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New survey of Silicon Valley details Francisco’s growing tech sector economy keeps getting hotter” and wage and low-wage jobs, we’re leading the charge. Venture capi- to proclaim that this kind of growth steadily losing share in the middle. rising growth, gaping inequality tal investments spiked in 2014; the is “a thing to celebrate, surely.” “It’s as if the economy has lost its by Gennady Sheyner number of patents filed continues Yet the report also emphasizes spine, and this has important impli- to rise; median household income the region’s rising inequality, which cations for the kind of community ueled by a sizzling tech sec- dents, between its men and women and average wages both increased; pertains not just to different job sec- we become,” Hancock said. tor, strong population growth and between its white and black housing prices are on the rise; and tors but also to gender and ethnic- So what does a strong economy F and low unemployment, the residents, according to an annual the job growth rate of 4.1 percent ity. Black residents continue to lag with a fractured spine look like? Silicon Valley economy has grown report released Tuesday by the non- is the highest since 2000. These behind other ethnic groups when it According to the new report, it rapidly since the doldrums of the profit Joint Venture Silicon Valley. factors prompted Venture Silicon comes to income, and the gap be- means heaps of freshly minted but 2008 recession. So, however, have The 2015 Silicon Valley Index Valley CEO Russell Hancock to de- tween women and men also grew unevenly spread wealth. In many the income gaps between the re- presents a largely positive picture clare in his introduction to the Index in 2013. Hancock noted that even gion’s wealthiest and poorest resi- of the regional economy, with San that “the world’s hottest regional as the Valley is “proliferating high- (continued on page 10)

ELECTIONS Jump in mail-in ballots caused election-count woes Evolving voter habits, outdated equipment contributed to slow counts by Sue Dremann

ast November’s election- lots returned to polling stations, count troubles were mainly rather than sent through the U.S. Ldue to changing voting hab- Postal Service, grew from 30 per- its, with 50 percent of mail-in bal- cent in 2008 to 50 percent in 2014. lots returned in person at polling Simitian said he has heard anec- places on Election Day, Santa dotally that more voters wait be- Clara County Registrar of Vot- fore casting their ballots because ers Shannon Bushey said during they want to be fully informed. a special hearing by the county Bushey said that tabulating votes Finance and Government Opera- hits an inevitable bottleneck when

Veronica Weber Veronica tions Committee. ballots must be physically removed Bushey delivered a report to the from envelopes and fed through committee on Jan. 28 outlining voting machines. No existing tech- the problems that occurred during nologies are capable of automating the Nov. 4 election and some po- the mail-in system, she said. That’s entertainment tential remedies. The committee, Last year’s slow returns were Mary Hill takes a close look in the dressing room mirror as she adjusts her wig before going chaired by Supervisor Joe Simi- not new. The registrar’s office fin- onstage as Bobbi Jean Piper in the performance of “Junie B. Jones” at the Palo Alto Children’s tian and vice-chaired by Supervi- ished tallying vote-by-mail ballots Theatre on Feb. 4. The musical, which is based on the children’s book series, runs through Feb. 8. sor Ken Yeager, wants to prevent by Nov. 9. The five-day time frame the same problems from marring was consistent with past elections, the June 2016 presidential pri- Bushey said. Vote-by-mail ballot homework load and the long-term mary and following November’s counting was completed in eight EDUCATION goal of collaborating to avoid giv- election, the supervisors said. days in November 2012. ing tests on the same day. Logistics, under-staffing and Provisional ballots were com- Gunn is working on extending outdated equipment also contrib- pleted in 13 days in 2014; in 2012, High schools take action to hours at its test center this semes- uted to the slow reporting, Bush- it took 15 days, she said. Provi- ter so that students can make up ey said. Rumors that the abrupt sionals require that signatures and tests before and after school, rath- resignation of a key information- addresses be cross-checked by ease student stress er than the current options of do- technology manager a day before hand for validity to ensure that the ing so during lunch or a prep pe- the election caused the slow re- person did not vote twice. Provi- District superintendent directs immediate riod, Principal Denise Herrmann turns were unfounded, she said. sional-ballot voters are those who implementation of homework policy said Thursday. She said she has The registrar’s office had went to the wrong polling place or by Elena Kadvany also offered to bring in substitute 150,000 ballots — out of a total were supposed to vote by mail but teachers before and after school 404,000 ballots cast — left to tal- didn’t have their mail-in ballot. Ei- mid a fierce community Max McGee encouraged teachers to help oversee or proctor make- ly after Election Day, largely vote- ther way, they are then allowed to conversation about the this week to not give any tests or up tests. by-mail and provisional ballots. vote at that polling station. About A role that academic stress have any major assignments due When Gunn students register California law in 2002 changed 10 percent of ballots in November plays in the lives of Palo Alto on Tuesday, Feb. 17, the day high for classes later this month, they to allow permanent absentee vot- were provisional, she said. high school students, several ef- school students return from that will fill out a time-management ing by mail. Its popularity has in- While conceding the process is forts are being launched by ad- five-day weekend. grid with counselors to map out creased exponentially, transform- slow, the counting speed is in line ministrators at Gunn and Palo Teachers at both high schools their schedules of courses (and ing much of the way elections are with, if not faster than, compara- Alto high schools and the school have also committed to increased corresponding work loads), ex- conducted in the state, she said. ble counties, Bushey said, despite district in the hope of reducing flexibility when it comes to re- tracurricular activities and sleep. Seventy percent of the county’s Santa Clara County having one of the burden. scheduling or retaking tests, of- Both students and parents will be registered voters are signed up to the highest vote-by-mail rates of Both Paly and Gunn are imple- fering extensions and complet- required to sign the grid. Students vote by mail. Of those voters who any county in California. menting homework-free Febru- ing late work without penalties. actually cast ballots, 70 to 85 per- ary breaks, and Superintendent They’re also looking at reducing (continued on page 8) cent do so by mail, she said. Bal- (continued on page 9) www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 5 Upfront

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rate increase in each of the next four significant increase” and stressed UTILITIES years, followed by a 7 percent hike the need to clearly communicate in 2020. In 2016, this will add $2.64 to customers the reasons. to a residential bill. Jon Abends- “I think there is a need to ex- chein, a senior resource planner, said plain it in terms that people un- Years of rate increases projected the rising rates are associated with derstand quickly,” Chang said. improvements that Palo Alto and its Commissioners also lauded for Palo Alto utilities partners in the region are making to staff’s work on keeping the local the Regional Water Quality Treat- infrastructure up to date. Com- Water, gas and wastewater rates all set to go up in July ment Plant. The city has recently missioner Steve Eglash praised the embarked on the design of a new fa- city’s “continued commitment and by Gennady Sheyner cility that would allow it to retire the dedication to capital improvement” fter holding steady this in front of the Utilities Advisory for the water utility. Staff is pro- existing sludge-burning incinerators. and said it should be a “source of year, Palo Alto’s utility Commission, staff attributed the jecting a 3 percent increase in “We’ve done an exemplary job pride to all utilities staff and every- Abills are about to embark increases largely to infrastructure fiscal year 2016, followed by four in continuing to invest in our infra- one who lives in the city. on an upward climb. projects, many of which extend consecutive years of 4 percent structure, and we’re making sure “Unlike most of our nation’s in- The city is planning to increase far beyond Palo Alto. Higher wa- increases. Staff attributed this to we maintain a safe system and don’t frastructure, our utilities infrastruc- its gas, water and wastewater ter bills, for instance, are driven both PG&E’s ongoing effort to leave infrastructure investments ture in Palo Alto is being conscien- rates to help pay for a series of re- primarily by the gradually rising upgrade its gas pipelines and to undone for future ratepayers,” tiously managed,” Eglash said. gional infrastructure projects re- cost of buying water wholesale the city’s own program in replac- Abendschein told the Utilities Ad- Commissioner James Cook was lating to these utilities, according from the San Francisco Public ing gas mains. Because the city visory Commission. “This forecast particularly pleased about the elec- to a presentation that the Utilities Utilities Commission (SFPUC). uses PG&E’s pipelines to trans- assumes we’ll continue to do that.” tric rates, which staff noted remain Advisory Commission heard on The SFPUC, which draws its port its gas, it is being charged The rate hikes are by no means among the lowest in the state and Wednesday night. In addition, the water from the Hetch Hetchy sys- higher transportation costs. Utili- limited to this year. According to well below those charged by PG&E. city’s refuse rate is projected to tem, is in the midst of a multi-year ties staff expects these costs to staff’s projections, the 5 percent in- This is particularly notable, he ob- go up by 9 percent. program to refurbish and upgrade nearly double in fiscal year 2016, crease in this year’s bill would then served, because of the city’s gradual On the bright side for local the reservoirs and pipelines that according to Eric Keniston, a de- be followed by three straight years switch to clean-energy sources, an customers, electricity rates are make up the system. Like the oth- partment resource planner. of 6 percent increases and then a 4 effort that hit a milestone last year expected to stay flat in the com- er two dozen or so cities that get In addition, the city’s own cap- percent increase. When combined, when the city adopted a “carbon- ing year, continuing a trend of their water from the SFPUC, Palo ital-improvement costs are pro- these projected increases in the neutral” electric portfolio. stability that began in 2009. Alto is contributing to the cost of jected to be $450,000 more than various utilities would add a total of “We’ve adopted a carbon-neu- When combined, the projected the infrastructure renovation. As a previously expected because of a $52.56 to the median bill by 2020. tral portfolio, we’ve gone beyond hikes in gas, water, wastewater and result, staff is projecting 7 percent hotter construction climate, which Commissioners accepted staff’s state requirements for renewable refuse rates would increase the me- increases in water rates in each of results in higher bids. Keniston explanations, though some won- energy, and yet over the same dian monthly bill by about 6 per- the next four fiscal years, followed said the cost of main installation dered if it would be possible to time, in the last few years, we cent, or about $12.60, in fiscal year by a 3 percent increase in 2020. has gone up by 25 to 50 percent. find a way to have at least one year had zero percent rate increases, 2016, which begins on July 1. Cur- The gas utility is also projected The wastewater rates, which make in which the bills don’t go up at including this year,” Cook said. Q rently, the median bill is $218.45, ac- to go through years of increases, up a relatively small portion of the all (much like this year). Commis- Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner cording to the Utilities Department. though in terms of percentages overall bill, will undergo a similar sioner Audrey Chang called the can be emailed at gsheyner@ At a Wednesday presentation the hikes are more modest than rise. 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Google’s decision, the company to run you out of town.” TECHNOLOGY announced a week ago its plan to These hurdles did little to de- bring fiber networks to cities on ter the council. Council mem- the other side of the country, in- bers agreed that a fully built-out cluding Atlanta, Charlotte, Nash- fiber system would be a useful Palo Alto council eager ville and Raleigh-Durham. and valuable public utility. Some Jonathan Reichental, Palo likened it to other city-owned to expand city’s fiber network Alto’s chief information officer, utilities, including gas, water and said Google has informed the city electricity, and made a case for While waiting for Google, city embarks on its own plan for citywide high-speed Internet that Palo Alto is “very much in moving ahead with a municipal the running.” But given the un- system regardless of what Google by Gennady Sheyner certainty over Google’s decision decides. fter more than a decade all over the map, including Austin, neering study; designing the net- and the 18 years that Palo Alto has “I think you can make a pretty of big dreams and bigger Texas; Provo, Utah; Kansas City, work; and offering a recommen- already spent mulling a fiber net- strong case that this stuff, especially Adisappointments, Palo Alto Missouri; Chattanooga, Tennes- dation about the feasibility of a work, Councilwoman Liz Kniss the physical infrastructure, is a natu- officials on Monday resurrected see; and Lafayette, Louisiana. Fiber to the Premise Network and spoke for all her colleagues when ral monopoly and probably a public their plan to deliver ultra-high- With Palo Alto’s economy now the best business model to pursue. she argued that it’s time to act. good, and we should probably own speed Internet to the city’s mass- thriving and the city’s Fiber Optic One option is the retail model, “I think it would be embarrass- it,” Councilman Eric Filseth said. es when they approved a pair of Fund enjoying a healthy uptick, in which the city provides services ing if we didn’t move forward,” Several members of a citizen contracts that could pave the way the council voted 7-0, with Pat directly to the community, accord- Kniss said Monday. “We’ve been advisory committee advocated for for the long-awaited “fiber to the Burt and Cory Wolbach absent, ing to Jim Fleming, a senior man- talking about this for two years a locally owned system over one premise” system. to approve two contracts total- ager at the city’s Utilities Depart- and one month since I’ve been built by Google. Andy Poggio said The effort, which entails expand- ing $276,594 for the creation of a ment. Then there’s the “wholesale” back on the council. We need to he can’t think of one successful ing the city’s existing 41-mile fiber- Fiber to the Premise master plan option, in which the city owns the move in some direction. large telecommunication company optic network and giving residents and a companion plan focusing infrastructure and then invites In- “I think this is the right direc- that “had the opportunity to abuse and businesses throughout the city on wireless services. The funds ternet service providers to use the tion, but I think this is the only monopoly power and didn’t take gigabit-speed Internet access, has would come out of the city’s Fiber network to offer their services. The way we’ll find out whether or not advantage of that opportunity.” been flickering on and off for years. Optic Fund, which draws money new study will evaluate the pros we’re heading in the right direc- Richard Brand made a similar Despite strong enthusiasm from from the large commercial cus- and cons of both models. tion,” she said. case for a municipal network. council members past and present, tomers that currently use the city’s Even as the city is laying the One of the major challenges “We want to control it,” Brand the project has been chronically dark-fiber network and which now groundwork for a municipal sys- of Palo Alto’s new venture will said. “Let’s treat Fiber to the Prem- beset by woes and setbacks. These totals about $18 million. tem, it remains in the running for be competing for customers with ise like we treat our utilities and included the economic downturn, The plan is to be completed in a fiber-optic network installed incumbent carriers of high-speed not turn it over to a third party.” unfavorable economic projections May, after which the council will by Google. The tech company Internet, namely Comcast and Councilman Tom DuBois and deep uncertainty over whether have to decide whether to proceed announced a year ago its plan to AT&T. Fleming said any new- agreed and said that while Google and how the network will actually with the project and, if so, which bring Google Fiber to 34 com- comer looking to challenge the Fiber may ultimately be an op- work. The city’s last promising ef- business model to adopt for the munities, including five in the incumbent carriers needs to have tion, “I don’t think we should be fort fell apart in January 2009 af- newly expanded municipal util- Silicon Valley. Palo Alto made the a good marketing and customer- waiting on Google.” ter a consortium of Internet firms ity. Under the contracts, the firm cut, along with Mountain View, acquisition plan. He also observed that other cit- commissioned to build the new Columbia Telecommunications is Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and San “You have to know the market,” ies, including Lafayette, Louisi- $44-million system saw its funding charged with assessing the city’s Jose. The company has initially he said. “And the incumbents are ana, overcame the hurdles thrown collapse in the global recession and infrastructure; evaluating the im- said it would make a decision really going to come after you. at them by the incumbent carriers requested a public subsidy, which pacts the system would have on by the end of 2014, but that self- They just will. That’s the name of in adopting their fiber systems. the City Council refused to make. the city’s right-of-way and utility declared deadline had come and the game. They’re very good at do- “Those cities stood up to incum- Since then, Palo Alto’s Internet equipment; analyzing the network gone without any announcement. ing this. They have a lot of practice bents, and it paid off,” DuBois said. dream has been realized in cities requirements; preparing an engi- While Silicon Valley awaits at this point, and they will attempt “It’s time for us to move forward.” Q www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 7 Upfront

grading, test retakes and make-up establish deadlines, due dates for School work to “assure they are consistent projects/assignments, and tests News Digest (continued from page 5) with evidence-based practices.” in an effort to minimize student The letter also invites students to over-extension.” Sutter, Blue Shield come to agreement who choose multiple Advanced provide further feedback through In his conversations with stu- Health care provider Sutter Health and insurance company Blue Placement (AP) and/or honors an online Google survey. dents and parents, McGee said, Shield of California have finalized a new two-year contract, accord- classes will have to meet, along In the letter, Diorio reinforced having multiple assignments or ing to an announcement Jan. 30 by Sutter Health. with their parents, or talk on the an idea voiced by many students tests on the same days is one of Following the agreement, patients at Sutter Health facilities, which phone with school staff about the at an emotional school board the “biggest stressors” for stu- include Palo Alto Medical Foundation locations, will experience no schedule, Herrmann said. Doing meeting last week, following a dents. He recognized that some lapse in coverage. The agreement will honor all Blue Shield pro- so aligns with a proposal from Gunn senior’s suicide the week- schools try to use master calen- grams that Sutter has accepted in the past and include HMO, PPO McGee to identify a more “re- end before: Academic stress is a dars and others designate specif- and Covered California products. fined approval process” for such problem, but not the problem. ic days for specific subjects (for Hundreds of thousands of people were told that they would need to course loads, she added. However, she wrote, “At Paly, example, mathematics tests and switch doctors due to a contract dispute between Sutter Health and Many students and parents there are many people who believe projects are always due on Mon- Blue Shield. The letters informed patients that they could continue have suggested in recent weeks we have the power to take small days) but said that making the using Sutter providers until June 30, with some possible increase in that Gunn should adopt a block steps to reduce academic stress time for departments to commu- out-of-pocket costs, and after June 30, if no new contact was reached, schedule, under which classes and create opportunities for our nicate and coordinate on schedul- Sutter would become an out-of-network provider and out-of-pocket meet less frequently but for lon- students to take a well-deserved ing is “a significant challenge.” costs would increase substantially. ger periods of time. The block break from the daily grind.” “This problem may be the most The new agreement continues to call for arbitration of all disputes, schedule would also allow week- difficult to solve, but I am confi- “leaving language unchanged that has been in place between Sutter ly chunks of time for students to egulating homework has dent we can do it,” he wrote. have free tutorial periods and for risen to the top of the McGee highlighted another Health and Blue Shield for many years,” according to the press release. Q — Palo Alto Weekly Staff teachers to collaborate. R district’s priorities, with administrative regulation direct- Paly switched to a block sched- McGee requiring all district fac- ed at teachers, noting it is one of ule several years ago, and the ulty and staff this week to take several that are “required, and Priorities: land use, health, infrastructure administration has claimed it’s immediate steps to review and not just encouraged”: “Monitor A new year brought a new cast and a new philosophy to the Palo improved student mental health, follow the district’s homework homework time requirements Alto City Council, but the chronically pressing issues of land use eased homework loads and boost- policy. The policy, adopted in and feasibility of assignments us- and transportation will continue to draw the lion’s share of attention ed teacher collaboration. 2012, mandates limits on home- ing student assignments, student at City Hall in 2015 under a strategy that the council adopted at a Herrmann said that Gunn will work amounts — 10 minutes per feedback, and parent feedback.” retreat Jan. 31. be re-convening this spring an grade per night, with the excep- Teachers at both Paly and Gunn The two hot-button topics were linked by the council into a single “alternate schedule committee” tion of AP and honors classes in have begun asking students to log priority, “The built environment: multi-modal transportation, park- that met for several months last high school — but has reportedly the amount of time assignments ing and livability.” The council’s 2015 priority list, as decided at the year but then was derailed by been implemented unevenly. In a take to complete, many simply by retreat, also includes infrastructure strategy and implementation; leadership changes at the school. memo, McGee has asked all prin- adding a line on physical assign- healthy city/healthy community; and the completion of the Compre- The committee will do research, cipals to work with their staffs to ment sheets to write it down. Her- hensive Plan update, with “increased focus from council.” site visits and select a schedule by develop a plan to ensure the poli- rmann has also asked Gunn fac- Mayor Karen Holman and Councilwoman Liz Kniss both lobbied December, with the new schedule cy is implemented. ulty to input the amount of time hard for the “healthy city” priority, for which Holman has also ar- expected to go into effect in the fall Though the strong direction re- they expect assignments to take gued in prior years. This time, the suggestion carried by a 6-3 vote, of 2016. However, a growing num- garding homework comes in the on Schoology, the district’s online with Councilmen Eric Filseth, Greg Scharff and Pat Burt dissenting. ber of students, parents and faculty wake of two Gunn students’ sui- management system. McGee also “It’s about social services; it’s about youth programs; it’s about a are asking the administration to cides since November, McGee noted in his memo that teachers whole bunch of items that deal with mental health as well as physical accelerate that timeline so a new emphasized in his memo that the are required to post assignments health,” Kniss said. schedule could be implemented for deaths were not related to home- somewhere — whether it’s on Councilman Cory Wolbach strongly supported this priority, par- the new school year this August. work loads. Schoology or a teacher’s website ticularly its inclusion of additional services for seniors, youth and Herrmann acknowledged the de- “While some in the commu- — so students can access their homeless people. sire to get a new schedule in place nity are quick to blame academic work from home or elsewhere. The priority of “infrastructure strategy and implementation” aims soon, but said, “I want it to be done stress as a causal factor, it has not “While this note likely feels ‘top to both acknowledge the recent progress and publicly declare the well, not just done quickly.” been a contributing factor to recent down,’ the policy and regulation council’s commitment to staying the course. Scharff highlighted Herrmann oversaw a schedule deaths,” McGee wrote. “Moreover, were developed through an inclu- the city’s recent struggles to build the new police headquarters as a change at her former high school students who spoke at our last board sive process, and as adopted Board justification for the priority. in Wisconsin, which switched meeting and to me in classes, for- Policy, compliance is expected “I think it’s been 20 years in the community at least that we’ve from an eight-period day (includ- mal meetings, and informal en- and required,” McGee wrote. been talking about the public-safety building,” Scharff said. “For ing lunch) to a hybrid block sched- counters have pointed out that stress In McGee’s “Max Mail” news- whatever reason, at the last minute it always falls apart. The chal- ule in which students attend three and depression are not the same. letter this week, he wrote that lenge for us is: Let’s not let it fall apart this time. Let’s actually get classes on one day and four on “That said, as educators we now, more than ever, change will it done.” another, with each period lasting need to help our students manage necessitate a more comprehen- That priority passed on a 7-2 vote. Q 95 minutes. One day a week, stu- stress and strive to align students’ sive, district-wide effort. —Gennady Sheyner dents and teachers are provided 95 workloads with established dis- “Too often we act as a collec- minutes for tutorial, collaboration, trict policies and administrative tion of separate communities, but Castilleja seeks OK for underground parking enrichment or intervention. Driv- regulations; assure consistency in now it is time to come together Castilleja School has a new solution to a years-long battle over ing forces behind the switch were curriculum, instruction, and as- as a collective community to ad- increasing enrollment, and thus traffic in the surrounding residential very similar to those in Palo Alto, sessment practices; and identify dress the mental health needs neighborhood: Build an underground parking garage. Herrmann said: efforts to increase ways to improve our already con- of our young people,” he wrote. Independent all-girls school Castilleja sent a letter to the City of students’ access to their teachers siderable amount of social-emo- “In other words, whether we Palo Alto on Jan. 30 to request its support for the proposal, which and close the school’s achievement tional wellness and mental health are parents, coaches, educators, will begin with the school embarking on a master planning pro- gap, combat student stress, provide supports,” McGee’s memo stated. employers, siblings, or friends, cess — possibly rethinking the layout of the Bryant Street campus teachers more time to work togeth- He noted that for high school- we each have an important role — and conducting a feasibility analysis for the construction of an er to align their curriculum and re- ers, seven to 10 hours of home- in supporting and strengthening underground parking garage. After these processes and engagement duce transitions between classes. work per week (Monday through the mental health of our young with the community over the plan, Castilleja plans to apply for a new “After the first semester, we did a Friday) is reasonable, but “based people. This is not a school prob- Conditional Use Permit (CUP) from the city. satisfaction survey and it was in the on my experience working with lem; it is a community problem; The city required the middle and high school to submit plans for 90th percentile for students, staff talented and accelerated high so let’s work together.” Q a new permit after finding in October 2013 that Castilleja had ex- and parents,” she said. “They con- school students for several years, Staff Writer Elena Kadvany ceeded its city-imposed enrollment cap for 12 consecutive years. The tinue to say, ‘We will never go back it is my opinion (and many of can be emailed at ekadvany@ city ordered the school to reduce the number of students it admits, to that frantic-paced schedule.’” theirs) that generally 15 hours paweekly.com. pay a $300,000 fine and cut back on the car traffic it generates. Paly Principal Kim Diorio de- for a seven day week (Monday The school district is also Castilleja has come under fire for many years for what neighbors scribed possible changes for her through Sunday) is a maximum partnering with the City of Palo described as a traffic nightmare that descends during morning pick- school in a letter this week to stu- reasonable load for top students.” Alto and youth mental-health up and afternoon drop-off hours. dents, including: discussing and In addition to the quantity of coalition Project Safety Net to The master-planning process is expected to take several months developing a plan for a few home- homework, the timing of as- host a community event, “Let’s and will conclude with the creation of a formal plan and a permit work-free nights for the next school signments and tests can also be Talk: A Community Conversation application that will be submitted to the city in mid-2015, school year; creating a calendar or system a problem for students. One ad- about Healthy Kids and Healthy officials said. Q to assure that students do not have ministrative regulation linked Schools,” on Wednesday, Feb. 25, — Elena Kadvany multiple tests or projects on the to the homework policy states, at 7 p.m. at the Cubberley Com- same day; and asking teachers to “Teachers should make efforts munity Center Theater, 4000 review their current practices on to coordinate with one another to Middlefield Road, T2, Palo Alto. Page 8 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Upfront

