Palo Alto Weekly October 20, 2017

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Proposed growth to strain Stanford’s traffic-fighting effort Impact analysis: ‘Significant and unavoidable’ congestion at some local intersections by Gennady Sheyner

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or nearly two decades, Stanford University’s campus growth has hinged on a promise that development will not worsen traffic on its campus. Now, as the university petitions Santa Clara County for permission to add more than 2 million square feet of academic space and

more than 3,000 housing units on its campus by 2035, that promise is about to face its most serious challenge yet. According to the newly released Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for Stanford’s general-use permit application, the university’s expansion

will create “significant and unavoidable” traffic impacts along numerous road segments and intersections that are already heavily congested during peak hours. These include numerous intersections along Foothill Expressway; the Page Mill Road off ramp from southbound Interstate 280; and the intersection of Alma Street and Charleston Road. In most cases, traffic conditions are already bad and are expected to get worse with or without the

expansion. In a few cases, the Stanford expansion would tip an already busy intersection into a “levels of service” of E or F, connoting heavy congestion. At Alma and Charleston, the projectgenerated traffic would cause a degradation from D to E, according to the analysis. Stanford’s chief strategy for ensuring traffic doesn’t get worse would be the continuation of its “no net commute trips” policy, which commits the university to

not generating more traffic during peak commute hours. The policy, which made its debut in Stanford’s 2000 general-use permit, requires Santa Clara County to count cars at cordons throughout the campus twice a year and impose penalties if Stanford fails. The agreement also allows Stanford to get credit for reducing car trips off campus and factoring those reductions into its “no net (continued on page 10)

EDUCATION

School district considers ‘civility’ policy Parent questions whether proposal would curb free speech by Elena Kadvany

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Dumptied? “Digital DNA,” a sculpture created by artist Adriana Varella and currently installed at Lytton Plaza in downtown Palo Alto, may soon be gone. The Palo Alto Public Art Commission is considering removal of the egg sculpture along with the “Go Mama” sculpture by artist Marta Thoma and “California Avenue, California Native” by artist Susan Leibovitz Steinman. The commission will decide the final outcomes in its Nov. 16 meeting.

HOUSING

As council turns down rent protections, three members propose more housing Monday’s council meeting about affordable housing devolves into personal accusations by Gennady Sheyner

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fter sparring and splintering over rental protections this week, Palo Alto City Council members are preparing to focus on another strategy to ease the city’s affordable-housing crisis: revising the zoning code to allow more new residences downtown and in other prominent commercial districts. That’s the proposal laid out in a memo that was drafted by Councilman Adrian Fine and co-signed by Vice Mayor Liz Kniss and Councilman Cory Wolbach. All three have advocated persistently

for building more housing, and all three opposed this week a recommendation from colleagues to consider protections for renters. The new memo, which Fine, Kniss and Wolbach submitted Monday and which will be reviewed by city staff before it’s released publicly, aims to increase the density of housing near jobs, public transit and services — specifically in downtown and along California Avenue and El Camino Real, Fine told the Weekly. The idea is to update the city’s

zoning code to foster “a greater variety and quantity of both below-market-rate and moderately sized market-rate housing,” he said. While the specifics are yet to be hashed out, this could involve changing the city’s density requirements for housing projects, extending the “pedestrian- and transit-oriented district” zones (which allow greater development flexibility for projects near transit centers) and fostering mixed-use projects with (continued on page 12)

mails from parents at all hours of the night, administrators yelling at teachers in meetings, parents showing up unannounced to classrooms — the president of the Palo Alto teachers’ union hopes that a new civility policy she has proposed will help address these and other issues in the school district. At the school board’s policy-review committee meeting Wednesday morning, Palo Alto Educators Association President Teri Baldwin said she hopes a policy would minimize inappropriate conduct among teachers, administrators and parents. “We do have teachers who have complained that they’re getting emailed constantly by some parents at all hours of the night, sometimes very harshly, (and) teachers being yelled at in meetings and administrators not stopping the meeting,” Baldwin said. “It gets a bit hard to do your job when you’re ... getting verbally abused sometimes.” When asked by the Weekly, Baldwin said she does not know how frequently these kinds of incidences occur. She estimated she was made aware of about eight “extreme” cases in the last two years. Baldwin first raised the issue with the policy-review committee in March. The California School Board Association, whose many sample policies the school district frequently draws from, does not have a civility policy, but some school districts have created their own. The Los Altos School District’s civility policy, adopted in 2007,

seeks to promote “mutual respect, civility and orderly conduct among district employees, parents and the public. “This policy is not intended to deprive any person of his/her right to freedom of expression but only to maintain, to the extent possible and reasonable, a safe, harassment-free workplace for our students and staff,” the Los Altos policy states. “In the interest of presenting district employees as positive role models to the children of this district, as well as the community, the Los Altos School District encourages positive communication and discourages volatile, hostile or aggressive actions. The district seeks public cooperation with this endeavor.” The policy states the obvious about inappropriate conduct — that individuals who disrupt school or office operations, threaten the safety of students or staff in some way, use loud and/or offensive language or repeatedly enter a campus without authorization will be asked to leave school property. But it goes further, also applying to any individual who “harasses staff with frequent and abusive emails” or “speaks in a demanding, loud, insulting and/or demeaning manner.” Behaviors defined as “unacceptable” include “rude, insulting or demeaning language and/or actions,” “persistently unreasonable demands” and “displays of temper,” among others. The Los Altos policy also includes a “civility incident report” (continued on page 7)

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It gets a bit hard to do your job when you’re ... getting verbally abused sometimes. —Teri Baldwin, Palo Alto Educators Association President, on new ‘civility’ policy. See story page 5.

Around Town

LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX ... In Palo Alto, parents are heading to Facebook with homemade videos to mark “Let’s Talk Month,� a national public-education campaign celebrated in October to raise awareness about sex and sexuality. A parent-led Facebook group, “Palo Alto Parents for Sex Ed,� launched in response to debate over a new sex-ed curriculum in the district last year, asked parents to post short “selfie� videos describing how they will start conversations with their children about sex. More than 25 parents have posted in response. “I’m going to start my conversation with my 9-and 12-year-olds by talking to them about equity and consent and reciprocity and respect in relationships,� said Jamie Barnett, one of the parents who created the Facebook page. One mother appeared with her son, who told the camera, “This month my mom has been talking to me about mutual boundaries.� Other parents said they planned to talk with their children, as young as 9 years old and as old as 14 years old, about topics such as puberty, intimacy and even Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer accused of decades of sexual harassment and assault. NOSING AROUND ... Many people visit the library to sink their nose into a good book, but in Palo Alto, dogs will be sniffing around starting Friday in search of any bed bugs as a precaution. The inspections will begin at the Mitchell Park Library followed by the Children’s Library on Monday and Rinconada Library on Friday, Oct. 27. The dogs will make their way to the Downtown and College Terrace libraries on days when the facilities are regularly scheduled to be closed. The inspections come after bed bug infestations in September 2015 at the Rinconada and Mitchell Park locations that were discovered less than a week apart. In both cases, the little critters were found in two chairs and closed the facilities for a few days while a pest control company treated the infected spaces. Bed-bugs aren’t unusual visitors to libraries and can be transported through sharing books, city officials said.

The Rinconada Library exchanges books in the region through the Link+system. Since then, the city library system has welcomed the bug-sniffing canines two to three times a year out of an abundance of caution. The public will not be allowed inside the libraries during the inspections.

MUSICAL STRIDES ... Bluegrass singer Molly Tuttle has made musical and academic achievements in recent weeks. The Palo Altan made history when she became the first woman in 27 years to become the BestĂŠ Guitar Player of the Year at the International Bluegrass Music Awards in late September. It was her first time receiving the nomination (she also was in the running to be Emerging Artist ofĂŠ the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year). “THANK YOU to everyone who has believed in me and supported my on this musical journey. It was truly one of the biggest honors I could ever imagine to receive,â€? she wrote in a Facebook post with photos of her with her trophy. She also walked the red carpet and performed with two of her biggest heroes — Alice Gerrard and Laurie Lewis. She also officially became a member of Palo Alto High School’s Class of 2011 when she received her diploma on Oct. 12 after transferring a vocational credit from the BerkleeĂŠ College of Music, where she graduated in 2014. She recognized Suzie Brown, a registrar at Paly, for helping her complete her secondary education. What’s next for Tuttle? She recently signed with Compass Records Group. “I’ve been a fan of Molly’s since I heard her at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass convention nearly a decade ago. Molly was still in high school but it was clear that she was a singular player and singer,â€? Compass cofounder Alison Brown said in a press release. “Since then it’s been wonderful to watch her mature into a great songwriter, guitarist and bandleader. The depth of her musicianship is extremely impressive and I’m really proud of her both for what she is bringing to contemporary bluegrass as well as the example she is setting for the next generation of female musicians.â€? Q

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atherine Capriles, Palo Alto’s deputy fire chief, is suing the city for an unspecified amount of money and seeks a writ of mandate after being suspended for three days in September 2016 by the department for alleged misconduct, according to documents filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court. The dispute stems from a 2015 incident during which Capriles is alleged to have used a fire engine and crew for personal purposes to check out safety concerns in her Mountain View neighborhood. She bypassed the battalion chief and went directly to a captain to order the engine and crew to The Crossings, where she lives, according to documents filed with the court. Fire Chief Eric Nickel issued a Notice of Intent of Disciplinary Action against Capriles on Sept. 19, 2016, after a neighbor filed a complaint with the department in March of that year. The neighbor, Paul Simoes de Carvalho, alleged that Capriles had committed misconduct as president of the homeowners association by asking the Mountain

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View Fire Department to review the neighborhood’s red curbs and parking signage. He also alleged that she abused her position as Palo Alto deputy fire chief by having the Palo Alto fire truck drive through The Crossings, even though the development is in Mountain View. Nickel’s disciplinary notice alleged that Capriles committed three violations of the City of Palo Alto Merit Rules and recommended she be suspended for three days. Though Capriles said the crew was directed to assess fire-equipment access, Nickel concluded it was for her personal benefit in a neighborhood dispute. His notice concluded she also failed in not informing him, the fire chief, that she planned on contacting fire department administrators of a neighboring community. Capriles filed an appeal, which was heard before Administrative Law Judge Michael A. Scarlett on March 1. Scarlett reversed the suspension on April 12 in a written ruling and directed the department to issue a written letter of reprimand to Capriles instead. He ordered the city to reimburse

Capriles $2,582 in lost wages. But City Manager James Keene on May 2 issued a “fact-finding result” upholding the original suspension. Capriles maintains in her lawsuit that Keene’s decision was not supported by evidence and is “a prejudicial abuse of discretion,” according to the lawsuit. According to documents related to the administrative hearing, Nickel alleged Capriles’ conduct breached city and fire department ethics and operational policies and placed herself, the city and others at risk, which constituted misconduct and a misuse of her leadership position. She allegedly put the captain in a difficult position given that she is the second highest-ranking officer in the department. The battalion chiefs were unaware that the engine was out of town, and she claimed that the crew and engine were conducting pre-planning activities for fire safety, of which, Nickel concluded, there was not evidence. (Pre-planning safety inspections can include evaluating red curb markings and parking signage and restrictions.) An independent investigator,

Kristianne Seargeant, was hired to look into de Carvalho’s complaint. Capriles told Seargeant that she did not personally know de Carvalho but that he was a past president of the homeowners association. While president, he had some curbs in the neighborhood painted red, which allegedly resulted in a significant loss in parking. When Capriles became the association president, she asked the Mountain View Fire Department to review the curb designations to provide safe fire lanes and address inadequate parking. The abuse-of-authority controversy centered around emails Capriles had sent to the Mountain View fire marshal: In an Oct. 15, 2015, email she introduced herself as the Palo Alto fire deputy chief and requested assistance with the homeowners association’s concerns regarding appropriate access for fire engines in The Crossings. In an email on Oct. 27, 2015, however, she indicated that she had a Palo Alto fire engine drive through to determine emergency access, street widths and parking spaces. Seargeant concluded in a July 26, 2016, report that Capriles had referenced her position as deputy chief in the first email solely within the context of an introduction, which was not repeated in the email while requesting assistance. Mountain View Fire Marshal Jaymae Wentker also told the investigator that Capriles had not requested any special treatment from him or anyone else at the department. The Fire Department ultimately rejected Capriles’ request to modify the fire lanes, which Seargeant concluded further indicated that she did not receive special treatment. Nickel had also told the investigator that because of the mutual-aid agreement between the two departments — which requires the closest engine to respond to a fire call — the engine Capriles sent to The Crossings, Engine 65, would likely respond to any emergency there. Seargeant also found that it was “commonplace for fire engine crews to drive through their response areas to familiarize themselves with the various buildings they may encounter in an emergency.” But she noted that the Palo Alto fire department has no authority to take any action regarding the fire code or fire lane modifications in Mountain View.

Civility

Los Altos School District Superintendent Jeffrey Baier said staff there use the policy “infrequently.” He did not know what drove its adoption. “Civility policies are usually put in place to ensure that there’s appropriate discourse between everybody ... to keep our focus on the fact that we’re here to educate children and model appropriate behavior for them,” he told the Weekly. Palo Alto Unified found the Santa Barbara and Laguna Beach school districts as well as a district in Virginia have adopted similar policies. Several other California school districts including Capistrano,

Irvine, Fresno, Palmdale, Culver City and Newport Beach also have civility policies. Many of them state that “staff will treat parents and other members of the public with respect and will expect the same in return.” The Laguna Beach Unified School District policy, which was adopted in 2000, states, “It is paramount that district employees be able to serve all students equitably, without undue time demands that detract from their focus on student learning.” It notes that the policy applies to personal and electronic interactions, social media and telephone calls. Lana Conaway, Palo Alto

Unified’s new assistant superintendent of strategic initiatives and operations, said Wednesday that a policy will help staff responding to uncivil incidents, though she noted that California Penal Code and Education Code already regulates campus disruptions, threats and safety. “I think we need to have teeth, and a policy is the only thing that’s going to give us the real teeth that we need to address this proactively,” Conaway said. Existing district policy on professional standards does cover district employees’ behavior but does not extend to parents or community members or to communication from them, she said.

