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Coronavirus cases rise to 20 in county

Organizations canceling large gatherings, events

by Palo Alto ven as Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency this week over the novel coronavirus following the state’s first virus-related death, local public health officials announced that the number of cases has risen to 20 in Santa Clara County.

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Weekly staff At the same time, the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System’s Palo Alto hospital confirmed it has become a receiving center for former service members diagnosed with the virus.

This week, a veteran who has tested positive for the disease was transferred to the facility. The VA

has set aside a portion of the campus for those with the virus, also known as COVID-19, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie stated during his testimony to the federal House Appropriations Committee Wednesday.

The number of known coronavirus cases within the county has steadily increased since Feb. 28, when there were only two. On that day and on Feb. 29, the county’s

Public Health Department reported two new cases involving women who were in the same household, neither of whom had been in contact with a traveler or with someone carrying the virus.

The cases strongly indicate that the virus is now spreading throughout the community, according to the department.

More cases were reported this week and involved international

travelers and those who live in the same household as known coronavirus patients. Public health staff said the increased number of cases of the virus was expected as the disease spreads.

“The Public Health Department will continue to identify anyone who has come into contact with these cases,” staff said (continued on page 8)

PUBLIC HEALTH

Schools, universities try to slow virus’ spread Many campuses increase cleaning efforts, others prepare for remote learning

by Elena Kadvany s confirmed coronavirus cases continue to increase locally, schools and universities are amping up their prevention efforts, from preparing for online learning options and conducting intensive cleaning to urging cancellation of large events.

The Palo Alto school district, which sent home from school last week two students whose parent had been exposed to the coronavirus, have implemented extra cleaning of the students’ schools, Palo Alto High School and JLS Middle School. Custodial staffs at every campus are following recommended cleaning procedures daily, “with extra effort on areas considered high-risk,” such as bathrooms, athletic areas, cafeterias and the nurse’s office as well as “high-touch points” such as door handles, hand railings, lockers and shared desks, the district announced.

Superintendent Don Austin declined to state whether the two students had been tested for coronavirus, citing their privacy, but said that the district was following direction from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department.

Austin was also authorized by the school board president to suspend a board policy that prohibits alcohol-based cleaning products and immediately ordered alcoholbased hand sanitizers for schools,

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Shoppers at Costco in Mountain View stocked up on water bottles, temporarily depleting the store’s supply. Shelves above, once filled with toilet paper, were empty on Monday.

PUBLIC HEALTH

Fear, anxiety and Champagne: Palo Altans prepare for coronavirus Some customers gut local stores of items beyond CDC-recommended measures

by Lloyd Lee quiet anxiety grips Palo Alto and Mountain View as residents face the possibility that the coronavirus will knock on their doors.

The Santa Clara County Public Health Department has identified 20 cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new virus, in the area. And as the number of cases climbs, residents are scouring grocery and

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drug stores to prepare to bunker down in their homes in case there’s an outbreak or they find themselves infected.

Palo Alto resident Monica Hmelar has been searching several retail stores for hand sanitizer. On March 2, she stopped by the Costco store in Mountain View, but the warehouse ran out of everything she needed. One employee

announced to customers that record numbers of people have been showing up as the store opens to grab basic necessities like toilet paper and water bottles. On Feb. 28, 958 customers came through the store as it opened, the highest customer count in recent history, according to the employee.

“They told me to come back tomorrow at 9 a.m. when they’ll

have toilet paper,” Hmelar, 52, said. “So I’m gonna be here at 9 a.m. to buy toilet paper.”

None of Hmelar’s family knows she’s at Costco stockpiling for an outbreak — “They’re probably thinking I’m crazy,” she said — as the virus looms dangerously close to them.

Hmelar’s youngest daughter is a senior at Palo Alto High School, where one student was sent home on Feb. 28 after the school district learned that the student’s parent had been exposed to the virus, prompting the district to disinfect the campus. (See story, “Schools, universities try to slow virus’ spread.”)

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A NEW LOOK ... Palo Alto Mayor Adrian Fine broke some news Wednesday during his “State of the City” speech: El Palo Alto, the city’s iconic redwood, just got bigger. To clarify: Not the actual tree near the Menlo Park border, but its image, as seen on the official city of Palo Alto logo. Fine closed his speech at Mitchell Park Community Center by showing the recently updated logo, which now features fuller and bushier branches. “After watering and care, our namesake tree is stronger and healthier, and we had to update our logo. I hope that is a good metaphor for the state of the city.” The city’s logo was ubiquitous at Mitchell Park, with top City Hall staff wearing mesh hats emblazoned with El Palo Alto and aprons that celebrated the city’s 125th birthday and that also featured the tree. As part of the city’s response to coronavirus, city staff decided not to do the usual buffet but to take a more hands-on approach to dishing out food.

Wearing plastic gloves and caps, senior staff, including City Manager Ed Shikada, Police Chief Robert Jonsen, Fire Chief Geo Blackshire, Chief Financial Officer Kiely Nose and Planning Director Jonathan Lait heaped food onto plates at tables positioned around the room. Joining them were Councilwomen Alison Cormack and Liz Kniss, a retired nurse who eschewed the trucker hat for a toque. Cormack also introduced Fine, noting in her comments that he is the youngest of six kids in his family. “So he learned early on to challenge the status quo, to fearlessly bring up topics, to know when to let things go and to bridge the gaps between people,” Cormack said. “And yes, I can confirm that he is very quick to fill his plate at the dinner table.”

MAKING WAVES ... The longtime head of the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority is leaving the agency to head San Mateo County’s new flood and sea-level rise district, according to a Feb. 25 press release. Len Materman, who was the JPA’s executive director for almost 12 years, will serve as CEO of the San Mateo County Flood and Sea Level Rise Resiliency District. The new district brings together San Mateo County cities to work collaboratively on sea level rise, flooding, coastal erosion and regional stormwater detention. Materman will start full time on May 1. His salary will be $235,000 per year. “I am confident that this first-of-its-kind countywide district can be a model for others in California and beyond,” he said in the press release. At the JPA, Materman oversaw the flood-control project along lower San Francisquito Creek designed to withstand floodwaters larger than ones in the Feb. 3, 1998 flood that inundated parts of East Palo Alto and Palo Alto and caused millions of dollars in damage.

The project included new flood walls and widening the creek to protect homes and businesses against a 100-year storm flow.

LOSING GROUND ... A large protected valley oak tree’s removal last week upset some Barron Park and Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents who want to know why it was cut down. The oak was 36 inches in diameter, which fell under city ordinance that protects valley oaks from removal if they are above 11.5 inches in diameter.

But the city permitted removing the tree “because of significant decay in the base of the tree and supporting structural roots combined with a pronounced lean, which represented a high risk of whole tree failure,” city Urban Forester Walter Passmore said in an email. A permit to remove the ancient oak at 3980 El Camino Real was approved by the city on Feb. 3, according to Passmore. Replacing the tree was not required, but Passmore said he has had an initial conversation with the park’s management and hopes the city can work with residents and local advocates to create new planting spaces. Q

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Stores (continued from page 5)

had recently traveled to Florence, Italy, before jetting off to London after receiving alarming news about the increasing spread and death tolls from the virus. On the same day the school district announced a parent was exposed to the virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised Italy to a warning level 3, advising the public to “avoid all nonessential travels” to the country where the coronavirus has killed more than 50 people and resulted in about 2,000 confirmed cases.

“I’m kind of freaking out about the whole thing,” she said. “And when I come to the stores, it’s not helping.”

Retailers all over the Midpeninsula are rushing to restock shelves to meet the specific demands of anxious customers like Hmelar — such as hand sanitizers, masks and gloves — all of which have been flying off the shelves of local stores and online marketplaces. Many also have purchased freeze-dried goods and cough syrup.

“I ordered the masks,” Hmelar said. “They’re selling them

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he wrote in an update to families and staff on Wednesday.

The district has suspended all school-sponsored international field trips and is re-evaluating local field trips daily, Austin said. The Greene Middle School band left Wednesday for a trip to Disneyland near Los Angeles, despite concerns from some non-band parents who fear the traveling students could bring back the virus. The students are traveling by bus; music teachers told parents in an email they planned to wipe down the surfaces of the bus with antibacterial wipes

on eBay for up to $1,000 dollars. I found some guy in South Carolina — a box of 10 for $100 dollars.”

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued a public plea over the weekend asking people to stop stockpiling masks. The Feb. 29 post on Twitter reads: “Seriously people — stop buying masks! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if health care providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”

Though masks and hand sanitizers are increasingly hard to purchase, stores around Palo Alto don’t exactly look like they’ve been hit by an apocalypse. Most of their shelves are fully stocked and continue to be refilled as more shipments arrive.

But inside places such as the Mountain View Costco, the neighboring REI, Palo Alto’s Whole Foods as well as Town & Country Village’s CVS Pharmacy and Trader Joe’s, the unease of the community can be seen in the empty pockets of certain aisles that once stored rows of pasta sauces, canned tuna, toilet paper, freeze-dried mashed potatoes

and zinc lozenges.

“It’s just happening all in real time,” said Michelle Kraus, a tech executive and political strategist who had just finished shopping at Whole Foods. “I don’t know if I’m scared, but I’m uncomfortable. I’m the kind of person who needs information to decide what I can do.”

To prepare for an outbreak, Kraus is stocking up on travelsized hand sanitizers and zinc lozenges, an item that’s curiously out of stock in some stores. The lozenges became popular after a pathologist’s letter that instructed people to “stock up now” went viral.

The CDC does not list zinc lozenges as a protection against the coronavirus and there is no antiviral treatment available.

At Country Sun Natural Foods on California Avenue in Palo Alto, CEO Scott Otte also noticed his store was hit by an influx of concerned customers clearing out the inventory of pasta, rolled oats, disinfectant wipes and alcoholfree hand sanitizers. (The CDC only recommends the public use alcohol-based hand sanitizers if water and soap are not an immediate option.)

“We definitely got a run over

the weekend,” Otte said. “Our sales were about 20% higher than normal for a Sunday, and Sundays are already a busy day.”

Otte chuckled with a little resignation as he thought about the prospect of closing his store — “a last ditch effort” that he would only consider if he’s instructed to or if too many employees get sick.

“Sales have to be very, very low before it’s not worth being open,” he said. “There’s rent and electricity to keep everything cold. Those are fixed costs regardless if we’re open or not.”

Abene Mendizabal, a Stanford University resident and mother of two, refuses to panic even as she works in the tourism industry, which has been directly affected by the virus through travel restrictions.

“I’m not doing anything because I already went through so many health issues in my life — I need to keep calm,” she said while outside of Whole Foods after a routine shopping trip. “That’s why I bought Champagne.”

Stanford Law professor Michelle Mello, who also teaches health research and policy, doesn’t see the need for people to purchase tubs of hand sanitizer,

but believes the best measure is for people to carefully listen to their local public health department.

“We have excellent local leadership, and what they’re saying is that we should be ready for life to be disrupted for a little while,” she said. “That’s not the same as panicking, but it’s sensible for families to have a plan in place.

If they’re asked to stay in their homes for a couple of weeks to rule out an infection, will they be able to do that? In the same way we prepare for earthquakes, we should prepare for this foreseeable risk.”

To prevent further spreading of the virus, the county’s Public Health Department recommends taking the same precautionary measures as one would against any viral flu or infection: Wash your hands with soap; use alcohol-based hand sanitizer when hand-washing isn’t available; cover your mouth with a tissue and properly dispose of it; stay home if you’re sick; and start preparing your household in case a family member gets sick and needs to be isolated. Q Editorial Assistant Lloyd Lee can be emailed at llee@ paweekly.com.

before boarding and remind students to wash their hands thoroughly at each rest area and throughout the day. The teachers said they have a “limited supply” of hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes and asked parents to send their children with extras, if possible.

The county has advised against canceling domestic field trips, though Austin said he is “not sure that this advisement will hold up for much longer.”

Palo Alto Unified has no plans to close schools at this point and is not providing online instruction to students whose parents might choose to keep their child at home.

“No school in our county is closing at this time,” Austin wrote in

his update. “We have no confirmed cases and no practical reason to close our doors. ... Everyone is fully engaged and trying to make the best decisions possible for our students, staff and community.”

The private Menlo School in Atherton closed for the rest of the week after a staff member interacted with a relative who tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, March 3.

Castilleja School in Palo Alto is canceling classes on Monday, March 9, and asking all students to work from home so teachers can prepare for “synchronous distance learning should the need arise,” Head of School Nanci Kauffman and Chief Financial and Operating Officer Kathy Layendecker wrote in a message to parents. The school is not aware of any students or staff who have been exposed to the coronavirus.

If the private all-girls school closes, Castilleja plans to provide remote learning for all students and will treat it “as regular school days with required attendance, participation and timely assessments.”

The school also is canceling a middle school dance this Friday evening and has convened a “COVID-19 Command Team” to lead the school’s safety, prevention, monitoring and communication efforts.

The Ravenswood City School District is providing masks to students experiencing symptoms and school offices will be using logs to track such students, interim Superintendent Gina Sudaria wrote to families this week. Schools are stocked with thermal skin thermometers, hand sanitizer, soap, paper towels and tissues.

“In the event the pandemic worsens, we may adopt other

precautions such as screening visitors based on medical and epidemiological advice,” Sudaria said.

No one traveling from China, South Korea, Italy, Iran or any other country with a CDC Level 3 travel health restriction is allowed to be present on campus unless he or she completes a 14-day self-isolation immediately upon arrival in the U.S. This includes all people, including children, with or without symptoms, Furr wrote. It also applies to visitors to Stanford.

Stanford also is restricting university-related travel by members of the campus community in those same countries.

Online petitions have emerged calling on both Palo Alto Unified and Stanford to take more stringent precautions.

Palo Alto parents have asked the district to start spring break early, extending it to two weeks, and to provide online learning options so students can stay home.

A petition started by a student group called Stanford Against Coronavirus described the university’s education efforts on the coronavirus as “deficient at best” and proposed a contingency plan, including encouraging faculty to conduct classes digitally as much as possible, to not require attendance for classes with more than 50 students and to provide face masks for students with flu symptoms.

“If Stanford University hesitates to take immediate and appropriate actions to protect its 16,520 students and 14,060 faculty and staff members, COVID-19 will have a great potential to spread throughout the campus, jeopardizing the lives of us all,” the petition states. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (March 2)

History: The council voted to put out a request for proposals for rehabilitation and use of the Roth Building at 300 Homer Ave., site of a proposed Palo Alto History Museum. Yes: Unanimous Commissions: The council directed its ad hoc committee on boards and commissions to continue its work and to consider several changes, including creation of term limits and disbanding the Library Advisory Commission. Yes: Unanimous

Council Finance Committee (March 3)

Junior Museum and Zoo: The committee approved a preliminary operating plan and new fees for the Junior Museum and Zoo, which is set to reopen later this year. Yes: Unanimous

Architectural Review Board (March 5)

1700 and 1730 Embarcadero Road: The board recommended proposed changes to a previously approved design for an auto dealership at 1700 and 1730 Embarcadero Road and declared its preference for stepped massing.

Yes: Baltay, Hirsch, Lee, Lew No: Thompson 180 El Camino: The board discussed and recommended approving a twostory retail building at Stanford Shopping Center. Yes: Baltay, Hirsch, Lew, Thompson Recused: Lee

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Canceled events and international travel

os Altos Hills community college Foothill College is preparing training videos for students, faculty and staff on how to use Zoom, which provides software for remote conferencing services, and the online education platform Canvas should the need arise for remote learning. The community college has not canceled any events but it said that faculty and staff members’ plans to attend external conferences have been cancelled.

Stanford University, meanwhile, is urging cancellation or postponement of university events between March 4 and April 15 that involve more than 150 people — not including regular academic courses, according to a Tuesday announcement from Russell Furr, associate vice provost for environmental health & safety. Furr is leading a new emergency operations organization Stanford activated this week to coordinate the university’s response to coronavirus.

Some events that will have fewer participants but will be held in confined spaces should be reconsidered, he wrote. He urged organizers to consider other factors such as the age and health of expected attendees and the need to clean the space after the event.

Stanford is also suggesting the use of phone calls or videoconferencing instead of large meetings.

The university is also planning more continual cleaning in common areas and on commonly touched surfaces.

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Mayor shares spotlight, highlights housing in ‘State of the City’ In formal address, Adrian Fine invites community members to weigh in on their concerns

by Gennady Sheyner jobs-rich areas. He was the council’s sole supporter of the bill, which was authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener and which fizzled in the state Senate in January.

While opponents of SB 50 derided it as an attack on local control (Councilman Eric Filseth devoted a large portion of his own “State of the City” speech last year to critiquing the bill), Fine suggested that the city has many opportunities to exercise its zoning powers to create housing — it just hasn’t done it. He alluded to the 2013 referendum that killed a proposed housing development on Maybell Avenue, which would have included 60 units for low-income seniors and 12 single-family homes, and the city’s recent troubles in creating a new vision for the Ventura neighborhood.

“Put simply, do we have the will to solve this housing crisis, or are we going to dither?” Fine asked.

