Palo Alto Weekly October 27, 2017 by Palo Alto Weekly

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Vol. XXXIX, Number 4

October 27, 2017

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Fatal shooting triggers training with ‘less lethal’ weapon Police equip all patrol vehicles with Sage lauchers after William Raff’s death by Gennady Sheyner

oments before Palo Alto police officers fatally shot William Raff on Christmas Day 2015 in front of a Forest Avenue group home, they made a last-ditch request for a “less lethal” weapon to be delivered to the scene. A video taken from a patrol

camera shows Raff running out of the building and into the middle of the street with a table knife in his hand, and two officers ordering him to drop the knife. A third officer, watching Raff hop from side to side in the street, screams, “Go get the Sage!” to a colleague, who

relayed the request over the radio. The Sage, a launcher that fires “less lethal” ammunition designed to disable threatening individuals, never had a chance to be delivered. Moments after Raff ran out, he charged directly at the officers while yelling and ignoring their orders to drop the knife. Officers shot him four times in what was the department’s first fatal officer-involved shooting since 2002. Now, nearly two years later, the

Sage is becoming a more common tool for police officers. According to a new report from Independent Police Auditor Michael Gennaco, whose firm OIR Group reviewed the shooting and the department’s investigation and subsequent actions, the 2015 incident has prompted the Palo Alto Police Department to make the Sage launcher more readily available for officers. The department’s shift toward a less-lethal weapon comes despite

the audit’s determination that a Sage probably wouldn’t have made a difference in the Raff incident, which unfolded within 19 seconds. The weapon, according to Gennaco, “could not have been retrieved from a vehicle and deployed within the mere seconds that transpired before the subject charged the officers.” Both the department and the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s (continued on page 10)

LAND USE

Residents sound off on revised Comprehensive Plan Some call for more housing; others for fewer offices by Gennady Sheyner

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ENVIRONMENT

Great Oak Count kicks off Saturday Volunteer program will survey all of Palo Alto’s neighborhood oak trees by Sue Dremann

he first comprehensive survey of Palo Alto’s venerable oaks in 20 years kicks off on Saturday, with help from neighborhood residents and volunteers in gathering data on the native trees. The citywide tree count looks for native oaks of four species, where they are located and their general condition. Conducted by the nonprofit tree organization Canopy, the survey is updating the original OakWell Survey, which Canopy conducted from 1997 to 2001. The data will help scientists evaluate ecosystem changes. The information will also help Canopy with a program to replace native oaks lost in the last few decades. That program, “Re-Oaking Palo Alto,” seeks to

re-create a landscape closer to the historic landscape, said Elise Willis, Canopy’s community forestry program manager. Native oaks are valuable in the residential landscape, benefiting wildlife and people, Willis said. For wildlife, and plant species such as lichens, the oaks are a species on which other living creatures in an ecosystem largely depend. In a single year, an oak can provide habitat for more than 300 species of vertebrates, 370 fungal species and almost 5,000 insect species, according to a 2017 report, “Re-Oaking Silicon Valley: Building Vibrant Cities with Nature,” by the San Francisco Estuary Institute & The Aquatic Science Center. For humans, the oak’s broad,

dense canopy provides shade to prevent “heat islands” created by pavement. “As they mature, their functioning in terms of air quality improves by absorbing carbon, which is stored in wood, and they can capture more rainwater,” Willis said of large, older trees. Mature oaks also increase property values, she said. The trees live longer than many non-native trees; some have lifespans 250 years or longer in the urban environment. Coast live oaks grow faster and live in the 150- to 200-year range; valley oaks are slower growing at first and can live 250 to 300 years in an urban setting and up to 600 (continued on page 9)

ozens of residents came to City Hall on Monday wearing buttons with the message “Save Palo Alto” written in red letters. They bemoaned how the construction of more offices has led to traffic and parking problems, questioned the City Council’s ability to address the housing crisis without making these issues worse and urged their elected leaders to hit the brakes when it comes to development. “The mantra of ‘Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!’ has led to parking shortages and traffic congestion,” resident Paul Machado said. “Now we have a new mantra: ‘Housing! Housing! Housing!’ “But if we continue to build offices, we will never have enough housing,” he said. In contrast, dozens more residents attended the council meeting with a different message: The city needs to build more housing for people of all income levels. By Monday night, more than 185 people had signed a petition calling for just that. “It is important to remember that many residents facing severe housing challenges are not eligible for below-market-rate housing even if we could dramatically increase supply,” states the petition signed by Sandra Slater, cofounder of the citizens group Palo Alto Forward. Despite their philosophical disagreements, the two camps in Monday’s citizen debate generally agreed on one thing: Palo Alto’s proposed new Comprehensive Plan, which spells out a vision of the city’s future, falls short of what they’d like to see. The button wearers worried

that the new document is too officefriendly because its sets a target of 3 million square feet of new office space by 2035 (this includes the 1.3 million square feet already approved for the expanded Stanford University Medical Center). The petition signers complained that it’s not ambitious enough when it comes to housing. Resident John Kelley had proposed last year the city plan for about 10,000 new housing units between now and 2035, the term of the new Comprehensive Plan. The council opted for the far more modest range of 3,545 to 4,420 homes. Despite the discrepancy, Kelley on Monday encouraged the council to get over the finish line and approve the new plan. “We have been waiting almost a decade,” said Kelley, one of about 45 residents who addressed the council. “I’ve been hearing from people whose entire families had been born during the time the council has been looking at the Comprehensive Plan. “It’s time to stop dithering. It’s time to move forward. It’s time to act.” The council disagreed and, in a rare show of unanimity on the normally divisive topic, voted to punt its own debate on the document to its next meeting, which is scheduled for Oct. 30. The council arrived at this decision at about 11 p.m. after listening to about 90 minutes of public comments. The Monday hearing was the beginning of the end for a process that was initiated in 2006 and that has been the subject of 24 meetings of the City Council; 23 (continued on page 9)

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We will never be able to house everyone who wants to live here. —Elaine Meyer, University South neighborhood resident, on the council’s revised Comprehensive Plan. See story page 5.

Around Town

RISE OF THE ROBOTS ... Humans of Palo Alto, beware! Robots are targeting your streets. According to planning staff, the city has received inquiries from several autonomousrobot operators who want to pilot their devices on city streets. To be fair, these robots aren’t exactly replicants or Terminators. Their speeds top out about 4 mph and their main function, to date, is delivering groceries and restaurant takeout. But because the technology is still new and relatively untested, city leaders want to be sure that any operator of a “personal delivery device” — as these robots are called — first gets a permit from the Development Center and commits to conditions, including limiting speed to 2.4 mph when on sidewalks, ramps compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act or crosswalks. The program would expire at the end of 2018, according to a proposal that the City Council is expected to approve Monday night. According to the Department of Planning and Community Environment, pilot programs of this sort are already underway in Concord, Foster City, Redwood City, San Carlos, Sunnyvale and Walnut Creek. To date, there haven’t been any reported insurrections by the robots or any other major issues. However, reports out of Redwood City found some issues between robot-pedestrian and robotmotorist interactions. In Palo Alto, these devices would be primarily limited to sidewalks, crosswalks and other areas typically used for pedestrians, rather than streets or bike lanes, according to staff. The city would have the power to cancel these permits at any time, without notice. FLOOD CONTROL ... The San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority held the last of three public meetings requesting public input on San Francisquito Creek flood control on Wednesday night. The first meeting on Oct. 4 presented five alternatives related to upper-creek flood management, including the possible removal of the Pope-Chaucer Bridge. Community suggestions expanded the alternatives to 16, which includes widening the creek in some locations, building underground bypass culverts around the bridge and acquiring and building collection ponds

upstream on Stanford University property. A bus tour of the creek and its choke points took place on Oct. 14. Wednesday’s meeting focused on what community members prefer for implementation. Residents said they wanted an environmentally friendly flood wall where one is needed, recreational opportunities along the creekside during nonflood months, a full analysis of the hydrology and geomorphology for each alternative to reduce sediment buildup and erosion, consideration of the potential “take” of private property and construction impacts, which should be clearly considered and communicated well in advance. The alternatives will all be evaluated in the Draft Environmental Impact Report, which is expected to be released for public comment next year. For additional information, visit sfcjpa.org. PREPARING FOR THE BIG ONE ... While multiple massive earthquakes in Mexico last month were more than 2,000 miles away from Palo Alto, the temblors were detected from a 3-mile loop of optical fiber installed under Stanford University. The fibers, laid out in a figure eight, are the same ones that deliver high-speed internet and highdefinition video to homes. They were installed in September 2016 under a project led by geophysics professor Biondo Biondi and his team that have been using laser interrogators to track their movement. The dense network of a “billion sensors” has picked up 800 events, man-made and natural, in the past year. One of the most significant discoveries came from two small local earthquakes picked up by the fibers that came in at magnitudes of 1.6 and 1.8. “This demonstrates that fiber optic seismic observatory can correctly distinguish between different magnitude quakes,” Biondi said in a press release. The professor hopes the observatory can build a case for creating a seismic network for the Bay Area. “Civil engineers could take what they learn about how buildings and bridges respond to small earthquakes from the billion-sensors array and use that information to design buildings that can withstand greater shaking,” said Eileen Martin, a graduate student in Biondi’s lab. Q

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Schools seek more well-rounded way to convey students’ accomplishments by Elena Kadvany

cott Looney thinks the high school transcript is broken. The document — a one-page representation of a student’s academic achievements and a ticket to college admission — is out of touch with the increasing number of schools that are rethinking how to educate students in the 21st century, he argues. Looney, head of the private K-12 Hawken School in Cleveland, Ohio, is leading a consortium of close to 150 private high schools across the country that want to do something about it, including Castilleja School in Palo Alto, Menlo School in Atherton, the Khan Lab School in Mountain View, Woodside Priory School in Portola Valley and Nueva School in San Mateo, among others in the Bay Area. The Mastery Transcript Consortium is designing a new transcript that emphasizes student work and mastery over more abbreviated measures of success like grades. “We don’t see the ‘uber grade’... as all that meaningful in terms of giving kids sophisticated feedback about what they’re learning and where they need to grow and how well they’re applying their learning to real-world situations,” Castilleja Head of School Nanci Kauffman told the Weekly. Looney started the consortium several months ago after trying to create a new transcript at Hawken and failing. The school hired a research firm to scan the education world and find a non-traditional, non-graded transcript being used somewhere else so they could replicate it, he said. The firm looked at both private and public schools across the country and found nothing. When the school started to build its own alternative transcript, Looney heard from college admissions officers that they wouldn’t have time to read a special transcript from one school. So months later, he gathered support from reputable schools across the country and launched the effort anew. Instead of the traditional transcript’s “one-size-fits-all” model listing courses and Carnegie units (hours of class time, or “how long you sat somewhere,” Looney said) and A-F letter grades, the mastery transcript is organized around performance areas, mastery standards and “micro-credits.” The “micro-credits” signify mastery of a specific skill, as defined by

the high school. For example, a draft mastery transcript shows a student earning credit for the abilities to “foster integrity, honesty, fairness and respect,” “lead through influence” and “implement decisions and meet goals.” The mastery transcript, which is digital, is also multi-dimensional. College-admissions officers will be able to access a student’s entire work record with the click of a button: examples of their work, teacher feedback and self-assessments. The transcript’s creators hope this will help admissions officers understand students more fully. Menlo School joined the consortium shortly after its launch, wanting to be part of an important, growing conversation, said Head of School Than Healy. The traditional transcript “leaves quite a bit to be desired,” he wrote in an email. “As we watch high schools across the country give unprecedented A’s and 4.0 or higher GPAs — and student anxiety and perfectionism has increased in kind — we realize that we very likely have reached the end of the line with this manner of understanding students.” At Castilleja, the mastery transcript jibes well with what students are already doing, Kauffman said. A student taking computer science designed a website for Ada’s Cafe, a Palo Alto nonprofit that employs peoples with disabilities, for example. A student interested in how language impacts bias and prejudice conducted research with the Stanford University linguistics department. Others are completing science internships. And the school did away with Advanced Placement science courses several years ago in favor of teacherdesigned curriculum. “How do you create a transcript that actually reflects the uniqueness of the path that students are taking?” Kauffman said. Looney reached out to Kauffman early in the process, she said, given that Castilleja received a $250,000 grant to develop and train teachers on how to provide students with feedback on more interdisciplinary, student-driven projects and learning. Castilleja will help train teachers at consortium member schools, Kauffman said. Perhaps most notably, there will be no grades on the mastery transcript. Looney said he would love to do away with grades entirely, but “you can’t assassinate an 100-year-old ubiquitous paradigm

