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Vol. XXXIX, Number 37 Q June 15, 2018

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“I quickly realized I was in the right place when I came to Stanford. My experience with Dr. Fernandez-Becker has been nothing but positive. I feel like she cares about me personally as a patient.” —David

strict diet. Instead, Fernandez-Becker put him Patient finds relief in treatment for inflamed esophagus on a proton pump inhibitor (PPI), a medication For David the simple act of eating had become a fear-inducing commonly prescribed for patients with acid reflux. The medication has been found to help some experience. David suffers from eosinophilic esophagitis, a chronic patients with eosinophilic esophagitis.

allergic immune condition that causes his esophagus to become “Fortunately for me, the proton pump inhibitor inflamed. At any given moment, the tube that sends food from his seems to have helped manage it,” said David, who has only had two food blockages since going mouth to his stomach can swell, making swallowing difficult and on the medication more than five years ago.

extremely painful. When the inflammation is most severe, food gets Because the condition is chronic, and requires lodged in his esophagus. The only remedy is an emergency endoscopy. constant management, Becker follows patients like David for years. “Every time I meet a new “Once you’ve had a couple of these episodes, swallowing difficulties and food blockages. patient, it’s a great journey,” she said. “I get to there’s always this fear when you’re eating that They talked about what triggers might be at play, know them as a person, which is a real privilege. you’re going to have another episode,” said David. and considered further allergy testing or an They feel like family.” “You get to a point where you’re very careful elimination diet. To confirm the diagnosis of about what you eat and how well you chew. But eosinophilic esophagitis, Dr. Fernandez-Becker “I feel like she cares about me personally as a even then, you never know when it’s going to adhered to an evidence-based approach, taking patient,” said David. “When I’m there, I have her happen again.” a tissue sample of David’s esophageal lining, undivided attention. She knows me, she knows examining it under a microscope for the presence my history and she remembers it all.” “Eosinophilic esophagitis is a chronic of eosinophils, and then correlating those findings Today, David’s quality of life is improved and his inflammatory disease,” said Fernandez-Becker, with his medical history and symptoms. MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, condition is mostly under control. “I’m no longer Gastroenterology & Hepatology at Stanford walking around all the time concerned that this Health Care. Inflammation causes the esophagus is going to happen again,” he said. “It’s something to become stiffer and narrower over time, and “ The first time I came that Dr. Fernandez-Becker and I are managing some patients develop scar tissue, which leads here, I quickly realized together right now.” to food blockages. US News & World According to David, managing his condition I was in the right place…” Report recognizes for the past 10 years has been a series of trial Stanford Health Care and error, working with multiple doctors unsuccessfully to resolve the issue. His general “For a lot of these patients, I’m the fourth or fifth in the top 10 best practitioner suggested he see Dr. Fernandez- gastroenterologist they’ve seen, so they don’t hospitals in the nation. Becker at Stanford Health Care because of her come in completely naïve,” said Fernandez- extensive experience treating this condition. Becker, who uses her PhD training in molecular Discover more patient stories on genetics to tease out factors that may be causing StanfordHealthNow.org “My experience with Dr. Fernandez-Becker has the inflammation. “I have a very frank discussion been nothing but positive,” said David, who began with them about what’s happened before, why his care at Stanford in 2012. “The first time I I think they’re having these symptoms and what came here, I quickly realized I was in the right the plan is for us to sort it out.” place,” he said. “She was somebody who got it. She understood what I was going through. She had the Discovering the cause of the allergic reaction can background, and there was no question that I was be difficult. Allergy testing is often inconclusive, in the right spot.” she said, which is why she also prefers having patients undergo a six-month elimination diet. In that first appointment, Dr. Fernandez-Becker But David, who travels extensively for work, and David discussed the frequency of his worried that he wouldn’t be able to adhere to a

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Page 4 • June 15, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Historic President Hotel sold to developer Score of residents must vacate lobby coffee shop, street-level re- received official confirmation “There’s just this feeling of downtown Palo Alto building by November tail and the restoration of its origi- until letters from AJ Capital were helplessness,” he said. nal rooftop garden, according to placed under their doors Tuesday Neighbor Diane Boxill also by Linda Taaffe a June 13 company press release. afternoon. moved into the building 30 years Scores of residents living at Iqbal Serang, who lives in a ago and has remained ever since. he one-time fashionable company AJ Capital has pur- the President Hotel Apartments, studio apartment two stories be- Boxill, an undergraduate student President Hotel, whose chased the six-story Spanish Co- as it’s currently known, received low his daughter and former wife, at Stanford University at the time, T iconic rooftop sign defined lonial apartment complex at 488 notice Tuesday, June 12, that they has lived in the building for 30 said the price was right and it was Palo Alto’s downtown skyline University Ave. for an undisclosed will have to move out of the build- years. An architect, he also leases close to school. When the building during its heyday, will once again price. The company plans to reno- ing by Nov. 12. They had heard the sixth-floor penthouse for his manager offered her use of a large open its doors to hotel guests for vate and reopen it in 2020 as the rumors for the past few weeks office. closet on the third floor as part of the first time in 50 years. Graduate Palo Alto hotel, which that the 75-apartment complex He was in shock over his im- Chicago-based development will include 100 guestrooms, a had been sold, but they had not pending eviction. (continued on page 9)

ELECTION 2018 Battle over health care costs hits Palo Alto City Council reluctantly places SEIU initiative on November ballot by Gennady Sheyner

alo Alto City Hall became any action, staff and council an unlikely frontier in a members indicated later in the Pbroader battle over health meeting that they have major care costs Monday night, when a reservations about the proposal, crowd of medical professionals which would require the Admin- Veronica Weber Veronica packed into the council chambers istrative Services Department to to debate the merits of a citizen take on the unfamiliar role of initiative that would limit how health care regulator. much local hospitals can charge City Manager James Keene patients. noted that the city didn’t get any Lucy Shen, right, a software engineer at Intuit, and Maya Medina, left, an East Palo Alto middle school Dozens of supporters and op- advance notice from the union student, assemble their display board on K-pop bands and music at the Mountain View company, as ponents of the initiative held about the petition, much less a re- fellow Spark mentors and mentees put together their final projects to present earlier this month. competing signs and sounded quest for feedback. This, he said, off to the City Council about the is unusual given the huge impact measure, which is being spear- the health care initiative would YOUTH headed by the Service Employ- have on City Hall. ees International Union - United “We’re not equipped to han- Healthcare Workers West (SEIU- dle this,” Keene said. “We need Fanning the spark UHW) and which would prohibit to recognize that this has been Stanford Health Care and other dropped on us, really.” From K-pop to robotics, tech mentors help at-risk kids pursue their interests local medical providers from Despite its concerns, the coun- by Elena Kadvany charging patients more than 115 cil voted unanimously to certify percent of the “reasonable cost of the results of the initiative peti- hen Maya Medina, a local companies once a week to that had no connection to what direct patient care.” tion, setting the stage for the No- seventh-grader from work on a project of their choice the future held for them — what Earlier this month, the Santa vember vote. It also requested that W East Palo Alto, met with a mentor with whom they possibilities existed, what oppor- Clara County Registrar of Voters staff prepare an “objective and Lucy Shen, a 23-year-old soft- have been carefully matched. tunities were right here in their confirmed that the petition had fact-based analysis” on the effect ware engineer at Intuit in Moun- By allowing students to ex- backyard,” said Jennifer Rider, received more than 2,430 signa- of the measure on Palo Alto resi- tain View, they quickly bonded plore their interests with an Spark’s executive director. “They tures, enough to qualify for the dents. The council is scheduled over an unlikely interest: K-pop, adult, from K-pop to architec- came up with this idea to partner November ballot. A similar initia- to consider the staff report in Au- the South Korean music genre. ture to robotics, Spark works with companies and businesses tive is slated to appear on the city gust, after its summer recess. For Maya, it’s more of an ob- to expose the students to self- in the area and show students of Livermore’s ballot, and another Vice Mayor Eric Filseth said session, and she was happily sur- discovery, experiential learning what existed. That would change that qualified in Emeryville is on the measure appears to constitute prised to find an adult who had al- and future career opportunities. their thinking and engage them hold as the city is challenging the a “very large unfunded mandate” ready watched YouTube videos of Redwood City middle-school in their learning process.” legality of a union proposal. by requiring the city to regulate her favorite band and with whom teachers Chris Balme and Melia Last year, the nonprofit The battle between the union health care. The city, he said, she could discuss her dreams of Dicker founded Spark in 2004 launched its first district-wide and Stanford Health Care — the has neither the expertise nor the becoming a K-pop artist. after becoming alarmed at the partnership in the Bay Area with main target of the campaign — bandwidth to fulfill this mandate. The two were brought together gap between some of their stu- the Ravenswood City School has placed Palo Alto officials Paying for this function would re- through Spark, a Bay Area non- dents and the companies and District, where 50 students were smack in the middle of a battle quire the city to potentially use profit that pairs working profes- industries all around them that served this year. The local volun- they didn’t signed up for. On revenues that are currently used sionals with low-income middle were nonetheless inaccessible. teer mentors mostly come from Monday, the Palo Alto council for things like fixing pot holes school students of color who are “They saw their students be- tech companies — including met in a closed session to con- and providing fire services. at risk of disengaging with school. ing disengaged and not inter- Google, Facebook, Salesforce, sider whether to file its own legal Before its vote Monday, the During a semester-long mentor- ested in learning, and more challenge to the union proposal. ship program, the students visit importantly, they saw students (continued on page 8) Though the council didn’t take (continued on page 8)

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TRANSPORTATION Whizzing cyclists are putting pedestrians on edge New group advocates for improvements to California Avenue tunnel by Sue Dremann city effort to make the tun- Joan Meyn, another member of adjacent to the tunnel’s eastern nel under the train tracks the group, agreed the situation with end. A at Palo Alto’s California cyclists has gotten out of hand. Befera and Meyn also noted the Avenue accessible to motorized “They pay no attention to us — tunnel is dark and people don’t wheelchairs and bicycle trailers especially us senior citizens,” she know whether they are on a poten- has left pedestrians cursing cy- said. tial collision course with others. clists and feeling anxious about Group members say they aren’t At Befera’s prodding, the city Veronica Weber using the underpass. against bicyclists and don’t see recently replaced some of the A cyclist riding east through the California Avenue underpass A set of “maze” gates used to them as the enemy. burned-out light bulbs. Palo Alto encounters pedestrians and children on scooters on June 14. Though force bicyclists to dismount and “I remember the first bike I police spokesman Capt. Zach Per- there are “Walk Bikes” signs posted at the tunnel, some cyclists walk through the tunnel. Now on got when I was 12 years old. It ron said the city plans to replace choose to keep riding. either end of the underpass are a had a front light and an electric all of the bulbs with brighter pair of gates jutting out diagonal- horn and big, balloon tires. It lights. The police department is the larger Bay to Ridge Trail. much deeper and more expensive ly from the walls and separated was the thrill of my life,” said also stepping up patrols in the area Members of Pedestrian Safety tunnel to be dug than similar tun- by about five feet, which cyclists Befera, recalling the joy of rid- when staffing permits, he said. would like to see the aged tunnels, the plan noted. easily ride around. Signs directing a bike with a girl by his side Perron said officers will focus nel replaced with one similar to Restoring the earlier configura- ing people to “Walk bikes” are and the wind going through his initially on educating bicyclists. the Homer Avenue undercrossing, tion of railings in the tunnel is not posted at the underpass entranc- hair. “I have no quarrel with bikes It will be up to officers to decide which is well-lit, spacious and has feasible because the changes were es, and by city municipal code and bicycling. The only thing whether to ticket violators. designated lanes for bicyclists made to ensure the underpass is cyclists ought to comply. is, I think there is a flaw in our Perron said it isn’t illegal to and pedestrians. compliant with the Americans Vic Befera, who uses the un- enforcement.” ride through when no one else is The idea of improving or re- with Disabilities Act. derpass daily, said he was nearly Bicycling should be encour- in the tunnel, however. building the tunnel is nothing City Chief Transportation Offi- knocked down by a pack of bicy- aged, but the city should fix the Given its central location in the new. The city’s 2012 bike plan cial Joshuah Mello was not avail- clists in early May. tunnel so it is safe for all users city, the tunnel is well-used, ac- recommends rebuilding or retro- able for comment. “I had to throw myself against and enforce its laws, he said. cording the city’s 2012 Bicycle fitting the tunnel, which it esti- While the tunnel modifications the cement wall to escape injury. “The only money they’ve spent and Pedestrian Transportation mated would cost $2 million to aren’t expected any time soon, I could feel their clothing brush is on the fanciful fish,” he said, Plan. The Santa Clara Valley $5 million. At a minimum, the Perron said that during the next against me. The city is not enforc- noting the colorful marine-life- Transportation Authority also improvements would include school year the city will high- ing walking bikes,” he said. themed mural on the walls. identified the North California ramps for better pedestrian ac- light the underpass regulations Befera has been so bothered While Befera can jump out bike lane, which includes the un- cess. Other projects, pending as part of an education cam- by the frequent near-misses that of the way of a zooming cyclist, dercrossing, to be of “countywide feasibility and funding, would paign through the Safe Routes to he and other Palo Alto residents he said he’s mostly worried for significance” because it links the include widening the tunnel with Schools program. Q have formed a group — Pedes- the young children who use the California Avenue business dis- separate pathways for pedestrians Staff Writer Sue Dremann trian Safety, or P.S. — to make tunnel to get to the playground trict to parts east, including Jor- and bicyclists. But existing un- can be emailed at sdremann@ the underpass safer. at Jerry Bowden Park, which is dan Middle School, and is part of derground utilities would force a paweekly.com.

