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4QThe AlmanacQAlmanacNews.comQJanuary 31, 2018 Local News M ENLO PARK | ATHERTON | WOODSIDE | PORTOLA V ALLEY Nonprofit hopes to transform Guild into arts event venue By Kate Bradshaw “Our goal is to construct or Almanac Staff Writer refurbish a top-flight, world- class, kick-ass multifaceted ay a visit to Menlo Park’s entertainment venue on the Guild Theatre and it’s Peninsula.” Peasy to see why people are The venue could be used for worried about its future. The events such as school plays, paint is chipped, the marquee jazz shows, comedians, author letters are faded and showtime talks, band or singer shows, crowds are rare. speaker series, and movies, he But the founders of a new said. “The venue will have a nonprofit propose to transfig- definite ‘by the community, for ure the has-been theater on El the community’ approach.” Camino Real in Menlo Park He said the organization has into a state-of-the-art enter- cut an option agreement with tainment venue. They planned the Guild Theatre’s owner, to announce their new orga- Howard “Sandy” Crittenden of nization and its mission at the Atherton. “We have the right to Menlo Park City Council goal- buy the theater, should we want setting meeting on Jan. 29, after to,” he said. the Almanac went to press. Go But the project is not a done to almanacnews.com for the deal, he noted. The nonprofit Image courtesy CAW Architects/The Peninsula Arts Guild. latest updates. is committed to getting a An early rendering of how a revamped Guild Theatre might be laid out for a movie screening. According to one of the venue on the Peninsula and founders, Drew Dunlevie of has chosen the Guild Theatre Menlo Park, the organization, as its preferred location. If One likely challenge the proj- — for example, acts that come play or a garage band night, called the Peninsula Arts Guild, things don’t work out in Menlo ect would face is the Guild to Mountain View’s Shoreline depending on what people was founded with the goal of Park, though, the group is Theater’s lack of a designated Amphitheater or San Fran- want. Mr. Dunlevie said the establishing and programming determined to bring the plan parking lot; any change in use cisco’s Fillmore for big shows, plan has also been met with a community-driven events to fruition elsewhere on the would likely trigger the require- or more regularly venues like enthusiasm by Kepler’s, which venue that can draw top-tier Peninsula. ment to add parking. Slim’s or the Great American could host author events at the acts to the Peninsula. “We’re not developers,” he Mr. Dunlevie expects the Music Hall, he said. site. He is joined in his effort by said. “We don’t have years and project to cost anywhere from “We think we can punch Retaining the ability to show two colleagues, Pete Briger and billions to spend to think about $10 million to $20 million in above our weight class on venue movies will be a priority at the Thomas Layton — “very suc- this.” capital costs, depending on the size,” he said, adding that he venue, he said, but added that cessful people by Silicon Valley The project is likely to require level of refurbishing or rebuild- hopes the quality of the new he wasn’t sure the theater would standards” who are also “very Menlo Park city staff pri- ing required, which would be venue will draw top performers, be able to continue to offer first- philanthropic,” Mr. Dunlevie oritization to get it through covered by the nonprofit. and “get those guys paid what run movies. said. the entitlement process. From The venue would be open they need.” Judy Adams, a Menlo Park “Fewer people go to the mov- there, Mr. Dunlevie said, the to the community to sched- But the venue could also be resident who in September ies, full stop,” he said. “Single- construction work would likely ule events, and he and his available to book for com- 2016 launched a petition aimed screen art house theaters have take a year and a half to two colleagues plan to book the munity events such as, for been hit the hardest.” years to complete. site with “top-flight” talent example, an Oak Knoll school See GUILD THEATRE, page 6 County floats sales tax hike for transportation projects By Kate Bradshaw limit, pending the development of a County is expected to increase by 26 101 and state Route 92 interchange, plus Almanac Staff Writer spending plan and voter approval of the percent over 2010, and the population of annual costs of $20 million for Caltrain measure. people over 65 years of age is expected to and $25 million for SamTrans to keep an Mateo County is considering San Mateo County is growing, state grow by 137 percent, Mr. Wolbach said. operations and equipment in a “state of asking voters to approve a half-cent and federal grant funding is limited and With the half-cent sales tax, the mea- good repair.” Ssales tax to help fund transportation competitive, and sure could gener- All of that doesn’t even include the improvements, a measure that might the need for trans- ate $80 million a behemoth infrastructure undertaking reach the ballot by November. portation upgrades The county is growing, state year, or $2.4 bil- costing an estimated $2 billion to imple- The San Mateo County Transit District and improve- lion over 30 years, ment the recommended changes Sam- (SamTrans) and the San Mateo County ments grows as the and federal grant funding is for transportation Trans adopted in December to ease con- Board of Supervisors have launched a county’s roadways limited and competitive, and improvements. gestion along the Dumbarton corridor. public outreach program called “Get us are increasingly But even a One question is how long such a Moving SMC” to try to gauge what trans- jammed, according the need for transportation preliminary list of measure would be in place -- whether it portation projects county residents might to a presentation upgrades and improvements the estimated costs would be 10, 20 or 30 years, or even in be interested in funding through a sales made to the Menlo of possible proj- perpetuity. Councilwoman Kirsten Keith tax and to develop a spending plan. Park City Coun- grows as roadways are ects indicates such cautioned against having a measure last A new state law approved last year and cil on Jan. 23 by increasingly jammed, funding would be “in perpetuity.” authored by state Assemblyman Kevin county supervisors according to county officials devoured quickly, “When you’re having a tax, you need Mullin (D-San Mateo) grants SamTrans Warren Slocum he said: $400 mil- to come back to the people that you’re the authority to pursue a half-cent sales and Don Horsley, joined by public out- lion for Caltrain modernization, $500 taxing and let them know what you’re tax measure for transportation improve- reach consultant (and Palo Alto council- million for managed lanes on U.S. 101, doing, and when you do something ments in the county. It allows the county man) Cory Wolbach. anywhere between $16 million and $160 to exceed the standard 2 percent tax By 2040, the population in San Mateo million to make improvements to U.S. See COUNTY TAX, page 6

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GUILD THEATRE preservation of the key element Councilman Ray Mueller, having continued from page 5 of the Guild’s history. It has a mix of entertainment options Atherton is back atop survived from its burlesque in downtown Menlo Park is “a at restoring the movie theater roots, silent films, talkies, and vital component of quality of life the most expensive to its former glory, garnering is struggling to continue to con- that residents want.” about 4,000 hard-copy and tribute to the community in the “I think it’s going to be a ton online signatures, said in an age of home theaters, streaming of fun,” he said. “I couldn’t be real estate lists email that “our petition’s goals, video and multiplex cinemas more excited about it.” By Barbara Wood and Drew’s nonprofit, it seems as are other historic - modest Councilwoman Kirsten Keith Almanac Staff Writer is more accurate because listing to me, can be mutually benefi- - moviehouses throughout the said the project could be excit- prices often do not match selling cial and possible.” country,” she said. ing. She expressed concern that t must have been a statisti- prices. She said that she’d like to see She’s put out requests for peti- the city already has a fairly cal anomaly — after just At is.gd/2017Forbes see the the theater continue to offer tioners to voice their support for lengthy work plan and limited Ione year of not being home full Forbes story. first-run movies, and that films the space’s continued operation staff, but noted the venue “would to the country’s most expensive At is.gd/2017PShark see the be offered as a key part of the as a theater, and several people be great for businesses and res- residential real estate, Atherton is full PropertyShark story. theater’s future. have already emailed the City taurants as it will bring more back on top of Forbes’ annual list. “I realize that change is Council expressing those wishes. customers downtown, especially Atherton was first on the Forbes list necessary, but I’m also for According to Menlo Park City in the evening.” A Forbes list of pricey real estate Midpeninsula cities on the from 2013 through 2015, but at Forbes list include: the end of 2016, Atherton fell to COUNTY TAX Weigh in Drive, Pacifica). third place. 1 - Atherton 94027, median list- continued from page 5 People can fill out a basic Q Thursday, Feb. 15, at 6:30 But the town is now back at the ing price $9.7 million survey, which asks respondents p.m. in the ballroom of the top of the Forbes list, released 3 - Los Altos Hills 94022, $7.8 in perpetuity, I think that to rank by priority a series of Menlo Park Senior Center (110 late in 2017, and is also atop a million becomes a source of irritation broad areas for transportation Terminal Ave., Menlo Park). different list compiled by the 4 - Palo Alto 94301, $7.0 million for people,” she said, citing improvement. The county plans Q Thursday, Feb. 22, at 6:30 PropertyShark website. 15 - Woodside 94062, $5.3 the example of the Menlo to close the survey at the end of p.m. in the council chambers of Forbes compiles its list each million Park City School District’s February. the Municipal Services Build- year by looking at the median 32 - Portola Valley 94028, $4.2 proposed parcel tax that failed Go to: getusmovingsmc.com ing (33 Arroyo Drive, South San (half higher, and half lower) list- million to pass in a May 2016 special to take the survey. Francisco). ing price of homes on the market 48 - Los Altos 94024, $3.4 election. The county and transit dis- According to Dan Lieberman, for a 90-day period near the end million “I know when our school trict will also host three more SamTrans spokesman, for a of the year. PropertyShark, which 60 - Los Altos 94022, $3.2 board tried to do that, it failed. public outreach meetings in the measure to make it to the ballot, had Atherton second on its 2016 million And it never fails here in Menlo coming weeks to gather more it has to be approved by Sam- and 2017 lists, uses the median 74 - Menlo Park 94025, $2.9 Park. But it failed and a lot of it comments: Trans and the county Board of sales price for all residential trans- million had to do with that word,” she Q Thursday, Feb. 1, at 6 p.m. Supervisors, and be submitted actions closed in a calendar year. said. in the auditorium of the Pacifica by a deadline 88 days before the PropertyShark claims its list See EXPENSIVE, page 8 Community Center (540 Crespi scheduled vote. A

