Palo Alto Weekly January 5, 2018

Vol. XXXIX, Number 14

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

As Palo Alto picks next mayor, all eyes on Kniss Political veteran is under state investigation but could assume central chair on City Council

by Gennady Sheyner

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o become a Palo Alto mayor, a City Council member typically has to meet two requirements: a vice mayoral term in the prior year and an ability to get along with colleagues.

Given these traditions, Liz Kniss is the odds-on favorite to win the honor next Monday, when the

council chooses its mayor and vice mayor for 2018. A political veteran who twice held the position during her prior council stint, Kniss served as vice mayor in 2017, a year in which her side of the council’s political divide held a majority.

Kniss has been a leading advocate on one of the council’s most pressing

issues — housing — and has generally opposed policies that restrict development. A strong supporter of various “healthy city” initiatives, including efforts to reduce car idling and a registration system for tobacco retailers, she often found herself in alliance with Councilwoman Karen Holman, a colleague with staunchly residentialist views.

Yet her potential ascendancy to the mayor’s chair is also unusual in another respect. If elected, she

will be sworn in as Palo Alto’s mayor while also facing a state Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) probe over her failure to report a series of developers’ contribution before the November 2016 election. In addition, she had failed to list the occupations of 18 contributors to her campaign, listing them as “unknown.”

During the 2016 campaign — her 10th run for an elected office — Kniss had initially said

she would not accept developers’ contributions but later reversed this decision. And though several developers who gave her money told the Weekly (or indicated in their filings) that they had given her cash well before the Nov. 8, 2016, election, she did not report these $1,000-or-more contributions within 24 hours of receiving them, as required by state law. (continued on page 7)

HOLIDAY FUND

Giving youth a voice Nonprofit encourages students to express their inner lives, in good company

by Fiona Kelliher

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Pearl Moy reaches up high to return the ball while playing pickleball with Helen Carroll, left, at the Mitchell Park tennis courts on Jan. 4.

RECREATION

New pickleball courts planned for Mitchell Park Palo Alto officials look to cement sport’s growing stature

by Gennady Sheyner

J

ust about every morning for the past three weeks, Kathy Danaher has headed to Mitchell Park to partake in Palo Alto’s hottest craze: pickleball.

The sport, a paddle-and-ball contest that combines the structure of doubles tennis, the scoring system of Ping-Pong and the social elements of golf, has prompted hundreds of players to make the daily pilgrimage to the tennis courts, where temporary markings establish the pickleball peripheries.

Danaher describes pickleball as the ultimate inclusive sport: a senior-friendly game that also welcomes younger and faster

players. Now mostly retired, she said she has played golf for more than 20 years but is now turning her back on that sport because of pickleball.

“One reason the sport is catching on is because it’s so welcoming,” Danaher said. “Anyone who is interested is encouraged to come in, and we’ll give you a paddle and teach you how to play.”

Pickelball’s growing clout has not gone unnoticed at City Hall, where the City Council recently passed a special proclamation in honor of pickleball and adopted a new parks master plan that mentions pickleball as a sport that the city should try to accommodate

at existing parks and recreation facilities. City officials estimate that more than 300 people come to Mitchell Park every week.

Now, Palo Alto is preparing to put this plan into action. Under a proposal recently unveiled by the Community Services Department, three of the seven tennis courts at Mitchell Park would be permanently restriped for pickleball use. To partially offset the loss, the city would consider building a new tennis court at Mitchell Park where a handball wall currently stands.

That wall would be relocated (continued on page 8)

n slam poetry, the hands speak as much as the mouth.

As Crystal Trevillion stood in front of a crowd of students and families in Palo Alto Art Center, her hands moved between her head and stomach, at one point beating the air in a curled fist. Trevillion had just returned to Gunn High School after months of leukemia treatment, and her poem painted pictures of what it felt like to be bald, surrounded by machines and desperate to breathe outside a hospital room.

Audience members cried. Random strangers came up to hug her.

For the first time, Trevillion said, people began sharing their own family’s cancer stories with her.

“What you write — other people relate to,” she said. “It’s also good for me because I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m not alone.’”

Trevillion performed her slam poem at a 2015 grand gallery opening for Youth Speaks Out (YSO), a program that has operated at Gunn and Palo Alto High School since 2011. Originally born as a response to the local teen suicide clusters, YSO offers avenues for students to express their inner lives and build communities through art.

The nonprofit works with teachers to create a safe and inclusive environment, build curricula for specific projects and host artists within semester-long classes. Participating “YSO classes” — which remain within the PAUSD system while interfacing with the organization — have included photography, painting, ceramics, journalism and creative writing, among others.

YSO also collaborates with afterschool clubs such as the Black

Scholars Union and Gunn Poetry Slam Club, and all programming aims to foster real vulnerability, Executive Director Carolyn Digovich said.

In the past, this has meant supporting students as they’ve voiced their stress and the pain caused by turmoil in the community. While these themes are still important, Digovich said that YSO is making a concerted effort to include people who aren’t always heard from, in particular students of color, students with disabilities and LGBTQ students.

And students like Trevillion, whose experiences may be unique in myriad ways.

“We really don’t hear the voice of our student body if we don’t have all the voices involved and engaged,” Digovich said. “Those voices have been critical in helping us understand what students’ lives are about.”

YSO was one of just two organizations to receive $20,000 from the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund this year. The backing has supported programming that aims, in part, to deepen YSO’s roots in minority communities and continue partnerships from past years. Marshall Jones, a slam poet from Los Angeles who collaborated with Trevillion’s class, will return this year to facilitate workshops; in the spring, a local organization called Outlet that supports LGBTQ youth will also engage students. This will mark YSO’s third year collaborating with the mental health group Youth Minds Advocacy, which has previously hosted student art (continued on page 8)

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INTERNATIONAL AID ... A 14-year-old Palo Alto girl is helping other teens halfway around the world through fundraisers to provide them with feminine hygiene products. While brainstorming a charity project in preparation for her bat mitzvah in 2016, Eden Ball learned about Days for Girls, a nonprofit focused on feminine hygiene and sex education. The group compiles kits for girls in developing countries to use during their menstruation, provides education tools and helps women establish microenterprises by showing them how to create and sell the kits within their community. Her involvement with the organization allowed Eden and her mom to visit Uganda over the summer, a trip that opened her eyes to the magnitude of an issue few talk about, she said.

By the end of 2017, she collected about $11,000 through an online giving campaign and a Dec. 14 fundraiser at Zareen’s, a Pakistani and Indian restaurant on California Avenue, where she gathered 25 percent of dinnertime bills from patrons supporting the effort. She encourages the community to help groups assisting others who don’t have basic necessities. “A huge chunk of the world doesn’t have the access to food, shelter, water, proper hygiene and education,” she said.

CHURCH AND STATE ... After facing a crackdown from Palo Alto’s code enforcement officials last summer over unauthorized land uses, First Baptist Church is applying for a permit to be officially listed as a “community center.”

The application is somewhat unusual because, rather than seeking new uses, the request is basically to preserve status quo. In a November letter to the city, First Baptist Pastor Randle Mixon said that the activities of every group that occupies the church’s space — a list that includes nonprofits, singing and dancing groups, counselors and mental-health professionals — are “consistent with our mission to serve the city.”

He also rejected the idea, voiced by some residents who live close to the church, that its “efforts to be a good neighbor have fallen short.” Rather, the church has met the complaints with”every effort to come to a fair and reasonable resolution, with a good measure of success.” The church has recently solicited bids to install a new HVAC system, which will allow it to keep its windows shut and mitigate noise concerns. It has also installed double-paned windows that have been bolted shut on the second floor all along the back driveway.

The church, however, still has some work to do. On Dec. 14, Assistant Planning Director Jonathan Lait informed Mixon in a letter that his application is incomplete and requested more information due Jan. 19, including a description of proposed land uses, proposed hours of operation for each use, maximum number of attendees who would use the property at one time, a site plan and a floor plan.

A DAY IN THE LIFE ... Olympic hopeful Vincent Zhou of Palo Alto recently shared his daily routine with NBC in advance of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships wrapping up this weekend, which determines the American representatives competing in next month’s Winter Games. The 17-year-old wakes up around 7:30 a.m. for a breakfast of eggs, carbohydrates, meat, glass of milk and bowl of fruit, accompanied by vitamin supplements. He then takes off for the ice for an hourlong pre-training skate, two-and-a-halfhour training session and another hour training off the rink. He then grabs lunch, typically from Panera, Chipotle or takeout from an Asian restaurant to fuel up for his final training session. There’s no break once he gets home — the world junior champion buckles down on schoolwork and a “fairly large” dinner. “I have a habit of saving my favorite things to eat for last. For example, my mom cooks seafood soup for me and I save all the scallops for last. But then, I often end up being too full to eat them!”

He continues squaring away his homework alongside a bowl of fruit or other calcium-rich snack such as Go-GURT or smoothies.

You can find Vincent in bed by about 10:30 p.m. for an eight- to nine-hour sleep before he starts the cycle all over again.Q

Upfront BUSINESS

As College Terrace Market closes, community asks: What’s next?

Council members, residents say more must be done to ensure success of next grocer

by Sue Dremann

Liz Kniss

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Mayor (continued from page 5)

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ollege Terrace Market’s Dec. 30 announcement of its impending closure, just six months after opening, leaves many unanswered questions about the future prospects for a neighborhood grocery store in College Terrace Centre in Palo Alto.

The long-hoped-for market was made a requirement by the City Council in exchange for granting a zoning change favoring the developers. Originally, the more than six-decade-old JJ&F Market was to return to the site after the El Camino Real center was built, but its owners backed out.

To ensure a grocery store would continuously operate at the site, the city put into the zoning ordinance a stipulation that, should the space remain empty beyond six months, the developer would have to pay $2,000 per day for every additional day of vacancy.

With the clock about to start and no comment forthcoming from developers Greystone Property Development and Brian Spiers, the future of a market at the center remains unknown.

Some neighborhood leaders and City Council members weighed in on the loss this week, indicating a commitment to holding the developers to their promise for a viable grocery store.

The College Terrace Residents Association board has no official comment yet, board President James Cook said, but he added his own perspective in an email.

“Many of us are saddened and concerned by the closing. ... Many of us harbor the suspicion that the building’s developers/owners could have done much more to help the market survive. What I can tell you is that we will remain vigilant and vigorously involved to pressure the building owners to meet their promises and obligations (as well as those of the city) to the community. We will meet this month to get public comment from our residents and discuss our course of action.”

Kathy Durham, a former College Terrace association president, added, “For anyone who cares about shopping local, this closure is a real loss. But I give credit to the store manager and employees for valiant efforts to beat the odds for success.

Opening during the summer doldrums was a brutal trial caused by unfortunate choices made by the developer,” she wrote in an email.

Council members were similarly critical.

Mayor Greg Scharff said he felt the developers had focused more on getting an office tenant — First Republic Bank regional office — in the building.

“I don’t feel they held up their end of the deal. My inclination would be that on six months and one day we would impose the

Cory Wolbach

City Council and community members criticized the new College Terrace Centre for not having enough signage for the College Terrace Market, which announced its closure last weekend. fines,” he said.

But he added that he would keep an open mind.

“If evidence comes forward that they are really close to getting a new grocer, I would be flexible,” he said.

Scharff is not convinced by arguments that a grocery store in that location isn’t viable. That would have to be proven, he said. If the developers had added more market signage, done a lot of advertising and gone to the council and community for help and still failed, he might be inclined to agree. But that wasn’t the case, he said.

