Palo Alto Weekly April 6, 2018 by Palo Alto Weekly

Vol. XXXIX, Number 27

April 6, 2018

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Palo Alto may sue over airplane noise Frustrated by federal agency’s inaction, City Council to discuss potential litigation by Gennady Sheyner

alo Alto officials learned a painful lesson during their trip to Washington, D.C. last month: It’s nearly impossible for a city to make its voice heard over airplane noise. That was the impression that

three City Council members came away with after they met with Federal Aviation Administration officials during a trip to the Capitol for the National League of Cities conference. The meeting, they agreed, did not go well.

“It was, I’ve got to say, the most frustrating interaction with government that I can ever recall having,” Councilman Cory Wolbach said as he was updating his colleagues at a March 26 council meeting. Councilmen Adrian Fine and Greg Scharff, who also were part of the local delegation, concurred. Fine said the FAA was “pretty useless” at the March 13 meeting,

which included Brian Langdon, the agency’s manager of government and industry affairs, and Lois Yoshida from the FAA Office of the Chief Counsel, as well as several technical experts. Fine said the agency’s legal counsel effectively barred most people from the federal delegation from speaking. Halfway through the meeting, half of the local delegation left out of frustration, he said.

“I’ve rarely walked away from a meeting feeling so defeated and deflated,” Fine recalled during the March 19 council meeting, which focused on ways to address the noise impacts on NextGen, a 2015 federal initiative that realigned flight paths and, in doing so, created noisy highways over various communities, including Palo Alto. (continued on page 16)

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City seeks to quell neighbors’ feuds with new Eichler guidelines Council adopts voluntary rules for expanding Eichler homes, with option to add teeth by Gennady Sheyner

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Senior services, diversity education, among greatest LGBTQ needs County, city conduct needs assessment in push to make community more inclusive by Sue Dremann

enior services, diversity education and more role models are among the greatest LGBTQ needs in Palo Alto and the Bay Area, a sample group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals and their supporters said during a needs-assessment forum at Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park Community Center on March 29. Sponsored by the Palo Alto Human Relations Commission and the Santa Clara County

Office of LGBTQ Affairs, the event was the second held in the county, which hopes to use its pilot forums in Palo Alto and Mountain View as launch points for similar LGBTQ needs forums in all 15 county cities, said Maribel Martinez, director of the county office. Participants said it’s common for LGBTQ individuals to feel isolated, rejected and discriminated against. But LGBTQ seniors often feel these impacts

more acutely. With emphasis on youth programs, they feel rejected because they are older. If they lose their partner, isolation can become even greater. There are so many professions they interact with that treat them differently, such as going to the bank or the mortuary to take care of a deceased partner’s affairs. Seniors often have no support if their families have abandoned (continued on page 14)

or some Palo Alto residents, a two-story Eichler home is a dream worth pursuing. For others, it’s an architectural abomination that should be banned. On Monday night, the City Council found itself hearing from both camps as it considered — and ultimately approved — a new set of guidelines for Eichler neighborhoods. The 126-page document instructs readers on the finer points of expanding, renovating and enlarging the famously glassy, boxy, post-and-beam homes that were popularized by builder Joseph Eichler in the years after World War II. The council voted 7-1, with Tom DuBois absent and Karen Holman dissenting, to adopt the guidelines. But while these guidelines will be voluntary, Eichler communities will have the option of adding some teeth to the new rulebook. Neighborhoods that want increased protection will be able to designate themselves as “Eichler Zone Combining Districts” with a supermajority vote of residents. These districts would allow Eichler owners to build twostory homes, while ensuring that these homes are consistent with the new guidelines. The council’s adoption of the Eichler Neighborhood Design Guidelines was prompted by a series of squabbles in different Eichler neighborhoods, where

some residents petitioned the city to prohibit new two-story homes and others blasted the proposed ban as an attack on their property rights. Each side claimed some victories in 2016, when the City Council approved two singlestory overlay districts (which explicitly ban two-story homes) in the Eichler enclaves of Los Arboles and Greer Park North but rejected the overlay districts in Royal Manor and Faircourt. In the two latter cases, the council reached its decision after emotionally charged public hearings, with some residents accusing their neighbors of misleading them with petitions and describing the new zones as an unnecessary overreach. These philosophical differences have not gone away, though the Monday discussion suggested that the terms of the debate have shifted. Of the roughly 20 people who addressed the council on the subject, almost everyone found favored sections within the guidelines, which include rules on everything from roof alignment and landscaping to placement of windows and garages. There was far less consensus on the biggest question facing the council Monday: Should these guidelines be voluntary? For Roy Snyder, a resident of Royal Manor, the answer is clearly no. He wrote in a letter to (continued on page 12)

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It was, I’ve got to say, the most frustrating interaction with government that I can ever recall having. —Cory Wolbach, Palo Alto Councilman, on recent meeting with FAA to address airplane noise. See story page 5.

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YAMAMOTO PARK? ... Palo Alto residents who wanted to see a local middle school named after Fred Yamamoto lost their battle last week, when the school board opted not to do so. But they may yet claim a victory. This week, two members of the City Council said they would support a new proposal: naming a city park after Yamamoto, a Paly grad who fought and died in World War II. Their statements of support came after a group of residents, including a Human Relations Commission member, lobbied for a Yamamoto Park. Commissioner Steven Lee told the council on April 2 that he was disappointed by the school board’s decision and said the city needs to make a “more concerted effort to listen more, to explain, correct and educate others within our community more.” Naming a park after Yamamoto would go a long way to achieving this, he said. “This is a proposal supported by both sides of the recent debate and would go a long way in reaffirming the community’s values and character, following last week’s decision,” Lee said. Sara Armstrong, who served on the committee that recommended naming a school after Yamamoto, concurred with Lee and called Yamamoto “an excellent role model and inspiring representative of the best of Palo Alto.” Though the council wasn’t scheduled to discuss the item, Councilmen Cory Wolbach and Greg Tanaka both said at the end of the meeting that they would support such an initiative. “It’s something we can do to recognize a real hero, someone who was a hero and a leader in the community even before he was in the military,” Wolbach said.

CHIEF SWORN IN ... When Robert Jonsen took the oath of office as the 10th Palo Alto police chief on March 29, he quoted British statesman Sir Robert Peel: “The police are the public and the public are the police.” Jonsen used the quote from Peel, founder of the London Metropolitan Police Force, to reference the critical role residents play in keeping the community safe. “We all have a part to play,” Jonsen said. “Public safety is not the responsibility of

one individual or one entity. It’s a collaborative role and we all have a role to play.” Jonsen served as the Menlo Park police chief before his new role and worked for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department before that. He told attendees he was “excited to be part of a community that takes its role seriously when it comes to public safety.” He was sworn in by Annette Glanckopf, a Midtown resident who for decades has been a leader in the city’s emergency-preparedness efforts. The ceremony came about two hours after the department responded to a threat at Palo Alto High School, which prompted the campus and neighboring school district office to go on lockdown. It was later determined to be a hoax. Assistant City Manager Ed Shikada reflected on the extensive selection process for the position, which featured several interview panels and which he said generated a strong field of candidates. “There is no more high-visibility, high-stress directorship than our chief of police,” Shikada said. “And we are really pleased that Chief Jonsen has made the decision to join us.” A TAXING EFFORT ... As Palo Alto officials continue to discuss a possible tax measure to place on the November ballot, they are also keeping a watchful eye on a California initiative that could scuttle their plans. Efforts are now underway to place on the ballot an initiative called “The Tax Fairness, Transparency and Accountability Act of 2018,” which would require all new taxes to receive support from twothirds of voters (currently, some taxes can be passed through a simple majority), reclassify some service fees as taxes and effectively nullify any local taxes that were passed in 2018 but fail to meet the new requirements, according to a new report from the office of City Manager James Keene. If the initiative is approved (signature-gathering efforts are still underway), the “measure would have significant fiscal impact in Palo Alto and require steep reductions in service levels,” Keene wrote in the report. The council is set take a formal position against the initiative on April 16. Q

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Tall Tree awardees unveiled Allan and Mary Seid, Shashank Joshi, Ada’s Café and SAP to be honored for community work

Kathleen Hughes, founder of Ada’s Café, left center, Charlie Hughes, center, and Todd Cerf, right, serve a customer at the cafe, which was named this year’s Outstanding Nonprofit.

Shashank Joshi, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, has played a central role in addressing mental health issues at Palo Alto schools. He has been named this year’s Outstanding Professional. of suicides among high school students by establishing school-based counseling and support services. Shashank Joshi is receiving the award for Outstanding Professional. Joshi has gone beyond his role as associate professor of psychiatry (continued on page 15)

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Involvement in 1973 to advocate for Asian-Americans and other minorities living in Santa Clara County. The organization assists non-English-speaking immigrants with health care, legal and government services. Allan helped start Pathway Society, which operates a drugaddiction rehabilitation facility that serves teens and adults in the county. He created substanceabuse prevention discussions as part of Pathway’s education program used in Palo Alto schools. He also chaired the Palo Alto City Council special task force on drug abuse and authored the final report that helped create a downtown teen drop-in center. In the midst of raising a family, Mary worked alongside the Palo Alto Council of PTAs to ensure that textbooks used in California’s pubic schools would be free of race and gender bias — a threeyear effort that led to a statewide mandate. She also taught AsianAmerican studies at local colleges. Both Seids partnered with the Palo Alto Unified School District in 2014 to address a growing number

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ive dedicated individuals and organizations that have focused on social causes, mental-health issues, sustainability, workplace diversity and helping those with disabilities will be honored at the 2018 Tall Tree awards on May 17 at Palo Alto’s Crowne Plaza Hotel. The 39th annual event, sponsored by the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and the Palo Alto Weekly, will recognize Allan and Mary Seid, Shashank Joshi, Ada’s Café and SAP. Allan and Mary Seid are receiving the award for Outstanding Citizen Volunteer. For more than 50 years, the longtime Palo Altans have devoted themselves to social causes and fighting injustice. “The Seids have repeatedly stepped up when their community has called upon them to do so, and Palo Alto would not be what it is today without them,” Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian wrote in a letter supporting their nomination. Together, the Seids co-founded Asian Americans for Community

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HOUSING

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Committee balks at raising water rates Concerned about the steady drip of rate increases, Palo Alto’s Finance Committee pushed back on Tuesday against a new proposal by the Utilities Department to increase rates by 4 percent in July and by 7 percent in each of the following two years. The committee, made up of four City Countil members, was scheduled to adopt the Water Utility Financial Plan and the 4-percent rate hike this week. Instead, the committee directed staff to take a fresh look at its expenditures and come up with ways to minimize increases. This could mean revising the department’s infrastructure priorities or scaling back plans to adopt smart meters over the next three years. Some of the cost increases are due to factors largely beyond the city’s control, including the wholesale cost of buying water from the city’s supplier, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The SFPUC also is still in the midst of a multi-year, $4.8-billion effort to upgrade the Hetch Hetchy system, a project that also is contributing to higher water bills. While the city has no purview over the regional project, committee members urged staff to rethink some of the local infrastructure priorities. These include maintenance of an emergency reservoir and replacement of aged water mains. Councilman Greg Scharff questioned the need for smart meters, which the city hopes to start installing by 2021 and which are projected to cost about $4 million. The committee did not vote on the proposed plan, but instead directed Utilities Department staff to return with alternatives. Staff plans return to the committee within the next month to continue the discussion, before going to the full City Council for approval. Q —Gennady Sheyner

Belle Haven students boycott school More than 44 percent of students attending Belle Haven Elementary School in Menlo Park were absent Wednesday, many of whom boycotted classes to protest the East Palo Alto-based school district’s sudden transfer of principal Todd Gaviglio. According to the school administration office, 199 students of 451 did not attend school Wednesday. The boycott came after two days of protests at the school by parents who are angry that Ravenswood City School District Superintendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff summarily transferred Gaviglio to the district’s Curriculum and Instruction department on March 19. Her decision did not sit well with parents and many teachers who credit Gaviglio with turning the underperforming school around. Gaviglio’s removal occurred in the middle of the school year, just days after he filed a discrimination complaint against Hernandez-Goff. He has accused Hernandez-Goff of misusing funds, nepotism, divulging confidential information and falsifying compliance during an inspection. He and many parents said the superintendent’s actions are retaliatory. Parents put together a Facebook page, Support Our Principal Mr. Todd Gaviglio, to garner protesters. The district sent parents robocalls telling them to send their children to school. The parents also are planning to show up at the April 26 district board meeting to demand Gaviglio’s return to Belle Haven. “By keeping our kids home the district will lose money and start taking us seriously,” according to a letter signed by “A fellow concerned Belle Haven parent.” Q —Sue Dremann Page 8 • April 6, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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Rendering by the architects, Steinberg. Courtesy of Castilleja School

The East Palo Alto City Council voted 4-0 to direct staff to develop a tax measure for the November ballot that would add a business tax for offices and administrative firms. The measure would help the city to pay for traffic, infrastructure, housing and services its residents need. The tax would likely amend the current business license tax, but it could also be a payroll tax, although Finance Director Brenda Olwin said there would need to be more work to develop a payroll tax in the limited amount of time that staff has before it is required to file the measure with the state. Olwin had asked the council to defer adding a tax measure until the 2020 ballot to give staff more time to craft a comprehensive measure. City Councilman Carlos Romero, however, said that the council has a responsibility to its residents to make sure it has the revenue to provide services and infrastructure. “We need this tax,” he said. “The avenue this city is going down is one of developing our land as offices, and we may be approving up to 2 million square feet of office space.” He said the tax would help mitigate up to $1 billion of development. By 2020, with all of the changes taking place, the council could have a different makeup and different goals. It is important now for this council to leave a legacy for the community, he said. Mayor Ruben Abrica agreed. The tax measure proposal is likely to return to the council in the coming weeks for further discussion. Q —Sue Dremann

The proposed master plan of Castilleja School expansion’s includes demolishing and replacing five structures with one building and adding underground parking.

