Palo Alto Weekly October 19, 2018

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Neighborhoods 9

Transitions 19

Spectrum 20

Eating Out 27

Movies 28

Puzzles 55

Q News District places controversial robotics coach on leave Page 5 Q A&E International documentary fest explores ‘Tomorrow?’ Page 23 Q Sports Sacred Heart preps for boys water-polo tourney Page 57

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“I’m a very big proponent of genetic testing. It’s what probably saved my life.”

—Parul

Young Woman Faces Breast Cancer After Birth of Baby During a routine 38-week ultrasound for her second pregnancy, Parul felt a lump in her left breast. For most women, a clogged milk duct or pregnancy-related hormones would be suspected.

But for Parul, who had a known genetic risk for breast cancer, the lump set off alarm bells. Before she could schedule a breast workup, her water broke. She delivered a healthy baby girl two weeks early. When her milk came in, she could no longer feel the lump. But her instincts drove her to push for an evaluation.

“My husband wheeled me in my C-section gown to the neighboring breast clinic for an ultrasound and a biopsy,” said Parul. Just days after leaving the hospital, she received the news. At 32 years of age, she had cancer.

“We had two glorious days at home with our happy family when I got the call that the biopsy results were in and it was malignant,” she said. She was seen at Stanford within a week of her diagnosis.

Less than a month later, her treatment began.

“When Dr. Telli told me I would need to stop breastfeeding my newborn, it was only then that I started crying,” she recalled. Because she had a high-grade, aggressive type of cancer, she needed to try to rapidly wean the baby, said her medical oncologist Melinda Telli, MD, assistant professor of oncology at Stanford Medicine. “These kinds of cancers tend to grow very quickly, and they can be very life threatening.”

Treatment would consist of 12 to 20 weeks of combination chemotherapy, followed by surgery, neither of which was compatible with breastfeeding.

“Because we knew her BRCA status, we could more optimally select therapies,” said Telli. She further explained that for Parul’s type of breast cancer, how a patient responds to chemotherapy is directly related to their long-term survival. By administering chemotherapy first, her medical team could assess Parul’s response and adjust the therapy if needed. After 12 weeks, Parul had no sign of cancer in the breast or lymph node, a complete response to treatment.

Understanding her genetic risk and treatment options helped guide Parul’s medical decisionmaking. She selected to have bilateral mastectomies, according to her surgeon Amanda Wheeler, MD, both to help prevent a recurrence and to avoid further treatment with radiation.

That was in 2014. Four years later, she remains cancer free, well past the peak risk for recurrence.

“It’s important to take the time to do the research, be comfortable with your care team and plan out the best course of action,” said Parul. “That was one of the things I loved about Stanford. Dr. Telli and Dr. Wheeler just sitting down with me, and very clearly walking me through this. This is what we see. Th is is what it means. These are the trade offs. They’ve been so amazing at a time when I needed it most.”

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Parul credits her health today to the care she received at Stanford, and to the knowledge she gained from genetic testing. A doctor recommended Parul receive genetic testing when she was just 29 years old because of her family history. Her mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer in her early 30s. A simple saliva swab showed that Parul was positive for a mutation in the BRCA 1 gene, putting her at a much higher lifetime risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. “If I hadn’t gotten the genetic testing, it would have probably been a year later, once I stopped breastfeeding, that I would feel my lump again,” she said. “And by then, the end of this story would be very different than what it is today.”

“I’m a very big proponent of genetic testing,” said Parul. “It’s what probably saved my life.”

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Trench plan for train faces obstacles

City would need to get design exceptions, permits from water district

by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto’s ambitious effort to redesign its rail corridor is starting to pick up speed in the southern half of the city, with elected officials this week leaning toward narrowing down options for separating Charleston Road and Meadow Drive from

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the train tracks.

If the city succeeds in its planning, these two rail crossings are likely to see the most dramatic changes, potentially involving construction of a trench for the trains. By contrast, the city has scaled down and delayed its plans

for the two crossings in the northern half of the city: Palo Alto Avenue and Churchill Avenue.

The council’s Rail Committee recently abandoned the exploration of any significant engineering solutions for Churchill, where a trench or a viaduct would require the seizures of property. The city is still exploring a scenario in which Churchill would be closed to car traffic across the tracks.

At Palo Alto Avenue, the city

is still evaluating a “hybrid” option that would combine raising the tracks and lowering Palo Alto Avenue. But the ultimate solution, several council members have argued in recent weeks, may be best explored as part of a separate plan that focuses specifically on the downtown area.

At Charleston and East Meadow, which are being explored jointly, the city is hoping to come to a big decision in early 2019.

On Wednesday morning, the Rail Committee signaled its intent to further narrow down options for these two crossings when three members voiced support for eliminating the “viaduct” alternative, in which trains would run on elevated tracks over the roadway.

If the council does that, the only options left on the table would be a train trench or a “hybrid” option (continued on page 10)

EDUCATION

Paly robotics coach placed on paid leave Robotics club to be shut down during investigation

by Elena Kadvany

Simitian and Supervisor Cindy Chavez, to work on the Stanford negotiations and to require any potential development agreement be publicized at least 14 days before potential adoption.

By pursuing the development agreement, the board is entering into uncharted territory in its dealings with Stanford. The development agreement would allow both parties to have virtually open-ended negotiations about how much growth the county should allow and how much Stanford has to contribute to cover the growth’s impacts.

he Palo Alto school district has placed Kathleen Krier, Palo Alto High School computer-science teacher and head robotics coach, on paid leave following concerns voiced by members of the robotics team about her behavior.

She was placed on adm i n ist rative leave on Oct. 12 “to provide the time a nd space needed to thoroughly i nve s t i g a t e concerns ex- Kathleen Krier pressed by students and parents,” Superintendent Don Austin said.

He declined to provide further detail, citing the confidentiality of personnel decisions.

In the meantime, the robotics club will be shut down temporarily, per a recommendation from Paly Principal Adam Paulson, Austin said.

Robotics students and parents came to the Oct. 9 school board meeting to air grievances about Krier, whom they described as clashing with students — sometimes inappropriately, from their perspective — over new rules for the largely student-run robotics lab.

Reached by email on Oct. 13, robotics co-captain Jennifer Xu said the team had not been informed about Krier being placed

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Dillen Barnes, left, 11, and her mom, Shaler Barnes, weave their way through a corn maze at the Webb Ranch pumpkin patch in Portola Valley on Oct. 18. The pumpkin patch also features hay rides, bouncy houses and a reptile house and is open through Halloween.

LAND USE

Stanford, county gear up for negotiations Faced with ‘transparency’ concerns, county board endorses approach for discussions on a development agreement

by Gennady Sheyner s Stanford University is preparing to kick off negotiations with Santa Clara County on a first-of-its-kind development agreement to guide the university’s long-term growth, Palo Alto’s elected school officials and

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residents are growing increasingly alarmed about being left out of the process.

The county’s Board of Supervisors, which is scheduled to make a decision on Stanford’s application for a new general use permit (GUP)

by next summer, set the stage for the upcoming talks on Tuesday morning, when it largely embraced the county staff’s approach for the negotiations. The board also agreed to create a subcommittee, consisting of board President Joe

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I think they offered me a beer. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;LaNell Mimmack, a Palo Alto resident, on her visit to BootUp Ventures, a neighboring business. See story on page 9.

Around Town

GETTING ACQUAINTED... The 14 members and two alternates of the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan Working Group broke the ice Wednesday at their inaugural meeting at City Hall, where residents mingled with city staff and learned about the planning exercise, which they hope to complete in 18 months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not every day a planner looks at 60 acres of land in a city thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largely built out,â&#x20AC;? interim Planning Director Jonathan Lait said in his introduction. The focus area is roughly bordered

by El Camino Real, Lambert Avenue, the Caltrain corridor and Page Mill Road and includes the commercial area anchored by Fryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Electronics. The residents, many of whom have a long history with the neighborhood, became acquainted by partnering up with one another to share their hopes and fears for the plan on blue and orange Post-its and to talk about their hobbies, which were then reported to the larger group. Their dreams for the space included preserving history, building more parks and adding housing. Areas of concern included displacement, increased traffic congestion and public criticism. Along the way, group members built camaraderie as they learned about the many cooks and a few ukulele players in their midst, sparking suggestions of turning the next groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting into a potluck and jam session. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The vibe is awesome in here,â&#x20AC;? Becky Sanders, moderator of the Ventura Neighborhood Association, said during the public comment portion of the meeting. The group is scheduled reconvene for its next meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 15 at the Downtown Library.

DOWNTOWN DENIAL... Even by Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rigorous standards, Elizabeth Wongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bid to build a four-story mixed-use building on University Avenue has been an exhausting journey littered with citizen appeals, board denials and threatened lawsuits. This week, Wong encountered a fresh obstacle when interim Planning Director Jonathan Lait moved to partially deny Wongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s application for revising the design of the new development at 429 University Ave., near Kipling Street. In his Oct. 16 letter, Lait cited the Oct. 4

decision by the Architectural Review Board to likewise deny the latest design changes. While he broke from the board by approving two of the three items that Wongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s architects were asked to revise (treatment of a decorative wall and landscape details), Lait found that the project fell short when it comes to the third item: the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exterior building materials, colors and craftsmanshiprelated detailing. Lait pointed to the contrast between most of the buildings in the area, which include â&#x20AC;&#x153;a warm color palette,â&#x20AC;? pedestrian-oriented amenities and details that add relief and dimension at the first and second levels (including Juliet balconies, awnings and recessed windows), and Wongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building, which has â&#x20AC;&#x153;no architectural details that relate to or enhance the pedestrian environment.â&#x20AC;? The decision means that Wong will not get a building permit for the politically charged project unless she wins an appeal or prevails in a suit against the city. It also means that the council, which narrowly approved the project in February 2017 (largely to avoid a lawsuit), will soon have another big decision to make.

AN ACT OF SERVICE ... The Lee & Penny Anderson Defenders Lodge at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System has been recognized by the PenFed Foundation, which honored three leaders for their work on the facility in operation since 2014. The lodge gives veterans a free place to stay while they receive extensive treatments and procedures. The award was presented to former VA Palo Alto Director and CEO Lisa Freeman and past secretaries of state George Schultz and Condoleezza Rice at a special dinner on Oct. 8. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Historically, veterans would drive many hours in awful traffic to get to an appointment. Some would even choose to not come or get treatment at all,â&#x20AC;? Freeman said in a press release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We receive severely injured service members from all over the world and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critically important to provide them with world-class care. I want to thank all of the veterans, their families and loved ones â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an honor and privilege to serve them.â&#x20AC;? Q

Upfront DEVELOPMENT

City officials optimistic about rezoning proposal to create 54 housing units near Mountain View border

by Gennady Sheyner n years past, a 54-condominium complex currently proposed for a property on San Antonio Road in Palo Alto probably would have withered at the starting line.

It violates the city’s zoning code, it clashes with the Comprehensive Plan and it is on a road that the council had previously agreed is far from ideal for housing. It could force retail — including a popular martial-arts studio — to move, and it is already raising alarms among neighborhood residents about potentially more traffic, parking problems and noise.

And at a time when some council members are calling for the city to focus on housing for lowincome residents and those in the “missing middle,” including teachers and other public employees, this proposed development would consist largely of two- and three-bedroom condominiums, the majority of which would be sold at market rate.

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But in the latest sign of just how urgent the topic of housing has become in Palo Alto, members of the City Council offered words of encouragement on Monday night to the developer, Golden Gate Homes, for its project: a Lshaped building with 54 condominiums. The building would occupy an eclectic block near Leghorn Street, which includes a mix of retail and industrial uses, across the street from the condominium complexes Greenhouse and Greenhouse II. The developer initially planned to build 48 units at the 1-acre site at 788 San Antonio Road and has since added six more units.

So far, the project is just a concept. The council’s Monday discussion was a pre-screening session geared toward gauging the city’s interest in the project.

Despite some reservations about zoning, traffic, lost retail and excessive building massing, members indicated that they are by and large interested.

The developer Golden Gate Homes has proposed a 54-condominium complex at 788-796 San Antonio Road. San Antonio lies to the left, and Leghorn Street is to the right.

Councilman Greg Scharff observed that during his nine years on the council, it has not reviewed any multifamily condominium projects until now. He said he wants to see the project built and warned against killing it “by a thousand cuts,” which he says is city’s typical way of denying projects.

“We talk a lot about housing up here, but we don’t actually approve it,” Scharff said. “I definitely encourage you to move forward on this.”

Councilwoman Karen Holman wasn’t quite as enthusiastic.

Given that the site is zoned for “service commercial” (CS) and that the developer has requested a zone change to dense multifamily residential (RM-40), Holman

wondered why this doesn’t constitute as “spot zoning.” City Attorney Molly Stump said that this zone change would technically not be spot zoning if the council finds it to be in the public interest.

Holman also pushed back against the plan to make the project a purely residential complex without retail on the ground floor.

She suggested that the developer look for ways to integrate retail into the project and to potentially include Studio Kicks, the martialarts studio currently at the site.

She also recommended that the developer dedicate more condos to affordable housing (the current proposal calls for eight to be offered at below-market rate) and to break up the massing of the building.

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Council intrigued by San Antonio condo plan

“This is a pretty large, monolithic building on two sides, with not much differentiation,” Holman said.

These reservations notwithstanding, Holman noted that Palo Alto needs housing — a sentiment that everyone at the dais shared.

Councilman Cory Wolbach lauded what he called an “interesting proposal” that will bring into focus some of the tough discussions the city will need to have as it seeks to meet its goal of producing about 300 housing units annually. Councilman Adrian Fine also said he hopes the developer will move ahead with the project, even if a few kinks still have to be worked out.

The residents who spoke at Monday’s meeting were more polarized, with some residents lauding the potential influx of housing, others raising alarm about the development’s potential impact on neighborhoods, and still others staying agnostic on the housing but bemoaning the potential loss of Studio Kicks.

Pamela Harter, a resident at the Greenhouse II residential community, said she and her neighbors are concerned that this project — in conjunction with the two Marriott hotels now being constructed on the block — will bring “a constant barrage of more traffic and noise.”

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We Need Your Votes!

AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL WHO ARE CONCERNED, AS WE ARE, ABOUT THE FUTURE OF PALO ALTO AS A LIVABLE COMMUNITY. We are extremely concerned about the cumulative effects of excessive commercial development that has adversely affected our quality of life by contributing to citywide congestion, traffic jams, and spillover parking in adjacent residential neighborhoods.

Tom Dubois

This was confirmed by two-thirds of Palo Altans in the recent National Citizens Survey who said they were deeply concerned about citywide congestion, traffic and parking.

WE NEED TO SEND A STRONG MESSAGE IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION. The way we can get Palo Alto moving in the right direction is to vote for TOM DUBOIS and ERIC FILSETH. YOUR VOTE WILL HELP RE-ELECT THESE TWO CITY COUNCIL INCUMBENTS WHO SUPPORT SLOWER, MORE BALANCED GROWTH THAT TAKES RESIDENTS CONCERNS INTO FULL CONSIDERATION.

Eric Filseth

We also urge you to vote for KAREN HOLMAN who is running for a seat on the Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District Board (Ward 5). Karen is a long-time environmental advocate and is the only candidate endorsed by all of the Open Space District Board members.

Vote for candidates who share your residential values, and not those who reflect the values of developers and the development community.

Help preserve the quality of life in Palo Alto that we have cherished for years.

VOTE FOR TOM DUBOIS AND ERIC FILSETH FOR CITY COUNCIL AND KAREN HOLMAN FOR THE MID-PENINSULA REGIONAL OPEN SPACE DISTRICT. Karen HoOman

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Upfront CITY FINANCES

News Digest Four shot, two dead at Halloween party

Khourys set to open in College Terrace

Palo Alto shoppers won’t have any trouble knowing which family is in charge of the new College Terrace supermarket.

