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LAND USE Palo Alto looks to scrap Cubberley covenant City Council unanimously supports eliminating 1989 provision that requires annual payments to school district by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto officials on Mon- the local campus of Foothill Col- day took a firm stance lege. P against a two-decade-old School and city officials are provision in the city’s lease of now working on a new lease. A Cubberley Community Center, a 2013 report from a broad com- covenant that requires the city to mittee of community stakehold- pay the school district $1.8 mil- ers recommended development 6iÀV>Ê7iLiÀ lion annually in exchange for the of a vision in which Cubberley school district’s promise not to would be shared by the city and sell some of its property in the school district and an assessment city. School officials are loath to to determine the best long-term give up the revenue, however, and uses for the sprawling center on Savoring the rain, while it lasts negotiations over a new lease are Middlefield Road. Walkers, some armed with umbrellas, cross University Avenue at Ramona Street on Wednesday heading into the final stretch as But as Keene noted on Monday, evening. More rain is expected over the weekend. the current lease nears its expira- the covenant remains a subject of tion date at the end of this year. disagreement between him and The covenant not to develop his counterpart on the school side, was adopted in 1989 with the Superintendent Kevin Skelly. HEALTH idea of giving the cash-strapped “The superintendent and I have school district a much-needed been exploring different ideas injection of funds while keeping and options, but I think we’re re- the district from selling off five ally reaching a sticking point as it Rare, polio-like virus striking school sites. With the district no relates to continuance of the cov- longer suffering from plummeting enant not to develop in the lease,” Bay Area children enrollment and sagging revenues Keene said. and with all five sites now in use From the council’s perspective, Doctors discuss cases at press conference, stress rarity of the disease (Jordan and JLS middle schools the issue is simple: Conditions that and the Ohlone, Garland and made the covenant useful no lon- by Sue Dremann Greendell campuses), the City ger apply. Accordingly, it should polio-like illness has strick- Waubant, professor of neurology is unusual, Van Haren said. Council agreed on Monday with be scrapped. That was also the en 25 children in California, at the University of California at Other enteroviruses can cause City Manager James Keene’s as- recommendation of the commu- A Lucile Packard Children’s San Francisco, are researching similar symptoms. Another strain, sessment that the circumstances nity advisory committee, which Hospital officials announced the cases and have found a vi- enterovirus-71, has been implicat- prompting the covenant no longer voted 18-0 to remove the covenant Monday at a press conference. rus, enterovirus-68, in the nasal ed in similar cases of acute flac- exist and therefore it should be from the new agreement. Patients suffering from the dis- swabs of two, but that sample is cid paralysis in southeast Asia and eliminated. “I see no public-policy reason ease quickly and permanently too small to draw conclusions, Australia, but that strain is not The covenant was part of a why anyone would expressly become paralyzed in one or more Waubant said. Enterovirus-68 is known here, Van Haren said. broader agreement between the agree to do something for which legs or arms. Some patients have in the same family as the polio The enterovirus-68 cases, which city and the school district, which they’re no longer receiving the in- respiratory symptoms before the virus. began in September 2012, have allows the city to lease from the tended benefit or result,” Keene paralysis begins, said Dr. Keith The polio vaccine does not pro- ranged from Monterey County school district 27 acres in the said Monday. Van Haren, a pediatric neurolo- tect against enterovirus-68, and to the North Bay, with others in 35-acre south Palo Alto commu- The council overwhelmingly gist. there is no evidence that the vac- southern California. There are no nity center that was once a high supported Keene’s position. “We suspect it is a virus,” but cine causes the disease. Doctors confirmed cases outside Califor- school. Today, Cubberley houses “I don’t see how anyone can doctors have not yet confirmed Monday emphasized the disease is nia. an eclectic collection of tenants explain to our voters, most of its presence in all of the patients, rare. It has been seen occasionally Most of those stricken are ages and amenities, including artist whom are voters in the city and he said. in the Bay Area, but the presence studios, child care providers, ath- Van Haren and Dr. Emmanuelle of five cases in the past 18 months VÌÕi`ÊÊ«>}iÊ£Ó® letic playing fields, a theater and VÌÕi`ÊÊ«>}iÊ® ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊiLÀÕ>ÀÞÊÓn]ÊÓä£{ÊU Page 5 Upfront

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COMMUNITY Chamber, Weekly announce Tall Tree Award winners Chief of police and local hotel among this year’s honorees by Sam Sciolla olunteer Cathy Kroymann, tion for Senior Day Health and Palo Alto in 2010. He has worked Police Chief Dennis Burns, others. with the Santa Clara County Sui- V Sheraton-Westin Hotels and “To label Cathy as a ‘tireless cide Prevention Task Force and Palo Alto Community Child Care volunteer’ is not hyperbole. She has made sure his force received will be recognized with 2014 Tall has advanced our community crisis-intervention team training, Tree Awards for their outstand- through contributions of much which covers how to calmly and ing civic service to the Palo Alto time, talent and effort,” a nomi- effectively respond to mentally community. nating letter stated. ill individuals in crisis. Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra Sponsored by the Palo Alto Burns will receive the award “Not only is Chief Burns a pro- Chamber of Commerce and the for “Outstanding Professional/ fessional respected by his peers in Palo Alto Weekly, the awards are Business Person.” He began law enforcement, but he is a com- Saturday, March 8, 2014 – 7:30 pm given annually to a citizen volun- his work with munity leader teer, professional/business per- the Palo Alto in Palo Alto at Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra son, business and nonprofit or- police depart- large, an am- ganization. This year, the awards ment in 1982 bassador to Antoine van Dongen, will be presented at a dinner on and climbed East Palo Alto conductor April 9 at the Crowne Plaza Ca- through the ... a builder of a Annie Ku, piano bana Hotel. The winners were ranks, becom- diverse depart- chosen by a committee of past ing assistant ment in a city Tall Tree recipients. chief in 2007. that is not as Cubberley Theatre Kroymann was selected as Later he served diverse as the @ Cubberley Community Center “Outstanding Citizen Volun- as an inter- Dennis Cathy state it is in, and 4000 Middlefi eld Road, Palo Alto teer” for the depth and breadth im fire chief Burns Kroymann in all respects I FREE of her volunteer work, through while the Palo can imagine an The Genius of Youth which she has advocated for Alto Fire Department searched exemplary professional and citi- school resources and the health for a permanent chief, and he zen,” stated one nominating let- Felix Mendelssohn was 12 years old when he composed his tenth of children and seniors. The list still oversees the police and fire ter. string symphony, a precocious blend of his two favorite composers, of organizations she has partic- departments as the city’s public The Tall Tree Award for “Out- Bach and Mozart. Benjamin Britten was 21 when he wrote his dynamic (and diffi cult!) Simple Symphony, and Shostakovich was all ipated in at a high level is long: safety director. standing Business” will be given of 27 for his brilliant, bitter fi rst piano concerto, which features PACO the Palo Alto Unified School Nominating letters praised to Sheraton-Westin Hotels of Palo concerto competition winner Annie Ku. We also welcome Antoine District (where she served as a Burns for his “empathy” and Alto, which has demonstrated van Dongen to the podium; he was a violinist in Amsterdam’s famed board member and president), “level-headedness.” He led Palo continued dedication to local non- Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years and here makes his Foundation for a College Edu- Alto as incident commander dur- profits and to fostering Palo Alto PACO conducting debut. cation, Adolescent Counseling ing the citywide power outage Services, Avenidas, Associa- following a plane crash in East VÌÕi`ÊÊ«>}iÊn) sWWWPACOMUSICORGsINFO PACOMUSICORG ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊiLÀÕ>ÀÞÊÓn]ÊÓä£{ÊU Page 7 Learn the Guitar this Spring Upfront Carol McComb’s “Starting to Play” workshop includes the FREE use of a Loaner Guitar for the duration HEALTH of the classes.* Regular cost is just $160 for nine weeks of group lessons, and all music is included. *“Starting to Play” meets for one hour each Monday night for nine weeks Palo Alto man dies from swine flu beginning March 24. Students are encouraged to bring their own guitar, but both nylon-string and steel-string loaner guitars are available. For family, H1N1 brought ‘hell’ Other classes at more advanced levels are also offered. A full brochure is available at Gryphon. by Sue Dremann 58-year-old Palo Alto man should see a doctor immediately. When she posted an obituary for has died after contracting Jeffrey Kane also had the flu, her brother on Palo Alto Online’s A the H1N1 influenza virus, and it developed into pneumo- Lasting Memories, the words did Stringed Instruments and his family became seriously nia, during the 2012-13 flu sea- not come easily. She decided to Since 1969 ill. son. He was underweight at the mention that he died from H1N1, 650U493U2131 Jeffrey Kane, a longtime resi- time he caught this year’s flu, she said. ,AMBERT!VENUEs0ALO!LTO dent and Gunn High School grad- she said. “At first I thought, ‘It’s no- uate, contracted the illness on The family did not get flu shots body’s business that he got sick www.gryphonstrings.com Dec. 27. He died on Jan. 29 after this year, she added. Although he and died,’” she said. But the flu’s a long battle against its complica- was ill, he did not immediately go impact, and lingering questions tions, his widow, Molly Kane, told to the doctor because the family that people who knew him would the Weekly. did not have much money, and he have, made her decide to write PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL The Kanes and their 11-year-old didn’t want to about H1N1, she said. CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE daughter were all sickened by the incur a higher “People are sitting and watch- BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 flu at the same time. He developed insurance de- ing TV and a reporter will say, pneumonia and spent more than ductible, she ‘There’s been another flu death in

CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ÕÀÌiÃÞÊvÊ`>Ê>i three weeks in the hospital and a said. Santa Clara County,’” she said. ACCESS CHANNEL 26 rehabilitation facility, she said. Instead, he But revealing that her brother ***************************************** This year’s flu has killed 14 thought he died of the illness “makes it per- THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. people in Santa Clara County could ride it sonal.” Dying from the flu is not THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL and six in San Mateo County so out as he al- abstract, she said, adding that the DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: far, according to county public- ways had. loss of her only, younger brother http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/knowzone/agendas/council.asp health officials. It has hit young- “We miss Jeffrey Kane is raw and real. er and middle-aged persons par- him. He didn’t in the 1970s. “He was my brother — the per- (TENTATIVE) AGENDA – SPECIAL MEETING ticularly hard, since they likely have to die. If son you sat with in your pajamas COUNCIL CHAMBERS are too young to have built im- he had gotten his flu vaccine and on a rainy day; or the person you MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014 - 6:00 PM munity from the last swine-flu we had seen a doctor immediate- played cards with or ganged up epidemic, officials have said. ly, he would not have died. He was with on your parents. I remember STUDY SESSION The total number of Califor- trying to save us that cost, and he when he fell asleep on my lap in 1. Water Supply Update and Drought Planning nia deaths from the swine flu paid for it,” Molly Kane said. my arms. SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY is unknown, as state law only As she and her family try to “You may have seen him on the 2. Reserve Officer Dennis Neverve Retirement Resolution requires medical professionals pull together their lives after this street or in the grocery store two honoring 46 years of service to report deaths in persons ages sudden loss at the hands of a mi- weeks ago, and now he is gone. CONSENT CALENDAR 17 to 65. crobe, Molly Kane said she wants There’s a ripple effect. This per- 3. Recommending Authorization of Indemnity Agreement With Molly Kane said she wants the the word to spread about taking son had parents and cousins, and Santa Clara Stadium Authority to Allow Provision of Requested public to know how dangerous precautions against this disease his cousins were a big deal to Law Enforcement Services to Levi’s Stadium H1N1 can be. and its power to kill. him. It is about the person and not 4. Approval of Amendment No 3 to Contract No. C12141152 “Oh my god, this was unlike She and her daughter are safe- about the thing that killed them,” Between the City of Palo Alto and Leidos Engineering, LLC any flu I’ve ever had. Just the guarding their health by applying she said. 5. Approval of the Purchase of 38 Multi-band Radios for Police phlegm I was coughing up. It for insurance under the Affordable The good memories are helping and Fire for a Total Amount Not to Exceed $116,000 was so thick, and you couldn’t re- Care Act — aka, ObamaCare. her through the grief, she added. 6. Request for Authorization to Increase Existing Legal Services ally bring it up, and you couldn’t “It will really make a differ- “I don’t think I have any spe- Agreement with the Law Firm of Goldfarb & Lipman, LLP breathe if you couldn’t bring it up. ence,” she said. cial skills to get me through. (S13149272) by an additional $175,000 for a Total Not to It was hell — it was really hell,” Jeffrey Kane’s sister, Linda Losing a sibling — losing your Exceed Amount of $230,000 and Adoption of a Budget she said. Kane, said she is left with the only sibling — it’s very hard. Amendment Ordinance to Appropriate $175,000 from the That feature — a thick, green memories of a brother she deeply Now I’m an only child,” she Residential Housing In-Lieu Fee Fund for Legal Services mucus that is hard to cough up loved. She did not want to focus said. N 7. Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Take-Over Agreement — is what set the H1N1 flu apart on the what-ifs. Her brother was Staff Writer Sue Dremann with Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland and Federal from others, she said. Anyone a private person, and she said can be emailed at sdremann@ Insurance Company Establishing Terms for Completion of who experiences such symptoms paweekly.com. Construction of the Mitchell Park Library and Community she wants to honor his memory. Center ACTION ITEMS 8. From Finance Committee Review of Development Impact run at Stanford. ship Program, in 2012 Palo Alto Fees: List of Public Facilities Capital Needs Tall Tree Palo Alto Community Child Community Child Care was able 9. Comprehensive Plan Update- Revised Scope of Work, VÌÕi`ÊvÀÊ«>}iÊÇ® Schedule and Contract Amendment for the Comprehensive Care (PACCC) will receive the to provide 143 children from Plan Update effort as part of the Our Palo Alto Initiative Tall Tree award as “Outstanding low-income families with qual- 10. Policy and Services Committee Staff Requests Direction on culture and community. Non-profit.” The nonprofit began ity care while their parents went the Naming of the Main Library In recent years, the hotels have in 1974 with the aim of provid- to work or school. Seventeen 11. Infrastructure Project Cost and Funding provided free rooms to Stan- percent of families the nonprofit ford Hospital, Stanford Lively works with today receive some STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS Arts, the Oshman Family Jewish ‘Chief Burns(is) kind of financial aid. Community Center, Palo Alto “The agency’s ethics inform The Council Appointed Officers Committee will meet on Jazz Alliance, the Palo Alto Film ... in all respects everything they do,” a nominat- Monday, March 3, 3014 at 5:00 P.M. to discuss: 1) Review and Festival and other groups. As part I can imagine ing letter stated. “The staff is Recommendation to Council to Amend the Contract with Sherry L. of the Meals for Munchkins pro- well cared for. There are always Lund Associates to Establish Scope of Work and Budget for 2014- gram, hotel staff has also cooked an exemplary learning opportunities. The pro- 2015 CAO Evaluation Process. numerous meals for families at professional and fessionalism of the centers is the Ronald McDonald House at citizen.’ second to none. The quality of The Finance Committee will meet on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at Stanford. the work places is continuously 7:00 PM to discuss 1) Financial Plan Templates and Preliminary In addition, the Sheraton-Wes- —one nominating letter being improved. All to provide Financial Forecasts, and 2) Utilities Advisory Recommendation tin has partnered with Lucile the best possible environment for that the City Council Adopt a Resolution Establishing the Packard Children’s Hospital on ing quality and affordable child the children.” N PaloAltoGreen Gas Program Using Certified Environmental Offsets fundraisers. These include Dine care for residents of Palo Alto. Tickets to the Tall Tree Awards and Approving Three New Gas Rate Schedules: Residential Green Out for Packard, through which Today PACCC has 19 sites and are available at www.paloalto- Gas Service (G-1-G), Residential Master-Metered and Commercial restaurants in Palo Alto, Menlo works with more than 900 fami- chamber.com. Green Gas Service (G-2-G), and Large Commercial Green Gas Park and Los Altos donate a per- lies with children from 2 months Editorial Assistant Sam Sci- Service (G-3-G). centage of sales, and the Summer of age to the fifth grade. olla can be emailed at ssciolla@ Scamper, a 5K/10K fundraiser Through its Family Partner- paweekly.com. 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(See story rent spending of $13,000 per pupil T nual payments from the City on page 5.) lags far behind per-pupil spending of Palo Alto as part of its lease of Several school board members of other high-performing school University Art, Palo Alto the Cubberley Community Center said Tuesday they would like to districts and states. did not sit well with school board discuss the issue in a future open “The top-performing states now Sunday, March 2, 2014, 2:00 PM members or schools supporters session. spend $16,000 to $22,000 per Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefi eld Road, Palo Alto Tuesday. Noting that $1.8 million could student,” Krop said. “New York Members briefly referred to pay for 18 teachers, board Vice- spends $19,000 per student. Monday’s City Council vote to President Melissa Baten Caswell “I’d tell the Palo Alto City support eliminating a lucrative said losing that amount of money Council that we’re not rolling in “covenant not to develop,” one of “would be really hard.” money — in fact, we’re millions Wednesday the guidelines for negotiating a Nancy Krop, vice-president of behind.” N new city lease of the Cubberley advocacy for the Palo Alto Coun- — Chris Kenrick

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Instead of simply giving money 6iÀV>Ê7iLiÀ to the school district, as is current The city and school district are renegotiating the lease for the Eigsti practice, Keene and the council Cubberley Community Center, which houses artist studios, child agreed that the covenant funds care, athletic playing fields, a theater and Foothill College classes. in Concert should instead be spent on fix- ing up Cubberley, an endeavor consumer price index increases; Gail Price and Greg Schmid dis- A Benef it for that according to staff estimates exploring a potential reconfigu- senting. could cost as much as $18 mil- ration of the 8 Cubberley acres Council members also asked lion. Councilman Marc Berman owned (not leased) by the city; Keene to attempt to complete joined Keene and the rest of his and eliminating language that al- negotiations by this summer, a Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts colleagues in championing this lows the school district to buy the deadline driven by Skelly’s re- Second Stage approach. city’s portion of the community cent announcement that he will 500 Castro St., Mountain View, CA 94041

“I look at ending the covenant center. The only issue that coun- be stepping down by June 30. $103 VIP tickets (includes premium seating & wine and appetizer reception not to develop as ending an agree- cil members split on was whether Councilman Pat Burt, who pro- with Taylor at 7pm) ment that’s obviously obsolete at to eliminate an option clause that posed the tighter timeline, ar- $63 General admission tickets this point and investing it in the allows the school district to buy gued that both sides have been Show starts at 8pm community,” Berman said. back Ventura Community Center holding on to their positions for Members voted 9-0 to make the in south Palo Alto from the city. a long time and that nothing will Order Tickets Online at www.mvcpa.com elimination of the covenant one The council ultimately voted 5-4 change between now and the end By Phone at (650) 903-6000 of the guidelines for negotiating to support eliminating the clause, of the year. The council voted 7-2 Or in person at the MVCPA Ticket Ofﬁce (Wed-Sat, 12 noon to 6pm) a new lease. Other guidelines with Vice Mayor Liz Kniss and to support Burt’s proposal, with Proceeds donated to CHAC, a local nonproﬁt dedicated to creating healthy include eliminating the annual council members Karen Holman, Klein and Schmid dissenting. N lives for youth & families