LAND USE

Castilleja School seeks variance for rebuild Request comes after Palo Alto determines existing permit will not suffice by Sue Dremann

fficials at Castilleja School have submitted a request for a variance for their proposed campus rebuild, according to a March 22 letter from their attorneys to City of Palo Alto planners. The variance application would not change the above-grade floor area at 1310 Bryant St. and 1235, 1263 Emerson St. Rather, it is a formal request based on a requirement the city is now implementing regarding the school’s application to demolish and replace five structures with one building and to add underground parking. For Castilleja, the variance requirement also represents another hurdle in the school’s ambitious expansion plan. Developers typically use variances when they seek deviation from zoning rules, typically because of physical site constraints or situations in which strict adherence to code would subject the development to “substantial hardships.” The school received notification from the city stating that it would have to submit the variance request, as opposed to having it be part of the school’s existing conditional-use permit. In prior years, the city had granted the school an exception to its R-1 residential zone floor-area ratio (FAR) limitations — which dictate how much new development is allowed

— through the conditional-use permit, the school maintained. Staff told the school the variance would now be required, according to Castilleja officials.

city’s adoption of the new FAR standards, but the city granted a conditional-use permit, making the additional square footage acceptable, according to the letter.

‘To fulfill our mission we need a new, sustainable campus with flexible learning spaces that can last for the next 100 years.’ —Kristin Neirinckx, a Castilleja School spokeswoman. Hillary Gitelman, director of Planning and Community Environment, said in an email to the Weekly: “Based on a plain reading of the code, staff concludes a variance, and not a CUP, is the appropriate application to address this request. To the best of staff’s knowledge, the city has not expressly granted an FAR exception through the CUP process in the past.” The distinction could prove consequential for the school. If the city opts not to approve the variance request, Castilleja could be compelled to reduce its square footage in the rebuild. That’s because when the city changed its maximum FAR limitations, many of Castilleja’s buildings were already constructed and were thus grandfathered in. Other buildings were constructed after the

Castilleja officials said on Thursday that without a variance, the school could retain its current FAR on campus by keeping the existing configuration of the buildings. Instead of demolishing five buildings to make way for one new building, the school could remodel all of the buildings. “That option would not meet the goals of the school, that is why we are asking for the variance. To fulfill our mission we need a new, sustainable campus with flexible learning spaces that can last for the next 100 years,” spokeswoman Kristin Neirinckx said in a statement from school officials. The new proposal would add about 24,000 square feet of open (continued on page 16)

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Commissioners challenge colleagues on housing

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City Council (April 2)

Three members of Planning and Transportation Commission urge council to reject their commission’s recommendation by Gennady Sheyner

n a highly unusual move, three members of Palo Alto’s Planning and Transportation Commission have authored a memo urging the City Council to reject the full commission’s recommendation and approve a new zoning district to encourage affordable housing. The memo, which commissioners Michael Alcheck, Vice Chair Sue Monk and William Riggs submitted to the council on March 29, makes a case for creating a new affordable-housing overlay district, a zoning tool that would grant concessions on height and parking requirements to developments with 100 percent affordable housing. The council is scheduled to consider the new overlay district on April 9. The proposed zoning district is one component of the city’s Housing Work Plan, which lays out dozens of new policies that Palo Alto plans to consider in the next two years to meet the council’s housing goals. Earlier this year, the council

set at its target the creation of 300 housing units every year between now and 2030. That’s roughly three times as many units as the city has produced in recent years. This particular policy was sparked in part by a proposal by the nonprofit Palo Alto Housing to build a four-story development on El Camino Real, near Wilton Avenue. The project would include about 60 housing units for residents who make 60 percent of the area median income or less. Though the nonprofit has not yet submitted a formal application, officials have indicated that some waivers and concessions would be required to make the project economically feasible. At its meetings on Feb. 14 and March 14, members of the planning commission generally agreed that they would like to see the project constructed. But they split sharply over whether to create the new zoning district and ultimately voted 4-3, not to issue a recommendation on the affordable housing

of Palo Alto government action this week

overlay district. Instead, Chair Ed Lauing and commissioners Przemek Gardias, Doria Summa and Asher Waldfogel suggested that the council approve the Wilton project under a “planned community” zone and take more time to refine the new zoning district. “It is the most promising tool our body has considered to address the enormous shortage of affordable housing in our City,” the memo states. “Such zoning overlay ordinances are ‘simple’ policies that do not obfuscate existing zoning, but rather provide yet another tool in the toolbox for non-for-profit developers to use when attempting to bring forward the rarely proposed 100 percent affordable housing project.” The three commissioners note that the zone would not automatically grant housing developers permission to build in the new overlay district. They would still have to take the plans to the planning commission and the City Council for approval. Q

Eichlers: The council approved the Eichler Neighborhood Design Guidelines and directed staff to create a process that would allow residents to create Eichler zoning districts in which these guidelines would be applied for approval of two-story homes and second-story additions. Yes: Filseth, Fine, Kniss, Kou, Scharff, Tanaka, Wolbach No: Holman Absent: DuBois Recognition: The council approved a resolution setting April 9 as “Palo Alto Day” in recognition of the city’s incorporation. Yes: Filseth, Fine, Holman, Kniss, Kou, Scharff, Tanaka, Absent: DuBois

Council Finance Committee (April 3)

Water: The committee discussed the new financial plan for the water utility and directed staff to consider ways to reduce rate increases. Action: None Wastewater: The committee adopted the new financial plan for the wastewater utility and recommended approving an 11 percent increase to the wastewater rates in the next fiscal year. Yes: Unanimous

Architectural Review Board (April 5)

3265 El Camino: The board approved a proposal for a three-story mixed-use project with 282 square feet of commercial space and three residential units. Yes: Baltay, Furth, Lew, Thompson No: Gooyer

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The Palo Alto City Council approved a new set of guidelines for Eichler neighborhoods aimed at promoting compatability and protecting privacy. (known as “Individual Review” when new two-story homes are involved) will only muddle the situation and make it hard for residents to understand exactly what they are allowed to build. “If it goes through and becomes part of the IR (Individual Review), part of the overlay for the neighborhood, it will set the stage for more confrontation and conflict among neighbors,” Sammie told the council Monday. Others strongly disagreed. Ben Lerner, who helped lead a multi-neighborhood effort to establish “single-story overlay” districts in 2016, said he’d like to see the new guidelines integrated into the city’s Individual Review process. Though the process considers such factors as mass and height, it doesn’t regulate style — a key consideration in Eichler neighborhoods, which were designed as communities. The review process, Lerner said, is flawed when it comes to Eichlers and should be fixed so that it protects the rights of all homeowners in these neighborhoods, not just the person rebuilding or expanding a home.

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the council that only seven of the 26 homes on his block actually appear to conform to the new guidelines. The rest, he said, have multiple non-conforming features. “Adoption of these guidelines as a formal City of Palo Alto document — when it is known that as many as three-quarters of the existing structures may not conform — is simply poor public policy and governance. It will erode the credibility of past and certainly future City guides, codes, ordinances, etc.,” Snyder wrote to the council. Siamack Sammie, who also lives in Royal Manor and who is considering building a second story, also urged the council to keep the guidelines voluntary. Homeowners who are expanding their homes already have every incentive to be respectful of neighbors to maintain peace in the community, he said. Adding a slew of new rules to the city’s design-review process

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Marilyn Bauriedel, who lives on South Court, argued that the new guidelines can be a great tool for achieving “thoughtful and spacious remodels.” The council stopped short of integrating them into the review process. Instead, by directing staff to create the new Eichler district, it opted to let each neighborhood decide whether the new guidelines should have teeth or not. In the coming months, planning staff will conduct more outreach and return with an ordinance for the council to adopt. The approach was proposed by Councilman Greg Scharff, who pointed out that each of the city’s 31 Eichler tracts seems to have different characteristics. For that reason, he said he cannot support a “one-size-fits-all” approach. After a lengthy discussion and comments from residents, the council voted to approve the voluntary guidelines and to give neighborhoods the option of going beyond voluntary. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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and behavioral sciences at Stanford University to assist troubled youth in the Palo Alto area. As a suicide-prevention expert, he played a central role in the community response to the mental health crises apparent among high school students in Palo Alto in 2009 after a cluster of suicides. Joshi is a founding member of Project Safety Net, formed to prevent teenage suicide and promote youth well-being. The organization aims to develop and implement an effective, comprehensive community-based mental health plan with strategies that together provide a â&#x20AC;&#x153;safety net.â&#x20AC;? Joshi is a mental health consultant for Palo Alto Unified and collaborates with teachers and administrators at Gunn High School to help identify students with mental health risks. Through the organization, he has played a role in supporting the creation of the school districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suicide prevention toolkit, organized mental health awareness campaigns and brought in more students to work with the organization. Joshi also works as part of the Santa Clara County Suicide Prevention Oversight Committee. Adaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CafĂŠ is receiving the award for Outstanding Nonprofit. Since 2012, the nonprofit has empowered people with disabilities through work opportunities, changing the face of retail out of a small, inviting coffee shop next to the Mitchell Park Library and in the commercial kitchen in Mountain View, where all the food is made with organic ingredients. Kathleen Foley-Hughes, a longtime Palo Altan and mother of four, founded the nonprofit that began with catering gigs and expanded to a cafĂŠ open seven days a week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to bring people together that usually donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an opportunity to connect,â&#x20AC;? Foley-Hughes told the Weekly before the organization opened its Mitchell Park location in 2014. Adaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has hired more than 50 adults with developmental disabilities and has integrated students from several local schools into its summer intern program. Al Kenrick, a Wells Fargo Bank regional manager who has worked with Adaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, said he believes the cafe is changing the perception of what it means to have a disability. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By integrating current high school students into its programs today, Adaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is sowing the seeds of positive change in the minds of tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaders,â&#x20AC;? Kenrick wrote in a letter supporting the Adaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nomination. SAP is receiving the award for Outstanding Business. Tech giant SAP is known worldwide as a leader in enterprise application software, but locally, the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stanford Research Park campus is recognized for its community partnerships, sustainability efforts and dedication to workplace diversity.

