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Palo 6°Ê888]Ê ÕLiÀÊÓÈÊUÊ«ÀÊ£]ÊÓä££ÊN xäZ Alto What are the true costs of handling trash? Page 3 www.PaloAltoOnline.com SPRINGTIME AT WILDLIFE FLOURISH NEAR THE CIRCULAR PATH ON ‘COW HILL’ THE DISH PAGE 18 1ST PLACE GENERAL EXCELLENCE California Newspaper Publishers Association Camp Connection 6 Spectrum 16 Movies 26 Classifieds 51 Puzzles 52 NArts Music to soothe at Stanford Hospital Page 22 NSports Stanford hoping to net an NCAA title Page 28 NHome St. Claire Gardens: a haven for families Page 33 al Phot nu o C ONE WEEK TO ENTER - DEADLINE IS APRIL 8 An on Judges th te s 0 t ★ ★ ★ ★ VERONICA WEBER 2 WE’VE GONE ! Veronica Weber, a Los Angeles native, first began working at the Palo Alto Weekly in 2006 as a photography intern. Following the internship, she was a photographer for The Almanac in Menlo Park. She is currently the Weekly staff photographer responsible for covering daily assignments and producing video and multimedia projects for PaloAltoOnline.com. She Call for Entries has a BA in Journalism from San Francisco State 20th Annual Palo Alto Weekly Photo Contest University and currently resides in San Francisco. ANGELA BUENNING FILO Categories and Prizes Angela Buenning Filo, a Palo Alto resident, photographs changing landscapes, most recently U PORTRAITS UÊÊ 9Ê, Ê - focusing on Silicon Valley and Bangalore, India, 1st Place – $250 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Bear Images 1st Place – $250 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Bear Images during their respective tech booms. Her photographs are in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of 2nd Place – $200 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to University Art 2nd Place – $200 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to University Art Modern Art and were included in the book 3rd Place – $100 Cash, One-year Membership to Palo Alto Art 3rd Place – $100 Cash, One-year Membership to Palo Alto Art "Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl." Her ADULT Center ADULT Center installation titled "1,737 Trees," focusing on one of the last orchards in Silicon Valley, is on permanent display in the lobby of the San Jose City Hall. 1st Place - $100 Cash 1st Place - $100 Cash Photographs from her Silicon Valley and Bangalore 2nd Place - $50 Gift Certificate to University Art 2nd Place - $50 Gift Certificate to University Art series are on view in the new terminal of the San Jose 3rd Place - $25 Gift Certificate to University Art 3rd Place - $25 Gift Certificate to University Art airport. YOUTH YOUTH DAVID HIBBARD David Hibbard, a Menlo Park resident, has U VIEWS BEYOND THE BAY AREA photographed natural landscapes and wild places 1st Place – $250 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to Bear Images most of his life. He is the author of "Natural Gestures," ENTRY DEADLINE: April 8, 2011 a book of images from the beaches and coastal 2nd Place – $200 Cash, $100 Gift Certificate to University Art forests of northern California. A major retrospective of 3rd Place – $100 Cash, One-year Membership to Palo Alto Art Entry Form and Rules available at: his work was shown last year at Xerox PARC in Palo ADULT Alto. Website: www.davidhibbardphotography.com. Center www.PaloAltoOnline.com/photo_contest 1st Place - $100 Cash BRIGITTE CARNOCHAN Brigitte Carnochan's photographs have been 2nd Place - $50 Gift Certificate to University Art For more information call 650.223.6508 or e-mail exhibited at galleries and museums nationally and 3rd Place - $25 Gift Certificate to University Art internationally and has recently been featured on the YOUTH [email protected] covers of Lenswork, Camera Arts and Silvershotz and in Color, View Camera, Black and White UK, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Zoom magazines. Brigitte's newest series, Floating World: Allusions to Poems by Japanese Women from the 7th to 20th Centuries, will be on view at Modernbook Gallery at their new location at 49 Geary Street, San www.PaloAltoOnline.com Francisco, until February 26. Page 2ÊUÊ«ÀÊ£]ÊÓä££ÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ 1ST PLACE BEST LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE California Newspaper Publishers Association UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Cell-tower foe to axe city’s Web connection street from Stuart’s home. The per- But Stuart and his wife, Tru Love, ISC, which provides the City of Palo Angered resident ends 17 years of free service mit is scheduled to be considered by said that the city is misreading the Alto with Internet connectivity via he enabled for the City of Palo Alto the Architectural Review Board on Telecommunications Act of 1996 the I-Net, is going to terminate tran- by Sue Dremann April 7. and ignoring ordinances it has in sit service for the City (the service Stuart maintains the planning de- place that would protect residents. of announcing the City’s IP prefix partment chose to ignore city laws “This is not a threat. This is not to the Internet),” the e-mail to City tephen Stuart, a Palo Alto