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6QThe AlmanacQAlmanacNews.comQJanuary 31, 2018 NEWS Council scrutinizes new state laws on efficiency units

Q Is it reasonable to expect a tenant to avoid the without stooping in an imagi- “We cannot prohibit people to extend further along a roof. nary hallway running the from building units that meet Such a change would help, ceiling in moving around her apartment? length of the room under the the code,” Planning Director but the impact bears think- roof’s peak, but headroom Jackie Young told the coun- ing about, Mr. Mason said. By Dave Boyce decreases toward the walls. cil. “So the question really “If we’re going to end up with Almanac Staff Writer ‘I truly believe that The plan includes dormers becomes: What does the town a bunch of mansard roofs that offer two additional areas want to allow for a plate height because of this ... that’s not hen it comes to set- it’s time for us to with the headroom to allow and an overall height for these acceptable,” he said. ting up housekeep- acknowledge that standing. units that are allowed within 5 The town might not want Wing in the Bay Area, “To create substandard feet of the property line?” to prohibit such interior con- people on low or moderate times are different housing units like this is an Playing devil’s advocate, Mr. figurations if they’re meant for incomes often have to make do embarrassment,” architect and Mason imagined an applicant guests or children, Council- by staying with friends or rela- and we need to Councilman Peter Mason said. arguing that the height restric- man Daniel Yost said. tives, sharing an apartment or address this issue.’ “That is not a livable unit. Why tions are unreasonable when The town of Woodside, simply forgoing it and endur- would you build that bad of the goal is to construct a sec- Councilwoman Anne Kasten ing a grueling commute from a COUNCILWOMAN ANNE KASTEN, a unit that you’re expecting ond story. “I think the state is said, has “a crying need” to distant town. ON THE NEED TO ADDRESS TOWN’S people to live in? You’re talking going to say that a second-floor supply housing for adult chil- For people in such circum- HOUSING NEEDS about a side wall that is 5-foot- unit is a full-height unit,” he dren returning home, college stances, an apartment above questions as to what is and 6-inches high going up to 7 feet said. “It isn’t something that is students and people who work a garage could feel heaven is not livable, but it is a con- high (in the center). That is not buried within a roof.” in town. sent. In a 39-page memo cern for the Woodside Town a livable unit in Woodside ... Anyone could argue for an Referring to the floor plan issued in December 2016, the Council. and we shouldn’t be building 8-foot-high ceiling and the under discussion, she said state includes publication of A staff report prepared for that.” state could support it, Mr. that in her opinion, it was not new rules meant to increase a council meeting last month “This doesn’t work at all,” Mason said, adding: “How “thoroughly thought through” the supply of such homes included sketches of a theoreti- said builder and Council- would we say no?” for townwide application. “I throughout California. The cal efficiency unit that meets man Dave Tanner, noting the The building code does truly believe that it’s time for new standards address simpler the new standards and sits on absence in the floor plan of a allow habitable space “within us to acknowledge that times administrative processes, min- top of a 400-square-foot two- closet or anywhere else to store a sloped roof,” and the floor are different and we need to imum floor areas and parking car garage close to a property clothes. plan under discussion did address this issue,” she said. requirements. line. The sketches, prepared have input from a professional Restrictions on ridge lines Cities and towns responded by the Planning Department, Heights and massing architect, Ms. Young said. were a reaction to “McMan- in 2017 with ordinances incor- showed an exterior stairway Town regulations constrain “Although it is a very awkward sions in other communities,” porating these regulations, up to the apartment, a sloped the dimensions of accessory unit, it does meet the building she said. sometimes with local touches roof that peaked inside the structures near property lines. code,” she said. Town Hall has the skills it forbidding short-term rentals apartment at 7 feet, 6 inches, The plate height — the height Council members, she said, needs to revise the regulations, of these units, as was done in and eaves above the side walls of a wall from the foundation sounded as if they were will- she said. “To my mind, to Woodside and Portola Valley. that were considerably lower, to the edge of the roof — can- ing to entertain increased really meet this issue, we really But it’s one thing to establish enough to accommodate an not exceed 11 feet, and the heights and changes in dor- have to let the ridge (line) be a floor-area limit and quite adult sitting but not standing. ridge line — the highest point mer configurations, possibly higher, and I don’t think that another to set limits on how The stairs up to the apart- of the roof — cannot exceed including sliding scales that would be a travesty in this high or low to make a ceil- ment end in the middle of a 17 feet. Such limits, town offi- take into account the distance town. Three feet would make ing. The state’s memo did not wall, right under the roof’s cials say, reduce massing along of an accessory structure from a huge difference.” address aesthetics and livabil- peak, so as to accommodate a property lines, a concern in a property line. The matter is scheduled to ity. Would-be renters desperate full-sized door. neighborhoods like Woodside come back to the council for for secure housing might scoff Inside, adults of average Glens, where parcels are rela- ¶$FU\LQJQHHG· action on Feb. 13. A at local governments raising height could stand and walk tively small. Dormers could be allowed Districting committee goes to work What is Your Home By Kate Bradshaw Really Q MENLO BRIEFS Worth? Almanac Staff Writer Members of Menlo Park’s new six electoral districts that will Districting Advisory Commit- ultimately go before the City tee took the oath of office Jan. Council. 22 and laid the ground rules for In addition to taking the oath their upcoming work over the of office on Jan. 22, committee Introducing technology next month. members spoke with consultants The committee is racing from the National Demograph- assisted and against the clock to fairly divide ics Corporation about their Menlo Park into electoral dis- assignment and learned about local Realtor tricts in response to a law- the rules of transparency they suit threat the city received in will have to follow, including inﬂuenced home August, alleging that its at-large abiding by the Brown Act, dis- voting system makes it harder closing their financial interests valuations with for the city’s minority residents and informing acting City Clerk to elect candidates they prefer. Clay Curtin about discussions The city must switch to a district on the topic they have outside of on-point accuracy. system by the next election or be the group’s meetings. at risk of a lawsuit. 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January 31, 2018QAlmanacNews.comQThe AlmanacQ7 NEWS Tour highlights flaws in Portola Valley school facilities By Barbara Wood most windows are single-glazed, Almanac Staff Writer the heating and ventilation systems are “reaching the end of s the board of the Por- their service life” and much of tola Valley School District the school’s lighting needs to be Aponders whether to put upgraded, he said. a bond measure on the ballot “There are things quite literally in November, district leaders falling apart on this campus,” have begun showing the com- school board member Jeff Klug- munity some of the reasons they man said. say the district needs to invest in A report distributed at the upgrading and modernizing its meeting says the school has campuses. drainage and other flooding On Jan. 18, the school board problems, including an interior and district officials joined about downspout that has flooded a a dozen others on a tour of workroom and tree roots grow- the district’s two campuses — ing into drains. Some windows the transitional kindergarten no longer open and the outdoor through third-grade Ormondale passages children use become and fourth- through eighth- slippery when wet. grade Corte Madera. A major problem at the school Photo by Michelle Le/The Almanac is the second- and third-grade Ormondale School Principal Lynette Hovland points out an underused part of the campus on a recent tour Ormondale wing, made up of what the archi- to show what needs to be repaired or replaced on the campus. At Ormondale the school’s tect calls “permanent portables” multipurpose room, used as a installed in 1976. At least two built between 1961 and 2000. blinds for some classroom win- One proposal is to replace the gym, indoor lunchroom and per- classrooms may have mold. The dows (one is covered with paper; building called the Annex, which formance space, is suffering from report says the rooms’ roofs are Corte Madera another with bulletin boards); a is not up to modern code so can- deferred maintenance. “It is an also settling. “When the custodi- At Corte Madera School, Prin- malfunctioning alarm system; not be used by students, with a aging facility,” said Ormondale an goes up there to fix something, cipal Cyndi Maijala said, facilities poor exterior lighting; and mal- performing arts/gathering space. Principal Lynette Hovland. he feels them shifting,” it says. recently had to undergo emergen- functioning equipment and lack “The dream would be, the In addition to a leaking roof, In addition to pressing needs, cy repairs when mold was found of supplies for the science room. community would come here bubbling areas on the floor, door the district has also compiled a in the walls of several classrooms There are many drainage prob- and use that space,” she said. hardware that’s not working list of “like to haves,” including a and student bathrooms. lems, almost the entire school The district’s list of “like to and cracked plexiglass windows, kitchen space in the multipurpose The culprit, she said, was the needs repainting, and the school’s have’s” for the school includes the room’s tables can’t be used room big enough for an entire aged heating and air conditioning marquee falls over at times. better drainage for the soccer because the mechanism used to classroom of students, a much systems and drainage problems. Corte Madera’s multi-use field, a better STEM/maker space unlock them so they can be taken larger STEM (science, technol- “It looks like this beautiful, room, which serves as a gym, an room, better lighting and access out and then put away no longer ogy, engineering and math) lab, idyllic place,” Ms. Maijala said of auditorium and a performance to the outdoors, improved play functions. more storage, and a larger music the school, but when they looked space, does not have regulation- surfaces and student circulation, Many of Ormondale’s build- classroom. under the surface they found lots sized basketball courts. a refurbished amphitheater, a ings are structurally sound, said Outdoors, the school would of damage. The building, Ms. Maijala said, regulation-sized gym, replace- architect Brent McClure from like a better location for its school Among the problems are rest- “is neither fish nor fowl” in its ments for some of the older class- Cody Anderson Wasney Archi- garden, an outdoor gathering rooms that need renovating, current condition. “It would be rooms and a bigger art room. tects (known as CAW), the space for the whole school, and an including a staff restroom that great to have a space that could The Corte Madera buildings consultants the district has hired amphitheater. doesn’t always have hot water; honor the creativity and talent of were built between 1958 and to help evaluate its facilities. But The school’s buildings were lack of security cameras; no our students,” she said. 2000. A

