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Page 4 • August 21, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Palo Alto prepares to raise minimum wage City Council to consider plan to set local rate at $11 city with a broader push across the followed suit last November Campbell, Morgan Hill and Santa state to raise the minimum wage. with an even more aggressive Clara are now considering such per hour, with a view toward $15 in 2018 The California minimum wage is proposal, one that increased the ordinances. by Gennady Sheyner set to rise from $9 to $10 per hour in wage to $12.25 on May 1 and that Palo Alto’s new law is mod- January, though cities across the state gradually raises it to $15 by July eled in many ways after those of alo Alto is a relative late- posal that would set a local mini- are moving ahead with their own lo- 1, 2018. its neighbors, namely Mountain comer when it comes to mum wage at $11 an hour starting cal laws that go beyond this standard. Berkeley, Emeryville, Los An- View and Sunnyvale. Councils P establishing a minimum in 2016 and put the city on a path San Jose voters led the way by geles, Oakland, Richmond and in both cities adopted ordinances wage, but a new proposal that to see the figure rise to $15 by adopting a minimum-wage ordi- San Diego have adopted mini- last October that set the minimum the City Council is set to discuss 2018. The plan, which was crafted nance in 2013, with the hourly mum-wage ordinances in recent wage at $10.30, effective July 1 Monday looks to place the city and unanimously endorsed by the rate currently set at $10.30 and years, with varying amounts of this year. The ordinances also ahead of the regional pack. council’s Policy and Services Com- tied to consumer price index and adjustment mechanisms. In The council will consider a pro- mittee in April, would align the (CPI) increases. San Francisco Santa Clara County, the cities of (continued on page 14)

TRANSPORTATION Cities challenge VTA on transportation funding Mayors from Palo Alto, North County and West Valley call for ‘transformative long-range vision’ by Gennady Sheyner ith the regional push sure, to initiate a comprehensive for a transportation tax study to develop a “system-wide W measure cruising to- plan that integrates future mass- ward November 2016, Palo Alto, transit investments in Santa Clara Mountain View and other cit- County with connections to other ies in the northern part of Santa counties, via such systems as Cal- Veronica Weber Veronica Clara County are joining forces train, as well as community-level to ensure their needs don’t get systems and ‘first/last mile’ strate- overshadowed by San Jose’s. gies,” the letter reads. The unusual alliance of 11 cities Though the letter doesn’t spe- was prompted by years of complaints cifically mention the proposed First-grade teacher Angelina Rodriguez reads to her students in Spanish in their Spanish about the lack of balance in how the tax measure, its strategic signifi- Immersion classroom at Escondido Elementary School on Aug. 19. Ninety percent of class time is tax funds have been allocated. cance is clear. With highway traf- spent speaking Spanish and 10 percent is in English in first grade. According to an analysis by the fic around Palo Alto, Mountain office of Santa Clara County Su- View, Los Altos Hills and Cu- pervisor Joe Simitian, whose dis- pertino severely congested dur- EDUCATION trict includes the northern part of ing the morning and afternoon the county, nearly 80 percent of rush hours, officials are trying to the funds from the past two ballot ensure that a good chunk of the measures have been spent on the funds raised through the potential Spanish immersion program marks extension of BART from the East tax will help remedy the situation. Bay to San Jose. This includes the During a lengthy discussion entire $320 million raised so far Monday that dominated its first 20 years in Palo Alto from the 2008 measure and $3.3 meeting after the summer break, billion of the $4.3 billion raised the Palo Alto City Council ex- Two decades later, first students reflect on how from the 2000 tax. pressed its own frustrations about the elementary school program changed their lives Simitian’s analysis also showed tax allocations and unanimously by Elena Kadvany that District 5, which also includes approved the letter to the VTA, a portion of West Valley, received which calls for the county to focus ne works on climate School District’s Spanish im- dents, now in their mid-20s, all just 5.3 percent of the proceeds its attention on commuting patterns change in the White mersion program, from which describe the program as having from the 2000 measure. District along busy Peninsula arteries such OHouse. Another started all of these people graduated a lasting impact on their lives 1, which includes the remainder as U.S. Highway 101, Interstate 280, a new job this week as an ele- from many years ago. that went far beyond simply of the West Valley cities, received Highway 85 and State Route 237. mentary school dual-immersion The program, which has been being able to speak a second just 4.5 percent from that measure. Signaling the renewed spirit of teacher. Another is a journalist; housed at Escondido Elementa- language. It developed in all Now, the cities see the 2016 cooperation, Mountain View May- another is heading to Chile this ry School since the late 1990s, of them an appreciation of lan- transportation measure as the per- or John McAlister and Councilman fall for a physical therapy in- is celebrating its 20th anniver- guage, education and cultural fect opportunity to change that im- Lenny Siegel both attended the ternship; and one now serves sary this weekend. Students differences that has played out balance. To that end, elected offi- Palo Alto meeting. Siegel told the as program director for Dream- and families from the earliest in each of their lives in compel- cials and city managers from these Palo Alto council that the root of Catchers, a local nonprofit that cohorts of the program are re- ling ways. cities have co-written a letter urg- the problem in Santa Clara County provides after-school tutoring turning from elsewhere in the Twenty years later, one can ing the Santa Clara Valley Trans- is that “we don’t have a transit sys- and mentoring to low-income state and country to attend the see the impact of the Span- portation Authority (VTA) to tem in the county that serves our Palo Alto students. celebration, a testament to the ish immersion program most consider more comprehensive and existing commuting patterns.” The common thread in these deep impact and close ties the directly through two students. integrated transportation solutions “A study of our transportation seemingly disparate career immersion program produced. that would serve the needs of the needs throughout the county and choices is Palo Alto Unified The program’s earliest stu- (continued on page 12) entire county. It calls for the VTA, the agency pursuing the 2016 mea- (continued on page 16) www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 5 Upfront

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EDUCATION Palo Alto goes back to school K-8 schools reopen with renewed focus, anticipation for the upcoming year by Elena Kadvany

tangible sense of excite- instruction, with the implemen- ment was in the air Tues- tation of a new reading curricu- Aday morning at Palo Alto’s lum from the Columbia Univer- elementary and middle schools as sity Teachers College Reading & about 9,000 kindergarten through Writing Project. eighth-grade students started their The project curriculum is fully first day of the new school year. aligned with the Common Core In south Palo Alto, the blocks State Standards and emphasizes of East Meadow Drive near differentiation and use of perfor- Fairmeadow Elementary School mance assessments, learning pro- and JLS Middle School were full gressions and rubrics to both amp of kids and parents heading to the up students’ writing achievement first day of school — some on and increase teaching consistency. bikes, others walking hand-in-hand Many K-8 Palo Alto teach- with parents or friends and some ers attended multiday institutes even stopping to pose in front of the at the Teachers College in New schools’ signs for photos. York the past few years as their The picture-taking — and schools worked to roll out the hold-handing — continued at new literacy curriculum. Veronica Weber Fairmeadow, where parents, chil- Althouse explained the Read- From right, Julia Kirner, Bani Gupta and Summer Evans pose as Summer’s mom takes a photo of the dren and staff expressed further ing & Writing Project’s approach second-graders at Fairmeadow Elementary on their first day of school on Aug. 18. excitement about starting anew, as cultivating “independent” ver- with anticipation about what the sus “compliant” readers. upcoming year. “A compliant reader and writer use. Developed by national so- Lenoir was dropping off her kinder- thing about today,” she said. “It’s “The first day of school never just does assignments; an indepen- cial-emotional learning and anti- garten and second-grade children thinking about last year and how loses its magic,” said Fairmeadow dent reader and writer explores bullying nonprofit Committee for on Tuesday. She said this year’s lost we were knowing nobody, Principal Grant Althouse. “We their thinking through reading and Children, both programs seek to first day of school felt better than and this year we have friends to really try to capitalize on the en- writing,” Althouse said. teach young children skills like last year’s, when her family had just welcome us with open arms and ergy of this day.” Fairmeadow is also continuing listening, self-regulation, empa- moved to Palo Alto from Italy for people to greet and be greeted by. Palo Alto Unified’s 13 elementary its work around social-emotion- thy, identifying feelings and self- her husband’s tech job. Last year, That just feels awesome.” Q schools and three middle schools al learning and school climate. advocacy. “We show kids that this she was worried about her children For more coverage of the first started the 2015-16 year the day af- The school is in its fifth year of is a safe place and that we’re here not only starting a new school and day of school, go to PaloAl- ter Gunn and Palo Alto high schools. two social-emotional programs to support each other and to ex- not knowing anyone but also learn- toOnline.com. Read about “Jag- Althouse said much of the up- called Second Step and Steps to plicitly teach some of those skills ing English at the same time. uar Journey,” Jordan Middle coming school year at Fairmead- Respect, which other Palo Alto like empathy,” Althouse said. “It’s totally different from last School’s orientation program for ow will be focused on literacy Unified elementary schools also Fairmeadow parent Mathilde year — maybe that’s the biggest sixth-graders.

TRANSPORTATION drive than chefs, hotel workers, come from Peninsula cities. shopkeepers or just about any In general, those with the most other type of downtown employ- distance to cover were shown ee. And the gap is wide: Only to be more likely to depend on Survey sheds light on downtown 33 percent of tech workers indi- public transit. Of the commuters cated that they drive alone, while with trips longer than 50 miles, Palo Alto drivers 31 percent take Caltrain and 26 38 percent reported driving alone percent walk or bike. The solo while 40 percent rely on Caltrain. Data show most commuters come from driving rate for those in retail Those with shorter trips, between South Bay and Peninsula; San Franciscans prefer Caltrain is 78 percent; in hospitality it’s 10 and 50 miles, generally favor 73 percent; and in the restaurant cars over trains and buses. The by Gennady Sheyner sector it’s 72 percent. survey showed that 69 percent of The survey’s conclusion about them drive alone, while 19 per- hey drive alone and show town area, including employees San Francisco. Only 18 percent tech workers eschewing their cent take Caltrain. up in droves — that much of small, medium and large com- of commuters from San Francis- cars is largely consistent with the The survey results are already Tis clear. panies. Each person was asked co drive alone, the survey states. data collected earlier this year by influencing Palo Alto’s debate But who are these non-car- questions about city of origin, This is compared to 76 percent downtown tech companies Palan- about traffic and parking. On pooling commuters? Where do personal commute patterns, and of commuters from the East Bay, tir, RealIQ and SurveyMonkey. Monday night, the council had a they come from? And, most im- attitudes about biking, transit and 65 percent of commuters from The three companies surveyed long discussion about transpor- portantly, what can the city do to other transportation options. the South Bay and 63 percent of their employees and determined tation projects that they’d like to get them to switch from cars to The survey revealed that about commuters from the Peninsula. that only 38 percent drive alone. see funded in the coming years. other forms of transportation? 55 percent of people drive by Of those who live in Palo Alto, 41 “Individual car share is very The study’s findings about These questions have for years themselves into downtown Palo percent drive alone to work while high in places with poor Caltrain the high number of people who mystified the Palo Alto City Alto. The largest portion of com- 48 percent either walk or bike. access,” the survey from the commute from the South Bay to Council, which has spent more muters, 33 percent, come here The survey also showed that three firms concluded. “Prox- Palo Alto were cited by council time discussing parking and traf- from the South Bay. They were part-time workers are far more imity to work (which allows for members who argued that the fic than just about any other topic followed by drivers from the likely to drive alone than full- walking and biking) and access city should demand more money over the past two years. And now, Peninsula (20 percent) and from timers. Of the workers with one to Caltrain are two major factors for transit services from the San- at last, the city has some answers. other parts of Palo Alto (also 20 full-time job, 53 percent drive in determining mode share.” ta Clara Valley Transportation The Palo Alto Transporta- percent). A minority came from alone, while those with one part- When it comes to taking Cal- Authority (VTA), which is now tion Management Associa- San Francisco (10 percent) and time job commute solo at a rate train, San Francisco’s commut- moving ahead with a plan to put tion (TMA), the city’s recently the East Bay (7 percent). of 75 percent. Employees of large ers are far ahead of the pack. a transportation measure on the formed traffic-fighting nonprofit, One of the survey’s most strik- businesses, meanwhile, are less The survey showed 70 percent November 2016 ballot. commissioned a detailed survey ing findings is that South Bay likely to drive alone than employ- of them rely on the rail service The new survey results are also of downtown commuters. In May, and East Bay commuters are far ees of medium and small firms. to get to work, compared to just expected to affect the wave of the consulting firm EMC sur- more likely to drive alone to Palo The survey also indicated that 20 percent of South Bay residents veyed 1,173 people in the down- Alto than their counterparts from coders are much less likely to and 16 percent of those who (continued on page 11) www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 7 Upfront News Digest EDUCATION Nonprofit offers to buy mobile home park Dauber seeks conflict-of-interest The effort to preserve Buena Vista Mobile Home Park took a significant step forward earlier this month when a nonprofit corporation ruling from FPPC sent a bid to property owner Joe Jisser to buy the park. While Jisser ponders the offer, residents held a thank-you picnic for supporters School board member hopes to quell concerns about his and city and county officials at Mitchell Park on Saturday, Aug. 15. involvement with Office for Civil Rights The nonprofit Caritas Corporation, which has preserved 20 Cali- fornia mobile home parks, made the offer of an undisclosed amount by Elena Kadvany about 1 1/2 weeks ago, said Winter Dellenbach, founder of the group Friends of Buena Vista, which is working with Caritas. But she eeking to put to rest years anonymous posters on Palo ed Ali as assistant secretary for stressed it is a very preliminary bid. of questions about his re- Alto Online’s Town Square fo- civil rights. Michele Dauber also Jisser could have delivered six-month eviction notices in May after Slationship with the U.S. rum have accused Dauber of served on a nonprofit board with the City Council approved both the closure of the El Camino Real Department of Education’s Of- assisting district parents in pre- Lhamon from 2005 to 2013. mobile home park and a compensation plan for the homeowners, but fice for Civil Rights (OCR) paring complaints to the Office On Wednesday night, Dauber he has not, according to residents. They also said Jisser comes to the and the agency’s involvement for Civil Rights and of using his posted on his website (kendaub- park and walks around but doesn’t talk, and they have been paying in the Palo Alto school district, relationships with top agency er.com/fppc_advice) his Aug. their monthly rent. school board member officials to urge investi- 13 letter to the FPPC and emails The potential closure of the park sparked the Santa Clara County Ken Dauber wrote last gations into the district, written between February and Board of Supervisors and the City of Palo Alto to commit $14.5 mil- week to the California allegations that Dauber July 2013, which he said are all lion each toward purchase of the 4.5-acre property. A total of $39 Fair Political Practices has strongly denied. the communications he had with million has been raised, Dellenbach said. The Caritas Corporation Commission (FPPC) Questions about the Office for Civil Rights on has said it would raise $10 million in bonds. for formal written ad- Dauber’s involvement matters related to the Palo Alto The Jissers had planned to raze the aging mobile home park and vice on whether he has with the agency also school district. partner with a developer to build high-end apartments. But that deal, a conflict of interest on rose to the surface dur- In February 2013, after learn- with developer Prometheus, fell through during the protracted efforts school board matters ing his 2014 run for ing from press reports that by residents and supporters to keep the park open. related to the federal school board. When the OCR had issued a finding Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who has met with the agency. Ken Dauber asked during an en- against the school district the Jissers and spearheaded the county and city commitments, on Sat- He included with the dorsement interview prior December, Dauber wrote urday thanked supporters, who included past and present members letter several email ex- with the Weekly if he to Sandra Battle, the agency’s of the council, the Palo Alto Unified School District school board changes he had in 2013 with had recommended any action deputy assistant secretary for and the PTA. OCR officials in Washington by the OCR relating to the Palo enforcement, at the suggestion He said he would continue to work to preserve the park “until the and San Francisco, written after Alto families’ complaints, he of Ali. He asked for data on how day comes when we can go to a ribbon-cutting for 117 units of af- Palo Alto Unified entered into said he hadn’t. many other school districts had a resolution agreement with the “I have not encouraged those experienced OCR disability- fordable housing” there. Q — Sue Dremann federal agency following the dis- complaints, sought them out (or) harassment investigations that trict’s violation of the civil rights anything like that,” he said. He led to formal findings. Dauber of a disabled middle school stu- also said during the campaign wrote that he and his wife had Palo Alto to add members to Comp Plan panel dent through its mishandling of that he had no knowledge of the been helping the family who Responding to criticism about insufficient representation from bullying complaints. initial OCR investigation in Palo filed the complaint against the the southern half of the city, the Palo Alto City Council agreed on Dauber said in an interview Alto before the general public school district “with getting Tuesday morning to add five new members to the nascent Citizen Wednesday that he is seeking did, let alone from any source at services.” Knowing how fre- Advisory Committee, which was appointed in July to help the city a ruling from the FPPC in or- or outside of the agency. quent this kind of outcome is update its Comprehensive Plan. Applications for the group will be der to quell any concerns about Following the endorsement in- elsewhere would be helpful, he taken until Aug. 25 and the council is scheduled to make the appoint- his past consulting work for and terview, Dauber sent the Weekly wrote. He also said that he knew ments in two weeks. communications with the Office an email describing the commu- of as many as a dozen fami- Currently with 20 members — 17 of whom are allowed to vote for Civil Rights as he anticipates nications he had with the Office lies with “similar experiences” — the committee includes former planning commissioners, housing OCR-related issues will come for Civil Rights in 2013. who were also considering fil- advocates, neighborhood activists and other concerned residents. before the school board this fall. According to Dauber’s letter ing complaints and asked if the But with 12 of the 17 voting members making their homes north of From 2009 to 2011, before to the FPPC, from 2002 to 2010, OCR had any “thought towards Oregon Expressway, critics maintained that the current group lacks Dauber was elected, he served he worked as a paid consultant coordinated enforcement.” the geographical balance needed to give the process credibility. as a paid data consultant for the for nonprofit Ed Trust West with Battle replied that out of 1,513 Critics have also maintained that the committee is loaded with too Department of Education, earn- then-director Russlynn Ali, a disability-harassment com- many proponents of new developments, pointing to the large role ing a total of $26,426, according law school classmate of Daub- plaints the OCR received from of the group Palo Alto Forward on the panel. The citizens group, to Dauber. er’s wife, Stanford University 2009 to 2012, 647 resulted in which advocates for more housing and transportation options, in- Two civil-rights cases remain law professor Michele Dauber. investigations or involvement, cludes three voting members who belong to the Palo Alto Forward open in Palo Alto — both in- In 2011, President Barack 118 resulted in resolution agree- steering committee. volving Title IX sexual-harass- Obama appointed Ali to serve ments and 16 led to formal find- Councilman Tom DuBois said that when the council decided in ment issues at the district’s two as the Department of Educa- ings against secondary schools. May to form the new group, it explicitly tried to create criteria for high schools — and Superinten- tion’s assistant secretary for She wrote that she “would members that would achieve balance. He acknowledges that this is dent Max McGee expressed this civil rights. welcome other thoughts about not what happened and pointed to the high number of people from spring a desire for board guid- From 2009 to 2011, Dauber effective coordinated enforce- the northern half of the city serving on the panel. ance on whether and how the said, he worked as an “occasion- ment” in Palo Alto. The council agreed with DuBois that the new appointments should district should reach a resolution al paid consultant” to the OCR, In March 2013, Michele Daub- be made by the council, unlike the earlier appointments, which were in these two cases. helping with the agency’s Civil er sent an 11-page legal analysis made by City Manager James Keene. Dauber said he believes he Rights Data Collection, a na- to Shilpa Ram, a staff attorney The council rejected, however, calls to oust two of the committee’s has no conflict of interest, as tional survey of school districts. in the OCR’s San Francisco of- members: Chair Daniel Garber, an architect and former member of his paid consulting work ended In those years he received a total fice, pointing out inadequacies the Planning and Transportation Commission, and Steve Levy, a in 2011 and his district-related of $26,426, including $5,872 in of draft policies developed by regional economist who consults for the Association of Bay Area communications with the fed- 2011, which he reported as W-2 the Palo Alto school district on Governments. eral office ceased before he was income, he wrote to the FPPC. how to handle complaints of The council also debated and agreed on several proposals aimed at elected last fall. A Board of Ed- He has received no compen- disability discrimination. Ken making the committee more efficient and transparent. This includes ucation bylaw defines conflict sation from the Department of Dauber simultaneously forward- supporting the idea of group “subcommittees,” focusing on particular of interest as when a “decision Education since 2011, he said. ed his wife’s letter to Battle. Comprehensive Plan topics and a new policy of having the meetings will have a ‘reasonably foresee- In 2012, he made his first run Dauber noted in his Aug. 13 be recorded. The council also supported a process that would allow able material financial effect’” for the school board but failed to letter to the FPPC that his wife, four committee members to write minority opinions if they disagree on a board member’s economic win a seat. an expert on Title IX and school- with the majority. interest. In 2013, Dauber did “a small based sexual harassment and as- The citizens group is charged with reviewing every chapter (or “Looking forward, I want to amount of uncompensated con- sault, also referred one of the “element”) of the Comprehensive Plan and working with the council be able to point to a clear advice sulting (less than 20 hours)” for Palo Alto OCR complainants in to complete the update, which was launched in 2006 and which the from the FPPC that I expect will nonprofit Public Counsel, he 2013 to pro bono representation city hopes to conclude by the end of 2016. Often referred to as the affirm that I don’t have a con- wrote in his letter to the FPPC. with another Stanford faculty city’s “land-use bible,” the document sets the foundation for the city’s flict. But in any case, I’ll have The director of Public Coun- member. zoning code and other citywide policies. Q clarity,” he said on Wednesday. sel at the time was Catherine “She has received money from — Gennady Sheyner Over the past several years, Lhamon, who in 2013 succeed- no source, nor any promise of Page 8 • August 21, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Upfront any future payment or gift with respect to any issue involving PAUSD at any time,” Dauber Public Agenda wrote to the FPPC. A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week On May 29, 2013, Dauber wrote again to Battle and to two CITY COUNCIL... The council plans to hold a closed session to discuss other high-level agency officials the status of its labor negotiations with the police and fire unions; consider members to suggest the agency a recommendation to implement a minimum-wage requirement of $11 per hour by Jan. 1, 2016; approve responses to two Grand Jury reports, PASSPORT provide technical assistance to Palo Alto after Palo Alto High “A Slow Rising Emergency — Sea Level Rise” and “Protecting Our Most Palo Alto Festival of the Arts School’s Verde Magazine report- Vulnerable Residents”; and consider reforms to the “planned community” ed on the school’s “rape culture,” zoning process. The closed session will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. including details about the sexu- 24, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The regular meeting will begin at 7 p.m. al assault of two female students. or as soon as possible after the closed session in the Council Chambers. “One area where PAUSD has BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will discuss the results of a continued to struggle is compli- Hanover Research study on course alignment; board goals for the 2015- ance with Title IX, which pro- 16 year; the appointment of a new associate superintendent; an amend- tects girls and young women ment to the superintendent’s contract; board policy updates; and the from discrimination in sports, appropriation of $3 million from State Bond Funding to Palo Alto High sexual harassment, and sexual School. It will take action to on a $23 million grant from the Peery Family assault,” Dauber wrote in his Fund for the Paly athletic center project. The meeting will begin at 6:30 post this week. “It was evident p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. that senior district staff were COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee not well-versed on the require- plans to continue its discussion of a colleagues memo about strength- 2015 PALO ALTO ments for prompt investigation ening engagement with neighborhoods; and consider changes to and remediation of complaints council procedures regarding appeals, post-government employment CHAMBER OF COMMERCE of sexual harassment (it was lat- regulations and other items from the council’s retreat. The meeting will FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS er disclosed that Paly principal begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 25, in the Community Meeting Room Phil Winston was at the same at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. time being removed following a PRESENTED BY district investigation for sexual CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for an THE PALO ALTO opening on the Utilities Advisory Commission. The meeting will begin at MEDICAL FOUNDATION harassment). 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 26, in the Community Meeting Room at City “As a result, the district itself Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. requested and received technical assistance in relation to the PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission Paly case, according to former will consider a proposal to build a one-story home at 5061 Skyline Blvd.; a Superintendent Kevin Skelly. I proposed annual office cap; an ordinance that would establish regulations also asked OCR whether techni- for formula retail; and an ordinance prohibiting conversion of ground-floor Purchase your Festival of the Arts Passport cal assistance could be offered to retail to other uses. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the district on Title IX.” Aug. 26, in Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. for FREE items and retail discounts. Battle responded on May 30, ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 1700 2013, that OCR’s San Francisco Embarcadero Road, a proposal by Gensler to demolish an existing build- Only $5 for over a $1000 value office would contact the district ing and construct a 62,527-square-foot automobile dealership and ancil- and offer assistance. lary vehicle wash; and consider a request by America’s Tire Co., for re- Available August 22 & 23 at the The last email Dauber released view of a proposed renovation of existing facades and site improvements Festival Chamber of Commerce booth is from July 16, 2013, when he for automotive service use. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thurs- (Bryant & University Ave) sent Battle PDF files of two day, Aug. 27, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Daily Post articles that claimed LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION ... 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Page 10 • August 21, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Upfront PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 Commute CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT (continued from page 7) ACCESS CHANNEL 26 Online This Week ***************************************** parking and transportation initiatives that the city is preparing to These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. launch. These include the parking- throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES permit program in downtown’s Online.com/news. INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION residential neighborhoods, valet CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: programs in downtown garages, Palo Alto man arrested after alleged Caltrain passes for City Hall em- stabbing attempt http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp ployees, and the expansion of the Police arrested a Palo Alto man Tuesday morning who they AGENDA–SPECIAL MEETING–COUNCIL CHAMBERS city’s small shuttle system. said tried to stab another man at Buena Vista Mobile Home Park AUGUST 24, 2015 6:00 PM Jessica Sullivan, the city’s two weeks earlier. (Posted Aug. 19, 8:01 p.m.) transportation planning manager, called the survey “pretty signifi- Bicyclist with gun robs couple near CLOSED SESSION cant” in giving the city insight Friendship Bridge in Palo Alto 1. CONFERENCE WITH CITY LABOR NEGOTIATORS- IAFF, PAPOA, PAPMA, FCA into the travel habits of down- A man riding a bicycle and brandishing a handgun robbed a town employees. Results will couple near the Friendship Bridge before riding away Tuesday CONSENT CALENDAR be used by the city to consider evening, Palo Alto police said Wednesday in a press release. 2. Adoption of an Ordinance Changing the End of Term Date for the best strategies for supporting (Posted Aug. 19, 4:30 p.m.) Commissioners Serving on the Human Relations Commission, workers headed into downtown. Library Advisory Commission, Public Art Commission and The data will come in particular- Police: Alert neighbor halts prowler home Utilities Advisory Commission from April 30 to May 31 of ly handy in the next few months, A Palo Alto man was arrested Wednesday after a quick-think- Various Years and Making Minor Non-substantive Language as the TMA begins unveiling ing neighbor notified police when she saw him climbing into the Changes pilot programs aimed at getting backyard of a University South neighborhood home, police said. (WWYV]HS VM HU (TLUKTLU[ [V [OL 6ѝJL VM ,TLYNLUJ` drivers out of cars (incidentally, (Posted Aug. 19, 8:52 p.m.) Services Command, Control, Communications, Computers, 49 percent of those who drive and Information (C4I) Critical Emergency Response Contract alone appear be open to this idea, Woman groped in downtown Palo Alto Number C13149763 to Add an Additional $25,000 in Funding according to the survey). Palo Alto police are looking for a man who they said grabbed to the Contract for a Total Not to Exceed Amount of $275,000 Sullivan said the city is also the buttocks of a woman walking in downtown and then fled on 7VSPJ` :LY]PJLZ *VTTP[[LL HUK :[Hќ 9LJVTTLUKH[PVU that the City Council Authorize a Request for Proposals for; launching an effort to develop a a bicycle Monday evening. (Posted Aug. 19, 7:26 p.m.) five-year plan for the shuttle sys- H;LJOUPJHS:[\K`VM0UJYLHZLK(PY;YHѝJ5VPZL[V+LZPNUH[L tem. The study will take a look Stanford’s Angel of Grief statue vandalized a Council Member to Act as a Liaison to Engage in Regional at who is using the shuttles and 4P[PNH[PVUHUK(K]VJHJ`,ќVY[Z(KVW[H9LZVS\[PVU

