Palo Alto Weekly February 23, 2018

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Dreams of a train tunnel slip away Citing costs and obstacles, city prepares to abandon idea of a city-long tunnel

by Gennady Sheyner

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or nearly a decade, Palo Alto’s elected leaders and residents have advocated for construction of underground rail tracks to accommodate California’s high-speed rail system and Caltrain, which is planning

to add more trains as part of its electrification project.

But with a new study highlighting the high costs and steep engineering challenges of the project, city officials are preparing to pull the plug on the idea and to

consider less ambitious and less costly methods for separating the train tracks from the city’s roadways. Instead, they are focusing on the idea of digging an open trench only in the southern half of the city, which would affect the railway’s intersections with Charleston Road and Meadow Drive.

The strategic shift was prompted in large part by a new study

from the city’s consulting firm, Mott MacDonald, which identified the constraints for constructing a city-long trench or tunnel as well as estimated the costs of moving ahead with either project.

The white paper made the case that while a trench going through the entire city is technically feasible, the project would face a series of significant obstacles in the northern half of the city — issues

that could push the price tag to well above $2 billion.

Among the biggest obstacles is the San Francisquito Creek. The city would need to go through a rigorous process to obtain permits from various agencies and then dig nearly 60 feet underground to accommodate the new rail system. Digging in the north would (continued on page 10)

GOVERNMENT

Palo Alto seeks disclosures in labor talks Four council members propose ideas for making negotiations more public

by Gennady Sheyner

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Annalise Tan documents a great egret during a “bioblitz” at the Palo Alto Baylands on Feb. 17 using iNaturalist, an app that helps identify species through images.

ENVIRONMENT

Artificial intelligence helps identify insects, wildlife Eighty amateur and professional scientists use app to compile list of Baylands species

by Marley Arechiga

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found a green ladybug!” Batul Raja, 9, said as she bolted down the San Francisquito Trail at the Palo Alto Nature Baylands Preserve. “I have to run back and forth and tell everybody!”

Batul was one of the approximately 80 amateur and professional scientists who gathered at the preserve on Saturday, Feb. 17, for the Baylands’ second “bioblitz,” an observational study of biodiversity in a specific location.

Participants dispersed across the baylands to enter photos of their observations in iNaturalist, an app that uses machine learning techniques to identify photographed species and crowdsourcing to verify the given identities.

The Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve held its first bioblitz in 2014 after Ranger Kathleen Jones learned of the concept on Twitter. More than 1,300 observations of 250 species were made at this year’s event.

According to Jones, no other baylands programming relies so heavily on technology.

“If the chance to use technology is a hook that will get people outside and (teaches them) to love the place and help us take care of it, then that’s success,” she said.

Before the proliferation of smartphones, traditional bioblitzes involved groups made up mostly of scientists with specializations in plants and wildlife documenting species on paper.

Today, species identification can happen directly in the field and by regular citizens who need only take a good photo, according to Alison Young, citizen scienceengagement coordinator at the California Academy of Sciences, one of the bioblitz’s sponsors.

The “green ladybug” that Raja had coaxed into a plastic container was passed around by bioblitz volunteers who speculated about what species it belonged to. Equipped with her smartphone, Leah Krupnik, 8, interrupted the adults and said her smartphone identified the bug as a cucumber beetle.

“Now I like artificial (continued on page 15)

n an effort to make traditionally secretive labor negotiations less so, four members of the Palo Alto City Council are proposing a policy that would publicize every offer and counteroffer in the city’s discussions with its employee unions.

The proposal from Vice Mayor Eric Filseth and Councilmen Tom DuBois, Greg Scharff and Greg Tanaka, aims to give the public a greater role in the labor talks, which generally take place behind closed doors while the sides hammer out contracts. In a memo outlining the plan, the council members are proposing a set of reforms that would make it easier for residents to see how much each offer and counteroffer will add to the city’s long-term pension and health care liabilities.

One proposal calls for staff to prepare a “fiscal summary” at the outset of negotiations outlining the costs and liabilities associated with each bargaining unit. Staff would then post on the city’s website every formal written proposal that its negotiators send or receive within two days of transmittal. Each would be accompanied by a fiscal analysis showing the impact of the proposed terms on pensions and other post-employment benefits.

The new memo, which the City Council plans to discuss on Monday, argues that the city’s decisions on labor contracts, particularly as they pertain to pensions and medical obligations, “are public concerns which will be borne by the community for decades, and merit meaningful public review.” And yet these discussions, the memo notes, “are currently reached

through essentially private negotiations, without meaningful opportunity for public examination.”

“The goal of this council policy is appropriate transparency: to provide timely and meaningful fiscal and actuarial information about labor negotiations to the public while protecting the fairness and integrity of the bargaining process,” the memo states.

The proposal comes at a time when Palo Alto is making a concerted effort to better measure and manage its mounting pension obligation, which officially stands at $338.4 million, according to the city budget, but which some believe may be closer to $1 billion.

The council agreed on Feb. 3 to set “budget and finance” as one of its top priorities for the year — with a special focus on rising pension and infrastructure costs.

Filseth and Tanaka, the council’s two leading fiscal hawks, see the issue of unfunded obligations as particularly critical. Tanaka has consistently called for the city to more clearly outline the city’s pension problem and to more fully consider the costs of pensions and health care in making staffing decisions.

During last year’s budget hearings, he referred to the pension backlog as the city’s “priority one” and said it “dwarfs everything else by a lot.” He was also the only council member who voted against the budget last June, arguing that it doesn’t call out the city’s unfunded liabilities explicitly enough.

Filseth, who chaired the Finance Committee last year and who was (continued on page 14)

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Sharifa Wilson, Ravenswood City School District vice president, on East Palo Alto mayor’s accusations against the district. See story page 7.

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GLASS HOUSES ... Few issues unite and divide Palo Alto neighborhoods like Eichler homes, which are generally defined by their low-pitched roofs, glass doors and spacious yards. Since 2015, the city has seen a grassroots movement arise in several Eichler neighborhoods where residents seek zoning changes to effectively ban two-story homes and second-story additions. On the other side of the debate are those who believe such a ban would effectively strip them of their property rights and prevent them from having multigenerational households. On Thursday morning, the city’s Historic Resources Board unanimously endorsed a compromise: a new set of Eichlerspecific design guidelines that staff would use in reviewing twostory homes. The new guidelines discourage placing windows in areas that overlook neighboring properties, building in Historicist style or using clay-tile roofs. Not everyone was in a compromising mood. Though the guidelines were nearly two years in the making, some longtime Eichler owners complained Thursday that they weren’t sufficiently notified of the new rules, which they argued aren’t necessary. Others countered that the new rules as a good step toward protecting the privacy of Eichler homes from new two-story homes. “We have a concern in our neighborhood about the slow emergence and creeping in of different architectural styles and two-story houses that destroys our privacy and that destroys our daylight plane,” said John Melnychuk, who fell in the latter camp. The issue next heads to the City Council, which is expected to approve the new guidelines.

GAME ON ... The XXIII Olympic Winter Games have been phenomenal for Vincent Zhou of Palo Alto, who made his way into the history books by successfully landing a quadruple lutz in his opening element on Feb. 15. The debut was met with amazement from the crowd and around the world. “Whoa, there it was, clean!” said commentator and Olympic champion Tara Lipinski. The debut, short-program performance earned him a personal best score of 84.53. He placed sixth overall among male figure skaters after

the free skate competition on Feb. 16. While he didn’t receive a medal, his performance was an impressive feat as the youngest member of Team USA. “These are memories that I will think back on many decades later and smile an old, withered smile complete with knowledge that I made the most of my life, especially as a 17-year-old Olympian,” Zhou wrote on Instagram post. “I placed 6th among the best skaters in the history of this sport and I am so very proud to do so representing the USA. Joanne Reid was joined

by Tim Burke, Susan Dunklee and Lowell Bailey on the biathlon mixed 2x6 plus 2x7.5 kilometer relay team that finished 15th on Tuesday, three minutes and 31.1 seconds behind France, which won the gold medal in one hour, eight minutes and 34.3 seconds. Reid competed in three biathlon events at the Pyeongchang Olympics. She finished the 15-meter individual event with a career-best 22nd place showing after finishing near the back in the 7.5-kilometer sprint.

WHEELING AND DEALING ... As Palo Alto prepares to adopt new rules for bike-share operators, officials also are preparing to welcome another form of transportation with a growing following: electric scooters. The new rules, which the City Council is set to approve on March 5, will allow bike- and scooter-sharing vendors to bring their services to Palo Alto on a one-year pilot basis.

According to planning staff, the city was recently approached by Bird, a scooter-sharing vendor with a 750-scooter system in Santa Monica. If Palo Alto gets a similar system, it would be the first citywide electric-scooter sharing system in the Bay Area.

Under the proposed ordinance, participating operators would need to have a minimum fleet of 100 bikes or scooters. For bikeshare operators, the total number of bikes would be capped at 700; electric scooters would be exempt from this maximum. The new pilot program is a departure from Palo Alto’s prior approach, which called for a public-private partnership with a single bike-share operator.

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Mayor alleges ‘culture of corruption’ at Ravenswood school district School budget crisis sparks friction between East Palo Alto mayor, district

by Elena Kadvany

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he mayor of East Palo Alto blasted Ravenswood City School District leadership in two separate letters Feb. 16 and Feb. 17, criticizing what he described as the district’s “sneak ambush” solicitation of financial support from the City Council and alleging that district leaders have created a “culture of corruption, intimidation and coverup.”

Ruben Abrica said that he learned through media inquiries about a Feb. 15 letter that board President Ana Pulido and Vice President Sharifa Wilson addressed to Ruben Abrica him — rather than receiving the letter directly. The letter asks the City Council to invest in the Child Development Center (CDC), Ravenswood’s preschool program, which will likely be taken over by the San Mateo County Office of Education as the district makes significant budget cuts to remain fiscally solvent.

The district’s communications consultant, Rolando Bonilla of firm Voler Strategic Advisors, said it was mailed to Abrica and the City Council late on Thursday, Feb. 15. The letter was distributed via email to the media and posted on the district’s social media accounts on Friday, Feb. 16.

Abrica, speaking as an East Palo Alto resident rather than its mayor, criticized the district for failing to provide transparency as it works to address an ongoing budget shortfall. The board two weeks ago approved more than $5 million in cuts in order to balance its budget for the next school year, including cutting 28 out of 31 positions at the Child Development Center.

“Your self-inflicted financial crisis ... (does) not justify storming and ambushing the City Council to cover up for your mistakes,” he wrote in the Feb. 16 response to Pulido, Wilson and Superintendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff.

He also faulted Hernandez-Goff in particular for failing to manage the budget, writing in his second letter that her mismanagement “is what triggered the cuts so suddenly instead of collaborative planning of reductions starting three years ago.

“This is being called a ‘reform’ and a ‘new culture,’ but it’s really a culture of corruption, intimidation and coverup,” Abrica wrote.

He stated that when HernandezGoff was hired in 2013, the district budget’s ending balance was $8 million. Without budget cuts this coming year, the county projected the 2018-19 ending balance would be negative $3.3 million, he wrote.

The second Abrica letter, addressed to Bonilla and Pulido, included a set of questions and demanded “public clarification” of issues of concern that are circulating in the community.

Wilson told the Weekly that she disagrees that the letter to Abrica and the council was an “ambush,” saying that a parent had suggested the board seek help from the city at the district’s Feb. 8 meeting.

“To imply that it was an ambush means it’s something that was done sneakily, someplace in the dark,” Wilson said. “It came from the Sharifa Wilson community.”

But other board members only learned about the district’s letter to Abrica and the council after it was sent: Marielena Gaona-Mendoza and Marcelino Lopez were provided copies of the letter at a district retreat Saturday morning, Feb. 17, Bonilla said. (Trustee Charlie Mae Knight was absent.)

Wilson said she and Pulido were within their authority as vice president and president to write the letter to the city without notifying or seeking approval from the full board. It is their “responsibility,” she said, to seek creative solutions to the budget crisis.

In a district response to Abrica’s letters, Bonilla suggested that Abrica, as a “life-long politician,” is resistant to the “necessary reforms that will pull our district from the bottom of the county to the top.”

“Irresponsibly ranting is not leadership; it is the sign of someone whose time has passed,” Bonilla said.

The equivalent of 83 full-time staff positions are being eliminated as part of the budget cuts. In Abrica’s Saturday letter, he asked for more information about the employment of Hernandez-Goff’s son, John Denos.

Denos was hired by the district in 2014 as a California English Language Development Test tester but also has helped with humanresources software implementation and database analysis, according to information provided by the district in response to a Public Records Act request filed by the Palo Alto Weekly in 2017. He is currently employed as a data quality support technician in the district office with a salary of $86,696, according to a list of district office personnel provided at Saturday’s retreat. His position was not among those the board cut on Feb. 8.

In response to the public records request, the district said last year that Hernandez-Goff “has had no supervisory, managerial,

or evaluative role in any aspect” of Denos’ employment.

Abrica also raised numerous questions about the former Child Development Center director, who is Wilson’s domestic partner. He asked for information about how the person was hired, whether Wilson voted to hire her, how much she earned and why she later quit.

Eichman presented on Saturday detailed budget documents, including a list of all positions at each school and district department; their corresponding costs and funding sources; Gloria new district positions that have Hernandez-Goff been added and not filled in the last two years; and a breakdown of the district’s general fund expenditures, among other information.

Some of the documents contained errors that teachers caught during Saturday’s meeting, including teachers listed at campuses who teach at another site or are no longer in the position and an inaccurate number of staff absences at the Child Development Center.

Hernandez-Goff said the errors were due to staff “scrambling to get all of this information together.”

Eichman said he aimed to provide corrected information to the board at its meeting on Thursday, Feb 22. The board was expected to approve layoff notices for staff, which took place after the Weekly’s press deadline.

Of the district’s $47.6 million budget, about $16 million is spent on salaries for teachers and about $6.1 million on classified and certificated management positions, according to Eichman.

The board also discussed on Saturday the results of a poll conducted to gauge voters’ support for placing a parcel tax and/or bond measure on the June 5, 2018 ballot. The district plans to seek renewal for a $196 parcel tax that is set to expire in June. The tax provides $1.1 million to pay for teaching positions.

