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Hope fades for housing at Fry’s site Despite shifting plans and new setbacks, Palo Alto commits more funding for Ventura plan

by Gennady Sheyner

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ith its ambitious effort to revitalize the Ventura neighborhood in danger of faltering, Palo Alto’s elected leaders agreed on Monday to raise the budget and lower the expectations for the complex planning process.

The city is now in the midst of putting together the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan, a document that will lay out a new vision for a roughly 50-acre section of the Ventura neighborhood bounded by El Camino Real, Page Mill Road, the Caltrain tracks and

Lambert Avenue. The Comprehensive Plan, which articulates Palo Alto’s long-term land use vision, specifically calls for reimagining the area “as a walkable neighborhood with multi-family housing, ground floor retail, a public park, creek improvements and an interconnected street grid.”

At the heart of the site is 340 Portage Ave., a large parcel that is anchored by Fry’s Electronics and that city leaders have identified as

an ideal site for future housing.

Yet plans to redevelop the Fry’s site — as well as the broader area — have run into some trouble of late. Despite a December 2020 deadline set by a state grant, the planning effort slowed to a crawl this spring, thanks in part to disagreements between the city and its consultant, Perkins + Will. The city only recently resolved its dispute with the consultant over its responsibilities and compensation.

In addition, Perkins + Will recently determined that the Fry’s building, a former cannery, is “historically significant,” potentially complicating the redevelopment plans. The Sobrato Organization, which owns the Portage Avenue property, has signaled to the city that it has no desire to demolish or renovate the building, adding another blow to the city’s (continued on page 12)

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Stanford snaps up homes in Palo Alto University owns at least 37 homes in city, 700 countywide

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Svetlana Sargsyan and son Davit Kostanyan, 12, right, play with Aleksandr Kostanyan, 19 months, center, at the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. The family came to the United States so that Aleksandr could get treatment for his life-threatening disease.

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Facing visa troubles, Armenian family worries about ill son’s future Stanford Hospital clinical trial helped boy to move arms, legs again

by Maya Homan When Svetlana Sargsyan and Tigran Kostanyan welcomed their second child in December 2017, they were overjoyed. Their son Aleksandr was a happy, healthy baby. However, within weeks, Aleksandr became less and less mobile, unable to sit up or move his arms and legs.

Sargsyan and Kostanyan took their son to doctor after doctor in their hometown of Yerevan, Armenia, and when he was 52 days old, he received a diagnosis: spinal muscular atrophy Type 1 (SMA).

The family has been in the United States since March 2018,

staying at the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford while Aleksandr participates in a clinical trial for the drug Zolgensma, which has since received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to treat SMA. However, the clinical trial at Stanford Hospital is now over and the family’s visas

are set to expire in September, meaning that Aleksandr and his family may have to return to Armenia, where he will no longer have access to treatment.

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hile residents of Palo Alto’s College Terrace neighborhood have for years fretted over Stanford University’s purchase of homes on their blocks, new research by a group of media organizations has found that the university’s housing portfolio may be larger than even residents have imagined.

Stanford University owns at least $1 billion in single-family residences countywide — or 700 homes, according to research by the San Jose Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, KQED, Telemundo, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

In Palo Alto, Stanford now owns at least 37 single-family homes, including 32 in College Terrace, up from 23 in that neighborhood in 2017, when the Palo Alto Weekly did a survey.

The five media outlets joined forces to analyze county real-estate data for a project to answer the question of who owns Silicon Valley, Mercury News reporter Marisa Kendall said during a meeting of the College Terrace Residents Association on Wednesday night.

Residents expressed concerned about the upswing in acquisitions, which they say are increasing the cost of home ownership, taking valuable housing off the market for the general public and changing the quality of their neighborhood.

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DIPLOMA DREAMS FULFILLED ... Over the past 18 months, when she wasn’t hashing out community issues or voting on new ordinances, East Palo Alto Mayor Lisa Gauthier could be found working toward her bachelor’s degree, which she received at a ceremony on Aug. 15 in Mountain View. She’s one the 18 people who make up Study.com’s first local graduating class of its Working Scholars Program. She now holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration with a focus in general management. “As a single mom of three young adults, I had limited resources when it came to making sure my family could get degrees, so I focused on getting my children through school,” Gauthier said. However, she did obtain two associate degrees in marketing management and business administration from De Anza College before going after her bachelor’s degree. She first learned about the program when Study.com gave a presentation at a City Council meeting. As she was introduced to Working Scholars, she said her first two thoughts were, “Is this real?” and “as an elected official, is this something I could do?” Before she knew it, she dove into the coursework that was always available on her phone or laptop. Her participation as a student also led to an employment opportunity. Gauthier is currently the government affairs manager for Study.com, which involves attending conferences and meeting with other cities to help bring the program to more communities among other tasks related to education and policy.

“I’m always encouraging young people to go to school and, even older adults who want to go back to school, and this is a great opportunity to lead by example,” Gauthier said. “I was able to accomplish one of my dreams and earn a degree without any student debt.”

MAKING THE GRADE ... A proposal by Palo Alto City Manager Ed Shikada to establish

a new citizens commission devoted to redesigning Palo Alto’s rail crossings received a rough reception this week from members of an existing citizens commission devoted to redesigning Palo Alto’s rail crossings. The Expanded Community Advisory Panel (XCAP), a beefed-up version of the recently disbanded Community Advisory Panel, had some questions for Shikada on Wednesday about the planned Rail Blue Ribbon Commission (RBRC), which under his plan would be appointed by and report directly to the City Council. (These groups are not to be confused with the Rail Corridor Task Force, a prior citizens panel that explored grade-crossing improvements between 2010 and 2012). Some argued that appointing yet another group would further slow down the process of choosing a preferred alternative. “Why duplicate, and lose a lot of time in the process?” asked XCAP member Phil Burton. Former Mayor Larry Klein, an XCAP member, didn’t object to the idea of the new committee, but took issue with Shikada’s suggestion that the new group be composed entirely of former elected officials.

Judy Kleinberg, president of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and herself an XCAP member and former mayor, shared his concern. “I guarantee, most former elected (officials) have moved on to their condo in Maui.

They are not up to speed on this,” Kleinberg said. The City Council was scheduled to consider the new committee on Monday but deferred its decision to Sept. 9.

Under Shikada’s proposal, the RBRC would take the regional view on grade separation, while XCAP would continue to reflect neighborhood perspectives. But Burton said that the new group will allow the council to “delegate politically fraught decisions to people who have not been elected.” Klein countered that such concerns are unfounded, given that all committees merely advise the council, which has always been “very jealous about maintaining the right to make decisions.” “I don’t think you need to worry that the council will be able to avoid the responsibility of making final decisions,” Klein said. Q

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School district, city aren’t seeing eye-to-eye on Cubberley process School board members suggest city is using soon-to-expire lease as ‘leverage’

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he city of Palo Alto and Palo Alto Unified School District’s joint effort to redevelop Cubberley Community Center in south Palo Alto has hit a bump in the road with district leaders raising questions about whether the city intends to renew its $5 million lease of the Middlefield Road campus.

Questions surrounding the lease are the latest indication of the disconnect between the city’s and school district’s desires for redeveloping Cubberley, though the two agencies are engaged in a joint master planning process for the site.

District Superintendent Don Austin told board members at an Aug. 16 retreat that he has been unable to negotiate an extension of the lease, which expires at the end of the year, with city staff. He had at one point discussed a two-year extension, which was later reduced to one year, then six months and “most recently, it was taken off the table, staff to staff,” he said.

Board members suggested that the city is using the soon-to-expire lease as “leverage” in talks with the district.

But City Manager Ed Shikada told the Weekly that he thought there had been miscommunication with the district on the lease extension and that “the city has been clear that we want to continue supporting community use of the Cubberley property.

“At the same time, the city has spent millions of dollars repairing facilities that should be replaced as they have been used far beyond their intended life, so we want to ensure that further investments in the property will have lasting value,” he said.

The district owns 27 acres in the

35-acre campus and leases them to the city, which owns the other 8 acres. In March 2016, former Superintendent Max McGee and former City Manager James Keene signed a new lease that calls for the completion of a master plan for Cubberley by Dec. 31, 2019. A recently completed draft master plan, created after a monthslong “co-design” process that started last fall, includes proposals for more green space, a new gym and performing arts center, a future school and four different options for housing at Cubberley.

Shikada said the City Council has directed him to propose lease terms that “continue progress on the master planning effort.”

The Aug. 16 retreat marked the board’s first formal discussion of the draft master plan. A majority of the board reiterated that they are in no rush to build any school facilities on the district-owned land but do want to preserve land for a potential secondary school in the future.

“I think we can be great neighbors. We can swap land; we can move boundaries ... but what I don’t think we can be partners in is financing and paying for new facilities that we don’t know if and when we’re ever going to need,” Vice President Todd Collins said.

Member Ken Dauber also said that the district should be willing to reconfigure the city’s 8 acres or expand it by doing a land swap for other land in Palo Alto but that “the idea that somehow we’re going to be fully joint development partners with facilities that are going to be built that don’t have an educational purpose — I just don’t think that’s going to happen.”

Board member Shounak Dharap, however, advocated for

a more proactive stance on Cubberley. Even if the district doesn’t want to build a school now, that shouldn’t preclude exploring its other interests at Cubberley, including moving the district office there and building teacher housing, he said.

“I don’t think we can split up the city’s portion and our portion and say ... ‘We’re going to take our time,’” Dharap said. “My thought is we really should move forward with the city on this.”

A majority of board members voiced support for building teacher housing at an adjacent, district-owned site at 525 San Antonio Road. The draft master plan proposed different alternatives for building 32 to 64 units for district staff and teachers at 525 San Antonio Road. Several board members said they’d like to see options for even denser housing there, which would require the city to rezone the site.

Collins said he’s “a big fan of teacher housing if we have the need” but questioned whether that need has been demonstrated, asking for further study of the issue.

The board and council are tentatively scheduled to hold a joint meeting on Cubberley in October. Several board members said they’re uninterested in participating at the moment in what they believe would be an unproductive meeting.

At an Aug. 15 City/School Liaison Committee meeting, Austin said staff from both agencies are having difficulty setting the agenda for a meeting for which there is no “clearly defined purpose.” He suggested forming an ad hoc committee of board and council members to “frame up what that session will look like”

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Once a high school, Cubberley Community Center still has a gym, a theater and classroom space that are used by community members. and, potentially, discuss the lease agreement.

“What we appear to be stuck on at the moment is the question of how to reconcile the various goals the district and city have for the property,” Shikada told the Weekly. “The next step really needs to be a focused joint effort to articulate these goals and agree on a path forward. I’m pretty sure our goals are not mutually

exclusive, but this will require direct communication.”

Mayor Eric Filseth did not respond to questions for this article, and council members Lydia Kou and Alison Cormack declined to comment on the lease at the City/ School Liaison Committee meeting saying that it was not agendized. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Distrust surfaces among Ravenswood school board members Strategic planning process sparks tensions, disagreement

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ine months after an election created new dynamics on the Ravenswood City School District Board of Education, the new and old members are struggling to find common ground.

Tension flared up during a five-hour retreat on Saturday, when two longer-serving board members said they have felt dismissed by new leadership and left out of the district’s recently launched effort to develop a longterm strategic plan.

“I’m OK with new perspectives. What I’m concerned about is people’s intentions,” board member Ana Maria Pulido said.

“Are they coming here to add or subtract? Are they coming to dismantle the progress we did make and set us even further back?

“I don’t think there is trust on this board,” she said.

Under interim Superintendent Gina Sudaria’s leadership, the district created this summer a 21-member steering committee, including two board members, administrators, parents and

by Elena Kadvany community leaders, to lead the work of drafting a new strategic plan before presenting a final version to the board in December. Sudaria told the Weekly that she compiled a list of possible members with Attuned Education Partners, a firm the board hired to support the strategic planning process. The firm provided her a list of other districts’ steering committees membership and she selected people to represent similar groups, including board members, administrators, parents, teachers, local elected officials and faith-based leaders.

Pulido and board member Sharifa Wilson sharply criticized the strategic planning effort as lacking transparency and inclusion of the full board. Pulido was named to the committee at her request but has since declined to participate given her concerns. She said it was unclear how members were chosen and was concerned that all of the district’s schools were not represented. She and Wilson advocated for closer board involvement in the

process than they thought had been provided for.

