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Page 2ÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Sale of Cubberley back on table ing the Middlefield Road parcel for The school district closed Cub- terest from various parties, includ- Council, school board, both will discuss weeks in executive session behind berley High School due to declin- ing private brokers and the City of future of 8-acre parcel next week closed doors. ing enrollment in 1979, and the Sunnyvale, so it can move forward Foothill for years has leased the campus became a community cen- with building a campus. by Chris Kenrick 8 city-owned acres at Cubberley, ter in a lease arrangement with the The college district says it plans a serving about 4,000 students in its city, with Foothill as the anchor facility that will serve Silicon Valley ush may finally be coming to Community College District, as satellite Middlefield Campus. Now tenant. “through programs and partnerships shove on the fate of Palo Al- the district looks to buy acreage it appears ready to either purchase But with the school district now that seamlessly transition individu- P to’s treasured but dilapidated to build “a state-of-the-art educa- and upgrade the land — or build confronting fast-rising enrollment, als from high school to community Cubberley Community Center. tional facility.” its new Foothill-De Anza Educa- district officials have said Cubber- college to the university and the The Palo Alto City Council Also next week, the Palo Alto tion Center elsewhere. ley needs to stay on tap as possible workplace as well as offering a rich Monday will consider whether to Unified School District Board of Cubberley’s remaining 27 acres expansion space. array of lifelong learning opportu- pursue negotiations on a possible Education will hold an open dis- are owned by the Palo Alto Unified Foothill-De Anza set a midsum- deal with the Foothill-De Anza cussion of Cubberley after discuss- School District. mer deadline for expressions of in- (continued on page 8)
CITY HALL Council set to change binding-arbitration law Majority favors modifying rather than scrapping provision; decision deferred until late July by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto voters could still have an “issue of accountability.” a chance this year to tweak Scharff, who chairs the coun- P the binding-arbitration provi- cil’s Finance Committee, was even sion in the City Charter, though a more blunt. He noted that the city downright repeal of the controver- is facing a projected deficit of $6.7 sial law now looks less likely than million in fiscal year 2013 and said ever. repealing binding arbitration is the The 33-year-old provision, which “only solution” to the city’s finan- empowers an arbitration panel to cial troubles. settle disputes between the city and “Modification isn’t going to Veronica Weber its public-safety unions, has become work,” Scharff said. “What we need a hot topic of debate over the past to do is repeal it.” two years. Last August, a proposal Councilman Pat Burt agreed that by council members Greg Scharff now is the time to give the voters and Karen Holman to place binding a say on the matter. Like Holman, Lazy days of summer arbitration on the 2010 ballot failed he said the city has already had a While Max Bernstein, left, hula-hoops, Isabelle Amon, Lindsay Sotnick, Alex Warner, Shannon Fee by a 4-5 vote, with several council year to decide the issue. Palo Alto, and Amanda Aldridge relax in the shade at Rinconada Park during summer break. The group will be members saying they needed more he said, is one of only about 5 per- heading into 10th grade in two short months. time to study the issue further. cent of the cities in the state that A year later, the council remains have binding-arbitration provisions. just as split on a possible repeal of This doesn’t seem to create a major to resolve the issue. binding arbitration. But council problem elsewhere, he said. LAND USE While maintaining the project members agreed Monday night “One of the things I admire about “will not pose significant health that the existing provision is unac- my neighboring cities, Sunnyvale risks to children,” the university ceptable and voted 8-0, with Nancy and Mountain View, is that they asked the Palo Alto City Council Shepherd absent, to send it back to a have excellent public-safety depart- Kids delay bulldozers to postpone a final approval on the committee that would come up with ments,” Burt said. “And they’re able massive medical-center expansion potential modifications. Changes to do that without binding arbitra- on hospital-expansion project from June 20 to July 11. could potentially include tying the tion.” Stanford’s current plans call for arbitration process to the budget But caution once again prevailed. Day care parents say they learned relocating the Forest classroom and cycle and requiring the arbitration Councilwoman Gail Price said she of imminent construction just two weeks ago playyard space to a side of the day panel to consider issues such as the was concerned that the city is mov- care center away from the digging. city’s long-term financial future and ing too fast and proposed that the by Chris Kenrick But parents, many of whom are equity among employee groups. item go back to a committee for a Stanford physicians and scientists, The full council would then de- two-to-three month discussion and a ids playing in a tree-shaded month in the middle of the school’s say they’re still worried about toxic cide in late July whether to place the recommendation on how to modify sandbox have temporar- current play yard. airborne particles and dangerous proposed modifications, or a repeal, the provision. The city, she said, is K ily stopped the bulldozers Stanford’s construction plans will noise levels. on the ballot. well known for putting time and at- on Stanford University’s $5 billion demolish the day care center’s “For- “There are many unanswered Scharff and Holman once again tention into difficult decisions and medical-center expansion. est Room” and place 2-month-old to questions regarding possible sig- proposed putting a repeal of bind- this one should be no different. Parents of children at Stanford’s 5-year-old children just 38 feet away nificant health hazards of the con- ing-arbitration on the ballot, but Larry Klein characterized the ar- Arboretum Children’s Center, which from the digging for the nine-level struction project,” they said in a they withdrew the proposal when it gument over binding arbitration as has operated inconspicuously for garage, they said. statement. became clear that the council ma- a clash between “two conflicting years among the oaks near Hoover Acknowledging “parents have “We have several parents willing jority favored modification. Holman undemocratic principles.” Pavilion, said they learned just two only recently become aware” of the to lie in front of bulldozers if nec- maintained that the provision strips “It’s certainly undemocratic to weeks ago that digging for a new imminent construction, Stanford ap- the council of its power to oversee parking garage was set to begin next peared to be scrambling this week (continued on page 6) the city budget and called the debate (continued on page 6) *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊU Page 3
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Leslie Shen, Arts & Entertainment Intern Often the parents are the day-to-day coaches, and at this camp DESIGN Shannon Corey, Design Director they can receive individualized feedback and instruction on how to Raul Perez, Assistant Design Director Around Town best help their child. Linda Atilano, Diane Haas, Scott Peterson, RANK AND FILE ... Gunn High construction of new bike lanes. The Participants: 5th-8th Grade Boys and Girls Paul Llewellyn, Senior Designers Gary Vennarucci, Designer School snagged 42nd place in plan, however, calls for widening Date: July 23rd Newsweek’s 2011 rankings of the roadway rather than eliminating Time: 9:00am-12:00pm PRODUCTION Jennifer Lindberg, Production Manager “America’s Best High Schools” lanes. The city doesn’t see it as a To register for an event or for more information about these and Dorothy Hassett, Samantha Mejia, Blanca Yoc, but oddly, its cross-town rival problem. 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According to a draft Elena Dineva, Mary McDonald, Susie Ochoa, learned that Newsweek’s email study assessing the economic The camp runs from July 11th to 15th Cathy Stringari, Doris Taylor, Business Associates had never made it to him or his impacts of Caltrain electrification “We’re a chess administrative team. “Apparently and high-speed rail on Palo Alto, program that No chess experience? No Problem! ADMINISTRATION Amy Renalds, Assistant to the Publisher it was sent to the folks from last an upgraded Caltrain (not count- focuses on creative We teach beginning to & Promotions Director year’s admin team, who are not ing high-speed rail) would reduce problem solving Janice Covolo, Receptionist here any longer,” he said. “We are train-related vibrations, boosting and having FUN. advanced students Ruben Espinoza, Courier working with Newsweek to get the city’s property values by about EMBARCADERO MEDIA them our info. We should be on $34 million. Even so, these higher William S. Johnson, President 510-921-2081 Sibling Michael I. Naar, Vice President & CFO the ‘board’ very soon.” property values would net Palo discounts Walter Kupiec, Vice President, Sales & Marketing Alto only about $41,500 in annual offered Frank A. Bravo, Director, Information Technology THE ROAD ... Bicyclists who fre- revenues, according to the con- www.yesforchess.com & Webmaster (for more info regarding the camp) Connie Jo Cotton, Major Accounts Sales Manager quent Page Mill Road and Foothill sulting firm Economics & Planning Bob Lampkin, Director, Circulation & Mailing Expressway will soon have some- Systems (EPS), Inc. “It’s just not Services thing to cheer about. 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LAW Petition in the works to allow Palo Alto pot sales Hoover Fellow Thomas Gale Moore says marijuana could be sold in liquor stores
by Sue Dremann erated $290,000 for the city in the out of committees by April 1. former adviser to the late first month and that taxes would add Palo Alto City Attorney Molly Stump President Ronald Reagan has to the city’s general fund. The notice said she has not seen the petition and A filed a notice with the City of urges the council to use the revenue would not comment on it yet. Palo Alto to circulate a ballot-initia- for public safety and education. The sale of alcohol is highly regu- tive petition for medical-marijuana The law would limit the number of lated, and she doesn’t yet know if dispensaries. dispensaries to three, and they could marijuana could qualify for sale Thomas Gale Moore, a senior fel- not be located in a residential area through liquor stores, she said. low at the Hoover Institution, and or near a park, school or day care “I don’t know if that’s possible or his wife, Cassandra Chrones Moore, center. Anyone wishing to operate if it needs a state-level approval to a public-policy researcher at the a dispensary would be required to be enacted. I’m not sure what are the Cato Institute, submitted the notice meet strict qualifications, according permissible boundaries,” she said. of intent to circulate an initiative pe- to the public notice. Moore said he and his wife do tition to the City Clerk on May 31. not smoke marijuana, but that they The petition will ask the City Coun- TALK ABOUT IT strongly support legalization of all cil to consider creating an ordinance www.PaloAltoOnline.com drugs because an international com- for the dispensaries or to put the mea- Do you think medical marijuana should mission found the war against drugs sure on the ballot before voters, he be legally dispensed in Palo Alto? Share is a “total failure.” said on Wednesday (June 22). your opinions on Town Square on Palo The Moores have joined other The Moores were approached by Alto Online. prominent voices from former con- the Marijuana Policy Project to kick servative administrations that are off the drive, he said. Moore said marijuana dispensa- calling for decriminalization of drugs. Petitioners have 180 days to gath- ries could be permitted in already George P. Schulz, former Secretary of er 2,178 signatures, if they plan to existing liquor stores, which require State under Reagan, and Paul A. Vol- put the measure on the November a license and where regulations al- cker, former chairman of the Board 2012 ballot. To schedule a special ready control sales to minors and of Governors of the Federal Reserve election for the measure, they need where beverages may be consumed. System, have published articles in 4,356 signatures, City Clerk Donna Alcohol is a permitted use, yet support of drug legalization. Grider said Wednesday. causes more acts of violence than “We’ve created violence in Latin Palo Alto adopted an ordinance in marijuana, he said. America. We’ve destroyed much of 1997 stating that medical marijuana Marijuana helps cancer patients Mexico,” Moore said of cartels that is not a permitted use under its zon- tolerate chemotherapy and helps profit from U.S. drug policies. Prohi- ing ordinances, and therefore it isn’t with glaucoma and chronic pain bitions serve only to force use under- permitted in the city, according to from multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and ground where sales are in the hands the City Attorney’s Office. spinal-cord injuries, according to the of violent criminals, Moore said. The proposed ordinance would Moores. A Harvard University sur- “Al Capone was the result of Pro- allow terminally ill residents to vey found that almost half of oncolo- hibition in the 1920s,” he said, not- legally obtain marijuana near their gists nationwide said they would pre- ing the country’s murder rate rose homes if they have the approval of scribe marijuana to their patients if it while it was in effect and dropped a physician. were legal in their state, they said. after repeal. Proposition 215 was passed by Moore wouldn’t mind having a In 2001, Portugal decriminalized California voters in 1996 to allow dispensary at a liquor store in his all drugs and instituted rehabilita- people to buy marijuana with a pre- Barron Park neighborhood, he said. tion. There, drug use is not going scription, but the city has failed to But he doesn’t know what his neigh- up. The same has been shown to be implement the law, according to a bors think about that idea. true in other countries where drugs public notice the Moores published In Washington state, an effort to have been legalized or decriminal- May 27 in the Palo Alto Weekly. allow marijuana sales in liquor stores ized, he said. The Moores also contend that a failed to win approval, after a House “The petition is a little step,” he similar ordinance in San Jose gen- of Representatives bill didn’t advance conceded. N *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊU Page 5 Tune in Upfront and vote! Binding-arbitration Go to (continued from page 3) Palo Alto firefighters PaloAltoOnline.com have an arbitrator make a decision call for mediation VOTE BY JULY 3 when that arbitrator is unknown and probably doesn’t even live here,” Union says city rejected its offer Klein said. “But it’s also undemo- of $3.1 million in concessions cratic that public-safety people can’t CITY OF PALO ALTO POLICE strike. Everybody else can.” ith contract negotiations fighters have offered to the city to DEPARTMENT Klein proposed sending the is- stalling, Palo Alto fire- help balance the city’s budget is a NOTICE OF CITY MANAGER’S sue back to the council’s Policy and W fighters are calling on the generous one.” PUBLIC HEARING Services Committee, which would city to enlist a mediator to nudge The union’s mediation pro- CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE draft possible changes to the city’s the two sides toward an agree- posal comes at a time when the binding-arbitration provision by ment. City Council is considering ma- AND NECESSITY late July. He also said it’s important The union’s contract expired in jor changes to the city’s process for the whole council to weigh in May 2010 and the two sides have for settling labor disputes with NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto on the issue, given the close split remained at a standoff since then, its public-safety unions. Under City Manager will consider the application last year. with the city declaring an impasse existing law, disputes are settled Under Klein’s proposal, which in February. The negotiations are through binding arbitration. The of A Orange Cab for a Certificate of Public the council approved 8-0, the coun- expected to go to binding arbitra- council is now considering draft- Convenience and necessity to operate a cil would then consider in late July tion in the fall. ing a ballot measure that would whether to place the proposed modi- Tony Spitaleri, president of Palo change or eliminate this provision. taxicab service in the City of Palo Alto under fications — or a possible repeal — Alto Professional Firefighters, Lo- The council’s Policy and Services the business name of A Orange Cab, at a on the ballot. cal 1319, said the union decided to Committee is scheduled to discuss special meeting on Wednesday June 29, 2011 Tony Spitaleri, president of Palo request mediation after the city the possible ballot measure Tues- Alto Professional Firefighters, Lo- rejected its latest offer — one that day night. at 1:30PM, in the Council Conference Room, cal 1319, urged the council not to Spitaleri said included $3.1 mil- The firefighters’ union has con- located at 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto. repeal the binding-arbitration pro- lion in concessions. Spitaleri said sistently opposed efforts to repeal vision. He said the union is open to in a statement that the firefighters’ the binding-arbitration provision, modifying the provision and called offer includes a 4 percent wage though Spitaleri indicated Monday for the city to create a committee decrease for firefighters and engi- night that it would support making of stakeholders who could come up neers and a 5 percent decrease for some changes to the existing law. with potential changes. captains and fire inspectors. He proposed at Monday’s council “Elimination of arbitration in He said the firefighters also of- meeting that the city form a stake- our opinion would not create a sys- fered to pay 10 percent of their holders group to consider modifi- tem of fairness and would create a health insurance premiums (the cations. strenuous atmosphere which would city currently pays the entire pre- “Given the current debate not be good for employer-employee mium) and proposed revisions to around modifying binding arbitra- relations and would not be in the the pension formula for new hires. tion, the Fire Fighters are showing best interests of the citizens of Palo He estimated that the structural good faith by asking the city for Alto,” Spitaleri told the council. changes would save the city about mediation as an alternative means The council has until Aug. 1 to $1.7 million, while the wage de- of dispute resolution rather than decide whether to place an item on crease would save another $1.4 going directly to binding arbitra- the November ballot. This means million. tion, which is our right under the the council’s committee will have “In the wake of the city reject- city charter,” Spitaleri said in the to move at a brisk pace over the ing our contract proposal worth statement. next five weeks to come up with a $3.1 million in givebacks, we The city’s 2012 budget, which compromise on the modifications. have asked the city to enter into the council adopted Monday night, Mayor Sid Espinosa said the city mediation,” Spitaleri said in the assumes $4.3 million in conces- is now moving at a “very quick statement. “We think that the $3.1 sions from police and firefighter clip.” Like Scharff, he argued that million package in wages, health unions. N changing the provision is neces- care and pension cuts that our fire — Gennady Sheyner sary to keep the city’s finances in order. But Espinosa said he wouldn’t “Binding arbitration is not work- ing arbitration as it is. It either has to support the repeal measure at this ing for Palo Alto — that’s clear,” be reformed or repealed.” N time and called Klein’s suggestion Espinosa said. “It’s crippling us. Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner to send the decision back to com- “We have deep structural issues can be emailed at gsheyner@ mittee a “good compromise.” that cannot be addressed with bind- paweekly.com.