TRANSPORTATION Residents sound off on Ross Road changes Palo Alto officials vow to improve public outreach after outpouring of criticism by Gennady Sheyner fter installing a host of and the culmination of years of Boulevard plan. “traffic calming” mea- planning and significant invest- As the Tuesday meeting dem- A sures aimed at promoting ment. In 2012, the council unani- onstrated, the project defies neu- bicycling on Ross Road, Palo mously approved the Bike and trality. More than 1,000 people

Alto officials are now facing an Pedestrian Transportation Plan, have signed a petition started by Veronica Weber equally tough task: calming the which aims to transform Palo resident George Jacquette, calling Concrete fixtures newly installed on Ross Road in south Palo residents who are frustrated and Alto into one of the nation’s most the improvements “unsafe and Alto push both cars and bicycles into the same lane. The design is enraged by the rapid transforma- bike-friendly cities. It also ap- unhelpful.” intended to slow traffic and make it safer for cyclists. tion of their streets. proved $20 million toward imple- “In pursuit of traffic calming, And if the Tuesday City Coun- menting the plan, which includes the changes have created danger- less livable and has negatively boulevard,” Higgins said. “I’d cil meeting was any indication, projects on Bryant Street, Greer ous interactions between cars and impacted the safety of friends and like those traffic-calming ele- they have plenty of work to do on Road, Homer Avenue, Moreno bikes,” the petition states. family and so forth,” Martin said. ments on my street.” that front. Avenue and other streets. Many residents on Tuesday But others consider the Ross Yesh Galon, who lives on Ross More than 100 residents packed No project, however, has gen- blasted the project for forc- Road project a welcome boost Road, encouraged others in the into the Mitchell Park Commu- erated the kind of outpouring ing drivers and cyclists to share to the city’s transportation net- audience — including the coun- nity Center on Tuesday evening of concern like the one on Ross space, often — they alleged — work. Bruce and Christine Moi- cil — to keep an open mind. to hear a presentation on the re- Road, which is part of a 7.1-mile to the detriment of the latter’s sion, who live in the area and “One of my biggest concerns cent changes, which some have plan that includes medians, curb safety. One resident, Rita Gold, who frequently bike, both said was that there would be a knee- called a welcome boost for the extensions, slotted speed humps, described the project as the worst they welcome the recent changes. jerk reaction to rip this out,” city’s bike-boulevard network three raised crosswalks, five decision the council had made in Bruce Moision called the Ross Galon said. “Let’s wait and see.” and which others characterized raised intersections and 11 round- the past 35 years. Road project “an improvement to For the council, the Tuesday as an accident waiting to happen. abouts, including a prominent Terry Martin, an engineer, safety.” Bill Higgins, who lives meeting was largely an opportu- About 50 gave their opinions, one on Ross and East Meadow also minced no words, calling on Louis Road, agreed and ap- nity to listen to their constituents. which ranged from applause to Drive. These changes constitute the project “an incredible waste plauded city leaders. Early in the meeting, city leaders anger. the $9.6-million first phase of a of money” and “an epitome of “My biggest regret about gave an overview of the city’s bike For the City Council, the new project known as the Neighbor- incompetence.” the Ross Road project is that bike projects are a point of pride hood Traffic Safety and Bicycle “It’s made my neighborhood it’s not the Louis Road bicycle (continued on page 10)

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the costs down, but this initiative On a recent afternoon at Intuit those skills and learnings to what- Health doesn’t help that,” Entwistle said. Spark in Mountain View, mentors and ever she wants to do in the future.” (continued from page 5) “It will just reduce the ability of (continued from page 5) students sat together in a confer- Shen encouraged Maya to audi- health care programs and services ence room, putting together final tion for a local K-pop company and council heard from dozens of by drastically underfunding them.” Adobe, Paypal and Apple. presentations for the projects they to research the pros and cons of speakers — proponents who Union supporters rejected This year, Spark served 279 had worked on together for weeks. pursuing a career in the entertain- urged placement of the issue on this logic and alleged Stanford middle schoolers from cities in- In one corner, Maya and Shen ment industry. Before their project, the ballot and opponents who charges exorbitant rates and pro- cluding East Palo Alto, San Jose were gluing pictures of Maya’s Maya had mostly sung by herself, urged the council to legally op- vides substandard care. While and Oakland. The nonprofit also favorite K-pop group, the seven- in private, and was unaware that pose the SEIU proposal. The Stanford’s attorneys argued that works in Los Angeles, Chicago member boy band BTS, to a large local K-pop groups exist. crowd included executives from the initiative is unconstitutional and Philadelphia and has the am- poster-board. Spark does have an impact, ac- Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto — largely because it forces the bitious goal of serving 10,000 stu- Spark works to match students cording to internal and external Medical Foundation and other city to regulate an area that is dents annually by 2026. and mentors with overlapping in- data. Close to 80 percent of Spark local providers, all of whom op- normally reserved for federal and Spark purposefully works with terests. A software engineer by students show growth in class- posed the initiative; and graduate state agencies — Declen Walsh, school districts where “students trade, Shen is as obsessed with an- room engagement at a time when students and union supporters, research analyst at SEIU-UHW, lack the social capital or opportu- ime as Maya is with K-pop. She’s average student engagement drops who spoke in its favor. claimed that Stanford’s assertions nities,” Rider said. Eighty-six per- an avid “YouTuber” with a chan- significantly and 92 percent are David Entwistle, president and are baseless. cent of students Spark serves are nel devoted to musical covers and on track to graduate, compared CEO of Stanford Health Care, ar- Walsh also asserted that the city low-income and 94 percent are stu- pursues multimedia projects as a to 68 percent of their peers. The gued that the initiative is “inher- would recover the costs of enforc- dents of color. The nonprofit’s staff hobby. She helped Maya practice nonprofit conducts surveys of ently against the best interest of ing the new rules through fines. works with principals and teachers and then film a dance cover of a teachers, students and mentors Palo Alto and its residents” and “The council should let the to identify middle school students BTS song, which Maya presented before, during and after the pro- that it will have “far-reaching neg- people decide whether they who are showing signs of disen- at a science-fair style event Spark gram. Spark also has access to ative consequences.” If it succeeds, want to lead on affordable, qual- gagement — absences from school, held at the end of the semester. school district data on behavior, it could cut into the revenues of lo- ity health care rather than allow failing grades or behavioral issues While they bonded over their attendance, grades and promotion cal health care providers, requiring Stanford to pre-empt that deci- — and tries to shift their trajectory interests, the relationship went rates. For the first time this year, them to cut back on services and sion,” Walsh said. Q before they get to high school, when beyond “a surface-level, ‘we like the nonprofit has full access, so potentially relocate, he argued. Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner they’ll be at risk of dropping out. the same things’ sort of relation- it will be able to track students “We recognize that health care can be emailed at gsheyner@ “The path to dropping out starts ship,” Shen said. through college, Rider said. is costly. We are working to bring paweekly.com. far before ninth grade,” Rider said. Shen saw herself in Maya, a soft- Harder to measure but obvious While there are numerous sup- spoken pre-teen who attends Cesar in all of the mentor-mentee pairs port programs and dollars invest- Chavez & Green Oaks Academy. working at Intuit that afternoon ed in early childhood education As a middle school student in Fre- were the bonds between people and in high school, middle school mont, Shen dreamed of becoming who might otherwise have noth- Public Agenda “becomes those forgotten years,” a songwriter, film director and ing in common. she said. producer. She received encourage- Student Lisbeth Morales and In- A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week Knowing that these students ment from adults at the time to tuit product manager Lucy Wag- CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to need support beyond middle pursue her dreams, but she didn’t ner built a robot together. Called discuss the status of the city’s labor negotiations with the Service school to succeed long-term, Spark feel like anyone helped her take a “doodle bot,” the small robot Employees International Union, Local 521; the Utilities Management offers workshops and guidance to concrete steps toward doing so. is a paper cup with four Sharpie and Professional Association of Palo Alto; the Palo Alto Police Officers’ help eighth-graders transition to “It’s easy to pay lip service to pens taped to its sides. Powered Association, the Palo Alto Fire Chiefs’ Association and Employee high school. Once there, Spark stu- these dreams, but the harder part by a portable battery they built, Organization; the International Association of Fire Fighters, Local dents have access to a texting plat- is taking that huge goal and break- the robot leaves abstract doodles 1319; and the Palo Alto Police Managers’ Association; and to consider form through which the nonprofit ing it down into digestible pieces in its wake as it moves across a potential litigation involving the initiative measure Palo Alto Accountable shares tips, study habits and other and taking it one step at a time,” piece of paper. and Affordable Health Care Initiative. Then, in a regular session, the reminders. Spark also trains school Shen said. “I wanted to demon- For Lisbeth, who dreams of council plans to approve the city budget for Fiscal Year 2019. The counselors to support this particu- strate to her what that process potential careers in engineering, closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, June 18. Regular lar demographic of students. would be like so she could apply surgery or photography, the best meeting will follow at 6:30 p.m. or as soon as possible thereafter in the part about Spark is “that we get Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. to meet more people. You get to experience how adults work.” CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a special meeting to further In another room, eighth-grader refine the city’s options for grade separation at the four rail crossings Francisco Rosales, who’s inter- and to consider a community engagement plan. The meeting will begin ested in structural architecture, at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week designed his dream house with 250 Hamilton Ave. Kenna Hasson, a designer at In- BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will discuss an update on social- City Council (June 11) tuit. Francisco drew blueprints emotional learning; A-G eligibility for the class of 2017; a proposed Utilities: The council approved a 6 percent increase to the city’s electric rate, a 3 and built different iterations of community relations resolution; a proposed state bill on immigration and percent change to the water rate and a 10 percent increase to the wastewater rate. the house using a computer game, Public Safety Building: The council approved the Final Environmental Impact citizenship status in schools; and the Public Records Act; and vote on Report for the proposed public safety building and garage at 250 Sherman Ave. The Sims. Hasson brought Intuit’s the 2018-19 district budget, a bond measure and term-limits measure and 350 Sherman Ave. design philosophy — “go broad for the November 2018 ballot and a cost share agreement with the city Office cap: The council directed staff to commission an analysis of the citizen to go narrow” — to the process, for the Cubberley Community Center master plan, among other items. initiative that would reduce from 1.7 million square feet to 850,000 square feet documented via a flipbook-style the amount of allowed office and research-and-development construction The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19, at the district between 2015 and 2030. presentation that shows the pro- office, 25 Churchill Ave. Health Initiative: The council certified the results of a citizen petition that would gression of the house design. place a measure capping how much health care institutions can charge on the Shen, meanwhile, said she’s ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to consider November ballot. approving the site-and-design review for 3406 Hillview Ave., a proposal seen Maya become more con- to demolish a 62,500-square-foot research-and-development building fident and self-assured over the City Council (June 12) course of the program. an construct a new 82,040-square-foot, two-story office and research- Bike Plan: The council held a special meeting to solicit resident input about its of-development building; review plans for a 50-foot-tall parking garage new bicycle boulevards. Action: None “A lot of these dreams and lofty with 325 parking spaces at 375 Hamilton Ave.; and consider a request goals and ambitions are shadowed for exterior façade improvements for a Shake Shack restaurant at Council Rail Committee (June 13) by a certain amount of anxiety Stanford Shopping Center. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Churchill: The committee agreed to eliminate from consideration design and fear of failure. Maya espe- options at the Churchill Avenue grade crossing that would involve raising the rail cially had a lot of self-doubt about Wednesday, June 21, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 tracks over Churchill or vice versa. Hamilton Ave. her ability to be a performer, her talents in those fields,” she said. “I CITY/SCHOOL LIAISON COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to meet Planning and Transportation Commission (June 13) just really wanted her to learn that at 8 a.m. on Thursday, June 21, in the Community Meeting Room at City Traffic: The commission held a study session on traffic safety and system monitoring projects. it’s not about your talent. ... (Like) Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The agenda was not available by press time. 2515 El Camino: The commission approved the subdivision application for the so many things in life, it’s about COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee proposed development at 2515-85 El Camino Real. how much work you put into it.” plans to hear status updates for recent audits of the city’s green For Maya’s part, she said she most purchasing practices; parking funds; the Community Services Board of Education Policy Review Committee (June 14) appreciated Spark for the simple Policies: The committee discussed policies on suicide prevention, nutrition, fact of “being able to be with some- Department fee schedule; the cross bore inspection contract; and the work permits and access to district records. Action: None accuracy of the water-meter billing. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on one that might understand you.” Q Thursday, June 21, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Historic Resources Board (June 14) Staff Writer Elena Kadvany Hamilton Ave. 874 Boyce Ave.: The board held a study session to discuss 874 Boyce Ave. can be emailed at ekadvany@ Action: None paweekly.com.

