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Vol. XXXVI, Number 18 Q February 6, 2015
Survey highlights
Silicon Valley’s
uneven prosperity
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Upfront
Local news, information and analysis
Report highlights Silicon Valley’s uneven prosperity
New survey of Silicon Valley details
rising growth, gaping inequality
by Gennady Sheyner
F
ueled by a sizzling tech sector, strong population growth
and low unemployment, the
Silicon Valley economy has grown
rapidly since the doldrums of the
2008 recession. So, however, have
the income gaps between the region’s wealthiest and poorest resi-
dents, between its men and women
and between its white and black
residents, according to an annual
report released Tuesday by the nonprofit Joint Venture Silicon Valley.
The 2015 Silicon Valley Index
presents a largely positive picture
of the regional economy, with San
Francisco’s growing tech sector
leading the charge. Venture capital investments spiked in 2014; the
number of patents filed continues
to rise; median household income
and average wages both increased;
housing prices are on the rise; and
the job growth rate of 4.1 percent
is the highest since 2000. These
factors prompted Venture Silicon
Valley CEO Russell Hancock to declare in his introduction to the Index
that “the world’s hottest regional
economy keeps getting hotter” and
to proclaim that this kind of growth
is “a thing to celebrate, surely.”
Yet the report also emphasizes
the region’s rising inequality, which
pertains not just to different job sectors but also to gender and ethnicity. Black residents continue to lag
behind other ethnic groups when it
comes to income, and the gap between women and men also grew
in 2013. Hancock noted that even
as the Valley is “proliferating high-
wage and low-wage jobs, we’re
steadily losing share in the middle.
“It’s as if the economy has lost its
spine, and this has important implications for the kind of community
we become,” Hancock said.
So what does a strong economy
with a fractured spine look like?
According to the new report, it
means heaps of freshly minted but
unevenly spread wealth. In many
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ELECTIONS
Jump in mail-in ballots
caused election-count woes
Evolving voter habits, outdated equipment
contributed to slow counts
by Sue Dremann
L
Veronica Weber
That’s entertainment
Mary Hill takes a close look in the dressing room mirror as she adjusts her wig before going
onstage as Bobbi Jean Piper in the performance of “Junie B. Jones” at the Palo Alto Children’s
Theatre on Feb. 4. The musical, which is based on the children’s book series, runs through Feb. 8.
EDUCATION
High schools take action to
ease student stress
District superintendent directs immediate
implementation of homework policy
by Elena Kadvany
A
mid a fierce community
conversation about the
role that academic stress
plays in the lives of Palo Alto
high school students, several efforts are being launched by administrators at Gunn and Palo
Alto high schools and the school
district in the hope of reducing
the burden.
Both Paly and Gunn are implementing homework-free February breaks, and Superintendent
Max McGee encouraged teachers
this week to not give any tests or
have any major assignments due
on Tuesday, Feb. 17, the day high
school students return from that
five-day weekend.
Teachers at both high schools
have also committed to increased
flexibility when it comes to rescheduling or retaking tests, offering extensions and completing late work without penalties.
They’re also looking at reducing
homework load and the long-term
goal of collaborating to avoid giving tests on the same day.
Gunn is working on extending
hours at its test center this semester so that students can make up
tests before and after school, rather than the current options of doing so during lunch or a prep period, Principal Denise Herrmann
said Thursday. She said she has
also offered to bring in substitute
teachers before and after school
to help oversee or proctor makeup tests.
When Gunn students register
for classes later this month, they
will fill out a time-management
grid with counselors to map out
their schedules of courses (and
corresponding work loads), extracurricular activities and sleep.
Both students and parents will be
required to sign the grid. Students
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ast November’s electioncount troubles were mainly
due to changing voting habits, with 50 percent of mail-in ballots returned in person at polling
places on Election Day, Santa
Clara County Registrar of Voters Shannon Bushey said during
a special hearing by the county
Finance and Government Operations Committee.
Bushey delivered a report to the
committee on Jan. 28 outlining
the problems that occurred during
the Nov. 4 election and some potential remedies. The committee,
chaired by Supervisor Joe Simitian and vice-chaired by Supervisor Ken Yeager, wants to prevent
the same problems from marring
the June 2016 presidential primary and following November’s
election, the supervisors said.
Logistics, under-staffing and
outdated equipment also contributed to the slow reporting, Bushey said. Rumors that the abrupt
resignation of a key informationtechnology manager a day before
the election caused the slow returns were unfounded, she said.
The registrar’s office had
150,000 ballots — out of a total
404,000 ballots cast — left to tally after Election Day, largely voteby-mail and provisional ballots.
California law in 2002 changed
to allow permanent absentee voting by mail. Its popularity has increased exponentially, transforming much of the way elections are
conducted in the state, she said.
Seventy percent of the county’s
registered voters are signed up to
vote by mail. Of those voters who
actually cast ballots, 70 to 85 percent do so by mail, she said. Bal-
lots returned to polling stations,
rather than sent through the U.S.
Postal Service, grew from 30 percent in 2008 to 50 percent in 2014.
Simitian said he has heard anecdotally that more voters wait before casting their ballots because
they want to be fully informed.
Bushey said that tabulating votes
hits an inevitable bottleneck when
ballots must be physically removed
from envelopes and fed through
voting machines. No existing technologies are capable of automating
the mail-in system, she said.
Last year’s slow returns were
not new. The registrar’s office finished tallying vote-by-mail ballots
by Nov. 9. The five-day time frame
was consistent with past elections,
Bushey said. Vote-by-mail ballot
counting was completed in eight
days in November 2012.
Provisional ballots were completed in 13 days in 2014; in 2012,
it took 15 days, she said. Provisionals require that signatures and
addresses be cross-checked by
hand for validity to ensure that the
person did not vote twice. Provisional-ballot voters are those who
went to the wrong polling place or
were supposed to vote by mail but
didn’t have their mail-in ballot. Either way, they are then allowed to
vote at that polling station. About
10 percent of ballots in November
were provisional, she said.
While conceding the process is
slow, the counting speed is in line
with, if not faster than, comparable counties, Bushey said, despite
Santa Clara County having one of
the highest vote-by-mail rates of
any county in California.
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Around Town
ON THE CLOCK ... The discussion
about time management that the
Palo Alto City Council engaged in
at its annual retreat last Saturday
probably would have lasted longer
and accomplished more had the
council not run out of time. The
retreat began at 8:30 a.m., and the
buzzer had already sounded on
its 2 p.m. adjournment, prompting 30 minutes of overtime. Most
department heads had already
left by then to belatedly start their
weekends, as had Councilman
Greg Scharff, citing a family commitment. Yet the eight remaining
council members braved the
beautiful weather taunting them
through the glass wall of the El
Palo Alto Room in the new Mitchell Park Community Center and
pressed on with a discussion
about the need for speed at council meetings. Councilman Tom
DuBois wondered what it would
take to keep council meetings at
three hours (a “culture change,”
responded City Manager James
Keene) and Councilman Cory
Wolbach offered a few ideas to
keep things moving. One idea that
proved popular is digital clocks in
the council chambers that would
let members know how long
they have been talking. Another,
which proved less so, was limiting meetings to two Mondays per
month and reserving the other two
Mondays for items that the council
did not get to because of a lack
of time. Councilman Pat Burt dismissed this proposal. “This notion
that somehow by only scheduling
two regular council meetings a
month, suddenly our workload
will be cut in half is at best wishful
thinking,” Burt said. The Jan. 31
meta-meeting concluded with the
council agreeing to have its Policy
and Services Committee explore
some of these ideas at a future
date. But whatever procedural reforms and technological upgrades
are ultimately adopted, council
members acknowledged that one
solution is a relatively simple: They
can talk less. “Discipline is in our
hands,” Councilwoman Liz Kniss
said.
FUELING THE DEBATE ... Palo Alto
will plunge into a global debate on
Monday night when the City Council
is scheduled to consider a proposal
by four of its council members to
take a stand against fossil-fuel
companies. Specifically, the council
will discuss a memo by council
members Marc Berman, Pat Burt,
Liz Kniss and Mayor Karen Holman
urging that the city ask the state’s
CalPERS (which manages public
employees’ pensions) to divest its
holdings in fossil-fuel companies
from pension investments. The divestment policy has become more
popular both regionally and globally
in recent months, with hundreds
of Stanford University faculty and
students urging the school last
month to similarly divest from fossil
fuels and the UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon asking large companies to shift their investments from
fossil fuels to renewable energy. In
the colleagues memo, the council
members say they agree with Ban,
which is why they’re requesting that
CalPERs move its energy investments “from large greenhouse gas
emitters to clean energy.” They also
argue that the shift makes financial
sense. “While we believe strongly
that Palo Alto’s investments should
reflect its values, it is important that
we achieve a strong return on our
investments as well,” the memo
states.”We believe these objectives
are complementary. Fossil-fuel
divestment is sound pension fundinvestment practice, as the value of
fossil fuel investments will decrease
as governments act to limit carbon
emissions.”
A TITAN IS ... Inspired (and a bit
upset) by one person’s comment
at the Jan. 27 Palo Alto Board of
Education meeting that Gunn High
School doesn’t know or hasn’t
defined what, exactly, it means to
be a Titan, two students launched
a photo project to document who
Titans are. Students Sarah Reich
and Dylan Huang, videographer
for Gunn’s Student Executive
Council, created “A Titan is”
Tumblr page last week, going
around campus to take photos
of students, teachers and staff
— and even the superintendent
and a board member — holding
a small dry-erase board with the
phrase, “A Titan is ...” and room for
the subject to finish the sentence.
Some of the more than 150 photos
are humorous — “dope,” “looking for a Sadie’s date,” “thirsty”
— and others poignant — “never
forgotten,” “deserving of respect,”
“loved” and “resilient.” Superintendent Max McGee chose
“amazing” and school board Vice
President Heidi Emberling, “powerful.” View the photos at atitanis.
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Upfront
UTILITIES
Years of rate increases projected
for Palo Alto utilities
Water, gas and wastewater rates all set to go up in July
A
fter holding steady this
year, Palo Alto’s utility
bills are about to embark
on an upward climb.
The city is planning to increase
its gas, water and wastewater
rates to help pay for a series of regional infrastructure projects relating to these utilities, according
to a presentation that the Utilities
Advisory Commission heard on
Wednesday night. In addition, the
city’s refuse rate is projected to
go up by 9 percent.
On the bright side for local
customers, electricity rates are
expected to stay flat in the coming year, continuing a trend of
stability that began in 2009.
When combined, the projected
hikes in gas, water, wastewater and
refuse rates would increase the median monthly bill by about 6 percent, or about $12.60, in fiscal year
2016, which begins on July 1. Currently, the median bill is $218.45, according to the Utilities Department.
At a Wednesday presentation
by Gennady Sheyner
in front of the Utilities Advisory
Commission, staff attributed the
increases largely to infrastructure
projects, many of which extend
far beyond Palo Alto. Higher water bills, for instance, are driven
primarily by the gradually rising
cost of buying water wholesale
from the San Francisco Public
Utilities Commission (SFPUC).
The SFPUC, which draws its
water from the Hetch Hetchy system, is in the midst of a multi-year
program to refurbish and upgrade
the reservoirs and pipelines that
make up the system. Like the other two dozen or so cities that get
their water from the SFPUC, Palo
Alto is contributing to the cost of
the infrastructure renovation. As a
result, staff is projecting 7 percent
increases in water rates in each of
the next four fiscal years, followed
by a 3 percent increase in 2020.
The gas utility is also projected
to go through years of increases,
though in terms of percentages
the hikes are more modest than
for the water utility. Staff is projecting a 3 percent increase in
fiscal year 2016, followed by four
consecutive years of 4 percent
increases. Staff attributed this to
both PG&E’s ongoing effort to
upgrade its gas pipelines and to
the city’s own program in replacing gas mains. Because the city
uses PG&E’s pipelines to transport its gas, it is being charged
higher transportation costs. Utilities staff expects these costs to
nearly double in fiscal year 2016,
according to Eric Keniston, a department resource planner.
In addition, the city’s own capital-improvement costs are projected to be $450,000 more than
previously expected because of a
hotter construction climate, which
results in higher bids. Keniston
said the cost of main installation
has gone up by 25 to 50 percent.
The wastewater rates, which make
up a relatively small portion of the
overall bill, will undergo a similar
rise. Staff is projecting a 9 percent
TECHNOLOGY
Palo Alto council eager
to expand city’s fiber network
While waiting for Google, city embarks on its own plan for citywide high-speed Internet
A
fter more than a decade
of big dreams and bigger
disappointments, Palo Alto
officials on Monday resurrected
their plan to deliver ultra-highspeed Internet to the city’s masses when they approved a pair of
contracts that could pave the way
for the long-awaited “fiber to the
premise” system.
The effort, which entails expanding the city’s existing 41-mile fiberoptic network and giving residents
and businesses throughout the city
gigabit-speed Internet access, has
been flickering on and off for years.
Despite strong enthusiasm from
council members past and present,
the project has been chronically
beset by woes and setbacks. These
included the economic downturn,
unfavorable economic projections
and deep uncertainty over whether
and how the network will actually
work. The city’s last promising effort fell apart in January 2009 after a consortium of Internet firms
commissioned to build the new
$44-million system saw its funding
collapse in the global recession and
requested a public subsidy, which
the City Council refused to make.
Since then, Palo Alto’s Internet
dream has been realized in cities
by Gennady Sheyner
all over the map, including Austin,
Texas; Provo, Utah; Kansas City,
Missouri; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Lafayette, Louisiana.
With Palo Alto’s economy now
thriving and the city’s Fiber Optic
Fund enjoying a healthy uptick,
the council voted 7-0, with Pat
Burt and Cory Wolbach absent,
to approve two contracts totaling $276,594 for the creation of a
Fiber to the Premise master plan
and a companion plan focusing
on wireless services. The funds
would come out of the city’s Fiber
Optic Fund, which draws money
from the large commercial customers that currently use the city’s
dark-fiber network and which now
totals about $18 million.
The plan is to be completed in
May, after which the council will
have to decide whether to proceed
with the project and, if so, which
business model to adopt for the
newly expanded municipal utility. Under the contracts, the firm
Columbia Telecommunications is
charged with assessing the city’s
infrastructure; evaluating the impacts the system would have on
the city’s right-of-way and utility
equipment; analyzing the network
requirements; preparing an engi-
neering study; designing the network; and offering a recommendation about the feasibility of a
Fiber to the Premise Network and
the best business model to pursue.
One option is the retail model,
in which the city provides services
directly to the community, according to Jim Fleming, a senior manager at the city’s Utilities Department. Then there’s the “wholesale”
option, in which the city owns the
infrastructure and then invites Internet service providers to use the
network to offer their services. The
new study will evaluate the pros
and cons of both models.
Even as the city is laying the
groundwork for a municipal system, it remains in the running for
a fiber-optic network installed
by Google. The tech company
announced a year ago its plan to
bring Google Fiber to 34 communities, including five in the
Silicon Valley. Palo Alto made the
cut, along with Mountain View,
Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and San
Jose. The company has initially
said it would make a decision
by the end of 2014, but that selfdeclared deadline had come and
gone without any announcement.
While Silicon Valley awaits
rate increase in each of the next four
years, followed by a 7 percent hike
in 2020. In 2016, this will add $2.64
to a residential bill. Jon Abendschein, a senior resource planner, said
the rising rates are associated with
improvements that Palo Alto and its
partners in the region are making to
the Regional Water Quality Treatment Plant. The city has recently
embarked on the design of a new facility that would allow it to retire the
existing sludge-burning incinerators.
“We’ve done an exemplary job
in continuing to invest in our infrastructure, and we’re making sure
we maintain a safe system and don’t
leave infrastructure investments
undone for future ratepayers,”
Abendschein told the Utilities Advisory Commission. “This forecast
assumes we’ll continue to do that.”
The rate hikes are by no means
limited to this year. According to
staff’s projections, the 5 percent increase in this year’s bill would then
be followed by three straight years
of 6 percent increases and then a 4
percent increase. When combined,
these projected increases in the
various utilities would add a total of
$52.56 to the median bill by 2020.
Commissioners accepted staff’s
explanations, though some wondered if it would be possible to
find a way to have at least one year
in which the bills don’t go up at
all (much like this year). Commissioner Audrey Chang called the
projected rate changes a “pretty
significant increase” and stressed
the need to clearly communicate
to customers the reasons.
“I think there is a need to explain it in terms that people understand quickly,” Chang said.
Commissioners also lauded
staff’s work on keeping the local
infrastructure up to date. Commissioner Steve Eglash praised the
city’s “continued commitment and
dedication to capital improvement”
and said it should be a “source of
pride to all utilities staff and everyone who lives in the city.
“Unlike most of our nation’s infrastructure, our utilities infrastructure in Palo Alto is being conscientiously managed,” Eglash said.
Commissioner James Cook was
particularly pleased about the electric rates, which staff noted remain
among the lowest in the state and
well below those charged by PG&E.
This is particularly notable, he observed, because of the city’s gradual
switch to clean-energy sources, an
effort that hit a milestone last year
when the city adopted a “carbonneutral” electric portfolio.
“We’ve adopted a carbon-neutral portfolio, we’ve gone beyond
state requirements for renewable
energy, and yet over the same
time, in the last few years, we
had zero percent rate increases,
including this year,” Cook said. Q
Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner
can be emailed at gsheyner@
paweekly.com.
Google’s decision, the company
announced a week ago its plan to
bring fiber networks to cities on
the other side of the country, including Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham.
Jonathan Reichental, Palo
Alto’s chief information officer,
said Google has informed the city
that Palo Alto is “very much in
the running.” But given the uncertainty over Google’s decision
and the 18 years that Palo Alto has
already spent mulling a fiber network, Councilwoman Liz Kniss
spoke for all her colleagues when
she argued that it’s time to act.
“I think it would be embarrassing if we didn’t move forward,”
Kniss said Monday. “We’ve been
talking about this for two years
and one month since I’ve been
back on the council. We need to
move in some direction.
“I think this is the right direction, but I think this is the only
way we’ll find out whether or not
we’re heading in the right direction,” she said.
One of the major challenges
of Palo Alto’s new venture will
be competing for customers with
incumbent carriers of high-speed
Internet, namely Comcast and
AT&T. Fleming said any newcomer looking to challenge the
incumbent carriers needs to have
a good marketing and customeracquisition plan.
“You have to know the market,”
he said. “And the incumbents are
really going to come after you.
They just will. That’s the name of
the game. They’re very good at doing this. They have a lot of practice
at this point, and they will attempt
to run you out of town.”
These hurdles did little to deter the council. Council members agreed that a fully built-out
fiber system would be a useful
and valuable public utility. Some
likened it to other city-owned
utilities, including gas, water and
electricity, and made a case for
moving ahead with a municipal
system regardless of what Google
decides.
