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UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Rail Authority besieged by critical reports State legislators give agency until February to cent months as three independent re- are “unreliable for policy analysis.” title, “High-Speed Rail Authority: views found a slew of problems in the Simitian, a former Palo Alto may- It Risks Delays or an Incomplete resolve ridership, oversight issues proposed rail line, which would stretch or and Santa Clara County supervi- System Because of Inadequate from San Francisco to Los Angeles. by Gennady Sheyner sor, said the ITS study is particu- Planning, Weak Oversight, and Lax The latest of these reviews, issued larly troubling because it was issued Contract Management.” last Friday by the Institute of Trans- on the heels of other critical reports Simitian called the slate of prob- he California High-Speed Rail the Weekly this week. portation Studies (ITS) at Univer- about the rail project. Last year, the lems identified in the recent reports Authority has until February Simitian, who sits on both the Sen- sity of California, Berkeley, picked Legislative Analyst’s Office called “an unfortunate trend that needs to T to resolve a litany of recent- ate’s Budget Committee and Trans- apart the model that the rail author- the rail authority’s business plan be turned around.” ly uncovered problems with the portation Policy Committee, is one ity’s consultant used to estimate how incomplete and consideration of “This is just the latest in a series of planned rail system or risk losing of many local and state officials who many people would use the new line. funding risks inadequate. And the observations from qualified, reputable state funding for the project, state have become increasingly frustrated The ITS report concluded that these State Auditor’s report, issued in late Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, told with the voter-approved project in remodels have “large error bounds” and April, summarized its findings in its (continued on page 8)

SCHOOLS Big changes afoot at Gunn, Paly Workers move dozens of portables to clear sites for major construction by Chris Kenrick eenagers heading back to school this fall will find dra- T matically altered landscapes at Gunn and Palo Alto high schools. At Gunn, the 26 portable classrooms that comprised the “Titan Village” section of campus have been moved to the parking lot to make way for construction of a new, two-story building for the math and English departments. At Paly, the campus is abuzz with “belly dump” trailers, bulldozers, backhoes and motor graders. The Churchill Avenue field con-

Kimihiro Hoshino taining baseball and softball dia- monds has been dug up — resem- bling a moonscape studded with mounds of dirt and gravel — and will not re-open until February. And the entire central campus Computers are part of daily life, even while enjoying family time at the Pacific Athletic Club in Redwood City, for Mandeep Dhillon, CEO of is fenced off as workers assemble Togetherville, a new social networking site for kids. With him are his children Zoraver Singh, 8, left, Nivaaz Kaur, 3, and Hazuri Kaur, 6. 16 portable classrooms in the Paly quad. for both boys, despite their pleas, Togetherville allows children to The work — funded by a $378 COMMUNITY at least until they turn 13. build a “neighborhood” of parent- million facilities bond that was ap- Like many parents, Spanner has approved friends and grown-ups proved by 77.5 percent of school dis- struggled with allowing her kids with whom to share videos, play trict voters in June 2008 — eventu- to use the Internet while guarding games and trade messages for ally will touch all 17 campuses of Parenting the against inappropriate content and free. Parents can monitor all ac- the Palo Alto Unified School Dis- safety risks. Banning them from tivities and interact with their kids trict. the Internet altogether is not an online. Children are identified by The bond program is intended Internet generation option; Blake, now 9, has had to their real names. to modernize outdated classrooms cite Web sources in schoolwork “There’s a reason 500 mil- and expand school capacity to ac- Website offers social networking for kids since the third grade. lion people use Facebook,” said commodate anticipated enrollment — with adult supervision As parents and experts come to Dhillon, Togetherville’s CEO and growth. terms with plugged-in kids, they a spirited father of three. “Let’s Now at 11,680 students, dis- by Katia Savchuk are trying to figure out how to rear give kids the Web for adults that’s trict-wide enrollment has crept up the Internet generation — and a appropriate for them and make it steadily from a low of 7,452 in 1989- tay-at-home-mom Teri Span- When she and her 12-year-old, pair of Palo Alto entrepreneurs safe.” 1990. ner was shocked to see 8-year- Evan, came across pornograph- say they can help. Many parents seem to be on The previous high point was at S old son Blake killing Ameri- ic videos while searching for a Last May, one-time consultants board. Togetherville’s 10-person the crest of the Baby Boom years can soldiers in an online World War Capella renditions of “Danny Mandeep Dhillon and Rajveer team has been working around in 1967-68, when enrollment was II game last year. A National Guard Boy,” YouTube joined the black- Tut launched Togetherville, a so- the clock to accommodate rapidly 15,575 and Palo Alto had three com- veteran herself, Spanner told him list. cial networking website designed prehensive high schools. that the website was off-limits. A Facebook profile is a no-no for children younger than 10. (continued on page 7) (continued on page 6) *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊU Page 3

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LAND USE Research Park attracting younger, hipper firms Skype is latest big-name tech tenant to lease space in city’s district of innovation by Gennady Sheyner hen Russell and Segurd lows users to talk, share files and Varian signed the first teleconference over the Internet, W lease in what was then plans to move into a 90,000-square- Stanford Industrial Park in 1951, foot building at 3210 Porter Drive, they hedged their bets by making a short stroll from HP’s headquar- their new headquarters look like a ters. schoolhouse. In his blog entry, Skype CEO Josh According to the Park’s official Silverman called the company’s history, the brothers — developers move to Palo Alto “an exciting step of the world’s first klysteron tube, for us.” He said he expects to move which generates microwave radia- about 80 employees from San Jose

tion — wanted to make sure that if and Brisbane to the new Palo Alto Weber Veronica their business failed, the building office in October. Tesla, manufacturer of high-performance electric cars, recently moved to Stanford Research Park from San could be used as a school. “And, we hope to attract some of Carlos. Below, Transportation from the Stanford Research Park to Stanford University and Caltrain stations is Today, Varian Medical Systems is the best and brightest talent in the provided by Stanford’s free Marguerite Shuttle. a leading manufacturer of radiation Valley, especially engineers who are and radar equipment. It is also one skilled at building ultra-scalable in- tively luring companies that “reflect of roughly 150 companies occupy- frastructure,” Silverman said. and represent the changing trends,” ing the 700-acre sprawl of high-tech Skype is, in many ways, emblem- said Jean Snider, managing director campuses stretching from El Cami- atic of the Park’s recent wave of of Stanford Research Park. no Real to Deer Creek Road, mostly young, hip and high-tech tenants. It was the Research Park that clustered along Page Mill Road and The social-media company Face- reached out to Tesla, not the other Foothill Expressway. book and the electric-car manufac- way around, she said. Stanford Uni- Unlike half a century ago, the turer Tesla both moved their head- versity officials were looking for Park is now nearly built out. The quarters to the Research Park last companies that would further boost name has been altered — substitut- year. Facebook left its downtown the Research Park’s reputation for ing “Research” for “Industrial.” And Palo Alto offices to come to the Re- green technology and felt the elec- just as the times have changed, so search Park, while Tesla (like Var- tric-car company perfectly fit that have the types of companies mov- ian) moved from San Carlos. Better mold. ing in. Place, a company founded in 2007 In announcing the company’s Last week, Skype became the lat- to build networks of charging sta- move to Deer Creek Road in Palo est big-name firm to announce its tions and battery-swapping stations Alto last year, Tesla CEO Elon intention to open an office in the for electric vehicles, is headquar- Musk touted Stanford Research Stanford Research Park. The Lux- tered on Arastradero Road. embourg-based company, which al- Park officials have been proac- (continued on page 6) Veronica Weber Veronica

UTILITIES plistic.” Staff has been working with we’ll be going through a study and a consultant since last fall to devise coming back a year from now with a more sophisticated and accurate some major changes in this regard,” forecasting model, which is now be- he said. Palo Alto’s garbage rates may spike ing finalized, she said. In her report, Eyerly attributed the The revenue drop is not simply a shortfall in the Refuse Fund to two With revenues falling due to economy and ‘green’ success, problem that could affect city ser- factors in addition to the Zero Waste city considers raising rates, cutting services vices. The gap needs to be remedied program: a reduction in customer because of a state contract related to sales caused by the ongoing reces- by Gennady Sheyner the landfill. sion; and city policies that include more capital spending and a ban on alo Alto’s waste-collection not sit well with committee mem- from landfills by about 15 percent, commercial waste at the city’s land- service is, in some ways, a bers, however. to about 78 percent. ‘Zero Waste is fill near the Baylands. P victim of its own success. In addition to rate increases, But the existing rate structure is The committee took no action The city’s effort to discourage staff proposed budget fixes includ- also hurting the city’s bottom line. equaling zero dollars Tuesday, but Klein said he was old-fashioned trash and encourage ing charging more for landfill use; As green-minded residents trade and that’s the bothered by the idea of changing recycling and composting seems to closing the city’s compost and recy- their 32-gallon trash carts for 20- the rate structure for two years in a be going well, almost too well, with cling facilities earlier than planned gallon “mini-cans” and in the pro- problem.’ row — this year and next, after the more commercial customers trim- (a move that would send the city’s cess slash their monthly rates from — Greg Scharff, staff completes its study of rate lev- ming their loads of landfill-bound trimmings and recyclables to the $31 to $15, the city’s revenues have Palo Alto City Councilman els. The city also raised refuse rates garbage. SMaRT Station in Sunnyvale); and plummeted. by 17 percent in June 2009. But less trash also means less shifting street sweeping from week- Recycling, meanwhile, is free. The landfill, which is more than Klein suggested deferring rate revenue for the city’s Refuse Fund, ly to biweekly. Scharff called the city’s rate struc- 98 percent full, is scheduled to close changes for a few more months, which in turn means that city resi- Committee members, reluctant to ture “completely unsustainable — between 2012 and 2014, based on when more data and a better fore- dents and businesses may soon have raise rates, asked the Public Works it’s crashing and burning.” volume in the landfill and when the casting model are available. to pay higher rates to get their trash Department for more information “Zero Waste is equaling zero dol- dump is deemed full. Palo Alto is Scharff said he opposes reducing picked up. City staff has proposed about the alternatives and a larger lars and that’s the problem,” Scharff required by its state landfill-oper- the level of street sweeping, a ser- a 6 percent hike for residential cus- menu of possible cuts. said. ations permit to keep more than vice reduction that could increase tomers and a 9 percent increase for Councilman Greg Scharff said Scharff said he would rather keep $6 million in reserves to close the water pollution in the baylands and commercial ones. the department should consider the city’s landfill-diversion rate at landfill. in local creeks. The City Council Finance Com- eliminating jobs. 78 percent than strive to attain 90 The revenue shortfall is threaten- “I’m troubled by the fact that we’re mittee members struggled with the The budget gap can partially percent if the higher goal means ing to bring the reserve down to al- substituting one environmental good irony Tuesday night as they brain- be attributed to the success of the higher costs and a lower quality of most zero, which would put the city for another,” Scharff said. “What stormed ways to close a $6.7 million city’s Zero Waste program, which life for city residents. in direct violation of its contract, we’re saying is Zero Waste takes deficit in the Refuse Fund, a budget promotes recycling and compost- Meanwhile, the city is trying to Public Works Director Glenn Rob- precedence to protecting the Bay.” hole the committee learned about in ing and gives residents incentives to prevent future budget surprises in erts said. The committee is scheduled to re- May. throw away less trash. The program, the Refuse Fund. Solid Waste Man- “We absolutely have to take some sume the discussion July 20. N The options, which Councilman which the council instituted in 2004, ager Rene Eyerly said Tuesday the initiative now to deal with this either Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner Larry Klein called “an interesting has helped Palo Alto increase the model staff used to project refuse through rate increase or expense can be e-mailed at gsheyner@ collection of bad alternatives,” did percentage of local waste diverted revenues was “outdated” and “sim- reductions, knowing full well that paweekly.com. *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊU Page 5 #.8t.&3$&%&4t#.8t.&3$&%&4tVVOLOLVVOO Upfront "/%.*/*"/%.*/* School upgrades CORPORACORPORATETE AUTOAUTO WORKSWORKS (continued from page 3) Top Rating For Quality By Bay Area Enrollment had dropped to about Consumer Check Book 11,000 by 1979, when Cubberley $PNQMFUF 4FSWJDFand3FQBJS High School was closed. “We don’t know what will hap- :VCB .U 7JFX pen with enrollment — we certainly off El Camino wish we did,” School Superinten- near Hwy 85 dent Kevin Skelly said in a meeting .PO'SJ last month. www.corporateautoworks.com “But if you look at the last 20 years it seems that our enrollment is im-

pervious to some factors. Whether Veronica Weber Since 650-691-9477 s r r 1981 the economy is good or bad, enroll- Distributor JT Design Products ment continues to increase.” Skelly said the bond measure projects “take us to capacity” at the district’s three middle schools and International School of the Peninsula two high schools. Bulldozers and other heavy machinery abound at Palo Alto High School “If it were to go well above that, during reconstruction of a parking lot and multi-use field. we’d certainly have to consider an- :MSP1J?ACDMP"DRCP4AFMMJ other middle school or another high At Paly, portables were cleared up and ready to go by Aug. 13 so school,” he said, speaking at a June from a spot near Embarcadero that teachers can move in on Aug. 16 joint meeting of the Palo Alto Road as well as from a quad near 16. -?LES?EC-C?PLGLE City Council and the boards of the the school’s corporation yard to The first day of school for stu- Palo Alto Unified School District create construction space for a Me- dents is Tuesday, Aug. 24. and the Foothill-De Anza Commu- dia Arts building and a two-story Groundbreaking on the new struc- Offering Mandarin Chinese, French & Spanish nity College District regarding the classroom building that will house tures themselves could be as late as Nursery - 8th grade future of Cubberley. the math and social studies depart- next spring or summer, depending The summer changes at the high ments. on the speed of state approvals. schools are aimed at clearing space Workers are under tight deadlines Plans for the new buildings on for construction of new facilities. to have the quad portables hooked both high school campuses will NEW CULTURAL CLASSES THIS FALL! be submitted within the next four weeks to the Division of State Ar- chitect, charged with oversight of Enroll Now! all school construction, according to Thomas Hodges, a senior vice- Classes Begin mid-Sept. president of O’Connor Construc- tion Management Inc. and program director for the school-district (650) 251-8519 projects. www.istp.org/languageclasses The Board of Education, at the recommendation of site commit- Palo Alto, CA tees at both high schools, decided to move the portables this summer

Veronica Weber rather than wait a year so that construction could begin quickly once the projects clear the Division of State Architect, expected to take up to nine months. N Staff Writer Chris Kenrick can Sixteen portable classrooms are being moved into Paly’s quad to make be e-mailed at ckenrick@paweek- room for new classrooms. ly.com. Avenidas presents the 7th Annual Park, merged with Genentech and space on the market,” Snider said. Research Park began its departure from Palo Alto. The success of the Research Park Caregiver (continued from page 5) But the area has otherwise proven is also great news for Palo Alto, resilient during the ongoing eco- where city officials are coping with Conference nomic downturn. dropping revenues and struggling Park as “synonymous with innova- When Roche is taken out of the retailers. City officials were excited Saturday, August 21 tion and entrepreneurship,” a sen- equation, the vacancy rate in the to welcome Tesla last year and were timent shared by many incoming district is now at about 5 percent, pleased to learn about Skype’s move 8:30 am - 2:30 pm tenants, Snider said. Companies Snider said. Some of the Research last month. leasing space in the Research Park Park’s best-known companies, in- Deputy City Manager Steve Learn how to: are particularly attracted to the cluding HP; spacecraft manufac- Emslie, who heads the city’s new Park’s proximity to Stanford and its turer Lockheed Martin Missiles Office of Economic Development, Deal with family dynamics location between San Francisco and and Space; and information-tech- said the creation of the office is part Cope with a loved one's San Jose — factors that help them nology company VMware remain of the city’s effort to improve its attract top talent from the entire Bay entrenched in the Park. VMware, coordination with Stanford and to dementia Area. in fact, recently built a new gym- welcome more companies to Palo Create order out of clutter In Skype’s case, Snider said it was nasium and expanded its campus Alto. Care for yourself to avoid the company that first contacted on Hillview Avenue by 460,000 The Research Park may have Stanford. But because the Palo Alto square feet, a notable occurrence evolved since its industrial roots, but burnout location was one of several sites for an area that is already largely it remains an attractive destination Discover forgiveness Skype was considering, Stanford built out. for some of the nation’s top compa- officials still had some convincing The area has rebounded from the nies, he said. to do. dotcom bust of the early 2000s, “It’s what’s driven companies for Register at Avenidas.org “We competed directly and hard when the vacancy rate hovered ages — access to talent, a commit- or (650) 289-5445. for them,” Snider said. “Companies around the high teens, Snider ted university, energy, innovation have options; they don’t just come said. and the fact that they’re around to you.” “We are very fortunate that we other high-tech companies,” Emslie The Research Park lost one ma- have a lot of very strong companies said. N jor tenant two years ago when the in the Research Park that aren’t ex- Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner Where age is just a number pharmaceutical giant Roche, which periencing problems or difficulties can be e-mailed at gsheyner@ occupied about 10 percent of the to the point where they’re putting paweekly.com.