But it could result in signifi- smaller cities. A handful of coun- Election cant cost savings, even if the ties have passed legislation for (continued from page 5) county paid for return postage. A pilot programs using only mail-in Online This Week countywide special election with ballots, according to the registrar. These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online She said she is asking for funding polling stations costs $5,765,000, The supervisors asked Bushey throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto to hire additional staff during the but a mail-in election would cost to return with some cost estimates Online.com/news. vote counts to speed up the process. $2,874,000, according to the reg- for additional staffing as well as Committee members suggested istrar’s report. Paying for return information about whether pre- Palo Alto police nab suspected Fry’s robber that staffing should be 24 hours a postage would likely increase cinct scanners, hand-held or free- One of two men suspected of stealing gaming consoles from day before, during and after the voter turnout, as it has in Oregon, standing, could be connected with Fry’s Electronics in Palo Alto on Jan. 28 was arrested Wednesday elections. Simitian and Yeager in- Washington and Colorado. the registrar’s existing computer in Hayward by Palo Alto police detectives. (Posted Feb. 5, 8:59 a.m.) structed Bushey to return to their An initial review of state law system. They also instructed staff next hearing on Feb. 25 with an es- indicates legislation would need to return with a study of standards Palo Alto school district hires new data director timated cost for increased staffing. to be passed to allow all-mail on the percentage spread that trig- The Palo Alto school district has hired a new director of re- Simitian noted that pending state elections, according to the report. gers an automatic recount. Q search and assessment: Chris Kolar, who since 2011 was the di- legislation, if passed, might help Existing law allows for mail-ins Staff Writer Sue Dremann rector of institutional research and effectiveness at the Illinois speed up the vote counts by allowing during special elections, for school can be emailed at sdremann@ Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) in Aurora, Illinois, ballots to be taken from polling plac- districts, special districts and in paweekly.com. where Superintendent Max McGee served as president for six es during Election Day and counted years. (Posted Feb. 3, 4:14 p.m.) while the polls are still open. Cur- rent law prohibits ballots from being Suspect sought in Baylands beating moved before polls close. NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING Bushey identified additional Palo Alto police are looking for a man who they said exposed of the City of Palo Alto himself to a woman in the Baylands and then repeatedly punched issues with the 2014 election, her boyfriend in the face, prompting him to momentarily lose including centralized counting. Architectural Review Board (ARB) Currently, electronic-ballot in- consciousness. (Posted Feb. 3, 11:56 a.m.) formation is brought from the precincts to the registrar’s office, 8:30 A.M., Thursday, February 19, 2015, Palo Alto Council butts up against state law where the results are tallied. Members of the Palo Alto City Council accidentally ran afoul of Council Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Enabling votes to be processed Avenue. Plans may be reviewed at the Development state law late last week when they attempted to discuss over email at the precincts, as they are in San Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue or online at: http:// an item that was to come before them on Monday night involving Mateo, San Francisco, Alameda the construction of a two-story home on Corina Way. (Posted Feb. and Contra Costa counties, would www.cityofpaloalto.org/planningprojects; contact Diana 3, 10:16 a.m.) allow the results to be transmitted Tamale for additional information during business hours directly to the registrar’s office in at 650.329.2144. Palo Alto looks to raise minimum wage real time. Santa Clara County is Citing the sky-high costs of living in Palo Alto, a group of City one of a few large counties still 3275 El Camino Real - 3275 El Camino Real [14PLN- Council members is leading a push to adopt a local minimum- using central counting. 00404]: Request by Kevin DeNardi, for Preliminary wage ordinance. (Posted Jan. 30, 7:11 a.m.) Bushey submitted a plan to the Architectural Review of a new 7,489 square foot, three- county Board of Supervisors on story, mixed-use development on a 7,490 vacant lot. City seeks ideas for traffic-fighting nonprofit Nov. 18 for a new voting system Zone District: Service Commercial District (CS) District. As Palo Alto prepares to launch its own traffic-fighting non- that would use precinct scanners. profit, city officials are looking for inspiration both from other cit- Bushey estimated that each costs Amy French ies and from local businesses and residents. (Posted Jan. 29, 7:58 p.m.) $10,000, and the county might need to spend $1 million. The committee *OPLM7SHUUPUN6ɉJPHS Caltrain fatality ID’d as Palo Alto man asked if hand-held scanners could be used at precincts in the interim. The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation has identified the man struck and killed by Caltrain south of the The committee also discussed Mountain View Caltrain station on Jan. 29 as Daniel Snyder, 28, possibly moving entirely to a mail-in for this meeting or an alternative format for any related of Palo Alto. (Posted Jan. 29, 7 p.m.) system. Bushey said it would not im- printed materials, please contact the City’s ADA prove speed and could further weigh Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing down the post-election count if ev- [email protected]. eryone deposited their ballots late.

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YOUTH By the students, for the students Gunn’s new student wellness committee advocates for simple, small-scale change by Elena Kadvany s Palo Alto’s high schools dent government, and Weinmann weekend in a 90-minute trial ses- work to implement short- serves as Gunn’s school board sion. A term changes to combat representative.) They approached Gunn physical education teacher student stress, four Gunn High Principal Denise Herrmann with Amy Anderson, who is serving as School students are pushing for three solid proposals, one of which the wellness committee’s teacher- several ideas of their own, from has already been implemented. adviser, said her department will anonymous counseling-referral There are now two referral be meeting with YES! program 6ɈLYLKH[  boxes to a mental health aware- boxes, one in the guidance de- representatives “to look at ad- ness campaign. partment’s office and another in ditional ways to nourish healthy The students, who together the student activities center, where minds and bodies and help stu- Your Stay Includes: formed a new student wellness anyone can drop off an anony- dents gain more skills to manage • Deluxe luxury king guestroom (valued at best avail- committee last fall, said they are mous form referring a friend to stress and emotions and promote able rate upgrades are available upon request) taking a smaller-scale approach see a counselor. 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www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 11 Upfront Public Agenda HEALTH A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week Parents launch mobile health-record challenge CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to discuss the establishment of quiet zones in Palo Alto; consider strategies for limiting commercial growth; dis- Effort honors late Palo Alto High grad Emily Benatar cuss a colleagues memo from City Council members Berman, Burt, DuBois by Sue Dremann and Wolbach about raising the minimum wage; and consider a proposal he parents of a 2011 Palo by council members Berman, Burt, Holman and Kniss urging CalPERS to Alto High School graduate divest from fossil-fuel companies. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Twho died from meningi- Monday, Feb. 9, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. tis have launched a campaign to teach people how to access their BOARD OF EDUCATION SPECIAL MEETING ... The school board will health records on their phones. hold a special meeting to discuss the high schools’ 2014-15 Single Plans Lisa and Darrell Benatar start- for Student Achievement (SPSA) and Western Association of Schools ed Own Your Health Info in honor and Colleges (WASC) reports. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. on Tues- of their daughter Emily Benatar, day, Feb. 10, in the board room at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. who died May 9, 2012, from bac- terial meningitis while a freshman BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will hear an update on at Washington University in St. professional development, consider approving a charge for a new Louis, Missouri. Emily had been enrollment-management committee and discuss expanding a Mandarin- vaccinated against the disease, but immersion program to Jordan Middle School. The meeting will begin at she contracted a type for which 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the board room at district headquar- there was no immunization at the ters, 25 Churchill Ave. time, her mother said.

The family hopes that their ef- Veronica Weber COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee fort will save lives. Lisa Benatar created the website ownyourhealthinfo.com, which plans to discuss the noise impacts of air traffic on the residents of Palo “Our goal is for 1,100 people to aims to teach people to access their health records online and Alto and give direction to the city manager. The meeting will begin at 7 have their health records accessible mobile phones, as a tribute to her daughter Emily Benatar, who died p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, on their phones by Feb. 11,” Em- of bacterial meningitis in college. 250 Hamilton Ave. ily’s birthday, Lisa Benatar said. Many people currently access phone is relatively easy. Three- disease, the type of meningitis PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission their health information online, step instructions are available at Emily Benatar contracted, on plans to hold a site-and-design review for a new single-family home at but fewer do so using apps that OwnYourHealthInfo.com. Health college campuses: eight cases at 805 Los Trancos Road and consider reforms to the planned-community are available for their smart- care providers already offer the Princeton University in New Jer- zone process. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11, phones. Mobile access could help apps: the Palo Alto Medical Foun- sey between spring 2013 and late in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. people who need medical atten- dation’s app is called MyChart; 2014, and four cases at Univer- tion while away from home, such Stanford Health Care’s app is sity of California, Santa Barbara, CITY COUNCIL ... The council will meet in closed session to discuss as college students or those on called MyHealth; Kaiser Perman- from late 2013 to spring 2014, ac- evaluations for City Attorney Molly Stump and City Auditor Harriet Rich- vacation or business trips. ente’s can be found in a mobile app cording to the Centers for Disease ardson. The closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, at The campaign is timely, Benatar store by searching for “Kaiser.” Control and Prevention (CDC). City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. said. California and several other In lieu of downloading apps, The Food and Drug Administra- states are experiencing measles parents can also take a picture of a tion licensed the first vaccine for HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to dis- outbreaks, which has heightened child’s immunization card or a photo serogroup B in October 2014 and li- cuss its potential role in issues relating to affordable housing and the awareness of the importance of of the form and text it to their child. censed a second vaccine in January. formation of a Housing Issues Subcommittee; consider recommenda- keeping vaccinations up to date. So far, 537 people have complet- On average 500 people die an- tions for the Community Development Block Grant funding for fiscal Benatar thinks the phone apps ed the process toward the Benatars’ nually from meningitis, and more year 2016; discuss the recently held Senior Summit; and hear an update help kids who are just out of the nest goal. Doing so is already benefit- than 4,400 are affected. About 10 on the planning for the Civility Roundtable. The meeting will begin at 7 to take responsibility for their health. ing people as they discover gaps in to 15 percent of cases are fatal. Of p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 “There needs to be a point at their health maintenance, she said. patients who recover, up to 19 per- Hamilton Ave. which you pass the torch. Kids do Since Emily’s death, there cent have permanent hearing loss, everything on their phones,” she said. have been at least two outbreaks mental retardation, loss of limbs or Accessing health records on a of serogroup B meningococcal other serious disabilities. Q

Cancer Early Detection Series CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week Progress to Patients City Council (Jan. 31) Priorities: The council adopted four priorities for 2015. These are “built envi- ronment: multi-modal transportation, parking and livability,” “completion of the Canary’s 10 year journey from Comprehensive Plan update,” “infrastructure strategy and implementation” and “healthy city, healthy community.” The first two were approved unanimously. tests to clinical trial Infrastructure was approved 8-1, with DuBois dissenting. Healthy cities was ap- proved 6-3, with Burt, Filseth and Scharff dissenting. City Council (Feb. 2) Fiber: The council approved two contracts totaling $276,594 for creation of master plans for building a “fiber to the premise” system and enhancing the city’s wireless infrastructure. Yes: Berman, DuBois, Holman, Filseth, Kniss, Scharff, Schmid Absent: Burt, Wolbach Historic Resources Board (Feb. 4) Join us to hear more about the progress Canary Foundation Retreat: The board held its annual retreat, which included discussion of the board’s bylaws and subcommittees, guidelines for staff approval of applications has made in the last 10 years and see what’s ahead for Canary. and design guidelines. Action: None Canary Foundation Luncheon For more information, please call 650.646.3200 Utilities Advisory Commission (Feb. 4) Menlo Circus Club or email [email protected]. Rates: The commission discussed projected rate increases for gas, water and wastewater utilities, as well as the proposal to keep electric rates at their cur- Thursday, March 26, 2015 To purchase tickets, please visit rent level for fiscal year 2016. Action: None 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. canaryfoundation.org/luncheon Architectural Review Board (Feb. 5) Wireless: The board discussed the conceptual designs proposed by Crown Castle canaryfound CanaryFound for a downtown distributed antenna system consisting of 19 units. The antennas would be placed on existing light poles and one utility pole, primarily along Lytton Avenue, Hamilton Avenue and side streets off of University Avenue. Action: None

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DEVELOPMENT Palo Alto weighs limits on office growth Menu of options proposed for capping development by Gennady Sheyner ith office developments Burt said on Dec. 8. Also under consideration is an in- blooming in Palo Alto The city’s existing policy, adopted terim ordinance that would tempo- Wand downtown’s traffic in 1986, sets a cap on overall com- rarily reduce the amount of office problems increasingly driving the mercial development of 350,000 development allowed or set new City Hall agenda, city officials square feet in the downtown area. conditions on projects, such as pro- will evaluate on Monday a suite Citywide, Palo Alto added 1.2 viding on-site parking or funding of options for slowing down com- million square feet of nonresidential for traffic-management program. mercial growth. development over the past 15 years, Not everyone is convinced that The immediate question that the which amounts to about 83,539 capping annual growth is the way council will consider is whether to square feet per year, according to to go. David Kleiman, who re- unveil new slow-growth policies as city data. And this does not count cently won approvals for mixed- part of the ongoing overhaul of the the roughly 1.3 million square feet use buildings at 636 Waverley St. city’s Comprehensive Plan or wheth- that will soon be added as part of and 240 Hamilton Ave., noted in er to proceed with more urgency the current massive expansion of a letter to the council that the idea and adopt an interim ordinance that Stanford University Medical Center. of creating an annual cap arose would immediately restrict growth. The growth among different in response to the city’s traffic But at the heart of the matter types of nonresidential devel- problems and pointed out that looms the larger question of wheth- opment is far from even. Retail the recently approved residential- er an annual growth cap is indeed space actually shrank by 37,463 parking permit program has yet the best panacea for solving down- square feet over the past 15 years, to kick in. town’s traffic issues. the only category that has expe- And Russell Hancock, president Several council members, most rienced a decrease. Office space and CEO of the Joint Venture notably Mayor Karen Holman and went up by 517,045 square feet in Silicon Valley, noted in his let- Councilman Pat Burt, have been the same period, or about 34,370 ter that 34,000 square feet of an- vocal about the need to consider square feet per year. nual development is a “minuscule reining in office growth. In De- One option on the council’s amount of growth against Palo cember, Burt noted that during menu is an annual limit in the Alto’s 17.6 million square feet.” the development-rich years of the range of 35,000 to 50,000 square “An annual office cap, particu- dot-com boom, the council had feet and a competitive process for larly one that doesn’t accumulate instituted a moratorium on retail evaluating projects that exceed this during recessionary periods, will buildings being used for offices. limit. Another option, according to create uncertainty and send busi- “We’re now at the same crisis a city staff report, is to impose a ness out of the city during the level as we were at that time,” “more robust impact fee program.” downturn,” Hancock wrote. Q

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Page 14 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Possession of drugs...... 1 Grand theft...... 2 Info case...... 3 Sale of drugs...... 1 Identity theft ...... 1 Located missing person...... 2 Smoking in public...... 1 Petty theft...... 1 Lost property ...... 1 Under influence of drugs ...... 1 Residential burglaries...... 4 Medical aid...... 1 Miscellaneous Theft undefined...... 2 Outside assistance...... 1 Probation violation ...... 1 Disposal/misc...... 2 Vehicle related Property for destruction ...... 1 Found property...... 3 Driving with suspended license ...... 8 Suspicious circumstances ...... 2 Lost property ...... 1 Pulse Residential burglaries...... 2 Driving without license ...... 1 Warrant arrest...... 4 POLICE CALLS Missing person...... 1 Scam ...... 1 Hit and run ...... 4 Outside investigation ...... 3 Palo Alto Shoplifting...... 2 Parking/driving violation ...... 1 VIOLENT CRIMES Possession of stolen property ...... 1 Theft from auto...... 2 Jan. 28-Feb. 3 Vehicle related Palo Alto Psychiatric hold ...... 5 Vehicle accident/injury ...... 1 Violence related Auto recovery...... 1 340 Portage Ave., 1/28, 3:49 p.m.; rob- Public nuisance ...... 1 Vehicle accident/major injury ...... 1 Armed robbery...... 1 Auto theft ...... 2 bery/armed. Suspicious circumstances ...... 4 Vehicle accident/minor injury ...... 2 Battery ...... 2 Bicycle theft ...... 8 Vandalism...... 2 538 Georgia Ave., 1/30, 7:46 p.m.; bat- Domestic violence ...... 1 Driving with suspended license ...... 7 Vehicle accident/no injury...... 3 tery/simple. Violation of court order...... 1 Vehicle tow ...... 1 Theft related Driving without license ...... 8 Warrant/other agency...... 6 San Antonio and Middlefield roads, 2/2, Check fraud ...... 1 Found bicycle...... 1 Alcohol or drug related 8:30 p.m.; battery/simple. Checks/misc...... 1 Hit and run ...... 1 Menlo Park Driving under influence...... 1 Edgewood Drive, 2/2, 8:47 p.m.; family Commercial burglaries ...... 1 Parking/driving violation ...... 2 Jan. 28-Feb. 3 Drunk in public ...... 1 violence/misc. Commerical burglary investigation....1 Theft from auto...... 5 Violence related Possession of drugs...... 3 Menlo Park Credit card fraud...... 2 Vehicle accident/minor injury ...... 5 Assault ...... 1 Under influence of drugs ...... 5 100 block Dunsmuir Way, 1/29, 9:40 Elder abuse/financial ...... 1 Vehicle accident/property damage....6 Domestic violence ...... 2 Miscellaneous a.m.; battery on spouse. Grand theft...... 2 Alcohol or drug related Theft related Coroner case ...... 1 1200 block Hollyburne Ave., 1/29, 1:33 Identity theft ...... 4 Drinking in public ...... 3 Commercial burglaries ...... 1 CPS referral ...... 1 p.m.; battery on spouse. Petty theft...... 3 Driving under influence...... 3 Credit card fraud...... 2 Disturbing/annoying phone calls .....1 700 block Hollyburne Ave., 2/2, 11:28 Possession of burglary tools...... 1 Drunk in public ...... 5 Fraud ...... 1 Found property...... 1 a.m.; assault.

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Patricia C Bilir Expert-Panelists include: March 17, 1949 – January 16, 2015 Jennifer Derenne MD & Neville Golden MD, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Patricia was born in Los Angeles, California, to Conrad and Elizabeth Stanford University School of Medicine Olson. She studied biology at Stanford Kristina Saffran, Project HEAL University, completing her B.A. and M.A. in 1972. She met Necmi Bilir while at Stanford, and the two married Event Details in Palo Alto in 1973. They then moved Thursday, February 26: 7–8:30 pm to Turkey for seven years, teaching at a university while starting a family, before returning to Palo Alto in 1981. Freidenrich Auditorium Patricia enjoyed a wide range of First floor pursuits, including folk and classical music, planning annual family camping adventures, and Lucile Packard designing home landscapes and remodels. She was committed Children’s Hospital Stanford to education, becoming actively involved in the school district for many years. She also worked as a freelance textbook editor, 725 Welch Rd taught courses at Foothill College and, most recently, advised Palo Alto, CA 94304 students on college admissions. Patricia is survived by her loving husband of 41 years; seven children, Ender Berberian (John Berberian), Timur Bilir (Liv Free! Herriot), Pinar Bilir (Eric Sun), Taner Bilir (Lisa Bilir), Kamran Information and registration available Bilir, Aylin Bilir and Eren Bilir; seven grandchildren; her brother, Eric Olson (Cindy Olson); and her sister, Christine Tavares (Tony online at classes.stanfordchildrens.org Tavares). Her 15-year old puppy, Jake, will also miss her. or call us at (650) 724-4601 A memorial service will be held on February 14.