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NATURAL RESOURCES Stanford panel lays out drought strategies CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week Innovative technologies, conservation and new water storage needed for the future City Council (Feb. 24) by Sue Dremann Transportation: The council supported a variety of “transportation demand s the state’s drought deep- measures to further conserve and and it shouldn’t be squandered in management” programs, including a Caltrain Go Pass program for city workers; ens, Stanford University’s capture water, Zigterman said. wet years, he said. the creation of a downtown Transportation Management Authority; and explora- A water conservation efforts Stanford plans to complete a California is one of the few west- tion of expanding the city shuttle program. Yes: Unanimous Cubberley: The council gave directions to staff on negotiating a new lease with and strategies for expanding wa- sustainable water-management ern states without regulations on its the school district for a 27-acre portion of Cubberley Community Center. The ter resources for the future could plan in the next year or two, and groundwater pumping, Zigterman council voted unanimously to remove the “covenant not to develop” from the serve as a helpful model for the it plans to increase its use of re- said. That has meant that commu- agreement. The council then voted 7-2, with Klein and Schmid dissenting, to rest of the state, a panel of Stan- cycled treated water. University nities and water districts decide direct staff to attempt to reach a new deal by June. The council also voted 5-4 to exclude from the lease an option that allows the school district to buy back ford experts said at a public forum scientists are busy conducting what, if any, regulations are placed Ventura Community Center. on Tuesday night. water-treatment research to im- on groundwater use. Santa Clara Yes: Berman, Burt, Klein, Scharff, Shepherd No: Holman, Kniss, Price, Schmid Stanford, which relies on varied prove the quality and safety of Valley Water District does regulate sources of water, is in better shape recycled water, Zigterman said. how much can be pumped out, after Board of Education (Feb. 25) than many parts of the state. With In the meantime, in response to decades of over-pumping caused Superintendent search: The board discussed a process for seeking a replace- its 8,000 acres of property situat- the current drought, Stanford has land subsidence in the South Bay. ment for Superintendent Kevin Skelly, who announced he will resign as of June 30. Action: None ed on a watershed fed by several shut off its fountains, fixed over- But regions such as the Tulare Gunn building project: The board authorized architects to proceed with de- creeks, the university in the past spraying irrigation equipment and Basin, roughly between Fresno signs for a $19.4 million project at Gunn High School that would demolish the enjoyed fresh water from a robust added “smart” controllers and and Bakersfield, face potentially music building and build a large addition onto the front of Spangenberg The- underground aquifer replenished leak detectors. dire shortages because they have ater. Yes: Unanimous by mountain runoff. But Stanford “In case the drought prolongs used groundwater in drought and Parks and Recreation Commission (Feb. 25) stopped using its groundwater af- into next year, we have to be pre- wet years alike, preventing the Master plan: The commission discussed the Parks, Recreation, Open Space ter the 1960s, preferring the fresh pared,” Zigterman said. aquifers from recharging. and Trails Master Plan and the formation of a stakeholders group to assist with Sierra snow melt from the Hetch But conservation will only Zigterman said Los Angeles the new document. Action: None Hetchy reservoir. take the university so far. For the water authorities have pumped Parks: The commission discussed capital-improvement plans for Hopkins and That switch has given the aqui- future, it will need to look at in- water back into the ground during Monroe parks. Action: None fer time to recharge, since the creased storage capacity as well, wet years, expanding their storage Planning and Transportation Commission university does not pull its drink- according to the panel. capacity, and that water is helping water from that source. The This year was a wake-up call, ing them in the current drought. (Feb. 26) aquifer has replenished to 70 feet Zigterman said. He said he’s nev- The Bay Area and other parts of Urban forest: The commission recommended approval of the new Urban For- est Master Plan. Yes: Alcheck, Keller, King, Tanaka Absent: Martinez, Michael deep from the previous 100 feet, er reached Feb. 25 without being the state might likewise look to Sidewalks: The commission voted to recommend approval of several changes in said Tom Zigterman, associate di- able to divert a “drop of water” increasing underground storage the zoning code relating to increasing sidewalks and addressing building massing rector of water services and civil from creeks on Stanford land. capacity, he added. on El Camino Real. These include a requirement for sidewalks to range from 12 to infrastructure for the university. Stanford’s efforts have so far While it is expensive to pipe wa- 15 feet in width and a proposal to reduce allowed density at commercially zoned sites on El Camino. Yes: Alcheck, Keller, King, Tanaka Absent: Martinez, Michael Stanford also uses creek water spared the university from the ter underground, increasing the wa- at the dammed Searsville Reser- trials facing other communities ter storage during wet years will be voir for non-potable uses, such as where water is drying up. Barton more efficient than building above- irrigation. The reservoir is now 90 “Buzz” Thompson — a leading ex- ground reservoirs. Large reservoirs percent filled with sediment, how- pert in environmental and natural are damaging to the environment, ever, and the university is study- resources law and policy and se- expensive to build, and inefficient ing whether to dredge it or create nior fellow at the Stanford Woods — they lose precious water to alternative water storage areas, Institute for the Environment — evaporation, Thompson said. Zigterman said. pointed back to the lesson learned Water should also be more ex- Stanford has also reduced its from the university’s backing off pensive, Thompson said. He fa- water use by 500,000 gallons per on its groundwater consumption as vors pricing that makes the top day from a decade ago. It uses re- one that must be heeded statewide. users pay much more for amounts cycled water for toilets and other In extreme drought, aquifer water above the average. Such a mea- non-potable uses and is researching may be what saves a community, sure could in turn lead to additional conservation. The panelists also discussed the current weather patterns, explaining projections for the COMMUNITY MEETING coming year. Daniel Swain, a doctoral candidate in the Depart- ment of Environmental Earth System Science, coined the term Safe Routes to School for “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge,” widely used to describe the stub- Nixon Elementary School born high-pressure system that has been deflecting a jet stream Review and comment on Draft to the north. He said the ridge has been in place since 2012. Block- Walk and Roll Maps and Route Improvements ing ridges of this type are not un- common off California’s coast, Tuesday, March 11, 7:00-8:30 PM but they are usually short-lived. Nixon Elementary School Theater “It’s rare to see anomalies like 1711 Stanford Avenue this to last 12 months,” he said. While rain has already fallen The Palo Alto Safe Routes to School program in the area this week, with more storms predicted through the ! 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N Page 10ÊUÊiLÀÕ>ÀÞÊÓn]ÊÓä£{ÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Upfront The Jean and Bill Lane News Digest Lecture Series 2013–2014 Council question high bids for Cal Ave work Chastened by recent experiences with the Mitchell Park Library, Presents Palo Alto officials on Monday questioned the unexpectedly high bids Nikky Finney for the soon-to-commence reconstruction of California Avenue before agreeing to reduce the amount budgeted for unforeseen costs. The City Council voted 8-0 on Monday, with Pat Burt absent, to Reading approve a $6.2 million construction contract with Redgwick Con- MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014, 8:00 PM struction Company for the dramatic reconstruction of California Av- BECHTEL CONFERENCE CENTER, enue, a project that includes reducing lanes, creating two new plazas, replacing water infrastructure, widening sidewalks, installing new ENCINA HALL, 616 SERRA STREET, street lights, and adding benches, news racks and various landscape STANFORD UNIVERSITY improvements. But the council balked at approving a staff request for another $931,700 in unforeseen (or “contingency”) costs, a number that totals 15 percent of the construction budget. Instead, members “Nikky Finney takes the reader to a wonderfully lowered the amount to 10 percent, or $621,133. alive world where the musical possibilities of The vote came after several council members, most prominently Larry Klein, questioned the discrepancy between the cost estimates language overﬂow with surprise and innovation.” submitted by the engineer and the ones in the winning bid submitted by Redgwick. Overall, the Redgwick bid was about $1.2 million – Bruce Weigl higher than the staff had estimated. Chief Transportation Official Jaime Rodriguez attributed the high FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC bids to both the expansion of the project’s scope (most notably the replacement of water mains on California Avenue that will take place INFORMATION: 650.723.0011 HTTP://CREATIVEWRITING.STANFORD.EDU concurrent with the streetscape work) and changes in the construction climate, which he said has heated up. Sponsored by Stanford University’s Creative Writing Program “The bid climate has really changed from when the project first started three years ago and even from when we finalized the engineer’s estimate in the fall,” Rodriguez told the council. N —Gennady Sheyner You are cordially invited to an Student’s transcript change sparks probe Gunn and Palo Alto high schools are reviewing changes in tran- exclusive luncheon presentation… scripts for all members of the class of 2014 after a Paly student was found to have gained online access to alter a transcript, the Palo Alto school district said Feb. 20. The student gained access by using a staff member’s password. “There was an issue at Paly involving an individual student gain- ing access to their own transcript and making changes,” the district said in a statement responding to an inquiry. The district said it took “appropriate action” in imposing conse- quences on the student, “including notification to the appropriate educational institutions.” While an investigation is ongoing, “at this time, no evidence has been found that other students are involved,” the district said. “If future issues are found, staff will inform colleges as needed.” The statement also said the district’s information system “was not breached and remains secure.” District Communications Coordinator Tabitha Kappeler-Hurley said community members may contact her at 650-329-3746. N —Chris Kenrick Palo Alto initiative aims to shift drivers After months of debate about new garages and permit programs, Palo Alto officials shifted gears on Monday in their search for parking solutions when they approved an ambitious initiative aimed at getting drivers out of cars altogether. Get a taste of the exceptional resort lifestyle Buoyed by years of resident frustration over insufficient parking and a week of community praise about the latest remedies proposed our residents are raving about! by staff, the City Council voted unanimously to explore a series of Join us for an exclusive presentation to hear about world-class living at our “transportation demand management” (TDM) initiatives aimed at getting commuters to switch from cars to other modes of transporta- award-winning continuing care retirement community. tion. The package of proposals includes exploring a downtown Trans- portation Management Association; providing Caltrain Go Passes to Located in the heart of Sonoma County’s wine country, this premier senior City Hall workers willing to give up their parking permits; soliciting community offers resort-style services and amenities with a continuum of care. bids to dramatically expand the city’s shuttle program and imple- menting various car-share and ride-share programs downtown. The council’s vote authorizes staff to issue requests for proposals March 11th and March 19th - 11:30 a.m. to the private market for consulting services relating to the new as- Garden Court Hotel sociation and for a shuttle provider who could expand the existing two-bus program into a robust, citywide system. &RZSHU6WUHHWÝ3DOR$OWR&$ The fledgling TDM program borrows heavily from similar efforts both in the private sector, where companies like Google use large shuttle fleets to ferry employees, and the public sector, where agen- Please call 707-522-2464 today to make your reservations, as seating is limited. cies like the City of San Mateo and Contra Costa County have set up “transportation management associations” (TMA) that coordi- nate traffic-reduction efforts. Much like elsewhere, the goal in Palo )RXQWDLQJURYH3DUNZD\ Alto is to encourage downtown employees to switch to Caltrain, 6DQWD5RVD&$ buses and bicycles, thereby alleviating the city’s worsening parking shortage. In staff’s parlance, the TDM effort is one leg in the city’s (707) 522-2464 “three-legged stool” of initiatives. N RDNPRQWRIYDUHQQDFRP For the full story, visit www.PaloAltoOnline.com.

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AROUND THE BLOCK GREENMEADOW ARBOR DAY FESTIVAL ... Palo Altans will have a good excuse to hug a tree on March 8, when local Greenmeadow scholarship fund marks 50 years nonprofit Canopy celebrates Arbor Day with a festival at Mitchell Park. Neighborhood association has supported students since 1964 The free family event includes roped tree climbing, live music by by Sue Dremann the Banana Slug String Band, a performance by the Tree Circus, hen Palo Alto talks about craft activities and local groups, valuing its youth, it can including the Palo Alto Art Center, W look to the Greenmead- Master Gardeners and Friends of ow Community Association for the Palo Alto Library. The festival inspiration. Now in its 50th year, will also feature food from The the neighborhood’s college-schol- Oaxacan Kitchen Mobile and other arship program benefits high area food and ice cream trucks. school seniors in two communi- Festivities take place from 10:30 ties: Greenmeadow and Menlo- a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 600 East Atherton High School. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto. The community-funded Green- meadow Community Scholarship NEIGHBORHOOD ANNUAL Fund will honor six outstanding MEETINGS ... The groundhog may students with $2,500 each this have ducked back into his home for May. Over the years, it has expand- a few more weeks, but the Barron ed from the original $25 stipend. Park Association and College Ter- The program began as a way for race Residents Association are in- the neighborhood to heal after a viting their residents to venture forth high school senior, Scott Douglass, and meet their neighbors at the as- accidentally drowned in the asso- sociations’ annual meetings. Bar- ciation’s swimming pool in 1963. ron Park’s meeting features Palo Members launched the scholar- Alto police Chief Dennis Burns, ships in 1964, Greenmeadow Com- 6iÀV>Ê7iLiÀ Fire Chief Eric Nickel and Office of munity Association President Stu- Emergency Services Director Ken- art Greene said. Originally, awards Greenmeadow Community Scholarship Fund president Stu Greene, left, stands with former treasurer neth Dueker on March 9 from 2 to 4 went only to students whose fami- Bob Wachs in a cul-de-sac in the Greenmeadow neighborhood. The 50-year-old scholarship program p.m. at the Barron Park Elementary lies were members of the neighbor- offers $2,500 grants to six outstanding high school students from the Greenmeadow neighborhood and School multipurpose room, 800 hood association. The organization Menlo-Atherton High School. Barron Ave. Palo Alto Mayor Nancy added three more scholarships in Shepherd will speak at College Ter- 1969 for Ravenswood High School have never heard of or to a fam- vate college wasn’t making things of California at Berkeley. He has race’s meeting on March 22 from students. When that school closed, ily member. It’s a key point in the much better. The Greenmeadow taught and done research in cellu- 10 a.m. to noon in the Escondido the scholarships followed to stu- interview process,” he added. scholarship has helped me com- lar biology and molecular genetics Elementary School multipurpose dents at Menlo-Atherton as a way Alice Kleeman, an M-A college plete my freshman year debt free at three colleges, most recently at room, 890 Escondido Road. to have greater impact on students adviser, chairs the school’s schol- and has also offered me an amaz- the University of Minnesota. who face adversity. arship committee and selects eight ing book that has taught me so “I’ve since received awards for OF LOAVES AND FISHES ... The “People in the community felt students each year for the scholar- much about the human body. In teaching, for curriculum develop- all-volunteer Neighbors Helping we needed to expand beyond the ship process. addition, they have offered me a ment, and for advising and men- Neighbors group is looking for gro- provincial geographic boundaries “They are wonderful kids with- support system that I will always toring. Somehow I know that it all cery donations for 130 residents in and do something more commu- out a lot of advantages. It is just in- be grateful for,” she said. traces back to spending some for- need. They are looking for healthy, nal,” Greene said. spirational. They have an enormous Ford is currently a freshman at mative years in a community that basic goods such as whole grains The M-A scholarships are feeling of gratitude that somebody College of Saint Benedict, in Saint valued education and whose mem- and rice, nuts, beans, vegetables named for George Ebey, a founder is investing in them. The kids feel Joseph, Minn. She is studying bio- bers donated some of their time, and fruit. Neighborhoods want- of the original scholarship pro- really proud. They all get some- chemistry with a minor in psychol- money and talent to acknowledge ing to take part are asked to email gram, Bob Wachs, head of direct thing, and they are just tickled. ogy, and she hopes to go into medi- the character, achievements and NeighborsHelpingNeighbors2013@ appeal, said. “It’s a very wonderful commu- cal school in the fall of 2017. potential of the graduating seniors gmail.com or call for donations “We’re hoping we’re deliver- nity event, and it helps paying for David Matthes received a in their midst,” he said. pickup at 650-283-9910. ing a message where kids who college,” she said. Greenmeadow scholarship in Greene said he keeps hoping come from backgrounds where Students who don’t win a schol- 1982, following his mother’s the event will inspire other neigh- READ A METER, PREVENT CRIME education is not stressed and feel arship still receive a $250 stipend, prompting, he said. borhoods to follow. As far as he ... Locked gates often restrict bur- there is no way out will know that and everyone receives books, such “I was 17 and spending most of knows, Greenmeadow is the only glars, but the locks also keep city people outside their community as atlases, Wachs said. my free time playing Dungeons neighborhood providing a resi- meter readers out. So that resi- believe in them,” he said. Niesha Ford, an M-A graduate, and Dragons with my brothers dent-based scholarship, he said. dents can lock their side gates, the Sales of ads in the neighborhood received the scholarship last year. and friends in the Greenmeadow Anyone interested in supporting Palo Alto Utilities Department has association’s annual directory and “Ever since I was young I knew neighborhood,” he recalled in an or learning more about the schol- a Customer Reads Own Meter pro- donations through direct mailings I was going to college, but I never email this week. arship program can email Greene gram, through which residents can fund the scholarships. knew how I was going to afford “As many applicants probably at [email protected]. submit their own meter readings on- Scholarship winners must excel it. When I received the Green- did too, I felt sure that there would The scholarship program offers line or by mail. For more information in three criteria: scholarship (with meadow scholarship, it felt like surely be another senior with wor- the neighborhood a strong sense on how to properly read a meter and a minimum 2.75 grade-point av- someone was saying, ‘You’re go- thier character or greater achieve- of identity, Greene said. submit information, customers can erage), community service and ing to college, and we’re going to ments than me in the neighbor- “It demonstrates the interest contact Utilities Department cus- worthy character. The lattermost make sure of that.’ hood. ... Still, the interview at the in the community to be more tomer service at 650-329-2161. N is hard to define but plays a large “I was very happy to receive Greenmeadow Community Cen- than a collection of homes in a part in who gets the award, Wa- this scholarship. Not only did it ter was encouraging and somehow geographical area and to have a Send announcements of chs said. help me finance my education, made me feel valued as a commu- purpose that is more than a social neighborhood news to Sue The committee asks students but I also felt that I had a huge nity member. gathering,” he said. “It’s a foun- Dremann, Neighborhoods edi- about their role model. The re- support system guiding me on my “Being awarded the scholarship dation of what the Greenmeadow tor, at sdremann@paweekly. sponses reveal much about the way to my future. ... was a complete surprise and felt community is about.” N com. Or talk about your neigh- students’ inner workings, Greene “My dream is to be a physician. to me to be a great honor,” he said. Staff Writer Sue Dremann borhood news on Town Square said. I know going that route requires a Matthes graduated from Stan- can be emailed at sdremann@ at www.PaloAltoOnline.com. “Many refer to someone we lot of money, and going to a pri- ford University and University paweekly.com. ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊiLÀÕ>ÀÞÊÓn]ÊÓä£{ÊU Page 13 Upfront

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week

COUNCIL APPOINTED OFFICERS COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss an amendment to the council’s contract with Sherry L. Lund Associates. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, March 3, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hear an update on the statewide water shortage; review the city’s development-impact fees; consider a revised approach to amending the Comprehensive Plan; discuss a new name for the Main Library; and consider a recommendation from the In- frastructure Committee for a November bond measure. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 3, in the Council Chambers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee is scheduled to consider establishing a PaloAltoGreen Gas Program; approve new gas- rate schedules; and consider financial forecasts for electric, gas, water and wastewater utilities for fiscal years 2015-19. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).

HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 467 Lin- coln Ave., a request by Aino Vieira da Rosa on behalf of Lynn and John Martin for alterations to a residence in the Professorville Historic District. The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.). Online This Week These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto Online.com/news.

Teachers, bus drivers honored At the annual “Sweetheart Awards” ceremony Wednesday, special education parents paid tribute to teachers and other school staff members who have gone their extra mile for their children. “Find Your Way Home” (Posted Feb. 27, 10:31 a.m.) $300 million Open Space bond wins approval 7TH ANNUAL The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District board of direc- tors unanimously approved a $300 million bond measure Wednes- HOUSING CONFERENCE day night, culminating a year of public outreach dedicated to devel- Presented by Avenidas & Nancy Goldcamp, Coldwell Banker oping a vision for the future of the 62,000 acres of open space the agency is charged with protecting. (Posted Feb. 27, 9:46 a.m.) Saturday, March 22 8:30am to 2:15pm at Avenidas: Palo Alto officers may moonlight at Levi’s Palo Alto’s police officers would get to don the uniforms and 450 Bryant Street, Palo Alto insignia of their Santa Clara counterparts as part of a proposal that (Free, all-day parking available) will allow them to moonlight at the new Levi’s Stadium later this year. (Posted Feb. 27, 9:34 a.m.) EARLY New rules aim to widen El Camino sidewalks WORKSHOPS With its sea of cars, narrow sidewalks, imposing office com- REGISTRATION plexes and eclectic scattering of motels, restaurants and oil-change stations, El Camino Real rarely resembles the “grand boulevard” SPECIAL Decided to sell your home and move? vision planners have long been pushing for the central corridor. Get the keys to successful home selling Now, Palo Alto hopes to change that. (Posted Feb. 26, 10 p.m.) $40 Avenidas Members Learn how to clear up all your clutter $45 Non-Members East Palo Alto sergeant sues police, city Make the most from your home sale proceeds After March 14: An East Palo Alto police sergeant who reported another officer’s March 2012 misconduct — a racial slur in reference to then-Police $50 for all Want to stay in your own home? Chief Ronald Davis, posted on Facebook — is suing the police department and city for breaching a contract filed after the conflict. KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Learn how to successfully age-in-place (Posted Feb. 26, 4:51 p.m.) Age-Friendly Communities: Aging 2.0 - Get a glimpse into the future Edgewood Plaza’s Fresh Market burglarized A worldwide movement! Exploring possibilities for accessibility By Anabel Pelham, PhD Palo Alto police arrested two men on Feb. 20 for their alleged involvement in a late-night burglary of The Fresh Market on West Still evaluating all your options? Bayshore Road. One man was found inside the store and the other FOR MORE INFO What to expect from different housing choices inside the first man’s car, parked close by, police said. (Posted Feb. AND TO REGISTER 24, 9:31 p.m.) How to transition to a new lifestyle visit www.avenidas.org Navigating a new environment Residents question chemical-hazards report or call (650) 289-5435 Barron Park residents who live near a technology firm with a track record of dangerous chemical releases told city leaders they are dissatisfied with a consultant’s hazardous-risks report, and they want the Communications and Power Industries, Inc. facility TOOLS FOR POSITIVE AGING shut down. (Posted Feb. 21, 4:19 p.m.)

