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N News Dinah’s Poolside Grill: end of an era? Page 3 N Arts What makes a picky eater? Page 15 N Home How to maximize fruit-tree harvest Page 29 Page 2ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Bikes climb to the top of Palo Alto’s transportation vision the blessing of the city’s Planning emphasizing “alternatives to the tions. This TDM program would City’s revised Transportation Element emphasizes and Transportation Commission automobile, including walking, bi- include as its elements transit improvements to city’s bike network, Caltrain corridor Wednesday night. The commission cycling, public transit, and car and passes, commuter checks, car also voted 6-0, with Alex Panelli van pooling.” sharing, carpooling, bicycling and by Gennady Sheyner absent, to extend the planning ho- The revised document takes this walking. rizon for the document from 2020 commitment a step further and The new Transportation Element s parking shortages and traf- The city is in the final stage of re- to 2025. adds a host of specific programs, also contains a vision statement fic congestion continue to writing its Transportation Element, a The revised Transportation Ele- including one that calls for the city that is both more concise and more A rile Palo Alto residents, city major component of its official land- ment, like the existing one that the to create a “transportation demand specific than the one currently in planners are steadily shifting their use bible, the Comprehensive Plan. city adopted in 1998, stresses the management” (TDM) program for place. The revised element pur- transportation priorities to encour- The revised document, which lays need to look beyond cars. The vi- city workers to encourage them to ports to “maintain and promote a age more biking, walking and tran- out the city’s transportation goals, sion statement of the existing docu- forego single-occupancy vehicles sit use. policies and programs, received ment already commits the city to in favor of other commuting op- (continued on page 8)
BUSINESS Dinah’s Poolside Grill may change hands 40-year-old Palo Alto icon could lose longtime management by Eric Van Susteren or 10 years, Walt Hays and his group of friends have been F coming to Dinah’s Poolside Grill in south Palo Alto early in the morning each week. Most of them order bacon and eggs, and all of them suffer the playful pranks of their longtime server, Carlos Ochoa. “It’s very convenient and pleas- ant, and we like the atmosphere,” he said of the restaurant. “Carlos jokes around with us in Spanish ... or if one us comes in late, he’ll refer to him as Mr. Late or something like that.”
Michelle Le But this ritual may soon change for the group. The restaurant’s future is uncertain, as longtime restaurant operator Sharon Magnuson’s tenure Florence Detlor, 101, smiles after writing “Flo thanx” on Facebook’s wall during her tour of the campus in Menlo Park on Aug. 22. appears to be coming to an end. A legal battle between Magnuson and the restaurant’s property owner, lar social-networking site, and it Dinah’s Garden Hotel, could result in SENIORS was through Little House that this the restaurant changing hands within trip was organized. a month, she told the Weekly. Every month Little House of- Eric Magnuson, the corporate of- fers interactive Facebook classes ficer for Dinah’s Poolside Grill, said Facebook’s (almost) oldest user for seniors to learn how to use the the hotel’s owner, Julie Handley, un- site, post pictures, add friends and expectedly sent the restaurant a 30- play social games. The lessons are day notice at the end of June to va- keeps the conversation polite taught by a Facebook employee cate the El Camino Real property. who volunteers. But Handley told the Weekly that Menlo Park woman meets Zuckerberg, tours social network’s new campus Officials from the social-net- the restaurant would not be closed by Nick Veronin working giant originally thought for good. Detlor was the oldest Facebook “We don’t have an exact date yet, t a little over a century in and-greet with the company’s bil- Detlor toured the Facebook cam- user. But after her visit last week, but Dinah’s Poolside Grill will be age, Menlo Park resident lionaire founder, who at 28 years pus along with a group of officials and the surrounding publicity, the closing for a short time and then re- A Florence Detlor is one of old is 73 years her junior. from Little House in Menlo Park, grandson of a 102-year-old woman opening,” she said. “It will have a Facebook’s oldest users. The “I was very impressed,” Detlor the Peninsula Volunteers-run se- notified the company of his grand- similar menu and the same comfort- distinction, which she pays little said, referring to Mark Zucker- nior activity center, of which she is mother’s status as Facebook’s old- able, homey atmosphere we’ve had mind, has earned her a tour of berg. “He was very pleasant and a member. In fact, it was at Little est user, the website Today.com for years.” the social-networking company’s official. Very nice.” House where the 101-year-old De- Magnuson, Sharon’s son, said massive headquarters and a meet- Shortly after noon on Aug. 22, tlor learned the ropes of the popu- (continued on page 7) (continued on page 8) ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊU Page 3
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Just Office of the County Counsel. www.HomeCareAssistance.com minutes after Assistant Director Larkin, who briefly served as the 148 Hawthorne Ave, Palo Alto, CA ADVERTISING Tom Zahiralis, Vice President Sales & Advertising Aaron Aknin was introduced to city’s acting city attorney after the Adam Carter, Elaine Clark, Janice Hoogner, the commission Wednesday night, 2011 departure of Gary Baum, Brent Triantos, Display Advertising Sales he received an unexpected visit said his last day in Palo Alto would Neal Fine, Carolyn Oliver, Rosemary from another planning body — the be Aug. 31. City Attorney Molly Lewkowitz, Real Estate Advertising Sales David Cirner, Irene Schwartz, San Bruno Planning Commission. Stump said the department is Inside Advertising Sales Aknin had spent 10 years in San now recruiting for Larkin’s re- Diane Martin, Real Estate Advertising Asst. 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Bravo, Director, Information Technology service” and for acting “extremely past year to find ways to pay for & Webmaster professionally” in his decade in these items. Earlier this year, they Connie Jo Cotton, Major Accounts Sales Manager Bob Lampkin, Director, Circulation & Mailing San Bruno. Aknin thanked his agreed not to rush into a bond Services former commission for the recog- measure in the current election Alicia Santillan, Circulation Assistant nition, calling the members’ visit season. Instead, they decided to Chris Planessi, Chip Poedjosoedarmo, “one of the cooler surprises I’ve spend the next two years com- Computer System Associates ever had.” Aknin’s wasn’t the only ing up with a proposal they can new face at Wednesday’s meet- send to the voters for possible The Palo Alto Weekly (ISSN 0199-1159) is published every Friday by Embarcadero Media, ing. Its newest commissioner, Mi- approval in 2014. 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HEALTH LAND USE East Palo Alto’s health challenges Proposed location for commercial building greater than county’s to replace homes on Page Mill Road High rates of chronic diseases and a lower life expectancy Ash St are linked to residents’ poverty, officials say AOL by Sue Dremann ast Palo Alto’s poorest resi- the county average. gets out to exercise, she said. Grant Ave dents and the city’s population Buada said economic disparity Then, there is crime. Kelly-Moore Paints E in general live with far greater strikes residents at the most funda- “In 2010, East Palo Alto’s violent health problems than San Mateo mental level — nourishment — and crime rate was nearly 80 percent County’s as a whole, according to that has led to disproportionately high higher than the state of California Sheridan Ave a county study and a recent assess- levels of chronic diseases such as hy- overall,” East Palo Alto police Chief The Animal Currently four ment by the Ravenswood Family pertension, diabetes and obesity. Ronald Davis and two co-authors El Camino Real Doctors houses Health Center in East Palo Alto. A staggering 67.1 percent of resi- wrote in a paper entitled “Using Residents in East Palo Alto, East dents living in Ravenswood’s ser- Public Health Strategies to Reduce Menlo Park and North Fair Oaks — vice area are obese or overweight. Violence in ‘Hot Spots’ in East Palo Stanford- areas served by Ravenswood Fam- Pepper Ave Buada blames the lack of access to Alto, California.” The paper was Palo Alto AT&T ily Health — have nearly twice the quality foods but also a lack of edu- published in early August in a U.S. playing Olive Ave rates of hypertension (42.8 percent) cation and the persistence of some Department of Justice journal. fields than other California residents, ac- unhealthy cultural values. A map published with the article cording to Ravenswood. The com- “Food is not affordable. Until re- shows 5,200 shooting incidents be- Page Mill Road parison was based on the 2009 Cali- cently, East Palo Alto was a food tween January 2009 and October Palo Alto Square Acacia Ave fornia Health Interview Survey, the desert,” she said. 2011, dozens of which occurred nation’s largest state health survey. The opening of Mi Pueblo super- around neighborhood schools and People also die younger. The av- market in November 2009 — the public facilities. erage lifespan of an East Palo Alto city’s first grocery store in more “East Palo Alto is approximately Page Mill Road could see resident is 61.9 years (the figure than 30 years — has improved ac- 2.5 square miles, and this map sug- doesn’t include deaths due to crime cess to fresh fruits and vegetables, gests that there are few places within commercial influx or accidents), more than 13 years but Buada said the balance of food the city’s borders where shootings do less than that of county residents, people are eating is still processed not occur,” wrote the authors, who Palo Alto considers rezoning residential site, according to a 2010 comparative carbohydrates. also included Brad Jacobson of the seeks neighbors’ input health profile by Get Healthy San For some residents, sweet drinks San Mateo County Health System. Mateo County, a San Mateo County and candy offered to children are San Mateo County has also iden- by Gennady Sheyner Health System initiative. culturally valued. They confer that tified that East Palo Alto’s lower The chief culprit is poverty, Ra- a person is well off enough to afford educational level and incomes cor- he bustling block of Page Mill The City Council is scheduled to venswood CEO Luisa Buada said. sweets, she said. relate with the disparity. Road just east of El Camino discuss the application Sept. 10. About 45 percent of residents have “It says, ‘I can do better than wa- “Research consistently shows that T Real looks like an unlikely Meanwhile, Northway’s firm is incomes that are 200 percent of the ter,’” she added. low-income people with less than a place for quiet single-family homes, planning its own commercial de- federal poverty level. Ninety-six Residents can’t afford to go to the high school education and people of with its high traffic volume, a scat- velopment on the Page Mill block, percent of Ravenswood’s 10,000 gym or to buy bicycles or helmets, color have higher rates of illness and tering of shops such as the AT&T on the site that currently houses the patients live at or below the federal she said. Choices such as walking or live shorter lives,” a 2010 study, Get store and Kelly Moore Paint Store four residences. The city’s Planning poverty level, which is an annual in- running are difficult for many fami- Healthy San Mateo County, noted. and the towering AOL office build- and Transportation Commission come of $23,050, she said. lies when parents work two or three Relatively fewer East Palo Alto ing just a stone’s throw away. considered the request for a zone The city’s unemployment rate, at jobs to make ends meet. Television But the largely commercial block change Wednesday night, Aug. 16.8 percent, is more than double becomes the babysitter, and no one (continued on page 12) does include four single-story hous- 29, and largely supported the zone es, which, in a hint of zoning irony, change. Commissioners expressed stand out precisely because of their concern, however, about the lack of nondescript nature. Unlike other neighborhood outreach and voted CRIME properties in the area, the four par- 6-0, with Alex Panelli absent, to Courtesy Palo Alto P.D. cels at 423, 433, 441 and 451 Page delay any decisions about potential Sexual battery reported Mill Road are currently zoned for zoning changes until October. residential use, a Northway said designation city the new devel- at Stanford Shopping Center planners view as opment will be a Assault may be second in Palo Alto odd given the sur- ‘Having these single- “multi-use type rounding area. family lots sitting in of building,” by the same man, police say Palo Alto police released these Now, plans are though he noted sketches of a man wanted in by Sue Dremann afoot to change that. a major commercial that “it hasn’t connection with a sexual battery The owner of the thoroughfare is an been taken too olice believe a serial sex of- Police Department, assisted by dep- that was reported Aug. 29 at four residential par- far yet” because fender may be roaming Palo uties from the Stanford Department Stanford Shopping Center and cels, Norm Schwab, unusual situation.’ the zone change Alto. For the second time in a of Public Safety, conducted an ex- Aug. 20 on Fulton Street in Palo and local architect —Curtis Williams, hasn’t been made P Alto. The man is described as East week a man who is described as East tensive search but could not find the John Northway of planning director, yet. He said that Indian and about 30 years old has man. The victim was not injured, Indian, about 30 years old, and Stoecker and North- City of Palo Alto after consider- groped a woman in a public space. police said. about 5 feet 9 inches tall with a way Architects ing various po- On Wednesday, Aug. 29, at about The assailant was wearing a yel- medium build. have asked the city tential zoning 12:13 p.m., a woman in her 30s low hooded sweatshirt with the to rezone the pocket of residential designations, the applicants felt that was walking in the parking lot of hood up over his head. The victim clothes detectives are on the lookout properties to “service commercial,” Service Commercial (CS) would be Stanford Shopping Center at 180 El said he was about 5 feet 9 inches tall for the man, police said. a change that would allow construc- “the best zone to use for the busi- Camino Real when the man grabbed with a medium build. Palo Alto police have listed a se- tion of another dense office devel- ness plan being developed.” one of her breasts, Palo Alto police A similar sexual battery was re- ries of personal safety and crime- opment in an area that has seen an “You don’t want to spend too stated in a press release. ported Aug. 20 on Fulton Street. prevention tips on the City of Palo influx of them in recent years. In ad- much money designing a building The woman was on the sidewalk The victim, a woman in her 20s, Alto website at cityofpaloalto.org/ dition to the AOL building at Park until you know you have a zone it of Orchard Lane between Nord- was standing next to her vehicle StopCrime. Boulevard and Page Mill, the city is can fit into,” Northway said. strom and Neiman Marcus. The un- and taking out her car keys when The department urges awareness also preparing for a major proposal City Planner Russ Reich said the known man stepped out in front of she was grabbed from behind. and reporting suspicious behavior from developer Jay Paul. zone would allow a development her from between two parked cars The man reached under her dress immediately by calling 9-1-1. That proposal will include a re- with a height limit of 35 feet. Re- and grabbed her breast over her and grabbed her buttocks. He ran Anyone with information about quest for a “planned community” or ich said that while the city typically clothing. The man then ran away east on Hamilton Avenue, police this incident is asked to call the PC zone change, allowing the devel- doesn’t support converting residen- and was last seen in a parking lot said. 24-hour dispatch center at 650- oper to exceed Palo Alto’s zoning tial land, it is making an exception along Welch Road, police said. Detectives are investigating the 329-2413. Anonymous tips can be regulations in exchange for a negoti- with this one because of location on The victim immediately called cases and believe the same man e-mailed to [email protected] or ated set of “public benefits,” which a busy arterial roadway and its prox- 9-1-1 from her cell phone. Officers might be responsible for both sent by text message or voice mail to the council hopes will include a new and detectives from the Palo Alto crimes. Patrol officers and plain- 650-383-8984. 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EDUCATION Startup schools for ‘gifted’ emerge as state cuts public funding New groups embrace definitions for ‘giftedness’ that go beyond IQ by Chris Kenrick
s public schools reduce extra brace the qualitative definition of cause she’d never seen her son engage services for gifted children giftedness say gifted kids frequent- like that,” the Helios parent said. A following state funding cuts, ly have social, emotional and other “You had 4-and-a-half-year-old a few startup private schools and needs that go unmet in the main- kids who were playing just like support networks have emerged lo- stream classroom. 4-and-a-half-year-old kids but hap- cally with a broader definition of “We’re not talking about high pened to be making jokes about “gifted.” ability across the board,” said Anne chemistry. Neither had ever had a Helios New School, launched in Beneventi, a founder and current co- peer to engage with on that level.” a home with a handful of students director of Helios New School. Though the other child does not five years ago, now leases a colorful “They often have asynchronous attend Helios, the two boys still play corner of Palo Alto’s Oshman Fam- development and sometimes they together regularly, the father said. ily Jewish Community Center with a can have a learning disability. What Palo Alto resident Ivonne Mena K-5 enrollment of 35 children. our kids have in common is they King, mother of another Helios first- Synapse School in Menlo Park of- need more depth and complexity grader, said she and her husband fers a similar program for children and need it connected to something chose the school for kindergarten K-8. (like a project or theme) instead of it for their child after touring private Both schools say they use a “qual- being just based on skills.” and public schools. itative assessment” of giftedness in “One of the many things that sets [email protected] children that goes beyond the tradi- Helios apart is that children are en- tional IQ definition. couraged to be scientists in all as- wrinklestudy.net 1800.442.0989 Another group, the one-year-old ‘What our kids have pects,” King said. Gifted Support Center, offers as- in common is they “They are not taught to merely Sponsored by MyoScience sessments, support and commu- sit still and absorb information. For nity for gifted children and their need more depth a variety of subjects, the class last Francis Palmer, MD Facial Plastic Surgon parents, many of whom resort to year conducted hands-on group or home schooling after finding their and complexity and individual experiments. myoscience.com children are bored or do not fit well need it connected “Another aspect of Helios that my in regular classrooms, according to son loves is exploration. A few times support center director Ann Smith. to something (like a week, the children are encouraged The broader definition of gifted- to explore a subject of their own ness — encompassing characteris- a project or theme) choosing,” King said. tics such as reasoning, energy level, instead of it being just Ann Smith of the Gifted Sup- attention span, moral sensitivity and based on skills.’ port Center got introduced to the Inspirations “excitability” — has gained ground field when one of her three children with some local parents at the same —Anne Beneventi, began having temper tantrums af- time that public schools generally co-founder, Helios New School ter kindergarten in a traditional a guide to the spiritual community have pulled back on special offer- school. ings for gifted children. “We had some educational testing Strapped for funds, the Califor- done, and it was recommended that we nia Legislature in 2008 loosened home-school her or put her in a school restrictions on the state’s Gifted for gifted children,” Smith said. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UCC and Talented Education program, Helios organizes children loosely “At that time I said, ‘What’s a £nxÊ ÕÃÊ,>`]Ê*>ÊÌÊUÊÈxä®ÊnxÈÈÈÈÓÊUÊÜÜÜ°vVV«>°À}Ê allowing school districts to keep by age but forms ability groupings gifted child?’ I would have thought -Õ`>ÞÊ7Àà «ÊEÊ ÕÀV Ê-V Ê>ÌÊ£ä\ääÊ>°° the funds but redirect them to other in subjects like math, where some Einstein. That’s how the path began This Sunday: educational needs. students are working far above for our family.” As a result, the Palo Alto school grade level. The family tried home-schooling A Reflection of the Perfect Gift district suspended the program it The father of one Helios first- for awhile, and the child now attends Rev. Dr. Eileen Altman Preaching once had of identifying gifted chil- grader said his son was fascinated Odyssey School, an independent dren — beginning in spring of third An Open and Affirming Congregation of the United Church of Christ with physics and science and could middle school for gifted students in grade — through standardized test read 200-page books in preschool San Mateo. scores and checklists of multiple but had the social skills of any pre- The 45-year-old, pre-K-8 Nueva intelligences and indicators of gift- schooler. School in Hillsborough is the most edness. “It’s not like we were trying to widely recognized school for gifted Once identified, children in Palo make our kid out to be super-smart children on the Peninsula, but Smith Alto’s GATE program were sup- or anything like that, but he certain- said the school has a limited number posed to be offered “differentiated ly was different and showed a lot of of spots and some families are look- instruction” and extended curricu- signs that, in hindsight, were pretty ing for an option closer to home. lum within their regular classes. clear,” said the Palo Alto resident, “Giftedness, the way it makes the “The district remains committed who asked not to be identified. most sense to me, is a way of expe- to serving the individual needs of “Here you had a 3-year-old who riencing and perceiving the world high achieving and gifted students wanted to talk about the Period Ta- that includes heightened sensitivity, regardless of GATE identification,” ble of the Elements, and he’d go to intensities, advanced cognitive abili- according to the district’s website. talk to other kids about it and they’d ties — a way of perceiving things a Superintendent Kevin Skelly say, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ bit upside of the way normal people noted, “In a place like Palo Alto we “He didn’t have the social skills experience it,” she said. have an extraordinary number of to navigate that. He was aware that “Our society tends not to like the gifted kids.” his interests were different and that word. It’s viewed as elitist. The pre- Palo Alto public-school families led to him feeling isolated and not vailing notion is ‘If these children Inspirations seeking greater academic challenge fitting in. And that makes it very are so smart, they’ll be just fine on is a resource for ongoing religious services are directed to a long list of enrich- challenging as you go through your their own.’ and special events. To inquire about or to reserve space in ment opportunities, from Stanford early development.” “That’s a shame because all chil- Inspirations, please contact Blanca Yoc University’s Education Program for Beneventi introduced the family to dren need help to reach their poten- at 223-6596 or email [email protected] Gifted Youth to a variety of math another, who had a child with a similar tial.” N and robotics competitions and spell- interest in science. Staff Writer Chris Kenrick can ing bees. “On the first play date it was eye- be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly. But private educators who em- opening for (the other mother) be- com.