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Teen Fredell Makowski, a 52- year resident of Palo Alto, died Transitions Jan. 19, 2015. She was born Jan. 30, 1928, in Jerome, Arizona. Carl Djerassi, ‘father of the pill,’ dies at 91 She attended the University of Arizona and taught in Glendale, Stanford University profes- at the University of Wiscon- sor emeritus Carl Djerassi, a sin, moved to Stanford and in Arizona, before moving to rare powerhouse in chemistry 1959 recruited Djerassi to join California in 1960. She worked and art, died in his home in the department. for the Fremont Union High San Francisco on Friday, Jan. Rare by even today’s stan- School District as a teacher, 30. He was 91. dards, Djerassi published “Carl Djerassi was first and more than 1,200 scientific counselor, project manager and foremost a great scientist. To- papers and in doing so trans- consultant before retiring in 2005. She loved camping, gether with his colleagues, formed the way chemists did fishing, painting, traveling and spending time with he transformed the world by their work, making contribu- making oral contraception ef- tions to the use of highly sen- friends. Teen is survived by her two children, Michael fective,” Stanford President sitive analytical tools critical of Palo Alto, her daughter Kristine Gray (Louis) of John Hennessy said. “Later to establishing the structure Sunnyvale, and three grandchildren, Matthew, Sarah and in life, he became a great of complex molecules. Braden. supporter of artists and a Djerassi was instrumental in playwright whose plays en- recruiting, often encouraging The memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, February tertained while they also edu- hires to improve the depart- 15 at 2pm at Grace Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverley, Palo cated.” Chuck Painter/Stanford News Service Archives ment’s diversity. Many col- Alto. Djerassi’s death resulted early commercial antihista- leagues gave examples of how PAID OBITUARY from complications due to mine (Pyribenzamine) and this chemistry giant would cancer. He is survived by saw the powerful connection show deep personal interest in his son, Dale Djerassi, step- between chemistry and hu- their lives and their work. daughter, Leah Middlebrook, man health. Taking inspiration from his Visit and grandson, Alexander M. In 1949, Djerassi became third wife, fellow Stanford Djerassi. associate director of research professor and poet Diane Mid- Djerassi was born in Vien- at Syntex in Mexico City. His dlebrook, Djerassi followed Lasting Memories na, Austria, on Oct. 29, 1923, research there was directed at his affinity for literary writ- An online directory of obituaries and remembrances. to Samuel Djerassi, a derma- a synthesis of cortisone from ing in the final 25 years of his tologist and specialist in sexu- diosgenin, a molecule derived life. Through dozens of short Search obituaries, submit a memorial, share a photo. ally transmitted diseases, and from a wild yam and a natu- stories, novels and plays, Djer- Go to: www.PaloAltoOnline.com/obituaries Alice Friedmann, a Viennese rally abundant precursor for assi told fictional tales that dentist and physician. With synthetic steroids. Later, he describe realistic details and the rising Nazi threat, he and and his co-workers synthe- struggles of a scientist’s life. his mother moved to Bulgaria sized norethisterone, a potent An avid collector of paint- in 1938 and eventually to the orally available progestin ana- ings by modernist Paul Klee, U.S., arriving nearly penni- log that figured in the produc- he also established the Djer- Daniel Steven Snyder less in 1939. tion of the first birth-control assi Resident Arts Program on Sept. 29, 1986 – Jan. 29, 2015 At age 16, he attended New- pill. His role in this earned his ranch in Woodside in 1979 ark Junior College and Tarkio him the nickname “The fa- as a memorial to his daughter Daniel Steven Snyder of Palo College and subsequently ther of the pill.” Within years, Pamela, a poet and painter. Alto passed away on January graduated summa cum laude the pill created significant so- The program has supported 29, 2015. Born on September 29, from Kenyon College before cial and economic impacts, of the creativity of more than 1986, Danny attended Duveneck his 19th birthday. He then which Djerassi was proud. 2,000 artists by providing Elementary School, Menlo Middle earned a doctorate in chem- Djerassi re-established his uninterrupted time for work, School and graduated from Palo istry in 1945 at the University connection with academia reflection and collegial in- of Wisconsin. in 1952, accepting a position teraction in a setting of great Alto High School in 2005. He was He subsequently worked as as professor of chemistry at natural beauty. an active member of the tennis a research chemist at CIBA Wayne State University. In Plans for a memorial are team, worked on the Campanile Pharmaceutical in New Jer- the late 1950s, William John- pending. newspaper of Palo Alto High sey, where he developed an son, one of Djerassi’s teachers — Stanford News Service School, and was involved with Best Buddies International. Danny received his B.A. from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia Marilyn Smithson Community Gardens, creating a branch during budget cuts. where he was also a member of their tennis team and has Marilyn Jean Smithson, a long- parent-run art studio for kids dur- She is survived by her husband spent the last 3 years as a medical student at Sackler School of time Palo Alto resident and com- ing lunch at Garland Elementary of 58 years, Luther Smithson of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel. munity member, died on Jan. 21 School and helping in the first La Selva Beach; her daughter, Danny was an avid Giants and 49ers fan, even watching surrounded by her family. She years of the Palo Alto Parents and Kristina (Julian) Grantz of La was 87. Professionals for Art. She worked Selva Beach; son, Paul (Britt) local games in the middle of the night while in Israel. He was She was born as a teacher’s aide at Garland Smithson of Chico, California; compassionate towards people in need, volunteering for Habitat Marilyn Jean and Jordan Middle School until and grandchildren, Hannah, for Humanity, assisting in Katrina relief, and teaching illiterate Anderson on her retirement in 1992. Over the Kyra, Hunter and Carys. She adults to read through the San Francisco Public Library. As a Sept. 21, 1927, years, she campaigned for mea- is also survived by her brother, former president of Beth Am Temple Youth (BATY), Danny’s in Walla Walla, sures and candidates both locally Paul (Joyce) Anderson of Port Jewish faith was important to him. Washington. and nationally, and she hosted a Townsend, Washington; brother- Danny is survived by his mother Susan Snyder, his father She grew up polling place at her home for sev- in-law, Wade Smithson of Irvine, Thomas Snyder and Thomas’s wife Sheila Snyder, his sister in Tacoma and eral elections. California; and nephews, a niece Lisa Snyder, many aunts, uncles, cousins, and his maternal went on to earn A practiced gardener, she and many friends. grandfather. her teaching was known for her heirloom to- A memorial service will be A funeral service was held on Tuesday, Feb. 3 at Congregation credentials from the University of matoes, raspberries and string held on Feb. 14 at 11 a.m. at La Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, followed by a graveside service at Washington in 1950. She married beans, and she collected rare Selva Beach Library, 316 Es- Luther “Bud” Smithson in 1956, azaleas and Japanese maple trella Ave., La Selva Beach. Me- Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo. Daniel’s memory may and they lived in Los Angeles and trees. She also loved reading morial donations can be made be honored by donating to Save A Child’s Heart (SACH) www. Berkeley before settling in Palo and participated in book clubs in to the LSB Chapter Friends of saveachildsheartus.org or National Alliance on Mental Illness Alto in 1966. Palo Alto and La Selva Beach, the Santa Cruz Public Library (NAMI) www.nami.org. She was an active community California, where she moved in (sites.google.com/site/lsblibrary- Danny was a devoted son, brother and friend to many. His member — serving on a few Palo 1999. There she also started the friendsorg/home) and Hospice of gentle and loving nature will be greatly missed. Alto PTAs, acting as one of the Friends of the La Selva Beach Santa Cruz County (www.hos- PAID OBITUARY original gardeners at the city’s Library to support the local picesantacruz.org). Page 16 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com 700 Million $690.8

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www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 17 Editorial Saving Buena Vista A complicated path to preserve low-income housing he legal, financial and political obstacles to saving 117 units of low-income housing at the Buena Vista Mobile Editorials, letters and opinions T Home Park are enormous, but they are not insurmount- Spectrum able. With the City Council set to hear an appeal in April of a hear- Hispanic Buena Vista community I heard of the proposal to close the ing officer’s decision to approve the closure of the mobile-home Case in point Editor, adds such richness to our city. mobile-home park and force them park, the city is unfortunately constrained in initiating any ac- Their annual Posada celebration at to leave their homes. tivity that could be construed as creating bias as the council A high school assembly such as that on Jan. 7 (“Gunn administra- Christmas is an authentic piece of There is no nearby housing adjudicates the appeal and makes a final ruling. Mexican culture that they gener- available for anything close to This has effectively muzzled the council and precludes any tors call attention to teens’ sleep”) — an event well-reported by the ously share with us. Not only does what they currently pay or could city analyses exploring how the closure of the park might be it benefit the residents of Buena afford. The Palo Alto area needs averted, including the possible purchase of the property. Weekly’s Elena Kadvany, well- intended by the adults and on an Vista to live in Palo Alto because more low-income housing, not And when it does consider the appeal, the council’s options of its relative safety and fine educa- less. Any lost low-income hous- are very limited. Its primary role is to determine if the proposed important issue — is sadly a too- hollow exercise within the real tional opportunities, but it benefits ing will be extremely difficult to relocation benefits for the residents meet the requirements of us to have the Buena Vista resi- replace. state and local laws by covering the “reasonable costs of reloca- world of our kids’ lives. In the dim auditorium light, in- dents here. Their community edu- I was delighted to learn that tion.” It may not consider whether the park’s closure is in the cates us and broadens our perspec- Stanford University has provided best interests of Buena Vista residents or the broader community. stead of hearing a thing, many stu- dents are furtively catching up on tive — too often overly focused on funds to preserve affordable hous- Since the law does not define “reasonable costs of relocation” academia and technology. ing near Stanford and that Santa the council could disagree with the hearing officer and insist on homework, checking and sending texts, and, yes, catching a nap. Susan L. Kaplan Clara County Supervisors Simi- greater benefits, assuming it can justify them based on the testi- Orme Street, Palo Alto tian and Cortese have led efforts mony from the original closure hearing held last year. Through They have scant reason to want to listen — when what they find to set aside up to $8 million from its actions residents of the park might get more money when Match it that fund to provide a portion of forced out, but the council can’t prevent the closure by simply themselves in day after day (not just on an assembly day) is a school Editor, the funding needed to save the voting down the application. Buena Vista Mobile Home Park. As it stands now, the required benefits include payment to Bue- regimen that robs them of nightly I’m a resident of the Barron Park rest because they’re anxious about neighborhood of Palo Alto. I ap- The City of Palo Alto also has na Vista residents equal to the appraised value of their mobile millions in housing funds, and the home, moving expenses, payment of start-up expenses at a new whether to cheat on an upcoming preciate the ethnic and economic exam or to copy homework (com- diversity of our neighborhood in- Palo Alto residents currently living location (first and last month’s rent and security deposit), and a at Buena Vista should be consid- rent subsidy equal to 100 percent of the differential between the mon among their friends), because cluding the approximately 400 res- they’re tossing and turning over idents of the nearby Buena Vista ered a high priority. I would like average rent at the park and the average market rent for “replace- to see our city pledge to at least ment” housing for a period of one year. their grades (posted home elec- Mobile Home Park (most of whom tronically, now, with greater fre- are low-income Hispanic families match the $8 million that the coun- Supporters and attorneys of Buena Vista residents argue that ty has pledged. the proposed payments fall substantially short of what is re- quency), and because their unmod- and longtime Palo Alto residents). ulated homework loads often keep I’ve been concerned about the fu- Harvey Alcabes quired because comparable housing and civic amenities would Cass Way, Palo Alto be much more costly than the relocation benefit calculations them burning the midnight oil (all ture of those neighbors ever since suggest, if they were available at all. Also in dispute is how the the more of it because they’ve al- value of Palo Alto schools should factor into either the appraised ready burned up so much daylight, as is permitted in and out of class, value of the mobile home or in achieving comparability at a new WHAT DO YOU THINK? location. with time on their phones). But while looking for ways to justify increased relocation ben- The increased use of a “time- efits is appropriate and worthwhile, we believe the primary goal management tool,” now offered to The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on our coverage of the community should be to preserve Buena Vista and prevent more Gunn kids under the lead- or on issues of local interest. the loss of these 400 residents, including 129 children and the ership of Principal Herrmann, is affordable housing they occupy. good news; and more such changes Do you perceive greater The soaring cost of housing is undermining our community’s could be made by our school lead- ability and desire to maintain or add to our affordable-housing ers if they would, and if we ask it inequalities in Silicon inventory, an important goal of our Comprehensive Plan. Since of them. there are so few opportunities to create new low-income housing, As a Gunn teacher for 15 years, Valley wealth? we should be doing everything possible to keep the housing we and a co-founder (along with soph- omore Martha Cabot) of an initia- already have, including the Buena Vista units. Submit letters to the editor of up to 300 words to [email protected]. With the city currently legally restricted from pursuing any tive to bring change to Gunn (de- Submit guest opinions of 1,000 words to [email protected]. Include your steps toward acquiring Buena Vista while it considers the closure scribed at www.savethe2008.com), name, address and daytime phone number so we can reach you. appeal, and with the park owners showing no interest in discuss- I believe that it will only be when We reserve the right to edit contributions for length, objectionable content, we actually see our teenagers for libel and factual errors known to us. Anonymous letters will generally not be ing a sale to a public agency or nonprofit, we urge the county to accepted. Submitting a letter to the editor or guest opinion constitutes a step up quickly and help develop an analysis of available options, who they are, and for the lives granting of permission to the Palo Alto Weekly and Embarcadero Media to also their costs and legal risks. we’re causing them to lead, that publish it online, including in our online archives and as a post on Town Square. they will start to sleep any easier. For more information contact Editor Jocelyn Dong or Editorial Assistant Such an analysis would explore how other California cities or Sam Sciolla at [email protected] or 650-326-8210. nonprofit organizations have acquired mobile-home parks under Marc Vincenti similar circumstances, the costs and requirements of bringing Los Robles Avenue, Palo Alto the park up to code, the use of eminent-domain powers to acquire the land and a comparison of the costs and benefits of retaining Benefits us all the existing mobile-home park or building new affordable hous- Editor, ing on the site. I am writing to urge the Palo Thanks to Supervisor Joe Simitian, the Santa Clara County Alto City Council to supplement Board of Supervisors has already stepped up by making avail- the $8 million of county funding able $8 million in affordable-housing funds to help with any earmarked this week for the acqui- viable plan to retain affordable housing on the Buena Vista site sition of the Buena Vista Mobile and prevent its conversion to market-rate housing. Home Park. I live in Barron Park, It will take much more money than that to pull off the purchase the neighborhood where Buena of the property, but the city has substantial housing funds avail- Vista is located. Matching city able, and the Palo Alto Housing Corporation also has resources housing funds should be pledged and experience with obtaining state and federal housing grants. to Buena Vista now to ensure the Right now we need governmental leadership to achieve a reli- preservation of this important able and impartial analysis while the Palo Alto City Council source of affordable housing in is considering the Buena Vista closure appeal. Having boldly our city. opened the door to creative solutions by obtaining the county’s Palo Alto is a city that is eco- $8 million in seed money, we hope Simitian can be as successful nomically fortunate, but that good in marshaling the help of county housing staff or consultants to fortune comes at a cost in the cul- move this idea forward. tural richness and diversity that occurs naturally when housing is more affordable. The largely Page 18 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Check out Town Square! 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Guest Opinion Interfaith coalition urges city to push for fossil-fuel divestment by Rev. Eileen Altman Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land mass- sphere. Climate scientists generally agree and Kati Reeves es interact in an unfathomably complex that human activity can “safely” add no n 2007, an Interfaith Climate Convo- interplay of matter and energy, climate more than 565 gigatons. At our current cation drew 150 to Congregation Kol scientists agree on some key observations: rate of fossil-fuel consumption, we will I Emeth. Peninsula Interfaith Climate For the past 10,000 years, a fairly stable have thrown those 565 gigatons into the Action (PICA) attempts to revive this lo- temperature has allowed humans to de- atmosphere well before 2030. It has to cal interfaith approach. PICA formed in velop agriculture and expand civilization. stop. October with members from local congre- One factor contributing to that relatively A Palo Alto resolution calling on CalP- gations: Grace Lutheran, First Congrega- stable temperature had been a long-term ERS to divest its holdings from fossil-fuel tional, Humanist Community of Silicon average concentration of carbon dioxide companies would send a pointed message Valley, Congregation Beth Am, Unitarian (CO2) in the atmosphere at a level of 275 to the energy industry, to elected officials Universalist Palo Alto and Redwood City, Rev. Eileen Altman Kati Reeves parts per million (ppm). Since the begin- who hold the authority to regulate that St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, Palo Alto ning of the industrial revolution 200 years industry and to the general public. Such a Friends Meeting, First Presbyterian and While the city of Palo Alto per se holds ago, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 resolution would have no immediate im- St. Bede’s Episcopal. no corporate stock or bond investments has risen steadily to the current level of pact on our city budget, but it would have As leaders in Palo Alto faith communi- in fossil fuels, our city’s pension fund, about 400 ppm. Surface temperatures on a profound impact on urgently needed ef- ties, we know that thousands of city resi- which is held by CalPERS, does. We are the Earth have risen in tandem, and the forts to reform public policy to end the dents feel pride in our city’s leadership re- therefore calling upon the Palo Alto City relatively stable weather patterns that hu- widespread extraction of fossil fuels and garding the urgent issue of climate change. Council to adopt a resolution that advises mans enjoyed for millennia are now break- promote the rapid development of clean- The commitment since 2013 of the city’s CalPERS to immediately freeze any new ing down. energy sources. utilities department to deliver 100 percent investments in fossil fuels and to divest The increased concentration of CO2 in Moreover, given the growing awareness carbon-neutral electricity to all customers completely from the 200 largest fossil-fuel the atmosphere is also resulting in ocean of the need to stop using carbon-based has moved our community to the forefront corporations within five years. acidification, which is already impacting energy, it now makes financial sense to among all U.S. cities in taking responsible While divestment from an energy com- the marine-life ecosystems. This problem divest from major fossil-fuel companies. action to stave off climate disruption. But pany is unlikely to inspire that company could potentially impact the whole food As governments eventually take the steps laudable as these efforts are, it is time for to rewrite its business plan immediately, chain, including humans who depend on that they must take to limit CO2 emis- the city to do more. divestment shifts the social expectations in food from the ocean. sions, the relative value of fossil-fuel In a movement analogous to that which the energy market overall — a necessary Climate scientists generally agree that holdings will decline in years to come. led to the end of apartheid in South Africa, step towards enabling effective govern- if the atmospheric concentration of CO2 So divestment is the wise course for pro- a call is rising across the country for large ment regulation of the fossil-fuel industry. were returned to a level of about 350 ppm, tecting the future value of our city em- institutions to pull out their investments Public subsidies of the fossil-fuel industry that level would be “safe.” That is, a 350 ployees’ pensions. from the fossil-fuel industry that is despoil- must end. The divestment movement sends ppm concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s We call upon Palo Alto’s council to ing Earth, our sacred home. This movement a signal to energy companies that their atmosphere would allow human civiliza- protect our employees’ pensions — and to divest from carbon-based to renewable public image as good corporate citizens is tion to continue without continual cata- the climate of our sacred Earth — by energy is gaining momentum among cities at risk if they continue selling fossil fuels. strophic weather events causing destruc- speaking up in favor of CalPERS’ divest- such as San Francisco, foundations such as Divestment sets the stage for productive tion all over the planet. ment from fossil-fuel companies. the Rockefeller Fund and universities such negotiations between those corporations Climate scientists also generally agree For PICA information and contacts, go as Stanford, whose trustees agreed last and the government agencies that are en- that this relatively “safe” level of atmo- to interfaithpower.org/pica. Q spring to pull out all their investments in trusted with our public welfare. spheric CO2 can be obtained only by Eileen Altman is an associate min- coal-related businesses. Overall, 181 in- We cannot ignore it: Our public welfare leaving 80 percent of the Earth’s proven ister at First Congregational Church. stitutions and 656 individuals — together is seriously threatened by the current rate fossil-fuel reserves in the ground. Those Katia Reeves is a Barron Park resident worth more than $50 billion — have com- at which we are burning fossil fuels in the reserves, if all of them were burned, would and chair of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish mitted to such divestment. U.S. and throughout the world. While the add 2,795 gigatons of CO2 to the atmo- Green Committee. Streetwise Should the bike bridge design be “iconic” or understated? Asked at Town & Country Village. Interviews and photos by Sam Sciolla.

