Palo Alto Weekly November 15, 2019

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Vol. XLI, Number 6

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Local news, information and analysis

Fixes planned for hazardous intersection Planning commission backs changes to lane configuration, crosswalk at San Antonio and East Charleston roads

by Gennady Sheyner

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he intersection of San Antonio Road and East Charleston Road is perhaps the busiest junction in south Palo Alto, and certainly among the most dangerous.

That point was driven home on Tuesday morning, when a

three-car collision there caused a school van to roll over, leaving nine people with minor injuries.

But even before the incident, the intersection was on the city’s radar for near-term improvements.

The 2018 Traffic Safety and Operations Report includes as one

of the city’s priorities safety improvements for pedestrians at this intersection, particularly for people crossing East Charleston while southbound cars on San Antonio Road are trying to turn right from that street’s two right-turn lanes.

The study relied on data

assembled by the California Highway Patrol indicating that there were about 25 reported collisions at the intersection between January 2012 and December 2016.

Most collisions were caused by speeding or improper turning, according to transportation staff.

On Wednesday night, the city’s Planning and Transportation Commission threw its support behind a new proposal to make the intersection safer and

less congested. Developed over the past year, the plan calls for improving visibility of pedestrians by eliminating three parking spaces along a frontage road on San Antonio (just south of the intersection) and re-aligning the crosswalk, which is currently skewed in a way that increases the distance that pedestrians have to travel to cross the street. (continued on page 7)

HOUSING

Council eyes urgent evictions ban Officials hear of steep rent hikes, harassment by landlords in advance of rent-cap law kicking in

by Gennady Sheyner

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Jazmin Sosa, operations manager with the Ravenswood Education Foundation, talks about the $7,500 grant that the nonprofit received from the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund to help poor and homeless students from the Ravenswood City School District purchase new clothes.

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Annual charitable-giving drive kicks off Palo Alto Weekly campaign funds local nonprofit agencies that are improving kids’ and families’ lives

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azmin Sosa knows the power of the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund to help families breathe a little easier.

As operations manager for the nonprofit Ravenswood Education Foundation, which aids the six schools of the Ravenswood City School District, Sosa’s wellacquainted with the hardships facing the East Palo Alto and east Menlo Park students.

According to her organization’s 2018-19 annual report, 45% of enrolled students are homeless, which also includes children experiencing housing instability. In

addition to these students, 89% of Ravenswood district’s students come from low-income families.

“We define homelessness as not having stable or consistent housing, shared housing (such as) three families living in two

bedrooms, families who have a curtain in the middle of a living room or families in RVs,” Sosa said.

But with a $7,500 grant from the Holiday Fund this past year, the foundation’s “Homeless Support Initiative Project” was able to provide children in unstable housing with clean clothes, including — for some — white shirts and blue or khaki pants that fit their school’s dress code. So far this year, 120 students from 61 families received gift cards to (continued on page 10)

ith a new state law set to take effect on Jan. 1 that caps allowable rent increases, the Palo Alto City Council is preparing to pass an emergency ordinance Monday that would ban landlords from evicting tenants without just cause before the law kicks in.

The goal of the local ordinance, which was proposed by Council members Tom DuBois and Lydia Kou, is to offer expanded protections to “long-term, lower-income tenants” in situations where the landlord wants to evict them to raise rents and attract wealthier tenants, according to a memo from the council members.

The memo responds to Assembly Bill 1482, legislation from Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, which was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 8.

Also known as the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, the law caps annual rent increases at 5%, plus inflation, for buildings 15 years and older and bans landlords from evicting tenants who have lived in their apartments for a year or more without “just cause.”

DuBois told the Weekly that the proposal was inspired by reports he’s been getting from renters about significant rent increases and evictions. Multiple groups of tenants have contacted him to discuss the issue since the bill passed. Some have been reporting rent hikes of 25% or more, he said.

Since the law passed, there has been “an escalation of harassment by landlords in order to encourage tenants to move out voluntarily,” the memo states. Tenants have also

complained of “increases in costs of parking, lock services and other bundled amenities,” according to the memo.

“While landlords may properly evict tenants for cause under the provision of state law, landlords should not be able to evict tenants in good standing without cause simply to avoid the limitation on rent gouging afforded to renters under the new law,” the memo states.

“Hence, it is imperative for the city of Palo Alto to issue an emergency ordinance to keep people housed and provide a sense of stability.”

The ordinance would direct the city attorney to report on a temporary moratorium on no-fault evictions and direct city staff to inform residents of their rights, along with other actions.

Among the groups that have approached council members are tenants of Hohbach Realty, which owns several apartment buildings near the California Avenue Business District. This summer, the company informed residents that it would be raising rates by 25%.

After protests, the company scaled back the increase to 7%, according to leases and emails reviewed by the Weekly, as well as interviews with tenants.

The tenants, who withheld their names for fear of retribution, alleged in their Oct. 30 letter to the council that the company attempted to raise rents in anticipation of the state legislation, which would cap rent increases. They criticized the company for what they called a “cavalier attitude of ‘if you don’t like it, get out.’” (continued on page 7)

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When we realized that is happening, we withdrew it. In other words, it didn’t happen.

—Marcus Wood, property manager at Hohbach Realty, on rent hikes in advance of rent-cap law. See story on page 5.

Around Town

THE NEXT ACT ... After a national search that generated more than 100 candidates, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has appointed Tim Bond as its next artistic director, the arts organization announced Tuesday. Bond will take over for founder Robert Kelley, who will step down in the spring after 50 years with the Tony Award-winning regional theater company. “We are delighted Tim Bond has accepted this position,” TheatreWorks board of trustees Chairman Roy Johnson said in a press release. “With his stellar national career at major regional theatres as both an awardwinning director and administrator, his tireless promotion of new works, and his extensive commitment to diversity and inclusion, Tim brings an extraordinary blend of experience and expertise.”

Over a three-decade career, he has worked as artistic director of Seattle Group Theatre, associate artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and producing artistic director at Syracuse Stage. “He brings an international scope of experience with a commitment to our home community,” TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Executive Director Phil Santora said in the press release. “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to continue Robert Kelley’s great work, and to lead this spirited company into its next exciting phase,” said Bond, who will join the company in March.

CAPITOL PLANS ... Palo Alto’s elected leaders have plenty of gripes when it comes to Sacramento, from desires to see more state funding for railroad improvements to concerns about housing bills that may diminish local control over land-use decisions.

The job of communicating these concerns to state legislators falls to Niccolo De Luca, a legislative advocate with the lobbying firm Townsend Public Affairs.

On Nov. 18, the City Council is scheduled to add two years and $204,000 to the city’s agreement with Townsend, bringing the contract total to $799,000. Last Tuesday, De Luca came to Palo Alto to provide an update to the council’s Policy and Services Committee and hear from local lawmakers about their Sacramento priorities. For Councilman Greg Tanaka, the overarching priority remains securing funding for grade separation, the redesign

of railroad crossings so that rail tracks don’t intersect with local roads. Last year, De Luca worked with Assemblyman Marc Berman on including some funding for design work in the state budget.

The proposal didn’t advance, though De Luca assured the committee that they made some headway on securing funding for grade separation. “Obviously we didn’t get to the finish line,” De Luca said. “If this was marathon, it would be mile 24.” Tanaka suggested that by keeping the list of legislative demands small, the city may have better luck in getting the grade-separation funding. Tanaka noted that the downtown Palo Alto Caltrain station is the second busiest in the entire system. Councilwoman Lydia Kou lobbied for a more ambitious list of demands, including supporting legislation to audit major transportation agencies such as the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, Caltrain and BART. The city has been working with Townsend since 2014. City Manager Ed Shikada made a case in a new report for retaining the relationship.

While recognizing the “significant expenditures,” Shikada argued that the discontinuation of the firm’s services would make it “significantly more difficult to establish effective relationships when needed to respond to concerns with pending legislation, and similarly more difficult to advance the City’s funding and policy initiatives.”

THE POWER OF LITERACY ...

