Vol. XXXIV, Number 44 N August 2, 2013
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N News Palo Alto set to ban vehicle dwelling Page 3 N Arts Complexities abound in TheatreWorks’ festival Page 33 N Sports 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.
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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- Veronica Weber 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. a new gym, a new library and doz- at Duveneck Elementary School, meet growing enrollment. Bob Golton, the district’s facilities At Palo Alto High School, a con- ens of other new facilities across which is embarking on three new The most visible results of the and bond-program manager. tractor dispute (see sidebar) has de- town funded by a massive 2008 classroom buildings, the disruptions bond measure will come this “I can’t predict the future, but layed the scheduled June 2013 open- school-bond measure. have just begun. They’re not expect- month, though $177 million re- it’s hard to imagine there’ll ever be ing of a new Media Arts Center and For some — notably students at ed to be done until next summer. mains in the “Strong Schools” more.” two-story math and social-studies Fairmeadow Elementary School and Nearly all the construction has fund for future projects — includ- In addition to a new gym, stu- building, but work continues de- JLS and Jordan middle schools who been funded by a $378 million ing major ones such as a new el- dents at Gunn High School this have endured noise, dust, temporary “Strong Schools” bond measure, ap- ementary school and a high school month will take classes in a new, (continued on page 9)
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450 Cambridge Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306 QUOTE OF THE WEEK (650) 326-8210 PUBLISHER William S. Johnson (223-6505) ‘‘ EDITORIAL Editor Jocelyn Dong (223-6514) Associate Editor Carol Blitzer (223-6511) Sports Editor Keith Peters (223-6516) Express & Online Editor Eric Van Susteren (223-6515) Arts & Entertainment Editor Rebecca Wallace (223-6517) Assistant Sports Editor Rick Eymer (223-6521) We’re pitting residents against residents. Spectrum Editor Tom Gibboney (223-6507) Staff Writers Sue Dremann (223-6518), Chris — Michael Alcheck, Palo Alto planning Kenrick (223-6512), Gennady Sheyner (223-6513) commissioner, arguing that a proposed development Editorial Assistant/Intern Coordinator Elena Kadvany (223-6519) on Page Mill Road could bring a new police HQ Staff Photographer Veronica Weber (223-6520) ‘‘ but also huge traffic problems. See story on page 10. Contributors Andrew Preimesberger, Dale F. Bentson, Peter Canavese, Kit Davey, Tyler Hanley, Iris Harrell, Sheila Himmel, Chad Jones, Karla Kane, Kevin Kirby, Terri Lobdell, Jack McKinnon, Jeanie K. Smith, Susan Tavernetti Editorial Interns John Brunett, Rye Druzin, Karishma Mehrotra ADVERTISING Vice President Sales & Advertising Around Town Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) Multimedia Advertising Sales WORKPLACE ETHICS ... that don’t seem to be an issue Christine Afsahi (223-8582), Adam Carter (223- The ethical climate at Palo Alto at all are civility and avoidance 6573), Elaine Clark (223-6572), Connie Jo Cotton (223-6571), Janice Hoogner (223-6576), Wendy City Hall is generally sunny, though of corruption. A vast majority of Suzuki 223-6569), Brent Triantos (223-6577), many city workers feel the city managers gave the city high marks Real Estate Advertising Sales Neal Fine (223-6583), Carolyn Oliver (223-6581), can do better when it comes to (8.7) for whether executives “treat Rosemary Lewkowitz (223-6585) rewarding strong performance and the public with civility and respect” Inside Advertising Sales David Cirner (223-6579), encouraging employees to speak and “refuse to accept gifts and/or Irene Schwartz (223-6580) Real Estate Advertising Assistant up about ethical violations. Those special treatment from those with Diane Martin (223-6584) are results of a survey of more than business before the agency.” Legal Advertising Alicia Santillan (223-6578) 300 employees that was recently ADVERTISING SERVICES conducted by the Office of the City THE NEXT BATTLE ... Fresh off two Advertising Services Manager Auditor successful petition drives and riding An Independent K-8 Non profit School Jennifer Lindberg (223-6595) . The survey asked both Sales & Production Coordinators management and non-management a tidal wave of both enthusiasm and Dorothy Hassett (223-6597), Blanca Yoc (223-6596) workers to consider a variety of rage, Palo Alto’s land-use critics Individualized, DESIGN statements and give each a score are now plotting their next battle. Self-Directed Design Director Shannon Corey (223-6560) between 1 and 10 (Examples: “In The group includes opponents Assistant Design Director Lili Cao (223-6562) my local government, I am expected of a recently approved housing Learning Senior Designers Linda Atilano, Paul Llewellyn, to tell the complete truth in my development on Maybell Avenue, “Follow the child” Scott Peterson Designers Rosanna Leung, Kameron Sawyer work for the agency” and “The a development that they hope to EXPRESS, ONLINE AND VIDEO SERVICES executives in my local government quash through a referendum. The Online Operations Coordinator treat the public with civility and effort hit a milestone last week, Essential Qualities: Ashley Finden (223-6508) respect.”). The city then received when they submitted more than Multi-Age Respect, BUSINESS a score between 1 and 100 from 4,000 signatures for the drive, Payroll & Benefits Susie Ochoa (223-6544) the management group and, more than enough to qualify for Classrooms Responsibility, Business Associates Elena Dineva (223-6542), Mary McDonald (223-6543), Cathy Stringari (223-6541) separately, the broader employee the next general election. But now “Continuity is key Independence ADMINISTRATION group, with 75 to 100 connoting they are preparing to take aim at a to learning” “Children thrive on trust” Assistant to the Publisher a “strong ethical environment” bigger fish — the city’s “planned Miranda Chatfield (223-6559) and 0 to 49 indicating that the community” (PC) process, which Receptionist Doris Taylor Courier Ruben Espinoza agency’s “culture needs significant allows developers to exceed zoning EMBARCADERO MEDIA change.” Palo Alto’s scores were regulations in exchange for “public President William S. Johnson (223-6505) Vice President & CFO Michael I. Naar (223-6540) good but far from spectacular. The benefits.” Bob Moss, a Barron Vice President Sales & Advertising employees’ anonymous answers Park resident who took part in the Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) added up to a score of 75.1, placing Maybell signature drive, said the Director, Information Technology & Webmaster Frank A. Bravo (223-6551) the city in the lowest tier of “good,” group is now discussing an initiative Major Accounts Sales Manager The managers were more critical, that would eliminate or severely Connie Jo Cotton (223-6571) collectively giving the city a score restrict this zoning, which was Director, Circulation & Mailing Services Bob Lampkin (223-6557) of 70, which signifies room for used for the Maybell project and Circulation Assistant Alicia Santillan improvement. Many employees for two proposed developments Computer System Associates said they are not being encouraged on Page Mill Road. Moss told the Chris Planessi, Chip Poedjosoedarmo to speak up about “ethically Weekly that one idea he supports The Palo Alto Weekly (ISSN 0199-1159) is published questionable practices.” Only is not allowing PC-zoned projects every Friday by Embarcadero Media, 450 Cambridge about 30 percent put “always” as in residential zones and requiring Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, (650) 326-8210. Periodicals postage paid at Palo Alto, CA and additional mailing their answer to this question, with a vote of the people on any PC- offices. Adjudicated a newspaper of general circulation another 30 percent saying “rarely” zone proposal. He noted that the for Santa Clara County. The Palo Alto Weekly is deliv- ered free to homes in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, (the rest were either “almost always” exact nature of the ban has not Portola Valley, East Palo Alto, to faculty and staff or “sometimes”). When asked if yet been determined, but he said households on the Stanford campus and to portions of Los Altos Hills. If you are not currently receiving the they’re surrounded by coworkers many residents agree that this issue paper, you may request free delivery by calling 326- “who know the difference between needs to be addressed. “I think, 8210. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. 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TRANSPORTATION Analysis predicts downtown parking woes will deepen Downtown North residents seek to answer the question: How bad will it get? by Gennady Sheyner
n three years, the parking short- increasing number of employees age in downtown Palo Alto will working in existing offices; and all I be nearly three times as bad as the new building projects. it is today as the problem spreads to The analysis, which Filseth and Crescent Park and sections of Old Buchanan presented to the Weekly Courtesy of Eric Filseth and Neilson Buchanan Palo Alto, according to an analysis on Tuesday, indicates that even if A map developed by a group of Downtown North residents predicts the parking problems that will spread from conducted by a group of downtown 20 percent of the new employees downtown into neighborhoods in the coming years. residents and unveiled this week. take mass transit, a generous esti- Downtown currently lacks some mate, downtown’s parking shortage the problem is. He credited the city’s on Hamilton routinely parks in the wave of cars runs over the rest 900 parking spaces, according to will rise to 2,500 spaces. This also transportation planners with conduct- Downtown North, Buchanan said), of Crescent Park and pushes further a recent city estimate, resulting in assumes that offices will have 250 ing the initial survey, which indicated it remains to be seen whether em- south into Old Palo Alto. parked-up streets in neighborhoods square feet of space for each em- the shortage of 900 parking spots and ployees would be willing to trek all “There’s no other place for the adjacent to downtown and in frus- ployee, a traditional ratio that many identified the downtown blocks that the way from the Junior Museum cars to go,” Filseth said. trated residents. feel doesn’t apply to Silicon Val- are inundated by cars during the lunch and Zoo near Embarcadero Road to The analysis doesn’t claim to But the situation is expected to get ley’s start-ups. A tighter ratio of 100 hour. Those include most blocks in University Avenue in 2016. have the definitive tally for down- much worse with the completion of square feet per one employee would the Downtown North neighborhood On the map, the model of parked- town’s future parking deficit, but major new developments. These in- reflect more workers per office and and a sizable portion of Professorville up streets resembles an archery tar- it hopes to get debate going. Users clude the Epiphany Hotel that will increase the parking shortage by and University South, located to the get with a series of semicircles, each can download the parking model, open at the former Casa Olga on 2016 to more than 3,500 spaces. south of downtown. bounded by El Camino Real to the add new developments as they are Hamilton Avenue and at least three The parking model, available at Buchanan said he’s been survey- west and the San Francisquito Creek proposed, factor in city initiatives four-story office buildings within a www.paresidentsfirst.org, is interac- ing the neighborhood four to five to the north. The first arc, which such as valet parking and expanded few blocks of each other — Lytton tive and extensible. Users can plug times a month for several months represents 2014, shows 1,366 extra permit parking in downtown garag- Gateway on Alma Street at Lytton in their own assumptions and see and counting the number of cars cars with nowhere to park and en- es, and challenge the model’s basic Avenue, 135 Hamilton Ave. and 240 how the changes affect the parking parked on every block. compasses nearly the entire Profes- assumptions. Hamilton Ave. deficit. The model also considers The model he and Filseth devel- sorville and University South area, Filseth and Buchanan maintain Just how bad parking’s going ongoing city initiatives, including oped makes some broad assump- indicating that the few blocks in the that their intent is neither to blame to get is the question that Eric the introduction of a valet-parking tions, including the gradual spread neighborhood that still have parking the city for the worsening parking Filseth and Neilson Buchanan, two program in the High Street garage of cars outward in a mostly even spots will not have them for long. situation nor to propose a specific residents of the Downtown North to maximize its use. manner and the willingness of office It also shows cars starting to park answer at this point. It’s merely to neighborhood, have been trying to In conducting the analysis and in- workers to take lengthy walks to get in the Crescent Park neighborhood, address a significant limitation of answer over months of surveys and viting participation, Buchanan and from their cars to their desks, a stroll east of Middlefield Road. the existing debate — the fact that number crunching. They started Filseth aim to help the city quantify that in some cases would be more By 2015, the shortage of spaces the city has “no accurate view as with the city’s estimate of the park- one of its most urgent and complex than a mile. Though they say it’s not goes up to 1,858 and the arc spreads to what we are dealing with here,” ing shortage, then they plugged in problems. uncommon for some employees to south and east, past Lincoln Avenue Filseth said. N other variables: the percentage of Buchanan said the goal of the study walk a long way from Downtown to the east and past Embarcadero to Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner new office workers who will take isn’t to propose solutions but to get North to get to their workplaces (one the south. The following year, with can be emailed at gsheyner@ mass transit instead of cars; the to a consensus on what the scope of person who works at Lyfe Kitchen the car deficit at more than 2,500, paweekly.com.
TRANSPORTATION Businesses blast proposed parking restrictions downtown Petition from downtown land and business owners urges Palo Alto not to adopt a residential permit-parking program by Gennady Sheyner s downtown Palo Alto resi- Planning Director Aaron Aknin parking garages and using a valet that the influx of office workers parking shortage for offices and dents continue to clamor that limiting the time downtown program in the High Street ga- parking on their streets is dam- service businesses and would A for the city to do something workers can park in residential ar- rage, the permit program remains aging the quality of life in their drive many businesses out of about the lack of parking spaces on eas would lead to the gradual de- in the city’s toolkit. Currently, neighborhoods, the business lead- downtown, the letter states. The their blocks, business owners are cline of downtown Palo Alto. cars can park downtown for two ers assert residents are as much to result, “will be a greatly less suc- lining up against the most com- City staff and residents have hours before needing to be moved. blame for the scarcity of parking. cessful and less vibrant downtown monly proposed solution — a per- discussed numerous versions of a As a result, many downtown em- The signatories argue that many in our city.” mit program that would limit the residential parking program over ployees park all day in University in the South of Forest Avenue The decline of downtown will time nonresidents can park in the the past three years, each with dif- South, Professorville, Downtown (SOFA) area have garages but be “slow and not noticeable in its neighborhoods near downtown. fering boundaries and rules. The North and other areas with no choose to use them for storage. initial stages.” This week, a coalition of down- first staff proposal limited the per- time limits. As a result, many prefer to leave “As employee parking becomes town business leaders and property mit parking to the Professorville Among the options under con- their cars on the street. In addi- difficult and office building leases owners submitted a petition to the neighborhood, south of downtown, sideration is a hybrid program in tion, most families now have two expire, office/technology compa- city arguing that a residential park- but was rejected by the City Coun- which one side of the street in the or more vehicles, which further nies will leave the downtown one- ing-permit program would come at cil last year. Several council mem- residential neighborhoods remains exacerbates the problem. by-one for more attractive areas,” a steep economic cost. The group, bers argued it would merely push open for all-day parking and the “These factors have increased the business owners wrote. “This, which includes developer Chop the parking to another neighbor- other one has a time restriction for the resident demand for on-street in turn will reduce the supply of Keenan, Whole Foods, Water- hood. The council directed staff to cars without permits. parking from historical levels,” customers for restaurants, retail course Way, Peninsula Creamery pursue broader solutions to down- None of the proposals, the peti- states the letter signed by 16 busi- and service businesses. By the and Ko Architects, stated in its town’s parking woes. tion argues, considers the needs ness and property owners. time the economic effects of the letter to Chief Transportation Of- But even as staff studies vari- of downtown businesses. While Restricting parking in the resi- exodus are noticed, it will be too ficial Jaime Rodriguez and Acting ous ideas, including building new residents have long maintained dential areas would worsen the late to reverse.” N
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LAND USE Palo Alto takes aim at narrow sidewalks City hopes to encourage wider sidewalks, less-imposing buildings on main thoroughfares by Gennady Sheyner here are few places in Palo and large buildings. In the memo, sidewalks, to get a more robust vards. Planning Commissioner Alex the corridor, which creates a chal- Alto where dreams and real- Mayor Greg Scharff and coun- canopy along El Camino, to make Panelli encouraged his colleagues to lenge for regional planners. A recent T ity clash as starkly as on El cil members Karen Holman, Gail it safe and to make it a focal point do some research. proposal by the Santa Clara Valley Camino Real. Price and Greg Schmid pointed to of our community and really a “My concern is that we’re sitting Transportation Authority to dedicate Envisioned by communities along a climate of “consternation in the destination that people seek out,” here sort of in our ivory towers pon- lanes on El Camino to buses fizzled the Peninsula as the “Grand Bou- community” and a “strong negative Popp said. tificating on what we believe the last year after several cities, includ- levard,” with generous amenities reaction by members of the public These incentives could include al- right code provisions will be that ing Palo Alto, voiced concerns about for bicyclists and pedestrians, the as to how close these new buildings lowing greater building heights on will compel this change to occur,” possible traffic problems. prominent north-south corridor has are to the street and how the build- El Camino in exchange for larger Panelli said. “I think that’s perhaps Keller warned on Wednesday gained notoriety locally for traffic ings turn their backs on the public setbacks to allow more generous a bit unlikely. I think the market will that the city should tread cautious- jams and hulking developments that right of way” due to their sheer mas- sidewalks, Popp said. Keller re- do what the market will do given ly when considering any plan that tower over narrow sidewalks. Arbor siveness. The buildings, the memo jected this idea and cautioned that whatever the rules are there.” would reduce the number of lanes Real, a dense townhouse community notes, are often characterized as larger buildings would negatively The idea of taking a step back on El Camino. He pointed to Menlo at El Camino and Charleston Road, “unfriendly and overwhelming.” affect adjacent homes. and evaluating other communities’ Park, where a lane reduction causes has become a poster child among On Wednesday night, the city’s two But everyone was open to at least work caught on, and the meeting ad- bottleneck traffic during busy com- local land-use critics for everything main development-review boards met exploring changes to design cri- journed with an understanding that mute hours. wrong with building design today. for their first discussion of the topic. teria, which include existing rules staff will meet with chairs of both Others emphasized the need to Alma Street has also become a Though members of the Planning that force developers to build close bodies, which will reconvene for an- make El Camino more bike friendly. subject of derision, with residents and Transportation Commission and to the road. Clare Malone Prichard, other session within two months. Eduardo Martinez, who chairs the complaining about imposing, in- the Architectural Review Board ex- who chairs the architecture board, Much of the analysis about what planning commission, argued that your-face developments such as pressed diverse and often divergent said the city should allow more flex- should constitute the “Grand Bou- in Palo Alto, as in other cities, “the Alma Village near East Meadow views about how to deal with the ibility in its design guidelines for El levard” has already been done. idea of the importance of the au- Drive and the new affordable-hous- problems of narrow sidewalks and Camino. Under existing laws, build- A coalition of cities and counties tomobile is losing a little bit of its ing development at 801 Alma, near uninviting buildings, they all agreed ings have the same setback require- from along the El Camino corri- grip.” Mark Michael, vice chair of Homer Avenue. the subject is critically important and ments, whether they are retail strips, dor have spent years working on the planning commission, agreed It’s not just the gadflies who are will take many more meetings to small motels or housing complexes the “Grand Boulevard Initiative,” and said improving El Camino irritated by what’s happening. Some come up with solutions. with bedrooms on the ground floor. which aims to revitalize this criti- means making conditions safer for city officials are scratching their “Eventually, it’s going to ... lead That should be changed, Malone cal thoroughfare between Daly City non-drivers. heads over the design of the latter us to some new El Camino Real de- Prichard said. and San Jose. The initiative’s vision “I think ultimately the quality of building. Arthur Keller, a member sign guidelines,” said Lee Lippert, “I’d like to see some more flex- statement is: “El Camino Real will the experience on El Camino and of the Planning and Transportation vice chair of the architecture board ibility in the rules that really ap- achieve its full potential as a place other thoroughfares is going to be Commission, compared 801 Alma and former planning commissioner. preciate the different uses,” Malone for residents to work, live, shop and raised to the extent that we transi- on Wednesday to a fortress. “It’s really a leading piece here to Prichard said. play, creating links between com- tion out of automobiles and to other “Especially the little windows,” what we want El Camino Real to She also agreed with Popp that the munities that promote walking and modalities,” Michael said. N Keller said. “They look like some- look like.” city should explore new incentives transit and an improved and mean- Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner one will shoot arrows, as in one of One thing most commissioners for developers to build farther from ingful quality of life.” can be emailed at gsheyner@ those fortresses that you find in Eu- agreed on is that existing design the road rather than rely strictly on Among its proposals is an 18- paweekly.com. rope.” rules could use an upgrade. Randy new rules. foot sidewalk, far larger than the Now, the city is preparing to Popp, a member of the architecture The discussion over rule changes 12-foot sidewalks in Palo Alto’s TALK ABOUT IT reverse this trend. In April, four board, advocated for incentives and incentives is unlikely to be re- stretch of El Camino. www.PaloAltoOnline.com council members released a memo that would encourage developers to solved any time soon. But commis- But the effort to promote vibrancy What do you think should be done to calling for a re-examination of side- abide by new design guidelines. sioners and board members agreed by encouraging people to travel us- turn El Camino Real into a “Grand Bou- walk widths and building designs “The goal here is to cause change on Wednesday that they should ing alternatives to cars has run into levard”? Voice your thoughts on Town on El Camino, Alma and other busy and to create the space that we’re evaluate what other communities some roadblocks. Each of the cities Square, the discussion forum on Palo stretches that have small sidewalks dreaming about to get these wider have done to create vibrant boule- along the way has its own vision for Alto Online.
UTILITIES Palo Alto considers suspending PaloAltoGreen Move buys city time to figure out how to continue program after adopting carbon-neutral portfolio by Rye Druzin alo Alto is eyeing scaling ties Advisory Commission voted The highly successful program Money from the program is, Foster proposed halving the cost back or ending one of its 4-2, with James Cook and Audre has continued to be popular with according to commissioner John for those enrolled in the program P most popular and success- Chang dissenting, to recommend residents and businesses alike, Melton, “greening up” non-renew- and using the revenue to establish ful renewable-energy programs, that the City Council suspend the said Commissioner Jonathan Fos- able energy, such as hydroelectric, a seed fund that would be used to PaloAltoGreen, while it finds a way PaloAltoGreen program for resi- ter. The commission’s recommen- which makes up half of Palo Alto’s install solar panels on Palo Alto to make the decade-old program dents while reducing the amount dation would suspend collection portfolio. Currently, 21 percent of Unified School District buildings. relevant again as the city moves into businesses pay into the program. of residential fees and purchase of the city’s power is supplied from The idea was met with opposition the era of carbon neutrality. The commission hopes that the certificates while reducing costs renewable energy. By 2017 Palo from other commissioners and The million-dollar program, recommendation will buy staff for businesses from the current Alto plans to have half of its en- Director of Utilities Valerie Fong, which allows residents and busi- and the council time to come up rate of 1.5 cents per kWh to 0.2 ergy supplied from renewable who did not want to have a fund nesses to pay a premium to fund with a viable plan for what to do cents per kWh. sources. created when there was no plan of the city’s purchase of electricity with the program. “We are not going to exacerbate Palo Alto residents Bruce Hodge what to do with the money. Eglash from renewable-energy sources, Since 2012, expenses for the the problem of continuing to col- and Walt Hays spoke in favor of was concerned that lawsuits could has been in place since 2003. But program have been cut in half, lect money at the rate of 1.5 cents continuing the program and using follow if the fund was not used due to the city’s progress over the due mostly to lower costs for so- a kWh, but we are not going to it to fund a community solar initia- for the purpose of installing solar years in contracting with more called Renewable Energy Certifi- shut down and mothball and file tive. The idea was considered by panels on schools and questioned green-energy providers, Palo Al- cates, which are credits that fund away the program because we the commission, which decided what would then happen with the to’s portfolio is, for the first time green-energy programs nationally. might come up with some way we that such a fund would be too con- money. N ever, completely carbon neutral. As a result, a surplus of money has want to recast the program in the tentious for rate payers, especially Editorial Intern Rye Dru- In a long and contentious meet- gathered as customers continue to future,” Commissioner Steve Eg- if no such community solar plan zin can be emailed at rdruzin@ ing Wednesday night, the Utili- pay premium rates. lash said. was implemented. paweekly.com.