“I think you can make a pretty
strong case that this stuff, especially
the physical infrastructure, is a natural monopoly and probably a public
good, and we should probably own
it,” Councilman Eric Filseth said.
Several members of a citizen
advisory committee advocated for
a locally owned system over one
built by Google. Andy Poggio said
he can’t think of one successful
large telecommunication company
that “had the opportunity to abuse
monopoly power and didn’t take
advantage of that opportunity.”
Richard Brand made a similar
case for a municipal network.
“We want to control it,” Brand
said. “Let’s treat Fiber to the Premise like we treat our utilities and
not turn it over to a third party.”
Councilman Tom DuBois
agreed and said that while Google
Fiber may ultimately be an option, “I don’t think we should be
waiting on Google.”
He also observed that other cities, including Lafayette, Louisiana, overcame the hurdles thrown
at them by the incumbent carriers
in adopting their fiber systems.
“Those cities stood up to incumbents, and it paid off,” DuBois said.
“It’s time for us to move forward.” Q
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News Digest
School
Sutter, Blue Shield come to agreement
who choose multiple Advanced
Placement (AP) and/or honors
classes will have to meet, along
with their parents, or talk on the
phone with school staff about the
schedule, Herrmann said. Doing
so aligns with a proposal from
McGee to identify a more “refined approval process” for such
course loads, she added.
Many students and parents
have suggested in recent weeks
that Gunn should adopt a block
schedule, under which classes
meet less frequently but for longer periods of time. The block
schedule would also allow weekly chunks of time for students to
have free tutorial periods and for
teachers to collaborate.
Paly switched to a block schedule several years ago, and the
administration has claimed it’s
improved student mental health,
eased homework loads and boosted teacher collaboration.
Herrmann said that Gunn will
be re-convening this spring an
“alternate schedule committee”
that met for several months last
year but then was derailed by
leadership changes at the school.
The committee will do research,
site visits and select a schedule by
December, with the new schedule
expected to go into effect in the fall
of 2016. However, a growing number of students, parents and faculty
are asking the administration to
accelerate that timeline so a new
schedule could be implemented for
the new school year this August.
Herrmann acknowledged the desire to get a new schedule in place
soon, but said, “I want it to be done
well, not just done quickly.”
Herrmann oversaw a schedule
change at her former high school
in Wisconsin, which switched
from an eight-period day (including lunch) to a hybrid block schedule in which students attend three
classes on one day and four on
another, with each period lasting
95 minutes. One day a week, students and teachers are provided 95
minutes for tutorial, collaboration,
enrichment or intervention. Driving forces behind the switch were
very similar to those in Palo Alto,
Herrmann said: efforts to increase
students’ access to their teachers
and close the school’s achievement
gap, combat student stress, provide
teachers more time to work together to align their curriculum and reduce transitions between classes.
“After the first semester, we did a
satisfaction survey and it was in the
90th percentile for students, staff
and parents,” she said. “They continue to say, ‘We will never go back
to that frantic-paced schedule.’”
Paly Principal Kim Diorio described possible changes for her
school in a letter this week to students, including: discussing and
developing a plan for a few homework-free nights for the next school
year; creating a calendar or system
to assure that students do not have
multiple tests or projects on the
same day; and asking teachers to
review their current practices on
Health care provider Sutter Health and insurance company Blue
Shield of California have finalized a new two-year contract, according to an announcement Jan. 30 by Sutter Health.
Following the agreement, patients at Sutter Health facilities, which
include Palo Alto Medical Foundation locations, will experience no
lapse in coverage. The agreement will honor all Blue Shield programs that Sutter has accepted in the past and include HMO, PPO
and Covered California products.
Hundreds of thousands of people were told that they would need to
switch doctors due to a contract dispute between Sutter Health and
Blue Shield. The letters informed patients that they could continue
using Sutter providers until June 30, with some possible increase in
out-of-pocket costs, and after June 30, if no new contact was reached,
Sutter would become an out-of-network provider and out-of-pocket
costs would increase substantially.
The new agreement continues to call for arbitration of all disputes,
“leaving language unchanged that has been in place between Sutter
Health and Blue Shield for many years,” according to the press release. Q
— Palo Alto Weekly Staff
Priorities: land use, health, infrastructure
A new year brought a new cast and a new philosophy to the Palo
Alto City Council, but the chronically pressing issues of land use
and transportation will continue to draw the lion’s share of attention
at City Hall in 2015 under a strategy that the council adopted at a
retreat Jan. 31.
The two hot-button topics were linked by the council into a single
priority, “The built environment: multi-modal transportation, parking and livability.” The council’s 2015 priority list, as decided at the
retreat, also includes infrastructure strategy and implementation;
healthy city/healthy community; and the completion of the Comprehensive Plan update, with “increased focus from council.”
Mayor Karen Holman and Councilwoman Liz Kniss both lobbied
hard for the “healthy city” priority, for which Holman has also argued in prior years. This time, the suggestion carried by a 6-3 vote,
with Councilmen Eric Filseth, Greg Scharff and Pat Burt dissenting.
“It’s about social services; it’s about youth programs; it’s about a
whole bunch of items that deal with mental health as well as physical
health,” Kniss said.
Councilman Cory Wolbach strongly supported this priority, particularly its inclusion of additional services for seniors, youth and
homeless people.
The priority of “infrastructure strategy and implementation” aims
to both acknowledge the recent progress and publicly declare the
council’s commitment to staying the course. Scharff highlighted
the city’s recent struggles to build the new police headquarters as a
justification for the priority.
“I think it’s been 20 years in the community at least that we’ve
been talking about the public-safety building,” Scharff said. “For
whatever reason, at the last minute it always falls apart. The challenge for us is: Let’s not let it fall apart this time. Let’s actually get
it done.”
That priority passed on a 7-2 vote. Q
—Gennady Sheyner
Castilleja seeks OK for underground parking
Castilleja School has a new solution to a years-long battle over
increasing enrollment, and thus traffic in the surrounding residential
neighborhood: Build an underground parking garage.
Independent all-girls school Castilleja sent a letter to the City of
Palo Alto on Jan. 30 to request its support for the proposal, which
will begin with the school embarking on a master planning process — possibly rethinking the layout of the Bryant Street campus
— and conducting a feasibility analysis for the construction of an
underground parking garage. After these processes and engagement
with the community over the plan, Castilleja plans to apply for a new
Conditional Use Permit (CUP) from the city.
The city required the middle and high school to submit plans for
a new permit after finding in October 2013 that Castilleja had exceeded its city-imposed enrollment cap for 12 consecutive years. The
city ordered the school to reduce the number of students it admits,
pay a $300,000 fine and cut back on the car traffic it generates.
Castilleja has come under fire for many years for what neighbors
described as a traffic nightmare that descends during morning pickup and afternoon drop-off hours.
The master-planning process is expected to take several months
and will conclude with the creation of a formal plan and a permit
application that will be submitted to the city in mid-2015, school
officials said. Q
— Elena Kadvany
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grading, test retakes and make-up
work to “assure they are consistent
with evidence-based practices.”
The letter also invites students to
provide further feedback through
an online Google survey.
In the letter, Diorio reinforced
an idea voiced by many students
at an emotional school board
meeting last week, following a
Gunn senior’s suicide the weekend before: Academic stress is a
problem, but not the problem.
However, she wrote, “At Paly,
there are many people who believe
we have the power to take small
steps to reduce academic stress
and create opportunities for our
students to take a well-deserved
break from the daily grind.”
R
egulating homework has
risen to the top of the
district’s priorities, with
McGee requiring all district faculty and staff this week to take
immediate steps to review and
follow the district’s homework
policy. The policy, adopted in
2012, mandates limits on homework amounts — 10 minutes per
grade per night, with the exception of AP and honors classes in
high school — but has reportedly
been implemented unevenly. In a
memo, McGee has asked all principals to work with their staffs to
develop a plan to ensure the policy is implemented.
Though the strong direction regarding homework comes in the
wake of two Gunn students’ suicides since November, McGee
emphasized in his memo that the
deaths were not related to homework loads.
“While some in the community are quick to blame academic
stress as a causal factor, it has not
been a contributing factor to recent
deaths,” McGee wrote. “Moreover,
students who spoke at our last board
meeting and to me in classes, formal meetings, and informal encounters have pointed out that stress
and depression are not the same.
“That said, as educators we
need to help our students manage
stress and strive to align students’
workloads with established district policies and administrative
regulations; assure consistency in
curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices; and identify
ways to improve our already considerable amount of social-emotional wellness and mental health
supports,” McGee’s memo stated.
He noted that for high schoolers, seven to 10 hours of homework per week (Monday through
Friday) is reasonable, but “based
on my experience working with
talented and accelerated high
school students for several years,
it is my opinion (and many of
theirs) that generally 15 hours
for a seven day week (Monday
through Sunday) is a maximum
reasonable load for top students.”
In addition to the quantity of
homework, the timing of assignments and tests can also be
a problem for students. One administrative regulation linked
to the homework policy states,
“Teachers should make efforts
to coordinate with one another to
establish deadlines, due dates for
projects/assignments, and tests
in an effort to minimize student
over-extension.”
In his conversations with students and parents, McGee said,
having multiple assignments or
tests on the same days is one of
the “biggest stressors” for students. He recognized that some
schools try to use master calendars and others designate specific days for specific subjects (for
example, mathematics tests and
projects are always due on Mondays) but said that making the
time for departments to communicate and coordinate on scheduling is “a significant challenge.”
“This problem may be the most
difficult to solve, but I am confident we can do it,” he wrote.
McGee highlighted another
administrative regulation directed at teachers, noting it is one of
several that are “required, and
not just encouraged”: “Monitor
homework time requirements
and feasibility of assignments using student assignments, student
feedback, and parent feedback.”
Teachers at both Paly and Gunn
have begun asking students to log
the amount of time assignments
take to complete, many simply by
adding a line on physical assignment sheets to write it down. Herrmann has also asked Gunn faculty to input the amount of time
they expect assignments to take
on Schoology, the district’s online
management system. McGee also
noted in his memo that teachers
are required to post assignments
somewhere — whether it’s on
Schoology or a teacher’s website
— so students can access their
work from home or elsewhere.
“While this note likely feels ‘top
down,’ the policy and regulation
were developed through an inclusive process, and as adopted Board
Policy, compliance is expected
and required,” McGee wrote.
In McGee’s “Max Mail” newsletter this week, he wrote that
now, more than ever, change will
necessitate a more comprehensive, district-wide effort.
“Too often we act as a collection of separate communities, but
now it is time to come together
as a collective community to address the mental health needs
of our young people,” he wrote.
“In other words, whether we
are parents, coaches, educators,
employers, siblings, or friends,
we each have an important role
in supporting and strengthening
the mental health of our young
people. This is not a school problem; it is a community problem;
so let’s work together.” Q
Staff Writer Elena Kadvany
can be emailed at ekadvany@
paweekly.com.
The school district is also
partnering with the City of Palo
Alto and youth mental-health
coalition Project Safety Net to
host a community event, “Let’s
Talk: A Community Conversation
about Healthy Kids and Healthy
Schools,” on Wednesday, Feb. 25,
at 7 p.m. at the Cubberley Community Center Theater, 4000
Middlefield Road, T2, Palo Alto.
Upfront
Online This Week
These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online
throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto
Online.com/news.
Palo Alto police nab suspected Fry’s robber
One of two men suspected of stealing gaming consoles from
Fry’s Electronics in Palo Alto on Jan. 28 was arrested Wednesday
in Hayward by Palo Alto police detectives. (Posted Feb. 5, 8:59 a.m.)
Palo Alto school district hires new data director
The Palo Alto school district has hired a new director of research and assessment: Chris Kolar, who since 2011 was the director of institutional research and effectiveness at the Illinois
Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) in Aurora, Illinois,
where Superintendent Max McGee served as president for six
years. (Posted Feb. 3, 4:14 p.m.)
Suspect sought in Baylands beating
Palo Alto police are looking for a man who they said exposed
himself to a woman in the Baylands and then repeatedly punched
her boyfriend in the face, prompting him to momentarily lose
consciousness. (Posted Feb. 3, 11:56 a.m.)
Council butts up against state law
Members of the Palo Alto City Council accidentally ran afoul of
state law late last week when they attempted to discuss over email
an item that was to come before them on Monday night involving
the construction of a two-story home on Corina Way. (Posted Feb.
3, 10:16 a.m.)
Palo Alto looks to raise minimum wage
Citing the sky-high costs of living in Palo Alto, a group of City
Council members is leading a push to adopt a local minimumwage ordinance. (Posted Jan. 30, 7:11 a.m.)
City seeks ideas for traffic-fighting nonprofit
As Palo Alto prepares to launch its own traffic-fighting nonprofit, city officials are looking for inspiration both from other cities and from local businesses and residents. (Posted Jan. 29, 7:58 p.m.)
Caltrain fatality ID’d as Palo Alto man
The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office
has identified the man struck and killed by Caltrain south of the
Mountain View Caltrain station on Jan. 29 as Daniel Snyder, 28,
of Palo Alto. (Posted Jan. 29, 7 p.m.)
Election
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She said she is asking for funding
to hire additional staff during the
vote counts to speed up the process.
Committee members suggested
that staffing should be 24 hours a
day before, during and after the
elections. Simitian and Yeager instructed Bushey to return to their
next hearing on Feb. 25 with an estimated cost for increased staffing.
Simitian noted that pending state
legislation, if passed, might help
speed up the vote counts by allowing
ballots to be taken from polling places during Election Day and counted
while the polls are still open. Current law prohibits ballots from being
moved before polls close.
Bushey identified additional
issues with the 2014 election,
including centralized counting.
Currently, electronic-ballot information is brought from the
precincts to the registrar’s office,
where the results are tallied.
Enabling votes to be processed
at the precincts, as they are in San
Mateo, San Francisco, Alameda
and Contra Costa counties, would
allow the results to be transmitted
directly to the registrar’s office in
real time. Santa Clara County is
one of a few large counties still
using central counting.
Bushey submitted a plan to the
county Board of Supervisors on
Nov. 18 for a new voting system
that would use precinct scanners.
Bushey estimated that each costs
$10,000, and the county might need
to spend $1 million. The committee
asked if hand-held scanners could
be used at precincts in the interim.
The committee also discussed
possibly moving entirely to a mail-in
system. Bushey said it would not improve speed and could further weigh
down the post-election count if everyone deposited their ballots late.
But it could result in significant cost savings, even if the
county paid for return postage. A
countywide special election with
polling stations costs $5,765,000,
but a mail-in election would cost
$2,874,000, according to the registrar’s report. Paying for return
postage would likely increase
voter turnout, as it has in Oregon,
Washington and Colorado.
An initial review of state law
indicates legislation would need
to be passed to allow all-mail
elections, according to the report.
Existing law allows for mail-ins
during special elections, for school
districts, special districts and in
smaller cities. A handful of counties have passed legislation for
pilot programs using only mail-in
ballots, according to the registrar.
The supervisors asked Bushey
to return with some cost estimates
for additional staffing as well as
information about whether precinct scanners, hand-held or freestanding, could be connected with
the registrar’s existing computer
system. They also instructed staff
to return with a study of standards
on the percentage spread that triggers an automatic recount. Q
Staff Writer Sue Dremann
can be emailed at sdremann@
paweekly.com.
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ways, the wealth is a cause to be
celebrated. According to Hancock,
Silicon Valley is “poised now to
blow through all the employment,
venture capital and patent records
that were set during the crazy
dot-com period, only this time we
haven’t spiked into it. We’ve arrived
here through a steady five-year process of incremental growth, each
year more impressive than the last.”
The overall job numbers are
particularly impressive. According to the Index, the total number
of jobs in Silicon Valley has grown
by 14.4 percent since 2010. In San
Francisco, the job growth has been
15.3 percent, well above the state
and national rates (8.7 percent and
6.4 percent, respectively). The city is
also hogging a growing share of the
state’s venture capital, receiving 36
percent of the state’s total, a huge increase over the 4 percent it secured
in 2007. This is due in large part to
major deals made in 2014 by San
Francisco-based newcomers such as
Uber, Dropbox, Lyft and AirBnB.
Yet the report also makes clear
that the region’s overall growth
can’t be attributed solely to tech.
With the exception of “other manufacturing,” which saw its employment numbers drop by 1.1 percent
between the second quarter of 2013
and the second quarter of 2014, just
about every sector has added jobs.
In the category “community infrastructure and services,” Silicon
Valley added 40,096 jobs between
the second quarter of 2013 and the
second quarter of 2014. In education, the region added 15,607 jobs;
in “health care and social services”
the number was 10,875; and in “innovation and information products
and service,” the figure was 18,445.
The rising economy also means
more development, which in turns
means more people and more traffic. Approved non-residential development, according to the report,
was at a higher level in fiscal year
2013-14 than in any other year over
the last decade with a net floorarea equivalent to 224 football
fields. Housing construction has
also been on the rise, particularly
when it comes to multi-family developments. The recent growth has
not, however, made up for the lack
of building during the recession.
With housing still at a premium,
median home prices jumped by 7.5
percent from 2013 to 2014, reaching a median of $757,585.
This growth, however, is far
from egalitarian. According to
the report, the gender inequality
gap remains large and is getting
worse, particularly in Silicon Valley. Men in Silicon Valley earn
considerably more than their female peers, and the gap is “getting
larger over time,” the Index states.
The large gender gap applies
to all education levels but is particularly pronounced among those
with graduate or professional degrees. According to the Index, for
residents with a bachelor’s degree
(220,000 men and 250,000 women), the individual median income
in 2013 was 61 percent higher for
men than for women. This is compared to a 20 percent differential
in San Francisco, 41 percent in
Courtesy Joint Venture Silicon Valley Index
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Graph of individual median income by gender and educational
attainment, with data from the United States Census Bureau,
American Community Survey, and analysis by Silicon Valley
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bachelor’s degree, the gender gap
in Silicon Valley increased by
$5,000 between 2012 and 2013,
rising from $29,090 to $34,233.
Per capita income in the region
rose slightly between 2012 and
2013, going up by $89 to $75,100
in 2013 when adjusted for inflation. The increase applied to all racial and ethnic groups except black
residents, according to the Index.
White residents had the highest per
capita income in 2013, while Hispanic and Latino residents earned
the lowest, despite modest gains.
But according to the report,
per capita incomes in 2013 for
black and Hispanic residents in
Silicon Valley (San Mateo and
Santa Clara counties) were well
below the pre-recession levels,
down 20 percent and 12 percent,
respectively, since 2007. During
the same period, however, San
Francisco saw an increase of 8.5
percent in per capita income for
Hispanic and Latino residents,
the report notes.
The report’s good news about job
growth is somewhat offset by the
stagnant wages. In most industries,
the wage growth in Silicon Valley
has failed to keep up with inflation.
