Palo Alto Weekly March 23, 2018

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Vol. XXXIX, Number 25

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Spectrum 16 Arts 26 Eating Out 28 Shop Talk 29 Movies 30 Q Neighborhoods Residents form ties through fun and games Q Home Local moms launch family-focused design company Q Sports Priory, Pinewood play for girls state basketball titles

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Local news, information and analysis

Palo Altans debate: ‘What’s in a name?’

School renaming sparks protest, division

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ith less than a week to go until the Palo Alto Unified Board of Education is scheduled to decide on new namesakes for two of the district’s middle schools, a last-minute protest by members of the city’s Chinese community has stirred up arguments that have dogged the process from its beginning in 2015.

Last weekend, dozens of parents of Chinese descent emailed the school board and launched a petition to oppose one of the eight nominated names, Fred Yamamoto, a Japanese-American Palo Altan who was interned during World War II, then enlisted in the U.S. Army and died in battle. The petition has since gathered more than 1,000 signatures.

It’s not Fred Yamamoto they are upset about but Isoroku Yamamoto, an unrelated Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and to whom parents attribute WWII war crimes against the Chinese. Though “Yamamoto” is a common Japanese surname, the parents assert that it’s a disrespectful choice for a school district that serves many Asian students and families.

“I am afraid renaming our school after ‘Yamamoto’ will not inspire our kids. Instead, it will confuse them and also hurt a lot of people’s feelings,” wrote Lily Wang in an email to the board.

Parent Vicky Huang attended a meeting about the renaming issue on Monday and told the crowd: “In this community, we do have families, their children in our school district, whose relatives and friends (were) killed in the Japanese invasion.”

Like many other educational institutions across the country that are reckoning with the complicated histories of people their facilities are named after, Palo Alto Unified found itself confronted with the issue in 2015 after a Jordan Middle School seventh-grader researched his school namesake and discovered that David Starr Jordan, the founding president of Stanford University, was a leader in the eugenics movement. Eugenics was a 20th-century belief that some races are inferior and which promoted the reproduction of genetic traits of particular races over others.

Following a petition that garnered 425 signatures and the endorsements of several parent groups in the school district, the school board convened a committee to explore the issue and then decided unanimously last year to rename Jordan as well as Terman middle schools. Like Jordan, Lewis Terman was a leader in the eugenics movement, though his son, Frederick Emmons Terman — a Silicon Valley pioneer for whom the school was later co-named — did not espouse

Six exemplary lives Palo Alto school district’s committee nominates exemplars of innovation, inclusion, integrity

by Jocelyn Dong

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or the past year, the Palo Alto Unified School District has been engaged in a process of gathering and vetting names for two of its middle schools. The following biographies of the six nominees are excerpted from the report of the Recommending School Names Advisory Committee and from interviews with committee members and others familiar with the nominees’ lives. The committee, as requested by the board, also recommended two geographical markers: Adobe Creek and Redwood Grove.

Ellen Fletcher Ellen Fletcher was a Holocaust survivor who immigrated to the U.S. as a young woman.

She devoted over 40 years to civic leadership in service to the Palo Alto community. She is best known for her advocacy for cycling.

Ellen Fletcher In her own words: “You don’t have to be a young athlete to ride a bike. Everyone can do it at any age.”

In others’ words: “Ellen devoted herself — her passion, her time, her persistence, and her considerable talents as an advocate — to making Palo Alto a better place,” the committee’s report states. “The tangible fruits of her work are all around

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by Elena Kadvany and Jocelyn Dong

David Starr Jordan Middle School is one of two Palo Alto Unified schools to be renamed due to their namesakes’ leadership in the eugenics movement. eugenics. (The school board has declined to retain Fred Terman’s name in the school name.)

At the board meeting last year, trustee Jennifer DiBrienza said that it is the responsibility of a public school system to support all students — particularly marginalized ones — in both action and spirit.

Despite the fact that Jordan died more than 80 years ago, “deeprooted bias didn’t die with him,” she said.

“It’s still alive and well, even in our town,” she said. “Our schools have to be the ones that declare in the loudest voice possible that we reject that, that that’s not OK.” A second district committee us: from the green-striped bike paths the students ride to school to the spirit embodied in the notion that local action can have global impact.”

Frank S. Greene Jr. Frank S. Greene Jr. holds a patent for the design of the fastest memory chip of its time and was one of the first AfricanAmerican founders of a publicly traded technology company. He founded Adventure Capital firm, focused on support for women and minority startups.

In his own words: “Making it through life was a civil-rights activity in itself,” Greene said of growing up in the highly segregated St. Louis, Missouri, of the 1940s and 1950s.

In others’ words: “Greene’s experiences with racism influenced the way he saw the world and how he wanted to change it for the better,” the committee’s report states.

Carolyn Wilkins-Greene, his ex-wife, said he was always

convened last year narrowed down more than 1,600 public name submissions and presented its final eight suggestions for new names to the school board last week. Former Palo Alto Mayor Leland Levy, who co-chaired the committee, told the board that the 13 committee members had spent 2,000 hours vetting the community’s suggestions and ensuring that none of the final nominees had questionable pasts.

The ºcommittee recommended six people — Ellen Fletcher, Frank Greene Jr., William Hewlett, Edith Johnson, Yamamoto and Anna Zschokke — and two geographical locations: Adobe Creek and Redwood Grove. The committee singled out

Yamamoto as its top choice.

The school board is set to vote on the recommendations this Tuesday, March 27.

Inspiration versus neutrality

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William R. Hewlett was a well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technologist who helped create innovative electronic products. He was a longtime Palo Alto resident and community leader whose

enaming schools is nothing new in Palo Alto, though previous changes were prompted by mergers: Ray Lyman Wilbur Junior High became Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School in 1985 when Jordan closed; Palo Verde Elementary became Sequoya Elementary in 1976 when Ortega Elementary closed; Elizabeth Van Auken Elementary became Los Ninos Elementary for several years and then merged with Sequoya in 1982, at which point the school was renamed Palo Verde.

The current renaming effort has by any measures been contentious.

Even as it’s proceeded, those opposed have advocated for reversing the board’s decision, citing a range of reasons: the sentimental ties that graduates of the schools have with the existing names; the cost to rebrand the schools’ uniforms, communications materials and signs; the lack of priority the opponents assign to the problem; allegations that the renaming is politically motivated; the risk of picking a name that could be problematic down the line; and, conversely, a lack of belief that namesakes matter to students.

To avoid a few of those issues, two school board members, Todd Collins and Ken Dauber, on March 13 supported renaming the schools after the inherently nonoffensive geographical features, Adobe Creek for Terman and Redwood Grove for Jordan.

But committee members and

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interested in “what’s right and what’s just. ... He really felt that to do something constructive — like getting a solid education and following through all the way to a Ph.D. in his case — was the best antidote for these kinds of issues.

“Frank was intensely interested in seeing more students of color ... and women in the Frank Greene sciences and math. He felt like their capabilities were often overlooked,” Wilkins-Greene said.

William R. Hewlett

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The city will not regulate this.

Libertarians worldwide rejoice! —Eric Filseth, Palo Alto vice mayor, on proposed setback rules for outdoor barbecues and fireplaces.

See story page 7.

Around Town

SOMETHING IN THE AIR ... It’s been a brutal week for the Palo Alto City Council — that was forced to play severely shorthanded Monday night. Only five of its nine members were able to attend the March 19 meeting, which meant that the five in attendance had to get a unanimous consensus for every item that it passed. Three of them — Mayor Liz Kniss, Councilman Cory Wolbach and Councilwoman Lydia Kou — were waylaid by illness, possibly as a result of germs they picked up while attending last week’s National League of Cities conference in Washington, D.C. The fourth, Councilman Greg Tanaka, was traveling on unrelated business and could not make the meeting.

City Manager James Keene also caught the bug in D.C., though by Tuesday he felt well enough to attend the council’s Finance Committee meeting for a discussion of a potential tax measure in November. That meeting almost didn’t happen because of a lack of quorum. That situation was averted when Kniss subbed in for Kou and Tanaka (under the council’s rules, the mayor is the only council member who can fill in on committees) and turned out to be the council’s shortest meeting in recent history (under an hour).� I got Mayor Kniss out of bed for this,� boasted Chair Greg Scharff. “He made some promises,� Kniss replied.

WHOSE ENGINE IS IT ANYWAY? ... It sure looked like a scoop: a fire engine that was supposed to save lives and property was spotted sitting idly at the home of the Oaxaca fire chief. That, at least, was the allegation from the Mexican anti-corruption group Ojo Ciudadano por la Democracia y en Contra de la Corruption (Citizen’s Eye for Democracy and against Corruption), whose members said they saw the fire engine that was donated by Palo Alto to its sister city, Oaxaca, sitting at the vacation home of Chief Manuel Maza. The group recorded its footage of the fire truck and shared it with Mexico News Daily, which promptly posted a story that referred to an investigation that state officials were looking to launch in response to these findings.

The allegation that the truck

came from Palo Alto was later negated. Bob Wenzlau, president of Neighbors Abroad, the local nonprofit that spearheads the sister-city relationship, noted that the truck seen at Maza’s house was not donated by the city. The trucks from Palo Alto were Crown and Pierce brands, Wenzlau said. The one spotted in Maza’s garage was a Seagrave pumper, which Maza reportedly obtained from the city of Torrance (Wenzlau provided an invoice for the Seagrave pumper as corroboration). Maza, he said, purchased the truck for another city in the state of Oaxaca, but that city opted not to take it, so the chief was looking to sell it. Wenzlau called the whole imbroglio a case of “no good deed goes unpunished.� He also related his findings to Mexico News Daily, which published a follow-up story. “I do happen to believe in Chief Maza, and watched him run into buildings on fire as a true hero,� Wenzlau told the Mexican news site.

BROADCAST NEWS ... For the first time since 2014, the Palo Alto City Council is preparing to spend some serious cash to improve its meeting room at City Hall. Unlike the $4.5-million upgrade in 2014, which (among other enhancements) included a refurbished lobby, a reconstructed meeting room and new carpeting and upholstery, the current effort focuses on technology. Under the roughly $2-million plan, Council Chambers will be equipped with a new audio-visual system, a touchscreen at the dais for each council member (with a wireless microphone) and a new lighting system for the room. The plan will also likely include a new projection screen over the dais, with dual projectors blended into one to create a larger image, according to a report from the Information Technology Department. Existing analog hardware, the report states, “can potentially lead to electrical and other hazards to operators and members of the public.� Similarly, the report claims that the voting system at the dais is obsolete and the public-speaking timer is outdated (apparently, a show of hands and a timer don’t suffice as cheap replacement tools). Q

Upfront ZONING

Council revises rules for carports, bike paths, more

by Gennady Sheyner

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alo Alto’s elected leaders set aside their lofty debate on growth and transportation Monday night to consider less weighty questions, including: What exactly is a carport? And should bike paths have speed limits?

As part of its annual zoning code update, the City Council approved more than two dozen nitty-gritty changes governing such issues as: How far should an outdoor fireplace be from the neighboring property? And what exactly is the difference between a carport and a garage?

Though mostly minor, some of the 28 changes effectively created new policies. The council decided, for instance, to institute a speed limit for bicyclists on bike paths — but only when other people are on the paths. They also agreed that a carport should be defined as a parking space covered with a solid roof that is at least 50 percent open on two or more sides, including the entry side.

The council also specified in a zoning revision that, when a building permit is sought, carports will be treated just like garages. With

this change, the council and planning staff wanted to address the loophole that allows a building owner to construct a carport in the portion of the property where a garage isn’t allowed and then convert the carport into a garage.

The two-step process was recently employed by Planning and Transportation Commissioner Michael Alcheck at two properties in the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood. In 2015, Alcheck constructed two homes with carports on Phillips Road and Madison Way — structures that went up after planning staff had rejected proposed front-facing garages.

As the Weekly first reported, Alcheck subsequently petitioned the city and received permission to convert the carports to garages.

Earlier this month, resident Fred Balin filed a complaint against Alcheck, alleging that he had a conflict of interest when he participated in commission discussions of carports and garages in 2015 and earlier this year.

While the council’s discussion Monday focused on the zoning

code — not on the complaint — several council members made it clear that the Alcheck situation was on their minds. Councilman Tom DuBois wondered if the planning commission discussion was “tainted” and proposed making the definition of carport a structure that is at least 80 percent open on two or more sides.

While the city’s planning staff had proposed 50 percent, DuBois argued that someone could install large windows to create garages that posed as carports.

“I think the threshold should be a little higher so people won’t be gaming the threshold,” DuBois said.

His proposal, however, fell by a 4-1 vote, with Councilman Greg Scharff dissenting. (It takes a majority of five of the nine council members to pass an ordinance, and on Monday only five members were present.)

The council then unanimously approved the staff proposal, with 50 percent coverage.

Council members had a harder time finding unanimity on new rules about outdoor barbecues and

Gennady Sheyner

Committee takes the scalpel to the zoning code

The City Council revised its rules for carports, specifying in a zoning revision that, when a building permit is sought, carports will be treated just like garages. The revision is part of 28 changes the council made to the zoning code on Monday, March 19. fireplaces. The current zoning code has no rules about where these structures should be placed within an interior yard. Planning staff and Fire Department officials recommended a setback of 4 feet from the interior side and rear property line.

DuBois and Councilwoman Karen Holman both made a case for increasing the mandatory setback to 6 feet. Other colleagues felt that would be too restrictive and suggested 3 to 5 feet.

“We’re balancing this setback issue against the value of Palo Altans being able to put barbecues, chimneys or firepits as they see fit,” said Councilman Adrian Fine, who held the latter view.

In the end, neither side was able to sway the other. Scharff again was the lone dissenter in the vote over the 6-foot setback. The

disagreement over the specifics means that the city has no setback requirement at all.

“The city will not regulate this.

Libertarians worldwide rejoice!”

Vice Mayor Eric Filseth quipped at the end of the discussion.

The spirit of consensus returned when the council took up bike paths. Prompted by concerns from Barron Park residents about the Bol Park path near Gunn High School, city staff had proposed a 15-mph speed limit on shareduse bikeways. DuBois and Holman both favored this threshold, while Fine argued that it’s too low.

Ultimately, the council agreed to institute the speed limit but apply it only when other bicyclists or pedestrians are present.

“We expect people to use some common sense here,” Fine said. Q

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Upfront TRANSPORTATION

Kristin Brown

Palo Alto city leaders are starting to narrow down the city’s options for separating the railroad tracks from streets at intersections in the city by discarding those deemed too costly, unsightly or disruptive.

City narrows down options for rail redesign City looks to discard options deemed too costly or too difficult to construct

by Gennady Sheyner

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s Palo Alto tries to reach a December decision on the best way to separate the rail tracks from local streets, city leaders are starting to winnow down the options by discarding those deemed too costly, unsightly or disruptive.

On Wednesday morning, the City Council’s Rail Committee generally endorsed reducing the current list of 34 options to about 16 before ultimately choosing between four and eight for an indepth study. The list of 16 is slated to go to the council on May 7.

In slimming the list to 16, city staff has let go of the idea of separating the tracks from the roads across the entire city, from border to border — a key omission for those who have long clamored for a trench or a tunnel along the 4-mile corridor. Though a citywide tunnel has not been technically excluded from consideration, staff and the Rail Committee have been backing away from this alternative because of its high cost and potential for significant disruption and impact on traffic during construction. Among the drawbacks is the need to create temporary train tracks on Alma Street during construction, which would require closure of parts or all of Alma to car traffic.

The list does, however, include an assortment of more modest proposals, some of which bely the notion that grade separations will be one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Palo Alto’s history.

Three of the 16 are “no build” options, focusing instead on minor safety upgrades like quad gates, which close when trains are approaching.

Four options focus on the Palo Alto Avenue crossing and four on the Churchill Avenue crossing.

Five pertain to grade crossings at Meadow Drive and three address Charleston Road.

At Palo Alto Avenue, two options

call for simply closing the road, while also either building a new bike-pedestrian path on the nearby Everett Avenue or widening the University Avenue underpass.

(Chief Transportation Official Josh Mello said the city can also consider doing both.) A third design would create a viaduct structure for the train at Palo Alto Avenue and into Menlo Park. The fourth would limit improvements to quad gates and the creation of a quiet zone.

The four options proposed at Churchill are closing the road and either widening Embarcadero Road or building a new bikepedestrian path near the Seale Avenue boulevard, connecting to Peers Park; reconstructing the grade crossing so that Churchill goes under the tracks; and a “no build” alternative that includes minor safety improvements, such quad gates and quiet “wayside” horns that would eliminate the sounding of standard train horns.

At Meadow Drive, one solution would close the road and create a bike-pedestrian underpass at Loma Verde Avenue. Two others would reconstruct Meadow under the tracks (what staff is calling the “hybrid” option), along with also either constructing the Loma Verde underpass or not. The fourth is the “no build” alternative, while the fifth is the most ambitious option on the table: a rail trench under both Meadow and Charleston.