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AJ Capital Partners, stated in the President Hotel letter that the firm does under- (continued from page 5) stand the predicament the conver- sion presents. the deal, she signed the lease. “We appreciate that being She said it was never her inten- forced to move can have the po- tion to stay, but life in the building tential for numerous burdens and grew on her: from the communal difficulties, so we are committed potlucks and views of the city’s to providing each of you with the rooftops that are reminiscent of time and resources to mitigate any France to the many times when hardships that may raise,” Fran- a former neighbor would let her zen wrote. use his apartment — which had a The company will provide each larger kitchen — to cook dinner residential unit $3,000 to assist when she entertained. with moving-related expenses and “That’s what tends to happen is working with “a local reloca- here,” said Boxill, who now lives tion expert to provide customized in a larger corner studio on the services” to households that may third floor, where she gives piano require additional help. lessons. “It will cost me more than that “What is the justification for just to move my two pianos out of giving up 75 (housing) units? the building,” Boxill said, refer- Many of my students walk or bike ring to the baby grand piano in the

to lessons. Relocation risks my center of her studio and an upright Pardee Adam livelihood,” she said on Tuesday. in a large closet that she uses as an Diane Boxill sits next to her baby grand piano inside her corner apartment of the President Hotel Built in 1929, the property in- additional room. Apartment in Palo Alto on June 12. cludes 70 studio apartments and City Manager Jim Keene pub- five one-bedroom units of be- licly acknowledged the building’s operating hotels and another five PaloAltoHistory.org. neighbors as a quirky mix of ec- tween 250 and 800 square feet on sale at the City Council meeting under development, according to Keene said Monday that the centric entrepreneurs, artists, re- the upper five stories. Rents for on Monday night. the company’s website. Fast Com- renovation would include seismic tired people, single mothers and the mostly month-to-month leas- “The big concern would be the pany ranked the hotel collection upgrades, new elevators and other political players who, like herself, es are relatively low for Palo Alto displacement of 75 units, given No. 50 on its 2018 World’s Most improvements. were drawn to the “funky feel” but are not included in the city’s the city’s current housing short- Innovative Companies list. The property is listed as a Cat- of living in the old former hotel, affordable housing count. They age,” Keene said. City staff has The company is a “passionate egory 2 resource on the city’s where the rooms are tiny, the range from $1,200 to $2,400, ac- been encouraging the property steward of historic properties,” Historic Inventory. Keene said the building creaks and sometimes cording to a sign posted at the owner to provide “generous relo- Franzen wrote in his notice to city’s Architectural Review Board the apartments can be stiflingly building. Median rent in Palo cation packages” to the residents. the residents. The renovation will and Historic Resources Board are hot in the summer. Alto stands at $2,520 for a one- Chris Dressel, president of touch all guestrooms, corridors expected to review the conver- She said the building’s oddities bedroom apartment, according to University President Associates and the lobby, while preserving sion plans later this year. He also have brought them closer together. apartmentlist.com. LLC, which had owned the prop- the building’s façade and interior noted that the hotel use is allowed Since some units don’t have full Pemo Theodore has lived at erty since 1996, said the building historic elements, the company by right at the downtown location. kitchens, neighbors hold regular the President for three years and was never listed on the market. He press release states. The building currently includes communal dinners on the rooftop said fellow residents don’t want decided to sell after a representa- Designed by noted Palo Alto six shops on the first floor: the garden. And those people with to leave. Some of them have lived tive of AJ Capital approached him architect Birge Clark, the original President Barbershop, several larger kitchens are always happy there for as long as 37 years. about purchasing it. hotel boasted a lush rooftop gar- eateries and a clothing boutique. to provide their neighbors extra “Everyone is devastated,” Theo- The complex is not fully leased; den, a tiled entryway with an or- None of the merchants would freezer space to store ice cream dore said. of the 75 units, 58 are occupied, nate wrought-iron grille, a lobby comment this week on the build- or an oven to prepare meals when According to the letter of no- Dressel confirmed. Residents said with beams on the ceiling and a ing sale or their fates. they entertain. It’s not uncommon tice, AJ Capital “did not have apartments were not filled as they grand spiral staircase that climbed Residents have approached a to find soup or other goodies left the contractual authorization” to had become vacant as they in re- all the way to the top floor. law firm to make sure their rights outside your door, she added. communicate with anyone other cent months. Each guest room had a pri- are looked after, Theodore said. “It really is the most amazing than city officials about the prop- The Graduate Hotels division vate bath and featured in-room “The reality is we probably community, and none of us will be erty prior to closing escrow on is a collection of boutique hotels radio service, allowing guests won’t be able to do anything about able to reproduce this anywhere Tuesday. that AJ Capital has developed in to choose between channels as (the eviction), but from my point else we go.” Q Timothy G. Franzen, president college towns across the coun- they showered, shaved or re- of view, I’m going to do as much Associate Editor Linda Taaffe of Graduate Hotels, a division of try. The collection includes 12 laxed in their suites, according to as I can until I hit the wall. can be emailed at ltaaffe@ “There’s no way all of us can paweekly.com. get accommodations in Palo Alto, News of this sale was originally and there’s no way for us to find posted on PaloAltoOnline.com what we’re paying here to live in on June 12. To stay up-to-date one room,” said Theodore, whose on Palo Alto happenings, sign up monthly rent for her studio is for Express, the daily email news $1,900. digest, at PaloAltoOnline.com/ Theodore described her express. Courtesy Palo Alto Historical Association Historical Alto Palo Courtesy Adam Pardee

The “Hotel President” sign adorns the six-story hotel on Palo Alto’s University Avenue in 1941, as The lobby and ground-floor stairwell of President Hotel Apartments horses walk down the street during the Dedication Day Parade. The hotel opened in 1929 and was in Palo Alto hearken back to another era. The building was designed named after then-President Herbert Hoover, one of the first students to attend Stanford University. by Palo Alto architect Birge Clark and opened 89 years ago.

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next year, the city plans to extend the Bryant Ross Road Street bike boulevard to San Antonio Road (continued from page 7) and pursue various improvements on Stan- ford Avenue, between El Camino Real and program and acknowledged that they could’ve Park Boulevard; on Park Boulevard, between News Digest done a better job in conducting outreach and Castilleja Avenue and West Meadow Drive; getting people used to the new changes. and on Donald Drive and Maybell Avenue, Council advances plan for new police HQ, garage “As we implement these changes, the main between Georgia Avenue and El Camino. After more than two decades of shattered hopes and frustrating setbacks, Palo thing we want to share is that we’re listening “I think it’s really important that we are Alto officials took a big step Monday night toward constructing a new police head- and adapting as we go,” Deputy City Man- attempting to knit and connect together some quarters when they approved a zone change that will make the project possible. ager Rob de Geus told the standing-room- sort of network that allows for travel across The City Council voted 8-0, with Councilman Greg Tanaka absent, to approve only crowd. our city,” Keene told the assembled crowd the environmental analysis and make the required zone changes for the long- Some changes have already been made. In Tuesday. “Of course, it’s not something that awaited public-safety building, which will be constructed in conjunction with a March, the council hit the brakes on those can be done in one point in time, or even four-story garage. The two new public facilities will occupy city-owned lots at 250 phases of the bike project that are not already within a one-decade period.” and 350 Sherman Ave., in the California Avenue Business District. under construction (contractors proceeded After hearing all the comments, coun- The council’s vote sets the stage for construction on Sherman Avenue to com- with several pending projects, including cil members readily acknowledged that the mence this fall. The plan calls for first moving ahead with the 636-space garage, a roundabout on Ross and Moreno roads; project had some shortcomings. Council- a six-level structure with two underground stories, before commencing with the raised intersections on Louis Road at Moreno woman Karen Holman criticized the quality police building. Both projects are expected to be up by fall 2021. and Amarillo avenues; and a new crosswalk of the work on some parts of the corridor, In moving ahead with the two projects, the council largely shared enthusiasm at Colorado Avenue and Sandra Place). And while Councilman Greg Scharff urged staff for the new public-safety building. The garage, on the other hand, received a more in April and May, the city’s contractor made to make sure that improving bike safety does mixed review. a series of temporary markings and mock-ups not entail making conditions more stressful “We are about to sink $50 million into a concrete building to house cars for a to give residents a sense of planned changes, for drivers. problem (that exists) for two hours per day,” Councilman Adrian Fine said. including a roundabout on Greer Road and And just about everyone agreed that the Fine called the project a “quintessential giveaway” in that it takes public funds Amarillo. city needs to do a better job communicating. and uses it to build a structure that allows people to park for free. To address this Yet a new report from the office of City Councilman Tom DuBois conceded that, situation, Fine proposed instituting “dynamic pricing” at the new California Av- Manager James Keene makes the case that when it came to the Ross Road project, the enue garage, with rates changing based on demand. His proposal advanced by a 5-4 the best way to win support for projects like city “clearly got this wrong in communica- vote, with Vice Mayor Eric Filseth and council members Lydia Kou, Greg Scharff the one on Ross Road is to give them more tion, design and execution.” and Tom DuBois dissenting. Q time. It typically takes about six months to a “We heard you tonight,” DuBois said. “We —Gennady Sheyner year, the report states, for residents to adapt can do better. We will.” Q to significant street changes. Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be City seeks to ease concerns about property takings “Recently, as construction has wrapped emailed at [email protected]. Seeking to ease concerns from residents in the Old Palo Alto and Southgate up along Ross Road, staff has heard more TALK ABOUT IT neighborhoods about property seizures, Palo Alto officials are preparing to aban- community members expressing support for PaloAltoOnline.com don the idea of raising or lowering the rail corridor near the Churchill Avenue the Project and bike boulevards,” the report crossing. The council’s Rail Committee on Wednesday agreed that the “hybrid” states. A lively conversation on this topic is happening on option, which calls for both raising the rail corridor and lowering Churchill, should Now, officials hope that they can apply Town Square, the community discussion forum. Go be eliminated from the city’s menu of 10 alternatives for “grade separation” — the to PaloAltoOnline.com/square to see what others the lessons learned on Ross Road to future are saying. reconfiguration of railway tracks so that rail and surface streets would not intersect. components of the ambitious project. Early In addition, the committee voted to eliminate what’s known as the “reverse hybrid” option at Churchill, which entails elevating the road and lowering the tracks. Both of these options generated a wave of opposition, with hundreds of residents signing a petition urging the council not to consider the two options. A recent Twilight tour: Friday 5-8pm analysis by city staff and consultants concluded that the hybrid option would require acquisition of 14 to 22 properties; the reverse hybrid would require full or Open House: partial taking of more than 40 properties. The Rail Committee issued its recommendation to eliminate the two Churchill options by a 3-1 vote, with Councilwoman Lydia Kou dissenting (Kou also favored Sat & Sun 1-5pm elimination of options at Churchill; opposition was based on a separate part of the motion). The committee also agreed not to consider expanding lanes at the Embarcadero Road underpass as part of the grade-separation project. The Rail Committee’s vote makes it very likely that the council will eliminate these options from its menu of finalists on June 19, when it holds a special meeting to discuss grade separations. Councilman Greg Scharff, who made the motion to eliminate the two Churchill options from consideration, said he was very moved by appeals from residents about eminent domain “hanging over (their) heads.” “It hangs over people’s lives and it causes angst and we need to take that off the table,” Scharff said. Q —Gennady Sheyner School board member criticizes legal spending Palo Alto Unified school board member Todd Collins slammed district staff last week for spending more than had been budgeted on legal services without securing board approval, which he said amounted to a “failure of financial control.” Staff asked the school board on June 5 to approve a $435,000 increase for contracts with two law firms for this school year — the third such request staff have made this year to address rising legal costs, mainly related to compliance with federal civil-rights law Title IX and special education. Last June, the board unani- Artist rendering, not to scale mously approved a $640,000 increase for legal services ($290,000 of which were one-time costs) and two months later, an additional $400,000. Stop by for food and drinks and The board ultimately approved the latest budget increase, with Collins dissenting. “We should never, ever be in a situation where we are requesting budget alloca- enjoy the majestic Oak trees at tions for items that if the answer for the board is ‘no,’ then we’ll be in default on bills for services already rendered,” Collins said. 485 Ninth Avenue, Menlo Park 94025 The increases cover $175,000 for Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud and Romo, brought on in 2016 to assist primarily in special-education matters; $125,000 to Cozen O’Connor, a national firm the board brought in last year to investigate the district’s handling of a student sexual assault reported at Palo Alto High School; Keyko Pintz | Realtor and $135,000 for outside investigators. The district spent just under $2 million on legal services this year. Staff attribute 650.224.9815 (Mobile) the sharp increase — up from $997,000 spent last year and $386,000 the year before [email protected] that — to an increase in special-education litigation, a resolution agreement with the http://keykopintz.interorealestate.com U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights and Title IX investigations. The district estimates next year’s total legal costs at about $1.2 million. Q