While Fine didn’t offer any specific proposals for boosting the housing supply, a goal that the city has struggled to achieve, he made a case for being more accepting of duplexes and houses with three or four units. He also used the Stevenson House, a residential

Coronavirus

Shikada said.

The city also plans to prioritize hygiene at upcoming city events and is conducting a review of its “operational contingency plans.”

City leaders have re-emphasized hygienic practices during the flu season and special protocols to its police officers and firefighters. Palo Alto is also maintaining communication with the county, school district, Stanford University and other agencies.

The city has created a webpage that will be regularly updated with information on coronavirus and local response to the outbreak at cityofpaloalto.org/coronavirus.

The city of East Palo Alto also is monitoring developments in the coronavirus outbreak and is communicating with San Mateo County leaders and the CDC. East Palo Alto residents can find more information from their city and county at smchealth.org.

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in a statement. “The department also will be conducting community surveillance to determine the extent of possible disease spread in our community.”

The statement did not specify the protocols or extent of the surveillance.

The county’s public health lab has testing kits from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Public Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody said at a Feb. 28 press conference in San Jose. The county’s emergency operations center is getting support from assistance teams from the California Department of Public Health and the CDC. As of March 1, there were no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Palo Alto, City Manager Ed Shikada said in an email. The city is continuing to monitor reports of exposures to the disease.

No changes have been made to city programs, though the public may notice some differences in departmental procedures. Employees and community are advised to stay home if they are sick and alert city managers “of any unusual circumstances that could indicate exposure.”

“We’re on top of it as much as any agency can be, recognizing there are unknowns and many possible scenarios ahead of us,”

Organizations canceling events

The threat of coronavirus has led the Stanford Theatre in downtown Palo Alto to close until further notice.

“This voluntary decision reflects only an abundance of caution. We are not aware of any infected persons having been at the theater,” general manager Cynthia Mortenson-Colombetti said in a statement issued Monday.

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n his “State of the City” speech Wednesday night, Palo Alto Mayor Adrian Fine adopted an approach that both felt familiar in a city where tech is king and that broke sharply with all prior mayoral addresses: crowdsourcing.

Departing from the norm, Fine invited members of the Palo Alto community, including residents, business leaders and volunteers, to share the spotlight with him and to offer their own thoughts about the state of the city in front of a crowd of about 100 people gathered at Mitchell Park Community Center.

He also used the wide-ranging and largely upbeat speech to call for more action on housing, offer a coronavirus update and discuss some of Palo Alto’s most pressing problems, including traffic congestion and a business environment that is showing signs of distress.

Fine, who is the City Council’s youngest member and staunchest housing advocate, touched upon the recent demise of state Senate Bill 50, which would have mandated relaxed city zoning restrictions near transit hubs and in

Palo Alto Mayor Adrian Fine addresses the crowd at his “State of the City” address at Mitchell Park Community Center in Palo Alto on March 4. community for seniors, as an example of the type of housing the city needs more of.

Fine recapped some of the council’s small victories on the housing front, including a zone change to enable 55 small units on El Camino Real and Page Mill Road, a development that will be

geared toward local employees.

Yet he also referenced the loss of 75 apartments as part of the pending conversion of the President Hotel, a historic, six-story building at 488 University Ave., into a hotel. The council, he said, will take up the issue of the hotel conversion later this year.

“But I find it funny that one of the most beautiful buildings in town would be illegal to build today: too tall, too dense and too little parking. Why can’t we do something like this again?” Fine asked.

The closure means the last two weeks of the film festival honoring Japanese film director and screenwriter Akira Kurosawa will be suspended. The festival was originally scheduled to end March 15, but the theater hopes to screen the remaining films at another date.

On Wednesday, Stanford University canceled or postponed upcoming museum events that could bring large grounds or affect sensitive groups: Stanford Department of Music has canceled all of its concerts through April 15, according to a post published Wednesday on its Facebook page. The date may change news of the coronavirus unfolds.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has increased disinfection practices in its theater for audiences, performers and staff members, according to a statement the Palo Alto-based company issued Wednesday. TheatreWorks is conferring on best practices with the League of Resident Theatres, Theatre Communications Group and theater colleagues across the nation.

“The safety and security of theater-goers and employees is our highest priority,” the theater company stated.

The company also plans to increase communication that encourages the community to follow CDC guidelines by regularly

washing their hands, covering their coughs or sneezes and staying home if they don’t feel well.

TheatreWorks is also providing “flexible ticket exchange policies for ticketholders.”

“We will be working closely with local health authorities as we maintain our scheduled events and performances and are in the process of making contingency plans if the virus continues to spread and further actions are needed,” the company announced.

all surfaces with disinfectants including phones, keyboards, tablets and door handles.

The recommendations do not include avoiding office environments or grocery stores where people do not typically gather tightly together.

Older and ill people at risk

The best current evidence shows that people are at higher risk for coronavirus if they are ages 50 or older, Santa Clara County’s Cody said at a press conference Tuesday. The risk of infection and its severity accelerates with age. Persons ages 80 and above are at the greatest risk.

People with underlying medical conditions are also at increased risk. These include: cardiovascular disease, heart disease, diabetes, chronic lung conditions, cancer and compromised immune systems. Persons with these conditions should avoid large gatherings such as concerts, parades and sporting events. Organizations serving seniors are recommended to cancel large gatherings, such as bingo games and movie screenings, and to clean

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How to take precautions

The Public Health Department encourages the public to take proactive measures to slow down the spread of the disease. Staff recommend people frequently wash their hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after touching surfaces such as doorknobs, elevator buttons, handrails and countertops.

Alcohol-based hand sanitizer is also recommended if hand-washing is not available. Officials also instruct the public to cough into a tissue or their elbow and avoid touching their faces.

Businesses can consider holding video or telephone conferences in lieu of in-person meetings, creating teleworking options, increase surface cleaning and adjusting their policies on absence. Q READ MORE: An article about how fears of the coronavirus are affecting local restaurants can be found on page 23.

Check PaloAltoOnline.com for the latest coronavirus news and updates.

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Everything Must Go! With the owner of The Oriental Carpet preparing to retire this year, everything in stock at the downtown Menlo Park store is on sale – with the steep discounts ranging from 50% to 80% off.

Owner Bruce Good amassed an incredible collection of high-quality hand-knotted rugs in his nearly four decades in the business, and he has more than 2,500 pieces left to sell in his Santa Cruz Avenue store. The store’s entire inventory is priced to sell.

“As I get closer to retirement, there will be more reductions – but less choice,” said Good. “The best pieces will go quickly.”

He’s seen some customers come in and buy a rug for every room in the house, he said. All the rugs the store sells are hand-woven and knotted from traditional producers and cooperatives in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal. The store has pieces in every standard size and offers an array of designs including traditional, contemporary and “transitional” – rugs that can be formal or casual, depending on the furnishings they’re paired with. The store offers rugs made from wool, silk and viscose, a material that looks and feels like silk but is more affordable.

Good says the majority of the rugs he sells are made of wool, which is the strongest and hardiest material. Viscose offers the soft feeling of silk but is easier to clean.

“I personally really like it,” he said. “You can put it into a family room without worrying about it.”

The store’s selection also includes a large number of antique rugs. Collectors appreciate how a rug’s colors soften over the years, giving the piece a fine and distinctive patina.

The traditional handcrafted method makes the rugs both beautiful and durable, said Good.

The Oriental Carpet has been serving Peninsula residents for 46 years, helping homeowners and designers achieve the look and feel that a beautiful, high-quality carpet can bring to a room. Good said the handcrafted rugs last forever – but his sale won’t.

If you’re looking for an attractive rug at an even more attractive price, now is the time to go shopping.

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Upfront ELECTION 2020

Glew, Becker take early lead in crowded state Senate primary

State Senate District 13 represents a large section of the Peninsula, including Palo Alto

most at $1,063,936, followed by Brownrigg, who raised $947,931.

Masur raised $575,532; Oliva raised $438,613; and Lieber raised $255,920.

Glew’s campaign, in contrast, raised $4,149.

“It’s gratifying,” he said. “The political machinery has a lot of influence on the elections.”

He said he suspected his campaign resonated with voters because he represented a more moderate choice.

Becker, a Menlo Park resident, said a lot more results still have to come in, and he will be keeping a close eye on them.

“I’m glad I’m doing well,” he said, regarding his early lead. “It’s better than a sharp stick in the eye.”

Throughout his campaign, he said, he worked to distinguish himself from the other candidates on climate issues, housing, transportation, child care and education.

Next in the early rankings are Lieber, from Mountain View, and Masur, from Redwood City. As of the afternoon of March 4, Lieber held a small lead over Becker as the top vote-getter in Santa Clara County, but ranked sixth in San Mateo County.

“It’s been a great race,” Lieber said in an interview. “I’m excited to see what the final totals are.”

Among Democratic candidates, Lieber has been singled out as a target of attack ads by independent

expenditure committees in the last few weeks.

In a written statement widely distributed by Lieber’s campaign, she said that Californians Allied for Patient Protection launched the negative ads after she refused to sign a pledge to keep medical malpractice limits where they were in 1975.

She said that the early March primary this year caught voters off-guard, and with the voter population’s strong education credentials, many people held onto their ballots in the days leading up to Super Tuesday.

“This is a wonky district where people do game out the math of when and who they should give their vote to,” she said.

Brownrigg, from Burlingame, said he too observed many voters still making up their minds in the weekend leading up to Super Tuesday.

He said he felt that in his campaigning there wasn’t anything specific about his message — focused on affordability, climate and education — that didn’t resonate with voters. The larger challenge was making “100,000 new friends,” he said.

Oliva, a Democrat from Millbrae, declined to comment, and Masur could not be reached for comment. In a voicemail, Webster said that he opposed California’s top two system and believes there will be two Democrats facing off in the November elections. Q Mountain View Voice Staff Writer Kate Bradshaw can be emailed at kbradshaw@mvvoice.com.

our housing demand to other communities, and the result is traffic,” Fine said.

Fine also suggested that the local economy is showing signs of strain, as evidenced by increased vacancies at Stanford Research Park, including the recent departure of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The city’s economy, he said, isn’t as strong as it used to be. He also suggested that the city has become overly regulated and, as such, less competitive than other cities.

“With a recession on the horizon, we need to address this,” Fine said.

Another community gem that is now in danger, he said, is Antonio’s Nut House, a famously unpretentious bar on California Avenue that is well-known for its gorilla cage, floors covered in peanut shells and diverse clientele. As the Weekly reported last week, the landlord has hinted that he is planning to sell the land.

“You may have heard that the Nut House will potentially close if the lot is sold,” Fine said. “So I challenge everyone here, anyone listening, anyone listening

to this recording: If you have the resources and the interest, please step up to help save this community gem! I think it would be a real shame if we lost our dive bar.”

Fine then handed over the spotlight to 10 members of the community: Lisa Van Dusen, a sustainability activist; Jon Goldman, a partner at Premier Properties; Jade Chao, president of Palo Alto Council of PTAs; the city’s Fire Chief Geo Blackshire; resident and serial entrepreneur Mike Greenfield; Amy Andonian, CEO of Avenidas; Zareen Khan, owner of Zareen’s; Jon Cowan, director of local government and community affairs at Stanford Health Care; Fred Balin, a resident and government observer; and the Rev. Kaloma Smith, pastor at University AME Zion Church.

Each talked about what they most like about Palo Alto and what they see as a challenge.

Blackshire lauded residents’ strong engagement in the community and said members need to become more prepared for emergencies.

“The challenge is getting the community to understand that

by Kate Bradshaw ith potentially 100,000 ballots still left to count in the state Senate District 13 race, early election results indicate that Republican Alex Glew and Democrat Josh Becker are leading in the seven-candidate contest.

As of 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 5, Glew and Becker each have 20.9% of the nearly 154,000 votes counted, according to election results reported by the secretary of state.

Democratic candidates Sally Lieber and Shelly Masur currently have 16.2% and 15.2%, while Annie Oliva and Mike Brownrigg are at 12.7% and 11.8% respectively. John Webster, the sole Libertarian candidate, has about 2.3% of the vote.

In California, the top two votegetters, regardless of party, move forward to the November election.

The large number of viable Democratic contenders for the seat appears to have split the primary vote in a district that leans strongly blue. As of the most recent count in mid-February among registered voters in the district, 51.5% are Democrats, 14.9% Republican and 28.5% have no party preference.

Glew, a Los Altos resident, expressed surprise at being an early front-runner. In a March 3 phone call, he said that he was especially surprised at the outcome given how little his campaign spent compared with the Democratic candidates.

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Fine also pointed to some of the symptoms of the housing shortage, including the growing number of residents living in vehicles and the heavy traffic during commute hours.

The city, he said, is now working with Santa Clara County and other partners to figure out ways to find housing for people living in their cars. In January, the council approved a “safe parking” program that would allow local churches to house up to four vehicles each on its property and that would require participants to partner with nonprofit groups to help families find regular housing.

To illustrate the city’s traffic problems and the city’s jobs-tohousing imbalance (which is estimated at greater than 3 to 1), Fine showed a slide of morning commuters on Page Mill Road and Hanover Street, with bumper-tobumper cars heading east toward El Camino and empty westbound lanes.

“We’ve effectively externalized

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Online This Week

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

Armed man robs CVS

Palo Alto police are looking for a man who they said robbed a CVS pharmacy on Middlefield Road on Sunday afternoon, making off with prescription drugs. (Posted March 4, 2:57 p.m.)

Voters back bond for college district

Unofficial election results show a Foothill-De Anza Community College District bond measure with sufficient votes for approval, while the campaign has acknowledged it appears unlikely a separate parcel tax will pass. (Posted March 3, 9:14 p.m.)

Scooters coming to city streets

After two years of delays, Palo Alto is preparing to join the electric scooter era this spring, when the city plans to start inviting companies to roll out their motorized fleets on local streets.

(Posted March 3, 12:42 p.m.)

History museum funding falls short

The Palo Alto History Museum, which has been trying since 2007 to fund the rehabilitation of the Roth Building at 300 Homer Ave., remains more than $3 million away from its goal of making the building suitable for occupancy, according to staff and consultants. (Posted March 2, 11:40 p.m.)

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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council has no meetings scheduled this week.

HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear a presentation by Kathryn Kaminksi, continuum of care manager with the County of Santa Clara Office of Supportive Housing; consider recommendations to the Finance Committee for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding for fiscal year 2020-21; consider proposals to restructure the commission’s calendar; and review work plan initiatives. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

they are the first line of defense,” Blackshire said.

Cowan lauded the city’s spirit of collaboration and strong knowledge base. A challenge, which is not unique to Palo Alto, is the tone of local dialogue and debates, he said.

“Unfortunately, in the political space today, it’s become more common to criticize or attack people’s motivation or what they’re thinking as well as their positions,” Cowan said. “We’re going to disagree and not always agree on things. But the more we can set that aside and focus on the policy and not the personal issue, the better solutions we can all find.”

Smith praised Palo Alto’s compassion and pointed to the Dec. 28 vandalism of his church, which later held a solidarity sitting that attracted 500 people. Yet partly because of the community’s diversity, many groups of people don’t really interact, he said.

“We have a great mix and aggregation of people walking in the street but they’re not living life together. Everybody goes to their own silo,” said Smith, who chairs the city’s Human Relations

Commission. “So the greatest challenge for us is: How do we as a community start building in organic and natural ways?”

While Fine’s address focused mostly local issues, the event featured numerous reminders of the top national story of the day: the spread of coronavirus. To ensure healthy hygiene, the city eschewed the usual pre-speech buffet and instead had top City Hall executives (as well as Council members Alison Cormack and Liz Kniss) serving up dishes at rows of tables set up against the back of the room.

Fine also used a portion of his speech to provide a local coronavirus update. While Palo Alto hasn’t had any reported cases, there are 14 cases in Santa Clara County as of Wednesday and one veteran who was transferred from another county in the state to the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System’s Palo Alto facility.

“It’s not a cause for concern, but we do need to be prepared,” Fine said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Transitions

Births, marriages and deaths

Norma Masako Dairiki

Arline Leckrone Elliott September 26, 1935 – February 23, 2020 Arline was born in Pittsburgh, PA on September 26, 1935, to Tanya and Roy Leckrone.

After receiving her B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, she immediately decamped for Palo Alto and the position of legal secretary for the director of the patent office at the Lockheed Missile and Space Co. She met her husband, David, over the bridge table at a Lockheed employees’ event. In 1962, they were married at the Swedenborgian Chapel in San Francisco. Their daughter, Laurie, was born two years later.

The family resituated several times (Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Menlo Park, La Jolla and finally settled again in Menlo Park). While in Washington, Arline worked at Common Cause, and in her spare time she played competitive tennis for a club in Bethesda and later for Alpine Hills in the Bay Area. She enjoyed entertaining friends and family and had a reputation for cooking memorable dinners, having created notebooks with recipes of all nationalities.

Arline and David met many friends in the Bay Area through membership in New Comers and its follow-on group, Encore.

In addition to wining and dining, one of her favorite activities with these groups was planning and leading walks that covered the history and architecture of many different parts of San Francisco, as well as organizing trips to special exhibits at museums in the City and on the Peninsula.

She loved an afternoon of bridge with friends or a walk at Shoreline in Mountain View and cherished the time spent with her grandchild during summer vacations, when the two of them explored the beaches of La Jolla Shores.