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He’s found that children with set up the ‘always on, always con- grumbled. than a stack of coloring books and Parenting social anxiety gravitate to virtual nected’ mentality,” she said. “It’s Restricting Internet use can be crayons.” (continued from page 3) communication, which can help important to interact more face-to- a tool but parents should also set Dhillon became determined to build social skills but is not a sub- face with people and to do other expectations for online behavior harness the potential of the Internet growing membership (the company stitute for real-world interaction. things with your life. Not everything by talking with their children and for kids. is not disclosing exact numbers) “I would just be watchful as a par- should be tied to a device.” monitoring their activity, according Dhillon’s own fascination with since the site went live. One young ent: Is your child on the computer She admitted, however, that she to Collier. the Web also had an early start. staff member said he spent a night all the time because they’re avoiding and her husband spend too much This remains true for sites like His father, a doctor with an interest in the start-up’s basement office on whatever might be difficult in their time on the computer. Togetherville, which she said may in technology, got him a computer University Avenue, napping on the lives?” The example that parents set give a false sense of security. when he was 8. Growing up sur- carpet. The Internet, fast-paced and in- should not be discounted, however, “We can’t abdicate our responsi- rounded by tobacco fields in rural “It seems that we’ve hit a spe- teractive, also attracts children who Sweet said. bility to stay engaged. ... It’s really North Carolina, Dhillon found it a cific need in the market,” observed have trouble focusing, although “I think we need to look at what extending your parenting into cy- good companion. Dhillon, who expects the website to there is no proof that it reduces kids’ we’re modeling,” Sweet said. “Kids berspace,” she said. His zeal has not diminished. “The catch on around the globe. ability to concentrate, Sweet said. are going to emulate that. It’s hard And despite safety measures on Internet-connected computer is the Some are hailing the site as an an- As far as whether logging on to tell your kid not to want to get a site like Togetherville, “there’s greatest learning device that’s ever swer to parental concerns about pri- early can cause addiction, Sweet on the computer if you’re always on no guarantee of 100-percent safety been created,” he said. “Why are we vacy, safety and propriety in social “wouldn’t rule it out.” He noted that your iPhone.” anywhere,” Collier said. “That’s too keeping our kids out of it?” networking and a tool for teaching South Korea, which he called “the Spanner, who has more than 450 much to ask of any school, of any With more than half of American responsible online communication. most wired society in the world,” Facebook friends and uses the site public park, of any virtual world.” teenagers using social networking Anne Collier, a member of Presi- has rehabilitation centers for young “way more than I should,” limits Dhillon’s own children inspired websites, according to the Pew In- dent Barack Obama’s working group Internet addicts. Blake’s screen time to one hour per him to help make the Web safe for ternet Project, denial may no longer on online safety and co-director of Catherine Crystal Foster, a non- day on weekends and 30 minutes on kids. Formerly a lawyer and man- be a realistic option. ConnectSafely.org, is enthusiastic. profit consultant in Palo Alto, is summer weekdays, and only in pub- agement consultant, Dhillon con- “It’s here to stay,” Collier said. “I just think it’s great — it’s very one mother who wants to prevent lic rooms (if he could, Blake said, he ceived Togetherville four years ago “It’s a reality of our lives now, so cutting edge,” said Collier, a member her two boys from developing an would spend 70 percent of the day after watching his son entertain let’s learn safe constructive use of of Togetherville’s advisory board. “I online habit. on the computer). Evan has unre- himself on the computer. Four-year- social networking as early as pos- am not aware of another company She does not allow her 9- and stricted access, but the whole fam- old Zoraver figured out how to use a sible.” N that has really addressed safe social 12-year-olds on social-networking ily logs off every few months during webcam to take pictures of himself Editorial Intern Katia Savchuk networking for little kids.” sites. “no-technology weekends.” while watching DVDs. can be e-mailed at ksavchuk@ Togetherville screens content and “You don’t want to do things that “I hate those weekends,” Evan “He was more interested in that paweekly.com. mostly limits kids to pre-written “quips,” such as “I love Taylor Swift’s hair,” “If you were a booger, I’d pick you first” and “I love Togetherville.” 3rd annual Users can also post their own one- liners, pending approval. town & country Safety was the main reason Span- Village ner signed her sons up for the website during a test phase that began two years ago. Since Togetherville filters suggestive and excessively violent material, she no longer wor- July ries about inappropriate content. “I know if it’s on Togetherville, it’s been pre-approved,” she said. “It won’t have the tanks or the guns.” Spanner has encouraged friends and family across the country to join Togetherville. “I don’t really understand why Music other people are so nervous,” she said. “Maybe they’re unsure because they don’t understand it themselves.” Blake, a talkative boy with white- blond hair, has 74 online friends (including Dhillon’s son, Zoraver, a Fes t former classmate) and mostly uses the site to play games. Spanner logs on weekly to track his activity and post comments. She recently sent "&+& $! Blake a koi fish as a virtual gift. 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“There’s still time to get it right, tive ways.” for the rail authority to slow down and by the desire for federal funds.” Rail Authority but that time is slipping away quick- “The ITS Draft Report focuses on to focus less on meeting federal-grant “The project is suffering from (continued from page 3) ly,” Simitian said. academic viewpoints and ignores what deadlines and more on designing an enormous credibility problem, But even as critics pummel the it takes to create a model for real-world the best system for the state. Earlier due to its widely criticized business third-party commentators who really rail authority’s ridership model, application,” Neumann wrote. this week, the Peninsula Cities Con- plan, faulty ridership numbers and don’t have an ax to grind,” Simitian the agency has indicated that it will Van Ark also wrote a letter to the sortium, which includes Palo Alto, the absence of funding to carry out said, referring to the ITS study. stand behind its calculations. Both ITS saying the authority believes Menlo Park, Atherton, Burlingame the project statewide — let alone Simitian said he believes the rail the authority and its transportation Cambridge has “provided a direct and and Belmont, issued a statement ask- offer realistic alternatives for the authority still has a chance to rem- consultant, Cambridge Systemat- credible response to each technical ing the rail authority to “take a step section planned on the Peninsula,” edy the problems identified in the ics, responded to the ITS report by point raised” in the report. Van Ark back and resolve troublesome issues” Cline said. “There also is no stated recent reports. The agency hired a highlighting the report’s observation also took issue with the report’s con- before proceeding with the project. plan for paying to operate high- new CEO, Roelof van Ark, in May, that Cambridge “followed generally clusion that the error bounds in the The Consortium’s chair, Menlo Park speed rail once it is built, and we and legislators have decided to give accepted professional standards” in model “may be large enough to in- Mayor Richard Cline, said in the state- fear local taxpayers may be left the agency until Feb. 1 to present a analyzing the ridership models. But clude the possibility that the Califor- ment that “common sense is absent holding the bag.” N list of reforms for dealing with the they challenged the report’s conclu- nia HSR may incur significant revenue from the high-speed rail discussion” Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner identified issues. If the agency fails sion that the models are unreliable. shortfalls.” He called this “an extraor- and criticized the “extremely rushed can be e-mailed at gsheyner@ to meet this target, state legislators Lance Neumann, president of dinary statement for which we find no project schedule that is dictated solely paweekly.com. could withhold some of the funding Cambridge Systematics, wrote a foundation in the Draft Report.” for the project, which has an esti- memo claiming that the ITS report Meanwhile, local officials along mated price tag of $43 billion. is “deficient in significant, substan- the Peninsula are continuing to call

.YP] 8LI&IRI´XWSJ'SQTSWX.EWSR(MIWXIP(MVIGXSVSJ7YWXEMREFMPMX] JSVXLI(MIWXIP8YVOI]6ERGLSZIVWIIWXLIVERGL«WSVKERMGGSQTSWXMRK CityViewA round-up of Palo Alto government action this week STIVEXMSR[MPPI\TPEMR[L]UYEPMX]GSQTSWXMWEZIV]MQTSVXERXTEVXSJ How JIIHMRK]SYVWSMPERHKVS[MRKWXVSRKERHLIEPXL]TPERXW .YP] City Council 6EMWMRK&EGO]EVH'LMGOIRW1EVO,EPPSJ'VIEXMZI'SSTWHIWMKRWERH The City Council did not meet this week. To FYMPHWFEGO]EVHGLMGOIRGSSTW6EMWMRKFEGO]EVHGLMGOIRWLEWFIGSQIE TSTYPEVXSTMGMRXLIPSGEPJSSHERHWYWXEMREFMPMX]QSZIQIRX8LMWGPMRMG Finance Committee (July 7) Clinics [EWLIPHMR1E]ERH[EWSYVQSWXTSTYPEVGPMRMGSJXLI]IEV1EVO[MPP Refuse rate: The committee discussed the $6.7 million budget deficit in the city’s re- XIEGL]SYLS[XSTVSZMHIWEJIERHLIEPXL]PMZMRKIRZMVSRQIRXJSVTSYPXV] fuse fund and considered ways to close the budget gap. The committee will resume the discussion on July 20. Action: None .YP] ;SVQ'SQTSWXMRK,EP%RNSMWEQEWXIVGSQTSWXIV[LSLEW Historic Resources Board (July 8) ZSPYRXIIVIHMRTVSKVEQWWTSRWSVIHF]XLI'SYRX]SJ7ERXE'VY^ERH Stanford Hospital: The board discussed various components of the Stanford Uni- )GSPSK]%GXMSR0IEVRLS[VIH[SVQWXYVRJSSHWGVETWMRXSVMGL[SVQ versity Medical Center expansion project, including plans to renovate Hoover Pa- GEWXMRKWJSVYWIMR]SYVKEVHIR(IQSRWXVEXMSRW[MPPMRGPYHILS[XSWIX vilion and the Cultural Resources chapter of the Draft Environmental Review for the YTE[SVQFMR[LEXXSPSSOJSVMREFMRJIIHMRKERHLEVZIWXMRK expansion project. Action: None .YP] 8LI0]RKWS6EMWIH&IH4PERXIV/MX8IVV]0]RKWS1EWXIV+EVHIRIV Planning & Transportation Commission (July 8) ERH)EVP&S]H0))(%4[MPPWLS[]SYLS[]SYGERLEZIEVEMWIHFIH Stanford Hospital: The commission discussed the Alternatives chapter and the pro- Sign up on our KEVHIRMRRSXMQIEXEPP;I[MPPI\TPEMRLS[XSEWWIQFPIXLIOMXEPPXLI posed mitigation measures in the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Stan- Action: FIRI´XWSJEVEMWIHFIH[L]SYVZIKIXEFPIFPIRHMWXLIVMKLXGLSMGIJSVE ford University Medical Center expansion project. None website to reserve VEMWIHFIHERH[LEXXSGSRWMHIV[LIRTPERXMRK your seat EQEQIEGL7EXYVHE] Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a closed session to discuss labor negotiations. The council also plans to discuss the Transportation, Climate Change and Air Quality chapters of the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the proposed expansion of the Stanford University Medical Center; and the scope of the city’s rail corridor study. The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., or as soon as possible after the closed session, on Monday, July 12, in the Council 7 Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to Remodeling Workshops discuss survey options for the 2010 Service Efforts and Accomplish- Our Designers will provide you with insight into the remodeling ments Report and the council’s priorities work plan. The meeting is process and give you design ideas, product and design solutions scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 13, in the Council Conference for your home. With these interactive workshops, you will learn Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. what you need to know, to ensure your project will be a success! n Topics will include: Design guidelines, storage, trends and PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commis- smart home technology to incorporate now sion plans to discuss goals, policies and programs relating to sus- n Learn the Designers’ tricks of the trade and explore how color tainability that could be integrated in the city’s Comprehensive Plan. can change your home from ordinary to extraordinary The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 14, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. n Discover new options in appliances, cabinets, counters, lighting and ventilation HIGH-SPEED RAIL COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss the status of the Caltrain electrification project and pending legisla- Kitchen & Bath Remodels tion relating to high-speed rail. The meeting is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 15, in the Council Conference Room at City Thursday, July 22, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Registration and light dinner at 6:15 pm ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to review the Harrell Design Center, Mtn. View draft design guidelines for the Stanford University Medical Center expansion project and discuss the landscape elements in the proposed We never forget it’s your home.® design for the expansion of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The meeting is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 15, in the Low Maintenance Homes by Design Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Saturday, July 24, 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Registration and light breakfast at 9:15 am PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss maintenance of city collections, the commission’s priorities for the Harrell Design Center, Mtn. View year and potential for temporary art. The meeting is scheduled for 7 Call us or go on line to register today. p.m. on Thursday, July 15, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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age individuals with information about the crime to contact For questions about construction activity call VTA commu- law enforcement officers. nity outreach at 408-321-7575 or visit www.vta.org. N News Digest “We greatly appreciate the prompt actions of Gov. — Bay City News Services and Palo Alto Online staff Schwarzenegger, who (Wednesday) issued a $50,000 reward Burglars raid Palo Alto home — family sleeps upon our request,” Manheimer said in a statement. “We believe Three named to California Hall of Fame Burglars stole a 50-inch television, other electronic equip- that this reward will help generate critical leads.” Three local residents are among 14 Californians chosen as ment and a mini-van while a family of four slept in the home The governor’s office has offered 265 rewards since the this year’s inductees into the California Hall of Fame. in the 1500 block of Hamilton Avenue last weekend, Palo Alto program began in 1967, and 20 of those have been paid, Woodside venture capitalist John Doerr, Facebook CEO police reported Wednesday. Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Rachel Arrezola said. In order Mark Zuckerberg and Hoover Institution Fellow and former Detective Brian Philip said the burglars entered the resi- for a person to claim a reward, a law enforcement chief must U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz will receive medals dence through an open side window on a warm evening, appar- put in a written request and have approval from the victim’s from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California first lady ently loaded the electronics into a Toyota Sienna mini-van and family. Maria Shriver in a December ceremony. drove away. The tan 1998 mini-van is still missing, he said. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to con- Shriver launched the California Hall of Fame project in con- Besides the television, stolen items included a camera, watch, tact the San Mateo Police Department by calling the investiga- junction with the California Museum in Sacramento in 2006 cell phone and laptop computer, Philip said. tions team at 650-522-7650 or dispatch at 650-522-7700, leav- “to honor legendary people who embody California’s innova- The home had an alarm system, but it was not activated at ing an anonymous tip at 650-522-7676, texting an anonymous tive spirit and have made their mark on history.” the time of the burglary, which occurred Saturday (July 3) message to 650-262-3473 or e-mailing an anonymous message Other inductees this year are entertainers Barbra Streisand, between 3 and 6 a.m. to [email protected]. N Merle Haggard and Betty White; filmmaker James Cameron; “This is an unusual burglary in that the suspects entered an — Bay City News Service painter Wayne Thiebaud; writer Anne Lamott; historian Kevin occupied home and removed several items without waking the Starr and tennis player Serena Williams. residents,” Philip said. Safety work planned at Caltrain crossings Posthumous inductees are blue-jeans inventor Levi Strauss, He said warm summer evenings require normal precautions, Eight Caltrain crossings in Palo Alto, Mountain View and former Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown and Bank of America from locking doors and windows to using deterrents, such as Sunnyvale will get safety upgrades within the next year, founder A.P. Giannini. alarm systems and lights. the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) an- Honorees are selected by a committee representing the Cali- Philip said anyone with information may contact him by nounced Wednesday. fornia Museum, the California Arts Council and the Gover- calling 650-329-2408. Anonymous tips may be sent by e-mail The work, which started Wednesday in Sunnyvale and will nor’s and first lady’s Offices. to [email protected]. N occur between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. Wednesdays through Mon- The 65 honorees named since 2006 include former Intel — Palo Alto Weekly staff days, is designed to make the crossings safer for pedestrians, CEO Andy Grove, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Stanford University cyclists and motorists. graduate and astronaut Sally Ride and former Stanford student $50,000 reward offered in Lewis homicide Among the safety features are modified railroad-crossing Tiger Woods. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office announced gates and new guardrails, fences, pedestrian and emergency Posthumous honors have gone to David and Lucile Packard, Wednesday it will issue a $50,000 reward to anyone with swing gates, sidewalks, crossing panels, and warning tactile Leland Stanford and the late Nobel Prize winner and local information leading to the arrest and conviction of those panels to assist visually impaired persons. researcher Linus Pauling. responsible for the murder of 54-year-old David Lewis, The crossings are at Alma Street, Churchill Avenue, East The California Hall of Fame Exhibit at the California Muse- who was fatally shot at the Hillsdale Shopping Center in Meadow Drive and Charleston Road in Palo Alto; Rengstorff um includes large scale portraits of the inductees and artifacts San Mateo on June 9. Avenue and Castro Street in Mountain View; and Mary Av- of each inductee’s contribution. Lewis was a community leader in East Palo Alto and co- enue and Sunnyvale Avenue in Sunnyvale. The current exhibit, from 2009 inductees, includes an in- founded the nonprofit Free at Last, which provides substance Each crossing is expected to take about three months to teractive display on the creation of an Intel microprocessor; abuse treatment and transitional housing. upgrade, and the improvement project is scheduled to wrap up props from the films of George Lucas; a time capsule from the San Mateo police spokesman Lt. Mike Brunicardi said in- in late June 2011. Palo Alto’s will be the last. late gay-rights activist and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey vestigators are still working “tirelessly” on the case. With the One lane in each direction will be closed during con- Milk; and kettle bell weights from fitness and body-building approval of David Lewis’ family, San Mateo police chief Su- struction and the sidewalk will be closed on one side of pioneer Joe Weider. 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TIME & PLACE PlEASE NOTE NEW WALK TIME: 5K walk 7:00pm, 10K run 8:15pm, 5K run 8:45pm. Race-night registration 6:15 to 8:00pm at City of Palo Alto Baylands Athletic Center, Embarcadero & Geng Roads (just east of the Embarcadero Exit off Highway 101). Parking — go to PaloAltoOnline.com to check for specific parking locations. COURSE 5K and 10K loop courses over Palo Alto Baylands levee, through the marshlands by the light of the Harvest Moon! Course is flat, USAT&F certified (10k run only) on levee and paved roads. Water at all stops. Course map available at www.PaloAltoOnline.com. REGISTRATIONS & ENTRY FEE Pre-registration fee is $25 per entrant (postmarked by September 17, 2010) and includes a long-sleeve t-shirt. Late/race-night registration is $30 and includes a shirt only while supplies last. A scantron card must be filled out at race-night registration. FAMILY PACKAGE: Children 12 and under run free with a registered parent. A completed entry form for each child must be submitted with adult registration. Please indicate on form and include $15 for an adult small t-shirt. No confirmation of mail-in registration available. Registration also available online at www.PaloAltoOnline.com. Refunds will not be issued for no-show registrations and t-shirts will not be held. SPORTS TEAM/CLUBS: Pre-registration opportunity for organizations of 10 or more runners; contact Amy at (650) 223-6508 or [email protected]. MINORS: If not pre-registered Minors under 18 MUST bring signed parental/waiver form (below) on race night to participate. In addition scantron card must be completely filled out at race-night registration. DIVISIONS Age divisions: 9 & under; 10-12; 13-19; 20-29; 30-39; 40-49; 50-59; 60-69, and 70 & over with separate divisions for male and female runners in each age group. Race timing provided for 5K and 10K runs only; not 5K walk. COMPUTERIZED RESULTS by A Change of Pace Race results will be posted on the Internet at www.PaloAltoOnline. com 10am on 9/27. Registration forms must be filled out completely and correctly for results to be accurate. Race organizers are not responsible for incorrect results caused by incomplete or incorrect registration forms. AWARDS/PRIZES/ENTERTAINMENT Top three finishers in each division. Prize giveaways and refreshments. DJ Alan Waltz. Pre- race warmups by Noxcuses Fitness, Palo Alto PALO ALTO GRAND PRIX Road Race Series — Moonlight Run, 9/24; Marsh Madness, 10/23; Home Run 11/14, for more information go to www.paloaltogp.org. BENEFICIARY Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund. A holiday-giving fund to benefit Palo Alto area non-profits and charitable organizations. In April 2010, 43 organizations received a total of $240,000 (from the 2009-2010 Holiday Fund.) Stanford MORE INFORMATION Call (650) 463-4920, (650) 326-8210, email [email protected] or go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com. FLASHLIGHTS/HEAD LIGHTS RECOMMENDED For safety reasons, no dogs allowed on course for the 5K and 10K runs. They are welcome on the 5K walk only. No retractable leashes! Please bring your own clean-up bag. Jogging strollers welcome in the 5K walk or at the back of either run. First aid service and chiropractic evaluations provided by K. Skinner, R.N., D.C. Sports and Spinal Injury Specialist Register online at www.PaloAltoOnline.com GOT OLD SHOES? Give them to Meb! We’ll be collecting gently worn athletic shoes to go to those in need in war-zones and post- conﬂ ict areas. Bring your shoes to the Project Active booth on the baseball diamond and support your sport by giving back. Go to www.GiveMebYourShoes.com for more information about the cause.