Courtesy Mastery Transcript Consortium

Building a better transcript

In this excerpt from a draft version of a mastery transcript, a student’s mastery in seven areas — creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, self-directed learning, humanities and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) — are shown on a pie chart, at left. The dotted lines represent the norms of mastery of each area among students at that school. in one fell swoop.” When it launches, Hawken and other member schools will offer students and parents the choice of either a traditional or a mastery transcript. Kauffman said it’s “too early to say” whether Castilleja will move away from grades entirely, but she acknowledge the harmful levels of anxiety they cause for students today, particularly around college acceptance. The Khan Lab School, by contrast, opened in 2014 with no letter grades. Founded by Khan Academy creator Sal Khan, the independent school serves students ages 5 to 15 years old and emphasizes mastery and project-based learning in a mixedage setting where students are grouped by skill level and work habits rather than grade levels. Instead of letter grades, the school uses narrative transcripts and “curated” portfolios for students. In the narratives, teachers describe how much of a subject students have mastered, identifying their strengths and weaknesses as well as character strengths and cognitive skills, said Erica Cosgrove, the Khan Lab’s college and career adviser. “If getting 85 percent right is the basis for a ‘B,’ what about the material that you just didn’t understand?” Cosgrove said. “There’s not much incentive — there’s really almost none — in typical grade-based systems for going back and mastering something you’re a little wobbly on or didn’t quite get the first time around.” The small, young school was eager to sign onto a national effort to make this kind of transcript more standard, she said, and hopes to be a pilot school for the mastery consortium. The private Girls Middle School in Palo Alto also uses detailed narrative assessments instead of grades, according to its website. The question still remains whether colleges and universities will accept a new kind of transcript. The consortium plans to train admissions officers and create a summary transcript that they will be able to read in less than two minutes (and then dig into further

if they have the time and interest). The consortium expects to pilot a transcript at select schools in the 2018-19 school year. In the long run, Looney hopes to see the transcript rolled out at public schools, which will be admittedly more challenging, he said. Sharon Ofek, chief academic officer for secondary education in the Palo Alto Unified School District, said the administrators there are “following and interested in” the consortium’s efforts. The Mastery Transcript Consortium is not alone in its ambition to make high school less focused on traditional metrics of success. In 2015, the XQ Super School Project, launched by Palo Altan Laurene Powell Jobs, created a national challenge to redesign public high schools. The same year, close to 100 colleges and universities, including Stanford University, announced

they would offer a new online portfolio to capture student work from ninth grade. And last year, Harvard University launched its “Turning the Tide in Admissions” campaign with a group of admissions deans and school leaders committed to overhauling the college admissions process. “It’s not anybody’s fault that the system has these corrupting influences,” Looney said. “It still doesn’t remove the obligation from those of us in the system to start deconstructing it.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Oct. 23)

3001 El Camino: The council approved a mixed-use development with retail and 50 apartments at 3001 El Camino Real. Yes: DuBois, Fine, Filseth, Kniss, Kou, Scharff, Tanaka, Wolbach Abstain: Holman Comprehensive Plan: The council heard comments from the public about the updated Comprehensive Plan and voted to continue its own discussion until Oct. 30. Yes: Unanimous

Board of Education (Oct. 24)

SBAC: The school board discussed the district’s 2017 Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium results. Action: None Goals: The board approved a set of district goals for 2017-18. Yes: Unanimous Hoover design: The board approved schematic design for a renovation of Hoover Elementary School. Yes: Baten Caswell, DiBrienza, Godfrey No: Collins, Dauber Multipurpose rooms: The board discussed and postponed a vote on proposals for new multipurpose rooms at three elementary schools. Action: None Surplus equipment: The board waived its two-meeting rule and directed staff to auction surplus items for sale. Yes: Unanimous Superintendent search: The school board discussed next steps in its search for a new superintendent. Action: None Interim HR: The board waived its two-meeting rule and approved a contract for an interim assistant superintendent of human resources. Yes: Unanimous Union negotiations: The board waived its two-meeting rule and authorizes staff to reopen negotiations with the district’s teachers and classified unions on a bonus. Yes: Unanimous

Parks and Recreation Commission (Oct. 24)

Parks: The commission discussed funding options for the Parks, Trails, Natural Open Space and Recreation master plan. Action: None Rinconada: The commission voted to approve the Rinconada master plan. Yes: Unanimous

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News Digest

School unions agree to reopen negotiations on bonus

Retail and housing project approved A two-building development featuring 50 apartments and retail space, will soon replace the Mike’s Bikes shop on El Camino Real in Palo Alto — the latest sign of change in the Ventura neighborhood. The new development, which includes 19,800 square feet of retail space in addition to the apartments — is the second mixed-use project on El Camino Real within walking distance of Oregon Expressway to win recent approval. And the neighborhood should expect an even more significant transformation in the coming years, when the city moves ahead with a “concept area plan” with a new land-use vision for “the Fry’s site,” a sprawling commercial campus off Portage Avenue commonly known for its anchor tenant. The Sobrato Organization, which owns the underdeveloped campus, is also the developer behind 3001 El Camino Real, the project just west of Fry’s that the council approved by an 8-0-1 vote, with Councilwoman Karen Holman abstaining. The development consists of two buildings on the east side of El Camino, between Olive and Acacia avenues — a site occupied by Mike’s Bikes and surface parking lots. One of these would be four-stories tall, with retail, 30 apartments and 116 parking spaces in an underground garage. The other would have three stories with 20 units of housing and partially below-grade parking. Q — Gennady Sheyner

City tows unmoved RVs on El Camino Real Following through on the city’s promise that it would crack down on an encampment of RVs and vans lining up on multiple blocks along El Camino Real, Palo Alto police and code-enforcement officers had two RVs and a trailer towed on Wednesday morning. The vehicle owners had been formally warned on multiple occasions, city spokeswoman Claudia Keith said on behalf of the Police Department. The vehicles had between five and 10 citations each in addition to the multiple warnings, she said. Two of the vehicles also had expired registrations in excess of six months and were towable on that issue alone. The vehicles were in fairly poor condition, had debris around them and hadn’t moved in some time, she said. Palo Alto residents began noticing the growing number of RVs and vans parked along the west side of El Camino Real from Medical Foundation Way to Stanford Avenue about a year ago, a number that reached nearly 50 in recent months. The vehicle dwellers, who include workers, retirees and those with disabilities who can no longer afford to live in permanent homes in the area, were largely left alone by police if they stayed on the west side, which is along open space owned by Stanford University. But in June, some nearby residents began to complain that the vehicles violated the city’s 72-hour parking ordinance. Q — Sue Dremann

Chan, Zuckerberg launch Community Fund Since Facebook’s 2011 move to its Menlo Park campus, which includes a 430,000-square-foot complex, nearby residents have protested the rise of housing costs and the gentrification of their community. Now, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — founded in 2015 by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, to focus primarily on scientific and educational causes — has launched the CZI Community Fund to address problems closer to home. “We love our community and are so proud to be raising our two daughters here,” Chan wrote on her Facebook page in an announcement of the fund on Wednesday. “But listening to the stories from our local leaders and neighbors, there is still a lot of work to do.” The program will provide grants of between $25,000 and $100,000 to nonprofits and schools serving East Palo Alto, Redwood City, the Belle Haven neighborhood and North Fair Oaks, an unincorporated section of San Mateo County. Those areas neighboring Facebook are where gentrification has hit the hardest, the organization stated in a press release. Grants can be applied to local community needs such as education, housing, homelessness, immigration, transportation and workforce development, which are issues “identified by local residents and leaders as top priorities.” Applications for the Community Fund will be accepted through Dec. 1, and the grant period will run from Jan. 15 through Dec. 30, 2018. Q — Fiona Kelliher LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com

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Also, Board of Ed to look more broadly for superintendent-search firm by Elena Kadvany

alo Alto Unified’s unions have agreed, at the district’s request, to reopen negotiations on a one-time bonus teachers and non-teaching staff are scheduled to receive at the end of the school year. The district sent a letter to the Palo Alto Educators Association and Classified School Employees Association on Oct. 7 requesting they return to the table to bargain this provision in their contracts, interim Superintendent Karen Hendricks said Monday. The school board followed suit at its meeting Tuesday, unanimously voting to reopen negotiations. The contracts provide for the 1 percent bonus to double if actual property tax revenue received is greater than the amount used in the board-adopted budget by 1.5 percent or more — which early property tax estimates indicate will likely happen. Santa Clara County provided the district an estimate of 6.52 percent in September, compared to 3.73 percent in the district budget. The cost of the bonus addition would be $1.5 million. Hendricks said the district hopes to discuss with the unions the difference in property tax assumptions between the contracts and the adopted budget. The district’s letter came about a month after senior leadership realized that no one formally

notified the unions by a contractual deadline this spring that the district planned to exercise its option to reopen negotiations, with the intent of canceling a 3 percent raise this year. The raise totals about $4.5 million. Hendricks said she is currently serving as the district’s lead negotiator. She was hired this fall as assistant superintendent for human resources to replace Scott Bowers, who had negotiated on behalf of the district in that position. She was named interim superintendent after Superintendent Max McGee resigned in late September. She said it’s possible that former Barron Park Elementary School Principal Anne Brown, who was recently hired as the district’s interim human-resources administrator, would take over negotiations, but it has yet to be discussed. Teri Baldwin, president of the teachers union, declined to comment on the reopening, writing in an email: “We don’t discuss negotiation items when we are in negotiations.” Meb Steiner, president of the classified employees union, did not respond to requests for comment. Palo Alto school board members also discussed the district’s process for hiring a new superintendent and agreed to “cast a wide net” in their search for a firm to help them. The board considered a list of

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week SUPERINTENDENT’S TASK FORCE... The Palo Alto Unified School District’s new superintendent’s task force focused on sexual violence, called Responsive and Impactful Safe Environment (RISE), will have its first meeting at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave., Room A. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to continue its public hearing on the updated Comprehensive Plan, consider approving an ordinance banning commercial marijuana operations, and consider a request for a waiver from the city’s retail-preservation ordinance for 999 Alma St. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider a resolution amending the city’s policy on bill adjustments, hear an update on the 2017 Utilities Strategic Plan and discuss the 2018 utilities legislative guidelines, the smart grid assessment and a plan for distributed energy resources. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to consider a proposal to demolish an existing office building at 3045 Park Boulevard and construct a new two-story 29,120-square-foot research-anddevelopment building. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 2, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

nine firms, including Leadership Associates, which the district used in the last two superintendent searches, but a board majority agreed there was no good way for them to evaluate the firms without more information. Board members did drop two firms from the list who haven’t done work in California and agreed to add the California School Boards Association, which provides search services in partnership with a law firm. At the suggestion of board Member Todd Collins, they also decided to consider well-known corporate search firms, many of which are based in the area. Board Member Melissa Baten Caswell, who participated in the district’s last two superintendent searches in 2007 and 2014, said she preferred to winnow down to a smaller list of firms. In-person interviews with the actual partners who will lead the work are more enlightening than written proposals, she said. She also encouraged all board members to participate in the process, rather than relying on a subgroup or on staff. “Hiring and firing the superintendent is the No. 1 responsibility of school board,” Baten Caswell said. Board President Terry Godfrey, who is overseeing the process with the support of senior staff, will next draft a letter to send out to firms. The board tentatively decided to discuss the firms that respond and assign reference checks to each member at a special meeting on Nov. 16. The final selection of a firm will take place in a public meeting with presentations from the finalists. The board noted it had more time than previous boards did in 2007 and 2014 to find a new superintendent. It’s launching the search process a month after McGee’s sudden resignation. The district aims to have a new superintendent in place by July 2018. In other business Tuesday, the board voted 3-2, with Vice President Ken Dauber and Collins dissenting, to approve a schematic design for a renovation of Hoover Elementary School. They postponed voting on a proposal to build new multipurpose rooms at Escondido and El Carmelo elementary schools to a later date, wanting to wait until a new districtwide facilities master plan currently underway is more fully developed. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com

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meetings of a specially appointed Citizens Advisory Committee; and 28 meetings of the Planning and Transportation Commission, which last month recommended approval of the updated document, according to planning staff. The commission also made a series of recommendations, including a unanimous suggestion that the city make its commitment to affordable housing more explicit. Commission Chair Michael Alcheck said the city should do so by creating a specific policy with quantified goals for housing production. “Arguably, there is support for development of BMR (below-market-rate) housing in the Comprehensive Plan, but this recommendation stems from the commission’s shared view that this support be prioritized at or near the very top,” Alcheck said. Though the crowd was split over growth policies, residents on both sides expressed support for belowmarket-rate housing. Those with buttons argued that this type of housing should be the city’s exclusive focus. Others countered that the city needs all sorts of housing, including market rate, to get out of the housing crisis. Elaine Meyer holds the former viewpoint. “We will never be able to house everyone who wants to live here,” University South neighborhood resident Meyer said. “But as long as we let more businesses and developers bring more workers into town, we will become both more crowded and less diverse.” Like the residents in attendance Monday, the council is split between those who believe the city needs to more aggressively pursue new housing (this includes Adrian Fine, Liz Kniss and Cory Wolbach) and those who favor a more measured approach, with a focus on belowmarket-rate homes (Tom DuBois, Karen Holman and Lydia Kou). The council will also consider approving the new plan’s Environmental Impact Report, a document that analyzes six different scenarios for city growth in addition to the council’s “preferred scenario,” which includes a goal of 9,850 and 11,500 new jobs. Among the report’s findings is an inconvenient truth: Traffic will get worse no matter which scenario the council chooses. The impact report found that traffic conditions at freeway ramps and local streets will see “significant and unavoidable” impacts, the council’s new anti-traffic initiatives notwithstanding. There will also be delays for public transit due to traffic congestion, the report states. A new report from the Planning and Community Environment Department underscores these findings. There’s no getting away, it states, “from the fact that we live in a congested region and that any programmatic EIR that fairly examines cumulative growth over a period of time will conclude there are unmitigable impacts.” Q

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years in open space, Willis noted. Poorly adapted non-native species live 50 to 75 years, and many in Palo Alto are reaching that end now, she said. Oaks are one of two tree species the city targeted for protection in its tree ordinance, along with redwoods. Palo Alto recently adopted an Urban Forest Master Plan, which addresses conserving and enhancing the native tree population. As part of the OakWell Survey, the nonprofit’s first oak count, volunteers distributed door hangers to homes with native oak-care information. “We saw there were a lot of folks moving here who didn’t know how to care for the trees to help them survive,” she said. Some people were watering the oaks at the base in the summertime when the trees need to remain dry. The oaks do not do well and can be susceptible to diseases

from overwatering, unlike eastern tree species that have adapted to summer months of periodic rain. The Great Oak Count will also use door hangers to increase residents’ awareness, but Canopy hopes technology that wasn’t available 20 years ago will help researchers gain more insight into the city’s oak denizens. The program will use Tree Plotter, a cloudbased mapping software that volunteers use to add or update data. Residents will be able to add information to the database about their oaks, Willis said. The last count took four years to complete, but with web-based technology, Willis said she hopes the survey could be completed in as little as two years. A pilot survey will be held in College Terrace on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at Mayfield Park, 2300 Wellesley St. A larger rollout to other neighborhoods will begin after Canopy refines the pilot program, Willis said. As the city plans its future, Palo Alto will also need to look at

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Majestic oak trees fill Rinconada Park, including this one that’s growing next to the Rinconada Pool. “environmental resilience.” Having a robust oak population in the urban forest “will offer a better chance to set us up to combat climate change,” she said. “In the Midpeninsula, if we are going to invest in our urban forest’s future, we need to invest in our native oaks.”

