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Page 4 • March 6, 2020 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Daylight Saving Time begins Set your clocks ahead one hour at 2 a.m. this Sunday. UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Coronavirus cases rise to 20 in county Organizations canceling large gatherings, events has set aside a portion of the cam- Public Health Department re- travelers and those who live in the pus for those with the virus, also ported two new cases involving same household as known corona- by Palo Alto Weekly staff known as COVID-19, Veterans women who were in the same virus patients. Public health staff ven as Gov. Gavin Newsom At the same time, the Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie household, neither of whom had said the increased number of cas- declared a state of emer- Affairs Palo Alto Health Care stated during his testimony to the been in contact with a traveler or es of the virus was expected as the E gency this week over the System’s Palo Alto hospital con- federal House Appropriations with someone carrying the virus. disease spreads. novel coronavirus following the firmed it has become a receiving Committee Wednesday. The cases strongly indicate “The Public Health Depart- state’s first virus-related death, center for former service mem- The number of known corona- that the virus is now spreading ment will continue to identify local public health officials an- bers diagnosed with the virus. virus cases within the county has throughout the community, ac- anyone who has come into con- nounced that the number of cases This week, a veteran who has steadily increased since Feb. 28, cording to the department. tact with these cases,” staff said has risen to 20 in Santa Clara tested positive for the disease was when there were only two. On that More cases were reported this County. transferred to the facility. The VA day and on Feb. 29, the county’s week and involved international (continued on page 8)
PUBLIC HEALTH Schools, universities try to slow virus’ spread Many campuses increase cleaning efforts, others prepare for remote learning by Elena Kadvany s confirmed coronavirus cases continue to increase A locally, schools and uni- versities are amping up their pre- vention efforts, from preparing for online learning options and con- ducting intensive cleaning to urg- ing cancellation of large events. The Palo Alto school district, which sent home from school last
Lloyd Lee Lloyd week two students whose parent had been exposed to the corona- virus, have implemented extra cleaning of the students’ schools, Shoppers at Costco in Mountain View stocked up on water bottles, temporarily depleting the store’s supply. Shelves above, once filled Palo Alto High School and JLS with toilet paper, were empty on Monday. Middle School. Custodial staffs at every campus are following rec- have toilet paper,” Hmelar, 52, ommended cleaning procedures PUBLIC HEALTH said. “So I’m gonna be here at 9 daily, “with extra effort on areas a.m. to buy toilet paper.” considered high-risk,” such as None of Hmelar’s family bathrooms, athletic areas, cafete- Fear, anxiety and Champagne: knows she’s at Costco stockpil- rias and the nurse’s office as well ing for an outbreak — “They’re as “high-touch points” such as Palo Altans prepare for coronavirus probably thinking I’m crazy,” door handles, hand railings, lock- she said — as the virus looms ers and shared desks, the district Some customers gut local stores of items beyond CDC-recommended measures dangerously close to them. announced. by Lloyd Lee Hmelar’s youngest daughter Superintendent Don Austin de- is a senior at Palo Alto High clined to state whether the two quiet anxiety grips Palo drug stores to prepare to bun- announced to customers that School, where one student was students had been tested for coro- Alto and Mountain View ker down in their homes in case record numbers of people have sent home on Feb. 28 after the navirus, citing their privacy, but A as residents face the pos- there’s an outbreak or they find been showing up as the store school district learned that said that the district was follow- sibility that the coronavirus will themselves infected. opens to grab basic necessities the student’s parent had been ing direction from the Santa Clara knock on their doors. Palo Alto resident Monica like toilet paper and water bot- exposed to the virus, prompt- County Public Health Department. The Santa Clara County Pub- Hmelar has been searching tles. On Feb. 28, 958 custom- ing the district to disinfect the Austin was also authorized by lic Health Department has iden- several retail stores for hand ers came through the store as campus. (See story, “Schools, the school board president to sus- tified 20 cases of COVID-19, sanitizer. On March 2, she it opened, the highest customer universities try to slow virus’ pend a board policy that prohibits the disease caused by the new stopped by the Costco store in count in recent history, accord- spread.”) alcohol-based cleaning products virus, in the area. And as the Mountain View, but the ware- ing to the employee. And Hmelar’s oldest daughter and immediately ordered alcohol- number of cases climbs, resi- house ran out of everything “They told me to come back based hand sanitizers for schools, dents are scouring grocery and she needed. One employee tomorrow at 9 a.m. when they’ll (continued on page 7) (continued on page 7)
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The longtime Contributors Chrissi Angeles, Mike Berry, Carol Blitzer, Peter Canavese, Edward Gerard Fike, head of the San Francisquito Yoshi Kato, Chris Kenrick, Jack McKinnon, Creek Joint Powers Authority is Sheryl Nonnenberg, John Orr, Monica Schreiber, leaving the agency to head San Jay Thorwaldson Mateo County’s new flood and Gennady Sheyner Gennady ADVERTISING sea-level rise district, according Vice President Sales & Marketing to a Feb. 25 press release. Len Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) Materman, who was the JPA’s Multimedia Advertising Sales executive director for almost Tiffany Birch (223-6573), Elaine Clark (223-6572), 12 years, will serve as CEO of Connie Jo Cotton (223-6571) A NEW LOOK ... Palo Alto Mayor the San Mateo County Flood Real Estate Advertising Sales Adrian Fine broke some news Neal Fine (223-6583), Rosemary Lewkowitz and Sea Level Rise Resiliency (223-6585) Wednesday during his “State of District. The new district brings Legal Advertising Alicia Santillan (223-6578) the City” speech: El Palo Alto, together San Mateo County the city’s iconic redwood, just ADVERTISING SERVICES cities to work collaboratively on got bigger. To clarify: Not the Auto Repair Shop Advertising Services Manager sea level rise, flooding, coastal actual tree near the Menlo Park Kevin Legarda (223-6597) erosion and regional stormwater border, but its image, as seen Sales & Production Coordinators detention. Materman will start in Palo Alto Diane Martin (223-6584), Nico Navarrete (223-6582) on the official city of Palo Alto full time on May 1. His salary logo. Fine closed his speech Quality, Integrity, Technology DESIGN will be $235,000 per year. “I am at Mitchell Park Community Design & Production Manager confident that this first-of-its-kind Kristin Brown (223-6562) Center by showing the recently countywide district can be a Senior Designers Linda Atilano, Paul Llewellyn updated logo, which now model for others in California and Designers Kevin Legnon, Amy Levine, Doug Young features fuller and bushier beyond,” he said in the press branches. “After watering and BUSINESS release. At the JPA, Materman care, our namesake tree is oversaw the flood-control project Business Associates Jennifer Lindberg (223-6542), stronger and healthier, and Suzanne Ogawa (223-6541) along lower San Francisquito we had to update our logo. I Creek designed to withstand ADMINISTRATION hope that is a good metaphor floodwaters larger than ones Courier Ruben Espinoza for the state of the city.” The in the Feb. 3, 1998 flood that EMBARCADERO MEDIA city’s logo was ubiquitous at inundated parts of East Palo President William S. Johnson (223-6505) Mitchell Park, with top City Alto and Palo Alto and caused Vice President Michael I. Naar (223-6540) Hall staff wearing mesh hats millions of dollars in damage. Vice President & CFO Peter Beller (223-6545) emblazoned with El Palo Alto The project included new flood Vice President Sales & Marketing and aprons that celebrated walls and widening the creek to Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) the city’s 125th birthday and protect homes and businesses Director, Information Technology & Webmaster that also featured the tree. As against a 100-year storm flow. Frank A. 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on eBay for up to $1,000 dol- and zinc lozenges. the weekend,” Otte said. “Our but believes the best measure Stores lars. I found some guy in South “It’s just happening all in real sales were about 20% higher than is for people to carefully lis- (continued from page 5) Carolina — a box of 10 for $100 time,” said Michelle Kraus, a tech normal for a Sunday, and Sundays ten to their local public health dollars.” executive and political strategist are already a busy day.” department. had recently traveled to Florence, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome who had just finished shopping Otte chuckled with a little res- “We have excellent local lead- Italy, before jetting off to London Adams issued a public plea over at Whole Foods. “I don’t know ignation as he thought about the ership, and what they’re saying is after receiving alarming news the weekend asking people to if I’m scared, but I’m uncomfort- prospect of closing his store — that we should be ready for life about the increasing spread and stop stockpiling masks. The able. I’m the kind of person who “a last ditch effort” that he would to be disrupted for a little while,” death tolls from the virus. On the Feb. 29 post on Twitter reads: needs information to decide what only consider if he’s instructed she said. “That’s not the same as same day the school district an- “Seriously people — stop buy- I can do.” to or if too many employees get panicking, but it’s sensible for nounced a parent was exposed to ing masks! They are NOT effec- To prepare for an outbreak, sick. families to have a plan in place. the virus, the Centers for Disease tive in preventing general public Kraus is stocking up on travel- “Sales have to be very, very low If they’re asked to stay in their Control and Prevention raised from catching #Coronavirus, but sized hand sanitizers and zinc before it’s not worth being open,” homes for a couple of weeks to Italy to a warning level 3, advis- if health care providers can’t get lozenges, an item that’s curiously he said. “There’s rent and electric- rule out an infection, will they be ing the public to “avoid all non- them to care for sick patients, it out of stock in some stores. The ity to keep everything cold. Those able to do that? In the same way essential travels” to the country puts them and our communities lozenges became popular after a are fixed costs regardless if we’re we prepare for earthquakes, we where the coronavirus has killed at risk!” pathologist’s letter that instructed open or not.” should prepare for this foresee- more than 50 people and resulted Though masks and hand sani- people to “stock up now” went Abene Mendizabal, a Stanford able risk.” in about 2,000 confirmed cases. tizers are increasingly hard to viral. University resident and mother To prevent further spreading “I’m kind of freaking out about purchase, stores around Palo Alto The CDC does not list zinc loz- of two, refuses to panic even as of the virus, the county’s Public the whole thing,” she said. “And don’t exactly look like they’ve enges as a protection against the she works in the tourism indus- Health Department recommends when I come to the stores, it’s not been hit by an apocalypse. Most coronavirus and there is no anti- try, which has been directly af- taking the same precautionary helping.” of their shelves are fully stocked viral treatment available. fected by the virus through travel measures as one would against Retailers all over the Mid- and continue to be refilled as At Country Sun Natural Foods restrictions. any viral flu or infection: Wash peninsula are rushing to restock more shipments arrive. on California Avenue in Palo “I’m not doing anything be- your hands with soap; use alco- shelves to meet the specific de- But inside places such as the Alto, CEO Scott Otte also noticed cause I already went through so hol-based hand sanitizer when mands of anxious customers like Mountain View Costco, the his store was hit by an influx of many health issues in my life — I hand-washing isn’t available; cov- Hmelar — such as hand sanitiz- neighboring REI, Palo Alto’s concerned customers clearing out need to keep calm,” she said while er your mouth with a tissue and ers, masks and gloves — all of Whole Foods as well as Town & the inventory of pasta, rolled oats, outside of Whole Foods after a properly dispose of it; stay home which have been flying off the Country Village’s CVS Pharma- disinfectant wipes and alcohol- routine shopping trip. “That’s why if you’re sick; and start preparing shelves of local stores and online cy and Trader Joe’s, the unease of free hand sanitizers. (The CDC I bought Champagne.” your household in case a family marketplaces. Many also have the community can be seen in the only recommends the public use Stanford Law professor Mi- member gets sick and needs to be purchased freeze-dried goods empty pockets of certain aisles alcohol-based hand sanitizers if chelle Mello, who also teaches isolated. Q and cough syrup. that once stored rows of pasta water and soap are not an imme- health research and policy, Editorial Assistant Lloyd “I ordered the masks,” Hme- sauces, canned tuna, toilet paper, diate option.) doesn’t see the need for people to Lee can be emailed at llee@ lar said. “They’re selling them freeze-dried mashed potatoes “We definitely got a run over purchase tubs of hand sanitizer, paweekly.com.
before boarding and remind stu- his update. “We have no confirmed precautions such as screening visi- No one traveling from China, Schools dents to wash their hands thorough- cases and no practical reason to tors based on medical and epide- South Korea, Italy, Iran or any (continued from page 5) ly at each rest area and throughout close our doors. ... Everyone is fully miological advice,” Sudaria said. other country with a CDC Level 3 the day. The teachers said they have engaged and trying to make the best travel health restriction is allowed he wrote in an update to families a “limited supply” of hand sanitizer decisions possible for our students, Canceled events to be present on campus unless and staff on Wednesday. and antibacterial wipes and asked staff and community.” and international travel he or she completes a 14-day The district has suspended all parents to send their children with The private Menlo School in self-isolation immediately upon school-sponsored international extras, if possible. Atherton closed for the rest of the os Altos Hills community arrival in the U.S. This includes field trips and is re-evaluating local The county has advised against week after a staff member inter- college Foothill College is all people, including children, field trips daily, Austin said. The canceling domestic field trips, acted with a relative who tested L preparing training videos with or without symptoms, Furr Greene Middle School band left though Austin said he is “not sure positive for the novel coronavirus for students, faculty and staff on wrote. It also applies to visitors Wednesday for a trip to Disneyland that this advisement will hold up on Tuesday, March 3. how to use Zoom, which provides to Stanford. near Los Angeles, despite concerns for much longer.” Castilleja School in Palo Alto software for remote conferencing Stanford also is restricting from some non-band parents who Palo Alto Unified has no plans is canceling classes on Monday, services, and the online education university-related travel by mem- fear the traveling students could to close schools at this point and March 9, and asking all students platform Canvas should the need bers of the campus community in bring back the virus. The students is not providing online instruction to work from home so teachers can arise for remote learning. The those same countries. are traveling by bus; music teach- to students whose parents might prepare for “synchronous distance community college has not can- Online petitions have emerged ers told parents in an email they choose to keep their child at home. learning should the need arise,” celed any events but it said that calling on both Palo Alto Unified planned to wipe down the surfaces “No school in our county is clos- Head of School Nanci Kauffman faculty and staff members’ plans and Stanford to take more strin- of the bus with antibacterial wipes ing at this time,” Austin wrote in and Chief Financial and Operat- to attend external conferences gent precautions. ing Officer Kathy Layendecker have been cancelled. Palo Alto parents have asked wrote in a message to parents. The Stanford University, meanwhile, the district to start spring break school is not aware of any students is urging cancellation or postpone- early, extending it to two weeks, or staff who have been exposed to ment of university events between and to provide online learning op- the coronavirus. March 4 and April 15 that involve tions so students can stay home. If the private all-girls school more than 150 people — not in- A petition started by a student CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week closes, Castilleja plans to provide cluding regular academic courses, group called Stanford Against remote learning for all students according to a Tuesday announce- Coronavirus described the uni- City Council (March 2) and will treat it “as regular school ment from Russell Furr, associate versity’s education efforts on the History: The council voted to put out a request for proposals for rehabilitation days with required attendance, par- vice provost for environmental coronavirus as “deficient at best” and use of the Roth Building at 300 Homer Ave., site of a proposed Palo Alto ticipation and timely assessments.” health & safety. Furr is leading a and proposed a contingency plan, History Museum. Yes: Unanimous The school also is canceling a new emergency operations orga- including encouraging faculty to Commissions: The council directed its ad hoc committee on boards and middle school dance this Friday nization Stanford activated this conduct classes digitally as much commissions to continue its work and to consider several changes, including creation of term limits and disbanding the Library Advisory Commission. Yes: evening and has convened a “CO- week to coordinate the university’s as possible, to not require at- Unanimous VID-19 Command Team” to lead response to coronavirus. tendance for classes with more the school’s safety, prevention, Some events that will have than 50 students and to provide Council Finance Committee (March 3) monitoring and communication fewer participants but will be face masks for students with flu Junior Museum and Zoo: The committee approved a preliminary operating plan efforts. held in confined spaces should be symptoms. and new fees for the Junior Museum and Zoo, which is set to reopen later this The Ravenswood City School reconsidered, he wrote. He urged “If Stanford University hesi- Yes: year. Unanimous District is providing masks to stu- organizers to consider other fac- tates to take immediate and ap- Architectural Review Board (March 5) dents experiencing symptoms and tors such as the age and health of propriate actions to protect its 1700 and 1730 Embarcadero Road: The board recommended proposed school offices will be using logs expected attendees and the need 16,520 students and 14,060 fac- changes to a previously approved design for an auto dealership at 1700 and to track such students, interim Su- to clean the space after the event. ulty and staff members, COV- 1730 Embarcadero Road and declared its preference for stepped massing. perintendent Gina Sudaria wrote Stanford is also suggesting the use ID-19 will have a great potential Yes: Baltay, Hirsch, Lee, Lew No: Thompson to families this week. Schools are of phone calls or videoconferenc- to spread throughout the campus, 180 El Camino: The board discussed and recommended approving a two- story retail building at Stanford Shopping Center. Yes: Baltay, Hirsch, Lew, stocked with thermal skin ther- ing instead of large meetings. jeopardizing the lives of us all,” Thompson Recused: Lee mometers, hand sanitizer, soap, The university is also plan- the petition states. Q paper towels and tissues. ning more continual cleaning in Staff Writer Elena Kadvany LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk “In the event the pandemic common areas and on commonly can be emailed at ekadvany@ PaloAltoOnline.com/square about the issues at Town Square at worsens, we may adopt other touched surfaces. paweekly.com.
