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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Opponents gear up for battle over health care Measure F would put Palo Alto City Hall in charge of regulating medical costs

by Gennady Sheyner n May 22, Palo Alto officials found themselves in the middle of a highstakes battle that no one in City Hall signed up for, one that could have an impact on anyone providing or receiving health care in Palo Alto.

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That’s when a packet of more than 3,500 signatures arrived at the desk of City Clerk Beth Minor, ensuring that Measure F would appear on the November ballot.

Depending on whom you talk to, Measure F will either ensure

quality health care in Palo Alto or force doctors, dentists and optometrists into permanent exile from the city.

It will either burden Palo Alto taxpayers with a new bureaucracy that could cost up to $2 million a year to administer or save them money by containing staggering health care costs.

Proponents say the initiative’s aim is to pressure Stanford Health Care, which they claim is plagued

by high infection rates, to shape up. Opponents say it seeks to pressure Stanford Health Care, one of the nation’s leading medical institutions, to stand down while the measure’s chief sponsor, the Service Employees International Union-United Health Workers, organizes employees at Stanford facilities throughout the Bay Area.

There is one thing that everyone agrees on: If it passes, the measure will transform both Palo

Alto’s local health care and City Hall, which today struggles to administer a simple business registry but which next year may find itself in charge of regulating the complex health care industry.

Formally titled the “Palo Alto Accountable and Affordable Health Care Initiative,” Measure F would limit how much local hospitals, medical clinics and (continued on page 12)

CITY COUNCIL

Tempers flare over renter protections

Palo Alto council members exchange barbs, reach compromise

problematic during the afternoon commute. Between 4-5:45 p.m., 58.8 percent of bicycle traffic at the intersection rides west on Charleston Road across San Antonio.

In addition, the intersection as a whole saw 25 collisions between 2012 and 2016, according to the city. Of those, 36 percent were rear-end collisions, with the highest number on Charleston in the westbound lanes; 28 percent were sideswipes, with the most on San Antonio’s southbound lanes and Charleston’s eastbound lanes and were related to bikes and turns.

Another 24 percent were broadsides, with most by people

by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto’s heated debate over how best to protect renters turned bitter and personal on Monday night, as City Council members exchanged insults and accusations before reaching a compromise that left most feeling dissatisfied.

At the end of the long discussion, the divided council voted to support a memo that advocates for a series of modest and relatively non-controversial policies to aid renters. These include better enforcement of a city ordinance requiring one-year leases and more support around rent stabilization.

And for the second time in the past year, the council rejected the idea of exploring a policy that would cap rent increases.

Championed by council members Tom DuBois, Karen Holman and Lydia Kou, the proposal to evaluate such a policy ended in a deadlock, with only Vice Mayor Eric Filseth joining them.

Council members Adrian Fine, Greg Scharff, Greg Tanaka and Cory Wolbach all voted against DuBois’ amendment to expand the range of renterprotection policies that will be studied, effectively killing it. (Mayor Liz Kniss recused herself because her family has

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Honoring them with stars and stripes

Palo Alto High School senior Tucker Biorn joins other students in placing 3,000 American flags on the quad on Monday, Sept. 10, in honor of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks as part of the 9/11 Never Forget project, which was organized by the school’s Young Americans For Freedom club.

TRANSPORTATION

Changes planned for San Antonio and East Charleston roads Proposal could add a bike lane and modify some traffic turns

by Sue Dremann south Palo Alto intersection where 25 crashes occurred between 2012 and 2016 could receive a makeover within 12 to 18 months, according to city of Palo Alto transportation staff. City transportation staff unveiled proposed changes for the juncture of San Antonio

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and East Charleston roads at a community meeting on Sept. 5.

Residents have been raising concerns to the city about safety along the busy thoroughfares, particularly the corner where the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life is located. Pedestrians and bikes on East Charleston Road

crossing San Antonio toward the campus are endangered by cars turning right onto East Charleston in two lanes from San Antonio.

Cars in the second right-turn lane don’t always yield to bicyclists, staff noted.

A consultant’s traffic data from 2017 found this is particularly

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It’s a radical change; we should do it the right way.

—Greg Tanaka, Palo Alto City Council member, on implementing rent stabilization. See story on page 5.

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Around Town

PARKING PAINS ... After years of planning for a new public-safety building and parking garage in the California Avenue area, Palo Alto officials are finally getting close to breaking ground on the two projects. Starting in January, construction crews will cordon off the Sherman Avenue block between Ash and Birch streets and start construction on the new 636-stall garage, which will feature four stories above ground and two basement levels. Once the garage is up, they will proceed to the longawaited public-safety building on an adjoining lot across the street from the courthouse. Public Works staff expect the garage to be completed in spring 2020, at which time it will add about 310 spaces to a business district where merchants have long clamored for more parking (officials expect to then start construction the police building, which they expect to complete in 2022). But before they get to “more� parking, area merchants have to settle for “less.�

The loss of the parking lot during the construction period means there will be 165 fewer spots during the garage’s construction phase. “Until the garage is built, we’re all going to be pinched,�

Jack Morton, a former vice mayor and head of the California Avenue Business Association, said at a Sept. 12 community meeting on the project. Yet Morton also commended Public Works staff for working with merchants to lessen the pain. The city plans to reconfigure an adjoining lot (where the police building will ultimately stand) to add 30 spots and to possibly use the PANGO app to better manage how the lot is used, senior engineer Matt Raschke said. The city is also pursuing agreements with the county Superior Court and Caltrain to temporarily use some of their lots while construction progresses. Perhaps the most creative proposed mitigation on the table is reconfiguring the parking spaces on College Avenue, a block north of California Avenue, to accommodate an additional 20 spaces (staff will do more analysis and outreach before moving ahead with any restriping proposal, Interim Public Works Director Brad Eggleston said).

Raschke also noted that Stanford University is looking to launch a new shuttle service this month

between Stanford Research Park and California Avenue.

REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD ... When Brandon Seminatore took on his secondyear residency in pediatric neurology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, he unexpectedly reunited with the nurse who cared for him at birth.

Vilma Wong, a neonatal intensive care unit nurse, recognized Seminatore’s name as he carried out his morning rounds at the same unit in early August. When she questioned the 28-year-old, he confirmed that he was born premature at 29 weeks in the same hospital where they now work. “To confirm my suspicion, I asked him if his dad was a police officer.

And there was a big silence. Then he asked me if I was Vilma. I said, ‘yes!’� Wong recounted in the hospital’s Healthier, Happy Lives blog. “When Vilma recognized my name, it truly sunk in that I was one of these babies. I’ve come full-circle and I’m taking care of babies with the nurse that took care of me,� he said. Seminatore’s parents kept a picture of him sitting on Wong’s lap, which has been shared on social media alongside a current picture of the two.

RAMPING UP RIDERSHIP ...

The Palo Alto Caltrain station on University Avenue made this year’s list of the agency’s 10 most popular train stations, according to data released by Caltrain this week.

More people are catching a ride on the rail commuter service based on its annual onboard ridership count that grew by 1.5 percent and tabulated an average mid-weekday ridership of 65,095 passengers.

Caltrain made slight adjustments to its methodology for the count by only checking ridership two midweekdays (Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday) instead of the all five weekdays in response to increasing costs and budget constraints.

The results are used to help the agency decide where they need to concentrate efforts regarding capacity issues and “validate revenue-based ridership estimates.� The count also showed most passengers travel during peak commute hours, with a 2.5 percent increase of “traditional peak riders� who ride north in the morning and south in the afternoon. Q

Upfront EDUCATION

Palo Alto Weekly to host first school board debate

Candidates will discuss topics ranging from student wellness to fiscal management he Palo Alto Weekly and Palo Alto Online will host the first Board of Education debate of the election season on Thursday, Sept. 20, 7:30-9 p.m. at the Palo Alto Art Center.

All six candidates for the school board — special-education advocate Stacey Ashlund, after-school-program director Christopher Boyd, incumbent Ken Dauber, attorney Shounak Dharap, parent Kathy Jordan and recent graduate Alex Scharf — will participate.

Weekly Editor Jocelyn Dong and education reporter Elena Kadvany will moderate the debate.

Student-editors from Gunn High School’s The Oracle and Palo Alto High School’s Campanile, Verde Magazine and Paly Voice also will ask the candidates questions. The debate will cover central school district topics including legal compliance, transparent governance, fiscal management, equity, instructional strategies and student wellness, among others.

The moderators will also take questions from the audience.

The student publications are co-sponsoring the debate, along with youth well-being collaborative Project Safety Net, American Association of University Women (AAUW), Parent Advocates for Student Success (PASS) and the Palo Alto Chinese Parents Club.

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the auditorium at the Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto.

The Weekly and Palo Alto Online will also host a City Council debate with the five candidates on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at Cubberley Community Center’s Little Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. The candidates are council incumbents Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth and Cory Wolbach and

Alex Scharf

challengers Pat Boone, who is a TV journalist, and Alison Cormack, who led the Measure N library-bond campaign.

Video recordings of the school board and City Council debates will be posted on Palo Alto Online following the events, which will not be livestreamed.

Election day is Nov. 6. Q —Palo Alto Weekly staff

At 9/11 event, people of various faiths unite American Muslim Voice, Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice sponsor gathering at Palo Alto City Hall

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Firm to offer teachers down payment help

Landed, a San Francisco company that helps public school educators buy homes by covering a portion of their down payments, is partnering with the Palo Alto school district.

Landed held an information session for teachers and staff on Wednesday.

The partnership requires no financial contribution on behalf of the school district; Palo Alto Unified only sends communication to its employees about Landed and interested staff can reach out to the company for more information.

Since 2015, Landed has worked with school districts throughout the state — and now nation — to help teachers and staff purchase homes closer to where they work. For eligible teachers and staff, Landed will pay up to 10 percent of their down payment.

For example, if a home costs $800,000 and the 20-percent down payment ($160,000) is out of reach, Landed will split the payment with the teacher. The company also provides a real estate agent, a lender and financial guidance. There are no upfront fees or monthly payments.

Landed makes its return on investment when the teacher sells or buys out the investment. When the homebuyer is ready to end the partnership with Landed (any time before 30 years), he or she pays back Landed’s original investment plus 25 percent of the appreciation or depreciation in the home.

The only requirements are that the applicant qualifies for a primary mortgage, has worked for at least two years in a public school district and commits to staying for at least two more years. Q —Elena Kadvany

Man pleads guilty to mailing white powder

COMMUNITY

uslims, Buddhists, Christians and Jews, children, young parents, seniors and individuals from all points of view came together Tuesday night outside Palo Alto City Hall, where they remembered the lives lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks 17 years ago.

About 170 people joined the 9/11 Multifaith Peace Picnic and Prayers, an annual event founded by Palo Altan Samina Faheem Sundas and the American Muslim Voice Foundation.

Event co-sponsor Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice was formed in 2002 out of concern over the negativity and fear that erupted after the attacks.

Tuesday’s gathering in King Plaza was filled with song, joy and reverence for the human spirit. Speakers included Antonio Aversano, whose father was killed on 9/11, and children

News Digest

by Sue Dremann who spoke about their feelings through poetry and original songs.

Aversano held a photograph of his father.

“Seventeen years ago, my dear dad, Louis Frank Aversano Jr., didn’t make it home from work. He was in the south tower, which was the second one hit but the first one to fall. ... He stayed to help. Out of his instinct to help others, he gave his life.”

After 9/11, Aversano hoped people could join together and begin to heal. But then he started hearing the call for war and retaliation.

“My heart sunk,” he said.

Through an online search, he joined a peace walk held

by September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. They hoped to turn their grief into action for peace by developing nonviolent options to break

cycles of violence caused by war and terrorism. The group has connected with victims of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Palestine and other countries throughout the world.

“We were broken open,” he said.

Attending a gathering like the peace picnic is an act of choosing a more beautiful world, he said.

Jian Yong Shifu, a monk at Chung Tai Zen Center in Sunnyvale, also spoke at the evening, urging people to cleanse themselves of “greed, anger, ignorance, pride and doubt.”

“Leave behind the artificial boundaries of discrimination and segregation,” he said.

People are capable of transcending the bias, fear and selfrighteousness that some try to promote in our society, he said. (continued on page 16)

A Massachusetts man agreed Friday to plead guilty to mailing six threatening letters containing suspicious white powder to several public figures across the country, including Stanford University law professor and Palo Alto resident Michele Dauber.

Daniel Frisiello, 25, of Beverly, Massachusetts, agreed to plead guilty to 13 counts of mailing a threat to injure the person of another and six counts of false information and hoaxes, according to an announcement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts.

Frisiello mailed five envelopes with white powder in early February to Dauber, Donald Trump, Jr., a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, a Michigan senator and an actor running for Congress.

At the time, Dauber was chairing the high-profile campaign to recall Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky. She received on campus an envelope with white powder and a note that stated: “Since you are going to disrobe Persky, I am going to treat you like ‘Emily Doe,’” referencing the victim in the Brock Turner sexual assault case over which Persky presided. “Let’s see what kind of sentence I get for being a rich white male.”

Dauber said Saturday that she is “relieved that it appears that there has been a resolution in this case, and I think it’s important to let the process work.” Q —Elena Kadvany

Shooter sentenced in Vegas killing

A Nevada man who pleaded guilty to the 2015 first-degree murder of Palo Altan Neil Gandler in Las Vegas was sentenced on Sept. 6 to 20 years to life in prison and an additional 12 to 30 months for using a deadly weapon, according to the Clark County District Attorney’s office.

Kyle Staats, 29, of Las Vegas, admitted to a count of murder with use of a deadly weapon in a plea deal on July 5.

His accomplice, Megan Lee Hippie, 21, agreed to a plea deal in Clark County, Nevada, on June 4. Court records regarding the details remain sealed, but a day after her plea deal prosecutors dropped all charges except voluntary manslaughter with use of a deadly weapon, according to a court filing. She received a four-to20-year prison sentence.

On Dec. 26, 2015, Staats and Hippie allegedly stole a 0.38 caliber Keltic firearm from a car they burglarized. Three days later, Staats and Hippie went to a 24 Hour Fitness parking lot and attempted to rob Gandler, 42, who had been sleeping in his vehicle.

Staats shot Gandler in the torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Clark County coroner’s office, which ruled his death a homicide.

Gandler, a Silicon Valley engineer, was in Las Vegas for the CES tech show, a global consumer electronics trade show. He ran vegastechshows.com, a social forum for the tech show’s participants. He was in the habit of sleeping in a rented car when traveling to save money, a friend, Charles Costa, told the Weekly. Q —Sue Dremann

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Upfront DEVELOPMENT

Condo project proposed for San Antonio Road Developer of Maybell site looks to bring 48-unit complex to south Palo Alto

by Gennady Sheyner he developer of a 16home project on a former orchard on Maybell Avenue is now pitching another housing project for south Palo Alto: a 48-condominium complex on San Antonio Road.

According to project plans submitted by site owner Yuorong Han, the proposal calls for demolishing two existing buildings and constructing a three-story complex at 788 San Antonio Road. The 45,075-square-foot development would be 49 feet tall, or one foot shy of the city’s height limit. It would include 27 twobedroom condos and 21 onebedroom units, according to the plans, as well as 71 parking stalls (or 115, if the building uses parking stalls with “stackers�).

The project would require a zone change from the City Council, as well as the approval of the city’s Architectural Review Board. The plans submitted are a “pre-screening application,� intended to get early feedback from the board and the council before formal reviews.

The 1-acre site for which the new housing project is proposed is currently zoned as “service commercial,� which permits a mix of uses geared toward “citywide and regional services� and “relying on customers arriving by car.� The developer is looking to change it to RM-40, which allows highdensity residential.

The council is scheduled to discuss the project on Sept. 17, though it will not be taking any formal action on it. The council’s feedback is intended to help the developer determine whether to move ahead with a formal application.

The project is being submitted at a time when Palo Alto is making housing a top city priority. Even so, this proposal differs sharply from the last three housing developments that the council has looked at. The last two to win approval were a mixed-use development by The Sobrato Organization at 3001 El Camino Real, which includes 50 apartments; and a 57-apartment complex at 2755 El Camino Real geared toward “workforce housing,� with relaxed parking standards and small apartments (average size is 526 square feet).

These would include some units for households earning up to 120 percent of the area median income.

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considering a housing proposal from the nonprofit Palo Alto Housing, which is looking to build an apartment complex at 3705 El Camino Real with 58 studios and three one-bedroom units. All of these would target individuals making below 60 percent of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s median income.

By contrast, the new housing development eyed for San Antonio would have relatively large condos, with a residential density of 904 square feet per unit, according to the project plans.