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She loves her “beauti- ordinator. line so long as they remain polite, ful Menlo Park,” she said, even if Wilson said that the class has of course. N +' . she doesn’t “like the way they run it grown in popularity, largely through Editor’s note: Before Florence sometimes.” word of mouth, as Little House Detlor’s visit to Facebook, she had That’s about the most political members tell their peers about how about 40 friends on her page. After Detlor gets, at least on Facebook. much they have enjoyed using the the visit, she had more than 3,000. She said she likes to limit her social site. wall feed to polite discourse and “They pick it up quickly,” he Nick Veronin is a staff writer pleasant small talk. said. “It’s really easy to use. And as with the Mountain View Voice, Scrolling through her feed there soon as they start clicking and get the Weekly’s sister paper. 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CITY HALL Palo Alto looks to trim managers’ benefits City to require greater pension, health care contributions from 202 managers and professionals by Gennady Sheyner hile Gov. Jerry Brown and Sac- degrees of resistance, since 2009. Since ramento legislators scramble to then, workers represented by the city’s W contain pension expenses for state largest labor union, the Service Employees employees, Palo Alto is swiftly proceeding International Union, Local 521, have agreed with its own set of pension reforms, the lat- to increased medical contributions and ac- est of which the City Council is scheduled cepted a second, less lucrative pension tier to adopt Tuesday night, Sept. 4. for new employees. The city’s proposal targets a group of 202 The city’s firefighters and police officers managers and professionals, the only major have also agreed in the past year to accept employee group that is not represented by a different pension tier for new employees a union. If the council were to approve the and increased medical contributions. compensation plan for this group through a In exchange for decreased benefits, the city Patrons at Dinah’s Poolside Grill have lunch outside by the pool on Friday, Aug. 24. resolution, its benefit reductions would mir- is offering managers and professionals a sal- ror those that have been accepted by the ary increase of 3 percent in the new compen- city’s labor unions. sation plan. All newly hired managers and Dinah’s Bruce Magnuson started Dinah’s Poolside The management group has seen a major newly promoted department heads, assistant (continued from page 3) Grill in 1972, behind Dinah’s Garden Hotel, shift in personnel in recent years, as the city directors and other high-level managers will and continued to operate until he became ill has undertaken a concerted campaign to trim also now have “at-will” status, which means in 2002, at which point his wife took over, employee benefits and require greater contri- the city can fire them or ask them to resign they are attempting to prevent the closure she said. butions from employees toward their health any time, with or without cause. with a lawsuit against the hotel and Handley, Raymond Handley built what was then care. Dozens of managers have already retired In the new report, Blanch notes that man- the restaurant’s landlord. Dinah’s Motor Inn in 1957 directly behind and, according to a new report from the city’s agers have already made a series of contri- He said the restaurant’s lawsuit is based on Dinah’s Shack, a restaurant founded in 1929 Human Resources Department, many more butions to help the city save money. These an agreement made between his father, Bruce by Charles McMonagle and his wife, Hazel. are expected to do so in the coming years. include scrapping a bonus program for man- Magnuson, the former owner of the restaurant Dinah’s Shack, which closed in 1989, was a Nearly half of the managers’ group — agers, accepting a multi-year salary freeze who died in 2006, and Raymond Handley, favorite hangout for many Palo Altans and which does not include utilities and police and agreeing to pay for the health care premi- the previous owner of the hotel who died in Stanford students, including President John F. department managers, who have their own ums of active workers and future retirees. 2009. Raymond Handley was Julie Handley’s Kennedy when he was at Stanford Business labor associations — are eligible to retire In addition to signing off the compensa- father. School in 1940, according to the book “Palo within the coming five years, according to tion plan for managers, the council is also Magnuson said Raymond Handley had Alto Remembered,” a history of the city writ- Sandra Blanch, assistant director of the Hu- scheduled to approve on Tuesday the city’s told Bruce Magnuson that the restaurant ten by Matt Bowling. man Services Department. response to a July report from the Santa would have a “lifelong lease” at Dinah’s Handley replaced Dinah’s Shack with Poly- Now, as the city prepares to usher in Clara County Civil Grand Jury. The grand Garden Hotel. nesian-themed Trader Vic’s in 2001. Trader a wave of managers, it is also looking to jury recommended a host of pension re- “We did a huge favor for original owner of Vic’s closed in the beginning of August and change the rules to promote more innova- forms, including increasing the retirement hotel by serving dinner at major loss for 15 will be replaced by upscale seafood restau- tion, even at the expense of stability. The age for employees; requiring workers to years, and because we made such a huge sac- rant The Sea. goal is to function more like a private com- pay maximum employee contributions to- rifice he thanked us by saying, ‘You’ll always Julie Handley did not comment on whether pany, with more flexibility and greater con- ward pension plans; and transitioning from have a place here,’” Magnuson said. there was a connection between the recent tributions from employees toward pension “defined benefit” plans, in which pension But Dinah’s Hotel proceeded to file an un- changes in the two restaurant locations. and health care expenses. payments are constant and guaranteed, to lawful detainer action, a special court pro- Sharon Magnuson said she didn’t know what “It is no longer a workable paradigm to “defined contributions” plans. ceeding to legally evict a person or business, the fate of the restaurant staff, some of whom provide steady employment with a gener- The Grand Jury report concluded that on July 24 against Sharon Magnuson and her have worked there for years, would be. ous pension and health benefits in return for “until significant modifications are enact- company, Create Your Own Omelette Inc. But for her, she said, “This is my liveli- narrowly focused jobs that are carried out ed, there is no doubt that the escalating cost Julie Handley would not comment on this hood; this is how I make my house payments with pleasant and courteous service,” Blanch of providing benefits at the current level is agreement, on any details of the lawsuits or and live. I’m not real hirable at 70. I don’t wrote in a new report. “Dynamic times call interfering with the delivery of essential on whether there are plans to change the res- know what I’m going to do.” N for a workforce choosing to serve the city in city services and the ultimate cost to the taurant’s ownership. Editorial Assistant Eric Van Susteren can order to better their community and to bring taxpayers is an unbearable burden.” It al- Both cases are still listed as open, according be emailed at ericvansusteren@paweekly. city services up to date with current good ludes to several cities, including Vallejo and to the Santa Clara County Superior Court. com. practices found in businesses and social in- Stockton, that had been pushed to bank- stitutions around the world.” ruptcy by staggering benefit obligations Pension and health care expenses have (San Bernadino had joined this group after city’s recent trend of encouraging dense de- been taking up an increasing share of the the report came out), and cited San Jose, Bikes velopment near major transit stations — a city’s General Fund budget over the past which had to reduce police and fire staff- (continued from page 3) trend that was exemplified by the council’s decade. While benefits made up about 50 ing levels and close libraries because of the recent approval of the four-story Lytton Gate- percent of salary in 2010, that ratio went up rising employee costs. way building near the downtown Caltrain to 62 percent in 2012. Even with the recent reforms, Palo Alto of- sustainable network of safe, accessible and station. The transportation document spe- Among the most dramatic changes will be ficials have consistently returned to the need efficient transportation and parking solu- cifically calls for the city to “locate denser requiring managers to pay the full amount of to do more to limit the city’s pension and tions for all users and modes.” But it also development near transit corridors and near the “employee” contribution to the California health care obligations. In July, four coun- specifically commits to promoting “alter- multi-modal transit stations.” Public Employees’ Retirement System, ei- cil members — Vice Mayor Greg Scharff, natives to single-occupant greenhouse-gas Other new policies that seek to curb driv- ther 7 percent or 8 percent depending on the Councilwoman Karen Holman and Council- emitting vehicles” and to implementing the ing include reviewing the Zoning Code to retirement formula the employee is enrolled men Greg Schmid and Pat Burt — submit- Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan, a broad identify ways to encourage facilities sup- in. Currently, employees pay 2 percent of the ted a memo calling for a broad community document that calls for a wide variety of porting alternative-fuel vehicles; providing employee contribution and the city picks up discussion centered on ways to cut employee bike-friendly projects. These include bike incentives for public-private transportation the balance, according to Blanch. benefits, which now make up 27 percent of boulevards, trails and a new bike bridge partnerships such as car-sharing companies; The city expects the increased employee- the city’s General Fund expenditures. spanning U.S. Highway 101 at Adobe and supporting the development of “bicycle paid pension contributions to save the city The memo states that in recent years “the Creek. parking and service infrastructure such as $271,932 per year. Employees will also now cost of employee benefits and pensions has Chief Transportation Official Jaime Ro- bicycle stations, valet bicycle parking, and have to contribute 10 percent toward their risen dramatically for the City of Palo Alto, driguez told the commission Wednesday that bicycle sharing programs.” health care plans, with the city picking up reducing the funds available for our com- one of the most ambitious goals of the revised The revision also includes a host of new the balance (historically, the city had picked munity’s necessary and valued services and Transportation Element is to reduce the city’s policies relating to the Caltrain corridor. up the entire bill). The new contributions infrastructure.” greenhouse-gas emissions by 15 percent by Many of these were informed by a recent re- toward medical care are projected to save The council is tentatively scheduled to the year 2020. port from a citizen task force that surveyed the city about $109,000 per year. discuss this memo and consider future re- “It’s extremely aggressive, but it’s definitely and analyzed the corridor and came up with The proposed compensation plan is con- forms at its Sept. 18 meeting. N a goal that represents the type of innovation a community “vision” for improving it. In sistent with similar reforms that most other Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be Palo Alto is known for,” Rodriguez said. labor unions have accepted, with varying emailed at [email protected]. The revised element also formalizes the (continued on next page)
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IMMIGRATION Young immigrants seek reprieve through new Obama program More than 400 people attended Sunday workshop for the government to reject candi- dates, and she was seeking time with on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program the attorneys so she will answer the by Sue Dremann questions accurately, she said. “Some things are so specific, you ose recalled the day his parents nity Legal Services. A second work- have to get it right,” she said. bundled him up for the move to shop is planned for Oct. 20 or 21. At first she feared how the ap- J California from Mexico. A pow- The organization’s staff hopes plication information would be erfully built man in his early 20s, he that the correct information will used, she said, but the pull of a still views the move as traumatic. get out to people. Some advocacy good education has tempered that “They lied to me,” he said, his groups have told people they won’t concern. voice wavering slightly. “They didn’t need attorneys, but that could jeop- “It’s worth the risk,” she said. say we were coming here. They said, ardize some applicants’ chances, Patricia Hernandez, 24, said she ‘We are going to the north. We are Shugall said. Many people do not did not fear that her application coming to the other side.’” understand the potential pitfalls would be used by Immigration and The result of that move, more they could encounter. Customs Enforcement to deport her. than 15 years ago now, was his ap- Before the applications were even The process is also fairly straight- pearance on Sunday, Aug. 26, at an released, there were cases of fraud, forward for people who have a good immigration clinic in Menlo Park, with some notaries and attorneys paper trail, she said. seeking ways to stay in the country telling people that for a hefty fee “Luckily, my mom saved every- where he’s spent most of his life. they could receive the application thing,” she said. “Jose,” who did not want to give before others, Shugall said. Hernandez is an architecture his real name, was one of more than An East Palo Alto mother who at- Dremann Sue major studying in San Diego. Her 400 people seeking advice and help tended Sunday’s workshop said she parents brought her to the U.S. from with filling out applications for knows people solicited by private Mexico when she was 5 years old. President Barack Obama’s Deferred attorneys for as much as $8,000 to It would be unfair to deport her and Action for Childhood Arrivals pro- help fill out the paperwork, although College student Patricia Hernandez, 24, filled out an application for the other students to Mexico, she said. gram. The program began in June she has not been approached. She new federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Sunday, “I was raised with the culture here and temporarily stems deportation and her daughter have spent 11/2 Aug. 26. More than 400 people attended an informational workshop and adapted here. I have no family of undocumented immigrants ages months gathering the supporting sponsored by Community Legal Services at St. Anthony of Padua there and I barely know the (Spanish) 16 to 30 who were brought to the paperwork they need to apply. Church in Menlo Park. language. There are a lot of contribu- country as children. The daughter, who was 2 years tions I can make here,” she said. People whose applications are ac- old at the time of immigration, is a Phoenix, Ariz. Several applicants said they are Looking back at the throng of peo- cepted would be granted a two-year senior in high school and wants to The consulate will be open to as- aware of those possibilities. ple gathered in knots around volun- “reprieve” and could obtain work attend a four-year college. sist the public on Sept. 9 by appoint- Johana M. and her father came to teers who handed out applications in permits and apply for financial aid Adriana Gonzalez, consul in ment, she said. the workshop from Newark in the Spanish and English, she said she did for schooling. The program could charge of legal protection for the One of the concerns some im- East Bay. Her father said the pro- not mind waiting. If her application is affect more than 1 million young Mexican consulate in San Fran- migrants and their advocates have gram would allow her to get a driv- accepted, she will have the same op- people who would have qualified cisco, said scams are common. The about Obama’s Deferred Action er’s license and attend college. portunities as her classmates. For all for the failed Development, Relief consulate is trying to make sure its for Childhood Arrivals program is “As parents, that is what we want of her years of hard work in school, and Education of Alien Minors citizens are not victims of fraud. At whether the information they pro- for our child,” he said, declining to she will finally be able to have a work (DREAM) Act, according to some a table on Sunday, consulate work- vide will be used against them. give his name. permit, she said. federal estimates. ers distributed information on ob- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Johana said acceptance into the Hernandez said she is grateful to To be eligible, immigrants must taining passports, birth records and Services has said it doesn’t intend to deferment program would allow her Obama. prove they arrived in the U.S. be- information from valid websites. disclose the information with U.S. to apply for financial scholarships. “It was an amazing thing that he fore they turned 16, have lived in “There have been many impos- Immigration and Customs Enforce- She wants to attend a four-year uni- did,” she said. N the country for five years or more tors, even impostor web pages,” ment (ICE), which handles deporta- versity and to major in criminal jus- Staff Writer Sue Dremann can and be in school or have served in she said. She cautioned people to tions. But there is nothing statutory tice, she said. be emailed at sdremann@paweek- the military. They also cannot have avoid websites with Web links that within the program that protects peo- But the process has many loopholes ly.com. been convicted of some crimes. require money. Applicants are also ple, Shugall said, and that concerns Sunday’s event was so popular, confused about where to send their her. A change of administration could people were turned away, said Ilyce applications, she said. Many people negate the entire program or could Shugall, supervising immigration do not realize that California resi- potentially change how the informa- attorney for the nonprofit Commu- dents must send the information to tion might be used, she added. City of Palo Alto ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT keeping with that report’s recom- commissioners had several small the document’s planning hori- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration mendations, the city’s transportation quibbles (Chair Eduardo Martinez, zon from 2020 to 2025, though has been prepared by the Palo Alto Department of Planning and plan calls for making it easier for for example, didn’t like the way several members said they were Community Environment for the project listed below. This document will people to go east and west, across the chapters were organized), they concerned about the prospect of be available for review and comment during a minimum 20-day inspection the train tracks, using various forms generally lauded the programs and the document becoming obsolete period beginning August 31, 2012 through September 19, 2012 of transportation. It also formalizes policies embedded in the finished before the new horizon is reached. during the hours of 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. at the Development Center, the city’s opposition to construct- product, which was crafted over the Mark Michael, who earlier in the 285 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California. ing elevated rail tracks and shrink- past year by planning staff, Com- meeting was elected vice chair by This project is tentatively scheduled for consideration by the Architectural ing the number of lanes on Alma missioner Arthur Keller and former his colleagues, noted that many of Review Board at a public hearing on Thursday, September 20, Street. Vice Chair Susan Fineberg. the ideas that went into the revised 2012 at 8:30 A.M. in the Palo Alto City Council Chambers on the first But while bicycles and Caltrain “I really think this element is document were included with the floor of the Civic Center, located at 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, have a stronger presence in the re- not only quite good but excellent,” horizon of 2020 in mind. California. vised Transportation Element, the Commissioner Samir Tuma said. The commission ultimately document also includes new policies “There’s an awful lot of thought and agreed to extend the horizon to 2025 135 Hamilton Avenue [12PLN-00463]: Request by Keenan that would impact drivers. These detail going on here, and it’s reflec- but stipulated that the city should re- Lovewell Ventures, on behalf of Hamilton and High LLC, for Architectural include consideration of chang- tive of some of the more exciting view the document in 2020 to see if Review and Variance request for a new four-story mixed-use building on ing High Street from a one-way to programs out there and the work everything in it is still relevant. N an existing vacant lot (approximately 20,000 square feet of commercial a two-way street between Lytton that we’re doing.” area, two residential units, and below grade garage). The Variance request and Channing avenues as part of a Martinez concurred and praised Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner is for a five-foot ten-inch encroachment into the 7’ Special Setback on broader effort to create an “efficient the document’s content. can be emailed at gsheyner@ Hamilton Avenue for a length of approximately 84 feet. Zone: CD-C(P). roadway network for all users.” An- “This is probably the one area of pawekly.com. other new policy calls for evaluating work that’s received more scrutiny, Curtis Williams, Director of Planning and Community Environment converting Lytton and Hamilton av- more new ideas, more envisioning TALK ABOUT IT enues to one-way streets. than anything else we’ve undertak- www.PaloAltoOnline.com In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, listening assistive The revision still has to be ap- en,” he said. devices are available in the Council Chambers and Council Conference Room. proved by the City Council be- The commission also support- What do you think about the city’s em- Sign language interpreters will be provided upon request with 72 hours advance phasis on making Palo Alto more bike notice. fore it becomes official. But while ed the staff proposal to extend friendly?