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A graduate of Palo Alto High School, she attended 1949. classes at San Jose State University where she met her be- While bringing up four children, Lois also worked POLICE CALLS loved husband David Popp who preceded her in death. as a freelance graphic artist and art teacher. Later she Palo Alto was employed in the audiovisual departments at University of Wisconsin- Feb. 15-25 She worked as Administrative Assistant to the Chancellor Violence related at Foothill-DeAnza Community College. Platteville and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In 1983, she earned certiﬁcation as a Christian Science nurse. For 30 years she worked at Arden Armed robbery ...... 1 An avid reader who loved books, Elizabeth spent many Battery ...... 6 Wood S.F. and as a visiting nurse. Lois was a peace activist, and served as Domestic violence ...... 4 hours volunteering at the library. She also loved piano President of the Milwaukee chapter of the World Federalists Association. She Family violence ...... 2 music. A feisty and loving, bright and beautiful woman, and Frederic were jointly awarded the 1990 Wisconsin W.F.A. Peace Service Strong arm robbery ...... 1 she was adored as a wife, mother, sister and grandmother Award. Theft related Lois and Frederic moved to California in 1990 to be closer to their children Commercial burglaries ...... 5 who will be forever remembered. and grandchildren who had relocated to the San Francisco area. With the Credit card forgery ...... 1 Elizabeth is survived by her three children, Cheryl Popp Grand theft ...... 5 First Church of Christ, Scientist of Mountain View, Lois served as a church Identity theft ...... 5 of Sausalito, Eric Popp (Ann) of Chico and Steven Popp reader, Sunday school teacher, reading room librarian, church board member, Petty theft ...... 7 (Lucinda) of Monterey, her sister Patricia Wood of Cuper- and member of the regional Christian Science Monitor support committee. Residential burglaries ...... 3 tino and her grandchildren Allyson Popp of Phoenix, AZ Lois is predeceased by her daughter Jean and is survived by her husband Shoplifting ...... 8 (Mountain View), children David (Los Altos), Cheryl (San Francisco), and Vehicle related and Whitney Popp of Washington D.C. Alan (San Jose), daughters-in-laws Jane and Graciela, and grandchildren Abandoned auto ...... 3 In lieu of ﬂowers, the family requests that donations Abandoned bicycle ...... 1 Michelle, Julia and Danny. Auto recovery ...... 2 be made to the Paradise Hospice House, 1289 Bille Road, A memorial service celebrating Lois’ life will be held at the First Church Auto theft ...... 2 Paradise, CA 95969. 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He was the recipient of numerous honors mouth, Mass. in 1926 and raised of flowers, donations may be in New Bedford. She moved to Francis J. Carney made to JW Hospitality House for his legal work, including Healthcare Lawyer of the Year for California in 1950 with her hus- Francis (Frank) Carney, 73, in Santa Clara. 2013, Northern California Super Lawyer for 2004- 2014, and Best band Bill Cunha, a Menlo Park died on Feb. 17 following a brief Lawyers of America 2008-2013. Keith’s memory was honored by fireman. They were married for illness. The California Academy of Attorneys for Health Care Professionals 60 years. She moved to Menlo Frank was born Oct. 26, 1940, in a tribute immediately after his death and a tribute to Keith by Park from Palo Alto in 1965 and in Queens, N.Y. A graduate of California Society of Health Care Attorneys is also planned at its was a longtime parishioner at St. Iona College in 1962, he served Visit Spring Seminar the week of April 11 in Lake Tahoe. Denis Church. She often greeted six years in the Navy. He mar- Keith was born in Bat Yam, outside of Tel Aviv, Israel to two Polish people at Sunday mass and waved ried his wife Margaret in 1967 Jews who survived WWII and met in a displaced people’s camp in to neighbors and friends around and soon after moved to Califor- town. nia. They settled in Menlo Park Lasting the British sector of Germany. He called their meeting as part of She worked at Stanford’s Stu- in 1972, where he remained for only 10% of Polish Jews who survived the War a miracle. As their dent Health Services as an ad- the rest of his life. He worked Memories only child he maintained a lifelong devotion to Israel. When he was ministrative assistant for almost as a probation officer and fam- An online directory 10 he moved with his family to San Francisco. Fluent in 4 languages, 17 years and remembered those ily court mediator for San Mateo he earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Political Science from UC years fondly. She was known as County. of obituaries and Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of San Francisco. An a woman of faith, and an animal He was actively involved in remembrances. avid reader and traveler he and his wife and family traveled widely person. many community issues. As a throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Russia and the Baltics. She is survived by her daugh- tree-lover, he participated in Search obituaries, ters Susan Moerk of Redwood the non-profit Trees for Menlo, submit a memorial, He is survived by his devoted wife of 36 years, Janice Ross, daughter City; Cathy Cunha of Woodside; which has planted trees along El Maya Bartel of San Francisco and Mother Helena Brandt of Atherton. and Cindy Cinha of Portola Val- Camino Real. share a photo. His son, Joshua Bartel, predeceased him. A Memorial Service was ley; as well as her brother Joe He is survived by Margaret Car- Go to: held on February 23 at the Hills of Eternity Cemetery in Colma, CA. Santos of Menlo Park; and six ney; son Patrick Carney and his Donations in his memory may be made to The Hebrew University of grandchildren. wife Juliette; son Kevin Hughes PaloAltoOnline.com/ Jerusalem or the Hebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco. A memorial service will be Carney and his wife Anne; and obituaries held on Saturday March 1 at 11 four grandchildren. PAID OBITUARY Pulse VÌÕi`ÊvÀÊ«ÀiÛÕÃÊ«>}i® Rose Century Soglin Edna Marie Huttenmaier Spitz Colorado Avenue, 2/17, 11:00 p.m.; December 26, 1923 – February 17, 2014 family violence. April 21, 1925 – November 28, 2013 El Camino Real, 2/18, 10:33 p.m.; battery. Rose Century Soglin of Palo Alto Roble Ridge, 2/18, 10:45 p.m.; domestic spent almost four decades raising her five Edna Spitz, a longtime resident of Stanford, passed away violence/violation of court order. children in Illinois. Then, at 59, she started Middlefield Road, 2/20, 9:15 a.m.; peacefully in Los Altos on November 28, 2013. Edna was battery. a 20-year career managing the children’s a lifelong Christian and a longtime member of Bethany Saint Francis Drive, 2/22, 1:12 p.m.; section of an independent bookstore in Lutheran Church in Menlo Park. domestic violence/battery. Santa Barbara, Calif. AlmaStreet, 2/22, 2:20 p.m.; domestic Edna was born in Beatrice, Nebraska and grew up on a farm violence/battery. Rose, who was called “a gentle, in Gage County. Her parents, Carl and Pauline Huttenmaier, Clark Way, 2/22, 9:40 p.m.; strong arm enthusiastic bundle of information” in a were German immigrants who encouraged her educational robbery. Santa Barbara newspaper profile, died Feb. El Camino Real pursuits. Edna earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from , 2/23, 9:55 a.m.; family 17, 2014, in Palo Alto of complications from violence. the University of Nebraska and a Ph.D. from the University of dementia. She was 90. Menlo Park Vienna. A gifted teacher, she had a lengthy and distinguished 300 block Sharon Park Dr., 2/20, 7:09 Rose is survived by her son Paul Soglin and his wife, Sara Soglin, p.m.; brandishing weapon. of Madison, Wisc.; daughter Deborah Soglin and her husband, Dan career as a German language and literature instructor at 600 block Roble Ave., 2/22, 8:12 p.m.; Appelman, of Menlo Park; son Ari Soglin and his partner, Suzanne Norfolk Junior College, the University of Missouri, Stephens spousal abuse. Portnoy, of Albany; daughter Becky Soglin and her husband, Rusty College, Cañada College, College of San Mateo, Foothill Hansen, of Iowa City, Iowa; son Jonathan Soglin and his wife, Eve College and Stanford University. An expert on modern Pearlman, of Alameda; stepdaughter and niece Susan Fantl Spivack German literature, she edited the anthology German Women and her husband, Jay Spivack, of Cobleskill, N.Y.; stepson and nephew Writers of the Twentieth Century. Richard Steinberg and his wife, Lisa Belluzzi, of Goleta; stepson and Edna is reunited in death with her beloved husband, nephew Steven Steinberg of Santa Barbara; and daughter-in-law Rae Lewis. She is survived by her children Stephen Spitz of San Lynn Fiscalini of Benicia. Francisco and Philip Spitz of Fremont, California and their Support Rose also is survived by grandchildren and step- grandchildren: spouses Carolyn and Kristin, her grandchildren Matthew, Palo Alto Weekly’s Jesse (Beth Mitchell) and Zachary Appelman; Rachael, Alexandra Liesl, Alyssa and Amanda Spitz, her siblings Betty Rath, and Natasha Soglin; Dashiell and Tatiana Soglin; Talia and Oliver Jennie Halvorsen, and Carl Huttenmaier, and many much coverage of our Soglin; Jeremy (Faye Halpern) Fantl and Sarah (David LaRosa) loved nieces and nephews. Spivack; and Will Steinberg. She also is survived by two step-great- Edna was laid to rest in Alta Mesa Memorial Park Cemetery community. grandchildren and many beloved nieces and nephews. in Palo Alto. Donations in her honor may be made to your A service will be held in the Chicago area in the spring. The family favorite charity. welcomes memorial gifts to your local library or the ACLU. Memberships begin Edna was a much loved wife, mother, sister, aunt, The family extends its thanks to the staff at Palo Alto Commons, grandmother, friend and teacher and made a significant at only 17¢ per day who lovingly cared for Rose for nearly a decade; Sita, who provided additional aid; Dr. Ami Laws and Pathways Hospice Care–Sunnyvale, difference in the lives of many. She had a servant’s heart and Join today: Calif. will be greatly missed. SupportLocalJournalism.org PAID OBITUARY PAID OBITUARY

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H opportunity to weigh in on and hear the council publicly Skelly gave his best Maybe those results can even be Just as people get upset when discuss issues that are largely dealt with in closed session, it’s Editor, Flags at the Palo Alto district prevented. thinking High Speed Rail could only fair to commend them for Monday night’s candid and open Conservation begins at home. result in loss of homes along the discussion. office should be at half mast, as yet another school superintendent Jackie Leonard-Dimmick, rail lines, many of us are also The city and school district have been negotiating behind closed Walnut Avenue, Atherton upset that homeowners at Buena doors for months over the renewal of a complicated lease for 27 bites the dust. Although he lasted seven years, Vista will lose their homes, plus acres at the former Cubberley High School site that was originally everything else — schools, child- penned in 1989 as a way to help the schools deal with a financial the average for earlier superinten- Save Buena Vista dents being three and a half years, Editor, care, jobs, etc. crisis brought on by declining enrollment. Silicon Valley is a place of in- Back then city leaders, with support from the Weekly, rallied to he could have continued but for I raised my two children in the a series of unexpected happen- Foothill Green neighborhood of novation and brilliant ideas; surely help the district by entering into an agreement that was essentially creative minds plus generous spir- a funding mechanism designed to transfer city funds to the needy stances that may have marred his Palo Alto, not far from the Buena otherwise unblemished record. Vista Mobile Home Park. The its can come up with a way to save school district. The deal had three components: The district agreed our Buena Vista community. not to sell off or redevelop unused school sites; the district provided His letter announcing his June Buena Vista community was, and 30 departure is a thing of beauty. is, a vital and precious part of our Caryn Huberman space for after-school child care at each elementary school; and the Lincoln Avenue, Palo Alto city agreed to lease the closed Cubberley High School. Reading between the lines, this city. Can’t we come up with a vi- Today, with built-in escalators, the deal is transferring more than writer feels there is a world of able and creative solution to save $7 million each year from the city to the school district, or about unspoken pain and hurt, a sense this community? Fountains still running? 4 percent of the district’s budget. The city then leases out space at of betrayal, inhibited anger and a There are 108 households and Editor, Cubberley to a variety of users and uses some itself, but generates feeling of failure that may well be 129 children at Buena Vista. I took a 40-minute stroll around barely enough income to simply pay for the operating expenses, remembered, rather than his many One-fourth of the households are Old Palo Alto on this beautiful with nothing offsetting the lease payments to the school district. moments of success. in extended families who own day and was horrified to see that The city is taking a bath on this deal, and with its expiration at the His school district — unique neighboring mobile homes. Care while some people have stopped end of the year the time has come to rein it in. in its wealth, teaching staff, and and support of both children and letting their garden fountains run, Over the last 25 years, about $136 million has been transferred administration as well as student elders happens at Buena Vista many more have not. from city coffers to the school district. brilliance — is charged with the every day. It is a model for how Haven’t they heard that we’re in During the depths of its financial problems, it was appropriate task of being everything to every- we might all like to live — in real a drought? Wouldn’t that be the for the city to step up, successfully pass the utility tax and use some one, in a day and age when Cali- community, helping one another. easiest way to save some water, of that money to help out the schools. But no one dreamed that 25 fornia schools have been asked, Destruction of Buena Vista means even if the water used in the foun- years later this transfer of money from the city to the school district nay, told they must provide in the children will be separated from tain is recirculated? I hope the would still be taking place, especially given the district’s current school setting services that not so grandparents, aunts and uncles. City of Palo Alto will take note healthy financial condition. long ago were undreamt of. This network of family support is and require citizens to not allow The city is seeking relatively minor concessions in the lease- In a short period of time the vital to the children being cared their fountains to play. renewal negotiations compared to what it could and should be schools have had to face all that for and to the parents who rely on Sue Kemp asking for. It wants to eliminate the $1.8 million a year currently the Internet and the devices in- this care so they can work to sup- Seale Avenue, Palo Alto being paid for the covenant not to develop or sell school sites that vented to harvest it, have impact- were considered surplus back in 1989, but which are now being ed on students and teachers alike. WHAT DO YOU THINK? utilized as schools or are lucratively leased. It also wants to end the The day of the computer class- cost-of-living increases that have driven up the lease costs. room is looming as apprehensive The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on our coverage As a result of the open discussion on Monday night, the public teachers see the handwriting on or on issues of local interest. learned that the school district is taking the position that the city the wall. should continue paying for this covenant, even though the sites Kevin Skelly, PhD, in his seven are no longer even remotely at risk of development. The school years as superintendent of schools, Should the city require district wants to renew the current agreement without any changes was immersed in a period of rapid wider sidewalks and bigger when it expires at the end of the year, a position that is simply change, with extraordinary de- indefensible. mands on just how to meet and setbacks for new buildings? Quite appropriately, the City Council voted unanimously in pub- handle the unexpected between a lic to affirm what it undoubtedly has been advising City Manager changing school board and strong Jim Keene in closed session: There is no longer any legal or moral involvement from the Palo Alto Submit letters to the editor of up to 300 words to [email protected]. and Stanford parents. It surprises Submit guest opinions of 1,000 words to [email protected]. Include your justification for giving $1.8 million a year to the school district. name, address and daytime phone number so we can reach you. In fact, the case can be made it is an illegal conveyance of public this writer he lasted as long as he We reserve the right to edit contributions for length, objectionable content, funds. did. libel and factual errors known to us. Anonymous letters will generally not be ac- As Councilmember Larry Klein, one of the major advocates of I came not to bury Skelly nor to cepted. Submitting a letter to the editor or guest opinion constitutes a granting over-praise him but hopefully to of permission to the Palo Alto Weekly and Embarcadero Media to also publish it the plan 25 years ago, said, “I don’t see how anyone can explain online, including in our online archives and as a post on Town Square. to our voters, most of whom are voters in the city and the school soothe him knowing that he sin- For more information contact Editor Jocelyn Dong or Editorial Assistant district, why the city should be paying for something that has no cerely gave it his best. Elena Kadvany at [email protected] or 650-326-8210. value.” Phil Spickler The council voted to instruct Keene to hold firm with the school Harvard Street, Palo Alto district, and several Council members suggested that if the district would not yield then the city should consider not renewing the Things we can do lease at all. Editor, For its part, the school district has argued that the city has a The effects of global warming strong interest in supporting the schools given their importance have been with us for a long time to the community, and the agreement is an appropriate ongoing (“Rising sea level isn’t in the fu- investment. ture - it’s now and right here” by With other important city infrastructure needs and greater-than- Jay Thorwaldson, 2/21/14). There expected growth in property-tax revenues for the school district, are physical things we can do to now is the time to begin phasing out the Cubberley lease without help minimize the damage from it having negative impacts on the schools. global warming. The City Manager and Council were right to bring news of the One of the major contributors to impasse to the public and conduct a full discussion of their reasons global warming is world overpop- for insisting on changes to the lease. By its unanimous vote, the ulation. People are the ones who Council also demonstrated a powerful united front. over-produce and over-consume. Now it’s time for the school board to move quickly to abandon As couples choose to have one or its position on the $1.8 million covenant so it doesn’t put the entire two children (or none) and adopt lease at risk. the rest, I’m sure we will experience the results of global warm- Page 18ÊUÊiLÀÕ>ÀÞÊÓn]ÊÓä£{ÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Check out Town Square! 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Guest Opinion The hippo in the classroom

by Marc Vincenti My deep concern though, born out of — and thrive — at school. At the heart of as a delightful example of the fallibility hen it teaching for 15 years at Gunn, is that when teaching and learning, and surely so for of grown-ups. comes we take instruction out of the classroom, teenagers, is a relationship that exists face- None of these things can be accom- W to online and put it onto screens at home, we face to-face, in real time. plished online. Kids and teachers need to learning for teen- irreparable loss. Let’s say you’re an English teacher, up be with each other. agers — which is Lest you roll your eyes at me as a Lud- on your feet to begin, oh, “A Tale of Two And I’m not even talking about how we being hailed by dite, let me say that I’m more of a techno- Cities,” Chapter One (“It was the best of teachers engage our students’ love, and thus many people as logical agnostic. Every time I rejoice to times, it was the worst of times...” — then their desire to learn from us, by giving them the Next Big Thing hear, let’s say, that George Clooney has a 119-word sentence that is guaranteed to Kleenex or Band-Aids or by opening a win- for our students at a satellite above Su- bamboozle teenag- dow when we see they’re too warm. Not Paly and Gunn — dan to spy out hor- ers and even be- to mention a classroom mascot of mine, a I feel like some rible human-rights My deep concern fuddle adults). If, in stuffed hippopotamus named Snodgrass, guy in a bowler violations, in the your classroom of whom one of my junior girls (yes, a junior) hat, standing on very next moment I though, born out of 20 young faces, you cradled at her desk every day. the dock amidst the ticker-tape and well- hear about blinding teaching for 15 years at see many frightened Teenagers aren’t college students, and wishers, calling at the top of my voice, laser-beams, shot eyes, well, you call they can’t be taught and shouldn’t be taught “Watch out for icebergs!” from the ground Gunn, is that when we for raised hands on online. I’m not a specialist in other disci- True, a mere 11 “blended classes” in our into airplane pilots’ the French Revolu- plines, but I’m sure it’s possible to engage city’s high schools may not add up to a Ti- eyes. No sooner am take instruction out of tion, which your kids teenagers with anything in a personal and tanic, but there’s such a hue and cry these I glad to find out the classroom, and put have already studied interactive way, whether it’s photosynthe- days, touting online education as the next about the latest gad- in history and will sis or French verbs or Freudian theory, and technological marvel, and Silicon Valley’s getry of emergency it onto screens at home, feel proud and reas- we’d be well-advised do so, and as engag- schools as the most logical port-of-depar- response than I we face irreparable loss. sured to instruct you ingly as we can, because these are 14- and ture. discover that Ama- in. (The boys will 15- and 16-year-olds who are excited and What’s a “blended class”? It’s a course, zon is toting up every step its warehouse happily tell you about the guillotine.) distracted about sex, about being indepen- whether on biology or math or French, that workers take. Or I reflect on the good old If your students still look scared, you dent, about manners and driving and sports, moves as much as half of the teaching and handsaw, and what it’s done for carpentry, read Chapter One aloud in a ridiculously and up against problems at home of paren- learning out of the classroom and onto then get images in my head of Raymond over-the-top “Downton Abbey” voice, tal drug use and infidelity and divorce. the Internet, so that the students can read Burr, across the way in “Rear Window.” hoping secretly they’ll begin to catch God forbid a worst-case: that blended and watch and listen, at their own speeds And I don’t wish to disparage my fellow Dickens’ subtle humor. And then if they courses really catch on in our schools. Job- and on their own schedules, at home. Lec- teachers, who sincerely want to help our complain, as you hope they will (be- seeking teachers might view our district tures, directed readings, video clips — it young and naturally want to “keep up with cause complaining means they’re alive as a place where you don’t have to spend all comes to the teenager’s household the times.” Parents, too, say that because and kicking) that Dickens uses too many so much time with kids, can be away from nook or kitchen table or bedroom. Time our teenagers already live on their screens words, you challenge them to define what campus, can get technical help to tape your in the actual classroom, then, is reserved and phones and other devices, well, it’s only is “too many.” And if they seem still too lectures, then market them on the Web to a for discussion, debate, problem-solving, common sense to meet them “where they shy to ask all their questions, you give lucrative world, to eke out a better living. games, simulations, building on the mate- live.” (I’ve yet to hear that, since teenag- them a minute to write them onto slips And I’m not saying our district is on board rial learned at home. ers average more than 3,000 texts sent and of paper for you to answer, and then it’s a the Titanic. I’m just saying we shouldn’t In our district for 2014-15, 11 blended received per month, we should be teaching win-win, because you’ll either floor these sail this boat too far out to sea. N classes have now been blessed with an of- them by I.M. and Twitter.) whippersnappers with your flawless pro- Marc Vincenti taught English at Gunn ficial, encouraging “bon voyage.” But let’s not forget that our kids also live fessional knowledge or you’ll serve them for 15 years. Streetwise Where is your favorite place to get coffee in Palo Alto? Ãi`ÊÊ L>ÀV>`iÀÊ,>`]ÊÊvÀÌÊvÊ/À>`iÀÊi½Ã°Ê+ÕiÃÌÊ>`ÊÌiÀÛiÜÃÊLÞÊ >ÀÊ vi`°