Jean Myers Matt Bereman Maureen Velasquez Kevin Beckett Laurie Winslow East Charleston Road, Palo Alto Abrams Court, Stanford Rockefeller Drive, Sunnyvale Jefferson Avenue, Redwood City Peter Coutts Circle, Stanford Retired Student Retired teacher Supply manager Instructional aide

“Why not iconic? It’s nice too look “I think something a bit more notable “Understated, definitely. ... Usu- “I would say iconic, but you’d have to “Understated and utilitarian. ... We’re at. ... Maybe to encourage people and that could be identified as part ally that costs less money. ... There’s weigh it against the cost. I would go putting too much effort into (it) ... to ride their bikes rather than drive of Palo Alto would be preferable to enough money spent on making for something that has an interesting and it’s prohibiting ... us from getting their cars.” something basic and utilitarian.” things glorious around here.” design.” necessary things done.” www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 19 FEBRUARY 2014

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Adult day program adds ‘personal music’ to Penetrating the fog of dementiaarsenal against memory loss by Chris Kenrick / photos by Veronica Weber

ith 32 years of caring she’s now adding “personalized city’s Arbor Road Park provides consin are examining the impact of and ballroom music, Elton John, for people with demen- music” — via iPods and individual daytime activities for about 100 personalized music on the behavior Joan Baez, Aretha Franklin, Epis- Wtia, Barbara Kalt is con- playlists — to the array of activi- people — the youngest in his late of nursing home residents, includ- copalian service music, Lionel stantly scouting for new ways to get ties offered at Rosener House, the 40s — aimed at reducing the social ing their levels of use of anti-psy- Ritchie, Mahalia Jackson, the Ho- through to the clients who come to Menlo Park day program for adults isolation of people in various stag- chotic and anti-anxiety drugs. The nolulu Symphony, Glenn Miller, her program each day. of which she has been executive di- es of Alzheimer’s disease or other Wisconsin Department of Health “I Love Lucy” music, Beethoven, Inspired by the award-winning rector for two decades. forms of memory impairment. Services has funded the Music & Metallica and World War II march- 2014 documentary “Alive Inside,” The house at the edge of the “This will be another tool for us Memory program in hundreds of ing bands. to learn about them,” Kalt said in a nursing homes across the state. “We’ve had a lot of CDs given to recent interview at Rosener House, Locally, Kalt and her staff us and we’ll also download directly where volunteer Steve Marchick moved to add personalized mu- from iTunes for genres we might was busy creating playlists for cli- sic to their offerings after seeing not have, like marching band,” Our New Assisted Living ents that include everything from “Alive Inside” at the Fox Theatre Marchick said. traditional Episcopalian music to in Redwood City last year. Rosener Rosener House will continue to and Skilled Nursing Community the heavy metal band Metallica. House, a project of Peninsula Vol- offer professional music therapy in “We can talk about Big Band, unteers, Inc., recently became the addition to other activities, such as is Now Open! music or Cat Stevens. There are so first adult day program on the Pen- exercise, discussion groups, a ther- many musicians that people really insula to be certified as a Music & apy dog, art and physical therapy. love, and that’s a great topic for Memory provider. On a recent Thursday morning, conversation,” she said. Volunteer Marchick is building music therapist Maggie Grady sat The use of music therapy is playlists based on questionnaires with her guitar and a circle of 15 nothing new for Rosener House that have been returned by clients clients. She quizzed them on ideas or similar programs, which for de- and their families, which asked for for snow-themed activities as she cades have employed professional things like favorite songs, genres, began improvising “our favorite musicians to reach out to memory- performers, Broadway musicals, things about winter” to the tune of impaired adults. hymns, military music and danc- the familiar Rodgers and Hammer- But the ability to match songs ing styles. stein song. coming soon . . . with individual preferences offers Requests so far include swing Rosener House regulars also sing the possibility of penetrating the new independent living apartments fog of dementia at a deeper level. “This music is so personal it just strikes right to your heart and your emotions — all those things you Join our active, remember about that music,” Kalt independent, said. In the movie “Alive Inside,” a vital community bedridden patient, non-communi- and enjoy all the cative for two years, begins to move her feet and head after being fitted benefits of Life Care with headphones that played music here in downtown her family said she had loved. “Music has more ability to acti- Palo Alto vate more parts of the brain than any other stimulus,” neurologist and author Oliver Sacks says in the movie. “For the patient with Al- Call today to schedule a tour zheimer’s it has to be music which has a meaning for them and is cor- related with memory and feeling.” 650.327.0950 Social worker Dan Cohen, who is featured in the movie, began cre- ating personalized playlists in 2006 for residents of the New York-area Find Yourself at nursing home where he was a vol- unteer. Excited by the results, he mounted a larger effort through a nonprofit called Music & Memory, which he created in 2010. Cohen is on a quest to make personal- ized music part of the standard of care in the nation’s 16,000 nursing Paul A., top left, a client at the Peninsula Volunteers Rosener Right in the heart of downtown Palo Alto homes. House, listens to classical piano music as part of the “Music & 850 Webster St, Palo Alto “Alive Inside,” which documents Memory” program. Above, Rosener House activity leader Marie his work, won the Audience Award Cheney listens to music with client Charlie R. on his customized www.channinghouse.org at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. iPod Shuffle. All clients are set up with songs that are meaningful Academic researchers in Wis- to them, often tying into the music of their youth. Page 20 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Living Well

Dao Do, right, program manager at Peninsula Volunteers Rosener House, talks with client Beverley G., as they listen to Patsy Cline, one of Beverley’s favorite singers when she was younger. along in groups to standby favorites she said. “They’ll start walking time to go home.” — “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” around, trying the doors, saying, In many cases, a nursing home is “You Are My Sunshine,” “This ‘Well, I think it’s time to go home the next step for people who leave Little Light of Mine” and “Jingle now.’ Rosener House. “We’re really Bells.” “We can talk with them and redi- hopeful this will help keep people Kalt expects the iPods and per- rect them but this (music) would be in the (day) program longer and sonal playlists to find their niche as a pre-emptive kind of thing to pre- avoid that kind of (nursing home) calming tools. vent that kind of behavior and keep placement,” she said. Q “Some people have a certain them happy, engaged and soothed Contributing Writer Chris Ken- time of day when we know they’re in a certain way that they’d be con- rick can be emailed at ckenrick@ going to get a little anxious,” tent to be here rather than think it’s paweekly.com.

Avenidas presents its 4th Annunal Financial Conference Living Well FEBRUARY 2015 Calendar of Events

Boomer Bootcamp: Feb 2 Feb 10 Feb 19 UNA Film Festival: Special Showing: “People in Glass Book Club: “The Girl Who Saved the Firming Up Your Financial Fitness “What I Saw In Hebron” Houses: The Legacy of Joseph Eichler” King of Sweden” by Jonas Jonasson Saturday, 2-4 @ Avenidas. Free. with producer Monique Lombardelli 2:30-4:30pm 3-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free. @ Avenidas. Free. February 7, 2015 Feb 3 Musical Jam Session Tuina Live it. You’ll Love It. 2-4:30pm @ Avenidas. $2. 8:30 am – 4 pm 10-11am @ Avenidas. Free. Hear personally from our residents: Caregiver 101 Free Workshop: “Living The Avant Lifestyle” Mitchell Park Community Center “Medications & Older Adults” Feb 4 11:30am. The Avant, 4041 El Camino Way, @Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center in Mountain View. 3700 Middlefield Road Reiki appts. Available Palo Alto. RSVP to (650) 289-5499 9am-12pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400 RSVP to 650-320-8726. Bring a friend! Walk-ins welcome! Simply register for appt. $30/$35. Feb 20 on site(online registration now closed). Feb 11 Private Spinal Exam & Stretching appts Fee is $60, or $100 for two people Feb 5 Parkinson’s Support Group available and includes lunch. Blood Pressure Screenings 2-3:30pm @ Avenidas. Call Robin Riddle 1-2pm @ Avenidas. Questions? Call (650) 289-5445 10-11:30am @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free. @ 650-724-6090 for more info. Free. Call 650-289-5400 for appt. $25/$35. Feb 6 Feb 12 Feb 23 The MindFit Series demo class 10:30am- Skin Cancer Screening 16mm Film Screening: “Swingtime” 12pm @ Aveindas. Free. 11:30am-12:30pm @ Avenidas. 2:30-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free. Space is limited. Call 650-289-5400 to register. Call 650-289-5400 for appt. Free. Partner/Spouse Caregiver Bone Health Lecture: “Surprising Facts Feb 13 Support Group about the Effects of Water Minerals & Garden Club: “Cool Season 12-1:30pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free. Dairy on Bone Density,” Vegetables” 1-2pm @ Avenidas. Free. 1-2:30pm @ Avenidas. Feb 24 Feb 7 Call 650-289-5400 to register. Free. Hearing Screening provided by Pacific Hearing of Los Altos Boomer Bootcamp: Firming Up Valentine’s Day Dance 9am-1pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400 Your Financial Fitness 2:30-4:30-pm @ Avenidas. Free. 8:30am-4pm @ Mitchell Park Community Center. for appt. Free. Call 650-289-5435 to register. Feb 16 Experts will discuss: CTAP phone giveaway Avenidas closed. • Retirement Readiness Feb 9 9am-1pm @ Avenidas. Screening required. • Social Security Strategies Partner/Spouse Caregiver Support Feb 17 Call 650-289-5400 for appt. Free. Group HICAP appts available • Health Insurance Costs Avenidas Village Coffee Chat 12-1:30pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free. 10am-12pm • Investments and Cash Flow 10am @ Avenidas. RSVP required. @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400 for appt. Free. • Legal/Trust Issues 16mm Film Screening: Call 650-2895405 “His Girl Friday” Feb 18 ...and more Feb 26 2:30-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free. Mindfulness Meditation Caregiver 101 Free Workshop: 2-3pm @ Avenidas. Free. “Health Services Available for Help 1-on-1 computer tutoring at Home” appts. available. Call 650-308-4252. $5/$10 3-4:30pm @Avenidas RSVP to (650) 289-5400 Complete schedule or info about Avenidas events, call 650-289-5400

www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 21 Living Well Making the decision to move, selling your home, and moving is a big job. Senior Focus

BOOMING ALONG ... Saturday, Feb. 7, is the day for Boomer Bootcamp, It doesn’t have to be overwhelming. a planning workshop for Baby Boomers pondering retirement, You don’t have to do it all alone. sponsored by the City of Palo Alto and Avenidas. Keynote speaker Richard Adler of the Institute for the Future will discuss what the next Nancy and her experienced team 20 years hold for Baby Boomers. Morning and afternoon sessions will help boomers create a vision for will assist you from start to finish. their retirement and plan for it. Free NANCY GOLDCAMP consultations with certified financial planners will be offered. The boot Planning Prioritizing Pricing and marketing your home camp runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Seniors Real Estate Specialist at Mitchell Park Community Center. Completing the myriad of forms Negotiating offers Certified Residential Specialist $70 same-day registration fee in- cludes box lunch and coffee drinks. Managing the escrow process Packing Cleaning (650) 752-0720 Estate Sales Donations www.nancygoldcamp.com KNOW THE SIGNS ... If you or DRE # 00787851 someone you know is experiencing Finalizing your sale while coordinating with you and your family memory loss or behavioral changes, it’s time to learn the facts. Early de- or advisors to assure a successful outcome tection of Alzheimer’s disease gives you a chance to begin drug therapy, enroll in clinical studies and plan for the future. An interactive workshop sponsored by the Alzheimer’s As- sociation will discuss 10 warning signs and show video clips of people with Alzheimer’s. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Peninsula Volunteers Rosener House, 500 Arbor Road, Menlo Park. For more information, email fmarchick@peninsulavolun- teers.org or call 650-322-0126.

J-THURSDAYS ... Enjoy a hot lunch and social hour followed by an engaging program at J-Thursdays, offered the second and fourth Thurs- day of every month at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center. This month’s events are Feb. 12 and Feb. 26 from 11 a.m to 1 p.m.. First-time participants get lunch free, and help with transportation may be available. For more information contact Jennifer O’Leary at 650 223- Our life here 8664 or [email protected].

MOVE TO THE MUSIC ... A free Val- entine’s Dance will be held Friday, Joann and Samuel Meredith, joined in 2014 Feb. 13, from 2:30 to 4:30 at Aveni- das, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto.

Lifestyle With A LUNCH AND THEATER OUTING ... Enjoy a madcap journey in search of the meaning of life with a perfor- mance of a Hugh Wheeler adapta- tion of Voltaire’s Candide with music by Leonard Bernstein. The perfor- VIEW mance will be presented by Lamp- lighters Music Theater at the Moun- How would you describe Webster House, Palo Alto’s most appealing senior living community? tain View Center for Performing Arts, With only thirty-seven apartment homes, “intimate’ seems to top the list. And our staff, preceded by lunch at Morocco’s restaurant. Price includes round-trip amenities, services, and menus are pretty remarkable, too. Come by and see why people are bus transportation from the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, talking. To learn more, or for your personal visit, please call 650.838.4004. lunch and orchestra seats for the show. Sunday, Feb. 22, departing at 11 a.m. and returning at 5:30 p.m. $45 for JCC members, $65 for the general public, 65 and older. To reg- ister call 650-223-8700.

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More than 50 years on, a cappella thrives at Stanford

by Elizabeth Schwyzer

t’s a Friday evening on the lent. Twenty-two college students “You can blow out the candle,/ just right. tions and give them space to think Stanford campus, and as the form a circle, standing shoulder but you can’t blow out that fire./ Outside on the steps of Har- is really cool,” he says. “It’s such I sun sinks behind the Dish, to shoulder. Tall and short, dark- Once the flames begin to catch/ mony House, publicity director a privilege.” the members of one student cho- skinned and light, male and fe- the wind will blow them higher,” Charlie Yang chats about the en- ral ensemble make their way to male; together they form the very the students sing, closing their semble’s history. Founded in 1990 n the 2012 film, “Pitch Per- rehearsal. picture of diversity and solidarity. eyes at the crescendos as if savor- and inspired by the Anti-Apart- fect,” a reluctant college Inside the appropriately named Then they begin to sing a song ing them before they fade. heid Movement, Talisman began I freshman with dreams of a Harmony House where they hold of yearning and power and defi- With a few weeks to go before by singing the songs of that strug- career in the music industry finds rehearsals, the living room is al- ance. Bass, tenor, alto and soprano their 25th anniversary concert, gle and of the African diaspora. her tribe in a group of social mis- ready full of sound: Members notes dance in the air like sparks, the 22 members of Talisman are The group has since expanded to fits who like to sing. The film’s greet each other with exclama- making the small room seem to focused; they spend hours each include world music from a range success was as unexpected as its tions of joy; they giggle and hug shimmer. As the energy of the week rehearsing their repertoire, of cultures. story of a ho-hum vocal group and chatter excitedly. Yet when song builds, its soaring harmonies repeating the tougher phrases “For me, the greatest part of updating its repertoire and going it’s time to sing, the room falls si- reflect the lyrics. again and again until they sound Talisman is the sense of cathar- on to win a national champion- sis,” says Yang, a sophomore ship; Jason Moore’s directorial who’s majoring in human biology debut became the second-high- and who joined the group fresh- est-grossing musical comedy of man year. He goes on to talk about all time. “Shosholoza,” a Zulu call-and-re- If it seems unlikely that a movie sponse song traditionally sung by about college kids’ choral compe- workers boarding trains and head- titions should have won such mass ing to the diamond mines. appeal, it’s just as surprising that “Parts of it translate to ‘move a cappella itself ever captured the forward’ — it embodies that sense hearts of so many. Yet at Stanford of progress,” Yang says with a as at so many other universities, tone of somber respect. “The way colleges and high schools around we start the song, you can actu- the world, the art of the small, in- ally hear the train whistle in the strument-free vocal ensemble has chord.” He lists some of the other grown from a fringe element to a songs in the group’s repertoire: thriving subculture. It’s a pastime African-American spirituals, Na- as expressive of school spirit as tive-American songs, a traditional football, and even more inclusive. Korean melody, a Taiwanese lul- It’s the art form that equally em- laby. Because of the nature of braces the misfits and the popular their songs, Yang explains, Talis- kids, the class clowns and the seri- man is often invited to sing at re- ous students. In a cappella, there’s ligious events and even memorial room for pretty much everyone. services. A brief history: Originally a “Helping people process emo- term used to describe solo or

Veronica Weber Veronica Top: Talisman director Harry Levine, far left, leads the group in rehearsal for their 25th anniversary show. Left: On a Friday afternoon, members of Talisman sing a traditional Zulu song for a gathering crowd.

PagePage 2244 • FebruarFebruaryy 6, 2015 • Palo Alto WeeklWeeklyy • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Cover Story ensemble singing without instru- nearly 30. mentation (the name is Italian for At the same time that Hare was “in the manner of the chapel”), pioneering a new way to record a cappella was primarily per- a cappella, the popularity of the formed in religious settings until form was taking off. On a national the early 20th century. In 1909, scale the Contemporary A Cap- Yale University became home to pella Society of America (CASA) The Whiffenpoofs, the nation’s was founded in 1991 to promote oldest a cappella ensemble and interaction and collaboration be- a hybrid between a traditional tween a cappella groups across glee club and a vocal quartet. As the United States. Stylistically, a the name, drawn from a popular movement began away from tra- Broadway song of the era, sug- ditional jazz arrangements and gests, an irreverent attitude was toward contemporary pop music, key to the emerging collegiate a with vocal percussion styles like cappella style. Schools across the beatboxing becoming the norm. East Coast and Midwest began to At Stanford, the all-male Men- form their own a cappella groups. dicants had been singing tradi- Over the years, the musical styles tional, barbershop doo-wop a of these groups shifted, absorb- cappella since a Yale transfer stu- ing the sound of the barbershop dent founded the group in 1963. quartets of the 1930s and ’40s, the The Mendicants were alone on doo-wop stylings of the ’50s and the Stanford campus until 1979, ’60s and the pop and rock music when a group of women formed of the later 20th century. the all-female group Counterpoint Veronica Weber Alongside the singing, many in 1979, shortly followed by an- Peter Kurzner, center, with mic, and his fellow Mendicants bring old-school charm to their traditional a groups adopted other elements of other all-male group, Fleet Street, cappella arrangements. performance including physical in 1981. theater, skits and comic routines Between 1987 and 1991, the into their shows; at the Mendi- perience. Today, there are no less to keep college audiences enter- hen freshman Gina de number of a cappella groups on cants’ winter concert in late Janu- than 10 a cappella ensembles on tained. Luca showed up in the the Stanford campus doubled, ary, the evening’s musical line-up the Stanford campus. While today’s a cappella groups W mid-’80s, she assessed with Everyday People (Motown/ was punctuated by a series of “Years ago, we had no idea share plenty in common with their her options and decided to audi- soul/funk/hip-hop) in 1987, Tal- Scooby-Doo skits, complete with (a cappella) would explode like early 20th-century predecessors, tion for Fleet Street, despite the isman (world music) in 1990 and costumes and some surprisingly this,” de Luca reflected. “I think much has changed since the birth fact that the group had never in- Harmonics (rock and roll) and accurate vocal impersonations on it’s wonderful for the university: of collegiate a cappella, from the cluded women. Testimony (Christian music) in the part of Shaggy and Scooby. A cappella groups are great am- range of styles represented to the “To me they were simply the 1991. Some of When not dressed bassadors in the community and art form’s visibility and competi- best at the time: best repertoire, these groups have in drag or sport- for prospective students. The East tive nature, to technological de- high-energy, clever, funny — all since gained na- ‘ The East Coast ing ears and tails, Coast schools now aren’t the only velopments that have allowed the the things I wanted to be part tional and global the Mendicants ones having all the a cappella fun.” recording of professional albums. of,” de Luca remembered. After recognition: The schools now wore matching red Music department chair Ste- According to a cappella pro- a great audition and a callback, Harmonics’ 2008 aren’t the only blazers and crisp phen Sano, who directs the Stan- ducer and recording engineer Bill she waited to hear what they album “Escape khakis for a hail- ford Chamber Chorale and Stan- Hare, there are more than 3,000 would decide. Apparently, the 16 Velocity” earned ones having all fellow-well-met ford Symphonic Chorus, shares de collegiate a cappella groups in members of Fleet Street held an numerous Contem- the a cappella fraternity vibe. Luca’s enthusiasm for the form. America today. Back in the late all-night meeting trying to reach porary A Cappella The lecture hall Every year, a few members of his 1980s when he first began work- a unanimous agreement to admit Recording Awards fun.’ where they per- selective choral groups are also ing with Stanford a cappella their first female member, but one or CARAs — the – Gina de Luca, formed was filled active in the a cappella commu- groups in his San Jose record- member refused to vote for de international a cap- Stanford alumna beyond capacity; nity. ing studio, Hare estimates there Luca, insisting that Fleet Street pella equivalent of students sat in the A cappella groups, Sano noted, were about 150 such ensembles should remain all male. By morn- a Grammy. aisles, whooping bring “exciting richness to the nationwide. The Grammy Award- ing, it was clear he wasn’t going to In more recent years, groups and screaming with laughter. variety of vocal ensemble mu- winning producer is widely con- change his mind. including Raagapella (Bollywood Yet neither comedy nor match- sic that’s available to students. sidered the patriarch of a cap- Undaunted, de Luca decided to and South Asian fusion, formed ing outfits are required for an a The same student can be in an a pella recording; he has recorded form her own group. Mixed Com- in 2002) and Volta (vocal jazz, cappella group to gain recognition cappella group doing their own or mixed albums for many of the pany was Stanford’s first co-ed a founded in 2013) have given voice and popularity at Stanford. Today, arranging and composing in the best a cappella groups around the cappella ensemble. to other musical interests and to there’s a fan base to support every morning, and can be singing a world. “By 1988, Mixed Company was the Stanford student body’s in- style, from the most earnest and Haydn mass with a professional “I started with the Mendicants a dynamic, immensely popular creasing cultural diversity. Mean- traditional to the most experi- orchestra the next day.” in 1988, and I’ve done just about group,” de Luca recalled. “The while, some of the older groups mental to the downright wacky. every Stanford a cappella album ‘boy-girl’ experiment had abso- including Fleet Street and the A cappella in its many guises mong those students who since,” Hare explained over the lutely succeeded — and then the Mendicants have become known has become a defining part of split their time between phone earlier this week. “Right ball just started rolling.” for incorporating sketch comedy the Stanford undergraduate ex- A classical and contempo- this very moment I’m in the rary choral music is freshman middle of the mix for Home Free, Jeremy Raven, who also happens the winners of (NBC reality TV to be de Luca’s son. As a tenor show) ‘The Sing-Off’ last year. with the Stanford Chamber Cho- I just got a Platinum record for rale and a member of Fleet Street working with (Texas-based a cap- (yes, his mother wholeheartedly pella group) Pentatonix. Stanford approves of his choice), Raven’s a cappella was where it all started extra-curricular schedule is full for me.” — and that’s in addition to his Back in the late ’80s, Hare studies. Yet to see him perform, explained, “No collegiate a cap- one would think he had hardly a pella group’s albums sounded that care in the world. good because they weren’t really It’s all part of the carefree style thought of in a contemporary way. of Fleet Street, still an all-male I realized these groups weren’t re- group as they approach their 35th cording barbershop quartets and anniversary. If Talisman tends choral music; they were recording toward the reverent and the Men- stuff like Duran Duran. I thought, dicants toward the irreverent, ‘OK, if they’re going to sing it Fleet Street’s style, said director

that way, let’s record it like pop Weber Veronica Weston Gaylord, might be char- music.’” His approach has since acterized as “zany.” become the industry standard. “We’ll do live skits during our Today, most Stanford a cappella shows, but I think the core of groups have at least one album to their name; the Mendicants have All-male a cappella group Fleet Street prides itself on bringing a lighthearted attitude to the art form. (continued on next page)

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the Stanford Bookstore for what- Singing ever crowd gathers. Last week, the (continued from previous page) sun was shining as they warmed up for the show. Before they Fleet Street is more about origi- went on, they invited members of nality than humor,” Gaylord ex- Mixed Company to take the stage plained. “We try to be funny, but for a couple of poppy top 40 hits, if we miss, we end up more on the followed by a group of Talisman side of weird than banal.” More members who gave a rousing ren- than some groups, Fleet Street dition of the traditional Zulu song, sings exclusively original compo- “The Gates of Heaven Are Open,” sitions and arrangements. Among and reminded listeners of their up- these is a song they rewrite every coming concert on Feb. 8. few years — “Greatest Hits of Then, with a resounding battle the 1590s” — in which they set cry, the members of Fleet Street modern pop lyrics to medieval came bounding out of the crowd, Gregorian-style chanting. yelling and leaping, running in Every Friday afternoon at 4 circles as if crazed and eventually p.m., Fleet Street performs outside shuffling into place for a short set:

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8:30 A.M., Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Palo Alto Council Mixed Company, Stanford’s oldest co-ed a cappella group, focuses primarily on pop top 40 songs. Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue. Plans may be reviewed at the Development Center at 285 an original song about outer space, beautiful things I’ve heard in a SEE MORE ONLINE Hamilton Avenue or online at: http://www.cityofpaloalto. a comical Fleet Street arrange- long time.” Q www.PaloAltoOnline.com org/planningprojects; contact Diana Tamale for additional ment of Aretha’s Franklin’s “Natu- Arts & Entertainment Editor ral Woman” (with baby-faced Ra- Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed Watch YouTube videos of Stanford a information during business hours at 650.329.2144. cappella groups in the online version ven singing lead) and finally the at [email protected]. of this story at PaloAltoOnline.com. latest rendition of “Greatest Hits To learn about upcoming concerts, 939 University Avenue [14PLN-00334]: Request by Joyce of the 1590s,” featuring Taylor hear songs and more, visit the What: Talisman’s 25th Wang, on behalf of Weina Yu, for Historic Resources Swift’s “Shake if Off” (“For the following websites: anniversary concert Board Review of exterior alteration and additions (99 sf minstrel he shall play play, play, Counterpoint: Where: Bing Concert Hall, 327 RQÀUVWÁRRUDQGVIRQVHFRQGÁRRU WRDQH[LVWLQJ play, play, play”) and Pharell Wil- counterpointacappella.com liams’ “Happy” sung as a mourn- Lasuen St., Stanford Everyday People: Category 2 residence in the R-1 zone district. ful dirge, complete with a swaying When: Sunday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m. everydaypeople.org monastic procession. Cost: $10-25 Fleet Street: fleetstreet.com $P\)UHQFK&KLHI3ODQQLQJ2IÀFLDO With a lash-flutteringly pious Info: Go to live.stanford.edu or Harmonics: stanfordharmonics. “Amen,” they fell silent, and there call 650-724-2464. com Mendicants: stanfordmendicants. The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against was a beat before the crowd of 100 or so burst into spontaneous com individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation applause, whistling and shouting Mixed Company: mixedco.com for this meeting or an alternative format for any related with appreciation. As the clapping About the cover: Talisman Raagapella: raagapella.com printed materials, please contact the City’s ADA died down, one young woman in members Maya Delaney, Talisman: stanfordtalisman.com &RRUGLQDWRU DW  YRLFH  RU E\ HPDLOLQJ the audience sighed deeply. left, and Chris Sackes Testimony: web.stanford.edu/ rehearse at Harmony House. group/tmony [email protected]. “That,” she said to no one in particular, “was one of the most Photo by Veronica Weber. Volta: stanfordvolta.com

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Restoration Advisory Board Meeting 5:00 P.M., Tuesday, February 10, 2015, Lucie Stern, &RPPXQLW\5RRP0LGGOHðHOG5G3DOR$OWR February 2015 94301 The next regular meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) for former Naval Air Station (NAS) Moffett Field will be held on: The City of Palo Alto’s Comprehensive Plan Update Leadership Group will be meeting to discuss Thursday, February 12, 2015, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at: community engagement opportunities for the City’s 2030 Comprehensive Plan. The group’s primary role Mountain View Senior Center Social Hall is to assist with community engagement during the 266 Escuela Avenue Comprehensive Plan Update planning process. If you have any questions or you would like additional Mountain View, CA 94040-1813 information about the Comprehensive Plan Update, please contact Consuelo Hernandez, Senior The RAB reviews and comments on plans and activities about the ongoing environmental studies and restoration Planner, at 650-329-2428 or Consuelo.hernandez@ activities underway at Moffett Field. Regular RAB meetings are open to the public and the Navy encourages your cityofpaloalto.org. involvement. To review documents on Moffett Field environmental restoration projects, please visit the information repository located at the Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View, CA 94041, (650) 903-6337. The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. To request an For more information, contact Mr. Scott Anderson, Navy Base Realignment and Closure Environmental Coordinator at accommodation for this meeting or an alternative (619) 532-0938 or [email protected]. format for any related printed materials, please Visit the Navy’s website: http://www.bracpmo.navy.mil/brac_bases/california/former_nas_moffett_field.html contact the City’s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing [email protected].

