Vol. XXXIV, Number 26 N March 29, 2013 City asks: Just what is a ‘public benefit’? Page 3
Mod ’60s costumes add zip to a new musical take on Oscar Wilde Page 16
Transitions 13 Spectrum 14 Movies 22 Puzzles 46 N Arts Exploring auditory hallucinations through opera Page 20 N Sports Stanford women’s basketball heads to Sweet 16 Page 24 N Home Barron Park: Semi-rural charm in the midst of the city Page 29
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#/--5.)49 Local scouts want change in policy -EETINGS PREFACE -AY VOTE ON THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION ISSUE BY THE NATIONAL BOARD by Sue Dremann
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450 Cambridge Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306 QUOTE OF THE WEEK (650) 326-8210 PUBLISHER William S. Johnson (223-6505) Notice is hereby given that proposals will be received by the EDITORIAL Palo Alto Unified School District for multiple work bid packages. Editor Jocelyn Dong (223-6514) Description of the projects/work is as follows: Associate Editor Carol Blitzer (223-6511) ‘‘ Sports Editor Keith Peters (223-6516) Express & Online Editor s 2EMOVAL AND )NSTALLATION OF 0OURED )N 0LACE 2UBBER \ Eric Van Susteren (223-6515) Arts & Entertainment Editor It’s pretty devastating. #ONTRACT .O 02 Rebecca Wallace (223-6517) Assistant Sports Editor Rick Eymer (223-6521) s 2EMOVAL AND )NSTALLATION OF 0OURED )N 0LACE 2UBBER \ Spectrum Editor Tom Gibboney (223-6507) ‘‘ —Michael “Miki” Werness, owner of Miki’s Farm Staff Writers Sue Dremann (223-6518), Chris #ONTRACT .O 02 Kenrick (223-6512), Gennady Sheyner (223-6513) Fresh Market at Alma Plaza, which will close April Editorial Assistant/Intern Coordinator 1 after less than six months in business. See story on Elena Kadvany (223-6519) page xx. -ANDATORY *OB 7ALK Staff Photographer Veronica Weber (223-6520) Contributors Andrew Preimesberger, Dale F. Bentson, Peter Canavese, Kit Davey, Tyler Hanley, 02 There will be a mandatory pre-bid conference and site Iris Harrell, Sheila Himmel, Chad Jones, Karla Kane, Kevin Kirby, Jack McKinnon, Jeanie K. Smith, visit at 9:00 a.m. on April 8th, 2013 at the !DDISON Susan Tavernetti %LEMENTARY 3CHOOL !DDISON !VE 0ALO !LTO Editorial Interns Rebecca Duran, Ranjini #ALIFORNIA FOR 02 Raghunath ADVERTISING Around Town Vice President Sales & Advertising 02 There will be a mandatory pre-bid conference and site Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) RAINBOW SEASON ... The rain- that one of the major goals of the visit at 9:00 a.m. on April 11th, 2013 at the &AIRMEADOW Multimedia Advertising Sales bow flag may soon fly high over document is arriving at a commu- Christine Afsahi (223-8582), Adam Carter (223- %LEMENTARY 3CHOOL % -EADOW 2D 0ALO !LTO 6573), Elaine Clark (223-6572), Connie Jo Cotton Palo Alto’s King Plaza as a colorful nity vision for the urban forest. The (223-6571), Janice Hoogner (223-6576), Wendy tentative vision statement, which is #ALIFORNIA FOR 02 Suzuki 223-6569), Brent Triantos (223-6577), reminder to the world where the Real Estate Advertising Sales city stands on the topic of same- subject to revision, states that the Neal Fine (223-6583), Carolyn Oliver (223-6581), sex marriage. The city is consider- city’s urban forest “will be a model "ID 3UBMISSION Rosemary Lewkowitz (223-6585) of form and function — a comple- Inside Advertising Sales David Cirner (223-6579), ing joining other cities and counties Irene Schwartz (223-6580) in the area in showing its support ment of diverse yet symbiotic eco- 02 Proposals for 02 must be received at the District Real Estate Advertising Assistant for gay marriage and its opposition types that mirrors the city’s vibrant Diane Martin (223-6584) Facilities Office building D, by AM on April TH Proposition 8 Legal Advertising to California’s , which and thriving population.” Commis- Alicia Santillan (223-6578) bans gay marriage and which sioners had a few questions, with 02 Proposals for 02 must be received at the District ADVERTISING SERVICES passed in 2008 (76 percent of Palo Vice Chair Mark Michael wonder- Facilities Office building D, by AM on !PRIL TH Advertising Services Manager Alto voters rejected it). The only ing whether the city’s redwood Jennifer Lindberg (223-6595) problem is that the city currently trees are native species. Passmore Sales & Production Coordinators Bonding required for this project is as follows: Bid Bond 10% of Dorothy Hassett (223-6597), Blanca Yoc (223-6596) has no policies that allow the city said there is a “substantial debate” the total bid, Performance Bond to be 100%, Payment Bond is to DESIGN to fly a flag unless someone dies. in the tree community about this be 100%. Design Director Shannon Corey (223-6560) On Monday night, the City Council topic, though he made no secret Senior Designers Linda Atilano, Diane Haas, will address the issue when it con- as to where he stands in this de- Scott Peterson, Paul Llewellyn siders a request from City Man- bate. “There are people who say 02%6!),).' 7!'% ,!73 The successful Bidder must comply Designers Lili Cao, Rosanna Leung ager James Keene for authority to redwoods are not native to Palo EXPRESS, ONLINE AND VIDEO SERVICES with all prevailing wage laws applicable to the Project, and El Palo Alto Online Operations Coordinator fly the flag. The request comes at Alto. However, — the related requirements contained in the Contract Documents. Ashley Finden (223-6508) a time when gay marriage is domi- tree that the city is named after — BUSINESS nating headlines across the nation, is over 1,000 years old. I’d say that Palo Alto Unified School District will maintain a Labor Compliance Payroll & Benefits Susie Ochoa (223-6544) with both Proposition 8 and the qualifies redwoods as being native Program (LCP) for the duration of this project. In bidding this Business Associates Elena Dineva (223-6542), federal Defense of Marriage Act to Palo Alto.” Mary McDonald (223-6543), Claire McGibeny project, the contractor warrants he/she is aware and will follow (223-6546), Cathy Stringari (223-6541) undergoing hearings in front of the the Public Works Chapter of the California Labor Code comprised ADMINISTRATION U.S. Supreme Court this week. In VIKING TURF ... The Embarcadero Receptionist Doris Taylor his request and a proposed resolu- Road tunnel underpass next to of labor code sections 1720 – 1861. A copy of the Districts LCP Courier Ruben Espinoza is available for review at 25 Churchill Avenue, Building D, Palo tion, Keene notes that other cities Palo Alto High School may soon EMBARCADERO MEDIA in the area, including Oakland and look a lot more like Viking territory. Alto, CA 94306. President William S. Johnson (223-6505) San Leandro, are flying the rain- The city’s Public Art Commission Vice President & CFO Michael I. Naar (223-6540) Vice President Sales & Advertising bow flag. An even greater coalition on March 21 approved a proposal 1. A pre-job conference shall be conducted with the Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) of cities, led by San Francisco and by Paly’s associated student body contractor or subcontractors to discuss federal and state Director, Information Technology & Webmaster including Los Angeles, San Diego to adorn the walls of the 111-foot labor law requirements applicable to the contract. Frank A. Bravo (223-6551) Major Accounts Sales Manager and Santa Cruz, have joined a legal tunnel with Viking-themed murals. 2. Project contractors and subcontracts shall maintain and Connie Jo Cotton (223-6571) effort challenging Proposition 8. Under the plan, each class through Director, Circulation & Mailing Services Palo Alto hasn’t joined any lawsuits 2023 will have a 10-foot space furnish to the District, at a designated time, a certified Bob Lampkin (223-6557) to paint a mural that fits a theme copy of each payroll with a statement of compliance Circulation Assistant Alicia Santillan when it comes to gay marriage, signed under penalty of perjury. Computer System Associates but if Keene’s request is accepted, related to the school’s mascot, Chris Planessi, Chip Poedjosoedarmo 3. The District shall review and, if appropriate, audit payroll it will become the latest member the Vikings. The class of 2013 will The Palo Alto Weekly (ISSN 0199-1159) is published — however symbolic — of a grow- use the first 11 feet and the last records to verify compliance with the Public Works every Friday by Embarcadero Media, 450 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, (650) 326-8210. Periodicals ing coalition of cities and counties 10 feet of the tunnel for their own Chapter of the Labor Code. postage paid at Palo Alto, CA and additional mailing calling for legalization of same-sex murals. The commission approved 4. The District shall withhold contract payments if payroll offices. Adjudicated a newspaper of general circulation for Santa Clara County. The Palo Alto Weekly is deliv- marriage. the plan but said that each year’s records are delinquent or inadequate. ered free to homes in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, design would be approved by Portola Valley, East Palo Alto, to faculty and staff 5. The District shall withhold contract payments as households on the Stanford campus and to portions BOOK OF TREES ... How do Palo the commission before being put described in the LCP, including applicable penalties of Los Altos Hills. If you are not currently receiving the Altans love their trees? Let Walter up in the tunnel. Class President paper, you may request free delivery by calling 326- when the District and Labor Commissioner establish that 8210. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Palo Alto Passmore count the ways. The Michael Wang, who delivered the Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302. ©2013 by city’s recently hired urban forester proposal to the commission, said underpayment of other violations has occurred. Embarcadero Media. All rights reserved. Reproduction without permission is strictly prohibited. The Palo Alto is in the midst of putting together the murals would be a “gift” from Weekly is available on the Internet via Palo Alto Online the city’s first Urban Forest Master this year’s senior class and that Bidders may examine or procure a copy of the Bidding at: www.PaloAltoOnline.com Plan, an ambitious compendium adding space for “a decade of Vi- Documents at Facilities Office, "UILDING h$v. Our email addresses are: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], of facts, values and recommenda- kings” was aimed to help connect [email protected] tions for preserving the city’s lush the school to the city of Palo Alto. For more details on obtaining plans and specifications, the Missed delivery or start/stop your paper? Call 650 223-6557, or email [email protected]. urban forest. Passmore discussed Since funds for creating the mural mandatory job walk, bid submission, or prevailing wage laws You may also subscribe online at this project Wednesday night with would come out of the student please contact: www.PaloAltoOnline.com. Subscriptions are $60/yr. the Planning and Transportation body’s discretionary fund, no pub- Commission, which heard a brief lic money would be used to paint SUBSCRIBE! the walls. The artistic directors of Palo Alto Unified School District Support your local newspaper presentation and saw a giant table 25 Churchill Avenue, Building D by becoming a paid subscriber. of contents for the master plan the project, Paly seniors Claire Palo Alto, CA 94306-1099 $60 per year. $100 for two years. (chapter titles include “Disparity Marchon and Lisie Sabbag, said Attn: David Tran Name: ______between north and south Palo they hadn’t yet chosen designs Alto,” “Conflict between overhead for 2013’s spaces but that they Phone: (650) 329-3927 Address: ______power lines and tree canopy” and would probably feature geometric Fax: (650) 327-3588 City/Zip: ______“Availability of less thirsty trees”). background patterns of the Palo Mail to: Palo Alto Weekly, Passmore told the commission Alto tree. N 450 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto CA 94306
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NEXT MONTH CIPROCATED THAT ITS NOT COMPLETELY FOCUSED ON Weber Veronica &OURTEEN ADVANCED THEATER STU 4HE PARAMETERS RESULTED IN PLAYS SUICIDE BECAUSE THAT IS UNFORTUNATE 3TUDENT PLAYWRIGHTS FROM 0ALO !LTO (IGH 3CHOOL BACK ROW FROM LEFT DENTS FROM 'UNN AND 0ALO !LTO HIGH WITH LITTLE SUBTEXT +AMB AND JUNIOR LY A VERY HOT TOPIC IN OUR TOWN AND -ATTHEW #RAIG %LANA ,OEB $ARYL $ILLAHUNTY AND 0AIGE %STERLY AND SCHOOLS ARE POLISHING THEIR SCRIPTS (OLLY 7RIGHT SAID ITS WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF WHEN THEY FRONT ROW FROM LEFT -OLLY -ACKRIS 3ARAH /HLSON AND !ARON 3LIPPER WHICH HAVE BEEN IN DEVELOPMENT h.ORMALLY PLAYS ARE ABOUT WHATS THINK OF TEENS DEALING WITH ISSUESv ALONG WITH SEVEN STUDENTS FROM 'UNN (IGH 3CHOOL WILL HAVE THEIR PLAYS SINCE /CTOBER UNDER THE DIRECTION IMPLIED AND WHAT YOU THINK CHAR %VEN IN THE SINGLE 'UNN PLAY THAT FEATURED AT UPCOMING PERFORMANCES BY 4HEATRE7ORKS OF THE NONPROFIT 4HEATRE7ORKS ACTERS ARE THINKING YOU DANCE DEALS WITH SUICIDE SHE NOTED THE 4HE PLAYS WILL BE SHOWN AT THE AROUND THE ISSUES v 7RIGHT SAID STUDENT IN QUESTION ENDS UP DECID h)T WAS NOT EASY BUT IT WAS NATU WHOLE INTERESTING SCENE v SHE SAID -OUNTAIN 6IEW #ENTER FOR THE 0ER h(ERE ITS MORE DIRECTv ING HE WANTS TO LIVE RAL BECAUSE FOR THE MOST PART PEOPLE 0ALY SENIOR %L ,OEB WHO WROTE FORMING !RTS IN LATE !PRIL .ONETHELESS THE STUDENTS WHO h!DULTS KEEP TRYING TO HELP US BUT WE SEE EVERY DAY DONT ACT LIKE THE ABOUT TWO TEENS IN A HOSPITAL PARK &OR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR 0ALO HAVE BEEN READING THE PLAYS ALOUD NOW THEYRE GETTING TEENS TO SPEAK TYPICAL TEEN YOU SEE ON TELEVISION v ING LOT WAITING FOR A FRIEND WHOS !LTO STUDENTS IN THE 4HEATRE7ORKSS TO ONE ANOTHER SAID THE DEFINITION OUT ABOUT WHATS GOING ON NOT JUST SAID $ILLAHUNTY WHO WROTE ABOUT MADE A SUICIDE ATTEMPT SAID SHE ANNUAL 9OUNG 0LAYWRIGHTS 0ROJECT OF hTEEN ISSUESv COULD BE BROADENED SUICIDES BUT LIFE IN GENERAL v SAID JU A AM CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO THINKS hPEOPLE WILL BE SURPRISED WERE ASKED TO STICK TO THE THEME OF TO INCLUDE MANY THINGS EVEN DE NIOR *ULIA .ELSON WHO WROTE ABOUT A TEENAGE BOYS WHO RECENTLY HAD BRO BY THE CONTRASTS BETWEEN THE PLAYS TEEN ISSUES BECAUSE OF PARTICIPATION MENTIA CONVERSATION BETWEEN A MOTHER AND KEN OFF A LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP AND THE RANGE OF SUBJECT MATTER AND BY 0ALO !LTO 0ROJECT 3AFETY .ET A *UNIOR $ENNIS -ASHEVSKY WROTE DAUGHTER THAT TAKES PLACE AT THE WAKE ! SERIES OF WORKSHOPS WITH 4HE TONEv COMMUNITY COALITION FOCUSED ON ABOUT A TEENAGE BOY AND HIS OLDER OF THEIR HUSBAND AND FATHER ATRE7ORKS PROFESSIONALS INCLUDING )N ADDITION TO $ILLAHUNTY -ACK YOUTH WELLNESS THAT WAS FORMED FOL SISTER HELPING THEIR GRANDPARENTS h) THINK THATS GOING TO BE REALLY PLAYWRIGHT 0RINCE 'OMOLVILAS OF RIS AND ,OEB 0ALY PLAYWRIGHTS IN LOWING A SERIES OF STUDENT SUICIDES IN DECORATE A #HRISTMAS TREE 4HE EFFECTIVE INSTEAD OF THEM TRYING TO ,OS !NGELES HELPED THE TEENS DE CLUDE JUNIORS -ATTHEW #RAIG 0AIGE AND GRANDMOTHER HAS DEMENTIA AND THE TALK TO USv VELOP THEIR SCRIPTS 0ALY SOPHOMORE %STERLY 3ARAH /HLSON AND !ARON 4HOUGH NOT HAPPY TO BE LIMITED IN GRANDFATHER IS hIN DENIALv !T 0ALY SOPHOMORE PLAYWRIGHT -OLLY -ACKRIS SAID 3LIPPER THEIR SUBJECT MATTER THE 'UNN STU h)TS NOT A TYPICAL TEEN ISSUE BUT IT $ARYL $ILLAHUNTY SAID STUDENTS WERE h(E TAUGHT US A LOT ABOUT CHARAC 'UNN PLAYWRIGHTS BESIDES .EL DENTS SAID THEY MANAGED TO COMPLY AFFECTS TEENS v -ASHEVSKY SAID ASKED TO WRITE ABOUT TEENAGE CHARAC TER DEVELOPMENT HOW TO START WITH SON 'AYTAN 7RIGHT +AMB AND WHILE STILL COMING UP WITH COMPEL h) THINK PEOPLE WILL BE SURPRISED TERS NOT USUALLY SEEN ON TELEVISION A SIMPLE IDEA LIKE TWO PEOPLE AT A LING WORKS BECAUSE THE PLAYS ARENT NECESSARILY WHICH CAME NATURALLY TO HIM GROCERY STORE AND TURNING IT INTO A (continued on page 8)
