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Page 4 • September 21, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Palo Alto broadens law to help evicted tenants City Council moves to remove ‘means test’ from championed on Aug. 27 by Coun- its original use as a hotel under granted qualifying tenants rental cilman Greg Scharff and Mayor a proposal from the building’s assistance and which required relocation-assistance law Liz Kniss, both of whom changed new owner, Adventurous Jour- seven out of eight votes to pass. At by Gennady Sheyner their position on Monday in siding neys Capital Partners. Residents that time, Scharff had indicated with the majority. of the historic building at 488 that he would oppose the emer- n an abrupt change of course, Greg Tanaka dissenting, the coun- Just like the prior version of University Ave. are now facing gency law, dooming it to failure, the Palo Alto City Council cil voted to strip away from the the law, the one that the coun- a Nov. 12 eviction deadline, and unless the accompanying perma- I approved on Monday night a new law a controversial clause cil passed Monday only applies their plight has revived the city’s nent law included a “means test.” law ensuring that tenants facing that limited relocation assistance to housing developments with tense, yearlong debate over tenant He had initially proposed limiting eviction will receive relocation to residents who make below 50 or more units. These include protection. assistance that landlords must pro- assistance, regardless of their in- the area median income, which President Hotel, a 75-unit apart- The initial ordinance was ap- vide — which ranges from $7,000 come levels. is about $90,000 for a one-per- ment building in downtown Palo proved on Aug. 27 in conjunction By an 8-1 vote, with Councilman son household. That clause was Alto that is slated to revert to with an “emergency law,” which (continued on page 11)
DEVELOPMENT Design approved for new police headquarters Long-awaited project reaches critical milestone by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto’s decades-long quest to construct a new P public-safety building reached a critical milestone Thursday morning, when the city’s Architectural Review Board approved the design for the new civic building in the Cal- ifornia Avenue Business District. Like everything else about the project, the board’s approval was a long time coming. The board had previously considered the Veronica Weber project last October and again in early August, each time requir- ing the architects to modify the design to make the building less massive and more inviting to the On the front lines public. Though board members Stanford University School of Medicine students, interns and residents gather at Stanford University as they join the SAFE (Scrubs still had some reservations about Addressing the Firearm Epidemic) rally at the campus on Sept. 17. the project on Thursday, they were sufficiently impressed with the progress of the design to give the Palo Alto, we are members of project their unanimous blessing. FEDERAL your community; we wanted to The project is now set to go to tell you that we are here, and we the council for final clearance Community members to Kavanaugh accuser: have your back,” Palo Alto area later this fall. Provided it gets the mothers wrote in one open letter council’s support, as it is almost signed by more than 1,000 people certain to do, construction would ‘We are here, and we have your back’ as of Wednesday afternoon. They commence in mid-2020, immedi- planned to deliver the letter to ately after the city finishes build- Palo Altans, others voice support for Christine Blasey Ford Ford on Thursday, Sept. 20. ing a six-level parking garage on in letters, GoFundMe campaign Ford, a research psychologist an adjoining lot at 350 Sherman by Elena Kadvany at Palo Alto University, alleged Ave. The public-safety building in a Washington Post story pub- will include a new police head- n the days since Palo Alto res- highest court in the land, local media, launched a GoFundMe lished Sunday that Kavanaugh quarters, Fire Department ad- ident Christine Blasey Ford residents — friends and strang- campaign to raise funds for Ford assaulted her in the early 1980s, ministration, the Emergency Op- I publicly accused Supreme ers alike — have started to rally and organized an “I Believe when they were both high school erations Center (the city’s official Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh around her. Christine” candlelight vigil for students at a party in suburban situation room during disasters), of sexually assaulting her while They have penned public and this weekend. Maryland. Ford, now 51, said that the 911 dispatch center, the Office they were teenagers, possibly private letters of support, shared “We are your neighbors, we upending his nomination to the compassionate messages on social are fellow moms in and around (continued on page 13) (continued on page 12)
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Page 6 • September 21, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Upfront LAND USE News Digest Laurene Powell Jobs buys 30 acres East Palo Alto City Council nixes stun gun use Emphasizing the good job East Palo Alto police have done to help in East Palo Alto gain the trust of residents, City Council members voted unanimously on Tuesday against arming its officers with stun guns. The decision City leaders unsure what Powell Jobs intends to do with this makes the city’s police force the only one in San Mateo County to and other properties in Ravenswood Business District be without stun guns. Police Chief Albert Pardini said the department has few incidents by Sue Dremann of police use of force, such as using a club or pepper spray and has ne of the largest parcels strong crisis-intervention training, which has made use of force large- of vacant land in East ly unnecessary. In 2017, officers made 1,223 arrests but had only O Palo Alto is now under nine incidents where they used force, and in the past three years the the ownership of a limited li- numbers were similar. ability company associated with As he made the argument to demonstrate that officers were un- Laurene Powell Jobs, according Properties owned likely to use the stun guns excessively, the council and members to San Mateo County records. by Sycamore of the public saw that success as a good reason for why the devices The deed to the 29.4-acre site (about 46 acres) aren’t necessary. Many emphasized that adding the stun guns would in the Ravenswood Business Dis- alienate many in the community and could erode hard-won trust, trict was officially entered by the Brown. Kristin by properties of drawing Google; of courtesy Map which has grown through a community effort by police, nonprofits, Clerk Recorder’s office on Aug. Fordham St. churches and residents. 1. The land stretches from the Council members expressed concern for the potential that the non- end of Demeter Street to near the lethal device to cause death, which is sometimes the case, particularly Dumbarton Bridge. Palo Alto- Ravenswood when someone has an underlying medical condition. based Sycamore Real Estate In- Open Space The council did unanimously approve a five-year agreement to vestment LLC began buying up Ave. University Preserve lease body-worn cameras from Axon Inc. for nearly $183,000. Q East Palo Alto properties in 2015 —Sue Dremann and, with the latest acquisition, Man robs mother and daughter in Professorville
now owns about 46 acres. St. Tara That makes Sycamore among St. Illinois A mother and daughter walking in Palo Alto’s Professorville neighborhood were robbed by a man who pushed them to the ground the city’s top three largest private Ave. Pulgas Bay Rd. landowners, City Assistant Man- St. Demeter and fled in a getaway car on Saturday afternoon, police said. ager Sean Charpentier confirmed The robbery took place at about 1:40 p.m. in the 400 block of in an email. The city as a whole is Kingsley Avenue. The mother’s purse was stolen, according to a 2.6 square miles, or 1,688 acres. police press release issued Monday. City of East Palo Alto leaders Palo Alto-based Sycamore Real Estate Investment LLC, a company The targets, a woman in her 50s and a daughter in her 20s, told seem unsure what Sycamore in- associated with Laurene Powell Jobs, began buying up East Palo police they were walking west on Kingsley Avenue approaching tends to do with the properties. Alto properties in 2015 and, with its latest acquisition this year, now Waverley Street when they heard someone yelling. The mother saw Sycamore has expressed inten- owns about 46 acres, according to San Mateo County records. The a man with a bandana covering his face run toward her daughter and tions to develop the properties company is among the three largest private landowners in the East tried to protect her with her arms, but he knocked both of them down in very general terms: “in a way Palo Alto, according to city staff. to the ground with his body. that is consistent with the city’s The man then went into a dark- or red-colored sedan driven by general plan with the goal of Alto and now has served 3,000 totaling 6 acres adjacent to 2555 another male and fled south on Waverley Street. The mother got up maximizing community benefits, high school and college students Pulgas Ave. in 2015; and two plots and realized her purse was gone. Both women suffered from minor including jobs for East Palo Alto across the country, according to at 264 Tara Road totaling about 2 abrasions but declined medical attention. residents and revenue for the city,” its website. She remains chair- acres, bought in 2015 and 2016. The robber is described as a dark-skinned, black or Polynesian city staff noted in a Jan. 20 City woman of its board of directors. Development plans throughout man in his mid-20s, around 6 feet tall and roughly 200 pounds. He Council strategic priorities retreat Emerson Collective focuses on East Palo Alto were put on hold was wearing a dark shirt, khaki-colored shorts and red bandana that report. initiatives related to education, in July 2016 after the city ran covered his face. Sycamore expressed interest helping new immigrants succeed out of a potable-water supply for The getaway driver is described as a dark-skinned male, also wear- in initiating project-development and social justice. new hookups. The city lifted the ing a red bandana on his face. planning processes starting in Sycamore has acquired the moratorium in July after acquir- The robbery does not seem to be related to street robberies that 2018, according to the staff report. following parcels: the 29.4 acres ing 1.5 million gallons of Hetch occurred Aug. 21 and Sept. 10, according to detectives investigating Charpentier said on Wednesday formerly owned by Facciola/Tar- Hetchy water per day through the case. that Sycamore has not submitted antino, plus an adjacent 0.02-acre water-shares transfer agreements Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the any official plans. It has applied property; four properties total- with Palo Alto and Mountain department’s 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to [email protected] or sent by text message for limited tenant improvements Q ing 6.6 acres at 2555 Pulgas Ave. View. Q for an existing building at 2555 bought in 2017; 1.95 acres at 1985 Staff Writer Sue Dremann or voicemail to 650-383-8984. Pulgas Ave. to add some office Bay Road in 2017; 0.2 acres at 151 can be emailed at sdcremann@ —Christine Lee space. Tara Road in 2015; three parcels paweekly.com. Public Works veteran tapped to lead department Sycamore lists its officer as Brad Eggleston, a veteran engineer who has been at the forefront J. Brad Powell, according to the of Palo Alto’s recent push to upgrade its infrastructure, will be the California Secretary of State’s new leader of the Public Works Department. business database. He is noted as The appointment, which City Manager James Keene announced managing director of investments Wednesday, is set to go to the City Council for approval in October, for Emerson Collective, the so- according to Keene. cial investment firm founded by CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week The council is well familiar with Eggleston, who joined the city Powell Jobs, its president. Powell 20 years ago. He has served in every Public Works division and has oversees Emerson’s financial and been the interim director since former Director Michael Sartor re- investment activity, according to City Council (Sept. 17) tired earlier this year. Eggleston is also at the center of implementing a profile by business media com- Public-safety building: The council held a study session to discuss the latest design of the proposed public-safety building. Action: None the council’s 2014 Infrastructure Plan, which includes a new public- pany Bloomberg. Renter Protections: The council voted to eliminate the income-eligibility safety building, two new parking garages, a bike bridge over U.S. An email to an Emerson Col- requirement from the city’s relocation-assistance ordinance. Yes: DuBois, Highway 101 and other projects. In 2011, Eggleston worked with a lective spokesperson requesting Filseth, Fine, Holman, Kniss, Kou, Scharff, Wolbach No: Tanaka specially appointed panel to identify the city’s infrastructure priori- comment on the group’s inten- ties and come up with ways to pay for the needed fixes. tions for the properties was not Council Finance Committee (Sept. 18) Eggleston joined the city in 1998 as an industrial waste investigator returned. Budget: The council directed staff to return in November with proposals to cut $4 million from this year’s budget and to begin a strategic-action plan that and has managed the city’s environmental-control and solid-waste Powell Jobs has made an im- would evaluate all city services. Yes: Filseth, Kou, Scharff No: Tanaka programs before becoming assistant director of the Public Works pact on East Palo Alto over the Director in 2012. years. She co-founded College Architectural Review Board (Sept. 20) He currently leads the 33-person team in the Engineering Services Track, which prepares under- Public-safety building: The board approved the proposed design for the new Division, which is responsible for implementing the city’s capital-im- served high school students for public-safety building at 250 Sherman Ave. Yes: Unanimous provement program. He also oversees the group responsible for public success in college, in 1997. The Q LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk right-of-way and flood-plain issues, according to the announcement. nonprofit organization started —Gennady Sheyner with 25 students in East Palo about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com
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(RHNA). During its Sept. 10 recommendation will not be HOUSING discussion of the Grand Jury re- implemented because it’s “not port, several council members reasonable.” Palo Alto, the re- said they would like to explore sponse states, “cannot accept Palo Alto resists Grand Jury working with other cities on ac- a recommendation on another complishing housing goals. jurisdiction’s behalf.” In ad- Councilman Tom DuBois dition, Palo Alto’s response recommendations on housing said the “sub-region” approach states, below-market-rate hous- City Council agrees to explore RHNA sub-regions but takes issue seems to work well in San Ma- ing “should not be directed to teo County, which already has low-cost cities as implied with with most Grand Jury recommendations on producing more housing a system in place. Councilman this recommendation.” by Gennady Sheyner Greg Scharff, who has repre- “Housing affordability are sented the city on the Associa- acute problems in high-cost cit- espite general recogni- several housing advocates had in cities with the county’s high- tion of Bay Area Governments ies and the city supports equi- tion of the housing crisis, described as “anemic,” Palo est real estate values because board, also praised this ap- table distribution throughout the D Palo Alto’s elected offi- Alto asserts that transit zones these developments cannot proach, noting that it will give region,” the response states. cials took a skeptical stance last alone may not be a sufficient meet their target return on in- the cities and the county a fo- The council voted 8-1 on Sept. week toward a new Santa Clara catalyst to create opportunities vestment.” Palo Alto has no ev- rum for exchanging ideas and 10 to approve the response. County Grand Jury Report that for below-market-rate housing, idence to support this finding, collaborating. Councilman Adrian Fine, the criticized jurisdictions through- which requires an alignment of the city states in its response. In its official response, how- sole dissenter, agreed with sev- out the county for failing to “zoning, property values, con- “While return on investment ever, the city is less than gung- eral members of the public, who adopt policies that encourage struction costs and other land is a key factor for any devel- ho about the types of collabo- argued that the response is too affordable housing. use policies.” oper, there may be other con- rations proposed by the Grand feeble and disagreeable. Mark The council last week signed The response comes at a time siderations that make housing Jury. One of the report’s recom- Mollineaux, an advocate for off on a letter penned by Interim when the City Council is trying development less attractive,” mendations calls for the forma- more housing, said he found the Planning Director Jonathan Lait — and failing — to meet its goal the response states, noting that tion of a RHNA sub-region, council’s response to the “sub- that takes issue with many of of producing 300 housing units office development generates including “one or more low- region” question laughable, giv- the report’s findings and recom- annually. So far, it has only ap- a higher return rate and that cost cities with one or more en the city’s recent history of mendations. These include the proved one major multi-family “housing policy decisions” may high-cost cities” by the end of not building adequate housing. Grand Jury’s findings that the development this year, with a have as much influence as costs 2021. In such a sub-region, the The city, he said, is basically county’s employers have created total of 57 units geared toward on a developer’s decision to Grand Jury report stated, cit- saying: We don’t think it’s fair a vibrant economy that resulted employees. It is also facing the locate housing in a particular ies would “strike their own al- that we only build in low-cost in an “inflated housing market”; prospect of losing 75 residential jurisdiction. liances depending on mutual areas. Everyone should do their that mass-transit stations create units as part of a plan to convert The Grand Jury did make needs.” It would, for example, share. opportunities for below-mar- President Hotel into a hotel. one suggestion that the city im- allow high-cost cities that build “That’s a fantastic point,” ket-rate housing; and that cities Despite the acknowledged mediately embraced: the idea less affordable housing to offer Mollineaux said. “The problem aren’t using density-bonus pro- housing shortage, the city dis- that cities should form a “sub- funding for transportation and is: Palo Alto isn’t. You’ve failed grams aggressively enough in puted in its response the Grand region” to tackle the housing infrastructure to nearby low- in doing your share. You’re say- encouraging affordable housing Jury’s finding that developers crisis and meet their collective cost cities, who would build ing we shouldn’t compensate near transit hubs. are “less willing to consider be- obligations under the Region- more such housing. In a response letter that low-market-rate developments al Housing Needs Allocation Palo Alto’s response says this (continued on page 10)