“The board’s voice should be a priority,” Wilson said. “That’s what the uneasiness on my part is about — feeling like my voice is tagged on. It’s like, who’s driving this ship?”

Board President Tamara Sobomehin defended the process as inclusive and responsive to board feedback. Sudaria added committee members in response to Pulido’s concerns, raised at the board’s last meeting, including additional staff and parents to represent all schools and community partners.

Sobomehin noted she asked the consultant leading the process to add more meetings with the full board and all trustees can provide input.

Vice President Stephanie Fitch said she thought the process should be “more tied down to where the schools actually are” rather than driven from the top down, but understood her colleagues’ desire to be more involved.

The four board members (Marielena Gaona Mendoza was absent) ultimately agreed to send the committee structure back to the drawing board. They will take formal action at their next meeting to constitute it as a board committee. Sudaria will make recommendations for members and solicit suggestions from all trustees; the final membership of the group will be subject to full board approval. Sobomehin and Pulido will also meet with the Attuned Education Partners consultants to review the process.

Earlier in the meeting, Sobomehin — who along with Fitch was elected in November — acknowledged that board members have been “openly uncivil” with each other. She urged her colleagues to come together despite any differences in opinion.

“We’ve got to be a stronghold together,” she said.

“New ideas and perspectives aren’t necessarily putting down” what’s been done before, Fitch said. “The point of having elections every few years is because you need that new perspective coming in.

“I don’t think this district has moved as quickly as it needs to,” she continued. “Bureaucracy makes that hard. ... But we can affect this system, here, and I want to do that but I can’t do that alone and I’m not supposed to do it alone.”

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productively as a board will be especially critical this year, as the K-8 district is looking at closing schools due to declining enrollment.

The board also agreed on Saturday to take the next step to launch a search for a permanent superintendent by formally voting to do so at its meeting on Aug. 22. Sudaria has led the district on a temporary basis since February, after former Superintendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff was placed on paid administrative leave and then forced to resign. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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the university’s south side between Stanford and California avenues, southwest of El Camino Real.

The neighborhood is comprised of about 900 households, according to the residents’ association. That includes more than 600 single-family homes.

The university also owns five houses in the Southgate and Evergreen Park neighborhoods, across El Camino Real from College Terrace.

Stanford acquires homes through bequests and purchases, university spokeswoman Jean McCown told the Weekly in 2017. Single-family, off-campus residences in neighborhoods are popular with faculty members, especially professors.

Stanford uses ground leases, by which the university retains ownership of a property while the “buyer” can build on it or purchase the existing residence.

Most of Stanford’s housing is on-campus or on land it owns. The university recently has increased its housing stock on its own property by adding 180 units at its University Terrace subdivision in the Stanford Research Park between California Avenue and Page Mill Road, 68 of which are single-family homes; new residences at Escondido Village; 39 single-family homes at Olmsted Terrace, between Olmsted Road and Stanford Avenue; and a planned 10-home development in the San Juan Hills neighborhood.

Kendall did not say how many of the university’s 700 single-family homes are located in Palo Alto and how many are on Stanford land.

Stanford’s general-use permit from Santa Clara County, which governs building on its campus, limits the number of on-campus residences the university can add.

College Terrace residents said Stanford’s home-ownership is damaging the quality of their neighborhood, driving up prices and giving the university an unfair political advantage.

In terms of community life, the number of vacant or “ghost” houses the university has let stand has been an ongoing issue, neighbors contend. In May 2018, the Weekly found nine vacant properties: seven older homes and two vacant lots, which had been empty for at least a year or more. That number appears to have increased significantly. When Kendall visited the Stanford-owned College Terrace properties, she found 22 vacant, she said Wednesday. Of those, eight properties were under construction, she said.

Kent Stavn, whose family has owned property in the Terrace for generations, said Wednesday that homeless people were living in one vacant house on Oberlin Street.

“It is disconcerting,” resident Irina Cross said about the vacancies. One home on Yale Street has been vacant for five years. Another, which she said is in “perfect condition,” has been empty for three years.

Other neighbors said the

A home is being built by Stanford University at 301 Oxford St., in Palo Alto’s Evergreen Park neighborhood. The university bought the property in 2018. university can afford to pay above chosen to live and within walking the property’s asking price and can and biking distance to campus,” he out-bid other potential buyers. The wrote.

“They have been a means to supresult is that even current College Terrace residents with growing plement Stanford’s larger housing families can’t buy a home in their efforts, including building housing communities for faculty, as reprecommunity.

College Terrace residents also sented by University Terrace,” he complained that purchases by Stan- stated.

“Many of the homes that Stanford for its faculty and staff are creating a scarcity of available hous- ford acquired needed redeveloping. When Stanford buys homes ment or renovation,” he added. “We and sells them through ground continue to work with residents and leases, those properties never go on CTRA as these homes are renovatthe market again, a resident noted. ed and redeveloped and ready for There’s a balance of power that occupancy.”

He said the university put togethchanges in the neighborhood when one purchaser owns 32 homes, one er its redevelopment timeline based on feedback from CTRA that the resident said Wednesday.

Ann Balin, whose family has community wanted several homes lived in the Terrace since the 1920s, rebuilt concurrently, rather than agreed. The university is changing leaving the homes vacant.

Stanford not only dominates in the fabric of the neighborhood.

“I see it as an invasion. The char- private residential ownership in the acter of the neighborhood is almost county, the university owns nearly $17 billion in property, making it at a tipping point,” she said.

Stanford spokesman E.J. Mi- the county’s largest private propranda said in an email that the erty owner. That includes $14.6 university owns only about 5% of billion in commercial acquisitions the single-family homes in College such as Stanford Shopping Center, Kendall said. Its next closest comTerrace.

Stanford faculty have lived in petitors for overall property ownerCollege Terrace since the neighbor- ship are San Jose-based Irvine Co., at $5.9 billion, and Google and hood’s inception, he wrote.

“In an effort to meet the univer- Apple, with about $5 billion each, sity’s housing needs, the university the investigative report found.

The media consortium’s report is has added to its inventory in College Terrace over the last few years. expected to be published and air in These acquisitions in College Ter- mid-to-late October. Q race are part of a larger strategy by Staff Writer Sue Dremann Stanford to provide housing for fac- can be emailed at sdremann@ ulty where they have traditionally paweekly.com.

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Nominations are now being accepted for Palo Alto’s Athena® Leadership Award & Emerging Professional Leadership Award for outstanding working professional women.

Nomination deadline Wednesday, Aug. 28th Forms available at: www.paloaltochamber.com/athena-awards

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They will be honored at the 33rd annual ATHENA Leadership Awards Luncheon hosted by the Garden Court Hotel on Tuesday, November 5th, 2019.

Man arrested again for sexual assault Randolph Haldeman, who was arrested last month on allegations of sexually assaulting children and then released on bail hours later, was arrested again Wednesday (Aug. 21) at his Menlo Park home on 20 sexual assault charges, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. (Posted Aug. 22, 8:48 a.m.)

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Caltrain strikes unoccupied vehicle A Caltrain struck an unoccupied vehicle at 8:41 p.m. on Aug.16 at the Charleston Road grade crossing and involved southbound train #190, according to SamTrans officials. There were approximately 306 passengers on the train at the time of the incident.

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News Digest City looks at business tax

Veronica Weber

As Palo Alto prepares to join the recent wave of cities that have adopted a business tax, transportation is emerging as the highest priority for how the revenues would be used, with public shuttles and safer rail crossings at the top of the City Council’s priority list.

The city is moving toward placing a revenue measure on the November 2020 ballot. But even though the City Council generally supports the creation of a new revenue source, members have not yet decided what the new tax would look like.

The council’s Finance Committee on Tuesday night began to narrow its menu of options for the new measure, recommending that the city officially cut from consideration a tax based on gross revenues.

Rather, the committee agreed that the city should base its new business tax on either square footage, like Cupertino, or on employee count, the most common method in the region and one used in Mountain View, San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, according to a report from the city’s consultant, Matrix Consulting Group.

Councilwoman Alison Cormack, a member of the Finance Committee, made the case for employee count, noting that this method has the most direct link to transportation.

“We have a major transportation problem and everyone else has a business tax and we don’t have one,” Cormack said during the lengthy discussion.

In addition to transportation, the council considered affordable housing and further infrastructure improvements as possible targets for business-tax funds. But while a percentage of the business-tax proceeds may still go to affordable housing, the committee agreed that the city should consider other funding sources for infrastructure projects. Q —Gennady Sheyner

From left, Tigran Kostanyan, Svetlana Sargsyan and their two children, Aleksandr Kostanyan, 19 months, and Davit Kostanyan, 12, sit for a family portrait at the Ronald McDonald House in Palo Alto, where they are staying while Aleksandr undergoes an experimental gene therapy treatment for spinal muscular atrophy. The family, who are from Armenia, are seeking help to remain in the U.S. to continue getting medical help for Aleksandr.

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Palo Alto joins call for change at VTA Palo Alto this week endorsed a scathing report calling for governance changes at the Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authority, though the city has yet to determine what changes it wants to see.

The City Council unanimously approved on Monday a letter that represents the city’s official response to a recent report released in June from that Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury. The report concluded that the VTA’s operating performance has been deteriorating over the past decade and that its governance structure is deeply flawed. The agency’s board of directors, the report found, suffers from “a lack of experience, continuity and leadership” and is dominated by representatives from San Jose and the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.

The Palo Alto City Council, which for years has complained about being marginalized at the regional body, overwhelmingly endorsed this assessment.

“As a major employment center and sales tax generator at the edge of VTA’s service territory, Palo Alto has historically been unrepresented in VTA policy decision in ways that do not serve the traveling public,” the letter signed by Mayor Eric Filseth states.

The grand jury also recommended that the county or another VTA agency propose legislation that would change the governance structure of the VTA, which is set in the California Public Utilities Code. Potential changes that could be considered include increasing a directors’ term of service (from the current two-year terms), adding term limits or allowing the appointment of directors who are not elected officials. Q —Gennady Sheyner

Free lunch, dinner program ends The Breaking Bread lunch and dinner service has been a staple in Palo Alto, providing free meals at local churches to homeless and other needy residents for decades. The nonprofit organization LifeMoves, which has been operating the program for the past five years, announced earlier this month that it would no longer be serving lunch and dinner, deciding instead to serve breakfast at the Opportunity Services Center.

“We looked at ways we could make the program more impactul and we saw that there was a real gap around breakfast,” LifeMoves CEO Bruce Ives told the Weekly in a recent interview, adding that the decision to switch to breakfast was made in an effort to “fill a void.”

Ives said that the organization received support from program stakeholders including the city, volunteers and the faith-based community before moving forward with the change. He also noted that adding breakfast to the pre-existing meal services wouldn’t have been a feasible option due to a limited capacity of staff and volunteers.

The new breakfast program will be offered Monday through Friday from 8:30-10:30 a.m. Q —Cierra Bailey Page 10 • August 23, 2019 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

start showing symptoms a few months after birth. As the neurons continue to die off, infants have a harder time swallowing and breathing, and those with Type 1 SMA generally don’t live past 2 years old.

When Aleksandr was first diagnosed, his parents took their son to specialists in Armenia, all of whom told the couple that their son’s condition was incurable.

“The doctors from Armenia didn’t know about the treatments,” Kostanyan said. “They thought there were no treatments.

They said, ‘You will lose your baby. Go home.’”

But the couple did not give up.

They reached out to other countries, including France, Belgium and Canada, searching for a treatment and scoured government clinical trial sites until they found the study at Stanford Hospital that focused on Type I SMA. After looking over his test results, doctors at Stanford determined that Aleksandr was likely

a good candidate for the study.

They brought him to the U.S., conducted more tests and admitted him into phase three of the AveXis clinical trial, which tested the drug Zolgensma. At 3 1/2 months old, Aleksandr received the drug, which works by replacing the defective SMN1 gene with a functional one so that cells can produce their own SMN protein.

The treatment, Sargsyan said, has been transformational. Aleksandr regained his ability to move his arms and legs; control his head and neck muscles; and sit up for short periods of time. He has been attending physical, occupational and aquatic therapy for the past year to help strengthen and develop his muscles.

However, despite all of Aleksandr’s progress, he still requires extensive treatment and therapy.

He has difficulty eating and swallowing, and his parents must take extra precautions to ensure that he doesn’t develop pneumonia or other respiratory illnesses. He relies on a stroller to get around and wears a special brace to correct his scoliosis.