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Police arrest suspect following manhunt Thursday Palo Alto police captured a man after a nearly three-hour, yard- to-yard search in downtown Palo Alto on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 30. The man, who had fled from police after a traffic stop and then attempted a carjacking, emerged from a side yard wearing only his boxer shorts after apparently discarding his clothing, according to a witness. Palo Alto police scoured the Downtown North neighborhood start- ing at about 12:30 p.m., according to the police department. Officers set up a perimeter and searched yards for a 6-foot-tall, black man wearing blue pants and a white shirt. Witnesses said the man ap- peared to be about 35-to-40 years old, with a shaved head. While being chased by officers, the suspect apparently tried to car- jack a resident to aid in his escape, but that was unsuccessful, police reported. Unconfirmed eyewitness reports said the man tried to steal a construction vehicle. At some point, he crashed one of the vehicles he was driving into several cars. Police searched all of the backyards in the perimeter of Waverley Street, Hawthorne Avenue and Bryant Street. The man was arrested at approximately 3:23 p.m. in the 200 block of Waverley between Hawthorne and Everett avenues. At the Weekly’s press time, it was unknown why police initially stopped the man. For additional coverage of this incident and to see photos of the arrest, go to PaloAltoOnline.com. N — Palo Alto Weekly staff Sketch released in Valencia Market armed robbery Palo Alto police have released a sketch of a man wanted in connection with an armed robbery Sat- urday, Aug. 25, at Valencia Market in Palo Alto. The man, armed with a black, semiautomatic Stanford Cancer Center invites you to come learn more handgun, held up proprietors of the market at 3487 El Camino Real shortly before 8:40 p.m., fleeing the shop with cash from the register, Palo Alto about prostate cancer, including: police reported Sunday, Aug. 26. There were no customers inside at the time, and r Prostate Cancer Screening and Watchful Waiting no one was injured in the robbery, the police stated in a press release. r Update on Surgical Prostate Cancer Treatments Officers responded to the 9-1-1 call but were unable to find the gun- man. He may have gotten into a newer, shiny, black vehicle parked in the alley to the rear of the business. r New Treatments for Metastatic Prostate Cancer The robber was described by the shop owners as a Hispanic male in his forties, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and about 220 pounds, wearing a Stanford’s prostate cancer experts will provide information light blue, button-up, long-sleeve shirt with dark blue jeans and a plain black baseball cap. In June 2011, the market — then known as Eli’s Market — was and answer your questions. similarly robbed of cash at gunpoint. Police are asking that anyone with information about this incident call the department’s 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anony- mous tips can be e-mailed to [email protected] or sent via text SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 9:30AM – 11:00AM message or voice mail to 650-383-8984. N t — Palo Alto Weekly staff Sheraton Palo Alto (Reception Room) Palo Alto makes bid for bike-bridge funds Palo Alto’s vision of a curvy, elegant bike bridge spanning U.S. 625 El Camino Real r Palo Alto, CA Highway 101 at Adobe Creek remains up in the air, with coveted grant funding far from guaranteed. Last Tuesday, Aug. 28, the Parks and Recreation Commission voted to submit a letter to Santa Clara County in support of the city’s request RSVP at: stanfordhospital.org/prostatehealth for a $4 million grant that would help fund the bridge. The grant allo- HOSPITALS This event is free and open to the public. Breakfast cation, which was first proposed by Santa Clara County Supervisor Liz Kniss in May, would rely on a pool of funds that Stanford University will be served. Please register, seating is limited. had promised about a decade ago, when it was seeking a permit to NATIONAL increase campus development. The General Use Permit approved by CANCER the county specifies that these funds can only be used for recreational opportunities that mitigate the campus development. The Board of Supervisors is set to hold a public hearing on Oct. 9 to consider which projects to fund. The council is scheduled to discuss the city’s grant application on Sept. 4. N — Gennady Sheyner
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according to Ravenswood. officers joining residents in outdoor mental health issues such as depres- Health challenges But while the rates for childhood activities on the streets and in parks. sion and anxiety. Page Mill Road (continued from page 5) asthma, diabetes and cardiovascular Roads would be temporarily closed Two months ago the center hired (continued from page 5) diseases are high, programs being to increase safety during walking, a pharmacist through a Kaiser Per- residents have health insurance, and initiated by Ravenswood, the San jogging and bike-riding events, ac- manente grant to help patients with imity to public transit. overcrowding in homes and outright Mateo County Health System and cording to Davis’ report. Raven- complex medical regimens manage The commission agreed that a homelessness have contributed to the East Palo Alto Police Depart- swood staff would also come into medication. Due to the inability to zone change could be suitable. But the health gulf. ment are working to close the gap. the fitness zones to increase talk read and understand instructions, Vice Chair Mark Michael was one The problems extend to the city’s More early-intervention programs, with people about health and local patients are not following medica- of several commissioners who urged children. East Palo Alto is a city of close tracking of patients, and medical services. tion directions, harming rather than the developers to get the neighbor- 28,155 residents. Those under the health, food and exercise programs Police are also making home vis- improving their health. hood involved in the project before age of 19 years make up a greater are offering services that residents its to parolees and gang members The services are having positive proceeding. He and his colleagues percentage of the population than in other communities might often through Operation Ceasefire, asking results since 2008, according to Ra- seemed puzzled by the fact that the county average — 35.1 percent take for granted. them to abandon crime in exchange venswood. Diabetic patients who not a single neighbor attended the compared to 24.3 percent. The police are working to create for services such as job counseling, manage their blood-glucose levels meeting centering on a zone change Yet East Palo Alto and East Menlo fitness-improvement training (FIT) medical and dental care and drug to targeted levels have risen to 66.6 that could significantly impact the Park kids are hospitalized for asth- zones in two of the city’s most and mental health counseling. Davis percent. One-third more women re- block. ma at almost double the county rate, crime-ridden neighborhoods, with has said that medical care was cited ceive timely Pap tests, and pregnant “Doing outreach upfront helps as one of the greatest needs among women who began prenatal care in promote a more successful project,” persons police have contacted. the first trimester soared from 47 Michael said, channeling the senti- In June, Ravenswood received a percent to 77.6 percent. The number ments of his colleagues. PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL $7.3 million grant from the Center of babies born weighing less than Commissioner Samir Tuma CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST for Medicare and Medicaid Ser- 5 pounds 8 ounces has dropped by agreed with staff and the applicants LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON vice to improve preventive care for half from 4.16 percent. N that the single-family homes in this GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 chronic-disease patients. Programs Staff Writer Sue Dremann can area “have never really made much be emailed at sdremann@paweek- ******************************************** include self-management classes sense” from a zoning perspective and patient skill-building to manage ly.com. and said he was “generally support- THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA ive of the idea of that changing to WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION something else.” CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: But Tuma was particularly ada- http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/knowzone/agendas/council.asp mant about the need to get neighbors (TENTATIVE) AGENDA - SPECIAL MEETING involved in the process. He rejected COUNCIL CHAMBERS the assertion from Northway that the September 4, 2012 -- 6:00pm commission is dragging the process out by requiring the developers to CLOSED SESSION CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week perform outreach before concrete 1. Labor plans for the commercial project SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY are in place. Tuma also alluded to 2. Proclamation for the Rotary Project Volunteers for Greer Park City Council Regional Housing Mandate 3. Proclamation September as Emergency Preparedness Month a proposal in 2008 to build a five- Committee (Aug. 28) story hotel on the block, a proposal 4. Proclamation Suicide Prevention Week Housing: The committee approved a letter to the Association of Bay Area Govern- CONSENT CALENDAR ments expressing the city’s concerns about the Adopted Regional Housing Needs that the city ultimately shot down 5. Resolution Expressing Appreciation to Arlene Demore upon her Allocation for the 2014-2022 cycle. Yes: Unanimous after community criticism about the Retirement. project being too massive and too 6. Approval and Authorization of the City Manager to Execute a Contract dense. Though the residential sites with Three Phase Line Construction in a Total Not to Exceed the Parks and Recreation Commission (Aug. 28) Lytton Plaza: The commission approved a proposal to restrict amplified sound at Amount of $607,997 for the Electric Undergrounding Rebuild and Re- are flanked by commercial develop- Lytton Plaza to specific times of the day and to allow musicians to purchase permits ments, they also abut single-family conductor Project on the City’s Electric Distribution System to play music at the plaza. Yes: Ashlund, Crommie, Hetterly, Lauing, Markevitch, 7. City Response to the Adopted Regional Housing Needs Allocation Walsh Absent: Losch residences on Pepper Avenue to the (RHNA) for the 2014-2022 Cycle. Bike bridge: The commission discussed proposed alignments for a new bike bridge rear. 8. Resolution Approving and Authorizing the Execution of the State over Highway 101 and approved a letter to Santa Clara County requesting $4 mil- “We’ve had projects in this area of California Department of Community Services and Development lion in grant funds for the bridge. Yes: Crommie, Hetterly, Lauing, Markevitch, Walsh before where the neighbors, once 2012-2014 Direct Payment Program Agreement No. 12Y-1418 No:Ashlund Absent: Losch they found out about them, were in Conjunction with the Department of Community Service Home very engaged,” Tuma said. “Which Energy Assistance Program. Planning & Transportation Commission (Aug. 29) 9. Ambulance Billing Contract Agreement for Palo Alto Fire Department. Transportation: The commission discussed and approved changes to the Trans- leads me to believe that they don’t 10. Extend the term of Rail Shuttle Bus Administration Approval of portation Element in the city’s Comprehensive Plan. The commission also voted to know (about this).” Contract Amendment No. 19 to the Contract with the Peninsula extend the planning horizon for the Transportation Element from 2020 to 2025. Yes: Even so, the commission was Corridor Joint Powers Board for Rail Shuttle Bus Administration to Alcheck, Keller, Martinez, Michael, Tanaka, Tuma Absent: Panelli sympathetic to the zone-change re- Extend the Term for one year and add $52,000. Page Mill Road: The commission discussed a proposal by Stoecker and Northway Architects to rezone four residential parcels on the 400 block of Page Mill Road to quest, which city planners have also 11. Approval of York Services Contract for Workers Compensation. recommended. 12. Request for Council to Cancel the Regular Council Meeting of service commercial (CS) and directed the applicants to perform more neighborhood September 17, 2012 and Call a Special Council Meeting on Tuesday, outreach. Yes: Alcheck, Keller, Martinez, Michael, Tanaka, Tuma Absent: Panelli “It’s a unique site,” Planning September 18, 2012. Director Curtis Williams said 13. Approval of Purchase Order with Leader Industries in an Amount Not Wednesday. “Having these single- to Exceed $393,267 for the Purchase of Two Ambulances (Scheduled family lots sitting in a major com- Vehicle and Equipment Replacement Capital Improvement Program mercial thoroughfare is an unusual VR-13000). Public Agenda situation.” 14. Adoption of Funding Agreement with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority for 2010 Measure B Vehicle Registration Fee A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week He noted that the city’s new plan- Local Road Improvement and Repair Program. ning guidelines, including the con- CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in closed session to discuss the status cept plan for California Avenue, all 15. City of Palo Alto’s 2012-2013 Officers Ballot Vote for Peninsula of labor negotiations with the Utilities Management and Professional Association of Division League of California Cities. Palo Alto. The council then plans to discuss a request to submit a grant proposal to encourage dense multi-use devel- 16. Second Reading: Adoption of Massage Ordinance (1st Reading, Santa Clara County for the “Stanford and Palo Alto Trail Program,” which includes a opments in this area because of its 7-23-12 8-0 Scharff Absent) new bike bridge over Highway 101. The council also plans to consider a response to proximity to the California Avenue 17. Second Reading: Adoption of Ordinance Approving and Adopting a the Grand Jury Report on pension and other post-employment benefits and approve Caltrain station. Plan for Improvements to Cogswell Plaza (1st Reading, July 23, 2012 a new compensation plan for management and professionals. The closed session – 8-0 Scharff Absent) will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Regular meeting will follow in the Council “The California Avenue plan will ACTION ITEMS Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.). ultimately recommend something 18. Consideration of a Vote of Support for the Revote “Revote High more intense in nature on these par- BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will hear a report on Palo Alto student per- Speed Rail Initiative. cels,” Williams said. N 19. Request Authorization to Submit a Grant Proposal to the County formance on the California Standards Test. The board will discuss an update on the state and school district budget. The board will vote on authorizing a search for a site Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner of Santa Clara - Alternative Recreation Mitigation Program for the to open a fourth middle school, guidelines for a community advisory panel on the can be emailed at gsheyner@ Stanford Campus to Bay Trail Program. future of Cubberley Community Center and whether to endorse state ballot Proposi- pawekly.com. 20. Respond to Grand Jury Report on Pension and Benefits. tions 30 and 38. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4, in the board- 21. Council Direction on League Resolutions for Voting Delegate. room of school district headquarters (25 Churchill Ave.). 22. Adoption of Two Resolutions: (1) Adopting a Compensation Plan for Management and Professional Personnel and Council Appointees UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION... The commission plans to discuss the city’s and Rescinding Resolution Nos. XXX and (2) Amending Section electric undergrounding policy; consider a recommendation that the council adopt a 1701 of the Merit System Rules and Regulations to Incorporate the resolution approving a policy for purchase of energy from potential green waste-to- 2011-2013 Compensation Plan for Management and Professional energy facilities; and consider a power purchase agreement with Brannon Solar. The Personnel and Council Appointees. meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 5, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.). STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD... The board plans to discuss 180 El Camino Real, a request for a new three-story retail development at the Bloomingdale’s site The Finance Committee meeting for Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at the Stanford Shopping Center. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, has been cancelled. Sept. 6, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.). Sept. 28 7pm
Page 12ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Gerry Schloss Gert (“Gerry”) Schloss passed & family, flying, playing tennis from away peacefully, surrounded his youth into his 90’s, international Pulse by family, at 90 years of age in travel, a great sense of humor, and A weekly compendium of vital statistics his Atherton home on Saturday a close circle of dear friends. He is Aug 18. A Jewish native of survived by his wife, sons Jeff (Melody), POLICE CALLS Possession of drugs...... 1 Miscellaneous Hanover, Germany, he and his Ron and Bob, his sister Inge Lehman Palo Alto Disturbance ...... 2 immediate family fled to the Schloss, his grandchildren Nathanael, Aug. 22-28 Disturbing/annoying phone calls...... 1 Violence related Info case...... 4 U.S. in 1939. Arriving here with Micah (Nicole), and Gabriel, his great Armed robbery...... 1 Medical aid...... 1 nothing, he was always grateful granddaughter Grace, and numerous Assault w/a deadly weapon ...... 1 Other/misc...... 1 for the opportunity his new nieces and nephews. Domestic violence ...... 3 Pedestrian ...... 1 Theft related Psychiatric hold ...... 2 home provided. Gerry met Joan The family will host a celebration of Commercial burglaries ...... 1 Warrant arrest...... 8 Gastineau, his wife of 67 years, in his life at 4:30 pm on Sept 15th ( his Counterfeiting...... 1 Grand theft...... 4 Atherton San Francisco, and they both served in the navy birthday) at the Menlo Circus Club. Identity theft ...... 1 Aug. 22-28 during WWII. They later had 3 sons and built a Contributions in his name can be made to Petty theft...... 8 Violence related Residential burglaries...... 6 Assault and battery...... 1 successful textile business. Gerry loved his wife Pathways Hospice Care or another charity. Vehicle related Theft related PAID OBITUARY Auto theft ...... 1 Fraud ...... 3 PAID OBITUARY Driving w/suspended license ...... 8 Residential burglaries...... 1 Hit and run ...... 6 Vehicle related Misc. traffic violation...... 13 Abandoned auto...... 1 San Jose’s Most Trusted Clinic Theft from auto...... 7 Hit and run ...... 2 Vehicle accident/minor injury ...... 1 Parking/driving violation ...... 5 Vehicle accident/property damage....11 Suspicious vehicle ...... 9 Vehicle impound...... 10 Theft from auto...... 2 San Jose 420 Evaluations Alcohol or drug related Vehicle accident/minor injury ...... 1 Drinking in public ...... 6 Vehicle accident/property damage.....2 Drunk in public ...... 7 Vehicle code violation...... 14 Possession of drugs...... 2 Miscellaneous Possession of paraphernalia...... 1 Disturbance ...... 4 $ $ Miscellaneous Animal call...... 1 Disturbing/annoying phone calls...... 1 Fire call ...... 6 Found property...... 2 40 50 Lost property ...... 1 Hazard ...... 4 Renewals From New Muni. code violation ...... 7 Juvenile problem...... 1 Any Doctor Patients Outside assistance...... 1 Medical aid...... 4 Prowler...... 1 Outside assistance...... 3 Psychiatric hold ...... 4 Pedestrian check ...... 2 Suspicious circumstances ...... 2 Probation violation ...... 1 We beat Any Vandalism...... 3 Suspicious circumstances ...... 3 Warrant/other agency...... 6 Suspicious person ...... 5 competitors prices Town ordinance violation ...... 6 Menlo Park Restrictions apply. Must bring proof. Aug. 22-29 Vandalism...... 1 Theft related Warrant/other agency...... 3 ( must present ad-one per patient ) Fraud ...... 5 Watermain break...... 1 Grand theft...... 3 Refer a family member or Petty theft...... 7 VIOLENT CRIMES Residential burglaries...... 8 Palo Alto friend and get 10% off your Vehicle related Unlisted block Coastland Drive, 8/22, 8:36 Abandoned auto...... 1 p.m.; domestic violence/battery. cannabis photo id card Driving w/suspended license ...... 1 3400 block El Camino Real, 8/25, 8:42 Our cards are real. Each card is hand signed by our doctors. Walk-ins welcome. Hit and run ...... 5 p.m.; armed robbery. 100% private and confi dential. 24/7 online and telephone verifi cation. Theft from auto...... 21 Unlisted block Ventura Avenue, 8/25, 8:42 Special discounts for Disable, Medicare & Veterans Vehicle accident/minor injury ...... a.m.; domestic violence/battery. 2 Unlisted block Greer Road, 8/26, 12:54 3AN*OSEEVALUATIONSCOM s s SJ420.com Vehicle accident/property damage.....7 p.m.; family violence/battery. Vehicle tampering...... 1 00 block University Avenue, 8/28, 12:16 Visit our website to book your appointment online 24/7 Vehicle tow ...... 2 a.m.; assault w/a deadly weapon. Alcohol or drug related -ONDAY THROUGH 3ATURDAY s 3UNDAY s /PEN DAYS A WEEK Drug activity ...... 2 Atherton Drunk driving ...... 1 Unlisted block El Camino Real, 8/25, 1:12 N TH 3T 3AN *OSE BETWEEN 3T *OHN 3T *AMES Drunk in public ...... 1 p.m.; assault and battery.
ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊU *>}iÊ13 Richard G. Brewer December 8, 1928 – July 22, 2012 Richard G. Brewer died at his home in Palo spectroscopy and quantum optics, research Alto on July 22, 2012. He was born in Los which resulted in about 150 publications. Transitions Angeles, California on December 8, 1928. He was known for elegant and precise Henry Howard Jones tweed jacket and brown wingtips, a He attended Hollywood High School and experiments and did theory as well. He was Dr. Henry Howard Jones, whose sheaf of notes to himself clipped to received a B.S. from Caltech, in Pasadena. He elected to the National Academy of Sciences career in the radiology department his necktie. He particularly enjoyed received a Ph. D. in physical chemistry from in 1980, and received many awards including at Stanford University School of his role as a teacher of diagnostic Medicine spanned 58 years, died radiology, for which he was awarded the University of California at Berkeley. He the Michelson Gold Medal from the Franklin at his home Aug. 11 with his wife, the medical school’s Henry J. Kaiser was passionate about life and Institute in 1979 and the Charles Peggy, and family nearby. Award for Excellence in Teaching. conveyed his enthusiasm to Townes Silver Medal from the Born June 9, For many years he played drums in those around him. From an early Optical Society of America in 1917, in Altoo- a Dixieland jazz band with friends. na, Penn., he Across many decades, he and Peggy age he backpacked in the Sierras 2000. In 1994, Dick was given was the only were fans of the Stanford basketball, and knew both the Eastern and the Distinguished Alumni Award surviving child football and Lively Arts programs. Western sides. His idol was John from Caltech. of Henry O. They also enjoyed the Stanford Sier- Muir. While working at Glacier One of his great joys was Jones, a urolo- ra Camp for many years when their gist, and Eu- children were young. Point Hotel in Yosemite, Dick establishing the Brewer Prize phemia Heil- A particular highlight of his life Brewer learned folk dancing. at Caltech in 1997, which helps man Jones. He was the 1968-69 sabbatical year that He became particularly adept in Freshman Physics students do graduated from the family spent in Paris. He and Greek and Yugoslav dancing. He research with Faculty members Haverford Col- Peggy traveled widely in Europe, as lege in 1939 with a bachelor’s degree well as to South America, Asia and loved Italy and in his later years from their very first year in in chemistry and attended the grad- Australia. Stateside, the family made studied Italian very seriously college. uate chemistry program at Harvard summer pilgrimages to the Oregon and could read and speak it Richard was a unique and for a year. In 1943 he received his Shakespeare Festival in Ashland medical degree from Yale Universi- and celebrated his and Peggy’s 50th well. He loved magnolia trees and planted independent thinker with a twinkle in his ty, with a specialty in radiology. He anniversary (2002) with family and many varieties in his backyard. Then he would eye and enormous energy. He will be sorely put in long days of work then often grandchildren in Hawaii. photograph them when blooming time came. missed by his wife of 57 years, Lillian, his headed down to New York City to He is survived by his wife, Peggy One of his very great inspirations was classical two daughters Cathy and Emily, and his son catch the late shows at jazz clubs. Jones of Stanford; daughter, Vir- He served from 1946-48 as an ginia Jones of Castro Valley; sons, music. It nourished and comforted him. Laurence, and his daughter-in-law Anna. instructor at the U.S. Army School Henry C. Jones of Eugene, Ore., and Richard Brewer worked as an IBM Contributions in his memory may be of Roentgenology in San Antonio, Keasley Jones of Berkeley; daugh- Fellow in the Almaden Research Lab and was made to the Brewer Prize at Caltech, Attn. Joe Texas. He also served as head of ra- ter-in-law, Autumn Stephens; two also a consulting professor in Applied Physics Boeke, 1200 E. California Blvd., MC-5-32, diology in Bad Constadt, Germany, grandchildren. the orthopedic center for the army A memorial service for friends, at Stanford University. He made significant Pasadena, CA 91125 of occupation. In 1948 he was hired family and colleagues, open to all,
contributions to atomic physics, laser PAID OBITUARY by his former Yale professor, Henry will be held at Stanford Memorial S. Kaplan, and came to California Church on Thursday, Sept. 20, at 4 to join the radiology department at p.m., with a reception on campus to Stanford. follow. For information about park- ATTENTION ADVERTISERS In 1952 he married Margaret ing, or shuttle bus between parking, (“Peggy”) Crusius, an energetic church and the reception site, con- young woman with a private pe- tact the church at 650-723-1762. In diatric practice, whom he had met lieu of flowers, contributions may during his internship at Metropoli- be made to the Stanford Medical tan Hospital in New York City. Her School. N long career as a pediatrician with the Santa Clara County well-baby and immunization clinics paralleled his career at Stanford. First in Sausalito Memorial and then in a home on the Stanford campus, they raised three children: Virginia (born 1952), Henry C. Service (1954) and Keasley (1957). The Hettig Family will hold He was a founding member of a celebration of life for David Physicians for Social Responsibility William Hettig, who died June and in 1994 he received the organi- 29 at the age of 70. The cele- FALL zation’s Broad Street Pump Award. bration will be Saturday, Sept. He was also the first chief of the 8, at 1:30 p.m. at the Unitarian HOME & GARDEN DESIGN radiology service at the Palo Alto Universalist Church, 505 E. Veterans Administration Hospital, Charleston Road, Palo Alto. ANNOUNCING OUR 2012 FALL a Stanford teaching hospital. IS COMING HOME & GARDEN DESIGN SPECIAL PUBLICATION His professional life was synony- mous with the Department of Radi- AN ALMANAC, MOUNTAI N VIEW VOICE AND PALO ALTO WEEKL Y PUBLICATION PUBLICATION AND PALO ALTO WEEKLY HOME+GARDEN TAIN VIEW VOICE ology at Stanford, where he served AN ALMANAC, MOUN AN ALMANAC, MOUNTAIN VIEW VOICE
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Stephanie Lucianovic in her Menlo Park kitchen, where the longtime picky eater has even learned to love okra. You are what you (won’t) eat Local author delves into the roots of picky eating by Andrea Gemmet
obody wants to be a picky eater. Not too long ago, okra was on the list of people to try it.” Though their frustrated parents might things the adult Lucianovic still couldn’t bear Lucianovic’s book — part memoir, part N think otherwise, picky eaters would to eat. As she recounts in her book, finding popular science — explores current research love to be able to tuck into a plate of food with okra on the menu when she had dinner at a as well as the many unknowns behind how enthusiasm instead of facing it with knotted friend’s house set off a silent wave of panic. people experience food differently, and also stomachs, tearful protests and gagging. While feigning interest in the recipe, “my comes with recipes for such dishes as roasted back, because my brain has accepted that I Stephanie Lucianovic knows what it’s like. brain chanted, Slimy okra, bad okra, evil cauliflower and sauteed greens. For the au- like butternut squash.” For years, mealtimes were a torment for the okra, GAG!” she wrote. thor, expanding her palate had a lot to do with Discovering that there are genetic differenc- Menlo Park resident, who choked down veg- “Every picky eater — former or current — finding the right way to cook the things that es that make some people experience flavors etables under duress, detested fish and didn’t has been in this situation. Every adult picky she’s always hated. differently led Lucianovic to contact research- dare eat a peach. Now a food writer and cu- eater knows that dinner parties are their per- “I won’t eat broccoli steamed or stir-fried; ers at Cornell University and Monell Chemi- linary-school graduate, she delves into the sonal hell.” I only eat it roasted,” she says. “Legumes can cal Sense Center in Philadelphia, as well as evolving science of taste in her new book, Fortunately for Lucianovic, her friend’s be weird. I eat lentils because they’re small Palo Alto dietitian Karen Ross. When she first “Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater’s Quest okra was a tasty revelation. Using the same and I can make a cold salad and drown them heard about supertasters, Lucianovic says, she To Understand Why We Hate the Foods We recipe, she cooked it every night for a month. in a lemony vinaigrette.” had high hopes that genetics were to blame for Hate.” She knows she’s taking a risk bringing a dish While some foods, vegetables in particu- her dinner-table torments. She’s set to read from her book at Books to an author event, she says. lar, require work in order to be palatable to So-called supertasters make up about 25 Inc. in Palo Alto on Sept. 27 — and has vowed “My friend warned me never to bring food,” her, she does have one firm rule: Smothering percent of the population, and are highly sen- to convert audience members into okra lovers Lucianovic says. “I told Books Inc. that’s what something in cheese sauce doesn’t count. sitive to a bitter chemical compound found in with one of her own recipes. I want to do, and they’re fine with it. I make “I want to like the flavor,” she explains. “I That’s right, okra. farro salad with okra in it, and I want to get add lots of ingredients I like, then slowly pull (continued on page 17) ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊU Page 15 FREE ADMISSION Arts & Entertainment Tracy Martin A CULTURAL COMMUNITY CELEBRATION September 8-9, 10am to 6pm Castro Street, Downtown Mountain View Rebecca Dines plays a photojournalist trying to rebuild her life after being injured in a bombing in the Middle East. XXXDIBNCFSNWPSH BAY AREA'S BEST ART & WINE FESTIVAL Caught in the crosshairs 600 EXCEPTIONAL ARTISTS War journalists face tough choices in ‘Time Stands Still’ STELLAR LIVE MUSIC EVERYWHERE by Jeanie K. Smith 03("/*$ (3&&/ 130%6$54 t '"#6-064 '00% %3*/,4 3&'3&4)*/(8*/&4 t .*$30#3&84 onald Margulies is one of ately withholds neat resolutions, pro- ."3("3*5"4t.0+*504t4"/(3*"t.*.04"4 America’s most successful THEATER REVIEW viding instead a kind of fodder for contemporary playwrights, discussion and debate. Sarah’s choice 1*(4,*/1"35:-06/(& Watch NFL D Week 1 having won the Pulitzer Prize for his newest girlfriend, much-younger at the end may feel predictable, but Live! 8*5)(*"/5 -&%4$3&&/ “Dinner with Friends” and won Mandy (Sarah Moser), a perky and there are gaps in the unfolding of how SMASHING ENTERTAINMENT ON STAGE & STREET numerous awards and accolades upbeat event planner. Mandy’s vivac- she gets there, leaving us to ponder 5IF(SPPWF,JOHTt3VDLBUBOt5IF3IZUIN7BOEBMT for other plays including “Brook- ity and joy contrast mightily with the some big questions on our own. #PZTPG4VNNFSt3PEFP)PVTFt%VSBO%VSBO%VSBO lyn Boy,” “Collected Stories” and more somber perspectives of Sarah Four superb actors deliver com- #PC$VMCFSUTPOt"SZFI'SBOLGVSUFSt0TDBS3FZOPMET “Sight Unseen.” TheatreWorks and James, affected as they are by pelling work in this sometimes fun- &NFSTPOt"ODJFOU8JOETt)FBSU4USJOHT.VTJDt(MJUUFSGBDF gives his most recent work, “Time the dark scenes of war they witness ny, sometimes heartbreaking work. TISHMAN SPEYER PROPERTIES KIDS' PARK Stands Still,” a beautifully staged and record. When Mandy questions Dines and Phillips spar deftly as .PVOUBJO7JFXhT(PU5BMFOU$PNNVOJUZ4UBHF and acted production. 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Donald Margulies, presented by tojournalist, is brought home from Once raised, however, the ques- TheatreWorks PROUDLY PRESENTED BY a hospital overseas, escorted by tion continues to haunt and confront Where: Mountain View Center longterm boyfriend James (Mark both James and Sarah, making them for the Performing Arts, 500 Anderson Phillips), a well-known wonder about continuing to pursue Castro St. war reporter. Sarah has suffered such a dangerous and demanding serious injuries in a Middle East career: To what end? With what, if When: Through Sept. 16, with bombing, and as we watch her be- any, effect? It also becomes the ba- shows at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays gin to rebuild her life, we learn that sis for conflict in their relationship, and Wednesdays; 8 p.m. James was emotionally injured by throwing into relief the different di- Thursday through Saturday; 2 another incident. Both are clearly rections life is taking each of them. p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays; reeling, and lean on each other for How they find their paths, both indi- and 7 p.m. Sundays support as they mend their bodies, vidually and together, becomes the Cost: Tickets are $27-$73. hearts and minds. driving arc of the play. tweet: #MVAW12 Enter Richard (Rolf Saxon), their While challenging and intriguing Info: Go to theatreworks.org or call 650-463-1960. INFO: 650-968-8378 | NO PETS | NO SEGWAYS | WWW.MIRAMAREVENTS.COM editor and friend, who introduces us in many ways, Margulies deliber-
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Page 16ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Arts & Entertainment Picky eating linary school, started a food blog, (continued from page 15) and became a food writer and edi- tor. The picky eater had somehow morphed into a foodie, “annoying some foods. A less-sensitive seg- diners around me by taking dark ment of the population can’t even and blurry photos of every single detect some types of bitter flavors meal I ate out.” After she subjected herself to a She even had a stint in the prep variety of tests, genetic testing de- kitchen for a season of Jacques Pe- finitively ruled out her being a su- pin’s public-television series “Fast Worth a atLook the door on Saturday and $20/$30 on Sunday. Go to pertaster. In the process, Lucianovic Food My Way.” digitalmediafestival.com or call 650-223-0300. did gain insight into the combination “I worked in the back kitchen and Art of factors, whether childhood trau- was terrified the whole time — not ‘Gender Specific’ ma, genes or psychology, that create of him; he was sweet and nice,” Smith Andersen Editions is saluting local women picky eaters. She writes about the Lucianovic says. “We’d ask how he artists this fall with “Gender Specific: Take It or Leave Arts physiological effects of stress on the wanted (ingredients) prepared, and It,” a show of work by 30 creative types, most of them Mountain View Art & Wine Festival digestion that cause “delayed gastric he’d show us how he wanted things from the Bay Area. “The main purpose ... is to ac- No matter how much you adore your new Prius, don’t emptying” — the sensation of food done. Every morning was like a mini try to take it for a cruise down Castro Street in Moun- sitting like a lump in your stomach, cooking class with Jacques Pepin.” tain View this weekend. The downtown thoroughfare causing discomfort and nausea. She But while she grew to love peach- will be closed to cars for the annual Mountain View interviewed dentists and a sword es and broccoli, and happily eats Art & Wine Festival, which is now in its 41st year. swallower about overcoming an fish, there are still some things she From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, down- overactive gag reflex. can’t stand to eat, and has no interest town will be filled with artists and craftmakers, home “I wish I could have told more in learning to love: like bananas and and garden exhibits, performing musicians, food ven- about the gag reflex,” she says. raisins, or the titular frozen succo- dors, carnival rides and, of course, visitors milling “There’s just not much on how it tash she endured as a child. about drinking mojitos and microbrews. The usual works and how it’s controlled.” She now considers herself a “picky crowd includes hundreds of artists showing and sell- For Lucianovic, keeping herself foodie,” and has written a blog entry ing their visions in ceramics, glass, wood, jewelry and from gagging helped her get through for the Washington Post enumerat- so on. a dessert of poached peaches and ing the many reasons that bananas For a slight change of pace, visitors can wander over avoid embarrassing herself in front are evil. She’s also discovered that to the community stage, where people will be demon- of her future in-laws. KQED Forum host Michael Krasny strating Bikram yoga, hula-hooping, Zumba and Scot- For other picky eaters, textures or is a fellow picky eater. tish dance. smells can make or break a meal. “You can bond with someone over To read all the details on the event (and to get pub- Most toddlers spend some time as raisin-hate,” she says. lic-transit info; parking is often tight), go to mirama- fussy eaters, a well-known develop- Lucianovic says she was lucky revents.com/mountainview. mental phase that freaks out parents, to find an editor who embraced the but that most outgrow. topic, as a lot of them didn’t under- While picky children are often stand why anyone would want to thought of as being rebellious or read a book about picky eaters. “One “The Kin,” a 2011 mixed-media piece made on a Music spoiled or going through a difficult editor wanted it to be about why we vintage album cover, is one of Kathryn Dunlevie’s works on exhibit at Smith Andersen Editions. Family concert phase, finicky adults face the stigma love the foods we love. I said ‘picky’ Two pianists, two pianos, one married couple and of being thought immature, unso- has to be in the title.” one family concert. phisticated or high-maintenance. While she did a lot of research knowledge the often understated role of women in art,” That’s the plan for a free Sept. 6 program in Ta- Lucianovic describes herself as a into the topic, she says parents with a press release reads. teuchi Hall at the Community School of Music and polite, eager-to-please middle child serious concerns about their chil- Smith Andersen is a place for prints, and the exhi- Arts. Married couple Klara Frei and Temirzhan Yer- who didn’t want to offend. She sim- dren’s nutrition need to consult a bition features monoprints, along with paintings and zhanov will perform two bright pieces with their roots ply couldn’t make herself eat food pediatrician or dietitian and not rely mixed-media works. Photograph mash-ups on vintage in dance rhythms: Gavrilin’s “Sketches” suite for four she found abhorrent. on her book. album covers? Kathryn Dunlevie is showing those. hands and Ravel’s “La Valse” for two pianos. “It’s not like people really under- “I can’t tell you how many people Edible jewelry? Sure. Abarna Nathan will exhibit her To make the concert more educational, the pianists stand,” she says. “You can’t help have come to me and said, ‘I didn’t pieces, and talk about them at the reception on Sept. will also describe the pieces and how they call to (food) preferences, any more than think anyone would write about how 8, which is scheduled from 3 to 7 p.m. mind Russian history and Vienna balls, the pair said you can help what music you like. No I felt,’ “ she says. The gallery is also planning other special events in a press release. They’ll also talk about how a simple one gets into a knock-down, drag-out “The most important thing for with exhibit artists. Inez Storer will lead a mixed-me- piano duo can evoke an entire orchestra. fight over liking Miley Cyrus.” me is that I want people to feel that dia workshop on Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Yerzhanov comes from Kazakhstan and is a gradu- Lucianovic said