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*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊU Page 11 Editorial Reassessing downtown business district As group’s president departs, downtown Palo Alto’s Business Improvement District needs a fresh look Editorials, letters and opinions lready facing the challenge of some businesses refusing to pay Spectrum their required assessments, downtown Palo Alto’s 6-year-old A business-improvement organization should pause to consider its Union vote questions have government backing for de- institutions, these investment com- options — especially in the aftermath of the recent sudden departure Editor, posits. panies and others that are too big of its president, Sherry Bijan. Some of the following informa- Two major things were not ad- to fail. And too big to be safe for Both businesses and city officials need to take a hard look tion comes from SEIU Union mem- dressed in the new bill, the most America. It does not handle that. at what can be learned from the first six years of the BID. bers who work for the City of Palo important things. First of all, it does So the two biggest issues are not Alternatives include (1) continuing but with a goal of building Alto and shall remain anonymous. nothing to put the firewall back up resolved. renewed support by the May 2011 reauthorization; (2) disbanding I’m writing this in response to the between regular banking commer- Pretending this is somehow the by majority protest of businesses in the district; or (3) becoming recent Palo Alto Online article. cial activity and those investment kind of reform we needed to avoid part of the Chamber of Commerce, as is being discussed. Individuals I have spoken with firms on Wall Street. That distinc- the financial collapse is really not The downtown organization is a quasi-official arm of the city have told me of hundreds of dollars tion was critical to protect all of us being honest with the American government. It was created by the City Council in 2004 and it a month in pay cuts since the city from this kind of collapse. This bill people. has the power to levy assessments against retail and professional imposed a contract on the union. does not fix it. Ted Rudow III businesses in specified areas of the downtown. It was just re- With the contract imposed on the The second thing is that it does Encina Avenue authorized by the council in May. The city’s role is limited to SEIU union members last year and not do anything serious about these Palo Alto being a fiduciary agent, collecting the assessments, while an now with the new one-year contract, essentially independent board of directors oversees policy, staff individual SEIU employees continue and programs. to lose about $5,000 a year direct cut This week on Town Square to pay and $1,000 a year in tuition Annual assessments of between $50 and $500 are levied Posted July 7 at 1:35 a.m. by I’m thinking it might be better to against between 750 and 800 businesses (the number varies each refund for additional training. The article failed to mention that GM, a resident of the Greenmead- not even put them there since gar- year). The funds are used to hire staff to promote the interests of ow neighborhood: bage gets put in right along with the downtown as a whole and of the businesses that exist there. employees who are already paid below median continue to have a I’m glad to live in a city where the recyclables. I too am tired of The BID has racked up some successes, notably creating huge direct pay cut for part of their recycling has actually been sim- the self-congratulatory and self- the now-independent Downtown Streets Team of homeless and pension and additional benefit loss: plified and I hope there is more righteous glossy mailings about formerly homeless individuals who clean downtown sidewalks 5.75 percent to pension (average em- recycling as a result. However, I’m how sustainable we are. There are and pick up trash. ployee took about $425 a month pay appalled at the thoughtless abuse better things to do with the funds, Recently the BID launched a weekday farmer’s market at cut), and the loss of tuition refund of the “blue” cans in public parks, like not put the paper into the Lytton Plaza, and it earlier supported renovating the plaza itself. ($1,000). such as Cubberley. stream to begin with. But it also has had its critics, internal and external. That pay cut has put any employee Some critics from downtown businesses say the organization is who earns $65,000 or less below the not doing enough visibly to promote the downtown commercial sustainability earnings for this area area, certainly not enough to justify the approximately $100,000 for a family of three (one adult, a YOUR TURN it collected in assessments last fiscal year, most of which went to preschooler, and a grade-school the president’s salary. The group’s office space is donated. child). Employees are struggling to Some criticism may be sour grapes from business owners who make ends meet. The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on our coverage or on didn’t think they’d benefit from an association and who simply The article said that 94 percent issues of local interest. declined to participate. Deputy City Manager Steve Emslie said of union members ratified the new What do you think? Have your summer travel plans changed this non-payment of assessments is not a huge problem: Non-payers contract. I want to know what per- year due to gas prices, the economy or environmental concerns? get sent to collections and most eventually pay, he said. centage of the membership voted. There also is a process whereby a simple majority of Natalie Fisher Submit letters to the editor of up to 250 words to [email protected]. businesses in the district could file to disband the organization, Ellsworth Place Include your name, address and daytime phone number so we can reach you. Palo Alto We reserve the right to edit contributions for length, objectionable content, libel although no effort to do that has surfaced. and factual errors known to us. Anonymous letters will generally not be ac- But clearly there has been confusion about the BID’s role and cepted. priorities, even its basic mission. This has been a decades-old Banking bill inadequate You can also participate in our popular interactive online forum, Town Editor, Square, at our community website at www.PaloAltoOnline.com. Read problem for downtown, in which “marketing” leadership has blogs, discuss issues, ask questions or express opinions with you neighbors any fallen on a handful of individuals. During the Great Depression in 1933, the act that was passed — the time, day or night. In addition, the BID leadership has not acted much like an Glass-Steagall Act and the bank Submitting a letter to the editor or guest opinion constitutes a granting of per- organization subject to the state’s Brown Act open-meeting law, mission to the Palo Alto Weekly and Embarcadero Publishing Co. to also publish act that was a part of that — transit online, including in our online archives and as a post on Town Square. and some board members complain about poor attendance of formed the landscape. It disallowed other members. For more information contact Editor Jay Thorwaldson or Online Editor Tyler banks to take risks and hold our Hanley at [email protected] or 650-326-8210. Downtown’s roller-coaster economic history over the past customer deposits. And it gave an half century has created strains that still linger. The opening incentive to banks who held depos- of the Stanford Shopping Center in 1958 plunged it into a retail its that they would be supported by recession that lasted a quarter century. But the area’s hyper- the government, that the FDIC was success in the 1980s and 1990s became a curse for many small created to back our money. But then businesses: Years of rising rents drove out many retailers as the they would also not be allowed to downtown became a magnet for financial-services firms. speculate and trade and create eso- Departure of some large companies and the national economic teric, complex instruments that are crisis created a glut of office space and some softening of difficult to understand and don’t rents, but too late for many businesses. The emergence of the have a market and can collapse Internet as a competitor has also added pressure, along with the an entire economy. That was a big renovation of Town & Country Village shopping center nearby. bill. Today the downtown is known for its restaurants, and for its 1956 there was a Bank Holding business survivors — who need community support if they are to Act. That said banks can’t merge remain part of the Palo Alto scene. across state lines, they can’t buy Exploratory talks are underway about the BID becoming part insurance companies, they can’t by investment banks. They want to do of the Chamber of Commerce. The city apparently could contract plain banking, they do plain bank- with the chamber to be the governance entity for the assessment ing. district, while the city remains as fiduciary agent. That was as a solidification of This could be a sensible approach, but until downtown the Glass-Steagall Act. That was businesses see a tangible plan they view as worthy of an strengthening the act. assessment the controversy will continue. This latest banking bill does none While creating a consensus among the wide variety of tenants of that. This allows all of that com- and businesses downtown is like herding cats, it’s essential if the plexity; it allows banks to hold in- BID has any future. surance companies and investment back and trade and speculate and Page 12ÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ Check out Town Square! Hundreds of local topics are being discussed by local residents on Town Square, a reader forum sponsored by the Weekly on our community website at www.PaloAltoOnline.com. Post your own comments, ask questions, read the Editor’s blog or just stay up on what people are talking about around town!

Board of Contributors: Smiling (ruefully) at responses to bi-racial families

by Elizabeth Lee right next to me. Another woman tried to steer lies, to look like each other. y daughter, Rowan over to an Asian family walking away I met another red-haired That’s not always the case, and in our Heinz Rowan, is half from us in the opposite direction. “Is she with 57 Variety culture the lines of racial identity M Chinese, and you?” is usually what people asked. mother at a park whose son, become blurred and our usual assumptions she doesn’t look very “Yes, she’s with me,” was my usual reply. even though he was also and stereotypes don’t always apply. The way much like me. My old- Saying that she’s my daughter whom I actu- we dress, the food we eat, the way we talk, er son, Dale, who has ally, really did give birth to seemed like too Caucasian, looked more things we do, our spiritual lives, and yes, the a different father, has much effort, given the frequency of the ques- like his dark-haired Italian way we look, no longer fit into the nice, neat my red hair and ruddy tions. father. She had the same little boxes that they used to. face, and people knew Sometimes when my husband, Elgin, our Instead what we’re left with is our common we were mother and kids, and I eat out, the door hostess talks with experiences as mine with humanity, with our individual personalities, son from opposite ends of the playground. Elgin about seating us, as the rest of us gather strangers’ reactions. shining through our physical appearances, But when I took Rowan out anywhere, at his side. Then the hostess looks at me and defining who we are. the reactions I got were different: confused asks, “May I help you?” Another woman with a It’s really no big deal; it’s far more amusing looks on people’s faces, and comments. When “We’re together,” one of us always replies, half-Chinese baby girl said than frustrating. One time at a store, Elgin Rowan was a baby one woman stared at us as the hostess says ‘Oh’ and quickly looks people assumed she went to and I put our items, an electronic gizmo for with suspicion and fear, as if she thought I’d down with embarrassment. When this hap- him and a pink Barbie doll clock for Rowan, kidnapped my daughter. When I met her pan- pens in a Chinese restaurant I always imag- China and got her. Even in down on the checkout counter, and the cashier icked eyes, I swear she looked ready to bolt for ine they wonder what my husband sees in a an area as ethnically diverse rang them up. Or so we thought. As we each the nearest phone and call the police. non-Chinese woman like me. One restaurant picked up our items and walked toward the “Who’s she with?” she asked. hostess actually had us follow her to a table, as the Bay Area, people seem door, the cashier said, “Excuse me, Ma’am, “Me,” I replied, as the woman turned red- and then turned and stared at us in confusion. to expect families, especially did you want to buy that?” faced and trotted off in embarrassment. I was “You mean,” she asked as she looked from biologically related families, “Yes,” I said. “Why? Didn’t you just ring later told about someone who really did call one of us to the other and then back again, it up?” the police, suspecting a kidnapping, when he “you’re all together?” We had to go back and to look like each other. “No.” saw a non-Chinese woman with an adopted wait until a larger table was available. We had to wait while he ran Elgin’s credit Chinese daughter. It’s our mantra: “We’re together.” We say card a second time. “Why didn’t that man ring “She looks Chinese. Where did you get it at airports, concerts, and checkout lines in our things up together?” I complained with her?” another woman in a public restroom stores. We’ve said it at open houses, museums frustration after we left the store. “I don’t get asked. and most everywhere else. it. He saw us with each other the entire time, “I thought she was adopted until you started I’ve met many other bi-racial families, I met another red-haired mother at a park right up until we put our things down to pay breastfeeding her,” another at a park told me. including parents with an adopted child of whose son, even though he was also Cauca- for them at the same time. Didn’t he realize A grandmother at my son’s school who spoke a different ethnic background, with similar sian, looked more like his dark-haired Italian that we’re togeth.... Oh.” Our eyes met, and we little English pointed at my daughter and then experiences. father. She had the same experiences as mine laughed. “Of course not.” N pushed her eyes upward in a slant with her “They think I’m the nanny,” many moth- with strangers’ reactions. Elizabeth Lee is a licensed Marriage and fingers. ers say — if they’re not Caucasian, that is. As Another woman with a half-Chinese baby Family Therapist, writer, and is a member When Rowan was a little girl, people wor- racist as it sounds, people seem to expect the girl said people assumed she went to China of the Weekly’s Board of Contributors. She ried she had wondered off alone. Once a nanny to be non-Caucasian and their charg- and got her. Even in an area as ethnically di- lives in Palo Alto with her husband, two woman in our doctors’ office asked if Rowan es to be Caucasian. When it’s the other way verse as the Bay Area, people seem to expect children and dog and can be e-mailed at was with me even when Rowan was standing around, they’re confused. families, especially biologically related fami- [email protected]. Streetwise What is the best way to spend federal money? Asked at Town and Country Village and California Avenue. Interviews and photographs by Georgia Wells.

Sammy Shreibati Letitia Lew Tzong-Hah Lee Lori Fitzmaurice Hy Plutchok Engineering Director and Senior Soft- Engineering Intern Software Engineer Fundraiser Retired ware Engineer Mayfield Avenue, Stanford Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto Broadway Street, Santa Cruz Marshall Drive, Palo Alto Mercedes Avenue, Los Altos “The best way to spend federal funds “Public transportation needs more “Money should be spent on schools “Federal money should be spent on in- “Federal money should be spent on is to support boys and girls clubs for money.” and vocational training to retrain the frastructure projects. It will put people small-business grants and individual low-income kids and to provide enrich- workforce.” to work and will help fix the highway low-interest loans to people who are ment programs.” disrepair.” struggling.”

