Palo Alto Weekly April 20, 2018

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXIX, Number 29 Q April 20, 2018

With homes threatened, residents lobby city Page 5

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“I am completely taken care of at Stanford by a team, all working together for my overall beneďŹ t.â€? — Jessica

Breast Cancer Diagnosis Saves More Than One Life When Jessica chose Stanford for her breast cancer treatment and surgery, she didn’t just save her own life. The medical team at Stanford discovered that her cancer was caused by a genetic mutation and they found the same genetic risk for early cancer in Jessica’s brother.

For Jessica, getting a breast cancer diagnosis in her thirties came as a shock. Her doctor recommended a local surgeon, but Jessica chose Stanford. She did extensive research, looking at the background and education of multiple breast cancer surgeons in the Bay Area. “I initially decided I was going to Stanford because of Dr. Frederick Dirbas, a breast cancer surgeon,� she said. “But I knew that it wasn’t just a surgeon, but a team of doctors.� So she extended her research to all of the doctors in Stanford’s breast cancer program. “I wanted to make sure that I was in good hands for all of my care.�

Her ďŹ rst appointment at the Stanford Cancer Center conďŹ rmed her choice. “It felt like I was home,â€? she said. “They made it very warm and welcoming, everyone was very kind. They just go above and beyond to take care of their patients.â€?

A Team of Care Like all patients who are seen in the Stanford Cancer Center, Jessica was treated by a multidisciplinary team of specialists that included a breast cancer surgeon, an oncologist, a radiation oncologist, a radiologist, and a licensed therapist for emotional support. In Jessica’s case, a genetic

counselor also became an integral part of her medical team.

Because of her young age and the nature of her cancer, her medical team suspected she might have an inherited form of the disease. They referred her to the Stanford Cancer Genetics Program for specialized testing and counseling. There, she met with a genetic counselor, who explained which tests were recommended and what the outcomes would mean for Jessica and her extended family. “Genetic counselors are interpreters of genetic information,� said Kerry Kingham, MS, a licensed genetic counselor. “We draw a three-generation family history, because these things are usually inherited from a parent. That means it’s more than just your children and siblings and parents who could be at risk. It’s grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and even more-distant relatives.�

After Jessica tested positive for the BRCA gene mutation, which is a known cause for breast cancer, Kingham supported her in reaching out to her extended family to be tested. While she was most worried about her sisters, and other female relatives, her brother was found to carry the same mutation. Having this knowledge allowed Jessica’s medical team to develop a plan to help prevent him from developing cancer. “Knowing has been a blessing, because it’s not just for me, it’s for my family as well,� said Jessica. “It gives everyone a better sense of awareness of what they need to look out for in their own health.

It will affect generations to come.�

said Allison Kurian, MD, who specializes in identifying patients at higher risk of developing breast and gynecologic cancers. “It’s an opportunity to protect your relatives from something that otherwise could be a problem.

Ultimately, it can give tremendous meaning to a person’s own diagnosis when they use it to learn something that protects their family.�

Cancer Genetics are a Family Affair “Testing family members who haven’t had cancer is the key to saving lives on a large scale,� said Kurian, Director of the Stanford Women’s Clinical Cancer Genetics Program. “Cancer genetics is one of the few areas of medicine that really treats the entire family, not just the patient.�

Genetic testing is initially conducted to provide valuable information to help guide the treatment of the patient with cancer and prevent secondary cancers in the future. But its untapped potential lies in its ability to test unaffected family members. Patients seen in the Stanford Cancer Genetics Program beneďŹ t from a team of scientists who home in on risk factors to determine the presence of a genetic link to cancers. “More and more, we’re able to apply this genetic test to personalize and understand the genetic makeup of an individual’s cancer,â€? Kurian adds. “Sometimes, that leads to very speciďŹ c treatments, sometimes treatments we never would have even considered for that kind of cancer, but are relevant for that person.â€? “I always felt I was completely taken care of at Stanford by a team, all working together for my overall beneďŹ t,â€? said Jessica. “Stanford deďŹ nitely helped guide me through every single step of the way.â€?

Her oncologist agrees. “It’s wonderful that Jessica sees it as an opportunity to save a life,�

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Local news, information and analysis

Taking aim at gun violence Local governments seek to learn how to curb mass shootings

by Sue Dremann

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asim Aghdam had been sleeping in her car in the Walmart parking lot in Mountain View during the early morning of April 3. She was calm and cooperative when police awoke her, according to body-camera video footage of the encounter

released by Mountain View police.

Peering from under the hood of a pink sweatshirt, the slender woman with large eyes said she did not want to be in touch with her family. She didn’t get along with them and she had left home in San Diego County on March 31 after an argument with

her father. She had abandoned her cell phone so that no one could contact her, and she didn’t tell anyone — not even friends — that she was leaving, she told officers.

She wanted to start life over again. To be “somewhere new, new. To have no memories about the past.”

Police tried to discern if she had psychological issues. They asked if she was taking medication or if she was off medication she should

be taking.

“You don’t want to hurt yourself, do you? And you don’t want to hurt anybody else? You don’t want to commit suicide or anything like that, right?” an officer asked.

“No,” Aghdam said.

Ten hours later, the 39-year-old used a legally purchased 9-mm pistol to shoot three people at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno. Then she killed herself.

Immediately afterward, people

asked if officers had missed signs that could have prevented the crime. But there didn’t seem to be anything amiss other than that she had voluntarily left home. Police had no legal reason to detain her, they said.

Mountain View officers had searched seven databases to see if Aghdam was listed as a person prohibited from having a registered (continued on page 10)

TRANSPORTATION

Worried by rail redesign, residents seek to save their homes Old Palo Alto, Southgate residents unite to lobby city over Churchill Avenue rail crossing

by Sue Dremann

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In her State of the City speech at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center on April 18, Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss discusses the city’s need to build housing to maintain diversity.

CITY HALL

Kniss makes a case for housing in ‘State of the City’ Mayor says lack of housing threatens Palo Alto’s diversity

by Gennady Sheyner

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alo Alto’s housing crisis is threatening the city’s diversity and making it nearly impossible for the next generation of residents to move here and stay, Mayor Liz Kniss told the crowd assembled Wednesday for her “State of the City” speech.

Kniss, a three-time mayor and one of the council’s most strident housing advocates, made housing the focus of the annual speech and suggested

that the city should act like a “social entrepreneur” and come up with creative ways to build more housing.

An example of such creative thinking wasn’t hard to find.

Kniss chose as her venue for the speech the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, whose campus in south Palo Alto includes the Moldaw Residences, a 193-apartment complex for seniors. In his remarks introducing Kniss, Zack Bodner,

CEO of the Palo Alto JCC, said the development wouldn’t have existed without Kniss, who as a Santa Clara County supervisor helped connect the JCC to the affordable-housing developer BRIDGE Housing.

In a speech that was heavy on anecdotes, audience shout-outs and personal reflections and light on policy details or new proposals, Kniss made a case (continued on page 16)

new alliance between Old Palo Alto and Southgate neighborhood residents has formed to influence the city’s decision on the railroad reconfiguration at Churchill Avenue and Alma Street.

Some options the city’s considering, notably having an elevated rail or a hybrid lowered road grade, could require 36 properties to be seized through eminent domain and significantly disrupt their neighborhood, they claim.

The new group, called North Old Palo Alto, presented a petition with 300 signatures to the City Council Rail Committee on Wednesday morning.

Caltrain is expected to electrify its trains in 2021, doubling the trains each week, which would make crossing the tracks nearly impossible, the residents noted.

Separating the tracks from the roads will be necessary.

The Churchill crossing is one of four in the city, including Palo Alto Avenue, Meadow Drive and Charleston Road, where vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians must cross the tracks.

As currently configured, the intersections have been the locations of multiple collisions.

Vehicles have become stranded on the tracks in heavy traffic or taken a wrong turn after following GPS instructions. Suicides have also occurred at or near the intersections.

Among the dozens of designs the city’s been considering is a hybrid underpass, which involves both lowering the rail and raising the roads. But the residents’ group said on its website that if either a hybrid or full underpass were to be built at Churchill, it would be a concrete eyesore.

The underpass, which might look like the one on Oregon Expressway, would increase traffic through the neighborhood and would result in the destruction of houses seized through eminent domain. Caltrain could start property acquisitions, if eminent domain is needed, around November 2021, the residents noted.

Up to 36 homes could be taken through eminent domain at this crossing, the group has estimated. An additional six homes would be partially claimed. A 2014 study by consultants Hatch Mott McDonald noted that up to 65 homes citywide at the four crossings could be seized if vehicle underpasses were built under the rail line. The residents calculated that at the Churchill intersection alone, the acquisitions would add $200 million to the project cost before construction even begins.

“Spending a total of $350400 million for grade separation at a single intersection that is 400 yards from an existing (continued on page 14)

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PAPER OR PLASTIC? ... It’s official. Come May, you may see more restaurants switching to paper straws and displaying educational materials about the impact of plastic straws on marine life as Palo Alto marks “Plastic Straw Awareness Month.” The movement was launched by Junior Girl Scout Troop 60016, which includes 12 fifth-graders from three local schools and a seventh-grade co-leader, who gave a presentation at Monday’s City Council meeting and are now making the rounds at local restaurants, community organizations and events to spread knowledge and paper straws.

Mayor Liz Kniss received a handful from the troop on Monday after they detailed their progress to date, which includes a website that allows local restaurants to register for the campaign (in return, they will receive support in the form of educational posters, table tents and information about where they can get paper straws). The troop reported that The Counter on California Avenue has already signed up. Paly senior Michaela Fogarty, who is studying the impacts of plastic straws on the environment, joined the Girl Scouts Monday in making the case against plastic straws. Most people don’t think drinking straws are a huge problem, Fogarty said, and this ignorance leads to a huge global problem of plastic contamination. “Every day in the U.S. we use enough plastic straws to wrap around the world twoand-a-half times,” Fogarty said.

“So, it’s a huge problem. And this plastic waste isn’t recyclable and it doesn’t degrade in the environment, but continues to impact our ecosystems and our own health.” It remains to be seen how many restaurants have signed up, but the Girl Scouts scored one victory Monday. After their presentation, the council agreed to pass a proclamation declaring May as the month for straw awareness.

A FAMILY LEGACY ... The family of Silicon Valley technology pioneer Frank Greene Jr. was “pleasantly surprised” to learn that David Starr Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto will be renamed after the late CEO. Education has been a core Greene family value for as long as his brother, Arthur Greene, can remember. “Education is

probably the most important, strongest thing you can have that no one can take away from you,” said Arthur Greene, who lives in Moorestown, New Jersey, with his wife, Rita. “He loved kids. ... He was really into the sciences,” Rita said of her brother-in-law. Other Greene family values of ambition and persistence encapsulate Frank Greene Jr.’s legacy. Arthur Greene, who is hopeful that his brother’s legacy will inspire students of the newly renamed school, offered them advice inspired by his brother’s glassceiling-shattering work. “Set high goals and persevere no matter what obstacle is placed in front of you,” he said. “Do not let people diminish you ... because of who you are.” Arthur Greene hopes to be present for the renaming ceremony later this year. “I wish he (Frank) was around so he could accept the honor,” he said. “Once we know the date, I’ll work to try to come out.”

FINDING REDEMPTION ...

Palo Alto resident Judith Rabbie was recognized at the state Assembly’s 13th annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Celebration at the invitation of Assemblyman Marc Berman, D-Palo Alto, on Monday, April 16. “Judith’s survival during the Holocaust and her long and full life are a testament to her strength and spirit,” Berman said in a press release. In 1941, Rabbie was born in Budapest, Hungary and three years later was kept out of sight by a non-Jewish family for 10 months before she was reunited with her mother. Her father died en route to a concentration camp.

The mother and daughter stayed in Hungary for 12 years before heading to Switzerland, where Rabbie earned a master’s degree in chemistry, a field her mother worked in. She then moved to Israel for doctoral studies and met her husband there. In 1981, the couple relocated to Palo Alto, where she worked as a chemist and was a manager at Syntax for 17 years before retirement. “My revenge is that I’m standing here, and I can tell you my story. Hitler didn’t do what he wanted to do.

I have two children and beautiful grandchildren, and that’s my revenge. I’m here,” she said in a statement. Q

Upfront 2018 ELECTION

Palo Alto initiative seeks to curb office growth Residents’ group looks to reduce citywide cap on office development by half

by Gennady Sheyner

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n a bid to rein in commercial growth in Palo Alto, a group of residents is preparing to place a measure on the November ballot that would more tightly limit new office space in the city.

The effort, which is being spearheaded by former Vice Mayor Greg Schmid and the citizens group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning, seeks to modify Palo Alto’s existing citywide cap of 1.7 million square feet for office and research-and-development space (this total exempts the ongoing expansion of the Stanford University Medical Center). If the measure were to succeed, the cap would be reduced to 850,000 square feet and would apply to the whole city.

Schmid, who served on the council from 2007 to 2016, said the initiative does not seek to slow down commercial growth so much as keep it on par with the city’s historic levels. According to an analysis that the city conducted before adopting its updated Comprehensive Plan last year, Palo Alto’s average annual rate of growth for non-residential areas was 58,013 square feet per year between 1989 and 2014.

The new Comprehensive Plan includes a policy to “maintain a citywide cap of 1.7 million new square feet of office/R&D development.” The limit was derived from the prior Comprehensive Plan, which had a cap of 3.25 million square feet, also based on the growth that the city had experienced since the earlier Comprehensive Plan was adopted.

The new Comprehensive Plan also requires the city to conduct “annual monitoring to assess the effectiveness of development requirements and determine whether the cap and the development should be adjusted.”

Schmid and Joe Hirsch, who are both members of the Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning steering committee, are now finalizing the ballot initiative, which Schmid characterized as “very simple and straightforward”: basically, changing one number. Schmid noted that keeping the cap at 1.7 million square feet between now and 2030, as the Comprehensive Plan dictates, would work out to about 140,000 square feet of new office development a year — a figure he believes is much too high.

“What we’re proposing is very simple: Why don’t we keep our historic growth rate?” Schmid said.

But if approved, the simple change could have dramatic consequences, roughly halving the commercial development expected per year to about 70,000

square feet citywide. It would also prohibit rapid fluctuations in commercial growth, as happened between 2008 and 2014, when the average development rate was 112,467 square feet annually.

Commercial growth has exacerbated the city’s already gaping jobs-to-housing imbalance, which is estimated at about 3-to-1. It also prompted the City Council to adopt in 2015 an annual office cap of 50,000 square feet for three prominent commercial areas: downtown, California Avenue and El Camino Real.