SAP is among the 229 companies recognized by Best Workplaces for Commuters. In Palo Alto, SAP provides employees transit subsidies, commuter shuttles and carpool matching and free ride-share access. As a zero-waste campus, SAP runs off of 99 percent renewable energy credits, has installed more than 650 solar panels, and on average, saves 3.1 million gallons of water at its data canters annually. Former Palo Alto Mayor Pat Burt called SAP â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greenest companies everâ&#x20AC;? in 2015 when awarding its third Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Green Business Leader Recognition Award. As a partner of the Foundation for a College Education in East Palo Alto, many SAP employees have mentored students through various programs. Employees also have worked with the foundation through SAP Social Sabbatical, a pro bono volunteer program where employees are given

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“Everyone in the room felt like the FAA wasn’t going work with Palo Alto,” Scharff told the Weekly. Now, the city is preparing to speak louder and more forcefully. Next week, the council will meet in a closed session to consider litigation against the federal agency — a tactic that has been employed in other communities wrestling with the issue, including Phoenix and Newport Beach. At the same time, Scharff is chairing a regional committee that is working to establish a permanent coalition of South Bay cities to focus on airplane noise. Once formed, the South Bay committee will mimic the San Francisco International Airport/ Community Roundtable, which includes various San Mateo County cities and San Francisco. Scharff said every city in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties

will be invited to join the new South Bay committee and most — including Capitola, Santa Cruz and Watsonville — have already expressed an interest in doing so. His seven-member ad hoc committee consists of local and county representatives, including Mountain View Councilwoman Pat Showalter, Sunnyvale Councilman Larry Klein and Santa Cruz Supervisor John Leopold. All are excited about moving the effort forward, he said. The idea of forming the committee was prompted by a letter that U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo, Ro Khanna and Jimmy Panetta submitted last year to the Cities Association of Santa Clara County urging a permanent venue to represent “currently disenfranchised communities in addressing aircraft noise concerns including, but not limited, to SFO.” The creation of the new group is consistent with recommendations from the Select Committee on South Bay Arrivals, a group

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finally getting some results. That, in fact, appears one of the few areas in which the FAA and the cities are in agreement. “One of the things FAA did say is that they’d like us to form a roundtable because it will provide a forum and a voice, rather than having each individual city coming to the FAA and making opposite requests,” Scharff said. “If we had a forum where everyone could agree and speak with one voice, we’re actually likely to have more power. And the FAA agrees with that.” If the collaboration fails, there’s always litigation — an alternative that many in the community are now urging the council to employ. During a February meeting of the council’s Policy and Services Committee, several residents urged the council to join forces with other cities that have been challenging the FAA and pursue the legal option. Resident Karen Porter pointed to the FAA’s rejection of the Select

Committee’s recommendation and asked the council to keep fighting for the preferred solutions, including higher altitudes at the MENLO waypoint. “We need to really push back stronger against the FAA,” Porter said during the Feb. 13 discussion. In addition to forming a new regional committee and pondering litigation, Palo Alto officials are also considering other less risky measures to address airplane noise. On Monday, the council will consider a list of recommendations from its Policy and Services Committee, which include requesting temporary noise monitoring from San Francisco International Airport; including aircraft noise in the city’s legislative priorities; developing a noise-monitoring plan with the jurisdictions; and lobbying in support of flight paths that would divert air traffic away from neighborhoods. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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proposed increase in enrollment, which they say will add to existing traffic woes if permitted. Castilleja applied for a separate variance for the underground parking garage on April 28, 2017. Gitelman said by email that as designed, the underground garage encroaches into a required special setback: “The applicant has indicated their interest in using

a variance application to address this encroachment.” Gitelman said preparation of the Draft Environmental Impact Report was paused for a few months. Neirinckx said the completion of the report is not expected until sometime this summer. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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space and bike amenities for the public, and it would put parking underground. The latter “amenity” is highly controversial, however. Many nearby residents, but not all, are strongly opposed to the parking garage and a

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of 12 elected officials that was chaired by Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian and that met between May and November 2016 to discuss ways for addressing the airplane-noise problem. To date, the FAA has rejected most of the Select Committee’s substantive recommendations, including those that would direct more planes over the bay and increase flight altitudes over the “MENLO” waypoint, a hub of air traffic. In its response to the Select Committee’s recommendation, the FAA argued that the MENLO altitude “cannot be any higher without jeopardizing the safe operation of each aircraft.” “The higher an aircraft flies while in the vicinity of MENLO, the farther away from the SFO airport the aircraft must travel in order to descend to the appropriate altitude for approach,” the FAA response stated. Despite the setbacks, Scharff said he thinks the new committee could be an effective tool for

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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

(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.

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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

iDTechCamps.com

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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We strive to help children find their own voice and confidence Register online at www.artandsoulpa.com

2800 West Bayshore Rd, Palo Alto (650) 424-1267

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An allegedly intoxicated woman died when she sped off in a car that crashed into a parked vehicle in East Palo Alto on March 28, according to a police report released Wednesday. (Posted April 4, 9:42 a.m.) A 15-year-old boy walking at Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bol Park was attacked on Easter Sunday by four males who beat him on the ground and yanked a $750 pair of shoes from his feet, Palo Alto police said. (Posted April 2, 6:52 p.m.)

Saudi prince in Palo Alto Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who was set to arrive in the Bay Area on Monday as part of his tour of the United States, reportedly booked the entire Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley in East Palo Alto for his weeklong stay, according to the online tech news website Recode.

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Teacher pleads guilty A Palo Alto music teacher faces up to a year in county jail after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl in an afterschool music program, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. (Posted April 2, 4:10 p.m.)

Stanford admit rate lowest in history

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Stanford University accepted 2,040 students to its incoming class for Fall 2018 the undergraduate admissions office announced on Friday. The admission rate of 4.29 percent is the lowest in Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. (Posted April 2, 9:25 a.m.)

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Summer at Sand Hill June 26 to July 19 Make sure your child is ready for fall. Join us for three weeks of great summer learning and fun afternoon options. Academics, performing arts and thought-provoking classes for parents too. For application and more details, visit: www.sandhillschool.org

Push to honor Fred Yamamoto continues Palo Altan Fred Yamamoto, who fought and died in WWII, did not get a Palo Alto middle school named after him last week, but the movement to recognize his contributions to the community goes on. Over the weekend, a GoFundMe campaign was launched to raise money for one or more scholarships recognizing graduating high school seniors who â&#x20AC;&#x153;demonstrate civic leadership, inclusion and service reminiscent of Fredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spirit,â&#x20AC;? according to the webpage. (Posted April 2, 9:07 a.m.)

Sand Hill School 650.688.3605 info@sandhillschool.org 650 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Suspicious itemsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; prompt evacuation Evacuations were called for at Stanford Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cordura Hall Monday morning due to â&#x20AC;&#x153;suspicious itemsâ&#x20AC;? at the building later determined to be cans used for a research project, a Department of Public Safety spokesman said. (Posted April 2, 8:27 a.m.)

Pulse A weekly compendium of vital statistics

Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Public incident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances 4 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

March 28-April 3 Violence related Assault w/deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sexual assault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Counterfeiting checks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident, minor injury . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident, property damage . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under the influence, accident . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Under the influence of drugs . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Brandishing a weapon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Criminal threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disobey court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Disposal request. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

March 28-April 3 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle related Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 7 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident, minor injury . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident, no injury . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Under the influence of drugs . . . . . . . . 2 Drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic disturbance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Stanford Avenue, 4/2, 8:31 p.m.; child abuse/neglect. 300 Pasteur Dr., 3/27, 9:25 p.m.; battery. 300 Pasteur Dr., 3/30, 1:30 p.m.; battery. Park Boulevard, 3/27, 4:43 p.m.; assault with deadly weapon. Pasteur Drive, 3/28, 12:50 a.m.; sexual assault/foreign object. El Camino Real, 3/28, 11:53 p.m.; domestic violence/battery. Laguna Avenue, 4/1, 10:05 p.m.; robbery/strong arm.

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Virginia Rooke Closs February 18, 1923 – March 19, 2018 Virginia, or Gini, was born in Steubenville, Ohio. As a child she moved with her family to Pasadena as a teenager she even marched in the Rose Parade. She went on to earn a degree in International Studies from Stanford University, and joined the Chi Omega sorority. During World War II she volunteered for the Women’s Air Raid Defense, or WARD, and was stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii. There she met and wed the love of her life, Bill Tom Closs, a Marine lieutenant from Texas. Returning from the war, Bill started playing professional basketball in the newly formed NBA, and Gini became adept at raising her young family while moving between Indiana, Philadelphia and Texas. Later they moved to California where Gini worked hand in hand with Bill to start their first business, a sporting goods distribution company. This led to a new chapter in their lives with international travel and new friendships when Bill became an Adidas distributor. In retirement Gini and Bill spent much of the year at their home on Flathead Lake in Montana. As avid sports fans, they provided scholarships for numerous athletes at their alma maters, Stanford, and Rice University. They were cofounders of an innovative housing development for seniors in downtown Palo Alto, The Hamilton, where they happily spent their final years. Bill passed away in 2011 after 65 years of marriage. Gini was a vibrant, beautiful and inspiring presence in our lives. She is survived by her daughters, Linda Hovis and Libby Hatfield, and her son William Closs. Her 9 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren will cherish their memories of their fun and supportive “Gigi.” Services will be private. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to EPATT, the after school tennis and tutoring program held at Stanford. PAID

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Editorial The housing ‘overlay’ Innovative approach to encourage affordable housing projects should be approved

he Palo Alto City Council Monday night will consider whether to approve a new mechanism that would, for the first time, allow for the easing of some zoning requirements for housing projects designed exclusively for lower income individuals and families. The so-called “affordable housing combining district” would provide the city flexibility to ease some development standards for 100-percent affordable housing projects in areas that are in existing commercial zones and close to public transit. For example, the city would be able to allow a development to have a greater density of units by relaxing current lot coverage, open space, parking and ground-floor retail requirements. The proposal maintains the city’s 50-foot height limit and requirements such as setbacks and daylight plane restrictions when a housing project is adjacent to low-density residential neighborhoods. The issue of how to encourage 100-percent affordable housing developments instead of market-rate projects that have only a few units set aside at below-market rate comes to the city council from a divided Planning and Transportation Commission. The four-person commission majority was not ready to support the new overlay zone proposed by the staff and is instead recommending the council defer adopting it to allow for more study and outreach to both potential affordable-housing developers and the public. Instead, for now, the commission recommended the council bring back the use of the highly controversial “planned community” (PC) zoning tool, which allows a developer to negotiate a specific project with city staff that allows for an easing of development requirements and greater density than zoning allows in exchange for providing “public benefits” — in this case affordable housing. The two alternative approaches — the staff-recommended overlay zone versus the planning commission’s proposed return of the PC zone — aren’t dramatically different in their intended outcomes, but the PC process was repeatedly abused and lost all credibility, so much so that the city council finally chose to stop using it in 2013. We see little benefit, or likelihood of success, in trying to resurrect and fix all the problems the PC zone created and overcome the widespread public outrage it attracted. The planning commission did suggest several improvements to the initial overlay zone proposal that have been incorporated in what the city council will consider, and since any specific project proposed under the new zone would be reviewed by the commission and the city council, we think there are adequate safeguards to protect affected neighbors and ensure public input. City officials are anxious to move forward on an affordable housing strategy not only because of the acute shortage of units for lower-income residents and the need to meet our adopted and state-mandated housing goals, but because the nonprofit Palo Alto Housing is ready with a proposal for a housing project on land it has purchased at El Camino and Wilton Avenue, adjacent to the Ventura neighborhood. It is exactly the type of housing project the city should be encouraging, and that rarely comes along because of the city’s high land costs. Thus it is the perfect test case for the new overlay zone. With the new affordable housing zoning in place, that project, which currently proposes 61 affordable housing units and groundfloor retail, could ask, for example, for relief from the ground-floor retail requirement, thereby reducing parking requirements. As we have urged previously, the city should have a laser focus on encouraging 100-percent affordable housing projects aimed at the lowest-income individuals and families. Not only is this the group — earning up to 60 percent of the area’s median income — that is most endangered due to housing costs, but these residents require fewer parking places, generate the least traffic congestion and enable the project to be eligible for federal housing funds. We need not worry about a sudden onslaught of proposals. The last 100-percent affordable project, a 50-unit low-income family apartment complex at 801 Alma St., was approved nine years ago. While it will undoubtedly be improved with experience, the proposed affordable-housing overlay zone is a sensible first step in supporting the kind of housing to which we believe most residents of Palo Alto give the highest priority. One thing the community doesn’t need is inflammatory rhetoric from public officials disrespecting the positions of others and questioning their motives. Planning commissioners Michael Alcheck and Susan Monk, for example, undermine the process, inflame emotions and make it harder to achieve successful outcomes when they accuse their colleagues of not caring about the housing shortage and accuse them of “delay tactics” and “NIMBYism.” That behavior and language seeks to divide rather than unite Palo Altans and is a distraction from sound policy making. We hope for more from the City Council Monday night. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

This week on Town Square Town Square is an online discussion forum at www.PaloAltoOnline.com In response to “Palo Alto narrows down options for rail redesign” Posted on March 22 at 12:49 p.m. by Gale Johnson, a resident of the Adobe Meadow neighborhood: “Would the city please provide us residents crossing data for each crossing? In chart/graph form showing numbers of crossings per day, every day, over at least a two month period, and even down to crossings per hour during that period. It would help us understand the magnitude of the problem better I think, especially those commenters who have opined on the subject and offered solutions. Once presented with some facts, they might think differently. If Meadow is closed, where will that traffic flow? I would guess most of it to Charleston and a little to Oregon and San Antonio. Now that all the combinations have been considered, it’s most important to evaluate the impact/consequences of each of the candidate options. If the bike lobby has its way there will only be bike crossings and nothing for cars. Blowing $8 million on Ross is one thing ... but blowing $1.5 billion on grade separation is another.”