*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊU Page 13 On Deadline: For city attorney, seeking Dudley Do-Right, Eagle Scout with a sixth sense by Jay Thorwaldson server and some as friends after they He had an interesting legal theory, His tenure was marked by some- the OS (for open space) zone, went ast week and I changed jobs. which we discussed one early sum- thing that made it clear to the Su- sour for the city in the early 1970s. the When Palo Alto adopted the coun- mer evening sitting on his deck preme Court: Palo Alto police, after That’s how the city came to buy the LWeekly cil/manager form of government in watching owls fly from their nest in a demonstration at Stanford turned Pearson-Arastradero Preserve. asked read- the early 1950s it included hiring a the top-floor Channing House out- violent and injured officers, raided City Attorney Roy Abrahms came ers what full-time city attorney. The first was side fire stairs to catch rodents in the the offices of the student newspaper, and went as a short-termer. qualities they a fellow named Robert “Bob” Mi- baylands. Hildebrand’s legal theory the Stanford Daily, seeking photos The next city attorney, Ariel might desire chalski, who served during the 1950s was that if the right to vote is sacred of the incident. Neither liberal police Calonne, became one of the most for the next then returned after an absence in the to America’s democracy, then an Chief James Zurcher nor personally powerful due to his general style Palo Alto 1960s. elected official’s vote — representing liberal Stone were notified in advance and savvy, in some ways similar to city attorney, Michalski was highly respected thousands of individual votes — was of the raid, yet Stone had to defend it. Stone’s, and his lengthy tenure. His after Gary among other city attorneys, and had even more sacred. There’s irony there. A major consti- role spilled into city management in Baum retires a reputation for getting city busi- That meant that a city attorney tutional erosion of press protections some areas when there was a per- this fall. ness handled quickly and efficiently. should only rule that a person was in was averted when Congress passed ceived leadership vacuum in the city I first wondered how the average He exuded an “I’m sure of myself” a conflict-of-interest situation in the some corrective legislation. manager’s office. Calonne left in citizen could be expected to come up confidence that was contagious to most extreme of situations, so they Stone had an interesting technique the early 2000s for a job in Boulder, with anything more than a simplistic many. could vote on issues in which they of advising the council: In addition Colo., when the council was badly answer. But not to all. He became identi- might have some degree of personal to legal research, Stone would call a divided. Then I wondered how I would an- fied in the early 1960s with the so- financial stake. Following that logic friend, a Superior Court judge, and The council hired Baum, who also swer that, being a longtime observer called Establishment faction in city further, he ruled that one councilman ask something like, “Speaking hy- has run into difficulties in advising of City Hall and its denizens, dating politics, which generally envisioned who worked for Stanford University pothetically, what questions would the council. Some members have back to reporter days on the Palo Alto a growing city. When a group began in an un-tenured position could vote you ask if a case like this came be- said that too often Baum was not pre- Times when I was assigned the dread to coalesce in the early 1960s that on a development proposal for Coy- fore you?” He then would report to pared to answer basic legal questions “Palo Alto beat.” And I thought back opposed rampant growth and traf- ote Hill, south of Page Mill Road, the council something like: “A judge on items coming before the council. on the collection of city attorneys I fic it became the Residentialists, its and a second councilman could vote would likely ask. ...” He also couched He is personally liked and has been have known, and what made them members regarded Michalski with on that even though his construction his advice in odds of either winning commended for some budget cutting successful, or not. deep suspicion as “one of them.” firm had just bid on a project along or losing a potential case, avoiding in his office. He will retire in late Oc- I don’t think there’s a magic for- Michalski eventually read the Page Mill Road. fixed recommendations. tober and the council has started a mula, beyond wanting someone who handwriting on the wall and de- The votes were challenged in a After he was named a judge, his search for a headhunter firm to iden- is a Dudley Do-Right Eagle Scout parted. lawsuit by the Committee for Green assistant, Bob Booth, was named city tify qualified applicants. The goal is with a sixth sense and a Stanford, A later inheritor of the office was Foothills, and Stanford ultimately attorney. Booth was an outstanding to hire a new city attorney by the end maybe Harvard, law degree, at least. James “Jim” Hildebrand, a soft-spo- settled the suit. legal researcher, but ran into prob- of the year. The Eagle Scout factor is important ken, easy-going man who tried hard Along the way, Peter Stone was lems because he would take fixed Candidates may be expected to re- because of the Scout motto, “Be Pre- to walk a middle line, or tightrope, promoted from assistant city attor- positions and make specific recom- cite the Scout motto. N pared.” Then comes the honest, loyal, between the growth vs. no-growth or ney, in the early 1970s. He was a mendations — essentially putting Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson and other nuances of the Scout oath. slow-growth factions. His tenure was savvy counselor to the City Council his head on the block each time. He can be e-mailed at jthorwaldson@ Next I applied those thoughts to marked by some legal challenges and and staff in the sense of providing ran into specific problems when a paweekly.com. the various attorneys I have known, a personal touch: He and the city counsel, both legal and occasionally series of landowner lawsuits against many as a journalist, some as an ob- clerk fell in love and were married. political or strategic. a foothills downzoning ordinance,

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CIVIC CENTER, 250 HAMILTON AVENUE BROADCAST LIVE ON KZSU, FM 90.1 CABLECAST LIVE ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS CHANNEL 26 TransitionsBirths, marriages and deaths (TENTATIVE) AGENDA-SPECIAL MEETING COUNCIL CHAMBERS July 12, 2010 - 6:00 PM DEATHS ANNIVERSARIES 1. Closed Session: Labor in Mexico. Raymond Mensing Chris and Marilyn 7:30 p.m. or as soon as possible thereafter Raymond H. Mensing, 80, a Sanchez They established their home in Palo Alto in 1956 and raised four 2. Selection of Candidates to be Interviewed for the Public Art resident of Palo Alto, died June Long time Palo Alto residents children. Commission 22. Chris and Marilyn Sanchez cel- They have eight grandchildren, 3. Selection of Candidates to be Interviewed for the Planning & He was born in Elmhurst, Ill., ebrated their 60th wedding anni- three of whom live in town and at- Transportation Commission to Otto and Alma Mensing. versary on June 6. tend Palo Alto schools. 4. Public Hearing: Stanford University Medical Center Facilities He worked for Western Electric They were married in Houston, Renewal and Replacement Project-Meeting to Accept (a division of AT&T) and retired Texas, in 1950 and honeymooned from AT&T after 35 years work- Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (Draft EIR) ing in telephone engineering. He for the Stanford University Medical Center Facilities Renewal became a radio operator while in -)2)!--)-) !2&). and Replacement Project, Including an Overview of the the U.S. Army, and later became Transportation, Climate Change, and Air Quality Chapters of the a radio amateur, also known as a Miriam (Mimi) Arfin, a five year survivor of lung cancer, passed Draft EIR ham. away peacefully surrounded by family on Saturday, July 3, 2010 in 5. Recommendation of the High Speed Rail Committee for Council After retirement he worked as Review of and Direction Regarding Draft Scope of Work for Palo a volunteer with Habitat for Hu- Palo Alto, California. Mimi was deeply committed to her family, Alto Rail Corridor Study manity for about 20 years, first social justice and Jewish causes. The daughter of Joanne and Bernard 6. Adoption of a Resolution Calling a Special Election for November in San Mateo County, later with Arfin, Mimi was born in Glen Cove, NY on January 22, 1957. 2, 2010, for Submitting to the Electorate for Special Election an Silicon Valley Habitat. He did all At the age of two she moved with her family to San Carlos, California Initiative Measure to Amend the Charter of the City of Palo Alto to kinds of construction work with Specify Minimum Stafﬁng and Service Levels for Fire Department them but especially liked finish where she grew up. She was a graduate of Ravenswood High School, Personnel and of Fire Stations and Fire Station Locations and carpentry, such as doors, win- and earned her BA degree from the University of California, Berkeley, Require a Referendum Vote for any Proposal to Reduce Such dows, cabinets and trim. Magna cum Laude. While at Cal, she spent her Junior Year at the Levels He also was a rare-type blood 7. Approval of Three Year Software Consulting Services Contract donor with the Red Cross, and Hebrew University in Israel. She then earned both a Masters Degree with Sierra Infosys Inc. in the Amount of $750,000 for the Support gave more than 16 gallons of in Public Policy and a Juris Doctorate Law degree from the University and Maintenance of SAP Industry-Speciﬁc Solution for Utilities, blood over the years. of Michigan. SAP Financials, Customer Relationship Management System, He loved the outdoors and Business Intelligence System and Utilities Customer Electronic enjoyed camping with his fam- Following her graduation from law school, she served as a clerk Services ily and back-packing. He and his for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and practiced law 8. Approval of three Contracts with: 1) Navigant Consulting Inc. for wife Virginia were square danc- Electric Regulatory and Technical Consulting Services for a Total ers in the valley since 1963. He in Cleveland and San Francisco. She later served as Director of the also enjoyed gardening and was innovative Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program for the 9th Amount Not to Exceed $245,000 for Fiscal Years 2011, 2012, and 2013; 2) Flynn Resources Consulting Services for a Total especially proud of his tomatoes, District Federal Court. For her work as Director, she was honored which he started from seed every Amount Not to Exceed $230,000 for Fiscal Years 2011, 2012, year. with the Robert F. Peckham Award for Excellence in ADR. She also and 2013; 3) Navigant Consulting Inc. for Gas Regulatory and He and Virginia enjoyed trav- worked to promote ADR in Israel and was invited by the Supreme Technical Consulting Services for a Total Amount Not to Exceed $325,000 for Fiscal Years 2011, 2012, and 2013 eling the world and visited many Court of Israel to speak about ADR and to train Israeli lawyers and countries in Europe, Asia, Cen- 9. Approval of a Memorandum of Understanding With the Santa tral and South America, as well court administrators in the subject. Clara Valley Water District to Provide up to $271,785 Per Fiscal as Egypt and New Zealand. She married Robert Rebitzer in 1993 and gave birth to two Year for a Total of $815,355 Over Three Fiscal Years for the Continued Administration of and Funding for Water Conservation He drove from Palo Alto to El daughters, Elana (12) and Maya (10). After living in San Francisco, Salvador in 1992, just after the Programs and Rebates for City of Palo Alto Utilities’ Customers civil war ended there. He was part they moved to Palo Alto in 2002. 10. Approval of a Contract with J.J.R. Construction, Inc., in the of a caravan delivering 15 trucks Mimi was an active community leader serving on the boards of Amount of $525,232 for the 2010 Street Maintenance Program and a school bus, which were left the Redwood City Congregation Beth Jacob, the New Israel Fund, College Terrace Area Concrete Capital Improvement Program in small villages where Salvador- Project PE-86070 ans were returning from refugee Camp Arazim and the Jewish Federation. In 2009 she, and her 11. Approval of a Contract with TruGreen LandCare for a Period of camps in Honduras. husband, were honored by Congregation Beth Jacob as a Chesed for Three Years for Tree Maintenance Services with Funding for the He was active in St. Thomas Community Service. Mimi had survived Hodgkins Disease for over First Year Approved in the Not to Exceed Amount of $280,000 Aquinas Parish in Palo Alto, and a Total Amount of $840,000 for all Three Years 30 years and was committed to helping others with cancer. Each serving on the maintenance com- 12. Adoption of a Resolution Expressing Appreciation to Marc mittee and doing many hands-on year since her lung cancer diagnosis, Mimi led a team of riders and Marchiel for Outstanding Public Service as a Member of the projects in their three churches. runners in the Livestrong Challenge Series of the Lance Armstrong Library Advisory Commission He also was a lector and usher for Foundation. Last year the foundation awarded her the Livestrong 13. Approval of Amendment No. Three to Contract No. C07116703 with 30 years. C-Way Custodian Services to Increase the Annual Compensation He will be sorely missed by Challenge Award in recognition of her efforts. Amount by $141,144 for a Total Annual Compensation Amount family and friends, whom he Mimi is survived by her husband, Robert, her two daughters, Elana of $718,951 to Provide Custodial Cleaning Services at Selected loved and of whom he was very City Facilities proud. and Maya, her brothers, David (Madeline Chaleff), Palo Alto, and He is survived by his sisters, Joseph Arfin, Houston, TX. Her parents, Joanne and Bernard Arfin (TENTATIVE) AGENDA-SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS Elaine Fischer and Lois Voska; of Palo Alto and her mother-in-law, Magda Rebitzer of Chicago, also his wife of 57 years, Virginia Special City Council Meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 14, at Mensing of Palo Alto; children survive her. She is pre-deceased by her father-in-law, Fred Rebitzer. 6:00 p.m. regarding: Interviews of Candidates for the Utilities Advisory Ken Mensing (Cheryl) of San Mimi also had many loving cousins and numerous friends who will Commission for two, three-year terms ending June 30, 2013 Jose, Janet Barnard (Jim) of Shin- miss her warm personality, keen sense of humor and compassion. gle Springs and Paul Mensing STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGS In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Mimi’s memory to (Marcela) of Benicia; and 10 The Policy and Services Committee Meeting will be held on Tuesday, grandchildren. Congregation Beth Jacob; The New Israel Fund, 703 Market Street, July 13, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. regarding: 1) Discussion of Survey Options A memorial mass was held at Suite 1503, San Francisco, CA; and the National Lung Cancer for the FY 2010 Service Efforts and Accomplishments Report, 2) Our Lady of the Rosary Church Council Priorities Workplan in Palo Alto. Alliance, 222 N. Midvale Blvd., Suite 6, Madison WI 53705. Memorial donations may be SINAI MEMORIAL CHAPEL made to Silicon Valley Habitat The High Speed Rail Committee Meeting will be held on Thursday, for Humanity. 650-369-3636 July 15, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. PAID OBITUARY

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Stanford exhibit peers into the works and life of Mary Webb

story by Rebecca Wallace photos by Kimihiro Hoshino

he early-20th-century her six novels and poetry are English novelist and poet not widely known, especially T Mary Webb may have outside Britain. A visitor can been respected, but her works go from one American library haven’t been easy to collect. to another and come up empty. In 1933, the author and bib- Her fans have a Facebook page liophile A. Edward Newton called “Has No One Ever Heard wrote: “From a book-collec- of Mary Webb?” tor’s point of view, Mary Webb Mary Crawford, though, is in first editions is difficult, al- not a woman easily put off. The most impossible. Stanford University alumna “Her books were published at and book collector is the driv- a bad time (during war-related ing force behind “Mary Webb: materials shortages); every- Neglected Genius,” the current thing was bad — printing, pa- exhibition at Stanford’s Green per, cloth, binding, everything. Library. The editions were small and Filling 20 glass cases in the the books fell to pieces in the library’s Peterson Gallery and Above: Mary Crawford reading.” Munger Rotunda, the show is visits the Mary Webb Nowadays, gathering first an assortment of Webb’s books, exhibit; most of the items editions of Mary Webb might manuscripts, hand-written let- are from her personal seem even more daunting. The ters and poems, and other items. collection. Right: A author’s writings, filled with The “Webbiana,” nearly all manuscript of Webb’s lush descriptions of her na- from Crawford’s private collec- novel “Armour Wherein tive Shropshire and the ways tion, include: a first edition of He Trusted,” damaged and passions of its inhabitants, Webb’s novel “Precious Bane,” after its despondent gained popularity in the years author threw it into the after her 1927 death. But today (continued on page 20) fire. Below: The earliest known manuscript (circa 1894-97) by Webb, the story “Clematisa & Percival.”

A writer rediscovered

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Fecal Parasite Exams ry and Steve, playing mainstream to keep piquing their interest by a “The bottom line is I love what I Microchipping folk music. story, a word game or jokes. It’s a do,” he said. “You’re dealing with a Geriatric Pet Care (650) 969-8555 “My first five albums were a very particular kind of writing.” short attention span and yet an in- Health Certificates For Travel AlpineVetOnline.com young man writing grown-up In addition to his recording ca- credible openness that kids bring, songs, writing for women, writing reer, Chapin frequently makes time and if you can engage it, you can Dr. Rebecca McClellan D.V.M. Dr. Tyler Long D.V.M. about stuff that was intriguing to for giving back. His concerts often fly.” me,” Chapin said in a phone inter- benefit causes including hunger, the Judge Lucky, the City of Palo Al- view. “As you get older you write environment and humane societies. to’s arts manager and the Palo Alto about different things, not just love In January, Chapin joined fellow Children’s Theater’s director, said songs. You write about the world as musicians Pete Seeger and Michael the Twilight Concert Series orga- you see it. You’re always looking for Mark in a Hope for Haiti relief con- nizers were looking for a big-name 66JG26JG6JG2CNQ#NVQ9GGMN[G2CNQ#NVQ9GGMN[ 2 99GGMNGGMGGMN[ resonance.” cert in Ossining, N.Y. The event artist to kick off the series. In 1988, Chapin was disappointed raised more than $19,000 for Haiti “Tom Chapin appeals to a lot of to find that his daughters, Abigail earthquake victims, Chapin said. people in the Bay Area,” Lucky and Lily, then ages 8 and 6, felt “People like Pete Seeger and said. “He has appeal as a songwriter largely left out of most music offer- Woody Guthrie and the folk world in the traditional folk style, and he ings. — their music has always tried to do uses acoustic instruments.” “There was a sort of hole in what something more than just the music. This year, the series, which runs was available for kids and families,” It tries to do some good. It’s part of through Aug. 21, will also present he said. “There was not a lot (of mu- what I do,” he said. Afro-Cuban, jazz, rock and roll and sic) for articulate, verbal kids who But songwriting and creativity Greek music, as well as a Battle of are still interested in stories and still are Chapin’s specialties. He said the Bands. “We wanted to appeal to It’s time to vote for your favorite listening to their parents, about age 4 he enjoys creating music as a way the diverse population of Palo Alto,” businesses in Palo Alto to 10. I realized that was the last time of bringing people together, and Lucky said. “It’s a great community when parents were really making the stresses the importance of parents gathering event in the park, to be out choices about their kids’ music.” listening to his music alongside their in nature having a fun time in the VOTE ONLINE AT Chapin’s first children’s album, re- children. summer.” N www.PaloAltoOnline.com leased that year, was “Family Tree,” “The idea that you get together featuring such kid-friendly tunes as for an hour in the same room in the What: Tom Chapin in concert, pre- “The Parade Came Marching” and same place and everyone’s listen- sented by the annual Palo Alto Twilight “Uh Oh, Accident.” Over the next ing to the same thing, and in my Concert Series 22 years, his family albums gar- case they’ll be singing along — it Where: Mitchell Park, 600 East Mead- nered five Grammy nominations for has this incredible power of com- ow Drive, Palo Alto Best Musical Album for Children. munity,” he said. “I very clearly When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 17. Parents Magazine calls Chapin “the talk about this as a family event, Twilight Series concerts will be held Pied Piper of children’s music,” and as opposed to you bring your kid every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. from July Billboard has described him as “the and sit in the back and talk. You sit 17 to Aug. 21, in various city locations. 2 0 1 0 best family artist around.” with your kid. Adult songs are the Cost: Free Chapin said the key to writing conversation between me and you. DEADLINE JULY 11 Info: Go to cityofpaloalto.org/recre- songs for kids is to write clear lyr- But my kids’ stuff is a family thing. ation or call 650-463-4930.

