As pandemic rages on, residents rise to the challenge

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INFO PALO ALTO 2020 FEATURES 6 A pandemic unfolds: The year rom its earliest beginnings, the shop, pick up medications and run errands for that changed everything Midpeninsula has cemented itself as a those in need has inspired others to help their place with an entrepreneurial spirit that neighbors, residents have shown that we are in 14 Artistic directors re-imagine the F arts for the better thrives on innovation and pushing beyond the this together. established boundaries. The region has played Info Palo Alto 2020 aims to capture what it 21 Second Harvest rethinks food a pivotal role in the arts, education, politics, means to live in this community: It takes a look distribution technology and science. at where we are six months into the pandemic 24 Meet five people helping their But this spirit of creative collaboration has and pays tribute to the people who have risen neighbors during the pandemic to the occasion and created positive change. never been more evident than in 2020 as the 29 Seniors adjust to life in lockdown cities and towns that make up the region In addition to Info Palo Alto, you can visit — and a virtual future banded together to face a global pandemic PaloAltoOnline.com.com to stay up to date that has brought unprecedented and 35 With campuses shut down, on Palo Alto news. Subscribe to Express, an parents reinvent the classroom extraordinary challenges impacting every email sent every weekday, and have the news sector of our lives. delivered right to your inbox. Or check out In the midst of this uncertainty, individuals Weekend Express, emailed on Thursday, for the INFO RESOURCE DIRECTORY and neighborhood groups have stepped up scoop on arts and entertainment. Both are free A curated list of local services and activities to confront these obstacles head on, and in — sign up at Palo AltoOnline.com/express. available along the Midpeninsula the process, have redefined what it means to Do you have suggestions for next year's Info? 40 The Arts be a tight-knit community. From the artistic Send them by email to [email protected]. directors reshaping the local arts scene to We appreciate your feedback. 41 Social Services individuals like Palo Alto resident Howard Linda Taaffe 44 Neighborhoods Kushlan, whose ongoing effort to grocery Info Palo Alto editor 49 Seniors 51 Open Space On the cover: Clockwise from top left, University AME Zion Church livestreams Easter Sunday services; shoppers stand 6 feet apart at Piazza’s Fine Foods; two VTA workers clean a bus at the Mountain View train station; a shopper passes by empty 54 Education shelves at Target; Julia Curry sews masks at her Menlo Park home; Alyssa Weaver draws blood at a COVID-19 antibody testing site in Mountain View; an instructor teaches students at HeadsUp Child Development Center via video chat from home; 62 Government Stanford Theatre remains closed during the shutdown. Design by Kristin Brown. Photos by Magali Gauthier and Sammy Dallal.

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Info PA 2020.indd 5 9/25/20 6:34 PM JANUARY Parents petition for students to stay home Coronavirus arrives in the Bay Area The Palo Alto Unified School District sends The first known case of the novel coronavirus home two students on Feb. 28, after learning finds its way into the Bay Area in January that their parent has been exposed to the when a traveler infected with the viral coronavirus, prompting more than 1,700 disease arrives in Santa Clara County from people to sign a petition by March 5 urging Wuhan, China. the school district to start spring break early and provide online learning options so FEBRUARY students can stay home. State goes on high alert Gov. Gavin Newsom puts California on high ““WeWe cannotcannot controlcontrol everyevery Photo by Magali Gauthier alert on Feb. 26 after the state identifies 31 aaspectspect ooff sstudenttudent oorr people quarantined with the coronavirus in various states of health. ccommunityommunity llife,ife, wwhichhich isis THE YEAR THAT tthehe oonlynly wwayay a qquarantineuarantine MARCH wworks.orks. PaloPalo AltoAlto UnifiedUnified hashas First coronavirus death prompts nnoo pplanslans toto closeclose schoolsschools state of emergency On March 4, the governor declares a state of aatt tthishis point.”point.” changed emergency in response to the first California — SUPERINTENDENT DON AUSTIN death of a patient with COVID-19. In the writes to families in a message in early March. Bay Area, San Mateo County reports its first two cases on March 2, and Santa Clara County sees a steady increase in reported cases from two on Feb. 28 to 20 by March 6 everything that indicate the virus is being transferred through community spread.

In an instant, a pandemic “It is important to recognize reshapes life on the ahp]b_Û\nemma^mbf^lZa^Z] fZr[^Zg]ahprhnfnlmghp Midpeninsula take assertive action to Photo by Sammy Dallal prepare for them.” Mass exodus: Students leave Stanford y the time the novel coronavirus out- — DR. SCOTT MORROW, Stanford University becomes the second San Mateo County’s chief health officer, major U.S. university to cancel in-person break was on our local radar, normal B says in a statement on March 5. classes to prevent the spread of the novel life along the Midpeninsula was already coronavirus after moving all classes online over. The halt of everyday life was sudden As cases climb, panic ensues for the remainder of winter quarter on March 6. Several other California colleges and unprecedented. We had no idea how A quiet anxiety grips the Midpeninsula soon follow suit. Five days later, the as residents face the possibility that the long or how extreme its impacts might be. university asks its approximately 7,000 coronavirus will knock on their doors. As undergraduates, including senior Jeffrey The March shelter-in-place orders were the number of cases climbs, residents scour Chang, shown above, to vacate the campus grocery stores, such as Costco in Mountain only to last three weeks. Six months later, by the end of the week and cancels all View, shown top left, as they prepare in-person classes for the upcoming spring the Midpeninsula is a much different place: to hunker down in their homes in case quarter. Telecommuting is the norm; most students there’s an outbreak or they find themselves infected. have adjusted to distance learning at home; Local tech firms find best defense: ‘WFH’ and it’s still uncertain when most retail Local tech giants give their employees the “Seriously people - STOP same message: Work from home. By the shops, restaurants and theaters may par- BUYING MASKS! They are end of the first week of March, Google, Facebook, Amazon, SAP and Palantir tially or fully reopen (San Mateo and Santa NOT effective in preventing Technologies implement work-from-home Clara counties were both waiting to see if general public from catching protocols that will last indefinitely. Two they could move into the next reopening #Coronavirus, but if health care months later, on May 21, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that the social media phase at the time this was written.) Here’s providers can’t get them to care company — Menlo Park’s largest employer a look back at how the pandemic unfolded for sick patients, it puts them with nearly 15,000 workers — would be expanding its efforts to offer permanent and our communities at risk!” along the Midpeninsula and how we got to remote work opportunities to some this place that is our new normal. — U.S. SURGEON GENERAL JEROME ADAMS employees and predicts that within five posts on Twitter in a public plea asking people to 10 years, roughly half of the company’s to stop hoarding supplies and stockpiling masks. employees could be remote workers.

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First death in Santa Clara County Santa Clara County ramps up health Santa Clara County announces its first restrictions coronavirus-related death on March 9. A woman In addition to closing schools, Santa Clara in her 60s dies at El Camino Hospital in Mountain County’s new legal directive issued on Friday, View after being hospitalized there for several March 13, bans gatherings of more than 100 weeks. She is the first confirmed person in the people and puts a conditional moratorium on county to contract coronavirus without having smaller gatherings of 35 to 100 people. The traveled internationally or having any known restrictions come as the county announces its contact with infected persons. (It was later second coronavirus death and sees its cases discovered in April that the first COVID-19 death increase three-fold within five days. The county in Santa Clara County actually occured on Feb. 6.) now accounts for more than a quarter of California’s 277 cases. A pandemic declared Photo by Sammy Dallal The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the outbreak of the respiratory illness a “These are tough decisions “I cried a little. pandemic on March 11. and we have to make them quickly. The (shelter-in-place) Local state of emergency ... We anticipate many, announcement and San Mateo County declares a local state of emergency on March 10. Menlo Park, Palo Alto the overwhelmingness Alto and Mountain View each declare a local state many more cases of emergency on March 12, followed by Atherton of it all.” on March 13 and East Palo Alto on March 17. in the days and weeks to come.” — PALO ALTO RESIDENT FARISH HAYDEL, above — SANTA CLARA COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER left, who along with neighbors in Midtown launch First health orders issued DR. SARA CODY says during a press a “daily wave” at 6 p.m. Each night, the blares of a Santa Clara County issues its first mandatory conference on Friday, March 13. vuvuzela signal Haydel’s neighbors to come out and health order banning all events of 1,000 people say hi in an effort to maintain some semblance of a connection during the shelter-in-place mandate. or more, starting on March 11. The directive Residents ordered to stay home is the first of its kind in the nation. San Mateo County issues a ban on the same day barring Bay Area public health officials shut down all nonessential people from skilled nursing nonessential businesses effective March 17 facilities — a restriction that remains in effect and order residents of six Bay Area counties, indefinitely months later. The next day, the including Santa Clara and San Mateo, to stay at county issues a legal health order banning home for three weeks. Outside travel is limited gatherings of 250 or more people. to necessities such as grocery shopping or picking up medication — with people keeping 6 feet apart from each other. The March 16 “It’s scary because (I’m) in the announcement comes four days after Santa high-risk demographic. You Clara tightens its ban on social gatherings and a day after San Mateo County confirms 32 cases don’t know how many years and records its first coronavirus-related death, raising the death toll for the state to six. Photo by Magali Gauthier \RXKDYHOHϖDQ\ZD\DQG\RX don’t want to go this way.” Overnight, the Midpeninsula turns into “If I thought last Friday’s — RESIDENT MILLIE CHETHIK, a ghost town 80, says from her Palo Alto home. order was hard, this one On the first day of the shelter-in-place order, traffic drops by 50% on Bay Area roads and is exponentially harder. Caltrain ridership drops 90%. By the end of Temporarily changing the month, the leisure and hospitality industry reports 12,100 job losses in the north and south our routine is absolutely bay combined. To survive the forced closures, necessary to slow the mom-and-pop eateries and fine-dining kitchens alike pivot to delivery and takeout. spread of this pandemic.”

—SANTA CLARA COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER DR. SARA CODY says during a press conference “It may turn out to be that announcing the shelter-in-place order. the economic impact is more Photo by Magali Gauthier California shuts down serious than the actual Schools are ordered to shut down Gov. Gavin Newsom issues a statewide shelter- health impact to the vast Less than 24 hours after Palo Alto school officials in-place order effective March 20, shutting back a plan to keep campuses open, Santa Clara down all but essential functions in response to majority (of people).” and San Mateo counties announce on March 13 state models that predict millions of potential —PETER KATZ, owner of The Counter, that all public schools, including Gunn High School, infections. Under the grim projections, 56% of a local burger chain, says just after the shutdown. shown above, will be forced to shut down for three the state’s 40 million Californians could become weeks, starting on March 16. By March 17, 98.8% of infected by the new coronavirus in the next two Continued on page 8 schools in California have temporarily shuttered. months.

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Continued from page 7 Emergency funds created — APRIL Communities fight to stave off and depleted mass evictions The sudden and urgent need for emergency assistance among residents who unexpectedly Santa Clara and San Mateo counties put find themselves out of work as a result of moratoriums in place before April rents are due COVID-19 health restrictions takes the to stave off mass residential and small business community by surprise when the Mountain evictions amid mounting wage losses and View nonprofit Sacred Heart Community economic hardship caused by the pandemic. Service announces on March 26 that the $11.2 Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park million financial assistance program Santa pass their own urgency ordinances to provide Clara County launched two days earlier to help additional protections. out-of-work residents has run out. Photo by Magali Gauthier

Holy services go virtual With social-distancing rules in place, synagogues and churches throughout the Peninsula devise creative ways to virtually connect during Passover and Easter Week, including AME Zion Church in Palo Alto, where the Rev. Kaloma Smith delivers Easter sermon via livestream, shown above, on April 12.

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Testing tents pop up at Stanford Photo by Magali Gauthier Stanford Health Care erects coronavirus testing tents in Menlo Park, shown above, and on Hospitals brace for equipment shortages Stanford University campus in mid-March in Hospitals brace for a shortage of masks, anticipation of more people coming down gowns, respirators and other critical protective with the virus. (As of March 24, 27,650 tests had equipment, prompting overwhelming been conducted statewide, according to Gov. community response from groups and Gavin Newsom.) individuals such as Julia Curry, shown above, who begins churning out hundreds of masks from behind a sewing machine in her Menlo Park home. By April 17, she has sewn 300 masks for local health workers.

Source: Employment Development Department. Regional health order extended Designed by Kevin Legnon. The regional shelter-in-place health order that includes Santa Clara and San Mateo counties is Unemployment ‘like nothing before seen’ extended until May 3 as cases continue to rise. More than 2.3 million Californians lose their jobs Santa Clara County emerges as the epicenter of in April, pushing the state’s unemployment rate the outbreak in the Bay Area with the number to 15.5%, up from 5.3% in March, according to a of cases increasing from 138 on March 17, jobs report released by California’s Employment when the health order first took effect, to 890 Development Department that calls the job on March 31 when it is extended. The number losses “unprecedented ... like nothing before seen of deaths climbs from three to 30 over that in California history.” Along the Midpeninsula, period. Atherton and East Palo Alto report double-digit Courtesy Claire Cheng unemployment rates above 12%. School closures extended Once a recommendation, masks become Local county health officers and school “Our hospitals are a requirement superintendents announce on March 26 that hundreds of public schools in six Bay Area beginning to fill with San Mateo County passes a new law on April 17 counties, including Santa Clara and San Mateo, requiring everyone to wear face coverings when will remain closed through May 1. Five days COVID-19 patients. entering businesses, stores, health care facilities or later, the state cancels in-person classes for taking public transportation — taking a major step the rest of the school year. Students like Gunn We need more time.” further from the county’s April 2 announcement where masks were only a recommendation. Palo High School senior Claire Cheng, shown above, — SANTA CLARA COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER Alto passes a similar law on May 11, followed by move to remote learning from computers at DR. SARA CODY says during a press home. conference on March 31. Santa Clara County on May 22.

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Continued from page 8 JUNE Schools plan for ‘hybrid learning’ in the fall “The image of faith communities Outdoor dining and limited indoor After weeks of uncertainty about the fate of student learning amid the ongoing coronavirus leading worship online with services resume pandemic, the California Department of Education face masks on ... seems it might Churches, retailers and restaurants that offer on June 8 releases suggested guidelines for the cause people to be additionally outdoor dining are allowed to start welcoming reopening of schools in the fall that focus heavily back customers on June 5 in Santa Clara County on physical distancing in classrooms and creating alarmed.” and on June 6 in San Mateo County under smaller cohorts of students who are on campus — MATT SMUTS, pastor at Grace Lutheran revised health orders that include strict public- at any given time. Local school districts unveil Church, tells the Palo Alto City Council safety protocols organizations must follow. various plans to reopen with hybrid models that before it passes a mask law on May 11. include a mix of online and in-school classes.

MAY “Our students need to Residents ordered to stay home indefinitely get back to school.” Bay Area leaders predict a local spike in COVID-19 — PARENT MARK FEDERIGHI tells the Sequoia cases in the coming summer and roll out new Union High School District on June 30. health orders on May 4 that extend shelter- in-place regulations indefinitely but allow construction workers, gardeners and outdoor retailers that can accommodate physical Photo by Magali Gauthier distancing to reopen in the six Bay Area counties, plus Berkeley. High school seniors celebrate unconventional graduations “In terms of seeing a light at the end With public gatherings on hold, high schools of the tunnel, that’s pretty hard to up and down the Midpeninsula celebrate graduation in unconventional ways: On June visualize at this point because, in order 3, the night that would have been the Class of 2020’s traditional graduation ceremonies in Palo to prevent the spread of this virus and Alto, the city’s sidewalks and street corners are try to mute the pandemic, the only tool instead full of people cheering, waving, banging Photo by Magali Gauthier pots and pans and holding congratulatory signs we really have is shelter in place.” as seniors and their families from Palo Alto, Outdoor dining moves into the street — SANTA CLARA COUNTY EXECUTIVE Gunn, Castilleja and Kehillah high schools drive People enjoy their first sit-down restaurant meal DR. JEFF SMITH says during a teleconference in an ebullient car parade around the city. in nearly three months after Mountain View, on April 25 before the new order is announced. shown above, Menlo Park and Palo Alto each “The things I’m the most missing close major streets in their downtowns to traffic to make room for outdoor dining areas and COVID testing falls short right now aren’t actually the specific shops starting in mid-June as part of an effort Santa Clara County needs to be able to test traditions but the fact I’m never going to support local businesses during the ongoing roughly 4,000 people per day for COVID-19 shelter-in-place order. before the stay-at-home order can be relaxed, to see 95% of my class again. County Executive Jeff Smith tells the Board of I’m ... not getting to savor that last bit Supervisors on May 5. As of the previous week, “It was wonderful to put food on the county had reached only about 1,000 tests of time that we’re supposed to have.” per day, Smith confirms. plates, drinks in real glasses and — GUNN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE LIZA KOLBASOV says about her serve our guests and friends. ... final school year’s abrupt ending. The first big exhale in awhile.” Socializing allowed in ‘bubbles’ — THE OWNERS OF LA BODEGUITA DEL MEDIO on California Avenue post on San Mateo County residents from multiple Instagram during the first weekend of Palo Alto’s households are allowed to interact in “social Summer Streets dining program. bubbles” of 12 or fewer people as part of a new health mandate on June 17 that also allows a wide range of businesses and activities, from JULY barbershops to gyms, to reopen. Cities face grim budget cuts Santa Clara County added to COVID watchlist Faced with enormous anticipated budget Photo by Magali Gauthier shortfalls in the upcoming fiscal year due to the Santa Clara County records its second-highest collapsing economy, Midpeninsula cities begin to Stores open for curbside pickup single-day COVID-19 case count — 122 — on June slash their budgets. Palo Alto authorizes over $40 23, raising concerns about the trajectory of the million in cuts, including the elimination of its San Mateo County allows retailers to open with virus and causing the state to issue a notification shuttle program, and agrees to eliminate more curbside pickup on May 18, joining a wave of Bay that the county is on a “watchlist” because of than 70 City Hall positions, dropping the staffing Area counties beginning to transition into the the increase. (Counties on the watchlist have level to under 1,000 for the first time in at least second phase of reopening. Santa Clara County, not met the state’s benchmarks for reopening, two decades, according to city staff. one of the last to begin reopening, allows including for positive case rates, hospitalizations curbside pickup on May 22. and capacity.) Continued on page 12 PaloAltoOnline.com Info Palo Alto • 11

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Continued from page 11 AUGUST Schools apply for waivers to reopen Businesses forced to move outside San Mateo and Santa Clara counties approve waivers on Sept. 1 allowing a small number of Less than seven weeks after San Mateo County schools — including the Primary School in East allows a wide range of businesses and activities, Palo Alto, Synapse School in Menlo Park and including fitness centers, churches, hair salons, Connect Community Charter School in Redwood barber shops, nail salons and shopping malls to City —to reopen as early as the following week. In reopen, the state orders these activities to be Santa Clara County, the Los Altos School District shut down or move to outdoor operations on is among only three public school districts to Aug. 2 after the county remains on California's request permission for an early reopening. COVID-19 watchlist for three days.