Among the three alternatives for Charleston, two call for placing the road under rail (in one case, along with Meadow; and the other, without Meadow). The last option would create a trench just at the Charleston crossing.

The difficulty of constructing a trench or a tunnel in the northern half of the 4-mile corridor was highlighted last month in a white paper from the city’s consulting firm, Mott MacDonald. In addition

to construction costs that would exceed $2 billion, these alternatives could have significant ongoing costs, Mello told the committee.

Caltrain and Union Pacific, the freight operator, are not interested in operating a trench, which could curb their opportunities for future expansion, Mello said. This could leave the city on the hook for the ongoing operation and maintenance of the trench, he said.

Elevating trains over roads would bring its own challenges, including unsightliness and potential invasion of privacy.

“There are people along the corridor who are concerned that train riders will look into their backyard over their fencing, and they’d lose some of the privacy they have,” Mello said.

Notably, the only options on the list of 16 that call for train tracks over the roads are “hybrid” alternatives that combine the raising of the tracks with lowering of roads, including Alma.

City staff relied largely on the criteria that the council approved last year to narrow the list, though officials have also tacked on three new criteria. The most important factors that were considered in scoring the options were their ability to facilitate movement for all modes of transportation; to reduce delay and congestion; to improve bicycle and pedestrian connectivity across the corridor; and to improve rail operations.

Other factors centered on reducing noise, the impact visually, the impacts during construction, estimated community support and the need to acquire properties near the right-of-way.

The Rail Committee didn’t formally adopt the list of 16 options but offered a few other ideas they want staff to look at, including closing the Churchill grade crossing and creating at Churchill a bicycle-and-pedestrian underpass. Q

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Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

Around the Block ANNUAL COLLEGE TERRACE MEETING ... The College Terrace Residents Association will hold its annual meeting and vote for board members on Saturday, March 24, 9-11 a.m., at the University Lutheran Church sanctuary, 1611 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto. Mayor Liz Kniss will be the guest speaker. OAK CREEK CRIME PREVENTION ... After a spate of auto burglaries on Sand Hill Road and Oak Creek Drive in February, management will host a Town Hall meeting for residents of the Oak Creek Apartments on crime prevention efforts. Members of the Palo Alto Police Department and City Council have been invited. The meeting will be held April 3 at 6 p.m. in the Eucalyptus Room, Building 1450, which faces Sand Hill Road.

NORTH VENTURA COORDINATED PLAN ... The City of Palo Alto is accepting applications for residents who are interested in being on the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan working group. The community working group will assist in preparing the plan for the Fry’s area. The City Council will appoint 14 community members representing a diversity of interests.

Applications will be accepted through April 9 and can be located online at tinyurl.com/yacqdcqk.

Applicants are asked to read the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan Goals, Objectives and Timeline at tinyurl.com/y7kf6wta.

CONGRATULATIONS ... Barron Park Association held its annual meeting on March 18 with new Palo Alto Police Chief Robert Jonsen as guest speaker. Newly elected board members for 2018 are: Jon Affeld, president, John King, vice president and treasurer. Markus Fromherz continues as secretary; Additional board members are: Todd Collins, Tom DuBois, Maurice Green, Christian Kalar, Lisa Berkowitz Landers, Gwen Luce, Jaya Pandey, Myrna Rochester, Mircea Voskerician and Paul Yang.

Barron Park Association board meetings are held the third Tuesday of most months at 7:15 p.m. More information on the location is available by emailing president@ bpapaloalto.org. Q

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PASSOVER CELEBRATION ... A free celebration of Passover will take place on March 25, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Mitchell Park, 600 East Meadow Drive.

Barbara Weinstein, left, celebrates a small victory while playing Rummikub with Edith Drewek, center right, Bill Kornbluh, far right, and Peter Ruddock as the group gathers for a monthly game night organized by Transition Palo Alto.

DOWNTOWN NORTH

Fun and games Downtown North resident hosts game nights to bring people together

by Sue Dremann

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s the night enveloped a quiet stretch of Palo Alto Avenue in blackness, a warm yellow light streamed from Roy Kornbluh’s Downtown North home. Silhouetted forms moved about the dining room and a few card tables in the living room.

Inside, nearly a dozen people doled out cards, selected tiles and tossed dice onto game boards while playing Rummikub, Forbidden Island and other games.

Once a month, Kornbluh transforms his home into a neighborhood gathering spot for making new friends and cementing acquaintances. He recently began hosting “game night” at his 1920s home after a trial run last fall at a local church.

Kornbluh said while attending lectures about emergency preparedness, he was struck by the isolation many people seem to feel. When asked if they could name their neighbors, many people were silent. That’s when he decided to open up his home to neighbors.

Kornbluh takes part in Transition

Palo Alto, a loose coalition of individuals who work on self-sufficiency, climate protection and sustainability in areas of food, transportation, energy, housing, health, education and the economy.

The group, which boasts a mailing list of about 500 members throughout Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, has hosted conversation salons, sharing fairs, films and other events.

Kornbluh, who previously hosted craft evenings at his home, said game night was a logical step.

“It’s another way to bring people together,” he said, as he circulated from table to table.

Participant Barbara Weinstein, Kornbluh’s father, William, and Peter Ruddock, a Transition Palo Alto steering committee member, studied their Rummikub tiles.

Events such as game night allow them to step away from the dizzying pace of technology and follow traditions from a simpler time — when people met face to face and shared good, humanconnected times, they said.

“We like to do things that are

neighborhood focused. There are some real advantages to having things closely tied in the neighborhoods,” Weinstein said.

There have been edible tree walks and applesauce- and sauerkraut-making gatherings, zerowaste events and garden produce sharing. Knowing neighbors can mean pooling resources and fuelconsuming trips to the store or other carbon-producing activities.

At game night, it’s more about the warm bodies and smiles and a sense of welcoming and acceptance.

Participants can bring their own board games or play what is available, Kornbluh said. The diningroom group huddled around the Forbidden Island board. It’s a cooperative game where everyone works together to win instead of trying to beat each other. The players take on roles such as pilot, engineer, navigator, diver, and move their pawns around a four-by-four-inch “island” of tiles with images depicting areas such as the Misty Marsh or Dunes of Deception.

The goal is to seek four treasures before the island “sinks,” which happens when the tiles are used up. Players develop strategies to help keep the island from losing tiles and try to take the treasures back by helicopter to a landing pad before the island is under water. As the island shrinks and the water level rises, the players must make sacrifices. It’s a fitting game for a group of folks focused on building community.

Weinstein, at the more competitive Rummikub table, which combines elements of rummy and mahjong, considered the value of game night.

“In this area, there is a lot of talk about isolation in Silicon Valley. People associate at work or at church. We are looking to weave people together in a different dimension,” she said.

Kornbluh said he planned to extend game night to more of his neighbors the old fashioned way: by knocking on their doors.

Kronbluh noted there is more relationship building to be done.

“I’m just happy I can tell you the names of my neighbors on both sides.”

More about game night and other Transition Palo Alto gatherings can be found at transitionpaloalto.org and by joining the email list. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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those who know the stories of the six nominated persons say that the community would be missing out on an opportunity to inspire, teach and motivate students if it named schools after geography.

“Our preference is strong that the schools be named after persons. We recognize the risk that this represents. People are never perfect, but we believe the ability of individual lives to inspire our youth should not be lightly passed over,” Levy told the school board on March 13. (See sidebar on the six nominated persons.)

Sara Woodham, a committee member and mother of the student who discovered Jordan’s adherence to eugenics, noted that her son went to Duveneck Elementary, named after Frank and Josephine Duveneck, 20th-century Palo Altans who worked on behalf of social justice and environmental causes.

Duveneck Elementary had previously been named Green Gables, after the neighborhood.

“I believe strongly in the power of school names to set a tone and set a school climate, potentially to inspire,” she told the Weekly. “You cannot argue that ‘Green Gables’ is more inspiring than ‘Duveneck.’”

When she moved to California, Woodham learned about the people who built Palo Alto and about what the community stood for through the names of buildings, which she said she found meaningful.

“You feel good that these people existed,” she said.

Others believe that naming has the potential to convey values

important in today’s climate and to today’s youth. Carolyn WilkinsGreene, the ex-wife of nominee and pioneering Silicon Valley technologist Frank Greene Jr., said that he set an example as he helped mentor minority students and women in the fields of math, science and engineering.

“Frank felt that if one got into something worthwhile, one should stick with it and be conscientious about it,” Wilkins-Greene said.

“He had a very strong work ethic.

Any students, he tried to convey that to them.

“Frank’s idea of living was showing up with enthusiasm,” she said.

Terry Fletcher’s mother, Ellen Fletcher — a nominee and former City Council member — championed the importance of taking action in the face of social evils.

“When I was young and she was telling me stories of growing up in Nazi Germany, what horrified her the most was how little opposition to Hitler she saw,” the younger Fletcher said. “People either joined in enthusiastically or let it happen and didn’t do anything. There was a sort of thoughtlessness. I got a big message that you can’t let that happen and you can’t be a person that stands by. You need to stand up.”

Shannon McElyea, the greatgreat-granddaughter of nominee Anna Zschokke (pronounced “SHAW-key”), said that her ancestor is an example of courage: Zschokke, a widow with three children who arrived to Palo Alto in the late 1800s, attended Stanford and launched the Palo Alto school system with funds from mortgaging her home.

“She was really a pioneer,” McElyea said. Zschokke

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hear a presentation on the Stanford Research Park Transportation Demand Management Program; discuss the city’s sales-tax and economic trends; and consider audio/visual and broadcast system upgrades for the Council Chambers. The council will then go into closed session to discuss existing litigation: Alacia Hafner v.

City of Palo Alto, and Muza Mdzinarishvili v. City of Palo Alto, and to discuss the status of the city’s negotiations with the police and firefighter unions.

The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, March 26, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Closed session will follow.

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will hear the middle schools’ Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) reports, an update on physical and mental health services, vote on new names for Terman and Jordan middle schools and discuss bids for summer maintenance projects. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans hear an update on the ITT property at Byxbee Park and discuss public art placement, the Bryant Street Garage Fund and the city’s 2018 Summer Programs and Camps. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider a proposal to subdivide a property at 3225 El Camino Real into two parcels, one of which would be commercial and another one residential; and consider changes to the city’s zoning code pertaining to accessory-dwelling units. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will hold a special meeting on the search for a new superintendent on Thursday, March 29. The board will meet in open session 8 - 9:30 a.m. and closed session from 9:30 to 11 a.m. The meeting agenda was not available by press deadline.

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demonstrated a “fierce dedication to her convictions and to making sure the Palo Alto children were taken care of. She didn’t even want them walking 2 miles (to schools in the town of Mayfield).

She said, ‘No, we have to have a school here. And I’m going to do it.’”

Kelly Kim, the mother of a Palo Alto High School student, said that she admires Fred Yamamoto’s character, calling him one of the “unsung heroes” of the Palo Alto community. He maintained his faith in democracy, and his devotion to his country never wavered, the committee report noted.

And he encouraged others to believe in the goodness of man.

“He wasn’t trying to be a hero.

He just had the qualities that makes a person a good person — good inside,” Kim said.

“He wanted to do the right thing: joining the 442nd (Army regiment), helping his country.

For him it wasn’t ‘What would I get out of it?’” said Kim, who wrote a letter of support for Yamamoto last week. “He did it for the fact that it was the right.”

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ne of the thornier debates raised by the renaming process has been how to consider the associations that names evoke. Palo Alto resident Robert Smith has been fighting to get the district to treat Fred Terman, who did not subscribe to eugenics, with respect after the board decided to drop his name from the middle school.

“The essence of eugenics is that people are judged by their heredity rather than their potential and contributions. This is exactly what is happening to Fred Terman: He is being lumped together with his father and dishonored because of his

father,” Smith wrote in a letter to the Weekly. “The district is missing a teachable moment in allowing this to happen by not emphasizing that we have to treat everyone as an individual, even someone named ‘Terman’ or ‘Jordan.’”

Similarly, in an email to a parent on Sunday, school board member Melissa Baten Caswell wrote that using a “guilt by association” argument to oppose Fred Yamamoto “is exactly the action that was used to remove Fred Yamamoto and his family from their home in Palo Alto and place them in a prison camp in Wyoming.”

Palo Altan Sheena Chin argued in an interview that by the board’s own rationale — excluding the possibility of retaining the Fred Terman’s name to avoid confusion and to fully sever ties with the father’s legacy — Yamamoto should not be used.

“The last name does count,” she told the Weekly.

“We’re talking about the name of the school,” Chin added.

“We’re not judging this person, Fred Yamamoto.”

Terry Fletcher, the nominee’s daughter, questions the appropriateness of not distinguishing between individuals with the same last name.

What, she asked, should happen to Palo Alto’s Hoover Elementary School, named after the president but which could be mistaken as being named after J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director accused of serious abuses of authority? Or, Nixon Elementary School, which one could mistakenly assume is named for President Richard Nixon, who left office in disgrace, rather than Lucille M. Nixon, an outstanding mid20th-century Palo Alto educator?

Some parents this week criticized one board member’s role in the divisive debate. Collins, who voted for the renaming but now

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

Board Policy Review Committee, Palo Alto Unified (March 16)

Policies: The committee discussed policies on administering medications, complaints regarding district employees and superintendent’s contract. Action: None

City Council (March 19)

Utilities: The council approved the 2018 Utilities Strategic Plan. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Holman, Scharff Absent: Kniss, Kou, Tanaka, Wolbach Code: The council approved more than 20 amendments to the city’s zoning code as part of an annual clean-up effort. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Holman, Scharff Absent: Kniss, Kou, Tanaka, Wolbach

Council Finance Committee (March 20)

Polling: The committee approved moving ahead with a poll to gauge citizen interest in a November tax measure to pay for infrastructure projects. Yes: Filseth, Kniss, Scharff Absent: Kou, Tanaka

Council Rail Committee (March 21)

Rail: The committee supported the staff process for narrowing down the list of 34 alternatives for grade separation to 16. Yes: Fine, Scharff, Wolbach No: Kou

Council Policy and Services Committee (March 21)

Audits: The committee recommended approving the status of audits for the citywide cash handling and travel expense; and cable franchise and public, education and government (PEG) fees, as well as continuous monitoring of invoice payments. Yes: Unanimous

opposes using individuals’ names, wrote in an email to a concerned parent that he was “disappointed” that the committee and perhaps other board members “seemed unaware” of the impact the Japanese surname could have on Chinese and East Asian families.

“While Mr. Fred Yamamoto of course was a second generation Japanese-American, and Yamamoto is a common Japanese name, it is hard to explain to a child why that particular name is honored when our schools have so many ethnic Chinese students and families,” he wrote.

After reading this message, which was widely circulated in the schools community, parent Michelle Higgins wrote to the board and interim Superintendent Karen Hendricks asking them to publicly censure Collins at the next board meeting.

“Suggesting that a name is unacceptable because of its national origin is not a position that I would expect any board member to endorse,” she wrote.

In an interview, Collins said that this was neither his intent nor position.

“This will bedevil us on any name,” he said. “Whatever little upside there might be from inspirational names is in my mind wildly outweighed by the potential downsides and the divisiveness of the process.”

In a message posted on Facebook on Monday evening, DiBrienza reiterated her opposition to naming schools after locations.

“If we are serious about dismantling structures that are holding some of our students back, that,” DiBrienza wrote, referring to using only place names, “cannot be an option for this board.”

Renaming offers an opportunity to “pay tribute to inspiring contributors to Palo Alto” and “to center women and citizens of color who are often overlooked in our history books, our history classes and our community conversations,” she added.

People on both sides of the issue have said they feel saddened by the fissures in the community that renaming has exposed.

LaDoris Cordell, a retired Santa Clara County judge serving on the recommending committee, responded frankly to public comment at the meeting on Monday night, calling on Palo Altans to face “the tensions that exist in this community” among different racial and ethnic groups.

“It’s become palpable,” she said.

“I encourage those of you in this room and I encourage the Board of Education to do something affirmatively about having these conversations so we can confront what it is we’re feeling.”

The school board is set to vote on the new names on Tuesday at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany and Editor Jocelyn Dong can be reached at ekadvany@paweekly. com and jdong@paweekly.com.

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philanthropy has had continuing impacts on the community and throughout the world.

In his own words: The HP Way is “a core ideology ... which includes a deep respect for the individual, a dedication to affordable quality and reliability, a commitment to community responsibility, and a view that the company exists to make technical contributions for the advancement and welfare of humanity.”

In others’ words: “Hewlett’s commitment to the larger community was evident in how he ran his company and lived his life,” the committee’s report states. “Hewlett embraced affirWilliam R. mative action, Hewlett and he practiced diversity before it was even mandated.

“He believed that those who had had the good fortune to succeed should devote themselves to the betterment of society,” the report states.