the job, she said) and got a mas- this decision as a continuation of Spanish ter’s degree in elementary bilin- her own parents’ commitment to (continued from page 5) gual education. Her younger sister maintaining her bilingualism and Kimberley also went through the biculturalism. Kristin Hallsted, now 25 years old, immersion program. (She’s the Her parents, who had an elemen- reflected on her time in the pro- one leaving the country in a few tary-level education, had a “vision”: gram as she set up her own third- months for a physical therapy in- “You have to stay bilingual; you grade dual-immersion classroom ternship in Chile, a country she have to keep your language and in southern California last week. chose for the language spoken learn English because two languages “I think I got to be a more ac- there.) are better than one and you’ll always cepting person of other cultures One of Kristin Hallsted’s early have more opportunities,” she said. and other types of people,” she immersion teachers was Magda- “That was a very strong message.” said. The Palo Alto program lena Fittoria. Fittoria was born in Fittoria’s son Miguel later at- regularly takes students to both Mexico, went on to attend Stan- tended the University of Roches- Mexico and Spain, and she said ford University as a first-gener- ter, where he double majored in po- traveling as a child was eye-open- ation college student and later litical science and psychology and ing for her. joined Palo Alto Unified School also completed a master’s degree Veronica Weber Hallsted was among the first 28 District as a Spanish immersion in human development. He’s now Sophie Profit, a third-grader at Escondido Elementary School, kindergarteners in the inaugural teacher in the program’s second serving as DreamCatchers’ pro- reads Spanish in her class on Aug. 19. group in 1995 at Fairmeadow El- year. Fittoria went on to serve as gram director, working with many ementary School. Her parents said the principal of Barron Park El- English-language-learner students This has also informed his own with bilingualism and biliteracy they enrolled her on a whim when ementary School for several years and Spanish-speaking families to understanding and value of mul- and high academic achievement, the immersion option was offered and this school year started in a navigate the school system. ticultural teaching in settings be- have remained the Spanish immer- at kindergarten registration; nei- new post as a special projects ad- Looking back, the Spanish immer- yond immersion programs. sion program’s three core goals. ther speaks Spanish fluently, but ministrator for the district, tasked sion program engendered in Miguel “I think coming out of a class- Students learn to read, write, add, they have some familiarity with with helping to implement recom- both empathy and an appreciation of room that was oriented toward subtract and the like first mostly in the language. Her mother’s family mendations from the superinten- differences that play directly into his ... that culture of bringing every- Spanish, with English instruction members, all from Europe, speak dent’s Minority Achievement and work at DreamCatchers, he said. body’s own culture into the class- gradually increasing as they rise multiple languages, and she want- Talent Development Advisory “The immersion program is a room and making it even and equal through higher grades. As a dual- ed the same for her daughter. committee and with an expansion special kind of program that just — that helped my conversations immersion model, the classes are After going through the district of the district’s Response to Inter- changed everybody’s values,” he whenever I had talks about what it supposed to be a mix of native and and continuing to take Spanish, vention (RTI) program, a process said. “It was a much more inclusive means to be an English-language non-native speakers to make sure Hallsted went to Whittier College meant to provide early identifica- classroom and setting than what I learner not in an immersion pro- students model for one another as in southern California, where she tion and support for struggling saw other classrooms were like. gram,” he said. “What does it mean much as the teacher does. double-majored in child develop- students. Everybody’s values were, ‘Let’s all for a Spanish speaker to come into In kindergarten through second ment and Spanish. She also stud- Fittoria also enrolled her son in bring in our cultures’ a lot more than a classroom needing to learn Eng- grade, 80 percent of classroom ied abroad in Sevilla, Spain, dur- the Spanish immersion program any other classroom was.” (Miguels’ lish and maybe sometimes being instruction is in Spanish, 20 per- ing college. After graduation, she as a first-grader. Fittoria — who mother even brought home a meno- held as not as important or maybe cent in English. English instruc- worked as a teacher’s assistant in moved to the United States when rah one year at his request after the not as brilliant or not as capable?” tion increases to 30 percent in a mostly Latino community (the she was in kindergarten, know- class talked about different religious For two decades, creating posi- third grade, 40 percent in fourth fact that she spoke Spanish got her ing no English — said she saw traditions one winter.) tive cross-cultural attitudes, along grade and about 50 percent in fifth

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Page 12 • August 21, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Upfront grade. Administrators and teachers Merritt, too, has stayed closely reported in a recent research re- assistant for energy and climate societies.” stress that immersion students get tied to the Spanish immersion port the district commissioned change for the White House Do- “Twenty years later,” Kawa- the same curriculum — and same program and its values. He start- last year, that the district’s world- mestic Policy Council. hata wrote in an email this week, academic rigor — that students in ed this week as Escondido’s new language programs are strong yet “It was an amazing way to teach “I’ve seen my fellow classmates English-only classrooms receive. principal and the district’s world disjointed. students how to both pick up a become journalists, educators, “We have the same rigor, the language administrator, a new Merritt also sees immersion new language in a way that would bioengineers, multilingual tech same standards, the same expec- position covering pre-K through education as key in supporting make them near-native speakers innovators — leaders of today. tations as every other student en- high school. He said in his new the district’s official vision to but also cultivating in them this And I have no doubt that the next rolled in Palo Alto,” Fittoria said. role, he hopes to “build a real “support all PAUSD students as internationally minded approach generation of leaders are in their “We don’t let that go by.” K-12 world language vision in the they prepare themselves to thrive to dealing with issues and leading immersion classrooms in Palo Some early wariness about school district.” as global citizens in a rapidly on them,” said Kawahata, who is Alto — right now — learning the program stemmed from con- He said he hopes to foster stron- changing world.” flying in from D.C. to attend the their second language. Our com- cerns about young students learn- ger connections and a shared This is certainly true in the case anniversary event this weekend. munity continues to prepare the ing core content and subjects in vision between the district’s el- of Molly Kawahata, one of the In 2007, when the district’s yet- next generation of leaders to go a new language. (This was soon ementary immersion programs, first kindergarten students who to-be-approved (and very con- out in the world and change it. disproved in Palo Alto and else- including both Spanish at Escon- said speaking Spanish helped troversial) Mandarin immersion And that they are.” Q where, with both native and non- dido and Mandarin at Ohlone, her get internships and later jobs. program came before the school native speakers outperforming with their immersion and world- During high school, she spoke board, Kawahata lobbied on its their English-only counterparts language counterparts in middle Spanish with clients at a local behalf as Gunn High School’s The Spanish immersion on standardized academic tests.) school and beyond. (The district law firm she was interning at and school board representative. Al- program anniversary cel- Parents of the early cohorts re- has long run a “bridge” Spanish translated for doctors at a medical most a decade later, she found a ebration will take place on member having to become proac- immersion program — that is, clinic where she volunteered. In statement she made in support of Saturday, Aug. 22, 3-7 p.m., tive champions for the program, courses to serve as a bridge be- college, she interned in the White the Mandarin program from her at Escondido Elementary coordinating parent and com- tween elementary and high school House Department of Communi- seat at the dais: School, 890 Escondido Road, munity education as well as con- language education — at Jordan cations, translating Spanish docu- “When I look at the first class Stanford. Organizers are col- stantly fundraising so that their Middle School and this year is be- ments and articles into English. of the Spanish Immersion, the lecting photos, memories children would have the necessary ginning a new Mandarin bridge She reflected on the Spanish people I’ve known since kinder- and more from throughout materials and the program could class, also at Jordan.) immersion program this week garten, I see future leaders, future the years. For more informa- remain revenue neutral, they said. Merritt’s hope aligns with par- from her office in Washington, ambassadors — I see the bridge tion, go to goo.gl/6cjI76. Families who want to enroll ent, teacher and staff sentiment, D.C., where she works as a policy between languages, cultures, and their children in the program are also asked to commit to staying for six years. Last year’s program brochure notes that current bilingual education research states that it can take up to seven to nine years to acquire a second language. “That was the reason to have this massive parent and community education process because, let’s be honest, we’re a monolingual society and it’s really hard for us to imagine bilingualism,” said Chuck Merritt, one of the first parents in the program and now principal of Escondido. “In other parts of the world, it’s not so hard to imagine because it takes place all the time. But here, it’s really a community education process that had to take place.” Merritt, a longtime Spanish teacher, joined the district as a teacher at Palo Alto High School Memory care like you’ve never experienced in 1993, the year before a district task force recommended Span- ish immersion as the district’s before is coming soon to Redwood City best option for bringing foreign language instruction to its elementary schools. 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update on the district’s pend- can see the pros and cons of both.” School board ing OCR cases be placed on the In his post this week, Dauber Zoning Wage (continued from page 9) board’s agenda in the new school expressed support for reaching (continued from page 10) (continued from page 5) year. Baten Caswell, Vice Presi- out “proactively” and working might want to correct the record. dent Heidi Emberling and Terry with the agency “cooperatively definition of zoning for sale.” call for annual adjustments in School board President Melis- Godfrey supported this request, to address any issues for the ben- “This isn’t out of the box,” the minimum wage, based on the sa Baten Caswell said Wednes- while member Camille Townsend efit of the students involved, as Rosenblum said. “This is a cash consumer price index. day that she wasn’t aware of did not. well as all of our other students.” payment in exchange for zoning Mountain View, like San Fran- Dauber’s request to the FPPC McGee said he would appreci- “Unfortunately, I am ham- exception. It’s an old practice and cisco, has also embarked on the and doesn’t have enough infor- ate the board’s input on how to pered in making this case on the we know what this is.” “$15 by ’18” path, which Palo mation to know whether he has proceed in his communications school board by suggestions that Though the reforms are unlikely Alto also plans to follow. a conflict of interest that would with the Office for Civil Rights. I have a conflict of interest,” he to appease the critics of the planned- Though Palo Alto has only re- prevent his participation in fu- “If you would like me to pursue wrote. “That is why I have put community process, a new report cently started exploring a local ture board discussions or action some kind of conversation to bring this question to the FPPC. When from the Department of Planning minimum-wage ordinance, it is on OCR matters. this to early resolution, I will do I receive an answer I will share and Community Environment ar- moving fast. The topic came up At the last board meeting of so,” McGee said. “If you want to it publicly with the community, gues that the proposed changes, during a debate before last No- the 2014-15 school year in June, wait to hear from OCR, I will do and I will of course follow the including the new pre-screening vember’s council election, with Dauber requested that a status so. I’m looking for clarity here. I FPPC’s advice.” Q requirement, introduce “greater just about every candidate en- transparency and predictability to thusiastically endorsing a higher the review and decision making.” minimum wage. In February, “Together, changes to these four council members formally chapters are intended to amelio- sparked the move in a colleagues NOTICE OF A SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING rate uncertainty in the communi- memo that proposed a local min- of the Palo Alto ty about the future use of the PC imum wage. Planning and Transportation Commission and pre-screening regulations,” Councilmen Marc Berman, Pat the report states. Q Burt, Tom DuBois and Cory Wol- Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner bach cited the high cost of living Please be advised the Planning and Transportation Commission (P&TC) shall conduct can be emailed at gsheyner@ in Palo Alto and noted that if the a Special public meeting at 7:30 PM, Wednesday, August 26, 2015 in the Council paweekly.com. minimum wages were adjusted Chambers, Ground Floor, Civic Center, Palo Alto, California. 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“would be considerably higher in the local ordinance, a similar aron the forum that at least a $15 Palo Alto and the Peninsula than rangement to the one that the of- wage is “necessary in this area most elsewhere in the state.” The fice enjoys with Mountain View of opulence and high rents and memo called the proposed mini- and Sunnyvale. prices.” Alexandra Acker-Lyons mum-wage ordinance “a modest Palo Alto’s proposed ordinance of Palo Verde concurred and said but constructive step toward pro- also expressly prohibits retaliation living in Palo Alto or anywhere CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week viding adequate income for all against employees who complain near the city is “prohibitively ex- workers.” about an employer who doesn’t pensive.” “Our lowest wage workers comply with the law. Violators Opponents characterized the City Council (Aug. 17) perform valued services in Palo could face a daily fine, an admin- plan as well-meaning but ulti- Transportation: The council reviewed the city’s on going parking and traffic- management initiatives. It also discussed Santa Clara Valley Transportation Alto and often have to work mul- istrative compliance order or, in mately misguided. Darryl Fen- Authority’s planned tax measure and agreed to submit a list of projects to the tiple jobs with long commutes the most extreme cases, a civil with of Downtown North wrote VTA as part of the planning effort. Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Filseth, Holman, to barely make ends meet,” the action launched by the city for in- on the city’s forum that while it Kniss, Schmid, Wolbach Absent: Scharff memo states. “A local minimum junctive relief. would be nice to find a way to Comprehensive Plan: The council agreed to add five members to the Com- prehensive Plan Update Community Advisory Committee, with a focus on wage would be a modest step in In the lead-up to the final de- help low-skilled workers live in residents from south Palo Alto. Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Filseth, Holman, supporting these workers who are cision, the city is surveying lo- high-priced areas like Palo Alto, Schmid, Wolbach Absent: Kniss, Scharff vital to maintaining the services cal residents and businesses to raising the minimum wage could we value and that are essential to get their thoughts on raising the actually hurt workers by “denying Council Finance Committee (Aug. 18) our local economy. In addition, minimum wage. The city also them employment opportunities, Electricity: The committee approved the first phase of the design guidelines for the strength of our community asked residents on its online fo- reducing work hours, or being the 2015 Electric Cost of Service Analysis. Yes: Filseth, Kniss, Schmid Absent: and society relies on maintaining rum, Open City Hall, what they dismissed from employment.” Scharff a level of economic fairness and thought about the proposal and While raising the minimum wage Human Relations Commission (Aug. 20) opportunity for all.” received 52 responses, with about may help some, it would hurt oth- Hate Crimes: The commission heard a presentation from the Police Depart- While most cities are focusing two-thirds saying they are in favor ers, Fenwith wrote. ment about hate crimes in Palo Alto and held its annual retreat to discuss the on their own particular minimum- of the proposal. “And really, these conclusions roles of subcommittees and potential topics for a speaker series. Action: None wage ordinances, others are build- Those supporting the change make sense — employers react to ing coalitions and calling for more cited the high cost of living in price signals,” Fenwith wrote. “In Palo Alto and the need to support essence, they see a raise in mini- LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk coordination. In June, the mayors about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com of Mountain View and Sunnyvale people who work here. Barron mum wage as equivalent to a tax co-wrote a letter to their counter- Park resident Joel Davidson wrote on low-skilled workers.” Q parts in Palo Alto and Campbell (which is also pursuing a minimum-wage ordinance) urging a “joint approach” to reaching the $15 per hour standard. “Raising the minimum wage Join our to $15 by 2018 will ... help lift working families out of pover- wait list now! ty,” Mountain View Mayor John McAlister and Sunnyvale Mayor Jim Griffith wrote in the letter. “With more income, minimum- wage workers would have more spending power and inject more money into the local economy, which would benefit businesses through increased sales and local governments through increased sales-tax revenue.” McAlister also serves on the Cities Association of Santa Clara County subcommittee that focused on the minimum wage and that in June released a report call- Our life here ing for better regional coordination of these efforts. “A lack of consistency in minimum wage rates creates seri- Judy and Dave Creek, joined in 2012 ous problems for jurisdictions, People locations, and employers,” the subcommittee wrote, noting that differences in minimum wage requirements can affect the city’s economic competitiveness. “Addi- PETS tionally, jurisdictions have already received reports from employers And Our Place in Santa Clara County stating that cities without an increased mini- Ask residents what they love most about living at Webster House, Palo Alto’s most appealing senior mum wage are losing quality employees to opportunities in cities living community, and they’ll tell you “it’s the people.” With only thirty-seven apartment homes with higher minimum wages.” If the Palo Alto City Council ideally located near downtown Palo Alto, Webster House is the lifestyle you want in the neighborhood embraces the specific recommendations from its committee, the you know. To learn more, or for your personal visit, please call 650.838.4004. city’s minimum wage would hit the $11 mark in January. It would be adjusted every year based on cost of living, and it would cover employers who are either subject to the city’s business-registry requirements, conduct business in Palo Alto or maintain a business facility in the city, according to Your style, your neighborhood. a new report from the Office of the City Attorney. The city also 401 Webster Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 websterhousepaloalto.org plans to enter into an agreement A not-for-proﬁt community operated by Episcopal Senior Communities. License No. 435294364 COA #246. EPWH726-01FA 082115 with the City of San Jose Office of Equality Assurance to enforce www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 15 Upfront