she wanted to go they’re not alone. When (picky eat- Kathryn Kain teaches a workshop on Xerox-transfer ate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, out to restaurants without worrying ing) gets carried into adulthood is monotype, on Oct. 20 from 10 to 4. where his wife, a native of Kyrgyzstan, also studied. that she couldn’t stomach some of when it gets really lonely. It affects The show will be up Sept. 8 through Oct. 31 at 440 The two live in the Bay Area and frequently perform the things on her dish, and eat at social interactions, makes them Pepper Ave. in Palo Alto. Gallery hours are Wednes- together. friends’ houses without offending stressful. ... They’re not doing it to be day through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and by The concert begins at 7 p.m. at 230 San Antonio them by refusing part of a meal. annoying or childish or difficult.” N appointment. Go to smithandersen.com or call 650- Circle in Mountain View. For more information, go to So she set out to overcome her 327-7762. arts4all.org or call 650-917-6800, extension 305. picky ways, inadvertently using a Info: Stephanie Lucianovic is set technique neuroscientists call “pat- to speak about her book, “Suf- tern reset.” Stealing a bite or two of fering Succotash: A Picky Eater’s food off the plate of her decidedly Quest To Understand Why We Festival Lecture non-picky husband helped open her Hate the Foods We Hate,” at 7 Digital Media Festival ‘The Real James Bond’ up to new foods, she writes. The p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27, at Kepler’s Books harks back to its counter-culture Reilly. Sydney Reilly. Doesn’t exactly have the same positive associations overwrote the Books Inc. in the Town & Country days this weekend with film screenings and talks about ring, does it? negative ones. Village, 855 El Camino Real in Silicon Valley’s history in both technology and music. But the talented Mr. Reilly lived quite an interesting Her interest in food blossomed Palo Alto. Go to booksinc.net. The Digital Media Festival is planned for this Saturday life just the same. He was said to be a notorious spy to the point that she enrolled in cu- from noon to 6:30 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4:30 for more than one country in the teens and ‘20s, and p.m. at 1010 El Camino Real in Menlo Park. 60 years after his death (by a Soviet bullet) he was The Brooklyn-loft set design by The schedule includes screenings of Eric Christens- the hero of a fictional TV miniseries, “Reilly, Ace of TheatreWorks Erik Flatmo is impressive in both (continued from previous page) en’s documentary “Trips Festival,” Len Dell’Amico’s Spies.” Most famously, Reilly is also said to be the detail and height, imparting an doc “Welcome to Dopeland,” Chris Felver’s “Fer- inspiration, or at least one of them, for Ian Fleming’s epic feel to the action. But the ac- linghetti” and Dudley Murphy’s “Saint Louis Blues.” James Bond. longtime lovers and friends, flesh- tors occasionally look a little lost in Stanford University professor Fred Turner, the au- On Sept. 6, Edward “Bruce” Held, the director of ing out their characters believably the space, and the cavernous design thor of “From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at and with precision. Their engage- swallows vocal projection. Michael Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digi- the U.S. Department of Energy, will give a free talk in ment with the emotional demands Palumbo’s lighting enhances the ac- tal Utopianism,” will give the keynote speech at 2 p.m. Menlo Park on Reilly. The lecture is to be called “The of the text keeps us engaged, in spite tion and mood and adds a nice touch on Saturday. At 3 p.m., Turner will join Dell’Amico, Real James Bond: Sydney Reilly and the Origins of of some perilously long pauses. for a Brooklyn rainstorm. Christensen, Felver, Grateful Dead archivist Nicholas Modern Espionage.” Saxon has the professional-editor Despite my quibbles with the Meriwether, and music historian Buffalo Benford in a An espionage historian, Held is also a former clan- demeanor to a T, with just the right pacing and the play’s ending, the panel discussion about the decades of music and tech- destine-operations officer in the Central Intelligence touch of emotional involvement. production is well worth seeing, for nology in the Valley. Agency, serving in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Newcomer Moser is delightfully both the timely and timeless ques- At noon on Sunday, movie writer and producer Julian The talk will be at 4:15 p.m. in the Kavli Audito- ditzy, providing much of the play’s tions it addresses. It may not give Phillips will give a talk about adapting books for film, rium at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 humor, and yet can get movingly se- answers, but it definitely makes you and about how new media have changed the process. Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park. Go to events.stanford. rious when required. think. N Admission to the festival is $40 in advance and $50 edu or call 650-926-8537. ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊU Page 17 Eating Out
RESTAURANT REVIEW New kid on the block La Boulange, freshly acquired by Starbucks, joins the Palo Alto cafe scene by Dale F. Bentson he $100 million baby has land- remains fairly constant. Soup-and- ed in downtown Palo Alto. salad combos are available for T Born in San Francisco in 1996, $7.50, and soup du jour and French La Boulange was the brainchild of onion soups are $3 per cup, $5 per Pascal Rigo, a French-American bowl. Both the hot tomato and the
Sierra Duren restaurateur with an eye for both cold creamy gazpacho were full- high-quality product and bottom- flavored and fresh-tasting on my line results. recent visits. About a month after the Bay Area The half-dozen salad options chain opened its outlet on Univer- were priced $8 to $10 and came La Boulange’s new University Avenue location has an inviting street-side patio. sity Avenue, Starbucks bought La with house-made organic bread. I Boulange — for enough money to was slightly disappointed with the keep a moderate-sized country in La Boulange salad ($8.50). It was coffee and pastries for a year. Now, one egg over not-so-easy, lardons, PENINSULA according to Starbucks CEO How- croutons and frisée. It’s a variation ard Schultz, La Boulange products of the classic salad Lyonnais. The will be sold in Starbucks’ thousands overcooked egg was hidden at the of stores. bottom of the bowl, with no soft yolk Good for Starbucks and fabulous to fork over the greens and croutons, for the bakery. But what does it and the lardons were scarce. In all, a mean for us? salad that needs retooling, presenta- Well, excellent pastries, good tion-wise and quality-wise. soups and sandwiches and an invit- On the other hand, the Provençal ing patio, for starters. Is this retail BLT sandwich ($8.75) burst with outlet different than other choices flavor. The bacon, lettuce, tomato downtown? Yes and no, but I can and goat cheese were housed be- Discover the best places attest to the superior quality of La tween slices of toasted ciabatta that Boulange’s pastries. I’ve been a cus- had been slathered with aioli. to eat this week! tomer for years in its San Francisco The hearty, creamy mushroom- shops and am extremely partial to its roasted-chicken open-faced sand- lemon bars ($3) and other delights. wich ($9.25) included chives and AMERICAN CHINESE La Boulange’s European-styled caramelized onion in the mushroom pastries, not as unusual now as they sauce. It was filling with bold fla- Armadillo Willy’s Chef Chu’s were a decade ago, are crunchy, vors, but reminded me more of an 941-2922 948-2696 crispy, flaky, buttery and not overly autumn dish than a summery one. sweet. There are savory tarts as There were 15 warm sandwich 1031 N. San Antonio Road, Los Altos 1067 N. San Antonio Road well: cauliflower, vegetable, po- choices, all of which came with a www.armadillowillys.com www.chefchu.com tato and onion, to name a few. The choice of greens, chips, quinoa sal- macarons, in an array of flavors, are ad or Boulange potatoes (strongly Cheese Steak Shop Ming’s melt-in-the-mouth delicious. Daily rosemary-flavored). There were 326-1628 856-7700 sweet pastries and desserts might cold sandwiches as well: including 2305-B El Camino Real, Palo Alto 1700 Embarcadero East, Palo Alto include stone-fruit tarts, vanilla prosciutto and Swiss, goat cheese www.cheesesteakpaloalto.com www.mings.com Napoleons and vanilla Tropezienne and tomato, and apple and brie. (creamy custard with vanilla bean There’s a kids’ menu as well as The Old Pro New Tung Kee Noodle House and orange blossom extract.) brunch, and beer and wine are now 326-1446 947-8888 While pastry and tart selections available. There is a lot going on in migrate with the seasons, the menu a small space. 541 Ramona Street, Palo Alto 520 Showers Drive, Mountain View board for salads and sandwiches The University Avenue location www.oldpropa.com www.shopmountainview.com/luunoodlemv STEAKHOUSE INDIAN
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Page 18ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Eating Out NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING is not a bakery, though; it’s an as- from San Rafael, but that’s unlikely La Boulange of the Palo Alto sembly outlet. That’s not necessar- it will continue into the future. Star- 150 University Ave., Palo Alto Planning &Transportation Commission ily a bad thing, since the product is bucks, love it or not, says it plans to 650-323-3332 trucked down Highway 101 from keep the La Boulange identity and, laboulangebakery.com South San Francisco daily. This al- ideally, the very-high-quality prod- Hours: Daily 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Please be advised the Planning and Transportation Commission (P&TC) lows for a greater selection of deli- ucts it manufactures. This will be Reservations Banquet shall conduct a public meeting at 6:00 PM, Wednesday, September cacies that wouldn’t be feasible to a formidable problem as the scale 12, 2012 in the Council Chambers, Ground Floor, Civic Center, Palo manufacture in a prime location. of manufacturing balloons in the Credit cards Catering Alto, California. Any interested persons may appear and be heard on This spot at 150 University Ave. future. these items. Lot Parking Outdoor most recently housed Facebook. La Coffee/pastry/sandwich shops in- seating Boulange has spiffed up the court- spire fierce loyalty. The new kid on Alcohol Staff reports for agendized items are available via the City’s main website yard into an inviting street-side pa- the block will attract its adherents. Noise level: at www.cityofpaloalto.org and also at the Planning Division Front Desk, Takeout Low tio, partially shaded, with tables and Without a big jump in our popu- 5th Floor, City Hall, after 2:00 PM on the Friday preceding the meeting awnings. There is comfortable in- lation, someone in the vicinity is Highchairs Bathroom date. Copies will be made available at the Development Center should door seating as well. In total, space bound to forfeit market share. We Cleanliness: City Hall be closed on the 9/80 Friday. Wheelchair Excellent for about 100 patrons at any time. will watch the University Avenue access Currently, La Boulange serves the corridor for developments. Good NEW BUSINESS. highly regarded Equator Coffees luck to all. N Study Session
1. Capital Improvement Project (CIP): Discussion of Changes to the CIP Document
2. Transportation Citywide Survey: Transportation staff will be presenting the citywide Transportation Survey to the Planning and Transportation Commission at a study session on September 12th. The purpose of the survey is to collect comprehensive data on travel and transportation patterns in Shopby Daryl Savage Talk Palo Alto. The survey will gather trip related information such as mode of transportation, duration, distance, purpose and also demographic and geographic data for analysis purposes. This surveywill be conducted on a yearly basis and will be used to quantify travel behavior and analyze changes in travel characteristics over time. ESTRELLITA STRUGGLING ... Rus- Dziem (pronounced Zim) Le, a Palo cadero Road to the interior of the sell Clark is not going down without a Alto resident. “I had always dreamed shopping center in the former loca- 3. San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority (JPA) fight. As the 33-year owner of Estrel- of having my own business, so when tion of Williams Cutlery. “People were Initial Flood Protection Project: Request by City of Palo Alto lita Restaurant at 971 N. San Anto- this opportunity came up, my dream squashing into our tiny 450-square- Public Works Engineering for Study Session review of prelimi- nio Road in Los Altos, he has spent came true,” she said, adding, “You foot spot,” Camposano said. The nary plans for 1% (100-year) flood protection improvements, the majority of his life working in his need competition to survive.” In addi- move is scheduled for Dec. 1. Cam- riparian corridor enhancements, and recreational opportunities Mexican eatery. His family opened tion to offering hair cutting and color, posano has two other Halo shops, along San Francisquito Creek between Highway 101 and San the restaurant in 1958, and it has Le’s salon provides nail, makeup and in Menlo Park and Burlingame, with Francisco Bay and review of the Draft Environmental Impact grown into a labor of love for Clark, waxing services. These two salons three more in the works in the next Report prepared by the JPA (public comment period on the a Mountain View resident born in a join the remaining three: Classy few months. The success of the Palo EIR runs July 30 through September 13 and document may be far southern region of Mexico. Now it Salon, Monica Foster and TL’s Hair Alto store, the first Halo, has not sur- viewed at www.sfcjpa.org). could all crumble. “The building was Salon. prised Camposano, she said. “This is sold and the new owner increased a huge, growing market.” NEW BUSINESS. the rent by 50 percent last April,” he Meanwhile another Palo Alto hair Public Hearing said. “It came as a real shock.” But salon, which offers a blow-dry for a Heard a rumor about your 4. Comprehensive Plan Amendment: Review of Vision State- Clark is trying to hang on. “I had to flat $35, is expanding. “We’re more favorite store or business mov- reduce our staff,” he said. As a re- than doubling our space,” said Halo ment, Goals, Policies and Programs of the Natural ing out, or in, down the block or Environment Element sult, Clark serves as the greeter, the Blow Dry Bar owner Rosemary Cam- across town? Daryl Savage will waiter, the bartender and the cashier posano. The 2-year-old blow-dry bar check it out. Email shoptalk@ Questions. For any questions regarding the above items, please on several nights each week. “Times in Town & Country Village is moving paweekly.com. contact the Planning Department at (650) 329-2441. The files relating to are really tough. Sales are way down. from its current spot facing Embar- these items are available for inspection weekdays between the hours of It’s a drastic situation. I fell behind 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. This publicmeeting is televised live on Government in my rent. ... So two weeks ago, I Access Channel 26. reached out to my customers. I wrote to them asking them to please con- Back by Popular Demand... ADA. The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals sider coming here for lunch or dinner. with disabilities. To request accommodations to access City facilities, I sent out nearly 1,000 postcards,” he Historic Walking Tours services or programs, to participate at public meetings, or to learn more said. Clark’s actions had an impact. about the City’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of As he spoke, he was visibly moved. of Palo Alto 1990 (ADA), please contact the City’s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 “People came. Business is up. I am (voice) or by e-mailing [email protected]. so touched and so gratified by the response from this community,” he Palo Alto Stanford Heritage (PAST), as part of its com- *** said. Although the future of Estrel- mitment to support the preservation of historic archi- Curtis Williams, Director of Planning and Community Environment lita is still uncertain, Clark remains tecture of the greater Palo Alto-Stanford area through hopeful. education, is again offering walking tours in Palo Alto. BEAUTY BOOM IN MIDTOWN ... There is no reason for anyone to have Beginning on September 8th and continuing on two more a bad hair day in Midtown Palo Alto. consecutive Saturdays, interested parties are invited to With the recent opening of two new join these docent led tours. The tours will include identi- hair salons, there are now a total of five salons, all on Middlefield Road, fying architectural points of interest as well as colorful and all within one block of each tales of some of its early residents. other. SoHo Salon, which opened in mid-August, is the newest entry, tucked into a 500-square-foot space Tours begin at 10:30. in a building at 2799 Middlefield Road. Owner Kim Keyak, who has September 8th – Professorville been in hair design for 22 years, meet at Addison/Bryant Sept. 28 specializes in coloring and Japanese hair straightening, and says she September 15th - Downtown Palo Alto does not view the nearby salons as competition. “I have my own clientele meet at City Hall and I give individual attention to my customers.” The other newcomer, September 22nd- Historic Homer Avenue appropriately named Midtown Hair meet at Homer/Cowper Studio, is at 2786 Middlefield Road and owned by veteran hair stylist Register online at PaloAltoOnline.com/moonlight_run ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊU Page 19 Movies MOVIE TIMES OPENINGS