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THAT VISITING POOCHES WOULD BE STAFFS STRUGGLES TO REVISE THE DE Map by Shannon Corey EXERCISING TOO CLOSE TO ANOTHER LO SIGN WHICH WAS APPROVED BY THE 0ARKS AND 2ECREATION #OMMISSION MEMBERS ON -ARCH SAID THE NEW PLAN FOR %L #AMINO 0ARK TRIES TO DO TOO CAL SPECIES THE STEELHEAD TROUT #ITY #OUNCIL ALMOST A YEAR AGO AND MUCH AND LEAVES THE PARK WITH VIRTUALLY NO OPEN SPACE SWIMMING IN THE NEARBY 3AN &RAN INCLUDED A DOG PARK TWO ATHLETIC CISQUITO #REEK FIELDS AN EXPANDED PARKING LOT AND TO SOUTH OF !LMA NEXT TO THE PARK WITH SEVERAL MEMBERS ARGUING h) FEEL LIKE WERE NOT BETTER OFF .OW CITY STAFF AND CONSULTANTS ARE OTHER AMENITIES PARKS TWO PLAYING FIELDS 4HE COM THAT THIS AMENITY IS SORELY MISSING IN THAN WHEN WE STARTED v #ROMMIE STRUGGLING TO FIND A NEW LOCATION IN "UT WHILE LAUDING THE EFFORTS OF MISSIONS CONCERNS DIDNT CENTER SO THE NORTH PART OF THE CITY 4HE CITYS SAID h) FEEL WERE SQUEEZING IN THE %L #AMINO 0ARK FOR THE PROPOSED DOG THE CONSULTANT AND STAFF THE COM MUCH ON THE NEW LOCATION OF THE DOG ONLY EXISTING DOG PARKS ARE AT 'REER DOG PARKv RUN AS WELL AS ANOTHER SPACE WHERE MISSIONERS WERE BLUNT IN THEIR AS PARK THOUGH BUT ON THE CHANGING (OOVER AND -ITCHELL PARKS 7HILE THE RELOCATION OF THE (OST THE HISTORIC *ULIA -ORGAN DESIGNED SESSMENT OF THE NEW DESIGN PAR NATURE OF THE PARK PROJECT "UT RECENTLY THE CITYS ENVIRON ESS (OUSE IS TENTATIVE THE 5NI (OSTESS (OUSE COULD BE PLACED 4HE TICULARLY IF THE (OSTESS (OUSE IS h4HE ISSUE IS JUST THAT THERES JUST MENTAL CONSULTANT REPORTED THAT VERSITY REDEVELOPMENT HASNT BEEN HOUSE IS CURRENTLY AT 5NIVERSITY CRAMMED INTO THE ACRE PARK NEAR TOO MANY THINGS THERE v #HAIR %D THE DOG RUN WOULD INFRINGE ON THE FORMALLY PROPOSED THE CITY IS !VE OCCUPIED BY -AC!RTHUR 0ARK THE -ENLO 0ARK BORDER ,AUING SAID FOOT SETBACK ZONE NEXT TO THE CONSIDERING %L #AMINO 0ARK AND THE RESTAURANT "UT A MASSIVE PROJECT h) DONT THINK ANY OF US LIKE THIS 6ICE #HAIR *ENNIFER (ETTERLY 3AN &RANCISQUITO #REEK WHICH IS 0ALO !LTO -UNICIPAL 'OLF #OURSE AS PROPOSED BY DEVELOPER *OHN !RRIL PLAN WITH THE BUILDING IN THE PARK v AGREED AND TOOK 3CHNEIDERS META HOME TO STEELHEAD TROUT %VEN WITH POTENTIAL NEW HOMES FOR THE HISTORIC LAGA FOR THAT SITE WOULD REQUIRE THE #OMMISSIONER 0AT -ARKEVITCH SAID PHOR A STEP FURTHER A CHAIN LINK FENCE SEPARATING THE BUILDING -ORGAN BUILDING TO BE MOVED AT THE MEETING A COMMENT THAT WAS h7E END UP WITH MASHED POTATOES DOGS FROM THE CREEK THE SITE WOULD 4HE COMMISSION DIDNT VOTE 4UES 4HE 0ALO !LTO 0ARKS AND 2ECRE NOT CHALLENGED BY ANYONE NOT JUST A BAG OF CROWDED POTATOES v BE UNUSABLE BECAUSE OF ENVIRONMEN DAY ON THE NEW DESIGN WHICH WOULD ATION #OMMISSION DISCUSSED THE (ER COLLEAGUES AGREED THAT THE (ETTERLEY SAID LATER ADDING THAT SHE TAL RESTRICTIONS STILL NEED TO GO THROUGH REVIEWS BY DOG PARK AND (OSTESS (OUSE PROB NEW DESIGN WITH AN OPTION TO PLACE THINKS ITS hCRAZY TO TRY TO INCLUDE 3IEGFRIED ACCOMMODATED THE NEW THE CITYS VARIOUS COMMISSIONS BE LEMS 4UESDAY NIGHT -ARCH 4HE THE (OSTESS (OUSE ON A GRASSY FIELD THE DOG PARK AND THE FIELD AND ALL THE DIRECTION FROM COUNCIL BY MOVING FORE IT RETURNS TO THE #ITY #OUNCIL PROJECTS SHIFTING NATURE AND LARGE TRIES TO ACCOMPLISH TOO MUCH LEAV EXTRA PARKINGv THE PLAYING FIELDS STRIPPING WHAT FOR FRESH APPROVAL 4HE PROJECT IS EX NUMBER OF POTENTIAL AMENITIES HAVE ING %L #AMINO 0ARK WITH VIRTUALLY 4HE DISCUSSION 4UESDAY FOLLOWED LITTLE OPEN SPACE WAS STILL AVAILABLE PECTED TO BE COMPLETED IN LATE BECOME A DESIGN NIGHTMARE FOR THE NO OPEN SPACE MORE THAN A DOZEN HEARINGS ON THE IN THE PARK DESIGN #OMMISSIONER OR EARLY N CITYS CONSULTING FIRM 3IEGFRIED 3IEGFRIEDS NEW PROPOSAL SHIFTS PROJECT SPANNING TWO YEARS )N !PRIL $IERDRE #ROMMIE AGREED WITH THE 3TAFF 7RITER 'ENNADY 3HEYNER %NGINEERING 0AUL 3CHNEIDER THE THE DOG EXERCISE AREA ORIGINALLY THE COUNCIL APPROVED THE MAJORITY THAT THE NEW DESIGN IS TOO CAN BE EMAILED AT GSHEYNER FIRMS VICE PRESIDENT DESCRIBED THE PLANNED FOR NORTH OF !LMA 3TREET MILLION PROJECT THAT INCLUDES A DOG AMBITIOUS FOR THE SMALL SITE PAWEEKLYCOM
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LEAST TEMPORARILY ON !PRIL WHEN HAS BEEN SOLD TO NEW OPERATORS AND APPROVED PROJECTS UNDER THIS DESIGNA MENT APPLICATIONS CONTINUE TO PILE UP Zones -IKIS &ARM &RESH -ARKET CLOSES THE OVERALL PROJECT IS CURRENTLY ON TION hSCAMSv (E ADDED HIS SUPPORT TO 4HE USE OF THIS ZONING DESIGNATION (continued from page 3) ITS DOORS AFTER LESS THAN SIX MONTHS HOLD BECAUSE OF FINANCING !ND AT QUANTIFYING THE BENEFITS TO THE DEVEL THE MEMO STATES hWILL ONLY GROWv IN OPERATION #OLLEGE 4ERRACE #EN %DGEWOOD 0LAZA ONE OF THE PUBLIC OPER AND USING THIS NUMBER TO HELP !MONG THE MAJOR PLANNED COM 4HE PROCESS HASNT ALWAYS WORKED TRE STILL INCLUDES THE **& -ARKET BENEFITS RETENTION OF A hHISTORICv DETERMINE THE PROJECTS PUBLIC BENE MUNITY 0# PROJECTS THE CITY IS AS EXPECTED !LMA 0LAZAS MAIN THE RETENTION OF WHICH WAS A CHIEF STRUCTURE VANISHED IN A CLOUD OF FITS (E ALSO SAID THE CITY NEEDS TO DO WEIGHING ARE A NEW BUILDING FOR THE hPUBLIC BENEFITv WILL DISAPPEAR AT hPUBLIC BENEFITv THOUGH THE STORE DUST LAST 3EPTEMBER WHEN A CONTRAC A BETTER JOB ENFORCING PUBLIC BENEFITS BUSY CORNER OF %L #AMINO AND 0AGE TOR ILLEGALLY DEMOLISHED THE *OSEPH SUCH AS WHEN PROMISED ONES FAIL TO -ILL 2OAD AND TWO DENSE OFFICE TOW %ICHLER BUILDING THAT WAS SLATED TO MATERIALIZE OR ARE CHANGED SO THEY NO ERS AT 0AGE -ILL 2OAD NEXT TO BE DISASSEMBLED AND RESTORED LONGER BENEFIT THE PUBLIC !/,S 3ILICON 6ALLEY HEADQUARTERS /N 7EDNESDAY COMMISSIONERS OF 7INTER $ELLENBACH A "ARRON 0ARK h4HE FORCES FOR DEVELOPMENT IN FERED A FEW IDEAS SOME OF WHICH HAVE RESIDENT WHO HAS LONG BEEN CHRONI 0ALO !LTO THE SCARCITY OF AVAILABLE ALSO BEEN VOICED BY COUNCIL MEMBERS CLING DISAPPEARING PUBLIC BENEFITS LAND THE IMPACT OF HIGHER DENSITY DURING RECENT DISCUSSIONS OF PARTICU AGREED AND CALLED ENFORCEMENT hAB LAND USES AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE RE www.paphil.org LAR PLANNED COMMUNITY PROJECTS /NE SOLUTELY CRITICALv 3HE ALSO ENCOUR QUIRED TO SUPPORT EXISTING AND NEW IS TO QUANTIFY THE PROJECTS BENEFIT TO AGED THE CITY TO hDO THE MATHv AND DEVELOPMENT DEMAND THAT WE REVISIT Beethoven Symphony No. 5 THE DEVELOPER AND THEN EXTRACT A COM USE THE PROJECTED PROFITS TO MEASURE THIS ASPECT OF THE @0ALO !LTO 0RO MENSURATE QUANTITY IN PUBLIC BENEFITS THE REQUIRED PUBLIC BENEFITS CESS 0#S AND THEIR ACCOMPANYING Actor Concerto for Guitar -ICHAEL AND COMMISSIONERS !RTHUR -ICHAEL SAID HE WOULD SUPPORT PUBLIC BENEFITS DO NEED MORE CLAR Guitarist +ELLER AND #ARL +ING ALL MADE THE ESTABLISHING A MENU OF ELIGIBLE PUB ITY 4HE DISCUSSION OF THE USE OF PRO and Orchestra Marc Teicholz POINT THAT hYOU CANT MANAGE WHAT LIC BENEFITS THAT DEVELOPERS CAN USE FORMAS NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE !ND THE YOU CANT MEASUREv WHEN THEY REQUEST CONCESSIONS 3ANTA STANDARDS FOR RECOMMENDING A 0# Bernstein On the Town: Three Dance Episodes -ARTINEZ WASNT SO SURE (E CIT -ONICA FOR INSTANCE OFFERS A LIST OF MUST BEGIN NOW v THE MEMO STATES ED THE #ENTURY 0LAZA (OTEL IN ,OS BENEFIT CATEGORIES TRAFFIC MANAGE 4HE DISCUSSION WILL CONTINUE TO Cubberley Theatre !NGELES WHICH FELL INTO DISREPAIR MENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING PHYSICAL UNFOLD IN THE COMING MONTHS AS 8pm Saturday DECADES AGO AND WAS RECENTLY RE IMPROVEMENTS SOCIAL AND CULTURAL THE PLANNED COMMUNITY PROPOSALS 4000 Middlefield Rd STORED TO ITS hFORMER GLORYv AS A Palo Alto, CA FACILITIES AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROCEED THROUGH THE CITYS PLANNING April 6, 2013 SYMBOL OF THE CITY THAT DEVELOPERS CAN USE TO EARN POINTS PIPELINE Tickets: $10/$17/$20 h9OU CANT MEASURE THE PUBLIC 4HE POINTS WOULD ALLOW DEVELOPERS TO 4HE COMMISSION VOTED ON Pre-concert talk at 7:30pm (student / senior / general) at the door or online BENEFIT OF THAT v SAID -ARTINEZ A FOR EXCEED HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS 7EDNESDAY TO MAKE THIS TOPIC A PRI MER ,OS !NGELES RESIDENT 4HE DE -ICHAEL ALSO SAID THE SUBJECT OF ORITY IN ITS NEXT JOINT MEETING WITH VELOPER HE SURMISED MADE FAR MORE PUBLIC BENEFITS SHOULD BE TREATED IN THE #ITY #OUNCIL N MONEY THAN HE GAVE UP IN BENEFITS A MORE ROBUST FASHION IN THE #OM 3TAFF 7RITER 'ENNADY 3HEYNER WHEN THE PROJECT WAS APPROVED PREHENSIVE 0LAN THE CITYS LAND USE CAN BE EMAILED AT GSHEYNER h.EVERTHELESS THE HISTORIC BUILD BIBLE THAT IS NOW BEING UPDATED PAWEEKLYCOM ING IS STILL THERE ITS PART OF THE ,OS 4HE GOAL HE SAID IS TO MOVE AWAY !NGELES LANDSCAPE IT LIVES ON FOR FROM THE EXISTING hAD HOC TREATMENT TALK ABOUT IT ANOTHER GENERATION OR TWO AND ITS FOR APPROVALv www.PaloAltoOnline.com AN EXAMPLE OF A PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE 4HE COMMISSIONERS MEMO CALLS Should the city change the way it works DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SITE THAT IS IM PLANNED COMMUNITY ZONING hTHE with developers who propose public MEASURABLE v -ARTINEZ SAID GREATEST CHALLENGE TO LAND USE IN 0ALO benefits for planned-community proj- 2ESIDENT "OB -OSS A FREQUENT !LTO TODAYv )T ALSO ARGUES THAT THE ects, and if so, how? Share your opinion on Town Square, the community discus- CRITIC OF THE PLANNED COMMUNITY TOPIC OF PUBLIC BENEFITS IS ABOUT TO BE sion forum on Palo Alto Online. PROCESS CALLED MANY OF THE RECENTLY COME EVEN MORE PERTINENT AS DEVELOP
,!.$ 53% JJ&F Market renovation on hold &UNDING FOR #OLLEGE 4ERRACE #ENTRE REDEVELOPMENT IN JEOPARDY by Sue Dremann HILE RESIDENTS ARE STILL !DVENTERA REQUESTED THE EXTEN THE FOLLOWING YEAR WOULD BE AT THE ABSORBING THE SHOCK THAT SION LATE LAST YEAR 7ILLIAMS SAID DISCRETION OF THE PLANNING COMMIS W -IKIS &ARM &RESH -AR )F PLANS FOR A BUILDING PERMIT ARE SION AND COUNCIL 7ILLIAMS SAID KET WILL CLOSE JUST SIX MONTHS AFTER NOT SUBMITTED BY $ECEMBER AN $EVELOPERS OF PLANNED COM IT OPENED AT THE RENOVATED !LMA OTHER YEAR LONG EXTENSION WOULD MUNITY PROJECTS MUST OFFER PUB 0LAZA PLANS TO REVITALIZE ANOTHER BE AT THE DISCRETION OF THE 0LANNING LIC BENEFITS IN EXCHANGE FOR TALLER NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERY STORE AND AND 4RANSPORTATION #OMMISSION OR DENSER DEVELOPMENT AND THE SHOPPING AREA ARE ALSO ON HOLD AND #ITY #OUNCIL 7ILLIAMS SAID COUNCIL MIGHT WANT TO CHANGE THE CITY OFFICIALS AND THE PROJECT AR 4HE DEVELOPER HAS COMMU PUBLIC BENEFITS SHOULD THE PROJECT CHITECT HAVE REVEALED NICATED hIN FITS AND STARTSv OVER TAKE YEARS TO BE BUILT HE SAID &UNDING FOR THE BLOCK WIDE #OL FINANCING REGARDING THE PROJECT 4HE ONLY OTHER PROJECT THAT HAS LEGE 4ERRACE #ENTRE PROJECT WHICH AT TIMES SAYING THE FUNDING WAS ASKED FOR AN EXTENSION IS -INGS INCLUDES AN UPDATED SPACE FOR THE CLOSE TO BEING SETTLED 7ILLIAMS (OTEL EAST OF 53 (IGHWAY MORE THAN YEAR OLD **& -AR SAID BUT A BUILDING PERMIT HASNT 7ILLIAMS SAID 4HAT PROJECT JUST KET HAS NOT MATERIALIZED AND THE BEEN REQUESTED RECEIVED A RECOMMENDATION FOR A DEVELOPER !DVENTERA )NC HAS RE !DVENTERA 0RESIDENT 0ATRICK ONE YEAR EXTENSION FROM PLANNING CEIVED A ONE YEAR EXTENSION FOR ITS 3MAILEY DID NOT RESPOND TO RE COMMISSIONERS AND WILL BE ON THE PLANNING ENTITLEMENT PERMIT CITY QUESTS FOR COMMENT COUNCILS CONSENT CALENDAR FOR AP 0LANNING $IRECTOR #URTIS 7IL "UT PROJECT ARCHITECT 4ONY #AR PROVAL ON !PRIL LIAMS SAID ON -ONDAY -ARCH RASCO OF #ARRASCO AND !SSOCIATES **& OWNER *OE +HOURY SAID THE #OLLEGE 4ERRACE #ENTRE LOCATED !RCHITECTS SAID ON -ONDAY THAT STORE IS NOT MAKING ANY MONEY AND AT THE CORNER OF #OLLEGE !VENUE DEVELOPERS ARE hSTILL TRYING TO GET THAT THE DELAY IS AFFECTING BUSINESS AND %L #AMINO 2EAL WOULD IN IT FINANCEDv h7E DONT KNOW WHAT IS GOING CLUDE SQUARE FEET OF OFFICE 4HE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN CAUSED ON 7E CANT DO MUCH 7E WERE SPACE SQUARE FEET OF OTHER THE COUNCIL IN .OVEMBER PROMISED THE NEW PLACE ) HAVE RETAIL AND EIGHT UNITS OF AFFORDABLE TO PASS AN ORDINANCE THAT ALLOWS CALLED BUT ) DONT GET ANY AN HOUSING 4HE PLAN WON #ITY #OUN PROJECTS TO EXTEND AN ADDITIONAL SWERS v HE SAID CIL APPROVAL IN $ECEMBER TWO YEARS WITH APPROVAL FROM THE +HOURY SAID THERE IS GARBAGE AFTER MONTHS OF PUBLIC SCRUTINY PLANNING DIRECTOR 0ROJECTS WITH A AROUND THE ABANDONED ADJACENT WITH RESIDENTS RALLYING TO KEEP PLANNED COMMUNITY OR 0# DESIGNA PROPERTY AND THE ROOF LEAKS 4HE THE BELOVED MARKET WHILE OPPOS TION CAN RECEIVE A ONE YEAR EXTEN ING DENSE DEVELOPMENT SION FROM THE PLANNING DIRECTOR BUT (continued on page 8)