Redwood City-based nonprofit Bring Me a Book is one of 15 organizations honored by the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program for demonstrating the best practices in promoting literacy. The local organization was founded by Palo Alto resident Judy Koch, who recently received the award at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. with Michaelin Reamy, president of its affiliate organization in Franklin County, Florida. A former English teacher, Koch launched Bring Me a Book to provide books to underserved children. Its program includes BookBuddies, where volunteers read books aloud to preschool and kindergarten students; Book Cubbies, where parents and children team up to decorate a book cubby at school; and book giveaways. Q

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may say it one time a year around a patriotic holiday now, said Jim Phillips, a past president.

The Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce also doesn’t recite the pledge, although a flag is present at the meetings, Judy Kleinberg, board president, said in an email.

Many of the Chamber’s member companies and many of the workers of its members aren’t American citizens.

“A pledge is unnecessary to pursuing our mission,” she said.

Some organizations still recite the pledge. Glanckopf said the Woman’s Club of Palo Alto, of which she is a member, still says the pledge at its monthly meetings and recites its “collect,” a prayer dating to 1904 asking God to keep members from prejudice and judgment and to strive for unity and a kind heart.

Larry Gibbs, Palo Alto Elks

Lodge exalted ruler, said its members recite the pledge at all meetings and member events.

“The flag is an integral part of the Elks organization. The flag’s been a mainstay since the early 20th century. Certainly, one of our basic tenets is honoring the flag and we do have a Flag Day celebration. One of our main charity causes is for veterans, so it goes along with that,” he said.

Debra LaVergne, secretary of the International Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekah Assembly, said the Odd Fellows requires its members to express fidelity to the nation.

“The Pledge of Allegiance is part of an expression of being loyal to your country,” she said.

Odd Fellow members also recite “The Lord’s Prayer.” The Christian practice is a current topic of discussion in the parent organization, however.

“The issue is the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs are nonsectarian.

As we get more Jewish and nonChristian members, the question is: Are we excluding new members we’d want to have?” she said.

When it comes to government groups, most — including the Menlo Park and Mountain View city councils and Santa Clara County boards — do say the pledge, according to their meeting minutes. But not Palo Alto’s or East Palo Alto’s school boards or councils, and officials contacted for this article said they didn’t know why. Q A longer version of this article is posted at PaloAltoOnline.com.

Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

rate,” Wood said, while still keeping them below market rate.

After the company issued the notifications of a 25% increase in August and September, it realized AB 1482 was pending, Wood said.

“When we realized that is happening, we withdrew it. In other words, it didn’t happen,” Wood said.

The tenants argued that the company’s email notification of a 25% increase did not mention the pending legislation or the “rollback provision” that would invalidate the increases that go beyond the level permitted by AB 1482. As a result, some tenants opted to leave before the rents were rescinded, one current

tenant told the Weekly.

DuBois’ and Kou’s memo states that escalating real estate values, along with deregulation of zoning, provides “an incentive to landlords to evict long-term, lower-income tenants, in order to raise rents and attract wealthier tenants.”

Kou said one goal of the proposed ordinance is to educate tenants about the new legislation. She said she has seen numerous emails from lawyers who have been educating landlords on how to move ahead with evictions, in light of AB 1482.

“I think that’s one-sided,” Kou told the Weekly. “I just want to make sure that our current residents are not being harassed or

abused or made to leave.”

She said she is particularly concerned about tenants who have children enrolled in Palo Alto schools and whose lives could become destabilized by evictions.

Palo Alto isn’t the only city wrestling with the issue. The Menlo Park council approved on Tuesday night on an urgency ordinance that would make the provisions of AB 1482 apply immediately.

Los Angeles last month passed an emergency moratorium on evictions until Dec. 31, 2019. That law, like the one Palo Alto is considering, in intended to serve as a stop-gap measure until the state law takes effect. Q

Wednesday does not add bike lanes, though it leaves the door open to implementing them in the future.

Most commissioners didn’t see that as a problem. Commissioner Giselle Roohparvar called the intersection a “mess” and noted that cars enter the intersection immediately after they get off Highway 101.

Many continue to speed through as they approach the junction.

Chairman William Riggs, who supported the plan, nevertheless criticized it for failing to recommend improvements for all forms of transportation along the corridor.

Chief Transportation Official

Philip Kamhi agreed and suggested that the already busy area will likely see more development in the coming years.

“This area is going to be most likely rapidly changing, and it’s something we’ll need to keep a really close handle on,” Kamhi said.

Kamhi also said that any potential bike improvements at this intersection would be evaluated as part of the broader bike network. There is a “considerable amount of work” for a bicycle network to happen close to the project, he said, including a new bike bridge over Highway 101. (The City Council is preparing to approve

a construction contract for the longawaited project on Nov. 18.)

While Templeton voted against the concept, she lauded staff for its outreach to community members and for improving the design over the course of the past year. Despite the effort, however, she questioned whether the chosen design really solved the problem.

“This does look awkward, and I’m concerned that the changes may be confusing to current users,” Templeton said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

COMMUNITY

In changing times, faltering allegiance to the Pledge Local Rotary Club, others drop saying Pledge of Allegiance

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or 97 years, members of the Rotary Club of Palo Alto have recited the Pledge of Allegiance with hands over hearts, but that tradition officially ended in late October. A slim majority voted to stop reciting the pledge at their weekly meetings, an act that reflects the clubs’ changing demographics.

The Rotary is not alone. The Palo Alto University Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto and Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce all forego the pledge, saying that the tradition excludes immigrant members and non-Americans who attend their events.

Groups that continue the tradition, however, say the pledge remains an enduring symbol of unity and continuity.

Dana Tom, Rotary Club of Palo Alto president, said some members questioned saying the pledge two-and-a-half years ago because Rotary is an international organization and the local chapter has many members from other countries. The board discussed the issue in May, then voted unanimously in August to no longer recite the pledge as of September.

But after hearing from some members who wanted to be included in the decision, the board held a

vote of all of its members in which 47 wanted to continue the pledge at weekly luncheon meetings, 49 preferred to discontinue it and 33 members did not vote.

The close vote caused the board to approve a compromise on Nov. 11, Tom said.

“We will not recite the pledge at our weekly Monday meetings, but we will at four of our Monday Rotary meetings that are near days when we put U.S. flags along University Avenue,” he said by phone, referring to Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day and Veterans Day. The decision to end the pledge wasn’t made lightly, he added. Rotary is, however, the largest nongovernmental and non-religious service organization in the world.

“We want to be welcoming to a diverse membership. We have people from other parts of the world and different ages, and we’re trying to provide a comfortable environment for that. Rotary is welcoming, whether you’re a citizen or not.

We want to welcome people who believe in lasting change,” he said.

Annette Glanckopf, a Palo Alto Rotary member, said she supported keeping the pledge.

“I’m sort of a traditionalist. I like the concept of honoring our country. I’ve always liked pomp and

circumstance.”

The Palo Alto University Rotary Club, the city’s other Rotary, has not recited the pledge for about five years, said Katie Cooney, club president. About 30% of the members are foreign-born and include Europeans, Asians and Africans.

Some members hold dual citizenship; others live and work here but aren’t quite ready to make the commitment to become citizens.

Pledging allegiance to the country may make some uncomfortable, she said.

But ending the pledge isn’t a lapse of patriotism, according to Cooney.

“I’m the biggest patriot ever. I’m a daughter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) ... the Mayflower. I love the pledge. I don’t think it’s obsolete.”

She thinks people must unify around a greater vision “to be the best we can be,” she said.

Throughout the year each member stands up and shares something inspiring.

“We can participate in a shared sense of humanity. It shows we are not divided by creed, color or race,” she said.

Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto, another international organization, also dropped the pledge. Members

Evictions ban

being asked to pay,” DuBois told the Weekly. “The important thing is that people don’t just move out.”

