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Weekly’S New Online Classifieds at Fogster.Com Weweekend Eedition K L Y Vol. XXVI, Number 103 • Friday, September 23, 2005 ■ 50¢ Love, Off- Broadway style Page 13 Check out the Weekly’s new online classifieds at fogster.com WeWeekend eEdition k l y www.PaloAltoOnline.com TheThe PowerPower ofof PersuasionPersuasion HistoricHistoric propagandapropaganda postersposters onon displaydisplay atat CantorCantor CenterCenter PagePage 1010 Worth A Look 19 Eating Out 21 Goings On 27 Movie Times 32 Classifieds Section 2 ■ Upfront School fundraising group seeks more from parents Page 3 ■ Sports A look at the top high school girls tennis teams Page 36 ■ Home & Real Estate A spot of compost tea? Section 2 State of the art. Straight from the heart. When tests showed that Beech would need surgery immediately after he was born, there was no question in Vanessa’s mind that he would be born and treated at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. A world class hospital devoted entirely to the care of children and expectant mothers — all under one roof — right in her backyard. Read more about Vanessa, Beech and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at www.lpch.org. LUCILE PACKARD C H I L D R E N’S H O S P I T A L Page 2 • Friday, September 23, 2005 • Palo Alto Weekly UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis obtained when a backup computer “We want to air on the side of in- information for approximately IDENTITY THEFT hard drive was swiped from a room forming anybody who could be af- 5,000 patients, plus information for inside the nonprofit’s Palo Alto head- fected,” Joffe said. 600 to 700 present and former staff Identity theft scare grows quarters shortly after Labor Day. The agency kept complete credit members. The letter informs the donors of card information on all its donors up The Palo Alto Police Department More than 1,500 donors notified their credit card the theft and gives them informa- until a few years ago, but that prac- is investigating the crime, interview- information might have been swiped tion about how to contact credit bu- tice was recently stopped, Joffe not- ing more than a dozen employees reaus to place a fraud alert on their ed. The one exception, which was who had access to the room where by Bill D’Agostino credit files. due to a clerical error, was of ap- the disk drive was held. Executive Director Stephen Joffe proximately 200 donors that pur- “We hope to heck they catch the he case of stolen personal in- more than 1,500 of its donors this said the theft affected only approxi- chased tickets to their Summer Sym- person.” Joffe said. formation from the Children’s week. mately 8 percent of the nonprofit’s phony benefit, Joffe noted. The theft was discovered Sept. 7. T Health Council, which sparked The nonprofit recently sent letters donors. The nonprofit discovered the Last week, the nonprofit sent There was no sign of a forced entry fears of identity theft for thousands of to those donors whose credit card in- stolen donor information after learn- similar letters to patients and em- and so far, there is no indication the the nonprofit’s client and hundreds formation, including Social Security ing about the missing employee in- ployees. The stolen disk drive con- information has been used, Joffe said. of its employees, grew to include numbers, might have been illegally formation. tained financial and other sensitive (continued on page 9) SCHOOLS Another slice of the PIE Fundraisers say more money needed to maintain school standards by Alexandria Rocha lthough the Palo Alto public school district passed an an- A nual $9 million parcel tax about four months ago, the local school fundraising organization isn’t convinced the district’s budget woes are over. Stating that “our community can no longer depend on government funding to meet our education need,” a letter from Partners In Education requests that parents with students in kindergarten through 12th-grade do- nate $500 per child. Similar request letters sent out last year — though they asked for slightly less — raised Norbert von der Groeben $1.77 million for the district. This time around, PIE’s aims to raise $2 million. The letter comes after the Palo Alto Unified School District passed Measure A, an annual $493 million parcel tax that funds teacher salaries and small class sizes. Voters turned Kitchen sink included down a proposal for a higher amount Terry Austin, a deacon at New Sweet Home Church of God in Christ in East Palo Alto, installs a sink in a house next door to the church. The in Nov. 2004, but Measure A was home is being remodeled by members of the East Palo Alto church and Menlo Park Presbyterian Church to house a family recently displaced backed by more than 75 percent of by Hurricane Katrina. For more information