Since the annual cap made its debut, commercial development has dwindled significantly in the areas covered by the limit. In 2015, the total office development in the three areas was 40,862 square feet, according to a recent report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment. In March 2017, when the cap was up for renewal, there were no qualifying office projects. As of this March, the city has received applications from three projects in the restricted areas, totaling 16,790 square feet.

Despite the cap’s success in limiting commercial growth, Schmid noted that the tool only applies to the three portions of the city, leaving some areas — such as Stanford Research Park and the Stanford Medical Center — with no growth limits.

Furthermore, it’s a temporary cap and is not mentioned in the Comprehensive Plan. The current annual limit is set to expire at the end of June. The council was scheduled to adopt a permanent office cap, with some adjustments, at its April 16 meeting but opted to defer the decision to a future date.

By contrast, the initiative pushed by Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning would pertain to the entire city, including Stanford Research Park. It would amend the Comprehensive Plan to modify the citywide limit. It would also amend the city’s Municipal Code to reflect this change, said Hirsch, one of the founders of the residents’ group.

The group was scheduled to meet on April 19 to discuss the proposed initiative and to enlist volunteers for pursuing it, Hirsch told the Weekly.

“We’re very optimistic that this will make sense to the residents of Palo Alto,” Hirsch said.

“We’ve always felt that if we can get this on the ballot, it will be well-received.”

Schmid said he was inspired to pursue the initiative to limit office (continued on page 15)

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Upfront

News Digest Supervisors set aside $6M for teacher housing

Police Department hires public-affairs manager Longtime broadcast journalist Janine De la Vega is joining the Palo Alto Police Department as its first-ever public-affairs manager, the department announced Tuesday evening.

She will serve as the department’s lead spokesperson and handle public communications, according to a city press release.

De la Vega comes to the position with a background in generalassignment and breaking-news reporting. She spent five years at KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, then worked at KTVU for 12 years and most recently spent about a year at KGO-TV. She was selected for the non-sworn position from a pool of more than 80 applicants whom the department has been reviewing since last September. Her first day on the job was Tuesday.

“I’m confident that our residents and media partners alike will find the addition of Janine to our team enhances even further our commitment to transparency and builds on our reputation for providing critical public-safety information in a timely and factual way,” Police Chief Robert Jonsen stated in the press release.

She succeeds Capt. Zach Perron, who currently heads the department’s Field Service Division. He had served as public-information manager since October 2011.

De la Vega’s annual salary will be $125,000, according to the department. The public-affairs manager job was the only new General Fund position that City Manager James Keene proposed in the city budget for the current fiscal year. Q —Palo Alto Weekly staff

Palo Alto eyes soda tax A crusade by a Palo Alto dentist to get the city of Palo Alto to adopt a soda tax is quickly picking up momentum, with four members of the City Council now preparing a memo in support of including such a measure on the November ballot.

If adopted by voters, Palo Alto would join the likes of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Albany and Seattle in taxing distributors of sugar-based beverages, including sodas, smoothies and energy drinks.

In most cases, the rates range between 1 cent per fluid ounce (as in Berkeley and Albany) to 1.75 cents per fluid ounce (as in Seattle).

In Palo Alto, officials have yet to determine the details, including the rate. But according to Councilman Cory Wolbach, who is now drafting the colleagues memo, the local proposal will borrow heavily from other jurisdictions that have recently passed such a tax.

Mayor Liz Kniss and Council members Karen Holman and Greg Tanaka are on board in supporting the memo.

The move to institute a soda tax is being spearheaded by Ken Horowitz, a retired dentist who in recent months has been passionately advocating for the ballot measure. Q —Gennady Sheyner

Details emerge about investigation of East Palo Alto preschool director Ravenswood Child Development Center flagged by state for safety violations

by Elena Kadvany

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ne month prior to her retirement last summer, the director of the Ravenswood City School District’s preschool was formally disciplined for releasing the wrong child to an unauthorized adult, according to documents the district released in response to a Public Records Act request from the Palo Alto Weekly.

Glenda Savage, who was hired as director of the Child Development Center (CDC) in 2015, “showed a complete disregard for Glenda Savage student welfare and safety” in her handling of the June 2017 incident, Assistant Superintendent for Student Services Ruth Woods wrote in a letter of reprimand.

Woods found that Savage had mistakenly released a girl to a man who had arrived to pick up a different student with the same first name. The correct child was enrolled at a different school altogether, has a different last name and is a different age than the child who was released, according to Woods’ investigation.

The incident prompted a site visit from the California Department of Social Services’ licensing division, which found safety violations at the Child Development Center.

Savage did not return several

East Palo Alto Sanitary District

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to set aside $6 million in an affordable-housing fund toward the potential construction of a below-market-rate complex in Palo Alto for teachers and school staff.

The board approved a staff recommendation on a 4-0-1 vote, with Supervisor Dave Cortese abstaining. Supervisor Joe Simitian proposed in January that the county seek funding partnerships with local school districts, cities and private funders to redevelop a county-owned site at 231 Grant Ave., near the California Avenue Business District. His office, local teachers unions and housing organizations have described teachers’ desperate need for more affordable housing closer to where they work.

Simitian described the $6 million — which will come from a fund generated by Stanford University under the university’s 2000 General Use Permit with the county — as a “modest commitment” that will be leveraged to find further financial support for the project.

Cortese, however, said he wasn’t convinced this is the best model for addressing teacher housing needs.

“In my years as a school board member we looked at this kind of a model and then dismissed it as an inefficient way of providing affordable housing for teachers relative to putting money aside in funds that would be used for actual, direct cash subsidies for teachers,” he said.

The county could instead use $6 million to provide $500 monthly stipends to teachers and staff rather than get tied up in fair housing rules, construction cost and debates over who can access the 60 to 120 housing units, Cortese said.

Simitian previously estimated that construction of a multifamily complex could cost $500,000 to $600,000 per unit.

Cortese said the largest teachers’ association in his district, which includes San Jose, Milpitas and Sunnyvale, does not support the proposed housing model.

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requests for comment. In a statement she wrote the day after the incident, Savage did not take responsibility for the mistake but instead suggested the child’s teacher was at fault for releasing the student.

This is the first time details have been provided about the incident that led to Savage’s departure from the Child Development Center, which is again experiencing turmoil as budget cuts have forced the district to close the preschool this summer.

(San Mateo County is currently negotiating with the state to find a new provider to serve the more than 100 students enrolled there.)

Community members have also publicly questioned the district’s hiring of Savage, who is Board of Education Vice President Sharifa Wilson’s domestic partner, as part of growing criticism of Superintendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff’s leadership — and in particular, as evidence for an alleged pattern of favoritism. During Hernandez-Goff’s tenure, her husband, son and granddaughter have worked for the district in various capacities.

Her son is still employed as a data quality support technician in the district office and her husband oversees volunteers for a food distribution program.

The district investigated the safety incident last summer, reviewing statements from Savage, incident reports from CDC staff members who were present and meeting with the parent of

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of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (April 16)

Golf: The council approved a contract with OB Sports to manage Baylands Golf Links and approved an issuance of bonds to pay for the recently completed construction of the project. Yes: DuBois, Fine, Holman, Kniss, Scharff, Tanaka, Wolbach Absent: Filseth

Board of Education (April 15-17)

Superintendent interviews: The board interviewed finalists for the superintendent position in four closed-session meetings. Action: None

Council Finance Committee (April 17)

Infrastructure: The council recommended placing a 2 percent increase on the hotel-tax rate on the November ballot and to continue exploring a potential increase to the real-estate transfer tax rate. Yes: Filseth, Fine, Scharff No: Tanaka

Council Rail Committee (April 18)

Grade separation: The committee recommended narrowing down gradeseparation options to the staff-recommended list of 10 alternatives, as well as further exploring a tunnel option and a “reverse hybrid” option at Churchill Avenue, which involves lowering the rail and raising the road Yes: Filseth, Fine, Scharff No: Tanaka

Architectural Review Board (April 19)

2275 El Camino Real: The board conducted a site-and-design review and recommended approving a 57-unit residential development at 2275 El Camino Real. Yes: Baltay, Furth, Lew No: Gooyer, Thompson

the child who was mistakenly released.

Last June, a man arrived at the Child Development Center at 951 O’Connor St. in East Palo Alto and gave Savage the last name of a sick child he was picking up early, according to a statement Savage provided to the district.

He was on the phone with the child’s parent, his co-worker, Savage said. She attempted to call the child’s mother, who speaks Spanish and did not understand English. A staff member called the mother, who relayed the room number her child was in, according to Savage’s statement.

Savage said she asked for and made a copy of the man’s driver’s license, complying with procedure spelled out in the CDC parent handbook. The man was not, however, an authorized adult to whom the student could be released.

Under board policy, students at the Child Development Center can only be released during the school day to their parents, guardians, adults authorized to pick them up on the students’ emergency cards, authorized law enforcement officers or adults taking a child to emergency medical care. Staff are required to ask any such person, if unknown to the staff member, to present a photo identification before picking up a child.

Savage requested the child’s first and last name and started looking for the student’s file but “became distracted” by other parents in the preschool’s office, Woods wrote. Savage wrote the student’s name on an early-release slip and sent the man — who also had not signed in with Savage on a sheet at the front office — to the child’s classroom.

“I instructed him to hand the form to (the teacher) and if that was not the right child or ‘if you don’t recognize (redacted name), to come back to the office,’” Savage said in her statement. “When he arrived back in the office he had the child with him and said ‘I do not know this child.’”

Savage said the man never left the preschool campus with the girl, but the student’s mother disputed that. She said someone told her the man took her child to his car before returning to the preschool’s office, according to Woods’ report. The mother said she learned this after Savage had told her “there was nothing to worry about,” she told Woods.

The mother said she then called the office to speak with Savage, but Savage had left for the day.

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handgun or assault weapon. They sought information from her family about why she was listed “at risk” prior to making contact with her.

Although her family told police in San Diego that she was upset over YouTube restrictions on her vegan videos, there was nothing to indicate that she planned an attack.

The nonprofit Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as four or more persons injured or killed, not including the shooter.

Though Aghdam’s act of gun violence would not count under the definition, there have been 64 mass shootings in U.S. so far in 2018 (there were 346 in 2017), according to the nonprofit. Why these horrific acts take place is often anyone’s guess: With the shooters often among the dead, their motives remain perplexingly unclear.

In the hopes of shedding light on how to prevent future tragedies, officials in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties are taking it upon themselves to study the root causes of these crimes, find ways to tighten loopholes in gun laws, and expand “red flag” laws to make reporting of potentially dangerous persons easier.

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, led by Supervisor Dave Cortese and board Chair Joe Simitian, is taking three actions: The county will hold a public summit on gun violence on April 28, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds Fiesta Room in San Jose.

The community meeting, whose

details will be posted on Supervisor Cortese’s website at tinyurl. com/SCCgunsummit, will include table-top conversations and an opportunity to share opinions and gather ideas about what the county can do. Second, the board is considering prohibiting people from carrying weapons on county property and also ending gun shows; and third, supervisors are thinking of funding research on gun violence through the county Public Health Department, Simitian said.

Santa Clara County, as a large urban area, has the ability to delve into the causes of gun violence, obtain meaningful data and not wait for the federal government to decide what or how much research it will fund, he said.

“You can’t solve the problem if you don’t know the nature of the problem. We don’t have a lot of hard data,” he said.

San Mateo County also is looking at ways to expand “red flag” laws, which allow a judge to issue an order that enables police to take guns from persons who are deemed a risk to themselves or others. On March 21, Supervisor Don Horsley formed a committee to look into the matter. The committee includes staff from the offices of the Sheriff, County Manager, District Attorney, County Counsel, Health System and Human Services.

Horsley and others said a closer examination of the laws will help enforcement agencies to catch those who are dangerous and currently go undetected.

He recalled a chilling case that surfaced when he first joined the

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Marisa A. McKeown, supervising deputy district attorney for the Crime Strategies Unit in Santa Clara County, is raising awareness of the state’s Gun Violence Restraining Order, which allows lawenforcement officers to remove firearms from people who are deemed potentially harmful to themselves or others.

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Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian chairs a Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors meeting on April 17 in San Jose.

“I keep coming back to suiThe law has three basic ways to board of supervisors.

“Two detectives tracked down obtain the order: law enforcement cide,” McKeown said, noting that a man who was stalking his wife, can obtain an emergency order most gun deaths are self-inflicted. had firearms and was contemplat- when a person is an immediate and present danger; immediate ing murder,” he said. alifornia has the most roUnder domestic violence law family and housemates can apply bust, restrictive gun laws and when dealing with people in for a temporary order when there in the country, according psychological crises, police can is a substantial likelihood of sig- to the Giffords Law Center, which nificant danger in the near future; gave the state an A rating on its anconfiscate guns.

“I want to see if we can extend and police can obtain a one-year nual gun law scorecard (lawcenter. that to a (situation of a) credible order with convincing evidence giffords.org/scorecard/#CA). In threat,” Horsley said. “It has to be the person is a danger and that less 2016, the state also ranked eighth through a legal process. It doesn’t restrictive means have failed, said lowest in terms of per capita gunmean the guns would be taken McKeown, who created a fact sheet related deaths. permanently either, if people can describing the order and the proAmong its many gun laws, the rehabilitate themselves or dem- cess for obtaining one. state requires all gun sales to be California became the first processed through a licensed gun onstrate that they are no longer a in the nation to enact the gun- dealer, requiring a background threat.”

Existing state “red flag” laws violence restraining order law, check. It bans most assault weaphave saved lives, San Mateo following the May 23, 2014, Isla ons and 0.50-caliber rifles, and it County District Attorney Steve Vista shooting, in which 22-year- prohibits the sale, transfer, manuold Elliot Rodger killed six people facture and possession of largeWagstaffe said.

Persons served with a domestic and injured 14 others near the capacity ammunition magazines. violence restraining order or a re- campus of University of Califor- It also imposes a 10-day waiting straining order for stalking must nia, Santa Barbara. period prior to the sale or transfer Had Aghdam’s family known of a firearm. also surrender firearms within 24 hours. A person who is subject about the law, it’s possible they The state enacted a compreto a temporary restraining order could have obtained a gun-vio- hensive package of gun laws in is prohibited from owning, pos- lence restraining order, if they 2016 through Proposition 63, sessing, purchasing, receiving or been aware she owned a legally The Safety for All Act. As part attempting to purchase or receive registered handgun. Wagstaffe of the act, the state will require a gun or ammunition while the said in her case, however, having ammunition sellers to conduct no prior criminal history and act- background checks beginning in order is in effect.