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"53).%33 Miki’s Market in Palo Alto to close April 1 'ROCERY STORE WAS REQUIRED IN REDEVELOPMENT OF !LMA 0LAZA by Gennady Sheyner and Elena Kadvany
ESS THAN SIX MONTHS AFTER DEVELOPMENT 7ITH THE ECONOMY IN SIGNED AN AGREEMENT WITH $2 -IKIS &ARM &RESH -ARKET FLUX IT TOOK ANOTHER TWO YEARS FOR (ORTON TO BUILD THE FIRST HOMES L OPENED ITS DOORS AT !LMA -C.ELLIS TO FIND A GROCER TO FILL THAT ,AST FALL WITH THE OPENING OF 0LAZA FILLING A VACANCY THAT HAS VACANCY (E ANNOUNCED 7ERNESS -IKIS -C.ELLIS WAS ALLOWED TO BLIGHTED THE PLAZA FOR SEVEN YEARS DECISION TO SET UP SHOP IN THE PLAZA PROCEED WITH CONSTRUCTION OF THE THE STORE HAS ANNOUNCED ITS PLANS TO IN *ULY MORE THAN A YEAR BEFORE REMAINING HALF SHUT DOWN THE STORE OPENED ITS DOORS 4HE PLAZAS RESIDENTIAL COMPONENT h2EGRETTABLY -IKIS &ARM &RESH -C.ELLIS SAID THE STORES CLOSURE IS BOTH THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL AND -ARKET IS CLOSING ITS DOORS !PRIL IS DUE TO POOR SALES AND SHOPPERS THE MOST FINANCIALLY LUCRATIVE PART OF -ERCHANDISE IS PERCENT OFF IN FAILURE TO EMBRACE -IKIS (E SAID THE DEVELOPMENT FOR -C.ELLIS THE ENTIRE STORE v READS THE SIGN THAT THE MARKET HADNT PAID ANY RENT 4HE CITYS PLANNED COMMUNITY OR GREETS CUSTOMERS WALKING INTO THE SINCE IT OPENED AND HE ATTRIBUTED DINANCE FOR !LMA 0LAZA ALSO REFLECTS Elena Kadvany SOUTH 0ALO !LTO STORE WHICH OPENED ITS FINANCIAL WOES TO VENDORS START THE CITYS COMMITMENT TO HAVING A -IKIS &ARM &RESH -ARKET ON !LMA 3TREET NEAR %AST -EADOW $RIVE TO GREAT FANFARE LAST /CTOBER ING TO CUT OFF THE GROCER 4HE SALES GROCERY STORE ANCHOR THE ACRE HAS ANNOUNCED IT WILL CLOSE ON !PRIL 4HE ANNOUNCED CLOSURE IS THE LAT AT -IKIS HE SAID FELL BELOW THOSE PLAZA WHICH ALSO INCLUDES A 3TAR EST BLOW TO A PLAZA THAT HAD BEEN IN OF ,UCKYS AND !LBERTSONS ITS PLAZA BUCKS AND A COMMUNITY ROOM 4HE PLE KNOW ABOUT THE SITES AVAILABIL GO TO 0ALO !LTO /NLINE DEVELOPMENTAL LIMBO FOR YEARS AND PREDECESSORS ORDINANCE SPECIFIES THAT THE MIXED ITY v &EHRENBACH SAID N 3TAFF 7RITER 'ENNADY 3HEYNER THAT IS STILL SEEN BY MANY AS A PRIME h4HIS IS NOT A CASE OF A LANDLORD USE BUILDING AT !LMA 0LAZA WOULD 4HIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED AND %DITORIAL !SSISTANT %LENA +AD EXAMPLE OF THE LOCAL ZONING PROCESS KICKING HIM OUT v -C.ELLIS SAID BE RESERVED hFOR GROCERY STORE USES ON -ONDAY -ARCH ON WWW VANY CAN BE EMAILED AT GSHEYNER GOING AWRY h4HIS IS A CASE OF SALES BEING SO LOW IN PERPETUITYv 4HE ORDINANCE ALSO 0ALO!LTO/NLINECOM 4O STAY CUR PAWEEKLYCOM AND EKADVANY $EVELOPER *OHN -C.ELLIS RECEIVED THAT EVEN WITHOUT RENT HE COULD NOT SPECIFIES THAT THE GROCERY STORE RENT ON ALL OF THE LATEST LOCAL NEWS PAWEEKLYCOM APPROVAL FOR THE hPLANNED COMMU PAY VENDORS )TS A VERY VERY SAD WOULD HAVE hA MINIMUM GROUND NITYv ZONED PROJECT IN EARLY SITUATIONv FLOOR SIZE OF SQUARE FEET AND AFTER A LENGTHY DISPUTE WITH THE CITY 7ERNESS TOLD THE 7EEKLY THAT HIS TOTAL MINIMUM SIZE OF SQUARE AND AREA RESIDENTS OVER THE TYPES OF FIRST CONCERN IN REGARDS TO THE CLO FEET INCLUDING APPROXIMATELY hPUBLIC BENEFITSv THE DEVELOPMENT SURE IS HIS EMPLOYEES FOLLOWED BY SQUARE FEET OF BASEMENT FOR OFFICE NOTICE OF WOULD HAVE TO OFFER IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS VENDORS (E CALLED -IKIS BRIEF STORAGE AND SERVICE AREA SUPPORTING 0# ZONING EXEMPTIONS 4HE CITYS HISTORY IN 0ALO !LTO hA LOT OF COULDA THE GROCERY STORE v TRANSPORTATION SURVEY APPROVAL ALLOWED -C.ELLIS TO BUILD SHOULDA WOULDAv -C.ELLIS SAID THAT -IKIS DEPAR Of the City of Palo Alto SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AND h"UT ) CANT SIT HERE AND SECOND TURE WILL MEAN ANOTHER PERIOD OF BELOW MARKET RATE UNITS WITH THE GUESS MYSELF v 7ERNESS SAID VACANCY FOR THE PLAZA AND ANOTHER GROCERY STORE SERVING AS THE CHIEF &OR -C.ELLIS THE DEPARTURE OF SEARCH FOR A GROCER TO FILL THE VOID The City of Palo Alto is releasing its first ever Transportation PUBLIC BENEFIT -IKIS MEANS THE SEARCH IS ON YET (E SAID HE DOESNT KNOW HOW LONG .OW IT LOOKS LIKE THIS PUBLIC AGAIN FOR A GROCER TO OCCUPY THE THIS SEARCH WILL TAKE Survey to help better understand the travel mode and patterns BENEFIT IS ABOUT TO COME TO AN END PLAZA IN THE BLOCK OF !LMA h7ERE CALLING EVERY MARKET WE of the community. Residents and persons travelling into Palo -ICHAEL h-IKIv 7ERNESS THE FOR 3TREET 4HE CITY HAD VIEWED THE GRO CAN v -C.ELLIS SAID Alto to work are encouraged to complete the survey. MER "ERKELEY "OWL MANAGER WHO CERY STORE AS THE PLAZAS ANCHOR A 4HOMAS &EHRENBACH 0ALO !LTOS FOUNDED -IKIS SAID THE STORE HAS FACT THAT IS REFLECTED IN THE CONDI ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER The survey is comprised of 12-15 questions and takes only a BEEN HAVING TROUBLE KEEPING UP WITH TIONS OF THE COUNCILS APPROVAL 4HE SAID THE CITY HAS REACHED OUT TO BACK RENT AND HAS TO CLOSE DOWN COUNCIL HAD SPECIFIED THAT -C.ELLIS -C.ELLIS TO OFFER HELP IN FINDING few minutes to complete. Please provide your input before May h&OR ME AND MY WIFE ITS OVER )TS WOULD BE ALLOWED TO BUILD HALF OF THE NEXT TENANT (E ALSO SAID THE 5th, 2013 by taking the survey online. Data from the survey will PRETTY DEVASTATING v 7ERNESS TOLD THE THE PLAZAS HOMES ONCE HE SIGNED CITY IS READY TO ASSIST THE DEVELOPER be used to develop future transportation programs, projects 7EEKLY -ONDAY MORNING THE LEASE WITH A GROCER AND THE OTHER WITH ROUTINE ISSUES SUCH AS REPLAC and policies. 7HEN THE STORE OPENED THE HOPE HALF AFTER THE GROCER MOVED IN ING SIGNAGE WAS TO BRING TO SOUTH 0ALO !LTO )N &EBRUARY -C.ELLIS h7ELL DO WHAT WE CAN TO LET PEO A STORE THAT WOULD OFFER ORGANIC AND SPECIALTY FOODS AT AN AFFORD Survey is available at ABLE PRICE A "ERKELEY "OWL ON Public Announcement http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/ts2013. A SMALLER SCALE 4HE SITE HAD BEEN VACANT SINCE !LBERTSONS LEFT IN The Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) in- LEAVING THE COMMERCIAL PLAZA NEARLY tends to lease a building to the Whistle Stop Child Care Center for DESERTED AND AREA RESIDENTS FRUSTRAT the purpose of operating a child care facility on Federal Property. For further information regarding the survey please contact: ED ABOUT THE LACK OF PROGRESS This is not a solicitation or a sources-sought notice. Comments Ruchika Aggarwal – [email protected] 4HE COUNCIL VOTED IN *ANUARY may be addressed to Alexander Ortiz, Contracts Specialists, at or (650)617.3136. TO APPROVE -C.ELLIS PROPOSAL 559-247-6432. Please note that this notice is intended for notifica- AN APPROVAL THAT FOLLOWED ABOUT tion purposes only, no request for offers (RFI) will be issued. PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THE CONTROVERSIAL
Palo Alto Historical Association presents a public program DR. CINDY HUE, D.D.S. s DR. JESSE KIM, D.D.S. Let’s Talk Tree FAMILY COSMETIC DENTISTRY 650.366.0552 Presenter: John Henry McClenahan ONLY $49* FREE 50% OFF Includes Whitening Teeth Whitening Kit Sunday, April 7, 2013 Uninsured, Treatment with Complete X-rays, New Patients Only 2:00 p.m Exam, X-Rays Exam and Cleaning Call for details. and Cleaning .EW 00/ 0ATIENTS /NLY 7ITH COUPON ONLY Lucie Stern 6ALUE #ANNOT BE COMBINED WITH #ANNOT BE COMBINED Community Center 5NINSURED .EW 0ATIENTS /NLY OTHER COUPONS WITH OTHER COUPONS #ALL FOR DETAILS 7ITH COUPON ONLY #ALL FOR DETAILS ,IMITED TIME OFFER 1305 Middlefield Road, ,IMITED TIME OFFER ,IMITED TIME OFFER Palo Alto BIRCH DENTAL GROUP Refreshments Seymour P. McClenahan, Circa 1911 "IRCH 3TREET s 2EDWOOD #ITY No admission charge #ALL 4ODAY TO 3CHEDULE AN !PPOINTMENT 7E !CCEPT !LL -AJOR 00/ 0LANS AND (-/ 0LANS
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11am Resurrection Sunday Service, March 31 Play (continued from page 5) Reverend Edward Prothro-Harris, Pastor, preaching on News Digest “A Brighter Day.” -ASHEVSKY ARE JUNIORS 3IVAN 3PEC Three arrested for burglaries in Palo Alto garage 3549 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306 TOR AND SENIOR *EREMY +ELEM 4HREE 3AN &RANCISCO RESIDENTS WERE ARRESTED IN DOWNTOWN 0ALO !LTO ON s [email protected] 0ROFESSIONAL READINGS OF THE PLAYS 4UESDAY NIGHT -ARCH AND CHARGED WITH SMASHING AND BURGLARIZING FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC WILL BE CARS 4HEY WERE ALLEGEDLY CAUGHT ACTING SUSPICIOUSLY BY PLAINCLOTHES OF Where wounded souls are healed, broken spirits are mended ON THE 3ECOND 3TAGE AT -OUNTAIN FICERS WHO WERE PATROLLING A GARAGE ON (IGH 3TREET IN THE AFTERMATH OF A and Christ is fully offered. 6IEWS #ENTER FOR THE 0ERFORMING BURGLARY SPREE !RTS ON -ONDAY !PRIL FOR 0ALY 0ALO !LTO POLICE ARRESTED 3HANE 3PRINGER /LEG .EVIDOMYY AND All are welcome at “The U!” AND ON 4UESDAY !PRIL FOR 'UNN *ULIA .ENAYDOKH ON MULTIPLE CHARGES RELATING TO BURGLARY AND DRUG %ACH SHOW WILL BE FOLLOWED BY OP POSSESSION AFTER STOPPING THE VEHICLE THEY WERE IN AND FINDING STOLEN PORTUNITY FOR AUDIENCE DISCUSSION ITEMS HEROIN AND SYRINGES 0OLICE MADE THE ARREST MINUTES AFTER THE CAR A 0ALY THEATER TEACHER +ATHLEEN ,INCOLN .AVIGATOR WAS SPOTTED BY PLAINCLOTHES OFFICERS IN A PARKING 7OODS SAID SHE TRIES TO SCRAPE TO STALL ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE GARAGE KNOWN AS ,OT h2v 4HE OFFICERS GETHER FUNDING FOR THE 9OUNG 0LAY WERE DRIVING AN UNMARKED CAR AND WERE SPECIFICALLY ON THE LOOKOUT FOR WRIGHTS 0ROJECT EVERY YEAR BECAUSE BURGLARIES ABOUT OF WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN THIS GARAGE OVER THE PAST ITS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS SIX MONTHS 3TUDENTS ALSO HAVE PLAY WRITING OP 4HE OFFICERS BECAME SUSPICIOUS WHEN A MAN NEXT TO THE .AVIGATOR PORTUNITIES THROUGH 0ALYS 0LAY IN A APPEARED STARTLED AND TRIED TO LOOK BUSY UPON SEEING THE OFFICERS $AY PROJECT EACH $ECEMBER AND THE CRUISE BY 4HOUGH THERE WAS NO SHATTERED GLASS OR ANY OTHER DISTUR Learn the Guitar this Spring /NE !CT 3HOWCASE IN -AY BANCES IN THE AREA THE OFFICERS TOOK DOWN THE .AVIGATORS LICENSE Carol McComb’s “Starting to Play” workshop includes 4HE 9OUNG 0LAYWRIGHTS 0ROJECT PLATE AND PROCEEDED TO PATROL UPPER LEVELS OF THE GARAGE 7HEN THE the FREE use of a Loaner Guitar for the duration hIS ABOUT GIVING STUDENTS THE IDEA OFFICERS RETURNED LESS THAN MINUTES LATER THEY SAW THAT THE .AVI of the classes.* Regular cost is just $160 for nine THAT THEY HAVE A VOICE IN THE COMMU GATOR WAS GONE THAT A CAR PARKED TWO STALLS AWAY HAD A BROKEN REAR weeks of group lessons, and all music is included. NITY v SAID 4HEATRE7ORKS %DUCATION WINDOW ON THE PASSENGER SIDE AND THAT THERE WAS SHATTERED GLASS !DMINISTRATOR *AKE !RKEY ON THE GROUND ACCORDING TO A POLICE STATEMENT 4HEY BROADCAST THE *“Starting to Play” meets for one hour each Monday night for nine weeks h4HIS TYPE OF CREATIVE WRITING beginning March 25. Students are encouraged to bring their own guitar, INFORMATION ABOUT THE .AVIGATOR OVER THE POLICE RADIO TRIGGERING A but both nylon-string and steel-string loaner guitars are available. GIVES STUDENTS SOMETHING THEY DONT SEARCH FOR THE CAR OFTEN GET A SAFE PLACE TO FREELY EX Other classes at more advanced levels are also offered. !NYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THIS INCIDENT CAN CONTACT THE HOUR A full brochure is available at Gryphon. PRESS THEMSELVESv N POLICE DISPATCH CENTER AT !NONYMOUS TIPS CAN BE E MAILED TO PALOALTO TIPNOWORG OR SENT BY TEXT MESSAGE OR VOICE MAIL TO N 'ENNADY 3HEYNER Stringed Instruments JJ&F Market Since 1969 (continued from page 6) Greenmeadow to lead organic-waste experiment &OR RESIDENTS OF 0ALO !LTOS 'REENMEADOW NEIGHBORHOOD THE ROUTINE 650U493U2131 BUSINESS IS NOT GETTING CUSTOMERS TO CHORE OF PUTTING OUT BLACK TRASH BINS FOR 7EDNESDAYS GARBAGE PICKUP ,AMBERT !VENUE s 0ALO !LTO MAKE MONEY HE SAID TOOK ON ADDED SIGNIFICANCE THIS WEEK www.gryphonstrings.com h)F IT STAYS LIKE THAT WELL HAVE TO 4HATS BECAUSE 7EDNESDAY -ARCH WAS THE LAST TIME THAT THE TRADI LEAVE 7ERE WASTING OUR TIME HERE v TIONAL TRASH BINS WOULD BE USED IN THE SOUTH 0ALO !LTO NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE COMING YEAR 3TARTING NEXT WEEK THE BLACK BINS WILL BE REPLACED IN 4IC HE SAID ON 4HURSDAY ADDING THAT WHEN IT COMES TO THE REDEVELOPMENT 'REENMEADOW WITH ONES THAT ARE APPROPRIATELY GREEN h) DONT THINK ITS HAPPENINGv 4HE NEIGHBORHOOD AND NEARBY APARTMENT BUILDINGS WERE RECENTLY IL TROVATORE CHOSEN BY THE CITY FOR A YEARLONG PILOT PROJECT IN WHICH RESIDENTS WILL #OLLEGE 4ERRACE NEIGHBORHOOD CONSIDER WHETHER A PIECE OF WASTE IS ORGANIC RATHER THAN WHETHER ITS BY GIUSEPPE VERDI RESIDENT $ORIA 3UMMA WHO IS A LIAISON FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD AS RECYCLABLE OR NOT )F SO IT WILL GO IN A GREEN BIN AND BE PICKED UP FOR SORT Betrayal SOCIATION WITH THE CITY SAID THERE ING AND COMPOSTING AT THE : "EST FACILITY IN 'ILROY /THERWISE IT WILL GO Revenge ARE REAL CONCERNS REGARDING THE IN THE BLUE BIN AND GET SHIPPED TO THE 3UNNYVALE -ATERIAL 2ECOVERY AND VIABILITY OF **& CONSIDERING THE 4RANSFER 3-A24 3TATION WHERE RECYCLABLE GOODS ARE SEPARATED FROM Lust SHUTTERING OF -IKIS EVERYTHING ELSE h)F THAT GROCERY STORE FAILED ) 4HE #ITY #OUNCIL APPROVED THE PROJECT IN *ANUARY BUT IT WAS ONLY IN DONT KNOW WHAT GROCERY STORE RECENT WEEKS THAT THE 0UBLIC 7ORKS $EPARTMENT IDENTIFIED 'REENMEADOW WOULDNT v SHE SAID AS THE PILOT NEIGHBORHOOD 4HE AREAS LOCATION HAD A LOT TO DO WITH IT 4HE %VEN YEARS AGO UNDER THE OWN CITY WAS LOOKING FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD SUFFICIENTLY ISOLATED FROM OTHERS TO ERSHIP OF THE 'ARCIA FAMILY **& AVOID CONFUSION AMONG RESIDENTS USING THE TRADITIONAL MODEL AND THOSE APPEARED AS THOUGH IT WOULD GO OUT PARTICIPATING IN THE PILOT PROJECT N OF BUSINESS WITHOUT THE #OLLEGE 4ER 'ENNADY 3HEYNER RACE #ENTRE REDEVELOPMENT SHE SAID 4HE COMMUNITYS DESIRE TO MAINTAIN Palo Alto water rates set to rise again THE GROCERY STORE THERE WAS THE BASIS 0ALO !LTO RESIDENTS WILL SEE THEIR WATER BILLS RISE YET AGAIN IN *ULY DE FOR ALLOWING THE OVERSIZED REDEVEL SPITE SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS IN RECENT YEARS TO CONSERVE WATER OPMENT SHE SAID 4HE #ITY #OUNCIL &INANCE #OMMITTEE VOTED LAST WEEK TO APPROVE A h)F YOU HAVE A PROJECT BASED ON A RECOMMENDATION FROM 5TILITIES $EPARTMENT STAFF TO RAISE WATER RATES PRIVATE BUSINESS IT WOULD BEHOOVE BY PERCENT IN *ULY A CHANGE THAT WOULD ADD ABOUT TO THE AVERAGE THE CITY TO LOOK INTO THE VIABILITY OF RESIDENTIAL MONTHLY BILL ,IKE IN YEARS PAST THE RECOMMENDATION IS DRIVEN THE BUSINESSv BEFORE APPROVING A BY TWO FACTORS THE INCREASING COST OF BUYING WATER FROM THE CITYS SUP PLAN SHE SAID PLIER THE 3AN &RANCISCO 0UBLIC 5TILITIES #OMMISSION AND VARIOUS CAPITAL h7ITH THE RECENT INFORMATION PROJECTS RELATED TO THE WATER SYSTEM ABOUT -IKIS AND THE PLANNING COM 4HE RATE INCREASE IS LESS DRAMATIC THAN WHAT STAFF HAD PREVIOUSLY PRO MISSION AND COUNCIL SAYING THEY ARE JECTED ,AST YEAR THE 5TILITIES $EPARTMENT ESTIMATED THAT IT WOULD HAVE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT PUBLIC BEN TO RAISE RATES BY PERCENT IN THE FISCAL YEAR WHICH BEGINS ON *ULY EFITS ) THINK THIS SHOULD BE A WARN TO ACCOMMODATE RISING WHOLESALE AND CAPITAL COSTS %ACH OF THESE COSTS ING SIGN v SHE SAID INCREASED BY LESS THAN EXPECTED Keith Kreiman, San Mateo City Times 02’ “Liliane Cromer, as Carmen 3UMMA SAID AT THE TIME WHEN "UT THE LATEST RATE ADJUSTMENT IS FAR FROM THE END OF THE STORY FOR LOCAL with her beautiful lyric voice, dominates the stage in the most definitive THE PROJECTS WERE BEING CONSIDERED RATEPAYERS WHO SAW THEIR RATES GO UP BY PERCENT LAST YEAR AND BY SOME RESIDENTS HAD ASKED THE COUN PERCENT THE YEAR BEFORE -ORE PERCENT INCREASES ARE ON THE HORIZON FOR interpretation since Rïse Stevens the great Met Diva...” Liliane Cromer EACH OF THE NEXT THREE YEARS ACCORDING TO A STAFF REPORT 4HIS YEAR THE returns to the Fox as a riveting Azucena CIL TO SPECIFY A SECOND USE IF A GRO CERY STORE PROVED NOT VIABLE BUT THE PERCENT INCREASE WILL ADD ABOUT MILLION IN REVENUES COUNCIL LOCKED IN THE GROCERY STORE 4HE RATE ADJUSTMENT WOULD ADD TO WHAT ARE ALREADY SOME OF THE HIGHEST Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 2pm USE AT !LMA AND #OLLEGE 4ERRACE WATER BILLS IN THE REGION !S OF &EBRUARY THE MEDIAN RESIDENTIAL MONTHLY Tickets $22 - $24, 650 -Fox-7770 or