Palo Alto Hospital but was replaced the hospital project, said Stanford Day care as the main hospital facility follow- stands by its environmental analysis (continued from page 3) ing the 1959 opening of the Edward but was working to “find mutually Durell Stone structure still in use. agreeable solutions before begin- Hoover is slated to be restored and ning construction activities on the essary,” parent Melissa Michelson used for medical office space. Hoover site.” told the Palo Alto City Council Day care parents had paid little Possible options include “provid- Monday. attention to details of the hospital ing interim child-care facilities off- Michelson disputed Stanford’s expansion until receiving a June 6 site during construction, opportuni- contention that the problem is just email inviting them to a meeting ties for other child-care services, and a matter of miscommunication and about the “revitalization of Arbore- implementing additional mitigations that the environmental analysis con- tum,” Klemperer said. informed by the City Council-cer- cluding children would be unharmed “I was vaguely aware of the tified Final Environmental Impact by the construction is sound. (medical-center expansion) project Report,” she said. “We don’t believe this is a com- and, like all Stanford projects, tend “Clearly there was a breakdown munication problem. We believe to assume that it is for the greater in communication,” Staley said. this is Stanford not taking adequate good,” Klemperer said, adding he “Though many on and off campus concern for our children,” she said. had believed inconveniences such have been invested in the entitle- Simon Klemperer, a geophysics as traffic would be outweighed by ments and facilities planning pro- professor whose children have re- a new hospital. cess for over four years now, the fact ceived care at Arboretum, said par- “Parents’ jaws dropped” at the that the parents of the campus-based ents “had no idea” until two weeks June 16 meeting, when plans for a child care center were unaware and ago the hospital project will involve mid-July erection of construction uninformed of the project is regret- the old Hoover Pavilion. fences — one of which will bisect ful.” N The pinkish, historic structure is the children’s play yard — were un- Staff Writer Chris Kenrick can across Quarry Road from Bloom- veiled, he said. be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly. ingdale’s. It was built in the early As of Thursday, Sarah Staley, com. Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner 1930s and operated at the time as director of public relations for contributed to this report. Page 6ÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ Upfront
LAND USE Report boosts backers of new compost plant Analysis shows city could save money by building a waste-to-energy plant in Baylands FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UCC £nxÊ ÕÃÊ,>`]Ê*>ÊÌÊUÊÈxä®ÊnxÈÈÈÈÓÊUÊÜÜÜ°vVV«>°À}Ê by Gennady Sheyner -Õ`>ÞÊ7Àà «Ê>`Ê-Õ`>ÞÊ-V Ê>ÌÊ£ä\ääÊ>°° This Sunday: Stop! In the Name of Love alo Alto could save millions Peter Drekmeier, has been lobbying and based on much larger facilities by building a waste-to-energy the council to build the new plant than the one that would be built in Rev. Dr. Eileen Altman preaching P plant in the Baylands, accord- and keep composting local. Palo Alto. ing to a new analysis that is likely to The revised analysis, performed “It is likely that the lower cost op- An Open and Affirming Congregation of the United Church of Christ further stoke one of the city’s hot- by the Massachusetts firm Alter- tions would provide a suitable sys- test debates. native Resources, Inc., compared tem for the city with the quantities The analysis, which the City the costs of building the new plant of food scraps and yard trimmings Council will discuss Monday night, versus shipping local food and yard available in the city,” the report is being heralded as welcome news waste elsewhere. Its draft report states. “The higher cost systems typ- by proponents of the proposed an- concluded that “several of the lower ically become more economically aerobic digestion plant — a facility cost AD (anaerobic digestion) tech- competitive when larger quantities that would process compost and pro- nology cases are less costly or com- of these materials are available.” duce electricity. In November, city petitive with export options.” This is The various export alternatives, voters will decide whether to make particularly true for the option that meanwhile, have price tags ranging a 10-acre site at the 126-acre Byx- involves processing yard trimmings, from $77.5 million to $139.5 mil- bee Park, located in the Baylands, food scraps and biosolids in a dry lion, according to the report. These available for such a facility. anaerobic digester at the landfill site. options entail shipping local food The debate over the city’s com- Other local options include building scraps and yard trimmings to other posting options was prompted by a more expensive “wet” anaerobic facilities while keeping the process- the imminent closure of the city’s digester at the site of the Regional ing of sewage waste local. The city landfill, which includes a compost- Water Quality Control Plant. currently incinerates its biosolids, a ing operation. The conversion of the The new analysis shows that the source of embarrassment to a city landfill to parkland means the city cheapest local alternative would that takes pride in being green. The would have to ship its yard trim- cost the city about $58.6 million export options include continuing to INSPIRATIONS mings and food waste to Gilroy over 20 years. The analysis also in- burn biosolids in a new incinerator or San Jose. A coalition called the cludes a “high-cost range” of $201 or processing them in a wet-anaero- A resource for special events and ongoing religious Palo Alto Green Energy and Com- million for this alternative, though services. To inquire about or make space reservations post Initiative, led by former Mayor this range is viewed as unrealistic (continued on page 10) for Inspirations, please contact Blanca Yoc at 223-6596 or email [email protected] HEALTH Hospice doctor aids patients in time they have left Palo Alto’s Ellen Brown recognized for exceptional hospice care by Kareem Yasin
s Dr. Ellen Brown begins her house calls, there is a distinct A lack of the impersonal for- malities one might normally asso- ciate with a doctor’s visit. Instead, there is familiarity and good cheer in her rapport. Brown, a medical director at the nonprofit home health care provider We‘re a group of Baby Boomers who are Pathways, specializes in offering comfort to her patients in their fi- building a ”green” cohousing community nal months of life. The specialty is known as hospice and palliative within easy walking distance of care, and Brown visits up to four downtown Mountain View. such patients across the Bay Area per day. Recently, the Palo Alto resi- Michelle Le dent was selected as 2011’s Home Care Physician of the Year by the Thinking about California Association for Health Services at Home (CAHSAH). Dr.Ellen Brown checks patient Evelyn Landes’ breathing during a visit “People have lots of questions downsizing? to her home Thursday (June 16). Landes suffers from heart and lung when they begin reaching the end disease and is receiving hospice care. of their lives,” Brown said. “And a lot of the time, patients just need tion makes it tricky for her to enjoy Though she will often only see Join our new ”old fashioned” neighborhood somebody to listen.” even the simplest pleasures, such as patients a handful of times, her re- Hospice care is mostly about en- venturing out into the garden, and lationship with them and their fami- of upscale energy-efficient condos, shared suring a good quality of care, she her energy varies from day to day. lies is like that of a trusted friend, said, and paying attention to what Brown checks in on Landes’ con- and this is more than reflected in the common facilities, underground parking, patients want to achieve in the time dition and ensures that her medica- warm welcome she receives from open space and gardens. they have left. tion is in order. But Brown’s concern the Landeses. “We want to make sure we can get also lies in assessing her patient’s “Coming out of high school, I Already 13 households strong, we‘re them to reach those goals, whether feelings and answering any ques- knew I wanted to be a physician,” they include traveling, or something tions Landes and her husband, Nate, Brown said. She completed her resi- looking for 6 more to join us. as simple as going to their grand- have. dency at Rhode Island Hospital after child’s graduation ceremony,” she On a recent Thursday, Brown graduating from Brown University. said. checked to see if the swelling on Interested in becoming a primary- Learn more: Evelyn Landes, a Midpeninsula Landes’ feet is causing pain, tested care provider, the New York native patient of Brown’s, suffers from her breathing to see whether her then moved to the Bay Area to pur- 650-479-MVCC (479-6822) heart and lung disease. She faces discomforting wheezing has sub- sue a 10-year fellowship in geriatric considerable difficulty breathing sided, and asked her whether she is care and internal medicine at Stan- www.MountainViewCohousing.org and spends much of the day con- enjoying her meals — not just eat- nected to an oxygen feed. Her condi- ing them. (continued on page 13) *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊU Page 7 Upfront
Cubberley parcel to Foothill-DeAnza, the Palo (continued from page 3) Alto school district would have the first right of refusal, a city staff re- News Digest port notes. The district would need nities.” to decide within 90 days whether Palo Alto halts water-rate increase — for now On Monday, the council will con- to buy the land, which would be at Palo Alto isn’t spiking its water rates just yet, but residents concerned sider a recommendation by City current market value. about rising bills should hold their applause for now. Manager James Keene to submit Superintendent Kevin Skelly de- The City Council was scheduled to approve a new water-rate sched- a “letter of interest” to Foothill by clined comment Wednesday, saying ule that would raise rates by an average of 12.5 percent. The council Tune in mid-July. he was waiting to see what the city held a public hearing on the rate changes last week and Monday night The letter would indicate an in- posts regarding its discussion Mon- was scheduled to approve the new rates as part of its adoption of the and vote! terest in “pursuing discussions” day. 2012 budget. Go to with Foothill-De Anza — in no “On Tuesday we will have an open But while the council approved most of the budget without a hitch, way constituting a sale at this session item on this topic where we members put the brakes on the proposed water-rate increase after PaloAltoOnline.com point. can talk about this,” he said. N Councilman Greg Scharff said the proposed rates would violate Propo- The school board will hold its dis- sition 218, which requires water rates to be consistent with the cost of VOTE BY JULY 3 cussion of Cubberley at its meeting Staff Writer Chris Kenrick can providing service. Tuesday, June 28. be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly. The rates proposed by the Utilities Department, with input from the Should the city decide to sell the com. Utilities Advisory Commission and the council’s Finance Commit- tee, included new tiers for heaviest water users in both the residential and commercial customer classes, who would be charged more per gallon. But Scharff and the council agreed that the new tiers would conflict with state law and asked staff to come back with a different rate structure. LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Palo Alto’s Water Fund is facing a $6.2 million budget gap because of the spiking cost of wholesale water. The city’s water-supply costs are projected to rise by 37 percent in the next fiscal year and to double by 2016, according to the Utilities Department. The increases are driven largely by a $4.6 billion infrastructure-repair project undertaken by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, the city’s water sup- plier. N — Gennady Sheyner City passes 2012 budget, seeks union concessions $*' !1( !) # +'( ). Palo Alto officials approved the city’s 2012 budget Monday night with little discussion, no protests and one glaring asterisk. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital offers classes and seminars designed The $146 million budget includes $4.3 million in anticipated conces- to foster good health and enhance the lives of parents and children. sions from the city’s public-safety unions — concessions that the city could have a hard time achieving. The city remains in a standoff with its firefighters’ union over a new contract and the two sides are prepar- ing for arbitration proceedings in the fall. The police union’s contract GRANDPARENTS SEMINAR expires at the end of this month. The uncertainty over labor concessions has cast a shadow over ( # $'#,#-%)#) '#%'#)() (!((-" #( # ( #!$'# what has otherwise been a relatively breezy budget season. Unlike ! +'.%') () !)()'$""#) $#( $' # #)'#) *# &*'$!$ in the previous two years, when the city cut employee benefits, out- '#%'#)( #) ! $ ) ' ! sourced services and reduced its workforce by about 10 percent, this *'(.*!.98220:52%" year’s budget was balanced with few major changes and no service reductions. The budget includes a restructuring of the city’s Public Works De- INFANT SAFETY partment, a move that consolidates six divisions into three and is antic- ipated to save about $300,000. It also creates an Office of Emergency '$$".'$$" * )$%'%' # .$*' $" $'#,$'## '$, # ! Services and an Information Technology Department (information #!* # #+ '$#"#)!( ).#) !)()'()'$""#) $#(< (!(( ( technology was previously under the purview of the Administrative ! $'#,%'#)( '#%'#)(#$) '' +'($ .$*# # #)( Services Department). It achieves about $1 million in budget cuts from various departments. )*'.*!.453220522%" But the City Council, which approved the document 8-0 with Nancy Shepherd absent, acknowledged that the difficult part is still to come. If the city fails to get the concessions from the public-safety BRINGING BABY HOME unions by this fall, the council will consider other ways to cut costs ),$%'),$' ( $% $'-%)#)$*%!(##,%'#)( #) ';'()%$()%')*" in these departments, including staffing reductions and fire-station )' "()') (%'$ '"( #. '($ ##*! ,')/ $))"#, !!(( ().$* # brownouts. N " # ) )'#( ) $#)$%'#) $$ — Gennady Sheyner ,$*#.(*!.46533222"0552%" Palo Alto Utilities managers form bargaining unit Palo Alto’s utility managers have formed a new employee association CAR SEAT EDUCATION & INSTALLATION that they hope will strengthen their bargaining power in negotiations with city management. < $ !1( ! ).#*)' '$ '") $='( ''() The group, called the Utilities Management Professionals Associa- # #()!!) $#*) $#) %%$ #)"#)(#"$#! #) tion of Palo Alto (UMPAPA), includes 45 managers from City of Palo carseatfi tting.lpch.org. Alto Utilities, said Russ Kamiyama, manager of the city’s electric operations. The group’s formation was opposed by city management but was enabled by a decision from an arbitrator in April. Most managers and professionals (with some exceptions in Police and Fire departments) currently don’t belong to any labor unions !!8729466823$'+ ( )!#'!% $' )$' ()'$'$) #"$' and have their compensation approved by the City Council ev- # $'") $#$#) ) "(!$) $#(# ( $') (#$) '$*'(( ery year. Kamiyama said the setup made it difficult for managers within particular departments, who believe their work is different from that of other managers’, to make their voices heard during negotiations. LUCILE PACKARD Kamiyama said the utilities managers have been trying to form their own bargaining unit since at least 2008. In November 2009, the CHILDREN’S 45 managers filed a petition with the city. The association’s focus is narrower than a typical union’s in that it focuses almost exclusively HOSPITAL on compensation — not on broader workplace issues such as griev- ances. N — Gennady Sheyner VISIT LPCH.ORG TO SIGN UP FOR CLASSES LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com
Page 8ÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ Upfront CITY OF PALO ALTO RECREATION PRESENTS 27th Annual – Palo Alto Weekly These and other news stories were posted MOONLIGHT on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer Online This Week versions, go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com/news. RUN & WALK Speedy bus service planned Groupon to expand in Palo Alto FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2O11 While Caltrain dreams of electrification and Groupon, Inc., plans to dramatically expand its California’s high-speed rail project slogs through presence in Palo Alto in the coming months, when it Register now at PaloAltoOnline.com its design process, Santa Clara County officials are takes over a Park Boulevard building it has recently pursuing their own solution to Peninsula’s future con- leased. (Posted June 17 at 9:56 a.m.) gestion woes: a fleet of speedy, spacious buses fer- rying passengers up and down the El Camino Real Ravenswood to shutter two schools corridor. (Posted June 22 at 10:43 p.m.) Two of Ravenswood’s eight campuses will not re- open this fall as the K-8 district serving 3,900 chil- Duveneck principal resigns dren in East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park looks Duveneck School is searching for a new principal to save on administrative and maintenance costs. following Monday’s (June 20) unexpected resigna- (Posted June 17 at 9:53 a.m.) tion of John Lents, effective June 30. Lents, longtime principal at Addison School who moved to Duveneck District responds to ‘testing fraud’ last fall, is relocating to St. Louis for family reasons. Palo Alto school district Superintendent Kevin (Posted June 21 at 3:12 p.m.) Skelly expressed confidence the district will be able to resolve charges of “testing fraud” by parents of an Driver arrested in fatal crash elementary student. The family claims their daugh- A 25-year-old East Palo Alto woman has been ar- ter’s teacher for two years filled in answers on her rested for the death of her friend after a fatal car crash tests to conceal the girl’s learning disabilities and on June 17, an East Palo Alto police spokesman said. need for extra help. (Posted June 17 at 9:16 a.m.) (Posted June 21 at 9:23 a.m.) Hallucinogenic-’shroom sale goes awry World Music Day rocks downtown A Palo Alto teen’s attempt to purchase hallucino- World Music Day returned to Palo Alto for the third genic mushrooms ended in a robbery and his being year on Sunday (June 19). This time, the dance floor punched by three other youths on June 8, a Palo Alto was a lot bigger. (Posted June 20 at 9:08 a.m.) police spokesman said on Thursday (June 16). (Posted June 17 at 9:50 a.m.) Robber stops at Starbucks, gets nabbed Mountain View police arrested a man Friday morn- ing (June 17) just a few blocks from the bank they Want to get news briefs e-mailed allege he had robbed about a half hour earlier. A to you every weekday? plainclothes detective found Lawrence Petitta, 53, at Sign up for Express, our new daily e-edition. Starbucks reading a newspaper. (Posted June 17 at 2:08 Go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com to sign up. p.m.)