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EDUCATION New Paly principal knows her way around campus Former counselor experienced with electronic records, construction delay by Chris Kenrick bouquet of flowers from her area, she worked seven years as a stress on everybody,” she said. Last year Arriving in Palo Alto from sub- in-laws greeted Palo Alto middle-school counselor in Weston, “It was just a lot of copying and Diorio tran- urban Connecticut was “a breath A High School’s new principal Conn., before coming to California paper, and we’d get colleges telling sitioned to of fresh air” in terms of the parent Wednesday, Kim Diorio, as she re- in 2005. us, ‘We haven’t received your tran- facilities, community, Diorio said. turned to reassemble her dusty of- A brief foray to California a few script yet,’ but we’d have a record construction, “I felt people were happier, nicer, fice after summer renovation work years earlier — working in a sum- that we mailed it, and it turned out budget and not as anxious — it seemed a better in the school’s Tower Building. mer program housed at Loyola to just be sitting in a pile at the col- discipline at partnership with the schools,” she Diorio will occupy the same desk Marymount University — had failed lege. With the electronic-transcript Paly and got said. she’s used for the past six years as to convert her into a fan of the West service Docufide, students them- acquainted “The value on education is strong Paly’s assistant principal, but she’ll Coast. selves can track when colleges have with major in both places, but being in Fairfield now have the school’s top job fol- “I thought I was going to fall in received and opened the transcript, renovation in County was very intense. I was also lowing the surprise June 17 resigna- love with California, but I did not Diorio said. progress at Kimberly Diorio there during 9/11, which really af- tion of Phil Winston. Superintendent fall in love with L.A., so I went back When Diorio graduated from New the school. fected our community and increased Kevin Skelly named her principal to Connecticut,” she said. Fairfield High School in Connecti- Opening the anxiety there.” on Monday, July 29. When she returned to California cut in 1990, her six college applica- of two major buildings — media On the other hand, resources for “I’m really excited because I in 2005 it was because of her soon- tions were all paper. arts and a two-story classroom for schools in Connecticut — one of the know the staff so well, the school to-be husband’s job as a product “Now we’ve got kids who, be- math and social studies — has been highest-spending states on education and the culture and the institutional manager at Google. The couple cause of the Common Application, delayed from the original projected — were far greater, she said. traditions,” Diorio said. has two daughters, ages 4 and 18 can apply to 30 colleges, and some date of June 2013, partly due to an Diorio’s Mountain View home is The daughter of a Connecticut months. of them do,” she said. “We need to unresolved claim of contractor Tai- a 10- to 15-minute drive from Paly, school administrator and a dental Before joining the Paly admin- find a way to make that process bet- sei, now in litigation. But the firm making it easy for her to get the kids hygienist, Diorio grew up with the istration in 2007, Diorio worked as ter for everybody.” continues to work on the job. home and fed and return for evening idea that she would work in educa- a counselor for a year each at JLS She helped introduce Paly stu- “Now they’re saying December, events, if needed, she said. tion. In college at Villanova Univer- Middle School and Gunn High dents to the online college- and fingers crossed,” Diorio said. “We got little Paly T-shirts made sity in Philadelphia she fell in love School. career-planning program Naviance, But other major construction, up for them, and they love it. Every with her psychology courses and At Paly she’s overseen rapid which had been used at her school including a science addition, new time we drive down El Camino they decided to make a career in coun- change in the college-application in Connecticut. performing-arts center and new say, ‘There’s Paly! There’s Paly!” N seling. process as the once paper-intensive Diorio also has overseen master athletic center, will follow, meaning Staff Writer Chris Kenrick can After earning a master’s degree in procedures have shifted to electron- scheduling at Paly and the school’s that portable classrooms will remain be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly. counseling and doing student teach- ic communication. conversion to the online student- in Paly’s quad “at least three more com. ing for a year in the Philadelphia The paper system “created a lot of data system Infinite Campus. years,” she said.
LAND USE Citizen lawsuit aims to stop Maybell project Coalition claims Palo Alto violated environmental laws in approving development by Gennady Sheyner coalition of Palo Alto residents from other areas of Palo Alto. Joy for approving the project, includ- most seniors in the new develop- have filed a lawsuit against Ogawa, who took part in a recent ‘If we allow this ing its loan to the Housing Cor- ment would not be driving during A the city, seeking to overturn lawsuit challenging the proposed poration in 2012. The suit alleges the peak hours. the City Council’s approval in June reduction of lanes on California project to go that the loan effectively predeter- The suit also claims the city did of a new housing development on Avenue, is representing the coali- forward the way it’s mined the outcome. By approving not adequately consider other pro- Maybell Avenue. tion in the new suit. the loan, the suit states, the coun- posed developments in the area in The group, called Coalition for The lawsuit identifies the coali- constituted, we’re cil “committed itself to approval determining that there would be Safe and Responsible Zoning, tion as a limited liability company going to encourage of the project without any CEQA no major changes to traffic volume served the city with the court pa- whose members are “residents (California Environmental Qual- or patterns. It argues that the city pers Wednesday afternoon, July and taxpayers in the City of Palo other developers ity Act) review and effectively should have completed a full Envi- 31, City Attorney Molly Stump Alto.” to keep asking for foreclosed the possibility of a ‘no ronmental Impact Report for May- told the Weekly. The council is “(The) coalition was formed, in changes in zoning and project’ alternative, and abused its bell rather than proceeding with scheduled to discuss the lawsuit part, for the purposes of protect- discretion, exceeded its jurisdic- a less-detailed review known as a Monday night. ing the environment and safety on expect it.’ tion and proceeded in a manner “mitigated negative declaration.” The lawsuit seeks to reverse the Maybell Avenue and of preserving —Michael Lowy, contrary to law and without the For many opponents of the May- City Council’s decision to rezone the character and integrity of the member, Coalition for Safe support of substantial evidence in bell project, the council’s approval the site at 567 Maybell Ave. to pastoral and residential nature of and Sensible Zoning the record.” is part of a growing trend in de- “planned community,” a designa- the Barron Park and Green Acres Traffic, a subject of grave con- velopers requesting and receiv- tion that allows the developer to II neighborhoods and environs, cerns during the Maybell debate, ing zoning exemptions. Michael exceed density regulations. The which would be directly affected (recreation), aesthetics, including also looms front and center in the Lowy, a member of the Coalition change will allow the nonprofit de- by the proposed project,” the law- obstruction of a public view of the suit. During the public hearings, for Safe and Sensible Zoning who veloper Palo Alto Housing Corpo- suit states. foothills, air quality, greenhouse residents presented videos of traf- signed the verification for the law- ration to build a 60-unit apartment The suit focuses on the city’s gases, and hazardous waste and fic conditions on Maybell, which suit, urged the council not to send complex for low-income seniors environmental-review process for hazardous materials.” included footage of students on the developers a message that they and 12 single-family homes near the Maybell project and the coun- Critics seek to reverse the ap- bikes sharing driving lanes with should expect the city to change its the intersection of Maybell and cil’s decision to loan $5.8 million proval and, at a minimum, require long streams of slowly moving zoning code upon request. Clemo avenues. The project is fac- to the Housing Corporation well a fuller study considering all the cars. “The idea that zoning can be ing a massive pushback from the before the review kicked off. It aforementioned impacts and oth- The plaintiffs point to analyses changed in every instance is community, with residents having also takes aim at the city’s traf- er reasonable alternatives for the from traffic experts that dispute the something that we have to guard already completed two successful fic analysis and argues that the site. city’s finding that the development against,” Lowy told the council on signature drives to bring the ap- council has “failed to adequately Most of the arguments in the wouldn’t cause significant traffic June 17. “If we allow this project to proval to a referendum. consider the significant impacts lawsuit echo the criticism ex- problems. The reviews found that go forward the way it’s constituted, The new lawsuit is the latest step that the project would have on the pressed by residents over a series the city’s consultant used outdated we’re going to encourage other de- in the concerted opposition, which neighborhood in terms of traffic of highly emotional meetings in traffic data and failed to count bi- velopers to keep asking for changes was initially focused in the Bar- and parking, safety of bicyclists May and June, prior to the City cycle and pedestrian data in the in zoning and expect it.” N ron Park, Green Acres and Green and pedestrians, access of emer- Council’s approval of the project busy school corridor. The city has Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner Acres II neighborhoods but which gency vehicles, accelerated dete- on June 18. Many critics com- maintained that there would be can be emailed at gsheyner@ now includes land-use critics rioration of Juana Briones Park plained about the city’s process very few traffic problems because paweekly.com.
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C Rd Newell from East Palo Alto may soon have Open 7 days Mon-Sun 10am - 10pm East Ave Clark a solution to their parking woes, Palo Alto s WWWBODYKNEADS DAYSPA GMAILCOM though just about everyone agrees W o E o that the solution is, at best, a conso- d d g land Av lation prize. ew e Southwood Dr o The Palo Alto City Council will o d consider on Monday a plan to ban Dr 80-100% overnight parking for a year on sev- Hamilton Ave eral blocks near the the Newell Road bridge, which connects the two cit- 70% ies, counties and communities. For Dana Ave30% months, residents on the Palo Alto Dr Center Palo side of the divide have complained 54% Alto about cars from the other side of the bridge taking up their parking Pitman Ave Jefferson Dr Dana Ave spaces and leaving behind trash. Patricia Ln The best solution, residents say, would be a residential parking-per- Newell Rd mit program, which would restrict Eleanor Pardee the hours non-residents can park on Park Duveneck
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city staff Tuesday, such a program is Map by Shannon Corey at best months, if not years, away. The closer Palo Alto residents live to the Newell Road bridge, the The council last year rejected likelier they are to support a ban on overnight parking on their blocks, parking permits for Professorville, according to a city survey. which lies south of downtown Palo Alto, and council members urged of the troubled area, was in a lat- tween 1462 Edgewood and Phillips staff to consider solutions that are ter camp. Road, there were 59 parked cars more comprehensive and that would “This is the most insane proposal and one open space. not merely push the problem over to I’ve ever heard because all you’re Shortly after 11 p.m., three peo- the next block. going to do with this proposal is ple parked their cars in the neigh- Staff is now putting together a to move the problem to another borhood and then walked over the process for neighborhoods that want block,” Fox said. “That’s all you’re Newell bridge. On the East Palo a parking-permit program, Chief going to do.” Alto side of the bridge, there wasn’t Transportation Official Jaime Ro- But most of the attendees agreed a single open space on Clarke Ave- driguez told a packed room at the that the ban, while imperfect, is nue. Nearby Woodland Avenue was Lucie Stern Community Center. In worth trying. Those near the East also filled to the brim, with only the meantime, the city is reluctant to Palo Alto border were particularly one parking space open, all the way grant such a program to any neigh- adamant about the need for near- at the eastern end of the road, near borhood, including Crescent Park. term action. Neighborhood resident West Bayshore Road. “It’s not something we can move Richard Yankwich, who has been The problem isn’t just the short- forward in the near term,” Rodri- talking with Palo Alto and East Palo age of parking, residents said. In guez said. Alto officials about this problem for some cases, the cars block their Banning overnight parking is an the past year, said the ban might be driveways and drivers leave broken idea whose popularity fluctuates the best way to convince East Palo bottles, used condoms and other re- wildly from one neighborhood block Alto officials to do something about fuse behind, residents complained. to another. On sections of Edgewood the parking problem. Most of the If the council approves the staff’s Drive and Newell, the areas closest cars come from the Woodland Park recommendation on Monday, park- to the East Palo Alto border, the per- neighborhood west of U.S. Highway ing would be banned between 2 centage of surveyed residents who 101, which is filled with apartment and 5 a.m. on blocks in which 70 said they would support the ban was complexes. With most apartments percent of surveyed residents ex- between 80 percent and 100 percent. allotted only one parking space per pressed support for the idea. Resi- Just south of that, on Hamilton Av- unit, tenants have been forced to dents who wish to park overnight enue, support dropped to 70 percent. seek parking elsewhere, including would buy a permit for $5 per night. Further away from the city line, on Crescent Park. Staff will also have the authority to Dana Avenue, support dropped “I think we need to do this on a later expand the overnight ban to even further. On the west side of the trial basis and see where it goes be- the blocks where support is cur- Dana and Newell intersection, only cause if we don’t like it, we can vote rently less than 70 percent if those 30 percent voiced support for a ban; it out, and we can say we don’t like residents submit a petition showing on the east side of the intersection, the way it is,” Yankwich said. significant interest. 54 percent supported it. “It’s really a city-to-city issue not Rodriguez acknowledged Tuesday Each view was articulated Tues- a resident-to-resident issue,” he later that the overnight ban is “not a per- day. Some residents argued that the added, drawing the loudest applause fect solution.” ban would be an important first step of the evening. “This concept of having an over- in the neighborhood’s effort to ob- A drive through the area illus- night parking restriction is very tain a more permanent solution. Oth- trates the extent of the parking. At intrusive to residents,” Rodriguez ers argued that the ban would be a about 11 p.m. on Tuesday, the stretch said. “It’s effective. It stops the waste of time and that it would only of Edgewood on either side of New- abuse that’s happening. But it’s not push the cars into other parts of the ell was filled almost to capacity. an ideal solution.” neighborhood, where no ban exists. While there were open spaces near He noted that city staff has been Jason Fox, who lives on South- Island Drive, the situation changed wood Drive, on the western edge further east down Edgewood. Be- (continued on page 12)
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Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs Dispute delays opening of two Paly buildings Cranio Sacral Therapy Cupping, Ear Seeds, Tuina New classroom building, Media Arts Center now projected for December finish SPECIALIZING IN: dispute with a contractor has district owes the money because of court records after hearing Taisei Sports Injuries delayed this fall’s opening of authorized change-order requests. had filed similar litigation else- Chronic Pain A two major new buildings at In its court complaint filed June where. The district announced the Stress and Mood Swings Palo Alto High School — a two- 21, the company said the change lawsuit July 18. Insomia and Fatigue story classroom building for math orders were due to “unbuildable de- Earlier mediation over the claim Depression and Anxiety and social studies and the school’s sign elements within the plans and was unsuccessful but work contin- Weight Management new Media Arts Center, school of- specifications which caused Taisei ues on the two Paly buildings, dis- Yaping Chen, L.Ac. Menopause Symptoms ficials said. and the subcontractors to slow or trict officials said. Taisei Construction Corporation stop construction activities, and in “They’re required by law to con- Call Today for Appointment 650.853.8889 continues work on the buildings several cases remove and replace tinue work, and they’re still ob- INFO ACUPUNCTUREOFPALOALTOCOM s ACUPUNCTUREOFPALOALTOCOM — most recently telling the school completed work elements so that ligated to complete the terms of Insurance Accepted it will complete the work by De- buildable follow-on work could be the contract,” said Tom Hodges of cember — but the firm has filed completed.” fs3Hodges, who is under contract suit in Santa Clara County Superior Palo Alto school officials said with the school district to manage Court over $1.65 million in disputed they were never served with the construction. N BUY 1 ENTREE costs. complaint and tracked down the — Chris Kenrick Taisei says the Palo Alto school lawsuit themselves when checking AND GET THE 2ND ONE What’s new this fall on Palo Alto campuses:
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Building (continued from page 3) Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week spite the litigation, and contractors have told the district to plan for oc- CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to have a closed session to discuss cupancy in December. the status of labor negotiations with the Service Employees International At both JLS and Fairmeadow, Union, Local 521, and with the managers and professionals group; to new, two-story classroom buildings discuss potential litigation relating to the State Water Project Property will come on line. Tax Levy; a lawsuit from the Coalition for Safe and Sensible Zoning; and Earlier completions under the existing litigation involving the California Capital Insurance Company. The bond measure include a new, two- council will then convene for its open session, where it will consider an story classroom building at Ohlone ordinance prohibiting vehicle dwelling. The closed session will begin at 5 Elementary School, which opened p.m. on Monday, Aug. 5. The regular meeting will immediately follow in the in 2011, and a new aquatic center at Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.). Gunn, which opened in 2010. The construction process at each COUNCIL INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to campus began with staff-parent- continue its discussions of results of a recent survey and make recom- student “site committees,” who dis- mendations to the council about next steps in considering an infrastructure cussed priorities; architectural plan- finance measure. The meeting will begin at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6, in ning; and review by the Division the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.). of State Architect in Sacramento, which by law must approve all pub- CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in closed session to review lic school facilities in a process that the performance of the city attorney. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on can take up to a year. N Wednesday, Aug. 7, at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
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CONFERENCE WITH CITY ATTORNEY/LEGAL COUNSEL - will be preparing their specialty: Potential Litigation Relating to State Water Project Property Tax teriyaki chicken. Levy Section 54956.9(c) - Potential Initiation of Litigation - 1 The work is part of the build-up Case toward this weekend’s Obon Festi- 3. Potential Litigation Capital Insurance val, a Japanese celebration honoring CONSENT ancestors, at the temple on Saturday, 4. Approval of Contract Amendment One to Contract S13149754 Aug. 3, from 5 to 9:30 p.m. and Sun- with Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP in the Amount of $60,000 day, Aug. 4, from noon to 9:30 p.m. photo file Weekly for a Total Contract Amount of $90,000 to Additional Labor Okano, who is Awakawa’s co- The Bon Odori program, shown here at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple Relations Services chair for the festival’s cultural pro- in August 2007, will be presented on Aug. 4 at 7:30 p.m. 5. Utilities Advisory Commission Recommendation that Council gramming, said the festival has his- Approve Changes to the Performance Measures and Strategic torically been a community event, with the harvest. ment “Strawberry Yellow: A Mas Initiatives in the 2011 Utilities Strategic Plan and each area celebrates in its own Arakawa said that the dance is an Arai Mystery.” 6. Adoption of Resolution Establishing Fiscal Year 2013-14 Secured unique way. In Palo Alto that means expression of gratitude towards fam- The festival will also feature ex- and Unsecured Property Tax Levy for the City of Palo Alto’s the signature Obon Odori dance, a ily and ancestors who have shaped hibits focused on bonsai (the art of General Obligation Bond Indebtedness (Measure N) dance that the temple’s new rever- each individual’s character. Circles growing miniature plants), suiseki 7. Approval of Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Submit end, Dean Koyama, said is the core in the dance symbolize giving life to (spiritual art with natural stones), a Grant Application to, and Accept on Behalf of the City of Palo of the festival. memories, where one is connected ikebana (flower arrangements) and Alto, a Grant of Funds Made by the County of Santa Clara for the “It came to be an event where to the living and the dead, she said. various other forms of art. Purpose of Emergency Management, Preparation, and Training those of us who are living will The dance won’t be the only spec- Both days will feature Taiko 8. Ordinance to Restrict Use of the City Seal think about who we are grateful to tacle this weekend. On Saturday, a drums, Buddhist services by the 9. Ordinance to Allow for the Use of Electronic Signatures in and will remember the people that reading, question-and-answer ses- new reverend, samurai and martial- Documents Used by the City passed before us,” Okano said. “So sion and book signing will feature arts demonstrations and numerous 10. Submittal of Mitchell Park Library and Community Center Bi- the dance also will commemorate three authors: Susan Austin, author other musical performances. Monthly Construction Contract Report lives past and appreciate the mo- of the children’s book “The Bamboo “It gives us an opportunity to 11. Adoption of a Resolution Authorizing the Filing of an Application ment we are here.” Garden”; Tom Graves, author and self-reflect,” Arakawa said. “The for Federal Surface Transportation Program (STP) Funding and The dance will be Sunday at 7:30 photographer for the portraits and way you learn about your religion Committing the Necessary Non-Federal Match and Stating p.m. stories in “Twice Heroes: America’s is applying to your everyday life. the Assurance to Complete the Project for Street Resurfacing It was originally called the “Good Nisei Veterans of WWII and Ko- We get a lot of opportunities to re- Project Harvest Dance” when dancers rea”; and Naomi Hirahara, author flect on what we’re doing and our 12. Adoption of a Resolution allowing the Implementation of a One- would call ancestral spirits to help of her detective series’ latest install- actions.” N Year Trial No Overnight Parking (2AM-5AM) Program on streets within the Crescent Park Neighborhood 13. Adoption of Resolution Authorizing the Filing of an Application LAND USE for the Federal One Bay Area Grant (OBAG) Funding for the Adobe Creek/Highway 101 Bridge Project and Committing the Necessary Non-Federal Match and Stating the Assurance to Complete the Project. Traffic, parking top residents’ 14. Adoption of a Resolution Authorizing the Filing of an Application for Federal Vehicle Emissions Reductions Based At Schools concerns with Jay Paul project (VERBS) Funding for the Arastradero Road Schoolscape – Multiuse Trail and Committing the Necessary Non-Federal Match Planning commission considers scope of Environmental Impact Report and Stating the Assurance to Complete the Project for Page Mill office development 15. Approval of a Contract Amendment with Baker & Taylor in the Amount of $390,000 to Purchase Library Materials for the City by Karishma Mehrota Library System hen community members hear about the potential downside of portance of accurately gauging how ACTION ITEMS came to Palo Alto officials the proposal from residents arguing many employees would work within 16. Public Hearing: Adoption of a Resolution Confirming Weed W to discuss what an environ- that it will lead to parking and traf- how many square feet. The city cur- Abatement Report and Ordering Cost of Abatement to be a mental study for a proposed com- fic nightmares. rently assumes the traditional model Special Assessment on the Respective Properties Described mercial development at 395 Page The Wednesday meeting was the of 250 square feet per employee, a Therein Mill Road should examine, there second “scoping session” for the ratio that some people feel is outdat- 17. Public Hearing: Adoption of an Ordinance Adding Section were two words on almost every- project’s Environmental Impact Re- ed (many startup companies have a 9.06.010 to the Palo Alto Municipal Code to Prohibit Human one’s lips: traffic and parking. port. The goal was to determine the ratio closer to 100 feet). Habitation of Vehicles The project would add 311,000 scope of the report’s analysis. Just Some at the meeting emphasized STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS square feet of office space to a site about everyone agreed that traffic the increasing bicycle and pedestri- that currently includes AOL’s Sili- issues should top the list. an traffic in the area and the cumu- The Infrastructure Committee will meet on Tuesday, August 6, con Valley headquarters. The San “This proposal raises interesting lative effect of other developments, 2013 at 4:00 pm to discuss; 1) Baseline Survey Results and Make Francisco developer Jay Paul Co., philosophical issues like how much including the proposed mixed-use Recommendations to the City Council on Next Steps in Considering who pitched the project last year, development we want in the city or building at 3159 El Camino Real, an Infrastructure Finance Measure proposed to build a $49.3 million should the city be selling zoning?” which includes apartments, retail new public-safety building at 3045 former mayor Dick Rosenbaum said. and a major expansion of Equinox The Finance Committee Meeting on Tuesday August 6, 2013 at 7:00 Park Blvd. in exchange for the plan’s “But for the (environmental study), Fitness. P.M. has been cancelled. approval. the main issue has to be traffic.” “The planning department seems The project’s scale makes it one Other speakers expressed similar to be on an ever-more-rapidly mov- The Regional Housing Mandate Committee on Thursday August 8, of Palo Alto’s largest proposals un- reservations. ing stairway, struggling to keep up 2013 at 4:00 P.M. has been cancelled. der “planned community” zoning, “There is so much talk about traf- with the increasing number of proj- a designation that allows develop- fic and parking tonight, I’m afraid ects, one by one, treated in isolation (TENTATIVE) AGENDA – SPECIAL MEETING – ers to exceed building regulations the (Planning and Transportation when the traffic and the transporta- COUNCIL CONFERENCE ROOM in exchange for negotiated ben- Commission) is going to be called tion issues really are in common,” August 7, 2013 - 6:00 PM efits. While the city sees a new the Parking and Traffic Commis- said Lieberman, president of the police building as a major benefit, sion,” resident Art Lieberman said. Barron Park Association. “The only 1. Closed Session City Attorney Annual Review on Wednesday the Planning and Both the commission and com- Transportation Commission got to munity members stressed the im- (continued on page 15)
Page 10ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Upfront " 7 + 8 9 8 : Buena Vista (continued from page 3) emergency reserves. HUD offers a program specifi- cally designed for residents who are considering buying a mobile-home park. Loop helped residents of the 100-space Blue Pacific Mobile Home Park in Aptos purchase their park through the program in 2011, he said. California’s Housing and Com- ! munity Development agency also has a Mobile Home Park Residen- "# tial Ownership Program that offers Weber photo/Veronica File long-term, low-interest-rate loans. The trailer homes at the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, seen here in The state loan would be used as a September 2012, are threatened by sale of the property. $ %& supplemental mortgage source on ' $ & ( top of the federal program, he said. The residents would also need to up. It’s a much more elegant solu- The housing corporations “are put in some funding, since the lend- tion,” he said. still in it to make money — they )$*** ers want to see equity. The million-dollar question is have fees and charges. The rents “These arrangements are very whether the Jissers and Prometheus will be higher,” he said. + , typical. Residents have to have some will want to sell to the residents. Joe Candice Gonzalez, Palo Alto Hous- $ skin in the game,” Loop said. Jisser said he hasn’t heard about the ing Corporation executive director, #$ The funding would come from residents’ possible buyout, and he said she is not sure if the rents would membership shares in a resident- deferred to Prometheus when asked be higher than if residents were to -..$ / owned cooperative that would be a if he would consider the deal. purchase the property. She has not nonprofit corporation. About 60 to “We are in a contract with Pro- heard further from Prometheus re- " 70 percent of residents would need metheus. If the tenants want to make garding the housing proposal. to participate. Shares would cost an offer, that would not involve us,” At Loop’s own mobile-home park about $3,000 per unit. he said, reiterating a statement he in Aptos, which he helped to buy, Sargent estimated residents would made in December. the park was under a rent-control " .;" pay a $500 down payment and $25 Jon Moss, Prometheus executive ordinance prior to purchase, and monthly loan payment for the mem- vice president, did not return a re- residents paid $425 per month. <= > bership. On top of the membership, quest for comment. At the time that residents were rents would likely be about the Sargent said a proposal by the considering a buy-out, an affordable- - $$ $ 0 same rates residents currently pay, Palo Alto Housing Corporation to housing nonprofit group wanted to he said. buy 1.15 acres at the back of the purchase the land. They estimated '123(4&45%4%36 /* When residents own the land, it Buena Vista property for 65 units to rents would rise to $625. often changes the dynamic within a house some of the residents wouldn’t Residents purchased the park in- * /* mobile-home park for better, Loop solve the problem, especially for stead, and they initially paid $525 said. There is a pride of ownership; the many others who could not be a month. That sum has since gone people fix up the houses, adding housed there. down to $500, he said. new paint and gardens. And some- Having an affordable-housing “For eight years we’ve had stable one who wants to bring in a new nonprofit corporation buy the whole rents, and we expect it to stay stable mobile home is more likely to join a property can work out well, but peo- for several more years,” he said. N park that residents own, he said. ple still don’t own the park, Loop Staff Writer Sue Dremann can “Gradually, older homes get re- said. The model also isn’t necessar- be emailed at sdremann@paweek- Inspirations placed. The quality of life comes ily less costly for residents. ly.com. a guide to the spiritual community