The report notes that inflationadjusted median wages for management, business, science and art
occupations went down by 2.3 percent between 2010 and 2014. The
greatest losses were in arts, design,
entertainment, sports and media
occupations, which saw a decrease
of 10.6 percent since 2010. And despite a 6.2 percent increase in the
number of jobs, service occupations
in Silicon Valley’s major metropolitan areas saw a decline of 9 percent
in median wage since 2010, with
personal-care occupations suffering a 14.4 percent decrease. Q
Correction
The Jan. 30 story “Some
schools lag in measles immunization” incorrectly stated
California Department of Public
Health percentages for underimmunized students as being
for elementary school students.
The state percentages were for
kindergarten students only. The
Weekly regrets the error.
Upfront
YOUTH
By the students, for the students
Gunn’s new student wellness committee advocates for simple, small-scale change
A
s Palo Alto’s high schools
work to implement shortterm changes to combat
student stress, four Gunn High
School students are pushing for
several ideas of their own, from
anonymous counseling-referral
boxes to a mental health awareness campaign.
The students, who together
formed a new student wellness
committee last fall, said they are
taking a smaller-scale approach
to the complex issues that inform
the current community discussion
around life at Gunn — the stigma
attached to seeking mental health
services, homework load, understanding stress and depression —
in the hopes that they will create
more immediate yet still significant change.
“You never know what’s going to help which kids, so we’re
taking as many steps in the right
direction as we can and just trying to fix things that we think we
can improve — not so much saying it’s because of the suicide but
because it would create a healthier
environment,” sophomore Chloe
Sorensen said. “I think that’s the
big difference — a lot of people
are saying, ‘These things have to
change so that kids stop killing
themselves,’ but there are a lot of
things that could change just for
healthier kids in general.”
The four students — Sorensen,
juniors Sarah Reich and Cole McFaul and senior Rose Weinmann
— formed their committee in
November simply out of a desire
to “do something,” Sorensen said.
(They are also all involved in stu-
by Elena Kadvany
dent government, and Weinmann
serves as Gunn’s school board
representative.) They approached
Principal Denise Herrmann with
three solid proposals, one of which
has already been implemented.
There are now two referral
boxes, one in the guidance department’s office and another in
the student activities center, where
anyone can drop off an anonymous form referring a friend to
see a counselor. The form asks
for the name of the person who’s
being referred; it’s optional to include the reason. The referrer can
write his or her own name if he or
she wants to be involved.
“For every depressed kid, there
are five kids who are worried
about them,” Sorenson said. A lot
of them aren’t comfortable enough
to go talk to a counselor and say,
‘This person needs help; I really
want you to talk to them,’ because
they’re either too shy or they’re worried about confidentiality or they’re
worried they’ll lose their trust.”
The four students also have
some meatier proposals. One is to
launch a mental-health awareness
campaign. They’re also looking
at bringing a wellness program to
Gunn called the Youth Empowerment Seminar (YES!), which
in four- to five-week sessions —
often incorporated into physical
education classes — teaches about
topics like nutrition, mindfulness,
breathing and other stress-reducing techniques as well as conflict
resolution, peer pressure and selfconfidence. The Gunn and Paly
student government bodies are
piloting the YES! program this
weekend in a 90-minute trial session.
Gunn physical education teacher
Amy Anderson, who is serving as
the wellness committee’s teacheradviser, said her department will
be meeting with YES! program
representatives “to look at additional ways to nourish healthy
minds and bodies and help students gain more skills to manage
stress and emotions and promote
happiness and well-being.”
The committee has also proposed training more Gunn students
on the signs and symptoms of depression — similar to the wellnessfocused leadership training about
20 to 30 Gunn students receive
each year through the school’s
Sources of Strength program —
and have them give presentations
during Titan 101, Gunn’s freshman
orientation program.
Having more students be involved in and supporting their
peers’ mental health education
touches on another desire that
sparked the creation of the student wellness committee: to bring
the students themselves into the
conversation and decision-making process.
“It really just helps the students
so much to know that it’s coming from students because they
feel just so much more connected
to other students and they know
that students have a better sense
of it than adults,” Sorensen said.
“When we’re trying to help solve
problems to reduce student stress,
they (students) need to be part of
the decision making,” Principal
Denise Herrmann said. Q
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Upfront
HEALTH
Public Agenda
Parents launch mobile health-record challenge
A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week
CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to discuss the establishment of quiet
zones in Palo Alto; consider strategies for limiting commercial growth; discuss a colleagues memo from City Council members Berman, Burt, DuBois
and Wolbach about raising the minimum wage; and consider a proposal
by council members Berman, Burt, Holman and Kniss urging CalPERS to
divest from fossil-fuel companies. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. on
Monday, Feb. 9, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
Effort honors late Palo Alto High grad Emily Benatar
by Sue Dremann
BOARD OF EDUCATION SPECIAL MEETING ... The school board will
hold a special meeting to discuss the high schools’ 2014-15 Single Plans
for Student Achievement (SPSA) and Western Association of Schools
and Colleges (WASC) reports. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the board room at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave.
BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will hear an update on
professional development, consider approving a charge for a new
enrollment-management committee and discuss expanding a Mandarinimmersion program to Jordan Middle School. The meeting will begin at
6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the board room at district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave.
COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee
plans to discuss the noise impacts of air traffic on the residents of Palo
Alto and give direction to the city manager. The meeting will begin at 7
p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall,
250 Hamilton Ave.
PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission
plans to hold a site-and-design review for a new single-family home at
805 Los Trancos Road and consider reforms to the planned-community
zone process. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11,
in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
CITY COUNCIL ... The council will meet in closed session to discuss
evaluations for City Attorney Molly Stump and City Auditor Harriet Richardson. The closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, at
City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss its potential role in issues relating to affordable housing and the
formation of a Housing Issues Subcommittee; consider recommendations for the Community Development Block Grant funding for fiscal
year 2016; discuss the recently held Senior Summit; and hear an update
on the planning for the Civility Roundtable. The meeting will begin at 7
p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250
Hamilton Ave.
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T
he parents of a 2011 Palo
Alto High School graduate
who died from meningitis have launched a campaign to
teach people how to access their
health records on their phones.
Lisa and Darrell Benatar started Own Your Health Info in honor
of their daughter Emily Benatar,
who died May 9, 2012, from bacterial meningitis while a freshman
at Washington University in St.
Louis, Missouri. Emily had been
vaccinated against the disease, but
she contracted a type for which
there was no immunization at the
time, her mother said.
The family hopes that their effort will save lives.
“Our goal is for 1,100 people to
have their health records accessible
on their phones by Feb. 11,” Emily’s birthday, Lisa Benatar said.
Many people currently access
their health information online,
but fewer do so using apps that
are available for their smartphones. Mobile access could help
people who need medical attention while away from home, such
as college students or those on
vacation or business trips.
The campaign is timely, Benatar
said. California and several other
states are experiencing measles
outbreaks, which has heightened
awareness of the importance of
keeping vaccinations up to date.
Benatar thinks the phone apps
help kids who are just out of the nest
to take responsibility for their health.
“There needs to be a point at
which you pass the torch. Kids do
everything on their phones,” she said.
Accessing health records on a
Lisa Benatar created the website ownyourhealthinfo.com, which
aims to teach people to access their health records online and
mobile phones, as a tribute to her daughter Emily Benatar, who died
of bacterial meningitis in college.
phone is relatively easy. Threestep instructions are available at
OwnYourHealthInfo.com. Health
care providers already offer the
apps: the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s app is called MyChart;
Stanford Health Care’s app is
called MyHealth; Kaiser Permanente’s can be found in a mobile app
store by searching for “Kaiser.”
In lieu of downloading apps,
parents can also take a picture of a
child’s immunization card or a photo
of the form and text it to their child.
So far, 537 people have completed the process toward the Benatars’
goal. Doing so is already benefiting people as they discover gaps in
their health maintenance, she said.
Since Emily’s death, there
have been at least two outbreaks
of serogroup B meningococcal
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Progress to Patients
disease, the type of meningitis
Emily Benatar contracted, on
college campuses: eight cases at
Princeton University in New Jersey between spring 2013 and late
2014, and four cases at University of California, Santa Barbara,
from late 2013 to spring 2014, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Food and Drug Administration licensed the first vaccine for
serogroup B in October 2014 and licensed a second vaccine in January.
On average 500 people die annually from meningitis, and more
than 4,400 are affected. About 10
to 15 percent of cases are fatal. Of
patients who recover, up to 19 percent have permanent hearing loss,
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of Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (Jan. 31)
Priorities: The council adopted four priorities for 2015. These are “built environment: multi-modal transportation, parking and livability,” “completion of the
Comprehensive Plan update,” “infrastructure strategy and implementation” and
“healthy city, healthy community.” The first two were approved unanimously.
Infrastructure was approved 8-1, with DuBois dissenting. Healthy cities was approved 6-3, with Burt, Filseth and Scharff dissenting.
Canary’s 10 year journey from
tests to clinical trial
City Council (Feb. 2)
Fiber: The council approved two contracts totaling $276,594 for creation of
master plans for building a “fiber to the premise” system and enhancing the
city’s wireless infrastructure. Yes: Berman, DuBois, Holman, Filseth, Kniss,
Scharff, Schmid Absent: Burt, Wolbach
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Historic Resources Board (Feb. 4)
Retreat: The board held its annual retreat, which included discussion of the
board’s bylaws and subcommittees, guidelines for staff approval of applications
and design guidelines. Action: None
Utilities Advisory Commission (Feb. 4)
Rates: The commission discussed projected rate increases for gas, water and
wastewater utilities, as well as the proposal to keep electric rates at their current level for fiscal year 2016. Action: None
Architectural Review Board (Feb. 5)
Wireless: The board discussed the conceptual designs proposed by Crown Castle
for a downtown distributed antenna system consisting of 19 units. The antennas
would be placed on existing light poles and one utility pole, primarily along Lytton
Avenue, Hamilton Avenue and side streets off of University Avenue. Action: None
Upfront
DEVELOPMENT
Palo Alto weighs limits on office growth
Menu of options proposed for capping development
W
ith office developments
blooming in Palo Alto
and downtown’s traffic
problems increasingly driving the
City Hall agenda, city officials
will evaluate on Monday a suite
of options for slowing down commercial growth.
The immediate question that the
council will consider is whether to
unveil new slow-growth policies as
part of the ongoing overhaul of the
city’s Comprehensive Plan or whether to proceed with more urgency
and adopt an interim ordinance that
would immediately restrict growth.
But at the heart of the matter
looms the larger question of whether an annual growth cap is indeed
the best panacea for solving downtown’s traffic issues.
Several council members, most
notably Mayor Karen Holman and
Councilman Pat Burt, have been
vocal about the need to consider
reining in office growth. In December, Burt noted that during
the development-rich years of the
dot-com boom, the council had
instituted a moratorium on retail
buildings being used for offices.
“We’re now at the same crisis
level as we were at that time,”
by Gennady Sheyner
Burt said on Dec. 8.
The city’s existing policy, adopted
in 1986, sets a cap on overall commercial development of 350,000
square feet in the downtown area.
Citywide, Palo Alto added 1.2
million square feet of nonresidential
development over the past 15 years,
which amounts to about 83,539
square feet per year, according to
city data. And this does not count
the roughly 1.3 million square feet
that will soon be added as part of
the current massive expansion of
Stanford University Medical Center.
The growth among different
types of nonresidential development is far from even. Retail
space actually shrank by 37,463
square feet over the past 15 years,
the only category that has experienced a decrease. Office space
went up by 517,045 square feet in
the same period, or about 34,370
square feet per year.
One option on the council’s
menu is an annual limit in the
range of 35,000 to 50,000 square
feet and a competitive process for
evaluating projects that exceed this
limit. Another option, according to
a city staff report, is to impose a
“more robust impact fee program.”
Also under consideration is an interim ordinance that would temporarily reduce the amount of office
development allowed or set new
conditions on projects, such as providing on-site parking or funding
for traffic-management program.
Not everyone is convinced that
capping annual growth is the way
to go. David Kleiman, who recently won approvals for mixeduse buildings at 636 Waverley St.
and 240 Hamilton Ave., noted in
a letter to the council that the idea
of creating an annual cap arose
in response to the city’s traffic
problems and pointed out that
the recently approved residentialparking permit program has yet
to kick in.
And Russell Hancock, president
and CEO of the Joint Venture
Silicon Valley, noted in his letter that 34,000 square feet of annual development is a “minuscule
amount of growth against Palo
Alto’s 17.6 million square feet.”
“An annual office cap, particularly one that doesn’t accumulate
during recessionary periods, will
create uncertainty and send business out of the city during the
downturn,” Hancock wrote. Q
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Palo Alto
Jan. 28-Feb. 3
Violence related
Armed robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Theft related
Check fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Checks/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Commerical burglary investigation . . . . 1
Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Elder abuse/financial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Possession of burglary tools. . . . . . . . . 1
Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Vehicle related
Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 7
Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Found bicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 5
Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 6
Alcohol or drug related
Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Smoking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Miscellaneous
Disposal/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1
Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 4
Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Violence related
Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Theft related
Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Vehicle related
Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 8
Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Vehicle accident/major injury . . . . . . . . 1
Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 2
Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3
Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Alcohol or drug related
Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Miscellaneous
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CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Disturbing/annoying phone calls . . . . . 1
Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Probation violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2
Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
VIOLENT CRIMES
Palo Alto
340 Portage Ave., 1/28, 3:49 p.m.; robbery/armed.
538 Georgia Ave., 1/30, 7:46 p.m.; battery/simple.
San Antonio and Middlefield roads, 2/2,
8:30 p.m.; battery/simple.
Edgewood Drive, 2/2, 8:47 p.m.; family
violence/misc.
Menlo Park
100 block Dunsmuir Way, 1/29, 9:40
a.m.; battery on spouse.
1200 block Hollyburne Ave., 1/29, 1:33
p.m.; battery on spouse.
700 block Hollyburne Ave., 2/2, 11:28
a.m.; assault.
John “J” Aitken II
August 14, 1977 – January 18, 2015
John grew up in Atherton and
attended Las Lomitas and La
Entrada schools.
He graduated from Menlo
Atherton where he swam on the
varsity swim team and played varsity
football. After living in Atherton
for 18 years, he decided to broaden
his horizon by earning his Political
Science Degree at Columbia College
in New York City.
He graduated in 2000 and returned to California “where
he could see the stars at night” and soon founded Bryco
Funding in San Francisco.
John was an avid golfer who also enjoyed his family time.
John is survived by Carrie Aitken, their daughters Payton
Lee Aitken and Madison Roni Aitken, parents John and
Lynette Aitken, sister Bridget Gowan, grandmother Teresa
Francisconi, aunt Jamie Bertrand, uncle Mike Aitken and
nephew Donald Gowan IV.
A celebration of John’s life will be held at the family home,
91 Reservoir Rd., Atherton, Sunday, February 8, 1:30 - 4:30.
Families welcome.
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March 17, 1949 – January 16, 2015
Patricia was born in Los Angeles,
California, to Conrad and Elizabeth
Olson. She studied biology at Stanford
University, completing her B.A. and
M.A. in 1972. She met Necmi Bilir
while at Stanford, and the two married
in Palo Alto in 1973. They then moved
to Turkey for seven years, teaching at
a university while starting a family,
before returning to Palo Alto in 1981.
Patricia enjoyed a wide range of
pursuits, including folk and classical
music, planning annual family camping adventures, and
designing home landscapes and remodels. She was committed
to education, becoming actively involved in the school district
for many years. She also worked as a freelance textbook editor,
taught courses at Foothill College and, most recently, advised
students on college admissions.
Patricia is survived by her loving husband of 41 years; seven
children, Ender Berberian (John Berberian), Timur Bilir (Liv
Herriot), Pinar Bilir (Eric Sun), Taner Bilir (Lisa Bilir), Kamran
Bilir, Aylin Bilir and Eren Bilir; seven grandchildren; her brother,
Eric Olson (Cindy Olson); and her sister, Christine Tavares (Tony
Tavares). Her 15-year old puppy, Jake, will also miss her.
A memorial service will be held on February 14.
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Palo Alto, CA 94304
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Jan. 30, 1928 - Jan. 19, 2015
Teen Fredell Makowski, a 52year resident of Palo Alto, died
Jan. 19, 2015. She was born Jan.
30, 1928, in Jerome, Arizona.
She attended the University of
Arizona and taught in Glendale,
Arizona, before moving to
California in 1960. She worked
for the Fremont Union High
School District as a teacher,
counselor, project manager and
consultant before retiring in 2005. She loved camping,
fishing, painting, traveling and spending time with
friends. Teen is survived by her two children, Michael
of Palo Alto, her daughter Kristine Gray (Louis) of
Sunnyvale, and three grandchildren, Matthew, Sarah and
Braden.
The memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, February
15 at 2pm at Grace Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverley, Palo
Alto.
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Daniel Steven Snyder
Sept. 29, 1986 – Jan. 29, 2015
Daniel Steven Snyder of Palo
Alto passed away on January
29, 2015. Born on September 29,
1986, Danny attended Duveneck
Elementary School, Menlo Middle
School and graduated from Palo
Alto High School in 2005. He was
an active member of the tennis
team, worked on the Campanile
newspaper of Palo Alto High
School, and was involved with
Best Buddies International. Danny
received his B.A. from Emory
University in Atlanta, Georgia
where he was also a member of their tennis team and has
spent the last 3 years as a medical student at Sackler School of
Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Danny was an avid Giants and 49ers fan, even watching
local games in the middle of the night while in Israel. He was
compassionate towards people in need, volunteering for Habitat
for Humanity, assisting in Katrina relief, and teaching illiterate
adults to read through the San Francisco Public Library. As a
former president of Beth Am Temple Youth (BATY), Danny’s
Jewish faith was important to him.
Danny is survived by his mother Susan Snyder, his father
Thomas Snyder and Thomas’s wife Sheila Snyder, his sister
Lisa Snyder, many aunts, uncles, cousins, and his maternal
grandfather.
A funeral service was held on Tuesday, Feb. 3 at Congregation
Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, followed by a graveside service at
Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo. Daniel’s memory may
be honored by donating to Save A Child’s Heart (SACH) www.
saveachildsheartus.org or National Alliance on Mental Illness
(NAMI) www.nami.org.
Danny was a devoted son, brother and friend to many. His
gentle and loving nature will be greatly missed.
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Carl Djerassi, ‘father of the pill,’ dies at 91
Stanford University professor emeritus Carl Djerassi, a
rare powerhouse in chemistry
and art, died in his home in
San Francisco on Friday, Jan.
30. He was 91.
“Carl Djerassi was first and
foremost a great scientist. Together with his colleagues,
he transformed the world by
making oral contraception effective,” Stanford President
John Hennessy said. “Later
in life, he became a great
supporter of artists and a
playwright whose plays entertained while they also educated.”