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Castilleja students and Ada’s Cafe associates have gotten to know each other through the process of rehearsal. David Teichmann

Dance Workshop Production members Abby Alter and Beca

David Teichmann Ramon have choreographed a dance for nearly 40 students set to Ada’s Cafe associate Charlie Hughes, left, and Castilleja student “Heroes (we Elena Gadekar rehearse together.g could be)” by Swedish DJ Alesso. A giant leap for Weber Veronica Castilleja School dance production humankind supports Palo Alto nonprofit by Elizabeth Schwyzer

n a weekday at noon, they coordinate performers and social issue, to consider how art was a student. Once he gradu- it’s lunchtime for the props backstage, work the sound can address social change and to ated, she expanded the program 444 students of Cas- booth and lighting board and call integrate their findings into the to the larger community, em- tilleja School. But down in the the cues. In short, they’re a full- production. ploying adults with disabilities dance studio, the teenage mem- fledged production team. Though Shea has been at the and running Ada’s as a catering Obers of this year’s Dance Produc- Lining the dance-studio walls helm of Arts with a Heart from business because retail rents were

tion Workshop (DPW, for short) O’Malley Colleen are posters from past seasons the beginning, she credits Cas- prohibitive. Finally last month, sit huddled around their laptops of Arts with a Heart. Sweeping tilleja students for helping launch Ada’s Cafe moved into a dedicat- on the hardwood floor, working a graceful arm through the air, the program. ed space at the new Mitchell Park away, their shoes and backpacks Shea recounts a few of the or- “The first year, two students Library and Community Center. piled beside them. In the center of ganizations and causes they’ve came in and wanted to do some- Ada’s is open six days a week, the studio, cast members from the Dance instructor Georgianna chosen to support in the past: thing with Eastside Prep School serving breakfast, lunch and light upcoming show spend precious Shea oversees the Arts with a education for young women in for Save the Children,” Shea re- dinner. The cafe’s mission is to minutes of their lunch hour going Heart program at Castilleja the Dominican Republic (The called. “I liked the idea of them serve high-quality food, to bring over their moves and sharing tips School. Mariposa DR Foundation), giv- having a purpose and not just people together who may not have on dance technique. At the side ing thanks to American service- dancing to dance — dancing for the opportunity to connect other- of the room, another member of men and servicewomen abroad something bigger than them- wise and to empower its associ- DPW stands beside a rack of cos- member Georgianna Shea over- (USO), an anti-bullying campaign selves.” ates — as well as the volunteers tumes wielding a hot-glue gun. sees the annual production, but (No Bully), and environmental In past years, Arts with a Heart and customers who interact with They’re all preparing for “Hu- Castilleja upper school students awareness (Collective Roots). has often chosen to contribute to them. manKIND,” a dance show with a enrolled in the DPW elective Last year’s Arts with a Heart causes far from home. This year, purpose and a message. have a significant share of re- production, “Girl Power,” raised all proceeds from “HumanKIND” When the curtains rise on Feb. sponsibility for the show. Each of $26,000 for girls in the Domini- will go to a truly homegrown or- What: “HumanKIND,” a produc- 6, they will do so on the 11th an- them has a title — Head of Cast can Republic through ticket sales ganization: Ada’s Cafe, the Palo tion of Arts with a Heart to benefit nual production of Arts with a Communciations, Chief Financial and online donations. Each year, Alto nonprofit established in 2008 Ada’s Cafe Heart, a performing-arts program Officer, Head of Public Relations, the members of DPW review ap- to hire and train people with dis- Where: Castilleja School, at Castilleja that combines dance Creative Producer. Between them, plications from nonprofit orga- abilities in a commercial food- 1310 Bryant St., Palo Alto and philanthropy. This year’s they do everything from select- nizations and select the recipient service environment. When: Friday, Feb. 6-Saturday, show draws together more than ing the music, choreographing for the following year’s Arts with Ada’s Cafe founder Kathleen Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, 120 students in grades 6 through dances and running rehearsals to a Heart program. In choosing a Foley-Hughes started out running Feb. 8, at 2 p.m. 12 from the private, all-girls Palo fundraising, promoting the show cause, they girls are doing more vocational education programs Cost: $15-$30 Alto school, most of whom will on social media, managing the than deciding to whom proceeds for students with disabilities at Info: Go to castilleja.org/AwaH or appear on stage. website and tracking ticket sales. will be earmarked. They’re agree- Terman Middle and Gunn High ArtswithaHeart.org or call 650- Program founder and faculty Once the show is up and running, ing to educate themselves about a schools, where her son Charlie 328-3160. Page 28 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Arts & Entertainment

“We’re part of the Castilleja and long weekend rehearsals. attending Saturday rehearsals at an original song written specifical- exposure to people and situations family,” said Foley-Hughes as “I’ve been in the shows for many Castilleja. Asked whether they ly for the show by Castilleja alum- they might not otherwise experi- she sat in the office adjacent to years, but being behind the scenes were having fun in rehearsals, na and USC senior Leila Milkie. ence was invaluable. the school’s dance studio, watch- you really see how much it takes,” Ada’s co-workers Charlie Hughes The show incorporates a range of To Peter Hughes, director of ing the girls rehearse. She was sophomore and DPW member and Krissy Ferkol were adamant: dance styles, from ballet and lyrical communications and human re- referring both to the many stu- Wallis Hess explained. “It’s mean- “Uh huh!” they cried in unison. to hip hop and contemporary, with sources at Ada’s (as well as son of dents who volunteer at Ada’s and ingful to know that we’re contrib- “Do I yell a lot?” asked Shea a little documentary film and sing- Kathleen and brother of Charlie), to her business’ partnership with uting to the community.” teasingly. Hughes and Ferkol sat ing thrown in for good measure. the best thing about Arts with a Castilleja’s Center for Awareness, Senior Clare Maloney-McCrys- in complete silence for a moment The show is appropriate for audi- Heart is the way it unites people. Compassion and Engagement, or tle agreed. then burst into laughter. ence members of all ages. “In a time when community ACE Center, which partners with “Not only do I love to dance, but Among the 14 acts that make Shea said it’s gratifying to see is not always at the forefront of regional nonprofits and communi- I love the idea of using the arts to up “HumanKIND” are “Heroes her students dancing alongside people’s minds, it’s nice to see ty organizations including Ada’s. benefit others,” she said. (we could be)” set to music by adults with disabilities and getting everyone come together in this For the dance-production team For the first time this year, Swedish DJ Alesso and “We Are to know them better. way,” he said. Q at Castilleja, creating a show they members of the show’s benefit- More Alike,” which incorporates “For me, it’s important that they Arts & Entertainment Edi- know will directly support the ing organization will actually text from Maya Angelou’s poem, learn something,” she said. Foley- tor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be work of Ada’s Cafe brings mean- join the cast on stage. Eleven of “Human Family.” Also in the Hughes shared the sentiment, not- emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. ing to all those working lunches Ada’s Cafe associates have been soundtrack is “Human Together,” ing that for Ada’s associates, the com.

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Study Session 1. Study Session on Railroad Quiet Zones in Palo Alto Consent Calendar Reading 2. Finance Committee Recommendation to Accept Macias Gini & O’Connell’s Audit of the City of Palo Alto’s Financial Statements as of June 30, 2014 and Management Letter WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2015 8:00 PM 3. Finance Committee Recommendation to Adopt an Ordinance Authorizing the Closing of the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget, Including Re-appropriation CEMEX AUDITORIUM, ZAMBRANO HALL, Requests, Closing Completed Capital Projects and Authorizing Transfers to Reserves, and Approval of the Fiscal Year 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) KNIGHT MANAGEMENT CENTER 4. Approval of a Contract Amendment in the Amount of $63,000 to Contract No. C14149978 With Dyett and Bhatia Urban and Regional Planners for 641 KNIGHT WAY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY Additional Data Collection and Analysis Related to Downtown Retail and Residential Uses 5. Authorization to Operate the Golf Course from March 1, 2015 to June 30, 2015 and Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance to Increase Golf FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Course Revenues Estimate in the Amount of $106,000, Provide Additional Appropriation of $289,424 in Budget for Expenses, and Reduce the Operat- ing Loss Reserve by $183,424 Information: 650.723.0011 http://creativewriting.stanford.edu 6. Policy and Services Committee Recommendation of Changes to the Board and Commission Recruitment Program Including Adoption of an Ordinance Sponsored by Stanford University Creative Writing Program Re-aligning Terms on the Architectural Review Board, the Historic Resourc- es Board, the Parks and Recreation Commission and the Planning and Transportation Commission; Adoption of a Resolution Re-aligning Terms on the Storm Drain Oversight Committee; Allowing for Remote Board and Commission Interviews; Limit Applicants to One Board or Commission Each ß Recruitment 7. SECOND READING: Adoption of an Ordinance Increasing Council Salary

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www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 33 Eating Out Cantonesecomfort food Cooking Papa in Mountain View hits some dim sum, but not all by Sheila Himmel • photos by Veronica Weber ou can never go home again, the old adage warns. But it turns out you can — if you grew Y up going to Cantonese restaurants in the United States or if home is Hong Kong. Cooking Papa is here to help. In mid-May, Mountain View welcomed the youngest Cooking Papa location, with the owners re- claiming a Sizzler on El Camino Real. Fans of the Foster City and Santa Clara Cooking Papas got Among the tastiest items on excited, then disappointed when it the menu at Cooking Papa are closed for remodeling until early the Hong Kong-style fried egg January. Although driving up to puffs, rolled in sugar and served the building you might still think piping hot. “Sizzler,” the renewed dining flight and eat here!” one said. room offers fish tanks, colorfully Another attraction is that the res- tiled walls, views into the glassed- taurant serves dim sum at lunch on in kitchen and two giant TV sets weekdays (except Tuesdays when running a continuous loop of they are closed). Instead of servers Cooking Papa cooking videos. coming around with carts, you get Food quality has been erratic. a golf pencil to mark a sheet list- With close to 200 menu items, ing a wide variety of dumplings, Cooking Papa (more on the name shrimp balls and steamed buns. later) has something for everybody Dishes are served hot from the — unless that somebody is on a kitchen in bamboo baskets. low-carb diet. The menu’s four pil- For the go-to dim sum dish, har lars are rice, rice noodles, egg noo- gow ($4.50), Cooking Papa serves dles and congee (rice porridge). up four fat dumplings, chunks of For fans, Cooking Papa conjures shrimp and bamboo shoots stuffed the pace and Cantonese comfort into pleated, translucent wrappers. Roast Peking ducks glisten in the kitchen window of Cooking Papa in Mountain View. foods of busy restaurants in Hong They are good though not cheap, Kong. “Save yourself a 15-hour lings called shumai ($4.50), which The 20-page menu’s organi- Castro Street downtown. Servers as are the upward-facing dump- had a touch more seasoning and a zation plan is a little confusing. are easy to spot in their Cooking lot of chopped pork. Vegetarians have it easy: All their Papa shirts. A very nice feature is The best dim sum dish was dishes are helpfully colored green. to have all the larger, banquet-size one we’d seen them make on the Peking duck ($11.95 for half) tables with Lazy Susans in a sepa- restaurant TVs. Sweet and flaky, is on the signature page, and you rate section. The rest of the room is the barbecued pork puff ($3.50) is may notice the ducks glistening in a sea of dark square tables that can baked till the sesame seeds pop on the kitchen window. Don’t fall for be expanded into circles. top. One order gets you one sweet their allure. As a friend reminded The name, Cooking Papa, seems pastry divided into three squares. me later, this is not a Cantonese to be drawn from Cooking Mama, Also available at dinner, the dish. a series of smartphone games fea- wide flaps of steamed rice noodle One other signature dish was turing a Hello Kitty-type cartoon ® rolls come with a variety of meats disappointing. The special egg girl (“Cooking Mama: Shop and and vegetables and seasoned soy tofu with assorted vegetables Chop,” “Cooking Mama: Din- sauce poured over the dish. The ($12.50) was bland and stingy. ner With Friends”). The face of chicken with bitter melon roll Keep in mind that Cantonese Cooking Papa is a happy, well-fed ($5.80) contained tender strips of food is not Szechuan food. You cartoon chef, heavily mustachioed meat and the appropriately named may want to use the chili sauce, and sporting a red bandana. He vegetable. Chow fun with beef and vinegar and soy sauce provided. looks like a nice guy. Q soy sauce ($8.75) was redolent of And although Cooking Papa in star anise. Mountain View serves seafood, Cooking Papa 1962 W. El Cami- Of all the carb variations, most this is not a seafood restaurant. no Real, Mountain View; 650- exciting was the signature dessert, The specialness about Cooking 988-6809; mycookingpapa.com three giant Hong Kong-style fried Papa’s brand of Cantonese com- Hours: Monday-Friday: 11 a.m.-3 egg puffs ($4.25), dusted in pow- fort food is in its reach: from pork p.m., 5-9:45 p.m.; Saturday-Sun- dered sugar and too hot to eat right intestines to plain porridge. Drinks day:10:30 a.m.-3 p.m., 5-9:45 ® away. range from Coke to iced milk tea p.m. Closed Tuesday. We had poor luck with soup. with black grass jelly. You can pre- The DeLeon Difference  Reservations  Highchairs Braised beef brisket noodle soup order private banquet dishes from (for eight or 650.650.8500 ($8.50) was paltry for the price a separate menu, share the seven- more)  Banquet and lukewarm. Another day, from course business lunch ($65 for four  Credit cards  Catering www.deleonrealty.com the page of signature dishes, we to six people) or drown your sor- chose shrimp wonton noodle soup rows in a bowl of congee.  Lot Parking Outdoor ($6.95), which was also tepid and The ambiance of Cooking Papa seating  Alcohol: beer 650.543.8500 | www.deleonrealty.com | DeLeon Realty CalBRE #01903224 garnished with two spears of Chi- falls somewhere between Panda and wine Noise level: nese broccoli. Express and Fu Lam Mum on Medium-high  Takeout Page 34 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Computer Systems Associate

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But, oddly, not more fun. or by crook (the aforementioned — Peter Canavese Sea-minus for effort Latest ‘SpongeBob Movie’ isn’t so absorbing 00 (Century 16, Century 20) The sixth season of the long- running show “South Park” (18 seasons and counting) included an episode titled “Simpsons Al- ready Did It,” bemoaning how the Paramount Pictures venerable animated sitcom (26 seasons and counting) had been everywhere, done everything first. It’s a notion that leaps to mind Patrick the starfish finds himself captivated by the 3-D pleasures of (continued on page 36) Salty Shoals: beach bodies and tasty treats. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 35 ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE Movies BEST ACTRESS JULIANNE MOORE “A REMARKABLE FEAT OF ACTING.” Openings MOVIE TIMES -A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES (continued from page 35) JULIANNE MOORE ALEC BALDWIN KRISTEN STEWART All showtimes are for Friday – Sunday only unless otherwise noted. For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. STILL ALICE while watching “The SpongeBob Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN AND DIRECTED BY RICHARD GLATZER & WASH WESTMORELAND WWW.SONYCLASSICS.COM Movie: Sponge Out of Water,” a A Most Violent Year (R) +++1/2 READ THE NOVEL FROM GALLERY BOOKS TV-to-feature-film sequel that, Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 4:40, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:45 p.m., Sun 2:20 p.m.

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Now the sequel to 2004’s Century 20: 10:25 p.m., Fri & Sat 7:35 p.m., Sun 8:35 p.m. a guideid to t the th spiritual i it l community “The SpongeBob SquarePants Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) (Not Rated) Movie” arrives to flog a dead Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m. (sea)horse. The film’s promotion The Imitation Game (PG-13) +++ has centered around SpongeBob Century 16: 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:35 p.m. at last being in 3-D, including se- Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m. Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) ++ quences blending live-action foot- Century 16: 1:30, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. In 3-D at 10:30 a.m., noon, 3, 4:30, 6:10 age and 3-D computer-generated & 9:15 p.m. Century 20: 12:45, 6:45 & 9:45 p.m. In 3-D at 11:25 a.m., 3:45, 5 & versions of the familiar 2-D mod- 10:30 p.m. In X-D at 2:10 & 7:50 p.m. els. Guess what? “Simpsons” al- The Loft (R) ready did it (in 1995’s “Treehouse Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 4:25 & 10:10 p.m. of Horror VI”). Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: Animation (Not Rated) More importantly, “Sponge Out Guild Theatre: 2:15 & 7:15 p.m. of Water” treads water with a plot Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: Live Action (Not Rated) line that’s as old as the gills, and Guild Theatre: 4:15 & 9:15 p.m. sadly accurate self-reflexive jokes Paddington (PG) Century 16: 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 7:05 & 9:40 p.m. about a protracted running time. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:35, 4:05, 6:55 & 9:25 p.m. Anchored as always by apple- Project Almanac (PG-13) cheeked sea sponge SpongeBob Century 16: 11:40 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m. (Tom Kenny), the cast of literally Century 20: 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 8 & 10:45 p.m. bubbly characters find their most Rear Window (1954) (Not Rated) Inspirations is a resource for ongoing religious basic plot scenario (fast-food Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 3:25 p.m. services and special events. To inquire about competitor Plankton steals the The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1957) (R) or to reserve space in Inspirations, secret recipe to the Krusty Krab’s Guild Theatre: Sat at midnight please contact Blanca Yoc at 223-6596 addictive Krabby Patty) dressed Saboteur (1942) (PG) or email [email protected] up with hyperbolic plot accesso- Stanford Theatre: 5:30 & 9:40 p.m. ries including a time machine and Selma (PG-13) +++ a climax shifting from under-the- Century 20: 1, 4:10, 7:05 & 10:05 p.m. sea Bikini Bottom to live-action- Seventh Son (PG-13) Century 16: 11:50 a.m. & 7:40 p.m. In 3-D at 2:25, 5 & 10:20 p.m. land Salty Shoals. (Our world Century 20: 1:20, 6:40 & 9:20 p.m. In 3-D at 10:50 a.m., 2:25, 3:55 & 8 p.m. In holds a troublesome pirate named X-D at 11:40 a.m., 5:10 & 10:45 p.m. Burger Beard, played by a live- Shamitabh (Not Rated) GraphicDesigner action, scenery-chewing Antonio Century 16: 10:25 p.m., Fri & Sat 3:45 p.m., Sun 7:15 p.m. Banderas.) Spare Parts (PG-13) The film is often mildly amus- Century 20: 4:35 p.m. Embarcadero Media, producers of the Palo Alto Weekly, The ing, with a dedicated kookiness The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (G) ++ Almanac, Mountain View Voice, Pleasanton Weekly, PaloAltoOnline. (a food fight that’s an excuse for Century 16: 10:35 a.m., 1:05, 3:35 & 7:20 p.m. In 3-D at 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50 Century 20: com and several other community websites, is looking for a graphic lame puns: “Unleash the condi- & 9:50 p.m. 11 a.m., 12:45, 1:30, 3:15, 4, 6:30, 7:25 & 8:10 p.m. In ments!” “With relish”), wildly 3-D at noon, 2:30, 5, 5:45, 8:55, 10 & 10:35 p.m. designer to join its award-winning design team. Still Alice (PG-13) ++1/2 careening plot (Bikini Bottom Aquarius Theatre: 2:15, 4:40, 7:20 & 9:55 p.m. Design opportunities include online and print ad design and dissolves into a “post-apoca-wat- Strange Magic (PG) editorial page layout. Applicant must be fluent in InDesign, chamacallit”), and an overriding Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:15 & 4:45 p.m. comic optimism (rainbows, lol- Photoshop and Illustrator. Flash knowledge is a plus. Newspaper Taken 3 (PG-13) lipops, and needlepoint) playing Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 5:20 & 10:45 p.m. or previous publication experience is preferred, but we will consider into a nominal theme — complete The Theory of Everything (PG-13) ++ qualified — including entry level — candidates. Most importantly, with theme song — of teamwork. Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m. In the end, this sequel retains designer must be a team player and demonstrate speed, Two Days, One Night (PG-13) +++1/2 the series’ pleasing weirdness, but Century 16: 7:50 & 10:25 p.m. accuracy and thrive under deadline pressure. The position will be the concept dried up some time The Wedding Ringer (R) approximately 32 - 40 hours per week. ago. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 7:20 & 9:50 p.m. Rated PG for mild action and Whiplash (R) +++1/2 To apply, please send a resume along with samples of your work rude humor. One hour, 33 min- Aquarius Theatre: 4:20 & 7:05 p.m. Century 20: 8:10 p.m., Fri & Sat 2:25 p.m. as a PDF (or URL) to Lili Cao, Design & Production Manager, utes. Wild (R) +++ Aquarius Theatre: 1:45 & 9:30 p.m. at [email protected] — Peter Canavese + Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square (800-326-3264) 450 CAMBRIDGE AVENUE | PALO ALTO CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: Fri & Sat 2/6/2015 & 2/7/2015 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128) Birdman – 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 The Theory of Everything – 1:00, Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Free. Fun. Only about Palo Alto. Sun - Thurs 2/8/2015-2/12/2015 Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) 1 Birdman – 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more The Theory of Everything – 1:00, C R O S S W O R D S 4:00, 7:00 information about films playing, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies ON THE WEB: Up-to-date movie listings at PaloAltoOnline.com Visit www.paloaltoonline.com/puzzle Tickets and Showtimes available at cinemark.com