The family is currently working

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council is not meeting this week.

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will vote on staffing infrastructure for safety, security and emergency preparedness; and discuss conceptual designs and contracts for facilities projects at JLS, Greene and Fletcher middle schools and Walter Hays, Palo Verde and Escondido elementary schools. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 27, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the city’s transportation work plan, consider a parcel map for 874 Boyce Ave., and review a proposal for a Residential Preferential Parking program in a section of Old Palo Alto. The meeting is scheduled for at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

with a paralegal to change their B-1 visa to one that would allow them to stay and work in the U.S. legally, and they have started a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of raising $100,000 to help cover the cost of staying in California.

Remaining in the U.S. would allow Aleksandr to continue receiving physical therapy and educational programs designed for children with SMA, who are often very bright but cannot be in a traditional classroom setting where they would have to sit up or stay in one position for long periods of time.

Despite the overarching uncertainty about their future, the family has been settling in to their new life in the Bay Area.

They’ve been attending services at an Armenian church in Cupertino and their older son, Davit, recently started seventh grade at JLS Middle School.

Sargsyan and Kostanyan worked as teachers in Yerevan, Sargsyan as a science and technology teacher at a French language school and Kostanyan as an information technology professor at a university. They have been looking for jobs in the area, although Sargsyan said they may need to take some English classes and get an American teaching certification first. She’s looking into other fields, such as translation, where she could take Aleksandr with her.

Still, the family says, they are immensely grateful for the help they have received here from the doctors, CureSMA, AveXis and community members, and want to find a way to give back.

“We want to do something good for this country,” Sargsyan said. “We had no hope, we had nothing, and suddenly, (America) saved the life of this treasure.” Q Editorial Intern Maya Homan can be emailed at mhoman@ paweekly.com.

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Veronica Weber

grand plans.

The delay has frustrated the Working Group, a 14-member stakeholder panel of residents and others that is helping to put the plan together. The group met this week, but its last meeting was held in April. Some members recently called for changes in how meetings are conducted.

Despite all of these setbacks, the City Council reluctantly agreed by a 4-3 vote to add $367,112 to its contract with Perkins + Will contract and to extend the planning process by another 11 months, with a goal of finishing it by fall 2021.

Mayor Eric Filseth and council members Alison Cormack and Greg Tanaka dissented and argued that the council should stay within its budget, even if that means a less robust planning process and fewer planning alternatives on the final menu of options.

Even those who supported the expanded contract weren’t particularly thrilled about where the project currently stands.

“We’re 10 months into the project, we’re about a year behind and we want to almost double the budget,” Councilman Tom DuBois said.

Planning Director Jonathan Lait told the council that Sobrato’s position on the Fry’s site reflects today’s economic climate. He cited the area’s hot construction market, high labor costs and returns on rents as factors in Sobrato’s position on the Fry’s building.

A representative from Sobrato has indicated that “the conditions at the moment are not ripe” for the type of development that the city was hoping to see at Portage Avenue site, Lait said. The organization indicated that housing would

A shopper at Fry’s Electronics heads into the store at 340 Portage Ave., Palo Alto. The building was used as a cannery in the first half of the 20th century and could be designated as historic. not be economical at the heights and densities that Palo Alto has historically tolerated for residential projects, Lait said. Sobrato did not respond to the Weekly’s request for comment.

The Fry’s site isn’t just at the heart of the North Ventura plan; it is also a central component of Palo Alto’s overall vision for housing. The city’s Housing Element identifies the Fry’s site as one that could accommodate up to 249 units.

It’s now unclear how the city would be able to achieve that many new units while also preserving the Fry’s building, Lait said.

At its Wednesday meeting, members of the Working Group acknowledged that Sobrato’s position likely means that the area’s redevelopment won’t net the types of benefits many had hoped for, at least in the short term. Even so, members and staff said, in the long run the plan would allow for economic conditions — and Sobrato’s position — to change years from now.

Lait told the group on Wednesday that as the planning process continues to unfold, it will require some uncomfortable conversations, including a discussion of how much additional height and density the city should tolerate in exchange for getting affordable housing, park space and other sought-out community amenities.

The city plans to study three scenarios, at least one of which will evaluate the retention of the Fry’s building and another that will consider its redevelopment.

The third one will try to strike a compromise between the two options.

Several residents urged the Working Group on Wednesday to support adding housing on the Fry’s site. Annette Isaacson made a case for building housing for teachers and other public employees, who have essentially been priced out of the city. Downtown resident Don Barr, a longtime advocate for affordable housing, proposed a clinic on the ground floor of a new development that would also include four stories of

NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA invites public comment on a removal action to manage PCB- and leadimpacted paints at Navy Site 29 (Hangar 1). Removal action alternatives are presented in a document called the Engineering Evaluation/Cost Analysis (EE/CA) for Hangar 1.

Environmental data was collected to determine the extent of contamination, evaluate potential risks to human health and the environment and establish protective cleanup goals for Hangar 1. The Draft Final EE/CA, which is reviewed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of California Water Quality Control Board, evaluates alternatives and presents NASA's recommended alternative for cleanup of the steel elements and concrete walls. The public is invited to review and comment on this Draft Final EE/CA during a 30-day public comment period from August 15, 2019 to September 13, 2019. NASA will consider all written comments on the EE/CA received by September 13.

A copy of the Draft Final EE/CA can be found on the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field website at http://environment.arc.nasa.gov.

NASA will host a public meeting on August 27, 2019 to accept written comments regarding the Draft Final EE/CA. This meeting will focus on the EE/CA rather than the recladding effort which will be undertaken after the abatement has commenced.

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below-market-rate housing.

Others, including some members of the Working Group, said the Fry’s building should be preserved, even if its function changes.

“I think we can certainly consider repurposing the building for all types of purposes, whether it be housing, a community center, an aquatic center or whatever else it might be,” Working Group member Terry Holzemer said.

But the process should also respect the building’s historic significance, he said.

“I think the historical structure itself does provide an opportunity, especially for young people, to learn that well before there was Silicon Valley, this was a significant area to the valley and to the United States.”

Councilwoman Lydia Kou also welcomed the idea of preserving the Fry’s site. She argued Monday that it’s important to honor the legacy of Thomas Foon Chew, who bought the site in 1918 and built a cannery that became the region’s largest employer.

Former Mayor Karen Holman, a longtime proponent of historic preservation, disputed the idea that historic preservation and housing production are necessarily incompatible. The building, she suggested, could be repurposed without being entirely redeveloped.

Other cities, Holman said Monday, have turned their industrial buildings into modern hubs. Palo Alto can similarly create places that contain brew pubs, art galleries, wine tasting rooms and other amenities.

Vice Mayor Adrian Fine and Councilwoman Liz Kniss both supported investing more money in the Ventura planning process, even under the changing circumstances. DuBois and Kou were somewhat more reluctant but joined them in directing staff to

bring back a new contract with Perkins + Will.

Filseth made the case for staying within the original budget.

The planning process, he noted, was up until now funded largely with grant money and a contribution from Sobrato. Adding funding to the planning process would require the city to dip, for the first time, into the general fund. And it would be doing so at a time when the project’s goals seem less likely to be achieved than in the past.

“There is such a thing as giving a startup too much money,” Filseth said, in making the case not to add another contract.

The council was more united about the prospect of removing the concrete channel from Matadero Creek and restoring the creek to its natural state. It unanimously approved a $93,000 contract with the firm Water Resources Associates Environmental Consultants to explore the idea of converting the channel into an open space corridor.

Lait said the study will consider both the prospect of enhancing the existing channel by building recreational amenities around it and the more ambitious idea of removing the concrete and returning Matadero to a natural creek.

The council generally agreed that the Ventura area plan is still worth doing, even with Sobrato’s position being what it is. Cormack said she feels the city has lost “a big component of this that is driving urgency.”

“I understand we committed to doing this in the Comprehensive Plan (and) we probably need to keep going,” Cormack said. “But it’s not clear to me it will achieve the things many people in the community have been hoping for in the medium-run.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

Board of Education (Aug. 16)

Retreat: The board discussed the district-wide plan, the PAUSD Promise, the redevelopment of Cubberley Community Center and upcoming board agendas at a retreat. Action: None

City Council (Aug. 19)

Matadero Creek: The council approved moving ahead with a $93,000 contract with Water Resource Associates Environmental Consultants to study the feasibility of converting the channelized Matadero Creek into an open space corridor. Yes: Cormack, DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Kniss No: Kou, Tanaka Ventura: The council directed staff to return with an amended $367,112 contract with the firm Perkins+Will for additional services relating to the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan.

Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Kniss, Kou No: Cormack, Filseth, Tanaka VTA: The council authorized staff to submit a response letter to a recent report from the Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury pertaining to the governance structure of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.

Yes: Unanimous

Council Finance Committee (Aug. 20)

Revenue measure: The committee agreed to dedicate funding from the potential 2020 business tax measure to transportation improvements. The committee also recommended that the council consider a business tax that is based on either employee counts or on square footage, as well as to explore a parcel tax based on square footage. Yes: Unanimous

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Pulse A weekly compendium of vital statistics

POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

Aug. 14-Aug. 20 Violence related Attempted suicide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sexual assault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle related Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 9

Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . 10 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 3 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Disturbing the peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 5 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Menlo Park

Aug. 14-Aug. 20 Violence related Assault w/ a deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Alcohol or drug related Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

VIOLENT CRIMES

BY E L E N A K A DVA N Y

Palo Alto

Pasteur Drive, 8/1, 8:30 p.m.; battery.

University Avenue, 8/8, 2:55 p.m.; elder abuse.

El Camino Real, 8/10, 12:19 a.m.; domestic violence.

Pasteur Drive, 8/10, 10:25 p.m.; sexual assault.

Encina Avenue, 8/11, 4:35 p.m.; domestic violence.

Colorado Avenue, 8/12, 2:50 p.m.; strong arm robbery.

University Avenue, 8/13, 3 p.m.; domestic violence.

El Camino Real, 8/14, 9:03 a.m.; sex crime.

Middlefield Road, 8/17, 11:33 a.m.; child abuse.

Lytton Avenue, 8/17, 11:11 p.m.; suicide attempt.

El Camino Real, 8/18, 11:10 p.m.; domestic violence.

Emerson Street, 8/19, 12:14 a.m.; battery.

Nancy Clark March 22, 1929 – July 11, 2019 We lost Nancy Clark on July 11, 2019. A great sense of humor and a kind and loving heart served her well in her 90 years on this planet, and boy are her kids sorry to see her go. Tom, Andy, Charlie and Sue feel lucky to have her as their mom. Born on March 22, 1929, in Wisconsin, she and her brother, Urb, lost their dad in a tragic accident when they were babies, but her mother, Mabelle Schreiner, remarried a wonderful man, Joe Becker, who adored them.

So, Nancy Clark: She lived in Fort Atkinson, WI, Lake Bluff, Illinois, and attended Radford School for Girls in El Paso, Texas. She rode horses there and got so golden brown she looked like a Native American, which she loved, and wore silver and turquoise and braided feathers in her hair for further effect. She attended Northwestern and Occidental College and earned her BS in teaching. A GREAT teacher, her former 5th grade students visited her with their kids.

Bombshell gorgeous, but didn’t know it. A green thumb, her homes were bursting with fuchsias and roses. You’d feel comfortable with her instantly. (She got Christmas cards from people she’d sat next to on airplanes!) She was married 61 years to David Clark, Executive Editor of Sunset Books. Arriving for a blind date with her roommate, he took one look at 6’ tall beauty Nancy Schreiner and was a goner. They created a wonderful life on Cork Oak Way, and how Dad afforded the grocery bill feeding all the kids on the block is a mystery. Pancakes on the weekend was nearly an Olympic event! They loved their place at Northstar, their kids and tons of friends visiting often. She loved Stanford football, the Giants and the 49ers, and spent lots of time at Candlestick Park. She took her boys and their friends to the ‘Stick to see Willie Mays break a batting record. He didn’t do it, so she took them back the next day for the momentous occasion. She went to all her boys’ Little League games, rooting and hollering right up to the chain link fence. “Go! Run! Run! RUN! Atta

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boy!” She was so thoughtful, and would surprise us with things she knew we liked. Christmas was an absolute ZOO! And you know that age where you’re always, “Look! Mommy! Look!”? Well she always looked, and let out a hardy, “GOOD for you!” Cook for her and she’d make you feel like a Cordon Bleu chef.

