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March 6, 2019QAlmanacNews.comQThe AlmanacQ3 4QThe AlmanacQAlmanacNews.comQMarch 6, 2019 Local News M ENLO PARK | ATHERTON | WOODSIDE | PORTOLA V ALLEY Construction rolls on for new magnet high school TIDE Academy in Menlo Park will focus on preparing kids for STEAM careers By Angela Swartz of Capuchino High School in Almanac Staff Writer San Bruno. She took over last July for Michael Kuliga, who onstruction is well under- now serves as TIDE’s vice prin- way for a new Menlo cipal. Edwards also serves as the CPark magnet high school school district’s executive direc- scheduled to open at the begin- tor of small-school innovation ning of next school year. A part and alternative programs. of the Sequoia Union High One of the school’s “outside School District, TIDE Academy, of the box” ideas is to dually is located on a 2-acre site in a enroll sophomores, juniors and light-industrial area east of U.S. seniors at TIDE and commu- 101. nity colleges — Skyline in San The school’s name is an acro- Bruno and Foothill in Los Altos nym for technology, innovation, Hills — so that students can design and engineering — a build up college credits (up to nod to its mission of preparing two years’ worth) while still in students for STEAM (science, high school, she said. This helps technology, engineering, art students build self-confidence and math) careers. The name and saves them time and money also derives from the school’s on courses once they’re fully proximity to the San Francisco enrolled in college. English, U.S. Bay. history, biology and chemistry Photo by Magali Gauthier/The Almanac “It’s just a super exciting are among the courses TIDE TIDE Academy’s David Lai, founding computer science teacher (from left); Cat Cole, founding social time in education that we get students can take for college studies teacher; Ryan Stagg, founding science teacher; Shamar Edwards, principal; Steven Wong, founding to think outside of the box,” credits. mathematics teacher and athletic director; and Mike Kuliga, vice principal, pose by the school’s main building said TIDE Principal Shamar and maker space. Edwards, the former principal See TIDE, page 6 Council OKs stripped-down law to aid evicted renters Menlo Park’s ordinance, passed on 3-2 vote, is modeled on Redwood City law By Kate Bradshaw modeled on one passed in Red- the displacement of low-income a year ago — the highest year- apply only to low-income rent- Almanac Staff Writer wood City last year. residents, especially low-income over-year increase reported in ers forced out of their homes The debate, at times border- minority residents, to furthering San Mateo County. because the landlord of a proper- enlo Park landlords ing on vitriolic, pointed to the the dearth of service workers, One notable case of major rent ty of five or more units is opting won a compromise they markedly different interests of those who work in the arts, and escalation is that involving resi- to permanently remove the unit Mlikely won’t file suit the city’s landlords and its general non-tech employees who dents of apartments near Face- from the rental housing market. over following a fierce, hours- renters. Many of the landlords might have lived in town and book recently acquired by the In those situations, landlords long debate at the Menlo Park identified themselves as “mom enriched the community. investment group Menlo LLC. will be expected to pay for three City Council on Feb. 26 over the and pop” housing providers According to statistics sourced After the purchase, tenants saw months of fair-market rent to details of a proposed ordinance who saved for years for their by Menlo Park staff from rent- their monthly rent go up $800 or low-income renters forced out— requiring landlords to pay a fee to rental properties, rarely raise cafe.com, the average rent for more. which, as currently defined, aid renters in the moving process rents. They said they need to an apartment in Menlo Park is The scaled-back ordinance when they are evicted. retain flexibility to raise rent now $4,087, up 17 percent from that prevailed on Feb. 26 will See RENTERS, page 8 The nuances of which renters in an unfettered manner, given will be covered, the conditions the boom-and-bust nature of under which they are forced the Silicon Valley economy and out and what kinds of homes the age of much of Menlo Park’s the policy will apply to, as well housing stock. Older buildings as who will pay the relocation can mean costly repairs that fees, have been under discussion sometimes must be passed on to since last July, when the Housing renters, they explained. Commission first took up the They argued that passing a challenge of crafting a tenant tenant relocation assistance ordi- relocation ordinance for the city. nance that was triggered when Ultimately, in a 3-2 vote with a renter has to move out due to Vice Mayor Cecilia Taylor and a rent increase would have an Councilwoman Betsy Nash impact similar to rent control in opposed, the council disregard- deterring major rent increases. ed most of the Housing Com- Renters and housing advo- Data courtesy city of Menlo Park mission’s recommendations, in cates argue that the major rent Of the 15,964 occupied homes in Menlo Park, a majority are single-family houses. Under the new addition to a set of revisions increases seen in Menlo Park ordinance, only renters of the 3,563 apartments in Menlo Park in buildings of five or more units, or about Taylor and Nash had drafted, in are having an adverse impact 22 percent of the city’s total number of homes — and not including any built more recently than 1995 — favor of a more limited ordinance in the city — from accelerating would be eligible for relocation assistance, under certain circumstances.
March 6, 2019QAlmanacNews.comQThe AlmanacQ5 NEWS “There’s no place like home.” Established 1965 Laurel School’s Creighton Serving Menlo Park, recognized out of field Atherton, Portola Valley, and Woodside for over 50 years of 300 schools’ principals Laurel School Principal Linda Based Learning to both cam- NEWSROOM Creighton has been honored by puses as a unifying practice, to Editor the Association of California the expansion of the Spanish Renee Batti (223-6528) School Administra- Immersion Program, Assistant Editor tors as recipient of Linda’s thoughtful Julia Brown (223-6531) the organization’s and steady leadership Matched CareGivers Staff Writers regional Elementary has allowed MPCSD Dave Boyce (223-6527), Matched CareGivers is nurse owned and operated Principal of the Year to grow and serve its Kate Bradshaw (223-6588) award. families better than and has provided the best in home care and case Angela Swartz (223-6529) Creighton won the ever,” the newsletter over 25 years management on the peninsula for . Contributors Kate Daly, Maggie Mah, award for Region 5, states. Our trained caregivers provide personal care, Barbara Wood which encompasses “Linda works bathing, dressing, companionship, exercise mobility Special Sections Editor San Mateo and San tirelessly to ensure assistance, and much more. Linda Taaffe (223-6511) Francisco counties, that Laurel School Courtesy of Menlo Park Photographer according to a Feb. City School District is indeed one of ‘the Magali Gauthier (223-6530) When someone you care about needs assistance... 28 email newsletter Linda Creighton best place[s] to spend Call (650) 839-2273 sent out by the Menlo your childhood.’” you can count on us to be there. DESIGN & PRODUCTION Park City School District. She Under Creighton’s leadership, Design and Production Manager Menlo Park • San Mateo • San Jose Lic# 41470002 was chosen for the honor from Laurel School won the 2014 Kristin Brown (223-6562) MatchedCareGivers.com among principals from 300 California Distinguished School Designers Linda Atilano, Amy Levine, schools in the region. Award, a 2014 Kent Award, and Paul Llewellyn, Doug Young The top administrator at the a 2016 National Blue Ribbon
ADVERTISING K-2 Laurel School in Atherton School award. since 2009, Creighton in 2016 The Association of California Vice President Sales and Marketing saw her duties expanded to head School Administrators, which is Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) the newly opened Laurel School made up of public school lead- Display Advertising Sales Upper Campus (3-5) in Menlo ers, will recognize Creighton Voted Best On The Peninsula Caitlin Wolf (223-6508) Park. and other award winners at a Real Estate Manager “From overseeing the building dinner on April 30. Neal Fine (223-6583) and opening of Laurel’s Upper Legal Advertising Campus, to bringing Project — Angela Swartz Alicia Santillan (223-6578)
ADVERTISING SERVICES TIDE help this (school) come to life. Advertising Services Manager continued from page 5 Students and families will have Kevin Legarda (223-6597) a lot of voice in how the school Sales & Production Coordinators TIDE’s curriculum will include continues to be shaped.” Diane Martin (223-6584), such classes as engineering and It’s challenging to open a new Nico Navarrete (223-6582) design principles, computer sci- and unique school, Edwards The Almanac is published ence, and product design, and said. There’s management of every Wednesday at there will be a focus on project- construction, facilities, staff 3525 Alameda De Las Pulgas, based learning, according to the recruitment, marketing and CLEARANCE SALE ON NOW! Menlo Park, CA 94025 school’s website. other tasks to see to, she said. Q Newsroom: (650) 223-6525 “The challenge is just in doing Newsroom Fax: (650) 223-7525 all of those things well and at Q Email news and photos with captions Voted ³Best On The Peninsula´ to: [email protected] ‘It’s exciting to have the the same time,” she said. “It’s still a blessing, at the end of Q Email letters to: opportunity to have the day, that we are in the posi- [email protected] students and families Q Advertising: (650) 854-2626 tion of deciding and having a Advertising Fax: (650) 223-7570 help this (school) come lot of say in what exists (at the school).” Q Classified Advertising: (650) 854-0858 to life. Students and Q Submit Obituaries: TIDE officials have hired math, www.almanacnews.com/obituaries families will have a lot science, history and computer science teachers, and are search- The Almanac (ISSN 1097-3095 and USPS 459370) is published every Wednesday by Embarcadero of voice in how the ing for a second math teacher, as Media, 3525 Alameda de las Pulgas, Menlo Park, CA 94025-6558. Periodicals Postage Paid at school continues well as teachers of English, art, Menlo Park, CA and at additional mailing offices. and physical education, Edwards Adjudicated a newspaper of general circulation to be shaped.’ for San Mateo County, The Almanac is delivered said. The job postings can be free to homes in Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola found at edjoin.org. Valley and Woodside. POSTMASTER: Send PRINCIPAL SHAMAR EDWARDS address changes to the Almanac, 3525 Alameda Construction workers broke de las Pulgas, Menlo Park, CA 94025-6558. The magnet school, which ground on the TIDE Academy Copyright ©2019 by Embarcadero Media, All rights reserved. Reproduction without is open to students who live in campus in May 2017. Officials permission is strictly prohibited. the district, will start with a expect construction of the new
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6QThe AlmanacQAlmanacNews.comQMarch 6, 2019 NEWS REAL ESTATE Q&A Community gives mixed response to by Monica Corman sidewalk plans near middle school Timing of the City funding already secured for project Spring Market By Kate Bradshaw Dear Monica: It is already WKHVXQLVZDUPHUDQGJDUGHQV Almanac Staff Writer March and I remember there are beautiful. is usually more inventory on n existing plan to install It could also be that the market the market by now. What is sidewalks on Sharon will be slower this season than causing this? Matt D. ARoad between Alam- usual but it is too soon to tell eda de las Pulgas and Altschul Dear Matt: The real estate about this. It doesn't appear that Avenue over the next several market does seem slower to DVLJQL¿FDQWPDUNHWFKDQJHKDV years faced criticism from some start this year than typical occurred and economic factors of the street’s residents at the years. Some factors that don't indicate a slowdown in Menlo Park City Council’s Feb. the Bay Area either. If you 27 meeting, several of whom FRXOG EH LQÀXHQFLQJ WKLV DUH said the proposal caught them the weather (rain and cold) are a seller, you will do well by surprise. and the fact that Easter and if you don't wait for lots more Roughly 15 residents — both Passover are later this year inventory. And buyers should sidewalk advocates and oppo- as well. It doesn't feel very not wait to act if they see a nents — spoke about the issue VSULQJOLNH DQG PD\EH VHOOHUV property they like. There may during a public comment period DQG EX\HUV DUH ZDLWLQJ XQWLO QRWEHDQ\WKLQJEHWWHUODWHU on the council’s 2019 work plan. Council members did not Contact me at [email protected]; Office: 650-465-5971, COMPASS. Ranked in the Wall St Journal’s 2016, 2017, and 2018 respond to comments, but they Nationwide list of top 250 Realtors. are expected to discuss the work plan at their March 5 meeting. Marcy Coggins said she felt “blindsided” by the proposal and and said she had not been noti- the fied. Kids have grown up and PRESENT navigated the lack of sidewalks without incident, she argued, and questioned what data source 2019 found safety to be a problem there, and whether sidewalks would help with safety. Financial Conference Karen Reis, a middle school “Knowledge Pays Dividends” teacher, said she opposed the Photo by Linda Barman sidewalks because she was not Children and adults often walk in the middle of Sharon Road on aware of any accidents due to their way to La Entrada Middle School, as shown here on Feb. 14. their absence. She noted that adding sidewalks would impact of money and then find out the think a sidewalk would make Saturday, March 30 parking on the street and make problem is still there or maybe things a lot safer,” he said. the road less bike-friendly. Also, other problems are created.” In June 2018, the council 8:30am-3:45pm she added, other schools in Pamela Davis, a homeowner agreed to put $935,000 in sur- residential areas don’t have in the area, urged the council plus funding toward plans to sidewalks. by email to try to find a way to install the sidewalks. Mayor Ray Mitchell Park Community Center, In a memo emailed to the add sidewalks and retain street Mueller at the time said he had council, Richard Wilkolaski parking. helped canvass residents to see 3700 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto said he opposes building side- if there was support for the proj- walks until it is made more clear Sidewalk supporters ect. “The community’s ready for what steps the city has taken to Other comments, mainly from it,” he said then. Choice of three workshops determine that sidewalks are the a number of parents of La Entra- Councilwoman Catherine • Assessing Your best and most cost-effective way da students, as well as students Carlton has also expressed sup- Retirement Readiness to improve safety on the street. themselves, expressed support port for the sidewalk plan, and • The ABCs of IRAs “I don’t understand how the city for the sidewalk plan. has encouraged staff to pair • Managing your can spend almost $1,000,000 for Linda Barman, who wore a La sidewalk construction with a Finances as you Age a project without consulting/ Entrada T-shirt to the meeting, robust Safe Routes to School advising individuals living on said she and her daughter walk program. • All About Medicare the impacted block,” he said. to the school daily and must Sidewalk design work is • Smart Tax Moves He added that the city should navigate puddles, blind spots expected to begin in the second • Managing Investments first consider other alternatives, that require stepping into the half of the year, Mueller said. The and Cash Flow such as redirecting traffic to street, and vehicles driven by process will involve public out- • Planning for local streets that do have side- parents less comfortable walk- reach to residents, he added. A Long Term Care walks; making traffic one-way ing their children to school. REGISTRATION: during school hours; creating La Entrada seventh-grader • Social Security Advance tickets turn restrictions at the Alam- Nina Barman told the council Claiming Strategies $55 per person eda and Sharon Road intersec- she is “glad to see Menlo Park is • Living Your Legacy and or $60 at door - tion during school commute a city looking toward the future Making a Difference Includes lunch! times; having residents clear the (and) looking to care for its paved roadway where there are children.” encroachments; or installing Ethan Edwards, a La Entrada traffic-flow signs during school student, told the council that Call (650) 289-5445 for commute times. while Sharon Road isn’t the “We are entirely for safe streets busiest street he’s seen, the vol- Give blood more information or sign up for students, all walkers/bikers ume of parked cars on the road and vehicles,” he wrote. “But, can keep drivers from seeing for life! at www.avenidas.org let’s be sure you don’t spend a lot students walking to school. “I bloodcenter.stanford.edu