Marcus Wood, property manager at Hohbach Realty, vehemently denied the allegations in the tenants’ letter and told the Weekly that the company remains committed to keeping its rents below market rate. The company’s founder, Harold Hohbach, who died in December 2018, refrained from raising rents in the last five years of his life, Wood said. As a result, many apartments remain well below market rate.

In late August and September, the company considered 25% increases for some of the units that were “significantly below market increase roadway capacity and address concerns about congestion.

The commission voted 5-1, with Commissioner Carolyn Templeton dissenting, to adopt the concept that staff recommended after a series of community meetings.

Commissioners agreed that the intersection is a mess, particularly for those who aren’t driving.

“When I see bikes and pedestrians at this intersection, it’s daunting,” Commissioner Doria Summa said. “Not the easiest place for those modes of travel.”

Unlike an earlier concept, the one that the commission supported

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“Living is becoming untenable with uncapped rent raises while basic treatment and living standards are being neglected,” the tenants’ letter states.

But AB 1482 does contain a “retroactive” clause intended to prevent last-minute rent hikes by landlords. The provision rolls back rent hikes imposed after March 15, 2019, to the 5% plus inflation level. Many residents aren’t aware of that, DuBois said.

“As long as the eviction hasn’t been completed, they don’t have to pay the increase that they are

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The idea also includes some lane reconfigurations. The second right-turn lane on southbound San Antonio (heading away from U.S. Highway 101), which today also allows through traffic, would become a right-turn-only lane. The two through-lanes would remain as they are, with the right through-lane providing access to the frontage road just south of the intersection.

And the city would add a second left-turn lane, a change intended to

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Dana Tom, Rotary Club of Palo Alto president, speaks during a meeting at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge. The club recently decided to no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance at its weekly meetings.

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Gift cards, Sosa said, are “a great way to financially support these families while also giving them the options of what it is they want to get.”

This approach not only cuts out the need to go through vendors to purchase uniforms or for families to go to school storage rooms full of clothes that might not be the right size, but it also gives families a little more agency and independence in their lives.

“So rather than getting a used T-shirt, a used uniform or just a uniform that they might not really like, they can go to Target or Old Navy and just go purchase it,” said Sosa, who personally drove out to the stores to buy gift cards each filled with $50.

Being able to choose their own clothing is important to students, as is owning enough articles of clothes so that students are not wearing the same ones to school every day. According to research by Georgetown University’s think tank Future-Ed, having access to clean clothes can significantly increase students’ attendance.

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The Ravenswood Education Foundation is just one of the 57 local nonprofit organizations that benefited from the Holiday Fund this past year. Generous donors last year contributed a record-setting $411,000.

This week, the Holiday Fund is launching its 2019 campaign with a goal of raising $400,000.

Since 1993, the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund has distributed $7.2 million to nonprofits throughout the Palo Alto area that are helping children, families and individuals to excel through better education, live full lives with disabilities, ease their hunger, receive critical medical care, recover from trauma, gain life skills and more.

Among the donors last year were foundations and one family who provided matching gifts to encourage others’ contributions: the Hewlett and Packard foundations ($25,000 each), the Peery and Arrillaga family foundations ($10,000 each) and an anonymous family ($100,000).

Because the Palo Alto Weekly and its partner, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, pay for all of the costs of running the charitable drive, 100% of every donation — which is tax deductible — is distributed directly to a nonprofit serving Palo Alto and East Palo Alto.

As in years past, the 2019 campaign got a financial kickstart with the proceeds from the Weekly’s annual Moonlight Run in October, which was supported by eight corporate sponsors.

“I’m so proud of this annual community effort,” Palo Alto Weekly Publisher Bill Johnson said. “The $25, $50, $100 donations build this fund. They represent the diversity of the community and speak to the shared belief in the power of everybody trying to do their share to the extent that they can.

“And I’m grateful to the nonprofits and their staffs who are doing the work day in and day out of walking alongside our friends and neighbors, giving them the helping hand and the tools they need to overcome hardship and make the most of opportunity.

“I welcome everybody to help us carry forward this vision again this year and to show our strong support for those in need,” he said. Q Editorial Assistant Lloyd Lee can be emailed at llee@paweekly. com.

More information about the impact of the Holiday Fund, including stories about funded nonprofit agencies and instructions for donating online, can be found on page 4 and at PaloAltoOnline. com/holidayfund.

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In the Oct. 11 article “40 years of news” the number of participants in Palo Alto’s 2001 high-speed fiber-optic trial was incorrect.

The number was 66. The Weekly regrets the error. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, jdong@ paweekly.com or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Nov. 7-13

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Elder Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sex Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Credit card forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft attempt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 6 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 4 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 4 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Menlo Park Nov. 6-12

Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 5 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/major injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Newell Road, 6/5, 7:38 p.m.; child abuse/sexual.

El Camino Real, 11/2, 7:24 p.m.; strong arm robbery.

El Camino Real, 11/5, 3:52 p.m.; elder abuse/neglect.

El Camino Real, 11/6, 3:30 a.m..; elder abuse/physical.

Terman Drive, 11/6, 6:42 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Middlefield Road, 11/7, 8:17 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

University Ave., 11/7, 9 p.m.; sex crime.

400 block Lytton Ave., 11/8, 8:28 p.m.; battery.

Ventura Ave., 11/9, 7:46 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Menlo Park

800 block Hamilton Ave., 11/6, 2:33 p.m.; robbery.

800 block Middle Ave., 11/9, 10:46 a.m.; assault.

1100 block Sevier Ave., 11/12, 1:36 p.m.; battery.

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement BABES MUFFLER SERVICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN660091 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Babes Muffler Service, located at 808 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JC AUTOCARE LLC 697 Lakehaven Dr. Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/28/2019.

This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on October 28, 2019.

(PAW Nov. 8, 15, 22, 29, 2019) NAKED FACE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN660343 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Naked Face, located at 1139 Summergarden Ct., San Jose, CA 95132, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): NAKED FACE LLC 1139 Summergarden Ct. San Jose, CA 95132 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/01/2019.

This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Santa Clara County on November 5, 2019.

(PAW Nov. 15, 22, 29; Dec. 6, 2019)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ESTELLE JEAN BRODY aka ESTELLE JEAN ALEXANDER BRODY Case No.: 19PR186971 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ESTELLE JEAN BRODY aka ESTELLE JEAN ALEXANDER BRODY. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: GORDON ALEXANDER BRODY in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: GORDON ALEXANDER BRODY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on November 20, 2019 at 9:01 a.m. in Dept.: 13 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court.

If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner:

Brandi P. Chavin Friedman McCubbin Law Group LLP 425 California St., 25th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 (415) 974-5008 (PAW Nov. 1, 8, 15, 2019) NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee Sale No. : 00000008500399 Title Order No.: 190970183 FHA/VA/PMI No.: ATTENTION RECORDER: THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE TO AN ATTACHED SUMMARY APPLIES ONLY TO COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR, NOT TO THIS RECORDED ORIGINAL NOTICE. NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 10/17/2011. 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. BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 10/25/2011 as Instrument No. 21382129 of official records in the office of the County Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, State of CALIFORNIA. EXECUTED BY: ELAINE HEAL, AND MICHAEL GRIFFIN, WIFE AND HUSBAND AS COMMUNITY PROPERTY WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by California Civil Code 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States). DATE OF SALE: 12/09/2019 TIME OF SALE: 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: AT THE GATED NORTH MARKET STREET ENTRANCE OF THE SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE, 191 N. FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA 95113. STREET ADDRESS and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 609 ARASTRADERO RD, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94306-3858 APN#: 167-07-015 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein.

Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $978,313.75. 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 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 714-730-2727 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site www.servicelinkASAP. com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case 00000008500399. 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 TRUSTEE SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: AGENCY SALES and POSTING 714-7302727 www.servicelinkASAP.com BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP as Trustee 3990 E. Concours Street, Suite 350 Ontario, CA 91764 (866) 795-1852 Dated: 10/30/2019 BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. A-4709200 11/08/2019, 11/15/2019, 11/22/2019

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APN: 167-49-017 OTHER: 5939670 TS-190708 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 5/11/2016 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. NOTICE is hereby given that C.N.A. FORECLOSURE SERVICES, INC. A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, as trustee, or successor trustee, or substituted trustee pursuant to the Deed of Trust executed by Paul Lindsey Borrill, Trustee of the Paul Borrill 1999 Declaration of Trust Dated December 16, 1999 and any amendments Recorded on 12/23/2016 as Instrument No. 23542540, of Official records in the office of the County Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, and pursuant to the Notice of Default and Election to Sell thereunder recorded 8/09/2019 as Instrument No. 24250344 of said Official Records, WILL SELL on 12/06/2019 At the Gated North Market Street entrance of the Superior Courthouse, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 at 10:00 a.m. AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at the time of sale in lawful money of the United States), 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 hereinafter described. The property address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purposed to be: 4287 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, CA The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of 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: $698,815.01 (estimated). In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by 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. In the event tender other than cash is accepted the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right.

Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed, advances thereunder, with interest as provided therein, and the unpaid principal balance of the Note secured by said Deed with interest thereon as provided in said Note, fees, charges and expenses of the trustee and the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. 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 telephone number for information regarding the trustee’s sale 916-939-0772 or visit this Internet Web site www.nationwideposting. com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case 190708 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.

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Marilyn Miles Maffly, a nurse and longtime community volunteer, died after a brief illness on Oct. 3 at the Stanford University Hospital.

She was 89 years old.

Maffly was born Dec. 30, 1929, in Compton, California. She was the youngest of three children, raised around extended family from both sides of her parents, Joseph and Mabel Miles. After she attended Compton Community College, she moved to San Francisco for nursing school at the University of California, San Francisco. There, she met Roy H. Maffly, a medical student, and they married in 1952, the same year she graduated from UCSF. After a brief time in Boston for Roy’s postdoctoral research, they moved to and permanently settled in Palo Alto in 1961.

Maffly was an active community volunteer. At the First United Methodist Church, she helped set up a tutoring program for students from East Palo Alto schools in the 1960s. She fed hundreds of low-income senior citizens by establishing a monthly luncheon and, when she discovered that many of those same seniors needed foot care, she founded a clinic staffed pro bono by local podiatrists. She later returned to her nursing career in 1965 and worked many years at the Hoover Pavilion and the Veterans Hospital.

After moving into the Webster House retirement home in 2004, she continued to offer a helping hand. If she couldn’t provide it herself, she advocated for the needs of others, her family said.

Maffly was preceded in death by her husband, who died in April 2019, and her son Robert Maffly, who died in 1983. She is survived by her two daughters, Nancy Maffly of Davis and Laurie Maffly-Kipp of Olivette, Missouri; and three grandsons.

Contributions in Maffly’s name may be made to the American

Red Cross, the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, the Natural Resources Defense Council or Planned Parenthood.

Charles A Everson Charles A Everson, a World War II veteran, landscaper, architect, general contractor and city planner, died Nov. 1 in Palo Alto. He was 94 years old.

Born Oct. 11, 1925, Everson was raised in Shelley, Idaho. At age 18, he joined the United States Army Air Corps during World War II and served from 1943 to 1946. He was ordered to the Pacific Theater and sent to Okinawa. Following his active duty service, he remained in the Air Force Reserve until 1969, retiring as a major.

Upon his return from the war, Everson, who usually went by “Chuck,” enrolled at Utah State University and graduated in 1951 with a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture and land development. Seeking work, he came to Palo Alto, where he began his career as a landscaper, architect, general contractor and city planner. His greatest professional opportunity came while working in Saudi Arabia for three years with the Bechtel Corporation, which, at the time, was building a large industrial city.

In 1952, he met Betty Wolfe, who was working at the downtown Peninsula Creamery. Two years later, they married and began their life together in a home he designed in Portola Valley. In 1964, they moved to Menlo Park. Betty died in January 2015.

Everson was a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served the church faithfully in many callings, his family said.

He is survived by his daughters, Audrey Everson of Menlo Park and Deanne (Jim) Welch of Palo Alto; five grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. Q

Robert “Bob” Morris (1930 – 2019)

Longtime Palo Alton, Robert “Bob” Morris, 89, passed away from natural causes on November 7, 2019. Growing up in Palo Alto, Bob graduated from Palo Alto HS in 1948 and Stanford in 1952. He met the love of his life, “Nita” in High School and they married in 1952. He lived a full, fun and loving life. Bob managed Don L. Morris Auto Parts, the family auto parts business, was a model railroad enthusiast and coached baseball on the Peninsula, from Little League to JC Baseball for 35 years. Most importantly, Bob was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He is survived by his son Michael, daughterin-law Julia, 5 grandchildren (Ashley, Julia, Katherine, Dan and James) and 5 great grandchildren. His daughter Janet passed away in 2007. Robert will be laid to rest at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto with a private family ceremony, next to his wife Juanita “Nita” who passed away in 2011.

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bout 2,500 feet above Palo Alto in the Santa Cruz Mountains, there’s a 20acre farm that nurtures a rare crop for this area — chestnuts.

Skyline Chestnuts is the only such farm in the Bay Area and among only a handful on the entire west coast.

Owner Hans Johsens said the Santa Cruz Mountains provide ideal growing conditions for his American-hybrid and Japanese chestnut trees — the coastal fog and rain help sustain the trees, the air currents help facilitate wind pollination and the steep and relatively rocky terrain provides efficient drainage of excess water. And the area is isolated from the fungal disease, commonly known as chestnut blight, that decimated the American chestnut in the early 1900s.

With all the right conditions in place, the 120 trees planted in the La Honda orchard can produce several tons of chestnuts on their branches during the short harvesting season, he said.

Johsens said thousands of

visitors come up to Skyline each fall between mid-October and Thanksgiving Day to reap and eat the rewards. The farm typically sells out of its harvest within weeks.

On a recent Saturday, people were out in the orchard with buckets and leather gloves gathering up chestnuts to take home.

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“We’ve never seen a chestnut tree before,” said Melanie Barnett, a California native and senior research scientist at Stanford University. Melanie recently came to the farm with her husband, Bill Barnett, to see a chestnut tree and eat a chestnut for the (continued on page 14)

Clockwise from top: Sunnyvale residents Melania Barnett, left, and Glen Barnett, harvest chestnuts for the first time during a visit to Skyline Chestnuts, a 20-acre pick-your-own farm located in the Santa Cruz Mountains just above Palo Alto. Loui Zhang picks through leaves and sticks to find ripe chestnuts that he planned to use in his stew recipe. Akari Akiba, 8, from San Jose gets in on the fun with her family and friends. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • November 15, 2019 • Page 13

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Above: Chestnuts are ready to harvest when they’re bursting out of their husks. Right: Neil Catic of San Jose sifts through his harvest to pick the best chestnuts. Far right: Skyline Chestnuts owner and farmer Hans Johsens, 58, helps Melania Barnett harvest chestnuts.

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first time.

“We’re gonna find out how to roast them or how to prepare them,” Barnett said. “I’ve heard some people boil them?”

The origin of the farm is hazy.

According to Johsens, a Spanish settler moved into the mountains and planted the chestnut trees in the mid-19th century during the California Gold Rush. Over the years, the farm was passed down through two families and eventually purchased in the 1980s by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, which acquires land with the purpose of preserving open space for the public.

But without the proper resources to maintain a chestnut

farm, the land was left largely neglected. Then Johsens stepped in, a burly, bearded but gentle retired mechanic who has managed the farm for 15 years since Skyline Chestnuts re-opened to the public in 2004.

“I’ve done a tremendous amount of work since the beginning,” Johsens, 58, said. “When I first got here, there was a huge amount of underbrush and forest trees that had grown up through the canopy of the chestnut trees, so we could only access about 20% of the crop the first year.”

Disruptive interlopers also became an issue. Overzealous gatherers would trespass during closed hours and scavenge for chestnuts in the dark with flashlights. Some would bring ropes with grappling hooks to yank the branches down and pick unripe

chestnuts off the trees, damaging the entire plant in the process.