When a person is at risk of hurt- ing normally when she interacted July 2019. All ammunition sales, ing himself or others and put on a with police, officers had no cause including mail-order sales and psychiatric hold by officers, known to ask for the restraining order. those between unlicensed parThe law has a rigorous standard ties, will need to be processed as a 5150, the person is prohibited from owning or purchasing a fire- regarding proof of a person being or conducted through a licensed arm for five years. (The ban can be a danger to themselves or others, ammunition vendor who will lifted sooner if the person proves McKeown said. But the process to conduct the background check. he or she is no longer a threat, obtain the order in itself is not dif- California is also the first to ficult. The biggest obstacle to its require all persons convicted of Wagstaffe said.)

Increasing people’s aware- application is a lack of awareness, firearm crimes to show the courts ness of other, little-known state even among law enforcement and they have relinquished their guns. “red flag” laws could prove an district attorneys, she said.

In 2017, the state added laws that In Santa Clara County, seven prohibit hate-crime offenders effective tool to decreasing gun violence, according to Marisa gun-violence restraining orders from accessing guns and funded McKeown, Santa Clara County were issued in 2016 and four in urban gun-violence-reduction supervising deputy district attor- 2017, according to research by the programs, according to the GifSacramento Bee. ney of the crime strategies unit. fords Law Center.

The Santa Clara County DA’s In particular, the Gun Violence But McKeown said many laws Restraining Order law — also office did not obtain any of the might not be enforced because known as a Firearms Restraining orders, but it assisted law enforce- they are unknown and are conOrder or Extreme Risk Protection ment with understanding this op- tinually amended. To help law enOrder — allows concerned fam- tion. McKeown said she expects forcement, she recently created a ily members and law enforcement there will be more orders issued guide to help police interpret the to petition a court to temporarily in 2018 because of heightened laws. remove firearms from a loved one awareness of the law.

“As I set out to create this Currently, persons who are cheat sheet, I found there were for a minimum of 21 days when the person poses a clear danger to likely to shoot others are not the hundreds of laws that have been the public or their own safety dur- most frequent cause for the order, (continued on next page) however. ing a mental crisis.

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enacted. It was very challenging for me, even with me setting aside the time. Just imagine being an officer in the field if you have a hot call about a gun-related incident.

“We have done a very thorough job of passing these laws. We have not done a good job of making first responders understand them,” she said.

John Donohue III, Stanford Law School professor and expert on gun violence, said in an email that strengthening gun-buyer background checks would impede mass shootings.

“It is helpful to look at recent mass shooters. In almost every case — the Las Vegas shooter being the one exception — I think a fully effective background check system would have kept them from lawfully buying guns. That doesn’t mean that they couldn’t get guns through some illegal channel, but I think it is clear that many mass shooters lawfully got their weapons minutes or days before they started their killing sprees, and we should definitely make that harder for them.

“We can’t stop all — the Second Amendment would probably keep us from following Australia, which essentially did end their mass shooting problem — but we can certainly do better.”

After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, in which a gunman killed 35 people, Australia banned many weapons and imposed mandatory gun buybacks, which substantially reduced gun possession, Donohue said. It wasn’t initially popular.

The prime minister wore a bulletproof vest when he announced the

new gun laws, and people hung his effigy. But the country hasn’t had a mass shooting since 1996.

Donohue suspects that’s because there may have also been a cultural shift in Australia due to the lack of presence of guns.

“Troubled individuals ... are not constantly being reminded that guns are a means to address their alleged grievances to the extent that they were in the past or continue to be in the U.S.,” he wrote in a 2017 article for Stanford Law School.

He followed up that observation in an email last week.

“Allowing mentally ill and hyper-stressed people to marinate in a supercharged gun culture with easy access to weapons of mass killing is a bad idea. No one else does this as much as we do, hence our growing mass shooting problem, even though other types of homicide are actually low compared to the early 1990s,” he said.

Donohue noted that although California is trying to make changes to firearms laws, the gun industry is trying to stop the legislation.

The NRA sued to stop implementation of California’s ban on high-capacity magazines, passed by both the legislature and then by referendum in November 2016.

Another gun-industry lawsuit is trying to eliminate California’s ability to restrict gun carrying in the state.

“Both of these are unwelcome developments because the ban on high-capacity magazines will help in reducing the mayhem from mass shootings,” he said, “and the best research on carrying of guns outside the home suggests that it

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Economist and Stanford Law Professor John Donohue III, in his office, has spent decades researching crime and the effects of national gun laws. On his computer monitor is a chart on how violent crime rates change when states enact right-to-carry laws.

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leads to increases in violent crime of roughly 13-15 percent over 10 years.

“Gun-carrying outside the home can lead to some benevolent and harmful direct effects as crime is either thwarted or encouraged (think road rage), but it also leads to massive increases in gun theft and burdens police in ways that increase overall crime,” he said.

But “new requirements to have background checks for bullet purchases are a promising step, and efforts to get guns away from prohibited possessors are being studied now to see how effective that approach is,” he said.

Some NRA members are also calling for change. Palo Alto resident Alan Marcum, a lifelong member of the gun-rights organization, recently wrote a letter to NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre expressing his concern over the organization’s immovable stance against gun legislation.

“My pride in the NRA ended shortly after Dec. 14, 2012, with the NRA’s response to the murders at Newtown Elementary School. Instead of taking a position of leadership to move our country to a new way of thinking about firearm-related public violence, you dug in your heels to oppose any real progress,” he wrote on March 10.

Marcum has been a competitive rifle shooter and began using a firearm at age 12 when he learned to shoot in summer camp.

“The cool thing about shooting is you can be an Olympic gold medalist in shooting and be slow, fat and short,” he said.

Banning private firearms won’t ensure safety in public places, he said, since the underlying problems remain mental health problems and a culture that has objectified people

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care about my child and my child’s safety,” the mother told Woods.

As a result of the incident, the California Department of Social Services’s Community Care Licensing Division visited the Child Development Center on June 19.

The agency found two “Type A” deficiencies, which “if not corrected, represent an immediate risk to the health, safety or personal rights of children in care.”

The agency determined a child was released to an unauthorized adult and that the preschool did not report the incident as required within 24 hours to the Department of Social Services.

The Child Development Center agreed to enter a one-year compliance plan with the state licensing division, committing the facility to a series of corrective actions. The district promised to provide ongoing training to “repeatedly emphasize the importance of personal rights and active supervision,” a Community Care Licensing

as targets through violent movies and video games.

“It might feel good to some people (to ban gun ownership), and it’s a quick fix, but it won’t be effective,” he said.

Someone who is set on injuring others would also likely use other deadly weapons, he said. In England and France, for example, people have used SUVs to run people down.

Also, he said, persons who really want guns can likely obtain them on the black market.

Marcum said political lightning rods such as the term “assault weapon” provoke an emotional reaction in people when in reality such rifles are more menacing in appearance than in function. Their classification has more to do with the military nature of their appearance: their black color, a pistol grip that protrudes below the stock, the flash-hider and more.

It is also a common misconception that “assault weapons” fire a more powerful round than other rifles. In fact, the cartridge fired by the AR-15 is less powerful than those fired by many run-of-the-mill hunting rifles.

“None of these things change what the rifle can actually do, except to elicit fear and other types of images,” he said.

But some changes to existing laws make sense: background checks; preventing mentally ill persons from purchasing, owning or possessing a firearm; and eliminating devices that allow for rapid sustained firing, such as bump stocks and trigger cranks, the latter of which turns firearms into Gatling guns.

“The Second Amendment is not an unlimited protection in the same way the First Amendment is not unlimited. We still have libel laws. We still have the old saw that you can’t yell ‘fire’ in a theater. There are limits on peaceable assembly. We place limits on our laws. Some restrictions are reasonable,” he said.

Marcum observed that something

in American culture has changed when it comes to the imagery of guns. As a teen in New England, he used to travel to the YMCA with his target rifle in a green case, walking to the bus stop and boarding the bus.

One day the bus driver asked what kind of musical instrument he had.

When Marcum said it was a rifle for target shooting, the bus driver just thought that was interesting.

“Imagine doing that today in any reasonably large city,” he said.

Ironically, at a time when there were fewer restrictions, there was less violence, he said. Increasingly graphic movies and video games may have something to do with shifting cultural views of guns.

Old Western movies had plenty of violent imagery but there wasn’t any blood; scenes were longer and lingering and didn’t bombard the viewer with bursts of rapid, repeating images of graphic violence; early video games had pixelated, imaginary creatures.

Today, movie and video game imagery is bloody and graphic; images are edited to flash in twosecond intervals; and video games have players shooting other people in a realistic-looking virtual world.

“It’s really different psychologically to be shooting at pixel critters and shooting at them in the third person or if the player is looking down the barrel of a gun at another person,” he said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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The district also agreed to revise the Child Development Center’s parent and staff handbooks by the end of October to include protocol for early releases and any special circumstances; to talk with students about “strangers” and notifying staff; and to provide notes for staff meetings that took place after the incident.

The CDC was also required to post a notice describing the violations for the next 30 days and inform all new enrolling parents about them for one year following the report.

This “potentially tarnishes the reputation of the program, placing the CDC at risk of being unable to attract new enrollees” and “subjects the district to unwanted scrutiny, potentially jeopardizing the licensure of the facility/program,” Woods wrote in the discipline letter.

Woods directed Savage to comply with all district procedures and policies and licensing regulations as well as to find and complete a district-approved training on the safety and welfare of young children.

Though Woods also recommended to Hernandez-Goff that Savage be suspended without pay for five days, that discipline was never implemented, said Janae Novotny, a district attorney. She declined to state why, citing the confidentiality of personnel issues.

“There are things that happened between the investigation and (when) she eventually retired,” Novotny said of Savage.

A copy of Savage’s reprimand letter was placed in her file.

Savage signed a notice of retirement on Aug. 28, 2017.

Before her hiring, Savage had served as a consultant for the CDC, according to her resume. In that role, she developed a “long-term compliance plan” and helped staff develop special-education curriculum and materials. She is also the founder of the Children’s Preservation Network, which provided infant and toddler care in East Palo Alto, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the East Palo Alto Sanitary District. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Photo at YouTube, courtesy Anthony Miller/Peninsula Press: Fire officials gather on April 3 after a long day at the scene of a shooting at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno.

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underpass (at Embarcadero Road) is not an acceptable use of taxpayer funds,” they wrote.

A Churchill underpass would likely require lowering Alma by 22 feet and all roads feeding into it to the same level, which would wipe out an entire neighborhood by more than 370 feet in both directions and kill hundreds of trees, they said. It could also impact the staff parking lot at Paly and possibly remove part of the school’s football field, the residents claim.

The construction work would likely shut down Alma, a main traffic conduit, for years, they added.

Raising the train tracks onto a berm or other structure would also not be preferred, the group states. Trains would be more visible, violate privacy in the neighborhood, increase noise

and could be at higher risk of derailment, they said.

The group does support putting the train tracks in a tunnel or trench. A bored tunnel would reduce construction impacts, and it would allow the aboveground right-of-way to be used as a pedestrian and bike parkway that would span the city.

To offset increased costs of this option, the land could also be leased for low-income housing or other functions, they said.

This option would “allow the city to realize several of its stated goals that are otherwise very difficult to realize given a lack of available open space. These types of objectives have been proven already in several cities, like New York City, that recently reclaimed an elevated train track to create a public parkway,” the petitioners said.

A report by consultants Mott MacDonald in February found that trenching or tunneling at the four intersections is likely to be

too expensive, however. A memo

by City Manager Jim Keene argued that undergrounding could be “practically unworkable” due to having to add overpasses at the key crossings and getting approvals from Menlo Park for the north end.

If a tunnel or trench isn’t possible, the group proposes the city close Churchill to cars but build a pedestrian/cyclist undercrossing at Churchill and improve Embarcadero Road with better lights and a pedestrian underpass at Town and Country Village shopping center. The city could widen Embarcadero and Alma to accommodate the traffic no longer crossing at Churchill, they reckon.

These lower-cost solutions would increase daily traffic capacity along the Embarcadero Road underpass without taking any homes. The city could also add bike/pedestrian underpasses underneath Embarcadero Road at the intersections with Kingsley Avenue and the entrance of the high school on existing public lands. These solutions would eliminate an existing traffic signal on Embarcadero Road that currently slows east-west traffic, they said.

Additional improvements would broaden the Embarcadero underpass to four lanes, which would eliminate a bottleneck and add left-turn signals from west- and eastbound Embarcadero to Alma Street, they said.

David Shen, a North Old Palo Alto member, said the group formed in November 2017 after some neighbors on Churchill saw a map that showed the potential seizure of homes by eminent domain should underpasses be built at the intersection.

One resident who had attended the first community meeting on grade separations went door-todoor to alert neighbors to future meetings.

“It started with all the residents whose houses were potential eminent domain targets.

This includes houses along Churchill both in Old Palo Alto and Southgate, and also along Alma. We mobilized first in Old PA, then we walked south to notify those Southgate members who were also affected. We have been working together since,” he said in an email.

“While we all support the trench or tunnel, we (Old Palo Alto and Southgate residents) both realized that if a citywide trench or tunnel was not feasible, no one wanted an underpass on Churchill. We both felt that would be irrecoverably damaging to the character of our neighborhoods: more traffic, less pedestrian/cyclist safety, too many homes taken and too much money spent when Embarcadero is only a few blocks away,” Shen said.

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number is growing every week, he said. A core group of six to eight members attend every railrelated meeting, produce most of the documentation on the website and solicit signatures, keeping everyone informed, he said.

The group has met with every council member individually, except Mayor Liz Kniss, and had separate meetings with both city Chief Transportation Official Josh Mello and City Manager Jim Keene. “The city has given us extensive feedback regarding our proposal and it has mostly been positive. It has even been formally included in the master list of 34 proposals that went through a scoring process to determine their feasibility. As of the last rail committee meeting, it scored near the top and is likely to be recommended to move forward when the proposals are narrowed to 16 in the

near future,� Shen said.

The city has hired consultants AECOM to help it narrow down the options by end of June and to decide on a final option in December. On Wednesday morning, the council’s Rail Committee recommended advancing a list of 10 design options recommended by city staff, as well as taking another look at a tunnel alternative and a potential elevated viaduct in south Palo Alto.

The list of finalists includes three options for Churchill Avenue: closure of Churchill; the hybrid alternative in which the road is lowered and the railroad tracks are raised; and a “no build� option that would include various minor traffic-safety improvements but no significant reconfiguration.

The City Council will consider the narrowed down list on May 7. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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The most recent National Citizens Survey, which was released in January, showed scores in all three areas plummeting, with only 33 percent of the respondents giving the city positive reviews on â&#x20AC;&#x153;traffic flow on major streetsâ&#x20AC;? and 32 percent doing so when asked about â&#x20AC;&#x153;ease of public parking.â&#x20AC;?