Go maskless, risk a $500 fine The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Photo by Magali Gauthier adopts an urgency ordinance on Aug. 4 establishing fines for those who refuse to wear Stanford to reopen with fewer students a face mask or violate other public health orders Stanford announces on July 1 that it will reopen related to curbing the spread of the coronavirus. in the fall with travel restrictions, fewer students On Aug. 12, Santa Clara adopts a similar ordinance. on campus and primarily online instruction. “I feel like there’s still a pocket of “A Stanford the population that still doesn’t understand the situation.” University education — PALO ALTO RESIDENT ADELA ALVARADO tells Photo by Magali Gauthier will look vastly this news organization after the ordinance passes. Palo Alto schools reopen for different when the COVID cases spike in Palo Alto high-need students fall quarter begins.” Santa Clara County data shows that the number After being closed for six months, some Palo of new COVID-19 cases in Palo Alto is rising Alto Unified schools reopen on Sept. 9 to sharply after almost completely plateauing in — PRESIDENT MARC TESSIER-LAVIGNE AND serve small groups of struggling and special- PROVOST PERSIS DRELL announce July 1. May. The city’s COVID-19 cases totals 183 as of education students in person, shown above, a Aug. 9 — including 20 new ones in the prior week after the California Department of Public week alone. That’s a rate of 273 cases per 100,000 Health issued guidance allowing schools to Within a 48-hour period, hair salons residents, or 0.27% of the city’s population. reopen to serve students with "acute" needs. reopen and shut down again Stanford reverses course on fall reopening On July 13, the same day that hair salons and Santa Clara moves into state's less Citing a “dramatic reversal in California’s gyms reopen in Santa Clara County after being restrictive 'red' shuttered since March, the county’s Public reopening” due to spiking coronavirus rates Health Department announces that those and state guidance for higher education On Sept. 8, Santa Clara County moves to the less businesses, among other sectors, will have institutions that would require a restrictive restrictive red tier in California’s color-coded to re-close on July 15, by state mandate that in-person experience, including no indoor COVID-19 tracking system, clearing the way applies to counties on its watchlist. classes, Stanford University President Marc for more businesses — including nail salons, Tessier-Lavigne announces on Aug. 13 that massage parlors, gyms and fitness centers, undergraduate students will not be coming shopping malls, museums and zoos — to Schools banned from reopening in the fall back to campus in the fall as planned. partially reopen if it can keep its coronavirus Gov. Gavin Newsom announces on July 17 that numbers down for two weeks. Restaurants, public and private schools in counties on the State unveils new COVID tracking system places of worship and movie theaters, however, are ordered to remain closed under the county’s state's coronavirus watchlist cannot reopen for In an effort to create a more stringent process in-person instruction until they've been off the stricter guidelines. San Mateo County moves that determines when counties can move into the red tier on Sept. 22. list for 14 days. This means that schools in Santa forward with indoor business operations, Clara County that had hoped to reopen must California launches a new color-coded COVID-19 plan for full distance learning at the start of the tracking system on Aug. 28. San Mateo and No clear end to the crisis new school year. Santa Clara counties both fall in the purple Even as some counties move toward the next color code — the most restrictive tier indicating phase of reopening, state health experts warn widespread transmission. San Mateo County joins state’s watchlist on Sept. 8 that counties could easily revert to For weeks, San Mateo County is the only Bay stricter guidelines “as soon as two weeks from Area county to evade the state’s coronavirus SEPTEMBER now” if their positivity rates go back up. The watchlist, but on July 29, it joins the crowd next day, Gov. Gavin Newsom signs emergency and faces the possibility of being forced to Stanford bans visitors from campus legislation requiring paid sick time for more shut down a wide range of businesses and Stanford University bans visitors who are not workers in the state exposed to COVID-19. activities if its case rate remains above the affiliated with its academic programs from state’s threshold for more than three days. The entering much of its campus on Sept. 1, a — Information compiled by Linda Taaffe from county’s case rate at the time, based on a 14- sweeping restriction that university officials reporting by the Palo Alto Weekly, The Almanac day rolling average, is 110.4 positive cases per say is necessary for research and teaching to and the Mountain View Voice. 100,000 residents. resume in the fall quarter.

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After the March coronavirus shutdown, members of the Grammy award-winning Ragazzi Boys Chorus created individual recordings that the group's conductors put together to create a digital choral performance Re-imagining of "We Are the Day." Courtesy Ragazzi Boys Chorus. Kent Jue RAGAZZI Achorus is a group that sings together. Almost overnight, COVID-19 made the arts that impossible, giving choir directors a difficult choice: Adapt or disband. Within four days of the shutdown, the conductors of the Grammy award-win- ning Redwood City-based choral group, Artistic directors on Ragazzi, took up the challenge of keeping Courtesy David Allen their choirs alive. They created audio and surviving the present videotapes to conduct singers they could At the front end, the logistics involve neither see nor hear, at first relying on par- creating instructions, collecting record- and planning the future ents and volunteers with sound and video ings and fielding questions. With boys as skills to transform individual recordings young as 6, that means parental involve- into a choral performance. ment. Ragazzi estimates that phase takes “Along the way we produced three vir- about 15 hours, not counting individual here’s no doubt that in the coming tual choirs,” said executive and artistic di- singing time. For the nearly 140 separate voice recordings that went into “We Are Tmonths, many performing arts orga- rector Kent Jue. Among them are a dozen graduating seniors performing “Shenan- the Day,” audio and video editing, all done nizations will be fighting to survive in a doah” as their swan song, and a group of in-house, took another 30 hours. COVID-19-ravaged climate. For some lo- 24 singing the rhythmic “Count On Me.” Of course, it would be simpler if cho- “None of this was a plan. It sort of just ral members could sing and record si- cal luminaries, though, the fight is not developed,” Jue added. “Once we learned multaneously on apps like Zoom, but the about merely survival; it’s about re-imagin- we would have to cancel our season and be sound from the home of a conductor or an accompanist does not reach 140 other ing the arts for the better. Meet four artistic remote, we needed a project for the boys to focus on. We came up with these virtual homes, or even half-dozen, simultaneous- directors who are working to transform the choirs, which, I have to admit I was not a ly. Delays of a few tenths of a second from one place to another would result in cho- Midpeninsula arts scene. fan of at the beginning because there’s so much work on the back end and so much ral cacophony. That’s why choir members work on the front end.” Continued on page 16 14 • Info Palo Alto PaloAltoOnline.com

Info PA 2020.indd 14 9/25/20 6:34 PM Info PA 2020.indd 15 9/25/20 6:34 PM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Bora ‘Max’ Koknar and Alika Ululani Spencer-Koknar DRAGON PRODUCTIONS THEATRE COMPANY

hen Bora “Max” Koknar and with Twitch, Zoom, Facebook Live Whis wife, Alika Ululani Spen- and other platforms, as well as how cer-Koknar, stepped up as co-artis- to best use microphones, camera an- tic directors of Dragon Productions gles and more. Theatre Company in early 2019, “We’re really trying to reimag- they knew they wanted to make the ine what we can do. How we ap- theater a vibrant community hub, proach what we do. What on earth more than just a space to stage plays. is the point of the theater company Months into the pandemic-man- when artists have access to all the dated shutdowns, the duo’s vision same tools of productions?” Koknar has not changed. mused. “We’re here for the audience “We decided that just because we too, but right now we’re here for the can’t continue running our show artists.” doesn’t mean that people don’t need That reimagining includes trying what the theater and arts can pro- to tear down the elitist hierarchies vide,” Koknar said. “The knee-jerk and lack of diversity entrenched ev- reaction is to do archival videos and erywhere — the arts included. Zoom readings — which we did! — “If we’re going to survive this, but the question became, ‘How do it can’t be about just surviving; it we move forward and not just pre- needs to be about coming out on the tend to do the same thing, but on- other side of this with a more equi- line? How do we create community table model for artists and making through the arts?’” experiences more accessible to more The Dragon sprung into action, people,” he said. “It’s been a struggle Photo by Karla Kane not only by creating online versions to push against the economic reali- of its popular “Live at the Dragon” ties, I don’t know how to pay art- of online formats with the goal of but also new friends, people who variety shows, circus shows, and ists more than $300 for hundreds of sparking important conversations had never attended their live shows acting and writing classes for adults hours of labor,” Koknar said. “But all around racism and to support BI- but found themselves hungry for and kids, but also a dizzying selec- of these things that have happened POC (Black, indigenous and people human connection. They’re also tion of interactive, online offerings over the last few months are making of color) and queer artists. able to work with a greater variety including late-night spooky tale- it feel more urgent and critical that “It makes our community engage- of artists, writers and educators, no telling, morning children’s story- everything I’ve been railing against, ment component very different, a longer limited by geography. time (complete with a hedgehog I just act on.” little more intimate,” Ardelean said “Live at the Dragon really explod- puppet), cooking lessons, lunchtime The couple also teamed up with of the new format. ed (since going online). It’s made the exercises, cocktail-hour discussions In Fuse Theatre — founded by Though times have been challeng- most money it’s ever made,” Spen- and more. Stacey Ardelean in 2015 with the ing for the organizations, the re- cer-Koknar said. “Reaching out to “The point of a nonprofit organi- mission of promoting social jus- newed commitment to diversity is artists that wouldn’t be able to oth- zation is not to perpetuate itself, it tice and education — to produce one of several bright spots. Another erwise come to Redwood City is is to serve, and now is our chance to an annual short-play festival cen- is accessibility. Offering interactive huge.” serve,” Koknar said. tered on timely topics. They have programming online means that it’s More information: Koknar has been able to harness adapted the festival — “CoEXIST: open to people all around the world. dragonproductions.net his tech skills to help performers stories of unlikely connection” — Dragon and Fuse have gained not into an ongoing series in a variety only new patrons and performers —Karla Kane

KENT JUE “I’m confident that when we come “As a composer, to hear a piece in North Star Academy in Redwood Continued from page 14 out of this, and are able to rehearse your head and then to hear it in per- City, said he “loves singing with my must push their mute buttons dur- in person again, we will be stronger son sound even better than the ver- friends,” and not being able to sing ing group rehearsals, Jue explained. and better,” Jue said. sion in your head is amazing,” he together was unthinkable. said. “Thank you for being a mes- Jue noted that Ragazzi recently was Although the singers are not per- But tears dissipated when Ragazzi forming before live audiences, they sage of hope in a world that so des- began meeting on Zoom. And when able to record nine singers simul- perately needs hope right now.” taneously in real time, but not on are finding new audiences in dis- he heard the finished virtual piece Zoom. tant places. When Mark Burrows, Hope is what keeps these chorales of “Count on Me,” in which he has the composer of “We Are the Day” in harmony, even amid disappoint- a cameo solo, “something inside of “One of our board members is a who lives in Texas, heard Ragazzi ment. In March, when Ragazzi first me just lit up. I think it’s really cool technology genius,” he said, add- singing his song on YouTube, he soprano Liam Lowitz first heard that we’re able to do this.” ing that the technology, which is a thanked “all of my new friends” that COVID-19 would force choirs More information: ragazzi.org “game-changer,” is still in the exper- with a YouTube recording of his to shut down, “I started crying,” he imental stages. own. said. Lowitz, 12, a seventh-grader at —Janet Silver Ghent

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Sinjin Jones PEAR THEATRE The arts HOW TO GIVE ountain View’s Pear The- Make a charitable donation Matre has an in-house secret Several arts groups and museums weapon: The Pear Playwrights have launched emergency funds to Guild. help pay their rent and artists who Thanks to the active group of are producing content online while writers creating original content, their spaces are dark during the and the enthusiasm and expe- pandemic. rience of new Artistic Director • Find contact information for local Sinjin Jones, the Pear has come arts groups and museums, on up with new, innovative pro- page 40. gramming to meet the moment. HOW TO HELP “Now is a more important time Buy season tickets than ever to be giving art to peo- ple,” Jones said. “And necessity Several local theater companies are producing shows that will be breeds ingenuity.” offered on-demand, livestreamed, Once it became clear that the performed live or presented as a Pear would not be able to do its combination of both for the 2020- planned June production of the 21 season. musical “Side by Side,” Jones • Find a comprehensive list of turned to the Playwrights Guild performing arts groups on to come up with something dif- page 40. ferent: A filmed, digital series HOW TO EXPERIENCE of interwoven tales inspired and informed by the present reality. Outdoor history exhibit Seven writers and Jones, along The Los Altos History Museum has with the cast members, launched taken its special exhibit “Rise Up! very quickly into a six-week de- The Fight for Women’s Suffrage,” vising process, coming up with which celebrates the centennial of women’s suffrage, outdoors. The stories and characters that are exhibit will be mounted on the “responsive to the COVID-19 wraparound porch of the J. Gilbert situation but really speak to the Smith House for visitors to browse strength of the human spirit,” Photo by Sammy Dallal during self-guided tours until the Jones said. museum is permitted to reopen. With his background in devised The exhibit is scheduled to run Playwright Leah Halper said. “I were mixed. theater (the method by which through January 2021. totally jumped at this chance. theater is created collectively) as “We learned a lot from ‘Pear • 51 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos; It’s maybe a once-in-a-lifetime well as independent film, Jones Slices’ in terms of what works losaltoshistory.org opportunity to work with other took charge of proposing a ba- and what doesn’t,” Jones said, playwrights, this incredibly tal- Outside art display sic structure, directed the pieces noting that while the ‘Slices’ ented director and to involve the The outdoor gardens surrounding and served as editor of the proj- were written with live staging actors in really interesting ways. the historic Filoli House are serving ect that turned out to be “many in mind, everything about “This How could you pass it up?” as an exhibit space for “Rich Soil,” small stories that explore this Street and The Next” was delib- an installation of figurative works idea of what relationships mean, Halper appreciates the in- erately planned to utilize shelter- constructed out of wire by San and the value of those who are creased amount of space Jones in-place conditions. Francisco artist Kristine Mays. The closest to us in a time of need,” has given to the Playwrights Jones said that he doesn’t ex- artwork will be on display through he said. Guild, and the way he’s lead- pect the Pear to be back doing Nov. 9. Visitors to Filoli must make ing the Pear thus far. “He really an online reservation in advance, “This Street and The Next,” fully live performances before sees the writers as integral to the wear a mask and adhere to safe which began streaming online January. With that in mind, he Pear. That makes the Pear a more distancing instructions. during the summer, is what the and his team will be consider- interesting place,” she said. “The • 86 Cañada Road, Woodside; Pear described as a “choose your ing more fully digital content, as really big theaters are closed; it’s filoli.org own adventure, hybrid theater well as filming live performances the smaller ones that have been piece” inspired by the current with tiny-to-no audiences, then Virtual museum tours so creative. I think he’s doing an COVID-19 crisis and all the cha- streaming the recording. Several Midpeninsula museums amazing job.” os of spring and summer 2020. While “tech never quite works are offering free virtual tours, artist The show was released as a se- The project was an ambitious exactly the way it should,” Jones talks and special online exhibits ries of short videos with a sug- next step up from the theater said with a laugh, “I am really ex- while their doors are closed during gested viewing order that could company’s last venture, which cited to deliver something to the the pandemic. be switched up according to the was to film and stream the an- Pear audience that is new and • Find a comprehensive list of viewers’ preferences. nual “Pear Slices” production of unique.” museums on page 40. original one acts from the Play- “You can work your whole life as wrights Guild. The technical re- More information: thepear.org See full list of arts & entertainment a playwright and not get a chance programs in the Info Resource Guide sults, including trying to use —Karla Kane to work on a devised play,” on page 40. 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Second Harvest rethinks food distribution

From drive-thrus to home delivery, nonprofit finds new ways to feed a half million residents each month

ince the coronavirus hit the Bay fielded as many as 1,200 calls a SArea in March, Second Harvest day, many from people looking for Food Bank has seen an astronomi- food assistance for the first time. Above: Boxes ready for pick up at Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center in Mountain View are cal rise in demand. The nonprofit Second Harvest CEO Leslie Ba- filled with strawberries, peaches, lettuce, cantaloupe and other produce. Top: Second went from serving about 270,000 cho, who led the San Francisco- Harvest of Silicon Valley volunteers Hana Rust and Steven Jing place packaged food in the trunk of a client’s car at the Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center in Mountain View. Photos by people a month to 500,000 — an Marin Food Bank through the Magali Gauthier. 85% increase. Great Recession in 2008, said the The nonprofit has distributed as almost overnight, dramatic in- able to find food for your family,” be reconfigured into socially dis- many as 12 million pounds of food crease in need is “unprecedented.” Bacho said. tanced drive-thrus to prevent the within a month. Pre-pandemic, 6 It’s hard “to suddenly be out of The coronavirus also forced Sec- spread of the virus. million pounds in a month would work and really worried about: ond Harvest to dramatically trans- They started delivering food to have been a milestone. Are you going to be able to keep form its operations. Farmers mar- Continued on page 22 The nonprofit’s phone hotline has your housing? Are you going to be ket-style distribution sites had to PaloAltoOnline.com Info Palo Alto • 21

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Clockwise from above: National Guard Airmant First Class Ethan Comley moves a pallet of prepared boxes in Curtner Center, one of two Second Harvest of Silicon Valley warehouses in San Jose; volunteers from Second Harvest Food Bank load cars with boxes of food at the Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center; Sarah Howard, the produce sourcing and quality manager at Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, examines some oranges at Cypress Center, one of the nonprofit's two San Jose warehouses, before food is packed into boxes and distributed to various sites.