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CITY HALL Mayor shares spotlight, highlights housing in ‘State of the City’ In formal address, Adrian Fine invites community members to weigh in on their concerns by Gennady Sheyner
n his “State of the City” jobs-rich areas. He was the coun- speech Wednesday night, cil’s sole supporter of the bill, I Palo Alto Mayor Adrian Fine which was authored by state Sen. adopted an approach that both Scott Wiener and which fizzled in felt familiar in a city where tech the state Senate in January. is king and that broke sharply While opponents of SB 50 with all prior mayoral addresses: derided it as an attack on local crowdsourcing. control (Councilman Eric Filseth Departing from the norm, Fine devoted a large portion of his own invited members of the Palo Alto “State of the City” speech last community, including residents, year to critiquing the bill), Fine business leaders and volunteers, suggested that the city has many to share the spotlight with him opportunities to exercise its zon- and to offer their own thoughts ing powers to create housing — it about the state of the city in front just hasn’t done it. He alluded to of a crowd of about 100 people the 2013 referendum that killed gathered at Mitchell Park Com- a proposed housing development
munity Center. on Maybell Avenue, which would Magali Gauthier He also used the wide-ranging have included 60 units for low-in- and largely upbeat speech to call come seniors and 12 single-family for more action on housing, offer homes, and the city’s recent trou- a coronavirus update and discuss bles in creating a new vision for some of Palo Alto’s most press- the Ventura neighborhood. Palo Alto Mayor Adrian Fine addresses the crowd at his “State of the City” address at Mitchell Park ing problems, including traffic “Put simply, do we have the will Community Center in Palo Alto on March 4. congestion and a business envi- to solve this housing crisis, or are ronment that is showing signs of we going to dither?” Fine asked. community for seniors, as an ex- geared toward local employees. “But I find it funny that one distress. While Fine didn’t offer any spe- ample of the type of housing the Yet he also referenced the loss of the most beautiful buildings Fine, who is the City Council’s cific proposals for boosting the city needs more of. of 75 apartments as part of the in town would be illegal to build youngest member and staunchest housing supply, a goal that the city Fine recapped some of the pending conversion of the Presi- today: too tall, too dense and too housing advocate, touched upon has struggled to achieve, he made council’s small victories on the dent Hotel, a historic, six-story little parking. Why can’t we do the recent demise of state Sen- a case for being more accepting housing front, including a zone building at 488 University Ave., something like this again?” Fine ate Bill 50, which would have of duplexes and houses with three change to enable 55 small units into a hotel. The council, he said, asked. mandated relaxed city zoning re- or four units. He also used the on El Camino Real and Page Mill will take up the issue of the hotel strictions near transit hubs and in Stevenson House, a residential Road, a development that will be conversion later this year. (continued on page 14)
Coronavirus Shikada said. The closure means the last two washing their hands, covering all surfaces with disinfectants in- The city also plans to prioritize weeks of the film festival honor- their coughs or sneezes and stay- cluding phones, keyboards, tab- (continued from page 5) hygiene at upcoming city events ing Japanese film director and ing home if they don’t feel well. lets and door handles. and is conducting a review of its screenwriter Akira Kurosawa TheatreWorks is also providing The recommendations do not in a statement. “The department “operational contingency plans.” will be suspended. The festival “flexible ticket exchange policies include avoiding office environ- also will be conducting commu- City leaders have re-empha- was originally scheduled to end for ticketholders.” ments or grocery stores where nity surveillance to determine the sized hygienic practices during March 15, but the theater hopes “We will be working closely people do not typically gather extent of possible disease spread the flu season and special proto- to screen the remaining films at with local health authorities as we tightly together. in our community.” cols to its police officers and fire- another date. maintain our scheduled events and The statement did not specify fighters. Palo Alto is also main- On Wednesday, Stanford Uni- performances and are in the pro- How to take the protocols or extent of the taining communication with the versity canceled or postponed up- cess of making contingency plans precautions surveillance. county, school district, Stanford coming museum events that could if the virus continues to spread The county’s public health lab University and other agencies. bring large grounds or affect sen- and further actions are needed,” The Public Health Department has testing kits from the Centers The city has created a webpage sitive groups: the company announced. encourages the public to take for Disease Control (CDC), Public that will be regularly updated Stanford Department of Music proactive measures to slow down Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody said with information on coronavirus has canceled all of its concerts Older and ill people the spread of the disease. Staff at a Feb. 28 press conference in and local response to the outbreak through April 15, according to at risk recommend people frequently San Jose. The county’s emergency at cityofpaloalto.org/coronavirus. a post published Wednesday on wash their hands with soap and operations center is getting sup- The city of East Palo Alto also its Facebook page. The date may The best current evidence shows water for at least 20 seconds, es- port from assistance teams from is monitoring developments in change news of the coronavirus that people are at higher risk for pecially after touching surfaces the California Department of the coronavirus outbreak and is unfolds. coronavirus if they are ages 50 or such as doorknobs, elevator but- Public Health and the CDC. communicating with San Mateo TheatreWorks Silicon Valley older, Santa Clara County’s Cody tons, handrails and countertops. As of March 1, there were no County leaders and the CDC. East has increased disinfection prac- said at a press conference Tues- Alcohol-based hand sanitizer is confirmed cases of coronavirus Palo Alto residents can find more tices in its theater for audiences, day. The risk of infection and its also recommended if hand-wash- in Palo Alto, City Manager Ed information from their city and performers and staff members, severity accelerates with age. Per- ing is not available. Officials also Shikada said in an email. The city county at smchealth.org. according to a statement the sons ages 80 and above are at the instruct the public to cough into is continuing to monitor reports of Palo Alto-based company issued greatest risk. a tissue or their elbow and avoid exposures to the disease. Organizations Wednesday. TheatreWorks is People with underlying medical touching their faces. No changes have been made to canceling events conferring on best practices with conditions are also at increased Businesses can consider holding city programs, though the public the League of Resident Theatres, risk. These include: cardiovascu- video or telephone conferences in may notice some differences in The threat of coronavirus has Theatre Communications Group lar disease, heart disease, diabe- lieu of in-person meetings, creat- departmental procedures. Em- led the Stanford Theatre in down- and theater colleagues across the tes, chronic lung conditions, can- ing teleworking options, increase ployees and community are ad- town Palo Alto to close until fur- nation. cer and compromised immune surface cleaning and adjusting vised to stay home if they are sick ther notice. “The safety and security of systems. Persons with these con- their policies on absence. Q and alert city managers “of any “This voluntary decision re- theater-goers and employees is ditions should avoid large gath- READ MORE: An article about unusual circumstances that could flects only an abundance of cau- our highest priority,” the theater erings such as concerts, parades how fears of the coronavirus are indicate exposure.” tion. We are not aware of any in- company stated. and sporting events. Organiza- affecting local restaurants can be “We’re on top of it as much as fected persons having been at the The company also plans to in- tions serving seniors are recom- found on page 23. any agency can be, recognizing theater,” general manager Cynthia crease communication that en- mended to cancel large gather- Check PaloAltoOnline.com there are unknowns and many Mortenson-Colombetti said in a courages the community to fol- ings, such as bingo games and for the latest coronavirus news possible scenarios ahead of us,” statement issued Monday. low CDC guidelines by regularly movie screenings, and to clean and updates.
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With the owner of The Oriental Carpet preparing Good says the majority of the rugs he sells to retire this year, everything in stock at the are made of wool, which is the strongest and downtown Menlo Park store is on sale – with the hardiest material. Viscose offers the soft feeling steep discounts ranging from 50% to 80% off. of silk but is easier to clean. Owner Bruce Good amassed an incredible “I personally really like it,” he said. “You can put collection of high-quality hand-knotted rugs in it into a family room without worrying about his nearly four decades in the business, and he it.” has more than 2,500 pieces left to sell in his Santa The store’s selection also includes a large Cruz Avenue store. The store’s entire inventory is number of antique rugs. Collectors appreciate priced to sell. how a rug’s colors soften over the years, giving “As I get closer to retirement, there will be more the piece a fine and distinctive patina. reductions – but less choice,” said Good. “The The traditional handcrafted method makes the best pieces will go quickly.” rugs both beautiful and durable, said Good. He’s seen some customers come in and buy a rug The Oriental Carpet has been serving Peninsula for every room in the house, he said. All the rugs residents for 46 years, helping homeowners and designers achieve the store sells are hand-woven and knotted from traditional producers the look and feel that a beautiful, high-quality carpet can bring to a and cooperatives in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal. The store room. Good said the handcrafted rugs last forever – but his sale won’t. has pieces in every standard size and offers an array of designs including If you’re looking for an attractive rug at an even more attractive price, traditional, contemporary and “transitional” – rugs that can be formal or now is the time to go shopping. casual, depending on the furnishings they’re paired with. The store offers Come check out their selection at their showroom at 707 Santa Cruz rugs made from wool, silk and viscose, a material that looks and feels like Ave. or call (650) 327- 6608 for more information. silk but is more affordable. Over 4,000 2,500 traditional and contemporary rugs from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal.
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ELECTION 2020 Glew, Becker take early lead Online This Week These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto in crowded state Senate primary Online.com/news. State Senate District 13 represents a large section expenditure committees in the last Armed man robs CVS few weeks. Palo Alto police are looking for a man who they said robbed a of the Peninsula, including Palo Alto In a written statement widely dis- CVS pharmacy on Middlefield Road on Sunday afternoon, mak- by Kate Bradshaw tributed by Lieber’s campaign, she ing off with prescription drugs. (Posted March 4, 2:57 p.m.) said that Californians Allied for Pa- ith potentially 100,000 most at $1,063,936, followed by tient Protection launched the nega- Voters back bond for college district ballots still left to count Brownrigg, who raised $947,931. tive ads after she refused to sign a Unofficial election results show a Foothill-De Anza Community Win the state Senate Dis- Masur raised $575,532; Oliva pledge to keep medical malpractice College District bond measure with sufficient votes for approval, trict 13 race, early election results raised $438,613; and Lieber raised limits where they were in 1975. while the campaign has acknowledged it appears unlikely a sepa- indicate that Republican Alex Glew $255,920. She said that the early March rate parcel tax will pass. (Posted March 3, 9:14 p.m.) and Democrat Josh Becker are lead- Glew’s campaign, in contrast, primary this year caught voters Scooters coming to city streets ing in the seven-candidate contest. raised $4,149. off-guard, and with the voter pop- As of 10 a.m. on Thursday, “It’s gratifying,” he said. “The ulation’s strong education creden- After two years of delays, Palo Alto is preparing to join the March 5, Glew and Becker each political machinery has a lot of in- tials, many people held onto their electric scooter era this spring, when the city plans to start invit- have 20.9% of the nearly 154,000 fluence on the elections.” ballots in the days leading up to ing companies to roll out their motorized fleets on local streets. votes counted, according to elec- He said he suspected his cam- Super Tuesday. (Posted March 3, 12:42 p.m.) tion results reported by the secre- paign resonated with voters be- “This is a wonky district where History museum funding falls short tary of state. cause he represented a more mod- people do game out the math of The Palo Alto History Museum, which has been trying since Democratic candidates Sally erate choice. when and who they should give 2007 to fund the rehabilitation of the Roth Building at 300 Homer Lieber and Shelly Masur currently Becker, a Menlo Park resident, their vote to,” she said. Ave., remains more than $3 million away from its goal of making have 16.2% and 15.2%, while Annie said a lot more results still have to Brownrigg, from Burlingame, the building suitable for occupancy, according to staff and consul- Oliva and Mike Brownrigg are at come in, and he will be keeping a said he too observed many vot- tants. (Posted March 2, 11:40 p.m.) 12.7% and 11.8% respectively. John close eye on them. ers still making up their minds in Webster, the sole Libertarian can- “I’m glad I’m doing well,” he the weekend leading up to Super Want to get news briefs emailed to you every weekday? didate, has about 2.3% of the vote. said, regarding his early lead. “It’s Tuesday. Sign up for Express, our daily e-edition. In California, the top two vote- better than a sharp stick in the eye.” He said he felt that in his cam- Go to PaloAltoOnline.com/express to sign up. getters, regardless of party, move Throughout his campaign, he paigning there wasn’t anything forward to the November election. said, he worked to distinguish him- specific about his message — fo- The large number of viable self from the other candidates on cused on affordability, climate Democratic contenders for the seat climate issues, housing, transporta- and education — that didn’t reso- appears to have split the primary tion, child care and education. nate with voters. The larger chal- Public Agenda vote in a district that leans strongly Next in the early rankings are lenge was making “100,000 new A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week blue. As of the most recent count Lieber, from Mountain View, and friends,” he said. in mid-February among registered Masur, from Redwood City. As of Oliva, a Democrat from Mill- CITY COUNCIL ... The council has no meetings scheduled this week. voters in the district, 51.5% are the afternoon of March 4, Lieber brae, declined to comment, and Democrats, 14.9% Republican and held a small lead over Becker as Masur could not be reached for HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to 28.5% have no party preference. the top vote-getter in Santa Clara comment. In a voicemail, Webster hear a presentation by Kathryn Kaminksi, continuum of care manager Glew, a Los Altos resident, ex- County, but ranked sixth in San said that he opposed California’s with the County of Santa Clara Office of Supportive Housing; pressed surprise at being an early Mateo County. top two system and believes there consider recommendations to the Finance Committee for Community front-runner. In a March 3 phone “It’s been a great race,” Lieber will be two Democrats facing off Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding for fiscal year 2020-21; call, he said that he was especially said in an interview. “I’m excited in the November elections. Q consider proposals to restructure the commission’s calendar; and surprised at the outcome given how to see what the final totals are.” Mountain View Voice Staff review work plan initiatives. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on little his campaign spent compared Among Democratic candidates, Writer Kate Bradshaw can be Thursday, March 12, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 with the Democratic candidates. Lieber has been singled out as a emailed at kbradshaw@mv- Hamilton Ave. Among those, Becker raised the target of attack ads by independent voice.com.
our housing demand to other com- to this recording: If you have the they are the first line of defense,” Commission. “So the greatest State of the City munities, and the result is traffic,” resources and the interest, please Blackshire said. challenge for us is: How do we as (continued from page 8) Fine said. step up to help save this commu- Cowan lauded the city’s spirit of a community start building in or- Fine also suggested that the lo- nity gem! I think it would be a real collaboration and strong knowl- ganic and natural ways?” Fine also pointed to some of the cal economy is showing signs of shame if we lost our dive bar.” edge base. A challenge, which is While Fine’s address focused symptoms of the housing short- strain, as evidenced by increased Fine then handed over the not unique to Palo Alto, is the tone mostly local issues, the event age, including the growing num- vacancies at Stanford Research spotlight to 10 members of the of local dialogue and debates, he featured numerous reminders of ber of residents living in vehicles Park, including the recent depar- community: Lisa Van Dusen, a said. the top national story of the day: and the heavy traffic during com- ture of Hewlett Packard Enter- sustainability activist; Jon Gold- “Unfortunately, in the political the spread of coronavirus. To mute hours. prise. The city’s economy, he said, man, a partner at Premier Proper- space today, it’s become more ensure healthy hygiene, the city The city, he said, is now work- isn’t as strong as it used to be. He ties; Jade Chao, president of Palo common to criticize or attack peo- eschewed the usual pre-speech ing with Santa Clara County and also suggested that the city has Alto Council of PTAs; the city’s ple’s motivation or what they’re buffet and instead had top City other partners to figure out ways become overly regulated and, as Fire Chief Geo Blackshire; resi- thinking as well as their posi- Hall executives (as well as Coun- to find housing for people liv- such, less competitive than other dent and serial entrepreneur Mike tions,” Cowan said. “We’re going cil members Alison Cormack and ing in their cars. In January, the cities. Greenfield; Amy Andonian, CEO to disagree and not always agree Liz Kniss) serving up dishes at council approved a “safe parking” “With a recession on the ho- of Avenidas; Zareen Khan, owner on things. But the more we can set rows of tables set up against the program that would allow local rizon, we need to address this,” of Zareen’s; Jon Cowan, director that aside and focus on the policy back of the room. churches to house up to four vehi- Fine said. of local government and com- and not the personal issue, the Fine also used a portion of his cles each on its property and that Another community gem that munity affairs at Stanford Health better solutions we can all find.” speech to provide a local coro- would require participants to part- is now in danger, he said, is An- Care; Fred Balin, a resident and Smith praised Palo Alto’s com- navirus update. While Palo Alto ner with nonprofit groups to help tonio’s Nut House, a famously government observer; and the passion and pointed to the Dec. 28 hasn’t had any reported cases, families find regular housing. unpretentious bar on California Rev. Kaloma Smith, pastor at Uni- vandalism of his church, which there are 14 cases in Santa Clara To illustrate the city’s traffic Avenue that is well-known for versity AME Zion Church. later held a solidarity sitting that County as of Wednesday and one problems and the city’s jobs-to- its gorilla cage, floors covered in Each talked about what they attracted 500 people. Yet partly veteran who was transferred from housing imbalance (which is esti- peanut shells and diverse clien- most like about Palo Alto and because of the community’s di- another county in the state to the mated at greater than 3 to 1), Fine tele. As the Weekly reported last what they see as a challenge. versity, many groups of people Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health showed a slide of morning com- week, the landlord has hinted that Blackshire lauded residents’ don’t really interact, he said. Care System’s Palo Alto facility. muters on Page Mill Road and he is planning to sell the land. strong engagement in the com- “We have a great mix and ag- “It’s not a cause for concern, but Hanover Street, with bumper-to- “You may have heard that the munity and said members need gregation of people walking in we do need to be prepared,” Fine bumper cars heading east toward Nut House will potentially close to become more prepared for the street but they’re not living said. Q El Camino and empty westbound if the lot is sold,” Fine said. “So emergencies. life together. Everybody goes to Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner lanes. I challenge everyone here, any- “The challenge is getting the their own silo,” said Smith, who can be emailed at gsheyner@ “We’ve effectively externalized one listening, anyone listening community to understand that chairs the city’s Human Relations paweekly.com.