The numbers, Schmid said, reaffirm that the city is doing a poor job in managing commercial growth and that residents are taking notice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only are we not doing a good job with the current growth rate, but people are become more and more aware,â&#x20AC;? Schmid said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why it seems to be an appropriate time.â&#x20AC;? Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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State of the City for expanding the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s housing stock by recalling the days when she arrived in Palo Alto, in search for connections with neighbors, good schools for her children and a â&#x20AC;&#x153;sense of belonging.â&#x20AC;? Many people came here during the 1950s and 1960s in pursuit of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;special quality of lifeâ&#x20AC;? and some still live on the same block, she said.

Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s housing crisis is making it impossible for most people today to have that experience, she said. The reason to build more housing isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily to â&#x20AC;&#x153;make room for moreâ&#x20AC;? by bringing in people from other parts of the nation. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about supporting the needs of the residents who would make up Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about the next generation who want to move into a home, have a family with kids who attend our local schools and graduate from those schools and contribute to sustaining the quality of life in Palo Alto.â&#x20AC;?

Even many longtime residents are worried that they may not be able to retire in the community because of the extremely limited availability of affordable housing for seniors, she said.

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About 100 people listen to Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss give her State of the City speech at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center on April 18. Unlike at previous annual addresses, attendees sat at tables and enjoyed a reception ahead of the 7 p.m. speech. diversions and recognition of audience members â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as well as its singular focus on a particular topic and the date of its delivery.

Mayors normally present it early in the year. Kniss said she wanted to wait until the council had actually accomplished something.

Earlier this month, the council voted to create the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Affordable Housing Overlay District,â&#x20AC;? a zoning designation that loosens requirements for developments of 100 percent below-market-rate

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council does not have a regular meeting this week.

CITY COUNCIL ... The council will hold a special meeting to interview candidates for the Public Art Commission. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. The agenda was not available by press deadline.

PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to see a presentation from Friends of the Palo Alto Parks; discuss and hear a presentation from the new operator at the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf course; discuss a temporary lighting trial at Cubberley Fields; and hear an update on pickleball. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission is scheduled to consider a proposal to subdivide a 29,962-squarefoot parcel at 3225 El Camino Real and make a recommendation on potential modifications to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ordinance on accessory dwelling units. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to discuss an application for a mixed-use building to replace existing homes on three separate parcels at 565 Hamilton Ave; consider a proposed subdivision at 864 Boyce Ave; and discuss 1107 Cowper St., a proposal to replace an existing home in the Professorville Historic District. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 26, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission is scheduled to discuss the Student Success Asset Card, impact fees and Library Monthly Report Preferences. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

housing. For housing advocates, the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vote was a rare bit of good news after years of anemic housing production. Kniss noted that the city hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t approved an affordable housing development in Palo Alto in almost a decade (the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last approval came in 2009, when it supported a below-market-rate development at 801 Alma St.).

The city, Kniss said, needs to do much better. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Absent that, we cannot expect our community to maintain its diversity, which I think we all agree is of great importance,â&#x20AC;? Kniss said.

The new combining district is expected to accommodate at least one housing development: a roughly 60-apartment affordablehousing complex that the nonprofit Palo Alto Housing is looking to build on El Camino Real, near Wilton Avenue. Kniss said she hopes the new district will â&#x20AC;&#x153;clear the path, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have at least another (development) to vote on this year.â&#x20AC;? Absent that, the community will not be able to retain its diversity, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need and should build more homes, but not necessarily in the official category of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;income restrictedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;affordable,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Kniss said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need various sizes and types of units so that more people in a range of incomes can be part of a vibrant Palo Alto.â&#x20AC;?

Kniss also cited the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reputation for startups and tech entrepreneurs and argued that the council should function like a â&#x20AC;&#x153;social entrepreneurâ&#x20AC;? in tackling the housing crisis.

This means looking â&#x20AC;&#x153;beyond the stereotypes of who we think lives in affordable housing and realize it serves those people we already know.â&#x20AC;? It also means engaging and involving residents who are committed to identifying solutions, Kniss said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And we need to have the kind of vigilance and enthusiasm that tech entrepreneurs do,â&#x20AC;? Kniss said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Palo Alto may seek hotel-tax increase As construction costs continue to rise, Palo Alto officials are looking to place another hotel-tax increase on the November ballot to help fund their infrastructure priorities. (Posted April 17, 10:07 p.m.)

Palo Alto hires new rail consultant The Palo Alto City Council voted 6-0 on Monday night to approve a $1.3 million contract with the Los Angeles-based firm AECOM, which is now charged with helping the city reach a decision on a preferred alternative for separating the rail corridor from local streets. (Posted April 17, 3:05 p.m.)

Weekly wins top prizes at journalism contest The Palo Alto Weeklyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff took home the top awards in online breaking news, education coverage, business news, editorial comment and front-page design at the 2017 California Journalism Awards on Saturday, April 14, in Sonoma. (Posted April 14, 3:37 p.m.)

School threat could be part of larger hoax Palo Alto Unified became the latest school district to receive an anonymous threat of violence in an email sent to interim Superintendent Karen Hendricks late in the evening on Thursday, April 12. Hendricks said it is believed that the emailed threat, which was not specific to the district or any of its schools, was distributed throughout the state and nation.

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Police investigate bank robbery downtown An armed man who was dressed as a construction worker robbed the Comerica Bank at 250 Lytton Ave. in downtown Palo Alto late afternoon on Friday, April 30, according to police. (Posted April 13, 7:21 p.m.)

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Robert Harvey Malott October 6, 1926 – April 4, 2018 Robert Harvey Malott, former CEO and Chairman of FMC Corporation, died on Wednesday, April 4.

He was born in Boston on October 6, 1926 to Deane W. Malott and Eleanor Thrum Malott and had two younger sisters, Edith and Janet. The family moved first to Honolulu before relocating to Lawrence, Kansas, where his father was named Chancellor of University of Kansas.

At the age of 16, Malott enrolled at the University of Kansas where he studied chemistry and played basketball. A year later, he enlisted in the Navy and served on an electronics repair ship stationed in San Francisco. After World War II, he returned to University of Kansas to finish his bachelor’s degree, earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1950, and attended New York University Law School.

Malott worked for two years on the faculty of Harvard Business School before joining FMC Corporation in 1952. Bob met Elizabeth “Ibby” Hubert and the two were married in 1960. The couple had three children; Elizabeth, Barbara, and Deane.

In 1971, at age forty-five, he was elected CEO and soon moved FMC’s headquarters from San Jose to Chicago to better oversee the diverse operations of the company. Throughout his two decades at the helm, Malott guided the company through significant global growth, leadership challenges and successfully defended the company from a hostile takeover attempt in the late 1980s by using innovative debt strategies. He retired from FMC in 1991.

Malott served on multiple corporate boards including Amoco, Argonne National Laboratory, Bell & Howell, Continental Illinois Bank, and United Technologies.

He was a dedicated philanthropist and

served as a life director of the Lyric Opera Company of Chicago and the Chicago Botanic Garden. He served as chairman of the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution, a director of the American Enterprise Institute, and a trustee of the University of Chicago and the Aspen Institute.

Malott was also chairman of the board of the National Museum of Natural History, on the boards of the Public Broadcasting Service, the National World War II Museum, and the National Academy of Sciences, and was a laureate of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois.

Malott was active in local and national politics, including serving as the finance chairman for James R. Thompson’s three terms as Illinois governor.

He had a true passion for jazz music, photography and exploration travel. Malott ran the Colorado River in a wooden dory during the filming of a 1960 documentary about John Wesley Powell which led to a sixty-year membership in the Explorers Club. His love of adventure inspired him to explore both the North and South Poles, dog sled across Greenland, circumnavigate the Artic on an icebreaker, safari in Africa, and embark on countless family adventures.

Ibby predeceased him in 2003. Robert is survived by his three children, Liza, Barbara, and Deane; sons-in-law Chris Pohle and Keith Kizziah, daughter-in-law Jill Malott; and six grandchildren, Andrew, Elizabeth, Henry, Lane, Caroline and Clayton, and his sister, Janet Elliot.

A memorial service will be held at the Kenilworth Union Church on May 22, 2018 at 3pm. Donations may be made to the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Chicago Botanic Garden.

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Theresa Ann Flynn March 19, 1961 – March 23, 2018 Theresa Ann Flynn died on March 23, 2018, surrounded by family at her home in DeWitt, NY, after a long battle with ALS. She was 57.

Terry was born on March 19, 1961, in West Lafayette, IN. She spent her childhood in Hyde Park, NY; Evanston, IL; and Baltimore, MD; before moving with her family to Palo Alto, CA as an adolescent in 1974. She attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View, CA. Terry met Ken Wagner in 1980, while they were visiting students at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland; they married in Ithaca, NY, in 1988.

Their family lived in DeWitt, a suburb of Syracuse, NY, for the past three decades.

Terry received a BA (psychology) from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1983. She worked as a social worker at Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Peninsula in Belmont, CA, before leaving to attend graduate school in 1984. She earned an MS (industrial and labor relations) from the ILR School at Cornell University in 1989, and an executive master’s degree (public administration) from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in 2012.

Terry created a successful 25-year career in organizational development that was at once consequential for the organizations she guided and personally transformative for the individuals she worked with. Terry possessed a singular blend of uncommon intelligence, discerning insight and perspective, and exceptional interpersonal and communication skills; she was also really funny. Her observations and analyses were often unique as she looked at things from angles nobody but she knew existed. Terry parlayed these gifts with her rigorous academic training and practical problem-solving work as a graduate student into a career as a consultant for a number of companies, eventually including non-profit organizations such as Catholic Charities of Upstate NY. The passion Terry held for her work was surpassed only by her love of family and friends. She provided the connective tissue so that her loved ones felt cherished, respected, appreciated, and empowered. The joys and successes of others were fundamental concerns to her. This generous approach to life, and the organic relationship between her life and work philosophies, made Terry a favorite of many. To know Terry was to love her.

Terry is survived by her husband, Kenneth Wagner; her children: William, Megan, and Evan Wagner-Flynn; her parents Michael and Patricia Flynn of Palo Alto, CA; her siblings, Frank Flynn (Kirsten) and Kathleen Flynn (Scott Wakefield) of Palo Alto, CA; and Margaret Flynn (Donald Evans) of Oak Park, IL; as well as five nephews and a niece.

Contributions can be made to the Terry Flynn Memorial Fund at The Central New York Community Foundation, online at www.cnycf.org/givenow or by mail c/o CNYCF at 431 E. Fayette Street, Syracuse, NY 13202 or to your local Catholic Charities.

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto April 11-17

Violence related Armed robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle Theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . 10 Driving with open container . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Misc traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 6 Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 4 Miscellaneous Casualty fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse (emotional) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Concealed weapon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hate crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 4 Other/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Menlo Park April 11-17

Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 5 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/ minor injury. . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/ no injury . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Medical call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Webster Street, 2/4, 4:55 p.m.; child abuse/emotional.

Maybell Avenue, 3/26, 4:00 p.m.; child abuse/physical.

El Camino Real, 4/11, 8:25 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

250 Lytton Avenue, 4/13, 5:26 p.m.; armed robbery.

University Avenue, 4/15, 11:52 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

El Camino Real, 4/15, 9:47 p.m.; battery/ simple.

PUBLIC HEARING. 2763 Randers Court [18PLN-00016]: Request for Director’s Hearing on an Individual Review Approval for the Demolition of an existing Single-Story Home and Construction of a 2,307 sf Two-Story Home with Attached Garage and 1,404 sf Basement.

Environmental Assessment: Exempt from the Provisions of CEQA per Guideline Section 15303. Zoning District: R-1.

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Rita Mary O’Connor May 15, 1921 – April 11, 2018 Rita Mary O’Grady was born in Palo Alto, CA on May 15, 1921, the second child of Tom and Delia O’Grady who hailed from County Roscommon, Ireland.

She grew up and lived most of her life in Palo Alto, where she attended Mayfield Elementary, and then Mercy High School in Burlingame. Her parent’s Stanford Ave. house was a gathering point for Irish people, where on many a Saturday night they would have live music and dancing.

In 1939, she met her future husband of 69 years, Bob O’Connor. They married in 1942 at St. Aloysius Church; it was the first Nuptial Mass held in the new church, where, 50 years later, they would renew their vows. Shortly thereafter, Bob left to join the World War II effort for 3 1/2 years, while Rita contributed by working at Westvaco Labs.

When Bob returned from the war in 1945, they moved to San Jose, and then Sacramento, starting their family with five daughters: O’Malley, JoJo, Chris, Patty, and Kellie. By 1952, Rita, always a wonder, had five daughters under the age of 6 ½. In 1954 they moved to Palo Alto. Six years later their son, Rob, was born, completing the family. By 1965, they had a house full of teenaged daughters. She managed through it all.

Affectionately called “O’Grady” by her husband, Rita and Bob together raised their children in Palo Alto, a wonderful time for all. There was always a yearly camping trip, lots of swimming, and all the fruit you could pick. Her siblings lived nearby, so there were many family gatherings, now with Bob providing the music on the piano.

Rita once said there were three things she could never pass up: a fruit stand, a nursery, and a fabric store. Somehow she found time to garden, read and knit, while sewing, cooking, and raising her brood. After the children were gone, she surprised us with her skill and originality as a jewelry maker. She and Bob began to travel; they went to Ireland, Tahiti, New Zealand, Europe, Hawaii, and, of course, anywhere their children lived. When they weren’t traveling, they opened their house to cancer patients and their families from Stanford Hospital. Over 30+ years, they had hosted more than 250 people; those strangers became friends.

In 2011, Rita was preceded in death by her dear husband Bob. She carried on, buoyed by her family and friends. She died peacefully surrounded by family in her home on April 11. She is survived by her 6 children and their spouses, 13 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, you may send a contribution to….

Monsignor O’Halloran Scholarship Fund, Mercy High School, Burlingame, Abilities United, Palo Alto, or a Charity of your choice.

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Letters Suspend Cubberley evictions Editor, A frail woman in her seventies sleeps in her car at Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto.

She’s been told the city of Palo Alto is evicting her.

I ask the Palo Alto City Council to suspend the “de facto homeless shelter” ban at Cubberley.

Cubberley became a focus and locus of homeless camping and parking a few years ago, and Palo Alto evicted the homeless after City Manager Jim Keene declared

Cubberley a “de facto homeless shelter,” like that was a bad thing.

Jim is wrong. If Palo Alto made even this small step toward recognition and solution — by welcoming what it used to tolerate, namely homeless camping and parking at Cubberley — it could signal a reversal of years of homeless persecution and the beginning of a policy of homeless relief. It wouldn’t solve the whole problem but it would be a step in the right direction. And it would be something Palo Alto could be proud of.