the most representatives on both mit to the VTA — a list that also teenage deaths by suicide on the Filseth said. “It feels like a single- Tax the VTA and the Board of Super- includes bike boulevards, an ex- tracks have added urgency to the point project wrapped together (continued from page 5) visors, the BART extension is expanded shuttle system and the po- project, with officials now focus- with a scaffold designed by a po- pected to do well once again. Bike tential widening of Page Mill Road. ing on the restriction of access to litical poll to make it more likely projects, bus programs and pothole In this crowded field of proj- the train tracks as part of the city- to pass a public vote.” beyond is something that has to repairs throughout the county are ects, the trenching of Caltrain wide suicide-prevention effort. Councilman Pat Burt, a long- come out of the current process,” also expected to win allocations. stands out for its scale, cost and Lest the VTA miss the point, time advocate for a Caltrain Siegel said. Palo Alto’s top priority, however, overwhelming popularity. Palo Palo Alto supplemented its laun- trench, thanked the Mountain So far, the VTA’s approach to the is Caltrain. On Monday night, the Alto’s four-mile rail corridor is dry list of projects with a shorter View officials who attended the measure has consisted primarily city reaffirmed its commitment expected to get busier in the com- priority list, which includes Cal- meeting Monday and said he is of conducting surveys and solicit- to boosting Caltrain’s capacity ing years, thanks to Caltrain’s train in the top spot, followed by “very encouraged by the current ing projects from each city in the and moving the train tracks into a electrification (which will enable bicycle improvements; first- and Mountain View council’s inter- county. The process, known as En- trench so that they would no lon- an increased number of trains) last-mile transit from Caltrain est in working together with Palo vision Silicon Valley, aims to col- ger intersect with local streets. The and the potential arrival of high- stations to employment centers Alto.” lect all the data and then use it to project, which would cost more speed rail. Greater use of the in north Santa Clara County; “We look forward to cooperat- figure out which projects to fund. than $500 million in the southern train corridor would further ham- and support for “transportation- ing,” Burt said. With San Jose boasting the larg- half of Palo Alto alone, is one of per east-to-west travel in south demand-management” policies, Mayor Karen Holman, who est population in the county and dozens the city is preparing to sub- Palo Alto. Two recent clusters of which aim to convince drivers to took part in putting the letter to- use other modes of transportation. gether, said she anticipates more Councilman Tom DuBois was cooperation with neighboring one of several members to call the cities in the coming months. She trenching of the train tracks his agreed with Filseth and Council- 65 46 35 MILE RIDES “one priority.” man Marc Berman that the pro- “I think it has an opportunity cess used by the VTA is “flawed.” to improve Palo Alto in a way “It focuses a lot on pothole that no other option really of- repairs, which all the cities ac- presented by fers,” DuBois said. The project knowledge is not going to solve would “improve quality of life” any kind of major transportation in Peninsula cities and eliminate issue,” Holman said. “It’s going to concerns about noise and safety get someone to punch the card (on around the tracks, he said. the ballot), but it’s not going to “I think this is a time to start solve the transportation issues.” really asking for a large amount Filseth observed that all coun- of money from the sales tax to be cil members have a “discomfort” for the trench,” DuBois said. with the process being used by His colleagues agreed, though the VTA. the vote on the narrower prior- “If we submit a list of projects ity list split 5-3, with Council- to the VTA by the end of the man Eric Filseth, Councilwoman month, are we inherently buy- Liz Kniss and Vice Mayor Greg ing into a flawed process that’s Schmid voting “no” (Council- loaded against us? I think we’re man Greg Scharff was absent). all sort of grappling with that,” Though no one disputed pri- Filseth said. oritizing Caltrain, the dissenting But even with the greater co- council members wanted to defer operation between cities, success the full discussion about prioriti- in securing funding is far from zation until next month, when the certain. Palo Alto has no repre- council is set to discuss the city’s sentatives on the VTA’s 18-mem- long-term vision for transporta- ber board. And four of the five tion. The full list, which includes districts in Santa Clara County about 50 projects, was approved include sections of San Jose, by all eight council members. making Simitian the lone voice Council members also unani- representing the northern sec- mously agreed that Palo Alto tion of the county. Kniss, a for- should strengthen its collabora- mer county supervisor, warned tion with neighboring cities and her colleagues that the VTA is lobby for a regional transporta- “dominated by San Jose.” tion plan. Filseth pointed to San “I sat there for the first two Mateo County, which created an years desperately trying to get integrated plan as part of its 2004 money into north county and transportation measure. Santa away from BART — it’s extraor- Clara County, he said, should fol- dinarily difficult,” Kniss said. Q low that model. Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner “The Envision Silicon Valley can be reached at gsheyner@ measure doesn’t feel like that,” paweekly.com. SATURDAYAUGUST 22 REGISTER: www.tourdemenlo.com We train with YOUR INTENTION INTENTIO is a holistic, multi-disciplinary Ride Day registration 7-10am @ Menlo-Atherton ﬁtness center with training professionals, High School, 555 Middlefield Rd, Atherton nutritionists and sports medicine August Special!! 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Keiko Mizuhara passed away peace- TransitionsBirths, marriages and deaths fully at home the morning of Aug. 4, 2015, after a two-year battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband of Jake Price ing discrimination, the Vietnam her life, and she later helped to 52 years, Yosuke; sister, Michiko Mat- Jake “Jay” Edward Price, a War and war in general. establish the Spirit Rock Medi- sumoto; son, Kevin; daughter, Linda former Palo Alto resident, died She was a skilled artist, tation Center in Marin County. on July 15 in Watsonville. He whose paintings in oil, acrylic In 1995, she married Phillip (Derek) Sanada; and grandsons, Cole was 69. and watercolor were influenced “Carver” Moser, a sculptor, and and Jake Sanada. She is preceded in He was born by abstract expressionism. She they lived together for the last 20 death by her father, Shigeru Yama- on Dec. 24, also did work in etching and years in Sebastopol, California. moto; mother, Miye (nee Yokomizo) 1946, in San papermaking. Her pieces were She is survived by her hus- Matsumoto; and brothers Shoji and Francisco, exhibited at a handful of venues band, Phillip Moser of Santa Mark Matsumoto. and his family in Palo Alto, including the Rich- Rosa; her son, Jonathan S. moved to Palo ard Summer Gallery, the Frame Mittelman, M.D., M.P.H., of Born in Alameda, California, Kei was raised in Los Al- Alto in 1959. Shop Gallery and through the Windsor, Maine; her daughter, tos, California. She graduated from Mountain View High He attended Gallery House cooperative — Rabbi Malka Mittelman of La School and attended San Francisco State University. Jordan Junior for which she served on the Crescenta, California; and four Her happy spirit, big smile and positive attitude will be High School board. She also studied and grandsons, David and Daniel greatly missed by all who knew her. — where he was student body practiced art therapy. Mittelman and Daniel and Noah A memorial service for Kei will be held at the Mountain president — and graduated from In the ’60s, she also began to Stubblefield. Palo Alto High School in 1964. develop her interests in spiritu- A memorial service was held View Buddhist Temple on Aug. 22 at 11:30 a.m. During the early ’60s, he was ality, Buddhism, Jewish mysti- on Aug. 1 at the family home In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made the lead singer of the Legends, a cal thinking, and the emerging in Sebastopol. Memorial dona- to the American Cancer Society: www.cancer.org popular rhythm and blues band awareness and consciousness tions can be made to Spirit Rock that played at Stanford University movement. She continued ex- Meditation Center or The Nature PAID OBITUARY events, the YMCA, Moffett Field ploring these ideas throughout Conservancy. and other local gigs. He attended Bishop College in Dallas, Texas, studying the liberal arts, and he served for James Bowman Gunn a time in the U.S. Army. For many years, he worked as a August 16, 1964 – August 4, 2015 salesman of automated ware- housing equipment. James Bowman Gunn died August A passionate sports fan, he en- 4, 2015. He lived a life devoted to joyed following the San Francis- theater, comedy, and film, but most co 49ers and the San Francisco importantly he devoted himself to Giants. He was known for often the students he taught and directed, expressing love for his family, the comics he mentored, and the which will remember him for family and friends he loved. his great energy and sense of Jim taught drama and film and humor. directed productions for ten years He is survived by his sis- at Kehillah Jewish High School and ter, Marlowe Price of Canoga for six years before that at Gideon Park, California; his sons, Tony Hausner Jewish Day School, where Price of Santa Cruz and Bran- don Price of Long Beach, Cali- he touched the lives of countless fornia; his grandson, Brandon students, parents, and staff. Jim trained students in all aspects of Adrian Price; and many nieces theatrical production including directing, lighting, sound, set/ and nephews. stage building, acting, choreography and playwriting, instilling in A private memorial service generations a sense of shared responsibility and pride in the arts. will be held on Labor Day week- Jim was born August 16, 1964 and grew up in Palo Alto. He end. Memorial donations can be found his passion on the stage where he started acting as a child made to the American Lung As- at the Palo Alto Children’s Theater. Jim later directed productions sociation (lung.org/donate/). for PACT, including its Outreach Program. Over the years, he directed and acted in hundreds of community productions in all kinds of venues. Marilyn Molner In addition to his teaching, acting, and directing, Jim made his Marilyn “Maya” Molner, a place in the Bay Area Comedy scene, where he was often referred former Palo Alto and Atherton resident, died on June 29 in For- to as “the legendary” Jimmy Gunn. He coached and mentored estville, California. She was 86. many young comics over the 20 years he performed comedy, She was born despite his many “retirements.” Comedians will remember him on May 1, 1929, as a kind and respectful person who gave of his time willingly to in Chicago, to help and support others. As a lover of film, Jim took great joy in Beatrice Klein being part of the screening committee for the San Francisco Film Freed and Festival throughout the last several decades. Samuel Mol- Jim is survived by his wife, Myra Lessner of Palo Alto, his ner, and grew parents, Jack and Sue Gunn, his sisters, Mari Kauffmann and up primarily in Connie Douglas, and his godchildren, Alex and Daniel Klein. Chicago. She The funeral service was held on August 7 at Alta Mesa married Irwin Memorial Park and the memorial service was held on August H. Mittelman in 1950 and after 9 at Kol Emeth Synagogue. A special all-pro comedy show, moved to the Bay Area. The couple lived in Palo Alto during the ’50s, celebration, and fundraiser will be held in his honor on August before moving into a home they 26 at Rooster T. Feathers in Sunnyvale. http://roostertfeathers. built in Atherton. She and Irwin laughstub.com/event.cfm?showTimingID=409484 later divorced in the early ’70s. Donations in his honor may be made to Kehillah Jewish High On the Peninsula Marilyn School directed to the James Gunn Memorial Fund to support studied at Stanford University, the performing arts. Please use this link for more information: graduating with a bachelor’s http://www.kehillah.org/gunn-fund/index.aspx degree in art history in 1967. May Jim’s memory be a blessing to all who knew him. She also became involved in political causes opposing hous- PAID OBITUARY www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 19 Editorial Unworthy PC ‘reforms’ Proposed changes to special ‘planned community’ zoning should be firmly rejected year and a half after putting a temporary halt to any further Editorials, letters and opinions negotiated development projects that exceed the existing Spectrum A zoning, proposed revisions to be considered Monday by the Palo Alto City Council do virtually nothing to prevent the mitian and many others. would be greatly delayed. No city abuses and controversies that led to the moratorium in the first Transportation waste Editor, All expressed and supported the council should support any VTA place. hope that the children of Buena tax measure unless it includes The proposed changes, developed by the city planning staff with I strongly oppose another sales tax increase. The proponents are Vista will remain here and gradu- iron-clad provisions which outlaw input from the Planning & Transportation Commission, are so ate from the Palo Alto Schools. bad projects — such as the plan disconnected from the angst expressed by the community about hoping to sucker those of modest means into raising their taxes Bob Roth for bus-only lanes on El Camino. the use of PC zones that it is hard to believe they were developed Middlefield Road, Palo Alto Gary Wesley by people in touch with mainstream political thinking in Palo Alto. once again, despite the fact that voters have already done so mul- Continental Circle, It’s as if the city staff figured the issue had faded enough to Mountain View resurrect a deeply flawed system with only marginal improve- tiple times. Over the last several ments. Developers should be delighted by the proposal and by the elections, voters in Santa Clara Little things add up prospect of being able to resume negotiations with city staff over County have passed multiple tax Editor, One greater than two new PC projects. We are not. and fee increases, and we’re on It is wonderful to see in the Editor, For years, citizens have complained about Palo Alto’s practice the hook to pay back numerous Aug. 14 article that Palo Alto Mothers and fathers wanting of allowing developers to exceed zoning limits by offering “public state bond issues. has reached the semifinals of the the best education for their kids at benefits” that often don’t live up to promises and about the lack of All of this nickel and diming Georgetown University Energy Gunn and Paly should move im- transparency and enforcement. has contributed to making the Prize. It is also gratifying to see mediately to dissuade the schools’ Last February, with a council election approaching and under Bay Area a horribly expensive California so well-represented in leadership from their new push, intense political pressure, the City Council voted not to accept place to live, especially for people the competition. reported in the Weekly on Aug. or approve any new planned-community proposals until it could of modest means, who must pay Two thoughts come to mind: a) If 14th, toward “team-teaching” — figure out how to reform the system or dump it entirely. the greatest percentage of their in- only there was a way for each of the yoking special-education experts This “time out” for any new PC projects was particularly well- come in these regressive taxes and 50 semifinalists to “partner” with to regular, subject-matter class- timed for the re-election bid of Councilman Greg Scharff, who fees. Each increase by itself does cities in states that have no repre- room professionals. used the campaign to speak out for reforms and even suggested not amount to much, say a half- sentation to share “lessons learned” Said a staffer hired to help im- the elimination of PCs or a requirement that all proposed PCs to cent, but the cumulative effect is and help them save energy as well. plement this change: “A true co- go to the voters for approval. to add to the unaffordability of the b) Saving energy is doable. teaching model is where you’re in With an election that shifted the council majority toward more region. For example, at St. Thomas there together and you work with constrained growth, Monday’s meeting should be the most signifi- Before increasing taxes yet Aquinas Parish, which consists each other and it’s difficult to tell cant test yet of where this new council stands on the development again, waste needs to be removed of three churches and associated who the regular teacher and the policies and practices that have most irked the community. from transportation projects. For buildings, we have reduced our special education teacher is.” The staff’s proposed changes to the PC process nibble at the example, VTA needs to elimi- carbon footprint due to natural This is well-intended but wish- problem by making changes to the process of how planned-com- nate waste and “gold plating” of gas use by 34 percent from 2009 ful. Any capable person will al- munity proposals are reviewed by the city, requiring more formal the BART extension’s cost by through 2014. It also saves on the ways be able to distinguish be- public benefit agreements, establishing monitoring and enforce- reducing the scope to eliminate utility cost. tween a specialist in individual ment policies and requiring an independent economic analysis. duplicate facilities. Specifically, We did it by taking what seemed learning challenges and someone But the proposal does nothing to address the biggest problems a revised “build alternative” like small steps such as keeping devoting a career to the mastery with the PC process, including the private negotiations that take needs to be added to the study doors closed when the heaters of literature or math or science. place between a developer and the city staff, leading to an agree- that eliminates the wasteful sec- are running, reducing thermostat With this new policy we’ll only be ment on the outlines of a plan for public benefits and zoning ex- tion between the San Jose and heating temperature, program- manufacturing seat-of-the-pants ceptions before either the public or the council is involved, and Santa Clara Caltrain stations. ming the thermostats with timers, amateurs of two new kinds. the lack of clear guidelines and limits on what constitutes a public The BART segment from the San putting covers on the thermostats, Making teachers teach in twos benefit. Jose to Santa Clara Caltrain sta- replacing a commercial kitchen is no different from requiring Nothing in the proposal fixes the underlying problem of every tions would duplicate both the range to one with electric ignition novelists to write novels in pairs project being subject to individual negotiations — and with every existing Caltrain line and VTA’s rather than pilot lights, adding in- or captains to work two to a ship. conceivable public benefit, including outright cash payments, be- 22 and 522 buses to a station that sulation, closing gaps under and No one enjoys being a four-legged ing on the table for horse-trading. has only about 1,000 riders each around doors. creature in pursuits that thrive on The newly proposed requirement that an independent economic weekday. This is extremely waste- Pretty much all the things sug- intuition and the knack for lead- analysis be done was already implemented by City Manager Jim ful and sends the wrong message gested in the utility bill inserts — ing followers on a journey. What Keene and was a miserable failure in its first major use for the to voters who will be asked to ap- they add up and do work! we’ve always had on the trip is now-withdrawn Jay Paul Company project on Park Boulevard. It prove more sales tax increases in Katia Reeves fine: special-education teach- will take more than ordinance language to fix that. 2016. This is extremely insulting Los Robles Avenue, Palo Alto ers, in regular classrooms, riding The original concept behind the creation of the planned-com- considering recent voter approval shotgun. munity zone was to provide the opportunity for a developer to of all the taxes/fees listed above. Elephant on El Camino It’s unbelievable what the pol- propose a project that was so beneficial to the community that it Why don’t the wealthy high- Editor, icy-makers at our most hard-hit was deemed worthy of exceeding the zoning limits. By creating rollers in Carl Guardino’s “Lead- As you reported on Aug. 14, the high school, in particular, are do- flexibility for these occasional special developments, we might en- ership Group” suggest taxing Santa Clara Valley Transporta- ing to so hobble our classroom able some exceptional projects that would otherwise never happen. their rich companies that create tion Authority (VTA) is soliciting professionals that not only will While a few good examples of this exist, such as the Opportu- the congestion, and leave the little project wish lists from city coun- their workaday duties be almost nity Center, the vast majority of PC projects have not provided the guy alone for a change? cils for new sales tax measure(s) impossible to perform but — more hoped-for benefits or the benefits weren’t at all commensurate with Steve Ly to be placed on the June or No- grievously — they’ll have neither what the developer received. It has been a failed program. Mount Hamilton Avenue, vember county-wide ballot next the time nor the wherewithal The staff proposal tilts toward fewer restrictions at every op- Los Altos year. For Palo Alto and other cit- to provide the necessary loving portunity. It would allow monetary payments as public benefits. ies along El Camino Real, the “el- support to our wrung-out teens. It would not restrict the public benefits to those intrinsic to the Welcome unity ephant in the room” is the plan of Teamed up or not, Gunn’s faculty development itself. It sets no limits on how much additional devel- Editor, VTA staff to seize the left lane in right now are revamping all their opment a PC project might get. Last Saturday, the residents of each direction on El Camino for work to fit a new schedule, ready- In short, adoption of this new PC ordinance would put us right Buena Vista Mobile Home Park VTA (express) buses only. ing for Common Core and still back to where we were prior to the temporary halt early last year. invited the BV Friends to a picnic Under the plan, left turns not carrying last year’s griefs. We hope the council rejects the “new” PC policy and directs at Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park. The at controlled intersections would Stay quiet if you want your kids the staff to take a fresh approach. We’d like to see, for example, weather was pleasant, the speech- be eliminated, traffic in the two to suffer the inevitable fallout; consideration of a process that invites property owners interested es were short, the food was good remaining lanes would come to speak up if you feel otherwise! in redeveloping property to approach the city without a plan and, and plentiful. The attendees were a near standstill much of the day, Marc Vincenti through a public process, explore what development the commu- from a broad political spectrum and even crossing El Camino Los Robles Avenue, Palo Alto nity wants in exchange for granting exceptions to the zoning. But and included present and past City the days of developers guessing what “benefits” might get them officials, school board members, Submit letters to the editor of up to 300 words to [email protected]. extra square footage should be permanently put behind us. Q the PTA, the school superinten- Submit guest opinions of 1,000 words to [email protected]. Include your dent, County Supervisor Joe Si- name, address and daytime phone number so we can reach you.

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Guest Opinion A groundling’s lament — and call to action by Rachel Kellerman grew up in Los Angeles and thought I’d left procedures decisions with the FAA. City The strict way the FAA measures noise his summer the 405 far behind. Council minutes show that Palo Alto was is an issue for the Congressional Quiet I became Adding to our misery, the Federal Avia- denied membership to this important body Skies Caucus. Luckily Rep. Anna Eshoo T a reluctant tion Administration’s (FAA) new NextGen three times, twice in the 1990s and most re- is a leading member. On July 24 at Palo advocate for quiet protocols direct arriving flights along rigid cently last October, because the Roundtable Alto City Hall, Eshoo’s office invited key skies. I say reluc- corridors at altitudes of lower than 5,000 wants to limit its voting membership to San FAA officials to a closed meeting with re- tant because I am feet. Arrival routes that were once dis- Mateo County. gional stakeholders. I understand that the a teacher-librarian, persed high above many Peninsula com- After sorting through these thorny re- FAA was presented with some solutions, not a rabble-rous- munities now converge into high-decibel, gional issues, I called the FAA and de- such as raising flights to higher altitudes, er. I’ve been busy low-altitude “superhighways” directly over scribed jets flying low overhead, some- applying curfews to protect sleep and using raising a family our heads. times 100 a day, resulting in missed sleep, our wide Bay as a low approach instead of in Palo Alto for A Sky Posse Palo Alto (SPPA) analysis disruptions at work and interrupted family directing grinding aircraft down over our the past 23 years, of data secured by a Freedom of Informa- time. My FAA contact denied there was a communities. and I’ve never considered addressing the tion Act request confirms these gradual noise problem, offering as proof the FAA’s Unfortunately there is no immediate City Council. I appreciate our local avia- shifts in flight patterns. SPPA obtained 10 computer modeling study done prior to relief, so citizens should complain repeat- tion heritage, and I fly to visit family and years of flight track data from the FAA and the implementation of NextGen. In other edly to offending airports and to the FAA. friends. compared total flight growth into SFO to words, FAA’s flawed computer models Support Eshoo and county Supervisor Joe So why am I campaigning for responsible flight growth over Palo Alto. Among other know more about our reality than we do! Simitian as they deal with an intractable aviation? The short answer is that Palo Alto comparisons, they took a snapshot of two The FAA can’t comment further because FAA. Advocate for change by writing our is now plagued by a disproportionate level months of data from July 2006 and July it is getting sued. Private citizens in Portola local, state and national politicians, and of aircraft noise severely diminishing our 2014. Overall, total arrival traffic at SFO Valley and Woodside are suing on the ba- sign the petition on the Sky Posse Palo Alto quality of life. The long answer is months increased by 28 percent, while lower alti- sis that no full environmental-impact study website. Palo Alto is planning to conduct a of research that ultimately led to my deci- tude arrival traffic over Palo Alto increased was performed before starting NextGen in comprehensive study, and this information sion to contact Sky Posse Palo Alto, a group a whopping 76 percent. our area. will be vital for our town’s future. of neighbors who are working toward de- I’ve heard our mounting noise problem The hard truth is that the FAA has never For those of you who do not consider air- creasing low, loud and concentrated avia- compared to boiling frogs. Frogs will jump bothered to measure our actual noise. Even craft noise and pollution to be a problem, tion noise. into a cool pan of water and stay there even if it did, we would not benefit because its consider that your neighbors have a right to My investigation began by contacting as the heat gradually rises. They don’t real- noise harm test is a poor diagnostic for Palo a good night’s sleep and our school children Bert Ganoung, the aircraft-noise-abatement ize they are in trouble until it’s too late. Alto’s pain. Briefly, the FAA calibrates require quiet classrooms and fresh air. We manager at San Francisco International This is not the first time Palo Alto has harm by averaging noise over a 24-hour all pay dearly to live in this town, and our Airport (SFO). When Ganoung discovered sought regional solutions to aircraft noise period, giving more weight to nighttime homes are an important investment. where I lived he emitted a sympathetic and been stonewalled. The SFO Round- noise. Noise mitigation occurs when an There is more at stake here than any one sigh. Palo Alto is 20 miles distant from the table is “a voluntary committee to address area reaches the California Community individual voice. Groundlings, I’m call- airport, yet over the years air traffic has community noise impacts from aircraft Noise Equivalent Level (CNEL) of 65 deci- ing on you to leave your reluctance behind gradually shifted over our town, including operations at San Francisco International bels. The 24-hour average noise impact of and assert your rights! How else will our three main approaches into SFO. Airport (SFO).” The FAA looks to the SFO all our Surf Air planes and 747s may not av- community learn to balance progress with His office emailed a graphic to me show- Roundtable as a way for communities to ad- erage 65 dBs, but each 70-80 decibel blast peace? Q ing Palo Alto cowering under what looks dress noise abatement, and the SFO Round- assaults our senses. By the time the bruise Rachel Kellerman is a local educator like a Los Angeles freeway interchange. I table is structured to influence routing and begins to fade we are hit again. who has lived in Palo Alto for 23 years. Streetwise What is something that you admire about Palo Alto? Asked on Emerson Street in front of Whole Foods Market. Interviews and photos by Jamauri Bowles.

Manfred Neustifter Sara Kadoch Vanda McCauley John Ryan Tiffany Santos Forest Avenue, Palo Alto Live Oak Avenue, Menlo Park Santa Teresa Street, San Jose Addison Avenue, Palo Alto Hawthorne Avenue, Palo Alto Entrepreneur Speech therapist Resources administrator Nurse Engineer

“It’s just lovely. It’s just a nice place to “I admire the intelligent people here “I admire the trees and the shade ... “The Stanford Theatre. It’s an old, “All the trees and the shade. (They walk around.” and innovative thinkers.” and the view of the neighborhoods.” beautiful theater (that is) newly make me feel) comfortable ... renovated.” relaxed.”

www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 21 Cover Story Veronica Weber

A gas-powered leaf blower, lawnmower and other tools used by a gardening crew sit in the back of a pickup truck in Palo Alto.

Gas-powered leaf blowers are banned from Palo Alto neighborhoods — so why are they being used everywhere?

by Gennady Sheyner and Jocelyn Dong

everal days a week, Stan blowers (the fine for a violation is said. Citing the hazardous pollu- But the whiny roars of gas- detrimental effects to gardeners’ and Kiyomi Hutchings $100), he could issue a half-doz- tion created by the gas-powered powered leaf blowers continued health caused by the dust, they’ve S relax on their brick-lined en every day as he bikes around leaf blowers, he added, “We to harass local eardrums through responded that the California backyard patio in Old Palo town. In fact, he’s taken to hand- should get rid of them.” (See side- the 1990s. In 2000, the council Air Resources Board already Alto. They enjoy reading under ing out a leaf-blower FAQ, drawn bar: “More than hot air”) revised its ordinance yet again, has stringent standards that suf- the wisteria canopy and eating from information on the police requiring that all commercial op- ficiently address air pollution lunch on blue-and-white cotton department’s website, to offend- osenberg’s is only the erators be trained and certified on from blowers. Not only that, but tablecloths next to their burbling, ing gardeners and homeowners. most recent rallying cry in the proper use of leaf blowers, ac- gardeners are capable of taking cherub-adorned fountain. A few recipients have been R a long history of residents’ cording to a 2005 report from the precautions to protect themselves. What they don’t enjoy, though, “mildly abusive” toward him ver- rage against the machines. Police Department. To the issue of noise, they’ve is the burst of noise that periodi- bally, Rosenberg said of the reac- Palo Alto’s leaf-blowing ordi- Another new clause, whose pointed to new models that now cally erupts on the other side of tions he’s gotten. They’ve asked, nance was adopted in its present adoption was deferred to July make gas leaf blowers quieter than the fence — and the cloud of dust “‘Are you the police? ... If you’re form in 2005, but the rules gov- 2005, prohibited gas-powered other lawn-care equipment. Then that wafts over, bringing more not the police, then get out of the erning the blowers first sprang up leaf blowers in residential areas. they’ve raised their own concerns than just hot air into their yard way,’” he recalled recently. three decades earlier — and shift- It also prohibited all leaf blowers about potential electrocution and their lungs and onto their Most people, however, simply ed with political winds over time. that do not bear a manufacturer’s when using electric-powered leaf food. turn off the combustion-fueled The blowers were initially treat- label guaranteeing a noise level of blowers and the loss of customers “We know what’s in it,” said machine until he leaves. ed like most other noisy equip- 65 decibels or lower when mea- because of increased rates. Stan Hutchings, who happens to Neither Rosenberg nor the ment — legal until they hit a cer- sured from a distance of 50 feet. Palo Alto’s ongoing desire to be a retired analytical chemist. Hutchingses believes the leaf- tain loudness threshold — when Scofflaws would face a $100 fine, govern leaf blowers is far from “It’s terrible.” blower issue is the most critical the city adopted noise standards though the amount would go up unique. In the past year or two, the The periodic disturbance is problem in town, despite the ir- back in 1972. Then, with citizens’ for subsequent violations under a noise from concerned residents up courtesy of a gas-powered leaf ritating noise and air pollution. complaints about gas-powered revision that the council approved and down the Peninsula has been blower. Technically, the equip- They acknowledge that the police leaf blowers on the rise, the City in 2010. That law remains in ef- getting louder. Burlingame, Los ment is illegal to use in Palo department has priorities that take Council agreed in 1988 to restrict fect to this day. Gatos, San Mateo and Sunnyvale Alto’s residential neighborhoods, precedence over catching people use of those with noise levels of Through all of the debates over have wrestled with the problem but you wouldn’t know it when in the act of blowing leaves. Bur- 82 decibels or higher. The thresh- whether and how to regulate leaf during the past year, with each driving or walking down the city’s glars need to be caught; traffic old was dropped to 75 decibels blowers, professional garden- city council trying to find the leafy streets. accidents should be attended to. the following year and the hours ers and those representing them perfect balance between educa- Midtown resident Bill Rosen- But it frustrates them that the of operation were restricted to 9 have pushed back, stating that the tion and enforcement. berg figures that if he were dep- city ordinance is, essentially, be- a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through powerful equipment is essential In Sunnyvale, council mem- utized by the police to hand out ing flagrantly ignored. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on to their livelihoods. When con- bers voted in March to ban all citations to people using the leaf “It’s not a silly law,” Rosenberg Sundays and holidays. cerns have been raised about the leaf blowers in residential zones,

Page 22 • August 21, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Cover Story though they also agreed to defer enforcement on the ban for a year and a half so that city officials will have time to educate the community about the new restriction. The Los Gatos ban, which took effect in January, applies to all gas-powered leaf blowers as well as to electric leaf blowers with noise levels of more than 65 decibels, measured from 50 feet away. Other cities in California with bans or restrictions on gas-powered leaf blowers include Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Berkeley and Laguna Beach. The town of Los Altos was at the forefront on this issue, having adopted an outright ban on gas- powered leaf blowers in 1991. Menlo Park followed suit in 1998, though its ordinance was promptly overturned by referendum.