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The Crossings development in Mountain View has become the locus of controversy involving Palo Alto Deputy Fire Chief Catherine Capriles, who was disciplined for ordering a fire engine and crew to do a safety check of the neighborhood, where she is president of the homeowners association.

Deputy fire chief sues city of Palo Alto Catherine Capriles was suspended for three days for sending fire engine to Mountain View by Sue Dremann

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form for staff to file in these situations. Stephen Schmidt, the Palo Alto Unified committee’s parent representative, questioned the subjectivity of this language and its implications for parental free speech. “If I’m a parent and I’m not getting what I want, of course I’m going to be demanding, but that doesn’t mean that I’m wrong to be demanding,” he said. At the March meeting, Schmidt said the policy amounted to “legislating good behavior.”

Seargeant also found that two battalion chiefs both believed sending the Palo Alto engine for pre-planning purposes is an appropriate use of department equipment. The investigator concluded, therefore, that Capriles had not misused the equipment, according to documents from the administrative hearing.

Though Capriles said the crew was directed to assess fireequipment access, Nickel concluded it was for her personal benefit in a neighborhood dispute. Seargeant also did not find evidence that Capriles violated department policy regarding using work time for personal business. Using her computer to send the emails fell within the department’s allowance for “incidental and occasional personal use.” Seargeant did, however, conclude that Capriles had bypassed the chain of command by skipping the battalion chief, who directly supervises the captain. Administrative Law Judge Scarlett agreed with the investigator’s conclusions and also decided that although Capriles had gone outside the chain of command, she did not commit an inexcusable neglect of her duties, as Nickel had alleged. As deputy chief, Capriles clearly supervises staff, including prioritizing and assigning work, Scarlett noted. Scarlett noted that Capriles had “an otherwise stellar 22-year employment record with the department,” and he determined the threeday suspension was excessive. A letter of reprimand was a more suitable level of discipline, he ordered. Capriles is asking the court to set aside the suspension decision and to issue a new fact-finding hearing result consistent with the administrative law decision, to issue her a written reprimand instead of suspension, to reimburse her lost pay and for the city to pay any additional court costs and attorney’s fees. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com. Board President Terry Godfrey, who chairs the policy committee, said she would prefer to rely on existing policy and law rather than “create a whole new system.” “I just don’t think staff necessarily feel supported by policy,” Conaway responded. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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News Digest Palo Alto cuts Fire Department positions In a bid to save money and address changing community demands, the Palo Alto City Council voted early Tuesday to eliminate 11 positions in the Fire Department — a move that drew staunch opposition from the firefighters’ union and concerns from some local residents. The shift, which is expected to save the city $1.5 million annually, was triggered by the ongoing impasse between City Hall and Stanford University over a new fire-services contract. While the city continues to provide fire services to Stanford, it is doing so under an agreement that reduces the university’s payments by about $2 million over prior levels. Given the new fiscal reality, Fire Chief Eric Nickel proposed a deployment model that reduces daytime staffing by one position and nighttime staff by three positions. On Tuesday, the council unanimously adopted the new staffing model despite opposition from the firefighters union, International Association of Firefighters, Local 1319. Fire Capt. Ryan Stoddard, union president, told the Weekly earlier this month that union members are concerned about the new model’s over-reliance on crossstaffing, which could pose challenges in instances when there are multiple emergency calls occurring at once. Mayor Greg Scharff said he was heartened by the fact that none of the firefighters who opposed the staffing changes attended the public hearing to voice their opposition. Q — Gennady Sheyner

School district address sexual violence In a school district troubled by sexual misconduct among students and teachers, a district-level task force and a grassroots parent effort have launched to address the problem in Palo Alto’s schools. Interim Superintendent Karen Hendricks announced at the last school board meeting on Oct. 10 that she will be leading a task force devoted to ending sexual assault and harassment in the district. The group will be made up of high school students, parents and administrators as well as the district’s Title IX compliance officer and representatives from the student services department, the high school wellness centers and the professional development department. The task force will start meeting biweekly by the end of this month, Hendricks said. Three phases of work are planned: The first will focus on the district’s ongoing compliance with a federal resolution agreement that outlines steps the district must take to address violations of anti-discrimination law Title IX; the second on finding prevention education for the high schools; and the third, identifying those materials for the middle schools. Hendricks said she aims to start the middle school work in January. A group of concerned Paly parents, meanwhile, started meeting this summer and are now working with school leadership, Stanford University and national experts to develop a prevention program for both Paly and Gunn High School. The grassroots group is also planning presentations and programs for teachers, staff and sports coaches. They hope to launch the prevention program in January. Q — Elena Kadvany

Palo Alto tries to get a grip on pension problem It’s a problem as vast as it is vague: an unpaid pension bill that stands at more than $300 million and keeps on growing in ways few can comprehend, much less predict. For Palo Alto City Councilman Eric Filseth, who chairs the council’s Finance Committee, that’s a major problem — and one he and his colleagues are preparing to tackle. In a wide-ranging discussion of the city’s gaping pension problem, the committee agreed Tuesday that the city needs more clearly define problem and directed staff and consultants to return with forecasting models that will help inform the difficult discussion. To better understand the scale of the problem and the effect it will have on the city’s budget, Palo Alto officials agreed on Tuesday to team up with Stanford economic professors Jeremy Bulow and Joe Nation to develop a database that would help the city easily calculate its obligations going forward. They also enlisted their consultant on pensions, actuary John Bartel, to develop two other scenarios, based on rates-of-return of 7.5 percent and the more conservative 6 percent. Filseth and his three committee colleagues, Karen Holman, Adrian Fine and Greg Tanaka, all agreed that the city needs to get a better understanding of how different discount rates will impact the city’s expenses and revenues. Hear his conversation with Palo Alto Weekly Editor Jocelyn Dong and city hall reporter Gennady Sheyner in this “Behind the Headlines” podcast: tinyurl/com/PApensionproblem. Q — Gennady Sheyner

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NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL MEDIA ... Residents of Palo Alto’s Midtown neighborhood will have two new ways to keep up with neighborhood goingson. The Midtown Residents Association has launched new Facebook (tinyurl.com/y8m7femn) and Instagram (instagram.com/ paloaltomidtown/) accounts. That neighborhood association is not alone in updating its online presence. The College Terrace Residents Association also recently spiffed up its website at collegeterrace.org, with news, events and links to Nextdoor.com. REDUCING ACCIDENTS ... After a car smashed through her gate and into her garage, the homeowner at the southeast corner of Wilkie Way and West Charleston Road in Palo Alto said she was tired of the frequent accidents and wanted to know if the city would add a left-turn signal. According to the police department: Between Feb. 12, 2015, and Sept. 1, 2017, there were seven accidents at the intersection and seven people were injured. Three accidents were between vehicles; three involved a vehicle and a bicycle; one was a solo accident. Palo Alto’s Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello said the city plans to add left-turn signals and dedicated leftturn-only lanes on West Charleston at Wilkie as part of the Charleston/ Arastradero Corridor Project. Q

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SILENT NIGHTS? ... Some neighbors of Edgewood Shopping Center are cheering changes that may make their nights quieter and their streets safer. Residents had complained to Palo Alto staff for months regarding illegally parked delivery trucks that made noise at 4 a.m. and were traffic hazards. Meetings with city officials have resulted in some changes with more to come. Most delivery trucks are now using the back parking lot at the shopping center, neighbors report. Palo Alto Deputy City Manager Rob de Geus wrote to neighborhood leaders on Oct. 4 that the city will paint curbs red in the no-parking area on St. Francis Drive in about four to six weeks. Police and code enforcers are citing illegal parkers. Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello is looking at potential trafficcalming measures on St. Francis. The city also is talking to Sand Hill Property Company, which owns the center, about repairs to park furniture, workers smoking near the parklet and changing lighting that points into the neighborhood.

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William Dinsmore, in his Greenmeadow neighborhood home in south Palo Alto, sits by a table with a World War II photo of himself as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Air Corps. Dinsmore, known as “Uncle Bill” among family members, is turning 100 on Oct. 20.

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hen William “Uncle Bill” Dinsmore turns 100 this Friday, his family and community will celebrate a life marked by persistence amid adversity and abiding love. Dinsmore, a 63-year Greenmeadow neighborhood resident, test pilot and industrial engineer, doesn’t look a day past 80. He might need a little help from his caregiver, Sherl Shirley, for cooking and errands, but he is still very much independent. He uses a computer to do his banking, makes all of his medical appointments and emails his doctors. He uses FaceTime on his iPad to talk to his family when they are out of town. For those who seek a long life, he has one bit of sage advice: “Everything in moderation — that includes gin.” Dinsmore grew up in lush lands, born in 1917 in Troy, Ohio. “My dad was a wholesale nurseryman. He had 200 acres. He had all kinds of trees, full-grown trees. He had his own railroad siding, packing shed and greenhouses and about 60 people working for him. I loved it, I loved it, I loved it,” he said. But he faced many hardships. His father died when Dinsmore was 10 years old, and the business was foreclosed upon in the Great Depression. After the government took the property, the Waco Weaver Aircraft Company purchased the land in the early ‘30s, building a factory

and a landing field. The reversal of family fortune paved the way for a lifelong passion and career. “We had a great big oak tree, and I was just young. I would climb up in that oak tree and watch them come in and land. ... That’s where I got the wanting to fly. I grew up with it, the Waco planes,” he said. After high school, Dinsmore planned to attend the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, but he could not pass the entrance exams. Most people accepted at Annapolis had been to prep schools, he later learned. Still, the academy said he could be reconsidered for admission if he made acceptable grades in math and English at an accredited university and sent them his scores. Dinsmore, having no money, worked as an office boy at the Hobart Manufacturing Company in Troy to earn money to attend Ohio State. “I studied, studied, studied, studied and ended up with acceptable grades for Annapolis. ... That was 1937. I had two years there. Wonderful time,” he recalled. But after those two years, he went back to work to earn more money for his tuition. He returned to Ohio and worked for the Frigidaire Division of General Motors maintaining the production equipment at the plant. It was there that he first saw his future wife in a window across the way from his

workbench, he said. She spelled her name “Dorthy.” Neither she nor he liked it, so on their first date, Dinsmore gave her a new name: Suzie. “It just fit her,” he said. But actually, he named his wife after his 1935 Ford, he admitted. He still has the car, with its plush black leather and sleek white paint, sitting in the garage. In love with Suzie and with World War II looming, Dinsmore didn’t want to get drafted. Wanting still to fly airplanes, he volunteered for the Army Air Corps. After 30 weeks of training, he graduated in January 1942, just after Pearl Harbor. Suzie pinned on his wings, and they went right to Kelly Field Chapel and got married, he said. Dinsmore was stationed in a Washington, D.C., sub depot as an engineering officer and test pilot, primarily maintaining airplanes and testing them. All the important people from Washington ended up at Bolling Field eventually, needing their planes to be fixed, he said. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his whole entourage — the bells and whistles, the escorts, the people, the flags flying — arrived to meet a visiting dignitary, a thrill for the young pilot, he recalled. Dinsmore flew 26 different planes as a test pilot. He experienced his fair share of mishaps and more than one blessing, he said. He was supposed to co-pilot a B-25 bomber but instead was asked to give a Bell Aircraft representative a tour of the facility. During the tour he heard a horrible engine roar overhead. The left engine had quit and the bomber crashed. “Everybody on board was killed,” he said. Through the GI Bill, Dinsmore finally completed his degree in industrial engineering at the University of Florida in 1951. He began working at United Airlines’ Maintenance Base in the industrial engineering department in Palo Alto. He and Suzie bought their home

from developer Joseph Eichler in 1954. There was an old farm where Cubberley High School is now and only two streets had houses. The roads weren’t even paved when they moved in, he recalled. In 1958, he began a 24-year career at Lockheed in the Space Systems Division: He helped build the launch bases at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, satellite tracking systems, and later, spy satellites. Suzie was a housewife. The couple attended Peninsula Bible Church on Middlefield Road every Sunday. “We had a wonderful life,” Dinsmore said of his nearly 50 years of marriage to Suzie, who died in 1990. They lived a life with much adventure: vacationing in Las Vegas and Florida, each era of his life archived on dozens of mixtapes labeled with all the places they’d lived and holidays they’d shared. Suzie’s portrait still hangs in almost every room. Dinsmore pointed to Suzie’s picture above the fireplace. “I watch TV, I turn everything off, and when I go to bed, I look up at her. It brings the tears. ... I’m getting them still,” he said. But Dinsmore says his present life is rich. “The nicest part of life right now (is that) I have a wonderful, wonderful family,” he said. In addition to Shirley, whom he calls “my wonderful caretaker,” his niece Dedie has become “almost a daughter,” he said. The couple did not have children, but Suzie’s siblings’ families were theirs as well. Dinsmore quickly and affectionately became known as “Uncle Bill” to several generations of children and grandchildren. And that’s where his 100-year story continues. “(They) spoil me rotten,” he said. Q Editorial Intern Alexandria Cavallaro can be reached at acavallaro@paweekly.com.

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new commute” calculations. To date, Stanford has largely held up its end of the bargain, thanks to transit incentives, bike programs, bus fleets and other programs that encourage students, faculty and staff not to drive solo to campus. Stanford had exceeded the commute threshold on only three occasions, in each case by a very small margin (a little more than 1 percent), according to county officials. Now, Palo Alto officials and their counterparts in other jurisdictions are wondering whether adding more than 9,000 students, faculty members and staff to the campus over the next 17 years will make the goal impossible to meet. Traffic isn’t the only area in which Stanford’s expansion will create “significant and unavoidable” impacts, according to the

impact report. “Construction noise” and “cultural resources” are also identified as areas where the impacts are inevitable. But given the region’s housing shortage — which necessitates commuting — and the already dire traffic conditions during commute hours, it is the area that is getting the most attention during the comment period for the DEIR, which is set to close on Dec. 4. Santa Clara County Planning Director Kirk Girard said that the county has received plenty of comment so far about the “no new trips” policy, with many comments emphasizing that the county needs to establish that such an approach would effectively manage traffic, Girard told the City Council during a study session this week. Stanford does offer other mechanisms for fighting congestion. Another strategy is having the university help fund transportation improvements at adversely affected intersections.

