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Vol. XXXIV, Number 44 N August 2, 2013 Inside this issue Palo Alto Adult School fall program www.PaloAltoOnline.com Scientists seek personalized treatment based on your DNA PAGE 29 Transitions 17 Spectrum 18 Seniors 21 Eating 37 Movies 40 Home 49 Puzzles 66 NNews Palo Alto set to ban vehicle dwelling Page 3 NArts Complexities abound in TheatreWorks’ festival Page 33 NSports Stanford swimmer splashes to a gold medal Page 42 CITY OF PALO ALTO TIME & PLACE PRESENTS THE 29TH ANNUAL 5K walk 7:00pm, 10K run 8:15pm, 5K run 8:45pm. Race-night registration 6 to 8pm at City of Palo Alto Baylands Athletic Center, Embarcadero & Geng Roads (just east of the Embarcadero Exit off Highway 101). Parking — go to PaloAltoOnline.com to check for specific parking locations. 5K WALK, 5K & 10K RUN COURSE Great for kids and families 5k and 10k courses around the Palo Alto Baylands under the light of the Full Harvest Moon. Course is USAT&F certified (10k only) and flat along paved roads. Water at all stops. Course maps coming soon. REGISTRATIONS & ENTRY FEE Adult Registration (13 +) registration fee is $30 per entrant by 9/13/13. Includes a long-sleeved t-shirt. Youth Registration (6 - 12) registration is $20 per entrant by 9/13/13. Includes a long-sleeved t-shirt. Youth (5 and under) run free with an adult, but must be registered through Evenbrite with signed parental guardian waiver, or may bring/fill out a signed waiver to race-night registration. Late Registration fee is $35 for adults, $25 for youth from 9/14 - 9/18. Race night registration fee is $40 for adult; $30 for youth from 6 to 8pm. T-shirts available only while supplies last. Refunds will not be issued for no-show registrations and t-shirts will not be held. MINORS: If not pre-registered, minors under 18 must bring signed parental/waiver form on race night. SPORTS TEAM/CLUBS: Online pre-registration opportunity for organizations of 10 or more runners; e-mail [email protected]. DIVISIONS Age divisions: 9 & under; 10 - 12; 13 - 15; 16 - 19; 20 - 24; 25 - 29; 30 - 34; 35 - 39; 40 - 44; 45 - 49; 50 - 54; 55 - 59; 60 - 64; 65 - 69; 70 & over with separate divisions for male and female runners in each age group. Race timing provided for 5K and 10K runs only. COMPUTERIZED RESULTS BY A CHANGE OF PACE Chip timing results will be posted on PaloAltoOnline.com by 11pm race night. Race organizers are not responsible for incorrect results caused by incomplete/incorrect registration forms. AWARDS/PRIZES/ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY SEPT 20 7PM Top three finishers in each division. Prize giveaways and refreshments. Pre-race warmups by Noxcuses Fitness, Palo Alto BENEFICIARY A benefit event for local non-profits Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund. A holiday-giving fund to benefit Palo Alto area non- profits and charitable organizations. In April 2013, 55 organizations received a total of $380,000 (from the 2012-2013 Holiday Fund.) supporting kids and families MORE INFORMATION Call (650) 463-4920, (650) 326-8210, email [email protected] or go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com. For safety reasons, no dogs allowed on course for the 5K and 10K runs. They are welcome on the 5K walk only. No retractable leashes. Bring your own clean-up bag. Jogging strollers welcome in the 5K walk or at the back of either run. Presented by REGISTER ONLINE: PaloAltoOnline.com/moonlight_run Corporate Sponsors Event Sponsors Community Sponsors Page 2ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Palo Alto set to ban living in vehicles City Council prepares to rule on divisive Valley don’t prohibit people from night. The number of complaints Cubberley, said she doesn’t feel safe proposal Monday night living in their cars. involving vehicle dwellers spiked walking with her dog anymore be- The proposal follows years of from 10 in 2010 to 39 last year, cause of “too many weird encoun- by Gennady Sheyner complaints from residents of Col- according to Police Chief Dennis ters with people in bushes and be- lege Terrace and other neighbor- Burns. In early June, a homeless hind trees, and a strong urine stench alo Alto’s emotional two-year Alto’s status as one of the few cities hoods about car dwellers parking man was arrested in Cubberley for with toilet paper strewn about.” On debate over whether it should in the region that does not have any their vehicles on residential streets beating another man until the latter several occasions, she said, she has P be illegal for people to sleep laws on the books barring vehicle for extended periods of time. At the lost consciousness. been yelled at by two people regu- in vehicles could reach its conclu- habitation. Monte Sereno is cur- same