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To get the lower prices, he switched the barcode tags with ones he created on his computer, which were scanned at the register, according to a criminal complaint by the of Play Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office. He had been “ticket switching” LEGO boxes since April 20, 2012, at the Mountain View, Cupertino and Target stores and another Target near his San Carlos home, according to police. “Play is the highest form of research.” Officers found hundreds of unopened LEGO sets — many special- ― Albert Einstein edition items — at his gated, multimillion-dollar home, according to court papers. Six of the seven items stolen from the stores were found at Langenbach’s home, according to a police report. N Play is the best way for children to explore and test — Sue Dremann possibilities; it’s a doorway to problem-solving and the Woman seriously hurt in Opportunity Center assault basis for discovery. Play equals learning. A Palo Alto woman who was attacked at the Opportunity Center at 33 Encina Ave. is recovering from life-threatening injuries, and her Harker Preschool combines child-centered alleged attacker has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, according to police. learning and teacher-guided explorations in A drunken man allegedly attacked the 60-year-old woman on July 19 a community rich with music, art, movement while she was talking on her cell phone in the hallway outside her apart- ment, Palo Alto police Agent Marianna Villaescusa said. and nature. Here, our littlest learners stretch Michael Rowe Guilford, 46, of San Jose was staying with a friend and had their thinking, deepen their focus, and develop been drinking for more than a day, according to the police report. He became enraged that the woman was in the hallway and allegedly began swearing at the social, emotional, physical and academic her, punching and kicking her multiple times, Villaescusa said. skills needed to thrive in kindergarten … The woman was later identified as Vivian (Venus) Sarmago. Initially police believed Guilford had only scratched Sarmago, who had minor and life. marks on her forearm and neck. She declined medical aid because she had a later doctor’s appointment, Villaescusa said. Guilford left the Opportunity Center after the attack. Police found him at Town and Country Village Shopping Center in a pharmacy, where Q Opening Sept. 3, 2013 he was allegedly yelling expletives at a female employee. He was ar- Q 3- and 4-year-old preschool and rested and booked for being drunk in public, misdemeanor battery and transitional kindergarten a probation hold. classrooms Later that day Sarmago complained about having a headache; her boy- friend found that she could not be awakened and summoned paramedics. Q Teachers all hold bachelor’s She was unconscious when they arrived and was taken to the hospital, degrees or higher Villaescusa said. Safe and nurturing environment Police later located a witness, who told police Guilford repeatedly hit Q and kicked Sarmago. She has been hospitalized with serious injuries on a lush, 8-acre campus since that time. Q Full- and half-day programs Guilford was booked on charges of assault with a deadly weapon on July 20, Villaescusa said. N Q Extended care options — Sue Dremann (7-8 a.m. and 3:30-6 p.m.) Meal program option Gunn science team ranks second in cybersecurity Q A Gunn High School science club walked away with second place in a national cybersecurity competition for students earlier this month. Fifteen members of Gunn’s Research Science & Invention Club went to Orlando, Fla., to compete in the finals of a contest that required problem- solving, extemporaneous public speaking and an essay on issues relating to physics, encryption and public policy on cybersecurity and privacy. The competition was part of the TEAMS (Tests of Engineering Apti- tude, Mathematics and Science) sponsored by the Technology Student Association, a membership organization of 150,000 aspiring engineers and scientists. Emily S. Wang, president of the Gunn club, which meets during school lunch hours, said team members spent hours “pre-studying” for the con- test and “dedicated their holidays” to preparation. Contestants learned a lot about collaboration, public speaking and problem solving, she said, adding: “I believe that these takeaways are what makes the experience valuable.” In the public speaking part of the contest, teams were handed a topic and given 15 minutes to prepare. The Harker School Wang said Gunn team members divided up the problems according Est. 1893 · K-12 College Prep to their interests. In addition to Wang, team members were Kelsey Chan, Marcus Gold- 4525 Union Ave., San Jose, CA szmidt, Justin Li, Matthew Li, Lauren Luo and Julia Qin. 408.553.5700 l [email protected] Members of Gunn’s ninth- and 10th-grade team, who placed 13th in preschool.harker.org the nation, were Andrew Huang, Andrew Ku, Annie Ku, George Lee, Michael Qu, Simon Rufer, Trevor Wang and Justin Yang. N — Chris Kenrick LICENSE 434413573 Registerfor fall!now
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Stanford to replace diplomas over signature mix-up A mix-up over the signatures on Stanford University diplomas is- sued during the 2012-13 academic year — which may be more than 6,000 — has led the university to offer replacements, according to a spokeswoman. (Posted July 31, 1:58 p.m.) Bus breaks off crossing arm, crosses tracks A SamTrans bus broke off a lowering railroad-crossing arm and hurtled across the tracks at the Oak Grove Avenue train crossing in Menlo Park on July 31, shortly before the train arrived, a witness said. (Posted July 31, 9:37 a.m.) TRUNK SHOW Car drives onto Alma off-ramp, hits cop car Sat. August 3 A gold Chevrolet Impala collided head-on with a police car after it turned the wrong way from Alma Street onto an Oregon Expressway off-ramp. (Posted July 30, 5:17 p.m.) Lux Eyewear 1805 El Camino Real, Palo Alto A big pro baseball debut for Palo Alto High grad Palo Alto High grad Tyger Pederson got his minor-league baseball career started over the weekend in a big way with the AZL Dodgers 2 0 1 2 Èxä°ÎÓ{°ÎÎÇÊUÊÜÜÜ°ÕÝ«>>Ì°V of the Rookie Arizona League. (Posted July 30, 4:13 p.m.) Teacher, administrator named Terman principal A longtime Palo Alto teacher and middle-school administrator was named Tuesday as principal of Terman Middle School. Pier Angeli LaPlace, who has taught in Palo Alto for more than 20 years, replaces Katherine Baker, who has moved to the district office. (Posted July 30, 4:06 p.m.) Back to school in July Nearly 150 Palo Alto elementary and middle-school teachers re- turned to school Monday for an optional four-day “summer institute on the teaching of writing.” (Posted July 30, 12:58 p.m.) Baby with no kidneys treated at Lucile Packard A tiny baby born without kidneys to a United States Congresswoman is receiving treatment at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The baby will likely be the first to survive a diagnosis previously considered fatal. (Posted July 30, 10:39 a.m.) Ambulance woes unlikely to hurt Palo Alto As Santa Clara County looks for ways to cope with the massive losses suffered by its private ambulance provider, Palo Alto is expect- ing few interruptions to its own city-run ambulance operation. (Posted July 30, 9:31 a.m.) WOMEN & CANCER QUARTERLY TALK SERIES Apartment fire displaces Palo Alto family A two-alarm fire forced a mother and her young child out of an apartment and displaced the family in Palo Alto’s Charleston Meadows OVARIAN CANCER neighborhood on Monday morning. (Posted July 29, 1:52 p.m.) Current and Novel Treatment Strategies Lawsuit settled, plane-crash victim to rebuild The owner of an East Palo Alto day-care center who lost her home and livelihood after a plane slammed into her house in February 2010 has reached a settlement with Tesla Motors and the deceased pilot’s THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 The Stanford Women’s Cancer Center estate, according to papers filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court. 6:30PM – 8:00PM and the Stanford Health Library announce (Sunday, 9:20 a.m.) Arrillaga Alumni Center a new quarterly series featuring talks on Opponents of Maybell complete signature drive 326 Galvez Street women’s cancers. A grassroots effort to stop a proposed housing development on May- Stanford, CA 94305 bell Avenue in Palo Alto hit another milestone Friday afternoon when citizens submitted a petition to City Hall with more than 4,000 signa- At Stanford we are making great strides in tures, far more than was needed to bring the issue to a citywide vote. Speaker: improving the treatment of ovarian cancer. (Posted July 26, 4:57 p.m.) Oliver Dorigo, MD, PhD This talk will discuss some of the new treat- Incoherent man arrested inside Palo Alto home Director and Associate Professor ment options available as well as the clinical A man who was rambling around inside a Palo Alto home at 3 a.m. Division of Gynecologic Oncology on Wednesday, July 24, was arrested for possession of heroin and tres- passing into an inhabited dwelling, police Agent Marianna Villaescusa Stanford Women’s Cancer Center trials available at the Stanford Women’s said. (Posted July 26, 4:09 p.m.) Cancer Center. 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Go to the Fred Balin, a College Terrace resi- said. “It just seems cruel for the city grams in place. dent, agreed that the city needs to to encourage this development and Martinez ended the night by list- Development Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue to review filed address problems by looking at the welcome this public benefit, while ing the guidelines from the city’s documents; contact Alicia Spotwood for information regard- cumulative effects. not at the same time preserving the Comprehensive Plan, including ing business hours at 650-617-3168. “The benefit of this project (the standard of living.” “avoid abrupt changes in scale be- police headquarters) is at the top Alcheck suggested that traf- tween residential and non-residential This item was continued from the meeting of July 18, 2013 of this city’s priorities,” Balin said. fic solutions should act like taxes: areas and between residential areas “But there is not sufficient support discourage certain behaviors with of different densities” and “use a from residents to fund it. Public higher taxes. In other words, de- variety of planning and regulatory 505 Embarcadero Road- [13PLN-00206] Request by Heath- confidence in land-use matters is crease available parking and force tools, including growth limits, to er Trossman, on behalf of Nicholas Jittkoff, for an Individual not good. And if the project is ap- businesses and employees to seek ensure that business change is com- Review, a Fence Variance (for a 6 ft. tall fence within the Em- proved, residents will still have the alternatives. Acting Planning Direc- patible with the needs of Palo Alto barcadero and Cowper setbacks), Historic Review and Home final say.” tor Aaron Aknin suggested a simi- neighborhoods.” Bob Moss, a frequent critic of lar solution, which Chair Eduardo “That’s sort of part of our core Improvement Exception (for encroachment into the rear yard dense developments, shared his es- Martinez called the San Francisco beliefs, that when we introduce a setback) for a 343.4 sq. ft. addition (first floor 168.6 sq. ft. and timates about the development: It plan of “You can build it, but they project, the scale has to relate to second floor 174.8 sq. ft) to an existing 1,980 sq. ft. two story would draw more than 2,100 work- can’t come.” what’s there,” Martinez said. “(The Historic Category 4 residence. ers and 1,700 car trips each way Alcheck suggested some untapped housing) is there. People live there. during rush hour, adding more con- resources to counter traffic mayhem, People love it. And people are here Aaron Aknin gestion to nearby small residential like business-run traffic solutions tonight to defend it.” N streets, he said. But that wasn’t his (think Google buses) and residential Editorial Intern Karishma Meh- Interim Director of Planning and Community Environment only concern. parking-permit programs. rota can be emailed at kmehrota@ “We have a real problem with “I want to highlight something paweekly.com. (toxic) contamination, with health that we all already know, which is risks, with parking, with traffic, that parking issues are not unique with (the job and housing balance). to this neighborhood,” Alcheck Other than that, this is a wonderful said. “The reluctance to imple- project!” Moss said sarcastically. ment a residential-parking permit palo alto buddhist temple Planning commissioners also had program — or more aptly, the some concerns. Commissioner Mi- speed — is devastating. I wish I chael Alcheck said that the public could be prouder. We’re pitting benefit from this development could residents against residents. We’re
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Planning and Transportation Commission august 3, 2013 5:00-9:30p (July 31) august 4, 2013 12:00-9:30p Sidewalks: The commission held a joint session with the Architectural Review Board to discuss potential changes to sidewalk widths and design criteria for new buildings 2751 louis rd. palo alto on El Camino Real. Action: None www.pabt.org Golf course: The commission commented on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the reconfiguration of the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course. Action: None 395 Page Mill Road: The commission discussed the scope of the Environmental Impact Report for 395 Page Mill Road, a proposal by Jay Paul Co. for 311,000 square feet of commercial development and a new police headquarters for the city. Commissioners and residents stressed the need to study traffic and parking issues. Action: None Utilities Advisory Commission (July 31) PaloAltoGreen: The commission voted to suspend the PaloAltoGreen program for residential customers and to lower the charged rate for commercial customers. Yes: festival Eglash, Foster, Melton, Waldfogel No: Chang, Cook Architectural Review Board (Aug. 1) 711 El Camino Real: The board approved the design of a four-story addition to the DR. CINDY HUE, D.D.S. DR. JESSE KIM, D.D.S. Westin, which includes 23 guest units. Yes: Unanimous s 611 Cowper St: The board approved a design for a new four-story building featur- ing three stories of office space and one story of residential at 611 Cowper St. Yes: FAMILY COSMETIC DENTISTRY Alizadeh, Lew, Lippert, Malone Prichard Recused: Popp 650.366.0552 LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines $ and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com ONLY 49* FREE 50% OFF Includes Whitening Teeth Whitening Kit Uninsured, Treatment with Complete X-rays, New Patients Only Exam, X-Rays Exam and Cleaning Call for details. and Cleaning .EW 00/ 0ATIENTS /NLY 7ITH COUPON ONLY Support 6ALUE #ANNOT BE COMBINED WITH #ANNOT BE COMBINED 5NINSURED .EW 0ATIENTS /NLY OTHER COUPONS WITH OTHER COUPONS Palo Alto Weekly’s #ALL FOR DETAILS 7ITH COUPON ONLY #ALL FOR DETAILS ,IMITED TIME OFFER print and online ,IMITED TIME OFFER ,IMITED TIME OFFER coverage of BIRCH DENTAL GROUP our community. "IRCH 3TREET s 2EDWOOD #ITY #ALL 4ODAY TO 3CHEDULE AN !PPOINTMENT Join today: SupportLocalJournalism.org/PaloAlto 7E !CCEPT !LL -AJOR 00/ 0LANS AND (-/ 0LANS
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Eileen Krinsky Eisenson, 93, of Palo Alto, CA, however, music and singing. She began singing died peacefully surrounded by family on July 3, lessons at 15 and continued through her college Pulse A weekly compendium of vital statistics 2013. She was the wife of the late Dr. Jon Eisenson, years, singing professionally at 9 weddings around mother of Peg Krome (David Gaskill), Susan the country. She also sang in the Congregation Krome Neben (Bruce Neben) and Stan Krome Beth Am choir, in Los Altos, CA. Eileen loved her Outside assistance...... 2 POLICE CALLS Psychiatric hold ...... 1 (Joanna Morgan), Elinore Lurie (Larry Lurie), life on the Stanford campus and was the perennial Palo Alto Vandalism...... 7 grandmother to Philip and Aaron Levinson, college student auditing classes for 20 years there July 24-31 Warrant arrest...... 1 Violence related Abraham and Amy Neben, James in Music and Art Appreciation and Warrant/other agency...... 3 Battery ...... 1 Menlo Park Child abuse...... 1 and Rosanne Luri, PJ and Aviva Jewish studies. July 24-31 Domestic violence ...... 2 Violence related Gaskill, Kristi Cetrulo and Giancarlo She was a loving and devoted Sex crime ...... 1 Child abuse...... 1 Family violence/court order ...... 1 Cetrulo and great-grandmother to wife, mother, grandmother and Theft related Theft related Fraud ...... 1 Sirus and Sofia Cetrulo and Soren dear friend. She loved gathering the Commercial burglaries ...... 2 Grand theft...... 4 Credit card forgery ...... 1 Gaskill. whole family together, whether on Identity theft ...... 4 Fraud ...... 1 Petty theft...... 7 Eileen was born on May 30, Martha’s Vineyard, at the Stanford Grand theft...... 1 Residential burglaries ...... 6 Petty theft...... 6 1920, in S. St. Paul, Minnesota. She Faculty Club or at Skamania Lodge Vehicle related Residential burglaries...... 3 Auto theft ...... 1 attended the University of Illinois in Oregon. Shoplifting...... 1 Driving w/suspended license ...... 6 and the University of Minnesota Eileen was a beacon and an Alcohol or drug related Hit and run ...... 1 Drunk in public ...... 13 graduating with a BA in English, inspiration to all who knew her. Vehicle accident/minor injury ...... 1 Drunken driving...... 2 Vehicle accident/no injury...... 3 beginning a Masters in Social Work Even in the face of adversity and Possession of drugs...... 2 Alcohol or drug related Sale of drugs...... 1 cut short by WWII when she moved severe health issues, she was the Drunk in public ...... 2 Under the influence of drugs ...... 1 Drunken driving...... 3 to Miami Florida to work in the eternal optimist. She lived her life to Prescription forgery ...... 1 Miscellaneous Possession of drugs...... 5 Civilian Censor Bureau. While raising 3 children, the very end with love, a sense of humor, dignity Miscellaneous Animal call...... 1 she was active in the League of Women Voters, and with gratitude. Found property...... 4 Coroner case ...... 2 Scouts, Great Books, Nutrition and Exercise. She Lost property ...... 8 (continued on next page) Penal code violation ...... 6 loved nature and the great out of doors and was a To her Life Was a Song world traveler. In 1970 Eileen moved to Palo Alto, California A special note of thanks to Pathways Hospice where she zestfully lived the rest of her life, and the caring and wonderful staff of Palo Loi Gendzel meeting and married Jon Eisenson and living Alto Commons. Donations are suggested to Loi Gendzel was a resident of Palo on the Stanford University campus for 25 years. the: Parkinson’s Institute, www.thepi.org Alto from 1962 to 2012. She moved Eileen worked as a Social Worker for San Mateo or Congregation Beth Am, Rabbi Marder’s to the retirement community at The County for 11 years. Eileen’s life passions, was discretionary fund, www.betham.org/give. Forum in Cupertino in May of 2012. Born and raised in New York City, an only child, she graduated from PAID OBITUARY Freeport High School on Long Island and then from Barnard College (Columbia University) in 1951, having majored in political science Doris Lorents (international relations). She earned October 15, 1930 - July 22, 2013 her Master’s in Social Work from the Columbia School of Social Work Palo Alto, California in 1956 while working at New York Doris Mae Bry was born in 1930 and grew up that resulted in many visits back and forth. Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. She married Ivan Gendzel MD, on May 4, 1957. They relocated to in a family of ten children, six boys and four Doris was a long-time member of the Palo Alto San Francisco in 1958 and then lived on the Peninsula and in Oakland girls in Manvel, North Dakota. At the age of Branch of AAUW where she held several positions before moving to Palo Alto in 1962 moved to Palo Alto. Their son sixteen, she contracted polio during an epidemic and enjoyed many interest groups. She was proud Glen and daughter Amy were raised and schooled there. Active in year and was hospitalized for a year, receiving of her Norwegian heritage and became a charter PTA, the 4H, and school enrichment programs, Loi later taught extensive treatment with the rigorous Sister member of Sigrid Undset Lodge of the Daughters Oriental Brush Painting at Avenidas (Palo Alto Senior Center) for Kenny method. That, along with of Norway when it was organized thirty years and was an active volunteer with UNA – USA, serving on the Board and helping to set up the Library and Information Center. physical therapy and Doris’ native in 1987. She was active in the Lupus Loi and Ivan traveled extensively (frequently with their young adult persistence, led to a remarkable Society, the Breast Cancer Survivors children) during the 1980s and 1990s. Because of increasing heart recovery. She walked with a single group and the local Post Polio problems, she was scheduled for heart surgery in August, but died cane for most of her life and never Syndrome group—always helping suddenly at home. considered herself handicapped. others who were likewise affected Loi is survived by her husband of 56 years, Ivan Gendzel of Cupertino; son Glen Gendzel, his wife Colleen Hamilton, and She graduated from Concordia by these illnesses. She joined the their children (Joelle & Louis), of San Jose; daughter Amy Taylor, College in Moorhead, Minnesota, Palo Alto Unitarian Church where her husband John Taylor, and their children (Grace and Jackson) where she met and later married her she found a community that shared of Everton, England (UK); and sister-in-law Sue Ezekiel and her physics lab assistant, Don Lorents. her values. husband George Ezekiel, of Oakland, and their two sons (Dan & They were married in 1952. From Doris was close to all her large Jack) and their families. 1952 to 1958, while Don was a extended family. She made friends Loi was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother who doted on her family. She was also a gifted artist and musician who loved teaching graduate student, Doris worked as a easily and kept them for life. She and sharing these interests with her students and fans. She will be dietician at the University of Nebraska, and then loved people (especially babies) and she loved sorely missed by her family and friends. as head dietician at Nebraska State Hospital in sharing life stories. In all ways, Doris was a A Celebration of Life will be held at The Forum (23500 Cristo Rey Lincoln where she ran a kitchen that served 1,600 loving, kind, generous, strong, and courageous Drive, Cupertino) on Sunday, August 4 at 2 p.m. patients a day. person. She will be greatly missed. In 1959, Doris and Don moved west to Palo Doris Lorents passed away quietly on July 22, Please do not send flowers. However,if you wish to make a donation in Loi’s memory, consider: Alto where daughters Chris and Nancy were 2013 at her home in Palo Alto. She is survived by - Avenidas (the Palo Alto Senior Center where Loi taught for thirty born. Doris was devoted to her girls and their Don, her husband of 61 years, as well as her two years): activities. She helped organize the Palo Alto Bobby daughters, Chris and Nancy, Nancy’s two girls, https://www.avenidas.org/you Sox Girls Softball League that both girls played Karolina and Kaelyn, and hundreds of family, or in, and chaired the league for a year. She was also adopted family, and dear friends. -United Nations Association - Midpeninsula Chapter (where Loi an active PTA volunteer in the girls’ schools. The A memorial service is planned for August 31, volunteered for many years): http://www.unamidpen.org family spent a sabbatical year in Aarhus Denmark 2013 at the Unitarian Universalist Church in during this time, where they made life-long friends Palo Alto, CA. PAID OBITUARY PAID OBITUARY
Page 16ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Visit Lasting Memories TransitionsBirths, marriages and deaths An online directory of obituaries and Pulse Margarita Perdido She loved to cook, clean and 2, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., also at the remembrances. (continued from previous page) Margarita (Margaret) Perdido, 91, spend time tending to her rose and Alta Mesa Memorial Chapel. Search obituaries, of Palo Alto died at 10:08 a.m. on flower garden. She was also very ac- Disturbance ...... 1 Tuesday, July 23, at Stanford Hospi- tive in the Church of Christ (INC) Don Edward Mclean submit a memorial, Found property...... 3 Information case ...... 3 tal. She was a longtime resident of and served as a deaconess until she Don Edward Mclean, who had share a photo. Outside assistance ...... 1 Palo Alto, where she lived for more was 80 years old. connections to Menlo-Atherton Psychiatric hold ...... 4 than 50 years. A visitation will be held Thurs- High School with his wife, Kay, Go to: Suspicious circumstances ...... 4 She was born on June 17, 1922 day, Aug. 1, from 11:30 a.m. until died. He was a native of Los Ange- Suspicious person ...... 1 PaloAltoOnline.com/ in Cabanbanan, Manaoag, Pan- 9 p.m. at the Alta Mesa Memorial les and later moved to Sunriver, Ore. Vandalism ...... 2 obituaries Warrant arrest...... 8 gasinan, Philippines, to Faustino Chapel in Palo Alto. The memorial A memorial service will be held in Atherton and Gregoria Villa. In 1952, she service will be held on Friday, Aug. Oregon on Aug. 8. July 24-31 married Johnny Mababa Perdido, a Violence related World War II and Korean War vet- Assault and battery...... 1 eran who served 20 years in the U.S. Theft related Army. He was also from Manaoag, Fraud ...... 1 Donald Frank Koijane, 82 Vehicle related Pangasinan, Philippines. She is pre- Abandoned auto...... 3 ceded in death by her parents; hus- February 14, 1931 – June 12, 2013 Miscellaneous traffic...... 3 band; brother, Bonifacio Villa and Suspicious vehicle ...... 10 sister, Marina Villa. Vehicle accident/minor injury ...... 1 Donald Frank Koijane, 82, passed away Wed., Anders Koijane. She is survived by her son, John Vehicle accident/no injury...... 1 June 12, 2013, at Tahoe Forest Hospital ECC in A public memo- Vehicle code violation ...... 11 Albert Villa Perdido Jr.; daughters, Miscellaneous Arlene Ann Villa Perdido Suarez Truckee, CA with services provided by Hospice. rial will be held in Construction complaint ...... 2 and Doris Mary Villa Perdido Gor- Don was born Feb. 14, 1931, in Chicago, Ill to his honor Aug. 10, Disturbance ...... 4 Found property...... 2 don; six grandchildren, Fernando Edward Ignatius and Lillian (Lill) Koijane. He 2013 at 11:00 am at Hazard ...... 1 Juan Perdido Suarez II, Michael was married March 8, 1958 to Minna Alicia Grace the church at 5700 Medical aid ...... 4 James Suarez, Diana Leah Will- Burrell in Darien, Conn. for 39 yrs until her death Comanche Dr., San Suspicious circumstances ...... 7 son, Victoria Gabrielle Willson Town ordinance violation ...... 3 in 1997. Jose, CA 95123. Warrant arrest...... 1 Fernandez, John Adam Perdido and Donald will be missed by his 3 children, Burial will take place James Aaron Perdido; two great- VIOLENT CRIMES Jeannette Koijane (Markus Faigle) of Honolulu, at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, CA. grandchildren, Johnny David Fer- HI, Andrew (Renee) Koijane of Homewood, CA, Palo Alto nandez and Fernando Caleb Pagba Full Obituary & Condolences: Edlee Avenue, 5/15. 1:00 p.m.; sex crime, Suarez III; sister-in-laws, Mercedes and Margaret (Michael) Nehorai of San Jose, http://www.paloaltoonline.com/obituaries/ report taken. CA, and 6 grandchildren; Mitchell, Matthew, memorials/donald-frank-koijane?o=3579 300 Pasteur Dr., 7/22, 12:30 p.m.; simple Rambayan, Bening Valdez and battery. many nieces, nephews, cousins and Michelle, and Morgan Nehorai and Bergen and Alma Street, 7/24, 11:00 a.m.; domestic friends. PAID OBITUARY violence/battery. Ramona Street, 7/25, 10:00 p.m.; domes- tic violence/battery. Fulton Street, 7/27, 4:04 p.m.; family vio- lence, disobeying court order. Births Vista Avenue, 7/29, 1:54 a.m.; child abuse, Sirin Onur and Leonardo Mary Thayer Rintala sexual. Hochberg, Palo Alto, July 21, August 5, 1910 - July 21, 2013 Menlo Park a boy. Resident of Palo Alto 400 block Ivy Dr., 7/25, 3:50 p.m.; child John Hatfield and Xin Wei, abuse, report taken. Stanford, July 23, two girls. Atherton Mary Rintala passed away peacefully on was involved in the PTA, the school board, 500 block Middlefield Rd., 7/28, 9:14 p.m.; Scott and Carolyn Mezvin- simple assault and battery, report taken. sky, Palo Alto, July 25, a boy. July 21, 2013 after a brief illness, at the age the Girl Scouts and other charitable activities of 102. She is survived by her son, William in Burlingame. T. Rintala (Helene), her daughter, Katherine In 1959, Mary and Rudy moved to Atherton Rintala Glad (Lester), her grandchildren, where they resided for the next 40 years. Betty Lee Elizabeth MacKellar (Betsy) Leach (Brian), Mary continued to participate in a variety Allison Thayer Rintala, Mary Christina of charitable activities including Allied Arts Betty Lee, born November Betty had a large, loving fam- 26, 1926 in Hamilton, Ontario, ily in both California and Can- Glad Ward (Dan), Marina Glad and The Family Post. She Canada, passed away peace- ada. She was married to Stanley Brabham (Jim) , Nicholas Charles was an active member of the fully in her home in Santa Cruz Lee for 39 years, with whom Glad (Kristy) and her great Atherton Garden Club and won on July 25, 2013. Betty lived in she raised their son Russell in grandchildren, MacKellar Brook a number of prizes for her flower Menlo Park for the majority of their Menlo Park home. She Leach, Trevor William Leach, arrangements. She was also an her life and devoted enjoyed countless Hunter Elizabeth Leach, James avid golfer. In 1990, after Rudy’s herself for over 40 visits, chats, travels years to the educa- and cups of tea with Brabham, III and Quinn Glad. death, Mary moved to Webster tion of young chil- her sisters, brother, Mary was preceded in death House in Palo Alto where she dren as a teacher granddaughters, by her husband of 63 years, renewed old acquaintances and and Director of the nieces, nephews and Rudolph A. Rintala, and her sister, made many new friends. Mary Kirk House Pre- many friends. Her Katherine Roberts. continued to play golf at the school at the Menlo bright enthusiasm Park Presbyterian and unconditional Mary was born in Charlotte North Stanford Golf course into her Church. She touched love and kindness Carolina and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. nineties. She continued to support Stanford the lives of many will be carried on In the 1920’s, she moved with her mother athletics, as she and Rudy had done, through young students and by all those who and sister to San Diego. In 1928 she entered the Cardinal Club. cared deeply for were lucky to have Stanford University. She graduated from A memorial service for Mary will be held at each one. Betty brought a re- Betty in their lives. markable spirit of generosity, Please join us in celebra- Stanford in 1932 with a degree in psychology. the Stanford Chapel on Tuesday, August 6 at loving heart, warm smile, and tion of the life of Betty Lee at Mary married Rudy, a four sport letterman and 2:00 pm. A reception will follow at Webster contagious laugh to every aspect the Menlo Park Presbyterian her classmate at Stanford, in 1936. House. In lieu of f lowers, memorial gifts may of her life, including her family, Church on Tuesday, August 6 at After their son, Bill, was born in 1938, be made to the Stanford Fund, the Diamond her nursery school children, her 10:30 am. Mary and Rudy moved to Burlingame. In Club (which supports Stanford baseball ) or friends at Eastern Star, and her In memory of Betty, please many other communities. read a book to a child. 1940, their daughter, Katy, arrived. Mary one’s favorite charity.