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He Jenny Dearborn, Senior Vice President The Planning and Transportation Commission is live streamed continued to study geology af- and Chief Learning Officer at SAP online at http://midpenmedia.org/category/government/city- ter his undergraduate education, received the ATHENA AWARD, and of-palo-alto and available on via cablecast on government eventually receiving his master’s Anissa Leong, Corporate Affairs access channel 26. The complete agenda with accompanying Officer at HP Enterprise, received the and doctorate degree in geology reports is available online at http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/ from Virginia Tech and UCLA, ATHENA EMERGING PROFESSIONAL boards/ptc/default.asp. For Additional Information Contact LEADERSHIP AWARD. respectively. After completing his Yolanda Cervantes at [email protected] or doctorate degree, the United States at 650.329.2404. Geological Survey in Menlo Park Nomination Deadline: hired him to be a field geologist. He moved to Palo Alto with his Sunday, June 30th, 2018 wife, Elinor Hyle, in 1965. He Please submit your nominations to spent his summers in Alaska do- Iris Chen at [email protected] ing research on the geological relationship between earthquakes Questions: 650.324.3121 and glaciers. The USGS named him Alaska branch chief in 1976, when he was 39. In 1980, he trans- ferred to the USGS headquarters in Reston, Virginia to head the organization’s international geology division. While in this position, he traveled to Japan, China and various countries in the Middle East Edwin Kimball Walters to promote awareness of geology’s importance. In 1995, he moved December 31, 1951 – May 23, 2018 back to Palo Alto, where he continued to work for the USGS. 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Page 12 • June 15, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com CoverCover StoryStory On life, loss and new beginnings Short Story Contest authors unleash their creativity to uncover truths in worlds both strange and familiar n a stroke of serendipity, the first-place win- he created for himself. One story — set in a school ners of this year’s Palo Alto Weekly Short that could be in Anytown, USA — eerily mirrors I Story Contest all tackled one of life’s most recent news headlines. But no matter the stories’ inevitable human experiences: loss. From the settings, the authors have skillfully guided their death of a family member to the perplexity of characters past fear and ultimately toward love, dearly loved items gone missing, the authors ex- truth and courage. plore the ripple effects of sudden absence — the The Palo Alto Weekly would like to thank the choices that people must make, the emotional talented writers who submitted work to the contest, hurdles they confront, the relationships they turn now in its 32nd year; the readers, Danielle Truppi to as they try to move forward. and Sharon Levin, who selected the top entries Other themes emerged in the works chosen in each category for the judges to consider; the Short Story by the contest’s esteemed panel of judges, them- judges for the Adult and Young Adult categories, selves celebrated authors, for second and third Debbie Duncan, Nancy Packer and Tom Parker; Contest winners place. Writers imagined stories of revenge, un- and the Teen category judges, Nancy Etchemendy, Teen, 12 to 14 years old expected kinship, true friendship and freedom. Marjorie Sayer and Caryn Huberman Yacowitz. First Place: “New Houses” by Jerry Xia They sketched out detailed worlds: In one, relent- The Weekly also would like to thank the contest Second Place: “The Last Act” by Tina Zeng less machine beings stamp out the remnants of co-sponsors, Bell’s Books of Palo Alto, Kepler’s Third Place: “A Funeral for a Butterfly” by Asha Kularni human expression; in another, a high-powered Books of Menlo Park and Linden Tree Books of San Francisco stock broker navigates the world Los Altos. Q Young Adult, 15 to 17 years old First Place: “The Queen of Lost Things” by Christina O’Konski Thank You Second Place: “The Hands and the Mouth” by yves. The following businesses co-sponsored the 32nd Annual Short Story Contest, Third Place: “Just Another Monday” by Benjamin Stein providing prizes for winners in all categories. Adult, 18 years and older First Place: “Worm Farm” by Patricia Fewer Second Place: “Chutes and Ladders” by Craig Evans Third Place: “Leopard Swing Coat” by Shanna May Bengtson

Read all of the winning stories at 536 Emerson St., Palo Alto1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park 265 State St., Los Altos PaloAltoOnline.com/short_story

Judges for the Adult and Young Adult categories

Tom Parker Nancy Packer Debbie Duncan A well-known, local fiction-writing Nancy Packer is professor Debbie Duncan has been teacher and coach, memoirist, co- emerita of English at Stanford reviewing children’s books for the author and developmental editor, University, where she taught in Palo Alto Weekly since 1997. She is Tom Parker is an O. Henry Prize- the Creative Writing Program. the author of the Benjamin Franklin winning short-story writer and Her short stories have appeared Award-winning picture book “When author of the novels “Anna, Ann, in such journals as Harper’s, Yale Molly Was in the Hospital,” as well Annie” and “Small Business.” His Review and Sewanee Review and as a book for parents, “Joy of work has appeared in Harper’s and been included in several “O. Henry Reading.” She also contributes to has been reviewed in The New Yorker. He has taught Prize Stories” collections and “The Best American Short the Perspectives series of commentaries on KQED radio. at Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stories.” Sixty of her stories have been collected and When she isn’t reading books to find the best to share Foothill and Cañada community colleges. His website is published in five volumes; “Old Ladies” is her most recent with Weekly readers, she’s writing her own middle-grade tomparkerwrites.com. collection. novel or hanging out on Twitter, @debbieduncan.

Judges for the Teen category

Caryn Marjorie Sayer Nancy Etchemendy Huberman Yacowitz Marjorie Sayer writes books with Nancy Etchemendy’s novels, Caryn Huberman Yacowitz writes a multicultural and interdisciplinary short fiction and poetry have fiction and nonfiction books for perspective. Her middle-grade appeared regularly for the past 40 children and plays for both children novel, “The Girl Mechanic of years, both in the U.S. and abroad. and adults. Her newest picture Wanzhou,” is a winner of the Her work has earned a number book, “I Know an Old Lady Who Scholastic Asia Book Award. of awards, including three Bram Swallowed a Dreidel,” a Chanukah Her nonfiction for adults has Stoker Awards and an International book with an art history spin, is a appeared in O’Reilly Media, and Horror Guild Award. “Cat in Glass Junior Library Guild Selection. “Jeans! The Musical,” co- her recreational math books have been used in clubs and Other Tales of the Unnatural,” her collection of short created with Diane Claerbout and Enid Davis, celebrates throughout the country. She enjoys bicycle travel, her dark fantasy, was named an ALA Best Book for Young those famous pants and the pioneers who invented them. family and the friendship of her cats. She blogs about her Adults. She lives and works in Palo Alto, where she leads Her website is carynyacowitz.com. interests at marjoriesayer.com. a somewhat schizophrenic life, alternating between unkempt, introverted writer and gracious (she prays) wife of a Stanford University professor. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • June 15, 2018 • Page 13 Cover Story

That’s when the agent turned a corner and then another corner and brought us smack in front of our old house. Looking at it was like looking at something that had been stolen from us. It was our house. It looked small from the outside, but it wasn’t small. It was painted white with a brick chimney and had four windows in the front with a garage door. My mom told the agent, “Stop!” As the car abruptly slid to a stop, we both About Jerry Xia stepped out of the car and stood in the street in front of our old house. The grass had Jerry Xia is not unlike many grown long, and somebody had put an ugly 12-year-olds. He has myriad aca- chair by the front door and a kid’s tricycle demic interests — robotics and was overturned and lying in the driveway. physics included — and a few sports Looking at the house made me feel as if I he’s trying out, like track and field jumped into ice water. I hadn’t been back the and tennis. Jerry, however, has taken house since we moved away. I looked over at the growing pains that characterize my mom and she was standing there, staring the teen years and translated those up at the window to the master bedroom. events into a variety of short sto- We stood there for a full minute, looking at ries about his life and those he’s the house and saying nothing, and I think observed. the real estate agent must have thought that “I just write how I think I want it we wanted to buy our house again. to be. I try to express that feeling,” “This one’s not for sale,” she said. With-

Jerry said. “Don’t worry about the Illustration by Talia Nakhjiri out a word, my mom and I both reluctantly end result.” stepped back into the car, looking at the Jerry sees writing as a free expres- house through the window before the agent sion, not a process to agonize over. drove away. “New Houses,” Jerry’s first-place That evening, my mom, my grandma, short story, is about his move to and I sat at the dining table eating what my Palo Alto from Los Altos in sum- grandma had prepared. The meal consisted mer 2016. Jerry didn’t know what to of mashed potatoes with gravy, steamed expect from the move, nor could he vegetables, a pot of rice, and tomato soup. anticipate how his life could change. As we ate, I told my mom, “Mom, we “I always imagined that I had to New Houses should buy the Cape Cod house. You leave all of my friends behind, all by Jerry Xia haven’t made a decision in so long, and it of my stuff behind,” Jerry said. “I seems like the perfect house for us.” would take some stuff, but I would e were standing in front of a as if she was full again. But the truth was, My mom stared at me for a full minute have to clean everything out and perfectly good house. It was a we missed our old house. I missed the base- before responding, “I think there will be a throw away all the stuff I didn’t need W modern, Cape Cod style with ment where Dad and I used to build model better house somewhere else. Besides, the anymore.” clean white walls and a trampoline in the aircraft, and the backyard where we used Cape Cod house has a terribly red front He turned this fear into “New back. It even came with a new washer and to grow tomato plants, and the living room door.” Houses,” in which a family must dryer and a massive refrigerator. It had a where Dad’s big leather chair sat next to I knew that my mom always found silly deal with saying goodbye to not just balcony that overlooked the lake nearby. the bookshelves. I missed the garage where excuses to reject each house that she visited. a house, but a past lifetime. Jerry has “This is perfect, Mom,” I said, standing in Dad kept the photo albums and where he I was tired of living in my grandma’s apart- now settled into his new house, but the gravel driveway looking at the house. used to clean his shotgun. In my bedroom ment for six months. I was tired of driving his short story deals directly with a She was frowning at the front door. there, I had a closet large enough to fit all around every day to try and find a house. pervasive sense of loss. “Why is it red?” she asked the real es- of my clothes and had a small door inside I was tired of my mom complaining about Jerry began writing in fifth grade, tate agent, who looked as if she wanted to opening into a set of stairs leading to a nook each house. when he was encouraged by his leave us there in the driveway and speed in the attic where I would read and hide “Mom, I think we need to buy this house. teachers to write in his free time. away, but she had invested so many months away. The red front door can be easily fixed, and Writing was a “a good way to put into us that we were a sunken cost that she We hopped back into the car, and the everything else is perfect,” I told her. down my ideas on paper,” and it was couldn’t give up now. agent drove us to the next house. It was aw- “The Cape Cod house is nothing special,” also a welcome change from the fo- “A coat of paint or a new replacement ful with paint peeling off of the walls and my mom said. “I think there are plenty of cus on technique that had been part could fix it,” the agent replied. mold filling every crevice. The kitchen win- houses out there that are as good, or even of Jerry’s school curriculum pre- “I just don’t know. I just don’t know.” dow had a view of the garage and the refrig- better. Those houses might not have any viously. He enjoys the process of This is how Mom had been since Dad had erator was strangely placed in the laundry problems with them.” translating his feelings into writing. died and we sold the house. Whenever we room. We spent all of two seconds before “You know we are never going to find a He did not even consider “New found a home that was in our price range we drove to the next one. Meanwhile, I kept house as faultless as this one is. We need to Houses” one of his better pieces, and nice, Mom would say, “The grass is too telling my mom, “The Cape Cod house, the buy it before it is sold.” and he has a variety of other sub- brown,” or, “The mailbox looks lopsided,” Cape Cod house.” The next house was posi- My mom stared at me as if to judge jects that he is exploring. “Garage or “The window has a stain in it.” All these tioned in between two rivers — one in the whether I was being honest about the house, Junk,” a new short story, is about a things could be easily fixed. front yard and one in the backyard. and finally relented. spider in a garage. Jerry also said he Our agent was a middle-aged mother of The agent said, “I’m pretty sure you’ll “I think it’s time to make a decision.” is working on a story about flowers. three who had wasted six months’ worth of need to have flood insurance for this My mom and I bought the house at a final Jerry wants to pursue other inter- gas and all her patience driving us around house.” The next house smelled as if it had price of $1.5 million. Two weeks later, we ests like robotics as he progresses the countryside. I kept waiting for her to housed nothing but animals for 50 years stood in the driveway, all of our suitcases through middle school; he hopes say, “You are terrible people, wasting all and all of them had died in the living room. and bags around us. to continue writing as an enjoyable of my time and finding excuses for every- The final house was perfect, but I walked “Well, that’s the last of them,” my grand- activity, not something done under thing!” But she never did. The woman was into the living room and looked out and saw ma said as she lifted the final suitcase out pressure. a Prius-driving saint. Besides, we had been the cliff that dropped 400 feet. of the trunk and set it on the driveway. My “I think it’ll continue to be a hob- looking for houses for so long that Grand- “The Cape Cod house probably won’t be mom stood there, on the driveway, with the by and something that I do to relax,” ma was starting to get impatient. on the market for too long,” the agent said. bags in her hands and the suitcases behind Jerry said. “It’s something I want to “I want my living room back! When are “Your son seems to like it. We could put in her, staring at the front door. Before the do for fun.” you going to find a house?” she would say. an offer and tie it down before someone else sale, our agent had replaced the front door — Tara Madhav “Mom, this is a great place. It’s right next gets it, and we could always back out dur- with a large, white wooden door. to a park with a lake where we could relax, ing the due diligence period if you change “Come on, Mom!” I shouted. I ran to- Judges’ comments and it has all new furniture. They’re sell- your mind.” wards the front door, eager to go into the “New Houses” is an eloquent ing it with all that new furniture. I think My mom was sitting in the passenger house, but still, my mom stood there, star- portrait of grief from a young person’s we’ll never find a house as good as this,” I seat and her dark hair looked wavy and ing at the front door. point of view. Themes of loss and attempted to persuade her. I knew because indecisive. “Are you ever going to go in?” my grand- concerned affection are effectively we had been looking for six months and this “I still think that we could find a better ma asked. There was no reply from my woven throughout. There’s just was clearly the best one. house somewhere else. There are so many mom. My mom’s eyes were staring upwards enough humor to highlight the difficult My mom looked at me with eyes that told options out there,” she said, but I knew that at the front door hopefully as if waiting for emotions the writer explores in this me that another house was out there, a dif- she meant we would never find the perfect something to happen, as if not quite ready well-crafted story. ferent house, one that would make her feel house. yet to enter the house. Q