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www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • March 6, 2020 • Page 15 Transitions Pulse Births, marriages and deaths A weekly compendium of vital statistics Norma Masako Dairiki to Montecito before moving to Norma Masako Dairiki, a Palo Palo Alto in 1960, when her hus- POLICE CALLS Alto resident for 59 years, died on band took a position at the Stan- Palo Alto Dec. 4 at the Channing House re- ford Research Institute. Feb. 26-March 4 tirement center. She was 93. In Palo Alto, she helped her Violence related family manage their real estate Assault ...... 1 Born in Alviso Assault w/ deadly weapon ...... 1 on Jan. 16, 1926, and worked as an accountant for Battery ...... 1 to Matsune Kido a local interior decorator. She also Child abuse...... 2 took night classes in Chinese brush Domestic violence ...... 1 and Tsunanori Elder abuse...... 1 “Tom” Yoshida, painting, eventually attaining Mas- Strong arm robbery ...... 1 ter Painter status in the 1970s. Her she moved to Theft related Mountain View work was later featured in a one- Grand theft...... 6 after her father person show at Channing House. Identity theft ...... 1 She was generous with her Petty theft...... 6 got a job as a Residential burglaries...... 3 gardener at the talents, according to her family. Shoplifting...... 2 Mountain View Pacific Press Pub- When her children were young, Vehicle related lishing Company and her family she worked at many local school Abandoned auto...... 2 events, and when she retired, she Attempted theft from auto ...... 3 built a house on Chiquita Avenue. Auto theft ...... 1 She attended school at Moun- volunteered at Channing House. Bicycle theft ...... 2 tain View Academy. But in April She also travelled with her kids Driving w/ suspended license. . . . .8 throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia Hit and run ...... 2 1942, after Franklin D. Roosevelt Lost/stolen plates...... 2 signed Executive Order 9066, she and the Galapagos Islands, and she Theft from auto...... 26 and her family were relocated to spent a lot of time taking care of Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . .7 detention centers and internment her six grandchildren. Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . .4 Vehicle impound...... 6 camps — from Tanforan Assem- “Norma thrived helping her Alcohol or drug related bly Center in San Bruno, to Santa family and was devoted to them,” Driving under influence...... 5 Anita Assembly Center in Arcadia, her family wrote. In the last 15 Drunk in public ...... 2 then Heart Mountain Relocation years of her life, she and Setsuo Possession of paraphernalia . . . . .4 Center in Park County, Wyoming. lived in Channing House. Miscellaneous Predeceased by her brother Found property...... 5 They were released early when the Lost property ...... 2 Arline Leckrone Elliott Seventh-day Adventist Church in Edward Yoshida and sister Al- Misc. penal code violation ...... 1 Lincoln, Nebraska, sponsored her ice Lehnhardt, she is survived by Other/misc...... 5 September 26, 1935 – February 23, 2020 family. In Lincoln, she met Set- her husband, Setsuo of Palo Alto; Psychiatric subject ...... 4 children: Linda Dairiki Short- Suspicious circumstances ...... 1 Arline was born in Pittsburgh, suo Dairiki, a recent graduate of Trespassing ...... 1 liffe of Palo Alto, Richard (Ma- Vandalism...... 6 PA on September 26, 1935, Stanford University who was also released early from the Tule Lake mie) Dairiki of Los Altos; Robert Warrant/other agency...... 8 to Tanya and Roy Leckrone. Relocation Center to teach military (Christine Min) Dairiki of Ather- Menlo Park After receiving her B.S. from personnel engineering systems in ton; siblings: Elly Yamamoto of Feb. 26-March 3 Carnegie Mellon University, she Nebraska. They married in 1945. Honolulu, Hawaii, Grace Kato of Violence related immediately decamped for Palo Camarillo, Frank Yoshida of Palo Arson ...... 2 After the war, she moved to Assault w/ deadly weapon ...... 1 Alto and the position of legal Boston with her husband and later Alto, Peter Yoshida of Loma Lin- Theft related secretary for the director of the graduated from Boston Univer- da; six grandchildren; and four Fraud ...... 4 patent office at the Lockheed sity in 1948. The couple raised great-grandchildren. Petty theft...... 6 No services will be held, at Missile and Space Co. She met her their three children and dog in a Vehicle related modern cooperative community her request. Memorial donations Abandoned auto...... 1 husband, David, over the bridge can be sent in memory of Norma Auto theft ...... 2 table at a Lockheed employees’ known as the Kendal Common Bicycle theft ...... 2 Area, with Setsuo as one of the M. Yoshida Dairiki to the Heart Driving w/ suspended license. . . . .7 event. In 1962, they were married original buyers who built a home Mountain Wyoming Foundation Hit and run ...... 3 at the Swedenborgian Chapel in San Francisco. Their daughter, on the purchased lot. In 1959, they Memory and Justice Endowment Theft from auto...... 3 Q Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . .2 Laurie, was born two years later. returned to California and moved (heartmountain.org). Vehicle accident/no injury...... 7 The family resituated several times (Los Angeles, Washington, Vehicle code violation...... 1 D.C., Menlo Park, La Jolla and finally settled again in Menlo Vehicle tow ...... 1 Park). While in Washington, Arline worked at Common Cause, Alcohol or drug related WANT TO BECOME A PALO ALTO MEDIATOR? Driving under influence...... 2 and in her spare time she played competitive tennis for a club in Possession of paraphernalia . . . . .3 Bethesda and later for Alpine Hills in the Bay Area. She enjoyed Under influence of drugs ...... 2 The City of Palo Alto is seeking applicants to serve as Miscellaneous entertaining friends and family and had a reputation for cooking volunteer mediators for the Palo Alto Mediation Program. All Coroner case ...... 3 memorable dinners, having created notebooks with recipes of all Disturbance ...... 1 who live or work in Palo Alto or Stanford are invited to apply. Found property...... 3 nationalities. Info. case ...... 4 Arline and David met many friends in the Bay Area through The Palo Alto Mediation Program assists residents in resolving Medical aid...... 2 membership in New Comers and its follow-on group, Encore. disputes under terms they control, instead of going to court Other/misc...... 3 Possession of stolen property . . . .1 In addition to wining and dining, one of her favorite activities or doing nothing. Typical cases include tenant/landlord, Psychiatric subject ...... 1 with these groups was planning and leading walks that covered neighbor/neighbor, consumer, workplace, and other disputes. Trespassing ...... 2 the history and architecture of many different parts of San The program services are free and are available to anyone Warrant arrest...... 7 Francisco, as well as organizing trips to special exhibits at who lives, works, or owns property in Palo Alto. More info is VIOLENT CRIMES museums in the City and on the Peninsula. available at www.paloaltomediation.com. Palo Alto Webster Street, 12/15, 6:24 p.m.; She loved an afternoon of bridge with friends or a walk at Mediators typically spend six to ten hours each month child abuse/physical. Shoreline in Mountain View and cherished the time spent with working on various aspects of the mediation process – case Amherst Street, 12/18, 4:07 p.m.; her grandchild during summer vacations, when the two of them child abuse/physical. development, conciliation, mediation, serving on committees 164 California Ave., 2/7, 10:44 p.m.; explored the beaches of La Jolla Shores. and attending evening program meetings on the third Thursday strong arm robbery. Always passionate about helping others, Arline volunteered for E. Bayshore Road, 2/8, 4:31 a.m.; of the month. assault w/ deadly weapon. many years with Peninsula Family Service and provided families Bryant Street, 2/21, 7:30 p.m.; elder and older adults with support by fundraising and holding Applications must be postmarked by March 16, 2020. abuse/physical. Successful applicants must complete a 36-hour community East Bayshore Road, 2/23, 9:08 various positions within the organization. She is survived by a.m.; domestic violence. her husband, David, her daughter, Dr. Lauren (Laurie) Croft, her mediation training by the start of their two-year term in July. Alma Street/Homer Ave., 2/27, 3:05 son-in-law, Steve Croft, and her grandchild, Allison. ;OLYLPZHJV\YZLVɈLYLKI`4LKPH[PVUPU(WYPS[OH[TLL[Z p.m.; assault/peace officer. Ramona Street, 3/1, 8:49 a.m.; In lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution to Mission this requirement. For more information or to request an battery/family violence. application, please contact [email protected] or Hospice, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides very Menlo Park effective support to individuals and their family members at a call 650-856-4062. 1200 block El Camino Real, 2/26, difficult time. The contact information is: Mission Hospice & 9:02 p.m.; arson. Glenwood Avenue/Garwood Way, Home Care, 1670 South Amphlett Blvd., Suite 300, San Mateo, 2/28, 1:05 a.m.; arson. CA 94402. 1300 block Willow Road, 3/2, 11:38 PAID OBITUARY p.m.; assault w/ deadly weapon.
Page 16 • March 6, 2020 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Editorial An RV parking plan Santa Clara County seeks local property owners willing to lease their parking lots, short or long term, for supervised overnight RV parking Editorials, letters and opinions hen the Palo Alto City Council in January took the Spectrum tepid action to allow local churches and temples to host W up to four vehicles overnight in their parking lots, it was little more than a token, feel-good step. At most, it may create a Castilleja listens listened and responded to neigh- that Castilleja should split its cam- place for a dozen or so vehicles, all of which will be required to Editor, bors is patently false. pus like other schools is a faulty leave every morning and return in the evening. The writers of last week’s guest Lorraine Brown comparison. These other local It was a half-hearted attempt to help a handful of the car and opinion stated that traffic is “es- Walter Hays Drive, Palo Alto schools had far greater increases in RV dwellers who have taken up residency on city streets and was pecially difficult for the residents enrollment than Castilleja is seek- accompanied by so many requirements and limitations that it may across from the drop-off locations,” Castilleja doesn’t exist ing and added entirely new divi- discourage churches from moving forward. but our neighbors across from our sions, which warranted separate But in an initiative that has much more potential to move the main entrance on Bryant Street all in a bubble campuses. needle, Santa Clara County is proposing to work with Palo Alto support Castilleja School’s mod- Editor, I am proud to be associated with and Mountain View to locate unused or underutilized privately ernization project and proposed As a longtime Palo Alto resi- Castilleja and applaud the spirit of owned parking lots in the two cities (which could include church- enrollment growth. dent and current Castilleja School compromise with which the school es) and to assume responsibility for renting them and contracting This highlights a crucial fact the employee, I am responding to has engaged. with nonprofits to manage 24/7 safe parking programs. opinion piece did not: Castilleja last week’s Guest Opinion about Kathy Burch The county has already invested $750,000 in safe parking pro- has different neighbors with dif- Castilleja. Marion Avenue, Palo Alto grams as part of addressing what is rightly considered a regional ferent opinions, many who support Castilleja doesn’t exist in a bub- homeless problem, but Supervisor Joe Simitian proposed it go a the school. Over time, the school ble. It’s precisely why the school Dear cyclists step further. In January, the Board of Supervisors approved Si- has worked hard to integrate a enrolls many students who aren’t mitian’s proposal, which could, with the cooperation of commer- range of feedback from those dif- from Palo Alto — to increase op- Editor, cial property owners with vacant buildings and/or excess parking ferent voices. The garage itself was portunity for girls who don’t have I give the city of Palo Alto and capacity, offer a more humane and safe alternative for the many designed in response to neighbors access to options on par with Palo the Planning and Transportation people who are currently living in vehicles on El Camino Real who said they would only support Alto Unified District. Every single Commission an “A” for at least try- and on city streets. our project if it included under- day, Castilleja is working to make ing to come up with solutions and The concept is to relieve both Palo Alto and Mountain View city ground parking. Those neighbors it possible for more young women being mature enough to listen to governments from developing and overseeing separate safe park- wanted parking removed from from different backgrounds to be- complaints. ing programs of their own and let the county take the lead. The neighborhood streets. The Draft come the next wave of leaders in My pet peeve, however, is with county already is working with several nonprofits at existing lots Environmental Impact Report ana- our communities. Alma Street and Oregon Express- in San Jose, Morgan Hill and in the west valley area, as well as lyzed the underground garage and The writers of the Guest Opin- way. In the last year or so, the num- on two public lots in Mountain View. The county’s administration found that it was superior to sur- ion ignored the steps the school has ber of bicyclists on Alma between of the program will also provide some political insulation for city face parking and that it improved taken to address neighbors’ needs. Embarcadero Road and the over- officials from potential anxiety in neighborhoods and opposition. the aesthetic of the neighborhood. For example, some people opposed pass to the San Antonio Caltrain The program is focusing on opening up lots that will operate Furthermore, our successful the removal of two homes on Emer- Station has increased dramatically. day and night, so cars and RVs don’t have to leave every morning. shuttle program and remote park- son Street. Castilleja responded to Do these bikers not know in what Most car and RV dwellers are employed, but their vehicles, espe- ing have already cut daily car trips the feedback and now these homes danger they put themselves and the cially RVs, can’t be accommodated at their job locations. to campus by 25% to 30%, and our will remain. Other neighbors ex- vehicles next to them? Do they not The county and the nonprofit that will operate the sites will proposed conditional use permits pressed concern about removing know that Park Boulevard and Bry- provide liability coverage for the owners and ensure there are por- mandate no additional car trips to mature trees. Castilleja listened and ant Street, on both sides of Alma, table bathrooms, maintenance and security plans, social services campus even with increased enroll- now more trees will be preserved. are viable alternatives to the nar- and on-site supervision. Each month residents must renew their ment. The underground garage will And, because of concerns about the row lanes of Alma? Cyclists effec- request to remain in the lot. The model has been working in the not bring more traffic, period. impact of an underground garage, tively close the right lane of Alma lots already established without neighbor complaints, according In our project alternative submit- Castilleja significantly reduced the to car traffic when they’re on it. to Simitian. ted in February, Castilleja signifi- size of its proposed garage. This I think the City Council should Whether sufficient private parking lots are available in the north cantly reduced the proposed garage is not “zero incentive to include aggressively curtail bikers from county to handle a meaningful number of vehicles is a thresh- size — also in response to some neighbors’ needs.” This is Castille- using Alma. (Now I see more and old question, and finding them is the county’s initial priority. Si- neighbors’ concerns. Listening to ja listening and responding. more bikers on Oregon Expressway mitian, who represents both Palo Alto and Mountain View, is many different neighbors and ad- Castilleja is seeking to enroll as well.) Signs, fines and alternate personally reaching out to commercial property owners in both justing our plans accordingly has 25-27 additional students per year, bike routes should be posted and cities this month and will hold public informational meetings been our practice since this process over four years, and can do so enforced. And listen to the cyclists: next Wednesday in Palo Alto and Thursday in Mountain View began. with no growth in traffic because Why do they use Alma? How can for those owners who may be interested. The documents we have on file of its mandatory traffic-demand- you improve the existing bike bou- Parking lots will likely be associated with buildings that are with the city tell a story of steady management program. The school levards on both sides of Alma so vacant and awaiting redevelopment approvals, so use of them as updates to our plans in response to already offers shuttles and buses to cyclists use them? safe parking lots for vehicle dwellers would be temporary. The neighbors’ needs. Gathering neigh- reduce car trips to campus and will The City Council needs to ad- larger the number of vehicles that can be accommodated the more bor feedback began in 2012, and offer more if enrollment increases. dress this issue, which causes traf- efficient and effective the program, compared to the four-vehicle the school has been iterative and If daily car trips to campus should fic slowdowns and poses a real restriction Palo Alto has imposed on churches desiring to help. responsive with changes that ad- increase, Castilleja will be required danger to everyone involved. And (The Palo Alto trial program is limited to churches and temples; dress noise, traffic and aesthetics. to halt its incremental growth. bicyclists need to stop using Alma other privately owned lots are not eligible.) To suggest that Castilleja has not Lastly, the continued suggestion for their commute. Safe parking programs are being launched throughout the state On these narrow roads, bikes and and region as a way of helping mostly the working homeless and cars cannot and should not coexist. to assist in transitioning them to permanent housing. Mountain WHAT DO YOU THINK? Let’s implement the separation of View’s program includes two city-owned parking lots, which can bike roads versus no-bike roads. The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on our coverage Peyma Oskoui each accommodate up to 30 oversized vehicles, in addition to or on issues of local interest. church lots. 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Gunn Confessions and Cardinal Inside the popular websites where young adults Confessions are Facebook pages where students’ innermost are anonymously spilling their secrets thoughts are posted for others to read. by Elena Kadvany