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and the window, with the tea brew- strikingly poignant for the fire dam- surrounded by books every day in ing for one that will be home afore age on some of the pages. A de- the university’s libraries, she had sundown, and the clouds standing spondent Webb, unhappy with her not known Webb’s writing before upon the mountains, and when I writing and convinced she would now. laugh, I laugh easy, like the wood- never finish the book, had thrown “Mary (Crawford) lent me ‘Pre- pecker in spring.” the manuscript on the fire, Craw- cious Bane.’ I felt very immersed Crawford’s love of this book and ford said. It was rescued by her hus- in the Shropshire of that time,” she of Webb’s other writing is evident band. says. Crawford beams. on a recent afternoon as she strides “It’s hard to handle because it’s so That’s the kind of experience through the Green Library exhibit, fragile,” Crawford says of the manu- Crawford is hoping for with this ex- enthusiastically directing visitors script. “I own this thing and I wasn’t hibit. Even introducing one person from case to case. A financial plan- willing to do it.” to this author she admires so much ner who works in Palo Alto, Craw- Crawford then walks on, past Pol- seems to be a success. ford has clearly found great joy in ish and French translations of “Pre- In the exhibit catalogue, Crawford her avocation. cious Bane,” and a program for a wrote that “a writer who has fallen “We love gathering,” she says theatrical adaptation of the book that out of current academic or public modestly of herself and her hus- was staged in London. Dust jackets consciousness is not doomed to ob- band. for “The Golden Arrow,” Webb’s scurity. Literature is, in large part, The gathering in this instance in- first novel, sit with Henry Webb’s the study of the human heart. cluded working with San Francisco own copy of his wife’s book. “A novel establishes a personal, bookseller Tom Goldwasser, who “To a Blackbird / Singing in Lon- one-on-one dialogue between the helped the Crawfords obtain many don,” one of the many handwritten writer and reader. So long as a pieces of Webbiana from the librar- Webb poems on display, captures the communication of interests, ideas ies of early collectors. Many of the author’s longing for Shropshire dur- and heartfelt emotion exists, there items also had belonged to Henry ing a period of time when she lived is relevance — a universal connec- Webb, the writer’s husband. in London. She wrote: “O sing me tion.” N In the catalogue’s foreword, Webb far away, that I may hear / The voice biographer Gladys Mary Coles of grass, and, weeping, may be blind writes, “The assembling in this ex- / To slights and lies and friends that What: “Mary Webb: Neglected hibition of so many rare sources, prove unkind. / Sing till my soul Genius,” an exhibit of books, manu- disparate in their provenance, is a dissolves into a tear, / Glimmering scripts and other items triumph of literary collecting.” within a chaliced daffodil.” Where: Bing Wing, Green Library, One particularly prized item in A handwritten version of the Stanford University the show is a manuscript of “Ar- story “Clematisa & Percival” shows When: Through Aug. 29. The gallery mour Wherein He Trusted,” Webb’s Webb’s youth at the time — the au- is accessible whenever the library last novel, which she did not live to thor’s geometry homework is scrib- is open; call 650-723-0931 or go to complete. The manuscript is written bled on the back of the page. library.stanford.edu for hours. First- in black and brown ink and pencil, Also on the walk with Crawford time visitors need to register at the south entrance portal to Green Li- on various types of paper. is Becky Fischbach, exhibits pre- brary’s East Wing. The manuscript is interesting parer and designer for Stanford’s enough just for displaying the au- special collections, who also Cost: Free thor’s handwriting and a glimpse worked on this exhibit. She makes Info: Go to marywebb.org/exhibition/. into her creative process; it is also a confession: Even though she is Mary Crawford with an enlarged illustration made by Peninsula artist William Bishop for the exhibition.

they earned praise. Mary Webb For instance, her novel “Gone (continued from page 16) to Earth,” about an innocent coun- Webb on try girl’s tragedy, was described by inscribed to the author Thomas Har- West as “Novel of the Year” for 1917. dy; a 1927 letter from British Prime However, Mary Crawford wrote in the Web Minister Stanley Baldwin praising the exhibit catalogue: “Even though “Precious Bane”; and a script from the novel was well received by crit- “Gone to Earth,” the British version ics, few people during wartime had New digital collection makes of the Jennifer Jones film made from the leisure or inclination to read fic- Webb’s novel of the same name. tion, and the booming guns of the author’s manuscripts and Photographs of Shropshire, taken Western Front drowned the voice of by Crawford on research trips, pro- the poet.” other items widely available vide a bucolic background. Illustra- Crawford herself discovered Webb tions by Peninsula artist William about 25 years ago, when she was Bishop combine dreamlike faces, looking for a novel to read and her birds, gossamer insect wings. late father-in-law suggested “Pre- Bishop’s images are also in the cious Bane.” Crawford had married exhibit catalogue, much of which into an avid book-collecting family, was written by Mary Crawford and and began collecting Jane Austen, her husband, Bruce; and in Webb’s J.R.R. Tolkien and other authors. children’s story “Clematisa & Per- Mary Webb brought her down a cival.” Webb wrote the tale as a different path. teenager, and the Crawfords had it “I felt, upon first reading ‘Pre- printed for the first time last year. cious Bane,’ that I had rediscovered Both story and catalogue were pub- an ancient tale, filled with collective lished through New York’s Grolier human truths,” Crawford wrote in Club, where the exhibit was shown the catalogue. “Old countrywoman Glen Worthey, digital humanities librarian at Stanford, talks about the Webb archive. earlier this year before coming to Prudence Sarn’s first-person nar- Stanford in May. rative about her life on the Welsh he Mary Webb exhibit has viewing online. Visitors can click Crawford said. She hopes the digital New York Times writer Eve M. borderlands after Waterloo is told been on both coasts, but that and read Webb’s letters, or peer collection will help increase interest Kahn covered the East Coast show, in Shropshire dialect. The cadences T doesn’t mean it’s accessible to at manuscripts, photos and dust in Webb, and also make it easier for noting that Webb’s fans included the of her narrative echo the rhythms of everyone. So book collectors Mary jackets of first editions. Descrip- scholars — and just plain enthusi- author Rebecca West, who “predict- the Bible. Webb’s descriptive pas- and Bruce Crawford, and Stanford tive paragraphs put the items in asts — to see these rare items. ed that Webb would become one of sages evoke a keen, ethereal beauty University, are taking their efforts context. “This is the perfect private collec- the era’s great writers.” and also presage tragedy.” a step farther. “We like to think of this as a digi- tor-public institution collaboration,” Webb, though, died at 46 after a In one such passage, old Pru- Besides displaying Webbiana tal reproduction of the archival ex- Crawford said. “When Stanford long struggle with a thyroid disor- dence sits and looks back over her at the university’s Green Library, perience,” said Glen Worthey, digital says, ‘We’re putting up an exhibit,’ der and intermittent poverty that led life. Webb wrote: “Ah! Those be the Crawfords have also allowed humanities librarian at Stanford. people want to see it.” her to burn her manuscripts for fuel. the ways grouse laugh, and that was Stanford staff to scan many of the In the 1930s, many people wrote To view the digital collection, go She put out only six novels, and her how I laughed in those days. But materials and create a permanent master’s theses on Webb, but then to marywebb.stanford.edu. N books did not sell well, even when now I sit here between the hearth digital collection, available for free the author dimmed in popularity, — Rebecca Wallace

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Worth a Looklast year at Stanford. For more information, call 484-880-5384. Music Tuck & Patti The Stanford Jazz Festival may import talent from all over the place for its summertime concerts, but organizers didn’t have to look far for the Menlo Park duo Tuck & Patti. With Tuck Andress playing gui- tar and Patti Cathcart singing, the resulting sound is a mix of jazz, pop, folk and soul. Stanford Jazz organizers say the couple’s last performance there is still talked about as a highlight of the 2006 season. This weekend, the married twosome play at Stanford’s Din- kelspiel Auditorium at 8 p.m. on L. Peter Callender plays Odysseus and Courtney Walsh is Calypso in “The Saturday, July 10. They’ve got a Wanderings of Odysseus.” dozen albums’ worth of tunes to choose from. Tickets are $36 general and $22 for students. For more information, go to stanfordjazz.org or call 650- Theater 736-0324. ‘The Wanderings of Odysseus’ It’s required reading in many college classes, but even classics majors may have a difficult time trying to imag- ine Homer’s “Odyssey” — with its many locales and Art mythical beings — as a dramatic stage work. But now, Alan McGee’s photos thanks to Stanford Summer Theater, the Odyssey will The images are nearly impossible to decipher at first come to life onstage in a dramatic interpretation entitled glance — bizarre, black-and-white patterns of circles “The Wanderings of Odysseus.” and jagged edges — but Alan McGee’s photographs are Oliver Taplin, who originally translated Homer’s anything but imaginary. In the exhibit “Tafoni — Ac- work into “The Wanderings of Odysseus” for a Mark centuating the Negative,” now on display at Portola Art Taper Forum production at the Getty Villa in Malibu, Gallery at the Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park, McGee has re-teamed with the production’s original director, captures a rare geological formation and examines it SST artistic director Rush Rehm. SST’s production will through the feature entirely new staging, including live percussion. negative The story recounts Greek hero Odysseus’ 20-year quest photograph- to get home after the Trojan War — a journey that tests ic print, his wit and strength against fantastic creatures such as making the Sirens, Calypso, and Cyclops. something The play opens on Thursday, July 22, at 7 p.m. and already will be performed Thursdays through Sundays through wondrous Aug. 15 at Stanford’s 80-seat Nitery Theater, 514 La- completely suen Mall. Times vary. Tickets are $20 general and $10 out of this for students. world. The annual Stanford Summer Theatre festival also Tafoni includes a free Monday-night film series, showing ver- are the sions of Homerian epic at 7 p.m. in Stanford’s Annen- honeycomb berg Auditorium. The series begins with the 2004 film formations “Troy” on July 12 and runs through Aug. 9. and caverns Also planned are free staged readings of other Homer formed into adaptations, and a July 31 symposium on “Homer and sandstone Performance” with lectures, performances, readings rocks by the and a panel discussion. For details, go to summerthe- long weath- ater.stanford.edu or call 650-725-5838. The digital pigment print “Tafoni ering pro- Study: Castle Rock State Park” is one cess. They Interactive theater of many photos by Alan McGee now exist in only Do you ever watch a scene in a play and want to yell, on exhibit in Menlo Park. a few places “Cut!” (Or, “Brava!”) This month, Palo Alto playwright in the world, Ellen Cassidy is giving audiences a chance to chime in including Castle Rock State Park in the Santa Cruz on her new play, “Single Gay Man.” Mountains where McGee took his camera. Cassidy has scheduled several free readings of her McGee says tafoni are incredibly difficult to photo- play at Know Knew Books at 415 S. California Ave. in graph due to their dark surroundings and steep slopes, Palo Alto. On July 10 at 8 p.m. and July 17 at 4 p.m., the so he decided to make the negatives of his black-and- Open Source Theatre Company will perform several white photographs into the art itself. White becomes versions of a single scene, showing how it was devel- black and black becomes white, and “only middle gray oped from draft to final form. Audience members will remains unchanged,” McGee said. The resulting images be encouraged to ask questions and give feedback. On depict almost alien geologic conditions, strange and yet July 24 at 4 p.m., the play will be performed in its en- completely real. tirety. The exhibition will be on display Monday through Cassidy, a Stanford University graduate who has in- Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., through July 31 at the terned at the American Conservatory Theater in San Portola Art Gallery, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park. A re- Francisco, describes “Single Gay Man” as “a drama ception will be held Saturday, July 10, from 1 to 4 p.m. about sexuality, identity and betrayal.” It was performed Go to portolaartgallery.com or call 650-321-0220. *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊU Page 21 ; 0'%*#,*:'*.)/4#.& 30*%9&*3)'3-*,&#,3/ Szechwan & Hunan Gourmet #6#*,#$,' ;#.15'4#.&%#4'2*.( ', #2'#6#*,#$,' #8 Call for special banquet and -'23/. 4 catering menu #,/,4/ +*.(+*.((/52-'4%/- ;!" 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Page 24ÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ The Girl Who Played weapon. We know she’s innocent, with Fire -- and so does Blomkvist, who bonded (Guild) All the hype around pub- with her in the previous film. The lishing sensation Stieg Larsson, late key to solving the crime appears to author of the “Millennium” trilogy, lie with shadowy gangster Zala, a doesn’t do the film version of “The former Russian military intelligence Girl Who Played with Fire” any fa- agent who doesn’t want to be found, vors. Lacking the psychological in- in part because of a shocking con- timacy afforded by the page, Daniel nection to Lisbeth’s past. Yes, this Alfredson’s film won’t inspire better time, it’s personal. (Then again, I’m than a shrug from audiences. pretty sure it was before and will be Movie reviews by Jeanne Aufmuth, Peter Canavese, The first of two sequels to the all- again.) Movies around more compelling “The Girl Shot back-to-back with third in- Tyler Hanley and Susan Tavernetti with the Dragon Tattoo,” this film stallment “The Girl Who Kicked Gru’s elderly partner-in-crime Dr. the Falconer Predator (assisted by picks up with Swedish punk les- the Hornet’s Nest,” “The Girl Who OPENINGS Nefario; and Julie Andrews playing an alien bird), the Tracker Predator bian super-hacker Lisbeth Salander Played with Fire” was intended for hilariously against type as the nasty (who let the alien dogs out? he did), (Noomi Rapace) abroad but still Swedish television. The trimming of budget — and, more importantly, Despicable Me --1/2 mother who proves Gru wasn’t so and the Berserker Predator, who keeping tabs on her arch-nemesis much born bad as he was kicked doesn’t need a gimmick because Nils Bjurman (Peter Andersson), time — shows in this feature ver- (Century 16, Century 20) If your sion. kids have fully recovered from “Toy to the curb by mommy. And movie he’s just a badass mofo (and a spe- the degenerate lawyer whom the nerds will enjoy visual references cialist in spine-ectomies). law sees as her upstanding legal Taking the reins from “Tattoo” di- Story 3,” you can safely proceed to rector Niels Arden Oplev, Anderson “Despicable Me,” a CGI-animated like the tip of the hat to “Star Trek Using new-and-improved alien guardian. Meanwhile, Millennium II”’s “Genesis Effect” (a break- technology, the Predators have magazine, under the auspices of proves unable to tap the story’s emo- comedy that weds a Charles Add- tional undercurrents, and the lack- ams drollness to Looney Tunes one- through use of CGI landscape). zapped eight formidable humans to crusading journalist Mikael Blom- “Despicable Me” may not be the a game-preserve planet, where they kvist (dishwater-dull Michael Ny- luster acting follows suit. Rapace upmanship (in 3D!). continues to bring a quiet intensity Steve Carell voices Gru, an East- sort of film adults will want to revis- find themselves bafflingly in free- qvist) prepares a bombshell story it, but they’ll find it pleasant enough fall. Once they’ve thudded to the exposing a sex trafficking ring and to the fearsome, tough-as-nails, no- ern European supervillain plotting nonsense Salander. (Her signature to reverse a slump by stealing a to while away a matinee. And kids jungle floor, “Predators”’ opening its clientele. are bound to find it a laugh-a-minute leg plays as a sort of “Eight Char- In short order, three people have move? A taser to the groin.) But the shrink ray and, subsequently, the material’s just not here to demon- moon. For years, he’s been subsi- romp. Basically, what’s not to like acters in Search of a Captor,” or been murdered, and all three deaths dized in his half-baked heists by — or rather, what’s to despise? perhaps “Lost” in 10 minutes. The are pinned on Lisbeth, whose fin- (continued on page 26) loans from the Bank of Evil (which characters amusingly cycle through gerprints are found on the murder gets a timely economic-meltdown Rated PG-13 for intense sequenc- theories, including that they’re dead zinger), but having tired of Gru’s es of action and violence, and some and in hell, while the audience pa- shtick, the bank decides to back sensuality. One hour, 35 minutes. tiently waits for them to catch up. “ ” another horse: young mad-scientist — Peter Canavese The double meaning of the title “THE PERFECT SUMMER MOVIE! du jour Vector (Jason Segel). Thus a is that the humans realize they’re Bill Zwecker, FOX-TV spy-vs.-spy style war breaks out be- Predators --1/2 “the monsters in our own world”: tween Gru and Vector, who seems (Century 16, Century 20) Pop highly trained special-ops types always to have the upper hand. quiz, hotshot. What is “the most (like Adrien Brody’s Royce and Al- Enter three orphans: maternal dangerous game”? a) lions b) tigers ice Braga’s Isabelle), brute killers Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), back- c) Parcheesi d) man. (like Walton Goggins’ Death Row talking Edith (Dana Gaier) and uni- Anyone who’s read Richard Con- inmate and Mahershalalhashbaz corn-loving Agnes (Elsie Fisher). The nell’s 1924 short story “The Most Ali’s death-squad soldier from Si- curmudgeonly Gru hates kids (well, Dangerous Game” — or seen one of erra Leone), a drug-cartel enforcer to be fair, he hates the human race), Hollywood’s umpteen knock-offs of (Rodriguez staple Danny Trejo), but he sees an opportunity to exploit it — knows the answer is “d.” Now, and a Yakuza assassin (Louis Oza- them for his own ends. And so he in an attempt to resurrect a mori- wa Changchien). The odd man out adopts them — or, in his mind, rents bund franchise, 20th Century Fox (Topher Grace, at his most weaselly) them — to put one over on Vector. welcomes us back to the jungle for claims to be an everyday doctor, Anyone who’s ever read “How the “Predators,” in which tall, dark and though Royce has his suspicions. Grinch Stole Christmas” can guess ugly aliens again hunt humans. Director Nimród Antal (“Vacan- where this is headed. Some will find Perhaps it’s best that “Predators” cy”) again proves his competence it a bit of a letdown that the antiso- keeps its ambitions humble, but a with genre material, and the script cial comedy turns into a reassuring dearth of inspiration makes this fifth adds a couple of decent twists to the fable about how adults need kids to “Predator” film dangerously close to slasher-action formula. There are the transform their lives, but guess who a rehash of the first film. Producer aforementioned alien dogs; a stylish won’t? Parents and kids. Score one Robert Rodriguez would rather you Bushido bout pitting Predator versus for “Despicable Me.” think of it as “back to basics,” thank katana-wielding Yakuza; a Predator The movie’s jokes are at times you very much, but, y’know, “tom- vs. Predator smackdown; and Lau- gleefully absurd (the variety of ay-to, tom-ah-to.” The broad-strokes rence Fishburne as a mad survivor weaponry includes a squid-shooter) plot repeats John McTiernan’s 1987 (a witty callback to his early role in but more often mostly derivative. “Predator”: A platoon of humans “Apocalypse Now”). Antal crucially limits CGI in fa- Still, directors Pierre Coffin and tries to stay alive while hunted WRITTEN DIRECTED Chris Renaud put them over with through booby-trapped jungle ter- vor of top-notch makeup and crea- BYADAM SANDLER & FRED WOLF BYDENNIS DUGAN articulate body language and ample rain by hulking laser-armed alien(s); ture effects by the legendary Greg energy; they also make advanta- the humans are dispatched one by Nicotero and Howard Berger. Best geous use of the 3D (a roller coaster one until a mano-a-alieno climax. in show goes to Goggins (“The CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATERS AND SHOWTIMES sequence may be the best of its kind OK, “Predators” sounds off a few Shield”), the underrated master at ever put on film). In place of “Toy new bells and whistles. Rodriguez’s playing morally challenged, scary- Story”’s rubber aliens, we get Gru’s dusted-off 1994 script (rewritten by funny killers. If only they had given test-tube-baby “minions,” chatter- credited scribes Michael Finch and him the picture instead of forcing ing Twinkies in overalls destined to Alex Litvak) nods to James Cam- him to steal it. CITY OF PALO ALTO be crowd favorites. eron’s “Aliens” by adding an “s” NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Carell’s vocal gymnastics are and, at least in theory, multiplying Rated R for strong creature vio- welcome, and he’s well supported the threat. In addition to the “Clas- lence and gore, and pervasive lan- by Russell Brand, in fine form as sic Predator” (Derek Mears), we get guage. One hour, 46 minutes. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council — Peter Canavese will hold a public hearing at the regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, July 26, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to Consider Stanford University Medical Center Facilities Renewal and Replacement Project- Meeting to accept comments on