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The impact study lists projects that Stanford could help implement, even as it acknowledges the severe challenges for some of these projects. For example, at Foothill Expressway, which will experience significant worsening traffic at Arastradero, Hillview and San Antonio roads, the proposed improvement is to create an overpass or underpass. Such a project would certainly face significant political and financial hurdles, even with Stanford’s “fair share” contribution. Other projects are smaller: reconfiguring lanes at the busy intersection of El Camino and Page Mill Road; adding a second westbound left-turn lane on Page Mill and Hanover Street; and creating a new right-turn lane on northbound Alma, near Charleston. The report itself isn’t overly optimistic about Stanford’s ability to take care of its traffic impacts. “It is uncertain whether it would be feasible to improve some of the affected intersections if the No Net New Commute Trips standard is not achieved, if there are not sufficient additional funds to complete the intersection impacts, or if there are not sufficient off-campus projects available to reduce peak-hour traffic,” the report states. Given the uncertainty, some local officials believe Stanford should go even further in funding transportation improvements. With public transit key to Stanford’s congestion-management plan, Palo Alto Councilmen Adrian Fine and Greg Tanaka suggested that the university should contribute toward grade separations along the Caltrain corridor. With the number of trains set to increase with Caltrain’s pending electrification project, grade separations become more imperative because of the traffic jams that will occur when crossing-guard gates are constantly closed, Tanaka said. Palo Alto officials are also calling for the county to demand more analysis of commute patterns, including the number of cars on streets in non-peak hours; identification of Stanford’s primary and secondary corridors; and an analysis of how Stanford commuters are avoiding the trip counts by parking on local streets in adjacent neighborhoods. Earlier this year, Mayor Greg Scharff signed a letter from the council containing that request and indicating that traffic is one of the areas that most concerns the city. “Members of the community appreciate the university’s focus on reducing commute trips to/ from campus by single-occupant vehicles during peak commute hours but are increasingly skeptical that the university’s trip-reduction programs are living up to their promise,” the letter states. Council members offered additional concerns during Monday’s discussion of the Stanford general-use permit. Vice Mayor Liz Kniss and Councilwoman

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss a claim against the city by Sarah Syed. The council will then consider approving a mixed-use project with 19,800 square feet of retail and 50 residential units at 3001 El Camino Real; and discuss the Planning and Transportation Commission’s recommendations on the Comprehensive Plan update. The closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 23, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Regular meeting will follow in the Council Chambers. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for the Architectural Review Board, the Historic Resources Board and the Planning and Transportation Commission. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will discuss the superintendent search process, hear a report on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), vote on a schematic design for a renovation of Hoover Elementary School and conceptual designs for new multipurpose buildings at three elementary schools and discuss a contract for a new interim assistant superintendent for human resources. Tentatively, the board will also discuss initial proposals for negotiations with its employee unions, vote on 2017-18 district goals and discuss term limits for board members. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss funding options for implementing improvements in the Parks, Trails, Natural Open Space and Recreation master plan; discuss the audit on Community Services Department fees; and consider adopting the Rinconada Long Range Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the 2017 Pacific Library Partnership Technology & Innovation Grant; the library system’s digital resources; and the use of Social Media Marketing and BiblioCommons. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

Karen Holman both wondered how the university’s expansion will affect parks and other recreational facilities. Councilmen Eric Filseth and Adrian Fine both talked about how expanding the number of Stanford students and faculty will affect the availability of housing. Scharff noted Stanford still doesn’t have a long-term plan for fire services. Palo Alto has been providing fire services to Stanford since 1976, though that partnership was strained in 2013, when Stanford announced its desire to terminate the agreement. The two sides have been negotiating since then and Scharff indicated that the dispute could end up in litigation. “I don’t see how we can certify the EIR without a long-term plan for fire service,” Scharff said. “Stanford has not come up with a plan, other than us providing it on a very short-term basis, and the parties are quite far apart on that issue.” County officials will hold at least two more public hearings on the impact report before the document is certified. To date, the response from the general public has been mostly muted. On Oct. 12, only a handful residents attended a hearing on the document in the Lucie Stern Community Center auditorium, where they were outnumbered by Stanford and county officials. Only three

residents spoke publicly about the EIR, none about traffic. Supervisor Joe Simitian, who represents Palo Alto on the board, this week made a plea for the community to get more involved in the process and make their concerns heard. “This is not the time for timidity,” said Simitian, who was scheduled to host a public meeting on the impact report on Oct. 19 at Palo Alto City Hall. “If you believe the EIR needs to be robust, if you believe it needs more work, we’d rather hear it now than later in the process.” Concerned residents will have several more opportunities to comment on the EIR. The county plans to hold a public hearing on the document on Thursday, Nov. 30, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Palo Alto Art Center. Residents can also submit written comments to David.rader@pln.sccgov.org or send them to David Rader, 70 West Hedding St., San Jose, CA 95110. “This is a major development over a long period of time in an area very sensitive to major developments,” Girard said at the Oct. 12 meeting. “We have a very sophisticated regulatory program. We have very sophisticated decision makers, and the imput of the community will receive a lot of attention.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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both retail and residential space. Fine said that when it comes to affordable housing, council members have generally fallen into one of two camps: those who believe that the city should focus on incumbent residents who are getting priced out and those who think the city should promote new housing to address the shortage and cost of housing regionally. While the council members who submitted the rental-protection memo — Tom DuBois, Karen Holman and Lydia Kou — favor the former approach, Fine, Wolbach and Kniss prefer the latter, he said. “I fundamentally believe that the housing crisis is caused by a lack of supply,” Fine said.

Rent-protection proposal fizzles The tenant-protection memo, which the council rejected 6-3

on Monday, would have explored limits on rent increases and restrictions on no-cause eviction. Nearly 70 people turned out to speak on the issue, the standingroom-only crowd divided between those sporting green stickers with the words “NO RENT CONTROL” and those holding up orange signs reading “PROTECT RENTERS.” In the end, it was the former who cheered, clapped and posed for photos with Mayor Greg Scharff, a leading opponent of the proposals. The measures, he said, would only restrict the supply of housing further. By limiting rent increases to a certain percentage for multi-family housing built before 1995, as the memo recommended, the city would effectively take these units off the market because existing tenants would never leave. “There will be no way anyone will be able to get into those apartments,” Scharff said. He also panned the proposal to explore protections against nocause termination, arguing that

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landlords already have every incentive to avoid tenant turnover. Palo Alto’s renters, who make up 44 percent of the population, are increasingly saying they are leaving the city because of spiking rents, the colleagues memo stated. The monthly rent in Palo Alto has soared by 50 percent since 2011, while Santa Clara County’s median income has only risen by about 5 percent. “Our affordable housing supply is far below demand while the cost of building new affordable units dwarfs our available resources,” the memo states. “Furthermore, many vital members of our community have moderate incomes and are not eligible for our limited affordable housing; teachers, policemen, service and retail workers, nurses and health care providers are continuing to be priced out of their homes.” Councilman Eric Filseth lauded the memo for identifying a proper goal — making housing available for longtime residents who provide valuable services and whose moderate incomes make it impossible for them to remain in Palo Alto. But the remedies proposed in the memo, he argued, are both too prescriptive and too unclear. And rent control, he said, has a “strong tendency to help a few

people right away and hurt a lot more in the long run.”

Deliberations get heated The discussion over rent control ended on an acrimonious note, with the council’s philosophical splits over the topic ultimately devolving into personal verbal attack. Wolbach suggested that his colleagues who authored the rent-stabilization memo were “insincere” and argued that Kou’s comments Monday — along with her tweet from April (“There’s plenty of housing, you just need a superb Realtor like me,” Kou tweeted, along with a link to an article about condominium supply in San Francisco) — point to her unwillingness to look at other options for boosting the city’s housing supply. Wolbach said he also took umbrage at Kou’s suggestion that some council colleagues who want greater city growth were unduly influenced by developers or are in favor of policies that lead to “stack-andpack housing,” characterizations that he vehemently disavowed. “The reasons I referred to things from the past (Kou’s tweet) is because I saw continuity between those past things and comments I heard last night,” Wolbach told the Weekly Tuesday.

Human Relations Commission (Oct. 12)

Palo Alto Mediation: The commission heard a status report from Project Sentinel about the Palo Alto Mediation Program and approved Karen Michael, Elaine El Bizri and Joyce Davidson as continuing active members; Erika Harrington as a new active member and Andrea Werboff as a new emeritus member. Yes: Alhassani, Chen, Gordon Gray, Lee, O’Nan, Stinger Absent: Brahmbhatt By-law change: The commission approved a Palo Alto Mediation Program bylaw amendment to clarify the role of emeritus members. Yes: Alhassani, Chen, Gordon Gray, Lee, O’Nan, Stinger Absent: Brahmbhatt HSRAP funding: Commissioners approved a $155,559, fiscal year 2018 second-allocation Human Services Resource Allocation Process (HSRAP) grant to the following nonprofit organizations: Counseling and Support Services (CASSY) ($35,000); Community Working Group ($30,000); Downtown Streets Team ($34,600); Dreamcatchers ($10,000); KARA ($10,000); Momentum for Mental Health ($10,000); PARCA ($10,959); Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired ($15,000), which included an amendment to lower the amount given to CASSY from $40,000 and to raise Community Working Group from $25,000. Yes: Chen, Gordon Gray, O’Nan, Stinger No: Alhassani, Lee Absent: Brahmbhatt Inclusiveness: Commissioners approved recommending the City Council affirm SB54, the state sanctuary bill for immigrant protections, or to enhance local protections. Commissioners recommended the council adopt a city ordinance based on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women and to direct staff to complete a report on a citywide diversity-learning program. Yes: Chen, Gordon Gray, Stinger Absent: Brahmbhatt, O’Nan

City Council (Oct. 16)

Rental protections: The board rejected a proposal to explore rent stabilization policies such as annual caps on rent increases and restrictions on no-cause evictions. Yes: DuBois, Holman, Kou No: Filseth, Fine, Kniss, Scharff, Tanaka, Wolbach Fire: The council approved the elimination of 11 positions in the Fire Department, Yes: Unanimous

Council Finance Committee (Oct. 17)

Pensions: The committee discussed the city’s pension liability and directed staff to return with several long-range forecasting models based on varying assumptions about the CalPERS discount rate. Yes: Unanimous

Board Policy Review Committee (Oct. 18)

Class size: The Board of Education’s policy review committee discussed a proposed class size policy.Action: None Bullying: The committee discussed revisions to a district policy on bullying and harassment.Action: None Civility: The committee discussed a proposed civility policy.Action: None

Architectural Review Board (Oct. 19)

250 and 350 Sherman Ave.: The board discussed the proposed public-safety building and garage at 250 and 350 Sherman Ave. After criticizing the proposed public-safety building for being too massive and unpleasant, the board requested a variety of design revisions and voted to continue the discussion to a later date. Yes: Unanimous

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Stanford supporter John Freidenrich dies Longtime Atherton resident John Freidenrich — who for decades had been a major supporter of his alma mater of Stanford University, was a well-respected attorney and invested early in many Silicon Valley companies — died on Oct. 11. He was 80. (Posted Oct. 18, 2:59 p.m.)

Stanford sees rise in car burlgaries Six vehicles were burgled on the Stanford University campus Thursday, followed by two more on Friday, making a total of 61 car break-ins recorded since the start of the month, the university’s Department of Public Safety said Tuesday. (Posted Oct. 17, 9:35 a.m.)

Facebook’s plans win approval A debate over the aesthetics of a proposed eight-story parking garage dominated the Menlo Park Planning Commission’s discussion Monday night of Facebook’s revised plans for its development along Bayfront Expressway. (Posted Oct. 18, 9:14 a.m.)

Wrong-way driver causes major crash A man who drove the wrong way for miles on two freeways crashed into another car, causing a shutdown of southbound Interstate 280 in Los Altos Hills early Sunday morning, has been arrested on suspicion of DUI, the California Highway Patrol said. (Posted Oct. 15, 11:04 a.m.)

Kiwanis Club honors founder of girls’ camp The Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto announced that Marie Wolbach will be honored as the 2017 recipient of the Kiwanis Angel Award for her founding and expansion of Tech Trek, a national math and science program for girls. (Posted Oct. 13, 6:45 a.m.)

Kou told the Weekly that as a Realtor, she probably would have also opposed rental protection measures like the ones proposed in the memo. But after spending time as a council member and speaking to community members from all backgrounds, she became convinced that this is a subject worth considering. Even though her proposals were ultimately rejected, Kou said she will fairly evaluate the proposals in the new colleagues’ memo, Wolbach’s criticisms notwithstanding. “What he did was very childish and immature, but if they come up with something good, I’m more than willing to be open to it,” Kou said. His comments questioning his colleagues’ intentions drew a sharp rebuke from Holman, who chided Wolbach for implying that “we’re intentionally wasting staff’s time, wasting the public’s time, wasting the council’s time.” “It’s upsetting to me personally because this (memo) is sincere,” Holman said. DuBois told the Weekly he found Wolbach’s comments “extremely insulting.” “I think the City Council took a big step back in terms of working together,” he said. That premise will be put to the test in the weeks to come, as the council concludes its review of the updated Comprehensive Plan and considers the new memo on new housing in commercial zones. Fine said the goal of the memo is to take a fresh look at the city’s parking requirements, density regulations and review processes to see if they can be improved to facilitate more housing. He and Wolbach both noted that the memo does not propose any changes to the city’s single-family residential (R-1) zones or to the city’s 50-foot height limit. It does, however, recommend exploring new below-market-rate requirements for housing developments and reducing parking requirements in areas well-served by public transit. Fine told the Weekly that he believes the city’s housing shortage poses a “threat to the city’s prosperity, diversity, stability, environment and community character” and noted that more than 70 percent of residents cited affordable housing as their top concern in a recent survey. “Our new Comprehensive Plan does include exploration of policy changes to enable more housing,” Fine said. “And it really is about time to take a look at the processes and rules we have in place and figure out what they’re doing for housing.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be reached at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Violence related Assault with a deadly weapon . . . . . . . . . 1 Bomb threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Brandishing a weapon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dependent adult abuse/self neglect. . . . . 1 Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Attempted auto burglary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle related Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . . . 5 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Reckless driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Biking under the influence . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Disturbing the peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Violence related Sexual battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theft related Burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theft undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . . . Driving without a license. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle collision/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Possession of false identification . . . . . . . Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . . . Under the influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . Miscellaneous Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . APS referral. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Domestic disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Municipal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Possession of a loaded firearm . . . . . . . . Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prostitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Violation of a court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

3000 Hanover St., 10/11, 2:40 p.m.; bomb threat. University Avenue/High Street, 10/11, 10:08 p.m.; robbery/strong arm. 3916 El Camino Real, 10/13, 5:34 a.m.; assault with a deadly weapon. San Antonio Road, 10/13, 10:30 a.m.; dependent adult abuse/self neglect. 539 Emerson St., 10/15, 2:07 a.m.; brandishing a weapon. El Camino Real, 10/17, 5:30 p.m.; child abuse/physical.