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FAIRS AND BOOTHS AND HELPING WITH OUR COMMUNITY v THEY WROTE AMORAL CONDUCT SHE SAID SHE DOESNT WANT TO PUT THE NEIGH Scouts -AY &ETE AND OTHER EVENTS )N THE ,EADERS OF OTHER ORGANIZATIONS (ESS LEADS A 0ACK OF OF BOYS BORHOOD ASSOCIATION IN AN AWKWARD (continued from page 3) PAST THE ASSOCIATION CONTRIBUTED SAID THEIR GROUPS MIGHT DROP LONG AND HAS SONS IN #UB 3COUT $EN POSITION SHE SAID FUNDS FOR MATERIALS FOR 3COUT PROJ STANDING CHARTERS 4HE 2OTARY #LUB AND "OY 3COUT 4ROOP 3HE IS h) PERSONALLY STRUGGLE WITH THE %VERYBODY WAS IN TUNE WITH WHAT ECTS THAT BENEFITED THE NEIGHBOR OF ,OS !LTOS IS ALSO WAITING FOR THE ALSO A MEMBER OF THE "ARRON 0ARK POLICY 7E ARE TRAINING LEADERS ) FEEL 4HERE WERE A LOT OF VERY HOOD HE SAID -AY VOTE BEFORE IT MAKES A DETERMI !SSOCIATION 3HE PLANS TO LOOK FOR TO LEAD IN A WAY THAT IS INCLUSIVE OF POSITIVE SENTIMENTS THAT SENT A CLEAR "UT THE "OY 3COUTS POLICY CREAT NATION *OHN 3YLVESTER ITS PRESIDENT ANOTHER CHARTERING GROUP BECAUSE EVERYONE v SHE SAID N MESSAGE THAT EVERYONE WAS IN FA ED A STORM OF DISCUSSION ON THE "AR SAID (E WROTE A LETTER TO THE "OY VOR OF CHANGE ) DONT THINK ) HEARD RON 0ARK !SSOCIATIONS EMAIL LISTS 3COUTS NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD LAST ANYONE COME OUT AGAINST IT 7E ALL STARTING LAST !UGUST AFTER A TROOP 3EPTEMBER SAYING THE 3COUTS POL THINK ITS SUCH A SHAME /UR KIDS LEADER INVITED THE COMMUNITY TO BE ICY VIOLATES THE 2OTARYS FOUR WAY ARE USED TO NON DISCRIMINATION IN COME INVOLVED IN 4ROOP EVENTS TEST WHICH INCLUDES FAIRNESS GOOD EVERY OTHER AREA OF THEIR LIVES *UST -ANY RESIDENTS QUESTIONED WHETHER WILL AND BUILDING FRIENDSHIPS AND GET WITH THE PROGRAM v SHE SAID THE ASSOCIATION SHOULD SPONSOR A BEING BENEFICIAL TO ALL CONCERNED &RANK 4UCKER A LOCAL TROOP LEADER "OY 3COUT TROOP GIVEN THE NATIONAL *ENNIFER (ESS THE 3COUTS LEADER AGREED POLICY !ND SOME PEOPLE SAID THEY WHOSE INVITATION SET OFF THE "AR h) WISH THE COUNCIL WOULD MAKE THE WOULD NOT RENEW THEIR ASSOCIATION RON 0ARK CONTROVERSY SAID LOSING DECISION AND BE DONE WITH IT SO WE MEMBERSHIP AS LONG AS "ARRON 0ARK THE CHARTER MEANS THE TROOP CANT CAN ALL DO 3COUTING v HE SAID STRESS !SSOCIATION REMAINED A CHARTERING BELONG TO THE "OY 3COUTS UNTIL ING HE COULD ONLY SPEAK FOR HIMSELF ORGANIZATION THEY FIND ANOTHER SPONSOR WHICH AND NOT FOR THE ORGANIZATION )N RESPONSE TO NEIGHBORHOOD CON IS COMPLEX SHE SAID "UT GETTING CONSENSUS ON A NATION CERNS THE ASSOCIATIONS BOARD OF DI #HARTER ORGANIZATIONS SIGN A CON AL POLICY IS COMPLEX SAID ONE LOCAL RECTORS SENT AN EMAIL TO THE NATIONAL TRACT WITH THE TROOP TO PROVIDE A MEET ADULT TROOP LEADER AND %AGLE 3COUT "OY 3COUT LEADERSHIP IN EARLY &EB ING PLACE SOMETIMES OFFER FINANCIAL WHO ASKED TO REMAIN UNNAMED RUARY h7E BELIEVE THAT DISCRIMINA AID AND TRAIN A REPRESENTATIVE %ACH h4HIS CONVERSATION IS GOING ON ALL TION IN "OY 3COUTS OF !MERICA HURTS CHARTER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR APPROVING OVER THE COUNTRY AND IN EVERY ROOM COMMUNITIES BOTH IN EXCLUDING AND SIGNING OFF EVERY APPLICATION THEY ALL THINK THEY HAVE THE SOLUTION BOYS AND IN PROCLAIMING THAT SUCH FOR ADULT LEADERSHIP AND EVERY DEN "UT ON A NATIONAL LEVEL THEY HAVE TO EXCLUSION IS JUSTIFIED 7E REJECT LEADER WHICH PROVIDES ANOTHER LAYER CONSOLIDATE THOSE OPINIONS AND THEY BOTH AS DO A GREAT MANY PARENTS IN OF PROTECTION AGAINST CRIMINAL OR WILL BE DIFFERENT THROUGHOUT THE COUN TRY 4HERE ARE EVEN DIFFERENT OPIN IONS IN SIMILAR REGIONS v HE SAID PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL ,OCALLY THOSE WHO OPPOSE THE NA TIONAL ORGANIZATIONS POTENTIAL POLI CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE CY CHANGE HAVE REMAINED QUIET .O BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 LEADERS OR CHARTERING ORGANIZATIONS CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT CONTACTED BY THE 7EEKLY ON 7EDNES ACCESS CHANNEL 26 DAY RESPONDED INDICATING THEY WANT THE CURRENT POLICY TO CONTINUE EASTER ***************************************** h) SUSPECT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. SUPPORT IT BASED ON RELIGIOUS VIEWS v BRUNCH BUFFET THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL ONE LEADER SAID DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: &OR MOST OF ITS HISTORY THE NATION SUNDAY MARCH 31st, 2013 AL ORGANIZATION ALLOWED INDIVIDUAL http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/knowzone/agendas/council.asp TROOPS TO DEFINE THEIR OWN RULES ON 10:00AM - 2:00PM (TENTATIVE) AGENDA – REGULAR MEETING – COUNCIL CHAMBERS PARTICIPANTS AND LEADERS "UT IN RE April 1, 2013 - 7:00 PM SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY CENT DECADES THAT CHANGED TROOP 1. Proclamation for Neighbors Abroad Delegation from Sister City Oaxaca, LEADERS SAID 3OME LONGTIME MEM $20/Adult $12/Child (5-11 years) Mexico BERS AND CHARTERING ORGANIZATIONS 2. Recognition by the Mid-Peninsula Lions Region for Acts of Heroism and SUPPORT A RETURN TO TROOP RULE Acts of Community Service h)T IS SIMPLY TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE Join us Poolside for a delicious brunch buff et 3. Selection of Candidates to be Interviewed for the Citizen Oversight TO ALLOW 3COUTING TO CONTINUE TO FLOUR perfect for the whole family! Committee for Expenditures of Library Bond Funds for five terms ending ISH AND SERVE ALL OUR YOUTH 7HILE ) on 5/31/17 4. Selection of Candidates to be Interviewed for the Historic Resources WOULD LIKE TO SEE 3COUTING ADOPT A Reservations are recommended but not required Board for one unexpired term ending on 5/31/14 and for three terms end- UNIVERSAL NON DISCRIMINATION POLICY ing on 5/31/16 IF THAT IS A BRIDGE TOO FAR FOR NOW ) 5. Selection of Candidates to be Interviewed for the Human Relations Com- SUPPORT THE PROPOSAL TO ALLOW CHARTER mission for two terms ending on 3/31/16 ING ORGANIZATIONS FREEDOM TO ADOPT Dinah’s Poolside Restaurant CONSENT CALENDAR THEIR OWN MEMBERSHIP RULES v 2OD 4261 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 6. Approval of Amendment Number One to the Water Supply Agreement 3INKS 3COUTMASTER FOR 4ROOP IN with the City and County of San Francisco 7. Policy and Services Committee Recommendation to Accept the Auditor’s ,OS !LTOS AND A #UPERTINO #ITY #OUN Reservations & Inquires - (650) 798-1314 Office Quarterly Report as of December 31, 2012 and Revised Work- CIL MEMBER WROTE IN AN EMAIL TO THE plan NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD ON *AN 8. Approval of Contract with D&M Traffic Services, Inc for a Total of $150,000 h4HEY ARE MY INDIVIDUAL VIEWS to Provide On Call Traffic Management Services WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN ENDORSED BY 9. Approval of Enterprise Wastewater Treatment Fund Contract with Ken- MY TROOP v HE SAID IN AN EMAIL TO THE nedy/ Jenks Consultants in the Total Amount of $205,430 for the Design of Dual Media Filters Optimization Project at Regional Water Quality Con- 7EEKLY ON 4HURSDAY "UT HE ADDED trol Plant - Capital Improvement Program Project THAT HE ATTENDED A 0ACIFIC 3KYLINE 10. Approval of Amendment Number 2 to the Contract #C10131396 in the #OUNCIL MEETING 7EDNESDAY IN &OS Amount of $1,260,000 with CDM Smith Inc. to Provide Additional Servic- TER #ITY AND EVERY SPEAKER FAVORED es Associated with the Reservoir, Pump Station, and Well at El Camino THE POLICY CHANGE Park and Mayfield Pump Station Augmentation Project WS-08002, for a $OUG -ORAN AN %AGLE 3COUT Total Not to Exceed Amount of $6,387,802 SINCE THE S SAID IN AN EMAIL 11. Approval of a Contract with Geosyntec Consultants in the Total Amount of $226,000 for Site Remediation Design and Permitting Services for the THAT ITS UNCLEAR WHETHER THE TROOPS Former Los Altos Treatment Plant Located at 1237 North San Antonio OR THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION HAVE THE Road (CIP PO-12002) ULTIMATE AUTHORITY AT THIS POINT 12. Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Submit a Grant -ORAN IS ALSO A REPRESENTATIVE OF Application to the California Department of Water Resources for an En- THE "ARRON 0ARK !SSOCIATION NEIGH hanced Regional Flood Warning System for the San Francisquito Creek BORHOOD GROUP WHICH HAS CHARTERED Watershed 4ROOP 7HILE HE SAID HIS COMMENTS 13. Appointment of Lanie Wheeler to the Emergency Standby Council ACTION ITEMS DO NOT REPRESENT THE ASSOCIATION HE 14. Approval of a Water Enterprise Fund Contract with RMC Water and Envi- NOTED THAT THE GROUP HAS PUT OFF DIS ronment, Inc. for a Total Not to Exceed Amount of $193,914 to Complete CUSSION ABOUT ENDING ITS DECADES LONG the Environmental Analysis of Expanding the City’s Recycled Water De- CHARTERSHIP OF 4ROOP UNTIL AFTER THE livery System NATIONAL 3COUTS -AY VOTE 15. Designation of Vote for Ballot From the League of California Cities on 4ROOP HAS PARTNERED WITH THE Amendments to the League’s Bylaws to the Membership 16. Policy & Services Committee Recommendation: 2013 Federal and State NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IN EMER Legislative Program GENCY PREPAREDNESS STAFFING AT 17. Authorization to the City Manager to Fly the Rainbow Flag in King Plaza
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Song, dance complement international food fair 3TUDENTS AT 'UNN (IGH 3CHOOL FEASTED AND DANCED TO THE SOUNDS OF AN !FRICAN PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE 4UESDAY -ARCH AT THE SCHOOLS )NTERNATIONAL &OOD &AIRE (Posted March 28 at 10:43 a.m.) Air pollutants linked to higher risk of birth defects "REATHING TRAFFIC POLLUTION IN EARLY PREGNANCY IS LINKED TO A HIGHER RISK FOR CERTAIN SERIOUS BIRTH DEFECTS ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH FROM THE 3TANFORD 5NIVERSITY 3CHOOL OF -EDICINE (Posted March 28 at 9:53 a.m.) 2%6)3)4).'4(%3/54( Educators parse new state math standards 2)#(!2$ -)32!#(3 #ONCERNS ABOUT NEW STATE STANDARDS IN MATHEMATICS ON THE HORIZON #!.#%2 !,,%9 FOR ATTRACTED LOCAL EDUCATORS TO A GATHERING 4UESDAY TO EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL IMPACT (Posted March 27 at 9:49 a.m.) -!2#( n*5.%
4AKE A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM !FRICA TO THE !MERICAS TO !SIA Palo Alto sees three big startup buys FROM CLASSICAL TO CONTEMPORARY 4HERE IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE AT THE #ANTOR AND ADMISSION IS FREE 0ALO !LTO HAS SEEN THREE STARTUP ACQUISITIONS OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS s MUSEUMSTANFORDEDU AND THE COLLECTIVE COST OF THE BUYS MAY BE OVER MILLION ( Posted March 27 at 9:38 a.m.) 2ICHARD -ISRACH 3WAMP AND 0IPELINE 'EISMAR ,OUISIANA NEGATIVE PRINT )NKJET PRINT (IGH -USEUM OF !RT !TLANTA ¥ 2ICHARD -ISRACH 2EVISITING THE 3OUTH 2ICHARD -ISRACHS #ANCER !LLEY IS ORGANIZED BY THE (IGH -USEUM OF !RT !TLANTA 7E GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE SUPPORT FOR THE EXHIBITIONS PRESENTATION AT 3TANFORD FROM THE #LUMECK &UND THE #ONTEMPORARY #OLLECTORS #IRCLE AND #ANTOR !RTS #ENTER -EMBERS Nation’s budget issues slow NASA’s toxic cleanup 5NTIL BUDGET PROBLEMS ARE SORTED OUT .!3! OFFICIALS SAY THEY PLAN TO SIMPLY PUT A FENCE AROUND PILES OF CONTAMINATED SOIL THAT COULD HARM WILDLIFE IN -OFFETT &IELDS WETLANDS (Posted March 27 at 8:55 a.m.) Palo Alto’s golf course redesign up for review 0ALO !LTOS EVOLVING EFFORT TO BRING A h7OWv FACTOR TO ITS "AYLANDS GOLF COURSE AND TO BUILD THREE ATHLETIC FIELDS NEXT TO THE COURSE WILL BE REVIEWED BY 0ARKS AND 2ECREATION #OMMISSION TONIGHT (Posted March 26 at 9:54 a.m.) Unemployment rate edges up in Palo Alto, county 7HILE THE #ALIFORNIA UNEMPLOYMENT RATE STAYED FLAT IN *ANUARY AT PERCENT THE RATE CREPT UP IN PARTS OF THE "AY !REA INCLUDING 0ALO !LTO AND 3ANTA #LARA #OUNTY AS A WHOLE ACCORDING TO DATA RELEASED BY THE STATES %MPLOYMENT $EVELOPMENT $EPARTMENT (Posted March 26 at 9:54 a.m.) Palo Alto man struck by Caltrain identified ! MAN WHO WAS STRUCK AND KILLED BY THE .O TRAIN AT #HARLESTON 2OAD IN 0ALO !LTO -ONDAY MORNING HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE 3ANTA #LARA #OUNTY #ORONER (Posted March 25 at 8:33 a.m.) Daily News to cut two print days per week 0ALO !LTO NEWSPAPER 4HE $AILY .EWS ANNOUNCED TODAY IT WOULD DE CREASE THE FREQUENCY AT WHICH IT PUBLISHES ITS PRINT EDITION EACH WEEK (Posted March 23 at 1:46 p.m.)
