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Local news, information and analysis

Suspect in grisly Stanford Memorial Church murder kills self Sheriff’s deputies were about to serve warrant on former night watchman from 1974 case by Sue Dremann

he suspect in an infamous unsolved 1974 murder in Stanford Memorial Church apparently killed himself on Thursday morning as detectives came to his San Jose apartment to serve a search warrant, Santa Clara County Assistant Sheriff Rick Sung confirmed.

Sheriff’s detectives arrived at the Del Coronado Apartments at 5273 Camden Ave. when the suspect shot himself in the head, according to multiple news reports. Deputies had not disclosed the suspect’s identity as of press time, but they confirmed his connection to the 1974 murder. The man

is reportedly the former church night watchman, Stephen Blake Crawford, 71, who was a suspect in the murder and who lived at the Camden Avenue complex, according to WhitePages.com. Crawford was the one who reported that he’d found the body of 19-year-old Arlis Perry at 5:40 a.m. on Oct. 13, 1974, during a check of the church. Perry had moved to Stanford from Bismark, North Dakota in August 1974 with her husband, a Stanford

University sophomore, according to a 2017 Palo Alto Historical Association lecture by former San Jose Mercury News reporter Scott Herhold. Perry’s murder has been the biggest unsolved crime in Santa Clara County history because of where it occurred and how the murder was committed, he said. On Oct. 12, 1974, the Perrys were walking on campus when Arlis and Bruce Perry got into a spat. A religious woman,

Arlis Perry went off to Memorial Church to pray and arrived at about 11 p.m., Herhold said. Others saw her there at about 11:35 p.m. when Crawford told people the church would be closing in about 15 minutes. He told police that he locked the church at 11:45 p.m. and did another security pass at 2 a.m., but he did not see Perry there. The Perrys lived together in (continued on page 10)

CITY HALL

Ed Shikada named next city manager Policy veteran will take over for James Keene, who will retire at end of the year by Gennady Sheyner

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DEVELOPMENT

More housing, but worse traffic? Analysis of expanded Stanford housing scenarios brings hope, anxiety to Palo Alto council

f the Palo Alto City Council was gung-ho months ago about requesting that Stanford University build more housing on campus as part of its proposed expansion plans, a recent draft environmental analysis has dumped cold water on hopes that doing so could come without significant problems. On Monday, council members wrestled with an analysis that indicated Stanford’s plan to expand its campus by constructing more than 2 million square feet of academic space could result in 135-foot residential buildings

by Gennady Sheyner going up on El Camino Real and worsened conditions at local schools, parks and traffic if the university were required to build enough housing to accommodate its growth. The study was performed as part of Santa Clara County’s review of Stanford University’s plan to expand its campus by constructing 2.275 million square feet of academic space, 40,000 square feet of child care facilities (and other support space) and 3,150 housing units by 2035. The county is now in the process of reviewing Stanford’s application

for a 2018 General Use Permit, which would allow the expansion. The council had initially released the environmental-impact report (EIR) for the Stanford expansion last fall. But after an outpouring of public comments, county planners agreed to explore two additional scenarios, each of which includes more housing. One, known as Housing Alternative A, would provide 5,699 units (or beds for students), enough to house the expanded campus population. The other, known as (continued on page 12)

d Shikada, who was hired as a Palo Alto assistant city manager in April 2015 and who currently heads the Utilities Department, will take over City Hall’s top job in 2019, when City Manager James Keene retires, it was announced Monday. As Keene’s top lieutenant and occasional stand-in, Shikada is hardly a surprising choice for the city manager’s position. At the same time, Ed Shikada the process for choosing him was highly unusual. The City Council reached its decision on Keene’s successor after an abbreviated and opaque process that consisted entirely of closedsession discussions by the council’s Council Appointed Officers committee and, ultimately, the full council. By contrast, Keene’s hiring in 2008 included 42 applicants, six semifinalists, several interview panels — including one consisting of community members — and three finalists. The council last discussed the city manager’s position on June 18 but did not take any formal action at that meeting. The appointment will make Shikada only the eighth city manager in Palo Alto’s 125-year history, a fact that he cited during his remarks to the council Monday night. Hours after his appointment became public, Shikada thanked the council for the opportunity to succeed Keene as the city’s chief

executive and for approving the appointment in the quick time frame. “This really allows us to stay focused on the city’s priorities, which include filling some of the key vacancies in the leadership positions that we have in the city, as well as pursuing your priorities,” Shikada said. He called Palo Alto a “very special place” with a national and international reputation for “extraordinary achievements.” “That said, we’re also faced with challenges and are confronting what are effectively the negative side-effects of economic growth,” Shikada said. “Through the leadership of the City Council and with your city staff team, I know we’ll do what we can to address those issues and — as much as any city — really confront and outmatch those challenges.” No search process had been launched for Keene’s successor prior to Monday’s announcement. When asked about the lack of transparency and public participation in the hiring process, several council members told the Weekly that they had to move quickly on the hire to avoid losing Shikada to another organization. Councilman Greg Scharff, who serves on the Council Appointed Officers committee, said that after the committee consulted several recruiters, the word it received from them was that Shikada would be the best candidate. Scharff noted that many other agencies in the region, including the cities of Fremont and Cupertino, have openings for top (continued on page 8)

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TRANSPORTATION SHUFFLE ... It’s been a stressful, hectic year for Palo Alto’s transportation planners, who are simultaneously steering the city’s discussion on redesigning rail crossings, tweaking the city’s custom-built residential parking programs and moving ahead with an array of bike-boulevard projects, occasionally in the face of heated community opposition. For the City Council and City Manager James Keene, the stakes are particularly high when it comes to transportation, with recent surveys showing increasing resident frustrations about parking and traffic and the city still lagging behind neighbors in determining its preferred design for rail crossings. To address the growing importance of the Transportation Division in addressing council priorities, Keene’s office is preparing to give it some special attention. Deputy Manager Rob de Geus said this week that Keene is moving ahead with a reorganization at City Hall that will pull the Transportation Division from the Department of Planning and Community Environment and turn it into an Office of Transportation. Led by Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello, the new office will report directly to the city manager’s office, de Geus announced at Wednesday’s Planning and Transportation Commission meeting. The structural change comes during a broader period of transition at City Hall, including changes at the top of both the city manager’s office (where Ed Shikada is set to succeed Keene next year) and the planning department (which has recently seen Planning Director Hillary Gitelman depart). The transitions have given the city a chance to “reset and rethink” its structure and how it uses its resources, de Geus said, and given the importance of transportation to the City Council, this was the logical starting place. “The city manager feels strongly that the city manager’s office needs to be closer to transportation matters,” de Geus said. The proposal received a mixed reaction, with commission Chair Ed Lauing calling it a “good move” and Commissioner William Riggs questioning the need to separate land use and transportation and said he fails to see the logic in Keene’s decision. “They are intrinsically linked.

... It does create a structural disconnect,” Riggs said.

MAKING A COMEBACK ... Two old but familiar faces will soon emerge from their cave at Stanford with a new purpose — guarding the university’s Mausoleum. The “Stanford griffins” have been kept in Stanford Stadium’s storage space since 2005 and will soon be installed at the corner of Campus and Palm drives near the steps to the mausoleum, which holds the remains of the university’s founding family: Leland and Jane Stanford and their son, Leland Stanford Jr. “We think this will be a fun and whimsical surprise for people,” Laura Jones, director of heritage services and university archaeologist, said in a press release Wednesday. The statues previously guarded the men’s gymnasium, which has since been demolished. The university removed the lions from their crates in February for cleaning and painting touch-ups. Sadly, one of the griffins lost its tail while in their repository, according to Jones. The 5-feet-tall, 4-and-a-half-feet long griffins each weighing in at 1,500 pounds will be installed in mid-July, greeting passersby at the entrance to the cedar-tree-lined path leading up to the mausoleum. RECORD GIVING ... The Palo Alto Community Fund awarded a record $441,000 in grants to 45 nonprofit organizations in the greater Palo Alto organization this month. The grants range from $5,000 to $15,000 benefiting organizations in eight “impact categories”: arts and culture; community development and social services; education; environment; health, mental health and disabilities; housing and nutrition; senior services; and youth and families. “We had about 99 applications and we are pleased with the selection,” PACF Executive Director Cammie Vail said. A few first-time recipients include Grassroots Ecology, an organization that restores native plants; Loved Twice, which aims to give babies born to disadvantaged families a better start in life; and Racing Hearts, a nonprofit that seeks to increase access to automated external defibrillators. The grants were funded through donations from 350 local residents. Q

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Special-ed advocate to run for school board Parent Stacey Ashlund brings candidate pool to four by Elena Kadvany

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tacey Ashlund, a Palo Alto parent who has devoted much of her time to advocating for the rights of special-education families, plans to run for a seat on the Board of Education in November. In an interview Monday, Ashlund said she decided to run because of “heartbreaking” divisions she’s seen deepen in the school community, particu- Stacey Ashlund larly in the wake of a contentious debate over renaming a middle school for a JapaneseAmerican alumnus. If elected, she hopes to bring a unifying, positive voice to the school board. “What I’ve been hearing, reading and seeing lately — every individual group is feeling the need to speak up and say, ‘Don’t forget about me

and don’t disrespect me’ ... as opposed to the unified thing, which is, ‘What brings us together?’” Ashlund said. “I find when we start from where we agree as opposed to starting from where we differ we get more accomplished together.” Ashlund pointed to her early special-education advocacy as evidence of her ability to bring people together. Ashlund left her career as a usability engineer to support her son, who was born with disabilities, when he turned 1 year old. She thrust herself into learning about the rights of children with disabilities and their parents — a complicated world to navigate, she said, even from a place of privilege. She felt compelled to help others with fewer resources and started volunteering with the Community Advisory Committee, a parent advocacy group for special-education students in the Palo Alto school district, and then the Palo Alto Council of PTAs and education

foundation Partners in Education. When she took on the role of special-education representative for the Palo Alto Council of PTAs a decade ago, the group had no designated special-education parent representatives at the schools. Ashlund brought together the Community Advisory Committee and PTA group to do their work jointly, she said. Since 2007, Ashlund has worked with the Special Education Local Plan Area Community Advisory Committee, which represents four Santa Clara County school districts in Palo Alto, Los Altos and Mountain View. She currently serves as the group’s co-chair. She has advised other parents on special-education advocacy, presented at and organized education conferences, and created and facilitated support groups for parents and professionals, according to her resume. Ashlund has volunteered in

EDUCATION

Students continue to opt out of state exams School district staff frustrated by low participation on Smarter Balanced test by Elena Kadvany

fter four consecutive years of failing to meet the state’s required participation rate for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) exam, one of the Palo Alto school district’s two high schools has made some progress while the other saw higher optout rates this year. More Gunn High School juniors took the standardized test this year than in previous years: between 56 percent and 68 percent for the various math and English tests. Parents, who can exempt their children from the tests, did so at much lower rates this year: Exemptions dropped from about 65 percent last year to between 27 percent and 29 percent this year, according to district data. Palo Alto High School, however, saw little improvement in its students’ participation. Between 13 percent and 24 percent of juniors took the tests, while parental exemptions increased from about 36 percent in 2017 to 51 percent this year. California schools are required by federal law to meet a 95 percent participation rate on the test, which measures students’ proficiency on the state’s Common

Core State Standards. Failure to meet the 95 percent threshold could result in lost state funding for Title I schools, which have high percentages of low-income students. However, Paly and Gunn are not Title I schools, and the only apparent effect of nonparticipation will be that state will report the data for first time this fall on the new California School Dashboard — an online data tool that shows districts’ test scores, graduation rates and other measures of student success. The state Department of Education is in the process of determining how participation will be built into districts’ “academic indicator,” which measures performance on the Smarter Balanced exam. Yolanda Conaway, the district’s assistant superintendent of strategic initiatives and operations, attributed the gains at Gunn to more proactive incentives (including raffling off prom tickets and parking passes), involvement of parent groups and communication that the test is beneficial for all students and the school as a whole. Paly’s numbers might have been impacted by a leadership transition this year, Conaway said, with former Principal Kim

Diorio taking a medical leave in late February before announcing her resignation. “A plan looks great on paper, but unless there’s someone really tending to the implementation of the plan and making sure it’s communicated clearly they tend to be just plans rather than actions and deliverables that are actually going through,” Conaway said. She said she was “disappointed” by both schools’ rates and worries the perception about the exam at the high schools has trickled down into the middle schools. Eighth-graders’ participation is just below the required threshold. The elementary schools and sixth- and seventh-graders show high participation rates. In February, the month before high school juniors took the test, Conaway met with school administrators, the district’s special-education department and its Research, Assessment and Evaluation Department to develop plans to reverse the trend. The state also required the district to create a targeted plan for specialeducation students, she said. Conaway suspects outreach should start even earlier, with

other capacities, including on school site councils; with the Usher 1F Collaborative, a nonprofit that raises funds for research on Usher syndrome type 1, a rare genetic disorder that causes both deafness and blindness; with nonprofit Peninsula College Fund, which supports low-income firstgeneration college students; and as a Girl Scout troop leader, a role in which she said she has worked to expose young girls to STEM and feminism. Ashlund holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science and a master’s in computer science. She also served on the board for the Magical Bridge Playground, a nonprofit that builds inclusive playgrounds; on the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission from 2011 to 2015; and as a Democratic delegate representing Assembly District 24 during the same time period. In 2011, Ashlund graduated from Emerge California, a political candidate training program that aims to increase the number of Democratic women in office. Ashlund said the biggest challenge facing the school district is a still-narrow definition of academic achievement. She referred back to the importance of the Developmental Assets, 41 community values adopted in the wake of a teen suicide cluster. The Developmental Assets state that “your social emotional

health and well-being is just as important and essential to your academic achievement,” Ashlund said. “They rely on each other.” Another campaign priority of Ashlund’s is “mutual accountability” on the school board. Members should share responsibility with the district administration for mistakes rather than be quick to punish staff, she said. High turnover at the district in recent years, from the superintendent’s office on down, has created a sense that “there is no redemption,” she said. “If there’s a spider in the house, we burn down the entire house,” she said. “We have to work together; we have to collaborate; we have to have an ounce of forgiveness,” she added. Ashlund, who grew up on the south side of Chicago, has lived in Palo Alto since 1992. She is the parent to a 19-year-old son who attended district schools and a daughter entering her junior year at Gunn High School. Ashlund currently works as a user-experience consultant. Ashlund is the fourth person to announce a bid for the two open school-board seats. Current board President Ken Dauber, parent Kathy Jordan and district alumnus Shounak Dharap also plan to run. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

frequent communication about the importance of the test. “We know that high opt-out rates are more likely in wealthier, highly resourced districts,” she said. “This tells me that non-participation is a conscious choice, largely based on misguided beliefs that the assessments have no value. We definitely have more work to do.” Paly and Gunn have failed to meet the participation requirement since the Smarter Balanced exam rolled out in 2015. Initially, students pushed back against the timing of the test, which was administered the week before Advanced Placement and SAT exams. But rescheduling the test and more intentional communication

over the following two years did little to improve the rates. Ultimately, low participation will result in less data that the district will have to assess how students are doing and to address any gaps in instruction, Conaway said. “I see this as a responsibility of all of us, including parents, students, teachers, site leaders and the board. We will never truly be able to measure how well we are doing for all students and the overall quality of instruction unless we measure it against a standard,” she said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (June 25)