n the 10 years since Palo Alto adopted its ban, the debate has I shifted from strengthening the ordinance to merely respect- ing it. The law, critics say, simply isn’t being enforced. They have a point. While in the early years of the ordinance, of-

ficers issued warnings and cita- Weber Veronica tions, today gardeners are about as likely to get in trouble for operating loud leaf blowers as for removing tags off mattresses or recording a baseball game with- A gardener on Ross Court uses a combustion-fueled leaf blower to clear debris on July 13. out the express written consent of Major League Baseball. Then came the recession and, “Enforcement going forward tions in 2008 and 359 in 2009, “It is evident that there is ab- The economic recession of 2008 with it, years of budget cuts and will be handled on a complaint the department issued only 63 in solutely no enforcement, so the had a lot to do with the recent difficult decisions. In 2010, the basis by patrol officers, and as 2010, the Police Department data gardeners don’t worry about it,” downturn in enforcement. But it Police Department eliminated such, will be prioritized with show. Kemp wrote. “I’ll bet no one has was also a result of the police de- the community-service officer other calls-for-service, possibly In 2011, the department issued gotten a ticket this whole past partment prioritizing its response position. The dedicated line was resulting in longer response times zero formal warnings or citations. year.” (Incidentally, she was cor- to leaf-blower complaints toward scrapped, and citizen complaints than would a centralized leaf- In 2012, it issued one. In 2013, rect.) the bottom of the heap. Then, as were directed to central dispatch, blower enforcement officer,” their zero. In 2014, one. As of June 30 The response she received from now, Palo Alto officers made no where they were joined by every report stated. of this year, the number was zero. police Capt. Ron Watson didn’t secret of the fact that they often other non-emergency complaint. The council committee agreed entirely satisfy her. He noted that have more important things to City Manager James Keene and to make the cut, though Council- he lax enforcement has not the department had recently lost do than admonish gardeners for Administrative Services Director man Greg Scharff observed that gone unnoticed. In 2012, not only the officer who was fo- making too much noise. Lalo Perez told a council commit- it “seems silly to have a munici- T Old Palo Alto resident Sue cused on leaf blowers but also When the ban launched on July tee in a report that June that cut- pal statute that we don’t enforce, Kemp wrote to the city com- several other community-service 1, 2005, the number of complaints ting the leaf-blowing enforcement frankly.” plaining that more than half the officers who were in the field about too-loud gardening shot up. position would “not eliminate the The results of the layoff proved gardeners she was encountering daily, “handling lower-level calls In the first year, the city received (police) department’s response to more dramatic than anyone could were back to using gas-powered for service and incident reports.” 559 calls about gas-powered leaf leaf-blower municipal code viola- have imagined. After issuing 322 leaf blowers after initially switch- He informed her that complaints blowers. In response, the city is- tions.” reports about leaf-blowing viola- ing to electric ones. about gas-powered leaf blowers sued 559 “first letters” to the ad- were being handled by uniformed dress where the violation had oc- police officers. curred, 107 “final letters” and 34 Watson encouraged Kemp to citations, according to city data. keep reporting violations, though The city had a designated phone he also acknowledged that pro- line for leaf-blowing violations active efforts to enforce the ban and a community-service officer probably wouldn’t be made any assigned to track and respond to time soon. complaints. “With the limited resources we Over the next few years, the have, I have directed our staff to calls kept coming. In 2008, the spend all of their free time con- Police Department received 585 centrating their efforts on school calls for service, resulting in 322 safety and traffic enforcement as issued reports (which includes well as the continuing residential both warnings and citations), ac- burglary problem,” Watson wrote cording to data obtained by the on Nov. 5, 2012. “With homes get- Weekly. In 2009, the department ting broken into almost daily, we received 487 calls for service simply can’t devote resources to about leaf blowers and responded some of the things we used to be with 359 reports, the Police De- able to do.” partment data show. (In some Since those days, the city’s cases, people relied on the phone economy has rebounded in a big

line a bit too much. In respond- Weber Veronica way and the era of staff cuts has ing to one complaint, for instance, long passed. No one talks any- the community-service officer more about eliminating traffic determined that the alleged viola- enforcement or scrapping school tor “did not have a gardener, did crossing guards. City Hall is now not own a leaf blower, and that Bill Rosenberg stands in his front yard under a carob tree as he talks about the fliers he hands out to hiring, with 11 new positions bud- there were some other unresolved gardeners and homeowners informing them of the city’s ban on gas-powered leaf blowers. The carob neighbor issues.”) tree drops leaves year round, and Rosenberg’s gardener uses an electric blower to remove them. (continued on page 26)

www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 23 Cover Story More than hot air Research shows health risks in air pollution caused by leaf blowers, but industry disputes implications by Sue Dremann

lasting air at up to 185 or weeks; 10-micron particles said Lynn Smith, interim execu- mph, leaf blowers can can travel up to 30 miles and stay tive director of Breathe California B whip up hazardous par- aloft for hours, according the U.S. of the Bay Area, also noting the ticles and contaminants from the E.P.A. huge discrepancy between leaf ground at speeds greater than a Besides what they kick up off blower and car emissions. Category 5 hurricane, sending the ground, gas-powered leaf Various arguments have been them long distances. blowers themselves emit specific made by some environmental Epidemiological studies have pollutants the State of Califor- groups that blowers should be long recognized the harm these nia has identified as of concern: entirely banned in favor of a re- particles — including hydrocar- hydrocarbons from both burned turn to old-fashioned brooms and bons from gasoline, animal drop- and unburned fuel, which com- rakes. pings, spores, fungi, pollens, pes- bine with other gases to form A 1999 study by the University ticides and herbicides, fertilizers, ozone; carbon monoxide; and of California Riverside and San brake-lining dust and tire residue toxic contaminants such as ben- Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pol- and heavy metals — cause to zene, 1,3-butadiene, acetaldehyde lution Control District, the first people’s respiratory systems, ac- and formaldehyde, according to of its kind, attempted to quan- Weber Veronica cording to Bay Area Air Quality a widely quoted 2000 California tify the differences. Leaf blowers Management District reports. Environmental Protection Agency produced about 30 milligrams per Exposure to particulate matter Air Resources Board report. square meter of 2.5-micron-sized is rarely, if ever, cited as the cause The Air Quality District in 2010 particulates and 80 mg per square of death in a coroner’s report estimated there were approxi- meter of 10-micron particles. The debris kicked up by a gasoline-powered leaf blower includes when someone dies of a heart at- mately 258,000 two-stroke leaf The results were similar for not only leaves but spores, animal droppings, pesticides, heavy tack or stroke or lung disease, a blowers in the Bay Area, which push brooms used on a concrete metals and more, researchers have found. The tiniest particles, once 2012 district study noted. “How- generate significantly more air surface, probably because of the airborne, can stay aloft for hours. ever, epidemiological studies in- pollution than four-stroke engines. smoother surface, the researchers dicate that exposure to particulate Testing in 2011 by the vehicle found. But using a push broom on California Air Resources Board trict has put more than 12,000 re- matter is an important contribut- reviewer Edmunds.com showed asphalt produced no 2.5-micron implemented in 2000 would sig- duced-noise and lower-emissions ing factor in hundreds, perhaps just how dirty leaf blowers re- particles and only 20 mg in the nificantly reduce emissions from leaf blowers in the hands of pro- thousands, of deaths in the Bay main, even 11 years after new 10-micron range. handheld equipment, the associa- fessional gardeners. Area each year.” emission standards for blowers And raking on either surface tion pointed to the intermittent The agency distributes about The district has called particu- went into effect. produced no particulates in either use of blowers. 1,500 new leaf blowers annually, late matter “the air pollutant that Pitting leaf blowers against a range, the study found. “Portable lawn and garden said spokesman Sam Atwood. poses by far the greatest health Ford F-150 SVT Raptor crew cab, The California Landscape Con- equipment contributes only 0.8 “According to the E.P.A., a risk to Bay Area residents.” the leaf blowers were the big dogs tractors Association, however, percent of all U.S. VOC (volatile commercial blower emits 93 The average adult inhales 450 when it came to spewing non- disputes the allegations of the air organic compound) emissions, pounds per year of air pollutants. cubic centimeters (roughly one methane hydrocarbons, oxides of pollution caused by leaf blowers, 0.6 percent of carbon monoxide Multiplied out times 12,000, the pint) of air per breath, which in- nitrogen and carbon monoxide — calling concerns over air emis- emissions, and no nitrogen oxide units we have distributed have re- cludes 1 million to 10 million tiny the three pollutants that the EPA sions “spurious,” according to a emissions.” duced 500 tons of pollutants since particles with each breath. and the California Air Resources 1999 letter from its board of di- Debates over air pollution aside, 2006,” he said. “But that figure can spike to Board find most concerning. rectors that was confirmed as cur- there’s also noise — perhaps the So far, the district has distrib- much higher levels in close prox- The two-stroke blower gener- rent on July 20. most evident pollution caused by uted cleaner blowers manufac- imity to high-volume roadways ated 23 times the carbon mon- “Properly used leaf blowers leaf blowers. The City of Palo tured by the company Stihl. The or other major outdoor emission oxide and nearly 300 times more do not raise inordinate amounts Alto requires leaf blowers to emit company has supplied trainings at sources,” the district’s “Bay Area non-methane hydrocarbons as the of dust. Rule 403 of the South no more than 65 decibels, when the exchanges. Operators learn to 2010 Clean Air Plan” noted. truck. Coast Air Quality Management measured from 50 feet away. use the blower like a broom, roll- The contribution of leaf blow- “To equate the hydrocarbon District states that ‘a person shall The Occupational Safety and ing the debris from one area to ers to air pollution isn’t to be un- emissions of about a half-hour of not cause or allow the emissions Health Administration (OSHA) another where it can be collected, derestimated. About 5 pounds of yard work with this two-stroke of fugitive dust from any active has determined that decibel levels rather than blasting it in a cloud of particulate matter per leaf blower leaf blower, you’d have to drive operation, open storage pile, or above 85 cause permanent hear- dust, he said. per hour are swept into the air and a Raptor for 3,887 miles, or the disturbed surface area such that ing loss. The World Health Orga- The district helped support the take hours to settle, according to distance from northern Texas to the presence of such dust remains nization recommends a general development of backpack electric a widely cited leaf-blower pollu- Anchorage, Alaska,” the article visible in the atmosphere beyond outdoor noise level of 55 decibels leaf blowers, which are just now tion report by the Orange County, noted. the property line of the emission or less and 45 or less for sleeping becoming commercially avail- California grand jury in 1999. Officials from local lung-health source.’ Blower users can and restfully. able, he said. Atwood said the dis- An Air District program aimed organizations said the contribu- should follow this rule,” the let- Excessive noise has been impli- trict hopes that it will get at least at replacing up to 50,000 leaf tion of leaf blowers to pollution ter states. cated in higher heart-attack rates, one proposal this year for a truly blowers and 10,000 lawn mowers can’t be ignored. In addition to arguing that gastrointestinal disturbances, zero-emission, battery-powered by 2020 would reduce the most “It should be of great concern,” emissions standards from the sleep problems, social discord leaf blower as part of its request dangerous small-particle emis- and psychological problems, ac- for proposals. sions (sized 2.5 and 10 microns) cording to the U.S. E.P.A. “In demos, they seem to work by 0.12 tons (240 pounds) per day, Ironically, metal rakes aren’t very well, equal at least to a gas- according to the 2010 Clean Air much quieter, though the sound powered blower. But it’s a little Plan. is less constant: The City of Palo premature to say how they will Fine particles measuring 2.5 Alto noted in a 2005 report that compare in the field to their gas- microns and coarser material metal rakes used on concrete can oline counterparts,” he said. measuring 10 microns are more generate 58-60 decibels at 50 feet. For its part, the Bay Area Air readily absorbed into the lungs. When it comes to encouraging Quality Management District is The smaller 2.5-micron particles gardeners to forego their gas- running a program to fund the are associated with hazardous powered machines, one air quality purchase of new, battery-powered, organic compounds and heavy district in southern California has zero-emission electric lawn and

metals, according to the U.S. En- Weber Veronica had significant success with its garden equipment in exchange vironmental Protection Agency leaf blower exchange. The South for gasoline-powered lawn and (E.P.A.). Particles measuring 10 Coast Air Quality Management garden equipment. The program microns are typically composed District, which covers Orange is currently only operating in Al- of smoke, dirt, dust, mold, spores County, urban Los Angeles, San ameda and Contra Costa counties, and pollen. An electric-powered leaf blower sits outside a front yard as a Bernardino and Riverside, has however. Q Particulates in the 2.5-micron gardening crew works on an adjacent side yard. Electric blowers held a leaf blower buy-back pro- Staff Writer Sue Dremann range can migrate many hundreds do not emit the hydrcarbons and other toxins that gasoline-fueled gram since 2006 for professional can be emailed at sdremann@ of miles and stay the air for days blowers do. gardeners. In that time, the dis- paweekly.com.

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native yard can disrupt a careful- ly planned, organic landscape. “I’d prefer that they didn’t blow at all,” she said. One program in the county is trying to address Brock’s concern. The Santa Clara Val- ley Green Gardeners Program certifies landscape service professionals on subjects related to green gardening, such as responsible water usage and soil protection. As of March 26, 63 area services had been certified as Green Gardeners, including Brock. During the air pollution segment of training, teachers touch on leaf blowers, talking about different models and maintenance options. “We help them make informed decisions,” said Vishakha Atre, senior scientist with Watershed Water, the larger organization that runs the Green Gardeners Program. “The first option is to not go to a mechanical option.” Master Gardener Anne Firthmurray seconds the manual options because they can be Veronica Weber Veronica more beneficial to plants and gardens. While blowing on a plant might not be inherently bad, she said, stripping away the mulch and moisture — what The front yard of a home on Clara Drive practices a “green” approach to landscape maintenance in which leaves are left on the little there is these days — might ground or moved with a rake instead of a leaf blower, which can dry out and damage plants. The fallen leaves act as natural compost, be hard on the plant. Instead, she landscapers say. recommends raking and mowing mulch to where it provides the most benefit. Landscape companies along What to know about ‘mow and blow’ the Peninsula have started to respond to homeowners looking Efficient, yes, but green landscapers urge a return to the rake for manual, high-end lawn ser- by Brenna Malmberg vices, such as Maniglia Land- scape Services out of San Jose. hen it comes to the leaf blower and leaf rake at the Bonnie Brock, owner of Bon- disappear in as few as six to 12 One of its employees, Havier value of using a leaf ready, bringing the gas machine nie Brock Landscape Design months, costing the homeowner Sanchez, said they do most of W blower, opinions blow out only when ordinances allow. in Palo Alto, would rather that money, she said. In addition, their zero-machine landscape in all directions. Gardeners, This means he stays tethered to maintenance crews not use leaf mulch keeps plant roots cool so business in Palo Alto. He tends landscapers and maintenance an electrical outlet in Palo Alto blowers. But if the equipment is that they require less water and to yards and gardens without professional see benefits and if his leaf blower is needed and going to be used, since it is the retain the water they receive. any type of leaf blower, mower damages from using the me- only brings it out when hours more efficient option, Brock said Brock also advises her clients or hedge trimmer; everything chanical tool on residential permit. homeowners need to learn about that leaf drop — fallen leaves is done by hand. This broom- lawns and gardens. In his 10-plus years of land- the right mulch for their yard from trees and plants — should and-rake action takes more than While leaf-blower bans and scape maintenance, he’s never and maintenance routine, lest the be left in place rather than blown double the time, Sanchez said. ordinances stem from concerns had any issue getting the job mulch be blown away. away. Leaf drop serves as natu- “You can notice the differ- about dust, sound and carbon done inside local restrictions, he In general, gardens and plants ral compost, eventually breaking ence,” he said. “It’s better for the emissions, the California Land- said. Vasquez does admit that as need 2-3 inches of mulch, Brock down into the soil and nurturing environment. It’s better for the scape Contractors Association he steps down from gas blower said. If homeowners opt for or- the plant. plants. It’s just better for every- (CLCA) does not support across- to electric blower to rake, work ganic compost and mulch, they If too much plant matter builds body.” Q the-board removal. Leaf blowers efficiency decreases. will spend $3,000 to cover 6,000 up, Brock encourages homeown- Associate Editor Brenna have their place when it comes to When his method changes, square feet. This averages to ers to collect it with a rake and Malmberg can be emailed at clearing areas covered by rock, so does the price. Vasquez about $80 per cubic yard. Cheap- save it for future use in a com- [email protected]. gravel, bark or mulch, according charges about $30 per visit for er options are also available, post pile. For more information about to a 1999 letter from its board of a very small lawn if he can use such as regular mulch at $70 per Brock has been frustrated with qualification for the Santa Clara directors that was confirmed as a gas leaf blower. If he comes cubic yard or arbor mulch at $30 the lack of levels of service be- Valley Water District Landscape current on July 20. two times a month, that’s $60 per cubic yard. When buying tween fine garden care and quick Conservation Rebate Program, Since their development in the a month. But here in Palo Alto, mulch, people can also check to “mow and blows.” Outside main- visit valleywater.org/programs/ 1970s, leaf blowers have sped up gas leaf blowers are forbidden, see if they qualify for $2 off per tenance services that don’t know landscapereplacementrebates. the work of lawn-care profes- so he ups the fee to around $45 square foot through the Santa how to manage a low-water or aspx or call 408-630-2554. sionals. According to the CLCA, per visit, he said. If the home- Clara Valley Water District the industry estimates it takes owner wants to go machineless, Landscape Conservation Rebate five times longer to use manual he charges an additional $15 for Program. Green Gardener classes clearing methods, such as rakes his time. The cost to the home- “Once the mulch is in, you or brooms, compared to leaf owner, while small each visit, don’t want a mow-and-blow ser- Fall 2015 Santa Clara Valley Green Gardener classes blowers. The CLCA also notes compounds during a year. In the vice to come in and blow away are scheduled for the following dates: that the uptick in man-hours to above scenario, homeowners’ thousands of dollars in mulch,” complete one job without a leaf rates range from $720 to $1,080 Brock said. “Plus, it can wreck Wednesdays, Sept. 9 through Nov. 11, in English blower can increase mainte- to $1,440 per year. your plants.” Thursdays, Sept. 10 through Nov. 12, in Spanish nance costs for the homeowner. “When I need to, I use a leaf For mulch to survive blow- Humberto Vasquez, owner of rake, but a leaf blower just takes ing, she recommends 3/4- or The classes will be held at the Sunnyvale-Cupertino Humberto Vasquez Landscape less time,” he said. “I can have 1-inch bark mulch. Because of Adult Community Education center in Sunnyvale. and Maintenance, works from my leaf blower at a lower speed, its weight, it won’t disperse and Registration information can be found at Foster City to Sunnyvale. He though, so I can go really slow so will last three to four years. Oth- https://ace.fuhsd.org/. keeps a gas leaf blower, electric I don’t blow mulch.” erwise, small mulch can soon

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per year, on average), suggesting Blown away that the problem hasn’t gone away. (continued from page 23) During those four years, the city Enforcement of Palo Alto’s leaf-blower ordinance took formal action only twice. 2008-2014 geted for fiscal year 2016. Yet enforcement of the leaf- ouncil members proved 700 blowing ordinance remains where sympathetic in June to it was during the bleakest years C Rosenberg’s complaint, 600 of the recession. At the coun- which took place during a meet- cil’s meeting on June 8, resident ing about the new fiscal-year bud- Rosenberg told the council about a get. Though enforcement of the 500 conversation he had with a police leaf-blowing ordinance has al- officer who effectively confirmed ways fallen to the Police Depart- that the ordinance is not being en- ment, council members cited leaf 400 forced because of other priorities. blowing as a major reason for ap- On the one hand, Rosenberg said, proving a new code-enforcement he is sympathetic to the depart- position in the Department of 300 ment’s position. Planning and Community Envi- “On the other hand, we do have ronment. an ordinance that should be en- The new person will be tasked 200 forced,” Rosenberg said. with leading the planning depart- Lt. Zach Perron, Palo Alto po- ment’s three-member team of lice spokesman, observed that, code-enforcement officers. The 100 much of the time, an officer’s de- hope is to make enforcement pro- lay in responding to a complaint active, rather than purely com- (because of its lower priority) plaint-driven, and to turn down 0 means that the alleged scofflaw the noise on lawns and in gardens 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 ** has already left the property. throughout the city. Only when an officer is not In supporting the position, Complaints Police reports* busy responding to calls about in- Councilman Pat Burt argued that progress crimes, alarms, suspi- the notion of enforcing an ordi- * Warning or citation issued ** As of June 30, 2015 Source: Palo Alto Police Department cious behavior, burglaries, thefts, nance only on a complaint basis is traffic collisions and the like, “inconsistent with other elements Perron said in an email, will he or of our code.” dents giving the top two ratings (than I),” said Rosenberg, who sionally on the hard surfaces. In she be dispatched to leaf-blower The city, after all, enforces all to code enforcement in 2014 was nevertheless has managed to con- the garden, he uses a rake for the complaints. types of laws, including those even lower: 58 percent. vince some of his neighbors and little leaves and hand-picks the When the officer does respond, dealing with speeding, illegal “It’s an area where we think the their gardeners to give up gas leaf big ones, if they even need to be several things might happen: The parking and fire-code violations, planning and transportation de- blowers. picked up, Hutchings said. (See operator of the leaf blower could to name a few. Unlike leaf blow- partment can be better,” Planning Rosenberg mostly believes that sidebar: “What to know about be gone by the time the officer ing, none of these enforcement Director Hilary Gitelman said at the problem lies with homeown- ‘mow and blow’”) arrives or the operator may have strategies are based on com- the June 8 meeting, shortly before ers, who are largely unaware of Their gardener is charging them just concluded the leaf blowing plaints, he said. the council agreed to add the third the ordinance. the same amount he did when he and is no longer committing the “We don’t go after speeders code-enforcement position. “Most homeowners don’t know was using a gas-powered leaf violation, in which case he or she only if someone dials 9-1-1, or With the new there’s a law. blower, Hutchings said. But even is informed about the ordinance have parking-enforcement folks position, the That’s who if the rates go up because using and asked to comply in the future. who only operate on complaint,” planning de- I’d ideally like electric blowers and raking take The latter outcome is fairly Burt said. partment will ‘ Our code-enforcement to get to,” he longer, Palo Altans can afford the common, Perron said. Blowing Recent surveys of Palo Alto for the first time group will ... inform said, explain- increase, Hutchings believes. leaves off of a property does not residents also suggest a general take part in ening that he also “I don’t think they’d be willing, take very long. awareness that the city’s code- forcing the ban the police if they leaves an FAQ but they’d be able,” he said. “An Of course, if someone is actu- enforcement operation has plenty on gas-powered flier on the extra $10-$15 — that’s a couple ally caught in violation of the or- of room for improvement. Only leaf blowers. become aware of home’s door- of lattes.” dinance, the officer could issue an 62 percent of the respondents to Gitelman told persistent violators, step when he Sitting in his patio recently as a citation. the 2014 National Citizens Survey the Weekly that hands one to hummingbird darted to a feeder, Yet the numbers suggest that gave code enforcement a “good” once the new so the police can the gardener. Hutchings recalled that the city low prioritization has rendered the or “excellent rating” (this is an im- person is hired, take immediate “I’d hate to also recommended another solu- ordinance useless. Between 2011 provement from 2013, when only “We will begin have police tion when he complained recent- and June 2015, the department has 57 percent gave code enforcement talking about enforcement action.’ come down on ly: Call 3-1-1 (or use the city’s received 665 calls for service re- the two highest marks). In south how our code- the gardeners,” new PaloAlto311 app) to report lating to leaf blowing (about 166 Palo Alto, the percentage of resi- enforcement – Hillary Gitelman, director, who are often the offending gardener’s truck li- group can sup- Planning and Community lower-income, cense plate number and the com- port the Police Environment independent pany name. What the ordinance says Department contractors, he “I was told,” Hutchings said with the goal of said. hopefully, “they would respond.” Q achieving better compliance.” For his part, Hutchings doesn’t Palo Alto’s law regulating the use of leaf blowers went The exact role of the new code think homeowners are unaware, Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner into effect 10 years ago this summer, on July 1, 2005. enforcer in leaf blowing will not just reluctant to comply. He rec- and Editor Jocelyn Dong can be be nailed down until the city hires ommends the city put a flier in emailed at gsheyner@paweekly. Here’s what it entails: that person, she said in an email. people’s utilities bills stating that com and [email protected]. • Combustion-powered leaf • Leaf blowers can only be used “I assume our code-enforce- it’s illegal to use gas-powered blowers are banned from in non-residential zones from ment group will help with educa- leaf blowers, that they could be residential zones 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Mondays tion and outreach, and inform the fined and that there are pollu- On the cover: A gardener • Leaf blowers without through Fridays, and 10 a.m. police if they become aware of tion dangers associated with the to 4 p.m. Saturdays persistent violators, so the police blowers’ use. uses a gas-powered leaf a manufacturer’s label blower to clear leaves off designating the noise level • Commercial leaf-blower can take immediate enforcement Violators should also face esca- action,” she wrote. lating fines — as much as double a sidewalk in a residential as 65 dBA or lower when operators must display neighborhood in Palo measured from 50 feet away certification of training each prior offense, he said. That oth Rosenberg and Stan would motivate homeowners to Alto on July 23. Photo by are not allowed according to standards Veronica Weber. • All mufflers and full adopted by the Chief of Police Hutchings have their own speak with their gardeners. extension tubes must be • Leaf blowers can be used B ideas for improving leaf- “They don’t want to confront attached while blower is in use from 4-8 a.m. on public blower compliance. Rosenberg the gardener,” he said. “They ig- envisions a community-service nore it because they don’t know • Electric leaf blowers can streets, sidewalks and parking TALK ABOUT IT lots in business districts; police officer riding on a bicycle, how to talk to their gardener. only be used in residential stopping to chat with gardeners They’d rather the gardener does zones from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at city parks; and at the What, if anything, do you think Municipal Golf Course and homeowners and generally what he wants.” the city should do to enforce its Mondays through Fridays, being a presence in the neighbor- The Hutchingses have asked leaf blower ordinance? Share and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on • The first-time fine for hoods. their gardener to use an electric your opinion on Town Square, the Saturdays violating the ordinance: $100 community discussion forum, at “He’d have a lot more clout blower and to do so only occa- PaloAltoOnline.com/square.