Beautiful views brought her to tears. Her signature “cripes!” entered the lexicon of her kids and their friends. When a baby was born, she’d be on the first plane. Death in the family? She was there helping, listening. Her home was open to her kids’ friends when life got scary. She championed The Florence Crittendon Home for Unwed Mothers, chaired a scholarship fund on Maui, and was a Girl Scout leader - until she was “fired” for letting the girls get away with murder. A great driver, she and Sue had countless road trips, laughing and listening to music. Frank Sinatra was her favorite, but she liked Boz Scaggs and The Doobie Brothers, too. Her humor and wholehearted laugh, love of animals, dependability, generosity, integrity and kindness, well, Nancy Clark was born a true lady. She was adored by her whole family, including Andy’s wife, Janey, and Charlie’s wife, Tina, (like daughters), and sister-in-law Marty Brewer. She moved with Dave to Maui in 1989 where she was a grandma (“Hey you little squirts!”) to David, Tim and Bill; and later Charlie’s boys, Ben and Andrew, then great grandmother to David and Rhoda’s Jaidah, Joseph and Jessa. She was loved by countless people, and we want you to know she loved you right back! Rest in peace, you spectacular woman. You did it all just right, and we’ll honor your memory for the rest of our lives. Donations: Hospice Maui 400 Mahalani St. Wailuku, HI 96793 808-244-5555. Service is September 14th at The Smith’s residence, 12 Sharon Drive, Menlo Park, CA 90035 from 1-4 pm. There was nothing she enjoyed more than being with all of us, so we hope you can make it.

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J. Lawrence Naiman, M.D. October 20, 1932 – June 23, 2019 Joseph Lawrence Naiman (Laurie) was born in Toronto, Canada, the youngest son of Max and Ida Naiman. He attended Harbord Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, earning his medical degree in 1956. He trained in pediatric hematologyoncology at Boston Children’s Hospital (Harvard Medical School). He then moved to Philadelphia, working at the University of Pennsylvania before being appointed professor of pediatrics at Temple University School of Medicine and chief of hematologyoncology at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. He became known for his dedication to research and teaching and for his compassionate clinical care. His proudest accomplishment was the development of a family support program for children with leukemia and cancer. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Ronald MacDonald House Charities. In 1984 Laurie moved to California where he served as medical director of the Northern California Region of the American Red Cross Blood Services and as clinical professor of pediatrics, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Laurie received numerous professional honors and authored more than 70 medical publications, most notably three editions of the textbook Hematologic Problems of the Newborn with co-author Frank A. Oski, MD. Always an active photographer, he was a member of the Palo Alto Camera Club. He developed the club’s first website and was elected as the club’s president. Laurie was inspired by club members and, in turn, mentored and inspired others. His work received a number of awards, including two first-place awards in contests sponsored by the Palo Alto Weekly (2002 and 2019).

Laurie was predeceased in death by his sister, Renee Goodis (Norman), and brother, Arnold Naiman. He is survived by his wife, Judy Palmer; children Matthew (Yuriko), Jonathan (Sabine), Michael, and Jill Naiman; grandchildren Misha, Jacob, and Benjamin Naiman; a sister-in-law, Annette Naiman; his former wife, Temmy Siegel Acton; and nieces and nephews Sandy, Elaine, Glorianne, Michael, Lyle, and their children.

Laurie also enjoyed cooking, hiking, exploring Death Valley, and visiting family. He is fondly remembered for his keen sense of humor and generous spirit. A Celebration of Life will be held by the Palo Alto Camera Club at the Palo Alto Art Center on September 22, 2019, from 2 - 4 pm.

Donations in his memory may be made to the Let Them Hear Foundation, the Palo Alto Camera Club, and the Pathways Hospice program.

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Richard Stanley Chandler April 14, 1955 – August 10, 2019 In Redwood City, surrounded by his loving mother, Carolyn Hartman, and his dog, Jersey. Son of Del Wayne Chandler and beloved big brother to Don Chandler and Kathleen HartmanFelion and Uncle to Emily Chandler.

Rick is a longtime friend and coach to Peninsula youth for generations, changing their lives for the better with his calm demeanor and wise guidance.

Rick’s writing career began at Sequoia High School with the Sequoia Times and continued in print with the Redwood City Tribune, Peninsula Times Tribune, Palo Alto Weekly, San Mateo Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Tahoe Tribune.

As a pioneer in electronic media, he was considered one of the original “blogfathers” and is a co-founder of groundbreaking sports site, Deadspin. He worked for MSNBC, Ironminds, and created the blog Peninsula Youth Sports. He coached basketball and baseball at Serra High School, taking his basketball team to the State Championship. As the basketball coach for South Lake Tahoe High School, he took his players to their first Junior Varsity win in 20 years. In his early coaching career he had several years at Mt. Carmel in Redwood City.

He coached Super Bowl champion Tom Brady at Serra High School and professional basketball player, Jeremy Lin, when Jeremy was first introduced to the game at June Lathrop Stanford Middle School in Palo Alto. Rick will be remembered with love by all those who knew him.

All are invited to celebrate his life on August 31st at the Red Morton Community Recreation Center at 1120 Roosevelt Ave in Redwood City. Service begins at 11:00am with a luncheon reception to immediately follow.

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Editorial A leadership test Palo Alto city officials have their work cut out to achieve a successful outcome on Castilleja redevelopment proposal

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fter years of frustration and animosity between Castilleja School and its neighbors, with almost no progress toward finding an acceptable middle ground, the school’s proposal to rebuild its campus in Old Palo Alto has finally landed in the laps of city officials.

Reconciling the conflicting viewpoints will be a major test for new City Manager Ed Shikada and a City Council that struggles at building consensus through compromise on controversial community issues. If they choose to follow the normal review process of major projects, with long public hearings that become an exhausting contest to see which side can turn out more bodies wearing buttons or holding signs, then we are destined for a divisive and bitter battle that isn’t worthy of our community.

Shikada and Mayor Eric Filseth need a plan for how to steer Castilleja’s application toward an outcome in which interests are respected, compromises made and advocates on both sides get their most important needs met. And with the draft environmental-impact report (DEIR) now out and the formal reviews beginning, all the details and impacts have now been laid before the public.

Unlike other complex city issues — such as how to eliminate railroad grade crossings, redevelop the old Cubberley High School property in south Palo Alto or find good sites for new housing — the debate over Castilleja’s desire to redevelop its site is unusually localized. It’s not a public facility, but it is a valuable and respected community institution.

While most Palo Altans will not be significantly affected, those living within a few blocks will be greatly impacted, especially by what is expected to be more than three years of construction, followed by significant traffic congestion thereafter. The biggest traffic impacts will be from the proposed traffic patterns on Embarcadero Road and Bryant and Emerson streets, which the DEIR concludes will create substantial problems. And the analysis didn’t even take into account the traffic volume yet to be felt on Embarcadero from the opening of the new Stanford Hospital and the graduate student housing at the university.

As it stands now, the proposal faces rough sledding unless it is revised to reduce its impacts. But rejecting the plan isn’t a good or likely solution either. Preventing Castilleja from improving its facility or forcing it to move are not, in our opinion, in the best interests of the neighborhood or the broader community. Both the school and its neighbors would be well-advised to not depend on the City Council to create the best solution.

Neighbors, in order to achieve a successful outcome, will need to let go of their hostility toward Castilleja that stems from its past violations of their use permit and accept that the council will undoubtedly end up approving some redevelopment plan, even though it may be one that significantly reduces the size of the project.

The focus needs be on negotiating three things: a better traffic mitigation and parking plan, tough benchmarks that tie any future increases in enrollment to maintaining or reducing traffic counts from current levels, and limits on the number of evening and weekend events that are permitted on campus.

For its part, Castilleja will need to accept the additional traffic mitigation measures proposed in the DEIR and explore alternatives to the traffic patterns currently proposed for Bryant, Emerson and Embarcadero and its underground garage proposal.

To its credit, the school has already agreed that its enrollment in the future be contingent on its ability to prevent any increases in traffic. And Castilleja will need to work in good faith with neighbors to reconcile whether the proposed underground garage is better or worse than continuing to use surface and street parking, or if reducing the size of the garage is a viable option.

One of the difficulties of the garage controversy is that it has a major impact on only a few property owners on Emerson and Melville Avenue. The council is not likely to give too much weight to their protests, so they should be looking for other mitigations and be open to a down-sized garage and conditions that reduce its impact.

To thrash out these issues, we urge Shikada, Filseth and the council to form an ad hoc committee of two or three council members and charge them with working with the school and neighbors, with a skilled mediator, to find compromises before the full council begins its review.

Both groups risk a lot by trying to muscle the council to adopt their point of view. The council will want to split the baby, and both Castilleja and the neighbors are likely to fare much better working together than attempting to marshal their supporters to show up at council meetings or put pressure on individual council members.

Let’s see if we can model a better approach to problem-solving this time, one where people leave their baggage from the past at the door and don’t simply try to find four votes on the council. Q Page 18 • August 23, 2019 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Letters So long, Prolific Oven Editor, Growing up in Palo Alto in the ‘90s, one of our family’s Saturday rituals was shopping at the farmers market on Hamilton Avenue and Waverley Street. Such outings required sustenance, so we would first drop in at the Prolific Oven for breakfast. There, I would order a cheese danish and slowly unwind the pastry perimeter, eating as I went, before chomping down on its creamy core.

My wife, who I met at Gunn High School, also grew up on Prolific Oven pastries. We disagreed on which cake was their best — me, carrot; her, mocha — but when we got engaged in 2013, there was no question that Prolific would be supplying our wedding cake.

After we moved away, a trip back home wasn’t really complete without a pilgrimage to Prolific.

Sadly, year after year, the bakery started to look increasingly out of place as more and more upscale chains moved in, and University Avenue started to look more and more like Santana Row or an extension of Stanford Shopping Center.

I was heartbroken this week when I read that they were shutting their doors after 39 years.

For me, it’s the latest in a long line of closures of my favorite childhood spots, from Palo Alto Toy and Sport to Palo Alto Bowl.

I shouldn’t be surprised: Silicon Valley is not known for holding on to the old or the nostalgic. Still, I’m sad that there are an infinite number of places to get a $5 pour-over and a gluten-free croissant, but those cheese danishes are gone.

Erik Petigura Carson Street, Culver City (Formerly: Magnolia Drive, Palo Alto)

More traffic coming Editor, In my opinion, Palo Alto has major traffic problems right now with traffic all over the city. Many cities are faced with similar problems. If and when the Stanford University expansion goes forward, Palo Alto High School and other schools in the area will have an increase in students.

Streets such as El Camino Real, Embarcadero Road, Oregon Expressway, Alma Street

and many others will be impacted, as well as the freeways.

Caltrain’s electrification will also be taking place and road closures will be inevitable, plus major construction will occur.

Castilleja School also wants to expand by over 100 students. They want to build an underground parking garage with an entrance off of Embarcadero and Bryant Street and exit onto Emerson Street and Embarcadero.

Stanford expansion, Caltrain’s electrification, Castilleja expansion: Wll any of these major projects alleviate any of our traffic problems that exist today?

Let us figure out how to reduce our carbon footprint for all of our futures.

Neva Yarkin Churchill Avenue, Palo Alto

Support Castilleja Editor, Having lived near Castilleja School for 40 years, I can attest to its many contributions to our community.

With respect specifically to environmental impact, Castilleja is a very respectful neighbor, having gone to great lengths to mitigate traffic and parking demands as the town has grown up around it. In my view, the school provides a park-like buffer for the residents that surround it.

The school’s master plan proposes a green and architecturally inspired design and asks for no additional square footage above ground.

Within just a few blocks of Castilleja, prodigious additions have been constructed at Stanford University, Palo Alto High School and Addison Elementary School. Why should one of our most historic and consequential schools, the 100+ year old Castilleja, be denied improvements and the chance to extend its reach to a modest number of new women students?

I found the latest headlines and articles regarding Castilleja to be front-loaded with negativity. You had to read well into the articles to find the many positives, which most readers won’t do.

I am confused by the argument that “redevelopment would overwhelm their quiet neighborhood.” Development, growth and increased traffic are the norm throughout town, given the extraordinary economic

growth of the day.

The notion that Castilleja has no business being in an R-1 neighborhood is preposterous.

Castilleja was there first and, if Sacramento has its way, there won’t be any more R-1 zoning in the so-called “jobs and education rich” towns.