After some initial confusion over naming rights, the City Council gave its support on Monday night to the Khoury family, which will operate the new market at the College Terrace Centre, the blocklong development at 2100 El Camino Real. Departing from its initial plan to rebrand itself as JJ&F Market, a neighborhood fixture for decades, the new operator will now try to establish his own local legacy by naming the new store Khoury’s Market.

The development has been without a market since December 2017, when College Terrace Market closed shop after about six months of operation.

The family hopes to open the store in November, according to Oberman’s letter. Q —Gennady Sheyner

Firefighters, police brass get raises

Palo Alto’s firefighters will receive significant salary increases between now and 2020 as part of a new three-year contract agreement that also will require them to contribute more toward their pension and health care costs.

The new contract, which the City Council approved on Oct. 1, grants three separate 3-percent salary raises to the 88 employees who are represented by the city’s main firefighter union, International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1313 (IAFF). The first takes effect in the first pay period after the contract adoption; the next two increases would kick in in July 2019 and in July 2020.

In addition to the immediate 3-percent raise in base pay, each firefighter also is receiving a 2.5-percent raise that the city is characterizing as “market adjustment,” with the intent of bringing local salaries to market median. The 2.5 percent raise also kicks in immediately.

The council approved the new contract by an 8-1 vote, with Greg Tanaka dissenting. As part of the same vote, the council also approved contracts with two much smaller labor groups: Fire Chiefs Association, which consists of four battalion chief positions; and the Police Management Associations, which is comprised of seven police lieutenant and captain positions.

Much like with the IAFF, employees in the two small labor groups will receive raises coupled with new requirements for pension contributions. All three contracts will expire on June 30, 2021.

The total costs over the three-year term of the three contracts would be $6.6 million in the general fund, according to the department’s report. The contracts would also add about $3.3 million to the city’s General Fund obligations over the next three fiscal years, which includes an extra $685,000 in the current year, $1.2 million in 2020 and $1.4 million in 2021.Q —Gennady Sheyner

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City Council committee recommends deleting fees for billiard parlors, circus visits t’s been a while since Palo Alto has hosted a rodeo, approved a new billiard parlor or welcomed the circus to town, but one wouldn’t know that from looking at the city’s list of fees.

The city’s fee schedule also includes fees for bowling-alley licenses ($150 per year), hosting a carnival ($1,925 per day, same as a circus) and establishing a “mechanical amusement device” ($102 per year), even though officials haven’t collected a penny for these activities in at least the last five years.

Other fees, including one for inflatable bounce houses ($766 if it’s larger than 200 square feet), aren’t as anachronistic but — in the view of some City Council members — they are nearly as nonsensical.

On Tuesday, the council’s Finance Committee took some initial steps in what looks to be a multiyear effort to update the city’s municipal fee schedule. By a unanimous vote, the committee recommended deleting from the schedule a list of obscure Police Department fees that no longer seem to apply.

The committee also directed city staff to embark on a review of the entire fee schedule, one department at a time, with the goal of eliminating some fees and adjusting other to better accord with changing state requirements.

Scharff suggested that many of the fees, if not obsolete, are unnecessary. Both he and Councilman Greg Tanaka had complained in

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Two people have died and two others were injured after an argument at a Halloween party quickly escalated into a shooting early Sunday morning, East Palo Alto police said.

The incident occurred at about 2:45 a.m. when the East Palo Alto Police Department received notice of a ShotSpotter activation in the 2500 block of Pulgas Avenue; 911 dispatchers received multiple phone calls of a shooting.

“Preliminary reports indicate there was a private adult Halloween party being held outside at the rear of (a) business complex, a dispute escalated into a physical altercation that quickly erupted into gunfire. The suspect fled the scene and is still outstanding at the time,” police said in a press release.

Officers arrived to the scene in less than two minutes to find four people with gunshot wounds. Two people were pronounced dead at the scene and two others were transported with life-threatening injuries. The deaths are the city’s first to occur in public since June 10, 2016.

Police identified one of the deceased as Eduardo Alvarado Sandoval, a 22-year-old Stockton resident. The second person who died was 23-year-old Mario Andres Vidales Mendez of Redwood City, the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office said Wednesday.

Pablo Arias, owner of A-1 Auto Service and Towing, where the shooting took place, said his daughter was having a combined 22nd birthday and Halloween party in the business yard. About 35 to 40 people attended and had come from many locations.

“I never had problems in my life here in East Palo Alto. I feel very sorry. My daughter is very upset for the people who died,” he said. Q —Sue Dremann

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Daniel Martin, tumbles down an inflatable slide head first, as Sophia Mariscal waits to take her turn at the Webb Ranch pumpkin patch in October 2017. In Palo Alto, the city charges a $766 “hazard” fee for having a bounce house of greater than 200 square feet. the past about fees for such things as school floats and bounce houses, with Tanaka in May questioning the wisdom of requiring residents to pay fees for their children’s birthday parties. Scharff made the same point on Tuesday night.

“How many people actually pay float fees or bouncy house fees?”

Scharff asked. “I think there’s a tendency in government to overregulate these kinds of things.”

Scharff also suggested that some of the city’s permits also are unnecessary. He cited the “gathering permits” that residents are required to pay for park gatherings that involve 25 or more people.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a Town Hall-style meeting to get community input about traffic and to provide an update about the Charlston-Arastradero streetscape project. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee will consider status updates to receipt audits on citywide cash handling and travel expense; on cable franchise and PEG fees; and on payments, utility meters and inventory management. The committee also will discuss an update on the 2016 Disability and Workers Compensation Rates audit; and consider new audits on ERP planning. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will discuss a nondiscrimination policy and an update on district goals from the superintendent and hear informational reports on legal expenses, California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) results and from the Parcel Tax Citizens’ Oversight Committee. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the board room at 25 Churchill Ave. PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear an update on the Rinconada Pool aquatics program; discuss projects in the Parks, Trails, Natural Open Space and Recreation Master Plan; and consider a proposal for seasonal lighting at Cubberley Community Center fields. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the customer satisfaction survey; hear presentations on BiblioCommons and the Library Summer Reading Program; and elect a chair and vice chair for the coming year. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

Vice Mayor Eric Filseth agreed that some fees no longer apply. The bowling-alley fee, for example, no longer seems necessary because the city no longer has any bowling alleys.

In addition to eliminating the obsolete police fees, city staff also plans to review a list of fees that could be revised or moved to a different department. There is, for example, a taxicab fee that is now being updated to better align with county and state laws. There are also various fees relating to massage establishments that staff is recommending revisiting because of overlapping requirements with state permits.

Interim Chief Financial Officer Kylie Nose said staff plans to make the fee update a part of its annual routine.

The Finance Committee first brought up the idea of revising and eliminating fees on May 16, when council members looked askance at some of the fees that the city proposed to raise.

At that time, Tanaka criticized the city for charging fees for gatherings, saying it’s “ridiculous that we’re going to penalize people for Easter Egg hunts.” And while council members still hope that Palo Alto will again have a bowling alley someday, they also acknowledged that having a bowling fee in place is unlikely to bring that dream any closer to reality.

“You don’t encourage businesses by charging them a fee,” Scharff said at the May meeting. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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TRAFFIC SURVEY ... Plagued by traffic congestion from cutthrough commuters and spurred by comments made by Palo Alto Mayor Liz Kniss questioning whether the city has real traffic issues, Crescent Park resident John Guislin set out to conduct a traffic survey to gather neighborhood opinions regarding the when, where, how and other factors related to traffic impacts.

The 36-page survey includes residents’ views on the primary causes of traffic congestion, actions the city could take to reduce the problem and questions related to quality of life. Guislin will distribute the survey to all members of the City Council and will have copies available at the Oct. 22 special City Council Transportation Town Hall, which takes place at 5 p.m. at 250 Hamilton Ave. in the Council Chambers.

COLLEGE TERRACE FALL PICNIC ... A Halloween pet costume contest, a bake-off and a cake walk with wine as the prizes will be highlights of this year’s College Terrace Residents Association Fall Picnic. The festivities, which are open to all neighborhood residents, take place Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. behind the College Terrace Library, 2300 Wellesley St. VENTURA EMERGENCY DRILL ... The next monthly Ventura Neighborhood Association meeting will focus on a neighborhood emergency drill to prepare for any future disasters. Everyone is invited to drop by for a few hours to role-play a disaster. The event takes place Nov. 4, noon-5 p.m. at Ventura Community Center. More information is available by emailing MartyDoug@comcast.net.

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Palo Alto neighbors may see relief from noise Menlo Park orders BootUp Ventures to end event activities

by Sue Dremann Menlo Park business that nearby Palo Alto residents say has been a nuisance for three years must cease holding events at its offices, Menlo Park officials said in a letter to the company.

The Oct. 5 letter to Mukul Agarwal, managing partner at BootUp Ventures, a startupnetworking business at 68 Willow Road, stated the company must cease immediately holding events, receptions or other gatherings and from advertising its spaces for events on its website.

The company, which was founded in 2013, bills itself as a “startup ecosystem co-working and event space.” It advertises co-working spaces, a business accelerator, corporate workshops and event venues for rent at prices ranging from $80 to $500 per hour.

Residents of Palo Alto’s Downtown North neighborhood, which lies just across the San Francisquito Creek from BootUp, said the events create unwanted noise from people shouting, laughing and talking loudly and from amplified music. The problem has gone unabated for about three years, they said, despite their complaints to Menlo Park staff and elected officials.

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“All afternoon, it was just blasting out from there, all over our neighborhood,” resident Anne Meyer said of a Sept. 15 foundation fundraiser that was attended by about 300 people. The event had amplified music and took place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m, according to the application.

Andres Mediavilla, a Palo Alto Avenue resident whose home is immediately across the creek from BootUp, told the Weekly that the problem has become so persistent that he has considered filing a lawsuit. On Oct. 4, he wrote to Menlo Park city officials regarding an event.

“We could still hear people being loud and screaming at 9 p.m.,” Mediavilla wrote. “BootUp has been organizing events without the proper permits on average of twice per week for the last three years in complete violation of their C-1 zoning rules.”

Neighbors have called Menlo Park police numerous times, Mediavilla said, and he and his attorney have communicated several times with Menlo Park City Attorney Bill McClure. (McClure is currently out of the office and could not be reached for comment.)

Mediavilla and his partner presented concerns at a Menlo

Park City Council meeting last December, and he said he communicated several times with the city’s code-enforcement officer.

A police commander who was said to be in charge of the matter didn’t reply to Mediavilla’s inquiries, the resident said.

“All our efforts have been utterly fruitless. The city of Menlo Park’s apathy and inactivity to resolve this situation makes it appear as if the city of Menlo Park condones BootUp’s violations and that it is biased on enforcing their zoning rules,” he wrote in his letter.

“These constant events are negatively impacting our quality of life by preventing the peaceful enjoyment of our home and surroundings,” he wrote.

But now, the city is finally taking action. In its letter to BootUp, Menlo Park staff said the business is allowing unpermitted activities. The property is zoned C-1, which is limited to professional, executive and administrative offices; research facilities; public utilities and some special uses in accordance with applicable laws, according to city ordinance.

“The property at 68 Willow Road cannot be used for hosting, conducting or renting (e.g., conference room or the patio)

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Palo Alto resident Andres Mediavilla stands just across the street from his creekside home as guests of BootUp Ventures exit a shuttle bus and head to the Menlo Park event space on Oct. 17. Mediavilla says the startup accelerator and co-working space has hosted numerous indoor and outdoor gatherings and parties for the past three years, creating noise that disturbs residents of his Downtown North neighborhood.

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CUBBERLEY REDESIGN MEETING ... The second in a series of public meetings to discuss redesigning the Cubberley Community Center is slated for Nov. 1, 7-9 p.m. at Cubberley Pavilion, 4000 Middlefield Road. The meeting will build on previous ideas and discussions from the first Sept. 27 workshop, which more than 240 people attended. Spanish and Mandarin interpreters will be available and staff will provide translated activity materials. To RSVP, visit tinyurl.com/ ycja53xa. More information about the project can be found at pausd. org/cubberleycodesign. Q

for special events, receptions, workshops, and/or other gatherings. These uses are not permitted under the current use permit for general-office uses. All such activities and advertisement as an event venue on the BootUp website will need to cease immediately,” wrote Deanna Chow, assistant director of Community Development-Planning.

She cited the business’s 2007 application to the city’s Planning Commission for new landscaping and outdoor improvements.

“The patio was described as a passive area with reading benches and a water fountain that would connect via a path to a new passive seating area adjacent to the creek. There was no mention of any active use of the patio for events, receptions or other gatherings in either the application or discussion at the Planning Commission meeting,” Chow’s letter noted.

BootUp will need to seek a revision of its use permit if it wants to conduct outdoor gatherings and social events associated with office use, she noted. A new permit application would require a full accounting of the types of activities, their frequency, times and locations, use of amplified sound and the number of attendees, among other data.

But in no case can the site be used as an event center for patrons who are unaffiliated with the business, the letter noted.

Such a restriction would appear to dampen BootUps’ current practices.

“Event space for any occasion,” the website offered, as recently as Oct. 17.

The choices include business networking to conference rooms; professional catering; outdoor events; corporate off-site presentations and “formal evening,” which offers indoor dining for up to 48 people. Its Startup Cafe for professional networking events accommodates up to 130 people at a rate of $500 per hour; the outdoor patio can be rented for $200 an hour, according to the website.

The change can’t come fast enough for the neighbors.

BootUp’s location is not appropriate for “a nightclub kind of thing,” LaNell Mimmack said.

Mimmack went to BootUp when it first opened to find out what was going on.

“I think they offered me a beer,” she recalled.

BootUp has not responded to requests for comment. Mark Muenzer, Menlo Park’s community development director, said the company has not replied to the Oct. 5 letter. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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While they stopped short on Wednesday of actually recommending the elimination of the viaduct option because of concerns about issuing public notices, committee Chair Cory Wolbach and Council members Lydia Kou and Greg Scharff all indicated support for doing so in November, when the item returns to the committee for further discussion.

For the city, the issue of what to do about the south Palo Alto crossings is a quandary both deeply urgent and extremely complex. The city is competing with the cities of Mountain View and Sunnyvale for funds from Measure B, a 2016 county measure that allocated $700 million to the three cities for grade-separation work, and Palo Alto council members recognized in February the urgency of developing a preferred alternative by the end of this year.

And with Caltrain recently launching work on the Palo Alto segment of its electrification project (which is set to be completed in 2020), city officials are keenly aware that it won’t be too long before train traffic is significantly increased, bringing more gate closures and gridlock to local streets near the rail crossings.

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But while council members agree on the problem, they remain split on solutions. The idea of building a viaduct for trains over the two south Palo Alto crossings remains deeply unpopular, with nearly every public speaker at Wednesday’s meeting of the Rail Committee speaking out against it.

A much more popular solution is building a trench for trains. Davina Brown was one of about a dozen residents who said Wednesday that they would far prefer underground trains to overhead ones. Elevated trains are noisy and difficult to maintain, she said.

“Let’s do the right thing now and put a train in the trench,” Brown said. “It’s safer; it’s aesthetically more pleasing.”

The popular option, however, is both the most expensive one (with costs of around $1 billion, according to one recent city estimate) and the one that would face the steepest government-permitting hurdles. It would need to win approvals from various state and regional agencies, including Caltrain, and officials are far from certain that they can get these agencies to buy in.

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Stanford’s ultimate goal is to get the board’s approval for a general use permit that will allow the university to build up to 2.275 million square feet of academic space and 3,150 housing units or beds by 2035. University officials had argued that a development agreement would be more effective than the ordinances because it would allow the university to provide muchneeded housing immediately, rather than gradually (as would be the case if housing production were tied to academic development).

In late July, it proposed a plan that would create 200 units of affordable housing (for those making 80 percent or less of area median income) on campus. This, however, could entail conversion of some or even all existing market-rate units to below-market rate. Stanford had also proposed providing funding to subsidize 38 units for

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Even as these negotiations proceed, the county and its consultants will be putting together the Final Environmental Impact Report that will analyze the impacts of Stanford’s growth under its proposed general use permit. The county is also still considering two new and separate ordinances that would significantly increase Stanford’s obligations for affordable housing: a housing-impact fee of $68.50 for every new square foot of academic space and a new “inclusionary zoning” ordinance requiring that 16 percent of Stanford’s housing units be designated for affordable housing.