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Compost plant anaerobic digestion,” particularly a dry anaerobic digester were built. These numbers, however, are private company as well as the re- (continued from page 7) if the facility is publicly owned and By contrast, the cheapest export op- based on a number of assumptions sponsibilities of ownership.” the city doesn’t charge rent for the tion would entail a tipping fee of that may not materialize. For one, Hiring a private company to run site. He noted that under the report’s $97 in the first year and $121 in year the scenario that makes the stron- the facility would raise the tipping bic digestion facility. best-case scenario, the city’s tipping 20. Drekmeier said this amounts to gest economical case for a local fees in year 20 of the plant’s opera- Drekmeier called the new finan- fees would be $69 per ton in the first potential savings of about $30 mil- plant assumes public ownership tion to either $50 or $73 per ton, de- cial projections “very positive for year and $32 per ton in year 20 if lion over 20 years. of a new plant (a proposition that pending on such factors as rent and the report admits is risky), public contingency fees. While the “public financing and a 15 percent grant model” projects a cost of $58.6 mil- for construction of the new facil- lion for the cheapest anaerobic-di- ity. It also now includes a “carbon gestion option, the cost for a private adder” (a $20 addition for each ton option would range from about $72 of carbon dioxide emitted) and a 15 million to $96.2 million. percent “contingency” for exports. The numbers in the new report are Both the carbon adder and the con- unlikely to sway opponents of the tingency fee make exporting less new facility, including prominent attractive in the consultant’s eco- conservationists Emily Renzel, Tom nomic model. Jordan and Enid Pearson. Oppo- Furthermore, the report claims nents of Drekmeier’s initiative have that a “public model,” while cheap- persistently argued against building er, comes with its own risks and a new waste facility at Byxbee Park, challenges. The consultant recom- characterizing this proposal as a be- mends handing over operations (and trayal of the city’s promise to its vot- risks) of a new plant to a private ers to add the land to the park. company. The council will consider the new The private options, the report results and discuss the city’s next states, are “the most advantageous steps Monday night at its meeting means to provide for development in City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. N of an AD technology facility as they Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner place financing, design, build and can be emailed at gsheyner@ operational responsibility on the paweekly.com. Great Teamwork... “It takes more than a vision and creativity to design successful architecture. It takes teamwork with a great business bank to support us along the way...Our banker is one of us.” –Marcy Wong
CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (June 20) Budget: The council approved the fiscal year 2012 budget. Yes: Burt, Espinosa, Hol- man, Klein, Price, Scharff, Schmid, Yeh Absent: Shepherd Water rates: The council directed Utilities Department staff to return with a revised proposal for water-rate increases. Yes: Burt, Espinosa, Holman, Klein, Scharff, Schmid, Yeh No: Price Absent: Shepherd Binding arbitration: The council directed its Policy and Services Committee to draft a measure that would amend the binding-arbitration provision in the City Charter. The council would then decide in late July whether to place this measure, or a repeal of the provision, on the ballot. Yes: Burt, Espinosa, Holman, Klein, Price, Scharff, Schmid, Yeh Absent: Shepherd Parks and Recreation Commission (June 21 ) El Camino Park: The commission discussed proposed improvements to El Camino Park, including synthetic turf, a new pathway and a dog exercising area. The com- mission will continue the discussion at its next meeting. Action: None Planning & Transportation Commission (June 22) East Meadow Circle: The commission discussed the draft concept plan for the East Meadow Circle and Fabian Way area in south Palo Alto. The discussion was contin- ) ./ ued to a later date. Action: None Rail Committee (June 23) Economic impact: The committee heard a report about the economic impacts of 0 1 Caltrain’s electrification and the proposed high-speed rail project. Action: None
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NeighborhoodsA roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann
AROUND GREENMEADOW THE BLOCK
CHILI CON CARPOOLING ... The 30th Annual Summer Festival and A hometown Chili Cook-off takes place Monday, July 4, noon to 5 p.m., at Mitchell July 4th Park, 600 East Meadow Drive, Palo Alto, and this year there is limited parking. A construction project is parade underway, and biking and carpool- Tight-knit Greenmeadow ing is recommended. Parking along East Meadow Drive and adjacent community prepares for neighborhoods will be limited. To star-spangled festivities reduce traffic and headaches for neighborhood-style the residential neighborhoods, event visitors are encouraged to by Jeff Carr park offsite at Cubberley Commu- ast Tuesday, June 21, David, nity Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Sigrid and Fraser Pinsky ad- just two blocks away. A shuttle van justed the pinwheels on their will drive between Cubberley and L homemade Fourth of July parade Mitchell Park from noon to 5 p.m. igloo float. That’s right — igloo — Onsite parking preference will be as in “Winter Wonderland,” which given to people with disabilities is the theme of this year’s Green- until 2 p.m. More details are avail- Kimihiro Hoshino meadow Association Independence able at www.cityofpaloalto.org/ Day parade. recreation or 650-463-4921. The annual festivities, which have been in existence since the Eichler BEANIE BABIES, NOT BOMBS neighborhood was built in 1954, ... Kudos to Duveneck-St. Francis have had many imaginative themes neighborhood residents for respond- Ivan Chaperot serves himself a bowl of fresh pea soup at the neighborhood Midtown Soup Group. through the years, such as Inventors ing to neighbor Mary Carlstead’s re- and Under the Sea, although per- cent Beanie Baby toy drive to benefit haps none as openly defiant of the children in Afghanistan. Carlstead re- Midtown ‘soup group’ calendar. cently sent out a request for Beanie “It’s something we’ve never done Babies and other small stuffed toys gathering builds before,” said Sigrid Pinsky, co-chair for children in NATO and local hospi- Soup’s on of the Greenmeadow Community tals in Kabul. The NATO hospital had neighborliness, fun over food Association social committee. been bombed a few weeks ago, she Greenmeadow is a tight-knit, 270- said. A Navy lieutenant nurse who is home neighborhood on the south a classmate of Carlstead’s daughter by Sue Dremann for an ailing quality of life. soup gatherings, she said. edge of Palo Alto, located behind is giving the toys along with coloring alo Alto resident Marina Rose “People say there is not a sense of The gatherings developed into the Cubberley Community Center. books and crayons to ill and injured stirred the two big pots of community. I tell them to do some- deep discussions as well as meal Residents have their own associa- young patients. Carlstead’s neigh- soup in her Midtown kitchen, thing about that. Here are people sharing, she said, and that aspect tion community center, pool and bors came through big time, furnish- P the aroma mingling with laughter of doing it right. With soup, it’s so easy has also become part of Palo Alto’s park, which was part of developer ing enough plush critters for a vil- about two dozen neighbors milling to do,” he said. soup group. Joseph Eichler’s vision for creating lage, she said, so she doesn’t need about her home near Hoover Park It’s a no-pressure affair that Rose’s Each month the soup dinner is a cohesive neighborhood in lifestyle any more. “My dining room looks like on Friday, June 17. husband, David Hsiao, said is not hosted at a different home; the host as well as architecturally. Members Santa’s Workshop,” she said. Over bowls of steaming pea soup “fancy schmancy.” chooses a topic, and for a short peri- of the community can join the asso- and corn and quinoa soup, members “This is a great way to create a od after the meal, residents gather to ciation for a fee to enjoy the center’s PALO ALTO CONNECTIONS ... If of Midtown’s Soup Group gathered low bar of entry. Soup and salad discuss anything from the proposed benefits. you’ve ever wondered how to get to share food, ideas and life stories, is something almost everyone can waste-to-energy plant at Byxbee The July 4 parade is an essential around Palo Alto and surrounding just as they have done each month eat,” he said. Park to electric vehicles, composting, part of the community’s tradition. The areas for a nice long bike ride on a for the past 2 1/2 years. Sutida Majarone, a Thai native safety and earthquake preparedness celebration has remained virtually un- sunny summer day, the city has a Soup, salad and wine. Neighbor- who moved to the neighborhood and Christmas caroling, she said. changed for 57 years, lending the holi- bike map available on its website hood children playing together in in March, had not eaten pea soup Sometimes the discussions go day a traditional small-town feel. at www.cityofpaloalto.org (search the hallways and garden patio. The before, she said as she sampled the deeper. “Check-ins” allow residents to A full day of activities opens with under “bike routes map”). The map soup group is capturing something soup. Majarone has hosted the soup discuss the big events in their lives. a kids’ triathlon and 1K and 5K runs includes bike routes, bike boule- many residents say is missing from group, making spicy Thai soup for “Those are the times when we for adults, Pinsky said. vards and paths into the Stanford Palo Alto these days: a real sense of her guests, she said. Having a chance really build depth of connection — The main event, Greenmeadow’s foothills and through the cities and community, they said. to share food and culture on a neigh- hearing someone talk about a death annual parade, follows, originat- baylands of East Palo Alto, Palo Rose ladled the chartreuse pea borhood level is appealing because in the family, a job search, struggles ing at the community center at Alto and Menlo Park. soup made from fresh English peas in Thailand food is central and peo- with infertility, issues around start- 303 Parkside Drive and meander- into bowls and passed them around. BIKEABLE PALO ALTO REDUX ... ple eat 24 hours a day, she said. ing a nonprofit,” she said. ing through the neighborhood and Optional additions included créme As a new resident, having a Rohana Gunawardena, the neigh- back to the adjacent park. Floats, a The City of Palo Alto’s Draft Bicy- fraiche, mint leaves and chunks of monthly gathering place with neigh- borhood-preparedness block captain, marching band, color guard, drill cle and Pedestrian Plan 2011 will ham. Everything is local and the bors also keeps relationships going team and more are all made up of be available in July for public com- organizes the gatherings. No two vegetables come from the Palo Alto beyond the cursory cup of sugar and community residents. ment, and a second citywide com- meetings are the same, with soup Farmers’ Market, she said. sidewalk wave. Longtime resident Bob Shaw munity meeting will be scheduled. and salad as the constants, he said. When visitors arrive, some bring “The lifestyle is so busy here. usually plays clarinet in the band, The plan and meeting information In winter, the gatherings are in larg- their own bowls or spoons, but this This is a place where we just hang but can slide over to saxophone if when ready will be available at er homes and in summer, at smaller isn’t a potluck. Only the host does out, and this is so personal. I bring ones where people can spill outside. necessary. “It really is a neighbor- www.cityofpaloalto.org/bike. N the cooking. All that is required of my son, and he gets to know all the “Sometimes there’s a deep discus- hood band,” he said of the group guests is to show up, she said. neighborhood kids,” she said. sion; sometimes it’s been someone’s that only comes together to practice Send announcements of neighbor- People say Palo Alto is a different Rose got the idea more than eight birthday and we’ve had a cake for on the five evenings leading up to hood events, meetings and news place these days — less friendly and years ago after learning of a similar them,” Gunawardena said. When July 4. “Most of us play elsewhere to Sue Dremann, Neighborhoods more disconnected, said Palo Alto group in Woodside. At the time, she people meet at his home, he will of- in the community, but some people editor, at sdremann@paweekly. Mayor Sid Espinosa, who attended resided in Mountain View, and as ten choose emergency preparedness just grab their horns once a year to com. Or talk about your neighbor- the Friday gathering. 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Hsiao said he enjoys the mix of have a great time.” cultures, which span from Northern Following the parade, activities Europe to Southeast Asia. include field and pool games, prizes “I like that it is meaningful for for parade floats and participants, other people. We all know each a barbecue, and then separate par- other. It’s easy, and it builds com- ties on each of Greenmeadow’s 22 munity,” he said. blocks, she said. “It only works if Espinosa recalled a Weekly story all people participate at some level,” where neighbors saw a van in the Pinsky said. driveway of a home and assumed Overall attendance for the day’s the residents were moving. But the events is expected to be somewhere van belonged to burglars who emp- near 1,000 people, composed pri- tied the house of its contents in plain marily of residents and nearby “as- sight, he said. sociate members,” who enjoy some People on Palo Alto Online’s dis- communal benefits but lack voting cussion forum, Town Square, asked status in the community association, how something like this could hap- Pinsky said. pen in a community, he said. The parade contributes in many “It really does make a difference in ways to the residents’ sense of to- a neighborhood and a community and getherness; though it’s not the com- a city. ... A soup club ripples into safety munity’s only annual celebration, and taking care of kids,” he said. it is highly anticipated, she said. A dozen people remained for “Even if I didn’t do anything, peo- the after-dinner discussion on Fri- ple would still come just the same.” day, and Rose, a chiropractor and Shaw said many people who have Weber Veronica nutritionist, began with nutrition moved out of the neighborhood like Liam Giffen, from left, looks on as David, Sigrid and Fraser Pinsky apply pinwheels to their igloo float for the and seasonal foods. Hsiao passed to come back for the festivities, al- upcoming Greenmeadow Fourth of July parade. around a food wheel, to show foods lowing residents to reunite with old that are seasonally available in the friends. Fourteen members of his Bay Area. own family are coming this year, The conversation morphed into some from as far away as Massa- organizing meals for an expectant chusetts. “It’s a lovely tradition,” mother on bed rest, finding Palo Alto Shaw said. restaurants and wine bars serving lo- The Fourth of July parade encap- cal products and keeping bees. sulates the small-town feel, with its Maybe they would make a good emphasis on togetherness and tradi- burglary deterrent if one put a sign tion in the heart of the greater Sili- in the window: “Killer bees,” some- con Valley. one said, to laughter, and the topic “It’s just so charming and un- turned to summer and vacations. changing,” Pinsky said of the patri- “I’m so glad you’re all here so you otic and eternally traditional neigh- can look for the moving van if it borhood celebration. comes to my house,” a resident said. “I’ve lived here for 20 years, and “And we’re not moving.” N this will be my 20th year crying at Staff Writer Sue Dremann can the parade,” she said. N be emailed at sdremann@paweek- Editorial Intern Jeff Carr can be ly.com. emailed at [email protected].
Hospice “Our goal is to make sure that we (continued from page 7) can get children out of the hospital in their final months and help their parents provide the care that they ford University Medical Center. need.” She joined Pathways more than It really helps their peace of mind 15 years ago and says that despite to know that there are teams of the sad circumstances, she finds her people — nurses, volunteers, so- work incredibly fulfilling. cial workers — that are able to help “Home visits are my favorite part them, 24 hours a day, she said. of it,” she said. “There is a huge Along with internal medicine, dynamic shift from when a patient Brown is certified for palliative is visiting your office, dressed in a care medicine, one of the fastest hospital gown, and when you are a growing specializations in the in- guest in their home.” dustry. Visiting patients offers the oppor- Extending care to those with tunity not only to assess what medi- life expectancies greater than the cation and treatment her patients six-month requirement of hospice, should receive but to make sure that Brown says that palliative treatment their support systems — their fami- gives patients more opportunities lies and loved ones — are there and to seek and properly establish the aren’t facing any problems. goals of their treatment. “You can learn an incredible “People with serious illnesses de- amount about a person by making serve to have people around to help a house call,” Brown said. “The them to determine or reorient their medication may be prescribed, but goals, as well as manage their com- do they have a way of getting it? Is fort,” she said. there a system in place? And is there “Most people ask me, ‘Don’t you someone close by to help them?” find it depressing?’,” Brown said. Tune in Some of her visits are to the fami- “Of course it’s emotionally challeng- lies of children with just a number ing, and some stories affect you more and vote! of months left. Child hospice care than others, but the way I look at it is often a neglected field, she said, is this: I truly believe I am helping PaloAltoOnline.com and she attends as many conferences people and that they really feel better on the subject as possible, as well as because of the work my team does. 2 0 1 1 speaks to pediatricians on a regular “Yes, they are dying. But dying VOTE BY JULY 3 basis. people still have hope.” N *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊU Page 13 Sally Louise Whelan August 26, 1957-June 14, 2011 A lifelong resident of Menlo Park, Sally Louise McDonnell, Lauren O’ Whelan died June 14, 2011, in Palo Alto surrounded Neill (God-daughter), by her loving family. A fourth generation Libby and Laura Kirk and Transitions Births, marriages and deaths Californian, she was born to Harry G Whelan many cousins. M.D. and Joanne (Jodie) Roberts Whelan in An accomplished graduated from Yale University with Redwood City on August 26th, 1957. She attended athlete, she played varsity Deaths an M.A. in Oriental Studies in 1943. Menlo Atherton High School, and graduated with tennis all four years for Harriet Johnston She was fluent in German, French a degree in Business Administration from San Jose Menlo Atherton. She Harriet Pollins Johnston, 87, a and Spanish. longtime Peninsula resident, died From April 1944 to May 1946, she State University in 1983. A marketing major with loved to water and snow ski. She enjoyed cooking, June 6 at The Sequoias in Portola served in the WAC (Women’s Army a keen fashion sense, she was sought out when she sewing, and card games of all kinds. She traveled Valley. Corps) in England, France and Ger- worked as a personal shopper for Nordstrom’s. She extensively around the United States and A native of Peoria, Ill., she mar- many. She was assigned to the United was a buyer for Liz Claiborne and Jones of New Europe. For over twenty-two years, she and her ried Bruce F. Johnston in 1944 in States Group Control Council, which York. She later became a sales rep for Telecheck and cousin Jo Malone would attend the New Orleans Wilmington, N.C. After living in was the planning unit for the occupa- Japan, she and her husband came to tion of Germany. Softkey Computer Company. She was working for Jazz festival where she met and maintained Stanford. She married her husband, the late Mars Candy Company until her health declined. friendships with fellow jazz aficionados from She and her family lived in France Peter Wyden, in 1947, and they were She is preceded in death by her mother Jodie around the country. She was also a member of from 1952 to 1954, and returned to divorced in 1959. She had two sons, Whelan. She is survived by her father Harry G the Junior League of Palo Alto. Stanford in 1954 when Dr. Johnston the late Jeffrey Wyden and U.S. Sen. Whelan M.D., brothers Gabe (Debbie) Whelan A Rosary was held on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 joined the Stanford faculty. Ron Wyden of Portland, Ore. She enjoyed extensive traveling and She had a long and distinguished and Robert Whelan, sisters Anne (Steve) Englert, at 7:00pm at Roller & Hapgood Funeral Home in lived in Japan, France, Uganda, Ke- professional career as an industrial Pat (Phil) McDonnell, Mary (Steve) O’ Neill and Palo Alto. A funeral Mass was on Thursday June nya and Austria. She also loved their economist, researcher and reference Sophie (David) Kirk. She had 13 nieces and nephews 23, 2011 at 11:00am at St. Denis Church in Menlo retirement home in Pacific Grove, librarian. She worked at the Stanford Steve, Sophia, Hilary and Bobbie Englert, Jennifer, Park. The family requests that donations be made Calif., family members said. Research Institute, Stanford Univer- She was an active volunteer, in- sity, and the United States Informa- Harry, Natalie and Abby Whelan, Philip and Erin to the Pathways Hospice Group of Palo Alto. cluding with the Stanford YWCA tion Agency, among other challeng- PAID OBITUARY and Hospital Chaplaincy as well as ing assignments. Communities Organized for Rela- At the time of her death, she lived tional Power in Action (COPA) with at Channing House, a retirement St. Mary’s by the Sea, in Pacific community in Palo Alto. Grove. Ron Wyden said about his mother, Lolita Alice Olaine Survivors include her husband, “My mother was my role model, and Bruce; her son, Bruce C. Johnston of she wore that mantle for so many Jan. 14, 1905-June 15, 2011 Steamboat Springs, Colo.; her daugh- others who came into her life. With In her 106 years of life, Lolita made an impact the 1960s started ter, Patricia C. Johnston of Denver; quiet dignity, she was the consum- on almost every person she met; either through and managed and a granddaughter. mate achiever, who somehow man- A memorial service is planned for aged to lovingly raise my brother Jeff her artwork, her fun and feisty personality, or her an art gallery at noon Saturday, June 25, at St. Mary’s who suffered from schizophrenia, ability to inspire and strengthen others. She had a the First United by the Sea Episcopal Church at 146 worked full time, and never missed strong, independent spirit, and was always ready Methodist Church 12th St. in Pacific Grove. one of my basketball games. I have for a good laugh. in Palo Alto where The family suggests donations two daughters and both seem like my She was born Lolita Alice Jones in Los Angeles, Lolita had been to Pathways Hospice Foundation at mom, which I will always be grate- Calif., and studied art under Walter B. Currier at a member since 585 N. Mary Ave., Sunnyvale, CA ful for.” Lincoln High School. She worked as a commercial moving to Palo 94085; or to St. Mary’s by the Sea She is survived by her son, Ron artist in L.A. until she met Francis Samuel Olaine Alto. She later sold Church (put “Social Concerns Fund” Wyden (Nancy) of Portland, Ore.; through a local hiking club and married him in 45 of her paintings in the memo line) at 146 12th St., Pa- and four grandchildren. 1933. to raise money for cific Grove, CA 93940. Francis’ job at Standard Oil moved them to a church elevator. Portland, Ore., where they had their first son, She was a member Edith Wyden Births David. A short time later they moved to Seattle, of the Rebekah Edith Wyden, 91, a resident of Palo Sherry and Doyle Rundell of Wash., where Lolita was able to showcase her Lodge for many Alto, died June 19 of advanced Al- Menlo Park, a daughter, May 25. art in local galleries. They soon returned to Los years, the walk-about club of Palo Alto, as well as zheimer’s disease. Kerry and Bradley Cook of Angeles, which Lolita was so happy about she a life-long member of the Sierra Club. She was born May 26, 1920, in Menlo Park, a son, May 31. attributed the birth of their second son Norman Lolita surpassed the longevity her relatives Koenigsberg, Germany, the daughter Neval and Farooq Javed of to it. enjoyed, with her brother Reg living to 100, her of Dr. George and Else Rosenow. The Menlo Park, a daughter, June 3. With the onset of World War II, Francis got mother to 98, and her grandfather to 100. However, family fled Nazi Germany in 1936, Lizeth Sosa and Andrea Ti- transferred to San Francisco and they settled in she was surprised to wake up after turning 100 first going to Iraq and then immigrat- nae of East Palo Alto, a daughter, ing to the United States in 1939. June 18. Francis’ hometown of Palo Alto in 1941. They and still be alive. She told people that God wasn’t She graduated from the University Carol and Darren Cunning- later moved to Redwood City in 1959, after both ready for her yet and that she still had something of Rochester with a B.A. cum laude ham of Menlo Park, a son, June boys graduated from Palo Alto High School. She to do but wasn’t sure what it was. At that time she in 1941, majoring in archaeology. She 19. lived there happily with Francis where they tended had yet to see any great-grandchildren and she their garden together and hiked throughout the thought perhaps that was the reason she needed to area until Francis’ death in 1985. She continued stick around. The rest of the family is in agreement Answers to this week’s puzzles, which can be found on page 61 to live there independently until 2000 when at when we say that she probably was right. 