Continued from page 21 who start their shifts at Second thousands of homebound low- Harvest’s largest warehouse. The income seniors. They stopped ac- 75,000-square-foot Cypress Cen- cepting canned food donations ter in San Jose stores mostly fresh from the community. produce: bags of onions and car- With most volunteers — who made rots, boxes of melons, oranges, up 40% of Second Harvest’s work- broccoli, corn and celery. Meat is force — unable to come in during kept in a separate, chilled room — the shelter-in-place, the nonprof- storage that helped Second Har- it had to rely on the United States vest make it through an initial Army National Guard, temporary meat shortage at the start of the workers and staff from partner shutdown, Baker Hayward said. agencies to sort and package food. The workers deftly steer fork- “Everything changed overnight,” lifts in and out of rows of boxed Second Harvest spokesperson Di- produce, stacking pallets of card- ane Baker Hayward said. board boxes in trucks parked in a Source: Embarcadero Media. Design by Kevin Legnon. dock outside. The trucks later head Months after the Bay Area start- throughout the Bay Area to a net- ed sheltering at home, demand for temporary space added in April to This helps relieve some of the sup- work of more than 300 partner food has not let up — and Second meet the current demand — also ply burden for Second Harvest, agencies — schools, senior cen- Harvest expects the need to con- stores food provided by the feder- said Sarah Howard, a produce ters, churches and shelters — with tinue for more than a year. al government through the Coro- sourcing and quality manager. 1,000 distribution sites. navirus Food Assistance Program Getting food from the warehouse Her job of managing the flow of This warehouse — one of four (CFAP). Second Harvest receives to those in need has become an in- food in accordance with demand that Second Harvest operates, in- an average of 27,000 boxes of food tricate process that begins shortly has taken on new pressure dur- cluding a new, 40,000 square-foot per week from the government. after dawn with masked workers ing the pandemic, she said. At the 22 • Info Palo Alto www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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Food & meals HOW TO GIVE Sponsor a meal The nonprofit LifeMoves has partnered with local restaurants in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties to provide contactless meals to residents staying in its shelters. Through the program, donors can purchase meals online from a list of participating restaurants that will deliver orders directly to shelter residents. Each order serves multiple people. • lifemoves.org/volunteers/meals Food wishlist Demand is at an all-time high at Ecumenical Hunger Program, which has had to temporarily suspend its in-person food and meal programs due to COVID-19. The East Palo Alto nonprofit is collecting food items on a a public health crisis is a first-of- wishlist posted on its website that will be distributed to families in need of a-kind deployment for this par- emergency resources. ticular unit. The 129th Rescue ehpcares.org/covid-19-update Wing, which is based at Moffett • Field in Mountain View, is usual- Charitable gifts ly activated for search and rescue Since the start of the pandemic, missions. the number of Santa Clara and San Mateo county residents seeking food Major Alfred Tamayo, who works assistance through Second Harvest in sales in the semiconductor in- Food Bank Silicon Valley has doubled. dustry, oversees a team of about Individual and corporate donors can assist the nonprofit by making a 37 National Guard members at the charitable donation. warehouse during the day and 15 shfb.org/give-help/donate-funds more during a swing shift. They • assemble up to 250,000 pounds Emergency fundraiser of food a day for distribution, Peninsula Volunteers has launched Tamayo said. a COVID-19 Critical Senior Care Fund to raise $500,000 to help sustain Volunteers are the backbone of the nonprofit’s Meals on Wheels Second Harvest. The majority program that provides critical delivery of volunteers — large corporate of nutritious meals to homebound start of the shutdown, many Sec- and found resources for other sup- seniors in San Mateo County. Due to ond Harvest distribution sites ini- port they needed. Volunteers got groups and seniors — all but dis- COVID-19, the organization was forced tially closed. After some reopened, to know regular visitors by name. appeared when shelter order began to cancel its annual April fundraiser, it took a few weeks for word to Many visitors became volunteers in late March. which typically raises critical funds needed to operate the meal program. spread and for people to know themselves. But volunteers, both veterans and penvol.org/donate where to go if they needed food, Now, families quickly pass first timers, have since started to • making it hard for the nonprofit to through in their cars to pick up the come back. They’re now trained HOW TO FIND HELP predict how much food to send to pre-packaged boxes: one with a se- and consolidated in a single loca- sites. tion, the Cypress Center. Free groceries lection of fruits and vegetables and During the pandemic, Second Harvest The Mountain View Senior Cen- another with dairy and items like Mary Ellen Carter said she Food Bank Silicon Valley is distributing ter on Escuela Avenue, for ex- tortillas, beans and peanut butter, started volunteering during the free food at various sites to anyone in ample, normally only serves low- plus a bag of meat. shutdown. need. Many locations do not require an ID to apply. income seniors — during the The nonprofit also has rapidly ex- “It’s such a great need right now,” pandemic, however, it has been she said. “It’s good to give back in • 800-984-3663 (Food Connection panded what was a limited home Hotline; shfb.org/get-food open twice a week to anyone in delivery service to now reach up- whatever way you can, not only (interactive map with food need. Staff members are continu- wards of 6,000 people. monetary but with your time.” distribution sites) ing to see new people come each National Guard members who Cat Cvengros, Second Harvest’s Meal delivery time, which is unusual, they say. usually volunteer at Second Har- vice president of marketing, said Meals on Wheels is delivering meals to Pre-pandemic, Second Harvest vest once a weekend on the side the organization is now grap- those in need in San Mateo and Santa modeled its distribution sites after of full-time jobs have been sort- pling with its short- and long-term Clara counties. farmers markets, allowing people ing and packaging food full time. future. • If you live in San Mateo County: to see and choose their produce. penvol.org/mealsonwheels; In March, Gov. Gavin Newsom “It’s a crisis,” Cvengros said. “We 650-323-2022 This helped to preserve a sense of deployed nearly 500 service mem- don’t even know what the next • If you live in Santa Clara County: dignity and normalcy, as well as bers to food banks across six Bay month looks like. As people con- mysourcewise.com/meals; community, Second Harvest staff Area counties on a humanitarian tinue to deplete their savings, we 408-350-3200 said. The sites became hubs where support mission. will see our numbers rise.” See full list of community resources in people connected with one another Battling food insecurity during —Elena Kadvany the Info Resource Guide on page 41.

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hile the coronavirus has forced much of the community to Whunker down at home for most of 2020, its arrival also has Meet people helping inspired some to go out of their way to take care of their neighbors. From launching food delivery programs and a rent relief fund to their Midpeninsula neighbors answering requests for random errands day or night, the actions of these individuals have not only helped some of the most vulner- during the pandemic able residents in the community but have galvanized hundreds of others to join their causes. People, who until recently may not have even known their neighbors, are now knocking on their doors, of- From welfare checks to food and rent relief, fering to walk their dogs, delivering them food and going to the their actions are reaching beyond the most vulnerable grocery store for them. Here are five Midpeninsula residents who have made a difference in their communities during the pandemic.

Ananya Karthik Howard Kushlan college student entrepreneur She founded a volunteer network He formed a volunteer service corps Ananya Karthik was wrapping up her first winter quarter at Since early March, Howard Kushlan has spent his days — and Stanford University when she and 7,000 undergraduates were told some evenings — helping neighbors during the pandemic as part the campus would be closing in March because of the spread of of a corps of volunteer residents that he unintentionally inspired COVID-19. Despite the whirlwind change of becoming a full- to take action after sending a call out to those in need on social time, virtual student, she got to work creating an online volunteer media. network to deliver immediate aid to vulnerable residents in Santa The Palo Alto resident knows Clara County. the best place to get eggs, where Santa Clara County Helping Hands has now connected hundreds to find Clorox wipes, who’s in of high-risk individuals with volunteers to bring them groceries, need of distilled water for their prescriptions and virtual companionship. sleep apnea machine, which The response for volunteers has been overwhelming, said neighbor has a prescription Karthik, who matches volunteers with higher-risk individuals waiting to be picked up and through the program’s website. just about every shopping pol- “In this time of shelter in place and social distancing, we can icy at every food store in Palo help the community get through this pandemic together,” Karthik Alto. said. She described the effects of the pandemic for the elderly and “I just put a post up saying, immunocompromised as ranging from difficulty obtaining essen- ‘I’m happy to do whatever you tial items to struggles with isolation and loneliness. need; if you need groceries, if Karthik found a large group you need shopping, if you need of volunteers by reaching out supplies, whatever,’” Kushlan to local organizations, includ- said. “And then it just sort of ing police departments, local caught on. Other people ran media and mailing lists at her with it, and it’s taken on a life university. of its own.” Photo by Magali Gauthier The project has been fulfill- Within the first month of the ing for Karthik, who said she pandemic, Kushlan’s post in- hasn’t yet figured out her fu- spired more than 200 residents from well beyond his downtown ture but hopes to find a career neighborhood to join in and volunteer to help vulnerable resi- in community impact and dents throughout the community. That number has held steady. learning how to best serve peo- Through a Google Doc that he set up, people can add new re- ple’s needs. She’s talking with quests for assistance or remove requests that have been fulfilled. college students in Los Ange- “It’s awesome. People just go in and get things done,” he said. les and Seattle who are work- Over the months, he’s seen an increase in delivery requests from ing on similar projects, as well Courtesy Ananya Karthik seniors, most of whom have been living in isolation, he said. as several local organizations, “There’s a lot of uncertainty, and so many people are out there and she hopes Santa Clara County Helping Hands can support the that are scared and want help,” said Kushlan, who grew up in community far into the future. Palo Alto and now runs Crux, a marketing and political consult- “Our work started in response to the crisis, but our long-term ing firm. vision is to continue this work ... and help members of the com- Kushlan said one silver lining from this experience is that he’s munity receive assistance and find companionship, a goal which I gotten to know his neighbors. think extends beyond the immediate COVID-19 pandemic crisis,” she said. “In times like these, you have to step outside your comfort zone, and that’s when people’s best is brought out,” he said. — Bay City News Foundation — Linda Taaffe

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Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca nonprofit founder and CEO She created a rent relief program East Palo Alto resident Sarahi Espino- low-income families, people of color and za Salmanca has provided hundreds of undocumented residents in her commu- working-class families along the Mid- nity were being disproportionately im- peninsula with rent relief since the start pacted by the pandemic, she teamed up of May through a campaign she helped with local nonprofits Kafenia Peace Col- launch after seeing the financial hard- lective and Live in Peace to vet families in ships created by the pandemic in her their networks and see who was in jeop- community. ardy of losing their homes. Within one week of launching Together, the three nonprofits find re- #FirstOfTheMonth Fund in April, Sala- cipients in the community who need manca’s campaign raised $1 million and immediate rent relief and provide them helped 187 families in East Palo Alto, funding within 48 hours. Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Redwood City Salamanca has received support from make rent by the first of the month. The more than 600 donors — the majority of Courtesy Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca Fund has since raised more than $2.2 whom live in the community and want to million and has helped more than 300 make sure that their neighbors can remain families stay in their homes. there. In May, the fund received a boost needing assistance. “Growing up here, we were always sup- when an anonymous donor agreed to Many of the families helped by the cam- ported by others, and now it’s my turn match Individual donations under $1,000. paign live paycheck to paycheck and will to give back,” said Salamanca, CEO and Salamanca said there is no stop date for not be able to afford past due rent pay- founder of the nonprofit DREAMers the fund. ments when rent moratoriums are lifted, she added. RoadMap, which she launched in 2014 to Until the job market bounces back, she help connect undocumented students to anticipates that it will require more than — Linda Taaffe college scholarships. $9 million to help stabilize the hundreds Salamanca said after she noticed that of families the network has identified as Profiles continued on page 26

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Profiles continued from page 25 Community Maria Gregorio HOW TO GIVE IT professional Donate funds for rent relief East Palo Alto resident Sarahi She started a food exchange program Espinoza Salmanca created the #FirstOfTheMonth campaign It started with a box of cherries. Maria Gregorio, a Palo to raise rent relief funds for hundreds of working-class Alto resident and Stanford University IT professional, families along the Midpeninsula saw a Nextdoor post in May from a neighbor organizing a facing financial hardships group buy of farm-fresh cherries. She eagerly bought a box created by the pandemic. and was chagrined when the neighbor didn’t continue the liveinpeace.org • following week. The person connected her with the farm- Photo by Magali Gauthier Buy farm-fresh produce er, so she put her own Nextdoor post up, asking if anyone Purchase fruits and vegetable wanted to buy cherries in bulk with her. The response was through Giving Fruits, a weekly “astronomical,” she said. Every week, Gregorio posts what’s available from the food exchange coordinated What started as an informal neighborhood purchase of farms, then people place their orders online and pick up by Palo Alto resident Maria their orders on Friday evening at a contactless drive-thru Gregorio that purchases produce cherries has since evolved into a streamlined weekly pick- in bulk to help struggling up operation of fresh fruits and vegetables from multiple outside Rinconada Library in Palo Alto. For anyone who’s farmers and uses proceeds farms. It’s a virtuous cycle: Farms that are struggling to elderly or immuno-compromised, Gregorio finds volun- raised through individual make up for lost revenue due to the coronavirus shutdown teers to deliver their orders. orders to benefit various local can sell in bulk directly to customers, while local residents As word about Giving Fruits has spread, it’s become a nonprofits. get direct access to high-quality, organic produce. more involved, volunteer-run effort. Gregorio’s teenage • givingfruits.org Because the orders are made in bulk, the farms are able sons have taken over much of the daily operations. Giv- HOW TO HELP to offer a discount, so Gregorio donates the proceeds to ing Fruits has expanded to other cities as well, including Portola Valley. Run an errand local nonprofits, to fund meals for front-line workers and Palo Alto resident Howard to a coworker’s fundraising effort to provide 3D-printed Because the farms sell in bulk, Gregorio said she’s seen Kushlan is helping connect face shields to health care providers. Unclaimed orders go small communities form around picking up the produce neighbors who are available to local homeless shelters and care homes for the elderly. — groups of neighbors or friends who decide to purchase to run errands with those Within the first two months, Gregorio estimated that she boxes together and split up the fruits and vegetables. who need help with grocery had already donated more than $5,000 through the effort, shopping, prescription pickups — Elena Kadvany and other essential tasks while dubbed Giving Fruits. sheltering at home during the pandemic. • To find out how to help, David Cope contact Kushlan at howard@ tothecrux.com; or check high school student the Help Map feature on Nextdoor.com to request or find assistance in your He launched a grocery neighborhood. delivery program for seniors HOW TO GET HELP When the coronavirus crisis caused Bay Area schools to Helping Hands close in mid-March, Menlo-Atherton High School stu- Stanford University dent David Cope found himself with little to do outside of undergraduate Ananya Karthik his school work from a computer at home. has created Santa Clara Helping Hands, an online network that As summer vacation approached, the 17-year-old decid- connects vulnerable residents in ed he needed to do something bigger. the community with volunteers “I felt bad because during this crisis I’ve only been doing who can bring them groceries, prescriptions and virtual schoolwork, and haven’t had to deal with any issues first- companionship. hand,” he said. “And there are a lot of people really strug- • scchelpinghands.com gling right now with the coronavirus.” Zoomers to Boomers He came across a Forbes article about an organization in Photo by Magali Gauthier Seniors living in the Menlo Park- which high schoolers like him were delivering groceries to Atherton area who want to limit their high-risk neighbors. Danny Goldberg of Santa Barbara, who helped him set up their public contact during the The organization is called Zoomers to Boomers — a ref- a branch serving Menlo Park and Atherton. Cope enlist- pandemic, can order groceries ed six of his friends from Menlo-Atherton High School to online and have them delivered erence to the generations across which the food is deliv- for free through the Zoomers ered: Generation Z, or “Zoomers” (born between 1995 join, and the group launched its local branch on May 26. to Boomers program that high and 2010) to Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and Cope said that Menlo Park and Atherton residents can school student David Cope 1964). enter their grocery store orders on the organization’s web- launched in the area. Volunteers from local high schools will pick Much like grocery delivery apps such as Instacart, peo- site, and they will deliver from any local store. Groceries up orders and delivery them to ple order online and teen volunteers deliver the grocer- are delivered within 48 hours. seniors’ homes. ies. But unlike the commercial apps, Zoomers to Boomers Cope’s local chapter of Zoomers to Boomers is just one • zoomerstoboomers.com charges no delivery fee. part of a nationwide organization that has expanded See full list of community “I felt like Zoomers to Boomers would be a good oppor- quickly since March. The program had spread to 36 cities assistance programs in the Info tunity to give back,” Cope said. nationwide as of August. Resource Guide on page 41. He reached out to the organization’s founder, 17-year-old — Tyler Callister