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Housing response is “anemic” and (continued from page 8) amounts to “wallpapering over the report.” He pointed to Grand Jury data showing Palo them because we should do our Alto far behind other cities in part but you’re not doing your housing productions. part.” “It came across like we don’t Kelsey Banes, a psycholo- treat the problem seriously,” gist at Palo Alto VA, said she Fine said. is “very disappointed” in her But some of his colleagues took city’s response, which reads issue with the Grand Jury’s tone, like the city is really shirking particularly when it talks about its responsibility for creating “NIMBY (not in my backyard) and responding to the hous- mindset” that hinders housing ing crisis. She also argued that production and recommends that NIMBYism is real that is a Santa Clara County lead a “uni- “natural human response to new fied communication campaign things coming in and change that aims to convert NIMBYs happening.” into YIMBYs.” Councilwoman “I’d suggest that instead of Karen Holman encouraged the reacting by looking for ways to Grand Jury to move away from disagree with this report, staff using these terms. and the council look for ways to “They are both used from my You’re Invited to the take responsibility for mistakes experience to describe extreme that had been made that led to views and extreme perspectives, this crisis and look for ways we and I think they are absolutely Saturday can build more affordable hous- detrimental to having a helpful PACIFICA ing and more housing in general conversation,” Holman said. Q to provide for the people who Staff Writer Gennady October 6ϫϡ live and work here,” Banes said. Sheyner can be emailed at OPEN HOUSE Fine agreed and said the [email protected]. <^4SNedXTe[FN^dN4NbPNbNͨ5N[XT_b^XN
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Tenants of stronger rental protections, better enforcement of the city’s re- office that this ordinance does not an interest in a rental property, said (continued from page 5) including limits on allowed rent quirement of one-year leases and expose the city to significant le- she was concerned that the city is increases. Scharff, Kniss, Fine a stronger mediation program for gal liability or any legal liability,” “still really flirting with rent con- and Tanaka have all vehemently landlords and tenants. The coun- Stump said. trol,” which she said she opposes. for studios to $17,000 for three- opposed anything resembling rent cil voted 7-1 last week, with Tana- The council’s removal of the As in prior meetings, more than bedroom apartments — to those control. ka dissenting and Kniss recusing “means test” was widely expect- a dozen residents turned out to tenants who make below 80 per- herself, to refer these steps to its ed, given the council members’ implore the council to do whatev- cent of area median income. He Policy and Services Committee comments at prior meetings. Du- er it can to aid the tenants facing later acceded to setting it at 100 ‘Eviction without for further consideration. Bois reiterated his view that the displacement. Roberta Ahlquist, percent of area median income. Tanaka on Monday once again restriction effectively ensures an advocate for low-income hous- The council was prepared on cause is probably spoke out against adopting new that the relocation-assistance ing, claimed that the city of Palo Sept. 10 to officially adopt that a renter’s worst policies to help tenants and ap- ordinance would not apply to Alto, which some on the council ordinance on a “second reading,” nightmare. The one peared to agree with AJ Capital’s most people in Palo Alto, where described as “paradise” earlier in which is usually a formality. At attorney, David Lanferman, who income levels and rents are gen- the meeting, is turning its back that time, however, Councilman thing this does is claimed in a letter to the city that erally higher than in Santa Clara on its tenants. The city, she said, Tom DuBois moved to pull it provide a disincentive the proposed ordinance is unlaw- County as a whole. The council, needs to consider rent control. off the council’s “consent calen- ful and that it would not apply he said, has an “ethical and moral “You need to support the com- dar” and hold a full discussion, a to remove a large to President Hotel tenants. Lan- imperative” to fix what he called munity,” Ahlquist said. “Our proposal that the council major- amount of housing ferman wrote that “mandating a mistake. community is the residents of ity supported. On Monday night, from the community.’ universal relocation assistance “Eviction without cause is prob- President Hotel and everyone else with the “emergency” ordinance payments without regard to the ably a renter’s worst nightmare,” who is having a hard time making no longer in play, the council —Tom DuBois, Councilman, financial resources or incomes DuBois said. “The one thing this a living.” Q needed only a simple majority to City of Palo Alto of affected tenants would be con- does is provide a disincentive to Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner change the law and remove the trary to state law, arbitrary, un- remove a large amount of housing can be emailed at gsheyner@ clause that several members ac- Vice Mayor Eric Filseth voted reasonable and not supported by from the community.” paweekly.com. knowledged was a mistake. against considering rent caps last substantial evidence.” Wolbach also said he was Councilman Adrian Fine, who October, though last week he Tanaka said Monday he is wor- pleased with the new renter-assis- was absent during the Aug. 27 joined DuBois, Holman and Kou ried that revising the law would Correction tance ordinance, which he noted The Sept. 14 article “Changes meeting, made the motion to re- in recommending that the council expose the city to “significant le- was always the clear preference of planned for San Antonio move the means test and said the explore the topic as part of a broad gal liability.” When City Attorney the council majority. He urged all and East Charleston Roads” council erred in including it. package of potential reforms (the Molly Stump disputed this asser- his colleagues to unite behind the incorrectly stated one of the “What we’re saying is that those proposal nevertheless fell by a 4-4 tion, Tanaka repeatedly pressed revised ordinance. He also chided project’s main goals, according impacted by eviction deserve vote). her to explain her legal rationale, a Tanaka for proposing to delay the to City Assistant Engineer Ruchika Aggarwal: It is to some type of subsidy,” Fine said. Councilman Cory Wolbach has discussion that Stump said would vote, noting that the legal issues reduce traffic congestion, not The Monday vote was a rare also opposed rent control, though be better suited to a closed session. could have been raised three traffic capacity. The Weekly point of near-consensus on an he joined DuBois, Holman and Stump noted that the law being weeks ago, when Lanferman ini- regrets the error. To request issue that has created a deep fis- Kou this summer in submitting considered by the council is gen- tially submitted his letter. a correction, contact Editor sure on the council. DuBois and a revised version of the memo, eral in nature and does not target Neither Scharff nor Kniss ad- Jocelyn Dong at 650-223- Councilwomen Karen Holman which steers clear of rent stabi- President Hotel or any other par- dressed on Monday their change 6514, [email protected] or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA and Lydia Kou have all advocated lization but supports examining ticular development. of heart regarding the means test, 94302. for the past year for exploration more modest steps, including “It is my opinion and that of my though Kniss, whose family owns
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Police building was initially characterized as a (continued from page 5) community room but that is now being eyed largely for police use. “The vast majority of its use of Emergency Services and a will be for trainings and events multi-purpose room for meetings. where they would be dealing with Despite its approval, the board other public-safety agencies,” wasn’t entirely thrilled with the Public Works Director Brad Egg- final product. Members raised leston said. “The emphasis will be concerns about a lighting fixture, less on the community aspect.” the design of the 135-antenna Board Chair Wynne Furth that would be installed near the questioned that purpose, noting Courtesy RossDrulisCusenbery Architecture RossDrulisCusenbery Courtesy building and some of the materi- that, unlike most other major als being used on the building’s neighborhoods, the California exterior. Members also expressed Avenue area doesn’t have a public some frustrations about the Police meeting space. Department’s evolving plans for “I think in this neighborhood, the multi-purpose room, which where we’re really short of public bathrooms and community spac- es, this is important,” Furth said. “There’s no place like home.” “At least from the design point of view, we need to give the depart- ment and the city the flexibility to flex.” Designs for the new city of Palo Alto public-safety building on Sherman Avenue are headed to the City The board directed that the Council for approval later this fall. The cost of the project has escalated to more than $100 million. room be designed to make it available to the general public, Hall. Since then, several studies around a pole. would also narrow the driveways including adding windows and and citizen panels have deemed She also said she was concerned from 24 feet, with two-way traf- a way to enter and exit from the the headquarters to be seismi- about potential reflection of the fic, to 10-feet and one-way traf- public plaza. cally and functionally deficient porcelain surfaces and the bland- fic, as well as narrow the parking About the exterior materials, and obsolete. ness of one of the walls, which spaces. In addition, the one-story Matched the board requested that the de- After several false starts, the she suggested would be suitable garage would extend the build- sign team consider alternate ma- council finally approved in 2016 for public art. ing’s underground footprint be- CareGivers terials to the clad concrete, which a plan to proceed with a new po- “I think Palo Alto can set a neath Birth Street and Park Bou- Providing the best a board subcommittee will later lice headquarters at the Sherman better example and should set a levard sidewalks. in home care review. Avenue site, across the street from standard for better design,” Hol- Keene said that he ultimately While these items were enough the Palo Alto courthouse. man said. concurred with staff that the city for over 25 years. to make board members Robert On Monday night, members Councilman Adrian Fine said should make the necessary invest- Gooyer and Osma Thompson am- of the council also reviewed the the building doesn’t say enough ment on a two-level basement. Matched CareGivers bivalent about approving the proj- latest plans, which show a flat- about “civic identity.” Unlike Hol- “This is a building for genera- is nurse owned and ect, they ultimately joined the rest roofed, three-story building with man, both Fine and Councilman tions. ... At a minimum, it’s a 50- operated. Our trained of the board to do so. Vice Chair a façade featuring reflective Cory Wolbach said they have no year building and it can be consid- caregivers provide personal Peter Baltay was more comfort- white porcelain tile over terra problem with the communication erably more,” Keene said. care, bathing, dressing, able with the approval, though he cotta board-formed concrete. The tower, which is a critical compo- The only two council mem- companionship, exercise had some reservations about ma- building would be surrounded by nent of the new emergency hub. bers who had broader objections and mobility assistance, terials, including the use of glossy landscaped plazas, planters and Form, Wolbach said, should fol- about the project were Greg medication reminders, meal porcelain tiles on the building’s benches, which architects de- low function. Tanaka and Lydia Kou. Tanaka planning and preparation exterior. And while Baltay con- scribed as a “continuous single- For the council, the project had served on the Infrastructure (including specialized diets), curred with those who found the story pedestrian realm.” comes with a particular sense of Blue Ribbon Committee, which transportation and errands, building somewhat boxy, he ar- Michael Ross, architect with the urgency. Delays would not only surveyed the city’s infrastruc- coordination of social gued that the public plaza eyed for firm DrulisRossCusenbery, em- hinder the Police Department’s ture needs and concluded that activities, light housekeeping the entrance would help address phasized to the council the role of ability to have a seismically safe the existing police headquarters and laundry. this short-coming. landscaping in making the build- headquarters; they would also are “unsafe and vulnerable.” “I believe the entrance is of ing pedestrian-friendly. cost the city about $350,000 per That notwithstanding, Tanaka When someone you care about wonderful civic quality and does While the building received month, according to Public Works on Monday questioned the need needs assistance... mitigate what I otherwise consid- generally positive reviews during Department estimates. to move ahead with the project you can count on us to be there. er to be a boxy building,” Baltay the council’s study session, sev- The swelling cost is among the at this time, given the rising con- Call (650) 839-2273 said. eral members took issue with one biggest challenges facing the city struction costs. Construction of the new public design element or another. Coun- with the new public-safety build- “Is that really the wisest thing safety building will cap an effort cilwoman Karen Holman urged ing. In 2012, when the project was to be doing?” Tanaka asked. Menlo Park • San Mateo that has stretched since the late staff and Ross to reconsider the still in its conceptual phase, the Kou, meanwhile, said she San Jose Lic# 414700002 1990s, when the city first began 135-foot communication tower — cost was estimated at $57 million. wasn’t convinced that the Sher- to discuss plans to replace the ex- a structure whose array she lik- Last year, with 50 percent of the man Avenue lot is an ideal loca- MatchedCareGivers.com isting police headquarters at City ened to “coat hangers” wrapped design completed, it was revised tion for a public-safety building. to $91 million. On Monday night, The lot, she said, has potential as staff had indicated that their pro- a good site for housing and retail. jected cost is now $106 million, She argued that the city should WE ARE RECRUITING! which includes a $7 million con- have looked at placing the new The JANUS Trial (January Application NUtritional Study) tingency to buffer the city from building on a city-owned site east We want to know… future increases. of U.S. Highway 101. Q Are you curious to try wearable >OL[OLY\ZPUN^LHYHISLOLHS[OTVUP[VYPUN[LJOUVSVN`JHUOLSWWLVWSLPTWYV]L City Manager James Keene said “There’s a possibility of hav- [OLPYOLHS[O:WLJPÄJHSS`^L^HU[[VKL]LSVWHUHSNVYP[OT[OH[^PSSOLSWTLUHUK staff had explored the idea of cut- ing a less expensive building over health-monitoring devices in an ^VTLUVW[PTPaL[OLPYISVVKZ\NHYHUKZ[YLZZYLN\SH[PVUPUÅHTTH[PVUZ[H[LHUK ting costs by reducing the number there that’s not going to cost us LɈVY[[VPTWYV]L`V\YOLHS[O& N\[IHJ[LYPHJVTWVZP[PVU of basement levels in the proposed over $106 million,” Kou said. You may qualify if you are: public-safety building from two Resident Roger Smith saw the Q Do you wonder if taking )L[^LLU[OLHNLZVM (YLUV[MVSSV^PUNHYLZ[YPJ[P]LKPL[ to one. But after weighing the issue differently. 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Kavanaugh (continued from page 5) Online This Week These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online Kavanaugh, 53, pinned her to throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto a bed on her back, groped her, Online.com/news. tried to pull off her clothing and put his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream. SJ Diocese addresses sex abuse allegations Kavanaugh has categorically Bishop Patrick McGrath will visit Palo Alto this Saturday on denied the allegations. Another behalf of the Diocese of San Jose to hold a listening session where male teenager who Ford said was he will address sexual abuse allegations against priests within his in the room at the time, Mark diocese. (Posted Sept. 20, 9:48 a.m.)