And by designating 10 percent of these as below-market-rate housing, Han is able to take advantage of a state law that allows developers to request a 20 percent density bonus, or an extra 3,165 square feet, according to the application.

The building would be located near the intersection of San Antonio and Leghorn Street, about a block north of the location where Marriott is looking to build two hotels with a total of 294 rooms.

According to planning staff, the site has since 2015 been the home of an automotive-service station, a fitness training center and an electrical wholesale supplier. The latter two uses, according to staff, are considered â&#x20AC;&#x153;protected retailâ&#x20AC;? under a city law that bars conversions of ground-floor retail to other uses.

If the council approves the zone change from service commercial to RM-40, the retail uses would be considered nonconforming and would no longer be protected, according to staff.

Ted Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hanlon, the developerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project manager (who also managed the approved conversion of the Maybell orchard), argued in a letter to the city that the project would serve public interest by addressing the regional housing crisis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To avoid falling short of its housing goals, the city can do more to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;go bigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by changing the propertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoning to allow more housing, 40 dwellings per acre,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hanlon wrote. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be reached at gsheyner@paweekly.com.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO GIRL SCOUT TROOP 60016 ON THE ‘THIS IS THE LAST STRAW’ CAMPAIGN!

Together, they approached Palo Alto City Council and received a proclamation to make the month of May, 2018, Plastic Drinking Straw Awareness Month.

The girls recruited 37 restaurants to go strawless, and educated four schools on the effects of plastic straws in the environment.

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EDUCATION

Teacher-housing proposal gains traction School districts asked to pitch in $600K for affordable units

by Kevin Forestieri proposal to build affordable housing in Palo Alto for northern Santa Clara County school employees is picking up steam, after one area school district agreed to set aside $600,000 to help finance the project. Four other districts are being asked to follow suit.

The housing idea, spearheaded

by County Supervisor Joe Simitian earlier this year, proposes constructing at least 60 apartments on county-owned land at 231 Grant Ave. exclusively for teachers and school faculty.

In order to pay for $36 million project, Simitian is banking on each of the region’s five school districts to pony up $600,000 for their share of the units.

The collaboration of the Mountain View Whisman School District, Mountain View-Los Altos High School District, Los Altos School District, Palo Alto Unified School District and the Foothill-De Anza Community College District is still conceptual in nature, and key details, such as the number of units and the cost of rent, could change prior to final approval.

The first district to jump on the opportunity was Foothill-De Anza, whose board of trustees voted unanimously on Aug. 27 to find sources of funding for the district’s contribution. FoothillDe Anza isn’t exactly in a strong financial position, with declining enrollment and deficit spending on the horizon, but trustees have voiced interest in finding ways to attract and retain staff.

In a letter to school officials, Simitian wrote that many teachers find themselves unable to pay the high cost of housing in Silicon Valley. While this rings true for residents outside of the

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profession as well, Simitian stated that teachers often find themselves making too much to qualify for low-income housing but too little to actually afford to rent or buy a home.

“It’s better for everyone — folks trying to avoid traffic, kids getting an education, school districts trying to hire and retain the very best teachers for our schools, and of course our teachers themselves — when our teachers can live in or close to the communities where they teach,” Simitian said in a statement following the Foothill-De Anza vote.

Los Altos School District board members agreed last week that it was premature to throw their weight behind the proposal and commit $600,000 in funding, saying that several questions need to be answered first. Trustees asked staff to come back with information on employee interest in the proposal, expected rents, how rental income would be used and how long teachers could remain in the apartments. Despite the cautious approach, some board members showed early support for the idea.

“I definitely think we progress down the path with this,” said board member Jessica Speiser.

“It’s a great movement to help teachers in any way we can.”

Los Altos Superintendent Jeff Baier said that Simitian’s plan, which has taken shape over the last few months, would likely cost the district $200,000 each year for three years, in exchange for access to 12 two-bedroom apartments within the complex.

The financing structure for the proposal also makes a big ask of the county — which has set aside $6 million for the project — and

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Sept. 10)

Renter Protections: The council voted 7-1 to study the potential impacts of rent stabilization policies on Palo Alto and to have its Policy and Services Committee explore a set of measures to aid renters. The council also declined, by a 4-4 vote, to exclude from consideration any policies that would cap rent increases.

DuBois, Filseth, Holman and Kou supported exploring such policies, while Fine, Scharff, Tanaka and Wolbach voted against doing so. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Holman, Kou, Scharff, Wolbach No: Tanaka Recused: Kniss Grand Jury: The council approved staff’s response to the Grand Jury report on affordable housing. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Holman, Kniss, Kou, Scharff, Tanaka, Wolbach No: Fine

Council Policy and Services Committee (Sept. 11)

Business Registry: The council voted to accept the City Auditor’s audit of the city’s business registry and directed the auditor to perform additional analysis of the registry’s flaws before returning for a November discussion. Yes: Unanimous

Planning and Transportation Commission (Sept. 12) Trees: The commission discussed potential changes to the municipal code pertaining to protection of trees. Action: None

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the city of Palo Alto, which is being asked to commit $3 million.

The rest of the $24 million in estimated costs would be paid for by low- or no-interest loans from investors.

The proposal circumvents the high cost of land, often seen as a major barrier for affordablehousing developments, by building the project on county-owned property next to the Palo Alto courthouse. During a February 2017 discussion on how to spend $950 million from the county’s Measure A (a tax to fund housing), Simitian argued that the plot of land was “dramatically underutilized” and could be a potential site for affordable housing.

The remaining school districts have yet to hold a public meeting on Simitian’s idea. Palo Alto Unified Board of Education President Ken Dauber told the Weekly that the board’s agenda-setting committee recently decided to discuss the proposal in several months as part of a “more comprehensive review of alternatives for addressing teacher housing.”

“Speaking personally, I appreciate Supervisor Simitian’s initiative in developing this proposal and raising the visibility of this issue,” Dauber said. “I look forward to looking at creative alternatives for meeting the housing needs of the district’s teachers and other staff members.”

The Palo Alto board last discussed the project in January, when trustees directed staff to begin talks with the county and agreed to send a letter of support but were careful not to include the action of “initiating cost-sharing discussions.”

Mountain View-Los Altos High School District Superintendent Jeff Harding said he is open to talking about the proposal, but the letter he received from Simitian’s office was simply outlining a general concept rather than a solid proposal. The district does not have plans to discuss its involvement in the partnership, he said.

Mountain View Whisman board members also have yet to weigh in, and district officials say it’s not on any future agendas.

Board member Tamara Wilson said in an email that she wasn’t prepared to throw her support behind the housing project — citing a need for more information — but she said she’s open to the idea.

“Any teacher housing investment that is financially sound and supports quality teacher retention in MVWSD will get my support,” she said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany contributed to this report.

Mountain View Voice Staff Writer Kevin Forestieri can be emailed at kforestieri@mv-voice.com.

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violating right-of-way rules.

About 8 percent were head-on crashes. Another four percent involved cars hitting an object, according to the data.

In addition to crashes, problems with traffic flow are being caused by signal lights that cause motorists to wait through more than one signal cycle.

City staff initially received community feedback in April, and on Sept. 5 they presented two revised concepts.

One proposal, called Idea C, removes one right-turn lane on southbound San Antonio at East Charleston and changes the traffic signal. A southbound bike lane on San Antonio would be added between the right-turn lane and the through lanes.

The bike lane would cross East Charleston and direct bicyclists into an existing parking lot abutting the San Antonio. The parking lot would lose three spaces.

The pedestrian crosswalk across East Charleston, between the Taube Koret corner and a gas station, would be replaced. It’s currently diagonal; the new crosswalk would be at a 90-degree angle, providing a shorter distance for pedestrians to walk as well as increased visibility to cars.

The plan would also add a second left-turn lane to southbound San Antonio for cars heading east on East Charleston.

Ruchika Aggarwal, the city’s assistant engineer for the project, said the bike lane is unlikely to end up in the project because one of the main goals is to reduce traffic capacity. The staff is committed to doing further

A car makes a right turn onto East Charleston Road from San Antonio Road in Palo Alto on Sept. 13. The city is considering redesigning the intersection to improve safety. evaluation, but they didn’t do a traffic signal analysis regarding how adding right-turning light would work if a bike lane is added.

But “if the community really wants to push for the concept, we will be happy to take it to the City Council to decide,” if it doesn’t impede traffic movement significantly, she said.

The second concept, called Idea D, would also add the second left-turn lane to southbound San Antonio Road as well as the straightened crosswalk across East Charleston. It would evaluate the right-turn signal operations along southbound San Antonio, but it would not add a bike lane on San Antonio.

Residents who attended the meeting voiced several concerns while praising transportation staff efforts.

Robert Neff, a member of the Palo Alto Pedestrian and Bicycle

Advisory Committee, stated in an email: “I am really glad to see the pedestrian improvement proposed by city staff. The existing dual right-turn lanes are very dangerous for crossing pedestrians leaving the JCC/ Moldaw Residences and crossing Charleston. We have had three pedestrian fatalities from crossing the street in the past few years (at other locations), and I’m glad to see this proactive safety project from the city.”

But he urged the city to improve the bike route along San Antonio.

“San Antonio is a marked bike

route from Middlefield to 101, and it is one of the most difficult, challenging, and stressful bike routes in the entire Santa Clara Valley.

I think we should either fix the corridor by removing the parking, adding bike lanes and configure the intersections for safety, or take down all bike-route markings and sharrows. This bike route is an embarrassment to our city.”

City Councilwoman Lydia Kou, who attended the meeting, said in an email that she is grateful staff acknowledged the intersection is dangerous for pedestrians and bicyclists.

“Persons who live nearby, mostly those at the (Jewish Community Center), iterated that the traffic on San Antonio backs up into the freeway. The different plans presented did not tie in Charleston Road modifications nor Fabian Way leading to the future bike bridge. Also, I gathered that the staff preferred the plan that would have two righthand turns from San Antonio onto Charleston with pedestrian crossings redrawn so it is more visible to oncoming vehicles,” she said.

She noted that former city Planning and Transportation Commissioner Arthur Keller brought up that the JCC has a transportation-demand-management plan, but city staff did not appear to know about it and could not respond regarding its effectiveness nor if it has even

been implemented.

Aggarwal said staff is aware of the JCC’s traffic management plan, but they were not aware if it was monitored or not at the Sept. 5 meeting. But she said on Thursday that staff is working on getting that information, which will be included in the concept analysis.

Small businesses on Fabian Way also wanted staff to know that removing parking spaces is not acceptable to them.

“These modifications to mitigate traffic congestion are ‘Bandaid’ short-term solutions if city government continues to not acknowledge the developments they approve in locations that are problematic for incoming and outgoing traffic. It is poor backward planning,” Kou said.

Aggarwal said staff will be making adjustments to the concept plans based on the meeting participants’ feedback. The transportation department plans to have new data collection and analysis by this fall and will develop a recommendation for approval by the City Council.

Pending the council’s direction, the design could be implemented within 12 to 18 months, she said.

Information and updates about the project can be found at tinyurl.com/y8de9u3u. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss the status of the city’s labor negotiations with SEIU, Local 521, the Palo Alto Fire Chiefs’ Association; International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 1319, Utilities Management Professional Association of Palo alto (UMPAPA) and the Palo Alto Police Managers Association.

The city also plans to hold a study session on airplane noise; consider a proposal to rezone a property at 788 San Antonio Road to accommodate a 48-unit residential project; review the status of the proposed public safety building, and consider revisions to an ordinance on rental assistance to tenants facing displacement. The closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 17, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The rest of the meeting will follow at 6 p.m. or immediately after the closed session.

COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee is tentatively scheduled to discuss the city’s pension obligations and the council’s mandate that $4 million be reduced from the Fiscal Year 2019 budget.

The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY/SCHOOL LIAISON COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to meet at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The agenda wasn’t available by press deadline.

ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to review the design of the proposed public-safety building at 250 Sherman Ave., consider a proposal to demolish a vacant restaurant building at 1700 and 1730 Embarcadero Road and construct an Audi dealership and service center; and consider proposed changes to a previously approved mixeduse project at 429 University Ave. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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Health care (continued from page 5)

Proponents and opponents of Measure F turn out to speak at a Palo Alto City Council meeting on June 11. known as “C. diff” (Stanford received a 9).

Wherley said the union has been trying to get Stanford to take care of the problem for several years, with little success.

“This is about improving patient care and preventing patients from getting gauged in the process,” Wherley told the Weekly.

The cost of doing business

he union measure won’t be settled until Nov. 6, but it has already achieved the seemingly impossible: It has unified Palo Alto’s normally polarized City Council, which this week concluded a meeting of bitter disagreements and personal insults by unanimously voting to oppose Measure F. Though council members regularly laud the concept of “local control” and take pride in their city being a national leader in biking, solar panels and electric vehicles, no one behind the dais wants to see City Hall get into the health care business.

At the council’s June 11 meeting, Vice Mayor Eric Filseth said the measure appears to constitute a “very large, unfunded mandate for the city to regulate health care in Palo Alto — a task for which we have neither the expertise nor bandwidth.”

Even Mayor Liz Kniss, a retired nurse and champion of the council’s 2018 “healthy city, healthy community” priority, acknowledged in June that health care is “hardly the issue we normally deal with” — and implied that she’d like to keep it that way.

“This is not something we normally do, it’s not something we are staffed to do and, I think it would put a substantial burden on our city,” Kniss said.

City Manager James Keene displayed the same can’t-do spirit when he stated frankly at the June 11 meeting, “We’re not equipped to handle this.”

“We need to recognize that this has been dropped on us, really,” Keene said.

City officials don’t have a clear idea of how exactly Measure F would impact the city budget, but they’re fairly certain that setting up a new bureaucracy won’t be cheap. In June, the council directed staff to conduct an analysis

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of the measure’s impacts on Palo Alto. This week, it received back a memo that stated the “complex implications of the measure are such that we were not able to design and undertake that detailed analysis.”

One could get some idea of the potential costs, however, by looking at a study commissioned in Livermore, where a similar measure, known as Measure U, will appear on the November ballot.

The analysis conducted by Henry W. Zaretsky and Associates estimated that Measure U would cost the city about $1.9 million annually, which includes $1.35 million in salaries for new staff (a program director, a health care finance director, a “finance team” of three analysts, a medical-billing specialist, an information-technology technician and legal counsel) and the rest for overhead costs.

The program would also require $750,000 to $1 million in startup costs to account for recruitment costs, software, office furniture, computers, vehicles and consulting costs, according to Zaretsky, raising the overall first-year costs to $2.8 million.

Should there be litigation, the report notes, the costs are likely to be higher.

The report notes that administering the complex program proposed in the measure “will require a highly skilled and wellpaid staff of regulators.”

“For the most part, such a staff will have to be recruited externally since current city employees are unlikely to have extensive backgrounds in health care,” the report states.

Doctors united

alo Alto’s elected leaders aren’t the only ones who find themselves unexpectedly — and unintentionally — united by the the SEIU-UHW measure.

Since the measure landed on the ballot, Palo Alto’s hospital executives and physicians also have joined forces to oppose Measure F through both lobbying and litigation.

Doctors from Stanford Health Care and Palo Alto Medical Foundation, as well as local dentists and others with small practices, have spoken out against the measure in recent weeks, urging the

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other health care providers can charge patients and insurers for medical care. While it would not set a flat rate on any particular service, it would limit charges to no more than 115 percent of the “reasonable cost of direct patient care.”

The city would review all charges every year to ensure compliance. Hospitals that charge beyond the 115 percent “reasonable cost” threshold would be required to rebate the excess cost and pay fines.

The stated aim of the union initiative is to “provide for the orderly regulation of hospitals and other health facilities ... in the interests of public health, safety and welfare, by providing certain minimum standards and regulations regarding their operation.”

The measure imposes “reasonable limits on prices” and allows medical institutions to petition for exceptions during times when they absolutely need to charge beyond the 115 percent cap.

The initiative is also extremely appropriate, the union contends, given Stanford’s high costs and disappointing record on infections. Stanford Health Care, they note, is ranked 71st out of 107 hospitals, according to Vizient, a company that ranks medical institutions based on quality measurements. That underwhelming ranking was cited by Stanford Health CEO David Entwistle at November 2017 town hall.

“When you look at all the amazing things we do, there are still opportunities for improvement,” Entwistle said, according to Stanford Medicine News Center.

That appears to be the only thing the two sides agree on. Sean Wherley, spokesman for SEIUUHW, dismissed arguments from Measure F opponents that the initiative is a union bargaining chip. Stanford Health just signed a new three-year agreement with its health-workers union last December, Wherley told the Weekly, and the union is not engaged in any “active organizing” in any Stanford facility. Any arguments that this is a negotiating tactic is thus moot, he said.