The county is hoping to have both the ordinances and the proposed development agreement in place next year, when the board considers which of these mechanisms — if not both — to pursue.

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extremely-low-income residents and to start an “evergreen loan fund” that would pool resources from area foundations and employers for affordable housing (the university would contribute $21.7 million to that fund).

While Stanford had characterized this proposal as an effective way to immediately address the region’s housing crisis, county staff maintained on Tuesday that the terms in the proposal fall well short of what the county could achieve through the two ordinances. Deputy County Executive Sylvia Gallegos estimated that the county’s two ordinances could generate $89 million more for housing than the terms proposed by Stanford in July.

In addition, she estimated that the county ordinances would produce 663 new or converted units of affordable housing, while Stanford’s proposal would create between 314 and 455 units.

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contributions as part of a potential development agreement than it has offered thus far. The current proposal, she said, “does not constitute community benefits.”

“Stanford University will have to put more on the table, if in fact we were to get community benefits,” Gallegos said.

One question that is sure to come up during the talks is Stanford’s potential contribution to the Palo Alto Unified School District. School board member Todd Collins has been adamant in recent months about the need to have the university chip in for the added costs of educating the influx of students that would result from the campus expansion.

The school community, he said at Tuesday’s meeting, would be very happy to add more students to the district.

“But as anyone involved with schools knows, students without funding can only have one result — larger class sizes and thinner program offerings. That’s just the cold, hard math, and it goes to the fundamental quality of education. ... Let’s make sure that Stanford, the largest and wealthiest landlord in our community, covers the cost of its growth and allows us to provide the same great education to new and future residents that it does today.”

While Collins has been leading on this issue, he now has plenty of company. Board Supervisor Mike Wasserman observed that out of about 150 letters that he had received in the week prior to the Tuesday meeting, about 146 were from Palo Alto’s school community. Board members Terry Godfrey and Melissa Baten Caswell co-signed a letter requesting that any agreement with Stanford include a funding stream to support new students.

“With respect to our public schools, we maintain that your proposed scenarios must ensure that all of the students in the impacted community continue to have access to an undiminished, sustainable and robust educational program,” states the letter, which Baten Caswell read to the supervisors at the meeting.

Board Vice President Jennifer DiBrienza submitted a separate letter, co-signed by Mayor Liz Kniss and resident Debbie Mytels, which supports moving ahead with a negotiated development agreement but requests that the negotiations follow a “clear process that includes input to identify public benefits” and that it address the impacts of Stanford’s growth on schools, traffic and access to open space.

Many in the school community cited transparency as a top concern and made the case for more public involvement. Palo Alto Unified Superintendent Don Austin chided Stanford in a letter for refusing to meet with district staff to discuss potential upfront payments for possible school construction and to develop an algorithm to attach ongoing funding to students living in Stanford housing.

“The development agreement is angering our residents,” Austin

wrote. “We believe that Stanford is unwilling to work with (the district) and see the development agreement as a circumvent of the process with us. We deserve a say in the process and feel strongly that the development wing of Stanford University should handle the application one step at a time.”

Some members of the public encouraged county staff to wait until the Final Environmental Impact Report is completed before negotiating the new development agreement. Palo Alto City Manager James Keene signed a letter to the county calling such discussions “premature” given that the environmental study is being revised.

“The city and other jurisdictions have documented flaws with the Draft Environmental Impact Report that will require recirculation and additional public comment,” Keene’s letter states.

Neither the county board nor Stanford University staff supported such a delay. Jean McCown, Stanford’s associate vice president for government and community relations, noted that the university had successfully completed two major development agreements with Palo Alto in the past: the Mayfield agreement that allowed Stanford to build 250 housing units and provided soccer fields for the city; and the more recent development agreement that authorized the significant expansion and renovation of the Stanford University Medical Center.

In both of those cases, she said, negotiations on a development agreement occurred concurrently with the environmental review.

Contrary to some public comments, “preliminary discussions do not result in decisions made in secret,” she said.

The supervisors concurred, with several members observing that the preliminary discussions on development agreements have already effectively begun. They pointed to the high number of speakers lobbying for their particular issues, whether it be schools, traffic improvements or open space.

Simitian, whose district includes Stanford and Palo Alto, underscored that the board would not be making any decisions on a development agreement until after the environmental review is completed. The agreement, he said, will ultimately be considered alongside other tools, which will include ordinances, legislative actions and quasi-judicial actions.

“The full array should be before us so that we can understand which tool is the most appropriate tool for which particular challenge in the exercise,” he said.

Simitian, who was also a supervisor involved in Stanford’s last permit application in 2000, will have a central role in the current talks as well. As part of the board’s new two-member subcommittee, Simitian will work with staff on the negotiations with Stanford.

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These questions are unlikely to be resolved by the end of this year or by next February, which is the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current target for choosing a preferred alternative.

But if other agencies may ultimately determine whether Palo Alto can move ahead with a trench, council members indicated Wednesday that they would be perfectly willing to kill the viaduct option without external input. While Councilman Adrian Fine chafed at the idea of eliminating the viaduct without gathering more data, Scharff argued that scrapping the option makes sense.

He noted that it is costing the city about $250,000 to fully explore each grade-separation alternative. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think people have a fairly good sense of what a viaduct will look like,â&#x20AC;? Scharff said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a

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from Supervisor Dave Cortese to publicize the development agreement two weeks before any action is taken.

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quarter of a million dollars to explore; it causes a lot of anxiety in south Palo Alto; and it causes me a lot of anxiety. It would be really unattractive, and it would impact peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quality of life.â&#x20AC;?

The committee initially considered recommending the removal of the viaduct option but held back after Fine expressed his concerns and agreed to place the item on its November agenda. Fine noted that given the challenges with tunnels and trenches, that may end up being the only feasible option. The decision should not be based solely on the fact that many people oppose it; it should be consistent with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big-picture goals and objectives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We could be boxing ourselves into a solution that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t possible,â&#x20AC;? said Fine, the sole dissenter in the 3-1 vote to place the item on the committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s November agenda.

His colleagues all recognized that, given the uncertainties about a possible trench or tunnel in south Palo Alto, eliminating the viaduct would leave the â&#x20AC;&#x153;hybridâ&#x20AC;? option had a project application denied.

But he also said he was mindful of the fact that this was the largest application that the county has ever received. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to affect a lot of folks in a lot of ways, and there will be a lot of competing interests that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to balance,â&#x20AC;? Simitian said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

Human Relations Commission (Oct. 11)

Palo Alto Mediation Program: The commissioners discussed the Palo Alto Mediation Program and voted to approve mediators for the program. Action: Yes: Kralik, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nan, Stinger, Xue No: Lee Abstained: Smith Absent: Brahmbhatt HSRAP: The commission held a listening forum of Human Services Resource Allocation Process (HSRAP) applicants by Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Downtown Streets Team Action: None

City Council (Oct. 15)

788 San Antonio: The council held a pre-screening session for a 54-unit condominium development proposed for 788 San Antonio Road. Action: None Garage: The council authorized the issuance of $46 million in bonds to fund construction of the new California Avenue garage. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Holman, Kou, Scharff, Tanaka No: Fine, Wolbach Absent: Kniss

Council Finance Committee (Oct. 16)

Fees: The committee recommended deleting obsolete fees from the Police Department from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s municipal fee schedule and directed staff to routinely review fees in other departments. Yes: Unanimous Phones: The committee recommended approving a $300,000 contract with Verizon Wireless for wireless devices and data plans for city employees. Yes: Unanimous Utilities: The committee recommended approving the 2018 Electric Integrated Resource Plan (EIRP) and the Smart Grid Assessment. Yes: Unanimous

Council Rail Committee (Oct. 17)

Grade separation: The committee recommended scheduling for its November discussion a proposal to remove the â&#x20AC;&#x153;aerial viaductâ&#x20AC;? alternative from consideration for the Charleston and Meadow grade crossings. Yes: Kou, Scharff, Wolbach No: Fine

Architectural Review Board (Oct. 18)

1841 Page Mill Road: The board recommended approving a master sign program for 1841 Page Mill Road, with conditions that include limiting the height of some size and ensuring compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act. Yes: Unanimous

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as the only grade-separation option on the table for Charleston and Meadow. Wolbach suggested Wednesday that the city prepare different scenarios: One that assumes the city will get the needed approvals for a trench and another one that assumes it does not. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we should be looking at two alternatives at the end of the process, not one, because we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have answers from Caltrain and we probably wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have answers in a couple of months,â&#x20AC;? Wolbach said. Q For more on this topic, read Jay Thorwaldsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Off Deadline column about the new Palo Alto Rail Group on page 21 in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spectrum.

Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first black church celebrates centennial

Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first black church, University African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a Friday concert and special Sunday worship service. (Posted Oct. 18, 8:15 a.m.)

Supervisors back new $222M hospital for kids

Calling it a much-needed resource for youth in crisis, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave a full-throated endorsement of plans to build a new psychiatric facility aimed at serving children and teens. (Posted Oct. 16, 9:50 p.m.)

Webcast: Palo Alto City Council race

During this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Behind the Headlines webcast (paloaltoonline. com), Weekly journalists preview the City Council election with a discussion about Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s five candidates and their stances on some of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most urgent issues. (Posted Oct. 12, 4:57 p.m.)

Woman shoved while walking at park

Should the council eliminate the viaduct option in November? Discuss this question on Town Square, the online community forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square.

Palo Alto police were searching for a man who shoved a woman to the ground at Eleanor Pardee Park and attempted to rob her on Wednesday, Oct. 10, as she was walking just prior to 8 p.m. (Posted

Oct. 11, 3:21 p.m.)

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Robotics (continued from page 5)

Students from the Paly Robotics Club test out the clubs’ robot as they practice operating the robot in preparation for an upcoming potluck with fellow competitors from surrounding high schools in May 2017. than from robotics students and parents.

Krier has not responded to questions from the Palo Alto Weekly. She told student news outlet The Paly Voice that robotics students had previously “casually” followed safety practices,

including those related to eye, hair and bodily protection, and that supervision was lacking in the lab.

“From my background, we require always a teacher or somebody with a certificated credential to be in the room and then add mentors and parents on top of

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on administrative leave nor the program being temporarily shut down. Paly Assistant Principal Tom Keating informed the students that the lab would be closed this week for a safety review, she said.

Austin said that the administration is working to address “holdover” safety issues in the campus lab, including by bringing in an outside insurance firm to conduct a safety audit. A scheduled visit from Torrance-based Keenan and Associates was moved up from the end of the month to Oct. 17, Austin said.

He was not aware whether Krier, who started at Paly this fall after teaching computer science at Monte Vista High School in Danville, had been disciplined in her previous teaching job. He could not confirm whether Paly or the district office has received complaints about her conduct other

that,” Krier told The Paly Voice, “whereas the past practice allowed parents to come and supervise without a certificated person.”

“This isn’t Starbucks. It’s a machine shop,” she said.

Robotics students have said they were willing to work with Krier on safety improvements but that their attempts to do so were “ignored or taken as personal attacks,” according to a statement signed by 22 of the 72 team members.

On behalf of the team, co-captain Xu filed last month a formal complaint about Krier’s conduct through the district’s Uniform Complaint Procedure (UCP).

Devin Ardeshna, a 2018 Paly graduate and former robotics team captain, filed another UCP complaint on Oct. 11 alleging Krier has violated policies on discrimination, harassment and staff conduct. Part of his complaint, which is based on third-hand information of incidents in the lab, details concerns about Krier’s

efforts to recruit a more diverse range of students, which he said “put students of other ethnicities at a disadvantage.”

Ardeshna said he hopes his complaint prompts a dialogue between the district’s Title IX compliance officer and current robotics students.

Xu echoed that desire in an email to the Weekly: “We really want to see the Paly administration open up to our concerns and would like to start a transparent and constructive dialogue to do what’s best for the robotics students.”

Austin said pausing the robotics program is “very short term” and that Keating would meet with students and parents this past week to discuss next steps.

“It’s clearly a highly valued, complex, sophisticated program,” Austin said. “We want to get this all right.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

Condos (continued from page 7)

favor of affordable housing, but you have to balance that with the people who live in the neighborhoods,” Harter said.

Stephanie Downey, who owns an office building next to the site, said she was excited about the project. Downey, a high school teacher, said the new development could potentially provide housing for some of her colleagues.

“It’s a challenge for a teacher to be able to afford anything within commuting distance to this community to work here,” Downey said.

Most council members found themselves somewhere between these two positions. Councilman Tom DuBois suggested that the developer consider making this a senior-housing proposal and suggested that San Antonio Road wouldn’t be an ideal location for bicycling school commuters. He also recommended that the developer consider ways to retain retail at the site, a sentiment that Vice Mayor Eric Filseth shared.

“The reason we have retail protection ordinances is because we don’t want to lose this kind of feature of our community,” Filseth said, referring to Studio Kicks.

“Because there’s only so much land and there’s so much demand for it, I wouldn’t want to see it go away.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Eva Anita Bruguera December 23, 1927 – August 27, 2018 Eva Anita Bruguera, a longtime Palo Alto resident, former medical librarian at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital and avid line dancer, died Aug. 27 after a long illness. She was 90.

Born to Urho and Tekla Makela in Viipuri, Finland, Eva’s youth was imprinted by war. After Russia invaded eastern Finland, she and her sister were sent to live in Sweden, among many Finnish children kept from wartime peril by kindhearted farm families. She learned lessons of frugality and also developed an affinity for languages, eventually mastering seven languages with an ability to understand several more.

After the war, Eva studied French and German at the Sorbonne in Paris. There she met fellow student Jordi Bruguera, married, and eventually immigrated to the U.S., settling in Pittsburgh, PA. While caring for three young boys, she earned master’s degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. The family moved to California in 1961, settling first in Mountain View, then in Palo Alto in 1966.

Eva was active in the Unitarian Universalist Church, the Finlandia Foundation, the Daughters of Norway and the American Association of University Women, and enjoyed going on Elderhostel trips. She volunteered teaching English to newcomers. Most of all, she loved line dancing, and enthusiastically taught it to family, friends and strangers.

On her 90th birthday, she got up to sway to “Achy Breaky Heart” with her sons. As dementia increasingly dominated her life, Eva moved to care homes in San Jose.

She is survived by her sons Larry of Palo Alto, Mark of East Palo Alto and Paul of Rancho Palos Verdes; daughtersin-law Sharon Noguchi and Soussan Bruguera; six grandchildren; sister and brother-in-law Kaija and Timo Suortti of Helsinki, Finland; a niece and nephew and four great-nephews. Donations in Eva’s memory may be made to a charity of choice. A remembrance of Eva’s life will be held at 2 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Unity church, 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

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Violence related Attempted robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sexual assault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 7 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Violence related Armed robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving w/ suspeneded license. . . . . . . 3 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/mnr. injury . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/unspecified injury . . . 2

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VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

200 Pasteur Dr., 10/8, 9:32 p.m.; battery/simple.

Wilkie Way, 10/10, 4:52 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Pasteur Drive, 10/10, 5 p.m.; sex crime/ misc.

Forest Avenue, 10/11, 6:21 p.m.; sexual assault/misc.

Webster Street, 10/15, 3:05 p.m.; domestic violence/court order.

San Antonio Road, 10/15, 10:33 p.m.; family violence/misc.

Menlo Park

Okeefe street/Laurel Avenue , 10/10, 11:51 a.m.; armed robbery.

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Donald Charles Quaintance

Donald Charles Quaintance, a Stanford graduate and resident of Palo Alto for several years, died on Sept. 12 at the age of 76.

He was born in Hilo, Hawaii where he attended Hawaii Preparatory Academy through high school. Following his graduation, he served in the United States military for two years before attending Stanford University.