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Supervisors deny Menlo Park’s appeal of Stanford project By Kate Bradshaw four-story structure with three 600 in this case — is still smaller university’s current, planned cobbled together some ques- Almanac Staff Writer levels of underground parking than the 858 the university has and proposed developments, the tions, and asked that further at 453 Quarry Road, is to be already gotten approval to build expected traffic projections fall analysis be done to evaluate the espite Menlo Park’s pro- the university’s new “Center for in that area of the campus. short of the maximum amount impacts the new structure might testations that a proposal Academic Medicine,” intended There was some discrepancy of traffic the university was have on Menlo Park traffic con- Dby Stanford to build a to operate as an office and in the expected traffic impacts permitted to generate in its 2000 ditions, especially along Sand new office building will worsen research building for Stanford reported by Menlo Park and by General Use Permit. Hill Road and El Camino Real, traffic in its territory, the Santa medical faculty, administrators county planners. Menlo Park’s Another point of tension that two adjacent thoroughfares that Clara County Board of Supervi- and staff. Stanford needed clear- Nikki Nagaya argued that the Menlo Park council members commuters would be likely to sors unanimously denied the ance from the county to shift traffic analysis didn’t fully take have expressed was that the proj- traverse when getting to and city’s appeal of the proposal — 115,000 square feet of develop- into account current and cumu- ect came as a surprise to them: from the new building. thereby clearing the path for the ment it had been granted from lative future traffic conditions The city didn’t find out about After the county Planning project to move forward. one area of the campus — nearer the city requested, and asked the project until it was slated to Commission approved the proj- Menlo Park Mayor Peter to Palo Alto — to Quarry Road, for further study. Santa Clara appear before the Santa Clara ect unanimously, the city of Ohtaki and Assistant Public an area nearer to Menlo Park County planners replied that County Planning Commission, Menlo Park appealed the project Works Director Nikki Nagaya and Sand Hill Road, though still they had done the analysis that the body that typically makes to the Board of Supervisors. traveled to San Jose to plead the in unincorporated Santa Clara Menlo Park asked for, but the decisions on such matters — and Mr. Ohtaki and Ms. Nagaya’s city’s case before the supervisors County territory. expected amount of new traffic that was only because Kristina arguments pointed to deeper on the morning of Jan. 23, ask- Stanford claims the transfer of didn’t rise to the level of impact Loquist, a staffer in Supervisor tensions with Stanford than ing the county to require Stan- square footage from one area to that would require the univer- Joe Simitian’s office, alerted Men- just this single building. They ford to make some commitment another is irrelevant because the sity to take steps to mitigate. lo Park Councilman Ray Mueller. argued that the cumulative traf- to mitigate the traffic the project main gauge of traffic impacts, The county planners told the At the time, the council and fic impacts of Stanford’s projects will create. the number of parking spots the supervisors that in their evalua- staff requested and received a The planned building, a new building will add — about tions, even with layering on the delay on the hearing, quickly See SUPERVISORS, page 11

TOWN OF PORTOLA VALLEY New fire board president: District NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING should look to ‘the next 100 years’ By Barbara Wood meetings, but said he’d make NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commis- Almanac Staff Writer them only if he had his fellow sion of the Town of Portola Valley will hold a public hear- board members’ consensus. ing on Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 7:00 p.m., in the ntering his fifth year on He proposed that the board the Menlo Park Fire Pro- adopt as its 2018 theme, “The Historic Schoolhouse, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley, tection District’s board, Next 100 Years.” “Having just California on the following: E Chuck Bernstein — who many completed the celebration of our times has been on the losing end 100th anniversary, I think it is ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE of 4-1 board votes — was sworn time to define our new horizon,” TOWN OF PORTOLA VALLEY ADDING CHAPTER in as board president on Jan. he wrote in a report to the board. 18.39 [CANNABIS LAND USES] TO TITLE 18 [ZON- 16. He suggested that the board It’s a time of many firsts, ING] AND AMENDING SECTION 8.12.010 [DEFINI- spend the year looking forward he said. For the first time in a TION OF NUISANCE] OF CHAPTER 8.12 [NUISANCE to its next century. number of years, the majority ABATEMENT] OF TITLE 8 [HEALTH & SAFETY] OF Four years ago, Mr. Bernstein of board members are not for- THE PORTOLA VALLEY MUNIPICAL CODE AND ran for a seat on the district’s mer fire service or public safety Photo by Barbara Wood/The Almanac A FINDING THAT THE ACTION IS EXEMPT UNDER board as part of a slate with Peter employees. The board now has Chuck Bernstein often Carpenter and Rex Ianson. The representatives from all four THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT wears his favorite “fire tie” to three slate members were elected, communities it covers (Ather- (CEQA). official district events, such as but the coalition has been far ton, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto this October “Night of Lights” from a voting bloc. Since his and unincorporated San Mateo celebration. (The proposed ordinance bans most commercial canna- election, Mr. Bernstein has often County), “and more gender and bis activity within the Town, including dispensaries and proved to be the lone wolf on the ethnic diversity than ever before each meeting, and sending all retail sales, but allows limited cultivation in certain areas, fire board, finding himself on the in our history,” he said. spending and budget items to the provided comprehensive safeguards and requirements losing end of many 4-1 votes. “We have mobility and envi- Finance Committee before they are met.) Mr. Bernstein’s relationship ronmental challenges that we reach the full board. with fellow slate member Peter have never before faced,” he said, One objective Mr. Bernstein Information pertaining to the proposal may be viewed at Carpenter has often been par- and “potential technology tools” had for his first meeting, having Town Hall Building and Planning Department, Monday ticularly contentious. At the such as drones and robots that board members vote on their December meeting in which did not previously exist. priorities for the coming year, was through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to Mr. Bernstein was elected board “Despite the name of our agen- shot down. Mr. Carpenter said 5:00 p.m. All interested persons are invited to appear be- president, Mr. Carpenter early cy, the vast majority of our calls the item wasn’t specifically on the fore the Planning Commission to be heard at the time and in the process nominated Rob are medical, not fire-related,” he agenda, and board member Rob- place mentioned above. Silano, who had just served as wrote. He also advocated that ert Jones said the board needed board president in 2016. The the district “establish an effective more time for such a discussion, Public Hearings provide the general public and interest- nomination received the support first response involving volunteer maybe even a separate meeting. ed parties an opportunity to provide testimony on these of only Mr. Carpenter and Mr. residents and employees” that At the meeting’s end, Mr. items. If you challenge a proposed action(s) in court, you Silano, with Mr. Silano having to will be ready in a major disaster. Bernstein announced with a may be limited to raising only those issues you or some- second his own nomination. “This will be the first year of chuckle, “I realize I often play the one else raised at a Public Hearing(s) described above, or “I have not infrequently had establishing a new vision of our part of Scrooge on this board” in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Com- opinions that differ from some future capabilities,” he said. because of his votes against dis- of my colleagues,” Mr. Bernstein Board members assented to trict spending, but he had played mission at, or prior to, the Public Hearing(s). said soon after he was sworn in that and several other of Mr. the Scrooge’s nemesis, Santa, on Jan. 16. “But I have pledged to Bernstein’s proposals: sending at a holiday toy giveaway at St. Dated: January 18, 2018 do my best to be sure that does more items to committees for Anthony’s Padua Dining Room Arly Cassidy, Interim Planning Director not interfere with any of the pro- discussion before the board con- in Menlo Park. cedural things we do,” he said. siders them, a report from the “I sat in one place without Mr. Bernstein did suggest district’s Community Emergen- moving for six and a half hours,” procedural changes in board cy Response Team (CERT) at he said. 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SUPERVISORS vote by Councilwoman Cath- used for non-academic purposes.) within its campus, and that the use decisions. He also made it continued from page 10 erine Carlton to rescind council “With great respect to Stan- university has adhered to that a condition that all contractors approval of another proposal by ford, we’d like to ask your sup- commitment. Stanford works with for the at 500 El Camino Real in Menlo Stanford to build a new office port to get them to engage in a “I’m persuaded Stanford fol- construction of the project be Park, its satellite campus growing building at 2131 Sand Hill Road collaborative discussion toward lowed the rules,” concluded required to sign a form indicat- in Redwood City, two hospital and annex the territory into the mitigating impacts in Menlo Supervisor Cindy Chavez. “Hav- ing they are aware of and will projects, and ongoing expansion city of Menlo Park. That pro- Park,” Mr. Ohtaki said, address- ing said that, I am troubled that stick to using only the desig- in the campus proper have cre- posal is now back under review. ing the supervisors. He charac- we can have such a big move nated routes to enter and exit the ated noticeable impacts on traffic Mr. Ohtaki argued that Menlo terized the university’s previous from one district to another campus to minimize the impacts in Menlo Park and are affecting Park bears many of the burdens responses as effectively saying, and not properly engage the sur- of construction-related traffic. residents’ quality of life. of Stanford’s growing density “Well, it was part of the (2000 rounding cities.” “Progress has been made, The revelation of the planned without the same boons in sales General Use Permit). Too bad.” In voting to deny the appeal, incremental though it may be,” building’s shifted location and property tax revenue that In response, Catherine Palter, county Supervisor Joe Simitian Mr. Simitian summarized. increased concerns over the flow to Santa Clara County and Stanford associate vice president said he wanted Stanford to make According to a Stanford web- cumulative effects of Stan- Palo Alto (though Menlo Park of land use, said that the 2000 it a policy that it will inform all site, the construction timeline is ford’s planned growth, and does claim tax revenue from plan’s approval was conditional of the jurisdictions that control for fall 2017 through winter was enough to change a swing Stanford properties in the city on not adding new vehicle trips or border its territory about land 2019. A