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Disabilities Act, at least in spirit. ing in vehicles, an issue that has been cycling through city processes I think of no teacher more often than The choice is between two right Is this who we are? for the last five years without resolution. Originally planned for con- my English teacher, Mr. Tanner. I can things. Is this how we treat the weak? sideration in September, the timing of next week’s discussion, during a still hear his booming voice ranting Should the Maybell-Clemo land Please ban this ban! week when more families are probably away on vacation than in town, at the chalkboard about our punctua- be utilized only for senior or any Margaret Fruth suggests a desire by Mayor Greg Scharff to get this issue behind it with tion mistakes, ensuring we’d never other housing? Ventura neighborhood, Palo Alto as little tumult and visibility as possible. forget his lessons. Each week he gave The great and affluent town of Palo It will be an uncomfortable meeting regardless, as there is great com- a short story-writing assignment, and Alto has a golden opportunity to ex- We ask for a vote passion and concern for the homeless among Palo Altans and an orga- almost every week it was mine that tend the wonderful Juana Briones Editor, nized opposition effort. But the council must separate the importance of he chose to read aloud to the class. Park across Clemo, which in any case Opinion letters to Palo Alto news- helping the homeless from permitting dwelling in vehicles or turning a In doing so, Mr. Tanner was the first is a street blocked to through traffic. papers lead one to think that the resi- blind eye to what is happening at the Cubberley Community Center. and only male teacher to encourage A small reading room or some other dents of Barron Park and Green Acres As Council member Gail Price courageously concluded when she my talents. public facility could be included cre- (BP-GA) are opposed to low-income shifted positions and voted for a ban on car dwelling in committee, we Laurie Claire atively in this space. These will add to housing for seniors. This perception are not helping the homeless by our current hands-off approach, and Anderson Drive, Los Altos the beauty and quality of life of this would be totally false. we are allowing a bad situation at Cubberley in particular to get worse wonderful town. Just a suggestion We are not opposed to low-in- with the passage of time. What is needed, she said, was intensive help from a visitor. come housing, especially for se- and referral to support services. Akram Piracha niors. The Buena Vista trailer park The council chambers will undoubtedly be filled Monday night with Missing big picture Stawberry Hill Court has been a part of the neighborhood impassioned advocates for delaying any action so other options can Editor, Stamford, Conn. for many years. Many are quite up- again be explored. But it is long past time for an ordinance, and we hope What your story on Buena Vista set that Mr. Jisser has decided to the council is finally ready to be decisive. misses is the bigger picture. There are Please ban this ban evict the trailer park residents so The City Council also returns to a pair of messy issues pertaining two competing sets of rights and in- Editor, that the property can be developed to Palo Alto’s west side. It’s June approval of a Palo Alto Housing terests here among owners, with very How do we define ourselves as for more lucrative purposes. Corporation-sponsored development on Maybell Avenue. near Bri- different outcomes foreseen for each. citizens of Palo Alto? How does the When I first moved to BP, it was ones Park appears to be coming right back to center stage in the form The Buena Vista landowner wants to Palo Alto Process affect the poorest not part of the city of Palo Alto. We of a referendum that appears likely to qualify for a city-wide vote. sell (likely going from merely rich to of our residents? negotiated many times to maintain And the proposed redevelopment of the Buena Vista Mobile Home “wow” rich), while the homeown- The proposed ban on car sleeping ers lose everything — homes, jobs, Park is facing vigorous resistance by those wanting to help the park’s may increase segregation in mostly (continued on page 20) low-income residents and prevent the conversion of the land into high- schools, community, friends, and for priced housing. many, family, if they are forced from These are more than debates over zoning and traffic. Wrapped up in the area. The required compensation WHAT DO YOU THINK? them are questions about our values, where Palo Alto is headed, and to residents will never make up for how important economic diversity is to the community. The Maybell the loss and misery (though it must The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on our coverage and Buena Vista proposals bring into sharp focus the delicate issue come close as possible). or on issues of local interest. of how much we wish to invest in preserving or creating low-income But wait — there is a sensible way housing, and how much should come at the expense of higher density out — the landowner, re-developer, and other impacts on individual neighborhoods. Buena Vista homeowners and afford- This is an important conversation to have, and has been all but ig- able housing experts can cooperate to What do you think should be done nored in the quiet work being done to update the city’s comprehensive build replacement housing as part of to turn El Camino Real into a “Grand plan. Without being deliberately addressed, these issues will continue the redevelopment as has been done Boulevard”? to surface only in the context of specific development proposals, which before in Palo Alto, and very success- ? is the worst place to formulate policy. fully for all. The rich would still get With commercial development proposals coming at the city at an un- richer, but the low-income Buena Vis- Submit letters to the editor of up to 250 words to [email protected]. precedented pace, the City Council is also facing a growing public dis- ta residents would remain, perhaps Submit guest opinions of 1,000 words to [email protected]. Include your content over the city’s approach to parking, traffic, zoning and design. losing home ownership, but keeping name, address and daytime phone number so we can reach you. A massive proposal for a 300,000 square-foot building next to the everything else. We reserve the right to edit contributions for length, objectionable content, In the meantime, let’s not blame libel and factual errors known to us. Anonymous letters will generally not be AOL building at Park Boulevard and Page Mill Road on a site that is accepted. Submitting a letter to the editor or guest opinion constitutes a already built out to the maximum allowed under the zoning is barely on Buena Vista residents for the short- comings of the landowner’s paper- granting of permission to the Palo Alto Weekly and Embarcadero Media to also the radar of most community members, yet it is already in the pipeline publish it online, including in our online archives and as a post on Town Square. for formal analyses and rezoning. work. There are effective and ineffec- tive ways to gather information. Here For more information contact Editor Jocelyn Dong or Editorial Assistant Meanwhile a series of community meetings will attempt to gather Eric Van Susteren at [email protected] or 650-326-8210. input on how 27 University Ave., site of John Arrillaga’s proposed of- the landowner apparently thinks if fice towers and theater, should be developed. residents are just told what to do and And studies of both the future of the California Avenue business when to assist with their own demise, district and downtown are in process, with a focus on how much de- they will line up compliantly to do as velopment should be planned for and how parking and traffic should ordered. If unreasonable methods are be managed. used in the guise of the reasonable, it Downtown parking problems are another hot potato issue for the seems the owner hopes his effort will City Council, and the council’s decision last November to lump a pos- be legally sufficient. He can do bet- sible residential parking-permit system with the downtown development ter. There is a reasonable resolution study has only served to increase frustration among virtually everyone to this dilemma. who lives between the creek and Embarcadero Road. This week’s re- Winter Dellenbach lease by some neighborhood activists of an open source online tool for La Para Avenue, Palo Alto projecting future parking deficits downtown is a welcome grass-roots initiative, but also one that reflects resentment over the process. A visitor’s suggestion Public agitation over new development is clearly and justifiably on Editor, the rise, and the council would be wise to develop a more coordinated I am visiting family here from Con- and proactive approach to engaging the community on them. Referenda necticut and have followed the May- should be acts of last resort for citizens. They reflect a failure in the nor- bell discussion. My regular walks in mal processes of government and a wake-up call that there is significant the area have given me a good sense discontent. While the economic rebound driving these development of the difficult issues Palo Alto has pressures is good news, the City Council needs to hear that message and to deal with. make sure its decisions are aligned with evolving community views. Indeed the city has to provide af- fordable housing to its seniors!
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Guest Opinion Let’s not discriminate against the vehicle dwellers
by George Mills In the end, however, we reluctantly de- acteristics of homeless people in general, to refer people to, so gaps in these services ur city is grappling with how best to cided not to host vehicle dwellers at Friends not about harm caused by vehicle dwelling need to be addressed as well). treat residents Meeting, at least not for now. We felt we itself. As evidence, consider that the draft We are also encouraged by the number of Owho have only could not disrespect the deep fears of a ban is specifically crafted to exempt guests Palo Alto residents who are conscientiously their cars to sleep in. number of our neighbors, even though we of residents, who are (we imagine) not searching for ways to contribute personally One proposal from the thought and still think it could work. homeless but “just visiting.” Also, recent to solutions rather than passing the problem City Council called Learning No. 2: Options for people who hearings on vehicle dwelling have been off to others. for willing faith com- currently resort to living in their cars are dominated by discussion of the “homeless We recognize that reasonable, thoughtful munities to host a few woefully inadequate. Waiting times for encampment” at Cubberley Community people might not reach all the same con- “vehicle dwellers” in temporary shelter are weeks or months, Center, where only a fraction of those en- clusions we have. We leave you with some their respective park- and for long-term housing, years. If vehi- camped live in cars. Clearly this discus- questions for self-reflection (we call them ing lots for a three- cle dwelling is banned, even with increased sion has been all about homelessness, not “queries”) that we are using to guide our month pilot project. “outreach,” many of these residents will vehicles. own participation in this public dialogue: Recently that proposal end up on our streets without shelter, prob- We at Friends Meeting conclude that the Query No. 1: Am I honest and straightfor- was dropped. In its place a new proposal ably creating more problems than if they proposed ban on vehicle dwelling amounts ward when presenting my views on vehicle is up for consideration at the Aug. 5 City lived in their cars. to arbitrary discrimination based on hous- dwelling? Do I listen to others with interest Council meeting that would ban all vehicle Learning No. 3: Palo Alto is full of ing status and, as such, appears inconsistent and respect? Do I seek understanding and dwelling in the city. compassionate people. Even opponents with municipal code section 9.73.010(b). It solutions, rather than victory? Palo Alto Friends Meeting, a Quaker con- of hosting at our site praised our “good is discrimination because it is homeless- Query No. 2: Are my views based on gregation, was interested in the pilot pro- intentions.” We have met many engaged, ness that defines the category of vehicle objective knowledge and experience? Do I posal and explored whether to participate. compassionate neighbors, city staff and so- dwellers who are considered “problematic” recognize and try to limit any prejudice or We met with city staff and residents in our cial service workers while exploring this (remember, “guests” are exempted). It is excessive fear I may have? neighborhood, and attended council hear- issue. Twenty-three of 25 public speakers arbitrary because the banned behavior is Query No. 3: Do I understand what it is ings. We offer reflections here on things we at the June 25 hearing passionately urged not in itself harmful and does not necessar- like to be without a home? Can I imagine have learned and on why we strongly op- the council to help vehicle residents, not to ily result in the behaviors most often cited myself in that situation? (“I never thought pose a city-wide ban on vehicle dwelling. ban them. as reasons for the ban. it could happen to me.”) Learning No. 1: Many people have deep- Learning No. 4: The Palo Alto municipal Specific behaviors such as urination, Query No. 4: Do I understand what social seated, visceral fears of even the idea of code explicitly protects people from dis- drugs, assault, and so on are already pro- service options are and are not realistically “unknown homeless people” in their neigh- crimination based on housing status: hibited by Title 9 of the municipal code or available to residents in financial distress borhoods. It is natural to feel protective Section 9.73.010(b): Freedom from Arbi- by state law. It is discriminatory to take who have lost, or may lose, their housing? fear when the safety of home or children is trary Discrimination. It is the policy of the away a right from all people in a class (the With heart, reflection and dialogue, Palo thought to be at risk. But our congregation city of Palo Alto to protect and safeguard homeless) simply because a few of them Altans working together can find solutions has had a very positive experience hosting the right and opportunity of every person may commit unrelated, already-prohibited for our city that are better than the ban. the Hotel de Zink homeless shelter every to be free from arbitrary discrimination on behaviors. Please share your ideas with the City Coun- December for over 15 years without seri- the basis of their race, skin color, gender, ... Palo Alto can do better. We support the cil by Monday, Aug. 5. N ous incidents or complaints, so the risks housing status,..., weight or height. positive steps recommended in the city George Mills is co-presiding clerk at of having vehicle dwellers in our parking Learning No 5: Virtually all rationales staff report of June 25 for increased out- Palo Alto Friends Meeting. He can be lot, while real, seemed quite manageable we have heard for banning vehicle dwelling reach and referral (though referral isn’t of reached at [email protected]. The Meeting to us. stem from concerns about perceived char- much use if there are inadequate services is in complete unity with this statement. Streetwise Is there a parking problem in Palo Alto and, if so, what can we do to fix it? Asked on Cambridge Avenue, Birch Street and California Avenue, Palo Alto. Interviews and photographs by Karishma Mehrotra.
Steve Augustine Linda Kirsch Grace Lee Julia Simon McHale Newport-Berra Engineer Guidance counselor Retired Silicon Valley Boys Choir director Graduate student Middlefield Road Green Acres, Palo Alto South Palo Alto Waverley Street, Palo Alto California Avenue, Palo Alto “I don’t see it as a huge issue to be “’I think it’s a grave disservice to the “Parking is a problem. ... We do need “We don’t have that big of a problem “To be honest, I haven’t encountered a honest with you. Downtown is obvi- business to have the parking as messy more spaces. Adding to existing struc- as compared to Berkeley or Boston.” huge parking problem. ... We are able ously the biggest issue. But, I don’t as it is. ... Parking is very relevant tures is a solution.” to walk a lot. We can walk to the li- see it as a big problem.” for merchants. I don’t know what the brary, park, farmers market, whatever. answer to the (problem) is. Part of it So I haven’t found it to be much of an is the amount of density this city is issue.” allowing.”