Rather, he said, this measure aims to address a festering problem that the union has been trying to spotlight and solve for years: Stanford’s infection rates.

The issue also came up in January 2017, when SEIU-UHW was engaged in negotiations and publicly called on Stanford to make improvements after Medicare penalized Stanford (and 768 other hospitals) for high rates of hospital-acquired infections. The penalty, which was based on 2016 data, gave Stanford an a score of 7.85 on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being the most severe). Among the biggest problem areas were surgical-site infections (in which Stanford scored a 10) and clostridium difficile infection, a bacteria-caused infection commonly

council to oppose the measure.

On Sept. 10, Entwistle argued before the council that the measure, far from improving health care, will hurt the ability of health care professionals to serve patients.

“If you do your job well, this will prevent you from doing your job well and the city will have to add resources to administer this,” Entwistle said. “This does nothing to impact quality of care. It actually puts patient safety at risk. It does not make patient care more accessible.”

Specifically, opponents of Measure F point to the measure’s definition of “reasonable costs of direct patient care,” which includes salaries, wages and benefits of non-managerial personnel who provide care, pharmaceuticals and supplies, facility costs, laboratory testing and “depreciation and amortization of buildings, leasehold improvements, patient supplies, equipment and information systems.” It does not, however, include such things as salaries and benefits of management and supervisors, as well as legal fees, audit fees, travel, dues, subscriptions and other expenses that hospitals need to operate, notes Duane Dauner, who spent 32 years as the head of the California Hospital Association and who now leads the “No on F” and “No on U” campaigns. By his estimation, these excluded factors constitute about 4 percent of a hospital’s costs.

Dauner does not dispute the union’s assertion that Stanford and other hospitals often charge patients more than the direct cost of care. He notes, however, that such a practice is necessary for them to meet their obligations, which include coverage of Medicare and Medi-Cal patients, as well as those with no insurance at all. Private payers, who typically make up about 35 percent of total patients, currently pay about 150 percent of the cost of providing care, Dauner said. However, Medicare only covers 90 percent of the health care costs, while Medi-Cal pays 70 percent.

He estimated that Medicare and Medi-Cal patients make up about 60 percent of patients.

Other patients, including the uninsured, veterans and members of the military, pay about 30 percent of the health care costs.

Because Stanford and other hospitals don’t get fully compensated by Medicare and Medi-Cal, they have to swallow some of the costs. Thus, even after charging private payers at 150 percent of the total cost, the revenues that the hospital takes in typically exceed costs by only about 3 percent. If Measure F passed, hospitals would have to charge private payers no more than 115 percent of the “direct costs.” As a result, hospitals would see their revenues fall about 11 percent below costs.

Hospitals like Stanford Health Care don’t have the option of relocating from Palo Alto, Dauner said.

“So what can they do? They’d have to reduce salaries, they have

to reduce the number of employees, they have to forego buying equipment and keeping up with technology and things that are necessary to provide modern-day quality care,” Dauner told the Weekly. “It pinches the hospital financially so they can’t provide those services.”

Unlike Stanford, small clinics and individual practitioners can move. And many will opt to do just that to avoid the onerous auditing and reporting requirements created by the measure, Dauner said. Like other opponents of Measure F, he argued that Palo Alto residents will be left with fewer medical services if the measure passes, even as more of their tax money goes toward administering the new program.

“What happens to the people who live in Palo Alto and who now have to drive to Menlo Park or Mountain View? Their access to care has been compromised because they have to go farther to get to their doctor or their dentist or their optometrist,” Dauner said.

“They have to drive further distance, take more time, spend more money, to get to services already available.”

James Stephens, a dentist whose practice has been operating in Palo Alto for the past 36 years, concurred. If the measure is approved, he would probably have to move to Mountain View to continue to provide the type of care his patients expect, Stephens told the council this week.

“The truth is, this ballot measure will limit my ability to have a viable dental practice because of my ZIP code,” Stephens said.

Chris Lee, a pediatric dentist with a practice in Palo Alto, also criticized the measure, which he argued is too broad to accommodate the real-world nuances of medical care.

“Providing quality services is complicated, and dental billing isn’t as simple as drill, fill and bill,” Lee told the council.

He said he occasionally encounters children who aren’t entirely cooperative with a stranger trying to stick a needle or a drill in their mouths. At those times, he might have to take more time to complete the necessary procedure and incur more costs, at times well beyond of what insurance would cover.

“Measure F doesn’t do much to account for all these extenuating circumstances that make it so hard for us to take care of our patients and keep our doors open without having to worry about having justifying every single cost in a black-and-white way,” Lee said.

The SEIU-UHW believes the opponents’ arguments vastly overstate the added burden. Wherley noted that Stanford Health Care is an organization with $234 million in operating profits and reserves for $700 million. Even despite these resources, Stanford is struggling to fix its patient-infection problem.

Furthermore, Measure F does

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SEIU-UHW President Dave Regan joins union members for a press conference on July 11, 2017. The group went public with concerns about high patient-infection rates and worker and patient safety while in the middle of contract negotiations with Stanford Health Care. implementing Measure F won’t be cheap, but the union argues that some of the administrative costs would be offset with fines for violators. And if it does cost the city some money, that’s a price worth paying for lower health care bills.

“Does it cause some new responsibilities for the individual providers? Yes. But in return, people in the city of Palo Alto will know that they are being charged a reasonable amount for their care,” Wherley said.

Several Measure F proponents made a similar argument on June 11 to the council. Anna Toledano, a graduate student at Stanford University, said she has chronic acid reflex and has not seen a gastroenterologist in over a year because of the four-month wait for an appointment at the hospital clinic.

“The ballot measure will not harm Stanford Hospital’s already lackluster ability to provide care to us, as Stanford Health Care’s crafters of rhetoric claim,” Toledano said. “Instead, it will serve to alleviate exorbitant patient costs that I myself had to bear numerous times in my three years in Stanford and hope not to bear in

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the three years to come.”

Even the generally critical Zeretsky report concedes that the program could have positive benefits, with implications well beyond the two cities where it is now being considered.

“If the program proves successful and results in health care cost savings without compromising access and quality, it would obviously have a positive impact on the community and would likely be replicated in other areas,” the report states.

declined in an Aug. 1 ruling to keep Measure F from appearing on the ballot. In doing so, however, Pierce made it clear that his decision does not imply that the concerns from the hospitals are “inaccurate or otherwise invalid.”

Rather, Pierce wrote, “such contentions appear speculative and premature at a point in time before election.”

“Therefore, whether the initiative will be confiscatory as applied can be determined only after the election, assuming the measure is passed by voters and thereafter implemented by the city of Palo Alto,” Pierce wrote in his ruling.

Given the high stakes, the measure is highly likely to face a legal challenge from Stanford Health Care and other medical providers if it passes. Dauner noted that there’s plenty of precedent for the SEIU-UHW initiatives to end up in court. In 2012, the union spearheaded Measure M in the El Camino Hospital District, which capped the salary of the hospital executives at twice the California governor’s salary. The measure narrowly passed, with 51.91 percent of district voters supporting it. The following year, the Santa Clara County Superior Court deemed the measure unconstitutional, effectively killing it.

Dauner said the union also tried to push statewide measures to cap costs in 2012, 2014 and 2016, though none of these ever ended up on the ballot. In 2016, the union withdrew its measure right before the deadline after the

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ver the summer, Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and the California Hospital Association joined forces and filed a legal challenge with the hopes of keeping the initiative off the ballot. In letters and court filings, they argued that the measure is unconstitutional because it infringes on existing contracts, that it is overly vague, and that it is pre-empted by and federal and state regulations.

The American Medical Association, which filed an amicus brief in favor of keeping the measure off the ballot, also cited the onerous burden on Palo Alto’s Administrative Services Department, which would be in charge of regulating local health care providers if Measure F passes.

The department “normally deals with parking tickets and revenue collections — not complex health care issues or questions requiring expertise in hospital administration,” the amicus brief states (a perhaps less-than-generous description for a department that is also charged with economic forecasting, pension reforms and the annual construction of the city budget).

The petitioners also argued that health care is already regulated by state and federal laws, including the Knox-Keene Act (which pertains to regulation of health care service plans), the California Insurance Code, the Affordable Care Act and the federal Employee Retirement and Security Act (ERISA).

These arguments failed to convince Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Mark Pierce, who

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court ordered it to do so. Then, as now, the measures was about union negotiations, Dauner said.

“The denial (in 2016) was based on the fact that they violated all of their agreements with us and that therefore it was illegal for them to try to make an end-run around the agreements,” Dauner said.

But as union officials point out, cost-cutting efforts like the one at El Camino aren’t the only types of measures that SEIU-UHW pursues. Wherley noted that the union had run a statewide initiative to improve dialysis clinics throughout California and filed a lawsuit to improve access for care for Medi-Cal patients. The union also has an effort underway across the country to grant expanded Medicaid access in seven states, he said. Much like those efforts, Measure F is a way to improve health care, not to attain personal gains, Wherley said.

“We do have a history in going beyond the pure interests of the union and bring forward measures to serve the interests of the wider community,” Wherley said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

About the cover: Photo illustration by Paul Llewellyn. Caduceus and cloud by ThinkStock; basis for City Hall illustration courtesy Grendelkahn/ Wikimedia Commons.

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These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto Online.com/news.

Gun cases recovered in alleged burglar’s car

A man arrested in connection with two home burglaries in Palo Alto on Friday allegedly had gun cases stolen from one of the thefts in his vehicle, police said. (Posted Sept. 13, 10:36 a.m.)

Palo Alto hopes to fix business registry

Faced with a damning audit showing that Palo Alto’s nascent business registry is riddled with data that is inaccurate, incomplete and inconsistent, a City Council committee agreed on Tuesday night to take a fresh look at the program’s reasons for existence.

(Posted Sept. 13, 9:40 a.m.)

Bikeway launched to connect cities

Sept. 8 marked the opening of the Peninsula Bikeway, a bike route on surface streets that connects Redwood City and Mountain View by way of Atherton, Menlo Park and Palo Alto. Bike rides starting in the early morning on each end of the bikeway, an interim path that will be improved over time, culminated in the Menlo Park Civic Center. (Posted Sept. 13, 8:42 a.m.)

Dr. Peter Cheng meets with longtime patients Esmail Essabhoy and wife Sophie in an exam room at the Guzik Center for Geriatrics and Palliative Care at Palo Alto Medical Foundation in 2015. The clinic would need to comply with the regulations of Measure F, should voters approve it in November.

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nothing to prevent Stanford from spending more money on health care — just not charging more than 115 percent of reasonable costs, Wherley said.

“If they need to invest more in care through better staffing, newer equipment and new facilities, they can do that,” Wherley told the Weekly.

It’s true, as SEIU-UHW maintains, that Measure F still allows hospitals to invest more into patient care. It’s also true, however, that if hospitals do that, there is little to keep patients’ bills from concurrently spiking, provided the bills remain within the 115 percent threshold. Thus, while the official “Yes on Measure F” argument claims that the measure will “bring our high health care costs under control” and “ensure” that patients can’t be gouged, the reality is somewhat more complex.

Things are also tricky when it comes to medical practitioners who unlike Stanford don’t have swelling cash reserves. While the official argument in favor of the measure focus on Stanford Health Care’s costs and infections rates, that argument has little to do with the hundreds of medical practitioners who are not affiliated with Stanford but who will also be covered by Measure F (the measure does include exceptions for various health care providers, including children’s hospitals, dialysis clinics, clinics that specialize in reproductive rights and clinics operated by the federal Department of Veterans Affairs or most other public entities).

Wherley noted that the union doesn’t have access to the financial records of the various medical practitioners outside Stanford.

Even so, he expressed skepticism at the suggestion that doctors and dentists will skip town if Measure F passes.

“They can raise the threat of leaving, but the reality is that a 15 percent margin is still comfortable enough that you can operate efficiently and take a profit at the end,” Wherley said.

The Zaretsky study draws different conclusions. If the program in Measure U is implemented in Livermore, the report states, providers would either leave the Livermore market or, if they are unable to do so, they would “likely cut costs in a manner that will lessen access and compromise the quality of patient care.”

If health care providers exit from Livermore, that would “adversely impact local businesses and reduce tax revenue,” the report states. It could also lower real estate values, though the report notes that this “could be welcome relief for buyers and renters.”

Meanwhile, new health care providers, the report states, may be reluctant to enter the Livermore market.

For some voters, these consequences could be justifiable if the measure does what it sets out to do: lower health care costs and improve patient care. The SEIU-UHW acknowledges that

Armed robber takes man’s wallet, cellphone

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Family of missing woman offers $25K reward

The family of Wamaitha Kaboga-Miller, a Palo Alto woman who went missing nearly four weeks ago, is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts, police said Wednesday. (Posted Sept. 12, 9:57 a.m.)

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Palo Alto to reconsider relocation assistance in evictions City Council considers loosening or removing income limit on relocation payments

by Gennady Sheyner he Palo Alto City Council signaled on Monday that it plans to revisit and possibly revise a newly adopted law that limits relocation assistance for evicted tenants to those making above the area median income.

The issue of relocation assistance has become urgent in recent months for residents of downtown’s President Hotel, who are facing eviction on Nov. 12 as part of the new property owner’s plan to convert the apartment building back to a hotel. To help the city’s renters, the council passed on Aug. 27 an “urgency” ordinance requiring landlords to pay relocation assistance of between $7,000 and $17,000 to each unit, depending on unit size.

The urgency ordinance, which required support from seven of eight council members to pass, was ultimately limited to those making below the area median income, which means those making about $90,000 or more would not qualify. That restriction was proposed by Councilman Greg Scharff and adopted despite opposition from the council majority, which wanted protections to apply more expansively. Given that the ordinance requires seven votes and that Councilman Greg Tanaka has opposed every proposal dealing with renter assistance, Scharff’s vote was necessary to get anything passed on an urgency basis.

The council also passed on Aug. 27 an almost identical ordinance on a permanent basis. Unlike the urgency ordinance, this one would require a simple majority to modify it as well as a “second reading” (a typically routine procedure). On Monday night, instead of adopting the permanent ordinance, the council agreed to hold a fresh

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measures, while well-meaning, would do more harm than good.

Rhovy Lyn Antonio, who represented the California Apartment Association, urged the council to formulate strategies that would not be costly to landlords.

“It’s hard to protect renters in Palo Alto when you’re harming people who are providing housing to them,” Antonio said.

The only council member who

A now-renting sign is placed outside the Alma Street Apartments complex at 3051 - 3083 Alma Road. A search on Apartments.com shows a one bedroom unit currently rents for $2,695 as of early September. hearing on it on Sept. 17 and potentially revisit the issue of income eligibility, or “means restriction.”

Five council members — Tom DuBois, Adrian Fine, Karen Holman, Lydia Kou and Cory Wolbach — and nearly every member of the public who spoke on this item on Monday urged the council to do so that very evening.

But Mayor Liz Kniss and Scharff, citing a busy agenda, opted to delay the hearing to a future date. Scharff said that because the emergency ordinance remains in effect, the city can take more time with amending the permanent one.

“If we wait two or three weeks, does it really matter?”

Scharff asked.

For those on the other side of the debate, the answer was yes. Former Mayor Pat Burt described the tactic by Kniss and Scharff to delay the changes to the incomelevel issue as “catch and kill” legislation. By delaying the vote, the council will effectively keep President Hotel residents from benefiting from a potentially more expansive proposal with either looser income requirements or none at all.

opposed any new exploration of rent-stabilization measures was Tanaka, who argued that adopting policies that support existing tenants would necessarily bar others from entering the city.

“If you’re just starting out and (there’s) rent control, you’re locked out because no one wants to give up their rent-control apartment,” Tanaka said.

He also suggested that if the

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financial interest in a rental property). In doing so, they ensured that the city’s exploration of rental protections would be largely limited to the measures outlined in a memo co-signed

by DuBois, Holman, Kou and Wolbach.

While the council ultimately voted 7-1, with Tanaka dissenting, to support the approach in the memo, the discussion was marked by bitter discord. DuBois, who favors capping rent increases, proposed a similar memo with Holman and Kou a year ago, though it failed to win their colleagues’ support.

The new memo excluded some of the most controversial policies in the former one — most notably, rent stabilization and a requirement for “just cause” evictions — and added on cosignatory: Wolbach, who usually votes with the council’s more growth-friendly faction.

The compromise quickly collapsed, however, when DuBois proposed an amendment directing the council to discuss a “full range of renter protections,” including rent stabilization and just-cause evictions.