Judge, has said he has no mem- President Vice the of Office Courtesy ory of the alleged incident. Ford Man arraigned in fatal 2011 shooting told The Post that both Judge A 27-year-old man has been extradited to San Mateo County and Kavanaugh were “stumbling to face murder charges for a fatal 2011 shooting of a Menlo Park drunk” at the time. woman in East Palo Alto, the San Mateo County District Attor- A group of Ford’s friends sent ney’s Office said on Tuesday. (Posted Sept. 19, 2:01.m.) their own letter Wednesday to Sens. Charles Grassley and Di- Tanaka blasts colleagues for ‘busting budget’ anne Feinstein, the Judiciary Palo Alto City Councilman Greg Tanaka publicly accused his Committee’s Republican chair- council colleagues and city staff on Tuesday night of poor steward- man and Democratic ranking Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, left, is accused of ship in handling city finances and for repeatedly failing to “stick member, respectively. In the let- sexually assaulting Palo Alto University Professor Christine Blasey to the budget.” (Posted Sept. 19, 9:54 a.m.) ter, they testify to her character Ford when they were both high school students in Maryland. Police arrest man suspected of attempted rape as an involved mother, thought- ful mentor and a brave woman her family, the online campaign around the appointment of A 19-year-old East Palo Alto man was arrested in Menlo Park on who has “endured a lot.” states. Monday on suspicion of attempted rape, according to a statement leaders to our country’s highest (Posted Sept. 18, 12:16 p.m.) “But, her experiences have left Ford’s lawyers said in a state- court.” from the Menlo Park Police Department. her with a firm grasp on what ment Tuesday that “vicious Ford is a “valued and highly Stanford volunteer Burt McMurtry dies is most important in life — in- harassment,” including death respected” member of the Palo Burton J. McMurtry, 83, a longtime Stanford University volun- tegrity, community and care for threats, email hacking and on- Alto University community, ac- teer and philanthropist, died Sept. 2 at his Palo Alto home. (Posted others — and we have all, at one line impersonation, forced Ford cording to the statement. Sept. 18, 11 a.m.) time or another, benefited from and her family to leave their Palo “As a university dedicated to that wisdom,” the letter states. Alto home. the study and practice of psychol- Gun violence fight comes to Stanford Jamie Barnett, a Palo Alto The GoFundMe money will ogy and counseling, we are espe- The fight against gun violence reached the Stanford University mother whose son played on the be withdrawn directly by Ford’s cially attuned to the challenges campus on Monday afternoon, when about 300 people rallied to same basketball team as Ford’s, family, Strober wrote on the and consequences of experienc- establish the growing problem as a public health crisis. (Posted Sept. is one of about 140 people from campaign page. The fundrais- ing trauma, and the courage it 17, 3:51 p.m.) around the Bay Area who signed er’s organizers are in touch with requires to speak publicly about the friends’ letter. Barnett told Ford’s “team,” which has “spe- that experience,” the statement Stanford hires new Title IX officer the Weekly that she added her cifically stated that funds are reads. “And, as an institution of Stanford University announced last week that Jill Thomas, who name to “show her (Ford) as well needed for this purpose.” higher learning, we understand has worked as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office as to show the Senate Judiciary Strober did not respond to the importance of providing ser- in Sacramento for more than 11 years, will now lead the Title IX committee and essentially the an interview request. The Go- vice to society and participating office. (Posted Sept. 17, 11:21 a.m.) world that we are standing very FundMe is sponsored by Ford’s actively in civic life.” staunchly with Dr. Ford.” “neighbors and colleagues,” the Meanwhile, Ford’s allega- Stanford to replace references to Serra “We trust her,” she added. “We page states. tions have thrown the all-but- Stanford University will rename the street that carries the uni- believe her.” Another GoFundMe cam- sure confirmation process into versity’s official address and two buildings named for Father Ju- Barnett described Ford as a paign launched by a George- deeply partisan uncertainty, with nipero Serra, the 18th-century founder of the California mission caring community member and town University law professor updates making breaking news system, but retain Serra Street, the university announced Sept. 13. “no-nonsense person.” has raised close to $130,000 for daily. Both Ford and Kavanaugh (Posted Sept. 17, 11 a.m.) “It’s my strong view that she security costs. The organizers have indicated they are willing One East Palo Alto director dies is not doing this to create drama plans to donate any extra funds to testify in front of the Sen- Dr. Faye McNair-Knox, 68, executive director of the One East or be a political operative or to women’s organizations and/or ate Judiciary Committee, with Palo Alto Neighborhood Improvement Initiative, died of medical any such thing,” Barnett said. “I into an account to cover similar hearings set for Monday, but think what you see is what you complications at Kentfield Hospital in San Francisco on Wednes- costs “incurred in comparable Ford’s lawyers have demanded (Posted Sept. 15, get with her.” day, her daughter, Rashida Knox, told the Weekly. situations.” that the FBI first conduct an 12:46 p.m.) The separate mothers’ let- Several advocacy and politi- investigation. ter seeks to remind Ford “how cal organizations, including Or- “A full investigation by law much you telling your story does chard City Indivisible, Enough enforcement officials will en- Want to get news briefs emailed to you every weekday? matter.” They paint a picture of Is Enough Voter Project, Santa sure that the crucial facts and Sign up for Express, our daily e-edition. a tight-knit local community Clara County Democratic Club witnesses in this matter are as- Go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com to sign up. standing behind her. Women’s Caucus, Together We sessed in a non-partisan man- “We will bake you cookies, Will - Palo Alto, Mountain View ner, and that the committee is bring over dinner, lend a hand & Surrounding Areas, Families fully informed before conduct- with your kids, help with your Belong Together San Jose and ing any hearing or making any Support local pets, protest in front of City Hall, Women’s March San Jose, are decisions,” her lawyers said in a VERY journalism sign petitions, run for office, organizing the candlelight vigil statement Tuesday. write to the media and to law- for Sunday, Sept. 23, from 8-9 Grassley has refused to delay with a print makers, form a human chain to p.m. at the corner of El Camino Monday’s hearings, stating it or online protect your house, your work- Real and Galvez Street/Embar- would be a “disservice” to Ford, REAL place, your kids’ schools — just cadero Road, adjacent to Stan- Kavanaugh and the “American subscription let us know if we can ever help,” ford Stadium and Town & Coun- people” to delay any further. starting at only they wrote. try Village. On Thursday, The New York The GoFundMe campaign, UltraViolet, a national wom- Times reported that Ford told the LOCAL $5 /month launched Tuesday by Joan- en’s advocacy organization, Senate Judiciary Committee that na Strober of Los Altos, was commissioned a plane to fly over she “would be prepared to testify Visit: steadily nearing its $50,000 Palo Alto on Thursday with the next week,” as long as senators of- NEWS PaloAltoOnline.com/ goal 24 hours later, with more message: “Thank you Christine. fer “terms that are fair and which user/subscribe/ than $40,000 raised. The funds We have your back.” ensure her safety,” according to an will be donated to defray the cost In a statement Thursday, Palo email her lawyers sent to commit- of security Ford has reportedly Alto University called her deci- tee staff members. Q hired since going public with sion to come forward “coura- Staff Writer Elena Kadvany her allegations this weekend geous, especially in the con- can be emailed at ekadvany@ and other “personal needs” of text of the political discussions paweekly.com. #PressOn
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E. Bayshore Road, 9/7, 10:53 p.m.; sexual assault/misc. Arastradero Road, 9/14, 3:46 p.m.; suicide juvenile/misc. Embarcadero Road, 9/7, 5:24 p.m.; sex crime/misc. 400 Block Kingsley Ave., 9/15, 1:42 p.m.; robbery/strong arm. Menlo Park 2800 Block Sand Hill Road, 9/15, 7:10 p.m.; sexual battery. Oak Court/Woodland Avenue, 9/17, 4:41 p.m.; rape. Page 14 • September 21, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com State, in De- grandchildren; and her four Institutional Venture Associates. troit where great grandchildren. A memorial He also helped fund companies she earned her service and reception will be held such as Microsoft, Quantum and bachelor’s de- Sunday, Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. in Beit Sun Microsystems. gree in Soci- Kehillah at Congregation Beth Starting with his time at the ology. There Am. Memorial donations may be Stanford museum as volunteer, TransitionsBirths, marriages and deaths she met Julian made to the Yiddish Book Cen- he fostered an interest in the Espar, her hus- ter in Amherst, Massachusetts at arts with his wife and became a Mary Ruth Ramberg also volunteered for the Mitchell band, when she yiddishbookcenter.org. champion for the arts at the uni- was 19 and he versity. As a board member, he Mary Ruth Ramberg, a resident Park Library when it was tempo- rarily housed at Cubberley Com- was 21. served on a review committee for of Palo Alto for 48 years, died on The pair married a month after Burton “Burt” J. McMurtry the Cantor Arts Center that led to July 13 after complications with munity Center. Burt McMurtry, 83, longtime She is preceded in death by her Pearl Harbor, so when Julian was the establishment of an arts dis- pneumonia following knee sur- called upon to serve in WWII, Stanford volunteer and philan- trict on the campus. gery. She was 82. husband in 2001, who she was thropist, died Sept. 2 at his Palo married to for 40 years. She is she was able to live on the bar- His gifts to campus include con- She was born racks where they had two sons Alto home. tributions to the Anderson Collec- in Topeka, survived by her aunt Emma Lou For over 40 and began their family. While her Service News Cicero/Stanford A. Linda tion at Stanford University, Bing Kansas in June Brophy of Spokane, Washington; years, he vol- her sister Joanne Barragan of San kids were in school she began her Concert Hall and most prominently 19, 1936, and passion for community lobbying unteered and the 96,000-square-foot McMurtry moved to San Mateo; her brother Charles Stanley advised on vari- Bryan of Lawrence, Kansas; her in Detroit. At the age of 42, she Building, which opened in 2015. Francisco at 21. went back to college for a master’s ous academic He played a crucial role in the In San Francis- children, Jennifer Ramberg of Palo initiatives at Alto and David Ramberg of Menlo degree in library science from the development of the Stanford Grad- co, she met her University of Michigan Detroit the univer- uate Fellowship program as vice husband August Park; her step daughters, Karen sity. He joined Ramberg of Sandpoint, Idaho and campus before working as a li- chair of the campaign, helping se- Julius, and they brarian for 10 years. Stanford’s net- cure funding for graduate students were married in 1961. They had Sonja Shumaker of Laughlin, Ne- work of major vada; her grandchildren and her In 1978, she moved to Marina in STEM. two children and moved to Palo Del Ray and in 1988 she moved gift volunteers He is survived by his wife of 62 Alto in 1970. nieces and nephews. in 1981 and served on Stanford’s There will be a memorial service to Palo Alto and became invested years, Deedee McMurtry of Palo While raising her children, she in the community, taking on sev- Board of Trustees from 1997 to Alto and his children, Cathy and attended Foothill College and this Saturday, Sept. 22, 10 a.m. at 2008, including four years as chair. the Unitarian Church of Palo Alto, eral volunteering jobs. She was John McMurtry. transferred to Stanford University, involved in the Palo Alto Art Cen- Born and raised in Houston, A service will be held Oct. 8, obtaining her bachelor’s and mas- 505 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto. Texas, he met his wife in high In lieu of flowers, donations can ter, the JCC, the Yiddish language 2:30 p.m. at the Stanford Memorial ter’s degrees in English Literature. club and she aided in the creation school, and they both attended Church, 450 Serra Mall, Building She went on to become a technical be made to one of the organiza- Rice University. The couple then tions: The Audubon Society, The of Moldaw home where she had 500, Stanford. writer in Silicon Valley. lived since its establishment in moved to California where he In lieu of flowers, donations During her lifetime, she at- Humane Society, The Salvation worked at Sylvania Electric Proj- Army or KQED. 2009. She also volunteered for can be made in his memory to tended Shakespeare festivals in Hadassah, the Yiddish book cen- ects and attended Stanford Uni- Stanford University. Gifts can Ashland, Oregon, enjoyed mys- Sadie Feinstein Espar ter and Temple Beth Am. She was versity, obtaining a master’s in be mailed to: Stanford Univer- teries and was a devoted reader to deeply interested in the opera, electrical engineering in 1959 and sity, Development Services, P. O. the San Francisco Chronicle, Palo Sadie Feinstein Espar, an in- volved member of the Palo Alto symphony, theater and visual arts. a doctorate degree in 1962. Box 20466, Stanford, CA 94309- Alto Weekly and the Palo Alto She is survived by her two In addition to engineering, he 0466. Gifts can be made online Daily Post. She was a sustaining community, died Aug. 9 following a short illness at the age of 95. sons, David Espar (Sharon Gil- took a career in Silicon Valley’s at giving.stanford.edu/goto/writ- member of KQED. She could be lette) of Palo Alto; Tim Es- venture capital field, co-founding eingift by typing “Burton J. Mc- seen walking her dog Nina around She was born in Detroit, Michi- gan in 1922. She attended Wayne par (Becky Rose) of Fort Mill, venture capital partnerships such as Murtry Memorial Fund” in the Main Street in Los Altos and Cal- South Carolina; her three Technology Venture Investors and space provided. Q ifornia Avenue in Palo Alto. She University, which is today Wayne