The survey, which was conducted via phone and online in late January and early February, indicates that there is strong support for both a parcel tax and bond measure, though those surveyed were less supportive of an increased parcel tax.

Abrica told the board that public opinion may have shifted in response to the budget crisis and urged the district to conduct the survey again.

“I’ve always supported these things, but under these circumstances — you’re losing the trust of the people,” he told the board members. Q

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Nine names proposed for Jordan, Terman schools Renaming group to present recommendations to school board in March

by Elena Kadvany

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he woman known as the “mother of Palo Alto schools,” a Japanese-American Palo Altan who fought in World War II and an early Silicon Valley pioneer are among the people on a working list of new names for Jordan and Terman middle schools.

The Palo Alto school district’s Recommending School Names Advisory Committee — formed last fall after the school board voted to rename the two schools due to their namesakes’ advocacy of eugenics — has winnowed down more than 1,500 suggestions from the community to a final list of seven people and two geographic names.

Names were solicited through an online and written survey. Committee members themselves did not submit ideas to avoid conflict of interest.

The committee eliminated duplicates; applied criteria from a board policy on naming facilities; and voted in order to narrow down the list. Some factors included a strong Palo Alto connection, “inspirational value” and values such as innovation, integrity and inclusion.

In addition to the tentative list of finalists listed below, there is another name still under consideration by the committee, which is in contact with the person’s family.

Ellen Fletcher: Ellen Fletcher is a former Palo Alto City Council member whose environmental advocacy helped put Palo Alto on the map as a bike-friendly city. She lobbied persis- Ellen Fletcher tently for bicycling improvements as a volunteer in the school district and as a council member. In 2002, the City Council officially named Bryant Street as the “Ellen Fletcher Bicycle Boulevard.”

Fletcher died in 2012.

Frank Greene: Frank Greene was a Silicon Valley pioneer who, as one of the first black technologists in the local industry, focused advocacy efforts promoting minorities and women. Greene

developed highspeed semiconductor computer-memory systems in the 1960s, started two technology companies and later founded a venture firm Frank Greene with a special focus on minority- and femaleheaded firms, according to a Palo Alto Weekly article. He was inducted into the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame in 2001 and died in 2009.

William Hewlett: William Hewlett co-founded the HewlettPackard Company with David Packard in a Palo Alto garage in 1939.

The company’s first commercially viable product was the audio oscillator, William but throughout Hewlett its history, HP

has developed and manufactured a vast array of high-tech products.

Hewlett, a Stanford University engineering graduate, founded the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which is among the largest private foundations in the United States. He died in 2001.

Edith Johnson: Edith Johnson is regarded as Palo Alto’s first female doctor. She opened a medical practice from an office in her family’s home on Hawthorne Avenue in 1907, according to a Weekly article.

The city park across the street was named in her honor when it was completed Edith Johnson in 1986.

Fred Yamamoto: Fred Yamamoto, who graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1936, was interned in Santa Anita in southern California and then Heart Mountain in Wyoming during World War II. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and later received awards for his service, including the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster Fred and Silver Star, Yamamoto according to the Palo Alto Historical Association. He died in combat in France in 1944.

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Anna Zschokke: Anna Zschok ke is considered one of Palo Alto’s first residents and the founder of the local school system. A widowed German i m m i g r a n t Anna Zschokke and mother of three, she moved to Palo Alto in the 19th century, according to PaloAltoHistory.org, and later opened a schoolhouse. A 2009 City Council resolution to name a plaza after Zschokke described her as “a Palo Alto pioneer and an active supporter of many civic and cultural projects.”

The geographic names tentatively proposed for each school are Adobe Creek Middle School for Terman and Redwood Grove Middle School for Jordan.

The committee is expected to present final recommendations to the school board in March.

The board is aiming to have both schools renamed by the start of the next school year. A former renaming committee estimated the one-time cost of changing schools’ names at about $50,000. Q Photos of Hewlett, Johnson, Yamamoto and Zschokke courtesy of the Palo Alto Historical Association.

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Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

KEEPING IT GREEN ... Nonprofit group Canopy and residents of the Greenmeadow neighborhood in Palo Alto will plant new street and yard trees on March 31, 9 a.m.-noon. Participants will meet at 4075 Scripps Ave. The community event kicks off the South Palo Alto Tree Initiative, which aims to increase the tree canopy in less verdant areas.

Greenmeadow neighborhood residents who would like a tree and who are not yet signed up can stop by the Greenmeadow Community Center, 303 Parkside Drive, Palo Alto, on March 10, 9 a.m.-noon to reserve a tree, talk with an arborist and sign up to help on tree-planting day.

Tree sign-ups are accepted until March 20. More information is available by contacting Elise at elise@canopy.org. Volunteer signups are online at canopy.org/getinvolved/volunteer-signup/.

WANNA RUN? ... The everpopular Juana Run? 8K, 5K, mile and kids’ races is happening on Feb. 24, and this year it features three-time Olympian Shannon Rowbury, the distance-medleyrelay record holder. The Juana Run races have been held in the Barron Park neighborhood for 20 years. The race proceeds benefit Barron Park, Juana Briones and Terman Middle School PTAs, West Valley Track Club and Gunn High School Sports Boosters.

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DOGGONE FUN ... Palo Alto residents will celebrate the Year of the Dog at the 2018 Palo Alto Chinese New Year Fair on March 4, 2-5 p.m. at Mitchell Park Library & Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. The free fair includes lion dancing, martial arts demonstrations, dumpling making, Chinese brush painting and calligraphy, Mahjong, Chinese folk music, storytelling, Tai Chi, feng shui, games and crafts. Q

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Sparks fly as metal sculptor Rochelle Ford uses her welding torch on a flower-shaped piece in her home studio on Feb. 21. Ford often finds salvaged metal in auto scrap yards or receives pieces from friends and neighbors.

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Octogenarian still wielding her torch Sculptor Rochelle Ford uses blowtorch to turn rubble into art

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t Sims Metal Management in Redwood City, a giant crane claw snatches up large pieces of twisted and torn metal, piling the crumpled wrecks, old machinery and other scrap into hills.

Wearing an orange construction vest and hardhat, 81-year-old Rochelle Ford surveys the steel mountains, seeking pieces to resurrect as art. In her home studio, she dons a welder’s mask, her refined features shaded from the 3,600-degree Fahrenheit torch. White-hot sparks radiate from the tip, transforming metal, nails, gears and bicycle seats into sculpture.

Burned pipes and rebar salvaged from the 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm have become a pregnant woman carrying new life; an antique fire extinguisher has become a lamp.

“It’s never too soon, and it’s never too late. Whenever you decide to do something, it’s the perfect time,” she said, quoting an old boss, in a new documentary short film about Ford.

The film, which can be viewed on Vimeo, was released in November. In it, Ford talks about her decision to become a sculptor at age 58. She taught herself to weld,

first making holes in tin cans. But she wanted her art to become lucrative. She recalled that her father had emphasized the importance of making a practical living, she said.

Today, her work is found in private collections and galleries throughout the world. U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee owns some of her sculptures; so does former President Barack Obama, who upon seeing Lee wearing a piece of Ford’s jewelry, purchased a piece for his wife, Michelle.

Ford, a resident of Palo Alto’s Professorville neighborhood, has produced everything from jewelry to two-story sculptures. She has never taken an art class, she said.

“My brother is a jeweler. He uses the same equipment in an extremely different way. I was intrigued with the equipment, but I didn’t want to make jewelry. I’m a little bit rebellious. I wanted to do what I wanted to do, and not the way you’re supposed to. He taught me how to turn the torches on and off,” she recalled.

Experimentation led to some accidents, which turned into scars.

She points to a scar above her lip where metal she was cleaning up once flew off and struck her.

“The plastic surgeon said he

could get rid of it, but I said, ‘No — that’s a badge of honor,’” she said.

The late therapist Virginia Satir, for whom Ford worked, inspired Ford to be an artist. Diagnosed with cancer, Satir told Ford to use her creativity to follow her dream.

“She told me, ‘Rochelle, don’t die wondering. Do your art,’” she recalled.

Ford was also inspired by her father, who had a car dealership.

Car parts figure regularly as materials in her work. Her father used to buy older cars and assemble the parts to create reliable, inexpensive cars for people who had little money, she said.

When Ford worked on Forest Avenue in Palo Alto, she would walk near Ellison’s Towing on Alma Street on her way to lunch.

“I would see all of these wrecked cars, and I asked Mr. Ellison for some of the parts. They were instant sculptures — all of this crushed metal,” she said.

She brought home “lots and lots” of metal. But one would not know that the white and black sculpture hanging in her living room was once a wrecked Toyota car hood.

The cut and assembled pieces are like ragged, organic petals.

Wrecked cars are not her only inspiration. When Palo Alto operated a dump off Embarcadero Road, she used to salvage there, and she got scrap from a firm in East Menlo Park. A native of Pennsylvania, Ford incorporated molten metal from Pittsburgh steel plants that fell on the floor in interesting shapes.

People who know her also give her interesting things. A friend reroofing an old home in Saratoga called to offer copper sheeting underlay they’d found. A next-door neighbor remodeling his home found old saw blades of all different shapes.

Ford uses even the scraps from her scraps, gathering up small pieces she has cut away from the floor for jewelry, she said.

Outside the colorfully painted home she shares with her husband, Henry, the approximately 12-foot-tall Oakland firestorm woman presides over the sculpture garden, filled with her creations.

Recently, Ford’s eyes drifted over the sensuous form, remembering the day she first encountered the rubble, which was all that was left of residents’ homes.

“People brought me pieces of burned metal and wanted a sculpture. It was very moving,” she said.

“Some of these things will still be around after I’m gone.”

The five-minute documentary on Ford, “The Metal Sculptor,” can be viewed at vimeo. com/241338487. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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carry political challenges because of the proximity of the Palo Alto Avenue intersection to Menlo Park, where the train tracks would need to return to street level.

According to the Mott MacDonald study, it would take the tracks 2,975 feet in distance to climb back up in Menlo Park. To accommodate this ascent, the city would need to get approval from Caltrain to have a 2 percent slope for the tracks (the agency has a design standard of 1 percent).

Yet the biggest issue is cost.

The study estimates that building an underground rail system from one end of the city to another would cost between $2.4 billion and $4 billion, depending on the design. The two most expensive options are a cut-and-cover tunnel (between $3.3 billion and $4 billion) and two deep-bored tunnels ($2.8 million to $3.4 billion). But even the cheapest alternative — an open trench through the entire city — has an estimated price tag of $2.4 billion to $2.9 billion.

By contrast, digging a trench only in the southern half of the city would cost between $500 million and $700 million if the trench only goes to Charleston, and between $750 million and $1 billion if it goes under Charleston and Meadow.

The City Council has yet to

officially rule out a tunnel or a trench along the entire city. But after receiving the study, City Manager James Keene in a memo made the case that moving ahead with such a system could be very difficult and “practically unworkable.” He noted that the cost estimates in the Mott MacDonald report don’t include key components of the project, including reconstructing the overpasses at the University Avenue, Embarcadero Road and Oregon Expressway crossings to accommodate the new train alignment.

He also noted that the project would require approval not just from Menlo Park, where residents would be significantly affected by construction work on the north end of the line, but from state and regional agencies, including the California Public Utilities Commission, Caltrain, Santa Clara County and the Santa Clara Valley Water District. City staff doesn’t not believe it can secure all these approvals, Keene wrote.

“Our staff believes that while trenching and tunneling under the entire city of Palo Alto may be technically feasible as demonstrated in the white paper, there are significant issues that make these options practically unworkable from a political (interagency) and financial perspective,” Keene wrote. “However, trenching under a portion of the city — specifically the Meadow and Charleston

crossings or just the Charleston crossing — could appear to merit further analysis as we move forward with our planning process.”

Not everyone is sold on this approach. One resident, Steven Rosenblum, strongly objected to the staff conclusion that most underground options are too expensive. The analysis, he said, didn’t sufficiently consider the revenue potential of going under and selling development rights over the right of way. He argued that staff’s conclusion about the cut-and-cover trench and twin tunnels being costprohibitive is premature.

“Isn’t that a decision for the people of Palo Alto and the council to make?” Rosenblum asked.

But two members of City Council’s Rail Committee said Wednesday that they largely agree with staff’s conclusion.

Councilman Greg Scharff argued that given the cost estimates and regulatory challenges, it’s time to abandon these options.

“I fear this notion of a citywide trench or tunnel is distracting from the real work that needs to be done,” Scharff said.

Committee Chair Cory Wolbach also said he is inclined to abandon the costliest alternatives, though he was reluctant to do so immediately. Though he acknowledged that these once popular alternatives now appear highly unlikely, he said he wanted to give

residents who feel strongly about the topic an opportunity to make their case. Wolbach suggested delaying the decision on eliminating the most expensive option until the committee’s next meeting, which is scheduled for March 21.

“It’s on the chopping block,” Wolbach said about a city-long underground railway. “You can get a reprieve, but you have to make the case. We need a chance to, as a community, consider our real options really thoroughly.”

The committee voted 2-1, with Lydia Kou absent and Adrian Fine dissenting, to concur with staff’s conclusion that the city-long underground options “do not look promising,” but that open-trench options for the West Meadow and Charleston crossings “merit further study.”

Fine, in expressing his opposition, said the city needs to do more analysis and get more community feedback before it eliminates some of the more ambitious alternatives. The city, he said, needs to do more analysis on “value capture” — selling development rights to pay for the underground structure — before completely abandoning the idea.

“I know it’s a complex issue in itself, but I don’t think we have the ability to take things off the table unless we’ve done due diligence in explaining why they should be taken off the table,” Fine said.

The Rail Committee’s discussion

came at a time when the topic of grade separation is becoming increasingly urgent for the council, which has committed to reaching a decision about a preferred design before the end of the year. Palo Alto officials are preparing for significant increases in Caltrain service — to about 10 trains in each direction during peak hours. For drivers looking to cross the tracks, this will mean significant delays, with gates coming down roughly every three minutes.

In addition, Palo Alto is hoping to tap into funds from Measure B, a 2016 county measure that allocates $700 million for grade separation work in north Santa Clara County.

The funding would presumably be split between Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Palo Alto. To date, Palo Alto has lagged behind the other two cities in identifying its preferred alternative and council members are now playing catch-up.

Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello said Wednesday that his staff is in the process of winnowing down the roughly 40 alternatives on the table to somewhere between four and eight.

The goal is to bring the final options to the council for consideration by November, according to a schedule released this week.

Staff plans to present the white paper and solicit community feedback at March 6 meeting, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road. Q

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CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council

The council did not meet this week.

Council Finance Committee (Feb. 20)

Utilities: The committee recommended a resolution adopting a hydrolelectric rate adjustment mechanism and amending the Electric Utilitiy Reserves Management Practices Yes: Filseth, Scharff, Kou No: Tanaka Utilities: The committee approved a resolution updating the city’s billadjustment process for water leaks and metering errors. Yes: Unanimous

Council Rail Committee (Feb. 22)

Trench: The committee received the white paper on trench/tunneling options and supported staff’s conclusion that a trench or tunnel under the entire city does not look promising, while an open trench under the Charleston and West Meadow grade crossings merits further analysis. Yes: Scharff, Wolbach No: Fine Absent: Kou

Historic Resources Board (Feb. 23)

Zoo: The board approved revisions to the roofing materials for the new Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo. Yes: Bernstein, Bower, Kohler, Makinen, Wimmer No: Corey Eichlers: The board recommended approving a resolution establishing Eichler Neighborhood Design Guidelines and recommended the creation of an ordinance under which the city would use these guidelines in tandem with existing Individual Review guidelines for second-story homes to enhance privacy at Eichler homes. Yes: Bernstein, Bower, Kohler, Makinen, Wimmer No: Corey

TRANSPORTATION

Woman killed, two injured in crash Izzy’s Brooklyn Bagels delivery van, silver sedan involved in early morning incident

by Palo Alto Weekly staff

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woman in her 60s died following a head-on collision early Thursday morning between a food delivery van and a sedan on Oregon Expressway in Palo Alto, a police sergeant said.

Two men — the drivers of the vehicles — sustained injuries.

The crash was reported at 4:42 a.m. and blocked eastbound lanes of Oregon at West Bayshore Road.

Police closed the lanes during the investigation of the incident, preventing drivers from accessing U.S. Highway 101 during the morning commute until 9:30 a.m.

Police directed drivers to use Embarcadero or San Antonio roads as alternatives to 101.

The silver 2018 KIA Optima sedan exited the freeway and headed west on Oregon, where

it crossed over the center divide and collided head-on into a white Izzy’s Brooklyn Bagels delivery van heading east in the far-left lane, Sgt. Brian Philip said.

The woman, the front-seat passenger in the sedan, was transported to Stanford Hospital with critical injuries and died at the hospital, police said in a press statement. She was married to the sedan driver, a man in his 60s from Livingston. Both he and the Izzy’s driver, a man in his 30s, were also taken to Stanford Hospital with minor to moderate injuries and are expected to survive, according to the police statement.

Both cars sustained significant front-end damage.

Yellow accident markers and glass were scattered across the divider Thursday morning. Eastbound lanes were reopened at 9:35 a.m., Philip said.

The department’s Specialized Traffic Accident Reconstruction team was called to investigate the

collision, and both drivers spoke with investigators at the hospital, police said.

Police do not think that drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash, they said, but the investigation is ongoing. The driver of the Kia has not been cited or arrested, pending the outcome of the investigation.

Izzy’s Manager Maria Arzate said the driver was on his usual morning route to the Izzy’s bagel store in East Palo Alto when the crash occurred. The man has worked for the bagel shop for about eight months. She said the store learned the woman had died through news reports.

Arzate said the driver’s family is with him at the hospital.

“He’s a very nice guy, and he’s very responsible, and I know he drives very conscientiously,” she said. Q This story will be updated on PaloAltoOnline.com as additional information becomes available.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss labor negotiations with various bargaining units. The council will then hear a status update on the Downtown Residential Preferential Parking program; approve the City of Palo Alto Utilities 2018 Strategic Plan; and consider a colleagues’ memo about making labor negotiations more transparent. The closed session will begin at 5:10 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 26, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Regular meeting will follow immediately after in the Council Chambers.

BOARD OF EDUCATION... The board will meet to discuss the elementary schools’ annual Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) reports from 8-10 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. In its regular meeting, the board will discuss the district’s second interim budget, a report on special education, an update on the high schools’ Learning Design Team, a new class size policy, reaching out to peer districts for advice on Stanford University’s general use permit (GUP); vote on the possibility of placing a school bond measure on the November 2018 ballot; and vote on a memorandum of understanding with the Palo Alto Educators Association (PAEA), among other items. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the status of the Baylands Comprehensive Conservation Plan and review the outcomes from the commissions recent retreat.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 27, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hold a study session to discuss the 2017 Annual Housing Element Report to be submitted to the state Housing and Community Development Department. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 28, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION SPECIAL SESSION... The board will hold a special budget study session from 8 to 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 1, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. The agenda was not available by press deadline.

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to consider modifications to roof material for the recently approved Junior Museum and Zoo Building; continue its review of the garage proposed for 350 Sherman Ave.; consider proposed modifications to the entry plaza at the new Stanford Hospital at 500 Pasteur Drive; consider approving the demolition of an existing office building and construction of a 29,200-square-foot research-and-development building at 3045 Park Blvd.; and review proposed façade changes for an existing building at 392 California Ave. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 1, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 ***************************************** THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp

AGENDA–SPECIAL MEETING–COUNCIL CHAMBERS FEBRUARY 26, 2018 AT 5:10 PM Closed Session 1. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS Authority: Government Code Section 54957.6(a) Special Orders of the Day 2. Palo Alto Chinese Parents' Club Presentation of a Copy of the "Welcome to Palo Alto" Video Consent Calendar 4. Approval of a Memorandum of Understanding With the County VM :HU[H *SHYH [V :OHYL ;YHѝJ +H[H HUK [V ,Z[HISPZO H =PY[\HS Private Network 5. Approval of a Final Map for a 2.46 Acre Site at 567 Maybell Avenue [17PLN-00158] to Create 16 new Parcels Ranging Between 5,000 Square Feet and 6,184 Square Feet and a new Private Street Intersecting With Clemo Avenue. The Final Map Includes Access and Utility Easements. Environmental Assessment: Exempt From the Provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in Accordance With Guideline Section 15268(b)(3) (Ministerial Projects) 6. Approval of Amendment Number 2 to Contract Number C15155378 With Carollo Engineers for Engineering Services During Construction of the old Pumping Plant Rehabilitation Project at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant to Extend the Contract Term Through September 30, 2018 - Capital Improvement Program Project WQ-80021 7. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance Amending Chapter 10.56 (Special Speed Zones) of Title 10 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code to Reduce the Posted Speed Limit Near Private Schools (FIRST READING: February 5, 2018 PASSED: 9-0) 8. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance Amending Sections 4.42.190 (Taxi Meters) and 4.42.200 (Schedule of Rates, Display) of Chapter 4.42 of Title 4 (Business and License Regulations) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code to Allow Taxicab Service to be Prearranged by Mobile Device Application and Internet Online Service (FIRST READING: February 5, 2018 PASSED: 9-0) 9. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance Amending Section 18.42.040 of Title 18 (Zoning) to Conform With new State Laws Regarding Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) and Finding the Changes Exempt From Review Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21080.17 and CEQA Guidelines Sections 15061(b), 15301, 15303 and 15305. The Planning & Transportation Commission Recommended Approval of These Amendments on November 29, 2017 (FIRST READING: January 29, 2018 PASSED: 8-1, Holman no) 10. Adoption of a Resolution to Establish Yangpu District, Shanghai as a Sister City to Palo Alto Action Items 11. Downtown Residential Preferential Parking (RPP) Program Status Update 12. Approval of the City of Palo Alto Utilities 2018 Strategic Plan 13. Colleagues' Memo From Council Members DuBois, Filseth, :JOHYќ HUK ;HUHRH VU -PZJHS ;YHUZWHYLUJ` PU 3HIVY Negotiations

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the lead author of the memo, has persistently advocated for getting accurate pension data, as well as for preparing for the possibility that CalPERS will lower its expected rate-of-return, thus requiring larger near-term contributions from Palo Alto and other cities with pension plans administered by CalPERS. In an interview with the Weekly last fall, Filseth argued that requiring Palo Alto to make larger minimum payments to CalPERS will cut into the city’s ability to

hire staff, fix potholes and provide other services to which residents have become accustomed.

Scharff, who chairs the Finance Committee this year, said he began discussing the memo with his colleagues last year, with the goal of creating a better process for negotiations. Having more discussions in the open would benefit both the city and the union, he said.

“Transparency helps everyone,” Scharff told the Weekly. “Hopefully, it creates a better atmosphere for everyone.”

Labor negotiations currently stand atop the council’s agenda, both literally and figuratively.

City of Palo Alto ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration has been prepared by the City of Palo Alto for the project listed below.

In accordance with CEQA Guideline Section 15073, this document will be available online for review during a minimum 30-day circulation period beginning February 23, 2018 and ending March 24, 2018. The environmental document is available at https://www.cityofpaloalto. org/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=2828.

If you need assistance, please visit the City’s Development Center during the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. at 285 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California.

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PUBLIC HEARING / QUASI-JUDICIAL. 3045 Park Boulevard [17PLN-00073]: Recommendation on Applicant's Request for Approval of a Major Architectural Review to Allow Demolition of HU ,_PZ[PUN 6ɉJL )\PSKPUN HUK *VUZ[Y\J[PVU of a New Two-Story Approximately 29,200 Square Foot Research &Development Building.

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Monday’s council meeting will be the third in a row that begins with a closed-session conference between the council and its labor negotiators.

According to the meeting agendas, the talks pertain to every major labor group, including the city’s largest union, the Service Employees International Union, Local 521; its two main public safety unions, International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 1313, and Palo Alto Peace Officers’ Association; and the Utilities Management Professional Association of Palo Alto. Also listed are the two small bargaining units representing high-level police and fire management — Palo Alto Police Managers’ Association and Palo Alto Fire Chiefs’ Association — and the “management and professionals” group, which includes about 200 employees and which is not represented by a union.

Scharff said the fact that the city is about to start negotiating with most of its labor groups makes the timing of the memo particularly pertinent.

In crafting the memo, the four council members borrowed heavily from other jurisdictions. San Jose already posts fiscal summaries associated with each of its bargaining units during negotiations and publicizes all formal offers and counteroffers, according to the memo.

In Fullerton, the impacts of city proposals on “unfunded actuarial liabilities,” which includes pensions and retiree medical expenses, are publicly disclosed.

The four council members also want to have a policy that empowers the council to direct the city’s negotiations in either open or closed session, similar to what is already in place in San Jose.

If the majority of the full council agrees with the memo’s recommendations, the proposed policy would go to the council’s Finance Committee for further review and refinement. After that, it would be presented to the various bargaining groups during “meet-and-confer” discussions.

The four council members considered but rejected several potential policies, including one from San Jose that calls on the city manager to give regular updates on labor negotiations in an open setting, with an opportunity for union representatives to weigh in. In addition, both San Jose and Fullerton have policies that discourage negotiations between individual council members and bargaining units.

The memo does not recommend adopting such a policy, noting that ex parte communications “have not been a concern in Palo Alto.”

Scharff told the Weekly that council members wanted to keep their recommendations relatively modest and to give its unions plenty of opportunity to weigh in.

“You want to take small steps and see how everyone feels in both directions,” Scharff said. “I think it’s really important that we all work together on this. Small steps make a lot more sense.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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intelligence,” said Karla Savage, a 71-year-old participant from the East Bay. “I guess the only application I saw before was people losing jobs, but to have this recognition software be used in a different way than just jobs and economy — I just wasn’t aware of the value of AI.” iNaturalist began as the master’s final project of three students from the University of California at Berkeley in 2008 and was acquired by the California Academy of Sciences in 2014.

According to Young, citizen science activities like the bioblitz not only foster stewardship but can enable a deeper understanding of, and contribution to, science. iNaturalist shares findings with scientific data repositories like the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

“This work has to be done by more than just scientists because there just aren’t enough scientists out there doing this work in general,” Young said. “Having different perspectives pushes science forward.”

The California Academy of Sciences has hosted 75 bioblitzes and is hosting a city nature challenge on April 27-30. The challenge began in 2016 between the academy and the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, and this year has extended to 60 cities around the world.

Jones, the Baylands Park ranger, noted that the bioblitz can also provide information for the Baylands Comprehensive Conservation Plan, which will address the management of the Baylands for the next 15 years and beyond.

Development of the conservation plan began last June and will continue through this December, and will include public meetings designed to gather ideas and input from the public about the future of the baylands. The conservation plan will outline how to implement the policies set forth in the city’s Baylands Master Plan, according to Daren Anderson, division manager of the city’s Open Space, Parks & Golf Division.

Jones also noted the infectious enthusiasm of participants discovering something new to them, especially children, who regularly see what the adults don’t.

Toward the end of this year’s bioblitz, Leah, the girl who had identified the cucumber beetle, crouched in the brush just off the San Francisquito Trail and struggled to get the green bug to come out of its plastic container.

“I know what to do!” Batul said, turning to Leah. “Get a stick and it’ll come on the stick. Just try it; it’s harmless.”

Leah placed a small twig into the container and the beetle crawled up into her hands before fluttering away. The two girls jumped up, pleased with their release of the beetle back into its habitat, and continued on their excursion. Q Editorial Intern Marley Arechiga can be emailed at marechiga@paweekly.com.