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A cappella band Pentatonix will perform at Mountain View’s Shoreline Amphitheatre on Sunday, Aug. 23.

n 2002, 10-year-old Kirstin Mal- “We sit in a circle and it’s just a really or- donado watched a fellow Texan ganic process,” she said, adding that their named Kelly Clarkson make compositional process is similar to that of reality-television history as the an instrumental band in that the rhythm first winner of the singing com- parts — in their case the beat boxing and petition, “American Idol.” bass lines — usually come first. She de- “I grew up 15 minutes away scribed it as a trial-and-error method of I from her,” Maldonado said of the perfecting the complex vocal harmonies woman who would become a pop super- and counterpoints, often with the help of star and one of Maldonado’s childhood role longtime producer Ben Bram, who’s been models. Nearly a decade later, as part of with them since the “Sing-Off” days. the a cappella group Pentatonix, Maldona- Though most famous for its cover ver- do herself was crowned the winner of “The sions of popular songs, the group is cur- Sing-Off,” another TV vocal contest. This rently working on an album of original summer, Clarkson and Pentatonix, along Pentatonix, Kelly Clarkson come to Shoreline music. Maldonado said all five members of with singer-songwriter Eric Hutchinson, Pentatonix contribute to the songwriting. by Karla Kane have teamed up on a national tour that in- “It’s totally been a learning process of cludes a stop at Mountain View’s Shoreline what we wanted our sound to be like,” she Amphitheatre on Sunday, Aug. 23. said. “We’re all very active in the process.” Though the group gained fame from TV boxer/cellist Kevin Olusola. They named connected with our fan base,” she said. The songs and styles on the new album, exposure, Pentatonix is no manufactured their quintet after the pentatonic scale — “It’s really fun, too. We’re really close to which is due out later this year, will reflect act. Maldonado grew up with bandmates a five-note scale common in western mu- our fans.” the diversity in taste of the band members. Scott Hoying and Mitch Grassi; they all sic — and quickly developed a worldwide Now signed, like Clarkson, to RCA Re- “I think it’s pretty eclectic,” Maldonado sang together at Martin High School in following, thanks not only to their “Sing- cords, Pentatonix has gained millions of said. “We have our signature sound, but Arlington, Texas. They went their separate Off” win but also to their YouTube covers YouTube video subscribers, released several there’s definitely a song in there for every- ways in college, with Maldonado earning of popular songs by artists including Be- records (including a best-selling Christmas one.” a full scholarship to study musical theater yoncé, Katy Perry and many others. album) and a tour documentary, and even That variety is what makes Pentatonix at the University of Oklahoma. But Hoy- Social media and fan interaction have won a Grammy for its a cappella tribute to work so well, both musically and socially, ing called upon Maldonado and Grassi to been crucial to their success, as well as French electronic music duo, Daft Punk. Maldonado said, explaining that each mem- reform the group in 2011, along with two personally important, Maldonado said. Developing their intricate vocal arrange- ber brings something special to the group. new members to round out the low-end “Once you come off a reality show it’s ments is a collaborative effort, Maldonado sound: bass vocalist Avi Kaplan and beat easy to fade out, so it’s important to stay said. (continued on page 29) www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 27 Benefiting local nonprofits serving families and children

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happiness map MEDIA SPONSORS The Almanac Palo Alto Weekly MONDAY // August 31 of Palo Alto Mountain View Voice by Elizabeth Schwyzer Ruth Reichl SUBSCRIBE TODAY FOOD CRITIC, AUTHOR & RESTAURATEUR (650) 854-7696 x315 In conversation with Michael openspacetrust.org/lectures Krasny, host of Forum on KQED SINGLE TICKETS o to your happy place.” Ms. Reichl is the author of books It’s a phrase that’s often On Sale February 1 including Delicious!, Comfort me “Guttered with a tone of MVCPA Box Ofﬁce with Apples, and Tender at the Bone, syrupy cynicism, as if the pursuit Stian Rasmussen (650) 903-6000 as well as numerous other novels of happiness necessarily connotes a mvcpa.com and nonﬁction works. She was Editor childish escape from reality. in Chief of Gourmet magazine But that’s not at all how Kate from 1999 to 2009. Prior to that, Pocrass sees it. The Oakland-based she was the restaurant critic for artist has long been fascinated by Artist Kate Pocrass is creating a happiness map of Palo Alto that both The New York Times (1993- people’s relationship with place, the will be available for free to the public. 1999) and the Los Angeles Times way they interact with their environ- (1984-1993). ment and their ability to enhance Yard/Backstreet,” a group exhibi- among the most popular choices, the pleasure they draw from an ap- tion focused on people and their but supermarkets, blood banks and parently mundane daily commute relationships to their communities. even City Hall’s council chambers Peninsula Open Space Trust simply by looking closely at their Included in the exhibition will be got a few shout-outs. surroundings. Pocrass’ happiness map, copies of “There were some that were very Pocrass is the artist behind the which will be available free to the personal, like people’s back yards, Palo Alto “happiness map,” a proj- public. The 20- by 30-inch artistic or a specific buckeye tree near a cer- ect funded by the City of Palo Alto. poster will incorporate all of the tain neighborhood bridge over the Last month, she sent out a public survey’s results, though it will fea- creek where a woman used to catch survey asking residents to describe a ture some spots more prominently polliwogs when she was a kid,” particular spot in the city that made than others. It will also include sta- explained Pocrass during a recent them happy. One month later, hav- tistics regarding the spots Palo Al- phone interview. “People’s answers ing collected nearly 400 responses, tans named among their top happy have been so much more detailed Pocrass closed the survey and began places. than I thought they would be.” looking at the data she’d gathered, While some responses Pocrass re- At first, Pocrass had intended to considering how best to share it with ceived were unique to one individu- canvass in person but soon real- the community at large. al, other happy spots were shared by ized that an online survey actually On Saturday, Sept. 19, the Palo a group of respondents. Parks, open Alto Art Center will open “Front spaces, cafes and theaters ranked (continued on page 30)

bers branch out into other proj- live success translates to their A cappella idols ects. Maldonado said she’d like upcoming original record. “It’s (continued from page 27) to get back into musical theater something we’re really proud of,” eventually. she said. “Kevin is the ‘smart’ one, the “I would absolutely love it. As for what it’s like to tour most organized, the ‘dad,’” she My dream was always to be on alongside her childhood idol, said of Yale-educated Olusola. Broadway someday,” she said, Maldonado said Clarkson re- “He was pre-med, and he can naming the titular part in An- mains a role model. speak Chinese fluently. He’s drew Lloyd Webber’s “Evita” as a “She’s so inspiring,” Maldona- incredible, and he works the “dream role.” Describing herself do said, adding, “She’s just nor- hardest.” Deep-voiced Kaplan as bookish and introverted grow- mal and genuine. She proves you is “the most passionate. He’s so ing up, Maldonado said she still can be yourself and stand up for dedicated and goes full out for loves to read and write and has yourself” — and be a success in everything to make sure it can be recently started a blog on her per- the music industry. Q the best it can be.” Her band co- sonal website, kirstinmaldonado. founders and childhood friends, com, where she shares some of Freelance writer Karla Kane Grassi and Hoying, are two peas her anxieties, hopes and dreams can be emailed at karlajkane@ in a pod, serving as court jest- with her fans. gmail.com. ers, motivators and spirit lifters. A month into the two-and-a “They’re so funny,” she said. half-month tour, Maldonado said “Anytime anyone has a bad day she’s looking forward to her first they make us laugh.” Maldonado trip to Silicon Valley. Fans in the What: Kelly Clarkson, Pentatonix said she sees her bandmates as audience at Shoreline can expect and Eric Hutchinson beloved — and only occasionally many familiar tunes as well as a Where: Shoreline Amphitheatre, exasperating — brothers. “We’re handful of songs from the new 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, all very different and relate in dif- work in progress. Mountain View ferent ways. It’s a big family,” she “We’re throwing in new songs When: Sunday, Aug. 23, 7 p.m. said. as we release them and gauging Cost: Tickets start at $24 When not performing and re- the audience’s reaction,” she said. Info: Go to cording as Pentatonix, the mem- She and her crew are hoping their theshorelineamphitheatre.com. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 29 Arts & Entertainment

at mundanejourneys.com. networking and GPS mapping solu- Happy places Based on that work, Pocrass re- tions of this high-tech era. (continued from page 29) ceived a series of grants to publish “We’re more connected than books based on “Mundane Jour- we’re ever been, but many cultural allowed for more unguarded re- neys”; an editor with Chronicle critics have identified the fact that sponses. Books eventually published a ver- we’re disconnected from our neigh- This is not the first time Pocrass sion of the project that allows travel- borhoods and our communities,” has embarked on a project to illumi- ers to use it wherever they go. she noted, calling Pocrass’ work nate the ways community members With the Palo Alto happiness “an antidote to that. It’s low-tech. interact with the landscape around map, the idea is similar: Anyone You can hold it and take it away them, nor is it the first time she has who picks up a free copy will have with you.” extended a public invitation to par- both an original work of art and a Getting out and exploring one’s ticipate in the art-making process. guide for discovering the world immediate surroundings is both “Mundane Journeys,” part of a 2001 around them. Pocrass’ invitation and her working curated group show at San Fran- Karen Kienzle, director of the method. cisco’s Southern Exposure gallery, Palo Alto Art Center, has been fol- “My process changes depend- consisted of a business card with lowing Pocrass’ career since Mun- ing on what I am working on, but a phone number on it. Participants dane Journeys. “I love how demo- it always starts with a lot of walk-

who called the number would be cratic her work is,” Kienzle said. ing,” she wrote in a blog. “There is Kate Pocrass given a set of instructions guiding “This a piece of art that everyone no better way to see the world than Among the happy spots Palo Altans named in their survey responses them to a specific spot in the city in community can have. I also love wandering slowly with eyes wide was The Prolific Oven; as part of her research, Pocrass went there and giving them a task to follow. that her work is about getting us to open.” Her process for the Palo Alto to eat an eclair. “I would give very pointed little see things in a new light. My hope happiness map has included visiting thing to do when you got there: is that her project might turn us on the happy places mentioned in the that traveled into outer space on the “We know that art can gener- ‘Notice a skyscraper made en- to aspects of Palo Alto we’re not fa- survey. In the name of research, Challenger. ate a wide range of interpretations tirely out of mosaic tiles,’ ‘Order miliar with.” she has eaten eclairs at The Prolific The Palo Alto happiness map and opinions, and it’s great when it No. 32 on the menu’ or ‘Check Furthermore, Kienzle noted, Oven, visited the historic Stanford project has met resistance from evokes a constructive dialogue,” she out the upholstered tree stump,’” Pocrass’ work approaches themes Theatre and discovered the redwood some critics, who have called the said. “One of the criticisms I thought Pocrass recalled of the project, an of connection and exploration in a tree grove at Peers Park where a project “childish,” challenged the was interesting was this is not the archive of which remains online very different way from the social plaque commemorates the seedling allocation of public funds for the right time for a happiness map be- project (the city is paying $5,000 cause Palo Alto faces so many is- to print 10,000 copies of the map, sues right now. To my mind, Pocrass while the nonprofit Palo Alto isn’t being a Pollyanna at all. Her Art Center Foundation is paying work suggests that despite the issues Pocrass a $2,000 fee for her work) we face as a community, we can still and suggested that given the many find and celebrate the places in our challenges the city currently faces, city that make us happy.” such focus on happiness is naive and Claudia Keith, chief communi- poorly timed. cations officer for the City of Palo Kienzle responded to these allegations with openness and curiosity. (continued on next page)

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Theater ‘Voice of the Prairie’ An itinerant story teller and his young companion are the unlikely WorthaLook heroes of “The Voice of the Prairie,” John Olive’s play about the early days of radio. The play opens at Redwood City’s Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway, on Friday, Aug. 21, and runs through Sept. 13. Tickets are Art $27-$35. Go to dragonproductions.net or call 650-493-2006. Music WireW mesh SiliconS Valley-based artist Hookslide LLinda Tapscott creates As summer slides to a close, there’s one last chance to catch a free oorganic forms inspired live concert at the San Antonio Shopping Center, 2550 W. El Camino bby nature. Her medium Real, Mountain View. This Sunday, Aug. 23, Bay Area-based a cappella is not paint and canvas, group Hookslide will perform from 4-6 p.m. on the village green. Go to nnor is it clay, stone or hook-slide.com. bbronze. Instead, Tapscott uuses aluminum wire Books mmesh to produce porous, ‘That Thing You Do With Your Mouth’ ssemi-transparent shapes Leave the kids at home for this stimulating evening with bestselling tthat evoke leaves and author David Shields, who will discuss his latest work: the sshells, nests and seeds. reminiscences of his cousin, who worked for a time making English NNow through the end of voice-overs for Italian pornography. Shields appears tonight, Friday, AAugust, her work will be Aug. 21, at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Tickets ddisplayed at Konditorei are $10-$20. Go to keplers.com or call 650-324-4321. CCafe in Ladera Shopping CCenter, 3130 Alpine Road, Art PPortola Valley. For those ininterested in learning ‘Dichotomy’ mmore about how to sculpt Science versus nature, the man-made and the organic: It’s a duality uusing this lightweight we live with every day in Silicon Valley. On view Aug. 25 to Sept. 19 at mmaterial, Tapscott will be Palo Alto’s Gallery House, 320 California Ave., “Dichotomy: Abstracted ooffering workshops in wire Science and Lyrical Landscapes” includes mixed media works by Nance mmesh art at the Pacific Wheeler and Patricia Nojima that explore both sides of the divide. A AArt League on Sept. 13 public reception will be held on Friday, Aug. 28, 6-8 p.m. Admission is free. Go to galleryhouse2.com or call 650-326-1668.

Courtesy Linda Tapscott Linda Courtesy aand Oct. 25. For more aabout the artist, go to lltapscott.comt or call 650- Concert 5529-3408. To register fforo workshops, go to ‘More Joy’ ppacificartleague.org or call Who couldn’t use a little more joy in their lives? This Saturday, Aug. 22, 6650-321-3891. at the Ladera Community Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, join local musicians for an uplifting evening of folk and bluegrass music and storytelling. The suggested donation is $10. Go to ladera.org or call Linda Tapscott’s wire mesh art, including works like “Involution,” will be on display at Konditorei 650-854-5481. Q Cafe in Ladera through the end of August. — Elizabeth Schwyzer SEE MORE ONLINE PaloAltoOnline.com Watch videos of Hookslide and “That Thing You Do With Your Mouth” in the online CANTOR ARTS CENTER AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY version of this story at PaloAltoOnline.com.

(continued from previous page) and those who are not fond of it.” Those who are interested in the Alto, described the happiness map project eagerly await the show’s PIRANESI’S as fitting perfectly with the city’s on- opening, when they can get their going top initiative “to create com- hands on their own copy of the hap- PAESTUM munity connections and foster civic piness map and enjoy an artist’s ren- engagement.” dering of Palo Altans’ favorite spots. MASTER DRAWINGS “We thought having people iden- The most intrepid explorers might UNCOVERED tify those places and having a visual even discover new happy places of poster would be a great realization their own. Q this goal,” she said, adding that she saw the project as dovetailing with Arts & Entertainment Editor Only West-Coast viewing the City Council’s 2015 “healthy Elizabeth Schwyzer can be Paestum, Italy: Temple of Neptune, View the Interior from of the final works city/healthy community” priority in emailed at eschwyzer@ that it helps foster a healthy culture. paweekly.com. by influential Pocrass, for her part, noted that 18th-century artist “scrutiny is inevitable in any publicly funded project.” What: Palo Alto happiness map, Giovanni Battista Piranesi. “I understand people’s request part of “Front yard/Backstreet” for wanting to know how much of Where: Palo Alto Art Center, their tax dollars are being spent on 1313 Newell Road (detail), 1777. Black chalk, pencil, brown and grey washes, pen ink. Sir John Soane’s Museum THROUGH JANUARY 4 public art,” she wrote. “Whether or When: Sept. 19 to Dec. 13. the West not they like the projects that the Gallery hours: Tuesday through Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italy, 1720–1778), city decides to fund is another mat- Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; ter. It is an impossible task to please Sunday, 1-5 p.m.; Thursday, 23(16,;'$<6$:((.$/:$<6)5(( an entire city. Instead I can only 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. /20,7$'5,9(67$1)25'086(8067$1)25'('8 hope that my project is creating Cost: Free Info: Go to cityofpaloalto.org/ This exhibition was organized by Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. We gratefully acknowledge support for the exhibition’s presentation at the Cantor from a healthy dialogue between those John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn, Frances and Theodore Geballe’s Pre-19th-Century European Art Fund, and Mary Anne Nyburg Baker and G. Leonard Baker, Jr. who are interested in the project artcenter or call 650-329-2366. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 31 1. Cafe Brioche’s house- made profiteroles are filled with vanilla bean ice cream and drizzled with chocolate fudge sauce. 2. The coq au vin at Cafe Brioche is served with mushrooms, carrots, cipollini onions and whipped potatoes. 3. Beignet frits are filled with chopped artichoke hearts, shallots and goat cheese and served with a side of lemon- aioli dipping sauce.

eateries in the Bay Area over the past two decades. Happily, there is a spate of new French restaurants and bistros WHEN springing up around the region. Cafe Brioche has remained because the food is uncomplicated and A MAINSTAY FOR well-prepared by chef Ricardo Mo- DECADES, CAFE BRIOCHE lina, prices are rational, the service competent and the dining room cozy. IN It has been a winning formula. CONTINUES TO DELIVER While I enjoyed dining with a partner, I equally enjoyed eating alone at lunch. Being free of conversation allowed my mind to wander and let me people-watch — which is half the FRANCE ... charm of any French bistro, whether in Paris or Palo Alto. by Dale F. Bentson The first course of fried Brus- photos by Veronica Weber sels sprouts ($9.95) arrived tossed with cashews, chopped parsley and dabbed with an apple glaze. Paired with a sip of icy rosé, what could be alifornia Avenue in Palo Alto more idyllic for a midday repast? is not quite the Rue de Buci in The lunch menu was sandwich-cen- 2. tric but did offer a few main courses C Paris, but it is inching in that as well. Nonetheless, I couldn’t resist direction. the huîtres (oyster) sandwich ($12.75). Not every restaurant has yet taken advantage It came not with Arcachon oysters, of the city’s newly completed sidewalk widening nor even Tomales Bay bivalves; yet and beautification project. It’s a unique opportu- the single, fat, Washington State nity for restaurateurs to supplement their interior cornmeal-crusted sautéed oyster was space with al fresco dining, and with minimal scrumptious, topped with pancetta, investment. It’s getting there: Joanie’s Cafe, Pas- red onions, baby spinach and creamy tis, Cafe Brioche and others have installed new Dijon mustard and served on toasted outdoor tables, umbrellas and awnings. Some sour bâtard bread. The oyster was have added new signage to accent the fresh vibe fried golden and stayed crisp to the on the street. last bite. According to Marco Kurt, Cafe Brioche’s gen- Fried calamari is my litmus test to eral manager, the upgrade is bringing in new gauge the competence of a kitchen. customers from further distances. California Av- Fail that, and the rest of the meal enue’s eateries are segueing from neighborhood usually falls short as well. At dinner, dining spots to destination restaurants. the deep-fried calamari ($11.95) with What has also helped Cafe Brioche, Kurt said, lemon aioli was perfect: crisp and is adding a full bar to complement their wine fresh-tasting — not greasy — with 3. list and joining OpenTable’s online reservation a shaving of Parmesan cheese atop. system. The doughy beignet frit ($9.95) — The bistro has been an anchor on California three fried brioche balls filled with Avenue since 1995, despite the decline of French chopped artichoke hearts, shallots Page 32 • August 21, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Eating Out and goat cheese — came with a It wasn’t overly sweet. refreshing lemon-aioli dipping The crème brûlée ($7.50) Bay artichokes, fritto misto, grilled sauce. was satisfactory. Served in a Spanish octopus, seared Hudson Hazelnut-crusted salmon small ceramic dish, the custard Valley foie gras, wood-fired pizzas ($21.95) with a merlot-blackber- was a tad grainy yet flavorful. and homemade pastas. There’s ry puree was served over a bed The thin, burnt sugar cap had also a full bar, so expect cocktails of sautéed spinach and roasted been torched to order, so it was along with wine. Local musicians leeks. The flavors were well- served slightly warm. Tidbitsby Elena Kadvany will perform live jazz in the bar and balanced and the salmon was The wine list, divided into Old lounge on Fridays and Saturdays fresh, pink and luscious. World and New World selec- CRAWFISH COMING TO PALO Sonoma coast winery, Marcassin. from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Coq au vin ($19.50) was bet- tions, was more than adequate ALTO ... Downtown Palo Alto Turkish On Monday, Sept. 21, the San Fran- ter than I expected. I’m not a and paired well with the cuisine. restaurant Cafe Taxim has closed, cisco Chamber Orchestra’s “Haydn MIXX SHUTTERS IN MOUNTAIN huge fan, but Cafe Brioche’s Cafe Brioche is a bistro both and will be replaced by a Bay Area Project” will perform at Zola for an VIEW ... Mixx, the casual fusion was worthwhile. The marinated Francophiles and non-Franco- Cajun-inspired restaurant called “East of Paris” themed dinner. In eatery that replaced longtime chicken was plump and juicy; philes can enjoy. Food, service Crawfish Fusion. Cafe Taxim October, the restaurant will turn its Castro Street restaurant Scott’s the mushrooms, carrots, cipol- and ambiance are first-rate, and opened at 423 University Ave. in focus to Napa’s Mayacamas Vine- Seafood last year, has closed, co- lini onions and whipped pota- now there’s the added attraction 2011. Kristine Huang, the owner of yards. “We hope to bring a unique, owner Billy Berkowitz confirmed toes added a rustic savoriness; of people-watching. Q Crawfish Fusion in downtown San interesting and though provoking Monday. Berkowitz, who owns and the sauce was thick and Mateo and San Francisco, has laid experience through these dinners Max’s Opera Cafe in Palo Alto and fragrant. claim to the space. Crawfish Fusion and look forward to continuing our San Francisco, among other estab- Duck ragout ($24.95), mixed serves Southern favorites like Loui- support of community enrichment,” lishments, partnered with Scott’s with pasta shells and gremo- Cafe Brioche, 445 S. California siana crawfish, deep-fried oysters, a press release on the series reads. Seafood owner Steve Mayer last lata (a citrus-and-herb condi- Ave., Palo Alto; 650-326-8640 blackened catfish, gumbo, shrimp To purchase tickets, go to year to open Mixx. The menu was ment), was earthy and fragrant. cafebrioche-paloalto.com and grits and beignets. There’s also goo.gl/Agu31M. wide-reaching, including American, The duck had been browned Lunch: Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. lobster, Dungeness crab, Cajun Italian, Thai, soul food, Mediterra- and roasted with wine, stock to 3 p.m.; Dinner: Monday-Sat- hot wings, stir-fries, noodle dishes, CETRELLA OPENS IN LOS ALTOS nean, Chinese, Japanese and more. and vegetables, then deboned urday, 5-9:30 p.m.; Sunday: 5-9 barbecue short ribs and grilled fish ... Cetrella, a longtime Mediter- Mixx also served craft cocktails, and simmered like a stew until p.m.; Breakfast: Friday only, and meats. Huang did not return ranean restaurant in Half Moon Bay, with some spirits steeped in “infu- thick. The results were mouth- 9-11 a.m.; Brunch: Saturday requests for comment. opened a second location in Los sion jars,” then aged for 21 days in watering. and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Altos last week. The new outpost at oak barrels. “We put a lot of effort DINNER AND A SHOW ... Down- 400 Main St. is large, with a 90-seat into it,” Berkowitz wrote in an email For dessert, the house-made Reservations Takeout profiteroles ($7.50) were hard town Palo Alto French restaurant dining room and outdoor patio. Ce- Monday. “The bar and happy hour to beat. The pastry was puffy Credit cards Outdoor Zola is launching a Monday night trella No. 2 will be serving up similar was busy from the get go (but) we and feather-light, overfilled dining pop-up series focusing on “rare and food under the leadership of Ex- could not build the sales to make City lot with vanilla bean ice cream and parking Private unique” wines alongside “exclusive, ecutive Chef Michael Ellis, whose it worth staying there. We’re very parties music-driven dinners,” including resume includes Michelin-starred disappointed as we thought that drizzled with chocolate fudge. Cafe Brioche’s version of Full bar one featuring a San Francisco Dry Creek Kitchen in Healdsburg, location had lots of potential.” Noise level: Chamber Orchestra string quar- tarte Tartin (7.50) was up to the Happy hour Moderate Penthouse Steakhouse in San task. The warm upside-down tet. The pop-up series will kick off Francisco and Hult’s Restaurant Check out more food news online Corkage: $15 caramelized apple cinnamon Bathroom Monday, Aug. 24, with a dinner in Los Gatos. A sample dinner at Elena Kadvany’s blog, Peninsula Cleanliness: featuring wines from the boutique Foodist, at paloaltoonline.com/ tart was crowned with vanilla Children Very good menu includes grilled Half Moon bean ice cream. The best part?