This change irked Fine and Wolbach, each of whom called DuBois’ amendment a “poison pill.” Fine said he believes the council has been “misled” by the three council members who favor rent stabilization. Wolbach said he was “really disappointed” with his co-authors, who he suggested went back on the compromise they reached in the summer memo.

“The problem with trying to find compromise is you might have kumbaya or you might end up dying in no-man’s land,” Wolbach said.

Fine saw the addition of rentstabilization as a deal-breaker, though he also suggested that the memo, in other ways, doesn’t go far enough. The memo, he said doesn’t introduce any concrete ideas. He criticized its authors for a lack of effort.

“This memo comes across to me as window dressing,” Fine said. “I think we need to be professional and separate the emotionalism of this issue, especially with President Hotel, from actual policies and regulations that would serve the current and future residents here.”

While Scharff, Fine and Wolbach called DuBois’ amendment a “radical” change and withdrew their support, Holman and Kou joined DuBois and argued that the situation has grown more urgent since the memo was first considered, as evidenced by the crowds of speakers who have been turning up at recent meetings to protest the planned conversion of President Hotel from an apartment building back to a hotel. Residents are facing a Nov. 12 eviction.

“A lot has happened. Notwithstanding the President Hotel,” Holman said, adding that the discussion is even more appropriate now than it was a year ago. “Climate has changed, the culture has changed, the circumstances have changed, and that’s why we need to be even more inclusive of what the discussion is.”

Holman said not having the discussion will display a “lack of leadership.”

“We are behind other communities; we are lagging behind other communities.” Holman said. “We have people who are leaving the city because they can’t afford it.”

The discussion became particularly testy after Holman called existing tenants such as those in attendance “some of the most valuable tenants and residents we’ll ever have.”

“Because they’ve been invested in this community by way of their residency, by way of their occupations, by way of their volunteerism,” Holman said.

Fine and Scharff chafed at this comment, with Scharff likening Holman’s implied support of existing residents over future ones to the federal restrictions on immigration.

“This reminds me of our immigration debate,” Scharff said.

“I doubt any of you would stand up and say publicly, ‘We don’t want immigrants coming to our city.’”

Holman said she found this comparison “exceedingly, exceedingly insulting.”

Scharff also criticized Holman, Kou and DuBois for reviving a proposal that the council killed last year and turning what should have been an easyto-accept memo into a controversial proposal. Kou countered that she would prefer a “full discussion” that would lead to a “meaningful ordinance” for the residents in town. The vote on this issue, she said, clearly “shows one’s principles and convictions” when it comes to protecting tenants.

The council also heard from about two dozen speakers, representing all sides of the issue.

President Hotel tenants and housing advocates urged the council to do more to support the 44 percent of the city’s residents who rent. Katja Priess, a President Hotel tenant, said that after negotiating Palo Alto’s rental market for 23 years, she now for the first time feels like she has “hit a wall,” with no feasible places for her to move.

“It is an emergency situation, not just for us ... but all of Palo Alto,” Priess said.

Former Mayor Pat Burt noted that San Jose and Mountain View already have renter protections in place. They are also, he noted, the regional leaders in construction of new rental housing.

But landlords and their representatives argued that such

A group of renters from the President Hotel were among those who asked the council to take up the item Monday night. Iqbal Serang said some of his fellow tenants have no place to go after eviction and will soon be homeless. Chris Kellogg asked the council to stop “kicking the can down the road” and noted that the city’s recently approved contract with its new city manager, Ed Shikada, includes a monthly $4,000 housing allowance, in addition to a $356,000 base salary.

“You guys clearly agree it’s expensive to live here. ... But somehow you create a means test for someone who earns $91,000 to get nothing,” Kellogg said.

Kou concurred and said that the longer the council waits, the higher the anxieties will be for tenants. The situation, she said, is urgent.

Kniss, who as mayor has the purview over agenda, rejected requests from the council majority and moved to hold a hearing at a future meeting. The council is now scheduled to take it up on Sept. 17. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com.

city were to pursue such changes, it should first commission an analysis that would consider these policies’ effects in areas such as housing supply and population diversity.

“It’s a radical change; we should do it the right way,” Tanaka said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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He pointed to King Plaza as a metaphor for the kind of place people must create in society and in their hearts and minds — a place where all can roam freely.

Sundas, who has spoken in the past of the public recrimination she faced as a Muslim after 9/11, said she reached out to the September 11th Families and they graciously accepted her.

“The families, my heart goes out to them. They are the people who have lost someone. If they can be for peace work, then none of us have any excuse. “ Maneesha Munshi attended the peace picnic and said she understands what it is like to come from a place filled with hatred and misunderstanding and the lasting effects of violence. As a child living in Kashmir in northern India, she

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“I saw people being killed and bombs dropping. When you are really little, it’s very difficult to come out of that,” she said of the memories. But the peace picnic provides a positive space, one filled with happy, smiling people and hope, she said.

Bill Overton said he had been watching a National Geographic special that played the footage of the 9/11 attacks before he arrived at the picnic.

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There was the sounding of the shofar and the Jewish call to prayer, in addition to calls to peace from Buddhists, Baha’is, Christians and Muslims.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.

Hatred cannot drive out hate, only love can do that,” said the Rev. Kaloma Smith of University AME Zion Church, quoting Martin Luther King. Jr. “I just think it’s really important to have a positive response, to have a statement of being people of light,” said Helen Baumann, a member of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, as she held out her votive candle.

Remembrances are very important in everyone’s life, she said. “This is one we don’t want to forget.” Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Violence related Animal cruelty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Animal attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Assault w/ a deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Child Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Criminal threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dependant adult abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Family violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Attempted burglary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Internet scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resdiential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . 16 Embezzled vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Misc traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of knife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/prop. damage . . . . . 12 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 3 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Casualty fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Firearm disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of false ID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Embezzlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Stored vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Coroner Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Distubing/annoying calls. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic disturbance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

John Frederick Straubel May 19, 1928 – August 21, 2018 John Frederick Straubel, born May 19, 1928 in Green Bay Wisconsin, passed away peacefully on August 21, 2018, in Palo Alto, California, surrounded by family and loved ones. John lived a life full of adventure and creativity, and was able to integrate both into his career at Straubel Communications, the public relations agency he founded, working with a long list of successful Bay Area companies.

After earning his BS in liberal arts in 1950 at Northwestern University in Chicago, John served in the US Navy during the Korean war. Upon the armistice of 1953, he moved first to San Francisco, then Menlo Park, where he built his life and many close friendships. He traveled widely, and was active in forging a better life for disadvantaged people worldwide. He also loved sailing on the SF Bay, and worked for many years in dedicated support of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula.

Mr. Straubel is survived by his sister, Nancy S. Rogers and nieces and nephews Gay Freeborn, Patricia Christopher, Nancy Freeborn, Charles Freeborn, and Philip Freeborn.

Memorial services will be held at 1:30 PM on October 14, 2018, at Trinity Church in Menlo Park, 330 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA. In lieu of gifts or flowers please make a donation in John’s name to The Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. www.bgcp.org

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Roosevelt Circle, 5/2, 3:30 p.m.; sex crime/lewd & lascivious.

3876 El Camino Real, 8/13, 7:40 p.m.; battery/simple.

30 Block Encina Ave., 9/5, 9:54 a.m.; battery/peace officer.

E. Bayshore Road/Embarcadero, 9/5, 8:44 p.m.; child abuse/neglect.

3980 El Camino Real, 9/4, 3:09 a.m.; assault with deadly weapon.

3803 E. Bayshore Road, 9/5, 3:13 p.m.; animal/cruelty.

30 Block Encina Ave., 9/5, 9:54 a.m.; battery/peace officer.

630 San Antonio Road, 9/1, 10 a.m.; criminal threats.

El Camino Real, 9/9, 8:45 a.m.; elder abuse/self neglect.

100 Block Churchill Ave., 9/6, 6:06 p.m.; animal/attack.

Alger Drive, 9/4, 10:08 a.m.; dependant elder abuse/finance.

Menlo Park

400 Block Waverly St., 9/9, 3:48 p.m.; battery.

400 Block Waverly St., 9/9, 10:37 p.m.; assault.

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Editorial Unprecedented obfuscation

After a debate filled with disingenuous comments, council turns its back on renters

n what may be remembered as a new low point for a Palo Alto City Council with many previous low points over the last two years, the council bickered late into the night Monday over whether one of its committees should even discuss rent-stabilization strategies among other means of addressing the plight of renters in the city.

Every resident of Palo Alto who cares about the quality of their representation should devote an hour to watching the council’s “discussion,” which begins just before the five-hour mark of its Sept. 10 meeting.

It is a perfect illustration of how much animosity has developed between some council members and the ways in which honest debate is being highjacked by opaque political maneuvering.

The issue under consideration was a proposal by council members Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth, Lydia Kou and Cory Wolbach to have the council refer to its Policy and Services Committee the topic of how the city might strengthen “protections” for renters.

In what he proudly described as a “compromise” reached over the summer after opposing a similar action last October, Wolbach agreed to join with the others in proposing the referral, which directed the committee to “at least” review the city’s existing ordinances that provide protections to renters and comparable ordinances in the Bay Area; evaluate relocation-assistance requirements when renters are displaced; consider how to improve enforcement of the city’s current requirement that landlords offer a one-year lease; and consider other “updates” to existing renter protections.

As discussion began, DuBois proposed adding a sentence to clarify that the committee’s discussion should include the “full range” of possible rental protections, including rent-stabilization measures such as caps on rent increases or other forms of rent control. According to DuBois, that had been the intent of the four when they agreed to co-author the council-colleagues memo.

What followed was a concerted effort by Scharff, Wolbach and Fine to not only defeat DuBois’ proposed addition but to accuse him of reneging on an agreement (Wolbach), introducing fear into the discussion (Wolbach), radically changing the proposal (Fine), turning a non-divisive issue into a divisive one (Scharff), misleading his colleagues (Fine), being extraordinarily disingenuous (Fine) and trying to exclude newcomers to the community in the way some are trying to keep immigrants from coming to the United States (Scharff).

Eventually, DuBois’ amendment failed on a 4-4 vote, with Tanaka joining Wolbach, Scharff and Fine against Kou, Holman, Filseth and DuBois on the other side. (Mayor Liz Kniss left the meeting stating she had a conflict because she owns rental property.) Later, on a 7-1 vote with Tanaka opposing, the council sent the matter to its policy committee, which Fine chairs, with clear direction that it was not to consider rent stabilization.

Wolbach cast himself as the pragmatist who was simply looking for a compromise that could actually pass the council by steering clear of any consideration of rent control. That reasoning lost its credibility, however, when Wolbach himself stated that he had understood the original proposal to not explicitly prohibit the committee from considering all forms rent-stabilization measures and a strong statement that he wants the council to “tackle” tough issues.

Scharff argued against DuBois’ amendment, stating that it was an “emotional” and divisive topic, but then proposed his own amendment to have the committee consider applying any recommended new rental protections to properties with as few as two rental units rather than the five proposed by DuBois and his three colleagues. That change, which passed, drastically expands the number of potential property owners affected and is a cynical attempt to increase emotion and opposition to tougher measures. It also, perhaps intentionally, may result in Holman and Tanaka joining Kniss as conflicted out of participating in the future due to owning rental units.

So which is it? Do we tackle tough issues or do we avoid a discussion because it is too emotional or controversial?

With renters occupying almost half of the dwelling units in Palo Alto and soaring rents threatening the economic diversity of our city, the council needs to step up and be open to the full range of options.

Limiting future discussion to only the least controversial and the least impactful means of helping renters is an abdication of leadership.

Whether rent caps or other versions of rent control should be adopted in Palo Alto is, hopefully, a debate for another day. But four council members, Scharff, Wolbach, Fine and Tanaka, did everything they could to prevent even a discussion of those options in the future.

By only being willing to study the most modest renter protections, the council is inviting a political revolt with far-reaching social, political and electoral consequences. Council members had a chance Monday night to frame and guide a full and open debate and sadly showed they weren’t up to the task. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Letters Stanford takes too much credit

Editor, Jean McCowan’s Guest Opinion (Palo Alto Weekly, Aug. 3) was certainly interesting.

Her reasoning appears to be since Stanford “owns the land,” Stanford can claim institutional credit for all taxes generated from the use of any Stanford land. As such, all sales tax generated by businesses in the Stanford Shopping Center occur because Stanford “owns the land.”

Not because of the business proprietor’s best practices, quality merchandise, professional staff, sound pricing, wise inventory practices or personalized services, but because Stanford “owns the land.”

Based on this reasoning, Ms. McCown states Stanford’s 20162017 contribution to the Palo Alto Unified School District was not $1.5 million but was $23.8 million.

This larger contribution should ease Palo Alto school board member Todd Collin’s concerns about Stanford not paying “their fair share” to PAUSD. It should also negate Mr. Collins’ concerns about Stanford’s request for expansion (through the general-use permit) and any possible fiscal impacts on PAUSD. I believe it is only fair since Ms. McCown/Stanford take credit for all taxes generated from commercial properties on Stanford land, she/Stanford also take credit for and assume responsibility of all traffic generated by these same businesses. And include this traffic in all future Stanford traffic studies and be required to apply traffic mitigation measures to manage this traffic.

I hope other property owners do not start claiming credit for taxes their renters generate. But if they do, they too should be required to mitigate any traffic resulting from their properties.

It seems unfair to claim credit for tax generation but not for the accompanying traffic.

Rita C. Vrhel Channing Avenue, Palo Alto

Support print journalism

Editor, The degree to which print media is struggling for life horrifies me.

I don’t understand why the enormous value of print media isn’t obvious to everyone. Unlike internet “news,” print media has been vetted.

I pay for the Weekly. I also pay for the Merc, the Times, the Post, the New Yorker and the Guardian. But I’m a rare bird. Until the

rest of Palo Alto develops a conscience, the city needs to continue some financial support (buying notice space) of the Weekly. They are counting pennies, guaranteed.

My parents used to derogatorily refer to the Weekly and the Week Kneed. Most of what is printed, I am not interested in. But that doesn’t make it any less important as a venue for public discourse and information. I think it is vital to keeping Palo Alto on track in terms of values and responsibility.

Seems to me, with all those multi-million dollar remodels, the city ought to be able to figure out some kind of decent income stream.

Deb Goldeen Birch Street, Palo Alto

Don’t simply apologize

Editor, Is an apology truly meaningful if one doesn’t change his or her ways?

We, as neighbors of Castilleja School, are not resistant to changes that benefit students as long as they do not impact our quality of life greatly. Who isn’t in support of education, after all? But shouldn’t

residents have a say in what their limits are or should we leave that to the city or school to decide that for us? Why is the head of Castilleja and the board so resistant to make changes that will better serve the school in the long run and allow it to coexist peacefully in an R1 residentially zoned neighborhood?

Castilleja has willfully violated its maximum enrollment, yet its stays above the limits that City Planner John Lusardi said (in 2000) that beyond which “it would not favorably be looked upon.”

Yet Castilleja still pushes forth with plans for a multiyear (fiveplus years) rebuild of campus and traffic-inducing garage, increased enrollment and myriad variances while asking for forgiveness for their past wrongs.

Is it not better to develop compatible plans with community benefit in mind rather than divide, destroy and alter a neighborhood then ask forgiveness later? As I reflect on the words of Nanci Kaufmann, I wonder what lessons were truly learned given that nothing has changed.

Kimberley Wong Emerson Street, Palo Alto

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Guest Opinion Half a million empty tech jobs ... and growing

by Jenny Dearborn he great economic news: Employment rates are at an alltime high. The terrific news for Americans seeking a career in tech: Our country has nearly 9 million available jobs in STEM with some 70 percent in computers and IT. The downside: More than a half-million of those computing jobs are currently unfilled, and projected to grow at twice the rate of all other U.S. jobs. What’s worse only 49,300 computer science graduates joined the American workforce last year. Closer to home, California is expected to see a shortage of an estimated 2.5 million skilled workers by 2025. Forward-thinking tech companies in Silicon Valley are playing close attention to these ever-widening gaps and seeking solutions now to answer this burning question: Where is this talent going to come from?

Here’s where computer talent won’t be coming from: Q The American K-12 school system. U.S. schools are not even remotely keeping pace in filling the need for tech workers. Only 40 percent of American schools teach computer programming or coding, even though computing jobs are the No. 1 source of new wages in the U.S. Here in Silicon Valley, the situation is also dismal — less than 2 percent of California high school students take computer science courses. Coding should be taught like typing used to be.

Q Other countries’ tech workers. Importing talent is getting harder to do. The

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mounting restrictions on immigration and H-1B visas mean companies are losing access to workers from other countries, adding to the urgency with which tech companies must explore and embrace sustainable alternatives.