More information about Canopy’s Great Oak Count can be found at canopy.org. Volunteers can contact Elise Willis at elise@canopy.org. Information about oaks can be found at Canopy’s blog on its website. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Police seek women for drug heists A group of women who allegedly stole thousands of dollars of allergy medications from Midpeninsula drugstores were being sought by police following a Sunday night crime spree. (Posted Oct. 25, 1:30 p.m.)

Interim principal named at Barron Park A former longtime Palo Alto Unified elementary school principal and administrator, Eric Goddard, will serve as interim principal at Barron Park Elementary School while its leader takes on a temporary district role. (Posted Oct. 25, 11:20 a.m.)

District hires Title IX coordinator Megan Farrell, a consultant with experience in law, higher education and federal anti-discrimination law Title IX, will now oversee compliance in this area for the Palo Alto school district. (Posted Oct. 25, 11:36 a.m.)

Fired city planner alleges discrimination A former Palo Alto city planner has filed a complaint against the city, alleging sex discrimination and retaliation for whistleblowing, according to a claim that the City Council discussed in a closed session this week. (Posted Oct. 25, 9:51 a.m.)

Weekend rape reported at Stanford Stanford University has issued alerts about reports this week of a rape and sexual assault that took place within three days of each other. (Posted Oct. 25, 9:41 a.m.)

Snake found on bus up for adoption A young ball python found curled up on a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus last month in Palo Alto is now up for adoption, the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA said in a press release Tuesday. (Posted Oct. 24, 3:45 p.m.)

Woman identified in fatal crash A woman who was hit by a car after jumping from a Palo Alto overpass and later died Monday has been identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s Office as Alison Chang, 50, of Palo Alto. (Posted Oct. 23, 8:04 a.m.) Want to get news briefs emailed to you every weekday? Sign up for Express, our daily e-edition. Go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com to sign up.

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At 9:23 p.m. on Dec. 25, 2015, William Raff sprinted toward Palo Alto police officer Nicolas Enberg while carrying a knife. Enberg shot four times. The incident, which resulted in Raff’s death, was captured by a camera mounted on a police cruiser that was arriving on scene.

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Office already concluded that the December 2015 shooting was justified. In a May 2016 public report, Deputy District Attorney Charles Gillingham concluded, “The totality of the evidence leads only to the conclusion that William Raff was intent on dying at the hands of police officers on Dec. 25, 2015.” The Gennaco audit did not contest this finding, yet in reviewing the case, he and OIR Group auditor Stephen Connolly also considered areas in which he felt the department’s administrative review of the incident fell short of best practices. They found that none of the three responding officers had any less-lethal weapons in their patrol cars and that only one was qualified to deploy a Sage. This information, according to the audit, prompted the department to make a commitment to place a Sage launcher in every patrol car. It also prompted all police officers to be “trained and qualified on the Sage” — an initiative that has been completed. The council also approved the department’s request for $15,000 to buy lesslethal weapons. The budget document notes that as part of the department’s “increased emphasis on de-escalation techniques,” it has “increased the availability of Sage launchers from one per shift to one per car so that this tool can be rapidly deployed in dangerous situations.” Police Lt. James Reifschneider noted that at the time of the Raff incident, the lion’s share of department personnel — though not all of the officers who responded on Dec. 25 — had received Sage training, which consists of a one-day initial course and then refresher courses throughout the year as part of regular firearms training. Reifschneider said the Sage is typically used in pre-planned situations involving multiple officers, such as when the SWAT

team executes a high-risk search warrant or when the department receives a call about a person who is armed with something other than a firearm. The optimal way to use it is to have one officer deploy the Sage, allowing the other officer to then take the person struck into custody. “It’s a great tool, and we want all the officers to have it available if the situation presents itself,” Reifschneider said. “But it’s only applicable to a finite number of situations.” The department has owned a few different versions of the Sage over the past decade (the current one uses 37 mm rounds), and they have been fired during only a handful of calls for service, Reifschneider said. Now, all patrol vehicles are equipped with Sage launchers, Reifschneider said. About half of them are equipped with mounts for the launchers. The older vehicles, which don’t have mounts and which are in the process of being replaced, have Sages in their trunks. The decision to make the weapons more available to officers isn’t the only change the department has implemented since the shooting, which prompted thenChief Dennis Burns to launch a systemic review of the department’s tactics and training, according to the OIR Group. The department recognized that it needed to re-emphasize specialized training in crisis intervention and became the first agency in the county to commit to training all officers in Crisis Intervention Training and the first agency to voluntarily participate in training administered by the County’s Office of Mental Health. The audit calls the department’s decision to increase training “exemplary.” “I do think there was a holistic approach taken after the fact in looking at what we could do better going forward and want we can do in terms of getting our officers as many options as

possible,” Reifschneider said. The systemic review also identified an interest in providing more scenario-based training to officers. The department obtained a firearm training system with the capability to simulate 500 scenarios, and instructors have “integrated their training to focus on tactical and force options such as de-escalation, repositioning, less lethal munitions and seeking backups.” The department also administered a four-hour de-escalation training to officers and decided to provide intervention, communication and tactics training. While lauding the department’s review of its policies, Gennaco also quibbled with some of its actions in investigating the incident. He took issue, for example, with the fact that the officers involved weren’t asked to undergo second interviews as part of the administrative review (they were interviewed shortly after the shooting); and the fact that one of the officers drove himself away from the scene, despite investigative protocols that require officers involved in deadly force incidents to be driven (the issue is somewhat muddled by the fact that it was the officer who fired a Taser, ineffectively, at Raff who drove himself). Gennaco also found that in at least one interview with an onscene officer, the interviewer used “leading” questions (“Were you scared for your partner’s safety?”) that led to one-word answers (“Yes”). He noted that a question that “effectively includes its own answer, and only requires agreement from the subject, has the potential to undermine the appearance of objectivity and the legitimacy of response.” “This is particularly sensitive in the arena of officers investigating their colleagues over the use of deadly force, where the potential for public skepticism about investigative integrity is already high,” Gennaco wrote. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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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 regular meeting on Monday, November 6, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider QUASI-JUDICIAL: 425 Portage Avenue: Council review of the Planning and Community Environment Directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s determination to authorize a waiver from the Retail Preservation Ordinance. Environmental Assessment: Exempt in accordance With Section 15061(b)(3) of the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines. BETH D. MINOR City Clerk

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Special Orders of the Day 1. Introduction of Lord Mayor, Professor, Dr. Eckart Wuerzner of Heidelberg, Germany and the Heidelberg Delegation Action Items 1A. Discussion and Consideration of the Planning & Transportation Commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9LJVTTLUKH[PVUZ 7YV]PKPUN +PYLJ[PVU [V :[HŃ&#x153; HUK *LY[PĂ&#x201E;JH[PVU of the Final EIR. Other Actions Will be Deferred Until the Hearing on November 13, 2017.) (CONTINUED FROM OCTOBER 23, 2017) Consent Calendar 5. Adoption of a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Regulate Operation of Personal Delivery Devices, Also Known as Autonomous Robots Within the City of Palo Alto for an Approximate 1-year Period 6. Approval of Amendment Number 1 to Contract Number S18169410 With Dixon Resources Unlimited in the Amount of $69,862 for a Total Not-to-Exceed Amount of $100,762 to Conduct the California Avenue Parking Management Study and Approval of a Budget Amendment in the California Avenue Parking Permit Fund 7. Approval of Salary Schedule Amendments for Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 521 and the Utilities Management Professional Association of Palo Alto (UMPAPA) 8. Approval of a 5-year Contract With EnvisionWare, Inc. for Maintenance of the Automated Materials Handling Systems (AMHS) at Rinconada and Mitchell Park Libraries for a Not-toExceed Amount of $448,634 9. Approval of a Professional Services Agreement With BKF Engineers for the Amount of $450,000 Over a 3-year Term for OnCall Surveying and Design Support Services Action Items 10. Adoption of an Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Repealing Chapter 9.17 (Personal Cultivation of Marijuana) of Title 9 (Public Peace, Morals and Safety) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code; Repealing Ordinance No. 4422; and Amending Chapters +LĂ&#x201E;UP[PVUZ HUK :[HUKHYKZ MVY :WLJPHS <ZLZ VM Title 18 (Zoning) to Prohibit Medical Cannabis Dispensaries and Prohibit Commercial Cannabis Activities, Except for Deliveries. Environmental Assessment: The Ordinance is Exempt in Accordance With Section 15061(b)(3) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Study Session 3. 285 Hamilton [17PLN-00309]: Applicant Requests a Prescreening Discussion for a Possible Text Amendment That Would Allow Development Exceptions for Rooftop Decks Within the Downtown Area, Including the Subject Property. Environmental Assessment: The Subject Request is not a Project in Accordance With the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Page 14 â&#x20AC;˘ October 27, 2017 â&#x20AC;˘ Palo Alto Weekly â&#x20AC;˘ www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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Editorial Targeting parent civility Union pushes for civility policy for parent problems it won’t quantify or detail

alo Alto parents are well-known for both their active and generous support of teachers and the schools and their strong advocacy on behalf of their children — advocacy that can sometimes cross the line and lead to unpleasant interactions with teachers. This is an age-old reality, made more complicated by the fact that some parents have the time to volunteer in the classroom and develop personal relationships with teachers, while others don’t have that luxury and can feel isolated and not as connected with teachers or the school community. It can lead some to feel privileged and well cared for and others to feel shunned when raising concerns. And some teachers and parents are outliers, failing to communicate with each other respectfully, efficiently and in a timely manner, leaving one or the other, or both, feeling aggrieved. Technology, in the form of text messaging, emails and cell phones, has only provided more opportunity for bad outcomes in parentteacher communications. The Palo Alto teachers’ union wrongly thinks these challenges would be helped by adoption of a new district “civility” policy that would attempt to define inappropriate parent behavior and give teachers the right to demand that a parent who violates the policy leave the school grounds and be banned from campus for up to seven days or even face arrest under an existing Penal Code section that prohibits interference with school activities. The union offers no specific proposal, nor any background statement or documentation of cases that warrant such remedies, which already exist in state law. Palo Alto Educators Association President Teri Baldwin told the school board’s policy committee last week that teachers “have complained that they’re getting emailed constantly by some parents at all hours of the night, sometimes very harshly, (and of) teachers being yelled at in meetings and administrators not stopping the meeting.” Baldwin told the Weekly she does not know how frequently incidents occur but said she knew of about eight “extreme” cases in the last two years throughout all Palo Alto schools. Lana Conaway, who was hired by the district just three months ago as assistant superintendent of strategic initiatives and operations, also supported an undefined new policy, saying, “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.” In an email to a skeptical parent, Conaway said she had “more reports than I am comfortable with regarding things being thrown at teachers, yelling and cursing, and calling names etc.,” but when asked for details of these reports she told the Weekly that she was “not aware of any specific cases or within any specific year or timeframe of such misconduct.” We would hope for a bit more circumspection from a brand new senior administrator before lining up in favor of a policy of this sort. The union and Conaway point to a Los Altos School District policy, adopted 10 years ago, as a possible model. It encourages “positive communication and discourages volatile, hostile or aggressive actions” and applies to parents “who harass staff with frequent and abusive emails” or speak in a “demanding, loud, insulting and/or demeaning manner.” The policy comes with a “civility incident report” form. Los Altos Superintendent Jeffrey Baier said the policy is used “infrequently.” There could hardly be a more inopportune time for the district to spend time on a new policy that tries to codify acceptable parent behavior and give teachers “teeth” to deal with miscreants who send too many emails or raise their voices in meetings. Over the last three years, multiple teachers have been fired for sexual harassment or assault; administrators at Paly, including Principal Kim Diorio, have been called out by the federal Office for Civil Rights and outside investigators for violations of district policies in their handling of sexual harassment and assault allegations; and the district has repeatedly failed to follow district policies and state and federal law regarding the handling of parent complaints. And the union wants to make parent behavior an issue right now? If the teachers’ union truly believes abusive parent behavior is a problem, then it should come forward with a written proposal and evidence that a significant problem exists that would be remedied by a new policy. But just as current district policy outlines complaint procedures for parents with concerns about teacher behavior, any new policy should focus on providing teachers with a similar method of resolving their differences with parents, not creating impossibly vague and subjective standards for parent conduct. School board President Terry Godfrey, who chairs the policy committee, had it right when she said existing policy and law were adequate to address whatever problems with parents’ behavior that may exist, and we hope this proposal dies a quiet death in committee. Q Page 16 • October 27, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Letters What’s the problem? Editor, Regarding the Palo Alto school district’s proposed civility policy, the complaint that emails are being sent by parents to teachers at “all hours of the night” is just silly! Parents are supposed to stop sending emails past when exactly — 5 p.m.? The whole point of using email is that the sender can send when it is convenient for him/her, and the recipient can do the same. One does not have to open one’s email at the time it is received. Thus, one need not be offended by the time of day said email was sent. As to frequency, I am not a frequent flyer. To my recollection, I have sent only one teacher one email within the past year. However, it seems to me that the language here — referring to parents who email “constantly” and conflating the language by referring to staff as being harassed by “frequent and abusive” emails — brings up a second problem. What is constant? What is frequent? Are you saying that emailing in and of itself is abusive? Are we going to quantify some number of allowed emails in our new civility policy? Or teacher contacts? Yes, I know and understand that there are abusive parents and people in general. People who take up too much time, write too much. Yes, let’s stop each other from behaving badly. Abusiveness, yelling, rude language must stop. But no, unfortunately, even the long-winded must have their say, or get given whatever resource they need (which may not be you), that will help them move on. Chana Feinstein Midtown Court, Palo Alto