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www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 21, 2018 • Page 15 Editorial No, no, no on Measure F Initiative to give city oversight over health care pricing deserves overwhelming defeat t is difficult to imagine a more poorly conceived idea to present to voters than the Measure F health care initiative pushed by the Editorials, letters and opinions Iunion representing health care workers throughout California, in- Spectrum cluding Stanford Hospital employees. The state Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Health Workers (UHW) is attempting similar initiatives across the and enviromental responsibility. concerns me. While I agree with state. In Palo Alto the union turned in more than 3,500 signatures in An argument can be made that the proponents of this measure that late May, leaving the city scrambling to meet the deadline for either Letters Palo Alto still values education, the cost of medical care is unsus- adopting the proposal as presented or placing it on the ballot for voters though when I was growing up it tainable for individuals, employers to decide this November. The council unanimously voted to put it on Castilleja expansion was understood that education was and the nation alike, this bill is far the ballot and, subsequently, to oppose it. A nearly identical measure is non-negotiable independent of testing and that ed- from the reform we need. appears on the ballot in Livermore. Editor, ucation was more important than Measure F brings up important The proposal is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s not surprising that some testing. This has changed. issues that as a country we need Not only will it fail to help consumers and create perverse incen- of the Weekly readers of the When it comes to environmental to have a conversation about: how tives for medical centers to cut staffing levels, but it will also saddle artfully written guest editorial responsibility, the city administra- much are we willing to pay for the city with the need to hire a staff of experts to analyze and oversee (published Aug. 24) by Castilleja tion is still on track, but the resi- health care, how can we achieve the charges being made by almost all medical professionals, includ- School’s Nanci Kauffman may dents are lagging. People seem to universal coverage and how can ing individual practitioners, dentists and orthodontists practicing in have had a big question to ask. move here, see 20 square miles of hospitals and clinics reorganize to Palo Alto. No city is equipped to regulate health care providers, and Why has the neighborhood had ostentatious houses and fix their face modern challenges. it is hard to conceive of any court upholding the constitutionality of such a wide negative response to minds on this appearance being the Health care in America is set up local control over what local health care providers can charge for Castilleja’s expansion? be-all and end-of of Palo Alto. That around fee-for-service billing, in their services. Perhaps an example might help: is a horrible thought. which medical providers charge The stated purpose of the initiative is to rein in medical costs Castilleja’s current use permit caps Probably the most egregious for each individual service they by limiting the prices charged to 15 percent above “the reasonable enrollment at 415 students. Palo environmental offense I have ob- provide. This practice incentiv- cost of direct patient care.” Under the proposal, the city would be Alto has 12 (excluding Greendell) served is the reluctance of people izes expensive procedures, even responsible for reviewing billing data every year and any provider elementary schools with an average who move here to embrace riding a when they are not medical neces- found to have exceeded the threshold would be directed to rebate enrollment of 424 students. Sup- bike. Palo Alto has bent over back- sary, and short-term thinking on the difference to the payee, which would normally be the patient’s pose the school board announced wards to make the city reasonably the part of doctors and health care insurance company. that, to accommodate non-resident safe for cycling. Some people have organizations. Critics of the measure say the real motive of the union’s aggres- students, the attendance at one’s but not nearly the numbers there If enacted, Measure F would not sive attempts to place these initiative measures on local ballots is to neighborhood school would be used to be or should be. change these incentives. It would intimidate non-union hospitals to consent to unionization in exchange increased by 30 percent. To ac- Wake up and smell the climate only punish hospitals, clinics and for the union not using the initiative process to impose price controls. commodate the growth, an un- change. And then do something doctors within the city limits. The union denies that is its strategy and says its goal is to improve derground parking garage would in your life to be responsible for Bundled payment structures patient care and control out-of-control health care costs. be constructed under the school’s that. I suggest riding a bike. It’s that promote preventative care, ef- Palo Alto is the wrong place for the union to try and sell a proposal playground. Each school day morn- the Palo Alto way. ficiency and avoidance of medical for health care price controls administered by a new department of ing and afternoon, more than 125 Deb Goldeen complications are where the real city employees with health care administration experience. cars would head to the garage, Birch Street, Palo Alto cost savings can be found. We’re confident that voters will recognize that attempting to reform queuing/idling and waiting to en- I stand in support of reducing health care pricing on a city-by-city basis is a bad idea even if the pro- ter. In this example: “The District health care costs while achieving posal offered a reasonable regulatory framework, which it does not. welcomes neighbor input — but Give credit where it’s due universal coverage and improving It would do nothing to either improve patient care or reduce patient the increased number of students/ Editor, hospital care, but Measure F will costs and would impose unreasonable and expensive burdens on local staff and the underground garage Greg Scharff, a candidate for the not achieve these goals. government and taxpayers. are non-negotiable.” board of the Midpeninsula Region- Zoe Kornberg Help keep such measures from being pursued by the union in other The arguments one would hear al Open Space District, has written Minoca Road, Portola Valley cities by voting “no” on Measure F. for expansion: on his website: “He has been cred- - Our education mission is so ited for closing Palo Alto’s landfill important that Palo Alto’s Com- and for creating new park land in Yes on Measure E prehensive Plan re R1 zoning can its place.” Whoever has credited be ignored. him is dead wrong. - Our traffic-management plan is In 1965, all 1,900 acres of Palo hotel-tax increase working now and can be scaled to Alto’s publicly owned baylands We reluctantly recommend voters support the city of Palo Alto’s handle the influx of new commut- were park dedicated, including the proposal to raise about $2.5 million a year in new city revenue by ers (how many careful/well inten- 126-acre Byxbee Hills, the former increasing the transient-occupancy tax from 14 to 15.5 percent. If it tioned traffic-management plans landfill. Over 30 acres of Byxbee passes with the required simple majority vote, it would be the third have gone awry in Palo Alto). Hills has been open as a public increase in the last 11 years and will make Palo Alto’s hotel tax the - Other private schools that park since 1992. The remainder highest in the state. have opened second campuses to of the parkland still being used Raising the cost of an already expensive hotel room by a few dollars expand are not a viable model for as landfill finally ran out of space is an easy sell to voters. It won’t cost residents a dime but will benefit Castilleja. around 2012 and was closed. them by providing funds for the city’s general fund. Once the investment in time, dis- In 2011, Scharff voted to remove Although there are no restrictions on how the money is used, the ruption and dollars has been made 10 acres in the heart of Byxbee commitment being made by the city is that it will be spent on priority to expand, there is no fall back to Hills from park dedication. infrastructure projects, including the long-sought new public-safety reduce neighborhood impacts. Byxbee Hills Park is here because building, renovations to old fire stations and a new parking garage If one lives near a school, e g., Enid Pearson and others had the vi- serving the California Avenue area. There is a bit of false marketing Addison, Crescent Park, Walter sion to initiate a Park Dedication of this measure in the official ballot description, which incorrectly Hays, etc. — be ready! An under- Ordinance in 1965 and campaigned implies that the city’s 911 system is vulnerable without these new ground parking garage could be tirelessly for it. It passed with 90 funds and doesn’t even mention the public-safety building. Earlier headed their way. percent of the voters in favor. polling showed citing the 911 system and omitting the word “infra- Wally Whittier Emily Renzel structure” would attract the most voter support — hardly the proper Bryant Street, Palo Alto Forest Avenue, Palo Alto way to craft ballot language. City staff and the council didn’t do their best work on this proposal, Not the reform we need and we would have preferred a more honest description and the use Biking: It’s the of other funding sources with a greater nexus to the infrastructure Palo Alto way Editor, projects to be funded, such as a business tax or bond measure. But Editor, Last week, you reported that further delay in addressing the accumulated capital projects will only As a life long Palo Alto resident Measure F, the Palo Alto Account- make these necessary projects more expensive. Q — 1963 to present — I am dis- able and Affordable Health Care mayed by what I perceive as the Initiative, would be on the ballot erosion of Palo Alto values. What in November. As a fourth-year Correction: In the Sept. 14 editorial, “Unprecedented obfuscation,” medical student and a lifelong re- one of the four memo authors was stated incorrectly. It was Karen set Palo Alto above other munici- Holman, not Eric Filseth. The Weekly regrets the error. palities is that it valued education cipient of my medical care in Palo Alto, this ballot measure deeply Page 16 • September 21, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Check out Town Square! Hundreds of local topics are being discussed by local residents on Town Square, a reader forum sponsored by the Weekly at PaloAltoOnline.com/square. Post your own comments, ask questions or just stay up on what people are talking about around town! Off Deadline It takes trust to create a village — wherever you live by Jay Thorwaldson
recently returned Odipo, and their sister Judy, who were It was meant — and taken by every- club to work on village projects. The woman from a 10-day originally from the village but now live in one there — as a joke, with chuckles and told us that when she first approached other Ivisit to a small, California. laughter. But Henry had a vision that went women about forming a group and collecting rural, economically Charles, a psychologist, formerly worked at beyond his quip: His dream was to be- dues for projects, “They thought I was trying challenged agricul- Folsom State Prison with my partner, Patri- come a doctor and return the the village to steal their money.” tural community cia, a clinical social worker, in a world where and form a medical clinic so residents But a few agreed, and others joined later, in southern Kenya, trust is a rarity. One day Charles said he was wouldn’t have to make the hard journey of and from their dues and proceeds from sell- about 10 miles east going to Africa to visit his home village. more an hour over bumpy unpaved roads ing eggs they purchased a large water tank of Lake Victoria, “We’re coming too!” she replied. to the nearest medical facility — a sig- to collect rainwater from corrugated metal source of the Nile. There were 14 in that first group of mod- nificant (and sometimes fatal) deterrent to roofs. Another followed, and now each mem- It was my third est-income Californians, each donating some getting care when needed. ber of the 40-member group has a source of visit over the past funds over trip costs to provide materials for But Henry’s joke took root, both in the fresh water. Younger women have formed eight years to the village, as part of a small a library/staff building at the Muguna Pri- creation of an ongoing scholarship fund for a second group, and two weeks before our nonprofit group called “Friends of Yimbo,” mary School in the village, founded by their Muguna students going to higher levels of arrival a fledgling men’s group had been after the name of the village. father, Joseph Odipo. The library was built education and for Henry himself. formed. But this trip was different. I returned with by villagers with volunteer help from a Nai- I wrote a column about our return trip in The stunning absence of trust in the vil- a strengthened realization — despite years robi architect. We were told we were likely 2014 and Henry’s vision of changing the lage when the first woman approached others as a journalist covering and observing local the first white people many of the younger world one community at a time, describing is being supplanted by a bond of trust and governments, community-based organiza- students had seen. his and the village’s history. (Read the column respect and the ability — perhaps power is a tions and neighborhood groups — that I had It was a delightful visit, followed by a sa- at bit.ly/OffDeadlineChangingTheWorld.) better word — to set common goals. underestimated the power of one essential fari — which I said at the time I would have From that column several donations ma- A few years back Palo Alto tried to define ingredient that determines success or failure. traded for a few more days in the village. terialized for the scholarship fund, includ- “common goals,” even setting that as a top That ingredient is a single word: trust. How We were met at the school by colorfully ing one for $1,000 and a recent gift from a city priority one year. City leaders seemed a simple. How complex. dressed teachers, parents and students who prominent Palo Alto attorney of $250. bit surprised at how difficult that was, once Watching the evolution of this economi- danced and sang us down the road and up a Henry has spoken about how painfully they listed obvious topics like traffic, envi- cally poor village over the past eight years, I quarter-mile driveway: “Happy to see you, hard it was for him to find himself in Nai- ronment, quality of life, excellent schools realized that trust can be immensely power- happy to hear you, welcome, welcome.” robi to attend the university without anyone and a few others. There still are vestiges of ful in building and bonding a community. At Days later, as we were preparing to leave, to show him the ropes or even how to use a one-time “local two-party system” in Palo the same time, absence or erosion of trust is most of the population of several hundred computers. On this trip to Yimbo, he became Alto politics, between “residentialists” and powerfully destructive. persons and students gathered in a good- part of a team of persons teaching Muguna “establishment” leaders. And that applies equally in Palo Alto city bye gathering of dance and drum perfor- primary teachers how to use technology, As with a small village in Africa, perhaps governance and neighborhood groups as well mances and skits by students. Between from laptops to Powerpoint presentations on we might reap rewards from fostering trust. as in regional, state and (especially!) in na- performances, one recent eighth-grade newly installed overhead projectors. Perhaps we might even try it in our local tional politics and governance. graduate stood up and announced to the The evolution of the village has gone well communities and neighborhoods, and in Yimbo is a case in point. The Friends crowd, that “Miss Pat and Mr. Jay” were beyond education. America as a whole again, someday. Q of Yimbo (FOY in shorthand) group was going to take him to America and “put me A village elder, “Uncle” Jonah Iketa, sug- Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson created by two brothers, Charles and Ben through university.” gested to a woman that she form a woman’s can be emailed at [email protected]. Streetwise What would you title your autobiography? Asked on California Avenue in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Cameron Rebosio.
Maria Warkentin Jorge Leon Dina Artzt Glenna Houle Daniel Armistead Bonnie Drive, Santa Clara El Camino Real, Palo Alto University Avenue, Palo Alto Campus Drive, Stanford Alma Street, Palo Alto Legal assistant Software engineer Senior vice president Retired Dentist
“’Craziness,’ because there’s so many “’Roadtrip,’ or something related to a “’Never Give Up.’ I was one of the “’Up from Idaho.’ I grew up in “’Singing Teeth.’ I was once in opera life lessons, and it leads to ultimate trip along the life.” leaders to save the ice skating rink (Northern) Idaho, and it’s a very trying to make a living, but it was too laughter and joy in the end.” in San Mateo. ... I’ve lived by that difficult place these days. I grew up tough so I went back to school ... and my whole life, and it’s served me near the neo-Nazi headquarters, so I became a dentist.” well. When people say ‘no’ you keep believe I’ve gone up from there.” pushing, and eventually you’ll get there.”