Always passionate about helping others, Arline volunteered for many years with Peninsula Family Service and provided families and older adults with support by fundraising and holding various positions within the organization. She is survived by her husband, David, her daughter, Dr. Lauren (Laurie) Croft, her son-in-law, Steve Croft, and her grandchild, Allison.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution to Mission Hospice, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides very effective support to individuals and their family members at a difficult time. The contact information is: Mission Hospice & Home Care, 1670 South Amphlett Blvd., Suite 300, San Mateo, CA 94402.

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Norma Masako Dairiki, a Palo Alto resident for 59 years, died on Dec. 4 at the Channing House retirement center. She was 93.

Born in Alviso on Jan. 16, 1926, to Matsune Kido and Tsunanori “Tom” Yoshida, she moved to Mountain View after her father got a job as a gardener at the Mountain View Pacific Press Publishing Company and her family built a house on Chiquita Avenue.

She attended school at Mountain View Academy. But in April 1942, after Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, she and her family were relocated to detention centers and internment camps — from Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, to Santa Anita Assembly Center in Arcadia, then Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Park County, Wyoming.

They were released early when the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, sponsored her family. In Lincoln, she met Setsuo Dairiki, a recent graduate of Stanford University who was also released early from the Tule Lake Relocation Center to teach military personnel engineering systems in Nebraska. They married in 1945.

After the war, she moved to Boston with her husband and later graduated from Boston University in 1948. The couple raised their three children and dog in a modern cooperative community known as the Kendal Common Area, with Setsuo as one of the original buyers who built a home on the purchased lot. In 1959, they returned to California and moved

to Montecito before moving to Palo Alto in 1960, when her husband took a position at the Stanford Research Institute.

In Palo Alto, she helped her family manage their real estate and worked as an accountant for a local interior decorator. She also took night classes in Chinese brush painting, eventually attaining Master Painter status in the 1970s. Her work was later featured in a oneperson show at Channing House.

She was generous with her talents, according to her family.

When her children were young, she worked at many local school events, and when she retired, she volunteered at Channing House.

She also travelled with her kids throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Galapagos Islands, and she spent a lot of time taking care of her six grandchildren.

“Norma thrived helping her family and was devoted to them,” her family wrote. In the last 15 years of her life, she and Setsuo lived in Channing House.

Predeceased by her brother Edward Yoshida and sister Alice Lehnhardt, she is survived by her husband, Setsuo of Palo Alto; children: Linda Dairiki Shortliffe of Palo Alto, Richard (Mamie) Dairiki of Los Altos; Robert (Christine Min) Dairiki of Atherton; siblings: Elly Yamamoto of Honolulu, Hawaii, Grace Kato of Camarillo, Frank Yoshida of Palo Alto, Peter Yoshida of Loma Linda; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

No services will be held, at her request. Memorial donations can be sent in memory of Norma M. Yoshida Dairiki to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Memory and Justice Endowment (heartmountain.org). Q

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

Feb. 26-March 4

Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Assault w/ deadly weapon . . . . . . .1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Strong arm robbery . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Theft related Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . .3 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Attempted theft from auto . . . . . . .3 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . .8 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . .7 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . .4 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . .5 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . .4 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . .1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . .1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . .8

Menlo Park

Feb. 26-March 3

Violence related Arson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Assault w/ deadly weapon . . . . . . .1 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . .7 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . .2 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . .7 Vehicle code violation . . . . . . . . . . .1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . .2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . .3 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . .2 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Info. case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Possession of stolen property . . . .1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

Webster Street, 12/15, 6:24 p.m.; child abuse/physical.

Amherst Street, 12/18, 4:07 p.m.; child abuse/physical.

164 California Ave., 2/7, 10:44 p.m.; strong arm robbery.

E. Bayshore Road, 2/8, 4:31 a.m.; assault w/ deadly weapon.

Bryant Street, 2/21, 7:30 p.m.; elder abuse/physical.

East Bayshore Road, 2/23, 9:08 a.m.; domestic violence.

Alma Street/Homer Ave., 2/27, 3:05 p.m.; assault/peace officer.

Ramona Street, 3/1, 8:49 a.m.; battery/family violence.

Menlo Park

1200 block El Camino Real, 2/26, 9:02 p.m.; arson.

Glenwood Avenue/Garwood Way, 2/28, 1:05 a.m.; arson.

1300 block Willow Road, 3/2, 11:38 p.m.; assault w/ deadly weapon.

Editorial An RV parking plan

Santa Clara County seeks local property owners willing to lease their parking lots, short or long term, for supervised overnight RV parking

hen the Palo Alto City Council in January took the tepid action to allow local churches and temples to host up to four vehicles overnight in their parking lots, it was little more than a token, feel-good step. At most, it may create a place for a dozen or so vehicles, all of which will be required to leave every morning and return in the evening.

It was a half-hearted attempt to help a handful of the car and RV dwellers who have taken up residency on city streets and was accompanied by so many requirements and limitations that it may discourage churches from moving forward.

But in an initiative that has much more potential to move the needle, Santa Clara County is proposing to work with Palo Alto and Mountain View to locate unused or underutilized privately owned parking lots in the two cities (which could include churches) and to assume responsibility for renting them and contracting with nonprofits to manage 24/7 safe parking programs.

The county has already invested $750,000 in safe parking programs as part of addressing what is rightly considered a regional homeless problem, but Supervisor Joe Simitian proposed it go a step further. In January, the Board of Supervisors approved Simitian’s proposal, which could, with the cooperation of commercial property owners with vacant buildings and/or excess parking capacity, offer a more humane and safe alternative for the many people who are currently living in vehicles on El Camino Real and on city streets.

The concept is to relieve both Palo Alto and Mountain View city governments from developing and overseeing separate safe parking programs of their own and let the county take the lead. The county already is working with several nonprofits at existing lots in San Jose, Morgan Hill and in the west valley area, as well as on two public lots in Mountain View. The county’s administration of the program will also provide some political insulation for city officials from potential anxiety in neighborhoods and opposition.

The program is focusing on opening up lots that will operate day and night, so cars and RVs don’t have to leave every morning.

Most car and RV dwellers are employed, but their vehicles, especially RVs, can’t be accommodated at their job locations.

The county and the nonprofit that will operate the sites will provide liability coverage for the owners and ensure there are portable bathrooms, maintenance and security plans, social services and on-site supervision. Each month residents must renew their request to remain in the lot. The model has been working in the lots already established without neighbor complaints, according to Simitian.

Whether sufficient private parking lots are available in the north county to handle a meaningful number of vehicles is a threshold question, and finding them is the county’s initial priority. Simitian, who represents both Palo Alto and Mountain View, is personally reaching out to commercial property owners in both cities this month and will hold public informational meetings next Wednesday in Palo Alto and Thursday in Mountain View for those owners who may be interested.

Parking lots will likely be associated with buildings that are vacant and awaiting redevelopment approvals, so use of them as safe parking lots for vehicle dwellers would be temporary. The larger the number of vehicles that can be accommodated the more efficient and effective the program, compared to the four-vehicle restriction Palo Alto has imposed on churches desiring to help.

(The Palo Alto trial program is limited to churches and temples; other privately owned lots are not eligible.)

Safe parking programs are being launched throughout the state and region as a way of helping mostly the working homeless and to assist in transitioning them to permanent housing. Mountain View’s program includes two city-owned parking lots, which can each accommodate up to 30 oversized vehicles, in addition to church lots.

The number of homeless people who are living in vehicles in Santa Clara County is estimated to have more than doubled, from 8 to 18 percent, between 2018 and 2019.

The county’s efforts, on a regional basis, make much more sense than having individual cities establish their own programs without experienced and dedicated staff.

We hope commercial property owners will be open to the county’s initiative and that nearby residents will view it as a safe way to provide a temporary solution for many living on the edge. Safe parking lots aren’t a solution to the homeless crisis, but they are a good first step at helping those who are employed and desperately trying to survive in one of the nation’s worst housing markets. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Castilleja listens

Editor, The writers of last week’s guest opinion stated that traffic is “especially difficult for the residents across from the drop-off locations,” but our neighbors across from our main entrance on Bryant Street all support Castilleja School’s modernization project and proposed enrollment growth.

This highlights a crucial fact the opinion piece did not: Castilleja has different neighbors with different opinions, many who support the school. Over time, the school has worked hard to integrate a range of feedback from those different voices. The garage itself was designed in response to neighbors who said they would only support our project if it included underground parking. Those neighbors wanted parking removed from neighborhood streets. The Draft Environmental Impact Report analyzed the underground garage and found that it was superior to surface parking and that it improved the aesthetic of the neighborhood.

Furthermore, our successful shuttle program and remote parking have already cut daily car trips to campus by 25% to 30%, and our proposed conditional use permits mandate no additional car trips to campus even with increased enrollment. The underground garage will not bring more traffic, period.

In our project alternative submitted in February, Castilleja significantly reduced the proposed garage size — also in response to some neighbors’ concerns. Listening to many different neighbors and adjusting our plans accordingly has been our practice since this process began.

The documents we have on file with the city tell a story of steady updates to our plans in response to neighbors’ needs. Gathering neighbor feedback began in 2012, and the school has been iterative and responsive with changes that address noise, traffic and aesthetics.

To suggest that Castilleja has not

listened and responded to neighbors is patently false.

Lorraine Brown Walter Hays Drive, Palo Alto

Castilleja doesn’t exist in a bubble

Editor, As a longtime Palo Alto resident and current Castilleja School employee, I am responding to last week’s Guest Opinion about Castilleja.

Castilleja doesn’t exist in a bubble. It’s precisely why the school enrolls many students who aren’t from Palo Alto — to increase opportunity for girls who don’t have access to options on par with Palo Alto Unified District. Every single day, Castilleja is working to make it possible for more young women from different backgrounds to become the next wave of leaders in our communities.

The writers of the Guest Opinion ignored the steps the school has taken to address neighbors’ needs.

For example, some people opposed the removal of two homes on Emerson Street. Castilleja responded to the feedback and now these homes will remain. Other neighbors expressed concern about removing mature trees. Castilleja listened and now more trees will be preserved.

And, because of concerns about the impact of an underground garage, Castilleja significantly reduced the size of its proposed garage. This is not “zero incentive to include neighbors’ needs.” This is Castilleja listening and responding.

Castilleja is seeking to enroll 25-27 additional students per year, over four years, and can do so with no growth in traffic because of its mandatory traffic-demandmanagement program. The school already offers shuttles and buses to reduce car trips to campus and will offer more if enrollment increases.

If daily car trips to campus should increase, Castilleja will be required to halt its incremental growth.

Lastly, the continued suggestion

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that Castilleja should split its campus like other schools is a faulty comparison. These other local schools had far greater increases in enrollment than Castilleja is seeking and added entirely new divisions, which warranted separate campuses.

I am proud to be associated with Castilleja and applaud the spirit of compromise with which the school has engaged.

Kathy Burch Marion Avenue, Palo Alto

Dear cyclists

Editor, I give the city of Palo Alto and the Planning and Transportation Commission an “A” for at least trying to come up with solutions and being mature enough to listen to complaints.

My pet peeve, however, is with Alma Street and Oregon Expressway. In the last year or so, the number of bicyclists on Alma between Embarcadero Road and the overpass to the San Antonio Caltrain Station has increased dramatically.

Do these bikers not know in what danger they put themselves and the vehicles next to them? Do they not know that Park Boulevard and Bryant Street, on both sides of Alma, are viable alternatives to the narrow lanes of Alma? Cyclists effectively close the right lane of Alma to car traffic when they’re on it.

I think the City Council should aggressively curtail bikers from using Alma. (Now I see more and more bikers on Oregon Expressway as well.) Signs, fines and alternate bike routes should be posted and enforced. And listen to the cyclists: Why do they use Alma? How can you improve the existing bike boulevards on both sides of Alma so cyclists use them?

The City Council needs to address this issue, which causes traffic slowdowns and poses a real danger to everyone involved. And bicyclists need to stop using Alma for their commute.

On these narrow roads, bikes and cars cannot and should not coexist.

Let’s implement the separation of bike roads versus no-bike roads.

Peyma Oskoui Tioga Court, Palo Alto

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Inside the popular websites where young adults are anonymously spilling their secrets

by Elena Kadvany

t was Sergio Charles’ first week of college at Stanford University this fall. He felt homesick and isolated and didn’t know where to go to express his emotions.

He turned to the internet.

In September, Charles started Cardinal Confessions, a Facebook page for students to anonymously share confessions of all kinds, both light-hearted and serious — stress, insecurities, relationship angst, questions about a course or grades, politics, campus gossip. He wanted to create a positive online community that would open up real-life conversations and create connections on a campus wellknown for “duck syndrome” — a metaphor for students, like ducks, acting calm on the surface but paddling furiously to stay afloat (even though ducks are inherently buoyant).

“At Stanford, (with) duck syndrome, everyone acts like they’re doing well but that’s not necessarily true. As an antidote to that, I thought, why not create a forum where everyone can communicate?” Charles said.

Confessions pages are a growing phenomenon at universities and high schools across the country, including locally. Gunn High School has had at least two popular Confessions pages; one was shut down by the administration in 2013 but was revived by students last year and now has more than 9,000 posts. Palo Alto High School has its own page, though it’s less active.

Nearly 20,000 people follow the

Confessions from the UC Berkeley page, including graduates and prospective students. At Stanford, there also are spinoff pages, such as Class Confessions, which is run

by First Generation and/or Low Income Partnership (FLIP) and aims to foster dialogue about socioeconomic class identity.

For high school and college students living with ratcheted up pressure of all kinds, from academic to social media-driven, the ability to express themselves anonymously and unfiltered offers a rare kind of catharsis. Posts about mental health challenges in particular are often met with supportive comments, offers to talk privately and advice on how to get help.

But the student-run pages raise thorny questions about censorship, free speech and safety for their moderators, who without any training are tasked with filtering out posts that could be harmful, derogatory or libelous. In some cases, Facebook removes posts that the students have approved or even shuts entire Confessions pages down for violating the social media company’s terms of service.

While there’s “enduring value” in people being able to give voice to their innermost thoughts anonymously, anonymity is ripe for abuse, said Jeff Hancock, founding director of the Stanford

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Social Media Lab. “It’s perhaps not a surprise that something that allows you to remove your official identity and play with identity and figure out, what is it like to say ‘I’m struggling? What is it like to be mean?

What is it like to bare my soul?’” has surged in popularity, he said.

“There are a lot of reasons why adolescents and young adults can find value in anonymity.”

Confessions pages are like holding up a mirror to the lives of a particular group of people, Hancock said.

Sometimes what’s expressed under the shroud of anonymity online

can require a response in real life.

At the University of California, Berkeley, for example, an online confession about mice and bedbugs in a campus dorm last March got picked up by local news outlets and was addressed by the university. At Gunn, a post sharing outrage about the administration’s response to reports of sexual assault galvanized a group of students to meet in person to discuss ideas for advocacy.

In one extreme case, a Gunn student who submitted an anonymous shooting threat to the Gunn Confessions page last December led to Palo Alto police taking the

Gunn Confessions and Cardinal Confessions are Facebook pages where students’ innermost thoughts are posted for others to read. student into custody for a mental health evaluation. (The submission was never publicly posted to the Facebook page.)

“I think it can be a healthy outlet when the posts are constructive and aid students in moving forward in a positive way,” Gunn Principal Kathie Laurence said of the Confessions page, which is not officially affiliated with the school.

“It can also be very harmful by creating a negative spin and subsequent piling on of negativity, a sort of groupthink and group polarization can take place. This is not constructive.”

Gunn High School student Erin Vetter is one of two moderators of the Gunn Confessions page this year.

In December, she reported a school shooting threat, which had been submitted to the Confessions page, to police, out of concern for students’ safety.

Unfiltered consciousness onfessions pages read like students’ unfiltered streams of consciousness.

“It’s been a rough quarter so far, but everyone just looks like they are so on top of everything. I feel like a failure.”

“People in the US are in no place to criticize Chinese people about creating coronavirus.”

“Wishing you all a good week.”

“Who has the biggest biceps at Gunn?”

“Is it true that If you get two C’s first semester senior year that UCs can rescind you?

“I took on a bunch of new work this semester to distract myself from my break up but in the quiet moments my heart hurts so f— much.”

The pages allow students to stay anonymous by using Google forms to accept their submissions, which the page moderators review before posting to the page. The administrators can’t see who submitted confessions. The Gunn Confessions form reminds students of content that won’t get posted — offensive comments about a named person, advertisements, “blatant” troll posts, repetitive or vague comments, hate speech, cyberbullying, negative accusations — and that their submission might be “modified to be less explicit or offensive.”

The page also lists a text number and hotline for mental health support.

“All I do is read the confession to make sure that there’s nothing that is outwardly annoying, mean and or spam, to make sure no one’s directly hating on someone,” said senior Erin Vetter, one of two students who moderates the Gunn page. “It kind of is wishy washy in that there is no one set of rules.

“If it seems genuine, then you post it, but if it’s just spam, then you don’t post it,” she said. “I have some things that I just I don’t feel comfortable posting — like if it’s about someone else, I think, ‘If it was about me, would I want someone to say it?’”