“I feel like they paid no attention to the grocery store,” he said.

Councilman Adrian Fine, who lives in the College Terrace neighborhood, said he would support fining the developers if they don’t secure an operating grocer in six months. He questioned, however, the wisdom of making markets a requirement of zoning ordinances.

“This is the city’s third strike for a grocery store. At Alma Village, it was not the right mix (Miki’s Farm Fresh Market closed and was replaced by discounter Grocery Outlet); at Edgewood Plaza, the operator (The Fresh Market) left; and at College Terrace the operator has closed, perhaps because of the building layout.

“The nature of retail is changing rapidly. I don’t think at the council we have the expertise of curating a retail mix. Maybe it’s not a viable business in some of these areas anymore,” he said.

Councilwoman Karen Holman said she was disappointed the market had closed, adding that she hopes the council will act to ensure the neighborhood has a viable grocery store with good management in place.

Councilwoman Lydia Kou raised concerns about the enforcement of the city’s PC ordinance with College Terrace Centre. She noted the city tried to fine Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center’s developer, Sand Hill Property Company, for not maintaining an operating grocery

store after the building remained empty for more than six months.

Under its zoning ordinance, the city maintained that the developer was required to not only retain the space for a grocery store, but to keep a grocer in operation there.

When that didn’t happen, the city fined Sand Hill, and the developer shelled out more than $700,000 before a new operator opened The Market at Edgewood in December.

However, Sand Hill’s business entity Edgewood LLC and project developer John Tze sued the city and won back $248,250 on Dec. 15, when a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge ruled the city had overreached when it compelled the developer to maintain an operating grocer because its ordinance did not support that specific mandate.

The court is considering whether the balance of the $700,000 should also be returned.

But the College Terrace Centre ordinance differs from Edgewood’s, City Attorney Molly Stump said in an email.

“There are distinct facts and circumstances in each case. A continuously operating grocery store is an enforceable obligation at College Terrace, and we will be able to collect fines after six months of vacancy.”

Hillary Gitelman, city director of planning and community environment, similarly acknowledged that the College Terrace ordinance has a restrictive covenant on the property calling for a functioning market.

“We must hold the property owner to their commitment to have an operational grocery store on the premises. We are in the process of reaching out to the developer and building owner to look at what we can do to support grocery retail,” she said.

College Terrace Market co-owner Chris Iversen, former manager Miki Werness, Spiers and a spokesperson for Greystone did not return requests for comment. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

Instead, she reported these contributions on Jan. 11, well after she was re-elected to the council with more votes than any other candidate.

The FPPC investigation began in March and is still in progress as of this week. By contrast, the FPPC’s 2017 investigations against council members Adrian Fine and Greg Tanaka were each resolved within a few months of being opened.

When asked about the length of time the Kniss probe has taken, FPPC spokesman Jay Wierenga said the agency works to ensure that every investigation is both thorough and timely. He said the agency is aware of the city’s looming elections and “tries to take them into consideration.”

“The flip side is you can’t rush, or hurry, or skip any aspects of any investigation simply to try to accommodate those types of dates, since that in and of itself could undermine or compromise any investigation,” Wierenga said.

Whichever way the council’s vote goes, it should have a familiar ring for Kniss, a retired nurse and former Santa Clara County supervisor, who served as mayor in 1994 and 2000. If elected by her colleagues, she will join former Councilman Larry Klein (who was mayor in 1984, 1989 and 2008) as the only other person to hold the position three times since Kirke Comstock served as mayor in 1971, 1972 and 1973.

At the same time, Kniss also knows what it’s like to be a vice mayor who does not move on to the top spot. she found herself in that position in 2014, when Palo Alto voters elected a slow-growth “residentialist” majority, led by Holman. In response, then-Vice Mayor Kniss made the unusual move in January 2015 of nominating Holman for the mayoral position — a post that is often described as “ceremonial” but that gives a council member the power to shape agendas and run meetings.

While the council has generally deferred to the tradition of electing last year’s vice mayor as this year’s mayor, 2015 wasn’t the only exception to the rule. In 2016, Vice Mayor Greg Schmid

Eric Filseth

was narrowly passed over for the central chair in favor of former Councilman Pat Burt. A year ago, the tradition was restored, when then-Vice Mayor Greg Scharff was unanimously elected mayor.

If Kniss doesn’t take the mayor’s seat Monday, the position could go to one of two other likely candidates for the role: council members Eric Filseth and Cory Wolbach. If she does, one of them will have a strong shot at getting elected vice mayor — a vote that often provides the only measure of suspense in the annual reorganizational meeting.

Filseth, a retired tech CEO, served in 2017 as chair of the council’s Finance Committee and is the council’s strongest voice for addressing the city’s ballooning pension liabilities. Though he was elected in 2014 as part of the “residentialist” wave, he has governed as a moderate and has often assumed Burt’s former role as the council’s swing vote.

Wolbach, who was also elected in 2014, chaired the Policy and Services Committee and helped craft the city’s policies on marijuana, surveillance technology and smoking. A Democratic activist and staunch housing advocate, Wolbach has voted consistently with Kniss and Scharff throughout the year and could have the edge if the council splits among partisan lines.

Both Filseth and Wolbach will be up for re-election in November, when the council size will shrink from nine to seven members.

The council seat of Councilman Tom DuBois, who chaired the Rail Committee in 2017, will also be up for grabs later this year. When it comes to the vicemayorship, his general affiliation with the council’s slow-growth minority may make it more difficult for him to win five votes on Monday. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Clarification

The photo caption in the Dec. 29 story “2017: Palo Alto’s pivotal year” shows a bicycle riding past cars on a stretch Loma Verde Avenue. The design depicts a temporary condition; when permanent striping is added, the existing bike lane will be moved towards the curb. To request a clarification or correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at jdong@ paweekly.com, 650-326-8210 or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto 94302.

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CityView

Palo Alto government action this week

City Council

The council did not meet this week.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a re-organization meeting to elect its mayor and vice mayor. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 8, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider an ordinance amending sections of the zoning code pertaining to single-family residential districts, standards for special uses and processing of permits and approvals. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 10, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 11, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The meeting agenda wasn’t available as of press deadline.

Bob Kirkwood Bob Kirkwood passed peacefully on Dec. 10 in Palo Alto with his wife, Edie, and sons at his side.

Bob was born in 1939 in San Francisco. He was a graduate of Pomona College and Harvard Law School. In 1966, he married Bonnie Brooks and together they raised three sons. After two years in Japan working for a law firm, he returned to San Francisco where he practiced law at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison.

Bob worked at Hewlett Packard for 25 years, retiring as the Director of Government and Education Affairs. Working with David Packard, Bob designed and initiated the creation of the Santa Clara Manufacturing Group, a collaboration of industry and local governments that has evolved into the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. It was at this time that Bob met his wife, Edie Dorosin.

Bob was a generous and mentoring husband, brother, father/step father and grandfather. He was a passionate and insightful contributor to many civic and environmental organizations including SPUR, POST, Trust for Public Lands, Sempervirens, and the Northern Sierra Partnership. In the 1990’s Bob was on the board of the Coastal Conservancy and in 2005 he was the Governor’s appointee to the newly created Sierra Nevada Conservancy. To each group he gave time, energy and his many ideas.

Bob’s other major interest was early childhood development and parental behavior. He pursued funding both environmental and childhood development issues working through his family foundation. A member of the Bohemian Grove, Bob enjoyed the camaraderie of his camp mates.

Bob is survived by his wife, Edie; his sister, Jeanie (Mike), and brother, John; his sons Carter (Jessica), Brooks (Stephanie) and Corey Kirkwood; his stepchildren Dan (Fern), Abbie (Dan), and Alicia Dorosin; and by his super wonderful grandchildren Robby, Emily, Chloe, Kailey, Malaika, Jackson and Clara Kirkwood, Skylar and Miles Dorosin and Davis and Elana Rich. For his grandchildren, Bob was a model of a steward of the land and an instigator of many adventures.

Our blended families thank you for your remembrances of Bob, his thoughtfulness and generosity.

To honor Bob, please donate to a charity of your choice.

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showcases in San Francisco.

Student groups representing different communities have taken an active role in shaping the program.

One developing project idea is the “Soul Collage” that the Black Scholars Union at Paly will create with the help of a visiting artist this year.

Alvaro Panitz, a 2015 Gunn graduate, said that exposure to other students’ difficulties and dreams made him feel more comfortable discussing his own. Panitz moved to California from Peru in high school, leaving behind both his parents. His grandfather, who had primarily raised him, died about a year before he arrived at Gunn.

Back home, Panitz had written poems in his native Spanish about anything that struck his fancy — love, friendship, stories from friends, heartbreak. But while involved in YSO, he found himself writing about his grandfather and remembering moments they had shared years earlier.

“He was basically my father,” Panitz said. “I miss him a lot, and so I decided to write about him because I feel like he’s taught me so much.”

According to Digovich, some art like Panitz’s and Trevillion’s creates a meaningful “counterpoint” to the themes of academic stress and grades that may otherwise dominate the classrooms. She recalled one student’s photograph that showed his father’s hands holding his own class picture from elementary school. X’s were drawn over the faces of each child who

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under the plan that staff presented to the Parks and Recreation Commission on Dec. 19.

The new pickleball courts would occupy the three tennis courts closest to the Magical Bridge playground, just south of Adobe Creek.

Adam Howard, the city’s community-services manager, said staff recognizes that pickleball is a “growing sport” with “an increase of demand in Palo Alto.” Under the proposal he presented to the commission, the three tennis courts would be converted into 12 smaller pickleball courts.

Not surprisingly, the proposal has been drawing rave reviews from pickleball users, who currently use the courts on a firstcome-first-serve basis. Danaher said it would be “fantastic” to have these courts for exclusive pickleball use and to replace the temporary markings with more visible ones.

Not everyone, however, shares their joy. Members of the Palo Alto Tennis Club, which uses Mitchell Park courts, believe the conversion plan will take away from the space’s flexibility, aggravate the park’s parking problems and leave tennis aficionados in a

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Carolyn Digovich, founder of Youth Speaks Out, sits in front of photographs and paintings produced by students in the program.

The art-focused program, which received a Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund grant, provides students avenues for working on art, writing personal narratives about their experiences at local high schools, and exploring many forms of artistic media. had since died. More than half the faces were marked.

“The way it was discussed by the student was just ... ‘This is a way of life,’” Digovich said. “’This is a reality that my family has dealt with, and people continue to deal with in our community.’”

As the program heads into its seventh year, its leaders are focused on long-term partnerships and resource management. While most YSO projects have been planned, implemented and finished within a school semester, the organization is now slowing down to solidify relationships and listen closely to students’ needs, Digovich said. The largely volunteer-run nonprofit will also seek a donation

or grant matching the Weekly’s to hire staff.

Memories from YSO have stuck with Trevillion, who now attends De Anza College. Even now, she sometimes goes back to watch the video of her own performance.

“I’m really glad I did it when I did,” she said. Q More information about the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund, including how to contribute and a list of people who’ve already donated, can be found on pages 16 and 17. Read additional Holiday Fund stories at PaloAltoOnline. com/holiday_ fund.

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bit of a pickle.