Social Media Lab. can require a response in real life. student into custody for a mental t was Sergio Charles’ first week of college “It’s perhaps not a surprise that At the University of California, health evaluation. (The submis- something that allows you to re- Berkeley, for example, an online sion was never publicly posted to at Stanford University this fall. He felt move your official identity and confession about mice and bed- the Facebook page.) play with identity and figure out, bugs in a campus dorm last March “I think it can be a healthy out- homesick and isolated and didn’t know what is it like to say ‘I’m strug- got picked up by local news outlets let when the posts are construc- gling? What is it like to be mean? and was addressed by the univer- tive and aid students in moving where to go to express his emotions. What is it like to bare my soul?’” sity. At Gunn, a post sharing out- forward in a positive way,” Gunn I has surged in popularity, he said. rage about the administration’s re- Principal Kathie Laurence said He turned to the internet. Confessions from the UC Berke- “There are a lot of reasons why sponse to reports of sexual assault of the Confessions page, which is In September, Charles started ley page, including graduates and adolescents and young adults can galvanized a group of students to not officially affiliated with the Cardinal Confessions, a Facebook prospective students. At Stanford, find value in anonymity.” meet in person to discuss ideas for school. page for students to anonymously there also are spinoff pages, such Confessions pages are like hold- advocacy. “It can also be very harmful by share confessions of all kinds, as Class Confessions, which is run ing up a mirror to the lives of a In one extreme case, a Gunn creating a negative spin and sub- both light-hearted and serious — by First Generation and/or Low In- particular group of people, Han- student who submitted an anony- sequent piling on of negativity, a stress, insecurities, relationship come Partnership (FLIP) and aims cock said. mous shooting threat to the Gunn sort of groupthink and group po- angst, questions about a course or to foster dialogue about socioeco- Sometimes what’s expressed un- Confessions page last December larization can take place. This is grades, politics, campus gossip. He nomic class identity. der the shroud of anonymity online led to Palo Alto police taking the not constructive.” wanted to create a positive online For high school and college stu- community that would open up dents living with ratcheted up pres- real-life conversations and create sure of all kinds, from academic to connections on a campus well- social media-driven, the ability to known for “duck syndrome” — a express themselves anonymously metaphor for students, like ducks, and unfiltered offers a rare kind acting calm on the surface but of catharsis. Posts about mental paddling furiously to stay afloat health challenges in particular are (even though ducks are inherently often met with supportive com- buoyant). ments, offers to talk privately and “At Stanford, (with) duck syn- advice on how to get help. drome, everyone acts like they’re But the student-run pages raise doing well but that’s not necessar- thorny questions about censor- ily true. As an antidote to that, I ship, free speech and safety for thought, why not create a forum their moderators, who without any where everyone can communi- training are tasked with filtering cate?” Charles said. out posts that could be harmful, Confessions pages are a growing derogatory or libelous. In some phenomenon at universities and cases, Facebook removes posts high schools across the country, in- that the students have approved cluding locally. Gunn High School or even shuts entire Confessions has had at least two popular Con- pages down for violating the social fessions pages; one was shut down media company’s terms of service. by the administration in 2013 but While there’s “enduring val- was revived by students last year ue” in people being able to give and now has more than 9,000 voice to their innermost thoughts posts. Palo Alto High School has anonymously, anonymity is ripe Gauthier Magali its own page, though it’s less active. for abuse, said Jeff Hancock, Gunn High School student Erin Vetter is one of two moderators of the Gunn Confessions page this year. Nearly 20,000 people follow the founding director of the Stanford In December, she reported a school shooting threat, which had been submitted to the Confessions page, to police, out of concern for students’ safety. Page 18 • March 6, 2020 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Cover Story
Unfiltered She and the other student-mod- the time, Palo Alto school admin- consciousness erator contacted the Gunn gradu- istrators said they contacted Face- ate who started the page, now book more than once to get Con- onfessions pages read a college student, and together fessions pages deleted, according like students’ unfiltered they wrote a letter to send into to a 2013 Palo Alto Weekly story. C streams of consciousness. the police department’s tip line. “There is a certain power that “It’s been a rough quarter so far, She also called 9-1-1; because people get from a sense of ano- but everyone just looks like they the threat was made about the nymity and they feel they can are so on top of everything. I feel next school day, she worried that write things to an individual that like a failure.” action wouldn’t be taken soon they would never say to their face,” “People in the US are in no enough. then-Principal Katya Villalobos place to criticize Chinese people told The Oracle. “Even though I about creating coronavirus.” didn’t have a real jurisdiction over “Wishing you all a good week.” Gunn Confessions, I was very dis- “Who has the biggest biceps at ‘I think it can be appointed because it didn’t match Gunn?” what I know our students to be.” “Is it true that If you get two C’s a healthy outlet Laurence said she’s “uncomfort- first semester senior year that UCs able” with profanity on the Gunn can rescind you? when the posts Confessions page. “I took on a bunch of new “I believe that we all need to work this semester to distract my- are constructive. take a step back and, before post- self from my break up but in the ing something, ask ourselves, quiet moments my heart hurts so It can also be ‘Is this something we would be f— much.” comfortable with our parents, The pages allow students to stay very harmful grandparents, friends seeing? Is it anonymous by using Google forms by creating a something that we would like to to accept their submissions, which see written about us? Is it kind or the page moderators review before negative spin is it intended to hurt someone?’” posting to the page. The admin- she said. istrators can’t see who submitted and subsequent When Charles first started Car- confessions. The Gunn Confes- dinal Confessions, he would read sions form reminds students of piling on of each submission and post it manu- content that won’t get posted — of- ally. But as word about the page fensive comments about a named negativity.’ spread beyond Charles’ freshman Gauthier Magali person, advertisements, “blatant” —Kathie Laurence, principal dorm and the number of submis- Spencer Hill, a senior at University of California, Berkeley, looks at troll posts, repetitive or vague com- Gunn High School sions grew, he decided to automate the Confessions from UC Berkeley Facebook page, which he created ments, hate speech, cyberbullying, the process. Every submission au- and moderates, outside the campus library in Berkeley. negative accusations — and that tomatically posts to the page with- their submission might be “modi- She heard back from a police in five minutes, so he has a short he eventually removed most of the social media company deemed fied to be less explicit or offensive.” detective and then, late at night, window to determine whether comments. as “too sexual” or as hate speech, The page also lists a text number got a call that the student had been they’re appropriate. This system “I’m fairly tolerant of most Hill said. As the page administra- and hotline for mental health identified and that it would be safe usually runs without issue, but not things. I don’t like censorship too tor, Hill’s account is then restrict- support. to go to school the next day. always. In one case, a submission much,” Charles said. “I think I ed from posting for a few days by “All I do is read the confession For Vetter, the underlying senti- alleging an inappropriate relation- need to be a little more stringent, Facebook. to make sure that there’s nothing ment of the submission — which ship between a student and a dorm quite frankly, if the page is going Behind the Berkeley page is a that is outwardly annoying, mean she described as deep frustration to improve in quality of content. team of about a dozen people, both and or spam, to make sure no one’s with the academic pressure cooker But at the same time there’s been current students and graduates. directly hating on someone,” said that many students experience at some criticism about censoring Some of their names are listed on senior Erin Vetter, one of two stu- the Gunn environment — was ‘There are a lot certain topics. the Facebook page, which is un- dents who moderates the Gunn worth paying attention to. She “I have to take certain precau- usual, as many moderators remain page. “It kind of is wishy washy in wishes it had opened up more of things that tions,” he said, “in how much I try anonymous themselves. that there is no one set of rules. conversation about school shoot- you might want to censor and how much I don’t try Hill, a senior majoring in ap- “If it seems genuine, then you ings and mental health at her high to.” plied math with a concentration post it, but if it’s just spam, then school. (That Friday, she said only to say that you Spencer Hill, who started the in data science, said he made you don’t post it,” she said. “I have one teacher in her seven classes Berkeley Confessions page in a conscious choice to not be some things that I just I don’t feel brought it up, and only to warn stu- aren’t allowed to 2018, also struggles with his re- anonymous. comfortable posting — like if it’s dents against spreading rumors.) sponsibility as a moderator. His “It holds you to a higher level about someone else, I think, ‘If it The anonymous shooting threat socially. I think vision for the page is a “real depic- of accountability, which I think was about me, would I want some- made Vetter take her role as mod- tion of people’s deep thoughts” that is good,” he said. “If you were one to say it?’” erator more seriously. that’s why it blew provokes thoughtful conversation anonymous you might be tempted Before she was a moderator, Vet- “It makes me read the confes- on campus. to do some crazier things, fearing ter was an avid fan of Gunn Con- sions a little bit deeper and take it up so fast.’ Posts about sexual assault alle- no repercussions to your real self.” fessions, checking the page obses- a little bit more seriously,” she said. gations are particularly difficult, —Erin Vetter, moderator, Reshaping digital sively during lunch and breaks at “It made me feel like, OK, some- Gunn confessions page he said. school. She was one of the students one needs to be here.” “You want to post them for accountability who responded with enthusiasm resident assistant was posted to the the purposes of giving those to the post about sexual violence The gatekeepers’ page. A resident assistant almost people their voice and not silenc- ifferent anonymous social advocacy. challenges immediately contacted the page ing them but you also can’t post media pages and apps cy- “I think it’s being able to hear and asked Charles to take it down, them because of the imitations of D cle through a rise and fall someone’s secrets, but also your- ehind the scenes of every which he did. Posts about suicide the Facebook page and also the among teenagers and young peo- self being able to stay anonymous,” Confession page is a stu- have been quickly removed by limitations of being a responsible ple every few years, Hancock not- she said of the page’s appeal. “We B dent or group of student- Facebook, he said. moderator of content. It really ed. Several years ago, anonymous live in a bubble community, so moderators acting as the gate- “The whole thing with automat- has to be dealt with on a case by messaging app Yik Yak domi- there are a lot of things that you keepers for both powerful and ed posts ... it enforces this idea that case basis and it requires a lot of nated college campuses, includ- might want to say that you aren’t potentially harmful posts. censorship isn’t very good, but at thought,” he said. “I’ve had to ing Stanford, before it shut down allowed to socially. I think that’s This is often a subjective process, the same time, it also had ramifica- learn some lessons about what in 2017 following criticism that it why it blew up so fast.” the moderators acknowledged. tions,” Charles said. you can and can’t do.” allowed for cyberbullying and rac- In some cases, students’ online If a post is “outwardly harsh,” He had to create ground rules for Recently, he posted a confession ism. Students also used Yik Yak confessions have revealed prob- Vetter said, “it ends up being, the page, including asking users to accusing a leader of a campus or- to post shooting and bomb threats. lems that required a real-world ‘Well, what do you think is out- stop tagging other people in com- ganization of sexual harassment When Confessions pages are at response. wardly harsh? What do you think ment threads that can run awry. A because it didn’t name the per- their best, Charles said, they pro- Vetter was at home on a Thurs- is spam?’” thread about a party at his dorm son. It resulted in the organization vide a “platform for communicat- day evening, reviewing posts, and In 2013, the previous Gunn Con- turned contentious and personal reaching out to the page for more ing with others and expressing was the first to see the submission. fessions page was shut down after — it was finals week, so some information. yourself in a way that you’re not It threatened a shooting at Gunn concerns about posts criticizing a students were upset that a party Facebook has sometimes constrained by any social stigmas.” the next day. She immediately took Gunn staff member, according to would be happening and called stepped in, flagging posts about it seriously. student newspaper The Oracle. At out other students directly — so race or removing ones that the (continued on page 20)
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to the perception of these places vulnerability, connection and as paradises, which they’re not,” support,” a Campfire description Charles said. “It’s sort of incredu- states. “We want to reshape digital lous to think that they should be.” accountability through our social Vetter said she felt similarly af- contract point system where you ter the shooting threat. are anonymous until you have bro- “Why are we having so much ken community standards.” stress that causes people to want Despite the success of Cardinal to hurt other people because of the Confessions, Charles — who is stress? Why are we having so much studying computer science (CS) stress that causes people to want to and math — believes fervently hurt themselves?” she asked. “I that the social media page isn’t a think we need to better address the substitution for in-person connec- stress we have in our community so tion. But he does see it having his we can deal with it.” intended effect: When the page Charles also recently launched blew up with concerns about the an app that brings together all of party at his dorm, students who a user’s Facebook pages, includ- wrote online that they felt un- ing Confessions and other groups, safe or unable to raise concerns in one place. Called Campfire, about their living environment the app’s tagline is “be yourself, prompted a dorm meeting and beyond picture perfect moments.” the RA’s to create an anonymous Charles modeled the app after phi- feedback system, Charles said. losopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s When students have voiced grief
Sammy Dallal social contract theory, which as- on the page, others reached out serts that laws are only binding with offers to meet in person to when they are collectively agreed talk further. upon by all citizens. On Campfire, “I think people should, and Stanford University freshman Sergio Charles, who moderates Cardinal Confessions, created an iPhone users have to contribute positively society in general — and this is app called “Campfire,” which is geared toward creating a positive, anonymous online social environment. — which is measured by other us- coming from a CS major — in- ers’ “up” or “down” votes — oth- stead of resorting to the technol- erwise they lose the ability to post ogy, actually have meaningful, Charles had experienced when he we’re all humans,” he said. “We all anonymously. A post with 90% real-life conversations with peo- Confessions arrived on campus — feeling alone go through something.” “down” votes will be automati- ple,” he said. Q (continued from page 19) and inadequate in a place defined The pages also underscore cally deleted and the user will be Staff Writer Elena Kadvany by so much outward success. a need for more conversations prevented from posting until their can be emailed at ekadvany@ In a recent Cardinal Confessions This dichotomy, Charles be- about mental health on college vote score reaches a set threshold. paweekly.com. post, a student described feeling lieves, is at the core of why Con- campuses, students said. (This also puts moderation in the hopeless and unable to sleep. In fessions pages have become so “There shouldn’t be a stigma hands of the online community another, a student divulged a child- popular at high-pressure universi- around just discussing how you rather than a single administrator.) About the cover: Illustration by hood sexual assault. Others have ties across the country. feel on a certain day, but there is. “We want to enable free- Kristin Brown. Images courtesy expressed struggling with what “It’s a reflection of the fact that I think a lot of that is attributed expression and be a space for Getty Images.