Before she was a moderator, Vetter was an avid fan of Gunn Confessions, checking the page obsessively during lunch and breaks at school. She was one of the students who responded with enthusiasm to the post about sexual violence advocacy.

“I think it’s being able to hear someone’s secrets, but also yourself being able to stay anonymous,” she said of the page’s appeal. “We live in a bubble community, so there are a lot of things that you might want to say that you aren’t allowed to socially. I think that’s why it blew up so fast.”

In some cases, students’ online confessions have revealed problems that required a real-world response.

Vetter was at home on a Thursday evening, reviewing posts, and was the first to see the submission.

It threatened a shooting at Gunn the next day. She immediately took it seriously.

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She and the other student-moderator contacted the Gunn graduate who started the page, now a college student, and together they wrote a letter to send into the police department’s tip line.

She also called 9-1-1; because the threat was made about the next school day, she worried that action wouldn’t be taken soon enough.

‘I think it can be a healthy outlet when the posts are constructive.

It can also be very harmful by creating a negative spin and subsequent piling on of negativity.’

—Kathie Laurence, principal Gunn High School

She heard back from a police detective and then, late at night, got a call that the student had been identified and that it would be safe to go to school the next day.

For Vetter, the underlying sentiment of the submission — which she described as deep frustration with the academic pressure cooker that many students experience at the Gunn environment — was worth paying attention to. She wishes it had opened up more conversation about school shootings and mental health at her high school. (That Friday, she said only one teacher in her seven classes brought it up, and only to warn students against spreading rumors.)

The anonymous shooting threat made Vetter take her role as moderator more seriously.

“It makes me read the confessions a little bit deeper and take it a little bit more seriously,” she said.

“It made me feel like, OK, someone needs to be here.”

The gatekeepers’ challenges ehind the scenes of every Confession page is a student or group of studentmoderators acting as the gatekeepers for both powerful and potentially harmful posts.

This is often a subjective process, the moderators acknowledged.

If a post is “outwardly harsh,” Vetter said, “it ends up being, ‘Well, what do you think is outwardly harsh? What do you think is spam?’”

In 2013, the previous Gunn Confessions page was shut down after concerns about posts criticizing a Gunn staff member, according to student newspaper The Oracle. At

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the time, Palo Alto school administrators said they contacted Facebook more than once to get Confessions pages deleted, according to a 2013 Palo Alto Weekly story.

“There is a certain power that people get from a sense of anonymity and they feel they can write things to an individual that they would never say to their face,” then-Principal Katya Villalobos told The Oracle. “Even though I didn’t have a real jurisdiction over Gunn Confessions, I was very disappointed because it didn’t match what I know our students to be.”

Laurence said she’s “uncomfortable” with profanity on the Gunn Confessions page.

“I believe that we all need to take a step back and, before posting something, ask ourselves, ‘Is this something we would be comfortable with our parents, grandparents, friends seeing? Is it something that we would like to see written about us? Is it kind or is it intended to hurt someone?’” she said.

When Charles first started Cardinal Confessions, he would read each submission and post it manually. But as word about the page spread beyond Charles’ freshman dorm and the number of submissions grew, he decided to automate the process. Every submission automatically posts to the page within five minutes, so he has a short window to determine whether they’re appropriate. This system usually runs without issue, but not always. In one case, a submission alleging an inappropriate relationship between a student and a dorm

‘There are a lot of things that you might want to say that you aren’t allowed to socially. I think that’s why it blew up so fast.’

—Erin Vetter, moderator, Gunn confessions page

resident assistant was posted to the page. A resident assistant almost immediately contacted the page and asked Charles to take it down, which he did. Posts about suicide have been quickly removed by Facebook, he said.

“The whole thing with automated posts ... it enforces this idea that censorship isn’t very good, but at the same time, it also had ramifications,” Charles said.

He had to create ground rules for the page, including asking users to stop tagging other people in comment threads that can run awry. A thread about a party at his dorm turned contentious and personal — it was finals week, so some students were upset that a party would be happening and called out other students directly — so

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Spencer Hill, a senior at University of California, Berkeley, looks at the Confessions from UC Berkeley Facebook page, which he created and moderates, outside the campus library in Berkeley. he eventually removed most of the comments.

“I’m fairly tolerant of most things. I don’t like censorship too much,” Charles said. “I think I need to be a little more stringent, quite frankly, if the page is going to improve in quality of content.

But at the same time there’s been some criticism about censoring certain topics.

“I have to take certain precautions,” he said, “in how much I try to censor and how much I don’t try to.”

Spencer Hill, who started the Berkeley Confessions page in 2018, also struggles with his responsibility as a moderator. His vision for the page is a “real depiction of people’s deep thoughts” that provokes thoughtful conversation on campus.

Posts about sexual assault allegations are particularly difficult, he said.

“You want to post them for the purposes of giving those people their voice and not silencing them but you also can’t post them because of the imitations of the Facebook page and also the limitations of being a responsible moderator of content. It really has to be dealt with on a case by case basis and it requires a lot of thought,” he said. “I’ve had to learn some lessons about what you can and can’t do.”

Recently, he posted a confession accusing a leader of a campus organization of sexual harassment because it didn’t name the person. It resulted in the organization reaching out to the page for more information.

Facebook has sometimes stepped in, flagging posts about race or removing ones that the

social media company deemed as “too sexual” or as hate speech, Hill said. As the page administrator, Hill’s account is then restricted from posting for a few days by Facebook.

Behind the Berkeley page is a team of about a dozen people, both current students and graduates.

Some of their names are listed on the Facebook page, which is unusual, as many moderators remain anonymous themselves.

Hill, a senior majoring in applied math with a concentration in data science, said he made a conscious choice to not be anonymous.

“It holds you to a higher level of accountability, which I think is good,” he said. “If you were anonymous you might be tempted to do some crazier things, fearing no repercussions to your real self.”

Reshaping digital accountability ifferent anonymous social media pages and apps cycle through a rise and fall among teenagers and young people every few years, Hancock noted. Several years ago, anonymous messaging app Yik Yak dominated college campuses, including Stanford, before it shut down in 2017 following criticism that it allowed for cyberbullying and racism. Students also used Yik Yak to post shooting and bomb threats.

When Confessions pages are at their best, Charles said, they provide a “platform for communicating with others and expressing yourself in a way that you’re not constrained by any social stigmas.”

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Stanford University freshman Sergio Charles, who moderates Cardinal Confessions, created an iPhone app called “Campfire,” which is geared toward creating a positive, anonymous online social environment.

Confessions (continued from page 19)

In a recent Cardinal Confessions post, a student described feeling hopeless and unable to sleep. In another, a student divulged a childhood sexual assault. Others have expressed struggling with what

Charles had experienced when he arrived on campus — feeling alone and inadequate in a place defined by so much outward success.

This dichotomy, Charles believes, is at the core of why Confessions pages have become so popular at high-pressure universities across the country.

“It’s a reflection of the fact that

we’re all humans,” he said. “We all go through something.”

The pages also underscore a need for more conversations about mental health on college campuses, students said.

“There shouldn’t be a stigma around just discussing how you feel on a certain day, but there is.

I think a lot of that is attributed

to the perception of these places as paradises, which they’re not,” Charles said. “It’s sort of incredulous to think that they should be.”

Vetter said she felt similarly after the shooting threat.

“Why are we having so much stress that causes people to want to hurt other people because of the stress? Why are we having so much stress that causes people to want to hurt themselves?” she asked. “I think we need to better address the stress we have in our community so we can deal with it.”

Charles also recently launched an app that brings together all of a user’s Facebook pages, including Confessions and other groups, in one place. Called Campfire, the app’s tagline is “be yourself, beyond picture perfect moments.”

Charles modeled the app after philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s social contract theory, which asserts that laws are only binding when they are collectively agreed upon by all citizens. On Campfire, users have to contribute positively — which is measured by other users’ “up” or “down” votes — otherwise they lose the ability to post anonymously. A post with 90% “down” votes will be automatically deleted and the user will be prevented from posting until their vote score reaches a set threshold.

(This also puts moderation in the hands of the online community rather than a single administrator.)

“We want to enable freeexpression and be a space for

vulnerability, connection and support,” a Campfire description states. “We want to reshape digital accountability through our social contract point system where you are anonymous until you have broken community standards.”

Despite the success of Cardinal Confessions, Charles — who is studying computer science (CS) and math — believes fervently that the social media page isn’t a substitution for in-person connection. But he does see it having his intended effect: When the page blew up with concerns about the party at his dorm, students who wrote online that they felt unsafe or unable to raise concerns about their living environment prompted a dorm meeting and the RA’s to create an anonymous feedback system, Charles said.

When students have voiced grief on the page, others reached out with offers to meet in person to talk further.

“I think people should, and society in general — and this is coming from a CS major — instead of resorting to the technology, actually have meaningful, real-life conversations with people,” he said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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

cantor reveals more of its world-class photography collection ‘Outside Looking In’ focuses on the lives of others

by Sheryl Nonnenberg hen the Cantor Arts Center received a gift of 1,000 photographs from the Capital Group Foundation last year, it must have been very tempting to present all of the prints in a blockbuster-type exhibition. Instead, curator Elizabeth Mitchell wisely decided to select works from the gift to be shown in three separate shows. The current exhibition, “Outside Looking In: John Gutmann, Helen Levitt and Wright Morris,” is on view in the Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery at Cantor until April 26.

The first installment featured two masters of modern photography, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.

This current display is quite different, as it presents three artists who worked during the nascent years of social documentary, or “street photography.” If Adams and Weston sought to portray the beauty and grandeur of nature, Gutmann, Levitt and Morris looked at the urban landscape and the changes wrought by the Great Depression and, later, World War II. “This exhibition focuses on the approach taken by each photographer when they used their cameras to observe the lives of other people,” Mitchell said.

Helen Levitt was notable not only because she was a pioneering woman photographer but also because she was one of the first to experiment with color photography. Her prints in this exhibition are poignant glimpses of inner city children playing and people interacting — just going about their everyday lives. A wall statement explains that she used a right-angle lens, so her subjects were unaware of what she was doing. The results are spontaneous slices of life.

In the “New York” series from 1940, we see two small African American boys sitting on a street curb. One is comforting the other as he cries into his crumpled hat.

The slight blurring of the boy’s arm as he reaches for his friend confirms that Levitt was capturing a special, fleeting moment in time.

We get a sense of place, thanks to the wrought-iron fence and front stoop steps, but the boys are front

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and center in the composition and it is their sweet and innocent interaction that we remember.

In another print we see a tableau that could be a classical frieze (or a scene from “The Godfather”).

Four men, all gazing away from the camera, are caught in a moment of pensive contemplation.

Given their close proximity, they probably know one another but are completely isolated in their own thoughts. In the background, a young girl, in a pose very similar to a Raphael cherub, observes the scene. It’s an enigmatic picture — Why are these men together? Why are they so serious? In another print from the series, Levitt captures the uninhibited happiness of a little girl and boy dancing in the street.

These were, undoubtedly, hard times and impoverished neighborhoods but Levitt was able to find small moments of joy.

Gutmann’s work offers a different perspective on American life, probably because he was an “outsider.” Born in 1905 in Germany, he emigrated to the U.S., as so many other European artists did, in order to flee the Nazis. He settled in San Francisco, worked as a photojournalist and taught at what is now San Francisco State University. His black-and-white prints, taken with a Rolleiflex camera, tend to focus more on the quirky aspects of American life. In “The Beautiful Clown” (1940), two circus performers are captured in a close-up, double portrait. Fully made up, they seem a bit grotesque and we wonder why they chose this unusual profession. The woman, who stares at the clown in admiration, must be a fellow performer — maybe the one who works with the knife-thrower or who swings from a trapeze? Gutmann also displayed a sense of whimsy and humor in “Artist Lives Dangerously”(1938), a print showing a small boy creating a chalk drawing on the street while cars whiz perilously close by.

While the Levitt and Gutmann photographs in this exhibition are categorized as “street theater,” the work of Wright Morris is about places and spaces without people.

Morris was born in Nebraska and

Cantor Arts Center’s current exhibition includes the street photography of Helen Levitt. Photos courtesy of Cantor Arts Center Collection, The Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection at Stanford University. attended Pomona College. He bought his first camera (a Rolleiflex) in 1934 and found a way to combine his first avocation, writing, with photography by creating photo-texts (short narrations that accompanied photos). He did find success as a writer and, like Gutmann, also taught at San Francisco State. In this exhibition, his prints depict the places he knew while growing up in Nebraska. These are quiet studies, composed and shot with an eye towards capturing a facet of life in middle America that was quickly going away. “Stove and View of the Parlor” (1947) could be a museum period room, with the prominently placed cast-iron stove, rocking chair and floral-patterned carpets and curtains. In “Eggs in Pot,” Morris hones in on a humble subject but arranges it so carefully,

so artfully, that we might imagine they are precious objects.

“The works I selected by Wright Morris demonstrate what he did best: construct precise, haunting images,” noted Mitchell.

The Capital Group gift adds to what was already a prestigious collection of photography at the museum, including the archives of Andy Warhol and Civil Rights documentarian Bob Fitch.

In addition to the prints, the gift included funding for a curatorial fellowship position. “We just hired Maggie Dethloff as assistant curator of photographs and new media, and the future will tell how we continue to grow,” said Mitchell.

When one remembers that it was Leland Stanford who initially funded the groundbreaking motion photography work of Eadweard

Muybridge, it all seems like a natural evolution that the university he and wife Jane founded would become home to such a valuable collection. Q A version of this story first appeared at thesixfifty.com.

Freelance writer Sheryl Nonnenberg can be emailed at nonnenberg@ aol.com.

What: “Outside Looking In: John Gutmann, Helen Levitt and Wright Morris.”

Where: Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Way, Stanford.

When: Through April 26. Museum hours are Wednesday-Monday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open until 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Cost: Free.

Info: museum.stanford.edu/ exhibitions.

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Arts & Entertainment THEATER REVIEW

Whodunit?

The audience decides at Foothill’s winsome Dickensian music hall ‘Mystery’

by Karla Kane

Due to coronavirus, Stanford has canceled some events Stanford University announced on Tuesday that it decided to postpone or cancel events on and off campus likely to attract 150 or more people, including Second Sunday Family Days at the Cantor Arts Center and Anderson Collection, and all Department of Music concerts scheduled through at least April 15. A full list of event changes can be found at stanford.io/2IqF5Te.

Cast members (Brenna Sammon, Zach Goller, Rachelle Abbey, David Murphy, Heather Orth, Linda Piccone, and Benjamin Ball) urge audience members to vote on the ending of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” presented by Foothill Music Theatre.

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What: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.”

Where: Lohman Theatre, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills.

When: Through March 15; Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 2 p.m.

Cost: $15-$36.

Info: foothill.edu/theatre/ productions/Drood.html.

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previously enjoyed her recent performance as a very different type of English lady, Mrs. Bennet in TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s “Pride and Prejudice,” Orth has become one of my favorite local performers.

The band, led by Amanda Ku as Maestra of the Music Hall Royale Orchestra, sounds jauntily terrific and the period costumes by Julie Engelbrecht are the right combination of lush and shabby chic, although I’d like to see a bolder look for Princess Puffer.

To no small degree, the success of “Drood” productions rely on the enthusiasm of the audience.

On opening night the crowd, no doubt including friends and family of the cast, certainly delivered, playing its part with gusto and offering a well-deserved ovation (which is not something I always encounter at FMT). It may well be that “Drood” works better in an intimate environment like this than in an enormous Broadway theater.

Because the ending can vary each performance, it’d be interesting to see more than one show, to explore how different audience votes can change things. After all, those Netflix or bookshelf murder mysteries will still be waiting for you at home later but this charming “Drood” runs for a mere three weeks. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com

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Drood’s uncle John Jasper (Mr. Clive Paget, played by Benjamin Ball), whom audiences are instructed to boo at every opportunity. But what about the mysterious Landless siblings just in from Ceylon (Miss Janet Conover and Mr. Victor Grinstead, played by Rachelle Abbey and David Murphy, respectively)? How about Drood’s naive fiance and object of Jasper’s lust, Rosa Bud (Miss Deirdre Peregrine, played by Brenna Sammon) or the mildmannered Rev. Mr. Crisparkle (Mr. Cedric Moncrieffe, played

by Aaron Hurley)? Could it be the cockney opium-den madam Princess Puffer (Miss Angela Prysock, played by Heather Orth) or the alcoholic cryptkeeper and stone mason Durdles (Mrs. Nicky Cricker, played by Linda Piccone)?

“Drood” has probably the highest-caliber cast I’ve seen at FMT. Great performances abound, but the two finest come from Orth, doing her best Angela Lansbury as the music-hall grande dame belting out the show’s standout number, “The Wages of Sin,” and John Mannion as Mr. William Cartwright, the company’s leader, narrator and fill-in actor. Mannion has an extensive improv-comedy background and it pays off marvelously in his role as host and audience engager. His responsibility for whether the production sinks or soars is great and, happily, he is up to the task.

The characters of Miss Janet Conover and Mr. Victor Grinstead as white English actors portraying “exotic” foreigners Helena and Neville Landless, boasting purposely ambiguous accents and stereotypical costumes and choreography, poke fun at outdated racist/colonial notions while still veering a bit too close to genuine brownface.