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ife has changed in big ways and Lsmall for local seniors since the spread of the coronavirus began to accelerate in March: Many are liv- ing alone in their homes suddenly cut off from outside activities, while others in senior living facilities have found themselves prohibited from outside visitors, even spouses living in differing care levels within the same facility. They now must rely on family, friends or volunteers to shop for their food, pick up medi- cations and do basic errands. And with no end in sight to the pandem- ic, many are carving out a social life via Zoom, Skype and other technol- ogy as they grapple to stay connect- ed with the outside world. Even before the statewide shelter- in-place health orders went into ef- fect in mid-March, Don Levy, a retired engineer who lives at The Eric Woodman hands a bouquet of red carnations to his wife, Marty, who lives at Silver Oaks Memory Care in Menlo Park. Before the Avant, saw his residential commu- coronavirus crisis forced the facility to close its doors to visitors, Woodman had been visiting his wife twice every day. After the shutdown, nity on El Camino Way in Palo Alto he had to stay outdoors behind a fence to see her. Photos by Magali Gauthier. institute a ban on visitors. Residents who used to congre- 84-year-old said. regular meetings to discuss the lat- offered by senior-service organiza- gate now “self-isolate,” he said. They “It makes things harder in some est guidance from the Centers for tions Avenidas and Covia, with resi- used to meet in the lobby to read the ways, but the people here under- Disease Control and Prevention and dents participating in groups online newspaper. Now they do so alone, stand why this was done,” Levy said. local health departments and then or over the phone. scattered throughout the facility. The pandemic has forced living adjust facility operations according- Thomas Fiene, who heads the And the communal lunch time has facilities throughout the area to re- ly, Channing House CEO Rhonda residents association at Channing been staggered to ensure that diners think how they deliver services. Bekkendahl said. House, said that before the shelter- can remain at a safe distance from At Channing House, a communi- These days, vendors, contractors in-place orders, residents had rallied each other. ty of 250 seniors on Webster Street and family members of residents to help staff, which had begun to di- Things are different now, the in downtown Palo Alto, staff hold aren’t allowed in the building (with minish as people were taking sick limited exceptions for hospice care). days or staying home to take care Guests are limited to special visita- of their children in the aftermath of tion stations in front of the building school closures. or a visitation “cube” structure for Since the orders went into effect, family visits. residents have been largely confined All gatherings have been canceled. to their rooms, aside from occasion- And temperatures of all residents al walks and trips to get food. Now, and staff are checked when they with some at-risk residents com- leave the building and come back, pletely isolated, neighbors have tak- Bekkendahl said. Anyone show- en to Skype and FaceTime to check ing any kind of symptoms would be in on one another. asked to self-isolate in their apart- “We have a tech squad that is on ments, she said. In addition, all staff call every day to help with technol- and residents are tested for COV- ogy,” said Fiene, 85. “These guys ID-19 on a monthly basis. are all frustrated retired engineers. Given the imperative of keeping They love to do that. We are slowly residents indoors, Channing House entering the electronic world to help has pivoted its fitness and wellness communicate with each other.” Dick Hansen participates in a cardiac fitness class taught by Katie Renati in his living room classes online. Bekkendahl also in Menlo Park. pointed to several other programs Continued on page 30

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Continued from page 29 Each floor of Channing House also now has a representative or two who make contact with residents who are living alone or who have medi- cal conditions that make them par- ticularly vulnerable, Fiene said. De- spite the new restrictions, he said, residents have a “very high level of confidence” in the Channing House administration. At the Villa Siena Senior Living Community in Mountain View, it’s been a challenge to keep se- niors healthy and protected from the coronavirus while avoiding the negative mental health impacts that come from isolation, according to Executive Director Corine Bernard. As a way to offer social interac- tion, staff members started an after- noon coffee cart service to provide residents one-on-one visits. Phone calls and FaceTime chats with fam- ily members and friends are encour- aged, she said, and staff members provide tech support to those who Dick Hansen, left, and Dave Eckert exercise during a virtual cardiac fitness class in their living room in Menlo Park. need it. While the residents of retirement Andonian said Avenidas staff communities have staff looking out members will continue to work re- for them, the shifting conditions can motely Monday through Friday pose extreme challenges for seniors to help seniors, their families and who are aging at home, particularly caregivers as everyone navigates the those who already have health prob- health crisis. lems and are socially isolated. Since the shutdown, the organi- zation has switched from provid- ing on-site and in-person services ‘It’s not that I’m just to delivering groceries, supplies and medicine to those in need, fielding a delivering this food. hotline and calling seniors to check in with them as needed. The group There’s an intimacy also has transitioned many on-site classes to Zoom and has launched and a social bond virtual support groups. At the nonprofit’s Rose Kleiner site that’s there.’ in Mountain View, Director Kris- —SUNITA DE TOURREIL, tina Lugo said staff is managing Eric Woodman holds a sign from behind a fence at Silver Oaks Memory Care while he PALO ALTO RESIDENT participants’ health through phone greets his wife, Marty, for the first time in a month after the March shelter-in-place order calls and physically distanced visits. prohibited him from visiting her. Jewish Family and Children’s Ser- It doesn’t help that senior centers, vices (JFCS), which provides servic- The nonprofit’s caregivers are when our services are needed more including those operated by the es to seniors living at home, also had trained and briefed on precaution- than ever,” she said. nonprofit Avenidas and the city of to cancel its social programs, said ary measures for the coronavirus, Tenerowicz said one of the things Mountain View, have had to tem- Sue Tenerowicz, the organization’s she said. Volunteers call vulnerable people can do to help is reach out to porarily shut their doors. interim marketing director. But it residents and talk to them. And so- their neighbors. In June, Avenidas pivoted its pro- has also seen a big surge in requests cial workers help senior clients per- “Keep your distance and do all that gramming to a new virtual and con- from seniors who are not going out form routine but critical tasks, like — but you can knock on a door and tactless service model to provide as and need someone to come in and buying groceries and getting to their talk to a senior through the door, many existing and new services and help them. doctor’s appointments. ask ‘Are you OK?’ and say ‘I’ll check programs as possible until its physi- “Most of our clients are living alone Tenerowicz said the staff of her or- on you tonight.’ At this time, we all cal buildings can safely reopen. and are requiring some assistance,” ganization, like many, now works need to do that,” Tenerowicz said. “Due to COVID-19, our operations Tenerowicz said. “What is hard for remotely, but her team is committed Many neighbors are doing exactly drastically changed, and this new many of them is that they are at such to continuing to provide services. that. Sunita de Tourreil, a downtown reality is likely to continue for the a high risk that they’re afraid to go “It’s a constant fire drill. But this is Palo Alto resident, reached out to foreseeable future,” Avenidas CEO out, and they don’t have any inde- what we do. ... This is when we pull several neighbors who are elderly or and President Amy Andonian said. pendence whatsoever.” together and we do it, because this is immunocompromised and offered

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Top right: Palo Alto resident Seniors Sunita de Tourreil looks HOW TO GIVE over a list of food and other JFCS Community Emergency items that she Fund is picking up for Jewish Family and Children’s Services elderly friends (JFCS), which provides services to who are too seniors living at home, has seen a big vulnerable to surge in requests from seniors who shop in public. are not going out and need someone Bottom right: to come in and help them. The Dianne Jenett, nonprofit has launched a community 72, smiles fund to provide emergency food, at Sunita de financial assistance, home health care Tourreil after and teletherapy services to those who she brings her a have been impacted by this crisis. bag of groceries from Whole • jfcs.org Foods Market in downtown Palo HOW TO HELP Alto during the Mon Ami phone bank first week of the shelter-in-place Founded by Joy Zhang, Mon Ami orders. is a Palo Alto-based nonprofit that provides companionship to seniors by pairing them with volunteers. During the pandemic, the organization has to shop for them. De Tourreil has set up a phone bank to allow anyone seven neighbors whom she helps around the world to volunteer to out, including a group of women — make calls to socially isolated seniors. three in their 70s and one in her 80s • 650-289-5400 / monami.io — who share an apartment. HOW TO GET HELP At first, people were reluctant to Avenidas Door-to-Door take her up on her offer. Eventually, Services they reached out and accepted it. Avenidas has launched a new “I think this is what needs to hap- Door-to-Door Services program pen,” said de Tourreil, who has a that includes free home delivery of essentials such as groceries, toiletries, background in microbiology. She prescriptions and personal protective follows a strict regimen to make equipment; check-in phone calls; and sure the groceries don’t get con- library pickup and drop-off services. taminated and that she doesn’t get • 650-289-5411 / avenidas.org too close to neighbors who may be vulnerable. See full list of senior resources in the Info Resource Guide on page 49. “It’s not that I’m just delivering this food. There’s an intimacy and a social bond that’s there,” she said. Results can be profound. Nora Ku- program that now allows her to Alto-morning-rush-hour traffic to Joy Zhang, founder of Mon Ami, a saka Herrero, a 26-year-old with a enroll new heart patients to the get to Cubberley,” Eckert said. Palo Alto-based nonprofit that pro- full-time job at a civil engineering HeartFit program remotely from The convenience has led Eckert, vides companionship to seniors by firm, switched from providing in- anywhere in the world while the 63, to boost his HeartFit partici- pairing them with volunteers, has person companionship to volun- Cubberley gym is closed during the pation from three to five times per set up a phone bank to allow any- teering by phone with Mon Ami. pandemic. Even when she’s able to week. One of the women with whom she reopen the gym safely, Wedell plans one around the world to volunteer Zoom cannot compensate for the chats is in her 80s. to extend the remote option to peo- to make calls to socially isolated se- missed benefits of in-person classes, ple who prefer it. niors. Prior to the crisis, when Mon “She was telling me that she had said Palo Alto resident Carl Thom- Ami offered room visits, the non- lived through the Great Depression “I had always wanted to offer a sen, who sorely misses the camara- profit served close to 500 families, and World War II,” said Herrero, hybrid approach because there are derie of the gym experience. about 20% in Palo Alto. After the who like many others is now work- some people who can’t do the brick “It’s definitely much better to be shelter-in-place orders, it expanded ing remotely. “This is just one more and mortar,” she said. “Now our in class because one of the benefits the program to make it available to thing in the book.” hand was forced (by COVID-19). is that you chat with other people anyone across the country. Though Ultimately it will be great because Robin Wedell, a registered nurse while you’re biking,” said Thomsen, the phone bank is new, 50 people I’ll have a full menu to offer, and if and director of the cardiac-well- a retired CFO and 20-year HeartFit signed up to be volunteers and Mon people want to do it remotely, they ness program HeartFit for Life, member. “It’s a social benefit as well Ami’s capacity exceeded the de- can.” which provides medically super- as an exercise benefit.” mand within the first weeks of the vised exercise to a roster of old- Longtime HeartFit member Dave The Zoom social life will nev- program, Zhang said. er and medically fragile clients at Eckert, who lives in Menlo Park, er compare to the real thing, he Before, the volunteers were most- Cubberley Community Center, said he loves the convenience of ex- added. ly college students. Now, there are said the new normal has pros and ercising from home. different kinds of people, includ- cons, but in any case, the post- “I love getting up and walking to — Information compiled from Embarcadero Media stories written by ing San Francisco programmers pandemic future will not look the the living room and doing Zoom who are working remotely and have same as the pre-pandemic past. Gennady Sheyner, Kate Bradshaw, — and not having to get in my car Chris Kenrick and Linda Taaffe. more time to make calls. Wedell embraced a telemedicine and drive through downtown-Palo PaloAltoOnline.com Info Palo Alto • 31

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Jaimi Haydel watches her son Davis, 3, look through some stamps in the indoor kindergarten craft space she has created in a storage room in her Atherton home. Photos by Magali Gauthier. With campuses shut down, parents reinvent the classroom

FAMILIES CREATE HOME-SCHOOL BUBBLES AS ALTERNATIVE TO REMOTE LEARNING

aimi Haydel has trans- and ongoing coronavirus testing), can’t guarantee it’s going to be per- for shared child care or safe so- formed her Atherton back- a daily schedule and fee structure, fect or smooth but I’m not really cial activities while schools remain yard into an outdoor kinder- all of which she’s reviewed with a worried about that. I want him to closed. garten classroom. lawyer. feel safe and I want there to be some Locally, the world of pandemic JShe installed sun shades, ordered In September, the six kindergar- predictability. I need that for myself, pods has exploded in recent weeks. a second picnic table and created a teners began attending the back- too.” Tutoring companies that saw busi- “mud kitchen” for hands-on, messy yard school on weekday afternoons. Haydel is among a booming num- ness drop off during the shutdown learning for her 5-year-old son and For half of the children in the pod, ber of parents forming a separate are getting flooded with requests. five other kindergarten students including Haydel’s son, their par- but parallel educational experience One local Facebook group devoted whose parents have formed a pod ents have committed to this as their on the Peninsula: learning pods, or to linking up parents and teachers together for the entire school year. sole education for the entire year small groups of students meeting in has grown to nearly 2,500 members One parent happens to be a creden- — even if their schools reopen in person for private instruction or su- who share resources, tips and con- tialed teacher, so she’ll be in charge person. pervision. Some parents are doing nections for pods. The page reads of academics — and paid for it — “With all the uncertainty going on so out of frustration with the qual- like an educational match-making while Haydel has taken on the role right now, I wanted to make a de- ity of their school’s distance learn- service, with posts like “looking for of school administrator, developing cision and be done with it. I also ing, hiring teachers for as much as imaginative kids, and families who safety protocols (all of the families wanted to be able to communicate $250 an hour and creating their are very careful about COVID.” have agreed to temperature checks that to my child: ‘This is what we’re own at-home schooling, while oth- doing this year,’” Haydel said. “I ers are working parents desperate Continued on page 36

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Continued from page 35 Since April, Haydel has devoted ex- tensive time to researching home- schooling curriculum, reading parent- ing articles, drafting documents and getting legal advice on forming a pod at her home. Her youngest son was set to start kindergarten at Encinal School in Atherton in the fall and, seeing writ- ing on the wall with the pandemic, she started preparing for the likelihood that he wouldn’t be doing so in person. Haydel found a group of like-mind- ed parents from her son’s cooperative nursery school, who all agreed to ex- tensive safety precautions and to limit thir children’s activities outside of the pod to minimize exposure. “Not all parents want to be educators and I think that’s fair,” Haydel said. “They’re looking for creative ways to get those needs met.” The success of a pod depends on find- ing the right parents to team up with and setting clear expectations, said San Carlos mother Sophie Zugoni, who created separate pods for each of her children, a first-grader who attends school in San Carlos and a third-grad- er who goes to school in Redwood City. As a working parent, she sought out pods for both education and child care. “If you gather a random group of four parents to design, and build a car, it will take a long time, as everyone has their own preference, and if the differ- ences are too wide, you will never have a car,” Zugoni wrote in a lengthy Me- dium post, “7 Steps to Create a Pod in 10 Days,” documenting her pod experi- ence. “Say once built, it turns out to be a Toyota Prius. You will attract folks who are, for example, budget and environ- mentally conscious. Those who need a fancy Lexus do not need to join.” Zugoni eventually found families who agreed on how to structure the pod, including location, budget, aca- demics and tolerance of coronavirus risks. They hired a retired teacher for instruction in the mornings and are taking turns watching the kids in the afternoons. “In a way, we feel so privileged. We’re getting a teacher ratio for four kids,” Zugoni said. “But we’re forced to be put into this situation. We’d rather go to school. For a lot of us, we don’t want to be in this situation, but we feel like we have no other choice.” A kindergarten buddy Bridget Stolee, whose daughter at- tends Escondido Elementary School in Palo Alto, also recently formed a pod Jaimi Haydel turned the backyard of her Atherton home into an outdoor kindergarten classroom for her 5-year-old son, Davis, with one other family. Stolee and her right, and five other kindergarten students whose parents have formed a pod together for the entire school year.