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‘Outside Looking In’ focuses on the lives of others by Sheryl Nonnenberg hen the Cantor Arts and center in the composition and it W Center received a gift is their sweet and innocent interac- of 1,000 photographs tion that we remember. from the Capital Group Founda- In another print we see a tableau tion last year, it must have been that could be a classical frieze (or very tempting to present all of the a scene from “The Godfather”). prints in a blockbuster-type exhi- Four men, all gazing away from bition. Instead, curator Elizabeth the camera, are caught in a mo- Mitchell wisely decided to select ment of pensive contemplation. works from the gift to be shown in Given their close proximity, they three separate shows. The current probably know one another but exhibition, “Outside Looking In: are completely isolated in their John Gutmann, Helen Levitt and own thoughts. In the background, Wright Morris,” is on view in the a young girl, in a pose very similar Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery at to a Raphael cherub, observes the Cantor until April 26. scene. It’s an enigmatic picture — The first installment featured two Why are these men together? Why masters of modern photography, are they so serious? In another print Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. from the series, Levitt captures the This current display is quite differ- uninhibited happiness of a little ent, as it presents three artists who girl and boy dancing in the street. worked during the nascent years of These were, undoubtedly, hard social documentary, or “street pho- times and impoverished neighbor- tography.” If Adams and Weston hoods but Levitt was able to find sought to portray the beauty and small moments of joy. grandeur of nature, Gutmann, Lev- Gutmann’s work offers a dif- itt and Morris looked at the urban ferent perspective on American landscape and the changes wrought life, probably because he was an by the Great Depression and, later, “outsider.” Born in 1905 in Ger- World War II. many, he emigrated to the U.S., “This exhibition focuses on the as so many other European artists approach taken by each photogra- did, in order to flee the Nazis. He pher when they used their cameras settled in San Francisco, worked to observe the lives of other peo- as a photojournalist and taught at ple,” Mitchell said. what is now San Francisco State Cantor Arts Center’s current exhibition includes the street photography of Helen Levitt. Photos Helen Levitt was notable not University. His black-and-white courtesy of Cantor Arts Center Collection, The Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection at only because she was a pioneer- prints, taken with a Rolleiflex Stanford University. ing woman photographer but also camera, tend to focus more on the because she was one of the first quirky aspects of American life. In attended Pomona College. He so artfully, that we might imagine Muybridge, it all seems like a nat- to experiment with color photog- “The Beautiful Clown” (1940), two bought his first camera (a Rollei- they are precious objects. ural evolution that the university raphy. Her prints in this exhibition circus performers are captured in flex) in 1934 and found a way to “The works I selected by Wright he and wife Jane founded would combine his first avocation, writ- Morris demonstrate what he did become home to such a valuable are poignant glimpses of inner city a close-up, double portrait. Fully Q children playing and people inter- made up, they seem a bit grotesque ing, with photography by creating best: construct precise, haunting collection. acting — just going about their and we wonder why they chose this photo-texts (short narrations that images,” noted Mitchell. A version of this story first everyday lives. A wall statement unusual profession. The woman, accompanied photos). He did find The Capital Group gift adds to appeared at thesixfifty.com. explains that she used a right-angle who stares at the clown in admira- success as a writer and, like Gut- what was already a prestigious Freelance writer Sheryl Nonnenberg lens, so her subjects were unaware tion, must be a fellow performer — mann, also taught at San Francisco collection of photography at the can be emailed at nonnenberg@ of what she was doing. The results maybe the one who works with the State. In this exhibition, his prints museum, including the archives aol.com. are spontaneous slices of life. knife-thrower or who swings from depict the places he knew while of Andy Warhol and Civil Rights What: In the “New York” series from a trapeze? Gutmann also displayed growing up in Nebraska. These are documentarian Bob Fitch. “Outside Looking In: John 1940, we see two small African a sense of whimsy and humor in quiet studies, composed and shot In addition to the prints, the gift Gutmann, Helen Levitt and Wright American boys sitting on a street “Artist Lives Dangerously”(1938), a with an eye towards capturing a included funding for a curatorial Morris.” curb. One is comforting the other print showing a small boy creating facet of life in middle America that fellowship position. “We just hired Where: Cantor Arts Center, 328 as he cries into his crumpled hat. a chalk drawing on the street while was quickly going away. “Stove and Maggie Dethloff as assistant cura- Lomita Way, Stanford. The slight blurring of the boy’s cars whiz perilously close by. View of the Parlor” (1947) could be tor of photographs and new media, When: Through April 26. Museum arm as he reaches for his friend While the Levitt and Gutmann a museum period room, with the and the future will tell how we con- hours are Wednesday-Monday, confirms that Levitt was capturing photographs in this exhibition are prominently placed cast-iron stove, tinue to grow,” said Mitchell. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open until 8 a special, fleeting moment in time. categorized as “street theater,” the rocking chair and floral-patterned When one remembers that it p.m. on Thursday. We get a sense of place, thanks to work of Wright Morris is about carpets and curtains. In “Eggs in was Leland Stanford who initially Cost: Free. the wrought-iron fence and front places and spaces without people. Pot,” Morris hones in on a humble funded the groundbreaking motion Info: museum.stanford.edu/ stoop steps, but the boys are front Morris was born in Nebraska and subject but arranges it so carefully, photography work of Eadweard exhibitions. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • March 6, 2020 • Page 21 GUIDE TO 2020 SUMMER CAMPS FOR KIDS • VISIT PALOALTOONLINE.COM/CAMP_CONNECTION Camp Connection
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THEATER REVIEW Whodunit? The audience decides at Foothill’s winsome Dickensian music hall ‘Mystery’ by Karla Kane
here is a temptation to stay Drood’s uncle John Jasper (Mr. home on a winter’s night, Clive Paget, played by Benjamin T raid your bookshelf or Ball), whom audiences are in- fire up Netflix and curl up with structed to boo at every opportu- a juicy British murder mystery. nity. But what about the mysteri- But why do that when you could ous Landless siblings just in from get all the gothic drama plus a Ceylon (Miss Janet Conover and dose of literary trivia, laugh-out- Mr. Victor Grinstead, played by loud comedy and excellent music Rachelle Abbey and David Mur- — all while supporting commu- phy, respectively)? How about
nity theater? Not to mention the Drood’s naive fiance and object David Allen chance to participate in the pro- of Jasper’s lust, Rosa Bud (Miss duction yourself. Deirdre Peregrine, played by Regular readers will know that Brenna Sammon) or the mild- audience participation is some- mannered Rev. Mr. Crisparkle Cast members (Brenna Sammon, Zach Goller, Rachelle Abbey, David Murphy, Heather Orth, Linda thing I normally eschew. This (Mr. Cedric Moncrieffe, played Piccone, and Benjamin Ball) urge audience members to vote on the ending of “The Mystery of Edwin is still the case, but I make an by Aaron Hurley)? Could it be Drood,” presented by Foothill Music Theatre. exception for a musical that I en- the cockney opium-den madam joy very much — “The Mystery Princess Puffer (Miss Angela of Edwin Drood” — especially Prysock, played by Heather previously enjoyed her recent when it’s an essential part of Orth) or the alcoholic crypt- performance as a very different such a funny and lively version keeper and stone mason Durdles type of English lady, Mrs. Ben- Earthwise Productions as is currently offered by Foot- (Mrs. Nicky Cricker, played by net in TheatreWorks Silicon Val- hill Music Theatre (FMT). Linda Piccone)? ley’s “Pride and Prejudice,” Orth Directed by Milissa Carey, “Drood” has probably the has become one of my favorite M A R Tim and Greg of “Drood,” written by Rupert highest-caliber cast I’ve seen local performers. The Mother Hips Holmes (yes, the “Pina Colada at FMT. Great performances The band, led by Amanda Ku song” guy) is based on an unfin- abound, but the two finest come as Maestra of the Music Hall 6-7 A.J. Lee & Sullivan Tuttle ished novel by Charles Dickens. from Orth, doing her best An- Royale Orchestra, sounds jaun- The Lohman Theatre is trans- gela Lansbury as the music-hall tily terrific and the period cos- formed into a Victorian British grande dame belting out the tumes by Julie Engelbrecht are music hall (set design by Carlos show’s standout number, “The the right combination of lush and M A R Akira Tana Aceves) with the cast portraying Wages of Sin,” and John Man- shabby chic, although I’d like to Otonowa a ragtag team of players. These nion as Mr. William Cartwright, see a bolder look for Princess players, in turn, are also the cast the company’s leader, narrator Puffer. Akira Tana, Ken Okada, of “Drood,” creating a show- and fill-in actor. Mannion has an To no small degree, the success 13 Masuru Koga, Art Hirahara within-a-show format. And, be- extensive improv-comedy back- of “Drood” productions rely on cause Dickens died before the ground and it pays off marvel- the enthusiasm of the audience. story was complete, the musi- ously in his role as host and audi- On opening night the crowd, no cal’s main gimmick is that the ence engager. His responsibility doubt including friends and fam- MAR Parlour Game audience gets to vote on key plot for whether the production sinks ily of the cast, certainly deliv- Jenny Scheinman and elements, meaning numerous or soars is great and, happily, he ered, playing its part with gusto Allison Miller ending scenarios are possible, is up to the task. and offering a well-deserved 16 and the cast has to be ready to The characters of Miss Janet ovation (which is not something accommodate them all. To reiter- Conover and Mr. Victor Grin- I always encounter at FMT). It ate, most of the cast members are stead as white English actors may well be that “Drood” works responsible for at least two roles portraying “exotic” foreigners better in an intimate environ- CJ Chenier — their Victorian performers Helena and Neville Landless, ment like this than in an enor- Dartmouth Coast Jazz Orchestra and the Dickens characters they boasting purposely ambiguous mous Broadway theater. MAR 20 are depicting. accents and stereotypical cos- Because the ending can vary If you’ve ever been to the tumes and choreography, poke each performance, it’d be in- Laura Veirs
Great Dickens Christmas Fair, fun at outdated racist/colonial teresting to see more than one APR the vibe of “Drood” is very simi- notions while still veering a bit show, to explore how differ- 6 lar, including the bawdy humor, too close to genuine brownface. ent audience votes can change melodic music-hall merriment I don’t, as it happens, like pina things. After all, those Netflix or Amendola vs. Blades vs. and, of course, Dickens. The plot coladas, but Holmes’ “Drood” bookshelf murder mysteries will APR Trance Mission of “Drood” (the show within the soundtrack is full of authentic- still be waiting for you at home 10 show) concerns plucky young sounding music hall songs with later but this charming “Drood” Edwin (played by “male imper- modern twists, including the diz- runs for a mere three weeks. Q Myra Melford sonator” Miss Alice Nutting, zyingly quick “Both Sides of the Arts & Entertainment Editor APR played by Chloe Angst), whose Coin,” “Never the Luck,” sung Karla Kane can be emailed at 17 disappearance and likely murder by the minor Dickens character/ [email protected] Marcus Shelby Orchestra sets off a cloud of suspicion in scene stealer Bazzard (Mr. Phil-
APR featuring Tiffany Austin the quaint town of Cloisterham. lip Bax, played by Zach Goller) What: “The Mystery of Edwin 18 Whodunit? The most obvi- and Princess Puffer’s jazzier Drood.” ous candidate is angelic-voiced song “The Garden Path to Hell,” Where: Lohman Theatre, Foothill That 1 Guy but bedeviled choirmaster and which, again, Orth nails. Having College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los MAY Altos Hills. 3 Due to coronavirus, Stanford has canceled some events When: Through March 15; Mitchell Park Stanford University announced on Tuesday that it decided to postpone Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays or cancel events on and off campus likely to attract 150 or more people, at 2 p.m. Community Center, Palo Alto including Second Sunday Family Days at the Cantor Arts Center and Cost: $15-$36. Anderson Collection, and all Department of Music concerts scheduled Info: foothill.edu/theatre/ For more information: through at least April 15. A full list of event changes can be found at productions/Drood.html. stanford.io/2IqF5Te. (650) 305-0701 or eventbrite.com
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by Jeanne Aufmuth the kitchen, while cousin Victor On a recent visit we started with aromatic bowl of pozole verde true savvy. One of mine is crème Photos by Magali Gauthier tends bar and serves as propri- one of my favorite Sun of Wolf ($16), a fragrant tomatillo-based brûlée; if done wrong it’s a grainy, etor. Paulina’s sister, Alexa, over- specialties, the pescado crudo broth chock full of hominy and gloppy flop; if done right, it’s alifornians have a long sees design and operations. Sun ($16): crispy rounds of corn tor- oyster mushrooms. Many of Sun downright ethereal. Sun of Wolf’s and affectionate history of Wolf strives for an old-world tilla topped with a tangy hamachi of Wolf’s dishes are served with blood orange brûlée ($9) falls C with Mexican food. In- Mexican roots meet modern Bay ceviche, bright with notes of herb the restaurant’s house-made pur- into the latter category: an exoti- deed most of us were raised on Area sensibility — resulting in an and citrus and topped with guajillo ple potato chips, lightly salted and cally scented beauty; silkily tex- some form of south of the border eclectic array of global offerings, chili oil. The queso fundido ($12) addictively crunchy. tured custard topped with a dark comfort fare. That said, it’s a re- from shrimp ceviche to a hearty is another crowd-pleaser, a little The entree section of the menu caramelized shell that’s a lovely freshing change of pace when that lasagna. platter of velvety melted cheese is a journey through the conti- counterpoint to the pillowy soft- sentimental staple gets a contem- Sun of Wolf’s interior is a cool and Spanish chorizo served with nents, a cuisine best described as ness below. Absolutely no sharing porary reboot, as it does at Cali- mix of traditional and edgy — warm tortillas, perfect for a chilly California globe-trotter, with less required. fornia Avenue’s Sun of Wolf. whitewashed walls with glowing winter evening. The empanadas emphasis on Mexican and more Sun of Wolf’s service is per- Sun of Wolf’s roots run deep in candles set into altar-like alcoves ($16) were less inviting. They on that Bay Area vibe. A perfectly petually friendly and often the community, a second-genera- in decorative harmony with sleek, arrived generously stuffed with prepared red snapper ($30) was downright homey, steeped in tion affair owned by three cousins polished lighting. The warm a robust mix of Swiss chard and emboldened with a tasty roasted an intimate charm that has long related to Hector Sol, owner of wooden bar is a convivial spot for sweet potato, with a piquant side red pepper sauce, while the scal- been a hallmark of the Sol family longtime Mexican favorite Palo sharing a glass of wine or one of of lemon agave slaw, but suffered lop pasta with a mandarin reduc- empire (which includes Moun- Alto Sol — where my own grown many alluring mezcal-based cock- from a doughy exterior that could tion ($28) delivered an essence of tain View’s Vive Sol and Red- daughters cut their teeth on soft tails. The bar opens at 4:30 p.m. have used some extra time in the Asian fare. wood City’s Quinto Sol). The chicken tacos and cheesy quesa- for happy hour, with elote asado fryer. I had long heard rumors of a dining room is casual and the dillas. Sol’s daughter, Paulina — a (grilled corn) and tacos, among Yet another excellent starter, killer double cheeseburger ($19) atmosphere relaxed, without the Cordon Bleu-trained chef — runs other small noshing delights. sized as an entree, is a large, that got rave reviews from friends. frenetic pace and accompanying Naturally I was skeptical — a soundtrack that can quickly ex- burger is not exactly my go-to in tinguish a nice evening out. Side- a Mexican-inspired eatery. But walk dining, perfect for people- the rumors are true, and this one watching, is a plus in the warmer ticked all the boxes: a thick, beefy months. Q patty of ground brisket and chuck, Freelance restaurant reviewer perfectly pink and beautifully sea- Jeanne Aufmuth can be emailed soned, with a punch of sharp ched- at [email protected]. dar on a warm brioche bun. The accompanying French fries came out thick-cut and hot. Sun of Wolf, 406 California The occasional dish falls short, Ave., Palo Alto; 650-325- mostly due to lack of balanced 8888; sunofwolfpa.com seasoning. A generous platter of Hours: Monday-Saturday, 5:30 tender carnitas ($29) was a tad p.m. to last call. Happy hour bland, whereas the duck confit 4:30-6 p.m. Closed Sunday. tacos ($22) were rich with earthy, Reservations Children slow-simmered flavors. Perhaps my favorite of all the mains is the Credit cards Catering maja lasagna ($18), a Sol family Happy hour Outdoor recipe abundant with creamy lay- seating Takeout ers of chipotle-tomatillo sauce, Alcohol: Full bar spinach and sun-dried tomatoes. Corkage: $20 a bottle, three Bathroom A destination dish well worth a maximum Cleanliness: Top: The pescado crudo comes with three masa and huitlacoche tostadas topped with avocado purée, visit. Good Everyone has a restaurant litmus Noise level: sushi-grade hamachi, a seasonal fruit, pico de gallo, micro cilantro, guajillo chili oil and serrano peppers. Medium Parking: Street Above: Bartender Josue Orellana mixes cocktails at Sun of Wolf in Palo Alto. test by which to judge a kitchen’s Page 24 • March 6, 2020 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Eating Out “MOON sticks the landing!” San Diego Magazine
Before Sally Ride, there was Jerrie Cobb They Promised Her the Moon Weekly file photos file Weekly Peninsula restaurants, including Chef Chu’s and Vina Enoteca (above), are seeing a decline in business due to fears of the coronavirus. By Laurel Ollstein Coronavirus looms over local restaurants, Directed by slowing business Giovanna Sardelli ‘The economic effects on our area could be lasting for quite some time.’ by Elena Kadvany avoid large events where they might of illness and will send staff home be exposed to coronavirus. if they arrive and appear sick, Kim t Chez TJ in Mountain Chu predicted that Chef Chu’s said. The restaurants are buying View, chef Jarad Gallagher deep roots in the community would more disinfection wipes and tubs of Now thru March 29 A saw an unprecedented drop mostly insulate it from a more con- hand sanitizer for staff, have spent Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto in Saturday reservations: from 40 to cerning drop in business. But small- more time cleaning and disinfecting 18 in a number of hours. er, family-run Chinese restaurants and are offering more trainings on theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 Vina Enoteca in Palo Alto is esti- might not be so lucky, he noted. proper hand-washing and refrain- mating a $50,000 loss from a num- (Restaurants in San Francisco’s ing from face-touching. Staff are SARAH MITCHELL / PHOTO KEVIN BERNE ber of private event cancellations — Chinatown reported steep declines receiving companywide emails and is expecting more next week. after word spread of the coronavi- with any new information or up- Chef Chu’s in Los Altos has rus’ origin in Wuhan, China.) dates related to the virus, Kim said. watched dine-in business drop by “I think people that come here, Zareen Khan, owner of the 15%, mostly from corporate cus- that live here are comfortable with eponymous Zareen’s in Palo Alto tomers, but takeout is up. the local Chinese restaurants and and Mountain View, has been As paranoia about the risk of they’re supporting us,” Chu said. making “contingency plans” to coronavirus spreads, many, though “It’s not like going to Chef Chu’s prepare for cost reductions and not all, local restaurants are see- is any different from going to eat ways to increase revenue, such ing an impact on their bottom at an Italian restaurant or a French as promotions to help boost lines, especially due to canceled restaurant.” sales. She’s ordering hand-sani- private events and large group Gallagher said he’s concerned tizing stations for her restaurants reservations — particularly by lo- about the domino effect the coro- (though it’s hard to find Purell, she cal tech companies, owners said. navirus could have on the local said) and informing her employ- Not all are explicitly connected to food industry. Fewer reservations ees about prevention, including the coronavirus, but owners see a means fewer tips for his front-of- through posters written in Spanish link with the timing of the spread house staff. Travel restrictions and for Spanish-speaking staff. of the virus, particularly in Santa tech companies’ quiet urging of Not all local restaurants have Clara County, where 14 cases were employees to stay home and not at- seen a drop in business. Restaurant confirmed as of Thursday. tend social events could mean fewer group Bacchus Management Group Restaurants are taking extra people dining out — particularly at said its four Peninsula establish- precautions to educate and protect high-end restaurants like Chez TJ. ments — The Village Pub and The their staffs, including stocking up “I believe that we will, from a Village Bakery in Woodside, Sel- on disinfection wipes and hand health perspective, get this taken by’s in Redwood City and Mayfield sanitizer, talking about prevention care of. The economic effects on Bakery & Cafe in Palo Alto — are before service and emailing arti- our area,” however, Gallagher doing well, though private dining at cles and up-to-date information. said, “could be lasting for quite Spruce in San Francisco has been At the Michelin-starred Chez TJ, some time.” affected “slightly” due to the can- where waiters usually fold diners’ “The economic effects are great- cellation of large tech conventions. napkins when they get up from ta- er than just our restaurant,” he add- Meichih Kim of Maum in Palo bles, they’re instead replacing the ed. “It affects our farmers. It affects Alto, a small, Michelin-starred napkins with new ones to mini- our farmers markets. It affects our Korean restaurant with prepaid mize contact. producers. Everybody takes a hit in reservations, said bookings have “People are just being more the hospitality industry.” slowed but the restaurant is still cautious,” said Larry Chu, the Down the street from Chez TJ, nearly fully booked. The chef and general manager at Chef Chu’s. business has been “noticeably co-owner said they’re purchasing “It’s like going to the supermarket slower” at Steins Beer Garden, said a hand sanitizer stand for guests as and seeing all the shelves of dried owner Ted Kim. He’s seen canceled they walk in. pasta and dried foods and toilet reservations at both Steins locations Peter Katz, owner of local burger paper all empty. I think panic in Mountain View and Cupertino chain The Counter, said he’s been comes from fear.” but said that he’s not aware of any reading and anecdotally hearing Chu said the Chinese restaurant’s customers mentioning concerns yet about the impact on food businesses dining room has been more filled in person. but it hasn’t yet materialized at his with local regulars than out-of-town “For at least a portion of the pub- restaurants. corporate diners of late. Google re- lic it doesn’t seem like a significant “It’s concerning, even though I cently canceled a 20-person event. enough concern to prevent them think it is quite an overreaction,” Chef Chu’s was set to provide soup from dining out,” he wrote in an Katz said. “It may turn out to be that for Community Services Agency’s email. “Really hoping this passes the economic impact is more seri- annual Empty Bowls Soup Supper over soon before we really start ous than the actual health impact to this Sunday, but the Mountain View (to) see business drop. I can see it the vast majority (of people).” Q nonprofit postponed it after the headed in that direction.” Staff writer Elena Kadvany MEDIA county Public Health Department Steins is asking employees to can be emailed at ekadvany@ SPONSOR: recommended that older adults stay home if they show any signs paweekly.com.
