Alto schools

Offered at $8,098,000 www.1301Hamilton.com For a private showing or more information, please contact Judy Citron.

Open Sunday, August 27, 2:00-4:00pm | 1176 Palo Alto Avenue, Palo Alto Completely Remodeled Mid-Century Modern Home on Oversized Lot • Located in Crescent Park within blocks of downtown • 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths • Plus dedicated ofﬁce with garden views • Guest cottage with separate entrance (permits unknown) • Open-concept living, dining, and kitchen with almost 360-degree garden views • Stunning kitchen with granite countertops, rich wood cabinets, large island, bar seating, top-of-line appliances • Oversized 9,996-square-foot lot • Excellent Palo Alto schools

Offered at $4,195,000 www.1176PaloAlto.com For a private showing or more information, please contact Judy Citron. JUDY CITRON • 650.543.1206 Judy@JudyCitron.com • JudyCitron.com

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#39 Real Estate Agent in the United States (per The Wall Street Journal, 2017)

#1 Individual Agent, Alain Pinel Realtors

Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.

www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 25, 2017 • Page 27

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26326 Esperanza Dr, Los Altos Hills

26615 Anacapa Dr, Los Altos Hills

2451 Ross Rd, Palo Alto

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151 Kellogg Ave, Palo Alto Off-Market | Offered at $6,498,000 Gloria Young | 650.380.9918

1130 Parkinson Ave, Palo Alto Offered at $3,200,000 Brian Ayer | 650.242.2473

1982 W. Bayshore Rd #222, East Palo Alto Offered at $579,000 | SOLD Lucy Berman | 650.208.8824

1815 Edgewood Ln, Menlo Park Offered at $3,950,000 Shena Hurley | 650.575.0991 Susie Dews | 650.302.2639

2320 Bryant St, Palo Alto Offered at $4,750,000 | SOLD Susan Tanner | 650.255.7372

83 Tuscaloosa Ave, Atherton Offered at $9,998,000 Annette Smith | 650.766.9429

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

215 Josselyn Ln, Woodside Offered at $11,998,000 Michael Dreyfus | 650.485.3476

308 Olive Hill Ln, Woodside Offered at $7,995,000 Michael Dreyfus | 650.485.3476

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

1430 Bear Gulch Rd, Woodside Offered at $3,145,000 Omar Kinaan | 650.776.2828

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

217 Clifton Ave, San Carlos Offered at $1,895,000 Brian Ayer | 650.242.2473

1168 Walnut Street, San Carlos Offered at $1,700,000 Brian Ayer | 650.242.2473

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

226 7th St, Montara Offered at $1,450,000 Marian Bennett | 650.678.1108

101 Grove Ln, Capitola Offered at $4,350,000 Dawn Thomas 650.701.7822 | 831.205.3222

17 Mile Dr, Pebble Beach Offered at $41,888,000 Michael Dreyfus | 650.485.3476

549 Lakeshore Boulevard, Unit 21, Incline Village Offered at $1,650,000 Michael Dreyfus | 650.485.3476

HOMES

728 Emerson Street, Palo Alto | 640 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park | GoldenGateSIR.com | Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated.

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OPEN HOUSE Saturday & Sunday, 1 - 5pm

Complimentary Refreshments

STYLISH VERSATILITY IN MIDTOWN 2951 South Court, Palo Alto Built in 2016, this tri-level 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath residence of approx. 3,300 sq. ft. (per plans) occupies a desirable cul-de-sac. The warm, light-filled floorplan encourages modern flexibility with open, well-appointed spaces. Balconies, high ceilings, and designer windows offer refinement, while the stunning architecture provides cutting-edge style. The walk-out lower level abounds with possibilities. Easily reach California Avenue and Mitchell Park Community Center (including library, tennis courts, and playgrounds), stroll to El Carmelo Elementary (#3 Elementary School in California) and JLS Middle (#2 Middle School in California), and bike to Gunn High (#1 High School in California) (buyer to verify eligibility).