This year, Johsens suspects the yield will be consistent with the last — around 2 1/2 tons.

But with climate change exacerbating violent weather fluctuations, annual yields can vary even in the favorable environmental conditions of the mountains.

“In 2014, we had the worst season ever where we were only open for 10 days because there was no crop out there, and we had been preceded by five years of severe drought,” Johsens said.

“The annual rainfall up here was 16 inches. Normally we get 45 to 50 inches.”

Johsens also needs to clear more ground and plant more trees as the number of visitors increases each year in part because of social media. According to Johsens, a thousand people had visited the farm on

‘I love it (here). I got a real strong connection to it, and it’s a connection I don’t have elsewhere in my life.’

—Hans Johsens, Skyline Chestnuts owner

a recent Sunday.

Loui Zhang, a Saratoga resident who came to the farm with his family, was among the season’s earlier gatherers. Zhang said he knew exactly what he was going to do with the chestnuts after he purchased them for $7.50 a pound.

“Stew,” Zhang curtly said, while crouched down, digging through sticks and leaves with equipment provided by the orchard to find the perfect chestnuts. “Maybe cooked with some water. It’s delicious. No other ingredients you need to add in.”

Sachiyo Akiba, who brought her daughter, Akari, and son, Yamato, said she planned to use

Left: Kelicy Zhang, 11, left, and Renee Zhang, 5, look for their own chestnuts. The pick-your-own farm provides visitors with buckets and gloves during harvest season, which typically runs from mid-October through November. Right: Glen Barnett of Sunnyvale shows off the four pounds of chestnuts he harvested.

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“I don’t know what it is,” Johsens said. “I love it (here). I got a real strong connection to it, and it’s a connection I don’t have elsewhere in my life.” Q Visual Journalist Sammy Dallal and Editorial Assistant Lloyd Lee can be emailed, respectively, at sdallal@paweekly. com and llee@paweekly.com.

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Musical inspired by the neo-classic comedy is nostalgic fun he leg lamp; the tongue frozen to a flagpole; the fuzzy pink bunny suit; “fra-gee-lay.” All of the most beloved gags from the holiday film favorite “A Christmas Story” are preserved in its recent musical adaptation (book by Joseph Robinette; music and lyrics

by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul), currently a jolly production by Palo Alto Players.

A Christmas show already?

Yes, this production opened in early November. Look, I’m a Scoprio. I want to revel in autumn, not usher winter in early.

Around the Lucie Stern Theatre this weekend, homes were still bearing Halloween decorations. I loathe the commercialized creeping in of “the holidays” before December, much less Thanksgiving. All that autumnal grinching to say, despite it being too early, I still left the show with a smile on my face and a cozy holiday feeling in my heart.

“A Christmas Story, The Musical” follows the plot and structure of the film fairly faithfully, framed by a narrator (Shawn Bender) reminiscing about one Christmas back in 1940, when he was “wimpy” 9-year-old Ralphie Parker (Joshua Parecki). Ralphie lives with his little brother Randy (Antonio Elias), his frustrated but hopeful father (Michael Rhone) and his patient, practical mother (Gwyneth Price Panos) in snowy Hohman, Indiana. This

Christmas, Ralphie is desperately wishing for a Red Ryder BB gun (times were simpler then), only to be told repeatedly by the adults around him that he’ll shoot his eye out. Ralphie embarks on a variety of schemes to make sure everyone is aware of his wish, including trying to impress his weary teacher, Miss Shields (Juliet Green), begging a disgruntled department-store Santa Claus (Joey McDaniel) and fantasizing about what a hero he’d be if only he had that coveted air rifle.

Meanwhile, his Old Man, worn out from his constant battles with the hounds next door and his frequently breaking-down furnace and Oldsmobile, gets the thrill of this life when he receives a “major award” from a puzzle contest: a plastic lamp shaped like a woman’s leg in a high heel and fishnet stocking. His long-suffering wife is less than thrilled when he puts it in place of honor in the livingroom window.

These and other comedic anecdotes make up a “A Christmas

The Old Man (Michael Rhone) admires his “major award” with Mother (Gwyneth Price Panos), Randy (Antonio Elias) and Ralphie (Joshua Parecki) in Palo Alto Players’ “A Christmas Story, The Musical.”

Story,” which serves as a slightly twisted Normal Rockwell painting come to life; a nostalgia-filled ode to Midwestern, middleAmerican childhood back before the baby boom.

Director Janie Scott guides the kid-friendly production with high energy and high spirits. Scenic design by Patrick Klein is nicely evocative of small-town 1940s America, as are the beautiful, colorful costumes by Naomi Arnst — I coveted all of the winter wear. A few missed microphone cues did distract at a recent matinee, but nothing major.

Pasek and Paul — a nowsuperstar team responsible for stage and screen musical hits including “Dear Evan Hansen,” “La La Land” and “The Greatest Showman” — have provided an enjoyable, period-appropriate score full of jazz-tinged and oldfashioned showtunes. Palo Alto Players’ orchestra, led by Amanda Ku, sounds full and offers musical sound effects to set off the many humorous moments.

Bender is pitch perfect as the droll adult Ralphie and Parecki is great as his younger self (he’s one of a number of talented local kids in the 27-person cast). Rhone is a standout in the role of The Old Man, gleefully hamming, crooning and dancing in numbers such as “The Genius of Cleveland Street” and “A Major Award.”

It’s hard to imagine Ralphie and Randy ever being afraid of such a loveably buffoonish father.

Unfortunately, Panos seemed to be on the verge of losing her pretty voice at the end of opening weekend, but she valiantly fought

through the hoarseness to hit her notes. Her Mother is the loving heart of the production. Green gets her well-earned moment in the spotlight with the vampy “You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out,” accompanied by some jaunty tap dancing. Superfluous? Some may say so but to me, there’s never such a thing as too much tap.

If you’re eager to usher in the holiday season (or even, like me, reluctant), Palo Alto Players’ “A Christmas Story, The Musical” is a wholesome, silly treat for all ages. Bundle up the kids (not too

What: “A Christmas Story, The Musical.”

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

When: Through Nov. 24.

Cost: $34-$49.

Info: paplayers.org.

tightly, mom) and head on down to Lucie Stern. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

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READ MORE ONLINE Mwenso & The Shakes, the multinational vocal/instrumental/ tap dance ensemble, will be playing tribute to the Harlem Renaissance with a show at Stanford on Nov. 20. For an interview with leader Michael Mwenso, a feature on the latest exhibition at the Los Altos History Museum, plus more arts and entertainment stories, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/arts. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • November 15, 2019 • Page 19

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At one point in the new thriller “The Good Liar,” a character sees a pond and remarks, with a slight, smug smile, “Be careful. It’s deeper than it looks.” The line is meant as a commentary on character and also a literary self congratulation. And that would be all well and good if the film had a well-crafted plot with fascinating characters and surprising twists.

Instead, it has Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen, and for those of us who’d watch them read the phone book, “The Good Liar” comes uncomfortably close.

I’m being hard on “The Good Liar” because its pedigree promises more than the film can deliver.

Along with its storied stars, Oscarwinner Bill Condon (director of “Kinsey,” “Dreamgirls” and “Gods and Monsters,” which starred McKellen) directs a script by playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher (“Stage Beauty” and the McKellen-Condon collaboration “Mr. Holmes”). Unfortunately, the Nicholas Searle novel Hatcher adapts features a shopworn story with easily anticipated plot twists, resulting in a soggy and largely pointless exercise that gets by on its consummate cast and some witty dialogue.

The first signal that we’re in for shenanigans comes from the setting: 2009 London. Condon gets off to an amusing start as Roy Courtnay (McKellen) and Betty McLeish (Mirren) white-lie to each other on a dating website, followed by an ostensibly charming first date that cashes in on the film’s star power. We’re immediately privy to

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Roy’s true nature as a con artist.