He married Cecele Quaintance in 1967. They had three children, Courtney Quaintance, Donald Quaintance and Christopher Quaintance.

For graduate studies, he attended Santa Clara University School of Law and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1974. He used his education to become a corporate attorney for Hewlett-Packard, with a focus on labor and employment law. Upon his retirement, he built his dream home and returned to the big island of Hawaii. After moving to

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an assisted living facility in Kona, Hawaii, he helped local children with their computer and reading skills as a volunteer.

He is survived by his children, Courtney Quaintance of Rome, Italy; Donald Quaintance (Jean) of Danbury, Connecticut; and Christopher Quaintance (Aisha) of Menlo Park; his grandchildren; his sister, Barbara Bowers

(David Bowers) of Los Altos; his brother, Edward Quaintance (Diana) of Pauilo, Hawaii; nieces and nephews; former wife Cecele Quaintance of Palo Alto; and former companion of many years, Gray Gilfillan of Shady Side, Maryland.

In July 2019, friends and family will gather in Hawaii to celebrate his life.

John (Jack) B. Gilbert July 17, 1929 – October 5, 2018 Born July 17, 1929, John Gilbert of Sunriver, Oregon died October 5, 2018 at age 89. John was born in Freeport, Illinois to Harry and Sybil Gilbert. He attended Shattuck/ St. Mary’s School in Faribault, Minnesota and Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.

After serving in the US Army from 1953 to 1955, John moved to Palo Alto, California where he met and later married the love of his life, Mary Louise Cuthbertson. They continued to live in Palo Alto where John worked for many years for Allstate Insurance before retiring to Sunriver in 1992. John and Mary truly enjoyed the central Oregon lifestyle - playing golf, walking and swimming their dogs and various volunteer work.

Survivors include his wife Mary, their two sons, Gregory B. Gilbert of Menlo Park, CA and Mark H. Gilbert of Weimar, CA, their daughter-in-law Kelly Gilbert of Weimar, CA and their granddaughter Delaney Jaenne Gilbert of Loomis, CA. John asked that any memorial contributions be made to the Humane Society of Central Oregon.

The family will celebrate John’s life in Palo Alto in a private family gathering in a few weeks.

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Our dear loving, funny, stubborn, worldly mother and wife passed away after a long illness at home surrounded by her boys, Joseph and David, and her husband, Stanley on September 11, 2018.

Anita Zerpoli was born in 1930 in New York City.

She was adopted at the age of two by Amelia Laspisa after her birth mother died of tuberculosis and her father abandoned the family. She was raised in the Bronx during the Great Depression, WWII, and the immediate post-war years.

Anita attended Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx and graduated in 1948. It was at Columbus High School that she first met her future husband Stanley. Anita left New York City in 1948 to attend the University of Michigan on scholarship. Although she visited often, she never again lived in New York City. In Ann Arbor, Anita again met Stanley and married him at the age of 20. Anita & Stanley were married for 68 years.

Anita made friends at Michigan she remained close with for the rest of her life. She graduated in 1952 with a bachelor’s degree in English. During college she wrote plays, one of which was produced at the university.

Following college she and Stanley lived in New Hampshire, Maine, Philadelphia, Texas, and later West Germany. During this time, she was a young mother & wife, while Stanley completed his residency and later worked as a physician in the United States Air Force.

Anita taught English to West German Army enlisted men in Texas in the early 1960s. After 3 years of living in Bitburg, West Germany, she and family returned to the United States in 1966. That summer they moved to Palo Alto where she lived for the next 52 years.

Anita was a voracious reader of literature and a dedicated student of language. Throughout her life she studied and spoke German, Spanish, and later Italian.

She participated in German and Italian conversation groups for most of her adult life. She also enjoyed opera, ballet and traveling. Anita and Stanley returned to Europe on numerous occasions, primarily to England, Italy, Germany, and France, often visiting friends they had made on previous trips.

Anita had a great sense of humor and some amusing quirks as well. She avoided much that was modern. It took many years for her to allow a microwave oven into her kitchen, she never owned a cell phone, preferred to read rather than watch TV, and questioned the necessity of many modern conveniences. Her penchant for obsessing over the ingredients listed on food labels, unusual in the 60s, became normal by the 90s. For many years, she was known to hand out raisins and apples on Halloween, much to the ire of the neighborhood kids.

Having grown up poor, she always had compassion for the underdog, and was a true “bleeding heart” liberal.

Though raised Catholic she only rarely attended church, but when she did she would bemoan the disappearance of the Latin mass, this despite the fact that her Latin was almost non-existent. She also loved the outdoors, worked for a period for a local environmental organization, and spent many a day visiting Foothill Park and Santa Cruz beaches with her children when both she and they were young.

Anita will be sorely missed. The family will hold a private celebration of her life with friends and family in Sunnyvale.

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Editorial Holman for Open Space District

fter 46 years representing the Palo Alto area as an elected board member of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD) — a public agency she helped create in 1972 — Palo Alto resident Nonette Hanko has decided to step down when her term ends this year.

She encouraged her friend and MROSD community advisory board member Karen Holman, who is completing nine years as a Palo Alto City Council member, to run for her Ward 5 seat. The ward includes East Palo Alto and portions of Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Stanford.

Holman began seeking endorsements, filed her papers and has won the support of all seven of the other MROSD directors.

Much to her surprise, Palo Alto City Councilman Greg Scharff, who usually takes the polar-opposite positions from Holman on city land use and zoning issues while they have served alongside each other on the council, entered the race just before the filing deadline.

Like Holman, Scharff is facing the council’s term limit and cannot pursue re-election to the council.

In the only two city elections they have competed in, Holman out-polled Scharff both times, in spite of Scharff’s spending an unprecedented $100,000 of mostly his own money in his re-election campaign in 2014. He says he is largely self-funding this campaign as well, and Holman will likely be far outspent. With no major issues differentiating the two, voters must weigh who will be more effective and committed to the work of the district.

Scharff points to his financial experience as a real-estate attorney, a councilman and a representative on regional bodies that allocate funds for, among other things, environmental restoration projects.

His attendance record on some of his regional assignments show he has spread himself too thin. In the last two years, he has missed more meetings of the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Agency than he has attended. And he missed five of the seven meetings of a Caltrain advisory committee. In both cases, his failure to attend these meetings deprived Palo Alto of representation.

We believe Holman is the better choice. Her service on the city’s planning commission and council and as mayor, and her MROSD involvement (including co-chairing the strategic-planning advisory committee), make her a more prepared and passionate candidate than Scharff, who has not taken a strong interest in environmental issues during his nine years on the City Council.

More importantly, we have seen both Holman’s and Scharff’s leadership styles, including when each served as Palo Alto mayor, and we think Holman brings a much more collaborative approach and a temperament better suited for an MROSD board that is functioning well in a non-political environment.

With no major controversial issues facing the open-space district and no significant disagreements between Holman and Scharff on how the district is implementing the vision plan adopted five years ago or allocating funds from the 2014 bond measure, Holman is the best candidate to ensure the continued success of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.

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Re-elect Sheriff Laurie Smith

n the June primary election for Santa Clara County Sheriff we endorsed former Undersheriff John Hirokawa in hopes that a fall campaign might demonstrate he had the capability to improve upon Sheriff Laurie Smith’s rather mediocre performance over the last 20 years.

Instead, we’ve come to the opposite conclusion.

Hirokawa has bounced from one problem to another since winning enough votes in the primary to force a run-off. He missed the deadline to file his ballot statement and then in court filings tried to blame the Registrar of Voters for it, first saying he had not been properly notified of the deadline and then denying he received a reminder letter. If he can’t follow simple rules like every other candidate and take responsibility for his own errors, he isn’t qualified to be the leader of a complex 1,800-person, $350 million public agency.

Hirokawa also made comments in a deposition that appeared to be defending the head of the Deputy Sheriffs’ Association, which had endorsed him. Racist text messages that surfaced between the union president and several other deputies led to disciplinary action, but Hirokawa’s statements revealed more concern for the deputies and due process than for the ugly text messages they had sent and the culture they revealed.

Santa Clara County voters deserve a competent and visionary chief law-enforcement officer. Smith is, finally, on the right track with implementing long-needed jail reforms, and we are optimistic she will follow through on concerns about the oversight of the Stanford police force, which operates under an unusual grant-of-authority from the county that gives the private institution full police powers.

In spite of her shortcomings, which include an uninspired and weak administrative record over her two decades in the office, we believe she is the better choice. Q

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Clarifying the details

Editor, Regarding Carla Befera’s Guest Opinion (Palo Alto Weekly, Oct. 5), public input is essential to Castilleja’s conditional-use permit (CUP) application process, and I want to add some important facts to the conversation.

Ms. Befera is correct; other schools have opened second campuses when they grew by over 60 percent or created new divisions.

Castilleja, in contrast, is seeking a 6 percent enrollment increase in year one. If traffic management succeeds in keeping car trips down, the school will earn permission to grow by another 6 percent annually, reaching a maximum of 30 percent growth.

Unlike schools that split campuses to accommodate much larger growth, Castilleja has opted for incremental growth in order to remain on one campus, which allows for mentorship between divisions. On our single campus, high school students coach, tutor and direct middle school students every day — building valuable leadership skills. This 30 percent cap was derived by studying how many students the school could add without increasing car trips.

I recognize some neighbors’ concerns about the garage attracting more cars. Our CUP application stipulates our student body will only be permitted to grow if we keep car trips to campus below our city-approved limit.

Therefore, the garage cannot and will not permit more cars. Its sole purpose is to remove traffic and parking from the streets.

Castilleja has not been in violation of our CUP “for some 16 years.” We were over-enrolled, which our head of school acknowledged. The city then set a schedule for enrollment reductions, which the school has followed faithfully and will continue to abide by.

I hope these details clarify the consideration and safeguards in our revised CUP application. In the spirit of cooperation, we’re committed to finding a solution that meets the needs of the school, the neighborhood and the city.

Kathy Layendecker Bryant Street, Palo Alto

No binary thinking

Editor, Regarding the Guest Opinion of Carla Befera in the Oct. 5 Palo Alto Weekly, it’s refreshing to read an opinion that’s not just another expression of binary thinking. Carla Befera demonstrated that just because someone stands up against Castilleja School’s continued violations does not mean that one is against women’s

education. We need more such moderate thinking in today’s fractured political environment.

Greg Loy Arbutus Avenue, Palo Alto

Castilleja’s plan for trees, construction

Editor, I am writing in response to Carla Befera’s Guest Opinion (Palo Alto Weekly, Oct. 5). I appreciate her perspective and her research, and as an employee of Castilleja School, I would like to contribute corrections to some of the data.

Ms. Befera asserted 57 healthy trees were being removed. The modernization will actually remove 35 trees, not 57 trees. Nine of those will be relocated to another site. Of the others, many are diseased or suffering from severe drought stress. Ultimately, we will add more trees than we remove, resulting in a campus with over two dozen more trees than we have today and a new neighborhood park.

I also acknowledge that some neighbors are concerned about the duration of construction. Castilleja wants to burden neither our neighbors nor our students with

a lengthy construction project.

The first phase will be the garage on the north side of campus; the second phase will be the learning spaces on the south side; and the entire project should take fewer than three years. As a school, we are a stakeholder in maintaining the shortest time frame possible.

Lorraine Brown Bryant Street, Palo Alto

Castilleja’s value to our family

Editor, As a 20-year resident of Palo Alto, I thank the City Council for embracing the healthy growth of our vibrant and diverse city while honoring the historic institutions that give Palo Alto such depth and character.

Castilleja School’s plan gives us a unique opportunity to do both. It will honor a 112-year tradition of educating young women while ensuring that Castilleja has the facilities it needs to serve generations to come. The plan will mitigate traffic, add healthy trees, reduce noise and take cars and (continued on next page)

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Guest Opinion A bigger, faster train is barreling toward Palo Alto — ready or not

by Jay Thorwaldson hile some residents and civic leaders have been sounding an alarm about the impacts of bigger, faster and more frequent trains for years, even decades, most residents of Palo Alto and other Peninsula communities haven’t caught on enough to actually do something.

Most are not even sure which of the many moving parts to watch. And if some residents even know of plans and trends afoot, many feel helpless to do anything about the complex interplay of forces, trends and facts involved. What can one grain of sand on a beach do about what happens to it?

What is about to happen to Palo Alto alone is worth noting. Palo Alto’s University Avenue train station and transit center is the second busiest hub of bus and train commuters on the 46-mile-long Peninsula Caltrain line, right after San Francisco. About 900 buses a day pull into the station.

And Palo Alto’s 100-foot rail right-of-way is tightly sandwiched between numerous houses and yards, meaning that anything done will impact residents and possibly require taking of more than 30 homes, by sale or eminent domain. (City officials recently indicated that they would like to avoid any options that would require the taking of homes.)

One group of citizens, including former city officials, is trying to get the word out about the impending changes and decisions: They have started with a short video

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deliveries off the streets.

But I’d like to share what Castilleja means to my family. We have two daughters who worked their tails off to attend Castilleja, and each day, they walk into school with pride and purpose. Beyond a phenomenal education, Castilleja teaches our daughters to be better citizens. With time built into their schedule for meaningful community engagement, our girls have sung along with senior citizens, taught dance and coding to kids in East Palo Alto and creatively raised funds for teen mental health, homelessness and the disabled.

As a school community, in a beautiful neighborhood that we respect, we are all working together. There isn’t a meeting when the Head of School Nanci Kauffman doesn’t remind us of our commitment to Castilleja’s aggressive traffic-management plan, which has already substantially reduced traffic.

I appreciate the history outlined in Ms. Carla Befera’s Guest

on YouTube that highlights the core issues and facts. (The video can be viewed at bit.ly/ PArailgroup.)

That group is “The Palo Alto Rail Group,” not to be confused with earlier city commissions, committees or study groups or any regional transit-related organization.

It does follow in the footsteps of the group Californians Advocating Responsible Rail Design (CARRD) founded and spearheaded by Nadia Naik, a Palo Altan involved in transportation issues for the past decade in response to high-speed-rail plans who spoke Sept. 11 at a Palo Alto Women’s Club forum.

The new Rail Group video should be required viewing for any neighborhood leader or person involved in local issues, as what’s coming down the track, so to speak, will affect just about everyone in town and for miles north or south of Palo Alto.

Dramatic changes are coming, the group warns. And key decisions must be (and are being) made now and in the next few months that will affect the Peninsula’s future for possibly the next century — as the coming of the rails did nearly a century ago.

The Rail Group includes former mayors and council members, including Nancy Shepherd, Gail Price, Dena Mossar and Bern Beecham, former Planning Director Steve Emslie, former Planning and Transportation Commission member Tony Carrasco, Jeff Justice (who filmed the video), George Chaltas, Richard Hackman and Brian Steen.

The video is packed with facts, citing the 62,000 riders per day who use Caltrain — equivalent to four lanes of freeway traffic. It notes that new jobs are coming to the region, including 20,000 employees projected for

Opinion piece, and now, it’s time to look forward and accept that Castilleja is working hard to find agreeable solutions for everyone.

As a vital part of Palo Alto’s rich history, we should not only support the school’s continued legacy but the future of the young women at the heart of it.

Kris Loew East Charleston Road, Palo Alto

Modernize, but respect neighbors

Editor, Thanks to Guest Opinion writer Carla Befera for clearly summarizing the historical context and how the neighbors got to where we are with Castilleja. Neighbors appreciate that the school has worked to reduce traffic and parking issues the last few years, but please note that it had agreed to do so in the last conditional-use permit, in year 2000, and only improved the situation in 2013, when it started on its current course to increase size and student body.

If the school respected their

Google’s announced expansion in San Jose.

Each day there are 92 passenger trains and, at night, four freight trains that presently whistle through Palo Alto’s four at-grade crossings: Palo Alto Avenue, Churchill Avenue, West Meadow Drive and Charleston Road.

It notes that along the route from Gilroy to San Francisco there are 42 at-grade crossings with control gates that go up and down 95 times a day each. And it points out that Caltrain is running at about 125 percent of capacity today, so won’t be able to handle further increases in the vibrant job economy of the region.