Djerassi’s death resulted
from complications due to
cancer. He is survived by
his son, Dale Djerassi, stepdaughter, Leah Middlebrook,
and grandson, Alexander M.
Djerassi.
Djerassi was born in Vienna, Austria, on Oct. 29, 1923,
to Samuel Djerassi, a dermatologist and specialist in sexually transmitted diseases, and
Alice Friedmann, a Viennese
dentist and physician. With
the rising Nazi threat, he and
his mother moved to Bulgaria
in 1938 and eventually to the
U.S., arriving nearly penniless in 1939.
At age 16, he attended Newark Junior College and Tarkio
College and subsequently
graduated summa cum laude
from Kenyon College before
his 19th birthday. He then
earned a doctorate in chemistry in 1945 at the University
of Wisconsin.
He subsequently worked as
a research chemist at CIBA
Pharmaceutical in New Jersey, where he developed an
Marilyn Smithson
Marilyn Jean Smithson, a longtime Palo Alto resident and community member, died on Jan. 21
surrounded by her family. She
was 87.
She was born
Marilyn Jean
Anderson on
Sept. 21, 1927,
in Walla Walla,
Wa s h i n g t o n.
She grew up
in Tacoma and
went on to earn
her teaching
credentials from the University of
Washington in 1950. She married
Luther “Bud” Smithson in 1956,
and they lived in Los Angeles and
Berkeley before settling in Palo
Alto in 1966.
She was an active community
member — serving on a few Palo
Alto PTAs, acting as one of the
original gardeners at the city’s
Chuck Painter/Stanford News Service Archives
Teen Makowski
early commercial antihistamine (Pyribenzamine) and
saw the powerful connection
between chemistry and human health.
In 1949, Djerassi became
associate director of research
at Syntex in Mexico City. His
research there was directed at
a synthesis of cortisone from
diosgenin, a molecule derived
from a wild yam and a naturally abundant precursor for
synthetic steroids. Later, he
and his co-workers synthesized norethisterone, a potent
orally available progestin analog that figured in the production of the first birth-control
pill. His role in this earned
him the nickname “The father of the pill.” Within years,
the pill created significant social and economic impacts, of
which Djerassi was proud.
Djerassi re-established his
connection with academia
in 1952, accepting a position
as professor of chemistry at
Wayne State University. In
the late 1950s, William Johnson, one of Djerassi’s teachers
Community Gardens, creating a
parent-run art studio for kids during lunch at Garland Elementary
School and helping in the first
years of the Palo Alto Parents and
Professionals for Art. She worked
as a teacher’s aide at Garland
and Jordan Middle School until
her retirement in 1992. Over the
years, she campaigned for measures and candidates both locally
and nationally, and she hosted a
polling place at her home for several elections.
A practiced gardener, she
was known for her heirloom tomatoes, raspberries and string
beans, and she collected rare
azaleas and Japanese maple
trees. She also loved reading
and participated in book clubs in
Palo Alto and La Selva Beach,
California, where she moved in
1999. There she also started the
Friends of the La Selva Beach
Library to support the local
at the University of Wisconsin, moved to Stanford and in
1959 recruited Djerassi to join
the department.
Rare by even today’s standards, Djerassi published
more than 1,200 scientific
papers and in doing so transformed the way chemists did
their work, making contributions to the use of highly sensitive analytical tools critical
to establishing the structure
of complex molecules.
Djerassi was instrumental in
recruiting, often encouraging
hires to improve the department’s diversity. Many colleagues gave examples of how
this chemistry giant would
show deep personal interest in
their lives and their work.
Taking inspiration from his
third wife, fellow Stanford
professor and poet Diane Middlebrook, Djerassi followed
his affinity for literary writing in the final 25 years of his
life. Through dozens of short
stories, novels and plays, Djerassi told fictional tales that
describe realistic details and
struggles of a scientist’s life.
An avid collector of paintings by modernist Paul Klee,
he also established the Djerassi Resident Arts Program on
his ranch in Woodside in 1979
as a memorial to his daughter
Pamela, a poet and painter.
The program has supported
the creativity of more than
2,000 artists by providing
uninterrupted time for work,
reflection and collegial interaction in a setting of great
natural beauty.
Plans for a memorial are
pending.
— Stanford News Service
branch during budget cuts.
She is survived by her husband
of 58 years, Luther Smithson of
La Selva Beach; her daughter,
Kristina (Julian) Grantz of La
Selva Beach; son, Paul (Britt)
Smithson of Chico, California;
and grandchildren, Hannah,
Kyra, Hunter and Carys. She
is also survived by her brother,
Paul (Joyce) Anderson of Port
Townsend, Washington; brotherin-law, Wade Smithson of Irvine,
California; and nephews, a niece
and many friends.
A memorial service will be
held on Feb. 14 at 11 a.m. at La
Selva Beach Library, 316 Estrella Ave., La Selva Beach. Memorial donations can be made
to the LSB Chapter Friends of
the Santa Cruz Public Library
(sites.google.com/site/lsblibraryfriendsorg/home) and Hospice of
Santa Cruz County (www.hospicesantacruz.org).
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Editorial
Saving Buena Vista
A complicated path to preserve
low-income housing
T
he legal, financial and political obstacles to saving 117
units of low-income housing at the Buena Vista Mobile
Home Park are enormous, but they are not insurmount-
able.
With the City Council set to hear an appeal in April of a hearing officer’s decision to approve the closure of the mobile-home
park, the city is unfortunately constrained in initiating any activity that could be construed as creating bias as the council
adjudicates the appeal and makes a final ruling.
This has effectively muzzled the council and precludes any
city analyses exploring how the closure of the park might be
averted, including the possible purchase of the property.
And when it does consider the appeal, the council’s options
are very limited. Its primary role is to determine if the proposed
relocation benefits for the residents meet the requirements of
state and local laws by covering the “reasonable costs of relocation.” It may not consider whether the park’s closure is in the
best interests of Buena Vista residents or the broader community.
Since the law does not define “reasonable costs of relocation”
the council could disagree with the hearing officer and insist on
greater benefits, assuming it can justify them based on the testimony from the original closure hearing held last year. Through
its actions residents of the park might get more money when
forced out, but the council can’t prevent the closure by simply
voting down the application.
As it stands now, the required benefits include payment to Buena Vista residents equal to the appraised value of their mobile
home, moving expenses, payment of start-up expenses at a new
location (first and last month’s rent and security deposit), and a
rent subsidy equal to 100 percent of the differential between the
average rent at the park and the average market rent for “replacement” housing for a period of one year.
Supporters and attorneys of Buena Vista residents argue that
the proposed payments fall substantially short of what is required because comparable housing and civic amenities would
be much more costly than the relocation benefit calculations
suggest, if they were available at all. Also in dispute is how the
value of Palo Alto schools should factor into either the appraised
value of the mobile home or in achieving comparability at a new
location.
But while looking for ways to justify increased relocation benefits is appropriate and worthwhile, we believe the primary goal
of the community should be to preserve Buena Vista and prevent
the loss of these 400 residents, including 129 children and the
affordable housing they occupy.
The soaring cost of housing is undermining our community’s
ability and desire to maintain or add to our affordable-housing
inventory, an important goal of our Comprehensive Plan. Since
there are so few opportunities to create new low-income housing,
we should be doing everything possible to keep the housing we
already have, including the Buena Vista units.
With the city currently legally restricted from pursuing any
steps toward acquiring Buena Vista while it considers the closure
appeal, and with the park owners showing no interest in discussing a sale to a public agency or nonprofit, we urge the county to
step up quickly and help develop an analysis of available options,
their costs and legal risks.
Such an analysis would explore how other California cities or
nonprofit organizations have acquired mobile-home parks under
similar circumstances, the costs and requirements of bringing
the park up to code, the use of eminent-domain powers to acquire
the land and a comparison of the costs and benefits of retaining
the existing mobile-home park or building new affordable housing on the site.
Thanks to Supervisor Joe Simitian, the Santa Clara County
Board of Supervisors has already stepped up by making available $8 million in affordable-housing funds to help with any
viable plan to retain affordable housing on the Buena Vista site
and prevent its conversion to market-rate housing.
It will take much more money than that to pull off the purchase
of the property, but the city has substantial housing funds available, and the Palo Alto Housing Corporation also has resources
and experience with obtaining state and federal housing grants.
Right now we need governmental leadership to achieve a reliable and impartial analysis while the Palo Alto City Council
is considering the Buena Vista closure appeal. Having boldly
opened the door to creative solutions by obtaining the county’s
$8 million in seed money, we hope Simitian can be as successful
in marshaling the help of county housing staff or consultants to
move this idea forward.
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Editorials, letters and opinions
Case in point
Editor,
A high school assembly such as
that on Jan. 7 (“Gunn administrators call attention to teens’ sleep”)
— an event well-reported by the
Weekly’s Elena Kadvany, wellintended by the adults and on an
important issue — is sadly a toohollow exercise within the real
world of our kids’ lives.
In the dim auditorium light, instead of hearing a thing, many students are furtively catching up on
homework, checking and sending
texts, and, yes, catching a nap.
They have scant reason to want
to listen — when what they find
themselves in day after day (not
just on an assembly day) is a school
regimen that robs them of nightly
rest because they’re anxious about
whether to cheat on an upcoming
exam or to copy homework (common among their friends), because
they’re tossing and turning over
their grades (posted home electronically, now, with greater frequency), and because their unmodulated homework loads often keep
them burning the midnight oil (all
the more of it because they’ve already burned up so much daylight,
as is permitted in and out of class,
with time on their phones).
The increased use of a “timemanagement tool,” now offered to
more Gunn kids under the leadership of Principal Herrmann, is
good news; and more such changes
could be made by our school leaders if they would, and if we ask it
of them.
As a Gunn teacher for 15 years,
and a co-founder (along with sophomore Martha Cabot) of an initiative to bring change to Gunn (described at www.savethe2008.com),
I believe that it will only be when
we actually see our teenagers for
who they are, and for the lives
we’re causing them to lead, that
they will start to sleep any easier.
Marc Vincenti
Los Robles Avenue, Palo Alto
Benefits us all
Editor,
I am writing to urge the Palo
Alto City Council to supplement
the $8 million of county funding
earmarked this week for the acquisition of the Buena Vista Mobile
Home Park. I live in Barron Park,
the neighborhood where Buena
Vista is located. Matching city
housing funds should be pledged
to Buena Vista now to ensure the
preservation of this important
source of affordable housing in
our city.
Palo Alto is a city that is economically fortunate, but that good
fortune comes at a cost in the cultural richness and diversity that
occurs naturally when housing
is more affordable. The largely
Hispanic Buena Vista community
adds such richness to our city.
Their annual Posada celebration at
Christmas is an authentic piece of
Mexican culture that they generously share with us. Not only does
it benefit the residents of Buena
Vista to live in Palo Alto because
of its relative safety and fine educational opportunities, but it benefits
us to have the Buena Vista residents here. Their community educates us and broadens our perspective — too often overly focused on
academia and technology.
Susan L. Kaplan
Orme Street, Palo Alto
Match it
Editor,
I’m a resident of the Barron Park
neighborhood of Palo Alto. I appreciate the ethnic and economic
diversity of our neighborhood including the approximately 400 residents of the nearby Buena Vista
Mobile Home Park (most of whom
are low-income Hispanic families
and longtime Palo Alto residents).
I’ve been concerned about the future of those neighbors ever since
I heard of the proposal to close the
mobile-home park and force them
to leave their homes.
There is no nearby housing
available for anything close to
what they currently pay or could
afford. The Palo Alto area needs
more low-income housing, not
less. Any lost low-income housing will be extremely difficult to
replace.
I was delighted to learn that
Stanford University has provided
funds to preserve affordable housing near Stanford and that Santa
Clara County Supervisors Simitian and Cortese have led efforts
to set aside up to $8 million from
that fund to provide a portion of
the funding needed to save the
Buena Vista Mobile Home Park.
The City of Palo Alto also has
millions in housing funds, and the
Palo Alto residents currently living
at Buena Vista should be considered a high priority. I would like
to see our city pledge to at least
match the $8 million that the county has pledged.
Harvey Alcabes
Cass Way, Palo Alto
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Interfaith coalition urges city to push for fossil-fuel divestment
by Rev. Eileen Altman
and Kati Reeves
n 2007, an Interfaith Climate Convocation drew 150 to Congregation Kol
Emeth. Peninsula Interfaith Climate
Action (PICA) attempts to revive this local interfaith approach. PICA formed in
October with members from local congregations: Grace Lutheran, First Congregational, Humanist Community of Silicon
Valley, Congregation Beth Am, Unitarian
Universalist Palo Alto and Redwood City,
St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, Palo Alto
Friends Meeting, First Presbyterian and
St. Bede’s Episcopal.
As leaders in Palo Alto faith communities, we know that thousands of city residents feel pride in our city’s leadership regarding the urgent issue of climate change.
The commitment since 2013 of the city’s
utilities department to deliver 100 percent
carbon-neutral electricity to all customers
has moved our community to the forefront
among all U.S. cities in taking responsible
action to stave off climate disruption. But
laudable as these efforts are, it is time for
the city to do more.
In a movement analogous to that which
led to the end of apartheid in South Africa,
a call is rising across the country for large
institutions to pull out their investments
from the fossil-fuel industry that is despoiling Earth, our sacred home. This movement
to divest from carbon-based to renewable
energy is gaining momentum among cities
such as San Francisco, foundations such as
the Rockefeller Fund and universities such
as Stanford, whose trustees agreed last
spring to pull out all their investments in
coal-related businesses. Overall, 181 institutions and 656 individuals — together
worth more than $50 billion — have committed to such divestment.
I
Rev. Eileen Altman
Kati Reeves
While the city of Palo Alto per se holds
no corporate stock or bond investments
in fossil fuels, our city’s pension fund,
which is held by CalPERS, does. We are
therefore calling upon the Palo Alto City
Council to adopt a resolution that advises
CalPERS to immediately freeze any new
investments in fossil fuels and to divest
completely from the 200 largest fossil-fuel
corporations within five years.
While divestment from an energy company is unlikely to inspire that company
to rewrite its business plan immediately,
divestment shifts the social expectations in
the energy market overall — a necessary
step towards enabling effective government regulation of the fossil-fuel industry.
Public subsidies of the fossil-fuel industry
must end. The divestment movement sends
a signal to energy companies that their
public image as good corporate citizens is
at risk if they continue selling fossil fuels.
Divestment sets the stage for productive
negotiations between those corporations
and the government agencies that are entrusted with our public welfare.
We cannot ignore it: Our public welfare
is seriously threatened by the current rate
at which we are burning fossil fuels in the
U.S. and throughout the world. While the
Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land masses interact in an unfathomably complex
interplay of matter and energy, climate
scientists agree on some key observations:
For the past 10,000 years, a fairly stable
temperature has allowed humans to develop agriculture and expand civilization.
One factor contributing to that relatively
stable temperature had been a long-term
average concentration of carbon dioxide
(CO2) in the atmosphere at a level of 275
parts per million (ppm). Since the beginning of the industrial revolution 200 years
ago, the atmospheric concentration of CO2
has risen steadily to the current level of
about 400 ppm. Surface temperatures on
the Earth have risen in tandem, and the
relatively stable weather patterns that humans enjoyed for millennia are now breaking down.
The increased concentration of CO2 in
the atmosphere is also resulting in ocean
acidification, which is already impacting
the marine-life ecosystems. This problem
could potentially impact the whole food
chain, including humans who depend on
food from the ocean.
Climate scientists generally agree that
if the atmospheric concentration of CO2
were returned to a level of about 350 ppm,
that level would be “safe.” That is, a 350
ppm concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s
atmosphere would allow human civilization to continue without continual catastrophic weather events causing destruction all over the planet.
Climate scientists also generally agree
that this relatively “safe” level of atmospheric CO2 can be obtained only by
leaving 80 percent of the Earth’s proven
fossil-fuel reserves in the ground. Those
reserves, if all of them were burned, would
add 2,795 gigatons of CO2 to the atmo-
sphere. Climate scientists generally agree
that human activity can “safely” add no
more than 565 gigatons. At our current
rate of fossil-fuel consumption, we will
have thrown those 565 gigatons into the
atmosphere well before 2030. It has to
stop.
A Palo Alto resolution calling on CalPERS to divest its holdings from fossil-fuel
companies would send a pointed message
to the energy industry, to elected officials
who hold the authority to regulate that
industry and to the general public. Such a
resolution would have no immediate impact on our city budget, but it would have
a profound impact on urgently needed efforts to reform public policy to end the
widespread extraction of fossil fuels and
promote the rapid development of cleanenergy sources.
Moreover, given the growing awareness
of the need to stop using carbon-based
energy, it now makes financial sense to
divest from major fossil-fuel companies.
As governments eventually take the steps
that they must take to limit CO2 emissions, the relative value of fossil-fuel
holdings will decline in years to come.
So divestment is the wise course for protecting the future value of our city employees’ pensions.
We call upon Palo Alto’s council to
protect our employees’ pensions — and
the climate of our sacred Earth — by
speaking up in favor of CalPERS’ divestment from fossil-fuel companies.
For PICA information and contacts, go
to interfaithpower.org/pica. Q
Eileen Altman is an associate minister at First Congregational Church.
Katia Reeves is a Barron Park resident
and chair of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish
Green Committee.
Streetwise
Should the bike bridge design be “iconic” or understated?
Asked at Town & Country Village. Interviews and photos by Sam Sciolla.
Jean Myers
Matt Bereman
Maureen Velasquez
Kevin Beckett
Laurie Winslow
East Charleston Road, Palo Alto
Retired
Abrams Court, Stanford
Student
Rockefeller Drive, Sunnyvale
Retired teacher
Jefferson Avenue, Redwood City
Supply manager
Peter Coutts Circle, Stanford
Instructional aide
“Why not iconic? It’s nice too look
at. ... Maybe to encourage people
to ride their bikes rather than drive
their cars.”
“I think something a bit more notable
and that could be identified as part
of Palo Alto would be preferable to
something basic and utilitarian.”
“Understated, definitely. ... Usually that costs less money. ... There’s
enough money spent on making
things glorious around here.”
“I would say iconic, but you’d have to
weigh it against the cost. I would go
for something that has an interesting
design.”
“Understated and utilitarian. ... We’re
putting too much effort into (it) ...
and it’s prohibiting ... us from getting
necessary things done.”
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by Chris Kenrick / photos by Veronica Weber
W
ith 32 years of caring
for people with dementia, Barbara Kalt is constantly scouting for new ways to get
through to the clients who come to
her program each day.
Inspired by the award-winning
2014 documentary “Alive Inside,”
she’s now adding “personalized
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playlists — to the array of activities offered at Rosener House, the
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city’s Arbor Road Park provides
daytime activities for about 100
people — the youngest in his late
40s — aimed at reducing the social
isolation of people in various stages of Alzheimer’s disease or other
forms of memory impairment.