I ask the media to report on the treasure we have in our community. I implore the City Council to enthusiastically support the school’s application to continue its century-long mission of educating young women and, in doing so, ensure that exceptional education continues as a foundational and timeless value in Palo Alto.

Barbara Hazlett Emerson Street, Palo Alto

Rebutting the Guest Opinion Editor, Mr. (Leonard) Ely speculates (in his Guest Opinion published in the Aug. 16 issue of the Weekly) that if Castilleja School were to move, its current site would be developed into 38-42 single family homes. He builds his whole case to accept Castilleja’s proposal to expand on this possibility, which may or may not actually come to pass.

But let’s assume he is correct.

There is one major flaw in his argument. The inconvenience of construction and a potential increase in traffic would be balanced by a substantial increase in property tax revenue, which would benefit the city as a whole.

Castilleja pays no taxes and the large majority of its students do not live in Palo Alto. At best, its benefit to the community at large is very small.

Richard D. Mamelok Churchill Avenue, Palo Alto

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It’s time to address leaf blowers (again)

by Barry Katz

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few days ago, as I was composing a profound, but now-forgotten thought, I was jolted out of my reverie by the angry roar of a leaf blower across the street from my house. After a brief respite, during which I managed to recover my concentration and return to work, my ears were assaulted by the roar another one, this time down the street.

Then another, now on the next block.

In frustration, I posted the following comment on our neighborhood blog, NextDoor.com: Dear Neighbors: May I take this opportunity to post my annual reminder that gas-powered leaf blowers are ILLEGAL in Palo Alto. “Illegal” means against the law, banned, criminal, forbidden, lawless, outlawed, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, unauthorized, unlawful, wrongful and otherwise verboten. If any part of that is unclear, overly technical, or too legalistic, allow me to translate: DON’T DO IT! The City has determined that these machines are noisy, dangerous and polluting, and whether or not one agrees, we are a nation (and a city) of laws. If your gardeners are using illegal, noisy, dangerous, polluting gas-powered leaf blowers, may I respectfully suggest that

you kick in a few extra bucks to help them finance the transition to legal, quiet, safe and non-polluting electric ones? These guys work very hard, don’t get paid very much, and it is ultimately the homeowners, who aid and abet their criminal activity, who are culpable.

Thank you for respecting your wheezing, nerve-wracked, sleep-deprived, lawabiding neighbors by hiring gardeners who promise to do the same.

Within a few hours, I had received 54 responses — 53 of them positive. The sole dissenter opined that “It’s not that big of a deal.” Apparently for most of us, it is, and it has been for a very long time.

Since then, people have continued to reply to my post with analytical, anecdotal and epidemiological evidence of just how disruptive and dangerous these machines are (ever wonder why their operators wear face masks and earplugs)? Neighbors reported on respiratory and sleep problems; they suggested environmentally friendly alternatives; they recorded their frustrations at the inability of the city to enforce its own ordinance prohibiting the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in residential neighborhoods.

Unfortunately, as the vast majority of my respondents attested — despite hundreds of complaints every year — the 2005 ordinance has proven ineffectual and unworkable. The best we can do is call the police, who typically arrive long after the culprits have left the scene (possibly because our police department actually has more important things to do).

Our “311” service appears to be marginally more effective, but not much.

Many of the people who responded to my plea expressed sympathy for the gardeners, as I do. I doubt that many of these folks live in Palo Alto and are even aware of the local ordinance. Many of them simply work for landscaping companies that provide their equipment. It is for that reason that I am advocating a redirection of our efforts. Let’s take the fight to the homeowners and property managers who hire these gardeners: Most likely, many of these homeowners are not present during the day and are unaware that their gardeners are in violation of the law.

There would seem to be a simple, and even obvious remedy to what is widely recognized to be a public nuisance for some, a chronic health hazard for others and an environmental calamity for everyone. Homeowners and property managers should be issued a citation, perhaps preceded by a one-time warning but followed by a real penalty. A couple of $300 fines would provide a strong incentive for property owners to require their gardeners to transition to electric machines — or rakes! Gardeners are usually off to their next job by the time the police arrive.

Houses and apartment buildings, however, aren’t going anywhere, and in the age of the ubiquitous cell-phone camera, it would be easy to document the time, date and location of the offense. A mandatory fine should do the trick — think of those unwelcome notices that inform drivers that they have run a red light on

El Camino or been recorded using the carpool lane on the Bay Bridge.

I do not wish to enter into a discussion here of why some of our fellow citizens find it necessary to blow toxic particulate matter from one side of the street to the other; or to document the fact that more people died in the 20th century from air pollution than from World War I and World War II combined; or to cite medical evidence of the correlation between noise and dust pollution and arterial hypertension, myocardial infarction, reduced cognitive performance and endothelial dysfunction; or to enlist the authority of the American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society or the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Rather, this statement is limited to suggesting a practical, pragmatic, revenue-generating solution to a problem that has plagued our community but remains unresolved.

The City Council has recognized the negative impact of gas-powered leaf blowers upon our health, our environment and our quality of life. Furthermore, the council is aware of the overwhelming popular support for banning them from our city. So I’d like to ask our elected officials: Would you finally please act upon it? Q Barry Katz is a longtime resident of Palo Alto. He has been singularly ineffective in his campaigns against ugly buildings, greedy landlords, useless parking structures and other community issues.

Streetwise

What’s on your summer reading list?

Asked on California Avenue in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Maya Homan.

Leighton Barnes

Samantha Deliata

Abimbola Oladokun

Nathan Lee

Julie Hughes

Graduate Student Homestead Street, Palo Alto

Student Washington Avenue, Palo Alto

Attorney Harrison Street, San Francisco

Student Mills Street, Menlo Park

Retired Seale Avenue, Palo Alto

“I’m reading a biography of Claude Shannon, who is a famous scientist. He developed this field called information theory that is foundational to a lot of the technology we use today.”

“’The Catcher in the Rye.’ I just got it from a bookstore for five bucks, so I’m going to read it.”

“’The Home That Was Our Country’

by Alia Malek. It’s a biography about her life but also about her family’s life in Syria. She’s talking about how her family came to be and how Syria during that time has changed.”

“I’m going to read the third part in a series I’m really enjoying by Elena Ferrante called ‘My Brilliant Friend.’ I highly recommend it.”

“’(Alexander) Hamilton,’ the biography by Ron Chernow.”

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

Discovering the ‘invisible’ faces of Filoli Exhibition highlights those who’ve worked behind the scenes at historic estate, and the idea of ‘home’

by Sheryl Nonnenberg

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“And now we have all these new stories to share.”

Research also revealed that the estate, while safely nestled in the California coastal range, was not immune to the events occurring in the outside world. During World War II, the staff was greatly reduced and, according to DeVere, “Everyone just had to do more.”

One of the more somber stories uncovered was that of Japanese butler Teikichi Taga. He, his wife and American-born daughter were sent to internment camps for the duration of the war. Lurline Roth drove them to the camps and picked them up following their release. “These are sad stories,” noted DeVere, “but I think they are important to remember.”

Families have been the source of new — and enlightening — information. Alma Johnson, a Swedish immigrant, was the head cook during the Bourn years. Known for her coffee ice cream and delicious pastries, Johnson worked instinctually, using recipes from her homeland. Stina Ekberg, a kitchen maid, carefully wrote down all of Alma’s recipes in a composition notebook.

Her family recently brought the notebook to DeVere.

“My jaw dropped and I held it like it was a little baby,” she said. “It’s a real cook’s cookbook — no instructions, just a list of ingredients.”

Information like this has been reproduced and presented, in the

Upside Down, a “nest” sculpture created by W. Gary Smith and located in the Rose Garden, is made from a 75-year-old hornbeam tree that was removed from Filoli due to a fungal disease.

Courtesy Filoli Archives

census records for 1920, 1930 and 1940 proved to be a rich source of information. Also, searching websites like Ancestry.com resulted in leads to living descendants who were a goldmine of information.

Their photographs and oral histories helped in creating a fuller picture of those who worked both in the house and out on the grounds.

Like many of the estates on the Peninsula, Filoli was manned by a widely diverse staff. There were Swedish and Asian cooks, a Russian chauffeur, French maids and Italian gardeners. Overseeing them all, during the Bourn years, was a very proper English butler named Sydney Woods. DeVere said that, in spite of the many cultural and language differences, the staff “somehow made it work and everyone understood everyone.” It was not uncommon for employees to stay 15 or 20 years and, in some cases, to return again long after their days in service had ended.

DeVere spoke fondly of David Patterson, who started as a pantry boy during the Roth years, then worked his way to butler, then head butler after returning from war. Many years later, he returned to Filoli as a volunteer and enjoyed sharing his memories of his time on the estate. While doing research for the exhibition, DeVere reached out to his family and learned that Patterson had written an autobiography.

“Filoli had an impact on every aspect of his life,” she explained.

Sinead Chang

iloli House and Gardens’ current exhibition “Nest: Creating Home” is a multilayered, three-part look at the people who’ve staffed the mansion over the years, as well as the flora and fauna who’ve called this majestic Woodside estate home.

“We have been trying to do more thematic exhibitions that encompass the entire property, instead of just the garden or the house,” explained head curator Julie Bly DeVere.

Filoli is one of the last stillworking country estates from an era when San Francisco industrialists sought refuge from the city by building homes on the Peninsula.

It consists of a 54,000-square-foot Georgian revival mansion and 654 acres of land, some of which have been turned into formal gardens.

There is also a nature preserve and more than seven miles of hiking trails.

There is no doubt that one of the many reasons people enjoy visiting historic sites like Filoli is a chance to live vicariously — imagining what it would have been like to be enormously wealthy and live amid such splendor. While previous exhibitions have focused on the lavish lifestyles and interests of the Bourn family (the original owners, who lived on the estate from 1917-1936) and the Roths (who bought it in 1937 and donated it to National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1975), DeVere said that the emphasis of “The People of Filoli” section of the exhibition is on the people who were “invisible” but integral to the day-to-day operation of the household.

“This style of life takes a huge staff to make happen,” she said.

But telling their stories proved to be more challenging than anticipated.

While both the Bourns and Roths had good relations with their employees, they (like many wealthy employers) did not keep detailed records about their staff.

DeVere pointed out that, for the most part, employees were called only by their last names. She was unable to locate any written records regarding payroll, inventories or even correspondence relating to the service staff. So how was she able to find so much information about them? Luckily, the

Filoli employed “very proper English butler” Sydney Woods in its early years. The current exhibition, “Nest,” includes information on the lives of Filoli’s staff members. form of display placards, in the areas of the house where the individual worked. In the teal-colored ballroom, visitors can learn about Ernest Peixotto, son of Jewish immigrants and the artist who created the enormous murals depicting the Muckross Estate in Ireland. In the library, Mr. Bourn’s wheelchair is on display, next to a mannequin wearing a uniform like the one worn by Marie, his longtime nurse.

Explained DeVere, “In the past, we might have been more inclined to tell the traditional family story and not that of the staff, who were meant to disappear and not be seen. It has been really powerful to have her standing in the room.”

When asked if there were any surprises uncovered during her research, DeVere cited the mobility of the service staff. According to ship manifests, many Filoli staff members traveled to and from their countries of origin fairly frequently. There is also the story of Henriette, a French immigrant and lady’s maid to Mrs. Roth, who left the country, via ship, 35 times with her employer. There is also record of her joining Mrs. Roth on an early Pan Am flight.

DeVere explained that researching the staff is an on-going, continuing effort.

“We have had about 10 families who have reached out to share their stories. We continue to get pictures and want to hear from more families. All of the material received will go into our archive and will be used in the development of future tours and programming.”

There are also monthly lectures on topics relating to the exhibition,

and in addition to “The People of Filoli,” there are two related subexhibitions: “American Women: Birds of Im/Migration” and “Nests: Patterns from Nature.”

Santa Cruz artist Sarah Friedlander’s mixed media panels pay homage to women who left their homelands for America, as did her own grandmother. Outside, landscape architect W. Gary Smith has created site-specific installations using natural materials gathered from the gardens.

In an alcove off the main hallway there is a display of old steamer trunks. The top trunk is open and visitors are invited to fill out and leave a label, telling their own immigration stories. The trunk is overflowing with handwritten accounts of hopeful journeys undertaken in order to find a new and better life.

While immigration is currently a hot-button topic, the exhibition succeeds in personalizing the issue. Said DeVere, “This is what migration and immigration stories look like. And what it means to be home.” Q Freelance writer Sheryl Nonnenberg can be emailed at nonnenberg@aol.com.