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www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 37 OPEN HOME GUIDE 57 Home & Real Estate Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com Home Front EARLY GARDENING TASKS ... UC Master Gardeners will offer three (free) 20-minute talks on drip-irrigation system maintenance, controlling weeds and starting warm-season veg- etables between 10 and 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Palo Alto Demonstration Garden, 851 Center Drive, Palo Alto. Info: Master Gardeners at 408-282- 3105, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Monday through Fri- day, or mastergardeners.org

LEARN TO QUILT ... Menlo Park Community Services is offering a class in “Beginning Quilting” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Mon- days, Feb. 9 to March 9, at the Arrillaga Family Recreation Cen- ter, 700 Alma St., Menlo Park. Taught by Christine Hopkins, the class will cover the basics, from cutting and piecing blocks to sewing a quilt top and putting it all together. Cost is $85 for non- residents, $64 for residents, plus a $5 materials fee payable to the instructor; sewing machines are available for use during class for $20. Info: 650-330-2200, menlo- park.org or [email protected]

EASY SPICY THAI ... Yanette Fichou-Edwards will teach a class on “Thai Cuisine” from 6:30

to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10, Photography Sterling Kelly at Palo Alto High School, Room 103, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. The menu includes Thai Salad Rolls; Tom Yum Soup with prawns; Pad Thai Noodles with scallions, cilantro and peanuts; and Thai Green Curry Chicken. Ursula Gallichotte in the kitchen at Filoli. Cost is $50. Info: 650-329-3752 or paadultschool.org

GROW YOUR OWN ... Candace Simpson will teach a class on A passion for chocolate “Sustainable Home Vegetable Gardening” from 7 to 9 p.m. on Local chef’s demonstration is part of Filoli’s opening event Tuesdays, Feb. 10 to March 17, at Palo Alto High School, by My Nguyen Room 1708, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. Topics covered enlo Park resident and chef chocolate-almond spread served on the California Culinary Academy in San in the class will include soil Ursula Gallichotte’s pas- toast. There will also be time for visitors Francisco and France where she trained. preparation; dealing with pests, Msion for cooking started in with an insatiable appetite for chocolate Gallichotte honed her cooking and weeds and diseases; fertilizers; her grandmother’s kitchen, acting as a to ask questions about cooking with con- baking skills at Bay Area restaurants irrigation methods; working with sous chef and watching her grandma fectionery. (including Flea Street Cafe in Menlo seeds and seedlings; identifying put together wholesome, home-cooked “I love cooking with chocolate be- Park), and through catering and provid- which crops do well in this area; meals. cause you know people love chocolate,” ing private chef services. While she en- and garden-planning tips. Cost Today her extensive resume includes Gallichotte said. “If somebody asks joyed the friendly and at times intense is $87. Info: 650-329-3752 or volunteering at Filoli for 15 years, host- what you’re having for dessert and you working environment in restaurants, Ga- paadultschool.org ing demonstrations and working at its say chocolate, they don’t care what it is. lichotte discovered a new love: teaching quaint cafe cooking for visitors. She It’s chocolate. It’s good.” others to cook. CARE FOR ROSES ... Mimi will demonstrate the art of cooking Visitors will not only learn about She became a cooking instructor at Clarke, former Filoli horticul- with chocolate when Filoli reopens for chocolate and see how the sweet treats Home Chef in downtown Palo Alto and turist, will teach two classes the spring season during its Valentine’s are made, but they will get to taste it continued to teach classes at different dealing with the care of roses Day-themed, two-day program called and even make it themselves at home sites after the Palo Alto location was on Wednesday, Feb. 11: From “Branches, Blossoms and Buds - Ro- because each person will receive a copy gutted by a fire in 1999. Galichotte also 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., she will mance of the Winter Garden” on Feb. of the simple recipes, Gallichotte said. shares her kitchen wisdom at classes at 13 and 14. “I’m really big on having things that Sur La Table. (continued on page 40) The one-hour presentation in Filoli’s are really straightforward, that people Although Gallichotte specializes in main kitchen will feature a brief intro- can take home and do — that’s my ob- French cuisine, she admits to being “all Send notices of news and events related duction on chocolate, a demonstration jective,” she added. over the map” when it comes to food. to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home on how to make a cocoa syrup as well Gallichotte learned very early on “I’ve done Mexican food, South Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, as a rich and creamy drinking chocolate about preparing flavorful, healthful American food and Central American Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email cblitzer@ garnished with bittersweet chocolate dishes since her grandmother was also a paweekly.com. Deadline is one week chunks, mini marshmallows, raspber- dietician. Her deep respect and apprecia- before publication. ries and whipped cream and homemade tion for how food is prepared led her to (continued on page 40) Page 38 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Preparing for a Spring Listing Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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Chocolate en. There are always learning ex- periences.’” (continued from page 38) Over the two-day opening event at Filoli, visitors can stroll through food. I’ve also done a little bit of the gardens in a guided camellia vegetarian,” she said enthusiasti- walk; watch cooking, floral or art cally. “I worked at a Buddhist re- demonstrations; discover the art treat center for a while and I did and history of embroidery; and all vegetarian. What was so won- participate in children’s activites. Q derful was you’ll finish cooking a Digital Editor My Nguyen meal and the people from the din- can be emailed at mnguyen@ ing room would come and hug you paweekly.com. to thank you for the meal. Most of the time in a restaurant, you don’t necessarily have that contact with Home Front your customers.” (continued from page 38) Gallichotte said the “ultimate compliment” is seeing repeat visi- talk about “Climbers, Ramblers & tors to the events she hosts at Filoli Scramblers,” with a focus on differ- as well as at her cooking classes entiating between climber, pillar, and at the center, adding that she sees wall roses and ramblers and learning both professional cooks and peo- how to prune and train them. From ple who are new to cooking at her 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. she will focus on lessons. “Hybrid Tea Roses.” Fee for each “There are people who have class is $50 for nonmembers, $40 been really interested in cooking for members. Info: 650-364-8300 or Jim Abernathy Jim filoli.org What: Branches, Blossoms and Buds - Romance of the Winter COOL SEASON VEGGIES ... UC Garden Master Gardener Heather Dooley When: Friday, Feb. 13 and Ursula Gallichotte will demonstrate the art of cooking with chocolate when Filoli reopens for the spring will give a free talk on “Cool Season Saturday, Feb. 14, 10:15 a.m. to season during its Valentine’s Day-themed, two-day program called “Branches, Blossoms and Buds - Veggies” from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on 3:30 p.m. Romance of the Winter Garden.” Friday, Feb. 13, at Avenidas, 450 Where: Filoli, 86 Cañada Road, Bryant St., Palo Alto. Dooley will Woodside and have been cooking all over the more confident about doing stuff “I always tell people this and recommend what to plant now and Cost: $20 adult nonmember, world and people who are really in the kitchen,” she said. it is that there is a whole bunch how to still have room to plant sum- $17 senior (65+) nonmember, knowledgable and then you get Cooking is tactile and hands-on, of different ways to do things in $10 children (ages 5-17), free mer vegetables this spring. Info: for adult members and children people who really aren’t and it’s Gallichotte said, and she enjoys cooking ... you don’t necessarily Master Gardeners at 408-282-3105, ages 4 and younger fine. I think that the people who seeing the interaction between have to do something a specific between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Information: Visit filoli.org or call come in with no experience at all, the people in her classes and the way,” she said. “I say, ‘Remember Monday through Friday, or master- 650-364-8300. when they leave they feel much whole learning process. there is never failure in the kitch- gardeners.org Q

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Page 40 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com Home & Real Estate Garden Tips Gardens: a reflection of their owners by Jack McKinnon took a walk through one of fluff. All are important keys to root health. maximum thermometer to read and record the tempera- the community gardens the 3. Adding organic fertilizer will add nutrition to the ture days. By recording this and comparing it with the I other day. If gardens are a soil and thus the plants. Bone meal, blood meal, chicken temperature days information on the UC Davis website reflection of their owners, there manure, fish emulsion, alfalfa meal, cottonseed meal, rock www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/WEATHER/, one can get an idea are a lot of sleeping owners out phosphate, green sand and feather meal are fertilizers. when the insect eggs will hatch in your particular garden. there. Of the tens of plots in the Each in its own way adds different nutrients that plants Right after they hatch is the best time to control them, not community garden only a hand- need for growth, bloom, vigor and vitality. Study and you after you see half of your crop eaten. ful are being maintained at this will grow as a gardener. Try creating your own organic 8. Set up a seed exchange. Don’t waste time complain- time. Those that are being cared fertilizer recipes. ing about big seed companies. Law firms will do that. for are flourishing and likely to 4. I wrote last month about how playing in and outside Just start and keep trading your own seeds. It is far more produce plenty of greens, flowers, the garden is valuable. I like Petanque (the French boules interesting and rewarding. If you do some cross-pollinat- nitrogen-fixing roots and satisfac- game). I think a swing set or like entertainment for chil- ing and come up with a new variety of fruit, vegetable or tion for their gardeners. dren (when not helping with the gardening) is not a bad flower then more power to you. These tips will be a few ideas that might get the other thing in a community garden. Even if there is not a child or 9. Keep and share your garden log (men), or journal plots back in action and inspire a spring and summer that senior (in the case of a swing chair) swinging, it reads that (women), so you know what you did right, what you starts early. After all, this is California: We can garden we are child and senior friendly. Isn’t that a good thing? learned, what didn’t go so well and what happened that year-round. Here are the tips: 5. Keeping everything tidy is encouraging for all. As was amazing in the community. Your grandchildren will 1. The first thing to work on is the soil. If there is not an exercise, clean up someone else’s path without them love it. good friable soil, the seeds, seedlings and plants that are knowing it. Try offering a helping hand with a neighbor 10. Have an awards event announcement this month. put in will have to work all the harder to get established when you are both in the garden. They may refuse, but Set a date around Thanksgiving for the awards. This will and start producing. Add well-composted organic matter. they won’t forget that you offered. incentivize gardeners to achieve more in the category they If your soil has shrunk or compacted it might be neces- 6. Recycling is always present. Stretch your brain by aspire for. Awards can be given for Best Gardener, Best sary to add more soil. Fill up your beds. Remember this: thinking up new ways to use otherwise ground up recy- Helper, Water Guru, Best Preserves, Tech Master, Light- The size of the canopy you want in a plant needs to have clables: for example, egg-carton seed-starting containers, ing Wizard, Librarian, Garden Diplomat, Media Relations an equal amount of root space to fill into. If you want big clear plastic containers to cover seedlings, quart yogurt Genius, Best Garden Sculptor and Most Likely Kid to be healthy, producing plants, give them lots of rich fluffy soil tubs with lids for fertilizer carried in a shopping bag an Organic Farmer. My Grandmother inspired me to be to grow up in. and garden tools tied together with plastic bags twisted a gardener when I was 5 years old by walking me around 2. Compost does not equal fertilizer. If it is well-com- or braided into rope. There must be hundreds of ways to her garden. Now is the time to inspire the next generations posted the best it will do is about 1 percent nitrogen (the distract birds with shiny scary things hanging from string. to be gardeners as well. most important nutrient). If it is not composted, it will use Note: Birds adapt easily and will get used to a scare tactic Good gardening. Q soil nutrients to break down — nutrients your plants need in an amazingly short time. Keep changing them to keep Garden coach Jack McKinnon can be reached at 650- to grow. Study compost and how to make it, and your gar- the birds at bay. 455-0687 (cell), by email at jack@jackthegardencoach. den will prosper. It helps the soil retain air, moisture and 7. Set up a weather station — at least with a minimum/ com. Visit his website at jackthegardencoach.com.

HOME SALES SALES AT A GLANCE $255,000 velopment Partners to C. & Home sales are provided by Cali- 3652 South Court Donnelly E. Chavez for $1,395,000 on fornia REsource, a real estate in- Trust to H. Chai for $2,100,000 12/29/14 formation company that obtains East Palo Alto Mountain View on 1/6/15 126 Shorebird Circle G. Guzzo the information from the County to J. Ashworth for $495,000 on Total sales reported: 1 Total sales reported: 9 Redwood City 12/29/14; previous sale 10/03, Recorder’s Office. Information 2283 Alameda de las Pulgas M. is recorded from deeds after the Lowest sales price: $595,000 Lowest sales price: $445,000 $350,000 Highest sales price: $595,000 Highest sales price: $1,860,000 Harris to H. Zhao for $860,000 close of escrow and published on 12/26/14; previous sale 8/07, within four to eight weeks. Los Altos Palo Alto $650,000 BUILDING PERMITS 642 Bair Island Road #1015 East Palo Alto Total sales reported: 8 Total sales reported: 2 One Marina Homes to Y. Liang Palo Alto 1982 W. Bayshore Road #136 Lowest sales price: $1,364,000 Lowest sales price: $2,100,000 861 Clara Drive install roof- D. Soo to Z. Singh for $595,000 for $766,500 on 12/31/14 Highest sales price: $5,000,000 Highest sales price: $3,200,000 465 Cork Harbour Circle #D M. mounted PV system, $n/a on 12/22/14; previous sale 5/08, 951 Blair Court re-roof, $14,300 $507,000 He to P. Poddar for $660,000 Menlo Park Redwood City on 12/23/14; previous sale 2/05, 418 Charleston Road replace Los Altos Total sales reported: 4 Total sales reported: 8 $585,000 four windows at front of house, lower sill height to comply with 159 Cuesta Drive G. Eger to I. Lowest sales price: $750,000 Lowest sales price: $495,000 1480 Ebener St. Bialer Trust to Brown for $1,364,000 on 1/6/15 T. & S. Farazi for $795,000 on egress requirements, $n/a Highest sales price: $2,175,000 Highest sales price: $1,395,000 3439 Greer Road 276 Delphi Court Mclaren Trust 12/23/14; previous sale 4/99, remodel mas- Source: California REsource to M. Steiner for $3,195,000 $300,000 ter bath, $10,000 435 Acacia Ave. on 1/9/15; previous sale 10/09, 4000 Farm Hill Blvd. #303 Equinox: $1,990,000 Parker Trust to J. Martell for interior nonstructural remodel, 1342 Don Kirk St. G. & K. Mountain View on 1/6/15; previous sale 3/88, $750,000 on 1/6/15 $495,000 on 12/24/14; previous including men’s and women’s 723 Sierra Vista Ave. #4 Groseclose to H. Wu for 2431 Alvin St. Smith Trust to P. $265,000 C. & A. sale 6/89, $195,000 restroom areas, showers, steam 500 W. Middlefield Road #182 $2,125,000 on 1/8/15; previous Yang for $1,388,000 on 1/9/15 Brunner to C. Wey for $651,000 4008 Farm Hill Blvd. #303 C. rooms and egress vestibules, sale 9/97, $575,000 411 Calderon Ave. Swenson A. Louria to S & L Trust for on 1/9/15 Stevens to D. Watt for $498,000 $143,300 316 Wildflower Park Lane 4329 El Camino Real 240 Marich Way Gorley Trust to Calderon to Brill & Boomer Trust $445,000 on 1/8/15; previous M. on 12/24/14; previous sale 5/07, deferred Y. Mao for $2,350,000 on 1/9/15 for $1,397,000 on 1/7/15 sale 2/10, $270,000 Knowles to Bessler Trust for $450,000 submittal for metal stairs from 1915 Mt. Vernon Court #18 863 Mercedes Ave. Mercedes 157 Gary Court L. & E. Huff to $1,860,000 on 1/6/15; previous 1740 Lauren Lane Valota De- basement level to first floor, $n/a Avenue Limited to A. Tan for J. & S. Perkins for $1,425,000 Haribhai Trust to H. Li for sale 3/06, $1,100,000 $600,000 on 1/6/15; previous $1,900,000 on 1/5/15; previous on 1/7/15; previous sale 6/95, Palo Alto sale 9/13, $1,000,000 $255,000 sale 7/04, $329,000 49 Showers Drive #J123 2091 Park Blvd. Carpenter 190 Osage Ave. Walker Trust 134 Kittoe Drive #B E. & O. M. Marron to J. Chen for $1,100,000 Mahjoub to I. Mastierov for Trust to K. Doerr for $3,200,000 to West Valley Ventures for on 1/6/15; previous sale 2/94, $3,000,000 on 1/8/15 1614 Parkhills Ave. Schulke Trust to D. Sima for $1,925,000 on 1/6/15 MBA: The Wharton 437 Valley View Drive BK De- School, University velopment to M. & M. Miller for $5,000,000 on 1/6/15; previous of Pennsylvania sale 11/13, $2,050,000 '5&+8&.)8(5< BA: Waseda  Menlo Park University, Japan 1140 Almanor Ave. I. John- Xin Jiang son to J. Gao for $750,000 on Speaks Japanese %(6PDUW6(//6PDUW 12/24/14 650.283.8379  434 Claremont Way R. Dahling & Chinese Fluently 2 I I L F H   (650) 326 - 2900 to K. & B. Post for $1,857,000 on [email protected] ' L U H F W   (650) 346 - 4150 12/24/14 Z Z Z  V W D Q I R U G S I  F R P 454 Falk Court D. Bristor to xinPaloAltoRealtor.com FK X F N I X H U \ # J P D L O  F R P   V. 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Sand Hill Estates, Woodside Holmes Ranch, Davenport 5 Betty Lane, Atherton $35,000,000 $25,000,000 $22,800,000 Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Cutty Smith Lic.#01343305 & 01444081 Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305 Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Greg Goumas Lic.#01242399, 00709019, 01878208

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6 Quail Meadow Drive, Woodside 25 Oakhill Drive, Woodside 303 Atherton Avenue, Atherton Price Upon Request $8,500,000 $6,950,000 Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas and Karen Gunn Lic.#0187820, 01804568 Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305 Listing Provided by: Denise Villeneuve, Lic.#01794615

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13195 Glenshire Drive, Truckee 18630 Withey Road, Monte Sereno 15195 Piedmont Road, Saratoga $6,900,000 $6,500,000 $4,748,000 Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208 Listing Provided by: Albert Garibaldi, Lic.#01321299 Listing Provided by: Dominic Nicoli, Lic.#01112681

1730 Peregrino Way, San Jose 195 Brookwood Road, Woodside 5721 Arboretum Drive, Los Altos $4,000,000 $3,995,000 $3,888,888 Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305 Listing Provided by: Virginia Supnet, Lic.#01370434 Listing Provided by: Gail Sanders & Denise Villeneuve Lic.#01253357 & 01794615

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Anacapa Dr, Los Altos Hills Alexis Dr, Palo Alto Hills Fielding Dr, Palo Alto

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Greer Rd, Palo Alto Corina Wy, Palo Alto Colorado Ave, Palo Alto

Limetree Ln, Mountain View Pine Wy, Mountain View Lewiston Dr, Sunnyvale

W. Garland Ter, Sunnyvale Second St, San Francisco New Montgomery St, San Francisco

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Luxurious Mediterranean Offered at $4,650,000 Home in Sought-After Midtown Beds 6 | Baths 4 | Home + 3,782 sf | Lot +7,084 sf Attached 2-Car Garage 3318 Waverley Street, Palo Alto | 3318waverley.com

Newly constructed just six years ago, this beautiful Mediterranean • Whole-home audio system style home is built to last, with the highest quality materials • Attached 2-car garage and craftsmanship. Designer features abound, including rich hardwood • Beautifully landscaped with very private rear yard ½RRUVDUWLVDQWLOHVWRQHDQGVWDLQHGJODVVDQGFURZQPROGLQJ throughout the home. •Easy access to parks, commuter routes, • Custom Mediterranean home build in 2008 Stanford University and shopping at the Midtown Center • Desirable Midtown neighborhood of Palo Alto •Excellent Palo Alto schools: El Carmelo ‡ +DUGZRRG½RRUVWKURXJKRXW Elementary, Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle, •Tremendous kitchen and family room plus large lower-level media/ DQG*XQQ+LJK EX\HUWRFRQ¼UP recreation room

Ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top Julie Tsai Law realtors in the nation (I’m Proficient in Chinese) Broker Associate, CRS, MBA, SRES 650.799.8888 | [email protected] JulieTsaiLaw.com License No. 01339682 Contact Julie for her upcoming or off-market listings! Local Knowledge • National Exposure • Global Reach www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 45 Mid Century Modern Masterpiece in Menlo Park Offered at $2,300,000 140 Forest Lane, Menlo Park | 140ForestLane.com Beds 2 | Baths 2.5 Home ±2,330 sf | Lot ±1,742 sf OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1:30–4:30PM

Woodside Plaza Offered at $985,000 2766 Kensington Road, Redwood City | 2766kensington.com Bedrooms 3 | Bathrooms 1 Home ±1,020 sf | Lot ±6,050 sf OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30–4:30PM

Downtown Palo Alto Susan Tanner, Broker Associate 728 Emerson Street, Palo Alto 650.644.3474 and General Counsel

dreyfussir.com 650.255.7372 | [email protected] )EGL3J½GIMW-RHITIRHIRXP] susantannerhomes.com 3[RIHERH3TIVEXIH License No. 01736865 Local Knowledge • National Exposure • Global Reach

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740 WHISKEY HILL ROAD | $5,250,000 Remodeled | 4 bedrooms | Office | 3.5 baths | Caretaker’s cottage Pool | Hot Tub | 2-stall barn & corral | Portola Valley schools | ~2.93 acres gullixson.com Adjoining ~5.1 acre parcel (555 Manzanita Way) may be purchased with this property for a total of $14,950,000 to create an ~8 ac equestrian compound