In response to “Standing up for Fred” Posted on March 26, at 3:40 p.m. by Jerry Underdal, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood: “Allen and Mary Seid won the Avenidas Lifetimes of Achievement Award in 2015 for their many contributions to the community. They were leaders behind the formation of Asian-Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) in the 1970s and promoted many projects and activities that brought Asian-Americans into the mainstream of civic life.”

In response to “Saudi crown prince to arrive in Silicon Valley today” Posted on April 2, at 10:35 p.m. by Arnold Ziffel, a resident of the Green Acres neighborhood: “It is truly wonderful for the Crown Prince to enjoy the Four Seasons. East Palo Alto civic leaders have much to be proud of. Let us hope the giant IKEA sign doesn’t keep His Highness awake.”

Letter Stop Castilleja expansion Editor, As a parent and grandparent, I certainly strongly support women’s education. I also support neighborhood hardware stores. But if the Hassett family brought forward a proposal to add an underground garage at their Ace store a few blocks from Castilleja, it would be equally resisted. But, they would argue, we must serve our Peninsula customers, and we have a traffic mitigation plan! Less than six months after the City Council spent many, many long hours of discussion and finally passed (November 2017) the City of Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan, Castilleja proposes to build underground parking for up to 140 cars within the Single Family Residence area. Each weekday morning and afternoon these cars will converge on the neighborhood streets and

queue up to get into/out of the garage. The proposal is totally inconsistent with three of the major themes of the Comprehensive Plan: — Building community and neighborhoods — Maintaining and enhancing community character — Reducing reliance on the automobile It’s time for Castilleja directors to consider the example of other private schools. For example, in 2014 the Nueva School opened its new high school campus, separate from the Pre-K-8 school in Hillsborough. The new high school is a 10-minute walk from a Caltrain Bullet stop. From the Nueva’s website: “Our Transportation Management Plan promotes public transit, bus, carpool, and bicycle use. Students are not allowed to drive to school except with special permission.” Glance at the Caltrain web site bit.ly/ BayMeadowsSchoolWalks. Impressive. Encourage Castilleja to take the challenge! Wally Whittier Bryant Street, Palo Alto

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Off Deadline An $11.4 billion question: Can Proposition 13 ‘loophole’ be ‘corrected’? by Jay Thorwaldson

ome 30 years ago California voters — stung by surging housing prices and inflation of the 1970s — approved Proposition 13, a state constitutional amendment that put a hard limit on property-tax increases. As with most strong medicines, there were side effects. The severity of some of these side effects has prompted a new effort to amend California’s constitution to fix Prop. 13’s worst perceived defects. And some Palo Altans, not surprisingly, are in the middle of the effort. The major purpose of Prop. 13 was to restrict increases in property taxes to 2 percent when a property sells or otherwise changes ownership and to cap property taxes at 1 percent of the property value. Several things began to happen, either not foreseen or not publicized. Overall, the primary burden of funding local schools and services began to shift from corporations and businesses to residential properties, the homeowners. That’s because commercial properties are less likely to turn over than homes and are thus more likely to enjoy the long-term benefits of Prop. 13. In addition, homeowners began to hold onto their homes longer than in the past, often becoming “empty nesters.” Longerterm homeowners began to have lower property taxes than their newcomer neighbors, sometimes drastically lower. There were immediate and long-term effects on cities, counties and especially school districts that depend heavily on property

taxes for their operational revenues. Cities began deferring maintenance and replacement of key infrastructure items, such as local bridges, streets, buildings, parks, storm drains and sewers — resulting in everything from more potholes to shabbier facilities. Governments at all levels began bargaining promised retirement benefits in lieu of immediate salary hikes. This resulted in what has become a monster-sized “unfunded liability” crisis hanging over cities and other agencies — a giant Ghost of Bad Negotiations Past that would scare off even the Ghostbusters team. But schools have been among the hardest hit, including the Palo Alto Unified School District, once termed a “lighthouse district” for its overall offerings and excellence. When Prop. 13 was approved in 1978, school districts statewide immediately began budget-cutting, often starting with so-called non-essential programs such as art and music and even auto shop, along with some sports programs and support-staff positions. The failing struggle to sustain quality came to light vividly with a documentary describing the plight of California schools: “From First to Worst.” The Merrow Report film featured Michael Kirst, Stanford emeritus professor of education with a long history of involvement in national education policies and programs. All of this led to the current effort to amend Prop. 13 and solve some of these issues. Former Palo Alto Mayor Nancy Shepherd is one of those neck-deep in the closethe-loophole effort, known statewide as the “California Schools and Local Communities Funding Act of 2018.” She said her interest in Prop. 13 side effects on schools arose several years ago when she became involved in promoting

district-wide school fundraising to help fill in the funding gaps caused by Prop. 13. The effort is focusing on gathering enough signatures to get the amendment on the November ballot. “I have been doing training for the signature campaign, now underway,” she reported in an email.”We are 35 percent collected. We need over 550,000 signatures, so seek to collect 900,000 for duplicates and bad voter info.” Statewide, the initiative was submitted by the California League of Women Voters. It is endorsed by California State PTA. A “policy brief” about the proposed amendment provides a summary: The amendment “will periodically reassess commercial and industrial properties to full market value, while safeguarding homeowners, renters and agricultural land. It will provide tax relief to small businesses and full transparency for the public. “It will raise approximately $11.4 billion in statewide revenues from reassessment for 2019-2020, if fully implemented. A large share of the new revenues, or over $4.5 billion, will support K-12 schools and community colleges, with the balance allocated to local government (cities, counties, special districts).” The brief also states the amendment would reassess “underutilized land in sprawling commercial strips, auto malls and underassessed retail areas. In addition to strengthening local governments, it will also lead to far more efficient land use, including likely higher-density housing along commercial strips in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties and more intensive use of land currently held vacant or in low-level uses.” Shepherd said local league and PTAs are on board with many members

collecting signatures. Shepherd said she took up the cause in 2014, when as mayor she received a call from an organization called Evolve California, which was involved in what was then known as the “Make it Fair Campaign” (to read her opinion piece that appeared in the Weekly in 2014, go to http://bit.ly/2H95iUU) “I jumped on it and everyone was very supportive. (Then-Councilman) Larry Klein spoke long and forcefully about the ruin of California because of Prop. 13,” she said. Shepherd said she’s been told that Palo Alto will feel the greatest impact of the proposed amendment because of the large amount of land owned or long-term leased by large corporations. “I’d like to remind basic-aid school districts (such as Palo Alto) that new revenue is split 60 percent to governments, 40 percent to a state trust fund for education.” She expects Palo Alto schools to get a fair share of those funds. She noted that since 76 percent of current property-tax collection is from residential, which will not be changed with this act, only the 24 percent of commercial collections will be affected by the change. Some who would otherwise support the initiative have expressed concern about funds going to a state trust fund before being disbursed back to local districts. So there’s a “trust” issue. Opponents have so far kept a low profile, but some real opposition is likely to emerge if/when the initiative reaches the ballot, from the owners of the long-undervalued properties that will face substantial reassessments, to the tune of more than $11 billion. Will the strong polling numbers supporting the change be enough? Stay tuned. Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well.com.

Streetwise

What is your favorite springtime activity? Asked on California Avenue in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Christine Lee.

Omar Estoque

Paulo Frank

Jeff Portusach

Pria Graves

Gordon Carfi

Software engineer Cumulus Avenue, Sunnyvale

Student Peter Coutts Circle, Stanford

General contractor Cora Court, Campbell

Artist Yale Street, Palo Alto

Student Park Boulevard, Palo Alto

“My favorite would be playing tennis; I play tennis a lot. I like hiking with my cousin — mostly outdoor sports.”

“I like seeing all the caterpillars.”

“Fishing, boating — I have two boats — and water skiing.”

“Walking. I like biking as well. When I was younger, I did stuff like motorcycling, sailing and scuba diving.”

“Hanging out with friends, playing video games like PUBG. I’ve also been watching ‘Criminal Minds.’”

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Transitions

James Michael Strong

Births, marriages and deaths

July 7, 1955 – January 28, 2018 Jim, you made our lives better. Your playful sense of humor kept our hearts warm and light. Your gentle patience, humble integrity and unassuming manner strengthened us. And your calm, cool-headed approach to life’s obstacles inspired us. We watched you embrace your passion for gazing at full moons and distant stars, first as a child with toy planetariums and backyard telescopes, then as an adult exploring national parks with your cameras and helping NASA study the sun and moon. We marveled at the meticulous eye and careful planning you brought to photography, especially when you captured the awe in natural scenes like a full moon rising over Yosemite. And we treasure memories of your affection for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, your perfect 60-minute gravy and your appetite for repairing salvaged treasures. The youngest of seven children, Jim Strong was born July 7, 1955, to June Conrow Strong and John Matthews Strong in Glen Ellyn, Ill. The family moved in 1959 to the Palo Alto home that was their base camp for 33 years. Jim shared many adventures with his close-knit family, including camping, stargazing, Scouting, target shooting, fishing and photography. With his brother John he built an electric train diorama, flew RC planes with their dad, staged battles involving toy soldiers and Lincoln Logs, and built countless model ships and planes—putting the ships out to sea in the family pool and hanging the planes airborne from their bedroom ceiling. Jim also loved playing for the Liddicoat’s Little League team as well as J.V. and varsity soccer at Palo Alto High School. Jim received his BS in mechanical engineering in January 1978 from Notre Dame University, then worked briefly on the AV-8B Harrier as a flight-test engineer at McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis. After migrating to NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View at age 23, Jim served as test engineer/manager in nearly every wind tunnel at Ames. This included aerodynamic testing of Space Shuttle insulation tiles and testing supersonic parachute deployments for the Mars Science Lab. Jim transitioned from aeronautics testing to spacecraft operations in 2007, becoming a flight controller for NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation & Sensing Satellite. LCROSS confirmed the presence of water ice on the lunar surface when it hit its lunar target in October 2009. Most recently, Jim was the Ames project and mission operations manager for NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph satellite. IRIS observes the solar atmosphere to help explain what causes ejection of solar material—including coronal mass ejections that cause the space weather that can disrupt Earthbound electronics. That Jim loved his career was evident to all those he mentored and worked with. He was approaching his 39th anniversary at Ames at the time of his death on January 28 during a fire in his Santa Clara home. He was preceded in death by his parents and is survived by his six siblings—Jean Hurrle, Martha Strong, Frances Strong and husband Tom Williams, John Strong Jr., Barbara Mitchell and husband Fred Mitchell, and Mary Strong—along with eight nieces and nephews and many friends and colleagues who were looking forward to many more years of enjoying his presence in their lives. A man who loved life, Jim would want us to feel happiness when we think of him. A celebration of his life was held March 7 at NASA Ames Research Center, where colleagues, friends and family shared their memories of Jim and his remarkable character. In memory of Jim, consider making a donation to a charity of your choice in Jim’s name, hugging a loved one or savoring the vast night sky. PAID

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Beverly S. Lawrence Beverly Lawrence, 96, died of a heart attack on March 25. She was born in Chicago in 1921. At age 11, she moved to Southern California. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in English literature and philosophy, she lived in Washington, D.C. before moving to Palo Alto in the 1950s. She married her high school

sweetheart, Manning Lee Lawrence, in 1946. The two were separated during World War II, during which time she served with the Red Cross. They reunited after the war. She was an advocate for fair housing, having co-founded and served in various roles, including executive director, of the Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing. In 1964, she walked precincts in Palo Alto to oppose Proposition 14, which was later declared unconstitutional by the California Supreme Court for enabling racial discrimination in housing. After the death of her husband, she moved her family to Switzerland, where she opened a restaurant in 1972.