Kathryn Eluned Williams Linda Ann Harmon February 25, 1913 – January 1, 2018 February 14, 1955 – January 19, 2018 Kathryn Eluned Williams Linda Ann (Morrow) Harmon passed Grant’s mother arranged a skiing blind date passed away surrounded by the away on Friday, January 19, 2018, at Stanford for them in 1994 in Sun Valley. They fell in love of her family on January Medical Center in Palo Alto, California, at love and Linda moved to Grant’s home in 1, 2018 at the age of 104. She was active and interested in the age of sixty-two. Linda will be forever Menlo Park, California in 1995. They were the lives and activities of her in the hearts of her husband Grant, her son married in 1996 at the Auberge du Soleil in family and many friends until Justin, her stepdaughter Elizabeth, and all of Napa Valley and their son Justin was born her passing. her family and many friends. in 1997. Kathryn was born in Oak Linda was born in Seattle, Washington, In addition to her passion for outdoor Hill, Ohio, the first daughter of the daughter of James and Patricia Morrow. sports, Linda and Grant loved to travel Welsh immigrants, Reverend Her first home was near to Italy, Hawaii, South Robert Owen Williams and her grandparents’ house on Carolina, Costa Rica and Kathryn Ellen Williams. She Lake Washington where Mexico, to name a few of was the second of five children. her love of water and an their great family vacations. Her family moved from Ohio to Washington where her active sports life began. Linda and Grant spent the father became Minister of the Presbyterian Church in Walla Walla. Her family later moved to Oakland, California so that Linda spent her formative over twenty years of their she could attend UC Berkeley where she earned her BA in years first in Vancouver, marriage enjoying golf, Fine Art. British Columbia from ages skiing, biking, being with Kathryn married a fellow Welshman, CPA Ben Williams 3 to 8, then in Spokane, their beloved Pembroke in 1934. She became a mother to John Byron in 1938 and Washington until she was Welsh Corgi Hogan, and Roberta Jean in 1942. Ben’s work with the Department of 10 years old, and then her traveling the world together Defense took their family to live in London, England, for two remaining school years on with many friends and years and later to Hayama, Japan, where Kathryn pursued Mercer Island near Seattle family. Linda also enjoyed her interests in painting, Ikebana and antiquing. Kathryn where she graduated from being one of the Team was an elementary school teacher for 23 years, last teaching Mercer Island High School Moms for her son Justin’s at Las Lomitas school in Atherton, CA. in 1973. many sports teams, including the 2014 and Kathryn loved people. She was a devout Christian, shining her light and giving her love and support to all she met. For Linda was from the beginning a bright and 2015 Sacred Heart Prep Atherton Varsity many years, Kathryn was an active member of the Menlo kind girl. She loved to design and sew outfits Football Teams. Park Presbyterian Church. She was a charter member of for her dolls and cook meals from other Linda was a member of Menlo Church and P.E.O. Chapter LL, founded in 1946, which focuses on countries. She earned a first-class award in Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club. providing educational scholarships for women. the Girl Scouts and joined Candy Stripers Linda was predeceased by her father James Kathryn was proceeded in death by her husband Ben in and Young Life, which helped hone her Robert Morrow in 1987. She is also survived 1974, her brothers Owen Kerniew, Robert Willard, sister instincts for caring for others. She excelled by her mother Patricia Ann Morrow Moulton Margaret Butler and most recently her brother, Ambassador as a member of the Mercer Island Beach Club of Issaquah, Washington and her brother Haydn Williams. She is survived by her son, John Byron tennis and swim teams. Her introduction to Mikel Morrow (his wife Heather) and his Williams of Saguache, CO, daughter Roberta Allee of Menlo snow skiing started in the mountains around family of Sammamish, Washington. Park, CA and nephew Michael Garl of San Carlos, CA along Spokane at the age of 8 and peaked as she Linda will be forever remembered by her with six grandchildren, Greg Stevens (Lisa), Katie Evans (Neal), Geoffrey Williams (Erin), Brenin Williams (Sara), became a ski instructor for several years at family, close friends, colleagues, and people Morgan Williams (Sylvia) and Marshall Williams (Abby). Alpental in the Cascade Mountains east of she touched through her love, enthusiasm, and Her nine great-grandchildren, who lovingly called her their Seattle. As a skier, she always had some of kindness. She always tried to bring family and “GG”, are Kathryn Emma Evans, James Byron Stevens, the prettiest form on the mountain. friends together for the creation of many great Siena Stevens, Rowan Williams, Haydn Williams, Lindsey After high school, she enrolled and memories. Linda was thoughtful and generous Williams, Kailey Williams, Margaret Williams and Bridget graduated from the University of to all. Above all else, Linda loved Grant and Williams. Washington with a degree in pharmacy. She Justin. She reminded us all that love of family The family is thankful to Kathryn’s many dear friends then worked as a pharmacist in Bellingham, and friends is the most important thing on who remained faithful with visits and calls to her in her later Washington, which suited her well as a which to build a joyful life. years. We are especially grateful to her doctor, Julie Wissink, person who enjoyed caring for others. In A Celebration of Life will be held at Menlo MD, and her pastor, Frank Vanderzwan, for their amazing 1984, she moved to Sun Valley, Idaho where Church, 950 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park care and friendship. We will forever miss her love, graciousness, strength she managed to ski almost as many days In remembrance of our beloved Linda, and guidance, and will always hold her close in our hearts. of the week as she worked. She worked as the family asks that in lieu of flowers, gifts Kathryn’s Memorial Service will be held at Menlo Church, a pharmacist at Chateau Drug in Ketchum, may be made to Menlo Church, Young Life, 950 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park on Friday, February 9 Idaho until 1995. Sacred Heart Prep Atherton or a charity of at 11am. As fate worked out, Linda’s mother and your choice. PAID OBITUARY PAID OBITUARY