Support, not reprimand Editor, When I was in middle school, my family home burned, displacing our family for six months. I am puzzled by the report in last week’s paper. It seems that Palo Alto Deputy Fire Chief Catherine Capriles was simply doing her job ensuring the safety of the residents at The Crossings in Mountain View. She did so under the mutual aid agreement with Mountain View, sending the engine most likely to be the first responders to a fire at The Crossings. Two battalion chiefs agreed this routine was appropriate and common place. It’s unclear why the city continued to take action on this matter after Judge Scarlett’s written ruling, which was later substantiated

by the independent investigator, Kristianne Seargeant, that the city hired. Why are the city’s precious resources of time and money being used in this way? I applaud Deputy Fire Chief Capriles for being proactive and conscientious about keeping people and their homes safe. We are lucky to have such a dedicated professional who has given decades of service protecting our community. Let’s make sure that we support the professionals who protect our community. Mary Vincent Erstwild Court, Palo Alto

Harmful ambition Editor, Last Tuesday I attended a Castilleja School neighborhood meeting expecting a dialog between the representatives of Castilleja’s administration and neighbors. Rather than holding a discussion, Castilleja reiterated its plan of expansion for the school. Topics like the underground garage were not up for discussion because, from the Castilleja viewpoint, a 135car underground garage was the baseline, pending the completion of the Palo Alto’s Environmental

Impact Report (EIR). Surprisingly, the school could not provide a date for the EIR’s completion. The weakest part of the school’s position was its rationale as to why enrollment should increase. Head of School Nanci Kauffman explained that “Castilleja had to turn away too many good applicants.” Following this logic, Stanford University would have accepted up to an additional 41,934 applicants last year! Perhaps there is a simpler explanation for Castilleja’s ambition to grow: dollars. The school’s current Use Permit specifies a maximum enrollment of 415 students; the expansion plan calls for a maximum enrollment of 540. An additional 125 students, at the school’s fee of $45,900 annually, will yield an additional $5.7M per year income for the school. Castilleja’s faculty and students have a well-earned reputation for excellence. The ambition of the administration to become a large Peninsula-wide commuter school, shoe-horned into a residential neighborhood, does grievous damage to a historically supportive school/neighbor relationship. Wally Whittier Bryant Street, Palo Alto

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In a disaster, what should/would you do? by Annette Glanckopf f you had only five minutes to leave your house, what would you need to do? The horrific fires in Napa, Sonoma and the Santa Cruz mountains remind us that disaster can strike both quickly and unexpectedly. It is not the end of the fire season, and there is a danger of fire in our foothills. High winds, especially coming from the coast, could spread downward to Palo Alto. It’s imperative to think about and discuss with your family, how you could get help or what you would need to do. Palo Alto Emergency Services states, “While we cannot prevent all hazards from occurring, we can be aware and prepare for them, to minimize their impacts on our lives.” How safe is Palo Alto and what are our vulnerabilities? For normal emergencies, we’re in very good hands with adequate fire, police and EMT personnel, but in a disaster such as an earthquake or a massive fire we would be overwhelmed just as the wine country was. In that case we have to depend on ourselves and our neighborhoods. Disasters are classified into three categories — natural, technological and human-caused. (See cityofpaloalto.org/ thira.) Earthquakes are what we are all concerned about, yet their probability is

less than a severe flood or fire or a cyberattack. If you prepare for earthquakes, it helps you prepare for other disasters that may befall you. It is not sufficient to get an earthquake kit; there are other actions you should take to prepare. First, make sure that all your phones — work, landlines and cell — are registered with Santa Clara County’s reverse 911 system. Go to AlertSCC.Com to sign up. Next, have a family plan, build an emergency kit, get informed and volunteer, if you can. For details on creating a family emergency plan, see californiavolunteers. org/familyplan/resources.htm. For details on what to put in your emergency kit, see tinyurl.com/y9e5ntzd. Air quality is a major factor for fires and hazardous-substance emergencies. N95 masks work best, but any mask you get needs to fit snugly around your face to be effective. Using a HEPA air purifier indoors can also help reduce noxious particle levels inside. In a disaster, you should plan to be selfsufficient for seven days. First responders will be working hard to save lives, then infrastructure, then property, then the environment. The best resource is your closest resource. Use this peaceful time in Palo Alto to get to know your neighbor and others on your block. Don’t meet them for the first time when disaster strikes. Do you have any neighbors with special needs — limited mobility, special equipment like oxygen, non-English speaking, elderly, deaf, blind, small children? Have special concern for them, and check up on them in a disaster.

Be aware that Palo Alto has five types of Emergency Service Volunteers trained to assist first responders. A full description of the types and responsibilities can be found at cityofpaloalto.org/emergencyvolunteers. Have you been visited by a volunteer from your block dressed in an orange vest and sporting an official ID from the City? The role of the block-preparedness coordinator (BPC) during a disaster is to report the status of your block and communicate back information from the city. They use a special type of radio, which allows them to communicate even when cell towers are down. The model is neighborhood-centric. Blocks report to a neighborhood-preparedness coordinator (NPC), who can direct local volunteer resources — a CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) if available — to help your block. Or the neighborhood coordinator can request resources from the City. If you do not have someone on your block or nearby, consider volunteering yourself or recruiting someone. Communication may be difficult in an emergency. Will the cell towers be functional? Will voice be available or will the phone lines be jammed? Remember, a text has a better chance of getting through, since it uses less bandwidth. Data is sent in packets — queued until the network is available. Plan how you will communicate with friends and family. Social media has proven to be invaluable. In recent disasters, the most popular and effective ways have been Twitter, Facebook (Safety Check), Google (Person Finder) or even YouTube. The city of Palo Alto has a very active social media presence with Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, as well

as a smart phone app one can download to get immediate news on crime, urgent alerts and other news. The Palo Alto Police - IOS app is available for iPhone at tinyurl.com/yc6b2nru and Android tinyurl.com/y9vxbfhs. Disasters are not only destructive physically, they are destructive financially. Look over your insurance and make sure it is sufficient for floods, fires and earthquakes. Put your important papers together. Imagine starting over. Which documents, vital records or photos would you need? It is suggested you make two copies of all these documents (the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit is free from ready.gov). Give one copy to a friend or relative; put another on a hard drive or flash drive. Make a video of your possessions and each room in your house, especially valuables, such as family heirlooms or jewelry. Back-up your computer periodically and keep important files on a flash drive as well as passwords, your contact lists, digital photos. These suggestions will allow you to get back on your feet more quickly after a disaster. At some stage in our lives, we will all face potentially life-threatening situations and so should try to be well-prepared for things that might go wrong. While we do not like to think of disasters, knowing what to do, thinking ahead and taking the steps above can give us some peace of mind. Q Annette Glanckopf is a team leader with Palo Alto Emergency Service Volunteers and a member of the Palo Alto/Stanford Citizen Corps Council. She can be reached at annette_g@att.net.

Streetwise

What do you think of the #metoo anti-sexual-violence campaign? Asked on Meyer Green at Stanford University in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Fiona Kelliher.

Raquel Dominguez

Jonah Gerard-Grossman

Kaitlyn Jong

Tinuola Dada

Kerem Goksel

Second-year law student Stanford University

Freshman (prospective psychology/ economics major) Stanford University

Sophomore (prospective bioengineering major) Stanford University

Junior, international relations Stanford University

Master’s degree student, computer science Stanford University

“I think it should have happened earlier. ... But it’s nice that there’s finally some traction behind the movement and people feel comfortable coming out because it’s easier to do that kind of thing with a lot of people who also are behind you.”

“I saw it proliferating on Twitter for the most part, and it was just very surprising how many people I knew tweeted that. ... I feel like it might just be another trend on Twitter that goes away pretty quickly. ... We can hope it changes things, but I don’t know.”

“I think the downsides of the #metoo campaign, not that they outweigh the upsides, is that you have survivors inundated with a lot of stories that can be really traumatizing ... and you have other individuals that lack the selfawareness to know that their everyday actions do not match up with what they’re posting online.”

“It puts a troubling onus on the people who have been harassed to out themselves because it’s like, ‘Oh, people don’t care that sexual assault happens unless they know it happened to you.’ Even if it happened to one in a thousand women, it would be still be bad and something that everyone should care about.”

“When there’s this atmosphere where it becomes acceptable or even expected to speak up, when such an event happens, ignorant people like us get a better understanding of the scale of the problem and can be more understanding and receptive to calls for solutions.”

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Cover Story

Becoming whole again Veronica Weber

People with severe depression are experiencing hopeful results with Stanford brain-stimulation treatment by Elena Kadvany

or the last 40 years, Brandon Gregg has lived a “half life.” Gregg, a 69-year-old Burlingame resident, has major depression. He’s constantly tired, easily irritated and unable to complete even simple household tasks. His depression made working near impossible as his symptoms worsened and engaging with others became increasingly difficult. He eventually decided to manage investments from his home and also withdrew from personal relationships. His psychiatric disorder manifests in physical ways, too: persistent headaches, back pain, upset stomach, diarrhea, difficulty sleeping. Gregg’s mood disorder has resisted treatment of all kinds: He has tried more than 30 different kinds of antidepressant medications, electroconvulsive therapy, ketamine (a narcotic) therapy, a

surgically implanted nerve stimulator in the region of the brain out of which depressive symptoms arise, participation in more than 15 clinical trials and more than 100 rounds of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy, a noninvasive procedure that uses magnetic fields to send signals to that same region of the brain. Earlier this year, he was scheduled to take a more experimental, invasive and expensive step: deep brain surgery. In a twist of fate, that brain-surgery trial at Stanford University closed early. Jessica Hawkins, a clinical-research manager at the university’s Depression Research Clinic, connected Gregg with Nolan Williams, a Stanford psychiatrist and neurologist conducting a unique study on transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy. Williams also directs Stanford’s Brain Stimulation Laboratory. Instead of the traditional version

Brandon Gregg, who has participated in the accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study headed by Nolan Williams and Keith Sudheimer at Stanford University, sits in a chair with the TMS device strapped to his head. The device’s copper coils send magnetic pulses through the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex region in the brain, which then sends signals to the subgenual cingulate region, an area deep in the brain that can become hyperactive in people with depression. of TMS therapy that Gregg had received previously, Williams is studying how accelerating the pace of TMS — treating patients over several days rather than several weeks — would affect their symptoms. Gregg’s first treatment with Williams was this May. He didn’t feel anything at first — and he said he’s trained himself not to get excited about promising treatments given his track record — but Williams noticed his facial expressions start to change. (When people are depressed, they’re less able to engage the muscles that in most people automatically produce a smile, Williams said.) By day five, for the first time in several decades, Gregg no longer met any clinical criteria for

Katy Stimpson, courtesy Stanford University Brain Stimulation Lab

Keith Sudheimer, left, and Nolan Williams, right, look over a statistical map of a patient’s brain that they use to map out the best location of the brain to send magnetic pulses to in their accelerated TMS therapy study. Page 18 • October 27, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

depression. His condition was considered remitted. “After the first course of treatments was over, I felt so alive,” said Gregg, a soft-spoken man with an intimate knowledge of the technical terms and research surrounding his mood disorder. “I was doing all of these things that I hadn’t been able to do for a long time. It was like nirvana.” Gregg said he was “a typical stoic, hard-working, don’t-admitit-hurts, type of person” who did not recognize early signs of depression in himself in the 1970s. He said he received his first depression diagnosis in the late 1970s or early 1980s. He has since turned to nearly everything for relief and to stay connected to the world: research, medical studies, clinical trials, support groups, national conferences, volunteering, supplements, yoga, meditation, even dance classes and serving on local boards and commissions. Williams and his research partner, Stanford psychiatry instructor Keith Sudheimer, said they are the only people in the world studying accelerated TMS therapy with this particular pattern of stimulation. Initially positive results suggest they are at the forefront of an entire new field with implications for the treatment not only of depression but other mood disorders and neurological diseases like Parkinson’s. There are about five people in the world — in Florida, Dartmouth College, Canada, Australia and Belgium — conducting similar TMS research, Williams said, Of 13 patients Williams and Sudheimer have treated so far, 11 have remitted. The two who didn’t included a woman who came one point short of being formally considered remitted and a man who realized his primary diagnosis was not depression. For most, the relief lasted for about four months and in Gregg, whose

depression is more severe, about seven to 10 days. “The really positive thing about this work is that a lot of the field of psychiatry has given up on the idea that there’s a switch that we can throw somewhere in the brain that would have a dramatic improvement” on severe depression, Sudheimer said. “Here, we’re showing there might in fact be something like a switch that we can throw if we just know how to speak the brain’s language.”