time, Cubberley Community Some area residents have com- larly seen at Cubberley. sion Monday night, when the City rently the only city in Santa Clara Center, on the southern edge of the plained that the situation is becom- “We are being impacted,” Deier- Council is scheduled to vote on the County that does not have such a city, has recently become what City ing increasingly unsafe for their lein wrote to the council in June. controversial ban. ban. In San Mateo County, only Manager James Keene described families. Mary Anne Deierlein, The ordinance would abolish Palo Colma, East Palo Alto and Portola as a “de facto homeless shelter” at a resident of Parkside Drive near (continued on page 11) HOUSING Buena Vista residents seek to buy mobile-home park Federal and state funding could provide a low-interest mortgage by Sue Dremann early 400 people living in Palo PMC Financial Services in Ashland, But the Jissers “have 30 million Alto’s Buena Vista Mobile Ore., a consultant to residents want- reasons to beat on this process until N Home Park might soon fight ing to purchase their mobile-home somebody caves,” he warned. That’s eviction with a new tactic: buying parks, have come up with a plan that how much the family stands to make the land underneath their homes. they say could put the park property from the deal with Prometheus. As About 70 residents met on Monday, in residents’ hands. affordable housing, Buena Vista’s July 29, with consultants who have Loop has helped a number of resi- value is estimated at only $14.5 helped other mobile-home park resi- dents in Santa Cruz County buy their million, according to an appraiser’s dents purchase their properties, con- parks; Sargent has helped residents report done for the Jissers. firmed Erika Escalante, Buena Vista in 50 parks in the Western U.S. “They (the residents) can’t afford Residents Association president. Sargent said he doesn’t seek the to buy it for $30 million, but they The possibility of going from be- parks out; he is usually contacted by can afford to buy it for the fair-mar- ing landless to the owners of a valu- someone at an endangered mobile- ket value of the park,” Sargent said, able piece of Palo Alto real estate has home park to help secure a buy. Attor- adding that he would help them find brought hope to many residents, Es- neys for the Law Foundation of Sili- financing. calante said. But she cautioned that con Valley, which represents Buena At least two potential sources of the idea is very much preliminary. Vista residents, referred the mobile- mortgage financing could help se- Weber Veronica The Jisser family, who own the homeowners to Loop and Sargent. cure funding. A U.S. Department of property, announced plans last No- “It’s not easy. The hardest part is Housing and Urban Development vember to convert the 4.5-acre par- getting the owner to pay attention. (HUD)-guaranteed program could cel at 3980 El Camino Real into 187 I try to find out fairly early in the provide a 40-year, fixed-rate loan high-end apartments. They signed a process if we can get the transaction that is fully amortizing, Loop said. contract with Prometheus Real Es- closed,” Sargent said. The longer-term loan allows for low- The sounds of music tate and Property Management to Buena Vista’s chances “are remark- er monthly payments and could in- Organist Jean Cole rehearses pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, develop the property, contingent on ably high” — if they can get the Jis- clude upgrades to utilities and roads Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi and Dieterich Buxtehude on the city granting a zoning change. sers to agree — and if they can buy and about $300,000 to $400,000 in the large Merrit Speidel Memorial Organ at the First United David Loop, a real estate attorney the land for the fair-market value as a Methodist Church in Palo Alto on July 30. from Aptos, and Deane Sargent of mobile-home park, he said. (continued on page 11) EDUCATION New two-story classroom buildings, gym, library on tap for Palo Alto students Most visible results of 2008 bond measure open their doors this month by Chris Kenrick hen Palo Alto students go classrooms and campus detours — proved in June 2008 by 77.5 percent performing-arts center. two-story building for math and back to school Aug. 15, the long construction process will of voters in the school district. The “We’ve never brought this many English containing 28 classrooms W they’ll occupy three brand- be complete, or nearly so. bond was aimed at modernizing old different projects to fruition at the and two labs clustered around an new, two-story classroom buildings, For others, particularly students facilities and expanding capacity to start of a school year before,” said open courtyard.