Edith Johnson Edith Johnson was Palo Alto’s first female general physician, who practiced from 1907 to the 1960s. She treated patients regardless of their race and Edith Johnson ethnicity, from Napa to San Jose, often for no pay or for whatever amount patients could afford. A single woman, Johnson’s life defied conventions.

In her own words: “I have not found these people eager to accept charity,” Johnson wrote about a community of Hispanic cannery workers. “They often beg me for some work to do in exchange for what I do for them. When possible, they send presents — a squab, a chicken, some fruit or vegetables.”

In others’ words: “I was struck by her straightforward nature, going to work every day,” said Sara Woodham, a committee member who read Johnson’s meticulously kept diaries.

“She was also like a counselor,” Woodham said. “She was in people’s homes and involved in the less-than-ideal situations you don’t want to be around.”

Fred Yamamoto Fred Yamamoto is the committee’s top pick for a middle school namesake. He was a JapaneseAmerican Palo Altan who, despite forced incarceration in a Wyoming internment camp during World War II, volunteered to fight for his country. He was a youth leader who inspired others with

his devotion to equality and c o m m u n i t y, the committee report states.

A decorated soldier, he was killed in action in France.

In his own words: “Let Fred Yamamoto us not be pessimistic, nor overly optimistic, but let us keep faith — faith in the dignity and goodness of man,” he wrote upon arriving at the internment camp. “We have a tremendous task before us in bolstering morale of our younger

brothers and sisters.”

In others’ words: Yamamoto’s step-niece Pam Hashimoto, a retired educator, researched his life.

Among his qualities: “He would seek to understand but did not dwell on blame or on his misfortune. ... He always looked for the best in anyone ... and ways to create positive change.”

“He was warm, kind ... (and) looked up to as a leader and moral compass by many,” she said. “He exemplified selflessness, courage, patriotism, love and faith in the future — qualities that will assist young students to learn resiliency and perseverance.”

Anna Zschokke

In others’ words: “What’s inspiring about her is just how she advocated for her children’s education,” said her great-greatgranddaughter Chauntelle Trefz.

“She knocked on every single door until she got the thing that she needed to.”

Another great-great-granddaughter, Shannon McElyea, noted Zschokke’s courage and steadfast love of community. “She wasn’t selfish at all. She was very generous with her time and with her spirit and with helping out everywhere she could,” McElyea said. Q A longer version of this article is posted on PaloAltoOnline.com.

Anna Zschokke (pron o u n c e d S H AW- k e y), a widow with three children, was a woman of action, a motivator and a risktaker, the comAnna Zschokke mittee report states. She spearheaded the creation of Palo Alto’s first public school and built the first high school building by mortgaging her home.

In her words: “We must have our school if there is to be a Palo Alto.”

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Nancy O’Laughlin Salmon October 9, 1947 – March 12, 2018 It is with sadness that the family of Nancy Salmon announces her peaceful passing in her home in Redwood City on Monday, March 12, 2018.

The daughter of Raymond James and Virginia O’Laughlin, Nancy was born in Oak Park, Illinois on October 9, 1947. She received her Bachelor’s degree from St. Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana in 1969 and married the same year. She worked as a special education teacher in Illinois for several years before becoming a full-time homemaker. After the family moved to the Bay Area in 1984, Nancy immersed herself in the children’s school theater productions, sports teams and academic pursuits and was an active member of the Sacred Heart school community in Atherton. She beamed at any opportunity to tell her friends how proud she was of her children.

Nancy loved to read. She was always with book in hand.

For the last 17 years, she shared this passion for books of all kinds - classics and new releases, thrillers and non-fiction, stories that were joyful or heartfelt - with the local community through her work at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park. She developed a dedicated and large following of readers, publishers, authors, friends, co-workers and anyone else interested in one of the noteworthy recommendations on “Nancy’s shelf.� At her retirement in 2016, she reminded co-workers and friends of the simple joy she found practicing the art of “putting the right book in each customer’s hand.� She was a constant and vocal champion for independent bookstores, her local community and a good story of any kind.

Nancy was predeceased by her parents Raymond and Virginia and her infant brother Joseph; she is joined in heaven by her brother-in-law, Jim Schell, who passed away on March 17, 2018. Nancy will forever be in the hearts of her surviving relatives including sisters Sue Schell and Carol Church; her three children and their spouses Kevin and Caryn (McNamee) Salmon, Patrick and Bryanne (Raines) Salmon and Shawn and Nic Maisano; and her six grandchildren Quinn, Shay, Raymond and Duggan Salmon and Sophia and Christopher Maisano. Nancy was also beloved by numerous cousins, nephews, nieces and their children.

A memorial service to celebrate Nancy’s life will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 25, 2018 at St. Raymond’s church (1100 Santa Cruz Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025) followed by a reception at Kepler’s Books (1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025) beginning at 4:30 p.m. Nancy’s final resting place will be All Saints’ Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that friends purchase books in store or online at Keplers.com. Many of her reviews are viewable on her Goodreads page and recent recommendations are on display on her shelf at Kepler’s.

A memorial service to celebrate Nancy’s life will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 25, 2018 at St. Raymond’s church (1100 Santa Cruz Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025) followed by a reception at Kepler’s Books (1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025) beginning at 4:30 p.m. Nancy’s final resting place will be All Saints’ Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that friends purchase books in store or online at Keplers.com. Many of her reviews are viewable on her Goodreads page and recent recommendations are on display on her shelf at Kepler’s.

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Warren Hastings Goodnow Warren Hastings Goodnow passed away on Feb. 22, 2018 at the age of 80, in Palo Alto after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family.

Warren was born in Washington D.C. to Charles and Margaret Goodnow. The family, including his brother Bud and sister Mary, moved to Winchester, Massachusetts where he attended Winchester High School. He was president of his senior class and earned varsity letters in three different sports. Warren graduated from MIT with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering. He joined Beta Theta Pi fraternity, where he made life-long friends. Warren played on the MIT baseball team for four years and was the team captain his junior and senior years. The famed broadcaster and Boston Globe reporter, Bud Collins, covered MIT baseball and described Warren as a baseball player who carried three gloves: one for pitching, one for catching, and one for playing on the field. Despite offers from major league baseball teams, he married his college sweetheart, Judith Mansfield (graduate of Wellesley College), and took a job in the Ice Lab at MIT. In 1962, they moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for Warren’s job at Jones & Laughlin Steel.

In 1965 the family, which included two daughters (Sandy and Tracy) moved to Stanford University, where Warren earned a masters and doctorate in Metallurgy. While at Stanford, Warren and Judy welcomed their third child, son Mark. After graduation, Warren began his career at Kaiser Aluminum, and the family made their home in Palo Alto.

While at Kaiser, he did research at aluminum smelters in parts of the world such as Siberia, Ghana, Wales and Tasmania. He holds several patents.

At the age of 50, after playing with various softball leagues, Warren joined the Redwood City Softball League and began 25 years of playing senior softball. His teams traveled throughout California and the western states for tournaments. In 1989, his team won the seniors softball world series in North Carolina.

During retirement, Warren and Judy enjoyed annual hiking trips in Europe with old friends, playing duplicate bridge, and family vacations to Yosemite, Maine and other favorite locations.

Warren volunteered as a long-time tutor in math and also taught math through Global Volunteers in Ghana.

Warren is survived by his wife of 58 years, Judy Mansfield Goodnow; daughter Sandy Goodnow Jara (son-in-law Randy and children Nate, Allie and Tommy) of Yorba Linda; daughter Tracy Goodnow Hughes (son-in-law Prys and children Rhiannon and Sioned) of Palo Alto; and son Mark Goodnow (daughter-in-law Maggie and children Caroline, Janie, Sam) of Seattle.

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

March 14-March 20 Violence related Arson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Rape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sex Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 1 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 5 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc.

Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Noise complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Open container violation. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Poss. Of stolen property. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psych subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 5 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Menlo Park

March 14-March 20 Violence Related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft Related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle Related Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Child protective services referral. . . . . . 2 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Misc.

Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Ramona Street, 11/15/2017, 12:20 a.m.; sex crime.

Arastrero Road, 2/21, 2:30 p.m.; domestic violence.

East Meadow Drive, 2/28, 10 a.m.; arson.

Cowper Street, 3/16, 10:37 a.m.; rape Encina Avenue, 3/17, 2:33 p.m.; child abuse.

Menlo Park

1100 Block Elder Ave., 3/18, 2:58 p.m.; battery.

Transitions John B. Runnels Jr. Former Stanford University Medical Center neurosurgeon and former resident of Palo Alto John B. Runnels Jr. died March 6 due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease. He was 82.

He was born and raised in Lyons, Kansas and graduated from Lyons High. He was recruited by University of Kansas (KU) basketball coach Phog Allen and played basketball at KU as a freshman.

At KU, he met his future wife, Judy Cotton, and they married while he attended KU Medical School. He went on to complete a medical internship followed by a neurosurgery residency at Stanford University.

In 1963, he volunteered for the U.S. Navy, trained as a wing flight surgeon and served in the Vietnam War. He spent seven months in the South China Sea on the Aircraft Carrier USS Independence before returning to his residency in Palo Alto. In 1972, he and his family moved to Topeka, Kansas, where he accepted a position as a neurosurgeon at The Menninger Foundation. In 1990, he and Judy returned to Palo Alto where he continued to work as a neurosurgeon for the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and for the Veterans Affairs Hospital.

He was long-affiliated with Stanford UMC and after his return to Palo Alto, he worked as Clinical Faculty until his retirement.

After retiring to Weed, California in 2002, Jack lost his wife of 45 years to cancer. He remarried in 2005 to Linda Sue Gerber.

He is survived by his wife Linda Sue Gerber of Eagle Point, Oregon; his sister, Diane Beyer Perett (Greg) of Arlington, Virginia; his three children, John Runnels (Donna) of Denver, Colorado; Ruthmarie Runnels of Mt. Shasta, California; and Laura Fleming (Lou) of Pasadena, California and five grandsons.

His celebration of life will be held at Stanford Faculty Club April 21 at 12:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to “KU Endowment - Alzheimer’s Research.”

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Jean Ohme Jean Ohme lived her 89 years to the fullest. Even during her last few years when she was battling dementia, she remained positive and supportive with the help of the wonderful staff at Palo Alto Commons. She was one of the kindest, compassionate and most determined people the world has ever known.

She made Muhammad Ali and Mother Theresa look like light weights! She fought for every individual she cared for.

If you needed encouragement, go talk to Jean. She would enthusiastically tell you to “do it”, that you would be great, and to give it your all. She didn’t just say it, she believed it.

A believer in the power of education, she managed to put herself through college. Her father was an immigrant from Latvia who did not believe in college. She didn’t listen to her father, she was determined to go to college and she didn’t give up until she succeeded. She worked multiple jobs until she got her Bachelor’s Degree in English from UCLA, and later a Master’s degree in Special Ed. This kind of fight for what she believed in was a theme throughout her life. Quitting was never an option.

Education was Jean’s passion. She spent her life working hard to help students with special needs feel great about themselves and reach for the stars in their academic and personal pursuits. She was a teacher, a Resource Specialist and later a Co-Founder, along with her husband Herman Ohme, of School For Independent Learners (SIL) which spawned Lydian Academy and Tilden Preparatory School.

Collectively these three schools have saved the lives of thousands of students. This was exactly what she wanted to do in her life. She loved seeing students thrive when they had been previously shut down and discouraged.

During the Vietnam war years, Jean’s brother Herbert Magidson started a peace movement and one of his slogans was, “Individuals Against the Crime of Silence.” Jean embraced his message throughout her life. She always stepped up, spoke up, even when it meant putting herself at risk. She was tough and she got even tougher when she saw people in need, or a social injustice.

Now more than ever, in Jean’s honor, let’s speak up when we see social injustice, and support all people who need and deserve encouragement.

Jean is survived by her children; Rhonda Racine, Karen Hobbs, Steve Ohme and five glorious grandchildren.

A memorial service celebrating Jean’s life is open to the public and will be held Sunday April 8, 2018, at 11:00 am at the Mitchell Park Community Center, Adobe Room, 3700 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto.

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April 15, 1932 – March 3, 2018 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and brother Ronald Lee Kaye, M.D. on March 3, 2018. Ron died suddenly and without suffering. Ron was born on April 15, 1932 in Toledo, Ohio to Philip Kaminsky and Gertrude Mae Berman, who predeceased him.

He met his beloved wife, Tobye Fay Davidson, at summer camp in 1949, when Ron was 18 and Tobye 14½, and the two were married in 1955 in Detroit.

Ron received his A.B. (1953) and M.D. (1957) from the University of Michigan and after a year of internship at Sinai Hospital in Detroit, moved to Rochester, Minnesota, where he completed an Internal Medical residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. Ron interrupted his post-graduate medical training to serve his country as a captain in the U.S. Air Force at George Air Force Base in southern California.

Ron and Tobye moved to Palo Alto in 1963 where Ron founded the Rheumatology Department at the Palo Alto Clinic (now the Palo Alto Medical Foundation – PAMF), and served as chair of the department until his retirement from clinical practice in 1997. He continued as Director of Continuing Medical Education at PAMF until this past December, completing more than 54 years of service at PAMF. Ron’s many professional achievements included teaching numerous medical students, residents, and rheumatology fellows as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford.

He was chair of the California Medical Association’s Committee on Continuing Medical Education (CME) which established continuing medical education re-licensing standards for all physicians in the state, and later for the nation through the American Medical Association’s Committee on CME. He also established scientific interchange between the Peking Medical School and Stanford, as one of the first Americans to travel to China in 1979. Ron authored or co-authored almost forty scientific papers and book chapters, and served as president of several local and national medical organizations. He received the first

Philip S. Hench Award for Excellence in Rheumatology at the Mayo Clinic, was elected to the Royal Society of Medicine (London) and the American College of Physicians, and was honored by the Arthritis Foundation and the Santa Clara Medical Society.

Ron was also very active in the Jewish community. He led the Israel Bond drive at Stanford after the Six Day War, served on the Magen David Adom national board, co-founded the SinoJudaic Institute, co-organized the first Jewish bioethics conference at Hebrew Union College, and served on several committees and attended many classes at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, where he and Tobye were members for almost 55 years.

A clarinet and saxophone player, Ron had the opportunity during high school to play with Benny Goodman and his Orchestra as well as to personally interview Gen. Dwight Eisenhower while serving as the DeVilbiss High School newspaper’s managing editor.

Ron traveled the world with Tobye, visiting several countries. He was an talented artist, fan of Stanford and University of Michigan sports, music lover, and collector of minerals, stamps, coins, and toy soldiers.

Ron’s family was the most important part of his life. He was a devoted husband to Tobye, father to Brian (Fran), Todd (Julie), Douglas (Cyndi) and Jeffrey (Rhonda), grandfather to Naomi (Honza), Ilan, Joshua, Ari, Shaina, Doniel, Micaela, Asher, Jonah and Avi Kaye, great-grandfather to Ezra, brother to Jerry Kaye (Elsa), and uncle and cousin to many.

Ron was a special friend to many, including his numerous patients, and went out of his way to help countless people. He will be missed tremendously by the innumerable people whose lives he touched, but his memory and wonderful deeds will forever live on in all of our hearts.

Memorial services and burial were held on March 6, 2018. For those who wish to honor Ron, please consider making a donation to Congregation Beth Am, the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, the American Friends of Magen David Adom, or the charity of your choice.

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Editorial Rename the schools after people Given the open process and honorable intent, it’s time to push forward

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ore than two years have passed since a seventh-grader at David Starr Jordan Middle School discovered that his school’s namesake was a leader in one of the 20th century’s ugliest movements: eugenics, or the belief that some races are inferior to others and that sterilization of people with “undesireable” traits is justified.

The horror felt by that student, who is part African-American, became the catalyst for a committee’s exploration of renaming of Jordan and Terman Middle School (Lewis Terman was also a eugenicist). A year ago, the school board unanimously decided to proceed and a citizens’ Recommending School Names Advisory Committee was formed to gather and vet new names. Their dedication to the task, which included more than 2,000 hours of work, is to be lauded.

A year ago we were not enthusiastic about the renaming due to the resources and time it would likely consume. We recommended at the least a delay in the process until the district had the funds to spend on the rebranding of signs, stationery and athletics jerseys that will be necessary. Because the district did proceed, however, we now believe the only sensible choice is to move forward, and we urge the board to finalize the two names as scheduled next Tuesday.

The process of choosing the names has been open and fair. It began with an open call for submissions, which drew 1,600 responses, including nearly 320 different people’s names and 50 unique suggestions of geographic markers. From those, the committee, which included school district personnel, three former City Council members and other residents, researched the names based on criteria such as inclusion, integrity and contribution to Palo Alto.

The eight nominees they recommended last week to the school board — six individuals and two geographic markers — are written up in a report, which we urge everyone to read. These individuals are among the most outstanding residents Palo Alto has known.