“This will be another tool for us
to learn about them,” Kalt said in a
recent interview at Rosener House,
where volunteer Steve Marchick
was busy creating playlists for clients that include everything from
traditional Episcopalian music to
the heavy metal band Metallica.
“We can talk about Big Band,
music or Cat Stevens. There are so
many musicians that people really
love, and that’s a great topic for
conversation,” she said.
The use of music therapy is
nothing new for Rosener House
or similar programs, which for decades have employed professional
musicians to reach out to memoryimpaired adults.
But the ability to match songs
with individual preferences offers
the possibility of penetrating the
fog of dementia at a deeper level.
“This music is so personal it just
strikes right to your heart and your
emotions — all those things you
remember about that music,” Kalt
said.
In the movie “Alive Inside,” a
bedridden patient, non-communicative for two years, begins to move
her feet and head after being fitted
with headphones that played music
her family said she had loved.
“Music has more ability to activate more parts of the brain than
any other stimulus,” neurologist
and author Oliver Sacks says in the
movie. “For the patient with Alzheimer’s it has to be music which
has a meaning for them and is correlated with memory and feeling.”
Social worker Dan Cohen, who
is featured in the movie, began creating personalized playlists in 2006
for residents of the New York-area
nursing home where he was a volunteer. Excited by the results, he
mounted a larger effort through a
nonprofit called Music & Memory,
which he created in 2010. Cohen
is on a quest to make personalized music part of the standard of
care in the nation’s 16,000 nursing
homes.
“Alive Inside,” which documents
his work, won the Audience Award
at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Academic researchers in Wis-
consin are examining the impact of
personalized music on the behavior
of nursing home residents, including their levels of use of anti-psychotic and anti-anxiety drugs. The
Wisconsin Department of Health
Services has funded the Music &
Memory program in hundreds of
nursing homes across the state.
Locally, Kalt and her staff
moved to add personalized music to their offerings after seeing
“Alive Inside” at the Fox Theatre
in Redwood City last year. Rosener
House, a project of Peninsula Volunteers, Inc., recently became the
first adult day program on the Peninsula to be certified as a Music &
Memory provider.
Volunteer Marchick is building
playlists based on questionnaires
that have been returned by clients
and their families, which asked for
things like favorite songs, genres,
performers, Broadway musicals,
hymns, military music and dancing styles.
Requests so far include swing
and ballroom music, Elton John,
Joan Baez, Aretha Franklin, Episcopalian service music, Lionel
Ritchie, Mahalia Jackson, the Honolulu Symphony, Glenn Miller,
“I Love Lucy” music, Beethoven,
Metallica and World War II marching bands.
“We’ve had a lot of CDs given to
us and we’ll also download directly
from iTunes for genres we might
not have, like marching band,”
Marchick said.
Rosener House will continue to
offer professional music therapy in
addition to other activities, such as
exercise, discussion groups, a therapy dog, art and physical therapy.
On a recent Thursday morning,
music therapist Maggie Grady sat
with her guitar and a circle of 15
clients. She quizzed them on ideas
for snow-themed activities as she
began improvising “our favorite
things about winter” to the tune of
the familiar Rodgers and Hammerstein song.
Rosener House regulars also sing
Paul A., top left, a client at the Peninsula Volunteers Rosener
House, listens to classical piano music as part of the “Music &
Memory” program. Above, Rosener House activity leader Marie
Cheney listens to music with client Charlie R. on his customized
iPod Shuffle. All clients are set up with songs that are meaningful
to them, often tying into the music of their youth.
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Dao Do, right, program manager at Peninsula Volunteers Rosener House, talks with client Beverley G.,
as they listen to Patsy Cline, one of Beverley’s favorite singers when she was younger.
along in groups to standby favorites
— “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,”
“You Are My Sunshine,” “This
Little Light of Mine” and “Jingle
Bells.”
Kalt expects the iPods and personal playlists to find their niche as
calming tools.
“Some people have a certain
time of day when we know they’re
going to get a little anxious,”
she said. “They’ll start walking
around, trying the doors, saying,
‘Well, I think it’s time to go home
now.’
“We can talk with them and redirect them but this (music) would be
a pre-emptive kind of thing to prevent that kind of behavior and keep
them happy, engaged and soothed
in a certain way that they’d be content to be here rather than think it’s
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Boomer Bootcamp:
Firming Up Your Financial Fitness
Saturday,
February 7, 2015
8:30 am – 4 pm
Mitchell Park Community Center
3700 Middlefield Road
Walk-ins welcome! Simply register
on site(online registration now closed).
Fee is $60, or $100 for two people
and includes lunch.
Questions? Call (650) 289-5445
Experts will discuss:
• Retirement Readiness
• Social Security Strategies
• Health Insurance Costs
• Investments and Cash Flow
• Legal/Trust Issues
...and more
time to go home.”
In many cases, a nursing home is
the next step for people who leave
Rosener House. “We’re really
hopeful this will help keep people
in the (day) program longer and
avoid that kind of (nursing home)
placement,” she said. Q
Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@
paweekly.com.
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Feb 2
UNA Film Festival:
“What I Saw In Hebron”
2-4 @ Avenidas. Free.
Feb 3
Tuina
10-11am @ Avenidas. Free.
Feb 4
Reiki appts. Available
9am-12pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400
for appt. $30/$35.
Feb 10
Special Showing: “People in Glass
Houses: The Legacy of Joseph Eichler”
with producer Monique Lombardelli 2:30-4:30pm
@ Avenidas. Free.
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Calendar of Events
Feb 19
Book Club: “The Girl Who Saved the
King of Sweden” by Jonas Jonasson
3-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free.
Musical Jam Session
2-4:30pm @ Avenidas. $2.
Caregiver 101 Free Workshop:
“Medications & Older Adults”
@Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center in Mountain View.
RSVP to (650) 289-5499
Feb 5
Blood Pressure Screenings
10-11:30am @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free.
Feb 11
Parkinson’s Support Group
2-3:30pm @ Avenidas. Call Robin Riddle
@ 650-724-6090 for more info. Free.
Feb 6
The MindFit Series demo class 10:30am12pm @ Aveindas. Free.
Space is limited. Call 650-289-5400 to register.
Feb 20
Private Spinal Exam & Stretching appts
available
1-2pm @ Avenidas.
Call 650-289-5400 for appt. $25/$35.
Feb 12
Skin Cancer Screening
11:30am-12:30pm @ Avenidas.
Call 650-289-5400 for appt. Free.
Feb 23
16mm Film Screening: “Swingtime”
2:30-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free.
Bone Health Lecture: “Surprising Facts
about the Effects of Water Minerals &
Dairy on Bone Density,”
1-2pm @ Avenidas. Free.
Feb 13
Garden Club: “Cool Season
Vegetables”
1-2:30pm @ Avenidas.
Call 650-289-5400 to register. Free.
Feb 7
Boomer Bootcamp: Firming Up
Your Financial Fitness
8:30am-4pm @ Mitchell Park Community Center.
Call 650-289-5435 to register.
Feb 9
Partner/Spouse Caregiver Support
Group
12-1:30pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free.
16mm Film Screening:
“His Girl Friday”
2:30-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free.
Valentine’s Day Dance
2:30-4:30-pm @ Avenidas. Free.
Feb 16
Avenidas closed.
Feb 17
HICAP appts available
10am-12pm
@ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400 for appt. Free.
Feb 18
Mindfulness Meditation
2-3pm @ Avenidas. Free.
1-on-1 computer tutoring
appts. available. Call 650-308-4252. $5/$10
Partner/Spouse Caregiver
Support Group
12-1:30pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free.
Feb 24
Hearing Screening provided by Pacific
Hearing of Los Altos
9am-1pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400
for appt. Free.
CTAP phone giveaway
9am-1pm @ Avenidas. Screening required.
Call 650-289-5400 for appt. Free.
Avenidas Village Coffee Chat
10am @ Avenidas. RSVP required.
Call 650-2895405
Feb 26
Caregiver 101 Free Workshop:
“Health Services Available for Help
at Home”
3-4:30pm @Avenidas RSVP to (650) 289-5400
Complete schedule or info about Avenidas events, call 650-289-5400
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7, is the day for Boomer Bootcamp,
a planning workshop for Baby
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sponsored by the City of Palo Alto
and Avenidas. Keynote speaker
Richard Adler of the Institute for
the Future will discuss what the next
20 years hold for Baby Boomers.
Morning and afternoon sessions
will help boomers create a vision for
their retirement and plan for it. Free
consultations with certified financial
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KNOW THE SIGNS ... If you or
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memory loss or behavioral changes,
it’s time to learn the facts. Early detection of Alzheimer’s disease gives
you a chance to begin drug therapy,
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signs and show video clips of people
with Alzheimer’s. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 6
to 7:30 p.m. at Peninsula Volunteers
Rosener House, 500 Arbor Road,
Menlo Park. For more information,
email [email protected] or call 650-322-0126.
J-THURSDAYS ... Enjoy a hot lunch
and social hour followed by an
engaging program at J-Thursdays,
offered the second and fourth Thursday of every month at the Oshman
Family Jewish Community Center.
This month’s events are Feb. 12
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First-time participants get lunch free,
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LUNCH AND THEATER OUTING ...
Enjoy a madcap journey in search
of the meaning of life with a performance of a Hugh Wheeler adaptation of Voltaire’s Candide with music
by Leonard Bernstein. The performance will be presented by Lamplighters Music Theater at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts,
preceded by lunch at Morocco’s
restaurant. Price includes round-trip
bus transportation from the Oshman
Family Jewish Community Center,
lunch and orchestra seats for the
show. Sunday, Feb. 22, departing at
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by Elizabeth Schwyzer
I
t’s a Friday evening on the
Stanford campus, and as the
sun sinks behind the Dish,
the members of one student choral ensemble make their way to
rehearsal.
Inside the appropriately named
Harmony House where they hold
rehearsals, the living room is already full of sound: Members
greet each other with exclamations of joy; they giggle and hug
and chatter excitedly. Yet when
it’s time to sing, the room falls si-
lent. Twenty-two college students
form a circle, standing shoulder
to shoulder. Tall and short, darkskinned and light, male and female; together they form the very
picture of diversity and solidarity.
Then they begin to sing a song
of yearning and power and defiance. Bass, tenor, alto and soprano
notes dance in the air like sparks,
making the small room seem to
shimmer. As the energy of the
song builds, its soaring harmonies
reflect the lyrics.
“You can blow out the candle,/
but you can’t blow out that fire./
Once the flames begin to catch/
the wind will blow them higher,”
the students sing, closing their
eyes at the crescendos as if savoring them before they fade.
With a few weeks to go before
their 25th anniversary concert,
the 22 members of Talisman are
focused; they spend hours each
week rehearsing their repertoire,
repeating the tougher phrases
again and again until they sound
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just right.
Outside on the steps of Harmony House, publicity director
Charlie Yang chats about the ensemble’s history. Founded in 1990
and inspired by the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Talisman began
by singing the songs of that struggle and of the African diaspora.
The group has since expanded to
include world music from a range
of cultures.
“For me, the greatest part of
Talisman is the sense of catharsis,” says Yang, a sophomore
who’s majoring in human biology
and who joined the group freshman year. He goes on to talk about
“Shosholoza,” a Zulu call-and-response song traditionally sung by
workers boarding trains and heading to the diamond mines.
“Parts of it translate to ‘move
forward’ — it embodies that sense
of progress,” Yang says with a
tone of somber respect. “The way
we start the song, you can actually hear the train whistle in the
chord.” He lists some of the other
songs in the group’s repertoire:
African-American spirituals, Native-American songs, a traditional
Korean melody, a Taiwanese lullaby. Because of the nature of
their songs, Yang explains, Talisman is often invited to sing at religious events and even memorial
services.
“Helping people process emo-
tions and give them space to think
is really cool,” he says. “It’s such
a privilege.”
I
n the 2012 film, “Pitch Perfect,” a reluctant college
freshman with dreams of a
career in the music industry finds
her tribe in a group of social misfits who like to sing. The film’s
success was as unexpected as its
story of a ho-hum vocal group
updating its repertoire and going
on to win a national championship; Jason Moore’s directorial
debut became the second-highest-grossing musical comedy of
all time.
If it seems unlikely that a movie
about college kids’ choral competitions should have won such mass
appeal, it’s just as surprising that
a cappella itself ever captured the
hearts of so many. Yet at Stanford
as at so many other universities,
colleges and high schools around
the world, the art of the small, instrument-free vocal ensemble has
grown from a fringe element to a
thriving subculture. It’s a pastime
as expressive of school spirit as
football, and even more inclusive.
It’s the art form that equally embraces the misfits and the popular
kids, the class clowns and the serious students. In a cappella, there’s
room for pretty much everyone.
A brief history: Originally a
term used to describe solo or
Top: Talisman director Harry Levine, far left, leads the group
in rehearsal for their 25th anniversary show. Left: On a Friday
afternoon, members of Talisman sing a traditional Zulu song for a
gathering crowd.
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More than 50 years on, a cappella thrives at Stanford
nearly 30.
At the same time that Hare was
pioneering a new way to record
a cappella, the popularity of the
form was taking off. On a national
scale the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America (CASA)
was founded in 1991 to promote
interaction and collaboration between a cappella groups across
the United States. Stylistically, a
movement began away from traditional jazz arrangements and
toward contemporary pop music,
with vocal percussion styles like
beatboxing becoming the norm.
At Stanford, the all-male Mendicants had been singing traditional, barbershop doo-wop a
cappella since a Yale transfer student founded the group in 1963.
The Mendicants were alone on
the Stanford campus until 1979,
when a group of women formed
the all-female group Counterpoint
in 1979, shortly followed by another all-male group, Fleet Street,
in 1981.
W
hen freshman Gina de
Luca showed up in the
mid-’80s, she assessed
her options and decided to audition for Fleet Street, despite the
fact that the group had never included women.
“To me they were simply the
best at the time: best repertoire,
high-energy, clever, funny — all
the things I wanted to be part
of,” de Luca remembered. After
a great audition and a callback,
she waited to hear what they
would decide. Apparently, the 16
members of Fleet Street held an
all-night meeting trying to reach
a unanimous agreement to admit
their first female member, but one
member refused to vote for de
Luca, insisting that Fleet Street
should remain all male. By morning, it was clear he wasn’t going to
change his mind.
Undaunted, de Luca decided to
form her own group. Mixed Company was Stanford’s first co-ed a
cappella ensemble.
“By 1988, Mixed Company was
a dynamic, immensely popular
group,” de Luca recalled. “The
‘boy-girl’ experiment had absolutely succeeded — and then the
ball just started rolling.”
Peter Kurzner, center, with mic, and his fellow Mendicants bring old-school charm to their traditional a
cappella arrangements.
Between 1987 and 1991, the into their shows; at the Mendinumber of a cappella groups on cants’ winter concert in late Januthe Stanford campus doubled, ary, the evening’s musical line-up
with Everyday People (Motown/ was punctuated by a series of
soul/funk/hip-hop) in 1987, Tal- Scooby-Doo skits, complete with
isman (world music) in 1990 and costumes and some surprisingly
Harmonics (rock and roll) and accurate vocal impersonations on
Testimony (Christian music) in the part of Shaggy and Scooby.
When not dressed
1991. Some of
in drag or sportthese groups have
ing ears and tails,
since gained na- ‘The East Coast
the Mendicants
tional and global
schools now
wore matching red
recognition: The
blazers and crisp
Harmonics’ 2008
aren’t the only
khakis for a hailalbum “Escape
ones having all fel low-wel l-met
Velocity” earned
fraternity vibe.
numerous Contemthe a cappella
The lecture hall
porary A Cappella
fun.’
where they perRecording Awards
or CARAs — the
– Gina de Luca, formed was filled
international a capStanford alumna beyond capacity;
students sat in the
pella equivalent of
aisles, whooping
a Grammy.
In more recent years, groups and screaming with laughter.
Yet neither comedy nor matchincluding Raagapella (Bollywood
and South Asian fusion, formed ing outfits are required for an a
in 2002) and Volta (vocal jazz, cappella group to gain recognition
founded in 2013) have given voice and popularity at Stanford. Today,
to other musical interests and to there’s a fan base to support every
the Stanford student body’s in- style, from the most earnest and
creasing cultural diversity. Mean- traditional to the most experiwhile, some of the older groups mental to the downright wacky.
including Fleet Street and the A cappella in its many guises
Mendicants have become known has become a defining part of
for incorporating sketch comedy the Stanford undergraduate ex-
Veronica Weber
ensemble singing without instrumentation (the name is Italian for
“in the manner of the chapel”),
a cappella was primarily performed in religious settings until
the early 20th century. In 1909,
Yale University became home to
The Whiffenpoofs, the nation’s
oldest a cappella ensemble and
a hybrid between a traditional
glee club and a vocal quartet. As
the name, drawn from a popular
Broadway song of the era, suggests, an irreverent attitude was
key to the emerging collegiate a
cappella style. Schools across the
East Coast and Midwest began to
form their own a cappella groups.
Over the years, the musical styles
of these groups shifted, absorbing the sound of the barbershop
quartets of the 1930s and ’40s, the
doo-wop stylings of the ’50s and
’60s and the pop and rock music
of the later 20th century.
Alongside the singing, many
groups adopted other elements of
performance including physical
theater, skits and comic routines
to keep college audiences entertained.
While today’s a cappella groups
share plenty in common with their
early 20th-century predecessors,
much has changed since the birth
of collegiate a cappella, from the
range of styles represented to the
art form’s visibility and competitive nature, to technological developments that have allowed the
recording of professional albums.
According to a cappella producer and recording engineer Bill
Hare, there are more than 3,000
collegiate a cappella groups in
America today. Back in the late
1980s when he first began working with Stanford a cappella
groups in his San Jose recording studio, Hare estimates there
were about 150 such ensembles
nationwide. The Grammy Awardwinning producer is widely considered the patriarch of a cappella recording; he has recorded
or mixed albums for many of the
best a cappella groups around the
world.
“I started with the Mendicants
in 1988, and I’ve done just about
every Stanford a cappella album
since,” Hare explained over the
phone earlier this week. “Right
this very moment I’m in the
middle of the mix for Home Free,
the winners of (NBC reality TV
show) ‘The Sing-Off’ last year.
I just got a Platinum record for
working with (Texas-based a cappella group) Pentatonix. Stanford
a cappella was where it all started
for me.”
Back in the late ’80s, Hare
explained, “No collegiate a cappella group’s albums sounded that
good because they weren’t really
thought of in a contemporary way.
I realized these groups weren’t recording barbershop quartets and
choral music; they were recording
stuff like Duran Duran. I thought,
‘OK, if they’re going to sing it
that way, let’s record it like pop
music.’” His approach has since
become the industry standard.