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omething happens between a photograph and the real thing. A pedestrian The winners and runners-up will be celebrated at a reception on March 5 at the footbridge becomes a study in symmetry. A campfire becomes a small sight Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road. The center will also host an exhibit of the S compared to the star-speckled skies. A boy’s look becomes an expression of photographs through April 6. raw emotion and thought. The adult first-place photographers will be awarded $300 and a $100 gift cer- The images captured by the winners of the Palo Alto Weekly’s 22nd Annual Photo tificate to University Art. Second-place finishers will receive $200 and a $75 gift Contest all exhibit this enlightening quality. Whether their subject is the Vietnam certificate, and third-place winners will receive $100 and a $50 gift certificate. Each Veterans Memorial, a wrinkled man lit from above, or a graffiti-covered bridge at are also receiving a one-year membership to the Palo Alto Art Center, one of the the beach, each photograph asks its viewers to see the world around them in a new contest’s sponsors. way. The youth first-place winners will be awarded $100, the second-place winners The panel of judges — composed of Weekly photographer Veronica Weber, land- $75 and the third-place winners $50. Each will also receive a $25 gift certificate to scape photographers Angela Buenning Filo and David Hibbard, and fine art photog- University Art, a contest co-sponsor. rapher Brigitte Carnochan — selected this year’s winners from the many adult and Read on to learn more about the photographers and the ideas and feelings they youth submissions in the three categories of Portraits, Bay Area Images and Views hoped to convey through their work. N Beyond the Bay. — Sam Sciolla

Adult: Portraits He hasn’t stopped since, doing everything from street photography (his main passion) First place to landscapes and portraits, a form that allows him to experiment with lighting. Gur discovered his model at a photogra- “Donald” phy workshop in Santa Fe, N.M. He said he was struck by Donald’s “amazing pres- Yaniv Gur ence” (“He is the definition of cool,” Gur said) and made it his personal challenge to t wasn’t the wild shock of white hair, create “something that looks like nothing or the stoic — almost regal — carriage I’ve ever seen.” I that struck Yaniv Gur as he pointed a To make it happen, Gur positioned a camera at Donald. strobe light over Donald’s head and a ring It wasn’t the impish spark in the model’s light by his feet. He watched Donald shake eyes or Donald’s prominent cheek bones, his shoulders and assume his position. which gave the rest of the face the gaunt, Then, lying on the floor near Donald’s confident look feet, Gur fixated on the subject’s hand as he of an ancient pointed the camera up and clicked away. prophet. At one point in the shoot, Gur tried to It was the move a fan that stood behind Donald when, hands — mas- in a happy accident, he turned the fan on. sive and leath- Donald’s unkempt locks washed over his ery, the right face, covering his eyes, and enabling Gur to one cradling create “Hair,” a photo that is also exhibited a black, wide- as part of the photo contest. rimmed hat; the The day ended happily. After Donald left one hang- saw the photos, he told Gur that it was his ing by the side, birthday and invited him to a bar for a cel- long fingers ebration. half-curled into “We went dancing at a bar, and he was a semicircle that drinking like a madman,” Gur recalled. could enfold a grapefruit. “He brought his wife and they were danc- “In my frame, I can see his big gnarly ing and making out and the way he was arm and his hand and it just had so much dancing was so cool — sort of like the way texture,” said Gur, a Palo Alto resident he was standing in the picture.” whose portrait, “Donald,” took first place —Gennady Sheyner in the portraits category for adults in the Palo Alto Weekly Photo Contest. “For the whole session, to be honest, all I was look- Judge’s comments ing at was the hand.” Donald isn’t exactly what we think of ne compelling aspect of a good when we think of male models. There is portrait is the story it tells. Here, no Botox, bulging bicep or fake tan here. O in first-place winner “Donald,” the He is a thin man in his 80s, and he wears a story is staged as a small drama with light- buttoned long-sleeve shirt and black pants ing, costume and mystery. That the subject held up by a leather belt. His splotched and is thinking back in time shows in his eyes “Donald” wrinkled face is framed from the north by and mouth, with the costume heightening a sweeping mane and from the south by a the effect. whose vulnerability and isolation are all they have seen. The beautiful lighting wispy sphere of a beard that fully obscures The distorted perspective of his hand — heightened by the dramatic color and con- and shallow depth of field allow us to focus his mouth. He doesn’t have the perfect as large as his face — keeps the eye travel- trast of his clothing and face against the without distraction on this face rich with skin of GQ model, but he looks perfectly ing back and forth between the two focal blurred, muted background empty of other history. comfortable, even proud, to be in his own points. Our eyes aren’t allowed to leave the people. Portraits that last make the viewer “Untitled Portrait 2,” which received an skin. frame — a powerful, dramatic portrait. want more. I want to know more about this honorable mention, is a photograph that il- Which, for Gur, made him a perfect sub- I have been to Ngorongoro Crater and man’s story. lustrates Cartier Bresson’s dictum of “the ject. seen some of the Masai people, but I cer- In third-place winner “Baba,” Paige Par- decisive moment.” The tension of this par- An Apple executive by day, Gur spends tainly didn’t come home with a portrait as sons has captured a moment that makes ticular moment is exaggerated by the tilted his time away from work following his pas- full of drama and poignancy as “Masai the viewer want to know, “What was she camera angle. The eye, lit by the glow of sion — photography. Gur has been shoot- Man in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania,” thinking?” Even though the eyes are not a lighter, focuses our attention. Clearly ing photos for the past three decades, ever which took second place and seems to tell looking out at the viewer (or perhaps es- there’s a story here, and the photograph since he was an 11-year-old boy in Israel the story of a whole family of people in pecially because they aren’t), our attention makes us wonder what it is. and his uncle gave him his first camera. the representation of this sole individual, is drawn to them and invite us to imagine —Brigitte Carnochan Page 20ÊUÊiLÀÕ>ÀÞÊÓn]ÊÓä£{ÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Cover Story The Weekly Photo Contest judges Angela Buenning Filo David Hibbard Angela Buenning Filo, a David Hibbard is a landscape Palo Alto resident, photographs photographer and writer based changing landscapes, most rein Menlo Park. He has had cently focusing on Silicon Val- several solo exhibitions of his ley and Bangalore, India. Her work in the Bay Area and his photography is currently on ex- photographs have been featured hibition at the San Jose Mineta in Color magazine. His current International Airport and the project is a book-length memoir San Jose Museum of Art. In on how his childhood experi- 2012 she invited the community ences with defective vision led to join her in creating The Palo him to art: first to drawing and Alto Forest, a crowd-sourced painting and eventually to pho- installation that reflected on the tography. His website can be importance of the urban canopy viewed at www.davidhibbard- in Palo Alto. photography.com. Brigitte Carnochan Veronica Weber Brigitte Carnochan’s photo- Veronica Weber, a Los An- graphs have been exhibited at geles native, is the Palo Alto galleries and museums nation- Weekly’s staff photographer, ally and internationally. Her responsible for covering daily most recent book, “Floating assignments and producing World,” is available online. video and multimedia proj- An exhibition of her platinum/ ects for PaloAltoOnline.com. palladium images can be seen She has a bachelor’s degree through the end of February in Journalism from San Fran- at Modernbook Gallery in San cisco State University, and Francisco. her work has been recognized by the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club.

“101 Pedestrian Overpass” Selected for exhibition Adult: Bay Area Images “It’s about pulling something out of a place that’s at the Palo Alto Art Center First place always there, but many don’t see.” —Tre’vell Anderson through April 6 “101 Pedestrian Judge’s comments Adults he winning images in this category demon- Portraits Paige Parsons Overpass” strate that one does not have to travel far to Rebecca Newell This Is a Good Sign T take evocative photographs. Untitled Portrait 2 Kyu Kim First-place winner Kyu Kim’s “101 Pedestrian (Honorable mention) Peter Stangl Overpass” leads us to a mysterious place, symbol- Drying Wings ho would’ve thought that leading a dou- ized by the small blaze of white light at the far end of Ken Fowkes ble life could be a beneficial practice? the walkway. I like how this image combines strong Sceloporus Occidentalis Views Beyond the Bay W For Kyu Kim, that is exactly what he graphic elements — lines converging to a vanishing Deborah Plumley has done. Architect by day, amateur photographer point — with soft, middle gray tones. Too much tonal Yaniv Gur Shell Spiral by night, he has seen his two seemingly disparate contrast would destroy the sense of atmosphere. Hair (Honorable mention) worlds colliding more and more. Second-place winner Peche Turner’s image “Bliss Kim is a graduate of Palo Alto High and Califor- Dance” is also a strong composition. I like how the Bay Area Images Nora Sweeny nia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. off-center placement of the dancer gives her room High Heels It wasn’t until college that he began photography as to cavort. Notice, too, how the form of the dancer is Jamshid Varza a hobby. It was in high isolated against the night sky and how only the body Sidewalk Art (Honorable mention) Stan Zychlinsky school, however, when he of the dancer is rendered in vibrant color (all the Danzon was able to intern at ACS other color is muted). These simplifications enhance Architects where he now the power of the image. Truett Clifton-Vizvary works. ACS would be the Deborah Plumley’s “Speeding from Oakland to Boronda Lake, 7:45 a.m., nexus for his ability to San Francisco,” which took third place, also achieves Foothill Park capture uncanny beauty. power through simplification. Only the important “I’m always pretty elements — the tracks, the cityscape beyond — are Youth aware of what I’m sur- shown in detail. I especially like how the stream of Portraits Nihar Pol rounded by and what I’m car headlights and the two sets of tracks all curve in Montera Espinosa Meerkat at San Francisco Zoo looking at,” he said of see- toward the same vanishing point, just below the City, A Moment ing the beauty in things a distant goal in the evening haze. Views Beyond the Bay others don’t, a quality he An honorable mention, Jamshid Varza’s image Zachary Weiss Montera Espinosa credits architecture for “Sidewalk Art” grabs our attention through its Antithetical Lost in Belize giving him. “Sometimes upside-down point of view. We hardly notice the (Honorable mention) the best pictures come out of the things that aren’t sidewalk artist — it is almost as if he has drawn Bay Area Images necessarily the best to look at.” himself into the picture. His creation, on the other Alexandra Ting Eli Goodman That was the case for Kim as he prepared to cross hand, stares directly at us with wide open eyes. She Cappadochia Hot Air the U.S. Highway 101 pedestrian overpass one day. has assumed a life of her own. The Innocent Butterfly (Honorable mention) Balloons The 29-year-old Palo Alto native looked at the bridge —David Hibbard (Honorable mention) as a piece of architecture. Calling on his tendency to notice how light filters through a building or a room, VÌÕi`ÊÊiÝÌÊ«>}i® he noticed “some nice contrast and the amount of Thank you to our sponsors! light and shade, a certain aspect of symmetry that is SEE MORE ONLINE there, but not there” on the overpass. PaloAltoOnline.com The Weekly appreciates the sponsorship of the 22nd Annual Photo Contest by And so he shot the photo without hesitation. With All of the winning photos, plus additional ones chosen a little editing to the image’s color saturation and a for exhibition, have been posted at PaloAltoOnline.com/ University Art Center and Palo Alto Art Center. quick crop job, Kim’s winning image was created. photo_contest. ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊiLÀÕ>ÀÞÊÓn]ÊÓä£{ÊU Page 21 Cover Story

“Noam”

the Stars” caught our attention immedi- really liked it, and my friends liked get- ately. In this long exposure, three figures ting nice pictures of themselves,” the 17- gather around a fire, faces illuminated by year-old said. Another reason: “I don’t like the glowing flames and draped under a being in front of the camera, so I stepped huge canopy of the seemingly infinite stars behind it.” and light bands of the Milky Way galaxy. In “Noam,” a family friend who was One can almost feel the warmth of the fire playing in the Obermans’ hot tub began on their faces and imagine staring up at to cry when he the stars by looking at this image. Aiken’s ran out of apple use of light, exposure and framing has bril- juice — and liantly captured the mood and feeling of Oberman began this place that would be difficult to express to shoot. in words. “I always take One of the great things about photog- a lot of pictures. raphy is that it can bring our attention to He’s a really design and form in ways we have not no- photogenic kid, ticed before. This is the case in Paige Par- and I got lucky sons’ second-place “Power Lines, Beijing, with this one,” “Campfire Under the Stars” China” image. Though the subject matter she said. may be just an ordinary power structure Always on the VÌÕi`ÊvÀÊ«ÀiÛÕÃÊ«>}i® in China, in Parsons’ photo, it becomes a lookout for pho- study of converging lines, shapes and sym- to opportunities, light from the campfire was overwhelming. metry. The image asks us to appreciate the the junior at Kehillah Jewish High School Adult: So, first he positioned his mother and sister artistic design of otherwise ordinary ob- carries her Nikon DSLR around with her. to block out the fire, then he used filters to jects and invites us to study other objects She enjoys incorporating her photography Views Beyond the Bay cut down on light from the fire area and with such detail. into mixed-media art projects and journal- First place bring up light in the sky. We also loved the dreamy, storytelling ing — and some of her work hangs on the With a 30-second exposure, he asked his quality of Tony Williams’ third-place “Go- walls of Kehillah. family “to sit very, very still,” he said. ing to Work by the Disney Concert Hall.” Oberman took up street photography — Aiken, who’s been seriously taking pho- A lone figure of a woman holding shop- shooting people she sees around a city and “Campfire tographs since he was in the seventh grade ping bags stands in front of the sculptural, making up stories about them — after see- and spent a year on a round-the-world trip industrial shapes of the Walt Disney Con- ing an exhibit of street photographer Bruce Under the Stars” with his family, said he “feels privileged to cert Hall in Los Angeles shrouded in fog Gilden’s work in New York City. She’s tried have been able to do that kind of travel.” and soft blue tones. The soft light adds an it in New York and also in Palo Alto. Timothy Aiken His other strong interest is cycling. He ethereal quality to the image and the isola- “But I have to be careful when I’m taking combines his two passions by keeping an tion of the lone figure adds drama and mys- pictures here because sometimes I’ll write ighteen-year-old Timothy Aiken, a eye out for interesting landscapes while on tery to the scene. The storytelling quality a story for somebody that one of my friends Stanford University freshman who his bike, then returning to identified loca- of this image makes us wonder about this knows, and it’s awkward.” E grew up on campus where both of tions to capture the California scenery. woman and where she is headed. I believe As for Noam, he’s thrilled to be part of his parents teach, was on a four-day back- —Carol Blitzer that memorable images not only capture a winning a contest — and excited that his pack trip in Baja California with his fam- sense of place and being but also leave us picture will be in the paper, the photogra- ily when he began framing his winning curious and wanting to know more about pher said. “Campfire Under the Stars” shot. Judge’s comments the story behind it. —Chris Kenrick They were crossing the Sierra de la La- —Veronica Weber guna mountains, a wooded range. ach year when I view the entries “At the highest point is an open expanse in the Views Beyond the Bay Area Judge’s comments that used to E category, I am transported to the Youth: Portraits be a lake. We beautiful places around the world our he winning photographers in the camped in a readers get to see. From Venetian canals First place Youth: Portraits category all took huge meadow. to African savannahs to lush hiking trails T young people as their subject mat- “We were just a state or two away, I always enjoy liv- ter, each demonstrating a compelling con- 7,000 feet up, ing vicariously through the photos of these “Noam” nection between camera and subject. away from any travels for a brief moment. cities. There This year’s winning entries impressed Hanna Oberman were amazing, me and the fellow judges because the pho- amazing stars,” tos not only show a place but they tell a alo Alto teenager Hanna Oberman SEE MORE ONLINE he recalled. story, capture a mood and call attention to started taking pictures seriously PaloAltoOnline.com But when he the overlooked beauty of seemingly every- P when she was in eighth grade, after All of the winning photos, plus additional ones looked through day objects. getting a camera as a gift. chosen for exhibition, have been posted at his lens, the Tim Aiken’s winning “Campfire Under “I started playing around with it and PaloAltoOnline.com/photo_contest. Page 22ÊUÊiLÀÕ>ÀÞÊÓn]ÊÓä£{ÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Cover Story

“Reflection”

“Patriot”

Choosing to photograph in black and order to keep his Nikon D5100 stable, and tractions at the edges of the composition. they were playing around with his SLR white, first-place winner Hanna Oberman found his shot. The shapes and fine details found within camera, won first place in the Bay Area creates a moody portrait of a young boy, The photo, titled “Reflection,” won first these outstretched wings made this image Images category. “Noam.” Pared down and effectively com- place in the photo contest’s Youth: Bay successful. “I look at pictures that other people like posed, the details of this photograph — the Area Images category. On the right-hand —Angela Buenning Filo Zachary have taken, and seeing what they droplets of water on the boy’s cheek and side is the bridge, with graffiti-covered have done makes me want to try that as mysterious textures in the background — arches open underneath standing in a body well,” Juvvadi said. “I don’t like to take a captured our attention. of water. In the distance is more beach and Youth: photography class to learn it.” Second-place winner Alisha Nayak used sky. Besides playing the piano since he was 6 color to her advantage, effectively captur- He said he took two shots with different years old, Juvvadi leads a busy life as the ing her subject’s intense focus. In “Dance exposures and used a high-dynamic-range Views Beyond the Bay senior patrol leader for his Boy Scout troop With the Sun,” the dancer’s outstretched technique, or HDR, to merge the two ex- First place and is learning jazz. He also created his arms helped frame and contain this com- posures in order to better capture “both the own website to showcase his photographs, position. highs and lows” in the photo. www.mjuvvadi.weebly.com. In a similar way, Jillian Li leads us into Weiss is a self-taught photographer who —Marion Hohlfeld her photograph “Looking Down at My picked up the craft in seventh grade, in “Patriot” Brother” through reaching arms. In this conjunction with his love of filmmaking. Mihir Juvvadi portrait we were engaged by the textures Weiss and his good friend, Mihir Juvvadi, Judge’s comments and reflections in the surrounding environ- who won first place in the contest’s Views hen Mihir Juvvadi pressed the ment, which give the viewer a reason to Beyond the Bay category, started playing shutter-release button on his ihir Juvvadi’s winning image sets take a second look. around with his camera together. W Canon EOS Rebel T3i while the Vietnam Memorial beauti- —Angela Buenning Filo “Soon enough he has his own camera, visiting Washington, D.C., in April 2013, M fully in the landscape. With a and we’re going out on photo walks every he had no idea that his shot would win a careful composition captured at an ideal Youth: other day,” Weiss said. photo contest almost a year later. time of day, Mihir gives us another view This is reflected in his approach to pho- “Patriot” cap- from which to reflect on two of our coun- tography — “walk around until something tures one small try’s most iconic monuments. Even in the Bay Area Images hits you” — and camera subjects, which is portion of the murky areas of the photo, interesting pops First place anything from his beach shot to portraits to Vietnam Vet- of color emerge, bringing those standing abstract photos. erans Memo- alongside Mihir into the frame as well. Weiss said he’s also passionate about rial in early eve- This judge, for one, particularly enjoyed psychology, film, coding and Web design. ning. Reflected the black and white images in the youth “Reflection” He recently launched his own website, in the polished category this year. Hanna Oberman took www.zweissphotography.com, where he’s black granite is second place for her image “At the Cuzco Zachary Weiss showcasing and selling his prints. the Washington Orphanage,” a portrait of a boy whose eyes achary Weiss had one thing on his —Elena Kadvany Monument, illu- meet the camera with a direct and open mind while walking down a long, minated by the gaze. He seems about to speak, and this Z vacant stretch of beach along the sinking sun. photograph gives us a chance to get to know Northern California coast last June: He Judge’s comments “It shows a lot him, even if we can’t hear his words. had to go to the bathroom. of the nation- Elise Most, like other youth winners this But all of a sudden, something else stole he weather was right when Zach- alism and patriotism presented in Wash- year, shows us a keen sense of timing and his attention. ary Weiss headed out to shoot his ington, D.C.,” the 14-year old freshman at quality of light in her third-place image, “It’s hard to describe — occasionally, I T winning landscape, “Reflection.” Gunn High School said. “Beach Fence.” She takes an everyday will just get this feeling,” the Gunn High Painted in the muted palette of an over- He admitted that he didn’t see that par- subject and gives us a reason to consider School freshman said. “I know there’s a cast sky, this image brings natural and ticular shot initially. He started by captur- it much longer than we might have if we photo to be had here — I just can’t tell human-made elements into harmony. At ing the memorial as a whole, from farther had been standing in front of it ourselves. what.” the same time, the clashing energy of graf- away. Rather than photograph the beach, she has He contin- fiti and construction fencing against a se- “I noticed that the trees were reflecting brought us up to its edge where we can get ued along the rene beach landscape and monumental sky onto the stone, and I thought I might try to lost in the blades of grass and winding lay- beach until bring tension and interest to the image. clarify that effect by coming at a 3/4 an- ers of fence. N he stumbled In her second-place image, Hannah gle,” he said. “This worked (and) toward —Angela Buenning Filo upon a huge Oberman finds a way to isolate this cou- the end of the memorial, I found that the pile of rocks ple’s passionate kiss against what could Washington Monument was positioned be- PUBLISH YOUR PHOTOS ONLINE that stretched have been a distracting background. Her hind me, so I set up to take the shot, with Palo Alto Online has a photo gallery where to the top of a manipulated toning gives this image a cin- the Washington Monument reflected into community members can post their own bridge above ematic quality, and her title, “In Defense of the war memorial.” photos for others to see! There are five categories: breaking news, community events, the beach. He Marriage,” makes the viewer want to know Juvvadi is part of an interesting twist in sports, travel and “fun stuff.” Share your clambered to more about the moment she has captured. this year’s photo contest: His good friend photographs, and check out what others have the top of the Mihir Juvvadi’s photograph, “Flight,” Zachary Weiss, who went to Washington, posted, by going to www.PaloAltoOnline.com/ rocks, balanc- had enough strength and focus that the D.C., with him and first introduced him photo_gallery. ing his feet in judges were willing to overlook small dis- to photography about two years ago when ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊiLÀÕ>ÀÞÊÓn]ÊÓä£{ÊU Page 23 GUIDE TO 2014 SUMMER CAMPS FOR KIDS