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husband work full time — she’s a psychotherapist and he’s a chemical Students & Learning engineer — so they were looking for help with Zoom supervision as well HOW TO GIVE as socialization. Donations for books They tested it out a few days during In an effort to prevent learning the first week of school, with the two loss among children, Access kindergarteners sitting side by side Books Bay Area is working closely with local school districts during online classes, sharing cray- to distribute books to at-risk ons and running into the backyard students while libraries and for “recess.” At some points, the kids school campuses are closed seemed more engaged in the online during the pandemic. The nonprofit distributes books to learning together, Stolee said, and at kids in need throughout the others were distracted by each other. Peninsula and is accepting Stolee and her husband are trading donations to help grow its off supervising the girls in alternat- permanent collection. All donations will be used to ing shifts; she sits with them from Jaimi Haydel’s son works on an art project in the indoor craft space she created in a storage purchase new, hardcover books. 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. and then her hus- room at her Atherton home. Photos by Magali Gauthier. • accessbooksbayarea.org band takes over so she can work, and they continue throughout the day. quarantine. Facebook group and website for HOW TO HELP (She’s hopeful the other parents will They’ve all agreed to strict health creating local pods. Volunteer tutoring soon share in the supervision.) and safety protocols, including Zugoni said she understands why All Students Matter is looking to “Literally hour by hour every day, temperature checks, periodic coro- some people take issue with the idea expand its 200-plus volunteer we have to schedule who is sitting navirus testing for the families and of pods as fueling inequities and corp this school year. The Menlo and supervising. Sometimes I’m a requirement that any child with urged parents forming pods to reach Park nonprofit has launched a new virtual tutoring program to working on paperwork or billing coronavirus-like symptoms must be outside their social circles and to cleared by a doctor before coming consider including students in need support teachers and students in for my practice. Sometimes my hus- Ravenswood City School District band is doing his work and sitting back to the pod. To further limit po- at no cost. South Bay Educational during the pandemic. Volunteers next to her. At the moment,” Stolee tential exposure, they only allowed Support, a new Palo Alto tutoring are needed to help tutor students said, “it’s total chaos.” children who aren’t participating business started by a Palo Alto High during and after regular school in any other in-person group pro- School graduate taking a gap year Zoom hours. For the first time, All For Stolee, forming a pod feels like Students Matter will be matching gram — and whose siblings aren’t and other college students, is going a Band-Aid solution — a way to get tutors with middle school as well — which greatly narrowed to start allowing families to sponsor through the virtual school day with students to provide one-on-one down the number of kids who could students who can’t afford to hire a virtual tutoring and mentoring some semblance of engagement for participate. private tutor. throughout the school year. her daughter and sanity for her and ASM’s programs focus on building her husband. Families using private resources to Danna Nashaat, a Palo Alto parent literacy and writing skills. supplement or even replace online who founded Partner Pods, said she “This doesn’t feel like a sustainable • Allstudentsmatter.org learning have been hotly criticized encourages conversations about eq- thing to do for a year. But I guess I for deepening socioeconomic and uity in the group, including sharing HOW TO FIND HELP thought that when we started this racial inequities. Some local parents lesson plans and resources on diver- pandemic ... and now we’re six Student mentoring have made efforts to include a low- sity. But she doesn’t think it’s fair to months in,” she said. “I think this is Beyond the Book, founded by income or minority student in their castigate pandemic pods for deep- all about pushing and survival. Ev- a group of high school-aged pods, which critics say doesn’t ad- rooted educational inequities. students at Castilleja School, eryone is emotionally at our wits’ dress the root issues. helps children in grades K-8 with end.” “The pods in general are not that free one-on-one online studying “If we’re going to create more di- much different than what was going and mentorship sessions that last Questions about equity verse, inclusive, equitable pods then on before, if you think about it. Every- 30 minutes. The group covers we are going to have to do it outside body is in their own neighborhood. subjects such as reading, math, Depending on its structure, creat- of our immediate network because Everybody is in their own grade. You language, special projects and ing a pod can be an extensive — and creativity. Children are matched we have created communities that might get a sprinkling of other chil- expensive — undertaking. One par- with high schoolers based are segregated,” said Angie Evans, dren from other neighborhoods but on their grade, subject and ent likened it to forming an entire a Palo Alto parent and communi- in general this is the way that the pub- availability. school with human resources and ty organizer who has been offering lic school district and to some extent • beyond-thebook.com accounting departments. free Zoom calls on pods and equi- private schools have been formed,” Home-school resources The families in Haydel’s pod, for ty. “We’re not going to be judged by she said. “This is the norm.” Parents looking for information example, have agreed to pay about how my middle class white kid does Zugoni also urged compassion for about how to create their own $135 per week to fund the teacher, in the pandemic. We are going to be all families finding their own way education pods or connect with who’s being paid as an independent others who have launched pods, judged in Palo Alto by how we allow through the stress and weight of a contractor with bonuses, time off can find a comprehensive list of kids who are Tinsley students to do radically different school experience. resources through Partner Pods. and sick leave, and to contribute to a in the pandemic — and we should “We’re put in this situation that no- Founded by Palo Alto parent pool for school supplies and snacks. Danna Nashaat, the nonprofit be.” (The Tinsley or Voluntary body expected, this unprecedent- (They have offered that any fam- Transfer Program allows students helps parents connect, share ily who can’t afford the fee doesn’t ed pandemic,” she said. “My ask is lesson plans, exchange ideas and who live in East Palo Alto to attend that people don’t judge one another access resources. have to pay it, no questions asked.) Palo Alto public schools.) They created a school calendar for but really to be empathetic to every- • Partnerpods.org Evans started hosting the Zoom the year with extra time off after body’s situation. People have differ- See full list of education calls after noticing that no East Thanksgiving in case families trav- ent needs.” resources in the Info Resource Palo Alto parents were participat- el for the holidays and need time to —Elena Kadvany Guide on page 54. ing in Partner Pods, the popular

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Info PA 2020.indd 39 9/25/20 6:36 PM INFO RESOURCE DIRECTORY ur annual Info Resource Directory aims to for seniors and those in need. This year's curated lists Oconnect Palo Alto residents with local community include emergency resources and information related resources. This comprehensive guide includes to COVID-19 and emphasize ways residents can give information about the area's parks, government, and get support in the community during schools, youth programs and arts, as well as services the pandemic.

Pacific Art League Woodside Community Museum THE ARTS 668 Ramona St. 2961 Woodside Road, Woodside • Juried exhibitions; Now offering virtual • Preserved mid-1800s store with workshops, youth camps, art history educational programs Facilities located in Palo Alto, unless talks and art demonstrations via Zoom otherwise noted. Programs and hours may • historysmc.org/woodside-store pacificartleague.org Kristine Mays' wire sculptures are on change pending COVID-19 restrictions. • Woodside Store display through November at Filoli. Palo Alto Art Center 3300 Tripp Road, Woodside Courtesy Filoli. LITERARY ARTS 1313 Newell Road • historysmc.org • World-renowned and emerging artists; Books Inc. Some curbside classes and online PERFORMING ARTS Shoreline Amphitheatre • Virtual book launches and author programs available pending the 1 Amphitheatre Pkwy., Mountain View lecture series center’s reopening. Foothill Music Theatre • Large outdoor venue hosting classical • booksinc.net • cityofpaloalto.org/artcenter Smithwick Theatre and contemporary performances and • Classic to contemporary musicals music events Kepler’s Literary Foundation Portola Art Gallery at • foothill.edu/theatre • theshorelineamphitheatre.com • Conversations, classes and seminars Allied Arts Guild will be presented online through the 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park Los Altos Stage Company West Bay Opera foundation’s Refresh the Page program • Representational art by regionally, Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos Lucie Stern Theatre until live events are permitted. nationally recognized artists • Neighborhood playhouse focused on • Second oldest continuously running • keplers.org • portolaartgallery.com American theater opera company in California losaltosstage.org wbopera.org Palo Alto City Library MUSEUMS • • Palo Alto Children’s Theatre • Virtual book club meetings, family Computer History Museum MOVIE THEATERS storytimes, author readings Lucie Stern Theatre 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View Aquarius • paloalto.bibliocommons.com/events • Plays, musicals with professional and • Large international collection of child actors 430 Emerson St. computing artifacts; explore historical GALLERIES • cityofpaloalto.org/childrenstheatre • New releases, independent, foreign, and current technology topics through avant-garde films Anderson Collection in the museum’s CHM Live virtual events Palo Alto Players series. • landmarktheatres.com Menlo Park Lucie Stern Theatre computerhistory.org Quadrus Conference Center, • • Comedies, dramas, classics and musicals; Century Cinema 16 2400 Sand Hill Road Hoover Institution Performances for the 2020-21 season will 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View be performed live and streamed directly Private collection of 20th-century art New releases • 434 Galvez Mall, Stanford to ticket holders’ homes on specific • • aacollection.com • Free exhibit on President Herbert show dates, live or a combination • bit.ly/Century16 Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover of both, pending COVID-19 health CineArts @ Palo Alto Square Bryant Street Gallery • hoover.org restrictions. Tickets are being offered on 532 Bryant St. a “pay-what-you choose” scale. 3000 El Camino Real Los Altos History Museum • American contemporary artists • paplayers.org • New releases • bryantstreet.com 51 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos • cinemark.com/theatre-475 • Permanent/changing exhibits; J. Gilbert The Pear Theatre The Foster Smith History House; special exhibit 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View Showplace Icon 940 Commercial St. “ Rise Up!, The Fight for Women’s • Hosts full plays, plus an annual short- 2575 California St #90, Mountain View • Watercolor works of artist Tony Foster; Suffrage,” has been installed on the works festival, “Pear Slices,” created New releases wraparound porch of the J. Gilbert by members of its playwrights’ guild; • During the COVID-19 restrictions, the showplaceicon.com gallery is offering virtual tours of the Smith House for self-guided tours until Performances for the 2020-21 season • the museum is permitted to reopen. museum hosted by Tony Foster via will be streamed, live or a combination Stanford Theatre YouTube. The exhibit is scheduled to run through of both, pending COVID-19 health January 2021. 221 University Ave. • thefoster.org restrictions. • losaltoshistory.org • thepear.org • Classic films Gallery 9 stanfordtheatre.org Moffett Field Historical Society Peninsula Youth Theatre • 143 Main St., Los Altos Museum Monthly exhibitions of member artists Mountain View Center for the • Severyns Ave., Bldg. 126, Moffett Field, Performing Arts STANFORD • gallery9losaltos.com Mountain View • Award-winning youth theater company; ARTS DISTRICT Gallery House • Aircraft displays; artifacts from post-1930 performances will be presented online, 320 S. California Ave. (Printers Cafe) • moffettfieldmuseum.org pending COVID-19 health restrictions The arts district, which includes the • pytnet.org Rodin Sculpture Garden, Cantor Arts • Rotating exhibits by local member Museum of American Heritage Center, the Anderson Collection, Frost artists. Now offering virtual tours 351 Homer Ave. TheatreWorks Amphitheater and Bing Concert Hall, of exhibits using an online tool that allows viewers to get 360-degree • Exhibits emphasizing invention and Mountain View Center for the was made off-limits to the general public views of the gallery and an in-gallery technology from 1750-1950 Performing Arts, Lucie Stern Theatre as part of broad campus restrictions on “touchless” system that enables gallery • moah.org • Tony Award-winning theater troupe; Sept. 1. Stanford also has canceled all visitors to learn more about exhibit exclusive content from the artists, and on-campus events until the end of 2020 pieces by using a smartphone to scan a NASA Ames Research Center staff will be available online through due to the pandemic. At the time of the QR code displayed on the wall next to Moffett Field, Mountain View the Theatre Works from Home program closure, the university noted that it may the work. • Exhibits on space exploration, scientific until the theater reopens. relax restrictions in some areas, such as • galleryhouse2.com work of NASA • theatreworks.org the arts zone, faster than in others. • nasa.gov/ames PACE Palo Alto Schultz Cultural Arts Hall VIRTUAL ARTS Rengstorff House 229 Hamilton Ave. Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way The pandemic may have temporarily Contemporary art gallery 3070 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View • Hosts music, theater, comedy and closed the doors on the concentration of • Artifacts and images of 19th-century life speaker events • pacegallery.com • museums, sculpture gardens, galleries • bit.ly/RengstorffHouse • paloaltojcc.org/arts-and-culture and performance spaces clustered around 40 • Info Palo Alto PaloAltoOnline.com

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Palm Drive that make up the Stanford MUSEUMS & Frost Amphitheater Pigott Theater Arts District, but enthusiasts can still PERFORMANCE SPACES Lasuen St. @ Roth Way 551 Serra Mall experience performances, music and • 20-acre, tiered outdoor performance • Used by Stanford’s Drama Department art exhibits through a variety of virtual Anderson Collection at space programs. • taps-calsrv2.stanford.edu Stanford University • live.stanford.edu (search “Frost 314 Lomita Drive Amphitheater”) #TheShowMustGoOnline Roble Gymnasium • Modern American paintings and Stanford Live is producing a digital sculptures McMurtry Building 375 Santa Teresa St. season that brings many of the artists • anderson.stanford.edu 355 Roth Way • Rehearsal, dance and performance who were scheduled to perform at • indoor-outdoor screening and spaces for students various campus venues straight into Bing Concert Hall exhibition spaces; Coulter Art Gallery • taps.stanford.edu (listed under: About viewers’ homes through virtual concerts, 327 Lasuen St. • arts.stanford.edu (search “Mcmurtry - Facilities) lectures, comedy shows and livestream Music, dance, theater performances Building”) events. To view upcoming shows and • live.stanford.edu (search “Bing”) events, go to live.stanford.edu/2020- • Memorial Auditorium Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery digital-season Cantor Arts Center at 551 Serra Mall 435 Lasuen Mall Stanford University Museums from home • Home of the Department of Theater & 328 Lomita Drive Performance Studies (TAPS) • Features student, faculty and other Stanford’s museums are offering virtual artists’ work 24 art galleries, Rodin Sculpture Garden • live.stanford.edu (search “Memorial painting tours, artist talks and online • art.stanford.edu (listed under: museum.stanford.edu Auditorium”) • access to exhibitions and collections • Exhibition Spaces - Stanford Art through its Museums from Home Dinkelspiel Auditorium Nitery Theater Gallery) program. To view upcoming events and 471 Lagunita Dr. Nitery Building in the Old Union, 514 exhibits, go to museum.stanford.edu/ Lasuen Mall museums-home • Used by Stanford’s Department of Music • music.stanford.edu (listed under: • Black-box theater; student productions Venues - Dinkelspiel) • taps-calsrv2.stanford.edu SOCIAL SERVICES

All services are located in Palo Alto, Stanford Health Library outpatient program, individual and Bay Area Funeral Consumers unless otherwise noted. Services and • COVID-19, self-care and caregiver group therapy, supportive housing, Association programs may vary due to COVID-19 health resources case management and aftercare/alumni 463 College Ave. (Mail: P.O. Box 60448, restrictions. services. healthlibrary.stanford.edu Palo Alto, CA 94306) • • 650-617-8349 / thelaselvagroup.com COVID-19 TESTING & • Educates consumers regarding end-of- COUNSELING/MENTAL HEALTH Outlet Program, Adolescent life options EMERGENCY RESOURCES • 650-321-2109 / ba-fca.org Adolescent Counseling Services, Counseling Services Palo Alto Community Support Call Redwood City 643 Bair Island Road, Suite 301, Breathe California of the Bay Area Center 643 Bair Island Road, Suite 301, Redwood City 1469 Park Ave., San Jose • Residents and businesses can find Redwood City • Support and empowerment program • Asthma and anti-tobacco education information related to the coronavirus for LGBT teens crisis, weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. • On-campus and after-school counseling; • 408-998-5865 / lungsrus.org substance-abuse treatment. 650-424-0852, ext. 107 / acs-teens.org 650-272-3181 • • 650-424-0852 / acs-teens.org Cardiac Therapy Foundation of the • Midpeninsula Bay Area Community Resources Suicide Crisis Hotline website Alcohol and Drug Services, 828 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 200, San Jose 4000 Middlefield Road, Suite G-8 Santa Clara County • Helps users find free food, pantries, (Run by Santa Clara County Mental • Cardiac rehabilitation therapy; exercise medical treatment, legal aid, emergency 976 Lenzen Ave., San Jose Health Administration) programs offered via Zoom during pandemic, pending government health financial services and other critical • Drug and alcohol treatment and 855-278-4204 resources in the Bay Area placement referral for adolescents and • orders adults 650-494-1300 / heartfitforlife.org • bayareacommunity.org YWCA Silicon Valley • • 800-488-9919 / sccdads.org COVID-19 Assistance Navigation 375 S. Third St., San Jose Children’s Health Council hotline (CAN) The Bridge • Support and services in the areas of 650 Clark Way • Free resource from the Fair Workplace 581 Capistrano Way, Stanford University domestic violence, sexual assault, • Support programs for learning Collaborative that connects residents • Free, confidential, 24-hour peer human trafficking, counseling, youth differences, anxiety and depression, to lawyers, information about counseling services for the Stanford services and child care ADHD and autism. unemployment applications, housing, community; Operating via Zoom for the • 24-hour hotline: 800-572-2782 / • 650-326-5530 / chconline.org food banks and financial aid. foreseeable future ywca-sv.org Cystic Fibrosis Research, Inc. • 408-809-2124 • 650-723-3785 for immediate assistance / thebridge.stanford.edu HEALTH & SUPPORT SERVICES 1731 Embarcadero Road, Suite 210 California Department of Public Advocacy, fundraising, annual Health Family and Children Services of • Alzheimer’s Association conference for families dealing with COVID-19 health alerts, case numbers, Silicon Valley cystic fibrosis • 1060 La Avenida St., Mountain View resources 375 Cambridge Ave. 650-665-7576 / cfri.org Information, support, referrals and • cdph.ca.gov/covid19 Divorce support groups, child-abuse • • • education/training treatment, anger management and Kara COVID-19 testing sites (Santa Clara domestic violence offender treatment • 24/7 helpline, 800-272-3900; office, 457 Kingsley Ave. County Public Health) groups; substance-abuse treatment; 650 -962-8111 / alz.org/norcal Grief support LGBTQ youth services; support services • • List of pop-up, drive-thru and hospital 650-321-5272 / kara-grief.org testing sites throughout the county for youth emancipating from foster care Bay Area Cancer Connections • • bit.ly/SCCTestingSites and victims of domestic violence. 2335 El Camino Real Peninsula HealthCare Connection • 650-326-6576 / fcservices.org Sutter Health COVID-19 Advice Line • Support groups, counseling, nutrition 33 Encina Ave., #103 The La Selva Group (Part of workshops and more to people • Serves the needs of the homeless and • Clinicians direct callers who think touched by breast or ovarian cancer those at risk of becoming homeless. they have COVID-19 symptoms to the Momentum for Mental Health) appropriate level of medical care, daily 206 California Ave. • 650-326-6686; toll free 888-222-4401 / • 650-853-0321 / bcconnections.org bit.ly/PeninsulaHealthCare from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Various levels of care: psychiatry, • 866-961-2889 residential (staffed 24/7) treatment, Continued on page 42 PaloAltoOnline.com Info Palo Alto • 41