The video touches on the possibilities of design alternatives, from noisy elevated tracks to a deep-tunnel for high-speed rail — which must co-exist somehow with an electrified Caltrain commute service along the right-of-way. One alternative is to “trench the tracks.” And what about all that excavated dirt?

The simplest alternative would be to either run the streets over or under the tracks (known as “grade separation”) at the existing at-grade crossings.

But nothing’s simple. And just doing four separations for Palo Alto would not fly with other communities along the line.

Cost estimates have ranged upward from $150,000, which seems ridiculously low.

Multiplied by 41 crossings we’re looking at a total cost of between $6.15 million and $8.2 million if costs hit $200,000 per crossing.

Well, Santa Clara County residents passed a whopping transportation-financing plan, Measure B, in 2016 with more than 70 percent of voters in support. The measure’s half-cent sales tax is projected to provide funds for $6.5 billion in transit upgrades

neighbors, reduced the scope of the plans and submitted a Palo Alto municipal code-compliant project, we would be appreciative and supportive. It instead submitted an application for a 30 percent increase in enrollment and plans proposing to denigrate Emerson Street by tearing down houses (including the Lockey House) and trees to make way for an underground garage which will attract (not discourage) drivers.

Forty-seven surrounding households signed letters stating they do not want the garage. The school also filed a request for variance to demolish five school buildings and replace them with one large one. Yet the school continues to state they worked with the neighbors and that their project will improve the neighborhood. If that’s not insulting enough, it paints us as opposing women’s education.

We encourage Castilleja to renovate, modernize, update; be creative and sustainable and stay small and vital. There’s limited space (6 acres). If the school truly desires to accommodate more

through the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), with another $1.5 billion for BART extension to San Jose.

A projected $900 million was projected for grade-separation projects and $1.2 billion would go for expressway, bicycle and pedestrian improvements local street upgrades.

But having funds available doesn’t solve all the problems, nearly all involved agree.

It may be one of the few areas of agreement when one factors in different cities, neighborhoods and interest groups advocating for a slice of those funds or to get to be next in line for some project.

And even though Palo Alto has hired a consultant group to study and recommend alternatives, a staffing hole has opened up with the recent resignation of Transportation Officer Josh Mello and the earlier departure of Planning Director Hilary Gitelman. Other staff are filling in.

A significant new wrinkle surfaced last month. A new report indicates that putting an underpass at Palo Alto Avenue may not be possible because of the potential disturbance to the roots of Palo Alto’s ancient landmark redwood tree, El Palo Alto, on the back of San Francisquito Creek near the existing train bridge.

Shepherd and others involved in the current wake-up efforts emphasize that the core issue really is not grade separations or dollars or what committee or group or consultant is doing. The core issue is “quality of life” and preventing mistakes that undermine that.

So as Palo Alto and other communities face one of their biggest changes/challenges in the past and next century, everyone is being invited to the table. Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well.com.

deserving girls, it needs to find another site for part or all of the campus.

Andie Reed Melville Avenue, Palo Alto

Cormack’s a leader

Editor, I’m glad to support Alison Cormack for City Council. I worked extensively with her on both the library bond-measure campaign and the nonprofit that raised an additional $4 million for the libraries.

Alison’s leadership on both organizations was outstanding and without reproach. When she had an objective in sight, she lead us with persistence, culminating in a 69 percent win for the bond and meeting our full objective in our supplemental fundraising.

More than that, in 2007 Alison stood by herself in front of the City Council to ask why the south Palo Alto library branch was not being renovated. When told it would be up to south Palo Alto, Alison took that as a challenge

and enlisted first Lynne Russell and then Susie Thom to help make it happen.

More than anyone, it is to Alison’s credit and a testimony to her care for the city that we have our outstanding library system.

I hope everyone will join me in voting for Alison Cormack.

Bern Beecham Cowper Street, Palo Alto

Don’t cause chaos

Editor, As a longtime Palo Alto City Council member I’m sure the Weekly’s right to oppose Measure F. It forces the city government into an oversight function it simply isn’t capable of handling. The cost will be egregious; the results clear chaos. There also appear to be other reasons to oppose Measure F. But adding another complex bureaucracy to Palo Alto is enough to vote “No.” Le Levy Greer Road, Palo Alto (continued on page 22)

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Editor, I will be voting for Karen Holman for Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD) with her long record of environmental stewardship.

For over 17 years, as a Palo Alto planning commissioner and City Council member (and former mayor), she has worked tirelessly and intelligently for the protection of our precious environment, including our trees, natural habitat, the Baylands and Foothills Park.

She is thorough in her research and is always prepared to offer her wisdom to the public. (In the 2014 election, Karen Holman, emerged victorious in every Palo Alto neighborhood, winning the highest number of votes for City Council.)

She has the endorsement of all seven of the current MROSD board members, including cofounder Nonette Hanko, the Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter, Congresswoman Anna Eshoo and many environmental leaders in the community.

There is no one quite as gifted as Karen Holman. Palo Alto has been fortunate she has made it her life’s work to be a public advocate for the environment.

Dorothy Bender Military Way, Palo Alto

No to Measure F

Editor, As a former Mayor of Palo Alto, I oppose Measure F. Palo Alto residents benefit from having some of the best hospitals, physicians, dentists, optometrists in the world. Measure F is an attack on our health care providers and will lead to cutbacks or closure of services and facilities. For the city of Palo Alto, Measure F represents an unfunded multimillion-dollar burden that will divert resources away from critical city services such as police and fire protection.

The only other option will be to raise taxes. Everyone loses under Measure F, and this is why the City Council voted unanimously 9-0 to oppose it.

Betsy Bechtel Lowell Avenue, Palo Alto

Misuse of initiative

Editor, As a Palo Alto resident, I strongly oppose Measure F. We all know that health care costs are too high, but Measure F is not the needed fix. Making medical care affordable clearly can’t be addressed by a city government but

instead requires federal reform.

Not only would Measure F place an unprecedented burden on the city of Palo Alto with unfunded mandates costing millions, but it will also profoundly impact health care providers and patients.

This measure only provides rebates to insurance companies, without any requirement that this money is passed on to patients.

Local providers will flee to neighboring towns unburdened by this measure, and the world-class care that draws patients from around the country will diminish.

The authors of Measure F unethically misused the initiative process to gain tactical bargaining power for their enterprises.

Measure F does not reduce costs but instead hurts care providers and punishes patients.

Not surprisingly, the community is rallying strongly against Measure F. The City Council voted unanimously to oppose. The Palo Alto Weekly and Palo Alto Daily Post wrote forceful editorials against the measure.

Mark Nicolls Ilima Court, Palo Alto

City should stay out of health care

Editor, I am going to vote “No” on Measure F. As a former schoolboard member, I know how local government works. Governments must stick to their purpose. The city’s charge is not health care.

Further, the city is unprepared for and has no funding for the supervision and regulation of health care providers. Supporters of Measure F say that the city has the money, but in fact its budget is already stretched too far. Measure F is bad policy that will hurt, not help, local citizens.

Julie Jerome Greer Road, Palo Alto

A nurse’s perspective

Editor, As a nurse, delivering highquality care to my patients is what’s most important to me.

Measure F is a sham policy that would prevent me from being able to do my job. This initiative would require health care providers to pay rebates to insurance companies, without requiring that they pass these rebates onto patients.

The financial impact would be so severe for providers that health care professionals’ jobs and wages will be cut, as well as services reduced.

Measure F would also prevent health care providers from being able to invest in technology to provide the highest level of care or new facilities that comply with

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seismic safety standards. Staff and service cuts will prevent patients from receiving the high-quality patient care that I deliver every day.

On a day-to-day basis, I work with patients suffering from stroke, brain tumors and other neurosurgical conditions that may result in life-altering changes. I want my patients to have access to high-quality health care to mitigate their suffering and optimize their outcomes. Measure F will prevent this.

Teresa Bell-Stephens Corina Way, Palo Alto

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Peter Canavese Uruguay and the U.S. As always, the films cover a wide array of topics, from the opioid crisis to the refugee crisis, women’s and LGBTQ rights, gun laws, history, race, technology and the arts. One can find a film about finding love while HIV positive, another about the last surviving Nuremberg Trials prosecutor, as well as films on the sexism facing female chefs, efforts to combat untreatable bacterial diseases and racial stereotyping in comics. As a bonus, local filmmakers and subjects are always well represented at UNAFF, and this year is no exception. A handful of films represent the Bay Area’s thriving documentary film community.

“The New Fire” explores the importance of nuclear power and follows a few startups racing to develop the next generation of nuclear reactors. One of those startups is Oklo, operating out of Sunnyvale under co-founders Caroline Cochran and Jacob DeWitte. Also local: executive producer Ross Koningstein (a Stanford grad and Google engineer), and professors Ken Caldeira (a Stanford-based climate scientist) and Per Peterson of U.C. Berkeley (currently on leave to work at a nuclear startup he founded in Alameda), both seen in the film.

Nuclear disasters, “No Nukes!” protests, and Mr. Burns on “The Simpsons” have given nuclear power a bad name, but as the scientists in “The New Fire” point out, it is relatively safe and getting safer, not to mention

absolutely essential to meet the planet’s clean energy needs (wind and solar can help, yes, but they aren’t enough). By doing the math on nuclear and looking at innovation in the field, “The New Fire” makes for a fascinating and vital documentary. The film screens Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m.

“From Baghdad to the Bay” profiles local chef Ghazwan Alsharif, with footage covering his eight years living in the United States after fleeing persecution in his native Iraq (featured in an interview with the Weekly in July). Highly valued as one of the best interpreters recruited by the U.S. military after its invasion of Iraq, Ghazwan found himself jailed without warning by the Iraqi military police and tortured under accusations of being a traitorous double agent or even a terrorist.

Upon confessing under duress to being gay, matters didn’t get any better, until a former colleague got him released, and Alsharif started over in America, enjoying new freedoms and dreams to make it in the food industry (he even appears on the Food Network) even as he suppresses a few old fears and fights depression to maintain his generally upbeat demeanor. Alsharif’s story of refugee to U.S. citizen underlines the at-times forgotten contributions of military translators and of today’s immigrants.

You can see “From Baghdad to the Bay” Oct. 21 at 4:30 p.m.

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very year — and, for some of us, every day — brings with it increased anxiety about the future. Apart from the state of the U.S. government and political unrest around the world, global climate change gives reason enough for intense concern. Of course, as fears and injustices rise up, so do heroes, those who urgently work to right wrongs and those who inform the public at large. So if this year’s theme for the United Nations Association Film Festival, “Tomorrow?,” sounds a little anxious, it’s meeting us where we live — but it’s also looking forward with hope.

With a full slate of documentary films rolling out between now and Oct. 28, the 21st UNAFF continues the festival’s mission to celebrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by showcasing global documentary films demonstrating diversity, compassion and justice. Venues for this cherished local event include the Aquarius Theatre, Mitchell Park Community Center, Midpeninsula Community Media Center, Eastside College Prep, and Stanford University. The fest’s 60 films, including four world premieres and eight U.S. premieres, hail from Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Mozambique, North Korea, Norway, Palestine, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Spain, Syria, UK,

Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs appears in a scene from “Silicon Valley: The Untold Story.”

Sullivan, gets into the increasingly documented health harms (and need for more study) of cellphones, other screen-based devices and wireless routers. The longoverdue documentary features interviews with numerous experts and testimonials by doctors and patients linking cellphones to tumors. When her husband developed a brain tumor likely caused by his cell phone use, Ellen Marks became an activist, founding with her son Zack the California Brain Tumor Association, which has scored wins with the San Francisco and Berkeley city governments regarding regulatory warnings and consumer protections.

“Generation Zapped,” expertly assembled, will likely change how you think about your phone and your home Wi-Fi. It plays Oct. 26 at 4:45 p.m.

“Silicon Valley: The Untold Story” is actually Episode One (“Secret Sauce”) of a three-part Science Channel documentary on that subject of endless fascination: the innovation and industry of this place we call Silicon Valley. Chasing breadth over depth,

the doc covers a lot of ground and makes some interesting connections across time about the history and current development of the place, and for starters, it gives an overview of the breakthroughs that put Silicon Valley on the map in the first place. Check it out Oct. 23 at 4:40 p.m.

The festival also offers six free panels with questions and answers about “Tomorrow?”: “The Future of Conflicts and Resolutions,” “Climate Change, Energy Revolution and New Technologies,” “Music and Literature Bring us Together,” “Gender, Race, Religion and Politics in Popular Culture,” “Health Challenges and Technology.” and “Therapies for Our Planet.”

UNAFF has a documentary film for every interest and a world of possibilities to explore topics one might never have otherwise become aware of or considered.

To begin exploring those possibilities, find complete details at unaff.org. Q Freelance writer Peter Canavese can be emailed at pcanavese@bcp.org.

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A modernized masterpiece

West Bay Opera sets ‘La bohème’ in contemporary SF

by Yoshi Kato here are Act I, the setting is OPERA REVIEW moments not a studio in the throughout West Bay Op- City of Light’s Latin Quarter but era’s inspired interpretation of rather an apartment in the Castro.

Giacomo Puccini’s “La bohème” A familiar image of Sutro Tower when audience members can be on Twin Peaks is projected on forgiven for forgetting that they’re the dwelling’s oversized window. watching a work that premiered Struggling visual artist Marcello more than 112 years ago. (portrayed with great depth by JaAs WBO’s General Director son Duika, making his WBO deand Conductor José Luis Moscov- but) is using a can of spray paint, ich pointed out in his introductory and not a brush and palette, while remarks last Sunday afternoon, wearing an oversized plaid shirt the classic opera’s main themes with a hoodie underneath. of homelessness, health care and There’s instant chemistry and income inequality are as relevant camaraderie between Duika and as today’s headlines, tweets and Nathan Granner, who is a pathosFacebook posts. And by trans- filled Rodolfo. Portraying the porting the setting from Paris in poet and main male love inter1830 to the present day some 35 est, he’s also making his WBO miles northwest of the Lucie Stern debut, as are Julie Adams (Mimi, Theatre, in San Francisco, the vi- the illustrator and main female sual aspects of WBO’s production love interest), Brandon Bell (the (with stage direction by Igor Viei- philosopher Colline) and Karl ra, set and lighting by Michael Pa- Kaminsky (both Benoit the lusty lumbo, costumes by Abra Berman landlord and Alcindoro the sugar and projection design by Frederic daddy). The male starving artists Boulay) resemble a television in Act 1, including Kiril Havezov miniseries one might binge rather as Schaunard the musician, bring than a traditional opera. an authentic sense of brotherhood When the curtain is drawn on and have voices that blend well together while maintaining distinct individuality.

“There’s no place like home.”

“La bohème’s” success can rest largely on how Mimi is portrayed, and Adams infuses the role with both a bright light and ultimately a well-earned sense of tragedy around which the other characters can orbit. Her duets in Act 1 with Granner as their characters’ love quickly evolves and with Duika in Act 3 as she confesses

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There was a long pause, but not an actual intermission, between Acts 1 and 2, long enough that a couple of patrons stood up to stretch their legs. But the wait was well worth it, as the extensive set change for Act 2 set up a bustling North Beach complete with familiar neon signs and the story’s Café Momus placed at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Broadway.

Set on Christmas Eve 2018, it’s a bustling scene populated by street vendors, restaurant diners and children. The diversity of ages and faces ensured that it better reflected today’s San Francisco, and members of the chorus and Silicon Valley Boychoir and others were involved in their own stories in the background like in a Robert Altman film. It was dizzying at times to read the supertitles, which are above the left and right sides of the stage at what seemed like a 45-degree angle; follow the action of the main characters to Music Director Thomas Shoebotham

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the left and right (including Maya Kherani’s dynamic Musetta, who’s introduced in this act); and also peek into the lives of the others.