Cubberley was a community resource for all to enjoy and benefit from. Why shouldn’t it be one now? The once-common

resource is now only for the whiter, wealthier folks. The Cubberley campers used to rent and own, and teach school, and were tradespeople. Then they became Cubberley evictees.

Isn’t it time to change this mean, cruel, unnecessarily exclusionary and selfish policy?

Chuck Jagoda Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale

Solution: bike/ped underpasses Editor, It seems to me, the quickest, cheapest solution to the gradeseparation issue is to build bike/ pedestrian underpasses, like the

ones under Alma Street at Homer Avenue, at N. California Avenue, and under Interstate 280 between Moorpark Avenue and Tisch Way in San Jose.

And/or, at probably lower cost, bike/pedestrian overpasses, such as those that cross U.S. Highway 101 near Oregon Expressway in Palo Alto, Woodside Road near Middlefield Road in Redwood City, and other places around the Bay Area.

Leave the rail crossings open for motor vehicles only. Don’t worry, drivers will soon figure out that a detour to San Antonio Road, Embarcadero Road or Oregon Expressway is faster than waiting for the trains.

Meanwhile, pedestrians/bikes can cross in safety if they are required to use the overpass. This would enhance the safety for pedestrians/bikes at the crossings and cause just a few minutes delay for vehicles.

At the same time, coordinate the traffic lights at main arteries to let the additional traffic flow smoothly, especially during commute hours. It’s really poor design to have vehicles stop at each subsequent stoplight rather than getting successive green lights.

Stop-and-go-and stop-again-andagain lights are a major cause of traffic delays.

Stan Hutchings Rinconada Avenue, Palo Alto

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Streetwise

Do you think marijuana dispensaries should be allowed to open for business in Palo Alto?

Asked on California Avenue in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Josh Code.

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“Yes, I do. If people have access to health care providers, they’re better able to get the resources they need.”

“I’m not for it, especially considering the teenage population (in Palo Alto).”

“Yes, I suppose so. I think the entire business of controlled narcotics and recreational drugs is rotten at the core.”

“Yeah, of course. I have a sister who has a really bad back and that could be really useful for someone like her.”

“Absolutely. The more convenient, the better. It’d be great to have one here on (California Avenue).”

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

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

Stanford Water Polo Camps

ATHLETICS Dance Connection Palo Alto

Palo Alto

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

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

Kim Grant Tennis Academy Summer Camps

Palo Alto Monterey Bay

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

www.KimGrantTennis.com

(650) 752-8061

Stanford

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

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

www.stanfordwaterpolocamps.com (650) 725-9016

Wheel Kids Bike Camps

Palo Alto

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

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(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.

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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.

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(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

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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).

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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

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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.

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Summer at Sand Hill School

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www.sandhillschool.org

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(650) 688-3605

Mountain View

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

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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.

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Arts & Entertainment

Courtesy of Mick Berry

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

Actor/writer/drummer Mick Berry portrays Keith Moon in his one-man show, “Keith Moon: The Real Me.”

Dragon hosts show about legendary rock drummer

by Karla Kane hen picturing the quintessential embodiment of “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll,” it’s likely that drummer Keith Moon comes to mind.

Famous for his hard-hitting beats, largerthan-life personality and early death from a drug overdose, Moon helped propel British band The Who into the realm of all-time rock greats. For three nights, Moon will live again on stage in Redwood City, when the Dragon Theatre hosts actor/drummer Mick Berry’s one-man musical biography “Keith Moon: The Real Me.” “The man was just a fiery volcano of emotion: very twisted and mixed up, but also very beautiful,” Berry said of the wildly charismatic musician who gave songs such as “My Generation” and “I Can See for Miles” their rhythmic heart.

In “Keith Moon: The Real Me,” which has previously been staged in Marin County and Southern California, Berry as Moon drums along live to 10 recordings that were created in collaboration with The Who’s current musical director, Frank Simes.

Moon’s powerful, emotive drumming style was one-of-a-kind, Berry said, and he attempts to demonstrate that with a range of songs, including “Baba O’Reilly” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” during which he deconstructs and explains the particularities of Moon’s drum parts while playing.

“People say that’s fascinating ... to listen to what’s going on in the head of the drummer,” he said of audience reaction to that climactic portion of the show.

Unlike more formally trained and/or technically conventional musicians, the jazzloving, tempo-fluid Moon “was incredibly unorthodox. It’s all passion, always overriding the thought. It comes from his gut,” Berry said. “If you look at notations of Keith Moon’s drumming, it makes no sense. It’s just goofy, how it fit with what was being done.”

In the song “I Can See for Miles,” Berry said, “he does a drum roll during the chorus.

It gets in the way, stepping on everything, and yet it sounds incredible!”

Interspersed with the music, Berry’s Moon tells his story, incorporating both the humorous, charming side of his personality (among other quirks, the man had a mischievous penchant for exploding toilets and other pranks) and the addictive, self-destructive tendencies that led to his valuing his rock-star image over his mental and physical wellness.

“I’ve tried to get the essence of Keith Moon on stage,” he said. “He’s trying to set his demons at bay and they’re eating him up.

He’s asking the audience for help getting a handle on his life.”

Berry first became a fan of The Who as a teenager, with the release of the album “Quadrophenia” in 1973, on which Moon not only drums but also sings “Bell Boy,” complete with an exaggerated cockney accent.

“They became my favorite rock band, and I’ve never looked back,” he said.

He’s a fan to this day and recently attended a concert by The Who frontman Roger Daltrey, who impressed Berry with his vitality.

“These songs were never meant to be performed in your 30s much less your 70s, and he’s still doing it,” Berry said of the band that famously proclaimed, “I hope I die before I get old” (a sentiment that proved sadly prophetic in Moon’s case, with his 1978 death at age 32).

Berry has been a drummer since age 13, after earning enough money working for his father to buy his first kit. In addition to his love of rock, he’s studied with jazz, Latin and classical greats and is the co-author of “The Drummer’s Bible.”

He has also written and performed three one-man theatrical shows: one about his father’s experience as a P.O.W. during World War II; one about transcendental meditation; and one about “a young man’s showbiz journey from insecurity to low self-esteem, doing singing, stripping telegrams, comedy traffic school and everything in between,” he said.

When a friend found out about Berry “devouring” a biography of Keith Moon by author Tony Fletcher, reading it twice in one week, he suggested he make Moon the subject of his next show. Berry was skeptical, but the idea stuck with him.

Thanks to skills honed by his studies and his years working as a professional drummer and music teacher, in addition to his decades as a devotee of The Who, Berry said he’s able to imitate with accuracy Moon’s trademark drum parts. And though it took a lot of hard work to get the show into shape and fine tune the script and format, it hasn’t been difficult for Berry to relate to Moon’s intense personality: The two are similar in that aspect, Berry said, laughing, “which is a real pain in the neck because he was a disturbed individual.”

A New Orleans native who’s lived in the Bay Area since the 1980s, Berry has worked with dialect coaches to improve his British accent but says he’s not too concerned with mimicking Moon’s voice precisely.

“What’s much more important are the thoughts and emotions behind his words.

That’s what I’m trying to really connect with,” he said. And, of course, that unmistakable drumming flair.

“It is really like nothing else,” Berry mused. “He was uncontainable. He was a force of nature.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

IF YOU’RE GOING What: “Keith Moon: The Real Me.” Where: Dragon Productions Theatre Company, 2120 Broadway St., Redwood City.

When: April 20-22, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 6 p.m.

Cost: $20 in advance/$25 at the box office.

Info: Go to brownpapertickets.com/ event/3234430.

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For a review of Los Altos Stage Company’s current production of “Distracted,” which Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane calls one of the year’s best so far, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/arts.

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Eating Out Layers of flavors

Palo Alto’s Taste expands the boundaries of Sichuan cuisine

by Dale F. Bentson Photos by Natalia Nazarova

L

et’s hope the fourth time is the charm.

Taste is the fourth restaurant in the past three years to occupy the space at 423 University Ave. in Palo Alto. Café Taxim, which closed in 2015, was quickly followed by Crawfish Fusion, Les Bizous and since last December, Taste, a Sichuan restaurant.

Owner Sandy Liu has never run a restaurant before. Though she worked in the financial services business for 10 years, that is not say she was naive. Her father was a chef in China and she grew up with the calling in her bones.

She found a prime location in downtown Palo Alto, then took over

an existing restaurant, saving her a fortune on a new kitchen and other renovations. Finally, she brought in an experienced Chinese chef to carry out her vision. The menu is staggering, with 132 choices plus an additional 51 lunch specials. Everything I ordered was appetizing, with layers of flavors, large portions and decent prices.

Taste might stick around awhile.

There were dishes that I recognized, like twice-cooked bacon, salt-and-pepper calamari and eggplant in garlic sauce. Then there was the more exotic: numbing spicy entrails, brown braised pork trotter and spicy burst pork intestine. Delicious, no doubt, and appreciated by Taste’s clientele, who seemed to be mostly Chinese — a reassuring sign of authenticity.

Liu said she wanted to introduce “new elements” into the Chinese restaurant scene, unique dishes that don’t often appear on local menus.

While most of the dishes originated in Sichuan, the menu does stray to regional cuisines of Beijing, Shandon, Chongqing and Hunan.

Sichuan cooking methods include stir-frying, steaming, braising, baking and the most popular, fast-frying. At Taste, the kitchen has not only mastered but is proficient in the techniques, cooking a broad array of dishes and quickly getting them on diners’ tables. We didn’t wait 10 minutes for food to arrive even when the restaurant was packed.

We started one meal with the spicy fish fillet with pickled vegetables ($18), which was served in

a tureen. The loads of white fish — plenty for two — came with shreds of greens in a soupy broth with a hint of vinegar. The griddled chicken ($16), served in a wok-like hotpot with a flame beneath it, was brimful of red bell peppers, onions, cauliflower, pea pods, mushrooms, broccoli, pieces of chicken breast, chilies and a half-dozen more ingredients. It was a colorful presentation and slightly spicy but not hot — comfort food, Sichuan style.

The griddled beef ($18) was presented similarly with many ingredients but tasted bolder, with more Sichuan peppers that left a tang on the tongue.

Possibly my favorite dish was the twice-cooked bacon ($16). Bursting with bacon flavor, the dish also had Sichuan peppers, green peppers,

onions, scallions, black bean sauce, sugar and soy sauce.

I also loved the eggplant in garlic ($13), sautéed in a rich, thick, mahogany-colored sauce with a multitude of accompanying vegetables. Stir-fried pea sprouts ($15) with sliced garlic was a perfect accompaniment.

I couldn’t wait to eat the spicy vermicelli, made with glass noodles and tossed with bits of pork, peanuts and garlic. The dry-braised “Szechuan” shrimp ($18), salt and pepper calamari ($16) General Tso chicken ($14) and the vegetable fried rice ($13) were equally delicious.

Next month, Taste will introduce a hybrid happy hour/high tea time.

High-mountain teas will be flown in from specialty growers in Taiwan and offered with pastries unique to our area.

Liu’s vision of introducing “new elements” is gaining momentum.

Reasonable prices, generous portions and the Asian community embraces its authenticity. Check, check and check. Q Freelance writer Dale Bentson can be emailed at dfbentson@ gmail.com.

Taste, 423 University Ave., Palo Alto; 650-323-6488; tinyurl.com/Taste-PA Hours: Wednesday-Monday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.

Closed Tuesday.

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Children Takeout

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Sandy Liu, pictured at top right, opened a Sichuan restaurant in downtown Palo Alto in December. Taste serves both familiar and more exotic dishes, including a spicy fish fillet with pickled vegetables and shredded pork with pea sprouts, pictured above.

Parking: street and city lots

Alcohol: beer and wine Outdoor dining: patio Noise level: moderate Bathroom Cleanliness: excellent

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A boy and his horse ‘Lean on Pete’ makes for a compelling coming-of-age tale 0001/2 (Palo Alto Square) rootlessness. Friendless “You can’t get atOPENINGS and having lost track of tached to the horse.”

This sober advice, spoken to the sympathetic aunt he longs for, 15-year-old Charley Thompson the coltish Charley is distinctly (Charlie Plummer), immediately prone to the unconditional love registers as “famous last words.” on offer from a majestic beast like The horse in question: a 5-year- Lean on Pete.

On a morning run, Charley disold quarterhorse named Lean on Pete. And in fine literary and cin- covers the aging racehorse at the ematic tradition, Charley’s a goner Portland Downs racetrack, where for the majestic beast — just like gruff, profane trainer Del (Steve the audience of Andrew Haigh’s Buscemi) offers the boy employment. Del and Pete’s jockey Bonnew film “Lean on Pete.”

Haigh has proven himself a nie (Chloë Sevigny) make up a keen observer of human behav- casually unethical couple of conior with his films “45 Years” and venience that imparts life lessons “Weekend,” as well as the HBO to Charley both intentionally and series “Looking.” Bringing these unintentionally. There’s a touch of skills to an incisive adaptation of Dickens to the characters Charley Willy Vlautin’s novel, Haigh pow- meets on his picaresque journey erfully unfurls a coming-of-age and our dawning realization that story. Charley lives with his single he cannot rely on any adult in this dad Ray (Travis Fimmel) in Port- treacherous world. What begins land, Oregon following a recent as a “boy and his horse” movie move from Spokane, Washing- changes gears more than once, ton that helps to explain the boy’s principally to a road movie that

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Haigh is a master of the quietly affecting drama, and he finds another terrific collaborator in Plummer, a subtle young actor nevertheless possessed of a highly expressive face.

“Lean on Pete” recalls pictures like “Kes” and “The Black Stallion” in that it can be taken literally as a story of an animal-child relationship, but more importantly, the animal holds a mirror up to the human protagonist. In this case, we see how prone youth can be on the cusp of adulthood, how reckless when desperate or threatened, how vulnerably pure. It’s a telling detail that the 15-year-old tells one character he’s 16 and another that he’s 18, graduating himself to the situation and others’ perceptions to get by in the world.

“Lean on Pete” gets richer as it goes along, as well any film should. That partly owes to its novelistic origins, and partly to Haigh’s immersion in the modern American landscape (which, in practical terms, cinematographer Magnus Joenck beautifully renders). Without judgment, Haigh checks in with patriotic veterans and soup-kitchen patrons, the less privileged denizens of our species’ animal kingdom. In our own ways, we’re all trying to survive out here, and we all need acknowledgment. We all need connection. We all need love. So go ahead. Get attached to the horse.

Rated R for language and brief violence. Two hours, 1 minute.

— Peter Canavese

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Philip Larkin’s A Girl in Winter Another Look is a seasonal book club that connects Stanford’s top writers and scholars with distinguished figures from the Bay Area and beyond. The club focuses on short classics that have been forgotten, neglected, or overlooked—or may simply not have received the attention they merit.