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Continued from page 41 Stanford Health Care HOUSING Westwind 4-H Riding for the 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford Handicapped/Westwind Riding Pacific Stroke Association Alta Housing (formerly Palo Alto • Includes the Stanford University Institute 3801 Miranda Ave., Bldg. 6, A-162 Medical Center, Stanford Hospital Housing) 27210 Altamont Road, Los Altos Hills • Monthly support groups for stroke & Clinics, the Stanford University 2595 E. Bayshore Road #200 Year-round classes; during COVID-19, survivors and caregivers • School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Private nonprofit that develops, check status of classes Children’s Hospital • • 650-565-8485 / builds and manages low- and • 650-947-8680 / westwind4h.org pacificstrokeassociation.org • 650-498-3333 / stanfordhealthcare.org moderate-income housing in Palo Alto; administers city of Palo Alto’s Below Planned Parenthood Mountain Stanford Hospital & Clinics Market Rate program. SOCIAL SERVICES View Health Center 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford 650-321-9709 / altahousing.org 2500 California St., Mountain View • Child Abuse Reporting (Santa Clara Stanford Medical Group, 650-723-6028 County Child Protective Services) Family planning and health services for • Project Sentinel • Stanford Family Practice, 650-723-6963 373 W. Julian St., San Jose women and men. • 1490 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 650-948-0807 / bit.ly/PPMountainView • Stanford Referral Center/appointments, • 833-722-5437 (available 24/7) • 800-756-9000 • Fair-housing investigation; counseling; education and community mediation. • 911 (emergency) Ronald McDonald House at Stanford • Hospital operator, 650-723-4000 510 Sand Hill Road • stanfordhospital.org • 408-720-9888 / housing.org Ecumenical Hunger Program • A “home away from home” for patients 2411 Pulgas Ave., East Palo Alto and families of children receiving Urgent Care Center (Palo Alto LAW • Emergency food, clothing, household treatment at the Lucile Packard Children’s Medical Foundation) essentials, furniture, support programs Hospital and Stanford Medical Center 795 El Camino Real Lawyer Referral Service and referral services to families in need. • 650-470-6000 / rmhcbayarea.org Urgent, drop-in care. Many programs have been temporarily • 407 S. California Ave. #3 suspended due to COVID-19 health Stanford Blood Center • 650-853-2958, adult; 650-853-6558, • The Palo Alto Area Bar Association runs a mandates. pediatric / sutterhealth.org/pamf referral service that includes a half-hour 650-323-7781 / ehpcares.org 3373 Hillview Ave. consultation in exchange for a $40 • • Now testing all donations for antibodies Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health administrative fee. Family Resources to COVID-19 and posting results on Care System donors’ online portals. • 650-326-8322 / Cubberley Community Center, 4000 3801 Miranda Ave. and multiple paaba.org/lawyer-referral-service Middlefield Road, T2 • 888-723-7831 / stanfordbloodcenter.org campuses • Helps families find services and service Stanford Health Library • General medical, surgical and MEDIATION providers in areas of emergency Various locations. Main Branch, Hoover psychiatric care for veterans including basic needs, child care, mental Pavilion, 211 Quarry Road, Suite 201 • 650-493-5000 / paloalto.va.gov Palo Alto Mediation Program health and counseling. (Project Sentinel) • Provides scientifically based medical • 650-329-2221 / information to help people make HOMELESS SERVICES 1490 El Camino Real, Santa Clara cityofpaloalto.org/familyresources informed decisions about their health • Advice and mediation services to help Jewish Family and Children’s and health care; services are free. Downtown Food Closet resolve a variety of disputes including Services 650-725-8400 / All Saints Episcopal Church, tenant/landlord, roommates/shared • Koret Family Resource Center, healthlibrary.stanford.edu 425 Hamilton Ave. housing, neighbor to neighbor, business and workplace. 200 Channing Ave. • Canned goods, produce and dairy HEALTH CLINICS & HOSPITALS products for homeless and low-income • 650-856-4062 / • Counseling, elder-care consultation; residents of Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and paloaltomediation.com home-care services, clinical services. Arbor Free Clinic Menlo Park • 650-688-3030 / jfcs.org 795 Willow Road, Bldg. 334, Menlo Park • Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. SERVICES FOR PEOPLE Second Harvest Food Bank • Acute medical care for uninsured • 650-325-3663 / streetsteam.org WITH DISABILITIES of Santa Clara and San Mateo people in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties counties; limited video and phone clinic Downtown Streets Team AbilityPath (formerly Gatepath 4001 N. First St. and 750 Curtner Ave., appointments for existing patients only, Kumli Resource Center, 231 Grant Ave. pending pandemic health orders and Abilities United) San Jose Nonprofit employs unhoused men and • 650-724-1332 / • 350 Twin Dolphin, Suite 123, • Partners with hundreds of nonprofit women to help them rebuild their lives Redwood City agencies to provide food at more than med.stanford.edu/arbor and prepare for long-term employment • Support services for children, adults 770 sites, including pantries, soup Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital • 408-899-7350 / streetsteam.org with special needs and developmental kitchens, shelters and after-school Stanford disabilities programs Hotel de Zink shelter 725 Welch Road 650-259-8500 / abilitypath.org • 800-984-3663 (food connection hotline); Call or check website for specific • 408-266-8866 (San Jose centers) / Devoted to the care of children and • shfb.org expectant mothers. location AchieveKids 650-497-8000 / stanfordchildrens.org • An emergency shelter program hosted 3860 Middlefield Road St. Anthony’s Padua Dining Room • at a different church in Palo Alto and surrounding cities each month • Special education programs and mental 3500 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park MayView Community Health Center health therapy for people ages 5-22 (Member of the Ravenswood Family • 650-853-8672 / lifemoves.org (under • Hot lunch program, grocery and listing: “services”) • 650-494-1200 / achievekids.org clothing distribution; public-health Health Network) services. 270 Grant Ave. (Palo Alto site LifeMoves Vista Center for the Blind and • 650-365-9664 / temporarily closed for renovations) Administrative offices, 181 Constitution Visually Impaired paduadiningroom.com • Primary medical care for low-income Drive, Menlo Park 2500 El Camino Real #100 individuals. Social Services Agency — • Housing and supportive services for • Rehabilitation program and services for North County District • 650-327-8717 / mayview.org homeless families and individuals in clients with severe sight loss 1330 W. Middlefield Road, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. 650-858-0202 / vistacenter.org Menlo Medical Clinic • Mountain View • 650-685-5880 / lifemoves.org 1300 Crane St., Menlo Park VTA Access Paratransit • Adult and child welfare services; during • Primary and specialty care Opportunity Services Center, 3331 N. First St., San Jose COVID-19, check status of in-person office hours. • 650-498-6500 / bit.ly/MenloClinic LifeMoves Transportation for individuals who have • 408-278-2400 / sccgov.org (search 33 Encina Ave. a disability that prevents them from • Palo Alto Medical Foundation “social services agency”) • Emergency rental assistance, clothes using public transportation (bus, light 795 El Camino Real closet, computer lab, on-site clinic and rail) Veterans Emergency Social Work • Primary and urgent care (drop-in). case management. • Information on eligibility, 408-321-2300; Fund • 866-961-2889, COVID-19 advice line • 650-853-8672 / lifemoves.org (under reservations, 408-321-2380; 3801 Miranda Ave. listing: “services”) TTD, 408-321-2330 / vta.org (daily from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.); 650-853-2958, 650-493-5000 / paloalto.va.gov urgent care / sutterhealth.org/pamf •

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1 Downtown North 94301 Eclectic mix of arts-and-crafts homes, Palo Alto Neighborhoods cottages, apartments, duplexes. Homeowners: 36% / Average age: 49 East • Ravenswood Palo Alto Shopping 2 Crescent Park 94301 Center Spacious lots, wide streets, mature trees. Menlo Park

Homeowners: 86% / Average age: 55 . • E V A Y Crescent Park Neighborhood Association: IT S R E Norm Beamer, 650-327-7071; nhbeamer@ IV 2 N yahoo.com UUNIVERSITY AVE.

3 University South 94301 1 6 Downtown MMIDDLEFIELD RD. Quiet neighborhood with well-kept Palo Alto ID DL EF sidewalks, tree-lined streets. IE 5 LD R • Homeowners: 43% / Average age: 51 3 D. 7 4 RD. Professorville 94301 RO ADE 8 ARC 9 Oldest residential neighborhood; 4 EEMBARCADEROMB RD. Victorians, Tudors, colonials. • Homeowners: 66% / Average age: 54 10 Y EL CAMINO REAL 17 5 Community Center 94301, Palo Alto 11 E. AV E 94303 RD VE A M Socially and culturally active OREGON EXPRESSWAY LLOMAO VERDE AVE. Stanford neighborhood near downtown. University 12 • Homeowners: 82% / Average age: 56 18 Community Center Neighbors 13 . VE Association: Peter Allen, pma94301@ A W DO comcast.net EA 15 19 M ST EEASTA MEADOW AVE. AALMA ST. LM 21 6 Duveneck/St. Francis 94303 A S T. 20 Mix of 1950s homes, new construction. 14 . D R Homeowners: 87% / Average age: 57 L 16 • IL 22 M E Duveneck/St. Francis Neighborhood G A PPAGE MILL RD. 28 23 SST Association: Jeff Levinsky, [email protected] LEESEST AARARLRRL CHARLESTONCHCHARLHAHARHHARL RD. 7 Triple El 94303 27 Named after Elsinore Drive, Elsinore 29 26 Court and El Cajon; mostly post war- 24 era Eichler homes. 32 Homeowners: 82% / Average age: 57 • 25 8 Embarcadero Oaks/ 31 30 9 Leland Manor/ 10 Garland Park 94303 San Antonio 33 Shopping Three mini-neighborhoods that Center stretch along Oregon Expressway; Mountain mix of ranch-style homes and newer View construction. Los Altos Homeowners: 88% / Average age: 58

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Continued from page 44 25 San Alma 94303 29 Charleston Meadows 94040, (Green Acres II): Jim Colton, 650-464-1775; [email protected] Mix of townhomes, below-market-rate 94306 20 South of Midtown 94306 condominiums built on the site of the Predominantly 1950s Eichler homes. Mix of one-story tract homes, historic Don Secundo Robles adobe, • Homeowners: 57% • Average age: 49 34 Greater Miranda 94306 reconstructed two-story modern homes. dating back to 1840. Adobe Creek runs through this former • Homeowners: 60% / Average age: 56 • Homeowners: N/A • Average age: n/a 30 Monroe Park 94306 orchard land. Midtown Residents Association: San Alma Association: Barbara Best, Rural, farm-like community. • Homeowners: 77% • Average age: 62 midtownresidents.org 650-704-2160; [email protected] Homeowners: 50% • Average age: 53 Miranda Neighbors: Don Nielson, 650- • 941-2429; [email protected] Monroe Park Neighborhood Association: 21 Adobe Meadow/Meadow Park 26 Greenmeadow 94303, 94306 Linnea Wickstrom, [email protected] 94303 Iconic Eichler subdivision in South 35 Esther Clark Park 94306 Wide streets, tall trees, Eichler-style Palo Alto. 31 Palo Alto Orchards 94306 Spanish villas and old-style ranch homes. homes on 1-acre plots. Homeowners: 82% / Average age: 57 Cul-de-sacs lined with redwood trees • Homeowners: 90% / Average age: 54 • Homeowners: 78% • Average age: 62 Greenmeadow Community Association: and relatively modest single-family • Adobe Meadow Neighborhood homes. Association: info@adobemeadow. 650-494-3157, [email protected], 36 org; minervaconsulting.com / greenmeadow.org • Homeowners: 61% • Average age: 54 Palo Alto Hills 94022, 94304 adobemeadow.org Palo Alto Orchards: John Spiller, Mostly remodeled or rebuilt 1960s [email protected] homes on 1-acre lots in the hills. 27 Walnut Grove 94303 Homeowners**: 90% • Average age: n/a 22 Charleston Gardens 94303 Former walnut grove; mix of mid- • 32 Palo Alto Hills Neighborhood Association: Mid-century modern homes. century modern and ranch-style homes. Barron Park 94306 Pastoral setting, diverse housing mix. Mark Nadim, 650-949-5672, • Homeowners: 73% / Average age: 56 • Homeowners: 94% / Average age: 56 Homeowners: 65% • Average age: 52 [email protected] Walnut Grove Homeowners Association: • Barron Park Association: president@ 23 The Greenhouse 94303 Vipul Vyas, 415-377-0352; bpaonline.org, bpapaloalto.org Palo Alto Neighborhoods (PAN) Set of two adjoining condominium [email protected] complexes at the southernmost end of An independent umbrella group for 33 Palo Alto. 28 Fairmeadow 94306 Green Acres 94022, 94306 Palo Alto neighborhoods that includes • Homeowners***: 68% / Average age: n/a 1950s Eichler homes. Arastradero Road divides the several neighborhood associations. neighborhood into two distinct areas: paneighborhoods.org • Homeowners: 50% • Average age: 54 24 Green Acres I on the south (built in Greendell/Fairfield 94303 Fairmeadow Neighborhood Association: the early 1950s) and Green Acres II Data from Nextdoor.com, unless Ranch-style and Eichler homes. Len Filppu, 650-857-1031; (developed after the 1950s). otherwise noted. • Homeowners: 70% / Average age: 59 [email protected] • Homeowners: 69% • Average age: 57 Greendell Neighborhood Association: Green Acres I Neighborhood Association ** Information from Niche.com [email protected] (GAIA): Alice Sklar, [email protected] / *** Information from Weichert

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Info PA 2020.indd 48 9/25/20 6:38 PM SENIORS Activities, resources and services located COVID-19 Information & Emergency RESOURCES in Palo Alto, unless otherwise noted. Resources above). Services and hours may change due to • 650-289-5400 (general); 650-289-5411 Seniors At Home, Koret COVID-19 health restrictions. (Door-to-Door Services) / avenidas.org Family Resource Center 200 Channing Ave. COVID-19 INFORMATION & Golden Castle Adult Day Health Care Center • Comprehensive services EMERGENCY RESOURCES to help seniors live more 3803 E. Bayshore Road independent lives in their State hotline for seniors • Physical and occupational therapists, own homes. • Seniors can access the latest information nurses, social workers, psychologists, • 650-931-1860 / about the coronavirus pandemic and activity coordinators; multi-lingual staff. SeniorsAtHome.org services available to them. • 650-964-1964 / goldencastlecenter.org Stanford Health Library • 833-544-2374 Oshman Family Jewish See “Resources.” Pony Express home delivery Community Center 3921 Fabian Way • A group of Stanford University students SENIOR HOUSING has launched Pony Express, a website • Weekly fitness and art classes, guest designed to help residents coordinate lecturers, concerts, bridge, day trips Alta Torre shopping trips for food and other and social groups 3895 Fabian Way essential items that can be picked up • 650-223-8700 / paloaltojcc.org and delivered to vulnerable neighbors, • Affordable apartments for very-low-ry-low- including seniors, who are placed on a Hua Kuang Chinese Reading Room income residents; 55 or older. Seniors clap and cheer from their balconies priority list. 4000 Middlefield Road, #H-4 • 650-493-4700 / bit.ly/2MDDxbQ to thank Channing House employees for ponyexps.com • More than 13,000 volumes of Chinese their work during the pandemic. Photo by • The Avant Magali Gauthier. Avenidas Friendship Line materials; painting, flower-arranging and Chinese calligraphy classes; 4041 El Camino Way • Free service that seniors can call for American etiquette classes. Designed for active adults; 60 or older. information, resources, support or just • a friendly voice. • 650-856-3733 / huakuang.yolasite.com • 650-320-8626 / paloaltocommons.com Vi at Palo Alto (“living options”) 600 Sand Hill Road • 650-289-5400 MEDICAL CENTERS Channing House • Independent-living, assisted-living, COVID Networks skilled nursing, memory support; MayView Community Health 850 Webster St. 62 and older • A free online service that connects Center at-risk seniors, who may be living in • Independent-living, assisted-living, • 650-853-5000 (main office) / isolation during the quarantine, to 270 Grant Ave. skilled nursing viliving.com high school volunteers for one-on-one • Primary medical care for low-income • 650-327-0950 / channinghouse.org online video chats. The program also individuals Webster House The Hamilton connects seniors to activities such as 650-327-8717 / mayview.org 401 Webster St. interactive yoga, meditation sessions • 555 Byron St. Independent-living, assisted-living; and music performances. • Palo Alto Medical Foundation • Condominium complex; 55 and older 65 and older covidnetworks.org • 795 El Camino Real • 650-463-1400 / thehamilton.net • 650-327-4333 / Amora, caregiver support • Primary care, drop-in urgent care, covia.org/webster-house outpatient surgery center. Lytton Gardens Senior • Developed through a Stanford Communities University COVID-19 grant, Amora • 650-321-4121 (switchboard is open 24 DOOR-TO-DOOR helps people caring for aging parents hours) / sutterhealth.org/pamf 649 University Ave.; 656 Lytton Ave.; 330 Everett Ave. TRANSPORTATION who are unable to see them in person Stanford Health Care, Aging Adult by pairing families virtually with a • Assisted-living, independent-living; Avenidas Door-to-Door geriatric care coach to navigate tough Services 62 or older During the pandemic, Avenidas has decisions such as living arrangements, • 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford 650-617-7373 / covia.org/affordable- stopped providing volunteer rides, but Medicare and making a proactive plan. • • In-patient services, community housing/lytton-gardens will arrange monitored Lyft rides to withamora.com support, end-of-life support and from medical appointments within • Moldaw Family Residences • 650-723-1303 / stanfordhealthcare.org a 12-mile radius; Pickup service from Takeout meals 899 E. Charleston Road 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday; • The Palo Alto senior nutrition program Stanford Health Care, Stanford • Independent-living, assisted-living, advance reservations required. Fees La Comida is offering takeout meals Hospital skilled nursing, memory support; charged. Mondays through Fridays. Pickup 401 Quarry Rd., Stanford 62 or older • 650-289-5411 (reservations) / locations are at Stevenson House, 455 avenidas.org/programs/door-to-door E. Charleston Road, between 11:15 a.m. • In-patient treatment, emergency care, • 650-433-3600 / moldaw.org regional trauma center and 12:15 p.m.; and the downtown Palo Palo Alto Commons VTA Access Paratransit Alto Masonic Lodge, 457 Florence St., • 650-723-4000; appointments between 11:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. and referrals, 800-756-9000 / 4075 El Camino Way 3331 First St., San Jose Transportation for individuals who 650-322-3742 / lacomida.org stanfordhealthcare.org • Independent-living, assisted-living, • • memory care; 60 or older have a disability that prevents them from using public transportation (bus, Meal delivery VA Palo Alto Health Care System 650-433-9362 / • light rail) • Meals on Wheels is delivering meals to 3801 Miranda Ave. paloaltocommons.com seniors in San Mateo and Santa Clara • General medical, surgical and • Information on eligibility 408-321-2300; counties. psychiatric care for veterans Stevenson House reservations 408-321-2380; 455 E. Charleston Road TTD 408-321-2330 / • If you live in San Mateo County, go to • 650-493-5000 / paloalto.va.gov vta.org/go/paratransit penvol.org/mealsonwheels. • Nonprofit apartment community • If you live in Santa Clara County, go HOT LUNCH for low-income and independently RoadRunners Transportation to mysourcewise.com/meals or call functioning adults 62; and older. Service 408-350-3200. LA COMIDA • 650-494-1944 / stevensonhouse.org 2500 Grant Road, Mountain View A nonprofit program that provides Sunrise of Palo Alto • Transportation for medical-related and SENIOR CENTERS nutritious hot lunches in a friendly, group 2701 El Camino Real personal appointments within 10 miles Avenidas setting at various Palo Alto locations; $3 of El Camino Hospital; pickup services: suggested contribution. (Services are • Assisted-living, continuing care, Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; clients 450 Bryant St. takeout only during the pandemic. See Alzheimer’s and memory care; need not be affiliated with El Camino • Recreation classes, health and wellness listing under “COVID-19 & Emergency available, short- and long-term stays; Hospital; fees charged; Advance services, support groups. During resources”.) no age requirement reservations required. the pandemic, Avenidas is offering 650-319-8643 / For updates and more information, • • 650-940-7016 / elcaminohospital.org a variety of virtual activities and sunriseseniorliving.com (search “RoadRunners”) classes and door-to-door services (See contact lacomida.org, or call 650-322-3742.