I don’t, as it happens, like pina coladas, but Holmes’ “Drood” soundtrack is full of authenticsounding music hall songs with modern twists, including the dizzyingly quick “Both Sides of the Coin,” “Never the Luck,” sung by the minor Dickens character/ scene stealer Bazzard (Mr. Phillip Bax, played by Zach Goller) and Princess Puffer’s jazzier song “The Garden Path to Hell,” which, again, Orth nails. Having

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here is a temptation to stay home on a winter’s night, raid your bookshelf or fire up Netflix and curl up with a juicy British murder mystery.

But why do that when you could get all the gothic drama plus a dose of literary trivia, laugh-outloud comedy and excellent music — all while supporting community theater? Not to mention the chance to participate in the production yourself.

Regular readers will know that audience participation is something I normally eschew. This is still the case, but I make an exception for a musical that I enjoy very much — “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” — especially when it’s an essential part of such a funny and lively version as is currently offered by Foothill Music Theatre (FMT).

Directed by Milissa Carey, “Drood,” written by Rupert Holmes (yes, the “Pina Colada song” guy) is based on an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens.

The Lohman Theatre is transformed into a Victorian British music hall (set design by Carlos Aceves) with the cast portraying a ragtag team of players. These players, in turn, are also the cast of “Drood,” creating a showwithin-a-show format. And, because Dickens died before the story was complete, the musical’s main gimmick is that the audience gets to vote on key plot elements, meaning numerous ending scenarios are possible, and the cast has to be ready to accommodate them all. To reiterate, most of the cast members are responsible for at least two roles — their Victorian performers and the Dickens characters they are depicting.

If you’ve ever been to the Great Dickens Christmas Fair, the vibe of “Drood” is very similar, including the bawdy humor, melodic music-hall merriment and, of course, Dickens. The plot of “Drood” (the show within the show) concerns plucky young Edwin (played by “male impersonator” Miss Alice Nutting, played by Chloe Angst), whose disappearance and likely murder sets off a cloud of suspicion in the quaint town of Cloisterham.

Whodunit? The most obvious candidate is angelic-voiced but bedeviled choirmaster and

Eating Out

by Jeanne Aufmuth Photos by Magali Gauthier alifornians have a long and affectionate history with Mexican food. Indeed most of us were raised on some form of south of the border comfort fare. That said, it’s a refreshing change of pace when that sentimental staple gets a contemporary reboot, as it does at California Avenue’s Sun of Wolf.

Sun of Wolf’s roots run deep in the community, a second-generation affair owned by three cousins related to Hector Sol, owner of longtime Mexican favorite Palo Alto Sol — where my own grown daughters cut their teeth on soft chicken tacos and cheesy quesadillas. Sol’s daughter, Paulina — a Cordon Bleu-trained chef — runs

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the kitchen, while cousin Victor tends bar and serves as proprietor. Paulina’s sister, Alexa, oversees design and operations. Sun of Wolf strives for an old-world Mexican roots meet modern Bay Area sensibility — resulting in an eclectic array of global offerings, from shrimp ceviche to a hearty lasagna.

Sun of Wolf’s interior is a cool mix of traditional and edgy — whitewashed walls with glowing candles set into altar-like alcoves in decorative harmony with sleek, polished lighting. The warm wooden bar is a convivial spot for sharing a glass of wine or one of many alluring mezcal-based cocktails. The bar opens at 4:30 p.m. for happy hour, with elote asado (grilled corn) and tacos, among other small noshing delights.

On a recent visit we started with one of my favorite Sun of Wolf specialties, the pescado crudo ($16): crispy rounds of corn tortilla topped with a tangy hamachi ceviche, bright with notes of herb and citrus and topped with guajillo chili oil. The queso fundido ($12) is another crowd-pleaser, a little platter of velvety melted cheese and Spanish chorizo served with warm tortillas, perfect for a chilly winter evening. The empanadas ($16) were less inviting. They arrived generously stuffed with a robust mix of Swiss chard and sweet potato, with a piquant side of lemon agave slaw, but suffered from a doughy exterior that could have used some extra time in the fryer.

Yet another excellent starter, sized as an entree, is a large,

Top: The pescado crudo comes with three masa and huitlacoche tostadas topped with avocado purée, sushi-grade hamachi, a seasonal fruit, pico de gallo, micro cilantro, guajillo chili oil and serrano peppers.

Above: Bartender Josue Orellana mixes cocktails at Sun of Wolf in Palo Alto.

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aromatic bowl of pozole verde ($16), a fragrant tomatillo-based broth chock full of hominy and oyster mushrooms. Many of Sun of Wolf’s dishes are served with the restaurant’s house-made purple potato chips, lightly salted and addictively crunchy.

The entree section of the menu is a journey through the continents, a cuisine best described as California globe-trotter, with less emphasis on Mexican and more on that Bay Area vibe. A perfectly prepared red snapper ($30) was emboldened with a tasty roasted red pepper sauce, while the scallop pasta with a mandarin reduction ($28) delivered an essence of Asian fare.

I had long heard rumors of a killer double cheeseburger ($19) that got rave reviews from friends.

Naturally I was skeptical — a burger is not exactly my go-to in a Mexican-inspired eatery. But the rumors are true, and this one ticked all the boxes: a thick, beefy patty of ground brisket and chuck, perfectly pink and beautifully seasoned, with a punch of sharp cheddar on a warm brioche bun. The accompanying French fries came out thick-cut and hot.

The occasional dish falls short, mostly due to lack of balanced seasoning. A generous platter of tender carnitas ($29) was a tad bland, whereas the duck confit tacos ($22) were rich with earthy, slow-simmered flavors. Perhaps my favorite of all the mains is the maja lasagna ($18), a Sol family recipe abundant with creamy layers of chipotle-tomatillo sauce, spinach and sun-dried tomatoes.

A destination dish well worth a visit.

Everyone has a restaurant litmus test by which to judge a kitchen’s

true savvy. One of mine is crème brûlée; if done wrong it’s a grainy, gloppy flop; if done right, it’s downright ethereal. Sun of Wolf’s blood orange brûlée ($9) falls into the latter category: an exotically scented beauty; silkily textured custard topped with a dark caramelized shell that’s a lovely counterpoint to the pillowy softness below. Absolutely no sharing required.

Sun of Wolf’s service is perpetually friendly and often downright homey, steeped in an intimate charm that has long been a hallmark of the Sol family empire (which includes Mountain View’s Vive Sol and Redwood City’s Quinto Sol). The dining room is casual and the atmosphere relaxed, without the frenetic pace and accompanying soundtrack that can quickly extinguish a nice evening out. Sidewalk dining, perfect for peoplewatching, is a plus in the warmer months. Q Freelance restaurant reviewer Jeanne Aufmuth can be emailed at jmaufmuth@gmail.com.

Sun of Wolf, 406 California Ave., Palo Alto; 650-3258888; sunofwolfpa.com Hours: Monday-Saturday, 5:30 p.m. to last call. Happy hour 4:30-6 p.m. Closed Sunday.

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Peninsula restaurants, including Chef Chu’s and Vina Enoteca (above), are seeing a decline in business due to fears of the coronavirus.

Coronavirus looms over local restaurants, slowing business

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by Elena Kadvany t Chez TJ in Mountain View, chef Jarad Gallagher saw an unprecedented drop in Saturday reservations: from 40 to 18 in a number of hours.

Vina Enoteca in Palo Alto is estimating a $50,000 loss from a number of private event cancellations — and is expecting more next week.

Chef Chu’s in Los Altos has watched dine-in business drop by 15%, mostly from corporate customers, but takeout is up.

As paranoia about the risk of coronavirus spreads, many, though not all, local restaurants are seeing an impact on their bottom lines, especially due to canceled private events and large group reservations — particularly by local tech companies, owners said.

Not all are explicitly connected to the coronavirus, but owners see a link with the timing of the spread of the virus, particularly in Santa Clara County, where 14 cases were confirmed as of Thursday.

Restaurants are taking extra precautions to educate and protect their staffs, including stocking up on disinfection wipes and hand sanitizer, talking about prevention before service and emailing articles and up-to-date information.

At the Michelin-starred Chez TJ, where waiters usually fold diners’ napkins when they get up from tables, they’re instead replacing the napkins with new ones to minimize contact.

“People are just being more cautious,” said Larry Chu, the general manager at Chef Chu’s.

“It’s like going to the supermarket and seeing all the shelves of dried pasta and dried foods and toilet paper all empty. I think panic comes from fear.”

Chu said the Chinese restaurant’s dining room has been more filled with local regulars than out-of-town corporate diners of late. Google recently canceled a 20-person event.

Chef Chu’s was set to provide soup for Community Services Agency’s annual Empty Bowls Soup Supper this Sunday, but the Mountain View nonprofit postponed it after the county Public Health Department recommended that older adults

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avoid large events where they might be exposed to coronavirus.

Chu predicted that Chef Chu’s deep roots in the community would mostly insulate it from a more concerning drop in business. But smaller, family-run Chinese restaurants might not be so lucky, he noted.

(Restaurants in San Francisco’s Chinatown reported steep declines after word spread of the coronavirus’ origin in Wuhan, China.)

“I think people that come here, that live here are comfortable with the local Chinese restaurants and they’re supporting us,” Chu said.

“It’s not like going to Chef Chu’s is any different from going to eat at an Italian restaurant or a French restaurant.”

Gallagher said he’s concerned about the domino effect the coronavirus could have on the local food industry. Fewer reservations means fewer tips for his front-ofhouse staff. Travel restrictions and tech companies’ quiet urging of employees to stay home and not attend social events could mean fewer people dining out — particularly at high-end restaurants like Chez TJ. “I believe that we will, from a health perspective, get this taken care of. The economic effects on our area,” however, Gallagher said, “could be lasting for quite some time.”

“The economic effects are greater than just our restaurant,” he added. “It affects our farmers. It affects our farmers markets. It affects our producers. Everybody takes a hit in the hospitality industry.”

Down the street from Chez TJ, business has been “noticeably slower” at Steins Beer Garden, said owner Ted Kim. He’s seen canceled reservations at both Steins locations in Mountain View and Cupertino but said that he’s not aware of any customers mentioning concerns yet in person.

“For at least a portion of the public it doesn’t seem like a significant enough concern to prevent them from dining out,” he wrote in an email. “Really hoping this passes over soon before we really start (to) see business drop. I can see it headed in that direction.”

Steins is asking employees to stay home if they show any signs

of illness and will send staff home if they arrive and appear sick, Kim said. The restaurants are buying more disinfection wipes and tubs of hand sanitizer for staff, have spent more time cleaning and disinfecting and are offering more trainings on proper hand-washing and refraining from face-touching. Staff are receiving companywide emails with any new information or updates related to the virus, Kim said.

Zareen Khan, owner of the eponymous Zareen’s in Palo Alto and Mountain View, has been making “contingency plans” to prepare for cost reductions and ways to increase revenue, such as promotions to help boost sales. She’s ordering hand-sanitizing stations for her restaurants (though it’s hard to find Purell, she said) and informing her employees about prevention, including through posters written in Spanish for Spanish-speaking staff.

Not all local restaurants have seen a drop in business. Restaurant group Bacchus Management Group said its four Peninsula establishments — The Village Pub and The Village Bakery in Woodside, Selby’s in Redwood City and Mayfield Bakery & Cafe in Palo Alto — are doing well, though private dining at Spruce in San Francisco has been affected “slightly” due to the cancellation of large tech conventions.

Meichih Kim of Maum in Palo Alto, a small, Michelin-starred Korean restaurant with prepaid reservations, said bookings have slowed but the restaurant is still nearly fully booked. The chef and co-owner said they’re purchasing a hand sanitizer stand for guests as they walk in.

Peter Katz, owner of local burger chain The Counter, said he’s been reading and anecdotally hearing about the impact on food businesses but it hasn’t yet materialized at his restaurants.

“It’s concerning, even though I think it is quite an overreaction,” Katz said. “It may turn out to be that the economic impact is more serious than the actual health impact to the vast majority (of people).” Q Staff writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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When teen elf Ian Lightfoot (Tom Holland) receives a magical staff on his 16th birthday, he sets out on an adventure to spend a day with his father, who died before he was born, in Pixar’s new fantasy/ adventure “Onward.”

Mages of grief

‘Onward’ another hilarious, heartfelt fantasy adventure from Disney/Pixar 0001/2 (Century 16 & 20, Icon)

Processing grief who died before he OPENINGS means working toward was born. While older acceptance, a profound acceptance brother Barley (Chris Pratt) and that allows for forward movement. mom Laurel (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) While keeping its grief in plain loved and lost Ian’s father, all Ian sight, Disney/Pixar’s “Onward” has are photos and an old audio also positions itself as a story cassette recording, which he uses about the spirit of limitless adven- to synthesize a conversation with ture, the lost wonder of childhood. the man he never knew.

In that respect, “Onward” emBut Ian’s birthday present turns braces the paradox of recapturing out to be one heck of a gift from what’s been lost even as it insists his father: a magical staff that, if on moving ahead. properly outfitted, can be wielded “Onward” may repeatedly get to cast a visitation spell. Ian can behind trusting one’s gut rather bring his father back for one day, than being practical, but it’s pri- allowing for the bonding experimarily interested in taking its ences of Ian’s dreams. Lest it all premise to the benign territory of be too easy, an interruption to the the inner child and the love of fam- spell leaves Dad restored only ily. On his 16th birthday, teenage from the waist down, forcing Ian elf Ian Lightfoot (Tom Holland) and Barley on a quest to restore can’t help but yearn for the father power to the staff. Off they go,

with Laurel in loving pursuit, to finish the spell and bring back the rest of their late father (Octavia Spencer’s manticore-in-midlifecrisis and Mel Rodriguez’s centaur-cop Colt Bronco eventually join the chase).

It’s all a lot more straightforward than it may sound, and wildly manipulative in its emotional underpinnings, but “Onward” works smart to earn its sentiment. The consistently clever screenplay director Dan Scanlon co-wrote with Jason Headley and Keith Bunin clearly lays out character dynamics ripe for triumph: Ian’s angsty lack of confidence, Barley’s reputation as a “screw-up,” Laurel’s largely untested “warrior” skills. One typically pithy scene employs a spell that requires truth-telling to yield empathy for one character (Colt, who’s also Laurel’s boyfriend) and stoke productive conflict between the brothers. There’s colorful visual appeal in the film’s highly detailed world-building (and the “Weekend at Bernie’s”-style sight gags involving the boys’ Dad-ona-leash), ultra-expressive character animation to complement the fine voice cast, and there’s even thematic synergy in the original score, composed by real-life brothers Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna.

All in all, “Onward” proves itself a very sweet and entertaining blend of whimsy and peril.

The screenwriters act as robust dungeon masters, throwing up obstacles to overcome and gleefully biding their time to pay off a well-planned campaign, and at least one chase sequence had kids laughing in uncontrollable, full-throated hysterics for a solid 5 minutes. When they catch their breath from laughing, kids will walk away with the manticore’s motto — “You have to take risks in life to have an adventure” — and a newfound appreciation for their families. Not bad for a couple of hours at the movies.

PG for action/peril and some mild thematic elements. One hour, 42 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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Senior Focus PLAYING MAHJONG ...

Instructor Sylvia Jeans offers free sessions in Chinese Classical Mahjong Mondays, 1-4 p.m. at Avenidas, 450 Bryant Street. Participants can join an ongoing game or sign up for two lessons in consecutive weeks.

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DEATH CAFE ... Mission Hospice will sponsor a “death cafe” Tuesday, March 10, 3-5 p.m. at Rose Kleiner Center, 270 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. Death cafes offer people a chance to share their thoughts and questions about death in a supportive and safe environment. There is no agenda. Mission Hospice describes the death cafe as a discussion group, not a support group or counseling session. Tea and snacks will be served. Participation is free but registration is required. Go to missionhospice.eventbrite.com or contact Susan Barber at 650532-2396.

AGE OF SOUL ... Author and rock historian Richie Unterberger will present “The Golden Age of Soul,” including film clips of greats such as Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Otis Redding on Tuesday, March 24, at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. The event is part of the JCC’s Community Tuesdays series. It will be held 1-2:30 p.m. in the JCC’s Schultz Cultural Arts Hall. $15. For more information, contact Michelle Rosengaus at 650 223-8616 or mrosengaus@paloaltojcc.org WISE OWLS ... The Avenidas drama group Wise Owl Players will present “Ten-Minute Plays and A Hundred Laughs” on Tuesday, March 24, at 3 p.m. and Friday, March 27, at 7 p.m. at Avenidas, 450 Bryant Street, Palo Alto. The 90-minute comedy is a dramatic staged reading appropriate for all ages Tickets, at $10, can be reserved by calling 650 289-5400 or purchased at the door. For more information, contact Enid Davis at eahdavis@yahoo.com.

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RE-INVENTING AGING ...

Avenidas will open its doors Saturday, March 21, for its first-ever “Re-Inventing Aging Fair.” Participants will be able to meet instructors, see class demonstrations, learn about sleep secrets and decluttering, sample refreshments from the Redwood Cafe and participate in stretching and exercise. Drop-in from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Ralph reads a book at the dining room table in his Palo Alto apartment. His terminally ill wife, Sue, decided to legally end her life last year using California’s End of Life Option Act.