www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 21, 2018 • Page 17 A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Karla Kane
by Karla Kane ecoming a parent, it could These newfound instinctual urges are reflected, be said, is the ultimate act humorously, in his art, including a shopping cart B of creation. For parents made of sticks (“What We Gather”), a potty chair who are also artists, parenthood made of ceramics (“What We Leave Behind”) can also shape and influence their and dishes and utensils made of gourds, hides artistic creativity in all sorts of ways, and other “primitive” materials, decorated with both positive and negative. In its new images of Elmo, Winnie the Pooh, Daniel Tiger ewwxhibition, “Care and Feeding: The and more, which he called “our new animal cult.” Art of Parenthood,” the Palo Alto Art He recounted imagining himself as a Neander- Center explores the joys and challenges thal father, traipsing through the wilderness, gro- of parenthood as experienced and reflect- cery-shopping trips becoming epic foraging ex- ed by 15 artists. peditions. “It made me reflect on what it’s really Any parent would agree that having like to have a kid,” he said. “It’s this primal thing children brings some major life adjust- from the absolute beginning. There’s something ments. On a practical level (especially about feeding your child that really contains what for women), having children means hav- it means to survive as a human being.” ing less time for other pursuits; a loss Manjari Sharma was present to discuss the of sleep and disposable income; new photography series she created in partnership family dynamics; and a whole range of with Irina Rozovsky as a commission (“Talk- emotional changes. It can also bring ing Pictures”) from the Metropolitan Museum inspiration. of Art in New York City, which asked the two “Of all the shows I’ve done, this to send photos back and forth over a six-month one probably has the most resonance period using only their camera phones. The art- for me personally,” co-curator Selene ists, who did not know each other beforehand, Foster mused at the exhibition’s Sept. were surprised to discover they both were three- 14 opening reception. She said the months pregnant, both due to give birth when the exhibition was first conceived of commission, too, was due. They found sharing when three Art Center staff mem- this experience through call-and-response-style bers, including her, went on mater- photographs (more than 100) helped them not nity leave around the same time. only bond with each other but also reflect on Four of the exhibition’s par- their feelings about their changing bodies and ticipating artists were present the big life changes to come. at the reception to speak about Pilar Aguero-Esparza said she found inspira- their work. tion in a box of her young daughter’s crayons, Tabitha Soren (whom some may which purported to represent a multicultural remember as a former MTV report- variety of skin tones. She created molds of her er) spoke at the opening about her photo- daughter’s feet in the different hues, wondering graphic series “Panic Beach,” which she which color her daughter would consider closest called “a response to the difficult twists to her own. Both mother and daughter were at and turns of everyday living.” The photos the “Care and Feeding” opening, where Aguero- depict dramatically lit, turbulent ocean Esparza showed new models of her now-teen waves deliberately shot so as to obscure daughter’s feet in active, dancing poses; a touch- the horizon and blur the distinction be- ing way to capture a memento of her childhood tween land, sea and sky. Mother-of-three as she stands on the cusp of adulthood. Soren said the hormonal effects of preg- The rest of the exhibition showcases the art nancy left her suffering from panic attacks of parenthood in a variety of ways. Lenka Clay- and the “Panic Beach” images reflect that ton’s “Objects From My Son’s Mouth” displays, feeling of inner instability. Often shot at as the title suggests, rows of tiny items including dawn while the rest of her family slept (a an acorn, buttons and a metro ticket, confiscated way to find some time for her creative pur- from her young child, while her video series suits), they show, she said, how parenthood “The Distance I Can Be From My Son” measures can be “quite messy and ugly at times and how far she can remain from her child in various beautiful at others.” Creating art always situations, such as at the supermarket. Claudette involves an element of risk and unpredict- Schreuders’ sculptures show, poignantly, how the ability. “You know what you want,” she said, addition of a child can come between and change drawing a knowing laugh from the crowd, the relationship between an adult couple. “but like parenting, it doesn’t always work out Tara Donovan used a Slinky toy to create strik- Claudette Schreuders’ wooden sculpture as planned.” ing prints. Hilary Pecis’ paintings are colorful, Eclipse is part of the Palo Alto Art “A funny thing happened when I found out we frank depictions of domestic life. Lezley Saar’s Center’s “Care and Feeding: The Art of were going to have a baby,” Jeremiah Jenkins acrylic portraits are inspired by her transgen- Parenthood” exhibition. Photo courtesy said. “Whenever we would go on a hike and we der child. Several charming sound recordings of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery. saw a rabbit I would think, ‘I’ve got to catch that by Alberto Aguilar are snippets of life, includ- rabbit. I’ve got to bring it home to my family.’” ing improvised, humorous songs, at home with
Page 18 • September 21, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Arts & Entertainment Stanford Continuing Studies and the Taube Center for Jewish Studies present Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History— his family, capturing the art of the declarations of intention and climb- every day. Photographer Rania ingthroughamodernist“birth A Conversation Between Steven J. Zipperstein and Ari Y. Kelman Matar’s work highlights the univer- tunnel.” sal aspects of the mother-daughter Though the work included is relationship with subjects from both diverse, the artists participating in the United States and the Middle “Care and Feeding” share a com- East, while Rebecca Silberman has mon struggle, which gives the ex- created a self-proclaimed compul- hibition a sense of camaraderie no sive chronicle of her daughter’s life doubt shared by visitors who are from infanthood onward, for 16 also parents: the struggle to retain years now, creating a tintype pho- their own identities while also rais- tograph of her on the same day each ing children. month, a project that she hopes will “When I found out I was having a continue indefinitely. kid, at first I told one of my profes- In the participatory “nook” area sors in grad school and he reacted Steven J. Zipperstein Ari Y. Kelman of the Art Center’s lobby, visitors like I told him I had a terminal are invited to fill in the blank of disease,” Jenkins said. “Another In his most recent book, Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History, Stanford professor and historian “Parenthood is ____” by stencil- one of my friends said that all the ing and decorating a response and artists that he knows that are dads Steven J. Zipperstein describes how the provincial city of Kishinev, located at the edge of the Russian putting it up on the wall (visitor re- are either bad artists or bad dads ... Empire, was wracked by three days of mayhem in April 1903, with 49 Jews killed and 600 raped or sponses so far include “letting go” but it’s nonsense that you can’t do wounded. The riot would come to be seen as the 20th century’s most horrific anti-Jewish massacre and “joy”). On Nov. 13, the center is both. Being supported like this and hosting a parenting-themed edition recognized and acknowledged is a before Buchenwald and Auschwitz, and the town’s very name came to evoke Jewish suffering and of the San Francisco storytelling huge thing. So thank you for that.” Q persecution more stark than any other. Zipperstein was determined to trace Kishinev’s origins, series “Porchlight.” Arts & Entertainment Editor separating fact from fiction, in an effort to explain the exceptionally long shadow it cast over the rest of And in conjunction with the main Karla Kane can be emailed at the century, and beyond. exhibition, the center is also foster- [email protected]. ing a collaborative, experimental Please join us for a conversation between Steven J. Zipperstein and Ari Y. Kelman, Chair in Education program called “Being Human,” and Jewish Studies at Stanford, about Pogrom and the events it recounts. in which Jill Miller and 10 fellow What: Care and Feeding: The Art Bay Area artists/parents, who re- of Parenthood. ceive child care stipends from the Where: Palo Alto Art Center, Thursday, September 27 • 7:30 pm Art Center, will meet once a week 1313 Newell Road. to discuss parenting challenges as When: Through Dec. 30. Oak Lounge, Tresidder Union catalysts for creating art and work Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 together on activities inspired by p.m. Thursday open until 9 p.m.; Stanford University • Free and open to the public Erik Erikson’s “Eight Stages of Sunday 1-5 p.m. Psychosocial Development,” which Cost: Free. maps out human development from Info: Go to tinyurl.com/y8ppz5z8 For more info: birth onward. In the first week, the and beinghumanart.com. continuingstudies.stanford.edu/events artists were “reborn” by reading
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with Jane, but when Clayton’s ne- Palo Alto Players farious intentions threaten his be- loved gorilla family, Tarzan finds his loyalty tested. goes ape for ‘Tarzan’ “Tarzan” is not without its uncom- Choreography, set design stand out in family musical fortable colonial baggage, despite an attempt to make its message more by Karla Kane bad experiences with humans in the palatable to modern audiences and ucie Stern Theatre is trans- past. Soon the baby is a growing boy distance itself from the racist origi- formed into a vibrant, verdant (Oliver Copaken Yellin) who loves nal text. Human society is repre- L African rainforest this month, his gorilla family, despite feeling a sented solely by the white explorers, Goldschmid Joyce thanks to Palo Alto Players’ pro- bit different from them and never while the only “natives” represented duction of “Tarzan,” which proves a quite earning Kerchak’s approval. are non-human apes, and they end mostly-sweet, engaging adventure. He becomes best friends with the up with white, male outsider Tarzan The story of the vine-swinging sassy, smart-mouthed young Terk as a savior. However, it’s both a com- wild child Tarzan is an old classic, (Jenika Fernando) and lives hap- pelling adventure story and also a Jimmy Mason (center) stars in the title role of Palo Alto Players’ “Tarzan.” stemming from Edgar Rice Bur- pily until Kerchak throws him out touching examination of acceptance roughs’ 1912 story “Tarzan of the when he catches him fashioning a and what it means to be a family. Mason is imminently well- trifles. However, Tarzan’s big song, Apes.” The stage musical “Tarzan” tool that could double as a weap- The book, by eminent playwright suited to the title role, able to sing “Strangers Like Me,” and Turk’s is in turn based on the 1999 Disney on. Killing that nemesis leopard, David Henry Hwang, adds a touch well while swinging from ropes upbeat, Motown-like “Who Bet- animated adaptation with music though, puts him back into the ape of more adult humor to the script and scampering like an acrobat, ter Than Me?” are highlights and and lyrics by British pop musician family’s good graces and boy grows (Homo erectus jokes, anyone?). and charming in his courtship of Kala’s tender lullaby for her son, Phil Collins. into man (Jimmy Mason), with ev- Kudos in this production belong Jane, especially when he mimics “You’ll Be in My Heart” is stirring In this telling of “Tarzan,” the er-loyal Kala and Terk (played in first to director Patrick Klein and her speech in an attempt to com- especially when it becomes a recur- titular character’s parents are ship- adulthood by the delightful Daniel especially choreographer Claire municate. His Tarzan, while smart ring motif. wrecked (their reasons for travel Lloyd Pias) by his side. Meanwhile, Alexander. Under their direction, and strong, is not an untouchable Though young children may be go unexplained) and wind up on English academic Professor Por- the ensemble of apes moves fluidly superhero: He’s refreshingly hu- frightened by some scenes of vio- the shores of West Africa, where ter (George Mauro) and his brainy like a pack of knuckle-dragging, man. LaFever’s version of Jane is lence, judging by the gaggle of kids they attempt to make the best of daughter Jane (Jessica LaFever) sail parasite-picking-and-chomping a heroine worth rooting for — hap- attending the family-day matinee their new situation and care for into the apes’ territory with a plan quadrupeds (I mean that as a com- pily and unabashedly nerdy and en- I attended, the production will be their infant before being eaten by to study the local flora and fauna. pliment). The actors climb, swing, thusiastic about science (and three in the hearts of many locals, young a leopard, leaving baby Tarzan an They’re guided by the villainous flip and tumble all over the stage. cheers for a leading lady wearing and old alike. Q orphan. That same sneaky leopard Mr. Clayton (Gary Giurbino) who, The set design, by Klein and Niko- eyeglasses). I enjoyed Tillery and Arts & Entertainment Editor (played by teen actor Grace Hutton unlike the peaceful Porters, wants laj Sorensen, is gorgeous and green, Reed as the gorilla elders. Reed’s Karla Kane can be emailed at with feline, well, grace) snatches the to capture gorillas by any means and the shipwreck projection in the huge (physical and otherwise) pres- [email protected]. much beloved baby gorilla of Kala necessary to turn a profit. When beginning a dramatic and effective ence commands the stage whenever (Phaedra Tillery), mate of silver- Tarzan meets Jane, it’s love, or at touch. Costumes and props by Pa- he appears and Tillery embodies What: “Tarzan” back leader Kerchak (Michael D. least attraction, at first sight, and tricia Tyler and Scott Ludwig, re- limitless maternal love. Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Reed), leaving them heartbroken. the apeman realizes that his hither- spectively, are visually compelling Collins’ lyrics tend toward the Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Kala hears the baby human’s cries to unexplored longing for his “own as well, with the gorilla costumes cliche and bland (“Trust your heart. When: Through Sept. 23. and adopts him as her own, against kind” may run deep. He’s willing more like fringed tribal clothing Let fate decide”) and the songs, for Cost: $34-$49. the wishes of Kerchak, who’s had to leave Africa for a “civilized” life than animal furs. the most part, are just OK light-pop Info: Go to paplayers.org.