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

PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp (TENTATIVE) AGENDA–SPECIAL MEETING – COUNCIL CHAMBERS OCTOBER 23, 2017 5:00 PM CLOSED SESSION 1. CONFERENCE WITH CITY ATTORNEY Subject: Written Liability Claim Against the City of Palo Alto by Sara Syed (Claim No. C16-0081) CONSENT CALENDAR 2. Adoption of a Resolution Donating a Surplus Fire Engine to our Sister City, Oaxaca, Mexico and Accepting $5,000 From Neighbors Abroad as the Purchase Price of the Fire Engine 3. Approval of a Contract Number C18168777 With Nichols Consulting Engineers, Chtd. (NCE) in the Amount of $191,300 for the Sidewalk Assessment Study to Determine Next Steps Following the Completion of the Sidewalk District Cycle for Capital Improvements Program Project PO-89003 4. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance of the City Of Palo Alto to Update the Fiscal Year 2018 Municipal Fee Schedule to Adjust Development Services Department Fees (FIRST READING: October 2, 2017 PASSED: 7-1 ;HUHRH UV :JOHYќ (IZLU[ ACTION ITEMS 5. PUBLIC HEARING/QUASI-JUDICIAL: 3001 El Camino Real [16PLN-00097 and 16PLN-00220]. Recommendation on Applicant’s Request for Approval of a Site and Design Review to Allow for Construction of a Four-story Mixed-use Development With 19,800 Square Feet of Retail and 30 Residential Units in the CS Zone as Well as a Three-story Multi-family Residential Building With 20 Units in the RM-30 Zone. The Project Also Includes a Request for Approval of a Preliminary Parcel Map for a Lot Merger to Allow for the Proposed Development, a Design Enhancement Exception, and a Parking Adjustment for Shared Parking. Environmental Assessment: A Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) was Circulated for Public Review on July 3, 2017 and the Circulation Period Ended on August 2, 2017. A Final MND is Available for Review. Zoning District: CS (Service Commercial), RM-30 (Multi-family Residential), and R-1 (Single-family Residential) 6. Discussion and Consideration of the Planning & Transportation Commission's Recommendations Regarding the Comprehensive Plan Update and Adoption of Resolutions Certifying the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Comprehensive Plan Update; Adopting Findings Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and Adopting the Updated Comprehensive Plan Dated June 30, 2017 With Desired Corrections and Amendments, Which Comprehensively Updates and Supersedes the City's 1998-2010 Comprehensive Plan (Two Public Hearings Will Be Held: October 23, 2017 and November 13, 2017. On October 23, 2017, the City Council may Consider Action on the Planning & Transportation Commission’s Recommendations, Providing Direction to :[Hќ HUK *LY[PÄJH[PVU VM [OL -PUHS ,09 6[OLY (J[PVUZ >PSS be Deferred Until the Hearing on November 13, 2017.)

(TENTATIVE) AGENDA–SPECIAL MEETING – COMMUNITY MEETING ROOM OCTOBER 24, 2017 6:00 PM 1. Interviews of Candidates for the Architectural Review Board, the Historic Resources Board, and the Planning and Transportation Commission.

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Doctor David Paul Cooney March 10, 1929 – September 27, 2017 Doctor David Paul Cooney, a hematologist and oncologist, traveler, curator of the history, husband, and father of four died on September 27, 2017. He was 88 years old. He passed away peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by family and friends after a long battle with cancer. Dr. Cooney was born on March 10, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. During his early years, he lived all over the midwest including Lexington KY, Winnfield LA, Nocona, Mineola, Fort Worth, and Houston TX, Madill OK, Caldwell KS, and Cherrydale VA. In 1941 the family settled in Evanston, Illinois where Dr. Cooney joined the YMCA and attended Evanston Township High School. Dr. Cooney was particularly fond of this period in his life, remembering the many life-long friends he made and the wonderful education he received. After high school, Dr. Cooney attended Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts where he graduated with honors with a degree in Chemistry. During his time there, he was unwittingly on the forefront of the movement for racial equality when his fraternity pledged an African American. The fraternity refused to budge and was kicked out. After graduating from Amherst, Dr. Cooney attended the Northwestern School of Medicine from 1950 to 1954. In 1954, Dr. Cooney began his medical career at Philadelphia General and Jefferson Hospitals in Philadelphia. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Cooney was drafted into the United States Army and worked in medical research, helping to shoot the first two monkeys into space, Abel and Baker. In 1960, Dr. Cooney and his family moved to Palo Alto, California and then purchased the family home where he lived until his passing. In 1965, he transitioned from his job at Stanford into private practice and then his father passed in 1967. But, at the end of the 1960s, Dr. Cooney met Ursula Witte. They married in 1971 and remained happily married for the next 46 years until his passing. In 1970, Dr. Cooney co-founded the Community Medical Teaching Service at Stanford University Hospital and Medical Center and served as its director until 1976. This allowed community physicians to directly admit patients to Stanford Hospital and remain in charge of their patients’ care. Dr. Cooney was also a core organizer of Med 300, where community physicians taught thirdyear medical students in a clinical setting. Dr. Cooney continued in private practice until his “retirement” in 1997. His medical practice was typified by diligence, competence, and deep caring for his patients. As one of his patients and long-time family friend described Dr. Cooney in a poem: You’ll feel worthy / You’ll feel you’ve been dealt a fair hand. Even after retirement, he maintained an active role in the medical community. He was granted professor emeritus status at the Stanford University Medical Center in 1997, taught several courses, and participated regularly in Grand Rounds. His retirement also gave him the time to pursue his passion for the history of the City of San Francisco. He joined the San Francisco City Guides, a non-profit dedicated to the preservation of the City’s history, first as a tour guide and later as an organizer. He was recognized in 2007 with the “Great Feat Award” for his contributions to the organization. At his core, David Paul Cooney was a man dedicated to service: as a physician, he saved lives. As a professor, he educated generations of healers. And as a family-man he worked in partnership with Ursula to raise his children. In his passing, a light has left the world. Dr. Cooney is survived by his wife of 46 years, Ursula, his four children Lisa, Steve (Renee), Christopher (Sarah), and Sean (Catherine), and eight grandchildren. PAID

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John Freidenrich May 6, 1937 - October 11, 2017 John Freidenrich passed away on October 11, 2017. He was 80 years old. Born and raised in Palo Alto, John was the middle son of Edith (Schermer) and David Freidenrich, and brother to David Jr. and Dennis. He held a deep commitment to the betterment of his community with his many causes and generosities. His lifelong commitments to Stanford University, his alma mater, spanned 4 University presidents and more than 40 years of dedicated service. His good deeds are far reaching and will grow because of all the seeds he planted and all the people and causes he supported. John was co-founder of the Regis Management Company. He began his career as a lawyer, starting the law firm of Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper). He also founded the venture capital firm, Bay Partners, and led the firm for over a quarter century. He received his bachelor’s degree and L.L.D. from Stanford University. John is survived by the love of his life, his wife of 54 years, Jill; his children Gail Marks and Eric Freidenrich, their spouses Andrew and Amy; his brothers David and Dennis Freidenrich; and his beloved 6 grandchildren; Jacqueline, Danielle, Theodore, Lucille, Beverly and Sylvia. A community Celebration of Life will be announced by the family at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in John’s name to: Stanford University for “The John Freidenrich Memorial Fund for Stanford Medicine” or Bay Area Cancer Connections – Palo Alto, California or The Jewish Community Federation – San Francisco, California PAID

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Mick Jordan February 10, 1952 - October 10, 2017 Palo Alto, California Long-time Palo Alto resident Mick (Michael John) Jordan died unexpectedly at home on Oct. 10. Mick was known to many Palo Alto families as their muchloved AYSO coach who coached coaches as well as children’s soccer teams for more than 20 years. Aside from coaching in the fall leagues, Mick coached in the spring, taking many players to the National Games around the country. In addition to soccer, he coached YMCA basketball for many years. Born in Derby, England, in 1952, Mick earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from Lancaster University with First Class Honors and a doctorate in computer science from the University of Cambridge. Mick and his beloved wife Jenny moved to Palo Alto in 1984. He worked as a computer scientist for Acorn Research Center; Olivetti Software Technology Lab; Digital Equipment Corporation; Sun Microsystems; and Oracle. This spring he and Jenny became United States citizens and celebrated with family and friends at a Fourth of July party at their home. Mick loved the outdoors. He enjoyed skiing in Europe and the U.S. He was an avid bike rider who completed several Double Century (200 mile) rides; did the Ride Across Britain twice; and completed the Paris/Brest/Paris ride. At home Mick liked working in his garden and playing music. A thoughtful husband and loving father, Mick is survived by wife, Jenny, sons David and Peter Jordan, and his sister, Mary Elizabeth Funnell of England. Jenny will miss the cups of tea he made for her every morning of their 35-year marriage. A memorial service will be held Saturday, Oct. 21, at 11 a.m. at the Cusimano Family Colonial Mortuary, 96 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View. Friends are invited to a reception in Palo Alto after the service. The family requests any donations be made to the California Sierra Club. PAID OBITUARY

Joanne Gayring Seward Joanne Theresa Gayring Seward died on the morning of Oct. 11 in the company of her family and caretaker. She was 85. Seward was born and raised in Syracuse, New York, the only child of Leona (Coughlin) and Herbert M. Gayring, surrounded by her extended Irish-American family. She graduated at age 16 from Eastwood High School in Syracuse and excelled as a pianist. She was fond of Chopin. Seward was the first in her family to attend college and graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University with a major in political science and international relations. She was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. Seward later earned a master’s degree from the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. While working as a city planner for Syracuse, Seward was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency and moved to Washington, D.C. At the height of the Cold War, she served as an intelligence officer for the CIA in the Soviet Union and Eastern European Sector, where she focused on Soviet bloc economic capability and evidence of deployment of military and space missile systems. In 1964, she married William R. Seward, formerly of Sacramento, with whom she had one son, Timothy Carr Seward. She and her family lived in Burke, Virginia, in the D.C. metro area for many years, where she raised her son and developed a lifelong interest in interior and exterior home design, worked as a writer for Medical Economics magazine and developed a passion for Irish literature. In 1977, Seward and her family moved to Palo Alto, where she lived for the next 40 years in the same home with many loving pets (most recently her poodle, Molly). After the premature death of her husband in 1987, Seward worked as a development writer for the Office of Medical Development at Stanford University Medical Center, where she made several close friends whom she cherished for 30 years. Seward is survived by her son and his wife, Stephanie, of Davis, and her two granddaughters, Delaney Frances and Kylie Adeline. Her family recalls Seward’s sweetness, wit, beauty and love of life, which will be remembered by all who knew her. A funeral mass will be held at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Palo Alto on Friday, Oct. 20, at 10 a.m., which will be followed by burial at Alta Mesa Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Syracuse University Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Catholic Relief Services or the American Cancer Society. Q

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Editorial Irrationality on marijuana We voted overwhelmingly to legalize it, but ambivalent city officials still push back

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n a community in which two-thirds of voters a year ago supported Proposition 64, legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, city officials are recommending a policy that prohibits even a single highly regulated retail dispensary from operating here. The city has had a year to determine its approach to implementing the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, but like most cities it has delayed so long as to make it almost impossible to now craft zoning changes to accommodate retail cannabis sales before the state begins issuing permits of its own on Jan. 1. So in order to block the state from doing so, the city staff is recommending an ordinance prohibiting any local dispensaries, at least through next year. Here is the essence of the recommended policy that the City Council will consider at its Oct. 30 meeting: Adult residents may grow up to six marijuana plants in their back yard (as long as the plants cannot be seen from the street and are behind a locked gate) and, as provided in state law, they may use it (smoke, eat or apply cannabis lotions) only in their home. The only way Palo Altans will be able to purchase cannabis products, however, will be to order them and have them delivered to their home by a state-licensed delivery service or drive to Mountain View, the one Peninsula city thus far actually trying to implement the intent of Prop. 64 by allowing retail locations. Prop. 64 gave cities the opportunity to ban or enact restrictions on outdoor cultivation, delivery services and commercial outlets, but they cannot prohibit growing up to six plants indoors or the consumption of cannabis in homes. (Until Jan. 1, it’s legal to use marijuana in your own home, but you can only buy it legally with a medical marijuana card.) No one has been able to articulate why, other than uncertainties about state regulations that will be issued within the next month, the city should not license one or more retail establishment to sell cannabis or products containing cannabis. Mayor Greg Scharff, who acknowledges his personal views have evolved since he strongly opposed a local measure in 2012 that would have allowed up to three licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in the city, says Palo Altans should just plan on driving to Mountain View if they want to buy cannabis. His view reflects a widespread hesitation by cities to adjust zoning laws to permit a limited number of retail establishments. “Ban now and wait-and-see what happens” is the approach being urged by city attorneys and city managers across the state. The approach originally recommended by the Palo Alto city attorney was to also ban residents from growing up to six outdoor plants, and we are pleased to see the change to allow this, given the impossibility of enforcement and the fact that many residents are already growing plants. But for a community with a large baby boomer population who came of age partaking in then-illegal marijuana use and where teenagers can today obtain it more easily than their parents, we hope Palo Alto council members will respect the will of the voters and issue a small number of permits for retail locations in existing commercial districts within the city. The days of arguing that such establishments might attract crime or undesirable elements, which we bought into five years ago when the medical marijuana dispensary issue was on the ballot, are over. Such problems have not materialized in California, and under the law cities can exercise substantial control over the number and operations of retail outlets, as well as charge a revenue-generating sales tax. Prop. 64 contains many safeguards and requirements for retail dispensaries, including secure storage requirements and placement away from schools, and cities can add more if they wish. Retail stores in Oregon and Colorado, where recreational use has been legalized, operate without problems. Although there are many who now receive cannabis deliveries using an easily obtainable medical marijuana card, many more who would like to try lotions or edibles for therapeutic purposes have been discouraged by what seems like an illegitimate and abused medical marijuana system. Prop. 64 was intended to normalize cannabis as a product far less risky than many other forms of treatment or relaxation, and city governments should be facilitating that change, not resisting it. We urge the City Council to enact a short-term, three-month ban on retail cannabis establishments to give the city staff enough time to return before the end of the year with the necessary zoning changes and restrictions to allow the permitting of up to three commercial dispensaries in Palo Alto. Q Page 16 • October 20, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Letters Protecting microneighborhoods Editor, As residents of the featured cottage cluster in the Oct. 13 article (“Cottage cluster becoming a thing of the past?”), we very much appreciate your shining a spotlight on these unique housing options. Indeed, this kind of living situation is an asset to the larger community for many reasons. They allow those of us who work for nonprofits and contribute to the community to live here. The shared space is a positive environmental option in thinking about a sustainable future. The large common areas encourage community participation; our kids and their friends have grown up playing in the driveway, adults gather for impromptu social time as well as planned events (we have hosted summer drinks and movie nights for years!) and, given the constant outdoor activity, it is a visible reminder that people are at the center of a neighborhood. While we know our future in this cluster is tenuous, we hope to see the city protect these micro-neighborhoods. C. Gwin, D. Kerr, L. Hom, D. Jackson Churchill Avenue, Palo Alto