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Page 28 • March 6, 2020 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Senior MARCH 2020 Focus PLAYING MAHJONG ... Instructor Sylvia Jeans offers free sessions in Chinese Classical Mahjong Mondays, 1-4 p.m. at Avenidas, 450 Bryant Street. Participants can join an ongoing game or sign up for two LA monthly i special v section i nof news g &Wel information for seniors l lessons in consecutive weeks. To join or register, contact Jeans at [email protected].
DEATH CAFE ... Mission Hospice will sponsor a “death cafe” Tuesday, March 10, 3-5 p.m. at Rose Kleiner Center, 270 Escuela Ave., Mountain View. Death cafes offer people a chance to share their thoughts and questions about death in a supportive and safe environment. There is no agenda. Mission Hospice describes the death cafe as a discussion group, not a support group or counseling session. Tea and snacks will be served. Participation is free but registration is required. Go to missionhospice.eventbrite.com or contact Susan Barber at 650- 532-2396.
RE-INVENTING AGING ... Avenidas will open its doors Saturday, March 21, for its first-ever “Re-Inventing Aging Gauthier Magali by illustration photo and Photo Fair.” Participants will be able to meet instructors, see class demonstrations, learn about sleep secrets and decluttering, sample refreshments from the Redwood Cafe and participate in stretching and exercise. Drop-in from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free and open to the public.
AGE OF SOUL ... Author and rock historian Richie Unterberger Ralph reads a book at the dining room table in his Palo Alto apartment. His terminally ill wife, Sue, decided to legally end her life last year will present “The Golden Age using California’s End of Life Option Act. of Soul,” including film clips of greats such as Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Otis Redding on Tuesday, March 24, at the Oshman Family Sue’s farewell: A Palo Alto ‘end-of-life’ story Jewish Community Center, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. The event How a terminally ill woman used a new law to die with dignity is part of the JCC’s Community by Chris Kenrick Tuesdays series. It will be held 1-2:30 p.m. in the JCC’s Schultz lmost completely bedrid- to seniors who choose to age in obtain the lethal prescription, to do it on their premises. That Cultural Arts Hall. $15. For more den, in pain and deter- their own homes. He decided to including two oral requests — at necessitated a complicated trans- information, contact Michelle A mined to avoid the grim share his story to provide insight least 15 days apart — to a physi- fer back to the couple’s Palo Alto Rosengaus at 650 223-8616 or final stages of her rare neurode- and dialogue on a topic that’s not cian, a written request, and sepa- home. [email protected] generative disease, Sue decided it always easy to talk about. rately, confirmation by a different A hospice social worker, who was time to legally end her life. Ralph said it was important to physician. helped care for Sue in her last four WISE OWLS ... The Avenidas She had researched California’s Sue that her family accept and During the first 2 1/2 years af- months, arranged to move Sue’s drama group Wise Owl Players End of Life Option Act more support her choice, though some ter the law took effect, prescrip- hospital bed back to Palo Alto will present “Ten-Minute Plays than a year earlier, and meticu- members might not have made tions were written for 1,108 pa- and to transfer her by ambulance. and A Hundred Laughs” on lously complied with each step the same choice for themselves. tients, according to the California “All this occurred like a whirl- Tuesday, March 24, at 3 p.m. of the law. “It was as dreadful experience Department of Public Health. wind in the course of 24 hours,” and Friday, March 27, at 7 On her chosen day in March of as I’ve had, but I really don’t But because the law was so Ralph said. p.m. at Avenidas, 450 Bryant last year — having said her fare- think it’s any different than hav- new at the time of Sue’s decision, “In the meantime, Sue’s doctor, Street, Palo Alto. The 90-minute wells to devastated, but accepting, ing a loved one who died on their many healthcare professionals who’d never been through this be- comedy is a dramatic staged family and friends — Sue, 78, sat own,” said Ralph, who asked that were not familiar with the pro- fore, had contacted Compassion reading appropriate for all ages up in the hospital bed in her Palo their full names not be published. cess, Ralph said. Sue’s neurolo- & Choices (a nonprofit that advo- Tickets, at $10, can be reserved Alto home, kissed her husband “I miss Sue terribly — I still do gist, as well as her primary-care cates for patient-directed care at by calling 650 289-5400 or and drank a lethal dose of medi- and I always will.” physician of 30 years, had no ex- the end of life) and been educated purchased at the door. For more cation that had been prescribed In June 2016, California be- perience with the law, he said. about how to proceed with the pa- information, contact Enid Davis by her physician. came the fifth state to allow And when Sue decided it was perwork and how to deal with the at [email protected]. Sue’s husband, Ralph, offered physicians to prescribe drugs to time to ingest the lethal medica- medication.” a tender account of his wife’s use terminally ill adults who are of tion, the owners of the small care Ralph said the physician had CHOIR CONCERT ... Michael of California’s law at a recent sound mind and request such as- facility in Sunnyvale — where trouble finding a pharmacy Strelo-Smith, a finalist from gathering at Avenidas Village, sistance to end their lives. The she’dlivedinherfinalmonths that was willing to grind up the a membership organization that End of Life Options Act requires after Ralph could no longer care (continued on page 31) provides resources and support patients to take specific steps to for her — refused to allow her (continued on page 30)
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idea what to expect.” A 2019 survey by the Cali- Sue’s farewell Christina Goodwin, California fornia Health Care Foundation (continued from page 29) state manager for Compassion & found that 3 in 4 Californians Choices, said physicians today support the law, which was ini- medication. have a combination of medica- tially appealed and then rein- “It was questionable right down tions that work more quickly, put- stated by the California State to almost the last minute, and fi- ting patients to sleep within 5 or Supreme Court. nally they said ‘Yes, you can pick 10 minutes and taking full effect Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Mon- it up,’” Ralph said. within two hours. tana, New Jersey, Oregon, Wash- When Ralph asked the phar- “There have not been any in- ington, Vermont and Washington, macist what he should expect, the stances of it not working,” Good- D.C., have similar legislation. pharmacist said he wasn’t sure win said. In signing the End of Life Op- because he’d never filled such a In 2018 — the latest reporting tion Act in 2015, then-Gov. Jerry prescription. period available — 180 physi- Brown wrote “I do not know what The next morning Sue was de- cians prescribed aid-in-dying I would do if I were dying in pro- termined to drink the medication. drugs to 452 individuals across longed and excruciating pain. I Within five minutes, she was un- the state, according to the health am certain, however, that it would conscious. She remained in that department. About 69% of pa- be a comfort to be able to consider state for 10 hours, Ralph said. tients had malignant cancers, fol- the options afforded by this bill. “During those 10 hours, al- lowed by 13.1% who had neuro- And I wouldn’t deny that right to though she was unconscious, and logical diseases, such as ALS or others.” Q I’m sure she didn’t feel anything, Parkinson’s disease. Nearly 90% Contributing writer Chris it was agonizing for her daughter were receiving hospice or pallia- Kenrick can be emailed at and me,” Ralph said. “We had no tive care. [email protected]. More about California’s End of Life Option Act
California’s End of Life Option Act became ef- illness or other causes; the “ingestion status” of fective on June 9, 2016. The Act allows terminally the remaining 79 cases was unknown. ill adults living in California to obtain and self-ad- • The median age of patients who died from the minister aid-in-dying drugs. The Act requires the drugs was 74. California Department of Public Health to provide • 76% of those patients were between 60 and annual reports. Here are highlights from 2018, the 89 years old. latest reporting period available: • 51% were female. • More than 80% had at least some college • 180 physicians prescribed aid-in-dying drugs education. to 452 individuals. • More than 88% were white. • Of those patients, 314 died after ingesting the prescribed drugs; 59 died from their underlying — Chris Kenrick
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ere comes the sun and a plethora of classes to take in the Zohar School of Dance & Registration for spring clinics and offering cardio kickboxing classes Midpeninsula. With so many classes offered in the area, we’ve Company summer camp is now open. and training in martial arts for chil- 4000 Middlefield Road, L-4, United States Youth dren and adults. preparedH a new guide to let you know what’s out there, where to go Palo Alto / 650-494-8221 Volleyball League Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto and how to sign up. Take a language course, do Tai Chi, even learn [email protected] Mitchell Park, 600 E. Meadow Drive, 4000 Middlefield Road, M-4, to ice skate right in the middle of spring—whatever it is, there are a zohardancecompany.org Palo Alto / 310-212-7008 Palo Alto / 650-327-9350 With roots going back to 1979, Zohar [email protected] [email protected] / ttopa.com lot of ways to ensure this season doesn’t go to waste. School of Dance holds a range of adult usyvl.org/locations/palo-alto At Taijiquan Tutelage of Palo Alto, dance classes in jazz, contemporary, Run by the league and volunteers, the established in 1973, students learn modern, ballet, musical theater and the classical Yang Style Taijiquan tap. Though mainly an adult studio, youth volleyball program allows boys Business & Tech arts for all ages and experience and girls of all skill levels from ages Slow Form style of tai chi. Beginner levels. Classes are held at several Zohar also welcomes younger stu- dents. View class schedules and 2020 7 to 15 to play and learn the sport in a classes start monthly. Check online CareerGenerations venues, including Lucie Stern fun, supportive and co-ed environment. for schedule. 2225 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto events online. Community Center, Stanford Uni- Youth volleyball starts April 14, and 650-320-1639 Taoist Tai Chi Society versity and a home studio in East registration is currently open online. [email protected] Palo Alto. Sports & Outdoors of the USA Winter Lodge 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto careergenerations.com Dance Connection CareerGenerations offers group Baylands Golf Links 3009 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto 4000 Middlefield Road, L-5, 1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto 650-493-4566 / winterlodge.com 600 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto workshops and programs to meet the Palo Alto / 650-322-7032 650-856-0881 / baylandsgolflinks.com Winter Lodge has offered ice skating 650-396-9244 career needs of a variety of individu- [email protected] Private lessons — teaching golf tech- classes and family recreation for over taoist.org/usa/locations/palo-alto als, including college students looking danceconnectionpaloalto.com for internships, graduates looking for nique, rules and etiquette — are avail- 60 years. There are group lessons The Taoist Tai Chi Society of the Dance Connection offers a pre- able at any level of experience. Check for ages 4 and up. Spring classes are USA, a charitable organization with employment and those re-entering the school combination class for pre- online for spring registration. in progress, but applications are still nationally accredited volunteers, market. school-age children (beginning at age 3), graded classes for youth Kim Grant Tennis Academy being accepted. holds classes designed to improve bal- Dance and adults and other programs to 3005 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto ance, strength, flexibility, relaxation meet dancers’ needs. Ballet, jazz, 650-752-8061 Health & Fitness and health. Beginner classes are held a few days each week. Brazivedas tap, hip-hop, lyrical, Pilates and [email protected] Studio Kicks other instruction is available for kimgranttennis.com 53 Shorebreeze Court, 796 San Antonio Road A, Palo Alto Uforia Studios students at various levels of ability. East Palo Alto The Kim Grant Tennis Academy 650-855-9868 819 Ramona St., Palo Alto 650-644-7343 / brazivedas.com See which classes are available for organizes an array of tennis classes 650-329-8794 / uforiastudios.com registration online. [email protected] Brazivedas offers classes in Bra- and programs for adults and children, studiokickspaloalto.com Uforia Studios offers exercise class- including those with special needs. zilian dance, music and martial Studio Kicks is a family fitness center es incorporating dance (pop and
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Page 32 • March 6, 2020 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Spring Class Guide hip-hop), cycling (Revolutions and New Mozart School of Music 1/2 and older. Students are a mix of Meira Academy Revolutions: Road) and strength and 2100 El Camino Real Suite C, native and new Spanish speakers, and 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto Something for cardio (Grit). View available classes Palo Alto / 650-324-2373 the program combines reading, writ- 650-485-3589 and reserve online. [email protected] ing, art and play to develop a love of [email protected] everyone newmozartschool.com learning. Amigos also offers Spanish- meiraacademy.org Avenidas Palo Alto Adult School New Mozart School of Music offers immersion after-school programs for Meira Academy is a traditional, all- 4000 Middlefield Road I-2, Palo Palo Alto High School, Tower music lessons and classes year-round kindergartners with some Spanish girls Jewish high school devoted to Alto 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto Building, 50 Embarcadero Road, to students of all ages and abilities. experience. academic excellence in general and 650-289-5400 / avenidas.org Palo Alto / 650-329-3752 Piano, violin, viola, cello, voice, gui- Jewish studies, preparing its students Avenidas offers many classes, as well Gideon Hausner Jewish [email protected] tar, flute and early childhood music for college and seminaries in Israel. as lectures and workshops, for Mid- Day School paadultschool.org classes are available. peninsula seniors focusing on topics 450 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto Milestones Preschool Classes on computers, language, such as general health, physical fit- Pacific Art League 650-494-8200 3864 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto cooking, writing, art, outdoors, fi- ness, languages, humanities, comput- 668 Ramona St., Palo Alto [email protected] 650-494-0550 nance and many others are available ing, music and writing. Membership 650-321-3891 hausner.com [email protected] through the Palo Alto Adult School. costs, fees and class descriptions are [email protected] Instructing children in kindergarten milestonespreschool.org Registration is open. Spring quarter listed on the website. pacificartleague.org through eighth grade, Gideon Hausner Milestones Preschool offers a year- begins March 23. The classes and workshops at the Jewish Day School provides academ- round, project-based program that Special needs Pacific Art League are taught by ics, instruction in Jewish studies and fosters the social, emotional, cognitive Stanford Continuing Studies qualified, experienced instructors the Hebrew language, enrichment op- and physical development of children Littlefield Center, 365 Lasuen St., Bay Area Friendship Circle for children and adults with varying portunities and after-school programs. ages 2 to 5. Stanford / 650-725-2650 3921 Fabian Way, Suite A023, experience. Instructors teach many Applications are now open online. Sora International Preschool [email protected] Palo Alto / 650-858-6990 mediums, including drawing, paint- continuingstudies.stanford.edu [email protected] / bayareafc.org HeadsUp! Child Development of Palo Alto ing, watercolor, printmaking, digital Center 701 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto Stanford Continuing Studies orga- The Bay Area Friendship Circle of- art and more. Registration for spring 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto 650-493-7672 / info@sorapreschool. nizes classes in liberal arts, sciences, fers programs for children, teens and classes and workshops as well as sum- 650-424-1221 / [email protected] com / sorapreschool.com creative writing and professional and young adults with special needs ages mer camp is open. headsup.org/headsup Sora International Preschool is an personal development. Courses are 2 to 22 year-round as well as winter held in the evenings or on Saturdays. and summer camps. Trained teen vol- Palo Alto Art Center HeadsUp! Child Development Cen- English-Japanese bilingual preschool 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto Stanford Continuing Studies also unteers provide one-on-one friend- ter serves infants, toddlers and pre- for children 3 to 6 years old. The 650-329-2366 presents lectures, performances, con- ship and support. For more informa- schoolers (to age 6) with a full-day school combines early-childhood cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/csd/ ferences and other events. Register for tion about summer camp or to register program, year-round. The Montes- play experience, instruction in Japa- artcenter classes online. for programs, visit the website. sori curriculum focuses on building nese and English and exposure to both Palo Alto Art Center classes and thinking skills and personal values. A cultures through traditional events. Language courses workshops for children, teens and bilingual Chinese-English preschool adults cover areas such as ceramics, classroom is also available. Class Guides are published quarterly in the Palo Alto Weekly, Mountain Berlitz Palo Alto Language painting, drawing, jewelry, sculpture, International School of the Center Adobe Photoshop and more. View Voice and the Almanac. Descriptions of classes offered in Palo Alto, Peninsula Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Atherton, East Palo Alto, Los Altos, 159 Homer Ave., Palo Alto Sur La Table Cooking School 3233 Cowper St., Palo Alto Los Altos Hills, Portola Valley and Woodside are provided. Listings are free 