Q U.S. colleges and universities. Having more than doubled in average real cost in the past 30 years, a four-year degree has become a growing financial burden for many individuals and families. Student loan debt now totals more than $1.5 trillion. Our home state is also woefully behind, ranking 38 out of 50 in the rate of bachelor’s degrees earned in computer science. Of the 10 states with the most Latino students, California ranks last for the rate of Latinos awarded engineering and computer science degrees — compounding the struggles to increase diversity that tech companies already have.

Less than half of Americans say a college degree is needed to be successful in the workforce (42 percent, down from 55 percent in 2009), yet Americans with college degrees are three times more likely to be employed than U.S. high school graduates.

What is the solution?

Our situation is urgent, but if we work together to develop local, diverse talent we will be able to onboard and train a workforce with grit and the skills to shape the future of work. Innovators in Silicon Valley can look to the past for an answer to their future: apprenticeships. Since the earliest times, skills have been transferred to the next generation via some form of on-the-job training. Today, robust apprenticeship programs are available to incoming workers eager to master wellpaying skills, including for computer jobs.

Many tech leaders agree it is more than time to disrupt our traditional hiring models and talent pipeline and follow suit. The tech sector is well-suited to middle-skills jobs, which require more training and/or education than high school but less than a college degree. In fact, experts now agree that “degree inflation” has become a problem: Companies often require a degree for jobs that can be performed without one. This practice widens skills gaps and increases costs, and can leave employers overpaying for people whose talents are underutilized.

Through technology apprenticeships, Silicon Valley can prepare workers for hard-to-fill roles and individuals can gain stable, meaningful careers without a college degree. Tech apprenticeships, now gaining steam and importance, are earn-while-youlearn programs that provide on-the-job training and mentoring from an employer and role-related classroom instruction from a community college, technical college or computer “boot camp.” Because they can be customized to a company’s needs, businesses can quickly adapt to technology changes.

All apprentices must meet standards for completion, typically hours of both employer-provided and classroom training, as well as demonstration of skills gained. Apprentices are paid throughout, with wages that increase as skills are mastered, providing an economically viable career path to stable, high-demand occupations — up to a $250,000 increase in lifetime earnings.

I urge my colleagues at forward-looking tech companies to join us in examining apprenticeships as a key strategy. SAP proudly co-sponsored the first Silicon Valley Apprenticeship Summit on Aug. 28 on our campus in Palo Alto. The event brought

together thought leaders, including academics, educators and tech executives — both from HR and talent development and from the business — representing major Silicon Valley companies, to address the workforce gap and offer models of apprenticeship and collaborations with private and public institutions. Event co-sponsors were three such partners, which provide tech training and help match employers and apprenticeship candidates: TechSF (California Office of Economic and Workforce Development), Apprenti (a nonprofit based in Washington and active nationally) and Techtonica (a local nonprofit that helps Bay Area women and nonbinary adults with low incomes).

Many hurdles must be overcome before our country prepares our citizens, adequately and equally, for computer jobs, and tech companies must participate in addressing those long-term hurdles. But right now, we can reach people before they become employees, to open the top of the funnel and provide the greatest opportunity to the broadest group of diverse talent. It’s not just about our responsibility as corporate citizens. We need more talent than our current talent strategies can target. We have to change if we are to survive.

The time is now for our industry to seriously consider launching apprenticeship programs — with Silicon Valley taking the lead. Q Jenny Dearborn, MEd, MBA, is executive vice president, human resources and global head of talent, leadership & learning at SAP, the world’s largest B2B software provider. She can be emailed at jenny.dearborn@sap.com.

Streetwise

How long do you spend in traffic each day, and where is it the most congested?

Asked on California Avenue in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Cameron Rebosio.

Derek Pitts

Cliff Smith

Phillip Javitz

Ruth Wu

Mike Forster

East Charleston Road, Palo Alto Cashier

Celia Drive, Palo Alto Test prep instructor

Ashton Avenue, West Menlo Park Front desk attendant

Oxford Avenue, Palo Alto Part-time researcher

Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto Retired

“I use public transport, but I’d say around 5 o’clock the traffic is most congested. I don’t drive, but I’ve been in traffic and it’s usually when people are getting off work.”

“At max, five minutes. I work at home.

However, when I go out the worst is around San Antonio Road and Charleston. It’s just wall to wall cars. ...

I try to time my travel to avoid that.”

“I don’t normally drive very far because I live in Menlo Park, so about 20 or so minutes. ... I avoid the traffic (around California Avenue). ... At any (peak hours) you’re looking at mere miles being half an hour to an hour, so I try not to travel at those times.”

“It’s most congested around Churchill and El Camino later in the day when I have to take my children to after school activities. ... (My bike) is the best way to get around Palo Alto.”

“I’m retired, so I don’t really leave. ...

When I leave Palo Alto all of the traffic is coming in. ... I’m not in traffic, but I certainly see the traffic the other way ... around San Antonio Road.”

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

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels, Lucinda Williams team up on album and on stage

here’s no national treasure title to honor artists in the United States. If there were, multi-reed player Charles Lloyd would surely be among its inaugural class.

The 80-year-old saxophonist launches Stanford Live’s 2018-19 season on Friday, Sept. 21, with his band The Marvels, featuring special guest singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams. Bing Concert Hall audiences will hear for themselves just why he is as quintessentially American as the jazz he plays. His messages of global unity and civic activism, heard in both his music and on-stage remarks, convey a spiritual message that’s as much a part of his artistic identity as his soaring tone on tenor saxophone, flute or Tibetan oboe.

Born in Memphis, the longtime Santa Barbara-area resident was steeped in the city’s rich southern musical scene. Learning from the esteemed late pianist Phineas Newborn and playing with the likes of jazz saxophonist George Coleman and B.B. King and Howlin’ Wolf on the blues side, Lloyd was well-prepared when he headed west to study classical music at the University of Southern California.

The Southland’s vibrant jazz scene was just as welcoming to the affable instrumentalist, and he was able to collaborate with late future legends such as vibraphonist and Montara fixture Bobby Hutcherson and alto saxophonist/musical pioneer Ornette Coleman. He joined drummer Chico Hamilton’s band in 1960 and half a decade later was leading his own groups, including a classic four-piece with pianist Keith Jarrett, double bassist Cecil McBee and drummer Jack DeJohnette.

The quartet’s meditative yet pulsing live recording at the 1966 Monterey Jazz Festival became an instant classic. The success of “Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd at Monterey” and the late Bill Graham making Lloyd the first jazz booking at the famed Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco ensured that he and the quartet were part of the expansive popular music scene of the late ‘60s.

“So many memories of the Bay Area

Photo courtesy of Stanford Live

by Yoshi Kato

Jazz legend Charles Lloyd is teaming up with Lucinda Williams & The Marvels at Bing Concert Hall on Fri., Sept. 21.

— where to begin?” Lloyd told the Weekly in an email. “Back in those days, the Grateful Dead and I performed at the Rock Garden, a music club on Mission, for a week.

“A couple of years ago, Dave Matthews invited me to perform with him as a special guest at his concert at Mountain View, which brings us closer to Palo Alto and Stanford,” he continued. “There is so much history here. I love the intimacy and acoustics at the Bing Concert Hall. It is a beautiful space to perform in.”

Lloyd made his Bing debut back in the summer of 2015 as part of a special Stanford Jazz Workshop concert with guitarist Julian Lage, pianist Aaron Parks, double bassist (and Stanford alum) Larry Grenadier and drummer Eric Harland. He returns with The Marvels, the latest of three rotating bands he leads. This quintet features electric guitar wizard Bill Frisell, first-call pedal steel player Greg Leisz, Santa Cruz resident Reuben Rogers on bass guitar and Harland behind the drum kit.

After a period of self-imposed musical exile in the ‘70s, Lloyd played with European musicians and continued to explore international musical styles

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through the ‘90s.

Lloyd’s New Quartet, which includes Harland and Rogers, has been together since 2004.

“As with any marriage that has longevity, the challenge is to keep communication and creativity fresh and open,” Lloyd said. “We all love to explore and have great trust in each other.”

The latest exploration came in the form of The Marvels, in which piano was exchanged for a twin guitar approach, and Rogers switched from double to electric bass. The group released its debut album, “I Long to See You,” on the famed Blue Note label in January 2016. It featured guest vocals from Willie Nelson and Norah Jones.

Williams sat in when the group played UCLA a couple of months later, and the six ended up releasing a surprise single of Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War” (which was performed at that Royce Hall concert) in January 2017. For the band’s follow-up, “Vanished Gardens,” released in June, Williams’ vocals can be heard on four of her own songs plus Jimi Hendrix’s “Angel.”

“This is an unconventional connection ... an unprecedented collaboration,”

Lloyd said, when asked about the creative connection between him and Williams.

“We don’t talk a lot about what we are going to do with a song. It’s more intuitive with a lot of trust in one another. We both come from a place of authenticity, and I think you can hear that in the music.

“The voice not only adds another instrument to the ensemble, but with Lucinda, we also have a great poet singing to us,” he said. “The lyrics are a major force in establishing the mood and flow of a piece. I find myself amazed at how deep and revelatory her imagery is.” Q Freelance writer Yoshi Kato can be emailed at yoshiyoungblood@ earthlink.net.

What: Charles Lloyd & The Marvels with Lucinda Williams.

Where: Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen Mall, Stanford.

When: Friday, Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m.

Cost: $32-$72.

Info: Go to live.stanford.edu or call 650-724-2464.

Arts & Entertainment

Flawed but fabulous

Bus Barn’s ‘Georgia McBride’ drag comedy not meant for a subdued audience ummer may be ending, but drag queens are hot right now — and you can find them at the Bus Barn Theatre during the Los Altos Stage Company’s run of “The Legend of Georgia McBride.”

Set in the Florida panhandle, “The Legend of Georgia McBride” tells the improbable, but charming, story of a heterosexual Elvis impersonator who falls down on his luck — and face first into a pair of extra-long fake lashes. Casey (Michael Weiland), a man with an under-explained Elvis obsession, has been lip syncing to Elvis recordings at Cleo’s Bar on the beach to help make ends meet — until one day, the ends stop meeting. After splurging on a Papa John’s pizza makes the rent check bounce and his wife, Jo (Ashley Jaye), informs him that they are expecting, Casey puts his misplaced optimism on a brand new, blinged-out jumpsuit that he’s sure will bring new patrons to the bar.

Unfortunately for Casey, with the establishment failing, bar owner Eddie (Todd Wright) has had to make some changes: He’s nixing the Elvis act in favor of drag queens with his cousin, Tracy Mills (Jeffrey Adair) and her friend “Rexy” (the delightfully sassy Michael Saenz) as the stars. Casey is allowed to stay on as bartender — until Rexy (short, of course, for “Anorexia Nervosa”) falls down drunk while preparing for her Edith Piaf act and Eddie tells Casey he has five minutes to get into a dress or else he’s fired.

In a montage of scenes in which we see Casey blossom, the drag queen Georgia McBride is born.

The Los Altos cast and crew manage admirably with a script that is very flawed — while the quips are shady and the characters are lovable, it’s written with a bigbudget theater (or a magician) in mind. The playwright, Matthew Lopez, whisks characters in and out of drag at the drop of a hat but the constraints of reality make the scene changes feel impossibly long. That’s unfortunate, because the actors do their best to make the scenes themselves feel fast-paced and upbeat; however, the lulls in between each scene mean that the actors must start from scratch each time the lights come up to bring the room back up to full energy.

Weiland is charming, both in drag and out, and gives both Casey and Georgia an earnestness that makes you root for him (them?) from the start. Of particular note, however, is Wright’s transformation from playing the gruff bar owner to serving some “sickening” — that is, amazing — emcee realness. While his character’s metamorphosis is mostly about showing the passage of time and the success of the bar, he plays his role with such sincerity and enthusiasm that you can’t help but fall in

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THEATER REVIEW love with him. And while Adair and Saenz both nail their comedic moments, it’s the serious moments that make them most endearing.

When Adair reflects on the “next 20 years” of Tracy’s life, or Saenz shares about the price Rexy has paid to be a queen — and how being a queen was not a choice — those are the moments when this show feels the most real and honest. From a dramaturgical perspective, Jo feels mostly like she was written into the show to facilitate Casey’s development and create a moment of climax, but Jaye does her best to give her three dimensions. One question that came up for me was the choice for Jo not to have an accent. I understand that she was from Tallahassee and had aspirations to leave the panhandle, but with all of the men affecting such strong Southern accents, Jo’s lack of accent felt out of place.

The set, designed by Randy Wong-Westbrooke, is delightfully tacky — and evocative of a dive bar in Florida, complete with multicolored Christmas lights as the “stage lighting.” (And although Tracy complains that the dressing room is her version of hell, having personally gotten in character in the storage closet of a dive bar, I can say from experience that their backstage area is relatively palatial.) Y. Sharon Peng’s costumes helped set the stage for some dive bar drag, although I would have loved to have seen more rhinestones, glitter and glam, especially as Cleo’s is transformed into a gay mecca, complete with a bubble machine and real stage lights. (As many queens will tell you of their glittery costumes, “It costs a lot to look this cheap!”)

This show would have been a great opportunity to do some audience education: Many people came in expecting a theater show when what they needed was an audience that has been to a drag bar or two. The drag numbers, well, dragged a bit, but not because of anything the actors did or didn’t do. The audience didn’t know that it was OK — and even welcome — to cheer, clap and get into the music. A drag performer feeds on audience energy — it’s a two-way conversation. Because the Bus Barn stage is so intimate, it would have been great to have seen the drag performers leave the stage and interact with audience members. At the very least, someone

should have signaled the audience that it was OK to be loud and excited when the performers started lip-syncing.

I have never seen a show at the Los Altos Stage Company that was anything short of excellent, and this show is not the exception.

It’s very clear that the cast, crew and production team put a lot of love into this production and I want to see it get the audience and the response that it deserves.

And I believe that the right audience is out there. If you’re reading this and you’re a “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fan, you’ll get the “tea and shade” — juicy gossip and attitude — you’re looking for. If you frequented San Francisco’s Castro district before it was cool, you’ll get the nostalgia and homage to the queens of yore (complete with

Photo courtesy of Los Altos Stage Company.

by Kaila Prins

Michael Weiland, left, Jeffrey Adair, center, and Michael Saenz play female impersonators who perform at a drag club in Florida in the comedy “The Legend of Georgia McBride,” which is playing at the Bus Barn Theatre through Sept. 30.

Streisand lip-sync) you’re expecting. And if you’ve never been to a drag show before, you’ll get an introduction to a world full of lovable characters that will hopefully convince you to learn more about

the herstory of this fabulous art form — and get ready to “werk, squirrel friend!” Q Freelance writer Kaila Prins can be emailed at kailaprins@ gmail.com.

What: “The Legend of Georgia McBride.”

Where: Los Altos Stage Company, 97 Hillview Ave, Los Altos.

When: Through Sept. 30.

Cost: $20-$38.

Info: Go to losaltosstage.org.

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Eating Out Sasha Lipton’s raspberry thumbprint cookies are made with homemade jam. Her cookies, cakes and other desserts have no grains, gluten, soy, dairy or refined sugar.

by Alicia Mies | Photos by Veronica Weber ith advice coming from all directions, it can be difficult to navigate the oversaturated and complicated health food industry. Should you eliminate all sugars from your diet? Should you go keto, paleo or vegan? Should you try some form of fasting?

For Sasha Lipton, founder of Redwood City desserts company Clean Sweets by Sasha, it’s always been about enjoying food while consuming nutritionally dense ingredients. Since March, Lipton has been making and selling cakes, muffins, cookies and other desserts with no grains, gluten, soy, dairy or refined sugar — basically, the ingredients that people associate with baked goods.

“There are a ton of gluten-free and vegan bakeries, but vegan and gluten-free doesn’t mean healthy in any sense. There are tons of sugar and gums and thickeners and weird oils added to make those baked goods be the texture and taste that you would expect,” Lipton said. “I think the more simple, the better. I’m staying true to that.”

After plenty of trial and error, Lipton created a base recipe. She uses almond flour, which she said makes her desserts more dense, and replaces butter and cream with coconut oil. She sweetens her desserts, made in

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her home kitchen, with maple syrup. She makes everything from lemon poppyseed muffins and banana bread to peanut butter blondies, vegan raspberry thumbprint cookies and coconut chocolate chip cookies.

When she was living in New York in 2014, a doctor told Lipton to cut out grains, gluten, dairy, refined sugar and soy from her diet to remedy her cystic acne. She quickly realized there were few truly healthy sweets available. Motivated by a major sweet tooth, Lipton, who has baked and cooked throughout her life, started to experiment in the kitchen, making healthier variations of her favorite sweets.