4 5 9 3 1 7 8 6 2 the age of 95 she decided it was time to move to Two years after she turned 100 she met her first Lytton Gardens. As a child Lolita was frequently great-grandson Boden, and when she turned 105 1 2 7 5 8 6 3 9 4 ill and survived the measles, mumps, scarlet she met Boden’s brother Zeke and the Olaine 6 3 8 9 2 4 1 7 5 fever, chicken pox, and an almost fatal case of the triplets; Miles, Evan and Aislin. She is survived by 7 4 5 1 6 3 9 2 8 whooping cough when she was seven years old. her two sons, David and Norman Olaine, her two Her doctor told her to climb hills to make her grandchildren, Jason Olaine and Joanna Hess, and 8 9 2 4 7 5 6 1 3 stronger after missing much of her early schooling, her five great-grandchildren. She died peacefully 3 6 1 2 9 8 4 5 7 and she never stopped. Avid hikers and campers, at Lytton Gardens on June 15, 2011. 2 8 6 7 3 9 5 4 1 Lolita and Francis would frequently camp and Lolita’s family would like to thank Asilia 5 1 3 6 4 2 7 8 9 hike trails throughout California as well as the Taufoou for her love, devotion, and excellent care western U.S. She would find a vista, set up her of Lolita during her last couple years of life. 9 7 4 8 5 1 2 3 6 easel, and paint the oil and acrylic landscapes that A celebration of Lolita’s life will be held at she became known for. First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto on She also had a love of gardening and painted Tuesday, June 28, at 4 p.m., with reception to Free. Fun. Only about Palo Alto. watercolor portraits of her roses, orchids and lilies. follow. For further information please call Joanna 1 For a time Lolita painted from a studio in the well- at 360-689-5429. C R O S S W O R D S known Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park, and in PAID OBITUARY Visit www.paloaltoonline.com/puzzle Page 14ÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ Theft from auto...... 1 Vehicle accident/injury ...... 3 Vehicle accident/no injury...... 1 Vehicle tow ...... 1 Theodore (Ted) Alexander Chandik Alcohol or drug related Drunken driving...... 2 March 11, 1937-April 27, 2011 Narcotics registration ...... 1 Miscellaneous Theodore (Ted) Alexander Chandik, 74 of La Honda, and her husband Kip Conover Coroner case ...... 1 PulseA weekly compendium Disturbance ...... 4 California died suddenly Wednesday April 27th. of Santa Cruz, California, two Information case...... 4 Ted was born to Alexander Chandik and Lydia grandchildren Kyle Flanders of vital statistics Juvenile problem...... 2 Lost property ...... 3 (Blahunka) Chandik in Chicago, Illinois on March of Leominster, Massachusetts Palo Alto Other/misc...... 2 11, 1937. and Ellis Conover of Santa June 15-22 Possession of stolen property ...... 1 Violence related Psychiatric hold ...... 1 He earned his Masters in Education from Indiana Cruz, California. Two brothers, Domestic violence ...... 1 Tree blocking roadway ...... 1 University and worked for the City of Palo Alto, Thomas Chandik of San Theft related Trespassing ...... 1 Commercial burglary ...... 4 Vandalism...... 2 teaching classes in Natural History for 32 years. Diego, CA and Jerry Chandik Grand theft...... 4 Warrant arrest...... 3 Ted was passionate about birding and jazz. He led of Charlotte, NC as well as five nieces and nephews. Identity theft ...... 6 Atherton Petty theft...... 8 June 14-21 birding trips all over the world, and was very proud Ted lived life to the fullest and never passed up the Residential burglary ...... 1 Theft related of having seen over 5000 species. Although not a opportunity to see and do everything he wanted. He Vehicle related Fraud ...... 2 Driving w/ suspended license...... 3 Petty theft...... 1 musician, he loved jazz. would wish all of us could do the same. Hit and run ...... 5 Vehicle related He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Zoe (Ellis) Memorial donations may be made to The Nature Lost/stolen plates...... 1 Abandoned auto...... 1 Chandik. Their daughters, Lori and her husband Misc. traffic...... 8 Misc. traffic...... 3 Conservancy or The Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve Vehicle accident/minor injury ...... 4 Parking problem...... 5 Kevin Boccia of Leominster, Massachusetts and Dawn at Stanford University. Vehicle accident/property damage....13 Suspicious vehicle ...... 6 PAID OBITUARY Vehicle impound...... 2 Ticket sign-off...... 4 Alcohol or drug related Vehicle accident/no injury...... 1 Drunk in public ...... 5 Vehicle code violation...... 1 Possession of drugs...... 2 Miscellaneous Under the influence...... 1 Be on the lookout...... 1 Miscellaneous Citizen assist...... 2 Robin Winslow Smith Animal call...... 2 Construction complaint ...... 1 Found property...... 3 Disturbance noise/fight...... 1 June 12, 1934- June 15, 2011 Lost property ...... 3 Fire call ...... 2 Missing person...... 1 Found property...... 3 Misc. penal code violation ...... 2 Robin Winslow Smith was a strong independent aware of environmental Hazard ...... 1 Other/misc...... 2 Juvenile problem...... 2 woman, proud mother of four with whom she issues, served as president Psychiatric hold ...... 9 Public urination...... 1 Medical aid...... 3 shared many adventures, dedicated teacher, avid of Sequoia Audubon Suspicious circumstances ...... 4 Meet citizen ...... 4 birder, world traveler, passionate environmentalist, and worked tirelessly Town ordinance violation ...... 3 Other/misc...... 2 Vandalism...... 3 Outside assistance...... 5 dog lover, and supportive friend to many. She died for habitat protection Warrant/other agency...... 6 Pedestrian check ...... 1 at home surrounded by family after outwitting including the conservation Menlo Park Special detail ...... 1 Suspicious circumstances ...... 3 cancer for nearly five years. of Bair Island and the June 15-21 Suspicious person ...... 4 Violence related Town ordinance violation ...... 1 Born in San Francisco in 1934 and raised in protection of Bedwell Battery ...... 1 Tree down...... 1 Saratoga and Palo Alto, Robin graduated from Bayfront Park as open space. Theft related Welfare check...... 2 Fraud ...... 4 Wires down...... 1 Palo Alto High School, earned a B.A. at UC Robin is survived by her children, Mallory General burglary...... 4 Berkeley, married Gordon Dean Smith, Jr. in 1956 (Patrick), Colin (Lynn), Evan (Bonnie) and General forgery...... 1 VIOLENT CRIMES Grand theft...... 3 (div. 1972), made her home in Atherton for 47 Alison, granddaughter Anya and extended family. Petty theft...... 12 Palo Alto Vehicle related Unlisted block El Carmelo Avenue, 6/15, years, and taught special education in Fremont. A memorial celebration will be held 2pm, Friday, Abandoned auto...... 1 15:41 p.m.; domestic violence. Once retired, Robin kept local politicians well June 24 at Holbrook Palmer Park in Atherton. Auto theft ...... 1 Menlo Park Driving w/ suspended license...... 4 1000 block El Camino Real, 6/15, 20:38 PAID OBITUARY Hit and run ...... 4 p.m.; battery
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council is seeking applications for the Architectural Review Board from persons interested in serving on one of two terms ending September 30, 2014. Eligibility Requirements: The Architectural Review Board is composed of five members who serve without pay. The Commissioners shall not be Council Members, officers, or employees of the City. At least three of the Commissioners shall be architects, landscape architects, building designers or other design professionals. There are no residency requirements for this Commission. Regular meetings are at 8:00 am on the first and third Thursdays of each month. The Architectural Review Board is charged with design review of all new construction, changes and additions to commercial, industrial and multiple-family projects. Application forms and appointment information are available in the City Clerk’s Office, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, (650) 329-2571, or may be obtained on the website at www.cityofpaloalto.org. Deadline for receipt of applications in the City Clerk’s Office is 5:30 p.m., Monday, July 11, 2011. If one of the incumbents does not apply, the final deadline for non-incumbents will be 5:00 P.M. Friday, July 15, 2011. DONNA J. GRIDER City Clerk There are no residency requirements for the Architectural Review Board.
*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊU Page 15 Editorial Déjà vu on arbitration City Council once again puts itself under time pressure in deciding whether to place repeal of binding arbitration on November ballot here was at least some logic a year ago when the City Council Editorials, letters and opinions voted 4-5 to punt on placing a measure on the November 2010 Spectrum T ballot to repeal the city’s unusual 33-year-old binding-arbitration requirement whenever an impasse is declared in police or fire labor Don’t sell Cubberley large after-school child care pro- for pulp or resold online by Reading negotiations. Editor, vider, and two alternative high Tree’s commercial fundraiser, the Last July, the proposed repeal was brought up just days before Monday night the Palo Alto City schools. for-profit Thrift Recycling Manage- the deadline for putting the question on the November ballot, a Council will vote on entering into ne- Cubberley has tennis courts and ment (TRM). ballot that already had the distasteful firefighters’ initiative (later gotiations with the Foothill-De Anza Lucie Stern has courts nearby at TRM claims to be one of the resoundingly defeated) requiring a city vote for any future reduction Community College District to sell Rinconada park. Lucie Stern’s world’s largest online book distribu- in fire staffing. them eight acres of the old Cubberley rooms are used for meetings and tors for resale through Amazon and At the time, council members Sid Espinosa, Larry Klein, Nancy High School site. We urge the council classes and so are Cubberley’s. Barnes and Noble, etc. TRM man- Shepherd, Gail Price and Yiaway Yeh voted against placing the to vote no, no and no! The two centers are similar in ages the Reading Tree bins, trans- repeal of the arbitration provision on the ballot, narrowly out-voting Selling a major part of Cubber- their value to the community. Why ports the donated books for sorting council members Pat Burt, Karen Holman, Greg Scharff and Greg ley would affect Palo Alto Unified does the City Council choose only at one of its distribution centers, and Schmid. School District, youth and adult to protect the community center in then reaps big profits from books Their stated reason: The Council shouldn’t feel rushed; more time sports programs, and local nonprof- north Palo Alto? donated to Reading Tree. was needed to study the issue and allow for more public input. its. It will impact all future uses of As a resident of south Palo Alto, The bins neither mention TRM as Fast-forward one full year and Monday night’s City Council the site. Yet the council made it an I’d like to know the answer to that. Reading Tree’s commercial fund- Lisa Steinback raiser, nor its involvement with the meeting could have been a replay of the one last July. Action Item on its June 27 agenda Creekside Drive nonprofit, so donors cannot know Price said the council was moving too fast and urged a two- to — while schools, PTAs, and the PAUSD Board are on summer va- Palo Alto that only 25 percent of their do- three-month period for more study and discussion. Klein repeated his nated books go to charity — a fact 2010 criticisms of the “undemocratic” nature of binding arbitration, cation and most sports teams are between seasons. TRM readily admits. then added that not allowing public-safety employees to strike was also Blue-bin blues Is the council convinced that the Editor, I don’t know if Reading Tree’s undemocratic. And Mayor Espinosa, who a year ago joined the “let’s citizens of Palo Alto support selling When I give to charity I expect and TRM’s practices reach the lev- not rush” majority, this year called the referral of the issue to a council the last potential site for an addi- most of my donation to go to char- el of illegal deception, but it sure committee a “good compromise” given the split on the council. tional high school or middle school ity. You probably do too. Yet, if you reaches my level. So a year after using the argument that the council was being in the city? District demographers donate books into those big blue I hope you will think twice about rushed into a decision and needed more time for analysis and anticipate continued enrollment Reading Tree bins marked “Books feeding books to those big blue discussion, four of the same five members (Espinosa, Klein, Price growth; does council believe they for Charity,” only one in four books bins. and Yeh; Shepherd missed Monday’s meeting) could once again are wrong? Where will children go to those in need (Weekly, June Winter Dellenbach block voters from deciding whether to repeal binding arbitration. who move into the new housing ap- 17). The other three books are sold La Para Avenue Why all the angst and hand-wringing over repealing a provision proved by the city go to school? Palo Alto in our City Charter that is so rare that only a handful of cities in Twenty years ago, district enroll- California have it — and that was adopted in Palo Alto as a strategy ment was 8,000 and Cubberley was YOUR TURN to reduce the possibility of public-safety employee strikes before recognized as an essential commu- such strikes were deemed by the courts to be illegal? nity asset and a buffer for potential The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on our coverage or on issues None of the reluctant council members offered any substantive enrollment growth. Today enroll- of local interest. reasons on Monday, only general desires to not take steps that might ment is 12,000 and Cubberley is harm city-union relations and to respect the collective-bargaining even more critical to the families of What do you think? Should voters have to decide whether Palo Alto. What will our commu- process. They also declined to provide any guidance to the council’s Palo Alto should stick with binding arbitration? policy committee other than to return with alternatives in late July nity need 20 years from now? so the council could act prior to the Aug. 1 deadline for placing Palo Alto has been fortunate to have Foothill College here. It is an Submit letters to the editor of up to 250 words to letters@paweekly. measures on this November’s ballot. com. Include your name, address and daytime phone number so we can outstanding community college. There are many alternatives to a complete repeal of binding reach you. We reserve the right to edit contributions for length, objectionable We hope they can stay, but not if it arbitration, including amending the charter to limit arbitration content, libel and factual errors known to us. Anonymous letters will gener- cripples the school district. ally not be accepted. to only certain issues of disagreement; requiring that arbitrators Selling any part of Cubberley is You can also participate in our popular interactive online forum, Town consider certain data, such as the financial condition of the city, in a bad idea. Square, at our community website at www.PaloAltoOnline.com. Read making decisions; and opening up the negotiations to the public. Diane Reklis and Carolyn blogs, discuss issues, ask questions or express opinions with you neighbors any Insisting on an analysis of all the possible alternatives to repeal of time, day or night. Tucher Submitting a letter to the editor or guest opinion constitutes a granting of binding arbitration is a great avoidance and delay strategy, as well as Former presidents of the PAUSD permission to the Palo Alto Weekly and Embarcadero Media to also publish it an immense burden on staff. Board of Education online, including in our online archives and as a post on Town Square. As we have previously argued, we believe Palo Alto voters should Janice Way and Manuela Way be given the opportunity to repeal binding arbitration. With public- Palo Alto For more information contact Editor Jocelyn Dong or Online Editor Tyler Hanley employee compensation and benefits having soared in the last 30 at [email protected] or 650-326-8210. years, rising at a faster clip than city revenues, we are living in a Cubberley’s value redux different era. Palo Alto should get in line with 95 percent of other Editor, cities in California. With little or no public input, the Binding arbitration is not in itself a game-changing issue, since its city council is once again looking use is relatively rare (approximately six times in the last 30 years). at selling eight acres of Cubberley But it is fundamentally irresponsible to permit a single, unelected Community Center to Foothill Col- arbitrator to negotiate in secret and then make unilateral decisions lege. By their actions, the Council with great financial ramifications for the city. has decided that the community With four votes (Burt, Holman, Scharff and Schmid) solidly in center located in south Palo Alto is favor of placing a repeal measure before the voters in November, less valuable than the community only one of the other five council members must be persuaded. center in north Palo Alto, i.e., Lucie Mayor Espinosa’s goal for next month should not be to find a Stern. compromise that all nine council members can embrace. It should Lucie Stern center celebrates the arts with the Children’s Theatre, be to adopt, on a 5-4 vote if necessary, the policy that is in the best TheatreWorks, Palo Alto Players interests of the community. and West Bay Opera, while Cub- With the council having referred the issue back to its policy berley is home to El Camino Youth committee, it is too late to head off a process that will entail a huge Symphony, Palo Alto Chamber Or- amount of unnecessary staff and council work during the next chestra, Palo Alto Philharmonic, several weeks. Peninsula Women’s Chorus, numer- But let us hope that when it considers the issue again in late July, ous artists studios and four dance none of the five council members cites lack of information, time for studios. analysis or need for public input as his or her excuse for preventing Lucie Stern houses the Boy and Palo Altans from voting in November. 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First Person On Deadline Saying goodbye, Is ‘technomultitasking’ hurting our on to the next chapter… kids emotionally? Our society? by Amy Renalds by Jay Thorwaldson As promotions director, I put on just about that people of all ages seem to have shorter ourteen years every kind of event possible, from internal oung persons attention spans these days — or maybe that’s ago this summer functions, company retreats and summer pic- who are heavy just the way us older folks remember things. F I was in that un- nics to receptions honoring the Short Story Y multitaskers The multitasking topic came up again at comfortable but exhil- and Photo Contest winners to the ultimate seem to lose the abil- a recent conference on “Innovation Journal- arating phase of look- event, the annual Moonlight Run & Walk. ity to multitask ef- ism” held at Stanford University. That term ing for a new career. Even the year we had a huge glitch with the ficiently over time, seems to cover both aspects of a vast change In the fall of 1997, 2,000-plus pre-registered run participants, this a Kaiser Family in how people absorb information and how I participated in the event was where my heart and soul went. As I Foundation/Stanford they share it, whether or not they are actual Palo Alto Weekly’s an- drove home around midnight down Embarca- University study dis- journalists. nual Moonlight Run, dero Road at the end of every Moonlight run, closed last year. It got Clifford Nass, a Stanford professor of with my then 9-year- I was filled with a sense of accomplishment lots of media atten- communications and the social implications old daughter, Brittany. for organizing an event in which families, tion. of technology, headed a panel on whether Weekly acquaintances from years earlier teams, kids and the community as a whole But much of the media reporting focused constant connectivity is positive or negative, mentioned, on that beautiful fall evening, participated. on the impacts on college students. promising or just plain “scary,” or all of the that there was an opening for a promotions I particularly remember the fun of planning Lesser reported were studies of younger above. Either way, it’s a reality, he noted. assistant. the Weekly’s 20th Anniversary celebration in persons who — with the aid of a Brave New “Since the 1890s there has been a steady I remember feeling deep in my gut that I 1999, at the newly opened Cantor Arts Cen- World of techno devices of all shapes and siz- growth in time spent with media,” he said, re- wanted this next chapter of my life to be mean- ter at Stanford. That event typified how the es and functions — are constantly engaged in ferring to the evolution of newspapers, radio, ingful work within the community — some- Weekly wanted to celebrate its 20 years by doing several things at once, from homework movies, television and finally the Internet and thing through which I could develop deeper sharing it with the community. We had The- to games to chatting and otherwise staying a plethora of communication devices. relationships and become more involved in the atreWorks, Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, the connected. But there are phases of engagement. The city where I grew up. Gunn High School Jazz band and more at the The findings show deeper or broader ef- first “steals time from other media,” while I began working at the Weekly in November event entertaining our guests. We were cele- fects than just losing multitasking capabili- the second phase “steals time from non-me- 1997 and quickly fell in love with the culture, brating being a part of the community, and we ties. The studies of high school students and dia.” When day planners were popular in the my co-workers and most importantly the mis- were thrilled to share this with our friends and 8- to 12-year-olds showed an increased level 1980s, they began to overcrowd schedules un- sion of the paper: to deliver journalism with supporters. More than 750 people joined in of emotional stress — perhaps distress is a til many people found they had “no time left” integrity and honesty. honoring the Weekly’s 20 years of journalism better term — than kids less plugged in. and started double or triple booking their I quickly came to know the community with the hopes of many more years to come. There are even deeper implications in the time to get everything done — a significant and especially the local nonprofit world in a As assistant to Publisher Bill Johnson, I was rapid and ubiquitous adoption of always-on turning point. deeper way. That world is truly comprised of able to develop in another role at the Weekly devices. Those include a shallower level of Today’s rapid acceleration in media “adds some of the most amazing people, supporting while learning a lot about the workings of the communicating, loss of ability to concen- to multiple bookings.” There is no sign of it various missions, all with the intent to make paper. Bill is a well-respected family man trate on one item and loss of value placed on stopping, as witnessed by a dramatic growth our community stronger and support those and businessman and a dedicated journalist. face-to-face (ftf in current shorthand) con- in multitasking in college students, high in need. It was always an honor to introduce myself nections. school students and teens. I joined boards, committees, volunteered as Bill’s assistant. I got to be a part of some The pattern might also result in a reduced There’s a subtle side effect. and represented the Palo Alto Weekly in so innovative projects and to see the change in ability to collaborate to address common “Because everyone is double- and triple- many arenas, and I was very proud in this role. the newspaper industry as the Weekly held on problems. Should there be a study of state and booked there’s no time to fool around,” as One woman just emailed me today saying, “We tight and developed into a strong multimedia national legislators’ multitasking patterns? in past generations. “That’s the underlying sincerely appreciate the care and concern you company. Multitasking is not new. For decades, par- dynamic.” What’s the developmental value of have given to small organizations such as ours I remember one time getting introduced at ents and kids have argued about listening to fool-around time for a young person? Where over the years. Your love of the community is music or watching a movie or TV program clearly evident in the work that you do.” (continued on page 18) while studying. Evidence is overwhelming (continued on page 18) Streetwise What is your favorite summer activity? Asked on California Avenue, Palo Alto. Interviews and photographs by Casey Moore and Aaron Guggenheim.