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change by fiat. Changes on Arastra- are causing the problems, not us. Unhoused refugees have the unhoused at our church, Letters dero Road have impacted our traffic Most of the owners signing the pe- Editor, but the city of Palo Alto said our (continued from page 18) problems significantly. Cut-through tition were service businesses who When I woke up this a.m., safe in bathrooms had to be staffed all speedsters are far too common. should be joining with the neighbors my own warm bed with a bathroom night by a security guard, and we the relaxed, semi-rural atmosphere Be careful, your neighborhood to fight the city who is granting ex- close by, it occurred to me that the couldn’t afford it.” before voting to join the city. This could be next. Our petitions only ceptions, violating the zoning rules, 7,000-plus unhoused people in Santa What is wrong with this picture? struggle continues. seek a vote of the residents of Palo ignoring environmental processes and Clara County are actually refugees. Dana M. St. George The purpose of the petitions is to Alto regarding changes to the Com- approving uses and projects that do not The unhoused are refugees caught Campesino Avenue, Palo Alto inform the city that changes in the prehensive Plan and zoning. We ask have parking — like the latest proposal in a political and economic system Comprehensive Plan and/or zoning for a vote. at 240 Hamilton. that does not properly do what gov- Fresh Market fail regulations (CP-Z) are very important Jean Wren Get real, the residents, your custom- ernment should do: take care of its Editor, to the residents and we should be able Matadero Avenue, Palo Alto ers, didn’t cause this problem — your people. The U.S. does not come up I own a home two blocks from this to vote on them. The petitions address friends the commercial property own- to the same standard as other devel- eagerly anticipated new market. I am this change in CP-Z for the property On parking permits ers (who also escalate your rents) and oped countries in providing health- sad to say that this market is doomed to allow a high density development Editor, the city that allows too much develop- care, housing or education. Most to failure. I hoped it would replace by fiat instead of vote. A couple of points about the business ment without adequate support — they European countries and Canada are Piazza or Whole Foods on my shop- This represents a huge change in petition against residential permit park- are the problem. You already have two- way ahead of us. ping trips. However, it can’t. Who- the character of the neighborhood. ing: I have to give them credit for chutz- hour restricted parking for customers We are very quick to respond and ever did the research for this market The area immediately abuts a city pa — they say, “The problem is that (enforced free by the city); you just rush in to crises in other countries. site was way off base. Its produce is park and an R1 neighborhood. residents have more cars than the prop- want a free place for your employees to What about our own refugees? not good. Its selections are limited. Nearby traffic is impossible morn- erty was designed for.” What about the park, that you want us to subsidize with Don’t they need a place to be safe, I still have to drive to the aforemen- ing and afternoon whenever schools uses occupying commercial buildings the livability and safety of our homes. and tents, food and medical care? tioned markets to get what I need to are in session. that have no parking — building once Really? They were only asking for a place cook a dinner. Very sad. The petitions do not oppose se- used for low-intensity uses, now filled Ken Alsman to park and bathrooms; but a church Lynne Myers nior housing. They oppose the CP-Z with 20 to 30 high-tech workers? They Ramona Street, Palo Alto representative said, “We wanted to Channing Avenue, Palo Alto This week on Town Square Town Square is an online discussion forum at www.PaloAltoOnline.com
Citizen analysis shows parking woes the most port. For growth we might need another parking state or even national method of helping homeless people. deepening structure ... build it and quit this talk of picking my pocket I am not sure what the answer is, but by just banning Posted by Craig Laughton, a resident of the College Ter- for more money while causing me more inconvenience! them it is just pretending the problem doesn’t exist. race neighborhood, on July 31, 2013 at 9:28 a.m. Parking Permits just mean more full-time employees, Whether these people are homeless from circumstances Era of free parking is over more to do that accomplishes nothing, more inconvenience, or choice, whether it is mental health or laziness, these are “This has to be across the city if they want to do it at all.” a ticket or over the years when you don’t realize your per- still people and all human life is worth helping. Charities Correct. That is what the city of Davis, Ca. finally deter- mit is out of date or your new car does not have a permit. can only do so much, it has to be looked at from the top. mined, based on its ‘push out’ experience. The citizens of City Government, this is one thing you can do - do it, do Mental health issues are not going away, and expecting Palo Alto have a reasonable expectation that their neighbor- it so we do not need to worry about it and just get it done. people with these issues to fend for themselves is not work- hoods will be livable. A city-wide RPPP is a major step in ing as they don’t or won’t. that direction. IMO, it has worked well in College Terrace Baby with no kidneys treated at Lucile We do need to have some comprehensive plan as a soci- (CT). CT has been an incubator for the concept, and details Packard ety to deal with these individuals. Government handouts matter. Politically, it might be better to allow each neighbor- Posted by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto to subsidize low-income people is only encouraging them hood to opt in, as they begin to feel the parking pressures. neighborhood, on Jul 31, 2013 at 7:57 a.m. to expect more handouts. Charities are to some extent en- However, the most efficient way is to do it by fiat (probably Human life is valuable abling the homeless. Throwing money at individual or or- won’t happen). I think it is important to say that all human life is valu- ganized programs help some, but not all. The fundamental issue is too many cars downtown, es- able and worth saving. I think the article is showing that It is about time to rediscover institutionalized mental pecially for employees. The obvious answer is to develop medical advancement and particularly medical personnel health programs to help those either unwilling or unable satellite parking shuttle lots, as has been mentioned by are striving forward in their medical knowledge so that to made sensible decisions for themselves. Their families several posters on this blog. Caltrain lots are one obvious problems which some time ago had no chance to overcome, are unable to force them to look out for them either. All example, which begs the question: Why not just take Cal- are now successfully being treated. possible creative ideas must be looked into. train to PA? BART should circle the Bay and head down to All medical breakthroughs start with low success ex- Salinas, period. The Baylands could provide a satellite lot pectations, but through each failure as well as each suc- Greenmeadow Resident, a resident of the Greenmeadow (including multi-deck parking structure), too, with shuttle cess, more knowledge and experience makes subsequent neighborhood, on Aug. 1 at 12:15 p.m. buses (note: I strongly recommend the undedicated ten attempts more likely to succeed. Routine procedures now Police need tools for problem acres that is proposed for the anaerobic digestion industrial were once thought of as new and ground-breaking, and Just this month at Cubberley, a man was beaten until he plant foolishness). without them they would not be routine today. was unconscious. This week a Cubberley “camper” took at Don’t forget parking meters in retail/institutional areas, Hopefully this baby’s experience will help many more swing at a police officer who approached him because he like Redwood City and UC Davis have. families in the future. was publicly intoxicated (against the law). The incidence Also, I don’t understand why Crescent Park (CP) can’t of these events has increased significantly as the home- have it own RPPP, if it wants it. The current issue there is Posted by Concerned Retiree, a resident of the Midtown less population at Cubberley has mushroomed in the last EPA overflow parking, but CP will soon face Downtown neighborhood, on Jul 31, 2013 at 11:07 a.m. three years. More than half of citywide police service calls parking expansion. If they want it, why not? What is the cost? related to vehicle dwellers in 2012 were at Cubberley. The The era of free parking in PA, on demand, is over. This is an ongoing, extravagant procedure to save a baby police need some tools to deal with this growing problem. (?) whose chances of leading a normal life and making a While some homeless people are just good folks who Posted by CrescentParkAnon., a resident of the Crescent contribution to the world are quite limited. What is the have had some very bad luck, many are psychologically Park neighborhood, Aug. 1 11:30 a.m. total cost of this gee whiz procedure? unstable and substance addicted. Real public health and Permits aren’t the answer At least we know that this Congresswoman will get the safety problems come with that. This isn’t about criminaliz- Parking in Palo Alto is good for all of us, and having oth- best health care for her and her baby (?) which tax payers’ ing the homeless. If you read the staff report, the ordinance ers able to park here is also good for all of us. The problem $$$$ can provide. And, of course, those who use Stanford prioritizes connecting people appropriately to services to target are those who abuse the privilege. Why make all for normal procedures will be donating to this question- help them. The police (front line public safety staff) need a Palo Alto suffer because of a few jerks who park badly? able cause. tool to help them to make that connection. That said, some Making everyone pay fees and get the occasional ticket It is best to let some fetuses pass without being born. I of the homeless ARE wanted criminals. A car is a good is just a way to suck more money from us and make life question the wisdom of bringing this already marginalized place to hide if you don’t want to be tracked. Police should more full of friction. life into this world. connect those people with the justice system. Stanford is not a real city, it is a university, and I don’t The vast majority of other cities in San Mateo and Santa give a darn what they do there. I think Redwood City, and I Clara enacted bans and pushed their problem here, creating Palo Alto set to ban vehicle dwelling an acute situation in Palo Alto, and especially at Cubber- often go there for movies, and their Century Theaters have Posted by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto their own free parking, but if I had to park on the street ley, that we no longer have adequate resources to address. neighborhood on Aug. 1 at 11 a.m. Palo Alto cannot, by itself, solve a REGIONAL problem. and go through that irritating pay-for-parking system I’d Ban won’t solve the problem never do it ... first on principle, but second, who want to Please ask the cities around us to engage in identifying and This ban is not going to solve the problem, just move it funding a REGIONAL solution instead of dumping their muck about with paying for parking in the rain or when somewhere else. you are in a hurry? problem on us. I think that preventing people from using the Cubberley A Cubberley “camper” said this week that a Mountain There are certain infrastructure things that is the govern- lot is probably a good idea and also preventing people from ment’s responsibility to provide, if reasonable, and the Palo View police officer directed him to Cubberley, telling him camping in streets is also a good idea. it was a “safe place” to be. Hmmmmm. Alto Parking Model has always worked, and still does for However, the real problem is that there is no regional,
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LivingA monthly special section of Wellnews & information for seniors What will Palo Alto look like when Baby Boomers turn 80? Even with exercise and nutrition, chronic illness and ‘major life events’ come with age
by Chris Kenrick alo Alto may be a mecca for young tech entrepreneurs, but it also has a disproportionately high number of residents 65 and over — and that P segment is expected to grow as Baby Boomers age in place. The oldest Baby Boomers, born in 1946, turned 67 this year. The tail end of the cohort, born in 1964, is 49. People 65 and over comprised 17.1 percent of the city’s population in the U.S. Census of 2010 — up from 15.6 percent in 2000. In California as a whole, seniors make up just 11.4 percent of the population. Age by itself is a poor yardstick for predicting what people will need or what the community will look like. “There are some very young 80-year-olds and some very old 60-year-olds,” notes John Sink, vice-president for programs at the nonprofit senior agency Avenidas. But even as many Boomers vow to stay young through exercise and nutri- tion, chronic illness and “major life events” such as loss of a spouse inevitably A roadsign warns drivers to slow and look for seniors on WebsterStreet near University Avenue. (continued on page 21) Veronica Weber Veronica ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊU Page 21 Living Well AUGUST 2013 Calendar of Events Friday August 2 Saturday August 10 Friday August 16 Friday August 23 AARP Tax Assistance Successful Aging Celebration Aveneedles Knitting Group Podiatry August Events 9-10-30 am 9:30 am-1:30 PM 2:30-4:30 pm 9am-4:30 pm Free by appointment only Free Free $40 members/$45 non members for Active Adults @Avenidas PAMF Mountain View Campus @Avenidas @Avenidas
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Boomers turn 80 than 300 Palo Alto Baby Boomers, who said they aim to (continued from page 21) age in their homes and remain active in the community, according to the paper, titled “Impact of the Aging Baby Boom Population on Palo Alto’s Social and Community There are some very young come with the years. Services.” It was co-authored by Richard James, then di- 80-year-olds and some very Sink, who watches the numbers as he helps plan pro- rector of community services for the City of Palo Alto and old 60-year-olds. grams for “older adults,” says, “We’re studying the needs Lisa Hendrickson, president and CEO of Avenidas. — John Sink, of folks very carefully. The survey found that 80 percent of Boomers, who pos- vice-president for programs, “It’s hard to go by age. You have to go by needs and sess a higher education level than any past generation, have Avenidas interests.” no plans to leave Palo Alto when they retire. An informal 2006 “white paper” on the impact of aging That, and other surveys confirm that “older adults going Boomers on Palo Alto — authored by a task force of com- forward are not going to fit the same model of older adults munity leaders, including city officials — raised the specter of the last generation,” Sink said. of a community where “upwards of 40 percent of our total “They have a different self-image, different view of inde- population will be 55 years of age or older” by 2030. That surprising projection was based on a survey of more (continued on page 26)
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Even as Palo Alto’s From left. Dee Ellsworth, Sue Kemp, Hsiu Lee and Peter Hanson do a belly-dance inspired move while dancing in the Zumba Gold class taught at over-65 population Avenidas on March 6, 2013. expands, so does its cohort under the age of 18. In a recent snapshot of Palo Alto’s current senior population, gleaned from a January 2013 survey of Avenidas users, Sink found that 40 percent come to the agency for “lifelong learning” opportunities; a third come for practical help; one in five come for fitness and not quite one in five come for the weekday hot lunch program, La Comida. Twenty percent of respondents (81 out of 398) described them- selves as “caregivers” to a spouse or another household member, a figure significantly up from 13 percent in the past. “People don’t self-identify as Our life here caregivers, but we’re starting to see that dial go up,” Sink said. “A big chunk” of today’s seniors have no monthly housing expense, with mortgages already paid off, he Palo Alto Is The said. However, nearly half the Aveni- das survey respondents said they’re living on incomes of less than $50,000 a year. BEST PLACE Sink said he has yet to fully ana- lyze the survey and also is await- To Retire. ing age-specific data from the 2010 Census, particularly on income. “We take our responsibility as be- Webster House is now a member of Episcopal Senior Communities, the not-for-profit ing experts on older adults in Palo organization that owns and operates Canterbury Woods, Los Gatos Meadows, Lytton Alto very seriously because part of our charter is to consult with the Gardens, San Francisco Towers, Spring Lake Village, and St. Paul’s Towers. Ideally located city on the needs of older adults in the community,” he said. near the wonderful mix of shops, restaurants, and art galleries, our newly renovated As Palo Alto’s over-65 population apartments, gracious amenities, enriched services, and new programs make living here a style expands, so does its cohort under the age of 18. of life that offers you real peace-of-mind in a welcoming community with the advantages The segment of the city’s popula- tion that’s under 18 grew from 21.2 of continuing care. To learn more, or for your personal visit, please call 650.838.4004. percent in the 2000 Census to 23.4 percent in 2010. In the same period, enrollment in the Palo Alto school district has grown from 10,000 to 12,400 as of last fall, and school leaders are looking to build new elementary and middle-school classrooms. N
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MOVIE CLUB ... “Refreshments, drinks and fun” are included in the Thursday Movie Club, which runs year-round — even in August — at Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto. The upcoming schedule includes The Great Race” on Aug. 8; The Intouch- ables” on Aug. 15; “Won’t Back Down” on Aug. 22 and “Quartet” on Aug. 29. Screenings, free for Avenidas members and $2 for nonmembers, begin at 1:30 p.m. N
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s the director of the Stanford Center for Genomics and Per- world A sonalized Medicine, Michael Snyder was already a believer in im- proving people’s health by analyzing STORY BY REBECCA WALLACE their genomes. On April 11, 2011, he PHOTOS BY VERONICA WEBER became a member of the choir. That’s when he got the official word that he had type-2 diabetes. He GENOMICS AIMS might never have spotted the condi- tion so early, except that he’d had his TO MOVE MEDICINE own genome sequenced, and he and his lab members had discovered that FROM ‘DIAGNOSE AND he had a genetic predisposition. “We didn’t expect it,” Snyder said TREAT’ TO ‘PREDICT in an interview in his campus office. “I happened to go in and get the glu- AND PREVENT’ cose test because my genome said I was at high risk.” It turned out that Snyder’s blood sugar had been climbing even as he and his team analyzed his genome. Glucose tests yielded increasingly higher results, and his diabetes was diagnosed. In essence, the re- searchers had been watching the inception of a disease. Since Snyder, 57, had a physical exam only every two or three years and didn’t know of any diabetes history in his family, the condition might have gone undetected for a long time. But now he was able to swiftly cut dessert from his diet and dramatically increase his exercise. “I had one bite of wedding cake in 2011,” he confessed. His blood- sugar levels improved. For Snyder, the moral of the story is clear. While complete genome- sequencing is not yet widely used, its promise for people’s health — and that of their families — can’t be denied, he believes. In his case, his diagnosis inspired his siblings to also get glucose tests, and in some cases, start exercising to improve their own blood-sugar levels. “I’m a believer in the future,” he said. Snyder, who also chairs Stan- ford’s genetics department, has headed the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine since its birth in 2010. It’s an interdis-
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A Stanford researcher displays a flow cell used to store genetic material for sequencing.
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Right: Atul Butte, far right, and fellow researchers at his Stanford lab listen as Weronika Sikora- Wohlfeld presents her findings on biological molecules communicating in a similar fashion to computer circuitry. Below right: Catharine Eastman, a life-science research assistant at the Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine’s DNA-sequencing center in Palo Alto, prepares DNA samples for study. Far right: Atul Butte holds up a GeneChip, which scans and stores genetic information for use in research.
(continued from previous page) ciplinary effort with an ambitious mission: to continue analyzing the human genome (a person’s com- plete set of DNA) and its molecular makeup and then translate findings into individualized medicine. Re- searchers believe DNA holds valu- able information on predicting, diagnosing and treating conditions as diverse as cancer, schizophrenia and asthma and anticipating which medications may work better for a particular patient. Through genomics, researchers are also developing vaccines made from DNA and RNA. In addition, they’re seeking to lower health care costs through preventive care: as many describe it, moving medicine from “diagnose and treat” to “pre- successfully sequenced. The science the public at large. dict and prevent.” of genomics was off and running. On a smaller scale, there are now “I’ve never seen a more exciting Researchers at Stanford and nu- companies that provide commercial time in medicine than now,” said merous other institutions saw the genotyping to the public, providing center Co-director Stephen Galli, promise early on. With whole ge- a partial DNA analysis from a saliva who also chairs Stanford’s pathol- nomes being sequenced, they could sample. ogy department. look for genetic variations: differ- “It has some value,” Snyder said ences between individuals’ genomes of the practice. One of the firms, the t’s been a banner 23 years for that could signal genetic diseases, Mountain View-based 23andMe, the young field of genomics. The risks for diseases and potential ways promises to give clients insight into I U.S. Human Genome Project, an that people could react to medica- what diseases they may be at risk international enterprise led by the tions, pathogens and other environ- for. It also offers a look at a client’s U.S. Department of Energy and the mental influences. Many variants ancestry — in some cases, helping National Institutes of Health, offi- have no effect, but the ones that do seek out “new-found relatives.” cially kicked off in 1990. The aim can have dramatic ramifications. While genomics was developing was to “discover the complete set of Since the first human genome as a science, Snyder was working at human genes and make them acces- has been sequenced, the process Yale University. In the early days, sible for further biological study, and has continued to improve, and the researchers studied genes one at a determine the complete sequence of cost and time needed for sequenc- time; he took part in an early proj- DNA bases in the human genome,” ing has dropped significantly. The ect that analyzed thousands of genes according to the project’s website. Human Genome Project cost about at once. Full-genome sequencing the following year. have gotten grants from the insti- The project was expected to last $2.7 billion in fiscal-year 1991 dol- looked like an exciting future. Stanford’s genomics program, tute include the California Institute 15 years, but researchers and tech- lars. Today, a complete sequencing “The cost of sequencing was which includes an off-campus se- of Technology, Harvard Medical nology were ahead of their game. of a genome can be done for a few dropping in 2005 and 2006. We quencing facility in Palo Alto with School and Yale University. By 2000, leaders had announced thousand dollars, in a day. saw that you’d be able to sequence machines from the Hayward-based Snyder describes much of the ge- that a “working draft” DNA se- People also use the term “the for an ordinary person,” he said. By Illumina Inc., is one of a few in the nomics work done at Stanford today quence of the human genome had $1,000 genome” to refer to a future the start of 2009, the year he came country to receive funding from the as clinical research rather than clin- been completed. In 2003, the project when complete sequencing — and a to Stanford, two genomes were se- National Human Genome Research ical. Lab researchers studying the was declared finished, all 3 billion personalized plan of medicine com- quenced, with more to come. The Institute at the National Institutes genome are exploring a variety of DNA letters in the human genome ing out of it — will be accessible to center he now heads was established of Health. Other institutions that questions. Which genes are linked
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The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation for this meeting or an alternative format for any related printed materials, please contact the City’s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing Amy French Jennifer Li-Pook-Than, a post-doctoral associate in Stanford’s genetics department, prepares DNA samples Chief Planning Official for a polymerase chain reaction that will be used to study a gene variant. to heart disease? What can genes other health care workers to deal all around the world have put out reveal about predispositions to can- with the data; how to help patients there, often on the Internet. City of Palo Alto cer or whether a tumor will grow? and doctors grapple with the ethical “We all benefit from sharing what ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT How is genetic material related to questions that arise; how to protect we can contribute,” he said. “It’s one autoimmune responses, autism, patients’ privacy. More broadly still: thing to learn from a big data set. It’s asthma? Stanford has also launched Who owns genetic information, and another thing to learn from two of a repository for genetic samples to how should society use it? them. ... What do 10 researchers see? NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Draft Mitigated Negative create a database that could aid in Stanford faculty members in vari- What do 100 researchers see?” Declaration has been prepared by the Palo Alto Department future study. ous disciplines are involved with Once scholars like Butte have an- of Planning and Community Environment for the project listed In some cases, sequencing is also genomics, extending beyond the ge- alyzed the data, concrete ideas may below. In accordance with A.B. 886, this document will be used in individual patients’ care netics department. There are people emerge that can help patients. For available for review and comment during a minimum 30-day at the university’s hospital system. from pediatrics, pathology, devel- instance, a study of cancer patients circulation period beginning August 5, 2013 through For example, a patient with an un- opmental biology, bioengineering, might yield a clue to which genetic September 3, 2013 during the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 usual syndrome that baffles doctors computer science, biomedical eth- variant is connected to an adverse P.M. at the Development Center, 285 Hamilton Avenue, Palo might have his genome sequenced ics, psychiatry. reaction to a particular drug. Alto, California. The document will also be available on the web in hopes of finding out what the Butte has also focused on finding at www.cityofpaloalto.org/planningprojects . condition is and what existing drugs new ways to use old drugs. Often, might work for it. ‘The patient needs a medication already approved by This item will be considered at a public hearing by the “For a long time, we’ve known the FDA for one condition may be Architectural Review Board, Thursday, September 5, 2013 at how to use individual genes,” Galli to have a choice. It beneficial for another. In one case, 8:30 AM. in the Palo Alto City Council Chambers on the first said. For instance, if a person has involves how you think Butte analyzed publicly available floor of the Civic Center, located at 250 Hamilton Avenue, cystic fibrosis, doctors would know about your own future, data from the Internet on lung- Palo Alto, California. Written comments on the Mitigated to test his or her child for it, or to cancer patients and saw that the tri- Negative Declaration should be provided to Clare Campbell, tell a patient about potential risks your children’s future, cyclic antidepressant desipramine Department of Planning and Community Environment, 250 to his or her unborn child. Today’s whether you’re going had a surprising positive effect on Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, or via email at clare. use of genes is broader, Galli said: the cancer. He notes that “drug-re- [email protected], by 5:00 PM on September 3, “We’re able to tell you that you have to have children.’ purposing” has a long history (Via- 2013. a specific mutation and that this —Stephen Galli, co-director, gra, for instance, was originally an particular medicine might work Stanford Center for Genomics angina drug) but not to this extent. well for you.” and Personalized Medicine In true Stanford tradition, Butte 1400 Page Mill Road [13PLN-00188]: Request by But with full-genome sequencing and others started a company. He’s a Hanover Page Mill Associates for Major Architectural Review to not yet widely available, genomics Atul Butte perhaps best personi- founder and scientific adviser at Nu- allow the construction of one two-story 86,925 sf commercial is still more a science of the lab than fies the interdisciplinary approach. Medii, a Palo Alto firm that trans- building with below and at grade parking, replacing the existing of the physician’s office. The aver- He’s an associate professor of pe- lates the “Big Data technology” de- square footage of the two commercial buildings (no change in age doctor has not been trained on diatrics and genetics and the chief veloped in Butte’s lab into finding floor area), on behalf of Leland Stanford University in the RP how to interpret sequencing results of the division of systems medicine. new uses for existing drugs. (Research Park) zone district. and to communicate with patients Along with his M.D. and doctorate, Butte also makes use of technol- about them, nor are all doctors he has a degree in computer science, ogy developed by other firms. He Aaron Aknin, Interim Director of Planning and convinced that the technology has where he started out. holds up a chip made by Affyme- Community Environment widespread use in individualized “I still love to code when I have trix Inc. in Santa Clara. Called the medicine, Snyder said. time to do it,” he said during an in- GeneChip, the measurement tool In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, listening “We’re still cave people in terms terview in his campus office. There, scans DNA samples to seek out ge- assistive devices are available in the Council Chambers and Council of our prowess at this.” his framed diplomas and stacks of netic variations. Conference Room. Sign language interpreters will be provided upon request science magazines are joined by a “People use these to figure out with 72 hours advance notice. hat’s why Stanford’s work in sign from a TED conference, where patterns,” he said. “This chip is genomics is an interdisciplin- he gave a talk called, “What if you amazing.” T ary effort. It’s not just about outsource three double-blind mice?” Snyder and Galli agree that the 5K WALK, 5K & 10K RUN the researchers delving into ques- While Butte’s colleagues are in data analysis done by Butte and his tions of science in the lab. the lab or the clinic generating data, team is a key component to their As genomics moves toward being he’s helping them make sense of work at the center. Without the re- translated into widespread personal- the findings and turn the data into sults from studies being properly in- ized medicine (or precision medi- clinical recommendations. He and terpreted, doctors would be as lost cine, as some call it), many other his team perform statistical analyses as the pharmacist in a cartoon popu- questions arise: how to interpret on genomic data, look for patterns lar with people working in genom- SEPTEMBER 20 the data that emerge from labs and as they map, compare and analyze studies; how to train doctors and the data that other researchers from (continued on next page) REGISTER ONLINE: PaloAltoOnline.com/moonlight_run
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Post-doctoral associate Bin Chen sits beside a computer monitor displaying his graph of data on new medications’ treatment of disease.