Marla Kravatz, president of the tennis club, expressed these concerns at a Dec. 18 meeting with Howard and a few other stakeholders. In an interview with the Weekly, she said she believes the parking issue is getting “short shrift” from staff. The three tennis courts accommodate 12 people when used for doubles tennis, she noted. Twelve pickleball courts, by contrast, could draw 48.

“We’d be adding potentially 36 more people coming to the one area where already the parking is horrendous,” Kravatz said.

She also noted that the three courts eyed for conversion are lit courts, which makes them particularly valuable for tennis courts.

Pickleball players, meanwhile, are much less likely to play at night, she said.

Kravatz is quick to say that she has absolutely no problem with pickleball, which she describes as a game with “all the fun of tennis without the stress.” Tennis players, she said, like the pickleballers and occasionally play the game themselves.

The feeling appears to be mutual, even if the amiable relationship is now being tested by the realities of supply and demand.

“We don’t have any arguments or fights with tennis players, but it’s just unfortunate because

there’s too many people who want to play both games,” Danaher told the Weekly.

The Parks and Recreation Commission didn’t take any votes on the proposed conversion, though members generally supported the plan. Some questioned Howard’s assertion that the three courts near the playground are not heavily used by tennis players and requested more data to back it up.

Similarly, they requested some data about usage at the handball court that would be relocated.

“We’re a bit loosey-goosey on the numbers now,” Commissioner Jeff Greenfield said.

He also suggested a potential compromise in which two of the three courts would be restriped for pickleball and the third would remain flexible.

Commission Chair Keith Reckdahl also said the city needs more data but noted that he would “err on the side of putting the pickleball courts in.” Commissioner David Moss agreed.

“I get the feeling that the tennis players should be sympathetic, (given) that as people get older, as tennis players get older, a lot of them become pickleball players,” Moss said. “So it’s for their benefit as well.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

Dec. 28-Jan. 3 Violence related Assault w/deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse/sexual assault . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Family violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Rape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sexual assault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft related Attempted burglary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Embezzlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bike parts, stolen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/property damage . . . . 3 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle stored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . . 2 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Miscellaneous False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Transitions McClain Johnston Dr. McClain Johnston, born Nov. 20, 1921, in Twin Falls, Idaho, died on Dec. 23, 2017, in Palo Alto, California. He was 96.

Johnston was a partner in the Palo Alto Medical Clinic from 1954 to 1964, and from 1964 to 2008 he was in private practice in psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Menlo Park. He was a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society and a member of the medical staff at Stanford University Hospital.

He is survived by his wife, Deborah Wood Johnston, daughters Ann Randolph Johnston Paradis, Catherine Lee Johnston, Sandra Johnston Hill and Ellen Johnston, and a son, Robert McClain Johnston. Q

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Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Municipal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Property for disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Using false evidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Welfare check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Menlo Park

Dec. 28-Jan. 3 Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Clark Way, 12/4, noon; child abuse/ sexual.

Greenmeadow Way, 12/5, 5:30 p.m.; sexual assault.

Emerson Street, 12/5, 5:30 p.m.; sexual assault.

Greenmeadow Way, 12/18, 3 p.m.; sexual assault.

El Camino Real, 12/22, 11 a.m.; domestic violence.

200 block Hamilton Avenue, 12/28, 11:36 p.m.; battery.

Ramona Street, 12/29, 7 p.m.; rape.

Tevis Place, 12/29, 10:17 p.m.; family violence/assault.

2700 blk. Middlefield Road, 12/29, 10:19 p.m.; assault with a deadly weapon.

El Camino Real, 12/31, 5:35 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Bibbits Drive, 1/1, 10:38 a.m.; domestic violence/assault.

Menlo Park 1100 blk. San Mateo Drive, 12/30, 11:32 a.m.; battery.

500 blk. El Camino Real, 12/30, 8:29 p.m.; robbery.

Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . . 3 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Animal bite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Civil issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Verbal disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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Leonard Harold Jurgensen, Jr. January 29, 1931 – December 17, 2017 Leonard (Len) Harold Jurgensen, Jr., 86, of Palo Alto, CA, was born on January 29, 1931 in Omaha, Nebraska, and passed on December 17, 2017. Len was the eldest child of Leonard Sr. and Elizabeth (Turek) Jurgensen. An avid outdoorsman, Len earned the Eagle Scout rank and throughout his life loved boating and bass fishing. Len graduated from Creighton University and served in the Korean War as 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. In 1953, he wed Geradyne (Gerry) Antisdel of Omaha. Len and Gerry raised their family of three children in Omaha, which always remained in his heart, and in Dayton, Ohio, before arriving in California in 1976.

In addition to his love of the outdoors, Len enjoyed ice skating and ballroom dancing with Gerry. As a pioneer in early computer systems, Len was a consummate salesman with a passion for helping clients understand new technologies. He always relished a challenge to fix things for family and friends, and was known for his ingenious “rigs� to solve any problem. He will be remembered for his love and devotion to all his family, and as an honorable man of faith and integrity. His kind and caring soul was a presence in this world that will be missed.

Len was preceded in death by his brother Donald, and is survived by his loving wife Gerry; daughters Loni Jurgensen Holland (Mark) and Janis Jurgensen Marti (Eric), and son Thomas (Tracy); grandchildren Justin Holland (Mingie), and Nora and Emma Marti; and great-grandchildren Olivia and Deacon Holland. Len’s wish was to donate his body to Stanford’s Body Donor Research Program. The family will gather in his memory at a later date. Len was a longtime supporter of Boys Town, whose motto is, “He ain’t heavy, Father, he’s my brother.�

Memorial donations can be made to Boys Town, 200 Flanagan Boulevard, PO Box 8000, Boys Town, NE 68010.

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Phyllis Vera Koch Phyllis Vera Koch, 95 of Palo Alto, California passed away on December 13, 2017 in her home, surrounded by her family.

Phyllis was born in San Francisco to Reva and Albert Schynert. Her younger brother Irving passed away in 2003.

When Phyllis was 10 years old, the family moved to Palo Alto, which was considered “the country.� They lived in Barron Park and had a chicken and goat ranch.

She attended Mayfield School and Palo Alto High School. Phyllis began drawing as a child and went on to attend San Jose State – the only college in the area offering commercial art in advertising. Two days after graduation she began her first job sketching ads in newspapers and magazines.

That same summer she met the love of her life – Harvey Nathaniel Koch – a young soldier stationed at Stanford for Military Language and Intelligence training. Three months later they were married – a wonderful marriage that lasted 50 years until Harvey passed in 1993.

Following the war, they spent 2 years in New York while Harvey completed his law degree, and their first child was born. They both loved California, and Phyllis was thrilled to return and be close to her family. Over the next few years they had two more children.

In addition to raising her three children in Palo Alto and later Los Altos Hills, she continued her love of art by participating in weekly oil painting classes for over 40 years. She also illustrated numerous brochures, programs, posters and cookbooks for the many organizations she was active in.

Phyllis’ love of music started as a young girl when she would play piano for school assemblies, and continued throughout her life. She loved attending the San Francisco Symphony and even attended a performance 2 weeks before she passed.

Phyllis was a founding member of Sequoia Hadassah, Congregation Kol Emeth and active at Congregation Beth Am where she remained a member for more than 60 years. She served on the Board of the Palo Alto JCC and was a loyal supporter throughout her life. She also participated in many activities as a member and lifetime supporter of the Jewish Community Federation.

Life at the Vi in Palo Alto turned out to provide Phyllis with an extremely active, fulfilling and fun atmosphere to live in during the last 12 years of her life. She was able to express her talents while providing enjoyment to the many friends she made there. She also continued her love of gardening, maintaining a vegetable as well as a flower garden. Sunday afternoons were spent at the piano playing for group sing-along. Her baked goods were a big hit amongst her friends.

Phyllis’ life was deeply intertwined with her family – they traveled, played games, shared holidays, and just enjoyed each others company.

She is survived by her three children: Andrea, Lizbeth (Harold), and Joel (Sharon). Grandchildren: Sydnee (Craig), Brandon, Jesse (Jessica), Joshua (Aki), Jessica (Thao), Melissa, Andrew, and Heather (Todd). GreatGrandchildren: Brynn Harlow, Chase James, Jasmine Bailey, Madison Rose, and Cameron Harvey.

A private service was held for Phyllis on December 18th at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park. Donations can be sent to Congregation Beth Am, 26790 Arastradero Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA 94022– Phyllis Koch Music and Art Fund.

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Female heroes rise to power on the big screen

by Peter Canavese

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Frances McDormand wouldn’t sit down and shut up in “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Meanwhile, “I, Tonya” gave Tonya Harding her voice back, and Emily Dickinson came back to life in “A Quiet Passion.”

Greta Gerwig reshaped her formative years in “Lady Bird,” and a pint-sized star named Brooklynn Prince was born in “The Florida Project.” “Star Wars” returned with its female “force,” and the heroine of “The Shape of Water” even faced down workplace sexual harassment when not romancing the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

In 2017, lines also blurred and the industry shifted in ways that didn’t involve Harvey Weinstein.

Two of the biggest cinematic events of the year were “almostfilms.” David Lynch’s breathtaking 18-hour revival of “Twin Peaks” for Showtime was conceived and shot like a giant-sized

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hile Netflix returned to the Upside Down universe in the second season of “Stranger Things” in 2017, the worlds of both politics and movies went topsy-turvy with their real-life versions of “stranger” things.

It was the kind of year in which the attitude of “everything goes” became public policy and a sociopolitical lightning rod. Our 45th president — an erstwhile realityTV star — moved into the White House to begin an erratic term, and the Hollywood establishment of powerful males got called out, leading to never-before-seen upheaval.

As #metoo trended, women led the march on movies, with “Wonder Woman” out in front. The blockbuster was a much-needed win for Warner Brothers’ DC Universe franchise and an American cineplex historically ruled by male-centric superhero movies.

“Wonder Woman” movie (and it plays theatrically this week at New York’s MOMA), and “Wormwood,” the latest “story” from documentarian Errol Morris,

debuted a couple of weeks ago on Netflix as a six-part series that’s also been booked into theaters as a four-hour film. Predictably

front-runners Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf. Long a respected comic actress and screenwriter, Gerwig moves to the front ranks of directors just as the movies need her most.

8. ‘Frantz’

9. ‘Nocturama’

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“Lady Bird” Greta Gerwig’s semiautobiographical coming-of-age tale, set in 2002 Sacramento, nails the sudden emotions and taps into the humor of a teenager’s process of discovery (what disappointments guys can be, the

indispensability of a true friend).

Beyond the specificity of time and place (including Catholic schooling), “Lady Bird” is a prime mother-daughter love story, replete with the tribulations of painful individuation and beautifully acted by awards-season

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Ozon plunges into these depths, playfully crafting a mystery with immediate practical questions as well as the eternal mysteries of the human heart and mind. Cannily visualizing the tale in blackand-white with splashes of color, Ozon teases romantic possibilities as younger and older generations reckon with the love and loss of wartime.

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10. ‘Lady Bird’

This controversial, ice-cold drama of urban terrorism from Bertrand Bonello (“Saint Laurent”) begins as a gripping study in sustained tension and morphs at the halfway point into a surreal satire, as the lithe, sadly deluded young terrorists hide out in a tony department store and begin playing dress up and fiddling with the toys on hand. The antiheroes seem more Bonnie-and-Clyde burn-the-world nihilists than the new revolutionaries they fancy themselves. As horrifying as their behavior is, the only thing worse is the political establishment’s response. Bonello hauntingly employs smooth camera moves and popular music to create a fantasia of youthful disaffection and the callous, self-defensive tyranny of our social and cultural institutions.