There are details throughout Act 2 that authentically reflect the contemporary setting: One woman has dyed pink hair, and a homeless character who returns in Act 3 is wearing a pink Women’s March pussy hat. When Musetta makes a scene in front of both lover Alcindoro and past flame Marcello, it’s a viral video moment in the making that’s captured by a sea of smartphones.

Technology is further acknowledged as Carmelo Tringali’s Parpignol, the toy vendor, now sells electronic “gadgets” with screens that particularly attract the Silicon Valley Boychoir members, naturally. The first half’s climax ends in a parade that is switched from a military to a San Francisco Giants Giants one. (It’s so modern that the two jerseys worn are of current players: pitching staff ace Madison Bumgarner and starting third baseman Evan Longoria.)

“La bohème’s” other themes are brought to the forefront in the second half. Act 3 is set in Civic Center Plaza with the projection showing the illuminated back steps of City Hall. The homeless characters are familiar to anyone who has visited the City by the Bay in the past dozen years.

Mimi’s illness, first introduced in Act 1, has worsened two months later. And as essentially an independent contractor in today’s

terms, she has no way of addressing it.

Act 4 returns to the apartment and brings all the artists from Act 1 plus Mimi and Musetta together for a tragic conclusion.

As was debuted in May 2017 with WBO’s take on Strauss’ “Salome,” the orchestra is divided into three parts. The strings and harp are in the pit with Moscovich, while the woodwinds, brass and percussion are situated in the left and right wings of the stage.

This gives a natural sense of stereo and also allows for a larger instrumentation for the space.

This version of “La bohème” emphasizes the sense of community in the story. In the talk back after Sunday’s performance, cast members revealed how close they became. And that could be both felt and heard in this production, which has two more performances this weekend. Q Freelance writer Yoshi Kato can be emailed at yoshiyoungblood@earthlink.net.

What: West Bay Opera presents Puccini’s “La bohème.”

Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

When: Saturday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m.

Cost: $35-$85.

Info: Go to wbopera.org or call 650-424-9999.

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Pear offers winning â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hedda Gablerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Betsy Kruse Craig soars as inscrutable Ibsen anti-heroine

by Janet Silver Ghent rom the mothat he THEATER REVIEW suggesting ment she kill himself with maligns dear Aunt Juli- one of General Gablerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pistols. anaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feathered bonnet, draped Instead, he turns to alcohol and carelessly on a corner of the sofa, debauchery. After years of dissiitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that Hedda Gabler is no pation, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the wagon, earnsweetheart. In fact, the nasty an- ing kudos for his writing that puts ti-heroine of Ibsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1891 drama, Tesmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work to shame. Moreunlike the animated Nora in â&#x20AC;&#x153;A over, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still carrying a torch for Dollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House,â&#x20AC;? may have fewer the inscrutable Hedda. redeeming qualities than Lady For Lovborg, the flame still Macbeth, who at least feels guilty burns, although Champlin himafter she kills Duncan. However, self seems to more fully ignite Hedda, who seems to have noth- when under the influence in Act ing resembling a conscience, is 3. Hedda, beset by cowardice and a lot more interesting. Portray- fear of scandal, taunts him mering one of the most intriguing cilessly but puts the kibosh on female stage roles in early mod- infidelity. Instead, she will do is ern drama, Pear Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artistic everything in her power to destroy director Betsy Kruse Craig rises the relationship between Lovborg to the challenge. The fiery Kruse and Thea, the work they accomCraig portrays a manipulative but plished together and Lovborg nuanced woman trapped by her himself. body, her boredom and her era, The truth-teller in this manydoomed to a loveless marriage sided prism is Judge Brack, whose in a patriarchal society. Unlike smarmy portrayal by Ron Talbot Nora who closes the door on her adds dimension to the drama. marriage at the end of â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Dollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brack, George Tesmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best House,â&#x20AC;? the conniving Hedda friend, who knows Hedda has is a self-admitted coward with no love for Tesman, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even no prospects for happiness. In- try to conceal his own designs on stead, she derives pleasure out of Hedda. Unable to secure her aftaunting visitors with her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fection or become the third side of fabled pistols and impeding the a triangle, he is hell-bent on conhappiness of others. trolling her, setting off the playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Is Hedda mad or just manipu- tragic conclusion. lative? Can a contemporary theHow can a character like Hedda, atergoer feel sorry for her or just whom Ibsen himself calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;icerage and disbelief? Kruse Craig cold,â&#x20AC;? captivate an audience? For handles those dilemmas with nu- one, she is wily and knows how ance and bravado. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s her show, to play people. For another, she is and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a winner. off-balance. And finally, Hedda Henrik Ibsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hedda Ga- has another side, which produces bler,â&#x20AC;? directed by Dale Albright a degree of empathy. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so and adapted by Pear founder and long ago that women, denied opformer artistic director Diana Tas- portunities of their own, attained ca, continues Thursdays through social standing only through their Sundays through Oct. 28 at the husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accomplishments. HedMountain View theater. da is locked in that mindset.

The drama opens on the Oslo Her modus operandi is not that living room of Hedda and her different from that of the tradihusband, the clueless, not-quite- tional wife who sets out to be the professor George Tesman (Troy woman behind the man, baskJohnson), who has apparently ing in the reflected glory of her purchased a house beyond their husband. This is the life Hedda means. They have just returned craves, hoping that her husband from a six-month honeymoon, (continued on next page) he with reams of notes on his research topic, the domestic industries of Brabant during the Middle Ages, she with reams of purchases, a bad case of boredom and an alluded-to pregnancy.

Then old schoolmate Thea Rysing Elvsted (Damaris Divito) enters the scene, with an abundant mass of curls that triggers Heddaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s animosity. Having walked out on her own loveless marriage, Thea breaks down and admits her passion for Eilert Lovborg (Michael Champlin), the tutor of her stepchildren with whom she has collaborated on his writing.

That further inflames Hedda, because years ago she had a Betsy Kruse Craig stars in the quasi-romantic relationship with Pear Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new version of Lovborg but suddenly broke it off, Ibsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hedda Gabler.â&#x20AC;?

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Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford Program in History & Philosophy of Science, and the Department of History present

500 Years of Leonardo, 1519-2019: A Lost Library? Leonardo’s Books On May 2, 1519, the Renaissance artist, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) died at Clos Lucé in Amboise, France, where he lived for the last three years of his life under the patronage of King Francis I. To commemorate the anniversary of Leonardo’s death, we are sponsoring a year of reflection on Leonardo and his many different legacies. This lecture series will bring distinguished Leonardo scholars to campus to discuss the many dimensions of his work.

Carlo Vecce

Throughout his life, Leonardo da Vinci made lists of books.

His lists grew over time as a reflection of his desire to gain an education and explore different kinds of knowledge.

Professor Carlo Vecce from the University of Naples will discuss Leonardo’s library based on his highly acclaimed recent book, La biblioteca perduta: I libri di Leonardo (The Lost Library: Leonardo’s Books).

Thursday, October 25 • 7:00 pm Jordan Hall, Main Quad • Bldg. 420, Rm. 040 Stanford University • Free and open to the public For more info: continuingstudies.stanford.edu/events

Stanford Continuing Studies, John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships, Department of Communication, and Stanford Law School present

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Philip Taubman

Please join us for an evening with Philip Taubman, adjunct professor and former Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, in conversation with Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., former publisher and current chairman of The New York Times, exploring the kaleidoscope of volatile media issues facing the nation, including: • The role of a free press in the United States and abroad • The future of journalism and The New York Times • The benefits and dangers inherent in the rise of disruptive new digital sources of news and information • The impact of the dissemination of news and information on social media • The influence of ideologically driven new sites, right and left • The challenges of covering the Trump presidency • “Fake News,” “Enemy of the People,” and “Alternative Facts”

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Hedda Gabler (continued from previous page)

will go into politics, a profession for which the plodding, introverted Tesman is eminently unsuited.

If so, then why, after all, did she marry him? Nearing the age of 30, she says: “I had danced myself out, my day was done. At least that’s what some people thought.”

Apparently, with no money of her own, despite her upbringing as the daughter of a general, marriage is her only route to social acceptance and financial security.

While the mission of caring Aunt Juliana, lovingly played by Celia Maurice, is other-directed and that of the scholarly Tesman is inner-directed as he pursues his esoteric research, Hedda, sadly, lacks direction altogether, with neither inner resources nor mission. As she tells the equally manipulative Judge Brack, who advises her to find some sort of vocation, she’s fitted only for “boring myself to death.”

Nonetheless, the pace is too lively for an audience to succumb to boredom, thanks to Tasca’s modern adaptation. Plus, interactions between the dense Tesman and the long-suffering Aunt Juliana add moments of well-needed levity. Aunt Juliana keeps delivering hints about Hedda’s pregnancy, which everyone except Tesman picks up. Rounding out the cast is Gretta Stimson as Berte, who

struggles to adapt to Hedda’s imperious demands.

Supporting Tasca’s adaptation, Ting Na Wang’s stage design is understated, with a ground-level stage flanked by seating of under 100 split on either side. The Tesman living room features a desk in the middle, a small sofa and fireplace at one end, and a partially offstage anteroom at the other. The costumes, by Melissa Sanchez, amplify the personalities of the characters, contrasting Hedda’s flamboyant attire with the professorial garb of Tesman and Lovborg, Thea’s dark neutrals and Aunt Juliana’s over-thetop hat.

While this show is a tragedy, the lively pacing, the acting and the intimate setting make this “Hedda” a theatrical treat, even amid our own dark times. Q Freelance writer Janet Silver Ghent can be emailed at ghentwriter@gmail.com.

What: “Hedda Gabler.”

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

When: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, through Oct. 28. A talkback follows the Oct. 21 matinee.

Cost: $35, with senior and student discounts.

Info: Go to thepear.org or phone 650-254-1148.

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Eating Out The angel wings at Amarin Thai Cuisine: crispy chicken wings stuffed with ground chicken, bean thread noodles and vegetables, served with cucumber and crushed peanuts.

by Dale F. Bentson Photos by Veronica Weber t seems as if Mountain View’s Amarin Thai Cuisine has been around forever. Twenty-six years of staying power means repeat business from a cadre of loyal customers, both old acquaintances and those newer in town. Amarin has won the Mountain View Voice’s Best of Mountain View Thai restaurant category every year since 1999.

At first glance, Amarin is just one in the long line of restaurants that flank Castro Street. Look again and you will notice that this restaurant is busier than most. It seats nearly 200, counting front and back patios, a private party room, and the traditional Thai dining room — shoes off, sit on cushions at a low table.

Owner Supawan Pimsakul hails from Thailand and learned to cook from her mother. She is the master

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chef, creating the dishes and the menu. In the U.S. since 1980, Pimsakul said it was her family that encouraged her to open her first restaurant, Bangkok, in San Jose, in 1990. Other restaurants followed in Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara, but it was the Mountain View location that thrived.

Amarin’s huge menu caused my head to spin. The restaurant wisely has a separate vegetarian menu but all the vegetarian dishes are included in the main menu as well.

If I had to choose one stand-out dish it would be the pumpkin red curry with chicken ($10.99): red and green bell peppers, chunks of pumpkin, tender chicken chunks and sweet basil. I wasn’t quite prepared for the first bite. The spiciness took my breath away. My taste buds quickly adjusted and the soupsize bowl was a delight to dig into.

Served with a vegetable soup appetizer, salad and rice, I spooned all

the rice into the curry bowl to soak up the delicious broth.

The crisped spring rolls ($9.99) were a good starter. Served with a light plum sauce, the flaky, hot spring rolls were stuffed with cabbage, taro, carrot, celery, onion and bean thread noodles.

Another good appetizer was the angel wings ($10.99) — two crisp, deboned chicken wings stuffed with ground chicken and bean thread noodles. There was a tasty side dish of vegetables in plum sauce with cucumber, red onion and crushed peanuts.

A young woman seated next to us inquired why there were no chopsticks. Chopsticks were never part of Thai culture. Thais ate with their fingers until Europeans introduced Western-style utensils. She was happy with spoon and fork — and in Thailand, the fork is used to push food onto the spoon, never to eat with.

Thinly sliced barbeque honey pork with plum sauce ($12.99) had a crispy crust yet the meat was juicy and tender. Served with a vegetable soup, white rice and a small carrot salad, the rice had been rolled up tightly and looked like a small pillow on the plate. It wasn’t just for looks. The rice remained compacted when forked and was an easy way to skewer both rice and pork on the fork at the same time.

I’m a sucker for spicy eggplant ($11.99) and Amarin’s version did not disappoint. The eggplant had been sautéed with tofu and red and green bell peppers. Soft and unctuous, spongy and absorbent, eggplant is more acidic than other nightshades such as potatoes and peppers.

The spicy basil clams ($18.99) were surprisingly good. The menu said “stir-fried” and I had a different idea of what that was — sans shell. These Manilla clams were

served in the shell. I was dubious but the dish exceeded expectations.

The generous portion of clams was supplemented with garlic, chili, salted soy bean, roasted chilis, bell pepper and sweet basil. It was a dish of texture, color and subtle flavors.

Pad kee maow was spicy panfried wide rice noodles with sweet basil, tomato, chili and garlic. Order it spicy, otherwise it can be very bland. You can opt to add chicken, prawns or calamari. We chose calamari ($13.99). The squid camouflaged itself with the noodles, but there was plenty of calamari and oodles of noodles.

Because Amarin is perpetually busy, service was harried but efficient and servers took time to explain dishes when asked.

Amarin has offered Thai comfort food, warm and satisfying, at reasonable prices in a contemporary setting, for over a quarter century. They’re doing something right. Q Freelance writer Dale Bentson can be emailed at dfbentson@ gmail.com.

Amarain Thai Cuisine, 174 Castro St., Mountain View; 650988-9323; amarinthaicuisine. com Hours: Lunch: Monday-Friday 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; SaturdaySunday noon to 3 p.m.; Dinner: Sunday-Thursday 5-9:30 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 5-10:30 p.m.

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Left to right: Supawan Pimsakul, owner of Amarin Thai, stands in the restaurant’s dining room, in which diners sit on cushions and remove their shoes. Amarin Thai’s spicy eggplant comes with fried tofu, bell pepper, sweet basil, garlic and chili.

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Parking: City lots Noise level: Moderate Bathroom Cleanliness: Fair

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INSPIRING CURIOSITY, CREATIVITY, CHARACTER Universal Pictures

Michael Myers returns in “Halloween.”

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Slasher films have become such a prominent feature of the American movie landscape that we take these movies — and the knife-wielding, mask-wearing killers who star in them — for granted. But one must remember that if “Psycho” blazed the first trail, John Carpenter’s 1978 smash “Halloween” homesteaded the genre by mainstreaming the simple idea of a psychopathic serial killer stalking Rockwellian America until a teenage “scream queen” successfully fights him off.

The instantly iconic Michael Myers eventually became a parody of himself, surrounded by knockoffs even as he racked up nine more franchise entries. But newly appointed “Halloween” writerdirector David Gordon Green and his co-writers Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley make a modest proposal: Forget all that. Go back

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and re-watch “Halloween” with the fresh eyes of a 1978 audience.

Ready? Now, watch 2018’s “Halloween,” again starring Jamie Lee Curtis, as if it were the sole sequel, and see if this trick and treat doesn’t mess with your head a little.

Demonstrating that the task of forgetting is arduous, this new “Halloween” proves respectful to Carpenter’s original film but also is unavoidably informed by the interim of slasher-film history.

Carpenter’s straight-ahead earnestness wouldn’t play in today’s market without such stylistic flourishes (in a meta nod, one character belittles the Myers killings: “I’m just saying, by today’s standards ...”), although we do get a freshly minted everything-old-is-newagain score by Carpenter, son Cody and Daniel Davies.

Without indulging spoilers, I can tell you that the new “Halloween”

serves as a 40-years-later direct sequel to the first “Halloween.” Green, McBride and Fradley sacrifice credulity in favor of operatic plotting.