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Page 34 • August 21, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com and test a friendship based largely OPENINGS on mutual self-interest. Director/co-writer Baumbach and star/co-writer Gerwig (currently a couple) have in “Mistress America” a comedy of friendship found, lost and found again. Lola Kirke (“Gone Girl”) plays Tracy Fishko, a newly installed freshman at New York City’s Barnard College. Immediately established as being on a lonely search for self OPENINGS (an ice-breaking activity gifts her the defining symbol of a tracking device), Tracy decides to introduce herself to her one New York contact, her soon-to-be-stepsister, Lionsgate Brooke Cardinas (Gerwig). A fateful phone call later, Tracy has boarded the express train that is Jesse Eisenberg, right, plays a pothead sleeper agent to John Brooke, destination unknown. Leguizamo’s drug dealer in “American Ultra.” Gerwig applies her consider- able comic aplomb to the whirligig Brooke, a Soul Cycle instructor who, in her personal life, com- Getting the punchies bines that job’s aggressive can-do ‘American Ultra’ offers a pothead sleeper agent energy with monumental self-ab- RT Features sorption. As they swap stories over 00 1/2 (Century 16, Century 20) dorm-room screwdrivers, Brooke at one point responds to Tracy, Conspiracies are for nut jobs. head spin and Jesse Eisenberg “Mistress America” explores the ecstasies and agonies of a female “That’s cool about the yogurt ma- Or that’s what they want you to in place of Matt Damon, a bit friendship. chine. Everyone I love dies.” A think. Anyone with an informed like “Get Smart” was to James hustler who has yet to make good, sense of history knows, of course, Bond. There’s some tired, glib Brooke makes for a dangerous role that many conspiracies are real satire about the CIA’s nefarious model to — and brilliant source and present, but which ones? To techniques, from MKUltra to material for — attentive aspiring the frivolous end of action com- surveillance and drone warfare. There she is ... fiction writer Tracy. edy, “American Ultra” riffs on our And there’s plenty of lightning- ‘Mistress America’ offers a tale of friendship and betrayal The oddly paced story cul- government’s Project MKUltra, fast, built-to-shock violence. minates in an extended climax aka the CIA’s mind-control pro- Oddly, though, the most impact- 00 1/2 (Aquarius) parasitic ambition form the dark whereby Brooke leads Tracy and gram. And the movie has all the ful element here turns out to be “You want a piece of me?” side of many a seemingly colle- a couple of tenuous friends to the impact of one of those Illuminati romance: beautifully set up, con- Them’s fighting words, but also gial friendship. And so it goes in Greenwich, Connecticut, home memes. “Yeah,” you’ll say, “I’ve founded and paid off in a climax ones that reflect a psycho-soci- Noah Baumbach and Greta Ger- of her rich ex-boyfriend, Dylan heard that one before.” that shouldn’t surprise us but ological truism about human in- wig’s new film “Mistress Amer- For “American Ultra” is “The teraction. Jealousy and a kind of ica,” in which two women forge (continued on next page) Bourne Identity” with a pot- (continued on next page)

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promptly abandoned again for a tations. Baumbach and Gerwig lips signals the influence of pic- Mistress America more circumspect coda. also nose around in interesting tures like “Something Wild” and (continued from previous page) The film’s oddly ramshackle ideas about creative appropriation, “After Hours,” the zanily farcical construction hurts, but the zesty an increasingly superficial culture heights of which the relatively Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square (Michael Chernus of “Orange Is dialogue and the character work and sensitivity to age — all prime contained “Mistress America” the New Black”). Brooke intends and chemistry of Kirke and Ger- subjects of Baumach’s previous never approaches. Like Brooke, Fri and Sat 8/21 – 8/22 to ply him for money she feels wig compensate mightily, as does film, “While We’re Young.” the film flies a strange and arrest- The End of the Tour – 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 owed, if only she can do an end- the film’s refreshing focus on fe- An ’80s nostalgia score by ing course: if not quite a screw- Irrational Man – 1:55, 4:30, 7:15 run around his wife, Mimi Clare male friendship, its joys and limi- Dean Wareham and Britta Phil- ball, then certainly a change-up Amy – 9:40 PM (Heather Lind). The sequence hits pitch. Sun through Thurs 8/23 – 8/27 the ground running at a deliber- MOVIE TIMES Rated R for language, includ- The End of the Tour – 1:30, 4:15, 7:00 ately Hawksian screwball pace, ing some sexual references. One Irrational Man – 1:55, 4:30, 7:15 but even considering Brooke’s All showtimes are for Friday to Sunday only unless otherwise noted. hour, 24 minutes. motormouth, this second act For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. — Peter Canavese Tickets and Showtimes available at cinemark.com marks an awkward tonal shift, Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. American Ultra (R) ++1/2 Century 16: 10 a.m., 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8 & 10:35 p.m. JAMIE JOAQUIN PARKER EMMA Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:20 & 10 p.m. American Ultra (continued from previous page) BLACKLEY PHOENIX POSEY STONE Amy (R) Palo Alto Square: Fri & Sat 9:40 p.m. Ant-Man (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:40 & 10:30 p.m. “INTOXICATING.” Century 20: 11:05 a.m. & 7:55 p.m. In 3-D at 1:50, 4:55 & 10:45 p.m. cleverly manages to do so. It’s too +++ bad more of “American Ultra” -David-David RooneRooney,y, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Best of Enemies (R) 1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 2 & 7:10 p.m. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (R) couldn’t do the same. IRRATIONAL MAN Century 16: 9:05 & 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 4:50, 7:20 & 10 p.m. Eisenberg plays Mike Howell, The End of the Tour (R) +++1/2 Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 4:50, 7:25 & a sleeper agent who’s not only un- Written and Directed by WOODY ALLEN 10:05 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:30, 4:15 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:45 p.m. dercover but unconscious. In the ESL One Cologne Counter-Strike: GO Finals Live (Not Rated) fictional ghost town of Liman, WWW.SONYCLASSICS.COM Century 20: Sun 10 a.m. West Virginia, Mike serves as PALO ALTO 9:15 a.m., noon, 2:45, 5:25, 8:15 & 10:55 p.m. CINÉARTS@PALO ALTO SQUARE CALL THEATRE Fantastic Four (PG-13) Century 16: the cashier at the Cash & Carry, NOW PLAYING 3000 El Camino Real (800) CINEMARK FOR SHOWTIMES Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7:05 & 9:45 p.m. surrounded by the junk food he’s VIEW THE TRAILER AT WWW.IRRATIONALMANMOVIE.COM Forbidden Planet (1956) (Not Rated) no doubt craving from his chronic Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 3:45 & 7:30 p.m. intake of the chronic. At home, The Gift (R) Century 16: 9 & 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m. Mike shares a messy apartment Century 20: 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5, 7:40 & 10:25 p.m. with longtime girlfriend Phoebe Bel Alexander Christopher Kristen The Hidden Fortress (1958) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri 7:30 p.m. Larson (Kristen Stewart) — “the Powley SkarsgArd Meloni AND Wiig Hitman: Agent 47 (R) Century 16: 9:45 a.m., 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:55 & 10:25 p.m. only good thing that’s ever hap- Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:05, 7:50 & 10:20 p.m. pened to me.” Their relationship “THIS GUTSY EXHILARATING MOVIE... Inside Out (PG) +++1/2 Century 16: 9:10 & 11:45 a.m., 2:25 & 5 p.m. is getting serious, despite Mike’s WHAT MAKES MINNIE–ON THE PAGE AND NOW ON Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:10 & 9:40 p.m. collection of neuroses, including THE SCREEN–GREATER THAN ANY ONE GIRL IS HOW Irrational Man (R) ++ Palo Alto Square: 1:55, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m. OWN OWN crippling panic attacks that keep SHE TELLS HER STORY IN HER Kick 2 (Not Rated) Century 16: Fri 9 p.m., Sat 6 p.m. him from ever following through SOARINGLY ALIVE VOICE.” The Man from U.N.C.L.E (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:55 a.m., 1, 4:10, 7:20 -Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES on vacation plans with Phoebe. & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:30 p.m. Turns out the attacks are part of Minions (PG) ++ Century 16: 9:10 & 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:25 & 9:55 p.m. Mike’s self-protective program- Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 1:35, 4:05, 6:50 & 9:15 p.m. ming, a fact revealed when sym- ++++(HIGHEST RATING) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (PG-13) ++1/2 pathetic CIA agent Victoria Las- 9, 9:50 & 10:35 a.m., 12:15, 1:50, 3:30, 5:05, 7, 8:40 & 10:15 p.m. “TERRIFIC! WONDERFUL! CHARGED WITH SERIOUS, Century 16: seter (Connie Britton) reactivates UNPREDICTABLE, VIBRANTLY OBSERVANT ENERGY.” Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 12:15, 2:25, 3:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:35 & 9:35 p.m., Fri -Michael Phillips, CHICAGO TRIBUNE & Sat 1:20. In D-BOX at 11:20 a.m., 2:25, 5:30 & 8:35 p.m. Mike’s spy training to save him from unsympathetic CIA agent “EXTRAORDINARY! UNIQUE AND UNFORGETTABLE. Mistress America (R) ++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 1, 3, 5:15, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. BEL POWLEY IS SENSATIONAL.” Mr. Holmes (PG) +++1/2 Guild Theatre: 2, 4:30, 7:10 & 9:40 p.m. Adrian Yates (Topher Grace). In -Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE Pixels (PG-13) +1/2 Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:25, 4, 6:55 & 9:30 p.m. order to clean up after the brain- washing program, Yates sends a Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) (R) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m. kill squad of brainwashed agents Ricki and the Flash (PG-13) ++ to eliminate Mike. But it turns out Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 1:40, 4:10, 7 & 9:50 p.m. Mike is still the best of the best, Shaun the Sheep Movie (PG) even though he’s pot-addled and Century 16: 9:20 & 11:55 a.m., 2:20, 4:55 & 7:15 p.m. deeply confused about how he got Century 20: 5:35 & 8 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:50 a.m., 1 & 3:15 p.m., Sun 3:20 p.m. into this mess. Sinister 2 (R) Century 16: 9:30 a.m., noon, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45 & 10:20 p.m. Director Nima Nourizadeh Century 20: 11:55 a.m., 2:40, 5:20, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m. (“Project X”) assembles a fine Southpaw (R) Century 20: 4:40 & 10:35 p.m. cast to realize the blandly banal Srimanthudu (Not Rated) Century 16: 9:30 p.m. script of Max Landis (“Chroni- The Stanford Prison Experiment (R) +++ cle”). Eisenberg and Stewart are Aquarius Theatre: 4:15 & 9:30 p.m. an interesting couple, made more Straight Outta Compton (R) Century 16: 9 & 10:45 a.m., 12:30, 2:15, 4, 5:45, so by the increasingly complex 7:30, 9:15 & 11 p.m., Fri 5 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:15 & 11:45 p.m., Sat 10:10 p.m., Sun dynamic that evolves between 4:40 & 8 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 12:05, 2:20, 3:25, 5:40, 6:45, 9:05 & 10:10 p.m. In X-D at 1:10, 4:30 & 8 p.m. them as secrets surface. Britton does maternal caring like no one The Time Machine (1960) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 5:35 & 9:20 p.m. else, Grace gives great weasel, and Trainwreck (R) Century 16: 7:35 & 10:30 p.m. the great character actors John Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:50, 7:45 & 10:40 p.m. Leguizamo (as a drug dealer) and Vacation (R) Century 20: 10:15 p.m. Tony Hale (as a weak-willed CIA officer) put all their creativity into + Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding enlivening predictable scenarios. “American Ultra” at times Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) SUNDANCE NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS LOS ANGELES pokes fun at the genre’s clichés FILM FESTIVAL MOMA / FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER FILM FESTIVAL Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. 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SUPERVISOR HOWARD PAAR SCORE BY NATE HELLER ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY SARA GUNNARSDÓTTIR DESIGNER CARMEN GRANDE though, this conspiracy isn’t the PRODUCTION DIRECTOR OF CO- EXECUTIVE EDITORS MARIE-HÉLÈNE DOZO KOEN TIMMERMAN DESIGNER JONAH MARKOWITZ PHOTOGRAPHY BRANDON TROST PRODUCER DEBBIE BRUBAKER PRODUCERS MICHAEL SAGOL AMANDA MARSHALL JORMA TACCONE AMY NAUIOKAS PRODUCED BASED ON Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) real deal, but rather an elaborate BY ANNE CAREY BERT HAMELINCK MADELINE SAMIT MIRANDA BAILEY THE BOOK BY PHOEBE GLOECKNER WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN AND DIRECTED BY MARIELLE HELLER WWW.SONYCLASSICS.COM distraction. READ THE BOOK FROM SOUNDTRACK Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) ALBUM ON Rated R for strong bloody vio- Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more MOUNTAIN VIEW information about films playing, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies lence, language throughout, drug starts friday, CENTURY CINEMA 16 use and some sexual content. One august 21 1500 N Shoreline Blvd (800) CINEMARK hour, 35 minutes. VIEW THE TRAILER AT WWW.THEDIARYOFATEENAGEGIRLMOVIE.COM ON THE WEB: Additional movie reviews at PaloAltoOnline.com — Peter Canavese

Page 36 • August 21, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com OPEN HOME GUIDE 52 Home & Real Estate Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com Home Front TEA TIME ... Sip tea from china teacups as the scent of blooming begonia floats through the air on Wednesday, Aug. 26, at Filoli, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside. Starting at 1 p.m., small groups of friends can gather to enjoy afternoon tea in the the late summer ambiance offered by the historical home and garden. This Filoli tradition includes sandwiches, seasonal salads, scones and pastries. Reservations must be made in advance. Tickets cost $50 for members and $60 for nonmembers. Price includes general admission to the house and garden. Info: 650-364-8300, ext. 508 or filoli.org/afternoon-tea

IN THE KITCHEN ... Master new cooking skills and savor the last days of summer with classes offered by Sur La Table, 855 El Camino Real, Suite 57, Palo Alto. Programs scheduled for August include “Healthy & Delicious Sum- mer Cooking” (Leah Joo, Aug. 22, 4 p.m., $69); “Handmade Summer Pastas” (Nicole Henri, Aug. 24, 6:30 p.m., $69); “Great “Fortune” by artist Melissa Mahoney. A necklace created by jewelry maker Davide Bigazzi. Grilling: 4 Essential Recipes” (Joe Sivils, Aug. 25, 11 a.m., $69); and “Spectacular Summer Salads” (Joe Sivils, Aug. 27, 11 a.m., $69). Local painter, Florentine jewelry artist Sign up before seats are gone. Info: 650-289-0438 or [email protected] exhibit talents at annual festival

BACKYARD COMPOSTING ... Learn how to manage organic aking place between High and Webster Mahoney transfers energy from waste, from food scraps to yard streets every year on the fourth week- canvas to viewers trimmings, on Saturday, Aug. 29, Tend of August, the Palo Alto Festival of The Palo Alto Coming from a family of painters, Melissa at 1 p.m. at Hidden Villa, 26870 the Arts will once again turn University Mahoney learned how to draw sketches from Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. By Avenue into an open air gallery, showcasing Festival of the Arts her mother starting from her toddler years. composting, residents can cut masterpieces from 300 fine-art and fine-craft Always inspired by the artwork of her mother their contribution to the landfill, artists. The 34th annual festival will be held hosts 300 artists and her grandparents, Mahoney became a pas- conserve water and create health- this weekend, Aug. 22 and 23, from 10 a.m. sionate painter whose paintings have been fea- ier soil. The workshop teaches to 6 p.m. Like previous years, 150,000 people during its 34th year tured in international and local art galleries. participants how to build, maintain are expected to visit the festival, said publicity After earning a degree in fine arts and go- manager Claudette Mannina. and use a home compost pile. by Sevde Kaldiroglu ing through classical training, she studied and Hosted by the Palo Alto Chamber of Com- The event runs for two hours and photos by Veronica Weber worked in various countries including Italy costs $5 per person. Registration merce and presented by the Palo Alto Medi- and Singapore. She found her passion to be is required. Info: hiddenvilla.org/ cal Foundation, the festival will feature many abstract painting and developed her own style, programs/calendar-of-events artistic highlights, including an Italian Street which she deems quite different from that of Painting Expo that benefits the Youth Com- “You’re always going to see something fresh and unique at the festival,” Mannina said. “We her family members. Fascinated by her trav- DROUGHT MAINTENANCE ... munity Service and the Kiwanis Club, and a els throughout Asia, Mahoney saw something Discover drought maintenance Sculpture Plaza that includes the garden of always try to add something new and unique each year.” special in the Japanese cultural symbol enso. methods during a workshop pre- fountains by ceramic artist Damien Jones. In Based on this inspiration, she started her cur- sented by the City of Palo Alto on addition, the festival offers gourmet food and Two of the 300 artists who will be presenting their work at this year’s festival are painter rent series called “Vortices.” Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. at wine stands, and music performances, such as an ukulele jam session and street corner Melissa Mahoney and jewelry artist Davide the Lucie Stern Community Center, (continued on page 39) Ball Room, 1305 Middlefield Road, concerts. Bigazzi. Palo Alto. Residents can help their landscape and garden thrive during a drought by implement- ing a few simple changes to their landscape maintenance routine. Instruction will cover irrigation systems, water schedules and more. The workshop is free, but space is limited. Pre-registration is required and can be done by phone or online. Info: 650-329-2241 or cityofpaloalto.org/workshops

Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Artist Melissa Mahoney works on her latest Mahoney adds colors to the circular “enso- Mahoney adds silver leaf to a canvas for her Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box series inspired by the colors of the Bay Area inspired” pattern on her canvas, which is series of paintings inspired by the Pacific 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email on Aug. 7. She often paints outside in the part of her series of paintings influenced by Ocean. She adds silver and gold leaf to her [email protected]. Deadline is one week before publication. backyard of her Mountain View home. the Bay Area and the Golden Gate Bridge. work to give it luster and shine.

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and numerous bedrooms for the However, retrofitting a block or brick structure with families of the military officers modern plumbing and electricity takes some ingenuity. Positively Green that once lived there. We were sur- We saw lots of exposed pipe and conduit running along A cultural awakening prised to see that building technol- walls, inside and out. ogy was fairly advanced for that “Agri-tourism” is a growing trend in Italy. The patch- by Ciro Giammona time, as many of the rooms had work farmlands were one of the most beautiful aspects his past summer I had the incredible opportunity to built-in toilets and wash basins of the countryside we toured. Talk about green! We spent visit Italy — Tuscany and Sicily. My wife and I had — a bit primitive by our current much of our time at an inn on an organic pig farm (much T been planning to go for years, and it was the trip standards, but they were obviously nicer than it sounds) and also at an organic lemon orchard. of a lifetime. We were in two distinctly different parts of thinking ahead. Water conservation is a definite priority for the property Italy, but we noticed several things they have in common, Florence and Siena are known owners. Their newer buildings were designed with small, especially from the perspective of “verdi,” which means for their art, culture and architec- on-demand water heaters, low flow fixtures and dual-flush green in Italian. ture, but many of the surrounding small towns and vil- toilets. Even so, knowing that we were Americans, the Like the United States, Italy, and indeed, most of the lages we visited also have structures that were hundreds of proprietors encouraged us to take short showers. This re- European countries have room for improvement when it years old, but still quite usable thanks to some necessary minded us that if we can do it there, we can do it here, too. comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions; conserving remodeling that has occurred during the years. Washing our laundry was an interesting throwback to energy and resources; and improving indoor air quality So how and why did they last so long? First of all, they our childhood years. We scrubbed our clothes in the sink in their newly constructed and remodeled buildings. Even were built of stone and brick with clay tile roofs. With using a couple of gallons of water and then hung them so, it was fun to consider the green aspects of some of the water intrusion being one of the most damaging threats to on the clothesline like the Italians do. The sun dried our “old-world” technology we came across. our wood-framed buildings, stacked stones that are 16 to clothes, as it did for centuries for the Greeks and Romans. One of the basic tenets of green building is structures 20 inches thick with plaster troweled over them are fairly Granted, some places we visited had washing machines, that are made to last, and that can certainly be said of impervious. Even if some water gets in, it dries out quickly but no one had a dryer. many of the buildings there. In Sicily, we saw an amphi- and the damage is minimal. Even as we look to the future for new green technolo- theater built on a mountaintop by the Greeks in 300 B.C. Another green benefit to these thick walls and roofs gies, we can still learn green practices from the past. One that was subsequently remodeled by the Romans a few is “thermal mass.” They take longer to heat up and cool of the first things we did upon our return was to reinstall centuries later. Yes, they are considered ruins, but with down, so they tend to moderate the temperatures inside. our own clothesline, and the laundry is drying in the sun some modern adaptation, the amphitheater is still being Even without air conditioning, if it’s 80 degrees inside, it’s as I write; time to go see if it’s done. used for performances of opera, live theater and music. much more comfortable than 105 degrees outside. And at Ciro Giammona is CEO of Harrell Remodeling In Tuscany, we toured another structure that withstood night when it’s cold, occupants stay warmer as the struc- Inc., Mountain View. He can be emailed at the test of time: a 12th-century castle with four floors ture slowly sheds its heat. [email protected].

A cuff created by Davide Bigazzi.

Bigazzi works in his Allied Arts studio in April 2009. A necklace created by Bigazzi.

Mahoney is excited to be featured in cals. He also offers monthly workshops to comes from there.” Festival artists the festival for the first time this year and people from all over the U.S. Bigazzi has been presenting his work at (continued from page 37) share her pieces with arts enthusiasts. “When I make jewelry, I’m trying to the Palo Alto Festival of the Arts for many “(Painting) makes me feel grounded. It transform the words into material,” Big- years. He thinks the festival is “a great “(Vortices) are not just circles; they’re also gives me almost an adrenaline rush azzi said. show” that is unique because of its loca- spatial. They have some depth to them like running,” she said. “When I’m paint- Through each piece of work he creates, tion since it “puts you in contact with an even though they’re two-dimensional,” ing, I just forget what I’m doing. I’m ab- he endeavors to convey a message. audience that is also a little bit different Mahoney said. “I’ve been on this series for sorbed in it.” “For example, when I do custom work than the traditional crowd that are going to 10 years and I’m not tired of it yet. I keep ... I always tend to speak for half an hour these shows.” reinventing it.” with the person and try to understand what “My life is not only making jewelry but After studying calligraphy and hand- Bigazzi adds flavor of Italy to ornate jewelry she wants to say with this piece,” he said. it’s also getting in contact with (people) lettering in Italy, Mahoney started using From each metal tool used to make jew- and kind of have an exchange of experi- a Chinese calligraphy brush for some of A master of jewelry from Florence, Italy, Davide Bigazzi has practiced the ancient elry to bas-relief sculptures in the studio, ence,” he said. Q her paintings, in addition to flat brushes he makes everything with his hands, Big- Editorial Intern Sevde Kaldiroglu and her own hands. As opposed to certain technique of chasing and repoussé along with shaping and embellishing silver and azzi noted. Applying the chasing and re- can be emailed at Japanese calligraphers who aim to make a poussé technique, he starts from the back [email protected]. perfect circle in one stroke, she draws her gold with handcrafted, bas-relief designs for decades. He started learning the art side of a flat piece of metal, and using the circular figures in multiple strokes, work- little handmade tools, slowly pushes out ing on them until “they feel balanced and of shaping metal at 14 years old when he started an apprenticeship with a master the metal to create the relief on the other complete.” side. When the back side is done, he refines What: 34th annual Palo Alto Festival of the Arts “I (draw) the feeling of energy behind in Florence. After working with different When: Aug. 22-23 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. mediums from large-sized sculpture to all of the details on the reverse side and the moment,” Mahoney said. “I like the completes the bas-relief. Where: University Avenue, Palo Alto idea of transporting people or transferring jewelry for many years, Bigazzi opened a Cost: Free admission and parking. studio in his hometown and started teach- “In jewelry everything has a construc- the energy from me to the canvas to the tion behind it, ... you have to go step by Information: mlaproductions.com/PaloAlto viewer.” ing his art. In 2003, Bigazzi came to the United step,” he said. “For many people who come Because she manages her graphic design here, it’s like going to therapy because ev- company from home, Mahoney can spend States, opening his studio in Menlo Park READ MORE ONLINE in 2006. He currently makes and sells a erything is a little bit slower, everything PaloAltoOnline.com a portion of her time painting in her back- needs a little bit more time ... and (they) yard. Her long-term goal is to study abroad big portion of his artwork in that location, For more Home and Real Estate news, visit working with his visitors on customized can breathe the history a little bit and a and take art classes in a different country flavor of Italy too because all of this stuff PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate. for a month every year. orders and holding weekly classes for lo- www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 39 Home & Real Estate