Today, most Stanford a cappella
groups have at least one album to
their name; the Mendicants have
Veronica Weber
Cover Story
All-male a cappella group Fleet Street prides itself on bringing a lighthearted attitude to the art form.
perience. Today, there are no less
than 10 a cappella ensembles on
the Stanford campus.
“Years ago, we had no idea
(a cappella) would explode like
this,” de Luca reflected. “I think
it’s wonderful for the university:
A cappella groups are great ambassadors in the community and
for prospective students. The East
Coast schools now aren’t the only
ones having all the a cappella fun.”
Music department chair Stephen Sano, who directs the Stanford Chamber Chorale and Stanford Symphonic Chorus, shares de
Luca’s enthusiasm for the form.
Every year, a few members of his
selective choral groups are also
active in the a cappella community.
A cappella groups, Sano noted,
bring “exciting richness to the
variety of vocal ensemble music that’s available to students.
The same student can be in an a
cappella group doing their own
arranging and composing in the
morning, and can be singing a
Haydn mass with a professional
orchestra the next day.”
A
mong those students who
split their time between
classical and contemporary choral music is freshman
Jeremy Raven, who also happens
to be de Luca’s son. As a tenor
with the Stanford Chamber Chorale and a member of Fleet Street
(yes, his mother wholeheartedly
approves of his choice), Raven’s
extra-curricular schedule is full
— and that’s in addition to his
studies. Yet to see him perform,
one would think he had hardly a
care in the world.
It’s all part of the carefree style
of Fleet Street, still an all-male
group as they approach their 35th
anniversary. If Talisman tends
toward the reverent and the Mendicants toward the irreverent,
Fleet Street’s style, said director
Weston Gaylord, might be characterized as “zany.”
“We’ll do live skits during our
shows, but I think the core of
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Fleet Street is more about originality than humor,” Gaylord explained. “We try to be funny, but
if we miss, we end up more on the
side of weird than banal.” More
than some groups, Fleet Street
sings exclusively original compositions and arrangements. Among
these is a song they rewrite every
few years — “Greatest Hits of
the 1590s” — in which they set
modern pop lyrics to medieval
Gregorian-style chanting.
Every Friday afternoon at 4
p.m., Fleet Street performs outside
the Stanford Bookstore for whatever crowd gathers. Last week, the
sun was shining as they warmed
up for the show. Before they
went on, they invited members of
Mixed Company to take the stage
for a couple of poppy top 40 hits,
followed by a group of Talisman
members who gave a rousing rendition of the traditional Zulu song,
“The Gates of Heaven Are Open,”
and reminded listeners of their upcoming concert on Feb. 8.
Then, with a resounding battle
cry, the members of Fleet Street
came bounding out of the crowd,
yelling and leaping, running in
circles as if crazed and eventually
shuffling into place for a short set:
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Mixed Company, Stanford’s oldest co-ed a cappella group, focuses primarily on pop top 40 songs.
an original song about outer space,
a comical Fleet Street arrangement of Aretha’s Franklin’s “Natural Woman” (with baby-faced Raven singing lead) and finally the
latest rendition of “Greatest Hits
of the 1590s,” featuring Taylor
Swift’s “Shake if Off” (“For the
minstrel he shall play play, play,
play, play, play”) and Pharell Williams’ “Happy” sung as a mournful dirge, complete with a swaying
monastic procession.
With a lash-flutteringly pious
“Amen,” they fell silent, and there
was a beat before the crowd of
100 or so burst into spontaneous
applause, whistling and shouting
with appreciation. As the clapping
died down, one young woman in
the audience sighed deeply.
“That,” she said to no one in
particular, “was one of the most
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FORMER NAVAL AIR STATION
MOFFETT FIELD
What: Talisman’s 25th
anniversary concert
Where: Bing Concert Hall, 327
Lasuen St., Stanford
When: Sunday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m.
Cost: $10-25
Info: Go to live.stanford.edu or
call 650-724-2464.
SEE MORE ONLINE
www.PaloAltoOnline.com
Watch YouTube videos of Stanford a
cappella groups in the online version
of this story at PaloAltoOnline.com.
To learn about upcoming concerts,
hear songs and more, visit the
following websites:
Counterpoint:
counterpointacappella.com
Everyday People:
everydaypeople.org
Fleet Street: fleetstreet.com
Harmonics: stanfordharmonics.
com
Mendicants: stanfordmendicants.
com
Mixed Company: mixedco.com
About the cover: Talisman
members Maya Delaney,
left, and Chris Sackes
rehearse at Harmony House.
Photo by Veronica Weber.
Raagapella: raagapella.com
Talisman: stanfordtalisman.com
Testimony: web.stanford.edu/
group/tmony
Volta: stanfordvolta.com
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Comprehensive Plan
Update Leadership Group
Restoration Advisory Board Meeting
February 2015
The next regular meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) for former Naval Air Station (NAS) Moffett Field will be held on:
Thursday, February 12, 2015, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at:
Mountain View Senior Center Social Hall
266 Escuela Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94040-1813
The RAB reviews and comments on plans and activities about the ongoing environmental studies and restoration
activities underway at Moffett Field. Regular RAB meetings are open to the public and the Navy encourages your
involvement. To review documents on Moffett Field environmental restoration projects, please visit the information
repository located at the Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St., Mountain View, CA 94041, (650) 903-6337.
For more information, contact Mr. Scott Anderson, Navy Base Realignment and Closure Environmental Coordinator at
(619) 532-0938 or [email protected].
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long time.” Q
Arts & Entertainment Editor
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at [email protected].
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information about the Comprehensive Plan Update,
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Complimentary glass of Proseco Champagne
$59 per person
Featuring live performance by guitarist Kenya Baker
Appetizers
Bruschetta – Toasted slices of oven baked bread topped with Roma tomato cubes
marinated with olive oil, garlic and fresh basil.
Crispy Zucchini Cakes – Served with marinated cucumber & mint yogurt.
Salad
Summer in Sorrento – Watermelon topped with Feta cheese squares, arugula, figs,
Sicilian olives with Vidalia onion dressing.
Strawberry Fields – Crisp mixed lettuce, fresh strawberries, toasted pecans, and
gorgonzola cheese served with our tangy Vidalia onion dressing.
Entrees
Filet Mignon – Filet mignon in a red wine reduction. Served with broccolini and a risotto
cake filled with blue cheese.
Braised Short Ribs in a light red wine sauce – Served with polenta and seasonal fresh cut
vegetables.
Grilled Lamb Chops in a lemon vinaigrette sauce – Served with Swiss chard and roasted
potatoes.
Linguine Pescatore – Fresh salmon, snapper, clams, mussels and prawns in a spicy
tomato sauce.
Heart Shape Mushroom Ravioli – With truffle filling, Roma tomatoes and fresh spinach in a
light Marsala cream sauce.
Grilled Salmon – Served with sautéed spinach, wild rice and vegetables.
Dessert
Chocolate Duet Cake
Raspberry Cheesecake
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Performances of:
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String Quartet in C Major Op. 76 No. 3, Emperor
Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major (reduction)
Symphony No. 1 in D Major
Symphony No. 4 in e minor (Mourning)
Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass)
Symphony No. 104 in D Major (London)
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Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
George Barth, fortepiano
Stanford Chamber Chorale
Stanford Chamber Strings
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A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Elizabeth Schwyzer
Castilleja
students and
Ada’s Cafe
associates
have gotten
to know each
other through
the process of
rehearsal.
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Dance
Workshop
Production
members Abby
Alter and Beca
Ramon have
choreographed
a dance for
nearly 40
students set to
“Heroes (we
could be)” by
Swedish DJ
Alesso.
Ada’s Cafe associate Charlie Hughes, left, and Castilleja student
Elena Gadekar rehearse together.
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Colleen O’Malley
n a weekday at noon,
it’s lunchtime for the
444 students of Castilleja School. But down in the
dance studio, the teenage members of this year’s Dance Production Workshop (DPW, for short)
sit huddled around their laptops
on the hardwood floor, working
away, their shoes and backpacks
piled beside them. In the center of
the studio, cast members from the
upcoming show spend precious
minutes of their lunch hour going
over their moves and sharing tips
on dance technique. At the side
of the room, another member of
DPW stands beside a rack of costumes wielding a hot-glue gun.
They’re all preparing for “HumanKIND,” a dance show with a
purpose and a message.
When the curtains rise on Feb.
6, they will do so on the 11th annual production of Arts with a
Heart, a performing-arts program
at Castilleja that combines dance
and philanthropy. This year’s
show draws together more than
120 students in grades 6 through
12 from the private, all-girls Palo
Alto school, most of whom will
appear on stage.
Program founder and faculty
Veronica Weber
A giant
Dance instructor Georgianna
Shea oversees the Arts with a
Heart program at Castilleja
School.
member Georgianna Shea oversees the annual production, but
Castilleja upper school students
enrolled in the DPW elective
have a significant share of responsibility for the show. Each of
them has a title — Head of Cast
Communciations, Chief Financial
Officer, Head of Public Relations,
Creative Producer. Between them,
they do everything from selecting the music, choreographing
dances and running rehearsals to
fundraising, promoting the show
on social media, managing the
website and tracking ticket sales.
Once the show is up and running,
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they coordinate performers and
props backstage, work the sound
booth and lighting board and call
the cues. In short, they’re a fullfledged production team.
Lining the dance-studio walls
are posters from past seasons
of Arts with a Heart. Sweeping
a graceful arm through the air,
Shea recounts a few of the organizations and causes they’ve
chosen to support in the past:
education for young women in
the Dominican Republic (The
Mariposa DR Foundation), giving thanks to American servicemen and servicewomen abroad
(USO), an anti-bullying campaign
(No Bully), and environmental
awareness (Collective Roots).
Last year’s Arts with a Heart
production, “Girl Power,” raised
$26,000 for girls in the Dominican Republic through ticket sales
and online donations. Each year,
the members of DPW review applications from nonprofit organizations and select the recipient
for the following year’s Arts with
a Heart program. In choosing a
cause, they girls are doing more
than deciding to whom proceeds
will be earmarked. They’re agreeing to educate themselves about a
social issue, to consider how art
can address social change and to
integrate their findings into the
production.
Though Shea has been at the
helm of Arts with a Heart from
the beginning, she credits Castilleja students for helping launch
the program.
“The first year, two students
came in and wanted to do something with Eastside Prep School
for Save the Children,” Shea recalled. “I liked the idea of them
having a purpose and not just
dancing to dance — dancing for
something bigger than themselves.”
In past years, Arts with a Heart
has often chosen to contribute to
causes far from home. This year,
all proceeds from “HumanKIND”
will go to a truly homegrown organization: Ada’s Cafe, the Palo
Alto nonprofit established in 2008
to hire and train people with disabilities in a commercial foodservice environment.
Ada’s Cafe founder Kathleen
Foley-Hughes started out running
vocational education programs
for students with disabilities at
Terman Middle and Gunn High
schools, where her son Charlie
was a student. Once he graduated, she expanded the program
to the larger community, employing adults with disabilities
and running Ada’s as a catering
business because retail rents were
prohibitive. Finally last month,
Ada’s Cafe moved into a dedicated space at the new Mitchell Park
Library and Community Center.
Ada’s is open six days a week,
serving breakfast, lunch and light
dinner. The cafe’s mission is to
serve high-quality food, to bring
people together who may not have
the opportunity to connect otherwise and to empower its associates — as well as the volunteers
and customers who interact with
them.
What: “HumanKIND,” a production of Arts with a Heart to benefit
Ada’s Cafe
Where: Castilleja School,
1310 Bryant St., Palo Alto
When: Friday, Feb. 6-Saturday,
Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday,
Feb. 8, at 2 p.m.
Cost: $15-$30
Info: Go to castilleja.org/AwaH or
ArtswithaHeart.org or call 650328-3160.
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“We’re part of the Castilleja
family,” said Foley-Hughes as
she sat in the office adjacent to
the school’s dance studio, watching the girls rehearse. She was
referring both to the many students who volunteer at Ada’s and
to her business’ partnership with
Castilleja’s Center for Awareness,
Compassion and Engagement, or
ACE Center, which partners with
regional nonprofits and community organizations including Ada’s.
For the dance-production team
at Castilleja, creating a show they
know will directly support the
work of Ada’s Cafe brings meaning to all those working lunches
and long weekend rehearsals.
“I’ve been in the shows for many
years, but being behind the scenes
you really see how much it takes,”
sophomore and DPW member
Wallis Hess explained. “It’s meaningful to know that we’re contributing to the community.”
Senior Clare Maloney-McCrystle agreed.
“Not only do I love to dance, but
I love the idea of using the arts to
benefit others,” she said.
For the first time this year,
members of the show’s benefiting organization will actually
join the cast on stage. Eleven of
Ada’s Cafe associates have been
attending Saturday rehearsals at
Castilleja. Asked whether they
were having fun in rehearsals,
Ada’s co-workers Charlie Hughes
and Krissy Ferkol were adamant:
“Uh huh!” they cried in unison.
“Do I yell a lot?” asked Shea
teasingly. Hughes and Ferkol sat
in complete silence for a moment
then burst into laughter.
Among the 14 acts that make
up “HumanKIND” are “Heroes
(we could be)” set to music by
Swedish DJ Alesso and “We Are
More Alike,” which incorporates
text from Maya Angelou’s poem,
“Human Family.” Also in the
soundtrack is “Human Together,”
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February 9, 2015 6:00 PM
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exposure to people and situations
they might not otherwise experience was invaluable.
To Peter Hughes, director of
communications and human resources at Ada’s (as well as son of
Kathleen and brother of Charlie),
the best thing about Arts with a
Heart is the way it unites people.
“In a time when community
is not always at the forefront of
people’s minds, it’s nice to see
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Study Session
1. Study Session on Railroad Quiet Zones in Palo Alto
Consent Calendar
2. Finance Committee Recommendation to Accept Macias Gini & O’Connell’s
Audit of the City of Palo Alto’s Financial Statements as of June 30, 2014 and
Management Letter
3. Finance Committee Recommendation to Adopt an Ordinance Authorizing
the Closing of the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget, Including Re-appropriation
Requests, Closing Completed Capital Projects and Authorizing Transfers
to Reserves, and Approval of the Fiscal Year 2014 Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report (CAFR)
4. Approval of a Contract Amendment in the Amount of $63,000 to Contract
No. C14149978 With Dyett and Bhatia Urban and Regional Planners for
Additional Data Collection and Analysis Related to Downtown Retail and
Residential Uses
5. Authorization to Operate the Golf Course from March 1, 2015 to June 30,
2015 and Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance to Increase Golf
Course Revenues Estimate in the Amount of $106,000, Provide Additional
Appropriation of $289,424 in Budget for Expenses, and Reduce the Operating Loss Reserve by $183,424
6. Policy and Services Committee Recommendation of Changes to the Board
and Commission Recruitment Program Including Adoption of an Ordinance
Re-aligning Terms on the Architectural Review Board, the Historic Resources Board, the Parks and Recreation Commission and the Planning and
Transportation Commission; Adoption of a Resolution Re-aligning Terms
on the Storm Drain Oversight Committee; Allowing for Remote Board and
Commission Interviews; Limit Applicants to One Board or Commission Each
Recruitment
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an original song written specifically for the show by Castilleja alumna and USC senior Leila Milkie.
The show incorporates a range of
dance styles, from ballet and lyrical
to hip hop and contemporary, with
a little documentary film and singing thrown in for good measure.
The show is appropriate for audience members of all ages.
Shea said it’s gratifying to see
her students dancing alongside
adults with disabilities and getting
to know them better.
“For me, it’s important that they
learn something,” she said. FoleyHughes shared the sentiment, noting that for Ada’s associates, the
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Eating Out
Cantonesecomfortfood
Cooking Papa in Mountain View hits some
dim sum, but not all
by Sheila Himmel • photos by Veronica Weber
Y
ou can never go home
again, the old adage
warns. But it turns out
you can — if you grew
up going to Cantonese
restaurants in the United States or
if home is Hong Kong. Cooking
Papa is here to help.
In mid-May, Mountain View
welcomed the youngest Cooking
Papa location, with the owners reclaiming a Sizzler on El Camino
Real. Fans of the Foster City and
Santa Clara Cooking Papas got
excited, then disappointed when it
closed for remodeling until early
January. Although driving up to
the building you might still think
“Sizzler,” the renewed dining
room offers fish tanks, colorfully
tiled walls, views into the glassedin kitchen and two giant TV sets
running a continuous loop of
Cooking Papa cooking videos.
Food quality has been erratic.
With close to 200 menu items,
Cooking Papa (more on the name
later) has something for everybody
— unless that somebody is on a
low-carb diet. The menu’s four pillars are rice, rice noodles, egg noodles and congee (rice porridge).
For fans, Cooking Papa conjures
the pace and Cantonese comfort
foods of busy restaurants in Hong
Kong. “Save yourself a 15-hour
Among the tastiest items on
the menu at Cooking Papa are
the Hong Kong-style fried egg
puffs, rolled in sugar and served
piping hot.
flight and eat here!” one said.
Another attraction is that the restaurant serves dim sum at lunch on
weekdays (except Tuesdays when
they are closed). Instead of servers
coming around with carts, you get
a golf pencil to mark a sheet listing a wide variety of dumplings,
shrimp balls and steamed buns.
Dishes are served hot from the
kitchen in bamboo baskets.
For the go-to dim sum dish, har
gow ($4.50), Cooking Papa serves
up four fat dumplings, chunks of
shrimp and bamboo shoots stuffed
into pleated, translucent wrappers.
They are good though not cheap,
as are the upward-facing dump-
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Roast Peking ducks glisten in the kitchen window of Cooking Papa in Mountain View.
lings called shumai ($4.50), which
had a touch more seasoning and a
lot of chopped pork.
The best dim sum dish was
one we’d seen them make on the
restaurant TVs. Sweet and flaky,
the barbecued pork puff ($3.50) is
baked till the sesame seeds pop on
top. One order gets you one sweet
pastry divided into three squares.
Also available at dinner, the
wide flaps of steamed rice noodle
rolls come with a variety of meats
and vegetables and seasoned soy
sauce poured over the dish. The
chicken with bitter melon roll
($5.80) contained tender strips of
meat and the appropriately named
vegetable. Chow fun with beef and
soy sauce ($8.75) was redolent of
star anise.
Of all the carb variations, most
exciting was the signature dessert,
three giant Hong Kong-style fried
egg puffs ($4.25), dusted in powdered sugar and too hot to eat right
away.
We had poor luck with soup.
Braised beef brisket noodle soup
($8.50) was paltry for the price
and lukewarm. Another day, from
the page of signature dishes, we
chose shrimp wonton noodle soup
($6.95), which was also tepid and
garnished with two spears of Chinese broccoli.
The 20-page menu’s organization plan is a little confusing.