Sue’s farewell: A Palo Alto ‘end-of-life’ story How a terminally ill woman used a new law to die with dignity

by Chris Kenrick lmost completely bedridden, in pain and determined to avoid the grim final stages of her rare neurodegenerative disease, Sue decided it was time to legally end her life.

She had researched California’s End of Life Option Act more than a year earlier, and meticulously complied with each step of the law.

On her chosen day in March of last year — having said her farewells to devastated, but accepting, family and friends — Sue, 78, sat up in the hospital bed in her Palo Alto home, kissed her husband and drank a lethal dose of medication that had been prescribed by her physician.

Sue’s husband, Ralph, offered a tender account of his wife’s use of California’s law at a recent gathering at Avenidas Village, a membership organization that provides resources and support

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to seniors who choose to age in their own homes. He decided to share his story to provide insight and dialogue on a topic that’s not always easy to talk about.

Ralph said it was important to Sue that her family accept and support her choice, though some members might not have made the same choice for themselves.

“It was as dreadful experience as I’ve had, but I really don’t think it’s any different than having a loved one who died on their own,” said Ralph, who asked that their full names not be published.

“I miss Sue terribly — I still do and I always will.”

In June 2016, California became the fifth state to allow physicians to prescribe drugs to terminally ill adults who are of sound mind and request such assistance to end their lives. The End of Life Options Act requires patients to take specific steps to

obtain the lethal prescription, including two oral requests — at least 15 days apart — to a physician, a written request, and separately, confirmation by a different physician.

During the first 2 1/2 years after the law took effect, prescriptions were written for 1,108 patients, according to the California Department of Public Health.

But because the law was so new at the time of Sue’s decision, many healthcare professionals were not familiar with the process, Ralph said. Sue’s neurologist, as well as her primary-care physician of 30 years, had no experience with the law, he said.

And when Sue decided it was time to ingest the lethal medication, the owners of the small care facility in Sunnyvale — where she’d lived in her final months after Ralph could no longer care for her — refused to allow her

to do it on their premises. That necessitated a complicated transfer back to the couple’s Palo Alto home.

A hospice social worker, who helped care for Sue in her last four months, arranged to move Sue’s hospital bed back to Palo Alto and to transfer her by ambulance.

“All this occurred like a whirlwind in the course of 24 hours,” Ralph said.

“In the meantime, Sue’s doctor, who’d never been through this before, had contacted Compassion & Choices (a nonprofit that advocates for patient-directed care at the end of life) and been educated about how to proceed with the paperwork and how to deal with the medication.”

Ralph said the physician had trouble finding a pharmacy that was willing to grind up the (continued on page 30)

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medication.

“It was questionable right down to almost the last minute, and finally they said ‘Yes, you can pick it up,’” Ralph said.

When Ralph asked the pharmacist what he should expect, the pharmacist said he wasn’t sure because he’d never filled such a prescription.

The next morning Sue was determined to drink the medication.

Within five minutes, she was unconscious. She remained in that state for 10 hours, Ralph said.

“During those 10 hours, although she was unconscious, and I’m sure she didn’t feel anything, it was agonizing for her daughter and me,” Ralph said. “We had no

idea what to expect.”

Christina Goodwin, California state manager for Compassion & Choices, said physicians today have a combination of medications that work more quickly, putting patients to sleep within 5 or 10 minutes and taking full effect within two hours.

“There have not been any instances of it not working,” Goodwin said.

In 2018 — the latest reporting period available — 180 physicians prescribed aid-in-dying drugs to 452 individuals across the state, according to the health department. About 69% of patients had malignant cancers, followed by 13.1% who had neurological diseases, such as ALS or Parkinson’s disease. Nearly 90% were receiving hospice or palliative care.

A 2019 survey by the California Health Care Foundation found that 3 in 4 Californians support the law, which was initially appealed and then reinstated by the California State Supreme Court.

Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, Vermont and Washington, D.C., have similar legislation.

In signing the End of Life Option Act in 2015, then-Gov. Jerry Brown wrote “I do not know what I would do if I were dying in prolonged and excruciating pain. I am certain, however, that it would be a comfort to be able to consider the options afforded by this bill.

And I wouldn’t deny that right to others.” Q Contributing writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly.com.

More about California’s End of Life Option Act California’s End of Life Option Act became effective on June 9, 2016. The Act allows terminally ill adults living in California to obtain and self-administer aid-in-dying drugs. The Act requires the California Department of Public Health to provide annual reports. Here are highlights from 2018, the latest reporting period available: • 180 physicians prescribed aid-in-dying drugs to 452 individuals.

• Of those patients, 314 died after ingesting the prescribed drugs; 59 died from their underlying

illness or other causes; the “ingestion status” of the remaining 79 cases was unknown.

• The median age of patients who died from the drugs was 74.

• 76% of those patients were between 60 and 89 years old.

• 51% were female.

• More than 80% had at least some college education.

• More than 88% were white.

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Senior Focus (continued from page 29) America’s Got Talent, will direct the Avenidas Choir in singing popular songs and show tunes on Friday, March 27, 3-4:30 p.m. at the Community School of Music & Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Free. The choir is a joint venture of Avenidas and CSMA. CHRONIC INFLAMMATION ... Sally Duplantier, founder of the health and

wellness company Zing, will discuss how to know whether you have chronic, lowlevel inflammation and what to do about it on Tuesday, March 31, from 1-2:30 p.m. in Room E-104 of the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. $15. For more information, contact Michelle Rosengaus at 650 223-8616 or mrosengaus@paloaltojcc.org

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MARCH 2020

Basic Ballroom Dance Demo 12:30-1:30pm, Avenidas@Cubberley. This will be presented in Mandarin and English. Call 650-289-5409 to register or for info. Free

Mar 3

Avenidas Walkers 10am – every Tuesday. Call 650-387-5256 for trailhead info or to schedule. Free

Mar 4

Presentation: “Know the Ten Signs� by the Alzheimer’s Association 1:30-2:30pm, Avenidas@Cubberley. This will be presented in Mandarin and English. Call 650-289-5409 to register or for info. Free

Mar 5

Discussion: “We Are All Aging – Let’s End Ageism� with author, Ashton Applewhite 12-1:30pm, Senior Planet @Avenidas. Call 650 918=-5570 for more info or to register. Free.

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Presentation: “Photo Journeys with ,WF[ ,QWTPG[ VQ %NQUG WR 9KNFĆƒQYGT Photographyâ€? with Judy Kramer 10-11am, Senior Planet @Avenidas. Call 650 918-5570 for more info or to register. Free.

Live Stream: Connecting to the Internet Lecture 12:30-1:30pm, Senior Planet @Avenidas. Call 650 918-5570 for more info or to register. Free.

Mar 9

UNA Film Festival: Who’s Counting?

Marilyn Waring about Sex, Lies and Global Economics 3-4:30pm @ Channing House Drop-in, free. Sound Bath 3-4pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Call 650-2895400 to register, $25/$30.

Mar 10

Travel Presentation: Dubai 11:15am-12:15pm, Avenidas@Cubberley. This will be presented in Mandarin and English. Call 650-289-5409 to register or for info. Free

Mar 11

Book Club: There, There by Tommy Orange 2:30-4pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Drop-in, free.

Mar 12

Avenidas Hikers 9:30am – every Thursday. Email Susan at Susanj1942@gmail.com for trailhead info or to schedule, 0/$5.

Avenidas Village Coffee Chat 2pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Space is limited.

RSVP required. Call 650-289-5405. Free.

Mar 13

Social Bridge – every Friday 1-4pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Call 650-2895400 for more info. Drop-in, free.

Mar 16

Classical Chinese Mah Jong – every Monday 1-4pm, Avenidas@459 Bryant. Call Sylvia 650327-6216. Free.

Mar 17

Presentation: “Count Us In: Census 2020�

11-11:30am, Avenidas@Cubberley. This will be presented in Mandarin and English. Call 650289-5409 to register or for info. Free.

Mar 18

Presentation: “Smart Driver Tek� by AARP 10-11:30am, Avenidas@450 Bryant. RSVP required. Call 650-29-5400. Free.

Mar 19

Tinnitus Support Group 6:30-8:30pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. For more info, contact Ken: karmtac@aol.com. Free.

Mar 20

Club Aveneedles (Needlework Club) – every Friday 2-4 pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Bring your own project. Light instruction only. Drop-in, free.

Mar 21

Spring Open House and Conference Mashup 10am-2pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Call 650289-5400 for more info. Dro-in, free.

Calendar of Events Mar 23

Sound Bath 3-4pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Call 650-2895400 to register, $25/$30.

Mar 24

Avenidas Wise Owl Players present: “TenMinute Plays and 100 Laughs�

3-4:30pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Tickets in advance by calling 650-289-5400. $10 Avenidas Village Coffee Chat 2pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Space is limited.

RSVP required. Call 650-289-5405. Free.

Mar 25

Santa Clara County House Sharing Program Informational Presentation 11am-12pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Call 650289-5400 for more info. Free.

Movie: “Dance of a Dream,� in Mandarin with English subtitles 1:30-3:30pm, Avenidas@Cubberley. Call 650289-5409 to register or for info. 0/$2

Mar 26

Book Club: Ask Again, Yes: a novel by Beth Keane 2:30-4pm Avenidas@450 Bryant. Drop-in, free.

Mar 27

French Art History Lecture with RenĂŞe Morel 10-11:30am, Avenidas@450 Bryant. This lecture will be in French.

RSVP required. Call 650-289-5400. Free.

Avenidas Choir Concert 3pm Community School of Music and Arts. Call 650-289-5400 for more info. Free.

Avenidas Wise Owl Players present: “TenMinute Plays and 100 Laughs�

7-8:30pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Tickets in advance by calling 650-289-5400. $10

Mar 30

Who Dunnit? Mystery Reader’s Discussion Group 1:30-3pm. Call 650-289-5400 to register. Free.

Mar 31

Massage appts available 10am-1pm, Avenidas@450 Bryant. Call 650289-5400 for appt. $35/$45

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ere comes the sun and a plethora of classes to take in the Midpeninsula. With so many classes offered in the area, we’ve prepared a new guide to let you know what’s out there, where to go and how to sign up. Take a language course, do Tai Chi, even learn to ice skate right in the middle of spring—whatever it is, there are a lot of ways to ensure this season doesn’t go to waste.

Business & Tech CareerGenerations

2225 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto 650-320-1639 info@careergenerations.com careergenerations.com CareerGenerations offers group workshops and programs to meet the career needs of a variety of individuals, including college students looking for internships, graduates looking for employment and those re-entering the market.

Dance Brazivedas

53 Shorebreeze Court, East Palo Alto 650-644-7343 / brazivedas.com Brazivedas offers classes in Brazilian dance, music and martial

arts for all ages and experience levels. Classes are held at several venues, including Lucie Stern Community Center, Stanford University and a home studio in East Palo Alto.

Dance Connection

4000 Middlefield Road, L-5, Palo Alto / 650-322-7032 info@danceconnectionpaloalto.com danceconnectionpaloalto.com Dance Connection offers a preschool combination class for preschool-age children (beginning at age 3), graded classes for youth and adults and other programs to meet dancers’ needs. Ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, lyrical, Pilates and other instruction is available for students at various levels of ability.

See which classes are available for registration online.

Registration for spring clinics and summer camp is now open.

Zohar School of Dance & Company

4000 Middlefield Road, L-4, Palo Alto / 650-494-8221 zohardance@gmail.com zohardancecompany.org With roots going back to 1979, Zohar School of Dance holds a range of adult dance classes in jazz, contemporary, modern, ballet, musical theater and tap. Though mainly an adult studio, Zohar also welcomes younger students. View class schedules and 2020 events online.

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3005 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-752-8061 admin@kimgranttennis.com kimgranttennis.com The Kim Grant Tennis Academy organizes an array of tennis classes and programs for adults and children, including those with special needs.

4000 Middlefield Road, M-4, Palo Alto / 650-327-9350 mjchan@ttopa.com / ttopa.com At Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto, established in 1973, students learn the classical Yang Style Taijiquan Slow Form style of tai chi. Beginner classes start monthly. Check online for schedule.

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Youth volleyball starts April 14, and registration is currently open online.

3009 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-493-4566 / winterlodge.com Winter Lodge has offered ice skating classes and family recreation for over 60 years. There are group lessons for ages 4 and up. Spring classes are in progress, but applications are still being accepted.

1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 650-856-0881 / baylandsgolflinks.com Private lessons — teaching golf technique, rules and etiquette — are available at any level of experience. Check online for spring registration.

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Uforia Studios

819 Ramona St., Palo Alto 650-329-8794 / uforiastudios.com Uforia Studios offers exercise classes incorporating dance (pop and

Spring Class Guide hip-hop), cycling (Revolutions and Revolutions: Road) and strength and cardio (Grit). View available classes and reserve online.

Avenidas

4000 Middlefield Road I-2, Palo Alto 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto 650-289-5400 / avenidas.org Avenidas offers many classes, as well as lectures and workshops, for Midpeninsula seniors focusing on topics such as general health, physical fitness, languages, humanities, computing, music and writing. Membership costs, fees and class descriptions are listed on the website.

Special needs Bay Area Friendship Circle

3921 Fabian Way, Suite A023, Palo Alto / 650-858-6990 info@bayareafc.org / bayareafc.org The Bay Area Friendship Circle offers programs for children, teens and young adults with special needs ages 2 to 22 year-round as well as winter and summer camps. Trained teen volunteers provide one-on-one friendship and support. For more information about summer camp or to register for programs, visit the website.

Language courses Berlitz Palo Alto Language Center

New Mozart School of Music

2100 El Camino Real Suite C, Palo Alto / 650-324-2373 info@newmozartschool.com newmozartschool.com New Mozart School of Music offers music lessons and classes year-round to students of all ages and abilities.

Piano, violin, viola, cello, voice, guitar, flute and early childhood music classes are available.

Pacific Art League

668 Ramona St., Palo Alto 650-321-3891 info@pacificartleague.org pacificartleague.org The classes and workshops at the Pacific Art League are taught by qualified, experienced instructors for children and adults with varying experience. Instructors teach many mediums, including drawing, painting, watercolor, printmaking, digital art and more. Registration for spring classes and workshops as well as summer camp is open.

Palo Alto Art Center

1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto 650-329-2366 cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/csd/ artcenter Palo Alto Art Center classes and workshops for children, teens and adults cover areas such as ceramics, painting, drawing, jewelry, sculpture, Adobe Photoshop and more.

159 Homer Ave., Palo Alto 650-294-4362 berlitz.com/language-centers/ palo-alto Berlitz provides adult and youth language instruction in Spanish, German, French, English and other languages.

Private lessons, tutoring, testing services and cultural agility training for businesses are also available.

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Silicon Valley Boychoir

Palo Alto High School, Tower Building, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto / 650-329-3752 adultschool@pausd.org paadultschool.org/class/ world-languages Classes are offered in Spanish, French, Italian and Mandarin Chinese. The classes cover beginning and advanced skills and sometimes literature and arts.

Mind & spirit Integrated Healing Arts

4161 El Camino Way, Palo Alto 650-493-7030 / iha@integratedhealing.org integratedhealing.org Integrated Healing Arts instructors teach classes on meditation, selfdevelopment, self-realization, tai chi, qigong and spiritual health.

Arts Art & Soul

Webster Street Studio, 2326 Webster St., Palo Alto 650-269-0423 artandsoul.paloalto@gmail.com artandsoulpa.com Art & Soul runs after-school art clubs throughout the week at Walter Hays and Ohlone elementary schools and Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, in addition to a club on Wednesdays at its studio. Programs allow children to explore drawing, painting and sculpture techniques, as well as develop their observational skills. Art & Soul also offers art and wine events for private groups. Register for after-school and summer programs online.

Town & Country Village, 855 El Camino Real, #57, Palo Alto 650-289-0019 / surlatable.com Sur La Table offers hands-on cooking classes, guiding students in making regional cuisines, themed meals or special foods such as bread, croissants and baked goods. Classes for kids, teens and adults are available.

600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto 650-424-1242 / julia@svboychoir.org svboychoir.org Silicon Valley Boychoir offers rehearsals, musicianship classes and performance opportunities to boys ages 7 to 17 across four levels of choir. Auditions by appointment are available.

Parent education Children’s Health Council

650 Clark Way, Palo Alto 650-326-5530 info@chconline.org / chconline.org Children’s Health Council holds a variety of classes touching on child mental health, dyslexia, anxiety and depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism and other topics related to encouraging all children’s success. All classes are taught by the organization’s experts.

Parents Place

200 Channing Ave., Palo Alto 650-688-3040 parentsplaceonline.org/peninsula A resource center for parents, Parents Place on the Peninsula offers workshops on subjects ranging from sibling rivalry to building a child’s self-esteem and confidence. Parent and child activity groups are also organized. View upcoming workshops online.