Credit where it’s due Editor, The preview of the upcoming UNAFF Documentary Film Festival provided descriptions of some of the films that will be shown. Unfortunately, details about two of the films mentioned failed to include accurate information about the context in which the films were made. Lauren Knapp’s film “The Sandman” was produced in 2016 as her thesis film in the two-year MFA program in documentary film at Stanford. Yet she is described as a “Stanford professor” in the article. In fact, she was a matriculated graduate student from 2014-2016 and never taught in the program. Daniel Chavez Ontiveros’ documentary “El Cisne” is described in the article as a “local interest” profile film. Curiously, no mention is made of the fact that Daniel also produced this film as his MFA thesis at Stanford. He was a classmate of Lauren Knapp and part of the cohort of 8 students who

graduated in June 2016. The end credits of both films indicate their provenance as thesis films produced in the Department of Art & Art History’s documentary film program, so it would have been appropriate to give credit where credit is due. Jan Krawitz Ross Road, Palo Alto

Time to speak up Editor, On Oct. 23, the Comprehensive Plan and the Environmental Impact Report will be discussed and voted upon by the City Council. The Comprehensive Plan will set forth a vision and policies for Palo Alto’s growth for the next 15 to 20 years. The proposed Comprehensive Plan will allow tech firms to locate in the commercial area downtown. This eliminates the previous culture and policy of “incubator firms.” This will lead to increased office and employee density. Hotels in the downtown area will be allowed to be three times their current allowable size. This will overwhelm the downtown area and lead to oversized

buildings with maximized size and minimized character. Think of the hotels on El Camino Real existing downtown. Office growth could increase by 3 million square feet over the length of the Plan. This is equal to the growth in office space over the last 20 years in Palo Alto. I believe this will increase our already severe traffic congestion, decrease available parking, further strain neighborhood streets, increase the already severe housing shortage, increase rents, crowd our schools and ruin the Palo Alto we know and love, and I encourage people to attend the Oct. 23 City Council meeting at 7 p.m. at 250 Hamilton Ave. in the City Council chambers and speak their minds. The city’s website, cityofpaloalto.org, has the meeting agenda. The email for the council is city.council@ cityofpaloalto.org. Now is the time for people to show up and speak up. We will live with the consequences of the decisions made on the Comprehensive Plan for decades. Rita Vrhel Channing Avenue, Palo Alto (continued on page 18)

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Guest Opinion ‘Hey Elon, we need Tesla trains not trucks!’ by Allen Podell

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n Oct. 26, Tesla is set to demonstrate its newest baby — longhaul trucks — but it has missed a technically easier target: commuter trains. Here on the Peninsula, politics, money and confusion have turned the iron-horse modernization discussions into horse meat. The competing proposals are incompatible. Yes, intercity high-speed rail transit will be important in the future. But right now, we need to rethink our commuter rail system, which has been around since Abraham Lincoln was president. To minimize the cost, improvements have been made piecemeal. We need to revitalize the entire system to encourage people to leave their cars at home — not just to go to work but to attend events in neighboring cities. We need to facilitate commutes from south of San Jose so that housing pressure will be reduced and industry can flourish. The technology exists, right here in Silicon Valley; we just need to harness it and replace the antiquated Caltrain system. No one imagined 30 years ago that batteries could dramatically reduce the cost of commuter rail service by eliminating both third rails between stations and the need to change many existing grade

crossings. Unfortunately, this proposed commuter system is incompatible with intercity High-Speed Rail. Electrification has begun on an old Caltrain system that is ill-suited to commuter needs and demands very expensive grade crossing updates. Caltrain wants the money for the electrification and apparently does not care that the resulting commuter train is a disaster. It is not too late to do the job right, optimizing both the commute and High-Speed Rail systems at reduced cost.

In the trenches Burying the high-speed electric train has become a priority — but trench depth is crucial. In heavily populated areas, placing the high-speed electric train largely in a shallow trench would be practical, with the price of construction a fraction of the cost of a tunnel. Low-height BART-like cars would operate in 10-foot-deep trenches without third rails or overhead wires. In most areas, the trenches could be covered over by buildings or parks, and the real estate reused, recouping perhaps $4 million per acre. Passing over creeks and under roads would be far more easily done with a low-height tunnel/trench. Imagine the commuter train running often beneath the existing Caltrain tracks. As those tracks would be used after midnight for freight, there would be no urgent need to change the grade crossings for safety or traffic reasons. No excavations for underpasses. Nothing removed. In open areas, the commute train could use the old tracks. In the

long run, the disruption created by the old tracks might become history, as freight goes via Tesla trucks, and the unused tracks removed. Yahoo!

New design required Commute requirements demand a different type of passenger car design from the existing Caltrain double-deckers: Q The lower the car height, the shallower the trench, the cheaper the dig. Q Bicycles could be loaded quickly through a side door — not lifted into a baggage car. Spaces could be reserved and paid for in advance for ease of access, with cell phone payment and ID. Whatever it is, it has to be fast! Q Disabled folks could also board quickly through a side door into a compartment. No time-consuming steps to lower and lift, no pallets, no delays. No long aisles. They could just roll on. Q This proposed car is nothing like the existing Caltrain cars; it is designed for commuters, period. A battery-powered commuter train would meet the requirements of fast acceleration, elimination of a third rail and overhead wires between stations, and ready deployment of single-car trains. Here are the nuts and bolts: With the train operating on $50,000 of Tesla-like car batteries, its acceleration and grade tolerance could be at least twice that of a diesel-electric. Third rails would be needed only in the stations. Even better, inductive charging could eliminate the need for a third rail and

ease safety concerns. Add in regenerative braking, and much of the energy used in accelerating the train could be recovered by using the motors as generators: slowing the train, recharging the batteries, recycling the energy. Because no overhead wires or third rails would be needed between stations, work on overhead wires could stop immediately. Trying to make a commuter rail mesh with a system designed for intercity travel is wasteful. A commuter rail requires fast acceleration and rapid adjustment to meet passenger demands. Special event and frequent evening service could be easily accommodated with shorter — or longer — trains as needed. The high-speed rail, by contrast, does not require fast acceleration or flexible scheduling. Instead, it would be more economical to run longer trains less frequently, on set schedules. However, such a system is unfriendly to commuters — and inflexible. We have found that Caltrain’s poor nighttime service makes it difficult to use public transit to attend social and cultural events. Instead of trying to turn the high-speed rail into a one-size-fits-all form of transportation, we need to link efficient commuter and long-distance trains at transit hubs. The best commute system for the Peninsula is clearly practical with today’s technology and at far lower cost than a compromise Caltrain conversion that promises awful commuter service. Q Allen Podell is an electrical engineer and inventor living in Palo Alto. He can be reached at apw@allenpodell.com.

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CITY OF PALO ALTO Architectural Review Board Regular Meeting 250 Hamilton Avenue, Council Chambers November 2, 2017 at 8:30am Action Items PUBLIC HEARING / QUASI-JUDICIAL. 3045 Park Boulevard [17PLN-00073]: Consideration of a Major Architectural 9L]PL^ [V (SSV^ +LTVSP[PVU VM HU ,_PZ[PUN 6ɉJL )\PSKPUN HUK Construction of a new Two-Story 29,120 Square Foot R&D Building. Environmental Assessment: An Initial Study is Being Prepared in Accordance With the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Zoning District: GM (AD) (General Manufacturing with Automobile Dealership Combing District). For More Information Contact the Project Planner Graham Owen at Graham.Owen@cityofpaloalto.org. The Architectural Review Board is live streamed online at http:// midpenmedia.org/category/government/city-of-palo-alto and available on via cablecast on government access channel 26. The complete agenda with accompanying reports is available online at http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/boards/arb/default. asp. For additional information contact Alicia Spotwood at alicia.spotwood@cityofpaloalto.org or at 650.617.3168.

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Keep fire department staffing Editor, We experienced excellent service from Palo Alto’s Fire Department about a year ago. We had gone out for only an hour. When we returned, the house smelled like something was burning. We quickly looked around for the source, and when we could not find it, we called the Fire Department. Within minutes a fire truck arrived. After verifying that there was no longer an active fire, the firemen moved the dishwasher to the garage to enable the house to air out from the smell. We were lucky. Whatever burned in the dishwasher was apparently stopped by the dishwasher’s timer. Had the timer not turned off the power, the house would have been in flames! We have needed the Fire Department’s services rarely in the over 50 years we have lived in Palo Alto. But, when we need them, we need their immediate response. Northern California’s fires have shown that a brisk wind can spread fire from one home to many others in just minutes. This is not the time to reduce Fire Department staffing! Alice and Rich Stiebel Talisman Drive, Palo Alto

Increase firefighting capacity Editor, After seeing the Napa fires part, surely we want to increase our firefighting capacity, not reduce it. Palo Alto has too many wood-framed houses, Eichlers and the foothills. We need firefighters. Alice Schaffer Smith Webster Street, Palo Alto

Look elsewhere for savings Editor, In the last week we have all watched with horror what a major fire did to northern California. In December 2016 we watched with the same horror the devastation of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. Palo Alto or any of our neighbors could be faced with the same kinds of major disasters. Major disasters could also include earthquake fires, train derailment, fire in the Palo Alto Hills, chemical explosion at Stanford University, a company fire. They will require emergency services for all of us. Major disasters don’t follow computer models. They can happen at any hour or anytime of day or night. We need to be prepared! I appeal to the City Council to find other ways to save money in Palo Alto, so we can keep fire personnel for any kind of a major disaster that might affect all of us. Neva Yarkin Churchill Avenue, Palo Alto Page 18 • October 20, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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Volunteers (from left) Margaret Winters, Sandy Carnahan, A.J. Fouladpour, Susan Carnahan, George Chechopoulos and Elaine Farge, sort through the many piles of donated goods — food, water, personal hygiene items, pet supplies, diapers and bedding — collected at Seaport Storage Center in Redwood City to be distributed to evacuees of the North Bay fires. Justin Wethington, the manager of Collection 55 Wine Cellars, which operates in the storage center, felt compelled to help victims of the North Bay fires and facilitated the large donation drive.

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Above: Sylvia Zerbini pets Trueno, one of the 12 stallions featured in her equestrian performing act, Liberté, that she had to quickly evacuate from the Nuns Fire to the Horse Park at Woodside early morning on Oct. 9 as the fire grew. She and her husband, Richie Waite, were set to perform for a benefit fundraiser in Kenwood, an unincorporated area between the cities of Sonoma and Santa Rosa. Zerbini and Waite contacted Larry Gimple, the owner of the Horse Park, and were able to keep the horses there for more than a week. Waite said, “It’s unbelievable, the outpouring of support for us.” Right: Palo Alto firefighters Eban Johnson, left, and Anthony Sozio from Engine 66 work on extinguishing hot spots around the city of Willets while assisting firefighting efforts at the Mendocino Complex Fire. The firefighters arrived on Oct. 11 and were still helping with the efforts early this week.

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Top left: A car consumed by the Tubbs Fire is parked in a driveway along Mark West Springs Road in Santa Rosa, where homes on the street were completely destroyed. Top right: Officer Ken Cunningham parks the Palo Alto Animal Services truck outside the Sonoma Humane Society, where he assisted with animal rescue efforts. Far left: A student drops a package of underwear into the donation box at Addison Elementary School. Left: Palo Alto firefighters from Engine 66 work the Mendocino Complex Fire, which they have been assisting with since Oct. 11.

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Police departments and public service agencies were among the first to respond early last week. The Palo Alto fire and police departments sent two engines and several fire crew members to Santa Rosa, as well as multiple police officers. Stanford Hospital accepted eight North Bay patients from evacuated hospitals or clinics, including several walk-ins, and issued an alert that Sand Hill Field could close unexpectedly at any time to receive incoming helicopters. Community members also felt compelled to act. On Tuesday morning, Justin Wethington, who manages a wine storage facility at the Seaport Storage Unit in Redwood City, decided that Seaport was an ideal location to house supplies and reached out to NBC Bay Area to get the word out. Within the day, he began receiving up to 30 calls an hour from people who wanted to donate from places as far as Hawaii and southern California. As he led volunteers driving truckloads of supplies to Sonoma over the week, Wethington estimates he heard from at least 400 to 500

Sylvia Zerbini, head trainer, director and producer of Liberté, an equestrian show based out of Florida, exercises Trueno on at the Horse Park At Woodside on Oct. 16. After fleeing the Nuns Fire, Zerbini and her husband, Richie Waite, were able to keep their 12 stallions at the horse park for more than a week before heading to their next performance in Arizona. The Horse Park At Woodside is currently offering horse boarding to any evacuees of the North Bay fires.