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Walker for $1,825,000 bathroom remodel, $32,000 on 07/02/15; previous sale Lowest sales price: $2,000,000 Lowest sales price: $640,000 Lowest sales price: $1,575,000 251 Scripps Court re-roof, 04/04/2013, $1,550,000 Highest sales price: $3,625,000 Highest sales price: $1,855,000 Highest sales price: $3,650,000 $14,250 58 Tuscaloosa Ave. Elssner Source: California REsource 651 Kendall Ave. bathroom re- Trust to PNC Development for model, $30,000 $6,750,000 on 07/09/15; previ- 845 Moreno Ave. new circuit for portable spa, $n/a ous sale 09/18/1968, $48,000 $1,125,000 on 07/02/15; previous Trust to Goldsilverland Properties to M. Mulhern for $1,375,000 dential multifamily kitchen and 1095 Channing Ave. gymnasium 73 Victoria Drive Smyth Trust sale 05/15/2013, $600,000 for $1,400,000 on 07/09/15; pre- on 07/21/15; previous sale bath remodel, $24,741 re-roof, $32,118 to Rice Trust for $2,550,000 on 2180 Ashton Ave. Potter Trust vious sale 12/23/1981, $76,500 04/20/2005, $630,000 759 Maplewood Place roof- 3481 Kenneth Drive re-roof, 07/09/15 to B. & S. Shakib for $1,800,000 7 Shasta Lane D. Denevi to 2458 W. Bayshore Road #4 mounted PV system, $n/a $16,000 on 07/02/15 B. Hants for $2,540,000 on R. Monteiro to C. Nguyen for 114 Monroe Drive roof-mounted 1635 Madrono Ave. residential 629 Bay Road Y. Hasan 07/06/15; previous sale $780,000 on 07/17/15; previous PV system, $n/a install NEMA outlet and new sub- East Palo Alto to S. Sinha for $1,480,000 08/27/1998, $830,000 sale 12/19/2012, $510,000 2333 Webster St. change ar- 2141 Euclid Ave. H. & Y. Mes- panel, $n/a on 07/06/15; previous sale 21 Willow Road #13 D. Lynch to 800 E. Charleston Road #22 chitectural sheets to reflect new fine to J. Prado for $640,000 1050 N. California Ave. struc- 12/01/2006, $921,000 D. Kim for $728,000 on 07/10/15; Trustway Investors to S. & S. Dh- architect and layout, $n/a on 07/06/15; previous sale tural change, increase opening 7 Chateau Drive Hilligoss previous sale 01/16/2007, ingra for $1,650,000 on 07/17/15; 1486 Dana Ave. temporary 05/15/2009, $240,000 from dining room into living Trust to L. & J. Nienkerk for $395,000 previous sale 11/05/1990, power pole, $n/a 229 Holland St. Y. Li to G. room, $n/a $2,900,000 on 07/10/15; previ- 1027 Windermere Ave. K. & $736,000 967 Dennis Drive re-roof, Chang for $615,000 on 07/10/15; 3492 Janice Way replacing ous sale 10/07/2004, $1,076,000 K. Kinkor to WCAl3 Limited for 636 Keats Court Rlg Trust to E $20,000 previous sale 04/15/2010, existing boiler in same location, 1314 Cloud Ave. Spinner Trust $1,320,000 on 07/02/15; previ- Trust for $2,700,000 on 07/17/15; 74 Morton St. re-roof, $3,500 $360,000 $n/a to Mediratta Trust for $3,150,000 ous sale 04/29/2011, $775,000 previous sale 02/1971, $480,000 74 Morton St. re-roof, $13,500 2397 Oakwood Drive Federal 275 Ventura Ave. re-roof, on 07/10/15 3194 Ramona St. Currall Trust 859 Colorado Ave. residential National Mortgage to C. Men- $22,000 505 Gilbert Ave. R. Hall to A. & K. Raza for $2,400,000 furnace replacement, $n/a doza for $540,000 on 07/10/15; 3666 El Camino Real Family to J. Smith for $1,990,000 Mountain View on 07/21/15 241 Colorado Ave. red-tagged previous sale 09/05/1991, 1721 California St. #2 Fawzy Fashion Cuts: tenant improve- on 07/02/15; previous sale 918 Van Auken Circle Mar- gas leak repair, $n/a $138,000 Trust to Y. Zhao for $640,000 ment and use and occupancy for 07/21/2000, $935,000 quardt Trust to W. Ma for 197 Walter Hays Drive bath- 2251 Terra Villa St. C. Tyler to on 07/17/15; previous sale a 600-square-foot tenant space, 147 Hillside Ave. Bellair Way $2,290,000 on 07/17/15 room remodel, $20,000 D. Lok for $619,500 on 07/09/15; 04/04/1990, $169,000 includes two hair washing sinks Limited to V. Lathi for $4,350,000 1510 Walnut Drive Walnut Drive 3439 South Court re-roof, previous sale 12/19/1978, 445 Chagall St. L. Vernazza and new outlets, $3,500 on 07/09/15 Charitable Trust to Paul Trust for $10,688 $60,000 to M. Agarwal for $1,340,000 626 Loma Verde Ave. re-roof, 1041 Menlo Oaks Drive Fields $1,700,000 on 07/17/15 827 E. Meadow Drive re-roof, on 07/21/15; previous sale $12,000 Trust to J. Owen for $1,520,000 $22,500 11/06/2012, $826,500 3709 Ortega Court residential on 07/06/15; previous sale 3198 Fallen Leaf St. residential Los Altos 88 Flynn Ave. #A Clayton Trust remodel, includes kitchen and 08/28/1987, $215,000 Portola Valley install NEMA receptacle in ga- 241 Chateau Drive Singer to V. Rajagopal for $715,000 34 Grove Drive R. & L. Livingston three baths, $75,000 1740 Oak Ave. Oak Ave. Lim- rage, $n/a Trust to Deepavenky Trust for on 07/17/15; previous sale to Bastian Trust for $3,850,000 870 Los Robles Ave. re-roof, ited to M. Carli for $5,875,000 3615 Evergreen Drive house $3,100,000 on 07/17/15 04/28/2005, $425,000 on 07/02/15; previous sale $19,475 on 07/10/15; previous sale and garage re-roof, $16,000 1395 Fairway Drive Tan Trust to 116 Flynn Ave. #D H. & L. Rome 03/28/2013, $2,600,000 3151 Ramona St. electric ser- 04/07/2011, $1,705,000 537 Hamilton Ave. commercial M. & K. Esquivel for $3,625,000 to C. Rabano for $675,000 411 La Mesa Drive B. & K. vice upgrade to 125 amps in the 3 Oliver Court Selleck Trust install Level 3 car charger in on 07/17/15 on 07/17/15; previous sale Jones to Big Sur Limited for same location, $n/a to B. Amerige for $1,800,000 underground parking structure, 2011 Fallen Leaf Lane D. No- 08/10/2006, $426,000 $2,700,000 on 07/07/15; previous 275 Ventura Ave. Building 2: re- on 07/10/15; previous sale $n/a lan to J. Loh for $2,000,000 on 2149 Junction Ave. #12 J. sale 03/08/2006, $1,615,000 roof, $17,000 04/08/1992, $720,000 405 Curtner Ave. temporary 07/20/15 McFadden to Hass Trust for 4123 Dake Ave. residential fur- 1969 Palo Alto Way R. Schil- power, $n/a 551 University Ave. Teer Trust $1,400,000 on 07/17/15; previous nace replacement in the same lo- ling to C. Raffaelli for $2,100,000 241 Curtner Ave. re-roof, to Bristow Trust for $2,988,000 sale 12/22/1989, $280,000 Woodside cation in mechanical closet, $n/a on 07/10/15; previous sale $44,900 on 07/17/15 754 Leona Lane Crist Trust 17300 Skyline Blvd. H. & R. 160 Melville Ave. convert exist- 10/02/1986, $265,000 530 Webster St. relocate “Bub- to J. Soden for $1,855,000 Lemmens to E. Farkhondeh for ing duplex into single-family resi- 425 Pope St. C. Gallagher to bler Box” and pipe from rear or on 07/21/15; previous sale $1,575,000 on 07/10/15; previous dence, includes 9-square-foot Los Altos Hills A. & N. Edyvane for $1,450,000 house to front of house, $n/a 01/02/2002, $659,000 sale 08/31/1995, $500,000 addition and 800-square-foot 12355 Hilltop Drive Bristow on 07/08/15; previous sale 911 Hansen Way scope revised 2531 Mardell Way C. Hoffman 3470 Tripp Road John Trust to remodel, $75,000 Trust to Hilltop Drive Limited for 06/14/2002, $595,000 to have existing air handler to re- to W. & C. Chan for $1,650,000 Stenson Trust for $3,650,000 2290 South Court red tag gas $3,200,000 on 07/17/15; previ- 168 Sand Hill Circle Ca- main until future date, $n/a on 07/17/15; previous sale on 07/02/15; previous sale leak repair, $n/a ous sale 11/01/1976, $154,500 plan Trust to A. Wheeler for 41 Somerset Place re-roof, 09/30/1993, $264,000 12/20/1968, $94,000 328 Oxford Ave. residential roof- $1,475,000 on 07/06/15; previous $17,300 1683 Nilda Ave. Curtis Trust mounted PV system, $n/a sale 09/19/1983, $318,000 1450 Arcadia Place residential to J. & K. Berk for $1,400,000 250 Lowell Ave. new pool and Menlo Park 2140 Santa Cruz Ave. #A208 install wall mounted NEMA outlet on 07/20/15; previous sale BUILDING PERMITS spa with associated equipment, 472 9th Ave. Watanabe Trust Corman Trust to Mueller Trust for in the garage, $n/a 04/04/1986, $199,000 $300,000 to A. Couse for $1,500,000 on $600,000 on 07/09/15; previous Palo Alto 2651 Alma St. residential gas 550 Ortega Ave. #A311 C. Ko- 112 Churchill Ave. residential 07/08/15 sale 03/31/2000, $327,000 2050 Dartmouth St. PCE line repair, $n/a chanowicz to Bukowski Trust for kitchen remodel, includes remov- 779 15th Ave. First Partners 1980 Santa Cruz Ave. Utechin residential addition to uncondi- 3500 Deer Creek Road install Real Estate to H. Kim for $975,000 on 07/17/15; previous tioned accessory structure (pool electric equipment, $7,000 ing two interior walls, $22,000 sale 12/04/2002, $382,500 cabana) with two new plumbing 921 Charleston Road emergen- 2151 Park Blvd. replace lighting 49 Showers Drive #N263 J. fixtures, includes new sewer line, cy panel replacement, 10-day in open office and replace ceiling Hanley to F. Ruan for $841,000 no work in the public right of notice given, $n/a tiles within existing grid, $4,500 on 07/17/15; previous sale way, $30,000 2649 Alma St. residential gas 385 Sherman Ave. temporary 06/21/2006, $535,000 475 Melville Ave. roof-mounted line repair, $n/a power, $n/a PV system, $n/a 3500 Deer Creek Road acces- 2332 South Court red tag gas 975 Loma Verde Ave. roof- sible walk and parking restripe, leak repair, $n/a Palo Alto mounted PV system, $n/a $48,000 850 Webster St. 15000-01353: EXTRAORDINARY 101 Alma St. #407 Aaron Trust 311 Everett Ave., Unit #C resi- 770 Bryant St. residential re- in the board room revised the model and kitchen/bath remodel, ceiling tile and lighting, $n/a SERVICE includes removing multiple walls, 1146 Waverley St. red tag gas $VKHDUGRQ no exterior changes, $125,000 leak repair at earthquake shutoff OUTSTANDING 4077 Ben Lomond Drive roof- valve, $n/a mounted PV system, new level 2 891 La Para Ave. residential RESULTS wall mounted EVSE, $n/a roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 4060 Amaranta Ave. residential 3324 Middlefield Road residen- gas line repair, $n/a tial roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 2645 Alma St. residential gas 14 Morton St. red tag gas leak line repair, $n/a repair behind dryer and behind 624 Keats Court replace all win- stove, $n/a ÄùÊç^½½ùÊçÙ«ÊÃ͙ dows, $12,680 2200 South Court residential 605 Cowper St. remove exist- spot repair to gas line, $n/a 650.245.4490 ing and install CertainTeed 2303 Oberlin St. replace forced- presidential life-time composition air furnace and nine ducts, $n/a JENNY [email protected] FREE CONSULTATION: CALL NOW! with a layer of diamond deck as 576 Everett Ave. residential main water line work to be done jennytenghomes.com under-laymen and solid sheath- Dr. Chuck Fuery ing, $17,250 in the public row, $n/a 1467 College Ave. residential 180 El Camino Real, 14000- TENG Toll Free: 1-888-NO-TAXES kitchen remodel, including 03026/3027/3027: structural field decreasing the size of window, clarification to a slab, $n/a w w w .sta nf or dp f .com Ph.D. $55,000 180 El Camino Real, Suite “Using his strategy, I saved over $800,000 3373 Saint Michael Drive revi- #159 Unit 159: repair water damage, replace drywall and in- in taxes” - Bob B., Palo Alto sions to the grading and drain- age plan, $n/a sulation, and add paint and new ^ƚĂŶĨŽƌĚWƌŽƉĞƌƚǇΘ&ŝŶĂŶĐĞŝƐĂůŽĐĂůƌĞĂůĞƐƚĂƚĞĐŽŵƉĂŶǇƐĞƌǀŝŶŐĐůŝĞŶƚƐĨŽƌŽǀĞƌϮϱǇĞĂƌƐĂŶĚŝƐ flooring, $15,000 ŶŽƚĂĸůŝĂƚĞĚǁŝƚŚ^ƚĂŶĨŽƌĚhŶŝǀĞƌƐŝƚǇ 777 E. 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Ada’s Cafe is a 501(c)(3), social enterprise dedicated to hiring, training and employing adults with developmental disabilities in its food service businesses. Through its cafe at the Mitchell Park Community Center and a catering business that operates out of a commercial kitchen in Mountain View, Ada’s goal is to empower its Associates and employ them in a manner that accommodates their disability yet challenges them every day to expand their skill set. Ada’s also integrates high school interns and at-risk young adults into its daily cafe and catering operations. Ada’s organizes its activities around three C’s: Compassionate Employment, Community Engagement and Commercial Success. Ada’s founders believe that satisfying each of these is critical if Ada’s is to achieve its goal of fulﬁlling its mission as a self-sustaining social enterprise. Sereno Group is proud to support the commitment and services Ada’s Cafe provides to our community. For more information about their work or how you can get involved, please visit www.adascafe.org DURING THE MONTHS OF JULY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2015, SERENO GROUP REAL ESTATE AND ITS PALO ALTO AGENTS WILL BE CONTRIBUTING 1% OF THEIR GROSS COMMISSIONS TO ADA’S CAFE. PALO ALTO

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Page 50 • August 21, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com 3315 STOCKTON PLACE, PALO ALTO Beautifully Maintained Eichler

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• Four bedrooms • Wonderfully landscaped, drought tolerant yards –master suite overlooking serene gardens and • Attached oversized two car garage with large walk-in closet • Excellent Palo Alto Schools including Gunn • Two bathrooms High School • Light-filled, formal entry way • 1,775 sq. feet living space approx. • Large living room with vaulted ceilings and “walls • 7,359 sq. foot lot approx. of windows” overlooking private backyard • Spacious and versatile family room/dining room combination leading to outdoor dining area OFFERED AT surrounded by bamboo $2,295,000

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File No.: 607845 29 Tethered labor and materials. State law also This business is owned by: A Trust. The following person (persons) is (are) 14 NAFTA part requires that contractors include The name and residence address of the 30 High poker cards doing business as: 21 Simpsons character that all mem- their license numbers on all advertis- owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): Cardinal Wrestling Club, located at 34 By all odds bers of metal band Okilly Dokilly ing. Check your contractor’s status STEPHAN B. DAHL 641 E. Campus Dr., Stanford CA 94305, 38 Incan sun god look like at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB 235 Hamilton Ave. Santa Clara County. (2752). Unlicensed persons taking 39 Disc jockeys, slangily 22 Take top billing Palo Alto, CA 94301 This business is owned by: A jobs that total less than $500.00 Registrant/Owner began transacting Corporation. 40 Cpl.’s underling 23 City SSE of Sacramento must state in their advertisements Village Auto For Sale or Lease business under the fictitious business The name and residence address of the 43 Metric measures of area 24 “Author unknown” byline that they are not licensed by the name(s) listed above on 5/18/2010. owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): Contractors State License Board. First Time on the Market in 20+ Years 44 Finish up 25 It may be in a pinch Fantastic Downtown Location This statement was filed with the ADVANCED TRAINING WRESTLING County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara 47 Jodie Foster thriller with locked 26 Machine at the gym 3,200 SF Building CLUB, INC. County on July 2, 2015. 641 E. Campus Dr. doors 27 “V for Vendetta” actor Stephen 4,200 SF Lot Owners are Open to Converting the (PAW July 31, Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2015) Stanford, CA 94305 48 Beyond gung-ho 757 Handyman/ 31 Line feeder Building to Office or Retail for Long BO CRANE BOOKS Registrant/Owner began transacting 53 Sharp as ___ 32 Peut-___ (maybe, in Marseilles) Repairs Term Lease FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/16/2007. 54 Whet 33 Sound of an air leak STATEMENT AAA HANDYMAN & MORE File No.: 606745 This statement was filed with the 56 Peony part 35 Venue for testing out new jokes, 855 Real Estate Since 1985 The following person (persons) is (are) County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara 57 Cartoonish cry while standing perhaps Services doing business as: County on August 7, 2015. on a chair Repairs • Maintenance • Painting (PAW Aug. 14, 21, 28, Sept. 4, 2015) 36 Gamers’ D20s, e.g. Carpentry • Plumbing • Electrical DID YOU KNOW Bo Crane Books, located at 4283 Wilkie 58 She released the albums “19” 37 Blue Jays’ prov. Information is power and content is Way, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara CONNECT PEOPLE and “21” All Work Guaranteed King? Do you need timely access to County. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 41 Capricious This business is owned by: An 59 In the costume of public notices and remain relevant in STATEMENT 42 Headquarters, for short (650) 453-3002 today’s highly competitive market? Gain Individual. File No.: 607253 44 Like some communities an edge with California Newspaper The name and residence address of the The following person (persons) is (are) 45 Maternally related Handyman Services Publishers Association new innova- owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): doing business as: Lic. 249558. Plumb, elect., masonry, car- tive website capublicnotice.com and ROBERT L. CRANE JR. 46 Sprayed via inhaler, perhaps Connect People, located at 780 pentry, landscape. 40+ years exp. Pete check out the Smart Search Feature. For 4283 Wilkie Way Maplewood Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 47 Letter after Oscar Rumore, 650/823-0736; 650/851-3078 more information call Cecelia @ (916) Palo Alto, CA 94306 94303, Santa Clara County. 48 Assortment behind the bar- 288-6011 or www.capublicnotice.com Registrant/Owner began transacting This business is owned by: An tender 759 Hauling (Cal-SCAN) business under the fictitious business Individual. name(s) listed above on N/A. The name and residence address of the 49 Succulent houseplant J & G HAULING SERVICE This statement was filed with the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): Misc. junk, office, gar., furn., 50 Modem’s measurement unit County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara CHRISTOPHER PERALTA mattresses, green waste, more. 51 “___ possibility” County on July 7, 2015. 780 Maplewood Avenue Lic./ins. Free est. 650/743-8852 (PAW July 31, Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2015) Palo Alto, CA 94303 52 “Disco Duck” man Rick (see my Yelp reviews) Registrant/Owner began transacting 55 End of the holidays? STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business under the fictitious business 771 Painting/ File No. 607376 name(s) listed above on 7/21/2015. The following person(s)/entity(ies) has/ This statement was filed with the Wallpaper have abandoned the use of the ficti- County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara Glen Hodges Painting tious business name(s). The informa- County on July 22, 2015. Call me first! Senior discount. tion given below is as it appeared on (PAW Aug. 14, 21, 28, Sept. 4, 2015) This week’s SUDOKU 45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325 the fictitious business statement that STYLE PAINTING was filed at the County Clerk-Recorder’s 997 All Other Legals Office. Full service painting. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE Insured. Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S): M2M ANGEL OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE 3351 Alma St. Apt. 324 STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE 775 Asphalt/ Palo Alto, CA 94306 COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Concrete A bold new FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON: Case No.: 115CV283440 12/19/2013 UNDER FILE NO. 586139 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: ELLE MIZUKI TOYAMA filed Mtn. View Asphalt Sealing REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES): a petition with this court for a decree Driveway, parking lot seal coating. approach HAIHONG GAO changing names as follows: Asphalt repair, striping, 30+ years. 3351 Alma St. Apt. 324 ELLE MIZUKI TOYAMA to ELLE MIZUKI Family owned. Free est. Lic. 507814. Palo Alto, CA 94306 FUKUI. 650/967-1129 to classi- THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY: an Individual. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons fieds for the This statement was filed with the interested in this matter appear before Roe General Engineering County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara this court at the hearing indicated Asphalt, concrete, pavers, tiles, sealing, County on July 27, 2015. below to show cause, if any, why the artificial turf. 36 yrs exp. No job too (PAW Aug. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015) petition for change of name should small. Lic #663703. 650/814-5572 Midpeninsula not be granted. Any person objecting LUMO LLC to the name changes described above 779 Organizing FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME must file a written objection that STATEMENT includes the reasons for the objection Services File No.: 607698 at least two court days before the mat- End the Clutter & Get Organized The following person (persons) is (are) ter is scheduled to be heard and must Residential Organizing doing business as: appear at the hearing to show cause by Debra Robinson TM Lumo LLC, located at HanaMaus, 456 why the petition should not be grant- (650)390-0125 fogster.com University Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, ed. If no written objection is timely Santa Clara County. filed, the court may grant the petition This business is owned by: A Limited without a hearing. Classified Deadlines: Instantly online. Free. Liability Company. NOTICE OF HEARING: October 20, The name and residence address of the 2015, 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the NOON, owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): Superior Court of California, County LUMO LLC of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Answers on page 59 www.sudoku.name WEDNESDAY HanaMaus, Jose, CA 95113.

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A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER of either (1) four months from the date an attorney. If you do not have an attor- the date set for hearing on the petition grant the authority. shall be published at least once each ESTATE OF: of first issuance of letters to a general ney and cannot afford to hire one, the in the following newspaper of general A hearing on the petition will be held in week for four successive weeks prior to JOHN EDWIN NORTHRUP also known as personal representative, as defined in court will appoint an attorney for you. circulation, printed in this county: this court on 10/05/15 at 9 am in Dept. the date set for hearing on the petition JOHN E. NORTHRUP section 58 (b) of the California Probate 6. If the court terminates your parental PALO ALTO WEEKLY 10 located at 270 Grant Avenue, Palo in the following newspaper of general Case No.: 1-15-PR-176921 Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of rights, the order may be final. Date: July 31, 2015 Alto, CA 94306 circulation, printed in this county: To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, mailing or personal delivery to you 7. The court will proceed with this hear- Thomas E. Kuhnle If you object to the granting of the peti- PALO ALTO WEEKLY contingent creditors, and persons of a notice under section 9052 of the ing whether or not you are present. JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT tion, you should appear at the hearing Date: July 22, 2015 who may otherwise be interested in California Probate Code. Other California Date: 7-31-15 (PAW Aug. 14, 21, 28, Sept. 4, 2015) and state your objections or file written /s/ Thomas E. Kuhnle the will or estate, or both, of JOHN statutes and legal authority may affect Clerk, by Dolores Bonal, Deputy objections with the court before the JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT EDWIN NORHRUP, also known as JOHN your rights as a creditor. You may want Request for Accommodations NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER hearing. Your appearance may be in (PAW July 31, Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2015) to consult with an attorney knowledge- Assistive listening systems, computer- E. NORTHRUP, also known as JOHN ESTATE OF person or by your attorney. able in California law. assisted real-time captioning, or sign NORTHRUP. WILLIAM DEAN COLDIRON If you are a creditor or a contingent ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE You may examine the file kept by the language interpreter services are avail- OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: CASE NO. 115PR177100 creditor of the decedent, you must file SCOTT NORTHRUP in the Superior Court court. If you are a person interested in able if you ask at least five days before To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY your claim with the court and mail a of California, County of SANTA CLARA. the estate, you may file with the court the proceeding. Contact the clerk’s contingent creditors, and persons OF SANTA CLARA copy to the personal representative The Petition for Probate requests that: a Request for Special Notice (form office or go to www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ who may otherwise be interested in Case No.: 115CV283601 appointed by the court within the later SCOTT NORTHRUP be appointed as per- DE-154) of the filing of an inventory forms for Request for Accommodations the will or estate, or both, of: William TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: and appraisal of estate assets or of by Persons With Disabilities and of either (1) four months from the date Petitioner: ALEKSANDAR TOTIC, INGRID sonal representative to administer the Dean Coldiron also known as William estate of the decedent. any petition or account as provided in Response (form MC-410). (Civil Code, D. Coldiron of first issuance of letters to a general TOTIC filed a petition with this court for Probate Code section 1250. A Request § 54.8.) personal representative, as defined in a decree changing names as follows: The petition requests the decedent’s A Petition for Probate has been filed by will and codicils, if any, be admitted to for Special Notice form is available from 8/7, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28/15 William D. Coldiron, Jr. in the Superior section 58(b) of the California Probate A.) OLIVER KONSTANTIN TOTICH to the court clerk. CNS-2780863# Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of OLIVER KONSTANTIN TOTIC probate. The will and any codicils are Court of California, County of Santa available for examination in the file kept Attorney for Petitioner: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Clara. mailing or personal delivery to you B.) ANDERS NAIM TOTICH to ANDERS Elijah M. Keyes, of a notice under section 9052 of the NAIM TOTIC by the court. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE The Petition for Probate requests that Gilfix & La Poll Associates, LLP California Probate Code. C.) NINA VIVIAN TOTICH to NINA MISITA The petition requests authority to OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE William D. Coldiron, Jr. be appointed as administer the estate under the 2300 Geng Road, Suite 200 personal representative to administer Other California statutes and legal TOTIC. Palo Alto, CA 94303 STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY THE COURT ORDERS that all persons Independent Administration of OF SANTA CLARA the estate of the decedent. authority may affect your rights as a Estates Act. (This authority will allow (650)493-8070 The Petition requests the decedent’s creditor. You may want to consult with interested in this matter appear before (PAW Aug. 7, 14, 21, 2015) Case No.: 115CV283794 this court at the hearing indicated the personal representative to take TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: will and codicils, if any, be admitted to an attorney knowledgeable in California below to show cause, if any, why the many actions without obtaining court CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER Petitioner: CARLY ROSE HAGEN probate. The will and any codicils are law. petition for change of name should not approval. Before taking certain very WELFARE AND NEUGASS filed a petition with this court available for examination in the file kept You may examine the file kept by the be granted. Any person objecting to the important actions, however, the per- INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 for a decree changing names as follows: by the court. court. If you are a person interested in name changes described above must sonal representative will be required to CASE NUMBER: 83847 CARLY ROSE HAGEN NEUGASS to CARLY The Petition requests authority to the estate, you may file with the court file a written objection that includes the give notice to interested persons unless CASE NAME: Jules Daniel Cole ROSE HAGEN. administer the estate under the a Request for Special Notice (form reasons for the objection at least two they have waived notice or consented SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, THE COURT ORDERS that all persons Independent Administration of DE-154) of the filing of an inventory court days before the matter is sched- to the proposed action.) The indepen- COUNTY interested in this matter appear before Estates Act. (This authority will allow and appraisal of estate assets or of the personal representative to take uled to be heard and must appear at the dent administration authority will be OF San Mateo this court at the hearing indicated any petition or account as provided in many actions without obtaining court hearing to show cause why the petition granted unless an interested person files 1. To: Jack and anyone claiming to be a below to show cause, if any, why the Probate Code section 1250. A Request should not be granted. If no written an objection to the petition and shows parent of: Jules Daniel Cole petition for change of name should not approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the perfor Special Notice form is available from objection is timely filed, the court may good cause why the court should not born on: July 7th, 2014 at: a sidewalk in be granted. Any person objecting to the the court clerk. grant the petition without a hearing. grant the authority. Palo Alto, CA name changes described above must sonal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless Attorney for Petitioner: James M. Allen, NOTICE OF HEARING: October 27, 2015, A HEARING on the petition will be held 2. A hearing will be held on: September file a written objection that includes the 199 Fremont Street, 21st Floor, San on September 3 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: they have waived notice or consented 8:45 a.m., Room: Probate of the Superior 21st, 2015 at: 9:00am in Dept.: 5 located reasons for the objection at least two Francisco, CA 94105-6640, 10 of the Superior Court of California, to the proposed action.) The indepen- Court of California, County of Santa at 222 Paul Scannell Drive, San Mateo, court days before the matter is sched- Telephone: (415) 957-1800 Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. 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www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 59 Sports WOMEN’S SOCCER Shorts Healthy COACHING CHANGES . . . Menlo outlook School will have two new coaches, both familiar faces around campus, taking over varsity teams for the 2015-2016 season. Ross Ireland to start will direct girls soccer and Tom Hitchcock will lead boys golf. Ireland Stanford takes No. 3 takes over for Donoson FitzGerald, national ranking into who stepped down after 26 seasons during a long and storied career. its season opener FitzGerald will be assisting with the by Rick Eymer boys varsity soccer team as well as tanford fifth-year senior coaching soccer, track and football in Haley Rosen experienced the middle school. Hitchcock takes the best and worst of over for Dave Buchanan, who moved S women’s soccer through her first on after a successful four-year cam- four years in the program, from paign with Menlo. Ireland brings watching her teammates win a years of international playing and national championship to seeing coaching experience to Menlo. He her season end prematurely be- served the last couple of seasons as cause of an injury. the frosh-soph girls coach, and be- Cardinal coach Paul Ratcliffe fore coming to Menlo, led Castilleja’s (214-45-24, entering 13th year) team for eight seasons. Hitchcock is hopes Rosen can stay healthy this a familiar face not only on the links, year. The team needs her, and not but also on campus as he serves as just she’s the elder stateswoman Menlo’s Director of Security. For the of the squad. Stanford will be past four years, he was an assistant looking for scoring from vari- coach for both the boys and girls ous sources and Rosen has shown teams. Gunn, meanwhile, has a new a propensity for doing just that athletic director in Curtis Johansen, when she is healthy. who previously was athletic director Stanford, which has partici- at Licking Heights High in Pataskala, pated in the past 17 consecutive Ohio. He replaces Jill Naylor. NCAA playoffs and reached six of the past seven Women’s College A CONTENDER . . . The Stanford Cups (Final Four), including a na- women’s field hockey team was tional title in 2011, opens its sea- picked to win the West Division of son with a pair of matches in Ha- the America East Conference in the waii this weekend. The Cardinal annual preseason coaches poll, (20-2-3 last year) opens against as announced by the organization the host Rainbow Wahine on Fri- Wednesday. The Cardinal received day night and then play BYU on three of four first-place votes in the

Bob Drebin/stanfordphoto.com Monday. West Division, leading the way with Rosen is also the only player on nine points (coaches could not vote the roster who knows what it feels for their own team). Pacific, Califor- like to win a national title. nia, and UC Davis all received five “Being part of that team, I saw points to round out the newly formed how the seniors set an amazing division. example of working hard, making it a cohesive group and being all A MEDALIST . . . Stanford redshirt in 100 percent,” Rosen said. “That sophomore Nathan Butler was Returning junior defender Stephanie Amack (right) provides versatility and experience for the Stanford one of three Americans to capture women’s soccer team as she also can play in the midfield for the No. 3-ranked Cardinal. (continued on next page) a bronze medal Sunday on the final day of the UWW Junior World Cham- pionships in Salvador, Brazil. Steven STANFORD FOOTBALL Mimic and Aaron Pico also won their bronze medal matches for the U.S. Butler won a tactical match, 2-1, over Paly grad Anderson Poland’s Kamil Kosciulek at heavy- weight. Kosciulek was the defend- tackles some tough goals ing bronze medalist. Both wrestlers scored a point when their opponents Rebounding from last year’s 8-5 record were put on a shot clock. The difference was a pushout by Butler early in a priority as season opener nears the second period. by Rick Eymer linebacker, who entered the pro- evin Anderson has made gram as one of the top defensive ON THE AIR 84 tackles as a member end prospects in the nation, has K of the Stanford football been fully engaged in the foot- Friday team, 20 of those were for a loss, ball team to the extent that he’s Men’s golf: U.S. Amateur quarterfi- including nine sacks. He’s also become one of its most respected nals, noon; FOX Sports I credited with nine quarterback members. Saturday hurries, a fumble recovery and a “I feel like I just moved in the Men’s golf: U.S. Amateur semifi-

forced fumble. There’s also that other day,” Anderson said of Craig Mitchelldyer/isiphotos.com nals, noon; FOX Sports I interception he returned 40 yards making the journey across the Sunday for a touchdown in the 2013 Rose El Camino Real and transition- Men’s golf: U.S. Amateur finals, Bowl. ing from Palo Alto High all-state noon; FOX (2) Statistics, though, can’t even be- player to preseason All-America gin to describe Anderson’s contri- college status. “Here I am, enter- READ MORE ONLINE butions to the Cardinal program, ing my fifth camp.” www.PASportsOnline.com which has won more than 75 per- Anderson will play a large part cent of its games (42-12) through in how Stanford “rebounds” from For expanded daily coverage of college and prep sports, visit his first four years. Palo Alto High grad Kevin Anderson will add to his 84 career www.PASportsOnline.com The fifth-year senior outside (continued on page 63) tackles when Stanford opens its season Sept. 5.