School days Amigos de Palo Alto

1611 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto 650-493-4300 info@amigosdepaloalto.com amigosdepaloalto.com Amigos de Palo Alto is a Spanishimmersion preschool for children 2

1/2 and older. Students are a mix of native and new Spanish speakers, and the program combines reading, writing, art and play to develop a love of learning. Amigos also offers Spanishimmersion after-school programs for kindergartners with some Spanish experience.

Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School

450 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto 650-494-8200 admissions@hausner.com hausner.com Instructing children in kindergarten through eighth grade, Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School provides academics, instruction in Jewish studies and the Hebrew language, enrichment opportunities and after-school programs.

Applications are now open online.

HeadsUp! Child Development Center

2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto 650-424-1221 / pacdc@headsup.org headsup.org/headsup HeadsUp! Child Development Center serves infants, toddlers and preschoolers (to age 6) with a full-day program, year-round. The Montessori curriculum focuses on building thinking skills and personal values. A bilingual Chinese-English preschool classroom is also available.

International School of the Peninsula

3233 Cowper St., Palo Alto 151 Laura Lane, Palo Alto 650-251-8500 / istp@istp.org istp.org International School of the Peninsula is an independent bilingual immersion day school with two nurseryto-fifth-grade programs in French and Mandarin Chinese as well as an international middle school program.

Some programs include media and technology, music, gastronomy and athletics classes.

Kehillah Jewish High School

3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto 650-213-9600 / kehillah.org This college-preparatory high school features modern science and computer labs, art and music studios, a drama program, a full range of academic courses with small class sizes, sports teams and more.

Oshman Family JCC Leslie Family Preschool

3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto.

650-223-8788 earlychildhood@paloaltojcc.org paloaltojcc.org/preschool The Oshman Family JCC’s preschool program provides one to five-daysper-week options for children 18 months to 5 years old (ages 2 to 4 at Congregation Beth Am), with an emphasis on experiential learning, family involvement and play. Parent/caregiver participation programs are available for children 12 to 23 months old.

Living Wisdom School of Palo Alto

456 College Ave., Palo Alto 650-462-8150 livingwisdomschool.org Offering daily yoga, meditation, and experiential, project-based learning, Living Wisdom School serves students in transitional kindergarten through Grade 8. It offers a 1:6 teacher-student ratio in kindergarten; an integrated arts program which includes music, theater, art and dance; a balanced approach to technology; and after-school care.

Meira Academy

3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto 650-485-3589 office@meiraacademy.org meiraacademy.org Meira Academy is a traditional, allgirls Jewish high school devoted to academic excellence in general and Jewish studies, preparing its students for college and seminaries in Israel.

Milestones Preschool

3864 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 650-494-0550 preschool@abilitiesunited.org milestonespreschool.org Milestones Preschool offers a yearround, project-based program that fosters the social, emotional, cognitive and physical development of children ages 2 to 5.

Sora International Preschool of Palo Alto

701 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto 650-493-7672 / info@sorapreschool. com / sorapreschool.com Sora International Preschool is an English-Japanese bilingual preschool for children 3 to 6 years old. The school combines early-childhood play experience, instruction in Japanese and English and exposure to both cultures through traditional events.

Something for everyone Palo Alto Adult School

Palo Alto High School, Tower Building, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto / 650-329-3752 adultschool@pausd.org paadultschool.org Classes on computers, language, cooking, writing, art, outdoors, finance and many others are available through the Palo Alto Adult School.

Registration is open. Spring quarter begins March 23.

Stanford Continuing Studies

Littlefield Center, 365 Lasuen St., Stanford / 650-725-2650 continuingstudies@stanford.edu continuingstudies.stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies organizes classes in liberal arts, sciences, creative writing and professional and personal development. Courses are held in the evenings or on Saturdays.

Stanford Continuing Studies also presents lectures, performances, conferences and other events. Register for classes online.

Class Guides are published quarterly in the Palo Alto Weekly, Mountain View Voice and the Almanac. Descriptions of classes offered in Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Atherton, East Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Portola Valley and Woodside are provided. Listings are free and subject to editing. Due to space constraints, classes held in the above cities are given priority.

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CO-EXISTING WITH COUGARS ... Mountain lions are a part of life in this area, especially on hiking trails and in neighborhoods close to the hills. Learn how to stay safe in mountain lion habitat in this presentation on Thursday, March 12, 5:30 p.m. at Hidden Villa featuring Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District’s Resource Management Specialist, Matt Sharp Chaney. His talk will cover mountain lion biology and habitat and what the current research says. The event includes interactive displays and a question-andanswer period. Hidden Villa is located at 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. For more information, call 650-949-8650 or visit hiddenvilla.org. 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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Landscape architect Juanita Salisbury repurposes small strips of underused land to plant gardens that provide sustenance for bees and other pollinators.

ell strip,” in landscape design lingo, refers to the unsightly, often ivy- or dirt-filled plots between the sidewalk and road. They line Palo Alto’s Oregon Expressway, Middlefield and Embarcadero roads, and are typically installed with the aim of beautifying streets, keeping pedestrians safe and managing stormwater runoff. But often, they become patches of no man’s land where dogs relieve themselves and trees struggle to grow.

For one Palo Alto landscape architect, this unused land spells opportunity. Juanita Salisbury is transforming these hell strips, along with the city’s parkway islands and medians, into pollinator gardens, which are habitat and food sources for bees, butterflies and birds. Creating a “corridor,” where pollinators can reliably find food along the stretch of land between the Baylands and Foothills Park/ Pearson-Arastradero Preserve is a policy outlined in Palo Alto’s Master Plan for 2030.

Five pollinator gardens — installed and maintained by Salisbury and fewer than a dozen volunteers she’s recruited — are the extent to which the corridor has been realized so far. Another local grassroots effort to help pollinators, the Palo Alto Garden Club’s Monarch Butterfly Project, is specific to monarch butterflies, focusing on planting a corridor of native milkweed, as well as nectar plants, to support the dwindling monarch population.

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worked independently with residential clients in the Palo Alto area, but she hasn’t always been a landscape architect. Salisbury received her Ph.D. in biopsychology and studied animal ingestive behavior during her postdoctoral work before deciding to enroll in a landscape architecture degree program in 1996. Through both careers, one element has remained consistent: “I love watching animals eat,” she said.

Salisbury thinks of plants as food sources, not decor, and she wants to feed the species on which everyone up the food chain depends: pollinators.

When designing landscapes, she said she’s “always thinking about the insect first.” Salisbury’s focus on providing nutritious diets to insects has led her to native plants, which insects find the tastiest.

Salisbury always has maintained her own garden — which doubles as an outdoor laboratory where she can consistently observe the species her plants attract and in turn give home-tested recommendations to clients.

But back in 2016, Salisbury’s backyard filled up. Meanwhile, she drove past a 4,000-squarefoot strip of lawn along Embarcadero Road every day on her way home.

“I was like, ‘I’m out of space ... what’s the worst that can happen if I ask the city?’” she said.

Eventually Salisbury asked Palo Alto Community Services Manager Mark Ribeiro about replacing the lawn with native plants. Her proposal resonated

Salisbury tends one of the pollinator gardens she has planted in a Palo Alto “hell strip.” with the city’s recently adopted Master Plan policy to “connect natural areas ... on public land to create wildlife, bird, pollinator and habitat corridors.” She raised funds on Gofundme to buy the plants and installed the Primrose Way Pollinator Garden with help from neighbors in late 2016.

Today, five gardens totaling approximately 10,000 square feet attract numerous species of birds, butterflies and bees. All located north of Oregon Expressway, the gardens are intentionally within walking distance from one another — a short enough distance that a bee can easily fly between them. And Salisbury now has a much bigger laboratory from which to observe insect ingestive behavior.

But because she’s using public land, Salisbury can’t just focus on science. Before planting a new garden, she conducts outreach and gives neighbors a chance to share feedback on the plans. Typically, she said, she hears little in response. In one case, a neighbor handed Salisbury a $1,000 check when he recognized her from the outreach flyer. In another, a neighbor expressed a desire to keep their cul de sac’s lawn instead of installing a native plant garden; in response to the concern, the designs were scrapped.

Salisbury relies on Palo Alto’s Open Space and Parks Division for help in selecting and preparing sites. The division has installed irrigation systems, delivered mulch, designed educational signage, and for some

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A landscape architect’s volunteer efforts are making Palo Alto’s ‘hell strips’ into little patches of heaven for bees, birds and butterflies

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GROWING CITRUS ... Learn how to get the best harvest from your citrus trees at a workshop on Saturday, March 7, 10-11 a.m. at the UC Master Gardeners’ Palo Alto Demonstration Garden.

Get tips on pruning, fertilizing and watering, frost protection, identifying and managing pests and diseases from Master Gardener Candace Simpson. Bring samples or photos to get help diagnosing citrus problems. The Palo Alto Demonstration Garden is located at 851 Center Drive, Palo Alto. For more information, call 408-282-3105 or visit mgsantaclara.ucanr.edu/ events/.

of the gardens, dug up dense, decades-old networks of ivy.

They also help Salisbury select sites that wouldn’t otherwise be suitable for recreational use, due to their proximity to traffic. In return, Salisbury and volunteers have taken some maintenance responsibilities off the city’s plate, since they take care of the plots they plant.

In January, Open Space and Parks Division Manager Daren Anderson invited Salisbury to make a presentation on the project’s progress to the Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Commission. In the presentation, Salisbury explained how the gardens not only strengthen ecosystem resilience, but also have a ripple effect on the people who live nearby. Planting the gardens has

If you’re interested

Juanita Salisbury will speak about how to plant a pollinator garden at the Western Horticultural Society’s meeting on March 11, 7:30 p.m. The meeting is open to the public; admission is free to society members and $10 for nonmembers. The society meets at the Los Altos Youth Center, 1 N. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. For more information, visit westernhort.org/ She will also speak at a series of Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency events this spring, all of which are free.

For more information, go to bawsca.org.

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Salisbury’s project draws pollinators with plants that provide food and habitat. brought together a group of native plant enthusiast volunteers, and neighbors have pitched in to help, too. The gardens have created educational opportunities: Salisbury discusses how to use native plants, featuring observations from these gardens, at high schools and various organizations. She also distributes seeds collected from the gardens. In a more subtle way, the gardens “communicate something about these spaces, that there are engaged, caring people in this environment,” Salisbury said.

At the meeting, Parks and Recreation Commissioner Jeff Greenfield praised the project as a “success story” of city-citizen partnership. Other commission members volunteered ideas for future pollinator garden sites, one member suggesting that all Palo Alto churches install native gardens as the Unitarian Universalist Church has done.

During the meeting, Open Space and Parks Division Manager Daren Anderson praised Salisbury’s level of care for the gardens, “A key piece that Dr. Salisbury, I think, is underselling, is her incredible perseverance ... I’ve been a part of a lot of native plantings that come in. You can restore an area and in about a year ... unless you keep coming back and taking care of it, it’ll quickly revert to invasive weeds.”

A big question remains: How will the pollinator gardens initiated by Salisbury be replicated on a scale to become a true corridor that traverses the city of Palo Alto? At this point, the city has not allocated funding to the pollinator corridor project. Salisbury continues to seek funding from sources like the nonprofit Happy Hollow Foundation’s “Progress for Pollinators” grant, which provided the resources for several of the gardens so far.

For the next garden, she is working with Grassroots Ecology to remove the ivy hell strip in front of the First Congregational Church on Embarcadero across from the Primrose Way garden. Salisbury also has been designing a pollinator garden as part of Rinconada Park’s upcoming renovation, collaboratively with the Open Space and Parks Division. Ultimately, Salisbury said she dreams of lining the rest of Embarcadero Road with native, nutrient-rich plants and involving students from Palo Alto schools to learn about pollinators.

“It’s city land, it’s not my land, but I’m willing to sort of change the way the tapestry of planting looks in this town,” Salisbury said. “And the more of the seed bank that we can get toward the natives, the better it’s going to be.” Q Freelance writer Laura Swenson can be emailed at laurajswens@gmail.com.

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Housing Affordability Improved in Q4 2019 Housing affordability held its own in the San Francisco Bay Area during the fourth quarter of 2019. In fact, affordability improved from fourth-quarter 2018 in every county in the region, including Santa Clara County.

“The market here in Silicon Valley has recently become extremely competitive," said Mary Kay Groth, president of the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®.

"Some price points are seeing multiple offers with as many as 25 or more parties bidding on one property. This continues to be a challenge for buyers even though interest rates are comparatively low.”

According to California Association of REALTORS® Traditional Housing Affordability Index (HAI), 22 percent of homebuyers in Santa Clara County could afford to purchase a median-priced, existing single-family home in fourthquarter 2019, unchanged from the third quarter of 2019. This is an improvement from the previous year when 18 percent of homebuyers could afford to purchase a median-priced home in the fourth quarter of 2018.

Santa Clara County homebuyers needed a minimum annual income of $245,200 to qualify for the purchase of a $1,246,000 countywide median-priced, single-family home in the fourth quarter of 2019. The monthly payment, including taxes and insurance on a 30-year, fixed-rate loan, would be $6,130, assuming a 20 percent

down payment and an interest rate of 3.89 percent.

C.A.R. says slightly higher mortgage interest rates offset steady home prices and held California housing affordability constant during the fourth quarter of 2019.

Statewide, 31 percent of homebuyers who could afford to purchase a median-priced, existing single-family home in fourthquarter 2019, unchanged from thirdquarter 2019, and up from 28 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018.

A minimum annual income of $119,600 was needed to qualify for the purchase of a $607,040 statewide median-priced, existing single-family home in the fourth quarter of 2019. The monthly payment, including taxes and insurance on a 30-year, fixed-rate loan, would be $2,990, assuming a 20 percent down payment and an interest rate of 3.89 percent. The interest rate was 3.85 percent in thirdquarter 2019 and 4.95 percent a year ago.

San Francisco (18 percent), San Mateo (20 percent) and Santa Cruz (21 percent) counties were the least affordable areas in the state. The most affordable counties in California were Lassen (63 percent), Kings (55 percent) and Tulare and Plumas (52 percent). **** Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at rmeily@silvar.org.

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1 Odell Pl Sun 1:30-4 Compass 40 Selby Ln Sat/Sun 1:30-430 Coldwell Banker 285 Atherton Av Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 234 Park Ln Sun 2-4 Compass

BELMONT

3015 San Juan Blvd Sat/Sun 1-4 Compass

FOSTER CITY 1263 Martinique Ln Sat 1:30-4:30 Compass

$7,295,000 5 BD/5.5 BA 888-0860 $5,000,000 5 BD/4 BA 855-9700 $12,950,000 6 BD/10 BA 619-6461 $13,988,000 6 BD/6 BA 400-8424 $1,998,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 455-1528 $1,788,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 666-5988

LOS ALTOS

480 Lassen St #3 (C) $1,499,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 2 BD/2 BA Golden Gate Sothebys International Realty 714-7547 1056 Leonello Av $3,988,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 4 BD/3.5 BA DeLeon Realty 900-7000

LOS ALTOS HILLS

27464 Altamont Rd $5,200,000 Sat 1:30-4:30 4 BD/3.5 BA Golden Gate Sothebys International Realty 400-7409 10600 Chardonnay Ln $3,695,000 Sun 2-4 4 BD/3.5 BA Golden Gate Sothebys International Realty 917-2433 10776 Mora Dr $3,788,000 Sun 1:30-4:30 4 BD/2 BA DeLeon Realty 900-7000 26724 Palo Hills Dr $4,495,000 Sun 1-4 5 BD/3.5 BA Golden Gate Sothebys International Realty 722-1065 11768 Maria Ln $8,995,000 Sun 2-4 8 BD/8.5 BA Golden Gate Sothebys International Realty 917-2433

LOS GATOS

100 Whitney Av $2,750,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 3 BD/4 BA Golden Gate Sothebys International Realty 408-387-3227 123 Loma Alta Av $3,048,000 Sun 2-4 4 BD/2.5 BA Golden Gate Sothebys International Realty 408-387-3227 159 Old Orchard Dr $1,800,000 Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 4 BD/2.5 BA Golden Gate Sothebys International Realty 408-489-0025

MENLO PARK 171 Linfield Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 DeLeon Realty 675 Sharon Park Dr #226 (C) Sun 2-4 Compass

$1,988,000 2 BD/2.5 BA 900-7000 $1,075,000 2 BD/2 BA 400-8424

555 Byron St #109 (C) Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass

$1,998,000 2 BD/3 BA 465-5971

555 Byron St #309 (C) Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass

$2,150,000 2 BD/3 BA 465-5971

360 Everett Av 5B (C) Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass

$1,890,000 2 BD/2 BA 333-3833

3991 Bibbits Dr Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Midtown Realty, Inc

$2,450,000 3 BD/2 BA 280-4507

540 Irven Ct Fri 9:30-1; Sat/Sun 1-5 JLee Realty

$2,850,000 3 BD/2 BA 857-1000

520 Rhodes Dr Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 JLee Realty

$3,750,000 3 BD/2 BA 857-1000

724 Seneca St Sat 2-4 Compass

$8,749,000 3 BD/2 BA 400-8424

20 San Juan Av Sun 2-4 Compass

$4,695,000 4 BD/4.5 BA 255-1816

1700 Bay Laurel Dr Sun 2-4 Compass

$5,695,000 5 BD/2.5 BA 823-8212

435 Santa Rita Av Sat 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

535 Encina Av Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

$4,199,000 5 BD/4.5 BA 465-4663

565 Olive St Sat 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

$3,988,000 5 BD/3 BA 900-7000

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7162 Wooded Lake Dr $2,288,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 4 BD/3 BA Golden Gate Sothebys International Realty 408-387-3227