Laurie’s teenage trauma has never remotely healed: The Michael Myers survivor has become a Michael Myers survivalist, looking like a “T2” Sarah Connor and living in a house with floodlights, heavy door bolts and a safe room. Everyone else sees in Laurie a sadly incapacitated paranoid, and she’s not one to entirely disagree (“I’m twice-divorced, and I’m a basket case,” she freely offers). But we know what she knows: She’s not wrong about Myers, and one best beware his return.

Painting a family portrait of the cycle of trauma, the new “Halloween” introduces us to Laurie’s grown daughter (Judy Greer) and granddaughter (Andi Matichak), who will all have to set aside their differences to confront a mutual horror manifested as the remorseless evil of male assault. The archetypal gang is all here: the Local Cop (Will Patton, always welcome); the mad doctor (Haluk Bilginer’s Dr. Sartain, patterned after Donald Pleasance’s bug-eyed Dr. Loomis); and the horde of horny teenagers (chum for the relentless shark that is Michael Myers).

On this dark Halloween, Dr. Sartain intones, “Tonight, so many possibilities exist.” Green’s film employs a couple of funky twists and lands most of its jokes while paying lip service to examining the predator-prey relationship and its flipflop potential (one of the movie’s best moments inverts an action beat from the original film). When all is said and done, this 11th “Halloween” film cannot break new ground, but it does freshen up the franchise and give the fierce and funny Curtis a well-deserved opportunity to step up again as a movie star. Because Green loves the material enough to have some good, old-fashioned fun in this playground, he’s able to bring the audience along with him.

Rated R for horror violence and bloody images, language, brief drug use and nudity. One hour, 46 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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

East Palo Alto’s median home value nears

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The median home value in East Palo Alto is expected to hit $1 million by next year. The entire city —on both sides of Highway 101 — has seen housing values triple since 2012, and now real estate agents are calling this 2 ½-mile radius the hottest market along the Peninsula. Courtesy of Juliana Lee, Keller Williams Realty, Inc.

Long-ignored market now considered among the hottest in the Bay Area

by Elizabeth Lorenz

M

aria Lopez-Okano grew up in East Palo Alto and started selling real estate in her home town

in 1987.

For the last 31 years, the ReMax Realtor has seen many market cycles, including boom times that sent property values in neighboring cities skyrocketing. Though East Palo Alto seemed immune to market growth, she always thought there would come a time when her town would be the place to buy. And now it is, she said, only about two years after she thought it would happen.

This summer, for the first time ever, the average price of a home sold in East Palo Alto topped $1 million.

Lopez-Okano described this onceignored working-class community as “a 2 1/2-mile-radius city amongst milliondollar properties” that’s suddenly on everyone’s radar because it is relatively affordable in a sought-after part of the

Midpeninsula. In September, East Palo Alto had 16 homes on the market listed under $1.5 million, and Menlo Park had about three or four in the same price range.

According to the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors, which collects its data from the Multiple Listing Service, East Palo Alto’s median home value — the price of the home at the midpoint of all homes sold in the city each year — has jumped $580,000 over the past six years, from $400,000 in 2013 to $980,000 in 2018. The market showed the largest gains between 2014 and 2016 when the annual median value rose $150,000 and $125,000 respectively.

So far this year, the highest sale recorded was $1.9 million for a 1,660-squarefoot home with three bedrooms. The lowest recorded sale was $415,000 for a 1,050-square foot home.

The market is expected to rise another 10.3 percent within the next year, pushing

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the median home value to $1.06 million, perceptions of crime or the city’s current according to the online real-estate data- issues with trash-strewn streets? Not really, base company Zillow. she said. What about the struggling pub“The only bad thing is we’re going lic schools? Lopez-Okano said she often through major gentrification,” Lopez- refers clients to the voluntary transfer proOkano said. gram that allows East Palo Alto students She said people used to carefully as- in the Ravenswood City School District sess what street or part to transfer to other surof the city they bought rounding districts. in because some were “We have a lot of cleaner or safer than ‘The only bad thing is really nice charter others. With the city bischools,” she added. sected by U.S. Highway we’re going through Her buyers are often 101, homes on the west young couples without side were considered major gentrification.’ children, so the school more desirable because decision can be made —Maria Lopez-Okano, later on down the road. of their proximity to ReMax Realtor She said that some of ultra-wealthy Palo Alto and Menlo Park, and her clients are Stanford there was a perception University graduates that crime was not as frequent there as on who are teaching in schools in East Palo the “east side.”

Alto.

But that is not as much the case today.

What’s changed among her buyers?

The violent crime, homicides, drugs and “It used to be (I sold to) African Amerigang activity, which reached a pinnacle in cans, (Pacific) Islanders or Hispanics,” 1992, are significantly reduced. Until this she said, but now, “in the last six years, I fall, the city hadn’t seen a single homicide haven’t sold to any of those. What I’m seefor more than two years. ing come in is young professionals who are Are buyers deterred by the lingering racially mixed,” Lopez-Okano said.

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Homes in the Avelar Drive subdivision, developed in 2003, sell for over $1 million. Photo by Veronica Weber. the southern side of University Avenue and the west side of Bay Road, which are closer to schools, Baylands open space and the Ravenswood 101 shopping center.

He agrees with Lopez-Okano that it is important to have clients experience the city for themselves.

“I encourage (potential buyers) to come one morning. ... They see that people of all skin colors are jogging, walking children to school, riding their bicycles.”

He sees lots of executives from Google, Facebook and Tesla, as well as Stanford University employees, buying homes. The majority view it as a place to live

that’s closer to work or to the Dumbarton Bridge, which connects to Fremont.

Ghafouri, who has his own real-estate firm in Redwood City, said East Palo Alto is one of the hottest real-estate cities in the Bay Area and the No. 1 hottest city on this side of the bay.

He personally owns five properties in East Palo Alto and lives in one in the Gardens neighborhood. Most of his buyers renovate their homes, rather than tearing them down, he said.

About half of his buyers live (continued on next page)

Courtesy of Juliana Lee

She personally doesn’t sell to investors or those who probably won’t live in the community.

“I want to see the community get better,” she said.

She encourages her clients to do “due diligence” and come to town at the end of the day and on weekends to get a sense for what it would be like to live there and gauge things like safety, what it’s like to walk there, what it’s like to live on a certain street.

Unlike Lopez-Okano, Realtor Paymon Ghafouri feels like there are certain neighborhoods that might be more sought-after than others. He said the most popular part of East Palo Alto is

Homes sold in East Palo Alto January 2018 through September 2018

Price

Number of homes sold

$415,000 - $500,000

4

$501,000 - $700,000

5

$701,000 - $800,000

8

$801,000 - $900,000

16

$901,000 - $997,000

29

$1M - $1.6M

33

$1.65M - $2M

4

Total sold in time period

99

Sources: California REsource, Silicon Valley Association of Realtors, Multiple Listing Service and Zillow.

The value of this 1,570-square-foot house on Azalia Drive has increased $132,000 since it was last sold for $1.05 million in May 2017, according to the real estate website Redfin. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • October 19, 2018 • Page 33

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East Palo Alto Median home price history $900,000

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Menlo Park home recently, a majority of the visitors to the house in the homes; the other half buy were interested in it “because of them as an investment. One client its close proximity to Facebook,” he works with has 11 properties, he said. They “see (Facebook) as eight of which Ghafouri sold him. a factor in continuous gentrificaHis buyers are often young tion of the area.” couples without children.

He doesn’t have a firm statistic “It’s a stepping stone” where but said that in his experience, many couples are choosing to 80 percent of the buyers he deals live now before buying later in a with are local investors and 20 nearby city when they have chil- percent are out-of-town buyers dren, he said. who are relocating to the area.

Intero Realtor James Shin Three of his recent sales (two in mostly sells in East Palo Alto, neig hb or i ng one in east east Menlo Menlo Park) Park, which ‘I mostly only see the were to local shares similar investors. demographics high real estate prices The addito East Palo tion of new Alto. He said as a good thing as housing is the trends he on the city sees in east far as city revenue is of East Palo Menlo Park Alto’s radar, and the east- concerned.’ as its general ern neighbor—Maureen Larsson, plan envisions hoods in RedEast Palo Alto resident adding 2,500 wood City can new resideneasily apply tial units by to East Palo 2040.

Alto.

City leaders have the power to “Eastern Redwood City, east decide what their vision should Menlo Park and East Palo Alto be and how they want their city are still continuing to gentrify,” to look, but market forces don’t he said. necessarily pay attention to that.

Facebook “has (had) a huge Longtime East Palo Alto resident impact.”

Maureen Larsson, who had a caMany of his clients are inves- reer at a technology company, tors, who are willing to take more has very mixed feelings about the financial risks since the city’s changes the escalating real estate track record for property appre- market is causing. ciation is still relatively short.

“I mostly only see the high real Others are “aggressively explor- estate prices as a good thing as ing” east Menlo Park acquisitions far as city revenue is concerned,” as a result of Facebook.

Larsson said. “I’d be more inWhile he was showing an east clined to see it as a good thing if (continued from previous page)

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During the workshop, you will learn how to combine seasonal foliage, flowers and other accents, such as grasses and pods, in your designs. All materials are provided but you are welcome to bring foliage clippings or other accents from your own gardens. Instructor Katherine Glazier is a flower arranger for Gamble Garden and she co-leads the floral design program at Filoli. She is a student of the Sogetsu school of Ikebana. This workshop is for adults only. The cost is $99 for members and $129 for nonmembers. To register, go to gamblegarden.org.

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INDOOR-PLANT CLASS ... If you’re interested in adding some greenery inside your home, attend the “Choosing the Best Indoor Plants” workshop sponsored by the UC Master Gardeners on Halloween night (Oct. 31) from 7-8:30 p.m. Indoor plants can make a room or work cubicle more interesting and are an easy way to bring the outdoors in. In the class, attendees will learn to identify which plants are the easiest to grow and how to maintain them. The cost is free. The event will be held at the Los Altos Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos.

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SummerWinds Nursery is offering a free, 30-minute class, “Create Dazzling Fall Containers with Cyclamen and Ferns,” on Sunday, Oct. 28, at 10:30 a.m. that will teach you how to add color and woodland texture to your cooler-weather shade garden by pairing cyclamen with ferns. In this “Learn’n Grow” class, garden experts will demonstrate how to design a beautiful container incorporating these two plants. SummerWinds is located at 725 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. To register, go to summerwindsnursery.com.

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Sources: Silicon Valley Association of Realtors, Multiple Listings Service and California REsource. banks weren’t currently refusing so many housing loans to African Americans and Latinos,” she said.

She said it’s important for East Palo Alto, as it is in most communities, to maintain “cultural identifiers” amid gentrification.

She said the key is likely for newcomers to make the effort to understand the city’s history.

“Don’t try to affect change without buy-in from longterm residents,” she said.

On the flip side, long-term residents need to “build relationships with newcomers who want to preserve the unique aspects of this

community,” she added. Q Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and Real Estate Editor at the Palo Alto Weekly. She can be emailed at elorenz@ embarcaderopublishing.com.

About the cover: These East Palo Alto homes — two 1950-era ranch homes, a Woodland Creek condominium and homes in the newer Avelar Drive subdivision — all recently sold near or above the $1 million mark. The gray and white 1950s ranch-style home, which sold for $97K in 1987, sold for $956K this past July. Photos by Veronica Weber/ Illustration by Paul Llewellyn.

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• Four spacious bedrooms, including ground floor bedroom suite • Luxurious master bedroom suite with recessed box ceiling, balcony and spa-inspired bathroom

• Three and a half baths in the main house, plus additional half bath in the private office/studio

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• Chef’s kitchen includes a central work island, breakfast bar and adjacent casual dining area

• Formal living and dining rooms • Attached one-car finished garage plus additional parking area • House is approximately 2545 sq. ft., including 120 (+/-) sq. ft. office/studio, on a 6307 (+/-) sq. ft. lot

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Sports Shorts

THE HONOR ROLL ...Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin, a graduate of Menlo-Atherton High, was named the Sporting News American League Manager of the Year. It is his second Sporting News Manager of the Year Award after being named the National League winner with Arizona in 2007 . . .

Stanford outside hitter Kathryn Plummer and libero Morgan Hentz have been named the Pac-12 Women’s Volleyball Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively. Plummer averaged 5.50 kills and 5.92 points per set, while hitting .433 in sweeps over then-No. 21 Washington State and then-No. 18 Washington. Hentz collected 5.67 digs per set against the Washington schools. She turned in her fifth 20-dig match performance of the season versus Washington State and notched a match-best 14 digs in three sets against Washington State.

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Menlo-Atherton receiver Troy Franklin looks to help the Bears in a battle of unbeaten teams on Saturday.

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

Bears, Gators ready for PAL Bay Division battle Menlo Atherton, Sacred Heart Prep are remaining two unbeaten league teams

by Glenn Reeves fter beating Menlo School last week the MenloAtherton football team will attempt to take a final step toward winning a town championship Saturday when the Bears play at Sacred Heart Prep in a 2 p.m. start.

That game is not only for Athertonian supremacy, but more importantly for both teams a major step toward winning the Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division title.

M-A is 5-2 overall and 3-0 in PAL Bay play, having scored 143 points and allowed but 11 in three

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league games. Sacred Heart Prep has a spotless resume at 7-0 overall and 2-0 in league.

“You don’t go 7-0 by accident,’’ M-A coach Adhir Ravipati said.

“It will be fun getting a chance to compete against them on Saturday. We’ll have to play at a high level to beat them.’’

The Gators have played defense at a level that recalls the beginning of the school’s run of four consecutive Central Coast Section championships in 2012. They beat Menlo School in the CCS title game that year 13-7 in a driving sideways gale-force rain storm at Terra Nova, a game in which

sophomore Ben Burr-Kirven, the Grieb said. “John Willard is at current NCAA tackles leader for the heart of our defense, a fundathe Washington Husmentally-sound, tough, kies, first announced smart football player, his presence as a demiddle linebacker and fensive game-altering captain.’’ force.

Outside linebacker The current SHP deJ.P. Frimel and the enfense, with longtime tire defensive line of local coach and former Jake Davison, Ben HorNFL player Ed Larios vath, Joey Dahlkemper serving as coordinator, and Jack Kirkham has allowed 63 points have stood out. So has Jake Davison total in seven games. running back Tevita “We’re more balanced, I don’t Moimoi, the team’s leading rushknow if we have one guy (like er, when inserted into the lineup Burr-Kirven), but we have a good (continued on page 59) group,’’ SHP head coach Mark

HIGH SCHOOL WATER POLO

SHP boys on track for best season ever

Winning last week’s tournament a big boost

by Rick Eymer ince arriving at Sacred Heart Prep in 2005, Brian Kreutzkamp has led the boys water polo team to the Central Coast Section championship game the past 13 seasons, winning the title 10 times.

He helped turn a solid program into a dynsasty, rivaled only by Menlo School’s continued success over the years. During Kreutzkamps’s tenure, the Knights won the other three CCS titles and have consistently advanced into the championship game.

Kreutzkamp owns a 325-80

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(.802 winning percentage) overall record at SHP and the school is 412-121 (.733) since the beginning of the 2001 season.

Sacred Heart Prep won the first-ever CCS Open Division last season, cementing its repuation as a water polo power, and reached the NorCal championship game before losing to Drake, 8-6.

The Gators (19-1) open the Memorial Cup Tournament against Dos Pueblos (16-8) at Valley Christian on Friday at 9 a.m. They will play again at 1:40 p.m. if they lose or 2:50 p.m. if they win against either Foothill or Buchanan.

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College women’s soccer: Colorado at Stanford, noon, Pac-12 Networks College field hockey: California at Stanford, 1 p.m., Pac-12 Bay Area College men’s soccer: Washington at Stanford, 3 p.m., ESPN

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HOMECOMING EVENT ...Sacred Heart Prep grad Alex Tsotadze and the 13th-ranked Harvard men’s water polo team return to the west coast for the second time this season to compete at the Julian Fraser Memorial Tournament, hosted by Santa Clara and San Jose State. Harvard (15-5) is set to open tournament play against Santa Clara on Friday at 2:20 p.m. The Crimson, which also features SHP grads Jackson Enright, Grant Harvey and Michael Sonsini, and Menlo alum Ben Wagner will also play Loyola Marymount on Saturday and Fresno Pacific on Sunday at Santa Clara.