Join us for the Another Look book club discussion of poet Philip Larkin’s 1947 novel, A Girl in Winter. The little-known novel takes place in wartime England, where a young refugee from Europe tries to recover her life while working in a provincial library. Meanwhile, she recalls a memorable summer with an English family before the war. Acclaimed author and Stanford professor Robert Pogue Harrison will moderate the discussion, joined by Stanford Professor of English, Emeritus, Tobias Wolff and literary scholar, Elizabeth Conquest.

Monday, April 30 • 7:30 pm Bechtel Conference Center • Encina Hall Stanford University • Free and open to the public For more info: anotherlook.stanford.edu

Book Talk INDIE CELEBRATION...

Local indie bookstores Books Inc. and Kepler’s Books will be hosting special events featuring exclusive literary items at their shops on Saturday, April 28, in celebration of Independent Bookstore Day. The nationwide event first launched in book shops across California in 2014 to recognize the importance of indie bookstores as community gathering places. Kepler’s will be offering limited-edition books and other items as part of the celebration.At Books Inc in Palo Alto and Mountain View, customers with librofm audio book memberships will receive free audiobooks.

Releases include “Tangerine,”

by Christine Mangan; “The Paris Secret”, by Karen Swan; “Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharpby”, by John Medina; “Strange the Dreamer”,

by Laini Taylor; and “The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body,” read by Polly Adams, Cassandra Morris and a cast of kids. For more information, go to booksinc.net or Keplers.com.

‘BAD STORIES’ AND TRUMPISM ...

New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond will be at Books Inc. in Palo Alto at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25, to talk about his new book, “Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country.” Like a lot of Americans, Almond said he spent the weeks after the 2016 election lying awake, in a state of dread and bewilderment. The problem wasn’t just the election, but the fact that nobody could explain, in any sort of coherent way, why America had elected a cruel, corrupt and incompetent man to the presidency. The book argues that Trumpism is a bad outcome arising directly from the bad stories we tell ourselves. To understand how we got here, we have to confront our cultural delusions: our obsession with entertainment, sports, and political parody, the degeneration of our free press into a for-profit industry, and our enduring pathologies of race, class, immigration and tribalism.

Books Inc. is located at 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto.

CYCLING THE COAST...

Bill Thorness will be at Books Inc. in Palo Alto at 7 p.m., on Thursday, April 26, to talk about “Cycling the Pacific Coast,” his all-new comprehensive guidebook featuring the most current, up-todate information on this popular bike-touring route.The book is organized in five sections — Washington, Oregon, Northern California, Central California, and Southern California. Thorness will talk about suggested itineraries, logistics for getting to and from ride sections and side-trip destinations.

Books Inc. is located at 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto.

Title Pages A monthly section on local books and authors

by Christine tine ne Lee

A

nna Yen has spent ddecades navigating the ins and outs of Silicon Valley, launching startups and working in top positions at companies including Tesla Motors, Zoosk and MarketWatch.

The journey, however, hasn’t all been smooth sailing.

She’s gotten into trouble with her blunt personality and has had to put up with stereotypes both as a woman and an Asian-American in a male-dominated industry.

But, she said, she’s learned a lot along the way.

Now she wants to share insider tips and help others get through the “madness of life” with her new novel, “Sophia of Silicon Valley.”

“I’ve been in the valley for 2025 years now and I see a cultural change happening. What I wanted to do was write down a playbook of survival tactics,” she said.

In the book, protagonist Sophia stumbles through but ultimately navigates fast-paced industries and rigorous roles, beginning at a top investment bank, then being hand-picked for a position at a well-known animated-film company and ultimately being hired to run investor relations for an electric-car company, Ion. Written in a roman à clef format, the book is based on Yen’s own life. The italic parts of the book, she said, which present the protagonist’s internal musings, are her own thoughts.

“Sophia and I are very much the same person, character and personality wise. (The book) is very autobiographical,” she said.

The plot depicts ridiculous and

sticky situations stiicky st ickyy ssituation itua it uati tion ioonss mi mirror mirroring orin ingg on ones nes e she’s h ’ encountered d iin hher career as well as life lessons she discovered.

In one scene, Sophia struggles to get special cookies that have to be ordered in advance for her boss, who wants them immediately. She hears her mother’s voice in her head: “There’s no such thing as ‘no.’” In another situation, she gets away with a parking violation after she yells at a police officer in frustration, profanity included.

Working as hard as she can to meet the seemingly impossible expectations that come with her position, she reflects on her life’s trajectory.

“Me! The girl who prided herself more on her college nickname (‘Party Ball’) than on any academic achievement is now Scott’s investor-relations guru, i.e., the evangelizer of his company to Wall Street,” Sophia states in the prologue. “I know exactly how it happened. Unreasonable immigrant parents, a ‘life is short’ attitude and a mouth I can’t seem to fully control. I’ve been trained since birth to get what I want; now I use this ‘skill’ to get my bosses whatever they want. I’ve made it into the inner circle.”

Yen encourages women to fearlessly express their thoughts. At the very least, if someone doesn’t like the idea or criticizes it, it’ll open up conversation, she said.

“I feel strongly that women should voice their opinions. In the book you’ve got this real smart-ass, loud-mouth female character,” she said. “I show that her mouth gets her into trouble, but ultimately (these traits) work to her benefit and allow her to be

herself. herself ... W Wee hhave ave tto o bbee true to ourselves.” l ” Yen attributes her bold personality to her Asian immigrant parents.

But she said despite being stereotyped — she’s had “bad Chinese driver” insults thrown at her on the road, been labeled as the “Chinese one” and expected to be more reserved and quiet in the workplace — she attributes her success to speaking without sugarcoating.

“Coming from a traditional Asian family has affected and impacted my career path and who I was. ... My family didn’t have any filtered comments, and I think for the most part that’s probably why I was hired in many situations,” she said.

In writing the book, Yen also wanted to paint a better picture of the “interesting icons” of Silicon Valley. The main character’s three main mentors — Scott Kraft, Grant Vickers and Andre Stark — all represent industry leaders with whom she’s worked and who’ve influenced her.

“If anything, this is a great map for great leadership,” she said. “It’s important to me that I show what great mentors these people are.”

Although she has no background in writing or publishing, she began the book three years ago and said writing the first draft only took six months; editing it took her another year.

“Because it’s a story that’s in my head — I lived it — it didn’t take that long,” she said.

A woman she met at a local dog park happened to be a literary agent and encouraged her to write the book. She now has an idea for another book in mind, since there

After spending decades working in Silicon Valley, Anna Yen has released “Sophia of Silicon Valley,” a fictional story based on her experiences that she hopes others will use as a playbook of survival tactics as they navigate the startup world.

Courtesy Anna Yen. so many stories didn’t make it into the first one.

The book is intended for people of all ages: from young professionals entering the workforce to someone who is no longer employed to “anyone who remembers what it was like getting out of college and not knowing what to do, being intimidated by people,” she said.

Yen said she wanted to inspire and advise her nieces and nephews, who are in their 20s and beginning their professional lives.

“Everyone has their own challenges,” she said. “It’s just about attitudes and perspectives they might want to consider.”

Yen will appear at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park on April 26. More information is posted at keplers.org. Q Editorial Assistant Christine Lee can be emailed at clee@ paweekly.com.

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A weekly guide to home, garden and real estate news, edited by Elizabeth Lorenz

Home Front RHODY SALE ... Spruce up your garden with rhododendrons. On Saturday, April 21, the DeAnza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society will hold a rhododendron plant sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The sale will be in front of the Masonic Lodge at 146 Main St., Los Altos.

GROW YOUR OWN FOOD ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County will hold a talk on “The Incredible Edibles: Cucumber, Melons, and Squash” in Los Altos on Wednesday, April 25. Learn everything you’ve wanted to know about growing cantaloupes or cucumbers but were afraid to ask.

What causes bitterness in cucumbers? Do cantaloupes cross pollinate with other vine crops? Master Gardener Janet Waagen will answer these questions and many more, plus give tips on planting and care. The free event will be held from 7 - 8 p.m. at the Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos.

ACT ON IT ... The City of Menlo Park has launched “ACT Menlo Park,” a mobile app that anyone can download for free to report problems or issues throughout the city. The new app replaces the former webbased system with a more transparent, efficient format that more easily allows for anyone from city officials to members of the public to track the progress on problems that have been reported. The free app is downloadable via links on the city website as well as the Apple App Store and Google Play. Once the app is downloaded to a mobile device, anyone can report things like potholes, illegal dumping, graffiti and many other issues. The app will enable users to provide city departments with pictures, videos, descriptions and locations so the city can fix problems efficiently.

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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NEIGHBORHOOD SNAPSHOT

Nikki and Neera Narang bought a home in the Ventura neighborhood in 2011. The couple now has two children, including Naya, who is four.

O

nce described as a neighborhood with a “quiet” feel, Ventura is a little more noisy today with the influx of young families moving into the neighborhood, according to some of its residents.

“Ventura’s got a bit of a lower entry point for families,” said resident Neera Narang. “It draws younger families, I think, because it’s somewhat affordable compared to the rest of Palo Alto.”

Originally from Southern California, Narang moved to the Bay Area in 2010 before settling in Ventura the following year with her husband. They live in a singlefamily home built in the 1920s.

Ventura has just over 2,600 residents and is bound by Oregon Expressway and West Meadow Drive and El Camino Real and Alma Street.

The low price point isn’t the only draw. Narang said Ventura residents are diverse not only in race and ethnicity but across age and professions. The neighborhood is not dominated by those in the tech industry, she said; instead, her neighbors are carpenters, architects and “really cool, funky artistic people.”

The walkability of the neighborhood also makes it easy for Narang to frequent nearby Boulware Park and California Avenue with her husband and two children, ages 1 and 4.

Parker Mankey also enjoys the neighborhood’s walkability. A

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Ventura

braces for big changes

Artsy neighborhood site of new ‘concept area plan’ Story and Photo by Marley Arechiga

lifetime Palo Alto resident who has lived in Ventura for eight years and raised her children there, she said the California Avenue Farmers’ Market is a window into what Palo Alto was like when she was a kid — that is to say, more opportunities to gather publicly and support local businesses.

Like Narang, Mankey said there are a growing number of young families in her apartment complex, where she lives with her husband and two teenaged children.

“When we moved here, there were mainly Stanford students and longtime residents,” she said.

“We’re sort of a springboard (for new families).”

Mankey is an accountant for Gryphon Stringed Instruments, a music store that has been in Ventura for more than 40 years.

As a small business that has outlasted the ballooning rents in the area, Gryphon is a rarity among Palo Alto retail. Frank Ford, one of Gryphon’s founders, said the shop could easily expand but “rent around here isn’t exactly what you’d call cheap.”

Gryphon sits on the corner of

Park Boulevard and Lambert Avenue, directly across from the 39-acre portion of land in Ventura that’s use will be debated in the next year and a half by city officials, residents and business owners. In early March, the Palo Alto City Council unanimously voted to move ahead with a “concept area plan” for the considerable portion of Ventura land.

Narang and Mankey share similar visions for what should be included in the plan. On their wish list is housing, which both feel is desperately needed in Palo Alto, and a generous portion of green space, which is less common in Ventura than in surrounding neighborhoods.

Ventura is mostly a residential area with a mixture of houses and apartment complexes. The houses sit on narrow streets on relatively small lots, giving them little space between their neighbors.

For Mankey, another desired outcome for the land is a fun space for children and teenagers that could potentially include more diverse retail options, such as a bookstore, an independent coffee

shop or a live music venue.

“We complain about our kids being on the computer all the time, but they live in a town where they have nothing to do,” Mankey said, citing the closures of Denny’s and Palo Alto Bowl, places she frequented while growing up in the area. Q Marley Arichega is a former intern at the Palo Alto Weekly.

FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS: Country Day Little School, 3990 Ventura Court; Heffalump Cooperative Nursery, 3990 Ventura Court; Leaping Lizards Nature Awareness Preschool, 3990 Ventura Court; Sojourner Truth Child Development Center, 3990 Ventura Court FIRE STATION: No. 5, 600 Arastradero Road LIBRARY: Mitchell Park branch, 3700 Middlefield Road LOCATION: bounded by Oregon Expressway, Alma Street, West Meadow Drive and El Camino Real PARK: Boulware Park, 410 Fernando Ave.; Ventura Community Center, 3990 Ventura Court POST OFFICE: Cambridge, 265 Cambridge Ave. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Barron Park Elementary School, Terman Middle School, Gunn or Palo Alto high schools SHOPPING: California Avenue, Charleston Center and El Camino Real

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THE ADDRESS IS THE PENINSU THE EXPERIENCE IS A IN PINEL

ATHERTON $11,995,000

MENLO PARK $7,398,000

MENLO PARK $6,995,000

LOS ALTOS $5,200,000

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

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1210 Bay Laurel Drive | 6bd/7ba Keri Nicholas | 650.533.7373 License # 01198898

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540 Fanita Way | 5bd/4ba Mary & Brent Gullixson | 650.888.0860 License # 00373961 | 01329216

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PALO ALTO $4,150,000

PORTO VALLEY $3,100,000

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REDWOOD CITY $1,898,000

2061 Sandalwood Court | 3bd/2ba Derk Brill | 650.543.1117 License # 01256035 OPEN SUNDAY 1:00-5:00

684 Encina Grande Drive | 4bd/3ba C. Borison/J. Barman | 650.303.9569 License # 01880666 | 01270223 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30

12 Patterson Avenue | 3bd/2ba Erika Ameri | 650.269.8211 License # 01727613 OPEN SAT & SUN 12:00-5:00

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ATHERTON

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4 Bedrooms 2 Douglas Way Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$4,698,000 304-3100

CUPERTINO

6 Bedrooms 1210 Bay Laurel Dr Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

4 Bedrooms - Condominium 10281 Torre Ave #804 Sat Deleon Realty

$1,998,000 543-8500

$7,398,000 304-3100

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LOS ALTOS

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4 Bedrooms 11701 Putter Way Call for price Sat 10:30-12:30 Golden Gate Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Realty 847-1141 1981 Farndon Ave $2,569,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate 947-4700

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543-8532 $2,298,000 543-8500

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2331 Blueridge Ave $1,988,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 2109 Camino De Los Robles $2,195,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 525 San Benito Av Call for price Sun Intero Real Estate 543-7740 5 Carriage Ct $2,580,000 Sun 2:30-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111 745 Partridge Av $1,998,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 304-3100

PALO ALTO 3 Bedrooms 430 Palm St Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$5,998,000 323-1111

2061 Sandalwood Ct Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,598,000 323-1111

823 Bruce Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,488,000 543-8500 $2,498,000 543-8500 $4,095,000 324-4456 $3,850,000 462-1111