Working with his partner Vincent (Jim Carter of “Downton Abbey”), Roy takes easy-mark investors to the cleaners with shady schemes.

Working over widows like Betty amounts to a side hustle for Roy, although a potentially lucrative one.

Betty presents as a near-perfect patsy. She’s wealthy, with a medical condition guaranteed to shorten her life and a weakness for Roy’s charms and false humility. There’s just one thing: her wary son Steven (Russell Tovey of “Looking”), who refuses to trust Roy and deplores how quickly his mother lets the stranger into her life. By faking a bum knee, Roy swiftly scores an invite to live in Betty’s spare room, and before long, he’s insinuated himself as her life partner, joining bank accounts in an offshore investment scheme abetted by Vincent and accompanying her on a holiday to Berlin.

“The Good Liar” proves watchable mostly for McKellen. Mirren’s reliably good, but she must bide her time along with the plot, until the tickety-boom detonation of the film’s implausible rug-puller. In the end, the story’s self-described “depth” amounts to pulp paperback hooey that pays mere lip service to actual depths of psychology and emotion, but Condon’s film at least includes exactly what it says on the tin: lots of McKellen and Mirren, two legends sharing the screen together for the first time.

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4x6 Stock # 8086 8083 9504 7322 7694 10923 9276 1316 9509 9511 2615 9506 7697 9507 6291 832 9273 9280 9271 545 8090 1374 10940 10936 1240 950

6x9 Description India Berber India Berber Pakistan Gabbeh Pakistan Gabbeh Afghan Balouch India Sultanabad India Boro Persian Gabbeh Soumak India Fine Tabriz India Fine Tabriz Pakistan Tabriz 16/16 Fine India Tabriz Afghan Balouch India Fine Tabriz Iran Gabbeh Pakistan Sultanabad India Boro India Boro India Haji Jalili Tabriz Pakistan Sultanabad India Berber Tuffenkian Rag Weave India Sultanabad India Sultanabad India Kazak Iran Gabbeh

Size 4.2 x 6 4.1 x 5.11 3.5 x 5.9 4.1 x 6.2 3.10 x 5.10 4x6 4x6 3.11 x 5.10 4.1 x 6.4 4 x 6.3 4.0 x 6.1 4.2 x 6 3.4 x 6.1 4.2 x 6 4.5 x 6 3.5 x 6.1 4.2 x 6 4.1 x 6.2 4x6 4.1 x 6.1 4.2 x 5.11 4x6 4.1 x 6.3 4 x 5.9 4.2 x 5.11 3.10 x 5.9

Color Black Crème Burgandy/Blue Blue/Gold Rust/Navy Brown/Red Saffron Red Ivory/Blue Green/Beige Blue/ Ivory Beige Red Ivory/Blue Rust/Green Beige Blue Blue Burgandy/Ivory Red/Burgandy Beige Grey/Gold Silver/Sand Navy/Red Ivory/Blue Gold/Red

Original Price $875 $1,005 $2,105 $2,085 $705 $1,805 $2,885 $3,005 $2,845 $2,755 $2,445 $2,755 $702 $2,845 $3,395 $1,500 $2,885 $2,885 $2,885 $1,685 $865 $5,505 $1,915 $1,725 $1,715 $4,185

Sale Price $250 $250 $450 $450 $250 $450 $750 $650 $750 $750 $650 $750 $250 $650 $970 $350 $750 $750 $750 $350 $295 $950 $550 $450 $750 $750

India Shiraz India Berber Persian Gabbeh Persian Kashkuli Nepal Modern India Kazak Turkish Konya Old Persian Malayer India Kazak Nepal Modern w/Silk Iran Gabbeh India Modern Jute Pakistan Sultanabad India Ikat Pakistan Chobi India Pebbles India Haji Jalili India Haji Jalili Antique Persian Kurd Pakistan Chobi Persian Kashkuli

5 x 6.9 5.10 x 6.10 4.8 x 6.7 4.6 x 6.5 5.2 x 7.2 4.6 x 6.8 4.5 x 7.2 4.11 x 6.6 4.10 x 6.10 5.1 x 7.2 5.2 x 7.7 5.3 x 7.6 5.7 x 7 4.9 x 7.10 5.7 x 7.9 5 x 7.10 5.3 x 7.1 5 x 7.9 4.5x 7.7 5.1 x 6.8 5.8 x 7.8

Rust/Navy Grey/Ivory Red/Gold Ivory/Rust Black/Gold Navy/Beige Blue/Rust Rust/Navy Green/Rust Green/Rust Beige/Brown Gold/Brown Beige/Red Blue/Ivory Chocolate Grey/Beige Beige/Gold Red/Burgandy Rust/Navy Beige Ivory/Navy

$3,355 $1,395 $2,505 $5,005 $2,505 $2,505 $1,255 $1,005 $2,505 $5,715 $4,755 $1,785 $3,445 $3,875 $4,675 $2,505 $3,275 $4,655 $1,005 $3,745 $8,505

$950 $425 $950 $1,850 $850 $950 $450 $450 $950 $1,525 $950 $550 $850 $1,450 $1,250 $850 $1,250 $1,550 $450 $1,250 $1,850

5x7 10031 8094 9030 8735 851 1402 7368 11733 10828 1053 952 9032 1115 9951 1785 9020 2092 9270 11730 8232 8734

Stock # 2246 2612 12421 8440 5847 6082 7206 4996 8015 811 14532 11734 8228 9948 1126 1437 10693 1445 294 800 2180 2088

Description Pakistan Chobi Pakistan Chobi India Isfahan India Oushak Turkish Kazak India Bidjar India Soumak India Sultanabad Pakistan Antique wash Iran Gabbeh Soumak Turkish Bidjar Pakistan Chobi India Oushak Inda Tabriz Pakistan Chobi India Oushak India Kazak India Haji Jalili Persian Kurd Pakistan Ghazani India Herati India Haji Jalili

Size 5.1 x 9.4 6 x 8.10 5.10 x9 6x9 6.3 x 9.3 6.1 x 8.9 6.2 x 8.10 6 x9 5.10 x 8.10 5.7 x 7.10 6x9 6x9 6.8 x 8.7 5.10 x 8.10 6 x 9.4 5.9 x 8.9 6x9 6 x 9.1 5.3 x 9 6 x 8.8 6.1 9.2 7x9

Color Chocolate Red/Ivory Pink/Ivory Red/Ivory Gold/Red Rust/Blue Blue/Ivory Beige/Brown Beige/Peach Gold/Red Gold/Red Beige/Green Beige Ivory/Brown Beige Beige/Rose Beige Brown/Navy Navy/Red Red/Burgandy Navy/Red Navy/Rust

Original Price $3,495 $3,975 $1,755 $7,905 $5,005 $2,970 $1,775 $2,575 $2,505 $5,315 $4,550 $5,005 $7,445 $5,155 $3,805 $1,815 $4,415 $6,685 $6,525 $3,215 $4,745 $6,300

Sale Price $750 $950 $850 $1,250 $450 $950 $550 $950 $950 $1,650 $750 $1,950 $1,950 $2,250 $950 $850 $1,250 $1,950 $950 $950 $950 $1,950

India Haji Jalili India Haji Jalili India Antique Look Kazak India Fine Tabriz India Esplande India William Morris Design Pakistan Bokhara India Esplande India Kozen Rajastan N Rajastan K Afghan Elephant Foot India Rhapsody with Silk India Rathey with Silk Pakistan Aryana Pakistan Chobi Rajstan K India Ikat India Mulberry with Silk India Pur Silk Tabriz

7.10 x 10.2 7.10 x 10 7.8 x 9.9 7.10 x 10.4 7.11 x 10.4 8 x 10 7.1 x 10.5 8 x 10.7 7.10 x 9.10 7.10 x 10 8.3 x 10.1 8.5 x 11 7.9 x 10.3 8 x 10 8 x 9.7 8.2 x 10.7 8 x 10.2 7.8 x 9.9 8.3 x 10.4 8.2 x 9.11

Burgandy/Gold Burgandy/Gray Navy/Rust Rust$8,905 Grey/Beige Rust/Beige Taupe Beige/Gold Beige Buirgand/Brown Burgandy/Blue Burgandy Grey Beige/Blue Beige/Rust Rose/Ivory Rust/Beige Navy/Rust Blue Beige /Green

$9,565 $9,405 $6,775 $1,950 $5,595 $3,605 $6,005 $6,855 $8,405 $7,445 $7,505 $4,005 $8,965 $10,005 $7,220 $4,500 $5,045 $6,305 $15,345 $19,295

$2,675 $2,575 $1,950

8 x 10 9267 9266 2045 9939 5078 11967 9830 6628 10554 1220 10059 12618 10896 10917 1101 7874 12911 7225 10538 4004

$1,650 $1,350 $990 $1,950 $1,990 $2,150 $990 $990 $1,550 $3,550 $1,950 $990 $2,250 $1,350 $4,550 $2,950

RUGS UNDER $1,000 Many colors and sizes to choose from.