She returned to California in 1980 where she continued her work with fair housing until her retirement in 1995. She was buried with her husband and is survived by her three children, Piers Lawrence (Christina) of New York City; Sophia Lawrence of Mourex, France; and Adam Lawrence (Tosca Bini) of Grass Valley. She also is survived by her grandchildren, Tamar Lawrence-Samuel (Thaly Germain) of Brooklyn, New York; Mattias and Milena Lawrence-Samuel of Geneva, Switzerland; and Anina Lawrence of Grass Valley; and her great-grandchild, Taïs Lune. A private ceremony was held for her at Golden Gate National Cemetery on Thursday. Q

Donald Victor Drury October 22, 1927 – March 3, 2018 Donald V. Drury, a third-generation stained glass artist and former head of the Menlo College library, died at Stanford Hospital Saturday, March 3, 2018, at the age of ninety. Don was born October 22, 1927, in Fulham, London, in an apartment adjacent to Glass House, his family’s place of business: a stained glass studio and workshop for independent artists. The company, Lowndes and Drury, was founded in 1897 by his grandfather, Alfred John Drury; Alfred designed and constructed the building in 1906. Don’s parents were John Victor and Mary Angus Drury; he was their only child. Mary, one of four sisters, had come to London from Edinburgh as a young woman. Don grew up in London, but the family relocated to Hampton during the War, and Don spent some time safely in Scotland with relatives. In 1945, he won an open scholarship to Cambridge University and studied modern languages at Gonville & Caius College, graduating in 1949 with honors. During the 1950s, He spent a year in Vienna, studying for an advanced certificate in German, to qualify him to teach that language. He entered the family firm, continuing his art studies at Twickenham School of Art in Middlesex. He also pursued studies in experimental stained glass at the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London, studying under John Baker. He learned techniques including etching, plating, painting, staining, and faceted glass in concrete. Don emigrated to the U.S. in 1957, to work with firms that were interested in new and experimental techniques. He first was employed with Cummings Studio in San Francisco and John Hogan Studios in San Jose. In 1962 he established his own studio on Mary St. in San Francisco. He created installations for several churches and other buildings in the Bay Area, including his Creation Series windows at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley (1964-68); clerestory windows in the Santa Rosa Public Library (1965-67) - an abstract panorama of

Sonoma County from the ocean to the Sierras; and windows for the Christian Brothers retreat house chapel in St. Helena. His major work was St. Bartholomew’s Catholic Church in San Mateo, a truly impressive and inspiring structure whose glass walls were designed and constructed by Don and one assistant. Don met his wife, the former Dorothy Perry, shortly after his arrival in the Bay Area; they married on November 25, 1959 and were devoted to each other until her death on November 20, 2003. Dorothy was a native of Calcutta, India, where her father was stationed with the Royal Scots Regiment. Thirteen years Don’s senior, she had a rich and fascinating life before meeting Don; to support his stained glass studio, she worked and earned her degree in English literature at San Francisco State in 1967. Don began a second career after completing a degree in library science at UC Berkeley in 1972. He served as librarian at Menlo College for more than thirty years; he and Dorothy lived in a cottage on the school grounds until he retired in 1995. They then bought a home in Redwood City. After Dorothy’s death, Don moved to Channing House in Palo Alto, first to an apartment, and later to the skilled nursing area, after he fell and injured his back. Don was musically gifted and sang with the Berkeley Chamber Singers in the 1960s. He joined a small, informal madrigal group in Palo Alto, and his fellow singers remember his beautiful, resonant bass voice. He was very knowledgeable about many styles of music and their interpretation, and those who sang with him learned a great deal from his kindly tutelage. Sadly, his hearing loss in later years precluded him from continuing to enjoy live concerts and recorded music. Ian Angus Gordon of London, Don’s first cousin, died five days before him. He is survived by second cousins and many friends in both the U.S. and the UK. We suggest memorials in his name to a charity of the donor’s choice, especially musical groups and organizations that support music. PAID

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A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, e, books and more

CSMA’s Electronic Music Festival explores music and technology by Marley Arechiga hope that the event, which is open to all ages, will expand attendees’ understanding of what electronic music is and can be. “For a lot of people, there’s this idea that all electronic music is house music or rave or techno. There’s another group that thinks it’s experimental, avant garde or academic,” Marcos Saenz, community relations manager at CSMA and one of the festival’s performers, said. “As a performing electronic musician, I want others to know there’s a lot of places in between.” Saenz, who also teaches electronic music classes at CSMA, said that many people listen to a lot more electronic music than they realize, noting its proliferation in mainstream and even country music. The Flashbulb, a Georgiabased musician on the festival’s lineup, is likely a prime example of an electronic musician whose work might be somewhere in the

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or some, electronic music might call to mind raves and bass drops in the vein of Skrillex or Deadmau5, but an upcoming festival in Mountain View is setting out to prove there’s more variety in this genre than casual listeners might realize. The nonprofit Community School of Music and Arts is hosting its inaugural Electronic Music Festival on April 13-15. This free, interactive event aims to celebrate the intersection of music and technology through a variety of multimedia. The festival will feature performances from electronic musicians, hands-on workshops and demonstrations, as well as “Pulsefield,” an interactive art installation designed by Brent Townshend that tracks and maps the movement of up to 50 people with patterns of light, video and music. Event organizers and musicians

Moldover is considered the “Godfather of Controllerism” (using software and a controller to mix, modify or create music live). “middle.” In addition to the music he records, which is influenced by jazz and incorporates traditional instruments, he also composes music for film and television. His song “Passage D” was featured in the popular 2006 Dove commercial, “Evolution” and he creates scores for the Adler Planetarium films in Chicago, which he said are widely distributed to other planetariums across the country. Among the festival offerings there will also be a controllerism exhibit hosted by Rich DDT and Moldover, the “Godfather of Controllerism.” Analogous to “turntablism,” instead of using a turntable and a mixer to create music in real time, controllerism

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The Flashbulb records original electronic music influenced by jazz and incorporating both traditional and electronic instrumentation.

uses software and a controller to mix, modify or create music live. Saenz explained that previously, if an artist wanted to modify or create music electronically, it had to be done with a limited set of equipment over time and likely in a studio. He, like many in the genre, credit Moldover with creating the necessary equipment to carry out this process during a live performance. While the use of hardware and software is integral to the making and performing of electronic music, being tech savvy isn’t a necessary prerequisite to producing quality electronic music, according to some of the artists on the lineup. “At this point the instruments are so excellent that you can do a lot without learning some more technical things,” said Moldover. Although he added that as in any other field, if an artist wants to learn about electronic music at a deep level, she or he should strive to gain some technical knowledge. Other artists on the festival’s lineup include Bathing, Hurd Ensemble, Daniel Berkman, the Paul Dresher/Joel Davel Duo and Polybius Ensemble. CSMA’s Mohr Gallery will also display artwork from photographer and visual artist Yanling He, a computer scientist and artist best known for her computational graphics art. A panel discussion exploring electronic music and the future of music technology will feature Curtis Roads and John Chowning. Roads is professor of media arts and technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a leading researcher in granular

synthesis, a method of breaking sounds into tiny grains and redistributing them to create new sounds. Chowning is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and inventor of FM synthesis, a type of synthesis that modifies a sound wave produced by an oscillator to create sound. The festival is made possible by a $25,000 grant from Google and Inspire Mountain View, a nonprofit managed by the Los Altos Community Foundation. Inspire is sponsored by Google, LinkedIn, Symantec and Synopsys and “funds projects and programs that make Mountain View a more compassionate and equitable community, and a better place to work and play,” according to its website. Grant applicants must be voted by the public to receive the award. CSMA serves over 26,000 people, including students at more than 50 schools in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Q Editorial Intern Marley Arechiga can be emailed at marechiga@paweekly.com. What: CSMA Electronic Music Festival. Where: Tateuchi Hall, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. When: April 13-15. Cost: Free, but attendees can register online. At press time, musician performances were sold out but the exhibition and activities were still open. Info: Go to arts4all.org/events/ csma-electronic-music-festival.

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Kronos Quartet will perform the score to the film “The Green Fog,” an homage to “Vertigo” and San Francisco.

Kronos Quartet and ‘The Green Fog’ Seminal string quartet pays tribute to the City by the Bay by Yoshi Kato

ike Jimi Hendrix with the electric guitar and Jake Shimabukuro with the ukulele, Kronos Quartet has expanded the possibilities for its stringed instruments (two violins, a viola and a cello). The San Francisco-based musical institution continues to push boundaries with a program on Friday, April 6, at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall that’s toplined by the live scoring of the film “The Green Fog.” Co-commissioned by the San Francisco Film Society and Stanford Live with support from Nion McEvoy, “The Green Fog” consists of clips assembled by Canadian auteur Guy Maddin and co-directors Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson from more than 200 films and television programs shot in the City by the Bay over the past seven decades and is an homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic, San Francisco-set “Vertigo.” Trombonist/bandleader/arranger Jacob Garchik wrote the score, which Kronos performs during a live screening of Maddin’s 63-minute film. “It’s really interesting, because you feel like you’re walking into this history of the city,” said David Harrington, Kronos founder, artistic director and first violinist. “That’s one of the reasons why I thought Jacob should be the composer, because he grew up here. He would know all the spots. And he’s such a film buff, so he probably knew all the (source) films. “I grew up with David

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Harrington’s daughter,” Garchik explained in a 2016 interview. “ I knew who Kronos was, and I was in awe of them. I just thought they were this very cool group,” he continued, “but I was still a kid, so it was just, like, ‘Well, maybe one day, in my wildest dreams, I’ll have a chance to work with them.’” Two pieces from Kronos’ innovative “Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire” are also on the April 6 concert docket. Tanya Tagaq, a throat singer and songwriter from Victoria Island, Canada, will perform two of her pieces with the quartet including “Sivunittinni” from the “Fifty” series. “Another Living Soul,” by Quebec-based electronic-leaning composer Nicole Lizée, is another of the Fifty for the Future works that Kronos will play. “‘Fifty for the Future’ was an idea that we presented to Carnegie Hall, which became our lead partner,” Harrington said. “Since then, there have been partners all over the world. Musical festivals, concerts, societies, universities, conservatories and individuals have joined.” The quartet’s nonprofit Kronos Performing Arts Association arm has been participating in the commission of 50 new works over five seasons (from 2015-2016 to 20192020) that Kronos debuts in concert. The scores are then made available at kronosquartet.org/ fifty-for-the-future/composers. “When I was 12 and I first heard string quartet music, I

could go down to the Seattle Public Library and learn about the work I just heard,” Harrington said. “I checked out Beethoven Opus 127, and a couple of days later I was in a practice room with three of my friends. And we were trying to play that piece. I realized there’s no library in the world that has the music that Kronos plays. There might be a piece here, a piece there,” he said. “So we just decided that we needed to solve this problem.” In addition to providing the scores for free, the “Fifty for the Future” project also streams recordings of each work plus offers the original program notes and biographical information about the composer. As has been the case throughout Kronos’ 45-year existence, the work is drawn from around the world. “And when it’s all done, there will be 25 very vivid and wonderful pieces by women composers and the same by men composers,” Harrington pointed out. Another of Kronos’ radical missions has been to focus on 20th- — and now 21st- — century music. The group became famous for its recording of Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” and more recently performed a Garchik arrangement of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley.” While he was conducting his phone interview, Harrington was headed over to Fantasy Studios to record “My Lai: A monodrama for tenor, string quartet and Vietnamese instruments” by Jonathan Berger, a composer and professor in Stanford’s Department of Music. “We’ve got all kinds of memories,” Harrington responded, when asked about Kronos’ history at and with Stanford. “I think the very first time we ever played at Stanford was outdoors near the student union — Tressider. We were playing (composer George Crumb’s very dark) ‘Black Angels’ at noontime out there. That was great. We’ve since played in many of the different halls and various classrooms. And we’ve taught at some of the residence halls,” he added. “We definitely are a Bay Area group — no question about it,” he said. “And so much of the work that we do is a direct result of living here and the many possibilities that exist locally.” Q Freelance writer Yoshi Kato can be emailed at yoshiyoungblood@earthlink.net. What: Kronos Quartet presents “The Green Fog,” plus special guest Tanya Tagaq. Where: Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford. When: Friday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. (Pre-show talk with filmmaker Guy Maddin at 6:45 p.m.). Cost: $15-$65. Info: Go to live.stanford.edu/ calendar/april-2018/kronosquartet or call 650-724-2464.