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hide of a dinosaur, or ripples in water, or a tree at night. It was then that she truly smiled, a smile so bright and good that the whole world sang. This was not just a curling of lips or a crinkling at the corner of her eyes but an expression of such pure joy that I felt it settle into a corner of my heart, where, though it would be forgotten, it would remain, glow- ing warmly. She eagerly explained that the puzzle piece was so special to her because it was About Christina O’Konski her purpose. In a completed puzzle, the piece was nothing special or important. hristina O’Konski, a rising It was hidden in plain sight, gracing the senior at Palo Alto High edges with a little more space. It was not C School, used to invent little the eagle’s talons or the dragon’s fire or the stories as a kid while playing with maiden’s hair, just an added bit of texture. toys. That imagination still propels But, once that single piece was removed, her writing as a young adult. one’s eyes were drawn to where it should Three years ago, when she lost a have been. That expendable piece was sud- piece in a puzzle she was putting denly the most important one of them all. together with her family, she sud- And so it is with all things. One will only denly thought of the main character truly notice and appreciate something if it for her bittersweet, nostalgic short has been lost. Otherwise the world would story, “The Queen of Lost Things.” be flat and predictable, with no hidden Although the single piece seemed corners or secret passageways into which unimportant on its own, when the things could slip, never to be seen again, puzzle was all put together, she re- or emerge, to be greeted with relief and alized the piece, by its absence, had appreciation. become the most important part of I asked her if she ever returned the things the puzzle. she found — fixed the broken puzzles and “When you lose something, it one-eyed stuffed animals. And oh, how her matters in a different way,” she said. eyes sparkled. Wordlessly, she withdrew “The satisfaction and relief of find- something from the endless folds of her ing that thing you really needed ... dress. I looked down, and my eyes were that’s kind of like getting visited by Illustration byIllustration Paul Llewellyn greeted with an enormous, carefully orga- ‘The Queen of Lost Things.’” nized bundle of everything I had ever lost. As a student heavily involved in Speechless — at a loss for words — I community theater, O’Konski said stared at all my baby teeth and lucky pen- her experience acting has been help- nies and old T-shirts, all my shoes and ful for her in her own writing. She’s stories and staring contests, all the inge- both acted in and written school nious thoughts and clever jokes and witty plays and has also worked with kids comebacks I’d lost hold of at just the wrong at the Palo Alto Children’s Theatre. moment. All of it was there, held gently in “(In) acting, you are the character. her arms like a swaddled baby. I could have ... That definitely helps as a writer The Queen of Lost Things looked forever, eyes darting from treasure — really getting into another per- by Christina O’Konski to treasure, hoping that I would remember son’s head,” she said enthusiastical- even a fraction of what I was seeing. ly, making her energy on stage easy he appeared like an ancient memory, For, as we all do, I had forgotten how intri- After an endless instant, she drew the to imagine. “I think acting’s really half-washed away by the tides of cate and textured she was, so much so that folds of her infinite cloak around her gift, good at helping you be empathetic.” S time, faded and yet brighter than you I could not look at her all at once. and it was gone. But it truly was a gift, even Besides acting and doing puzzles, knew she could have been. When she spoke, it was in a long-forgot- if it was only mine for a short while. she enjoys spending her time read- Her dress was made of everything. ten dialect that could be understood by all, Then, her gaze grew sad as she explained ing, singing, playing the piano, go- Bits of fabric from shirts and dresses as long as one didn’t listen closely enough that some lost things can never be found ing on hikes, and playing Dungeons and scarves, pieces of clothing that had to discover that the syllables she was utter- again, and those that can, she could not give & Dragons, a fantasy role-playing caught on thorns or ornate fences and torn ing did not match any they knew. She knew back to me. To do so would be to revoke her game. With so many different in- away, lost forever. As I looked closer, I my name — for who hasn’t forgotten theirs title, to renounce all that the puzzle piece terests, she doesn’t have any specific spied socks with no mates, half-finished at some point or another? — and she called around her neck meant. However, she in- goals for her writing, although she knitted hats, lone squares from patch- me by it. I knew I needn’t be afraid of her, structed me to search carefully for my lost hopes to explore it more in college. work quilts. Woven through her hair and but at the same time my heart was pounding things in the future. For while she could not “I’m ... figuring out what I wanna her eclectic dress and wreathing her head a bit harder than necessary. give them back directly, when she could, do with my life. I love writing ... I like a crown gleamed a treasure trove of She was covered in dust — for what lost she tried to place them in spots where they love nature a lot, and it’d be cool if I gears and coins and scraps of paper, but- thing isn’t? — and her eyes were every would be found. could combine both of those things,” tons and shoelaces and plastic toys still color whose name has long been forgotten. I hugged the Queen of Lost Things she said. “I want to stay open ... crusted with sand. She laughed at my shock, as she does at tightly, thanking her sincerely and deeply, be ready for unexpected stuff to It took me a few moments to realize who everybody’s, never seeming to tire of the though for what, I could not remember. Nor happen.” she was, but I remembered eventually. We same old joke. And then, as I realized I had could I remember why I was sitting by the She advises fellow writers to be have all met the Queen of Lost Things. But, been expecting her to, she patted a spot on side of the road when my path was so clear fearless in sharing their own work of course, we must always forget her again. the rock beside her. I sat and lost all sense on my map. As I walked back to my ve- and to write stories they would want For how can she be the protector of all that of time as she regaled me with her stories hicle, I noticed a single sock lying on the to read. is lost and forgotten if she is not one and of all the places she’d been to and all the dashboard — a perfect match for the one I “Get your story out there. Don’t the same? things she’d found. She was a magnet for had at home in a chest of drawers and was feel like what you have to say isn’t I found her the way we all do: by becom- anything lost, and, she remarked, what unable to wear. important,” she said. ing one of her own. I stood by the side of didn’t come to her she would seek out, even As I picked it up, I could have sworn I — Christine Lee the road under a dappled-green canopy of if she didn’t really mean to. heard a laugh that seemed as close and trees, looking at a map that was much too Unlike most, I did not just allow her sto- impossible as a just-forgotten dream, and Judge’s comment big and intricate, struggling to find where I ries to sweep over me, becoming so lost in I thought I caught a glimpse of an infi- Move over, tooth fairy and Santa was, and where I was going. My car, parked her words that I forgot everything else. I nite dress twirling away through the trees. Claus, and make room for the Queen nearby, was useless if I did not know which pulled back just enough from her endless Of course, like anyone else would have, I of Lost Things. She is the keeper of an direction to drive it in. tales to remark upon her pendant. It was shook my thoughts away, my lost memories eclectic assortment of things lost and When the back of my neck started to a single puzzle piece, lined with gold and drifting like cobwebs to the ground, where forgotten, from a single puzzle piece and tingle, I turned and found her perched on a hanging on a fine chain around her neck. they would no doubt be collected once I missing socks, to witty comebacks and nearby rock. She smiled, her mouth a con- I wondered aloud why such a simple thing was gone and subtly returned at a later date. staring contests. “The Queen of Lost glomeration of teeth that others had lost, held such a place of honor. The puzzle piece For how can someone be the Queen of Things” is an imaginative story about a whether from fisticuffs or falling or swal- did not even contain a discernible image. It Lost Things, the protector of all that is lost lucky lost traveler that is wonderfully told and worth remembering. lowing them as they ate breakfast. was green and black and blue and grey, a and forgotten, if they are not one and the — Debbie Duncan As we all are, I was quite startled at first. texture that could have been the leathery same? Q

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smiling, his face unshaven. “I guess you never go to the mall either,” said Hannah, putting her skates and kneepads in the broom closet by the National Geographic magazines. “What’s that?” Old Joe asked. He turned up cards from the top of the stack. Hannah held the freezer door open, fanning herself. “Just kidding, Joe. Want some ice cream?” Her earphones hung around her neck. About Patricia Fewer “No, not me. Joey got that for you.” He drank from his tall glass. atricia Fewer has never been “I’m happy to share, Joe.” Hannah served someone who sticks to a single herself two scoops of fudge ripple ice cream Ppath: Fewer has been a Peace and sat across from him. Corps volunteer, a campaign worker “Got time for gin rummy, Hannah?” for a presidential candidate, a volunteer “Time?” Hannah said, eating fast. “I’ve bus driver, a substitute teacher and a got lots of time.” textbook editor. Old Joe took up his solitaire layout, “Sometimes I just fall into things with watched Hannah watching him riffle- people I know, or someone suggests shuffle, and spread. They each drew a card. something,” she said. “My deal,” Old Joe said. Hannah cut the Growing up in the Haight-Ashbury cards and Old Joe dealt out ten each. They neighborhood of San Francisco as the screened their hands from each other. oldest of six children, Fewer said she “This is the life, Hannah, wouldn’t you “really wanted to get out in the world, say. Cards and ice cream.” Old Joe fanned not stay home and help my mother.” his hand. Hannah scraped her bowl and put Her adventurous attitude has taken it aside. her to many places and into many “Good combination, Joe,” said Hannah. professions, and it has also given her “The wife and I always played cards.” He an impetus to keep track of the things licked his thumb to separate two cards. she’s come across. Fewer has long loved Hannah squinted over her hand. “I’m to experience the lives of others, both sorry. It must be awful lonely for you, Joe.” through reading and observation. Old Joe drummed his fingers. “Your play, “I’ve always just read and I’ve always Hannah.” kept notecards. If I think something is Joey stomped his feet before coming pretty terrific, I just write it down,” she Illustration by Rosanna through the screen door into the kitchen. He said. washed at the sink, lathering his hands and When it came time to retire, Fewer rubbing the soap up his arms to his elbows. was at a loss for what to do. She remem- “Hannah, we can do some harvesting first bers standing at the kitchen sink, look- thing tomorrow, okay?” He dried himself

ing out the window and pondering that ,VSVQQV with the towel hanging from the refrigera- question. Fewer decided to return to her tor door handle. Then he poured himself a notecards and begin writing, devoting glass of iced tea. herself to her short stories. “Pour one for me, too, will you, Joey?” For Fewer, writing isn’t an agonizing Hannah said. process — it’s an opportunity to bring He put his down in front of her and filled together her diverse and entertaining life Worm Farm another glass. experiences. by Patricia Fewer “Harvesting, Hannah,” he said close to “For me, (writing is) joyful. It just her ear. flows. I have a film in my head, and I annah jumped the curb and “How about let’s go over to the mall, Joey “I knew it was coming. I’ll be ready to don’t ever make outlines,” she said, add- skated down the empty street, babe?” separate parents from babies.” ing that neither does she keep a schedule H straight down the middle, her “Nope.” He shoveled horse manure into The day after the funeral, they had nor impose writing deadlines on herself. arms pumping, her knees slightly bent. the mixture. “That’s what teenagers do.” worked with Old Joe, emptying pine boxes, Fewer’s first-place story, “Worm The skeletons of new homes, replacing “I want an ice cream cone,” Hannah said, one at a time on plastic sheets, removing Farm,” is based on her cousin’s actual acres of fruit trees, stretched along either sitting on the concrete and unlacing her worms by hand from the compost, pack- farm, which was destroyed in a rain- side of her. Three months earlier, when skates. “We’re on vacation.” aging 500 adult worms per container for storm. Her own experience raising three her mother-in-law had died, leafless trees “There’s ice cream inside in the freezer.” market. Then it was a short drive to town children was the inspiration for her story stood in long rows. Today, a Sunday after- He pushed the wheelbarrow over to a cof- to the Bait and Tackle Shop. Their biggest “You’ve Gone and Done It, Ivy,” which noon, her iPod played Tom Waits singing fin-like pine box and filled it halfway with customer. won third place in the Short Story Con- about his wild youth and the wife who was the mixture. “The best possible livestock,” Old Joe test in 2016. dragging him down. Hannah propelled “You’re a whole lot of fun, Joey,” Hannah had said then. “They don’t make noise, Fewer advises new writers to be herself forward, crouched low, and glid- said, standing up and hanging the skates don’t bite, and require little care.” keen observers and create a database ed past the rose bushes and “Worms for over her shoulder. Hannah remembered them slithering and of quotes, people and events for inspira- Sale” sign and on down her father-in-law’s “I’m just trying to keep you down on the curling around her fingers as she tried to tion. She keeps a plastic box filled with driveway. The concrete ended at the back farm.” He opened a large Styrofoam tub figure out if they were long enough to be index cards on categories like family of the two-story white-shingled house, and dumped a knot of earthworms into the called adults. and humor and always has a notebook and she stopped. soil, transferring worms from a crowded Now Joey turned a wood chair around in her bag. Her husband, Joey, was where she had left box into a fresh box. They slithered around, and sat in it backwards. Hannah put her Fewer said she’s still passionate about him, his bare back gleaming in the sun. She separating. Hannah grimaced at the wig- socked foot on top of Joey’s shoe and her writing and plans to continue draft- whistled at him. He waved without look- gling mass. Joey placed wet burlap over the picked up the top card from the stack. ing short stories. ing. She shaded her eyes with her hand and top of the mixture and closed the box. “Have you brought it up?” Joey asked “I’m going to keep working. I’m very watched him sifting topsoil, picking out “When I skate out of your life, you’ll be Hannah quietly, leaning towards her. She stimulated. I’m wired,” she said. small stones and hard clods. He wiped his kicking yourself for not going with me to looked at him blankly with her mouth — Tara Madhav arm across his brow and poured peat moss the mall.” open. into the wheelbarrow with the topsoil. The He threw a clod of dirt at her leg, fol- “All right, all right,” Joey muttered. In Judge’s comment peach trees that surrounded him were in lowed with, “I love ya, Hannah.” a louder voice, he said, “We’ve got to talk In this gentle and delightful story, nothing bloom. She turned her iPod back on, and Tom more about what we’re going to do here.” and everything happens, as the reader is Joey straightened around and looked at Waits was singing about a sick little dog he “Not good etiquette, talking during cards, carried along by the current of this skilled her. She grinned and shook her backside had to live with. She looked at the stacked, Joey,” said Old Joe. He winked at Hannah writer’s subtle, evocative prose, passing his way. He flapped his ear with one hand filled pine boxes and went in the back who was still looking at Joey. from one major area of concern to another: and she turned the iPod off. “Don’t you screen door of the house, turning her iPod “I think, Dad, you’re not going to like be- accepting loss, confronting old age, look like something from outer space,” he off. ing here anymore when these new houses anticipating childbirth, facing displacement, hollered. Old Joe sat at the vinyl-covered kitchen start filling up. You’re going to have cars going to the mall, and contemplating a not Hannah looked down at her T-shirt, fanny table. He was playing solitaire and drinking coming and going and kids on skateboards altogether friendly future. pack, iPod, cutoffs, kneepads, red skates. hot water with fresh lemon. “I never knew a — Tom Parker “Not half bad,” she thought. woman dressed like you, Hannah,” he said (continued on next page)