Fri & Sat ONLY I Am Love 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the 7/9-7/10 Restrepo 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:40 Stanford University Medical Center Facilities Renewal Sun - Tues ONLY I Am Love 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 Restrepo 7/11-7/13 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 and Replacement Project, including an overview of the Weds ONLY I Am Lover 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 7/14 Restrepo 2:15 Alternative Chapter and Mitigation Measures of the DEIR Thurs ONLY I Am Love 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 7/15 Restrepo 4:45, 7:20 DONNA J. GRIDER, MMC City Clerk *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊU Page 25 Movies

MOVIE TIMES (continued from page 25) strate much character outside of her Note: Movie times for the Century 16 go only through Monday, determined actions (many of which, except where noted. Times for the Century 20 are only through Tuesday, except where noted. anti-dramatically, are keyboard taps on her laptop). The A-Team (PG-13) (1/2 Century 20: 7:55 & 10:45 p.m. Visually, the film has the drab Charlotte’s Web (G) ((1/2 Century 16: Wed. at 10 a.m. look of a 20-year-old BBC crime City Streets (1931) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Wed.-Thu. 5:55 & 9:20 p.m. miniseries (exception: the rare oc- !"# (Not Reviewed) casion when something goes up in Coco Chanel and Aquarius Theatre: 4:15 & 9:15 p.m. flames). As it is, the mystery plot Igor Stravinsky (R) ((1/2 is only borderline coherent and Cyrus (R) ((( Aquarius Theatre: 2:45, 5, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. less convincing, but when the story steps outside of this comfort zone Desire (1936) Stanford Theatre: Wed.-Thu. 7:30 p.m. of understatement, matters just get (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) strange. There’s a hulking thug Despicable Me (PG) Century 16: 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15 & 10:45 p.m.; (Mikael Spreitz) with a rare genetic (Not Reviewed) In 3D at 11:30 a.m.; 2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30 p.m. disorder that deadens him to pain — Century 20: 12:05, 12:55, 2:35, 3:25, 5:05, 5:55, he plays like a refugee from a Bond 7:50, 8:35 & 10:20 p.m.; In 3D at 11:15 a.m.; 1:45, 4:15, 7:10 & 9:40 p.m. movie. And then there’s the scene in which Lisbeth, taking a page from Destry Rides Again (1939) Stanford Theatre: Sat.-Tue. at 5:45 & 9:50 p.m. (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Batman, shows her theatrical sense for instilling fear by donning Ka- The Girl Who Played with Fire Guild Theatre: 1, 4, 7 & 9:55 p.m. buki-white face makeup with a red (R) (Not Reviewed) “scar” painted to bisect her face. Grown Ups (PG-13) Century 16: 10:50 a.m.; 1:35, 4:15, 7:50 & 10:25 p.m. This sort of thing works better in (Not Reviewed) Century 20: 11:45 a.m.; 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 & 9:50 p.m. emotional context, which is where The House of Rothschild (1934) Stanford Theatre: Fri. at 7:30 p.m. “The Girl Who Played with Fire” is (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) at its worst. It’s also a requirement I Am Love (R) (Not Reviewed) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 1:45, 4:30 & of the story that its heroes remain 7:15 p.m. Fri.-Sat. also at 10 p.m. separate for nearly the entire run- Inception (PG-13) Century 20: Thu. at 12:01 a.m. ning time (though Blomkvist cor- (Not Reviewed) nily pledges, “I’m going to be there Joan Rivers: Aquarius Theatre: 2 & 7 p.m. for her all the way”). The spark be- IT’S TIME TO VOTE— A Piece of Work (R) ((1/2 tween the two is missed. BEST OF PALO ALTO The Karate Kid (2010) (PG) ((( Century 16: 10:30 a.m.; 1:35, 4:45, 7:55 & 10:55 p.m. Century 20: 1:05, 4:10, 7:25 & 10:30 p.m. Rated R for brutal violence in- Knight and Day Century 16: 11:05 a.m.; 1:45, 4:40, 7:40 & 10:20 p.m. cluding a rape, some strong sexual Vote online at (Not Rated) ((1/2 Century 20: 11:05 a.m.; 1:35, 4:05, 6:55 & 9:40 p.m. content, nudity and language. Two The Last Airbender Century 16: 10:45 a.m.; 12:05, 1:20, 2:40, 4, hours, nine minutes. PaloAltoOnline.com 2 0 0 1 (Not Rated) ((1/2 5:20, 7:20, 8, 10 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: — Peter Canavese 11:55 a.m.; 12:50, 2:25, 3:35, 5:05, 6:10, 7:40, 8:45 & 10:15 p.m.; In 3D at 11:20 a.m.; 1:50, 4:20, NOW PLAYING 7 & 9:35 p.m. The A-Team - 1/2 The Metropolitan Opera: Century 16: Wed. at 6:30 p.m. Thu. at 10 a.m. (Century 16, Century 20) Cue the theme La Bohème (Not Rated) Century 20: Wed. at 6:30 p.m. Thu. at 10 a.m. song: It’s another TV remake for the big (Not Reviewed) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: Wed. at 6:30 screen. The title “The A-Team” refers to p.m. Thu. at 1:30 p.m. an “alpha unit” of elite Army Rangers, but the only thing top-of-the-line about Joe Predators Century 16: 11 a.m.; 12:20, 1:40, 3, 4:20, 5:40, Carnahan’s stupefying action movie is (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) 7:10, 8:20, 9:50 & 11 p.m. Century 20: 11:50 the budget. The movie retains the basic a.m.; 1:10, 2:40, 3:55, 5:20, 6:45, 8:05, 9:25 & premise of the TV show, with the team 10:40 p.m. framed for theft and murder, dishonor- ably discharged, and incarcerated. Plan- Restrepo (R) (Not Reviewed) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: Fri.-Wed. at 2:15 loving Hannibal affects an escape, and p.m. Fri.-Tue. also at 4:45 & 7:20 p.m. Fri. & Sat. the team operates off the grid, righting also at 9:40 p.m. Thu. at 4:45 & 7:20 p.m. wrongs and seeking to clear its good names. Rated PG-13 for intense action Toy Story 3 (G) (((( Century 16: 11:55 a.m.; 2:45, 5:30 & 8:35 p.m.; and violence, language and smoking. In 3D at 10:40 a.m.; 1:25, 4:10, 7:15 & 10:05 p.m. One hour, 59 minutes. — P.C. (Reviewed Century 20: 11:40 a.m.; 12:20, 2:15, 2:55, 4:55, June 11, 2010) 5:35, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m.; In 3D at 11 a.m.; 1:40, 4:25, 7:05 & 9:45 p.m. Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky -- The Twlight Saga: Century 16: 10:30 & 11:15 a.m.; noon, 12:40, 1/2 Eclipse (PG-13) ((1/2 1:30, 2:15, 3, 3:45, 4:25, 5:15, 6, 6:45, 7:30, 8:30, (Guild) Why, it seems like only yesterday I was reviewing a film about Coco Chanel’s 9, 9:45 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11 & 11:30 love life. Actually, it’s been eight whole a.m.; noon, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4, months since “Coco Before Chanel,” 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30, 10 but here comes “Coco Chanel & Igor & 10:25 p.m. Stravinsky,” which could be viewed as Vertigo (1958) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sat.-Tue. at 7:30 p.m. Sat.- an unofficial sequel. Chanel, played this time by Anna Mouglalis, shares the stage (Not Reviewed) Sun. also at 3:25 p.m. here with Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen Winter’s Bone (R) Century 16: 10:35 a.m.; 1, 3:30, 7:25 & 10:10 of “Casino Royale”), whose 1913 ballet (Not Reviewed) p.m. score for “The Rite of Spring” rocked the music and dance scenes. It will be seven The Working Man (1933) Stanford Theatre: Fri. at 6 & 9:10 p.m. years until the two in fact connect, when (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Chanel invites Stravinsky, a hotel-dwell- ing refugee from the Russian Revolution, ( Skip it (( Some redeeming qualities ((( A good bet (((( Outstanding and his family to move into her villa outside Paris. It’s soon apparent that Chanel Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) has designs on Stravinsky, and the two begin a passionate affair. Rated R for Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View some strong sexuality and nudity. Two (800-326-3264) hours. — P.C. (Reviewed June 25, 2010)

Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City Cyrus --- (800-326-3264) (Aquarius) John (John C. Reilly) is “borderline desperate,” he says. A more CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-3456) accurate description would be “totally Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) desperate.” Divorced for seven years, the central character of “Cyrus” can’t Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) seem to find a woman to replace his ex and still close friend Jamie (Catherine Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more information Keener), who is about to marry someone about films playing, go to Palo Alto Online at http://www.PaloAltoOnline.com/ else. Then John reluctantly accompanies Jamie and her fiance to a party, where, drunk and rowdy, he amazingly hooks ON THE WEB: The most up-to-date movie listings at www.PaloAltoOnline.com up with Molly (Marisa Tomei) — beautiful, loving and complete with baggage.The

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Federal funding that has historically sustained Silicon Valley economic growth is threatened INNOVATION AT RISK

by Chris Kenrick tanford University President John Hennessy sounded the alarm in a speech to professors S last month: The university faces a “collision point,” as federal-government support for higher education shrinks under pressure to fund growing entitlement programs, Hennessy said. The threat, oft heard but re- In other words, the massive and peated recently with mounting ongoing federal support that has concern, is that the federal lar- created and fueled the Bay Area gesse that launched and sustained brain trust — big engineering and Silicon Valley is ebbing, with po- medicine at Stanford and the Uni- tential dire consequences for ed- versity of California, the NASA ucation, the local economy and, Ames Research Center, Lawrence ultimately, U.S. competitiveness Berkeley and Lawrence Liver- across the globe. more labs, Fairchild Semiconduc- “While there remains very tor, Lockheed Missiles & Space strong support (for research), both and all that has flowed from those in the White House and on the institutions — is under siege. Hill, we are coming to a collision “For years, money just ran point,” Hennessy told Stanford’s downhill from Washington, D.C., Faculty Senate June 10. to California and nobody had to “I think there will be more do anything to get it,” said physi- pressure on higher education than cist Scott Hubbard, former NASA ever, as the amount of discretion- Ames research director and now a ary funding in the budget gets consulting professor of Aeronau- shrunk continuously, to protect that piece of it (for research).” (continued on page 30) Michelle Le

At left, Bloom Energy servers are used at eBay. Development of the so-called ‘Bloom Boxes,’ which are high-efficiency fuel cells, started

Courtesy of Alan Russo Russo Alan of Courtesy in the NASA Mars program. Above, and on the cover, Robert Baertsch, vice president of software engineering for Unimodal, shows off a SkyTran pod prototype at NASA Ames Research Center in March. Photo by Michelle Le.

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Bloom Energy’s testing facility is located at NASA Research Park in Mountain View. A hub of experimentation NASA Research Park blends government, venture capital, education and startups by Chris Kenrick

y something of a federal prises, home to the familiar white on magnetic levitation tracks. Users real-estate accident, a host Zeppelin often seen floating over would sit in small “pods” resem- B of cutting-edge cleantech the Bay Area. bling something out of The Jetsons, development is taking place on the By paying anywhere from $199 and enter their destination into a grounds of the old Moffett Field Na- to $950 per person, members of the computer. val Air Station — repurposed in the public can float above it all as well, “There would be hundreds of pods last decade as the NASA Research on tours ranging from 30 minutes going all over the place. It would be Park after the U.S. Navy closed its to 2 hours. like the Internet, for people,” he operation and handed the property Another airship company is due said. over to the space agency. to move in soon with the intention Another tenant, Magenn Power, Unknown to most local resi- of manufacturing airships in one of is developing high-altitude wind dents, the 2,000 acres surround- the hangars. power, in which a tethered wind ing the iconic Hangar One host “We’re in it for the long term,” turbine sends power back to the 50 companies, 14 universities, a Marlaire said of NASA’s commit- ground. future Google campus, the Cali- ment to developing the research An early tenant, K.R. Sridhar of fornia Air National Guard and park. Bloom Energy, began developing 2 million square feet of planned “Our goal is to select partners in his high-efficiency fuel-cell “Bloom rental housing. R&D and STEM (science, technol- Boxes” while working as a scientist 25% It is a curious blend of govern- ogy, engineering and mathematics) in NASA’s Mars Program. ment resources, venture capital, education pursuits,” he said, adding When the program was cancelled, OFF LIST PRICE educational institutions and private that tenants pay market rents and Sridhar obtained venture funding WITH THIS COUPON startups. that the planned housing devel- (the high-profile firm Kleiner Per- The vision — so far only partly opment is on hold because of the kins Caufield & Byers describes SOME RESTRICTIONS APPLY realized — is “a world-class re- economy. Bloom as “KPCB’s first greentech EXPIRES 7-31-2010 search park with graduate students, Graduate students from many in- investment”) and landed at NASA faculty and young Google workers stitutions flow in and out of the re- Research Park. who rent the housing and walk to search park. Pittsburgh-based Carn- He has since expanded to Sunny- OUR PENINSULA SHOWROOMS HAVE CONSOLIDATED. work,” said NASA Research Park egie Mellon University already has vale, where he employs several Director Michael Marlaire. awarded 400 masters’ degrees at its hundred people producing Bloom VISIT US AT OUR NEWLY EXPANDED AND RENOVATED To date, the 42-acre future Google West Coast site, he said. Boxes. CAMPBELL SHOWROOM. THE BAY AREA’S LARGEST! site is under long-term lease but not Many corporate startup tenants “We have the ability to use these yet built. enjoy a mix of venture backing and old facilities and hangars as the best CAMPBELL SHOWROOM 1190 DELL AVENUE But the personal aircraft of Brin government incentives. cutting-edge location for people " and Page and Google CEO Eric Tesla tests its vehicles on the tar- who are going to change the world,” WWW.VALETCUSTOM.COM 408.370.1041 Schmidt — as well as a Google- mac, Marlaire said. Marlaire said. FORMERLY EURODESIGN affiliated research aircraft — are Another tenant company, Uni- “People in the business of startups based at the airfield, Marlaire said. modal, is trying to develop “per- and new companies fully understand HOME OFFICES " SEWING CENTERS Also based there is Airship Enter- sonal rapid transit” that would run what’s over here.” N WALL BEDS " CLOSETS " GARAGES