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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week
CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to select candidates to be interviewed for the Library Bond Oversight Committee, the Historic Resources Board and the Human Relations Commission; approve a $193,914 contract for an environmental analysis of expanding the city’s recycled water delivery sys- tem; approve the 2013 federal and state legislative program and consider authorizing the city manager to fly the Rainbow Flag in King Plaza. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 1, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to con- sider three power-purchase agreements for photovoltaic energy; discuss changes to the PaloAltoGreen program; discuss the financial forecast for the fiber fund; and hear a presentation on the update to the Utilities Stra- tegic Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 50 El Camino Real, a proposal to expand the Ronald McDonald House; and 567-595 Maybell Ave., a proposed development that includes 15 homes and a 60-unit affordable-housing complex for seniors. The meeting will be- gin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 4, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
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For more information about these camps, see our online directory of camps at http://paloaltoonline.com/biz/summercamps/ To advertise in a weekly directory, contact 650-326-8210 Academics Arts, Culture, Other Camps City of Mountain View Mountain View Recreation Division Early Learning Camp Connection listing Palo Alto Busy Bees & Astro Kids Summer Mountain View Discover fun with us this summer through the many programs available Write Now! Summer Writing Camps Adventure Camps with the City of Mountain View Recreation Division. From sports to tra- Emerson School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton open Join us for these half-day camps designed for 3-8 year olds as we have ditional day camps, to cooking camps, dance camps and art camps... we have it all! Mountain View Community Center, 201 S. Rengstorff Avenue their doors and offer their innovative programs: Expository Writing, Cre- fun, participate in games and crafts, and go on fun field trips! Mountain http://mountainview.gov ative Writing, Presentation Techniques, and (new!) Test-Taking Skills. Call View Community Center, 201 S. Rengstorff Avenue or visit our website for details. http://mountainview.gov www.headsup.org Emerson (650) 424-1267 City of Mountain View Swim Lessons Mountain View Hacienda (925) 485-5750 Community School Mountain View Rengstorff and Eagle Parks of Music and Arts (CSMA) We offer swim lessons for ages 6 months to 14 years. Following the 50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, American Red Cross swim lesson program, students are divided into one Foothill College Los Altos Hills of the 11 different levels taught by a certified instructor. Rengstorff Park Two Six-Week Summer Sessions Beginning June 10. These sessions are Musical Theater, School of Rock, Digital Arts, more! One- and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment. Extended care available. Financial Pool, 201 S Rengstorff Ave and Eagle Park Pool,650 Franklin St. perfect for university students returning from summer break who need aid offered. http://mountainview.gov/ to pick up a class; and high school juniors, seniors and recent graduates www.arts4all.org 650-917-6800 ext. 0 who want to get an early start. 12345 El Monte Rd. Club Rec Juniors & Seniors Mountain View www.foothill.edu 650.949.7362 DHF Wilderness Camps Rancho San Antonio Club Rec Juniors and Seniors is open for youth 6-11 years old. These tra- Open Space Preserve ditional day camps are filled with fun theme weeks, weekly trips, swim- Harker Summer Programs San Jose Children ages 6-14 can meet the livestock, help with farm chores, ex- ming, games, crafts and more! Monta Loma Elementary School, 490 K-12 offerings taught by exceptional, experienced faculty and staff. K-6 plore a wilderness preserve and have fun with crafts, songs and games. Thompson Ave. morning academics - focusing on math, language arts and science - and Older campers conclude the week with a sleepover at the Farm. Near the http://mountainview.gov full spectrum of afternoon recreation. Grades 6-12 for-credit courses and intersection of Hwy 85 and Hwy 280 non-credit enrichment opportunities. Sports programs also offered. mountainview.gov Foothills Day Camp Palo Alto www.summer.harker.org 408-553-0537 What will you discover? Foothills Day and Fun Camps, for youth ages Pacific Art League of Palo Alto Palo Alto 8-10 and 5-7 respectively, includes canoeing, hiking, animal identifica- iD Tech Camps - Summer Tech Fun Held at Stanford PAL offers morning and afternoon art camps in cartooning and comics, tion games, crafts, and more- all for less than $5 an hour. Registration printmaking, glass fusing, mixed media and acrylic and watercolor painting begins February 15th for residents. (February 22nd for non-residents.) Take interests further! Ages 7-17 create iPhone apps, video games, C++/ Hurry, spaces are limited! Java programs, movies, and more at weeklong, day and overnight pro- for children 5-18 years. It is a great place to explore imagination and creativ- ity in a supportive, encouraging and fun environment with a lot of personal cityofpaloalto.org/enjoy 650-463-4900 grams held at Stanford and 60+ universities in 26 states. Also 2-week, attention. Scholarships are available. 227 Forest Avenue teen-only programs: iD Gaming Academy, iD Programming Academy, www.pacificartleague.org (650) 321-3891 J-Camp Palo Alto and iD Visual Arts Academy (filmmaking & photography). Exciting programs for kindergartners through teens include swimming, www.internalDrive.com 1-888-709-TECH (8324) Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC) Palo Alto field trips, sports and more. Enroll your child in traditional or special PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades kindergarten to 6th, a wide focus camps like Surfing, Archery, Animal Adventure, Circus Camp and iD Teen Academies variety of fun opportunities! K-1 Fun for the youngest campers, Neigh- over 50 others! Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way Gaming, Programming & Visual Arts Stanford borhood Adventure Fun and Ultimate Adventure Fun for the more ac- www.paloaltojcc.org/jcamp 650-223-8622 Gain a competitive edge! Learn different aspects of video game cre- tive and on-the-go campers! New this year: Sports Adventure Camp for ation, app development, filmmaking, photography, and more. 2-week those young athletes and Operation Chef for out of this world cooking Kim Grant Tennis Academy Palo Alto fun! Swimming twice per week, periodic field trips, special visitors and programs where ages 13-18 interact with industry professionals to gain & Summer Camps Menlo Park/Redwood City many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offer- competitive edge. iD Gaming Academy, iD Programming Academy, and Fun and Specialized junior camps for Mini (3-5), Beginner, Intermedi- ings of PACCC Summer Camps! Registration is online. Open to campers ate 1&2, Advanced and Elite Players. Weekly programs designed by Kim iD Visual Arts Academy are held at Stanford, and other universities. from all communities! Come join the fun in Palo Alto! Grant to improve players technique, fitness, agility, mental toughness www.iDTeenAcademies.com 1-888-709-TECH (8324) www.paccc.org 650-493-2361 and all around tennis game. Camps in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Red- ISTP’s Language Immersion Summer Camp Palo Alto wood City. Come make new friends and have tons of FUN!! Theatreworks Summer Camps Palo Alto www.KimGrantTennis.com 650-752-8061 ISTP Summer Camp is designed to give participants a unique opportu- In these skill-building workshops for grades K-5, students engage in nity to spend their summer break having fun learning or improving in a language-based activities, movement, music, and improvisation theatre second language. Students are grouped according to both grade level games. Students present their own original pieces at the end of each Nike Tennis Camps Stanford University and language of proficiency. Our camp offers many immersion oppor- two-week camp. Dick Gould’s 43rd Annual Stanford Tennis School offers day camps for tunities and consists of a combination of language classes and activities www.theatreworks.org/educationcommunity 650-493-7146 both juniors & adults. Weekly junior overnight & extended day camps taught in the target language. Sessions are available in French, Manda- run by John Whitlinger & Lele Forood. Junior Day Camp run by Brandon Coupe & Frankie Brennan. rin, Chinese and English ESL and run Monday through Friday, 8am-3- Western Ballet Mountain View www.USSportsCamps.com/tennis 1-800-NIKE-CAMP (645-3226) :30pm, with additional extending care from 3:30-5:30pm. Children’s Summer Camp www.istp.org 650-251-8519 Students attend ballet class and rehearsal in preparation for the recital Spartans Sports Camp of either Peter Pan or The Little Mermaid at the end of the two week ses- Spartans Sports Camp offers multi-sport, week-long sessions for boys Stratford School - Camp Socrates 17 Bay Area Campuses sion. Separate Saturday classes are also offered. Ages 4-9. 914 N. Reng- and girls in grades 3-6 as well as sport-specific sessions for grades 6-9. Academic enrichment infused with traditional summer camp fun--that’s storff Ave, Mountain View There are also strength and conditioning camps for grades 6-12. Camps what your child will experience at Camp Socrates. Sessions begin June http://westernballet.org/documents/summerchildrens.html begin June 10th and run weekly through August 2nd at Mountain View 24 and end August 9, with the option for campers to attend all seven High School. The camp is run by MVHS coaches and student-athletes weeks, or the first four (June 24-July 19). Full or half-day morning or af- Western Ballet Mountain View and all proceeds benefit the MVHS Athletic Department. Lunch and ex- ternoon programs are available. Intermediate Summer Intensive tended care are available for your convenience. Register today! www.StratfordSchools.com/Summer (650) 493-1151 Students obtain high quality training in ballet, pointe, character, jazz, www. SpartansSportsCamp.com 650-479-5906 and modern dance, while learning choreography from the classical bal- let Paquita. The students dance in featured roles in a final performance. Spring Down Camp Equestrian Center Portola Valley Summer at Saint Francis Mountain View Ages 9-12. Audition required 914 N. Rengstorff Ave, Mountain View Summer at Saint Francis provides a broad range of academic and athlet- Spring Down Camp teaches basic to advanced horsemanship skills. http://westernballet.org/documents/summerpre-intermediate.html Ages 6-99 welcome! Daily informative lecture, riding lesson, supervised ic programs for elementary through high school students. It is the goal hands-on ski-ll practice, safety around horses, tacking/untacking of own of every program to make summer vacation enriching and enjoyable! Western Ballet Mountain View camp horse, and arts/crafts. www.sfhs.com/summer 650.968.1213 x446 Advanced Summer Intensive www.springdown.com 650.851.1114 Students obtain high quality training in ballet, pointe, character, jazz, TechKnowHow Computer Palo Alto and modern dance, while learning choreography from the classical bal- Stanford Water Polo Camps Stanford & Lego Camps Menlo Park/Sunnyvale let Paquita. The students dance in featured roles in a final performance. Ages 7 and up. New to sport or have experience, we have a camp for Fun and enriching technology classes for students, ages 5-14 Courses Ages 13-23. Audition required. 914 N. Rengstorff Ave, Mountain View you. Half day or Full day option for boys and girls. All the camps offer include LEGO and K’NEX Projects with Motors, Electronics, NXT Robot- http://westernballet.org/documents/summer_int_adv.html fundamental skill work, position work, scrimmages and games. ics, 3D Modeling, and Game Design. Many locations, including Palo StanfordWaterPoloCamps.com 650-725-9016 Alto, Menlo Park and Sunnyvale. Half and all day options. Early-bird and Summer at Peninsula School Menlo Park multi-session discounts available. This is a child’s delight with trees to climb, rope swings, and unpaved open Summer at Saint Francis Mountain View Www.techknowhowkids.com 650-638-0500 spaces. Our engaging and creative program includes time to play and make Sports & Activity Camp (ages 6-12): This all-sports camp provides group friends. Peninsula School, 920 Peninsula Way. Visit website for class listings. instruction in a variety of field, water and court games. Saint Francis fac- www.peninsulaschool.org/pensummerschool.htm (650) 325-1584, ext. 39 ulty and students staff the camp, and the focus is always on fun. The YMCA of Silicon Valley Peninsula program is dedicated to teaching teamwork, sportsmanship and posi- What makes Y camps different? We believe every child deserves the op- Athletics tive self-esteem. After camp care and swim lessons available. portunity to discover who they are and what they can achieve. Y camp- www.sfhs.com/summer 650.968.1213 x650 ers experience the outdoors, make new friends and have healthy fun in a safe, nurturing environment. They become more confident and grow Alan Margot’s Tennis Camps Atherton Alan Margot’s Tennis Camps provide an enjoyable way for your child to be- Summer at Saint Francis Mountain View as individuals, and they learn value in helping others. We offer day, over- gin learning the game of tennis or to continue developing existing skills. Advanced Sports Camps (5th-9th grades): We offer a wide selection of night, teen leadership and family camps. Financial assistance is avail- Our approach is to create lots of fun with positive feedback and reinforce- advanced sports camps designed to provide players with the opportu- able. Get your summer camp guide at ymcasv.org/summer camp. Youth ment in a nurturing tennis environment. Building self-esteem and confi- nity to improve both their skills and knowledge of a specific sport. Each camps (ages 5 - 17) run June 17 - Aug. 16 . Half-day and full-day options. dence through enjoyment on the tennis court is a wonderful gift a child can camp is run by a Head Varsity Coach at Saint Francis, and is staffed by Fees vary. 1922 The Alameda 3rd Floor, San Jose keep forever! Super Juniors Camps, ages 3-6; Juniors Camps, ages 6-14. members of the coaching staff. www.ymcasv.org (408) 351-6400 www.alanmargot-tennis.net 650-400-0464 www.sfhs.com/summer 650.968.1213 x650
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He always had youth.” Info. case ...... 1 Bicycle theft ...... 3 Lost property ...... 1 was a young a comment and he was always so Smithwick, whose father was a Driving with suspended license ...... 9 Missing person...... 1 dentist in positive.” minister and missionary, spent his Misc. traffic ...... 9 Psychiatric hold ...... 1 Theft from auto...... 5 Los Altos in Smithwick said in a 2008 inter- young boyhood in India. Vandalism ...... 2 Vehicle accident/minor injury ...... 5 Warrant arrest ...... 2 1956 when view that early planners expected After the family returned to the Vehicle accident/no injury...... 1 Violation of court order...... 1 he attended Foothill’s enrollment would top United States, Smithwick moved Vehicle accident/property damage . . .10 CPS referral ...... 1 Vehicle impound ...... 1 Resisting arrest...... 2 early plan- out at 6,000. Today’s enrollment through eighth grade in six years, Vehicle tow ...... 3 Mental Evaluation ...... 1 Alcohol or drug related ning meetings for a “junior col- at Foothill and its sister institu- high school in three years and uni- Gang info...... 1 Drunk in public ...... 5 lege,” convened by then-Palo Alto tion, De Anza College, is more versity in three years, according to Parole arrest or assist...... 1 Drunken driving ...... 2 School Superintendent Henry M. than 40,000. his family. Possession of paraphernalia...... 1 Atherton Gunn. “We were certainly surprised He graduated from what is now Under influence of drugs ...... 1 March 21-27 He chaired the original elected at the demand and glad we were Andrews University in Michigan Miscellaneous Theft related Found property...... 1 Fraud ...... 1 board of trustees of Foothill, able to meet it in most ways,” he and the University of Illinois Den- Lost property ...... 3 Petty theft ...... 2 which was built with funds from said in the 2008 interview with the tal School. Misc. penal code violation ...... 1 Residential burglaries ...... 1 a $10.4 million bond issue passed Weekly. He was married for 60 years to Other/misc...... 4 Vehicle related in May 1958. “People didn’t understand much Aileen Lois Russell, who died in Psychiatric hold ...... 2 Suspicious vehicle ...... 9 Suspicious circumstances ...... 1 Vehicle code violation ...... 10 Smithwick, who maintained a in those days about junior colleges. 2002. Among his survivors are Unattended death...... 1 Accident/no injury ...... 1 dentistry practice in Sunnyvale un- We wanted to prove to them that a daughter Cathye and a son Mi- Vandalism ...... 1 Vehicle/traffic hazard ...... 3 til 1983, was until recently a regu- we could be as good or better than chael, both of San Jose. He also is Warrant/other agency ...... 6 Alcohol or drug related Menlo Park Drunk driving ...... 3 lar presence at college events. any of the good four-year schools survived by his sister-in-law Eliz- March 21-27 Miscellaneous Dick Henning, who founded the in terms of quality of education. abeth Oswald of Dinuba and his Violence related Disturbance ...... 2 Celebrity Forum Speakers Series “Today people take it for grant- grand-nephew Scott Smithwick of Battery ...... 1 Lost property ...... 1 in the 1960s (now at Flint Center ed, but in those days a lot of high San Jose. Theft related Medical aid ...... 7 Commercial burglaries ...... 3 Outside assistance ...... 6 at De Anza College), said Smith- school seniors didn’t even think The family plans a memorial Fraud ...... 2 Suspicious person ...... 3 wick rarely missed a speaker and about going to college. They just service, but time and location have Petty theft...... 4 Town ordinance violation ...... 4 typically sent a hand-written note went to work. not been fixed. Residential burglaries ...... 2 Hang-up ...... 1 Vehicle related Watermain break...... 2 Auto recovery...... 1 Civil matter ...... 1
Leon Samoilovich Births Leon Samoilovich died on Satur- Rishi and Soniya Jobanputra, Joseph “Joe” Baxter day, March 23 at 3:35 p.m. He was Menlo Park, March 13, a girl. July 14, 1931 – March 17, 2013 born on October 24, 1926 in Kiev, James and Miriam Nielsen, Ukraine, at the time, the USSR. He Mountain View, March 22, a girl. Joseph “Joe” Baxter, late of Palo Alto, passed ter-Smith; grandchil- was an artist and musician. He lived Henry and Sara Styles, Menlo away in the family home on March 17, 2013. A dren: Erin, Daniel, Joey, through World War II, communism Park, March 24, a boy. native of San Francisco, Joe was born on July Kyle, Trent, Tristen and and immigration to the United Christopher Lomboy and Ve- 14, 1931 to Cecil Leroy Baxter and Hazel Cece- Mitchell and two great States. He was a Palo Alto resident rona Salvaleon, East Palo Alto, lia Swift. A 1949 graduate of Palo Alto High grandsons, Kyler and Jo- for over 30 years. March 25, a boy. School, Joe went on to serve as an Airman 1st seph. Joe was preceded Class in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean in death by a daughter, Conflict from1951 – 1955. Joe was the owner of JoJo Baxter. Sherley “Bud “Stein West Coast Glass Company of Palo Alto, a family Funeral services were owned company since 1928. He was also an avid held on March 26, 2013 pheasant and duck hunter, and a San Francisco at Roller & Hapgood & At 93, Bud S. Stein died peacefully Giants, 49er fan. Joe loved the family gatherings Tinney Funeral Home in at 2:25pm, March 23 in Palo Alto and BBQs he hosted at the family home. Palo Alto followed by a burial service at Skylawn He is survived by his wife Cindy Baxter whom Memorial Park in San Mateo where military honors after 2½ years of chemotherapy he married on September 21, 1951 and children were accorded. Remembrances in Joe’s name may treatment for cancer. Bud loved Kathy Baxter Tullus, Steve Baxter, Terri Bax- be directed to Ducks Unlimited at 800-45-DUCKS. life and had many interests that PAID OBITUARY he shared with friends. Born October 31, 1919 in Detroit, MI, Bud grew up in Kentucky and served in Charles Peter Bassin the Navy during WWII, mostly in North Africa. After July 12, 1980-March 17, 2013 graduating from the Univ. of Miami, he worked for a On Sunday, March seventeenth, we lost our beauti- ing in the Sierras private chemical company and after that briefly taught ful son, Charles Peter Bassin, in a tragic accident at our and spending time at schools. He then moved to the Bay Area for 25 years family home in Whitehawk Ranch, Northern Califor- with his Clumber where he worked with various airlines as a service rep nia. He had just returned from the BNP Paribas Ten- Spaniels. nis Open in Indian Wells - a favorite outing of his. Charles’ life was a and services coordinator. He retired in Palm Desert, Charles was born on the twelfth of July, 1980 and contrast of incred- CA where he lived for the next 22 years. Bud eventually lived his entire childhood in Palo Alto. He attended St. ible joys and pains returned to the Bay Area to continue chemotherapy for Joseph’s School in Atherton, Walter Hays and Jordan but, when those of Middle School in Palo Alto, St. Francis High School us who loved him were privileged to join him on his his cancer. in Mountain View, Gonzaga University in Spokane, journey, he was a consummate source of compassion, He is survived by his long-time close friend of 42 Washington and the University of Colorado in Boul- love and laughter. He leaves behind heartbroken par- years, Russ, and a daughter who lives in Southern CA der. ents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, by a former marriage. Services will most likely be held Charles’ athletic accomplishments were numerous friends and his spaniels. in the sports of swimming, soccer, baseball, basket- Charles has been laid to rest at Skylawn Park in the in the next week. Arrangements by Alta Mesa Funeral ball, golf and tennis. His golf handicap was hovering hills of San Mateo overlooking the Bay Area he loved. Home in Palo Alto. at scratch. In recent years he enjoyed hiking and fish- We carry his heart, we carry it in our hearts.