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RENTERS most of whom live in Belle Hav- continued from page 5 en, where most of the housing Rent Increases 2018 income limits for stock takes the form of single- San Mateo County would be $8,427 for a household family homes. Year-over-year City Average rent Max. income to in a two-bedroom apartment — During public comment, increase Household as well as a two-month subscrip- the vast majority of landlords be considered size tion to a rental agency service. favored adopting an ordinance Menlo Park $4,087 17% "low income" Households with elderly people, modeled on one in effect in children, or people with disabili- Redwood City, or neither of the Redwood City $3,336 7% 1$82,200 ties will get payment for an extra proposed options, while housing month of fair-market rent, or an experts and renters favored the Foster City $3,304 6% 2$93,950 additional $2,809. revised Housing Commission The council also agreed to cre- ordinance, as written or with San Mateo $3,250 6% 3$105,700 ate a fund to help pay for tenant expanded provisions to make relocations in situations when a more people eligible for the relo- Millbrae $3,138 1% 4 $117,400 landlord can prove that paying cation assistance. the relocation fee would present Burlingame $2,957 7% 5 $126,800 a financial hardship. The details The lawsuit question Daly City $2,558 6$136,200 were scheduled to be hashed out Anton Menlo, a new high-end 2% at a future date, following sub- apartment development in east- Data courtesy city of Menlo Park/RentCafe.com 7$145,600 committee work on the matter ern Menlo Park, threatened to Above: The average rent in Menlo Park has risen by Councilman Drew Combs sue the city if the council didn’t substantially over the past year compared with other nearby 8 $155,000 and Vice Mayor Cecilia Taylor. significantly restrict the type cities, according to statistics the city cited from the website The ordinance will take effect of housing that the ordinance RentCafe.com. Right: The maximum income a household Data courtesy city of Menlo Park 30 days after its second reading would apply to. can earn to be eligible for tenant relocation assistance, which because it did not receive the Under the state’s Costa- is 80 percent of the area median income. four votes needed to pass it as an Hawkins Act, rent control can “urgency” ordinance, in which be applied only to multifam- has no bearing on and does not came, she couldn’t afford a new the Redwood City-based law. case it would have taken effect ily units built before 1995. In a substantially burden the ability place. “We are facing the closure immediately. letter sent to the council Feb. of landlords to establish rental “I was shocked to learn she of three schools due to the loss The more expansive version 25, Ofer Elitzur, a lawyer rep- rates.” had started doing sex work to of families and the inability of favored by the Housing Com- resenting Anton Menlo, stated California courts have not yet afford a few hotel nights,” New- the district to hire and retain mission, as well as by Nash and that if the city didn’t revise ruled on this issue. ton told the council. “I couldn’t teachers, who are also being Taylor, would have extended the ordinance to exclude those Karyl Eldridge pointed out give her housing,” she said. “I displaced from our community,” tenant relocation assistance to properties that are exempt from that the city’s exclusion of single- ended up treating her for chla- she wrote. The ordinance origi- people earning up to the area rent control under the Costa- family homes from the ordi- mydia. I’m holding my breath to nally proposed by the Housing median income and in situa- Hawkins law, “Anton Menlo nance — given the fact that so see what she comes in with next.” Commission “will actually pro- tions when a renter is forced out and other owners are prepared many renters in Belle Haven are Ine Grewe talked about how tect tenants,” she said. because he or she can’t afford a to take whatever legal action both minorities and tenants in her grandparents and extended Mark Mollineaux, who runs a major rent increase or is evicted is necessary, including filing a single-family homes — means family have left her neighbor- radio show at Stanford focused for no reason. petition for writ of mandate and that the ordinance may have the hood to move hours away, and on housing policy and is a critic Tenant advocates argued that the seeking of monetary dam- effect of being applied unevenly some of her friends have had to of Proposition 13, pointed out exempting such households ages as appropriate.” across different racial groups, relocate. that landowners benefit tremen- from relocation help renders In response, representatives with minorities less likely to get Ofelia Bello, an East Palo Alto dously from rising property and the policy toothless as far as from Community Legal Ser- relocation help. She indicated that resident and the new director land values, while renters never aiding the people most at risk vices in East Palo Alto and the might also open the city to legal for Youth United for Commu- benefit from those increases, of displacement in Menlo Park. Legal Aid Society of San Mateo action, under fair housing law. nity Action, said that the revised and instead have their stability In general, the people most at County, argued that the drafted policy recommended by the threatened. “This measure does risk, they say, are minority, low- ordinance does not violate the Support Housing Commission “will help a small, small amount to begin income, and rent-burdened, Costa-Hawkins Act because “it A number of supporters of maintain vibrancy” and “make to redress the giant imbalance the revised Housing Commis- Menlo Park one of the leaders in between the landed and the sion policy shared stories of the the region.” landless,” he said. impacts of displacement. “It’s responsive to the commu- Housing Commissioner Dr. Jackie Newton, a doctor for nity while taking into account Rachel Horst said, “I don’t feel We’re Hiring the homeless and a San Mateo the hardships landlords may particularly thrilled to be part of County resident, said that she’s face,” she said. a community that is losing peo- Full-Time News Reporter been working with a female Redwood City Councilwoman ple, losing touch with reality and patient in her 60s who was evict- Diana Reddy urged the Menlo (failing) to realize what inequity The Almanac, an award-winning community newspaper and ed for no reason. 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March 6, 2019QAlmanacNews.comQThe AlmanacQ9 NEWS Council sends housing ordinance back for more analysis By Dave Boyce maximum structure heights, separate addresses in emergency back to town and provide them that a dwelling of that size does Almanac Staff Writer and requirements for landscap- situations and that they would with space to move around in not warrant a designation of low- ing, lighting and materials. not lead to subdivision. comfort as they age. income housing. he maximum floor area Among the 13 members of “The subdivision argument ... Also in support of a larger “That’s a huge amount of space for new second units in the public who spoke, many There’s nothing to really support maximum was resident Greg ... larger than a house,” Katz said. TPortola Valley is probably opposed the proposed option that,” Mayor Ann Wengert said. Franklin, who said that 1,700 “I still don’t know what prob- going to end up near the state of setting the maximum floor “I think we are a long way from square feet is accommodating lem you’re trying to solve,” he told standard of 1,200 square feet, area at 1,700 square feet, while subdivision.” to someone downsizing from a the council. “It doesn’t seem like and the homes will probably be others warned against sepa- Councilman John Richards, house of 3,000 or 4,000 square anything has been thought out to allowed separate addresses and rate addresses and utilities as an architect, spoke about afford- feet. a conclusion and I think it should utility services. A draft ordi- advancing the possibility of ability, noting that his daughter But former mayor Steve Toben be before we pass anything that’s nance to revise policies govern- Portola Valley becoming a com- lives in a second unit he built, questioned the appeal of 1,700 going to change (things).” ing second-unit design included munity of subdivisions. Other and that she pays a low rent square feet, given that it would Bagowski weighed in on sepa- these two provisions and more, issues included fire safety as it because he built it himself. “I cost the homeowner $1 million rate addresses, saying that it leads but it needs further analysis by relates to second units, separate know that’s an unusual situa- to build at the current construc- to properties being subdivided. town planning staff, the Town driveways and when they would tion, but we need to have those tion rate of $600 per square “I’m (in Portola Valley) because Council said. be allowed, and whether owners opportunities (for affordable foot. At the private Sequoias I don’t see my neighbors and I’m At a public hearing attended should be required to occupy one housing) out there in whatever retirement community in town, not squished in,” she said. by some 30 members of the pub- of the homes. form we can manage,” he said. he said, apartments range from Resident Ed Reines warned lic, the council deliberated for The council reached consensus “If they end up being expensive, 560 square feet to a maximum about the risk of inadvertently a couple of hours over an ordi- on 1,700 square feet as being too that’s just the reality of the day.” of 1,120. That maximum aligns inviting Airbnb into town, a nance proposed by the Planning high a maximum floor area, “I think our goal is to cre- with a state standard of 1,200 trend that he said is growing. Commission that would also though they directed Town Hall ate inventory,” Councilman Jeff square feet, he noted. Separate addresses, utilities and allow second units in all zoning staff to conduct more analysis, Aalfs said. “I hate to say this, He noted that his 300-square- driveways “are essentially divid- districts, and allow Town Hall including checking into how but $4,000 a month is getting foot cottage in the Woodside ing the property the way that staff to review and approve most floor area could be tied to the to be affordable housing in the Highlands neighborhood has you would do it if you wanted to of them without oversight by the size of the main house. Staff Bay Area. ... if we had a bunch of been rented to Stanford Univer- profit,” he said. Architectural and Site Control will also look into how nearby $4,000-a-month rentals in Por- sity graduate students, a park “You don’t want people com- Commission. communities handle the issue of tola Valley, they’d get filled up.” ranger, and now to a resident of ing in and trying to monetize There’s much that the new absentee owners of second units. Tracy who stays there four nights properties, essentially split them ordinance would not change, On the question of distin- Public comment a week. and then Airbnb both of them,” including policies on the guishing second units from main Resident Forrest Linebarger Former mayor Jon Silver and Reines said. “If there’s a food- adjusted maximum floor area houses through the use of differ- expressed support for a floor- residents Kori Anne Bagowski fight about Airbnb in this town for a property, the maximum ent addresses, the council was area maximum greater than and Michael Katz all opposed and people (don’t) know how we amount of impervious surface unanimous in favor of the idea, 1,550 square feet. He said he’d a 1,700-square-foot maximum. got there, it’s not going to be allowed, the length of setbacks, noting that firefighters prefer like to help his parents move Both Bagowski and Katz noted pretty.” A