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Info PA 2020.indd 50 9/25/20 6:38 PM OPEN SPACE PRESERVES Rancho San Antonio Preserve** Bowling Green Park Parks located in Palo Alto, unless 22500 Cristo Rey Drive, Los Altos Hills 474 Embarcadero Road otherwise noted. *City-operated parks: • 3,988 acres / 24 miles of trails • See Recreational Facilities open daily from 8 a.m. to sunset, unless • Working farm with barnyard animals Byxbee Park otherwise noted. **Midpeninsula • 650-691-1200 / Regional Open Space District bit.ly/SanAntonioPreserve 2375 Embarcadero Road parks: open daily a half hour before • See Open Space sunrise to a half hour after sunset, Ravenswood Open Space Cameron Park unless otherwise noted. Smoking Preserve** is prohibited in all preserves. Public Bay Road, East Palo Alto 2101 Wellesley St. 11 acres access, hours and other regulations • 376 acres / 1.9 miles of trails • may vary due to COVID-19 restrictions. In August, the Midpeninsula Regional • Playground, picnic area Open Space District celebrated the Cogswell Plaza * opening of a 0.6-mile section of trail Byxbee Park 264 Lytton Ave. 2375 Embarcadero Road that connects the preserve to the San Francisco Bay Trail, which when • 0.5 acres • 130 acres completed, will stretch 500 miles through Don Jesus Ramos Park • 650-617-3156 / bit.ly/byxbeepark 47 cities surrounding the San Francisco Bay. The newly opened section of trail 800 E. Meadow Drive Baylands Nature Preserve * includes a new boardwalk, a bridge that • 4.4 acres 2500 Embarcadero Road spans across the wetlands in the north • Sport court, playground, picnicicnic and • 1,940 acres / 15 miles of trails and other features that cater to local BBQ area A biker rides on Midpeninsula Regional wildlife in the surrounding marshlands. Open Space District's latest trail extension • 650-617-3156 / bit.ly/Baylands Don Secundino Robles Park • bit.ly/RavenswoodPreserve at the Ravenswood Preserve in East Palo Esther Clark Park* 4116 Park Blvd. Alto. Photo by Magali Gauthier. ** Old Trace Lane/Old Adobe Road Russian Ridge Preserve • 4.7 acres • 21 acres Skyline Boulevard near Page Mill/ • Basketball, softball, wheelchair- Eleanor Pardee Park Alpine Road, Los Altos Hills accessible toddler swings, picnic and 851 Center Drive • 650-329-2423 / bit.ly/EstherClark BBQ areas • 3,137 acres / 10.4 miles of trails 9.6 acres ** • Foothills Open Space Preserve • bit.ly/RussianRidge El Camino Park • Palo Alto Demonstration Garden, Page Mill Road, Los Altos Hills 155 El Camino Real playground, picnic and BBQ area Shoreline at Mountain View Park 212 acres / 0.5-mile trail 12.2 acres • 3070 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View • Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden • 650-691-1200 / • Softball, soccer openspace.org/preserves • 750 acres / 8 miles of trails 1431 Waverley St. • Aquatic park, 18-hole golf course, bay El Palo Alto Park • 2.5 acres with historic home and Foothills Park* front trails; Park open 6 a.m. to half 117 Palo Alto Ave. gardens 3300 Page Mill Road hour after sunset; Lake has seasonal 0.5 acres Continued on page 52 hours • 1,400 acres / 15 miles of trails • • 650-903-6392 / shorelinelake.com • Nature preserve • 650-329-2423 / bit.ly/FoothillsPark Skyline Ridge Preserve** Skyline Boulevard near Page Mill/ Hidden Villa Farm and Wilderness Alpine Road intersection, Los Gatos Preserve 2,143 acres / 10 miles of trails 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills • • bit.ly/SkylineRidgePreserve • 1,600 acres / 8 miles of trails • Nonprofit organic farm and nature Windy Hill Preserve** preserve; Closed June - August Skyline Boulevard, Portola Valley 650-949-8650 / hiddenvilla.org • • 1,335 acres / 12 miles of trails Los Trancos Open Space • Hang gliding, paragliding, kite flying Preserve** • bit.ly/WindyHillPreserve Page Mill Road • 274 acres / 5.2 miles of trails PARKS • bit.ly/LosTrancos Parks are typically open from sunrise to 10:30 p.m. but may be closed or restricted Monte Bello Open Space due to COVID-19 health mandates. For Preserve** more information: 650-496-6962; Family-owned, farm-to-table restaurant in downtown Palo Alto Page Mill Road bit.ly/PAparks SUPPORTING LOCAL - STAYING LOCAL • 3,436 acres / 15.5 miles of trails Baylands Nature Preserve • Black Mountain backpack camp 2500 Embarcadero Road Brunch (permits required) • See Open Space Tuesday - Friday 11:30am-3:00pm • bit.ly/MonteBelloPreserve Bol Park Saturday & Sunday 10:00am-3:00pm * Pearson-Arastradero Preserve 3590 Laguna Ave. Dinner nightly from 3:00pm 1530 Arastradero Road • 13.8 acres Available for Catering / Pick Up / Delivery • 622 acres / 10.25 miles of trails • bit.ly/Pearson-Arastradero Boulware Park Large, Safe Outdoor 410 Fernando Ave. Picchetti Ranch Preserve** • 1.5 acres University Avenue Dining! Montebello Road, Cupertino • Basketball, playground, picnic and BBQ • 308 acres / 3.7 miles of trails area Door Dash / Uber Eats • Wine tasting at historic Picchetti Bowden Park Winery 271 University Ave, Palo Alto 2380 High St. • 650-691-1200 / bit.ly/PicchettiRanch • 2 acres www.localunion271.com | (650) 322-7509 • Playground, picnic area PaloAltoOnline.com Info Palo Alto • 51

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Continued from page 51 GOLF (PUBLIC COURSES) Foothills Park is preparing to welcome nonresidents Foothills Park Baylands Golf Links 11799 Page Mill Road, Los Altos Hills For the first time since 1969, the 1875 Embarcadero Road See Open Space city of Palo Alto has expanded • 18-hole course on 55 acres of wetlands access to its exclusive Foothills • Greer Park along the Bay Park to nonresidents. In August, 1098 Amarillo Ave. • 650-856-0881 / baylandsgolflinks.com the City Council agreed to launch 22 acres • a pilot program by the end of Shoreline Golf Links • Little League diamond, small dog run, skateboard bowl, playground, soccer, 2020 that will allow the city to 2940 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View softball, basketball, picnic and BBQ area sell a limited number of permits • 18-hole course overlooking the Bay; per day to nonresidents wishing 16 acres of water-hazards Henry W. Seale Park to visit the 1,400-acre natural • 650-903-4653 / shorelinelinks.com 3100 Stockton Place preserve located in the foothills 4.3 acres HORSEBACK RIDING • off Page Mill Road. The council • Basketball, playground, picnic area plans to send the issue to voters Webb Ranch Heritage Park for a permanent resolution in 2022. 2720 Alpine Road, Menlo Park 300 Homer Ave. The new program is a step toward • Programs for all levels of riders amending a divisive policy that has • 1.1 acres • webbranchinc.com • Picnic area, playground been in place for half a century but • To make picnic reservations, call doesn't go far enough for some: A Westwind Community Barn 650-463-4900 group of civil rights organizations 27210 Altamont Road, Los Altos Hills Hoover Park and residents filed a lawsuit against 4-H therapeutic riding Photo by Magali Gauthier. • 2901 Cowper St. the city on Sept. 15 to immediately • losaltoshills.ca.gov/parks (search • 4.2 acres repeal the law. “Westwind Community Barn”) Playground, baseball field with • Palo Alto purchased Foothills Park from the family of Russel V. Lee in 1959 at a ICE SKATING bleachers, tennis courts, handball cost of $1,000 per acre. At the time, it asked two neighboring cities, Los Altos court, picnic area, multipurpose concrete bowl with two basketball and Los Altos Hills to contribute to the purchase. Both declined. Winter Lodge hoops, fenced dog run and restrooms After opening the park to the public in 1965, Palo Alto instituted the 3009 Middlefield Road Hopkins Creekside Park residents-only requirement four years later and reaffirmed the restriction • Outdoor, seasonal rink Palo Alto Ave. from Emerson to in 1973, pointing out that the park’s acquisition was “paid for out of the • winterlodge.com city’s general fund, and no federal funds were used.” Since then, the issue of Marlowe St. LAWN BOWLING • 12.4 acres expanding access to nonresidents has bubbled up every few years, only to falter under political opposition. Bowling Green Park Johnson Park 474 Embarcadero Road Everett and Hawthorne avenues More information: 650-329-2423 / bit.ly/FoothillsPark (See listing below) (between Kipling and Waverley streets) • For information about lawn bowls club, go to palbc.org • 2.5 acres • Sand and water play equipment, Monroe Park Terman Park SAILING AND SAILBOARDING climbing structures, volleyball, 4305 Miller Ave. community garden, basketball, picnic 655 Arastradero Road Baylands Sailing Station 0.55 acres 7.7 acres area, toddler playground • • 2775 Embarcadero Road • Toddler playground Softball, tennis, soccer, basketball Juana Briones Park • • Located within the 1,940-acre Palo Alto 609 Maybell Ave. Pearson-Arastradero Preserve Weisshaar Park Baylands Nature Preserve; 1530 Arastradero Road non-motorized small boats and • 4.1 acres 2298 Dartmouth St. sailboards Basketball, toddler playground, picnic See Open Space 1.1 acres • • • 650-617-3156 / area • Peers Park • Open grassy field, tennis, picnic area bit.ly/BaylandsNaturePreserve Kellogg Park 1899 Park Blvd. Werry Park Shoreline Aquatic Center at Waverley Street at Embarcadero Road • 4.7 acres 2100 Dartmouth St. Shoreline Lake 0.2 acres • • Tennis, basketball, playground, picnic • 1.1 acres 3160 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View area, dog park Lytton Plaza • Lawn area, children’s sand area, toddler • 50-acre lake; sailing, windsurfing, 202 University Ave. Rinconada Park playground kayaking and canoeing 0.2 acres 777 Embarcadero Road • shorelinelake.com • RECREATIONAL FACILITIES Magical Bridge Playground • 19 acres SKATEBOARDING Swimming, tennis, playgrounds, BBQ area Services and programs may vary due to 600 East Meadow Drive (located in • • For picnic reservations, group policies COVID-19 health restrictions. Facilities Burgess Skate Park Mitchell Park) and rental fees, call 650-463-4900 located in Palo Alto, unless otherwise • 1.3 acres noted. 700 Alma St., Menlo Park • Fully inclusive playground for children Sarah Wallis Park • menlopark.org/skatepark of varying physical and cognitive 202 Ash St. FISHING abilities Greer Skateboard Park • 0.3 acres Arastradero Lake • magicalbridge.org 1098 Amarillo Ave. Scott Street Mini Park 1530 Arastradero Road Mayfield Park • cityofpaloalto.org (search “Greer Park”) 911 Scott St. • Year-round fishing; no boats 2300 Wellesley St. 650-329-2423 / 0.4 acres • Rengstorff Park 1.1 acres • bit.ly/Pearson-Arastradero • • Basketball, toddler play area 201 S. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View Mitchell Park Boronda Lake, Foothills Park mountainview.gov (search “skate park”) Stanford Palo Alto Community • 600 East Meadow Drive 3300 Page Mill Road Playing Fields SWIMMING • 21.4 acres 2700 El Camino Real • Year-round fishing; non-motorized Tennis, handball, water park, dog park, boats • 5.9 acres Burgess Memorial Pool toddler playground, BBQ area • 650-329-2423 / cityofpaloalto.org Soccer, night lighting, restrooms, snack • For picnic reservations, group policies • (search “Boronda Lake”) 501 Laurel St., Menlo Park • facility and rental fees, call 650-463-4900 • menloswim.com 52 • Info Palo Alto PaloAltoOnline.com

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Info PA 2020.indd 53 9/25/20 6:38 PM EDUCATION A guide to the area’s public & private schools PUBLIC K-12: PUBLIC SCHOOLS Henry M. Gunn High School THE PALO ALTO UNIFIED Addison 780 Arastradero Road SCHOOL DISTRICT 650 Addison Ave. • gunn.pausd.org addison.pausd.org • Middle College The Palo Alto Unified School District Barron Park Program serves approximately 12,000 K-12 800 Barron Ave. 12345 El Monte Road, students from Palo Alto, Stanford barron.pausd.org Los Altos Hills and a portion of Los Altos Hills at 12 • • Alternative program for elementary, three middle and two Duveneck juniors/seniors housed at high schools. Earlier this year, the 705 Alester Ave. Foothill College district again earned the No. 1 spot • duveneck.pausd.org • foothill.edu/middle for Best School Districts in California El Carmelo Palo Alto High School in the 2019 Niche rankings, as well as 50 Embarcadero Road the top spots for best public middle, 3024 Bryant St. paly.net elementary and high schools. • el-carmelo.pausd.org • Esconidido (Spanish immersion Achievekids Palo Alto Unified program) 3860 Middlefield Road School District 890 Escondido Road, Stanford • Serves kids with emotionalal andand/or/or Administration Office • escondido.pausd.org developmental disabilitiess • achievekids.org Instructional aid Timothy Yung works with 25 Churchill Ave. Fairmeadow a post-secondary student in the Palo Alto Hospital School 650-329-3700 | pausd.org 500 E. Meadow Drive Unified School District's Futures program at 725 Welch Road Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto Superintendent: Don Austin • fairmeadow.pausd.org • For Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital on Sept. 11. Photo by Magali Gauthier. Estimated General Fund Hoover Stanford patients expenditures 2020/21: $269 million 445 E. Charleston Road • 650-497-8230 Emerson School 2800 W. Bayshore Road RANKINGS • Traditional “direct instruction” Special education teaching style. Admission by lottery 25 Churchill Ave. • Accelerated Graduation rate: 94.59% (Gunn) / hoover.pausd.org emersonpaloalto.com 93.93% (Paly) • • pausd.org/programs/special- • education Average dollars budgeted per Juana Briones Fusion Academy student 2020/21: $23,291 4100 Orme St. Greendell School 2191 E. Bayshore Road, Suite 100 Niche’s 2019 Best School Districts in • Houses Juana Briones Therapy, a 4120 Middlefield Road • One-on-one learning California: No. 2 county-run orthopedic unit serving Preschool, early education • fusionacademy.com/academy/ children in northern Santa Clara • Information from PAUSD and *Niche psf.pausd.org palo-alto County • Alto • Briones.pausd.org PRIVATE SCHOOLS Board of Education (Set to merge with the Silicon Valley Lucille M. Nixon International School in the 2021-22 The Palo Alto Unified School District’s Athena Academy 1711 Stanford Ave. school year to provide French, Chinese five-member school board meets on 525 San Antonio Ave. nixon.pausd.org and German language programs for the second and fourth Tuesdays of the • Focus on students with dyslexia month during the school year. (During • Preschool through 12th grades.) athenaacademy.org the pandemic, virtual meetings can be Ohlone • 475 Pope St., Menlo Park accessed via Zoom by dialing 950 Amarillo Ave. Beechwood School • German/English 669-900-6833 and using Meeting ID: • Whole-child” teaching approach; 50 Terminal Ave., Menlo Park • altoschool.org 937 9255 2500). The board sets direction home of the district’s Mandarin for the district, approves the annual Immersion Program • Traditional academics; Ravenswood German International School of City School District students only budget, hires the superintendent and ohlone.pausd.org Silicon Valley (GISSV) • beechwoodschool.org makes other policy decisions. Elections • 310 Easy St., Mountain View are held on the Tuesday after the Palo Verde Bowman International School German/English first Monday in November in even- 3450 Louis Road • numbered years. 4000 Terman Drive • gissv.org • palo-verde.pausd.org Montessori 650-329-3700 • Gideon Hausner Jewish Day pausd.org/about-us/board-of- Walter Hays • bowmanschool.org School education 1525 Middlefield Road Castilleja School 450 San Antonio Road • hays.pausd.org 1310 Bryant St. • Coed, college prep, Jewish Jennifer DiBrienza, member Girls, college prep Frank S. Greene Middle School • • hausner.com Term expires: Nov. 30, 2020 • castilleja.org [email protected] 750 N. California Ave. The Girls’ Middle School • greene.pausd.org Challenger School 3400 W. Bayshore Road Todd Collins, president 3880 Middlefield Road • Girls Term expires: Nov. 30, 2020 Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle Emphasis on early reading School • • girlsms.org [email protected] challengerschool.com 480 E. Meadow Drive • The Harker School Ken Dauber, member jls.pausd.org Crystal Springs Uplands School Term expires: Nov. 30, 2022 • San Jose campuses 400 Uplands Drive, Hillsborough Coed, college prep [email protected] Ellen Fletcher Middle School • • Coed, college prep • harker.org Melissa Baten Caswell, member 655 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto • csus.org fletcher.pausd.org Helios New School Term expires: Nov. 30, 2020 • Esther B. Clark at Children’s [email protected] 597 Central Ave., Sunnyvale Alta Vista High School Health Council Gifted Shounak Dharap, vice president 1325 Bryant Ave., Mountain View 650 Clark Way • • heliosns.org Term expires: Nov. 30, 2022 • Alternative continuation school • Academic program in therapeutic [email protected] • mvla.net/avhs milieu • chconline.org Continued on page 56 54 • Info Palo Alto PaloAltoOnline.com