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Home Front

COLORFUL FALL CONTAINERS ... Just because it’s fall doesn’t mean you have to stop planting and enjoying beautiful flowers. Learn how to brighten up shady spots in your yard with cheerful planters at free workshop on Sunday, Nov. 17, 10:30 a.m. at SummerWinds Nursery.

The class will explore how to create container gardens of colorful cyclamen and ferns — plants that will thrive in cooler weather and bring pops of color to your fall garden.

SummerWinds Nursery is located at 725 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. For more information, call 650-493-5136 or visit summerwindsnursery. com.

SPRING GARDEN PLAN ...

The California Native Plant Society hosts a workshop on Thursday, Nov. 21, 7 p.m. at the Mountain View Library on planning your spring garden. Find out what you should do now to ensure a beautiful garden when the warmer months return. Patricia Evans of Natural Landscape Design leads this class. Her specialty is native plants and sustainable landscaping.

The Mountain View Library is located at 585 Franklin St., Mountain View. For more information, visit cnps-scv.org or call 650-903-6887. 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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Residents can pick up free, gently used paints and cleaners at the city’s expanded Reuse Zone

by Heather Zimmerman

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n a misty Saturday morning at the city of Palo Alto’s Household Hazardous Waste Station, a small line of cars slowly snaked through the station, as residents in vehicles handed off unwanted items to workers in safety vests. The workers whisked the items away on carts into a maze of large metal bins.

The Household Hazardous Waste Station doesn’t seem like a place where visitors could browse for household products. But some of the items dropped off by residents on this morning might, after screening, get a renewed chance at usefulness on the neatly arranged shelves of the city’s updated Reuse Zone.

At this large, colorfully painted shed near the station entrance, residents can pick up free, gently used cans of paint, household cleaners, clean motor oil and similar automotive products, and garden sprays.

“We would get a lot of really good material in through the Household Hazardous Waste program that we collect from residents who maybe did a small project but they have leftover epoxies or paints, or maybe someone is moving and can’t take all their cleaning supplies with them,” said Elise Sbarbori, the city’s manager of environmental control programs.

“Otherwise that material would go for either recycling or disposal, so the idea was to develop a program in keeping with the EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency’s) waste hierarchy of “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” Residents could take for free these items that came in that could still be used — really good, useful household products,” she said.

Visitors to the Reuse Zone can take home up to five items on each visit. They’re asked to sign a waiver acknowledging that although the city’s household hazardous waste contractor, Clean Harbors, screens for quality before they’re placed in the Reuse Zone, the city can’t 100% guarantee the items.

The city of Palo Alto has had a household hazardous waste program since 1983, Sbarbori said, and the Reuse Zone concept

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Heather Zimmerman

HERBSESSION CLASS ...

Learn about growing and using herbs at “Herbsession,” a free class offered Sunday, Nov. 17, 9:15 a.m. or 1 p.m. at Hidden Villa’s education garden. In the class, you’ll also create a custom herb bundle to take home. Hidden Villa is located at 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. Class is free but registration is required.

Call 650-949-8650 or register at hiddenvilla.org.

Jim Cornett browses the shelves of the newly updated Reuse Zone at the city of Palo Alto’s Household Hazardous Waste Station. isn’t new for the city — Sbarbori noted that the program has been in place since the city’s permanent Household Hazardous Waste Station opened in 2013. Last year, the program diverted about 5,600 pounds of materials for reuse, according to a city news release.

But the city recently marked the opening of its updated Reuse Zone, which significantly expanded the storage capacity for items and gave the area a cheerful, more noticeable new look.

“Due to the success of this reuse program, we wanted to encourage more people to come visit. We were limited by the capacity of what we had available at the station, so we expanded our program with this much larger shed, and rebranded it as the Household Hazardous Waste Reuse Zone,” Sbarbori said, estimating that the new capacity is somewhere between 6 and 10 times what it used to be.

“I’ve been coming here for years,” said Jim Cornett, who was visiting the Reuse Zone last Saturday and recalled that the program’s offerings used to be housed in a cabinet.

Cornett picked up toilet bowl cleaner and a container of Floetrol, a paint thinning medium meant to reduce brush marks.

Then he checked the paint shelves

for a small can of light brown paint. “It doesn’t have to be an exact match,” he said.

Nearby, John Hiss picked up a can of kerosene, “for general use,” he said.

The Reuse Zone shelves feature common household cleaners, insecticides and motor oil, as well as some more specialty items, from laundry starch to concrete cleaner. Cornett pointed out some Engine Brite, a car engine cleaner.

Paint in particular seems to be in great supply: The bottom shelves of the Reuse Zone are lined with cans of paint in just about every size and color.

“The city’s zero-waste mission is to keep waste from being burned or buried. Many of the materials that go into the Reuse Zone, if they were to be disposed of, would have to be shipped out of state to an incineration facility,” Sbarbori said, noting that paint, when it’s not in good enough condition to be reused, will be made into new paint by a recycler called PaintCare.

“But strong acids and bases — a lot of cleaners or pesticides and herbicides — would have to be trucked out of state to a facility in Nebraska in order to be incinerated there. This avoids that disposal fate and actually enables

residents to use these products for their intended purpose, which is the best use of the resources that were required to create them in the first place,”she said.

At the Reuse Zone, Cornett did find the can of paint that he was looking for. Since he only needs a small amount of paint, once he’s completed his project, “I might bring the paint back,” he said. Q Home & Real Estate Editor Heather Zimmerman can be emailed at hzimmerman@ paweekly.com.

If you’re interested The Reuse Zone is open during regular hours at the Household Hazardous Waste Station, every Saturday, 9-11 a.m., and every first Friday of the month, 3-5 p.m.

The station is located at 2501 Embarcadero Way, Palo Alto.

For more information, visit cityofpaloalto.org/hazwaste.

Visitors don’t have to drive through the station to access the Reuse Zone, but can park in a lot adjoining the station and access the area through a side gate, which is marked by brightly colored signage.

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Woodside Address - Menlo Park Las Lomitas Schools!

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2128 Stockbridge Avenue 3 Bed

2 Bath

1,620 Sq Ft 14,810± Sq Ft Lot

$2,800,000

Open House Saturday 11/16 & Sunday 11/17, 1:30-4:30pm This home is on the West side of the Alameda de las Pulgas and is peacefully situated, offset from Stockbridge Avenue, on a private cul-de-sac. This single level home is turnkey with updated kitchen and baths, skylights, dual pane windows and more. The home has a bright, large BssBKVOM szd KBo UBoBUO zVWKV Wp bWKO_| bWpVOM BbM Wp KtooObs_| JOWbU tpOM Bp B JdbtpædT KOæ work-out space. (This is not included in the stated livable sf). This is a great opportunity to live in a Woodside home with excellent Menlo Park schools! Please be aware that the address on some sites pulls with a Redwood City address indicating Redwood City schools, but this is not correct!

This home has a Woodside address which feeds into excellent Las Lomitas schools.