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time getting to Sonoma. When he arrived early Tuesday morning with pet food for Sonoma Animal Services, he was the first outside agency member on the scene — and already, the Sonoma team was down to just one bag of supplies. Cunningham joined the Sonoma officers in the field as they rescued animals, left food and water at houses and helped livestock owners coordinate evacuations. The first day, the officers worked for more than 14 hours, and in some cases Cunningham suspected that they were “feeding the crows more than anything.� “We get to the house, and there’s no house,� he said. “It’s just a pile of smoldering debris, and more than likely, the animals are gone. ... Just everything looked gray. The color was just drained from the canvas of the city. Just so, so gray.� Most local agencies, Cunningham said, can only afford to send one person up north so as not to

impinge on critical services for their own communities. He returned to Sonoma on Tuesday but soon will have to return to work full-time for his home agency. Other animal evacuations required quick thinking from friends in Woodside. Larry Gimple, who owns the Horse Park at Woodside, jumped into action at 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 9 when he received a phone call from an acquaintance in Kenwood, an unincorporated area near Chateau St. Jean Winery, located between Santa Rosa and Sonoma. Twelve showhorses from Richie Waite and Sylvia Zerbini’s Grande LibertÊ Farm needed to be evacuated, but there was just one problem: Eight horses had escaped. While Waite’s team corralled the spooked animals — whose portable barns had collapsed, allowing them to run pell-mell around the property — Gilbert woke up two of his (continued on page 24)

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TAKE BACK OUR CITY The Palo Alto City Council will address the adoption of a new Comprehensive Plan on October 23. The draft Plan doesn’t deal with the critical issue of growth. In fact, it shifts Palo Alto further towards becoming an expanding business center rather than a well-balanced community of residents and workers. Now is the time to tell City officials what is important to you.

Here are four critical issues: COMMERCIAL GROWTH. The draft Plan would add up to three million square feet of non-residential space over the next 15 years. This translates into an average of twice the annual growth rate experienced during the past 27 years in Palo Alto. Last year, the City’s Annual Citizen Survey showed that more than two-thirds of our residents consistently express high levels of concern about congestion, traffic and parking. Tell the City Council to cut back the excessive non-residential growth. TRAFFIC MITIGATIONS. Transportation mitigations in the Plan have all been under active discussion since the late 1980s with very limited success. Traffic mitigations work only if there are clear definitions, objective monitoring and strict enforcement. Tell the City Council to put statements in the Plan that deal effectively with current traffic congestion before we have more growth. BUSINESS FUNDING. Residents should not be subsidizing businesses. Transportation mitigation is impossible without commitments of funding from the business community. Tell the Council to require businesses to make long-term commitments of mitigation funding equivalent to the 50-year commitment from the Stanford Medical Center. PAYING FOR HOUSING. The City has a clear obligation to subsidize Below-Market-Rate housing. But the majority of current subsidies come from new housing, not on the much more rapidly growing job centers. Tell the City Council that the very high ratio of jobs to employed residents means that the Plan should require businesses to increase their share of funding.

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I’m looking forward to dialing it back and having a little more subtlety and nuance. And these rooms are ideal for that. —Andrew Bird, musician A classically trained violinist who’s devoted to both the legendary tenor saxophonist Lester Young and the contemporary Americana duo the Handsome Family, he’s played with the protoswing band Squirrel Nut Zippers and the alternative chamber country ensemble Pinetop Seven. The first half shows on this tour showcases another side of Bird’s artistry. On October 5 he released “Echolocations: River,” an

instrumental album he recorded while standing under the Hyperion Bridge in the Los Angeles River. He’ll be revisiting selections from it as well as its predecessor, “Echolocations: Canyon.” Filmmaker Tyler Manson captured Bird recording in Los Angeles and also in Canyon’s Coyote Gulch in Utah. Though he’ll be performing to a projection of Manson’s filming, Bird said it won’t be the same video that’s viewable on YouTube and at his website, andrewbird.net. “It’s a film of the environment, and then it’s manipulated in animation and layered images from that environment,” he said. “The film has also been edited so it’s not just the film of me playing with me playing on stage,” he said. “That would be a little gratuitous.” Though it’s instrumental, the music that Bird has composed is more foreground than background music. “It’s more passive, of course, than a record full of songs with lyrics,” he replied, when presented with this idea. “But (River) has been manipulated a bit more,” he continued. “I think it’s appropriate because it’s in an urban environment, and there’s more traffic noise than a serene canyon. So this one does get a big more electronic, I guess you could say, for lack of a better word.” The titular echolocation refers to the biological sonar that some animals employ to “see” objects.

Bird used that technique when doing the album and returns to it when playing the compositions live. With the field recordings, he’d close his eyes and incorporate his surroundings into the pieces. It was nature — and, in some cases, machine — as his accompanist. There’s a theory that the fewer musicians there are, the easier it is to improvise — like the relative ease of having a two- or three-way conversation versus the trickiness of a conference call or group discussion. Even going from his typical touring quartet to this trio, Bird is excited about the change. During the second half of shows, he and his trio mates will be dipping into his own songbook for new arrangements. “It’ll be a little more free and interpretive of songs from “Are You Serious” (his last, song-based album, released in 2016) and previous albums,” said Bird. “I’m in a mode to crack things open and reimagine them and enjoy having more space. I originally thought, ‘I want to do a full-on jazz thing. It’s not going to be standards or anything like that. But it’s going to be my songs in a more freewheeling manner — more of a loose and subtle approach.” Bird’s bandmates are another key to his memorable live performances. “We still have the spirit of jazz. It’s how you respond to the space — and each other — and not try to

come in with ideas and force them on the audience,” he said Two projects in which Bird has been involved reflect this spirit of open listening and playing. He currently hosts the streamed “Live from the Great Room” series, in which he and a guest (ranging from Jackson Browne and Lucius to Thile and Spalding) perform with minimal to no preparation. And in 2013, he participated in Red Bull Music Academy’s A Night of Improvised Round Robin Duets in New York City with pianist/ keyboardist Robert Glasper, bassist/vocalist Kim Gordon (ex-Sonic Youth), drummer Questlove Gomez (The Roots) and others. “Doing the Red Bull Round Robin Duets, I learned the worse thing you could do was come in with a plan. “There’s a common thread between all these things we’re talking about: It’s about reacting to your environment,” he said. Q What: Andrew Bird Where: Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen Mall, Stanford When: Friday, October 20, 7:30 p.m. Cost: $3-$65 (SOLD OUT — For possible returns, call the box office or visit live.stanford. edu/notifications) Info: Go to live.stanford.edu/ calendar/october-2017/andrewbird, or call 650-724-2464.

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Don’t mess with ‘Norma’ — but do go to hear her sing West Bay Opera delivers electrifying Bellini production by Renee Batti ow can a Druid high priestess possibly be expected to react when her Roman lover leaves her for a younger woman? If her name is Norma, she won’t keep you guessing: “War! Carnage! Extermination!” Not good news for il Romano. But there is good news for local opera fans attending West Bay Opera’s production of Vincenzo Bellini’s magnificent 19th century I bel canto opera, “Norma,” in Palo Alto’s Lucie Stern Theatre: powerhouse soprano Christina Major is cast in the title role, delivering an often electrifying performance of a woman revered by her people but betrayed by her lover, Pollione — who is also the father of her two children (this is opera, after all). The role is a famously difficult one in an overall demanding opera, and opening night (Oct. 13) of the West Bay production had some decidedly rough moments.

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Local restaurant and wine bar owners are pitching in to help North Bay residents suffering from devastating wildfires. From top, clockwise: Ceri Smith, owner of Biondivino Wine Boutique; Rocco Scordella of Vina Enoteca; and Jarad Gallagher, executive chef at Chez TJ. Far left photo courtesy Zack Bond/Mountain View Fire Department.

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ast Sunday afternoon in downtown Mountain View, close to 100 miles south of the North Bay fires that have left unimaginable damage in their wake, customers gathered at Savvy Cellar for a wine tasting. Owner Holly Orchard poured a sparkling wine from Mendocino County, a chardonnay from Healdsburg, a cabernet from Alexander Valley and a merlot and petit verdot from Napa Valley — all areas that have been impacted by the fires. In an interview, she said she hoped to help customers draw the connection between the wines they enjoy and the far-reaching need for support in the regions they come from. The fires have had a “chain reaction” impact, Orchard said. “It’s not just the wineries and people working at the wineries, it’s the whole community — everything from agricultural workers to local grocery stores and restaurants. There are so many connections and so much reach,” she said. Midpeninsula wine bars and restaurants are part of that ecosystem. Many of them source products from North Bay wineries, farms and other vendors, and beyond that, are members of the Bay Area’s close-knit food-and-wine communities. In the wake of the fires, numerous local restaurant and wine bar owners have sprung to action, launching fundraisers, donation drop-offs and efforts to raise awareness and support. Orchard launched an online crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the Napa County Firefighters Association. She chose to support firefighters, she said, in order to have as wide an impact as possible and to highlight a group that might be overlooked in the immediate aftermath of the fires. “I just think of how much this is going to deplete their resources in terms of equipment and overtime pay,” she said. “I thought this would be a way with my minimal

influence ... (to) at least make the biggest impact.” Her goal is to raise $2,500; to contribute, go to is.gd/SavvyFire17. At Pizzeria Delfina in Palo Alto, the restaurant is collecting donations of non-perishable food, new or unused clothes and blankets, gift cards and other items. Owner Craig Stoll is one of several San Francisco restaurant owners and chefs who teamed up to coordinate thousands of food deliveries and donations. Their website, sffightsfire.com, includes information about what food is needed and where, volunteer sign-ups and other organizations in need of donations. They’re also raising money to partially reimburse smaller restaurant owners who want to donate food but have tighter margins, said Greta Miersma, Delfina’s communications director. Collectively, the SF Fights Fire effort has delivered about 17,000 meals in less than a week, Miersma said. The food is primarily going to people in shelters, but some restaurants have gone out of their way to feed first responders or people who may be fearful of going to official shelters, such as undocumented immigrants, she said. “The needs are greater than delivering breakfast one day or dinner the next, which is where you come in,” the SF Fights Fire founders write on the website. “As a group, we are harnessing the power of our community of restaurants and food purveyors with the idea that by focusing all those who are wanting to help, we will be most effective. “This tragedy will not define us, our response will,” they wrote. “Any action, no matter how small, is helpful and greatly appreciated.” Recognizing that more action will be needed beyond the first days, or even months after the fire, the Delfina restaurant group is preparing to be able to continue to provide food as the needs arise, on a daily basis, “however long they need us,” Miersma said.

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All Pizzeria Delfina locations, including in Palo Alto, will soon host a by-the-glass event where wines from the affected regions will be sold, with all proceeds going to impacted wineries. Biondivino Wine Boutique, though primarily an Italian wine shop, quickly started collecting donations at both its locations in Palo Alto and San Francisco after the fires started. There was an “overwhelming response,” said general manager Tyler Kavanagh. They drove “two jam-packed carloads” of face masks, eye drops, pillowcases, diapers, flashlights and other items to distribution centers in the North Bay and will be doing a third run this week, he said. Despite an announcement on Instagram last week that the Italianfocused Biondivino was “breaking ranks” to get California wines into the shop, they were unable to do so. “Due to the destruction up north, almost all wine distributions warehouses (which are based in Napa and Sonoma) have been shut down for over a week — we haven’t been able to receive any wine, in fact,” Kavanagh said. Miersma said wine deliveries were also halted at Delfina’s restaurants last week. Biondivino has stopped accepting physical donations for the time being — relief agencies are now saying they’re in need of gift cards, and are overwhelmed by the clothes, food and other items that have been sent — but will notify customers if they start again, Kavanagh said. Moving forward, the wine shop also plans to stock a small selection of North Bay wines, with proceeds going to fire relief efforts. Palo Alto restaurant Bird Dog is also highlighting wineries that have been affected by the fires with a dedicated by-the-glass menu. The list currently features wines from Mayacamas Vineyards, Storybrook Mountain Vineyards, Gundlach Bundschu and White Rock

Vineyards, with plans to add more. Lori Romero, owner of Palo Alto wine bar Calave, said she’s seen a “massive influx” of customers ordering wines from Napa Valley and Mendocino County in support. She’s considering other ways to help, including a fundraising campaign and partnering with distributors to “align plans where we can see the biggest impact.” Long-term, she said she potentially anticipates “higher prices from the fire-impacted regions while it looks at the road to recovery.” Downtown Palo Alto wine bar Vino Locale on Kipling Street is also collecting gift cards for Target, Safeway or any other stores where food, toiletries, and basic necessities can be purchased. Palo Alto Italian restaurant Vina Enoteca will be hosting a fundraiser this Saturday, Oct. 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in its outdoor courtyard, said owner Rocco Scordella. Dried pasta, cookies made by the Vina Enoteca pastry chef and baked goods from local pastry chef John Shelsta will be on sale. The restaurant will be serving sangria and meatless Impossible Burgers. All proceeds will go to the Napa Valley and Sonoma County Community Disaster Relief Funds, which support impacted residents and businesses. Scordella said he is also donating 20 percent of lunch sales from both of his restaurants, Vina Enoteca and Tootsie’s, to fire relief efforts. Jarad Gallagher, the executive chef at Chez TJ in Mountain View, spent last weekend at a friend’s house in Calistoga, cooking meals for firefighters, friends and family. Some people just wanted to stop by, he said, “to have community and say ‘hi,’ (to) be normal.” He said he plans to ride out the immediate wave of donations and support and step in to support smaller, independent farms and producers when that initial spotlight fades, perhaps in the new year.