They helped build the city through innovation — such as William R. Hewlett, whose company has become synonymous with Palo Alto and whose philanthropic legacy continues to better the world, and Ellen Fletcher, the City Council member known for her advocacy of cycling and environmental causes. They were exemplars of the practice of inclusion — such as Anna Zschokke, who founded the Palo Alto school system in the 1800s for the local children, and Frank Greene Jr., a pioneering technologist who advocated for greater diversity in Silicon Valley. And they demonstrated integrity, such as Edith Johnson, the city’s first female doctor, who treated patients regardless of their ethnicity or ability to pay, and Fred Yamamoto, a Palo Alto youth leader who inspired others with his devotion to equality and community and who died in World War II fighting for democracy and justice.

While the renaming process has drawn out honest concerns from many people, we are bothered by one development this week that may be influencing the nomination considerations. Some in the community have vociferously objected to Yamamoto’s nomination, noting that his surname is the same as that of Japanese naval admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor and is blamed for earlier playing a role in Japan’s invasion of China.

They are entitled to their opinion; however, as school trustee Melissa Baten Caswell succinctly observed Monday: To view Fred Yamamoto not as an individual but solely by his Japanese heritage is what led this country to wrongly force Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II. It is “guilt by association.”

It also flies in the face of the noble purpose of renaming the schools, which is to stand as a community for the ideal that every individual should have the opportunity to make something of him or herself, not judged or limited by others based on race or creed, but celebrated based on one’s own actions and character.

We strongly reject the idea that choosing Fred Yamamoto, who was the committee’s single top pick for a middle school namesake, is now suddenly an inappropriate option.

More broadly, we believe, as does the committee, that naming schools for people carries far more power to inspire our students than place names, of which the district already has plenty.

We urge the school board to stay the course, honor the original intent of the renaming, and choose people as namesakes for the schools.

This fall, when the schools unveil their new names, we can then look forward to teaching our students about these exemplary individuals and imparting the lessons that they stood for throughout their lives.

Finally, though some may regret the division that the renaming has revealed in our community, the surfacing of fissures — as at least one committee member observed Monday — gives us the opportunity to come together and be purposeful in healing those divides, seeing past differences and uniting under our shared belief that every person is created equal. Q

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Letter Standing up for Fred Editor, I stand with Americans — Americans of diverse backgrounds, particularly those of racial, ethnic and national origin.

I am a fourth-generation Californian whose great-grandfather arrived as an 1863 immigrant from China. He, like others from China, suffered brutal violence. Later, my grandfather and father suffered long and terribly from the 1882 racist Chineseexclusion immigration law.

Early Japanese immigrants were also affected by the exclusion law. Additionally, in WWII, Japanese Americans suffered from the cruel and unconstitutional internment camps.

I hold that true American heroes are those who despite years of exclusion and bigotry in our country still believed inclusion to be possible.

American heroes like Fred Yamamoto — and countless other minorities who experienced discrimination yet remained true patriots — are to be lauded. Fred, by his word and deed, continued to stand for inclusion in the United States and gave his life fighting enemies such as his ancestors in the “old country.”

As a Chinese-ancestry person who also had many clan members murdered and tortured by troops of Japanese in WWII, I share the profound animosity for those individuals who caused suffering to my ancestral family and others.

Yet, I also find it necessary, while being proud of one’s country of origin, for us not to unwittingly join the bigots and supremacists in America who allege that Chinese-Americans and Chinese immigrants are unreasonably passionate and disproportionately obsessed with historical issues from the old country at the expense of doing violence to a loyal American hero.

I stand for Fred Yamamoto as being equally deserving as the other namesake nominees for a Palo Alto middle school.

I do take issue with the error of not including an AsianAmerican member on the Recommending Names Committee, especially in light of our school district’s large number of Asianancestry students — an omission all too common.

Allan Seid Webster Street, Palo Alto

This week on Town Square Town Square is an online discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square In response to ‘Looking at Silicon Valley’s housing quagmire’ Posted March 21 at 4:30 p.m. by Allen Akin, a resident of Professorville: “There are different kinds of public transit, and they work best with different population densities. The reading I’ve done suggests that to be costeffective, heavy rail needs a density of about 45 people per acre; light rail about 30; bus transit less (but I couldn’t find consensus about the number); car pooling still less. Pure R1 blocks near downtown have a density of about 15.

Peak density isn’t all you need, though. The distribution also matters. Several authors observed that LA actually has quite high population density, but it’s distributed in such a way that rail isn’t a good solution. We would be in a similar situation because of historical development patterns. Just increasing density near transit wouldn’t be enough; we’d also have to move housing and jobs out of the less-dense areas.

And no matter what system you envision for the long run, you have to have intermediate systems that are implementable, affordable and effective. Otherwise growth just grinds to a halt partway through as the economic drag becomes too great.

We’re seeing the early signs of such a phase right now.

I think this observation from an Australian study is right

on target: ‘First, good public transport is not something that just materialises by magic if only the urban density is high enough: it has to be explicitly planned and funded by governments. Second, where public transport is of poor quality and unattractive, building up the urban density does not make it any more attractive — or any more financially self-supporting.’”

In response to ‘Succulent seafood’ Posted March 16, at 8:44 a.m. by Ruth Wilcox, a resident of Portola Valley: “I spent 48 years in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and vacationing in Maine. All those years in pursuit of great lobster, chowder and steamers.

Michael Mina — you don’t have a good lobster pot pie.

Most West Coast lobsters don’t capture the sweetness, saltiness and tenderness of North of Cape Cod and Maine lobsters.

The best is eaten on a dock in Maine in a place that’s only open in the summer.

Don’t bother with the fries.

Old Port Lobster Shack is the only reliable California spot to get a good lobster roll. It is far better than any other place I’ve tried in California. I’m a regular at the PV Lobster Shack. My go-to orders are the lobster roll and the lobster bisque. Munch on the chowder crackers during the short wait for your food.

The reviewer is right about the cole slaw. Raisins don’t belong in that dish.”

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he importance of net neutrality will become crystal clear the day you can no longer connect to Palo Alto Online or receive the now-free streaming video from Midpeninsula Community Media Center (Midpen Media) without first paying extra fees.

Will that day come? If you had to pay more for internet, would you and how much? The internet service providers (ISPs) are engaged in a pitched battle with lawmakers and consumer-rights advocates right now to find out, and it is time to make your voice heard.

Several state governments, including California’s, have passed, or are working on, legislation that protects consumers from price-gouging ISPs that don’t adhere to basic net neutrality provisions. Santa Clara County also has joined a growing chorus of government entities appealing the Federal Communications Commission’s push to repeal net neutrality protections. In December, the County announced its intent to file a lawsuit challenging the repeal.

“This county is a center of innovation.

We are at the heart of Silicon Valley,” Supervisor Joe Simitian, who represents Palo Alto, said in a statement at the time of the announcement. “The FCC’s action harms startups, small companies, and businesses generally, who rely on a level playing field to compete. It hampers development and investment in cutting-edge internet technologies that the County relies upon.”

Some history: The Cable Act of 1984 first outlined provisions protecting local access to, and the fair distribution of, original local programming via cable systems produced by local organizations like Midpen Media.

In 2015, the FCC adopted net neutrality rules based on Title II of the Cable Communications Act, reclassifying broadband (internet) providers and common carriers and giving internet users (you) stronger protections.

Why are net neutrality rules possibly going away? In December 2017, the FCC, voted to repeal the 2015 protections following heavy lobbying by telecommunications giants. This action potentially affects nearly every aspect of our daily, tech-centric lives. Consumers could be hit immediately with higher fees for internet access. Small high-tech startups that depend on computers and high-speed connectivity might find themselves without

the broadband capacity they need unless they pay more, stifling their business plans. An ISP could bump Netflix or other popular content providers because a majority stockholder with the ISP owns a competing interest in another content provider. Midpen also could be squarely in the crosshairs if given a “pay to play” mandate from an ISP hungry for higher profits.

Fortunately, that repeal is facing significant pushback on the grassroots level by consumers and consumer rights groups. At the federal level, members of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have introduced resolutions to overturn the FCC decision.

The ideals of net neutrality go back to 2002, when Tim Wu, a Law Professor at Columbia University first coined the phrase “net neutrality” which, at its core, is the essential democratic principle of nondiscrimination. Intended to ensure that the internet is an open platform where all content is accessible equally by all, as a human right to knowledge and information.

A thriving democracy and an independent, educated electorate depends on equal access under the law to information so that all of us can make the best-informed decisions about our lives and about who is

elected to represent us and our views at all levels of government.

Without net neutrality, someone with a hidden agenda and millions of dollars to spend could stifle your voice, restrict your mind with access to limited information — or flood the internet with even more “fake news.”

These scenarios are all too real and were a topic of great concern discussed by my colleagues last month at the Alliance for Community Media (ACM) Western Region conference. In many parts of the country, community media channels are being regulated to hard-to-find channels without channel program guide listings. This practice of “channel slamming” hasn’t happened here locally yet, but the assault on local community media providers will only get worse without the protection of net neutrality.

Act Now! Tell the FCC (202-418-1000) and your Representatives that you want net neutrality. Q Keri Stokstad is the Executive Director of Midpen Media Center and a community media advocate and member of the Alliance for Community Media, having served 10 years on the national board of directors including two years as board chair. You can reach her at keri@ midpenmedia.org.

Streetwise

What are some of the ways you manage your stress during the week?

Asked on California Avenue in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Sarah Klearman.

Ido Shemesh

Linda DeMeo

Mallika Chawla

Antonia Zabala

Mary Castaneda

Product Manager College Avenue, Palo Alto

Grandparent Emerson Street, Palo Alto “Before I arise, I say two of the daily prayers that I’ve learned through my religion.”

On sabbatical Fernando Avenue, Palo Alto

Mother Dudley Lane, Escondido Valley

Business owner Portola Road, Portola Valley

“Right now I’m dog sitting, so being around the dog is a good way to destress. Also, taking a nice long walk with my partner in the evening to unwind.”

“I’ve started running, and I also go to an embroidery class. It’s with other women in the Escondido Valley - we meet Wednesdays, and we vent and embroider.”

“I definitely come to Pure Barre, my studio. Working out is so important, you get all these endorphins from it, and that’s really good stress relief.

I like to schedule a kind of meeting with myself to come to the studio and work out any time I’m feeling especially stressed.”

“I love cooking, so that allows me to unwind. I do a lot of sports, which helps me release aggression that I don’t take out during my day. I also have a new baby boy at home, and there’s something just magical about holding him.”

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G U I D E TO 2018 S U M M E R C A M P S FO R K I D S

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For more information about these camps visit paloaltoonline.com/camp_connection. To advertise in this weekly directory, call (650) 326-8210.

Stanford Water Polo Camps

ATHLETICS Dance Connection Palo Alto

Palo Alto

Share the joy of dance with us! Our studio is an extended family and a home away from home for many community members, and we value the positive energy and atmosphere that we strive to provide. For children and teens. Jazz, Hip Hop, Ballet, Tap, Lyrical/ Contemporary, Children’s Combination. Events/Summer Dance Camps - Summer Session for ages 3 - adults: June 11-August 4.

www.danceconnectionpaloalto.com (650) 852-0418 or (650) 322-7032

Kim Grant Tennis Academy Summer Camps

Palo Alto Monterey Bay

Fun and specialized junior camps for Mini (3-5), Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, High Performance and Elite tennis levels. Weekly programs designed by Kim Grant to improve player technique, fitness, agility, mental toughness and all around game. Weekly camps in Palo Alto and sleep-away camps at Meadowbrook Swim and Tennis.

www.KimGrantTennis.com

(650) 752-8061

Stanford

New to water polo or have experience, we have a camp for you.

Half-day or full-day options for boys and girls ages 7 and up. All camps provide fundamental skills, scrimmages and games.

www.stanfordwaterpolocamps.com (650) 725-9016

Wheel Kids Bike Camps

Palo Alto

At Addison Elem. Adventure Riding Camp for grades 1 - 8, Two Wheelers Club for grades K - 3. Week long programs from 8:30 - 4, starting June 4th. Join us as we embark on bicycling adventures for the more experienced rider or help those just learning to ride.

wheelkids.com/palo-alto

(650) 646-5435

YMCA of Silicon Valley Summer Camps

Silicon Valley

At the Y, children and teens of all abilities acquire new skills, make friends, and feel that they belong. With hundreds of Summer Day Camps plus Overnight Camps, you will find a camp that’s right for your family. Financial assistance is available.

www.ymcasv.org

(408) 351-6473

ACADEMICS

Mountain View Tennis Summer Camps

Mountain View

Harker Summer Programs

San Jose

Choose from 10 weeks of Tennis Camp – plenty of play time, focus on fundamentals & sportsmanship, talented coaches, Cuesta courts. Full day or morning camp for 7 to 14 year olds and new, morning camp for 5 to 6 year olds. Discounts for residents and registering by 3/31.

The Harker School’s summer programs for children K-grade 12 offer the perfect balance of learning and fun! Programs are led by dedicated faculty and staff who are experts at combining summer fun and learning. Strong academics and inspiring enrichment programs are offered in full-day, partial and morning-only sessions.

www.mountainviewtennis.net

www.harker.org/summer

(650) 967-5955

Nike Tennis Camps

Bay Area

(408) 553-5737

i2 Camp at Castilleja School

Palo Alto

Junior overnight and day tennis camps for boys and girls, ages 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult weekend clinics available June and Aug. Camps directed by head men’s coach, Paul Goldstein, head women’s coach, Lele Forood, and associate men’s and women’s coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Join the fun and get better at tennis this summer.

i2 Camp offers week-long immersion programs that engage middle school girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The fun and intimate hands-on activities of the courses strive to excite and inspire participants about STEM, creating enthusiasm that will hopefully spill over to their schoolwork and school choices in future years.

www.ussportscamps.com

(800) 645-3226

www.castilleja.org/i2camp

(650) 470-7833

Palo Alto/La Honda

iD Tech Camps Campbell

Stanford/Bay Area

Run for Fun Camps

Run for Fun’s mission is to provide creative and engaging play for all youth by getting kids active in an inclusive community centered around outdoor fun! We pride ourselves on hiring an enthusiastic, highly trained staff who love what they do. Summer 2018 features four weeks of Adventure Day Camp and two weeks of Overnight Camp High Five. Adventure Day Camp is a new discovery every day filled with sports, crafts and nature, including explorations to Camp Jones Gulch, Capitola Beach, Foothills Park, Shoreline Lake and Great America. Camp High Five is six days and five nights of traditional overnight camp mixed with challengeby-choice activities, campfires, friendships and lots of laughter.

www.runforfuncamps.com/summer-camps-andschool-holiday-camps/camp-overview (650) 823-5167

Spartans Sports Camp

Mountain View

Spartans Sports Camp offers multi-sport, week-long sessions for boys and girls in grades 1-7, sport-specific sessions for grades 2-9, color guard camp for grades 3-9, and cheerleading camp for grades pre-K – 8. We also offer a hip hop dance camp for grades 1-7. Camp dates are June 4 through July 27 at Mountain View High School. The camp is run by MVHS coaches and studentathletes and all proceeds benefit the MVHS Athletic Department.

Lunch and extended care are available.

www.spartanssportscamp.com

(650) 479-5906

The world’s #1 summer STEM program held at Stanford, Palo Alto High School, and 150+ locations nationwide. With innovative courses in coding, game development, robotics, and design, our programs instill in-demand skills that embolden students to shape the future. iD Tech Camps (weeklong, 7-17), Alexa Café (weeklong, all-girls, 10-15), iD Tech Academies (2-week, 13-18).

headsup.org

Emerson: (650) 424-1267 Hacienda: (925) 485-5750

ARTS, CULTURE, OTHER CAMPS Art and Soul Camp

Palo Alto

Art, cooking, tinkering, yoga and mindfulness. We celebrate multiple perspectives and recognize the many ways for our children to interpret their world. Summer Unplugged! is appropriate for ages 5-13 years. Located at Walter Hays School.

www.artandsoulpa.com

(650) 269-0423

Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls

www.castilleja.org/summercamp

City of Mountain View Recreation

Mountain View

www.mountainview.gov/register

Community School of Music

www.arts4all.org

Stanford EXPLORE: A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research

Stanford

EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford. Stanford EXPLORE offers high school students the unique opportunity to learn from Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics in biomedical science, including bioengineering, neurobiology, immunology and many others.

explore.stanford.edu

explore-series@stanford.edu

Summer at Sand Hill School

Palo Alto

www.sandhillschool.org

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(650) 688-3605

Mountain View

(650) 917-6800 ext. 0

Let’s Go Crafting

Palo Alto

Let’s Go Crafting’s Studio is where your child will have fun while learning many different fiber related arts. We teach sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving and jewelry making to children ages 8 years to 15 years. AM or PM camps $275/week. Full day camps $550/week. 5 student minimum for all sessions; 10 student maximum. Contact Connie Butner at letsgocrafting@gmail.com.

Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC)

(650) 949-7614

(650) 903-6331

Community School of Mountain View Music and Arts (CSMA) Mountain View 50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, Summer Music Workshops, more! One and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment.

Extended care from 8:30am-5:30pm. Financial aid offered.

Los Altos Hills

bit.ly/kcisummercamp

(650) 470-7833

Come have a blast with us this summer! We have something for everyone: Recreation Camps, Specialty Camps, Sports Camps, Swim Lessons, and more! Programs begin June 4 – register early!

KCI Summer Camp

Students ages 11-16 discover endless possibilities as they design and engineer their own projects. Hands-on learning of latest technologies including virtual reality, 3D printing, video production, and more in KCI’s new makerspace.

Palo Alto

Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls Palo Alto Casti Camp offers girls entering gr. 2-6 a range of age-appropriate activities including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking, drama and music classes each day along with weekly field trips.

Leadership program available for girls entering gr. 7-9.

letsgocrafting.wordpress.com

www.stanfordbaseballcamp.com

(650) 725-2054

Improve your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton. Courses this year are Expository Writing, Creative Writing and Presentation Techniques.

(844) 788-1858

At Sunken Diamond on the campus of Stanford University. Four or five day camps where the morning session includes instruction in several baseball skills, fundamentals, and team concepts. The afternoon session will be dedicated to playing coach pitched games and hitting in the batting cages. Session 1: June 18 - 22 Session 2: June 25-29 Session 3: July 16-20

Stanford

Palo Alto Pleasanton

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June 26 to July 20; If you’re looking for a great summer learning plus fun option for your child and you want them to be ready for fall, please join us at Sand Hill. The morning Literacy Program (8:30 to noon) provides structured, systematic instruction for students with learning challenges entering grades 1-8 in the fall. The afternoon Enrichment Camp (Noon to 4) focuses on performing arts, social skills and fun. Choose morning, afternoon or full day.

Visit www.sandhillschool.org for more details and application.

Stanford Baseball Camps

Write Now! Summer Writing Camps

(650) 814-4183

Palo Alto

PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities. We are excited to announce all of your returning favorites: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.), PACCC Special Interest Units (S.I.U.), F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and Entertainment), J.V. Sports and Operation: Chef! Periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer Camps. Open to campers from all communities. Register online.

www.paccc.org

Stanford Jazz Workshop

(650) 493-2361

Stanford

On campus of Stanford University, Week-long jazz immersion programs for young musicians in middle school (starts July 9), high school (July 15 and July 22), and college, as well as adults (July 29). All instruments and vocals.

stanfordjazz.org

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

(650) 736-0324

Los Altos Menlo Park, Palo Alto

Kids can have fun, be a character, and learn lifelong performance skills at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Theatre Camps. Spring Break and Summer camps for K-6.

theatreworks.org/youth-programs/for-youth (650) 463-7146

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With a new plan, Palo Alto tries to triple its housing production Story by Gennady Sheyner | Photos byy Veronica Weber

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ran Wagstaff doesn’t have to look far to see the transformation of Palo Alto’s housing market.

Over the past decade, her Midtown neighborhood has gentrified, with property values going through the roof and out-of-town buyers gobbling up properties as investments, she told the Weekly.

The house across the street is only occupied by its owners for one or two weeks per year, she said.

“Every scrap of land is being redeveloped,” Wagstaff said.

But when it comes to new affordable-housing developments, the story is completely different.

Like other cities, Palo Alto is facing a “perfect storm” of obstacles that hinder construction of affordable housing: sky-high land costs, rising construction costs and a recent federal tax bill that reduced the incentive to invest in affordable-housing projects by cutting tax credits for corporations.

For Wagstaff, the issue hits close to home in other ways.

She spent 25 years leading the nonprofit Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition, during which time it developed more than 6,000 affordable-housing units in the region, including Palo Alto Gardens, a 156-apartment complex on San Antonio Road, and Page Mill Court, a 24-apartment development on Ash Street. She retired from her position as executive director in 2008.

“Housing is the ultimate determination for social welfare for people in every economic group,” she told the Weekly.

Palo Alto’s City Council is attempting to make inroads in addressing the region’s overall housing shortage. Last month, the council designated housing as a

top priority and set as a goal the creation of 300 units this year, as well as every year from now through 2030. It also approved last month a Housing Work Plan that aims to achieve this goal.

But housing advocates like Wagstaff aren’t optimistic the plan will make a significant enough difference — and for good reason. Over the years, she has seen commercial construction boom and housing lag behind, trends that exacerbated the city’s jobs-to-housing imbalance of 3-to-1.

In recent years, Palo Alto’s housing production plummeted to new lows. In 2014, the city produced just 40 housing units, according to the most recent progress report in its Housing Element, a state-mandated document.

While the number went up to 246 in 2015 (thanks in large part to two housing projects that Stanford University developed under a 2005 agreement with the city), it dwindled to 18 units in 2016 and 89 in 2017. The bulk of last year’s residential construction — 70 apartments at 2500 El Camino Real — also were approved in 2005 under the agreement between Palo Alto and Stanford.

If the city has been lagging on housing overall, its progress on affordable housing has been particularly lackluster. Between 20072014, the city produced 1,602 total units, which is 37 percent of its Regional Housing Needs Allocation, according to the Housing Element for that period. Of those, 290 units — or 16 percent of the regional goal — were affordable.

The current housing cycle, which runs from 2014 to 2023, also is off to a less-than-promising start. The 121 affordable units that the city has produced so far

Fran Wagstaff, former executive director of the nonprofit MidPeninsula Housing Coalition, stands in her Palo Alto neighborhood.

Wagstaff helped develop affordable housing complexes in San Mateo and South San Francisco.

The newly built Mayfield Place at 2500 El Camino Real in Palo Alto offers one-, two-, and threebedroom apartments along with office and retail space. comprise just 8 percent of its regional target.

“I’ve seen a lot of goals (set) in Palo Alto, but I haven’t seen a lot of affordable-housing goals being achieved,” Wagstaff said.

Palo Alto’s housing production seems especially paltry in the context of the region. Last year, Silicon Valley saw a surge of residential construction, with more than 12,021 building permits for homes being issued — 5,339 more than during 2016, according to the 2018 Silicon Valley Index, an annual report issued by the nonprofit Joint Venture Silicon Valley. In Santa Clara County, cities issued 2.4 times more permits for residential units in the first 11 months of the year than in all of 2016, according to the Index.

Up and down the Peninsula, cities are passing new laws and establishing “specific” or “precise” plans for neighborhoods with access to public transit and then approving housing developments within those. In Mountain View,

the City Council ended 2017 by approving a Google-centric precise plan for the North Bayshore area that could include 9,850 housing units, 2,000 of which would be offered at below-marketrate pricing (this is in addition to the roughly 5,000 units now being built or seeking planning approvals). The city also is moving ahead with a precise plan for the East Whisman area with 5,000 new homes, which includes 1,000 at below-market rate.

Menlo Park recently approved a mixed-use development with 183 apartments on El Camino Real, the largest project in a concept plan that the city approved for its downtown area in 2012. It also is considering Facebook’s “Willow Village” redevelopment, which would include offices, retail space and 1,500 housing units, of which 225 would be at below-market rate.

In Redwood City, construction is proceeding on Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition’s 117-unit housing development for very-low

income seniors at a city-owned property at 707 Bradford St. And in May 2016, the City Council amended its Downtown Precise Plan to specify that 375 of the 2,500 housing units planned for the downtown must be designated as “affordable.”

But while other cities are swinging for the fences, Palo Alto is content with singles and doubles: a zoning tweak here, a density bonus there and a few dozen units here and there. Last October, the City Council approved the Sobrato Organization’s mixed-use development at 3001 El Camino Real (the former site of Mike’s Bikes), which includes 50 apartments. In the next few months, the council will consider a project a few blocks to the north — a 60-apartment complex proposed

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High ambitions

Nonprofit execs: ‘Palo Alto process’ still a problem Palo Alto Housing is proposing first development in the city since 2013

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or Palo Alto Housing, these are both the best and worst of times. Since the nonprofit’s planned senior-apartments and marketrate-housing development on Maybell Avenue was rejected in a referendum in 2013, the nonprofit has moved ahead with projects in Santa Clara, unincorporated San Mateo County and Mountain View, where it broke ground last June on a 67-apartment complex for low-income veterans. It is now working on three other projects in Mountain View.

Altogether, these new projects will nearly double the number of residences in the nonprofit’s portfolio, which is currently at about 630 units, said Candice Gonzalez, executive director at Palo Alto Housing.

But things have been quieter at home, given that Palo Alto’s zoning is generally more restrictive and less flexible.

“We don’t have the zoning to produce financially feasible projects,” Gonzalez told the Weekly.

As part of the city’s effort to change that, the council this year adopted a Housing Work Plan that includes as one of its programs the creation of an “affordable-housing combining district” — a zoning tool that would grant some height and parkingrequirement exemptions for developments that are 100 percent affordable housing.

But even if the council opts to adopt this tool, its utility will be limited. It would only apply to commercially zoned sites near public transit. And it still requires the affordable-housing developer to navigate the full rezoning process.

“You still go through all the public hearings, the design review, the Planning and Transportation Commission and the City Council. It’s a full rezone with no streamlining, which means there’s a lot of uncertainty,” Gonzalez said.

It’s not uncommon for proposed developments to undergo three separate hearings — stretching more than three months — in front of the Architectural Review Board. At the planning commission, its members can approve, deny or form a committee to study the application further.

Things work differently in Mountain View. When Palo Alto Housing was moving ahead with the 67-apartment project currently under construction at 1701 West El Camino Real, the design process entailed one meeting with a two-member design committee.

“They made some suggestion

by Gennady Sheyner

Candice Gonzalez, executive director of the nonprofit Palo Alto Housing, stands in front of the Oak Court apartment complex, which was built in 2005 and features 53 affordable one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments. and set some conditions, which we met, and they approved the project,” she said.

Getting neighbors of a proposed development and other community members to support a project also takes longer in Palo Alto, she said.

“We do more public hearings in Palo Alto because it’s a very engaged community, and there’s often a little more questions and concerns around projects,” she said. “In a community like Mountain View, we might do five of six meetings over the course of the year. In Palo Alto, it could be more like 20 or 30.”

Both the Mountain View project and the one in unincorporated San Mateo County are being developed under area plans — a tool that she said is an effective way to encourage affordable housing.

“A developer knows that ‘If I buy this property and I meet these standards, I can yield these units.’ It takes away a lot of uncertainty,” Gonzalez said.

Fran Wagstaff, retired executive director of the nonprofit Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition, credits a difference in

attitudes with the housing progress in other cities.

“When you look up and down the Peninsula at cities like Redwood City and Mountain View — you don’t have to go far to see this incredible uptick in densities in those cities,” Wagstaff said.

“They are being responsible in trying to provide housing for all the businesses whose workers have to live in this area.”

The cities that have been successful in getting affordable housing have taken on the role of housing advocates, she said.

“They’re bending over backwards to expedite things, to minimize the number of conditions they put on the housing, to allow flexibility in the number of housing that needs to be built,” Wagstaff said.

Many contractors view Palo Alto as a difficult place to do businesses, in part because of the extensive review process.

“The (affordable-housing) developer building housing has a schedule that they have to comply with if they are competing for funding. The longer the process drags on, the more costs they entail because you have to put the

Pam Brandin, executive director of the nonprofit Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired; Greg Scarff, former mayor of Palo Alto; Tiffany Griego, director of asset management for Stanford University; and Bill Witte, CEO of Related California, center, are joined by members of a youth choir during a ribbon cutting of the new Mayfield Place on June 29, 2017.

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money out for architectural plans and engineering. The delays cost a lot of money,” Wagstaff said.

Gonzalez noted that in the five years since the Maybell referendum, not a single affordable-housing project has been proposed and approved in the city (aside from a Stanford University project — Mayfield Place — approved as part of a 2005 agreement between Stanford and Palo Alto).

Palo Alto Housing supports Palo Alto’s proposed affordablehousing combining district, which would help the nonprofit construct its first affordablehousing project in the city since the Maybell defeat — a 61-apartment development on El Camino Real, near Wilton Court.

“Doing the overlay zone is a step in the right direction — it’s better than doing nothing,” Gonzalez said, “though it won’t necessarily yield (the city’s goal of) 300 units per year.”

It may, in fact, not even yield one. On March 14, the Planning and Transportation Commission decided by a 4-3 vote not to adopt the overlay zone — for the moment. While voicing support the Wilton Court project, members of the commission’s majority — Chair Ed Lauing and Commissioners Przemek Gardias, Doria Summa and Asher Waldfogel — said they would prefer to see it advance under the “planned community” process, while the overlay district is further refined.

The planning commission reached its March 14 decision despite hearing from about two dozen residents, most of whom urged the commission to approve the affordable-housing overlay.

Per Maresca told the commission that he speaks for himself and hundreds of other residents who have developmental disabilities and who are short on housing options. Maresca said he supplements the income he gets through Social Security with a part-time job at a local hotel.

“I was born and raised in Palo Alto and I want to continue to live here,” Maresca said.

Jessica Clark said she had to close her day care center in Palo Verde six years ago because the rent was too high, and she moved into a smaller apartment, where she’s paying twice the rent. She applied for a below-market-rate units and found herself in the mid-300s on the waiting list, she said. Since then, she’s moved up to 184.

Clark said, however, that she suspects her advancement on the list was because people left Palo Alto rather than found housing opportunities here. Q

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both a “car-light” development (fewer parking spots and more transit subsidies for its residents) and “workforce housing,” with apartments designated for residents who make 120 percent of the area median income, the upper limit of what’s considered “affordable housing.”

“All of us by now agree that the region has a housing crisis,” Planning Director Hillary Gitelman told the council during its Feb. 5 discussion of the new Housing Work Plan. “The rate of housing production has declined as the rate of job growth and housing prices have increased.”

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he problem of creating affordable housing is certainly not unique to Palo Alto.

According to the 2018 Index of Silicon Valley, only 7 percent of all the housing units produced in the region in 2016 and 2017 — or 699 total — were designated as affordable. Of those, 287 were for households earning less than 50 percent of the area median income.

But if building affordable housing is always hard, in Palo Alto, it’s particularly so, Wagstaff said.

The 50-foot building-height limit that the city approved in the 1970s remains more or less sacrosanct, which means developing projects with more than a few dozen units is practically impossible. Zoning and parking standards are relatively inflexible, even for senior housing and affordable housing, whose residents tend to drive less.

Then there’s the approval process, which she said is far more onerous — and expensive — in Palo Alto than anywhere else.

In the past, the city considered affordable housing a public benefit worthy of granting developers with zoning exceptions. That was the case in 1961, when medical pioneer Russell V. A. Lee spearheaded the construction of Channing House, an 11-story retirement community with two stories of underground parking at 850 Webster Ave. To enable the project, the council rezoned the site from R-4, which allowed up to four residential units per acre, to “planned community” (PC), a zoning district that offers zoning exceptions in exchange for public benefits on a case-by-case basis. When Channing House opened its doors in January 1964, 270 seniors moved in, according to the Palo Alto Historical Association.

Today, hundreds of seniors sit on waiting lists for below-marketrate housing, without much hope for another Channing House. In 2013, the council effectively abolished the PC zone after voters overturned the council’s last PC approval — an application from the nonprofit Palo Alto Housing to build 60 apartments for low-income seniors and 12 market-rate single-family homes on a former orchard on Maybell Avenue. In

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aken as a whole, the 45 policies in the work plan represent the city planning staff’s best stab at addressing the City Council’s housing priority and goal of 300 units per year.

The policies include near-term tweaks to the zoning code — including new overlay zones that would allow developers to provide less parking and build more densely when developing workforce housing (housing for those earning about 120 percent of the area median income) and belowmarket-rate housing.

They also include policies for encouraging more development near public-transit corridors and a “minimum density” requirement for multi-family residential projects.

Nicole Montojo, policy associate with SV@Home — a nonprofit that advocates for affordable housing in Santa Clara County — said she is encouraged by Palo Alto’s Housing Work Plan, which she says lays out a “clear path” toward addressing the housing shortage.

She also lauded the proposed expansion of the city’s “inclusionary zoning” program, which requires market-rate developments to designate a percentage of their units as below-market rate.

She also said her group has been advocating for increased density and against the idea that this necessarily means high-rise towers will be built.

“Our goal is to challenge a lot

of false notions of what higherdensity may look like,” she said.

Palo Alto’s plan does include some policies aimed at increasing density. One would expand the existing “pedestrian and transitoriented development” overlay zone on California Avenue (which loosens development standards near public transit) and establish a similar overlay downtown as a way to encourage construction of

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new housing near transit. It also recommends “limited exceptions” to the 50-foot height limit for housing projects within onequarter mile of a railroad station.