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onathan Franzen famously Facebook as a “junior-high caf- club selection. (The two had a ing in its life of breeding and feed- on nature’s part. Now, as human loves to be alone, but he will eteria”; and, borrowing a line public row after Franzen called ing is an enduringly transcendent presence expands ever more on the J make an exception for an from Austria’s cantankerous 1930s many of Oprah’s book selections delight.” planet, more and more are really early-morning spring rendezvous naysayer (and subject of Franzen’s “schmaltzy,” and she rescinded her Franzen, 54, said his fascina- beleaguered. The rarest you find with a warbler in Central Park or latest work) Karl Kraus, decried invitation for him to appear on her tion with birds began when he only in a really small place. for a glimpse of the rare rayadito America’s culture of techno-con- show. They have since made up.) was around 40 and a relationship “Writers in general, maybe fic- taking refuge on a volcanic island sumerism as the “infernal machine His most recent novel, “Freedom,” brought him to Santa Cruz, where tion writers in particular, and 500 miles off the coast of Chile. of humanity.” which landed Franzen on the cover he caught the “serious bird-watch- certainly this fiction writer, have Franzen famously hates the noise But when he pays a visit next of Time Magazine under the heading bug.” Having spent the first sympathy with lost causes, em- peddled by Facebook and Twitter, week to Silicon Valley, the bulg- line “Great American Novelist,” half of his life as a traveler visiting battled minorities. Literary fiction but he tolerates tweets when they ing, buzzing belly of this inferno, features a cerulean warbler on the museums and cathedrals, Franzen has that embattled-minority status come from feathered sources. And his goal won’t be so much to ruffle cover and tells a story of Walter said he now prefers to spend time nowadays. he doesn’t need social media to get feathers as to celebrate them. Berglund, a lawyer committed to at sewage-treatment plants, idle ag- “In the same way, as when I hap- the news about a two-year hunting Specifically, he will be talk- protecting the tiny songbird from ricultural fields and other isolated pen to look at an ordinary-looking ban that Albania adopted earlier ing about birds, a subject that has human overpopulation — even if spots frequented by birds. American citizen who spends time this month — an important step featured heavily in his books, es- it means blowing up a chunk of a “In New York, you have to wait reading literature, I’m so happy to for a country that he says has “one says and thoughts over the past mountain. for the migration season,” Franzen meet this person — You exist! I get of the worst hunting problems in decade. As part of the Peninsula Franzen’s musings on birds and said in a phone interview. “You get the same feeling going to the last Europe and also some of the best Open Space Trust’s annual Wal- humans are also scattered through- about three weeks in the spring habitat where a species that once habitats.” lace Stegner Lectures, the novelist, out his essays, including the report and a month in the fall, whereas had range is still hanging on. Franzen famously laments our essayist and journalist will appear he published in The New Yorker in it’s year-round in Santa Cruz. The “It’s very sad that the range has text-and-spend culture, the per- on March 6 at the Mountain View 2011 about his trip to the remote birds are all around you. For some- diminished, but I also feel very for- vasive optimism of app-pushing Center for the Performing Arts for Alejandro Selkirk Island, far off one developing a serious birding tunate that I get to see the last of the technologists and the toll that shal- a conversation with poet, essayist the Chilean coast, to scatter the habit, that availability made a big species. It fuels my commitment to low groupthink of the Internet has and fellow bird-lover Robert Hass. ashes of his recently departed difference. Really, anytime you can try to forestall extinctions, to work taken on the individual. In essays Franzen’s obsession with birds friend, David Foster Wallace, and go out and see some really amazing on behalf of bird conservation. In and interviews last fall, he com- should come as no surprise to his to find the rare and elusive Masa- birds.” spite of everything that happened, pared Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to readers, a group that has grown fuera rayadito. In a recent conversation with the these small warm-blooded crea- “one of the horsemen exponentially since his 2001 novel, “Simply knowing that the bird Weekly, Franzen expanded on his tures are still managing to hang of Apocalypse”; “The Corrections,” became a lit- was on the island made the island bird obsession, his Twitter anxiety on.” described erary sensation, a Na- interesting to me,” Fran- and the value of solitude. Excerpts tional Book Award zen wrote in April 2011. from that interview are published Q: Is bird watching a solitary winner and Oprah “When I’m searching here. A longer version — in which activity for you or a communal Winfrey’s most for a mostly lost authen- he discusses his journalism, his ac- one? famous book- ticity, for the remnants tivism and Albania’s hunting ban of a world now largely — has been posted on PaloAltoOn- “It’s both. It’s kind of like a overrun by human be- line.com. community of readers. We’re all ings but still beauti- talking about the same thing, but fully indifferent to us; Q: What about birds do you find ultimately the appeal of being a to glimpse a rare bird compelling? reader is that you spend this time somehow persist- completely alone and paradoxically “They are everywhere — they feeling very closely connected with are in the Antarctic, in whoever wrote what you’re reading. the middle of the ocean. In the same way, I think birding There are, believe it or is fundamentally a solitary activ- not, seagulls nesting ity. You’re having some kind of an in the driest desert on experience or relationship with the Earth — a Chilean des- birds you’re watching.” ert — they fly 50 miles inland from the coast Q: In your 1996 essay in Harp- every day, every night. So, er’s, you shared your anxieties wherever you are, whether in the about the threat of technology middle of London or an extremely and consumerism and your “de- dry desert or in the middle of the spair” about the relevance of ocean, they are there being beauti- the literary novel today. Has the ful and incredibly well-adapted to success of your two novels since their environment. And, in terms of then changed your thinking? a kind of passion or obsession, there are just enough of them — enough “I certainly became a lot less an- different kinds of them. If you’re gry after the success of ‘The Cor- into beetles, it’s hopeless. You can rections.’ I try to be rational about Courtesy of Kathryn Chetkovich Courtesy spend the rest of your life learning things, and when I’m making the Novelist and essayist about the beetles of your backyard. case that nobody cares about the Jonathan Franzen, who The top layer of soil probably has kinds of novel I care about and is a passionate birder, as many as there are birds. With suddenly hundreds of thousands will be speaking on birds, it’s a manageable number. of people are liking the novels I’m March 6 in Mountain “Also, they have widespread un- writing — I’m not going to fly in View as part of the derdog status. The world belonged the face of that evidence. In gen- nonprofit Peninsula to the birds for thousands and mil- eral, I was depressed in the 1990s, Open Space Trust’s lions of years. Birds were really annual lecture series. successful. It’s a great adaptation (continued on next page)

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(continued from previous page) “But it’s possible to look at the “To be tied to other beings miles. That’s because a lot of experi- way social media in particular op- through a wish just to give is fun- ments in how to preserve open space erate in people’s lives and feel, in damentally different from trying to and substantial chunks of nature Book and when you are depressed you looking from the outside, like there get the most value as a consumer were performed in the backyards of feel isolated from the rest of hu- is a self-medicating quality to it, an and trying to market yourself and groups like Sierra Club. manity. addictive quality. It seems to me chasing whatever is being mar- “Santa Cruz in particular is im- Talk “It’s still possible to fall into that, though it’s not universally true, keted, which often takes the form bued with that spirit. There is a that sense of isolation. You think a lot of people’s interactions with of celebrity. Most artists don’t get functioning greenbelt. There are IS GOOGLE MAKING US you’re the last person in the world new technology, while presenting very far without explicitly or im- these wildlife corridors, which is STUPID? ... The City of Palo who thinks Twitter is dumb be- themselves as an involvement in a plicitly subscribing to this idea (of a why we have bobcats all over the Alto is participating in Silicon cause the whole essence of Twitter community, don’t really pass the gift economy) because most artists center of Santa Cruz. It’s really Valley Reads, where the entire is people are communicating with test for a true community. Yes, you don’t end up doing very well in the quite remarkable. The Bay Area as community is encouraged to themselves and constantly telling can be taking pictures of you and market economy.” a whole, with groups like POST, is read, think about and discuss themselves how great Twitter is. your friends and what you’re eat- really exemplary in the true sense the same books. A book dis- The world can suddenly start looking and looking at other pictures of Q: Your novels have targeted of ‘example’ in showing how you cussion of “The Shallows: What ing like everyone but you has got- people and their friends and think New York, Boston and St. Louis, can have major economic activity, the Internet Is Doing to Our ten with the program.” it’s a community. But that’s not my but you pay regular visits to a major concentration of population Brains” by Nicholas Carr will idea of a community.” Santa Cruz. Why? and not totally screw it up.” N take place on Tuesday, March Q: You’ve been particularly 25, at 7 p.m., at the Downtown scathing in your criticism of Q: Then what is your idea of the “I’ve been suspicious of every- Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner Library, 270 Forest Ave., Palo social media sites, including community? thing Californian for most of my can be emailed at gsheyner@ Alto. The event is free, but reg- Facebook and Twitter. Is there life. All the 1970s stereotypes of paweekly.com. istration is advised. Information: anything that you think social “Here’s what it isn’t. I don’t think the good life and Napa and Marin Use the library’s online calen- media is good for? selling and being sold to constitutes had clouded my view of the state. dar at www.cityofpaloalto.org/ a community. I don’t think self- What I’ve found there instead is, of If you’re going library or call 650-329-2436. “Any tool is going to be useful in advertisement and consumption of course, one of the greatest places What: Jonathan Franzen in the right hands. I think Twitter is other people’s self-advertisement on earth. conversation with Robert Hass, AUTHOR TALKS ... Upcoming probably the least defensible one, has much to do with a community. “The Bay Area is fortunate to followed by a book-signing and authors at Books Inc., 74 Town but, boy, do the Twitter fans rush “Community is more along the have been the birthplace of the or- reception for the audience & Country Village, Palo Alto, to present examples of Twitter be- lines of a gift economy and the real ganized American environmental Where: Mountain View Center include: Sharon Kay Penman, ing used for things like the Arab hard-core criticism of social media movement in the person of John for the Performing Arts, 500 “A King’s Ransom” (March 13, Spring. Maybe for a protest move- in particular is that they’re serving Muir and in the collective of the Si- Castro St., Mountain View 7 p.m.); Robin Ellis, “Healthy ment or to have awareness raised, a market economy, a dollar-valued erra Club. You can tell simply by be- When: March 6 at 8 p.m. Eating for Life: Over 100 Simple even Twitter can help out. economy. ing in the Bay Area that people who Cost: $22 and Tasty Recipes” (March 16, “Really, my resistance to it has “One of the appeals of birds for care about nature have been work- Info: www.openspacetrust.org/ 7 p.m.); Tiffany Baker, “Mercy always been that while presenting me is that they are not a part of that ing there for well over 100 years. lectures Snow,” in conversation with itself in kind of utopian terms, the economy and never can be. You For a major metropolitan area, it has Ellen Sussman, “The Paradise READ MORE ONLINE Guest House” (The Peninsula Internet and everything following can’t pay them off, all you can do an amazing amount of open space www.PaloAltoOnline.com Parlour, with 5 percent of all from it has in fact been the ideal is try to keep their home from be- — just driving on Route 1 from manifestation of consumer capital- ing destroyed. And they’re not go- Santa Cruz to Half Moon Bay, not A transcript of the Weekly’s full in- sales during this event to be terview with Jonathan Franzen has donated to Abilities United, ism. It used to be that you would ing to pay you back either. They’re only are there no stoplights but there been posted on Palo Alto Online. March 18, 7 p.m.). Also, Books, spend large parts of your day not not going to thank you. are very few buildings for about 45 Inc. at 501 Castro St., Moun- buying and selling. Our economic tain View, welcomes Julian system has figured out how to in- Hoffman for “The Small Heart ject itself pretty much into every PENINSULA of Things: Being at Home in a minute of your life. I’m enough of Beckoning World” (March 11, 7 a worrywart to think that should be p.m.). Information: booksinc.net examined. “But I’m much less pessimistic MORE TALKS ... Upcoming au- now. 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he romantic adage “we go “I’m a fan of coffee beers in together like peanut but- general,” said Palo Alto Brewing T ter and jelly” should be owner Kasim Syed. “I like that amended to “we go together like style. But the majority of coffee coffee and beer.” beers in the market tend to be Though the pairing might seem usually really strong, high alco- unusual, the bitterness of coffee hol, like imperial coffee stouts, beans complements the deep- imperial coffee porter. roasted flavors of darker beers “It makes it hard to drink a like stouts, porters and lagers in lot of them. So I wanted to do a unique palate-pleasing way. something that was a little more Two local businesses — Palo sessionable,” he said, using the Alto Brewing Company and term that refers to how drinkable Philz Coffee — recognized the a beer is and is used to describe complementary nature of these beers with lower alcohol content two drinks a few years ago. that can be consumed in greater They teamed up to produce Cool quantities. Beanz, a porter brewed with Cool Beanz has a low alcohol Philz’s “Philtered Soul” medi- Kasim Syed, owner of Palo Alto Brewing Company, stands with a pint of the Cool Beanz porter at his um-dark roast coffee beans. VÌÕi`ÊÊiÝÌÊ«>}i® bar, The Rose and Crown in Palo Alto in early February.

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VÌÕi`ÊvÀÊ«ÀiÛÕÃÊ«>}i® camping beer,” Syed said. “You has a medium roast on it.” different when making a coffee Though this makes for a “cof- wake up in the morning and you Syed, a Palo Alto native, ap- beer, but the end product’s fla- fee-forward” beer, Syed said he is by volume (ABV) of 6 percent, can just crack one of these. It’s proached Philz CEO Jacob vor profile will vary depending aiming for high “sessionability.” compared to other coffee beers really smooth, easy to drink, Jaber in 2012 with the idea for a on when the beans are added in, “If you’re at the pub, you can that hover around 9 to 10 per- light roast, mostly coming from coffee-beer collaboration. Syed Syed explained. have a couple of pints and you cent. It’s also caffeinated. the malts — a little maybe from grew up very close to Philz’s “You can put the beer in the don’t have to worry about it. “For me, it’s a perfect kind of the coffee itself because that one first Palo Alto location on Mid- mash, which is the start of (the Whereas a lot of the other ones dlefield Road and Loma Verde brewing process). You can put it ... you enjoy that flavor but you Avenue. in during the boil. What we do can’t have more than one.” After some discussion — and is we put it in during the sec- This isn’t just a company line. Serving Fine Chinese Cuisine tastings, of course — they de- ondary fermentation. It’s kind Take it from this reporter, some- in Palo Alto since 1956 cided to brew with “Philtered of like cold-steeping it because one who’s almost completely Soul” for its hazelnut flavoring, we didn’t want to get any of the averse to darker beers: Cool A Great Place for Get-togethers Syed said. bitterness out of the coffee that Beanz is truly smoother and Happy Hour s Catering s Gift Certiﬁ cates The brewing process isn’t any might come when it reacts with easier to drink — without sacri- Private Dining s Meeting s Banquet Rooms the hot water.” ficing any flavor — than most of its porter counterparts. The coffee flavor doesn’t come on too strong either, but just enough to feel like the drink is giving a two-for-one kick. Jaber — more of a beans than brews aficionado — admitted he’s “not even a big fan of beer,” but said he enjoys Cool Beanz. “I’m no expert by any means, [Chopsticks Always Optional] but you don’t need to be an ex- We have daily dim sum service from 11am-2pm. We also offer pert to know if something’s good tasty vegetarian and vegan dishes. In our Bar we have happy or not,” he said. hours from 3pm to 6pm / Mon-Fri. Book now for our private Bottles of Cool Beanz are sold rooms and banquet facilities. And don’t forget about our take out and delivery. In addition to all this, we’re open at Mollie Stone’s, Piazza’s Fine 365 Days / 11am-9:30pm and parking is never a problem. Foods and Whole Foods in Palo Alto; Ava’s Downtown Market “Voted Best & Deli and Jane’s Beer Store in Dim Sum in Silicon Valley” Mountain View and The Wil- – Metro’s best of lows Market in Menlo Park, and Silicon Valley 2013 it’s on tap at The Rose & Crown 2 0 1 3 Ming’s Chinese Cuisine and Bar in downtown Palo Alto. N 1700 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto Online Editor Elena Kadvany tel 650.856.7700 / fax 650.855.9479 / www.mings.com Palo Alto Brewing Company’s Cool Beanz coffee porter brewed is can be emailed at ekadvany@ served at The Rose and Crown in Palo Alto. paweekly.com.

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The Wind Rises “The Wind Rises” has a Patinkin. Animation notwith- ---1/2 pastel-pastoral quality that ro- standing, the audience for “The (Century 16) “All I wanted manticizes, with Impressionist Wind Rises” isn’t wee, though to do was to make something stylings, the quixotic pursuit of middle-schoolers willing to roll beautiful.” So said aeronautical invention. Like much Japanese with its longueurs and provoca- engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose animation of Miyazaki’s gen- tions will be primed for an in- Mitsubishi A5M and A6M Zero eration, the film is sentimental teresting post-matinee discus- served the Empire of Japan dur- and sweet, but as much as it sion with parents. ing WWII. Amid some contro- deeply understands the artistic Despite showcase scenes of versy, living-legendary anima- mindset of a driven creator, it Horikoshi’s dreams and test tor Hayao Miyazaki has written also acknowledges the darker flights, “The Wind Rises” is and directed his own latest implications of a genius’ tun- in some ways Miyazaki’s most “something beautiful,” this one nel vision. Horikoshi has literal grounded film. Since the ground a hand-drawn fantasia about nearsightedness that also serves is the story’s real enemy, estab- Horikoshi: “The Wind Rises.” as a metaphor for what enables lished in part by the fearsome The title, borrowed from a him to block out doubt and 1923 Kanto quake, the escapist Hori Tatsuo novel, alludes to a achieve success while willfully rarity of flight gives it all the line from a Paul Valéry poem: ignoring moral questions. more power. Much of the film “The wind is rising! We must Like many Studio Ghibli concerns the plodding work — try to live!” Life is too short not productions, “The Wind Rises” and gentle, if not delicate, soul has gotten the red-carpet treat- — required to achieve beauty, to take every opportunity, in NOTICE OF PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD AND one’s vocational and romantic ment from stateside distributor another way in which “The callings, and thusly Miyazaki Disney (under its adult-skewing Wind Rises,” possibly Miyaza- PUBLIC HEARINGS ON PALO ALTO’S frames his heavily fictionalized Touchstone Pictures banner), ki’s swan song, skews to stealth COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT take on Horikoshi. Horikoshi including seven-time Oscar autobiography. BLOCKGRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM (voiced in the English-language winner Gary Rydstrom to direct Rated PG-13 for some dis- version by Joseph Gordon-Lev- the English version, and a cast turbing images and smoking. itt) literally dreams of airplanes, that also includes John Krasins- Two hours, six minutes. min- This is to notify the general public and other interested parties that inspired by Italian engineer ki, Martin Short, Jennifer Grey, utes. a 30-day public review period of the Draft Annual Action Plan for Count Gianni Caproni (Stan- Werner Herzog, William H. — Peter Canavese the allocation of Fiscal Year 2015 Community Development Block ley Tucci). Horikoshi sets out Macy, Elijah Wood and Mandy Grant (CDBG) funds, will begin on March 17, 2014 and end on April to study engineering and land a 15, 2014. The Draft Annual Action Plan describes the activities the job at an airplane manufacturer City may fund under the 2015 CDBG Program. Collectively these that will build his planes. THE GIRLS’ MIDDLE SCHOOL activities are intended to meet Palo Alto’s affordable housing and On this path, he also encoun- community development objectives described in the 2010-2015 ters a young woman named ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP BREAKFAST Consolidated Plan. Naoko (Emily Blunt), who BENEFITING THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM Copies of the Draft Annual Action Plan will be available on March 17, becomes his muse. Naoko’s 2014 at the Department of Planning and Community Environment, struggle with tuberculosis in- 250 Hamilton Avenue, 5th Floor, Palo Alto, CA 94301, on the City’s forms one of the story’s deep- website http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/depts/pln/advance_planning/ set ironies: In her devotion, cdbg.asp or by calling Consuelo Hernandez, Planner – CDBG, at Naoko insists upon Horikoshi (650) 329-2428. Interested parties are encouraged to submit written achieving his dreams of flight, RISING STARS comments on the proposed Draft Annual Action Plan during the but in the process, the couple public review period, or to comment at the public hearings and loses valuable time to spend meetings described below. with each other. When lives are KEYNOTE SPEAKER: SHERYL SANDBERG Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating offi cer at accounted in the end, Horikoshi PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MEETINGS and Miyazaki must ask, was it Facebook, overseeing the fi rm’s business operations. all worth it? Did this (fictional- Prior to Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, chief The City of Palo Alto Human Relations Commission will hold a ized) Horikoshi make the right of staff for the United States Treasury Department Public Hearing on March 13, 2014 to review the Fiscal Year 2015 choice to achieve his dream, no under President Clinton, a management consultant CDBG funding allocations recommended by the CDBG Human matter the cost to others? with McKinsey & Company, and an economist with Relations Selection Committee. The Public Hearing will be held at the World Bank. 7:00 p.m., or as soon as possible thereafter, in City Hall Council Sheryl is the author of the number-one bestseller Lean In: Women, Conference Room, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto. Work, and the Will to Lead and founder of LeanIn.Org, a global community supporting women who lean in to their ambitions. Sheryl The City of Palo Alto Finance Committee will hold a Public serves on the boards of Facebook, the Walt Disney Company, Women Hearing on April 15, 2014 to review the proposed Fiscal Year 2015 for Women International, ONE, V-Day, and the Center for Global CDBG funding allocations identified in the Draft Annual Action Plan. Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square Development. The Public Hearing will be held at 6:00 p.m., or as soon as possible thereafter, in City Hall Council Conference Room, 250 Hamilton Friday Gloria – 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Avenue, Palo Alto. 2/28 Her – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014 Saturday Gloria – 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 3/1 Her – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 The Palo Alto City Council will hold a Public Hearing on May 5, Sun thru Tues, & Thurs Gloria – 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 CROWNE PLAZA CABAÑA HOTEL 2014 to adopt the Annual Action Plan and the associated Fiscal Year 3/2 – 3/4 & 3/6 Her – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 4290 EL CAMINO REAL, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 2015 CDBG allocations. The Public Hearing will be held at 7:00p.m., Weds ONLY Gloria – 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 3/5 Her – 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 or as soon as possible thereafter, in City Hall Council Chambers, 250 REGISTRATION OPENS: 7:45 AM Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto. Tickets and Showtimes available at cinemark.com BREAKFAST AND PROGRAM: 8:15 AM-9:30 AM Persons with disabilities who require auxiliary aids or services INDIVIDUAL TICKETS: $125 EACH in using City facilities, services or programs, or who would like $85 of each ticket purchased is tax-deductible information on the City’s compliance with the Americans with Did you love the movie or hate it? Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, may contact: Post your opinion on TownSquare at PaloAltoOnline.com. CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF EDUCATING YOUNG WOMEN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO PURCHASE TICKETS ADA Coordinator, City of Palo Alto, 650-329-2550 (Voice) WWW.GIRLSMS.ORG/BREAKFAST [email protected]