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Reflections on the rich life of a beloved character. Hit the curtain entering the stage. Now I realize it was Menlo-Atherton drama, English teacher his dramatic way of simply getting us to rehearse the material By Kate Bradshaw a multi-media Shakespeare play over and over.” Almanac Staff Writer during the summer of 1970. Born Buddy Lee Clements Mr. Clements was the kind in Texarkana, on the border of here was the time before, of teacher who supported his Texas and Arkansas, he moved and then there was the students’ artistic works, and at age 8 to Seminole, Oklahoma. Ttime after that day. Lee even went to see their shows He attended the University of Clements would thereafter refer in other venues. According to Oklahoma, where he received his to it only as “the day they broke Mr. Nelson, Lindsey Bucking- bachelor’s and master’s degrees my head.” ham, in his pre-Fleetwood Mac in theater. In the early 1960s, he In the time before, Lee Cle- days, was an English student of moved to California, living in ments was a brilliant and beloved Mr. Clements and once said he San Luis Obispo before begin- drama and English teacher at heard Mr. Clements’ distinc- ning his teaching career at Del Menlo-Atherton High School. He tive ho-ho-ho laugh echo from Mar High School in San Jose. shepherded two decades of stu- the audience at one of his early One day in 1962, he was invited dents through his productions, concerts. Mr. Buckingham and to a colleague’s home for dinner, many of whom were inspired to Stevie Nicks, who also attended where he would meet his col- pursue careers in theater. M-A her senior year, would league’s wife, Barbara Williams. One such student was Dency occasionally stop by Mr. Cle- The two struck up a friendship Nelson, senior class president ments’ classroom, much to the that would last until the end of of the class of 1970. When he excitement of his students. his life. Mr. Clements was gay, started high school, he said, he Mr. Nelson recalled that Mr. “but never closeted,” Ms. Wil- never thought he’d participate Clements always concluded liams said. “He never hid things in musicals or theater. But he his English classes before the like many people did.” had Mr. Clements as an English holidays by reading Truman In 1964, he began teaching at teacher, who encouraged him Capote’s “A Christmas Memo- Menlo-Atherton High School. Lee Clements, shown here at Montara beach, died Dec. 28. to get involved with the drama ry” aloud to his students. He would live in Palo Alto or His teaching career ended in 1985, when he was brutally attacked department. Ann Reinhart, class of 1979, Menlo Park for most of the rest and almost killed in a suspected gay-bashing assault on a Southern Mr. Nelson would later go on had been familiar with Mr. Cle- of his life. California beach. to be a theater arts major in col- ments’ legacy even before she got “In the early days, he was my lege and spend a 40-year career to M-A: “I grew up going to the mentor,” Ms. Williams said, never able to return to teaching. his old students had. as a decorated stage manager in fall musicals at Menlo-Atherton noting that he encouraged her Their friendship changed then, Later, when Ms. Williams Hollywood. and my goal in life was to be up to pursue work as a drama but Ms. Williams said she con- could no longer move Mr. Clem- “None of that would have on that stage,” she said. and English teacher, which she tinued to help him with tasks ents, he relocated to the Empress happened had I not met Lee Cle- “What set him apart from other would later do across the Bay in such as ensuring he had his Care Center in San Jose, and ments as a student,” he said. high school drama programs was Newark. He gave her teaching proper medications and balanc- their friendship transitioned Suzan Bateson was a drama the professionalism he drilled pointers. One of his practices ing his checkbook. But it was again. Ms. Williams would wheel student and close friend of Mr. into us. We rehearsed from after was calling his students by their painful for her to see him go him across the street to Del Clements who worked with him school until about 9 p.m., doing last names until they became from being such a vibrant person Mar High School to see drama as a student director. “He was our homework between scenes. friends. The exception, he once to “almost doddering” because productions at the same school smart, funny, and treated us like He sat at his table middle of the told Ms. Williams, was a girl of his brain injuries, she said. where he started his career. adults,” she said. With his direc- room as we awaited the dread with the last name of Fluckinger. They continued to enjoy mov- Lee Clements died Dec. 28 of torial services (hired for $1), she shout ‘From the top!’ when we “I think I’m going to call her by ies and plays together, and dur- complications from a longtime and Mr. Clements put together messed something up. Broke her first name,” he laughed. ing one personally significant heart condition. He is survived He picked challenging pro- production Ms. Williams over- by his two stepsisters, Amelia ductions for his students: Pulit- saw — “The Laramie Project” Carol Little and Linda Lea “There’s no place like home.” zer-winning plays and shows by Moises Kaufman — she Varvil of Norman, Oklahoma, like “No Exit” by Jean-Paul enlisted Mr. Clements’ help. She his half-brother, Dale T. Gray Sartre, she said. He demanded a said that play, which tells the of Oklahoma City, seven nieces lot from them, and they adored true story of a gay-related hate and nephews and 15 grand- him in return, she said. crime that resulted in the death nieces and nephews. “He was a lover of life,” Ms. of 22-year-old Matthew Shepard A memorial service for Mr. Williams recalled. He would in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998, Clements will be held on what travel to New York in the sum- holds many similarities to Mr. would have been his 80th birth- mers to take dance classes, and Clements’ life. day on Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. at he taught her and her son how to “For every one Matthew Bay Area Mortuary Services ski. He was constantly introduc- Shepard incident that makes Community Chapel, 1701 Little ing her to new literary authors news all over the country, there Orchard St. in San Jose. and plays. are hundreds that don’t make At the service, Mr. Nelson Then, that day happened. In the news. Lee’s didn’t make the plans to read from the book of Matched CareGivers 1985, Mr. Clements was in San news,” she said. Dylan Thomas poetry Mr. Cle- Matched CareGivers is nurse owned and operated Diego visiting some friends. Her students at the time were ments gave him: and has provided the best in home care and case While out at the beach, he was grappling with another local “Do not go gentle into that management on the peninsula for over 25 years. brutally attacked in what Ms. hate crime: the death of New- good night. Williams believes was a gay- ark teen Gwen Amber Rose Rage, rage against the dying of Our trained caregivers provide personal care, bashing incident. 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sharesSheryl Sandberg Facebook executive speaks from her heart to her hometown community

By Barbara Wood | Photos by Michelle Le

ot long after Sheryl Sand- School District’s speaker series. berg’s husband, Dave “This is my community and NGoldberg, died unex- my home and I’m glad to be pectedly at the age of 47 in with so many friends,” she told March 2015, a friend had to help the crowd, which filled every Ms. Sandberg figure out how available seat in Hillview Mid- to help her child participate in dle School’s Performing Arts a father-child event without a Center. father. “This community played such “But I want Dave. I want a big role in my recovery,” she option A,” Ms. Sandberg wrote said. Top Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg shares the stage with Menlo Park City School District Superintendent Eric in a post on Facebook, where “This book and this jour- Burmeister on Jan. 17 as part of the district’s parent education program. she is chief operating officer. ney was trying to take what I Bottom Ms. Sandberg chats after her talk with a student volunteer who helped to run the Hillview Middle The friend, she wrote, “put learned and share it,” she said. School’s auditorium sound system. In the background are Oak Knoll principal Kristin Gracia, Hillview parent his arm around me and said, and program co-organizer Singari Seshadri and Rebecca Chalif from LeanIn.org. ‘Option A is not available. So Sharing the pain let’s just kick the ($#!+) out of Ms. Sandberg was very pub- Cover: Ms. Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, spoke at Hillview on topics ranging option B.’ “ lic with her feelings after her from how to raise resilient children to the side effects of the “Me too” movement. Ms. Sandberg, who lives in husband’s death, posting on Menlo Park, co-wrote a book Facebook only four days after from us all in just 11 years — I She told the audience at Hill- Another heartfelt post she that was published last year she found him unresponsive on would still have walked down view that her public posts actu- made 30 days after Mr. Gold- about some of the lessons she the floor in the gym of a Mexi- that aisle,” Ms. Sandberg wrote. ally made things easier for her. berg’s death, she said, was meant learned after her husband’s pre- can resort, dead from a heart “Because 11 years of being Dave “It wasn’t just the loss of Dave for co-workers and friends. “It mature death, “Option B: Facing arrhythmia caused by coronary Goldberg’s wife, and 10 years that was overwhelming,” she was kind of a plea: Start talking Adversity, Building Resilience artery disease. of being a parent with him, is said. “It was actually the basic to me again. Ask me how I am and Finding Joy.” On Jan. 17, “If the day I walked down that perhaps more luck and more silence that was everywhere,” today,” she said. she shared some of those lessons aisle with Dave someone had happiness than I ever could have she said. “People were almost “The post did not take away with her hometown community told me that this would hap- imagined. I am grateful for every frozen. They didn’t know what as part of the Menlo Park City pen — that he would be taken minute we had,” she wrote. to say.” Continued on next page