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Innovation at risk n an annual “Silicon Valley In- (continued from page 28) dex,” Joint Venture Silicon Val- I ley Network for the past 11 years has analyzed a myriad of data to as- tics and Astronautics at Stanford. sess the health and wealth of Santa “Now, the competition is so much Clara and San Mateo counties. more intense.” This year, Joint Venture, in part- Hubbard is something of a histori- nership with the Silicon Valley an of the so-called “virtuous circle” Community Foundation, found of government-university and in- cause for concern on many fronts, dustry partnership. Those linkages including the Valley’s standing in were established locally as early the race for federal funds. as the 1930s when Washington — Silicon Valley’s “economic engine worried about a possible invasion of has cooled” by measures such as the East Coast — created the Ames patents, venture-capital investment Aeronautical Laboratory as “near- and office vacancies, CEO Russell clone” of Virginia’s Langley Aero- Hancock concluded in the February nautics Research Center. report. As California’s research establish- The region “may be lagging be- ment grew, the government money hind other regions in federal invest- followed. ments in R&D and procurement, But competition for funds has in- especially at a time when the fed- tensified with the explosion of enti- eral government has re-emerged as tlement programs and other political a major force in the economy at a claims on the federal budget, not to level not seen since World War II.” mention growth of high-quality re- File photo “If anything, we may have lost search in places like Austin, Texas; ground to other regions since the Huntsville, Ala.; Research Triangle early 1990s,” the Silicon Valley In- Park in North Carolina and else- dex report stated. where. Stanford University President John Hennessy and Stanford School of Medicine’s Andrew Fire speak about The average annual growth rate Hubbard motioned toward a photo Fire’s Nobel Prize-winning genetics research at a 2006 press conference. Throughout his career, Fire has been for federal procurement is more of Bay Area Congressional repre- supported by federal funding. than 3.5 percent; regions like sentatives Anna Eshoo, Zoe Lof- Washington, D.C., (7.2 percent) and gren and Mike Honda that hung on But that popular narrative ignores Supported by grants from the dustry. As a 32-year-old Stanford Huntsville (4.5 percent) have at- the wall of his Stanford engineering the multi-billion-dollar research in- National Science Foundation, Page professor of electrical engineering tracted increasing levels of funding, office. vestments that created historic Val- and Brin developed the search en- in 1984, he co-founded MIPS Com- while Silicon Valley’s levels have “I’ve urged our local legisla- ley companies in defense, telecom- gine “BackRub,” so named because puter Systems, now MIPS Technolo- declined. tors — Anna, Zoe and Mike — to munications, Internet technology it checked the back-links to estimate gies, to commercialize his research Eshoo bristles at any implied criti- work with the federally funded labs and biotechnology — not to mention the importance of a site. in computer architecture. cism contained in this year’s Silicon around here to be sure that the mon- the daunting startup costs of newer Similar government backing — A quarter century later, govern- Valley Index. ey doesn’t get siphoned off and go ventures in clean technology. from the Department of Defense — ment funding continues to play a She points to the more than $190 elsewhere.” Even Google had its beginnings in supported the research at Stanford key role in jump-starting local in- million in economic stimulus funds a federally backed research project and Berkeley that generated Cisco novation, which now includes clean- directed to Stanford, including ith the stunning success of by Stanford doctoral students Larry Systems and Sun Microsystems. technology ventures. $90.2 million to the SLAC National some low-cost Internet and Page and Sergey Brin, who hypoth- Hennessy, who sits on the boards Tesla Motors of Palo Alto, which Accelerator Laboratory. Another W software startups, a local esized that a search engine analyz- of Google Inc. and Cisco Systems, marked its initial public offering last $90 million was divided among mythology has developed around ing relationships between websites Inc., personifies the local tradition week, took a $465 million loan from Stanford schools of Earth Sciences, the go-it-alone entrepreneur mak- would produce a ranking superior of cross-pollination between local the U.S. Department of Energy last Education, Engineering, Humani- ing it big from his garage. to then-existing techniques. research institutions and local in- year. ties and Sciences and Medicine. Photovoltaic systems-maker The U.S. Department of Energy Solyndra Inc. of Fremont took a alone, headed by former Stanford $535 million federal loan guaran- professor and Nobel laureate Steven tee last year to augment its venture Chu, has spent $130 million on 400 backing. projects in her district alone, Eshoo Federal boost to local firms “If the federal government were, said. God forbid, to withdraw critical “It’s not that I’m favored; it’s be- federal dollars for basic research, cause of what’s in the district,” she $700 million in Recovery Act funds flow to area, Silicon Valley would be grievously said. “The 14th Congressional Dis- wounded,” Eshoo said. trict is an exceptional place.” including for energy projects “In less than a decade it would not For his part, Hancock insists he early $9 million in federal funds has gone to local companies under the U.S. Depart- be the place it claims to be today.” intended no criticism of Eshoo or her effectiveness. ment of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E). N Recipient firms include the publicly traded Codexis, Inc., of Redwood City ($4.65 million for carbon-capture technology) and Menlo Park-based Recapping Inc. ($1 million for an energy-storage device based on a 3D nanocomposite structure offering a possibly more cost-effective alternative to batteries). Another $3.2 million went to Boston-based Pellion Technologies Inc. for a magnesium-ion battery project that is based in Menlo Park. Santa Clara-based Applied Materials, Inc., also received ARPA-E funds for its effort to develop ultra-high-energy, low-cost lithium-ion batteries enabled by a novel manufacturing process. Stanford University received nearly $6 million in ARPA-E funds, mostly for projects involving building efficiency and also for an all-electron battery project. Those funds are among the nearly $700 million flowing to more than 550 projects in the 14th Congressional District under the federal Recovery Act, according to the office of U.S.

Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto. Veronica Weber Eshoo said the district was in the top 10 of all Congressional districts in winning federal contracts, and was No. 1 in California in 2008 and 2009. In 2009, the 14th District received $3.05 billion, or 22 percent, of California federal R&D contracts — more than twice than that received from 2003 to 2006 combined, Eshoo’s office said. ■ U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, meets constituents following a —Chris Kenrick town-hall meeting at Avenidas in Palo Alto Wednesday. Eshoo is proud of the billions of federal dollars flowing into the 14th Congressional District. Page 30ÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ Cover Story

“She’s fabulous; she’s vestment, Hancock noted. done a great job,” he said. “With the waves of in- “But she’s done it without novation in software, you \PM8ITW)T\W our support. We need to could put your IP (intellec- support her and make this tual property) on a disk, put a big parade.” it in a bright cardboard box, shrink-wrap it and count tanford’s Hennessy, your money. 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*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊU Page 31 1ST PLACE BEST SPORTS WATER POLO COVERAGE California Newspaper Publishers Association Getting Sports ready Shorts for JOs SMART TEAMS . . . Four local Club Championships athletic teams were recognized by the California Interscholastic up next as a tuneup Federation as having the best for Junior Olympics combined grade point average in the state. The CIF Academic by Ken Wattana Team champions in 2009-10 he tuneups continue for lo- included the Menlo School girls’ cal water polo clubs that have lacrosse team, the Menlo softball T qualified several teams for squad, the Sacred Heart Prep the 2010 National Junior Olympics girls’ swim team and the Castilleja tournament that begins on July 31 water polo team. This season in the Los Angeles area. The clubs marked the sixth year that all CIF- hope to improve on their strong fin- approved sports were eligible for ishes from last year when Stanford consideration. A total of 28 teams Water Polo Club played host. Boys in 17 sports were eligible to be the begin their competition on July 31, best academic teams in the state. while girls start play on August 8. The Sacred Heart Prep girls’ swim Before that happens, a number of team had a combined 3.86 GPA teams will be in Southern Califor- while the Menlo softball squad nia this weekend for the annual U.S. was next at 3.383. The Menlo Club Championships. girls’ lacrosse team compiled a Leading the charge is the NorCal 3.82 while the Castilleja water 18-under girls’ squad that recently polo team checked in with a 3.79. placed first at Pacific Zone quali- fication tournament at Miramonte ON TRACK . . . The Palo Alto High, going an impressive 3-0 Lightning Track and Field Club will with victories over Stanford White, be well represented at this week- Marin, and Diablo. end’s Junior Olympics, which NorCal, coached by Chris Dorst, begin Friday at Modesto Junior boasts a talented roster highlighted College. The top three finishers by Central Coast Section Divi- in each age group will advance sion I Player of the Year Rebecca to the National Junior Olympics, Dorst (Menlo Atherton) and Divi-

which will be held at Sacramento Allie Shorin sion II Player of the Year Heather City College later this summer. Smith (Sacred Heart Prep). The Competing this weekend for the team also includes All-CCS play- Lightning will be Gregor Dairaghi, ers Emily Dorst (Menlo Ather- Elijah Gwin-Kerr, Skyler Haataja, Recent Palo Alto High graduate Joc Pederson was named to the All-State first team by Cal-Hi Sports following ton), Jennifer Talbott (St. Francis), Dennis Mandudzo, Bobby Mis- a season that saw Pederson hit .515 while helping the Vikings go 29-4 and reach the CCS D-II finals. Kelsey Nolan (Leland), Hathaway sirian, Rashid Severain, Andre Moore (St. Francis), Vanessa Lane Shaw, Aqellezra Gabriel, Alexan- (Menlo Atherton), Audrey Pratt dria Cell, Olivia Cell, Kastania ALL-STATE HONORS (Burlingame), Caitlin Sandlin (Los Dahlen, Sion Walls plus the boys’ Altos), Natalie Weil (Aragon) and Midget ‘A’ 4x800 relay team and Rachel Henry (Soquel), Katherine the girls’ Youth ‘A’ 4x800 relay Local players Elward (St. Francis), Daisy Ander- squad. The Cell sisters of Palo son (Menlo), Allegra Tringali (Los Alto will compete against each Altos), and Barbara Peterson (Cas- other in the Youth division in the receive honors tilleja). 400, 800, 1500 meters and on the “The 18s are a surprising team,” 4x800 relay. Chris Dorst said. “They qualified for great seasons first in a zone usually won by Diablo ANOTHER HONOR . . . Stanford Palo Alto’s Pederson, Castilleja’s or Stanford. All of our kids started third baseman Kenny Diekroeger out playing with larger clubs and was named a first-team Freshman Albanese both first-team all-state came together a couple of months All-American by Baseball America by Keith Peters ago. There is a lot real balance in on Thursday. Diekroeger contin- what we do and we should be very ues to excel for the Newport Gulls t was a very special season for the Palo Alto competitive.” in the New England Collegiate baseball and Castilleja softball teams in 2010. The 18s, who placed 15th at JO’s Baseball League. He’s second I Paly won a league title, Castilleja shared one last year, have been bolstered by the in the league, batting .375 and is and both reached the Central Coast Section play- addition of Nolan, Moore, Pratt and tied for fourth in the league with offs. Talbott — all of whom had previ- seven doubles. Palo Alto compiled the best record in school ously played for other clubs. history while going 29-4, falling in the CCS Di- Dorst characterized the team as COACH OPENINGS . . . Sacred vision II finals to Burlingame. Castilleja won 18 balanced and versatile. Heart Prep and Menlo-Atherton games, including its first ever in the postseason “We have five or six kids who can are looking for some coaches for before losing to eventual CCS champ Valley (hole) set,” Dorst said. “We can get the upcoming school year. Sacred Christian, 2-1, in 11 innings in the quarterfinals. in transition and we don’t need one Heart needs a girls JV head ten- Both teams were duly recognized for their out- kid to play well for us for us to do nis coach and boys JV head ten- standing seasons by having players named to the well. If one player has a bad shoot- nis coach. Interested applicants Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams. ing night, others can step up. We please contact AD Frank Rodri- Palo Alto placed senior Joc Pederson on the have a real deep bench and we can guez at (650) 473-4031 or via 30-man first team while fellow senior Scott Witte do a lot of things due to the ability email at frodriguez@shschools. made the third team. Castilleja was recognized of the kids.” org.

Keith Peters with senior pitcher Sammy Albanese making the NorCal’s 16U team qualified 30-player first team as a multi-purpose player. fourth. Coached by Zizi Clark and READ MORE ONLINE She also was first-team all-state as a pitcher for Eric Rise, the team includes Menlo- www.PASportsOnline.com Small Schools in addition to being named Player Atherton’s Emma Canny, Brittany For expanded daily coverage of college of the Year for that division. Krappe and Marie Popp plus Nikole and prep sports, please see our new Castilleja grad Sammy Albanese is a first-team All-State site at www.PASportsOnline.com performer and the Small Schools Player of the Year. (continued on page 36) (continued on next page) Page 32ÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ WATER POLO Water polo aged up to the 18U and hope to con- (continued from previous page) tinue their winning legacy. “It’s a new look, a new feel, as guys age out and age up,” Barnea A dreamy Ferrari (St. Francis), Brooke Rob- said. “We are trying to figure out inson (St. Francis), Tegan Stanbach how our rotations will work, how (St. Francis) in addition to a host of new guys coming in will step up and new job players from out of the area. The fill new roles. The guys have been team placed 14th at JOs last year playing together for years and years Both the 16U and 18U NorCal and it is a smooth transition from for Minnis teams will be headed to Chino this one year to the next and when guys Castilleja, Stanford club weekend for the U.S. Club Champi- graduate. Everyone is familiar with onships, an invitation-only tourna- the expectations, what our philoso- coach takes over men’s and ment that brings together some of phy is and how we want to play.” women’s programs at Harvard the premier teams in California and The Stanford 18U White team, serves as the final tuneup before coached by Tim Kates, qualified by Keith Peters JOs. This is the first time in club fourth. They went 2-2, recording ed Minnis is doing something history that NorCal has sent teams wins over West Valley and Lamor- this weekend for the first time to this event. inda Blue before losing to Stanford T ever in his coaching career. ìClub Champs should be an inter- Red in the semifinals and Diablo in He’s going to be a spectator. esting gauge of how well we play at the third-place game. A year ago, Minnis was in South- JOs.î Dorst said. Stanford’s 16U Red qualified ern California, coaching a Stanford Stanford Water Polo Club quali- first, going 4-0 on the weekend and Water Polo Club girls’ water polo fied several boys’ and girls’ teams scoring wins over East Bay rivals team at the U.S. Club Champion- for JOs, as well, and the club hopes Lamorinda and Diablo. The team ships. Instead of coaching this to continue its recent success at the hopes to continue the club’s tre- weekend, Minnis will be spectating national tournament after hosting mendous success at this level after and recruiting. last year. top-two finishes the past two years. “I’m just going to watch a lot of The Stanford Red 18U boys quali- The team will head to JOs with the water polo,” Minnis said this week. fied second in the Pacific Zone at second overall seed. “I don’t have to worry about X’s and Soda Aquatic Center in Moraga The team features Max Schell O’s, just be a fan.” with a young team that is very dif- (Soquel) and Casey Fleming (Val- Minnis will be watching the best ferent than the 2009 bronze medal ley Christian), who are on the Ju- boys and girls compete because he’ll squad that lost key players to col- nior National training team, Patrick be coaching the men’s and women’s lege. Nevertheless, the team is in no Goodenough (St. Francis) and Alex water polo teams at Harvard Univer- way short of talent. Coached by Jon Gow (Menlo-Atherton), teammates sity this coming school year. He’ll Barnea, they went 2-1 in qualifying on the Youth National Team; Con- be wearing the Crimson’s colors for with a wins over Golden State and nor Dillon (Menlo), Maxwell Draga the first time as he embarks upon Stanford White (in the semifinals) (Soquel), David Freudenstein (St. the next stage in his life. Keith Peters before falling to Lamorinda A in Francis), Nick Hale (Menlo), Ben- “This was just too good of an op- the finals. The team features CCS jamin Hendricks (Gunn), Matthieu portunity to pass up,” said Minnis, Division I Player of the Year Colin Leyrat (St. Francis), Cory McGee 40, who coached water polo at Cas- Mulcahy, who is also on the USA (St. Francis), Benjamin Pickard, tilleja for 11 years and boys’ polo Former Castilleja coach Ted Minnis cheered on his Stanford Water Polo Junior National training team, along Cullen Raisch, Caleb Terzich, and at Menlo-Atherton eight years prior Club team last summer at the Junior Olympics. with CCS Division II co-players of Adam Warmoth (Los Altos). The to that. “I am very excited for the the year — Princeton-bound Ben squad is coached by Jasper Bill- opportunity of leading the Harvard “He was her 24/7,” McIntosh said. year at Castilleja. He took over a Dearborn and UCLA-bound David ings. water polo program. Being able to “Filling his shoes will be tough . . floundering water polo program in Culpan, both from Sacred Heart The 14U Red team qualified third. work at a great institution, with such . While his loss will be felt most 1999 and endured plenty of tough Prep. †Coached by Clarke Weatherspoone a high caliber of scholar athletes, acutely by our polo players, every- seasons (5-20 in 2003) before start- The team also includes Thomas the team includes Matthew Abbott, and a great athletic department is body at Castilleja will miss his gen- ing a middle school program and Agramonte (St. Francis), who made Stephen Cho, Will Conner, Harrison a logical extension of my work at erous spirit, his humor and his kind- building the varsity team into the the Junior National training squad, Enright, Alex Freeman, Rishabh Castilleja. It’s a dream come true. I ness. But we also feel proud that respected entity that it is today. His and All-CCS players Alex Bailey Hegde, John Knowx, Evan McClel- cannot wait to step on campus and one of our own has secured such an squad reached the CCS finals in (Los Altos), Philip Bamberg (Sacred land, Nelson Perla-Ward, Trevor begin this great journey.” amazing opportunity.” 2008 while fashioning a 19-10 re- Heart Prep), Christian Broom (St. Raisch, Ari Wayne, Coby Wayne, Minnis is believed to be one of “It’s a great institution with such a cord, losing to top-seeded Sacred Francis), Robert Dunlevie (Sacred Shawn Welch, and Johnny Wilson. the few (maybe only) local coaches great tradition,” Minnis said of Har- Heart Prep in the title match. It was Heart), Mark Garner (St. Francis), The 14U Red placed 13th last year. to ever make the move from high vard. “I’m really happy. I’m excited Castilleja’s first appearance in the John Holland-McCowan (Menlo), Stanford’s 14U White, coached by school to Division I head coach. to live in Boston, but I’m going to CCS finals since 1997. Brian Morton (Salinas), Peter Olson Sasha Potulnytsky, and the Stanford While Minnis never got his elu- miss Castilleja. I’m going to be leav- Minnis vowed to be back. While (St. Francis), Peter Simon (St. Fran- 12U Red and White teams qualified sive Central Coast Section title, his ing a family behind, but I’ll have an- the Gators were eliminated in the cis), Jed Springer of Menlo Ather- for JOs, as well. Castilleja team earned something other family waiting for me.” semifinals this past season and fin- ton, who will play at UCLA, and The Stanford girls were just as perhaps even more important when Making the move easier for Min- ished 18-10, the program was on Connor Still (Sacred Heart Prep), successful in qualifying for JOs in the Gators were named one of 28 nis will be the presence of former very solid ground. who is headed to Princeton. Moraga and will send two teams to state academic team champions for Castilleja athletes like Taylor Docter “I’ve always said that I’ve run my Many of the players who helped Los Angeles for all age groups, ex- the 2009-10 school year. The Cas- and Jane Alexander, starters on the high school program like a college the 16-under squad place second in tilleja water polo team had a com- Harvard volleyball and softball program,” said Minnis. “I got the 2009 and first in 2008, now have (continued on page 34) bined grade point average of 3.79, teams, respectively. He’ll be coach- (Harvard) job because of the way I the highest of any girls’ team in the ing Palo Alto grad Lizzie Abbott on coached here and at Stanford.” state. the girls’ team and Menlo-Atherton Minnis will head back to Har- “My girls are the state academic grad Alexander Popp on the men’s. vard in a few weeks, ending a very champs,” Minnis said. “That’s the Minnis was offered the job on successful era at Castilleja. He, of last championship I won at Castille- July 1 and given the night to think it course, will miss McIntosh. ja and, perhaps ironic, because it’s a over. He accepted the position Fri- “That’s the sad part about this,” scholastic championship.” day morning and then called many Minnis said, “leaving Jez. We’ve “It’s a great lead in to where he’s of his Castilleja water polo players been together for 11 years. He’s just going,” said Jez McIntosh, Castille- to inform them of his new job. always been there for me. He gave ja’s Athletic Director. “It’s further Minnis also will leave behind his me all the jobs here and was always proof why Harvard would look at Stanford Water Polo Club players supportive. That’s the sad thing, our coaching staff. It just speaks and coaches, who have become a leaving Castilleja. But, I’m starting volumes of our program.” big part of his life. a new chapter in my career and I’m McIntosh will dearly miss Min- “That’s been the luckiest part of ready for the challenge.” nis, one of the more popular and my career, working with John Tan- Minnis will make his debut on the likeable coaches anywhere. In addi- ner, Susan Ortwein and Kyle Ut- Harvard pool deck on Sept. 4 when tion to coaching water polo, he was sumi (at Stanford),” Minnis said. the Crimson plays at MIT. Castilleja’s middle school athletic “To have a mentor like John Tanner The hiring of Minnis was an- director, assisted McIntosh with the has been great. I can’t say enough nounced by Harvard Director of basketball team and coached middle of what he has taught me. To work Athletics Bob Scalise. Minnis will school water polo in the spring. This with those three for 12 years in wa- serve as the 10th coach in both pro- school year, Minnis also took over ter polo, I’ve grown so much as a grams’ history. as interim AD while McIntosh was coach. I’m 200 percent better than I “We are please that Ted will be Keith Peters on sabbatical at Stanford, in the was when I got here.” Recent Menlo-Atherton High grad Becca Dorst will take aim at another women’s basketball office. Minnis just completed his 11th (continued on page 34) solid summer finish for her NorCal 18U team. *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊU Page 33 Sports