Offered at $3,488,000

For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.2951SouthCourt.com

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services 2088 Green Oaks, Pescadero

5 Betty Lane, Atherton

730-760 Adobe Canyon Rd. Sonoma Valley

$26,800,000

$22,000,000

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

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas Lic.#01878208

Listing Provided By: Tim Murray, Lic. #00630078

10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills

396 Raymundo Drive, Woodside

2215 Liberata Drive, Morgan Hill

$27,500,000

$11,488,000 Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas & John Reece, Lic.#01878208 & 00838479

0 Spanish Ranch Road, Los Gatos

Price Upon Request

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208

Listing Provided by: Joe Velasco Lic. #01309200

27466 Sunrise Farm Rd, Los Altos Hills

2008 Vallejo Street, San Francisco

$9,187,000

$8,750,000

$5,750,000

Listing by: Matthew Pakel & Craig Gorman, Lic.#01957213 & Lic.#01080717

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208

Listing Provided by: Charlene Attard, Lic.#01045729

14938 Larga Vista Drive, Los Gatos

13212 Peacock Court, Cupertino

2965 Paseo Robles, San Martin

$4,200,000

$3,988,888

$2,895,000

Provided By: Gail Thomson & Stephen Slater Lic.# 01444563 & 01886128

Listing Provided By: Dominic Nicoli Lic. No. 01112681

Listing Provided by: Don Barnes, Lic.#01791580

All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker. Page 32 • August 25, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

2200 Santa Ana Valley Road, Hollister, CA Listing Provided By: Marilyn Ferreira & Renee Kunz Lic.#00409787 & 00963855

www.2200SantaAnaValleyRd.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.

www.InteroRealEstate.com ©2017 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker.

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PALO ALTO WEEKLY OPEN HOMES EXPLORE OUR MAPS, HOMES FOR SALE, OPEN HOMES, VIRTUAL TOURS, PHOTOS, PRIOR SALE INFO, NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDES ON www.PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM 3 Bedrooms

ATHERTON 5 Bedrooms 40 Selby Ln Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$5,880,000 324-4456

BELMONT 4 Bedrooms 3205 Longfellow Dr Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,789,000 325-6161

43 Biltmore Ln Sat Deleon Realty 247 Hedge Rd Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 237 Santa Margarita Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 727 Bay Rd Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 1342 Cloud Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

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928 Wright Ave #508 Sat Midtown Realty 181 Ada Av #55 Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

$4,788,000 462-1111

$1,198,000 321-1596 $1,350,000 321-1596

143 Huntington Ct Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate

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$2,798,000 543-8500

$2,698,000 323-1111

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$795,000 323-1900

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3842 MAGNOLIA DR PALO ALTO OPEN SAT/SUN 1-4 Country charm behind the gates! 3Bd/2Ba plus detached studio in a quiet Barron Park neighborhood. Offered at $2,495,000

Gwen Luce 566-5343

Historic In-Town Craftsman 711 University Ave, Los Altos

Meticulously renovated with period details and modern amenities. Approx. 5,143 sq. ft., 5bd/4.5ba, porches, gourmet kitchen, professionally landscaped grounds, guest unit above garage.

Coldwell Banker

Alain Pinel Realtors

C: 650.269.2160 patricktaylor1231@gmail.com License# 00454986

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Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,100,000 462-1111

STANFORD 3 Bedrooms - Condominium 62 Peter Coutts Cir #62

$969,000

Sat

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$8,098,000 462-1111

1176 Palo Alto Ave Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$4,195,000 462-1111

3842 Magnolia Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,495,000 324-4456

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Alain Pinel Realtors

112 Comstock Rd Coldwell Banker

953 Embarcadero Rd Sat/Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,498,000 323-1111

155 Bardet Rd

2319 Sierra Ct Sat/Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,450,000 462-1111

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Sun

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280 Family Farm Rd $2,270,000 851-1961

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1360 Westridge Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$4,750,000 462-1111

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Alain Pinel Realtors

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462-1111

$3,595,000

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$3,498,000

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5 Bedrooms

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$700,000

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$1,199,000 206-6200

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SOCCER NEWS . . . The topranked Stanford women’s soccer team continues its season-opening road trip with a match Friday at No. 8 Florida on SEC Network. Last week, Stanford started the season with a 4-0 win at Marquette on Friday and a 5-0 win against Wisconsin on Sunday in Milwaukee. Redshirt junior Kyra Carusa and freshman Catarina Macario each netted three goals in the two matches. Carusa scored two against Marquette, and Macario scored a double against Wisconsin. Sam Hiatt, Mariah Lee and Civana Kuhlmann also scored goals. It was Hiatt’s second of her career and first in a Cardinal uniform after transferring from Boston College . . . Stanford’s Tomas Hilliard-Arce, Foster Langsdorf, Drew Skundrich and Logan Panchot have been named to preseason best XI teams by Top Drawer Soccer. HilliardArce was voted to the first team, Langsdorf the second, Skundrich the third and Panchot the freshman team. Stanford’s four preseason honorees are tied with Virginia for the national lead. No. 1 Stanford, which swept its exhibitions against Portland (3-0) and Pacific (1-0), opens its regular season on Friday at San Jose State at 5 p.m.