14QThe AlmanacQAlmanacNews.comQJanuary 31, 2018 COVER STORY On girls, parenting Sandberg: How to help others and ‘Me too’ By Barbara Wood want to talk, but I’m here” if anything I can do,’ “ Ms. Almanac Staff Writer you do, she said. Sandberg said, “just do By Barbara Wood harder, than any other,” she said. Q Acknowledge that pain something.” Almanac Staff Writer “I think it’s so important that lasts. “Holidays are hard,” And know, she said, that it’s hen Sheryl Sand- would be remiss if I didn’t men should do it, too,” she said. Ms. Sandberg said. “It never not necessary to have a close berg, Facebook’s talk a little bit about girls,” “We’d be a better society if the occurred to me before Dave personal relationship to offer W chief operating Sheryl Sandberg told her percentage of parents working officer, recently spoke in Men- died, Fathers Day is for me, support. “People don’t have ‘I inside the home was not 4 per- audience in Menlo Park on Jan. 17. to this day, the worst day of enough people from first grade lo Park, she said she wants “It turns out the world is still cent men,” she said, but instead if year.” to take care of them,” she said. her book, “Option B: Facing being run by men. It’s really not half the countries, half the com- “My kids wake up know- “Show up, show up with Adversity, Building Resilience going well,” she said to laughter panies and half the homes were ing it’s their dad’s birthday,” food, show up with flowers, and Finding Joy,” to be in a and applause. “We need to do run by men and half by women. she said, and appreciate their show up with a hug, but don’t category not currently found better.” friends who let them know say ‘Can I do anything?’ “ Ms. ¶0HWRR· in bookstores. One thing that needs to change “We want our book to be in they must be thinking about Sandberg said. “We need systemic change, is the expectation that only boys and that means institutional him. Q the ‘Help Others’ section,” she Give permission to be will be leaders, she said. “The power of acknowledg- change,” Ms. Sandberg said in said, not on the “Self-Help” happy. After losing her hus- “Never say the word bossy,” she shelf. ing is so powerful,” she said. band, Ms. Sandberg said, response to a question about how said. “Your daughter’s not bossy, the momentum of the “Me too” Q She shared some of what Don’t say “everything will she found herself feeling bad she has executive leadership she’s learned about the best be fine.” Ms. Sandberg says she about being happy, until Mr. movement can be sustained. skills,” she said to loud laughter. “The thing I’m really worried ways to help those dealing used to say this to try to com- Goldberg’s brother told her That line, Ms. Sandberg said, with a trauma: fort others. But now she knows that Dave would have wanted about,” she said, “is this is going has gotten laughs all over the to hurt mentoring for women,” Q Talk about it. Don’t avoid it’s better to say: “I know you her to be happy. world. But when she says it and mentioning what has hap- don’t know if you’re going to People need “permission Ms. Sandberg said. substitutes “son” for “daugh- “If the backlash to this is men pened for fear of bringing up be OK, and I don’t either, but I both to cry and to grieve, but ter,” no one laughs. the trauma, Ms. Sandberg know you won’t be alone.” also to find joy,” she said. are afraid to talk with women “Humor is against expecta- alone, then the pretty abysmal said. “I know Dave died, you “It’s so much better,” Our society tends to espe- tions,” she said, and none of us can’t remind me,” she said. she said, “because you’re cially judge someone who has promotion rate women now expects girls to lead. have” is going to go down even “You can’t remind the woman acknowledging the pain.” lost a spouse who begins dat- “We really need our daugh- who you’re sitting next to at Say, “this must be so hard. ing, but they need that per- further, she said. ters to lead along with our Instead, all managers need work that she has cancer,” she Just being honest, not sugar- mission, Ms. Sandberg said. sons,” she said. said. “She knows.” coating” is best, she said. “Helping people to find joy” to follow the same guidelines for men and women. If women Just let a friend or co-work- Q Do something. “Rath- after a loss is important, she 3DUHQWLQJ aren’t taken on business trips, er know, “You may or may not er than offering: ‘Is there said. A “One of the misinterpretations of me that I always really hate,” men shouldn’t be either. If Ms. Sandberg said, is that her an executive is uncomfortable book “Lean In: Women, Work, taking a junior woman to din- Continued from previous page 3RVWWUDXPDWLFJURZWK she said. and the Will to Lead” was “tell- ner, then take junior men and Ms. Sandberg said she learned “I made it,” she said. “It turns ing women that they need to women to only breakfast or the loss, but it took away the iso- that it is possible to grow out there’s only two options: We work outside the home.” lunch, Ms. Sandberg said. lation because everyone started from trauma, and the result is either grow old or we don’t.” “I believe deeply that the work “Access needs to be equal,” talking to me.” People all over the opposite of post-traumatic “Every day, every birthday, of raising kids is as important, she said. A the world began sharing their stress disorder (PTSD) — it is those are gifts that not everyone own stories of loss, she said. post-traumatic growth. gets,” she said. While she has learned so get involved ¶+RZDUH\RXWRGD\"· much after losing her husband, How to Many people have no idea ‘Resilience is found by “I would trade all the growth, Ms. Sandberg has formed than $80,000 a year, or one in 10 how to talk to someone who has being grateful for what for sure, to get Dave back,” she two nonprofits, LeanIn.Org and people, has “food insecurity.” suffered a personal trauma, she said. “I can’t have that, but what OptionB.Org through the Sheryl “Administrators and teachers at said, including herself before we have.’ I do have is that resilience and Sandberg & Dave Goldberg our schools are recipients at the losing her husband. “If some- SHERYL SANDBERG that growth.” Family Foundation, with the food bank,” she said. “Economic one walks up to you and says, proceeds of her books going to insecurity is a very real thing ‘How are you?’ ... there’s just no 5DLVLQJUHVLOLHQWNLGV the organizations. here. We’re surrounded by it.” answer to that question,” she “Early on, Adam said to me, Answering a question on how The foundation’s website says And while her own local said. you should think about what to raise resilient kids, Ms. Sand- that Lean In “empowers women community provided her with “How are you, in our society, could be worse,” Ms. Sandberg berg said: “First is mattering. to achieve their ambitions.” support when she needed it, is not a real question,” she said, said. “My husband’s dead. I Kids need to know they matter Its programs “counter gender some may not have that same or at least a question anyone walked into the gym and found to you.” They need to know stereotypes and advance oppor- community to fall back on, Ms. expects an honest answer to. him on the floor. What could be they have a voice, and they need tunities for all women.” In more Sandberg said. But asking “How are you worse?” she recalled thinking. independence, she said. than 150 countries 34,000 wom- Ms. Sandberg’s family founda- today?” lets the person know But Mr. Grant told her it would “I think our generation con- en have joined Lean In Circles, tion has started the Dave Gold- you realize he or she is strug- have been worse, for example, if trols so much for our kids. Kids small groups that meet regularly berg Scholarship Program (kipp. gling to get through the day, she Mr. Goldberg had suffered the need to make more decisions on “to learn and grow together.” org/goldiescholars) to provide said. cardiac emergency while driv- their own,” do projects on their OptionB.Org “helps people build 15 graduates of KIPP charter Another thing she learned ing their kids. own, and should be allowed to resilience and find meaning in the schools with the type of support after her loss, Ms. Sandberg He was right, I could have lost fail, she said. face of adversity,” the website says. It most local students have built in: said, is that resilience — the all three of them,” Ms. Sand- Ms. Sandberg said she real- has 466,000 members, with groups a stipend for non-tuition school ability to recover from adver- berg said. “Resilience is found ized her son had built some of for grief and loss; health, illness and expenses, a mentor to provide sity — is not something innate. by being grateful for what we his own resilience when his injury; abuse and sexual assault; advice and ongoing support, Resilience can be built up, like a have.” middle school basketball team divorce and family challenges; dis- and a network of professionals muscle, she said. One thing she’s grateful for lost a championship game. See- crimination; incarceration; raising to help students secure summer In the early days after Ms. is just being alive. “I woke ing all the other boys crying, she resilient kids; and resilience. internships and jobs. Sandberg lost her husband, up the day I turned 48 with moved to comfort her son. “I Ms. Sandberg also suggest- She also suggested that local Adam Grant, the co-author of this overwhelming gratitude said: ‘Are you OK?’ He said: ed local ways to get involved, residents donate to districts her book, told Ms. Sandberg: that I had made it. In the ‘Mom, this is sixth-grade bas- including helping food banks. such as Ravenswood City School “You build resilience ... by early days my kids didn’t think ketball!’ And then he looked at “There’s real hunger in our area,” District, which raise little in understanding what it is, and I would,” because their dad me, and he said: ‘They don’t she said. Research suggests that a donations but have many disad- how we support each other.” hadn’t reached that birthday, know.’” A local family of four making less vantaged students.