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CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a Public Hearing at the special meeting on Monday, March 5, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider: Annual Code Update via adoption of two Ordinances: The first amending Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC) Chapter 2.20 (Planning and Transportation Commission) of Title 2; Chapter 9.10 (Noise) of Title 9; Chapter 10.64 (Bicycles, Roller Skates and Coasters) of Title 10; and Chapters 18.04 (Definitions), 18.10 (Low-Density Residential (RE, R-2 and RMD)), 18.12 (R-1 SingleFamily Residential District), 18.15 (Residential Density Bonus), 18.16 (Neighborhood, Community, and Service Commercial (CN, CC and CS) Districts), 18.28 (Special Purpose (PF, OS and AC) Districts), 18.30(G) (Combining Districts), 18.40 (General Standards and Exceptions), 18.42 (Standards for Special Uses), 18.52 (Parking and Loading Requirements), 18.54 (Parking Facility Design Standards), 18.76 (Permits and Approvals), 18.77 (Processing of Permits and Approvals), and 18.80 (Amendments to Zoning Map And Zoning Regulations) of Title 18; and Chapters 21.12 (Tentative Maps and Preliminary Parcel Maps) and 21.32 (Conditional Exceptions) of Title 21; and The second amending PAMC Chapter 10.04 (Definitions) and Chapter 10.64 (Bicycles, Roller Skates and Coasters) of Title 10 (Vehicles and Traffic) to prohibit use of bicycles and similar vehicles on certain sidewalks and undercrossings and establish speed limits on shared-use paths. The first Ordinance was recommended for approval by the Planning and Transportation Commission. Exempt under California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3).

BETH D. MINOR City Clerk

Mary Ann Heaton Spitters Mary Ann Heaton Spitters was called home by our Lord on February 13, 2018 at age 91, in peace and surrounded by her family following a yearlong battle with cancer.

Predeceasing Mary Ann were her parents, Mary Vera (nee Dickinson) and Harry Gordon Heaton of Eaton Rapids, Michigan, her infant brother, John, and her sister, Nancy Heaton Simon of Houston, Texas.

Born in Lansing, Michigan, Mary Ann graduated from Marywood Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in dietetics and nutrition from St. Mary’s College Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana and then moved on to her work in the tuberculosis ward at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan before accepting a position as Associate Head of Dietetics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Following her move to California in 1955, Mary Ann worked at the State of California Department of Public Health in Berkeley and in San Francisco, California.

She raised her family in Palo Alto for 38-years before moving to Los Altos in 1996.

Mary Ann is survived by a large extended family including her eight children and their spouses and many grandchildren, one sister, several nieces and nephews along with many friends and admirers from every corner of the country who befriended and cherished her.

Love of her college alma mater and appreciation for travel, architecture, garden clubs, fine art, classical music and opera were attractions and interests that sustained her through midlife and into her years as a gentle and willing senior. She viewed her education and work-experiences as gifts which gave way to opportunities to help and aid others. Her commitment towards helping young people advance through literacy and education were of paramount importance to her.

As she advanced in years, it was important to our Mom to make a difference and to matter in the lives of those who were in need or crisis. She shall be greatly missed by all whom she touched and impacted through her dedication to the homeless, hungry, abused and destitute. She will most certainly be remembered for not forgetting or dismissing those who feel forgotten, marginalized or unimportant, people who she energetically prayed for and considered the true children of God. She would often say, “We shall be measured and judged by how we treat the least amongst us”; “There, but for the grace of God, go I”, and, “Do unto others…”. This is evidence of the profound influence and effect that her Marywood and St. Mary’s College experiences had in her life and for which so was so proud to have and share. Above all, her devotion to her faith and to God supported her in both life and in death.

Our family is thankful to Pathways Home Health and Hospice, Institute on Aging, her primary care physicians and her private caregivers who provided outstanding and exceptional care for her during the final months of her life.

These are people who perform boundless, selfless and heroic work in the name of preserving grace and dignity for the aged and dying. God bless them, one and all.

A memorial Mass in celebration of Mary Ann’s life shall be held on Saturday February 24 at 10AM at St. Nicholas Catholic Church at 473 Lincoln Ave. Los Altos, CA, assisted

by Spangler Mortuaries. A reception in the church hall will follow when the private family burial at Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Los Altos concludes at 12:30pm. In lieu of flowers or gifts, the family requests that contributions be made in Mary Ann’s honor to Family Supportive Housing 692 N. King Road, San Jose, CA 95133.

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Edith Parrish Edith Parrish, 92, of Palo Alto, CA passed away on February 8, 2018. She grew up in Hillsboro, Wisconsin.

She attended University of Wisconsin in Madison for her undergraduate studies and went to Northwestern for her Master’s degree. She met her husband while teaching high school in Sparta, Wisconsin.

They moved to California in the early 1950’s and raised three children. Many weekends were spent packing the family in the station wagon and taking road trips checking out the sites of California.

In the 1980’s, she went to work at SRI International in Menlo Park where she focused on learning computer skills and using her administrative and organization skills in support of the financial professionals in her department.

This job was a joy for her and she loved being part of a team until her retirement at age 77.

Edith’s joys were gardening, and traveling to local Bay Area parks, historical sites, and the ocean. She had a strong curiosity to keep learning about the world and was an avid reader who loved keeping up with national and world events.

She is survived by her children, Annemarie Parrish, David Parrish and Kathleen Litterer. She is also survived by four grandchildren Kevin Litterer, Ryan Litterer, Sean Parrish and Jennifer Parrish, and by two great grandsons, Curtis Litterer and Gavin Litterer. Edith is buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto.

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Ruth Freier Ruth Freier, 89, of Palo Alto, California, passed away on February 6, 2018, at Stanford University Hospital with her daughter, Susan Freier, by her bedside.

Ruth was born Ruth Hollenberg in Galicia in 1928, to her parents Marcus and Sali.

An only child, Ruth’s formal education was cut short by World War II, and she was forced to live in hiding in Czernowicz, Romania (now Ukraine) for the duration of the war. Her mother succumbed to cancer during the war, but she and Markus, after spending a year as refugees in Munich, came to New York in 1947. In New York she worked in a sweater factory, earned her GED and later moved on to an office job. In 1950 she married Leon Koppel, a fellow survivor, and they had their only child, Susan. In 1958, after divorcing Leon, Ruth married Brooklynborn George Freier, and the young couple moved with Susan to California in 1960, settling in Palo Alto and raising their daughters Roberta (Freier) and Naomi (Wexer). Ruth was an avid collector of antiques and loved nothing more than her weekend “saling” with George. After George passed in 2004 she finally travelled, joining her children and grandchildren on trips to Israel, England, Italy, Germany and Hawaii. She spent her final years at a wonderful board and care home in Palo Alto called Little Home. Her family will always be grateful to her loving and generous caregivers. Ruth is survived by her daughters: Susan (of Palo Alto), Roberta (of Chicago) and Naomi (of New York City); her grandchildren: Sarah, Rachel, Alex, Zachary and Julian, and her great-granddaughter, Arielle. May her memory be a blessing.

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January 22, 1955 - February 13, 2018 Mallory (Marc) Schoen, 63, of Menlo Park, California, passed peacefully from this life on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, after a tenacious fiveyear battle against metastatic colon cancer.

Born January 22, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York, to Harold and Leona Schoen, Mal was raised, along with his younger siblings Gary and Amy, in New York, Colorado, and California. Mal attended Jordan Junior High and Palo Alto High in Palo Alto, California, and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English from SUNY at Stony Brook, in New York, in 1976. Until his illness led him to retire several years ago, Mal had been a long-time employee of Stanford University. Mal enjoyed meals out with friends, movies, and shopping for bargains. He was a voracious reader, journal-writer, and gadabout walker. He was long a fixture in his neighborhood, book in hand, as he sought out a quiet, sunny spot in which to read. Mal was predeceased by his father, Harold, and is survived by his mother, Leona, and brother, Gary, both of Portland, OR, and his sister, Amy, of Rohnert Park, CA. Internment will be at River View Cemetery in Portland, OR, on Monday, February 19, 2018, at 10 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the American Cancer Society – or your own favorite charity.

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Attempted burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Counterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Embezzling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 3 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Tampering with a vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Vehicle accident, minor injury . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident, no injury . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident, property damage . . 13 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 4 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of alcohol by a minor . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Casualty fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Criminal threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Disobey court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Elder abuse, physical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Firearm disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous penal code violation . . . 6 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Stalking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suicide attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Feb. 14-Feb. 20 Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle related Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Vehicle accident, major injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident, minor injury . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parole arrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Truancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

300 block Alma Street, 2/7, 4:17 p.m.; battery.

El Camino Real, 2/13, 12:45 p.m.; battery.

Louis Road, 2/14, 4:17 p.m.; domestic violence.

Allen Court, 2/16, 4:39 p.m.; suicide.

Alma Street, 2/17, 8:21 p.m.; domestic violence.

El Camino Real, 2/18, 1:43 p.m.; domestic violence.

Los Robles Avenue, 2/18, 6:00 p.m.; battery.

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Editorial Progress on school reforms From term limits to a new seating chart, school board eyes improved governance

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ithout a lot of fanfare, drama or the divisive undercurrents that have created so much disruption and controversy for many years, the Palo Alto Board of Education is looking to implement changes that could significantly improve district decision-making and create a predictable flow of new perspectives and ideas.

Most importantly, on Feb. 13 the board voted 4-1 (with Melissa Baten Caswell opposed) to put a ballot measure before voters this November that would limit elected school board members to two, four-year terms. The proposal, made months ago by first-term trustee Todd Collins, would put in place the same eight-year cap on school board service as has become the norm for most elected city and county officials in California. This is an overdue step that we strongly support.

While stepping down voluntarily after eight years has been the informal practice in Palo Alto for more than 40 years, it has been ignored twice in the just the last six years— by former trustee Camille Townsend, who served three terms plus a year for 13 years total, and Baten Caswell, who ran for a third term in 2016 and edged out one-term incumbent Heidi Emerling for third place.

Like Townsend, Baten Caswell will have served 13 years when her current term expires in 2020.

The value of limiting terms for local elected officials has been well-established. The advantages of incumbency are so great that those in the community who are interested in serving are discouraged from running unless an incumbent chooses not to run. Obtaining important endorsements is difficult because the friends and supporters of incumbents are unwilling to switch horses. And with the odds of success so low, the expense of mounting a campaign against an incumbent also keeps good candidates from stepping forward.

This year provides the rare opportunity to adopt term limits without appearing to be aimed at any of the current trustees, since each has stated his or her intention to not serve more than two terms. Two (Ken Dauber and Terry Godfrey) will complete their first term this December and two (Collins and Jennifer DiBrienza) are less than two years into their first terms.

We applaud Collins’ initiative in bringing this proposal to the board, and Dauber, Godfrey and DiBrienza for supporting it.

Other welcomed governance improvements are under discussion by the board. At its Feb. 6 retreat the board considered ways to improve staff-board communications, strengthen staff reports and presentations and monitor progress toward district goals.

Until Interim Superintendent Karen Hendricks pushed back, the board showed enthusiasm for another proposal made by Collins — that the superintendent be seated with other senior district staff members instead on the dais alongside board members. The current arrangement, board members agreed, isolates the superintendent from her top administrators and creates the impression that the superintendent is disconnected from, takes less ownership of and is less accountable for staff presentations.

It also provides no opportunity for the superintendent to confer with senior staff during the meeting, as occurs regularly at city council meetings.

Hendricks stressed the importance of projecting to the public and staff that the district was led by the board and superintendent and asked for the chance to play a more active role in staff presentations without moving locations. The board ultimately agreed to finish out this school year without changing the seating arrangement but appears likely to take advantage of a transition to a permanent superintendent in July and make the change. Godfrey correctly pointed out the bad optics of moving a female superintendent midyear from the dais to the staff table after many years of male superintendents sitting with the board.

We have long questioned why school superintendents have been seated with the elected board members instead of their staff and agree this is a reform whose time has come.

We also like the board’s desire to improve staff presentations by having them focus on the policy reasons and trade-offs behind recommendations rather than PowerPoint presentations of data and background information that is better contained in a well-written staff report. Similarly, the board’s request for dashboards and other reports that are concise summaries of progress toward goals will make meetings more efficient and create more accountability.

The board’s attention to how the governing process is working and the roles of the board and superintendent is a welcome step toward rebuilding public trust and confidence in the district. There is much work to be done, especially around transparency and staff accountability, but this needed attention to basic governance is a good and needed beginning. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Create a walkable city Editor, Thank you, Dr. Barry Katz, for the guest opinion in the Feb. 16 Palo Alto Weekly (“We need new thinking about parking”).

More parking only means more cars on the road. I seldom bike to University Avenue because retail has been taken up with parking and restaurants. I shop on California Avenue because I feel safe biking in the area.

The city of Palo Alto was on the right track with the redesign of California Avenue, but a massive parking structure is going backwards. I hope to retire in a walkable/bikeable city. I hope that city is Palo Alto.

Mimi Wolf San Carlos Court, Palo Alto

What practical solutions?

Editor, I am writing this in response to Barry Katz’ Feb. 16 guest opinion, “We need new thinking about parking.”

I am also a long-term Palo Alto resident (Charleston Meadows, since 1987). In recent years, especially the past decade, I have observed and experienced directly the frustrating consequences of increased vehicle traffic and demand for parking. In fact, my family and I have for quite some time actively avoided doing most of our business in downtown Palo Alto because it is so inconvenient to access by car. The only exception seems to be weekend mornings.

California Avenue is so far not as bad as downtown but likely only a few years behind.

To be honest, the alternatives of public transportation are laughable — far too wasteful of our time (bus or train) and/or money. A round trip using either Uber or Lyft makes anything we’d buy in downtown noncompetitive in cost versus purchasing elsewhere.

Katz advocates forcefully for “new thinking” but his article stops short of providing any substance regarding what such new thinking and alternative solutions would be. Perhaps that’s because there may not be any realistic solutions in the short- or mediumterm. I would invite Katz to roll up his sleeves and put his money and thinking where his keyboard is on this subject. Yes, it’s hard — far more difficult than expressing one’s opinion — and the city certainly could use his help.

Like it or not, the large majority of us, my family included, are completely unwilling to give up the independence and flexibility

of personal transportation by car.

We will only adopt alternatives if they entail little or no sacrifice in time, cost and convenience. Absent attainment of such objectives, we are and will be taking our business somewhere else besides downtown and California Avenue.

Kevin Moore Carolina Lane, Palo Alto

Thank you to mailman Editor, I’m just writing to say a public thank you to the U.S. Postal worker I witnessed last week taking a moment for a small act of kindness at the corner of University Avenue and Guinda Street in Palo Alto.

I was in my car, stopped at Guinda Street, when I saw him walk out into the middle of University Avenue and hold out his hands to stop the traffic for just a few seconds. As soon as the cars stopped, I saw why. And I actually founding myself cheering as I watched a small, scared cat safely dash across University Avenue and back into its yard.