Bucknell (16-3) is also entered in the tournament. Palo Alto grad Jared Stanley and Menlo School alum Scott Little play for the Bison, who play the Broncos at noon on Sunday.

Bucknell also plays Cal Baptist and Air Force. San Jose State hosts Harvard at West Valley College on Saturday at 10:20 a.m. and Bucknell at 3:40 p.m. Brown (12-9), which features Menlo School grads James Thygesen and Niko Bhatia, and Atherton resident Andrew Penner, has four games scheduled in the tournament, with three games at Santa Clara, vs. Cal Baptist on Friday at 1 p.m., vs. Fresno Pacific at 3:40 p.m. Saturday and vs. San Jose State on Sunday at 8 a.m. Colorado.

Kyle Ballack is one of eight seniors who have helped the Gators win 19 of their first 20 games.

The top eight teams reconvene at Bellarmine on Saturday and the Gators are heavily favored to be among those teams.

The consensus among water

polo afficiandos is that after beating Harvard-Westlake (16-3) to win its first North-South (continued on page 58)

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Sports PREP REPORT

Over hills, over dales, Palo Alto runners prevail Castilleja, Menlo School clinch PAL water polo titles

by Rick Eymer

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Water polo (continued from page 57)

Girls water polo Madison Lewis scored four goals and recorded four assists as Castilleja completed an undefeated PAL Bay Division season with a 14-3 victory over visiting Burlingame on Wednesday.

Minhee Chung added three goals and a pair of assists for the Gators (15-3, 7-0), who will participate in this weekend’s NorCal Invitational at Sacred Heart Prep and Gunn. Castilleja plays Monte Vista Danville at noon Friday.

Claire Pisani added two goals and two assists. Elsa McElhinney also scored a goal, had three assists and made a team-high three steals. Sarah Pedley recorded nine saves in goal while Stacy Abonce, Lexi Triantis, Scarlett Ackley and Anjali Kambham also scored.

Menlo School downed Woodside, 8-4, to finish second in the PAL Bay. The Knights (13-9, 6-1) open the PAL tournament on Monday.

In other NorCal Invitational openers Friday, Gunn hosts topseeded Acalanes at 10:55 a.m. and Sacred Heart Prep hosts Arroyo Grande at 2:10 p.m.

Miranda Jimenez (1810) placed second overall and Palo Alto won the team title at the SCVAL meet at Baylands Park.

Connor MacMitchell added five and Menlo School clinched the PAL Bay Division title with a 20-2 victory over host Woodside on Wednesday.

Chris Ponterio scored three goals for the Knights (16-6, 7-0), who host St. Francis on Friday at 5 p.m. before opening the PAL tournament on Tuesday.

Zayd Mahmoud recorded seven saves for Menlo and Josh Poulos added five.

Menlo-Atherton (8-15, 6-1) beat Hillsdale 13-10 to claim second place in the PAL Bay.

six aces and Rebecca Mak turned in 46 assists to go with six aces.

The Gators (7-3 in the WBAL) hosts Notre Dame San Jose at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Priory is at Crystal Springs Uplands and Pinewood visits Eastside Prep ion other matches Tuesday.

Boys water polo Sam Untrecht scored six goals,

Girls volleyball Lexi Stull recorded 20 kills and 17 digs to help host Castilleja survive a five-set match with Eastside Prep on Wednesday, 25-14, 25-18, 21-25, 21-25, 15-11, in a WBAL Skyline Division match.

Suzzy Wang added 22 digs and

Girls golf Three perennial first team AllLeague golfers were honored Wednesday evening at Castilleja School’s annual Senior Night celebration. Last year’s West Bay Athletic League MVP Niav Layton was sidelined by injury, but rooted on her teammates in a losing effort.

Harker clinched the regularseason title with a 180-231 win at Stanford Golf Course.

Co-captain Divya Tadimeti cruised along at one under par until a plugged lie in a fairway bunker

derailed her effort to break par.

The third senior co-captain, Alyssa Sales, has also struggled with injuries but managed to persevere. She got up and down in two shots from 175 yards away to salvage a par on the final hole.

Sophomore Kelly Yu shot 37 for the Gators.

The senior trio has been instrumental in giving coach Donn Levine an 87 percent winning percentage over his six years at Castilleja.

The same two teams will meet again Tuesday at Silver Creek Country Club, a day before the WBAL tournament at Baylands Golf Links.

Sacred Heart Prep dropped a 279-290 decision to Notre Dame Belmont at Moffett Field on Wednesday.

Hannah Lesti shot a 51 for the Gators (5-8, 5-7), who played without their top golfer. Q

Harvard-Westlake were each by a point, including an overtime game. While Sacred Heart Prep has beaten Harvard-Westlake (which lists three seniors on the roster) twice, each by a point, the Gators lost to the Wolverines, 125, in the title match of the S&R Sports Elite 8 Invitational.

“They beat us pretty badly,” Kreutzkamp said.

The question of who’s best in Northern California may not be answered this weekend but Sacred Heart Prep is making a case for its best team ever at the school.

With the possibility of 12 more games, the Gators are likely to surpass the 26 games they won last year, in 2013 and 2007 under Kreutzkamp and could threaten the school record 29 games in 2003, when they won their first CCS title.

Not only did Sacred Heart Prep win its first-ever North-South Challenge title, the Gators have never been 19-1 this late in the season before now.

“It was a great weekend for us,”

Kreutzkamp said. “It’s unique to be able to play teams like Harvard-Westlake and Mater Dei.” The Gators feature eight seniors, of which Larsen Weigle and Andrew Churukian are committed to Stanford and Walker Seymour is committed to Harvard.

There’s a chance at least three more will be playing in college next season.

Will Riley, Xavier Marco, Kyle Ballack and James Plaschke have been producing outstanding results recently and John Petrakian has filled in admirably at goalie.

Freshmen Griffen Price, Jack Vort, Luke Johnston and Donald Weigle, and sophomore Isaac Rotenberg filled in all the roles lost to graduation from last year.

Like the rest of the underclassmen, Price is a veteran of the Stanford Water Polo Foundation club and has Menlo School coach Jack Bowen, among others, to thank for his growth as a goalie.

Most of the underclassmen have participated in the annual Junior

Olympics competition for about 4-6 years.

Kreutzkamp has been affiliated with Stanford and the club team for nearly 20 years. He coached the boys 10-under team that played in the JOs this past summer. He’s also coached at every age level and has a national title to his credit.

In 2011, Kreutzkamp was honored by USA Water Polo with a Distinguished Men’s Coaching Award.

Before Sacred Heart Prep, Kreutzkamp was an assistant coach at Stanford under John Vargas, coached Golden West College to the state title in 2001 and started his coaching career at Costa Mesa (1993-96) and Newport Beach (1996-2000) high schools.

There are still many challenges ahead. Following the Memorial Cup, the Gators jump into the West Catholic Athletic League tournament, followed by the CCS and, likely, the NorCal playoffs. But you have to like their chances. Q

Larsen Weigle is headed to Stanford to continue his water polo career.

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Challenge last weekend, the Gators are considered one of the top high school teams in the nation.

Their best previous finish was a third-place showing in 2013.

Campolindo (15-4) was also in the conversation but has lost to Harvard-Westlake twice this year. The Cougars, who are also competing in San Jose this weekend, have yet to meet Sacred Heart Prep. It could happen this weekend.

Campolindo plays Wilson Los Angeles at 11:20 a.m., also at Valley Christian, on Friday.

The teams would not meet until Saturday’s semifinal (12:30 p.m. at Bellarmine if both win twice Friday).

You don’t have to remind Kreutzkamp of Campolindo’s talent. “They are really tough,” he said. “It’s our last little push before the post-season.”

The Cougars losses to

Berndt also scored for Paly, placing 24th in 20:46.2.

Gunn was third as team, with a 12th-place finish from Maansay Rishi (20:10.5) leading the way.

She was followed by Moyu Shimada in 17th (20:21.8), Izy Hilbert in 22nd (20:41.6), Amy White in 26th (20:48.5) and Sophie Alexis in 34th (21:03.6).

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alo Alto senior Henry Saul seemed to be running his own race and at his own pace on Wednesday. He cleared the field by 27 seconds in winning the individual title of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League cross country meet at Baylands Park.

More importantly, he helped give Palo Alto the team victory by a comfortable margin, 38-61, over Los Altos, setting the stage for another showdown at the SCVAL finals on Tuesday, Oct. 30 at Crystal Springs cross country course in Belmont, with the first race scheduled to go off at 1:45 p.m.

Three other Vikings finished among the top seven, with Donald Taggart placing third in 16:06.5.

Alex Evans was fifth in 16:14.8 and John Tayeri ran seventh in 16:27.6. Benjamin Huang was the fifth scorer, placing 22nd in 17:12.1.

Justin Chiao finished fourth overall in 16:14.8 to lead Gunn runners. The Titans placed fifth with 170 points. Other Gunn scorers were Elijah Schachter in 23rd (17:13.5), Noah Kuehn in 35th (17:43.7), Alexander Wang in 41st (17:51.7) and Ryan Wang in 67th (18:26.9) among the nearly 100 runners.

Palo Alto also won the girls race, with Miranda Jimenez placing second overall in 19:06.1, one of four Vikings in the top eight.

Ella Ball placed fifth in 19:31.9, Hailey Hwang was seventh in 19:45.5 and Kai Douglas finished eighth in 19:46.0. Gretchen

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Raymond Price III has helped the Gators win their first seven games.

Prep football (continued from page 57)

at linebacker.

“Moimoi is just a force on defense,’’ Grieb said. “He plays outside, plays inside, plays anywhere.’’

When it has the ball SHP utilizes multiple ball carriers out of its fly offense, Moimoi and Willard at running back and flyTevita Moimoi back Tommy Barnds have all been highly effective. Barnds is averaging over 11 yards per carry.

“They’re extremely disciplined,’’ Ravipati said. “They tackle very well and on offense execute at a high level. They don’t turn the ball over, don’t make mistakes.’’

Regardless of championship aspirations, the Sacred Heart PrepMenlo-Atherton game has turned into a top rivalry.

“Throw out the records,’’ Ravipati said. “Every year it’s a close game, hard-fought, competitive

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M-A is led by Washington commit Noa Ngalu on the line.

with mutual respect on both sides. We will have to rise to the occasion.’’

M-A has played the more challenging schedule, going 2-2 in non-league games against Bellarmine, Mitty, Palma and Valor Christian of Colorado. The team’s offense got a big boost last week with the first appearance of junior quarterback Jack Alexander, who threw for 255 yards and four touchdowns.

“He provided a taste of why we were so excited,’’ Ravipati said.

“It’s good he got that first game under his belt before this Saturday’s game. He’s a real talented passer, throws a good ball and is accurate. Getting him back was a real good step in the right direction for us as a team.’’

Alexander’s return from a foot injury has also allowed M-A’s fill-in QBs to move back to their natural positions: Justin Anderson to move back to wide receiver and cornerback, Feleti Malupo to linebacker and Jaeden Barker to running back.

Defensively, M-A is led by Washington commit Noa Ngalu on the line and highly recruited inside linebacker Daniel Heimuli. The Bears have gone with a three-man front the last two weeks against Terra Nova and Menlo, a couple of pass-first offenses. Against the Gators, thanks to M-A’s defensive depth, a different alignment will likely be employed with a four- or five-man front.

“We’re able to be pretty multiple on defense,’’ Ravipati said.

“Every week it’s how do we scheme to take away what they want to do.’’

Terra Nova at Menlo School, 3 p.m.

Menlo (4-3, 1-1) will try to pick up the pieces after a one-sided 42-3 loss to Menlo-Atherton.

Quarterback Kevin Alarcon went out early in that game with an injured shoulder and will miss this week’s game as well.

“It’s a big blow,’’ Menlo coach Josh Bowie said. “He’s a junior captain, a team leader, one of the most emotionally invested players on the team.’’

Justin Sellers will take over at quarterback.

“We’re moving forward with Justin,’’ Bowie said. “We need Justin to step up and I think he will.’’

But with Sellers moving from defensive end to quarterback there’s a ripple effect that weakens the team.

“He comes off the defense and special teams and that creates a lot of moving parts,’’ Bowie said.

Terra Nova (6-1, 1-1) is renowned for the passing game out of its spread offense.

“We are very keenly aware that we have to take away the passing lanes that they want to exploit,’’ Bowie said. “We’ll have to be real disciplined with our coverages.

Everyone wants to erase the memories of the M-A game. Against Terra Nova I think the run will be a little more available and that our offensive line should be ready to get back on track.’’

Gunn vs. Los Altos at Foothill College, Friday at 7 p.m.

Gunn (2-5, 0-3) had a hard time stopping Saratoga’s passing attack in a 48-34 loss last Friday.

“We were down a defensive back, so it was a bad matchup for us,’’ Gunn coach Jason Miller said. “But we only punted once.

They had an equally hard time stopping us.’’

That’s been the story of Gunn’s season. The Titans have moved the ball at will on the ground in the double-wing offense installed

by Miller. Defense has been another story. Gunn is allowing an average of 42 points per game.

In three Santa Clara Valley Athletic League El Camino Division games Gunn has scored 104 points, but allowed 145.

Still Miller likes a lot of what he’s seeing.

“Our kids have gotten into

Erica Fischer

Jack Alexander

M-A VOLLEYBALL

M-A FOOTBALL

The senior team captain recorded 24 digs in a win over Hillsdale and then added 19 digs in a win over Aragon that propelled the Bears into a first-place tie in the PAL Bay Division.

Getting his first chance to play this season, the junior quarterback completed 18 of 27 passes for 264 yards and four touchdowns in a victory over Menlo School last Friday.

Honorable mention Addie Ahlstrom

Aidan Chang

Bella Bachler

Kamran Murray

Gianna Inguagiato

Josh Poulos

Raina Iorocci

Raymond Price III

Sophie Krugler

Will Riley

Claire Pisani

Walker Seymour

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Mid-Peninsula cross country Palo Alto volleyball Castilleja water polo

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better shape and they’re playing hard,’’ Miller said. “That’s all we ask. The kids aren’t quitting.

Physicality-wise we’ve improved leaps and bounds.’’

Miller praised the play and development of lineman Sione Fisiiahi. LeeMaster Howard rushed for 150 yards versus Saratoga and had a length of the field kickoff return for a touchdown called back on a penalty.

“These kids are realizing they can push themselves further than they thought,’’ Miller said.”It bodes well for the future.’’

Los Altos (4-4, 2-2) is more of a power-oriented team than Saratoga, a type of team Miller hopes his squad can match up with more effectively. The Eagles are coming off a 35-28 win over Monta Vista, a team Gunn lost to 39-36.

“We’re looking forward to this game, a local game against the first power team we’ve played,’’ Miller said. “The team is looking forward to giving it a shot.’’

Capuchino at Woodside, 7:30 p.m.

After beating defending PAL Lake champion Jefferson, the Woodside football team has lost to El Camino and Mills,

demonstrating what a fine line exists for so many teams between success and failure.

The Wildcats (4-3, 1-2) had 22 players suited up for the Mills game following a series of injuries that resulted in six starters being out and only one available tailback. Still it was a winnable game until Mills scored twice in the final minutes to pull away.

“We had a dropped touchdown pass and got stopped at the goal line,’’ Woodside coach Justin Andrews said. “We did just enough to lose.’’

Andrews is hoping for reinforcements this week with some newly eligible players after the conclusion of the first grading period.

Lineman Christian Ochoa continues to stand out. On one play he sacked the Mills quarterback and forced a fumble. Then after another Mills player picked up the loose ball Ochoa tackled him too.

Capuchino (4-3, 1-1) is coached by former South San Francisco coach Jay Oca. “They’re a downhill, physical football team,’’ Andrews said.

“South City in green. We’re looking to get some consistency on offense.’’ Q

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