Christina Roos Steve Barber Mark Rubin Lee Greenwald Farokh Eskafi Nurse High School Teacher Educator Neurologist Engineer Colton Drive, Redwood City Dunsmuir Way, Menlo Park Sheridan Avenue, Palo Alto Fordham Way, Mountain View Cowper Street, Palo Alto “Going to Lake Tahoe because I get to “Swimming with my daughter because “Cycling is good because you see “Listening to music because it puts “I hike because the weather is so spend time with family.” she has fun.” places with scenery.” you in a really good place.” good.”
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An exceptional neighborhood deserves “giving back,” helping those less Next chapter fortunate, showing kindness to oth- exceptional service. (continued from page 17) ers and most importantly making a difference with my life. Setting goals, aiming high, being When you call Bank of America, you can rest assured that our top priority is providing the a luncheon as the “Assistant Pub- determined and learning continu- information you need to make well-informed home financing decisions. We bring personal lisher” and thought it had a nice ously all were integrated into my ring to it! time at the Weekly. I can hardly service to the neighborhood, including: The most rewarding part of my believe that it has come to a close, last 13 years has been my role as but with that 9-year-old daughter administrator of the Weekly’s an- UÊÊÜ`iÊÛ>ÀiÌÞÊvÊ iÊw>V}Ê«ÌÃ now 23, I’ve decided it’s time for nual Holiday Fund drive. Started 18 new adventures as an executive UÊÊVÛiiÌÊ>`ÊivwViÌÊ iÊ>Ê«ÀViÃÃ years ago, Bill had the vision that assistant in a local venture-capital the Weekly could be the vehicle to firm. manage donations from the commu- This job will not cut my ties to the As part of the Bank of America family, we will work closely with you to make sure your home nity, while having 100 percent of the Weekly or the community because financing experience is one that you’ll be glad to tell your friends and associates about. proceeds go back to the nonprofits both are embedded in who I am and that serve children and families. what I care about. So I’ll still be I was proud to be part of a team helping at the Moonlight Run this If you would like information about your home loan options, contact us today. of Weekly employees that did the September, feeling proud and con- due diligence in the distribution nected. of the funds. The site visits to the Thank you, Palo Alto, for letting nonprofits, meeting the executive me reflect upon a time of my life directors, interacting with kids and that will always be special to me. I shelters, schools and garden pro- am exhilarated for the next round. grams all will forever be cemented So long, for now. N in my heart. Ken Low Arash Bahman Suman Singh Mela Jimenez Derek Kam Janet Velez Norma Sanchez Amy Renalds was the Weekly’s Sales Manager Sr. Mortgage Loan Officer Sr. Mortgage Loan Officer Sr. Mortgage Loan Officer Sr. Mortgage Loan Officer Sr. Mortgage Loan Officer Mortgage Loan Specialist As one of eight children, raised in assistant to the publisher and pro- 888.848.7979 650.846.4783 650.846.4756 650.846.7965 510.676.8883 650.846.4749 650.260.9781 Palo Alto, I have always had a strong motions director for more than 13 sense of community. Our parents years. She can be emailed at alre- taught us from the beginning about [email protected].
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Healing body and mind
Stanford researchers adjust their thinking about the causes and treatment of eating disorders
by Karla Kane
ristin began starving herself in ditions. Stanford’s program was started in Mountain View’s El Camino Hospital) and and unrealistic beauty standards, Lock eighth grade. the late 1970s and involves staff from the an ongoing outpatient clinic, with offices in said. K “I had low self-esteem,” she said. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital’s Cen- Palo Alto and Mountain View. Kapphahn “Mothers get blamed because we live “I was by no means fat, but my body de- ter for Adolescent Health and the Stanford said she hopes the inpatient clinic, which in a culture in which lots of women worry veloped before my other girlfriends’. I got University School of Medicine divisions of outgrew its original space, can eventually about their weight, but in fact anorexia is it in my head that if I lost weight I’d like Adolescent Medicine and Child Psychia- move back to Lucile Packard when the very rare,” Lock said. myself more and other people would like try. hospital undergoes its recently approved “Everyone is exposed to the same me- me more; I’d be more popular.” Though eating disorders affect relatively expansion. dia,” he said, while relatively few develop An avid reader of fashion and fitness mag- few people, the impact on those suffering Dr. James Lock, the psychiatric director an eating disorder. While media can be a azines, she was dismayed by the differences from them is severe. Anorexia has the high- for the program, said that on average 10 of trigger for unhealthy eating habits, it seems between her body and those of the models est mortality rate of any mental illness. the inpatient beds are filled at any given a person needs to have certain genetic and she idolized. So first she began to choose Treatment for eating disorders has time, and that between 300 and 400 pa- cognitive propensities to develop anorex- health food over junk food, and then she changed since the ’70s, with a shift toward tients go through the outpatient clinic each ia. started reducing her overall intake, counting family-based rather year. New-patient Kristin said she had problems with anxi- calories and weighing herself daily. than individual ther- evaluations are held ety even prior to the onset of her eating “Before I knew it, it became an obses- apy, care that is holis- three times a week, disorder. sion,” the South Bay resident said. “I was tic and a majority of and around half of “I grew up experiencing a lot of anxi- terrified of gaining weight; I measured ev- patients being treated ‘It was beyond my the patients come for ety, but it sort of went under the radar,” she erything. The thought of not having that as outpatients. Re- treatment. About 10 said. “I come from a family of ‘Type A’ control was too scary.” search, too, is evolv- control; my life was times more girls are personalities.” In four months, she lost 15 pounds. After ing, with current governed by this diagnosed with eat- Lock said there may be similarities eight months, she had lost 40. Stanford researchers ing disorders than between those with eating disorders and “It was beyond my control; my life was now exploring the tie fear. It started as a boys, Lock said, but people with other mental illnesses, such governed by this fear. It started as a control between eating dis- added that this may as anxiety and obsessive-compulsive dis- thing, and by the end I had no control. It orders and larger is- control thing, and be attributed par- orders. Looking at the behaviors and per- was either the hospital or I was going to sues of cognition and tially to less aware- sonality of patients from before they were die.” thinking patterns. by the end I had no ness regarding eat- diagnosed with anorexia, as in Kristin’s The ’tween with the athletic body be- Because eating ing disorders in the case, Lock said they “tend to be anxious, came drastically underweight and, at age disorders impact control. It was either male population. driven, perfectionistic people” — the very 12, she was hospitalized in the Stanford both mental and the hospital or I was “The stereotype is type who also tend to be quite successful ICU with a dangerously low heart rate. physical health, the rich, white girl, in school and at athletics. Kristin was diagnosed with anorexia ner- Stanford’s joint ap- going to die.’ but we see tons of Eating-disorder patients “very com- vosa and placed in the Comprehensive Eat- proach is the key to boys, and lots of mi- monly have all those traits. If you want to ing Disorders Program at Lucile Packard its philosophy, Dr. norities,” Kapphahn get into Stanford you better have some of Children’s Hospital at Stanford. Cynthia Kapphahn, said. She said eating those qualities,” Lock said. “I tell parents, Now 23, Kristin recently celebrated the medical director for disorders seem to be ‘If your child does not get straight As, they 10-year anniversary of her hospitalization. the program, said. increasingly common in Latino boys, for are very unlikely to have anorexia.’” In recovery, with health restored, she’s one Not only do adolescent patients work example, who’ve been overweight, then Kristin described herself as a regimented of the thousands of former patients who’ve with therapists and physicians, but also lose too much. child who would “stress about anything,” been treated for an eating disorder or par- nurses, nutritionists and others in a team- “We see eating disorders across all with even small mistakes such as missing ticipated in research studies at Stanford. based, holistic approach to care. groups,” she said. “But the unconventional the bus feeling like “the end of the world. Eating disorders are serious mental ill- “There’s even a school teacher to help people tend to get missed.” “I would make lists of things to do, and nesses involving abnormal, unhealthy eat- patients stay caught up. It’s one of the few A misconception is that eating disorders things had to be done a certain way,” she ing behaviors, including anorexia nervosa places in the country like that,” she said. in adolescents are the fault of controlling, added. (self-starvation), bulimia nervosa (binging The program offers a 15-bed inpatient pressuring parents or the fault of popular and purging) and other, non-specified con- unit (currently housed in rented space at culture for emphasizing svelte body shapes (continued on page 22)
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“Particular people are more sus- “it’s truly shocking how intractable cared about. Counting calories and disease that needs to be treated,” she Body and mind ceptible, ones with super-high ex- it is, how absolutely compelling,” he exercise was all I lived for. I thought said. (continued from page 19) pectations that spill into eating cer- said. about it 90 percent of the time,” she Though very dangerous, eating tain ways,” Kapphahn said, of what “Even when I was at my lowest said. disorders are also highly treatable. happens when such a person turns weight, I never thought I could have Bulimia is three to four times Lock said in his experience it takes all his or her drive and focus onto anorexia. I couldn’t be thin enough. more common than anorexia, but patients between nine months to a ight Palo Alto, with its controlling eating habits. “There’s It was total denial. I was miserable, comes with its own dangers and year to recover, with 80 to 90 per- culture of high academic a disconnect between high expec- weak, felt awful, depressed,” Kristin long-term health risks. cent able to say they no longer have M standards and population tations and low self-esteem,” she recalled. “It’s equally worrying,” Lock the disorder. of driven Silicon Valley go-getters said. Anorexia’s mortality rate is about said of bulimia, “but with quite a In Kristin’s case, her parents be- see a higher rate of adolescents with It’s normal for adolescents to five to nine deaths per 100,000 suf- different set of concerns,” with bu- came concerned by her weight loss eating disorders than other areas? develop body-image concerns as ferers, Lock said. Half of anorexia- limics struggling more often with but for a while didn’t know how to “It’s a high-risk population,” Kap- they hit puberty, with girls gener- related deaths are from cardiac appearance-related weight-loss at- deal with it. She saw a physician phahn acknowledged. ally experiencing more weight gain arrests due to weakened, starved tempts rather than the control issues and a psychologist but kept losing Lock added: “We don’t have good than boys, Lock said, but those who hearts, while the other half are sui- common in anorexics. Patients with weight. data, but there is an association; the develop eating disorders take such cides. In those cases, the patient bulimia more often recognize they “It was the elephant in the room; vulnerability is probably higher,” concerns, along with their perfec- “loses all perspective. They have have a problem and want to stop, but no one would talk to me about it,” since there are both genetic and tionistic tendencies, to an extreme. nothing left, no energy for relation- they find themselves trapped in the she said. Eventually, she recalled, environmental triggers. Plus, to be Kristin’s perfectionism mixed ships. You just begin to feel like you binge-purge pattern, he said. her mother came up to her room to able to afford to raise a family in the with her low self-esteem created a don’t want to live,” Lock said. And “One of the sad things is, eat- break the news that she’d need to go area, local parents are often high- “perfect combo for an eating disor- with each passing year of having the ing disorders are still stigmatized,” to the hospital. achieving, extra-driven personali- der,” she said. disease, the risk of death goes up by Lock said. “Families are blamed; “They want to take you by am- ties themselves. And family does There also seems to be a link be- 1 percent. patients are blamed; people think bulance, but I’d like to take you play a role. tween the sex hormones that con- “People don’t think they have a they’re influenced by fashion or the myself,” she remembered her mom “Genetic data suggests that inher- trol puberty, particularly estrogen, problem; they don’t see it. They say, media as opposed to having a psy- saying. “I had to face the music.” itability is very high,” Lock said. to brain development and risk for ‘No, I’m fine,’ even when they’re chological disorder.” Most of the patients who come But, he emphasized, as with media eating disorders. And by far the on a heart monitor in the hospital Kapphahn concurred. to Stanford are, like Kristin, fairly exposure, clearly not all straight-A most cases of eating disorders are because their heart rate dropped “People feel guilty, like it’s seen local, from the Bay Area or North- students or teenagers unhappy with diagnosed by age 18, with onsets too low and they’re a skeleton,” he as a volitional thing. If you had can- ern California, although some are their weight develop an eating dis- becoming rare after age 25, Lock said. cer you wouldn’t be blaming your- referred from across the nation and order. said. Once the disease takes hold, For Kristin, “restricting was all I self for having cancer. It really is a even the world, Lock said. Tradi- tionally, most eating-disorder pa- tients were treated as inpatients, with months of hospitalization, “but in the last decade by far the largest number are treated as outpatients,” Lock said. “It’s a real movement forward.” When patients first arrive, medi- cal stabilization is the first priority. Even outpatients are often hospital- ized for the first nine to 12 days to make sure they’re physically stable, Lock said. Kapphahn and her medical team monitor patients’ physical health, helping them recover from malnu- trition and a host of side effects that can include low blood pressure, low heart rate or a racing pulse and sei- zures. Nutritionists advise on what meals are appropriate, while for in- patients nurses make sure patients are getting the nutrients they need. “It’s really hard for patients; they feel overwhelmed and fearful of eat- ing. The nurses are supportive but firm,” Kapphahn said, adding that rarely do Stanford nurses have to re- sort to the unpleasant nasal-gastric force feeding that sometimes char- acterized eating-disorder treatment in the past. Kristin, thinking she’d only be in the hospital for a few days and pack- ing accordingly, ended up staying there for a month and a half. For a long time she wasn’t even well enough to take solid food and was bedridden. Eventually she was able to use a modified wheelchair, then progress to walking and going to group therapy. In the hospital, “I went in and out happy hunting of acceptance. I was scared I was going to die. It was a really lonely Great Furniture, Accessories, & Jewelry time, although my family visited every day,” she said. Finally, she at Consignment Prices! gained 10 pounds and was able to be released.