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Page 20 • September 21, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Mark Khoury, above, and Fadi Hanani opened The Courthouse 2021 in Redwood City in April. A cut above Steaks are the stars on large menu at Courthouse 2021 in Redwood City
Story by Dale F. Bentson | Photos by Natalia Nazarova
owntown Redwood City generous-sized side dishes. for a grand, and steamy, presenta- D has become one of the Other steaks include New tion. A red curry sauce gave the hottest dining destina- York, rib eye and Porterhouse bivalves added piquancy. tions on the Peninsula. Each time — all large cuts 14-26 oz. ($58- The 14 oz. double pork chop I visit I see three or four restau- $85). Three cuts of prime rib are ($32) was unevenly cut — thick rants that are new, remodeled or offered on weekends ($29-49). along the bone, thinner on the reconceptualized. What had been There was even a 42 oz. prime meat side, the chop noticeably missing was a good steakhouse. tomahawk steak, aged 45 days, sloped on the plate. The chop was The Courthouse 2021 is primed for $125. chewier than I expected for the to fill that niche but needs to be With both portion size and price. The Idaho baked russet ($5) more focused to do so. price, steaks were the restaurant’s was room temperature, too cool When I first picked up the métier. The menu highlighted the to melt butter. This can happen in menu, I was surprised at how steaks and chops section, which a busy kitchen with a large menu many items were offered. There included additions like foie gras and many disparate ingredients. were 24 starters, salads and flat- and lobster tail, sauces and even Yet most of dishes were excel- breads; and 15 meat, fish and a temperature guide for cooking. lent, such as the pan-roasted scal- fowl main courses; plus 12 sauces Yet there were so many compet- lops ($32), which came with a and sides and a half-dozen des- ing menu options, my attention luxurious saffron and pea risotto, serts. That’s a lot of ingredients was drawn away. lemon-thyme butter sauce and a to inventory and keep fresh, and I loved the fried chicken board sprinkling of caviar. incredible orchestration required ($27) served on something akin to Desserts ($14) were all worth- by the kitchen when busy. It didn’t a skateboard platform. About 18 while. The cherry chocolate bread always pan out. inches wide, the board held three pudding with crème anglaise, On one visit, the restaurant was pieces of crisp, juicy fried chicken; bourbon cream and vanilla bean moderately busy and the experi- gravy; a block of honey-buttered ice cream was very good, but bet- The crème brûlée trio with vanilla, cardamom and Kahlua flavors. ence was very good. For starters, cornbread; whipped potatoes; and ter was the crème brûlée trio of the mac and cheese with chipotle a spinach casserole. Not only was vanilla, Kahlua and cacao. It was front lounge with accordion glass The Courthouse 2021, and pork belly ($14) was hot and it delicious, it was fun eating. heavenly. doors that can close the lounge off 2021 Broadway St., Redwood gooey. The pork belly was tender On a subsequent visit, the res- The restaurant offers an array from the spacious vaulted-ceiling City; 650-367-7974: and flavorful. The smoked pep- taurant was busier and fractures of cocktails and a solid wine list dining room. Leather paneled thecourthouse2021.com per, draped over the top, gave the appeared in the kitchen’s atten- with reasonable prices. There is a walls and angular steel gird- Hours: Monday-Thursday dish a kick. tion to detail. I don’t believe the daily happy hour with bar bites. ers complete the look. The open 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Opinions differed on the mes- kitchen was lax, just too many Courthouse 2021 opened in kitchen boasts a wood-fired grill Friday 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., quite grilled octopus ($16). I dishes and too many ingredients late April in the site of the former and rotisserie. The restaurant and Saturday 3-11 p.m., thought it was too briny while to juggle. Mandaloun restaurant at 2021 lounge seats 100. A back patio for Sunday 3-9 p.m. my companion thought it was too The clam chowder ($10) was Broadway, which was once the parties and meetings seats an ad- salty, especially the sauce. The more bisque than chowder. Good San Mateo County Courthouse. ditional 75. Reservations Corkage: $28 octopus was perfectly cooked but flavor but thin, with almost no Owners Mark Khoury and Fadi Courthouse 2021 is already Credit cards Outdoor dining: the flavors were a bit off. clams or any other ingredients. Hanani hired designer Michael very good. It could excel by trim- patio for private Steaks and chops were offered It was certainly not a chowder. Brennan to reimagine the space ming the menu and focusing on Children functions a la carte. The 28-day-aged 10 Whoever filled the bowl missed and the talented Munther Mas- steaks, which would allow the Takeout Noise level: low oz. filet mignon ($39) was but- ladling in the key ingredients. sarweh as the consulting execu- kitchen to replicate perfect dish Parking: street Bathroom ter tender and cooked as ordered, On the other hand, the piping tive chef, with head chef Daniel after perfect dish. Q cleanliness: medium rare. The asiago whipped hot iron-skillet mussels ($16) Sanchez leading the kitchen. Freelance writer Dale Bentson Alcohol: full bar excellent potatoes ($5) and the sautéed were terrific. They were doused The muscular décor includes can be emailed at dfbentson@ Happy hour: mushrooms ($5) were tasty and with sake tableside, which made arched windows opening to a gmail.com. 3-6 p.m. daily
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A Simple Favor (R) Lizzie (R) Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun. Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Meg (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Assassination Nation (R) Mission: Impossible Fallout (PG-13) +++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. BlacKkKlansman (R) +++1/2 The Nun (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Century 16: Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Fri. - Sun. Operation Finale (PG-13) +++ Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun. The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) (Not Rated) Peppermint (R) Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Christopher Robin (PG) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Pick of the Litter (Not Rated) +++1/2 Crazy Rich Asians (PG-13) ++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. An urgent call for action Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Predator (R) Fahrenheit 11/9 (R) +++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Michael Moore’s ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Sailaja Reddy Alludu (Not Rated) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. rallies progressives to take a stand The House with a Clock in its Walls (PG) Searching (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ++ 000 (Century 20, Aquarius) Incredibles 2 (PG) 1/2 Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Unbroken: Path to Redemption (PG-13) Juliet, Naked (R) Guild Theatre: How do you take aim a fraction of the im- Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. OPENINGS Life Itself (R) White Boy Rick (R) at the ultimate moving pact that his enraging Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. target? Flint story had. Unapologetically The Little Foxes (1941) (Not Rated) The Wife (R) +++ In his political documentary and wittily employing propa- Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Guild Theatre: Fri. - Sun. “Fahrenheit 11/9,” filmmaker Mi- ganda techniques, Moore quickly chael Moore explores the Trump catalogs everything hateful about + Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding era with two questions: “How the Trump (the misogyny, the racism, Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto CineArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino f--- did this happen, and how the the rollbacks of civil rights and (For recorded listings: 327-3241) Real, Palo Alto (For information: 493-0128) f--- do we get out?” environmental protections, et al) tinyurl.com Aquariuspa tinyurl.com/Pasquare Moore’s unabashedly partisan and takes a cheap shot in an un- Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. 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We see the there, although the most in-your- PaloAltoOnline.com/movies sad deflation of Clinton supporters face passage outlines the fascist as the election turns and victory tendencies of Trump, drawing ex- partiers listening — on repeat — tensive parallels to Adolf Hitler. to Rachel Platten’s feminist anthem Moore also takes shots at the “Fight Song.” Then, Moore scores Clintons, Barack Obama and him- FALL2018 Trump’s surprise win to “Vesti la self, but the film isn’t so much giubba,” the crying-clown aria the angry screed as it’s an urgent from “Pagliacci.” Moore has a keen call to action. Moore champions comic sensibility and the current “the fighting spirit” of grassroots situation proves ripe for his satire. progressivism, highlighting new But the greater impression of Democratic congressional candi- “Fahrenheit 11/9” is its dire ac- date Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, counting of the corruption of her expected soon-to-be-colleague the Republican Party, the sellout Rashida Tlaib and gun-control centrism of the Democratic Party advocate David Hogg (a survivor and the victimization of working- of the Stoneman Douglas High class Americans, emblematized School shooting) and students by the criminal poisoning of tens from Parkland, Florida, who have of thousands residents in Moore’s now mobilized for voting drives hometown of Flint, Michigan, un- and gun-control advocacy. In this der Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, way, “Fahrenheit 11/9” feels like a who Moore positions as a role deliberate answer to the old chest- model for Trump’s “autocratic” nut that films like this only “preach get-away-with-anything tactics. to the choir” instead of reaching Flint has been the most consistent across the aisle. Moore knows he’s character in Moore’s films, begin- preaching to the choir: In the face ning with his debut “Roger & Me,” of 100 million disenfranchised non which explored the betrayal of the voters, he wants to stoke righteous city by General Motors (the auto- anger and get like-minded people maker has a cameo in “Fahrenheit in the streets, in the voting booths Journalism Under Siege? 11/9” as a hissable beneficiary of and, better yet, on the ballots. Snyder’s crony capitalism). Rated R for language and some Truth and Trust in a Time of Turmoil Perhaps it’s due to Trump fa- disturbing material/images. Two tigue, but Moore’s material on hours, 5 minutes. 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Page 22 • September 21, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com OPEN HOME GUIDE 48 Home & Real Estate Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com A weekly guide to home, garden and real estate news, edited by Elizabeth Lorenz Home Front Real Estate Matters ART GLASS FOR SALE ... The Palo Alto High School “Fiery Arts” Editor’s Note program will hold a sale on Friday, Sept. 21, and Saturday, It’s officially fall Sept. 22, in front of the Paly High this weekend, which art building at 50 Embarcadero brings bright hot days Road in Palo Alto. Handblown and brisk nights. Like glass pumpkins, pears, cups, cats the change in seasons, and other shapes will be on display for sale from 3-6 p.m. on Friday the Midpeninsula real and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on estate market changes Saturday. The sale of the art, made too as summer turns by Paly instructors, alums and into autumn. Will it be students, will benefit the Fiery Arts hot? Chilly? A buyer’s program. Live demonstrations will be happening during the sale. For market or seller’s? Last more information go to Facebook. week, Weekly real com/PalyFieryArts or email estate columnist Hadar [email protected]. Guibara, of Sereno
CONTAIN YOUR VEGGIES Group in Palo Alto, gave ... Palo Alto’s SummerWinds her forecast. This week, Nursery will host a free 30-minute Xin Jiang of Alain Pinel workshop on “Container Realtors in Palo Alto, Gardening with Fall Vegetables will use her experience Sunday, and Herbs” at 9 a.m., and knowledge to predict Sept. 23. Whether you have a large or small outdoor space, buyers’ and sellers’ growing cool-weather veggies in behavior over the next containers is a great way to grow few months. produce. In this short Learn’ —Elizabeth Lorenz n’ Grow class, SummerWinds’
garden experts will show Weber Veronica you how to grow edibles in containers. Reserve your spot by going to summerwindsnursery. com. SummerWinds Nursery Market showing signs of chilling is located at 725 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. by Xin Jiang he residential property market in Palo end, homes don’t seem to attract interest $3.1 million. It was a 15 percent increase SEEDLING SALE ... If you want to Alto is showing multiple signs of a even after a $1-million price drop. from 2017 and 29 percent higher than 2016, plant fall veggies and be confident T slowdown. The number of offers directly translates on top of a long bull-market cycle that ran the plants will thrive, buy seedlings The median price of all sold homes from into for how much more a home finally sells. for five years from 2010 to 2015, when Palo “Fall Vegetable Seedling at the June to August was $2.86 million, an 8 per- From January to May of this year, homes Alto’s home prices nearly doubled. It’s hard- Sale” held by the University of cent drop from the first five months of 2018. listed for under $3 million were sold for ly sustainable. California Cooperative Extension’s Summer seasonality normally sees fewer an average of 15 percent over asking. This Second, while we are still experiencing Palo Alto Demonstration Garden. transactions but not necessarily lower prices. historically low inventory, the number of Saturday, The sale will be held In 2017, from June to August, the median new listings increased by 11 percent over Sept. 29 , from 10 a.m. to noon. home price in Palo Alto was actually 3 per- … limited supply, last year for the period from January to Au- An array of cool-season vegetable cent higher than that of the gust, which helped slightly to restore the bal- seedlings will be available, spring. especially of ance between supply and demand. including kale, lettuce, spinach, “Entry-level” Homes are Lastly, as uncertainties about the global beets, broccoli, cauliflower, staying on market longer. properties at prime economy are rising, potential buyers, both cabbage, chard, onions, herbs Just last spring, a typical local and foreign, are in wait-and-see mode. and more. Master Gardeners will “starter home” priced be- locations, is likely The rising tension between the U.S. and be on hand to answer gardening low $3 million would usu- China is affecting the entire global “tech questions. Bring a box to carry ally sell with as many as to continue in the value chain.” The depreciation of China’s home your purchases. Sales 10 offers within a week. As currency by about 10 percent since February benefit the UC Master Gardener of Sept. 10, with 60 active foreseeable future. also negatively affected potential demand by program; cash or checks only. The listings in Palo Alto on the Chinese investors. garden is located at 851 Center Multiple Listings Service, It may be wiser to How should sellers and buyers react to the Drive, Palo Alto. For details, go to 34 were still on the market shift of the market? mgsantaclara.ucanr.edu. after 14 days. Six homes listed under $3 mil- keep evaluating For sellers, unfortunately, market timing lion have been sitting for more than three plays a major role in determining sale prices. weeks. No home is perfect, and surely there than trying to time Send notices of news and events related A tough market raises the bar for marketing to real estate, interior design, home are certain drawbacks when homes don’t sell the market. and execution during the selling process. improvement and gardening to Home immediately. However, in a “hot” market, For buyers, if the market has finally started Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, buyers tend to take action to grab a home to correct, now is only the beginning, and Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email elorenz@ and overlook most shortcomings. overbidding dropped to eight percent during paweekly.com. Deadline is one week there’s no need to rush. On the other hand, before publication. The number of offers on a single property the summer months from June to August. As limited supply, especially of properties at is dropping as well. The severe bidding war inventory picks up in the fall selling season, prime locations, is likely to continue in the was a norm in the spring. Homes listed ag- home prices are likely to remain soft. foreseeable future. It may be wiser to keep READ MORE ONLINE gressively low compared with their fair mar- What caused the market to shift? evaluating than trying to time the market. Q PaloAltoOnline.com ket value could attract as many as 20 bids. First, home prices may have jumped too Xin Jiang is a real estate agent with There are more real estate features Recently, many homes listed for $3 million high, too fast. The median home price in Alain Pinel Realtors in Palo Alto. She can online. Go to PaloAltoOnline.com/ only received one or two offers. At the high Palo Alto in the first half of 2018 reached be emailed at [email protected]. real_estate.
www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 21, 2018 • Page 23 155 GREENMEADOW WAY, PALO ALTO • 2/2 one-story Eichler condo • HOA includes all except in 17-unit complex with pool electricity • Remodeled 2 years ago • Location is close to • Tranquil private backyard transportation, shopping, • Wood burning fireplace dining and sought after OPEN • Radiant heat floors schools Fairmeadow, JLS, HOUSE Gunn OFFERED AT $1,500,000 Saturday PAM PAGE 1:30-4:30 License #00858214 Sunday 650.400.5061 [email protected] 1:00-3:00 Square footage, acreage, distances and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been verified by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.
777 San Antonio Rd #131 777 San Antonio Rd #90 Palo Alto Palo Alto
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x 1,030 sf living space, 2 bd/2 ba x 946 sf living space, 2 bd/1 ba x Large master suite with walk-in closet x Beautiful kitchen with custom cabinets x Dedicated balcony with storage closet x Luxury bathroom with marble finishes x Updated kitchen with new appliances x 1 car garage & in-unit laundry
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125 LAKEVIEW DRIVE WOODSIDE • Two-story Tudor main residence plus • Main residence features formal living pool house and 3-car garage with and formal dining rooms, second living recreation/fitness room and theatre room, gourmet kitchen, family room, • Resort-like grounds with sweeping master bedroom suite with office and San Francisco Bay views two baths, two bedroom suites, and two additional bedrooms • Main residence with 5 bedrooms, 5 full baths, and 2 half-baths • Pool house with full kitchen and bath • Approx. 8,630 total sq. ft. • 3-car detached garage with upper-level recreation/fitness room and theatre – Main house: 6,905 sq. ft. – Pool house: 395 sq. ft. • Beautiful pool and spa, barbecue kitchen, fire pit, and gazebo – Recreation room and theatre: 640 sq. ft. – Detached garage: 600 sq. ft. • Approx. 1.5 acres with English gardens – Storage: 90 sq. ft. • Excellent Las Lomitas schools
Offered at $7,850,000 For video, floor plans, additional photos, and information, please visit www.125Lakeview.com
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Sited on a quiet two-block street in North Palo Alto within blocks of Addison Elementary, Eleanor Pardee and Rinconada parks, the Community Center and dynamic Downtown Palo Alto, this 6 bedroom/2.5 bath home checks all the boxes for the fortunate new owners: location, remodeled condition, high ceilings, wonderful natural light, excellent floor plan with effortless flow between public rooms, flawless integration of indoor and outdoor spaces, and plenty of room to grow! A striking eco-friendly front garden is the first impression of the appealing modern design of this peaceful home. Simple, clean architecture melds harmoniously with stylish interior appointments. The living room features a dramatic high open-beam ceiling and connects to the dining area with two large sliding doors that open to an inviting deck and swimming pool. The sleekly remodeled European-style kitchen has Caesarstone countertops and stainless steel appliances. The adjacent family room is bathed in natural light from the double sliding door that leads to a low maintenance garden shaded by a beautiful flowering magnolia tree. The upper level has five family bedrooms, a spacious owners’ suite and an open sunny study or reading area. A separate laundry room with recent appliances and an attached double garage complete this special home. Exterior space beautifully accommodates outdoor living with a sunny deck, refreshing salt water pool, relaxing hot tub and a separate low maintenance garden area. Living Area: 3,086 sq. ft. (Per county records, unverified) Lot Size: 8,518 sq. ft. (Per county records, unverified) Offered at $4,800,000 www.1087Fife.com
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OPEN SUNDAY OPEN SUNDAY 140 WILLOWBROOK DR, Portola Valley 25 BEAR GULCH DR, Portola Valley 8 bed | 5.5 bath | 2+acre 5 bed | 4.5 bath | 1+acre $5,600,000 $5,595,000 140Willowbrook.com 25BearGulch.com
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Experience the feeling of serene country living at this spacious and beautiful single-level home nestled amid towering oaks and sun-swept open space. Tastefully remodeled, ultimate privacy, and outstanding Palo Alto schools – the perfect Silicon Valley retreat.
Beautifully fl ourishing grounds Sumptuous master suite with of approximately 3.43 +/– acres remodeled spa bath including steam shower and heated 5 bedrooms, offi ce, and 3.5 fl oors baths, including ideal guest or extended family quarters Beautifully remodeled chef’s kitchen: granite countertops, Approximately 3,913 square Sub-Zero, Wolf range and feet of luxury living more!