Parking: The council approved reducing the number of employee permits in the downtown Residential Preferential Parking program from 1,500 to 1,000 and to increase the number of permits kept in reserve from 100 to 200. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Holman, Kou, Wolbach No: Fine, Kniss, Tanaka Absent: Scharff Stanford GUP: The council discussed the recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report for Stanford University’s 2018 General Use Permit application and directed staff to draft a letter to the county, expressing the city’s concerns. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Holman, Kniss, Kou, Tanaka, Wolbach Absent: Scharff

Parks and Recreation Commission (June 26)

Baylands: The commission heard updates about the Renzel Pond project and the Baylands Comprehensive Conservation Plan. Action: None

Planning and Transportation Commission (June 27)

999 Alma St.: The commission approved a conditional-use permit to allow a gym, Training Space, at 999 Alma St. Yes: Gardias, Lauing, Monk, Riggs, Waldfogel No: Summa Absent: Alcheck

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executive positions. “Basically, people indicated to us that we would lose out unless we moved quickly. It was a decision of ‘Do we want Ed or do we not want Ed?’” Scharff said. “Looking at what was available and the high cost of living here, the council agreed that it didn’t seem reasonable that we can do better than Ed.”

find a new utilities general manager, a position that Shikada has occupied since 2016. If the city had moved ahead with an extensive search for a new city manager, it would have complicated its effort to fill other positions, DuBois said. “If Ed had left and we were doing a city manager search, it would have been very difficult to fill other positions because people want to know who their boss is going to be,” DuBois said.

‘Moving that quickly, almost pre-emptively, was not something I anticipated.’ —Liz Kniss, Palo Alto mayor Councilman Tom DuBois, who also serves on the Council Appointed Officers committee, said Shikada’s hiring will make it easier for the city to maintain some continuity at a time when a number of senior executives are planning to retire or have already left. The list of departing executives includes former Planning Director Hillary Gitelman, who resigned earlier this year, Chief Financial Officer Lalo Perez and Public Works Director Michael Sartor. The latter two recently announced their retirement plans. In addition, with Shikada transitioning to the city manager’s position, the city will now have to

DuBois said he was concerned about the lack of public involvement in the process but said it was important to move fast to avoid losing a “strong candidate who already knows a lot about how Palo Alto works. “There could still be an opportunity for the public to comment and weigh in when we do goals and performance reviews and setting criteria for evaluating the city manager,” DuBois said. In naming Shikada, the council opted for a candidate who has functioned for the past three years as City Hall’s consummate utility man, with a portfolio that includes everything from municipal

utilities and transportation to public works and the city’s effort to expand its animal shelter. Unlike Keene, who often brings a folksy sensibility to council meetings and sprinkles quotes from the likes of Bob Dylan and Emily Dickinson into his reports, Shikada brings to the table a wonky, technocratic demeanor, a legacy from his decades of experience in transportation policy. For Shikada, this won’t be his first go-around in City Hall’s top role. He served as city manager in San Jose from 2013 to 2014, a position he obtained after a series of promotions and increasing responsibilities. He resigned from the San Jose position in December 2014, reportedly after facing criticism from several council members about his role in firing the city’s deputy city manager. Before that, he had spent eight years in the city of Long Beach, where he served as director of Public Works, manager of traffic and transportation, city traffic engineer and transportation planning officer. He had also served in management roles with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and in transportation consulting, according to the city’s announcement. Shikada holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Hawaii and a master’s degree in urban planning from University of California, Los Angeles.

In a statement, Mayor Liz Kniss called Shikada an “exceptionally experienced professional with deep knowledge and leadership ability across the organization. “He has the temperament, operational aptitude, dedication and commitment to public services that make him a great choice,” Kniss said. Kniss told the Weekly that she finds it “regrettable” that the city had to move as quickly as it did, but given the competitive marketplace, she and her colleagues felt it was best to secure Shikada as the next city manager. She noted at least two cities had indicated that Shikada was one of their top choices for city manager. “Moving that quickly, almost pre-emptively, was not something I anticipated,” Kniss said. “It happened in a far shorter period of time than might normally happen.” In announcing Shikada’s appointment at the Monday council meeting, Kniss said she looks forward to a “smooth transition” from Keene to Shikada. “Over the next six months, they can continue their work together and the city will be well positioned, with strong leadership in place when Jim retires at the end of the year,” Kniss said. Shikada’s base salary for the position will be $356,000, with a total compensation package to include an $18,500 contribution to a 457 “deferred compensation” account.

He will also receive a temporary housing allowance of $4,000 a month until he is able to finalize permanent housing in Palo Alto, according to the city’s announcement. His current salary as assistant city manager and general manager of utilities is $303,000. City Attorney Molly Stump said the council’s decision was not reported after the June 18 meeting because it did not result in a final decision or agreement. When it comes to executive hiring, there is “a need to go back to the candidate before the decision is ripe for an announcement,” Stump told the Weekly. Stump said the council will formally approve Shikada’s appointment and contract at a public meeting after the summer break. Shikada said in a statement that since joining Palo Alto, he has been “impressed by the level of commitment and sense of service among our employees, and by our engaged and sophisticated citizenry.” He called the city an “outstanding organization serving an extraordinary community.” “We are at the center of innovation in Silicon Valley, and our work reflects the complex issues and high level of service that is representative of Palo Alto,” Shikada said. “I am excited and grateful for this opportunity to lead this organization and serve the public as we work together on building community and quality of life.” Q

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News Digest City sets aside funds for teacher housing

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A Santa Clara County official removes the body of Arlis Perry from Stanford Memorial Church, where she was discovered murdered in October 1974. The primary suspect in the 44-year-old case reportedly shot himself to death on Thursday when detectives tried to serve him a search warrant in San Jose.

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Quillen Hall in Escondido Village. He was a sophomore and she was working at the law firm Spaeth, Blase, Valentine and Klein, according to a 2014 story by the Stanford Daily. According to the book, “The Ultimate Evil,” which was written by former New York Post reporter Maury Terry, Bruce called the Stanford police to report that his wife was missing after she failed to return home at about 3 a.m. Stanford police went to the church and found all of the outer doors were locked. But at 5:40 a.m., Crawford found Perry’s body in the east transept, to the left of the altar, laid out in ritualistic fashion. She was spread-eagle on her back with her head to the left, her right arm was pinned under her waist, and she was naked from the waist down. Someone had plunged an ice pick into her brain from behind her left ear and sexually molested her with a candle. Another candle had been forced into her chest. She also had wounds on her neck consistent with an attempted strangulation. Crawford called the homicide in to police, oddly saying, “Hey, we’ve got a stiff here,” Herhold said in his lecture. Police found two pieces of DNA evidence at the scene: a pillow near Perry’s body had semen on it and a palm print was found on one of the candles, according to Terry’s book. Her distraught husband, also a person of interest in the case, gave police a DNA sample. Police also later obtained DNA from Crawford. However, DNA testing was not yet available in criminal cases until the mid1980s, and it was only in the past decade that law enforcement agencies began to build up their

DNA databases and using more sensitive DNA tests with greater frequency. Current Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith, who was at the Del Coronado Apartments Thursday, told reporters that advances in forensics allowed the case to be reopened. Smith told the Mercury News that re-testing of DNA evidence from the case recently provided a more definitive link between Crawford and Perry’s killing so they could obtain a search warrant. Cold-case detectives had contacted Crawford about the case in recent weeks. Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the apartment building at about 9:04 a.m. to serve a search warrant, according to Sgt. Enrique Garcia, spokesman for San Jose Police Department. They made verbal contact with the occupant through the closed door, Garcia said. They then entered the apartment and saw a man with a handgun, he said. Deputies immediately backed away, according to Garcia. A short time later, they heard a gunshot. When they entered the apartment, they saw a man with an apparent self-inflicted wound, Garcia said. The man was pronounced dead on the scene, police said. Even though deputies did not discharge their weapons during the incident, the incident is considered an officer-involved shooting and is being investigated by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office and the San Jose Police Department’s Homicide Unit, according to Garcia. Smith confirmed to the Mercury News that the man “had been a suspect in the case for many years, but we didn’t have the evidence until now.” Crawford had been unhappy with Stanford, Herhold said in his historical association lecture.

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He had been a university police officer but had been demoted to night watchman and had complained about the demotion. He had previously shown an ability for vengeance. He allegedly gained access to a Stanford office where they kept blank diplomas and had his own name engraved on one, according to Herhold. No one knew until his wife called police in the 1990s when they were divorcing. Investigators initially pursued a theory that the crime was committed by a random intruder to the church, Herhold said. But the length of time that it had taken to perpetrate the murder in the church — at least a half-hour — and his own interview with an experienced homicide detective led him to believe the murderer was someone familiar with Memorial Church and its schedule. An FBI profiler brought in on the case concluded that the killer was 17-22 years old, a loner who kept a detailed diary and would have taken a “trophy” from the crime. Arlis Perry’s glasses were missing from the scene, Herhold said. Over the years, investigators looked into whether known killers, including Ted Bundy, had alibis for the the time of the murder. (Bundy did; he was gassing up his car in another state.) The sheriff’s office has been tight-lipped about the circumstances of Thursday morning’s incident in San Jose. Perry’s widower, Bruce Perry, is traveling and could not immediately be reached for comment, according to his staff. The sheriff’s office planned a press conference at 5 p.m. in San Jose on Thursday, after the Weekly’s press deadline. This story will be updated on Palo AltoOnline.com. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

A proposal to build a housing development for teachers at a Santa Clara County-owned site near California Avenue received a lift Monday night, when the Palo Alto City Council agreed to set aside $3 million for the project. The plan, which is being spearheaded by county Supervisor Joe Simitian, targets a 1.5-acre parcel at 231 Grant Ave., a building across from the Palo Alto Courthouse. The county had already set aside $6 million for the project and Simitian has requested an additional contribution of $3 million, split equally among five school- and community college districts: Palo Alto Unified, Mountain View Whisman, Mountain View Los Altos, Los Altos and Foothill-De Anza Community College District. The goal, Simitian said, is to build more than 60 units at the site near the California Avenue Business District. He estimated that each unit would cost about $600,000 to construct, which would mean about $36 million in construction costs (this does not include the $12 million in land costs, which the county is contributing). Much like the county’s contribution, Palo Alto’s share will come from funds designated for affordable housing. Q —Gennady Sheyner

City to appoint new group to help with rail redesign As Palo Alto moves closer toward selecting new designs for its four rail crossings, the city is preparing to ramp up its community outreach efforts and appoint a new citizen panel to help guide the complex process. The City Council voted 6-0 Tuesday, with Greg Tanaka absent and Mayor Liz Kniss and Vice Mayor Eric Filseth recused, to approve the new community-engagement plan, which will be led by the consulting firm Apex Strategies and which will include a series of stakeholder meetings, community-wide meetings and the convening of a 12-member Community Advisory Panel to advise consultants and staff about the latest proposals for grade separation at the city’s four crossings: Palo Alto Avenue, Churchill Road, Meadow Drive and Charleston Road. The plan calls for the city manager to appoint the new citizen panel, which will begin meeting next month, according to the plan. Deputy City Manager Rob de Geus said the group will include residents who’ve been highly engaged in the process, representatives from different Palo Alto neighborhoods and stakeholders from the school district and the Safe Route to School program. Q —Gennady Sheyner