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(continued from previous page) tients whatever they want, but it can. It’s always hard to anticipate might not mean anything” to some- every curve.” ics. There are many versions of the one not trained in genetics, he said. Patients can also play a role in comic, but basically, as Galli puts it: This goes back to the need for more protecting their own privacy. Mag- “Someone walks into a pharmacy, training of physicians in helping pa- nus has heard stories of people going hands a pharmacist a piece of paper tients deal with sequencing results. on social media and sharing details and says: ‘This is my genome. Tell In addition, he noted, genomics’ they’ve learned about their own ge- me what I need.’” young age means there are many nome, whether it’s serious informa- With all the interpretation, dis- things that even high-level scientists tion from a full sequencing or some- ciplines and training needed in haven’t figured out yet. thing that seems more innocuous, genomics, there’s another popular “Whenever you do a full sequenc- obtained from a partial genotyping joke in the field, too: “We’re head- ing of anyone, you’ll find variations from a commercial company. ing toward a $1,000 genome and a that will be of unknown signifi- “People may think it’s innocuous million-dollar interpretation.” cance,” he said. to share things on Facebook, like With a genetic variation, the the inability to taste cilantro, and hen the topic of genomics stakes can end up being very high: yet the details might be sufficient to comes up among people matters of health and sickness, life identify people in a larger database W outside the field, the dis- and death. As sequencing technolo- and now know whether they’re at cussion can be very different. It of- gy continues to become more widely risk for early Alzheimer’s, and an ten boils down to one central ques- available, it means more high-stakes employer could decide not to hire tion: Would you have your genome choices that patients have to make them,” Magnus said. sequenced? Which really means: about their own health and the ‘Genomics is a no-brainer. It needs to become Such horror stories are largely Would you want to know what health of their relatives. Overall, hypothetical at this point, Magnus you’re at risk for? genomics, Galli said, “is going to standard care.’ noted. “We’re trying to focus on the Other questions are inextricably increasingly require patients to play —Michael Snyder, director, concrete issues that we can address woven in: What would you do if you a big role in taking control of their Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine now.” found out you were at risk for a seri- own health care.” Back in his office, Snyder, ever ous condition? Would you want your That starts with the first decision: the advocate, painted a brighter pic- family to be tested? Issues of psy- whether a person wants to have his “The patient needs to have a In one sense, protecting privacy is ture of the future. He imagines a day chology, ethics, responsibility are own genome sequenced. While choice,” Galli said. “It involves the same as it’s always been: having when the average person will go to forever entwined with genomics. doctors grapple with the question of how you think about your own fu- good computer security, building the doctor and not get just a few lim- At Stanford, the Center for Bio- how much information to give to pa- ture, your children’s future, wheth- firewalls, keeping names off study ited tests. Instead, anyone will be medical Ethics plays a major role in tients, they also have to realize that er you’re going to have children. data. Many large databases used for able to get a full genome sequenc- the university’s work in genomics, some patients won’t want it. What’s right for one person may not genomics research are restricted to ing, meaning that a patient could be with center Director David Magnus Galli uses the example of the risk be right for another.” vetted researchers and not open to tested for “hundreds of thousands actively involved. He and his col- for developing early-onset Alzheim- Another question of ethics related the public at large, he said. of things” at each doctor’s visit. leagues are used to being brought er’s disease. Some people are plan- to genomics is one of privacy. Can With genetic information, though, Patients will be able to anticipate in to help researchers, physicians ners and will want to know. They’ll people’s health data really be kept security may need to go farther, he and respond to risk factors, adverse and others address ethical issues in want to make sure that their families anonymous when study results are said. In some cases people could medication responses. They’ll be many disciplines. As a young sci- will be provided for, that they’ll get shared on the Internet? Can people theoretically look at public records, able to make lifestyle changes and ence, genomics raises even more is- to do what they want early in life. be identified by their genetic infor- such as voter rolls, and combine improve their health, and work with sues, some of them unprecedented. “Even they may be sorry they mation, even if their names are kept them with study databases to try to their doctors to design therapies for One of the most common ques- know it, but they’ll ask for it,” he out of it? What could be done with identify individuals. anticipated problems. tions that many institutions are said. those data? “That’s a new challenge, and “Genomics is a no-brainer,” he grappling with is one of the most Other people will want to know Magnus said that privacy is one of people are working to find ways said. “It needs to become standard fundamental, Magnus said: What only if something can be done about the major ethical issues that keeps of dealing with the bioinformatics care.” N sequencing results should be given it — if their future condition will be coming up around genomics. But challenge,” Magnus said. “People Arts and Entertainment Editor to patients? treatable. Still others won’t want to he points out that privacy has al- really are trying to think through Rebecca Wallace can be emailed “It’s easy to say we can give pa- know at all. ways been a concern in health care. policies and try to do the best we at [email protected].
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“Gather at the River” playwright Laura Marks, who draws on her Kentucky roots.
important to me that we not just be laughing new play by a New York writ- at these people.” Audiences can come to their own conclu- er follows a liberal city slicker sions — and give their own feedback — when “Gather at the River” comes to Palo who volunteers in Kentucky <]`bV Alto later this month. Marks and her play will be part of this year’s New Works Fes- with a group of evangelical tival at TheatreWorks, with staged readings on Aug. 16 and 18. /Christians. Sounds like a comedy Now in its 12th year, the festival presents readings of new plays and musicals that are poking fun at Southerners, or a still being developed, giving the audiences the chance to comment on in-progress works treacly tale of a tough cookie find- and the creators the time and space to refine them. Playwrights, composers and lyricists ing her soft side? Like real life, the A liberal New York protagonist come from all over to take part in the fes- tival, working with directors and actors to picture is far more complex. meets a group of O\RKentucky present their visions on the Lucie Stern The- atre stage. For one, the playwright, Laura Marks, A]cbVby Rebecca Wallace Other shows scheduled for this year’s fes- evangelicals in new festival play grew up in Kentucky. Though she long ago tival are: the musical romance “Cubamor,” had her accent drilled out of her in acting with book and lyrics by James D. Sasser and classes, she still sounds nostalgic about her music and lyrics by Charles Vincent Burwell; rural childhood. In an interview, she rhap- the bittersweet comedy “The Great Pretend- sodizes about “going to a little pink country River,” as a nuanced look at two cultures discovery” in which she faces herself and er,” by David West Read; “Mrs. Hughes,” a church with my grandma and the sort of meeting and meshing. her own beliefs, Marks says. Meanwhile, the musical drama about Sylvia Plath, with mu- vivid immediacy of religion that I experi- Protagonist Ellen is a 40-year-old who Kentuckians, while strict in their faith and sic and lyrics by Sharon Kenny and book by enced there ... so personal and so vital and gave up her career as a lawyer to become lifestyle, are not so rigid that they believe Janine Nabers; and the 1920s-inspired farce very moving.” a stay-at-home mom and is now looking for they know it all. “Laugh,” by Beth Henley (who also wrote Nostalgia aside, this is also a playwright something important to do with her life. “It’s a play that investigates questions of “Crimes of the Heart”). who takes on contemporary issues, such as Heading from New York to Kentucky to faith and the power that those ideas hold in bank foreclosures and unemployment. She’s volunteer with the Christian group ends up our country,” Marks says, “and the polar- written her Kentucky story, “Gather at the being “a kind of accidental journey of self- ized nature of our country right now. ... It’s (continued on page 35)
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Being a shrewd business- given an all-American twist when man, he agrees to give Applegate a baseball fanatic sells his soul to (Jeff Clarke) his soul in exchange become the world’s best ball player for baseball glory but only with an and help his beloved — but hapless escape clause: He has until the fi- David Allen — Washington Senators win the nal game of the season to change pennant. his mind. Applegate inexplicably “Old” Joe Boyd (Matt Tipton) has agrees and within moments old Joe a comfortable home and a loving is transformed into strapping young Young Joe Hardy (played by Daniel Mitchell, center) with the Washington Senators. wife, Meg (Mary Melnick). How- Joe Hardy (Daniel Mitchell), full of physical strength and a stronger players gained the biggest cheers at Yankees” is, if not a grand slam, a singing voice. curtain call. very enjoyable show and a winning Applegate quickly gets Joe signed The show’s original choreography choice for a summer production. with the Senators, who, as led by was by dance innovator Bob Fosse, Plus, now when I watch a Giants their kindly manager Benny Van and he’s a hard act to follow. The game it’ll be difficult for me not to Buren (Richard Lewis), try to make dancers give the Fosse style their imagine Bruce Bochy leading the up in heart what they lack in wins. best but don’t always pull it off. On boys in a locker-room rendition of With Joe on the team, the players the other hand, it’s a clever feat to be “Heart.” N and their fans dream of finally de- able to convey the action of a base- feating their toughest rival, the titu- ball game without having to show What: “Damn Yankees,” presented by lar “damn” Yankees. any of it, just well-played reactions. Foothill Music Theatre As in many tales of devilish deal- I really appreciated the full sound Where: Smithwick Theatre, Foothill ings, though, it’s not all peanuts and of the orchestra, led by Catherine College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Cracker Jacks. Nosy reporter Gloria Snider. It’s a delight to hear the in- Altos Hills Thorpe (Caitlin Lawrence-Papp) terplay among strings, woodwinds, When: Through Aug. 18, with shows suspects that Joe may be hiding a percussion and brass rather than just Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. secret, while Joe finds himself torn a cheesy keyboard. Also delightful and Sundays at 2 p.m. between his love of the game and his are the retro costumes by Tina To Cost: Tickets are $12-$28. desire to return to his life with loyal and sets by Margaret Toomey. Info: Go to foothillmusicals.com or call Meg. Applegate, sensing Joe’s com- On the whole, Foothill’s “Damn 650-949-7360. mitment to the deal wavering, sends in his closer, the sultry minion Lola (Jen Wheatonfox). But it seems the battle between Joe and his demons will continue right through the end of the pennant race. The “deal with the devil” storyline is always a compelling one, no mat- ter how many times it’s seen, and “Damn Yankees” is no exception, with a zippy script by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop. The plot left me with a few questions, especially in regard to the extent or lack thereof of Applegate’s powers, but it doesn’t really matter. There are a few famous tunes in the soundtrack, by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (most notably “What- ever Lola Wants”), but for the most part the music is pleasant but unre- markable. In terms of performance quality, ideal leading man Mitchell and his love interests Wheatonfox and Melnick proved the most adept singers while Clarke, who has the most fun role as the devil bemoaning his waning influence in the world, sometimes strikes out vocally. Charming Holly Smolik and Dana Johnson scored big laughs as dizzy groupies Doris and Sister Miller, while the team of eager young ball- David Allen The Devil (Jeff Clarke) grins at the smooth moves of his minion Lola (Jen Wheatonfox). 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Gardens” at TheatreWorks in 2008. John Keon JD - Rutgers School of Law The playwright herself may also be familiar after L.L.M (Taxation) her play “Bethany” was staged in New York earlier NYU School of Law this year. It starred America Ferrara as a woman hit Composer Sharon Kenny, whose new musical with hard by the recent recession. (The writer’s husband, book writer Janine Nabers (not pictured) is “Mrs. the actor Ken Marks, played the bad guy.) The New Hughes.” York Times praised the play for the “clear, compas- (650) 488.7325 sionate attention it pays to the corrosive effects of the DRE# 01854880 | CA BAR# 255996 economic downturn on the battered middle class.” [email protected] Marks says “Bethany” was inspired in part by her own layoff. In 2009, the Juilliard graduate was let go from a corporate job, and “just poured all that anxiety into ‘Bethany,’” she says. Fortunately for her, becom- www.deleonrealty.com ing a full-time playwright has paid off. “Bethany” is now scheduled for its first major regional production, at the Old Globe in San Diego, and will head to the Main Street Theater Company in Houston after that. In the meantime, Marks will be here in Palo Alto, working and hoping to make “Gather at the River” strike another resonant chord with audiences. “It’s the KnowKnow KnewKnew BooksBooks best kind of work,” she says. N
What: The 12th annual New Works Festival at TheatreWorks, with staged readings of new plays and musicals, and a “Meet the Festival Artists” afternoon Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Aug. 10-18. Scheduled readings: “Cubamor” at 8 p.m. Aug. 10, 14 and 17; “The Great Pretender” at 2 p.m. Aug. 11 and at 4 p.m. Aug. 17; “Mrs. Hughes” at 8 p.m. Aug. 11 and 15 and at noon Aug. 18; “Laugh” at 8 p.m. Playwright Beth Henley (“Crimes of the Heart”), Aug. 13 and noon Aug. 17; and “Gather at the River” at whose new work is “Laugh.” 8 p.m. Aug. 16 and 18. “Meet the Festival Artists” is at 4 p.m. Aug. 18. Cost: Single events are $19, and an all-festival pass is $65. Info: Go to theatreworks.org or call 650-463-1960. WE ARE MOVING...
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through Sept. 22. For more information on the venue, go to vinolocale.com or call 650-328-0450. Opera Matched ‘Iolanthe’ British government comes under the satirical micro- Worth a Lookscope this month in Mountain View when Lamplighters Music Theatre CareGivers brings its take on Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Iolanthe” to the city’s Center for the Performing Arts. In the classic comic opera, a band of fairies take on the British House of Lords, while fairy Iolanthe’s half-human son tries to marry the Lord Chan- cellor’s Ward. A war of the sexes — and of the mortals and immortals — ensues, with the politicians not coming off as the brightest bunch. The tale is fueled by a witty libretto and a score that’s said to have been influenced by Wagner and Mendelssohn. The Lamplighters, a San Francisco troupe established in 1952, performs with a full orchestra. Local performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. Aug. 10 and 2 p.m. Aug. 11, at the theater at 500 Castro St. in downtown Mountain View. Tickets are $53/$48 general, $48/$43 for seniors, and $25/$20 for children, students and teachers. Go to lamplighters.org or call 415-227- 4797. “There’s no place Family like home.” Doctor Noize When you, or someone This Saturday might be that rare day when kids actually like going to you care about, the doctor. needs assistance... The headliner for the penultimate show in Palo Alto’s Twilight Concert you can count on us Series is Doctor Noize, he of the cleverly wacky kids’ music. The Doctor to be there. (also known as Cory Cullinan) rocks out as a one-man band armed with electronic-music looping technology, often arranging music live on stage We provide Peninsula with the help of his young spectators. families with top, The Doc, who is also a music teacher, has local and school creds to professional caregivers. “U Airy” is one of the colorful paintings by Judy Gittelsohn now on back him up. Raised in Los Altos, he has a music degree from Stanford Call now exhibit at Vino Locale in Palo Alto. University and several recordings to his name, including the Phineas Mc- Boof CDs and his “Grammaropolis” album. Songs from the latter include (650) 839-2273 the piano-blues tune “I Got The Blues” (which could be called “Ballad of www.matchedcaregivers.com the Misunderstood Pronoun”) and the power-punk number “Welcome to Art Grammaropolis.” ‘Vowels to Dine By’ Doctor Noize is scheduled to perform at 7 p.m. Aug. 3 at Mitchell Park Local artist Judy Gittelsohn describes her new painting series as abstract. at 600 E. Meadow Drive. The concert is free, and audience members often But chances are many people can find specific meaning in them, with the bring blankets and picnics. The Twilight series finishes up on Aug. 10 with letters O and U playing prominent roles. a bunch of teen bands performing at 7 p.m. in Mitchell Park. Gittelsohn, who runs the Art For Well Beings center in Palo Alto, con- For more about the concerts, go to cityofpaloalto.org or call 650-463- tributes a personal connection as well. The paintings in the series, which 4930. is titled “A Few Vowels; O, U and E, an Ode to Emily,” pay tribute to her cousin Emily Georges Gottfried, who died suddenly in January from an uncommon blood disease. “Emily lived life large. She was a song leader, a cantor and a commu- Community SEPTEMBER 20 nity organizer. 1,200 people attended her funeral,” Gittelsohn wrote in a Obon Festival press release. Vowels were meaningful to the Oregon singer, and have had It’s almost time — the 65th time, that is — for the Obon Festival to bring heightened importance to the artist traditional dance, taiko drums, carnival games, bonsai, ikebana, food and as well — Gittelsohn had trouble drink, and temple tours and talks to the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple. Lan- 1 /2 with her own speech after a recent “ terns are being hung in the sanctuary and the public is invited to the annual ++++ thyroid surgery. Her cousin became free event. When the temple gong rings at 5 p.m. this Saturday, Aug. 3, the ’ ‘ ’” her muse for the series. THIS SUMMERS LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE . weekend begins. The paintings are now on display -Claudia Puig, The traditional Buddhist celebration honors participants’ ancestors. Fes- at Palo Alto’s Vino Locale at 431 tivities often include food offerings made at altars and temples, and lanterns Kipling St., in an exhibition called “ glowing. WAY, WAY WONDERFUL. “Vowels to Dine By.” A reception At the Palo Alto event, the gong-sounding will be followed by a 5:15 Bud- , is scheduled for Aug. 8 from 6 to 8 A JOYOUS MOVIE dhist service led by the Rev. Dean Koyama. He will then give a talk called ’ ” p.m., with the exhibition continuing THE BEST ONE I VE SEEN IN A VERY LONG TIME. “Buddhism in Everyday Life,” which he’ll repeat at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. -Joe Morgenstern, Other scheduled events on Saturday: a minyo/taishogo- to performance of Japanese folk music and dance at 6 p.m., followed by a koto/ shakuhachi performance of Japanese stringed instru- ments and flute at 7 p.m.; and a demonstration of kendo (Japanese fencing) at 9 p.m. Sunday brings the festival’s central event: Bon Odori cir- cular folk dancing, starting at 7:30 p.m. Meanwhile, games, ike- bana and bonsai demonstra- tions, a silent auction and other events will continue throughout the weekend. The temple is at 2751 Louis Road in Palo Alto. For more Wendy Sakuma, Taylor Yamashita and Sammy Yamashita prepare for the Bon information, go to pabt.org or NOW PLAYING AT SELECT THEATRES call 650-856-0123. CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATRES AND SHOWTIMES Odori dancing at a past Obon Festival. 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RESTAURANT REVIEW Weak start, strong finish Terrone Pizzeria overcomes miscues with delicious, rustic Italian fare
by Dale F. Bentson For dessert, the tortino al cioccolato ($8) y first impression of the Terrone piz- was a cupcake-sized, medium-dense choco- zeria-ristorante-bar was awful. late cake topped with vanilla gelato. What’s M On that initial visit, I ordered the not to like? Totally satisfying. However, the farro calamari ($12) with green onions, bell panna cotta eclipsed it. pepper and parsley, on crostini. The large por- The lemon panna cotta with berries ($8) tion was void of flavor and too dry, and while was an outstanding example of what panna the toasted baguette added crunch, it didn’t cotta — literally, cooked cream — should be. add much else. To give it some pop, I squeezed There are no eggs in panna cotta; it is not a the lemon from my iced tea over the salad. pudding or a curd. It is much lighter and sim- Then came the quattro stagioni pizza ($17) pler to make, yet most domestic versions are with San Marzano tomatoes, fresh mozza- dense custardy affairs. rella, prosciutto, artichokes, mushrooms and The Terrone version, feather-light, melted olives. It was a dreadful pizza. Though the as it hit the tongue, leaving a silky creami- imported ham was high-quality, it covered ness in the mouth. Deliriously good. Panna only half the pie. The other half was divided cotta is not a filling dessert, but it is lush and among flavorless canned black olives, bland wonderful when executed this well. mushrooms and artichoke hearts that hadn’t Wine-wise, I was underwhelmed. The been properly drained. The ‘chokes left a markups were very high for mostly grocery- puddle of water atop the pizza that percolated shelf wines. There were no vintages posted through to the crust, making it soggy. Half Michelle Le on the menu, either. the pizza was inedible. Not to belabor the point, but restaurant wine Fortunately, initial impressions aren’t al- markups are hovering at stratospheric levels, ways indicative, and Terrone redeemed itself and not just at Terrone either: everywhere. The lunch hour begins at Terrone. on subsequent visits. After that first experi- Think about this when you buy wine by the ence, the food was pleasant, carefully pre- glass. That singular pour is essentially what pared and encouraging. the restaurant/bar paid for the entire bottle. Terrone is a derogatory term, referring to As for Terrone’s wine assortment, not of southern-Italian farmers. The principals of much interest. It looked to be a distributor’s Terrone Pizzeria all hail from Calabria and list rather than a well-thought-out selection of Puglia, the toe and heel of Italy and a cradle of interesting boutique wineries to complement outstanding cuisine. Let us not forget that the the fare. ever-popular pasta puttanesca literally means Despite the grievances, my overall experi- “whore’s spaghetti.” Oh, those Italians. ence at Terrone Pizza ended up being posi- Franco Campilongo managed the Palo tive. The food was skillfully prepared; the Alto location of Pasta? for eight years while service was always prompt and efficient; and Kristyan D’Angelo ran the kitchen. Franco’s the ambiance had a good vibe to it — and cousin Maico Campilongo joined them in the that panna cotta makes a visit worthwhile. N latter days of Pasta? When that operation seg- ued to Figo, the trio incubated then hatched Terrone Pizza in the old Bistro Elan space on Terrone Pizzeria, 488 South California Ave., South California Avenue in early February. Palo Alto; 650-847-7577; terronepizza.com The interior space underwent a cosmetic re- Hours: Mon. - Sat.: 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. vision. Black and white is now the dominant Michelle Le Sun.: 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.; 5-9 p.m. motif with silver framed mirrors and simple Reservations Alcohol: sconces sharing wall space. Lighting is mini- full bar CCredit cards mal but effective. Overall, it’s simplicity-chic Terrone co-owner and executive chef Kristyan D’Angelo preps a pizza for the brick oven. complete with bare-topped tables. The Bistro Corkage: Parking $15 Elan vegetable and herb garden out back has tive, short, slightly knotted pasta, was aromatic cracker-y and doughy. been supplanted with more tables, umbrellas and alluring. Sauced with “beef stew,” it was Terrone’s imported, wood-fired, refractory Children Noise level: loud and party lights. a meatier, bolder version of bolognese sauce, brick Marra Forni pizza oven is capable of tem- Catering On a later visit, eggplant polpette ($10) topped with parmesan and chopped herbs. peratures in excess of 900 degrees. Pizzas bake Bathroom proved a better appetizer. The eggplant had I tried another pizza. The margherita ($14), with astounding speed: about 60 seconds. The Takeout cleanliness: very good been shaped into spheres, breaded and deep- with ripe red San Marzano tomatoes, creamy cheese melts perfectly with the crust, just start- Outdoor fried, then nested in a rich creamy Taleggio mozzarella, fragrant basil and olive oil, put ing to bubble and blister, Neapolitan-style. dining truffle cheese sauce. It was a soothing way my mind at ease. It was as mouth-watering Besides serving appetizers, pastas and Private to whet the appetite. as it was artistic. The slightly charred crust pizzas, Terrone offers steak, fish and parties The house-made cavatelli ($17), a decora- was pliable — in that perfect state between chicken entrees ($16-$25).
ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊU Page 39 “Want to see great acting, from comic to tragic and every electrifying stop in between? Then focus on Cate Blanchett in ‘Blue Jasmine.’ Her triumphant performance is one for the time capsule. Alec Baldwin plays with all the conniving charm that he can muster. Sally Hawkins is the definition of wonderful. Andrew Dice Clay nails his role. Bobby Cannavale is ever superb. Louis C.K. is a tender, wicked surprise. Peter Sarsgaard is excellent. MoviesOPENINGS Michael Stuhlbarg is sleazed to perfection. Blue Jasmine Lacing laughs with emotional gravity, --- Woody Allen is working at the top of his game, (Century 16) Recently, Sony Pictures Classics was sending out each laugh with a sting in its tail. sued by the rights holders of William Faulkner’s ‘Blue Jasmine’ is not to be missed.” work, who objected to Woody Allen’s “Midnight in -Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE Paris” employing the slightly paraphrased quotation “The past is not dead. Actually, it’s not even past.” Alec Baldwin Last month, Sony prevailed, and eight days later, re- leased Woody’s latest, “Blue Jasmine,” in which the words have changed but the song remains the same. Cate Blanchett “I want the past past,” says Jasmine. Fat chance of that. The haunted protagonist of “Blue Jasmine,” Louis C.K. played by Cate Blanchett, can’t forget her bygone bliss and the horrifying loss of it. A Park Avenue socialite accustomed to quality time in the Hamp- Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg in “2 Guns.” Bobby Cannavale tons and Martha’s Vineyard, Jasmine has lost it all 2 Guns and landed on the San Franciscan doorstep of her Andrew Dice Clay working-class sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins), a good --1/2 soul sorely tested by her long-absent sibling’s out-of- (Century 16, Century 20) By not being instantly touch demands. dismissible with a comparison to some other movie, Sally Hawkins Jasmine asks, “People reinvent themselves, don’t “2 Guns” wins some audience goodwill right out of they?” but what she craves is something more like the gate. Yes, it’s based on a graphic-novel series, Peter Sarsgaard reinstatement. She rejects a job opportunity in a den- but not a famous one, and while we’ve seen plenty of tist’s office (“Jesus! It’s too menial!”) and thrills to R-rated action buddy comedies before, the stream of the possibility of repeating history by attaching her- amusing banter here comes with plotting that has a Michael Stuhlbarg self to a man for security, an unsettling theme for both few good tricks in reserve. sisters. Badly burned by her Bernie Madoff-esque Don’t get me wrong. “2 Guns” is as glib as all get- husband, Hal (Alec Baldwin), Jasmine sees new pos- out, and once the characters’ hidden agendas are all sibilities with a sleek, well-appointed diplomat (Peter out in the open, the film begins to feel pretty long- Sarsgaard). winded in taking care of its business of Mexican Jasmine and Ginger were both adoptive sisters, but standoffs, explosions and demolition derbies. But the when Jasmine made her social-clambering escape, compensation of Denzel Washington, joined with she never looked back, becoming accustomed not surprising effectiveness to Mark Wahlberg, is not to only to a certain lifestyle but to a fabulous selfishness, be underestimated, and the release feeds into the zeit- Written and Directed by insulated by willful obliviousness. “When Jasmine geist of intense disillusionment with corrupt govern- doesn’t want to know something,” Ginger explains, ment institutions. Woody Allen “she has a habit of looking the other way.” But Jas- Washington and Wahlberg play wheeler-dealer Filmed in San Francisco mine’s fall has broken her, and that nervous break- Bobby “I Know a Guy” Beans and “junkyard dog” down has left her manic and prone to all-consuming Michael “Stig” Stigman, a pair of dealers who — SONY PICTURES CLASSICS PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH flashbacks that Allen layers into the story with struc- when stiffed by Mexican drug-cartel head Papi Greco GRAVIER PRODUCTIONS A PERDIDO PRODUCTION “BLUE JASMINE” tural finesse, each memory plausibly triggered by a (Edward James Olmos) — mutually agree to a com- ALEC BALDWIN CATE BLANCHETT LOUIS C.K. BOBBY CANNAVALE present moment. pensatory savings-and-loan robbery. That scene part- ANDREW DICE CLAY SALLY HAWKINS PETER SARSGAARD Meanwhile, Ginger has a loving if somewhat boor- ly plays out in the film’s engagingly schtick-y opening MICHAEL STUHLBARG CASTING BY JULIET TAYLOR PATRICIA DICERTO ish fiancé in Chili (Bobby Cannavale), her own re- sequence, which establishes a cool rapport between COSTUME DESIGNER EDITOR A.C.E. placement for an ex-husband (Andrew Dice Clay’s the stars and their characters before screenwriter SUZY BENZINGER ALISA LEPSELTER, surprisingly resonant Augie). Naturally, Jasmine’s Blake Masters (working from Steven Grant’s com- PRODUCTION DESIGNER DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY SANTO LOQUASTO JAVIER AGUIRRE SAROBE, ASC dissatisfaction with anything she deems déclassé ics) and director Baltasar Kormákur (“Contraband”) CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JACK ROLLINS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS LEROY SCHECTER ADAM B. STERN (including, to her constant horror, herself) pits her roll back the clock for some context. CO-PRODUCER HELEN ROBIN PRODUCED BY LETTY ARONSON STEPHEN TENENBAUM EDWARD WALSON against Chili, which contributes to Ginger’s explora- How the plot unfolds, and what the characters WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY WOODY ALLEN © 2013 GRAVIER PRODUCTIONS, INC. tion of another romantic option: Louis C.K.’s middle- are really after, is best left unexplained here, but it class sound engineer Al. While the story is awash does come to involve $43.125 million, and the sticky in the various prevarications the characters inflict fingers of U.S. Naval Intelligence (in the person of on each other, it’s the ultimate, socially agreed-upon James Marsden) and the CIA (repped by a drawling, lie of class distinction that pervades “Blue Jasmine.” creepy-comic Bill Paxton). The rot of corruption has WWW.SONYCLASSICS.COM (Unfortunately, Allen proves a bit dialect-deaf in cast- disillusioned Bobby to the point where he continually ing San Francisco’s working-class men, to a one, in insists to Stig, “There is no code,” explaining why he the New York-mook mold.) has no “people” or “family.” Of course, Stig just as STARTS FRIDAY, CENTURY CINEMAS 16 Certainly, “Blue Jasmine” is Allen’s riff on “A insistently gravitates toward being both to Bobby, in 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd, Streetcar Named Desire” (“A Cable Car Named De- true buddy-comedy tradition. AUGUST 2 Mountain View (800) FANDANGO sire”?), an impression only helped along by the cast- Bobby’s cynicism extends to withholding commit- VIEW THE TRAILER AT WWW.BLUEJASMINEFILM.COM ing of Blanchett, who played Blanche DuBois in an ment from co-worker-with-benefits Deb (Paula Pat- acclaimed 2009 production transplanted from Sydney ton), who may or may not be worthy of trust. Once to Brooklyn. Blanchett is a force of nature as Jas- it expends its big twists in the early going, “2 Guns” Support mine: the beating heart that keeps the conspicuously begins a decline into the familiar toward an ending schematic picture alive and kicking, and a shoo-in that could be described, in style and substance, as Palo Alto Weekly’s for an Oscar nomination. Though “Blue Jasmine” is predictable. But there’s fun to be had getting there, much more of a drama than a comedy, Blanchett’s mostly in the game playfulness of the leads and the coverage of our comic brio, in Jasmine’s blithely imperious manner, pleasingly tart dialogue (Olmos, underplaying de- magically complements her tragic mental fragility lightfully, gets the zinger “It’s a free market ... not a community. and self-defeating desperation. free world”). With its truth-in-advertising title and movie-star Memberships begin Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, lan- charm, “2 Guns” will probably connect with audi- guage and sexual content. One hour, 38 minutes. ences; if so, it’s certainly sequel-ripe. at only 17¢ per day — Peter Canavese Rated R for violence throughout, language and Join today: brief nudity. One hour, 49 minutes. SupportLocalJournalism.org — Peter Canavese
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A sampling of recent weekly reviews MOVIE TIMES follows. For the full reviews, go to MOVIE MINIS All showtimes are for Friday through Sunday only unless otherwise noted. PaloAltoOnline.com/movies For other times, as well as reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. magazine-editor boss, Imogene stages a to rethink his career path, until military Fruitvale Station --1/2 cry-for-help suicide and winds up in the leader Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) urges Bay Area audiences may feel they need care of her estranged mother, Zelda (An- him back into the biz. Raleigh will have to 2 Guns (R) ((1/2 Century 16: 11 a.m. & 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 p.m. no introduction to Oscar Grant III when it nette Bening). And so Imogene finds her- click with rookie Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi) Century 20: Fri-Sat also at 11:15 p.m. 10:35 a.m. & 1:15, 3:55, 6:35, 9:15 p.m. In comes to “Fruitvale Station,” a based-on-a- self an unwanted house guest in the New to defend against a kaiju onslaught while XD 11:55 a.m. & 2:35, 5:15, 8, 10:40 p.m. true-story film about the young local’s last Jersey home she’s spent a lifetime trying researcher Newton Geiszler (Charlie Day 20 Feet From Stardom (PG-13) ((( Aquarius Theatre: 2:15, 4:30, 7, 9:30 p.m. hours on Earth. But Bay Area-bred writer- to escape. There, she catches up with her of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) and Apartment for Peggy (1948) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat-Sun 5:40, director Ryan Coogler feels it’s precisely crab-obsessed brother Ralph (Christopher mathematician Hermann Gottlieb (Burn 9:35 p.m. the point that we all do need to get to know Fitzgerald) and discovers her room’s been Gorman) hunt for a scientific solution. the man — as more than a victim frozen rented to conspicuously sexy Yale-bred Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, Blackfish (PG-13) Palo Alto Square: Fri 2:45, 5, 7:25, 9:55 p.m. in time. The film begins with the infamous song-and-dance man Lee (Darren Criss), and brief language. Two hours, 11 minutes. Sat-Sun also at 12:30 p.m. cellphone video of Grant’s ignominious end and that her mother has taken up with the — T.H. (Reviewed July 12, 2013) Blue Jasmine (PG-13) ((( Century 16: 9:45 a.m. 11:15 a.m. & 12:35, 2, in the titular BART station, pointing up that disconcerting George Bousche (Matt Dil- 3:15, 4:50, 5:50, 7:35, 8:45, 10:10 p.m. Fri also at 11 p.m. Sat also at 11:15 p.m. this is what we have seen and mostly know lon), who claims to be a CIA agent with the Turbo --1/2 of Grant. What follows, in docudramatic wisdom of the samurai. Rated PG-13 for In this CGI-animated adventure from The Conjuring (R) Century 16: 10:50 a.m. & 1:45, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 form, strives to round out our knowledge sexual content and language. One hour, 43 DreamWorks, a garden snail wants nothing p.m. Century 20: 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50 p.m. of this ordinary 22-year-old American male, minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed July 19, 2013) more than to be fast as a race car. Since Despicable Me 2 (PG) (( Century 16: 9:15 a.m. & 2:35, 7:55 p.m. In 3D to return this symbol to his humanity as it’s the premise of the movie, we’re bound Century 20: 11:$5 a.m. & 5:20, 10:20 p.m. 10:20 a.m. & 3:15, 8:10 p.m. In 3D a son, a grandson, a boyfriend, a father. Pacific Rim --1/2 to accept that an accidental swim through 12:50, 5:40, 10:35 p.m. “Fruitvale Station” tallies the toll of what “Go big or go home” may have been the a nitrous-oxide-flooded engine will give The East (PG-13) ((( Palo Alto Square: Fri 4:30, 9:45 p.m. was lost on New Year’s Day 2009. Rated R mantra for the producers of “Pacific Rim.” Theo the snail his wish. But this magical for some violence, language and drug use. occurrence also installs a car radio in Theo Flying Down to Rio (1933) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri 7:30 p.m. The blockbuster from director Guillermo One hour, 30 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) delivers its ac- and brake lights in his butt (if snails had Footlight Parade (1933) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri 5:35, 9:10 p.m. July 26, 2013) tion on a massive scale while paying hom- butts, that is). Re-christened Turbo, Theo (Ryan Reynolds) continues to enjoy lucky Fruitvale Station (R) ((( Aquarius Theatre: 2:45, 5, 7:30, 9:55 p.m. age to Japanese monster flicks. On the Century 20: 10:55 a.m. & 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20 p.m. Girl Most Likely --1/2 surface, the film seems like little more than coincidences and a minimum of strife or Take the great Kristen Wiig out of the indie “Transformers vs. Godzilla,” but undertones effort in achieving his goals. Soon, they’ve Ghostbusters (1984) (PG) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m. comedy “Girl Most Likely,” and it would be about teamwork and del Toro’s deft touch set their sights on the Indy 500, which, af- Girl Most Likely (PG-13) (( Palo Alto Square: Fri 1:45, 7:15 p.m. unbearable. The question is whether fans keep the picture from drowning beneath ter Turbo becomes a viral sensation, bows will want to watch her struggle to keep to public pressure and allows the snail to Grown Ups 2 (PG-13) Century 16: 9 & 11:35 a.m. & 2:05, 4:35, 7:25, its own weight. The spectacle takes place a film afloat for 103 minutes. Wiig plays race against the likes of French-Canadian 9:55 p.m. Century 20: noon & 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10:15 p.m. in the not-too-distant future, when deadly Imogene Duncan, a once-promising play- creatures begin emerging from the Pacific five-time Indy champ Guy Gagne (Bill Ha- The Heat (R) (( Century 16: 11:10 a.m. & 1:55, 4:40, 7:45, 10:25 p.m. Century wright who squandered a fellowship and Ocean. To battle said beasts, human be- der). As per Turbo’s mantra, “No dream is 20: 11 a.m. & 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 10;05 p.m. now finds her life unraveling. Her dreams of ings develop life-sized robots (called “jae- too big, and no dreamer too small.” Rated Iron Man 3 (PG-13) ((( Century 16: 10 p.m. Century 20: 8:55 p.m. marriage, domestic bliss and a playwriting gers”) operated by fighters. One is Raleigh PG for mild action and thematic elements. Tony obviously aren’t in the cards. Dumped One hour, 36 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Becket (“Sons of Anarchy” heartthrob Sat-Sun 3:35, by her upscale-cad boyfriend and her July 19, 2013) 7:30 p.m. Charlie Hunnam). A tragedy forces Raleigh Monsters University (G) (((1/2 Century 16: 9:25 a.m. & 2:25, 7:30 p.m. In 3D 11:55 a.m. & 5 p.m. Century 20: 10:30 a.m. & 3:45 p.m. In 3D 11:45 a.m. & 4:50 p.m. Sat 10:30 a.m. & 3:45 p.m. In 3D 11:45 a.m. & 4:50 p.m. Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) Pacific Rim (PG-13) ((( Century 16: 12:25, 7:05 p.m. In 3D 9:20 a.m. & 3:35, 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 1:35, 7:45 p.m. In 3D 10:35 a.m. & 4:45, 10:45 p.m. Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news R.I.P.D. (PG-13) Century 20: 1:10, 6:20, 10 p.m. In 3D 2:20, 7:25 p.m. (800-326-3264) headlines and talk about Red 2 (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 9:40 a.m. & 12:40, 7:20, 10:20 p.m. the issues at Town Square Fri & Sun also at 4:05 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m. & 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 p.m. Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City at PaloAltoOnline.com The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) Guild Theatre: Sat Midnight. (800-326-3264) The Smurfs 2 (PG) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 9:05 & 11:40 a.m. & 2:15, 8 p.m. In 3D 10:!5 a.m. & 1, 4:!5, 7:10, 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 10:40 a.m. & 1:20, 4, CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128) 6:45, 9:20 p.m. In 3D noon & 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:40 p.m. Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) The To Do List (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 4:55, 10:30 p.m. Cen- Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square tury 20: 11:35 a.m. & 2:15, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 p.m. Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) Turbo (PG) (( Century 16: 9:10 a.m. & 2:20, 7:40 p.m. In 3D 11:50 a.m. & 4:55, Friday Only 8/2 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m. & 2, 4:20 p.m. In 3D 10:25 a.m. & 12:55, 3:25, Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more informa- Blackfish – 2:45, 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 p.m. tion about films playing, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies Girl Most Likely – 1:45, 7:15 The Way Way Back (PG-13) (((1/2 Century 20: 11:15 a.m. & 1:55, 4:35, The East –4:30, 9:45 7:15, 9:55 p.m. Guild Theatre: 2, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 p.m. Sat- Thurs (Excluding Monday) 8/3-4 & 8/6-8 The Wolverine (PG-13) ((1/2 Century 16: 10:30 a.m. & 1:30, 2:30, 4:45, 8, 9 Blackfish – 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 p.m. In 3D 9:30 & 11:30 a.m. & 12:30, 3:45, 5:45, 7, 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 ON THE WEB: The most up-to-date movie listings at PaloAltoOnline.com Monday Only 8/5 a.m. & 2:30, 3:30, 5:30, 8:35, 9:35 p.m. Blackfish – 2:45, 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 World War Z (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 7 p.m. In 3D 9:50 p.m. Tickets and Showtimes available at cinemark.com ( Skip it (( Some redeeming qualities ((( A good bet (((( Outstanding
ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊU Page 41 Sports SWIMMING The time Shorts OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Palo Alto High to strike grad Aubrey Dawkins, a 6-foot-5 shooting guard and son of Stanford men’s basketball coach Johnny Dawk- ins, will attend New Hampton School is now in New Hampshire in the fall and will be a member of the Class of 2014. Stanford’s DiRado earns Dawkins averaged 18.8 points and 7.0 gold medal on relay rebounds while shooting 50 percent at World Championships from the field and leading the Vikings to a 12-0 record and title in the SCVAL by Keith Peters De Anza Division (23-4 overall) and a aya DiRado isn’t quite berth into the NorCal playoffs. New sure what she’ll be doing Hampton has been one of the leading M in 2016. Maybe she’ll still basketball programs in the country be swimming or, perhaps, she’ll be over the years and has produced nu- retired from the sport and using her merous players who have gone on to Stanford degree in management- play and coach at the collegiate level. science-engineering as a member . . . Menlo School grad Drew Edelman of the workforce. helped lead the American team to a “Yeah, I still gold medal in women’s basketball at haven’t made up the annual Maccabiah Games that my mind about wrapped up last week in Israel. Not continuing to only did her team win the champion- swim after my ship, but Edelman was named the eligibility is up Most Valuable Player. The USC fresh- next year,” said man (this fall) scored 30 points in the DiRado, who’ll final game, a 77-26 romp over Canada be a senior this on July 28. She also scored 18 points fall. “I don’t in a semifinal victory over Australia. know. It’s still up in the air Maya DiRado EARLY HONORS . . . The Sporting and I don’t know what the factors are News 2013 preseason all-conference going to be one way or the other.” and All-America teams have been Her decision might have been eas- released with Stanford garnering four ier had she made the U.S. Olympic sports on the All-Pac-12 team and Swimming Team in 2012 and been two on the All-America team. Trent able to check it off her competitive Murphy and Shayne Skov earned bucket list. However, she missed preseason All-Pac-12 honors at line- the trip to London following a pair backer. Ed Reynolds was also tabbed of fourth-place finishes in her best all-conference and All-America along- events. side David Yankey, who has been “If I was going to go to the Olym- named to every preseason All-Ameri- pics, it would have been that year ca team and continued to receive ac- for sure,” she said. “So now it’s like colades with mention by The Sporting things have to be re-evaluated a News . . . Two weeks ahead of the little bit.” start of training camp, Stanford men’s DiRado knows she has one more soccer had a pair of players, sopho- year swimming for the Cardinal and more Aaron Kovar and freshman Jor- “I’d love to get some NCAA indi- dan Morris, recognized on preseason vidual titles.” And, she knows she Best XI and All-America Teams. has this week’s 15th FINA World
Kovar, the highest-ranked Pac-12 Harjanto Sumali Championships on her plate, which player by each site, was named to the was full with the 200-meter fly, 400 College Soccer News Preseason All- IM and 800 free relay. America Second Team as well as to “I’d love to medal,” DiRado said. Top Drawer Soccer’s Preseason Best Earning a medal or two this week- XI Second Team. Morris, an incoming end in Barcelona, Spain, and add- freshman forward from Mercer Island, Dominika Cibulkova had a hair-raising finale in the Bank of the West Classic as she rallied from a first-set loss ing some NCAA honors next spring Wash., was named to Top Drawer for a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory over top-seeded and world No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska at Stanford last Sunday. just might be enough to satisfy the Soccer’s Best XI Freshman Team . 20-year-old from Santa Rosa. Then . . Stanford women’s keeper Emily again, standout efforts just might Oliver and forward Chioma Ubogagu Bank of the West Classic provided be enough to keep her in the sport were named to the Best XI preseason a few more years and give her one First Team by Top Drawer Soccer. more shot at the Olympic Games in Newcomer Stephanie Amack was new opportunities and a new champ Rio de Janerio in three years. “That’s the question,” DiRado named to the Freshman Team. by Rick Eymer round before losing to American Ja- her professional career, winning an said. “This is either the starting point icole Gibbs and Mallory Bur- mie Hampton. ITF event in Yakima, Wash., earlier of the rest of my career or a very nice ON THE AIR dette already have put their Burdette, who turned pro last in July. It will be interesting to see feather in my cap to go out on. I’m N individual stamps on the September, broke into the top 100, where they stand when the Bank of unclear right now what it is.” Friday Bank of the West Classic the past Swimming: FINA World Champion- reaching a career-high No. 68 ear- the West rolls around again in July What is clear is that DiRado is ships, 9 a.m.; Universal Sports two years, once as amateurs and, lier in the summer. Gibbs woke up of 2014. having the best swim season of Saturday this year, as part of the up-and- Monday morning with a career-high This year’s event wrapped up on her life. In making her first World Swimming: FINA World Champion- coming class of American tennis ranking of 166. Sunday when No. 3 seed Domini- Championships team, DiRado ships, 10 a.m.; NBC professionals on the WTA Tour. They both participated in this ka Cibulkova and No. 1Agnieszka clocked lifetime bests in the 200 fly Sunday Last week, Gibbs and Burdette week’s Southern California Open in Radwanska competed for 2 1/2 and 400 IM. She missed a possible Swimming: FINA World Champion- played professionally on the courts Carlsbad, and both played Monday. hours in the championship final be- third PR when she was disqualified ships, 1 p.m.; NBC at Stanford’s Taube Family Tennis Gibbs lost in the second round of the fore Cibulkova secured a 3-6, 6-4, in the prelims of the 200 IM, “which Center where they were wildly suc- qualifying tournament while Bur- 6-4 decision over the world’s No. was really a bummer because I felt cessful as college players. Both will dette played in the feature match, 4-ranked player. really good,” she said. READ MORE ONLINE see better days. dropping a three-setter to former Cibulkova earned $125,000 while A fifth place in the 200 free www.PASportsOnline.com Burdette’s run at the Bank of the world No. 1 Jelena Jankovic. Radwanska took home $68,200. earned DiRado a relay berth on the For expanded daily coverage of college West ended far too soon, in a first- Burdette has been doing most of They combined to give the tour- 800 free team for Barcelona, where and prep sports, please see our new round loss to Italy’s Francesca Schi- her work on the WTA tour, while site at www.PASportsOnline.com avone. Gibbs made it into the second Gibbs is just a few tournaments into (continued on page 45) (continued on next page) Page 42ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS SWIMMING At age 26, Johnson Stanford’s Godsoe earns just getting started silver medal Stanford grad student making up for lost time and has career on the upswing with his steady improvement in the breaststroke Cardinal grad still has two more events by Keith Peters from the prelims with a 2:11.64 (15th at World Championships t age 26 and staring at an- out of 16 qualifiers), his 2:10.79 in other three years before get- the semifinals landed him 12th and by Keith Peters A ting a shot at making the U.S. out of the finals. tanford grad Eugene Godsoe Olympic team, BJ Johnson’s swim Despite that disappointment, swam to his first-ever medal career would appear to be running Johnson’s swim career is nonethe- S at a FINA World Champi- on fumes. less on the upswing. His personal onships as he earned silver in the That might be true had Johnson best of 2:10.09 from the U.S. na- men’s 50-meter butterfly on Mon- started swimming just after learn- tionals left him ranked No. 9 in the Keith Peters day in Barcelona, Spain. ing to walk. Or if he had a great world and No. 2 in the USA this “It feels absolutely amazing,” high school and college career. But, season. Perhaps he’s just scratching Godsoe told Universal Sports. “I the Stanford grad student had none his potential? knew for the 50 fly, if you have a of that. “That’s hard to say. I’m not go- Stanford grad BJ Johnson reached the semifinals of the men’s 200 lane, you have a shot.” “I picked up swimming late,” he ing to put any limits on myself,” breast at the World Championships, but finished 12th. Godsoe, a Stanford assistant said. “I didn’t start swimming year Johnson said. “To be honest, I was coach, was the USA’s lone represen- round until after my sophomore fairly disappointed with the swim at lems plus the fact Stanford was U.S. Open. tative in the event after winning it at year.” World Championship trials. Obvi- loaded with great breaststrokers, His first big meet back was the the Phillips 66 National Champion- Johnson was about 16 when he re- ously, second was good enough, but Johnson actually dropped the event 2010 national championships in Ir- ships in June. ally got his feet wet in the sport. Mi- I don’t think I swam the race well. and became a sprint freestyler. vine. Godsoe sped to a 23.05 clocking chael Phelps was breaking national And, I don’t think I swam like I nor- Clearly, Johnson was not your “That was the meet I actually went — ranking him No. 8 in the world records when he was 14. mally swim the race. There were a typical college swim star. best times after not really swimming this year — while trailing only Ce- Thus, Johnson has plenty of gas lot of things I could do better and “No, not at all,” he said. “And if at all,” he said. “That’s when I went, sar Cielo of Brazil (23.01). God- left for the long haul, should he wish work on . . . there’s definitely room you’re not a star coming out of col- ‘wow.’ It piqued my curiosity.” soe qualified eighth in 23.16. The to make that journey. to improve upon that swim.” lege, you don’t keep swimming.” At the U.S. nationals at Stanford American record is 22.91 by Bryan Johnson qualified for his first Just the fact Johnson has come this “My last year in college (2009), af- in 2011, Johnson qualified for the Lundquist in 2009. FINA World Championships by far and to this stage is quite remark- ter doing freestyle all year, I did one ‘A’ finals in both breaststroke events “Coming in lane 8, I knew I had taking second in the men’s 200- able, given his start in the sport. more 200 breast and went 2:15.” for the first time. no pressure,” Godsoe said. “I just meter breaststroke at the Phillips “If you look at my (long-course) After taking a year off from com- “And that’s when I really had my had to execute. The 50 fly is just 66 National Championships and times coming out of high school, petition, during which he did some career rejuvenated, when I realized one of those events where if some World Team Trials in June. That I was a nobody,” said Johnson, a training and played club water polo, I had a shot at making an Olympic of those guys are trying too hard, earned him a trip to Barcelona, graduate of Garfield High in Seattle. Johnson realized that competing team, which I didn’t do. I didn’t they’re going to be a little bit slower. Spain, where he swam his first race “My freshman year (at Stanford) I would be more fun than just train- make that goal, but I knew I had a So I knew if I could go a tenth or on Thursday while hoping to reach swam 2:17, which used to be pretty ing. He returned with a 2:13.29 in shot at making other teams in the two-tenths faster (than I swam in Friday’s finals. good. Then I went through some 2010-11, followed by a 2:11.47 at the future.” semifinals), I’d have a chance to Unfortunately for Johnson, that struggles as an undergrad.” 2012 Olympic Trials (sixth) and a didn’t happen. While he moved on Due to knee and technique prob- 2:10.87 following the Trials at the (continued on page 47) (continued on page 46)