Eating Out Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delights with poolside brunches and up-market dinners

From left: Trader Vicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Classic Mai Tai, Cosmopolitan and Luscious Lemon Drop with vodka at Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Poolside Restaurant in Palo Alto. Story by Monica Schreiber Photos by Natalia Nazarova

he most intriguing restaurants are often those hiddenaway spots that feel like a discovery. Or they can be the opposite: the community mainstays, with their history, lore and devoted regulars. Paradoxically, and delightfully, Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Poolside Restaurant in Palo Alto manages to feel like both. Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tucked inside Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Garden Hotel and previously known as Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Poolside Grill â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was operated for decades by the Magnuson family, becoming a local favorite for poolside brunches and fried chicken lunches. In 2012, however, lawsuits ensued when the Magnusons were evicted. Julie Handley, who had inherited the mid-century-Polynesian-style motel from her father Raymond Handley, took over the restaurant. Some regulars vowed to never again partake of a poolside mimosa, while others defended the management changeover as a difficult but necessary move. Six years post-shake-up, Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pays homage to its past while also cultivating a confident, modern vibe. I find that executive chef Gerardo Naranjo is a bit too enamored with the deep fryer and there are Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Poolside Restaurant, 4261 El Camino Real, Palo Alto; 650-493-2844; dinahshotel.com Hours: Daily, 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; happy hour 4-6 p.m.

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some areas where one could nitpick (lackluster happy hour food). But for a poolside Sunday brunch, cocktails by the fireplace or a locally sourced dinner with wine pairings, this little motel restaurant continues to surprise and delight. And what a delight is a Sunday brunch next to the shimmering pool, surrounded by tropical plants and strategically placed heat lamps. Hotel guests mingle with locals, many of whom are accompanied by their leashed dogs. A steaming mug of Peetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coffee ($4) and a glass of Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh-squeezed orange juice ($5/$8) kick things off, while thirsty canine guests get a ceramic bowl of water from the attentive wait staff. It is all very mid-century Palm Springs or Honolulu. For an hour or two, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in stay-cation fantasy land. The morning menu offers a standard but well-executed selection of American breakfast fare: bacon and eggs, omelets, pancakes, biscuits and gravy. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dinah-Mite Benedictâ&#x20AC;? ($15) is two perfectly poached eggs layered with avocado, onion and every breakfast meat known to man, then topped with a creamy, lemony hollandaise. The breakfast burrito ($13) is stuffed with bacon, eggs, cheddar, black beans, avocado cream sauce and pico de gallo. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bossâ&#x20AC;? omelet ($14) bursts with ultra-fresh spinach, mushrooms and Swiss cheese. The eggs are free range and organic. Most breakfast entrees are accompanied by a rectangle of very crispy hash browns or a small bowl of high-quality fruit. Things tilt more upscale at dinner, with craft cocktails and a locally sourced, farm-to-table ethos. Vegetarians, vegans and glutenfree diners will appreciate the thoughtful notations next to each entree. Thanks to the low-key, atrium atmosphere and friendly service, the up-market evening

experience still feels familyfriendly and unpretentious. Continue the stay-cation fantasy with a Trader Vicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mai tai ($12), a delicious nod to another of the motelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past restaurants, which occupied the space now inhabited by The Sea by Alexanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steakhouse. The cedar-planked California black cod ($29) is a nice example of chef Naranjoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus on California cuisine with occasional Asian undertones. Grilled and served atop a wedge of cedar, the soyand-sherry-glazed fish was deeply smoky and flakey. Unfortunately, it was plated with not one but two deep-fried sides: tempura vegetables and crispy rice cakes, injecting far too much oily crunch into the meal. Naranjo might consider nixing the bland rice cakes, which also accompanied the excellent cedar planked-salmon ($28), in favor of, say, some fluffy coconut rice. We tried the Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s salad ($11) with tangy goat cheese, roasted grapes, hazelnuts and sherry vinaigrette, as well as the beets and berries salad ($14) with ripe strawberries, goat cheese and perfectly roasted beets. Both crunched with freshness and were large enough to share. The too-crispy truffle fries ($9) should have been extracted a minute or two earlier from the fryer, but the grilled octopus ($15), served on a bed of pickled vegetables and drizzled with a black olive tapenade, was tender perfection. My vegan dining companion and I both enjoyed the charred cauliflower entree ($16), plated with quinoa pilaf, an earthy romesco sauce and tomato confit. The juicy, meat-like Impossible Burger ($18), made from wheat, coconut oil, potatoes and other plant-based proteins, is a recent addition to the menu. Carnivores, give it a try. We did have to venture back to the deep fryer for another tribute to

Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past: the famous, and fabulous, boneless fried chicken ($19), made from a recipe originally conceived by Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shack (where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s said John F. Kennedy used to hang out when he was at Stanford Business School) and served with a side of honey for dipping. The chicken, with its crispy, well-seasoned shell, was accompanied by deep-fried Brentwood corn fritters, which were tasty enough, but fried chicken with fried fritters? I left feeling like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d taken a bath in the deep-fryer myself. For dessert, the bread pudding with maple-candied bacon and vanilla ice cream ($8) was

practically a meal in itself, albeit a cloyingly sweet one. The brownie sundae ($8), drizzled with Ghiradelli chocolate and topped with candied walnuts, was similarly over-sugared. Pedestrian desserts and other small missteps can be easily forgiven at Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because the restaurant so delightfully navigates its many identities and mandates. It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy to pay homage to a storied past while also forging a fresh, 21st century identity. Serving both hotel guests and sophisticated locals can be a bit of a high wire act. Dinahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delivers and remains one of Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hidden gems. Q

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the enormity of their plight, but they’re still plenty vulnerable, and still unskilled at compartmentalizing their emotions. Lee stressfully focuses on their protection as Evelyn tends to the children’s education, the family’s sanity and the life in her belly. All of this plays out with minimal dialogue and delicate sound — something that should put popcorn munchers on notice. The pindrop tension of this much quiet and the mortal threat that comes with making a sound dramatize a life of repression and fear. On a couple of rare occasions, a character gets to sound a barbaric yawp, a rare privilege in the film’s new world order. Ultimately, “A Quiet Place” is a survival story, an artsy B-movie that lives on the precipice of silly. Then, too, there’s the uncomfortable recognition that a lawsuit is almost certainly about to drop over the distinct similarities between the screenplay and Tim Lebbon’s novel “The Silence” (recently filmed but not yet released) and, before you even get there, some obvious comparisons to M. Night Shyamalan’s “Signs” and TV’s “The Walking Dead.” But in the moment of the movie, these thoughts recede as quickly as they arrive. Krasinski keeps the narrative tight and involving, played on the actors’ enormously expressive faces (none more so than the director’s own). In getting the job done as a high-tension family fright film, “A Quiet Place” doesn’t tiptoe. Rated PG-13 for terror and some bloody images. One hour, 30 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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Monica Williams, center, plays a round of pickleball against Kathy Danaher at the Mitchell Park courts. Williams is one of the pickleball players who will be competing in the 2018 Bay Area Senior Games that take place in Palo Alto and other parts of the Bay Area April 14-May27.

Senior athletes meet their match at regional sporting competition by Chris Kenrick | photos by Veronica Weber or 64-year-old water polo player Leslie Platshon, finding other teams in her age group to compete against is a rare opportunity that only comes around twice a year — the USA Water Polo Masters’ Nationals and the upcoming Bay Area Senior Games held across Santa Clara, San Mateo and Alameda counties. Platshon, who lives in Menlo Park, decided to take up the sport after decades of watching her three sons play water polo. Eleven years ago, she formed the Menlo Mavens, which currently practices twice a week at Menlo Park’s Burgess pool. “We were mostly older women and most of us had watched our kids but never had the opportunity to play,” Platshon recalled. Over the years, the team has added younger members, including women in their 20s who played Division I water polo in college.

“I think I’m the oldest now,” said Platshon “We have a core group of the older women still with it, but we’ve added a lot of young people. The tricky thing is to find other teams (in the older age groups).” Platshon is among the 1,750 athletes ages 50 and over expected to compete at this year’s 12th Annual Senior Games coming up April 14 through May 27. The games, first held in 2006 as test events for the 2009 Summer National Senior Games, draw experienced senior athletes as well as novices. This year’s event will feature 18 competitions in various sports, including five that will be held in Palo Alto — lawn bowling, pickleball, soccer, swimming and volleyball. The goal of the Senior Games is to show (continued on page 32)

Bret McMillan swims about 2 miles during his morning workout with fellow Mountain View Masters swimmers at Eagle Pool on April 4. McMillan is training for several swim meets and competitions, including the 2018 Bay Area Senior Games. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • April 6, 2018 • Page 31

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Power walkers, from left, Georgi LaBerge and Janet Thomas walk around the Sequoia High School track during their workout on April 3. The women meet once a week, usually power walking about 2 miles, as they practice for the 1500-meter race at the 2018 Bay Area Senior Games.

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the benefits of an active, competitive lifestyle, said organizer Anne Warner Cribbs, a longtime Palo Alto resident and a 1960 Olympic gold medalist swimmer, who has organized the Bay Area Senior Games — including the 2009 Summer National Senior Games — for more than a decade. “The one thing about senior athletes is their enthusiasm, and zest and camaraderie,” she said. “It’s invigorating and also inspirational. Some people have lost a spouse, or have had a medical issue where it was necessary for them to get back in shape. And they come out, so it’s good.” Cribbs herself is back to swimming again after shoulder-replacement surgery a little more than a year ago. “Now I just swim for the exercise and the zen of it,” she said. Redwood City athlete Dorothy McCartney also is participating

in this year’s games. She plans to compete in power walking even though she only discovered the sport three months ago. Sidelined by a serious car accident in 2011, the longtime runner, hiker and tennis player heard about power walking through a friend. “I’m still an athlete, just trying

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to figure out what I can do,” McCartney said. “I’ll go for anything that keeps me moving, and I love something new, too.” Because of the metal in her leg, McCartney said power walking — in which one foot is always on the ground — is less pounding than running, and “I can still go fast.” Among the youngest and newest athletes competing this year will be 50-year-old swimmer Bret McMillan of Mountain View, who said that until two years ago he was not athletic at all. “I was doing nothing — I wasn’t swimming, I wasn’t working out, I wasn’t doing anything,” McMillan said. “I was wanting to get healthier and more active but I hadn’t done anything in years. I’d joined gyms before, but always quit.” In February 2016 McMillan joined another gym, finally making it stick by adding a personal trainer. “This time it worked and by March, I wasn’t just lifting weights but I also was swimming in their pool,” he said. A friend’s mention of the upcoming Escape from Alcatraz annual swim planted a seed, and McMillan set out to practice open-water swimming with a rented wetsuit in Santa Cruz. “It was cold and it scared me to death. I swam to the buoy and back and it wasn’t that far but it seemed like forever. But I was hooked and it was exhilarating,” he said.

McMillan completed the 1.5mile swim that following August and two more open-water swims later that year. In 2017, he competed in eight open-water swims and four pool-based swim meets. In 2018, he’s signed up for 18 swims, 12 of them in open water. “What I was shooting for was really to get healthier,” he said. Now, McMillan swims four days a week and works out in the gym the other three. Menlo Park resident Brooks Esser, who has competed in multiple sports — track and field, road racing, triathlon, golf and cycling — is now on the board of the California Senior Games, which oversees all Senior Games competitions conducted in California.