on how to help, contact 325-1467. voters in June. This school year, the tax generated about $9 million. PIE’s directors say asking residents to dig into their Ojakian: UC needs to revamp suicide prevention efforts pockets beyond Measure A is a great, but necessary, challenge. Councilman prompted to action Adam had been a student at UC services throughout the UC system. “There is a perception out there following son’s 2004 suicide Davis. He said her report will be agendized that the district has $9 million extra. Mary Ojakian’s voice broke when when it is complete. Well, $7 million is already spent,” by Don Kazak she told the regents, “My name is “That’s at the heart of what we said Susan Bailey, PIE president. imple changes in the Univer- information, under the California Mary Ojakian. I am Adam Ojakian’s were trying to get at,” Ojakian told “We’re not above water yet. We were sity of California’s approach Public Records Act. mother. Adam died of suicide on the Weekly on Thursday. Nationally, cut really, really badly over the last S to students could have pre- He asked the regents to discuss Dec. 17, 2004.” some campuses have done studies, two years.” vented the “anxiety, resultant de- student depression and suicide at a Each had only one minute to and the Big 10 — major Midwest Bailey is referring to the increasing pression and suicide” of Adam future meeting. He asked the UC speak. The regents listened atten- universities — have done a sys- cost of the district’s class-size re- Ojakian last December, his parents, president’s office to develop a “com- tively. temwide study of how to improve duction program, as well as the $6.5 Mary and Vic Ojakian of Palo Alto, prehensive UC system-wide student After oral communications, UC mental health services. million in cuts made from 2003 to told UC regents Wednesday. suicide and depression-prevention President Robert Dynes said during Ojakian said afterward that he 2005 because of sliding property tax- Vic Ojakian, a former mayor and program.” his regular comment period that he was satisfied with the outcome. es, increased enrollment and the state current City Council member, also The Ojakians appeared at the has assigned Marcie Greenwood, “We wanted it on the public budget crises. The district also took made an official request for campus- monthly UC regents meeting in San vice president for student affairs, to record,” he said. “We know how $3.4 million from its reserves to by-campus suicide data and related Francisco Wednesday morning. conduct a study on mental health much is wrong.” ■ (continued on page 9) Palo Alto Weekly • Friday, September 23, 2005 • Page 3 @EDFLEK8@EM@<N 703 HIGH STREET, PALO ALTO, CA 94302 (650) 326-8210 PUBLISHER William S. Johnson EDITORIAL Jay Thorwaldson, Editor ReaderReaderWire comments via e-mail, voice mail and U.S. mail Marc Burkhardt, Managing Editor Jennifer Aquino, Associate Editor Literary input? I hope the kids and parents all M^[h[_dj^h[[Yh_j_YWbo[Whi"]_hbiWYY[b[hWj[ 8ZZi\[`k\[ Allen Clapp, Carol Blitzer, Assistant Editors Monday’s (Sept. 19) announcement know how much their efforts meant Keith Peters, Sports Editor to the three Hurricane Katrina sur- WYWZ[c_YWbbo"ijh[d]j^[di[b\#YedÓZ[dY[" Rick Eymer, Assistant Sports Editor that Kepler’s has a solid team of in- YpN8J: vivors who attended the bike-a-thon. @e)''+#k_\N\jk\ie Rebecca Wallace, Arts & Entertainment Editor vestors committed to saving the store WdZX[Yec[b[WZ[hiÆh[WZojeikYY[[Z Don Kazak, Jocelyn Dong, Senior Staff Writers Three weeks ago, those three people 8jjfZ`Xk`fef]JZ_ffcjXe[ is a great relief to the local community. _d^_]^iY^eebWdZX[oedZ$ Bill D’Agostino, Alexandria Rocha, Staff Writers survived through the worst. :fcc\^\j^Xm\>DJ Norbert von der Groeben, Chief Photographer Moreover, the formation of a board `kj_`^_\jkiXk`e^% Nicholas Wright, Staff Photographer of directors to oversee the store’s op- What a great experience to have Tomomi Tsuda, Photo Intern erations is a necessary step for a busi- one Palo Alto neighborhood deliver Tyler Hanley, Assistant to the Editor not only money, but also what money & Online Editor ness whose management needed Sue Dremann, Staff Writer, Special Sections some serious restructuring. can’t buy: friendship and hope. Jeanne Aufmuth, Dale Benson, Lynn However, I am slightly dismayed by I was proud to be a dad in Palo Comeskey, Tim Goode, Jim Shelby, the composition of the Kepler’s Alto and watch these children repre- Jill Slater, Susan Tavernetti, Robert Taylor, Contributors board. Readers and writers are the sent our community at its best as Aurora Masum-Javed, Patricia Bass, people who give Kepler’s its soul and they pedaled their hearts out to help Chuan-Mei Lee, Loren Temple, Editorial Interns I believe that Clark and the other others.
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