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Most citizens won’t have A blight-in-the-making public-private partnerships, before But leading to these problems was the city’s poor handling of the time to delve into the details. We Editor, it’s too late. For us, the pieces of this redevelopment of this land in the first place. While many saw this train all rely on the city staff and Council In a stranger-than-fiction blast Wall symbolize not the fall of Com- wreck coming before ground was even broken for what became primar- to hash out the pros and cons as the from the past, the city of Mountain munism abroad, but the danger of ily a housing development, many Palo Altans didn’t tune into the issue Keenan offer works its way through View is looking for a home for two the rise of it at home — reminding until construction of the grocery store, right along Alma Street, began. review. sizable chunks of the Berlin Wall. us it can, indeed, happen here. It is but another example of what’s wrong with the city’s “planned Three issues are obvious. First, the This could hardly be more apt. If Cherie Zaslawsky community” deals with developers that attempt to extract valuable Council, staff and downtown busi- you’ve ever seen East Berlin’s high- Oak Lane public benefits from a developer who wants to exceed normal zoning ness stakeholder realize that a severe density housing-project tenements Menlo Park limits. parking deficit exists. Second, there constructed under Soviet rule, you’ll In the case of Alma Plaza, owner-developer John McNellis chose a will be a mad rush to add this park- recognize the style and concept in Who knew what? strategy of simply outlasting those who stood in the way of his desired ing capacity. Third, the garage will the massive, utilitarian, eyesore de- Editor, housing development. For years, he allowed the former neighborhood not stop the continued intrusion of velopment on the site of the former The issue unmentioned in your shopping center to become an eyesore and a symbol of government city workers parking on residential San Antonio Shopping Center. All soundly reasoned statement about obstructionism. streets. this blight-in-the-making needs to the blown bullying incidents is “who McNellis acquired the run-down 4.2-acre site of a shuttered Albert- But there is a more important is- cement the analogy is a chunk or two knew what, and when.” That the sons market in 2005, and then withstood numerous efforts by neighbors sue, as illustrated by the news today of the Berlin Wall, which would be school board let none of the impor- and city officials to create an upgraded neighborhood-serving retail that the Palo Alto School District as at home on San Antonio and El tant facts into light during an elec- center with a decent-sized grocery store. Instead, he wanted to convert achieved windfall 52 percent profit Camino as if it never left Germany. tion year in which two incumbents the land to housing, a much more lucrative development, and offered a on 2.7 acres of land bought slightly Regionalism, the nonrepresen- were running for reelection casts a community meeting room and a small grocery store as the public ben- over a year ago. Mr. Keenan, appar- tational bureaucratic mechanism particularly suspicious aroma on an efits he would provide in return for approval to build 37 very cramped ently an adviser to the deal, extends now in vogue in California, is sim- unusual, prolonged silence. single-family homes. well-deserved praise to the school ply government by mandate, Soviet Credible deniability concepts not- After two years and 15 hearings, in January 2009 the City Council district. style. Regional bodies such as ABAG withstanding, this is definitely a case finally gave in, over the objections of the Planning and Transporta- The City Council is now in discus- (Association of Bay Area Govern- where the dog did not bark. tion Commission and many residents, allowing McNellis to build the sions with Mr. Keenan over terms ments), joining with politicized erst- John Fredrich homes, a 5,000-square-foot retail building now occupied by Starbucks for city land, complex development while environmental organizations, La Para Avenue and a physical therapy office, a grocery store, a community room and rights and the new garage. The only are mandating this high-density Palo Alto 14 below-market-rate apartments above the store. prudent action is for Council and Finding a grocer interested in the space proved difficult. staff to seek independent real- After announcing that Michael “Miki” Werness would operate the estate consultants from day one WHAT DO YOU THINK? store, there were many challenges for the former manager of Berkeley to evaluate the entire transaction The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on our coverage Bowl. He patterned Miki’s after Berkeley Bowl, with a wide variety of in light of the exploding real-estate or on issues of local interest. organic produce and specialty foods and wines, and it found a follow- values. The last remaining undevel- ing, but not large or quickly enough given his lack of working capital. oped plots of downtown land have A respected and well-liked grocer, he was able to persuade vendors to premium added value in today’s help him and attracted talented managers and employees, but in the end market. What do you think about the closing of there were too many strikes against his operation. As just one example, Neilson Buchanan due to the home construction behind the store, there was no way for Bryant Street Miki’s Farm Fresh Market? the immediate neighborhood to even access the store without driving Palo Alto ? around the block. For McNellis, who received the right to build the second phase of his Project needs downsizing housing project as soon as Miki’s opened, his task now is to find another Submit letters to the editor of up to 250 words to [email protected]. Editor, Submit guest opinions of 1,000 words to [email protected]. Include your grocer who is willing to take a crack at the Miki’s location. Under the Chop Keenan’s proposal to develop name, address and daytime phone number so we can reach you. terms of his development approval, he must maintain a grocery store in Lot P as a parking garage with two We reserve the right to edit contributions for length, objectionable content, perpetuity, so the buildings cannot be used for another type of use. floors for the exclusive perpetual use libel and factual errors known to us. Anonymous letters will generally not be But that stipulation does little to outweigh the mistake in judgment of his employees is a land grab. accepted. Submitting a letter to the editor or guest opinion constitutes a that permitted the conversion of this neighborhood retail space to hous- Imagine if he wants a section of granting of permission to the Palo Alto Weekly and Embarcadero Media to also ing in the first place. Construction and sale of 37 single-family homes on Johnson Park for the exclusive use publish it online, including in our online archives and as a post on Town Square. this site brings our community no public benefit, only private financial of his employees next time? For more information contact Editor Jocelyn Dong or Editorial Assistant gain for the developer. But call a land-grab a “public-pri- Eric Van Susteren at [email protected] or 650-326-8210. The recent history of Alma Plaza goes back to late 1997, when owner vate partnership” and suddenly the Albertsons sought approval to triple the size of the store to 50,000 square City Council is eating out of your feet. Neighbors were strongly opposed, and the plans lapsed until 2003, hand. when Albertsons offered another plan that included an enlarged store, Chop Keenan should be building rebuilding the center’s retail area, construction of five single-family a project at 135 Hamilton that can homes and stacking low-income apartments above the stores. The plan be parked on site. That will mean cleared all city commissions except the City Council. downsizing the project. A year later the plan was withdrawn, and in 2005 McNellis purchased No one downsizes in Palo Alto the property and the grocery store closed later in the year. any longer. Back then neighbors circulated a petition calling on the city to keep If he won’t downsize, make him Alma Plaza as primarily retail. The neighbors said they wanted to see pay the (ludicrously cheap) in-lieu a “quality, affordable” grocery store, a post office, an ATM, a coffee parking fees for his project that are shop, a dry cleaner, a bakery and a sewing service. supposed to be used for constructing But McNellis had other plans and outlasted the petitioners and city public parking. planners. The site became a symbol of the long, tortured Palo Alto If it must be a “public-private “process” and the City Council became focused only on getting the partnership,” then make it an open abandoned, ugly site redeveloped. We are now left with the permanent process so other developers have the impacts of that ill-conceived decision. chance to participate. We hope one unanticipated public benefit of this project will be a Letting those two floors go to the complete overhaul of the planned-community zoning system, something highest bidder would be a much bet- we have urged for decades and which the planning commission estab- ter system than handing over public lished as a priority at its meeting Wednesday night. land to Chop Keenan, just because he asked for it. Page 14ÊUÊÊ >ÀV ÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Check out Town Square! Hundreds of local topics are being discussed by local residents on Town Square, a reader forum sponsored by the Weekly on our com- munity website at www.PaloAltoOnline.com. Post your own comments, ask questions, read the Editor’s blog or just stay up on what people are talking about around town!
Guest Opinion Teens should be involved in disaster preparedness by Divya Saina nificant parts of our society, teens must be tions. Teens will be in their natural habitats their physical strength will be a direct asset urricane Sandy was a stark reminder included in the debate and the efforts. Here’s as they tweet, text and post furiously. All that when certain things will need to be moved, to us that Moth- why: is needed now is for teens to be provided with transported or distributed. Of course teens H er Nature has the proper training and to be brought a sense will need to be informed and proactively in- the power to strike The social component of awareness about when to harness their in- volved in preparedness efforts to understand anywhere at anytime. Teens have the same reputation all around nate technological talents in manners that can this. Prepared teens are more confident than We’ve seen that even the world: They are technology addicts. This make a real difference to themselves and the their peers. That confidence can translate into in the strongholds of winter when I travelled to India, my cell community. real impact — for their own lives, as well as our urban landscape, phone didn’t have service in the foreign coun- the lives of their families, friends and neigh- we are vulnerable to try. I found myself at unease by the second The emotional component bors. major breakdowns of day without my direct access to technology. A What we need, more than anything, is to These three components truly exemplify basic civic amenities couple days later, however, I got to meet some have everybody in the community stay calm that teens are an important part of the overall such as water, electric- of my cousins. They too had their gazes fixed in the aftermaths of a disaster. Safety will emergency preparedness and response picture, ity and phone service. on tiny screens and ears plugged by earbuds. be of utmost importance during this time, thus highlighting necessity to involve them in This means we would be well served to not My eyes lit up as I saw phones, iPads, iPods and safety will be enhanced if and only if ongoing debates and trainings. Not only will take our normal, everyday living for granted, and laptops everywhere. I realized that teens we are all mentally and emotionally resilient. training teens be beneficial to communities but rather to invest time and energy in getting everywhere are technologically the same. In the midst of a devastating disaster, a teen during this generation, but it must also be re- the basic essentials of preparedness sorted out Think about your own teens, or your neigh- could find it difficult to muster this resiliency. membered that investing in preparedness is proactively. To summarize my previous col- bor’s teens. Don’t they always have phones in For this reason, teens and children need to similar to investing in a life skill. The skills umn, the framework of preparedness consists hand? Doesn’t this phone vibrate non-stop? be helped in the process of building up their taught will be useful for the rest of the teen’s of four basic parts — becoming informed, Can teens even consider living a day with- mental-readiness and emotional preparedness life. Thus, in essence, getting involved now building a kit, making a family plan, getting out typing, chatting, tweeting, commenting, proactively. Teens who are able to stay calm will continue to be valuable knowledge and involved in joint community action. posting, messaging, texting and clicking? The and collected after a disaster will prove to be an asset to young adults in their futures. Fi- Most preparedness efforts are directed to- answer is no! And as much trouble teens get huge assets for the community, which will nally, prepared teens today ensure a future wards the adult population in our society, and in today for having their eyes glued to digi- be able to use their help. On the contrary, if generation of prepared adults, ensuring that this can easily be rationalized as the logical tal screens for 12 hours straight, for going on teens are panicking, unsafe situations will our future society and our posterity will be thing to do. After all, adults know the ways Facebook as soon as they wake up, and for arise, and the community will suffer from a stronger and more resilient than ever before. of the world and are primarily responsible for texting over their monthly limits regularly, if loss, as a huge percentage of community help Now is the time to get teens involved. N taking care of their families. A compelling you truly think about it, this intimate famil- will be disabled. It is important, therefore, to Contact epvolunteers@paneighborhoods. argument, can be made, however, that young iarity with the digital world could be a great orient teens to the basics of preparedness such org to learn about how teens can become adults can be equally as effective in playing asset during a disaster. In the aftermaths of that during times of crisis, they are not only Palo Alto Block Preparedness Coordina- significant and meaningful roles in all as- a disaster, teens will do what they do best, able to cope emotionally but are also able to tors. Also check out Facebook.com/PaloAl- pects of disaster management: preparedness, and will help communicate and comprehend offer assistance. toEarthquakePreparedness to stay up-to- response and recovery. Children comprise ap- information. date about upcoming volunteer opportunities proximately 25 percent of our nation’s popu- The community will use this, dare I say, The physical component and classes. lation and their social, emotional and physical skill to get messages out, to gather updated Finally, it should be well understood that Divya Saini is a junior at Gunn High well-being and contributions will play vital information, to connect families together, teens are as, if not more, physically capable School and a member of FEMA’s first fed- roles for everybody after a disaster. As sig- and to inform authorities about vital situa- as adults in communities. After a disaster eral National Youth Preparedness Council. Streetwise What do you think about Miki’s Market closing? Asked on California Avenue, Palo Alto. Interviews and photographs by Elena Kadvany.
Collin Hoctor Ruben Contreras Joann Meredith Elena Tverskoy Denise Tavil Village Stationers employee Retired Retired Translator Retired California Avenue Waverley Street Sand Hill Road Alma Street Alma Street I thought it was a really great store, I had misgivings right off the bat. I’m sorry to hear it’s closed. I never (Miki’s) was the best thing to happen I’m very sorry for the employees that but it was the worst location. Driving There was no street access. got over there; it’s far from where I in eight years. My sister and I shopped are going to be out of work. there was impossible. live. there every day. It’s horrible.
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heatreWorks artistic director Robert Kelley huddles with designers in the costume shop, peering at purple swatches of wool and wool blend. The air is heavy with indeci- Mod ‘60s costumes sion. Costume Director Jill Bowers makes a T grim pronouncement: “We have been com- pletely unable to find a lilac plaid.” add zip to a new Alas, it seems that young Algernon will not wear the daring patterned jacket that the design- ers envisioned for Act One. They have scoured the musical take on Internet, even sent for fabric from New York, but the perfect lilac plaid remains elusive. Yet the show must go on, so the designers will Oscar Wilde sew the jacket with a solid fabric. Kelley selects a linen. These are the sartorial challenges you face when moving a 19th-century theater classic into the swinging ‘60s. Because in London’s mod cul- by Rebecca Wallace ture, it was all about the clothes. Top: Costume designer Fumiko Bielefeldt consults with Robert Kelley, founding The show at hand is a world premiere: a new artistic director of TheatreWorks, about the perfect plaid for a character’s costume. photos by Veronica Weber musical version of the beloved Oscar Wilde man- Center: Bielefeldt’s costume drawings show the mid-’60s generation gap between younger characters, left, and older ones. Above: Anna Boyarshinova works with a wild piece of fabric to create that mod look. Page 16ÊUÊÊ >ÀV ÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Cover Story
“Essentially what we do is cou- ture fashion on a deadline and on a budget,” Bowers says with a grin.
o make an unavoidable pun, cos- T tume design is woven deeply into the fabric of any show. The de- signs and colors set moods, conjure up time periods, give insight into characters. Actors can immerse themselves more in a role by wear- ing a particular pair of tottering heels or a crisply starched shirt that reminds them at every step or breath who they are. (And corsets are great for breath control in singing.) In “Earnest,” one particular dress has been a factor in changing the whole script. While talking about her costume research, Bielefeldt spreads out sev- eral of her sources on a table: glossy fashion books full of the creations of Yves Saint Laurent, Andre Cour- reges, Pierre Cardin. She opens to a page where three models slouch elegantly, all wearing one of the most iconic looks of the time: Saint Laurent’s 1965 “Mon- drian dress.” Made to look like a painting by the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, the dress features pri- mary-color blocks with black bor- dering, set on a white background. It’s a short, straight number with no sleeves and lots of boldness. It’s also one of the reasons for G R E E N B L O T T a script change. The musical was L A N D S C A P E I N T E R I O R S originally set in 1964, but this dress is from the fall 1965 collec- tion. Kelley wanted it in the show for its unmistakable mid-’60s-ness, and as Bielefeldt did her research Top: Nhan Luu, a stitcher in TheatreWorks’ costume department, she learned that the mod fashions prepares to iron an item of clothing. Above: Robert Kelley, who is weren’t really in full swing until directing the production of “Being Earnest,” works with actor Hayden ‘65. So the script got moved a year Inspirations Tee, who plays Jack. later, and Bielefeldt got to keep her Mondrian dress. (She just updated a guide to the spiritual community ners comedy “The Importance of including “Emma,” “A Civil War it a tiny bit with a slightly more de- Being Earnest,” which is now being Christmas” and “Caroline, Or fined waist. Actresses of any period FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UCC set in 1965. Adapted from the play Change.” don’t look their best in super-boxy £nxÊ ÕÃÊ,>`]Ê*>ÊÌÊUÊÈxä®ÊnxÈÈÈÈÓÊUÊÜÜÜ°vVV«>°À}Ê and using much of its original lan- Overall, there are about six people dresses.) Easter Sunday: guage — because this is Wilde, after working to make Bielefeldt’s designs Bielefeldt is fascinated by the all — the musical is called simply a reality. On this afternoon, several dynamic mid-’60s, when women’s Life, Death and Easter Eggs “Being Earnest.” It comes from the are busy in the huge Redwood Shores clothes in particular were trans- Rev. David Howell preaching pens of composers Jay Gruska and costume shop, running sewing ma- forming from the staid ‘50s styles Easter Worship at 9:30 and 11:00 on March 31 Paul Gordon, who are in town for chines and peering at fabric. On the at a pace that dizzied many older Egg Hunt for children between services rehearsals and continuing to revise walls hang giant paintings of corsets women. She flips through a book of lyrics and notes as the April 6 open- from TheatreWorks’ 2005 produc- Courreges’ modern miniskirts with ing nears. tion of the Lynn Nottage play “Inti- dramatic stripes. ST. ANN ANGLICAN CHAPEL “Being Earnest” bowed on the mate Apparel.” The theater company “He’s a signature of that period, A TRADITIONAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH TheatreWorks stage last summer as moved its shop, offices and rehearsal breaking away from the ‘50s,” she x{£Ê iÛiÊÛi°]Ê*>ÊÌ]Ê Ê{Îä£ÊUÊÈxänÎnäxän a staged reading in the annual New space here from Menlo Park last fall, says. “They went from cinched- The Most Reverend Robert S. Morse, Vicar Works Festival. Several of the cast and everyone seems grateful for the waist dresses to almost no waistline, Reverend Matthew Weber, Assistant members are returning, and Gor- larger floor area. to almost a sheath or a shift. That’s -Õ`>Þ\Ê££\ää> À>Ê ÕV >ÀÃÌÊEÊ-iÀÊ don is a familiar, and popular, face When Bielefeldt comes in to de- happening in the late ‘50s and burst- 7i`iÃ`>Þ\Ê££\{x> À}Ê*À>ÞiÀÊUÊ£Ó\ää\Ê ÕV >ÀÃÌÊ around here as well. He wrote the sign a show for TheatreWorks, she ing into mod fashion.” Ç\ää«\Ê LiÊ-ÌÕ`ÞÊUÊ `Ê >ÀiÊ*ÀÛ`i` music, lyrics and book for the musi- starts with the basics: reading the Pantyhose was invented in 1959, cal “Emma,” one of TheatreWorks’ script and meeting with the director which meant that skirts could biggest hits in recent years. He also to hear his or her vision. Then she soar sky-high without girls worry- co-wrote “Daddy Long Legs,” which hits the books and researches the ing about revealing their garters, played at the company in 2010, and period before making detailed, col- Bielefeldt points out. And every the Broadway musical “Jane Eyre.” orful costume drawings. Bowers, as young woman soon wanted to be as Gruska is an Emmy-nominated the troupe’s staff costume director, slim and big-eyed as Jean Shrimp- composer who has penned songs jumps in on logistics. ton or Twiggy. for Bette Midler, Michael Jackson “Fumiko does the drawings a “Earnest” clearly illustrates the and Chicago. couple months out. I start estimat- generation gap between the mini- With a show set in the fashion- ing the labor and the price and start skirts and the cardigans. It’s the obsessed mod world, it’s crucial sourcing the really weird things,” story of two wealthy young English- to have veterans in the costume Bowers says. Weird things like lilac men who both pose as men named shop as well. Fumiko Bielefeldt is plaids. Sometimes TheatreWorks Ernest, for reasons having to do the costume designer for “Being will borrow costumes from other with seeking frivolity and love. Jack Earnest.” She has done shows for companies, like San Jose Reper- falls for the fashion model Gwendo- TheatreWorks since the mid-’80s. tory Theatre, and vice versa. Ac- len, and his chum Algernon woos A graduate of Waseda University tors at TheatreWorks often come in the naive country girl Cecily. Rep- Inspirations is a resource for ongoing religious services and special events. in Tokyo, she has studied costume from out of town to do shows, so To inquire about or to reserve space in Inspirations, please contact Blanca design at Stanford and designed that makes fittings more difficult to Yoc at 223-6596 or email [email protected] more than 50 TheatreWorks shows, schedule. (continued on next page)
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(continued from previous page) Prism. Mistaken identity, more than number for Gwendolen; a tamer but sign for Miss Prism shows her with Bielefeldt lingers on one photo. It one proposal and many cucumber still short yellow sundress for little demure eyeglasses on a chain. depicts Pierre Cardin’s Space Age resenting the older generation are sandwiches ensue. Cecily; and a longish cream coat for Gwendolen’s striped dress gives a styles, with the models boasting hats stuffy Lady Bracknell (Gwendolen’s The generation gap is reflected Lady Bracknell. Bielefeldt based the clue to the hours of work done by like riding helmets. The costumers mother and Algernon’s aunt), who in the mannequins standing behind coat on a 1950 Dior design, and its the costumers. Since the perfect plan to make a similar hat for Gwen- disapproves of any match she deems Bielefeldt. Side-by-side are: a zippy nipped-in waist is definitely from an fabric couldn’t be found, the stripes dolen, out of felt. unsuitable; and the governess Miss red-and-white, very short striped earlier era. Nearby, a costume de- were fashioned from small pieces “Audrey Hepburn had one of of fabric and sewn on by hand. De- those,” Bielefeldt says, recalling the signers are also painting stripes on 1966 flick “How to Steal a Million,” Gwendolen’s boots. in which La Hepburn makes her en- “This is a period with specific trance in a white Space Age hat, lots textures and textiles,” Bielefeldt of eyeliner and a convertible. “I wish TRUNK SHOW says. “Often they’re hard to find, so Gwendolen could come on in a car,” we have to re-create them.” she adds wistfully. Saturday March 30th Meanwhile, the men get to have a little fun, too. There’s Algernon’s ver in the rehearsal hall, cos- famous purple creation, of course, O tumes are playing an impor- COME VIEW THE ENTIRE and Bielefeldt holds up a bright blue tant role as well. For example, fabric used in a jacket for Jack. there’s the song “A Man Dressed in OPTICAL SUNWEAR “Jack is a country squire who Tweed,” in which ingenue actress COLLECTION FROM takes ‘Ernest’ as an alias. We de- Riley Krull, playing Cecily, tells cided he could be a little bold,” she Euan Morton (Algernon) that she FACE a FACE says. In this case, “bold” means just doesn’t trust a man who wears “double-breasted.” tweed. The toughest gig goes to actor Bri- The production’s veteran musical an Herndon, who plays lots of roles, director, William Liberatore, mans including a man of the cloth and a the piano while composers Gruska manservant. That means lots of quick and Gordon watch. Also seated changes. Herndon will have two behind the rehearsal table is The- dressers to help him out (and in). atreWorks founder Kelley, who is
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directing the production. Morton, who originally hails from one of the people who’s gotten in The atmosphere is friendly, with Scotland, joins up with New Zealand on the fun. She actually owned a artistic give-and-take seemingly actor Hayden Tee, who plays Jack, Mondrian dress in the 1960s and encouraged. Morton wonders aloud to rehearse several songs. They soon brought in a photo of herself wear- why the song doesn’t allow soprano hit a snag that has nothing to do with ing it, Kelley says. Krull to sing more in her head voice. the smooth blend of their voices. Still, he notes, it has been a chal- Gordon says he likes the lower regis- In one number of bouncy repar- lenging era to re-create in dress, with ter. “That’s more reminiscent of the tee between the two characters, Tee its elusive fabrics. When theater de- sound of the era.” sings to Morton, “Your conduct is an signers do find the perfect material, Morton’s parts have plenty of outrage and your tie less than ideal.” they have to snap it up. heights, with his sprightly tenor But then about 15 pages later in the Kelley laughs as he imagines the leaping through such Wilde-y lines scene he has the line “You look good clerks in a fabric store somewhere, as “I am a man with no enemies at in a turtleneck sweater.” Insert sound thrilled that someone is finally buy- all. That’s why I’m disliked by my of record-player needle scratch. Man ing some wild pattern that’s been friends,” and “A man can be happy cannot wear tie and turtleneck both. hanging around the shop for decades. with any woman as long as he does Kelley looks thoughtful. He likes “We’ve had this for 40 years!” N not love her.” the second line a lot. “Paul, it’s fun- Then some lyrics are a little ahead ny, but we can’t put either of them in of Wilde’s time, like “There’s another a turtleneck sweater.” What: “Being Earnest,” a new musical Georgy Girl on another Ruby Tues- Rehearsal stops. Kelley and Gor- version of Oscar Wilde’s classic play day.” They go perfectly with a wall don get up and examine the cos- “The Importance of Being Earnest,” display that has company dramaturg tume drawings on the wall. Should by composer/lyricist Paul Gordon Vickie Rozell’s fingerprints all over they change the tie line? Or the and songwriter Jay Gruska, opens at it: Beatles photos, a ‘60s TIME Mag- costume? They wonder if “your TheatreWorks. azine cover, period advertisements, a curls less than ideal” would work. Where: Mountain View Center for the photo of Carnaby Street. “Would they say ‘pants’?” Gordon Performing Arts, 500 Castro St. asks. “Your pants less than ideal?” When: The show previews April Kelley goes over to the costume 3-5 and then runs April 6-28, with shop to consult with Bielefeldt. performances Tuesday through Above left: During a vocal Soon, a conclusion is reached. Jack Sunday. rehearsal, Riley Krull (as the will sing “your hair less than ideal.” Cost: Tickets are $23-$73. innocent Cecily) sings with Euan Algernon will wear the turtleneck Info: 650-463-1960 or theatreworks.org Morton (playing the dapper sweater. Order restored. Algernon). Below left: Amanda “We realized we had an irrec- Warner, a production assistant, oncilable situation,” Kelley jokes About the cover: Jill Bowers, talks with Emily Wolf, the assistant later about the wardrobe malfunc- costume director, and Fumiko stage manager, in front of a wall tion. But all’s well that ends well. Bielefeldt, costume designer, of photos and other images from “This era is fun.” confer on “Being Earnest” England in the mid-’60s. Wig designer Sharon Ridge is designs. Photo by Veronica Weber.