As her skin started to clear up and she started to feel more energetic, she said she started sharing her baked goods with family and coworkers.

“I didn’t tell people that they were healthy and people loved (them),” Lipton said. “They were asking for recipes and raving about them as if they were just a traditional baked good. I kind of felt like I had something there.”

She moved to the Bay Area in September and while she was in the tech industry, she said she didn’t feel passionate about her work. She instead decided to pursue her passion project, quitting her day job to start Clean Sweets in March.

Lipton said she hopes to help other people who are trying to be more conscious of the ingredients that they put into their bodies while also making a delicious product.

“I don’t want to make baked goods that taste good for being healthy,” she said. “I wanted to make baked goods that taste good and happen to be healthy.”

Her baked goods are available online (cleansweetsbysasha.com) for delivery or pickup in Redwood City and for sale at Bare Bowls in Palo Alto and the Sigona’s Farmers Market at Stanford Shopping Center.

Lipton also takes special orders for events.

She continues to experiment — right now, think a healthier version of a rainbow cookie that uses spinach and turmeric for color — and hopes to focus more on seasonal ingredients in the future, such as pumpkins in the fall or ginger during the holidays. Her goal is to open a brick-and-mortar bakery, ideally in Palo Alto, where people can have a cup of coffee and a slice of guilt-free cake.

“As people start to understand what certain foods do to their body and what’s happening on the inside because of those foods, I think healthy baked goods will become more and more mainstream,” Lipton said. Q Alicia Mies is a former Palo Alto Weekly intern.

Left: Clean Sweets by Sasha offers a healthier chocolate cake with vanilla frosting. Right: Sasha Lipton, creator of Clean Sweets by Sasha, mixes brownie batter made with almond flour, cocoa powder, eggs, vanilla, coconut sugar and coconut oil in her home kitchen in Redwood City.

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ShopTalk

Local food & retail happenings

THE RESET POP UPS AT STANFORD ... San Francisco entrepreneur Maria Peevey, who made millions off her SimplyDog pet fashion brand, has opened womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clothing store, The Reset, at Stanford Shopping Center. The new store which opened Sept. 1, will carry the R Label collection that she launched online in May 2017.

The Stanford pop-up will remain open through December. According to the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website, Peevey created her R Label collection to empower women who are in various stages of resetting their lives â&#x20AC;&#x201D; starting a new job, going through a break up â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with a wardrobe that takes the stress out of dressing.

Peevey reportedly went on a quest to find the perfect wardrobe for women of all ages, shapes and sizes by trying on every item herself and holding try-on parties

to determine which pieces would make up the current collection. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;L.T. ALL-DAY CAFE, BAR JOINS BROADWAY ... The owners of Blacksmith Bar on Broadway Street in Redwood City are opening a new venture directly across the street: The Nighthawk, which will serve coffee by day and cocktails by night. The Nighthawk will open to the public at 2033 Broadway St. on Sunday, Sept.

16, said general manager Lauren Brown. Blackmith Bar husband-andwife co-owners Michael Magalong and Seana Stockton envision The Nighthawk as a neighborhood hangout with â&#x20AC;&#x153;good music, good food, good cocktails,â&#x20AC;? Brown said. During the day, The Nighthawk will serve Ritual Coffee Roasters coffee and espresso drinks as well as pastries from The Midwife and the Baker in

Mountain View. In the evening, the space will become a bar with cocktails and small bites. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;E.K. BYE BYE BABY BANDALOU ...

Palo Alto baby gear retailer Baby Bandalou has shut down its flagship store at 217 S. California Ave. According to the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Facebook page, the shop is relocating and customers should â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stay tuned for more details.â&#x20AC;? The company held a moving sale on Aug. 28-29. This week, the shop is vacant. Local mom Lucia Siesel founded the still active online company in 2014 to connect and band together parents who want similar products so they can get discounts on high-end baby products using crowdsourcing. Through the website, customers join a buying group before submitting their orders. - L.T. Compiled by the Weekly staff; this week written by Elena Kadvany and Linda Taaffe. Got leads on interesting and news-worthy retail developments? The Weekly will check them out. Email shoptalk@ paweekly.com.

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Dogged pursuits Puppies vie to become guide dogs in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Pick of the Litterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 0001/2 (Aquarius Theatre) There are two kinds ongoing usefulness to OPENINGS of of people in the world: the nonprofit organizapeople who hate dogs, and people tion, whether as guide dogs placed who will love â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pick of the Litter,â&#x20AC;? with blind clients or as breeders the dog-themed documentary sen- of the next generation. The numsation of the year. Wait, did I say bers involved and complexity of â&#x20AC;&#x153;dogs?â&#x20AC;? I meant to say â&#x20AC;&#x153;puppies.â&#x20AC;? the guide-dog program necessitate Five Labrador retriever puppy an approach of more breadth than siblings named Potomac, Patriot, depth, the brisk 81-minute docuPrimrose, Poppet and Phil. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mentary playing like a compressed right, folks. This movie is tak- season of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most adorable ing no chances when it comes to reality competition (the filmmakwarming your heart. ers really ought to look into franBay-Area-based co-directors chising â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pick of the Litterâ&#x20AC;? as a Dana Nachman (of Los Altos) and reality series).

Don Hardy (of Alameda) locate a Filming across a roughly twocompelling narrative by tracking year span, Nachman and Hardy the journey of this litter of puppies show an interest in the personaliâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; born and raised under the auspic- ties of the dogs and certainly in es of Guide Dogs for the Blind â&#x20AC;&#x201D; what each dog is capable of achievfrom birth through their upbring- ing. If this is largely a puppy-ining and training to their evaluation terest story, the human element

still drives it, with as many as 250 people, most of them volunteers, touching each dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young life in the program. Although the filmmakers cannily avoid any authorial commentary, what we see of the dogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; volunteer trainers as they raise and attempt to prepare their foster puppies to demonstrate their potential as guide dogs can at times evoke the character-based commentary of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best in Show.â&#x20AC;?

One of the most experienced and successful couples gives off a whiff of smug confidence while other families confess their hopes and jitters as they train their little charges. One puppy trainer, an endearing eccentric with a heart as big as all outdoors, turns out to suffer from PTSD, giving his bond with his dog deeper significance.

That the puppies are destined to wind up elsewhere lends these passages a poignancy: We have to watch the trainers return their dogs, a moment as difficult as it is inevitable. Some dogs wash out at this stage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Guide Dogs for the Blind politely terms this â&#x20AC;&#x153;career change,â&#x20AC;? whether that be to a breeder role, a less demanding service placement, or a role as a household pet.

Those dogs identified as finalist candidates get paired with Guide Dogs for the Blind trainers who prepare the animals for DoggyDMV-style evaluations of their road safety in guiding the blind.

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 2018 A benefit event for local nonprofits supporting kids & families 34th Annual

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Moonlight Run & Walk

Runners in the 10k race at the Moonlight Run takeoff from the starting line on October 6, 2017.

34th annual Palo Alto Weekly Moonlight Run & Walk The Palo Alto Weekly and City of Palo Alto sponsor a benefit event for local nonprofits supporting kids and families

When: Friday, Sept. 21, 7-10 p.m., under the nearfull harvest moon. Race-night registration tables open at 6 p.m.

Where: Baylands Athletic Center, 1900 Geng Road (at Embarcadero Road), Palo Alto Why: The event supports community nonprofit organizations through the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund.

Early registration: Register at PaloAltoOnline. com/moonlight_run. Pre-registration closes at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 19.

Race-night registration: Tables open at 6 p.m.

Cash, check and credit cards will be accepted. Racenight registration fee is $45 for adults/$35 for youth/ $55 for half marathon. Participants under 18 years who have not pre-registered must be accompanied

to the registration table by a parent or guardian who can sign the waiver. Refunds are not available before or after the event.

T-shirts: T-shirts available with registration only while supplies last. T-shirts for participants who register early will not be held for no-shows. Children running free do not receive T-shirts.

Start times: 5K walk at 7 p.m.; Half Marathon at 7:30 p.m.; 5K run at 8:15 p.m.; 10K run at 8:25 p.m.

Course maps: • 5K: www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/ 2032910941 • 10K: www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/ 2221944502 • Half Marathon: www.mapmyrun.com/routes/ view/2221863001

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Palo Alto Middle schooler and winner of past two Moonlight 5K runs, prepares to set a new record

Veronica Weber

Ella Fadil may only be 13 years old, but don’t let her age deceive you. The Palo Alto middle schooler has taken first place in the Women’s 5K at the annual Palo Alto Weekly Moonlight Run & Walk for the past two consecutive years, beating out more than 300 runners ages 2 to 80, each time.

This year, she hopes to shave off time from her personal best when she hits the trails at the 34th Annual Moonlight Run at the Palo Alto Baylands on Friday, Sept. 21.

“I just want to improve my times. It doesn’t really matter to me what place I come in — I just want to beat my own,” said Ella, whose winning times of 21:05:990 in 2016 and 19:44.023 last year show a considerable improvement of over a minute.

The darkness of the night is what first prompted Ella to participate in the Moonlight Run, which is held under the full (or near-full) harvest moonlight each year. It’s something that’s kept her coming back for the past four years. “(The darkness) actually makes it easier because during the day, there’s so many distractions. At night, you focus on the path and the trail you’re running on,” Ella said.

Then 12-year-old Ella Fadil, right, was the first female to finish the 5k race in the 2017 Palo Alto Weekly Moonlight Run & Walk.

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Moonlight Run & Walk

34TH ANNUAL

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5K Run & Walk, 10K Run and Half Marathon

New race, route changes announced for annual Moonlight Run & Walk Inaugural half marathon, revamped 5K take runners through the Bayland’s scenic marshes

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When Ella ran her first Moonlight Run in 2014 at age 9, it was her third 5K race ever. She finished in ninth place. Two years later, at age 11, she came in first place.

The win came as a shock to Ella and her family, as she had encountered a setback early in the run. Near the starting line, Ella tripped and it was a several-second delay before she stood and resumed the race. She

half-mile to the route.

The highly anticipated half marathon will take place extensively through the marshes, grasses and ponds in the Baylands.

The 13.1-mile route follows Bayshore Road for about 2 miles before turning east into a narrow and curvy strip of land between Soap Pond and Charleston Slough.

The route continues along Adobe Creek toward the San Francisco Bay before tracing the Mayfield Slough back inland. This course is repeated once before runners head toward the Palo Alto Airport and back to Embarcadero to wrap up the half marathon.

Half marathoners who reach the 9.5 milepost two hours after the race’s 7:30 p.m. start, however, will be diverted along a shorter route to the finish line.

Shiloh said the half marathon was added after multiple requests last year for longer distances. “(Runners from last year) wanted more of a challenge. If they’re going to do a race, they want to do a big one,” she said Shiloh, who anticipates 2,000 walkers and runners to participate in this year’s event. “I think it attracts more people from a diverse geographical area.”

Palo Alto Weekly publisher Bill Johnson said half marathons have gotten more popular in recent times and emphasized the “uniqueness” of an evening run.

Despite the event happening late in the evening, it’s held every year under the full (or near-full) Harvest Moon, which creates bright and serene moonlit trails. In addition, large lighting equipment will be installed at various points along the trail to ensure safety.

Water stations will be available roughly every 3 miles for half marathoners; at miles 2 and 4.5 for 10K runners; and at midpoint for 5K participants.

The 10K run will remain roughly unchanged from last year, following the same route as the half marathon without steering inland along Mayfield Slough for a second lap — instead, the trail heads directly toward Bixby Park and back toward Embarcadero Road to the finish.

The nonprofit event raises proceeds for the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund, which benefits local nonprofits that serve families

finished the run with a scraped leg and shoulder, but no effort was spared, scoring her the firstplace slot in the 5K. “I was with my friend and we were both checking our own scores, but he was actually checking for mine,” Ella said.

“He saw that I had gotten first, and he just started yelling. I was really excited, but I didn’t believe him ... I was with my friends that I run with, so they were really supportive.”

On her daily runs, Ella likes to be with her friends and family. She said running fosters a

unique type of communication and closeness.

“When you’re running ... with your friends, you have great conversations with them,” she said.

“You’re just out running, and there’s no phones.”

An avid athlete, Ella, who currently attends Greene Middle School, has played basketball and water polo and won every single race in cross country while on the team in sixth and seventh grades.

Her mother, Kendra Fadil, said Ella has always shown an interest in running.

“As soon as she learned how to

See route map on page 34.

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The sky and water of the Palo Alto Baylands, where the run will take place, are illuminated in rosy hues as the sun sets on February 2015. and children in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. Last year’s event raised more than $60,000.

Registration for all four events

begins at 6 p.m. on Friday’s race night at Baylands Athletic Center, 1900 Geng Road, Palo Alto. Q —Christine Lee

walk, she’d run anywhere. I was always chasing after her,” she said.

Ella’s family has shared her passion for running. Her parents were both involved in sports in college and are still active runners. Her mother runs the Sports Medicine Institute in Palo Alto and runs three or four times a week, and her father runs every day. While casual running has become a family activity that connects the Fadils, her parents are cautious to keep Ella’s ambitions from overtaking her life.

“We keep her back from training too hard,” Kendra Fadil said.

“We tell her ‘You’ll have all the time to train and run, but for now just do what you enjoy doing.’”

Still, Ella’s ambitious attitude is certainly not lacking.

“She’s one of the most competitive people I’ve ever met, and I’ve worked on Olympic athletes,” said Kendra Fadil. “She has this competitive drive to win, but it’s

not against other athletes, it’s with herself.”

Ella said she doesn’t do any rigorous training in preparation for the 5K run. Instead, she said she uses the Moonlight Run as a starting point in which to improve upon.

“I normally run the Moonlight Run before I start training in any way. I want to see where I’m at before (exercising),” Ella said.

This year, Ella will be returning to the race, accompanied by her mother, father and two younger sisters, ages 5 and 11. Though Ella’s youngest sister will be in a stroller pushed by her mother during the race, she already shows signs of sharing the family passion as she tends to get out of her stroller and run alongside the others sporadically. For Ella, running makes her complete. “(I love) the way (running) makes me feel,” Ella said. “I feel fulfilled.” Q —Cameron Rebosio

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Veronica Weber

Palo Alto Weekly’s annual Moonlight Run & Walk is returning Friday, Sept. 21, with some exciting changes — most notably, on the trail. The run, now in its 34th year, will include a half marathon for the first time and a new 5K route allowing for better views of the Palo Alto Baylands. The route for the 10K run will remain unchanged.

Whereas last year’s 5K trail set out toward the Baylands along Embarcadero Road, but turned back inland at Bayshore Road, much of the 5K this year will take place near the water. The run will still start on Embarcadero Road, but continue into the Baylands through the Adobe Creek Loop Trail that follows a stream across Mayfield Slough, before returning to Embarcadero.

The 5K route will take participants (both walkers and runners) up onto the Bixby Park hill, which offers a view of the entire bay.

This year’s trail is at a higher elevation, which also will allow for nicer views, according to Moonlight Run coordinator Kali Shiloh.

Last year’s 5K trail was 18 feet at max elevation, while this year’s is 22 feet.

Walkers also have the option of extending their 5K by adding a

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Saturday, October 13th, 1-6 PM

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Moonlight Run & Walk

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34TH ANNUAL

WHAT’S HAPPENING AND WHEN 6 p.m. Registration opens.

Activities, sponsors’ booths and more on the field (see below).

6:45 p.m. Pre-walk warmups.

7 p.m. 5K walk begins.

7:15 p.m. Pre-race warmups.

7:30 p.m. Half marathon begins.

8 p.m. Pre-race warm-ups.

5K Run & Walk, 10K Run and Half Marathon

FIELD ACTIVITIES AND BOOTHS

8:15 p.m. 5K run begins.

8:25 p.m. 10K run begins.

8:45 p.m. Food tables open for 5K and 10K runners.

Post-race snacks provided by Country Sun Natural Foods, Hobee’s and House of Bagels.

9:30-10 p.m. Awards ceremony for the top three finishers in each category.

Race results will be posted as available.

Live music from School of Rock Palo Alto Q Zumba warm up with JCC instructors Q Sponsor booths: Ada’s Cafe, Axis Personal Trainers, City of Palo Alto, City of Palo Alto Library, Connoisseur Coffee, Continental Caterers, Fleet Feet Sports, Hobee’s, Oshman Family

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All events will head out south on Geng, turn east on Embarcadero and then head out onto trails and levees south toward Mountain View. (See the course map for more details.)

Storage: Limited checking of small personal bags and backpacks is available.