Certainly among the top five greatest existential mysteries are the questions “Why are we here?,” “Where do we go after we die?” and “What’s going on in our heads?” Reality, memory and wishful thinking often blur, helped along by stormy emotions. With his post-WWI drama “Frantz,” writer-director François

making the Hollywood establishment pee itself, Netflix also upped its game this year, getting into the blockbuster-franchise game in December with a Will Smith fantasy actioner called “Bright.”

It’s never easy winnowing down hundreds of movies to the supposed “Ten Best,” especially when comparing apples to oranges (and cherries and peaches and pomegranates). As always, the movies that lived largest in my critic’s imagination are the ones that took chances, made challenging statements of substance and style, or were simply ... French (yeah, for some reason, it was all about the French movies this year).

The bottom line? “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” doesn’t need another boost, but these movies might to get your attention. Here’s hoping you seek out these enlightening, illuminating, entertaining, soulful 10, and more.

“Frantz”

Arts & Entertainment own lives, both in the conventional sense and by continuing to live loud, boldly expressing their love for each other on the streets and in between the sheets.

3. ‘A Quiet Passion’

7. ‘The Lost City of Z’

5. ‘The Work’

Like a lot of the best historybased films, writer-director James Gray’s “The Lost City of Z” takes some liberties with its true story on the way to expressing deeper truths. Explorer Percy Fawcett is obsessed with finding the titular site somewhere deep in the Amazon rainforest. That obsession resides at the core of a story about yearning, fathers and sons, and the pressures and injustices of a class-stratified society, but Gray also arrives at an unexpected spirituality as a man.

With his boy at his side, he stares into eternity and wonders what it all meant.

Toxic masculinity continues to plague America, and Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous’ astonishing documentary illuminates both the problem and a path to redemption. Within the gates of Folsom Prison, invited civilians sit among lifers and swiftly tear down the walls over an intensive four-day therapeutic workshop.

Before your eyes, long-bottled demons emerge from these men, some of whom could be your friends and neighbors and others of whom society at large has tried to put out of sight and out of mind.

Riveting from first to last, “The Work” redefines male strength as the bravery to face, and thereby begin to heal, the internally bleeding wounds that keep so many men angry and volatile.

6. ‘I, Tonya’ Think you know the story of Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding and the infamous clubbing of her teammate and rival Nancy Kerrigan? Think again.

This savage, sad comedy-drama schools us on the ferocious social climb of Harding (a deeply committed Margot Robbie) under a terrifying stage mother (Alison Janney, never better), Harding’s abusive relationship with Jeff Gillooly, and how a merciless media shot first and asked questions later. At a time when most Americans get their news filtered through social media and YouTube, we’re not so removed from sleazy tabloid media as we’d like to think.

4. ‘BPM: Beats Per Minute’ Few narrative films have as realistically portrayed the essence of activism as “BPM: Beats Per Minute.” Robin Campillo’s French drama plants itself square in the middle of a tight-knit community — that of ACT UP Paris in the 1990s — and details the group’s collective thought and action in protesting big pharma and the government’s misguided and lazily paced approaches to the AIDS crisis. Meanwhile, as AIDS stalks them, the men and women of ACT UP fight for their

2. ‘Call Me

by Your Name’ In its wistful pairing of a twentysomething and a teenager, director Luca Guadagnino and screenwriter James Ivory apply a soulful sophistication to the complexities of first love, even more troubling as “the love that dare not speak its name.” As acted by Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, “Call Me by Your Name” was unmatched this year for lifelike rhythms and attention to human behavior. Since it’s also a travelogue filigreed with fragments of antique European art, literature, philosophy, and music, it’s a gorgeous, reflective film that unfolds at a deceptively lazy pace: In point of fact, there’s not a moment in it that isn’t necessary.

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“I, Tonya”

Were you to judge “A Quiet Passion” merely as a straightforward biopic of the ever-enigmatic poet Emily Dickinson, it would already stand as one of the year’s biggest successes. Writer-director Terence Davies masterfully recreates Dickinson’s 19th-century upper-class Amherst, Massachusetts milieu, tapping into the verbal and emotional expression of the time (including the poet’s work repurposed as narration). But the film goes further, making the imaginative leap to understand what it meant to be an extraordinary woman who just wasn’t made for her times. Cynthia Nixon heartbreakingly embodies a woman straining against the strictures of society and her own body.

“The Florida Project” of the sub-working class struggling to find its way up from the depths of drug addiction and cycles of abuse. Like Willem Dafoe’s observant motel manager, you’ll be challenged by a mother-daughter relationship that’s both sympathetic and deserving of judgment.

Runners-up “Phantom Thread”; “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”; “Human Flow”; “Personal Shopper”; “Ex Libris: The New York Public Library”; “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)”; “Dawson City: Frozen Time”; “Get Out”; “A Fantastic Woman”; “Midsummer in Newtown” Honorable Mention: “Twin Peaks,” “Wormwood”

1. ‘The Florida Project’ Sean Baker’s follow-up to the stylish, street-level “Tangerine” is the sort of film that sticks with you, whether you like it or not.

In part a tribute to “The Little Rascals,” the film works on that level alone, with a low-pitched camera following incorrigible kids around a Florida motel in the shadow of Disney World. But Baker’s narrative collage pieces together much more: an image

5. ‘The Dark Tower’ In a year when Stephen King became popular again, this much-anticipated adaptation was the one that totally whiffed it. Abandoning everything that made the books special, Nikolaj Arcel’s adaptation turned King’s elaborate epic into the world’s worst Young Adult movie, with a boy going on a thrill-less and

incoherent journey as Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey look on helplessly.

4. ‘Unforgettable’ Katherine Heigl’s divorcée really could use therapy. Instead she plots to take apart her ex’s new life with Rosario Dawson. This tasteless thriller, complete with cheap child endangerment, isn’t artful enough to distract from the sexist stereotype of the batty woman scorned. It took this plot for Warner Brothers to greenlight a movie written and directed by women this year?

3. ‘Geostorm’ Dean Devlin, better known as the co-writer of “Independence Day” and 1998’s ill-fated “Godzilla” reboot, made his directing debut with this shamelessly stupid global-climate-change-themed disaster flick. A decent budget and sort-of stars like Gerard Butler cannot hide the fact that this is roughly at the intellectual and artistic level of “Sharknado.” Bonus points: There’s no actual geostorm in this movie.

2. ‘Father Figures’ Mamma mia, here we go again: another “Who’s your daddy?” movie. Ed Helms and Owen Wilson lament their mother’s sex-positive days as they stalk the men who could be their fathers. The way this ends up going proves uncomfortable and thoroughly unfunny. Not even a climax involving Christopher Walken talking about “kitties” could enliven this dead-on-arrival “comedy.”

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Based on the best-selling superspy novel by the late Vince Flynn, this repulsive macho fantasy seemed expressly designed to appeal to the readers of “Soldier of Fortune” Magazine. “American Assassin” was downright irresponsible in stoking fear of terrorism and making a hero out of a revenge-minded raw nerve. Horribly clichéd and insipidly tone-deaf action nonsense. (continued on page 12)

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The best heroes 5. Marina (Daniela Vega) in “A Fantastic Woman” 4. Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) in “The Shape of Water” 3. Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) in “A Quiet Passion” 2. Beatriz (Salma Hayek) in “Beatriz at Dinner”

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PROJECT: The City of Palo Alto (City/project applicant) proposes to relocate its Police +LWHY[TLU[ -PYL (KTPUPZ[YH[PVU ,TLYNLUJ` *VTT\UPJH[PVUZ *LU[LY 6Ń?JL VM Emergency Services, Emergency Operations Center (EOC), and associated parking and other support spaces from their current downtown location at the Palo Alto Civic Center at 275 Forest Avenue and 250 Hamilton Avenue (Fire Administration) to a new, approximately 45,000 to 50,000 square-foot Public Safety Building (PSB) at 250 Sherman Avenue, designed to meet the operational and essential facility standards for police and emergency service providers. The City also proposes to construct a new, adjacent 636-space public parking garage at 350 Sherman Avenue (California Avenue Parking Garage), to provide approximately 326 net new public parking spaces for the California Avenue commercial area. The public parking garage would include photo-voltaic (PV) panels on the top of the public garage, and the public parking garage project would be JVUZ[Y\J[LK Ă„YZ[ ;OL JVUZ[Y\J[PVU VM [OL 7:) HUK HKQHJLU[ WHYRPUN NHYHNL HSVUN ^P[O text amendments to the Public Facilities Zone District Site Development Standards and 7HYRPUN HUK 3VHKPUN YLX\PYLTLU[Z [V HSSV^ NYLH[LY Ă…L_PIPSP[` MVY [OLZL [`WLZ VM WYVQLJ[Z comprise the Project.

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The accompanying Zoning Code amendment would apply to all Public Facilities (PF) zoned sites in the Downtown and California Avenue Business District. The project is not listed as a hazardous materials site under Section 65962.5 of the Government Code; however, the project site is included in the California-Olive-Emerson (COE) designated groundwater study area because groundwater containing volatile organic compounds from the Hewlett-Packard/Varian groundwater contaminant plume extends onto the project site.

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HOW THE NEW TAX LEGISLATION COULD IMPACT CALIFORNIA REAL ESTATE

BY MICHAEL REPKA, ESQ. (LL.M. (TAXATION) NYU SCHOOL OF LAW ’01)

Well, it is now the law of the land. On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, giving VJG 4GRWDNKECPU VJGKT Ć‚TUV OCLQT NGIKUNCVKXG YKP UKPEG 2TGUKFGPV 6TWOR VQQM QHĆ‚EG 6JG UYGGRKPI TGHQTO YKNN JCXG C UKIPKĆ‚ECPV impact on California.

As Silicon Valley’s top listing agent, a high-income taxpayer and a tax attorney, I have been watching the various proposals for tax reform with a keen eye. I was not alone—twice a year DeLeon Realty presents a seminar on the taxation of real estate, which usually attracts an audience of around 60 to 80 local homeowners.

When I held the seminar in November 2017, shortly after the House of Representatives outlined its version of the Bill, we had over 200 people in attendance. People were paying attention.

Recently, we announced that we will hold a seminar on the recently enacted tax law, and already, we have had over 400 people RSVP. We also have seen a dramatic uptick in listing appointments. Silicon Valley residents are nervous and worried.

Taken as a whole, and in general terms, the new tax legislation should be very good for corporations, shareholders, the very wealthy, and the middle class in the heartland of the country.

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TAX RATES In general, the tax rates have come down. While retaining seven tax brackets, the new legislation reduces the rates applied to most tax brackets. The new brackets are as follows:

The highest tax bracket now starts at $600,000 as opposed to the $1 million starting point proposed under both the House and the Senate version of the Bills. This last minute change to the bracket UVCTVKPI RQKPV EQOGU YKVJ VJG DGPGƂV QH NQYGTKPI VJG JKIJGUV bracket rates from the 39.6% and 38.5% (as proposed in the House and Senate Bills, respectively) to 37%. Taken as a whole, these two Page 14 • January 5, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

changes net out to be a very positive change for the extremely wealthy, but will be costly for couples with a combined taxable income between $600,000 and $1.2 million. It should be noted that only the highest bracket brings back what was colloquially referred to as the “marriage penalty.� Again, this change may be particularly hard on Silicon Valley families, where it is not WPEQOOQP VQ JCXG DQVJ URQWUGU GORNQ[GF CV JKIJ RC[KPI LQDU

THE GOOD NEWS The Step-Up in Basis upon Death of one Spouse

The new legislation retains the taxpayer-favorable step-up in basis rule. Under this rule, homeowners with highly appreciated real estate receive a functional forgiveness of the capital gains taxes that would have been due upon sale, if these assets are still held by the taxpayer on the date of his/her death. As a result of this long standing rule, many Silicon Valley homeowners are wisely advised not to sell their highly appreciated real estate prior to their death. Thus, any change to this rule could have resulted in a rapid increase to the number of homes coming onto the market and a corresponding decrease in home values. .