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10QThe AlmanacQAlmanacNews.comQMarch 6, 2019 NEWS Plans for fire stations show one new and one improved By Dave Boyce Valley, are now in the hands of Almanac Staff Writer Woodside’s Architectural & Site Review Board for review, and f plans proceed as envisioned plans for Station 8 will soon go for a new fire station in to Portola Valley’s Architec- IWoodside and a remodeled tural and Site Control Commis- fire station in Portola Valley, the sion, Ghiorso said. The station improvements will include more upgrades will cost the district bedrooms for firefighters, a safer $22.7 million, he said. living environment and new and The work at Station 8 would larger garage bays to make park- be first in line in order to pro- ing much easier for firetrucks vide bunk space for firefighters returning from a call. while Station 7 is being rebuilt, Rendering courtesy of CJW Architecture Chief Dan Ghiorso of the Ghiorso said in an email. A crew A rendering of the exterior of a new fire station planned for 3111 Woodside Road in Woodside does Woodside Fire Protection Dis- would stay with a firetruck in not include a proposed drought-tolerant and fire-resistant garden out front. A Sheriff’s Office substation is trict recently came before the the vicinity of Station 7 and inside and to the left of the front door. Woodside and Portola Valley other firefighters would tempo- town councils with a presenta- rarily relocate to Station 19 in A small garden sage; yarrow; and firecracker building is as important as tion outlining plans to rebuild Emerald Hills, he said. A drought-tolerant and fire- penstemon, Fire Marshal Denise selecting plants that are slow to Station 7 at 3111 Woodside Road The district is working to resistant garden is planned for Enea said in an email. burn, she said, adding: “Keeping — built in 1949 and remodeled build a Station 7 that blends just outside the front door of “These native plants are able plants very low near and under in 1993 — and to remodel Station with the area, he said. District Station 7. Plants considered fire- to maintain moisture levels that windows is important. Also, 8 at 150 Portola Road in Por- officials have met with town resistant include manzanita and keep them alive and well enough keeping trees and large bushes at tola Valley — built in 1970 and officials and with immediate coffeeberry bushes; California hydrated as to not easily burn,” least 10 feet away from wood remodeled in 1984 — to extend neighbors, he said. “Everybody lilac, poppies and buttercups; Enea said. siding, eaves and roofs is a must its life for another 10 to 15 years. is (saying) ‘This is a good plan creeping and hummingbird Placement of plants around a for good defensible space.” A The Woodside fire district going forward,’” Ghiorso said. covers 32 square miles and “As we move forward, we will includes three fire stations serv- absolutely (have) more public ing Woodside, Portola Val- meetings to get the input from ley and the unincorporated the public (as to) exactly what it communities of Emerald Hills, is they want to see.” Voted best in-home care Ladera, Los Trancos, Skyline A fundraising campaign is and Vista Verde. ahead, but Ghiorso said he could company in the nation – Among the hazards firefight- not be specific as to a goal. “We ers confront are the protective hope to get the majority if not outfits they wear — referred to as all of the funding through the 3 years running! turnouts — when fighting a fire. campaign,” he said in an email. The outfits absorb toxins dan- “I suspect we will get a good gerous to the wearer and when idea how well that is going in 6-9 they’re stored in the same areas months.” as the firetrucks, they also absorb The district has almost $6.5 diesel fumes, Ghiorso said. million on hand in a reserve Best Caregivers “We have an enormous rate of account for capital projects, he cancer in the fire service, and said. The district would like to Best Providers unfortunately we at Woodside retain some of that reserve for Fire are not immune to that,” future projects, “but if we had he told the Woodside council at to, that funding would be used Leader in Excellence its Feb. 12 meeting. “Unfortu- for the station,” he said. nately, we do have firefighters Best Employer with cancer. For the most part, The plans they’re curable. Unfortunately Plans for the new station in in our case, we have one that’s Woodside call for a two-story not curable. So what we’re doing building with each floor includ- is trying to devise stations that ing six bedrooms, a bathroom We love what we do and it shows, are healthier for us.” and a laundry room, with a fire let our family take care of yours! The district’s workload has pole through the second floor. also been steadily growing over The new station would also have a recent decades, with a higher library, an equipment shop, offic- Call for a free in-home consultation number of incidents and more es, a training room, a kitchen, a people passing through the day room and a fitness center. (650) 285-2373. district, whether for work or rec- Just inside the front door of reation, Ghiorso said. A graph the new Station 7 would be a created by the district shows the substation for Sheriff’s Office volume of “life-saving calls” ris- deputies. “Our thought process ing steeply in the 1990s — after is, ‘It’s a public safety building, every firefighting agency in the so why wouldn’t they want to be county formed what is, in effect, in our house?’” Ghiorso said. a single fire department — and The central area of the first steadily increasing ever since. floor would be open on both Another graph shows a steady sides, with six bays for firefight- rise in the number of firefighters ing vehicles. www.familymattershc.com working for the district. The station in Portola Valley The fire district is “out of space” would get a new vehicle bay as to accommodate growth and to well, along with a new roof, a respond to new regulations and Sheriff’s Office substation and technology, Ghiorso said. 2,000 square feet of additional Family owned since 2002. Serving Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Plans for Station 7, prepared space for work and living, the by CJW Architecture of Portola plans show. and San Diego Counties HCO #434700005
March 6, 2019QAlmanacNews.comQThe AlmanacQ11 NEWS Facebook may be exceeding trip cap on East Campus By Kate Bradshaw Q MENLO BRIEFS Almanac Staff Writer
acebook’s adherence to its gathering. A full-service grocery East Campus trip cap — store and pharmacy have been Fthe maximum number of relocated, and a larger park, vehicle trips permitted in and about 4 acres, has been set aside out of its campus — is requir- along Willow Road. There is ing further review following an a proposed community center annual check-in with the city of adjacent to the community park, Menlo Park. and a new proposed public- The Menlo Park Planning access dog park. Commission voted 6-0 at its The hotel could be larger than Feb. 25 meeting to make find- originally proposed — up to 250 ings that Facebook is in good- rooms instead of 200 — and the faith compliance with all of amount of retail space could its agreements with the city, rise to 200,000 square feet from except its East Campus trip 126,500 square feet, according cap, which city staff is analyz- to Menlo Park city staff. ing further. One open house was held Feb. Each year, the corporation 28. The others are scheduled for: checks in with the city to deter- Q Wednesday, March 13, from mine its compliance with vari- 7 to 9 p.m. at the East Palo Alto ous agreements it has with the Senior Center at 560 Bell St. in city. East Palo Alto. Kyle Perata, the city’s acting Q Saturday, March 30, from 3 principal planner, said the staff to 5 p.m. at the Arrillaga Family SPRING2019 has been made aware that the Recreation Center, 700 Alma St. trip cap on the East Campus in Menlo Park. has been exceeded during some Access more information at periods, and the staff is looking menlopark.org/willowvillage. into the circumstances. “ He added that there may be Caltrain supports Uber or Lyft trips that also need to be counted. low-fare pilot program “It’s not something we take The Caltrain board of direc- lightly,” said Ryan Patterson, tors has signaled support for a strategic initiatives manager at regional pilot program led by the Facebook. He said that Face- Metropolitan Transportation book is in compliance with Commission to give low-income the other two trip caps it has transit riders discounted fares, that cover different areas of its Caltrain announced Feb. 7. campus. The board passed a resolution “I really believe that Facebook in support of the program, but tries to be a good neighbor,” will have to update Caltrain’s Belle Haven resident Pam Jones tariff schedule and take addi- said at the meeting. “We have tional steps to formally approve a neighborhood substantially the agency’s participation. affected by everything they do.” The regional pilot program offering means-based fare is Open houses for expected to start in the fall and run for 12 to 18 months. Liberal Arts & Sciences Facebook plans People who earn less than 200 Facebook will host a series percent of the federal poverty of public open houses over the level, or $24,980 for a one-per- Featured Spring Courses: coming weeks to allow people son household, would be eligible to learn more about the revised for at least 20 percent off single- plans for “Willow Village” the ride adult Clipper Card fares. The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci: A 500th Anniversary Celebration company has submitted. BART, the San Francisco In the updated plans, the site Municipal Transit Agency, and First Ladies: A History • Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare and Longevity plan has been redesigned and the Golden Gate Bridge, High- the concepts for a main street way and Transportation District Ten Films That Shook the World • Icon and Enigma: The Art of Andy Warhol and town square have been also plan to participate, accord- modified to promote bike and ing to the Caltrain announce- 20th-Century American Literature: An Intellectual Bus Tour pedestrian access and social ment. A
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12QThe AlmanacQAlmanacNews.comQMarch 6, 2019 NEWS Planning Commission critiques Greystar housing proposal By Kate Bradshaw how this could possibly work.” Almanac Staff Writer Commissioner Katherine Strehl noted that without a embers of the Menlo grocery store, drugstore or Park Planning Com- bank in Menlo Park east of 101, Mmission were frank the development could trigger in their skepticism that a major increases in crosstown large new housing develop- traffic. ment proposed by develop- Commissioner Camille Ken- ment company Greystar would nedy, who works at Avenidas, a work at the scale proposed Palo Alto-based nonprofit that without significant modifica- supports seniors, said she’d be tions during a study session more supportive of the project held Feb. 25. if it were designed to be more Greystar has proposed build- inclusive of seniors. Many ing 483 new housing units, seniors would love to downsize 441 of which would be apart- to smaller homes, she said, but ments and 42 of which would there aren’t many places they be townhomes for sale at 141 can move in the community. Jefferson Drive and 180-186 She said she would be comfort- Constitution Drive. able with more density, so long Image courtesy Greystar/city of Menlo Park. The biggest criticism? Grey- as amenities were provided that A rendering of the proposed Greystar development, “Menlo Uptown,” at 141 Jefferson Drive and 180- star is proposing a new devel- could help seniors without cars 186 Constitution Drive in eastern Menlo Park, as viewed on Constitution Drive, looking west. opment in an already con- get around, as well as access gested part of town without medical care easily. amenities that could keep the Several commissioners criti- Pedestrian struck by train at Oak Grove crossing new residents from having to cized the plan’s limited open travel by car across town, com- space provisions for being too A northbound train struck the man to a hospital for treat- “The incident is still under missioners said. minimal. a man in his 50s on the Cal- ment, Caltrain spokesman investigation, but the transit “This would be a traffic Andrew Morcos, a senior train tracks at the Oak Grove Haroon Malek said in an email police believe it was not an impact if it were in the middle developer at Greystar, said the Avenue crossing in Menlo Park statement. intentional act,” Lieberman said of nowhere,” said Commission- group plans to ask what com- at about 10:17 a.m. on Sunday, As of Feb. 28, he was still in in an email. er Henry Riggs. “Instead, this munity members think should Feb. 24, according to a Caltrain critical condition, according None of the approximately 615 is being located in traffic jam be included as a “public ame- spokesman. to Caltrain spokesman Dan passengers on the train was central. It is hard to imagine nity.” A Emergency personnel took Lieberman. injured. A
March 6, 2019QAlmanacNews.comQThe AlmanacQ13 NEWS Bids come in below cost estimate for civic center project Council expected to award Hanneman said in an email. Club, according to a list of proj- yard, simplifying site access and “We were quite excited when ects on the company’s website. logistics; deleted all required construction contract on March 6 we opened the bids,” Mayor Bill The civic center project, which tree removals; and demolished By Angela Swartz a $44.4 million bid from Strong- Widmer said. He added that it would rebuild the town’s police, the library and public works Almanac Staff Writer hold Engineering and a $44.9 was reassuring that three out of administration, library and buildings prior to going out to million bid from BHM Con- the four bids came in around the planning division buildings, ran bid, Hanneman said. The coun- hree out of four bids for struction, according to the town. same price because that meant into a roadblock last June when cil also decided not to include the construction of a long- (A fourth bid by Sausal Corp. that the bid wasn’t a “low-ball” initial bids for the project came new council chambers as part of Tawaited new civic center came in at $55.4 million.) offer. in 40 percent higher than the the project unless the town can in Atherton have come in below Staff plans to recommend that SJ Amoroso built the Trous- project estimate of $40.5 million. come up with additional funding the estimated project cost of $48 the City Council at its March 6 dale residential care facility In December, the City Coun- for it. (SJ Amoroso estimates it million, according to a Feb. 27 meeting award SJ Amoroso, a in Burlingame, renovated Palo cil voted to go out for new bids would cost about $2.9 million.) town email. Redwood Shores-based compa- Alto’s main library, and con- on the project. To cut costs, Overall, the council cut project The town received a bid of ny, a contract for the project, the structed a clubhouse at the Sha- the council removed hoped-for $44.2 million from SJ Amoroso’s, town’s project manager Marty ron Heights Golf and Country improvements in the corporation See CONTRACT, page 15
Frances Romaine (Sorensen) Henning Erika Nord Richards April 7, 1916 – February 13, 2019 Beloved wife, mother, grandmother and Their legacy with CSUC continued as Frances Erika Nord Richards never seemed to age. great grandmother, sadly passed away January honored Jack’s memory with a scholarship in She died Feb. 13, 2019, seven weeks shy of 13, 2019 at Stanford University Medical Center 2007 to the CSUC Beef Unit to help aspiring her 103rd birthday, still young in mind, spirit, after a long illness. She lived a grand life of 94 Agriculture students. and body. The word most used to describe years. During Frances and Jack’s 59-year marriage Erika is “amazing.” Her special life began in 1924 in Sioux City, they traveled on business and pleasure to Until December, Erika took twice-daily Iowa where she was raised by her parents, many foreign countries learning about walks, swam on Sundays, played bridge five James and Mabel Sorensen. As a girl, she different customs and cultures. They also times a week, completed Sudoku puzzles attended Central High School where she was loved salmon fishing together from their boat every morning, and enjoyed social and active as a cheerleader and Prom Queen. (the ‘Frantastic’) off Vancouver Island, BC, cultural events. If someone suggested an After attending Morningside College, she competing with one another for trophy Tyee activity, she enthusiastically answered, “Yes, why not?” She was a transferred to University of Iowa and Coho. model of how to live — with zest, optimism, integrity, and a kind and graduated with a Teachers Most of all, Frances loved heart. Education Degree in 1946. She relating to her family and Erika was born April 7, 1916 in Berlin, Germany, to Walter and was a member of the Pi Beta lifelong friends, many of whom Herta Nord and raised in Hamburg. She enjoyed field hockey, sailing, Phi Sorority and met her future live at the Vi in Palo Alto. and gymnastics. After studying two years in Sweden, Erika came husband, John F. Henning Jr. Frances will be remembered to America in 1936 with $10 in her pocket and settled in Chicago from Chico, California on a and greatly missed by her two (thanks to a young doctor she had met in Germany, who eventually blind date. Their lifelong love sons, family members and became her husband). Erika earned a physical therapy certificate story began with their marriage friends. She and husband Jack from Northwestern University. Soon after becoming a citizen, she at Wee Kirk of the Heather in were respected influences to all joined the U.S. Army in 1944. As a PT, she treated wounded soldiers Glendale, California. of us that were fortunate enough while assigned to the 155th General Hospital in England. Frances worked as a to have known them. After marrying Dr. Richard K. Richards in 1946, she settled in stewardess on Western Airlines She is survived by her sister Waukegan, Illinois, where they raised their daughter, Evelyn. While DC-3 aircraft and taught Dorothy Jean Clark; sons John Erika worked as a PT, Richard started the pharmacology department middle school in Alameda. Jack embarked F. III (Jeff) & wife Jeanne, Robert (Bob) & at Abbott Laboratories and rose up the research ranks and also served on his career in journalism, working for the wife Jennifer; grandsons Blair, Adam & wife as a professor at Northwestern’s Medical School. Erika became San Francisco Examiner. In 1951, Jack joined Mellody; great grandsons Aiden & Jaxon; deeply involved in the community, from being a Girl Scout leader to Sunset Magazine beginning his successful brother-in-law Richard Henning & wife Carol; helping improve school curriculum to being a founding member of 40-year career in magazine advertising, nephew James Ankeny; and nieces Kathi the League of Women Voters there. She eventually became a lifetime publishing and circulation, while Frances Burdette & Audre Thomas. League member after 50 years. made a beautiful home. Fran and Jack’s greatest Her family expresses their gratitude and In 1966, the family moved to Los Altos. As part of the LWV, Erika joy was when they became the proud parents appreciation for the loving care Frances initiated offering voter registration to newly naturalized citizens in of two well-loved sons, John F. Henning III received from Sojourn Hospice, the Vi, Santa Clara County. She worked part-time as a PT in Los Altos and (Jeff), and Robert (Bob) Henning. her medical care team, and her wonderful Mountain View convalescent hospitals. Throughout their busy lives, Frances caregivers CiCi, Nieves, Cleo, & Gloria. The couple enjoyed many travels, with Erika often adding to her and Jack attended to business obligations A special Celebration of Life gathering will collections of spoons, pendant necklaces, artwork of water scenes, and travel associated with Jack’s work. be held for family and friends of Frances on and rocks. Sadly, Richard died in early 1983. Erika continued For personal pursuits, they enjoyed cattle Saturday, March 23, 2019 from 2-4 pm at the traveling, reaching all continents but Antarctica, and enjoyed ranching and golfing. Frances was productive Vi in Palo Alto, California. attending symphony concerts and theatre; gardening (especially in the Menlo Park/Atherton communities. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a orchids); reading; participating in Great Decisions groups; and She volunteered at the Circus Club and Allied donation “In Memory of Frances Henning” to playing bridge. She volunteered at El Camino Hospital for 20 years, Arts Guild, and helped raise funds to benefit either the Lucile Packard Foundation for and at the Palo Alto Cultural Center. She was a member of the the Lucille Packard Stanford Children’s Children’s Health, or, the Big Chico Creek Unitarian Church of Palo Alto. Hospital. She became an avid, and skilled, Ecological Reserve (BCCER). Lucile Packard In 2005, Erika became an inaugural resident of the Vi Palo Alto bridge player with her many friends. Fran and Foundation for Children’s Health, Attn: retirement community. Erika played bridge four days a week there, Jack enjoyed many rounds of golf together Gift Processing, 400 Hamilton Ave, Suite weekly at Little House in Menlo Park, and monthly at the Menlo while members of Stanford, Menlo, Butte 340, Palo Alto, CA 94301, or online: https:// Circus Club, forming friendships she cherished. “I don’t know what Creek, and La Quinta Country Clubs. They my.supportlpch.org/give/154669#!/donation/ I would do without bridge,” Erika often said. She was the oldest were also long-time members of Menlo Park checkout resident of Vi Independent Living and navigated the large building Presbyterian Church. Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve, Attn: with only a cane. In the 1960’s, Frances and Jack invested in Jessica Harrington, College of Natural Erika loved the frequent contact with her brother Helmut of a 1,200-acre cattle and horse pasture leisure Sciences, 400 W 1st Street, Chico, CA 95929- Pennsylvania, who survives her, and with her brother Achim before ranch. The ranch was sold in 2001 and became 0555, or online: https://securelb.imodules. his death. She is survived by her close Palo Alto family of her daughter, part of the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve com/s/1751/wide.aspx?sid=1751&gid=2&pgid Evelyn; son-in-law, Greg Pickrell; and granddaughter, Liana. used by College of Agriculture students from =405&cid=1058&dids=146.1.154&bledit=1&s A celebration of life will be held at 2 p.m. March 21 at the Vi, 620 California State University, Chico (CSUC). ort=1 Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto. To honor Erika’s memory, please consider donating to the League of Women Voters or the American Red Cross. PAID OBITUARY PAID OBITUARY
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RENTERS be a landlord’s responsibility to policy doesn’t work. Mary Louise Hodgkinson continued from page 8 assist a renter if the tenant can’t Mayor Ray Mueller explained pay market rate rent. that he’d rather not have the July 21, 1930 - February 5, 2019 This is a modest proposal to deal Paula Macchello said it was a ordinance get potentially hung up Mary Louise Hodgkinson, 88, passed away peacefully February with a massive problem.” bad policy that doesn’t factor in in limbo as it works through the 5, 2019 in Oro Valley, Arizona. She had been living at Catalina “Most of San Mateo County the needs of landlords. courts for an unknown outcome. Springs Memory Care for almost two years. is the Wild West for renters,” He said he believes that the Red- Mary was born July 21, 1930 and grew up in Long Beach with summarized Jordan Grimes, a Council opinions wood City ordinance would earn her parents Robin and Mary Hadley and her sister Pat. She member of Peninsula YIMBY, a Councilman Drew Combs the support of private partners attended USC and was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority. She pro-housing group. spoke most vehemently against to help provide funds to create a married Ross Hodgkinson, her college sweetheart, in April 1952 “The Housing Commission the revised Housing Commission citywide tenant relocation assis- and they had three children, a daughter Christine, and two sons, took a ton of time thinking ordinance, and made proposals tance fund. Rob and Scott. They moved to Woodside and built a new home, through aspects of this ordi- to weaken an ordinance modeled “If we go with (the revised which Mary loved for 53 years until Dementia forced her out. nance,” said housing finance on the Redwood City law further, Housing Commission ordi- Mary enjoyed riding horses with her husband Ross, skiing consultant Meg McGraw-Scher- but backed off of support for such nance), I think we end up in a with her family, tending to her rose garden and enjoying her er, a housing commissioner amendments when it was clear lawsuit, and I think it’s a long children. The family took many summer vacations to various speaking on her own behalf. he wouldn’t get the needed three time before we’re able to provide national parks in the western United States. “If we don’t include (single- votes to pass such an ordinance. any help to anyone pragmati- Through the years, Mary had many dogs she loved, as well as family homes), the ordinance is Relocation assistance, he cally,” he said. one Siamese cat. She could be seen frequently walking the trails in meaningless.” argued, should be about help- Both Taylor and Nash argued Woodside with her Great Pyrenees. Mary also enjoyed watching She also spoke against the idea ing people priced out of the in favor of the revised Housing and cheering for her grandchildren at soccer and baseball games. of applying for county funds community to find a home Commission ordinance. When it Ross passed away in 1994. Mary is survived by her three from measures A and K to bol- somewhere else. He added that was clear that proposal wouldn’t children, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. As ster the relocation assistance he didn’t believe it should cover get enough votes to pass, Nash well as her sister, Pat Ward. fund. “I don’t want public funds any household earning more proposed a number of varia- The family would like to thank Catalina Springs Memory to be subsidizing landlords,” she than what’s considered “low tions to the Redwood City-mod- Care Facility for the wonderful and loving care they extended to said. income,” or 80 percent of the eled ordinance to make it more Mary in the last two years of her life. area median income, and favored inclusive, including an effort A private family memorial will be held. PAID OBITUARY Opposition lowering that threshold further to expand the policy to renter Opponents of the policy to make the policy apply only households evicted for no cause, argued that the city shouldn’t to those who are “truly at risk of but none of her suggested changes interfere with market affairs homelessness.” received the necessary third vote. and should instead focus its “I feel (the Redwood City-based “I believe tenants are worth William Warren McNair Sr. efforts on building more hous- ordinance) is going to provide fighting for,” Taylor said, noting December 21, 1937 - February 18, 2019 ing, because housing scarcity is protections in a thoughtful way to that the rules the council the real source of the crisis. address the issue,” Councilwom- endorsed won’t help renters in Bill was born in Norfolk, Nebraska on The ordinance, which they see an Catherine Carlton said, adding single-family homes in Belle December 21, 1937 as the third of four as punitive toward landlords, that the council can always bring Haven. “I think Menlo Park can sons to Hazel and Robert McNair. would create new administra- the topic back at a later date if the do more.” A At an early age, the family relocated tive costs and could generate from Nebraska to Hollywood, CA. Bill unintended consequences, such attended Blessed Sacrament school as a reduction in investment in Hollywood for his elementary in the area or a decline in the education and Loyola High School in rental market, they said. Land- Margot Hopp Driscoll Los Angeles where he graduated in lords they added, could see the April 5, 1934 – February 16, 2019 June of 1956. Following graduation, Bill relocation assistance fees as too worked for J.H. Pomeroy, a commercial onerous and simply take their Margot Hopp Driscoll was a engineering and construction firm. homes off the rental market. vivacious ballet dancer in her youth, On June 21, 1958, Bill married the “Investment capital goes an animal lover, a patron of the arts love of his life, Joan Lorna McCormick. Joan and Bill met as where it is treated best,” stated and a philanthropist. classmates in first grade at Blessed Sacrament school. Between Mike Haddock. She loved to travel with her many 1959 and 1973, Joan and Bill’s family grew to include four Penelope Huang said she longtime friends and made new children — three daughters and a son. knows an older man who is friends along the way. In the early 1960s, Bill joined Atherton-Clemens focusing on struggling to pay his mortgage She was an avid reader and sports real estate development and investment which took the family on a fixed income so has to rent fan -- with a special affinity for the to Houston, Texas from 1968 until 1975. In 1975, the family out the house and doesn’t know San Francisco Giants. relocated back to North Hollywood until ultimately settling in how to pay for needed repairs After a full life, she passed away Northern California in 1979 where they remained for the next except by raising the rent. Feb. 16 in her townhouse “in the forty years. Though he has a property with trees” in Menlo Park’s Sharon In 1988, Bill joined Ford Motor Land Development Corporation a significant value, she said, he is Heights, where she had lived for as Vice President of the Western Region, a position he held until one step from homelessness. “It’s many years. his retirement in 2005. Bill enjoyed his retirement years by a vicious cycle,” she added. Margot, the daughter of Corinne and Harold Hopp, was born splitting time between La Quinta, CA and San Jose. Throughout Jeff Deng asked why it should April 5, 1934, in Indianapolis, Ind., but “only stayed a couple of days Bill’s retirement, his hobbies included gardening and raising and went right to Chicago.” She grew up in St. Paul, Minn., where canaries and champion Great Danes, but Bill’s primary focus was CONTRACT she attended the Summit School and became friends with Rudolph always his family. continued from page 14 Weyerhaeuser Driscoll, who was attending St. Paul Academy. Bill passed peacefully on February 18, 2019 at the age of 81 of Margot attended Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. She and Rudy natural causes at his home with his family by his side. Bill was costs by $4.3 million. reconnected and were married April 17, 1965, in Santa Fe, NM. a devoted husband, loving father, proud grandfather and caring The town has not yet set a date The Driscolls, through their foundation, have given great grandfather. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Joan, to break ground on the project, immeasurably to the community. “Tradition, family values and and four children, Shannon Reischl (Tom), Shelley May, Erin deputy city manager and city social responsibility are very important to our family,” their son, Sokol (Peter) and William Jr. (Kim). Bill’s life was graced by 10 clerk Theresa DellaSanta wrote the late Rudy W. Driscoll Jr., was quoted as saying. grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. in an email. In December, the Margot, herself, was a member of the board of trustees of the Here on earth or from up above, this quiet, kind man with a town estimated the new civic San Francisco Ballet, a 50-year member (a “Golden Girl”) of the quick wit will forever be at the helm of our loud, Irish Catholic center would open at the end of Peninsula Volunteers, a supporter of the Palo Alto Players, Smuin family. Thank you for the years and memories, we miss and love March 2021. Ballet, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera and San Francisco you. The March 6 study session at Symphony. A man of great integrity, a fierce patriot and generous which the council will consider She is survived by her four grandchildren, Wyatt, Cooper, person, he believed in giving back. In lieu of flowers, memorial awarding the contract will start Montana and Channing Driscoll, and her beloved black cats, Nikki donations may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research at 4 p.m. in the council cham- and November. Hospital (www.stjude.org) or the Wounded Warrior Project bers at 94 Ashfield Road in A memorial service will be held March 7 at 2 p.m., at the Menlo (www.woundedwarriorproject.org).
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Expository Writing ith longer (and presumbly drier) days approaching, there’s no excuse to stay hunkered down at home this spring W — especially along the Midpeninsula, where there are dozens of opportunities to get out and learn a new skill or master an old one. We’ve prepared a new class guide with a comprehensive list of spring classes being offered locally. Creative Writing Whether you’re looking to cook nutritious meals, stay fit with yoga or cultivate painting and sculpting techniques, we’ve got you covered. Our guide provides information on a variety of classes ranging from acting to language courses Presentation Skills to music lessons for almost every instrument you can think of. And of course, we’ve included classes for kids, from sports academies to preschools. No matter what kind of growth you’re looking for, this guide is a good place to start.