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R for language, sexual content and brief And the Oscar goes to... graphic nudity. Two hours, six minutes. "6 Ê/ - — P.C. (Reviewed Dec. 27, 2013) Need a refresher of the nine Academy Award nominees for Best All showtimes are for Friday – Sunday only unless otherwise noted. Picture, to be awarded Sunday, March 2? Check out this roundup of ab- Nebraska --- For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. It’s never too late to play a few grace Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. breviated Weekly reviews. notes. With Alexander Payne’s “Ne- braska,” this proves true for two sep- 12 Years A Slave (R) (((1/2 tuagenarians: addled heartland grump Century 16: 3:50, 7:20 & 10:25 p.m. Sat & Sun 9:10 a.m. & 12:15 p.m. also. American Hustle nosis. Faced with a doctor (Denis O’Hare) --- Woodrow “Woody” Grant and the Hol- “American Hustle” loosely derives from who tells him, “Frankly, we’re surprised 3 Days to Kill (PG-13) lywood royal who plays him, Bruce Dern. the late-’70s, early-’80s FBI Abscam you’re even alive” and a T-cell count of Century 16: 9:05 & 10:15 a.m., 1:35, 3:05, 4:30, 7:40, 9 & 10:35 p.m. Century Nebraska native Payne usually co-writes operation, so named for its employment nine, Woodruff fiercely roots out his limited 20: 11:10 a.m., 1:55, 4:40, 6:15, 7:30, 9:05 & 10:15 p.m. his films, and though here he directs of an “Arab,” a fake sheik used to entrap options. He gets wind of a human trial for a script by Bob Nelson, you wouldn’t About Last Night (R) politicians into accepting bribes. Director AIDS-combating drug AZT, but he’s de- know it if not for the credits. “Nebraska” Century 20: 12:05, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 & 10:15 p.m. David O. Russell buys himself free rein by nied access. In the process of literally sav- is right in Payne’s wheelhouse of American Hustle (R) ((( admitting he’s cherry-picking history for ing himself (long outliving his diagnosis), American quirk. It’s a relatively simple Century 16: 9:20 a.m., 12:30, 3:40, 7:05 & 10:15 p.m. juicy bits while allowing himself to design Woodruff creates a drug pipeline that he story of how Woody has gotten it into Century 20: 12:55, 4, 7:15 & 10:25 p.m. the characters and story for maximum winds up sharing with his new community his head that he’s won a million-dollar tickling. Christian Bale plays skilled of fellow patients. Rated R for pervasive American Madness (1932) (Not Rated) sweepstakes and, though his son David fraudster Irving Rosenfeld. Along with his language, some strong sexual content, Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 6 & 9:50 p.m. (Will Forte, late of “Saturday Night Live”) mistress Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams, nudity and drug use. One hour, 57 min- knows his father is a victim of junk-mail Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG-13) ((1/2 affecting a British accent), Rosenfeld bilks utes. — P.C. (Reviewed Nov. 15, 2013) marketing, he’s also attentive enough to Century 16: 9:30 a.m., 12:45, 4, 7:15 & 10:30 p.m. investors, until one turns out to be FBI realize “The guy just needs something Century 20: 12:35, 3:50, 7:05 & 10:20 p.m. agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper), Gravity ---1/2 to live for.” And so Woody and David hit a slickster in his own right who’s not all “At 600 km. above the Earth,” we’re told Endless Love (PG-13) the road from Billings, Mont., to Omaha, he cracks himself up to be. Rated R for in the new film “Gravity,” “There is noth- Century 20: 2 & 7:55 p.m. Neb.Rated R for some language. One pervasive language, some sexual content ing to carry sound. No air pressure. No Frozen (PG) hour, 55 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed and brief violence. Two hours, 18 min- oxygen. Life in space is impossible.” Century 16: 10:35 a.m., 1:15, 3:55, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m. And yet, there we are. The evocation of Nov. 29, 2013) utes. — P.C. (Reviewed Dec. 20, 2013) Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7 & 9:40 p.m. Ridley Scott’s 1979 “Alien” (“In space, no Philomena The LEGO Movie (PG) ((( Captain Phillips one can hear you scream”) is apt: “Grav------In 1952, Hollywood star Jane Russell Century 16: 9:05 & 11:05 a.m., 12:05, 2, 5:05, 6:10, 7:50 & 9:30 p.m. In 3-D at The “real-life thriller” “Captain Phillips” ity” is a bit like “Alien” without the alien, adopted an Irish-born baby, prompting 10:05 a.m., 1:05, 4:05, 6:55 & 10:25 p.m. may be obvious and it may be clumsy, replacing it with existential despair that’s controversy and headlines like “1,000 Century 20: 10:50 & 11:20 a.m., 12:40, 1:30, 3:15, 4:05, 6:50 & 9:30 p.m. In but it’s also at least a little bit thoughtful, just as likely to take a fatal bite out of the CHILDREN DISAPPEAR FROM IRE- 3-D at 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 4:55, 7:40 & 10:20 p.m. and there’s never a dull moment. Add in heroine. Here the heroine is Dr. Ryan LAND.” Money had talked, and shady two strong central performances and the Stone (Sandra Bullock), a medical engi- Lone Survivor (R) ((1/2 officials had issued dubious passports stylistic stringency of Paul Greengrass, neer sent via space shuttle to assist in Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 5:05 & 10:45 p.m. condoning the export and sale of Irish and you get, at the very least, a fine ap- repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope. infants. That story died down, but The Metropolitan Opera: Prince Igor (Not Rated) proximation of an important Oscar-time In the film’s first sequence — a bravura thousands of Irish children were indeed Century 20: Sat 9 a.m. Palo Alto Square: Sat 9 a.m. movie. The whole enterprise is basically 12-minute segment crafted to appear as spirited away. Now the film “Philomena” The Monuments Men (PG-13) (( Century 16: 10:20 a.m., 1:20, here to give Tom Hanks something to a single camera shot with no cuts — sat- takes the perspective of a wronged Irish 4:20, 7:30 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:35 & 10:30 p.m. do, and do it he does as Captain Rich ellite debris shoots at the shuttle and the mother coerced, in 1952, into giving her Phillips of the Maersk Alabama, a U.S.- telescope, causing a fatal accident that Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (Not Rated) baby away. In investigating his expose registered cargo ship beset by pirates threatens to strand and thereby kill Stone Stanford Theatre: Sat & Sun 7:30 p.m. “The Lost Child of Philomena Lee,” while on its way from Oman to Kenya and shuttle commander Matt Kowalski journalist Martin Sixsmith cracked a Nebraska (R) ((( in 2009. Greengrass and screenwriter (George Clooney). Dwindling oxygen and longstanding mystery by exploring a re- Aquarius Theatre: noon, 2:30, 5:15 & 8 p.m. Billy Ray (“State of Play”), working from thruster power threaten their survival, as markable case study. Co-producer and Phillips’ book “A Captain’s Duty: Somali does Stone’s natural panic due to the cir- Non-Stop (PG-13) co-screenwriter Steve Coogan stars as Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous cumstances and her inexperience. Rated Century 16: 9:15 & 10:40 a.m., noon, 1:20, 2:45, 4:10, 5:30, 7, 8:30 & 10 p.m. Sixsmith, recently sacked as an adviser Days at Sea,” hurriedly establish victims PG-13 for intense perilous sequences, Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:15, 6:55 & 9:35 p.m. In X-D at 12:20, 2:55, 5:30 to the Labour party. Lacking direction, — Phillips, his wife (Catherine Keener some disturbing images and brief strong & 8:10 p.m. Sat in X-D at 10:45 p.m. also. he’s open to a lead about Philomena in a blink-or-you’ll-miss-’er cameo), and language. One hour, 30 minutes. — P.C. Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Animated (G) Lee (Judi Dench), the baby she birthed his crew — and perps, the Somali crews (Reviewed Oct. 4, 2013) Aquarius Theatre: 11:45 a.m., 2:15 & 7 p.m. out of wedlock, and her 50-year distress sent out by a warlord padding his war after her baby was adopted against her Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Live Action (Not Rated) chest. The pirate captain, Abduwali Her ---- wishes. Rated PG-13 for some strong Aquarius Theatre: 4:30 & 9:15 p.m. Muse (Barkhad Abdi), quickly draws our (Palo Alto Square) All people in romantic language, thematic elements and sexual attention as the counterpart to Phillips. relationships want to know their love is Oscar Shorts 2014 (Not Rated) references. One hour, 38 minutes. — Skinny and living under a more intense real. But when half of the intelligence Century 20: 2 p.m. Fri & Sat 7 p.m. also. duress than Phillips, Muse nevertheless involved is artificial, can love be real? P.C. (Reviewed Nov. 29, 2013) Philomena (PG-13) ((( deals with similar issues that put him in That’s the question at the center of Guild Theatre: 12 Years A Slave 1/2 1, 3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m. harm’s way for capitalist goals, and into “Her,” a futuristic science-fiction drame- --- It can be hard to see the tree for the for- Pompeii (PG-13) 1/2 conflict with his unhappy crew. Rated dy with clear implications about how we est when it comes to films about cultur- Century 16: 9:15 a.m., 2:40 & 10:30 p.m. In 3-D at 11:55 a.m., 5:20 & 7:55 p.m. PG-13 for intense sequences of menace, live today. Joaquin Phoenix plays Theo- ally loaded topics, none more so than Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 4:30 & 7:10 p.m. In 3-D at 12:20, 2:55, 5:35, 8:10 & violence with bloody images, and sub- dore Twombly, whose job writing other American slavery. It’s useful to keep in 10:45 p.m. stance use. Two hours, 14 minutes. — people’s letters for “Beautifulhandwrit- mind that “12 Years a Slave” is the story P.C. (Reviewed Oct. 11, 2013) tenletters.com” represents the mixed-up Rear Window (1954) (Not Rated) nature of modern truth amongst and of a man: a tale of physical and emotion- Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m. al survival that, unlike “All is Lost” and Dallas Buyers Club --1/2 between people. Amidst a divorce from Ride Along (PG-13) wife Catherine (Rooney Mara), Theo- “Gravity,” derives from a true story. The Jean-Marc Vallee’s film, scripted by Craig Century 20: 1:40 & 9:45 p.m. Borten & Melisa Wallack, opens in 1985, dore tries phone sex, then an in-person man is Solomon Northup, who endured as the world awoke to Rock Hudson as blind date with a once-bitten, twice-shy the titular torture before penning his RoboCop (PG-13) (( the sudden celebrity face of AIDS. Mc- woman (Olivia Wilde). Both attempts autobiography of the same name (as told Century 16: 10:25 a.m., 1:25, 4:25, 7:25 & 10:15 p.m. Conaughey plays Ron Woodruff, a hard- end badly, but when a curious Theodore to white lawyer David Wilson). Director Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 2:10, 5, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m. charging electrician and rodeo cowboy ponies up for a new OS for his phone, he Steve McQueen’s cinematic adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) scripted by John Ridley, begins in 1841, first seen plowing women in the shadows finds in it a personal assistant, life coach Guild Theatre: Sat midnight. before bull-riding with money riding on and best buddy who, with curious inevi- where free New York resident Northup Son of God (PG-13) how long he can hold on. It’s a canny en- tability, becomes his girlfriend. Saman- (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a husband and father, Century 16: 9 a.m., 12:20, 3:40, 7 & 10:10 p.m. tree into the story: When Woodruff sprints tha (Scarlett Johansson, offscreen but entertains an offer to play the violin on Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 12:50, 2:40, 4, 5:50, 7:10, 9 & 10:20 p.m. away after losing his bets, he’s been vital) has incredible processing power, of tour with a circus. The offer turns out to swiftly established as an all-around reck- course, but also convincing “personality” be a ruse, and Northup is kidnapped, The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) (PG-13) (((1/2 less character, his sexual recklessness a that quickly takes the forms of affection transported by a domestic slave ship Century 16: 7:35 & 10:35 p.m. English dubbed at 10:30 a.m., 1:30 & 4:35 p.m. possible cause of his looming AIDS diag- and desire for her prone owner. Rated to New Orleans, and sold into slavery. Century 20: 7:25 & 10:25 p.m. Above all, “12 Years a Slave” explores The Wolf of Wall Street (R) (((1/2 one man’s terrifying realization of the Century 16: 11:45 a.m., 3:45 & 7:45 p.m. fragility of his existence and, accordingly, Century 20: noon, 3:55 & 8:15 p.m. his sense of self. Rated R for violence/ cruelty, some nudity and brief sexuality. Two hours, 13 minutes. — P.C. (Re- viewed Nov. 1, 2013) ( -«ÊÌ (( -iÊÀi`ii}ÊµÕ>ÌiÃ ((( Ê}`ÊLiÌ (((( "ÕÌÃÌ>`}

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BLUEBERRIES — YUM! ... Nan- cy Garrison, who has researched growing fruits locally through the UC Cooperative Extension and in her home garden, will teach a class on growing “Bountiful Blueberries” from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 1, at Common Ground, 599 Col- lege Ave., Palo Alto. She will talk about selecting, planting and maintaining a variety of berries This home, above, on Hubbartt Drive is in and small fruits. Besides blue- the Green Acres II neighborhood. berries, she’ll include Chilean guavas, mulberries, lemon gua- This home, right, on Maybell Avenue is in va, raspberries and blackberries. the Green Acres II neighborhood. She’ll deal with soil preparation, plant varieties and trellising techniques. Cost is $31. Information: 650-493-6072 or www.com- mongroundinpaloalto.org NEIGHBORHOOD SNAPSHOT

CONTAINER GARDENING ... Sarah Easley, who has worked as a floral designer at Filoli and a display and container designer at Roger Reynolds Nursery and Green Carriage Stop, will give a demonstration and talk about design in “Create a Container Garden,” from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday, March 7, at Gamble Garden, Acres 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Af- ter the demonstration, students tion have played a big part in I, on the south end, was built Gal has noticed a cycle with- will create their own designs (in Quiet, the development of community in the early 1950s followed by in the neighborhood where the their own 10- to 12-inch pots), and a sense of belonging. Green Acres II to the north. prevalence of children rises and with plant materials provided. For Eva Gal, the best part Shen describes Green Acres falls as a result of the schools Cost is $55 for nonmembers, friendly about living in Green Acres is as a distance away from Down- being a hot selling point. When $45 for members. Information: getting to know her neighbors. town Palo Alto and other city she first moved to her home in 650-329-1356 or www.gamble- The occasional parties and fixtures, a facet she sees as a 1971, she said there were “lots garden.org and Easter egg hunts have been benefit. of children” and the number integral. “Being in this location, has gone up and down, begin- NEED HELP WITH HOUSEHOLD close to “People I met 35 years ago though it is away from Palo ning to rise once more. There TASKS? ... Volunteers from the are still here,” she said. “We’re Alto, is still very convenient,” also was an orchard in the Silicon Valley Association of all respectful of privacy, but she said. “We have more choic- neighborhood that she recalls, REALTORS® (SILVAR) will be schools caring and concerned.” es (for shopping). We can go a time she said, “There weren’t working all week, May 5 through Both Shen and Gal speak (downtown) or to the San An- many cars present.” May 9, to help qualified seniors by Tre’vell Anderson highly of their neighbors. As tonio Center in Mountain View Traffic can now be “bother- do everything from flip their mat- photos by Veronica Weber a group, they are constantly or wherever.” some,” according to Gal, but tresses to caulk their windows. meeting to “(think) of more ac- Other residents sing the the area is still “very much REALTOR® Service Volunteer tivities to bring people together praises of having Juana Bri- quiet.” Program (RSVP) has been hen Catherine Shen and get to know each other bet- ones Elementary, Terman “Very quiet is a good way changing furnace filters, clean- moved into her ter,” Shen said. Middle and Gunn High schools to put it,” Mott said. “We can ing windows, installing smoke- W Green Acres home This congenial spirit has within close proximity as an- walk and jog comfortably.” in 2008, she was welcomed been ever-present for residents other community attraction. Joe Hirsh described the (continued on page 35) with open arms by the other despite the unique construction The three schools attracted neighborhood slightly dif- residents who she described of the Green Acres neighbor- Nancy Mott and her family, ferently, calling it “safe and Send notices of news and events as “polite and courteous.” The hood. Separated by Arastra- who moved to the area in 1985 steady.” related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to block and potluck parties held dero Road, Green Acres is because she said such an oc- Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box by the neighborhood associa- divided into two: Green Acres currence was “unusual.” (continued on page 34) 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email [email protected]. Deadline is one week before publication.

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This home on Pomona Avenue is in 745 Casa Bonita Court Gold- HOME SALES berg Trust to K. Sistanizadeh for Home sales are provided by Cali- the Green Acres I neighborhood. $2,700,000 on 2/12/14; previous fornia REsource, a real estate in- sale 8/99, $923,500 formation company that obtains 5002 Marcelli Circle Lennar the information from the County Homes to E. & J. Blanco for Recorder’s Office. Information $1,102,500 on 1/31/14 is recorded from deeds after the 5004 Marcelli Circle Len- close of escrow and published nar Homes to J. Chung for Green Acres within four to eight weeks. VÌÕi`ÊvÀÊ«>}iÊÎÓ® $1,111,500 on 1/31/14 Atherton 7002 Marcelli Circle Lennar 44 Irving Ave. Fowler Trust to S. Homes to J. & H. Chang for He came to Green Acres in 1974 as Cho for $4,000,000 on 1/16/14 $1,149,000 on 2/10/14 a single parent with three children and 167 Stockbridge Ave. E. & D. 7003 Marcelli Circle Len- Bates to Mstation International nar Homes to J. Abregana for a dog. for $4,110,000 on 1/13/14; previ- $1,048,500 on 1/31/14 “I wouldn’t stay here for (over) 40 ous sale 9/86, $680,000 7005 Marcelli Circle Lennar years if I didn’t think (it was safe),” Homes to J. Wang for $1,149,500 East Palo Alto on 1/31/14 he said. 2201 Addison Ave. C. Winn to Y. 5003 Marcelli Circle #25 Len- Hirsh described Green Acres as be- Zhang for $490,000 on 1/23/14 nar Homes to J. Ho for $997,000 ing full “of working, intelligent and 1982 W. Bayshore Road #138 on 1/29/14 interesting people, people who are L. & D. Haarmann to Kumar Trust 261 Margarita Court Wood for $520,000 on 1/17/14; previ- Trust to Egan Trust for very interested in their community.” ous sale 10/06, $486,000 $2,550,000 on 1/29/14 He’s seen a surge in community spirit 226 Donohoe St. Ascani Trust 1452 Marlbarough Court Mc- as they have become more politically to O. & G. Ascani for $239,000 carthy Trust to Mendez Trust for active as a group concerned about the on 1/22/14 $2,332,000 on 2/6/14 FACTS: increase in development of the area. 2578 Gonzaga St. S. Takafua to 218 Mt. Hamilton Ave. Burch CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOLS: Palo Alto Montessori School, 575 Arastradero F. Wang for $327,000 on 1/30/14 Trust to Chen-Lin Trust for Green Acres residents also love that 2768 Gonzaga St. Bradford $4,310,000 on 2/5/14; previous Road; Whistlestop Child Development Center, 3801 Miranda Ave. No. T6B; Young their utilities are underground. Mott Trust to J. Magana-Alvarez for sale 11/91, $785,000 Life Christian Pre-School, 687 Arastradero Road calls the area “very pretty” as a re- $410,000 on 1/30/14 929 Sherwood Ave. Lennar FIRE STATION: No. 5, 600 Arastradero Road 2341 Oakwood Drive Blue Homes to W. Mao for $1,350,500 sult. The neighborhood was the city’s Mountain Homes to R. & A. on 1/30/14; previous sale 4/90, LIBRARY: Mitchell Park branch, 3700 Middlefield Road (after summer 2014) pilot project for undergrounding utili- Wilkins for $425,000 on 1/17/14; $325,000 LOCATION: Green Acres I: Arastradero Road to Glenbrook Drive, Los Palos to ties and has since been the model for previous sale 7/06, $620,000 Los Altos Hills Pomona avenues; Green Acres II: Maybell Avenue to Arastradero Road, Coulombe 223 Wisteria Drive N. Rivera other areas. 14227 Amherst Court S. & B. Drive to Georgia Avenue to E. Gomez for $283,000 on “I hope to live here for many many 1/21/14; previous sale 8/12, Detrick to A. Guo for $2,830,000 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: (Green Acres I) Alice Sklar, [email protected]; more years,” Hirsch said. N $300,000 on 2/3/14 (Green Acres II) Betsy Allyn, 650-493-8859 Editorial Intern Tre’vell Ander- 13334 La Cresta Drive L. Los Altos Belfiglio to G. & N. Grant for PARKS: Juana Briones Park, 609 Maybell Ave.; Terman Park, 655 Arastradero son can be emailed at tanderson@ 101 2nd St. #10 P. Wood to S. $3,100,000 on 2/4/14 Road paweekly.com. Fong for $890,000 on 2/6/14; Menlo Park POST OFFICE: Cambridge, 265 Cambridge Ave. previous sale 1/04, $575,000 38 3rd St. #106 Aasen Trust 553 6th Ave. Onewest Bank to PRIVATE SCHOOL: Bowman International School, 4000 Terman Drive READ MORE ONLINE to S. & M. Firme for $805,000 X. Sun for $405,000 on 1/15/14 PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Juana Briones Elementary School, Terman Middle School, on 2/6/14; previous sale 5/05, 6 Bolton Place Wythes Trust PaloAltoOnline.com to Vettel Trust for $4,830,000 Gunn High School $630,000 For more Home and Real Estate news, 726 Casa Bonita Court Nu- on 1/27/14; previous sale 5/12, SHOPPING: El Camino Real, San Antonio Shopping Center, Downtown Los Altos visit www.paloaltoonline.com/real_estate. compass Mobility Services to A. $4,830,000 Hsieh for $2,500,000 on 2/14/14 1382 Hollyburne Ave. City of