January 31, 2018QAlmanacNews.comQThe AlmanacQ15 COMMUNITY

Time to register kindergartners in local districts School district Kindergarten registration for kindergarten (5th birthdays Sept. 650-854-5900, extension 0, to Spanish immersion program wants to hear children who will be 5 years old 2 to Dec. 1) and regular kinder- reserve a spot. must attend one of the remaining on or before Sept. 1 will soon be garten (5th birthdays on or before The Las Lomitas district information sessions: Feb. 12, 9-10 from public underway in local school districts. Sept. 1). does not offer transitional a.m. or Feb. 26, 7-8 p.m., District The Portola Valley and Wood- Call 851-1777, ext. 2652, for kindergarten. Office TERC Room, 181 Encinal A special meeting to hear side Elementary school districts more information. Ave., Atherton. public comment on the also offer a two-year transitional Menlo Park City School District Go to district.mpcsd.org/ Menlo Park City School kindergarten program for chil- Las Lomitas Elementary School Kindergarten registration starts page/331 mpcsd.org for more District’s long-term finan- dren who turn 5 between Sept. 2 District Feb. 1 in the Menlo Park City information, or call the registrar cial planning will be held and Dec. 1. Las Lomitas district registration School District. Registration will at 650-321-7140, ext. 5600, or on Tuesday, Feb. 6, in the begins on Jan. 29. be done fully online at district. email [email protected] . district’s TERC room, 181 Preschools Parents should bring the follow- mpcsd.org/page/331 mpcsd.org Encinal Ave. in Atherton. The Menlo Park City School ing information to the Las Lomi- starting Feb. 1. Woodside Elementary School An earlier meeting on the District is opening a new fee- tas Elementary School office, For information on the atten- District topic was held in October. based preschool, the Early Learn- 299 Alameda de las Pulgas in dance boundaries for district Parents of children entering District officials say they ing Center, in fall 2018 for chil- Atherton, between 8 a.m. and schools, contact the district’s reg- the two-year transitional kinder- are looking for community dren 3 to 5 years old with full and 3:30 p.m. weekdays: an origi- istrar at 650-321-7140, ext. 5600, garten (5th birthdays Sept. 2 to input on priorities and other part-time options. nal birth certificate or passport, or check the school locator map Dec. 1) or regular kindergarten topics. Go to district.mpcsd.org/ear- proof of residency (the originals on the district’s website. (birthdays on or before Sept. 1) Those topics include: how lylearning for more information. of two utility bills or a utility bill Proof of residency such as a should go online to find registra- the district should spend Registration will begin in late and lease or mortgage contract) California driver’s license or a tion packets. any property tax revenue February. and immunization records. Cell current utility bill is necessary. Go to woodsideschool.us. increases that are more than Woodside Elementary has a phone bills do not qualify as proof In the Menlo Park district a to find the packets and more had been budgeted; how fee-based preschool for children 2 of residence. child registered to enter a dis- information. Registration begins the district should respond years, 7 months, with two-, three- Families will then register trict school for the first time March 1. to local housing develop- or five-day morning options and online at llesd-ca.schoolloop. who will be 6 years old on or School tours for new parents ment and growth of Stan- afternoon care until 3 p.m. avail- com/reg and bring a copy of the before Sept. 1 will be enrolled in are: Feb. 1, March 1, April 19 and ford University; how the able. Registration begins Feb. 1. forms to the school to finalize the first grade. May 24, 9:30 to 10 a.m. Reserve a district should respond Go to woodsideschool.us/ registration. Students will not be The Menlo Park district does not spot by calling 650-851-1571. to decreases in projected Preschool/index.html for more placed in a class until all immu- offer transitional kindergarten. A birth certificate, proof of enrollment growth; and information. nizations are completed. An information session for new residency, immunization records whether increasing salary Adult-only school tours for and prospective parents, both and a physician’s report will be and benefits of teachers and Portola Valley School District parents of incoming kindergarten kindergarten and upper grades required before a child enters staff encourages their long- Ormondale School at 200 Shaw- students are on Fridays, Feb. 2 and will be held at Encinal Elementa- school in the fall. term employment. nee Pass in Portola Valley has 23. ry, Feb. 1, 6-7:30 p.m., 195 Encinal For further information call At is.gd/MPSInput find begun the registration process Tours are limited to 16 per tour Ave., Atherton. 650-851-1571, ext. 4003, or visit more information on the dis- for children entering transitional and one tour per family. Call Parents interested in the the district’s website, woodsides- trict’s website, or send com- chool.us. ments to [email protected]. —Barbara Wood

Road, but nothing appears to have been Q POLICE CALLS stolen. Jan. 24. Auto burglary: A thief entered a locked These reports are from the Atherton and vehicle parked in the 700 block of El Menlo Park police departments and the Camino Real and stole a backpack. Inside San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. Under were clothes, a laptop computer, a tablet the law, people charged with offenses are computer in a rugged case, a pocket knife considered innocent unless convicted. and several bottles of prescription medicine. The County of San Mateo’s Sustainability Academy provides NO-COST Police received the reports on the dates Estimated loss: $1,220. Jan. 22. shown. Thefts: educational opportunities to San Mateo County community members. Q In a case involving two unlocked PORTOLA VALLEY vehicles parked on August Circle, a thief Register for our offerings at www.smcsustainability.org/academy Deputies arrested a Los Altos man alleged stole two backpacks. Inside were a laptop to have rung the doorbell of a home on computer, swimming accessories, cloth- Antonio Court, tried to enter the home, then ing and a sports watch. Estimated loss: left in a vehicle. Deputies stopped a vehicle $2,470. Jan. 24. matching the description and made the Q Someone stole a locked bicycle from the arrest. Jan. 11. 800 block of El Camino Real. Estimated Possession of pepper spray: Deputies loss: $600. Jan. 25. Fixit Clinics encountered a Sunnyvale man on Willow- Q A patron of the Menlo Park public library brook Drive and arrested and booked him on Alma Street reported the theft of an Bring your broken items and we’ll provide a workspace, specialty tools and into jail, alleging that he was a convicted fel- unattended cellphone. Estimated loss: volunteer Fixit Coaches to help you disassemble and troubleshoot your items. on in possession of pepper spray. Jan. 12. $600. Jan. 20. WOODSIDE Q Someone stole a locked bicycle from a February 24: 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. San Bruno Library: 701 Angus Ave W., San Bruno Auto burglary: Someone threw a brick bicycle rack on Santa Cruz Avenue. Esti- through the window of a vehicle parked in mated loss: $500. Jan. 20. Home Composting Workshop the 13000 block of Skyline Boulevard and Q A locked bike was stolen from the vicinity stole two bags from inside the vehicle. Esti- of Alma Street and Oak Grove Avenue. Esti- Learn how easy and fun it is to recycle your fruit and vegetable scraps, leaves, and mated loss: $300. Jan. 22. mated loss: $350. Jan. 25. plant cuttings into compost. You don’t need a backyard to compost! Theft: San Francisco police, in possession Q A thief stole a package from the front of a gun registered to an address on Tripp porch of a home on Del Norte Avenue. Esti- March 17: 10-12 a.m. William E. Walker Recreation Center, 650 Shell Blvd., Foster City Road, asked sheriff’s deputies to check with mated loss: $120. Jan. 25. April 21: 10-12 a.m. South SF Scavenger Company, 500 East Jamie Court, the resident for the presence of the regis- Q Employees at Draeger’s Supermarket on South San Francisco tered gun there. They found no gun, depu- University Drive chased a man alleged to ties said, so San Francisco police recorded have been carrying a basket of unpaid for May 19: 10-12 a.m. Belmont Public Library, 1110 Alameda de las Pulgas the gun as “recovered.” Jan. 20. alcoholic beverages that he subsequently Shoplifting: Employees of Roberts Market ditched. The beverages were recovered, but on Woodside Road detained a San Jose the suspect escaped before police arrived. man who allegedly shoplifted an alcoholic Q In thefts from two unlocked vehicles Exploring Sustainability Webinar Series beverage. Deputies arrested the man and parked on Hesketh Court, a thief stole a booked him into jail. A second suspect cellphone charger and a Bluetooth transmit- Deepen your understanding of sustainability topics and gain practical escaped in a vehicle allegedly driven reck- ter from one of the vehicles. Estimated loss: lessly from the scene. Jan. 13. $75. Jan. 24. methods to reduce your environmental impact. Turn your lunch break into Suspicious circumstances: Residents of Q Police are looking for a thin white man a learning experience on Wednesdays, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Jane Road told deputies of their suspicions between 18 and 30 years old and driving a that someone broke into their home and dark gray Jaguar or Camaro in connection Please see website for additional webinars. took a shower, but took nothing. Jan. 13. with theft of mail from a residential mailbox MENLO PARK on Hallmark Circle. Jan. 21. Composting Made Easy: February 28 Residential burglary: Someone pried Stolen vehicle: A red 2013 Ford Mustang open the back door of a home on Arbor from a home on Terminal Avenue. Jan. 22.