PALO ALTO, (650) 424-1267 Dance Classes and camps in basic riding, Full-day, year-round program for PLEASANTON, (925) 485-5750 jumping, dressage, western riding grades one to eight, teaching a person- Captivating Dance by Nona and horsemanship for children ages 3 alized, Montessori curriculum. [email protected] www.headsup.org 1923 Menalto Ave., Menlo Park and up. Registration for spring camp 650-980-8555 is open. HeadsUp! captivatingdancebynona.com Child Development Center WANT TO LOSE INCHES OFF YOUR WAIST? Ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip hop and Webb Ranch Riding School 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto Gain Inches in Your Arms? other styles and skills for youth of vari- 2720 Alpine Road, Portola Valley 650-424-1221 / headsup.org/headsup 650-854-7755 ous ages and abilities. 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Lydian Academy To Apply Now, Visit http://bit.ly/menlofusionfitness2019 and up, focusing on jazz technique at 815 El Camino Real, Menlo Park For more information please call us at (650) 543-4142 @menloathletics various experience and skill levels. Language 650-321-0550 / lydianacademy.com or send an email to: [email protected] @menlosp Alto International School Individualized instruction that pre- Sports & Fitness 475 Pope St., Menlo Park. pares middle school and high school Menlo Swim & Sport 650-520-3646 / gaspa-ca.org students for the workforce and college. Registration for the summer program, Burgess Pool, 501 Laurel St., Immersive German language classes which begins June 4, is now open online. Menlo Park / Belle Haven Pool, for students ages 2.5 to 18. No prior 100 Terminal Ave., Menlo Park knowledge of German is required. Phillips Brooks School 650-781-5525 / menloswim.com Classes are offered Saturdays year- 2245 Avy Ave., Menlo Park Youth, adult and community programs round and during summer camp from 650-854-4545 at Burgess and Belle Haven pools, June through July . Registration is cur- phillipsbrooks.org. rently open for summer camp. including year-round swim lessons, Coeducational day school teaching youth swim teams, masters swimming, Language Pacifica children in preschool through grade water polo and water exercise, as well five social learning and individual as cycling, running, fitness and tennis 1528 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo 650-321-1840 / languagepacifica.com instruction. Learn more about the prorams. application process online. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Full-time/part-time intensive English Peninsula Boxing & Fitness classes for non-native speakers. Sand Hill School WEST BAY SANITARY DISTRICT 2860 Spring St., Unit 1, Redwood City 650 Clark Way, Palo Alto 500 LAUREL STREET 650-290-1920 / peninsulaboxing.org Music, Arts & Crafts 650-688-3605 / sandhillschool.org MENLO PARK, CA 94025 Recreational boxing programs for both Draeger’s Cooking School Located at the Children’s Health youth and adults. The youth program 1010 University Drive, Menlo Park Council, Sand Hill School teaches is non-competitive and non-contact, NOTICE IS GIVEN that the District Board of West Bay Sanitary 650-685-3704 first- through eighth-grade children instructing kids in fitness. District will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, April 24, draegerscookingschool.com with language-based learning differ- 2019, at 7:00 p.m. The hearing will be held in the District’s Kidz Love Soccer An array of regional cuisines and cook- ences and assists with attention and social difficulties. Learn more about Board Room located at 500 Laurel Street, Menlo Park. Burgess Park Auxiliary Field 9, ing skills taught by chefs. the application process online. The purpose of the Public Hearing is to consider a proposed 701 Laurel St., Menlo Park. 650-330-2200 / kidzlovesoccer.com Music Together Menlo Park increase in sewer services charges for fiscal year 2019/2020. 75 Arbor Road, Suite N, Menlo Park Woodland School Youth soccer classes for boys and girls Additional information is available through the District’s website 650-799-1624 / mt-mp.com 360 La Cuesta Drive, Portola Valley of all abilities, beginning at age 2. 650-854-9065 / woodland-school.org at www.westbaysanitary.org and on the official notice that was Classes explore music and movement mailed to every parcel address that pays District rates. Arrillaga Family for children from birth up to age 5 An innovative, project-based school for students in early childhood through Gymnastics Center and their guardians at the Allied Arts The annual sewer service charge will increase from $1,126 Guild. Spring semester operates from grade eight that gives individualized 501 Laurel St., Menlo Park per single family residence to $1,177 in fiscal year 2019/2020. April 8 - June 22. attention, develops leadership skills 650-330-2215 / bit.ly/ and emphasizes the values of caring, Approximately 68 homes in the Portola Valley area (located arrillagagymnastics within the On-Site Wastewater Disposal Zone) who pay higher Old World Designs respect and community. Gymnastics classes for youth, with a charges for the maintenance of their STEP or Grinder Sewer 727 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park focus on children under the age of 6. 650-321-3494 / oldworlddesigns.com Seniors Collection Systems will increase from $1,432 per single Parent-participation classes are also Private lessons in stitching, project family residence to $1,497 in fiscal year 2019/2020. Some available for children with special Little House, Roslyn G. Morris classes and “stitch-ins.” Classes and Activity Center commercial classes, such as restaurants, were found to needs. events start at 10 a.m. and are offered 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park be paying less than their cost of service and their rates are year-round. Glenoaks Stables 650-326-2025 / penvol.org/littlehouse being adjusted to correct the imbalance (fiscal year 2019/20 Riding School is the third year of the three-year transition period). Non- Palo Alto School Classes for adults of all ages on vari- 3639 Alpine Road, Portola Valley of Chamber Music ous topics and activities. Register for residential rates will increase proportionately according to 650-857-5464 / isolastables.com classes online. loading characteristics. The increased charges are required 600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto Private and small group hands-on rid- 650-766-5084 to fund needed maintenance and reconstruction to the ing programs. schoolofchambermusic.com sewer system and to the Silicon Valley Clean Water regional The Class Guide is published quarterly Menlo Park Tennis Year-round coaching sessions and in the Almanac. Descriptions of classes wastewater treatment plant. concerts for all ages, including adults. Nealon Park Tennis Courts, offered in Menlo Park, Atherton, Porto- Summer camp sessions start June 24. Protests against the proposed rate increase must be submitted 800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park la Valley and Woodside are free, subject Registration is currently open. The in writing by 4:00pm on April 24, 2019, and signed by the 650-814-6734 / menloparktennis.com to editing and given priority. applications deadline is May 1. property owner, must identify the owner(s) of the property for Tennis classes for adults and children To inquire about submitting a listing which the protest is entered, and must include the property ages 5 and up and at all levels. Education for the next Class Guide, email Edito- address and assessor’s parcel number (APN). rial Assistant Ciera Bailey at cbailey@ Spring Down Emerson School paweekly.com or call 650-223-6526. /s/ Phil Scott Equestrian Center 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto To place a paid advertisement in the 650-424-1267, headsup.org/ Phil Scott, District Manager 725 Portola Road, Portola Valley Class Guide, call the display advertising 650-851-1114 / springdown.com emerson-school department at 650-326-8210.
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ACADEMICS City of Mountain View Kim Grant Tennis Palo Alto Recreation Mountain View Summer Camps Monterey Bay Harker Summer Programs San Jose Come have a blast with us this summer! We have something for Fun and specialized Junior Camps for Mini (3-5), Beginner, The Harker School’s summer programs for children K - grade 12 everyone – Recreation Camps, Specialty Camps, Sports Camps, Intermediate, Advanced, High Performance and Elite tennis offer the perfect balance of learning and fun! Programs are led Swim Lessons, and more! Programs begin June 4 – register early! levels. Weekly programs designed by Kim Grant to improve by dedicated facult y and staff who are experts at combining player technique, fitness, agility, mental toughness and all summer fun and learning. Strong academics and inspiring www.mountainview.gov/register (650) 903-6331 around game. Weekly camps in Palo Alto and Sleep-Away Camps enrichment programs are offered in full day, partial and morning City of Palo Alto Summer Camps Palo Alto in Monterey Bay. SO MUCH FUN! only sessions. A wide array of camps, from theater and tennis to ceramics and www.KimGrantTennis.com Text: 650-690-0678 www.harker.org/summer (408) 553-5737 coding. Kids in kindergarten through high school can participate Call: 650-752-8061 i2 Camp at Castilleja School Palo Alto in camps during week-long sessions from June 3 to Aug 9. Nike Tennis Camps Bay Area i2 Camp offers week-long immersion programs that engage www.cityofpaloalto.org/summercamps Junior overnight and day tennis camps for boys and girls, ages middle school girls in the fields of science, technology, (650) 463-4949 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult weekend engineering and math (STEM). The fun and intimate hands-on Community School of Music Mountain View clinics available June and August. Camps directed by head activities of the courses strive to excite and inspire participants Community School of Mountain View Music and Arts (CSMA) men’s coach, Paul Goldstein, head women’s coach, Lele Forood, about STEM, creating enthusiasm that will hopefully spill over to Mountain View 50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, their schoolwork and school choices in future years. and associate men’s and women’s coaches, Brandon Coupe Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, Summer Music Workshops, and Frankie Brennan. Join the fun and get better at tennis this www.castilleja.org/i2camp (650) 470-7833 more! One and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment. summer. iD Tech Camps Campbell Stanford/Bay Area Extended care from 8:30am-5:30pm. Financial aid offered. www.ussportscamps.com (800) NIKE-CAMP The world’s #1 summer STEM program held at Stanford, Palo Alto www.arts4all.org (650) 917-6800 ext. 0 (800) 645-3226 High School, and 150+ locations nationwide. With innovative Oshman Family JCC Camps Palo Alto courses in coding, game development, robotics, and design, Run for Fun Camps Bay Area Camps at the OFJCC introduce your child to new experiences our programs instill in-demand skills that embolden students Run for Fun’s mission is to provide creative and engaging play while creating friendships in a fun and safe environment. We to shape the future. iD Tech Camps (weeklong, 7-17), Alexa Café for all youth by getting kids active in an inclusive community work to build confidence, stretch imaginations and teach new (weeklong, all-girls, 10-15), iD Tech Academies (2-week, 13-18). centered around outdoor fun! We pride ourselves on hiring skills. an enthusiastic, highly trained staff who love what they do. iDTechCamps.com (844) 788-1858 www.paloaltojcc.org/Camps (650) 223-8622 Summer 2019 features four weeks of Adventure Day Camp and two weeks of Overnight Camp High Five. Adventure Day Camp STANFORD EXPLORE: A Lecture Series on Palo Alto Community Biomedical Research Stanford is a new discovery every day filled with sports, crafts and nature, Child Care (PACCC) Palo Alto including explorations to Camp Jones Gulch, Capitola Beach, EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford. Stanford EXPLORE PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide Foothills Park, Shoreline Lake and Great America. Camp High Five offers high school students the unique opportunity to learn from variety of engaging opportunities. We are excited to announce is six days and five nights of traditional overnight camp mixed Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics all of your returning favorites: Leaders in Training (L.I.T.), PACCC with challenge-by-choice activities, campfires, friendships and in biomedical science, including bioengineering, neurobiology, Special Interest Units (S.I.U.), F.A.M.E. (Fine Arts, Music and lots of laughter. immunology and many others. Entertainment), J.V. Sports and Operation: Chef! Periodic field www.runforfuncamps.com/summer-camps-and- explore.stanford.edu [email protected] trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs school-holiday-camps/camp-overview and skits round out the variety of offerings at PACCC Summer Summer at Sand Hill School Palo Alto Camps. Open to campers from all communities. Register online. (650) 823-5167 June 26 to July 23. If you’re looking for a great summer learning plus fun option for your child and you want them to be ready www.paccc.org (650) 493-2361 Stanford Athletics & Youth Stanford Stanford Youth Programs brings you Camp Cardinal! Week-long for fall, please join us at Sand Hill. The morning Literacy Program Stanford Jazz Workshop Stanford (8:30 to noon) provides structured, systematic instruction for day camp programs on campus for kids (grades K – 10) from June World-renowned jazz camps at Stanford. Week-long jazz 3 – August 9. Space is limited so register online now. students with learning challenges entering grades 1-8 in the immersion programs for middle school musicians (July 8-12), fall. The afternoon Enrichment Camp (Noon to 4) focuses on high school (July 14-19 and and July 21-26), and adults (July 28- campcardinal.org (650) 736-5436 performing arts, social skills and fun. Choose morning, afternoon Aug. 2). All instruments and vocals. No jazz experience necessary! or full day. Stanford Baseball Camps Stanford www.stanfordjazz.org (650) 736-0324 www.sandhillschool.org/summer (650) 688-3605 At Sunken Diamond on the campus of Stanford University. A TheatreWorks Palo Alto variety of camps are offered to benefit a wide range of age Write Now! Palo Alto groups and skill sets. Campers will gain instruction in several Silicon Valley Menlo Park baseball skills, fundamentals, team concepts, and game play. Summer Writing Camps Pleasanton April 1 - 5, June 3 - August 2. Kids have fun, create a character, and Improve your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson learn lifelong performance skills at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s www.stanfordbaseballcamp.com (650) 725-2054 School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton. Theatre Camps. TheatreWorks offers camps during spring break Courses this year are Expository Writing, Creative Writing and Stanford Water Polo Camps Stanford (offered in Palo and Menlo Park, April 1 - 5) and summer camps New to water polo or have experience, we have a camp for you. Presentation Skills. Visit our website for more information. (six sessions offered in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Los Altos Half day or full day options for boys and girls ages 7 and up. All www.headsup.org Emerson: (650) 424-1267 between June 3 - August 2) for children and youth in grades K-6. camps provide fundamental skills, scrimmages and games. Hacienda: (925) 485-5750 Professional teaching artists lead students in activities including acting, dance, play writing, and stagecraft skills. Sibling discounts www.stanfordwaterpolocamps.com (650) 725-9016 ARTS, CULTURE, OTHER CAMPS and extended care available. Wheel Kids Addison Elementary, Art and Soul Camp Palo Alto www.theatreworks.org/education (650) 463-7146 Bike Camps Palo Alto Art, cooking, tinkering, yoga and mindfulness. We celebrate Adventure Riding Camp for rising 1st - 8th gr, Two Wheelers Club multiple perspectives and recognize the many ways for our ATHLETICS for rising K - 3rd gr. Week-long programs from 8:30 - 4, starting children to interpret their world. Summer Unplugged! is Dance Connection Palo Alto Palo Alto June 3rd. Join us as we embark on bicycling adventures for the appropriate for ages 6-11 years. Located at Walter Hays School. Share the joy of dance with us! Our studio is an extended family more experienced rider or help those just learning to ride. www.artandsoulpa.com (650) 269-0423 and a “home away from home” for our community of children www.wheelkids.com/palo-alto (650) 646-5435 and teens. At Dance Connection, we value the positive energy Castilleja Summer Camp and atmosphere that we continuously strive to provide. Summer YMCA of Silicon Valley for Girls Palo Alto Palo Alto Dance Camps include all styles of dance for ages 4 and up and Summer Camps Silicon Valley Casti Camp offers girls entering gr. 2-6 a range of age-appropriate features our new “This is Me!” Empowerment Camp along with At the Y, children and teens of all abilities acquire new skills, make activities including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, Teen Jazz and Hip Hop Camps. A Summer Session for ages 3 to friends, and feel that they belong. With hundreds of Summer Day crafts, cooking, drama and music classes each day along with adults will be offered from June 3-August 2. Camps plus Overnight Camps, you will find a camp that’s right weekly field trips. Leadership program available for girls entering www.danceconnectionpaloalto.com/dance- for your family. Sign up today, camps are filling up! Financial gr. 7-9. connection-event-calendar/summer-dance-camps assistance is available. www.castilleja.org/summercamp (650) 470-7833 (650) 852-0418 or (650) 322-7032 www.ymcasv.org/summercamp (408) 351-6473