Pets: Dogs are permitted on

the 5K walk but not on any of the runs, where the terrain and darkness make it too dangerous to have them. No retractable leashes. Bring your own clean-up bag.

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Starting line: The start and finish of all four events are in the (closed) parking lot at

Parking: Police and volunteers will direct you to parking in nearby business lots off Embarcadero and East Bayshore roads. Plan on arriving early and carpooling if possible, as lots will fill up. We recommend arriving at least an hour before your event. Please avoid parking in Stanford Eye Clinic lots.

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Medals for first-, secondand third-place finishers in each division will be handed out once final results are in, between 9:30 and 10 p.m.

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OPEN HOME GUIDE 58 Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com

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

HISTORIC HOME FOR SALE ... Villa Mariposa, the Mountain View home of a prominent business leader in the city’s nascent era, is on the market this fall. The Arts-and-Crafts-style home with custom-designed period furniture pieces was once owned by Wilbur Camp, who formed the Farmers & Merchants Bank and served as its president more than 100 years ago. The home, listed at $5,998,000, is 4,017 square feet on a 22,215-square-foot lot. The large backyard has a pergola deck, pool and spa.

ROSE GATHERING ... The September meeting of the Peninsula Rose Society will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 18, from 7:30 - 9 p.m.

The topic is “Photographing Roses with Digital Equipment,” and will include tips on composition, lighting and close-ups. Speaker Jan Hedman, who grew up on the Peninsula, has had her photos in five American Rose Society national calendars.

The event will be held at the Veterans Senior Center, 1455 Madison Ave.,Redwood City.

For more information, go to peninsularosesociety.org.

OCTOBER GARDEN LUNCH ... If you want to gather your friends and eat lunch al fresco, try Gamble Garden’s “Garden Fresh Luncheons, held monthly. The next one will be Wednesday, Oct. 10, from noon to 2 p.m. and will include a complimentary docent-led tour through the garden at 1:30 p.m. Reservations are required for all luncheons.

Call 650-329-1356. The cost is $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. October’s lunch menu is Shadows lentil soup, a green salad, cheese puff Gougere and an apple crumble. For upcoming holiday luncheons, which are Dec. 4 - 8, call 650-329-1356 starting Nov. 1. The holiday luncheons are $30 per person for members and $40 per person for nonmembers.

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

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Real Estate Matters Editor’s Note As late September and October bring bright hot days and brisk nights, the Midpeninsula real estate market might do the same. Will it be hot?

Chilly? A buyer’s market or seller’s? Over the next two weeks, two regular Weekly real estate columnists will weigh in on what to expect the rest of the season. This week, Hadar Guibara of Sereno Group in Palo Alto brings data, her experience and knowledge of how buyers and sellers think, to her forecast. Next week, Xin Jiang of Alain Pinel Realtors in Palo Alto, will give her insights.

—Elizabeth Lorenz

Veronica Weber

Home Front

More inventory may be good news for buyers

by Hadar Guibara

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s summer comes to a close, buyers and sellers want to know what to expect this fall. Will the market heat up, kind of like late summer temperatures often do in the Bay Area? Will home prices continue to rise, stay the same or decrease? Does a market like Silicon Valley even slow down?

Multiple factors can affect our market and even slight changes can be hard to anticipate. But I can tell you what we typically see in the fall and how that compares with what we’ve experienced this summer.

Usually the summer months bring a market slowdown, as school is out, families are on vacation and many potential buyers take a break from house hunting. But once Labor Day is over and kids are back in school, we typically have what I call a “second spring” market from September through November. We usually see an increase in both inventory and demand, often making the fourth quarter the busiest of the year.

What will that mean for this fall? Let’s look at our starting point.

For the majority of 2018, inventory levels for Silicon Valley have hovered around

one month’s supply. Historically speaking, these numbers are very low. But in July, inventory levels crept up a bit to almost

Buyers will need to partner with an expert who can position them to be successful with a strong offer out of the gate. one-and-a half-month’s supply. This still doesn’t indicate a buyer’s market, but it does mean buyers had more homes to choose from in July than they’ve had the rest of the year.

Accompanying the increase in supply was a drop in the median home price for single-family homes for both Santa Clara and San Mateo counties as a whole, and many of the individual markets they

encompass. In July, the median home price in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties fell from second-quarter numbers of $1.4 million and $1.65 million respectively, to $1.35 million and $1.6 million.

This represented a 4 percent (Santa Clara) and 3 percent (San Mateo) drop in median home prices. The markets that bucked this trend and saw an increase in median home prices were: Woodside, Los Altos Hills, Cupertino and Menlo Park.

Most homes, except those in Los Altos Hills and Cupertino, took longer to sell in July than they did in the second quarter.

This was good news for buyers who stuck around for the summer market. The good news for sellers was that in July, homes in every market except Woodside and Portola Valley sold above listing price.

Going into fall, we are likely to see a brisk market with increased competition.

At least early on, buyers will have more homes to choose from than they’ve had all year. This increased competition means property preparation, marketing and pricing strategy will become even more important for sellers. Buyers will need to partner with an expert who can position them to be successful with a strong offer out of the gate. Q Hadar Guibara is a Realtor for Sereno Group in Palo Alto. She can be emailed at hadar@serenogroup.com.

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6 Heritage Ct Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services

$3,888,000 947-4700

4 Bedrooms

217 Stockbridge Av $6,000,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740 30 Amador Av $6,250,000 Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 323-7751

BELMONT 4 Bedrooms

104 Manchester Ln $1,698,000 Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

BURLINGAME 4 Bedrooms

1301 Drake Av $3,295,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141

EAST PALO ALTO 2 Bedrooms

1012 Bay Rd Sat/Sun eXp Realty of California Inc.

$848,000 269-7557

LOS ALTOS 2 Bedrooms

51 Los Altos Square $1,648,000 Sat/Sun Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141

3 Bedrooms

1363 Arbor Av $3,495,000 Sat/Sun Sereno Group 947-2900 1320 Country Club Dr $2,700,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

4 Bedrooms

1070 Suffolk Way Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$3,495,000 947-2900

1700 Dalehurst Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$2,398,000 947-2900

2 Bedrooms

5 Bedrooms

770 University Av $5,299,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 644-3474

MENLO PARK 2 Bedrooms - Condominium

2375 Sharon Rd Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

MOUNTAIN VIEW

$1,298,000 323-1111

3 Bedrooms

389 O’Connor St $1,795,000 Sat/Sun Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141 212 Sand Hill Cir $1,749,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 851-1961 595 Morey Dr $2,475,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 1025 Oakland Av $1,998,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141

4 Bedrooms

1044 Sonoma Av $3,495,000 Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 2120 Camino De Los Robles $3,995,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 925 Cotton St $4,450,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 240 Ringwood Av $4,588,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 2328 Branner Dr $3,250,000 Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141

5 Bedrooms

1340 Hoover St $2,995,000 Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111 1943 Camino A Los Cerros $5,798,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 941 Peninsula Way $3,988,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 1180 Cloud Av $4,398,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 847-1141

Open Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 PM 9/15 & 16 470 Marion Ave, Palo Alto Between Waverley & Cowper

394 Farley St Sat 1-4 Coldwell Banker

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

437 Rhone Ct Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 400 Ortega Av #209 Sat 11-1 Coldwell Banker

$1,999,000 851-2666 $1,298,000 543-8500 $888,000 325-6161

3 Bedrooms

201 Granada Dr $1,488,888 Sat/Sun 1-5 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700 472 S Shoreline Blvd $2,198,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 947-2900 1294 Cuernavaca Circulo $1,598,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700

3 Bedrooms - Townhouse

467 Mountain Laurel Ct Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Sereno Group

4 Bedrooms

425 Chesley Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$1,499,000 947-2900 $2,698,000 543-8500

2 Bedrooms

470 Marion Av Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 737 San Jude Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Coldwell Banker 411 Maureen Av Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

$2,388,000 462-1111 $1,995,000 324-4456 $2,750,000 321-1596

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

185 Forest Av #2a $1,988,000 Sat/Sun 12-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

3 Bedrooms

1652 Emerson St $4,895,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200 4232 Darlington Ct $2,599,900 Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 947-2900 3162 Ross Rd $2,595,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 323-1900

4 Bedrooms

1850 Waverley St $4,998,000 Sun Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 644-3474 245 Washington Av $5,450,000 Sun Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 644-3474

5 Bedrooms

47 Hamilton Ct $5,995,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 161 Bryant St $4,988,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 903 Ramona St $4,980,000 Sat 2-5/Sun 1:30-4:30 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111 1321 Harker Av Call for price Sun Deleon Realty 543-8500 931 Laurel Glen Dr Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 1087 Fife Av Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 417 Seneca St Sun Deleon Realty

7 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms

1160 Westridge Dr $5,850,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 323-7751 20 Coyote Hill $2,775,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 130 Gabarda Way $2,895,000 Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740 1305 Westridge Dr $5,998,000 Sun Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 644-3474

4 Bedrooms

80 Bear Gulch Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 950 La Mesa Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 139 Crescent Av Sun Coldwell Banker

5 Bedrooms

25 Bear Gulch Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

6 Bedrooms

167 Ramoso Rd Sun Coldwell Banker

PALO ALTO

6 Bedrooms

4256 Manuela Ct Sat Deleon Realty

Contractor special. Beautiful street in premier Mid-Town Palo Alto location, within walking distance of shops, parks, excellent schools. The perfect spot on which to build your new dream home. Lot 5512 and exisiting home 1403 plus 2-car detached garage.

Offered at $2,388,000

PORTOLA VALLEY

$6,995,000 323-1111 $4,800,000 462-1111 $7,888,000 543-8500 $9,800,000 543-8500

8 Bedrooms

140 Willowbrook Dr Sat Coldwell Banker

Cell: 650-642-1422 Lic. 00409938 Alain Pinel Realtors, Menlo Park loudedera@gmail.com Selling Peninsula homes since 1978 Dimensions deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

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$5,595,000 851-1961 $5,495,000 324-4456 $6,388,000 851-1961

REDWOOD CITY 3 Bedrooms

1616 Union Av $1,875,000 Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 644-3474

4 Bedrooms

3723 Jefferson Ct Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 632 Canyon Rd Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

5 Bedrooms

1036 Silver Hill Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$3,159,000 462-1111 $3,295,000 325-6161 $2,790,000 325-6161

SAN CARLOS 3 Bedrooms

1724 Greenwood Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,150,000 324-4456

SAN MATEO 3 Bedrooms

1536 Oak St Sat 12-4 Coldwell Banker

$1,725,000 324-4456

SANTA CLARA 3 Bedrooms

669 Armanini Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

3 Bedrooms - Townhouse

2462 Golf Links Cir Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,198,000 543-8500 $1,388,000 324-4456

WOODSIDE 3 Bedrooms

772 W California Way Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,495,000 529-1111

4 Bedrooms

6 Quail Ct $4,190,000 Sun 2-4 Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740

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133 Music Lessons Christina Conti Piano Private piano lessons. In your home or mine. Bachelor of Music, 20+ years exp. 650/493-6950 CMEC Music Instruction Covenant Music Education Center (CMEC) invites children and youth wishing to enroll in private music lessons in piano, voice, flute, violin, brasses and organ. Contact Covenant Music Education Center at 650-494-1760 or covenant presbyterian.net/cmec.

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under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 08/02/2016.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 15, 2018.

(PAW Aug. 24, 31; Sept. 7, 14, 2018)

under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/01/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on September 6, 2018.

(PAW Sept. 14, 21, 28; Oct. 5, 2018)

SLEEP MEDICINE SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN645379 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Sleep Medicine Services, located at 455 O’Connor Dr. Ste. 110, San Jose, CA 95128, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ALEX A. CLERK, M.D. 455 O’Connor Dr. Ste. 110 San Jose, CA 95128 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/28/1998.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 15, 2018.

(PAW Aug. 24, 31; Sept. 7, 14, 2018)

997 All Other Legals

HESHMAT PAIN MANAGEMENT CLINIC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN645395 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Heshmat Pain Management Clinic, located at 220 California Ave., Suite 100, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ALEN HESHMAT 220 California Ave., Suite 100 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05/15/2007.

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

(PAW Aug. 31; Sept. 7, 14, 21, 2018)

CAPITAL DESIGN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN645372 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Capital Design, located at 3079 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): GREG THOMAS ALBRECHT 3079 Emerson Street Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 08/10/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on Aug 15, 2018.

(PAW Aug 24, 31; Sept 7, 14, 2018)

VISTA TECHNOLOGIES VISTA TECH FCI VISTA MINIMINER.COM MINI MINER VISTA NETWORKS VISTA NETWORK FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN645759 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Vista Technologies, 2.) Vista Tech, 3.) FCI Vista, 4.)Miniminer.com, 5.)

Mini Miner, 6.) Vista Networks, 7.) Vista Network, located at 2225 East Bayshore Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

Registered owner(s): ARMEN ARMOND TEMURIAN 2225 E. Bayshore Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 This business is conducted by: An Individual.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on May 10, 2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 24, 2018.

(PAW Sept. 14, 21, 28; Oct. 5, 2018)

KINETIC PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN645365 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Kinetic Performance Systems, located at 1027 Bryant Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KEVIN BERNSTEIN 1027 Bryant Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business

SVHOODS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN646154 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: SVHOODS, located at 2850 Middlefield Road, Unit E120, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): HOOD GREGORY 2850 Middlefield Road, Unit E120 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business

995 Fictitious Name Statement

AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BEVERLY AGNETTA BEAMES, aka SOLVAY A. BEAMES Case No.: 18PR183773 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of BEVERLY AGNETTA BEAMES, aka SOLVAY A. BEAMES. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JOHN M. KOT and JEFFREY O. KOT in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: JOHN M. KOT and JEFFREY O. KOT 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 October 1, 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: James G. Mott-Smith 750 Menlo Avenue, Suite 100 Menlo Park, CA 94025 (650) 326-8064 (PAW Aug. 31; Sept. 7, 14, 2018)

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

The upside of prep football

ONE FOR THE BOOKS ...Palo Alto sophomore Lexi Gwyn scored, on an assist from Jesse Arons, in the final four minutes to lift Palo Alto past visiting Monta Vista 1-0 in the first official field hockey match in school history on Tuesday. Goalie Maria Silva made a handful of key saves and Natalie Hmelar, Emma Siskens and Rachael VonderHaar were active. Hallie Faust made a big field block with 2:08 remaining to play that foiled one of the Matadors’ best scoring chances.

ON THE AIR

by Glenn Reeves

cross the street from where he went to high school, a place where he played for and coached with his father, Peter Hansen is helping the Stanford defense make an impact this season as the team’s inside linebackers coach.

Stanford’s defense is off to a great start, having allowed a total of 13 points over the first two games in wins over San Diego State 31-10 and USC 17-3.

“It always feels good to beat USC,’’ Hansen said Wednesday after practice as the Cardinal prepared to host UC Davis on Saturday at 11 a.m. “We take pride in small numbers on the scoreboard.’’

Hansen graduated from Palo Alto High in 1997

t’s amazing how much a high school football team’s fortunes can change from year to year.

Last year Aragon went 10-2, Palo Alto 3-8. Aragon blasted Paly 48-14 in a head-to-head matchup.

This year Palo Alto goes into Friday’s 7:30 p.m. game at Aragon 3-0 with impressive wins over St. Ignatius, Half Moon Bay and McClymonds.

Aragon goes into the game 0-2, having allowed a combined 111 points in losses to Aptos and Wilcox.

Such is the nature of the prep game, especially at public schools dependent on the yearly talent pool within their specified attendance boundaries.

Palo Alto coach Nelson Gifford thinks the scores of Aragon’s first two games paint a misleading picture.

“They just ran into two buzzsaws,’’ Gifford said. “You can’t look at those scores and make anything of it. The fact that they agreed to play both of those teams the first two weeks says a lot.’’

The Dons return both their standout running backs from last season, 225-pound Camron Grant and 195-pound Paul Lautaimi.

“Those are two loads in the backfield,’’ Gifford said. “They are big and physical. What happened in both games was they got down early and couldn’t grind it out. The silver lining for us is that we faced Adi Anderson and Jarmar Julian against McClymonds.

But they did damage to us on the ground.’’

Gifford would like to see improvement in the Paly running game.

“We’ve been too inconsistent,’’ he said. “We struggled against St. Ignatius, had a good game against Half Moon Bay and then struggled against McClymonds.

But just the threat of us running helps our passing game. When Aiden (Chang) ripped that big run (a 39-yarder to set up a touchdown against McClymonds) that was a game changer for us. They had to account for him, couldn’t bring another guy out of the box.’’

This is Gifford’s first season coaching Palo Alto. Steve Sell is nearing his 20th year as the Aragon head coach.