SAN MATEO

425 Kingsley Av Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker

$995,000 2 BD/2 BA 823-8212

1528 Monteval Pl $1,650,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 4 BD/2 BA Golden Gate Sothebys International Realty 408-387-3227

$9,988,000 4 BD/3.5 BA 900-7000

$4,295,000 4 BD/4.5 BA 255-1816

555 Byron St #307 (C) Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass

SAN JOSE

$3,300,000 6 BD/4.5 BA 208-2388

2109 Camino De Los Robles Sat 2-4 Compass

$900,000 2 BD/1 BA 857-1000

$4,150,000 4 BD/4.5 BA 787-0839

1901 Mcbain Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$3,988,000 4 BD/2.5 BA 900-7000

2456 W Bayshore Rd #9 Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 JLee Realty

742 Crestview Dr Sun 1:30-4:30 Compass

$4,998,000 4 BD/3 BA 325-6161

2945 Alexis Dr Sat/Sun 1-5 DeLeon Realty

$1,300,000 1 BD/1 BA 465-1651

SAN CARLOS

$1,795,000 4 BD/2 BA 255-1816

$1,799,000 5 BD/2.5 BA 722-3000

$1,988,000 2 BD/2.5 BA 900-7000

109 Webster St Sun 1-4 Compass

1944 Barton St Sun 2-4 Compass

1233 Diablo Sat/Sun 12-5 Compass

164 Sand Hill Cir (T) Sun 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

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REDWOOD CITY

4152 Baker Av $5,750,000 Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 5 BD/5|2 BA Golden Gate Sothebys International Realty 690-1379 1039 University Av Sun 1:30-4:30 Yarkin Realty

$11,800,000 5 BD/4.5 BA 387-4242

1995 Waverley St Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker

$17,888,000 5 BD/4 BA 325-6161

2001 Webster St Sun 1:30-4:30 Keller Williams Realty

$9,980,000 5 BD/5 BA 269-7538

142 Kellogg Av Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

$4,488,000 6 BD/5 BA 900-7000

217 N Claremont St Sat 1:30-4:30/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 694 Port Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Compass

STANFORD 940 Lathrop Pl Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker

SUNNYVALE

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WOODSIDE

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$2,995,000 4 BD/3 BA 415-377-2924

229 Grove Dr Sun 1:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker

$3,995,000 4 BD/2 BA 415-377-2924

35 Linaria Way Sun Intero

$2,650,000 4 BD/3 BA 438-2331

25 Los Charros Ln Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

$6,250,000 4 BD/4.5 BA 400-2933

$995,000 3 BD/1 BA 799-4365 $1,799,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 766-2080

$2,350,000 4 BD/3 BA 325-6161

$2,488,000 4 BD/3 BA 690-2858

1942 Kings Mountain Rd Sun 1-4 Compass

$2,195,000 3 BD/2.5 BA 740-2970

115 Otis Av Sun 1-4 Compass

$2,095,000 3 BD/3 BA 740-2970

2128 Stockbridge Av Sat/Sun 1-4 Compass

$2,599,000 3 BD/2 BA 776-5445

355 La Honda Rd Sun 1-4 Compass

$5,595,000 5 BD/3 BA 740-2970

187 Hardwick Rd Sat 1:30-4:30 DeLeon Realty

$5,988,000 6 BD/5.5 BA 900-7000

HALL PASS ... Former Stanford standout Jennifer Azzi, one of the most respected and accomplished figures in women’s basketball, will be inducted into the Pac-12 Conference Hall of Honor. Azzi made her mark on the game of basketball through a decorated career as a player, coach and now global director of the NBA Academy. Azzi led Stanford to two Pac-10 titles and the first NCAA championship in school history as a senior in 1990. The best player in the country that season, Azzi won the Wade Trophy, Naismith Trophy, Honda-Broderick Award, USBWA National Player of the Year Award and was named the NCAA Final Four MVP. The economics major was a four-year team captain and two-time Women’s Basketball Coaches Association AllAmerican. A three-time All-Pac-10 performer and the 1990 Pac-10 Player of the Year, Azzi left The Farm as the school’s career leader in assists (751), steals (271) and 3-pointers made (191) and second in scoring (1,634). In 1996, Azzi earned an Olympic gold medal with Team USA in Atlanta, under Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer, and is also a two-time FIBA World Champion (1990, 1998). She played professional basketball for 13 years, including four in the WNBA, where she finished her career as the league’s 3-point field goal percentage leader.

A member of several Halls of Fame, including the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame (2009) and the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame (1995), Azzi was the head coach at San Francisco for six seasons from 2011-16. Q

ON THE AIR Friday

College lacrosse: Stanford at USC, 3 p.m. USC Live Stream College baseball: Kansas State at Stanford, 6 p.m. Stanford Live Stream, KZSU 90.1 FM College men’s swimming: Pac-12 Championships, 6 p.m. Pac-12 Networks College women’s gymnastics: Stanford at Utah, 6 p.m. Pac-12 Networks College women’s basketball: Stanford at Pac-12 Championships, 8:30 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

Saturday

College wrestling: Pac-12 Championships at Stanford, 9 a.m., Pac-12 Networks College baseball: Kansas State at Stanford, 1 p.m. (DH), Stanford Live Stream, KZSU 90.1 FM College men’s swimming: Pac-12 Championships, 6:30 p.m. Pac-12 Networks College men’s basketball: Stanford at Oregon, 8 p.m., FS1 College women’s basketball: Stanford at Pac-12 Championships, 8:30 p.m., Pac-12 Networks

Sunday

College baseball: Kansas State at Stanford, 1 p.m. Stanford Live Stream, KZSU 90.1 FM College women’s water polo: Arizona State at Stanford, 1 p.m. Pac-12 Networks College women’s basketball: Stanford at Pac-12 Championship, 5 p.m., ESPN2

Wednesday

College men’s basketball: Stanford at Pac-12 Championships, 5 p.m., Pac12 Networks

Sports

Local sports news and schedules, edited by Rick Eymer

Lexie Hull (12) was named to the all-Pac-12 team and also to the all-defensive team. Hull leads Stanford in rebounding and is second in scoring. Photo by Erin Chang/ISIPhotos.com.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Conference tournament is Stanford’s playground Cardinal looking for 14th title in 19 years

by Rick Eymer he Pac-12 Conference tournament is familiar territory for Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer, who will be coaching in her 19th tournament when she takes the court with her seventh-ranked team for Friday’s late game at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

Stanford (25-5, 14-4) has won 13 of the previous 18 tournament titles, including last year’s title with a stunning 64-57 victory over Oregon in the championship.

Since winning its last Pac-12 Conference regular-season title in 2013-14, Stanford has gone on to win three tournament titles.

No other school has ever won back-to-back titles and the last time it happened was Stanford in 201213. The Cardinal has never gone more than a year between tourney titles.

Stanford is seeded third and earned a first-round bye. The Cardinal meets the winner of Thursday’s game between No. 11 Washington State and No. 6 Oregon State.

Second-seeded UCLA plays either No. 10 Colorado and No. 7 USC, No. 1 Oregon meets either No. 9 Washington or No. 8 Utah, No. 4 Arizona plays No. 12 California.

In winning the title last year, Stanford had the top scoring defense, the largest margin of victory, the best field goal percentage defense and blocked the most shots.

With Maya Dodson returning to the starting lineup, the Cardinal will have a little more depth for the

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tournament than it’s had during the regular season. Still without senior DiJonai Carrington or freshman Haley Jones, Stanford remained competitive by getting contributions from several different players.

Freshman Fran Belibi had 18 points and nine rebounds in Stanford’s win at Arizona State in the final regular finale, her best effort in over a month.

Belibi, who was 9-of-10 from the field, had been limited to 32 minutes over her previous four contests, producing a combined 14 points and eight rebounds. She delivered back-to-back double-digit scoring

games for the third time this season and the first since late January.

“We’ve been in a couple of overtime games, a couple of really close games where it came down to the wire,” Belibi said. “We’ve been able to learn from that and grow from that. If it comes down to it in the Pac-12 tournament, we have that experience even as freshmen to get the job done.”

Sophomore Lexie Hull and junior Kiana Williams, Stanford’s all-Pac-12 picks, added 13 points each for Stanford.

“We had some real good spurts of playing really well. Obviously we can do better, but I’m really proud of our team for battling,” VanDerveer said. “We have great leadership on our team and they’re competitive.

They want to win.”

Hull also earned a spot on the All-Defensive Team. Williams, Nadia Fingall and Lacie Hull were all honorable mention AllDefensive while Belibi and Ashten Prechtel earned honorable mention

All-Freshman.

Lexie Hull is second on the team in scoring, averaging 13.5 points per game and leads in rebounding with a 6.0 average. She has reached double figures 21 times this year, including six of 20 or more.

Hull often draws the opposing team’s top offensive weapon. She leads Stanford with 46 steals as one of two players to start in all 30 games for the Cardinal. Her 61 assists are second on the team.

Williams has 22 double-digit scoring efforts this season, as she has led the Cardinal in scoring a team-leading 10 times. Her seven 20-plus point games are also tops on the team, and she averages 3.8 assists per game.

Defense has been a key competent for Williams, who ranks second on the team with 33 steals. She has climbed the record book, becoming the program’s 41st 1,000 point scorer earlier in the season against Tennessee, and now sitting fifth alltime with 219 made 3-pointers. Q

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Sports Shorts

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This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 7, 2020.

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This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 11, 2020.

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This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER, INC. 1885 Bay Road East 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 February 20, 2020.

(PAW Feb. 28; Mar. 6, 13, 20, 2020)

997 All Other Legals T.S. No. 087186-CA APN: 13704-045 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 7/19/2000. 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 3/25/2020 at 10:00 AM, CLEAR RECON CORP, as duly appointed trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 7/21/2000 as Instrument No. 15325262 and later modified by a Loan Modification Agreement recorded on 02/01/2008, as Instrument No. 19729936, of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Santa Clara County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: GEORGE H. MARSHALL JR. AND EMILY A. MARSHALL, WHO ARE MARRIED TO EACH OTHER 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, 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 FULLY DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF TRUST The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 2330 PRINCETON ST 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: $212,249.61 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

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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 (844) 477-7869 or visit this Internet Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING.COM, using the file number assigned to this case 087186-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: (844) 477-7869 CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Drive San Diego, California 92117 (PAW Feb. 28; Mar. 6, 13, 2020) Notice of Availability of Annual Report The Marie D. Millard Trust Notice is herby given that the annual report of the MARIE D. MILLARD TRUST for the year ended December 31, 2019 is available for inspection by any citizen during business hours at Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Ames Building, 795 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California.

Dominick Frosch, Administrator (PAW March 6, 2020)

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Sports

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

PREP FOOTBALL

Ready to step into the head position

by Glenn Reeves hris Saunders brings some new elements to the MenloAtherton football program.

The M-A Athletic Department announced Tuesday that Saunders has been hired as the new head football coach at M-A. He has roots at the San Francisco schools in the West Catholic Athletic League, having played at Sacred Heart Cathedral, graduating in 2007, and serving as an assistant and offensive coordinator for five years at St. Ignatius and offensive coordinator last season at Riordan. He also teaches history at Riordan.

The M-A job is his first head coaching opportunity.

“It’s definitely something I’m excited about,’’ he said in a phone interview. “I feel like it’s the right school, the right place, the right community.’’

In addition to those years spent in the ultra-competitive WCAL, Saunders was the special teams coordinator for two years at Menlo College. He cites Mark Speckman, the former Menlo head coach and current associate head coach at UC Davis, as a major influence.

Last year at Riordan, in the first year of the program under head coach Mark Modeste, Saunders

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put together a run-oriented offense using many of the fly principles Speckman was renowned for.

“It was a unique situation, a big transition and change,’’ Saunders said. “We emphasized running the football and physicality. It fit the skill set we had. We ran a mix of smash-mouth power football and the fly offense.’’

He played collegiately at Linfield in Oregon where he was a tight end in a spread-option offense.

“I’m an offense-oriented guy, a football guy more than anything else,’’ Saunders said. “I will evaluate personnel and make sure playmakers get highlighted. I’m certainly very excited to be able to work with the athletes M-A has.’’

Saunders was planning to meet the team on Wednesday.

“I’ve watched a lot of film,’’ he said. “I’m very optimistic about on-the-field stuff. We’ve got some special, talented young men. I feel blessed in a lot of different ways.

These are young men who are very committed to football, guys who love the game.’’

M-A won the Central Coast Section Open Division championship as well as a state championship two years ago in Adhir Ravipati’s final season as head coach. Last year

Across 1 Margarita glass stipulation 7 Be decisive 10 Ranch handle 13 Gallery display 15 “... how I wonder what you ___” 16 Indiscriminate amount 17 Coal region of Poland that caused some 18th-century wars 18 2007 Simon Pegg buddy cop film 20 Elizabeth I was the last to represent it 22 Yellowstone animal 23 Genre for Toots and the Maytals 24 Essentials 28 “Nothing is as it ___” 31 “___ Well That Ends Well” 34 Ball field cover 35 Dr.’s org.

37 “Stay (I Missed You)” singer Lisa 39 Match, as a bet 40 Like shiny metal space suits and the dieselpunk genre, e.g.

45 “Strange Magic” band 46 “Girls” creator Dunham 47 Back on a boat 48 Design problem 50 “Three Little Pigs” antagonist 52 Japanese hybrid apples 56 ‘70s-’80s Egyptian president Anwar 58 Have a latke on one’s mind?

60 Pub choice 61 Vegan breakfast dish (and this puzzle’s theme) 66 Ignored 69 Gets less strict 70 Last words of an engagement 71 Org. before the gates?

72 Draw 73 Prom rental 74 Forced laugh sound 75 Didn’t fade

M-A Athletics

New M-A coach rooted in the WCAL tradition

Chris Saunders was named Menlo-Atherton’s head football coach. under Steve Papin the Bears went 7-4 playing a very difficult schedule with a team that was loaded with young talent.

Saunders inherits two talented quarterbacks in Matt MacLeod and Raymond Price, who combined to throw for over 2,100 yards with 25 touchdown passes a year ago; running back Thomas Taufui (509 yards rushing in part-time duty) and five-star wide receiver Troy Franklin, who has received scholarship offers from just about every top college football power in the nation.

“I want to create a cultural experience that extends beyond the players, beyond what we do on the field,’’ Saunders said. “I want the players to feel the desire to come back and continue to contribute, to give back, and for young people in the community to be excited to play M-A football one day.’’ Q

Mikayla Silverman

Raymond Reece

GUNN WRESTLING

EASTSIDE PREP BASKETBALL

The junior needed to beat two higher seeds for a chance to medal at the state meet. She accomplished just that and wrestled her way to a sixth-place finish with a 5-3 overall record.

Honorable mention Aniyah Augmon*

Aidan Berger

Malia Latu

James Hahn

Kate Milne

Julien Hernandez

Anna Smith*

Cole Kastner*

Kiely Tabaldo*

Gavin Kitch

Megan Tinsley

Tyler Wang

Priory basketball

Palo Alto baseball

Menlo-Atherton basketball

Palo Alto swimming

Gunn soccer

Menlo baseball

Menlo-Atherton wrestling

Menlo basketball

Menlo-Atherton wrestling

Gunn basketball

Sacred Heart Prep soccer

Palo Alto swimming *Previous winner

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

“Soy If I Care” — it coulda bean worse. By Matt Jones.

This week’s SUDOKU

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Answers on page 28.

Down 1 Old Ramblers, e.g.

2 Baltimore bird 3 Physician’s patron 4 Blows away 5 Pick the wrong side in a coin flip 6 Groups of three 7 “Hawaii Five-O” setting 8 Motivate 9 Range in Wyoming 10 19th Greek letter 11 Split ___ (new wave band from New Zealand) 12 Historic “Affair” of 1797-98 14 “The Metamorphosis” writer Franz 19 Agonize (over)

The junior scored 44 points and and had 26 rebounds as the Panthers beat Pacific Bay Collegiate in the semis and Priory in the finals to win the CCS Division V title.

21 Yarns 25 Right direction?

26 1 + 2, in Germany 27 Engineering detail, for short 29 Just scratch the surface 30 Tiny, to twee pet owners 32 Hulk portrayer Ferrigno 33 Word sung twice after “Que” 36 Some 38 “Back to the Future” antagonist 40 Rulebook pros 41 First name in the Jazz Hall of Fame 42 Mario Kart character 43 Relative of Crazy Eights 44 Disco ___ (“Simpsons” character)

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49 Light bulb measure 51 Attribute 53 Tries to punch 54 Light up, old-style 55 Oozed 57 Fang, e.g.

59 Be behind 62 It may get blown 63 Mitt Romney’s state 64 On the open waters 65 Computer capacity units, briefly 66 Toasted or wasted 67 .org relative 68 “The Masked Singer” network ©2020 Jonesin’ Crosswords (jonesincrosswords@gmail.com)

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