March 6, 2019QAlmanacNews.comQThe AlmanacQ19 NEWS RESOLUTION NO. 2138 (2019) RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ANNEX CERTAIN TERRITORY TO THE WEST BAY Preschool is SANITARY DISTRICT ON-SITE WASTEWATER DISPOSAL ZONE LANDS OF SHARMA expanding in next The District Board of West Bay Sanitary District finds and determines as follows: A. This Resolution of Intention is adopted pursuant to the District’s “Zone Master Annexation Resolution” (“ZOMAR”), which was adopt- school year ed by the District Board August 12, 1996. The provisions of ZOMAR are incorporated by reference into this Resolution of Intention. By Angela Swartz B. The District has received an application to annex a parcel of real property (the “Parcel”) to the District’s On-Site Wastewater Disposal Almanac Staff Writer Zone (the “Zone”). The Parcel is described in Exhibit “A” attached to this Resolution of Intention and the description contained in the Exhibits are incorporated by reference. The name and address of the applicants and the number, type, volume and location of on- new preschool in the site wastewater disposal systems which are proposed to operate on the parcels to be annexed are described in Exhibit “B” attached Menlo Park City School to this Resolution of Intention and the information contained in the Exhibit are incorporated by reference. A District will expand dur- ing the 2019-20 school year, C. The applicants have demonstrated to the satisfaction of the District Board that the Parcel constitutes “real property” for the purpos- Superintendent Erik Burmeister es of Section 2(b) of ZOMAR in that: told the district’s school board X. All of the conditions described in Subsections i., ii., iii., iv. and v. of ZOMAR Section 2(b) are satisfied; or Other conditions exist which at a Feb. 12 meeting. demonstrate that the Parcel will benefit directly or indirectly from the activities of the Zone. If applicable, those conditions are also The preschool, called the set forth in Exhibit “B” and are incorporated by reference. Early Learning Center, or ELC, opened at Laurel School Lower D. All of the conditions and requirements of ZOMAR Sections 2(a), 2(c), 2(d) and 2(e) have been fully satisfied. Campus in Atherton in August In consideration of the foregoing findings and determinations, with two classrooms. The district will do some IT IS RESOLVED by the District Board as follows: “minor retrofitting” of a class- 1. It is the intention of the District Board to annex the Parcel to the Zone pursuant to the provisions of ZOMAR and applicable provisions room at Oak Knoll School in of law. Menlo Park to add to the pre- school next school year, Bur- 2. In conjunction with a meeting of the District Board to be duly and regularly called and conducted, the Board will conduct a Public meister said at the meeting. He Hearing for the purpose of considering all matters pertaining to this Resolution of Intention. said the district will also add one more ELC classroom at the The time, date and place of the Public Hearing are: Laurel School site as well. Date: April 10, 2019 The district is expanding the preschool, which serves chil- Time: 7:00 PM dren just under 3 years old to 5 Place: West Bay Sanitary District Offices, 500 Laurel Street, Menlo Park, CA 94025 years old, to accommodate 44 more students next school year. At the Public Hearing, all interested persons will be heard. Twenty-two more students will 3. This Resolution of Intention shall be published and copies shall be delivered to the persons and entities as specified in ZOMAR Section be at Laurel School site, while 2(e)(i.). 22 more will be at Oak Knoll. The district may add more 4. A true copy of this Resolution of Intention shall promptly be filed for record in the office of the County Recorder of the County of San students than this because Mateo. the school will offer two- and 5. The District Manager shall cause the matters set forth in Sections 3 and 4 of this Resolution of Intention to be completed as directed. three-day options next year, Burmeister said in a Feb. 14 email. “We are very excited to expand to a classroom at Oak Knoll to Exhibit A Exhibit B enable us to provide our high- quality early learning program to more families through the Menlo Park City School Dis- trict,” said Jessica Mihaly, ELC’s founding director, in a Feb. 22 email. The preschool enrolled 54 stu- dents during the 2018-19 school year. It planned to expand the program to 72 students next school year, but is likely to grow even more — to about 88 stu- dents, Mihaly said. The district surveyed Oak Knoll families to gauge interest in the preschool, and there was demand for extra spaces. A
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Michael Hubbard Stillman College Choir will perform at Valley Presbyterian Church on March 10. Visiting choir brings MLK’s 995 Fictitious Name EVA BLUES Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT message to Portola Valley File No.: 280389 ART MY HEART The following person (persons) is (are) doing By Kate Daly FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT business as: In churches in San Francisco Valley Presbyterian for an File No.: 280316 Eva Blues, located at 214 Alameda De Las Special to the Almanac The following person (persons) is (are) doing Pulgas, Redwood City, CA 94062, San Mateo and Portola Valley, the choir adult education session, “Black business as: County. he public is invited to a will perform a musical tribute Presbyterians in the Abolition Art My Heart, located at 741 Manzanita Rd., Registered owner(s): Woodside, CA 94062, San Mateo County. EVANGELINA CLARK rare performance when to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Let- Movement,” at 9:45 a.m., and Registered owner(s): 214 Alameda De Las Pulgas 40 students from histori- ter from a Birmingham Jail,” the regular morning worship JEANNE A. GOLDMAN Redwood City, CA 94062 T 741 Manzanita Rd. cally black Stillman College lift which he wrote when he was service at 10:45 a.m. The church This business is conducted by: An Individual. Woodside, CA 94062 The registrant commenced to transact their voices to sing a work based imprisoned for participating is located at 945 Portola Road in This business is conducted by: An Individual. business under the fictitious business on the words of Martin Luther in a nonviolent demonstration Portola Valley. The registrant commenced to transact name(s) listed above on N/A. King Jr. at Valley Presbyterian against segregation in 1963. Pastor Jenny Warner wel- business under the fictitious business This statement was filed with the County name(s) listed above on 2/7/2019. Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on Church in Portola Valley on Sun- Choir director Joquelyn Rich- comes the day as “a rare oppor- This statement was filed with the County February 14, 2019. day, March 10, at 3 p.m. ardson lived in the area then, tunity to connect outside of the Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on (ALM Feb. 20, 27; Mar. 6, 13, 2019) February 7, 2019. Affiliated with the Presby- and incorporates her memories Silicon Valley to a very different (ALM Feb. 13, 20, 27; Mar. 6, 2019) AUTUMN AND MULBERRY terian Church, Stillman was into the musical interpretation. part of our nation.” FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FLORES GARDENING & LANDSCAPING File No.: 280400 founded in 1875 in Tuscaloosa, Admission is free, but attend- Organizers have invited tech- FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is (are) doing Alabama, where the choir regu- ees are encouraged to donate nology, business and educa- File No.: 280275 business as: larly performs at local church online at stillman.edu/about-us/ tional leaders to the concerts, The following person (persons) is (are) doing Autumn and Mulberry, located at 3725 business as: Jefferson Ct., Redwood City, CA 94062, San services and other community donations or at the concerts to hopeful that the choir’s visit will Flores Gardening & Landscaping, located Mateo County. events. The trip west makes for help underwrite students’ schol- form connections that could at 1180 Hilton St. Apt. 2, Redwood City, CA Registered owner(s): 94063, San Mateo County. KATHRYN M. UTLEY a special spring break for many arships and travel expenses. lead to future job opportunities Registered owner(s): 3725 Jefferson Ct. who are first-generation college On March 10, the choir will for Stillman students. A ISIDRO FLORES RODRIGUEZ Redwood City, CA 94062 1180 Hilton St. Apt. 2 This business is conducted by: An Individual. students. also join the congregation at Redwood City, CA 94063 The registrant commenced to transact This business is conducted by: An Individual. business under the fictitious business The registrant commenced to transact name(s) listed above on N/A. business under the fictitious business This statement was filed with the County Downtown’s observer-on-wheels receives name(s) listed above on 01/18/2019. Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on February 15, 2019. an uplifting gift to keep him rolling on February 4, 2019. (ALM Feb. 27; Mar. 6, 13, 20, 2019) (ALM Feb. 20, 27; Mar. 6, 13, 2019) GABRIEL’S GARDEN SERVICE Menlo Park residents and E-COMMERCHANT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT downtown visitors are likely to FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 280478 File No.: 280390 The following person (persons) is (are) doing have observed a man regularly The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: wheeling along Santa Cruz Ave- business as: Gabriel’s Garden Service, located at 1 Newell E-Commerchant, located at 311 Sycamore Ct., Apart. 1112, East Palo Alto, CA 94303, nue sidewalks, helmet on his head St., San Carlos, CA 94070, San Mateo County. San Mateo County. and a hand on the controls of his Registered owner(s): Registered owner(s): electric wheelchair. He certainly ERIC ALEJANDRO TEJEDA JUAN GABRIEL CASTRO 311 Sycamore St. 1 Newell Ct. Apart. 1112 will have observed them. San Carlos, CA 94070 East Palo Alto, CA 94303 That man is Tom Littlewood, This business is conducted by: An Individual. This business is conducted by: An Individual. who for years has made it his mis- The registrant commenced to transact The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business business under the fictitious business sion to patrol the downtown area, name(s) listed above on N/A. name(s) listed above on 02/22/2019. observing the people, businesses This statement was filed with the County This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo County on and goings-on, on the lookout for February 14, 2019. February 22, 2019. anything he finds amiss, and at (ALM Feb. 20, 27; Mar. 6, 13, 2019) (ALM Mar. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2019) the ready to contact his friends at Call Alicia Santillan at 650-223-6578 the police department if needed. or email [email protected] for legal advertising. Up until about two years ago, Littlewood, a former Menlo Park resident who now lives in East Palo Alto, had been a much more frequent downtown visitor. In Fresh news those days, Littlewood wasn’t a police department volunteer “in delivered daily the traditional sense of the word” because the department didn’t Today’s local news & hot picks have a volunteer program, but in Tom Littlewood, shown on his rounds at the Menlo Park police Sign up today at AlmanacNews.com/express See LITTLEWOOD, page 25 station, with Sgt. Ed Soares. March 6, 2019QAlmanacNews.comQThe AlmanacQ21 COMMUNITY RESOLUTION NO. 2139 (2019) RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ANNEX CERTAIN TERRITORY TO THE WEST BAY SANITARY DISTRICT ON-SITE WASTEWATER DISPOSAL ZONE LANDS OF BURRELL
The District Board of West Bay Sanitary District finds and determines as follows: A. This Resolution of Intention is adopted pursuant to the District’s “Zone Master Annexation Resolution” (“ZOMAR”), which was adopt- ed by the District Board August 12, 1996. The provisions of ZOMAR are incorporated by reference into this Resolution of Intention. B. The District has received an application to annex a parcel of real property (the “Parcel”) to the District’s On-Site Wastewater Disposal Zone (the “Zone”). The Parcel is described in Exhibit “A” attached to this Resolution of Intention and the description contained in the Exhibits are incorporated by reference. The name and address of the applicants and the number, type, volume and location of on-site wastewater disposal systems which are proposed to operate on the parcels to be annexed are described in Exhibit “B” attached to this Resolution of Intention and the information contained in the Exhibit are incorporated by reference.z Addy Raquel Palacios will C. The applicants have demonstrated to the satisfaction of the District Board that the Parcel constitutes “real property” for the purpos- attend Stanford law program for es of Section 2(b) of ZOMAR in that: high schoolers. X. All of the conditions described in Subsections i., ii., iii., iv. and v. of ZOMAR Section 2(b) are satisfied; or Other conditions exist which demonstrate that the Parcel will benefit directly or indirectly from the activities of the Zone. If applicable, Scholarship those conditions are also set forth in Exhibit “B” and are incorporated by reference. D. All of the conditions and requirements of ZOMAR Sections 2(a), 2(c), 2(d) and 2(e) have been fully satisfied. boosts plans In consideration of the foregoing findings and determinations, for law career IT IS RESOLVED by the District Board as follows: 1. It is the intention of the District Board to annex the Parcel to the Zone pursuant to the provisions of ZOMAR and applicable provi- A Menlo Park teenager and Deferred Action for Childhood sions of law. Arrivals (DACA) recipient who 2. In conjunction with a meeting of the District Board to be duly and regularly called and conducted, the Board will conduct a Public plans to become a lawyer has Hearing for the purpose of considering all matters pertaining to this Resolution of Intention. been named the inaugural recipient of a scholarship cre- The time, date and place of the Public Hearing are: ated to honor retired Judge Date: April 10, 2019 LaDoris Cordell. Addy Raquel Palacios, a soph- Time: 7:00 PM omore at East Palo Alto Acad- Place: West Bay Sanitary District Offices, 500 Laurel Street, Menlo Park, CA 94025 emy, will receive full tuition to attend the Intensive Law & Trial At the Public Hearing, all interested persons will be heard. program at Stanford University, 3. This Resolution of Intention shall be published and copies shall be delivered to the persons and entities as specified in ZOMAR a 10-week program that exposes Section 2(e)(i.). high schoolers from around the country to the theory and prac- 4. A true copy of this Resolution of Intention shall promptly be filed for record in the office of the County Recorder of the County of San tice of law. (Tuition for the 2019 Mateo. program is about $4,000.) 5. The District Manager shall cause the matters set forth in Sections 3 and 4 of this Resolution of Intention to be completed as directed. In Cordell’s 40-year career, she served as a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge, as a member of the Palo Alto Exhibit A Exhibit B City Council, as Stanford’s vice provost and special counselor to September 13, 2018 the president for campus rela- LEGAL DESCRIPTION tions, and as the independent ANNEXATION TO WEST BAY SANITARY DISTRICT LANDS OF BURRELL AND A PORTION OF SIOUX WAY police auditor for the city of San TOWN OF PORTOLA VALLEY, SAN MATEO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Jose. All that certain real property situate in the Town of Portola Valley, County of San Mateo, State of California, being all of Recent attempts to end DACA, Lot 8, Block 1 and a portion of Sioux Way as shown on that certain Map entitled ”Tract No. 774, Arrowhead Meadows which protects young people Unit No. 4”, which Map was filed for record on March 17, 1959, in Book 50 of Maps at Pages 45 through 48 in the Office of the Recorder of said County and State, and being more particularly whose parents brought them described as follows: to the U.S. illegally, sparked BEGINNING at the northwesterly corner of said Lot 8; Addy’s interest in a legal career. 1. Thence along the northerly line of said Lot 8 South 86°35‘00” East 397.00 feet to the northeasterly corner of said Lot 8; 2. Thence along the easterly line of said Lot 8 South 3°25‘00” West 104.89 feet to an angle point in the boundary of “Once I become a lawyer, I said Lot 8; would like to help make sure 3. Thence along the boundary of said Lot 8 South 84°56‘17” West 152.15 feet to an angle point in the boundary of said Lot 8; laws protect human rights and 4. Thence along the boundary of said Lot 8 South 61 °00‘00” West 241.35 feet to its intersection with the northerly right- create a just society,” she said. of-way line of Sioux Way as shown on said map; The scholarship was created 5. Thence crossing said right-of-way line of Sioux Way South 24°31‘ 13” West 50.00 feet to the southerly right-of-way line of Sioux Way and the beginning of a non tangent curve concave to the south by Envision, which provides having a radius of 525.00 feet, a radial line from said point having a bearing of South 24 °31 ‚ 13” West; career and leadership programs 6. Thence westerly along said curve and southerly right-of-way line through a for K-12 students, and will be central angle of 9°24‘12” a distance of 86.16 feet to the northeasterly corner of the West Bay Sanitary District adopted October 26, 1987, by Resolution No. 1072; awarded to one East Palo Alto 7. Thence radial from said northeasterly corner along the westerly line of said Lot 8 and its southerly prolongation North Academy student annually. 15°07‘02” East 284.97 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING. — By Elena Kadvany, Palo Alto Containing an area of 77,513 square feet, more or less. Weekly The herein described annexation parcel is shown on the attached map of this legal description, Page 3 of 3, and is made a part here of. Description prepared by MacLeod and Associates, Inc.