Explaining TMS

illiams and Sudheimer describe TMS therapy as reteaching the brain its own language. They use a small device, much like an electromagnet, with copper coils inside. Electricity is sent through the coils to create a magnetic field that generates activity in neurons in a specific region of the brain. This region, the subgenual cingulate, located deep inside the brain, has long been a “suspect” in depressive symptoms, Williams said. People with depression show hyperactivity in that area of the brain. (It’s also where people who elect to get brain surgery for depression get electrodes implanted in an attempt to interrupt that hyperactivity.) TMS has only been tested on and FDA approved for people with clinical depression. People who have been diagnosed with clinical depression, or major depressive order, meet a certain level of criteria that others experiencing transient sadness would not. In TMS, thousands of magnetic pulses are sent into the brain to strengthen the signals between the subgenual cingulate and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, an area in the prefrontal region of the brain that oversees executive functioning and control — less in the psychological sense of

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On this magnetic resonance imaging scan, the blue area identifies the location of the subgenual cingulate, a region of the brain that can become hyperactive in people with depression. but evidence indicates they do not pose any significant risk. Gregg said he has experienced no negative side effects — save a devastating “crash” when the week or so of post-treatment relief subsides. “The crash, when they (the depressive symptoms) all reappear, is a very difficult time to try and live,” he wrote in a followup email to the Weekly. “I felt like I had been whipsawed and been plunged into my deepest depression. “However, that short period of freedom, of not hurting constantly, of feeling like a member of society once again, of just smiling and looking forward to the day instead of dreading how I would somehow get through until I could fall asleep, was pure heaven — literally going from physical and emotional darkness and breaking into the sunshine of a new and better day.”

Making the treatment better

hough the accelerated version of TMS is new, the therapy itself is not radical. Developed in the late 1980s, Stanford has offered it clinically to patients since the late 1990s, Williams said. In 1985, British physician Anthony Barker developed a device that, when placed on a patient’s spinal cord, would cause his or her thumb to move. He “got brave,” Williams said, and asked: Why can’t we do the same in the brain? Over the next decade, this was studied further by different groups, as information about depression and its causes also progressed. Mark George, a Medical University of South Carolina neuropsychologist who would later become Williams’ mentor, saw a TMS device in action as a resident in London during this time and went on to co-chair a multisite clinical trial of TMS sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. A chronically depressed patient, for whom no treatment had worked previously, responded to TMS, Williams said. They published their work in 1995.

“Between 1995 and 2008, 2009 the first generation of TMS was born — a proven treatment for depression,” Williams said. In 2008, the Federal Drug Administration approved TMS as a treatment for people with major depression who have failed to respond to at least one antidepressant. Today, there are five device companies that have Federal Drug Administration approval for administering traditional TMS. Insurance will cover the treatment after patients have tried and failed four medications, Williams said. Despite this, only about 6 percent of people in the country who would be eligible for TMS get the treatment, he said. Although it’s not a radical treatment, it’s still “outside of the normal” training paradigm for psychiatrists, so patients don’t get referred as often, he said. Williams does traditional TMS treatment at Stanford about once a week. (TMS also is offered at at least two private clinics in Palo Alto.) Patients come in for about 40 minutes once a day, five days a week for about four to six weeks. About a third of people

receiving the traditional treatment remit, Williams said. About two years ago, he and Sudheimer teamed up to answer the question, “Why is it only a third and how can we do this better?” Williams said. The prospect of a compressed treatment was appealing to his TMS patients, who are considered on the severe end of depression. These patients are not “trivially depressed,” Williams said. “These are profoundly depressed people.” Instead of waiting six weeks for results and losing that time from their day-to-day life, including their jobs, they could come in for five full days of treatment and in theory, start to feel better sooner. The traditional schedule can be “disabling,” Williams said, given it takes a longer stretch of time to feel better. “In a six-week course, someone could go from having a job to losing a job, and we’ve seen that.” They started testing the accelerated version iteratively, upping the duration and number of pulses per day until they matched what a patient would receive during a traditional TMS treatment. “We found (in) the first couple of people these dramatic, fast responses that one would expect to see after six weeks,” he said. The demeanor of patients who were previously “sluggish,” withdrawn and reluctant to engage with people when they came in for the treatment before changed drastically, Sudheimer said. “They’re walking around, gesturing, speaking with people that they weren’t (speaking to) before, (having) whole social interactions with me where they wouldn’t have before,” Sudheimer said. “Their movements look like a healthy person’s.” They kept some of the patients on their medications, even if they had been ineffective, in the hopes that they might prolong any positive effects. Psychotherapy may also be critical in maintaining progress, Williams said.

‘Like a magic wand’

iven the severity of Gregg’s depression, Williams almost didn’t treat him. He simply didn’t think it would work and didn’t want to waste Gregg’s time — an attitude he described as his “naïveté ... because we hadn’t pushed the envelope to really try to treat people at his level of severity.” But it worked. Gregg said he “just started to feel better, kind of as if the load on my shoulders was getting lighter and lighter” — an understatement for someone who felt like he had been living a “half life” for decades. Even his physical symptoms improved. “It’s like a magic wand just taking care of all these various things that had bothered me, some of which I never really knew and don’t know whether they’re connected with my mood disorder,” he said. As soon as they saw Gregg’s results, Williams called his mentor, Mark George. George advised him: “Do it again,” Williams said. Gregg went through another round of treatment and remitted for about two days longer than the first time, Williams said. Both Williams and Sudheimer, who described themselves as “young upstarts” within the psychiatry department, competing for funding and resources, recognize that they’re at the early stages, and more will need to be done to prove the accelerated therapy’s benefits. “There’s this common refrain in science and especially in depression work that you’ll find what you think is a new treatment and it’s almost like a cliché for people to respond this way: They’ll listen to you very politely and then say, ‘It’s a miracle! Show it to me again — and then show it me again and show it to me again,’” Sudheimer said. “It only counts if you can repeat it over and over (continued on page 20)

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controlling something with your thoughts and actions, but it exerts control over the subgenual cingulate, Sudheimer said. It’s also the area of the brain that’s stimulated during effective psychotherapy, Williams said. “We’re mimicking this learning signal in the brain,” Sudheimer said. “We’re essentially saying ‘Brain, learn a new connection,’ and we do that over and over again.” Gregg said he envisions it as “blasting a hole through a mountain, and it’s got to keep going until finally you see full daylight.” In the accelerated version, patients receive about 18,000 pulses over 10 hours per day, compared to 3,000 a day in traditional TMS therapy. In the Stanford study, the treatment stretches over five consecutive days. In a demonstration for this article, Gregg walked through the steps of a treatment. Lying in a reclining bed inside a small room at the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, he wore a headpiece not unlike a headlamp. Williams moved the device over the top of his head, watching a 3-D image display of the inside of Gregg’s brain on a computer screen, until he found just the right area to target. (He does this by finding the part of the brain that sends a signal to the muscles of Gregg’s thumb, which Gregg held in the thumbs-up position in front of his body until it twitched involuntarily, letting Williams know he’d found the right place.) The device produces a rapid clicking sound and patients feel a tapping sensation. Unlike many options for people with severe depression, TMS therapy is a non-invasive, outpatient procedure with low risk and little to no side effects. Patients can drive themselves to and from and are awake during the procedure. About one in 30,000 people who have been exposed to traditional TMS therapy have a short seizure, and no one in the Stanford study has, according to Williams. There also appears to be no cognitive risk or harm associated with TMS — and in fact, traditional TMS leads to cognitive improvements, Williams said. According to NeuroStar, the first company to get FDA approval to administer TMS, the most common side effect is “transient” “pain or discomfort at or near the treatment site” that goes away for most patients after the first week of treatment. The “safety and effectiveness” of NeuroStar’s therapy, however, has not been established for certain groups, including patients younger than 22 years old or older than 70 years old; those who have a suicide plan or have recently attempted suicide; and those who have a history of substance abuse, obsessive compulsive disorder, or posttraumatic stress disorder, among others, according to the company. The longer-term effects of exposure to the magnetic fields remain unknown, according to NeuroStar,

Nolan Williams, center, director of Stanford University’s Brain Stimulation Laboratory, and Keith Sudheimer, psychiatry instructor and researcher, stand in a lab used for transcranial magnetic stimulation research with Brandon Gregg, a study participant. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 27, 2017 • Page 19

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again and it works for everybody.” Williams and Sudheimer are working to set up a blind outpatient study as well as a larger, inpatient version. One of their dreams is to offer accelerated TMS therapy to people who come to emergency rooms in psychiatric crisis, Williams said, to help them get back to daily life more quickly. “If we can produce monthslong improvements for folks like Brandon, then we’d have something very important for folks at his severity level and anybody below that — and anybody above it,” Williams said. “If that’s true ... then that could be a breakthrough.” If proven, the accelerated therapy has broad-reaching applications, the researchers said. Traditional TMS has already been shown in some cases to reduce schizophrenic hallucinations, to treat mania and to effectively treat post-surgery pain, they said. “This isn’t just a depression treatment,” Williams said. “You could imagine other areas where normal TMS is being explored like addiction, neurodegenerative conditions, OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) ... and modify the method to the condition.” Before Gregg became self-employed, he worked in and owned

businesses in a range of fields: auditing, accounting, tax, insurance, property management, investment brokerage and real estate — worlds he cut ties with years ago as his mood disorder worsened. He’s now awaiting his next round of treatment in November, eager for the ability to return to activities he has mostly been without for decades. “I look at depression as living a half life,” he said. “I’m looking forward to becoming a whole person. I have things that I still want to do in my life, books I want to read, books I want to write. “I’m really looking forward to a life that is not inhibited by my mood disorder, and therefore, my mood disorder will not describe me anymore,” Gregg said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Tracy K. Smith Reading

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2017, 8:00 PM CEMEX AUDITORIUM, ZAMBRANO HALL, KNIGHT MANAGEMENT CENTER, 641 KNIGHT WAY STANFORD UNIVERSITY

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“In Life on Mars, Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition.” — Joel Brouwer, The New York Times Book Review

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n his newest work “Until the Lions,” award-winning choreographer Akram Khan changes the narrative of the ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabharata by choosing to focus on a female protagonist while exploring the confines and assumptions of gender in our society, the journeys we experience through the passages of time and the strength of human devotion. “As in many myths, the female characters are often the unsung heroes,” said Khan, whose production is a partial adaptation of Karthika Naïr’s book “Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata,” a collection of poems about the Mahabharata’s female characters. (The book’s title is taken from the Ugbo proverb: “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”) With only three dancers and four musicians, Khan uses classical Indian kathak and contemporary dance to tell the tale of Amba, a princess abducted on her wedding day and stripped of her honor, who invokes the gods to seek revenge. Khan said he found Amba’s character striking in her complete commitment to revenge. She was a woman, who despite extreme adversity, followed the beat of her own drum. After reading Nair’s poem describing Amba’s journey, Khan said, “(I) could immediately relate to it choreographically, visually, physically.” Khan’s dance production

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Akram Khan’s “Until the Lions” uses Indian kathak, modern dance, martial arts and live music to tell an excerpt of the ancient poem the Mahabharata during two exclusive Bay Area performances at Stanford on Oct. 27 and 28.