All showtimes are for Friday through Sunday only unless otherwise noted. For other times, as well as reviews and trailers, Lawless --- go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. (Century 16, Century 20) Down where the willows Sleepwalk with Me --1/2 2 for 1 - Moonrise Kingdom (((1/2/To Rome with Love (R) (( weep, in rural Virginia, three brothers made names (Aquarius) In association with WBEZ Chicago, Century 16: 12:10, 2:40, 4:50 & 7:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m.; 1:30, 3:35, 6 & for themselves as moonshiners. Their story comes it’s this American life: Mike Birbiglia’s. The come- 8:05 p.m. back to life in “Lawless,” a fact-based crime drama dian brings his best-known story to the big screen in 2016: Obama’s America (PG) (Not Reviewed) that’s as tough-minded as they come. “Sleepwalk with Me,” an indie comedy-drama co- Century 16: 11:35 a.m.; 2:10, 4:25, 7:15 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: Noon, 2:30, 4:55, “Lawless” derives from “The Wettest County in written and co-produced by “This American Life” 7:20 & 9:40 p.m. the World,” Matt Bondurant’s “novel based on a true host Ira Glass. The Apparition (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) story.” Bondurant’s grandfather Jack, here played by That Birbiglia has already told this story before — Century 20: 12:20, 5:15 & 10:05 p.m. Shia LaBeouf, was a Prohibition-era bootlegger, run- on “This American Life,” in his one-man off-Broad- Beasts of the Southern Wild (PG-13) (((( Guild Theatre: 1, 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m. ning liquor around the county, one car-length ahead way show, and a best-selling non-fiction book — is of opportunistic rivals and federal agents. The screen part of the problem. Film isn’t the best medium for The Bourne Legacy (PG-13) (( Century 16: Noon, 3:30, 7 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 1:10, 4:20, 7:25 & 10:25 p.m. Jack has an inferiority complex: Treated like the runt this story (at least as directed by Birbiglia and written Brave (PG) (((1/2 of the litter by brothers Forrest (Tom Hardy) and by the comedian and his brother Joe, Seth Barrish and Century 16: 11 a.m.; 1:35 & 4:05 p.m. Howard (Jason Clarke), immature Jack lets his eager- Glass), and the preferable versions, as verbalized by The Campaign (R) ((1/2 ness to prove his worth inform his every decision. Birbiglia the raconteur, have been on the market for Century 16: 11:15 a.m.; 1:50, 4:40, 7:20 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 12:30, 3, 5:30, Forrest believes the Bondurants to be “indestruc- some time. 7:55 & 10:35 p.m. tible,” and indeed they take incredible lickings and Nevertheless, “Sleepwalk with Me” gets by on its Celeste and Jesse Forever (R) ((1/2 keep on ticking, time and time again. Obviously, noth- humble charms as it tells the story of aspiring stand- Century 16: 11:40 a.m.; 2:20, 4:50, 7:25 & 9:45 p.m. ing lasts forever, and the crime family’s insistence on up comic Matt Pandamiglio (Birbiglia, natch) and his The Dark Knight Rises (PG-13) (((( invincibility only gives the story a greater sense of struggles with commitment and REM behavior dis- Century 16: 11 a.m.; 2:30, 6:30 & 10 p.m. Century 20: 12:55, 4:40 & 8:30 p.m. dread, compounded by the arrival of creepy interlop- order. Matt has somehow sustained a relationship of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (PG) (( er Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce), a special agent from eight years with girlfriend Abby (Lauren Ambrose), Century 20: 11:30 a.m.; 1:50, 4:15 & 6:45 p.m. Chicago. Also on the scene: mobster Floyd Banner but he’s pushing his luck by dodging the question he Doctor Zhivago (1965) (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) (Gary Oldman), a big-timer Jack idolizes and aims ought to be popping, and his late-breaking upward Century 16: Thu. at 2 & 7 p.m. Century 20: Thu. at 2 & 7 p.m. to impress. mobility as a comic increasingly keeps the couple The Expendables 2 (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11 a.m.; 1:30, 4:10, 7:10 & 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, Though a distinctly American story, “Lawless” apart. 8:10 & 10:45 p.m. is stocked up with Australian talent: director John There’s also that little matter of the sleep disorder, Hit and Run (R) (( Hillcoat, screenwriter Nick Cave (better known as which understandably distresses Abby as Matt wan- Century 16: 11:25 a.m.; 1:55, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 2:45 & 7:40 a rocker), and actors Pearce and Clarke. They apply ders about the bedroom in the wee hours, pantomim- p.m. an anthropologist’s curiosity that yields gritty tex- ing his dreams and doing himself physical harm. A Hope Springs (PG-13) ((( ture and period details. As shot by Benoit Delhomme, classic avoider, Matt consistently blows off a sleep Century 16: 11:20 a.m.; 1:55, 4:20, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m.; 1:45, the Tommy guns, running boards and “whites only” study just as he postpones taking his relationship to 4:10, 6:50 & 9:20 p.m. signs don’t seem like toys for Hollywood playtime, the next level. In a series of narrative asides, Matt Ice Age: Continental Drift (PG) (Not Reviewed) but rather the genuine trappings of 1931 Franklin confesses, with hindsight, his failings, shaking his Century 20: 11:35 a.m. & 4:25 p.m.; In 3D at 1:55, 7 & 9:20 p.m. County. head at his past self and offering, “To be a comedian, The Intouchables (R) (( Aquarius Theatre: 3:15, 6 & 8:45 p.m. Century 20: 11:45 a.m.; 2:25, 5:05, 7:45 & On the face of it, “Lawless” may seem like nothing you have to be a little bit delusional.” 10:25 p.m. more than an artfully rendered tale of turpitude, and Matt’s hapless clambering in the comedy world, a Lawless (R) ((( perhaps it isn’t. But to some degree, the pointlessness painful ascent that’s realistically slow, is the film’s Century 16: 11 a.m.; 1:35, 4:10, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m.; 12:45, is the point. As Jack explains in voice-over, there’s most convincingly portrayed aspect and presents the 2, 3:20, 4:35, 5:55, 7:15, 8:40 & 10:10 p.m. something “indifferent” about the universe that al- most intriguing dilemma. As a veteran comic (Marc Marvel’s The Avengers (PG-13) (((( lowed these events to unfold, and references to “war” Maron) teaches Matt, if he’s to have a breakthrough, Century 16: 6:40 & 9:50 p.m. easily imply a correspondence to the pointless “War he’s going to have to stop mere shucking and jiving Moonrise Kingdom (PG-13) (((1/2 on Drugs” and modern Prohibition. It’s also a story and actually start telling some hard truths about his Century 20: 10:30 p.m. of men immune to Depression, as they break the law life: That’s where the good material lives. The Odd Life of Timothy Green (PG) (Not Reviewed) with impunity (criminals and “lawmen” alike). But once Matt goes there, he has an act he doesn’t Century 16: 11:10 a.m.; 1:40, 4:10, 6:40 & 9:10 p.m. Century 20: 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 & 10:20 p.m. This material is right in the wheelhouse of Hillcoat, feel comfortable letting Abby hear. It’s OK for audi- who favors dusty, brutal tales like “The Road” and ences to laugh at his existential horrors, but there’s The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (G) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11 a.m.; 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m.; “The Proposition.” Never blinking, Hillcoat proves only so much truth he’s willing to admit to his girl- 1:40, 3:50, 6 & 8:10 p.m. equally adept at dealing out swift brutality and lively friend. That Matt so consistently blocks Abby out ParaNorman (PG) ((1/2 marginalia. The picture is smartly cast, particularly highlights another of the film’s issues: Because it Century 16: 1:50 & 6:50 p.m.; In 3D at 11:30 a.m.; 4:15 & 9:10 p.m. Century 20: in the supremely centered Hardy, powder-keg Old- resolutely sticks to Matt’s point of view, Abby comes 11:15 a.m. & 4 p.m.; In 3D at 1:35, 6:55 & 9:15 p.m. man and florid Pearce. off as something of a punching bag. Though her puz- The Possession (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska also come zling behavior does get a funny-sad payoff of sorts, Century 16: 11 a.m.; 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:10 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 12:30, 2:55, to play, as uneasy potential mates to the brothers. But we still exit the story wishing we were given a chance 5:40, 8 & 10:40 p.m. Hillcoat keeps the focus on an ages-old masculine to know her more fully. Premium Rush (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11:50 a.m.; 2:25, 5, 7:40 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 11:40 a.m.; 1, 2:15, code of survival at any cost and prideful protection At the bottom line, Birbiglia’s film version of 3:30, 4:35, 5:50, 7:05, 8:15, 9:25 & 10:35 p.m. of reputation and, by extension, legacy. In recounting “Sleepwalk with Me” may be a bit fitful and tenta- The Quiet Man (1952) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) “the Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy,” tive, but the story remains resonant, with its hidden- Stanford Theatre: Sat.-Tue. at 7:30 p.m.; Sat. & Sun. also at 3:35 p.m. “Lawless” does not lack for local color and local leg- in-plain-sight metaphor of drifting unconsciously Robot & Frank (PG-13) ((( end. through life. Century 20: 11:50 a.m.; 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 & 9:30 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 2, 5 & 7:25 p.m.; Fri.-Sun. also at 9:45 p.m. Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and Not rated. One hour, 30 minutes. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) (Not Reviewed) some sexuality/nudity. One hour, 56 minutes. Guild Theatre: Sat. at midnight. — Peter Canavese Ruby Sparks (R) (((1/2 — Peter Canavese Palo Alto Square: 1:45, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m.; Fri.-Sun. also at 9:50 p.m. Seventh Heaven (1927) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Stanford Theatre: Fri. at 7:30 p.m. NOW PLAYING cane away from disaster. The community minutes. — S.T. (Reviewed July 13, 2012) Sitting Pretty (1948) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) refuses to be displaced. Director Zeitlin’s The following is a sampling of movies Stanford Theatre: Sat.-Tue. at 5:55 & 9:50 p.m. gift is the ability to pack social commen- The Bourne Legacy -- recently reviewed in the Weekly: Sleepwalk With Me (Not Rated) ((1/2 tary within a unique voice and look. He (Century 16, Century 20) Meet the new and co-writer Lucy Alibar address the Bourne, same as the old Bourne. That’s Aquarius Theatre: 2:15, 4:30, 7 & 9:15 p.m. Beasts of the Southern Wild ---- difficulties of preserving a people and the impression left by “The Bourne Sparkle (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) (Guild) Independent filmmaking doesn’t their culture in post-Katrina Louisiana. Legacy,” a would-be franchise refresher Century 20: 10:20 p.m. come any better than this. Newcomer The imagery has a haunting quality, es- in which Jeremy Renner grabs the baton Quvenzhane Wallis delivers a riveting To Rome With Love (R) (( pecially once the characters become un- from Matt Damon. Everything in this film performance as the child trying to make Century 16: 9:40 p.m. moored. “Beasts of the Southern Wild” is you’ve seen before, whether it be re- sense of her world on the wrong side of a must-see movie of rare vision. And the cycled from the “Bourne” trilogy or even Total Recall (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) a southern Louisiana levee. She and her defiant brown eyes of Quvenzhane Wallis Joe Wright’s “Hanna,” fer gosh sakes. Century 20: 9:05 p.m. ailing father (Dwight Henry) struggle to burn with a warrior spirit you won’t soon What is this movie about? A chemi- stay afloat in The Bathtub, a floodplain forget. Rated PG-13 for language, child cally enhanced super soldier (Renner) Skip it Some redeeming qualities A good bet Outstanding populated with odd characters and lit- ( (( ((( (((( imperilment, brief sensuality, disturbing discovers his masters have turned on tered with ramshackle housing — a hurri- images and thematic material. 1 hour, 33 him. Cross tracks down Marta Shearing Page 20ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Movies “ IRRESISTIBLE...CHARMING, “ (Rachel Weisz), the only surviving doctor (Steve Carell). The master class in acting to counterbalance the poignancy of his PLAYFUL AND SLY... who used to maintain him; now she too put on by Streep and the particularly fading days. Though the audience may - Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES has been targeted. Renner and Weisz pitch-perfect Jones is the big draw here. be tempted to humanize the robot (Peter are as solid as one might respectively While Carell, like his character, expertly Sarsgaard), the film excels most as a expect, but the film doesn’t make us facilitates, the leads put themselves showcase for the still-crafty, supremely care much about them, or say anything under the microscope, finding fascinat- human Langella. Whether being grumpy more pointed about the state of Ameri- ing rhythms in their give-and-takes, and or sly or existentially fretful, Langella can covert affairs than “We are morally speaking volumes with body language. makes a great case for the power of the indefensible and absolutely necessary.” “Hope Springs” turns out to be a different screen to be a looking glass. Rated PG- Instead, the film expends acres of talk on kind of mainstream movie, wielding star 13 for language. One hour, 30 minutes. military doublespeak and technobabble. power to turn a giant, unsparing mirror — P.C. (Reviewed Aug. 24, 2012) As Scott Glenn’s CIA director confesses on its target audience: in this case, baby early on, “I’ve kind of lost my perspec- boomers in stale marriages. There’s a riv- tive on what’s possible.” Just remember, eting intensity and a sense of privilege to Ruby Sparks ---1/2 kids, you’re not paranoid if they’re really the way the movie takes us into squirmy (Palo Alto Square) “Ruby Sparks” is the out to get you ... or your movie dollars. private moments and focuses nearly brainchild of Zoe Kazan, who wrote the Rated PG-13 for violence and action. Two every scene on the sometimes funny, screenplay and plays the title role ... of FRANK LANGELLA JAMES MARSDEN LIV TYLER and SUSAN SARANDON hours, 15 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed more often sad dynamic between the two a brainchild. Ruby is the perfect woman Directed By JAKE SCHREIER Aug. 10, 2012) leads. A handful of comic flourishes lean for young, frustrated novelist Calvin toward jokiness at odds with the film’s Weir-Fields (Paul Dano). He knows this CINÉARTS@PALO ALTO SQUARE CENTURY 20 DOWNTOWN REDWOOD CITY greater scheme, of dramatic cultivated because he wrote her on his typewriter to NOW 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 825 Middlefield Rd, Redwood City Celeste and Jesse Forever --1/2 awkwardness between two people fac- break through his writer’s block. Ruby lit- PLAYING (800) FANDANGO (800) FANDANGO (Century 16) Till now, the premier divorce ing hard truths. Also, one might well wish erally comes to life and once Calvin takes FACEBOOK.COM/ROBOTANDFRANK TWITTER.COM/ROBOTANDFRANK comedies have been to some degree for a chink in the armor of Carell’s too- the magical-realist leap and accepts that mean-spirited, from “His Girl Friday” to perfect shrink. But the commitment to Ruby isn’t going anywhere, he starts “War of the Roses.” But screenwriters character and performance is enough to enjoying life with the girl of his dreams. Rashida Jones and Will McCormack have give “Hope” a try. Rated PG-13 for mature “Ruby Sparks” makes an entertaining devised a kinder, gentler divorce comedy FOR ANYONE WHO HAS EVER HAD TO thematic content involving sexuality. One admonishment for anyone navigating the in “Celeste and Jesse Forever.”A “rom BREAK UP WITH THEIR BEST FRIEND hour, 40 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed Aug. tricky terrain between initial attraction com” that plays off of or squirms out 10, 2012) and a lasting relationship, a lesson in of the cliches, the film stars Jones and seeing the real person behind the exterior Andy Samberg as the title characters, -David Lewis, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE that attracts us. There’s plenty of quirky high school sweethearts who got married humor. Dayton and Faris also get serious but eventually hit a wall. Now six months ParaNorman --1/2 comic mileage from Calvin’s life-loving separated and heading for a divorce, (Century 16, Century 20) Norman sees mother (Annette Bening) and stepfather their relationship is, ironically, stronger dead people, but he doesn’t tremble like (Antonio Banderas), joyous contrasts to than ever — as inseparable best friends. Haley Joel Osment of “The Sixth Sense.” Calvin’s fretfulness. But “Ruby Sparks” But unresolved romantic feelings have Instead, the 11-year-old greets the de- proves it’s something special by being lingered, consciously for Jesse and per- ceased like old friends in directors Sam unafraid to follow its premise to a dark haps unconsciously for Celeste. Even at a Fell and Chris Butler’s stop-motion ani- place, the dream turning into a night- slim 91 minutes, the picture feels padded mated comedy. There’s much to applaud mare. In a time of mind-numbing rom with too much material that’s dead on ar- in the charming first act that develops coms, “Ruby Sparks” uses fantasy to get rival.. Samberg decently holds up his end the characters and establishes the small- real about modern romance. Rated R for of the hipster duet, and McCormack puts township setting with incredible detail. language including sexual references, in a nice supporting turn as a friend of Norman Babcock (voiced by Kodi Smit- and for some drug use. One hour, 44 Jesse’s, but it’s Jones who easily walks McPhee of “Let Me In”) is a sensitive soul, minutes.— P.C. (Reviewed Aug. 3, 2012) off with the movie, flimsy though it may branded as the local freak and bullied at CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER be. Rated R for language, sexual content middle school. Aardman veteran Fell and WRITTEN BY RASHIDA JONES & WILL MCCORMACK DIRECTED BY LEE TOLAND KRIEGER and drug use. One hour, 32 minutes.— first-time screenwriter Butler (storyboard WWW.SONYCLASSICS.COM P.C. (Reviewed Aug. 17, 2012) supervisor of “Coraline”) excel at creat- ing a delightful character piece. But once the plot unleashes the walking dead, the brain of the screenplay seems half-eaten CENTURY CINEMAS 16 1500 North Shoreline Blvd, Hit and Run -- by zombies. The story spins into a pro- NOW PLAYING (Century 16, Century 20) Gearheads tracted and all-too-familiar chase scene. Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square Mountain View (800) FANDANGO unite! Others disperse. To paraphrase Drawing parallels between the 18th- VIEW THE TRAILER AT WWW.CELESTEANDJESSE.COM the archetypal patrolman, there’s noth- century witchhunts and the bullying of ing to see here in “Hit and Run,” a chase today’s “freaks,” the message becomes Fri thru Sun 8/31-9/2 comedy from Dax Shepard.Nothing, that murky. The notion that fear breeds bul- - 2:00, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 is, but a lot of yee-haw stunt driving, lying, as well as mob violence, seems Robot & Frank much of it performed by the movie’s real simplistic and clouds the real theme of Ruby Sparks - 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 star: a black 1967 Lincoln Continental forgiveness. Wonderful stop-motion and convertible. immersive 3-D techniques can’t stop Mon thru Thurs 9/3-9/6 Wheelman Charlie, a member of the fed- a misconceived concept from running Robot & Frank - 2:00, 5:00, 7:25 eral Witness Protection Program, takes amok. Rated PG for scary action and - 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 his girlfriend of one year, Annie (Kristen images, thematic elements, rude humor Ruby Sparks Sign up today at www.PaloAltoOnline.com Bell) to L.A. for a job interview she has and language. 1 hour, 36 minutes. — S.T. only hours to get to. Tipped-off ex-con (Reviewed Aug. 17, 2012) Tickets and Showtimes available at cinemark.com (Bradley Cooper) seeking revenge on Charlie. Yee-haw, and so forth. The film Robot & Frank --- isn’t lacking in shaggy charm, and it’s (Palo Alto Square) In “Robot & Frank,” clearly a labor of love for Shepard and his a robot helps a fading old man to see real-life life partner Bell. Depending on life, and himself, more clearly. The ro- how much you like Shepard you may well bot is a gift from son (James Marsden) like “Hit and Run.” But don’t expect much to father (Frank Langella), intended to more than drifting and abrupt turns, both troubleshoot the dementia of retired with the cars and the plot. Rated R for “second-story man” Frank. Frank’s initial pervasive language including sexual ref- reaction — “You’re going to leave me erences, graphic nudity, some violence with this death machine?” — turns to and drug content. One hour, 40 minutes. opportunism when he realizes that the — P.C. (Reviewed Aug. 24, 2012) robot isn’t programmed to be law-abiding or moralistic: Its only concern is Frank’s mental and physical health. And so Frank Hope Springs --- makes the case that the best way to keep (Century 16, Century 20) “I want a real his mind active isn’t the gardening the marriage again.” With those words in the robot proposes, but planning burglaries. dramedy “Hope Springs,” Meryl Streep’s The film operates on a humble scale, with housewife throws the gauntlet before her small gestures of futurism and an unclut- husband of 31 years, played by Tommy tered visual and narrative style. There’s a Lee Jones. Streep’s Kay Soames ropes deftly handled subplot involving the local her husband Arnold into a weeklong librarian (Susan Sarandon), who takes an program run by “You Can Have the Mar- interest in Frank. And there’s some good riage You Want” author Dr. Bernard Feld humor in the robot/Frank relationship