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22QThe AlmanacQAlmanacNews.comQMarch 6, 2019 COMMUNITY TOWN OF ATHERTON 56;0*,6-05=0;05.)0+: Fundraiser brings in more than The Town of Atherton will accept bids for construction of the following public work: $1 million for Alzheimer’s research MIDDLEFIELD ROAD CLASS II BICYCLE LANES IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT By Kate Daly Install detectable warning surfaces with concrete pad, signage/ Special to The Almanac IPJ`JSL^H`ÄUKPUNZKYHPUHNLPTWYV]LTLU[ZHSVUNIPJ`JSLWH[O ZPNUHSTVKPÄJH[PVUPTWYV]LTLU[ZHUKJVVYKPUH[PVU^P[O7. , lmost all of the 330 guests 7. ,^PSSJVTWSL[LHSS^VYRYLSH[LK[VTPJYVZ\YMHJPUNZ[YPWPUNHUK raised their hands when WH]LTLU[THYRPUNZ(SS^VYRZOHSSILJVTWSL[LKWLY;V^U:[HUKHYK Aasked if they are worried :WLJPÄJH[PVUZ about developing Alzheimer’s 7SHUZ :WLJPÄJH[PVUZTH`ILVI[HPULKH[! disease. And yet, an hour and O[[W!^^^JPH[OLY[VUJH\ZIPKZHZW_H[UVJVZ[;OL*VU[YHJ[VYZOHSS a half later, after hearing from ILYLZWVUZPISLMVYHU`HKKLUK\TZ[OH[TH`ILWVZ[LKVU[OL;V^U»Z various experts about research ^LIZP[L that is underway, many left the Pre-Bid Meeting (Non-Mandatory):(UVUTHUKH[VY`7YL)PK4LL[PUN recent Part the Cloud Luncheon ^PSSILOLSKH[[OLVѝJLVM[OL*P[`*SLYR (ZOÄLSK9VHK([OLY[VU in Menlo Park feeling somewhat *HSPMVYUPH H[11:00 a.m.7HJPÄJ:[HUKHYK;PTLVU8th day, hopeful. March, 2019H[^OPJO[PTLX\LZ[PVUZYLNHYKPUN[OLIPKZ\ITPZZPVU^PSS One panelist, Dr. Eric Siemers, ILHUZ^LYLK has been involved in neurode- :,(3,+)0+:^PSSILYLJLP]LKH[[OLVѝJLVM[OL*P[`*SLYR generative disease research for (ZOÄLSK9VHK([OLY[VU*HSPMVYUPH until 11:00 a.m.7HJPÄJ decades. As he put it, “Progress :[HUKHYK;PTLVUMonday, March 11, 2019,H[^OPJO[PTLIPKZ^PSS is being made every step of the ILW\ISPJS`VWLULKHUKYLHKHSV\K way.” )PKZT\Z[ILMVY[OLLU[PYL^VYRHUKZOHSSILZ\ITP[[LKPUZLHSLK The sold-out event on Feb. 13 at Drew Altizer Photography LU]LSVWLZJSLHYS`THYRLK! )PKVM*VU[YHJ[VYMVYMIDDLEFIELD Sharon Heights Golf & Country Part the Cloud founder Mikey Hoag, left, invited actress Marcia ROAD CLASS II BICYCLE LANES IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, Club raised more than $1 mil- Gay Harden to speak about Alzheimer’s disease. Project No. 56081”HSVUN^P[OKH[LHUK[PTLVMIPKVWLUPUN lion. Co-chaired by Stephanie Harman and Heather Pietsch, Harden wrote a book, “The Sea- cognitive assessments.” it was the fourth luncheon since sons of My Mother: A Memoir of He said blood tests are being 2012, when founder Michaela Love, Family and Flowers.” Every developed to predict when some- “Mikey” Hoag of Atherton orga- guest received a copy. one will develop Alzheimer’s. TOWN OF PORTOLA VALLEY nized the first gala fundraiser for After Harden spoke, a panel When asked by an audience NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING the Alzheimer’s Association. of doctors discussed some of the member what can be done now Alternating between galas and latest research on the disease. to stave off or slow down the NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Town Council of the Town of luncheons each year since then, The event program listed pan- disease, he recommended physi- Portola Valley will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, March 13, the events have raised more than elist Dr. Frank Longo as receiv- cal exercise, at least 30 minutes 2019 at 7:00 p.m., in the Historic Schoolhouse, 765 Portola Road, $30 million. Hoag thanked sup- ing a grant from Part the Cloud a day, five times a week. He also Portola Valley, California on the following: porters for contributing to what in 2013 for a Phase I trial on a suggested following a Mediter- ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF PORTO- “has become a global movement drug designed to block “degen- ranean diet and “staying cogni- LA VALLEY AMENDING SECTION 18.12.040 [ACCESSORY USES in Alzheimer’s research.” eration associated with amyloid, tively engaged.” PERMITTED IN R-E DISTRICT], SECION 18.36.040 [ACCESSORY So far, Part the Cloud has tau, inflammation and aging.” The panelists talked about the USES PERMITTED IN ALL DISTRICTS], AND SECTION 18.48.030 funded 34 research grants aimed That trial, he said, helped pave benefits of reminiscence therapy [ONE TIME INCREASE TO PARCEL AREA, OPEN SPACE AND at early phase clinical studies. the way for his current Phase IIa for Alzheimer’s patients, using BULK REQUIREMENTS] OF THE PORTOLA VALLEY MUNIPICAL According to the event program, Alzheimer’s trial at NIH. music, art and/or pictures to CODE AND A FINDING THAT THE ACTION IS EXEMPT UNDER grant recipients have then gone Dr. Longo practices at the help bring back memories and THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA). on to procure over $180 million Stanford Memory Disorders promote good thoughts. in additional funding from the Clinic where, he said, “We see Goto tinyurl.com/partcloud On January 16 and February 6, 2019, the Planning Commission National Institutes of Health and a very high volume” of patients, for more information about Part adopted Resolutions recommending the proposed ordinance. The Town Council considered the Planning Commission’s recommen- venture capital. a demand and a “need for the Cloud. A “Let’s hope one day there will dation on February 27, 2019 and will continue consideration at its be a survivor from this disease,” March 13, 2019 meeting. Proposed Municipal Code amendments Hoag said. include: She has experienced the grief 1. Remove the existing ADU regulations at Section 18.12.040; of Alzheimer’s with both her par- Employment 2. Add new ADU regulations at Section 18.36.040 including but not ents. She invited actress Marcia limited to: Gay Harden, another “daughter of Alzheimer’s,” as Harden called Allow ADUs on all parcel sizes, with some restrictions herself at the luncheon, to come Administrative Assistant Needed Increase the allowed ADU size and share her story. We are currently searching for an administrative assistant who Harden’s mother passed away can handle various projects including HR, finance, and oral Allow a separate address for ADUs in December. The actress told the skills. Successful applicants will demonstrate attention to detail, Create a streamlined review process for certain ADU applications; crowd that her mother’s memory and a passion for continual improvement. We hire for character loss felt “like scenes left on the and integrity, and train for job-specific competency computer 3. Amend Section 18.48.030 describing the maximum size allowed skills helpful,($500) weekly. we will consider any applicant who for an ADU for consistency with other Sections. editing floor.” demonstrates the following: To help restore those scenes, · Commitment to integrity Information pertaining to the proposed ordinance may be viewed · Goal-oriented mindset at Town Hall Planning and Building Department, Monday through · Ambition to achieve and continually improve Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., or online LEHUA GREENMAN If interested apply at [email protected] at http://www.portolavalley.net/housing or by emailing housing@ portolavalley.net. "Let today Public Hearings provide the general public and interested parties be the day Today’s local an opportunity to provide testimony on these items. All interested you give news & hot picks persons are invited to appear before the Town Council to be heard up who at the time and place mentioned above. 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Right now, there is a team of six people working part time. When asked whether she expects it to be a challenge to pitch a device that aids breast- feeding to investors, who are mostly men, she acknowledged that challenges could arise. While she has decades of tech- nical knowledge and her team has more than 100 years of combined experience, she’s been questioned about her technical expertise in casual conversa- tions about the idea. She noted that companies that offer baby products tend to get better funding than companies creat- ing products for women. She’s not deterred, though. “That will be an issue, perhaps,” she said. “I’m not going to let that stop me. ... This is an issue of women’s health. This is good for women. (It’s) also good for babies.” The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies be breastfed exclusively for about six months, followed by continued breastfeeding for a year or longer as other foods are introduced. In August 2018, the Centers for Disease Control Magali Gauthier (CDC) released a report card Early prototypes of Soody Tronson’s device that enables new mothers to supplement their breastmilk with other sources of milk. The on breastfeeding, which indi- pictured parts would fit over the mother’s nipple. cated that many mothers stop By Kate Bradshaw breastfeeding earlier than rec- Almanac Staff Writer Throughout her career, she’s ommended. About 83 percent developed a “solution-oriented” of the 4 million babies born in oody Tronson, a Menlo Park mindset, she said. So when a 2015 started out breastfeeding, resident, has a Silicon Val- family member in 2012 described but only about 25 percent were Sley overachiever’s resume: to Tronson some of the chal- breastfed exclusively for the first a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, lenges she was experiencing with six months. a law degree earned while work- breastfeeding her baby, Tronson’s According to the CDC, ing as an engineer for Hewlett- mind jumped into action. infants that are breastfed have Packard, the title of managing Soon, she found herself apply- reduced risks of asthma, obesity, founder of a boutique intellectual ing for patents, spending her off- Type 2 diabetes, ear and respi- property law firm. Plus, she sits work time developing a product ratory infections and sudden on Menlo Park’s Finance and that could help mothers in simi- infant death syndrome, while Audit Committee. lar situations. breastfeeding may help lower a Over the last few years, she’s Both law and chemistry are mother’s risk of hypertension, been combining her skills and in her blood, she explained. Her Type 2 diabetes and ovarian and credentials in new ways, nursing dad was a judge; her brother, a breast cancer. plans to develop a device to help chemical engineer. Developing Magali Gauthier Compared with other prod- breastfeeding mothers. the product involves her skills in Soody Tronson, founder of Presque, shows early prototypes of the ucts that may help women As a teen, Tronson immigrated both. In 2016, she pulled a device at her home in Menlo Park on Feb. 22, 2019. pump milk, she said, “We’re to the U.S. from Iran to attend a team together to work on the coming at it from a different boarding school in Florida with project. “Somehow, it’s all com- In short, she said, the nursing launch a product line, and angle.” her best friend. She went on to ing together,” she said. process is “natural, but it’s not plans for the second generation When it hits the market, the study industrial chemistry in col- One reason mothers stop easy.” of the product to contain a sen- Presque bra will provide moth- lege, later working as a scientist breastfeeding, she said, is because On and off between 2012 and sor to track how much milk a ers a tool to overcome challeng- at a pharmaceutical company in they think they’re not producing 2016, she worked to develop her baby extracts to determine the es with feeding babies by facili- New Jersey before moving to San enough milk. “They think their prototype. It’s a bra, with a pouch volume of supplement needed. tating direct breastfeeding and Diego to work as an engineer. baby is not getting enough nour- where women can put either This is an interesting chal- supplementing, she explained. She started working at Hewlett- ishment,” she noted. formula or pre-extracted breast lenge, since most sensors are The tool can also be used to Packard in 1988 and, while there, Yet the breastfeeding process, milk into a disposable bag. A designed for flat surfaces, while “democratize” the parenting decided to pursue a law degree by she explained, operates on a nipple-shaped silicon piece sits this one would have to work experience, she said. Parents night. simple biological “supply and in the middle, designed to allow on a curved one, she said. That who adopt, same-sex parents, or She graduated in 1995, two demand” model. If the baby the woman’s nipple to extend development could be useful transgender parents can all sup- weeks after the birth of her first doesn’t try to extract milk, then through. Milk from the reservoir in other applications. The idea port baby suckling and bonding son, and transitioned within the mother stops creating it, so will be released to meet the nurs- is to pair the sensor with an while providing nutrition to the HP to the legal department. She getting discouraged and giving ing baby’s needs. app to determine how much child. moved to Palo Alto in 1996 and up on the process can reduce the She described comparable supplement is released from the “I’m all about enablement,” has lived in the area since then, supply further, she said. products currently on the market reservoir, she added. she said. she said. Another problem that can as “arcane” and “undignified,” Presque has an office in Santa A reception for Presque is A few years later, she moved occur with new babies exposed she said. Clara and is now out of “stealth scheduled for Thursday, March on to a big law firm. Then, in the to both breast milk and formula Tronson’s calling her busi- mode” and into full-blown 7, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in Menlo early 2000s, Tronson worked at is “nipple confusion,” she said, ness “Presque,” which means fundraising mode, with plans Park. Go to mypresque.com/ a medical device startup before in which babies have difficulty “almost” in French. “It’s almost to be ready to manufacture the march-7th/ to RSVP or to launching her own intellectual reconnecting with nursing once like nature,” she said. product within a year of the ini- mypresque.com for more infor- property law firm. exposed to bottle-feeding. She intends to eventually tial funding round’s conclusion. mation. A