Currently, he said, about 8,000 athletes participate in eight regional senior game competitions throughout California, from the Napa wine country and the Bay Area down to Pasadena and San Diego. “We’re looking to expand the sponsorship and work with local governments to grow the games,” Esser said. In recent years, participation in the pickleball competition, which will be held at Mitchell Park May 5-6, has seen among the biggest jumps at the Senior Games. At last year’s competition held in Palo Alto, 147 pickleball players competed, and that number is expected to grow to 160 or 175 this year, said coordinator Tom Foldare. “This year there are 2.8 million pickleball players in the United States, up 18 percent over last year, so it’s really in big growth,” Foldare said. Online registration for the 2018 Bay Area Senior Games is now open for all sports. Find out more about how to compete or volunteer at the games at 650-323-9400 or bayareaseniorgames.org. Q Contributing writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly.com. About the cover: Water polo player Elaine McElroy, center, goes up to block Peppy Propp’s shot for the goal during a practice game with the Menlo Mavens at Burgess Pool in Menlo Park.

Water polo player Gigi Swan tries to recover the ball for a pass through tough defense during a practice game with the Menlo Mavens — which includes players from 20 to 64 years old — at Burgess Pool in Menlo Park. Swan and others will be competing in the 2018 Bay Area Senior Games.

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REPLACE YOUR LAWN ... Learn how to replace your water-thirsty lawn with an inviting garden. Instructor Kim Raftery will have a talk at Gamble Garden on Saturday, April 7 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. to discuss how to design your new front-yard garden with elements such as paths, fences or walls, arbors, planting beds, meadows, boulders, seating areas and water features. She will discuss ways to remove a lawn that has invasive weeds growing in it and how to choose plants for your new garden. After the talk, there will be an optional tour of two front-yard gardens without lawns that Raftery designed that are close to Gamble. The cost is $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. Go to gamblegarden. org to register.

CHEESEMAKING CLASS ... Hidden Villa Farm in Los Altos Hills will host “Beginning Cheesemaking: Fresh Cheeses” on Saturday, April 21, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The event is for adults and students 16 years and older. Jeannie Mckenzie of Pinehaven Farm will teach how to make chevre (goat cheese) and feta, as well as the mysterious St. Maure. Participants will learn everything they need to know to make cheeses in their own kitchen, and also will have the opportunity to sample other Pinehaven Farm cheeses, visit the goat yard to meet Hidden Villa’s goats and pick herbs and edible flowers from the farm’s organic garden. The class takes place in the Duveneck House at Hidden Villa. Class size is limited. Class fee includes all needed materials. The cost is $65 per person. Hidden Villa is located at 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. To register, go to hiddenvilla.org. 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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GET YOUR COMPOST ... The City of Palo Alto’s GreenWaste program and Gamble Garden will hold a free compost giveaway and workshop on Saturday, April 14, from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto.

Inventory slowly increasing in Palo Alto by Xin Jiang

ome prices in Palo Alto have been on the rise so far in 2018. Last year, median home prices hit an all-time high of $2.7 million, with tight supply and strong demand being the main drivers. The median home price for Palo Alto has already reached $3.1 million as of the end of March. It literally takes $3 million to get into Palo Alto these days. Even homes sold around $3 million are not exactly move-in ready — buyers pay mostly for the “dirt” and will likely spend tens of thousands of dollars just to bring those homes up to today’s building codes. Supply, or the number of new listings, has actually increased on a year-on-year basis. There were 139 new listings in Palo Alto as of the end of March, a 16-percent increase from the same period last year. Less rain and a very “hot” market at the end of last year motivated sellers not to wait until after the Super Bowl to put their homes on the market. In spite of a few more available homes on the market, the increased supply failed to ease competition among buyers. Bidding wars for homes listed below $3 million have become a norm. These homes are generally selling for about 16 percent higher than their listing prices, which in some cases means more than just a few hundred thousand dollars. One old home on a 6,000-plus-squarefoot lot in Old Palo Alto, listed at $2,998,000, attracted 13 offers, and was

sold for $1.35 million over original asking price. Another 1,400-squarefoot South Palo Alto home couldn’t sell in 2015 with a list price of $2,088,000. In February 2018, the home went back on the market for $2,298,000, received 10 offers and was sold for over $3 million. The average length of time homes are on the market before they are sold (also called “days on market” in real estate lingo) is shortening to 12 days this year, versus 16 days last year. Another interesting fact this year is that there has been an increasing number of all-cash purchases. Among 52 homes sold in Palo Alto through the Multiple Listing System, nearly half (25) closed escrow within 15 days, most likely without the involvement of lenders. For the same period last year, cash transactions only rep-

One factor that’s likely to put pressure on home prices is rising mortgage rates. resented 30 percent of total homes sold. Intensifying bidding wars have driven more buyers with financial resources to compete not only on price but also on terms like delivering funds more quickly to make their offers more compelling. Where is the market heading toward the

rest of 2018? There’s a fairly high probability that home prices may start coming down after a very long, almost 9-year “super cycle.” However, we do see many conflicting facts at the start of this high spring home-selling season. One factor that’s likely to put pressure on home prices is rising mortgage rates. In the short term, rising rates make buyers feel more urgency, and lead to more aggressive offering prices. In the long term, higher mortgage-interest rates will raise concerns about affordability, and put downward pressure on home prices. For instance, a typical young family purchasing a $3 million home in Palo Alto borrows $2 million. When a 5-year adjustable mortgage rate increases by 50 basis points, or from 3.125 percent to 3.625 percent, the family’s monthly mortgage payment will increase from about $8,800 to $9,400, or by $600. This may impact the monthly cash flow of many double-income young families. On the other hand, the solid tech economy will continue to support high home values in Palo Alto. As long as local high-tech companies keep hiring, young engineer families will continue to move from other parts of the nation to join the buyer pool in Silicon Valley. Furthermore, despite several downward bumps of the stock market so far this year, we are still at record high markets. Tech startups both locally and from abroad are lining up in the initial-public-offering pipeline this year, and new IPOs will generate more millionaires who come to seek the best they can afford in Palo Alto. Q Xin Jiang is a real estate agent with Alain Pinel Realtors in Palo Alto. She can be emailed at xjiang@apr.com.

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Please Join us for an Informative Seminar from the Local Real Estate and 1031 Exchange Expert!

Your Realtor & You April Marks 50 Years of Fair Housing Act Each year REALTORS® recognize the month of April as Fair Housing Month. This year is especially significant because it is the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark U.S. Fair Housing Act, Title VII of the Civil Right Act of 1968, which strives to ensure equal housing opportunity for all and prohibits housing discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, and family status. In 2012, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published new regulations to ensure that its core housing programs are open to all eligible persons, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. REALTORS® believe it is important to commemorate the Fair Housing Act as news of HUD's plans to remove antidiscrimination language from its current mission statement is troubling the real estate industry and civil rights groups. “We believe that fair housing for all should remain a core part of HUD's mission,” said National Association of REALTORS® President Elizabeth Mendenhall in a statement. “The Fair Housing Act provides that HUD will enforce the Act and administer its programs and activities in a manner that affirmatively furthers fair housing. When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act

into law, he exclaimed that fair housing for all - all human beings who live in this country - is now a part of the American way of life.” “Not only is Fair Housing integral to the ethical commitment of our members, as outlined in the REALTOR® Code of Ethics, it is critical to our ability to serve our customers, clients and the community. We look forward to continuing our work with HUD to advocate for inclusive sustainable communities free from discrimination,” added Mendenhall. The NAR Code of Ethics provides that, “REALTORS® shall not deny equal professional services to any person for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity. REALTORS® shall not be parties to any plan or agreement to discriminate against a person or persons on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity. REALTORS®, in their real estate employment practices, shall not discriminate against any person or persons on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity.”

Keller Williams Realty, 505 Hamilton Ave., Ste. 100, Palo Alto Morning Session (Conducted in Chinese): Saturday April 14th, from 10 am to 11 am This session of Market Update and Preparing Your Home for Sale will be presented in Mandarin. Afternoon Session (Conducted in English): Saturday April 14th, from 11:15 am to 1:15 pm This session of 1031 Exchange, Market Update and Preparing Your Home for Sale will be presented in English

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OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:00 40 ISABELLA AVENUE ATHERTON Opportunity to remodel or build new; conceptual plans by Paciﬁc Peninsula Group | Existing 4-bed, 3.5 bath home | 1-bed, 1-bath guest house | Just over one half acre | Menlo Park Schools Gated grounds with pool | Offered at $7,195,000 [ www.40Isabella.com ]

1441 EDGEWOOD DRIVE PALO ALTO Premier Crescent Park Location | 4 bed, 4.5 bath | Pool and Cabana with kitchen & half-bath Landscaped, gated grounds of ~one-half acre | Convenient to downtown Outstanding Palo Alto Schools | Offered at $$9,750,000 [ www.1441Edgewood.com ]

COMING SOON MENLO PARK Excellent downtown location Charming Bungalow with two separate units. Zoned R-2 with potential for redevelopment Menlo Park Schools

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Extremely rare offering and not on the market for more than 40 years! This property is beautifully located on Bryant Street in the desirable Old Palo Alto neighborhood. The lot is over 30,000 sq. ft. and there are fewer than 30 similar size or larger residential lots in all of North Palo Alto. The one-level mid-century home reflects attentive owner maintenance. In addition to the home there are two detached structures including a pool house with fireplace and an office/library. (Information from County Records, unverified)

4 bedrooms | 3 bathrooms Lot Size: 31,744 sq. ft. | Living Area: 3,061 sq. ft. Offered at $17,000,000

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Stately S tately C Crescent rescent P Park ark H Home ome 1750 University Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $4,988,000 | 4 Beds | 3.5 Baths | Home ±3,457 sf | Lot ±12,000 sf This home is an entertainer’s delight! The classic English exterior yields to an interior of Mediterranean influences, with rooms that flow seamlessly from one to the next and outside to the expansive terrace. Mature English gardens, enclosed by a brick wall, offer color and dappled shade on hot summer days. There are 3 bedrooms plus a sunroom upstairs and a studio suite off the entry, suitable for long-term family stays or eminently rentable. Walkable to downtown Palo Alto and easily accessible to everything on the Peninsula. For more info, visit 1750UniversityAve.com

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Woodside | 5/5.5 | $8,900,000 135 Farm Rd Classic estate on 4+ acres w/ equestrian facilities, pool and tennis court 135Farm.com

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Pescadero | 4/4 full + 2 half | $7,750,000 301 Ranch Road West 186 Acre Exceptional Ranch Estate w/ 3 parcels complete this Rare Retreat in SF Bay Area.

Portola Valley | 3/4 | $6,800,000 360 Golden Oak Spectacular sun ďŹ lled home on over 1 acre w/ pool, lush gardens & incredible views

Cordilleras Heights | 6/7 | $4,295,000 Sat/Sun 1 - 5 7 Colton Ct 7,700 sq ft stunner on +/- a 1/2 acre on one of the most desirable st in Emerald Hills

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Burlingame | 4/3 | $2,495,000 Sun 2 - 4 1125 Oxford Road Cape Cod Charmer on a Premier Street, this home is loaded with Style.