But the work plan is also notable for what’s not in it: the PC zone, which has traditionally given nonprofit developers of affordable housing and senior housing the types of height and density exceptions they need to make

their projects financially viable.

Besides Channing House, the PC enabled the construction of Lytton Gardens, Webster House and — four years ago — the Treehouse at 488 Charleston Road.

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freezing PCs, the council all but ensured that projects like the Maybell development won’t even have a chance to go through the city’s infamously grueling approval process.

Facing a restrictive development climate, Palo Alto Housing, which has been building affordable housing since early 1970s, has shifted its sights to Mountain View, Redwood City and Sunnyvale. No other developer has stepped in to provide housing for the city’s neediest residents.

In fact, the Palo Alto council hasn’t approved a new affordablehousing complex since November 2009, when it green-lighted a 50unit development for low-income families at 801 Alma St. Even that exception proved the rule. The developer, Eden Housing, had initially proposed 96 units and two buildings, one for senior housing and another for low-income families. But after an outpouring of neighborhood opposition led by residents of a recently constructed condominium complex at 800 High St. (a project that relied on the PC zone to win approval), Eden dropped the 46 senior apartments from the plan.

(The only affordable-housing bright spot of late was the city’s contribution of $14.5 million toward the purchase and preservation of the low-income Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto, a deal that was completed last year.)

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them from moving ahead with applications.

And whereas cities like Mountain View, Menlo Park and Redwood City have used â&#x20AC;&#x153;specificâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;preciseâ&#x20AC;? plans to promote highdensity development near transit, in Palo Alto, the council actually deleted from its newly updated Comprehensive Plan last year a policy to create a â&#x20AC;&#x153;coordinated area planâ&#x20AC;? (Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of the precise plan) for downtown. It is, however, moving ahead with a plan in the North Ventura neighborhood, which council members see as ripe for redevelopment.

Montojo said specific plans are among the more effective tools being used in the region to spur housing. She lauded Mountain Viewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan for North Bayshore, both for its goals and for bringing stakeholders together and developing specific goals for affordable housing. She called specific plans â&#x20AC;&#x153;a key toolâ&#x20AC;? and said her group is looking forward to seeing what Palo Alto does in the North Ventura area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critical, given that the zoning in general in Palo Alto â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as it currently stands â&#x20AC;&#x201D; wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow for all of the housing that needs to get built.â&#x20AC;?

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or Mayor Liz Kniss, one of the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staunchest housing advocates, the Housing Work Plan represents a chance for the city to get out of the housing slump.

Just minutes after her election as mayor in January, Kniss told the crowd assembled in City Hall that Palo Alto needs to get â&#x20AC;&#x153;more creativeâ&#x20AC;? on housing and made a pitch for approving one seniorhousing project this year. She also acknowledged the pushback the council will likely receive from the community as it considers new housing projects and asked residents to â&#x20AC;&#x153;keep an open mindâ&#x20AC;? when those projects get to the council for approval. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When this comes up this year,â&#x20AC;? she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;think through: Would I like my kids to live here? Would I like to stay here as long as possible?â&#x20AC;?

During the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s February retreat, Kniss asserted that the goal of building 300 residences a year is achievable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daunting somewhat, but I believe we can do it,â&#x20AC;? Kniss said.

Her colleagues have agreed that the goal is worth pursuing. Last November, in a rare show of unity on the hot-button issue, the council unanimously endorsed a memo penned by Councilman Adrian Fine, which led to the creation of the Housing Work Plan.

As Kniss noted, the push for housing will surely meet with community resistance, particularly when staff begins exploring next year changes to singlefamily residential neighborhoods.

But housing advocates can point to some promising motivators â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including the 2016 election

Cover Story (in which Kniss and Fine both made housing their central issue); a recent National Citizen Survey in which only 6 percent of the respondents gave Palo Alto high grades in the “affordable housing” category; and an earlier survey in which 76 percent of the respondents called housing an “extremely serious” or “very serious” problem, ranking it above traffic.

“We heard there’s a housing problem — that’s unquestionable at this point,” Fine said during a February discussion of the housing plan. “We heard it from the public. It’s time for us to stop studying the issue and actually do something.”

Three months into the new year, it remains to be seen whether the goal of 300 is realistic or merely aspirational. Gitelman, the planning director, said she believes it’s achievable, even as she acknowledged that adjusting the city’s zoning standards can only do so much. She pointed to other — potentially more impactful — programs in the work plan that the city hasn’t tried yet.

The city, she told the Weekly, will need to do something “really meaningful” with the North Ventura Concept Area Plan. The area includes the site of Fry’s Electronics, which alone has “reasonable capacity of 221 units” (and a maximum yield of 374 units), according to the city’s Housing Element. The new plan is expected to identify other potential housing

sites in North Ventura, along with opportunities for parks, retail and amenities.

“We don’t even know how many units that’s going to yield,” Gitelman said.

Then there’s the bigger wildcard: Stanford University. The Housing Work Plan calls for exploring with Stanford University various options for adding to the Stanford Research Park a “diverse mix of uses,” including residential development, a hotel, a conference center, space for startups and a transit center to create a “vibrant, innovation-oriented community.”

The plan also considers allowing housing at Stanford Shopping Center and near the Stanford University Medical Center. Gitelman told the Weekly that city staff will reach out to Stanford next year, after the university completes its General Use Permit process with the Santa Clara County, in which it’s asking for permission to develop more square feet on campus.

“Potentially, when we talk to Stanford about housing in the Research Park and the Shopping Center, that may be our opportunity to get more than 40, 50 or 60 units,” Gitelman said.

And what of the city’s waylaid PC zoning? Even though reforming and reviving the PC process isn’t in the Housing Work Plan, the door remains ajar. The council hasn’t officially abolished the tool, and Gitelman said staff can bring it upon the council’s request.

The Tree House apartments in Palo Alto offer 33 studios, which range from $418 - $1,045 a month for individuals (and couples) making between $16,720 and $47,800 a year.

As for speeding up the approvals process, Gitelman believes Senate Bill 35 will make a dramatic difference. The new law, authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, creates a streamlined process for multi-family housing projects that are consistent with “objective zoning standards” such as the city’s height and density regulations. The bill gives cities 60 days to determine whether the

proposed development qualifies for the streamlining and another 30 days to review the project — practically warp speed by Palo Alto’s historic standards.

“I think SB35 is a game-changer for affordable-housing developers,” Gitelman said. “As long as they’re zoning compliant, it’s by-right in 90 days. What can be better than that, from their perspective?” Q

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

Michal Rovner: leaving her

mark

Pace Gallery show focuses on the universality of the figure

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here are a lot of themes in the work of artist Michal Rovner: history, science, technology, human interaction, dislocation, the anonymity of the crowd. And all of these ideas are examined with a minimalist depiction of the figure, a “human mark,” using both cutting-edge technology and traditional printing methods. Rovner’s videos and prints are on view in “Evolution,” her first solo show at Pace Gallery in Palo Alto, until April 15.

The Israeli-born artist (who studied photography and art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem) was in town for the Palo Alto show’s opening reception and, despite a packed schedule of artist talks and interviews, was happy to walk around the gallery and explain her thought process and technique. She said that when she was offered the exhibition, she did a lot of thinking about the setting, pondering, “What is Palo Alto?

What is this place all about?”

She decided that “Evolution” was a good title for the show because, “This place is a major melting pot of innovation, imagination, ideas and technology.

This place pushes, all the time, our boundaries, and our perceptions of what we think.”

When asked if she thought Palo Alto was a more significant center for change than, say, New York City, she responded, “It may be a small town but it is really shaping our future and our culture.”

Rovner said that the basis for her work is communication and how, historically, man has always tried to leave his mark.

“We all want to send a communication to an unknown future, beyond the time of our life,” she said.

The first object in the gallery, “Givaa 4” (2018), refers back to the earliest form of human markmaking, the cave painting. The piece consists of a large piece of limestone, “found in Jerusalem, where people used to step on it,” on which tiny human figures are projected. The figures walk, move, gyrate continuously in a circle while larger figures, their arms outstretched, are superimposed on top of them. The artist explained that this piece represents the beginning of art and as

the visitor moves into the second and third galleries, the evolution continues toward abstraction and more complex systems.

“History, as we know it, began in Egypt and Mesopotamia with the invention of text and of writing things down,” said Rovner.

“Nilus”(2018), comprised of two LCD screens and video, at first appears to be a dark, moody evocation of a jackal, slowly turning its head toward the viewer.

A closer look reveals rows upon rows of “human marks” that resemble hieroglyphics or Hebrew text, with their arms extending overhead as they move. Are they waving hello or calling for help?

Rovner wants you to decide for yourself. And why use a jackal, an animal with usually negative connotations? Rovner said, “It has negative connotations because it is an animal we cannot meet — he comes out only at night. But they were mythological heroes because they were so alert.”

The other video installations in the show also use the LCD screen as a sort of canvas. Rovner explained that she films large crowds of people, often from an aerial perspective, and then completely strips them of any recognizable features in order to create the marks. She will sometimes hire people to assume positions or specific gestures, films them, then uses a sophisticated editing process to create a video clip which is then displayed on the screen. The result is mesmerizing, as the eye follows the moving marks in a never-ending dance.

When asked if she was trying to make a statement about the loss of individuality, the plight of the refugee or even cloning, she just smiled and said, “I am not trying to convey a specific message; I am just presenting the text as communication.”

The graphic works, archival pigment prints, are black-andwhite studies in abstraction.

“The use of black and white has a timeless feel,” she said. While they are static, they also employ the human marks that, from afar, look like the interwoven fibers of cloth.

“Repetition is part of the rhythm and pulse of my work,” Rovner said. “You can find

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Michal Rovner’s “Nilus” at first appears to depict a jackal turning its head toward the viewer. A closer look reveals rows of “human marks” with their arms extending overhead as they move. repetition in every human ceremony, even in simple actions.”

When I expressed that the patterns of some of the prints, like “Cipher I” (2018), reminded me of DNA test results, she excitedly took me back to a piece on display in the staff working space.

“Flower,” from 2004, consists of a large Petri dish on a steel table.

Projected into the dish is a video of thousands of red and blue figures, circling around in constant motion. The piece is a nifty encapsulation of Rovner’s overarching concern: “Where are we going? It’s all going so fast, from cave paintings to the microchip.”

Rovner’s work has been displayed in museums around the world (The British Museum, The Israel Museum, Musee de Elysee) but her subject matter and technique are especially well-suited for a gallery exhibition in the heart of Silicon Valley. Q Freelance writer Sheryl Nonnenberg can be emailed at nonnenberg@aol.com.

What: ‘Michael Rovner: Evolution.’

Where: Pace Gallery, 229 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto.

When: Through April 15; TuesdaySaturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cost: Free.

Info: Go to pacegallery.com/ exhibitions/12916/evolution.

THEATER REVIEW

A modern spin on ‘Cyrano’ Pear’s ‘Cowboy vs. Samurai’ is a comic take on racism and romance

by Kaila Prins

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hat makes a story “Asian-American?”

Is it the subject matter? The actors? The intended audience? And is there an answer that will satisfy everyone?

Using the story of “Cyrano de Bergerac” as a jumping off point and Asian identity as the corresponding “big nose,” The Pear Theatre’s “Cowboy vs. Samurai” is a funny and heartwarming — albeit sometimes lopsided — look at what it means to be on “an island of yellow in a sea of white.”

The play, written by Michael Golamco and directed by Jeffrey Lo, takes place in Breakneck, Wyoming, a quintessentially American town, where Travis Park (played by Lorenz Angelo Gonzales) is one of two AsianAmericans. We first meet Travis at a “meeting” of the Breakneck Asian American Alliance

(BAAA), which he is attending under slight duress from his friend Chester (Chuck Lacson).

At this meeting, the two members discuss the apparent racism of their grocer, who refuses to stock tofu. Travis is a high school English teacher; Chester, an employee at Taco Tuesday, the only “ethnic” restaurant in town.

While the BAAA is ineffective at best, Chester is excited by the prospect of a third member: Korean-American biology teacher Veronica Lee (Heather Mae Steffen) is moving to town from New York. While she and Travis hit it off, Veronica makes it clear that she intends to stay single ... and even if she didn’t, she has certain preferences that preclude Travis from consideration. So when Travis’s friend Del (Drew Reitz), the part-time (continued on next page)

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Chester (Chuck Lacson), in his “Where’s the tofu?” shirt, talks to town newcomer Veronica Lee (Heather Mae Steffen).

(white) P.E. teacher asks for help in wooing Veronica, Travis agrees.

Through a series of romantic letters signed by Del, Travis expresses his love for Veronica, while Veronica falls for Del. And when Veronica discovers that Del doesn’t have an Asian fetish and loves her for her, she’s all in. Or is she?

The play attempts to bring four different viewpoints on racism into dialogue. When it lands, the humor diffuses a potentially charged conversation and makes it palatable, and, while the characters feel more like stock representations of different viewpoints, the

actors do their best to infuse them with humanity.

This production is intimate: The audience practically sits in the classroom designed by Ting Na Wang. Lo’s sound design and Tina Finkelstein’s lighting design are nearly flawless (and I only say “nearly” because the lighting made a certain costume made from white sheets appear yellow from where I was sitting, and it took a moment longer than necessary for the joke to land).

The actors navigate the script valiantly. There are moments of laugh-out-loud comedy followed by clunky exposition or heated debates, and they often follow

is an important one, even if the vehicle misses some of the weight that the subject matter deserves. It’s worth seeing the play and gauging your reactions for yourself. Q Freelance writer Kaila Prins can be emailed at kailaprins@ gmail.com.

What: “Cowboy vs. Saumrai.”

Where: Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St, Mountain View.

When: Through April 8 (see online for specific showtimes).

Cost: $28-$32.

Info: Go to thepear.org.

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incongruously after one another.

At times, the script feels ... well, like a script, as if the playwright is simply using his characters to debate for the sake of presenting a debate. Lacson’s Chester is hilariously cartoonish, although his larger-than-life approach to the character is often out of step with the rest of the more-muted cast.

His scenes were the clear crowdpleasers, especially as his rhetoric (and costume choices) got more ridiculous. Steffen’s Veronica, in contrast, was more subtle, almost distractingly so. I wanted to see more of her humor and spunk but felt like it got lost. Reitz’s Del was endearing, but I had trouble believing that he was as dumb as Del was supposed to be. Perhaps that’s on the playwright though — there were too many moments when I felt like Golamco was using Del as a mouthpiece to comment on Travis’s actions. Gonzales’s Travis felt the most “real” of all of the characters, though I wished for more chemistry between him and Veronica.

Ultimately, “Cowboy vs. Samurai” raises more questions than it answers — which, perhaps, is the point. So: who is this “Asian-American story” for? What does it mean for the Pear’s primarily white audience to laugh as Chester calls out his own racism or watch Travis and Veronica muddle through a conversation about Veronica’s fetishization of white men? The dialogue

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by Christine Lee Photos by Michelle Le rowing up in the Philippines, Mercedes Mapua developed a strong affinity for grab-and-go bubble tea shops like Quickly, a massive chain inspired by Taiwanese boba cafes.

But when she moved to the United States, she became enamored by craft cocktails. It occurred to her that the two worlds could be combined in a cafe that would serve artisan, non-alcoholic tea drinks.

“It just kind of hit me that no one’s tried to make tea cocktails — non-alcoholic cocktails, not meant for kids but meant for more mature palettes,” she said.

Mapua left her technology job to do just that, opening Teaquation in Redwood City in 2016.

Bubble tea, or “boba,” shops are popping up left and right in Silicon Valley, but Teaquation does its own thing. When Mapua first opened, she said customers were constantly asking for boba. She now works to communicate that

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Teaquation serves layered tea drinks with complex flavors. The drinks feature ingredients that might be more commonly found at cocktail bars, such as hibiscus and butterfly pea flower. Teaquation’s kitchen is filled with equipment typically found at bars. Stainless steel shakers, mixing glasses and jiggers sit neatly on the counter behind a large wooden bar with neon bar stools.

One of Teaquation’s best-sellers, “The Joker,” is a spin on a basil gimlet. Instead of gin and lime, it’s made with butterfly pea tea and pineapple juice. The drink is deep purple on top, bright yellow in the lower half and topped off with foam and basil.

Other drinks include the “Pink Cadillac,” a combination of grapefruit, pineapple and hibiscus juices, which fade together into a mesmerizing gradation of pink and

yellow. There’s also the “Lucky Break,” made of organic matcha, mango puree, white chocolate and milk.

All fruits and juices are fresh and pureed or squeezed every day and the tea is brewed daily. Teaquation only uses natural ingredients with no preservatives, according to Mapua.

Baristas at Teaquation put out a special drink every week and are encouraged to incorporate unique flavors from their own cultural backgrounds. The menu changes seasonally depending on what fruits are available. Drinks range in price from $4 to $6.