2128Stockbridge.com

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Siobhan O’Sullivan 650.776.5445 sos@osullivanteam.com DRE 01298824

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536 Addison Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 List Price: $3,198,000

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OPEN HOMES ATHERTON

LEGEND: CONDO (C), TOWNHOME (T).

58 Northgate Sun 2-4 Compass

$3,495,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 465-5971

40 Selby Ln Sun 1:30-4 Coldwell Banker

$5,800,000 5 BD/4 BA 855-9700

285 Atherton Av Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker

$14,850,000 6 BD/6 BA 619-6461

77 Serrano Dr Sun 1-4 Compass

$10,695,000 6 BD/6.5 BA 207-0781

EAST PALO ALTO 2772 Georgetown St Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

LOS ALTOS

$879,000 3 BD/1 BA 408-644-5041

1265 Thurston Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group Realtors

$3,649,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 388-0029

1485 Cedar Pl Sat/Sun 1:30-4 Sereno Group Realtors

$2,895,000 5 BD/2.5 BA 408-300-3184

465 Knoll Dr Sun 1-4 Sereno Group Realtors

$5,999,000 5 BD/5.5 BA 465-7628

540 Pine Ln Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Intero

$3,950,000 5 BD/4 BA 464-0692

1855 Esberg Rd Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group Realtors

$5,286,000 6 BD/6 BA 947-2992

LOS ALTOS HILLS 26880 Ortega Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group Realtors

$4,248,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 207-0226

10600 Chardonnay Ln Sat 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

$3,988,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 900-7000

26540 Conejo Ct Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group Realtors

$4,288,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 408-621-1878

25850 Westwind Way Sat 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

$6,488,000 5 BD/4.5 BA 900-7000

25621 Vinedo Ln Sun 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

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Gunn junior Kate Mallery (right) and her teammates will be playing for the Central Coast Section Division I title at Independence High in San Jose at 1:15 p.m. Saturday.

CCS WATER POLO

Titles in Open Division, Division I on the line SHP, M-A and Gunn can all bring home team trophies

by Rick Eymer eaching the Central Coast Section championship game is nothing new for the Sacred Heart Prep boys water polo team. The Gators will be making their 15th consecutive trip when they face league rival Bellarmine at Independence High in San Jose on Saturday at 10:25 a.m.

What’s new is that there will not be a Sacred Heart Prep senior in the pool when the ball is dropped. Nor will there be any on the bench.

That’s why Gators coach Brian Kreutzkamp was so happy to get his sophomore goalkeeper back in time for the post season. Griff Price is one of the few Gators who have playoff experience and he’ll be counted upon to be a leader against the Bells, who feature 11 seniors on their roster.

“I watched them against Menlo and they are impressive,” Kreutzkamp said. “We’ll need kids stepping up.”

Sacred Heart has won three of its four previous matches with Bellarmine but all have been close. The Bells won the first meeting 11-7, the only loss Sacred Heart Prep suffered to a CCS team all year.

The Gators (22-6) looked impressive in beating St. Francis on Wednesday night in the semifinals,

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scoring the first nine goals of the game and holding the Lancers scoreless for over 18 minutes.

Price, in his fourth game back from an injury, also looked impressive in turning back six shots before giving way to Wyatt Stenson, who’s a big reason why Sacred Heart Prep will be playing in the Open Division. He earned All-West Catholic Athletic League recognition in leading the Gators to the league regular-season and

tournament titles.

Price, who started both WCAL tournament games, has not faced the Bells yet this season.

“The last time was in early summer,” Price said. “I’ve been watching a lot of film on Bellarmine to get reacquainted.”

There’s also a bit of unfinished business on Saturday. Sacred Heart Prep beat Bellarmine three times last year but due to poor air quality last November, the CCS title game was never played and the two teams were declared co-champions.

The NorCal tournament was also canceled.

Bellarmine (17-11) defeated Menlo School 12-7 in the other semifinal contest.

For the Gators, Isaac Rotenberg led the way with three goals. Luke Johnston, Jake Tsotadze and Teddy Pasquesi each added a pair and Jack Vort, Luke Hammarskjold and Will Swart also scored.

Menlo (20-9) can still look forward to the NorCal tournament and will likely be placed in the Open Division. The pairings will be announced Saturday night.

“I’m proud of my guys for making changes in the third period and coming back,” Knights coach Jack Bowen said. “They played with heart and character from day one.

Bellarmine got some great bounces early and they outplayed us.”

M-A reaches Division I final Menlo-Atherton players began making changes in how they positioned themselves in the pool and they did so on their own. The Bears are now positioning themselves for a possible CCS title.

Michael Heller scored three goals and host M-A beat Woodside 8-4 in Wednesday’s semifinal match to advance to its first section championship match since 2016.

The sixth-seeded Bears (14-12)

meet No. 4 Mitty (12-16) for the title at Independence High on Saturday at 11:50 a.m. The Monarchs upset top-seeded Leland 11-9 in the other semifinal played at M-A. No. 2 Woodside (19-7) won its first ever Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division title and beat the Bears twice, each time by one goal, during the season.

“The main thing leading up to this was the team taking the initiative to make changes,” M-A coach Tim Kates said. “They gave themselves the opportunity to excel at a higher level.”

Kates said they have been taking their cue from senior captain Zach de Haaff, who added a pair of goals.

“He has been leading the team meetings and sensed the importance of some recent changes,” Kates said. “They’ve been getting better and the last few weeks have been fun. Just positioning made all the difference.”

One of the toughest schedules in the section was also a positive, despite getting beat so often. The Bears played Monte Vista Danville, Acalanes twice, St. Francis and Bellarmine among others.

“Our schedule was insanely difficult,” Kates said. “I think finishing 12-12 was a feat in itself. But it also pushed the guys to play against the best teams. They some of the best water polo anywhere.”

SHP girls in title match Sacred Heart Prep reached the championship game by beating Soquel 9-5 in the semifinal round at St. Francis.

Soquel (19-9) knocked the Gators (24-3) out of the Open Division in last year’s semifinal. SHP will face defending CCS Open Division champion Leland (17-11) on Saturday at Independence High at 9 a.m..

Sacred Heart Prep has yet to lose to a CCS team, with its only three losses to the nation’s No. 1 team Acalanes.

Annabel Facey and Eleanor Facey each scored three goals to lead the Gators past Soquel. Bella Bachler scored once and had three assists. Alexandra Szczerba also scored and had two assists. She also recorded three steals.

Soquel took a 3-2 lead midway through the second period but the Gators responded with six unanswered goals to take control. Soquel was held scoreless for over 14 minutes, or the equivalent of two periods.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Odeya Russo

Kamran Murray

GUNN VOLLEYBALL The senior recorded 45 kills in two matches last week to lead the Titans to their first CCS volleyball title in 43 years and their second overall. She recorded 27 kills in the title match against Los Gatos.

MENLO CROSS COUNTRY The junior won the West Bay Athletic League boys title last week, racing 15:44.9 at the Crystal Springs Cross Country Course. He had the fastest time of any local runner in any league final.

Honorable mention Elise Arana Woodside cross country

Ana DuBois, Rachel Grant Gunn volleyball

Natalie Grover* Menlo-Atherton volleyball

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Ava Martin Menlo-Atherton tennis

Kyra Pretre Menlo cross country

Hillary Studdert Palo Alto cross country

Justin Chiao Gunn cross country

Jason Draxler Sadler Priory cross country

Connor Enright Menlo water polo

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Michael Heller Menlo-Atherton water polo

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The Titans (19-6) meet No. 6 Santa Clara (22-1), which beat third-seeded Los Altos in the semifinals, on Saturday at Independence High in San Jose at 9 a.m.

Kate Mallery scored twice and recorded five assists. She also blocked three shots in the field and made three steals. Kenza Ashworth had four steals to go with a goal and assist. Molly Wilkerson had two goals and a pair of assists, Siham Arslane scored once and had two steals and Isobel Taylor had an assist and steal. Q

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