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THE ADDRESS IS THE PENINSU THE EXPERIENCE IS A IN PINEL

ATHERTON $11,500,000

PALO ALTO $9,750,000

MENLO PARK $7,998,000

ATHERTON $6,985,000

54 Serrano Drive | 5bd/5ba Valerie Soltau | 650.464.3896 License # 01223247 BY APPOINTMENT

1441 Edgewood Drive | 4bd/4.5ba Mary & Brent Gullixson | 650.888.0860 License # 00373961 | 01329216 BY APPOINTMENT

1050 Louise Street | 6bd/7+ba Joe Parsons | 650.279.8892 License # 01449421 BY APPOINTMENT

497 Walsh Road | 5bd/5ba Judy Citron | 650.543.1206 License # 01825569 BY APPOINTMENT

PALO ALTO $6,700,000

PALO ALTO $4,995,000

LOS ALTOS $4,200,000

PALO ALTO $3,995,000

1044 Forest Avenue | 3bd/3.5ba S. Bucolo/C. Giuliacci | 650.207.9909 License # 00613242 | 01506761 BY APPOINTMENT

1989 Barbara Drive | 4bd/2ba Alan Dunckel | 650.400.0327 License # 00866010 BY APPOINTMENT

1474 Topar Avenue | 4+bd/4ba Dottie Monroe | 650.208.2500 License # 00594704 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

2950 South Court | 4bd/3ba S. Gavande/D. van Hulsen | 650.556.3890 License # 01856590 | 01749772 BY APPOINTMENT

LOS ALTOS HILLS $3,600,000

REDWOOD CITY $2,498,000

SARATOGA $1,998,000

LOS ALTOS $1,498,000

23281 Mora Heights Way | 4bd/2.5ba Lina Huang | 650.996.5685 License # 01954283 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30–4:30

42 Botany Court | 5bd/3ba Carla Anisman | 650.888.9521 License # 00916725 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-4:00

19887 Merribrook Drive | 4bd/3ba M. Andrighetto/B. Bianchini | 650.796.4902 License # 01993000 | 00878979 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-4:00

24 Farm Hill Road | 3bd/2ba Lynn North | 650.209.1562 License # 01490039 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

PALO ALTO $1,449,000

MENLO PARK $1,295,000

SUNNYVALE $1,150,000

ATHERTON PRICE UPON REQUEST

2569 Park Boulevard #T109 | 2bd/2.5ba Christy Giuliacci | 650.380.5989 License # 01506761 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

2385 Sharon Park Road | 3bd/2ba Janise Taylor | 650.302.2083 License # 01499609 BY APPOINTMENT

543 Romberg Drive | 3bd/1.5ba Jack Earl | 650.823.7402 License # 00498428 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

87 Coghlan Lane | 7bd/5.5ba Liz Dashbach | 650.207.0781 License # 00969220 BY APPOINTMENT

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MENLO PARK $1,788,000 543-8500 $3,075,000 462-1111 $1,599,000 323-1900

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6 Bedrooms 7 Colton Ct Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement 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) COUPA CAFE COLONNADE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN640240 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Coupa Cafe Colonnade, located at 4748 El Camino Real, Los Altos, CA 94022, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): COLONNADE CC CORPORATION 538 Ramona Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 21, 2018. (PAW Mar. 30; Apr. 6, 13, 20, 2018) THE SIX FIFTY THESIXFIFTY.COM FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN640463 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) The Six Fifty, 2.) thesixfifty.com, located at 450 Cambridge Ave., 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): EMBARCADERO MEDIA 450 Cambridge Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on March 1, 2018. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 27, 2018. (PAW Mar. 30; Apr. 6, 13, 20, 2018) YUM TEA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN640016 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Yum Tea, located at 20950 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): YUM TEA INC. 10201 Sterling Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 Registrant Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 15, 2018. (PAW Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018) TAVERNA EL GRECO CATERING EL GRECO SOUVLAKI TAVERNA EL GRECO TAVERNA PALO ALTO TAVERNA CATERING TAVERNA TO GO TAVERNA RESTAURANT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN640409 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Taverna, 2.) El Greco Catering, 3.) El Greco Souvlaki, 4.) Taverna El Greco, 5.) Taverna Palo Alto, 6.) Taverna Catering, 7.) Taverna To Go, 8.) Taverna Restaurant, located at 800 Emerson St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TAVERNA EL GRECO LLC 800 Emerson St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/23/2017. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 26, 2018. (PAW Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018) TRAVELODGE PALO ALTO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FNB640422 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Travelodge Palo Alto, located at 3255 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, Cali 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PALO ALTO MOTEL, LLC 3255 El Camino Real Palo Alto, Cali 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed

above on 07/01/2013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 26, 2018. (PAW Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018)

997 All Other Legals IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA In Re THE HOLLAND FAMILY 1995, LIVING TRUST dated 5/18/95, established by JOAN BALDWIN HOLLAND, Deceased. Case No. 18PR 182928 NOTICE TO CREDITORS [PROBATE CODE §§ 19040(b), 19052] DATE OF DEATH: 9/4/17 Notice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above-named decedent that all persons having claims against JOAN BALDWIN HOLLAND (also known as JOAN IRIS HOLLAND), deceased (hereinafter referred to as “Decedent”), are required to file them with the Santa Clara County Superior Court, at 191 N. First Street, San Jose, California, and mail or deliver a copy to EDWARD ROGER HOLLAND., Trustee of the HOLLAND FAMILY 1995 LIVING TRUST dated May 18, 1995, of which Decedent was a settlor, c/o Michael A. Roosevelt of Friedman McCubbin Law Group LLP, at the address set forth below within the later of 4 months after March 30, 2018 (the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code §19103. A Claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Dated: February 28, 2018 FRIEDMAN MCCUBBIN LAW GROUP LLP By: /s/________________________ MICHAEL A. ROOSEVELT, ESQ. Attorney for Edward Roger Holland, Trustee Address of Attorney for Trustees: 425 California Street, 25th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 (PAW Mar. 30; Apr. 6, 13, 2018) NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS # CA-179146-CS Order # 170478200-CA-VOI Loan #9804930296 [PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE Section 2923.3(a), THE SUMMARY OF INFORMATION REFERRED TO BELOW IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT ONLY TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR.] NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 3/26/2003. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s):FARHAD HAGHIGHI AND LAILA HAGHIGHI, HUSBAND AND WIFE. Recorded:4/4/2003 as Instrument No. 16934458 in book xxx, page xxx of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, California; Date of Sale:5/2/2018 at 9:00 AM. Place of Sale:At the Gated North Market Street Entrance of the Santa Clara County Superior Courthouse, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $2,292,185.30. The purported property address is: 27840 VIA FELIZ LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA 94022. Assessor’s Parcel No. 182-09-036. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at

a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (800) 280-2832 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.AUCTION.COM, using the file number assigned to this case CA-17-9146CS. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s Attorney. Date: 3/22/2018 SUMMIT MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC 16745 W. Bernardo Dr., Ste. 100 San Diego, CA 92127 (866) 248-2679 (For NON SALE information only) Sale Line: (800) 280-2832 or Login to:WWW.AUCTION. COM Reinstatement Line: (800) 401-6587 Cecilia Stewart, Trustee Sale Officer If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. THIS NOTICE IS SENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING A DEBT. THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDER AND OWNER OF THE NOTE. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY OR PROVIDED TO THIS FIRM OR THE CREDITOR WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. A-4651680 03/30/2018, 04/06/2018, 04/13/2018

May 21, 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. Petitioner: Karen C. Summey PO Box 574 Moss Beach, CA 94038 (650) 270-3382 (PAW Mar. 30; Apr. 6, 13, 2018) CORRECTED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RUTH LILLIAN MOSUNIC Case No.: 18-PR-183065 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of RUTH LILLIAN MOSUNIC, RUTH L. MOSUNIC, RUTH MOSUNIC. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ROSALIE H. JONES in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: ROSALIE S. JONES 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 June 27, 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. Petitioner: William P. George HALES & GEORGE 19040 Cox Avenue, Suite 3 Saratoga, CA 95070 (408) 255-6292 (PAW Apr. 6, 13, 20, 2018)

Answers to this week’s puzzles, which can be found on page 48.

AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LEMUEL M. SUMMEY Case No.: 18PR183012 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of LEMUEL M. SUMMEY, LEMUEL SUMMEY, LEM SUMMEY, L. M. SUMMEY. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KAREN C. SUMMEY in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: KAREN C. SUMMEY 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

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Sports Shorts

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CARDINAL CORNER . . . Stanford junior Abrahm DeVine was named Pac-12 Men’s Swimmer of the Year as decided by a vote of the Pac-12 swim coaches. DeVine won Stanford’s first 400-yard individual medley title since 1998 at the NCAA Championships two weeks ago. DeVine swam a schoolrecord 3:35.29, which was the second fastest time in history. It was the Cardinal’s first individual championship at NCAA’s since David Nolan captured the 200yard individual medley in 2015 . . . Stanford sophomore Audriana Fitzmorris was named to the 12-player U.S. Women’s Collegiate National Team Europe Tour roster that will compete in Europe between July 4-15. Fitzmorris is one of five Pac-12 players named to the roster, joining Washington State’s Alexis Dirige and Taylor Mims, Utah’s Berkeley Oblad and Oregon’s August Raskie . . . Setter Madi Bugg, the Stanford grad who was part of the U.S. Women’s National Team this past summer, is competing in the German Bundesliga with Dresdner SC this winter. Dresdner, in its second must-win quarterfinal match, defeated SC Potsdam 25-16, 25-17, 25-12 to clinch the best-ofthree series and advance into the semifinals. . . . No. 4 Stanford men’s gymnastics begins postseason competition this weekend with an appearance in Saturday’s Mountain Pacific Sports Federation championships in Colorado Springs. Stanford is seeking its fifth MPSF title in school history. The Cardinal captured the MPSF crown in 2011, 2009, 1995 and 1993, doubling up to win the NCAA title in each of those same four seasons . . . After four weeks away from home, No. 13 Stanford beach volleyball returns to The Farm this weekend to host the Stanford West Coast Classic, which features No. 1 UCLA, No. 5 Cal Poly, No. 20 Saint Mary’s and Pacific. Stanford’s pair of Sunday matches will be broadcast live on Pac-12 Networks.

Sacred Heart Prep grad Andrew Daschbach ranks among the top 10 of the Pac-12 in home runs, RBI and slugging percentage. Stanford opens a three-game conference series at UCLA on Friday night.

STANFORD BASEBALL

Daschbach on a roll with the Cardinal Sacred Heart Prep grad has hit five home runs, leads the team in several categories by Rick Eymer ndrew Daschbach led Sacred Heart Prep to the Central Coast Section baseball championship in 2015. He’s playing like he wants to repeat that experience at Stanford at a higher level. Daschbach, one of three players who have started all 25 games thus far, looks comfortable in his role as a middle of the order type hitter. The second-ranked Cardinal (22-3, 5-1) hopes he can continue his breakout season when it opens its first Pac-12 road series of the year at UCLA (17-7, 6-3) with a

6 p.m. first pitch Friday night at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Daschbach currently ranks among the top 10 of the Pac-12 in slugging percentage (.548), RBI (24) and home runs (5). That’s despite a recent slump in which he went 4-for-24 with three RBIs and one double. Tuesday, in a 16-8 victory over Santa Clara, Daschbach recorded career-highs with three hits and four RBIs, which includes his team-leading fifth home run. Daschbach has not gone more than two games without an RBI or a hit thus far and has handled his switch to first base seamlessly.

He’s made one error in 154 chances (.994). He’s not alone. Freshman Tim Tawa can match Daschbach’s slugging percentage as he has 12 extra-base hits to Daschbach’s 11. Tawa and Nico Hoerner share the team lead with 30 hits and Tawa ranks first with seven doubles and second with 22 runs driven in. Tawa, who is hitting .323, had a seven-game hitting snapped against the Broncos, though he did drive in a run. Expect runs to be at a premium this weekend as Stanford pitchers are ranked second in the nation with a 2.21 ERA. UCLA is ranked

fourth at 2.37. Stanford enters the weekend atop the Pac-12 in ERA (2.21), opposing batting average (.200) and saves (12). Kris Bubic (5-0 in six starts), who normally starts the second game of a series, ranks sixth with an 0.96 ERA. Opponents are hitting just .150 off Bubic, who leads the team with 42 strikeouts. Stanford has won each of Bubic’s last 14 starts, a streak dating to April 13, 2017. Jack Little has quickly established himself as one of the (continued on page 54)

ON THE AIR Saturday

OF LOCAL NOTE

College men’s crew: Stanford at Washington, 8 a.m. Washington Live Stream-3 College women’s water polo: Stanford at UCLA, noon, Pac-12 Networks

Villa heading for International Swimming Hall of Fame

Sunday

The Stanford grad appeared in four Olympics, was a three time All-American

FIFA soccer: Team USA vs. Mexico, 11 a.m., KTVU College women’s lacrosse: Fresno State at Stanford, noon, Stanford Live Stream College beach volleyball: UCLA at Stanford, noon, Pac-12 Networks College beach volleyball: St. Mary’s at Stanford, 3 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

Tuesday David Bernal/isiphotos.com

College baseball: UC Davis at Stanford, 6:05 p.m. Stanford Live Stream