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Having brace family-based treatments than any questions about food or weight,” family members involved in the the psychiatric side, but that over the Stanford School of Medicine Re- treatment process is key, as the kids past eight years she’s seen a para- search Assistant Danielle Colborn suffering from anorexia are initially digm shift. said of the treatment, which has also too disturbed to handle the situation “The hospital was stuck in an old- been used in cases of head injury and schizophrenia. Tasks involving memory games, pattern matching and problem-solving quizzes are used to help patients improve brain flexibility. “It still helps them work toward recovery but without those trigger issues,” Colborn said. “It’s very new — some as been done with adult women (with eating disorders) but very little has been done with adolescents. We’re start- Reef Sandals ing to change our way of looking at best selection in Palo Alto these illnesses, taking into account their cognitive functioning. Before our way of looking at them was For you. For him. For kids. specifically ideas about food and eating, but in addition we should look at addressing their thinking Kimihiro Hoshino Kimihiro processes themselves,” she said. The Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program at Lucile Packard Colborn and Nandini Datta are Children’s Hospital at Stanford offers a team-based approach to treating two of several Stanford research- eating disorders. Medical director Dr. Cynthia Kapphahn, center, ers currently conducting studies discusses a patient-care plan with Dr. Rex Huang, left, and Diana on the relationship between think- 526 Waverley Street Downtown Palo Alto Sherman, nurse practitioner. The 15-bed inpatient program is currently TOYANDSPORTCOM s located at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View. 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Mind and body “It’s been a slow journey, and I in Campbell. Janice Bremis, who “Ever since going through it I have (continued from page 23) have this awareness when it comes herself went through anorexia treat- wanted to work with people with eat- to my health,” she said. ment at Stanford in the 1980s and ing disorders,” she said. “Educating Her weight fluctuated through- ‘90s, founded the center in 2006. other people about eating disorders ing processes and eating disorders. out high school and college, and “I was familiar with the research and health really heals me.” N Though their studies are separate, she continued to struggle with un- Stanford was doing. They had all Editorial Assistant Karla Kane both involve analyzing how a per- healthy habits, including a binging- this knowledge but the community can be e-mailed at kkane@paweek- son’s thinking may correlate to and-purging phase. She said she’s didn’t,” Bremis said. ly.com. psychological illnesses such as now developed an understanding The center offers information on anorexia. of her tendencies toward unhealthy treatments, therapists, insurance More information on Stanford’s research studies is available at http://edresearch. Datta and her team are currently thinking patterns. help, support groups and more. Kris- stanford.edu. More information on the Eat- recruiting subjects for her study, “I’m definitely aware of my tin has been involved as a volunteer ing Disorders Resource Center is available titled, “Familial Aggregation Study weight, and of my figure, but I don’t and said she’d like to eventually at www.edrcsv.org. More information on of Anorexia and Cognition,” spe- count calories, I don’t weigh myself work as a therapist specializing in the Comprehensive Eating Disorders Pro- gram at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital cifically in females ages 14-19 with and I don’t stress about food. Food is eating disorders, anxiety disorders is available at www.lpch.org. anorexia nervosa, and their family a source of nourishment. I’m abso- and depression, as well as continu- members. The study will focus on Dr. James Lock, psychiatric lutely able to enjoy food,” she said. ing to teach group fitness classes pairs of sisters close in age, in which director for the Comprehensive She’s found support from the Eat- and advocating for eating-disorder About the cover: Illustration by Shannon one sister has anorexia and the other Eating Disorders Program ing Disorder Resource Center, based education and prevention. Corey. does not. She’s also recruiting fe- at Lucile Packard Children’s males from that age group with no Hospital at Stanford history of anorexia to serve as con- trols in the study. “We give them a neuropsychiatric “There are not many studies like assessment that shows their think- this done on anorexia yet,” she said, ing processes with various tests,” in- and the hope is that finding predict- cluding IQ tests and games that test able cognitive correlations could spatial and visual intelligence, Datta help identify people who may be Thank You to the Following Sponsors and Committee Members for said. One such test is the Wisconsin at higher risk for developing eating Their Outstanding Contributions Over The Last Year! Card Sorting Test (WCST), during disorders. which participants have to match “We’re taking a biological view. 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by Rebecca Wallace an you remember something that never happened? And STANFORD if two people recall the same event two ways, how do Cyou know who is right? SUMMER THEATER In the Harold Pinter play “Old Times,” the roles are always shifting among the three characters: Deeley and his wife, EXPLORES THE Kate, and Anna, her visiting friend from the past. Who is right and who is wrong, who is strong and who is struggling WAYS THAT for dominance? As the trio talk over tea, making polite but increasingly REMINISCENCES brittle conversation, they recall powerful events, in often com- peting ways. Have Deeley and Anna met before? Who was SHAPE WHO wearing the black stockings at the party, Anna or Kate? Who was the man in Kate’s bed that night? WE ARE By the way, where has Anna been for the last 20 years? “Who controls memory? Who decides what the real mem- ory is?” actress Courtney Walsh says after rehearsal. “It’s a power game.” Above: Cristina Actor Rush Rehm calls the drama “Noël Coward played at Anselmo, left, and extremely high stakes.” Courtney Walsh The play is an intense, ambiguous, disturbing and some- rehearsing a scene times humorous start to this summer’s Stanford Summer from “Old Times.” Theater festival, which is July 7 through Aug. 14. The theme Left: The “Old of the 13th season is “Memory Play Festival,” inviting actors Times” trio, from top: and audiences alike to explore the contentious, fluid topic of Walsh, Anselmo and memory through productions of “Old Times” and Seneca’s Rush Rehm. “Oedipus,” translated by Ted Hughes and directed by Matt Moore. In addition, a free Monday-evening film series delves into memory with such titles as Jacques Tourneur’s “Out of the Past” on July 11 and Hitchcock’s “Spellbound” on July 18. A symposium is planned for July 16, with talks, discussion and scenes from “memory plays.” A Stanford Continuing Studies course on memory plays began this week. The festival’s artistic director and founder, Rehm is also a Stanford University professor of drama and classics. He was himself a college student when “Old Times” was published in 1971. He’s a big fan of Pinter, an acclaimed British playwright, director and actor, who died in 2008. Rehm has played other Pinter roles before, including several in the 2005 festival, which was dedicated to the writer on his 75th birthday. But Deeley is special; Rehm says he’s wanted for years to play this man, who is by turns confident, con- (continued on next page) Stefanie Okuda *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊU Page 25 Arts & Entertainment
Lines can be harder to learn, Walsh calls the casting move leaving no room for paraphrasing, “brilliant,” saying that it highlights when actors must memorize every the unusual relationship between comma and period. But Walsh says the gregarious Anna and the catlike these patterns of language help her Kate. In one interpretation, Anna is make emotional choices as an ac- “another dimension of Kate: the tor. younger lustful self,” Walsh says. “Is it anger? Insecurity? What Or perhaps Anna is a real person, makes people speak in long runs upon whom Kate projects her youth. without punctuation?” she says. Or simply a past lover. Fellow actress Cristina Anselmo Whatever happens, the meeting sees echoes of Pinter’s distinctive is increasingly painful to Deeley. language in the start-and-stop of He watches the past intrude on the playwright David Mamet. “Mamet’s present, breaking his wife apart. torn a big page from Pinter.” “And then of course if I don’t Another aspect of “Old Times” know who I’m talking to, I don’t that appeals to its director and ac- know who I am,” Rehm says. tors is the story’s ambiguity. It’s the In rehearsal, Bihr highlights that dance of memory, ever-evolving. ambiguity physically, at one point Who are these characters, really, having Kate, being played by Walsh, and how do their memories of the passionately lean over Anna on the past shape who they are today? bed. “I want this move quick,” Bihr What happens if someone chal- says, walking onto the stage and lenges their memories? Many crit- putting his knee over Anselmo to ics have given interpretations of the demonstrate. (“Is she going to kill play’s emotionally devastating end- or kiss her?” he says later.) ing (which should not be revealed Walsh’s eyes are fierce, while here). Anselmo is rigid, almost pale. A Bihr says he believes that his role flicker of something quieter — per- as director is not to answer all the haps tenderness, perhaps apathy — questions. Rather, he hopes to pro- comes into the scene when Walsh
Stefanie Okuda voke many possibilities that keep slips her arms under Anselmo’s From left, Beth Deichtman, Thomas Freeland and Leigh Marshall in Stanford Summer Theater’s production audiences thinking, questioning back and slowly pulls her upright of “Oedipus,” which runs July 28 through Aug. 14. and talking after the curtain falls. in a strange embrace. often did. Short fragments can be fol- Kate: My one and only. “I set up an expectation and either Later, when rehearsal is over, Dance of memory lowed by long monologues delivered (Pause) fulfill it or whip it away,” he says. Bihr is full of praise. “It’s starting (continued from previous page) in bursts. Punctuation is key, and ev- If you have only one of something “Either way, it’ll work.” to crackle with some interesting To highlight the ambiguity, Bihr layers and physicality,” he says. fused, teasing and shattered. ery silence means something. A big you can’t say it’s the best of any- has taken the unusual step of hav- Walsh, who has acted at Stanford “It’s a real privilege,” he says after part of analyzing the script is finding thing. ing the two actresses alternate in Summer Theater for five seasons, is rehearsal in Stanford’s intimate Pig- the meaning behind every choice that the roles of Kate and Anna. In fact, also in “Oedipus,” playing Jocasta. ott Theatre, where the play will be Pinter made, Bihr says. Later, Anna, the long-absent friend, they’ll alternate by acts. One night, The translation by Ted Hughes is performed July 7 through July 24. “Rhythmically, it allows a kind of enters with a rush of words: Walsh will play Kate and Anselmo less common; Rehm says he’s not Part of the appeal of Pinter, Rehm excited variety in speech and tonal- will play Anna in Act One, and then seen it performed on the West Coast says, is his distinctive language. “It’s ity that Pinter was going after,” Bihr Anna: Queuing all night, the rain, they’ll switch in Act Two. The fol- before. almost musical: speeches, pauses, says. “It needs to be very real.” do you remember? my goodness, lowing night, the order will be re- As if the Oedipus myth weren’t silence.” In the play’s opening, Kate and the Albert Hall, Covent Garden, versed. Bihr says he’s not aware of heavy enough, with the title char- Jeffrey Bihr, who is directing the Deeley are having a conversation in what did we eat? to look back, half other productions of “Old Times” acter destined to kill his father production, agrees. “He gives you short sentences, with much conveyed the night, to do things we loved, we having done this. and marry his mother, Rehm said this marvelous and strange lan- between the lines. One interchange were young then of course, but what To help the audience understand Hughes’ language is particularly guage, full of pauses and possibil- reads like this: stamina, and to work in the morning, that the actresses are switching powerful. ity,” he says. “The play has the soul and to a concert, or the opera, or the roles mid-show, Bihr has the two “It’s a descent into the abyss for of a poet.” Deeley: Did you think of her as ballet, that night, you haven’t forgot- slowly circle each other just before the ear,” he says. “The language is Pinter varied his sentence length to your best friend? ten? and then dashing for the match- the second act, with one then taking dense, and the place it goes is very, dramatic effect in “Old Times,” as he Kate: She was my only friend. es for the gasfire and then I suppose Deeley: Your best and only. scrambled eggs, or did we? ... the other’s place. very dark.” Fitting for the festival’s theme, the play is the classic memory myth, PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL with Oedipus not knowing who he NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE is and slowly learning the horror of of the City of Palo Alto BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 the things he’s done, Rehm says. CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 “It’s also a fabulous whodunit,” Architectural Review Board (ARB) ***************************************** Walsh adds. “You know it, but he’s THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA unraveling it.” She smiles. “When WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN is the moment of recognition?” N 8:30 A.M., Thursday, July 7, 2011 Palo Alto Council Chambers, 1st BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue. Go to the Development Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue to review filed documents; http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/knowzone/agendas/council.asp What: Stanford Summer Theater’s contact Diana Tamale for information regarding business hours at 13th season focuses on memory, with (TENTATIVE) AGENDA-SPECIAL MEETING-COUNCIL CHAMBERS plays, films and a symposium. 650.329.2144. JUNE 27, 2011 - 6:00 PM Where and when: Performances of 383 University Avenue [11PLN-00104]: Request by Jimmy Chang, CONSENT CALENDAR “Old Times” are July 7-24, Thursday 1. Adoption of a Resolution Vacating a 20-Foot Wide Public Utilities Easement at 211 on behalf of AEK Partnership, for Architectural Review of exterior Quarry Road through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sun- modifications, outdoor dining area and wall signs for a new bakery/ 2. Adoption Of A Resolution Authorizing The City Manager To Apply For A Grant And days at 2 p.m., at Pigott Theater in restaurant in the CD-C (GF)(P) zoning District. Environmental Execute An Agreement With The California State Coastal Conservancy For Funds To Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Uni- Assessment: Exempt from the provisions of the California Control Non-Native Cordgrass (Spartina) In The City-Owned Baylands versity. “Oedipus” runs July 28-Aug. ACTION ITEMS Environmental Quality Act per Section 15331 14 at the same times in Nitery Theater, 3. Transmittal of Draft Energy/Compost Feasibility Study to Council and Opportunity for Council Direction Relative to Final Feasibility Study Old Union, Stanford. 195 Page Mill Road [08PLN-00281]: Request by Hohbach Realty 4. Direction on Submission of Letter of Interest to Foothill College Regarding new Films will be shown July 11-Aug. 8 at Company Limited Partnership for Architectural Review of a 157,387 Education Center at Cubberley Community Center 7 p.m. in Stanford’s Annenberg Au- 5. Adoption of a Resolution Amending the Water Utility Rate Schedules W-1, W-3, W-4 sq. ft. building on a 2.41-acre (net) site for ground floor research and ditorium, with discussions following. development use (50,467 sq. ft.) and 84 residential units (106,920 and W-7 or Selection of an Alternative Water Utility Rate Structure (continued from 6/20/11) The “Stages of Memory” symposium sq. ft.). Two concessions are requested (per California Govt. Code CLOSED SESSION is 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. July 16 in Pigott 65915-65918) to allow residential use and additional floor area to 7. Labor Theater. accommodate this use. Zone District: General Manufacturing (GM). AT THIS TIME THE COUNCIL WILL CONVENE Cost: Tickets are $25 general and Environmental Assessment: A revised draft Initial Study/Mitigated AS THE CITY OF PALO ALTO REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY Negative Declaration was circulated for public review beginning 1. Adoption of the Resolution of the Redevelopment Agency Adopting the Budget $15 for seniors and students for “Old Friday May 6, 2011 through Tuesday June 7, 2011. for Fiscal Year 2012 and Response to Council's Request for Additional Information Times,” and $20/$15 for “Oedipus.” (continued from 6/20/2011) Films are free. The symposium is $90, STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS Amy French including lunch and refreshments (ad- The Policy & Services Committee Meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, at 7:00 vance registration required). Manager of Current Planning p.m. regarding further review and discussion regarding possible Charter Amendments to repeal and/ or substantially modify Binding Interest Arbitration Info: Go to summertheater.stanford. edu or call 650-725-5838.
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Will Durst brings his political comedy to the Performing Arts Center at Menlo-Atherton High School on Saturday.
Worth a LookAmerican Diabetes Association and local Lions Club charities. Featured vehicles of American and European make will be on dis- play, along with electric and hybrid cars, vintage race cars and a few rarer varieties of Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg, according to a Concours press release. Palo Alto artist Nancy The show runs from Stevenson’s bronze 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. sculpture “Greeting the on Stanford’s Sand New Day” is on display at Hill Road Athletic the Portola Art Gallery in Field at the cor- Menlo Park. ner of Sand Hill Road and Pasteur Drive. Adult ad- mission is $25 ($20 online pre- sale), students with ID pay $10, and un- der-12 children enter free in the company of an adult. See paconcours. com. Music Art ‘Thanks for the Memory’ ‘Echoes from Life’ The Peninsulaires Men’s Cho- Bronze conveys strength. But rus and the Mission Valley Wom- Nancy Stevenson’s sculptures also en’s Chorus will team up with the exhibit serenity and trepidation, cu- Stanford Ballroom Dance Team riosity and wistfulness. The feelings on June 25 to raise funds for, and are all in the works’ faces and ges- say “Thanks for the Memory” to, Johnson Pat tures, fitting for an artist who was Northern California’s USO. once a clinical psychologist. The USO has coordinated rec- The octogenarian Palo Alto resi- reational services for the military dent says she hopes her art expresses since the ‘40s. In keeping with the Comedy “universal emotional experience.” 70-year tributary theme of the per- Will Durst She wrote in an artist’s statement, formance, song and dance selections News reports provide ample comic fodder for Will Durst, a Bay Area “My hope is that when viewers look carry a vintage quality, starting with comedian with a taste for bopping politicians, politics and various sacred at my work they are reminded of a the USO’s earliest days and moving cows in the proverbial nose. familiar or forgotten feeling, and through the ages. Besides regularly performing live shows, the Emmy-nominated Durst that they experience anew an aware- The music and dance performanc- writes columns, hosts radio shows, appears on TV and serves as a com- ness of the beauty and complexity of es are at 2 and 7 p.m. in Spangen- mentator for various media outlets. the human form.” Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in berg Theater, Gunn High School, This Saturday, Durst is coming to the Midpeninsula to give a live comedy This month, Stevenson is showing the Sun” opens this weekend at the 780 Arastradero Road. For tickets show at the Performing Arts Center at Menlo-Atherton High School. The several of her sculptures at the Por- Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain ($25 advance, $30 door), go to sup- event, titled “Comedy for People Who Read,” is scheduled for 8 p.m. at 555 tola Art Gallery at Menlo Park’s Al- View. portnorcaluso.com. Middlefield Road. lied Arts Guild. Her show is called Tickets are $20. Go to ticketweb.com or call 925-449-1724. “Echoes from Life.” Friday and then runs through July Together with the sculptures, San 10. A&E DIGEST Mateo fine and commercial artist A professor at Santa Clara Uni- Jared Sines is showing paintings he versity, Billingslea is also an ac- describes as impressionistic land- “Light-beam Scattering,” tor who may be familiar to local taken by Ichiro Asao at the scapes and still-life scenes. He has audiences from his recent roles at a particular focus on coastside and Windy Hill Open Space TheatreWorks, including the lead in Preserve, won second prize in other water scenes, and rural sub- August Wilson’s “Radio Golf” in jects such as old barns. the contest. (To see Vaibhav 2008 and the title character in “The Tripathi’s first-place photo, The show is up through June 30 Elephant Man” in 2007. The “Rai- at 75 Arbor Road, open Monday which really must be viewed sin” cast includes local actress Jen- in color, go to Weekly arts through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 nifer Perkins-Stephens of East Palo p.m. Go to portolaartgallery.com or editor Rebecca Wallace’s blog Alto as Ruth. at adlibs.paloaltoonline.com.) call 650-321-0220. Show times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sun- days, at 1220 Pear Ave. Tickets are $15-$30. Go to thepear.org or call Theater 650-254-1148. ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Some classics are classics for a reason. The Lorraine Hansberry play “A Raisin in the Sun” first opened on Broadway in 1959, and it Festival PLEIN-AIR PHOTOS ... Three Bay Area photographers were recently named the winners of the Midpeninsula Re- retains its popularity and power. Concours d’Elegance gional Open Space District’s annual digital-photo contest, which honors pictures taken on district land. Stanford This weekend, it opens at a small- On June 26, the Palo Alto Li- photographer Vaibhav Tripathi took the grand prize with his verdant “Wildflowers Dance on a Windy Evening at Sun- er, nearer stage: the intimate Pear ons Club presents an exhibition of set,” taken at Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve. Second prize went to Ichiro Asao’s light-beam image, and third Avenue Theatre in Mountain View. more than 300 classic cars: It’s the prize to Bing Huey’s photo of a banana slug bending over a twig. To see the photos shot by the winners and finalists, Directed by Aldo Billingslea, the 45th annual Concours d’Elegance, go to openspace.org. production has its opening night on from which proceeds will go to the *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊU Page 27 PIZZA
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TIME & PLACE 5K walk 7:00pm, 10K run 8:15pm, 5K run 8:45pm. Race-night registration 6:00 to 8:00pm 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.