Khan’s ‘Until the Lions’ gives female characters a voice

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Akram Khan focuses on one piece of one book from the 200,000-verse epic — which is 10X the length of “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” Written in the eighth or ninth century BCE, the Mahabharata’s 18 books follow the Kurukshetra War and the stories of Kaurava and Pandava princes. “The show gives space for the female voice,” said Rianto, a dancer from Akram Kahn Company who uses only a first name and plays the warrior Bheeshma in this production.” This interpretation of the Mahabharata asks the masculine to experience much more than just that of a hero who dominates above all others. Here, he must melt when he sees the tears of women.” Khan, who performed in author Peter Brook’s Shakespeare Company production of Mahabharata

as a teen, has been familiar with the Mahabharata since early childhood. He initially grappled with how to tell the story of Amba to those who didn’t know the Mahabharata. “If you tell the story of Amba,” Khan said, “you have to understand the whole Mahabharata ... and how the hell are we going to say the whole story when there’s three of us, three dancers and four musicians?” Khan said instead of trying to tell the whole Mahabharata in his production, he chose to look at the story through energy and metaphors. He relates his work to poetry. Khan recognized that this medium of expression can be “kind of dangerous ... for the mass public.” He and his team cautiously recognized the thin line that exists between abstraction and accessibility and ultimately decided that knowing the whole story was not important. “What’s important,” Khan explained, “is this story has to not be

specific to a particular culture, it has to become universal.” Joy Alpuerto Ritter, who plays the gender-bending warrior Shikhandi, said in some ways, the story already has become universal. She said sometimes what the audience takes away is entirely different from the story of the Mahabharata, “but they see the energy, the bad and the good.” The team has been crafting this piece since its world premiere in London in January 2016, but Ritter said it is ever-changing and still quite exciting. “In the beginning, it wasn’t clear which role we’d take,” Ritter said. “We were three dancers, and we said, ‘Okay, who’s going to play who?’ While we were creating and exploring, we sort of found our characters.” Rianto noted that in his role of Bheeshma, he draws on his own father’s character and tries to apply it to his own body. Ritter said her inspirations stem from different elements of different styles of dance pulled from her

repertoire of everything from formal ballet to break dance. “I think the more vocabulary you have, the more choices you have for how you want to move or express the character,” said Ritter. “I like to surprise myself ... to try new things or challenge myself as long as it stays in the role, in the character and in the energy. I try to fusion all knowledge and all my body into my own vocabulary.” Khan said all three dancers are creating the material audiences see on stage. “I put the context very clearly, but out of that, they improvise,” he said. But improvision doesn’t mean a lack of cohesion. Rianto said there is a great sense of “togetherness” on stage. “Each individual dancer and musician has a very specific character, what this creates together is (a) new world on stage,” Rianto said.” For me, the transforming process is that each section, each character must be able to create the experience of inner turmoil. The story becomes a medium between motion and emotion.” Q Editorial Intern Alexandria Cavallaro can be reached at acavallaro@paweekly.com. What: “Until the Lions.” Where: Memorial Auditorium, 551 Serra Mall, Stanford. When: Friday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 28. at 7:30 p.m. Info: For tickets, purchase online at live.stanford.edu.

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Stanford Continuing Studies presents

Denise Levertov was one of the most distinguished and engaging poets of the 20th century. Her work is characterized by moral courage, passionate imagination, exquisite craftsmanship, and unpretentious accessibility. Stanford was fortunate to have Levertov on the faculty for a number of years, and her influence on poets throughout the Bay Area has been indelible.

Denise Levertov

This program marks the 20th anniversary of Levertov’s death in December 1997, and will follow the luminous trajectory of her pilgrimage. It includes dramatic readings of many of her poems, and appreciative commentary from the distinguished literary historian, close friend, and editor of her work, Albert Gelpi; and celebrated poet, friend, and author of the introduction to Levertov’s Collected Poems, Eavan Boland.

Limited quantities of commemorative broadsides will be available at the event for a suggested donation of $20 by check only.

Thursday, November 2 • 7:30 pm Cubberley Auditorium, School of Education Stanford University • Free and open to the public For more info: continuingstudies.stanford.edu/events

Stanford Continuing Studies presents

The Death of Jesus: Comparing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Accounts Christian, Jewish, and Muslim representations of how Jesus/ Yeshu/`Isa died developed over centuries, promoting very different understandings and valuations of the event itself, its aftermath, and its significance. At stake in these competing narrations were claims about messiahship, prophethood, divine sonship—and God’s favored people. The comparisons concerning

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the death of Jesus exposes the sharp differences of viewpoint and argument that contributed to the divergence and independent existences of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam as religions.

In this talk, Robert Gregg closely analyzes select Christian interpretations of the meaning of Jesus’s death; two Jewish writings; and alternative treatments of `Isa’s/Jesus’s death in the Qur’an, among its interpreters, and in Muslim paintings.

Monday, October 30 • 7:30 pm Cubberley Auditorium, School of Education Stanford University • Free and open to the public For more info: continuingstudies.stanford.edu/events Page 22 • October 27, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Photo by Michael Craig/Pear Theatre

A Celebration of the Life and Poetry of Denise Levertov

Dr. Thomas Stockman (Ron Talbot), left, and his brother Mayor Peter Stockman (Richard Holman) argue over water in the Pear Theatre production of “An Enemy of the People.”

Pear revives political ‘Enemy’ Ibsen’s 19th-century tale of greed and false facts still relevant by Kaila Prins

hen the main source of revenue for a small town is jeopardized, a man stands accused of fabricating stories after he shares the terrible truth about the situation. The local government is in the pocket of corporate fat cats who want the man silenced, and the townspeople are behind him only so far as the truth does not raise their taxes. And, with that, the definition of “truth” and “facts” comes into question. The year? No, not 2017 — it’s 1882, and it’s the eerily relevant setting for Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” as translated by Rebecca Lenckiewicz, which is playing now at the Pear Theatre in Mountain View. The story begins in a small spa town where Dr. Thomas Stockmann (Ron Talbot), with the help of his wealthy brother, Mayor Peter Stockmann (Richard Holman), has established the wildly successful baths for the ill of health. Things have been looking up for both the town and the Stockmann family until the doctor has the water tested. When the tests come back positive for bacteria, the doctor is initially hailed as a hero by his friends for the potentially lifesaving discovery. He proclaims to his wife, “To have the respect of your fellow men — it’s wonderful, isn’t it?” Such respect does not last long in the face of capitalism. Using the characters as stand-ins for a What: “An Enemy of the People” Where: The Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View When: Through Nov. 12 on Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Cost: $28 - $32 Info: thepear.org

THEATER REVIEW critique of idealism, corporate greed and the moderate “majority,” Ibsen (through Lenkiewicz) shows how just easily the truth shifts when confronted with both ideology and money. Under the direction of Betsy Kruse Craig, the entire cast does a great job of navigating what could otherwise be a particularly heavy-handed text. The set is sparse, letting the actors and their words breathe. Talbot does an admirable job as the beleaguered doctor, playing well off Holman’s embodiment of a particularly repulsive form of corporate greed. Bryan Moriarty as the journalist Hovstad and Hannah Mary Keller as the doctor’s daughter Petra make their characters particularly believable, and John Musgrave, as father-in-law Morten Kiil, must be noted for both his comedic timing and sharp turn toward the villainous. And prepare yourself to become part of the show, as the second half of the play spills into the audience. Though the actors might benefit from a few more days with the script, the production as a whole is as entertaining as its message is bleak. The production asks “What good are (truth and honor) when you have no power?” And reminds us that, in the end, the power to uphold truth and honor has to come from within. Q Freelance writer Kaila Prins can be emailed at kailaprins@ gmail.com.

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by Dale F. Bentson

What inspired you to get into the retail wine business?

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avvy Cellar is a busy place. Housed in a former train station in downtown Mountain View, the Caltrain and the VTA light rail stops are just next door. Savvy Cellar anchors the northeast corner of Castro Street’s dynamic restaurant row. Trains constantly pulling in and out add to the energy of the place. Savvy is all about wine, with nearly three dozen reds and whites available by the glass. Prices range $8 to $25 and full bottle prices aren’t a gouge. Besides reds, whites and rosés, there are sparklers, dessert wines, beers, sakes and ciders. There is also a menu of light bites, from savory to sweet, including cheese plates, pâté samplers, charcuterie assortments, flatbread, crostini and desserts. Owner Holly Orchard is enthusiastic about her business, passionate about wine and excited to share her knowledge and expertise with customers. A recent interview highlighted why Savvy Cellar is a go-to place in Mountain View for wine aficionados, budding oenophiles and everyone in between. With a full calendar of events, from themenights like Italian Tuesday to trivia nights and blind tasting challenges on Sunday “Funday,” Orchard boasts that Savvy Cellar has something special going on every night. Orchard, who has been a Savvy employee since the wine bar first opened in Redwood City about 11 years ago, acquired it from original owner Jennifer Ayre in September 2015. It’s been located in Mountain View for the past eight years.

Owner Holly Orchard sees Savvy Cellar as a place to explore and connect over wine and small bites. steps (and) all the effort that goes into the finished product is fascinating to me. Being lucky enough to try and share wonderful wines with people is something very special. Wine, like food, bridges gaps and brings people together. It’s a universal language and can turn a room of complete strangers into a room full of wine enthusiasts and wine knowledge seekers. I love that. What is your background?

Orchard: I don’t tend to think of it as a retail business but I guess you could say it partly is. To me, it is a tasting experience with bottles available for sale. Most of our sales are “by the glass,” with the option to take a bottle home. A retail wine business implies that a business sells wines, but there is limited opportunity to try wines or ask questions before you buy them. I want people to love the wine they take home. I love wine, wine tasting, and even when I am not at Savvy, I am usually at another wine bar or restaurant exploring their wine offerings. Discovering wines is a way of traveling in a sense — a way of being introduced to culture, history, tradition and family lineage. I love to go deep down the rabbit holes of the wine world when I have a chance. All the

Orchard: I was in and out of the wine business for almost 20 years before buying Savvy. I am a certified sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers. As a business owner, wine merchant and oenophile, what is your mission? Orchard: My goal is to introduce people to wines from around the world. There are so many wine regions, both new and old, that produce fantastic wines. I want to break people out of their wine rut, or comfort zone, and give (them) the courage to try grapes they have never heard of before from regions they didn’t know even made wine. Exploring wine does not have to be an intimidating

experience. We are all happy to talk about the wines on the menu, and love to have opportunities to share our wine knowledge. It is very satisfying to be a part of introducing someone to a wine that they absolutely love that they would not have thought to try. The advantage to going to Savvy to find wine is that you can try unique wines that are hard to find. I personally try all the wines before they get a place on my menu, because I want each and every wine to be great quality, great value and a unique experience in a glass. You won’t find the same wines you see in chain grocery stores or big warehouses! The warning I always give customers is that they should take home a bottle before the end of the menu because I purposely sell out so I can make room for the new wines coming in. It may sound like a sales pitch, but it is also a necessity. Savvy is small and we have no room to hang on to the same wines month after month. I tell people, “try it, love it, buy it.” How often do you update the tasting menu? Orchard: The wine menu is updated about once a month, or every four to six weeks. There are usually over 40 different

wines by the glass, dessert wines, sparkling wines, sake, etc. We offer flights of wines that change just as often. The flights are a fun way for people to try a lot of items on our menu. Will wine classes be starting again soon? Orchard: I am eager to start classes again, but it is a very time-consuming endeavor — at least it is if I want to do it right. I take the classes seriously and don’t want to offer them if I cannot adequately prepare. With the holidays approaching, I am hoping to get something on the calendar by December. Customers can engage in educational experiences by attending tastings every other Sunday. Q Freelance writer Dale Bentson can be emailed at dfbentson@gmail.com. Savvy Cellar, 750 West Evelyn Ave., Mountain View; 650-969-3958; savvycellar.com Hours: Tues.-Thurs.: 4-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat.: 2-11 p.m.; Sun.: 2-9 p.m. Happy hour: Tues.-Thurs.: 4-6 p.m.; Fri.: 2-6 p.m.; Sat.: 8-10 p.m.; Sun.: 6-8 p.m.

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GATED PRIVACY IN DOWNTOWN NORTH 183 Bryant Street, Palo Alto Within an easy stroll of exciting University Avenue, this tri-level smart home of over 2,500 sq. ft. (per county) offers 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, and an interior that exudes warmth and luxury. Fine features refine the bright, fully functional layout, centered by a highend chef ’s kitchen. Low-maintenance outdoor retreats afford charm and privacy, while the gated driveway, attached two-car garage, and multiple high-tech amenities add convenience. Stroll to popular shops, restaurants, and Caltrain, and quickly reach Stanford University and excellent schools like Addison Elementary (#10 Elementary School in California), Jordan Middle (#4 Middle School in California), and Palo Alto High (#5 High School in California) (buyer to verify eligibility).