resi- (ISC), will sever the city’s connec- when it approved the AT&T tower. a punishment. This is the conse- Manager James Keene reads. dent who has provided the City tion in two weeks. City planners have said they have quence of the city not enforcing its “Additionally, the fiber connec- Sof Palo Alto with a free con- The decision is a consequence of little legal leeway to deny the permit laws,” Stuart said. tion between the Arts Center and nection to the Internet for 17 years, the planning department’s condi- and cannot under federal law deny That failure “has vaporized 17 ISC at PAIX (Peering And Internet gave notice Tuesday (March 29) that tional approval last week of a 50- the permit on the basis of radiation years of good will in one thought- eXchange — formerly Palo Alto In- a nonprofit organization he works foot cell tower, to be erected at St. levels, so long as those levels are less act,” he said. with, Internet Systems Consortium Albert the Great Church across the within federal guidelines. “This e-mail is to inform you that (continued on page 9) CITY HALL Palo Alto trash rates face years of hikes New study shows costs of residential garbage service far exceed what residents pay for it by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto residents could soon 79 percent. The city is projected to be asked to pay for recycling spend about $17.7 million on resi- P and see their garbage rates dential service but collect only $9.9 soar by nearly 80 percent in the million in revenues. coming years as part of the city’s ef- Meanwhile, commercial custom- Veronica Weber Veronica fort to bring fairness and stability to ers have been paying more than its trash-collection service. their fair share of the costs. Palo The city’s Refuse Fund has been Alto is projected to collect about 42 bleeding money in recent years percent more in revenues from com- thanks to a combination of long- mercial customers than it expects term landfill contracts and aggres- to spend on these customers. Its ex- Embracing rejection sive conservation efforts that have penses for commercial customers in Gunn High School students read their classmates’ college rejection letters at the “Wall of Rejection” taken a hit out of the city’s bottom the current fiscal year are estimated during lunch on March 30. Given Stanford University’s 7 percent acceptance rate, it’s no surprise that line. Palo Alto’s aggressive “zero at $12.1 million, while revenues are some of its letters were posted. waste” program, which seeks to re- projected at $20.7 million. duce the amount of local garbage Phil Bobel, the city’s interim as- heading to landfills, has been wild- sistant director for Public Works, EDUCATION “I don’t like it because I don’t want ly successful on the environmental wrote in a report that it will take to be associated with those people,” front but completely unsustainable several years to address this dis- the student wrote. when it comes to finances. crepancy. Staff is proposing that Another student said she was The city offers residential recy- the city achieve “full parity” among Refuting stereotypes through devastated when a classmate at her cling services for free. As residents ratepayer categories within the next previous school, not in California, continue to switch to smaller (and five to 10 years. ‘Not in Our Schools’ called her a “half-breed b----” be- cheaper) trash cans and recycle “This comparison demonstrates cause of her mixed Chinese and Eu- more of their waste, the city’s rev- that an estimated 79 percent in- In effort to stem bullying, discrimination, ropean heritage. She wrote that she enues plummet. crease in residential rates would students offer opinions on ethnic and religious bias wished her friends — and the teacher As a result, the Refuse Fund be needed to immediately achieve — had taken a stronger stand against faced a $6.7 million deficit last full parity among these categories by Chris Kenrick the taunting classmate. year, prompting the City Council to of rate payers,” Bobel wrote. “Staff this week, students posted anony- A Muslim student said, “The thing raise residential rates by 6 percent concludes that such change cannot ot everyone is smart.” mous recollections of times they’ve I want is for everyone to stop judging and commercial rates by 9 percent be made in the near term and that a “Not all Jewish people felt slighted because of their religion, us all based on what only a fraction in October. The council narrowed long-term strategy will be needed “N are rich.” ethnicity or sexual orientation. of our population did.” the gap further by reducing its Zero to correct the causes of all the prob- Students at JLS Middle School of- “It felt really bad when this girl Before returning a quiz Wednes- Waste budget and delivering more lems identified above.” fered those suggestions when asked was, like, ‘You’re actually proud to day to her class of 30 freshmen, Gunn trash to the local landfill with the For ratepayers, this means several to name stereotypes they thought be Asian?’” one student wrote.

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