THEATER ADDRESSES Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-3456) Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more information about films playing, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies
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The Knights’ of- play, preferring to lead by example. fense continued to move the ball on In his first three seasons at Stan- the ground with strong running from ford, running back Stepfan Taylor Ben Cleasby and Jordan Schilling. has been the latter. This year, how- It was Schilling scoring the Knights’ ever, the preseason All-American is second touchdown on a 13-yard looking to make some noise. run for a 14-0 lead. With the Knights In his time on the Farm, Taylor threatening to score with 56 seconds has operated in the shadows of Heis- left in the first half, a pass by Johnson man candidates. As a freshman he pass was intercepted in the end zone backed up runner-up Toby Gerhart, and returned 100 yards for a Raiders’ and the past two years he’s been the touchdown. quiet force doing the groundwork The Knights played solid defense after while two-time runner-up Andrew that and held the Raiders to 46 yards Luck drew national attention. of total offense until 1:36 was left in With Luck gone to the National the game. That’s when the Raiders Football League, this year’s Stan- broke a 43-yard run to come within ford offense rests on Taylor’s sturdy two points before the Knights shut shoulders. For the senior, that means down the extra-point attempt. The not only racking up rushing yards, Palo Alto Jr. Midgets return 21 players but also becoming a team leader. from their 2011 Pee Wee team that “I’m going to lead in my own won the NorCal championship and way,” Taylor said in a Monday morn- earned a berth to the AYF National ing press conference leading up to Championships in Orlando, Fla. Friday’s season opener in Stanford Also on Sunday, the Knights’ Cadets Stadium against visiting San Jose (7-9) lost in a close battle, 16-13, while Don Feria/stanfordphoto.com State at 7 p.m. “I need to be a little the Jr. Pee Wee’s, Tiny Mites and more vocal. Not necessarily all rah- Midgets also dropped their openers. rah type vocal, but when there are All five Palo Alto teams will return to things that need to be addressed, I’ll action on Saturday against the Oak- have them addressed.” land Dynamites at Oakland Tech High, Taylor’s teammates recognize his starting at 8 a.m. role as a leader on this year’s squad, electing him as a co-captain along OAKS’ NOTES . . . The Mark Speck- with senior linebacker Chase Thom- as and senior center Sam Schwartz- man era at Menlo College kicked off Stanford senior running back Stepfan Taylor (33) may have to elevate his game even more than he did last season, with a bang on Saturday, as the Oaks now that All-American quarterback Andrew Luck has moved on to the NFL. Taylor rushed for 1,330 yards in 2011. (continued on page 25) scored three second-half touchdowns and came away with a 28-13 noncon- ference victory over the University of British Columbia in Canada. Menlo COLLEGE FOOTBALL trailed 13-7 midway through the third, but found a way to rattle off three With Luck gone, a new era rushing touchdowns, including two in the fourth quarter, to score the game’s final 21 points. The Oaks (1-0) gets under way for Stanford travel to perennial NCAA DIII power- Nunes takes over at quarterback while offensive line has house Linfield College on Saturday for a 12:30 p.m. kickoff. Menlo has never new look heading into Friday’s season opener against SJS beaten the Wildcats and is winless by Rick Eymer in 13 chances all-time. That could expect the Cardinal (11-2 last year) change after an impressive ground he quarterback comparisons to repeat last season’s record-setting attack was the story in Speckman’s will be inevitable and Josh 561 total points or 489.3 total offen- coaching debut for the Oaks, who T Nunes knows all he can do it sive yards per game. racked up 230 yards and four TDs. play his game. The redshirt junior “I feel good with 90 percent of replaces Andrew Luck as Stanford’s what we’ll put out on the field,” ON THE AIR leading man this season and will Stanford coach Davis Shaw said. take the first snap when the Cardi- “We’ll have to see about the rest.” Friday nal opens its football season Friday It’s the 10 percent that will deter- College football: San Jose State
night with a home game against San mine whether the Cardinal is in the Don Feria/stanfordphoto.com at Stanford, 7 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks; KNBR (1050 AM); KZSU (90.1 FM) Jose State at 7 p.m. running for a major bowl game or Saturday Nunes (6-4, 225) is merely one of just looking to become bowl-eligible Women’s soccer: USA U-20 vs. Costa several new starters on the offensive come November. Rica in World Cup, 11:30 a.m.; NBC side of the ball. Just as important as The defense, an often over-looked replacing Luck is filling the shoes part of the Stanford’s success last of the five other graduates who also year, is in better shape, particularly On the cover: Stanford senior signed NFL contracts. with the return of linebacker Shayne Stepfan Taylor will be carrying For that reason alone, expecta- Skov (6-3, 242), who, last year, was much of the offensive load for the tions are more subdued. There’s lit- lost for the season with a knee injury Cardinal this season. Photo by tle talk of a national championship, Redshirt junior Josh Nunes (left) will take over for NFL No. 1 pick Jim Shorin/Stanfordphoto.com for instance. After all, no one can (continued on next page) Andrew Luck, one of many changes to the Stanford lineup. Page 22ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Stanford Football 2012
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in the third week. Stanford will have to replace five defensive starters, but those who do step in, for the most part, have plenty of experience. “We still have special guys,” Shaw ______said. “Our combination of lineback- by David Kiefer Chase Thomas contemplated ers; I’d love to see a group anyone or a team that must replace entering the NFL Draft after last says is better.” top NFL Draft pick Andrew season, but felt he needed to im- The Cardinal will play its first F Luck at quarterback, there prove to increase his value. Thom- game without Skov, who will sit out may be just as much fascina- as said he has done so, adding 10 a game for a violation of team rules, tion with another position — left pounds to 245, getting stronger in an alleged DUI incident. tackle. the weight room, and becoming Nunes is where the talk begins. The success of Stanford’s 2012 more flexible. He’s had minimal playing experi- recruiting class, ranked No. 5 in “(Sports performance coach ence during his first two years, ap- the nation, was largely judged as Shannon) Turley emphasizes pearing in four games. Even at that, such by the collection of superstar stretching and being functional he takes more college experience offensive linemen. Two of those more than any other coach prob- into his first start than Luck. freshmen, Andrus Peat and Kyle ably out there,” Thomas said. “I feel excited and ready to go,” Murphy, are competing for that “He’s a technician when it comes Nunes said. “It’s been a long time
starting left tackle spot for Fri- to injury prevention. He’s a huge since I’ve been hit in a real game.” Don Feria/stanfordphoto.com day’s opener against visiting San flexibility guy.” Like Luck, Nunes also said he en- Jose State at 7 p.m. Another result of that emphasis? joys the first contact of the game. Regardless of whether either Yoga classes. During his freshmen season, former makes the start, each has been ______coach Jim Harbaugh would some- promised a significant amount of Many underclassmen will have times allow the defense to go after playing time, head coach David their first opportunities to make an him on the practice field. Shaw said. impact in game situations. When “Harbaugh would yell, ‘OK quar- Shaw said the starting assign- evaluating their performances, terback live,’ and the defensive line ment would be determined late in what is Shaw looking for? would perk up and run back in for a the week. If either is determined “How they handle adversity,” he a few plays,” Nunes said. “I got to to be ready to start, third-year said. “That’s the biggest thing. know Chase Thomas quite well.” Senior linebacker Chase Thomas contemplated entering the NFL Draft sophomore David Yankey will “Hand the ball to the running Nunes received a text message after last season, but felt he needed to increase his value. remain at his left guard position. back, and everybody’s blocked so from Luck after Shaw announced If there were some reservations, he walks into the end zone -- that him as the starting quarterback: sophomore Connor McFadden (6-3, also includes Trent Murphy (6-6, Yankey would shift to left tackle tells me nothing. What happens “Congratulations, now it’s time to 284) as the backup.. 261), Palo Alto grad Kevin Ander- and Khalil Wilkes would start at when he gets hit in the backfield? get to work.” Senior Drew Terrell (5-11, 180) son (6-4, 250) and James Vaughters left guard. What happens when he makes a It’s also time for guys like senior and sophomore Ty Montgomery (6-2, 246). “We’ve seen tremendous growth mistake? What happens when a right guard Kevin Danser (6-6, (6-2, 212) step into starting roles as Terrence Stephens (6-2, 305) and in both Andrus Peat and Kyle tackle gets beat? All that stuff is 298), who takes over for All-Ameri- wide receivers, taking over for Griff Ben Gardner (6-4, 275) return to the Murphy,” Shaw said. “The chal- important. When a young receiver can David DeCastro, and whomever Whalen and Chris Owusu. Terrell defensive line and will be joined by lenge is to make sure one of those catches the ball and gets hit hard, takes over at left tackle for Jonathan and Montgomery, the team’s best the experienced group of Henry An- young guys is ready. There’s no what happens on the next play? Martin. kick returner, have seen action in derson (6-6, 278), Josh Mauro (6-6, question about the physical tools. That’s what tells you about young Danser, who grew up in Sarato- the past. 277) and David Parry (6-2, 300). It’s can we get the consistent play guys. It’s not important what hap- ga and rooted for his older brother “For the last two years Drew has Terrence Brown (6-1, 178) is the at that position? pens to you, it’s how you respond Chris, who played at San Jose State, been our best blocking receiver,” lone returning starter in the defen- “If I’m not comfortable with to what happens to you.” will be making his first collegiate Shaw said. sive backfield, but there’s plenty of one of the young guys, I’ll go with ______start. Tight end Coby Fleener joined depth there, as well, with Ed Reyn- the old guy. But I’m comfortable Stanford and San Jose State “Being consistent every day is Luck with the Indianapolis Colts olds (6-2, 207), Jordan Richards in the progress so far. I think the annually meet in the Bill Walsh the biggest thing I am working on,” and will be replaced at Stanford by (5-11, 208) and Barry Browning entire freshman class is special. Legacy Game. The title honors Danser said. “David is such a great the experienced Levine Toilolo (6-8, (6-1, 182). We have the luxury of hopefully Walsh, a three-time Super Bowl player, I’d watch him on film and 285) or Zach Ertz (6-6, 252). They Former running back Usua Ama- putting those guys on the shelf for champion coach of the San Fran- wonder ‘Wow, how can I ever do combined to catch 10 touchdown nam (5-10, 176) will be utilized as a a year, but some of these guys are cisco 49ers, who played at San that?’” passes last year. nickel back. ready to play.” Jose State and had two successful Left tackle will be manned, Schwartzstein and Cameron Hewitt (ankle) and senior fullback Peat is 6-foot-7 and 308 pounds. stints as Stanford’s coach. whether as the starter or otherwise, Fleming (6-6, 314) join Yankey Geoff Meinken (6-4, 252) are both Murphy is 6-7, 280. Shaw, who played for Walsh at by a pair of true freshmen in Andrus to give the front four some stabil- out for San Jose State. Meinken is New starting quarterback Josh Stanford, took time to talk about Peat (6-7, 308) and/or Kyle Murphy ity and should help the running expected to return mid season while Nunes, who won the job over Brett Walsh to his team this week. One (6-7, 280). If Shaw feels neither is game remain as one of the team’s Hewitt is likely to miss one more Nottingham, described his first of the lessons came from Walsh’s ready, he’ll go with veteran guard strength. game. impression: “They’re huge.” amateur boxing career. David Yankey (6-5, 301). Senior Stepfan Taylor (5-11, 215) In addition to Anderson, other “I definitely feel comfortable “He always talked about beat- “I have seen tremendous growth has quietly put together an impressive locals at Stanford include Menlo- with whoever’s over there,” he ing the opponent to the punch,” from Andrus and Kyle,” Shaw said. career at Stanford and could set the Atherton grad Sam Knapp (6-3, said. Shaw said. “We’ll see how much one or both school’s career rushing record. Full- 208) and Sacred Heart Prep grads ______are ready to help. Who takes the back Ryan Hewitt (6-4, 248) is the Chris Gaertner (6-1, 182) and Brian Another top recruit, running Nunes said he learned a lot snap on the first play is not impor- team’s leading returning receiver. Moran (6-7, 309). N back Barry Sanders, is being con- from being an understudy to tant. I’d love to keep David at guard, Jordan Williamson (5-11, 192) sidered for a redshirt year, but that Luck. Primary was Luck’s exten- where he at his best. If for some rea- and Daniel Zychlinksi (6-3, 208) decision won’t be made just yet. sive preparation. son neither freshman is ready, I’m return to handle kicking and punt- STANFORD FOOTBALL “We’ll see how it goes,” Shaw “Maybe it was just the fact that not worried about David.” ing duties, respectively. said. “We’re very healthy at run- I’d always try to be early in the Peat and Murphy are both con- Skov and outside linebacker Chase Date Opponent Time ning back. So, how much will he film room, and whenever I came sidered two of the better overall re- Thomas (6-4, 248) are the heart and Friday vs. San Jose St. 7 p.m. be able to play? Is it worth play- in early, he was always there be- cruits in the nation. soul of the Stanford defense and Sept. 8 vs. Duke 7:30 p.m. ing a minimal amount to burn fore me,” Nunes said. “They could both be dominant both are expected to be top choices Sept. 15 vs. USC 4:30 p.m. a redshirt year? But, you never Another lesson: the importance by the end of this year,” Shaw said. in next year’s NFL draft. Sept. 27 at Washington 6 p.m. know what will happen a couple of sleep. “The entire freshmen class is special “The defense has grown over the Oct. 6 vs. Arizona TBA of games into the season. “The guy got almost 10 hours and this is the best group of fresh- last couple years,” Thomas said. Oct. 13 at Notre Dame 12:30 p.m. “There’s no hesitation about him of sleep every night,” Nunes said. men linemen I’ve seen.” “This year we’re really at the top Oct. 20 at California TBA with the ball in his hands. It’s all “You have to do everything to get Center Graham Shuler is part and playing faster.” Oct. 27 vs. Washington St. TBA the other things we ask our backs physically prepared.” of that class and is considered the With the injury to Skov came Nov. 3 at Colorado TBA to do. Is he physically ready and best at his position (in the nation) opportunity for inside lineback- Nov. 10 vs. Oregon St. TBA Nov. 17 at Oregon TBA mentally ready for all that? We’ll David Kiefer is a member of the by Shaw, even though senior Sam ers Jarek Lancaster (6-1, 242) and Nov. 24 at UCLA TBA see.” Stanford Sports Information staff Schwartzstein (6-3, 292) will Stan- A.J. 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GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a public hearing at a special Council meeting on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Goals at 7:00 p.m. or as soon as possible thereafter in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo not quite Alto, to Consider the Adoption of a Resolution Amending the Transportation Element of the Com- prehensive Plan To Incorporate Certain Findings of as high the Palo Alto Rail Corridor Study and Approval of a After back-to-back Negative Declaration. state titles, Palo Alto Donna J. Grider, MMC readjusts its focus City Clerk by Keith Peters he first ball has yet to be served in the 2012 girls’ prep T volleyball season by Palo Alto, but the Vikings already are listed Athena No. 5 in the nation in the MaxPreps Xcellent 25 rankings. That’s heady stuff, but not realistic. Kyle Terada 2012 Palo Alto did finish the 2011 sea- son ranked, by MaxPreps, as the Athena Award Nomination No. 1 team in the nation. That came for a woman who has attained on the heels of the Vikings winning Four-year veteran Shelby Knowles is one of only two seniors on the Palo their second straight CIF Division I Alto girls’ volleyball team this season. and personified the highest level of state championship to cap a remark- professional excellence in able two-year run that saw Palo Alto captured its first-ever state crown. push to get to the CCS finals.” go 77-4. No team in the 100-plus years of One thing Winn has done to business and the community. While the Vikings begin their Palo Alto High athletics ever pro- make the season goals more achiev- new season on Tuesday by hosting duced such a remarkable two-year able is adjust his schedule. Gone is Nomination Deadline: Notre Dame-Belmont in a non- effort. the prestigious Mitty Tournament, Friday, September 21, 2012 league match at 6:30 p.m., their The state title gave Winn a record where Paly suffered two of its three 21-match win streak to finish the of 200-36 for his six years with the losses last season. The only other 2011 campaign is just a reminder Vikings. He’ll begin his seventh loss was to St. Francis, also off the Luncheon: of where Paly has been, rather than without graduated starters Mela- schedule. The Vikings also are by- Wednesday, November 7, 2012 where it is going. nie Wade, Maddie Kuppe, Kimmy passing Saturday’s annual Milpitas “The MaxPreps ranking is more Whitson, Caroline Martin and Jack- Spikefest I tournament while adding Hosted by: of an homage to our program’s ie Koenig — mainstays on the Vi- nonleague matches against Leland, history than it is a realistic assess- kings’ special two-year run. Wade, Castilleja and King’s Academy. ment of where we should be placed now a freshman at Washington, was “I’d say that this year will be Media Sponsors: in comparison to the best teams in the MVP of the state championship the toughest challenge for us in the country,” said Paly coach Dave match. Martin and Kuppe were my tenure at Paly in order to do Nomination form: PaloAltoChamber.com Winn. “As I’ve always maintained, named to the All-Championship that (win league and CCS), given the only ranking that really matters Team. our turnover and given the com- to us is the one we give ourselves “The 2011 Paly squad is a a once- petition,” Winn said. “But, my Thanks