What: “Nest: Creating Home.”

Where: Filoli Historic House & Garden, 86 Canada Road, Woodside.

When: Through Nov. 10.

Open Tuesday-Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cost: Filoli admission is $22 general admission; discounts available.

Info: filoli.org/nest/.

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good plan for staging an Oscar Wilde play in which everyone is expected to speak with proper British accents: Hire an experienced director who is actually from Great Britain.

Enter Jenny Hollingworth, director of the Pear Theatre’s “An Ideal Husband,” who studied English literature — and English and American playwrights — at university and who speaks the language quite nicely, thank you.

She’s guiding her actors through some tricky phrasings.

For instance, the line, “I can’t stand drafts,” in which the “a” sounds differ significantly.

That little bit, done properly, bounces between elongated “ahhh” sounds and a shorter, flatter “a” sound. “I cahhhn’t stand drahhhfts.”

“Even my husband (Paul Hollingworth, also British) says it’s all over the place,” said Hollingworth, who noted that there is a conflict between concentrating on accent, and just acting. “As director, you want them to be good enough, but not so tied up that they can’t act.”

“An Ideal Husband” centers around the potential blackmail of a politician, who years ago sold cabinet secrets to increase his own fortune. Not only is his career on the line but his marriage, too, as his “morally inflexible” wife is not likely to accept the shame of her husband being revealed to have acted less than virtuously in the past. Oh, and the blackmailer is her longtime “frenemy.”

A Pear press release states, “Rife with Wilde’s skewering observations of high society, ‘An Ideal Husband’ explores political corruption, public persona versus private virtue, and the inevitable disappointments that come with holding others to one’s own rigid ideals.”

“On one level, I feel some affinity with Wilde,” Hollingworth told the Weekly. “That period in history, his characters were in London

by John Orr and how they speak. I studied the Victorian novelists, and I directed a staged reading of the play, some years ago. Wilde is Irish, but he was in London for some time.

“Then Betsy (Kruse Craig, the Pear’s outgoing artistic director) suggested I read it again. I was thinking it was about a corrupt politician, but it’s not really about a politician — he could be anybody — an industrialist, high-up clergy.

Is it possible to get high up without some skeletons in the closet?”

The play, Hollingworth said, “is essentially about forgiveness.”

And therefore very much for this time, when, especially through social media, there can be such a rush to judgment.

“People can throw stones at anybody who has something in their past. I am thinking about Joe Biden, when he was being torn to pieces, about something he did 30 years ago.

“My sense is we’ve gone too far in that direction, where people have to answer for everything they’ve ever done. It is an excessively hypocritical environment we’re in. It’s like Victorian society, with a lot of hypocrisy. It’s not just people in high places, it’s everybody. On Twitter, everybody has a voice. Also, I think there are too many people who want to idolize other people. This has happened for centuries. Shakespeare’s Roman plays were about putting someone on top, then whipping the rug out from under them.”

Hollingworth has had a winding career through theater.

After university, she developed a career in marketing, then gave that up when she became a mother. Living in “a remote part of the country,” she started with a group that did theatrical readings.

When her family came to America, someone at her husband’s office knew of a theater company that needed some help.

Soon, she was busy at the Tabard

Jenny Hollingworth is directing “An Ideal Husband” at the Pear Theatre in Mountain View.

Theatre, in San Jose.

“I learned to do a lot of things at Tabard, did whatever was required.

Marketing, assistant directing.

Wrote part of one play. It was a busy time, a bit of a blur.”

Her day job is at a global consulting firm in San Jose, writing press releases. Her husband is in marketing for a microchip company. She pointed out that she used to be in marketing for potato chips.

Surely there is a connection.

Now that her children are 17 and 20, she has more free time, which she uses in theater. The Dragon in Redwood City is her main theatrical home, she said, where she will direct the opening play of its 2020 season. Then she is to direct “Steel Magnolias” at Los Altos Stage Company. But for now, it’s full steam ahead on “An Ideal Husband” — British vowels and all. Q Freelance writer John Orr can be emailed at johnorr@ regardingarts.com.

What: “An Ideal Husband.”

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

When: Aug. 23 through Sept. 15.

Cost: $35; savings available for seniors and students.

Info: thepear.org.

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During one evening visit, a request for a glass of chardonnay drew a puzzled look from my server. A brief investigation revealed that there were no white wines available. I ended up ordering a pleasant cabernet and pondered the restaurant’s missed opportunity for highprofit liquor sales. (Quan said that he plans to add a cocktail menu at an undetermined future date.)

Fu Lam Mum offers over a dozen modestly portioned desserts, including coconut and mango pudding, steamed pumpkin rolls and sweet tofu with syrup. I indulged in the warm, crispy sesame balls ($3.95). The mild sweetness of the red bean paste filling combined nicely with the nutty-flavored sesame seed topping.

Though weekend brunch commands lengthy wait times, Fu Lam Mum was never more than onethird full during my three weekday visits. Quan is unconcerned, insisting that growing word of mouth will lure former fans and curious newcomers to the refurbished space. He points out that the restaurant now reaches capacity with less than half the customers needed to fill up the old space. That’s a dim sum equation that adds up. Q Freelance writer Edward Gerard Fike can be emailed at egfike@gmail.com.

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A dim sum restaurant’s reputation rests on the quality of its dumplings. Fu Lam Mum aces this test. The stretchy, translucent skin of each dumpling I sampled was delicately pleated, revealing the chef’s prowess and creating a pleasing presentation. Shrimp dumplings ($5.95) showcased plump, juicy crustaceans while the mixed mushroom dumplings ($4.95) were an earthy treat. The piquant housemade hot sauce enhanced the flavor of both.

The steamed barbecue pork buns ($4.95), a dim sum staple, were superb. The soft, snow-white buns were light and doughy. Each bite yielded a satisfying serving of juicy, lightly seasoned pork. I was tempted to polish off the entire order, but wisely moved on to the luscious beef and cilantro noodle rolls ($5.95). This memorable dish was composed of silky, slightly chewy rice noodles wrapped around thin layers of tender beef.

I had mixed results when veering from the dim sum core of the menu. I relished the sautéed string beans ($13), which were sprinkled with tasty bits of garlic and bursting with f r esh ness and flavor. Stirfried noodles ($14) were cooked to crunchy perfection and paired well with a medley of top-quality vegetables. A pair of poultry options, however, underwhelmed.

The bountiful strips of goldenbrown lemon chicken ($16) were marred by a weak, watery dipping sauce. Meanwhile, the sliver of roasted duck ($13) was barely discernible amid thick layers of fat and bone. I did not have the patience or chopstick dexterity to dissect this disappointing dish.

Food was delivered promptly in short, steady intervals. Service was efficient, though waitstaff failed to engage much beyond order-taking.

If you’re unfamiliar with the cuisine, I recommend researching dim sum’s greatest hits online. Otherwise, you may find that employees are ill-equipped to walk you through the expansive menu.

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Fu Lam Mum finally reemerged last November. Proprietor Ben Quan, who owns the building at 153 Castro St., was unfazed by the lengthy delay. He took the long view of the ambitious project, which entailed a flashy facelift of the main dining room and the addition of a second floor to replace the mezzanine-level banquet area.

“It was like building a house within a house,” he said.

Quan converted the new upstairs to office space after concluding that the former restaurant layout, which contained a staggering 360 seats, was no longer viable in an era of rising costs. (One clear benefit of the slimmed-down, 155-seat floor plan: The noise level is no longer ear-splittingly loud.)

The renovated space looks terrific. The clean, contemporary design features a large central dining room with comfortable furnishings and oversized circular light fixtures.

Screens sporting a bamboo leaf motif near the entry and on both sides of the restaurant provide discrete spaces for large parties.

Decorative cutouts in the screening create a feeling of openness while preserving an intimate ambiance for guests seated in the alcoves.

Nine large fish tanks containing live seafood selections form a striking, illuminated rectangle inside the far back wall.

Fu Lam Mum specializes in traditional Cantonese dim sum, serving shareable, bite-sized portions of food in small steamer baskets or plates. Dim sum is customarily paired with tea, and I savored the floral, slightly sweet chrysanthemum flavor ($1.95) during one visit. The restaurant augments the menu with traditional Chinese specialties, which tend to be most popular with dinner guests. During prime weekend brunch and lunch

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NOW SHOWING 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Friday

Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Lion King (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

Where’d You Go, Bernadette (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

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Yesterday (PG-13) ++ Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

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The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Orchestra Wives (1942) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun.

Blinded by the Light (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

The Curse of the Cat People (1944) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Friday

Ready or Not (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

Scary Stories to tell in the Dark (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

The Farewell (PG) +++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. The Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Good Boys (R)

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Spider-Man: Far From Home (PG) +++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Sun Valley Serenade (1941) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat. & Sun. Tel Aviv on Fire (Not Rated) Guild Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Toy Story 4 (G) +++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 327-3241) tinyurl.com/Aquariuspa Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View tinyurl.com/Century16 Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City tinyurl.com/Century20 CineArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (For information: 493-0128) tinyurl.com/ Pasquare Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (For recorded listings: 566-8367) tinyurl.com/Guildmp ShowPlace Icon: 2575 California St. #601, Mountain View tinyurl.com/ iconMountainView Stanford Theatre: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 324-3700) Stanfordtheatre.org

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CLEANUP DAY CHANGES ... GreenWaste of Palo Alto announced a change in service for its Clean Up Day program, when residents can have extra recyclables or trash and bulky items (appliances, furniture) picked up for no charge. With the change, which starts in September, single-family households will have two pre-scheduled cleanup days annually per neighborhood, six months apart. Previously, residents scheduled a pickup as needed, with a limit of one per year. Eric Cissna, GreenWaste Community Outreach Manager, said the change was in response to the City of Palo Alto’s request to expand the Clean Up Day program.”This was the most efficient way to offer two Clean ups (per year) for residents. With the previous on-call system, typically we had a lot of residents waiting until the end of the year to call in,” Cissna said. The change aims to encourage wider use of the program, which has a new emphasis on reuse, according to Cissna, and pickups will now include a broader range of items, such as construction waste and clothing.

Cissna said GreenWaste is partnering with organizations to reuse some items, as appropriate. He also said residents can still request an oncall pickup, but they will have to pay for it, with fees depending on the item(s). For more information, call GreenWaste customer service at 650-493-4894 or visit greenwasteofpaloalto.com/ CleanUpDay. Q Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email editor@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

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With home renovation Meetup, a remodeling guru helps first-timers take control

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ome renovation can be a difficult and arduous process, especially for those who are new and inexperienced. However, self-described “homemaking freak” Olesia Chikunova does not shy away from a challenge.

She oversaw the remodeling of her first home in 1998 while preparing for the birth of her first child. She renovated a house for her in-laws while pregnant again. Two decades and several remodeling projects later, she has gone from a sales supervisor in Russia to a home renovating guru and CEO of her own home renovation company here on the Midpeninsula.

Chikunova, who is working on her eighth remodeling project, shares her expertise with renovation first-timers through a Meetup group she co-founded that now has over 100 members.

The group meets monthly at various Midpeninsula locations. She also publishes articles on the website Medium detailing various aspects of the remodeling process. Her aim is to help homeowners make educated choices about renovating their homes.

Chikunova worked in marketing and corporate management, and originally viewed home remodeling as more of a “side hustle.” But when she moved to the Bay Area five years ago, she turned her hobby into a new career. She began remodeling properties along with many of her friends, and by talking to them about their various projects, she had a realization.

“I started hearing all these horror stories that people tell each other about (their) remodels,” she said. “Because I was doing this so often myself, I wasn’t just listening to horror stories, I was trying to understand where they come from.”

That’s when she and a friend founded the “SV Homeowners’ Club: Updates and Remodels” Meetup group, aiming to address some common problems people face when they renovate their homes.

There are many issues that she says “everybody understands but nobody talks about,” including what she calls an inherent conflict of interest between homeowners and the contractors they hire.

“If you think about it, there is no motivation for the contractor to save you money,” she said.

“It’s their business, so the more money they make off you, the better for them. It’s up to the homeowner to be educated enough in construction to be able to figure out what makes sense and what doesn’t.”