“The main media focus has been on the big-name wineries. Up in that area, the people who are really going to struggle are the lower-income workers. They’re out of work for quite some time,” he said. “Those are people we’re going to go after and help — farms that are going to struggle to pay their employees.” Gallagher said it was personally “overwhelming” to be in the North Bay last weekend, but he’s confident that the region will rebound. Though the extent of damage to the North Bay wine industry remains to be seen, some owners are already concerned. Some wineries have been destroyed, while other facilities or property were damaged or closed temporarily during the worst of the fire last week. Though most of the harvesting has been completed, vintners who had to evacuate have been unable to tend to their grapes during the wine-making process. Orchard said she and customers talked on Sunday about what this year’s wines from the impacted regions will be like. “We were discussing: ‘Will there be a 2017 vintage or what will the style be?’ It probably won’t be what people think of as a quintessential Napa or Sonoma wine, but I would also encourage people to continue to seek out the wine, to go to wineries as soon as they’re open, to give business to the local area ... as a long-term effort to help the whole community grow again,” Orchard said. Every person interviewed for this article urged the same, particularly for those who might be unsure where to direct their support: patronize the region’s wineries, farms and producers. “Drink lots of Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino wine,” Kavanagh said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Bros without hose ‘Only the Brave’ pays tribute to firefighting heroes 000 (Century 16 & 20) Sean Flynn, “Only the If you’re looking for OPENINGS Brave” concerns an elite escapism at the movies this week, you’ve come to the team that’s been called the Navy wrong place. Whether the timing is Seals of firefighters. Armed only with ax and shovel, fortuitous or, well, disastrous, firefighting movie “Only the Brave” the Granite Mountain Hotshots dig arrives in Northern California the- trenches and use controlled burns, aters as the area continues to reel literally fighting fire with fire. from its own devastating fires. If Building to a climax set during the you go, you’ll see imagery of cha- Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013, the film otic fleeing from homes as a wild- establishes the training required fire rapidly closes in. But you’ll for, and practical strategies of, also find an emotional tribute to fighting and surviving wildfires, those who stand between the fires as well as the camaraderie that inand the small towns they threaten evitably results. At the time, the team was allto consume. Based on true events and the male, and there’s a distinctive GQ article “No Exit: The Gran- bros-without-hose energy as the ite Fire Yarnell Investigation” by men squabble and prank each

other. Of course, the frat-house shenanigans belie a depth of feeling. These guys have each other’s backs, and not only during fires. The film’s point of view teeters back and forth between Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin) — a taciturn “Type 2” firefighter — and new recruit Brendan “Donut” McDonough (a bleached blond Miles Teller), a ne’er-do-well who’s determined at last to do well, especially by his newborn daughter. Marsh wants nothing more than for his team to qualify for “Hotshot” status, and it’s no spoiler to say that four years of effort culminate in the crew renaming themselves the Granite Mountain Hotshots. In most respects, “Only the Brave” resembles a war movie: the boot-camp theatrics, the procedures and gear and briefings, the male bonding, the charging into mortal danger. But this is also a domestic story, with Marsh and wife, Amanda (professional sufferer Jennifer Connelly in a thankfully substantial role), troubleshooting a trying life at the mercy of nature and questioning their long-held agreement not to have kids. Screenwriters Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer also explore the profound similarities between young Brendan and his middle-aged mentor, who gives his charge a much-needed secondchance in life, and the manners in which Brendan develops a slowburn friendship with a skeptical peer (Taylor Kitsch’s Mackenzie). Like “Deepwater Horizon,” the (continued on page 34)

MOVIES NOW SHOWING American Made (PG-13) +++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Battle of the Sexes (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Blade Runner 2049 (R) +++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Bolshoi Balltet: Le Corsaire (PG) Century 20: Sunday Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Breathe (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Columbus (Not Rated) +++1/2 Guild Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Disney Junior at the Movies - Halloween Party! (G) Century 20: Saturday The Florida Project (R) Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. The Foreigner (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Geostorm (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Golmaal Again!!! (Not Rated) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Happy Death Day (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. IT (R) +++ Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Kingsman: The Golden Circle (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

The Lego Ninjago Movie (PG)

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The Mountain Between Us (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. My Little Pony: The Movie (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Only the Brave (PG-13) +++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Professor Marston & The Wonder Women (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Sane Kind of Different as Me (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Snowman (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

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CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a Public Hearing at the special meeting on Monday, October 30, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider 999 Alma Street: Request for Council Determination on a Waiver Request From the Retail Preservation Ordinance. Environmental Assessment: Exempt in Accordance With the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Section 15061(b)(3) Guidelines BETH D. MINOR City Clerk

Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto 6th Annual Angel Award an evening award and cocktail party honoring

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Movies

‘Only the Brave’ (continued from page 33)

film does a creditable job of offering docudramatic education and dramatic catharsis. As always, there’s something queasy about

dark beauty to be found in revisiting these true events and getting the details right. Rated PG-13 for thematic content, some sexual references, language and drug material . Two hours, 13 minutes. — Peter Canavese

turning these mortal combats into multiplex movies, but director Joseph Kosinski (reunited here with his “Tron Legacy� star Jeff Bridges, who plays Brolin’s mentor) and Oscar-winning cinematographer Claudio Miranda make a convincing case for the spirituality and

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

Home Front HOW TO SHEET MULCH ... If you have an area of your garden that is weed-infested or a lawn you want to get rid of, Lyngso Garden Materials is holding a class, “Sheet Mulch Your Way to a Sustainable Garden,” on Saturday, Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. to noon. Lyngso’s sustainability coordinator Kan Parthiban will talk about everything you need to know about sheet mulching. Learn how to convert a weedy part of your yard or a lawn into a sustainable garden using compost, cardboard, grass clippings and existing soil. The class will be held at 345 Shoreway Road, San Carlos. To register, go to lyngsogarden.com. START A HOME ORCHARD ... If you’ve thought about planting fruit trees, now is the time. The Palo Alto master gardener program will host a talk on “Starting a Home Orchard with Bareroot Fruit Trees” on Thursday, Nov. 16, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Learn the basics of how to decide what to grow and how to select and plant bare root trees, and get them off to a healthy start. The class will be held at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto. PUMPKIN DECOR ... From floral designer Karen LidbeckBrent, via Garden Magazine, here is an easy way to incorporate a pumpkin into your autumn decor: To turn a pumpkin or winter squash into a fresh flower container, cut off the top, remove the insides, and slip in a vase, bowl, or plastic container filled with water or wet floral foam. “Pumpkins can hold pretty much anything without leaking,” said Lidbeck-Brent. To preserve a pumpkin, roast then freeze pumpkin (rather than freezing it raw). “Roasting is better for pumpkins with higher moisture content,” says grower Eddie Gordon of Gordon Skagit Farms in Mount Vernon, Washington.

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Backyard lemon, lime, grapefruit and orange trees could be endangered by hard-to-see insect

by Elizabeth Lorenz t’s a tiny bug the size of a grain of rice that carries a disease with a three-syllable mouthful of a name. Asian citrus psyllids have arrived in California, and with them the risk of Huanglongbing to all counties including Santa Clara. After plaguing Florida’s citrus crop since 2005 and wiping out two thirds of it, California’s agriculture industry, scientists and expert gardeners are armed for a fight. “We can’t do enough to get (the risk) in front of the public,” said Palo Alto master gardener Candace Simpson. She said every citrus tree — whether it’s in a pot as a topiary or in an established part of your yard — is at risk. The insect has been found in eastern Santa Clara County as well as other Bay Area counties. Those carrying the disease have been found in most Southern California counties. Simpson said the infected insects were found in a grapefruit tree in a backyard in Riverside on July 15. In September, experts found a second infected tree in a neighbor’s property and just days later, a third was found about a half-mile away. “It happens when the new growth comes out in the spring,” Simpson said, the tiny “feathery growth” is food for the psyllids who lay their eggs on it as well. The insect is considered “established” in Southern California, which means agriculture officials will contain it, but they won’t be able to eradicate it. “I believe that the CDFA (California Department of Food and Agriculture) is using a ‘suppression’ strategy against the Asian citrus psyllid in urban areas,” said Andrew Sutherland, an adviser for the state Integrated Pest Management program in the San Francisco Bay Area. “So far, the term ‘eradication’ has only been used early on in the invasion and in agricultural production areas. Residential treatments are voluntary but highly recommended by the state at this time.” Officials place yellow sticky traps in trees to detect the bugs. Other than seeing the bugs, symptoms can include small, lopsided fruit, spotted or blotched leathery leaves, and waxy tubules left behind for the eggs. The bug is brown, about the size of an aphid and is generally found on leaves. It does not eat the fruit. So far, no diseased trees have been found in the Central Valley where most of the state’s citrus crop is grown. Simpson said the citrus industry is working to grow disease- resistant trees and nurseries are under strict regulations and inspection schedules. “In order to protect everybody’s ability to grow citrus in their yards, our best chance of not having the disease is controlling the insect,” she said. The problem, Simpson said, is the bug can be carried on material, for example if someone

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Above: Leaves show signs of Huanglongbing disease as they go from green to yellow. Right, two views: This magnified photo shows the Asian citrus psyllid, which is actually the size of a tiny grain of rice, feasting on tender green citrus leaves. The insects do not eat or harm the fruit. Bottom: Psyllids typically feed and lay their eggs on citrus leaves in the spring when new growth happens. drives up here from Los Angeles with citrus fruit with leaves attached. State officials don’t have any way of enforcing private transport of plant material. It’s OK to move fruit, she pointed out, as long as you wash it first and don’t carry the plant parts (leaves and stems) with it. “The situation with Asian citrus psyllid and Huanglongbing disease changes almost daily in Southern California, but Northern California seems to be stable at the moment,” said Karey Windbiel-Rojas, associate director for Urban and Community Integrated Pest Management for the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. According to the UC Davis Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, about 60 percent of Californians have at least one citrus tree in their yard. What to do if you find evidence of Huanglongbing in your yard? “If I found an Asian citrus psyllid, if I saw those waxy tubules (see photos), I would immediately call the U.S. Department of Agriculture (office) in San Jose,” Simpson said. They will either tell you if you could treat it or would collect those insects and ... test them to see if they had the disease.” If the psyllids have the disease, officials would put traps around the neighborhood to quarantine them. If a tree has the disease, officials would set up a quarantine, which prohibits moving any citrus nursery stock out of the area. Any fruit that is not commercially cleaned and packed must not be removed from the property which it is grown although it can be consumed there, Simpson said. “If (your) tree had the disease ... your tree is doomed. (There’s) nothing that can be done. And, Simpson emphasized, there’s no need to blame yourself. “It’s not your fault,” Simpson said. Q Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and Real Estate Editor at the Palo Alto Weekly.

Photos courtesy of the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. All images are copyright UC Regents.

Resources:

For more information go to www.californiacitrusthreat.org. If you think you’ve spotted the insect or signs of the disease, call the free statewide pest hotline at 800-491-1899.

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Gorgeous circa 1932 Tudor-style home with 4 bedrooms, an office, and 3 baths, located on one of the most recognized and coveted streets in Palo Alto – “Christmas Tree Lane.” The thoughtfully preserved home exudes timeless elegance and includes a spacious living room with fireplace, a sun room with wet bar, a formal dining room, and a remodeled eat-in kitchen with an adjacent laundry room. A detached 2-car garage with unfinished second story bursts with possibility and borders the enchanting rear grounds with a peaceful koi pond and fountain. Living space: 2,467 sq. ft.; lot size: 7500 sq.ft. Highly acclaimed Palo Alto schools (Walter Hays Elementary, Jordan Middle, Palo Alto High) and close proximity to parks, schools, Stanford University and downtown complete the appeal.

This information was supplied by third party sources. Sales Associate believes this information is correct but has not verified this information and assumes no legal responsibility for its accuracy. Buyer should verify accuracy and investigate to Buyer’s own satisfaction.

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Sophisticated Renovation Close to Town OPEN SUNDAY October 22, 1:30 – 4:30pm 635 Patrol Road, Woodside • Sophisticated contemporary with views out to the Bay • Just-completed entire renovation and expansion • 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, and 2 half-baths • Approximately 4,100 square feet • Wide-plank white oak floors • Flexible-use lower level ideal for recreation room, fitness/

office, wine cellar, and potential for extended living quarters • Multiple outdoor entertainment venues wrap around the

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Exceptional Woodside OPEN SUNDAY October 22, 1:30 – 4:30pm 3970 Woodside Road, Woodside • Exquisite Craftsman home completed in 2004 • Approximately 2 acres bordered by Wunderlich Park • 4 bedrooms, office/study center, and 4.5 bathrooms • Library, media/recreation room, gym, billiards room, and

wine cellar • Approximately 6,700 square feet • Brazilian cherry wood floors and fine wood millwork • 3-car attached garage • Tremendous wraparound porch at the front entrance • Outdoor kitchen and dining terrace • Pinot Noir vineyard • Manicured grounds with vast expanses of lawn • Award-winning Woodside School

Offered at $8,495,000 www.3970WoodsideRoad.com

650.740.2970 Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. Buyer to confirm school enrollment and square footages.

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a Request for Special Notice (form DE·l54) 01 the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Gary A. Quackenbush, 12396 World Trade Drive, Suite 213, San Diego, CA 92128, Telephone: 858-549·8600 10/6, 10/13, 10/20/17 CNS-3056536# PALO ALTO WEEKLY NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CARLOS LOZANO CAMPOS Case No.: 17PR182109 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CARLOS LOZANO CAMPOS. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: FRANKIE B. CAMPOS in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: FRANKIE B. CAMPOS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition

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CARDINAL CORNER . . . Stanford men’s golf coach Conrad Ray will be inducted into the Golf Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame, it was announced Thursday. The group will be officially inducted at the GCAA Hall of Fame reception and awards banquet on Dec. 11 in Las Vegas. . . . Stanford junior Reid Travis has been selected to the preseason watch list for the 2018 Karl Malone Award, honoring the top power forward in Division I men’s college basketball.The award, presented by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in honor of two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Karl Malone, announced its 20-member preseason watch list on Thursday. Travis enters the 2017-18 season as the Pac-12 Conference’s leading returning scorer (17.9 ppg) and rebounder (8.9 rpg). . . . Cardinal women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer was honored with a special tribute at the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 38th Annual Salute to Women in Sports awards gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City Thursday night. Presented by three-time All-American Chiney Ogwumike, VanDerveer was recognized for her storied career and her milestone 1,000th career victory achieved in early February. VanDerveer is just the third Division I coach in NCAA basketball history to reach 1,000 wins, joining the late Pat Summitt and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski. . . . Sophomore Andrea Lee birdied the last two holes to share medalist honors and help Stanford’s women’s golf team finish second Wednesday in the 22nd Stanford Intercollegiate hosted by Dr. Condoleezza Rice at Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach. Cardinal sophomore Albane Valenzuela and freshman Mika Liu made big contributions by tying for fourth at 2-under 211. Valenzuela registered three sub-par rounds (70-70-71) and Lui (68-72-71) notched her third consecutive top 20 showing.