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Menlo Park to D. & V. Pederson $922,000 on 1/28/14 for $255,000 on 1/30/14; previ- SALES AT A GLANCE 643 Turnbuckle Drive #1912 ous sale 11/06, $569,000 One Marina Homes to M. Espar- 1281 Orange Ave. Clarum za for $644,000 on 1/15/14 Hansen Lane to Kj Trust for Atherton Los Altos Hills Palo Alto 643 Turnbuckle Drive #1913 $3,050,000 on 1/24/14; previous Total sales reported: 2 Total sales reported: 2 Total sales reported: 14 One Marina Homes to Wingfield sale 11/12, $1,100,000 Lowest sales price: $4,000,000 Lowest sales price: $2,830,000 Lowest sales price: $700,000 Trust for $815,500 on 1/15/14 1403 Sage St. City of Menlo 643 Turnbuckle Drive #1915 Park to R. Franco for $346,000 Highest sales price: $4,110,000 Highest sales price: $3,100,000 Highest sales price: $4,100,000 One Marina Homes to J. Cheung on 1/13/14; previous sale 9/07, East Palo Alto Menlo Park Portola Valley for $739,500 on 1/15/14 $334,500 643 Turnbuckle Drive #1916 130 Sand Hill Circle Baumgratz Total sales reported: 7 Total sales reported: 6 Total sales reported: 1 One Marina Homes to S. Jetti for Trust to Wang Trust for Lowest sales price: $239,000 Lowest sales price: $255,000 Lowest sales price: $6,037,500 $779,500 on 1/15/14 $1,160,000 on 1/24/14; previous Highest sales price: $520,000 Highest sales price: $4,830,000 Highest sales price: $6,037,500 645 Turnbuckle Drive #2103 sale 8/92, $480,000 One Marina Homes to Townhill Los Altos Mountain View Redwood City Trust for $795,000 on 1/17/14 Mountain View Total sales reported: 14 Total sales reported: 15 Total sales reported: 21 645 Turnbuckle Drive #2106 1036 Ashley Place Mahon Trust Lowest sales price: $805,000 Lowest sales price: $410,000 Lowest sales price: $461,000 One Marina Homes to M. & K. to R. Townsend for $1,603,000 Cunningham for $793,500 on on 2/4/14; previous sale 9/86, Highest sales price: $4,310,000 Highest sales price: $2,700,000 Highest sales price: $1,875,000 1/24/14 $225,000 -ÕÀVi\Ê >vÀ>Ê, ÃÕÀVi 620 West California Way B. & 956 Bonita Ave. #2 S. S. Lewis to R. & P. Krishnarao for Malmgren to J. & J. Niemiec for $1,875,000 on 1/29/14 $685,000 on 1/31/14 1104 Whipple Ave. #7 S. Gilbert that-Nguyen Trust for $1,215,000 Limited to Li-Hegeman Trust for $1,925,000 on 2/12/14; previous $345,000 626 Burgoyne St. Andriko- to B. Lowagie for $461,000 on on 2/5/14; previous sale 9/11, $4,100,000 on 1/31/14; previous sale 5/13, $1,700,000 328 Genoa Drive A. & G. Mal- poulos-Bradski Trust to A. & M. 1/16/14; previous sale 11/98, $828,000 sale 12/11, $1,100,000 3373 St. Michael Drive Yen hotra to C. Gupta for $920,000 Andrikopoulos for $700,000 on $166,000 1/31/14 837 San Luppe Drive M. Pinto to 202 Emerson St. D. Weinstein to Trust to M. Chu for $700,000 on on 1/15/14; previous sale 6/04, 505 Cypress Point Drive #140 S. Chu for $675,000 on 1/31/14; A. Kang for $1,555,000 on 2/6/14 2/14/14 $700,000 previous sale 8/94, $160,000 447 Fernando Ave. H. Bordbari 390 Genoa Drive Antonsen Trust Steinberg Trust to Lin Trust for Portola Valley Home Front $520,000 on 2/4/14; previous 599 Sleeper Ave. Puccetti Trust to D. Shong for $1,272,000 on to T. & F. Chonzi for $920,000 5070 Alpine Road Investment VÌÕi`ÊvÀÊ«>}iÊÎÓ® sale 4/04, $365,000 to E. Garlick for $2,700,000 on 1/31/14; previous sale 12/03, on 1/17/14; previous sale 12/05, Grade Loans to Parmer Limited 123 Evandale Ave. #B S. Vann 2/7/14 $550,000 $748,000 detector batteries and more 46 Starlite Court C. Afarian to S. 731 Gailen Ave. Lee Trust to A. for $6,037,500 on 1/16/14 1021 Hilton St. G. & N. Rosales to D. & S. Kim for $410,000 on since 2001. The deadline to 2/13/14 Wong for $737,000 on 2/10/14; & E. Goldberg for $2,358,000 Redwood City to M. Sanabria for $500,000 previous sale 4/04, $450,000 on 2/14/14; previous sale 4/09, on 1/21/14; previous sale 7/88, apply for free assistance is 807 Hope St. Mendes Trust 1006 Arguello St. G. Jones to J. 1793 Vassar Ave. F. Lind to M. $1,355,000 $155,000 to Plz Trust for $1,345,000 on & J. Mi for $550,000 on 1/16/14 Saturday, March 15. Informa- Izzard for $916,000 on 2/11/14 853 La Para Ave. R. Lopez to R. 1313 Jefferson Ave. F. Contre- 2/7/14 2802 Briarfield Ave. Davis Trust tion: 408-200-0100 or www. Li for $1,700,000 on 2/5/14 ras to W. Guo for $605,000 on 1958 Latham St. D. & A. Palo Alto to C. & J. Cook for $1,285,000 silvar.org for information and Blair to Jason Kim Limited for 2031 Park Blvd. Smith Trust to 1/30/14 428 Alder Lane H. Kung to on 1/17/14; previous sale 2/04, $1,600,000 on 1/31/14; previous Z. Niu for $1,983,500 on 1/30/14 4115 Jefferson Ave. S. & L. an application. N C. Simms for $1,850,000 on $1,032,500 sale 12/86, $210,000 11 Phillips Road Ladeau Trust Vasilakos to V. Dubodelov for 1/31/14; previous sale 8/08, 235 C St. G. & D. Combs to N. 261 Orchard Ave. Somera Trust to Alcheck Investments for $1,425,000 on 1/24/14; previous $1,635,000 & S. Phillips for $750,000 on to A. Hall for $1,101,000 on $2,900,000 on 2/14/14 sale 9/05, $1,265,000 893 Altaire Walk #102 Y. Tong 1/24/14; previous sale 11/94, Support Local Business 2/6/14 2819 Ramona St. A. Ander- 22 Sycamore Court Besser Trust to R. & S. Shah for $1,255,500 $215,000 400 Ortega Ave. #109 Cun- son to Sunlu Investment for to A. & C. Levi for $1,558,000 on 2/11/14; previous sale 8/09, 812 Cape Cod Drive W. Allen ningham Trust to X. Wang for $2,210,000 on 2/13/14 on 1/29/14; previous sale 3/96, $712,000 to L. Tripolsky for $1,270,000 $580,000 on 2/14/14 2914 Sandra Place A. & S. Jala- $465,000 555 Byron St. #208 Pande Trust on 1/17/14; previous sale 8/92, 400 Ortega Ave. #220 W. Tel- lian to D. Kuang for $2,560,000 641 Turnbuckle Drive #1706 to Bingham Trust for $1,410,000 $473,000 lis to M. Desenna for $823,000 on 2/3/14; previous sale 3/07, One Marina Homes to D. Boivin on 2/5/14; previous sale 6/99, 2970 Fair Oaks Ave. S. Chang on 2/14/14; previous sale 3/10, $929,000 for $795,000 on 1/24/14 $998,500 to D. Schaefer for $585,000 $575,000 2325 Santa Ana St. S. Sinha 643 Turnbuckle Drive #1909 1435 Channing Ave. YP & MH on 1/17/14; previous sale 6/13, 1135 Phyllis Ave. A. Su to Ton- to Huang & Wang Trust for One Marina Homes to B. Bell for

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Cape Cod Colonial SOLD 385 Seale Avenue, Palo Alto L ocated in prime old Palo Alto, this charming Cape Cod Colonial residence features 4 bedrooms plus a family room situated on a lot of 7,400 sq ft. An entry foyer welcomes the visitor to this two story home with shingle siding, divided light wood windows and oak hardwood fl oors throughout the main level. The fl oor plan features 2 bedrooms & 2 bathrooms on the ground level and 2 bedrooms upstairs. A brick patio off the dining room and covered rear porch and yard complete this lovely traditional home. S ummary Features Include: 4 Bedrooms + family room/ den 3 Bathrooms Gracious Living Room with fi replace Formal Dining Room Attached 2 car garage Separate laundry room and partial basement Living area: 2,455 sq ft per county records Lot Size: 7,400 sq ft per county records Offered at $3,750,000 Excellent Palo Alto Schools (Walter Hays Elementary, Jordan Middle, Palo Alto High – buyer to verify enrollment) www.385Seale.com

LEANNAH HUNT & LAUREL HUNT ROBINSON L eannah Hunt (650) 475.2030 www.LeannahandLaurel.com aurel Hunt Robinson L [email protected] [email protected] DRE# 01009791 DRE# 01747147

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KATHLEEN’S RECENT TRANSACTIONS 356-360 Hawthorne Ave. & 357 Bryant Ct. 1604 Villarita, Campbell (Sold off market) 13373 La Cresta Drive, Los Altos Hills 256 Walter Hayes Drive, Palo Alto * 725 Loma Verde #A, Palo Alto* 230 Bryant, Mt. View* 715 Del Centro Way, Los Altos* Amazing opportunity to own one of the finest lots in Downtown 2640 Howard Drive, San Carlos* North Palo Alto just steps to Johnson Park, two blocks north of 280 Grandview Drive, Woodside* University Ave. and a few blocks to Cal Train. 775 Lakeview, Redwood City* 3200 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto* r 9500+/- SF Lot 3465 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto* r Zoned RM 15 1245 Murchison Drive, Millbrae* 15 Sorrell Lane, San Carlos* r Three - 1 BR/1 BA units in the building on Hawthorne Ave. 435 Sheridan #103, Palo Alto* r 1 BR/1 BA cottage with a private garage and yard on 357 Bryant 460 El Capitan Place, Palo Alto* Ct. 717 Webster Street, Palo Alto* r Do not disturb occupants * Represented Buyer r Call Kathleen for details r Offered for $2,499,000

[email protected] | www.kathleenpasin.com | (650) 450-1912 | BRE # 01396779

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Woodside Menlo Park Los Altos 1590 Cañada Lane 807 Santa Cruz Avenue 496 First Street, Ste. 200 Woodside, CA 94062 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Los Altos, CA 94022 650.206.6200 650.543.7740 650.947.4700

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7292 Exotic Garden, Cambria 5 Betty Lane, Atherton 19 Prado Secoya, Atherton $58,000,000 $22,800,000 $13,500,000 Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305 Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Greg Goumas Lic.#01242399, 00709019, 01878208 Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019

24680 Prospect Avenue, Los Altos Hills 25525 Bledsoe Court, Los Altos Hills 10800 Magdalena, Los Altos Hills $10,500,000 $9,995,000 $8,000,000 Listing Provided by: Renuka Ahuja, Lic.#01783141 Listing Provided by: Denise Villeneuve & David Troyer, Lic.#01794615 & 01234450 Listing Provided by: Cutty Smith, Melissa Lindt, Lic.#01444081, 01469863

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302 Atherton Avenue, Atherton 12733 Dianne Drive, Los Altos Hills 11653 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills $6,499,950 $6,398,000 $5,950,000 Listing Provided by: Albert Garibaldi & Giulio Cannatello Lic.# 01321299 & 01911402 Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208 Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305

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• Four bedrooms $2,495,000 – Master suite with spa inspired bathroom and • Spacious backyard with areas for entertainment, large walk-in closet relaxation, and play – Ground floor bedroom ideal for guests or • Abundance of quality: home office - Beautiful hardwood floors • Three full bathrooms - Central air conditioning • “Chefs” kitchen with stainless steel appliances - Dual pane windows and granite countertops - Raised ceilings • Wonderful great room overlooking private backyard • 2,231 square feet of living space (approx.) • 5,750 square feet lot size (approx.)

LISTED BY: Timothy Foy CO-LISTED BY: Yamei Lee Lic #: 01162230

Lic. # :00849721 Cell: 650.387.5078 [email protected] Cell: 650.315.4470

Midtown Realty, Inc. • 2775 Middlefield Road • Phone: 650.321.1596 • WWW.MIDTOWNPALOALTO.COM

OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY FROM 1:30-4:30 PM

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COMING SOON Sherry Bucolo PALO ALTO CALL FOR PRICE Mary Gilles MENLO PARK $4,995,000 650.207.9909 Exceptional Estate on a 20,000 sf lot in Old Palo Alto. 6000+/- sf 650.814.0858 New 3 level West Menlo luxury home near Oak Knoll School [email protected] of the finest quality, guest house, gorgeous pool, magnificent [email protected] with 6 bedrooms, pool and outdoor fireplace. Coming gardens. A rare opportunity on this sought after street. Summer 2014.

SOLD! Judy Citron MENLO PARK $3,579,000 Monica Corman MENLO PARK $1,950,000 650.543.1206 Sought after Felton Gables neighborhood. Elegantly renovat- 650.465.5971 Represented the Buyer on this attractive, 4 bedroom/3 bath ed home with 4bd/4.5 ba, plus office, gardens and pool on an ranch-style home in West Menlo Park. [email protected] oversized 12,870+/- lot. [email protected]

Jeff Stricker Diane 650.823.8057 Chesler jstricker 650.434.4321 @apr.com dchesler@ apr.com

Steve Quetzal TenBroeck Grimm 650.450.0160 650.434.4330 stenbroeck LOS ALTOS $1,798,000 quetzal@ WOODSIDE $1,775,000 Beautifully remodeled 3bd + office, 2.5ba with open kitchen, The best of modern living in a quiet setting, this luxurious @apr.com high ceilings, dining and family rooms. apr.com 3bd/2ba home on 2.56 +/- ac in Woodside has been exten- sively remodeled with high-end finishes. Beautiful views.

SOLD! Dennis Bower SAN MATEO $1,400,000 Janise Taylor MENLO PARK $1,188,888 650.209.1563 Sold with multiple offers above list price. Classic 4bd/2ba 650.302.2083 Charming 3bd/2ba home on coveted street in Las Lomitas Craftsman-style home with full basement. 11,100+/- sf lot. [email protected] School District. Wonderful layout with remodeled kitchen and [email protected] baths. Multiple offers. *Represented Buyer.

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TUTORINGMADEEASY name(s) listed above on N/A. The name and residence address of the this court and have a copy served on FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME This statement was filed with the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): 997 All Other Legals the plaintiff. A letter of phone call will STATEMENT County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara LILIANA DIAZ ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE not protect you. Your written response File No.: 587148 County on February 10, 2014. 390 Englert Ct. OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE must be in proper legal form if you The following person (persons) is (are) (PAW Feb. 14, 21, 28, Mar. 7, 2014) San Jose, CA 95133 STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE want the court to hear your case. There Public doing business as: JADE GARCIA may be a court form that you can use SMITH ANDERSEN EDITIONS COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA TutoringMadeEasy, located at 4461 1800 Ashton Ave. Case No.: 114CV259671 for your response. You can find these Renaissance Dr., Unit 622, San Jose, SMITH ANDERSEN Burlingame, CA 94010 court forms and more information SMITH ANDERSEN GALLERY TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: CA 95134, Santa Clara County. DANIELLE SCHAPPELL Petitioner: MARY H. BROWN filed a peti- at the California Courts Online Self- This business is owned by: An FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 3605 Kenwood Ave. Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ Notices STATEMENT tion with this court for a decree chang- Individual. San Mateo, CA 94401 selfhelp), your county law library, or the File No.: 587924 ing names as follows: The name and residence address of the Registrant/Owner began transacting MARTHA MARY HULSE aka MARTHA courthouse nearest you. If you cannot owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): The following person (persons) is (are) business under the fictitious business pay the filling fee, ask the court clerk doing business as: MARY BROWN to MARY HULSE BROWN. DAVID SMITH name(s) listed above on N/A. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons for a fee waiver form. If you do not file 4461 Renaissance Dr. Unit 622 1.) Smith Andersen Editions, 2.) Smith This statement was filed with the your response on time, you may lose 995 Fictitious Name Andersen, 3.) Smith Andersen Gallery, interested in this matter appear before San Jose, CA 95134 County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara this court at the hearing indicated the case by default, and your wages, Statement Registrant/Owner began transacting located at 440 Pepper Ave., Palo Alto, County on February 6, 2014. money, and property may be taken with- CA 94306, Santa Clara County. below to show cause, if any, why the IN HER SHOES business under the fictitious business (PAW Feb. 21, 28, Mar. 7, 14, 2014) petition for change of name should not out further warning from the court. name(s) listed above on December 15, This business is owned by: An There are other legal FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Individual. be granted. Any person objecting to the STATEMENT 2013. THUJA GLOBAL name changes described above must requirements. You may want to call an This statement was filed with the The name and residence address of the attorney right away. If you do not know File No.: 587196 owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME file a written objection that includes the The following person (persons) is (are) County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara STATEMENT reasons for the objection at least two an attorney, you may want to call an County on January 17, 2014. PAULA ZOLLOTO KIRKEBY attorney referral service. If you cannot doing business as: 257 Ely Place File No.: 587677 court days before the matter is sched- (PAW Feb. 14, 21, 28, Mar. 7, 2014) afford an attorney, you may be eligible In Her Shoes, located at 855 El Camino Palo Alto, CA 94306 The following person (persons) is (are) uled to be heard and must appear at for free legal services from a nonprofit Real #45, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Registrant/Owner began transacting doing business as: the hearing to show cause why the peti- legal services program. You can locate Clara County. ROXANA ART ACADEMY business under the fictitious business Thuja Global, located at 555 Bryant tion should not be granted. If no written these nonprofit groups a the California This business is owned by: An FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME name(s) listed above on 10/03/1969. Street, #288, Palo Alto, CA 94301, objection is timely filed, the court may Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelp- Individual. STATEMENT This statement was filed with the Santa Clara County. grant the petition without a hearing. california.org), the California Courts The name and residence address of the File No.: 587921 County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara This business is owned by: An NOTICE OF HEARING: April 15, 2014, Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): The following person (persons) is (are) County on February 5, 2014. Individual. 8:45 a.m., Room: 107, of the Superior ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your PAMELA ROSEKRANS doing business as: (PAW Feb. 14, 21, 28, Mar. 7, 2014) The name and residence address of the Court of California, County of Santa 8 Blueridge Ln. Roxana Art Academy, located at 2226 owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, local court of country bar association. Woodside, CA 94062 Ringwood Ave., San Jose, CA 95131, CARMELO SYSTEMS GABRIEL P. KRALIK CA 95113. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien Registrant/Owner began transacting Santa Clara County. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 877 Sharon Court A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE for waived fees and cost on any settle- business under the fictitious business This business is owned by: A Limited STATEMENT Palo Alto, CA 94301 shall be published at least once each ment or arbitration award of $10, 000 name(s) listed above on 01/15/2014. Liability Company. File No.: 588029 Registrant/Owner began transacting week for four successive weeks prior to or more in a civil case. The court’s This statement was filed with the The name and residence address of the The following person (persons) is (are) business under the fictitious business the date set for hearing on the petition lien must be paid before he court will County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): doing business as: name(s) listed above on N/A. in the following newspaper of general dismiss the case. County on January 21, 2014. KAMGAR, LLC Carmelo Systems, located at 2660 This statement was filed with the circulation, printed in this county: (PAW Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014) 80 Alannah Court Bryant St., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara PALO ALTO WEEKLY AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no Clara County. Date: January 28, 2014 responde dentro de 30 dias, la FOR KEEPZ Palo Alto, CA 94303 County on January 30, 2014. Registrant/Owner began transacting This business is owned by: A Limited (PAW Feb. 28, Mar. 7, 14, 21, 2014) /s/ Aaron Persky corte puede decidir en su contra sin FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Liability Company. JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT escuchar su version. Lea la informan- STATEMENT business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. The name and residence address of the (PAW Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014) cion a continuacion. File No.: 587617 owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): PRINTER CAFE Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO The following person (persons) is (are) This statement was filed with the FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SUMMONS County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara CARMELO ASSOCIATES LLC despues de que le entreguen esta cita- doing business as: 2660 Bryant St. STATEMENT (CITACION JUDICIAL) cion y papeles legales para presenter For Keepz, located at 915 Elsinore County on February 5, 2014. File No.: 588511 CASE NUMBER: 113CV257903 (PAW Feb. 14, 21, 28, Mar. 7, 2014) Palo Alto, CA 94306 una respuesta por escrito en esta corte Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara Registrant/Owner began transacting The following person (persons) is (are) (Numero del Caso): y hacer que se entregue una copia al County. MANDARIN ROOTS RESTAURANT business under the fictitious business doing business as: damandante. Una carta o una llamada This business is owned by: A General FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME name(s) listed above on N/A. Printer Cafe, located at 320 California NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta Partnership. STATEMENT This statement was filed with the Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara (ALVISO AL DEMANDADO): por escrito tiene que estar en formato The name and residence address of the File No.: 588082 County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County. ESTHER TONGCHA KIM legal correcto si desea que procesen owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): The following person (persons) is (are) County on February 7, 2014. This business is owned by: An su caso en la corte. Es possible que MIRIAM SEDMAN doing business as: (PAW Feb. 21, 28, Mar. 7, 14, 2014) Individual. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: haya un formularlo que usted pueda 915 Elsinore Dr. Mandarin Roots Restaurant, located at The name and residence address of the (LO ESTA DEMANDADO EL usar para su respuesta. Puede encon- Palo Alto, CA 94303 3345 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA MINT STYLING owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): DEMANDATE): trar estos formularios de la corte y mas SUSAN EMSLEY 94306, Santa Clara County. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME AL GHAFOURI JASON AARON MARTINEZ informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de 447 Oxford Ave. This business is owned by: A STATEMENT 4005 Farm Hill Blvd. las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Corporation. File No.: 588002 Redwood City, CA 94061 NOTICE! You have been ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de Registrant/Owner began transacting The name and residence address of the The following person (persons) is (are) Registrant/Owner began transacting sued. The Court may decide against su condado o en la corte que le queda business under the fictitious business owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): doing business as: business under the fictitious business you without your being heard unless mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota name(s) listed above on N/A. LITTLE MING’S KITCHEN CORP. Mint Styling, located at 390 Englert name(s) listed above on 11/2008. you respond within 30 days. Read the de presentacion, pida al secretario de This statement was filed with the 3345 El Camino Real Ct., San Jose, CA 95133, Santa Clara This statement was filed with the information below. la corte que le de un formulario de County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara Palo Alto, CA 94306 County. County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this County on January 29, 2014. Registrant/Owner began transacting This business is owned by: A General County on February 20, 2014. summons and legal papers are served (PAW Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014) business under the fictitious business Partnership. (PAW Feb. 28, Mar. 7, 14, 21, 2014) on you to file a written response at (continued on page 56)