New redwoods reserve to open to the public Aided by a $3 million donation from the Palo Alto-based Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, conservation nonprofit Save the Redwoods League has acquired the 730-acre Harold Richardson Redwoods Reserve on the Sonoma Coast, according to an announcement released by the organization Tuesday. The $9.6 million acquisition will ensure that the reserve’s towering old-growth redwoods will be permanently protected from development, fragmentation, stream sedimentation and commercial harvesting. The purchase also guarantees that the public will be able to hike through the reserve after the League plans and establishes trails over the next three years. Nestled in wooded hills just a few miles inland from the Sonoma Coast and less than 100 miles north of San Francisco, the property was the largest old-growth redwood forest remaining in single private ownership, according to the announcement. The land previously belonged to Harold Richardson, a logger who refused to cut down the ancient giants and left the 730 acres to his heirs at his death in 2016. Though likened to the famed Muir Woods National Monument, the new reserve is 30 percent larger than Muir Woods and contains 47 percent more old-growth redwoods, according to the League. The property is also home to the oldest known coast redwood south of Mendocino County and the widest coast redwood south of Humboldt County, estimated to be 1,640 years old with a trunk diameter of 19 feet, as wide as a two-lane street. The acquisition included the transfer to the Richardson family of the 870-acre Stewarts Point property, protected coastal land that the League bought in 2010. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s contribution included $2 million of new grant funds, as well as $1 million that the foundation gave in 2010 to acquire the Stewarts Point property in Sonoma County, according to Dan Winterson, the foundation’s San Francisco Bay Area program officer. “Acquisitions such as these are important because the outcomes are incredibly durable compared to other conservation projects,” Winterson said. “Moreover, by encouraging Save the Redwoods League to acquire the land outright versus the conservation easement they had originally considered, we have helped open up a beautiful redwood forest for responsible public enjoyment.” Q — Alicia Mies

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Neighborhoods

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DOG OWNERS UNITED ... A new group for dog lovers has been started by an Old Palo Alto resident. The group, announced on the social-networking platform Nextdoor.com, is dedicated to discussing all things dogrelated: pet sitters, obedience classes, play dates and dog parks. Interested persons in neighborhoods bordered by Junipero Serra Boulevard, Palo Alto Avenue and San Francisquito Creek, U.S. Highway 101 and the Palo Verde and Ventura neighborhoods can sign up through Nextdoor by going to one’s home page and clicking “Interests” at the top right corner. VENTURA CONVERSATION ... Ventura neighborhood residents are invited to a discussion on the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan on July 1. The Ventura Neighborhood Association is working to build consensus regarding what residents want and how the neighborhood can thrive under the redevelopment. The meeting will take place at 1:30 p.m. at the Ventura Community Center, 3990 Ventura Court, Palo Alto. MEET THE CHIEFS ... A July 12 panel discussion with three of Palo Alto’s top emergency and law-enforcement officials will focus on seniors. Meet the Chiefs: Public Safety and Preparedness for Seniors will include fire Chief Eric Nickel (fire safety, fall prevention); police Chief Robert Jonsen (crime prevention, safety); and Office of Emergency Services Director Ken Dueker (disaster preparedness). The event is free and includes refreshments, raffle prizes and information tables. The event will take place from 2-4 p.m., Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road. Q

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MIDTOWN ENEWS HIATUS ... Readers of the weekly Midtown Residents Association enews will be losing that neighborhood resource, at least for this summer. Longtime volunteer and association co-chair Annette Glanckopf stepped down from the role on June 8 after 17 years as its writer and publisher. “We are still hoping for a volunteer or perhaps several volunteers on a rotating basis to continue the Midtown Enews. We’d provide ample training for anyone who’d like to help. We will still be putting up occasional announcements of important events,” the last newsletter stated.

Jenny and Perry, the Barron Park donkeys of Bol Park, stand in their pasture on June 27. Volunteer handlers have recently decided to turn the animals’ dung into fertilizer for sale.

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alo Alto’s Barron Park donkeys are proving they’re worth their weight in gold — or in manure, at least. Barron Park Donkey Project Coordinator Jenny Kiratli is selling composted donkey manure to fund the care and handling of Barron Park’s two donkeys, Perry and Jenny. The manure, which comes in large feed bags, is a suitable natural fertilizer for any type of plant or soil, Kiratli said. “It’s a fun way to spread the donkeys around and also get rid of the constantly rising piles of manure,” she said. One handler had the idea several years ago to compost the manure, Kiratli said. She and her husband, Mike Holland, adopted the idea, adding leafy material, wood chips and water to the mix. As a result, the Barron Park donkey pasture has achieved net-zero waste, Kiratli said. The composted manure is sold in feed bags for a suggested $20 each. The product, dubbed “Jen & Perry’s Equine Compost Amendment,” has already generated between $500 and $600 in revenue, she said.

All proceeds from compost sales go toward funding the donkeys’ care, which can cost anywhere between $10,000 and $15,000 annually, according to Kiratli. Included in this yearly figure are expenses ranging from food to veterinarian visits, as well as the monthly lease for the pasture, which is privately owned. Every Saturday morning, Kiratli and Holland walk from their home in Barron Park to the 1-acre donkey pasture owned by neighbor James Witt on the western edge of the neighborhood to shovel donkey manure and facilitate the compost process. Kiratli and Holland scoop fresh manure onto one of four piles in the corner of the pasture, leaving it to dry for about a week. After moving composted manure from pile to pile, Kiratli hoses down the three dry piles to aid decomposition. The three dry piles represent different stages of the natural decomposition process, which eliminates nitrogen that is found in high levels within fresh manure, she said. Once manure reaches the fourth pile, it is ready

for packaging. Kiratli then sifts the composted material through a plastic grid and shovels it into a feed bag, after which it is ready for purchase and pickup. “It’s a great cycle. The feed comes in, the donkeys eat the feed, then it (the composted donkey waste) ends back up in the feed bags,” she said. The Barron Park Donkey Project has been part of the environmental-action nonprofit Acterra since 2001. Acterra assists the project with fundraising through sourcing donations. The project currently has 18 active volunteers and is seeking more, Kiratli said. “Everybody can be a part of the Donkey Project,” she said. Kiratli and the other volunteers have several daily and weekly duties as handlers. They feed the donkeys breakfast and dinner and take them out on walks in nearby Bol Park every Sunday morning for a meet-and-greet with local residents. And of course, they shovel manure. “Two donkeys eat 24 cups of grass feed and output seven to eight gallons of wet manure per day,” Kiratli said. “I am hoping to calculate the dry input-to-output

ratio sometime soon.” Though the donkey-compost project is relatively new, the animals have resided in the area since before it was called Barron Park. The first donkeys of the pasture date back to 1934, when Cornelis Bol, a Dutch physicist living in the area, bought one for his sons from a county fair. As the Barron Park area grew in the following years, residents collaborated with the Bol family to maintain the presence of the donkeys in the neighborhood, according to the Barron Park Donkeys’ website. Mickey, the last donkey of the Bol family herd, died in 1989. Three new donkeys have since arrived: Perry in 1997; Miner 49-er in 1998; and Jenny, who arrived after Miner’s death in November 2016. Preserving the unique history of the Bol family pasture and Barron Park’s beloved donkeys is paramount, Kiratli said. She hopes the sales of the composted fertilizer will not only fund the animals’ care but will also raise awareness of the special place they hold in Palo Alto’s history. “Kids in Palo Alto grow up thinking it’s normal to have donkeys in their backyard — you don’t really get that anywhere else around here,” Kiratli said. Interested compost buyers can contact BarronParkDonkeys@ gmail.com. The compost product is available for pickup at the pasture, 3590 Laguna Ave., or for delivery within Palo Alto city limits. Q Editorial Intern Josh Code can be emailed at jcode@ embarcaderopublishing.com.

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Stanford housing (continued from page 5)

Housing Alternative B, would result in 4,425 units or beds. For the council, the analysis creates an unusual dilemma. Council members have made housing their top priority for the year and are moving ahead on a housing work plan that aims to encourage more residential construction. In addition, the city’s prior comments on the General Use Permit urged Stanford to either scale down its building plans or add more housing to avoid exacerbating the city’s gaping jobsto-housing imbalance. And yet not everyone was thrilled about the impacts detailed in the new environmental analysis. Councilwoman Karen Holman said that while she has no problem with greater residential density on the Stanford campus, building heights are a different matter. Allowing buildings that are more than 100-feet

tall is “going to be problematic with the whole community and it will have environmental impacts (on) vistas, viewpoints and compatibility.” Mayor Liz Kniss, a strong advocate for more housing, said she was somewhat startled by the “dramatic changes” associated with the new housing scenarios. She said she can’t imagine Stanford would end up with 130-foottall buildings on El Camino, across from Town & Country Village. Holman also expressed concern about new housing developments exceeding the city’s setbacks rules on El Camino, a sentiment with which Councilman Tom DuBois agreed. DuBois, who tends to favor slow-growth policies, nevertheless said the new housing scenarios make sense. He largely focused his comments on traffic conditions, which the study showed as worsening. He said the analysis offers the city an opportunity to reiterate its need to Stanford for

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transportation mitigations, including Stanford’s assistance in the city’s long-term effort to redesign its rail crossings to better accommodate increasing Caltrain service. “With additional traffic that housing on campus would create, we should maybe ask as one of the conditions that Stanford perform an updated circulation study around grade separations,” DuBois suggested. If some on the council were more skeptical of the impacts of new housing, Councilman Cory Wolbach, a staunch advocate for more housing, praised the newly analyzed scenarios. He said he favors either of the two additionalhousing options over Stanford’s original proposal. He also questioned the environmental report’s finding that the two new scenarios would add traffic to local streets. The study indicated that Housing Alternative A would result in more than 2,100 additional trips by residents during the morning and evening commutes, even as it would reduce the number of commuter trips by about 700. It noted that unlike a commuter, a campus resident travels between the campus and other destinations for a wide variety of reasons, including shopping, socializing, exercise and recreation. Wolbach downplayed the EIR’s findings on traffic problems and suggested that the rise of personal motorized vehicles such as electric scooters and electric bikes would give campus residents new ways to get around town. “I think addressing the housing issues is really critical,” Wolbach said. “Because any housing not build by Stanford to address their job growth and student growth as well — it’s going to force more people into Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.” Like Wolbach, Councilman Adrian Fine argued that Stanford’s proposed expansion will have some benefits for the area. “When we talk about open space and facilities and local retail and all that stuff — Stanford is doing it,” Fine said. “And it’s doing much of the growth at lower transportation impact than other areas.” But whether or not these scenarios ever come to fruition, the report drew plaudits from several council members for delineating in detail the impacts of adding more than 1,000 units of housing. Vice Mayor Eric Filseth said the new analysis “cuts to the core of Silicon Valley and the whole issue of the costs of economic expansion.” With the new study, the county has performed a “great service,” Filseth said. “You’re talking about 130-foot towers on El Camino Real, big increases in traffic — because in reality you can’t add people without adding cars — and stress on schools and parks and infrastructure and so forth,” Filseth said, “I like the honesty here. I like the dose of reality in this.”

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Foundation CEO out following complaints Reeling from a storm of complaints of workplace harassment, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation announced Wednesday morning that CEO Emmett Carson had stepped aside, effective immediately. (Posted June 27, 2:07 p.m.)

State to fund school suicide prevention training Gov. Jerry Brown set aside Wednesday $1.7 million to fund online suicide prevention training for all public middle and high school students and staff in California. (Posted June 27, 1:25 p.m.)

Woman arrested after car chase Palo Alto police have arrested a woman who they said led officers on car chase through the foothills early Wednesday morning and, once stopped, punched an officer and hit the police dog that caught her. (Posted June 27, 10:52 a.m.)

City restricts parking permits downtown Seeking to reach a truce in downtown’s battle over parking spots, the Palo Alto City Council moved on Monday night to reduce the number of parking permits that could be sold to employees and to give city staff the power to release more permits, should circumstances require. (Posted June 26, 12:17 p.m.)

Immigrant detention centers ‘a stain on America’ U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo met with immigrant mothers in a Texas detention facility this past weekend and said they were “filled with grief and worry” for their separated children, with whom they had had no contact. (Posted June 25, 10:23 p.m.)

Work set to begin on Cubberley master plan A lagging effort by the city of Palo Alto and the Palo Alto Unified School District to reimagine the jointly owned Cubberley Community Center received a jolt this week when the City Council and the school board each voted to approve a contract with a consulting firm that will help create a master plan for the sprawling complex at 4000 Middlefield Road. (Posted June 25, 8:44 a.m.) Want to get news briefs emailed to you every weekday? Sign up for Express, our daily e-edition. Go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com to sign up.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council is on break until July 30. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 3223 Hanover St., a review of a proposal to build a new 67,200-square-foot office-and-research-and-development building. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 5, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

One of the lessons of the environmental analysis is that Palo Alto will have to wrestle with increased traffic and other problems whether Stanford opts to build new housing on campus or off. The re-circulated environmentalimpact report also considers the prospect of Stanford building housing off-campus and concludes that construction and operation of off-site housing would result in significant off-site problems, particularly in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Mountain View. The report notes that any Stanford-built off-campus housing would “disproportionately affect these jurisdictions compared to other communities in the Bay Area that house Stanford affiliates.” Some of these impacts

could potentially be eased, but any attempt to do so would necessarily fall on the individual cities where the housing is built, according to the EIR. “Given uncertainties in the specific location and type of offcampus housing that may occur under this option, it is also uncertain if feasible mitigation would exist to reduce all significant environmental impacts to a less than significant level,” the EIR states. “Further, the county cannot require or guarantee that local governments would implement mitigation measures for off-campus housing included in or required by General Plan EIRs.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Lois Mae Smith Lois Mae Smith passed away on Saturday, June 16, 2018, at the age of 82. Lois is dearly remembered by her husband of 61 years, Bob and her children Ceci (and husband Lad), Marcus (and wife Irene) and daughter Allean. She will also be lovingly remembered by her brother Arlo. She was an amazing grandmother to Abby, Nate and Cozmo. Lois Kurrle was born and raised in Pasadena, California where she completed her high school education a full year early. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Classics (again, a full year early). Shortly thereafter she married the love of her life, Robert L. Smith. While raising the kids she pursued a Master’s in Library Science at San Jose State which allowed her to enjoy a career in libraries in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. She retired from Redwood City Library in 1998. She was a creative, giving and thoughtful soul, always thinking of her friends and family and actively involved in improving her community. She founded and became the first president of Palo Alto Adolescent Services (now Adolescent Counseling Services) in 1975 which continues to this day to provide counseling and other services to troubled youth and their families. She was also a fantastic cook. In the early 90s, when PCs were barely a thing, she self-published her favorite family recipes for all her children, in-laws, nieces, nephews. She never found a puzzle she couldn’t solve and rarely found an argument she couldn’t win. In her later years she enjoyed tracing her family history, collecting pictures and family trees going back several generations, particularly along her mother’s family, the Gravelines. If you would like to honor her memory she asked that donations be sent to Adolescent Counseling Services, 643 Bair Island Road, Suite 301, Redwood City, CA 94063. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www. danerimortuary.com and signing the guest book. PAID