5.1 FLAT ACRES IN CENTRAL WOODSIDE

555 MANZANITA WAY, WOODSIDE | $9,950,000 Remodeled 4 bedroom/5.5 bathroom main home | 1 bd/1.5 ba guest house Pool | Tennis Court | 4-stall barn and corrals | Portola Valley schools 555Manzanita.com Adjoining ~2.93 ac parcel (740 Whiskey Hill Road) may be purchased with this property for a total of $14,950,000 to create an ~8 ac equestrian compound

CONTEMPORARY HOME IN WEST ATHERTON

POLHEMUS AVENUE, ATHERTON | $7,200,000 5 bed/5 baths + 2 half baths | Kitchen with integrated living and casual dining area | Spacious family room | Pool/spa | Barbecue center 233Polhemus.com Attached 2-car garage | Detached garage with tandem space for 6 cars Private flag lot of ~1.14 acres | Las Lomitas schools

MODERN HIGH-TECH HOME ON 3+ PARK-LIKE ACRES

CINNABAR ROAD, WOODSIDE | $13,800,000 Sweeping views of SF Bay | 3 levels all serviced by elevator 4 beds/4 baths + 2 half baths | 2 multi-room apartments 240Cinnabar.com Underground commercial grade space for creators or collectors Parking for up to 8 cars | Infinity pool | Putting green | Play area | Firepit

MARY GULLIXSON BRENT GULLIXSON 650.888.0860 650.888.4898 [email protected] [email protected] License# 00373961 License# 01329216 gullixson.com

Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. Square footage and/or acreage information contained herein has been received from seller, existing reports, appraisals, public records and/or other sources deemed reliable. However, neither seller nor listing agent has verified this information. If this information is important to buyer in determining whether to buy or to purchase price, buyer should conduct buyer’s own investigation.

www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 47 Alain Pinel Realtors YOUR HOME AWAITS

LOS ALTOS $3,998,000 PALO ALTO $4,650,000 LOS ALTOS $3,680,000

1350 Miravalie Avenue | 5bd/4ba 3318 Waverly Street | 6bd/4ba 1049 Dartmouth Lane | 5bd/4ba Derk Brill | 650.323.1111 Julie Tsai Law | 650.462.1111 Alex & Dorothy Liu | 650.941.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-5:00 BY APPOINTMENT OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-5:00

LOS ALTOS $2,500,000 MENLO PARK $2,275,000 PALO ALTO $1,798,000

1943 Annette Lane I 4bd/3ba 48 Mansion Court | 3bd/2.5ba 2240 St. Francis Drive | 3bd/2ba J. Stricker/S. TenBroeck I 650.941.1111 Steve & Julie Quattrone | 650.462.1111 Derk Brill | 650.323.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-5:00

MENLO PARK $1,795,000 MOUNTAIN VIEW $1,398,000 MOUNTAIN VIEW $599,000

2181 Valparaiso Avenue | 4bd/2ba 1407 Gretel Lane | 3bd/2ba 400 Ortega Avenue | 2bd/1ba Ellen Ashley | 650.529.1111 Patrice Horvath | 650.941.1111 Alan Dunckel | 650.323.1111 BY APPOINTMENT OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

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Page 48 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com 68 Adam Way, Atherton View the Aerial and Walk-Through Video Tour

Miles McCormick 650-400-1001 [email protected] HomesOfAtherton.com Averaging 10,000 Visits Per Month DRE 01184883

www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 49 OPEN SAT & SUN 1-4

761 THORSEN COURT LOS ALTOS Contemporary Oasis with Cottage EOIEHIITFVIEXLERHWMROMRXSXLMWEQE^MRKVIWMHIRGI[MXLESRISJEOMRHLSQIE[EWL Tin natural light and gorgeous land offering peace and tranquility. The cul-de-sac location of XLIIWXEXIMWWYTIVFRIWXPIHMRXLIJSSXLMPPWRIEVXLI0SW%PXSW+SPJ 'SYRXV]'PYF[MXLZMI[W SJXLIKSPJGSYVWIERHGPYFLSYWIX[MROPMRKPMKLXWERHWYVVSYRHMRKGSYRXV]WMHI A GMVGYPEVHVMZI[E]ERHTSVXGSGLrVISJJIVTVEGXMGEPRIGIWWMXMIWFYXSRGIMRWMHIXLIWTEGIW EVIER]XLMRKFYXX]TMGEP1EMRPIZIPVSSQW¾S[SRIXSXLIRI\XHMWXMRKYMWLIHSRP]F]EWMRKPI WXITSVEZEYPXMRGIMPMRKLIMKLXEPPS[MRKXLILSQIXSIJJSVXPIWWP]EGGSQQSHEXIKEXLIVMRKW FSXLPEVKIERHWQEPP)RXIVXEMRMRKMWJEFYPSYWXLEROWXSE[IXFEVMRXLIPMZMRKVSSQTPYWE [MRIVSSQERHQYPXMTPIWPMHMRKHSSVWXLEXGVIEXIEREXYVEPI\XIRWMSRXSXLISYXHSSVW TLIHVEQEXMGEVGLMXIGXYVIMWSTIRERHMRZMXMRK[MXLMRHYWXVMEPXMPI¾SSVMRKW[IITMRKXLI common areas, exposed ceiling beams, display shelving, and a mezzanine level holding library bookcases.

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www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 53 Coldwell Banker#1 IN CALIFORNIA

Woodside Sun 1 - 4 $5,950,000 Los Altos Hills Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $3,499,000 Palo Alto Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $3,095,000 330 Jane Dr Stunning, whole-home renovation on more than 3 26800 Almaden Court Tranquil Setting! Stunning Bay views from 3725 El Centro St Spectacular & brand new home in the beautiful acres. Gated entrance on a private road. 6 BR/6 full BA + 2 half this gorgeous 1 AC+ contemporary property w/PA schools. area of Barron Park! Elegance & finesse. 4 BR/3 BA Scott Dancer CalBRE #00868362 650.851.2666 4 BR/3 BA Hanna Shacham CalBRE #01073658 650.324.4456 Hanna Shacham CalBRE #01073658 650.324.4456

Burlingame Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $2,800,000 Menlo Park Pending! $2,598,000 Redwood City $2,695,000 1148 Bernal Ave Remodeled modern inspired Smart Home near 32 Homer Lane Elegance and convenience in the country. A fine 1005 Lakeview Wy Rare opportunity to live on a privately owned downtown. Many features & upgrades throughout! 5 BR/3.5 BA new home on a country lane. 5 BR/3.5 BA & tranquil setting of Lynda Lake. John Nelson CalBRE #01152878 650.323.7751 Jia Xu CalBRE #01410227 650.325.6161 J.D. Anagnostou CalBRE #00900237 650.851.2666

Menlo Park Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $1,988,000 Palo Alto $1,950,000 Los Altos Sat/Sun 12 - 5 $1,798,000 1315 Trinity Exquisite 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath townhome in prime 709 Seminole PA location w/ remodeled chef’s kitchen & open 168 Loucks Excellent North Los Altos neighborhood, w/ top rated Sharon Heights location in Menlo Park. floor plan. Ideal patio for entertaining! 4 BR/2 BA schools. Spacious level 9,375 SF lot 3 BR/2 BA Fereshteh Khodadad CalBRE #00851932 650.325.6161 Valerie Soltau CalBRE #00616212 650.323.7751 Gil Oraha CalBRE #01355157 650.325.6161

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East Palo Alto Coming Soon! $985,000 Palo Alto PENDING! $830,000 Redwood City Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $849,000 2881 Drew Ct Fully upgraded 3 bedroom, 1 bath,1,260 sq.ft home 765 San Antonio Rd #56 Top floor in Greenhouse complex. 2083 Oregon Ave Charming 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom home on a in the Village on a 12,700 sq.ft. lot. Updates throughout! Access to 101 & 280. Top PA schools! quiet street in desirable Woodside Plaza. Jane Jones CalBRE #01847801 CalBRE #018478 2 BR/1 BA Karen Fryling/Rebecca Johnson Hossein Jalali CalBRE #01215831 650.323.7751 CalBRE #01332193, 01326725 650.324.4456

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(PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) (PAW Jan. 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 2015) 62 Quip, Part 5 41 Excuse given by those who hire Public STANFORD TERRACE INN 64 Bit of sarcasm artists and pay nothing 759 Hauling NexMove FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 46 ___ test FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 600794 65 Cinema seater File No.: 600184 The following person (persons) is (are) 48 Get ___ on the knuckles J & G HAULING SERVICE 66 “___ perpetua” (Idaho’s motto) Misc. junk, office, gar., furn., The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 49 Reporters and their entourage Notices 67 Beats by ___ (brand of audio mattresses, green waste, more. doing business as: Stanford Terrace Inn, located at 531 equipment) 50 Key using all the black keys, for Lic./ins. Free est. 650/743-8852 NexMove, located at 826 Rorke Way, Stanford Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa short (see my Yelp reviews) For more information call 650-209-9711 Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. Clara County. 68 Add fuel to the fire This business is owned by: An This business is owned by: A Limited 69 Explanations 51 Drew in Individual. Liability Company. 52 Deadly sin 767 Movers The name and residence address of the The name and residence address of the 53 Citrus peel in a mixed drink Sunny Express Moving Co. 995 Fictitious Name owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): 55 Like Joyce Afforable, Reliable, Refs. CalT #191198. Statement JEANNE YUE STANFORD GROUPS LLC 650/722-6586 or 408/904-9688 826 Rorke Way 531 Stanford Ave. 56 More than mean ATALACO Palo Alto, CA 94303 Palo Alto, CA 94306 57 Non-dairy spreads FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Registrant/Owner began transacting Registrant/Owner began transacting 771 Painting/ File No.: 600010 59 Cuatro y cuatro business under the fictitious business business under the fictitious business Wallpaper The following person (persons) is (are) name(s) listed above on 02 Jan. 2015. name(s) listed above on 10/19/2010. 63 “A spider!!” doing business as: This statement was filed with the This statement was filed with the DAVID AND MARTIN Atalaco, located at 702 Garland Drive, County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. County on Jan. 13, 2015. County on January 29, 2015. PAINTING This business is owned by: An (PAW Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 2015) (PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) Quality work Individual. The name and residence address of the SUMO PALO ALTO DESIGN STUDIO This week’s SUDOKU Good references FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Low price owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ALLEN TAVAKOLI File No.: 599912 File No.: 600964 Lic. #52643 (650) 575-2022 702 Garland Drive The following person (persons) is (are) The following person (persons) is (are) 9 6 1 Palo Alto, CA 94303 doing business as: doing business as: Glen Hodges Painting Registrant/Owner began transacting SUMO, located at 450 Serra Mall, Palo Alto Design Studio, located at 1128 Call me first! Senior discount. business under the fictitious business Building 380, Stanford, CA 94305, Santa Oregon Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94303, 45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325 name(s) listed above on 01/07/2015. Clara County. Santa Clara County. 2 7 4 This business is owned by: A General This business is owned by: Married STYLE PAINTING This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara Partnership. Couple. Full service painting. Insured. County on January 7, 2015. The name and residence address of the The name and residence address of the Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577 5 9 2 7 (PAW Jan. 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 2015) owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): EDWARD DAI KYU YOUNG KIM 775 Asphalt/ ADORE HANDCRAFTED 655 Escondido Road 1128 Oregon Avenue FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT Stanford, CA 94305 Palo Alto, CA 94303 8 3 5 Concrete File No.: 600011 MOOR XU HANNA JOO Roe General Engineering The following person (persons) is (are) 2070 University Avenue #219 1128 Oregon Avenue Asphalt, concrete, pavers, tiles, sealing, doing business as: Berkeley, CA 94704 Palo Alto, CA 94303 4 9 1 artificial turf. 36 yrs exp. No job too Adore Handcrafted, located at 702 Registrant/Owner began transacting Registrant/Owner began transacting small. Lic #663703. 650/814-5572 Garland Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303, business under the fictitious business business under the fictitious business Santa Clara County. name(s) listed above on N/A. name(s) listed above on N/A. 779 Organizing This business is owned by: An This statement was filed with the This statement was filed with the 7 5 1 3 Individual. County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara Services The name and residence address of the County on January 6, 2015. County on February 3, 2015. End the Clutter & Get Organized owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): (PAW Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 2015) (PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) Residential Organizing KAREEN TAVAKOLI 5 9 1 8 702 Garland Drive GENESIS PAINTING & DECORATING by Debra Robinson FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 997 All Other Legals (650)390-0125 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting File No.: 600563 T.S. No.: 9986-2072 TSG Order No.: 1 3 2 business under the fictitious business The following person (persons) is (are) 00266636 A.P.N.: 127-21-017 NOTICE OF Classified Deadlines: name(s) listed above on 01/07/2015. doing business as: TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT This statement was filed with the Genesis Painting & Decorating, located UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara at 5497 Spinnaker Walkway, San Jose, 02/09/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION 4 6 1 NOON, County on January 7, 2015. CA 95123, Santa Clara County. 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OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, may be a junior lien. If you are the high- A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the at a trustee auction. You will be bidding the will or estate, or both, of DAVID W. of first issuance of letters to a general YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. est bidder at the auction, you are or may highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check on a lien, not on the property itself. HAGELBARGER. personal representative, as defined in NBS Default Services, LLC, as the duly be responsible for paying off all liens drawn on a state or national bank, a Placing the highest bid at a trustee auc- A Petition for Probate has been filed by: section 58 (b) of the California Probate appointed Trustee, under and pursu- senior to the lien being auctioned off, check drawn by a state or federal credit tion does not automatically entitle you ANN M. EDENS in the Superior Court of Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of ant to the power of sale contained in before you can receive clear title to the union, or a check drawn by a state or to free and clear ownership of the prop- California, County of SANTA CLARA. mailing or personal delivery to you that certain Deed of Trust Recorded property. You are encouraged to inves- federal savings and loan association, erty. You should also be aware that the The Petition for Probate requests that: of a notice under section 9052 of the 02/17/2005 as Document No.: 18238005, tigate the existence, priority, and size or savings association, or savings bank lien being auctioned off may be a junior ANN M. EDENS be appointed as per- California Probate Code. Other California Book No.: N/A, Page No.: N/A, of Official of outstanding liens that may exist on specified in section 5102 of the Financial lien. If you are the highest bidder at the sonal representative to administer the statutes and legal authority may affect Records in the office of the Recorder of this property by contacting the county Code and authorized to do business in auction, you are or may be responsible estate of the decedent. your rights as a creditor. You may want Santa Clara County, California, executed recorder’s office or a title insurance com- this state. Sale will be held by the duly for paying off all liens senior to the lien The petition requests the decedent’s to consult with an attorney knowledge- by: CONAN S. YEM, AN UNMARRIED pany, either of which may charge you appointed trustee as shown below, of being auctioned off, before you can will and codicils, if any, be admitted to able in California law. MAN, as Trustor, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC a fee for this information. If you consult all right, title, and interest conveyed to receive clear title to the property. You probate. The will and any codicils are You may examine the file kept by the AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR either of these resources, you should and now held by the trustee in the here- are encouraged to investigate the exis- available for examination in the file kept court. If you are a person interested in CASH (payable in full at time of sale be aware that the same lender may inafter described property under and tence, priority and size of outstanding by the court. the estate, you may file with the court by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a hold more than one mortgage or deed pursuant to a Deed of Trust described liens that may exist on this property by The petition requests authority to a Request for Special Notice (form state or national bank, a check drawn of trust on the property. NOTICE TO below. The sale will be made, but with- contacting the county recorder’s office administer the estate under the DE-154) of the filing of an inventory by a state or federal credit union, or PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown out covenant or warranty, expressed or or a title insurance company, either of Independent Administration of and appraisal of estate assets or of a check drawn by a state or federal on this notice of sale may be postponed implied, regarding title, possession, or which may charge you a fee for this Estates Act. (This authority will allow any petition or account as provided in savings and loan association, savings one or more times by the mortgagee, encumbrances, to pay the remaining information. If you consult either of the personal representative to take Probate Code section 1250. A Request association, or savings bank specified beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant principal sum of the note(s) secured these resources, you should be aware many actions without obtaining court for Special Notice form is available from in section 5102 of the Financial Code to Section 2924g of the California Civil by the Deed of Trust, with interest and that the same lender may hold more approval. Before taking certain very the court clerk. and authorized to do business in this Code. The law requires that information late charges thereon, as provided in than one mortgage or deed of trust important actions, however, the per- state). All right, title and interest con- about trustee sale postponements be the note(s), advances, under the terms on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY sonal representative will be required to 193 Kings Hwy. veyed to and now held by it under said made available to you and to the public, of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, OWNER: The sale date shown on this give notice to interested persons unless Hackettstown, N.J. 07840 Deed of Trust in the property situated as a courtesy to those not present at the fees, charges and expenses of the notice of sale may be postponed one they have waived notice or consented (973)229-0663 in said County and state, and as more sale. If you wish to learn whether your Trustee for the total amount (at the or more times by the mortgagee, ben- to the proposed action.) The indepen- (PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 2015) fully described in the attached legal sale date has been postponed, and, if time of the initial publication of the eficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant dent administration authority will be Request for Proposal: Compensation description. LEGAL DESCRIPTION THE applicable, the rescheduled time and Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to Section 2924g of the California Civil granted unless an interested person files Consulting Firms LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS date for the sale of this property, you to be set forth below. The amount Code. The law requires that information an objection to the petition and shows SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF SANTA may call, 916-939-0772 for information may be greater on the day of sale. about trustee sale postponements be good cause why the court should not The East Palo Alto Sanitary District CLARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND IS regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS made available to you and to the public, grant the authority. (District) is requesting proposals (RFP) DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 6, BLOCK Internet Web site, www.nationwide- THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor: as a courtesy to those not present at A HEARING on the petition will be held from interested, qualified and experi- 4, AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN MAP posting.com, for information regarding VINCENT ISOLA AND CRYSTAL ISOLA, the sale. If you wish to learn whether on March 18, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. in Dept.: enced Compensation Consulting Firms ENTITLED “TRACT NO. 1580” WHICH the sale of this property, using the file AS TRUSTEES OF THE ISOLA LIVING your sale date has been postponed, 10 of the Superior Court of California, (Consultant) to design a compensation MAP WAS FILED FOR RECORD IN THE number assigned to this case, T.S.# TRUST UAD 6/28/04, F/B/O VINCENT and if applicable, the rescheduled time County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. structure, conduct a compensation OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE 9986-2072. Information about post- ISOLA AND CRYSTAL ISOLA AND THEIR and date for the sale of this property, First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. study and a job classification compari- COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, STATE OF ponements that are very short in dura- HEIRS, and PLAZA BANK, as Beneficiary you may call 877-484-9942 or visit this If you object to the granting of the peti- son for its employees. CALIFORNIA, ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1955 tion or that occur close in time to the Duly Appointed Trustee: R.E.F.S. Inc., Internet Web site www.USA-Foreclosure. tion, you should appear at the hearing Please contact the District office by IN BOOK 62 OF MAPS AT PAGE(S) 56. scheduled sale may not immediately be A California Corporation Recorded: com, using the file number assigned to and state your objections or file written email [email protected] or phone (650) Sale Date & Time: 02/26/2015 at 10:00 reflected in the telephone information 11/3/2010, as Instrument No. 20940203, this case 2014-CA006823. Information objections with the court before the 325-9021 to obtain a copy of the AM Sale Location: At the gated North or on the internet Web site. The best in Book n/a, Page n/a, of Official Records about postponements that are very hearing. Your appearance may be in request for proposal. The deadline for Market Street entrance to the Superior way to verify postponement informa- in the office of the Recorder of Santa short in duration or that occur close person or by your attorney. receiving proposals is February 19, 2015. Courthouse at 190 N. Market Street, San tion is to attend the scheduled sale. If Clara County, California. Date of Sale: in time to the scheduled sale may not If you are a creditor or a contingent 2/6/15 Jose, CA. The street address and other the Trustee is unable to convey title for 2/27/2015 at 10:00 AMÂ Place of immediately be reflected in the tele- creditor of the decedent, you must file CNS-2715254# common designation, if any, of the real any reason, the successful bidder’s sole Sale: At the Market Street entrance to phone information or on the Internet your claim with the court and mail a PALO ALTO WEEKLY property described above is purported and exclusive remedy shall be the return the Superior Courthouse, 190 North Web site. The best way to verify post- copy to the personal representative to be: 3619 LUPINE AVENUE, PALO ALTO, of monies paid to the Trustee and the Market Street.,San Jose, CA Amount ponement information is to attend the appointed by the court within the later TM CA 94303 The undersigned Trustee successful bidder shall have no further of unpaid balance and other charges: scheduled sale. If you would like addi- of either (1) four months from the date fogster.com disclaims any liability for any incorrect- recourse. NBS Default Services, LLC 301 $1,039,928.75 Street Address or other tional copies of this summary, you may ness of the street address and other E. Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach, common designation of real property: obtain them by calling (949) 474-7337. common designation, if any, shown CA 90802 800-766-7751 For Trustee Sale 185 MOFFET BOULEVARD, Mountain If the trustee is unable to convey title Answers to this week’s puzzles, which can be found on page 59. herein. Said sale will be made in an AS Information Log On To: www.nation- View, CA 94043 A.P.N.: 158-44-003 Legal for any reason, the successful bidder(s) IS condition, but without covenant or wideposting.com or Call: 916-939-0772. Description: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED sole and exclusive remedy shall be the warranty, expressed or implied, regard- NBS Default Services, LLC, Vanessa IN SAID DEED OF TRUST. The under- return of monies paid to the trustee and ing title, possession, or encumbrances, Gomez, Foreclosure Associate This com- signed Trustee disclaims any liability for successful bidder(s) will have no further to pay the remaining principal sum of munication is an attempt to collect a any incorrectness of the street address recourse. If the sale is set aside for any the note(s) secured by said Deed of debt and any information obtained will or other common designation, if any, reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall Trust, with interest thereon, as provided be used for that purpose. However, if shown above. If no street address or be entitled only to return of the deposit in said note(s), advances, if any, under you have received a discharge of the other common designation is shown, paid. The purchaser shall have no fur- the terms of the Deed of Trust, esti- debt referenced herein in a bankruptcy directions to the location of the prop- ther recourse against the Mortgagor, mated fees, charges and expenses of proceeding, this is not an attempt to erty may be obtained by sending a the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s the Trustee and of the trusts created by impose personal liability upon you for written request to the beneficiary within Attorney. Date: 2/2/2015 R.E.F.S. Inc., A said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $452,222.50 payment of that debt. In the event you 10 days of the date of first publication of California Corporation Gabrielle Leach, (Estimated) as of 01/23/2015. Accrued have received a bankruptcy discharge, this Notice of Sale. The property herein Senior Trustee Officer R.E.F.S. INC. A interest and additional advances, if any action to enforce the debt will is being sold AS IS. The beneficiary CALIFORNIA CORPORATION IS A DEBT any, will increase this figure prior to be taken against the property only. under said Deed of Trust heretofore COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT sale. It is possible that at the time of NPP0241357 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY executed and delivered to the under- A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED sale the opening bid may be less than 02/06/2015, 02/13/2015, 02/20/2015 signed a written Declaration of Default WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. FEI the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No.: and Demand for Sale, and a Written # 1064.244935 PUB DATES: 02/06/2015, POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are consid- 2014-CA006823 Loan No. XXX47100 Notice of Default and Election to Sell. 02/13/2015, 02/20/2015 PAW ering bidding on this property lien, you Order No. 5921178 APN: 158-44-003 The undersigned caused said Notice should understand that there are risks YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED of Default and Election to Sell to be NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER involved in bidding at a trustee auction. OF TRUST DATED 10/28/2010. UNLESS recorded in the County where the real ESTATE OF: You will be bidding on a lien, not on the YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR property is located and more than three DAVID W. HAGELBARGER property itself. Placing the highest bid PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC month have elapsed since such recorda- Case No.: 1-15-PR175816 at a trustee auction does not automati- SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION tion. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, cally entitle you to free and clear owner- OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING If you are considering bidding on this contingent creditors, and persons ship of the property. You should also be AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT property lien, you should understand who may otherwise be interested in aware that the lien being auctioned off that there are risks involved in bidding