Alaina Sloo Woodland Avenue, Menlo Park

On airplane noise Editor, The city of Palo Alto is not taking the airplane noise generated

by NextGen seriously enough. My neighborhood is ground zero for the new flight pattern.

On Monday, when I was home from work on Presidents Day, there literally was not one single moment when an aircraft was not overhead.

As soon as one aircraft left the airspace above my home, the next aircraft would enter — all day long.

This traffic can start at 4 a.m. and go on past midnight. The noise can be heard through my doublepaned windows. It is as if the FAA has built a runway above my home.

At least if the runway were on the ground, they would have had to buy homeowners out. Instead, I am on the verge of retirement in a neighborhood that is drastically downgraded by the constant din.

This is not the type of issue that an individual can address on their own. The city of Palo Alto needs to step up and help fellow citizens with this real and serious qualityof-life issue.

Valerie Milligan Park Boulevard, Palo Alto

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Off Deadline A warning: ‘Housing crisis’ threatens Valley’s future

by Jay Thorwaldson

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ilicon Valley may be the economic phenomenon of our time, but unless real inroads are made in alleviating its severe housing shortage and accompanying transportation mess, the region could lose its economic luster and driving core of innovation.

That was a pointed conclusion — a warning with a keen edge of urgency — that emerged from the recent “State of the Valley” conference in San Jose.

The morning-long annual conference at the McEnery Convention Center on Feb. 9 was attended by a sellout audience of about 1,300 leaders from business, government, education and nonprofit organizations from throughout the south bay region and beyond.

As for the conference’s key message, warnings about housing and transportation problems are not new: Traffic begin to snarl up as far back as the postwar growth years of the late 1940s and 1950s, and freeways and local expressways quickly jammed. In transit, almost nothing effective has been done.

“Our choo-choo trains are at capacity,” conference organizer Russell Hancock noted in a passing reference to potential future expansions of transit, now stalled in the discuss-and-debate stage.

Hancock, a Palo Alto resident, is president and CEO of Joint Venture Silicon Valley. He currently teaches in the Public

Policy Program at Stanford University. He earlier served as vice president of the Bay Area Council, where he pushed hard for the BART extension to the San Francisco International Airport. He is a recognized concert-level pianist and founder of the Palo Alto-based St. Michael Trio.

The annual conference draws heavily from Joint Venture’s primary publication: the Silicon Valley Index (available online at jointventure.org/publications/siliconvalley-index), which compiles research on key “indicators.”

Much of this year’s gathering focused on “the phenomenon” of Silicon Valley’s success in technological innovation, economics and entrepreneurship. It featured a “What’s New and Next?” presentation by two leading futurists: Jure Leskovec, chief scientist at Pinterest and computer-science associate professor at Stanford, and Paul Saffo, consulting professor at Stanford and a founder of the Palo Alto-based Institute for the Future.

Hancock led off the morning by summarizing “the phenomenon of Silicon Valley.”

“For most part we’re already built out.

We don’t have the option of sprawling,” he noted, adding: “Trust me, if the bay was land, it would be filled.”

Even so, the area has logged seven straight years of job growth, at 3.3 percent per year, above state and national rates. The regional total last year was 107,139 new jobs (47,000 in Santa Clara County, 18,000 in San Francisco, 25,000 in Alameda County and 25,000 for “the rest of the Bay Area”).

Unemployment is 2.3 percent. “We’ve never seen a rate that low,” Hancock said.

Technology “infuses every sector of economy,” and is driving everything from

transportation to health care, education, retail, construction and “community infrastructure” jobs. Venture capital supports much of the growth, now including “megadeals” in health-related research.

A megadeal is $100 million-plus, and 23 such deals in Silicon Valley and 16 in San Francisco racked up $5.2 billion in such giant purchase/investments, he said.

There has been a steep drop in smaller startup ventures over the past four years, Hancock noted, with growth currently “being led by a few large companies.”

Innovation remains strong, with 19,000 new patents emerging from Silicon Valley, comprising 54 percent of patents statewide and about 15 percent nationally.

Commercial expansion is booming, with about 6 million square feet of completed commercial development last year. That’s equivalent to about 160 football fields, Hancock noted, showing a slide. With the Tesla expansion in the Warm Springs area of Fremont that would be about 306 football fields, he said.

And expansion has moved far past the boring tilt-up buildings of past decades into imaginative, space-age buildings. “It sort of feels like Florence during the Renassance,” Hancock said.

But there are two dark shadows looming. They are the area’s inability to match its historic job growth with housing and its failure to create effective alternatives to the single-occupant commuter automobile.

Hancock bored in on that topic in a dialogue with two persons engaged in handto-hand combat with the challenges: Carol Galante, director of the Turner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, and Steve Heminger,

executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Galante earlier was assistant secretary for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Heminger oversees more than $2 billion a year in funding for “operation, maintenance and expansion” of the region’s “surface transportation network.”

Neither had an easy answer to Hancock’s pointed questions. But their warnings were pointed also.

“Housing is a disaster with seeds of destruction that go back 40 years,” Galante said. “We are not building enough housing.” Job growth after the 2008 recession “poured gasoline on the fire, but the fire was already building.”

Heminger said there are “plenty of villains to go around” in terms of blame for lack of effective transit and transportation alternatives.

Both cited the barriers of environmental requirements and decision-making powers scattered over nine counties, hundreds of cities and a battery of regional, state and federal agencies. They agreed that developing a stronger regional network would be a step forward.

“Some say the system is working today” when jobs move elsewhere, Galante said.

“The markets are working if you don’t care about the future of Silicon Valley. If we don’t solve housing we will be losing Silicon valley in its innovation and value.”

Firms are “going to places where there is housing affordability and livability for their workers,” he said. “I think we are really at risk. ” Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well.com.

Streetwise

Which movie or actor do you think deserves to win an Oscar this year?

Asked at Mitchell Park Library in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Marley Arechiga.

Elia Harmatz

Melissa Portugal

Lennie Stovel

Shachar Santo

Nancy Baum

Prospective Graduate Student Pomona Avenue, Palo Alto

Nanny Tasman Drive, Sunnyvale

Retired Stern Avenue, Palo Alto

Uber Driver, Personal Trainer and Soccer Player Walker Drive, Mountain View

Retired El Cajon Way, Palo Alto

“I would say ‘Dunkirk’ for best picture because from what I’ve read it does a good job of reflecting those times.”

“’The Shape of Water’ because it has a lot of suspense.”

“Frances McDormand because I just love her and she was wonderful in ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.’”

“Daniel Day-Lewis because he can do any character and he’s extremely talented.”

“’The Shape of Water’ because I love the symbolism. It has so many layers of meaning.”

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Cover Story

Buckeye Creek, located on the far edge of Las Trampas Valley, originally ran through the middle of the valley but was relocated for agricultural reasons. A hydraulic study of the creek proposes adding in a floodplain to the valley to restore the creek’s original path and slow erosion.

Amid serenity, Buckeye Creek is eroding, utilities are threatened Story by Gennady Sheyner | Photos by Veronica Weber n a balmy, cloudless Friday, two hawks glide in circles over Las Trampas Valley while a herd of deer — eight in all — grazes in the shade. Serenity is only interrupted by the raspy, high-pitched whistling of a quail in the distance.

Formed by Buckeye Creek, Las Trampas Valley stretches from Orchard Glen near the center of

Palo Alto’s Foothills Park to the park’s northeastern edge, where it bumps into the newest addition to the city’s most glorious openspace preserve: 7.7 acres that the city inherited in 1981, re-discovered in 2012, and plans to open up to the public later this year.

Las Trampas Valley also is where Buckeye Creek is at its most menacing. During heavy rains, water gushes from

Wildhorse Valley downstream, through Las Trampas and ultimately toward the 7.7-acre parcel, where it deposits sediment and debris before flowing through a culvert into a neighboring property. Decades of downpours and erosion have taken its toll, and the dry creek at Las Trampas is now a canyon. A recent hydrology study commissioned by the city noted that in the mid-1970s, the deepest

Deer graze at Las Trampas Valley in Foothills Park near Buckeye Creek.

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section of the creek was 7.4 feet below grade. Today it is 22 feet deep and — if nothing is done — heading toward 30.

Man-made improvements around Buckeye Creek haven’t withstood water’s power. The footbridge spanning the creek is literally hanging on the edge.

Much of the soil that once supported the footing on its north side has crumbled into the creek.

The city’s hydrology study concluded that if no action is taken, this bridge — and possibly others — will likely collapse in the next decade as the banks erode further.

The timber barriers and “gabion baskets” (wire enclosures filled with rocks) that the city installed in the late 1960s and 1970s to stem the flow also are showing their age. The wire is “worn to the point of failing,” the study states,

After decades of use, the timber grade-control structures that dot Buckeye Creek have become too worn and no longer provide sufficient creek control.

Cover Story

A sign located near the Buckeye Creek erosion timber grade structures at Foothills Park warns visitors.

Rangers at the park must routinely clear sediment from the creek to keep the culvert free of debris in anticipation of major storms. and the barriers are “beyond their expected lifespan.”

These problems are becoming increasingly urgent. The study by the engineering firm ENGEO concluded that unless the city makes near-term improvements, the existing structures and trail bridges will fail. What’s more, “large areas of erosion will engulf portions of the Orchard Glen Picnic Area and portions of the existing 10-acre lawn area in Las Trampas Valley” and undermine the utility corridor in Wildhorse Valley, which includes water, sewer, electricity and fiber-optic connections.

The problems are in large part man-made. Long before the city purchased the 1,400-acre Foothills Park from the family of Russell Lee, property owners had manipulated the creek to support their agricultural needs. Buckeye Creek once meandered freely through the Las Trampas meadow where the deer graze today.

Moss and plants grow along the rocks contained in wire gabions, a type of creek control measure used to prevent erosion and control flooding.

Then, in the 1940s, the creek was re-routed to the side of the valley, where it remains today, according to Daren Anderson, manager of the city’s Open Space, Parks and Golf Division.

But the new alignment narrowed the creek, reducing its capacity and causing problems in the downstream areas, Anderson said.

“During heavy storms, what would happen was water would flow down, causing the creek to downcut, causing erosion and sending that sediment downstream to various locations, most poignantly to the 7.7-acre parcel,” Anderson said. “It can lead to flooding and obstructing of downstream culverts on private properties.”

One way to address this problem, according to the report, is to restore the creek to its old, freeflowing ways. ENGEO recommended creating two large floodplains in the Las Trampas Valley

and at the 7.7-acre site. In addition, the firm recommends rebuilding all the damaged grade-control structures — the timber barriers and rocky gabions — and creating a new channel in the upstream area of Wildhorse Valley to reroute the water flow and take pressure off the downstream areas. Altogether, the three-phased plan would cost about $9.7 million to implement.

For Palo Alto, which is already facing an estimated $50 million shortfall in its infrastructure plan, the report’s recommendation is effectively a non-starter. But as the city is preparing to open the newest parkland to residents, officials are considering less dramatic — and less expensive — solutions along the creek.

The leading idea is to focus work in Wildhorse Valley, with the expectation that adding the new channel upstream and improved grade-control structures will solve the sediment problems at Las

Hikers walk toward Wildhorse Valley in Foothills Park, the upstream area of Buckeye Creek.

Trampas and the 7.7-acre site. The upstream portion alone, however, would cost about $3.7 million.

With no funds currently budgeted, Community Services Department officials are banking on grants and other forms of outside financing to make the project work.

The Parks and Recreation Commission, which last month heard the results of the hydrology study, unanimously approved staff’s recommendation to pursue the upstream work, as well as to budget $150,000 to design improvements to failing grade-control structures. In weighing the trade-offs, commissioners stressed the importance of protecting not just the creek area but the underground utilities.

The costs of doing nothing at all could be high, when one considers the flood risks and the costs of maintenance and future repairs. The city wouldn’t really

be saving money, Commissioner Keith Reckdahl argued — just delaying the expenditure. He supported moving ahead with work in the Wildhorse Valley.

“By spending the money upfront, we do it on our timetable. If we just wait, we do it on Mother Nature’s timetable,” Reckdahl said. “And Mother Nature always does things on more expensive timetables.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

About the cover: A footbridge over Buckeye Creek near the trailhead to the Los Trancos Trail is in need of replacing as downcutting has washed away much of the channel underneath.

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Arts & Entertainment A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Karla Kane

Windows

into worlds

Palo Alto Art Center showcases diverse group of dioramas Story by Karla Kane | Photos by Veronica Weber

Joshua Smith’s “Discolandia,” a model of a shuttered San Francisco record shop, is part of the Palo Alto Art Center’s diorama exhibit, titled “Through That Which Is Seen.”

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aybe it’s the sheer amount of fine detail involved. Perhaps it’s the childlike delight of encountering something shrunk down in miniature, bringing back memories of dollhouses and model trains and feeling godlike in scale. Probably it’s the unexpected pleasure of peeking into another world. Whatever “it,” is, there seems to be something magical about dioramas.

The Palo Alto Art Center is celebrating this enchanting art form with its current exhibit, “Through That Which is Seen: Dioramas in Contemporary Art,” on display through April 8.

The definition of a diorama has become more difficult to pin down in recent years.

“For me, it’s really something you go inside to look at,” Curator Selene Foster said. “I mean that as metaphorically as I do literally.”

The word stems from the Greek, “through that which is seen” (hence the exhibit title), and traditionally refers to a small model scene made to look lifelike, sometimes including a peep hole through which to better focus the viewer’s attention.

Comparing them to more recent immersive inventions such as cinemas, television screens and virtual reality devices, Foster said that historically, dioramas have served the same sort of role, offering a look through an educational or whimsical window. In Victorian times, she noted, people would pay admission fees to view elaborate dioramas. And according to the art center’s press materials, the history of diorama dates back to at least ancient Egyptian times, when nobles were buried with miniaturized versions of everyday objects and scenery in exquisite detail.

“People really respond strongly to them,” Foster said. “There’s something about looking at them that makes everything else disappear; you enter another space.”

The inspiration for the exhibition came from a show the art center held a few years

strange, mythological and fascinating tiny back, which included some dioramas.