COURSE 5K and 10K loop courses over Palo Alto Baylands levee, through the marshlands by the light of the Harvest Moon! Course is flat, USAT&F certified (10k run only) on levee and paved roads. Water at all stops. Course map available at www.PaloAltoOnline.com.
REGISTRATIONS & ENTRY FEE Pre-registration fee is $25 per entrant (postmarked by September 2, 2011) and includes a long- sleeve t-shirt. Late/race-night registration is $30 and includes a shirt only while supplies last. Family package: Children 12 and under run free with a registered parent. A completed entry form for each child must be submitted with adult registration. Please indicate on form and include $15 for t-shirt. No confirmation of mail-in registration available. Registration also available online at www.PaloAltoOnline.com. Refunds will not be issued for no-show registrations and t-shirts will not be held.
SPORTS TEAM/CLUBS: Pre-registration opportunity for organizations of 10 or more runners; e-mail [email protected]. MINORS: If not pre-registered Minors under 18 MUST bring signed parental/waiver form (online) on race night to participate. DIVISIONS Age divisions: 9 & under; 10-12; 13-19; 20-29; 30-39; 40-49; 50-59; 60-69, and 70 & over with separate divisions for male and female runners in each age group. Race timing provided for 5K and 10K runs only; not 5K walk.
COMPUTERIZED RESULTS by A Change of Pace Chip timing by A Change of Pace. Race results will be posted on the Internet at www.PaloAltoOnline.com by 11pm race night. Registration forms must be filled out completely and correctly for results to be accurate. Race organizers are not responsible for incorrect results caused by incomplete or incorrect registration forms. You must register for the event you plan to participate in.
AWARDS/PRIZES/ENTERTAINMENT Top three finishers in each division. Prize giveaways and refreshments. DJ Alan Waltz. Pre-race warmups by Noxcuses Fitness, Palo Alto
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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! Please bring your own clean-up bag. Jogging strollers welcome in the 5K walk or at the back of either run.
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MoviesMOVIE TIMES Movie times for the Century 16 and 20 theaters are for Friday through Tuesday only, except where noted. WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MIKE MILLS
The Art of Getting By (PG-13) Century 16: Fri.-Mon. at 10:10 p.m. Century 20: Fri.-Mon. at 9:30 p.m. (Not Reviewed) Bad Teacher (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 10:20 & 11:30 a.m.; 12:55, 2:10, 3:35, 4:40, 6:45, 7:50, 9:30 & 10:35 p.m. Cen- tury 20: 10:45 & 11:40 a.m.; 1:05, 2:10, 3:25, 4:35, 5:50, 7, 8:15, 9:25 & 10:40 p.m. Beginners (R) ((( Aquarius Theatre: 1:45, 4:15, 7:10 & 9:30 p.m. Bridesmaids (R) (((1/2 Century 16: 11:50 a.m.; 3:10, 7:05 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m.; 1:55, 4:55, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m. NOW Landmark Theatres $!$"##! 430 Emerson St 650/266-9260 Cars 2 (G) ((1/2 Century 16: Fri.-Thu. at 10:30 a.m.; 1:10, 4, 7 & 9:55 p.m.; Fri.-Tue. also at 11 a.m.; 1:50, 4:50, ##!!# !' ! !" $ ! # " %# " " # """ !" $ # $ " # 7:55 & 10:35 p.m.; In 3D Fri.-Thu. at 10 a.m.; 12:40, 3:30, 6:30 & 9:20 p.m. Century 20: 10:35 PLAYING $"!"46".4;8/2,7#,<8 !" ;/8.=496( 84 & a.m.; noon, 1:25, 2:50, 4:15, 5:40, 7:05, 8:30 & 9:55 p.m.; In 3D at 11:10 a.m.; 12:40, 2, 3:30, 4:50, 6:20 & 7:40 p.m.; In 3D Fri.-Mon. also at 9:10 & 10:30 p.m. Curly Top (1935) Stanford Theatre: Wed. & Thu. at 6 & 9:10 p.m. The Globe Theatre Presents the Century 20: Mon. at 6:30 p.m. Palo Alto Square: Mon. at 6:30 p.m. Merry Wives of Windsor (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Green Lantern (PG-13) ((1/2 Century 16: Fri 10:50 a.m.; 1:40, 2:40, 4:35, 7:40, 8:40 & 10:30 p.m.; In 3D at 10 a.m.; noon, 12:50, 3:50 & 5:30 p.m.; In 3D Fri.-Mon. also at 6:40 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: 10:30 a.m.; 1:10, 3:55, 5:20, 6:40, 8 & 10:45 p.m.; Fri., Sat., Mon. & Tue. also at 11:55 a.m. & 2:40 p.m.; In 3D at 11:05 a.m.; 12:35, 1:50, 3:15, 4:30, 6 & 7:20 p.m.; In 3D Fri.-Mon. also at 8:50 & 10:10 p.m. The Hangover Part II (R) (( Century 16: 10 a.m. & 3:40 p.m.; Fri.-Mon. also at 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 12:10 & 2:45 p.m.; “ Fri.-Mon. also at 5:25, 7:55 & 10:35 p.m. Judy Moody and the Not Century 20: Fri.-Mon. at 12:05 p.m. Bummer Summer (PG) ( THE CINEMATIC ACHIEVEMENT Kung Fu Panda 2 (PG) ((1/2 Century 16: 10 a.m.; 2:30 & 7:10 p.m.; In 3D at 12:15 & 4:45 p.m.; In 3D Fri.-Mon. also at 9:25 OF THE YEAR.” p.m. Century 20: 10:40 a.m. & 3:20 p.m.; Fri.-Mon. also at 8:05 p.m.; In 3D at 12:55 & 5:35 p.m.; In 3D Fri.-Mon. also at 10:25 p.m. MICK LASALLE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE The Lord of the Rings: The Century 16: Tue. at 7 p.m. Century 20: Tue. at 7 p.m. Return of the King Extended Edition (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) “’THE TREE OF LIFE’ The Metropolitan Opera: Simon Century 16: Wed. at 6:30 p.m. Century 20: Wed. at 6:30 p.m. Palo Alto Square: Wed. Boccanegra (Not Rated) at 6:30 p.m. EVOKES THE WONDERMENT (Not Reviewed) OF LIFE’S EXPERIENCE.” Midnight in Paris (PG-13) (((1/2 Century 20: 11:45 a.m.; 2:20, 4:45 & 7:10 p.m.; Fri.-Mon. also at 9:35 p.m. Guild Theatre: 2, 4:30, 7:15 & 9:55 p.m. ROGER EBERT Mr. Popper’s Penguins (PG) Century 16: 10:10 & 11:10 a.m.; 12:35, 1:35, 3:20, 4:20, 6:10, 7 & 8:50 p.m. Century 20: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES (Not Reviewed) 10:55 a.m.; 1:20, 3:50, 6:25 & 8:55 p.m.; Fri.-Mon. also at 2:35 & 5:05 p.m.; Sat.-Mon. also at 7:35 & 10:05 p.m. Night and Day (1946) Stanford Theatre: Sat.-Mon. at 5:10 & 10 p.m. Pirates of the Caribbean: Century 16: 11:40 a.m. & 3 p.m.; Fri.-Mon. also at 6:50 p.m. Century 20: 12:50 & 7:15 p.m.; On Stranger Tides (PG-13) ((1/2 In 3D at 4:10 p.m.; In 3D Fri.-Mon. also at 10:20 p.m. Rhapsody in Blue (1945) Stanford Theatre: Sat.-Mon. at 7:30 p.m.; Sat. & Sun. also at 2:40 p.m. Song of the Open Road (1944) ) Stanford Theatre: Fri. at 5:45 & 9:05 p.m. Stephen Sondheim’s Company Century 20: Fri. at 7:30 p.m. & Sun. at noon. (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Stowaway (1936) Stanford Theatre: Wed. & Thu. at 7:30 p.m. Super 8 (PG-13) ((1/2 Century 16: 10:40 a.m.; 12:30, 1:20, 4:30, 6:35 & 7:30 p.m.; Fri.-Mon. also at 10:25 p.m. Cen- tury 20: 11:20 a.m.; 12:45, 2:15, 3:35, 6:15 & 9:05 p.m.; Fri.-Sun. & Tue. also at 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. Three Smart Girls (1936) Stanford Theatre: Fri. at 7:30 p.m. Transformers: Dark of the Moon Century 16: Tue. at 12:01 a.m.; In 3D Tue. at 9, 10, 10:30, 11 & 11:30 p.m. & 12:01 a.m.; Wed. (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) & Thu. at noon, 4, 7:40 & 11:05 p.m.; In 3D Wed. & Thu. at 11 a.m.; 2:30, 7 & 10:35 p.m. Cen- tury 20: Tue. at 12:02 & 12:04 a.m.; In 3D Tue. at 9, 9:30, 10, 10:30, 11 & 11:30 p.m.; 12:03 & 12:05 a.m.; Wed. & Thu. at 10:30 a.m.; 1:55, 5:20 & 8:45 p.m.; In 3D Wed. & Thu. at 12:15, 3:40, 7:05 & 10:30 p.m. The Tree of Life (PG-13) (((( Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m.; Fri. also at 2:45 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat. also at 2:45, 5:45, 8:45 & 10:15 p.m.; Sun. also at 5:45 & 8:45 p.m.; Mon. & Wed. also at 2:45 p.m.; Tue. & Thu. also at 2:45 & 5:45 p.m. The Trip (Not Rated) ((( Aquarius Theatre: 2:15, 4:45, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m. X-Men: First Class Century 16: 12:45, 3:45, 7:15 & 9:30 p.m.; Fri.-Mon. also at 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 10:30 (PG-13) (((1/2 a.m.; 1:30, 4:25 & 7:30 p.m.; Fri.-Mon. also at 10:30 p.m.
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the exploits of race car Lightning tedly dazzling opening sequence OPENINGS McQueen (Owen Wilson) and his finds British secret agent Finn Mc- BFF tow truck Mater (Larry the Missile (Michael Caine) discovering EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENTS NOW PLAYING Cars 2 --1/2 Cable Guy) in the equivalent of “Hot a terrorist plot to disrupt the first- (Century 16, Century 20) Pixar CAMERA CINEMAS CINEMARK CINEMARK Wheels: The Movie.” (Meanwhile, a ever World Grand Prix, then mak- head honcho and “Cars 2” direc- CAMERA 7 PRUNEYARD CINÉARTS AT PALO ALTO SQUARE CINÉARTS AT SANTANA ROW legitimate live-action “Hot Wheels” ing a spectacular escape from an Campbell (408) 559-6900 Palo Alto (800) FANDANGO 914# San Jose (800) FANDANGO 983# tor John Lasseter pushes the credo movie is currently in Hollywood de- offshore oil rig. Meanwhile, Mater “Story is king,” but the sequel to the velopment.) But Pixar’s appeal for ropes Lightning into participating in 2006 hit “Cars” unwittingly abdi- adults has never before reached such the race, hosted by alternative-fuel cates the throne. a low ebb. advocate Sir Miles Axelrod (Eddie Tune in To be sure, “Cars 2” demonstrates Ironically, the franchise becomes Izzard). technical perfection, and for nearly duller by embracing the action- Mistaken for a spymaster of dis- and vote! two hours, the picture maintains an adventure genre. If “Cars” was a guise, the buck-toothed, Southern- Go to objectively crisp pace and a strik- kiddie-friendly “Days of Thunder,” fried Mater begins working (and ing visual busyness. Kids will no PaloAltoOnline.com “Cars 2” is a James Bond spoof by doubt continue to be enthralled by way of “Deliverance.” The admit- (continued on next page) VOTE BY JULY 3 *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊU Page 33 Movies
(continued from previous page) If “Cars 2” isn’t bad, exactly, this peace-keeping force dubbed the Green & " ! $ " ! " mildly amusing G-rated adventure Lantern Corps, sets his vessel toward % ! #" culture-clashing) with McMissile for the first time makes family film Earth. Sur clings to life after being at- and first-time field agent Holley tacked by the fear-fueled, cloud-like leader Pixar fall behind the pack. space beast Parallax, and Sur’s powerful Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer). This (Note: If you go, don’t be late. * new pursuit makes the less-than- ring has chosen a new bearer. Sur’s ship Preceding the feature is a cute new crashes on Earth, where the ring “se- / smart Mater more distracted than lects” Hal to fill Sur’s lofty role as celestial '0 ! !11# “Toy Story” short called “Hawaiian ever, causing him to cost Lightning Vacation.”) guardian. Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence a race to narcissistic Italian hotshot and action. 1 hour, 45 minutes. — T.H. Reviewed June 17, 2011) Francesco Bernoulli (John Turtur- Rated G. One hour, 53 minutes. ro). Can this friendship be saved? The Tree of Life ---- Will the evil plot of German-made — Peter Canavese Professor Z (Thomas Kretschmann) (Palo Alto Square) “The Tree of Life” is the story of the O’Brien family: Mr. be foiled? Does a junker leak in a NOW PLAYING and Mrs. O’Brien (Brad Pitt and Jes- #&&#- .%!& * garage? sica Chastain) and sons Jack (Hunter The most appealing aspect of The following is a sampling of movies McCracken), R.L. (Laramie Eppler) and “Cars 2” is its recreation of scenery, recently reviewed in the Weekly: Steve (Tye Sheridan). Mostly, we see * them during the boys’ Oedipal adoles- from Tokyo to the Italian Riviera to Beginners --- && %&!(!) * +#% ,#% * cence, but we learn almost immediately (Aquarius) “Beginners” is a tale of two London. Still, despite the photore- that one died when he was 19, and we late bloomers: neurotic illustrator Oliver alistic backgrounds, “Cars 2” lacks see the grown Jack (Sean Penn) con- !"#$ #%&'#%# (Ewan McGregor) and his father, Hal a realistic texture. The sequel main- templating that death, his childhood and (Christopher Plummer), a retired art his relationships with his parents and tains a certain invented logic for restorer who, at 75, announced that he with God. The film’s title not only evokes the world if it belonged to cars, but was gay. The past tense applies because director Terrence Malick’s favorite visual Ben Queen’s script, jokes notwith- the film’s opening scene finds Oliver in subject (the trees) but the notion of the mourning for Hal, who died of cancer standing, fails to take its characters family tree of life, that all living things are four years after his coming out. Scenes seriously. Here, audiences must interconnected. Rated PG-13 for some about Hal’s venturesome new life, his ill- laugh at Mater’s incredible stupid- thematic material. Two hours, 18 min- ness and Oliver’s attempts to cope with utes. — P.C. (Reviewed June 10, 2011) ity, then pretend he doesn’t deserve both unfold in flashback. Meanwhile, in to be called an idiot, then marvel at the present, a grieving Oliver fearfully, his suddenly astonishing deductive tentatively embarks on a relationship with The Trip --- skills. And when it comes to toler- French-born actress Anna (Melanie Lau- (Aquarius) The broody foodie comedy ance of Larry the Cable Guy, well, rent). Rated R for language and some “The Trip” reunites the delectable pair of sexual content. One hour, 45 minutes. — Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, real-life your mileage may vary. P.C. (Reviewed June 17, 2011) actor-comic friends who play versions In thematic terms, “Cars 2” never of themselves to highly amusing and oddly wistful effect. “The Trip” operates runs deeper than this observation Green Lantern --1/2 on a simple premise. Contracted by The from mechanic Luigi’s Uncle To- (Century 16, Century 20) Cocky fighter Observer to review upscale eateries in polino (Franco Nero): “Everybody pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is on $%$ & ! " England’s Lake District and Yorkshire '() * **$* # a bit of a downward spiral. Memories fights now and then, especially Dales, Steve (Coogan) despairs when his of his father’s death haunt him, while a best friends.” The vast majority girlfriend begs off. But he rings up Rob risky maneuver during an aerial dem- (Brydon), parsimoniously proposing a of the picture’s effort is devoted onstration costs Hal his job and raises 60-40 split of the job’s pay in compensa- to the dully perfunctory spy plot, the ire of fellow pilot and former flame tion for Rob’s time, observations and “Flintstones”-style car puns (Victor Carol Ferris (Blake Lively). Worlds away, company. Not rated. One hour, 47 min- extraterrestrial warrior Abin Sur (Temuera Yugo, Brent Mustangberger, et al.) utes. — P.C. (Reviewed June 17, 2011) and making cars go zoom in spic Morrison), member of an intergalactic and span 3-D CGI.