Section 1031 “Like-Kindâ€? Exchange Rules Unaffected Under the new rules, “like-kind exchangesâ€? under IRC Sec 1031 remain materially unaltered with regard to real property. Taxpayers are still permitted to defer the capital gains tax on appreciated real property by purchasing qualifying replacement real property. The seller still has 45 days to identify the replacement property and 180 days to close. Under the new rules, however, this provision is only CRRNKECDNG VQ TGCN RTQRGTV[tRGTUQPCN RTQRGTV[ PQ NQPIGT SWCNKĆ‚GU for the deferral Section 121 Survived a House Scare Although the House and Senate Bills called for substantial limitations on taxpayers’ ability to exclude up to $500,000 in ICKP KP VJG UCNG QH VJGKT RTKOCT[ TGUKFGPEG VJG Ć‚PCN NGIKUNCVKQP leaves this rule untouched. Thus, taxpayers can still exclude up VQ OCTTKGF Ć‚NKPI LQKPVN[ KP ICKP KH VJG[ JCXG QYPGF VJG property for more than two years and have lived in the property HQT CV NGCUV VYQ QH VJG RCUV Ć‚XG [GCTU 6JGTG KU PQ RJCUG QWV QH VJKU deduction. It should be noted that this taxpayer-favorable rule appears to be on Congress’s radar screen, and could be repealed at some point in the future.

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Naturally, these concerns will be counterbalanced, to some degree, by the overall desirability of the state and the robust business environment.

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Overall Reduction in Incentives to Buy Homes

The near doubling of the standard deduction, and the reduction of the deductibility of state taxes and mortgage interest, will have the unintended consequence of reducing the incentive for people to buy rather than rent. We expect this impact to be most pronounced on lower priced homes, but the entire market UJQWNF HGGN UQOG UQTV QH GHHGEV 9JKNG VJGTG CTG DQVJ DGPGĆ‚VU CPF detriments associated with entry level homes becoming more affordable, current homeowners may want to be prepared for a turbulent ride.

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Changes for Individuals sunset in 2025

Much has been made about the fact that the changes to Much has been made about the fact that the changes to personal income taxes will sunset after 2025, whereas the corporate changes are permanent. However, I believe this is more of an administrative requirement rather than the long-term intent of the legislation.

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Thus, we believe that the sunset provision was one of legislative convenience, rather than a telegraphing of a long-term intent to eliminate the tax changes for individuals.

No change to capital Gains tax rates (Inc. 3.8%)

Many had hoped that there would be a decrease to the capital gains tax rates, which start at 15% for federal purposes and increase to 23.8%, inclusive of the 3.8% tax on Net Investment Income to fund the Affordable Healthcare Act (i.e., “Obamacare�).

Unfortunately, the new legislation leaves these rates in place, including the 3.8% surtax.

Personal exemption ($4,150) suspended (but this was phased out for couples making over $320,000)

While the Standard Deduction was increased from $12,700 to $24,000, the personal exemption of $4,150 per dependent was suspended. Thus, the net effect of these two provision will vary from family to family. It should be noted that the old personal exemption was phased out for couples making over $320,000 whereas the phase-out of deductions has been eliminated under the new legislation.

CONCLUSION Overall and nationwide, most taxpayers will see a net decrease in their federal taxes as a result of the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. However, there will be a net increase to taxes for many highly paid people in Silicon Valley. This could result in some businesses deciding to form, or move operations, to states with low or no state taxes if otherwise economically feasible. The extremely high cost of living in the Bay Area, most notably with regard to housing, and the non-deductibility of state taxes, may make it more challenging for employers to recruit to this area.

However, the reduction in corporate income taxes and the incentives to move money back to the United States, should have a positive effect on businesses. Silicon Valley’s Tech economy is extremely strong, and the area is very attractive. Ultimately, only time will tell whether the strength of the local economy, and the FGUKTCDKNKV[ QH VJG CTGC CTG UWHƂEKGPV VQ YGCVJGT VJGUG VCZ EJCPIGU that hit us particularly hard.

Want to hear more about tax impac ts?

Attend our tax seminar on January 6th, 2018 This is a high - level summar y of t he recent ly rele ased t a x rules. Re ader s are advised to discuss t he new rules wit h t heir t a x advisor s to determine how t he changes will impac t t heir per sonal circumst ances. This ar ticle may not be relied upon as t a x or leg al advice .

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Thank you donors As of Jan. 2, 2018, 393 donors have donated $392,776 31 Anonymous ............... $110,360 New Donors David Labaree .......................... 300 Ellen Krasnow .......................... 500 Edward Shapiro ....................... 500 Roxy Rapp............................. 5,000 Lawrence Baer ......................... 500 Reed Content .......................... 300 Richard & Penelope Ellson ........ 100 Jean Doble ................................... * Elgin Lee .................................. 250 Eileen Brooks ........................... 500 Charles Katz ............................ 500 Ed & Linda Selden .................... 475 A.C. & Kathryn Johnston.......... 250 Alan Wachtel ............................... * Sarah Bemus ................................ * David Thom ............................. 200 Jill Bicknell ................................... * Kerei Yuen ............................... 500 Peter Beller .............................. 300 Bob Aulgur .................................. * Jane Holland ................................ * Kay & Don Remsen ...................... * Carol Gilbert .............................. 50 Amy Harris & Juss Geiduschek.. 100 Duane Bay & Barbara Noparstak .. * Elizabeth Shepard ........................ * Charles Williams ...................... 100 Jean Luc Laminette & Deborah Williams ................................ 500 Beth & Peter Rosenthal ............ 300 David & Betsy Fryberger ........... 100 Brigid Barton......................... 2,000 Michael Chen & Cathy Lee ....... 300 Steve & Gayle Brugler ........... 1,000 Bruce & Mary Beth Train........... 250 Margaret & Curt Weil................. 50 Claire & Ed Lauing ................... 250 Gavin & Tricia Christensen ............ * Karen Sipprell .......................... 250 Jonathan MacQuitty & Lauri Hunter ....................... 1,000 Sherry Brown ............................... * Werner Graf ................................ * Ellen King ................................ 200 Ted & Frances Jenkins................. 50 Anna Welke ............................... 50 Gwen Barry.................................. * Delle Maxwell ....................... 2,500 In Memory Of Joe, Mary Fran & Stephen Scroggs ................... 100 Lindsey D. Draper......................... * Aaron O’Neill ............................. 50 Betty Meltzer ............................. 25 Bob Markevitch............................ * Tinney Family ........................... 250 In Honor Of Our Grandchildren ................... 250 Trina & Larry Lovercheck............... * Kaye Kelley & Richard Van Dusen ................ 250 Previously Published Carolyn Williams & Mike Keeler ... * Barbara Allen ........................... 200 Ralph Wheeler ......................... 300 Catherine Dolton ..................... 200 Monica Engel Williams ............. 200 Patricia Levin ................................ * W.J. McCroskey ....................... 100 Miriam Jacob ........................... 200

Marc & Margaret Cohen .......... 250 Gail Woolley ............................ 500 Xiaofan Lin ................................ 50 Ellen Vanderwilt ........................... * Colleen Anderson .................... 250 Patrick Radtke ....................... 2,000 Mitchell Rosen ......................... 100 Diana Diamond ........................ 250 Norm & Nancy Rossen.............. 250 Jeremy Platt ............................. 500 Doris & Arnold Petersen ........... 100 Klaus & Ellen Porzig ................. 200 Susan Elgee ............................. 500 James Taylor............................. 200 Romola Georgia ........................... * David Fischer............................ 100 Sandy & Rajiv Jain .................... 100 Peter Rudd ................................. 50 Annette Isaacson ..................... 100 John & Meg Monroe ................ 500 David Backer ............................ 500 Leonie Walker .......................... 100 Dena Goldberg ........................ 500 Nancy Peterson ........................ 100 Kathleen Kelly .......................... 200 Carol Kersten ........................... 200 Nigel Jones ................................ 50 Anna Messner.......................... 250 Marian Adams ......................... 100 Patricia Bubenik ....................... 200 Ken & Michele Dauber ............. 500 JoAnne Zschokke ..................... 100 Vermeil Family.............................. * Susan Osofksy.......................... 200 Dawes Family ........................... 250 Hoda Epstein ............................... * Tom & Nancy Fiene ...................... * Nina & Norman Kulgein .......... 250 Barbara Rieder ......................... 100 Karen & Steve Ross ...................... * Irvin & Marilyn Yalom ............... 100 Guy DiJulio .................................. * Robert Raymakers & Bonnie Packer ....................... 100 Dennis & Cindy Dillon .................. * Charles & Barbara Stevens ........... * Tony & Priscilla Marzoni................ * Bob & Joan Jack ....................... 250 Constance Crawford .................... * Susie Richardson & Hal Luft.......... * Nancy Moss ................................. * Marilyn, Dale, Rick & Mei Simbeck.. * David & Nancy Kalkbrenner...... 100 Jacqueline Rush ....................... 100 Bjorn & Michele Liencres ....... 1,000 Fran Codispoti ......................... 500 Richard Johnsson .................. 7,000 Mike & Loren Gordon .............. 250 Dave & Lynn Mitchell ............... 300 Bruce & Jane Gee..................... 250 Bill Reller ...................................... * Helene Pier .................................. * Edward Kanazawa ................... 100 Don & Bonnie Miller................. 100 Boyce & Peggy Nute..................... * Ralph Britton............................ 200 Wendy Sinton .............................. * Mike & Lennie Roberts ............. 150 Patti Yanklowitz & Mark Krasnow.. * Janice Bohman......................... 250 Erika Jurney ............................. 100 Steve & Diane Ciesinski ............ 500