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Awe, geez ‘Wonderstruck’ sees the world through children’s eyes 000 (The Guild) stories that presents a Todd Haynes’ “WonOPENINGS narrative mystery: two derstruck” takes off from a young-adult period-piece plot threads in two disparate timenovel by Brian Selznick. Selznick lines with a connection we know tells stories through a hybrid of will supply an emotional climax words and pictures friendly to when the last piece fits into place. cinematic adaptation, while also The 1927 story follows young Rose presenting challenges best met by (newcomer Millicent Simmonds) an adventurous filmmaker. Since as she runs away from home to Haynes has made his name among Manhattan for a hopeful encouncineastes as a purveyor of edgy ter with Lillian Mayhew (Julianne adult dramas, he might not seem Moore), a silent-film star who has best suited to this doubled-feature returned to the Broadway stage in simultaneously telling the story the waning days of silent movies. of a girl’s journey in 1927 and In 1977, young Ben (Oakes Fegley) a boy’s journey in 1977. There’s absconds to Manhattan from his some truth in that, but on balance, Minnesota home, leaving behind “Wonderstruck” should capture his mother (Michelle Williams) in the imaginations of precocious the hopes of tracking down his fakids up for something a little ther. These kids on the cusp (around ages 12, 13) both make their jourdeeper than usual. “Wonderstruck” is one of those neys without the benefit of hearing:

Rose has been deaf all her life (like actress Simmonds, who lost her hearing at 12 months old), while Ben becomes deaf as the result of a freak accident involving lightning. That lightning strike, as suggested by the title, serves as a metaphor for the shock of discovery and the realizations a child has about the ever-expanding complications of life that come year by year. Haynes has less success in striking us with wonder in the blackand-white 1927 passages. The literal and figurative color keep the 1977 passages more wondrous, along with the sweet-natured relationship that develops between new friends Ben and Jamie (an open-hearted Jaden Michael). Over an hour of “Wonderstruck” plays out as a silent film, teased along by Carter Burwell’s typically supple score: as such, it’s no stretch to call this one of the best films made about a deaf worldview. The film’s longueurs may try some audience’s patience, especially given the modest payoff, but “Wonderstruck” offers a breath of fresh air in a world of special-effects extravaganzas and short-attention-span CGI-animated roller coasters. Rated PG for thematic elements and smoking. One hour, 57 minutes. – Peter Canavese

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HOLIDAY COOKING FOR KIDS ... Gamble Garden in Palo Alto will offer a parent, grandparent and child class on holiday baking on Friday, Nov. 10. Chef Hannah Pienknagura will instruct the class on making goodies for the dinner table, parties and gift bags. Make chocolate ganache truffles in a few simple steps using the microwave. Go savory or sweet with easy-to-make cream biscuits or make a no-bake lemon pie. The class will be held from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1431 Waverley St. This class is appropriate for children ages 8 to 13 and adults of any age. Members may purchase a ticket for a non-member to come to this event. One adult may bring up to four children. Bring your favorite sprinkles if you would like to personalize your truffle creations. Pienknagura trained at the California Culinary Academy and is now a private chef in Palo Alto. Cost is $30 per person. To register, go to gamblegarden.org. FALL-TO-WINTER WREATHS ... Join this Gamble Garden demonstration on how to make your own wreath using fresh and dry materials. These colorful and lasting creations will enhance your home throughout the fall as well as through the holidays. Instructor Carmen Pekelsma is the current chair of the Gamble Garden Floral Arrangers. Kathy Ladra has been president of Gamble Garden and has been a flower arranger for over 18 years. The free class (which you still need to register for) will be held Saturday, Nov. 11 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. To register, go to gamblegarden.org. LEARN TO GROW ROSES ... Tips for growing roses organically will be shared in a workshop on Saturday, Nov. 18 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. offered at Lyngso Garden Materials in San Carlos. Content will include pruning techniques, when to prune, planting tips, rose care, suggestions on how to fertilize organically, plus an overview of common rose diseases. To register, go to lyngsogarden.com. Lyngso Garden Materials is located at 345 Shoreway Road. Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email elorenz@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

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trees Architect tour to show Menlo Park sustainable home by Carol Blitzer photos by Matthew Millman Photography The balcony from the back of the home extends from the master bedroom. The great-room pavilion on the right opens to the lap pool and a view of heritage trees.

ven before Ron and Ellis Bigelow bid on their 1950s Eichler in west Menlo Park, they consulted with an arborist to see what they could do about the half dozen huge redwoods and beech trees. “If you can’t live with these trees, don’t buy the lot,” Ron recalled the arborist saying. The couple decided to buy, then consulted with Butler Armsden Architects to figure out how to design a new house with a similar footprint to the old one-story house while accommodating the tree roots. The results of their efforts will be viewed on Saturday, Nov. 4, as the sole San Mateo County house included in this year’s American Institute of Architects Sustainable Home tour. Bigelow said the project involved careful negotiations with the city to see how close they could get to the trees without harming them. Architect Dave Swetz said the plan “was always well choreographed, not a struggle. Planning ... became a master plan of the lot. We used the limits to our advantage.” Today the modern structure consists of three pavilions: a one-story section that includes what Swetz calls “a pretty great room,” with its dining area and snazzy, marble-clad kitchen; a two-story section with a powder room, laundry and garage downstairs and two bedrooms and Jack-and-Jill bathroom upstairs; and a two-story section with a library downstairs and masterbedroom suite upstairs connected by a booklined bridge. The exterior sets the tone, with its horizontally clad, reclaimed-redwood and stucco walls. The front doors are 12 feet tall, mostly glass, frosted at the bottom for privacy from the street. The concrete pathway continues right through the house to the back, where it leads to the lap pool. All the walls in the great-room pavilion are 12 feet tall with floor-to-ceiling doors and clerestory windows — all the better to see the heritage trees. “The clerestory windows preserve the wall area but let in light,” Swetz said. The high windows along with the eave overhang act as passive solar heating and cooling, contributing to the home’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum rating from the Green Building Certification Institute. As a now-retired environmental lawyer, Bigelow said that “this issue of sustainability

Top, the great room’s floor-to-ceiling windows open onto the back patio. Middle, the kitchen island is topped with Italian Staturetto marble over Makore (African cherry) cabinets. Bottom, a copper beech tree dominates the backyard.

What: AIA San Mateo County Home Tour When: Saturday, Nov. 4, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: One home in Menlo Park Cost: $30 self-guided tour, $50 tour and panel discussion, plus wine-and-cheese reception Info: http://www.aiasmc.org/product/eventtickets/aiasmc-home-tour/

hasbeen of personal and professional interest to me since my days in college many decades ago.” After moving to California he took a course offered at Rice University on building a “green” house. “The course made it evident to me that it was possible to build a green house for about the same cost as building a ‘normal’ house, so long as one knew how to approach it and planned carefully. ... It definitely takes more work, but it also definitely can be done,” he said, adding that he was “extensively involved in the planning and construction of the house,” including choosing the architect, general contractor (Kathleen Liston of Moderna Homes, Menlo Park) and landscape architect (Shades of Green, Sausalito). Given the 10,010-square-foot lot’s limitations, Butler Armsden could have designed a long, narrow box, Swetz said. Instead, by making three distinct living spaces, they created courtyards and a variety of ways to utilize the yard: a small raised vegetable bed to one side, a lap pool right outside the great room, seating near the library. Colors, especially on accent walls, were taken from the Farrow and Ball palette, including shades of gray, mauve and eggplant. The main color used throughout the house is a neutral gray called Cornforth White, which according to its maker is an “understated gray” that creates “a hushed and calming retreat.” Most of the interior colors were inspired by a painting the Bigelows brought from their former home in Texas. They also moved their favorite furniture with them, including a large hutch that fits into a niche designed for it near the kitchen. “We made a very distinct effort to tie in Eichler elements, so it would fit in,” Bigelow said, noting the metal roof, redwood siding and stucco walls. “It captures the spirit, but is built for its time,” Swetz added, calling it “vaguely Japanese.” “And a little Frank Lloyd Wright,” Bigelow said. In addition to the self-guided tour, visitors can opt to attend a panel discussion at 11 a.m. with the design and construction team, which includes Lewis Butler and Dave Swetz from Butler Armsden. Q Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at carolgblitzer@gmail.com.

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261 Stanford Avenue | 4bd/4ba Elizabeth Daschbach | 650.207.0781 BY APPOINTMENT

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PALO ALTO $2,700,000

PALO ALTO $2,198,000

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1037 High Street | 2bd/1ba Shelly Roberson | 650.464.3797 BY APPOINTMENT

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12 Morning Sun Court | 2bd/1.5ba Barbara Conkin-Orrock | 650.996.4106 BY APPOINTMENT

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CARDINAL CORNER . . . Heavy rain and lightning Tuesday morning forced cancellation of the final round of the fifth Pac-12 women’s golf Preview at Nanea Golf Club. As a result, Monday’s 36-hole scores stood. Second-ranked UCLA won the team title by 11 strokes over No. 7 Stanford with a score of 20-under 564. The Cardinal took second at 9-under 575, placing four players in the top 15. Stanford sophomore Andrea Lee captured her secondstraight individual crown and third in four starts this season with a two-round total of 9-under 137 (69-68) on the challenging par-73 course . . . Freshman Michaela Gordon defeated sophomore Emily Arbuthnott 7-5, 6-2 in an all-Stanford singles final at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships at Taube Family Tennis Stadium . . . Stanford men’s soccer Foster Langsdorf, women’s soccer Catarina Macario and women’s volleyball Morgan Hentz were all honored as a Player of the Week by the Pac-12 Conference. Langsdorf scored both winners in the No. 6 Cardinal’s road sweep of No. 21 Washington and Oregon State as Stanford finished its Pac-12 slate with a perfect 5-0 mark. Macario, named the Pac-12’s Offensive Player of the Week, recorded nine points in two games last week on three goals and three assists. She leads the conference in points (33), assists (9) and is tied for second in goals (12). Hentz was selected the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week. Hentz, a sophomore from Lakeside Park, Kentucky, averaged 4.50 digs per set in wins over No. 14 Washington and Washington State last week. Her efforts helped the Cardinal (17-2 overall) remain atop the Pac-12 standings at 10-0 . . . Dick DiBiaso, Stanford’s head men’s basketball coach from 197682, died on Sunday at the age of 76. DiBiaso served as Stanford’s head coach for seven seasons. He guided the Cardinal to 70 wins during his time on The Farm.

Brad Yaffe (10) has the Sacred Heart Prep football team moving forward after a win over Terra Nova.

A night for Knights in Ocean Division Sacred Heart Prep continues to build on its recent success by Glenn Reeves irst place will be at stake when Menlo School plays at Hillsdale in a PAL Ocean Division showdown Friday at 7:30 p.m. Menlo (5-2 overall) and Hillsdale (7-0) are both 3-0 in PAL Ocean play. There’s a temptation to say the league title is on the line. But this year there’s a complication. With a weekend’s worth of games postponed two weeks ago due to the North Bay fires,

there’s an additional league game still to come after next week’s traditional rivalry games. Menlo still has to play Sacred Heart Prep and Sequoia; Hillsdale still must play Aragon and The King’s Academy. “King’s Academy is playing extremely well, they’re starting to click,’’ Hillsdale coach Mike Parodi said, warning against any inclination to look beyond this week’s game with Menlo. “There are so many variables.’’ Menlo’s experienced-laden

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averaging just a shade under 38 points per game. “Hillsdale is a great team,’’ Menlo defensive back Dillon Grady said. “If we come out and do our jobs, don’t make any silly mistakes, we have a great chance of coming out on top.” Hillsdale is a spread team that runs more than it passes. Primary ball carrier Nick Hulman has had a monster season, rushing

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defense has allowed only 77 points in seven games this season. JH Tevis, a defensive lineman who has committed to Cal, has 13 sacks and 23 tackles for loss. “They play hard, they’re athletic and they’re extremely intelligent,’’ Parodi said. “Sometimes you get away with stuff. That’s not going to fly this week. If we’re not where we’re supposed to be it’s a minus-4 or a sack.’’ The Menlo defense will be challenged by a Hillsdale offense

SHP senior Sara Choy (left) congratulates teammate Noorayn Jafri after winning a point in their No. 1 doubles victory against Menlo on Wednesday.

idelined for nearly three months with an ankle injury, Sara Choy made her long-awaited return to the tennis courts on Wednesday. Not too surprisingly, there was a victory as a result. The Sacred Heart Prep senior ended her frustrating hibernation by teaming with Noorayn Jafri to defeat Menlo School’s tandem of Vivian Liu and Kathryn Wilson, 6-3, 6-2, at No. 1 doubles. While Choy’s return was a positive lift for her teammates, the end result of the SHP-Menlo rivalry was the same as throughout her highly successful career as the visiting Knights posted a 6-1 triumph on a warm and humid day in Atherton. The victory for Menlo clinched the

outright title in the West Bay Athletic League (Foothill Division) heading into the Knights’ regular-season finale against host Harker on Thursday in Santa Clara. An expected victory there will give Menlo a 10-0 league record (15-6 overall) and increase the Knights’ on-going state record to 248-0 in regular-season dual matches. Menlo now has won 24 straight league titles -- 22 under current head coach Bill Shine -- and 32 league crowns overall since 1982. For Sacred Heart Prep (6-3, 12-7), the Gators also closed their regular season Thursday while hosting Crystal Springs on Senior Day at 3:45 p.m. Castilleja defeated the Gryphons, (continued on page 46)

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Naiv Layton shot a round of 69 to help Castilleja.

Katherine Sung was part of Palyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winning effort.

player and has put together an MVP-type season for the Gators. Castilleja freshman Kelly Yu is another story all together. She didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know she had a 69 in her until she sank her putt on the 18th hole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m usually eight or 10 over par,â&#x20AC;? Yu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expecting anything like that.â&#x20AC;? Castilleja, which went 13-1 in league competition, reaffirmed itself as the best of the West Bay Athletic League by shooting a 374 at the league tournament Wednesday on the Sunnyvale Golf Course. Harker and Menlo tied for second, each with a 388. Harker gets the preferential nod into the CCS by virtue of a tie-breaker but the Knights seemingly have an airtight case for inclusion. Palo Alto left little doubt it was was in charge from the opening drive. In addition to placing three among the top five, Katherine

Sung turned in a 79 and Madison Pineda recorded an 80. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year I went to CCS without any expectation than to do my best,â&#x20AC;? Yu said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now that I won, I know I have the capability. I plan to stay calm. At the end of the day, if I know I played well it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if I win or lose.â&#x20AC;? Among the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four top leagues, Castilleja had the lowest team score, with St. Francis and Valley Christian tying for the WCAL title at 376 and Palo Alto shooting 379 on Tuesday, both at Santa Teresa Gold Club. Chou surprised herself by reaching the CCS last year and actually tying for the lead after regulation. She finished third last year as part of a five-way playoff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never been part of something like that,â&#x20AC;? Chou said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was all good. The playoff was a lot of fun. I want to get back to NorCal or even better, try to get to state.â&#x20AC;?