Sally Dudley

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Sally J. Dudley passed away in Palo Alto on May 26th, 2018, at age 73. Weakened by advancing Alzheimer’s, she succumbed peacefully to an unexpected internal brain hemorrhage, surrounded by her loving family. Sally was born on the Fourth of July in New Haven, Connecticut, and always appreciated the fact that the rest of the country took the day off to help her celebrate. She grew up with her three brothers (Gus, John, and Sam) in New York. Sally graduated as a math major from Vassar in 1966 and entered the unfamiliar world of computer programming at a time when IBM was just starting to expand its resource pool by recruiting at women’s colleges. She moved to the West Coast and thrived in her chosen field, staying at the forefront of opportunities for professional women in Silicon Valley for the rest of her long and successful career. After relatively brief stays at IBM, Lockheed, and PG&E, Sally joined Hewlett-Packard in 1973 as a programmer in the Corporate Information Systems organization. She loved the old HP, with its culture of cooperation, contribution, and unshakable integrity, and played many different management roles in different parts of the company until her retirement in 1999, including a pioneering role in software quality management at the division, group, and corporate level, and a key strategic position as the highest ranking woman in Personnel, with worldwide responsibility for HP’s compensation and benefits programs. Throughout her career, Sally served as a mentor and role model for countless younger women navigating their way through the still predominantly male culture of a traditional engineering company. After retiring from HP, Sally turned her positive energy to volunteer tutoring and even teaching calculus at a start-up school in East Palo Alto, Eastside College Preparatory School, which has since compiled a remarkable record of sending all of its underserved minority students on to four-year colleges for the last 19 years. She also served on the Board of Humanities West, a San Francisco-based non-profit offering cross-disciplinary programs focused on history and the arts. Sally will long be remembered for her intelligence, her cheerful disposition, her unfailing sense of humor, her generosity, and, above all, for her love of family and friends. She is survived by her husband of 41 years, Chuck Sieloff (whom she met at HP), by her two beloved daughters and their husbands (Christy and David Story; Lindsay and Casey Pera), and by six wonderful grandchildren (James, Charlie, Chris, Sage, Cricket, and Ember). She is also survived by her three brothers and their wives and all her cherished nieces, nephews, cousins, grandnieces, and grandnephews. A celebration of Sally’s remarkable life will be held on Sunday, July 29, 1:00-4:00, at the enclosed patio area of the Lucie Stern Community Center in Palo Alto (1305 Middlefield Road). Donations in her memory may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association Sally J. Dudley Tribute Fund: http://act.alz.org/ goto/Sally_Dudley PAID

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

June 20-June 26 Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Auto burglary attempt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Damage to vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Stolen vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Stored vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 9 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Accident property damage. . . . . . . . . . 7 Counterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disposal request. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 False personation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 3 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Public incident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Menlo Park

June 20-June 26 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Stolen plate recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

California Avenue, 6/11, 2:27 p.m.; battery/peace officer. Louis Road, 6/18, 12 p.m.; child abuse/ sexual. Forest Avenue, 6/19, 1:25 p.m.; domestic violence/battery. El Camino Real, 6/21, 10:45 a.m.; domestic violence/court order. Fulton Street, 6/22, 12 p.m.; elder abuse/physical.

Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

William â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Guillaumeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; George Peters William â&#x20AC;&#x153;Guillaumeâ&#x20AC;? George Peters, 77, died at his Palo Alto home on June 6 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born in Orlando, Florida and moved to Avenal, California with his parents at age 5. He attended University of Califor nia, Santa Barbara for his bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degrees, and earned a doctoral degree from Stanford University. He took a break from education in the mid-1960s to serve in the Peace Corps in Santiago, Chile. He worked as the Chief Project Manager for CTB/McGraw Hill, a company that develops educational curricula. He transitioned to a career as a general contractor in the 1980s. He was an avid volunteer, particularly for conversation-related causes. He was a founding member and chaired the Midpeninsula

Regional Open Space District, served on and chaired the Monterey County Board of Supervisors and represented his county on the California Coastal Commission. He helped found the Land of Medicine Buddha, a healing and retreat center in Soquel, California. He lived in Palo Alto from 1997 until his death. He is survived by his wife of 21 years Nancy MacLeod of Palo Alto; his son Blake Peters of Loomis, California; his daughter Freya Peters of Mariposa, California; his sister Carol Peters Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill of Palo Alto; his brothers John Peters of Fresno and Roger Peters of New York and seven grandchildren. A private service will be held. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations should be donated to Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research at michaeljfox. org or to cancer research. Those donating to cancer research may contribute online at makeagift. stanford.edu or by check mailed to Stanford University, PO Box 20466, Stanford, CA 94309. To contribute directly to pancreatic cancer research, note fund GHFUZ on the donation. Q

Gloria DeEtte Williams Otto Gloria DeEtte Williams Otto, 94, died on June 10 in Palo Alto after years of fighting dementia. She was born in Boise, Idaho in 1924, the oldest child of M. Ned Williams and Floribel Williams. She attended Boise Junior College for two years, later attending Barnard College and then finishing her college degree at Russell Sage College. She volunteered at Gowen Field, an air force base in Boise after completing junior college. Before attending Barnard, she married Carl Otto in Boise in June 1946. She began teaching in 1949, ceasing after the birth of her first child in 1951. The pair traveled as his naval duties took him to myriad locations; they resided in Palo Alto from 1956 to 1959. The pair later lived in Hawaii and Peru with their five children. She and her family settled in Atherton in 1967.

She served as president of the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home Society for much of the Bay Area. The family spent most summers at their cabin in Silver Lake, Idaho. In 1986, she formed the Silver City Historical Society to restore and preserve historical sites in her childhood vacation town. The pair lived in Atherton until 2001 when they moved to Channing House, a senior retirement center in Palo Alto. She is survived by her husband of 72 years, Carl Otto of Palo Alto, her daughters Carlin Otto of Palo Alto; Gari Gene Otto of Palo Alto; and Ruth Otto Bingham of Honolulu, Hawaii, her sons Warren Otto of Encinitas, California; and Barry Cunningham of McGaheysville, Virginia and six grandchildren. A memorial service will take place on Sept. 8 at 2 p.m. at Channing House. The family requests that memorial donations be made to the Floribel Williams Memorial Scholarship in the School of Education at Boise State University or to the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home Society of California. Q

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Editorial Suddenly, a new manager Without any public involvement, the No. 2 will become City Manager

rguably the most important decision a government body, corporation or nonprofit makes is the selection of its CEO. The chief executive runs the organization, hires the key managers and has tremendous power to influence policy direction while simultaneously being responsive to a majority of his or her board. Elected officials come and go, but ideally CEOs outlast them and provide important organizational stability and non-political leadership. Public agencies therefore tend to proceed through a careful process when hiring a new leader, typically involving a search firm, a public discussion of the desired qualities and a selection process that includes participation from a small group of internal stakeholders and diverse members of the public who pledge to keep the identities of candidates confidential. It’s an imperfect system, since the general public and media are kept in the dark, thereby minimizing the opportunity for vetting, but it at least has a modicum of transparency and public participation. This has been the process followed in every recent search for the chief executive of both the city of Palo Alto and the Palo Alto Unified School District. The City Council took this approach when it hired current City Manager Jim Keene in 2008, and the school board has done so in its numerous searches over the last 20 years. But for reasons that aren’t clear, after Keene’s announcement a year ago that he would be retiring from the job upon his 10-year anniversary this fall, giving the City Council plenty of time to determine his replacement, two mayors failed to initiate the traditional public discussion or process for months, in spite of occasional prodding by some council members and members of the public. Instead, in a decision that publicly appeared to have come out of nowhere, on Monday the city suddenly announced the promotion of Ed Shikada, the assistant city manager, to take over for Keene early next year. Councilman Greg Scharff, who was mayor when Keene informed the council of his intention to retire, Mayor Liz Kniss and other council members all attributed the opaque process to the need to move quickly to pre-empt Shikada from accepting a City Manager offer in another city. The council met on June 18 in closed session to discuss selecting Shikada, and after the meeting Kniss, as required by the Brown Act, announced the council had taken no reportable actions. Yet this past Monday — a week later and without the council having met again — the city issued a press release announcing Shikada’s appointment. City Attorney Molly Stump said nothing was reported after the June 18 meeting because there is “a need to go back to the candidate before the decision is ripe for an announcement.” (Regrettably, this type of skirting of the Brown Act is commonly done by public agencies, including our local school district, by not taking a formal vote, even though a decision was indeed made to offer the job. An announcement could easily have been made that the council voted in closed session to negotiate a contract with a candidate for City Manager, and not doing so just adds to the mystery and opaqueness of the unusual process.) While we understand the council’s decision to appoint Shikada and head off his being recruited away by another city, the explanation that it had to move quickly and thereby shortcut any public discussion or participation rings hollow. The council’s former and current mayors have had a year to initiate a process for replacing Keene, yet neither Scharff nor Kniss did so. Why not? The delay ended up putting the rest of the council in the position of having to respond to the danger of losing Shikada to another city rather than run an orderly search process with input from the public. Shikada is well-qualified and well-suited to taking on the top job in Palo Alto, and search consultants apparently advised the council that recruiting a better candidate would have been highly unlikely, as demonstrated by the fact Shikada was reportedly being courted by other larger cities with current openings. Another legitimate factor in selecting Shikada was the current turnover taking place among senior city executives, including Planning Director Hillary Gitelman, Chief Financial Officer Lalo Perez and Public Works Director Michael Sartor. As Councilman Tom DuBois said, filling those important jobs would have been more difficult without having made a decision on the new City Manager. We think Ed Shikada is indeed probably the best choice to run the city, but the City Council did him no favors by not carrying out a proper process. Replacing a chief executive of a public agency should ideally be a fully public process — one with finalists, or at least the ultimate finalist, revealed in time for members of the public and media to explore their backgrounds. With Keene having generously given the council so much advance notice of his retirement plans, one can’t help but wonder why steps weren’t taken long ago to recruit and name his successor. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Letters Applause for wellness committee Editor, I attended the book launch for the Teen Wellness Committee at Children’s Health Council. What an incredible project and what impressive teens they are! The team is a group of 19 teens from local high schools who are motivated to take action to address the mental health of kids in the south bay and beyond. CHC oversees and supports this project, which is in its third year. In the last year they’ve created and published a book, “Just a Thought: Uncensored Narratives of Teen Mental Health.” These smart, savvy, psychologically aware, energetic young people aim high. Their goals are to educate the community about mental health and push for expanding resources, lowering the stigma of mental illness and encouraging discussion between parents and kids. A major goal is to facilitate awareness that mental illness is a public health issue. As a long time mental health therapist, I applaud these kids and CHC for this incredible contribution to the community. Judith C. Simon San Antonio Road, Los Altos

City makes inefficient decisions Editor, The June 18 City Council meeting provides contrasting actions impacting city residents and taxpayers negatively. On the one hand, the council placed an initiative measure on the ballot which would purport to limit health care costs that Stanford University Healthcare, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and others could charge. A review of the City Charter and provisions of the Government Code specifying city powers do not grant the city authority to engage in the kind of regulation that the initiative measure requests. It is acknowledged that there is a dispute between the health care providers and represented employees, but this dispute cannot be regulated by the city as it is also pre-empted by state and federal law. So why is the city involved? This is a dispute that is beyond the power of the city to remedy and should be resolved by another branch of government. City taxpayer money on the initiative measure should not be used. The contrast: openness, transparency, inclusiveness, preservation of existing housing opportunities, including affordable housing in a walkable neighborhood with local retail close to transit facilities

are long-standing City Council statements of what the city stands for, yet the council did not direct staff to pursue a moratorium to study the issue with respect to now current residents of the President Hotel, who are suddenly being displaced by new ownership. The public comment made by President Hotel residents addressed each of what had been espoused principles of the council majority, yet no action was taken. If there ever was a case for a moratorium to study the matter and protect residents, the President Hotel is it. The mayor, council and staff can find time during their summer break to do what is right and enact a moratorium. William D. Ross Lambert Avenue, Palo Alto

Comments lack civility Editor, Having worked for the city of Palo Alto for seven years and having presented many items before the City Council in subsequent years, I agree completely with the June 22 editorial that the traditional norms of civility and respect “have been steadily eroding, replaced by behavior that seeks to label and marginalize opponents, exaggerate differences and abandon the art of compromise.” This behavior is all too common with citizens as well as council members. I am convinced that one reason for this increase in acrimony is

the Weekly’s policy of allowing citizens to make online comments about news articles and others’ comments anonymously. When people hide their identities, their comments often become more hostile. The Weekly itself should not “fuel a growing contagion of incivility and snarkiness” by allowing anonymous comments to be posted on Palo Alto Online. Sandy Sloan Stanford Avenue, Menlo Park

California Avenue tunnel is not fine Editor, The letter writer claiming that the “California Avenue tunnel is fine” (June 22, Weekly) expresses his opinion, certainly not mine. I use this tunnel frequently and have been forcibly pushed against the wall more than once and cursed and yelled at even more often because I did not jump out of the way fast enough. Before the barrier configurations were changed, I had no trouble getting through with a side-by-side twin stroller. My neighbor had no problem getting through with a wheelchair. This is not an ADA issue. This tunnel is intended to be a pedestrian tunnel, not a pedestrian/bike path. Bikers may use it as long as they become pedestrians and walk their bikes. Adira Cohen California Avenue, Palo Alto