As the leader of the Meetup group, Chikunova advises homeowners on renovation projects and organizes free seminars with industry professionals to educate members and answer questions. Seminars typically focus on a specific topic: One event this past spring focused on accessory dwelling units and featured three contractors who specialize in different types of

Olesia Chikunova stands in the kitchen of one of her numerous remodeling projects. She shares her expertise with those new to remodeling at a monthly home renovation Meetup she co-founded. construction, while another explored how to get started on a home improvement project. By having a good understanding of the home renovation process, homeowners can save money in the long run by preventing mistakes and avoiding unnecessary fees and charges, according to Chikunova.

Meetup group member Ann Lucero said that the advice she received has enabled her to begin several home renovation projects that she had been putting off. She’s been a member of the Meetup for about a year. “(The group) has been an excellent resource for me,” Lucero said. “It’s very helpful to have somebody who’s done the projects before or is going through it with you, especially as a single woman, because I feel like I’m a target for bad contractors.”

Group members also share advice and ideas, and support each other. Stewart Yusem, a member of the Meetup for about a year and a half, got help for his bathroom remodel project.

“Olesia has been very helpful. She’s got good advice,” he said “At some of the meetings you have to take turns, and you have to be patient,

Chikunova helps Meetup members learn how to narrow what can seem like an overwhelming choice of fixtures and finishes.

This bathroom is one of her own projects.

but it can be helpful to listen to other people and their approach, their problem and questions. ...

They also have their input when it is your turn to talk about your project, they’re listening and helping you.”

Besides the logistics of wrangling with contractors, another common problem the group helps homeowners face, Chikunova said, is being unable to choose between all the options at their fingertips.

“At the current state of the market where there’s so many choices around us, just selecting a faucet can be daunting, and people get overwhelmed,” she said. She compares the process of narrowing down options to a funnel: Once you set a few restrictions, the pool quickly becomes much narrower.

“You start with all the faucets, and there’s 1,700 at just one retail shop. And then you go, “I don’t like gold or copper colors,” and then suddenly your funnel has become five times smaller. Then you go, “I also need to be able to put my head under the faucet.” Suddenly you’re picking from 200.”

In addition to the Meetup, Chikunova also offers home renovation help through her company, HomeWiP, which she describes as a “home renovation concierge service.” The goal is to assist clients with time-consuming aspects of renovating, like finding a contractor.

“Contractors are super busy and just chasing them ... is a full-time job,” she said. For those who are already working full-time, it can be much more difficult to find the time to devote to a remodel. Her company allows homeowners to focus on the aspects that matter to them, and delegate some of the more difficult tasks.

Chikunova said that although she doesn’t have a favorite project she’s worked on in the Bay Area, she just enjoys watching the transformations.

“I call homes that need taking care of ‘Cinderellas,’ because you look at them and you see what’s possible,” she said. “Then you just figure out how to make it possible within the budget and within the schedule.” Q The SV Homeowners’ Club: Updates and Remodels Meetup meets the first Monday of the month, 6-7:30 p.m. at various Midpeninsula locations. The next meeting will be Sept. 17 at 496 First St., Los Altos. For more information, visit meetup.com/SV-Home-Remodeling-Meetup/.

Maya Homan is an editorial intern. She can be reached at mhoman@paweekly.com.

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STANFORD VOLLEYBALL

Experience gives Cardinal a chance to repeat

PITCHING IN … Former Stanford standout Chioma Ubogagu recorded a goal and assist to help the visiting Orlando Pride beat the Chicago Red Stars 2-1 in a National Women’s Soccer League contest Wednesday. Sacred Heart Prep grad Tierna Davidson, also a Stanford product, scored for the Red Stars (9-7-2), her first career professional goal … Olympic gold medalist and Cardinal alum Nicole Barnhart recorded the shutout in Utah Royals FC scoreless draw with the Spirit on Wednesday. Barnhart faced 18 shots and was credited with a pair of saves. Former Stanford great and World Cup champion Christen Press got off three shots, two on goal, for the Royals. Cardinal alum Lo’eau LaBonta also plays for Utah. Former Cardinal All-Americans Andi Sullivan and Jordan DiBiasi combined to take five shots for Washington.

CARDINAL CORNER … Five-time defending Pac-12 champion Stanford was voted by the conference’s coaches as the favorite to win a sixth straight Pac-12 men’s soccer conference title. Stanford, which collected all five available first-place votes, totaled 25 points. Washington was second with 19 points and followed by Oregon State (17), which picked up the remaining first-place vote. California (13), UCLA (11) and San Diego State (5) rounded out the poll … Recent Stanford graduates Isaiah Salinda and Brandon Wu will compete for the 10-member American squad when it travels to Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside, England, Sept. 7-8 to face Great Britain and Ireland in the 47th meeting of the Walker Cup. LACROSSE TRYOUTS … NorCal Rize is currently accepting registration for all new and returning girls’ lacrosse players between the seventh and 12th grades. Tryouts will be conducted on Sequoia High’s Terremerre Turf Field in Redwood City (corner of El Camino Real and James Ave.) on Sunday, Aug. 25 beginning at 10 a.m.

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Sophomore quarterback Matt MacLeod made his varsity debut during the CCS championship game last year.

PREP FOOTBALL

Bears set to grapple with tough nonleague schedule Defending state champions ready for another deep run

by Glenn Reeves

(continued on page 38)

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he Menlo-Atherton football team all the tools, can make all the throws and is loaded with talent. It better be he’s smart.’’

Raymond Price III, a talented transfer because there’s a loaded schedule looming for the team to play. Two WCAL from Sacred Heart Prep, will become eliopponents to open the season (Bellarmine gible by the fifth game of the season.

Papin ran an offense with two or three and Serra) followed by a trip to play at Utah powerhouse East of Salt Lake City, a trip running backs on the field at Independence, his previous coaching stop. to play at Northern California Ravipati’s base offense was juggernaut Folsom, and a fia one-back set with four wide nal non-league game against receivers, three on one side. an Arroyo Grande team that “We still want to run that has gone 75-23 over the last triple-option look, not trips nine years. (wide receivers) on every Not for the faint of heart. down,’’ Papin said. “We really The nucleus of a state want to get single coverage for championship team returns Troy.’’ for M-A, but a new coach, Papin is referring to junior Steve Papin, has replaced Adwide receiver Troy Franklin, hir Ravipati. a special talent who has re“I knew from the start ceived scholarship offers from the job wasn’t going to be a who’s who of college footeasy,’’ Papin said. “But for ball powers (Alabama, USC, me the transition period is Steve Papin Texas, Oregon, etc). Sophoover. They’ve bought into our schemes. Guys are enjoying themselves and more Jalen Moss, Independence transfer Jayden Stanley, Skyler Thomas and JD Carwe’ve become a family.’’

Sophomore Matt MacLeod will start at son are among those who will team with quarterback. As a freshman he saw his first Franklin at wideout. The plan is for Justin varsity action when he came off the bench Anderson, another player with numerous to help rally the Bears to a 33-28 win over Division I offers, to play primarily in the deWilcox in the Central Coast Section Open fensive backfield where he is moving from Division I championship game.

“He’s a special one,’’ Papin said. “Has (continued on page 37)

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ll things being relative, Stanford women’s volleyball coach Kevin Hambly must be pleased with the make-up of his roster this season. The defending national champions return nearly its full team and have added talented players who can (and will) make an immediate impact.

“What’s good is we have a lot of experienced players who have played in important matches,” Hambly said. “It’s comforting to know how they will respond.

They know what’s in front of them, how hard it is.

The challenge is to replicate last season while having to reinvent ourselves and become a new team.”

Stanford can put a senior (or grad student) at every position on the court this year, including two-time AVCA Player of the Year Kathryn Plummer and All-Americans Jenna Gray, Morgan Hentz, Audriana Fitzmorris and Meghan McClure.

“The seniors have experienced the national title and this is a chance to pass that along,” Hambly said.

“We definitely think we can we can win and that’s our goal.”

The graduated Tami Alade, also an All-American (at middle blocker) last season, is Stanford’s major loss. She may be difficult to replace, though the emergence of sophomore Holly Campbell last year makes it a little easier and the addition of grad student Madeline Gates is a bonus.

“I barely recognized Holly from last year,” Hambly said. “She struggled early but she figured it out by the end.”

Gates, who graduated in three years from UCLA, was an All-American in her sophomore season. She’s working on an advanced degree in statistics at Stanford and joins her younger brother, Nathaniel, who is a freshman on the Cardinal men’s volleyball team.

“She gives us a lot of experience,” Hambly said.

“We’ll have great balance, better than last year. It’s tough to lose Tami but we’ll be more dynamic.”

The Cardinal returns five of its top six scorers and its top defensive players in Hentz, the reigning

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by Rick Eymer

Bob Dahlberg

OAKS CORNER … Junior Jaden Scott recorded eight kills on 12 attacks and hit .583 to help the Menlo College women’s volleyball team beat visiting Pacific Union 25-7, 25-8, 25-9 in a nonconference match Wednesday night. Junior College transfer Abbey Briggs added six kills on seven attacks and hit .714 for the Oaks (2-1), who host Simpson University inside Haynes-Prim at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Seniors can finish with three NCAA titles in four years

Senior Morgan Hentz is the reigning Pac-12 Libero of the Year and an All-American.

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Sports STANFORD WOMEN’S SOCCER

The goal is a return trip to the Women’s College Cup Macario returns as the the MAC Hermann Trophy winner

by Rick Eymer

had better season.

Macario will be the main focal point for Stanford, the Pac-12 coaches’ choice to win its fourth straight conference title, this season and is joined by another talented group of individuals with plenty of experience either at the college level or in the U.S. national team program.

Sophomore Sophia Smith and Macario both open the season on the MAC Hermann Trophy watch list. Smith earned a spot on the watch list despite a freshman season shortened by injury. She recorded 11 points in 13 games.

The third-ranked Cardinal (211-2 last season) opens its season

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with a difficult road trip to No. 6 Penn State at 4 p.m. Friday, followed by a neutral site match Sunday against No. 11 West Virginia.

Macario and Smith are among the seven returning players who finished among the top eight in scoring last season. That’s reason enough to peg Stanford as the conference favorites and a team that could compete in the Women’s College Cup, which will be played at Avaya Stadium in San Jose on Dec. 6 and 8.

Stanford showed it could play without Tierna Davidson, the Sacred Heart Prep grad who left school a year early to play professional and for the Women’s World Cup champion.

Davidson suffered a seasonending injury early last season and the Cardinal still managed to make its eighth Final Four appearance since 2008, losing to eventual national champion Florida State.

A senior class that includes Ceci Gee, Beattie Goad, Sam Hiatt (who played her freshman

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tanford junior Catalina Macario already owns the women’s soccer career record for assists in postseason play and she’s just outside the top 10 in several all-time offensive categories.

She’s the reigning MAC Hermann Trophy winner as the top college player and was named ESPNW’s Player of the Year as a freshman, when she recorded 50 points, which led the nations and was the fourth-best single-season total in Cardinal history.

Only Olympic gold medalists and World Cup champions Kelley O’Hara and Christen Press have

Stanford junior Catalina Macario won the MAC Hermann Trophy as college’s best female player last year. season at Boston College), Carly Malatsky and Lauren Rood will be looking to end their Stanford careers with yet another Pac-12 title and a possible excursion to San Jose for a chance at their second NCAA title in three years.

Goad has appeared in 64 games, including 24 starts, for the Cardinal. Malatskey has seen action in 52 games and scored her first career goal in last year’s NCAA tournament. Rood is 13-0 with nine shutouts as one of the team’s goalies.

Among the other returning offensive leaders are junior Civana

OF LOCAL NOTE

Villa, 1996 U.S. women’s Olympic basketball up for honors Finalists for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame named

by Rick Eymer astilleja water polo coach Brenda Villa, a Stanford grad and Olympic gold medalist, is among the finalists for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame Class of 2019 as announced by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

The 1996 United States Olympic women’s basketball team, coached by Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer and which included

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Cardinal alums Jennifer Azzi and Katy Steding, is also a finalist.

Stanford grad Val Whiting played for Team USA on an eight-game trip to China.

“It is a privilege to introduce these deserving finalists for induction into the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame,” said Sarah Hirshland, USOPC CEO. “They represent the pinnacle of athletic achievement and personal excellence, both on and off the field of play. We honor them and

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Kuhlman (seven goals, three assists, 17 points), junior Madison Haley (3-5-11), sophomore Abby Greubel (3-3-9) and sophomore Naomi Girma (2-4-8), who was named a TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI first team pick.