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Page 60 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com COLLEGE FOOTBALL Sports Another top Shorts FOOTBALL SACKED . . . The recruit class Menlo College Board of Trustees announced Sunday that they have voted to end the school’s football for Stanford program, citing scheduling issues and financial “realities” accord- Cardinal ranked from 13th to 27th and ing to a press release issued. On fills immediate need on defensive line a campus where over 50 percent of the approximately 750 students By Rick Eymer are involved in athletics, the news inebacker Sean Barton still has a couple of brought shock and sadness, as well months left on his LDS Mormon mission and as understanding. Menlo was buck- L remains in Africa. Offensive tackle Jack Drey- ing the trend by continuing to sup- er goes to school a few miles away in San Mateo. port football at the NAIA level (and In June, both will be Stanford football teammates. NCAA Division III) without the benefit Barton originally signed in 2013 and will enroll of participating in a conference. The with the current group of players who officially school was a member of the North- handed in their singed letters of intent Wednesday. west Conference between 2006-10 While Dreyer and 21 other high school seniors and was the only school outside of delivered their signatures, only 20 will join Barton. Washington and Oregon. Menlo had Two others, fullback Houston Heimuli, who hails explored the possibility of joining from Woods Cross, Utah (Barton’s hometown) and other conferences as a football-only linebacker Gabe Reid, will take their Mormon mis- associate member since then. “This sions and report for duty in the summer of 2017. difficult decision reflects a strong Stanford signed nine players rated four stars or commitment to the future athletic better and the group as a whole was rated anywhere program needs and the stability of from No. 13 (PrepStar) to No. 27 (ESPN). our entire student population,” Menlo Overall, the Cardinal signed 11 offensive players, Athletic Director Keith Sparato said. four of them linemen, 10 defensive players and a “Menlo College has struggled for punter. years over the football program’s “Most of these guys are national recruits,” Stan- financial viability. The cost, and the ford coach David Shaw said. “We canvass the nation inequity of the expense of football looking for Stanford guys. It’s never us vs. them. We compared to other athletic programs compete against geography and the local schools.” were major contributing factors to Stanford will be looking to improve upon its 8-5 this decision.” Menlo College has finish this past season, which culminated with a 45- been the only non-NCAA Division I 21 win over Maryland in the Foster Farms Bowl. institution sponsoring football in the Shaw filled the team’s most immediate need on Bay Area since 2004. the defensive line with Wesley Annan and Dylan Jackson, both of whom have a strong chance to play

STATE HONORS . . . Five members Don Feria as freshmen. of the Sacred Heart Prep football Shaw thinks there are a lot of players who could team that won the Central Coast make an immediate impact, including five-star wide receiver Trenton Irwin and four-star athletes Frank Section Open Division title and fin- Menlo-Atherton sophomore Megan Sparrow (31) controlled the boards against Hillsdale’s ished 13-0 this past season have re- Emily Nepomuceno (13) and Raichel Tjan during the Bears’ 44-32 victory Wednesday. ceived statewide honors from Cal-Hi (continued on page 63) Sports. Ben Burr-Kirven was named to the Overall State First Team De- PREP ROUNDUP COLLEGE SOFTBALL fense and to the Small Schools first team on defense.Defensive back JR Hardy also made the Small Schools M-A girls among Challenge awaits First Team on defense. Lineman Thomas Rogers was named to the hoop threesome new Stanford coach Small Schools First Team Offense By Rick Eymer and lineman Justin Harmon was named to the Second Team on of- in first place irst-year Stanford softball coach Rachel Han- fense as well as Third Team Junior. by Andrew Preimesberger son understands the challenge ahead of her. Defensive back Mitch Martella was F It’s one of the reasons she wanted to coach at named to the Small Schools Second he Pinewood, Palo Alto and Menlo- the school. Team Defense. Atherton girls all have something in A flurry of bad luck and injuries sabotaged the T common this week when it comes Cardinal last year, despite producing one of its top to basketball. All three teams are in first offensive teams in school history. Stanford missed ON THE AIR place in their respective divisions with all the postseason for the first time in 16 years; all under Friday three clinging to a one-game lead. former coach John Rittman. Pinewood is 8-0 in the West Bay Athletic Hanson, meanwhile, led Dartmouth to its first ever Prep basketball: Sequoia at Menlo- Atherton, 6:15 p.m. (girls, boys at 7:45 League (Foothill Division) and 16-2 overall Don Feria Ivy League title and a spot in the postseason. Hanson p.m.;); KCEA (89.1 FM) after beating rival Eastside Prep, 68-62, in also directed the softball program at the University Women’s basketball: Stanford at overtime on Tuesday. of Dallas to its best season in school history. Arizona St., 7 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks; Palo Alto is 8-0 in the SCVAL De Anza “This is where I always wanted to be,” Hanson KZSU (90.1 FM) M-A sophomore Ilana Baer (22) led the Division and 18-2 overall after holding off Bears with 12 points. said. “I love coaching intelligent women and being Sunday Saratoga, 56-44, on Wednesday. in the hunt for a national championship. I got here Women’s gymnastics: And Menlo-Atherton improved to 8-1 win some games,” said Menlo-Atherton in a fun way.” Stanford at Cal, noon; Pac-12 Net- works (16-5 overall) in the PAL South Division head coach Markisha Coleman. “We’re She graduated from Trinity College in 2005, the Women’s basketball: Stanford at with a 44-32 triumph over previous co- pretty deep at every spot. When they come year Stanford won its only conference title, after Arizona, 2 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks; leader Hillsdale on Wednesday. out, they fight and play hard. You have 12 helping the Tigers win a conference title. She still KZSU (90.1 FM) All three teams control their own destiny girls that are committed and play hard for holds Trinity’s record for most games started (156). Men’s basketball: USC at Stanford, with their respective league races coming each other.” Hanson assumes leadership of a team that returns 5:30 p.m.; ESPNU; KNBR (1050 AM) to a close. Despite allowing only two field goals its top 10 offensive players and its top pitcher. Menlo-Atherton is three wins away from and five points in the second quarter, the Last year’s Cardinal team set a single-season READ MORE ONLINE clinching its league title after knocking Bears held just a 19-15 halftime lead after school record for RBI (302), was second in runs www.PASportsOnline.com Hillsdale (7-2) out of a share of first. M-A committing 10 turnovers. M-A limited its (331), batting average (.316) and slugging percentage has now won six in a row and 10 out of its miscues to just four after halftime. (.450) and third in doubles (88) and triples (17). For expanded daily coverage of college and prep sports, visit past 11 games. www.PASportsOnline.com “If you’re playing team basketball, you’ll (continued on next page) (continued on page 63)

www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • February 6, 2015 • Page 61 Sports

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Julia Lodoen Will Chisholm CASTILLEJA SCHOOL MENLO SCHOOL The junior midfielder scored The junior had the game- the tying goal in a 1-1 soccer winning goal plus two assists deadlock against second- in a 4-3 soccer victory over place Crystal Springs and King’s Academy, moving the added the game-winner in Knights into second place, a 1-0 victory over Pinewood and then converted two PKs to keep the Gators on top of in a 2-2 deadlock with first- the WBAL Skyline Division. place Sacred Heart Prep. Honorable mention Olivia Athens Ryan Brice Sacred Heart Prep soccer Pinewood basketball Greer Hoyem Derek Chou Menlo-Atherton basketball Sacred Heart Prep soccer Stella Kailahi* Liam Dunn Pinewood basketball Menlo basketball Lauren Koyama* Alex Gil-Fernandez* Palo Alto basketball Gunn basketball De’Jeane Stine Jesus Ortega Menlo basketball Menlo-Atherton soccer Alexandra Walker Mason Randall* Menlo soccer Sacred Heart Prep basketball * previous winner Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

ily they went in.” Prep roundup The Bears won despite missing (continued from previous page) 18 free throws (10 of 28). In the SCVAL De Anza Divi- “At halftime I told them they sion, Palo Alto remained in first need to rebound and take care place by a game over Mountain of the basketball,” said Coleman, View following its big win over who played at Eastside Prep be- host Saratoga. fore playing at Stanford. “That “This was one of the most was our main focus in the second physical games in the key that we half, to take care of the ball. This have played this year,” said Paly was a big game for both teams so coach Scott Peters. “It was hard- we just settled down and started fought throughout; the game was playing M-A basketball.” won in the trenches. Positioning M-A took a 30-25 lead into the was tightly contested close to the fourth period, saw Hillsdale go basket. Coco Lovely, Skylar Bur- on a four-minute scoring drought. ris, and Julie Chandler stood out The Knights managed only sev- in defending the low post area.” en points on two converted field Lovely tallied 17 points with goals in the quarter. sophomore Lauren Koyama lead- With just over two minutes left ing the way with 20. Paly limited in the game, M-A sophomore Ofa Saratoga to just four points in the Sili made back-to-back layups and second quarter while taking a 33- the Bears took a safe 40-27 lead. 19 halftime lead. Sili finished with 10 points and In the WBAL Foothill Division, fellow sophomore Ilana Baer led Pinewood knocked Eastside Prep with 12. (5-2, 15-4) into third place follow- “This was a really big game ing the wild overtime game this for us,” said Sili, who had recov- week. sday night. ered from an injury three games Eastside Prep senior Chaccity ago. “Although I was tired and Cunningham’s 3-pointer tied the my knee was hurting, I knew I game at 56 with four seconds couldn’t give up. I kept trying to put up every shot I could and luck- (continued on next page)

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on Tuesday night. The Knights Prep. The setback also puts the vision, Gunn notched its second tallied twice for the Bears (4-3-2, Prep roundup (6-1, 14-4) raced to a 35-14 half- Knights’ Central Coast Section straight shutout and remained 7-4-3), who out-shot the Bearcats (continued from previous page) time lead before cruising in the playoff hopes in jeopardy. atop the division standings with by 29-0. Josephine Cotto, Julia second half. Menlo (5-2-1, 7-5-2 overall) a 2-0 victory over visiting Sara- Moreton, Ellie Purpura, Jordan to play and sent it to overtime. Hannah Paye, Kenzie Duffner couldn’t match the Eagles inten- toga. Senior Sean MacPherson Olesen and Margaret Child all Pinewood wrapped up the win and De’Jeane Stine all had 15 sity in the opening minutes as scored twice, in the 15th and 41st tallied goals for M-A. in OT by making 12 of 13 free points for Menlo with Duffner Harker sought to defend its home minutes. Alex Ruber and Bryant In the SCVAL El Camino Divi- throws. Senior Gabi Bade was 9 adding 13 rebounds. Olivia Pel- field on Senior Day. Junior Will Cervantes provided the assists as sion, Gunn got goals from Natalie of 9 for the game — five com- larin finished with six points and Chisholm tallied the Knights’ the Titans improved to 7-0-1 in Hill in the first half and Lucy Au- ing in overtime — and finished nine rebounds. lone goal. league (10-4-2 overall). gustine in the second on the way with 20 points, 14 coming in the In Atherton, Sacred Heart to a 2-0 victory over host Monta second half. Boys soccer Prep improved its lead over the Girls soccer Vista. Robin Waymouth provid- Pinewood, which came into the With Jesus Ortega scoring four WBAL field by handing visit- Palo Alto stayed tied for first ed the assist on Hill’s goal while game ranked No. 8 in the state goals, Menlo-Atherton took over ing Eastside Prep a 3-0 defeat. place in the SCVAL De Anza Di- Augustine’s was unassisted. The and No. 13 in the nation by Max- first place in the PAL Bay Divi- The Gators (7-0-1, 11-1-3) im- vision following a 2-0 win over Titans improved to 5-3 in league Preps.com, was 20 of 25 from the sion soccer race with a 7-0 romp proved their unbeaten streak to host Saratoga. The Vikings (7-1, (8-5-1 overall). line while Eastside Prep made 13 over visiting Half Moon Bay on 10 straight and took a big step to- 13-1), who are still deadlocked In the WBAL Foothill Divi- of 17. Wednesday. The Bears (7-2, 10-3) ward clinching a seventh straight with Mountain View, won their sion, Sacred Heart Prep opened The host Panthers, who started moved ahead of Burlingame (6-1- league crown. fifth straight and now have out- up a five-point lead over second- the game with its six-player ros- 2), which was tied by Carlmont, Matthew MacFarquhar scored scored the opposition by 46-5 this place Menlo School following a ter, finished with just three play- 2-2. the eventual winning goal in the season. 4-2 victory over host Harker. The ers. Senior Destiny Graham had M-A has 21 points and Burl- first half off an assist from Philip Paly was pressed early by the Gators moved to 7-0 in league (21 20 points, 20 rebounds and five ingame has 20, with Sequoia (6- Petrakian, who made it 2-0 later Falcons, but broke the scoreless points) and 13-2-1 overall while assists for Eastside. She fouled 2-1) right behind with 19. Mario in the half following an assist match in the 36th minute when second-place Menlo (5-1-1, 8-3-4) out in the OT period while foul- Rodriguez and Efrain Garcia also from Eric Hausken. Jacey Pederson got around the tied King’s Academy, 1-1. ing Bade on a 3-point attempt scored for the Bears, with one In the SCVAL De Anza Divi- Saratoga defense and drove the SHP tallied three goals in the with 54 seconds left. Bade made goal unaccounted for. The Bears sion, Palo Alto gave up its first ball inside the near post for a first half with freshman Mia all three free throws for a 62-60 have won five straight and seven goal after eight straight shutouts 1-0 advantage. In the second half Shenk scoring twice in the first lead. of their past eight. and suffered their first league Pederson scored on a free kick seven minutes. Sophomore Oliv- In San Jose, Menlo School took In the West Bay Athletic loss, 1-0 to visiting Monta Vista from about 25 yards out. ia Athens scored in the 20th and over sole possession of second League, Menlo School dropped a on Tuesday. The Vikings (7-1, 11- In the PAL Bay Division, Men- 66th minutes after assisting on place in the WBAL Foothill Di- 3-1 decision to host Harker and 2-2) remained tied for first place lo-Atherton snapped a two-match Shenk’s second goal while McK- vision race with a 59-41 victory all but lost any hope of catch- with Homestead (7-2). losing streak with a 7-0 romp over enna Angotti assisted on Shenk’s over host Notre Dame-San Jose ing first-place Sacred Heart In the SCVAL El Camino Di- visiting San Mateo. Molly Briggs first tally. Q

inside linebacker, consensus top- asked to pitch, without much in the top 25, including No. 2 Or- Football 50 inside linebacker and 2015 Softball preparation time. Kylie Sorenson egon and No. 3 Alabama, and 14 (continued from page 61) Semper Fidelis All-America Bowl (continued from page 61) and Tylyn Wells once again will teams that appeared in last year’s participant Jordan Fox, and Casey be called upon for innings, though NCAA tournament. Buncom IV at cornerback, safety Toohill, the 28th-rated outside Sophomore pitcher Madi they’ve had plenty of time to get “The blueprint for excellence is Ben Edwards, cornerback Quen- linebacker by PrepStar. Schreyer was thrust into the un- ready. to be the best version of yourself,” ton Meeks and safety Justin Reid. Irwin is a consensus top- 90 enviable position of having to as- Sorenson, a sophomore, hit a Hanson said. “To be the best, you Offensive linemen Brian Chaf- national recruit who is rated as sume most of the innings pitched team-high .363 last year. Wells, have to play the best and you have fin and Nick Wilson and run- the sixth-best wide receiver by last year. She’s better prepared for one of six seniors, hit .317. Fellow to beat the best.” ning backs Cameron Scarlett and Rivals and earned All-America it this season. seniors Leah White (.356), Erin Bonstrom led the team with 44 Bryce Love are also four-star first team honors from Parade, “She shouldered the load last Ashby (.342) and Hanna Winter RBI last year, while fellow juniors athletes. MaxPreps and Scout. year and learned a lot from it,” (.333) followed Sorenson. Junior Jessica Plaza and Kaitlin Scha- Chaffin, a center out of North Arcega-Whiteside is rated 45th Hanson said. “It will be exciting Kayla Bonstrom (.333) was an- berg were two of the top defensive Carolina, was the first to send in at his position by PrepStar and to watch her this season.” other of the six hitters over .300. players. Plaza and Ashby shared his signed letter, which arrived 62nd by Rivals. Tyler, a 5-8 re- Freshman Haley Spencer, who Senior Cassandra Roulund hit the team lead in home runs, each in the Stanford football offices ceiver and kick returner out of accumulated some impressive .290, with 15 doubles and 38 RBI. with six. shortly after 5 a.m. Gretna, La., is a top-100 rated na- pitching and offensive numbers Alyssa Lombardo batted .500 in Schreyer and Sorenson lead a Irwin and fellow Parade first tional athlete by ESPN. while playing at Christian Broth- limited appearances. strong sophomore class that also team All-American receiver JJ On the offensive line, Austin ers High in Sacramento, joins “I am so proud of the seniors for includes Bessie Noll and Lauren Arcega-Whiteside join a relatively Maihen joins Chaffin, Dreyer Schreyer. their commitment to using tough Bertoy. inexperienced group of receivers and Wilson. Chaffin is a unani- “She will have to immediately times for good,” Hanson said. In addition to Snyder, Han- and both could make an immedi- mous top-10 center who is ranked jump in and play like a veteran,” “Last year was an opportunity to son also like what she sees from ate impact. as his as third by PrepStar and Hanson said of Spencer, who also learn things and grow.” freshmen Whitney Burks, Kaitlyn “I’m impressed with how ma- played in the Under Armour first base. “She’s a quality pitcher Stanford (30-25 overall, 5-19 in Lagattuta, Victoria Molina, Adren ture this class is,” Shaw said. All-America Game. Wilson is a with a great mentality.” the Pac-12) won its first 13 games Pettit, Savannah Schulze and Lau- “There are guys who are physi- highly regarded four-star guard Stanford had a pitcher transfer last year before things turned. ren Wegner. cally ready for college football. who Rivals has as the ninth-best out of the school following her Even with all the struggles in con- “Some of the freshmen are in the There’s a chance for these guys guard in the nation while earn- freshman season for a second ference play, Stanford managed mix and pushing for spots,” Han- to play.” ing a spot in the 2015 Semper Fi- straight year. Carly Hoover, a wins over No. 2 UCLA and No. son said. “I’m also excited that they Devon Cajuste, Michael Rector delis All-America Bowl. Dreyer South Carolina native and con- 10 Washington. The Cardinal also will get to learn from the seniors.” and Francis Owusu are the top is a unanimous top-90 tackle that sidered the top recruit out of high lost in extra innings to national- Hanson brought assistant returning receivers and standout Rivals as rated as the 34th-best school, transferred to LSU during ly-ranked Arizona and Arizona coach Dorian Shaw (Michigan, Christian McCaffrey will become player at that position. the summer. State, both on the road. 2011) with her from Dartmouth a full-time running back. Heimuli is the nation’s second- Hoover won her first two deci- “It’s great to build off that,” and coaxed former All-American Others in the mix include Rol- best fullback as judged by Scout, sions during last year’s opening Hanson said. “We have great re- Megan Langenfeld, a national lins Stallworth, Gautam Krish- ESPN and PrepStar while check- weekend and then missed the rest turners on the offensive side and team player, to join her from Ar- namurthi, Dontonio Jordan, Con- ing in at fourth with Rivals and of the season with a pectoral in- we have that to rely on. But of- kansas. nor Crane, Addison Johnson and ninth with 247Sports. Reagan jury, which is usually associated fense is streaky and we’ll have to OK, so Langenfeld, raised in Isaiah Brandt-Sims. Jay Tyler, Williams is the second-rated full- with weight-lifting and/or throw- play better defense.” Bakersfield and a UCLA grad, who scored 127 touchdowns dur- back from Rivals and third at the ing a ball side-armed. Stanford, which opened its sea- didn’t need that much coaxing. ing his high school career in Loui- position by Scout and 247Sports. Kelsey Stevens transferred son Thursday against Virginia at “She wanted to get back to Cali- siana, also signed as a receiver. Jake Bailey completes the re- to Oklahoma following an All- the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, fornia,” Hanson said of her pitch- Justin Reid, meanwhile, has ties cruiting class as the lone special Pac-12 freshman season in 2013 Ariz., was picked by coaches to ing coach. to the NFL as his older brother, teams player. Both a place kicker with the Cardinal. finish ninth in the nine-team Pac- Langenfeld helped the Bruins Eric, plays for the San Francisco and a punter. The combination of Stevens’ 12. win the 2010 national title. She 49ers. transfer, Hoover’s injury and “We’re trying to make sure the hit .706 (12 for 17) and was 3-0 in “I’m not surprised,” Shaw said. Other signings pitcher Nyree White leaving the culture is in the right place,” Han- the Women’s College World Se- “We knew we had a good chance. Sacred Heart Prep senior Ben team for personal reasons put a son said. “We’re focused on the ries. Langenfeld was 53-9 with a But he and his brother are great Burr-Kirven also made it official strain on Schreyer, who threw process. I’d like to see resiliency 1.42 ERA at UCLA. students. He came on a visit and on Wednesday by signing with 242 1/3 innings and appeared in and a relentlessness in bouncing Hanson had never been to had a blast.” the University of Washington. 47 of the team’s 55 games last back from failure.” Northern California before begin- The linebackers include Mus- He’s slated to play linebacker for spring. This season, the Cardinal will ning the hiring process. She’s like tafa Branch, a unanimous top-40 the Huskies. Q Four position players were play eight teams currently ranked to make it her home. Q

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