2013/2014 Groundwater Production and Surface Water Charges
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That on the 22nd of February 2013, a report of the SANTA CLARA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT’S activities in the protection and augmentation of the water supplies of the District has been delivered to Michele L. King, CMC, Clerk of the Board, in writing, including: a financial analysis of the District’s water utility system; information as to the present and future water requirements of the District; the water supply available to the District, and future capital improvement and maintenance and operating requirements; a method of financing; a recommendation as to whether or not a groundwater charge should be levied in any zone or zones of the District and, if any groundwater charge is recommended, a proposal of a rate per acre-foot for agricultural water and a rate per acre-foot for all water other than agricultural water for such zone or zones;
That on the 9th day of April 2013, at 9 a.m., in the chambers of the Board of Directors of Santa Clara Valley Water District at 5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, California, a public hearing regarding said report will be held; that all operators of water producing facilities within the District and any persons interested in the District’s activities in the protection and augmentation of the water supplies of the District are invited to call at the offices of the District at 5750 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, California, to examine said report;
That at the time and place above stated any operator of a water producing facility within the District, or any person interested in the District’s activities in the protection and augmentation of the water supplies of the District, may, in person or by representative, appear and submit evidence concerning the subject of said written report; and
That based upon findings and determinations from said hearing, including the results of any protest procedure, the Board of Directors of the District will determine whether or not a groundwater production charge and surface water charge should be levied in any zone or zones; and that, if the Board of Directors determines that a groundwater production charge and surface water charge should be levied, the same shall be levied, subject and pursuant to applicable law, against all persons operating groundwater facilities and diverting District surface water within such zone or zones beginning July 1, 2013.
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Stanford composer explores auditory hallucinations in two new chamber operas by Rebecca Wallace
eople have likened the new will premiere at Bing with an- real mother is as mentally unstable rifying,” Berger said. “She’s singing sia annually, focusing on a topic that Bing Concert Hall at Stanford other of Berger’s brand-new one- as he is,” Berger said. what he’s imagining. He’s reliving he’s been researching or composing P to an oval and a theater in the act operas, “The War Reporter.” “The War Reporter” is more this moment in Mogadishu.” around. Past themes have included round. Sometimes a ship with Both have librettos written by Dan narrative, with the music grow- The two chamber operas display music and aging and memory, and swooping sails of acoustic paneling. O’Brien. “Theotokia” is deeply ing increasingly tonal as Watson’s “very different faces of inner voic- rhythm and brain-wave enhance- Jonathan Berger might be the first spiritual: Leon is enticed and jeered thoughts become more haunted by es,” but their shared subject mat- ment. Scholars, writers and re- to call it a brain. by the mother of God, hearing her his post-traumatic stress disorder. ter makes them a natural pairing, searchers come together to discuss Both of the faculty composer and alternately as Shaker leader Mother Berger believes that all good mu- Berger said. They will be performed various facets of the topic. This researcher’s two new operas are Anne, the God mother Yeti and his sic surprises, and in this opera the together twice, on Friday and Satur- year, programs will cover musical about hallucinations. Thanks to the real mother. At times, his speech music and lyrics can play off each day nights. In between, during the hallucinations, the neuroscience of oval design of the hall, Berger imag- morphs into glossolalia, or he com- other in startling ways. In the scene day on Saturday, Berger, Watson and and hallucinations from schizophre- ines that he’s placing the audience pulsively beats a rhythm on his own where Watson receives his Pulitzer, others will delve even more deeply nia, and PTSD and its sufferers who right inside the mind. body. the external world is celebratory. into the topic of hallucinations with are plagued by voices. Twenty-six speakers hung around Meanwhile, “The War Reporter” Buck becomes a lounge singer and “Hearing Voices,” the 2013 Music Speakers will include Stanford the audience will provide a vivid depicts the earthly struggles of Ca- performs what seems at first to be a and Brain Symposium. anthropology professor Tanya soundscape for the first opera, nadian photojournalist Paul Wat- slinky number. “But the text is hor- Berger presents the free sympo- Luhrmann, author of “When God “Theotokia,” in which protagonist son, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Leon is a schizophrenic man im- his 1993 photo of the body of a cap- mersed in religious hallucinations. tured American soldier mutilated As five singers and a chamber en- by a Mogadishu mob. Just before he semble perform Berger’s music, took the photo, he heard the voice of electronic sounds will emerge, the soldier in his mind: “If you do timed and placed to mimic the brain this, I will own you forever.” Wat- activity that occurs during verbal son remains haunted by guilt and hallucinations. self-loathing as he seeks forgive- The system is based on ambisonic ness from the soldier’s family, even electroacoustics, “a computational while throwing himself into more method that allows you to localize dangerous war zones. sound,” Berger said. It was devel- Musically, “Theotokia” begins oped at the university’s Center for simply, with Mother Anne (the so- Marco Borggreve Computer Research in Music and prano Heather Buck) singing with Acoustics, where the music profes- Shaker minimalism, then joined by sor is based. Berger, who has been at the chorus (the New York Polyph- Stanford for 15 years, has premiered ony ensemble) in tight harmony. many an electroacoustic composi- The music becomes more complex tion along with his chamber, orches- as Leon’s hallucinations deepen, Top: Stanford composer Jonathan Berger, photographed by the Weekly at the Center for Computer Research tral and vocal works. and as his mother fantasies evolve. in Music and Acoustics. Above: The St. Lawrence String Quartet, which has long been in residence at On April 12 and 13, “Theotokia” “Along the way, you realize that his Stanford, will perform in the two new operas. Page 20ÊUÊÊ >ÀV ÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Arts & Entertainment Chris Owyoung
The quartet New York Polyphony will sing in the new operas “Theotokia” and “The War Reporter.” Talks Back”; Diana Deutsch, di- litzer Prize finalist — will direct rector of the Music Perception and the operas. His past stints at Stan- Cognition Laboratory at the Univer- ford have included performing his sity of California at San Diego; and play “Horizon” here in 2006, and Stanford’s Shaili Jain, who works directing part of Trimpin’s sound- with veterans with PTSD and also sculpture work “The Gurs Zyklus” heads the Primary Care-Behavioral in 2011. Health Team at the VA Palo Alto The Bing venue was designed as PENINSULA Health Care System. a concert hall, so there are limits for Watson himself will also speak operatic and theatrical productions: at the event, something Berger is not much of a backstage, for exam- particularly looking forward to. “I ple. Berger said he’s rather enjoyed sort of timidly asked him to come, the challenge of working with the and he was amenable to speaking,” hall’s design. It gave him the whole Berger said. “He’s in Syria right “audience inside the brain” idea, and now. He goes where the danger is.” he’s using the choral-terrace seating The new operas’ librettist, Los for scenery instead of audience. Angeles writer Dan O’Brien, has Also, since there’s no orchestra pit had a long history with Watson. He like one would find in a theater, the Discover the best places has written the play “The Body of musicians must be on stage with the an American” and a collection of singers. That has led to a cabaret- poetry called “War Reporter,” both like setting that may be particularly to eat this week! about Watson’s experiences. O’Brien effective in the Pulitzer-party scene, was already working with Watson Berger said. when he teamed up with Berger to Berger is looking forward to the AMERICAN CHINESE create “Theotokia.” So “The War premieres, but is never quite sure Reporter” became a natural subse- what to expect from audiences. Af- Armadillo Willy’s Chef Chu’s quent project. ter all, his operas are experimental, 941-2922 948-2696 Like the war reporter himself, contemporary, often high-tech and 1031 N. San Antonio Road, Los Altos 1067 N. San Antonio Road Berger has a personal connection at times dissonant. www.armadillowillys.com www.chefchu.com to the topic of hearing voices. His “I want people to come away late mother had hearing loss and de- moved,” he concluded. “My art is The Old Pro Ming’s mentia, a combination that can lead unabashedly expressive. ... 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Old-fashioned hand-drawn animation is used to tell a nostalgic story in “From Up on Poppy Hill.”
from demolition, romance inevi- the film seems to breathe. Entirely OPENINGS tably stirs. But some surprising unlike the audio-visual onslaught shared family history may drive customary in American animated From Up on Poppy Hill a wedge between the two. (The features, “From Up On Poppy --- English-language version, voice- Hill” feels like a nature walk with (Palo Alto Square) There’s noth- directed by Gary Rydstrom, also friends. ing supernatural to “From Up on features Gillian Anderson, Beau That will be some folks’ knock Poppy Hill,” the latest film from Bridges, Christina Hendricks, Ron against the movie, a J-teen ro- Hayao Miyazaki’s legendary ani- Howard, Jamie Lee Curtis and Au- mance that’s unabashedly sen- mation house Studio Ghibli. No brey Plaza, among others.) timental and could just as easily one flies; animals don’t speak; It’s a simple coming-of-age tale, have been filmed in live-action. and the only sparkles come off told with Ghibli’s characteristic It’s fair to say that the film will ap- Tokyo Bay. Still, there’s magic in unhurried pace and unearthly gen- peal less to the jaded (teens includ- the craft of hand-drawn animation, tleness (think of “Spirited Away” ed) and more to tweeners who still a defiantly old-fashioned style here and “The Secret World of Arri- dream in chastely romantic terms applied to a nostalgic story. ety”). Studio founder Miyazaki about one day having someone to Set in 1963 Yokohama as the co-authored the screenplay, but hold hands with. Taken on its own cty prepares to host the Olympics, it’s his son Goro Miyazaki (“Tales terms, “From Up on Poppy Hill” the film derives from the manga from Earthsea”) who directs, over- is plain nice, and there’s nothing “Kokuriko-zaka kara” (“From Co- seeing the studio’s signature look wrong with that. quelicot Hill”) by Chizuru Taka- of delicate detailing and shading hashi and Tetsuro Sayama. The amidst a generally sunny and ver- Rated PG for mild thematic ele- story concerns Umi Matsuzaki dant eye on the world. “From Up ments and some incidental smok- (dubbed by Sarah Bolger), a high- on Poppy Hill” spends some time ing images. One hour, 31 min- schooler living and working in a in the quaintly ramshackle inte- utes. boarding house overlooking the rior of the clubhouse, but the last- bay. In the absence of her mother, a ing impression is of sunny days, — Peter Canavese medical professor studying abroad, blue skies and rippling blue waters Umi looks after her grandmother lined with greenery. The Host 1/2 and younger siblings. In Japan, Ghibli has a Pixar- (Century 16, Century 20) “Kiss Everyday adventure arrives esque reputation for excellence, me like you want to get slapped.” in the form of schoolmate Shun and “From Up On Poppy Hill” When a character comes out with Kazama (Anton Yelchin of “Star was both the top grossing Japanese this howler in “The Host,” it’s Trek”), who has taken notice of film of 2011 and winner of the Ja- enough to make you wonder if Umi’s daily habit of raising mari- pan Academy Prize for animation. writer-director Andrew Niccol time signal flags. Shun’s daring As for American audiences, part of — adapting Stephenie Meyer’s spirit draws Umi more fully into the film’s appeal will be its exotic YA novel — is having a laugh at the world, and as they bond over unbound demeanor: how gently someone’s expense ... as in taking efforts to save a school clubhouse the conflicts play out, how much the money and running.
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For other times, as well as In the company of a hunky guy acter development and even worse reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. she happens upon (Max Irons’ at trying to develop any tension. Admission (PG-13) ((1/2 Jared), Melanie escapes to a des- The picture feints in the direction Century 16: 12:30, 4, 7:10 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 11:10 a.m. & 1:45, 5, 7:40 & 10:15 p.m. ert hideaway, where Earthlings of philosophy: The alien “Souls” Argo (R) (((1/2 who have escaped possession try see their symbiosis as entirely Century 20: 2 & 7:10 p.m. not to be found by the likes of Di- natural, and instead of changing The Call (R) (Not Reviewed) ane Kruger’s “The Seeker.” There, the culture of each world, they Century 16: Century 20: 11:50 a.m. & 2:10, 4:40, 7:40 & 10:15 p.m. 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 & 10:25 p.m. the film settles into dull earnest- “experience it and perfect it.” On Casablanca (1942) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: Sun 2 & 7 p.m. Mon 2 & 7 p.m. Tue 2 & 7 p.m. Wed 2 & 7 p.m. Thu 2 & 7 p.m. Century 20: Wed 2 & 7 p.m. ness, represented by Oscar winner Earth, they’ve eliminated hunger, William Hurt, the king of dull ear- healed the environment and ended The Croods (PG) ((1/2 Century 16: 11:35 a.m. & 2:20, 3, 5:05, 8, 9 & 10:30 p.m. In 3D 11 a.m. & 12:20, 1:30, 4:10, 6:05, 7 & 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 11 nestness. He plays Melanie’s Uncle international conflict. Of course, a.m. & 12:35, 1:30, 4, 5:35, 6:30 & 9 p.m. Jeb, the rebel leader who has been they’ve also mind-raped most of From Up on Poppy Hill (PG) ((( protecting her younger brother Ja- humanity into something very Palo Alto Square: Fri and Sat 1:50, 4:20, 7:15 & 9:40 p.m. Sun 1:50, 4:20 & 7:15 p.m. mie (Chandler Canterbury). near brain-death, so they probably G.I. Joe: Retaliation (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) There have been few movies won’t be winning any “Humanitar- Century 16: 12:30, 2:30, 3:20, 6:20, 8:30 & 9:30 p.m. In 3D 11 & 11:40 a.m. & 1:40 p.m., 4:30, 5:20, 7:30 & 10:40 p.m. (Last show in the history of cinema with as ians of the Year” awards. 10:30 p.m. Sun.) Century 20: 11:05 a.m. & 1:45, 4:25, 7:05 & 9:50 p.m. In 3D 12:45, 3:25, 6:10 & 8:50 p.m. In XD 11:45 a.m. & 2:30, much talk about kissing as “The Do not consume “The Host” be- 5:15, 8 & 10:45 p.m. Host” has. That’s because Meyer, fore operating heavy machinery. Ginger & Rosa (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 1:50 & 7:10 p.m. knowing which side her bread is Fits of giggling may ensue. buttered on, has included a love The Host (PG-13) 1/2 Century 16: 11:10 a.m. & 2, 4:50, 7:50 & 10:50 p.m. (Last show at 10:30 on Sun.) Century 20: 10:45 a.m. & 1:35, 4:25, 7:30 & triangle. Jared loves Melanie, Rated PG-13 for some sensual- 10:30 p.m. Melanie loves Jared, but — uh oh ity and violence. Two hours, five Identity Thief (R) ((1/2 — Wanda loves tall drink of water minutes. Century 20: 11:25 a.m. & 4:35 & 9:55 p.m. Ian (Jake Abel). Hence, the afore- The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (PG-13) (( mentioned “kiss me like you want — Peter Canavese Century 16: 11:20 a.m. & 4:20 & 10:10 p.m. Century 20: 12:30, 3, 5:35, 8:05 & 10:35 p.m. to get slapped” strategy, a plan to Life of Pi (PG) (((1/2 coax out a suddenly recessive per- Century 20: 1:25 & 7:15 p.m. In 3D 4:20 & 10:10 p.m. sonality. 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I love you.” and “Let me about films playing, go to Palo North by Northwest (1959) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) guess: You have two minds about AltoOnline.com/movies Stanford Theatre: Fri 7:30 p.m. Sat-Sun 3:05 & 7:30 p.m. Notorious (1946) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Stanford Theatre: 5:35 & 10 p.m. Olympus Has Fallen (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11:15 a.m. & 12:25, 2:15, 3:50, 5, 7:15, 8:20 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m. & 12:50, 2:15, 3:45, 5:05, 6:40, 7:55, 9:35 & 10:45 p.m. Oz the Great and Powerful (PG) ((1/2 Century 16: 11:25 a.m. & 2:40, 6 & 9:30 p.m. In 3D 12:40, 3:40, 7:05 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m. & 2:25, 5:25 & 8:25 p.m. In 3D 1:05, 4:05, 7:20 & 10:20 p.m. Quartet (PG-13) ((( Guild Theatre: 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m. Fri-Sun also at 1 p.m. The Sapphires (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Aquarius Theatre: 4:15, 7 & 9:30 p.m. Fri-Sun also at 1:30 p.m. Silver Linings Playbook (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 12:10, 3:30, 6:40 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m. & 1:55, 4:50, 7:35 & 10:20 p.m. Spring Breakers (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: noon & 1, 2:20, 3:20, 4:45, 5:50, 7:05, 8:15, 9:30 & 10:40 p.m. Palo Alto Square: Fri and Sat 2, 4:30, 7:25 & 9:45 p.m. Sun 2, 4:30 & 7:25 p.m. Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (PG-13) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: noon & 3:10, 7 & 9:55 p.m. Century 20: 11:50 a.m. & 2:35, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m.