Vegetarians have it easy: All their
dishes are helpfully colored green.
Peking duck ($11.95 for half)
is on the signature page, and you
may notice the ducks glistening in
the kitchen window. Don’t fall for
their allure. As a friend reminded
me later, this is not a Cantonese
dish.
One other signature dish was
disappointing. The special egg
tofu with assorted vegetables
($12.50) was bland and stingy.
Keep in mind that Cantonese
food is not Szechuan food. You
may want to use the chili sauce,
vinegar and soy sauce provided.
And although Cooking Papa in
Mountain View serves seafood,
this is not a seafood restaurant.
The specialness about Cooking
Papa’s brand of Cantonese comfort food is in its reach: from pork
intestines to plain porridge. Drinks
range from Coke to iced milk tea
with black grass jelly. You can preorder private banquet dishes from
a separate menu, share the sevencourse business lunch ($65 for four
to six people) or drown your sorrows in a bowl of congee.
The ambiance of Cooking Papa
falls somewhere between Panda
Express and Fu Lam Mum on
Castro Street downtown. Servers
are easy to spot in their Cooking
Papa shirts. A very nice feature is
to have all the larger, banquet-size
tables with Lazy Susans in a separate section. The rest of the room is
a sea of dark square tables that can
be expanded into circles.
The name, Cooking Papa, seems
to be drawn from Cooking Mama,
a series of smartphone games featuring a Hello Kitty-type cartoon
girl (“Cooking Mama: Shop and
Chop,” “Cooking Mama: Dinner With Friends”). The face of
Cooking Papa is a happy, well-fed
cartoon chef, heavily mustachioed
and sporting a red bandana. He
looks like a nice guy. Q
Cooking Papa 1962 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View; 650988-6809; mycookingpapa.com
Hours: Monday-Friday: 11 a.m.-3
p.m., 5-9:45 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday:10:30 a.m.-3 p.m., 5-9:45
p.m. Closed Tuesday.
Reservations
(for eight or
more)
Credit cards
Takeout
Lot Parking
Alcohol: beer
and wine
Highchairs
Banquet
Catering
Outdoor
seating
Noise level:
Medium-high
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If what we go to the movie
theater for now is spectacle, the
science fiction epic “Jupiter Ascending” fits the bill. But to the
extent that we still demand rich
characters and sensible plotting,
the Wachowskis’ latest is a few
planets short of a galaxy.
There’s a certain eccentricity
to Lana and Andy Wachowski’s
work that makes them almost
endearing as they go to town on
otherworldly movies like “Cloud
Atlas” and “Speed Racer.”
Almost.
It’s been 16 years since the sibling writer-directors earned fanboy goodwill galore with “The
Matrix,” and 19 years since they
courted indie cred with the sexy
thriller “Bound.” Since the “Matrix” started spawning sequels,
the Wachowskis have been steadily sloughing that respect as they
generate blinkered, eye-popping
visions that test the patience of
audiences.
Go in with a mantra of “Flash
Gordon, Flash Gordon,” and you
may get a kick out of “Jupiter
Ascending” and its dopey dumbness. Mila Kunis gamely plays
Jupiter Jones, a cleaning woman
“destined for greatness” but currently scrubbing toilets. Soon
she’s Space Cinderella, rescued
from alien assassination by a
genetically modified organism
called Channing Tatum — no,
wait, Tatum just plays the GMO,
a part-wolf hunk named Caine
who’s outfitted with pointy ears, a
bleached goatee and sneakers that
let him speed-skate on air. Strap
in folks: It just gets weirder.
But, oddly, not more fun.
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Mila Kunis plays Jupiter Jones, an earthbound cleaning lady who
finds herself transformed into a space princess.
Once we’re past a jaw-dropping
“street fight” that zips amongst
skyscrapers, “Jupiter Ascending” quits generating excitement
and starts echoing much better
science fiction. Those who saw
last year’s terrific documentary,
“Jodorowky’s Dune,” will note a
strong influence on the Wachowskis’ comic-book aesthetic here, in
both production design and convoluted palace intrigue (with none
of the thematic richness).
It’s in those space palaces that
we meet one British villain too
many, in the persons of Douglas
Booth (“Romeo and Juliet”) and
current Oscar nominee Eddie
Redmayne (the “Theory of Everything” star coming off here
like Basil Rathbone on heroin).
The baddies’ far-flung world
profitably “harvests” other
planets for time (the “greatest
commodity”), and their power
struggle involves “taking care
of” Jupiter by hook (marriage)
or by crook (the aforementioned
assassination). While ostensibly
putting an empowered female
front and center, the Wachowskis
repeatedly regress to “damsel in
distress” mode, right up to that
space-wedding climax.
Audiences will unfavorably
compare “Jupiter” to past enjoyments like “Star Wars” and “The
Fifth Element,” and the Wachowskis do themselves no favors by
taking a break in the story for
what amounts to a five-minute
“Brazil” fan film, complete with
a cameo by Terry Gilliam. “Jupiter Ascending” is colorful and expensive-looking, thanks to legions
of special-effects artists and twotime Oscar-winning cinematographer John Toll. It’s also kooky and
frantic, with assaultive 3-D action
sequences that soon lose their
feature-length battle with gravity.
Rated PG-13 for some violence,
sequences of sci-fi action, some
suggestive content and partial
nudity. Two hours, 7 minutes.
— Peter Canavese
Sea-minus for effort
Latest ‘SpongeBob
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The sixth season of the longrunning show “South Park” (18
seasons and counting) included
an episode titled “Simpsons Already Did It,” bemoaning how the
venerable animated sitcom (26
seasons and counting) had been
everywhere, done everything first.
It’s a notion that leaps to mind
Patrick the starfish finds himself captivated by the 3-D pleasures of
Salty Shoals: beach bodies and tasty treats.
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MOVIE TIMES
(continued from page 35)
while watching “The SpongeBob
Movie: Sponge Out of Water,” a
TV-to-feature-film sequel that,
while pleasingly zany, feels like
it’s going through tired motions.
“SpongeBob SquarePants” may
only have logged nine seasons and
two films to date, but it’s been on
the cultural landscape since 1999.
Over those 16 years, Stephen Hillenburg’s Nickelodeon series has
remained popular with tykes even
as it slid out of cultural prominence among adult animation
fans. Now the sequel to 2004’s
“The SpongeBob SquarePants
Movie” arrives to flog a dead
(sea)horse. The film’s promotion
has centered around SpongeBob
at last being in 3-D, including sequences blending live-action footage and 3-D computer-generated
versions of the familiar 2-D models. Guess what? “Simpsons” already did it (in 1995’s “Treehouse
of Horror VI”).
More importantly, “Sponge Out
of Water” treads water with a plot
line that’s as old as the gills, and
sadly accurate self-reflexive jokes
about a protracted running time.
Anchored as always by applecheeked sea sponge SpongeBob
(Tom Kenny), the cast of literally
bubbly characters find their most
basic plot scenario (fast-food
competitor Plankton steals the
secret recipe to the Krusty Krab’s
addictive Krabby Patty) dressed
up with hyperbolic plot accessories including a time machine and
a climax shifting from under-thesea Bikini Bottom to live-actionland Salty Shoals. (Our world
holds a troublesome pirate named
Burger Beard, played by a liveaction, scenery-chewing Antonio
Banderas.)
The film is often mildly amusing, with a dedicated kookiness
(a food fight that’s an excuse for
lame puns: “Unleash the condiments!” “With relish”), wildly
careening plot (Bikini Bottom
dissolves into a “post-apoca-watchamacallit”), and an overriding
comic optimism (rainbows, lollipops, and needlepoint) playing
into a nominal theme — complete
with theme song — of teamwork.
In the end, this sequel retains
the series’ pleasing weirdness, but
the concept dried up some time
ago.
Rated PG for mild action and
rude humor. One hour, 33 minutes.
— Peter Canavese
All showtimes are for Friday – Sunday only unless otherwise noted.
For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies.
Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest.
A Most Violent Year (R) +++1/2
Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 4:40, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:45 p.m., Sun 2:20 p.m.
American Sniper (R) ++
Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:35, 4:40, 7 & 10:10 p.m.
Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 1:15, 2:50, 4:25, 5:55, 7:35, 9:05 & 10:35 p.m.
Birdman (R) +++
Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:45, 4:45, 7:30 & 10:20 p.m.
Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:05 p.m.
Black or White (PG-13) ++1/2
Century 16: 10:25 a.m., 1:20, 4:15, 7:10 & 10:05 p.m.
Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:55, 7:45 & 10:35 p.m.
Black Sea (R)
Century 20: 1:40 & 7:10 p.m.
The Boy Next Door (R)
Century 20: 10:25 p.m., Fri & Sat 7:35 p.m., Sun 8:35 p.m.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) (Not Rated)
Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m.
The Imitation Game (PG-13) +++
Century 16: 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:35 p.m.
Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 2, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m.
Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) ++
Century 16: 1:30, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. In 3-D at 10:30 a.m., noon, 3, 4:30, 6:10
& 9:15 p.m. Century 20: 12:45, 6:45 & 9:45 p.m. In 3-D at 11:25 a.m., 3:45, 5 &
10:30 p.m. In X-D at 2:10 & 7:50 p.m.
The Loft (R)
Century 20: 11:10 a.m., 4:25 & 10:10 p.m.
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: Animation (Not Rated)
Guild Theatre: 2:15 & 7:15 p.m.
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: Live Action (Not Rated)
Guild Theatre: 4:15 & 9:15 p.m.
Paddington (PG)
Century 16: 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 7:05 & 9:40 p.m.
Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:35, 4:05, 6:55 & 9:25 p.m.
Project Almanac (PG-13)
Century 16: 11:40 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m.
Century 20: 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 8 & 10:45 p.m.
Rear Window (1954) (Not Rated)
Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 3:25 p.m.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1957) (R)
Guild Theatre: Sat at midnight
Saboteur (1942) (PG)
Stanford Theatre: 5:30 & 9:40 p.m.
Selma (PG-13) +++
Century 20: 1, 4:10, 7:05 & 10:05 p.m.
Seventh Son (PG-13)
Century 16: 11:50 a.m. & 7:40 p.m. In 3-D at 2:25, 5 & 10:20 p.m.
Century 20: 1:20, 6:40 & 9:20 p.m. In 3-D at 10:50 a.m., 2:25, 3:55 & 8 p.m. In
X-D at 11:40 a.m., 5:10 & 10:45 p.m.
Shamitabh (Not Rated)
Century 16: 10:25 p.m., Fri & Sat 3:45 p.m., Sun 7:15 p.m.
Spare Parts (PG-13)
Century 20: 4:35 p.m.
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (G) ++
Century 16: 10:35 a.m., 1:05, 3:35 & 7:20 p.m. In 3-D at 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50
& 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 12:45, 1:30, 3:15, 4, 6:30, 7:25 & 8:10 p.m. In
3-D at noon, 2:30, 5, 5:45, 8:55, 10 & 10:35 p.m.
Still Alice (PG-13) ++1/2
Aquarius Theatre: 2:15, 4:40, 7:20 & 9:55 p.m.
Strange Magic (PG)
Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:15 & 4:45 p.m.
Taken 3 (PG-13)
Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 5:20 & 10:45 p.m.
The Theory of Everything (PG-13) ++
Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.
Two Days, One Night (PG-13) +++1/2
Century 16: 7:50 & 10:25 p.m.
The Wedding Ringer (R)
Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 7:20 & 9:50 p.m.
Whiplash (R) +++1/2
Aquarius Theatre: 4:20 & 7:05 p.m. Century 20: 8:10 p.m., Fri & Sat 2:25 p.m.
Wild (R) +++
Aquarius Theatre: 1:45 & 9:30 p.m.
+ Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding
Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260)
Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View
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Fri & Sat 2/6/2015 & 2/7/2015
Birdman – 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05
The Theory of Everything – 1:00,
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Birdman – 1:15, 4:15, 7:15
The Theory of Everything – 1:00,
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Tickets and Showtimes available at cinemark.com
Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City
(800-326-3264)
CinéArts at Palo Alto Square:
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Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)
Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)
Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more
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We gratefully acknowledge support for the exhibition from the Cantor Arts Center’s Halperin Exhibitions Fund and the Contemporary Collectors Circle.
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Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com
Home Front
EARLY GARDENING TASKS
... UC Master Gardeners will
offer three (free) 20-minute
talks on drip-irrigation system
maintenance, controlling weeds
and starting warm-season vegetables between 10 and 11 a.m.
on Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Palo
Alto Demonstration Garden, 851
Center Drive, Palo Alto. Info:
Master Gardeners at 408-2823105, between 9:30 a.m. and
12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or mastergardeners.org
LEARN TO QUILT ... Menlo Park
Community Services is offering
a class in “Beginning Quilting”
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Mondays, Feb. 9 to March 9, at the
Arrillaga Family Recreation Center, 700 Alma St., Menlo Park.
Taught by Christine Hopkins, the
class will cover the basics, from
cutting and piecing blocks to
sewing a quilt top and putting it
all together. Cost is $85 for nonresidents, $64 for residents, plus
a $5 materials fee payable to the
instructor; sewing machines are
available for use during class for
$20. Info: 650-330-2200, menlopark.org or [email protected]
GROW YOUR OWN ... Candace
Simpson will teach a class on
“Sustainable Home Vegetable
Gardening” from 7 to 9 p.m. on
Tuesdays, Feb. 10 to March
17, at Palo Alto High School,
Room 1708, 50 Embarcadero
Road, Palo Alto. Topics covered
in the class will include soil
preparation; dealing with pests,
weeds and diseases; fertilizers;
irrigation methods; working with
seeds and seedlings; identifying
which crops do well in this area;
and garden-planning tips. Cost
is $87. Info: 650-329-3752 or
paadultschool.org
CARE FOR ROSES ... Mimi
Clarke, former Filoli horticulturist, will teach two classes
dealing with the care of roses
on Wednesday, Feb. 11: From
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., she will
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EASY SPICY THAI ... Yanette
Fichou-Edwards will teach a
class on “Thai Cuisine” from 6:30
to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10,
at Palo Alto High School, Room
103, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo
Alto. The menu includes Thai
Salad Rolls; Tom Yum Soup with
prawns; Pad Thai Noodles with
scallions, cilantro and peanuts;
and Thai Green Curry Chicken.
Cost is $50. Info: 650-329-3752
or paadultschool.org
Ursula Gallichotte in the kitchen at Filoli.
A passion for chocolate
Local chef’s demonstration is part of Filoli’s opening event
by My Nguyen
M
enlo Park resident and chef
Ursula Gallichotte’s passion for cooking started in
her grandmother’s kitchen, acting as a
sous chef and watching her grandma
put together wholesome, home-cooked
meals.
Today her extensive resume includes
volunteering at Filoli for 15 years, hosting demonstrations and working at its
quaint cafe cooking for visitors. She
will demonstrate the art of cooking
with chocolate when Filoli reopens for
the spring season during its Valentine’s
Day-themed, two-day program called
“Branches, Blossoms and Buds - Romance of the Winter Garden” on Feb.
13 and 14.
The one-hour presentation in Filoli’s
main kitchen will feature a brief introduction on chocolate, a demonstration
on how to make a cocoa syrup as well
as a rich and creamy drinking chocolate
garnished with bittersweet chocolate
chunks, mini marshmallows, raspberries and whipped cream and homemade
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chocolate-almond spread served on
toast. There will also be time for visitors
with an insatiable appetite for chocolate
to ask questions about cooking with confectionery.
“I love cooking with chocolate because you know people love chocolate,”
Gallichotte said. “If somebody asks
what you’re having for dessert and you
say chocolate, they don’t care what it is.
It’s chocolate. It’s good.”
Visitors will not only learn about
chocolate and see how the sweet treats
are made, but they will get to taste it
and even make it themselves at home
because each person will receive a copy
of the simple recipes, Gallichotte said.
“I’m really big on having things that
are really straightforward, that people
can take home and do — that’s my objective,” she added.
Gallichotte learned very early on
about preparing flavorful, healthful
dishes since her grandmother was also a
dietician. Her deep respect and appreciation for how food is prepared led her to
the California Culinary Academy in San
Francisco and France where she trained.
Gallichotte honed her cooking and
baking skills at Bay Area restaurants
(including Flea Street Cafe in Menlo
Park), and through catering and providing private chef services. While she enjoyed the friendly and at times intense
working environment in restaurants, Galichotte discovered a new love: teaching
others to cook.
She became a cooking instructor at
Home Chef in downtown Palo Alto and
continued to teach classes at different
sites after the Palo Alto location was
gutted by a fire in 1999. Galichotte also
shares her kitchen wisdom at classes at
Sur La Table.
Although Gallichotte specializes in
French cuisine, she admits to being “all
over the map” when it comes to food.
“I’ve done Mexican food, South
American food and Central American
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Chocolate
en. There are always learning experiences.’”
Over the two-day opening event
at Filoli, visitors can stroll through
the gardens in a guided camellia
walk; watch cooking, floral or art
demonstrations; discover the art
and history of embroidery; and
participate in children’s activites. Q
Digital Editor My Nguyen
can be emailed at mnguyen@
paweekly.com.
(continued from page 38)
food. I’ve also done a little bit of
vegetarian,” she said enthusiastically. “I worked at a Buddhist retreat center for a while and I did
all vegetarian. What was so wonderful was you’ll finish cooking a
meal and the people from the dining room would come and hug you
to thank you for the meal. Most of
the time in a restaurant, you don’t
necessarily have that contact with
your customers.”
Gallichotte said the “ultimate
compliment” is seeing repeat visitors to the events she hosts at Filoli
as well as at her cooking classes
at the center, adding that she sees
both professional cooks and people who are new to cooking at her
lessons.
“There are people who have
been really interested in cooking
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Jim Abernathy
What: Branches, Blossoms and
Buds - Romance of the Winter
Garden
When: Friday, Feb. 13 and
Saturday, Feb. 14, 10:15 a.m. to
3:30 p.m.
Where: Filoli, 86 Cañada Road,
Woodside
Cost: $20 adult nonmember,
$17 senior (65+) nonmember,
$10 children (ages 5-17), free
for adult members and children
ages 4 and younger
Information: Visit filoli.org or call
650-364-8300.
Home Front
Ursula Gallichotte will demonstrate the art of cooking with chocolate when Filoli reopens for the spring
season during its Valentine’s Day-themed, two-day program called “Branches, Blossoms and Buds Romance of the Winter Garden.”
and have been cooking all over the
world and people who are really
knowledgable and then you get
people who really aren’t and it’s
fine. I think that the people who
come in with no experience at all,
when they leave they feel much
more confident about doing stuff
in the kitchen,” she said.
Cooking is tactile and hands-on,
Gallichotte said, and she enjoys
seeing the interaction between
the people in her classes and the
whole learning process.