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Cal Pac of Carmichael, fully intended to STANFORD ROUNDUP attend a bigger school to continue VÌÕi`ÊvÀÊ«>}iÊxÇ® both her athletic and academic Cardinal men lose a shot career. Lady Oaks a berth in the national “I came from a small high championships that will contest- school and wanted to experience at moving up in Pac-12 ed at the Tyson Events Center in the bigger campus,” she said. Sioux City, Iowa. “Then I came here on a recruiting Basketball loss at ASU is a step back toward Even more impressive, the Lady trip and it was crazy how many improving conference tournament seeding Oaks have no seniors on their ros- people said hello to me, people I ter. didn’t know at all.” by Rick Eymer have the not so enviable distinc- Menlo brings a 31-game win- She still had to get used to the nthony Brown scored 18 of tion of traveling to Tucson to take ning streak against Cal Pac Con- higher level of basketball and ac- his 21 points in the second on No. 3 Arizona in a 5 p.m. conference competition into this knowledged it took nearly a full A half but the Stanford men’s test Sunday. year’s tournament, which com- year before she started catching

basketball team missed an op- “This is a tough conference and >À>ÌÊ-Õ> bines both men’s and women’s on. portunity to improve its lot in the every night is going to be tough,” teams. “It took a lot of practice,” Don- Pac-12 Conference on Wednes- Dawkins said. “We have to go at The Lady Oaks (23-5) are the nenwirth said. “The biggest dif- day night, losing to host Arizona it and compete.” top seed and host No. 4 ference was having State, 76-64. Instead of inching closer to sec- Simpson (12-17) in the more freedom to play Chasson Randle scored 17 ond place in the conference and Krista Hardebeck clinched the first round at 6 p.m. on and use your skills. It points before fouling out with 7:11 holding onto third by itself, the 7-0 victory over Florida. Saturday. The Menlo took three-fourth’s of remaining to play in the game. He Cardinal is forced into sharing men (9-17) are seeded the season before I fi- shot 50 percent from the field, but third place with California, Colo- (70-69-73) for her fourth career fourth and take on top- nally knew enough to he also committed a couple of key rado and the Sun Devils with a win and seventh top-10 showing seeded Cal Maritime start getting it right.” turnovers. Dwight Powell added first-round bye in the Pac-12 tour- on the season. (24-5) at 3:30 p.m. Donnenwirth played 11 points. nament in serious jeopardy. To go along with the victory, Menlo is led by 6-foot-7 at El Camino High in The Cardinal never could take “We have lost the first game of Stackhouse received a sponsor Keith Bowman, who Sacramento, a Division advantage of Arizona State cold every road trip,” Brown said. “We exemption to the 2014 Kia Clas- this week was named II school in the San spells or turnovers and its own have to go back to the drawing sic (March 27-30) at the Aviara the Cal Pac Player of Joaquin Section of the shooting woes did not help. board. It’s as simple as that.” Golf Club. the Year. Jolise Limcaco CIF. She played varsity “It was definitely a bad start Stanford pulled out its third The women’s champi- three years and helped for us,” Stanford coach Johnny Women’s golf team victory with an even-par onship game is slated for Monday the school achieve a 71-18 overall Dawkins said. “I wish we could Stanford’s Mariah Stackhouse 864 (289-289-286) at the par-72, at 6 p.m., to be followed by the record. have played better. We turned the held on to win the UC Irvine Invi- 5,842-yard course. men’s title contest at 8 p.m. Limcaco played four years at ball over too much. In a game like tational by shooting a final-round Limcaco started as a fresh- St. Francis High in Sacramento, a that, you have you hit your free 73 to claim a two-shot victory over Women’s tennis men, while Donnenwirth earned Division I school, accumulating a throws and take care of the ball Pepperdine’s Grace Na Tuesday at In a battle between to of the a starting spot late in the season. 98-31 mark. and we didn’t do either of those Santa Ana Country Club earlier in top five teams in the nation, No. Limcaco recalled the senior class Both players helped their teams things.” the week. 3 Stanford toppled No. 5 Florida, made an impression on her then, reach their respective section Stanford had won five of its Stackhouse finished the 54-hole 7-0, in nonconference action Sun- and she wants to continue that championship games in 2011. previous six games and will now tournament with a 4-under 212 day at Taube Family Tennis Cen- leadership role. “You always look for the girls ter. The showdown was a rematch “They really wanted it,” said who want to compete,” said Os- of last year’s NCAA team semi- Limcaco, who this week earned borne, in her sixth season at finals, also won by the Cardinal her second straight Cal Pac Player Menlo and the three-time Cal Pac — winner of two national titles in of the Year award. “And they were Coach of the Year. “I like to watch the past four years and nine in the such a great group who considered them play to see if they play hard past 16. us family. I like having that com- and if they can shot the basket- Stanford (7-0), with its solid munity feeling. It’s like we want ball. In the Cal Pac, all you try to Inspirations crop of freshmen, may be better the best for each other.” do every day is compete. During a guide to the spiritual community than the team that won last year’s Menlo lost to both Simpson and practice these players challenge national title. The Gators (8-2), Cal Maritime during the regular each other. It’s a high intensity who have won two of the past season in 2012 and then came group.” three national titles, are a good back to beat both of them to earn Osborne (116-57 at Menlo) took FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, UCC barometer for any team seeking a spot in the national tournament the helm from Caitlin Collier £nxÊÕÃÊ,>`]Ê*>ÊÌÊUÊÈxä®ÊnxÈÈÈÈÓÊUÊÜÜÜ°vVV«>°À}Ê to reach the top. for the first time in four years. (172-96 at Menlo), who started the Sunday Worship and Church School at 10 a.m. Sophomore Krista Hardebeck, “There were seven new players program in 1998 before accepting This Sunday: 4-2 lifetime against the Gators, that year,” Menlo coach Shannon a position at UNLV, where she Biblical Special Effects recorded the clinching point for Osborne said. “There were four serves as associate head coach. Stanford against Florida for the freshmen and three transfers. The High expectations were built in Rev. David Howell, preaching second straight meeting. She did early season was about getting to from the start and that’s how Os- An Open and Affirming Congregation of the United Church of Christ it last May in the NCAA semifi- know each other. In January, that borne likes it. We celebrate Marriage Equality nals. team started to click.” An all-conference player at After losing at Simpson on Jan. Pomona-Pitzer, 1991-95, she This weekend 28, 2012, the Lady Oaks fell to started her coaching career as an It’s a championship weekend 9-13 overall. They have not lost to assistant at her alma mater, Red- for multiple Cardinal teams, high- a Cal Pac team since and are 55- mond High in Washington. lighted by Stanford playing host 10 overall during that time span. Osborne held similar positions to the Pac-12 Wrestling Champi- Menlo has lost its first-round at Texas-Pan American, Kansas, onships Sunday at Maples Pavil- game of the national tournament San Jose State, Lynn University ion at 10:30 a.m. in each of the past two years, in- and Fordham. While Stanford wrestling goes cluding a 16-point loss to the Uni- “Shannon’s experience and for its first Pac-12 team title, versity of Jamestown last year. knowledge of the game will add women’s swimming and diving, “We want something else this depth to our coaching staff,” Ford- as well as men’s diving, go for year,” said Donnenwirth, the ham coach Cathy Andruzzi said conference titles of their own as 2014 Cal Pac Defensive Player in 2007. “She is highly respected the Pac-12 Women’s Swimming of the Year. “Winning more than for her work ethic and passion for and Men’s and Women’s Diving our first-round game is the goal. the game. Her diverse experience Championships wrap up. Some of the best games we’ve at the Division I & II levels will Stanford women’s basketball played this year have come against be an asset.” began its final weekend of the ranked teams. It showed us how Osborne led Menlo to a pro- regular season Thursday night well we can play.” gram-best 26-4 mark last year against Washington. The Cardi- Menlo has a victory over the and hopes to continue the school’s Inspirations is a resource for ongoing religious services nal’s weekend concludes Saturday NAIA Division I’s fifth-ranked success at the Cal Pac Conference and special events. To inquire about or to reserve space in at 7:30 p.m. on Senior Night, as Campbellsville (23-3) and a loss and beyond. Inspirations, please contact Blanca Yoc at 223-6596 seniors Sara James, Toni Kokenis, to No. 8 Georgetown College “We know how to compete or email [email protected] Chiney Ogwumike and Mikaela (17-6). against great teams,” she said. Ruef will be honored. N Donnenwirth, a 5-10 junior out “It’s a mental thing.” N

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boys this season culminated at the better coach,” Lee said. “He has / / -Ê"Ê/ Ê7 Wrestling SCVAL finals, where Lee pinned so much wisdom. Sometimes I’ll VÌÕi`ÊvÀÊ«>}iÊxÇ® Elvin Labucay of Santa Clara think that I’ve heard so much of to capture her first league title him that there isn’t possibly any- sure,” Lee said of trying to repeat against boys. more information that he could as state champion. “I’m going to Wrestling so many boys this have. But every day he puts out try to just go at it one match at a year, Lee hasn’t had as much op- something new and he teaches time, put everything I have into portunity to wrestle against girls, the whole team something about it. Hopefully I’ll come back with and Lee acknowledged there were either wrestling or life that I’ve another title.” some technique differences to never heard before. It’s really Lee will compete in the 106- wrestling the two genders. amazing.” pound division of the “I’d say in general For his part, Horpel had the ut- state tournament this guys are a lot stron- most confidence that Lee would season, after winning ger, but girls are much once again excel at the state the 103-pound division more flexible,” Lee championships. last year. said. “(Against girls) I “I’m always a little worried In the opening round, have to make sure, they something bizarre could happen,” Lee will wrestle against can’t limp out anything, Horpel said. “But, barring injury Mia Hill from Weston or trip their way out of and barring illness, I think she’s Ranch High School something, so that’s going to do it again and win an- (Stockton, with a pos- what’s different in gen- other state title.” sible match against eral. I still try and wres- Joining Lee at the State Meet Marjoree Fargas from Cadence Lee tle girls and guys with will be Menlo-Atherton freshman Paramount High in the the same mentality to Chelsea Wilson and Palo Alto ju- Destiny Graham James Smith second round. try and come out strong.” nior Alexa Austin. Lee has primarily wrestled Earlier this month, Lee did have EASTSIDE PREP MENLO-ATHERTON HIGH against boys this season and has four matches against female op- Boys wrestling The junior center helped The senior wrestler defend- more than held her own; compil- ponents, when she won the girls’ Gunn will send eight athletes to the Panthers win twice and ed his No. 1 seed at the PAL ing over 20 victories with only CCS Championships to become the CCS Championships on Fri- capture the WBAL basket- Championships by winning four loses. the first four-time champion in day and Saturday at Independence ball playoff title by scoring his semifinal with a pin and Her success has come at a high- section history. High in San Jose while Palo Alto 17 points and grabbing 13 taking the 162-pound title er weight class than last season, as “I didn’t realize it when Ca- sends five and Menlo-Atherton rebounds in the semis with with a technical pin before Lee decided to move up from the dence was winning (CCS) this four. 11 points and 10 boards being named the Outstand- 106-pound division to the much time, but she won every match Action begins at 10 a.m. each in the finals to help defeat ing Wrestler in the upper tougher 113-pound division for every year by pin,” Horpel said in day, with finals set for Saturday Pinewood. weights. the dual-meet season, in order to amazement. “So not only is she at 7 p.m. give fellow senior wrestler Mi- a four-time CCS champion, she’s Gunn has two seeded wrestlers Honorable mention chael Abramovitch a chance to pinned every opponent that she’s in junior Ian Cramer (second at Charmaine Bradford Anthony Andrighetto start at 106. wrestled at the CCS Champion- 132) and senior Stephen Martin Eastside Prep basketball Menlo-Atherton wrestling Although going up a weight ships for four straight years.” (No. 2 at 182). Paly has junior class took some adjustment, Lee Brije Byers James McLean As Lee continues to train for her James Giaccia (third at 126) while thought that the change helped her final state championship tourna- senior Josh Deckelman is an alter- Eastside Prep basketball Sacred Heart Prep basketball become a superior overall wres- ment, she made sure to acknowl- nate at 152. Marissa Hing* Wes Miller tler. edge how lucky she was to have a Menlo-Atherton comes into the Pinewood basketball Menlo basketball “At the lower weight class, coach like Horpel by her side. He meet having finished fifth at last Camille Steger Bobby Roth sometimes I’d just be able to out- previously was the head wrestling weekend’s PAL Championships. Gunn basketball Menlo basketball power the guys or out-muscle coach at Stanford for 25 years and The Bears had three individual Chelsea Wilson John Strong them,” Lee said. “Wrestling up (a spent time coaching, among oth- champions in senior Anthony Menlo-Atherton wrestling Menlo soccer weight class) helped me improve, ers, Olympic gold medalists Mark Andrighetto (122), senior Austin Zoe Zwerling Austin Wilson because at this weight I really have and Dave Schultz prior to the 1984 Wilson (134) and senior James Gunn basketball Menlo-Atherton wrestling to make sure that my technique is Los Angeles Games. Smith (162), who was named the * previous winner solid in order to beat them.” “Coach Horpel is an amazing Outstanding Wrestler in the upper Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com Lee’s success wrestling against wrestler, but I think he’s an even weight divisions. N

Next up for Sacred Heart Prep at Valley Christian at 10 a.m. a rival of Priory in the West Bay CCS soccer next will be No. 2 Soledad (18- Priory and Sacred Heart Prep, Athletic League (Foothill Divi- VÌÕi`ÊvÀÊ«>}iÊxÇ® 0-2) on Saturday in the quarter- meanwhile, had to battle their sion), on Saturday at St. Francis finals at Rabobank Stadium in way into the weekend. at 2 p.m. ing the Division III championship Salinas at 10 a.m. No. 12 Priory (8-9-1) advanced Like last season, King’s had to game for the first time and shar- “Soledad is undefeated and, to the Division III quarterfinals win a playoff match to reach the ing it with Menlo School. thus, they have everything to following a 3-2 victory over No. 5 section tournament. The Knights While those accomplishments lose,” said del Rio. “I think if we Harbor (10-5-4) in Portola Valley advanced with a 6-1 blasting of proved to be milestones, Sacred play with the same fire in our on a rainy Wednesday. No. 4 Santa Catalina (15-2-2). Heart Prep still has one left to belly, we will put ourselves in a The Panthers found themselves Priory was bounced from the achieve — winning the section good position.” down, 2-0, at the end of the first playoffs last season by King’s title outright. In CCS Division I boys’ action, 40 minutes with what was a ques- Academy, 1-0, in the quarterfi- For results of Thursday The Gators took a step in that host Menlo-Atherton battled to a tionable first-half effort against nals. night’s Central Coast Section direction on a rainy Wednesday scoreless first half before finally Harbor. The final 40 minutes of The No. 6 Sacred Heart Prep basketball games, go to www. afternoon by defeating No. 7 seed breaking through after intermis- the match were truly epic as the girls (17-2-2) got an early start pasportsonline.com as all the Scotts Valley, 1-0, in Atherton. sion to register a 1-0 victory over Panthers rallied back to win. to the playoffs on Tuesday and games were played after our The No. 10-seeded Gators (15- No. 10 Santa Clara on a rainy Freshman standout Alicia Ta- made the most of the opportunity deadline. 5-1) got the winning goal in the Wednesday evening. lancon scored in the 47th minute to post a 7-0 romp over No. 11 Pa- second half as senior Frankie Hat- The No. 7-seeded Bears (12- (assisted by Margaret Shields), cific Collegiate in Atherton. ed a goal just two minutes later to tler took a pass from junior Derek 5-2) got the deciding goal when receiving the ball just outside the It took only two minutes for send the Gators into intermission Chou and found the back of the Ethan Oro slid a pass to Mario box and placing her shot to the freshman Olivia Athens and se- with a big lead. net in the 68th minute. Rodriguez, who finished. Menlo- near post and to the keeper’s right. nior Alex Bourdillon to hook up The Gators will have a much “The rain was a huge factor, but Atherton next will face No. 2 Bel- In the 52nd minute, senior captain for the first goal, with Bourdillon tougher test in the quarterfinals this group adjusts really well to larmine (16-3-4) on Saturday in Erin Simpson converted a free getting the tally. on Saturday when they visit No. game situations,” said SHP coach the quarterfinals at Milpitas High kick just outside the box, roofing Athens was involved in the next 3 Burlingame (12-3-5) at 10 a.m. Armando del Rio, who improved at noon. her shot to beat the keeper. two scores, as well. She scored in SHP will take on the Panthers to 66-9-11 in just his four season. For the girls, Menlo (15-3-2) The game-winner came in the the ninth minute off an assist from without freshman standout Ka- “We were excellent on the after- was seeded No. 1 in Division III 69th minute when Lexi Garrity sophomore Tierna Davidson and tie Harrison, who suffered a torn noon in all aspects, and played and Palo Alto (10-4-5) got the No. was fouled 30 yards out, setting added another goal, unassisted, ACL in practice two weeks ago. with the drive that is needed. I 2 seed in Division I. Both received up another Simpson free kick to just a minute later. In Division I, No. 9 seed Menlo- also want to add how impressed byes into the quarterfinals. Menlo win it. In the 12th minute, Riley Sha- Atherton (10-6-5) saw its season we were with the sportsmanship will face No. 9 Terra Nova (18-1) The Panthers next will face No. nahan took a pass from fellow end in heartbreaking fashion with and gratitude of Scott’s Valley — at St. Francis at noon while Paly 13 King’s Academy (10-10), the sophomore Carey Bradley and a 3-2 loss to host Santa Teresa in clean game, yet hard-fought.” will take on No. 10 Alisal (14-4-1) defending Division III champ and made it 4-0 before Davidson add- the opening round. N

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