650-294-4362 Town & Country Village, 151 Laura Lane, Palo Alto and subject to editing. Due to space constraints, classes held in the above berlitz.com/language-centers/ 855 El Camino Real, #57, Palo Alto 650-251-8500 / [email protected] cities are given priority. palo-alto 650-289-0019 / surlatable.com istp.org To inquire about submitting a listing for the next Class Guide, email Edi- Berlitz provides adult and youth lan- Sur La Table offers hands-on cook- International School of the Peninsula torial Assistant Lloyd Lee at [email protected] or call 650-223-6526. To guage instruction in Spanish, German, ing classes, guiding students in mak- is an independent bilingual immer- place a paid advertisement in the Class Guide, call the display advertising French, English and other languages. ing regional cuisines, themed meals or sion day school with two nursery- department at 650-326-8210. Private lessons, tutoring, testing ser- special foods such as bread, croissants to-fifth-grade programs in French vices and cultural agility training for and baked goods. Classes for kids, and Mandarin Chinese as well as an businesses are also available. teens and adults are available. WRITE NOW! international middle school program. Language classes at the Palo Silicon Valley Boychoir Some programs include media and SUMMER WRITING CAMPS Alto Adult School 600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto technology, music, gastronomy and Palo Alto High School, Tower 650-424-1242 / [email protected] athletics classes. for Grades 2-8 svboychoir.org Building, 50 Embarcadero Road, Kehillah Jewish High School Palo Alto / 650-329-3752 Silicon Valley Boychoir offers re- 3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto [email protected] hearsals, musicianship classes and 650-213-9600 / kehillah.org July 6 - July 24 paadultschool.org/class/ performance opportunities to boys This college-preparatory high school world-languages ages 7 to 17 across four levels of features modern science and com- Classes are offered in Spanish, choir. Auditions by appointment are • Expository Writing available. puter labs, art and music studios, a French, Italian and Mandarin Chi- drama program, a full range of aca- nese. The classes cover beginning Parent education demic courses with small class sizes, • Creative Writing and advanced skills and sometimes sports teams and more. literature and arts. Children’s Health Council Oshman Family JCC Leslie • Presentation Skills Mind & spirit 650 Clark Way, Palo Alto Family Preschool 650-326-5530 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. [email protected] / chconline.org Integrated Healing Arts 650-223-8788 PALO ALTO, (650) 424-1267 4161 El Camino Way, Palo Alto Children’s Health Council holds a [email protected] 650-493-7030 / variety of classes touching on child paloaltojcc.org/preschool PLEASANTON, (925) 485-5750 mental health, dyslexia, anxiety and [email protected] The Oshman Family JCC’s preschool depression, attention deficit hyperac- [email protected] www.headsup.org integratedhealing.org program provides one to five-days- tivity disorder, autism and other topics Integrated Healing Arts instructors per-week options for children 18 related to encouraging all children’s teach classes on meditation, self- months to 5 years old (ages 2 to 4 success. All classes are taught by the development, self-realization, tai chi, at Congregation Beth Am), with an organization’s experts. qigong and spiritual health. emphasis on experiential learning, Parents Place family involvement and play. Par- Arts 200 Channing Ave., Palo Alto ent/caregiver participation programs 650-688-3040 are available for children 12 to 23 Marketplace Art & Soul parentsplaceonline.org/peninsula months old. Webster Street Studio, A resource center for parents, Parents 2326 Webster St., Palo Alto Living Wisdom School Place on the Peninsula offers work- 650-269-0423 of Palo Alto STUDIO FOR RENT [email protected] shops on subjects ranging from sibling Small midtown studio. To place an ad rivalry to building a child’s self-esteem 456 College Ave., Palo Alto artandsoulpa.com $1350 rent includes util- or get a quote, and confidence. Parent and child ac- 650-462-8150 Art & Soul runs after-school art clubs tivity groups are also organized. View livingwisdomschool.org ities. Kitchenette/fridge/ contact throughout the week at Walter Hays upcoming workshops online. Offering daily yoga, meditation, and sink/ microwave/ cabinets. Nico Navarrete and Ohlone elementary schools and experiential, project-based learn- Partially furnished. Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, School days ing, Living Wisdom School serves Adjacent laundry room. at 650.223.6582 in addition to a club on Wednesdays at students in transitional kindergar- Single occupancy only/ or email its studio. Programs allow children to Amigos de Palo Alto ten through Grade 8. It offers a 1:6 explore drawing, painting and sculp- 1611 Stanford Ave., Palo Alto teacher-student ratio in kindergarten; no pets. Contact e-mail if digitalads@ ture techniques, as well as develop 650-493-4300 an integrated arts program which in- interested. paweekly.com. their observational skills. Art & Soul [email protected] cludes music, theater, art and dance; a [email protected] also offers art and wine events for pri- amigosdepaloalto.com balanced approach to technology; and vate groups. Register for after-school Amigos de Palo Alto is a Spanish- after-school care. and summer programs online. immersion preschool for children 2
www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • March 6, 2020 • Page 33 OPEN HOME GUIDE 48 Home & Real Estate Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com A weekly guide to home, garden and real estate news Home Front GROWING CITRUS ... Learn how to get the best harvest from your citrus trees at a workshop on Saturday, March 7, 10-11 a.m. at the UC Master Gardeners’ Palo Alto Demonstration Garden. Get tips on pruning, fertilizing A landscape and watering, frost protection, identifying and managing architect’s pests and diseases from Master Gardener Candace volunteer efforts Simpson. Bring samples or are making Palo photos to get help diagnosing citrus problems. The Palo Alto’s ‘hell strips’ Alto Demonstration Garden is into little patches located at 851 Center Drive, Palo Alto. For more information, of heaven for call 408-282-3105 or visit Juanita Salisbury mgsantaclara.ucanr.edu/ bees, birds and events/. butterflies
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by Laura Swenson Laura Swenson SHOP ... Find garden items Landscape architect Juanita Salisbury and accessories, spring decor, repurposes small strips of underused land linens, jewelry and clothing, to plant gardens that provide sustenance for gourmet jams and other local bees and other pollinators. handmade items at Gamble Salisbury tends one of the pollinator gardens she has planted Garden’s first pop-up shop of in a Palo Alto “hell strip.” the year, which takes place Wednesday, March 11, and ell strip,” in landscape worked independently with resi- with the city’s recently adopted of the gardens, dug up dense, Thursday, March 12, 11 design lingo, refers to dential clients in the Palo Alto Master Plan policy to “connect decades-old networks of ivy. a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. ‘Hthe unsightly, often area, but she hasn’t always been natural areas ... on public land They also help Salisbury select Gamble Garden is located ivy- or dirt-filled plots between a landscape architect. Salisbury to create wildlife, bird, pollina- sites that wouldn’t otherwise be at 1431 Waverley St., Palo the sidewalk and road. They line received her Ph.D. in biopsychol- tor and habitat corridors.” She suitable for recreational use, due Alto. For more information, Palo Alto’s Oregon Expressway, ogy and studied animal ingestive raised funds on Gofundme to to their proximity to traffic. In call 650-329-1356 or visit Middlefield and Embarcadero behavior during her postdoctoral buy the plants and installed the return, Salisbury and volunteers gamblegarden.org. roads, and are typically in- work before deciding to enroll Primrose Way Pollinator Garden have taken some maintenance re- stalled with the aim of beautify- in a landscape architecture de- with help from neighbors in late sponsibilities off the city’s plate, CO-EXISTING WITH ing streets, keeping pedestrians gree program in 1996. Through 2016. since they take care of the plots COUGARS ... Mountain lions safe and managing stormwater both careers, one element has Today, five gardens totaling they plant. are a part of life in this area, runoff. But often, they become remained consistent: approximately 10,000 square In January, Open Space and especially on hiking trails patches of no man’s land where “I love watching animals eat,” feet attract numerous species of Parks Division Manager Daren and in neighborhoods close dogs relieve themselves and trees she said. birds, butterflies and bees. All Anderson invited Salisbury to to the hills. Learn how to struggle to grow. Salisbury thinks of plants as located north of Oregon Express- make a presentation on the proj- stay safe in mountain lion For one Palo Alto landscape food sources, not decor, and way, the gardens are intentional- ect’s progress to the Palo Alto habitat in this presentation on architect, this unused land spells she wants to feed the species ly within walking distance from Parks and Recreation Commis- Thursday, March 12, 5:30 opportunity. Juanita Salisbury is on which everyone up the food one another — a short enough sion. In the presentation, Salis- p.m. at Hidden Villa featuring transforming these hell strips, chain depends: pollinators. distance that a bee can easily fly bury explained how the gardens Midpeninsula Regional Open along with the city’s parkway When designing landscapes, she between them. And Salisbury not only strengthen ecosystem Space District’s Resource islands and medians, into pol- said she’s “always thinking about now has a much bigger labora- resilience, but also have a ripple Management Specialist, Matt linator gardens, which are habi- the insect first.” Salisbury’s fo- tory from which to observe in- effect on the people who live Sharp Chaney. His talk will tat and food sources for bees, cus on providing nutritious diets sect ingestive behavior. nearby. Planting the gardens has cover mountain lion biology butterflies and birds. Creating to insects has led her to native But because she’s using pub- and habitat and what the a “corridor,” where pollinators plants, which insects find the lic land, Salisbury can’t just current research says. The can reliably find food along tastiest. focus on science. Before plant- If you’re interested event includes interactive the stretch of land between the Salisbury always has main- ing a new garden, she conducts Juanita Salisbury will displays and a question-and- Baylands and Foothills Park/ tained her own garden — which outreach and gives neighbors speak about how to plant answer period. Hidden Villa Pearson-Arastradero Preserve is doubles as an outdoor labora- a chance to share feedback on a pollinator garden at the is located at 26870 Moody a policy outlined in Palo Alto’s tory where she can consistently the plans. Typically, she said, Western Horticultural Society’s Road, Los Altos Hills. For more Master Plan for 2030. observe the species her plants at- she hears little in response. In information, call 650-949-8650 Five pollinator gardens — in- tract and in turn give home-test- one case, a neighbor handed meeting on March 11, 7:30 p.m. The meeting is open to or visit hiddenvilla.org. Q stalled and maintained by Salis- ed recommendations to clients. Salisbury a $1,000 check when bury and fewer than a dozen But back in 2016, Salisbury’s he recognized her from the out- the public; admission is free volunteers she’s recruited — are to society members and $10 Send notices of news and events related backyard filled up. Meanwhile, reach flyer. In another, a neigh- to real estate, interior design, home the extent to which the corridor she drove past a 4,000-square- bor expressed a desire to keep for nonmembers. The society improvement and gardening to Home has been realized so far. Anoth- foot strip of lawn along Embar- their cul de sac’s lawn instead of meets at the Los Altos Youth Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, er local grassroots effort to help cadero Road every day on her installing a native plant garden; Center, 1 N. San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email editor@ pollinators, the Palo Alto Gar- Los Altos. For more information, paweekly.com. Deadline is one week way home. in response to the concern, the before publication. den Club’s Monarch Butterfly “I was like, ‘I’m out of space ... designs were scrapped. visit westernhort.org/ Project, is specific to monarch what’s the worst that can happen Salisbury relies on Palo Alto’s She will also speak at a series butterflies, focusing on planting if I ask the city?’” she said. Open Space and Parks Divi- of Bay Area Water Supply and READ MORE ONLINE a corridor of native milkweed, Eventually Salisbury asked sion for help in selecting and PaloAltoOnline.com Conservation Agency events as well as nectar plants, to sup- Palo Alto Community Services preparing sites. The division this spring, all of which are free. There are more real estate features port the dwindling monarch Manager Mark Ribeiro about has installed irrigation systems, For more information, go to online. Go to PaloAltoOnline.com/ population. replacing the lawn with native delivered mulch, designed edu- bawsca.org. real_estate. Since 2014, Salisbury has plants. Her proposal resonated cational signage, and for some
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During the meeting, Open Space and Parks Division Manager Daren Anderson praised Salisbury’s level of care for the gardens, “A key piece that Dr. Salisbury, Your Realtor & You I think, is underselling, is her incredible Housing Affordability Improved in Q4 2019 perseverance ... I’ve been a part of a lot of native plantings that come in. You can re- Housing affordability held its own in the down payment and an interest rate of 3.89 store an area and in about a year ... unless San Francisco Bay Area during the fourth percent. you keep coming back and taking care of quarter of 2019. In fact, affordability C.A.R. says slightly higher mortgage it, it’ll quickly revert to invasive weeds.” improved from fourth-quarter 2018 in interest rates offset steady home prices A big question remains: How will the every county in the region, including and held California housing affordability Santa Clara County.
Juanita Salisbury pollinator gardens initiated by Salisbury constant during the fourth quarter of 2019. be replicated on a scale to become a true “The market here in Silicon Valley has Statewide, 31 percent of homebuyers who corridor that traverses the city of Palo recently become extremely competitive," could afford to purchase a median-priced, Alto? At this point, the city has not al- said Mary Kay Groth, president of the existing single-family home in fourth- located funding to the pollinator corri- Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. quarter 2019, unchanged from third- dor project. Salisbury continues to seek "Some price points are seeing multiple quarter 2019, and up from 28 percent in Salisbury’s project draws pollinators the fourth quarter of 2018. with plants that provide food and habitat. funding from sources like the nonprofit offers with as many as 25 or more parties Happy Hollow Foundation’s “Progress for bidding on one property. This continues A minimum annual income of $119,600 Pollinators” grant, which provided the re- to be a challenge for buyers even though was needed to qualify for the purchase brought together a group of native plant sources for several of the gardens so far. interest rates are comparatively low.” of a $607,040 statewide median-priced, enthusiast volunteers, and neighbors have For the next garden, she is working with According to California Association existing single-family home in the fourth pitched in to help, too. The gardens have Grassroots Ecology to remove the ivy hell of REALTORS® Traditional Housing quarter of 2019. The monthly payment, created educational opportunities: Salis- strip in front of the First Congregational Affordability Index (HAI), 22 percent including taxes and insurance on a bury discusses how to use native plants, Church on Embarcadero across from the of homebuyers in Santa Clara County 30-year, fixed-rate loan, would be $2,990, featuring observations from these gar- Primrose Way garden. Salisbury also has could afford to purchase a median-priced, assuming a 20 percent down payment and an interest rate of 3.89 percent. The dens, at high schools and various orga- been designing a pollinator garden as part existing single-family home in fourth- quarter 2019, unchanged from the third interest rate was 3.85 percent in third- nizations. She also distributes seeds col- of Rinconada Park’s upcoming renova- quarter 2019 and 4.95 percent a year ago. lected from the gardens. In a more subtle tion, collaboratively with the Open Space quarter of 2019. This is an improvement way, the gardens “communicate some- and Parks Division. Ultimately, Salisbury from the previous year when 18 percent San Francisco (18 percent), San Mateo thing about these spaces, that there are said she dreams of lining the rest of Em- of homebuyers could afford to purchase a (20 percent) and Santa Cruz (21 percent) engaged, caring people in this environ- barcadero Road with native, nutrient-rich median-priced home in the fourth quarter counties were the least affordable areas in of 2018. the state. The most affordable counties in ment,” Salisbury said. plants and involving students from Palo California were Lassen (63 percent), Kings At the meeting, Parks and Recreation Alto schools to learn about pollinators. Santa Clara County homebuyers needed a (55 percent) and Tulare and Plumas (52 Commissioner Jeff Greenfield praised the “It’s city land, it’s not my land, but I’m minimum annual income of $245,200 to percent). project as a “success story” of city-citizen willing to sort of change the way the qualify for the purchase of a $1,246,000 partnership. Other commission members tapestry of planting looks in this town,” countywide median-priced, single-family **** volunteered ideas for future pollinator Salisbury said. “And the more of the seed home in the fourth quarter of 2019. The Information provided in this column is garden sites, one member suggesting that bank that we can get toward the natives, monthly payment, including taxes and presented by the Silicon Valley Association all Palo Alto churches install native gar- the better it’s going to be.” Q insurance on a 30-year, fixed-rate loan, of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose dens as the Unitarian Universalist Church Freelance writer Laura Swenson can would be $6,130, assuming a 20 percent Meily at [email protected]. has done. be emailed at [email protected].