The cafe itself is modern, with dimmed lights hanging from wires, industrial and tiled walls, and wood tables.

While the Redwood City cafe offers a limited food menu, Teaquation’s forthcoming Palo Alto location, set to open this spring at 115 Hamilton Ave., will serve lunch (continued on next page)

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A barista at Teaquation in Redwood City pours a strawberry “Moxito” drink. At Teaquation, all fruits and juices are fresh and pureed or squeezed every day and the tea is brewed daily. Teaquation’s strawberry “Moxito” is made with strawberry, lime juice, mint and club soda.

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and potentially dinner. Mapua is also partnering with San Francisco macaron company Sweet Burger to serve the French cookies.

In addition to food, the new location will serve beer and wine tonics. To reflect this, Mapua is naming it Teaquation & Tonic.

While she described the presentation of her drinks as American, Mapua said Teaquation maintains

a “hint of Filipino flavors.”

Her personal favorite, the “Gold Digger,” uses calamansi, a Southeast Asian citrus fruit widely used in Filipino cuisine, and housemade coconut whipped cream. The drink reminds her of home, she said.

“I really think that Teaquation is a fusion of all these cultures I’ve been in,” she said. Q Editorial assistant Christine Lee can be emailed at clee@ paweekly.com.

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Jeffrey, the pioneering designer boutique that is credited with helping transform Manhattan’s Meatpacking District into a highend retail destination during the late 1990s, is set to open its first West Coast store at Stanford Shopping Center sometime this year. A spokeswoman for Simon Properties, which operates the shopping center, could not confirm the boutique’s pending opening, but design plans for the new storefront that will house Jeffery were filed with the city of Palo Alto in February. According to the permit application, Jeffrey is seeking to move into the vacant Polo Ralph Lauren building that faces El Camino Real and replace the storefront’s white columns, arched windows and wrought-iron ornamentation with a modern, glass facade. The Stanford store will be the third in the boutique chain. Jeffrey may be new to the West Coast, but the avante-garde boutique established itself as one of the earliest specialty stores to stock men and women’s collections from high-end designers, such as Gucci and Ann Demeulemeester, after founder Jeffrey Kalinsky opened his first store in Atlanta in 1996. He opened his second store in New York City in 1999 and has since become considered one the most influential people in the fashion industry. Time magazine included him in its “All-Time 100 Fashion Icons” in 2013. Kalinsky sold Jeffrey to Nordstrom in 2005 but still serves as the boutique’s president and chief executive, as well as executive vice president of designer merchandising at Nordstrom, where he has introduced highend designer collections to the company’s department stores.

— L.T. CARDENAS REPLACES MI PUEBLO ... Mi Pueblo, the Hispanic grocery store at Ravenswood Shopping Center, is now Cardenas Markets. The East Palo Alto store was the last of the 15 Mi Pueblo markets in the grocery chain to officially change its name on March 15 following a merger with Ontario, Californiabased Cardenas Markets last year. The market’s new name was emblazoned in red letters across grocery bags and on banners

outside the store last Thursday. An employee said they were expecting to receive new uniforms over the weekend. The market, now part of Cardenas Market LLC, will continue to feature Hispanic foods, as well as grocery specialties, such as bakery items, ready-to-eat kitchen options and made-from-scratch tortillas. With the merger, Cardenas Markets has become one of the largest Hispanic supermarket chains in the nation, with 54 stores.

In a press release, the company said it plans to open additional stores in California this year.

Investment firm KKR and Chicagobased Victory Capital Group bought both Cardenas and Mi Pueblo in late 2016. They merged the two chains in July 2017. CEO John Gomez — former executive vice president of Trader Joe’s — will lead the company. — L.T. PALO ALTO OPA CLOSES ...

Downtown Palo Alto’s Opa Authentic Greek Cuisine has closed after almost three years at 140 University Ave. The restaurant’s website states that the location is now “available as an exclusive private dining venue and banquet facility.” The outpost of the Bay Area restaurant mini-chain opened in April 2015 after two shortlived restaurants shuttered in the prominent corner location, including Palo Alto Grill and alkymists. Angelo Heropoulos, who opened the first Opa in Willow Glen in 2008, confirmed the closure but said he sold his share in the company last summer. He said his partner, Molly Adams, continues to operate the business. With multiple restaurants and more on the way, Heropoulos — who has three young children and recently purchased a ranch in Almaden Valley — said he “just wanted to simplify.” Adams did not immediately return a request for comment. Other Opa locations are in Los Altos, Campbell, Los Gatos, Santa Clara and Walnut Creek. The restaurant company also owns TacOh, a Mexican restaurant in San Jose. — E.K. Shop Talk is compiled by the Weekly staff; this week written by Linda Taaffe and Elena Kadvany.

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PUBLIC HEARING / QUASI-JUDICIAL. 180 El Camino Real [18PLN-00055]: Request by Jason Smith, on Behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, for Minor Board Level Architectural Review of Façades and Signage Changes for UL^ ;LUHU[ 1LɈYL` PU )\PSKPUN 1 H[ :[HUMVYK :OVWWPUN *LU[LY Environmental Assessment: Categorically Exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per CEQA Guideline Section 15301. Zoning District: Community Commercial (CC). For More Information Contact the Project Planner Samuel Gutierrez at samuel.gutierrez@cityofpaloalto.org.

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tales of the venal, the selfish and the desperate, lurking — when not preening — in the halls of power.

By nature of its touchy material, “The Death of Stalin” dances closer to the line of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 Nazi-immersed comedy “To Be or Not to Be” (and its 1983 remake with Mel Brooks). Working from the French graphic novel by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin, Iannucci and co-writers David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows set the scene in the days preceding Stalin’s stroke, as he lords over the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1953 Moscow. His sycophantic underlings find themselves trapped in an endless loop of laughing at Stalin’s jokes and indulging his whims.

They get used to watching their backs, a crucial skill in the days after Stalin’s collapse.

With Stalin’s body still lying on the floor of his office, his top power players immediately begin jockeying for power, as much to save their own skins as to pursue personal ambitions. In and out of Committee meetings, Lavrenti Beria (the great London stage actor Simon Russell Beale), head of the NKVD Security Forces that enforce Stalin’s daily kill list, squares off against 1st Secretary Nikita Krushchev (Steve Buscemi) in an all-smiles cold war for the direction of the party.

Meanwhile, in the public view, it’s Stalin’s deputy Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor) who steps into Stalin’s shoes.

Beale’s vile Beria ups the stakes as the mortal threat to the others, including the pedantic Foreign Secretary Vyacheslav Molotov (Michael Palin of Monty Python).

Mostly though, we track Krushchev, who races to the office in pajamas when news of Stalin’s incapacitation reaches him, then sets to building support among his colleagues, head of the Army Field Marshal Zhukov (Jason Isaacs) and Stalin’s daughter Svetlana (Andrea Riseborough) — while dodging Stalin’s volatile son Vasily (Rupert Friend). While thankfully taking some comedic liberties, “The Death of Stalin” roots itself in history, bringing to life nutty anecdotes about a concert that had to be performed twice in a row to please the dictator and Vasily’s attempt to troubleshoot the loss of the national ice hockey team in a plane crash.

With Iannucci, sometimes it’s the little stuff that gets the biggest laughs (like a soldier herding people to their deaths barely breaking stride to turn off a lamp — hey, power’s at a premium!), partly enabled by a technique that allows some improvising between the lines of a strong screenplay. Most compelling, though, is that central thread of paranoia, fear and bitterness among the Committee members, which amounts to a hilarious riff on Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” that’s unafraid of laughs that catch in the throat once the implications set in. As a long-abused public streams through Stalin’s funeral to pay homage, one can’t help but think, in summation, “You just can’t make this stuff up.”

Rated R for language throughout, violence and some sexual references. One hour, 47 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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LEARN ABOUT SUCCULENTS ... Learn how to plant and care for succulents during a workshop at Gamble Garden in Palo Alto on Saturday, March 31, from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Participants will learn what it takes to keep these water-wise plants happy and healthy.

Instructor Linda Roark, designer of Gamble’s succulent container gardens, will talk about planting and caring for succulents and how to divide and propagate ones that are overgrown. Bring your own overgrown succulent to divide and share with others.

The cost is $20 members (use code IRIS) and $35 for nonmembers. To register, go to gamblegarden.org.

REALTOR UNDER 30 ...

Coldwell Banker’s Brett Caviness, an agent at the company’s Menlo Park office, has been named a finalist of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and Realtor Magazine’s “30 Under 30” program. Caviness is one of 50 finalists selected from hundreds of applicants from across the country. Caviness has been a real estate agent since 2009.

Judges will select 29 honorees from the field of finalists.

Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email elorenz@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

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MORTGAGES UP ... According to Danielle Hale, chief economist for realtor.com, mortgage rates have begun to come down but this reprieve will likely be brief.

Homebuyers should expect rising mortgage rates ahead.

“Escalating home prices remain the biggest challenge in the market, but as mortgage rates move up, they’re becoming a larger hurdle for buyers,” Hale said. According to an analysis of mortgage payments released last week, buyers are now paying $168 more per month for a mortgage on a median-priced U.S. home than they did a year ago — a 13 percent increase.

On a metro level, Seattle has seen the largest yearly jump in mortgage payments with an average increase of $449, followed by San Francisco at $378 and Los Angeles at $363.

By repainting and adding a different table and seating, Home Remaking took this dining room to a new level.

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hen Sasha Chriss and Ashley Callahan became friends, one of their favorite pastimes was compulsive furniture rearranging in each others’ homes.

Eventually, their shared eye for space and decor became Home Remaking, a 3-year-old, familycentered interior design company.

Chriss and Callahan, both mothers of three young children, found they enjoyed working with other families, many, like Chriss, who are renting their homes, or, like Callahan, who are living in a smaller home.

“We believe everyone deserves to live in a beautiful home that reflects their story and their values,” Chriss said.

They don’t do kitchens or bathrooms, and they only come in “after the walls are up,” Callahan said, to help clients with furniture, colors and flow.

Some clients live in rental homes, which can’t be changed much from the outside, but the duo can help them refresh the inside.

“Our work stems from our belief that all families can enjoy each other when the home is created well,” she said.

Generally, the duo, who mostly work on projects together, walk into a home and go on the “tour.”

Then they spend time listening and asking things like, “Where is your home bottlenecking the life you want to have?”

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“Our work is highly relational and unique to each of our clients,” Chriss said.

Often, a client will have already hired an architect or designer for their home, but comes to Home Remaking saying, “I had a designer do my house but I want to make it family centered.”

“No one wants to feel imprisoned by design and feel like they live in a museum,” Callahan said, but often it takes a while to figure out the exact problem. “We are home detectives.”

They often start by simply rearranging furniture. Usually projects include buying new pieces of furniture, sometimes reupholstering old ones and adding accessories and art.

Sometimes the project is a 3,500-square-foot newly built home without any furniture and their job is to completely decorate it.

Recently, they were hired to

make a home more inclusive for a new wife who had recently moved into her husband’s home, which had previously served as a bachelor pad for him and his three teenaged sons.

There was a 10-foot-long “shuffleboard kind of table” in the middle of the living room and Nerf guns “stashed in every corner,” Chriss said.

Their clients didn’t want the kids to feel displaced, but at the same time, the home wasn’t an accurate reflection of their family.

The challenge, she said, was to give the rooms (living, family and office) a clear purpose focused on connecting the family.

“We wanted to make the house feel inclusive for the new wife and still feel like home for the boys,” she said.

Callahan and Chriss created a gallery wall of photos in the living room, printing all of the photos in black and white to create a sense of timelessness and cohesion, and included photos of the husband, his new wife and three sons.

Sometimes, Home Remaking helps people figure out how to use their spaces better.

One woman was using her dining room table for work, forcing the family to eat at a smaller kitchen table. Callahan and Chriss got them a better-proportioned table for the room and found a different space for the woman’s business.

While many new homes have an open floor plan, Chriss sees this as a trend and not necessarily the right one for everyone.

When a home has an open floor plan with few walls, the duo tries to create more intimate spaces for their clients.

“In a big open space, we like to use rugs to define a space, and we configure the furniture so that the purpose of each space is clear,” Chriss said.

For young families, the answer may be a multipurpose space where a coffee table has storage in it so that it doubles as a play table for the children.

The company offers complete interior decorating services but also offers what they call a “Refresh” — a minimum of two hours of time to listen, evaluate flow and set up or re-create spaces. They also offer paint consultation, helping clients find the right colors for both the interior and exterior of their homes. Q Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and Real Estate Editor at the Palo Alto Weekly. She can be emailed at elorenz@paweekly. com.

For more information on Home Remaking, go to their website at homeremaking.com.

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1425 Valparaiso Avenue, Menlo Park 4 Beds | 2.5 Baths | 1 Bedroom Guest House | Home: 2,600 SF | Lot: 11,000 SF Absolute stunner, immaculate 4 bedroom 2.5 bath remodeled home with 1 bedroom guest house in West Menlo Park bordering Atherton. This charming one-level home is approximately 2,600 square feet and sits on an 11,000 square foot lot in close proximity to downtown Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Stanford University. This exquisite home was transformed in 2014 with attention to detail and gorgeous craftsmanship and is a perfect representation of transitional design with bright open spaces, streamlined architectural details and open floor plan.

• 3 bedroom 2.5 bath remodeled home plus 1 bedroom guest house.

• Elegant living room with fireplace and Brazilian cherry floors.

• Formal dining room with coffered ceilings and recessed lighting.

• Expansive family room with French doors leads to the backyard.

• Gourmet kitchen with marble counters and central island.

• Luxurious master suite with coffered ceiling and full bath.

• Two additional spacious bedrooms share a remodeled full bath.

• Professionally landscaped yard with palm trees, shrubs & perennials.

• Award winning Menlo School District.

Offered at $3,498,000

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COLDWELL BANKER Woodside | 4/4.5 | $13,500,000 1250 Canada Road Approx. 5 acs in Central Woodside, working equestrian center. Fantastic Woodside Value Sean Foley 650.851.2666 CalRE #00870112

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Woodside | 5/5.5 | $8,900,000 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 135 Farm Rd Classic estate on 4+ acres w/ equestrian facilities, pool and tennis court 135Farm.com Ginny Kavanaugh 650.851.1961 CalRE #00884747

Central Woodside | 4/4.5 | $7,995,000 Sun 1:30 - 4:30 3970 Woodside Rd Beautiful home w/ flawless details on 2 private, tranquil Ac bordering Wunderlich Park Erika Demma 650.851.2666 CalRE #01230766

Los Altos Hills | 6/6.5 | $6,495,000 Sun 1:30 - 4:30 12111 Old Snakey Road Masterfully modern home w/ hill & SF Bay Views, architectural design by Swatt | Miers Hanna Shacham 650.324.4456 CalRE #01073658

Emerald Hills | 5/7 | $4,295,000 Sat/Sun 1 - 5 7 Colton Court 7,700 sq ft stunner on +/- a 1/2 acre on one of the most desirable st in Emerald Hills Sam Anagnostou 650.851.2666 CalRE #00798217

Menlo Park | 5/4 | $4,150,000 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 101 Hillside Ave At the foot of Whiskey Hill, enjoy this sun filled home w/ views of the valley & tons more Laurel O’neill 650.324.4456 CalRE #01758899

Portola Valley | 5/3.5 | $3,395,000 Sun 1:30 - 4:30 900 Wayside Rd Stunning views across SF Bay from Mt. Diablo to Black Mountain!www.900wayside.com Jean Isaacson 650.851.2666 CalRE #00542342

Menlo Park | 4/3 | $3,195,000 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 510 Laurel Ave Completely remodeled, single level, 4 bd, 3 ba w/ open floor plan on 7,000 lot. MP schools Billy McNair 650.324.4456 CalRE #01343603

Menlo Park | 3/2 | $2,895,000 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 1181 Orange Ave Abundant light & cheerful garden views illuminate this special spacious comfortable home Hanna Shacham 650.324.4456 CalRE #01073658

West Santa Cruz | 3/3.5 | $2,750,000 256 Meadow Road Unique Custom Home Upper Westside SC home offers gated privacy on 1.3 acres.

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Woodside | 4/3.5 | $2,600,000 580 Old La Honda Rd It’s worth the drive. Custom-built home on 9.5 acres w/splendid views. 580OldLaHonda.com Ginny Kavanaugh / Steve Gray 650.851.1961 CalRE #00884747, 01498634

Woodside | 6/4.5 | $2,250,000 10691 La Honda Rd Magnificent country property bathed in sunlight against a backdrop of towering redwoods Jean Isaacson 650.851.2666 CalRE #00542342

Mountain View | 3/1 | $1,999,999 Sat/Sun 11 - 4 1172 Farley Street Land, Mature Trees & Remodeled Home.Prime corner lot walking distance to Google & shopping Cheryl Rivera Smith 650.325.6161 CalRE #01890738

Menlo Park | 3/2.5 | $1,695,000 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 2417 Sharon Oaks Dr. Distinctive townhome in the sought-after Sharon Oaks neighborhood. 2417SharonOaks.com Ginny Kavanaugh 650.851.1961 CalRE #00884747

Sharon Heights / Stanford Hills | 2/2 | $855,000 Sat/Sun 2 - 4 2140 Santa Cruz Ave D108 Light & bright 1st floor end unit faces grass area, pool etc. close to Stanford & shops.