ond, going 1-1 and beating SHAQ Water polo before losing to 680. The team in- Ted Minnis (continued from page 33) cludes Hailey Adamski, Caroline (continued from page 33) Anderson, Kristen Denney, Anna cept the 12-under. Edgington, Lauren Goff, Tara Law- joining our staff to coach our men’s The 18U Red qualified third with a rence, Emma Malysz, Julia Ponce, and women’s water polo teams,” 2-1 record compiling wins over 680 Sami Strutner, Averi Westerman, Scalise said. “We look forward to and Marin and a lone loss to Diablo. Natalie Williams, Rachel Wong, working with Ted to move our water The team is coached by Cory Olcott Camille Zelinger and is coached by polo programs forward in their quest and includes Julia Peters (Presenta- recent Stanford player and graduate to be one of the top teams in the Col- tion), Caroline Hanson (St. Francis), Kelsey Holshouser. The 14s placed legiate Water Polo Association. Lizzie Peiros, Kaitlyn Lo, Hailey 13th at JOs last year. “After reviewing dozens of quali- Smith (Menlo) Sayeh Bozorghadad The 14U White team, coached fied candidates I feel confident we (Castileja), Evan Cranston (Cas- by Kandis Canonica who plays at hired the best person for the posi- tilleja), Haley Conner (Palo Alto), Bucknell University, qualified fifth, tion,” Scalise added. “His philoso- Jelena Cyr, Jenny Anderson (Gunn), losing to SHAQ and then beating phy matches the Department of who will play at Santa Clara, and Lazers and Diablo. Athletics Mission Statement as he Stephanie Weed (Mitty). Peters and Coached by Stanford player Cass- will serve as a positive role model Hanson are teammates on the Youth ie Churnside, Stanford’s 12U team for our student-athletes in and out of National squad while Pieros and Lo qualified with wins over SHAQ and the pool. Ted is a passionate, dedi- will play at Stanford next season. Diablo and a loss to 680. cated leader who will thrive at the Stanford’s18U White, coached The girls have been practicing collegiate level.” by Travis Wycoff, finished fifth at hard as JOs approaches. Minnis is a veteran coach at the qualifiers. “Each week we try to improve on Stanford Water Polo Club. During The 16U Red squad qualified a phase of the game,” Utsumi said. his 12 years of service, he has won second, going 2-1 with wins over “We use the weekend competition to two Junior Olympic bronze med- Ohlone and NorCal before fall- see how we are doing and see were als, a U.S. Club Championship and ing in the finals to 680. Coached we are making progress.” finished among the top 10 at vari- by Kyle Utsumi, the team includes The Stanford boys and girls also ous national tournaments numerous

Youth National team members will be headed to the Club Cham- Keith Peters times. Skylar Dorosin (Palo Alto), Pippa pionships this weekend. Last year, For the last three years, Minnis Temple (SHP), Carla Tocchini (St. the 16-under boys won the tourna- has served as the head coach for the Ignatius), in addition to local players ment, with Garner receiving MVP Olympic Development Program Pa- like Olivia Santiago (Los Altos), Ni- accolades. cific Zone and in 2009 worked with cole Larsen (Los Altos), Elizabeth Santa Clara Valley Water Polo Sacred Heart Prep’s Philip Bamberg helped the Stanford 16U team earn the National Youth Team staff. Most Anderson (Gunn), Lauren Lesyna Club, a new entry into the club wa- the silver medal at last summer’s Junior Olympics. recently, his teams picked up a pair (Gunn), and Martine Leclerc (Paly). ter polo game, qualified three teams of silver medals at the 16 and Un- The 16U Red placed 11th at JOs last for JOs, one each in the 16U, 14U, enth place, defeating SHAQ, DeAn- missed qualifying for JOs by a sin- der Olympic Development Regional year. and 12U age groups. Johnny Bega, za B, Golden State, and Stanford. gle team. N Championship and Zone Champion- The 16U White team also was who coaches at Los Altos and previ- Their lone loss was to DeAnza A. ship. coached by Utsumi and went 2-2 for ously at Menlo-Atherton and SOLO The 14U team placed sixth to (Ken Wattana plays water polo In 2007, Minnis was named the the weekend, qualifying ninth. Aquatics, runs the club. qualify while the 12U squad placed and will be a senior at Palo Alto USA Water Polo Development The 14U Red squad qualified sec- Santa Clara’s 16s qualified in sev- seventh. Santa Clara’s 18U team High this fall.) Coach of the Year and in 2005 and 2007 was a Positive Coaching Alli- ance finalist for coach of the year. “I’m very proud of what I accom- Bay-Friendly plished,” Minnis said. “I have no regrets.” 7-10lbs Just a lot of memories, like his Gardening Workshops CCS Honor Coach award in 2005; Grow a beautiful garden. Build healthy soil. LIGHTER sitting next to McIntosh when Cas- Grow a beautiful garden. Build healthy soil. tilleja beat Menlo School for the In just 6 weeks first time in basketball; winning the You can create a sustainable, healthy and beautiful garden using Bay-Friendly state academic award this year and, practices. Learn gardening techniques that work with nature to reduce waste Six week program includes wrap once of course, playing for the CCS title and protect the watersheds of the San Francisco Bay. a week and herbal supplements. in 2008. Call for more details. Results can vary. “That’s something I’ll never forget,” he said. But, it’s off to Harvard now. “I just want to share my knowl- Bay-Friendly Basics edge and passion for water polo with the scholar-athletes at Harvard,” Saturday July 24 Minnis said. “I’m ready to go.” N 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Cubberley Community Center, Room H-1 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto This class provides an overview of the Bay-Friendly philosophy, approach and integrated practices that make for a sustainable garden. It is a mix of lecture and hands-on activities, including: • Breakouts on: soil, managing pests and plant selection – where you’ll be introduced to the primary Bay-Friendly maintenance practices. • Small group design activity to instill fundamentals and help with getting started on your own garden.

Workshop is FREE. Attendees receive Brought to you by: Bay Area a Bay-Friendly Gardening Book. To Health Spa register go to: www.BayFriendlyCoalition.org ÓäxxÊÀ>ÌÊ,`ÊUÊ-ÌiÊ£ää Los Altos Bay-Friendly Landscaping and Gardening programs and resources are offered by the Bay-Friendly 650.390.9727 Landscaping and Gardening Coalition. Bay-Friendly is a trademark and servicemark owned by StopWaste.Org bayareahealthspa.com Keith Peters Ted Minnis Page 34ÊUÊÕÞÊ]ÊÓä£äÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ Sports PREFERED DENTAL PRACTICE FOR OVER 50 YEARS! Little League teams hoping to prolong #OSMETIC$ENTISTRYs)NVISALIGNs4EETH7HITENING their seasons just a few more games by Rick Chandler 1/3 innings while giving up just one Palo Alto still trailed by five runs n most cases, it takes five victo- hit, one walk and no runs. Through- heading into the bottom of the sixth ries to win a championship in a out the game, Chang kept the San inning before tallying five times to I District 52 Little League All-Star Mateo all-stars off balance with tie the game. Tournament. Lose one game and the a steady diet of low fast balls and Cole Mantovani led off with a double-elimination events become changeups. single before the No. 8 and 9 bat- that much longer. Lose twice and Chang’s pitching exploits were ters struck out. With two outs and your season is over. supported by another strong defen- down by five, Palo Alto rallied and Heading into games on Thurs- sive effort. In the past two games, the had the winning run on third when day night, only four local teams re- Palo Alto squad has committed only a groundout to third base ended the mained in the three district majors two errors and allowed two walks. rally. Spencer Rojahn’s double gave tournaments. Only one team, Palo The defensive effort was highlighted Palo Alto a 10-10 deadlock. Marisa Walker, Dave McKenna, and Jeuel Espanola Alto National in 9-10s, was playing by two double plays with Stern turn- In the seventh, Alpine scored five in the winners’ bracket. ing the plays at second. Brian Tracy runs on a combination of bloop hits, Thus, it has been pretty much was steady behind the plate, block- three Palo Alto errors, two singles do or die for the past two weeks as ing balls and calling a great game. and a home run by Alpine’s Grif- local teams have battled for sur- In the third, Palo Alto picked up fin McGarry. He had a single, two vival. Those who had succeeded by one more run with back to back hits doubles and home run in his 4-for-5 Wednesday included Menlo-Ather- from Riley Schoeben and Alec Ol- night. ton (11-12), Palo Alto National (10- mstead. The game was still in doubt Alpine/West Menlo faced Hills- 11), Alpine/West Menlo (9-10) and until the bottom of the fifth when borough on Thursday. That winner Palo Alto National (9-10). Palo Alto added three runs off of still needs to win on Friday and Sat- £È£Ê Ê >Ê,i>ÊUÊ-ÌiÊÎääÊUÊ*>ÊÌ In the latest battles to keep title a single by Tommy Smale and a urday to reach Sunday’s noon cham- hopes alive: clutch double by Peter Snodgrass. In pionship game. Palo Alto National 650-321-4544 It took six pitchers and a big rally the top of the sixth, the scrappy San is in the winners’ bracket, and next ÜÜÜ°Vi>v>Þ`iÌÃÌÀÞ°V in the seventh inning, but Menlo- Mateo National team tried to mount plays Friday at 5 p.m. N Atherton lived to fight another day a comeback off a Palo Alto error and in the 11-12 tournament on Wednes- an RBI double, but Smale got the fi- day. nal two outs to end the game with a Palo Alto Ruth 14s Back-to-back two-run doubles by clutch relief job. Andrew Daschbach and Jack Gray The win sends Palo Alto National have hopes for title broke a 2-2 tie in the seventh inning, into the championship series with Jen Cosgriff as M-A topped Pacifica American, Belmont-Redwood Shores, the only 6-2, in a losers’-bracket game at Or- unbeaten team in the tournament. In he fireworks were back for tega School in Pacifica. M-A played its run through the losers’ bracket, the Palo Alto 14-year-old San Carlos on Thursday. Palo Alto National team has won T all-stars on Wednesday. Three pitchers combined to strike five games in a row, scoring 42 runs Facing elimination, Palo Alto lit out nine over the first five innings while allowing just three. Palo Alto the fuse, stood back and enjoyed as M-A built a 2-0 lead. Daschbach will need to keep the momentum go- the show. The offensive was singled home a run in the first, and ing for two more games to knock out once again explosive, scoring 10 Jackson Salabert doubled home Har- the Belmont Redwood-Shores team runs in the first inning en route rison Toig in the fourth for M-A’s and take the District 52 title. to a 14-3 victory over Mountain runs. But Pacifica scored two in the The first championship game was View in five innings at the Dis- bottom of the sixth to tie it and send Thursday and the final game, if trict 6 Tournament in Belmont. it to extra innings. necessary, will be on Friday at 5:30 Kyle Stewart’s grand slam In the top of the seventh for M-A, p.m. highlighted the outburst, and it Salabert and Mason Randall both was the second hit of the inning www.menloparkchamber.com walked and Arnaud Laprais singled 9-10 All-Stars for him as he drove in a team- to load the bases, before Daschbach Alpine/West Menlo remained high five runs. Palo Alto had delivered a drive that hit the top of alive while ending Palo Alto Ameri- seven hits on the evening, and the fence in right field. can’s season with a 15-11 victory in also capitalized on the six walks “It felt good, because I had been extra innings on Wednesday in the and six errors made by Mountain struggling a little bit with my hit- District 52 Tournament in Belmont. View. July 17-18, 10am-6pm ADMISSION ting,” said Daschbach, who hit 14 Palo Alto took the lead in 1-0 in Palo Alto carried that momen- IS FREE home runs during the regular sea- the bottom of the first inning when tum into the championship game Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park son, but has not yet hit one in the Bradley Smith homered. It was the against unbeaten Bel-Mateo on postseason. “Pacifica kept battling first of his two homers in the game. Thursday night. 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ter every day.” 58 RBI. Evanston!” with Pederson, made his mark as a All-state Cal-Hi Sports said it would be Albanese is the first from the Pederson also is keeping busy pitcher while compiling a 13-3 re- (continued from page 32) hard not to honor the Northwest- Bay Area to be Small Schools State this summer while playing in Ha- cord with a 2.21 ERA. He was rec- ern-bound Albanese, especially af- Player of the Year. waii. He’s expected to return next ognized on the all-state third team The all-state softball honors were ter she received national attention Albanese currently is playing with week and, perhaps, make a decision as an infielder. announced Wednesday. when she tied the national record her traveling team and has been to whether he’ll play for USC this Two other local baseball players “This award is more than any- for consecutive no-hitters with 10. keeping busy. coming season or sign with the Los also were recognized on the all- thing I ever expected for myself,” She also tied a state record with 22 “Things with my travel team are Angeles Dodgers, who drafted him state team. Menlo-Atherton senior Albanese said of the player of the strikeouts in a seven-inning game great,” she said. “I’ve been given in the 11th round of the 2010 Major Jeff Keller was named to the second year award. “It’s a huge honor and and left her name among the state the opportunity to hit in addition League Baseball Draft. team as did Menlo School senior it’s a great way to finish off my high record book in various other cat- to pitching, which is really nice be- Pederson was sensational for Palo Danny Diekroeger. school career. What I’ve been able egories. cause I LOVE to hit almost as much Alto this season while helping the Keller hit .523 this past season to accomplish hasn’t really sunk in, On the season, Albanese was 18- as I love being in the circle. We have Vikings win 24 consecutive games, with 14 doubles, three home runs to be honest, and I’m not quite sure 4-1 with a 0.05 ERA and just one just a few more tournaments and another school record. He batted and 35 RBI. Diekroeger batted .462 it ever will. Probably because I re- earned run allowed all season. She then we have nationals in South- .515 while driving in 22 runs and with 41 RBI. He added 11 doubles ally don’t try to focus on the stats also struck out 395 batters in 162.1 ern California in the second week stealing 22 bases and scoring 53 and five home runs while helping and records but, instead, focus on innings. Providing herself with in August. That’ll be great because runs. the Knights win the CCS Division bonding with my team and helping plenty of run support, Albanese hit we’ll be playing against the best Witte, who was SCVAL De Anza III championship and finishing my team and coaches out to get bet- .606 with nine home runs and had teams in the nation. Then it’s off to Division co-Player of the Year along 25-6. N COUPONCOUPON SAVINGSSAVINGS

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