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Guest Opinion Attack of the killer balloons, and the clean local energy solution by Craig Lewis

n June 2, a seemingly innocent party decoration caused a power outage for two hours for 4,500 Palo Alto Utility customers. The culprit was a Mylar balloon, which got caught in the power lines. This wasn’t a freak occurrence. Mylar balloons are responsible for quite a few power outages: about 300 each year in Pacific Gas & Electric’s service territory alone. In fact, as Palo Alto Online reported, the balloons are the No. 1 cause of power outages. And the outages can be far worse than this recent event. Although no transformers were damaged this time, the balloons often cause transformers to explode. When Mylar-balloon ribbons wrap around power distribution lines and the metallic balloons touch the lines, the aluminum foil in the balloons conducts electricity, causing the balloons to catch fire and explode. This phenomenon is illustrated well at the 45-second mark in this video at bit.ly/2tL2jvT. While some have suggested banning Mylar balloons, they’re not the only threat to our power system. If something as simple as a balloon can spark a system outage, imagine the damage that can be done by a fire, a severe storm or a car running into a utility pole. Unfortunately, there have been plenty of recent examples of severe storms causing major power outages, accompanied by extensive death and destruction. Disasters such as last year’s North Bay

fires highlight the vulnerability of our power system. The North Bay Community Resilience Initiative is working to build back a more robust and resilient energy system. It’s time to upgrade our antiquated electric grid to a clean local energy system featuring community microgrids, which provide community resilience. If our electricity distribution system is upgraded into sectionable microgrids — with solar power; energy storage; and monitoring, communications and control equipment that can island the microgrids and provide indefinite renewables-driven backup power to critical facilities — our energy system will be able to robustly adjust to shocks, and our communities will be far more resilient. With community microgrids, when the transmission system goes down, critical facilities can continue functioning indefinitely. For the past 21 months, the Peninsula Advanced Energy Community (PAEC) Initiative, focused on Redwood City, the Town of Atherton, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, and broadly incorporating all of San Mateo County, has been studying best practices and tools for deploying community microgrids and accelerating the buildout of a clean local energy future. PAEC will create pathways to cost-effective clean local energy and community resilience throughout San Mateo County and the city of Palo Alto. Findings from the PAEC Initiative will guide regulators, utilities, building and planning departments, developers, building owners and elected municipal officials in deploying local renewables and other advanced energy solutions like energy efficiency, energy storage and electric vehicle charging infrastructure (EVCI). Palo Alto is already leading on EVCI

efforts, as highlighted in the PAEC Master Case Study, available at bit.ly/2Kk4fpt. In 2014, the city adopted a groundbreaking solar-carport policy for public parking lots that includes energy storage and EV charging. The city of Palo Alto Utilities offers generous rebates to nonprofits, schools and multifamily complexes to install charging stations. And Palo Alto has adopted other ordinances and codes that can serve as models for municipalities around California who wish to facilitate the transition to clean local energy. Community microgrids will be an important part of this transition. While power outages are inconvenient for some people, they can be life-threatening for others. In the event of natural disasters, for example, critical services need to continue operations — services like those provided by hospitals, emergency sheltering centers, police and fire stations, and critical communications and water infrastructure. We don’t have to live with the current grid vulnerabilities; we have a solution that’s available now. Community microgrids provide a new approach to designing and operating the electric grid, with substantial levels of local renewables and other distributed energy resources like energy storage that ensure critical services keep running. Solar-emergency microgrids are a simplified version of community microgrids and can keep single critical facilities operational indefinitely. Community microgrids are the building blocks we need for a modern grid to upgrade our current antiquated system. Furthermore, community microgrids deliver an unparalleled trifecta of economic, environmental and resilience benefits to communities. The Peninsula area, a global technological

leader, should lead in modernizing our grid. Work is already being done to move us in this direction. The PAEC Initiative is designing community microgrids and solaremergency microgrids for the region to provide indefinite renewables-driven backup power to critical facilities. Every community should have a plan to deploy community microgrids that allow vital emergency services to be powered by local renewables for high resilience. Importantly, diesel generators do not provide the same level of resilience, as they require diesel fuel, which is generally limited to a few days of supply; and diesel generators are highly polluting and expensive, given that they need to be operated every couple weeks for standard maintenance. Every community should be asking their municipality to provide a plan to upgrade the city’s energy infrastructure so it is less vulnerable to natural disasters — much less a stray metallic balloon. In the June 2 incident, utility crews were able to get power back within a couple of hours. But if a transformer or other key infrastructure had been damaged, the outage would likely have lasted considerably longer. When natural disasters strike, outages can last for days and even longer. In the event that we have to deal with long and widespread power outages, our technically brilliant community deserves to have a smarter, more resilient energy system that can quickly adjust and continue functioning with clean local energy. Q Craig Lewis is the executive director of the Clean Coalition of Menlo Park and can be emailed at craig@ clean-coalition.org.

Streetwise

How do you use technology to de-stress, if at all? Asked near Park Boulevard and Peers Park in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Josh Code.

Abdi Shekarchi

Catherine Cohen

John Kim

Mary Martini

Brian Stell

Retired Northumberland Avenue, Redwood City

Project manager Channing Avenue, Palo Alto

Business owner Park Boulevard, Palo Alto

Nonprofit owner Minneapolis, Minnesota

Engineer Park Boulevard, Palo Alto

“I unplug to de-stress.”

“More often, I equate technology with stress. I try to unplug and avoid technology to de-stress.”

“I use it to find out how my friends on Facebook are doing ... to catch up with friends and family in a way (that) isn’t intrusive.”

“I watch TV to inform my point of view. ... TV is a way to decouple yourself from the stresses of life.”

“Technology is always stressful regardless. ... If you want less stress, lose your exposure to technology.”

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Summer at the Bing July 1 – August 4, 2018 Unforgettable performances in and around Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall

Or Bareket Duo

Merola Opera Program

Lucia Micarelli

Jazz on the Green

With Camila Meza

Schwabacher Summer Concert

Star of HBO’s Treme

Miles to Hip-Hop

Unforgettable jazz in the intimate underground Bing Studio

Up-and-coming opera talents perform staged vignettes with full orchestra

The young violinist brings her virtuosity to the Bing

Electrifying jazz and hip-hop under the summer sky

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Keith Peters

Crowds flock to Palo Alto’s annual chili cook-off.

Here’s where to find July 4 parades, festivals, food and fireworks along the Midpeninsula by Alicia Mies

Keith Peters

The Radio City All-Stars Band will return to Mitchell Park to provide entertainment during the chili cook-off on July 4.

he community can celebrate America’s 242nd birthday at festivals and firework displays planned along the Midpeninsula for Wednesday, July 4. Festivities include the annual chili cook-off in Palo Alto, parades in Redwood City, Menlo Park and Los Altos Hills, and a fireworks spectacular in Mountain View. Check out these local opportunities to celebrate the red, white and blue.

Palo Alto

Chili Cook-off and Summer Festival Noon to 5 p.m. at Mitchell Park, 600 E. Meadow Drive; paloaltochilicookoff.com, cityofpaloalto.org

Approximately 10,000 people are expected to turn out for the 37th annual Chili Cook-off and

Summer Festival. Judges will award more than $2,000 in cash and prizes to winners of the cook-off. The 11 participating chili crews also will compete for Best Booth, Best Spirit Award and People’s Choice Award. Sandra Klemens, a substitute teacher and Mountain View resident, first participated in the Chili Cook-off in 2015 as a way to see how her and her husband’s personal recipe compared to other competitors’. Her two young sons had so much fun that they decided to make it an annual family tradition. “We thought, ‘My gosh, we make chili, our kids love chili, we can do this,’” Klemens said. “They are almost 16 and 13 now and we’ve still been doing this every year.” Klemens won the People’s Choice Award two years ago and hopes to take the win this year, as the Palo Alto Fire Department (a frequent winner) will not be particpating. Not so interested in cooking? Tasting begins at 1:30 p.m. for $5. If chili isn’t your thing, a variety of food trucks and booths with appetizing choices like cheesesteaks, gourmet popcorn and spicy Korean chicken wings will camp out nearby. The Radio City All-Stars Band also will return with current and classic pop and rock hits, and for kids, lawn games, bounce houses and arts and crafts will be available. Admission is free.

“Being a taster, it’s a big party with food trucks, beer and margaritas. Just enjoying fun in the sun,” Klemens said. “But for the chili makers, it’s nonstop from 8 in the morning to 2:30 in the afternoon, just chopping up meat and serving samples.”

Mountain View Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular

5 p.m. at Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway; tinyurl.com/y9udz238

“Ooh” and “ahh” at this year’s Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular at Mountain View’s Shoreline Amphitheatre. Starting at 9:50 p.m., the San Francisco Symphony will accompany the pyrotechnics with a performance featuring music from “The Incredibles,” “Toy Story 2” and “Finding Nemo.” Doors open at 5 p.m. with familyfriendly games and activities. Discounted tickets start at $13.50.

On-the-water viewing of fireworks 9 p.m. at Shoreline Lake Boathouse, 3160 N. Shoreline Blvd.; shorelinelake.com

For those who want a unique view of the fireworks, Shoreline Lake Boathouse will provide patrons with pedal boats, row

boats, canoes ($85) and kayaks ($40 for single; $60 for double) to watch the evening’s display from the water. Customers may also choose to add a wine and cheese platter for $40, a “Snack Pack” deal for $10 a person or a variety of pre-prepared picnic baskets offered by American Bistro for $30 for two people. Day rentals must be returned by 8:30 p.m. and vessels start boarding at 9 p.m. The Boathouse also will be hosting a barbecue picnic and will offer one, two or three types of main dishes (burgers, chicken, hot dogs, sausages and veggie burgers) and a choice of two sides (green salad, potato salad, coleslaw or baked beans) for $13, $15 or $17. The barbecue is available from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Menlo Park

Fourth of July parade and celebration 11:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Burgess Park, 701 Laurel St.; menlopark.org/4thofjuly

Menlo Park kicks off its annual Fourth of July parade and celebration at 11:45 a.m. Community members will parade through downtown Menlo Park and stop at Burgess Park, where (continued on next page)

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Young dancers perform as part of Redwood Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual parade.

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soft-rock band Mustache Harbor will take the stage. The event will also feature a variety of food and family-friendly activities such as crafts, face painting, rock walls, giant slides, bounce houses and carnival games. A putt-putt golf course, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Disco Domeâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tot Lotâ&#x20AC;? also will be included in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festivities. Admission is free; an $8 wristband is required for some activities. Wristbands can be purchased in advance at the Arrillaga Family Gymnasium at

600 Alma St. from Monday to Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Woodside

Woodside Junior Rodeo and Parade Noon, Mounted Patrol Grounds, 521 Kings Mountain Road

The Mounted Patrol of San Mateo County will hold its annual Woodside Junior Rodeo and Parade at the Mounted Patrol Grounds. Gates open at 7:30 a.m., but the rodeo starts at noon with a special Color Guard presentation. The event will include pony rides, a petting zoo, a mechanical

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bull, a pig scramble and other activities. Admission to the rodeo is $18 for adults 18 and over, $15 for children ages 6 through 17 and free for kids, ages 5 and under. The night before the rodeo, the Mounted Patrol will host a prerodeo dinner and dance, also on the Mounted Patrol Grounds. The dinner starts at 6 p.m.

Los Altos

Glorious Fourth festival 10:20 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Shoup Park, 400 University Ave.

Los Altos will host a patriotic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glorious Fourthâ&#x20AC;? festival at Shoup Park. Independence Day festivities will include performances from Ye Olde Town Band and rock band The Unicorns, a patriotic song singalong, a saluteto-veterans ceremony and games for the family. The festival also will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Cradle of Liberty, a statue in Shoup Park donated by the Veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Memorial Association of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills in 1998. Hot dogs, shaved ice and beverages will be sold. Admission is free.

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9:30-11 a.m. at 26379 Fremont Road; tinyurl.com/ya7kw626

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Redwood City

Fourth of July Parade and Festival

Organized by the Peninsula Celebration Association, the 79th Fourth of July parade and festival is likely to attract thousands of spectators to downtown Redwood City. The largest Independence Day parade in Northern California, the march will commence with a booming canon at 10 a.m. Participants will wind their way along a 1.3 mile route through downtown to Arguello Street. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual festival also will take place in downtown Redwood City from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival will hold a flurry of kid-friendly activities, from a magic show at Broadway Street to a performance from a clown at Jefferson Avenue to a face painter at Middlefield Road. The festival also will serve the local community with proceeds from food stands (which will offer street tacos, shaved ice and more) going to local nonprofit organizations. Arts and crafts booths will sell local artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; handcrafted jewelry and pottery as well. A tradition since 2000, the Stanford Marching Band also will face off against the Cal Aggie Band-uh (from UC Davis) for a battle of the bands. Admission is free.

Looking to burn a few calories before the pancake breakfast? The Redwood City Education Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5K Parade Run kicks off at 8 a.m. Runners, walkers and strollers are welcome to follow the parade route three times for the full 5K. Proceeds from the race will benefit the Redwood City Education Foundation, which raises funds for students in the Redwood City School District. Dogs are not allowed and kids under the age of 10 must run with a registered adult.