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January 31, 2018QAlmanacNews.comQThe AlmanacQ17 ViewpointIDEAS,IDEAS, THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS ABOUT LOCAL ISSUESISSUES Should we impose limits on City Council terms? By Brielle Johnck Ten years seems a lifetime if we con- terms is that knowledge of civic history are invisible to us unless we see them s Menlo Park considers whether sider Facebook’s arrival in 2010. With keeps a city manager in check. In Menlo through the windows of their cars and to change from a general law city the council’s approval of our specific plan Park, however, we have experienced corporate buses. Ato a charter city and switch from in 2012 and the updating of our general a council and city manager sharing The question is: Can the same City at-large City Council elections to dis- plan in 2016, there the same eagerness Council that transformed our subur- trict elections, there’s another issue that has been over 2 mil- for office develop- ban Menlo Park to a jobs-center Menlo deserves to be included: Term limits. lion square feet of Brielle Johnck served ment, which brings Park now address the impacts of that Menlo Park is a town where the resi- office development on the Menlo Park thousands of office growth? Housing displacements, soar- dential turnover is experiencing a robust built, and another Environmental workers and coming rents, congested roadways, and the period. Every seven years, 50 percent of 4 million is on the Commission and has mute traffic. threat to our crowded schools are real the town’s population is made up of new way. The growing lived in Menlo Park Business vital- problems today. We are now on the road residents. Neighborhoods are changing. daytime popula- since 1971. ity and municipal to an urbanized Menlo Park, increasing New businesses creating thousands of tion of office work- prosperity come our population from 34,000 to 50,000. new jobs bring us new neighbors. ers in Menlo Park GUEST OPINION with a price and There’s no turning back. We are a town that is in the midst of and Palo Alto has both are a template Half of Menlo Park residents arrived in critical changes that need rigorous and clogged our streets for a city headed the last 10 years. These new residents are thorough analysis. Term limits for coun- with commuters for an imbalanced making sacrifices to live in Menlo Park cil members work well in Palo Alto and eager to reach highways and bridges. jobs center. Office workers looking for a by paying high rents or hefty property would be a welcome rule here in Menlo Once quiet neighborhoods are experienc- sandwich and a cocktail at a downtown taxes. Fair representation on our council Park. Our city commissions have term ing afternoon parades lasting three hours rooftop restaurant is not the same as should include new voices. A council limits. Monday through Friday. neighborhood identity and community member serving more than eight years Our current council, which has led the So, is it time for a change in thinking on spirit. Facebook, with its target of 20,000 can be more the problem and less the town into a new economic and cultural our City Council? Do we need term limits employees, exists in a self-contained solution. transformation, is made up of members or is the opportunity to vote a council campus where the needs of employ- The job of a council member is not to who have served a total of 36 years, with member out of office enough? ees — whether it be food, laundry or become a political fixture. We thank you one council member having been first An argument for allowing council bicycle repair — are met within the com- for your service; now a clean-up crew is elected in 2006. members to run for more than two pany’s walls. Most of these employees what the city needs.

LETTERS Raising questions about the death penalty Our readers write By Henry Organ and fairness of prosecution, jury selection but narrowly. Fortunately, the force of Dung and pony show n Jan. 8, the District Attorney’s and deliberations, role of the judiciary, Proposition 66, now law, was seriously Editor: (DA) Office of San Mateo County and adequacy of defense. weakened in a court decision. Congressional Republicans Oannounced that it will seek the Is this too arbitrary a process to seek the The two propositions must be examined remind me of the boy in the joke death penalty for an individual charged death penalty, given the finality of execu- at the county level, however. As opposed to about the eternally and patho- with the murder of a 17-month-old girl. tions? There is no “do over,” once “over.” state vote results, 57 percent of San Mateo logically optimistic little boy The DA’s office has described the act as “... Presumably, the decision to seek the County citizens who voted supported abol- whose parents decided to break an extraordinarily horrific crime against death penalty by the DA is on behalf of the ishing the death penalty! As opposed to the him of his irrational optimism by one of the most vul- perceived interests state voting results, 53 percent of the San dumping a load of horse dung in nerable members of Retired Stanford Development of the citizens. The Mateo County citizens who voted cast their his bedroom for his birthday. The our society ... .” Officer Henry Organ has lived reader may recall votes against hastening executions! These boy wanted a pony badly. When Indeed, horrific in Menlo Park for more than that last year there are significant results, but apparently not he came home from school his acts against others 40 years. He was a member were two proposi- significant enough for the DA’s office. parents took him up to his room is unacceptable in a of the San Mateo tions on the state Should the will of the county’s voters be to see his present and were hor- civilized society, but County 2010 Charter ballot regarding the disrespected by the DA regarding pursuit Committee. rified when, upon finding the should that society death penalty. One of state-sponsored murder? The DA has pile, their son jumped for joy, respond similarly was Proposition 62, stated that abolishing the death penalty “... GUEST OPINION dove into it, and begin throwing with state-sanc- which sought to would be a blow to crime victims.” With it around the room gleefully. tioned murder? abolish the death due respect and compassion for those When asked why he was happy Irrespective of the penalty; the other victims, the death penalty is not for the with the pile, the little boy savagery of cases, the public is faced with was Proposition 66, which sought to has- benefit of crime victims; it is the law of and shouted, “With all this horse the immorality of executions, and the ten executions. (Note that Proposition 66 by the people. In addition, more and more dung there must be a pony in role of the state in them. Should the state was strongly supported by the California survivors of murdered family members here somewhere.” take human life? How exact a process is District Attorneys Association, and the are asking that the death penalty not be Pony, indeed. It will take 40 this decision to seek execution in the first DA of San Mateo County was its president; sought. years to clean up the mess. place? Should DA offices be entrusted not exactly an unbiased position.) Perhaps the San Mateo County Board of and burdened with making this decision? Unfortunately, the proposition to abol- Supervisors should adopt a resolution rec- Don Barnby And, once that decision to seek the death ish the death penalty failed; and, the prop- ommending that the county be a sanctuary Spruce Avenue, Menlo Park penalty is made, there is the dubious ethics osition to hasten executions was passed, against the death penalty. Write us Tell us what’s on your mind by VERY REAL Print or online subscription starts sending your letters and guest at only $5 /month opinions to letters@Alman- LOCAL acNews.com. Or snail-mail Visit: AlmanacNews.com/user/ #PressOn them to: The Almanac, 450 NEWS subscribe/ Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306.

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File No.: 276235 The following person(s) is (are) doing TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Smoking or Pets, $7,000.00 Mo. doing business as: (ALM Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31, 2018) The following person (persons) is (are) business as: Petitioner: MEGAN STREICHER filed a 650 851 4464 MGB Mobile Car Wash and House EL DORADO TOWING doing business as: Parkinson’s Disease and Movement petition with this court for a decree Cleaning, located at 1169 Willow Rd. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Bay View Landscaping & Garden Disorders Center of Silicon Valley, changing names as follows: Palo Alto, 2 BR/1 BA - $5600 Apt. #3, Menlo Park, CA 94025, San File No.: 276198 Maintenance, located at 2730 located at 418 Willow Road, Menlo Park, JOHN SLOCUM NICHOLS to JOHN DAVID Mateo County. The following person (persons) is (are) Devonshire Ave., Redwood City, CA CA 94025, San Mateo County. STREICHER- NICHOLS. 815 Rentals Wanted Registered owner(s): doing business as: 94063, San Mateo County. 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If no Information is power and content is County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo This statement was filed with the (ALM Jan. 17, 24, 30; Feb. 7, 2018) County on January 17, 2018. written objection is timely filed, the King? Do you need timely access to County on January 2, 2018. County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo RIK (ALM Jan. 31; Feb. 7, 14, 21, 2018) court may grant the petition without public notices and remain relevant in (ALM Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31, 2018) County on January 4, 2018. a hearing. today’s highly competitive market? AUTOMASTER ABC TRANS (ALM Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31, 2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NOTICE OF HEARING: February 8, 2018, Gain an edge with California News CASTELLON DRYWALL 9:00 a.m., Dept.: PJ, of the Superior Court Publishers Association new innovative FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT UNFORGETTABLE BAPTISM, BABY File No.: 276341 File No.: 276347 The following person (persons) is (are) The following person (persons) is (are) of California, County of San Mateo, website capublicnotice.com and check File No.: 276190 SHOWER & ACCESSORIES located at 400 County Center, Redwood out the Smart Search Feature. For more The following person (persons) is (are) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT doing business as: doing business as: 1.) Rik, 2.) 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East Palo Alto, CA 94303 East Palo Alto, CA 94303 circulation, printed in this county: KC BUYS HOUSES 157 Arch St. Apt. #304 San Mateo County. THE ALMANAC Redwood City, CA 94062 Registered owner(s): This business is conducted by: An This business is conducted by: An FAST - CASH - Any Condition. Family Individual. Individual. Date: Dec. 27, 2017 owned & Operated . Same day offer! This business is conducted by: An LUCIA PAREDES /s/ Susan Irene Etezadi Individual. 625 Lakehaven Dr. The registrant commenced to transact The registrant commenced to transact (951) 805-8661 business under the fictitious business business under the fictitious business JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT WWW.KCBUYSHOUSES.COM (Cal-SCAN) The registrant commenced to transact Sunnyvale, CA 94089 (ALM Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31, 2018) business under the fictitious business This business is conducted by: An name(s) listed above on N/A. name(s) listed above on 11-12-17. Individual. 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