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“What?” asked Joey, letting the “Hannah likes cities, Dad,” Worm Farm chair fall back. said Joey. “I promised her when (continued from previous page) “It could be, Joey. I’m not sure,” we got married that I wouldn’t be said Hannah. a farmer.” and women with strollers. People “It could be? And you’re out on “Joey, don’t put the blame on will be barbecuing and probably skates?” me.” Hannah swirled her tea in stealing your peaches.” Old Joe laughed out loud. the glass. “You’re the one with ® Old Joe laughed and discarded “Now you’re talking sense. Get nightmares of worms crawling out a card face down. “There are more me some water from the stove, of boxes during the night and tak- than enough peaches for me.” Joey, and squeeze my lemon in.” ing over the neighborhood.” Hannah tapped her foot up and He reached across the table and “Hannah,” Joey said, sputtering. down on Joey’s. held Hannah’s hand. “I wish Jo- “That was private information.” “We don’t think it’s good for ey’s mother was here to hear this. “Never mind, Joey. I have you to be alone in this big house, She’d be pleased.” been lying awake with the same Dad,” continued Joey. “So, you’ll move with us, Joe?” thoughts and gone out to the box- “But, this is my house. You are asked Hannah, holding his hand es with a flashlight,” said Old Joe, not to worry about me,” Old Joe with both of hers. laughing. said, putting down his cards. “I “No, no, if I leave here, I will “But you think so, that you have lived here since your mother die faster.” Old Joe looked at the might be.” Joey coaxed her. and I married. I planted the trees glass Joey offered. “Put another “I’ve never been before so I out back.” He rubbed his face squeeze in there, Joey.” can’t be positive.” ® with one stubby hand, starting at “Don’t talk like that, Joe,” said “You either keep a spotlight on The DeLeon Difference the forehead, going over the eyes, Hannah. She scraped together the boxes at night, so they think nose, and mouth, and stopped on some toast crumbs from breakfast the sun is out, or you keep the lids 650.543.8500 his chest. with the side of her cards. closed. That way they won’t get “This is my life, Joey. When I “What makes more sense is that out.” www.deleonrealty.com die, the developers can have it all, you kids move here with me in- Hannah laughed softly. “If but not before.” He pummeled his stead of paying out money some- you’d take me to the mall, I could chest with his fist. where else,” Old Joe continued. get a test kit and tell you.” 650.543.8500 | www.deleonrealty.com | DeLeon Realty CalBRE #01903224 “Dad, think of this.” Joey “And do what, Dad? Our jobs “It’s no life for a baby living in leaned in closer to the table. “Sell are in the city,” said Joey, cutting an apartment,” said Old Joe. the place and go in with Hannah a lemon in half at the sink. “I want “You still trying to get to the and me on a duplex. Our apart- to know what you know, Hannah, mall?” Joey asked her, cocking his ment is too small, but we could be about our baby,” he added. head. He stood behind her chair, right next door to each other in a “Joey, really, I haven’t been to kissed the top of her head, and put Looking for something to do? duplex. We’ll plant fruit trees and a doctor yet. It is just a feeling.” both his hands on her belly. move the worm business.” She blushed. “You smell like lemon,” she Check out the Weekly’s Community Calendar “No good, Joey. Not for me,” “You kids could do here what said. for the Midpeninsula. and Old Joe looked off out the you could do somewhere else in Old Joe pushed himself away *OTUBOUMZmOEPVUXIBUFWFOUTBSFHPJOHPOJOZPVSDJUZþ screen door. a duplex,” Old Joe continued. from the table. “If you two are go- “You can help raise your grand- “And we could put up peaches ing to live here, you have to learn Go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com/calendar child, Joe,” said Hannah. together.” card-playing etiquette.” Q

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SUMMER JAZZ EVENTS What: Filoli’s 2018 Summer Jazz Series. Where: Filoli Historic House & Garden, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside. When: June 17, July 8, July 22, Aug. 5, Aug. 19, Sept. 16; 1:30 p.m. Cost: $75/$65 for Filoli members or series pass for $425/$365 for Filoli members. Info: Go to filoli.org/jazz.

What: Stanford Shopping Center 32nd Annual Summer Jazz Series. Where: Stanford Shopping Center, 660 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto. When: Thursdays, June 21-August 23; 6 p.m. Cost: Free. Info: Go to sfjazz.org/stanford/.

What: Stanford Jazz Festival 2018. Where: Various venues on the Stanford University campus. When: June 22 through Aug. 4. Cost: $8-$98 Local Info: Go to stanfordjazz.org/stanford-jazz- concert festival-2018. What: 2018 Portola Vineyards Summer Jazz. season Where: Portola Vineyards, 850 Los Trancos Road, Portola Valley. Carlos Pericas heats up When: various Sundays, June 24-August 19; by Yoshi Kato 6 p.m. Cost: $12-$50. Info: Go to portolavineyards.com/phone/ Barcelona-based trumpeter, singer and composer Andrea Motis will perform as part of this year’s Stanford Jazz Festival. summer-jazz.html.

ummertime is golden for there, including house concerts I love playing with singers.” concerts between June 22 and playing together for the first time. live jazz on the Peninsula. and festivals.” For his bandleading debut at Aug. 4. Presented by SFJAZZ at the S The 28-year-old jazz Nelson’s rèsumè is flush with the Filoli, Nelson will showcase ma- As has been the case in recent courtyard between Crate & Barrel series at Filoli Historic names of jazz greats, having been terial from his latest album, “The years, the Stanford Jazz Festival and Nordstrom, the free Stanford House & Garden in Woodside in bands lead by tenor saxophon- Sky Remains.” He’s played there and Workshop features concerts at Shopping Jazz Series is in its is the first program of the season, ist/composer Benny Golson, double as a member of Schwartz’s group the front and back end of its sea- 32nd year. It starts on June 21 and with a concert by pianist Justin bassist/arranger/big bandleader and says he enjoys the idyllic son at Bing Concert Hall. is held on consecutive Thursdays at Kauflin on June 17. The Sunday- John Clayton and drummer/vibra- setting. On June 23, Berkeley resident 6 p.m. through Aug. 23. afternoon series has five more phonist Joe Chambers. But he’s Portola Vineyards in Portola Joshua Redman leads a rare date Faculty from Stanford Jazz dates through Sept. 16. earned a reputation as a superb ac- Valley also has a Sunday sum- with his veteran quartet that fea- Workshop will make the short Kauflin was featured in the companist for vocalists. mer series that spans five shows tures pianist Aaron Goldberg, trek from campus on June 28. 2014 documentary “Keep On Kee- “I really cut my teeth with two between June 24 and Aug. 19. double bassist Reuben Rogers and Saxophonists Kristen Strom and pin’ On,” which examined his re- singers,” he said. “I was Sara Gaz- These feature the likes of the San drummer Gregory Hutchinson. Andrew Speight, trumpeter Erik lationship with his mentor, the late arek’s music director, arranger and Diego-based pianist Danny Green The festival closes on Aug. 4 Jekabson, pianist Ben Stolorow, trumpeter and NEA Jazz Master pianist from 2004 until recently. and his trio with strings and local with Spanish trumpeter and vocal- bassist John Wiitala and drummer Clark Terry. In addition to being And I was Natalie Cole’s last tour- favorites Charged Particles, who ist Andrea Motis’ quintet playing Hamir Atwal make up the top- championed by Quincy Jones, he’s ing pianist and played with her for close out the run in late August first with trombonist Wycliffe Gor- notch Faculty All-Stars sextet. also gigged as a member of double about six years. with an Eastside College Prepara- don as a special guest and then the Moscow, Russia, native and Bay bassist/vocalist Katie Thiroux’s “I’m probably known more tory School benefit performance. SJW 50/50 Orchestra, directed by Area resident Masha Campagne trio, including a date in March in as a singer’s pianist,” he added. The dean of summer jazz is the Joan Chamorro. Motis made her shares her cultivated jazz and Bra- Half Moon Bay at Bach Dancing “I’m trying to flip that so that I’m Stanford Jazz Festival, which regional debut at last year’s festi- zilian sound at the posh shopping & Dynamite (which, incidentally, equally known as a leader, though is in its 37th year and boasts 31 val, and the fledgling SJW 50/50 center on August 9. In addition to has its own summer series every Orchestra is a group comprised of reinterpreting selections from both Sunday at 4:30 p.m. through July women and men in equal numbers. songbooks, she’s likely to draw on 29 except for July 1). “Andrea’s specialty is romantic her own self-penned work. Another notable pianist head- selections from the Great Ameri- The outdoor setting and nearby lines Filoli on July 22. Los An- can Songbook,” said Jim Nadel, food and drink shops at Stanford geles native Josh Nelson and Stanford Jazz Workshop and Fes- Shopping Center make for a casual his quintet. Lately the Southern tival’s founder and artistic director. yet musically substantial evening. Californian has been commut- “She sings in English and plays re- And as with the other series, parking regularly for gigs in Northern ally melodic trumpet solos. ing is free. Q California from as far north as “I’m really happy how it came Freelance writer Yoshi Fort Bragg down to Saratoga. He together,” he continued. “From Kato can be emailed at frequently plays with tenor saxo- July 15 on, everyone performing [email protected]. phonist and onetime Stanford is also here to teach at the Stan- graduate student Anton Schwartz fordJazzWorkshop.Soyouget as well as local drummer Lorca these really interesting combos READ MORE ONLINE Hart, whom he called one of his happening.” PaloAltoOnline.com best friends. Gustav Morita He used half of the Aug. 1 con- For Arts & Entertainment Editor “In some ways, I’ve got more cert as an example, with saxophon- Karla Kane’s interview with musician things going up on the Bay,” said ist Melissa Aldana, guitarist Cami- Rebecca Schiffman, who’s performing live on KZSU, go to Nelson, with a chuckle. “It seems la Meza, bassist Yunior Terry and PaloAltoOnline.com/arts. like there are more venues up Jazz pianist Justin Kauflin will kick off Filoli’s summer jazz series. percussionist Tupac Mantilla all