$3,988,000 543-8500

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863 Melville Ave $3,998,000 Sat/Sun Golden Gate Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Realty 644-3474 1750 University Ave $4,988,000 Sat/Sun Golden Gate Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Realty 644-3474

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

$4,295,000 851-2666

SAN CARLOS

5 Bedrooms 1818 Bryant St Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$7,988,000 543-8500

3911 Grove Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Yarkin Realty

$2,795,000 387-4242

4 Bedrooms 220 Frances Ln Sun 1-5 Sereno Group

$3,298,000 323-1900

650 Lowell Av $10,495,000 Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111

2932 Sherwood Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,298,000 543-8500

849 Allardice Way Call for price Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

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602 Wellsbury Ct Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

$3,890,000 321-1596

4 Bedrooms 151 Durazno Way Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate

$2,795,000 543-7700

271 Gabarda Way Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$3,488,000 543-8500

1305 Westridge Dr $6,595,000 Sun Golden Gate Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Realty 644-3474 900 Wayside Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,395,000 851-2666

4 Bedrooms 1527 Ilikai Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,350,000 851-2666

SAN MATEO 4 Bedrooms 627 W Poplar Ave Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,788,000 324-4456

SANTA CLARA 3 Bedrooms 4362 Headen Way Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,295,000 324-4456

SARATOGA 4 Bedrooms

REDWOOD CITY 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 257 Arlington Dr #104 Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$1,125,000 529-1111

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4 Bedrooms

1400 Cowper St Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

5 Bedrooms

284 Monroe Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

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2307 Crest Ln Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 424 8th Ave Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 170 Hanna Way Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 145 Gloria Circle Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$898,000

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MENLO PARK

$1,950,000 323-1111

PORTOLA VALLEY

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

LOS ALTOS HILLS

4263 Park Blvd Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

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727 Hillcrest Way $2,650,000 Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Realty 644-3474

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4 Bedrooms

3970 Woodside Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

2111 Brewster Ave Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,498,000 543-8500

1090 Bear Gulch Rd Sun Pacific Union

$3,980,000 314-7200

4 Bedrooms $7,995,000 851-2666

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5 Bedrooms 3534 Oak Knoll Dr Call for price Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

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PALO ALTO’S 96TH ANNUAL MAY FÊTE PARADE SATURDAY, MAY 5TH, 2018 Calling all kids! It’s time to sign up for the 96th Annual May Fête Children’s Parade held on Saturday, May 5th at 10am along University Avenue.

Showcase your school, neighborhood, team, youth group or extra curricular activity. All children are welcome to walk in the parade—so if you don’t have a group, come join the open categories.

New this year! Non-commercial floats are eligible to win a 1st place prize of $500, a 2nd place prize of $250, or a 3rd place prize of $125!

Dress up, build a float, march with your school band, decorate your bike or walk with your pet.

Let’s enjoy the day and celebrate this year’s theme

“Children of the World ”.

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Mind & Body

115 Announcements

425 Health Services

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Chamber Music Program Chamber Music Program - (Palo Alto) Announcing a Chamber Music Program for Children and Adults!

We offer a three week summer session during the weeks of June 4th, 11th and 18th (M-F 9:30-12:30) at the First Lutheran Church in downtown Palo Alto plus classes during the school year.

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This is a wonderful way to support music in our community!

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133 Music Lessons Christina Conti Piano Private piano lessons. In your home or mine. Bachelor of Music, 20+ years exp. 650/493-6950 Hope Street Music Studios Now on Old Middefield Way, MV. Most instruments, voice. All ages and levels 650-961-2192 www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com

145 Non-Profits Needs DONATE BOOKS/SUPPORT PA LIBRARY Friends of Menlo Park Library PlantTrees 10¢each. ChangeLives!

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150 Volunteers FRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO LIBRARY JOIN OUR ONLINE STOREFRONT TEAM Research Study VOLUNTEERS for Anxiety Study

For Sale 201 Autos/Trucks/ Parts Lexus 2000 RX300 - 5,500 OBO

202 Vehicles Wanted toyota 2010 Plus suv

210 Garage/Estate Sales Menlo Park, 2650 Sand Hill Road, April 28 noon-3, April 29 11-noon St. Bede’s rummage sale for Home & Hope family shelter. Clothes, books, CDs, homewares, vintage finds. No early birds; see details online.

240 Furnishings/ Household items Dining Room Furniture—$5,000 Ethan Allen Beautiful Dining Room furniture, dark wood, table is a beautiful table seating 6 or 8, 6 chairs, ladder back, Beautiful Hutch (China Cabinet that matches table and chairs, no scratches, excellent condition) 925-989-4315 twin size mattress - $30.00

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TECHNOLOGY Box, Inc. has the following job opportunity available in Redwood City, CA: Software Engineer (KM-CA): Influence and build the next generation of Box workflow system, including the technical vision for the team and the product and design vision.

Submit resume by mail to: Attn: People Operations, Box, Inc., 900 Jefferson Ave., Redwood City, CA 94063. Must reference job title and job code KM-CA. TECHNOLOGY Box, Inc. has the following job opportunity available in Redwood City, CA: Senior Manager, Software Development (KP-CA): Lead a team of engineers to build infrastructure services and distributed systems. Work closely with product management to define requirements and prioritize projects. Submit resume by mail to: Attn: People Operations, Box, Inc., 900 Jefferson Ave., Redwood City, CA 94063.

Must reference job title and job code KP-CA.

Business Services 601 Accounting/ Bookkeeping ADMIN. ASSISTANT bookkeeping incl payroll, bill paying, tax prep. 650-968-5680

Home Services 715 Cleaning Services Junk Removal Diva Woman Owned Professional All Junk removal, since 2010.

No Job Too Small or Too Big; Household, Office, etc.

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751 General Contracting A NOTICE TO READERS: It is illegal for an unlicensed person to perform contracting work on any project valued at $500.00 or more in labor and materials. State law also requires that contractors include their license numbers on all advertising.

Check your contractor’s status at www. cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB (2752).

Unlicensed persons taking jobs that total less than $500.00 must state in their advertisements that they are not licensed by the Contractors State License Board.

757 Handyman/ Repairs

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Jobs 500 Help Wanted BUSINESS Box, Inc. has the following job opportunity available in Redwood City, CA: Business Continuity Specialist (VJ-CA): Assist with conducting and supporting Business Impact Assessments and Risks Assessments across key business functions. Facilitate and gather requirements to develop and maintain disaster recovery plans.

Submit resume by mail to: Attn: People Operations, Box, Inc., 900 Jefferson Ave., Redwood City, CA 94063. Must reference job title and job code VJ-CA. Sr Engineer Cloud Services Quicken Inc. has an opening in Menlo Park, CA. Sr Engineer, Cloud Services: design & develop products & processes. Submit resume (principals only) to: HR@Quicken.com & include recruitment source + job title in subject line. EOE TECHNOLOGY HP Inc. is accepting resumes for the position of Business Planning Lead in Palo Alto, CA (Ref. #HPICPAEEM1).

Defines, supports, and evaluates business plans to ensure they are operationally executable against defined strategic objectives. Develop monthly analytics and reporting. Mail resume to HP Inc., c/o Andrew Bergoine, 11403 Compaq Center Drive W, MS M31290, Houston, TX 77070. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE. TECHNOLOGY Box, Inc. has the following job opportunity available in Redwood City, CA: Software Engineer (LW-CA): Triage, prioritize, and resolve customer issues for Box products. Develop new and evolve existing tools for use by customer support and engineering.

Submit resume by mail to: Attn: People Operations, Box, Inc., 900 Jefferson Ave., Redwood City, CA 94063. Must reference job title and job code LW-CA. TECHNOLOGY Box, Inc. has the following job opportunity available in Redwood City, CA: Senior Software Engineer (SH-CA): Identify, investigate and solve deep, gnarly issues throughout production environment. Validate, verify, and understand customer-reported and customer-impacting issues. Submit resume by mail to: Attn: People Operations, Box, Inc., 900 Jefferson Ave., Redwood City, CA 94063. Must reference job title and job code SH-CA.

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27 “Dallas” family name 29 Flip option 30 Recombinant stuff 31 They’re silent and deadly 33 “I Need a Dollar” singer Aloe ___ 35 Namibia’s neighbor 36 Calculus for dentists

40 Country east of Eritrea 43 Beethoven’s Third Symphony 44 Double-decker, e.g.

47 Cave ___ (“Beware of dog,” to Caesar) 49 Fur trader John Jacob 50 Customary to the present 53 Pivot on an axis 54 Make further corrections 55 “Oh yeah? ___ who?”

57 “And many more” 58 “Caprica” actor Morales 59 Popular request at a bar mitzvah 63 “Okay” 64 Complete opposites 65 Rolls over a house?

66 Short religious segment on old TV broadcasts Down 1 Island where Napoleon died 2 Be active in a game, e.g.

3 Going from green to yellow, maybe 4 The day before the big day 5 Cork’s country, in Gaelic 6 Word after coffee or time 7 Follower of Lao-tzu 8 ___.de.ap (Black Eyed Peas member) 9 Cost-of-living stat 10 Swing to and fro 11 Lacking, with “of” 12 Novelist Lurie 13 Lead ore 15 Branch of govt.

21 Makeup with an applicator 23 “Hope you like it!”

25 Truck compartment 26 Feel unwell 28 Actor Johnny of “The Big Bang Theory” and “Roseanne” 32 TV host Bee and blues singer Fish, for two 34 Traverse

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37 Golf club brand 38 Connection to a power supply 39 Uncommon example 41 Brian once of Roxy Music 42 Not quite improved?

44 Minimalist to the max 45 Depletes 46 Takes an oath 48 Be way off the mark 51 New Bohemians lead singer Brickell 52 Almost on the hour 56 Investigation Discovery host Paula 60 Hydrocarbon suffix 61 Open-reel tape precursor to VCRs (and similar, except for the letter for “tape”) 62 “I hadn’t thought of that” ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords.com)

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MARKETPLACE the printed version of fogster.com 845 Out of Area NORTHERN AZ WILDERNESS RANCH $231 MONTH - Quiet very secluded 37 acre off grid ranch bordering 640 acres of uninhabited State Trust land at cool clear 6,100’ elevation. No urban noise & dark sky nights amid pure air & AZ’s very best year-round climate.

Blend of evergreen woodlands & grassy wild flower covered meadows with sweeping views across scenic wilderness mountains and valleys.

Abundant clean groundwater at shallow depths, free well access, loam garden soil, maintained road access. Camping and RV use ok. Near historic pioneer town & fishing / boating lake. $26,800, $2,680 down, with no qualifying seller financing. Free brochure with photos, additional property descriptions, prices, terrain map, lake info, weather chart/area info: 1st United Realty 800.966.6690. (Cal-SCAN)

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement 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) BLACKBIRD LABS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN640971 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Blackbird Labs, located at 11671 Timber Spring Ct., Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ROHIT KRISHNAN 11671 Timber Spring Ct. Cupertino, CA 95014 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 April 6, 2018.

(PAW Apr. 13, 20, 27; May 4, 2018) OBLIQUE FITNESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN641233 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Oblique Fitness, located at 4218 Rickey’s Way, Unit C, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): RINKU BHATIA 4218 Rickey’s Way, Unit C Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/31/2011.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 13, 2018.

(PAW Apr. 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2018) LAB 261 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN641199 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Lab 261, located at 2250 Webster 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): CINA CONSULTING LLC 2250 Webster St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 4/12/2018.

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

(PAW Apr. 20, 27; May 4, 11, 2018) THE ENTREPRENEUR’S SOURCE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN641213 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: The Entrepreneur’s Source, located at 300 Loma Verde Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): QUARTEY ENTERPRISES, LLC 300 Loma Verde Avenue

Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 04/09/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 13, 2018.

(PAW Apr. 20, 27; May 4, 11, 2018)

997 All Other Legals 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) CASE NUMBER: (Numero del Caso): 16CV301219 SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): R C GAITHER aka ROBIN GAITHER and Does 1 to 5 inclusive.

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): BH FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., A California Corporation.

NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time,

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RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS AT FOGSTER.COM you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.

You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case.

The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. ca.gov) en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro.

Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte. ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales.

AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CLARA COUNTY, 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95113, SAN JOSE LIMITED CIVIL DISTRICT. The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): LAW OFFICES OF KENOSIAN & MIELE, LLP, JOHN P. KENOSIAN, Bar #80261, 8581 Santa Monica Blvd., #17, Los Angeles, CA 90069 Tel: (888) 566-7644, Fax: (310) 289-5177 Date: (Fecha) AUG 25, 2016 DAVID H. YAMASAKI, Chief Executive Officer Clerk (Secretario) By: T. MAI, Deputy (Adjunto) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individual defendant.

CN935602 131729 Apr 13,20,27, May 4, 2018 TSG No.: 170421384-CA-MSI TS No.: CA1700282013 FHA/VA/PMI No.: APN: 003-05-006 Property Address: 1039 UNIVERSITY AVENUE PALO ALTO, CA 94301-2237 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 09/29/2006. 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. On 05/10/2018 at 10:00 A.M., First American Title Insurance Company, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 10/04/2006, as Instrument No. 19131346, in book , page , , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, State of California.

Executed by: ROBERT S PARISH JR, AN UNMARRIED MAN, AND MILES S MCCORMICK, AND UNMARRIED MAN, ALL AS JOINT TENANTS, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER

FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (Payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States) At the Gated North Market Street entrance of the Superior Courthouse, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED DEED OF TRUST APN# 003-05-006 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1039 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO, CA 94301-2237 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said 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 said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $5,712,756.56.

The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust has deposited all documents evidencing the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust and has declared all sums secured thereby immediately due and payable, and has caused a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be executed. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the County where the real property is located. 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 (916)939-0772 or visit this Internet Web http://search.nationwideposting. com/propertySearchTerms.aspx, using the file number assigned to this case CA1700282013 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. 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: First American Title Insurance Company 4795 Regent Blvd, Mail Code 1011-F Irving, TX 75063 First American Title Insurance Company MAY BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE FOR TRUSTEES SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL (916)939-0772NPP0329956 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY 04/20/2018, 04/27/2018, 05/04/2018

Answers to this week’s puzzles, which can be found on page 47.

Sports Shorts

CARDINAL CORNER . . . Stanford signed three to national letters of intent this week, strengthening a track and field recruiting class that numbers 19. The latest signee are sprinter Andrew Franco, thrower Max McKhann and horizontal jumper Allyson Weiss. . . . Stanford junior Courtney Bowen and freshman Sunny Villapando were named the Pac-12 Conference Beach Volleyball Pair of the Week.