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Former Stanford standout Jennifer Azzi, one of the most respected and accomplished figures in women’s basketball, will be Local sports news and schedules, edited by Rick Eymer inducted into the Pac-12 Conference Sports Hall of Honor. Azzi made her mark on the game of basketball through a decorated career as a player, coach and now global director of the NBA Academy. Azzi led Stanford to two Pac-10 titles and the first NCAA championship in school history as a senior in 1990. The best player in the country that season, Azzi won the Wade Trophy, Naismith Trophy, Honda-Broderick Award, USBWA National Player of the Year Award and was named the NCAA Final Four MVP. The economics major was a four-year team captain and two-time Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All- American. A three-time All-Pac-10 performer and the 1990 Pac-10 Player of the Year, Azzi left The Farm as the school’s career leader in assists (751), steals (271) and 3-pointers made (191) Lexie Hull (12) was named to the all-Pac-12 team and also to the all-defensive team. Hull leads Stanford in rebounding and is second in and second in scoring (1,634). In 1996, scoring. Photo by Erin Chang/ISIPhotos.com. Azzi earned an Olympic gold medal with Team USA in Atlanta, under games for the third time this sea- All-Freshman. Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer, WOMEN’S BASKETBALL son and the first since late January. Lexie Hull is second on the team and is also a two-time FIBA World “We’ve been in a couple of over- in scoring, averaging 13.5 points Champion (1990, 1998). She played Conference tournament is time games, a couple of really close per game and leads in rebounding professional basketball for 13 years, games where it came down to the with a 6.0 average. She has reached including four in the WNBA, where wire,” Belibi said. “We’ve been able double figures 21 times this year, she finished her career as the league’s Stanford’s playground to learn from that and grow from including six of 20 or more. 3-point field goal percentage leader. that. If it comes down to it in the Hull often draws the opposing A member of several Halls of Fame, Pac-12 tournament, we have that team’s top offensive weapon. She including the Women’s Basketball Cardinal looking for 14th title in 19 years experience even as freshmen to get leads Stanford with 46 steals as the job done.” one of two players to start in all 30 Hall of Fame (2009) and the Stanford by Rick Eymer Athletics Hall of Fame (1995), Azzi was tournament than it’s had during the Sophomore Lexie Hull and ju- games for the Cardinal. Her 61 as- the head coach at San Francisco for he Pac-12 Conference tour- regular season. Still without senior nior Kiana Williams, Stanford’s sists are second on the team. six seasons from 2011-16. Q nament is familiar territory DiJonai Carrington or freshman all-Pac-12 picks, added 13 points Williams has 22 double-digit T for Stanford women’s basket- Haley Jones, Stanford remained each for Stanford. scoring efforts this season, as she ON THE AIR ball coach Tara VanDerveer, who competitive by getting contribu- “We had some real good spurts has led the Cardinal in scoring a will be coaching in her 19th tour- tions from several different players. of playing really well. Obviously we team-leading 10 times. Her seven Friday nament when she takes the court Freshman Fran Belibi had 18 can do better, but I’m really proud of 20-plus point games are also tops College lacrosse: Stanford at USC, 3 with her seventh-ranked team for points and nine rebounds in Stan- our team for battling,” VanDerveer on the team, and she averages 3.8 p.m. USC Live Stream Friday’s late game at Mandalay Bay ford’s win at Arizona State in the said. “We have great leadership on assists per game. College baseball: Kansas State at Events Center in Las Vegas. final regular finale, her best effort our team and they’re competitive. Defense has been a key compe- Stanford, 6 p.m. Stanford Live Stream, KZSU 90.1 FM Stanford (25-5, 14-4) has won in over a month. They want to win.” tent for Williams, who ranks second College men’s swimming: Pac-12 13 of the previous 18 tournament Belibi, who was 9-of-10 from the Hull also earned a spot on the on the team with 33 steals. She has Championships, 6 p.m. Pac-12 Net- titles, including last year’s title with field, had been limited to 32 min- All-Defensive Team. Williams, climbed the record book, becom- works a stunning 64-57 victory over Or- utes over her previous four contests, Nadia Fingall and Lacie Hull ing the program’s 41st 1,000 point College women’s gymnastics: Stan- egon in the championship. producing a combined 14 points were all honorable mention All- scorer earlier in the season against ford at Utah, 6 p.m. Pac-12 Networks Since winning its last Pac-12 and eight rebounds. She delivered Defensive while Belibi and Ashten Tennessee, and now sitting fifth all- College women’s basketball: Stan- Conference regular-season title in back-to-back double-digit scoring Prechtel earned honorable mention time with 219 made 3-pointers. Q ford at Pac-12 Championships, 8:30 p.m., Pac-12 Networks 2013-14, Stanford has gone on to Saturday win three tournament titles. No other school has ever won College wrestling: Pac-12 Cham- pionships at Stanford, 9 a.m., Pac-12 back-to-back titles and the last time Networks it happened was Stanford in 2012- College baseball: Kansas State 13. The Cardinal has never gone at Stanford, 1 p.m. (DH), Stanford Live more than a year between tourney Stream, KZSU 90.1 FM titles. College men’s swimming: Pac-12 Stanford is seeded third and Championships, 6:30 p.m. Pac-12 Net- works earned a first-round bye. The Cardi- College men’s basketball: Stanford nal meets the winner of Thursday’s at Oregon, 8 p.m., FS1 game between No. 11 Washington College women’s basketball: Stan- State and No. 6 Oregon State. ford at Pac-12 Championships, 8:30 Second-seeded UCLA plays p.m., Pac-12 Networks either No. 10 Colorado and No. Sunday 7 USC, No. 1 Oregon meets ei- College baseball: Kansas State at ther No. 9 Washington or No. 8 Stanford, 1 p.m. Stanford Live Stream, KZSU 90.1 FM Utah, No. 4 Arizona plays No. 12 College women’s water polo: Ari- California. zona State at Stanford, 1 p.m. Pac-12 In winning the title last year, Networks Stanford had the top scoring de- College women’s basketball: Stan- fense, the largest margin of victory, ford at Pac-12 Championship, 5 p.m., the best field goal percentage de- ESPN2 fense and blocked the most shots. Wednesday With Maya Dodson returning College men’s basketball: Stanford Hickey/ISIPhotos.com Amrbose Karen at Pac-12 Championships, 5 p.m., Pac- to the starting lineup, the Cardinal Junior Kiana Williams (23) has reached double figures in scoring 22 times this season. Maya Dodson 12 Networks will have a little more depth for the (15) recently returned to the Cardinal lineup. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • March 6, 2020 • Page 49 Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name 997 All Other Legals Notice of Default and Election to Sell. Statement T.S. No. 087186-CA APN: 137- The undersigned or its predecessor caused said Notice of Default and KOKORONORO 04-045 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE IMPORTANT NOTICE TO Election to Sell to be recorded in FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME the county where the real property STATEMENT PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL File No.: FBN663362 DATED 7/19/2000. UNLESS YOU BIDDERS: If you are considering The following person (persons) is TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR bidding on this property lien, you (are) doing business as: PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT should understand that there are Kokoronoro, located at 2361 Tasso A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN risks involved in bidding at a trustee St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF auction. You will be bidding on County. THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, a lien, not on the property itself. This business is owned by: An YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER Placing the highest bid at a trustee Individual. On 3/25/2020 at 10:00 AM, CLEAR auction does not automatically The name and residence address of RECON CORP, as duly appointed entitle you to free and clear the registrant(s) is(are): RIKI MORITA trustee under and pursuant to Deed ownership of the property. You 2361 Tasso St. of Trust recorded 7/21/2000 as should also be aware that the lien Palo Alto, CA 94301 Instrument No. 15325262 and later being auctioned off may be a junior Registrant began transacting modified by a Loan Modification lien. If you are the highest bidder business under the fictitious Agreement recorded on 02/01/2008, at the auction, you are or may be business name(s) listed above on as Instrument No. 19729936, of responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned 02/07/2020. Official Records in the office of off, before you can receive clear title This statement was filed with the the County Recorder of Santa to the property. You are encouraged County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County, State of CALIFORNIA executed by: GEORGE H. MARSHALL to investigate the existence, priority, Clara County on February 7, 2020. JR. AND EMILY A. MARSHALL, WHO and size of outstanding liens that (PAW Feb. 14, 21, 28; Mar. 6, 2020) ARE MARRIED TO EACH OTHER may exist on this property by FAULTLINE MOTORS WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION contacting the county recorder’s FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, office or a title insurance company, STATEMENT CASHIER’S CHECK DRAWN ON A either of which may charge you File No.: FBN663477 STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK a fee for this information. If you The following person (persons) is DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL consult either of these resources, (are) doing business as: CREDIT UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN you should be aware that the same Faultline Motors, located at 841 BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS lender may hold more than one Sycamore Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94303, AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, SAVINGS mortgage or deed of trust on the Santa Clara County. ASSOCIATION, OR SAVINGS BANK property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY This business is owned by: An SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE OWNER: The sale date shown Individual. FINANCIAL CODE AND AUTHORIZED on this notice of sale may be TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: The name and residence address of postponed one or more times by AT THE GATED NORTH MARKET the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, the registrant(s) is(are): STREET ENTRANCE, SUPERIOR or a court, pursuant to Section ROBERT MORI COURTHOUSE, 191 N. 1st Street, San 2924g of the California Civil Code. 841 Sycamore Dr. Jose, CA 95113 all right, title and The law requires that information Palo Alto, CA 94303 interest conveyed to and now held about trustee sale postponements Registrant began transacting by it under said Deed of Trust in the be made available to you and to business under the fictitious property situated in said County the public, as a courtesy to those business name(s) listed above on and State described as: MORE FULLY not present at the sale. If you wish 02/11/2020. DESCRIBED ON SAID DEED OF to learn whether your sale date has This statement was filed with the TRUST The street address and other been postponed, and, if applicable, County Clerk-Recorder of Santa common designation, if any, of the the rescheduled time and date for Clara County on February 11, 2020. real property described above is the sale of this property, you may call (PAW Feb. 21, 28; Mar. 6, 13, 2020) purported to be: 2330 PRINCETON (844) 477-7869 or visit this Internet ST PALO ALTO, CA 94306 The MAYVIEW COMMUNITY HEALTH Web site WWW.STOXPOSTING.COM, undersigned Trustee disclaims any CENTER PALO ALTO A MEMBER OF using the file number assigned to liability for any incorrectness of the RAVENSWOOD FAMILY HEALTH this case 087186-CA. Information street address and other common about postponements that are very NETWORK designation, if any, shown herein. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME short in duration or that occur close The Palo Alto Said sale will be held, but without in time to the scheduled sale may STATEMENT covenant or warranty, express or not immediately be reflected in the Weekly is File No.: FBN663761 implied, regarding title, possession, telephone information or on the The following person (persons) is condition, or encumbrances, Internet Web site. The best way to adjudicated to (are) doing business as: including fees, charges and expenses verify postponement information is publish in Santa Mayview Community Health Center of the Trustee and of the trusts to attend the scheduled sale. FOR Palo Alto A Member of Ravenswood created by said Deed of Trust, to SALES INFORMATION: (844) 477-7869 Clara County. Family Health Network, located at pay the remaining principal sums CLEAR RECON CORP 4375 Jutland Public Hearing Notices 270 Grant Avenue, Suite 102, Palo of the note(s) secured by said Deed Drive San Diego, California 92117 Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. of Trust. The total amount of the (PAW Feb. 28; Mar. 6, 13, 2020) Resolutions • Bid This business is owned by: A unpaid balance of the obligation Notice of Availability of Annual Notices Corporation. secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, Report Notices of Petition to The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): expenses and advances at the time Administer Estate of the initial publication of the The Marie D. Millard Trust SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY Lien Sale • Trustee’s Notice of Sale is: $212,249.61 If the HEALTH CENTER, INC. Trustee is unable to convey title for Notice is herby given that the annual Sale 1885 Bay Road any reason, the successful bidder’s report of the MARIE D. MILLARD East Palo Alto, CA 94306 sole and exclusive remedy shall be TRUST for the year ended December Deadline is Tuesday at Registrant has not yet begun the return of monies paid to the 31, 2019 is available for inspection noon. to transact business under the Trustee, and the successful bidder by any citizen during business hours fictitious business name(s) listed shall have no further recourse. at Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Call Alicia Santillan at above. The beneficiary under said Deed Ames Building, 795 El Camino Real, 650-223-6578 or email This statement was filed with the of Trust heretofore executed and Palo Alto, California. [email protected] County Clerk-Recorder of Santa delivered to the undersigned a for assistance with your Clara County on February 20, 2020. written Declaration of Default and Dominick Frosch, Administrator (PAW Feb. 28; Mar. 6, 13, 20, 2020) Demand for Sale, and a written (PAW March 6, 2020) legal advertising needs. Page 50 • March 6, 2020 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Sports ATHLETES OF THE WEEK PREP FOOTBALL Ready to step into the head position New M-A coach rooted in the WCAL tradition by Glenn Reeves put together a run-oriented offense hris Saunders brings some using many of the fly principles new elements to the Menlo- Speckman was renowned for. C Atherton football program. “It was a unique situation, a big The M-A Athletic Department transition and change,’’ Saunders announced Tuesday that Saunders said. “We emphasized running the has been hired as the new head football and physicality. It fit the M-A Athletics football coach at M-A. He has roots skill set we had. We ran a mix of Chris Saunders was named Mikayla Silverman Raymond Reece at the San Francisco schools in the smash-mouth power football and Menlo-Atherton’s head football GUNN WRESTLING EASTSIDE PREP West Catholic Athletic League, the fly offense.’’ coach. BASKETBALL having played at Sacred Heart Ca- He played collegiately at Linfield The junior needed to beat thedral, graduating in 2007, and in Oregon where he was a tight end under Steve Papin the Bears went two higher seeds for a The junior scored 44 points serving as an assistant and offensive in a spread-option offense. 7-4 playing a very difficult schedule chance to medal at the state and and had 26 rebounds coordinator for five years at St. Ig- “I’m an offense-oriented guy, a with a team that was loaded with meet. She accomplished just as the Panthers beat Pacific natius and offensive coordinator last football guy more than anything young talent. that and wrestled her way Bay Collegiate in the semis season at Riordan. He also teaches else,’’ Saunders said. “I will evalu- Saunders inherits two talented to a sixth-place finish with a and Priory in the finals to win history at Riordan. ate personnel and make sure play- quarterbacks in Matt MacLeod 5-3 overall record. the CCS Division V title. The M-A job is his first head makers get highlighted. I’m certain- and Raymond Price, who combined coaching opportunity. ly very excited to be able to work to throw for over 2,100 yards with Honorable mention “It’s definitely something I’m with the athletes M-A has.’’ 25 touchdown passes a year ago; excited about,’’ he said in a phone Saunders was planning to meet running back Thomas Taufui (509 Aniyah Augmon* Aidan Berger interview. “I feel like it’s the right the team on Wednesday. yards rushing in part-time duty) and Priory basketball Palo Alto baseball school, the right place, the right “I’ve watched a lot of film,’’ he five-star wide receiver Troy Frank- Malia Latu James Hahn community.’’ said. “I’m very optimistic about lin, who has received scholarship Menlo-Atherton basketball Gunn soccer In addition to those years spent on-the-field stuff. We’ve got some offers from just about every top Kate Milne Julien Hernandez in the ultra-competitive WCAL, special, talented young men. I feel college football power in the nation. Palo Alto swimming Menlo baseball Saunders was the special teams co- blessed in a lot of different ways. “I want to create a cultural ex- Anna Smith* Cole Kastner* ordinator for two years at Menlo These are young men who are very perience that extends beyond the Menlo-Atherton wrestling Menlo basketball College. He cites Mark Speckman, committed to football, guys who players, beyond what we do on the Kiely Tabaldo* Gavin Kitch the former Menlo head coach and love the game.’’ field,’’ Saunders said. “I want the Menlo-Atherton wrestling Gunn basketball current associate head coach at UC M-A won the Central Coast Sec- players to feel the desire to come Megan Tinsley Tyler Wang Davis, as a major influence. tion Open Division championship back and continue to contribute, to Sacred Heart Prep soccer Palo Alto swimming Last year at Riordan, in the first as well as a state championship two give back, and for young people in *Previous winner year of the program under head years ago in Adhir Ravipati’s final the community to be excited to play coach Mark Modeste, Saunders season as head coach. Last year M-A football one day.’’ Q Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com Across “Soy If I Care” — it coulda bean worse. By Matt Jones. 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