“So many people exclaimed how much players, often obtained from hobby shops they loved the diorama work, it was impos- and reassembled. In one, for example, a pig sible to ignore,” Foster said. While at first she is served a sumptuous meal at the head of a lady’s table. wondered if she’d be able Former crime reporter to find enough contemAbigail Goldman recreporary diorama work to ates gory crime scenes include, she soon realized in miniature, reflecting the difficult task would a dark humor uneasily be narrowing it down to mixed with horror, drawthe 15 artists eventually ing the viewer in with the chosen for the exhibition. cuteness of the tiny figAt the art center, there ures, then shocking them are pieces that are immewith the details. diately recognizable as “The more time I spend dioramas and some that with it, the more I really stretch the definition a appreciate how Matthew bit, but all of them offer Albanese’s work plays the viewer a glimpse into with your mind,” Foster a carefully crafted scene. said. A former fashion Native American artist photographer, Albanese Wendy Red Star’s phocreates small sets out of tographic series “Four 3-D models then phoSeasons” plays with the tographs them, creating concept of the traditional, the illusion of large-scale, historical museum di- Walter Martin and Paloma epic landscapes. It’s rare orama. In four self por- Muñoz create whimsical worlds for one of his models to traits, named after winter, inside of snow globes, including be on display alongside spring, Indian summer “Traveler 232.” the finished photographs and fall, she arranges herself as if she were in a diorama, surrounded and videos, Foster noted, but the art center by a hodgepodge of stereotypically Native has one.

Curtis Talwst Santiago tells powerful stoAmerican iconography — blankets, feathers, woodland creatures, skulls — in a colorful ries (often exploring themes of colonialism and racism) through worlds placed within montage of mismatched materials.

“It’s clearly a set-up,” Foster said. “She’s antique ring boxes, while Scott Hildebrandt poking fun at the stereotype of Native Amer- rescues vintage radios, stereos and television icans being one with nature as well as the sets and outfits them with modern electronics history of Native Americans being used in to bring his charming miniature retro-cities dioramas, even life-size dioramas, which to life.

At the center of the main gallery, an airwere popular up until the 21st century. There plane hangs, carrying passengers including are a lot of layers of meaning in her work.”

Spanish artists Walter Martin and Paloma a gorilla, The Beatles and several mini deMuñoz create snow globes inhabited by pictions of the artist herself, Misaki Kawai.

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The playful mixed-media work is an example of the Japanese “Heta-uma” style, meaning “bad-but-good” and rooted in 1970s manga.

Gregory Euclide visited the art center from Minnesota to install site-specific pieces made from found objects and both natural and manmade materials. He refers to his work as landscape paintings but in three dimensions, hanging vertically, bordered by picture frames. His scenes, Foster said, ask the questions, “How are we framing our place in the world, framing our place in nature?”

In a darkened, walled-off area, two haunting works by Won Ju Lim draw viewers in slowly. At first glance seeming static, moving lights behind boxes reveal more of the shadowy scenes. These pieces unfold slowly.

“Take your time in there,” Foster advised.

In the art center’s “nook” area across the lobby from the main exhibit, visitors can try their hands at creating original dioramas using plastic miniature animals and plants, hand-drawn paper backdrops and wallmounted shadow boxes with a peep hole (perfect for placing a camera lens as well as an eye). The public is encouraged to share their creations via social media using the hashtag #dioramapaac.

“We really want to inspire people to see the work and feel like they can go home and make their own,” Foster said. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

What: “Through That Which is Seen: Dioramas in Contemporary Art.” Where: Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road.

When: Through April 8, open TuesdaySunday. Artist Michael C. McMillen will give a talk on Saturday, March 3, at 3 p.m.

Cost: Free.

Info: Go to tinyurl.com/y9w2ng5w.

Arts & Entertainment

Timeless ‘Fidelio’ soars West Bay Opera gives Beethoven work a modern setting and a brilliant cast

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n the day that West Bay Opera’s production of “Fidelio” opened in Palo Alto, three journalists were sentenced to life in prison by a Turkish court, the president of Brazil gave the military sweeping authority when he placed it in charge of security in Rio de Janeiro, and Italian police in Bologna turned water cannons on anti-fascist demonstrators who were protesting the scheduled speech of a neo-fascist leader in the city.

Such is life in the world of 2018.

But how is it different from the political turmoil and tyrannies of 1805, when “Fidelio,” Beethoven’s only opera, premiered in Vienna?

The simple answer: It’s not. And that’s what makes “Fidelio,” the tale of a dying political prisoner and his rescue by his fearless wife, a timeless statement about humankind’s tendency to crave and abuse power, as well as its resilience in the face of oppression.

That message was powerfully conveyed on opening night, Feb. 16, with the updating of the original 18th-century Spanish prison setting to that of a contemporary for-profit U.S. prison.

But the message, urgent as it may be for our times, is only a

OPERA REVIEW fraction of what makes this production a soaring success. West Bay has put together a cast of magnificent singers in all key roles, a chorus of fine and sturdy voices, and an orchestra of polished musicians, dishing up a famously challenging operatic feast with vigor and elan.

The role of Leonora, who took the name Fidelio when she dressed as a man to find her imprisoned husband, was sung by the outstanding dramatic soprano Meredith Mecum, a Merola alumna now based in New York City. Her brilliant singing and sensitive portrayal of a woman aching with the uncertainty of her husband’s fate make it easy to suspend disbelief in the implausible plot line: a woman binding her bosom, fooling those around her into believing she’s a man, and being hired as an assistant guard in a men’s prison.

The only disappointing aspect of Brent Reilly Turner’s performance as Florestan, Leonora’s imprisoned husband, is that he isn’t on stage until the second act.

But that’s Beethoven’s fault. Turner’s performance was completely

without fault; it was stunning. A New York City-based heldentenor making his West Bay Opera debut, he possesses amazing vocal strength, color and depth that convince from the first note out of his mouth.

Palo Alto native Kate Fruchterman was excellent as Marzelline, who falls in love with Fidelio. An outstanding soprano who is also making her West Bay debut, she offered a flawless vocal performance in a highly demanding role.

Bass-baritone Ben Brady as Rocco, baritone Krassen Karagiozov as the villainous Pizarro, baritone Kiril Havezov as Fernando and tenor Carmello Tringali as Jaquino round out the cast with an abundance of talent that makes this production a feast of marvelous singing.

West Bay’s general director, Jose Luis Moscovich, ably conducts an expanded orchestra for “Fidelio,” placing many of the players onstage. The production is further enhanced by the stage direction of Ragnar Conde and the set design of Peter Crompton.

Beethoven’s “Fidelio” shines a light on humankind’s eternal struggle for freedom in the face of tyranny and injustice. The

Otak Jump

by Renee Batti

Leonora/Fidelio (Meredith Mecum, right) seeks to free her imprisoned husband Florestan (Brent Turner, left) in West Bay Opera’s production of “Fidelio.” soaring end of this opera, exploding with defiant exuberance and hope, anticipates the “Ode to Joy” final movement of his Ninth Symphony. It’s a moving conclusion to a profound work.

General Director Moscovich has demonstrated a deep commitment to staging meaningful opera for our time, and courage in his choice of works that are challenging even to large major companies. His courage is a gift to local music lovers. Q

Renee Batti is the editor of the Weekly’s sister paper, The Alamanc. She can be reached at rbatti@almanacnews.com.

What: “Fidelio.”

When: Saturday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 25, 2 p.m.

Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

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A former trial lawyer who specialized in patent infringement, Otteson regularly drank soda as a way to stay caffeinated. It “would be nothing,” he said, to drink upwards of 12 cans of Diet Coke per day.

After some pushing from his wife, who was persistent in her belief that Otteson had to kick the soda habit for his health’s sake, Otteson began reading about the problems with aspartame, a sweetener commonly used in diet sodas.

Aspartame’s negative side effects include weight gain, something he said he had experienced over the years. One can of regular soda also has between 35 and 50 grams of sugar, which is nearly twice the daily recommended intake, according to Otteson.

“One morning, I went out to the garage and went to grab a Diet Coke first thing in the morning to drink on my way to work, and I looked at it, and I said, ‘Why isn’t there a healthy, all-natural, very low-sugar soda?’ And so I started looking around for one.”

Most of what he discovered on the market was sweetened with stevia and erythritol, a sugar alcohol. Otteson didn’t like the way the sodas tasted and said that drinking too much of those sweetened with sugar alcohols could cause stomach discomfort. He wanted to create a good-tasting natural soda that didn’t have any aspartame or artificial sweeteners, or anything

else artificial. Thus, Luma Soda was born.

Otteson began experimenting in his kitchen with his 13-year-old daughter, using a SodaStream machine to carbonate water and then adding in lemon, lime and stevia.

The final product “didn’t really work that well,” he said. He contacted food companies for natural flavor samples, finally receiving a response from one representative who introduced Otteson to Sampson Hsia, a food scientist in Fremont.

Otteson and Hsia worked to produce a low-sugar, natural soda that “actually tasted good,” Otteson said. The Luma website refers to this as “the dawning of a new age of soda.”

They settled on monk fruit, named after the Chinese monks thought to have been the first to cultivate the round, green fruit, and a small amount of honey to naturally sweeten the soda.

Monk fruit contains a naturally occurring compound that is 300 times sweeter than sugar, Otteson said. It is also “essentially noncaloric” and contains antioxidants, Otteson said.

Luma Soda has 25 calories and 3-4 grams of sugar per 12-ounce serving.

Instead of adding preservatives, the company pasteurizes the soda to maintain its quality and shelf life.

The soda does not contain caffeine, which Otteson said was a conscious choice.

In ensuring that all of their products contain only natural ingredients and no “unnecessary additives,” Luma faced some challenges, Otteson said, including finding a way to naturally color the soda.

There is “no real orange color” that is natural and water soluble, so coloring Luma’s blood orange flavored soda required some creative alternatives. They ended up using beet juice to produce a pink color.

Luma’s flavors include cola, cherry cola, lemon lime and blood orange.

Otteson and Hsia made the first batches of Luma in Hsia’s kitchen, using a laboratory scale to precisely measure ingredients and then creating, tasting and reformatting the formulas and flavors.

It was a learning process, Otteson said. The soda is now produced in Arizona, and he has an office in Mountain View.

The company, which Otteson named Luma for the word’s simplicity and connotation to light, has been in business since last January. The company’s distribution has largely been within Palo Alto, at restaurants including Sancho’s Taqueria and Terun, grocery stores such as Country Sun Natural Foods and Piazza’s Fine Foods, and gym Form Fitness. The soda is also available for purchase online.

The owners recently signed a deal with a large natural foods distributor that Otteson hopes will allow Luma to be available in every state by the end of this year.

Having quit his full-time job to focus on the company’s growth in the beginning of 2017, Otteson said he truly believes in his product.

“It’s scary, no doubt about that.

My family and my parents were a little worried in the beginning,” he said, laughing. “But we’ve gotten a lot of great feedback. People are really excited about it. I think it’s a great product.” Q Palo Alto Weekly editorial intern Sarah Klearman can be emailed at sklearman@paweekly.com.

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Intimacy and the Art of Visual Storytelling: An Evening with Photojournalist Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi is a photojournalist and filmmaker dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. In the digital age, we are deluged with visual information and an overabundance of images. What distinguishes Kashi’s work from other photographers is the intimacy and complexity of his storytelling. This lecture will span a range of stories, issues, and approaches that represents the frontiers of visual storytelling, from smartphone photography to short documentary films. Kashi will discuss his work with Syrian refugees and the traumatic impact of oil in the Niger Delta, as well as stories closer to home about immigration and aging.

Thursday, March 1 • 7:30 pm CEMEX Auditorium, GSB Knight Management Center Stanford University • Free and open to the public For more info: continuingstudies.stanford.edu/events

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An Afternoon of Jewish Humor: The Jokes, The Comics, The Stories, and Their Interpretations Join us for a lively afternoon with Michael Krasny, who (he admits) has been telling Jewish jokes since he could say “oy vey!” and (others claim) knows more of them than anyone else on the planet. He was finally persuaded to put hundreds of his favorites into his bestselling book, Let There Be Laughter, accompanied by his wise and enlightening commentary explaining the historic and cultural role of humor in Jewish life in America. According to his publisher, “Michael Krasny delves deeply into the themes, topics, and forms of Jewish humor: chauvinism undercut by irony and self-mockery, the fear of losing cultural identity through assimilation, the importance of vocal inflection in joke-telling, and calls to communal memory, including the use of Yiddish.” Come and enjoy and learn.

The Stanford Bookstore will be selling copies of Michael Krasny's book, Let There Be Laughter, at the event.

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ShopTalk ACCENT ARTS RETURNS TO ALLEY ... Accent Arts, the iconic arts-supply store that has operated in the California Avenue Business District for decades, abruptly shut the doors of its new 4,000-square-foot shop in the old Keeble & Shuchat building at 290B California Ave. this week less than three months following its grand opening. On Tuesday, a sign on the front door read, “Closed for Business. Thank you for your support!” Inside, about six volunteers (including artists and former employees) were packing framing pieces and other art supplies into boxes and hauling them across the street to the business’ storage facility on Jardin Lane, just behind Zombie Runner, where the shop had temporarily operated last year. A rent increase at its longtime location at 392 California Ave. had reportedly led the arts store to relocate the first time. One former employee who was lending a helping hand on Wednesday said the business is not closing, it’s just relocating back to the storage facility as “an emergency measure” while owner Gil McMillon recovers from an unexpected illness that has prevented him from operating the store. “The intention is to temporarily open the store there while looking for a new location when the time is right,” said artist Marguerite Fletcher, who called McMillon a hub of the art community. Fletcher said in recent weeks, McMillon had been the sole person behind the counter after two of his longtime employees moved out of the area to more affordable housing markets. The staffing situation became dire. She said Accent Arts is actively seeking to build up its staff. Those helping with the move said they hope to have the store cleared out by this weekend. For updates, go to accentarts.com. — L.T. MENLO PARK’S OASIS TO SHUTTER ...

The Oasis, perhaps the oldest eating establishment in Menlo Park, will close permanently March 7 after 60 years of business, according to a Feb. 21 announcement on Facebook by the business’ owners, the Tougas family. Their message stated: “To all of our loyal customers and to the greater Menlo Park community, it is with heavy heart that we announce the closing of our beloved bar and restaurant, The Oasis. After several months of effort, we were unable to negotiate a reasonable lease for our business, nor meet the requested terms of the building’s owner.