ON THE AIR Friday College women’s tennis: California at Stanford, 11 a.m. Pac-12 Networks College men’s tennis: Oregon at Stanford, 2 p.m. Pac-12 Networks College softball: Stanford at Oregon, 6 p.m. Pac-12 Plus Live Stream College baseball: Stanford at Arizona, 7 p.m. Pac-12 Networks College women’s lacrosse: Stanford at California, 7 p.m., Cal Live Stream-2

Saturday College softball: Stanford at Oregon, 5 p.m. Pac-12 Plus Live Stream College baseball: Stanford at Arizona, 7 p.m. Pac-12 Networks

Sunday College softball: Stanford at Oregon, noon, Pac-12 Plus Live Stream College baseball: Stanford at Arizona, noon, Pac-12 Networks

Tuesday College baseball: Pacific at Stanford, 6:05 p.m., Stanford Live Stream

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SHP grad Andrew Daschbach has become a feared power threat in the middle of the batting order. He leads the Cardinal with 10 home runs and 39 RBIs.

Born to play the game of baseball Three-sport star from Sacred Heart Prep has no regrets of his chosen college sport

by Glenn Reeves hen Andrew Daschbach was at Sacred Heart Prep, he was as good a three-sport athlete as you’re likely to see anywhere.

He was a standout tight end in football, low-post center/power forward on the best boys basketball team in school history and an all-around talent in baseball.

A sport for every season.

Now he’s at Stanford and baseball is the focus of his year-round dedication. And after playing sparingly as a freshman, Daschbach has blossomed as a sophomore, metamorphosing into the cleanup hitter on a Stanford team that has exceeded expectations

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with a 27-5 record after a sweep of Arizona State last weekend.

He’s in Tucson this weekend, where Stanford opens a threegame series with Arizona on Friday at 7 p.m.

Daschbach has become a feared power threat in the middle of the batting order. He leads the Cardinal with 10 home runs and 39 RBIs. But if you think he draws inspiration from the launch-angle, uppercut craze sweeping Major League baseball, you’re wrong.

“That’s a funny thing, people talk about swinging up,’’ Daschbach said. “Every time I’m in the box I’m thinking about swinging down. That’s my best chance to get the barrel of the bat on the

ball. If I barrel up the ball I’m going to hit some home runs. If I don’t barrel it up I’m not going to hit any. Coach Esquer has worked with me a lot on using the middle of the field, for me to try to develop as a hitter, become a true hitter before hitting for power.’’

Stanford is well known for allowing athletes to play more than one sport and to play down the one-sport specialization so prevalent at Division I schools throughout the NCAA. But in Daschbach’s case, playing more than baseball just wouldn’t work.

At 6-foot-3 and 225 pounds, Daschbach would need to put on something in the neighborhood of another 30 pounds to play tight

end at the Division I level.

“I’d have to eat a lot more and spend a lot more time in the weight room,’’ he said.

Daschbach was a tremendous receiving tight end at Sacred Heart Prep. As a senior he caught 62 passes for 1,286 yards and 15 touchdowns. And he had a knack for the clutch catch. In the Central Coast Section Open Division III championship game against Riordan the score was tied 28-28 when Daschbach made a catch over two defenders for a 33-yard touchdown pass on a trick play, a double reverse pass, in the final seconds, sending the Gators to the (continued on page 50)

STANFORD TENNIS

Heading into the postseason on a roll The Cardinal has a 10-match winning streak

by Rick Eymer he 20th-ranked Stanford women’s tennis team appears primed for another run at the national title. Currently on a 10-match winning streak, the Cardinal (14-3, 8-0) can finish the Pac-12 season unbeaten with a victory over California (11-7, 6-3), which visits Taube Family Tennis Center for the ‘Big Slam’ at 11 a.m. Friday.

Stanford can claim the conference’s regular-season title outright with a victory, which would also

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result in the No. 1 seed for next weekend’s Pac-12 Championships.

Stanford has held the upper hand against its Bay Area rivals, having won 13 of the last 18 meetings against California dating to 2010.

While a conference title is certainly the short-term goal, Stanford has plenty of incentive to keep piling up wins, regardless of the opponent. The Cardinal is storming toward the finish line, trying to position itself among (continued on page 50)

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OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Sacred Heart Prep is losing a great coach buut York School is gaining a good man. Jon Burke, who guided the Sacred Heart Prep girls water polo program to a record 10 consecutive Central Coast Section Division II titles through 2016, has decided to move on and will not return to the Atherton campus next year.

Burke will become the Director of College Counseling at York School in Monterey after finishing out current academic year. Burke has spent the past 12 years at Sacred Heart Prep, helping to develop one of the most respected water polo programs in the nation. In 2016, Coach Burke was named the Central Coach Section (CCS) Honors Coach for girls water polo and in May of 2017, he was named by the California Coaches Association as the top girls water polo coach in the state . . . Heavily-recruited Menlo-Atherton defensive lineman Noa Ngalu has committed to the University of Washington. Ngalu (6-2, 280), a junior, has stood out the last two years for the M-A football team.

But his coach says his best years are still to come. “Noa has still got a lot of upside,’’ M-A coach Adhir Ravipati said. “His best years are ahead of him. He’s still raw, has a lot of room to grow.’’ He is expected to be used primarily as an interior defensive lineman at Washington.

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Sports ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

PREP BOYS VOLLEYBALL

Menlo-Atherton rules the PAL Gunn wins historic match against Palo Alto

by Andrew Preimesberger the section.

“I honestly think we have the o hear coach Ron Whitmill tell it, the Menlo-Ather- best team in the league,” said ton boys volleyball team Whitmill. “It’s really up to us. was lucky to beat host Aragon Our focus is rarely on our oppoWednesday night in a Peninsula nents. We really try to focus on what we do on our side Athletic League match. of the court. We believe Luck may have had a if we pass the ball, take little something to do care of our hitting and with it but the Bears serving, that everybody aren’t just lucky to be else has to worry about 23-0 on the season. stopping us.”

Menlo-Atherton won Aaron Letvin led its 23rd straight game, M-A with 16 kills. beating host Aragon, Schuyler Knapp, a 25-23, 25-21, 27-25, on volunteer varsity girls Wednesday evening. coach in the fall, was The Bears (9-0 in the huge in the second set, PAL) are looking to re- Aaron Letvin peat as PAL champions and beat- accounting for seven of his 21 ing the Dons (17-6, 8-2) was a big assists.

“He’s been playing way longer step forward. With four matches remaining, M-A took over the than me,” said Letvin of the connection with Knapp. “He got me driver’s seat.

“They’re a good team,” said into volleyball and we’ve been Whitmill, one of the most suc- playing together for two years cessful volleyball coaches in the now. It’s kind of just been like that state at any level. “Their defense since last year.”

Meanwhile, Gunn won a hisgets after it and plays with a lot of energy. Last time we played toric match against host Palo Alto here we lost to them and they out- over the weekend.

In the first Palo Alto-Gunn played us. To be honest they kind of outplayed us today. We made boys volleyball match ever, the some mistakes and they had bet- Titans beat the Vikings, 25-16, ter energy than we did. We were 25-18, 25-23 in a SCVAL rival matchup on Friday night. lucky to come away with a win.”

“There was a lot of hype and Whitmill, who returned to Menlo-Atherton after coaching they were really excited in the bethe girls volleyball team at Valley ginning,” said Gunn head coach Christian for a few years, is just Matt Brostch. “I was telling them to not get over-hyped. Honestly, being modest.

The defending PAL champions this was one of the better games are fundamentally sound and as we’ve played because we came prepared to play as any team in out focused. Hopefully from here,

this is a nice little building game.”

In the third match, Simon Antony found his brother Matthew Antony, set it to him, and Antony smashed it passed two Palo Alto defenders and Gunn sealed the win 25-23.

“I wanted to finish off the game on a high note,” said Matthew Antony. “I told my brother, the setter, to put it up and I put it away the best I could.”

In the second set, Palo Alto went on a 4-0 run and cut the score to 23-18. Gunn then scored three in a row on Viking hits out of bounds. The Titans took a 2-0 match lead.

Matt Antony came up huge in the third match when he served the ball and scored six in a row for Gunn. The senior was responsible for eight of the Titans 25 points.

Palo Alto made a run of its own and scored six in a row, making it a 17-21 Gunn lead. The Vikings made it close again and scored six in a row again and made it a 2423. Antony then spiked it passed the defenders and the Titans triumphed.

Jack Loftus recorded 14 kills and Kevin Molumphy collected 14 digs to help Sacred Heart Prep beat host Scotts Valley, 25-13, 2518, 25-17, in a nonleague match on Tuesday.

Lance Chou and David Macias each added 10 digs while Carter Sun and Giorgio Bacchin combined on 33 assists for the Gators (10-8), who travel to Eastside Prep for a SCVAL match Friday at 5 p.m. Q

week’s conference tournament should do the trick, coupled with the fact that Stanford’s three losses have come against Vanderbilt, Texas and Florida, all of which are currently ranked in the top-10.

Stanford was tested for the first time during its 10-match winning streak last weekend, outlasting No. 37 Washington State and Washington by identical 4-2 margins on the road.

The Cardinal’s depth has been a prevailing theme throughout the season, as evidenced by freshman Janice Shin and sophomore Emma Higuchi providing clinchers on the back courts against the Cougars and Huskies, respectively.

In fact, every member of Stanford’s singles lineup enters the week with a national ranking.

Freshman Michaela Gordon (19-7 overall, 10-6 duals) has anchored the top spot of the lineup and is Stanford’s highest-ranked player at No. 22, sophomore Emily Arbuthnott (21-7 overall, 11-2 duals) and Shin (21-4 overall, 12-3 duals) share the team lead in victories while Higuchi (20-6 overall, 12-3 duals) has won eight in a row.

That does not even include junior Melissa Lord (12-4 overall,

4-1 duals), the Cardinal’s lone All-American who has quickly adjusted since returning from injury, and junior Caroline Lampl (15-7 overall, 9-4 duals), whose 70 career victories are the most of any player on the roster.

In doubles play, Stanford boasts two nationally-ranked duos, led by the third-ranked pairing of Arbuthnott and Gordon (14-3 overall, 6-2 duals). Lampl and junior Kimberly Yee(12-2 overall, 11-1 duals) have won seven in a row and check in at No. 56 this week.

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the nation’s top-16, typically recognized as the cutline for NCAA hosting honors.

Since moving to the current 64team field in 1999, Stanford has always hosted the first two rounds of the postseason at Taube Family Tennis Stadium, where the Cardinal has won 45 of its last 48 contests dating to 2015.

It’s been somewhat of a streaky campaign for Stanford, which opened the season ranked No. 1 before dropping all the way to No. 46, unfamiliar territory for an 18-time NCAA champion and a program widely considered the sport’s gold standard. But the surging Cardinal has vaulted 26 spots since the first week of March, and predictably looks every bit like a national title contender with its regular lineup fully healthy and clicking when it matters most.

Regardless, there is still work to do in order to improve its national ranking, and Stanford can play a maximum of only four more matches before the postseason gets underway. A deep run in next

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Men’s tennis No. 4 Stanford hosts No. 36 Oregon on Friday at 2 p.m. as part of a women’s-men’s doubleheader.

Both Friday matches will be televised live on Pac-12 Networks.

The Cardinal will honor its two senior captains prior to Saturday’s match, celebrating the accomplishments of Tom Fawcett and David Wilczynski.

Both Fawcett and Wilczynski enter their final regular-season home matches among Stanford’s all-time leaders in career dual victories. Fawcett ranks 27th in school history with 52, while Wilczynski is 33rd on the Cardinal’s career dual wins list with 42. Q

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M-A TRACK AND FIELD

GUNN BASEBALL

The junior sprinter helped M-A’s 4x100 relay race 49.02, the fastest time in the Central Coast Section this season, to win the event at the Serra 7 Invitational.

She also finished second in the 200 meters and ranks No. 2 in the CCS.

The senior utility player went 6 for 7, including a double and triple, with 5 RBI, 5 runs scored in a pair of SCVAL El Camino victories over Fremont last week. He also pitched a 3-hitter over six innings in an 8-2 win over the Firebirds.

Honorable mention Allison Carter Sacred Heart Prep lacrosse

Amaya Gray Priory track and field

Luci Lambert Sacred Heart Prep track and field

Zoe Lusk* Gunn swimming

Alice Saparov Palo Alto diving

Grace Williams Gunn lacrosse

Kevin Alarcon Woodside baseball

Matthew Anthony Gunn Volleyball

James Homer Sacred Heart Prep tennis

Brody LaPorte Menlo lacrosse

Shogo Mondaira Gunn swimming

James Sullivan Menlo-Atherton baseball *Previous winner

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

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NorCal finals.

“I will never forget that game for the rest of my life,’’ he said.

Daschbach caught that pass from Mason Randall, who is now playing quarterback at the University of San Diego. After Daschbach hit a grand slam home run to beat Arizona State on Saturday and followed that up with another homer on Sunday, he got a text from Randall.

“He congratulated me on the weekend I had,’’ Daschbach said.

“I texted back and told him how much I missed spending time on the gridiron with him. That was about as fun as you can get.’’

It’s been an adjustment, going from playing whatever sport is in season to concentrating yearround on one.

“I still get out in the gym to play intramural; basketball and play pick-up football,’’ Daschbach said. “I still get the itch, 3 on 3 basketball, 7 on 7 football. And when Mason comes back in the off-season I’ll be the guy he will call to go out and run some routes.

It’s not easy for me to get away

from those sports.’’

But baseball was always his first love. He has no regrets about the path he chose.

However, the transition to college baseball didn’t come easy for Daschbach. He played in 29 games as a freshman at Stanford and started 13, finished the season with 11 hits, three RBIs and zero home runs.

“I think it was good for me to struggle my freshman year,’’ he said. “That was something I’d never experienced before while enjoying relative success at most levels. It made me look at myself in the mirror and make a commitment to getting better.’’

He played in Newport, Rhode Island, over the summer for the Newport Gulls in a collegiate wooden bat league.

“I got 200 at-bats over 50 games,’’ Daschbach said. “I really needed that. My learning curve spiked. I said to myself, ‘all right, it’s grind time. Opening Day I want to be in the lineup, not watching from the sideline.’ ‘’ Daschbach achieved that goal.

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Real estate agents affiliated with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage are independent contractor agents and are not employees of the Company. The property information herein is derived from various sources that may include, but not be limited to, county records and the Multiple Listing Service, and it may include approximations. Although the information is believed to be accurate, it is not warranted and you should not rely upon it without personal verification. ©2018 Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker ResidentialBrokeragefullysupportstheprinciplesoftheFairHousingActandtheEqualOpportunityAct.OwnedbyasubsidiaryofNRTLLC.ColdwellBankerandtheColdwellBankerLogoareregisteredservicemarksownedbyColdwellBankerRealEstateLLC. CalBRE##01908304

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