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THEATER REVIEW this show, who has to be coerced by Natalie not only into loving her, but performing at meetings of left-leaning actors and other- Un-American activities wise speaking up and fighting the ‘Finks’ sheds light on dark Hollywood history good fight. In real life, Gilford explained, by John Orr both his parents were firmly committed to causes such as civil oe Gilford’s script for begin his political babble, just as rights. “Finks,” his slightly fic- comic Mickey is starting his rou- “Mickey’s conflict about what Jtionalized story of what his tine at Cafè Society. he would actually do in the end parents (comics and activists Mickey does a very good Jim- is about the furthest I went to fic- Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee my Durante imitation, and Walter tionalize for dramatic purposes,” Gilford) experienced during the starts interrogating such “finks” Joe Gilford said in a program Hollywood blacklistings of the as Elia Kazan, Budd Schulberg feature by Syche Phillips. “In real 1950s, does a clever thing. Rath- and Martin Berkeley. life, there was never any doubt as er than just subject his audience The show’s only woman, Don- to my father’s intentions.” to the grim history of how the na Vivino, is a force of nature But Mickey’s fears and doubts communist-and-deviant-hunting as performer/organizer Nata- work beautifully in this play, such Berne Kevin House Un-American Activities lie Meltzer, who sets out to win as when he is heartbroken when Donna Vivino as Natalie, left, and Leo Ash Evens as Bobby dance in Committee ruined hundreds of Mickey’s love. “I’m laying out a blacklisted friend dies, and for “Finks,” presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. entertainment careers, Gilford lines like railroad tracks!” she what he does when he is finally shows us the entertainment. says. “Connect the dots!” dragged before HUAC. seems a shocking omission. recovered its sense of decency — So, TheatreWorks Silicon Val- Mickey and all their entertainer Most of the eight actors in this Cathleen Edwards nicely that history wouldn’t repeat itself. ley audiences get to hear some friends are worried about being production are very well known evokes the 1950s with her In 2018, I’m frightened that I no jokes from Mickey Dobbs (Jim caught up in the Red Scare, and from San Francisco Bay Area costume design. Steven B. longer feel that way. ‘Finks’ re- Stanek), who is loosely based they have reason to be. If their stages. Richard Frederick, who Mannshardt does his usual excel- minds us of what is at stake and on Jack Gilford, and see him do names appear in the magazine does a great Lee J. Cobb impres- lent work with lighting design, how ordinary people must stand a hilarious pantomime of a the- Red Channels or in a bad way in sion, has been in a number of no small achievement, with three for decency. It provides us guid- ater-goer bothered by a buzzing Walter Winchell’s column, club TheatreWorks shows, including main areas of the stage to light ance for these uncertain times, insect, based on a bit that Gilford owners may cut their contracts “Emma.” Gabriel Marin, who for different purposes. Sound when performers like Jack Gil- actually did. And they get to see and advertisers might start boy- is very moving as actor and art- designer Jake Rodriguez hand- ford fought to do what they did some lovely dancing (choreo- cotting their TV shows. ist Fred Lang, was in “Superior ily provides the sounds of unseen best: keep us laughing.” Q graphed by Dottie Lester-White) Bobby has two issues: He did Donuts” at TheatreWorks. Robert court reporters, TV soundtracks Freelance writer John Orr from Leo Ash Evens. Evens plays attend some meetings of leftist Sicular, who moves from celeb- and ringing phone. can be emailed at johnorr@ Bobby Gerard, who is based on performers and he’s gay, which rity sycophant to attack dog as The one odd thing was a loud regardingarts.com. Jerome Robbins. in the 1950s was very dangerous. Rep. Walter, has stood out on ev- crackling sound and strange “Finks” opens on Andrea Natalie, who has been Bobby’s ery major local stage. flashing lights. I had to hear and Bechert’s handsome, huge set “beard” and sometimes his lover, Despite the script calling for a see that four times before I under- What: “Finks.” with the dais of HUAC in the tries to buck him up. Evens has a black character, there appear to stood it was supposed to be pho- Where: Mountain View Center center, a modest recreation of the grim role to play, because while be no African-American people tojournalists with old-fashioned for the Performing Arts, club Cafè Society in New York at Bobby staves off HUAC for a in this show. Cafè Society was flash bulbs. At first I thought a 500 Castro St. audience left and another space at while, when he’s blackmailed for the first really integrated club in spotlight was shorting out. When: Through July 1 audience right that is used later. his homosexuality, he’s forced to New York. Jack Gilford actually Giovanna Sardelli, who direct- (see online for complete We hear the HUAC sergeant at start naming names, including shared a dressing room there with ed the New York premiere of this performance schedule). arms call a hearing to order, and Mickey and Natalie’s. Billie Holiday. He dated Lena play in 2013, also directed this Cost: $40-$100 (discounts Robert Sicular, as Rep. Walter, Mickey is kind of a fraidy cat in Horne. To not have a black actor production, the California pre- available). miere. In her notes for the pro- Info: theatreworks.org/201718- gram, she wrote, “In 2013, I felt season/201718-season/finks/. A tuneful tradition pretty confident that America had Palo Alto World Music Day turns 10 by Karla Kane ach Father’s Day, Univer- as well as the friendly, casual at- (the Weekly is a media sponsor sity Avenue is closed to mosphere, which allows listeners of the event) and the Palo Alto E traffic and the streets of to come and go as they please. Recreation Foundation along the Palo Alto are alive with the sound The festival “is a lot more infor- way. A team of dedicated volun- of music of all sorts. The annual mal than we’re used to, and one teers helps coordinate the day’s tradition, World Music Day, is funny thing that happened was a happenings. celebrating its 10th anniversary very young girl who was watching Ezran is proud that Palo Alto SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 10AM - 3PM this year, with musical festivities saw our set list flopping around in World Music Day has stood the happening on Sunday, June 17, the wind. She hopped up, snatched test of time. Explore the natural world Engage your curiosity How do you extract DNA What makes sherbet fizz and between 3 and 7:30 p.m. it and crumpled it up and took it “The friendships I have formed from an apricot? popping candy pop? As in years past, around 50 mu- away, leaving us to wing it the rest with many of the musicians is sical artists and ensembles will of the show,” Roudman recalled. what is most precious for me. Take a challenge Test your knowledge How high can you launch a What is the speed of a football perform on the street corners and “We don’t live in Palo Alto, so Many of them come year after rocket carrying an apricot thrown by an NFL alum? plazas of downtown. Jazz, blues, a fun thing we like to do is pick year despite the fact that they are payload? classical, pop, rock, Klezmer, a different spot near the festival not paid,” he said. “They love the Find out at the Join a tasting competition Apricot STEM Fair. Greek, Balkan and Indian music, to have a celebratory dinner after event and the fact that is above all Who will win the competitions Orchard-themed games • plus choral and dance groups and each show,” she told the Weekly. a celebration of their art.” Q for best apricot appetizer, entrée, apricot activities • more will be represented. The Palo Alto resident Claude Ezran Arts & Entertainment Editor and dessert? educational tours • and more! performances are mostly acous- was inspired to create the local Karla Kane can be emailed at tic, with some acts utilizing bat- event after taking part in France’s [email protected]. Los Altos History Museum tery-powered amplifiers, and the Fête de la Musique, which has 51 S. San Antonio Rd., musicians participating all do so since spread to more than 700 Los Altos • 650-948-9427 for free. cities and 120 countries, as well What: Palo Alto World Music Day Thurs - Sun, Noon - 4pm Rebecca Roudman of the San as across the United States (often Where: University Avenue losaltoshistory.org Francisco-based blues and blue- under the name Make Music). Ez- (between Webster and High grass group Dirty Cello has taken ran first proposed the idea when streets). FREE ADMISSION! part several times and plans to do joining the city’s Human Rela- When: Sunday, June 17, 3-7:30 so again this year. She said she en- tions Commission a decade ago, p.m. joys the convergence of such a di- gaining the support of former Cost: Free. verse blend of music in one event, Weekly editor Jay Thorwaldson Info: Go to pamusicday.org.

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HomeA weekly guide to home, garden & and realReal estate news, edited by Estate Elizabeth Lorenz Home Front SUCCESS WITH SUCCULENTS ... If you’d like to try adding succulents to your garden, come to a class sponsored by UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County, “Gardening with Succulents,” on Thursday, June 21 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The class will introduce people to these diverse, low-water plants

and how to care for them. The Photospin class will be taught by Master Gardener Kathleen Heckler at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road in Palo Alto. For more Far left, apples like this attract information on master gardener codling moths, who lay their eggs events, go to mgsantaclara.ucanr. on developing apples. When the edu and click on the events tab. worm (like this one) hatches, it tunnels into the apple near the PROPANE CYLINDER EXCHANGE stem and heads down to the core. ... Through the end of June, Top: once you pick your apples, the city of Palo Alto is hosting there may or may not still be a 1-pound propane-cylinder a worm inside, or it may have

exchange program for residents Regents UC of Courtesy exited out the “blossom” end to reduce the waste created by of the apple. Cut off the apple single-use canisters. First, fill out Courtesy of UC Regents UC of Courtesy “cheeks” and enjoy. Near left, a the program voucher you should magnification of codling moth have received in a previous utility eggs and larvae that are laid on bill. Bring your voucher as well as tiny developing apples. Once the your empty, single-use disposable worms leave the apples, they head 1-pound propane cylinder to the for the tree trunk to make cocoons. HHW Station and exchange it for a full, refillable cylinder. There is a f you are blessed with fruit trees in your prey or they won’t stick around. limit of one free reusable cylinder yard but are less comfortable about the Another solution is to remove excess debris per household while supplies bugs that might also be enjoying your har- and fruit on the ground underneath the trees last. Vouchers expire June 30. vest, relax. so as not to attract ants, which actually protect For more information, go to I “A lot of it has to do with how squeamish and nurture aphids. Ladybugs won’t help with cityofpaloalto.org/RFYF. people are,” said University of California Mas- plum aphids, by the way, since there is no way ter Gardener Candace Simpson, who teaches eneficial for them to get at the bugs rolled tightly in the PARTY WITH NO TRASH ... If B an annual class on beneficial garden bugs in leaves. you’re planning a neighborhood Palo Alto. If fruit trees are not allowed to grow too big gathering, you can borrow a “Zero Apple trees, for example, attract codling it’s easier to manage the harvest, and the trees Waste Party Pack” — complete moths, who lay their eggs on tiny developing might produce higher quality, if fewer, indi- table settings for 24 people — bugs apples. As soon as the apple has formed and vidual pieces of fruit. including plates, bowls, tumblers, the egg hatches, the worm tunnels into the ap- Apricot and cherry trees get another fun- utensils and cloth napkins, from ple somewhere near the stem and heads down Fruit trees and insects can gal disease which can actually be mistakenly your local block leader. Connect to the core. co-exist. Can you? spread by pruning shears. The general advice with a Zero Waste Block Leader at If you’ve read this far, you are probably is not to prune these until July, when there is cityofpaloalto.org/zwbl. brave enough to take Simpson’s next piece by Elizabeth Lorenz generally a six-week rain-free period to allow For more information, email of advice: When the apple is mature enough the fungus (called Eutypa) to spread. [email protected] or to pick, now that you are prepared for what leaves have fallen, by spraying a copper-based Earwigs are great for eating up and shred- call 650-496-5910. to expect, cut into it, leaving a decent margin fungicide which is OK even for organic farms. ding things that fall and need to decompose around the stem and core, and use the clean It’s always important to pick up all fallen fruit in the garden. They also eat some species of VACATION WATCH ... If you live parts you’ve cut off for eating, baking or cider. and pick old fruit off your trees so as not to aphids. Their ferocious-looking pincers really in Atherton and are leaving home There may or may not still be a worm inside, attract the wrong pests, including rodents. If are not harmful, and if you don’t like them, the for a period of time this summer or it may have exited out the “blossom” end of you don’t pick up fallen apples, for example, Old Farmer’s Almanac advises to lay one-foot (or any time), you can file an online the apple, leaving some brown stuff behind. you could be supplying three more generations sections of garden hose in your garden over- “Vacation and Business Trip It’s now heading to its next developmental of codling moths with homes. night and dump out the earwigs that crawl into Home Check Request” form for phase, making a cocoon on the trunk of the If your stone-fruit tree already has peach- the hose pieces into a bucket of soapy water. the Atherton Police Department tree and turning into a tiny moth. leaf curl, it will still produce a harvest. It’s re- You can spread petroleum jelly around plant to watch over your home. Go to “So this is the good news about codling ally important, Simpson said, not to remove stems to keep earwigs from feasting on them. www.ci.atherton.ca.us, click on moths: You can cut off what I call the cheeks the affected leaves but instead to leave them. According to the University of California’s the Police tab and then click on of the apple,” she said. It’s a “stressor” on the tree to take those leaves Integrated Pest Management agency, you can the Form circle to find the form. Apples can also be hand-thinned, once they off and the trees have evolved to cope with the attract beneficial predators to keep things like start to grow. If you see two apples growing fungus while they’re growing fruit. Plum trees aphids in check. Bugs like lady beetles (lady- Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home in a pair, remove one so that all of the apples get a similar affliction caused by a specific bugs), lacewings, paper wasps and soldier bee- improvement and gardening to Home on the tree are no more than about five inches type of aphid. tles often pollinate flowers as well as eating Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, apart. This allows the remaining apples to “A lot of people get distressed because of the pests. One note: praying mantids eat good bugs Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email elorenz@ grow larger and prevents moths from burrow- plum aphid,” Simpson said, because it causes as well as bad, so adding them to your yard paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication. ing into the apples in the weak spots where the tree’s leaves to roll up tightly. But, she said, may not be a great option for pest management. they are touching each other. not to worry. “Those aren’t harmful to the tree. “It’s a balance,” Simpson said. “You have to Stone-fruit trees like apricot or peach or The tree has evolved” to be able to cope. tolerate some (pests) in order to have a system READ MORE ONLINE cherry don’t have problems with codling If you want to supply your yard with lady- where they don’t get out of control.” Q PaloAltoOnline.com moths. Instead, peach trees can be afflicted bugs, a predator of aphids, that can help, espe- Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and with “peach leaf curl,” which is a fungus that cially if you have small blooming flowers like Real Estate Editor at the Palo Alto There are more real estate features online. Go to PaloAltoOnline.com/ affects nectarine as well as peach trees. This yarrow or alyssum for the ladybugs to thrive Weekly. She can be emailed at elorenz@ real_estate. can be prevented in the fall after the fruit tree’s on in between aphid fests. But ladybugs need embarcaderopublishing.com.