“Those two teams we played are exceptional,’’ Sell said of his team’s first two opponents.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if they are practicing on Thanksgiving Day. We obviously need to get better.’’

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PREP REPORT ...The Eighth Annual Chris Chandler Volleyball Invitational will be held Saturday at Menlo School. The Chris Chandler Invitational showcases a strong field of 16 teams, including CIF Open Division qualifier Menlo School, CIF Division I NorCal semifinalist Burlingame, CIF Division II state runnerup Sacred Heart Prep, as well as section playoff contenders from Division I through Division IV. This yearís event begins with pool play first serve at 8 a.m. on Saturday and the championship starts at 4 p.m.

Menlo is the defending champion . . . Sacred Heart Prep’s Lindsay Lynch out-dueled Menlo-Atherton’s Sophia Long at the top of the singles ladder, 6-4, 6-4, and the Gators went on to beat the visiting Bears, 6-1, in a nonleague match Wednesday. Isa Robinson, Katherine Salisbury and Sara Quinlan each won their singles matches in straight sets and the No. 3 doubles team of Lindsay Marcus and Natalie Dias helped clinch the victory. Sacred Heart Prep (2-2) travels to Palo Alto for a nonleague match Monday at 4 p.m. while M-A puts its regular season PAL winning streak of 60 matches on the line at Aragon on Tuesday at 4 p.m. The Menlo girls’ tennis team took sixth place at its own Fourth Annual Golden State Classic at Stanford University on Saturday. The Knights went 2-2 in the 16-team tournament, defeating Piedmont in the opening match and St. Ignatius in the final round.

Local teams are enjoying turnaround seasons

Tami Alade (6) leads the No. 2 Cardinal with 40 blocks (1.74 per set) and is second in hitting percentage.

STANFORD VOLLEYBALL

A challenge around every corner The No. 2 Cardinal has learned much about itself

by Rick Eymer here’s no rule that says the second-ranked Stanford women’s volleyball team had to schedule four top five teams in a span of six matches.

The Cardinal consciously made the choice and thrived on it.

No. 2 Stanford swept No. 3 Texas earlier this week at Maples Pavilion and, enjoyed the experience so much, will fly to Austin for a rematch Friday at 6 p.m. on

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“There are two things the committee leans on when it comes time for seeding,” Stanford coach Kevin Hambly said. “One of them is the RPI. Hosting the first two rounds are a big deal and we want to earn that.”

Even losing at now top-ranked BYU last weekend helped Stanford in the RPI as well as in other ways. After its second meeting with the Longhorns, the Cardinal

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STANFORD FOOTBALL

Friday

College men’s soccer: UMassLowell at Stanford, 7 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

It’s an inside job for Hansen

Saturday

College football: UC Davis at Stanford, 11 a.m., Pac-12 Networks LPGA golf: The Evian Championship, 5:30 p.m., Golf Channel

Paly grad following in father’s footsteps

Sunday

LPGA golf: The Evian Championship, final round, 1:30 a.m., Golf Channel College men’s soccer: Delaware at Stanford, 1 p.m., Pac-12 Networks College women’s soccer: Santa Clara at Stanford, 4 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

by Glenn Reeves

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College women’s volleyball: California at Stanford, 8 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

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will be ready for a Pac-12 schedule that eerily looks a lot like the past six or seven matches.

After meeting two tough unranked foes, Stanford will face six consecutive Top-25 teams, including Colorado and Utah on the road.

“We wanted that experience, to go into a packed BYU gym, and it got loud,” Hambly said. “To be

Palo Alto native Peter Hansen coaches inside linebackers at Stanford.

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after playing for his father, longtime Paly football coach Earl Hansen. He played his college ball at Arizona, where the 6-foot8, 240-pound quarterback was moved to tight end. He also saw time with the celebrated Arizona basketball team, a group that included Luke Walton, Richard Jefferson and Gilbert Arenas.

“I got good seats for games sitting with the team on the bench,’’ Hansen said.

He coached with his father at Paly from 2004-2007, a time period in which the team won two Central Coast Section championships, defeating Oak Grove 23-21 in 2006 for the CCS Open Division title, and beating Menlo-Atherton 14-7 in 2007 for the Large Schools championship.

“It was a lot of fun,’’ Hansen said about that time, coaching with his father. “I learned a lot football-wise and got to coach side by side with my dad. We could talk about work at home.’’

After helping the Vikings to that second CCS title, Hansen made the move across El Camino to Stanford, where he served as a strength and conditioning intern and as a defensive assistant to Vic Fangio.

When head coach Jim Harbaugh and Fangio left Stanford for the San Francisco 49ers, Hansen went along as a defensive assistant. He worked with inside linebackers Patrick Willis

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herself and believing she can make plays. She takes the same shots at 24-23 that she does at 0-0.”

Plummer possesses other, intangible, qualities that make her a candidate to repeat as national Player of the Year. She’s effective as a back row player and behind the service line. Even on a team full of All-American players, she stands out and not just because of her 6-foot-6 frame.

Minnesota led by as many as six points in the first set and seemed to have the game under control at 23-20. Plummer took her spot at the serving line and Stanford reeled off the final five points for the win.

Plummer recorded a pair of kills from the back row complemented by kills from Tami Alade and Meghan McClure and a Minnesota hitting error.

Alade recorded 11 kills on .409 hitting and had seven blocks. McClure had 16 kills and hit .361 in addition to 10 digs. Audriana Fitzmorris contributed 14 kills and Morgan Hentz had 22 digs, most of which could be added to any highlight reel.

“We did a good job of doing one thing and sticking to it,” Plummer said. “We trust that what we want to do usually works.”

Jenna Gray, perhaps the most athletic setter in the nation, stands in the middle it all and consistently makes the right decisions

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Golfers hit the links

Sally Ellison hits her approach shot on the sixth fairway as part of the Palo Alto Women’s Golf Club first tournament held at the renovated Baylands Golf Links on Thursday. It’s one of the longest-running golf groups in the area. Thursday’s tournament attracted 96 golfers. The Gunn and Palo Alto golf teams returned to their home course and both have hosted matches there.

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in that environment, we learned a lot about ourselves. BYU is a legit team, as good as anybody.

They’re capable of holding the No. 1 ranking until the end of the year.”

Stanford (7-1) won its fifth straight match, including its third straight over a top-five opponent, since losing in five sets to the Cougars. The Cardinal also swept No. 5 Penn State on Friday and defeated top-ranked Minnesota, 3-1, on Sunday.

Stanford outside hitter Kathryn Plummer consistently maintains a calm demeanor when she’s on the volleyball court, though she has rebounded from minor setbacks with a little extra pop to her already potent swing.

There were a couple of moments during Stanford’s victory over top-ranked Minnesota on Sunday when Plummer responded to a bit of adversity with an authoritative kill that hit the floor so quickly the defender had no time to react.

Plummer recorded a seasonhigh 25 kills, three off her careerhigh, in helping Stanford rally from late deficits in both the first and fourth sets.

“That’s confidence,” Hambly said. “It’s the confidence she earned by working hard, trusting

and NaVorro Bowman one year, then with outside backers Aldon Smith and Ahmad Brooks for two more.

That experience stood Hansen in good stead when he returned to Stanford as inside linebackers coach in 2014, a season in which the Cardinal finished second in the nation in scoring defense and third in total defense.

The role for inside linebackers is different now than it was in the days of four-man fronts and a single middle backer.

“The style of offenses are different so guys have got to be a little more athletic,’’ Hansen said.

“They’ve got to be faster than oldschool middle linebackers. But also they have to do a lot of the same things, like taking on fullbacks and tight ends. San Diego State comes to mind, so does our own offense. It’s a combination of all worlds.’’

One of his former pupils at Stanford, Blake Martinez, is now playing for the Green Bay Packers. Hansen said that current standout Bobby Okereke, while a different style of player than Martinez, also will have a chance to play on Sundays. Okereke plays alongside Sean Barton and Mustafa Branch, who have split time at the other inside backer position.

Quite a group of linebackers Hansen has had the pleasure to coach. But how did a former quarterback and tight end end up coaching linebackers?

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Stanford junior opposite-outside hitter Audriana Fitzmorris leads second-ranked Stanford in hitting percentage (.415) as part of a potent front row attack. in keeping all her options open and involved. She had 60 assists against the Golden Gophers.

In the fourth set, Minnesota led 22-18 before Stanford began making its move. Alade again sparked a rally with a kill and then joined Fitzmorris for a pair of blocks.

Plummer also added a kill and the Cardinal went ahead 23-22.

The Golden Gophers tied the score at 23 but kills from Plummer and Alade ended the match.

The way the season started will only make the rest of the year a source of fascination for college volleyball fans. Undefeated BYU is the third No. 1 ranked team in as many weeks, following Stanford and Minnesota.

“The top teams want to play each other and there are big battles,” Plummer said. “Someone has to win eventually.”

It’s as though top teams want to experience a Final Four before the conference season begins. In Pac12- and Big Ten-speak, that’s darn near every weekend. “It’s a tough warmup,” said Plummer. Q

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Paly QB Jackson Chryst has thrown for more than 800 yards with eight touchdowns.

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Jamir Shepard has flourished in Gifford’s offensive system with six touchdowns through three games. So has quarterback Jackson Chryst, who has thrown for more than 800 yards with eight touchdowns and only two interceptions.

“Palo Alto is really good, dynamic to say the least,’’ Sell said.

“They are a handful and are running the right system for their personnel. They have a great wide receiver and cover corners that allow them to play an aggressive style of defense.’’

Gifford is alert to the danger of a letdown after the emotional win over McClymonds.

“It’s high school football, we’re talking about kids,’’ Gifford said.

“Why did Los Gatos lose to a San Benito team having an off-year?

They showed they were human because they are kids. Beating McClymonds, that’s great for last week. This week we’ve got Aragon and Aragon will be super hungry. Coach Sell is going to be on those guys like crazy to lock us up. They had a lot of success against us last year.’’

Aidan Chang (22) gives the Vikings a running component that helps the passing game.

Leigh at Woodside, 7:30 p.m. Santa Clara. The Knights (2-1) Talk about turnarounds. Wood- got a forfeit win in their season side went 0-10 last year and is off opener from Mission. This week to a 3-0 start this season after they travel to play an Overfelt getting a win by forfeit last week team that beat Santa Clara 30-0. against Gunn.

“Overfelt controlled that game Woodside was forced to forfeit which is something we need to its final game in that 0-10 season do,’’ Menlo coach Josh Bowie last year. said. “It seemed like we did ev“I see it happening a lot,’’ erything we could to keep Santa Woodside coach Justin Andrews Clara in the game. Overfelt runs said of the ups and downs of prep the double wing, so we’ve got to football. “It’s motivating because be a physical presence on defense Sacred Heart Prep at even if you have one of those bad or get steamrolled.’’

Hillsdale, 7 p.m. years your destiny can still change Menlo beat Santa Clara with The Gators, like Palo Alto, have overnight.” backup Justin Sellers playing He had mixed feeling about get- quarterback. Starter Kevin Alargiven indication that this will be a turnaround season. After going ting a win by forfeit. con is expected back for Overfelt.

“We were hurt last week by not Sellers only needed to pass spar3-7 a year ago they are off to a playing a game, miss- ingly, completing four or five for 3-0 start. And perhaps ing out on game expe- 70 yards. most importantly, the rience,’’ Andrews said. offense came alive last Samson Axe came through in “But I’m happy to keep a big way in the run game. The week in a 54-18 win guys healthy.’’ over Saratoga. Defense junior, playing his first year of The closest Wood- football, carried 18 times for 203 had led the way in the side came to a win last yards. He scored one touchdown team’s first two games, year was against Leigh, rushing and another on a pass a 21-6 win over Carla 35-29 defeat. mont and a 15-13 vicreception.

“We led the whole tory over Burlingame.

“It was his coming out party as game until the last few an offensive threat,’’ Bowie said.

“It’s great to see us John Willard minutes,’’ Andrews “He’s starting to figure it out.’’ having more success on offense,’’ SHP coach Mark said. “That was the first game Jaden Richardson was a standwe had to play with five offensive out on defense as a safety and on Grieb said.

The ground game was clicking linemen.’’ special teams. He had a 99-yard The Longhorns are 1-1 this sea- kickoff return for a touchdown out of SHP’s fly sweep offense.

Tevita Moimoi broke a 50-yard son with a win over Mt. Pleasant and recovered two fumbles, rerun on the first play of the game and a loss to Los Gatos. turning one for another touchWoodside’s last time and went on to rush for 222 yards down. He also had a on only 10 carries. John Willard on the field resulted in 50-yard punt return. gained 90 yards on seven carries a stirring 35-32 win “Jaden was very opand Tatafu Mahoni 57 yards on over rival Sequoia as portunistic on defense quarterback Brody seven carries. and had six tackles,’’ “There’s a lot of cool things Crowley, making just Bowie said. “He goes about the fly offense,’’ Grieb said. his second varsity start, around fired up, always “The defense has to adjust to the threw for 362 yards and in a great mood.’’ motion. You’re stretching the de- three TDs. Inside linebacker “I can’t say it was a fense and forcing them to cover Conor McCusker was surprise,’’ Andrews the whole field.’’ in on 11 tackles.

Luis Robles Last year Hillsdale beat SHP said. “He’s been con“He has really been 34-10. This season the Knights sistent all through summer and bringing energy,’’ Bowie said. have struggled mightily, having fall camp. He’s been really good “Sometimes I have to pull the been outscored by a combined to- with his decision making and leash back. He was hurt most of tal of 111-13 over the first three delivery.’’ the year last year but ever since One negative from the Sequoia has been crushing the weight games in losses to Miramonte, contest occurred on the last play room.’’

Independence and Capuchino.

“It happens,’’ Grieb said. “You of the game when slot receiver have your ups and downs. I don’t Luis Robles suffered a broken Marina at Gunn, 7 p.m. know if we can erase what hap- arm that will sideline him the reGunn (1-2) has now had two of pened last year, but we certainly mainder of the season. its first three games decided by want to play well. From what I see forfeit after being informed that on film Hillsdale has got some big Menlo School at Overfelt, Soquel has forfeited its seasonguys, got some talent. I’ll never 7 p.m. opening 40-26 win due to the use Menlo got its first on-the-field of an ineligible player. take a Mike Parodi-coached team victory last time out, 35-26 over lightly.’’

The Titans didn’t have enough

healthy players to take on Woodside last week. There will be no frosh-soph game with Marina, which doesn’t have a lower-level team, so Gunn coach Jason Miller is bringing up sophomores to increase the number of available players on his varsity to around 25.

The Titans have showed the ability to move the ball on the

ground with Miller’s double wing offense in the first two games against Soquel and James Lick, but needs to bolster a defense that has allowed 92 points in those two games.

LeeMaster Howard, who rushed for 162 yards in the opener against Soquel before suffering a concussion, has still not been cleared to play.

Marina, a school that has only been in existence since 2006, won its first varsity football game in 2013. But this season the Mariners are off to a 2-1 start with wins over Fremont (30-0) and Lynbrook (36-0), both fellow members with Gunn of the SCVAL El Camino Division, before losing to Harker, 26-2.

“They have a hulking line,’’ Miller said. “No. 52 (Ryan Esquivias) is a Division I player. No. 2 (Ernie Guevara) is a home run threat who gives me nightmares.’’

After being forced to forfeit last week’s game, the Titans are raring to get back on the field.

“Everyone is looking forward to playing our home opener,’’ Miller said. “Our kids come to practice and work hard every day and are hungry to win.’’ Q

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Nellie McAdams

Tevita Moimoi

SHP WATER POLO

SHP FOOTBALL

The senior goalie averaged over 10 saves a game to help the Gators reach the championship game of the St. Francis Invitational over the weekend. In the semifinal game against Soquel, she allowed one goal over the final 21 minutes in an eventual 5-4 SH Prep victory.

The senior running back broke loose for 222 yards on 10 carries. He scored three rushing rushing touchdowns, including runs of 54 and 66 yards, and added a touchdown reception in the Gators biggest offensive day of the season, a 54-18 victory over Saratoga.

Honorable mention Minhee Chung*

Samson Axe, Jaden Richardson

Monica Crichton

Jackson Chryst*

Alicia Letvin

Destin Hawkins

Claire Pisani

Josh Poulos

Reagan Smith

Paul Thie

Ella Woodhead

Sam Untrecht*

Castilleja water polo Gunn volleyball

Menlo-Atherton volleyball Castilleja water polo Sacred Heart Prep volleyball Sacred Heart Prep water polo

Menlo football

Palo Alto football

Menlo-Atherton football Menlo water polo Palo Alto football Menlo water polo

*Previous winner

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

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