Ron Wolf ................................. 200 Richard Zuanich ....................... 150 Thomas Rindfleisch ...................... * Wendy Max ............................... 50 Eileen Brennan ......................... 500 Arthur Keller ................................ * Diane Finkelstein ...................... 150 Sandra & Scott Pearson ............ 500 Margo Sensenbrenner.................. * David & Mindy Sitzer................ 100 Debby Roth.............................. 200 Carol & Mahlon Hubenthal ......... * Herbert Fischgrund .................. 200 Hal & Carol Louchheim ............ 400 Shari & Donald Orstein............. 300 Jerry & Linda Elkind ...................... * Arna & Hersh Shefrin ................... * Barbara Klein & Stan Schrier......... * Anna Olsen .............................. 150 Pat & Nancy McGaraghan ........ 250 Shirley Ely ................................ 500 Sallie & Jay Whaley ...................... * Nancy & Jim Baer ......................... * Ann Burrell & Allen Smith ........ 250 Roger Warnke.......................... 300 Jennifer DiBrienza & Jesse Dorogusker................... 250 Carroll Harrington .................... 100 Diane Sikic ................................... * Cynthia Costell ........................ 100 Daniel Cox ............................... 200 John & Pat Davis .......................... * Betty Gerard ............................ 100 Jim Lewis ..................................... * George & Betsy Young ................. * Merrill & Lee Newman ............. 250 Mike & Cathie Foster ............... 500 Diane Doolittle ............................. * Roger Smith ............................. 300 Lani Freeman & Stephen Monismith ............... 100 Page & Ferrell Sanders.............. 100 Laurie Jarrett ................................ * Ellen Place Lillington................. 200 David & Virginia Pollard............ 150 Hugh McDevitt ........................ 250 Mandy Lowell .............................. * Bobbie & Jerry Wagger................. * Al & JoAnne Russell ................. 300 Robert & Barbara Simpson ........... * Robyn Crumly .......................... 100 Vic Befera ................................ 100 John & Mary Schaefer .................. * Suzanne & Bert Bell...................... * Carolyn Brennan .......................... * Drew McCalley & Marilyn Green . 100 Lee & Judy Shulman ................. 100 Lawrence Yang & Jennifer Kuan ..................... 1,000 Veronica Tincher .......................... * Michael Couch......................... 250 John & Florine Galen .................... * Julie & Jon Jerome ....................... * Sally & Abdo Kadifa .............. 1,000 Judith & Warren Goodnow ...... 300 Don & Dee Price......................... 45 Jan Thomas & Roy Levin ............... * Bruce Campbell ....................... 200 Diane & Bob Simoni ................. 200 Dennis Clark ............................ 150 Leif & Sharon Erickson ............. 250 Arden King ................................ 25 Richard Alexander ................. 1,000 Scott & Jan Kilner..................... 500 Stephen & Nancy Levy.............. 500 Elaine & Eric Hahn........................ * Bill Johnson & Terri Lobdell .... 1,000 Keith Clarke ............................. 200 Havern Family ....................... 5,000 Dorothy Kennedy ..................... 200 Gwen Luce and Family ................. * Janis Ulevich ............................ 100 Hamilton Hitchings .................. 250

Andrea Smith........................... 100 Bonnie Berg ................................. * Ellen & Mike Turbow ................ 200 Ruth Hammett ............................. * Lijun & Jia-Ning Xiang .............. 100 Phil Hanawalt & Graciela Spivak ................... 1,000 Nancy & Joe Huber .................. 100 Ann & Don Rothblatt ............... 500 Felecia Levy .............................. 100 Elizabeth Kok ............................... * Carol Bacchetti ............................ * Virginia & Don Fitton ................. 25 Ted & Ginny Chu.......................... * Judy Ousterhout .......................... * Ruth Rosenbaum ..................... 100 Glenn Affleck............................. 25 Judy Kramer................................. * Dorothy Saxe ............................... * Lawrence Naiman .................... 100 Steven Feinberg .................... 5,000 Freddy & Jan Gabus ................. 250 Susan & Doug Woodman ........ 150 Brigid Barton......................... 1,000 Margot Goodman .................... 100 Peter Stern ................................... * Sally & Craig Nordlund ............. 500 Joe & Marlene Prendergast .......... * Carol & Roy Blitzer ....................... * Sally O’Neil & Ken Bencala ....... 100 Chris & Beth Martin ..................... * Judith Appleby ......................... 300 Margaret Fisher.......................... 50 Phil Fernandez & Daniel Sternbergh . * Betsy & George Bechtel............ 100 Marcia Katz ............................. 200 Beth Marer-Garcia ...................... 25 Richard Mazze ......................... 100 Greg & Penny Gallo ................. 500 Braff Family.............................. 500 Chris Kenrick ........................ 1,000 Art Stauffer.............................. 500 Kenyon Family ......................... 500 William DeBord ..................... 1,000 Linda & Steve Boxer ..................... * Eugene & Mabel Dong ............. 200 Barbara Riper ............................... * Harry & Susan Hartzell ............. 100 Jim & Alma Phillips ................... 500 Elizabeth Salzer & Richard Baumgartner................. * Luca & Mary Cafiero ................ 500 Tom & Pat Sanders ....................... * Teresa Roberts....................... 2,000 Joanne Koltnow ....................... 300 Hal & Iris Korol ......................... 250 Kaaren & John Antoun.......... 1,500 Ellen & Tom Ehrlich .................. 400 Richard & Tish Fagin................. 200 Chuck & Jean Thompson ......... 100 Godfrey Family......................... 100 Dorsey & Katherine Bass .......... 300 Judith & Hans Steiner ............... 100 Sue Kemp ................................ 250 Cathy & Howard Kroymann ..... 250 Gordon Chamberlain ............... 300 Denise Savoie & Darrell Duffie ...... * Micki & Bob Caredelli................... * Joan Norton ................................. * Rosalie Shepherd ..................... 100 Diane Moore................................ * Don & Adele Langendorf ......... 200 Jody Maxmin ............................... * Gerald & Joyce Barker .................. * In Memory Of Russell C. Evarts ........................... * Bill Land ....................................... * Jim & Dottie Mellberg .................. * Anna Zemei Wang ..................... 41 Lee Domenik.............................. 50 Leonard Ely .............................. 250 Ted Linden ............................... 200 Mary Floyd ................................. 35

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Ribs and chicken at the newly opened Quality Bourbons and Barbecue in Mountain View.

by Monica Schreiber hree-month-old Quality Bourbons and Barbecue in Mountain View, known as QBB, trades on the heady interplay of smoked meat and smoky spirits.

Together, bourbon and barbecue deliver the ultimate one-two punch of American cuisine, and QBB’s focus on these robust counterparts makes for a lively addition to the Castro Street restaurant scene.

Given the paucity of barbecue establishments in the Bay Area, QBB could be serving overdone brisket out of the back of a pickup truck and it probably would still be a welcome addition. With 140 bourbon selections, friendly servers delivering your carnivorous cuisine in record time and tasty barrel-aged cocktails served on tap, QBB hits the meat-and-drink mark — most of the time.

QBB is the joint project of Jon Andina, the former general manager at Mountain View’s Scratch, and Kasim Syed, owner of Palo Alto Brewing Company, The Rose & Crown and The Tap Room in Palo Alto. (Syed’s parents owned Shezan, the Pakistani restaurant that previously occupied QBB’s location.) Andina and Syed teamed up with chef Ryan Pang, a veteran of the barbecue competition circuit whose many award plaques are on display at the restaurant. Pang’s menu is something of barbecue’s greatest hits: a little Texas, a taste of Carolinas, a dash of Kansas City.

This is barbecue for the Silicon Valley set, so do not expect Texassized servings. The gray, hardedged restaurant interior beats the back of a pickup truck, but the minimalist dining room lacks charm and can be deafeningly loud at peak times.

The food selections fill one page of the menu, while the list of bourbons is longer than a Southern summer. It would take you almost five months to drink your way through them if you stopped in for one bourbon a day. According to Andina, the only Bay Area restaurant that offers more choice on the bourbon front is San Francisco’s Hard Water.

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finer points of Kentucky’s most famous libation, we asked our server for his recommendation. Glasses run from $5 to $59. The Woodford Double Oak ($15) delivered intriguing hints of almond, honey and apple, but the barrel-aged Manhattan ($15) and the old fashioned ($12), both of which are served on tap, were more my style. While tap cocktails don’t allow for on-demand customization, they do need to be expertly mixed and managed to ensure proper potency, flavor and freshness. They know what they’re doing at QBB. I would go back for the velvety Manhattan alone.

After my first meal there, I also said I’d be back for the barbecued chicken. The tender thigh ($12 with one side) was smoky and savory, almost like duck. It was some of the best barbecued chicken I’d ever had. My husband agreed. We eagerly ordered it again on our second visit. Surprisingly, though, chicken No. 2 had none of the first bird’s earthy, white oak-infused deliciousness. It was bland, with little to distinguish it from a supermarket rotisserie chicken. The difference was remarkable.

The pit beef ($16 with one side; $11 to $31 for “just the meat”) was tender, smoky and just about perfect, perhaps even better in sandwich form ($16 with choice of one side). Served on a French roll, it was a delicious hot mess topped with house-pickled red onion, cheddar and QBB’s tangy barbecue sauce.

The brisket ($17 with one side; $12 to $34 for meat only) was a little on the fatty side, but so tender you could eat it with a spoon. Everything comes with a garnish of picked vegetables and a side of the strong but nicely balanced barbecue sauce. You likely will need just a dab as the meats are so flavorful. It will cost you a dollar to sub a moist cornbread muffin for the standard pieces of white bread that accompany most plates. Pay the extra dollar.

QBB’s sides ($3.50 small, $8 pint, $14 quart) and non-meat offerings fared less well. The QBB Mac ($19 for a large bowl) was a ridiculous, ultra-cheesy extravaganza (mozzarella, Parmesan, romano and provolone) studded with sliced hot

links and bacon and topped with pickled red onion. I’m not opposed to laughing in the face of the world’s cardiologists every once in a while, but the culinary experience has to be worth the cholesterol spike. The QBB Mac was gooey and over the top. The braised collard greens with bacon were tender and tangy, but had little bacon flavor. The creamed corn was fine, but mine arrived lukewarm. The potato salad — which mysteriously came with canned black olives — and coleslaw both left us indifferent. It is not clear why QBB charges an extra $2 for an unremarkable green salad upgrade on your side dish.

QBB offers two desserts: a warm cookie with ice cream and maple flan topped with candied bacon (both $7). I’m still not entirely sure if I liked the flan. The sweet-savory combination was pleasing, but the bacon was too chewy and not quite sweet enough to be called “candied,” and the bourbon-maple sauce poured liberally atop the small piece of flan looked like a pool of motor oil. Ultimately, it was an interesting-tasting dessert, but it was hard to look past its sheer ugliness.

QBB’s attentive and helpful servers contribute to the restaurant’s overall nice vibe. When I picked up a large to-go order, the server who brought my bag from the kitchen took it upon himself to take out all the containers to make sure everything was accounted for and packed correctly. This type of attention to detail puts QBB in a good place as it makes its mark on Castro Street with a fun concept.

Email Monica Schreiber at monicahayde@yahoo.com.

Quality Bourbons and Barbecue (QBB), 216 Castro St., Mountain View; 650-969-1112; eatbbq.com Hours: Mon. - Thurs.: 11 a.m.

- 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 - 9 p.m.

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‘Boot campers’ celebrate 20 years of workouts

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he sun is rising over the field at Cubberley Community Center and frost still covers the grass. About 20 early-morning exercisers are karaoke-stepping around the track, pausing at each bend for a round of weight lifting.

Participants in this 7 a.m. “boot camp” — nearly all in their 50s, 60s, 70s and even 80s — gather Monday through Friday, year round, rain or shine. Several recently marked their 20th anniversary of exercising together, sustaining an early-morning fellowship that has survived shifting corporate management and even a change in location.

“We’ve celebrated milestone 50th anniversaries and 60th and 80th birthdays,” said 20-year boot camper Barbara Binder, 57, a Menlo Park financial planner.

Though newcomers are welcomed and encouraged, some of the boot campers go back as far as 1997, when they first became acquainted at Community BootCamp at Stanford. Two decades later they’ve migrated to Cubberley and continue their morning workouts under the coaching of Michael Granville, a former AllAmerican track star at UCLA and sometimes stand-up comic.