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Eastin, Drabot, Forde bring home medals by Glenn Reeves tanford swimmers Ella Eastin, Brooke Forde and Katie Drabot turned Wednesday into a silver celebration, combining to earn four silver medals at the World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan. Stanford sophomore Grant Shoults nearly added another medal but finished fourth in the 800-meter free on Thursday. He earned a bronze medal in the 1500 free earlier in the meet. Eastin, a multiple NCAA champion, finished second to Japan’s Yui Ohasi in the 2 0 0 -met er i nd ividu a l medley in what would have been a Un iversit y Games record 2:11.12 had Ohasi not gone Ella Eastin 2:10.03. The four top swimmers in the event surpassed the previous standard of 2:12.07 in a highly competitive race. Ohasi won by just over a second but Eastin had to fend off two other swimmers to claim silver. Forde, who will join Eastin at Stanford in the fall, pulled double duty. She swam in the preliminary round of the 4x200 free relay and then came back to place seventh in the 200 IM, recording a time of 2:13.43. Forde will earn a silver medal thanks to Drabot, a sophomore, and Eastin, a junior, who comprised half the relay in the final. The U.S. finished second to Russia by a sliver thin margin of .04 seconds. Drabot then recorded the top qualifying mark in the prelims of the 200 free, swimming 1:59.37. The defending NCAA champion Cardinal already has a roster full of versatile swimmers. Forde only adds depth and could be a candidate to replace the graduated Olympian Lia Neal on several relays. Drabot, who also competes in the individual medley, earned All-American status and scored points in the 200-yard free at the NCAA championship meet. She finished second to Katie Ledecky in the 500-yard free at the Pac-12 championships. Drabot, Wisconsin’s Swimmer of the Year all four years of high school, holds several junior national records. She swam in the Olympic trials in both 2012 and 2016.

Improvement in the passing game is a key to the team’s success. Junior Jackson Chryst is in his second year as the starting quarterback. Karen Ambrose Hickey also took the cover photo of Paul Jackson III.

Prep football hits the reset button on dog days of August Bellarmine at Menlo-Atherton highlights opening night

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new kids on the block announced season’s front seven already havere it is, still August and their presence by sending the tra- ing received offers from Division prep football season is dition-laden Bells down to defeat . I colleges, it’s apparent that this upon us. All the local 11“There will be a motivation year’s unit could be even better. man football teams get factor on their side,’’ “We have the talent and ability underway Friday, playMenlo-Atherton coach to do what last year’s team did,’’ ing season openers in Adhir Ravipati said. Ravipati said. “But we’ll have to August so that the ex“They’ve had this work for it.’’ tended state playoffs date circled ever since The Bells return running back don’t run all the way then.’’ Austin Ajiake (6-3, 215), who up until Christmas. One of the most rushed for 134 yards and two TDs The season getting stunning aspects of in last year’s season opener, and started so early is just M-A’s romp through standout lineman Cade Hall, the fine with local teams, the CCS playoffs was son of former 49er Rhett Hall. who are all just rarthe way the defense “They’re going to be a load to ing to play games that played. The Bears fol- deal with,’’ Ravipati said. “We’re Adhir Ravipati count. lowed up the shutout going to have to bring it.’’ WCAL powerhouse win over Bellarmine After opening with BelBellarmine visits Menlo-Atherton with a 17-0 win over Milpitas in larmine the Bears continue a at 7:30 p.m. This is the marquee the CCS championship game. (continued on page 39) matchup of the opening week. And with five members of this Menlo-Atherton is looking to build on last year’s historic accomplishment. The Bears concluded the 2016 season as Central Coast Section Open Division I champions -- in other words the best team in the CCS. They went on to win a Northern California championship with a 49-21 win over Manteca before having their 12-game winning streak ended in a 39-21 loss to Paraclete in a state championship game. M-A played Bellarmine twice last year, losing 34-20 in the season opener but then winning 21-0 in the CCS semifinals, an outcome that signalled something Noa Ngalu will be used as a running back and on the defensive line of a changing of the guard as the for the Bears.

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