Add junior Kiki Plunkett, an all-Pac-12 second team pick last season, redshirt junior Sam Tran, junior Belle Briede and junior Jojo Harber and it gives Stanford added experience and depth.

There’s also sophomores Bianca Caetano-Ferrara and Maya Shetty and a highly-regarded group of freshmen ready to contribute. Q

are pleased to memorialize their legacy as America’s most inspiring athletes and teams.”

The finalists will be narrowed down to five Olympians, three Paralympians and one team for induction into the class of 2019.

Fan voting is part of the process and can be cast at TeamUSA.org/ Vote.

The class of 2019 will be announced on Monday, Sept. 23, and inducted on Friday, Nov. 1, during a ceremony in Colorado Springs.

Opening in early 2020, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, will become the new permanent home for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame.

Men’s water polo Former Stanford great Tony Azevedo was elected to the Panam Sports Athlete Commission, joining four other newly elected members of the commission.

Azevedo is the all-time leading scorer in FINA World Championship history and has helped lead Team USA to five Pan American Games gold medals and two FINA World League Super Final silver medals. He was named Pac12 Conference Men’s Water Polo Player of the Century. Q

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995 Fictitious Name Statement

Positively an upward trend Numbers contribute to Woodside’s expectations

by Glenn Reeves He has 45 players on the varsity t’s been a struggle in recent roster compared to low 20s a year years for the Woodside foot- ago and high teens the year before ball program, which hasn’t that.

Brody Crowley (6-4, 190) rehad a winning season since 2008. But there’s a positive vibe turns at quarterback after only playing four games last on hand this fall as the season due to injury.

Wildcats prepare to “He’s really eager to open the 2019 season. get back out there,’’ An“I’m feeling very drews said. “He’s been positive, I think this looking real sharp.’’ can be a year we get Josh Peterson will be over that hump we’ve the primary tailback. run into the second “He’s a workhorse, half of the season,’’ steadily improving, exWoodside coach Justin plosive,’’ Andrews said.

Andrews said.

Tommy Williams, a You rarely see such Brody Crowley team leader as a corneran extreme contrast between a team’s first half record back on defense, provides depth at and second half record as what running back.

“He’s athletic with big, powerful Woodside has gone through during Andrews’ tenure as coach. strides and quick feet,’’ Andrews The team went 4-6 last year, 4-1 said.

David Silk, the team’s leading in the first half, 0-5 in the second.

And that’s been typical. The last receiver last year as a sophomore, five years Woodside has been a has transferred to Serra. But Ancombined 14-11 over the first five drews likes what he’s seen from games of each season, a combined Ethan Mooney, Deontae McK2-23 over the final five games of ean and Kyle Knudson at wide each. Attrition has taken a bloody receiver.

The offensive line, with four toll.

“Our depth is pretty good,’’ An- new starters, is the question mark. drews said. “I don’t think injuries Will Polati, who started as a sophwill be as derailing as they’ve omore, will be looked upon to lead the unit. been in the past.’’

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Will Holthaus (6-5, 260), a lineman with college potential. is sidelined with a shoulder injury and might not play at all.

“Our secondary is looking solid, but experience is an issue on the defensive line with Holthaus out,’’ Andrews said.

With Carlmont having moved up from the PAL Lake Division to the Ocean, Andrews said he thought Capuchino and Jefferson were two of the favorites for the Lake title this season.

“Maybe throw us in that mix,’’ Andrews said. “We’ve been having real solid practices. On the whole, we’re definitely heading in the right direction.’’Q

WOODSIDE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Date Opponent Aug. 30 at Sequoia Sept. 6 vs. Carlmont Sept. 12 at Leigh Sept. 20 at Seaside Sept. 27 vs. Burlingame Oct. 11 vs. El Camino* Oct. 18 vs. Mills* Oct. 25 at Capuchino* Nov. 1 vs. South SF* Nov. 8 at Jefferson* *PAL Lake Division games

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BIRDCAGE CREATIVE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN657656 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Birdcage Creative, located at 2320 Bowdoin St., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): BIRDCAGE PRESS LLC 2320 Bowdoin St. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 9, 2019.

(PAW Aug. 16, 23, 30; Sep. 6, 2019) PROTONSMART FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN657924 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Protonsmart, located at 1072 Tanland Dr., Apt. 212, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): HAO PENG 1072 Tanland Dr., Apt. 212 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 16, 2019.

(PAW Aug. 23, 30; Sep. 6, 13, 2019)

M-A football (continued from page 35)

997 All Other Legals Bob Dahlberg

cornerback to safety.

Last year’s top three running backs -- Deston Hawkins, Jaeden Barker and De’Marshaun Payton -- have all graduated. So it’s a new group of players set to line up in Papin’s multiple running back sets.

Francisco Sanchez, a star sprinter on the M-A track team who placed third in the 100 at last spring’s CCS finals, has made an impression in practice.

“He’s looking real good, he’ll be the go-to back,’’ Papin said.

“It’s hard to get a good shot on him.’’

Songi Eke and Seth Carlisle will also get their carries.

M-A possesses a wealth of size and depth on the offensive line.

Papin said he has 12 who can play and is conducting reps in practice with two completely separate units -- a bigger power group and a smaller speed group. Some of the standouts include Uate Uhila (6-1, 285), Fale Mosley (6-0, 260) and Semisi Mataele (6-0, 312).

Uhila is on the radar of college recruiters and has received an offer from the University of San Diego.

On defense, the secondary gives the offensive line a run for the title of the team’s most talented unit. With Anderson moving to safety, Thomas and Treavon Norton are penciled in

LOVYGRAPHY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN657362 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Lovygraphy, located at 200 Sheridan Ave., Apt. 104, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ELENA KADYROVA 200 Sheridan Ave., Apt. 104 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 08/01/2019.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on August 1, 2019.

(PAW Aug. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2019)

Junior receiver Troy Franklin has received scholarship offers from a who’s who of college football powers. as the starting corners. Papin’s defensive coordinator Ali Bhatti utilizes a three-safety alignment with strong safety Eric Stuart and weak safety Thomas Taufui joining Anderson. Franklin will also see some time in the defensive backfield.

Up front M-A needs to replace inside linebacker Daniel Heimuli and tackle Noa Ngalu, both now at the University of Washington.

That tandem made the inside run a non-option for M-A foes a season ago. Joe Posthauer, primarily a safety last year, has been moved to linebacker.

“He’s not Heimuli,’’ Papin said.

“But he’s one of the smartest players I’ve ever coached.’’

There’s a committee approach

to manning the front four, but with no shortage of candidates.

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MENLO-ATHERTON FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Date Opponent Aug. 30 vs. Bellarmine Sept. 6 vs. Serra at Levi’s Sept. 13 at East (SLC) Sept. 27 at Folsom Oct. 4 vs. Arroyo Grande Oct. 11 at Terra Nova* Oct. 18 vs. SH Prep* Oct. 25 at Burlingame* Nov. 1 vs. Aragon* Nov. 8 at King’s Academy* *PAL Bay Division games

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T.S. No. 081060-CA APN: 137-14-107 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 3/4/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER On 9/18/2019 at 9:00 AM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 3/14/2005, as Instrument No. 18272949, in Book , Page , , of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Santa Clara County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: LI-MEI CHEN AND CONANT LEE WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS

STATE: AT THE GATED NORTH MARKET STREET ENTRANCE, SANTA CLARA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE, 191 N. 1st Street, San Jose, CA 95113 all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State described as: MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 813 LA JENNIFER WAY PALO ALTO, CA 94306 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be held, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, condition, or encumbrances, including fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to pay the remaining principal sums of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $158,092.26 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned or its predecessor caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located.

NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction.

You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (800) 280-2832 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.AUCTION. COM, using the file number assigned to this case 081060-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. FOR SALES INFORMATION: (800) 280-2832 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117 (PAW 8/16/2019, 8/23/2019, 8/30/2019)

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Volleyball

STANFORD WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL SCHEDULE

(continued from page 35)

Al Chang

Pac-12 Libero of the Year, junior Kate Formico, senior Caitlin Keefe and junior Sidney Wilson.

Plummer, who averaged 5.37 points a set a year ago, played with the U.S. national team over the summer, coming off the bench.

“That’s a bigger jump than people think,” Hambly said. “Those are pros who have been playing a long time. She’s a great volleyball player and a hard worker. She knows the game and will do what she can to make it happen.”

Fitzmorris (3.48 points a set), junior Meghan McClure (3.10), Gates and incoming freshman Kendall Kipp also played on various U.S. national teams over the summer.

Gray, the reigning Pac-12 Setter of the Year, competed with the U.S. national track and field team, placing second in the javelin at the NACAC U23 Championships in Queretaro, Mexico in July.

Redshirt junior Michaela Keefe also adds experience and leadership to the mix.

“She makes us better every day,” Hambly said. “She’s a great teammate. She works as hard or harder than anyone. For some who don’t play as much, seeing her grind makes them think they can get better.”

Sophomore opposite Mackenzie Fidelak is another who can contribute after limited playing time a year ago.

Kipp, a 6-foot-5 outside hitter,

Junior Meghan McClure averaged 3.10 points per set during last year’s run to the national championship. was rated No. 2 on VolleyballMag. com’s Fab 50 list and No. 3 senior ace by PrepVolleyball. She’s also a two-time prep All-American.

Menlo School grad Selina Xu, also a U.S. national team competitor, starts her collegiate career as the back-up to Gray.

“She’s getting better all the time and learning a lot,” Hambly said.

“It’s going to be her team next year.”

McKenna Vicini, Natalie Berty and Caitie Baird complete a highly-regarded recruiting class.

“The influx of talent is making it competitive,” Hambly said.

“Practices have been awesome so far. It’s new energy. I can’t see how the seniors’ roles will change but

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it’s super competitive and fun.”

Baird played with the USA junior national team in 2018, was a prep All-American and made the Fab 50 list (No. 3) and Senior Ace list (No. 2).

Berty accumulated several honors while leading Mater Dei to the California state Open Division championship last year. She was VolleyballMag.com’s National Player of the Year and was named State Player of the Year by Gatorade, PrepVolleyball and Cal-Hi Sports.

Vicini is a two-time all-state selection out of Lexington Catholic High in Kentucky, earning AllAmerican status.

The coaching staff also features

plenty of experience. Hambly is in his third year at Stanford, following eight years at Illinois. He has a career mark of 242-91, 64-5 with the Cardinal.

Denise Corlett has spent 30 years on The Farm as an interim head coach, an associate head coach and an assistant coach. She begins her 24th year in the associate head coach role and 31st overall on staff. She is a two-time AVCA National Assistant Coach of the Year and a member of the Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame.

Second-year assistant coach Alisha Glass Childress is an Olympic medalist and a two-time USA Volleyball Indoor Athlete of

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Date Opponent Time Aug. 30 at Charleston 4 p.m.

Aug. 31 vs. Duke at Charleston 1:30 p.m.

Sept. 4 at Florida 5 p.m.

Sept. 8 vs. Texas noon Sept. 13 at Penn State 6 p.m.

Sept. 14 vs. Minnesota at Penn St. 7 p.m.

Sept. 18 at Nebraska 5 p.m.

Sept. 21 vs. BYU noon Sept. 26 at California* 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 29 vs. Washington* 2 p.m.

Oct. 4 at Oregon* 7 p.m.

Oct. 5 at Oregon State* 6 p.m.

Oct. 11 vs. Arizona* 8 p.m.

Oct. 13 vs. Arizona State* 2 p.m.

Oct. 18 vs. Colorado* 8 p.m.

Oct. 20 vs. Utah* 2 p.m.

Oct. 25 at UCLA* 7 p.m.

Oct. 27 at USC* 1 p.m.

Nov. 1 vs. Oregon State* 6 p.m.

Nov. 3 vs. Oregon* 2 p.m.

Nov. 7 at Arizona State* 6 p.m.

Nov. 9 at Arizona* 5 p.m.

Nov. 15 vs. USC* 8 p.m.

Nov. 17 vs. UCLA* noon Nov. 22 at Utah* 5 p.m.

Nov. 24 at Colorado* 11 a.m.

Nov. 26 at Washington State* 7 p.m.

Nov. 29 vs. California* 8 p.m. *Pac-12 Conference

the Year.

Russell Corbelli is in his second year as a volunteer assistant. His volleyball DNA comes from former professional player and long time Texas A&M coach Laurie Corbelli.

Stanford (34-1 last year) hosts the Cardinal-White scrimmage at 11 a.m. Saturday. Q

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