“Being outside is just so awesome,” said 18-year boot camper Lisa Schmidt of Los Altos Hills, who brings her mutt, Sealy, to exercise class on Fridays. “It’s become part of my routine, and I’ve made the greatest friends. Michael keeps it fun — if we don’t have a good hard laugh at boot camp, something’s wrong.”

The group’s resolve was tested in 2015 when managers of the boot camp — which had been sold to the New York-based corporate wellness company Optum — announced they planned to suspend the Stanford program.

Boot campers rallied around Granville, who’d been hired in 2006 as the early-morning coach, urging him to establish his own business to keep the exercise sessions going. To get him started they volunteered their professional expertise: a lawyer setting up a limited liability corporation

Michael Granville, left, founder of G-Fit, assists Rob Rubenstein, right, with his form as he runs sprints using the TRX suspensiontraining system at Cubberley Community Center. and others helping with accounting, taxes, website, marketing and making sure he secured insurance for himself and his family through the Affordable Care Act. “There was so much support and it just spiraled,” said Granville, tears welling up as he recalled the group effort.

Granville — who trains a wide variety of age groups in different venues — adapts his routines to meet varying fitness levels. A 50-year-old in the 7 a.m. group might run a six-minute mile while an 80-year-old walks. And he works in some comedy, recounting antics of his two young sons as boot-campers are holding a twominute plank pose.

“People can go off and be competitive or not, but still not feel like they’re holding the group down,” Granville said. “Maybe you don’t feel like doing a six-minute mile, or you just want to walk that day.”

Several boot campers, including Jim Schlatter of Menlo Park, said they initially joined for health reasons. “I was trying to lower my cholesterol and blood pressure and figure out how to get some exercise,” Schlatter said. That was nearly 20 years ago.

“The doctor said ‘You can have medication or you can see if you can change it with diet and exercise,’ and that worked for a number of years,” he said. “I got hooked, and you kind of miss it if you’re not there,” said Schlatter, now 72, who exercises with his wife, Mary.

Adi Gamon was a software

CEO seeking an exercise program he could sustain when his wife suggested boot camp in the fall of 1997.

“I’d tried all kinds of things — various gyms — and nothing stuck,” recalled Gamon, now 67.

When he first tried boot camp he was unable to complete the running, crunches and push-ups. “I couldn’t finish a mile and a half and I was really suffering with the push-ups and crunches but I said, ‘Well, I’ll come back tomorrow.’

“It got easier and it became addictive,” Gamon said. “Now my biological clock is set for it and I try to come every day. I do believe I’m in better form today than I was 20 years ago and, at my age, that’s not a trivial statement.”

Gamon added that, for him, boot camp is “the perfect storm of a lot of good things” — a guided and structured exercise program, sociability and being outdoors.

Twenty-year boot camper Bruce Heister of Palo Alto was among the three 7 a.m. exercisers who hiked the John Muir Trail back in 2005. “A few of us started talking about things that were on our to-do list and she (former boot camper Ruth Kasle, now of San Francisco) said she’d really like to do the John Muir Trail before she turned 70.

That August three boot campers, then ages 49, 68 and 69, completed the hike in 27 days, with supply-delivery support from the rest of the group.

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On the older end is 11-year boot camper Cole Wilbur, who has celebrated his 80th birthday and attends about four days a week. “I like the exercise and the way it makes me feel,� Wilbur said in an email. “I like the variety of different exercises and they way they improve my body from head to toe.�

For older people aspiring to become more fit but not knowing how to start, Wilbur said he would advise, “Join Michael’s GFIT and do as many exercises as possible. Do not worry if you cannot perform as well as some of the slightly younger members.�

With older exercisers, Granville said, he particularly focuses on balance and joint strength. “We all lose our balance, but if we work on footwork and agility it gives people more options to recover before falling,� he said. “I’ve had people say, ‘Thank you for those burpees —I didn’t see the curb and I started to fall, but I caught myself.’ “For people who haven’t exercised in awhile, it’s not too late,�

Granville added.

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CAREGIVER SUPPORT ... Avenidas offers a free weekly support group for caregivers coping with medical or mental health issues affecting their spouse or partner’s quality of life on Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Sunrise Senior Living, 2701 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. For more information, call facilitator Paula Wolfson at 650 289-5438.

SLEEP LIKE A BABY ... Donn Posner, adjunct clinical associate professor at Stanford School of Medicine, will discuss the effects of aging on sleep as well as research and treatment options for insomnia, including medications and cognitive behavioral therapy on Friday, Jan. 29, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Avenidas at Cubberley Community Center,.

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Home Front LOVE FOR PLANTS AND ART? ... The Filoli estate in Woodside will hold a two-day art class “Introduction to Botanical Art” on Friday, Jan. 19, and Saturday, Jan. 20, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This hands-on workshop introduces traditional botanical art skills, such as plant observation, drawing, color mixing and watercolor painting using leaves, flowers and fruit as models. Cost is $225 (members receive 20 percent discount), and includes all materials. Filoli is located at 86 Cañada Road. To register, go to filoli.org.

PLANTING SMALL FRUIT TREES ... Gamble Garden is holding a class on how to plant and maintain smaller-sized, easy-harvest trees.

The class provides an overview of tree selection, planting and maintenance (including pruning, irrigation, fertilization, and pest management). Instructor Jeff Scroggin runs his own landscape management business on the Peninsula. He also volunteers his time maintaining the orchard at the Filoli estate in Woodside. The class will be held Saturday, Jan. 20, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Cost is $20 for members and $35 for non-members. To register, go to gamblegarden.org.

CAMELLIA SOCIETY MEETING ... The San Francisco Peninsula Camellia Society will hold its monthly members’ meeting on Monday, January 22, at 7 p.m. at 1435 Madison Ave., Redwood City. The Camellia Society seeks to encourage greater use and appreciation of camellias and to offer the public helpful information on the cultivation and propagation of these beautiful and versatile plants. The Society has donated camellia plants to public gardens and parks throughout the Peninsula including Holbrook Palmer Park in Atherton, the Menlo Park Civic Center, the U.S. Geological Survey, Gamble Garden and Lucie Stern Community Center. The Society also rescues plants at risk of destruction or relocation, and tries to safeguard camellia collections of historical interest.

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by Melissa McKenzie | photos by Veronica Weber

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ith the fast-paced, instantaneous lifestyle people have come to associate with Silicon Valley, it’s rare to find a place where people take the time to get to know their neighbors.

Having a sense of community has become a lost art. That is, unless you live in a neighborhood like Palo Alto’s Charleston Gardens.

Bounded by main thoroughfares Charleston, Middlefield and San Antonio roads, Charleston Gardens is located just off the Bayshore Freeway, near Cubberley Community Center, Charleston Shopping Center and the Oshman Family JCC. Yet in spite of those busy boundaries, the neighborhood feels isolated from the traffic.

“It wasn’t until we moved into our house and started exploring our Charleston Gardens neighborhood that we discovered the endearing characteristics that have made this place our home and our community,” said resident Naomi Wang.

Wang said neighbors genuinely care about each other, often waving to each other during evening strolls. Her kids, she said, “love the vibe.”

“They started playing with neighborhood kids when everyone was just wee tall,” she said. “They spent idyllic summers circling around the block when they were learning to ride bikes on our tree-lined streets and later gained enough practice to venture to the local park or library by themselves.”

She said neighbors buy Girl Scout cookies from her daughter every February and freshly squeezed lemonade is quickly sold out during the long summer days.

“Last October, we had over 100 kids coming by to trick-ortreat,” Wang added. “Of course, there was one particularly adorable child who apparently enjoyed our Halloween treats so much that he became a loyal and frequent customer every 10 minutes. It was hilariously adorable.”

Adding to the sense of community is the generosity of Charleston Gardens residents. Wang said one of her neighbors shares homegrown vegetables and another brings “delightful (continued on page 24)

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treats” to neighborhood events.

Residents flock together for outdoor movie nights, potlucks and an annual block party in late September. Now in its 20th year, the block party is not only an event welcoming new residents to the neighborhood but also gives residents a chance to reconnect with friends and build camaraderie.

Neighborhood Preparedness Coordinator Scott Fullam moved to Charleston Gardens in 2004, and echoed Wang’s sentiments.

“The neighbors are great,” he

said. “On any particular evening while walking around the neighborhood, I bump into at least one neighbor and spend time catching up. Most everyone is familiar and friendly.”

Fullam said the location of Charleston Gardens is one of its most appealing characteristics, with its “high-quality” local market, proximity to the library, walkability to Herbert Hoover and Fairmeadow elementary schools and Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School and direct route to Gunn High School. Palo Alto’s and Mountain View’s downtowns are just a 10-minute drive from the neighborhood and the San Antonio Caltrain station

is a 20-minute walk.

Both residents rave about the close-knit community and said the neighborhood is a good mix of retired original residents, baby boomers and families living in ranch-style, Eichler and newerconstruction homes.

“Despite its convenience to everything, our Charleston Gardens neighborhood maintains a decidedly tranquil and peaceful quality of life,” Wang said. “So, would I recommend moving to this prime real estate location?

You betcha.” Q Melissa McKenzie is a freelance writer for the Weekly. She can be emailed at melissa.r.mckenzie@gmail.com

Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation Donations Over $48,000 in 2017

The Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation is a trust that makes grants available to organizations from donations by REALTORS® and affiliate members of the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® (SILVAR). The foundation grants are also funded by proceeds from SILVAR’s district fundraisers, like the annual Los Gatos-Saratoga District’s bocce ball tournament, which raised $3,362, and the Los Altos-Mountain View District’s annual pumpkin auction, which raised over $5,000 this year.

“Due to the high cost of living, and especially housing, there are more families in need in the Bay Area. We are thankful that with our members’ continued support we are able to continue our commitment to the welfare of the communities where our members work and live,” said Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation President Eileen Giorgi. “We thank our members for supporting the Foundation year after year.”

The 2017 Charitable Foundation grant recipients include Community Services Agency, which provides social services for residents of Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills; East Palo Alto Kids Foundation, which promotes educational opportunities for students in East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park; Family Connections, which offers a tuition free cooperative preschool program for low-income children in San Mateo County; My New Red

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CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS (nearby): Children’s Pre-School Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, T-1; Good Neighbor Montessori, 4000 Middlefield Road, K4; Young Fives and Preschool Family, 4120 Middlefield Road; T’enna Preschool (OFJCC), 3921 Fabian Way FIRE STATION: No. 4, 3600 Middlefield Road LIBRARY: Mitchell Park branch, 3700 Middlefield Road LOCATION: Bounded by Middlefield Road, East Charleston Road, Montrose Avenue, Sutherland Drive PARK: Mitchell Park, 600 East Meadow Drive POST OFFICE: Cambridge, 265 Cambridge Ave.; Main, 2085 E. Bayshore Road PRIVATE SCHOOLS: Challenger School, 3880 Middlefield Road; Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, 450 San Antonio Road; Kehillah Jewish High School, 3900 Fabian Way; Palo Alto Prep School, 4000 Middlefield Road, H-2 PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Fairmeadow or Hoover elementary schools, Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School, Gunn High School SHOPPING: Charleston Center, San Antonio Shopping Center

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Your Realtor & You The Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation donated $48,203 in 2017 to nonprofit organizations that help homeless and low-income individuals and families in Silicon Valley. Funds this year also went to scholarships for graduating seniors from public high schools in the region.