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July 3, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., July 4, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Courthouse Square and Chalk Alley; rwcpaf.org

Interact with artists of all ages at the fourth annual chalk art festival at the Courthouse Square and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chalk Alleyâ&#x20AC;? (Hamilton and Broadway streets) in Redwood City. Participants from five different categories (professional artists, amateur artists, high school students, third-to-eighth grade students and teams) will sketch, draw and color downtownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pavement. Admission is free. 7-9:30 p.m. at Port of Redwood City; redwoodcityport.com

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Redwood Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fourth of July finishes with a fireworks display over the port. There will be live music by the Fog City Swampers and food trucks from 7 p.m. onwards and the pyrotechnics will start at 9:30 p.m. Pets and alcohol are not permitted. Q Editorial Intern Alicia Mies can be emailed at amies@ paweekly.com. About the cover: Locals can celebrate Independence Day at festivities in (clockwise from top) Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Redwood City and neighboring communities. Photos by Natalia Nazarova, Keith Peters, Peninsula Celebration Association, City of Menlo Park, Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation

Arts & Entertainment

Michael Craig/Pear Theatre

Mike Rhone, Elizabeth Kruse Craig, Dan Kapler, Kristin Brownstone and Brad Arington celebrate the words and music of Noel Coward in the Pear Theatre’s “Oh, Coward!”

A ‘marvellous party’ Pear Theatre celebrates the genius of Noel Coward by Karla Kane

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The Pear doesn’t went to a THEATER REVIEW often delve into mumarvellous party,” begins the Noel sical territory, so it’s a rare treat to Coward spoken-word song of the catch some singing and dancing same name. The same could be there. “Oh, Coward!” is not a full said by audience members after musical production (in the sense a performance of “Oh, Coward!”, of having a script, plot, etc.) but the fizzy musical revue capping rather a revue incorporating an off the Pear Theatre’s current array of Coward songs. It also includes a few snippets of skits and season.

quips (and, for some reason, a bit of Cole Porter). It was first staged in New York in 1972, a year before Coward’s death, and is mostly made up of material written between 1925 and 1964. Accompanied by Brad Arington on piano, the cast is made up of Pear artistic director Elizabeth Kruse Craig (who co-directed, along with Pear founder Diane Tasca), Kristin Brownstone, Dan Kapler and Michael Rhone. The foursome sing together and separately, working their way through Coward classics (“The Stately Homes of England,” “A Room with a View,” “Mad About the Boy”) and lesser-known gems. It feels like I’ve reviewed numerous Coward productions over the past decade, so forgive me if I’m repeating myself, but I am definitely a fan. If you’re not already familiar, Coward was a master of witty, often caustic wordplay, sparkling melodies and a very British sense of humor, frequently making fun of the English upper classes (as well as of boorish Americans and anything or anyone else that made a good target for his zingers). He has songs of moving beauty, too, such as the tear-jerking “London Pride,” written to buck up Londoners battered by the Blitz (Brownstone does a sweet, understated, tooshort excerpt from it in the Pear production). The Pear’s quartet of stars have an easy rapport with one another,

giving the audience the sense that they’re witnesses to longtime friends enjoying a cocktail party. All the cast members have worked together at the Pear before, so that may well be how they feel, too. If not, they certainly hide it well. Their enthusiasm and chemistry is infectious, with Craig commanding the stage and seeming to make eye contact with each and every audience member. Kapler, always delightful, does the most believable British accent of the group (they all go in and out of accents, which could be distracting if it weren’t for the fact that, thanks to the show’s format, they’re all tackling so many parts and songs anyhow). Rhone offers smooth vocals worthy of a vintage crooner. Though he’s a great singer, his spoken performance of “I Went to a Marvellous Party” is, for me, a highlight. It’s a perfect delivery of Coward’s catty rhymes, mocking and celebrating his high-society exploits: “I went to a marvellous party, with Nounou and Nada and Nell. It was in the fresh air and we went as we were and we stayed as we were, which was Hell.” Another sharp-tongued, humorous highlight is “Mrs. Worthington,” in which the entire ensemble, with increasing vehemence, begs an overeager mother not to put her unappealing daughter on the stage. “Oh, Coward!” is dear to the hearts of both Craig and Tasca, as each performed in productions of it decades earlier, adding

an additional poignancy to their bringing it “home” to the Pear together. The stage looks great, with swanky, sparkly Art Deco-ish decor by Craig and gorgeous clothing by Tasca (the gentlemen in tuxedos and smoking jackets; ladies in cocktail frocks and evening gowns). Arington, as sole accompanist, has a tough job to do. On opening night, he unfortunately seemed to have a bit of trouble getting into the swing of things. Choreography by Michael Saenz keeps the cast on their toes, with a simple but enjoyable mix of ballroom dancing and music-hall moves. I suppose there must be people out there who don’t enjoy Noel Coward and if so, “Oh, Coward!” would definitely not be their cup of tea. To quote the master himself, though, despite a few quibbles, “I couldn’t have liked it more.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com. What: “Oh, Coward!” Where: Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View. When: Through July 15; Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m. Cost: $28-$32. Info: Go to thepear.org.

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Kensington Place Family Support Workshop Marsha Nelson, PhD is the co-founder of the Creative Journal Expressive Arts & Visioning® Certification Training Programs, International Workshop Facilitator as well as certified in grief counseling. www.LuciaC.com NO ARTISTIC TALENTED NEEDED!! ED!! Wear comfortable clothing and be ready for an enlightening morning just for you! You ng emotions. Clay can be will be using clay for the purpose of releasing otions can be expressed changed and moved so any pent up emotions fluidly. The shapes of the clay and energy change as the emotion ps access the kinesthetic changes. Working with the eyes closed helps preverbal self for growth and healing. This clay activity will be followed by education on implementingg the Creative Journal Expressive Arts method.

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uscious stone fruits and other produce shine at the peak of their season in summer months. As temperatures rise, local chefs highlight summer’s harvest by taking their dessert preparation outdoors, onto the grill. This Fourth of July (and for the rest of the summer), take their lead and think beyond burgers and grilled veggies: The grill produces equally delicious results for dessert.

Becky Sunseri, co-founder and pastry chef of Tin Pot Creamery in Los Altos, Palo Alto and San Mateo Becky Sunseri of ice cream shop Tin Pot Creamery uses the grill to amplify the flavors of dark summer cherries. Served as a topping with Tin Pot’s Blackberry Jamble ice cream (blackberry jam with a pastry crumble), the recipe takes advantage of the cherry pit’s almond-like essence to add more depth and complexity to the flesh of the fruit as the fruit, pits in, cooks in foil packets on the grill. “They may not look like much at first, but when you open the packets, they are filled with the these incredibly juicy cherries that have created their own sauce,” Sunseri said. “It’s like magic.” Bing cherries are the best variety for grilling, she said, as they tend to be sweeter and juicier. After grilling, Sunseri uses a cherry pitter to remove the pit, but said that the dessert can also be served with the pits still inside. “It makes for a more adventurous dessert — just be sure to warn people!” she said. Although the cherry topping can be eaten on its own, Sunseri prefers to balance the flavors of the tangy cherries with sweet ice cream. ‘Magic’ grilled cherries Servings: 4 4 ounces unsalted organic butter 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar 1/8 - 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt (to taste) 2 pounds Bing cherries

Prepare grill for medium-high direct heat. Using a charcoal grill will give you the most flavor (light it with a chimney starter to avoid lighter fluid, which can impart a chemical taste) but the recipe can also be made on a gas grill.

Remove stems from the cherries, wash them and pat dry. Leave the pits in the cherries because this imparts the most flavor into the grilled fruit. Melt the brown sugar, butter and salt together in a saucepan on the grill. Watch closely so the butter doesn’t burn. Whisk the butter mixture until it comes together, remove from the heat and set aside. Allow the butter mixture to firm up slightly before proceeding, stirring occasionally to keep the mixture emulsified, but you can use it right away if you don’t want to wait. Tear off four large sheets of aluminum foil (about 12x18 inch rectangles) and four sheets of parchment paper that are slightly smaller than the foil. Place one piece of parchment on top of each piece of foil. Make sure to fold up the sides of the parchment before adding the cherries, to keep the cherry juices from running out of each packet. Place 1/4 of the cherries on each piece of parchment. Divide the brown sugar mixture into fourths and put 1/4 on on top of each pile of cherries. Fold the parchment around the cherries with the seam up, leaving a little room inside the pouch just in case the fruit bubbles while cooking. If you don’t leave a little room, the cherry juices may escape from the pouches. Fold the foil around the parchment seam side up. You should have four cherry pouches. Place pouches on the grill, seam side up, for about 10 minutes until cherries are softened and juices are flowing. Closing the lid of the grill can speed this up a little bit. Allow the pouches to cool slightly and remove pits before serving.

Brandon Poon, co-owner and chef of Srasa Kitchen, Mountain View Inspiration for Brandon Poon was found on a humid trip to

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Cambodia, where his mother grew up. Poon, the co-owner and chef of Srasa Kitchen in Mountain View, happened upon a vendor serving mango sticky rice out of a hand-pushed food cart. “It was impressive since he used a wood-fired stovetop, without any gas assist or any amenities you would find in America,” Poon said. (Plus, it was 90 degrees out with 80 percent-plus humidity.) Although mango sticky rice is a typical dessert found across Southeast Asia, there are many variations that draw on each region’s resources, Poon said. Poon uses coconut cream in his version, for example, due to its availability over dairy milk, a premium resource in Cambodia. When cooking the rice, using a cheesecloth is key to help separate the rice from the rice steamer without oversaturating the grains with excess liquid, Poon said. He dusts the mangoes with sugar before grilling to allow caramelization. “Don’t be scared of grilling your desserts,” Poon said. “Grilling and the use of high heat to char your food components activates the natural sugars and adds complexity and texture to the ingredients.” Coconut sticky rice with grilled mango Servings: 4 1 cup sweet rice (glutinous rice) 14 ounce can coconut cream 2 teaspoons cornstarch 1/2 cup sugar Pinch of salt 1 teaspoon lime zest 2 ripe mangoes 1/4 cup toasted sesame seeds 1/4 cup toasted coconut flakes 3-4 sprigs fresh mint (optional)

In a large bowl, soak the rice with water, covering with at least 1-2 inches over the top of the rice. Let soak for at least 1.5 hours. If time is available, it is highly recommended to let it soak overnight. Drain the rice. Set up a steamer lined with cheesecloth to cook the rice. Assemble the rice over the cheesecloth in an even layer to allow for even cooking. Cook

over high heat for 15-20 minutes or until rice is tender. If a rice steamer is not available, you can cook the rice in a pot on a stove top. Combine the rice with 10 ounces of water, cover and cook over medium to low heat for 15-20 minutes until rice is fully cooked and tender. Each grain should be individual from one another. Once cooked, transfer rice to heatproof bowl to allow to slightly cool. While rice is cooling, make the coconut cream mixture. Using a small saucepan, combine 8 ounces of coconut cream with sugar and bring to a low boil. Create a cornstarch slurry by combining 2 ounces of the hot coconut cream with the cornstarch in a separate bowl. Gently stir to fully incorporate. Add your cornstarch slurry back into the sauce and whisk frequently. Let cook for roughly 3-5 minutes until a thick consistency is formed. Add a pinch of salt and lime zest. Once the sauce is complete, add the mixture to the rice and gently mix to incorporate the sauce into the rice. Grilled mango: Heat charcoal grill to high heat. Peel, remove core and slice mango into two equal parts lengthwise. Sprinkle sugar onto the flat part of the cut mango and place over the grill to allow caramelization and char. Only cook one side. Cook for roughly 1-2 minutes. Texture should still be firm from behind with a slightly softened half from the grill marks. Cut into thin slices. Set aside. To serve, mound the cooled rice onto plates and top with thin slices of mango. Drizzle the coconut cream sauce over both the mango and rice. Top with toasted sesame seeds, coconut flakes and sprigs of mint. Serve immediately.

Janina O’Leary, executive pastry chef of Bacchus Management Group Janina O’Leary, who oversees bread, dessert and pastry at all nine of Bacchus Management

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The finished product: a bowl of ice cream topped with grilled cherries.

Group’s Bay Area restaurants, said she enjoys playing with savory elements in her desserts to strike a unique balance in flavors. Inspired by the tangy flavors of cheesecake, the Texas native’s whipped goat cheese cream with grilled peaches is one example of that, walking the line between sweet and savory with a smoky twist from the grill. Olive oil, goat cheese, thyme and sea salt also show up in this summertime dessert. “It covers all of your bases, with something light, sweet, a little bit salty and a little bit of bitter, so it’s a dessert to end your meal with a little bit of a punch, but nothing too overwhelming,” O’Leary said. “It’s just a nice ending.” For those who may be new to outdoor grilling, O’Leary recommends keeping the grill clean with a light brush and damp towel. Keeping the grill heat set to medium-low, paying attention to cooking times and using just-ripe fruit are crucial for this particular dessert, she said. Grilled peaches with whipped goat cheese cream Servings: 8 4 ripe peaches, halved and pitted 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 tablespoon honey 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Flaky sea salt 3 tablespoons whipped cream cheese 11 ounces goat cheese 1 lemon, zested 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves

Heat grill to medium high. Brush peaches with olive oil and grill cut-side down, until soft, 3-4 minutes. Flip skin-side down and grill for 3-4 minutes more. Drizzle with honey, vanilla extract and a sprinkling of flaky sea salt. Combine the goat cheese, cream cheese, lemon zest and thyme leaves in a food processor. Whip for 60-90 seconds until smooth. (This can be stored for a few days in an airtight container.) Serve the grilled peaches over the whipped goat cheese. Q Freelance writer Chrissi Angeles can be emailed at chrissiangeles@gmail.com.