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native and Gunn High grad Martin Keith Peters Trainer saw his hopes of a possible golf title disappear during the opening round of match play at the 100th Cali- fornia State Amateur Championship at the Olympic Club in San Francisco on Members of the Palo Alto football team (R-L), Kevin Anderson (58), Will Glazier (21), Michael Cullen (43) and Christoph Bono enjoyed themselves during Wednesday. Trainer suffered a 2 up the citywide parade in January that feted the Vikings and the Paly girls’ volleyball team after both squads won their first-ever state titles in December. loss to Kevin Wentworth of Arnold on the Lake Course. Trainer and Went- worth were all square after Wentworth bogeyed the par-3 15th hole. Trainer, however, handed the lead to his op- It was a parade of champions ponent with a bogey-6 on the 609- yard 16th. Both players parred the 522-yard par-5 17th before Wentworth Palo Alto’s two closed out Trainer with a birdie on state titles, Pinewood the 347-yard 18th. Trainer, who’ll be a junior at USC this fall, never led in girls’ hoop crown the match. In another opening match, topped 2010-11 Robert Salomon of Portola Valley sur- vived two days of stroke play, but was by Keith Peters eliminated in match play following a he parade through downtown 4&3 loss to Pace Johnson of Fresno. Palo Alto in January pretty Salomon bogeyed the 418-yard, par-4 T much said it all about the second hole and trailed from there. 2010-11 high school sports season. He was 5 down after a double-bogey It was as unique as the school year. six on the 437-yard, par-4 ninth. John- It was historic, as were the perfor- son closed out the match on the 15th mances of the athletes. hole when Salomon got a bogey on And, it was a one-of-kind (per- the 157-yard, par-3. haps once-in-a-lifetime) event that mirrored athletic achievement never COACHING CORNER . . . Palo Alto before seen in these parts. Knights Youth Football is seeking ex- For the first time in school his- perienced head and assistant football tory, which began when the Vikings coaches for the 2011 season. Con- played their first football game in tact: Mike Piha 269-6100 or mike@ 1897, Palo Alto High won two state in2change.com. championships in the same year. Perhaps even more impressive, the historic feats came just two weeks ON THE AIR apart in December. Friday Add to that a second straight Track and field: USA Outdoor Cham- CIF Division V state championship Keith Peters pionships, 7 p.m.; ESPN2 won by the Pinewood girls’ basket- Saturday Paly volleyball seniors Trina Ohms (left) and Megan Coleman (second from left) joined with juniors Maddie ball team in March, and you have Kuppe and Melanie Wade (right) to celebrate their state championship during January’s citywide parade. Track and field: USA Outdoor Cham- a Triple Crown of triumphs in one pionships, noon, Universal; 2 p.m.; NBC year that most likely will never be breaking 10th CCS title in tennis by setting a national public school Hi Sports or MaxPreps. Schoof’s Sunday duplicated. and capped a remarkable 28-1 sea- record in the 100-yard butterfly in honor came for small schools. Track and field: USA Outdoor Cham- pionships, noon and 2 p.m.; Universal The championships didn’t stop son with its eighth NorCal crown. the prelims of the CCS Champion- There were other great individual there. Menlo School won its second Sacred Heart Prep, meanwhile, won ships. and team efforts during the school straight CCS Division III baseball its first-ever CCS football title and It also was a great year for coaches year, but the state titles by Palo Alto READ MORE ONLINE title in May and Palo Alto captured a handful of local water polo teams as Paly football coach Earl Hansen, topped them all. That’s why the www.PASportsOnline.com its first-ever CCS Division I crown captured section crowns. Paly volleyball coach Dave Winn parade made sense and why some For expanded daily coverage of college — the program’s first section base- Palo Alto junior swimmer Jasmine and Menlo baseball coach Craig 10,000 spectators or more turned and prep sports, please see our new ball title since 1927. Tosky, meanwhile, put the program Schoof all were named state coach site at www.PASportsOnline.com Menlo School also won a record- (and herself) on the national map of the year by either ESPN Rise Cal- (continued on page 37) *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊU Page 35 Sports NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING of the City of Palo Alto Historic Resources Board [HRB] U.S. men’s water polo struggling 8:00 A.M., Wednesday, July 6, 2011 Palo Alto Council to keep Olympic hopes alive Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton by Rick Eymer ing the match at 1-1. It was all Serbia players Melissa Seidemann and Avenue. Go to the Development Center at 285 tanford grad Tony Azevedo the rest of the way. Annika Dries, and future Cardinal Hamilton Avenue to review filed documents; contact and the United States national Azevedo scored four goals as Maggie Steffens. Diana Tamale for information regarding business hours S men’s water polo team have a the Americans beat China, 13-6, Stanford grad Lolo Silver, who at 650.329.2144. tough road ahead to the 2012 Lon- Wednesday morning after dropping played for the U.S. during the FINA don Olympics unless the Americans a 10-4 match to host Italy a day ear- World League Super Final, will not can do something special over the lier. be playing in Shanghai. 2080 Channing Avenue [10PLN-00198]: Preliminary next few days. Azevedo scored the first goal The Americans also play Hungary Review of a proposal for the Eichler designed Edgewood The U.S. dropped an 11-5 decision of the contest against China and and Kazakhstan in pool play before Plaza Shopping Center. The proposal includes to Serbia on the final the U.S. never trailed, preliminaries begin renovation of the three existing retail structures, on- day of the FINA World though it was close July 23. League Super Final through the first half. Villa has accom- site relocation of one of the retail structures, and in Florence, Italy, on The Americans broke plished a lot of things construction of 10 new single-family homes. Historic Thursday and will face it open in the third pe- in her water polo ca- reports prepared by the applicant and city’s consultants a tough assignment in riod, with Hudnut scor- reer, though winning agree that two of the retail structures, including the Fridayís quarterfinal ing one of his two goals an Olympic gold medal one proposed to be relocated, are potential historic match against Monte- in the contest. Varellas is not one of them. The negro. also scored for the U.S. United States national resources, while the grocery store building has lost The Americans, who Italy scored eight of women’s team captain historic integrity. have won only once in the first nine goals of has her team headed three pool-play match- Tony Azevedo the match before Hud- Brenda Villa in the right direction Steven Turner, Advance Planning Manager es, need to win all nut broke the string though. three games to secure the automatic with 1:03 left in the third period. Villa celebrated her sixth World berth into next yearís Olympics and League gold medal (and third in a earn the $100,000 prize money. Women’s water polo row) and added to her medal collec- The U.S. claimed its third Olym- Two Stanford grads, two cur- tion that has three Olympic medals, picsí silver medal in Beijing three rent Cardinal students and a future three FINA World Championship years ago and still looks to claim a Cardinal were named to the FINA gold medals and a World Cup gold Palo Alto Unified School District spot among the sportís elite. World Championship roster that medal as the Americans downed It- Notice is hereby Given that proposals will be received by the Azevedo, the team captain, hopes will open competition in Shanghai aly, 9-7, in the championship match Palo Alto Unified School District for bid package: to participate in his fourth Olympics on July 17 against the Netherlands. of the FINA World League Super next summer. Stanford grads Peter Theyíre hoping to help the U.S. Final on Sunday in Tianjin, China. Contract No. JM6-11 Hudnut, Peter Varellas and Layne national team repeat its gold medal Villa was named to the all-Media Beaubien are also looking to make performance in the FINA World team with goalkeeper Betsy Arm- DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK: The Project consists of: The installation of six 960 square foot owner supplied modular buildings. The work includes the trip to London. League Super Final. strong after scoring twice in the but is not limited to underground trenching for utilities, grubbing of the Azevedo scored his only goal Grads Brenda Villa and Jessica final contest. Maggie Steffens also site, tree protection, supplying and installing water and sewer lines to the against Serbia in the first period, ty- Steffens will be joined by current scored twice and Dries added a new modular’s, supplying and installing fire alarm devices and integrating goal. the buildings to the existing site system, supply, install and connect to the “It may not have been the most existing site EMS, data, phone, electric for a complete and operational beautiful game, but in the end we building/system. Contract drawings contain the full scope of work. showed great heart and character to THE LAST COMPOST come from behind and find a way There will be a mandatory pre-bid conference and site visit at 10:00 a.m. to get it done,” U.S. coach Adam on June 29, 2011 at the project site located at 750 N. California Ave. Krikorian said. “Overall, I am Palo, Alto, California 94306. GIVEAWAY pleased with how we performed de- Bid Submission: Proposals must be received at the District Facilities Of- fensively in this game and all week fice building D, by 2:00 p.m. on July 14, 2011. but we all know that there is still PALO ALTO RESIDENTS much to improve on heading into PREVAILING WAGE LAWS: The successful Bidder must comply with all World Championships.” prevailing wage laws applicable to the Project, and related requirements “Complete the recycle circle” Team USA now looks ahead to contained in the Contract Documents. the FINA World Championships. “It’s great preparation for every- Palo Alto Unified School District will maintain a Labor Compliance Pro- one,” Krikorian said of the experi- gram (LCP) for the duration of this project. In appreciation of citizen’s In bidding this project, the contractor warrants he/she is aware and will ence. “All teams will now go back follow the Public Works Chapter of the participation in the curbside home and analyze the things they California Labor Code comprised of labor code sections 1720 - 1861. A did well and not so well. They will copy of the Districts LCP is available for composting program, Palo Alto make adjustments and bring their Review at 25 Churchill Avenue, Building D, Palo Alto, CA 94306. ‘A’ game to Shanghai.” residents will be allowed up to The Americans have won all of 1. A pre-job conference shall be conducted with the contractor or sub- 1 cubic yard of compost the major events for the past two contractors to discuss federal and state labor law requirements appli- years — the 2009 World Champi- cable to the contract. 2. Project contractors and subcontracts shall maintain and furnish to the (equivalent to six full garbage onship, 2010 World Cup and three District, at a designated time, a certified copy of each payroll with a state- cans), free of charge. Bring successive World Leagues. It’s a ment of compliance signed under penalty of perjury. good sign for things to come lead- 3. The District shall review and, if appropriate, audit payroll records to shovels, gloves, containers and ing to next year’s London Olympic verify compliance with the Public Works Chapter of the Labor Code. Games. 4. The District shall withhold contract payments if payroll records are proof of Palo Alto residency. “To come from behind and pull delinquent or inadequate. out a win shows a lot of character,” 5. The District shall withhold contract payments as described in the LCP, Krikorian said. including applicable penalties when the District and Labor Commissioner Italy built a 4-3 advantage by half- establish that underpayment of other violations has occurred. Saturday, June 25 time. The Italians, who did not win Bidders may examine Bidding Documents at Facilities Office, Build- 8am - 4pm a single match in group play and ing “D”. Bidders may purchase copies of Plans and Specifications for yet advanced to the final, took a 5-3 $100.00 at ARC, 599 Fairchild Drive, Mountain View, CA 94043, Phone lead early in the third period. Number (650) 967-1966 at the Palo Alto Landfill Dries and Courtney Mathewson scored consecutive goals to tie the All questions can be addressed to: 2380 Embarcadero Road game and Kelly Rulon added the go- ahead goal with four seconds to play Palo Alto Unified School District in the third. 25 Churchill Avenue, Building D 1 cubic yard per event Palo Alto, CA 94306-1099 Italy tied the match at 7-7 with Attn: Lori Alvarez 4:47 remaining to play in the match. Phone: (650) 329-3991 Villa put the Americans ahead to Fax: (650) 327-3588 stay 50 seconds later. Steffens added an insurance goal with 2:16 left. N Page 36ÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ Sports
Country Day (33-3) in three sets to claim the first CCS crown in school Prep review finish 24-11. history by beating rival Gunn in (continued from page 35) The Gators had lost eight seniors the Division I finale, 55-44. The to graduation and had only seniors Vikings finished 22-5, losing in the out to celebrate. — Hanna Elmore and Vivian Wu NorCal quarterfinals. Palo Alto made history in volley- — on the court in 2010. Despite his * The Sacred Heart Prep boys ball when the Vikings captured the youthful team, coach Damien Hardy successfully defended their CCS CIF Division I state championship made it all work. Division IV championship with a with a five-set win over heavily fa- In a year filled with highlights, 61-51 win over Santa Cruz while the vored Long Beach Poly at San Jose here are a few of the best: Pinewood boys captured their first State. Less than two weeks later, on section crown in 15 years by taking Dec. 17, the Vikings shocked the In the fall . . . the Division V title with a 71-66 win prep football world by upending * A total of 29 local runners over Mid-Peninsula. nationally No. 4-ranked Centenni- qualified for the CIF State Meet in * The Sacred Heart Prep boys’ al-Corona, 15-13, for the Division I cross country in 2010, with Priory soccer team went 17-1-1 during the state crown. junior Kat Gregory leading the way regular season while winning the Palo Alto became only one of by successfully defending her Divi- WBAL title, outscoring opponents two schools in California to win sion V title at the CCS champion- by 90-11. The Gators, however, two state titles during the fall, and ships. She helped the Priory girls couldn’t keep the magic going dur- nearly had two perfect seasons qualify as a team while the Priory ing the CCS playoffs. The SHP girls to brag about as the Vikings’ vol- boys also made it to state, marking won their third straight WBAL title leyball team finished 41-1 while the first time in school history that while losing only once in league the gridiron guys went 14-0. Both both teams qualified. play in three years. marks are school records for single- * Castilleja finished second at the In the spring . . . season victories. CCS girls’ golf championships and * The Menlo boys’ lacrosse team For the first time in school his- qualified for the NorCal tournament captured the SCVAL championships tory, both Paly teams finished the for the first time in school history. while the Menlo girls successfully year ranked among the top 20 in Senior Brenna Nelsen led the Gators defended their West Bay Athletic the nation. Volleyball finished No. during their successful season. League crown. 10, according to prepvolleyball.com * The Menlo boys’ water polo * The Palo Alto boys and girls while football checked in at No. 13 team returned to the top by winning swept their SCVAL De Anza Divi- on MaxPreps.com. the CCS Division II crown with an sion league meet titles with plenty The Vikings, in both sports, impressive 11-5 victory over three- of impressive efforts from young achieved success through hard time defending champ Sacred Heart swimmers, while the Sacred Heart work and teamwork and under the Prep. Prep boys and girls did the same in guidance of their knowledgeable * The Sacred Heart Prep girls, the WBAL finals.
coaches. Keith Peters meanwhile, captured their fourth * Palo Alto’s first CCS baseball The Vikings’ volleyball team de- straight section title with 12-4 vic- title came in a 5-4 victory over San feated a Long Beach Poly team that tory over Castilleja in the Division Benito as the Vikings finished 28-9, was ranked as high as No. 1 in the II finals to finish 26-3 — none of the second-most victories in school nation in one poll and was a legiti- the losses coming against CCS history. The Vikings wound up mate No. 7 according to prepvolley- Pinewood coach Doc Scheppler and his Panthers celebrated a fifth teams. The Menlo-Atherton girls ranked No. 1 in the state Division ball.com. Paly was nowhere close to straight CIF Division V state basketball title in March. also picked up a CCS crown, edg- II poll and No. 14 overall by Cal-Hi either ranking and thus carried the ing St. Francis, 6-5, in the Division Sports. underdog role into the finals. Huskies to their lowest point total sensational season with a 67-56 win I finale. * Menlo School won its fifth sec- Despite having only two seniors of the season and 41 points under over St. Bernard of Playa del Rey. * The Sacred Heart Prep football tion title following a 4-0 triumph on its roster — Megan Coleman and their season average. Eackles had 31 points and nine re- team captured its first ever by de- over Santa Cruz. The Knights wound Trina Ohms — Palo Alto battled To qualify for its second appear- bounds while Seto added 21 points feating No. 1 seed Carmel, 39-32, up ranked No. 2 in the state Division the nation’s best on even terms and ance in the state finals (Paly also as Pinewood finished 28-5. in the Division IV finals after rally- IV listing by Cal-Hi Sports. emerged with a well-deserved state made it in 2006), the Vikings swept The Panthers finished the year ing from a 32-11 deficit in the third * Tosky’s national record in the crown after junior Maddie Kuppe aside WCAL powerhouses Mitty, with 346 three-pointers, surpassing quarter. The Gators finished 11-2 100 fly was 51.92, set in the prelims. served back-to-back aces to clinch. Bellarmine and Valley Christian to their own state record of 338 first while giving Pete Lavorato the high- It broke a mark previously held by In May, the Paly volleyball team win the CCS Open Division crown. accomplished in 2003. Pinewood light of his prep coaching career. former Stanford Olympian Misty was named the MaxPreps National Winning state titles wasn’t exclu- also became the first Division V Hyman. Tosky won the 100 fly fi- Female Team of the Year while sive to the Vikings, however. The girls’ team in state history to win In the winter . . . nal and added the 200 free crown beating out more than 22,000 other Pinewood girls’ basketball team five state crowns and the first Di- * The Palo Alto wrestling team to remain unbeaten in CCS meets. squads nationwide. claimed the Division V state title vision V team to win back-to-back made its mark by winning its first The Vikings, however, lost a chance The Paly football team also took in March for a second consecutive titles twice (2005-06 and 2010-11). league meet championship in 25 to win a CCS title after a relay dis- on one of the nation’s finest, a team year. While the Panthers had won While it just missed out on win- years by capturing the SCVAL qualification to open the meet. that became the most prolific of- four previous state crowns, this one ning a state title, the Sacred Heart finals. Gunn senior Stefan Weide- * SHP junior Tom Kremer and fensive squad in state history with was special for head coach Doc Prep girls’ volleyball team had a mann won his first CCS individ- freshman Ally Howe each won two more than 8,000 total yards gained. Scheppler, who had lost his father stellar season that included win- ual title with a 5-2 decision at 152 CCS individual titles while each Centennial-Corona, however, had — his team’s biggest booster — to ning the NorCal Division IV title pounds. broke a section record. to settle for a 14-1 record after the cancer earlier in the season. and advancing to the state finals * The Palo Alto girls’ basketball * The highlight of the track and Vikings’ came up with a brilliant Led by seniors Hailie Eackles and for the first time since 1998 before team won its first-ever SCVAL De field season came when Palo Alto defensive effort while holding the Miranda Seto, the Panthers capped a losing to nationally ranked La Jolla Anza Division title and went on to broke a school record in the boys’ 400 relay, clocking 42.07 for third place at the CCS Championships. That eclipsed a 31-year-old record. All four relay members started the season on the Paly football team with three of them — Maurice Wil- liams, Morris Gates-Mouton and Miles Anderson — earning state championship rings. Speaking of football, there are only seven weeks before fall prac- tice begins. Palo Alto has a state title to defend and Sacred Heart Prep has a second straight CCS crown to go after. Water polo teams will be back playing for section crowns and run- Keith Peters Keith Peters Keith Peters ners will chase after honors in cross country. The 2011-12 high school season, however, has some very big shoes to fill while following in the footsteps Palo Alto’s Earl Hansen was named the state Menlo’s Craig Schoof was named state baseball Palo Alto’s Dave Winn (right) was named the of this past history-making school coach of the year in football. coach of the year (small schools division). state coach of the year in girls’ volleyball. year. N *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕiÊÓ{]ÊÓ䣣ÊU Page 37 GOT Sports WRINKLES? 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The senior he Stanford women’s athletic “Our university is very proud of Stanford earned national second- softball , outdoor track & field and from Hudson, N.Y., went out hard program won the inaugural our athletics program and we are place finishes in soccer, tennis rowing, the most Top 10 finishes of and grabbed an early lead, but was T Capital One Cup it was an- pleased that our women’s sports and rowing. The Aggies earned 40 any program. overtaken by Illinois native Kayla nounced Thursday. have achieved first place in the points for their first-place finish at Beattie two laps in. After trailing Stanford will be formally honored Capital One Cup,” Stanford Direc- the track and field championships, Track and field Beattie for several laps, Cuffe made at the ESPY Awards televised by tor of Athletics Bob Bowlsby said. the final NCAA Division I women’s Stanford-bound Aisling Cuffe has a move with 1,200m to go. 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