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Bob Drebin/stanfordphoto.com can’t rely on Chiney every game. to step up, that plan disappeared We know she will bring it every when Sierra Canyon’s Gabi Nevill hit game and we proved we have mul- back-to-back three-pointers to spark tiple threats.” a 9-0 run in the second quarter. Her Top-seeded Stanford (33-2) ad- first trey gave the Trailblazers the lead vances to a regional semifinal at the for good at 15-14. Trailing by just 18- Spokane Arena and plays No. 4 seed 17 at the half, Pinewood let the game Georgia (27-6) on Saturday at 6:04 get away in the crucial third period p.m. (ESPN) by making just 1 of 14 field-goal at- Stanford leads the all-time series tempts. Sierra Canyon outscored Pin- ewood, 18-5, in the period. Facing a With Sara James (21) leading the cheers, the Stanford women’s basketball team had plenty to celebrate during 36-22 deficit to open the final quarter, a 73-40 victory over Michigan that put the Cardinal into the Sweet 16 in Spokane, Wash., this weekend. (continued on page 27) Pinewood got to within seven points with 4:59 left to play when Bade made a steal and turned it into a layin STANFORD ROUNDUP PREP TRACK & FIELD and a 36-29 game. Sierra Canyon then scored six unanswered points to push its lead to 13 at 42-29. The Serious tests Palo Alto boys still Trailblazers put the finishing touches on the victory by making 5 of 7 free for Stanford chasing some records throws in the final 1:24. Pinewood finished just 11 of 49 from the field by Keith Peters for .224 percent, including 5 of 26 men’s tennis ead coach Jason Fung and his Palo Alto boys’ track from three-point range. Sophomore by Rick Eymer and field team enjoyed an historic season in 2012. Gabi Bade led the Panthers with oming off a 7-0 nonconfer- The Vikings swept titles in the SCVAL De Anza Di- eight points and seven rebounds H ence victory over visiting St. vision dual-meet season and at the league finals in addition while junior Leeana Bade and sopho- Mary’s on Wednesday, the to winning the program’s first-ever Central Coast Section more Marissa Hing each added C Stanford men’s tennis team shifts team crown. seven points and combined for 13 its focus to the Pac-12 season this Junior E.J. Floreal, meanwhile, helped re-write the school rebounds. Leeana Bade received the weekend with two very big home record book by running to school records of 10.52 in the 100 Pursuing Victory with Honor Sports- matches. meters and 21.16 in the 200 and anchoring the 400 relay to manship Award for her team. Winners of four in a row, Stanford another school mark of 41.56. The 4x400 relay, meanwhile, (7-5, 0-0 Pac-12) is about to face a also lowered a 1981 record to 3:20.69 in the state meet pre- ON THE AIR serious step up in competition, lims. Friday hosting the USC and UCLA this The possibility of any of those records falling this season College baseball: Stanford at Wash- weekend to close out a six-match appeared gone when Floreal left the state for Kentucky and ington St., 6 p.m.; KZSU (90.1 FM) homestand at Taube Family Tennis both relays lost two seniors to graduation. Saturday Stadium. While no one is talking about taking down Floreal’s in- College baseball: Stanford at Wash- Nationally No. 2 USC (17-2, 0-0 dividual marks, both relays are targeted for revision with ington St., 2 p.m.; KZSU (90.1 FM) Pac-12), which has won the past four nearly all new squad members. Women’s basketball: Stanford vs. NCAA team titles, visits The Farm “We’re getting faster,” said Fung, “and we’re getting stron- Georgia, 6:04 p.m.; ESPN; KZSU (90.1 FM) on Friday for a 1:30 p.m. match. ger. They just need to be pushed a little.” Monday On Saturday, No. 4 UCLA (14-1, The 400 relay team has seen various members this season Women’s basketball: NCAA Spokane 0-0 Pac-12) will be No. 49 Stan- due to injuries. The main squad of Matt Tolbert, Jayshawn Regional final, 6:40 p.m.; ESPN ford’s opponent during the first- Gates, Jon Alee and Nick Sullivan has run a CCS-leading ever televised match on the Pac-12 Keith Peters 42.53. Networks. The doubles competition Michael Johnson replaced Tolbert in Tuesday’s 65-62 READ MORE ONLINE begins at 2:30 p.m., with the telecast dual-meet victory over Los Altos and Paly ripped off a con- www.PASportsOnline.com joining in progress live at 4 p.m. and servative 42.57. For expanded daily coverage of college showcasing the singles matches on After taking a handoff from Jon Alee, Nick The Vikings are ranked No. 15 in the state and No. 2 and prep sports, please see our new Sullivan anchored the Paly boys’ 400 relay to site at www.PASportsOnline.com (continued on page 27) victory against Los Altos this week. (continued on page 26) Page 24ÊUÊÊ >ÀV ÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Menlo School, M-A baseball teams reach championship games by Keith Peters Despite a 6-1 deficit after two in- A’s prolific attack was fueled by 12 runs for a 4-0 lead. In the top of the drew Buchanan, each shooting enlo School and Menlo- nings, Menlo rallied for two runs hits, 10 walks, and six batters hit by seventh, Paly scored five times with 2-under 70 for their 18-hole rounds. Atherton will play for in the third four in the fourth and pitches. Isaac Feldstein’s three-run homer Carding even-par rounds of 72 in- M baseball tournament cham- scored the game-winner in the sixth In addition to Long’s perfect day the big hit. cluded Anson Cheng of Gunn and pionships while Palo Alto continues to pull off the upset. at the plate (including a double), se- Feldstein finished with four hits John Knowles of Palo Alto. to play like a champion following “Great win,” said Menlo coach nior James Kollar-Gasiewski went and four RBI as Rohit Ramkumar lopsided wins by all three teams on Craig Schoof. “One of the biggest 3-for-4 with four RBI while giving gained the complete-game victory Girls’ lacrosse Wednesday. in program history, right up there starting catcher Charles Grose a day and improved to 6-0. He scattered Senior Charlotte Biffar scored Menlo advanced to the champion- with CCS titles, win over Logan in off behind the plate. Junior Josh Ga- five hits, walked none and struck a season-high seven goals to pace ship game of the Cupertino Lion’s 1991 and win over Hayward in ‘91 briel went 2-for-3 with two RBI and out eight. Palo Alto to a 16-3 romp over visit- Club Host Tournament for the sec- when they were rank second in the three runs scored, Paul DeTrempe The Eagles and Vikings will play ing Pioneer in a Santa Clara Valley ond straight year following a 10-0 state! was 1-for-2 with three RBI, Randy again Friday, at Palo Alto starting Athletic League match on Tuesday victory over Kennedy (Sacramento) With the Knights and Monarchs Lopez was 1-for-3 with two RBI, at 3:30 p.m. night. in a game shortened to five innings tied at 7 after four, Menlo took the and Colin Martell was 1-for-3 with The Vikings (7-0, 9-0) remained due to the 10-run rule. lead in the fifth when Austin Mar- four runs scored. In all, 10 different Boys’ golf in first place as Annemarie Drez By reaching the finals, the Knights cus led of with a walk and Brock M-A batters had at least one RBI in Sacred Heart Prep kept pace with and Kristen DeStefano added two (9-3) denied Mitty a chance to play Cozad sacrificed him to second. Af- the game. defending champ Menlo School in goals apiece. Single tallies came for a seventh straight Lion’s Club ter a strikeout, Jared Lucian singled After taking a 1-0 lead in the first, the West Bay Athletic League with a from Gigi Lucas-Conwell, Anna title as Menlo upset the Monarchs in Marcus for an 8-7 lead. the Bears blew the game open in the 193-210 victory over Harker at Palo Dairaghi, Claire Chevallier, Nina in the opening round and finished In the sixth, Mikey Diekroeger second inning, scoring seven times. Alto Hills Golf & Country Club on Kelty and Julia Farino while Kelty pool play with a 3-0 mark. led off with a walk, advanced to M-A put the game completely out Tuesday. and Simone Buteau provided two Jack Redman pitched Menlo into second on a groundout and scored of reach in the bottom of the fourth The Gators (4-0, 6-0) were led by assists apiece. the finals as he won his second on a single by Adam Greenstein, his with a 13-run explosion as the Bears junior Bradley Knox, who had three In Atherton, Caroline Cummings game in three days. He needed only third RBI of the game. He finished sent 18 batters to the plate. birdies during his 1-over round of tallied five goals to pace Sacred 59 pitches in five shutout innings, with two hits, as did Will King and Menlo-Atherton defeated Placer 36. Stanford-bound Maverick Mc- Heart Prep to a 15-1 romp over 47 of which were strikes while al- Lucian. (Auburn), 4-2, in its opening game Nealy shared medalist honors with visiting Sacred Heart Cathedral in lowing just a first-inning single. He At the Cordova Easter Tourna- and crushed Valley (Sacramento), Knox. Derek Ackerman (37) and a WBAL match on Tuesday. Ally struck out four and walked none. ment in Rancho Cordova near Sac- 13-3, in five innings in its second Ryan Galvin (39) also had solid Mayle added four goals, Brigid Redman came on in relief in Mon- ramento, Menlo-Atherton junior game. On Tuesday, Matt McGarry rounds for SHP, which is off for White tallied three and Libby Muir day’s 4-2 win over Sierra and threw Jordan Long tossed a three-hit, com- pitched a one-hitter as the Bears spring break before hosting Menlo contributed two for the Gators (2-0, four shutout innings to gain the vic- plete-game shutout and contributed posted a 9-0 victory over Rio Lin- on April 8 in the first of two show- 8-0). tory in extra innings. Menlo will a 3-for-3, four-RBI performance at da. McGarry lost his no-hitter on a downs for first place. In another WBAL match, se- face Monterey in Friday’s champi- the plate as the Bears dominated lead-off single in the seventh. At Palo Alto Municipal, three nior Brooke Bullington scored onship game at PAL Stadium at 7 Mesa Verde, 21-0, in five innings In the SCVAL De Anza Division, other top golf teams got together seven goals in her second straight p.m. The Knights will be on spring Wednesday. Palo Alto won its eighth straight to test their talents and local rivals match to pace Menlo School to a break next week, but will be play- M-A improved to 10-4 and ad- game and remained tied for first Gunn and Palo Alto each shot 373 22-9 romp over visiting Castilleja. ing in the annual Bishop Gorman vanced to yesterday’s championship place with Wilcox following a to share honors in the nonleague Kaitlin Frangione added five goals Classic starting Wednesday in Las game against tourney host Rancho 10-1 romp over host Los Altos on tri-match. Menlo, which was miss- and three assists as the Knights im- Vegas. Cordova. Wednesday. ing two starters, finished with a 393 proved to 2-0 in league (2-4 over- Menlo’s 9-8 win over Mitty in the Long threw just 56 pitches in the The Vikings (6-1, 11-4) held a 1-0 total. all) while dropping the Gators to 0-2 opening round got the ball rolling five-inning contest, striking out lead until the top of the fifth when Medalist honors went to Gunn’s (1-2). Katherine Hobbs tallied five in San Jose. eight with no walks. On offense, M- Austin Kron tripled home a pair of Avinash Sharma and Menlo’s An- goals for Castilleja. N % & ' (
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We’ve been pretty consistent ND around 42.5 without E.J. I’m excited THE 2 ONE to see what they can do. I think ev- Nina Kelty Frankie Hattler eryone can bring down their time a Palo Alto High Sacred Heart Prep tenth.” The senior helped lead the The junior attacker led the The 1,600 relay mark may be Vikings to a pair of lacrosse way with 10 goals and 12 even easier to get, once freshman with coupon victories by scoring eight assists in lacrosse victories Eli Givens is added to the mix. Giv- (Not valid Friday & Saturday) goals and adding four as- over Palo Alto, Mountain ens won the frosh-soph 400 against sists in wins over Gunn and View and Menlo School as Los Altos in 51.88, which was faster ,UNCH "UFFET - 3 s 3UNDAY /NLY "ROWN 2ICE s 2ESERVATIONS !CCEPTED St. Francis (13-12) to take the Gators jumped into sec- than the winning varsity time, and sole possession of first ond place in the SCVAL De has run 51.07. Sullivan, however, 369 Lytton Avenue did not run that event Tuesday. He’s Downtown Palo Alto place in the SCVAL. Anza Division standings. the CCS leader at 49.63 this season. (650) 462-5903 Add in Johnson and Alee and a sub- Fax (650) 462-1433 Honorable mention 3:20 time could be attainable. In West Bay Athletic League Family owned and operated for 17 years Charlotte Biffar Andrew Buchanan meets Wednesday, the Menlo and Palo Alto lacrosse Menlo golf www.jantaindianrestaurant.com Sacred Heart Prep boys each won Caroline Cummings Jayshawn Gates* team titles. Sacred Heart Prep lacrosse Palo Alto track & field At Menlo, the Knights scored 254 Ally Howe Adam Greenstein points to defeat Priory (110) and Sacred Heart Prep swimming Menlo baseball Eastside Prep (103) while at SHP, Claire Klausner* Andrew Liang the Gators scored 251 points to Gunn softball Palo Alto swimming down St. Lawrence Academy (101), Gillian Meeks Sean Mayle Harker (55) and Pinewood (13). Gunn track & field Sacred Heart Prep lacrosse In the girls’ meets, Menlo (146) Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs Maya Miklos Austin Poore was second, Eastside Prep third Cranio Sacral Therapy Gunn track & field Palo Alto baseball (84) and Casteilleja fourth (83) to Cupping, Ear Seeds, Tuina * previous winner Mercy-Burlingame’s winning total of 201. At SHP, the Gators (79.5) SPECIALIZING IN: To see video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to www.PASportsOnline.com Sports Injuries trailed Notre Dame-SJ (164) and Mercy-SF (93) while Pinewood was Chronic Pain fourth (54.5). Stress and Mood Swings Menlo senior Max Parker won Insomia and Fatigue April is National Volunteer Month! the 100 (11.77) and 200 (23.35) and Depression and Anxiety ran a leg on the winning 400 relay Weight Management (45.33). Junior teammate Matt My- Yaping Chen, L.Ac. 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N Page 26ÊUÊÊ >ÀV ÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Sports NCAA hoops Stanford roundup (continued from page 24) (continued from page 24) with Georgia, 7-3, and Saturday’s courts Nos. 1-3. Ted Robinson will meeting will be the seventh between handle play-by-play duties while the schools in the NCAA tourna- Paul Goldstein, four-time All- ment (Stanford holds a 4-2 edge in American during his stellar Cardi- Matched those games). nal career from 1995-98, serves as The last meeting of the schools the color analyst. was in the 2010 NCAA regional Stanford squared off against CareGivers semifinal in Sacramento as Stanford UCLA and USC in early February, took care of business with a 73-36 falling 7-0 to the Bruins and 6-1 to victory. the Trojans. However, this week- No. 2 seed California (30-3) plays end’s contests have been designated No. 6 LSU (22-11) in the other semi- as the Pac-12 counting matches. final at 8:32 p.m. (ESPN2). One of the four teams in Spokane will reach Women’s gymnastics the Final Four. Stanford garnered three first-team The regional final is scheduled for and one second-team All-Pac-12 6:40 p.m. on Monday night. honors, as announced by the con- Chiney, of course, is Chiney ference Wednesday. Ashley Mor- Ogwumike. She was limited to 12 gan, Ivana Hong and Amanda Spin- points by Michigan but has 15 re- ner received first-team recognition, bounds and was a defensive force. while Nicole Dayton was named to Ogwumike is a lock to be named the second team. a first team All-American and is “There’s no place one of two or three players in the Women’s golf conversation for the national player Stanford’s winning streak ended like home.” of the year. after a sixth-place finish at 25-over- When you, or someone If nationally fourth-ranked Stan- par 889, trailing the leader by 35 you care about,
ford (33-2) goes on to win its first Bob Drebin/stanfordphoto.com strokes in the final day of the Anu- national title since 1992, it will be enue Spring Break Classic at the needs assistance... because of Ogwumike, who aver- Kapalua Bay Course in Maui. you can count on us ages roughly 22 points and 13 re- to be there. bounds a game. Women’s water polo We provide Peninsula Contributions, however, are al- Stanford senior Melissa Seide- families with top, ways needed from her teammates, mann and freshman Maggie Stef- professional caregivers. and they all responded against the fens swept the KAP 7 MPSF Player Wolverines, who tried to zone Stan- and Newcomer of the Week awards, Call now ford in an effort to take away Ogwu- respectively, for their performances (650) 839-2273 mike’s presence. Tinkle, Sara James Stanford senior Joslyn Tinkle (44) not only scored 21 points, but played in No. 2 Stanford’s 3-0 showing last www.matchedcaregivers.com and Bonnie Samuelson made them great defense in a 73-40 win over Michigan on Tuesday. weekend. N pay by nailing 3-pointers. Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer turn to keep up the tradition.” Like much of the nation, Barnes could remember only Arizona State Tinkle shot 70 percent for the Arico had heard Stanford was more playing a zone against the Cardinal game and Stanford shot nearly 54 of a one-player team and she de- (Cal did at times to switch things percent. Even with Ogwumike lim- vised a defense based on stopping up) for any length of time. ited offensively, Michigan could not Ogwumike. “This is the kind of game that will answer Stanford’s sharp shooters. “I heard about it all week long but help us,” VanDerveer said. “I’m ex- One of the reasons is the defense I doubt there are many teams who cited to be going to Spokane.” James played on Thompson, who played them and think that way,” she The teams who did manage to missed her first 10 shots and made said. “You’re not 33-2 without being beat Stanford or slow down Ogwu- her only basket late in the game. an outstanding team.” mike each had a top defender ath- “She’s a player who didn’t get ma- Amber Orrange added 11 points letic enough to stay with her. jor minutes but she’ll do whatever and six assists, with just two turn- “Their team’s success starts with we ask of her,” VanDerveer said of overs, and continues to develop her her,” Michigan senior forward Ra- James. “I told her ‘no 3s. If Thomp- all-around game for Stanford. chel Sheffer said. “She brings so son hits a 3, you’re coming out.’ Sara Samuelson, Mikaela Ruef and much to the court. She never stops really focused.” James were all within a point of working. She works 30 seconds And Michigan could not help but double figures. Ryan scored 11 to & every possession. We keyed on Og- notice. lead the Wolverines. Tinkle, mean- wumike and tried to take away the “She did a good job of being while, was outstanding. post but they kept hitting shot after physical,” Michigan’s Jenny Ryan “The past couple of days have shot.” said of James. “She was right on been crazy, surreal thinking this &'! Tinkle, meanwhile, made sure her the whole time. She got into her was my last game at Maples,” Tin- her final game in Maples Pavilion and never let up. We set screen after kle said. “I had a nice talk with Kate was one to remember while James screen after screen and she worked Paye and with my parents about how turned in one of the top defensive hard.” to handle the situation. I was sad, yet (&) efforts by any player all year. The Wolverines scored fewer at the same time I wanted to go out The game plan was executed to points just once all season and were with a bang, and I wanted my team near perfection, which means the held below 46 for just the third to go out with a bang. I was happy Stanford women’s basketball team time. out there. I had fun.” ! will play in the Sweet 16 for the “Physically they didn’t allow us to VanDerveer remembered the high sixth consecutive season in hopes do anything,” Michigan coach Kim school girl who came to Spokane to " # $ % of reaching its sixth consecutive Fi- Barnes Arico said. “It started with watch Stanford play Maryland years nal Four. James, but it was one through five ago in a regional. At the time, Tin- Tinkle did not miss from long really. As a coach, I hate saying this kle was one of the most sought-after ! * range as Stanford won its 19th but we might have felt a little intimi- players in the country. straight. James put the clamps on dated. Ogwumike might have made “She wanted to be part of this Michigan’s Kate Thompson, one of a difference in us not going inside. team,” VanDerveer said. “Jos is re- the nation’s best 3-point shooters. She has that reputation and she’s just ally Stanford. She’s a high-energy “I could not have asked to play any an outstanding basketball player.” person. I love her energy and her better than we did,” said VanDer- Stanford made a season-high 12 versatility. Tonight, she was in her veer, who is six wins shy of 900 three-pointers, eight coming in the element.” for her career. “I’m happy for Jos. I first half during perhaps the most As for Tinkle’s roommate? told her Candice Wiggins scored 44 dominating half of the season for “I knew she’d play hard,” Ruef points in her final game in Maples the Cardinal. Michigan had 14 made said, “But to go 5 for 5? That was and Roz (Gold-Onwude) went crazy baskets total and shot under 30 per- sweet.” in her final game here, so it was her cent for the game. As in the Sweet 16. N ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÊ >ÀV ÊÓ]ÊÓä£ÎÊU Page 27 Thank You
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