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APPLE REOPENS PALO ALTO STORE ... Apple fans will get their first look at the newly renovated Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto at 10 a.m. this Saturday when the store officially reopens its doors. “You’ll love what we’ve done with the place,” the tech company recently posted on the Palo Alto Apple Store website. The company closed its iconic arched glass retail store at 340 University Ave. last month to launch a reported $6.6-million remodel, according to permit details posted on Buildzoom. The newly remodeled store has been kept out of public view thus far. According to the building permit application filed with the City of Palo Alto by Seabay Building Group, the revamp includes a new video wall, a ceiling in the back of the building and a secondfloor reconfiguration, as well as new structural support in the basement to accommodate the video wall. This will be the second time in six years that Apple has transformed the site. Apple moved into the custom-designed 16,600-square-foot, two-story building in October 2012 after relocating from its original Palo Alto store at 451 University Ave. The latest remodel is part of Apple’s plan to revamp its 500plus retail stores worldwide, according to the “all things Apple” website 9to5Mac. Earlier this year, Apple launched a similar remodel at a store in Washington, which features a 6K video wall for Today at Apple events. According to 9to5Mac, remodeling work will be completed under the direction of San Francisco-based architecture firm Woods Bagot — the same firm that designed the expansion of Hong Kong Central’s Apple Store in 2016. —L.T. OPERA CAFE GOES SILENT ... An influx of new dining options and steadily increasing rent has apparently put the final nail in the coffin at Max’s Opera Cafe at Stanford Shopping Center. The 30-year-old restaurant — known for its singing servers, corned beef and pastrami sandwiches and large slices of cake — will close its doors at the end of business this Saturday, June 30. Owner Dennis Berkowitz said he started losing about $300,000 a year after new restaurants opened at the center about 12 years ago but was still making a profit. With the opening of more than five new eateries over the past two years alone in a renovated wing at the shopping center, and several more slated to open this year, Berkowitz is calling it quits. He said the cafe saw a 20 percent drop the first year the remodel was done and an

additional 20 percent the following year. “I thought ... maybe it will drop and come back,” he said in an interview Monday, sitting outside the restaurant. “It didn’t come back.” After Berkowitz’s lease ended in March, he went month-to-month while he tried to renegotiate with Simon Property Group, which owns the shopping center. He said the company decided against his proposal to split the large restaurant in half, lease one side to a new tenant and allow him to stay with a more affordable rent. His rent has steadily risen to more than $100 per square foot, with a monthly payment of about $50,000. Pacific Catch, a small Bay Area seafood chain, will take over the Max’s space, he said. Berkowitz said he’s sad to leave Palo Alto but encouraged customers who want their Max’s “fix” to visit his Burlingame location. — E.K. SOLS OPEN ‘SUN’... Aguachile, pozole and duck confit tacos are on the menu at Sun of Wolf, which opened to the public on Wednesday, June 27, at 406 S. California Ave. in Palo Alto. Sun of Wolf merges “Old World Mexican roots and modern Bay Area flavors” in a reflection of its ownership, three cousins whose parents own La Fiesta Restaurant and Vive Sol in Mountain View, Palo Alto Sol (next door to Sun of Wolf) and Quinto Sol in Redwood City. Paulina Sol, a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, is overseeing the Sun of Wolf kitchen, while her sister Alexa Sol is in charge of design and management and their cousin, Viari Lopez, the bar. The opening menu is split into starters and mains. Starters include hamachi crudo, queso fundido, a little gem salad and beet tartare. Entrees range from the tacos and slow-cooked carnitas to Thai-style pan-seared cod, a cast-iron ribeye steak, cheeseburger and a vegetarian lasagna (the Sol mother’s recipe). There are also craft cocktails, an international wine list and several beers on draft. The owners have completely transformed what used to be a hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant, with a long, black marble-topped bar; white tiled walls; hanging pendant lights; plants throughout and a tufted banquette in the back of the restaurant. —E.K. Compiled by the Weekly staff; this week written by Elena Kadvany and Linda Taaffe. Got leads on interesting and newsworthy retail developments? The Weekly will check them out. Email shoptalk@paweekly.com.

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Trashed Thursday, July 26 • 7pm • Hewlett 201, 370 Serra Mall Stanford The film presents Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons on a world tour as he discovers the pressing issues surrounding waste and sustainability. The beauty of our planet from space forms a violent contrast to the scenes of human detritus across the globe. (image courtesy of UNAFF)

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STANFORD STADIUM SATURDAY, JUNE 30 7:00PM TRAFFIC NOTICE: On Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 7:00PM, the San Jose Earthquakes will play the L.A. Galaxy at Stanford Stadium. With an estimated attendance of 50,000, the match will generate traffic that may be heavy from 5:00PM to 7:00PM and from 9:00PM to 11:00PM along Embarcadero Road, University Avenue and Oregon Expressway between Highway 101 and the campus, and along El Camino Real from University Avenue to Oregon Expressway. Increased traffic may also be experienced along: Sand Hill Road and Page Mill Road between Interstate 280 and the campus, and along Junipero Serra between Page Mill Road and Sand Hill Road. A post-match fireworks show will take place from approximately 9:20PM until 10:00PM.

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Action pic ‘Day of the Soldado’ sequelizes ‘Sicario’ 000 (Century 16 & 20) Action movies, even ultraviolent ones, tend toward the escapist, but screenwriter Taylor Sheridan specializes in the non-escapist action thriller. Sheridan moved from acting to screenwriting with his script for the 2015 drug-war thriller “Sicario” and won an Oscar for his second script, a crime drama made as “Hell or High Water.” Sheridan’s nouveau take on the Western genre, his actionwith-a-social-conscience formula (see also “Wind River”), recurs in his first sequel effort, “Sicario: Day of the Soldado.” “Sicario” followed Emily Blunt’s FBI agent Kate Macer on a journey of crushing enlightenment about the war on drugs playing out along the U.S.-Mexico border. The sequel doesn’t call for Blunt, though. Instead, the hard men of “Sicario” take over, pushing the series more distinctly into antiheroic territory. Matt Graver (returning player Josh Brolin) now

functions as the protagonist, and a morally murky one, at best. Enlisted by the CIA (under the auspices of Matthew Modine’s Secretary of Defense), Graver again sets out to disrupt the cartels, with the proviso “I’m going to have to get dirty.” Unsurprisingly, Graver’s first stop is the apartment of Alejandro Gillick (Benicio Del Toro), a shadow operative with a knowledge of the cartels and a deeply personal motivation to harm them. The “good guys” develop a plan: kidnap a drug lord’s young daughter (Isabela Moner), make it look like the work of a rival cartel, and thus set the cartels upon each other for a while. This dirty trick answers a new terrorism crisis, since the cartels have begun trafficking Islamic-fundamentalist suicide bombers across the border. This plot raises some obvious questions about how far the U.S. is willing to go to protect its own interests. Graver has trained

himself to work without moral qualms. If one young girl has to be traumatized as a pawn in a bigger game, so be it. Gillick, too, is easily manipulated by his desire for revenge against the higher-ups of a particular cartel. In “Sicario,” Gillick dispatched one man with direct responsibility for the deaths of Gillick’s family members, but a bigger fish surfaces in “Day of the Soldado.” In the absence of Blunt’s relative innocent, “Day of the Soldado” tracks not only a hostage schoolgirl, but also a cartel’s newest recruit, a Mexican-American teenager (Elijah Rodriguez as the titular soldado, or soldier) living in Texas, along the border fence. This young man’s soul hangs in the balance: Will he become a drug dealer or a sicario (hitman), or can he escape the life? This is a dark dynamic we’ve seen before, and indeed much of “Day of the Soldado” feels redundant, with a minimum of character development and a maximum of heavy artillery. Nevertheless, this is just about as high-toned as action pictures get. The cast is faultless (if anything, Del Toro remains so good that it’s annoying he doesn’t get more depth to play), and Sheridan throws in at least a few tart commentaries along the way (Catherine Keener’s deputy CIA director chastises Graver, “You think change is the goal? You’ve been doing this too long to believe that”). “Day of the Soldado” may work a little too hard to be tough-minded and hard-bitten, but the continuing story of “Sicario” (which, yes, tees up a probable third chapter) remains a darkly compelling reminder of the multifaceted folly of our war on drugs. Rated R for strong violence, bloody images and language. Two hours, 2 minutes. — Peter Canavese

MOVIES NOW SHOWING American Animals (R) Guild Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Avengers: Infinity War (PG-13) +++1/2 Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Boundaries (R) Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Bringing Up Baby (1938) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Deadpool 2 (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. First Reformed (R) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Hearts Beat Loud (PG-13) Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Hereditary (R) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Incredibles 2 (PG) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1943) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Ocean’s 8 (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. RBG (PG) Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun. Sanju (Not Rated) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Sicario: Day of the Soldado (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Solo: A Star Wars Story (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Tag (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Uncle Drew (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Won’t You be my Neighbor? (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun.

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CineArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (For information: 493-0128) tinyurl.com/Pasquare Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (For recorded listings: 566-8367) tinyurl.com/Guildmp Stanford Theatre: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 324-3700) Stanfordtheatre.org

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OPEN HOME GUIDE 38 Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com

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

Home Front FRUIT TREE CLASS ... If you want to enjoy the “fruits” of your garden, attend Gamble Garden’s class on “Summer Maintenance of Your Small Fruit Trees.” The class will be held Saturday, July 21, from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Learn everything from watering, fertilizing and pruning to controlling disease. The workshop will include a presentation and a brief tour of the fruit trees in the Gamble Garden. The cost is $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. Instructor Jeff Scroggin runs his own landscape management business and volunteers at the orchard at the Filoli estate in Woodside. To register, go to gamblegarden.org.

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COOK LIKE YOU’RE FRENCH ... The Palo Alto Adult School will offer a one-evening class on Wednesday, July 18, from 6:30 - 9 p.m. on “Summer in Provence, Real-Food Cooking for the Whole Family.” Instructor Michelle Greenebaum will teach you how to make a full dinner menu: Provencal vegetable soup with white beans and pesto, roasted heirloom tomato tart, marinated watermelon salad with spearmint, lime and French feta and an easy cherry clafoutis for dessert. The cost is $60. The class will be held at Palo Alto High School, 50 Embarcadero Road, Room 103. For more information, email the instructor at michelle@ togetherinthekitchen.com, or register at paadultschool.org.

Locals share forays into growing their own food

Nearly every inch of Anneke Dempsey’s yard, including the space between the detached garage and house, is full of containers of plants. Through the gate is a forest of tomato plants lining the wall and a grape vine climbing the arbor.

IT DOESN’T GET FRESHER ... If you’re looking for a weekday farmers market, the Portola Valley Farmers’ Market is every Thursday from 2 - 6 p.m. at 765 Portola Road in Portola Valley. The city of Los Altos also has its farmers market on Thursdays from May to October, from 4 - 8 p.m. The market is on Second Street in downtown Los Altos. The market includes a special annual kid’s day and regular children’s crafts area.

Courtesy of Carol Pladsen-Bloom

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Ornamental succulents and cacti coexist with squash plants in Carol Pladsen-Bloom’s front yard.

hree years ago, Bryant Street resident Anneke Dempsey and her doctors were mystified by an illness she had. In the midst of her pain, she began to garden. Now mostly cured, Dempsey wouldn’t give up gardening for the world. “There’s something addicting about (gardening),” she said. “Your mind goes away from the pain.” Without taking a single gardening class, Dempsey scoured the Internet until she understood what was needed to grow food in containers. Nearly every outdoor inch of her Bryant Street home’s 5,000-square-foot lot has a plant on it, front and backyards. The diminutive “hobbit home” she shares with her husband, Ray, could be the topic of another article, cheerfully decorated with bold colors. Dempsey was born in the Dutch East Indies on the island of Timor and grew up in the Netherlands, but never gardened there. Until she retired, she worked as a director at Cray Computers. Now, she estimates that she spends about five hours a day in her garden, caring for and hand watering hundreds of containers in which her plants live. “I like container gardening. It’s flexible,” she said, as she can change out plants or move them to follow the sun. Her bright-green deck stairway is lined with lush tomato plants. “You can do so much in a small spot. That’s why I like container gardens.” She also loves the mystery of growing everything from seeds or propagating from cuttings. “I have no idea what I’m gonna get. It’s a total mystery,” she said. Her husband outfitted special light tables in the garage (which they share with a 1953 MG), plus a greenhouse. She is able to take plants through three stages: seeds in the light table, seedlings in a greenhouse and then outside. Her edible plants include fruit trees like lime and kumquat and espaliered pear and apple. In her front yard are strawberry plants with fat red berries on them, as well as a lemon tree interspersed with flowers. One of her main gardening secrets: Diestel turkey manure she gets at Lyngso Garden Materials in San Carlos. “Diestel turkeys eat a vegetarian diet. I use it on everything,” she said. While some gardeners battle birds and rodents, Dempsey doesn’t. Her husband hung clear plastic drink cups upside down on the tomato plants’ stakes initially to protect Dempsey’s eyes from the sharp points, but it turns out the soft tinkling of the cups on the stakes keeps all pests away. “I have no problem with critters,” she said. (continued on page 28)

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She expects thousands of cherry and other kinds of tomatoes this year. In the past, she has given them to friends and neighbors, but this year she is giving them plants and giving many of the tomatoes to her church’s food kitchen. Unlike Dempsey, Midtown resident Richard Swent had grown vegetables for years, but five years ago, he and his wife tore out their backyard lawn and put in raised vegetable beds. The 10-foot-by-20-foot garden has carrots, lettuce, bok choy, Napa cabbage, onions, arugula, kale, snow peas and string beans. He covered the walkway between the beds with bamboo, which “allows me to reach everything without stepping into the growing space.” “I don’t actually remember why I started growing vegetables, but it was probably my wife’s suggestions,” he said. He started with lettuce and spinach. When they moved to their present house, he stuck with leafy greens but tried a few other things. In 2013, with their children grown up and moved out, they removed the lawn and put in a large garden. “At first I just planted

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Veggie tales

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A pole bean plant climbs near Carol Pladsen-Bloom’s front door. She used to neglect her yard and let things be self-sufficient until the drought ended.