A home in the Charleston Gardens neighborhood.

Shoes, which provides homeless and low-income children new clothing and shoes at the start of the school year; and Housing Trust Silicon Valley, which makes loans and grants for firsttime homebuyers.

Also in 2017, the Charitable Foundation presented a $1,000 scholarship grant to each of 18 graduating seniors from public high schools in Silicon Valley. Since its creation 18 years ago, the program has presented a total of $324,000 in scholarships to Silicon Valley youth.

SILVAR’s districts, through the Charitable Foundation, also donate to their local community nonprofit groups. 2017 district donations included $5,257 raised at the annual Los Gatos-Saratoga District pumpkin auction for the Family Giving Tree; $2,000 to the Cupertino Education Endowment Foundation and $750 respectively to West Valley Community Services and Sunnyvale Community Services from the CupertinoSunnyvale District; and $946 from the Los Altos-Mountain View District’s Legal Update sessions to Community Services Agency.

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41 Toy fad that caught on in 2017 44 Olympic gold medalist Sebastian 45 ___ moment (epiphany) 46 Depletes 49 Casual walk 52 Took in dinner (but not a movie) 53 “There ___ no words ...”

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement SERENE SKIN STUDIO ROSE PETALS SKIN STUDIO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN636547 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Serene Skin Studio, 2.) Rose Petals Skin Studio, located at 216 Ramona St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ROSEMEIRE MENDES RANCHE 216 Ramona St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. (PAW Dec. 15, 22, 29, 2017; Jan. 5, 2018) VILLAGE FLOWER SHOPPE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN637024 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Village Flower Shoppe, located 2237 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SUSAN HONG 2237 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/19/2017.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 21, 2017.

(PAW Dec. 29, 2017; Jan. 5, 12, 19, 2018) TAVERNA EL GRECO CATERING EL GRECO SOUVLAKI TAVERNA EL GRECO TAVERNA PALO ALTO TAVERNA CATERING TAVERNA TO GO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN637192 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Taverna, 2.) El Greco Catering, 3.) El Greco Souvlaki, 4.) Taverna El Greco, 5.)

Taverna Palo Alto, 6.) Taverna Catering, 7.)

Taverna To Go, located at 800 Emerson St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TAVERNA EL GRECO LLC 800 Emerson St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/23/2017.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on December 27, 2017.

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997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GERHARD HOLZ Case No.: 17PR182277 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of GERHARD HOLZ. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KLAUS REINIGER in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: KLAUS REINIGER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on February 7, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 12 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Bridget McInerney Harris Two Embarcadero Center, 5th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 (415) 398-8080 (PAW Dec. 29, 2017; Jan. 5, 12, 2018)

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOAN DEATON, aka JOAN J. DEATON, JOAN JANIS DEATON, JOAN WALSH Case No.: 17PR182480 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JOAN DEATON, aka JOAN DEATON WALSH, aka JOAN WALSH aka JOAN J. DEATON aka JOAN JANIS DEATON. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: GREG DEATON in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: GREG DEATON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on March 2, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 12 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Richard L. Ehrman Thoits Law, 400 Main Street, Suite 250 Los Altos, CA 94022 (650) 327-4200 (PAW Dec. 22, 29, 2017; Jan. 5, 2018) NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF GOODS TO SATISFY LIEN AUCTION LOCATION: 1040 TERRA BELLA AVE., MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043 In accordance with the provisions of the California Commercial Code, Sections 7201-7210, notice is hereby given that on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 10:00 am of said date, at 1040 Terra Bella Ave., City of Mountain View, County of Santa Clara, State of CA, the undersigned will sell at public auction for cash, in lawful money of the United States, the articles hereinafter described, belonging to, or deposited with, the undersigned by the persons hereinafter named at: KHWW, Inc.. Said goods are being held on the accounts of: Nancy Kahn. All other goods are described as household goods, furniture, antiques, appliances, tools, misc goods, office furniture, and articles of art, equipment, rugs, sealed cartons and the unknown. The auction will be made for the purpose of satisfying the lien of the undersigned on said personal property to the extent of the sum owed, together with the cost of the sale. Terms: Cash only with a 15% buyer’s premium. Payment and removal of items purchased, day of sale. Auction conducted by American Auctioneers, Dan Dotson & Associates (800) 838-SOLD, (909) 790-0433 or www.americanauctioneers.com Bond #FS863-20-14. /S/ KHWW Inc 12/29/17, 1/5/18 CNS-3084192# PALO ALTO WEEKLY

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OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Stanford grad and Olympic gold medalist Scott Fortune is one of 15 volleyball players who will be inducted into the Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame on May 6, the SCIVBHOF committee announced. Fortune came to Stanford after a decorated high school career at Laguna Beach. He recorded the final kill earned gold for Team USA at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and then led Stanford, under coach Fred Sturm, to its first national championship appearance.

Fortune was also part of the 1992 bronze medalist team in Barcelona and also appeared in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He was also named to the Pac-12 All-Century Team . . . Stanford sophomore and Sacred Heart Prep grad Tierna Davidson and Andi Sullivan were added to the United States national women’s soccer team by coach Jill Ellis it was announced Wednesday. The 26-player camp begins Saturday at the United States Soccer National Training Center in Carson, concluding on Jan. 21 with a match against Denmark. Davidson was the only returning collegiate player named to the squad and Sullivan and South Carolina’s Savannah McCaskill were the two graduating seniors invited to the camp . . . Stanford grad Dwight Powell did everything in his power to help the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday night.

Powell matched his career-high with 21 points and grabbed eight rebounds in the Mavericks’ 125-122 loss to the Golden State Warriors.

Steph Curry hit a 3-pointer with three seconds remaining to give the Warriors the win, stopping the Mavericks four-game winning streak . . . Menlo College women’s soccer goalie Kaylin Swart, an alternate for the South African national team for the 2016 Rio Olympics, was called up by the team to participate in a pair of friendlies later this month.

Swart will join the team at a camp that begins January 14 and features a pair of friendlies against Sweden.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Jared Wulbrun hit seven of eight 3-pointers and scored 21 points to help Palo Alto open SCVAL play with a 63-31 victory over host Cupertino on Wednesday.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Paly opens SCVAL play with a victory Priory, Menlo, SH Prep all win WBAL openers

by Glenn Reeves ared Wulbrun didn’t waste any time getting in a groove after returning from an injury. He came off the bench Wednesday and knocked down seven 3-pointers in eight attempts to help lead Palo Alto to a 63-31 victory over host Cupertino in a Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division opener.

“Out three weeks he pulled a little Steph Curry,’’ Palo Alto coach Peter Diepenbrock said.

It was the sixth win in a row for Palo Alto (8-2, 1-0), which was at full strength with its top seven players in action for the first time this season.

“Once the first one went in I started feeling my confidence growing,’’ Wulbrun said.

The son of a coach (father Jeff Wulbrun is a Stanford assistant), Jared learned to shoot the 3 at a young age.

“And once I realized I wasn’t going to get any taller I knew I needed to do that to contribute,’’ he said. “Every year I’ve tried to extend my range so the defense can’t get to me.’’

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College women’s basketball: Stanford at Arizona, 5 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

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Saturday High school football: All-American Bowl, 10 a.m., KNTV

Sunday High school football: All-American Bowl, 1 p.m., ESPN College women’s basketball: Stanford at Arizona State, 1 p.m., ESPN2 College wrestling: Penn at Stanford, 3 p.m. Stanford Live Stream

Monday College women’s gymnastics: NorCal Classic at Stanford, 6 p.m.

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Zion Gabriel

Joe Foley

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The junior guard averaged 19.3 points a game in leading the Panthers to a 3-0 record in the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, hosted by Eastside. Gabriel scored 22 points in a key win over Whitney Young-Chicago.

The senior averaged 21 points a game and the Knights placed third at the Orange Holiday Classic. He scored 26 points in wins over La Mirada and Paramount. Foley added 17 rebounds and 18 assists.

Honorable mention Klara Astrom* Pinewood basketball

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3-point sharp-shooter.

Max Dorward scored 13 points. Rojahn and William Schlemmer both scored nine, making one 3-pointer apiece. Paul Jackson III scored eight.

Priory opened West Bay Athletic League play with a dramatic 50-47 victory over host Eastside Prep on Wednesday.

Sacred Heart Prep and Menlo School each won their openers slightly more comfortably.

The Gators beat host King’s Academy 72-53 as Jai Deshpande scored a team-high 18 points.

Thomas Brown paced the Knights with 16 points, seven rebounds and three steals in a 66-38 win over visiting Pinewood.

Adrian LaValle hit a 3-pointer with 1:54 remaining to play in the game to put Priory (8-3, 1-0) ahead to stay at 48-47. A minute later, Emmanuel Ajanaku-Makum slammed home the final points.

Eastside (10-1, 0-1) had a chance to tie in the waning seconds but a long 3-pointer fell short.

Isiah Saams-Hoy led ECP with 22 points.

“We missed a lot of inside baskets early on,” Priory coach David Moseley said. “We weren’t able to drive like we wanted.” Q

inewood was clearly the class of the girls basketball field at the Joe Schram Memorial Classic last week at St. Francis.

Pinewood beat the host Lancers, coached by former Pinewood standout Sami Field-Polisso, 58-36 in the championship game. That was after a couple of total blowouts in the first two rounds, 80-34 over Lowell and 84-25 over Soquel.

Junior sharp-shooter Hannah Jump scored 63 points over the three games on 23 of 42 shooting (.548) and passed the 1,000-point mark for her career. She is averaging 17.3 points per game on the season.

Klara Astrom is averaging 14.7 points and a team-high 6.8 rebounds per game.

Pinewood coach Doc Scheppler was asked for his evaluation of how his team Hannah Jump performed at St. Francis: “I’m never really satisfied,’’ Scheppler said.

“I’m always looking to get better. We’re looking ahead. I see Mitty and how they’re playing, winning the Nike Tournament of Champions and the West Coast Jamboree. That’s the level we want to play. We’re not there yet. The bottom line is we can be better.’’

Mitty (12-0) is not only the No. 1 ranked team in the state, but is the top ranked team nationally by espnW, USA Today and MaxPreps.

Pinewood (10-1) is ranked No. 3 in the state and No. 16 nationally by MaxPreps.

Pinewood is in action Saturday against Bishop Gorman of Las Vegas at Miramonte High at 11:30 a.m. in the Elite is Earned Showcase.

Priory plays Salesian (the only team to beat Pinewood thus far) at 10 a.m., Eastside Prep plays Sacred Heart Cathedral at 2:30 p.m. and Mitty plays St. Joseph at 4 p.m. in some of the other games at the event.

Pinewood opens West Bay Athletic League Foothill Division play Tuesday at Eastside in one opener in a matchup of league powers.

Menlo hosts Sacred Heart Prep and Priory hosts Notre Dame-Belmont in other WBAL openers. Q

Greer Hoyem* Menlo-Atherton basketball

Hannah Jump* Pinewood basketball

Carly McLanahan Menlo-Atherton basketball

Mallory North

Ayo Aderoboye Priory basketball

Max Dorward*

Menlo basketball

Palo Alto basketball

Kayla Tahaafe*

Jonny Ebrahmian

Eastside basketball

Menlo soccer

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

Spencer Rojahn* Palo Alto basketball

Will Schlemmer Palo Alto basketball

Riley Woodson* Menlo basketball *Previous winner

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