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Located in an attractive setting on a quiet cul-de-sac, this well-maintained and enchanting home features hardwood floors, two spacious bedrooms, living room with fireplace, formal dining room, well-designed, light-filled kitchen, and a large, two-car garage with workshop area, laundry and mezzanine storage. A sunken family room offers a second fireplace, panoramic view of the expansive, landscaped back yard, adorned with fruit trees and a rose garden. The family room opens out to a spacious covered deck and brick path to a garden patio for dining and entertaining. The large lot offers plenty of room for future expansion of the house. Easy access to Gunn High School, Terman Middle School, Barron Park Elementary School Bol Park, and paths to Stanford and the foothills!

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement MN ENTERPRISE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN639149 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: MN Enterprise, located at 1346 Old Park Place, San Jose, CA 95132, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): NGUYEN HOA MINI 1346 Old Park Place San Jose, CA 95132 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/20/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 21, 2018.

(PAW Mar. 2, 9, 16, 23, 2018) PALO ALTO SMART THERAPY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN639300 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Palo Alto Smart Therapy, located at 2799 Middlefield Dr., Suite A, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KRISTA REGEDANZ, PH. D., A PSYCHOLOGICAL 1171 Cedar St. Montana, CA 94037 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 26, 2018.

(PAW Mar. 2, 9, 16, 23, 2018) TRIDENT SALES GROUP FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN639898 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Trident Sales Group, located at 571 Military Way, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: Married Couple.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): STEWART RAPHAEL 571 Military Way Palo Alto, CA 94306 MAYMA RAPHAEL 571 Military Way Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/03/2013.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 12, 2018.

(PAW Mar. 16, 23, 30; Apr. 6, 2018) JOYRIDE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN639880 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Joyride, located at 460 S. California Avenue, #201, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KIWI INC. 460 S. California Avenue, #201 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 12, 2018.

(PAW Mar. 16, 23, 30; Apr. 6, 2018) GARDEN COURT HOTEL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN640116 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Garden Court Hotel, located at 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): HOTELCRAFTERS PALO ALTO LLC 520 Cowper Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/16/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 16, 2018.

(PAW Mar 23 30; Apr 6 13 2018)

997 All Other Legals ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME AND GENDER SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 18CV321342 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: NAOMI MEI LI ELLEN ROACH has filed a petition with this court for a decree changing petitioner’s name to: ROBERT HARVEY WHITELEY, III. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING: April 10, 2018, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113.

A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: January 2, 2018 ___________________________ JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Mar. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2018) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CAROL COBB BRIGHAM AKA CAROL BRIGHAM, CAROL C. BRIGHAM, CAROL ELIZABETH COBB BRIGHAM Case No.: 17PR000017 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of CAROL COBB BRIGHAM aka CAROL BRIGHAM, CAROL C. BRIGHAM, CAROL ELIZABETH COBB BRIGHAM. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: NANCY B. BLATTEL in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: NANCY B. BLATTEL, named in the will as NANCY B. BLATELL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

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

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

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

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

You may examine the file kept by the court.

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

Attorney for Petitioner: Carolyn West Horton, West & Chambers LLP 1901 Harrison Street, Suite 1500 Oakland, CA 94612 cwest@laweastbay.com (510) 452-2133 (PAW Mar. 9, 16, 23, 2018)

Answers to this week’s puzzles, which can be found on page 43.

Sports Shorts

Karen Ambrose Hickey

PREP REPORT . . . Palo Alto bounced back from its first setback in league baseball with a 9-3 victory over Cupertino in a SCVAL De Anza Division game Wednesday. Niko Lillios and Josh Kasevich each drove in a pair of runs and host Palo Alto used a six-run second-inning to grab the early advantage. Paul Thie had two hits for the Vikings (73, 2-1), who travel to Cupertino for a 4 p.m. game Friday. Kasevich’s one-out, two-run single in the first put Palo Alto on top and a six-run barrage in the second was more than enough for Lillios, the winning pitcher, and James Roake, who combined on a three-hitter. with six strikeouts and three walks. Roake has yet to allow a run in 7 1/3 innings of work this season. Lillios is 3-1 in five starts with a 3.25 ERA . . .

Becca Chapman scored three goals and Grace Williams added two along with an assist but the Gunn girls lacrosse team fell to host Los Gatos, 12-9, on Wednesday night in a SCVAL contest. Emily Axtell also scored twice for the Titans (5-4, 5-2), who host co-league leader Mountain View at 7 p.m. Friday . . . Palo Alto downed visiting Los Altos, 12-4, as Ellen Goncher and Charlotte Chang combined to score six goals for the Vikings (5-2, 5-2), who play at Saratoga on Friday at 7 p.m.

Pinewood senior point guard Bri Claros (15) is fearless on the basketball court, a trait that has spilled over to her teammates. She’s been part of 100 victories during her high school career. She thinks 101 would be even better.

GIRLS OPEN DIVISION

Pinewood open to finishing on top Panthers are in their first state championship game in four years

ON THE AIR Friday High school girls basketball: Priory vs. Rolling Hills Prep, 10 a.m. NBCSCA College women’s basketball: Stanford vs. Louisville, 6 p.m. ESPN College baseball: USC at Stanford, 6:05 p.m. Stanford Live Stream College women’s lacrosse: Arizona State at Stanford, 7 p.m., Stanford Live Stream-2

Saturday College women’s gymnastics: Stanford at Pac-12 championships, 1 p.m. Pac-12 Networks College women’s lacrosse: California at Stanford, 1 p.m. Stanford Live Stream College softball: Stanford at Utah, 1 p.m., Utah Live Stream-2 College baseball: USC at Stanford, 1:05 p.m. Stanford Live Stream High school girls basketball: Pinewood vs. Windward, 6 p.m. NBCSBA

by Glenn Reeves he Pinewood girls basketball program is no stranger to the state championships.

The Panthers have won six state Division V titles under coach Doc Scheppler.

Repeat: six Division V titles.

Big fish in a small pond, 210-student Pinewood has been a dominant player in its enrollment class over the past two decades.

But now, after an incredible triple-overtime win over Archbishop Mitty, the top-ranked team in the nation, Pinewood (27-2) takes its

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place on the biggest stage, playing for the state Open Division championship against Southern California champion Windward of Los Angeles, Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.

“This is just awesome to say we’re playing for the Open Division championship,’’ Scheppler said. “To be in this position is so gratifying. It’s just magical.’’

The win over Mitty in the Northern California Open Division championship game in front of a packed house at Santa Clara University did wonders to salve

stay out of foul trouble. The stars have to align.’’

It was the second time in three years that Pinewood knocked off the top-ranked team in the nation.

The first time was in the 2016 NorCal semifinals when the Panthers made the trip to San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton and beat St. Mary’s of Stockton 72-69.

That win was a great experience and no doubt a confidence builder as the team prepared to play Mitty. But what happened (continued on page 46)

GIRLS DIVISION IV

Priory girls are ready for their close up

Sunday High school girls basketball: Pinewood vs. Windward, midnight (repeat) NBCSBA College women’s basketball: Lexington Regional Final, 9 a.m., ESPN College women’s lacrosse: USC at Stanford, 1:05 p.m. Stanford Live Stream-2 College softball: Stanford at Utah, 1 p.m. Utah Live Stream-2 College baseball: USC at Stanford, 1:05 p.m. Stanford Live Stream

Year-long goal of state tile within reach

by Glenn Reeves he Priory girls basketball team took a big step in its evolution as a program its last time on the court, coming from 12 points down to win the Northern California Division IV championship, 59-58 over Bradshaw Christian of Sacramento.

So now with a NorCal championship already in the books, the Panthers are ready to take the final step and go after their ultimate goal -- winning a state championship.

Priory (17-14) will take on

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Monday College softball: Stanford at Utah, 11 a.m. Utah Live Stream-2

Tuesday College baseball: San Diego at Stanford, 6:05 p.m. Stanford Live Stream Keith Peters

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the wounds of the losses Pinewood suffered to the Monarchs in three consecutive Central Coast Section Open Division finals.

After being hammered on the boards in the CCS final, 44-28, Pinewood outrebounded Mitty in the NorCal game, 50-45, with 5-9 Klara Astrom, despite giving away several inches to Mitty superstars Haley Jones and Karisma Ortiz, grabbing a game-high 13 rebounds.

“You’ve got to have a little bit of luck on your side,’’ Scheppler said. “Be relatively injury free,

Priory reacts in the closing moments of its first-ever Northern California girls championship.

Southern California Division IV champion Rolling Hills Prep (302) of San Pedro on Friday at 10 a.m. at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.

“From our first practice in November our goal was not just NorCals, but to go to the state championship and win,’’ Priory coach Buck Matthews said.

The Priory team is heading up to the state capitol on Thursday in order to be prepared for the morning start on Friday. How many of (continued on page 47)

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A close-knit team rallies around Reese The Priory senior will be competing in her final high school game

by Rick Eymer he text came during Prioryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game against Moreau Catholic in late December. Senior Tatiana Reese broke the news to her girls basketball teammates during a break in the action.

Joe Montero, perhaps the most popular teacher on campus, died of a heart attack.

The basketball team was hit hard by the news but carried on.

They also played the day of Monteroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memorial service. Priory lost that game but made it back in time to honor their guardian.

Montero also worked as a security guard at the school.

The Panthers were severely tested during the early part of the season. There were other deaths that impacted the team. Injuries were mounting along with losses.

Yet there was never a chance Priory would disintegrate.

Reese, and Panthers coach Buck Matthews, made sure of that.

As a result, Priory (17-14) plays for the girls CIF state Division IV title against Rolling Hills Prep (30-2) at 10 a.m. Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of hard work, time and dedication,â&#x20AC;? Reese said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went through a lot of interruptions, distractions. But we stayed strong.

We held a lot of team meetings to help maintain a positive mindset.â&#x20AC;?

Reese, the only senior on the Panthers, nearly had her season derailed. She hurt her ankle in the second quarter of the second game and missed seven games. Priory immediately lost four straight.

Other aches and pains kept threatening the season. Reese was determined not to let anything interfere with the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stated goal of reaching the state championship game and winning it.

The Panthers are literally built around Reese, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seek the limelight, who prefers to let her actions speak for themselves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a quiet leader,â&#x20AC;? Matthews said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look for attention. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friends with every type of kid. She knows everybody.â&#x20AC;?

Reese kept trying to talk her way back in the lineup even as her ankle remained tender. She was frustrated she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play but continued to support her teammates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We lost a lot but the team learned how to play without her,â&#x20AC;?

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next is something Pinewood does not want to repeat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The after-effect of that game was us laying a big egg in the next game,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Scheppler said.

Pinewood got blasted in the NorCal final 73-40 by a Miramonte team led by Sabrina Ionescu, the current Pac-12 player of the year at Oregon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had three days to prepare

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Priory senior Tatiana Reese (shooting) hopes to end her high school career with a state championship.

Matthews said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It helped others develop their own game.â&#x20AC;?

Once in a while Reese will give her coach â&#x20AC;&#x153;that look.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a look that many elite players have indicating focus, concentration and confidence have aligned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I trust her that when I get that look I stop calling plays,â&#x20AC;? Matthews said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Does she make mistakes? Sure but she moves on and makes the game-winning layup.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s her resiliency. She could be playing with four fouls and she settles me down with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;coach, I got this.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve put a lot on her and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked so hard to stay mentally strong.â&#x20AC;?

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tried to think what it might be like to walk on the court at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento for the first time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what to expect but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited at the opportunity,â&#x20AC;? Reese said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a little nervous and the team is excited about using a real locker room.â&#x20AC;?

Reese has played at Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Maples Pavilion, during halftime of a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game. She was in the fourth grade and playing with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Payeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; alongside the likes of Mallory North, whose sister Annabelle plays at Priory, Parker Callander, Mia Shenk, Greer Hoyem and Carly McLanahan, among others.

What she mostly remembers is

Grace Battles hitting a half-court shot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She just chucked it up,â&#x20AC;? Reese said.

Until she joined Payeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place, Reese played on boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; teams. As a fifth-grader she played with the eighth graders and got fair warning from former M-A quarterback Aajon Johnson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to run you over,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Reese said, with a big smile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learned a lot from them.â&#x20AC;?

Reese wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thinking about sports when she decided on attending Priory. As a freshman, Priory finished 4-18.

She took it upon herself to set a good example, showing up at practice early. Then Reese began to notice other teammates showing up early until everybody was showing up early.

The East Palo Alto basketball community is its own neighborhood. Matthews and Tatianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother Suliana grew up in the same neighborhood. Matthews and M-A girls coach Mariska Coleman graduated from Eastside Prep in the same class. Q

and we took Wednesday off,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Scheppler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were just flat in that game. I think this one will be a little different.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; This time thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a full week to prepare for a Windward team coached by former Stanford player Vanessa Nygaard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today I had them play indoor hockey for 20 minutes, just to get their ya-yas out,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Scheppler said on Wednesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then we had a 20-minute intense scrimmage.

Hopefully weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be ready to turn it up at full volume Saturday.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Windward (29-3) has a tremendous player in junior guard Charisma Osborne, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;dynamic, aggressive, skilled guard,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; according to Scheppler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to game-plan for her.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; For once Pinewood wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be at a height disadvantage inside. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Their posts are not huge, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re scrappy, kind of Klaratype players,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Scheppler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They run a lot of high pick and rolls, like a Rockets-type offense.

And (Osborne) is their James Harden.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Q

SEE MORE ONLINE www.PaloAltoOnline.com/sports Bri Claros is Pinewoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only senior.

Watch her video interview that accompanies Glenn Reeves online preview story.

Sports ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Hannah Jump

Jack Crockett

PINEWOOD BASKETBALL

SHP LACROSSE

The junior forward helped lead the third-seeded Panthers into their first appearance in the state Open Division title game. She scored 19 points in a win over No. 2 St. Mary’s-Stockton in the regional semifinals and 24 in a triple overtime victory over nationally top-ranked Mitty in the NorCal finals.

The senior attacker leads a high-powered offense for the Gators. He scored three goals in a league victory over rival Menlo School and then came back to score six goals and record six assists in a big nonleague victory over Northern California powerhouse RedwoodLarkspur.

Honorable mention Alexandra Chan Menlo track and field

Bri Claros* Pinewood basketball

Jessica Eagle Menlo-Atherton track and field

Audrey Koren Menlo-Atherton lacrosse

Luci Lambert Sacred Heart Prep track and field

Grace Williams Gunn lacrosse

Justin Cheok Palo Alto swimming

Sam Craig Palo Alto track and field

Josh Kasevich Palo Alto baseball

Jose Munoz Eastside Prep track and field

Angelo Tonas Sacred Heart Prep baseball

Sergio Uze Gunn baseball *Previous winner

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

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the team’s fans will be on hand is another question.

Matthews said the response his team has received from students and from the community has been “overwhelming.’’ But this is a week in which Priory students are fulfilling community service obligations, rather than attending regularly-scheduled classes.

Will Priory students be released from their obligations on Friday in order to attend the game and support the team?

“It’s a complicated situation,’’ was athletic director Mark Stogner’s answer.

Priory’s opponent is making its second consecutive appearance in a state championship game. Last year Rolling Hills lost to Eastside Prep 63-40 in the state Division V final. Priory’s final game last year was also against Eastside, a 66-58 loss at Eastside in the NorCal final.

“They have an advantage in experience over us,’’ Matthews said. “They had a taste of defeat from Eastside, but we had a taste

of Eastside, too.’’

A feature matchup in Friday’s championship game will be down on the low block where a pair of 6-foot-4 post players, Priory’s Ila Lane and freshman Clarice Akunwafo of Rolling Hills, will go at it.

“She’s very active and blocks a lot of shots,’’ Matthews said of Akunwafo. “I think it will come down to who is more aggressive, who puts the ball in the hoop and stays out of foul trouble.’’

Sophomores Alyssa Maxey and Macy Pakele, along with Akunwafo, all average in double figures scoring.

Lane has come on strong for Priory down the stretch and in the postseason, racking up a string of double-doublers.. But the team’s leader is senior Tatiana Reese, a player who has been the focal point of the program the last four years, the four years since the program was resuscitated.

“This will be Tatiana’s last game,’’ Matthews said. “Her first season was tough. We barely had a team. But she hung in there. If we can cap it off for her, as well as for the school, that would be really special.’’ Q

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