Therefore, we have made the very difficult decision to close our doors

and bid farewell to the endearing community of Menlo Park and Stanford University. Our last day of business will be March 7 — please stop in for a visit and say goodbye!” The joint is considered an institution by many and beloved for its burgers, pizza, beer and slightly sticky wooden tables engraved with what appear to be generations of initials. According to the Menlo Park Historical Association, the building that houses the Oasis was once the YMCA building at Camp Fremont, a training camp for World War I. It was originally built in 1917 at Santa Cruz Avenue and Chestnut Street but was moved to its current location at 241 El Camino Real around 1920. Allegedly, a young John F. Kennedy once ate a hamburger there. Building owner Diana Beltramo Hewitt declined to comment on the conditions of the lease but noted that she does not have development plans for the site and will be looking for a new tenant. — K.B. ORENCHI RAMEN EXPANDS ... Orenchi Ramen, which has drawn crowds and accolades since opening in Santa Clara in 2010, has opened a third location in downtown Redwood City.

Orenchi Ramen opened at 2432 Broadway St. on Feb. 1, General Manager Justin Chiang confirmed.

The ramen shop is known for its tonkotsu ramen and long lines.

This year’s Michelin guide said the wait is well worth it for the “rich and utterly delicious bowl of tonkotsu ramen full of chewy noodles, roasted pork, and scallions.” There’s also a soy sauce ramen, salt ramen and a limited supply of tsukemen, or dipping noodles. Orenchi owner Kuniko Ozawa opened a second outpost, Orenchi Beyond, in San Francisco in 2014. Ozawa also owns Sumika in Los Altos and Iroriya in Santa Clara. Orenchi Redwood City’s menu is largely the same as the original Santa Clara restaurant, Chiang said, with slightly different appetizers and beer. A rotating tap is currently featuring Hitachino Nest Beer’s White Ale. Appetizers in Redwood City include pork cutlet sticks, karage, hotate garlic butter scallops, deep-fried octopus dumplings and more. Orenchi Ramen is open for lunch and dinner Tuesday through Sunday.

— E.K. Q Shop Talk is compiled by the Weekly staff; this week written

by Linda Taaffe, Kate Bradshaw and Elena Kadvany. Got leads on interesting and news-worthy retail developments? The Weekly will check them out. Email shoptalk@paweekly.com.

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As the primary scribes of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Horrible Bosses,â&#x20AC;? Daley and Goldstein already have a track record with star Jason Bateman, who pairs nicely here with Rachel McAdams.

The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shadowy photography and an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s thriller score lace the laughs with just enough creeping dread to give the nonsense a sense of stakes.

Everyman straight-man Bateman and luminous goofball McAdams

play Max and Annie Davis, who share a bond as champions of every kind of board game, party game and trivia contest. Though they always win, their friends remain loyal losers: puppyish playboy Ryan (Billy Magnussen), a dim-witted but enthusiastic meathead; and couple Kevin and Michelle (Lamorne Morris and Kylie Bunbury), together since age 14, who find a crack in their rock-solid relationship during their game-night ordeal, a la â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Amazing Race.â&#x20AC;? Interlopers also throw off the group dynamic: Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conspicuously smarter date Sarah (Sharon Horgan), selected by him to prove he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exclusively ask out airheaded nymphettes, and the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s catalyst, Maxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taller, handsomer, more successful older brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler).

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brooks who plays gregarious host to the murder mystery party, having contracted specialists to

stage a faux kidnap and ransom of one of the players, with breadcrumb clues and a scavenger hunt to save the â&#x20AC;&#x153;victim.â&#x20AC;? But matters swiftly get real, with actual fisticuffs and gunfire thrown in the mix, sending the friends on a wild night adventure that will include a car chase, fire fights, something dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eyes Wide Fight Club,â&#x20AC;? and field surgery, among other hijinks. Of course, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really nothing new here. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen similar â&#x20AC;&#x153;outrageous,â&#x20AC;? out-of-hand adventures in movies like Batemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s misbegotten â&#x20AC;&#x153;Office Christmas Partyâ&#x20AC;? and the Steve Carell-Tina Fey vehicle â&#x20AC;&#x153;Date Night,â&#x20AC;? just to name two fairly recent examples.

But â&#x20AC;&#x153;Game Nightâ&#x20AC;? comes together with a slightly cut-above script, a fine ensemble (Jesse Plemons adds plenty as the Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; creepy cop neighbor, who longs for their friendship), and plotting that more or less organically incorporates character beats. The Davises, out of their depth for once, also must contemplate their potential future as parents; Ryan explores the idea of dating a formidable woman whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demonstrably more than his equal; and Kevin and Michelle argue over infidelity, which may or may not involve an irresistible celebrity. With its appealing actors and some carefully parceled out shock value, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Game Nightâ&#x20AC;? just manages to sustain its â&#x20AC;&#x153;is it real or is it a game?â&#x20AC;? tension through to its climactic twists.

Rated R for language, sexual references and some violence. One hour, 40 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter Canavese

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HOUSING TALK ...The Town of Portola Valley will host a “Community Conversation about Housing” on Saturday, March 3, from 9:30 a.m. to noon. According to town officials, Portola Valley has not been immune to impacts from the regional housing crisis.

Young people who grew up in the town are unable to live in there; seniors who wish to downsize are unable to do so as options do not exist, and the town’s own workforce must drive long distances to come to work. Those affected will be there to share their stories. Residents are welcome to share their concerns and ideas but space is limited. Those who wish to attend should RSVP by Thursday, March 1, by calling 650-851-1700 ext. 259 or emailing PVConversation@portolavalley. net. The event will be held in the Community Hall, Portola Valley Town Center, 765 Portola Road.

GARDEN SPRING TOUR ...

Tickets are on sale for the 2018 Gamble Garden Spring Tour scheduled for Friday, April 27, and Saturday, April 28. The five private gardens on this year’s tour include one with towering redwood trees and a massive rose-covered arbor that ushers visitors into a courtyard. Another garden features an arch of magnolia trees and a Buddhist sculpture. To register, go to gamblegarden.org.

POWER MARKET ... Coldwell Banker has identified nearly 50 areas in the United States as “power markets” in “The Report,” its annual review of luxury real estate markets (see full list at blog.coldwellbankerluxury. com/TheReport2018). The real estate franchise coined the catch phrase, “power market” to describe areas where affluent buyers are flocking for lifestyle and culture. The criteria are based on indicators such as airport accessibility, ease of doing business, a “prestige brand presence” and a housing stock that prioritizes privacy, views and exclusivity. Of the Top 5 power markets to Watch in 2018, San Francisco is No. 3 on the list, and the Silicon Valley area is No. 5.

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Roger Kohler has lived on Wilkie Way for more than 40 years. His dogs Sasha and Levi are his daily companions on walks to Robles Park.

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It’s a place where neighbors present you with produce from their gardens when you move in; check on you when you get home from a hospital stay; or loan you their recycling bins when yours are full, said resident Carlin Otto.

She knows all of her neighbors within 10 houses and says they’re friendly and outgoing.

Otto first moved into her Whitclem Drive home in 1983 when she was a lecturer in Stanford University’s Spanish department.

“It (Charleston Meadows) had a reputation of being avant garde,” she said. “It was a forward-looking, future-oriented place.”

She enjoys the neighborhood’s diversity, with its a mix of blueand white-collar workers. “It’s just a wonderful microcosm of the world to be exposed to,” she said.

Made up of wide streets with lots of greenery and culs-de-sac that isolate it from traffic, the neighborhood is also known for being extremely quiet and “outdoorsy feeling,” according to lifelong Palo Alto resident Bo Crane. Even the homes, which are predominantly Eichler style with large windows that integrate the indoors and outdoors, reflect this feeling, he added.

Crane particularly enjoys the

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by Angela Swartz | photos by Veronica Weber

neighborhood’s three parks. The Wilkie Way Bridge connects to Mountain View’s San Antonio Shopping Center, making it easy to access shopping.

Longtime Wilkie Way resident Roger Kohler said there aren’t quite as many people with younger children in the neighborhood now, as his generation’s kids have all grown up and out of Charleston Meadows, leaving an older population.

Kohler, an architect, first moved to Palo Alto in the 1950s as an elementary school student but landed on Wilkie Way in 1975.

He also enjoys the neighborhood’s parks.

A highlight? Walking his golden retriever and German shepherd on Wilkie Way Bike Bridge over Adobe Creek to Robles Park, he said.

Otto said in addition to checking in with one another, the neighborhood finds many other ways to

Charleston Meadows resident Bo Crane likes the way the neighborhood’s cul-de-sacs isolate it from traffic and also enjoys its outdoorsy feeling.

connect, including its annual fall social at Robles Park, where everyone gets together to visit and eat ice cream. Q Angela Swartz is a freelance writer for the Palo Alto Weekly. She can be emailed at angelaswartz531@gmail.com.

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Menlo Park | 5/5.5 | $5,800,000 Sun 2 - 4 625 Hobart St Contemporary award winning Masterpiece home.

5 bd suites. Gorgeous gardens.625HobartSt.com

Atherton | 5/3.5 | $5,500,000 Sat/Sun 1 - 5 157 Watkins Ave Beautifully remodeled 1-level home w/ resort-like backyard. Nearly 1 acre on a private lot.

Palo Alto | 4/3.5 | $4,995,000 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 2333 South Court Charming Craftsnan home on a tree-lined quiet street in Old Palo Alto.

Atherton | 5/4 | $4,900,000 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 40 Selby Ln This property offers numerous opportunities on over one acre in sought-after Atherton.

Lyn Jason Cobb 650.324.4456 CalRE #01332535

Hossein Jalali 650.324.4456 CalRE #01215831

Hanna Shacham 650.324.4456 CalRE #01073658

Jackie & Richard Schoelerman 650.324.4456 CalRE #01092400

Palo Alto | 3/3 | $3,750,000 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 555 Jefferson 11,900+ sq. ft lot with single level home and detached garage. Ready to personalize.

Palo Alto | 4/3 | $3,595,000 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 525 Jackson Dr Premier location in Green Gables. Great remodel and additions. Palo Alto schls. 4BR/3BA.

Portola Valley | 5/3.5 | $3,395,000 900 Wayside Rd Stunning views across SF Bay from Mt. Diablo to Black Mountain!www.900wayside.com

Woodside | 4/3.5 | $2,850,000 Sun 1 - 4 580 Old La Honda Rd It’s worth the drive. Custom-built home on 9.5 acres w/splendid views. 580OldLaHonda.com

Nancy Goldcamp 650.325.6161 CalRE #00787851

Veronica Kogler 650.324.4456 CalRE #01788047

Jean Isaacson 650.851.2666 CalRE #00542342

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Emerald Hills | 4/2.5 | $2,295,000 Sat/Sun 1 - 4 727 Paradise Way 1st Open! This private contemporary home sits on a park like backyard and swimming pool!

San Carlos | 3/2 | $2,295,000 Pending 3170 La Mesa Dr Top location, quiet neighborhood & great street!

Excellent Public Schools + close to 280.

La Honda | 6/4.5 | $2,250,000

By Appt Only 10691 La Honda Rd Magnificent country property bathed in sunlight against a backdrop of towering redwoods.

Woodside | 3/2 | $2,249,000 743 W California Way Beautiful split-level home with western hill views, this home is chic as it is comfortable.

Sam Anagnostou 650.851.2666 CalRE #00798217

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Menlo Park | 3/2.5 | $1,800,000 Sat/Sun 1 - 4 2417 Sharon Oaks Dr. Distinctive townhome in the sought-after Sharon Oaks neighborhood. 2417SharonOaks.com

Pacifica | 3/2 | $898,000 307 Magellan Dr Beautiful Pacifica home situated on an open green space with partial Ocean View.

Rona Arjomand 650.325.6161 CalRE #01509308

Julie Lau 650.325.6161 CalRE #01052924

Ginny Kavanaugh 650.851.1961 CalRE #00884747

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Open House Saturday, 3/3; Sunday, 3/4 • 1:30-4:00 PM; Monday, 3/5 • 5:00-7:00 PM Offers Due 3/8 at 3:00 PM

This Luxury Mansion is 6 bedrooms, 5 baths 7500+ Square Feet of Living Space and is nested on 2 acres. Peaceful views of a surrounding Redwood forest minutes away from Los Gatos downtown and the Bay Area. This modern Mansion is split into multiple levels for ultimate convenience. Enter the foyer with soaring ceilings that flows into a dome ceiling and you are instantly surrounded by roman columns, Italian marble floors and a seemingly endless spiral staircase. The great room opens to a view of the redwood forest surrounding the kitchen, family rooms and dining areas. There is an office/ Den and a bedroom on the main floor. A fully private In-law suite with a bedroom, living and Bonus Room all sharing the same Stunning View. The Top level, though grand, remains cozy with 3 Bedrooms all on the same level.

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Two story home with additional spacious finished lower level Seven bedrooms, including four en-suite bedrooms.

Five and a half baths.

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460 Washington Avenue, Palo Alto RARE OLD PALO ALTO OPPORTUNITY Located on one of the most desirable streets in the coveted Old Palo Alto, this charming single story residence features 3 bedrooms plus a family room situated on a spacious lot of 12,060 sq ft. An entry foyer welcomes the visitor to this lovely traditional home with divided light wood windows and oak hardwood floors throughout the living room, dining room and family room. The rear of the home is highlighted by a gorgeous remodeled master suite with a walk in closet. A brick patio off the living room and vast private rear yard complete this special home on a unique quiet street.

OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30PM

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3 Bedrooms & 3.5 Bathrooms Gracious Living Room with fireplace and built-in cabinetry Formal Dining Room with built-in china cabinet Open Kitchen / Family Room Detached 2 car garage with Storage Room Living Space: 2,620 sq ft per county records Lot Size: 12,060 sq ft per county records - Many expansion opportunities Excellent Palo Alto Schools: Walter Hays Elementary, Jordan Middle, Palo Alto High (buyer to verify enrollment)

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16230 PARADISE VALLEY COURT MORGAN HILL, CA Spectacular designer touches throughout this 4,480 square foot estate showcases a dramatic, intricate, custom, hand painted, wrought iron staircase. 5 bedrooms, 4 full baths and 2 half baths of pristine details. Impressive 15 car garage for the auto aficionados. Perfectly positioned on 2 country acres nestled in the heart of beautiful Paradise Valley. This estate is near charming and historic downtown Morgan Hill with award winning restaurants, boutiques, Community Playhouse, Granda Theatre, Recreation Center, historic wine trail, and world renowned CordeValle Golf Course.