team in the fly, the pressure was off DiRado DiRado for the 400 IM. (continued from previous page) “I could just swim my race, rather than racing for a spot (on the team), she swam the prelims Thursday. which was really nice,” she said. Her 1:58.48 third leg helped the And the other reason for her big U.S. qualify for the finals. DiRado season? didn’t swim at night, but earned a “I’ve felt like I’ve grown into my gold medal when the U.S. won by potential that was there freshman nearly two seconds in 7:45.14. year,” she said. “I’m much more re- DiRado’s only shot at an individ- laxed. I feel like I approach swim- ual medal will come in the 400 IM ming even better; it’s really fun. I en- on Sunday’s closing day. She goes joy it and I like doing the training.” in with the No. 3 time in the world DiRado also pointed to an im- after winning the national title in provement in her breaststroke, where 4:34.34, holding off a hard-charg- she dropped two seconds during her ing 2012 Olympic silver medalist in split in the 400 IM at nationals. Elizabeth Beisel. “I’ve been improving sort of The victory over Beisel was es- steadily every year, but this (400 pecially nice, since Beisel had de- IM) finally is another really big feated DiRado in the 400-yard IM at drop when it’s uncommon to have the 2013 NCAA championships and such a big drop at this level. Finally, prevented DiRado from earning her all the pieces were there.” first individual collegiate title. DiRado hopes everything will be “It was very satisfying,” DiRado in place once again this week as she agreed. “At NCAAs, I talked with wraps up her busy summer. This Greg (new Cardinal coach Greg will be her second trip to Barcelo- Meehan) and said I have a winning na, the first time with a USA junior block. I’ve been second and third team in 2009. so often that I’ve forgotten how to “I loved it,” DiRado said of the site Swim Mike Comer/Pro Stanford senior Maya DiRado earned a gold medal in the 800 free relay Thursday and will swim the 400 IM win the close races. So, it was really of the 1992 Summer Olympics. “My on Sunday at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. nice racing her and come out on top favorite city I’ve ever been to.” finally.” This meet will be a little bit more ward to swimming on the 800 free “It’s not so much life-changing, swimming has culminated in that. The 400 IM victory was DiRado’s important, but yet another enjoyable relay team on Thursday night. (but) more affirming of what I’m It’s really nice to finally get that at biggest career win. experience. “I’m really excited about that be- doing — choosing swimming as the end of all those years.” Which begs the question, why? “I don’t want to make it sound like cause of all the junior teams I’ve sort of my college experience,” she DiRado started off her first World One reason was DiRado’s second I’m not taking this serious,” said ever been on, I’ve never been on a re- explained. “I take all my classes. I Championships by finishing 12th in place of 2:09.12 in the 200 fly. DiRado, “because I am. It’s just a lay,” she said. “It looks like so much really love school but, looking back the 200 fly semifinals on Wednes- “It was the third time I’ve done different sort of pressure, I guess. fun and the team gets behind you. I on my Stanford career, it’s going to day in a personal record of 2:08.28. it in two years,” she explained. “I Now, you’re there. You just perform thought this would be really cool.” be swimming is what I did and so it That ranks her No. 12 in the world dropped four seconds that day, so and go fast. It’s not like a do-or-die A medal or too also will be very (this season) makes me feel really and No. 2 in the U.S. this season. that was really surprising.” situation, I guess.” cool for DiRado, who sees her big good — not even just at Stanford but And, more importantly, it’s just a Having earned a berth on the U.S. DiRado actually was looking for- year as something to look back on. this 14 years or whatever I’ve been tuneup for what’s to come. N ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊU Page 43 Sports
BASEBALL ROUNDUP Palo Alto Oaks miss out on perfection Stanford grad Appel is sharp in his longest stint; another Palo Alto High grad makes impressive debut
he Palo Alto Oaks fell short of hits and struck out eight. a pair of goals while wrapping The Oaks scored a one run in the T up their baseball season at the third when Maxx Sheehan singled, AABC West Regional in Sacramen- stole second and, after a wild pitch, to on Sunday. ended up on third. Barry Knappe The Oaks had hoped to win the knocked Sheehan in with a deep fly three-day, five-team tournament to right field. and then boycott the upcoming In the fourth, the Legends com- World Series, in protest of high mitted two errors and, after walks travel costs. Had they been able to to Travis Conroy and Sheehan, accomplish that, the Oaks likely Daquioag singled sharply to plate Club Polo Water Stanford would have finished with their first both. Another run was scored on a undefeated season. fielders’ choice by Knappe. Palo Alto, however, fell in the The Oaks scored another run in championship game to Easton Elite the fifth when Gilbert Guerra led of Los Angeles, 4-1, at Sacramento off with a single and promptly stole City College and finished the sea- second. He scored on an error. The son with a very respectable 19-2 re- Oaks’ final run came in the sixth The Stanford Water Polo Club’s 12U Red boys’ team was undefeated at the National Junior Olympics until falling in cord — both losses coming this past when Sheehan led off with a single, the finals and settling for the silver medal on Tuesday in Orange County. Stanford’s 16U Red team also took second. weekend to Easton Elite. The Oaks stole second and scored on Knappe’s had won this tourney the previous single. three seasons. On Saturday, Palo Alto dropped USA women’s water polo plays for fifth; “I’m very proud of this team,” its first game of the tournament, said Oaks’ general manager Steve 9-1, to Easton Elite before beating Espinoza. “The youngsters picked the same team later, 6-4. Stanford boys bring home silver from JOs up very fast on the way to learn- Easton and the Oaks had to play ing how Oaks play baseball. All twice, back to back, because of the by Keith Peters Stanford grad Melissa Seidemann holding off LWP Blue (7-3). you have to do to be an Oak is play AABC tournament rules regarding lot has changed for the U.S. while KK Clark of Menlo Park also Brian Kreutzkamp, the boys’ hard, never give up and win OR byes. The Oaks had a bye on Fri- Women’s National Team in saw action along with Stanford grad coach at Sacred Heart Prep, guided lose with class. That is the Oaks’ day and neither the LA team nor A water polo. A year ago, the Lolo Silver. the 16s while Matt Johnson, the way of playing baseball, has been Sacramento Legends had a bye. squad won the gold medal at the On Monday, the USA’s unbeaten new boys’ head coach at Gunn, led for many, many years. It is what This meant (after Fontanetti’s and London Olympics. On Friday, the streak came to an end in a show- the 12s. (former coach) Tony (Makjavich) Healdsburg were eliminated) a flip Americans will play for fifth place down between the U.S. and Spain, In other final-day matches: taught me.” of a coin determined the Oaks’ sec- at the 15th FINA World Champion- who played for the gold medal last The Stanford 18U Red team (5-3) Palo Alto manager and Gunn High ond game on Saturday. The Legends ships in Barcelona, Spain. summer. This time, however, the defeated Santa Barbara for ninth grad Greg Matson took the mound won the flip and received the bye. “2012 was a great year for us, but script changed and Spain won in- place in a shootout (9.3 to 9.1) at in the title game and pitched great. This meant Easton would get the now itís 2013 and itís completely stead, 9-6. It was a six-goal turn- Newport Harbor High, while Stan- But, some breaks in the fourth in- automatic bye on Sunday. different,” said Stanford’s Maggie around from the London Olympics. ford 18U White (4-4) posted an 8-6 ning for Easton Elite proved costly Brandt Norlander pitched great in Steffens, who was the leading scorer “We have been together for only win over LWP Gold for seventh for the Oaks. the second game on Saturday, strik- at the London Olympics. “Unfortu- two months, progressing every place in a lower bracket at Ocean A bunt single, a walk, a drib- ing out eight LA batters in his eight nately, we are not able to fight for game,” said USA’s Kelly Rulon. “It View High. bler, followed by a ball beat into innings. Matson came on in the medals, but the fifth place now is was different than in London as we The Stanford 14U Red squad the ground in front of home plate ninth and pick up the save. our goal and we are going to fight had been playing together for almost (3-4) lost to SoCal Black, 7-4, in that bounced all the way over Julio The Oaks will now focus on the hard for it.” three years. It’s tough to feel what it the game for 11th place at San Juan Cortez’s head at third base plated Tony Makjavich Memorial golf In what could loosely be termed a means to lose after the gold-medal Hills High. two runs. A single by Nathan Za- tournament, slated for September 28 rematch of the 2008 Beijing Olym- joy in London.” Stanford 12U White (3-4) dropped vala plated the third run for the LA- at Shoreline Golf Links in Mountain pic gold-medal final, the U.S. post- * * * * a 12-10 decision to LWP Gold while based team. View. Details can be found on the ed a 12-11 victory over the Nether- Stanford’s Jeff Schweimer helped finishing 12th at Valencia High. Matson pitched the entire game in Oaks website at www.paoaks.com. lands on Wednesday. the USA men’s team win the gold In the Classic Division, Stanford the heat and struck out seven. * * * * Stanford’s Kiley Neushul, An- medal at the 19th Maccabiah Games 16U White (5-2) won a shootout (8.4 LA starter Fidel Hernandez held Stanford grad Mark Appel threw nika Dries and Steffens all scored that wrapped up Monday in Israel. to 8.2) over SoCal Gold for seventh the Oaks — they had some good 4 2/3 innings in the Quad River Riv- two goals for the Americans to help It was the men’s third gold medal at Tustin High, while Stanford 16U opportunities in the first, third and er Bandits’ 4-3 victory over visiting erase the memory of the Beijing fi- and first since 2001 in the Games, Black (3-3) downed Sacramento fourth innings but could not get the Peoria Chiefs on Wednesday night nale, where the Dutch won the gold which are the third-largest sporting Black, 10-4, for 13th place. big hit — until the sixth when Palo in Davenport, Iowa. with a 9-8 win as Danielle De Brui- event behind the Olympic Games Stanford 14U White (4-4) dropped Alto scored its lone run. Appel allowed a run on six hits. jn was the queen of the pool with and FIFA World Cup. The USA sent an 11-8 decision to United White After a Bryan Beres line out to He did not walk a batter and struck seven goals. 1,100 athletes to compete. and settled for 16th at Santa Mar- left, Cortez walked. Cortez ad- out three in his longest stint as a pro- The USA, which was knocked off * * * * garita High. vanced to third when Danny Or- fessional. the medal podium Monday follow- The Stanford Boys’ Water Polo * * * * donez doubled down the first-base Appel has made a combined six ing a loss to Spain, will play Greece Club took nine teams to the Nation- The girls’ National Junior Olym- line. Guerra then hit a ball down the starts for Single-A Tri-Valley and on Friday for fifth place. al Junior Olympics, which wrapped pics got under way Thursday with first-base line that produced a diving Quad Cities. He has 20 strikeouts The Dutch came back from a 9-7 up Tuesday in Orange County, and the Stanford Water Polo Club find- stop, but scored Cortez. The Oaks in 19 1/3 innings. He has an ERA deficit after three quarters and then came home with some medals. ing mixed results. had opportunities in the seventh and of 3.20 and is still looking for his from 11-8 and 12-9 deficits to near- Both the 16U and 12U Red teams The 18U Red team won its opener, eighth, but could not deliver. first decision. ly clinch a draw and possible extra brought home silver medals after 13-3 over American River, before Sheldon Daquioag had a great In related news, the Cincinnati time. falling in championship games at dropping a 9-6 match to Commerce. game behind the plate for the Oaks. Reds designated Stanford grad Greg Kami Craig scored the eventual UC Irvine. The 16s fell to SoCal The 18U White team fell to Davis Daquioag threw out two steal at- Reynolds for assignment earlier this game-winner with 48 seconds left. Black in a shootout, 11.4 to 11.2, to Water Polo Club, 10-2. tempts at second, and picked off week. The Reds have 10 days to “I think this games shows some finish the four-day tournament with The 16U Red squad swamped another runner at third. trade him, release him or send him character and I’m proud of the a 6-2 mark. Raider WP, 13-1, while the 16U To reach Sunday afternoon’s fi- outright to the minors. team,” said U.S. head coach Adam The Stanford 12s dropped a 5-2 White team blanked Puget Sound, nale, the Oaks had to beat the host Reynolds made his first start in Krikorian. “We have one more game decision to United Blue in the fi- 14-0. Sacramento Legends in the morning the major leagues in over two years to finish out this tournament and we nals for their only loss in seven The 14U Red team dropped its and did just that, 6-4. when he took the mound against the can’t be satisfied with just today’s matches. opener to CHAWP, 9-7, and the 14U Gunn High grad Ricky Navarro San Francisco Giants last week at result. We have to prepare like we Both teams had to play semifinals White was dunked by SET, 20-2. pitched a complete-game gem to get did for this game, for Greece.” earlier in the day, the 16s swamping Stanford’s 12U team dropped a 14-3 the win. Navarro gave up only five (continued on page 47) Also scoring for Team USA was CHAWP White (17-8) and the 12s opener to Santa Barbara. N Page 44ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Sports
her face in jubilation after recording the winning point. Moments later, her father, Milan, came rushing up to hug her. A precious moment for the Slovakian star. “I was just so happy and he scared me,” she laughed. “He gets emotion- al. I think that I have this after my parents that I get into the matches sometimes so much and I just put (continued from page 42) my heart into it. He did the same today.” Cibulkova earned her first win in nament one of its best title matches five meetings against Radwanska, ever. Cibulkova is the first Slova- who has 12 career WTA titles in kian player to win this event and it hand and 17 appearances in a final. helped erase the pain of a 6-0, 6-0 “I’m really happy, because she’s loss to Radwanska in the title match No. 4 in the world and a great player of a tourney in Sydney, Australia, and this is my first win against her,” earlier in the year. said Cibulkova. “And to come up Gibbs, just two with such a game months and four in the final against tournaments into her such a great player, I professional career, feel really good.” gave the 29th-ranked Cibulkova used Hampton everything up four of her five she could handle championship points before losing to the before the winning tournament’s No. 4 shot brought relief, seed, 7-5, 6-7 (5), joy, tears and happi- 6-3, last Thursday. ness to the court.
“At the end of the Harjanto Sumali “I started to feel
day I was concerned a little bit tired,” Sumali Harjanto about how I could Cibulkova said. “In 2013 Bank of the West Classic champion Dominika Cibulkova (left) and runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska posed match up with the the long rallies, I with their trophies following a stirring 2 1/2-hour battle that produced a new champion at the annual event. Top 30 level,” said started to feel my Gibbs, who earned Dominika Cibulkova was breath and my legs. was 4-2 up, and I paid the price,” $10,700 and 60 fired up in final. The last match point said Radwanska. ranking points for I was so dead, I was The victory was Cibulkova’s third her work. “I can hang with them. so tired, but I knew I could not give career singles title, and first in nearly Now I’d like to start winning a few it up now. I knew I just had to make a year. Radwanska opened the year of these matches.” one, two more balls and the match winning back-to-back tournaments Hampton went on to reach the is mine.” in New Zealand and Australia. semifinal, knocking off qualifier Seven months after failing to win In doubles, the top-seeded team Vera Dushevina, the Russian who a game against Radwanska in the of Cal grad Racquel Kops-Jones and beat Stanford’s Kristie Ahn in the Sydney final, Cibulkova came out Abigail Spears won the title, beat- qualifying draw. determined to erase that from her ing the No. 2 duo of Germany’s Julia “It was my first match of the hard- memory. She went back to watch Goerges and Croatia’s Darija Jurak, court season and I was shaking off the first set of that loss and, however 6-2, 7-6 (4). some rust,” Hampton said. “I didn’t painful, learned some lessons. It was the fourth straight season expect to be perfect but she gave me “The difference between Sydney that Kops-Jones and Spears had everything I could handle.” and today was that I made the first competed at the Bank of the West Gibbs hopes to take a couple of game,” Cibulkova said. “After the and their first title. The tandem weeks off after Carlsbad and then first game I looked at my coach and reach the quarterfinals last year, ask for a wild card for New Haven, was like, ‘Here we go. I’m out here, their previous best finish. leading up to the U.S. Open, where and it’s going to be good today.’” The last time the top two-seeded first-round LOSERS take home Cibulkova was aggressive, getting teams reached the finale was 2011. $32,000. Radwanska to move, and yet she still Kops-Jones and Spears became the Cibulkova figures to have a nice had to overcome two service breaks first American team to win the Bank paycheck at the U.S. Open after in the final set, both on double-faults, of the West Classic title since Lind- Sumali Harjanto winning at Stanford. In the champi- to win the final four games. say Davenport and Liezel Huber ac- Sorana Cirstea made it to the semifinals on Saturday before being onship, she collapsed, and covered “I didn’t use my chances when I complished the feat in 2010. N eliminated by Cibulkova. Harjanto Sumali Harjanto Harjanto Sumali Harjanto Sumali
Dominika Cibulkova won her third career title, but only her first of the Jamie Hampton battled her way into the semifinals, Agnieszka Radwanska showed her disappointment in year with a three-set victory Sunday. but no further. the title match.
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medal in it.” Godsoe said the race set him up well for the 100 fly later in the week (Saturday). “I’m really excited for the 100,” he said. “I knew coming in if I could match, or even come close to my 50 time, I was going to have a great For a complete list of classes and class fees, lectures and health education resources, 100. For me to go three-tenths faster, visit pamf.org/healtheducation. I’ve got some speed in me.” Godsoe’s time of 51.66 in the 100 fly ranks him No. 4 in the world and ADVANCEMENTS IN CATARACT PROCEDURES No. 1 in the U.S. this season. The former NCAA champ is not Mountain View Center AUG. 13, 7 – 8:30 P.M. entirely new to the international USA Swimming 701 E. El Camino Real YICHIEH SHIUEY, M.D. scene. He won silver medals in the Mountain View 100 back and the 100 fly at the 2011 PAMF OPHTHALMOLOGY Pan American Games, but this is the 650-934-7373 Dr. Shiuey, PAMF cataract and refractive surgeon and former first time he’s competed at a long course world championships. Stanford grad Eugene Godsoe associate chief of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, American Ian Crocker won silver earned silver in the 50 fly. will discuss advances in cataract surgery. Learn about the in this event three times — in 2003, 2005 and 2007 — but no American The foursome of Christopher latest options to minimize the use of glasses after cataract has ever won gold in the 50 fly at a Pickard, Aaron Wayne, David Nolan surgery. long course world meet. and Jason Dunford clocked 3:19.88 Cielo, meanwhile, became the for the victory. second man to ever claim the sprint Earlier, Nolan finished eighth in DR. TOM MCDONALD MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES fly title twice since its inception at the 200-meter backstroke (2:03.28) the 2001 World Championships. and Mary Olsen of Stanford Swim- AT THE PALO ALTO CENTER Godsoe also has a leg on the 400 ming was sixth in the women’s 200 medley relay to swim this weekend. breast in 2:31.37. His performance in the open 100 fly The U.S. Open got under way SHEDDING LIGHT ON DEPRESSION likely will determine if he swims Tuesday with five local athletes Palo Alto Center AUG. 13, 7 – 8:30 P.M. the relay finale. The Americans competing int he finals. 795 El Camino Real currently rank No. 4 in the world in In the men’s 200-meter fly, MEG DURBIN, M.D., PAMF FAMILY MEDICINE, the medley relay, a 3:38.03 from the Stanford grad Bobby Bollier fin- Palo Alto AND GALE HYLTON, M.D., PAMF PSYCHIATRY World University Games. ished third in 1:57.32 while cur- 650-853-4873 AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Heading into events Thursday — rent Cardinal Tom Kremer from halfway through the meet — the Sacred Heart Prep was fourth Everyone feels sad or down sometimes, but these feel- USA’s medal count at Palau Sant in 1:57.73. Both improved upon ings usually pass quickly. In contrast, depression inter- Jordi Pool stood at 16. American their prelim times in the morning. swimmers have seven gold, five sil- In the women’s 100 free, Stanford’s feres with your daily life, and affects you and those who ver and four bronze. They lead all Lia Neal was fourth in 55.32 with care about you. Depression is a serious and common teams in both gold medals and total teammates Maddy Schaefer fifth condition – not a sign of personal weakness or failing. medal count. in 55.34 and Felicia Lee seventh in * * * * 56.00. Fortunately, depression is treatable! We will discuss com- The men’s 400 free relay team Stanford Swimming also finished mon signs of depression, and how you and your health representing Stanford Swimming second in the women’s 400 free re- won the event at the U.S. Open on lay with the team of Schaefer, Julia care providers can identify it. We will review the range of Wednesday at the William Woollett Ama, Annemarie Thayer and Lee treatments for depression, including medications and Jr. Aquatics Center in Irvine. clocking 3:44.43. N psychotherapy. 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Baseball Pederson formerly played for the Menlo Park Legends and at Univer- (continued from page 44) sity of the Pacific. He was picked in the 33rd round by the Dodgers AT&T Park. in June’s MLB Firs-Year Player Reynolds was the starting and Draft. winning pitcher for the International Coincidentally, Pederson’s young- League all-stars two weeks ago in er brother, Joc, another Paly grad Reno. who also is in the Dodgers’ organi- * * * * zation — with the Double-A Chat- Palo Alto High grad Tyger Ped- tanooga Lookouts of the Southern erson got his minor league baseball League. career started over the weekend in During the same four days, Joc a big way with the AZL Dodgers of produced four hits in 14 at-bats. For the Rookie Arizona League. the season, he’s hitting .285 with 99 Pederson, who was sidelined in hits, 43 RBI, 15 homers, 66 runs late spring due to a lacerated spleen scored and 28 stolen bases. suffered on Senior Day at Pacific The last time the Pederson broth- when he dived head first into first ers played together was Tyger’s se- base and landed on the bag, got nior year at Paly in 2008, when Joc his first hit in his first at-bat on was a sophomore. Saturday against the Brewers be- Speaking of Paly, former Vikings’ fore going 2-for-3 with an RBI on standout B.J. Boyd had seven hits in Sunday against the Indians’ squad. 18 at-bats during his past five games On Monday, Pederson had a 2-for-4 for the Vermont Lake Monsters day. On Tuesday he was 2-for-4 (Oakland A’s affiliate) in the Class with an RBI. A Short Season New York-Penn After his first four games, Peder- League. son had seven hits in 12 at-bats with In 39 games, Boyd is batting .331 three runs scored and two RBI. He with 48 hits, 19 RBI, 24 runs scored was hitting .583. and four homers. N Johnson (continued from page 43)
When Johnson beat current World Championship teammate Kevin Cordes at the 2012 U.S. Open, it was a milestone. “That was the first major race I had won,” Johnson said. “Until that point, I hadn’t even won a Grand Open For Business! Prix meet. Just the feeling of win- ning was nice to have.” Simply put, Johnson’s rise to prominence in his sport has been a result of steady improvement. At Liberty Bank, we understand “I’m stronger now than I was as an undergrad,” Johnson said. “I’m that cash fl ow and opportunity much more focused just doing a couple of races. NCAAs and Pac- don’t always coincide... 12s just is way more of a grind. You have way more swims in a short especially for small business. Our period of time. I would struggle to Small Business Banking services have to go through that format. I’m better developed for what I’m doing will help your business make the now, physically and mentally.” Making his first World Champi- most out of every opportunity. onship team hasn’t changed Johnson much. “I have my goals that I’m trying to accomplish and I’m very hard Call us today! on myself about those goals,” he said. “Having name recognition or We’re ready to a sponsor or having someone rec- ognize me on the pool deck is not talk about solutions my goal. If I break a world record and one one knows or cares, that’s that are right for you! totally fine with me.” What this breakthrough in swim- ming has done for Johnson is allow him to reaffirm the time invested in the sport. “The one thing that making these big meets does for me is that it kind of allows me to justify, in my mind, the time that I put into swimming, not that I don’t enjoy it,” he said. “But, as I progress through (grad) school I have to make a decision how much time to put into this Service is our Specialty, sport. If I’m still really competing Experience is our Strength. at the highest level, I think that’s an easy choice for me.” For now, however, Johnson is en- 251 Lytton Avenue, Suite. 100, Palo Alto UÊÊÈxä®ÊÈ£Çä{{ä joying the times of his life. libertybk.comÊUÊÃÊÊ-°Ê->ÊÀ>VÃV]ÊiÌÊ>`Ê Õ`iÀÊ Àii “As long as I can keep doing it and have fun doing it,” he said, “I might Member FDIC Equal Housing Lender © Liberty Bank. All rights reserved. as well keep it up.” N
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