Without a competitive team, Chou played in tournaments nearly every weekend. Pinewood has begun organizing a girls team and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good news for Chou. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody tells me how much fun it is to play with a team,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait for that.â&#x20AC;? Siminoff, who will be playing in her fourth CCS tournament, said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a unique experience every time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so competitive and everybody goes so low, especially in the early groups,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how things will go.â&#x20AC;? The first group Wednesday included Layton, Harkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Katherine Zhu, Chou and Siminoff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a lot of fun,â&#x20AC;? Layton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kathryn was 5-under on the front nine. It was fun to see. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played with her since I was a freshman.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all genuinely like each other,â&#x20AC;? Siminoff said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We cheer for each other and push each other.â&#x20AC;? Yu wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only Gator to surprise herself. Anika Tse shot her best round, a 77, and Divya Tadimenti added a 74. Alyssa Sales shot an 85. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year has been crazy,â&#x20AC;? Tse said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The goal for us was to get through league and get to the CCS and NorCals. Getting to the CCS is the fun part. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as much pressure as the WBALs. No matter what happens itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great experience.â&#x20AC;? Gianna Inguagiato shot a 73 for Menlo, a stroke better than teammates Siminoff and Vikki Xu. Q

(her senior year) earlier.â&#x20AC;? Choy sprained her ankle at the USTA Girls 18 National Team camp in Claremont in July. She injured herself in the opening round-robin match, but then won her second. She then moved on to the USTA Girls 18 National Championships in San Diego, where she won her opener before losing in the second round and then did not play in the consolation match. At that point, Choyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high school season was in jeopardy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It never healed,â&#x20AC;? Choy said of the injury. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never fully recovered.â&#x20AC;? Choy acknowledged that it has been frustrating not being able to play with her teammates. Thus, her return Wednesday was a special day despite the Gatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; defeat. She played No. 1 doubles for the obvious reasons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ready to play singles,â&#x20AC;? she admitted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My physical therapist said I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move side to side.â&#x20AC;? Thus, erring on the side of caution, she took the court for the first time in a high school match this season and did what she normally does -- help her team or teammates. While she did show some rustiness, Choy displayed a big serve and helped her partner walk off the court victorious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting there,â&#x20AC;? Choy said of her health. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I should be fine.â&#x20AC;? Choy never doubted that the injury would sideline her for the

season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just kind of expected Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get back,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know at what point.â&#x20AC;? While she set her usual goals of â&#x20AC;&#x153;having a really good seasonâ&#x20AC;?, helping her team and posting a good record, the key goals are still there. She hopes to help the Gators reach the Central Coast Section playoffs and go as far as possible. Choy also hopes to reclaim the CCS individual title she lost last year after winning the crown her freshman and sophomore seasons. That loss in the 2016 section title match ended Choyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 79-match win streak against high school competition. She was still 79-1 in singles after Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s match, but looks to improve upon that mark before the season ends and she heads off to nearby Stanford, where she will play for the Cardinal next season after committing two weeks ago. Choy currently is ranked No. 9 nationally in girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 18s and No. 4 in California. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really good to be back,â&#x20AC;? Choy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coming back from an injury is a reward.â&#x20AC;? Choy will continue to wear a black brace on her right ankle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just want to be really careful,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to resprain it.â&#x20AC;? Menlo, meanwhile, quickly turned its attention to the leagueending match at Harker and beyond. The Knights will host the WBAL Individual Tournament

on Monday and Tuesday before heading into the CCS playoffs. The win over SHP was a solid tuneup for the Knights. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proud that Sara Choy (and the Gators) were 0-8 against us,â&#x20AC;? Shine said of the past four years as the Choy-led Gators often provided the only challenge in league play. While she wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to lead her team past Menlo during her career, Choy was 6-0 in singles and 1-0 in doubles during that time. Not too many players can claim that feat. Shine expected Choy to play singles on Wednesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sara at 50 percent is still better than most girls,â&#x20AC;? Shine said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope she gets back to 100 percent and has a great career at Stanford. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a great team player over the years.â&#x20AC;? With the Knights expected to defeat Harker and extend their ongoing record to 248-0 (matching the Menlo boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; team), Shine is glad that pressure is off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The kids keep thinking about that streak,â&#x20AC;? Shine said. And why? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The darn seniors keep bringing it up.â&#x20AC;? That has been a goal of every senior class since the streak started in 1994. No senior wants to be on the team that ended the streak. Thus far, the Knights have been perfect in that respect. Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on to the postseason where Shine believes as many as eight teams have a legitimate shot at the CCS title. Menlo, of course, is one of those teams. Q

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7-5 victory. Choy, meanwhile, will continue to take the rest of the season on a match-to-match basis as she continues to recover from a sprained ankle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I sprained my ankle, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think a sprained ankle would take so long to heal,â&#x20AC;? Choy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I assumed that I would start

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5-2, on Wednesday with Becca Row and Tobey Solomon winning key singles singles matches. Castillejaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 2 doubles team Lexi Bundy and Soline Boussard also came through with a tough, 6-4,

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Gunnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lydia Tsai. The team competition should also be exhilarating. St. Francis is the three-time defending champion but Palo Alto, Castilleja and Menlo were among the top eight. The Vikings have yet to lose a competition this season. They swept their 10-game league schedule and won the Helen Lengfeld tournament in early September by a single stroke over St. Francis Yu shot a 1-over 72 to place second behind Lu, who shot a 1-under 70, and lead Palo Alto to the SCVAL team championship at the Santa Teresa Golf Club on Tuesday. Tsai shot a 76 and finished ninth, probably good enough to make the CCS tournament as an individual. Priya Bakshi and Marina Mata finished in a three-way tie for fourth, each with a 3-over 74, for the Vikings, who posted a team score of 379, 43 strokes ahead of second-place Los Gatos. Laytonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impressive 1-under 69 didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come as that much of a surprise. After all, the Castilleja golfer is the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most consistent

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by Rick Eymer alo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stephanie Yu is the defending Central Coast Section individual girls golf champion, winning a five-way playoff last year. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of the CCS tournament should be just as highly contested. The tournament takes place on the Laguna Seca Golf Ranch in Monterey on Tuesday morning. Details were scheduled to be released late Thursday afternoon or Friday morning. Three of the five golfers involved in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playoff return this season, including Pinewoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Megan Chou. All three are playing well enough to win and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just the tip of a talented pool that will vie for the title. SCVAL tournament medalist Elizabeth Lu of Los Gatos, WBAL tournament medalist Kathryn Zhu of Harker and Santa Catalinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coco Chai are also in the mix. There are also several players back who finished among the top 25 last year, including Castillejaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Niav Layton and Divya Tadimeti, Menloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sophie Siminoff and

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Menlo’s experienced-laden defense has allowed only 77 points in seven games this season.

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Burlingame at Sacred Heart Prep, 7:30 p.m. Defense made a big breakthrough last week in Sacred Heart Prep’s 16-7 win over Terra Nova. The Gators went into that contest on a four-game losing streak in which they had allowed an average of 39.5 points per game. “It was awesome to see how the guys responded, kept on working and not losing confidence,’’ SHP coach Mark Grieb said. “They played with a lot of energy. The defense really played well. Great game plan and execution.’’ A return to health of some key performers was a big factor. “Getting (Jack) Donnelly and (Tevita) Moimoi back makes you a lot better,’’ Grieb said of two linebackers who had been out with injuries. “Donnelly was all over the field and the D-line did a great job of getting pressure.’’ Offensively, Sacred Heart Prep (2-5, 1-2) emphasized time of possession and the ground game in order to keep the high-powered Terra Nova offense off the field. Tommy Barnds rushed for 86

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for 1,199 yards and 17 touchdowns. The 190-pound senior, a three-year starter at linebacker, scored five touchdowns in a 42-7 win last week over South San Francisco. “This kid, he gets after it,’’ Parodi said. “He’s a straight downhill runner who brings some thump.’’ Menlo beat Woodside last week 51-6 without starting quarterback Emilio Simbeck and top running back Aidan Israelski. Sophomore Kevin Alarcon stepped in at QB and did a nice job, completing eight passes for 162 yards and three touchdowns. Grady took over at running back and gained 116 yards on eight carries. “It’s awesome to see players who don’t get as many reps step up, take a leadership role and perform at a high level,’’ Grady said.

Dillon Grady rushed for 116 yards against Woodside. yards on 22 carries and John Willard, playing a short time after the death of his father, Mike Willard, a former Stanford lineman, gained 34 yards on 12 carries. “John played, like his father would have wanted,’’ SHP athletic director Frank Rodriguez said. “That was a very emotional game, There wasn’t a dry eye on our side of the field.’’ Burlingame (4-3, 0-3), a runoriented wing-T team, presents a markedly different challenge than pass-first Terra Nova did for the SHP defense. The Panthers haven’t won yet in PAL Bay play, but lost close games to MenloAtherton (14-10) and Aragon (14-8). “Assignment football,’’ Grieb said. “That’s the kind of preparation you have to have when you face an offense like Burlingame.’’ Menlo-Atherton at Terra Nova, 7:30 p.m. The Bears will play their second game in a row on the Coastside and will try to bounce back from a disappointing 28-10 defeat at Half Moon Bay. “We need to step it up as a team,’’ M-A coach Adhir Ravipati

said. “In the Half Moon Bay game and the last couple of weeks we’ve played pretty soft, haven’t played up to our physical ability. We haven’t played M-A football, bluecollar, physical football.’’ Establishing the run on offense will be a key. “We want to be able to run the football,’’ Ravipati said. “Other than the Palma and Los Gatos games we haven’t been able to do that. That’s why we haven’t been able to get into a rhythm offensively.’’ Terra Nova QB Nathan Gordon, the younger brother of record-setter Anthony Gordon, has thrown for 1,679 yards and 17 TDs with only three interceptions. “He kind of reminds me of Johnny Manziel,’’ Ravipati said. “He makes plays with his legs, is tough to corral. He’s more of a scrambler than his brother.’’ Saratoga at Palo Alto, 7 p.m. After losing to league heavyweights Los Gatos and Milpitas in its last two games, Palo Alto finds itself in the role of favorite when it welcomes Saratoga to Hod Ray Field for its homecoming game. “Saratoga is a good matchup for us,’’ Palo Alto coach Danny Sullivan said. “They’re real well coached but just having a real tough year.’’ The Falcons are 0-7 and have allowed 60 points or more in three of their games. Palo Alto (1-6, 1-2) should have an advantage on the line of scrimmage. “They’re having some trouble up front,’’ Sullivan said. “Our defensive line will be out to put some pressure on their quarterback, create some havoc.’’ Like every Paly opponent, Saratoga will be looking to stop the run. “I’m expecting them to stack the box, because why wouldn’t a team do that against us,’’ Sullivan said. “We’ll need to hit some passes.’’ Jackson Chryst saw some action against Milpitas after missing two games and shared time with Kyle Mostofizadeh at quarterback.

Chelsea Fan

Dillon Grady

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The senior outside hitter recorded 35 kills and 32 digs in four matches to lead Palo Alto to the Spikefest II tournament title on Saturday. Fan also had 34 kills in a pair of SCVAL matches last week.

The senior stepped into the starting halfback spot against Woodside and rushed for 116 yards with two touchdowns. He was also 7-of-7 in PAT kicks and starts in the defensive backfield for the Knights.

Honorable mention Zoe Banks* Gunn water polo

Gianna Inguaginto Menlo golf

Georgia Lewis Castilleja water polo

Madison Lewis Castilleja water polo

Susanna Limb Palo Alto volleyball

Lydia Tsai Gunn golf

Keyshawn Ashford Priory football

Niko Bhatia Menlo water polo

Robert Miranda* Menlo cross country

Alexander Nemeth* Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Larsen Weigle Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Brad Yaffe Sacred Heart Prep football *Previous winner

Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

Cupertino at Gunn, 7 p.m. Coming off a 26-14 loss to Monta Vista, the Titans will try to get back on the winning track against the SCVAL El Camino Division’s first-place team. “They like to run heavy,’’ Gunn coach Brandon Boyd said of Cupertino. “We have to stop the run. I can’t preach that enough.’’ Alex Bruckhaus is the lead back for Cupertino (5-2, 3-0). He’s rushed for 961 yards on the season and has had 98 or more in every game. Last week Solomone Paletua threw for 281 yards for Gunn (34, 1-2), completing 17 of 25 passes. DJ Barnes had 10 catches for 121 yards and Hudson Alexander six receptions for 155 yards. “That game was closer than the score said,’’ Boyd said. “Our defense played well. The offense let some opportunities get away in the red zone.’’ Alexander also saw some time at quarterback. “We’ll go with whoever has the hot hand,’’ Boyd said. The Titans welcome back Lee Howard, out the last two games due to injury.

Woodside at Sequoia, 7:30 p.m. This is one of those matchups in which many of the players are familiar with members of the opposing team. “The Sequoia game has traditionally been a really fun and exciting game,’’ Woodside coach Justin Andrews said. “The community is into it, the fans are into it.’’ Woodside (0-7, 0-3) has a couple of players returning from injury and Andrews says the team will have a season-high 25 players in uniform. Sequoia (2-5, 0-3) will be hungry for its first PAL Ocean win. “Sequoia is a pretty physical football team with some pretty decent size,’’ Andrews said. “The recurring thing for us is us really needing to get out of our own way. We are still making mistakes that should’ve been fully corrected by now.,’’ On the basis of scores against common opponents (Woodside lost to Hillsdale by 49, Sequoia by 19; Woodside lost to TKA by 43, Sequoia by 33) Sequoia should be considered a clear favorite. Andrews’ message to his team: “Just go out and have some fun.’’Q

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