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Updated Mid-century Modern in Family-Friendly Palo Verde 4 bedrooms • 2 baths • 1,698± sf home • 6,600± sf lot Nestled on a quiet, tree-lined street, this updated mid-century Eichler offers you sunfilled and spacious living in family-friendly Palo Verde neighborhood. Recently updated with new hardwood floors, granite kitchen countertop and sleek cabinetry. Open floor plan with 4 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms. High-ceiling living and family rooms integrate with outdoor patios. Beautiful and matured landscaping provides ample privacy for outdoor living. Newly refurbished 2-car garage allows the flexibility for additional storage, an office/den or children’s playroom.
Easy access to Henry W. Seale Park, Mitchell Park, YMCA, Eichler Swimming and Tennis Club and Oshman Family JCC. Excellent Palo Alto Schools include Palo Verde Elementary, JLS Middle and Gunn High (buyer to verify availability).
Offered at $2,498,000 www.3441Kenneth.com
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4BR 3BA ±1,902 sq. ft. living space | Attached one-car garage
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Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. License# 01371338 www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 21, 2018 • Page 41 Page 42 • September 21, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 21, 2018 • Page 43 THE ADDRESS IS THE PENINSU THE EXPERIENCE IS AIN PINEL
WOODSIDE $24,500,000 LOS ALTOS HILLS $7,188,000 PALO ALTO $6,995,000 PALO ALTO $4,980,000
176 Harcross Road | 7bd/7.5ba 12121 Foothill Lane | 5bd/7ba 931 Laurel Glen Drive | 6bd/6.5ba 903 Ramona Street | 5bd/4.5ba S. Dancer/H. Johnson | 650.888.8199 Connie Miller | 650.279.7074 Derk Brill | 650.543.1117 S. Gavande/N. Essabhoy | 650.323.1111 License # 00868362 | 00379463 License # 01275848 License # 01256035 License # 01856590 | 01085354 BY APPOINTMENT BY APPOINTMENT OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-5:00
PALO ALTO $4,800,000 MENLO PARK $3,149,000 MENLO PARK $2,995,000 BURLINGAME $2,595,000
1087 Fife Avenue | 6bd/2.5ba 2036 Sterling Avenue | 4bd/3ba 1340 Hoover Street | 5bd/2ba 2918 Adeline Drive | 3bd/3ba C. Carnevale/N. Aron | 650.543.1195 Scott & Shary Symon | 650.323.1111 Barbara Piuma | 650.464.8593 Marybeth Dorst | 650.245.8890 License # 07000304 License # 01363506 | 01098351 License # 00938609 License # 01345542 OPEN SATURDAY 1:30-4:30 OPEN SUNDAY 1:00-4:00 OPEN SUNDAY 2:00-4:00 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30
LOS ALTOS $2,495,000 SAN CARLOS $2,298,000 MENLO PARK $1,979,000 SUNNYVALE $1,899,000
48 Pasa Robles Avenue | 2bd/2.25ba 26 Beverley Drive | 3bd/2.5ba 847 Woodland Avenue | 3bd/2ba 1065 Rockefeller Drive | 4bd/2ba Rick Bell | 650.209.1513 Cindy Liebsch | 650.591.7473 Michael Johnston | 650.533.5102 Lynn North | 650.209.1562 License # 01051633 License # 01324217 License # 01131203 License # 01490039 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30 BY APPOINTMENT OPEN SUNDAY 2:00-4:00 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30
MENLO PARK $1,795,000 SANTA CRA $1,198,000 MENLO PARK $1,195,000 REDWOOD CITY $748,000
657 Roble Avenue | 3bd/2.5ba 1395 Jefferson Street | 3bd/2ba 2381 Sharon Road | 2bd/1ba 67 Cove Lane | 1bd/1ba Patrice Horvath | 650.520.7675 Loren Dakin | 650.714.8662 Janise Taylor | 650.302.2083 Gary Bulanti | 650.483.5532 License # 01708418 License # 01030193 License # 01499609 License # 01232945 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-4:00 BY APPOINTMENT OPEN SATURDAY 1:30-4:30 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30
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707 Westridge Drive, Portola Valley
• Sleek modern design built by • Professionally designed theatre, R.J. Dailey in 2005 recreation room, Phil Finer wine • Energy-effi cient, solar-powered cellar, fi tness center, and steam living room • 5 bedrooms, offi ce, 4 full baths, and • Pool and spa, outdoor kitchen, 3 half-baths, plus a full bath outside heated pavilion, custom treehouse, 6 raised and fenced vegetable beds • Approx. 10,085 total square feet • Approx. 2.5 acres • Main level: 6,250 square feet • Lower level: 2,310 square feet • Excellent Portola Valley schools • Outdoor bath: 75 square feet • 2-car garage: 570 square feet • Storage: 880 square feet NEW PRICE: $10,995,000 • Living room, formal dining room, For video, fl oor plans, chef’s kitchen, family room, and additional photos and information, play/study area visit www.707Westridge.com
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www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 21, 2018 • Page 51 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Sports Palo Alto, Shorts Gunn open INJURY UPDATE ... Sacred Heart Prep grad and Stanford junior Tierna league play Davidson will likely miss the rest of the Stanford women’s soccer season M-A out of state, after sustaining a fractured left ankle in the first half of an eventual Cardinal SHP plays Saturday 2-1 overtime win over North Carolina. by Glenn Reeves Davidson suffered the injury when a Tar Heels player spiked her high on eague play begins this week the ankle trying to knock the ball out in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League with Palo of her possession. She was swinging L her foot to kick the ball when contact Alto hosting Milpitas in a De was made. After several minutes, Anza Division opener and Gunn Davidson was helped off the field. hosting Mountain View in an Afterward she was on crutches. It’s Ocean Division tilt. a blow not just for Stanford but for The Peninsula Athletic League Team USA, where she had become doesn’t begin until next week. a staple on defense along with fellow Menlo-Atherton travels out of SHP grad Abby Dahlkemper . . . In state to take on Colorado power- related news, U.S. women’s national house Valor Christian and Sacred team coach Jill Ellis announced Heart Prep plays a Saturday after- the 20 players who will compete noon game at home against San Mateo to close out its non-league in the CONCACAF Women’s Karen Ambrose Hickey Championships that get underway on schedule. Oct. 4 at Wake Forest. Dahlkemper Menlo School and Woodside is joined by Stanford grads Kelley both have byes this week. O’Hara and Christen Press. The U.S. Milpitas at Palo Alto, 7 p.m. opens with Mexico on Oct. 4. Palo Alto has passed one test WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS ... Stanford linebacker Casey Toohill (52) is a big reason why Stanford’s defense is allowing a nation’s best after another in four weeks of Captain Taylor Sander led the United 7.7 points per game thus far. non-league football. Now it’s States men’s national volleyball team cram time in practice this week as SCVAL play begins with de- into the second round of the FIVB STANFORD FOOTBALL World Championships with a 25-12, fending league and state champi- 25-18, 25-13 victory over Tunisia on Milpitas the opponent in Fri- in the final round preliminary play day’s opener as Paly’s front-heavy schedule continues. in Bari, Italy. The winner of pool C, Stanford-Oregon a big game the U.S. (21-6, 5-0) travels to Sofia, After taking on Milpitas in the league opener the Vikings go on Bulgaria for the second round of Saturday’s winner takes a foothold on North Division the road against a traditionally- competition, which begins Friday. by Glenn Reeves Team USA and Canada square off Oregon’s defense has allowed the advantage of the Autzen Sta- strong Wilcox team that might in the first match Friday. Sander ashington was pretty 1.7 yards per carry. Of course dium crowd. be considered the league favorite recorded 13 points on nine kills and much a preseason con- that’s against Portland State, “I’ve been to games at Autzen based on an extremely impressive sensus pick to win the Bowling Green and San Jose where it’s high intensity,” said se- nonleague showing thus far this four aces while Maxwell Holt added W 12 points in five kills, six aces and Pac-12 Conference North Divi- State, teams that are a combined nior running back Cameron Scar- season. a block. Stanford grad Erik Shoji sion championship. It doesn’t 2-7. But still ... lett, who grew up in Portland. “I “No break,’’ Palo Alto coach recorded six digs in the match. look quite so clear cut now. “It’s no secret we’re going to know what it’s going to be like Nelson Gifford said. “I guess The winner of Saturday’s 5 p.m. run the ball,’’ Shaw said. “It will and I’m excited to play in a big they couldn’t squeeze in Los Ga- CARDINAL CORNER ... Stanford Stanford-Oregon game will es- be a good challenge for us this game like this.” tos after that. Quite a start, quite tablish itself as a bonafide North week.’’ Stanford blasted the sound of jet an introduction.’’ junior Andrea Lee showed why she is one of the nation’s top Division frontrunner. And the Oregon quarterback Justin engines taking off at high volume Milpitas has been a Central collegiate golfers, finishing fifth contrasting ways Stanford (3-0) Herbert (6-6, 233), “a big strong- in practice this week trying to Coast Section juggernaut, going overall Wednesday at the ANNIKA and Oregon (3-0) match armed athletic quarter- simulate the sound level the team 57-12 over the last five years and Intercollegiate contested at Royal up provides a number of back who throws the will face in Autzen. producing loads of Division I tal- Golf Club in Lake Elmo, Minn. . . . interesting subplots. ball extremely well,’’ “There’s only so much you can ent. The Trojans are off to just a Five-time WNBA All-Star and three- Stanford is No. 1 in according to Shaw, has say to prepare,” Alfieri said. “You 2-2 start this season with losses time Stanford All-American Nneka the nation in scoring thrown 12 touchdown just have to be in there to feel the to Dublin and Salinas. defense, allowing only passes. As he goes, so noise and intensity of the crowd.’’ “To me they’re the champs until Ogwumike has been named to the NOTES: USA Basketball Women’s World Cup 7.7 points per game. go the Ducks. Former St. Francis they’re not,’’ Gifford said. “They Team that will compete in this year’s Oregon, under first- Stanford has allowed standout Cyrus Habibi-Likio has reel off section championships FIBA World Cup, formerly the FIBA year head coach Mario two touchdowns total been utilized in Oregon’s short- and keep finding guys who can World Championship, beginning Cristobal, is averaging a over three games. yardage offense. He has five car- flat out play. You know they’re Saturday in Tenerife, Spain. Pac-12 Conference best Whoever gets the bet- ries in Oregon’s first three games going to come out swinging.’’ 51.7 points per game. ter of these matchups and four of those carries have So far this season Palo Alto (4- “They go fast,” said Trenton Irwin will have a big leg up on gone for touchdowns . . . Sacred 0) has gotten revenge on a couple ON THE AIR Stanford fifth-year senior outside being 4-0 at game’s end. Heart Prep grad Brad Yaffe has of teams that won by blowout Friday linebacker and Oregon native The history of the series is also been a valuable member of Or- scores last year, Half Moon Bay College women’s soccer: Arizona Joey Alfieri. “The biggest thing of interest. The Stanford-Oregon egon’s scout team as a preferred and Aragon. Here’s another. Mil- at Stanford, 8 p.m., Pac-12 Networks is communicating. If we don’t, we rivalry has intensified in recent walk-on . . .The forecast in Eu- pitas beat Paly 49-0 last season. Saturday could get gashed pretty easily.” years as both programs have gone gene calls for a chance of morn- “I watched the film, it was like College football: Stanford at Or- Bryce Love has been cleared through the most successful runs ing rain, giving way to afternoon a highlight tape,’’ Gifford said. egon, 5 p.m., ABC to return to action for the Cardi- of their history. In the seven years sunshine. The game-time temper- “They scored touchdowns on their Sunday nal after sitting out the UC Da- since the Pac-12 North Divi- ature is expected to be 70 degrees first three plays from scrimmage. College women’s volleyball: Arizo- vis game. With or without Love sion began Stanford and Oregon ... Senior JJ Arcega-Whiteside That team was unreal.’’ na at Stanford, noon, Pac-12 Networks Stanford will try to establish the have combined for six of seven ranks third nationally with five The Trojans lost a good amount Wednesday run. That’s who Stanford is under championships. receiving touchdowns and 14th to graduation, in particular super- College women’s volleyball: UCLA David Shaw. Stanford has caused Oregon in yards per game with 108 ... Se- star running back-defensive back at Stanford, 7 p.m., Pac-12 Networks “The coaching tree I come some heartbreak. In 2012, the nior wide receiver Trenton Irwin Tariq Bracy, who is now playing from loves to run the ball on first No. 1 ranked Ducks were upset has at least one reception in 31 as a true freshman at Notre Dame. READ MORE ONLINE down,’’ Shaw said. “In two of our by Stanford 17-14 in overtime, a consecutive games ... Fifth-year “I don’t think this team is as www.PASportsOnline.com three games the defense has been loss that cost them a shot at the senior inside linebacker Bobby talented as that team, but it is still saying ‘we will put one more in national championship. Okereke has recorded five or really talented,’’ Gifford said. For expanded daily coverage of college and prep sports, visit the box than you can block.’ I still So Oregon will be plenty mo- more tackles in 14 of the last 16 www.PASportsOnline.com try to run it.’’ tivated for payback and will have games. Q (continued on page 55)