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Visit AlmanacNews.com/calendar 11, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $10 students, $20 GA, $40 GA with 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stan- explores the nature of space and time, how we fit within the to see more calendar listings book. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. ford.edu/exhibitions/josiah-mcelheny-island-universe universe and how the universe fits within us. March 9, 4-5 eventbrite.com .DKOLO-RVHSK %/.1:6 Kahlil Joseph, a visiting artist in p.m. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Theater The Peninsula at War As part of its “War Comes Home: the new Presidential Residencies on the Future of the Arts Search keplers.org for more info. The Legacy” exhibit and program series, Menlo Park program, is presenting his work BLKNWS, a two-channel &RQVFLRXV&XOWXUH %H\RQG3LQJ3RQJDQG)UHH )RRWKLOO0XVLF7KHDWUH3UHVHQWV¶%XOOHWV2YHU%URDG- Library invites the community to discover the Peninsula’s video projection that blurs the lines between art, journalism, /XQFK The South Bay chapter of Conscious Capitalism Foothill Music Theatre presents Woody ZD\WKH0XVLFDO· World War II legacy with the deputy director of the San entrepreneurship and cultural critique. Through June 16, Bay Area hosts an evening of networking and experiential Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway, the Musical,” about a Mateo County Historical Association. March 12, 7-8 p.m. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. Free. Cantor Arts Center, learning using interactive exercises to help improve busi- young playwright whose first Broadway play is financed by Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. menlopark. 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stan- ness practices. March 13, 5:30-8:30 p.m. SLAC National a gangster. Thursdays through Sundays, through March org/warcomeshome ford.edu/exhibitions/kahlil-joseph-blknws Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park. 17, times vary. $12-$36. Lohman Theatre, 12345 El Monte eventbrite.com Road, Los Altos Hills. foothill.edu/theatre/bullets.html ¶7KH6ORZ:D\+RPH·ILOPDQGGLVFXVVLRQ “The Slow 7KHPHGLXPLVWKHPHVVDJH $UWVLQFH Using Way Home” analyzes the factors that contribute to the works created since 1950, this exhibition explores the
2SHUD1LJKW 3HWHU*LUDUGRWDQG/DXUHQ1LFROH+DEHU staggering difference between the number of children in relationship between subject, content and the materials Lessons & Classes Angelica’s presents Opera Night featuring tenor Peter Gira- Japan who walk to school compared with students in the that informed each object’s production. Through Aug. 18, dot and soprano Lauren Nicole Haber. March 13, 7 p.m. (6/&RQYHUVDWLRQ&OXE Non-native and native English United States. March 7, 1-3 p.m. Silicon Valley Community 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. Free. Cantor Arts Center, Angelica’s, 863 Main St., Redwood City. tunestub.com speakers talk together with the aim of developing English Foundation, 1300 South El Camino Real, San Mateo. 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stan- speaking and listening skills. No registration required. Free. 7KHDWUH:RUNV6LOLFRQ9DOOH\3UHVHQWV¶0DULHDQG eventbrite.com ford.edu/exhibitions/medium-message-art-1950 Wednesdays, 5-6 p.m. Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., 5RVHWWD· In its West Coast premiere, the musical play 7LQD0RGRWWLDQGWKH0H[LFDQ5HQDLVVDQFH A discus- 3DLQWLQJQDWXUHLQWKH$PHULFDQJLOGHGDJH The Cantor Menlo Park. menlopark.org/projectread “Marie and Rosetta” shares the saga of musical legend sion about the life and work of Tina Modotti, whose photo- Arts Center’s newest exhibition considers how nature was Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who inspired Elvis, Ray Charles graphs of 1920s Mexico represent the post-revolutionary depicted by American artists in landscapes, portraits and and others on her way to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Outdoor Recreation period sometimes called the Mexican Renaissance. March still lifes from the 1880s to 1910, an era of industrialization March 6-31; times vary. $40-$100; discounts avail- %HJLQQHU5HIUHVKHUELUGZDON Friends of Bedwell Bay- 13, 4:15-6:15 p.m. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at and urban development. Through Aug. 25, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; able. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo front Park and Sequoia Audubon Society host a one- to Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu/programs/ closed Tuesdays. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Alto. theatreworks.org/201819-season/201819-season/ two-hour beginner bird walk. Attendees may see wintering art-focus-lectures-tina-modotti-mexican-renaissance Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu/ marie-and-rosetta/ ducks, shorebirds, egrets and hawks and are encouraged exhibitions/painting-nature-american-gilded-age to bring binoculars. The walk begins at the restrooms in Concerts Family the parking lot and is canceled if there’s heavy rain. March 7UDLQ&OXE2SHQ+RXVH West Bay Model Railroad Film 9, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Bedwell Bayfront Park, 1600 Marsh (DUO\0XVLF6LQJHUV 7KRPDV7DOOLVDQG)ULHQGV The Association invites children of all ages to watch trains run .HUU\7ULEH 7KH(OXVLYH:RUG Los Angeles-based Road, Menlo Park. Early Music Singers performs works by Thomas Tallis, on their new two-level layout and have the chance to ask visual artist Kerry Tribe’s film “Critical Mass” (2013) fea- Parsons, Sheppard, White, and Byrd. March 13, 7:30-9 :LOGIORZHU+LNH Filoli’s nature preserve is offering hik- club members questions. March 9, 1-4 p.m. Menlo Park tures a re-enactment of a couple’s heavily edited argu- p.m. Memorial Church, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. events. ing tours among its native wildflowers to learn about their Caltrain station, 1090 Merrill St., Menlo Park. facebook. ment taken from Hollis Frampton’s experimental 1971 stanford.edu qualities and how they adapt and thrive. Saturdays, 11 com/wbmrra film by the same name. Tribe offers modern viewers a a.m.-12:30 p.m. Through May 4. $15. Filoli Gardens, 86 Old 0DVWHU6LQIRQLD&KDPEHU2UFKHVWUD3URJUDP fresh look at the struggle to find the words to express Canada Road, Woodside. filoli.org/event/wildflower/ 3Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra presents Rossini’s Museums & Exhibits how one feels. Through April 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed “Semiramide Overture,” Barber’s “Concerto for cello and $UWUHFHSWLRQDQGH[KLELWDW0DUFHOD·V9LOODJH*DOOHU\ Tuesdays. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Home & Garden orchestra” and Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony. Tickets Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/ Marcela’s Village Gallery presents mosaic artwork by local 6SULQJEXOEGLVSOD\WRXUV Tour Filoli’s spring display and are good for either date. March 9, 8 p.m., and March 10, kerry-tribe-elusive-word 2:30 p.m. $15-$25.Valley Presbyterian Church, 945 Portola artist My Xuan Ho, and Peruvian master watercolor artist learn about where Filoli acquires its bulbs, how seed-sow- Road, Portola Valley. Search brownpapertickets.com for Percy Herrera. March 9, 5-8 p.m. Marcela’s Village Gallery, Food & Drink ing and planting is scheduled and the design aspects that more info. 883 Santa Cruz Ave. #1, Menlo Park. marcelasvillage.com go into a new bulb and annual display each year. Tours are In this exhibition, ¶$VWURSK\VLFVIRU3HRSOHLQD+XUU\·E\1HLOGH*UDVVH led Thursdays and Sundays through April 7 11 a.m.-12:30 7KH6ZLQJLQ·%OXH6WDUV As part of its “War Comes 'R+R6XK 7KHVSDFHVLQEHWZHHQ artist Do Ho Suh uses a chandelier, wallpaper and a deco- Tyson Big Ideas Reading Group will discuss Neil deGrasse p.m. $15. Filoli Gardens, 86 Old Canada Road, Woodside. Home: The Legacy” exhibit and program series, Menlo Tyson’s “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,” which filoli.org/event/springbulb/ Park Library presents a performance in three-part harmony rative screen to focus attention on issues of migration and of songs from the WWII era. March 9, 11 a.m.-noon. Menlo transnational identity. Through May 27, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. menlopark.org/ closed Tuesdays. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita warcomeshome Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu/ exhibitions/do-ho-suh-spaces-between Talks & Lectures 3XEOLFWRXURI0HPRULDO&KXUFK Tours of Stanford The Buyers Made An Offer The Sellers Memorial Church, one of the earliest interdenominational Kalpana Mohan’s “Daddykins” answers .DOSDQD0RKDQ churches in the West, feature the church’s stone carvings, the call of both celebration and farewell in a tribute to her mosaics and stained-glass windows. Ongoing, Fridays at 1 late father, whom she cared for during his last two ailing p.m. and the last Sunday of the month at 11:30 a.m. Free. Couldn't Refuse! years in Chennai. March 7, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Kepler’s Books, Memorial Church, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. Search events. 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Search eventbrite.com stanford.edu for more info. for more info. -RVLDK0F(OKHQ\ ¶,VODQG8QLYHUVH· Josiah McElheny’s Would You Like An Offer You - /DXUHQ0DUNKDPDQG+XPDQ5LJKWV:DWFKRQLPPL “Island Universe” examines both cutting-edge art and Two local investigators, author Lauren Markham JUDWLRQ physics. The installation of five hanging chandeliers is a and Human Rights Watch senior researcher Clara Long, visual response to recent theories of the multiverse, an will discuss the state of human rights at the United States Couldn't Refuse? elaboration of the Big Bang theory. Through Aug. 18, 11 southern border, particularly for young migrants. March a.m.-5 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. Free. Cantor Arts Center, If You Are Interested, Please call or LITTLEWOOD When Littlewood mentioned to his email me. continued from page 21 friend that an electric lift would enable him to get out of bed more often, “I knew I had an email several years ago, police Comdr. to do what I could to help,” Colleen Cooley William Dixon told The Almanac that told The Almanac. “Tom’s amazing spirit Littlewood “has been a valued and appre- and desire to serve his community is appar- SALE PENDING ciated member of the Menlo Park Police ent to anyone who knows him. No human family for several years.” being should be confined to a bed.” Dixon added: “His constant presence So Cooley set up her first-ever Go Fund throughout Menlo Park has provided an Me page, and launched a successful effort extra layer of vigilance that is always on the that raised the $2,000 needed for the elec- lookout for the greater Menlo Park com- tric lift in about three weeks. She said over munity’s safety and well-being.” the weekend that she will be ordering the But an injury Littlewood sustained when lift this week to help her friend regain some he fell from his wheelchair slowed him of his mobility and return more often to his down, and now he is able to get out of bed downtown patrol beat. only one day a week. That’s the day when he “I couldn’t be more pleased,” Cooley said has enough help from care-providers, who of the generosity shown toward Littlewood lift him painstakingly from bed and help by Go Fund Me donors. him into his wheelchair. “If anyone feels inclined, Tom can always Enter Colleen Cooley, a Menlo Park use any extra assistance available,” she businesswoman who has been a friend of added. “He lives on a very limited income. Littlewood’s for more than 30 years. She Although he doesn’t complain, I know was introduced to him by her husband, anything extra that comes his way is always Shawn Cooley, when Colleen and Shawn appreciated and goes to good use.” were dating, and Shawn would help Little- To access the page, go to gofundme.com wood to bed many nights when both men and enter Tom Littlewood in the search lived in Menlo Park. field.
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