Page 60 • August 21, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Stanford’s McNealy hopes to be playing for U.S. Amateur title by Keith Peters Americans and one of 64 talented hole with a par-5, lost the second seed Bryson DeChambeau, the match and continuing coverage, tanford junior Maverick players who battled their way to Antcliff’s birdie, but retook a reigning NCAA Division I cham- go to www.pasportsonline.com) McNealy was regarded as into match play on Wednesday at 1-up lead when Ancliff bogeyed pion from SMU. Both players are McNealy was hoping to find S the best male golfer in col- Olympia Fields Country Club in the 390-yard, par-4 third. Mc- members of the U.S. Walker Cup himself busy the remainder of lege this past season after being Olympia Fields, Ill. Nealy never looked back after that Team. the week with quarterfinals set honored with both the Jack Nick- Despite being seeded No. 39 for as he won the fifth to go 2 up, took McNealy grabbed a 1-up lead for Friday, semifinals Saturday laus Award and Haskins Award his first-round match against Can- the sixth for a 3-up lead and won after the opening hole, but found (noon, FOX Sports 1) and finals as the NCAA Player of the Year. ada’s Austin Connelly, the No. 26 the ninth to make the turn with himself trailing by a hole through on Sunday (noon, FOX). The Portola Valley resident led seed, McNealy reached the Round a 4-up advantage when Antcliff the first nine after he bogeyed The second-ranked amateur in the nation with a 68.70 scoring of 32 by posting a 1-up victory. bogeyed the 475-yard, par-4 hole. the 214-yard, par-3 seventh hole. the world, McNealy qualified for average, won an NCAA regional That triumph earned McNealy McNealy went 5 up with a par McNealy, however, squared the match play on Wednesday morn- and made the cut in two PGA a date with No. 7 seed Maverick on the 13th and clinched the vic- match with a par-4 on the 430- ing after two rounds of stroke Tour events. Antcliff on Thursday morning. tory by halving the 14th as both yard 10th hole. play. Q At the 115th U.S. Amateur Once again, McNealy responded players birdied. DeChambeau retook the lead Championship, however, McNealy by posting a 5-and-4 victory. McNealy returned to the course when he birdied the 475-yard, (Stanford Athletics and USGA. was just one eight first-team All- McNealy won the 611-yard first later on Thursday to face No. 23 par-4 11th hole. (For results of the com contributed) Soccer (continued from previous page) stuck with me. It was contagious. There was a 100 percent commitment from everybody.” The Cardinal was ranked third nationally in a preseason poll and was picked to win the conference title in a vote of Pac-12 coaches. Ratcliffe could do without either designation. “It’s predicated on what you did the year before,” Ratcliffe said. “Regardless of what you have ac- complished, you have to prove you Bob Drebin/stanfordphoto.com are capable of winning the Pac-12. A lot if may be that this recruiting class was rated No. 1, but those kids have to prove it. It’s a new group every year. We graduated some good kids and we brought in good kids. They will be tested throughout the year.” Stanford midfielder Andi Sullivan (right) was the National Rosen, one of five seniors who Freshman of the Year in 2014. help set the tone for the year, was a redshirt in her first season due All-Pac-12 team and was an hon- but turned to Carina Deandries, to injury. She also missed half of orable mention last year. a junior currently playing for

her sophomore year with injuries Bauer, also an all-freshman Northeastern, as a role model. Bob Drebin/stanfordphoto.com before appearing in 24 matches in pick, has been named a second “She’s always positive and al- last year’s run to the Final Four. team All-Pac-12 in each of her ways the hardest worker at prac- “My personal journey is one I first two years. tice or anywhere,” Sullivan said. would never had expected,” she Los Altos Hills resident Siob- “She helped me get through any said. “It does make me all the han Cox, forward Megan Turner situation and that got to me.” more appreciative of the opportu- and midfielder Ryan Walker- Sullivan plays hard and stays nities I’ve had. I feel so fortunate Hartshorn complete a talented even-keeled. She wants to keep to be part of Stanford soccer. Paul junior class that brings plenty of the team together and composed. creates an amazing environment.” experience to the field. The ju- “The goal is to make it back to Fifth-year season Haley Rosen hopes 2015 will be a healthy year for Senior defender Laura Liedle niors have combined to appear in the Final Four and win it,” she herself and her teammates. is, perhaps, the steadiest and most 241 matches, including 152 starts. said. “It’s purposeful to have a reliable player on the field, hav- Sophomore midfielder Andi unified goal. As soon as you start ing started 69 (of a possible 70) Sullivan said she picked Stanford to play, you start to believe it. It’s STANFORD WOMEN’S SOCCER 2015 matches, including the past 55 because it’s a “consistently Final positive energy.” in succession. She was named a Four level team, even though the Menlo-Atherton grad Zoe Date Opponent Time Date Opponent Time freshman All-American and was year before I came they didn’t Pacalin, who appeared in four Friday at Hawaii 10 p.m. Oct. 22 at WSU* 7 p.m. an All-Pac-12 honorable mention make it.” games last year, is also part of the Aug. 24 at BYU# 10 p.m. Oct. 25 at Washington* 5 p.m. pick last year. Sullivan, named National sophomore class along with Mari- Aug. 28 vs. Boston College 7 p.m. Oct. 29 vs. USC* 7 p.m. “She’s going to be a good lead- Freshman of the Year by Top ah Lee, who played in 25 matches Sept. 4 at Cal Poly-SLO 7 p.m. Nov. 1 vs. UCLA* 3:30 p.m. er,” Ratcliffe said. “You hope (se- Drawer Soccer, was an important a year ago. Sept. 11 vs. Penn St. 8 p.m. Nov. 6 vs. Cal* 6 p.m. niors) can help coach on the field.” reason why the Cardinal returned Menlo School grad Jaye Bois- Sept. 13 vs. Oklahoma 1 p.m. Nov. 13 NCAA first round Other seniors include goalie to the national stage last year. siere also returns. She played 57 Sept. 17 vs. UC Davis 7 p.m. Nov. 20 NCAA second round Sarah Cox and midfielders Kate In addition to her playing skills, minutes in the season-opener and Sept. 20 at Santa Clara 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22 NCAA third round Bettinger and Katie Donague. Sullivan is a natural leader. De- missed the rest of the year with Sept. 25 at Utah* 3 p.m. Nov. 27 NCAA quarterfinals Liedle leads a defense that not spite being one of the youngest an injury. Kyra Carusa and Alison Oct. 2 at Arizona St.* 7 p.m. Dec. 4 College Cup semifinals@ only proved stingy in allowing players on club, high school and Jahansouz also used their redshirt Oct. 4 at Arizona* 11 a.m. Dec. 6 College Cup finals@ goals but also in allowing shots junior national teams, she’s usu- year. Oct. 8 vs. Oregon St.* 7 p.m. # in Honolulu, Hawaii on goal, helping junior goalie ally named a team captain. She The six-member freshmen Oct. 11 vs. Oregon* 8 p.m. * Pac-12 Conference Jane Campbell record a historic doesn’t have an explanation for it. class includes two Gatorade Oct. 16 vs. Colorado* 8 p.m. @ Cary, N.C. season. Campbell had 14 shutouts, “Honestly, it’s just me be- Players of the Year and another second-most in a single season ing myself,” Sullivan said. “My state Player of the Year, four two- the Year. Her father, Shane Col- Teagan McGrady, who was also at Stanford. She had a scoreless teammates push me and accept time youth All-Americans and a lins, played in the NFL for three a California state qualifier in the streak of over 800 minutes at one me. I think it’s part of the team member of the Australian U20 years. Michelle Xiao was named 200 and 400 relay in track and point and has 20 shutouts, sixth on chemistry. I’m just playing. My national team. Nebraska’s Gatorade Player of field. Penelope Edmonds joined Stanford’s all-time list. parents taught me a lot about be- “We are extra confident in the the Year, was a two-time youth the Australian U20 team as a Two other important defending a leader and turn to them for freshmen class,” Sullivan said. All-American and a state Junior 16-year-old. ers also return in juniors Stepha- guidance.” “They came in sharp and are al- Olympic hurdles champ. Rosen’s advice to the freshmen? nie Amack and Maddie Bauer. Of course, she doesn’t have ready excellent.” Alana Cook earned New Jersey “I know this sounds cheesy but Amack, who also plays in the that luxury while playing. As the Averie Collins, all-state in prep Player of the Year honors and it’s to have fun because it goes midfield at times, has been a De- youngest player on her Bethesda both soccer and basketball, was was a two-time youth All-Amer- by so quickly,” she said. “And re- fender of the Week, voted onto the club team, she served as captain, the Montana Gatorade Player of ican, as was Jordan DiBiasi and member the journey.” Q

www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • August 21, 2015 • Page 61 Sports She’s setting her sights on qualifying for Olympics Stanford grad Foluke Akinradewo will attempt to help USA women qualify at FIVB World Cup starting this weekend in Japan he U.S. Women’s Volley- The U.S. has never won gold final roster are Megan Easy, Kim ished pool play undefeated with as the Americans defeated teams ball National Team, ranked at the FIVB World Cup, but the Hill, Jordan Larson-Burbach and a sweep of Argentina, 25-20, 26- from Germany and Brazil. T No. 1 in the world by the overall top priority in Japan will Kelsey Robinson. At opposite are 24, 25-23. The 4-0 start was a Walsh Jennings is returning FIVB, has had a lot of gold placed be to earn a ticket to Rio by finish- Nicole Fawcett and Karsta Lowe. historic mark for the USA squad to action for the first-time in around its neck over the past 10 ing either first or second. Winning Other middle blockers are Christa as no U.S. BYNT has ever made six weeks after dislocating her months. is always a priority Dietzen Tori Dixon and Lauren it through pool play right shoulder in a While those have for the squad, but Gibbemeyer while the setters are undefeated. SWATCH Major Se- been enjoyable, his- the objective here is Alisha Glass and Molly Kreklow On Monday, Ew- ries event in Gstaad, torical moments in to make it into the with the liberos being Kayla Ban- ert produced nine Switzerland. the program’s his- Olympics — a hard warth and Natalie Hagglund. kills to help the USA Ross and Walsh tory, they are in the task in its own right Stanford grads Cassidy Licht- take down France, Jennings opened past and the squad is with only 12 teams man and Kristin Hildebrand, 26-24, 25-21, 23-25, play with a 2-0 (21- continuing to build competing on the who helped Team USA win the 25-16. A day earlier, 15, 21-18) win in 42 for the future with grandest stage every gold medal at the Pan American Ewert produced 22 minutes over Vic- eyes on making four years. And the Games, were left off the squad. points with 19 kills, toria Bieneck and more history. team has not lost the one block and two Julia Grossner of Team USA has fact winning gold at Youth boys aces as the USA Germany. won gold at the 2014 the Olympics — the Incoming Stanford freshman defeated Belgium, The ASICS World FIVB World Cham- top objective every Jordan Ewert of Antioch had five 25-20, 17-25, 25-18, Series of Beach Vol- pionship — the first- four years — has al- kills on eight attempts in just two 21-25, 19-17. leyball is the second ever World Champi- luded them despite sets to help the U.S. Boys’ Youth of two events in onship in program winning three silver National Team (5-0) move on Beach the United States history, the 2015 medals and a bronze to the quarterfinals of the 2015 The first of two this season that are FIVB World Grand in the last eight FIVB Boys’ U19 World Champi- days for the wom- part of the qualify- Prix for the sixth Olympic Games. onship after taking down Mexi- en competing in ing process for the time, the 2015 Pan Foluke Akinradewo For the World co (2-3) 25-18, 25-16, 25-22 on the third annual Kerri Walsh Jennings Rio 2016 Olympic American Games Cup, U.S. head Wednesday in Argentina. $800,000 ASICS Games. The first gold for the first time since 1967 coach Karch Kiraly and his staff The victory guarantees the U.S. World Series of Beach Volleyball 2015 American Olympic quali- and the 2015 Pan American Cup have trimmed their 20-player a place in the quarterfinals and a in Long Beach featured 11 unde- fier was held in mid-June at St. for the third time in four years. preliminary roster down to maxi- top-8 finish. The BYNT never feated teams for eight countries Petersburg, Fla. However, no tournament is any mum 14-player travel roster with has placed in the top half of the after two rounds of pool play at Walsh Jennings, 37, is a three- more important than the next as some incredibly tough decisions World Championship, making Alamitos Beach. time Olympic gold medalist. She the Americans seek qualification along the way. Among the final 2015 a historic year for the U.S. Among the tandems with a and Ross must compete in 12 into the 2016 Rio Olympic Games 14 is Stanford grad Foluke Akin- The team will go up against Rus- 2-0 record was defending ASICS events by June 12, 2016 in order to through the 2015 FIVB World radewo (Plantation, Fla.), who sia on Friday. World Series of Beach Volleyball have a shot at making the Olym- Cup that commences Saturday in earned a spot at middle blocker. On Tuesday, Ewert had 10 kills champions April Ross and Stan- pic team. The tandem currently is Japan. Outside hitters selected to the and one block as the U.S. fin- ford grad Kerri Walsh Jennings ranked 30th in the world. Q

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Page 62 • August 21, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Sports Anderson (continued from page 60) a five-loss season (three by a total of nine points) in its quest for a chance at the conference title. The Cardinal (8-5 last year, including a victory over Maryland in the Foster Farms Bowl) begins its season with a road contest at by Rick Eymer seen by a full officiating crew Northwestern on Saturday, Sept. tanford had two return- from the Pac-12 Conference. 5 at 9 a.m. (PT), to be televised ing wide receivers with Fifth-year senior quarterback by ESPN. significant receptions Kevin Hogan looked sharp,

David Bernal/isiphotos.com S “I’m just trying to be a good last season — Devon Cajuste although he was off-limits athlete in general,” said the and Michael Rector. That num- to tacklers. Tight ends Greg 6-foot-4, 245-pound Anderson, ber is now down to one. Taboada and Dalton Schultz who also threw the shot put and Rector, a likely starter at wide were his favorite targets and discus for the Vikings’ track and receiver, has been suspended figure to have big roles in the field team. “I’ve had some great indefinitely. It was reported fol- offense this season. guys to look up to, like Trent lowing last Saturday’s practice “I really like the size, ver- Murphy and Chase Thomas. Palo Alto High grad Kevin Anderson (48) hopes hard work will that Cardinal head coach David satility and athleticism of the They set the ground work, men- erase memories of last year’s five-loss season. Shaw suspended Rector for dis- whole group,” Shaw said of his tally, to work hard. They showed ciplinary reasons. four tight ends. me the framework on how to suc- much deeper than that. cornerback Ronnie Harris and Rector, a 6-foot-1, 189-pound Running back Christian Mc- ceed and get the best out of your “I want to win as many games sophomore defensive lineman redshirt junior, was fourth on Caffrey produced the best run body.” as I can, as part of the overall team Solomon Thomas as players on the team with 24 catches for of the session, breaking loose Anderson never needed motiva- effort,” he said. “I want to make the verge of greatness. 324 yards and two touchdowns for a 60-yard touchdown. How- tion for working hard physically. sure I don’t fail this team and “Solomon might be the stron- in 2014. He also registered 14 ever, the play was nullified by a The civil engineering major is work to so that we can realize our gest guy on the team,” Anderson receptions for 431 yards and holding penalty. currently working on a master’s full potential. I want to tell people said. “He works harder than any- three scores as a redshirt fresh- McCaffrey had a great week degree in sustainable design and I have 100 best friends, who I can one. All Ronnie wants to do is get man in 2013. of practice and looks consider- construction. He’s always had ask anything of and who will be better. He lives, eats and sleeps With Rector sidelined in- ably bigger and stronger than high expectations of himself. He there no matter what.” football.” definitely, Stanford will have last season, when he played as was named honorable mention on Anderson already has played The Cardinal linebackers, to turn to Cajuste (34 catches, a true freshman. Likewise for the All-Pac-12 team last season. in two Rose Bowls and has been meanwhile, will provide strength 557 yards, six touchdowns) and fifth-year senior running back What separates Anderson is his a part of four bowl games alto- and experience with Blake Marti- tight end Austin Hooper (40 Remound Wright, who rushed drive to become a better player, gether, which includes Stanford’s nez, Kevin Palma and Peter Ka- catches, 499 yards, two TDs) for a team-high 11 touchdowns a better person, every day. He’s overtime loss to Oklahoma State lambayi. for veteran experience. Also last season. Freshman run- been willing to make sacrifices in the 2011 Fiesta Bowl. It wasn’t “Everyone has played a lot,” in the mix is Francis Owusu, ning back Bryce Love has also along the way. While his friends that long ago, when Anderson was Anderson said. “We have a lot of a 6-foot-3, 212-pound junior, looked good. are at a late-night party, Anderson an eighth-grader, that the Cardi- people returning on defense. It’s a likely candidate to move in Other bright spots have been makes sure to get the right amount nal finished 1-11 as part of a sev- the most talent we’ve had since to Rector’s spot in the starting the play of the young second- of sleep and to eat properly. He en-year losing streak, the longest I’ve been here.” lineup. He caught 11 passes for ary and retooled defensive line, credits Murphy, who grew on a in school history. All Anderson wants is to steer 138 yards in 2014. both of whom have been hold- ranch in Arizona wrestling cattle, Stanford’s current streak of everybody toward their full poten- Rector reportedly was the ing their own. Brennan Scar- for showing him the way. winning seasons began in Ander- tial, just the way Chase Thomas fastest player on the team, run- lett, who played and earned an “I will say no to the extra cook- son’s sophomore year at Paly. and Trent Murphy did for him. ning a 4.38-second 40-yard undergraduate degree at Cal, ie and no to going out,” Anderson “I remember going to games * * * dash last spring. transferred to Stanford in the said. “There’s homework to be in that 1-11 season,” Anderson Stanford will host its annual The Cardinal, however, also spring and is taking graduate completed.” said. “It’s pretty special the cul- Open House on Saturday. Activi- has some potential speedy re- courses. He has been brought A wrist injury kept Anderson ture these guys set. We don’t base ties begin with an open practice ceivers in Isaiah Brandt-Sims, along slowly, but is now making out of spring camp, which only success on last year. We continue at the Elliott Practice Fields from a Washington state sprint contributions on the field and convinced him to work even to work. We’re not satisfied. We 10 a.m. until approximately noon. champ in track and field plus is expected to provide much- harder. work to get better.” Immediately following the prac- freshman Trent Irwin, ranked needed experience and depth “I realized just how much I love This year is no different. Stan- tice, which features live scrim- as high as No. 10 in the nation on the line. football,” he said. “I wanted to put ford’s goal never changes. maging, Shaw will address fans out of Hart High in Southern Offensive tackle Nick David- in extra effort to the nth degree.” “Every season, it’s to win the in attendance. California after catching 106 son was on the practice field Even during his redshirt season, Pac-12 title first,” Anderson said. The Open House event then balls for 1,974 yards and 22 Saturday and will participate in Anderson was one of the hardest “We’re confident that if we win continues on the Elliott Practice TDs in 2014. workouts next week, along with workers on the team. He was re- the Pac-12, we’ll get one of the Fields with football drill stations, * * * David Bright. Both are compet- warded with the Greg Piers Team four (national playoff) spots.” games and contests until 1 p.m., Stanford finished its first ing for playing time on the right Award for outstanding scout team While Stanford has a younger after which the football team will week of preseason practice on side of the line. Q contributions; not that he needed team than in years past, Anderson be available for autographs on the Saturday with a lively contact (Mark Soltau of Stanford any honors. It’s nice to be recog- insists it’s every bit as talented. He concourse inside Maples Pavilion session in 95-degree heat over- Athletics contributed) nized but Anderson’s desire runs points to fellow fifth-year senior until 2 p.m. Q Stanford duo helps USA women advance in Junior World polo tanford’s Jamie Neushul Amanda Longan went the distance after the first period. 3:53 to go in the period. Fischer, Spain’s Beatriz Ortiz wrapped up scored the winning goal in net while recording nine saves. Andrea Gonzalez scored early Neushul, and Tara Prentice all the wild match. Team USA went S with 15 seconds left to play A combined 41 exclusions were in the second quarter to give scored to push the advantage to 11 for 20 on power plays and con- to carry the USA Women’s Junior called in the match, resulting in Spain its largest lead at 8-5 before four. Spain scored two of the next verted its lone penalty shot while National Team to a thrilling 17-16 four USA players fouling out Team USA began to battle back. three goals to close out the third Spain was 10 for 19 on power plays victory over Spain at the FINA and leaving goalkeeper Emalia Emily Loughlin and Neushul period trailing 14-11. and also made a penalty shot. Junior World Championships on Eichleberger to play the field in scored to make it 8-7 with 4:43 to Both teams continued to score On Tuesday, the USA posted a Wednesday in Volos, Greece. the final moments of the match. play in the first half. Spain went into the fourth quarter but, after 23-0 win over Ukraine as Emily The triumph marked the third Team USA got off to a quick ahead 9-7, but the rest of the quar- Brooks scored her second of the Loughlin scored seven goals to straight victory for Team USA, start in this match with goals from ter belonged to the USA. Alexis day, Team USA went ahead 16- lead the way. Raney finished with which took first place in its group Mary Brooks and Fischer to go Liebowitz and Fischer connected 13 with 5:11 to play. Spain rallied two goals and Neushul had one. and earned a bye into Friday’s ahead 2-0 in the opening 90 sec- to tie the match at 9 and then with two straight goals to close The USA opened play Monday quarterfinals against Brazil, which onds. Spain rallied to tie the match Makenzie Barr found the net with within one at 16-15 with 2:19 to with a 28-0 romp over Mexico. topped Japan on Thursday, 12-9. at 2 while setting the tone for what just four seconds left to give the go in the match. Fischer scored six goals, Neushul Aria Fischer scored four goals would be a back-and-forth match Americans a 10-9 halftime lead. Neushul’s goal with just 15 tallied four goals and Raney add- and Neushul added three, includ- throughout. Judith Forca scored The United States kept up the seconds left sealed the deal for ed one.Q ing the game-winner. Stanford’s four goals in the period for Spain offensive attack in the third quar- Team USA as it went up 17-15. A -- Palo Alto Weekly staff Jordan Raney scored once and to help her team take a 6-5 lead ter, building its lead to 13-9 with goal with three seconds left from and USA Water Polo

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