to Our Annual Event Sponsors at the end of the season. That rank- in-a-few-decades kind of team,” squad is hungry to make its own ing is based on our effort and rate of Winn said at the conclusion of last mark and they’re working hard improvement. season. “They all truly know how in practice to come up to speed.” “You can’t always control the out- to leave it all out on the court and Three other teams that advanced comes, but we’ve certainly benefited give everything for their teammates. deep into the postseason last year from some outstanding contribu- We had 16 on the roster and even are gearing up for the new season, tions from our recently graduated though only eight or nine saw some as well. seniors to give us a lot more wins regular court time, they all cheered Menlo-Atherton, which lost to harrington design than losses the past two years. But, for each other no matter what. They Paly in the NorCal Division I finals this season is different.” get what it means to put team goals and finished 31-7 (a school record The Vikings lost eight seniors off ahead of personal agendas. And for single-season victories) after a 36-3 squad that upended Loyola that’s why we were able to achieve going 14-0 in the PAL Bay Divi- Marymount in five sets in the state great things.” sion, will open its season Tuesday finale to cap the ‘11 season. Those Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce ¢ 400 Mitchell Lane ¢ Palo Alto But, as they say, that was then and at Sacred Heart Prep at 6:30 p.m. 650.324.3121 ¢ PaloAltoChamber.com seniors also helped lead the way the this is now. The Bears lost head coach Jen Wil- year before when Paly went 41-1 and “We have new leadership in place, son, who has been replaced by Ron starting with our two senior captains Whitmill, a veteran with more than (Shelby Knowles and Sophia Bono) 12 years of coaching experience at High Holy Days 5773 and a whole host of new people on both the club and college levels varsity who are going to need to find Leading the way for the Bears with Keddem Congregation their place,” said Winn. will be 6-foot-1 senior outside hit- Knowles and Bono are the only ter Ali Spindt, who is on the Under Everyone is welcome to attend our High Holy Day services at no two seniors on the team that includes Armour High School All-American charge, as space permits. Advance reservations required. seven juniors — headed by return- Watch List. Other key returnees in- ing outside hitter Becca Raffel. clude senior Mele Moimoi, Katelyn Keddem is a community-led, Main services in the Cultural Center (Theater) of the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. “It’s sort of like we were three Doherty and junior Pauli King. Reconstructionist Jewish years ago when Shelby was just a Sacred Heart Prep reached the the congregation, passionately Rosh Hashanah frosh on a team that was mostly NorCal Division IV semifinals last committed to infusing Sun, Sept 16, 7:30 pm Evening Service dominated by sophs and juniors,” season before falling to top-seeded tradition with new meaning. Mon, Sept 17, 9:30 am 1st Day Morning Service Winn said. “It’s likely that it will Union Mine, finishing 24-8 under take us a while to settle on a con- coach Damien Hardy. The Gators, Elisheva Salamo, Rabbi 9:45 am Junior Congregation; 10 am Young Children’s Celebration Tues, Sept 18, 9:30 am 2nd Day at Kehillah Jewish HS sistent lineup and figure out which who opened the season Thursday people can play the various roles we against Mills and will compete Reserve online at Yom Kippur need. That might mean we take a in the Milpitas Spikefest I on Sat- www.Keddem.org Tues, Sept 25, 7 pm Kol Nidrey (and food drive) few hits early on in the season, but urday, return eight players (all se- 650-494-6400 Wed, Sept 26, 9:30 am Morning Service we need to invest in learning at a niors). Among that veteran group is much higher priority. That said, we 6-footer Ellie Shannon, Helen Gan- [email protected] 9:45 am Junior Congregation; 10 am Young Children’s Celebration 5 pm Mincha, Yizkor, Ne’ilah are not sacrificing our yearly goal of trying to win league and make a (continued on page 26) Page 24ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Stanford Football 2012 LEARN Stepfan Taylor New Semester Starts September 8 (continued from page 25) For students who do not stein. speak Mandarin at home “That was a great honor,” Taylor Weekly at Jordan School (Wed or Sat), said of being named co-captain. “Because I know I don’t really talk Fairmeadow School (Wed), much, I’m not really a vocal leader, Laurel School (Tues and Fri), so to have them vote me as a captain, Oak Knoll School (Thurs), Encinal School (Wed) I really appreciated that, and I will do whatever it takes to represent this Contact: Phyllis (650) 917-7907 for details team in the right way.” While Taylor may not say much Hwa Shin Chinese School during the game, his teammates Established in 1995 have taken notice of the work he 750 N. California Ave., Palo Alto puts in on and off the field. The Stanford coaching staff told Taylor www.hwashinschool.org that he has “field credibility,” and that his teammates will follow his lead. First-year starting quarterback Josh Nunes pointed to Taylor as a model for him to mold his game af- ter, when he recently spoke to the media. Nunes noted Taylor’s work ethic and the back’s serious ap- proach to practice as some of his laudable qualities. “Stepfan isn’t the most boister- ous guy, but he is one of those guys that brings his lunch pail everyday,” Don Feria/stanfordphoto.com Nunes said. “He really studies the playbook hard, and is a guy who leads by example.” Taylor’s subdued demeanor is echoed in the way he has quietly put up prodigious numbers the past two seasons. In 2010, Taylor racked up 1,137 yards on the ground, which was then the second best single- sea- Senior Stepfan Taylor is only 1,263 yards shy of Darrin Nelson’s all-time son rushing total in Stanford history Stanford career rushing record of 4,033 yards. behind Gerhart’s 1,871 in 2009. Then in 2011, Taylor climbed even (3,522) and Brad Muster (2,940). you won’t see a change in his game closer to the man he backed up as a Along with rushing yards, Taylor just to chase the record books. freshman, rushing for 1,330 yards is also bearing down on the career “I didn’t even know I was close on 242 attempts. rushing touchdowns record. After before I started hearing about it “Back-to-back 1,000 yard sea- posting 15 rushing touchdowns as (records),”Taylor said. “I’m just try- sons,” Nunes said of Taylor. “He is a sophomore, he followed it up by ing to go out here and play my best as good as anyone in the country.” finding the end zone on 10 carries game, and those records out there, For a guy who has played second in 2011. Throw in two scores from if I get ‘em I get ‘em, but I’m not fiddle to Heisman hopefuls for three his freshman campaign and Taylor’s going to try to pad my stats to hurt seasons, Taylor is also knocking on 30 rushing touchdowns ranks him the team.” the door of some of Stanford’s lofti- sixth all-time. Tommy Vardell is Some of the all-time marks Tay- est career records. No. 2 with 37. lor is chasing belong to his former The senior is currently fourth in It would take his best scoring teammate and current Vikings’ run- career rushing yards with 2,770. year yet, though, to match Gerhart’s ning back Gerhart. Taylor expressed However, Taylor is only 1,263 yards record 44 rushing TDs, but with a his appreciation for the knowledge shy of Darrin Nelson’s record total first-year quarterback under center, he gained under Gerhart’s tutelage, of 4,033. If Taylor can match his Taylor will likely see an increased knowledge that helped him trans- rushing numbers from last season, load this season. form his game. he will easily take over the throne as While Taylor said he recognized “A lot of it is a credit to him (Ger- Stanford’s all-time rushing leader. that more eyes will be on him now hart), he helped me when I was He currently trails Nelson, Gerhart that Luck is gone, he emphasized that young. I was grateful to have him freshman year.” Taylor said. “When THE STANFORD RECORD BOOK I came out of high school I was just running, and he taught me how to Career rushing read defenses and to be patient be- hind the line.” 4,033 — Darrin Nelson (1977-78, 80-81) Three years after emerging from 3,522 — Toby Gerhart (2006-09) under Gerhart’s wing, Taylor is the 2,940 — Brad Muster (1984-87) lynchpin of a nationally touted of- 2,770 — Stepfan Taylor (2009-) fense, and now the student has become Single season the teacher. As a senior and captain, 1,871 — Toby Gerhart (2009) Taylor is now in the role to take over 1,330 — Stepfan Taylor (2011) as mentor to the other running backs. 1,137 — Stepfan Taylor (2010) Although, teammates may have been 1,136 — Toby Gerhart (2008) looking at Taylor to model their game 1,084 — Tommy Vardell (1991) even before this year. “Stepfan is a great teammate to Career touchdowns have,” former Stanford running 44 — Toby Gerhart (2006-09) back and current minor league 40 — Darrin Nelson (1977-81) baseball player Tyler Gaffney said. 37 — Tommy Vardell (1988-91) “As a running back he always does 33 — Brad Muster (1984-87) the right assignment, putting pres- 31 — Vincent White (1979-82) sure on the other backs to the same. Good for Business. Good for You. 30 — Stepfan Taylor (2009-) He is a goofball off the field, but he 30 — Ken Margerum (1977-80) Stepfan Taylor knows when to turn the switch and Good for the Community. get real serious for football.” N ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊU Page 25 Sports Palo Alto’s Chryst gets offer from USC; Gunn’s Robinson is out of U-17 World Cup by Keith Peters following USC’s Rising Stars Camp, U.S. U-17 Women’s National Team alo Alto junior quarterback he toured the campus and met with heads off to the 2012 U-17 Women’s Keller Chryst won’t make his the coaches and received a verbal World Cup, which begins Septem- P 2012 debut until next week, offer. ber 22 in Azerbaijan. but the college football world al- “The staff could not have been Robinson, a starting center mid- ready is taking note — with the first more impressive,” his father told fielder, will miss the tournament of likely many offers already in. Hoffman. due to a medical issue. The 6-foot-4, 225-pound Chryst, Chryst is the first quarterback Robinson, who has been a stand- already regarded as one of the top that USC has offered in the Class out cross-country runner for Gunn, propects in the West in the Class of of 2014, and he’s coming off a 2011 started four of the five games at the 2014, has received his first college sophomore season where he threw 2011 CONCACAF Women’s U17 offer — from a Pacific-12 Confer- for 2,165 yards (112 of 223) and 28 Championship. She played 248 of ence school. touchdowns with 11 interceptions the 270 minutes from the three pool Chryst attended USC’s Rising while helping Palo Alto compile a play matches. Stars Camp at the end of June and 10-3 record (6-1 in the SCVAL De Despite her medical situation, he received an offer, said his father, Anza Division). Robinson is planning on running Geep. for the Titans this fall. She is the According to Brandon Hoffman Time to run again defending SCVAL El Camino Di- of Rivals.com, Keller Chryst was Gunn High junior Sarah Robin- visiion and Central Coast Section the top underclass quarterback at son won’t have to pack her bags and Division I champion and finished the Oakland Elite 11 in May and, miss school next month when the third in the CIF State Meet. N Volleyball (continued from page 24) This space donated as Community Service by the Palo Alto Weekly non, 6-1 Payton Smith, Cammie Merten, Jojo Kurtzman and Sonia Abuel-Saud, who suffered a season- ending injury in 2011. Matching SHP’s postseason fin- ish last season was Priory, which went 26-7 after falling to No. 1 seed Branson in the NorCal Division V semifinals. An 11-1 finish in the West Bay Athletic League (Sky- Act Now! line Division) earned the Panthers a move up to the WBAL Foothill Division. Last Week for Dustin Moore, who guided Priory to the CIF Division V state title in Discounted Tickets! 2000, is back to coach the Panthers after an 11-year hiatus. Most of that time was spent as associate head DEADLINE IS SEPT. 8TH coach of the Santa Clara University women’s volleyball team. Moore has 10 returning players, including standouts in senior middle the Palo Alto blocker Brianna Willhite and junior outside hitter Marine Hall Poirier. Seniors Elizabeth Oliphant, Clara Johnson and Stephanie Brugger pro- vide veteran experience while Emily Black Tonogai and Stephanie Swan battle for the key setter position along with junior transfer Riley Gallivan. “I am looking forward to the chal- Pam McKenney/Menlo Athletics lenge of competing in the Foothill Division,” said Moore. “I think it White will be a good experience for the girls and my hope is that it will pre- pare us for the postseason.” The 2012 season also marks the resumption of the sister showdowns Ball between Castilleja coach Tracie (Hubbard) Meskell and Menlo coach Atlee Hubbard in the WBAL Foot- Menlo School senior Emma Thygesen is back to help the Knights hill Division. Both teams could meet improve upon their 24-8 record from last season. as early as Saturday, as both are en- September 29th tered in the Spikefest I tournament. sa Cairo and Maddy Frappier plus shows a lot of maturity at her age . . Castilleja went 20-15 last season sophomore Elisa Merten. . I’m really excited to see how well and captured the CCS Division V Hubbard will miss 6-3 senior we can execute the things we have title. The Gators return seven play- Drew Edelman, who accepted a worked on this preseason.” ers, including Lucy Tashman and scholarship offer this summer to At Gunn, the Titans need to Hannah Hsieh — the team’s only play basketball at USC next year. bounce back from their 1-11 season seniors. Jennifer DiSanto is back “We talked and she made a deci- in the tough SCVAL De Anza Divi- after a standout sophomore season, sion to fully commit to basketball sion despite qualifying for the CCS as is sophomore Sarah Rose. year round,” Hubbard said. “Makes Division I playoffs. Coach Kevin Menlo is even better off, person- sense. She was injured all last sea- Hwang has eight returning play- nel-wise, after losing only one senior son so we basically have the same ers, including 6-3 Lena Latour and (Natalie Roy) off a team that went team minus Natalie Roy. Our team 6-1 Meghan Mahoney, plus veteran 24-8 and reached the CCS Division is looking great so far and more Erica Johnston. He’ll need to incor- www.ThePaloAltoBlackandWhiteBall.org IV semifinals. Returnees include experienced, which is nice consid- porate seven new players into the senior Emma Thygesen, Alexandra ering our youngest player is now mix in hopes of challenging the top Media Sponsors: Ko; juniors Morgan Dressel, Melis- one sophomore (Merten) and she teams this season. N Page 26ÊUÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊΣ]ÊÓä£ÓÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Sports Stanford fills final two head coaching vacancies by Rick Eymer Knapp spent the previous 28 years as and we expect similar results here Georgetown has finished in the top over No. 6 Penn State in a dramatic t has been a busy few weeks for an assistant at Stanford under veteran at Stanford.” 10 of the USTFCCA Terry Crawford contest that featured a Nittany Lion new Stanford Athletic Director Skip Kenney before being named as Miltenberg comes with outstand- Program of the Year each of the last lead, a Stanford comeback and a late I Bernard Muir, who added two Kenney’s replacement. ing credentials from his five seasons two seasons. He is a three-time Mid- Penn State penalty kick to tie. new head coaches to his staff with With the 2012 collegiate cross- at Georgetown. He has coached 36 Atlantic Assistant Coach of the Year On Sunday, Stanford finished the recent hires. country season opening this week- All-Americans in track and field, for women’s track and field and had tournament with a 1-0 loss to un- Muir filled the vacant head coach end, Stanford finally got its new including individual NCAA cham- six of his athletes compete at the ranked West Virginia, which scored job for women’s swimming by nam- coach in Miltenberg. He replaces pion at 3,000 meters, Emily Infeld, 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. on a 20-yard shot in the 83rd minute. ing Cal men’s assistant Greg Meehan Edrick Floreal, who previously held and two NCAA runner-up finishes. The loss ended Stanfordís 25-match to that position on Monday. Before both jobs before leaving this sum- Miltenburg also led the Georgetown Women’s soccer winning streak, 28-match unbeaten that, Muir reached into his connec- mer for Kentucky. women to the 2012 Big East indoor Nationally No. 4-ranked Stanford streak, and 64-match regular-season tions at Georgetown and hired the Miltenberg comes from George- track title. renews a bi-coastal rivalry when the unbeaten streak. Hoyas’ Chris Miltenberg as Stan- town, where he was the associate “I’d really like to thank Bernard Cardinal (2-1) plays host to No. 7 “My reaction is that soccer can ford’s new director of track and field head coach for track and field and Muir, Patrick Dunkley and Joe Kar- Boston College (3-0) on Friday at be a cruel sport at times,” Stanford and men’s cross country. the head women’s cross-country lgaard for the opportunity to come Laird Q. Cagan Stadium at 4 p.m. coach Paul Ratcliffe said. “West Vir- “We are excited to welcome coach. He led the Hoyas to the 2011 to Stanford,” said Miltenberg. “This The teams have met in the past ginia had a good game plan, and we Greg Meehan to the Stanford fam- NCAA title in women’s cross coun- is a great opportunity for my fam- three NCAA tournaments. lacked energy and creativity.” ily as our new women’s swimming try and was named the USTFCCCA ily and we couldn’t be more excited. The Cardinal is hoping to bounce After beating a pair of nationally and diving head coach,” Muir said. National Women’s Cross Country Stanford has an incredible tradition back from its first loss of the season. ranked teams to open the season, the “Greg brings a wealth of experience Coach of the Year. of excellence that I hope to build on, Stanford was ranked No. 1 in the Cardinal lost to an unranked oppo- from his previous coaching stints at “We are thrilled to have Chris join while at the same time beginning a NSCAA/Continental Tire Coachesí nent, its first setback since losing to Princeton, UCLA, Pacific and most us at Stanford,” said Muir. “He will new chapter and looking for ways to Poll going into the Penn State Invita- Notre Dame in December of 2010 recently at Cal. He has excelled at be an excellent contributor and lead- improve and get better. I am deeply tional, but experienced mixed results at the NCAA championship. UCLA coaching student-athletes not only er for a tremendous group of student- humbled and honored to be coming in Happy Valley. was the last team to beat Stanford in in academic settings but also in athletes. He is very well thought of to Stanford, but more than anything On Friday, Mariah Nogueira head- the regular season in 2008. N the highest level of the sport while and recommended by many. He has I am fired up to get started.” ed in the winning goal in the 88th Stanford Sports producing NCAA champions and had great success at Georgetown Under the guidance of Miltenberg, minute to give Stanford a 3-2 victory Information contributed Olympians.” Regarded as one of the top assis- tants in the country, Meehan takes over a Cardinal program that has earned nine national titles and most recently finished fourth at the 2012 NCAA Championships. 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