Page 52 • September 21, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com PREP REPORT M-A, Menlo all set for PAL water polo showdown Castilleja remains undefeated in girls golf by Rick Eymer populate the roster) with some enlo-Atherton senior great senior leadership,” Antonino Cooper Gran would like said. “We’re having some trouble M to finish his high school with the offense and so we swim a water polo career with at least one lot more and wore out. I’m happy win over Menlo School. His first because of the effort though.” chance comes next Wednesday The Seeds are both sophomores when the Knights visit M-A in a and the Mills (Andrew and Ryan) Peninsula Athletic League Bay are both freshmen and all four Division showdown at 6 p.m. play an important role for the “It’s been a goal of mine ever Wildcats along with sophomore since I’ve been here,” Gran said Joe Untrecht, whose older brother Mike Rasay/siphotos.com after the Bears beat visiting Sam is one of Menlo’s star players. Woodside 6-1 on Wednesday in Seniors Adam Mead, Nicholas a PAL contest. “Four years and Hovsmith, Alec Friedsam and Na- never beat them. I’m hoping to do than Cai have been providing the it this year.” leadership. Menlo topped host Carlmont, It was all M-A in the second 24-4, on Wednesday as Sam Un- half as Elias Noar scored midway Freshman Holly Campbell (3) is the latest addition to the No. 2 Stanford women’s volleyball team. trecht scored five goals, one of through the third period to give 10 Knights to record a goal. Josh the Bears some cushion. Julian Poulos and Zayd Mahmoud each Montoya and Willem Holzricher STANFORD VOLLEYBALL had three saves. each added a goal in the final Nick Hernandez, Noah Housen- period. hold, Leo Jergovic and Connor In the West Catholic Athletic Ready for the next challenge MacMitchell each added three League, Larsen Weigle scored goals. Ben Sminoff and Jack King four times and Sacred Heart Prep No. 2 Cardinal meets Arizona in its Pac-12 home opener Sunday each added a pair. beat host Serra 18-1 Wednesday. by Rick Eymer The PAL Bay title has usually Andrew Churukian, James more experienced teams in the na- came to Maples Pavilion in always been decided by the win- Plaschke and Kyle Ballack each he next 17 matches on the tion despite its youthful appear- 2016 and handled the Cardinal ner of the MA-Menlo contest and added two goals for the Gators (7- schedule for the second- ance on paper. The juniors and in four sets. That’s the only time this year seems to be no differ- 1, 3-0), who host Bellarmine next T ranked Stanford women’s seniors have been to the mountain in the past 22 meetings Arizona ent. Woodside, a young team with Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. volleyball team, beginning with top and have also been close but has beaten Stanford but it clearly plenty of upside, showed why its Sunday’s noon home match came up empty. shook the team that later galva- considered to be a team ready to Girls water polo against Arizona, are against Since Kevin Hambly, who nized and went on to win the compete for the title in the near Claire Pisani scored four goals, teams either ranked among the coached at Illinois, came aboard, national title. future. Madison Lewis added five assists top 25 in the nation or which are Stanford has only added talented Stanford players certainly “The first quarter we played and the Castilleja water polo team receiving votes. freshmen who have don’t need reminding of that loss, perfect defense, perfect offense,” beat visiting Aragon, 13-4, in a California, which the found their way onto though it doesn’t necessarily serve Wildcats coach Bruno Antonino Peninsula Athletic League contest Cardinal defeated on the the court to challenge as motivation either. It was just said of the 1-0 lead Woodside held Wednesday. road Wednesday, 25-16, the status quo. part of the process. early. “We can do better but for Minhee Chung added three 25-23, 25-14, is the only There’s just no let- The Cardinal doesn’t just walk now I’m happy with the way we goals and Sarah Pedley recorded other team in the na- ting up for the Cardi- out on the court and expect to win. played defense. Those guys usu- six saves in goal for the Gators tion who can make that nal, which knows every Stanford walks on the court with ally score over 10 goals against us. (7-2, 3-0), who play Notre Dame same claim. The dif- opponent from here on a game plan and the expectation We were solid.” Belmont next Wednesday at Serra ference is that Stanford out would love to gain of winning. Gran said it was a fun game to High in San Mateo. The match is has already played five the prestige that comes These next few matches are play in because of the connec- scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. teams ranked among the from upsetting one of intriguing to say the least. Stan- tion between the two schools, Scarlett Ackley and Anjali top 10, winning four of the elite teams. ford rivals UCLA and USC come who practice together as the Mid- Kambham each added a pair of Morgan Hentz them. Most coaches believe to town on Wednesday and Fri- Peninsula Club team under An- goals for Castilleja, which led There aren’t many coaches en- there is no such thing as an upset. day, respectively, and then its off tonino’s direction. 10-0 at halftime. Stacey Abonce vious of Stanford’s schedule but That it’s the most prepared team for the mountains of Utah and “That was a big win because we and Gabby Lewis each had a pair for the Cardinal it all seems like a that wins. Aside from health is- Colorado. know Woodside is one of the top of assists. nice tidy fit. sues, that’s usally the case. Stanford (9-1, 1-0) won its 13th three teams in the league,” Gran Defensively, the Gators kept Whoever it plays or whatever Arizona (11-1) will be playing straight match against Cal (8-4, said. busy by taking the ball away venue it which it takes place, its conference opener Sunday 0-1). The Cardinal hit .382 as a The last time the Bears and from the Dons 14 times. Lexi Stanford has already experienced and the Wildcats have players team, while holding the Bears to Knights tangled was in the first Traintis, Madison Lewis, Chung something similiar. who know what it’s like to beat a .151 clip. round of last year’s Central Coast and Chloe Niclaou each recorded That’s on top of being one of the a NCAA champion. Arizona Kathryn Plummer led all play- Section Open Division tourna- three steals. ers with 14 kills on .303 hitting ment, in which the since-graduat- Kaia Anderson netted four and eight digs. Audriana Fitzmor- ed Noah Smith single-highhand- goals and McKenna Shade added ris hit .500 with 10 kills on 18 edly kept M-A in the contest with a score as Woodside inched past swings with just one error. 20 saves in what was a 5-4 Menlo host Menlo-Atherton, 5-3, in an- Junior setter Jenna Gray record- win. other PAL contest. ed 38 assists, while junior libero “We thought this might be more Ellen Nelson, Molly Banks Morgan Hentz had a match-best of a rebuilding year,” Gran said. and Callie Mueller scored for the 13 digs. Sophomore defensive “But we’ve got awesome guys and Bears. specialist Kate Formico totaled the team has worked hard.” Woodside hosts Burlingame six digs. Aidan Seed gave the Wildcats a and Menlo School plays at Sophomore Meghan McClure 1-0 lead midway through the first Menlo-Atherton at 6 p.m. next added eight kills and 11 digs, period and, along with goalie Kai Wednesday. while senior middle blocker Seed, helped keep M-A out of the The Knights opened with eight Mike Rasay/siphotos.com Courtney Bowen finished with a net until Gran scored two con- goals in the first quarter and glid- career-high seven kills on 14 er- secutive goals to put the Bears up ed to an 18-4 PAL victory over rorless swings and five blocks. for good. host Carlmont. Freshman Holly Campbell Finn Depay added a goal with Annie Bisconti led Menlo with chipped in five kills on .556 hit- 1:07 left in the second quarter, four goals and Sophie Golub add- ting and two blocks. giving M-A a 3-1 edge heading ed a pair. Sophie Reynolds, Izzy Stanford is 4-0 at home this into the intermission. Hinshaw and Sydney Bianchi year and owns a 22-match home “We’re a young team (nine Holly Campbell (left) and junior setter Jenna Gray prepare for action. winning streak. Q freshmen and sophomores (continued on page 54)
www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 21, 2018 • Page 53 Sports PALO ALTO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE TO BIDDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that proposals will be YLJLP]LKI`[OL7HSV(S[V BY ORDERVM[OL)\ZPULZZ+LWHY[TLU[VM[OL7HSV(S[V Doug Stotland Page 54 • September 21, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Sports Prep football ATHLETES OF THE WEEK (continued from page 52) “They are in the process of find- ing their identity on offense. They come out in everything from the double wing to five wides, two backs under center, a veer look. They pose a huge challenge to our defense. You don’t know what you’re going to get.’’ Palo Alto only has a 33-man roster, but has been able to play close to complete two-platoon football. Lou Passarello has played the most both ways at tight end and on the defensive line. Kevin Giffen, a nose tackle on defense, has filled in at guard in two games due to injury. The offense is averaging 32 Bob Dahlberg points per game with quarterback Jackson Chryst, running back Aiden Chang and wide receiv- ers Jamir Shepard and Paul Thie Mariah Grover Larsen Weigle Joey Olshausen (9) catches this touchdown pass during the Mitty game. all off to great starts. Last Friday M-A VOLLEYBALL SHP WATER POLO He and his M-A teammates will be in Colorado for a game Friday night. Aragon tried to take away the The junior setter recorded The senior attacker scored pass. As a result, Chang rushed do in El Camino Division play. “For us, developing the line is 129 assists, 24 digs, three 17 goals, recorded three for 188 yards and three touch- Monta Vista, at 3-1, is the only job one,’’ Miller said. “Having blocks and eight service assists and made two steals downs, breaking long TD runs team in the division above .500 in sophomores playing like that is aces in the single-day, in helping the Gators reach of 80 and 55 yards. And Chryst, nonleague play. really special.’’ five-game Chris Chandler the championship game of thought of as more of a passer Roster numbers have been an Invitational to help the Bears the Elite Eight Invitational in than a runner, broke an 82-yard ongoing issue for the Titans. They Menlo-Atherton at Valor win the tournament title. Studio City. touchdown run. had 19 players suited up in a 52-36 Christian, 6 p.m. PDT “Aragon wasn’t going to give loss to James Lick then had to for- The Bears left Thursday to take Honorable mention us the deep ball at all,’’ Gifford feit their game with Woodside the on the No. 1-ranked team in the said.”That made the box following week when state of Colorado. Lexi Gwyn Tommy Barnds pretty light. I don’t want the number of avail- “A lot of our guys have barely Palo Alto field hockey Sacred Heart Prep football to turn Jackson into able players went down left the Bay Area or California,’’ Sianna Houghton Aidan Chang a triple-option quar- to around 15 during the Menlo-Atherton coach Adhir Ra- Menlo volleyball Palo Alto football terback and have him week. Last week Marina vipati said. “On Friday we will Sara Quinlan LeeMaster Howard carry the ball 20 times didn’t have a frosh-soph tour the University of Colorado. Sacred Heart Prep tennis Gunn football a game. But that run was team so Miller brought Then on Saturday we are look- Emma Spindt Solomone Paletua huge for us.’’ up all the sophomores ing forward to competing against Menlo-Atherton volleyball Gunn football Palo Alto’s defense off his frosh-soph team. (Valor Christian).’’ Divya Tadimeti Josh Poulos has been equally im- But that won’t be the Valor Christian (4-0) is a Rocky Castilleja golf Menlo water polo pressive, allowing an case against Moun- Mountain powerhouse, the alma Ella Woodhead Sam Untrecht* average of 12 points per tain View, which has a Aidan Chang mater of former Stanford super- Sacred Heart Prep water polo Menlo water polo game. lower-level team. Miller star Christian McCaffrey. Ed *Previous winner Passarello and Giffen have said he expected to have around McCaffrey, longtime NFL wide been joined by Bryon Escarsega- 22 suited up Friday. receiver and also an ex-Stanford Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com Calderon on the 3-man front. Mountain View is 1-3 with a star, is the head coach. He has 17 “Your defensive line is not win over Homestead and losses assistant coaches, a number of Feleti Malupo got the start coach Mark Grieb said. “We have supposed to rack up tackles, but to North Salinas, Carlmont and them former Denver Broncos such against Palma and will see more some great senior leadership.’’ they have been all over the field Capuchino. as Brandon Stokley. time against Valor, in part due to San Mateo is off to a 1-3 start attacking ball carriers,’’ Gifford “They have a very disciplined Luke McCaffrey, son of Ed, the importance of being able to with a win over Santa Teresa and said. “When your defensive line attack with some dangerous speed brother of Christian, is the team’s utilize Anderson in pass defense losses to El Camino, Half Moon can tackle, that’s a great situation at the running back po- star quarterback. He has against McCaffrey and company. Bay and Carlmont. to have.’’ sition,’’ Miller said. committed to Nebraska. “We need to be real assignment “They’re a physical team that Wes Walters and Dwayne Trah- Quarterback Solo- “Luke is a good sound and make sure we have comes right at you,’’ Grieb said. an are the inside linebackers with mone Paletua is the passer, accurate with eyes on McCaffrey at all times,’’ “We’re going to have to be pre- Chris Martinez, Will Moragne lynchpin in Gunn’s dou- a strong arm, real dy- Ravipati said. “We need to do a pared for that. But it’s always and Creighton Morganfeld shar- ble-wing attack, having namic with the ball in good job of keeping him in the mostly about competing against ing time at outside backer. Juna- carried 51 times for 384 his hands,’’ Ravipati pocket and in coverage of guys ourselves to get better.’’ cio Henley and Damion Valencia- yards in three games. said. “Their coaching down field. He can make all the Two weeks ago against Sara- Richard are the cornerbacks with He got some help when staff has something like throws. This is probably the best toga, Tevita Moimoi erupted Colin Giffen and Kevin Cullen LeeMaster Howard was 16 Super Bowls between team we’ll play all year.’’ for a 222-yard performance on the tongue-twisting safety combo. cleared to play shortly them.’’ the ground. Last week against Three assistant coaches focus before the Marina game. San Mateo at Sacred Heart Hillsdale it was flyback Tommy Geordie Emberling M-A started the sea- exclusively on the defense in game Howard had sat out after son with road wins over Prep, Saturday, 2 p.m. Barnds in the starring role, rush- preparation and on game day. De- suffering a concussion in the sea- a pair of West Catholic Athletic SHP will have the opportunity ing for 162 yards on 10 carries and trick Wright is the defensive co- son opener against Soquel. League teams, Bellarmine and to conclude nonleague play 5-0 scoring two touchdowns. ordinator and secondary coach, “He’s very valuable,’’ Miller Mitty, before losing its home when they take on the Bearcats. “Tommy’s a great runner, a real Sione Vaiomounga the lineback- said. “He helps us on defense opener 26-20 in overtime to San Mateo is the third PAL instinctive runner,’’ Grieb said. ers coach and Nick Cheadle the where he’s probably our best tack- Palma. Ocean Division team the PAL “He knows when to get up field, defensive line coach. ler. He gives us that speed aspect “That was the perfect trap Bay member Gators will have when to cut back. He’s elusive and on offense and is a really good re- game for us after two big wins,’’ played. They have also played very versatile.’’ Q Mountain View at Gunn, 7 p.m. ceiver. Missing him is like miss- Ravipati said. “We turned it over a PAL Lake team (Carlmont) Gunn is 2-2 and coming off its ing four people.’’ four times, but still had a chance and a SCVAL El Camino team first win on the field last Friday The Titans are averaging 342 to win it at the end.’’ (Saratoga). About the cover: Palo against Marina, 46-15. (The other yards per game rushing behind Jack Alexander, projected as Not a daunting schedule, but the Alto’s Lou Passarello win by forfeit over Soquel). A big a young offensive line. Geordie M-A’s starting quarterback, still Gators have taken care of business (88) plays tight end and milestone for the team. Emberling (6-3, 230) is the one se- hasn’t played after suffering an with no letdowns, and appear to defensive end while Kevin “After that game the look on the nior to go along with sophomores injury prior to the opener. Justin have been improving each week, Giffen (56), a nose tackle on faces of the players was priceless,’’ Sione Fisiiahi (6-3, 303), Brandon Anderson, a Division I defen- particularly on offense. defense, has filled in as an Gunn coach Jason Miller said. Contreras (260), Ken Turalbai sive back prospect, started the “I feel we’ve made progress each offensive guard. Photos by Now Gunn will see what it can (230) and Neil Hanson (220). first two games at quarterback. week, are getting better,’’ SHP Karen Ambrose Hickey. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • September 21, 2018 • Page 55 COLDWELL BANKER Woodside | 6/5.5 | $10,995,000 Old La Honda Road Area | 4/4 full + 2 half | $5,695,000 40 Fox Hill Rd Sun 1:30 - 4:30 320 Old La Honda Rd 19-ac extraordinary home completely renovated! Infinity pool Minutes to everything! 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