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Vol. XXXVII, Number 16 Q January 22, 2016 Palo Alto preps for Super Bowl crowds Page 5 www.PaloAltoOnline.comw ww.Pa l o AltoOnline . com Four women. One alleged assailant. And the institutional processes they say are broken. Page 18 Pulse 14 Transitions 15 Spectrum 16 Eating Out 25 Movies 27 Puzzles 38 QArts South Asian troupe goes beyond ‘culture in a silo’ Page 24 QHome Professional tips for winter gardening Page 28 QSports Stanford tennis teams to begin title quests Page 41 COMMUNITY TALK Atrial Fibrillation SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 • 9:30AM – 11:00AM Sunnyvale Community Center (Orchard Pavilion) 550 E. Remington Drive • Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm problem, affecting over 2 million Americans. Without detection and treatment, atrial fibrillation can affect quality of life and cause stroke and heart failure. 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Charleston Meadows, Esther Clark 46 percent of the respondents in ith traffic conges- The National Citizen Survey, The percentage of people rating Park, Greater Miranda, Green these neighborhoods gave Palo tion and skyrocketing a statistically valid study con- Palo Alto as a “good” or “excel- Acres, Monroe Park, Palo Alto Alto the top two ratings as a place W housing prices high on ducted by the National Research lent” place to retire has slipped Orchards and Ventura, which are to retire. By contrast, about 60 people’s minds, the percentage of Center, found that Palo Altans by markedly, going from 68 percent in grouped together as Area 4. Only percent of the residents in the Palo Alto residents rating their and large like living in their home 2006 to just 60 percent in 2014 and 45 percent of the surveyed resi- downtown neighborhoods north city a great place to retire has town, with 88 percent ranking the 52 percent in 2015. Meanwhile, the dents in this area gave the city the of Embarcadero gave the city a reached a new low, according to overall quality of life as good or percentage that gave the city good top two ratings as a place to retire. “good” or “excellent” rating when an annual survey commissioned excellent. This good news, howev- grades for “variety of housing op- Things didn’t look much bet- by the City Auditor’s office. er, comes with a buzzkill caveat: tions” went down from 27 percent ter from the perspective of Area (continued on page 9) PUBLIC SAFETY Palo Alto prepares for Super Bowl 50 Emergency services, hospitals, police and fire gear up for thousands of visitors by Sue Dremann ith an estimated 2 mil- though traffic and medical emer- lion visitors expected to gencies top the list of concerns, Warrive in Bay Area cities Dueker said that Mother Nature during the week leading up to Su- could be a complicating factor. per Bowl 50, Palo Alto and Santa “Our planning is as much about Clara County agencies are in the El Nino as anything else. We are last push of their preparations for looking at Murphy’s Law. We the influx. At the top of their list: could have major storms,” he said, Weekly file photo file Weekly traffic and public safety, in all of which typically occur in early their myriad manifestations. February in El Nino years, he said. Palo Alto and surrounding cit- In addition to flooding from ies are sure to feel the impact, even storms, increased accidents and though the Feb. 7 event will be held power outages, Dueker said that Iron workers from California Erectors assemble the frame of a three-story office and residential at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. communications might also be building at 385 Sherman Ave., near Palo Alto’s California Avenue, on Jan. 20. Stanford University will also host compromised. practice sessions by the American “Your cell phone might not Football Conference (AFC) cham- work as well,” he said, noting that pionship team from Feb. 2-6. the area has insufficient cellular EDUCATION Stanford’s Department of Public network coverage. Even during Safety Special Events Unit said in regular 49ers games at the sta- a statement to the Weekly that it is dium, people sometimes can’t get collaborating with local and federal through, he added. Superintendent: District not informed agencies on security for the week. Federal authorities are also con- “We anticipate an increase in cerned about terrorist acts that about sex-abuse investigation pedestrian and vehicle traffic and could shut down communications. are coordinating with local agen- A memo between the Federal Ohlone Elementary teacher arrested on charges involving an 11-year-old girl cies to assist with this potential Bureau of Investigation and U.S. by Elena Kadvany increase,” the department said, Department of Homeland Secu- without further elaboration. rity was recently leaked to NBC uperintendent Max McGee that I didn’t find out anything when a principal becomes aware Palo Alto’s Office of Emer- News4 I-Team in Washington, said he first learned of se- about this until we got that note of allegations about a teacher or gency Services will figure big D.C., expressing concern about rious child-abuse allega- last Thursday,” staff member, but “when police in those operations monitoring potential sabotage to fiber-optic S Courtesy Palo Alto Police Department tions made against an Ohlone McGee told are involved in any investigation activities and in coordinating re- cables in the Bay Area during Elementary School teacher last the Weekly in a school — no matter how seri- sponses to disasters, accidents and the Super Bowl, NBC reported. week, when the district received Wednesday. ous — I would expect the district medical emergencies. The OES’s Michele Ernst, a spokeswoman a “court-ordered booking” via fax “There are office to be notified,” he said. renovated command center at Palo for the FBI’s San Francisco field from the California Department some pro- Smith and McGee informed the Alto’s police headquarters will be office, told NBC that there have of Justice. cedures that school community last week that the nerve center, and the depart- been 15 attacks against fiber-optic McGee said that neither he, need to be put Mike Airo, a fourth- and fifth- ment will also deploy its Mobile lines in the Bay Area since 2014. nor anyone else at the Palo Alto in place, that grade teacher at Ohlone, had been Emergency Operations Center, Dueker said his office is work- school district office, as far as he need to be placed on unpaid compulsory OES Director Ken Dueker said.