Katie Drabot will join four Stanford teammates at the Pac-12 vs. Team USA Challenge on Saturday and Sunday. The regular season starts Friday at Utah.

Here, there and everywhere Stanford swimmers open season in Utah, Los Angeles

by Rick Eymer he itinerary for Stanford’s opening weekend for both the men’s and women’s swimming teams includes stops in Salt Lake City and then split trips back to the Bay Area or to Los Angeles. The first stop is the Pac-12 opener against the Utes on Friday at 1 p.m. The second stop is a conference challenge against the USA national swimming teams. For some, like Olympian Katie Ledecky, it’s a typical whirlwind of events. For others, like Katie Drabot, Brooke Forde, Janet Hu and Ella Eastin, it’s a reminder of a summer full of national and international events. Matt Anderson, Abrahm

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DeVine, Sam Perry, Grant Shoults and True Sweetser are making the top to L.A. on the men’s side of the Pac-12 challenge. The USA College Challenge will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Uytengsu Aquatics Center on the USC campus. Ledecky was named the Women’s Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year on Wednesday night at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The Stanford women open the season as the defending NCAA champions and are ranked No. 1. The Cardinal men finished fifth at last year’s national championships and are currently ranked third. “This team has developed a great attitude throughout the

summer that excites them for more opportunities in 2018,” Cardinal men’s coach Ted Knapp said. “With another season of similar training to last season and a strong December invitational on the calendar, the team will once again contend for a top-five finish in March.” Palo Alto grad Alex Liang, one of seven freshman, joins brother Andrew at Stanford. “This is a talented class that will make strong contributions from top to bottom,” said Knapp, who enters his sixth season as head of the program. “We’re looking for them to contribute in both sprint and distance events, as well as both individual swims and relays.” Stanford returns 12 of 15

Saturday

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College water polo: Pepperdine at Stanford, 1 p.m., Stanford Live Stream FIVB volleyball: United States vs. France (replay), 7 p.m., NBCSCA College volleyball: Washington State at Stanford, 7 p.m., Stanford Live Stream

M-A ready to rumble at Half Moon Bay

Sunday

Titans look to build on their recent success

FIFA women’s soccer: United States vs. Korea Republic, 11 a.m., ESPN College women’s soccer: Oregon State at Stanford, 1 p.m., Pac-12 Networks College field hockey: California at Stanford, 3 p.m., Pac-12 Networks High school sports: High School Sports Focus, 6 p.m., 10 p.m., NBCSC

by Glenn Reeves fter an unanticipated bye week due to hazardous air quality resulting from the North Bay fires, local football teams are changing gears, preparing for a new opponent after not playing the team they prepared for last week. “It’s been a little bit of a whirlwind for sure,’’ Menlo-Atherton coach Adhir Ravipati said. “Prepare for a team then shelve that for three weeks before coming back to that opponent. But when you see what happened to

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All-Americans from last season, led by senior captain Sam Perry, who collected six All-America honors last season. Returning firstteam All-Americans include Matt Anderson (400 medley relay, 200 medley relay), Abrahm DeVine (400 IM, 400 free relay), Ryan Dudzinski (400 medley relay, 200 medley relay), Liam Egan (800 free relay), Andrew Liang (400 medley relay, 200 medley relay, 400 free relay), Ted Miclau (platform), Perry (400 medley relay, 200 medley relay, 100 free, 400 free relay) and Grant Shoults (800 free relay, 500 free, 1,650 free). The Pac-12 Network is scheduled to air the College Swimming Challenge between the Pac-12 and USA Swimming. Q

M-A quarterback Miles Conrad looks to turn the corner in a battle of defending CCS champions.

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Cardinal Newman High School, that puts it all in perspective. Kind of mind numbing.’’ The Central Coast Section voted to move the section playoffs back a week to allow the games that were scheduled for last weekend to be made up Nov, 9-11. One of the biggest games scheduled for last Friday was defending CCS Open Division I champion M-A (4-2, 2-0) hosting undefeated Aragon. Now instead of Aragon, M-A will play another undefeated (continued on next page)

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It’s crunch time in the WBAL Menlo, Castilleja, Harker play for the title Monday

Tariq and Tyree. Tariq Bracy, a speedster running back, has offers from Notre Dame and Cal, among others. Palo Alto (1-5, 1-1) goes in as a huge underdog. “We have got to be disciplined,’’ Sullivan said. “If we leave one gap uncovered they’ll find a way to hit it. We’ve got to keep our pads low and we’ve got to make some plays through the air.’’ The lack of a passing game has been a constant thorn in Paly’s side the last two years. The team’s running game has been effective the last two contests in a win over Homestead and a loss to Los Gatos. “The key for us is ball control and to capitalize on opportunities,’’ Sullivan said. “We had long drives against Los Gatos and came up with nothing. We have to score when we get in the red zone.’’

game 0-5. “As a coach this is something new for me to deal with,’’ Woodside coach Justin Andrews said. “I’ve found that I’ve got to be more creative, more resourceful. Just try to get through it each week, get through game day.’’

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team, Half Moon Bay, in a 7:30 p.m. game Friday on the road. “In my opinion, when you look at CCS, the top teams are Valley Christian, St. Francis and Serra from the WCAL, Milpitas, and Aragon and Half Moon Bay,’’ Ravipati said. Half Moon Bay (6-0, 1-0) has outscored its opponents by a staggering 320-29 margin. The Cougars also blasted two teams from the SCVAL De Anza Division -- Palo Alto and Saratoga, 48-7 and 63-7, and won their PAL Bay opener 39-15 over a Burlingame team that M-A edged by a mere 14-10 count. “They’re the real deal,’’ Ravipati said. “They have a lot of threeyear players.’’ After the win over Burlingame, a game in which Burlingame dominated time of possession, M-A had a regularly-scheduled bye, then beat Sacred Heart Prep 42-35 thanks to a handful of big plays, including two kickoff returns for touchdowns by Nick Anderson. Then another bye, this one unanticipated. So it’s been a long time since M-A’s offense has had significant game-time reps. “It’s been a weird year,’’ Ravipati said. “The last two games we’ve combined for maybe 50 offensive plays.’’ Milpitas at Palo Alto, 7 p.m. Palo Alto faces a big test against a powerful Milpitas team. “They are clearly the top dog in terms of skill and athleticism in our league,’’ Palo Alto coach Danny Sullivan said. “They’re fun to watch.’’ Milpitas (7-0, 3-0), which had its regularly-scheduled bye last week, is led by the Bracy twins,

Woodside at Menlo School, 3 p.m. Menlo (4-2, 2-0) might be tempted to look ahead a week to a potential showdown against Hillsdale for the PAL Ocean title, but standout senior lineman JH Tevis says that won’t happen. “We’re always focused on the week ahead of us,’’ Tevis said. “We put a lot on ourselves, our identity, keeping our heads down and trying to continue being a great defense, a great team. Woodside has some good players. We can’t look past them.’’ Tevis, who has committed to Cal, has led a defensive unit that has been outstanding all season, having allowed 71 points in six games. It’s been a nightmarish season for Woodside (0-6, 0-2) which had only 18 available players at the conclusion of its last game, a 49-6 loss to a team from The King’s Academy that also went into the

Monta Vista at Gunn, 7 p.m. On paper this looks like an even matchup. Gunn and Monta Vista are both 3-3 overall and 1-1 in the SCVAL El Camino Division. Comparative scores are comparable: both teams beat Lynbrook, Gunn by 33, Monta Vista by 31; both teams beat James Lick, Gunn by 22, Monta Vista by 20; both teams lost to Andrew Hill, Gunn by 23, Monta Vista by 8. The winner will have a winning record at a late date in the season, providing plenty of motivation on both sides for a couple of programs that have been down in recent years. DJ Barnes is a special player for Gunn. He had three interceptions in the win over Lynbrook and 254 all-purpose yards with 135 receiving and 75 on punt returns. On the season he has 44 receptions for 732 yards with seven touchdowns. Terra Nova at SHP, 3 p.m. After experiencing a real low point in their season in a 40-7 loss to Aragon, SHP (1-5, 1-1) bounced back nicely offensively in a 42-35 loss to Menlo-Atherton. “The M-A game showed what our team can do offensively,’’ quarterback Brad Yaffe said. Yaffe threw for 287 yards against M-A, completing 21 of 33 passes. The running game got a boost with the return of Tommy Barnds from an injury he incurred in the second game of the season against Sobrato. Barnds rushed for 89 yards on 20 carries. Q

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Menlo had a three-way match scheduled against Notre DameBelmont and Mercy-Burlingame on Thursday. Harker meets the same two teams on Friday. Against TKA, Castilleja freshman Kelly Yu turned in a round of 39 and Alyssa Sales came in with a 40. Completing the scoring were a nice 43 from senior co-captain, Anika Tse and freshman rookie Lishan Carroll’s low score to date of 51. Wednesday’s league tournament features several of the top golfers in the CCS. Pinewood’s Megan Chou finished third following a five-way playoff that led to Palo Alto’s Stephanie Yu winning medalist honors. Castilleja’s Niav Layton was eighth, Menlo’s Sophie Siminoff placed 13th, Harker’s Katherine Zhu was 15th and Casti’s Divya Tadimenti was 19th. Chou was without a team last year and was named team captain as the Panthers sponsored their first girls team this fall. They played independently, with Chou

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by Rick Eymer regular-season title. Castilleja made it intriguing by irls golf in the West Bay Athletic League takes a beating The Kings Academy, 207back seat to no one and 301, at Sunnyvale Muni on Tuesit takes center stage beginning day. Gators’ Divya Tadimeti conMonday with a huge double match verted an eagle and birdie to earn and continues Wednesday with medalist honors with a 1-under 34 to lead the way. the league tournament Harker beat Sacred at Sunnyvale Muni. Heart Prep, 186-265 The casual observer Castilleja (11-1) beat may very well overMenlo, 198-220, on look the WBAL, even Monday and lost to though its home to a deHarker, 194-196, earlifending state volleyball er in the season. Harker champion, one of the (8-1) and Menlo (9-2) top boys’ cross counhave completed their try runners, a handful season series, which of the top girls’ cross they split. country runners and Sophie Siminoff The Eagles (and one of the state’s most Notre Dame-San Jose) also play prominent tennis programs. In Central Coast Section girls Sacred Heart Prep (3-8) on Mongolf action last year, Castilleja, day. The WBAL, hit with air qualMenlo School and Harker all fin- ity index issues like other leagues, is cramming all the rescheduled ished among the top nine teams. Those are the teams involved in matches in hopes of concluding the Monday’s match, to be played on 14-match season by Monday, so the the Stanford golf course. All three league tournament can be played teams retain a chance to win the as scheduled on Wednesday.

Castilleja’s Divya Tedimenti lines up a shot.

Niav Layton finished eighth in last year’s CCS tournament.

playing weekend tournaments. “Megan is our No. 1 player and has been working very hard on her game 3-4 times a week all season long,” Pinewood golf coach Eric Guzman said. “We are very proud of all the hard work and effort she puts forth to being the player that she is, along with being our team leader and captain. She is a great inspiration for our other young ladies on the team who look up to her.”

Siminoff reached the semifinal round of the CWAC California Women’s Amateur Championships on the Quail Lodge golf course in Carmel in late July, where she fell to Stanford sophomore Ziyi Wang, 6 and 4. Layton and Tadimenti have been consistently good this season along with Alyssa Sales. Gianna Inguagiato strengthens Menlo’s lineup. Q

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Grace King, Grace Enright

Alexander Nemeth

MENLO VOLLEYBALL

The senior goalie helped the Gators to a 3-1 record last week, with the only loss to Mater Dei, considered the nation’s top team, by a single goal. Nemeth recorded double-digit saves in all four games, including 10 against the Monarchs.

The Knights duo were named to the all-tournament team of the Hudl Southern California Invitational last weekend. They helped Menlo finish third overall with a 5-1 record. King led the team in kills and Enright led the team in digs.

SHP WATER POLO

Honorable mention Gillian Bressie Menlo water polo

Ashley Dreyer Menlo volleyball

Julia Doubson Palo Alto cross country

Chelsea Fan Palo Alto volleyball

Luci Lambert Sacred Heart Prep cross country

Joyce Shea* Gunn cross country

Jack Andersen Palo Alto water polo

Jayden Kunwar Menlo water polo

Robert Miranda* Menlo cross country

Ryan Stanley Palo Alto water polo

Donald Taggart Palo Alto cross country

Alex Tsotadze Sacred Heart Prep water polo *Previous winner

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104 Savannah Loop Beautiful 4 bed/ 4 bath home built in 2014. Gourmet kitchen, executive master suite. 4 BR 4 BA Julie Ray CalBRE #01881349 650.324.4456

Sat/Sun 1 - 4

$1,495,000

403 Topaz St. Located in desirable jewel streets. This. 3 bed, 2 bath home offers perfect family living. 3 BR 2 BA Julie Ray CalBRE #01881349 650.324.4456

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Sat 1 - 3

$749,000

2140 Santa Cruz Ave A207 Sought after 1 bedroom in Menlo Commonsoverlooks pool-Close to Stanford. 1 BR 1 BA Beth Leathers CalBRE #01131116 650.324.4456

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