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www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • June 15, 2018 • Page 37 PALO ALTO WEEKLY OPEN HOMES EXPLORE OUR MAPS, HOMES FOR SALE, OPEN HOMES, VIRTUAL TOURS, PHOTOS, PRIOR SALE INFO, NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDES ON www.PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM ATHERTON 6 Bedrooms 3 Bedrooms 5 Bedrooms 25721 La Lanne Ct $8,348,000 992 Boranda Av $1,995,000 1305 Westridge Dr $6,595,000 3 Bedrooms Sat Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 947-2900 Sun 2-4 81 Lloyden Dr $1,688,000 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty 543-8500 6 Bedrooms 941-4300 644-3474 5 Bedrooms 2481 Porterfield Ct $3,380,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Lazar Homes 302-6666 707 Westridge Dr $13,500,000 40 Selby Ln $5,200,000 MENLO PARK Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 2 Bedrooms - Condominium PALO ALTO CUPERTINO 1230 Sharon Park Dr #64 $1,650,000 2 Bedrooms REDWOOD CITY Sun 2-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200 1 Bedroom - Condominium 2722 Louis Rd $1,998,000 3 Bedrooms 20488 Stevens Creek Blvd #1708 $888,000 3 Bedrooms Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161 1703 Roosevelt Av $1,329,000 Sat/Sun 1-5 927 Continental Dr $4,995,000 Sat 12-2 Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111 Intero Real Estate Services (408) 342-3000 3 Bedrooms Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 352 Stanford Av $2,975,000 15 Winston Way $1,699,000 EAST PALO ALTO 4 Bedrooms Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700 Sat 1-4 Sereno Group 947-2900 3 Bedrooms 1171 Valparaiso Av $4,948,000 1144 Channing Av $3,195,000 1219 Jervis Av $919,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666 Sat/Sun Sereno Group 323-1900 SAN JOSE Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 19 Shasta Ln $3,750,000 753 Maplewood Pl $2,888,000 4 Bedrooms - Condominium Sat/Sun Zane MacGregor 324-9900 LOS ALTOS Sat /Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 1053 Dewberry Pl #404 $1,380,000 485 9th Av $2,495,000 352 Stanford Av $2,985,000 Sat/Sun 1:30-5 Coldwell Banker 325-6161 4 Bedrooms Sat/Sun 1-5 Sat 1:30-4:30/Sun 1-4 682 Coral Ct $4,288,000 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700 Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740 Sat/Sun SUNNYVALE 2098 Manzanita Av $3,798,000 4 Bedrooms Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 3 Bedrooms 941-4300 Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 158 Tennyson Av $2,995,000 1130 Strawberry Ct $1,888,000 219 Portola Ct $3,298,000 5 Bedrooms Sat /Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700 Sun Miles McCormick 400-1001 1180 Cloud Av $4,488,000 633 Channing Av $2,850,000 5 Bedrooms Sun 2-4 Sat /Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 4 Bedrooms 290 Quinnhill Rd $6,495,000 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 1084 Fife Av $3,998,000 1350 S Bernardo Av $1,988,000 Sun Sereno Group 947-2900 847-1141 Sat/Sun Sereno Group 947-2900 Sat/Sun 1:30-5 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700 785 Berkeley Av $7,500,000 5 Bedrooms LOS ALTOS HILLS Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200 161 Bryant St $6,395,000 WOODSIDE 4 Bedrooms Sat 4 Bedrooms 27760 Edgerton Rd $6,700,000 MOUNTAIN VIEW Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 136 Otis Av $2,195,000 Sun Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700 847-1141 2 Bedrooms - Condominium Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111 5 Bedrooms 400 Ortega Av #116 $875,000 163 Otis Av $2,895,000 25851 Vinedo Ln $4,400,000 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 947-4700 PORTOLA VALLEY Sun 2-4 Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111 183 Del Medio Av #302 $895,000 4 Bedrooms Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 1307 Portola Rd $3,850,000 941-4300 Sun 1-4 Sereno Group 947-2900 10 Franciscan Rdg $3,798,000 Sat/Sun Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 6 Bedrooms 644-3474 234 Swett Rd $1,995,000 136 Los Trancos Cir $2,998,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 Oﬃce space for lease Sun 2-4 Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty 116 Fox Hollow Rd $7,500,000 in the heart of Woodside 847-1141 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666 2995 Woodside Road

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Charming Victorian built at the turn of the century offers 4 bedrooms/2.5 baths with plenty of space and convenience for today’s lifestyle. Just blocks away from downtown Palo Alto, this residence is an easy stroll along tree-lined streets for fine dining, shopping, parks, and schools. High ceilings, crown moldings, and hardwood floors are among the interior appointments. Sunlight streams through the large windows and skylights for a light-infused and cheery interior. Public spaces include living and dining rooms and a family room that could also be the 4th bedroom. The home features 4 bedrooms, all with walk-in closets and one with an enclosed sunroom overlooking the sweet courtyard garden. One of the bedrooms has an adjoining office or sitting room. All the upstairs bedrooms look out on trees. An added bonus is the elevator connecting the main and second levels. The house also has purchased solar panels. The flexible-use finished basement can accommodate a den, hobby area, and wine cellar as well as providing ample room for storage. Living Area: 2,298 sq. ft. (Per appraisal by R. T. Roche & Associates, unverified) Lot Size: 4,788 sq. ft. (Per County records, unverified) New price $ 2,850,000 www.633Channing.com

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GUADALUPE GARCIA www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB national bank, check drawn by state or A Petition for Probate has been filed by: 165 S. Bernardo Ave. #38 (2752). Unlicensed persons taking federal credit union, or a check drawn AJAY CHAWLA in the Superior Court of Sunnyvale, CA 94086 jobs that total less than $500.00 by a state or federal savings and loan California, County of SANTA CLARA. Registrant began transacting business must state in their advertisements association, or savings association, or The Petition for Probate requests that: under the fictitious business name(s) that they are not licensed by the savings bank specified in Section 5102 AJAY CHAWLA be appointed as personal listed above on 05/22/2018. Contractors State License Board. to the Financial Code and authorized representative to administer the estate of This statement was filed with the County to do business in this state, will be held www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • June 15, 2018 • Page 41 Sports Shorts NATIONAL HONORS . . . Stanford track and field coach Zeb Sion, whose throwers scored 31 points at the NCAA Championships, was named NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year by the USTFCCCA. Stanford’s throwers would have placed ninth as a team at the NCAA Championships. No team in NCAA women’s championship meet history had scored as many points across all four throwing events in 20 years. All four of Sion’s women’s throwers earned podium finishes, earned first-team All- America honors, and scored for a Stanford team that placed third, tying its highest finish ever, with 51 points . . . Stanford pitchers Kris Bubic and Jack Little earned All-America status from the the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. Little was named to the first team and Bob Dahlberg Bubic was a third team pick. Little is also a finalist for the NCBWA’s Stopper of the Year. The winner will be announced Saturday in Omaha as Menlo-Atherton’s Daniel Heimuli has spent part of his summer driving through corn fields and visiting the campuses of schools who have will the Coach of the Year. offered him football scholarships. SOCCER MILESTONE . . . Stanford grad Christen Press started her HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL first match of the year, in her 100th career appearance with the U.S. women’s national soccer team, and recorded both assists in a 2-1 victory M-A player has time to make the right decision over China in an international friendly Tuesday in Cleveland. Press became Bears’ linebacker Heimuli weighing his options from 25 scholarship offers the 37th female player in U.S. history Glenn Reeves time to talk,’’ Ravipati said. They got a taste of how intently He played on the M-A frosh- to reach the milestone, joining former enlo-Atherton football Welcome to the world of Men- college football is followed in that soph team as a sophomore before Cardinal teammate Kelley O’Hara, who was the 36th player. The coach Adhir Ravipati lo-Atherton linebacker Daniel part of the country. being called up to the varsity for victory gave the USA (7-0-1) a two- M and star recruit Daniel Heimuli, soon-to-be high school “That morning at breakfast the Central Coast Section play- game sweep of China, which has Heimuli were driving across the senior, who has received 25 full- a mom and her kids came up to offs. Not just to stand on the side- already qualified for next year’s FIFA great Midwest when the phone ride scholarship offers from a us and asked if they could take lines and soak in the atmosphere, Womenís World Cup . . . Stanford call came. They were on their way who’s-who of college football a picture with Daniel,’’ Ravipati but to play. And in the 2016 CCS commit Maya Doms scored in the from the University of Illinois to powers. recounted. “I’m not sure if that Open Division I championship 76th minute, helping The United Iowa State on a recruiting trip by “It’s a life-changing experience would happen in Palo Alto.’’ game against Milpitas, Heimuli States U-17 women’s national car that previously included visits to be in this position,’’ said Heimu- Then, after a drive to the cam- was a force at inside linebacker in soccer team the title of the Concacaf to Ole Miss, TCU and defending li, after being handed the phone by pus, they met Nick Saban. a 17-0 victory. Women’s U-17 Championships at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. national champion Alabama. his coach. “To be in this position “A real eye-opening experi- “We didn’t want to rush Dan- Menlo School junior Sophia Jones They were going to wrap up I’m very humbled and grateful.’’ ence,’’ Ravipati said. “You could iel,’’ Ravipati said. “I thought he was played a major role for the their trip with visits to the Cy- Ravipati and Heimuli began tell very quickly why they’re could line up and contribute in the Americans. clones in Ames, and to the Ne- the trip with visits to TCU and the best program in the country. playoffs. But I’m not going to say braska Cornhuskers before head- Ole Miss. Then after a flight into Amazing to see what they do to I thought he’d have six sacks and OAKS REPORT . . . Menlo-Atherton ing home. Birmingham, they drove to Tus- develop players.’’ 20 tackles, like he did.’’ High grad Atlee Frechette is “We’re driving through nothing caloosa to visit the facilities of the It’s also amazing how far stepping down from her post as but corn fields, so this is a good Crimson Tide. Heimuli has come in one year. (continued on next page) men’s volleyball coach at Menlo College to focus on the family business. Frechette spent four years USA VOLLEYBALL coaching the women’s volleyball team, winning two conference titles and earning the Coach of the Year honors in 2014. Last fall, she American men host accepted the challenge of building a men’s volleyball program at Menlo from scratch . . . Track and field fourth weekend of VNL coach Dan Noel also announced he is stepping down from his position The U.S. meets Serbia, Poland and Iran over the weekend at Menlo to pursue a law degree at Rick Eymer UCLA. The United States and Serbia tanford grads Erik Shoji (including Yugoslavia and Ser- ON THE AIR and Kawika Shoji will bia and Montenegro) have met 24 S join the rest of the United times at world level major com- Friday States’ men’s national volleyball petitions, with the United States USGA golf: U.S. Open at Shin- team in the Chicago area as part winning 10 of those matches. The necock Hills GC, N.Y., 1:30 p.m., KTVU

of the FIVB Volleyball Nations U.S. won the last encounter, in the FIVB Saturday League preliminary round this group stages of the 2017 World USGA golf: U.S. Open at Shin- weekend. League. necock Hills GC, N.Y., 8 a.m., KTVU The Americans (7-2) enter play Serbia is playing in the U.S. for Stanford grad Erik Shoji is one of the top liberos in the world. Sunday against Serbia (6-3) on Friday the fifth time, with the Americans USGA golf: U.S. Open at Shin- in fourth place in the VNL and winning three of the past four, in- the top liberos in the world. He’s Canada, 23-25, 25-13, 25-19, necock Hills GC, N.Y., 7 a.m., KTVU need to finish among the top five cluding the last meeting during 10th overall with a 10.37 efficien- 25-20, on Sunday in its last Vol- to earn a spot in the Final Round, the 2014 World League. cy rating in receiving. leyball Nations League match in READ MORE ONLINE which is scheduled for July 4-8 in Benjamin Patch is the United Micah Christenson ranks fifth Ottawa. www.PASportsOnline.com Lille, France. States’ top scorer with 100 points, in digs with an 0.89 average per The U.S. led in kills (53-43), The U.S. will also play Poland which ranks him 12th overall. set. blocks (14-3) and aces (6-3) and For expanded daily coverage of college and prep sports, visit (8-1) on Saturday and Iran (3-6) He’s also 11th in hitting percent- The U.S. had four players in scored 25 points on Canada’s er- www.PASportsOnline.com on Sunday. age at .503. Erik Shoji is one of double figures in beating host rors while committing 28. Q

Page 42 • June 15, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com and played right field for the M-A off the bench to lead ‘Bama to a HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL M-A football baseball team. comeback victory over Georgia in (continued from previous page) “Daniel and I have been laugh- the national championship game. First-year Gunn coach ing about this for a while,’’ Ra- Earlier this offseason, College Throughout his junior season, vipati said. “His freshman and of San Mateo defensive lineman his first full season on varsity, the sophomore years I would tell Vita Musika, formerly of Milpitas sees the possibilities scholarship offers started pouring him he’s going to be a big-time High, signed with the Tide. in for Heimuli. football player in college and he So now Heimuli has options to Miller pleasantly surprised by response “In that Milpitas game I weighed would say to me, no, he was go- accept offers from virtually all the Glenn Reeves “I’ve been pleasantly sur- about 185, 190,’’ Heimuli said. ing to play college baseball. That heavyweights of college football. here’s no question that Ja- prised,’’ he said. “The guys that “My junior season I reached my just shows what a good athlete he He has received offers from 10 of son Miller finds himself are here have bought in. They’re goal of 220. I got stronger, stayed is and how hard he works in the 12 Pac-12 schools in addition to T in a different situation as working out in the weight room in the weight room all season, weight room.’’ the Big 12, Big Ten and Southeast the newly-hired foot- more consistently than and still got faster. I developed as Alabama’s roster, like it always Conference schools he visited. ball coach at Gunn they ever have. People a player and as a person. I would has, is populated primarily by He still has not visited LSU and than he did at previous who have been around like to thank coach Adhir, defen- players from the fertile recruiting Notre Dame, a couple of other head coaching stops in the program say they sive coordinator Spencer Ryan, area of the Deep South. But now big-time programs still under Southern California at see an improvement in and my father (Tui Heimuli).’’ the Crimson Tide, like the rest consideration. Inglewood, Verbum terms of commitment.’’ In the spring, Heimuli took of the college world, has become Heimuli said, he would sit down

Dei and Dominguez. Adam Pardee Gunn has won Cen- time off from the whirlwind re- aware of the Polynesian mother with Ravipati after arriving home “Socio-economically tral Coast Section cruiting process his meteoric rise lode of talent out West. Freshman and put together a list, narrowing it’s different,’’ Miller championships in boys on the football field occasioned quarterback Tua Tagovailoa came down his 25 offers to 10 finalists. Q said. “But kids are kids. and girls swimming in We’ve got some talent. the last three years, but Numbers are an issue, Jason Miller success in football is a PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL but they’ve been an issue wher- more distant memory. The Titans ever I’ve been. They’re an issue have had one winning season the CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE up and down the Peninsula.’’ last 15 years. BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 Having players miss summer Miller had a good amount of workouts due to trips to Europe, success running a double-wing CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 college trips and foreign-ex- offense at his previous coaching ***************************************** change trips is a new experience stops. Gunn, with its lack of pre- THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. for Miller, but he says he likes the vious football success, presents a THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL response he’s received. unique challenge. Q DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE:

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