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Continued from page 54 Meira Academy Phillips Brooks School St. Raymond School 3921 Fabian Way 2245 Avy Ave., Menlo Park 1211 Arbor Road, Menlo Park Imagination Lab School Jewish, girls Coed Catholic 4000 Middlefield Road • • • meiraacademy.org PhillipsBrooks.org • straymond.org • Interdisciplinary/coed • • • imagination-school.org Menlo School Pinewood School Stratford School 870 N. California Ave. 50 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton Los Altos, Los Altos Hills campuses Silicon Valley International • Coed School • Coed, college prep • Academics, arts, moral values • stratfordschools.com (formerly International School of the • menloschool.org • pinewood.edu Synapse School Peninsula. Set to merge with Alto in Roberts School Mid-Peninsula High School 3375 Edison Way, Menlo Park the 2021-22 school year and operate as 641 Coleman Ave., Menlo Park Silicon Valley International School.) 1340 Willow Road, Menlo Park • Independent, advanced curriculum Coed, college prep • Individualized attention, Piaget synapseschool.org 3233 Cowper St. • philosophy • • mid-pen.com • Mandarin or French immersion • therobertsschool.com Trinity School • istp.org Nativity Catholic School 330 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park; Sacred Heart Schools 1250 Laurel St., Menlo Park 2650 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park Kehillah Jewish HS 150 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton Catholic • Episcopal, coed 3900 Fabian Way • Catholic nativityschool.com • • trinity-mp.org • Coed, college prep, Jewish • shschools.org • Waldorf School of the Peninsula • kehillah.org Notre Dame High School Sand Hill School at Children’s 11311 Mora Drive, Los Altos; 180 N. Keys School 1540 Ralston Ave., Belmont Health Council Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View Palo Alto campuses • Girls, Catholic 650 Clark Way • Developmentally based experiential • Coed • ndhsb.org • Language-based learning differences curriculum keysschool.org waldorfpeninsula.org • Palo Alto Prep School • sandhillschool.org • The Living Wisdom School 2462 Wyandotte St., Mountain View St. Elizabeth Seton School Woodland School 456 College Ave. • Coed, college prep 1095 Channing Ave. 360 La Cuesta Drive, Portola Valley Coed • Coed • paloaltoprep.com • Catholic • livingwisdomschool.org • woodland-school.org • Peninsula School • 650-326-9004 Woodside Priory School Lydian Academy 920 Peninsula Way, Menlo Park St. Joseph Catholic School 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley 815 El Camino Real, Menlo Park Progressive 1120 Miramonte Ave., Mountain View • • Coed, college prep, Catholic/ • One-on-one education • peninsulaschool.org • Catholic Benedictine day and boarding school • lydianacademy.com • sjmv.org • prioryca.org Continued on page 59

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Continued from page 56 Odyssey Preschool 100 Addison Ave. Child Care, Preschools, After School Programs CHILD CARE, PRESCHOOL, 18 months to Kindergarten; East • Palo Alto AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS Instruction in English, Mandarin, Menlo Park Hindi, Spanish NORTHEAST • 650-321-2747 / odysseymontessoripa.com (bounded by Oregon Expressway, Parents Nursery School Northeast Alma Street, San Francisquito Creek, Palo Alto Baylands) 2328 Louis Road 2-5 years; play-based curriculum • Middlefield Rd Addison Kids’ Club • 650-856-1440 / parentsnurseryschool.org Oregon Expy 650 Addison Ave K-5; Palo Alto Community Child Care Periwinkle School Alma St • Palo Alto (PACCC) program 169 Byron St. Southeast • 650-323-4007 / paccc.org • Young fives (summer or fall birthdays); play-based curriculum Northwest Downtown Palo Alto KinderCare 650-326-5386 / periwinkleschool.org 848 Ramona St. • • 6 weeks to 5 years; play-based Walter Hays Kids’ Club El Camino Real curriculum 1525 Middlefield Road • 800-709-8803 / • K-5; Palo Alto Community Child Care bit.ly/DowntownPAkindercare (PACCC) program Page Mill Rd 650-325-5350 / paccc.org Discovery Children’s House • Southwest 437 Webster St. • Pre-K through transitional NORTHWEST kindergarten; Montessori method (bounded by Page Mill Road, Foothill • 650-329-8023 / dchmontessori.com Color-coded regions correspond Expressway, San Francisquito Creek, to child care, preschool, and after Mountain Downtown Children’s Center Alma Street) school program listings below. Los Altos View 555 Waverley St. Amigos de Palo Alto • 2 years to K; Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC) program 1611 Stanford Ave. 2.5 years to K; bilingual immersion • 650-321-9578 / paccc.org • Good Neighbor Montessori Spanish/English SOUTHEAST 4000 Middlefield Road, Suite K4 Duveneck Kids’ Club • 650-493-4300 / amigosdepaloalto.com (bounded by Alma Street, Oregon 2-6 years; Montessori method 705 Alester Ave. • Expressway, East Bayshore Road, San • 650-493-2777 / • K-5; Palo Alto Community Child Care Bing Nursery School Antonio Road) goodneighbormontessori.com (PACCC) program 850 Escondido Road, Stanford Grace Lutheran Preschool 650-328-8356 / paccc.org Besse Bolton Kid’s Club • 2 to 5 years; bilingual immersion 3149 Waverley St. • 500 E. Meadow Drive Spanish/English 2.5-5 years; play-based curriculum First Congregational Church K-5; Palo Alto Community Child Care • Nursery School • 650-723-4865 / • 650-493-8942 / gracepre.org bingschool.stanford.edu (PACCC) program • 1985 Louis Road • 650-856-0847 / paccc.org HeadsUp! Palo Alto 2-4 years; play-based curriculum Kids Choice After School Care 2800 W. Bayshore Road • Children’s Pre-School Center • 650-493-1915 / 1711 Stanford Ave., Stanford • Infants through kindergarten; play- firstcongonurseryschool.org • School-age day care 4000 Middlefield Road, T-1 based curriculum 650-656-8170 / • Infancy - pre-K; play-based curriculum • 650-424-1221 / headsup.org First School • kidschoiceafterschoolcare.org • 650-493-5770 / cpsccares.org Hoover Kids’ Club First United Methodist Church, 625 445 E. Charleston Road Hamilton Ave. Children’s Center of the Stanford Covenant Children’s Center Community 670 E. Meadow Drive • K-5; Palo Alto Community Child Care • 2.5-6 years; play-based curriculum (PACCC) program 140 Comstock Circle, Stanford 2 months - pre-K; play-based • 650-321-3871 / firstschool.org • • 650-565-8847 / paccc.org • 8 weeks to 5 years; parent curriculum International School of the cooperative; play-based curriculum • 650-493-9505 / Infant-Toddler Center Peninsula • 650-721-0101 / ccsc.stanford.edu covenantchildrenscenter.com 4111 Alma St. 2 months - 3 years; Palo Alto Community Cohn Campus, 151 Laura Lane Crescent Park Child Development • College Terrace Children’s Center Child Care (PACCC) program Grades 1-8; after-school language Center • 2300 Wellesley Ave. • 650-493-2240 / paccc.org classes, activities, study hall 4161 Alma St 650-251-8500 / istp.org • 2.5 years to K; Palo Alto Community International School of the • Child Care (PACCC) program • 18 months to 6 years; play-based curriculum Peninsula The Learning Center 650-858-1580 / paccc.org • • 650-322-9668 / Cowper Campus, 3233 Cowper St. 459 Kingsley Ave. Escondido Kids’ Club crescentparkpreschool.org • Nursery to K; bilingual immersion • 6 months to 5 years; play-based French/English and Mandarin curriculum 890 Escondido Road El Carmelo Kids’ Club Chinese/English K-5; Palo Alto Community Child Care 650-325-6683 / tlcpaloalto.org • 3024 Bryant St. • 650-852-0264 / istp.org • (PACCC) program • K-5; Palo Alto Community Child Care 650-855-9828 / paccc.org Milestones Preschool, Neighborhood Infant-Toddler • (PACCC) program Abilities United Center 650-856-6150 / paccc.org Sand Hill School • 3864 Middlefield Road 311 N. California Ave. 650 Clark Way Ellen Thacher Children’s Center • 2-5 years; developmentally- 2 months to 2 years; Palo Alto • Grades 1-8; personalized learning for 505 E. Charleston Road appropriate curriculum Community Child Care (PACCC) • 650-259-8500/ abilitypath.org program students with learning differences • 2.5 years old - K; Palo Alto Community • Child Care (PACCC). program (“preschools”) 650-321-3493 / paccc.org • 650-688-3605 / sandhillschool.org • 650-494-1467 / paccc.org • Continued on page 60

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Continued from page 59 The Whistle Stop Palo Alto School for Jewish SOUTHWEST 3801 Miranda Ave., No. T-6B Education (PASJE) Mini Infant Center (bounded by Alma Street, Page Mill • 6 weeks - pre-K; play-based Oshman Family Jewish Community 3149 Waverley St. curriculum Road, San Antonio Road, Foothill Center, 3921 Fabian Way • 2 months - 2 years; Palo Alto Expressway) • 650-852-3497 / whistle-stop.org • pasje.org Community Child Care (PACCC) program Barron Park Children’s Center Young Life Christian Preschool Sitanfu 687 Arastradero Road • 650-424-9130 / paccc.org 800 Barron Ave. (PAUSD site) 475 N. Whisman Road, #100, 3 years to K; Palo Alto Community • 2.5 years - first grade; Montessori and Mountain View • Piaget methods Montessori School of Los Altos Child Care (PACCC) program • mychineseschool.com 303 Parkside Drive • 650-856-7559 / paccc.org • 650-494-7885 / ylcp.org ADULT SCHOOLS AND • 2.6 - 6 years; Montessori method Barron Park Kids’ Club LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION • 650-493-7200 / 800 Barron Ave. ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT montessorischooloflosaltos.org K-5; Palo Alto Community Child Care • Cañada College (PACCC) program Acme Education Group Mustard Seed Learning Center 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City • 650-856-1220 / paccc.org Cubberley Community Center, 2585 E. Bayshore Road Barron Park Preschool 4000 Middlefield Road, Ste. L1 / • canadacollege.edu • 2.2 - 5.5 years; multi-cognitive 3650 La Donna Ave. 4101 El Camino Way teaching methods Carnegie Mellon University • 2-5 years; child-centered, play-based • After-school tutoring, enrichment Silicon Valley Campus • 650-494-7389 / curriculum classes and Chinese lessons mustardseedlearningcenter.org acmeschool.com NASA Research Park, Bldg. 23, Moffett • 650-493-7597 / • Field, Mountain View barronparkpreschool.com Ohlone Kids’ Club Bay Area Arabic School • sv.cmu.edu Country Day Little School 310 Easy St., German International 950 Amarillo Ave. De Anza College 3990 Ventura Court School of Silicon Valley, Mountain View • K-5; Palo Alto Community Child Care 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino (PACCC) program • 2-6 years; play-based curriculum • baaschool.org 650-494-8044 / • deanza.edu 650-493-0774 / paccc.org • • countrydaylittleschool.com Center for a New Generation at Belle Haven Community School Foothill College OFJCC Leslie Family Preschool Heffalump Co-operative 415 Ivy Drive, Menlo Park 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills / 3921 Fabian Way Preschool • Grades: K-8; After-school/summer 1070 Innovation Way, Sunnyvale 18 months - 5 years; play-based 3990 Ventura Court program run by the Boys & Girls Clubs • foothill.edu • of the Peninsula curriculum • 2 years to first grade; play-based Menlo College curriculum • bgcp.org • 650-223-8788 / 1000 El Camino Real, Atherton paloaltojcc.org/Preschool • 650-856-4321 / heffalumppreschool.com Dutch School Silicon Valley • menlo.edu Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Palo Alto Friends Nursery School Mountain View-Los Altos Adult Juana Briones Kids’ Club Middlefield Road 957 Colorado Ave. Education 4100 Orme St. • dutchschoolsiliconvalley.org • 3 years - pre-K; play-based curriculum • K-5; Palo Alto Community Child Care 333 Moffett Blvd., Mountain View • 650-856-6152 / pafns.org (PACCC) program German-American School of • mvlaae.net • 650-856-3874 / paccc.org Palo Alto Palo Verde Kids’ Club Alto International Campus, 475 Pope Palo Alto Adult School 3450 Louis Road (PAUSD site) Oshman Family JCC Preschool at St., Menlo Park 50 Embarcadero Road, Room 8 Beth Am paadultschool.org • K-5; Palo Alto Community Child Care • gaspa-ca.org • (PACCC) program 26790 Arastradero Road, Los Altos Hills Hwa Shin Bilingual Chinese Palo Alto University 650-852-9475 / paccc.org • • 2-5 years; creative, play-based School 1791 Arastradero Road curriculum PreSchool Family Held at various elementary and • paloaltou.edu • 650-223-8788 / middle school campuses 4120 Middlefield Road paloaltojcc.org/preschool • hwashinschool.org Sofia University Infants to 5 years old; play-based • Palo Alto Community Child Care 1069 E. Meadow Circle curriculum Kumon Math and Reading Center (PACCC) • sofia.edu 650-856-0833 / psf.pausd.org 2730 Middlefield Road • 3990 Ventura Court • kumon.com/palo-alto Stanford Continuing Studies Sunshine Preschool Montessori • Infancy - elementary school; 365 Lasuen St., Stanford nonprofit, state licensed program 3711 Ross Road Lydian Academy continuingstudies.stanford.edu • 650-493-2361 / paccc.org • 2-6 years; Montessori method 815 El Camino Real, Menlo Park • Stanford University • 650-493-0665 / Palo Alto Montessori School • Grades 6-12; personalized education, sunshine-preschool.com 575 Arastradero Road collaborative learning 450 Serra Mall, Stanford • 2-5 years; Montessori method • lydianacademy.com • stanford.edu T’enna Afternoons at OFJCC 650-493-5930 / pamontessori.com Palo Alto • Mathnasium UC Berkeley Extension 3921 Fabian Way Palo Alto Bilingual Montessori 605 Cambridge Ave., Suite A, 1301 Shoreway Road, Suite 400, Academy Menlo Park Belmont • Continuation of preschool day with both quiet and active learning 4232 El Camino Real • mathnasium.com/paloalto-menlopark • extension.berkeley.edu 2-6 years; Montessori method • 650-223-8788 / • Nine Fruits Bilingual School UCSC Silicon Valley Extension paloaltojcc.org/preschool • 650-739-0137 / paloaltobilingualmontessori 2484 Old Middlefield Way, 3175 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara Mountain View The Wonder Years Preschool academy.com • ucsc-extension.edu ninefruits.org 991 Commercial St. • Sojourner Truth Child All schools are located in Palo Alto, unless • 2-5 years; play-based curriculum with Development Center Palo Alto Chinese School otherwise noted. 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CITY COUNCIL HOW TO CONTACT LOCAL Human Relations Commission REGIONAL DISTRICTS Charged to act when it finds that any person Palo Alto is a charter city that operates GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS its own utilities and functions under or group is unfairly or differently treated Foothill-DeAnza Community a City Council-City Manager form of • Contact: Minka van der Zwaag College District government. The mayor and vice mayor COUNCIL-APPOINTED • 650-463-4953 / 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills hold one-year terms that expire in January. OFFICERS [email protected] • Chancellor: Judy Miner The general municipal election is held in Library Advisory Commission even-numbered years, the first Tuesday City Manager: Ed Shikada, 650-329-2280 • Board of Trustee meetings: 6 p.m., first Advises council on matters relating to the after the first Monday of November. Monday of the month in the Toyon City Attorney: Molly Stump, 650-329-2171 Palo Alto City Library Room on Foothill campus Council terms are for four years. City Clerk: Beth Minor, 650-329-2571 Contact: Gayathri Kanth 650-949-6100 / fhda.edu Regular council meetings are held at 6 • • 650-329-2668 / p.m. on the first three Mondays of each • [email protected] Santa Clara County Office of month. Meetings are cablecast live in DEPARTMENT HEADS Education most cases (and replayed) on Government Parks and Recreation Commission Utilities Director: Dean Batchelor, 1290 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose Channel 26 or 29 and broadcast via KZSU 650-496-6981 Advises on parks, recreation, open space Radio, 90.1 FM. During the pandemic, issues • Superintendent: Mary Ann Dewan Police Chief: Robert Jonsen, virtual meetings can be accessed via Contact: Daren Anderson • Board of Trustee meetings: 5 p.m., the Zoom by dialing 669-900-6833 and 650-329-2556 • first and third Wednesdays of the month. 650-496-6950 / using Meeting ID: 966 9129 7246. 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