In a compact space, Anneke Dempsey grows tomatoes, basil and fruit. The clear cups (background on left) seem to keep unwanted critters away.

more lettuce and spinach but quickly discovered that there was no way we could eat enough salad to keep up with a dozen lettuce plants and equal number of spinach,” he said. He reduced the amount of leafy greens and planted other things like serrano peppers after trying other peppers to see what would grow best. Sometimes experiments worked and sometimes they didn’t. “My wife likes eggplant, and I tried that but got almost nothing edible,” he said. He dislikes fish, but when his wife found a recipe for salmon on a fennel/snap pea slaw, he said he likes the slaw so much, “I will happily eat through the salmon to get to it.” Like Swent, Palo Alto resident Carol Pladsen-Bloom has gardened for two decades, allowing her yard to “evolve,” mostly based on the weather and her season of life. During the drought when she was working, she pretty much ignored her garden, turning off the sprinklers for a while. She recently “re-engaged” when the winter was rainy. She planted hardy succulents and cacti alongside zucchini and spaghetti squash in an ornamental design in her front yard. Pole beans climb up twine by her front door. In her backyard, eggplant,

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Richard Swent tore out his backyard lawn and planted rows and rows of leafy greens, peppers and other veggies. He put in a bamboo path to keep from having to step into the growing space when tending to his crops.

tomatoes, basil and potatoes thrive. “I’ve gone from employed and we had rain to I’m retired and we’ve had droughts,” she said about the evolution of her garden. Q

Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and Real Estate Editor for the Palo Alto Weekly. She can be emailed at elorenz@ embarcaderopublishing.com.

House with hefty price tag could shatter new record Sun Micro co-founder lists home for $96.8M by Palo Alto Weekly staff

alo Alto’s real estate market could shatter a new record with a house whose price tag is $66.8 million more than the most expensive home sale recorded in city history. Tech entrepreneur Scott McNealy, who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982, has listed his 32,000-square-foot Palo Alto Hills home on REX Real Estate Exchange’s website for $96.8 million — or $3,025 a square foot — the Wall Street Journal reported on June 21. REX is a real estate startup based in Woodland Hills, in which McNealy is an investor and board member. Located on 13.35 acres off Los Trancos Road, McNealy’s four-story home is reportedly the most expensive Bay Area home publicly listed on the market in the last decade, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The 20-room home includes a pizza room, a poker room, a spa with a sauna and massage table, a disco, a full gym with a climbing wall; an indoor basketball court, a wine cellar, a billiards room, a theater and a 110 yard golf practice area with two putting greens. There’s also a 7,000-square-foot multipurpose indoor ice rink/tennis court with its own locker room. And for overnight visitors, there’s a one-bedroom detached guest house. McNealy and his wife, Susan, have lived on the property with their four

sons for the past decade. According to the Business Journal, the couple spent almost $11 million on the two lots that the estate sits on. Construction of the house, including a twoyear process to secure the permits, took seven years and was completed in 2008. The home made local headlines in 2010 when neighbors complained about a gold dome McNealy built to enclose the property’s ice rink where he liked to play hockey with his sons. They said the sound of hockey pucks hitting the walls were loud and the dome reflected too much sunlight. “We have four boys. ... I plead guilty they are kind of noisy. They have buddies over and they do noisy things that boys do,” McNealy explained to the Palo Alto City Council. He later replaced the dome with a sound-proof roof that was more visually pleasing. McNealy told the Wall Street Journal that he and Susan decided to sell their Palo Alto home because they will soon be empty nesters. According to the Santa Clara County assessor’s office, the home was assessed at $16,564,337 in June 2017. If the home sells for its asking price, it will become the most expensive home publicly listed on the market in Palo Alto. In June 2017, a 7,550-square-foot Professorville home on Cowper Street sold for a record-breaking $30 million. Q

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Morgan Hill | 5/5 | $1,974,000 Sat/Sun 1 - 4 1158 Teresa Lane A True Sleeper in charming Morgan Hill! 5000 SF custom home on 2.2 acres

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THE ADDRESS IS THE PENINSU THE EXPERIENCE IS A IN PINEL

PORTO VALLEY $7,998,000

MENLO PARK $6,995,000

PALO ALTO $6,995,000

MENLO PARK $5,185,000

6 Redberry Ridge | 4bd/4ba Dean Asborno | 650.255.2147 License #01274816 BY APPOINTMENT

1885 White Oak Drive | 5bd/4ba Mary & Brent Gullixson | 650.888.0860 License # 00373961 | 01329216 BY APPOINTMENT

931 Laurel Glen Drive | 6bd/6.5ba Derk Brill | 650.54 3.1117 License # 01256035 BY APPOINTMENT

1785 Croner Avenue | 5bd/4ba Liz Daschbach | 650.207.0781 License # 00969220 BY APPOINTMENT

PALO ALTO $4,898,000

REDWOOD CITY $3,159,000

PALO ALTO $2,998,000

LOS ALTOS $2,988,000

747 Rosewood Drive | 5bd/4.5ba Carol Li | 650.281.8368 License # 01227755 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

3723 Jefferson Avenue | 4bd/3.5ba Judy Citron | 650.543.1206 License # 01825569 BY APPOINTMENT

766 Garland Drive | 4bd/3ba C. Carnevale/N. Aron | 650.543.1195 License # 07000304 BY APPOINTMENT

337 San Luis Avenue | 4bd/3ba Josh Felder | 650.400.7142 License# 01916058 BY APPOINTMENT

PALO ALTO $2,589,000

MOUNTAIN VIEW $2,195,000

SAN MATEO $1,999,999

PALO ALTO $1,888,000

128 Middleﬁeld Road | 2bd/1ba Laura McCarthy | 650.269.1609 License # 01895605 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

1660 Villa Street | 4bd/2ba Cliff Noll | 650.823.2065 License # 00262285 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-5:00

1592 Lexington Avenue | 4bd/2ba Cindy Liebsch | 650.591.7473 License # 01324217 BY APPOINTMENT

4014 Villa Vera | 3bd/2.5ba Pam Page | 650.400.5061 License # 00858214 BY APPOINTMENT

SUNNYVALE $1,550,000

BELMONT $1,488,000

PESCADERO $1,398,000

MORGAN HILL $940,000

935 Kennard Way | 3bd/2ba Cheryl Okuno | 650.209.1577 License # 01051270 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-5:00

1540 Sixth Avenue | 3bd/2ba Stacey Diodati-Jamison | 650.867.7976 License # 01996000 BY APPOINTMENT

205 Roarke Road | 3bd/3ba K. Bird/ S. Hayes | 650.207.0940 License #00929166/#01401243 BY APPOINTMENT

727 Saint Michael Place | 3bd/2.5ba Joanne Fraser | 650.796.9888 License # 00610923 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

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1230 SHARON PARK DRIVE #64 MENLO PARK PRICE REDUCED $1,585,000 2 BEDS | 2 BATHS Desirable top ﬂoor unit with golf course views. Gated community, one level, two bedroom, two bath unit with large balcony adjoining kitchen and spacious Master Bedroom. Master bath has separate shower and tub, double sinks and closets. Large laundry room with storage, Spacious entry hall, underground parking for 2 cars plus large storage room. Close to Country Club, destination Rosewood Hotel, Stanford University, Hospital and Shopping Center, both SJ and SF airports, and Venture Capital offices.

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LIVE SILICON VALLEY 10 Franciscan Ridge, Portola Valley Offered at $3,798,000 Michael Dreyfus · 650.485.3476 License No. 01121795 Noelle Queen · 650.427.9211 License No. 01917593

Hidden Valley Lane, Woodside Offered at $34,600,000 Michael Dreyfus · 650.485.3476 License No. 01121795 Noelle Queen · 650.427.9211 License No. 01917593

161 Bryant Street, Palo Alto Offered at $6,395,000 Michael Dreyfus · 650.485.3476 License No. 01121795 Rachel King · 650.485.3007 License No. 02038644

4159 Old Adobe Road, Palo Alto Offered at $23,888,000 Michael Dreyfus · 650.485.3476 License No. 01121795 Dulcy Freeman · 650.804.8884 License No. 01342352

152 Melville Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $4,500,000 Michael Dreyfus · 650.485.3476 License No. 01121795

1180 Cloud Avenue, Menlo Park Offered at $4,488,000 Annette Smith · 650.766.9429 License No. 01180954

389 O’Connor Street, Menlo Park Offered at $2,300,000 (Not on MLS) Brian Ayer · 650.242.2473 License No. 01870281

541 San Juan Street, Stanford Offered at $5,500,000 Chris Iverson · 650.450.0450 License No. 01708130

124 Springer Road, Los Altos Offered at $3,495,000 Gary Campi · 650.917.2433 License No. 00600311

502 Palm Avenue, Los Altos Offered at $5,950,000 Gary Campi · 650.917.2433 License No. 00600311

626 Torwood Lane, Los Altos Offered at $3,398,000 Todd Zebb · 650.823.3292 License No. 01324423

682 Coral Court, Los Altos Offered at $4,288,000 Gary Campi · 650.917.2433 License No. 00600311

915 Lakewood Drive, Sunnyvale Offered at $1,149,000 Tom Martin · 408.314.2830 License No. 01272381

Los Altos Hills Offered at $16,000,000 Tom Martin · 408.314.2830 License No. 01272381 Gary Campi · 650.917.2433 License No. 00600311

136 Los Trancos Circle, Portola Valley 1305 Westridge Drive, Portola Valley Offered at $2,998,000 Offered at $6,495,000 Chris Iverson · 650.450.0450 Michael Dreyfus · 650.485.3476 License No. 01708130 License No. 01121795 Mimi Goh · 650.395.7677 License No. 02031088

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THIS WEEKEND OPEN HOMES UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM 3 Bedrooms

ATHERTON 5 Bedrooms 40 Selby Ln Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$5,200,000 324-4456

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$2,295,000 324-4456

3 Bedrooms - Condominium 1530 San Antonio Av Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,200,000 324-4456

4 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms 931 Oakes St Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$988,000 543-8500

FOSTER CITY 3 Bedrooms - Townhouse 807 Norma Ln Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,299,000 325-6161

LOS ALTOS 1 Bedroom - Condominium 4388 El Camino Real #208 $949,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

4 Bedrooms 1432 Richardson Av $2,695,000 Sun 12-3 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

2167 Gordon Av $3,950,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666 2098 Manzanita Av $3,698,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 485 9th Av $2,495,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740

5 Bedrooms 1045 College Av $4,995,000 Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 1180 Cloud Av $4,488,000 Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141

MOUNTAIN VIEW 1 Bedroom - Condominium

5 Bedrooms 502 Palm Av $5,950,000 Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 941-4300

LOS ALTOS HILLS 4 Bedrooms 27760 Edgerton Rd $6,700,000 Sat Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

500 W Middlefield Rd #71 $698,000 Sat 1-5/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

2 Bedrooms - Condominium 280 Easy St #408 $795,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 947-2900 400 Ortega Av #116 $875,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

3 Bedrooms

25616 Moody Rd $6,450,000 Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker 325-6161

1703 Fordham Way $2,188,000 Sat/Sun Sereno Group 947-2900 1294 Cuernavaca Circulo $1,998,000 Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

MENLO PARK

PALO ALTO

5 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms - Condominium 1284 Sharon Park Dr #64 Sun 1-4 Pacific Union

$1,585,000 314-7200

235 Webster St $2,495,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

3 Bedrooms

8 Bedrooms

4224 Darlington Ct $2,895,000 Sun Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 941-4300

140 Willowbrook Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

3 Bedrooms - Condominium

3 Bedrooms

REDWOOD CITY

447 College Av $1,900,000 Sat 1-3 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

15 Winston Way Sat 1-4 Sereno Group

5 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms

161 Bryant St $6,395,000 Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141 1239 Martin Av $5,500,000 Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

6 Bedrooms 1115 Ramona St Sun Miles McCormick

$7,950,000 400-1001

3448 Page St Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 517 Sunset Way Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker 7 Colton Ct Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

818 Tolman Dr Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

3 Bedrooms $6,800,000 851-1961

2 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms 10 Franciscan Rdg $3,798,000 Sat Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 644-3474 136 Los Trancos Cir $2,998,000 Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141

788 Ramona Av $1,799,888 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

5 Bedrooms

90 Skywood Way $3,095,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666 6 Quail Ct $4,500,000 Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740 1307 Portola Rd $3,850,000 Sat Coldwell Banker 324-4456

25 Bear Gulch Dr $5,995,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 851-1961 1 Applewood Ln $6,495,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666 1305 Westridge Dr $6,495,000 Sun Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 644-3474 707 Westridge Dr $13,500,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 900 Wayside Rd $3,395,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666

WOODSIDE 2 Bedrooms 7 Palm Circle Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Rossetti Realty

5 Bedrooms 14732 Skyline Blvd Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 116 Fox Hollow Rd Sun 12-4:30 Coldwell Banker

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SUNNYVALE

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STANFORD

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6 Bedrooms

818 TOLMAN DRIVE, STANFORD

www.818Tolman.com

$1,699,000 947-2900

4 Bedrooms

PORTOLA VALLEY 360 Golden Oak Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

$6,800,000 851-1961

Shari Ornstein

650.814.6682

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$7,500,000 851-2666

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Best Western Plus Riviera, located at 15 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025, San Mateo County and a current Fictitious Business Name Statement is on file at the County Clerk-Recorder’s Office of said County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): BW RIVIERA LLC 953 Industrial Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/01/2011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 30, 2018. (PAW June 15, 22, 29; July 6, 2018)

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MOHINDER P. CHAWLA Case No.: 18PR183621 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MOHINDER P. CHAWLA. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: AJAY CHAWLA in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: AJAY CHAWLA 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 August 31, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 12 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Abraham R. Zuckerman Zuckerman & McQuiller One Embarcadero Center, Suite 2480 San Francisco, CA 94111 (415) 392-1980 (PAW Jun. 15, 22, 29, 2018)

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