OFFERED AT: $2,995,000 DAN GLUHAICH, REALTOR® 408.461.0262

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OPEN HOUSE SAT & SUN 1:30–4:30PM

Crescent Park 1133 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto · Offered at $2,898,000 · 3 Beds · 2 Baths For more information, visit 1133channing.com

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640 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 · Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated.

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C R AFTSMAN STYL E DE S IGNE D BY ARCHIT ECT HE IDI HANSEN AIA On a quiet cul de sac in Barron Park. Two Master Suites. Open Modern Chef’s Kitchen. Mature garden. Hardwood floors. Radiant heat.

4 bedrooms | 3 baths | 2,594 SF | 6,048 SF lot | Offered at $2.988.000

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C H AR MI NG CAP E COD ST YL E HOME IN WOODS IDE PLAZA An inviting open living room & dining room. Kitchen and Baths updated. Mature landscaping.

3 bedrooms | 2 baths | 1,360 SF | 6,790 SF lot | Offered at $1,495,000

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$7,498,000 323-1900

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711 Moreno Ave, Palo Alto Located in the desirable Midtown neighborhood, this property is a wonderful opportunity to expand or rebuild your dream home. Situated on an expansive 8,414 sq. ft. lot, this three bedroom, one bath 1,036 sq. ft. home is steps away from Midtown Shopping Center.

Top ranked Palo Alto Schools: El Carmelo Elementary (#1 Elementary School in California), JLS Middle (#2 Middle School in California) and Gunn High (#1 High School in California). (Buyer to verify availability).

Listed at : $2,198,000

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Top three WBAL teams in CCS Open Eight girls teams, eight boys teams in action this weekend

by Glenn Reeves

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Last year many observers felt Palo Alto had the best chance of any public school of beating a WCAL team in the Open. But after a late-season non-league loss to Menlo-Atherton, the Vikings were left out of the Open. They went on to win the CCS Division I title and advanced to the NorCal Division I final.

“We’re definitely excited to be in the Open after our disappointment of not making it last year,’’ Palo Alto coach Peter Diepenbrock said.

Palo Alto (22-2) received a No. 3 seed, St. Ignatius (16-8) is the No. 6 seed.

“SI is very balanced,’’ Diepenbrock said. “They have a very good point guard, a good shooter, a big guy and good depth. It should be a very good test for the Vikings. Practices have been going good. The guys are excited to play a good team like St. Ignatius.’’

While no public school team has an opening-round win in the Open Division’s brief history, Diepenbrock and his Palo Alto teams are no strangers to going up against the best of the best. When Diepenbrock’s Jeremy Lin-led team won a state championship in 2006, Paly beat Mitty in both the CCS final and the NorCal final before knocking off SoCal power Mater Dei of Santa Ana in

o no one’s surprise, Archbishop Mitty is seeded No. 1 and Pinewood No. 2 in the Central Coast Section Open Division girls basketball playoffs.

If all goes according to form in the first two rounds, a much-anticipated Mitty-Pinewood matchup will take place March 2 in the championship game.

But before that can happen, P i newood (23-1) needs to take care of some preliminary business, beginning with a quarterfinal game Friday against St. Ignatius at Gunn High Kayla Tahaafe at 5:30 p.m.

“Any time you play an SI team they’re tough and physical,” Pinewood coach Doc Scheppler said. “They get after it. They’re a competitive, relentless team . . . But they’re not as tall as in the past.’’

Nor quite as accomplished, it would appear.

St. Ignatius, which won the CCS Open Division title in 2014, has gone 14-10 this season and comes into the playoffs on a five-game losing streak, suffering defeats by double-digit margins in four of those five games. The Wildcats lost to Menlo School, 67-65 early in the season. Pinewood beat Menlo twice, by margins of 47 and 39 points.

So if you think Pinewood’s a big favorite, you’re right. But Scheppler has been around long enough to know you can’t overlook anyone, especially at this time of year.

“We know we’re going to get everybody’s best shot,’’ Scheppler said. “And they’ve just had two players come back from injury, Rachel Harvey and Madelene Ennis.’’

But Pinewood rarely experiences letdowns.

“A standard has been established by our basketball environment,’’ Scheppler said. “It’s how we do things. We never take teams lightly. That’s the standard by which we play, rather than turning it on and off like a faucet. That standard makes us better equipped to play Mitty.’’

Mitty (24-0) has won three of the previous five CCS Open Division titles. Pinewood has lost in the Open Division final in each of the last three years, twice to

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CARDINAL CORNER . . . The 12thranked Stanford men’s golf team finished fifth at The Prestige at PGA West Resort, which was completed Wednesday. Isaiah Salinda and Franklin Huang each finished among the top 10 in the tournament, which was reduced to 36 holes after the first round was cancelled due to high winds. Second-ranked Oklahoma State rallied for a oneshot victory over Pepperdine, combing for a 36-hole total of 1-under 567. Salinda recorded a 2-under 69 and tied for seventh at 1-under 141, matching his best finish of the season. After opening with a 3-under 68, Huang followed with a 75 and earned a share of 10th at 1-over 143. It marked his second top 10 of the season. Brandon Wu toured the front nine in 2-under and birdied 10 and 11 to reach 4-under.

He tallied five birdies and shot 69 to tie for 18th at 2-over 144 . . .

Freshman Jaylen Jasper recorded a season-high 22 kills Stanford fell to BYU, 33-31, 25-27, 25-23, 2521, at Maples Pavilion. Stanford hit .276 and finished with 62 kills, its most in a four-set match this season . . . Three current and two future Stanford women’s soccer players were named to the United States U-20 team for an extended training camp in France beginning Friday and going through March 7.

GIRLS CCS BASKETBALL

Joe Foley (with ball) leads Menlo in scoring at 16.7 points a game. He also averages 5.2 assists against 1.3 turnovers. The Knights are playing in the Open Division for the first time.

BOYS CCS BASKETBALL

Menlo, Paly enter wide Open spaces Vikings hope to end WCAL dominance in first round

by Glenn Reeves his is unknown territory for the Menlo School boys basketball team.

The Knights are the new kids in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs. They take on Archbishop Mitty on Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Fremont High in Sunnyvale.

Immediately after that game Palo Alto plays St. Ignatius in a 7:30 p.m. scheduled start.

Menlo (23-1), the Division IV champion last year, received the No. 2 seed and will take on Mitty, only 9-16 overall this season but 7-7 in the West Catholic Athletic League to qualify for the CCS playoffs.

“We’re a little apprehensive,’’ Menlo coach Keith Larsen said.

“But I don’t think anyone wants to play us either.’’

Mitty is the defending Open Division champion and has won three of five Open titles since the establishment of the division in 2013.

Larsen said he talked to several WCAL coaches about Mitty.

“They all said the one team they don’t want to play is Mitty, talent-wise and this time of year,’’ Larsen said. “But, hey, we’ve never been here so we might as well play a team that’s won a state championship. We have nothing to lose. We’re ready to go.’’

Menlo’s only loss this season was to Canyon High of Anaheim,

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a team that has a 25-4 record to this point, in a tournament in Southern California. Menlo has won 17 in a row since.

“There’s not a whole lot we’re going to change,’’ Larsen said.

“We are what we are. We play good half-court man and run some nice sets.’’

Point guard Joe Foley leads the team in scoring at 16.7 points per game. He also averages 5.2 assists and only 1.3 turnovers per game (a 3.8-1 assist to turnover ratio). Thomas Brown averages 13.4 points while Riley Woodson averages 12.9 points and 11.6 rebounds per game.

The boys Open Division is comprised of five WCAL teams plus Menlo, Palo Alto and Sequoia.

“Look at Sequoia, Menlo and Palo Alto,’’ Larsen said. “We’re what, five miles apart down El Camino? We’re starting to keep local players instead of having them go to WCAL schools. Hopefully we’ll continue to keep some of those Peninsula kids home.’’

Palo Alto vs. St. Ignatius This is Paly’s first appearance in the Open since 2013. The Vikings lost to Menlo and Salesian in their third and fourth games of the season, but have won 20 straight since.

Public school teams have gone a combined 0-15 since the advent of the Open. Palo Alto is going to try to buck that trend.

Girls basketball (continued from page 46)

Mitty and once to Sacred Heart Cathedral.

“They know we’re chasing them,’’ Scheppler said of Mitty.

“If they relax, we’ll jump on them. We’re going to go hard from the first minute until the 32nd minute.’’

Pinewood is led by Hannah Jump (16.4 points per game), who leads the CCS with 83 made 3-pointers and recently committed to Stanford. Klara Astrom averages 15.1 points and a team-best 7.1 rebounds per game.

Pinewood junior Hannah Jump, who committed to Stanford, averages 16.4 points a game. big girls and they play aggressive,’’ Blythe said. “LyRyan’s teams come after you.’’

Blythe is quite familiar with SHC coach LyRyan Russell, who played for Blythe’s club team back in his playing days.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Kayla Tahaafe

Isaiah Saams-Hoy

EASTSIDE PREP BASKETBALL

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The senior point guard scored 22 points in a victory in a victory over Menlo School and then scored 20 in a win over Sacred Heart Prep that guaranteed the Panthers a spot in the Central Coast Section Open Division.

The junior helped Eastside Prep upset second-place Sacred Heart Prep by scoring 32 points, which included an 8-of-8 night from the foul line. He came back to help the Panthers beat Crystal Springs Uplands.

Honorable mention Greer Hoyem* Menlo-Atherton basketball

Elise Kratzer Menlo-Atherton soccer

Carly McLanahan Menlo-Atherton basketball

Breanna Sandoval Menlo-Atherton soccer

Megan Tinsley Menlo-Atherton soccer

Sammy Wong Castilleja basketball

Eric DeBrine Sacred Heart Prep basketball

Guy Manor Kehillah Jewish basketball

Niko Ozden Menlo-Atherton wrestling

Trevor Perez Menlo soccer

Riley Woodson* Menlo basketball

Jared Wulburn Palo Alto basketball *Previous winner

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

Menlo School vs.

Presentation Menlo (16-7) received the No. 6 seed and will play No. 3 Presentation (20-4) on Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Christopher High in Gilroy.

“It’s a big honor for our seniors,’’ Menlo coach John Paye said. “They started working toward it at this time last year.’’

Menlo is 4-9 all-time against Presentation. The last time the two met was in 2003 when Presentation won 65-27. The last time Menlo defeated Presentation was in 1996 at the Mitty New Year’s Classic, 44-37.

With Menlo getting chosen as the Open’s eighth entrant over top public school candidates such as South San Francisco, MenloAtherton and Aptos, the Open Division became all private for the first time with five teams from the WCAL and three from the West Bay Athletic League.

Menlo’s 12-1 record in nonleague play was a strong factor in its favor. The Knights had wins over St. Ignatius, Oakland Athletic League champion Oakland High, a 17-7 North Salinas team seeded No. 3 in CCS Division I, and a 19-6 Eastlake team from Chula Vista.

A 4-6 mark in WBAL play was not enough to disqualify them in the minds of the selection committee.

“It says a lot about our league,’’ Paye said. “The top three teams in our league were 4-0 against the WCAL with Pinewood beating St. Francis, Eastside beating St. Francis and Sacred Heart Cathedral and us beating SI.’’ No. 1 seed Mitty will play No. 8 St. Francis in the 7:30 p.m. game at Christopher. Mitty beat the Lancers by 37 and 39 points in two WCAL games.

Presentation went 14-0 in nonleague play and 6-4 in the WCAL, losing to Mitty by 42 and 57 points. Presentation beat Sacred Heart Prep 49-40 in its only game against a WBAL team.

Freshman point guard Avery Lee led Menlo in scoring at 13.6 per game. Mallory North averaged 13.0. Q

David Hickey

Keith Peters

Eastside Prep vs.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Eastside, the No. 4 seed, takes on No. 5 SHC in the late game Friday at Gunn. The teams met once earlier in the season with Eastside (19-5) a 65-50 winner.

“I think it’s going to be a real good game,’’ Eastside coach Donovan Blythe said. “They’re going to bring it. This is a new season.

Energy and effort are totally different.’’

SHC has a 10-13 overall record, but went 6-4 in West Catholic Athletic League play and had an extremely difficult non-league schedule.

“They’ve got some speed, some

This is the last go-around for do-everything point guard Kayla Tahaafe, a four-year starter who played in Division V state championship games for Eastside in each of the last three years, on the winning side the last two years.

Tahaafe averages a team-high 14.6 points per game. She handles the ball on offense and because Eastside lacks much size the 5-foot-8 Tahaafe often guards opposing post players. Tahaafe has scored in double figures in 20 of 24 games this season, 79 of 105 career games and has scored 1,464 career points.

Zion Gabriel, who set a state championship game record with eight 3-pointers in last year’s state final, is averaging 13.3 points per game. A junior, Gabriel has scored 1,078 career points.

“I’m happy where we are as a team,’’ Blythe said. “Every time we step on the court, we’re usually the shortest team, but my girls play hard, they play with passion.

I’m proud of my team.’’

Max Dorward (11) is one of seven seniors in the Palo Alto rotation.

Boys basketball (continued from page 46)

the state final.

He was asked how this team compares: “This team has a lot more weapons,’’ Diepenbrock said.

“But it’s hard to quantify Jeremy.

That team had six in the rotation, this team has seven. That team had three or four 6-4 guys, much like this team.’’

The current team’s seven-man rotation took shape when Paul Jackson III became available and started coming off the bench along with backcourt mate Jared

Wulbrun.

Jackson and Will Schmutz have combined to man the point guard position, the team’s one question mark going into this season after the graduation of Miles Tention.

Wulbrun provides a second 3-point shooting marksman to go along with Spencer Rojahn, while Max Dorward, William Schlemmer and Bryant Jefferson provide size, scoring and rebounding on the front line.

The seven players in the primary rotation are all seniors.

“And a lot of the seniors played varsity as sophomores,’’ Diepenbrock said. “We have a lot of interchangeable parts.’’Q

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