“I always tell people this and
it is that there is a whole bunch
of different ways to do things in
cooking ... you don’t necessarily
have to do something a specific
way,” she said. “I say, ‘Remember
there is never failure in the kitch-
talk about “Climbers, Ramblers &
Scramblers,” with a focus on differentiating between climber, pillar, and
wall roses and ramblers and learning
how to prune and train them. From
1:30 to 3:30 p.m. she will focus on
“Hybrid Tea Roses.” Fee for each
class is $50 for nonmembers, $40
for members. Info: 650-364-8300 or
filoli.org
COOL SEASON VEGGIES ... UC
Master Gardener Heather Dooley
will give a free talk on “Cool Season
Veggies” from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on
Friday, Feb. 13, at Avenidas, 450
Bryant St., Palo Alto. Dooley will
recommend what to plant now and
how to still have room to plant summer vegetables this spring. Info:
Master Gardeners at 408-282-3105,
between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, or mastergardeners.org Q
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Garden Tips
Gardens: a reflection of their owners
by Jack McKinnon
I
took a walk through one of
the community gardens the
other day. If gardens are a
reflection of their owners, there
are a lot of sleeping owners out
there. Of the tens of plots in the
community garden only a handful are being maintained at this
time. Those that are being cared
for are flourishing and likely to
produce plenty of greens, flowers,
nitrogen-fixing roots and satisfaction for their gardeners.
These tips will be a few ideas that might get the other
plots back in action and inspire a spring and summer that
starts early. After all, this is California: We can garden
year-round. Here are the tips:
1. The first thing to work on is the soil. If there is not
good friable soil, the seeds, seedlings and plants that are
put in will have to work all the harder to get established
and start producing. Add well-composted organic matter.
If your soil has shrunk or compacted it might be necessary to add more soil. Fill up your beds. Remember this:
The size of the canopy you want in a plant needs to have
an equal amount of root space to fill into. If you want big
healthy, producing plants, give them lots of rich fluffy soil
to grow up in.
2. Compost does not equal fertilizer. If it is well-composted the best it will do is about 1 percent nitrogen (the
most important nutrient). If it is not composted, it will use
soil nutrients to break down — nutrients your plants need
to grow. Study compost and how to make it, and your garden will prosper. It helps the soil retain air, moisture and
fluff. All are important keys to root health.
3. Adding organic fertilizer will add nutrition to the
soil and thus the plants. Bone meal, blood meal, chicken
manure, fish emulsion, alfalfa meal, cottonseed meal, rock
phosphate, green sand and feather meal are fertilizers.
Each in its own way adds different nutrients that plants
need for growth, bloom, vigor and vitality. Study and you
will grow as a gardener. Try creating your own organic
fertilizer recipes.
4. I wrote last month about how playing in and outside
the garden is valuable. I like Petanque (the French boules
game). I think a swing set or like entertainment for children (when not helping with the gardening) is not a bad
thing in a community garden. Even if there is not a child or
senior (in the case of a swing chair) swinging, it reads that
we are child and senior friendly. Isn’t that a good thing?
5. Keeping everything tidy is encouraging for all. As
an exercise, clean up someone else’s path without them
knowing it. Try offering a helping hand with a neighbor
when you are both in the garden. They may refuse, but
they won’t forget that you offered.
6. Recycling is always present. Stretch your brain by
thinking up new ways to use otherwise ground up recyclables: for example, egg-carton seed-starting containers,
clear plastic containers to cover seedlings, quart yogurt
tubs with lids for fertilizer carried in a shopping bag
and garden tools tied together with plastic bags twisted
or braided into rope. There must be hundreds of ways to
distract birds with shiny scary things hanging from string.
Note: Birds adapt easily and will get used to a scare tactic
in an amazingly short time. Keep changing them to keep
the birds at bay.
7. Set up a weather station — at least with a minimum/
HOME SALES
Home sales are provided by California REsource, a real estate information company that obtains
the information from the County
Recorder’s Office. Information
is recorded from deeds after the
close of escrow and published
within four to eight weeks.
East Palo Alto
1982 W. Bayshore Road #136
D. Soo to Z. Singh for $595,000
on 12/22/14; previous sale 5/08,
$507,000
Los Altos
159 Cuesta Drive G. Eger to I.
Brown for $1,364,000 on 1/6/15
276 Delphi Court Mclaren Trust
to M. Steiner for $3,195,000
on 1/9/15; previous sale 10/09,
$1,990,000
1342 Don Kirk St. G. & K.
Groseclose to H. Wu for
$2,125,000 on 1/8/15; previous
sale 9/97, $575,000
240 Marich Way Gorley Trust to
Y. Mao for $2,350,000 on 1/9/15
863 Mercedes Ave. Mercedes
Avenue Limited to A. Tan for
$1,900,000 on 1/5/15; previous
sale 9/13, $1,000,000
190 Osage Ave. Walker Trust
to West Valley Ventures for
$3,000,000 on 1/8/15
1614 Parkhills Ave. Schulke
Trust to D. Sima for $1,925,000
on 1/6/15
437 Valley View Drive BK Development to M. & M. Miller for
$5,000,000 on 1/6/15; previous
sale 11/13, $2,050,000
Menlo Park
1140 Almanor Ave. I. Johnson to J. Gao for $750,000 on
12/24/14
434 Claremont Way R. Dahling
to K. & B. Post for $1,857,000 on
12/24/14
454 Falk Court D. Bristor to
V. Belyakov for $1,600,000 on
12/22/14; previous sale 3/92,
$355,000
1145 Rosefield Way Bidwell
Trust to P. & T. Gerber for
$2,175,000 on 12/23/14
$255,000
3652 South Court Donnelly
Trust to H. Chai for $2,100,000
on 1/6/15
SALES AT A GLANCE
East Palo Alto
Mountain View
Total sales reported: 1
Lowest sales price: $595,000
Highest sales price: $595,000
Total sales reported: 9
Lowest sales price: $445,000
Highest sales price: $1,860,000
Los Altos
Total sales reported: 2
Lowest sales price: $2,100,000
Highest sales price: $3,200,000
Menlo Park
Redwood City
Total sales reported: 4
Lowest sales price: $750,000
Highest sales price: $2,175,000
Total sales reported: 8
Lowest sales price: $495,000
Highest sales price: $1,395,000
Source: California REsource
Mountain View
2431 Alvin St. Smith Trust to P.
Yang for $1,388,000 on 1/9/15
411 Calderon Ave. Swenson
Calderon to Brill & Boomer Trust
for $1,397,000 on 1/7/15
157 Gary Court L. & E. Huff to
J. & S. Perkins for $1,425,000
on 1/7/15; previous sale 6/95,
$255,000
134 Kittoe Drive #B E. & O.
Marron to J. Chen for $1,100,000
on 1/6/15; previous sale 3/88,
$265,000
500 W. Middlefield Road #182
A. Louria to S & L Trust for
$445,000 on 1/8/15; previous
sale 2/10, $270,000
1915 Mt. Vernon Court #18
Haribhai Trust to H. Li for
$600,000 on 1/6/15; previous
sale 7/04, $329,000
49 Showers Drive #J123 M.
Mahjoub to I. Mastierov for
$750,000 on 1/6/15
723 Sierra Vista Ave. #4 C. & A.
Brunner to C. Wey for $651,000
on 1/9/15
316 Wildflower Park Lane M.
Knowles to Bessler Trust for
$1,860,000 on 1/6/15; previous
sale 3/06, $1,100,000
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2283 Alameda de las Pulgas M.
Harris to H. Zhao for $860,000
on 12/26/14; previous sale 8/07,
$650,000
642 Bair Island Road #1015
One Marina Homes to Y. Liang
for $766,500 on 12/31/14
465 Cork Harbour Circle #D M.
He to P. Poddar for $660,000
on 12/23/14; previous sale 2/05,
$585,000
1480 Ebener St. Bialer Trust to
T. & S. Farazi for $795,000 on
12/23/14; previous sale 4/99,
$300,000
4000 Farm Hill Blvd. #303
Parker Trust to J. Martell for
$495,000 on 12/24/14; previous
sale 6/89, $195,000
4008 Farm Hill Blvd. #303 C.
Stevens to D. Watt for $498,000
on 12/24/14; previous sale 5/07,
$450,000
1740 Lauren Lane Valota De-
BUILDING PERMITS
Palo Alto
861 Clara Drive install roofmounted PV system, $n/a
951 Blair Court re-roof, $14,300
418 Charleston Road replace
four windows at front of house,
lower sill height to comply with
egress requirements, $n/a
3439 Greer Road remodel master bath, $10,000
435 Acacia Ave. Equinox:
interior nonstructural remodel,
including men’s and women’s
restroom areas, showers, steam
rooms and egress vestibules,
$143,300
4329 El Camino Real deferred
submittal for metal stairs from
basement level to first floor, $n/a
Palo Alto
2091 Park Blvd. Carpenter
Trust to K. Doerr for $3,200,000
on 1/6/15; previous sale 2/94,
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velopment Partners to C. &
E. Chavez for $1,395,000 on
12/29/14
126 Shorebird Circle G. Guzzo
to J. Ashworth for $495,000 on
12/29/14; previous sale 10/03,
$350,000
Redwood City
Palo Alto
Total sales reported: 8
Lowest sales price: $1,364,000
Highest sales price: $5,000,000
maximum thermometer to read and record the temperature days. By recording this and comparing it with the
temperature days information on the UC Davis website
www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/WEATHER/, one can get an idea
when the insect eggs will hatch in your particular garden.
Right after they hatch is the best time to control them, not
after you see half of your crop eaten.
8. Set up a seed exchange. Don’t waste time complaining about big seed companies. Law firms will do that.
Just start and keep trading your own seeds. It is far more
interesting and rewarding. If you do some cross-pollinating and come up with a new variety of fruit, vegetable or
flower then more power to you.
9. Keep and share your garden log (men), or journal
(women), so you know what you did right, what you
learned, what didn’t go so well and what happened that
was amazing in the community. Your grandchildren will
love it.
10. Have an awards event announcement this month.
Set a date around Thanksgiving for the awards. This will
incentivize gardeners to achieve more in the category they
aspire for. Awards can be given for Best Gardener, Best
Helper, Water Guru, Best Preserves, Tech Master, Lighting Wizard, Librarian, Garden Diplomat, Media Relations
Genius, Best Garden Sculptor and Most Likely Kid to be
an Organic Farmer. My Grandmother inspired me to be
a gardener when I was 5 years old by walking me around
her garden. Now is the time to inspire the next generations
to be gardeners as well.
Good gardening. Q
Garden coach Jack McKinnon can be reached at 650455-0687 (cell), by email at jack@jackthegardencoach.
com. Visit his website at jackthegardencoach.com.
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195 Brookwood Road, Woodside
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$3,995,000
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Julie’s Featured Sold Properties in 2014
Anacapa Dr, Los Altos Hills
Alexis Dr, Palo Alto Hills
Fielding Dr, Palo Alto
King Arthur Ct, Palo Alto
South Ct, Palo Alto
Hopkins Ave, Palo Alto
Greer Rd, Palo Alto
Corina Wy, Palo Alto
Colorado Ave, Palo Alto
Limetree Ln, Mountain View
Pine Wy, Mountain View
Lewiston Dr, Sunnyvale
W. Garland Ter, Sunnyvale
Second St, San Francisco
New Montgomery St, San Francisco
Contact Julie for her upcoming or off-market listings!
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Newly constructed just six years ago, this beautiful Mediterranean
style home is built to last, with the highest quality materials
and craftsmanship. Designer features abound, including rich hardwood
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Offered at $4,650,000
Beds 6 | Baths 4 | Home + 3,782 sf | Lot +7,084 sf
Attached 2-Car Garage
• Whole-home audio system
• Attached 2-car garage
• Beautifully landscaped with very private rear yard
• Easy access to parks, commuter routes,
Stanford University and shopping at the
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Elementary, Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle,
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650.799.8888 | [email protected]
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Contact Julie for her upcoming or off-market listings!
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Mid Century Modern Masterpiece in Menlo Park
140 Forest Lane, Menlo Park | 140ForestLane.com
Offered at $2,300,000
Beds 2 | Baths 2.5
Home ±2,330 sf | Lot ±1,742 sf
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1:30–4:30PM
Woodside Plaza
2766 Kensington Road, Redwood City | 2766kensington.com
Offered at $985,000
Bedrooms 3 | Bathrooms 1
Home ±1,020 sf | Lot ±6,050 sf
OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:30–4:30PM
Downtown Palo Alto
728 Emerson Street, Palo Alto
650.644.3474
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650.255.7372 | [email protected]
susantannerhomes.com
License No. 01736865
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NATURAL COUNTRY SETTING WITH CONTEMPORARY INTERIORS
740 WHISKEY HILL ROAD | $5,250,000
Remodeled | 4 bedrooms | Office | 3.5 baths | Caretaker’s cottage
Pool | Hot Tub | 2-stall barn & corral | Portola Valley schools | ~2.93 acres
gullixson.com
Adjoining ~5.1 acre parcel (555 Manzanita Way) may be purchased with this
property for a total of $14,950,000 to create an ~8 ac equestrian compound
5.1 FLAT ACRES IN CENTRAL WOODSIDE
555 MANZANITA WAY, WOODSIDE | $9,950,000
Remodeled 4 bedroom/5.5 bathroom main home | 1 bd/1.5 ba guest house
Pool | Tennis Court | 4-stall barn and corrals | Portola Valley schools
555Manzanita.com
Adjoining ~2.93 ac parcel (740 Whiskey Hill Road) may be purchased with this
property for a total of $14,950,000 to create an ~8 ac equestrian compound
CONTEMPORARY HOME IN WEST ATHERTON
POLHEMUS AVENUE, ATHERTON | $7,200,000
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5 bed/5 baths + 2 half baths | Kitchen with integrated living and
casual dining area | Spacious family room | Pool/spa | Barbecue center
Attached 2-car garage | Detached garage with tandem space for 6 cars
Private flag lot of ~1.14 acres | Las Lomitas schools
MODERN HIGH-TECH HOME ON 3+ PARK-LIKE ACRES
CINNABAR ROAD, WOODSIDE | $13,800,000
240Cinnabar.com
MARY GULLIXSON
650.888.0860
[email protected]
License# 00373961
Sweeping views of SF Bay | 3 levels all serviced by elevator
4 beds/4 baths + 2 half baths | 2 multi-room apartments
Underground commercial grade space for creators or collectors
Parking for up to 8 cars | Infinity pool | Putting green | Play area | Firepit
BRENT GULLIXSON
650.888.4898
[email protected]
License# 01329216
gullixson.com
Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. Square footage and/or acreage information contained herein has been received from seller, existing reports, appraisals, public records and/or other sources deemed reliable.
However, neither seller nor listing agent has verified this information. If this information is important to buyer in determining whether to buy or to purchase price, buyer should conduct buyer’s own investigation.
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Alain Pinel Realtors
YOUR HOME AWAITS
LOS ALTOS
$3,998,000
PALO ALTO
1350 Miravalie Avenue | 5bd/4ba
Derk Brill | 650.323.1111
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3318 Waverly Street | 6bd/4ba
Julie Tsai Law | 650.462.1111
BY APPOINTMENT
$2,500,000
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$2,275,000
48 Mansion Court | 3bd/2.5ba
Steve & Julie Quattrone | 650.462.1111
OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30
1943 Annette Lane I 4bd/3ba
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$4,650,000
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$1,795,000
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1407 Gretel Lane | 3bd/2ba
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OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30
2181 Valparaiso Avenue | 4bd/2ba
Ellen Ashley | 650.529.1111
BY APPOINTMENT
LOS ALTOS
$3,680,000
1049 Dartmouth Lane | 5bd/4ba
Alex & Dorothy Liu | 650.941.1111
OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-5:00
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2240 St. Francis Drive | 3bd/2ba
Derk Brill | 650.323.1111
OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-5:00
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68 Adam Way, Atherton
View the Aerial and Walk-Through Video Tour
Miles McCormick
650-400-1001
[email protected]
H o m e s O f At h e r to n . co m
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CHRIS MOGENSEN
650 924 1834
[email protected]
CalBRE # 01704390
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Teamwork
At Pacific Union Real Estate, finishing first
comes easy when you work together.
Experience the Pacific Union difference.
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Coldwell Banker
#1 IN CALIFORNIA
Woodside
Sun 1 - 4
$5,950,000
330 Jane Dr Stunning, whole-home renovation on more than 3
acres. Gated entrance on a private road. 6 BR/6 full BA + 2 half
Scott Dancer
CalBRE #00868362
650.851.2666
Los Altos Hills
Sun 1:30 - 4:30
$3,499,000
26800 Almaden Court Tranquil Setting! Stunning Bay views from
this gorgeous 1 AC+ contemporary property w/PA schools.
4 BR/3 BA
Hanna Shacham
CalBRE #01073658
650.324.4456
Palo Alto Sun
1:30 - 4:30
$3,095,000
3725 El Centro St Spectacular & brand new home in the beautiful
area of Barron Park! Elegance & finesse. 4 BR/3 BA
Hanna Shacham
CalBRE #01073658
650.324.4456
Burlingame
Sat/Sun 1 - 4
$2,800,000
1148 Bernal Ave Remodeled modern inspired Smart Home near
downtown. Many features & upgrades throughout! 5 BR/3.5 BA
John Nelson
CalBRE #01152878
650.323.7751
Menlo Park
Pending!
$2,598,000
32 Homer Lane Elegance and convenience in the country. A fine
new home on a country lane. 5 BR/3.5 BA
Jia Xu
CalBRE #01410227
650.325.6161
Redwood City
$2,695,000
1005 Lakeview Wy Rare opportunity to live on a privately owned
& tranquil setting of Lynda Lake.
J.D. Anagnostou
CalBRE #00900237
650.851.2666
Menlo Park
Sat/Sun 1 - 4
$1,988,000
1315 Trinity Exquisite 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath townhome in prime
Sharon Heights location in Menlo Park.
Fereshteh Khodadad CalBRE #00851932
650.325.6161
Palo Alto
$1,950,000
709 Seminole PA location w/ remodeled chef ’s kitchen & open
floor plan. Ideal patio for entertaining! 4 BR/2 BA
Valerie Soltau
CalBRE #00616212
650.323.7751
Los Altos
Sat/Sun 12 - 5
$1,798,000
168 Loucks Excellent North Los Altos neighborhood, w/ top rated
schools. Spacious level 9,375 SF lot 3 BR/2 BA
Gil Oraha
CalBRE #01355157
650.325.6161
San Carlos
Sat/Sun 1 - 4
$1,495,000
1009 Porto Marino Hillside retreat with cul de sac location.
Elegantly updated one level rancher. 3 BR/2.5 BA
Drew Doran
CalBRE #01887354
650.325.6161
Sunnyvale
PENDING!
$1,475,000
1519 Samedra Beautiful 3BD/2BA home with hardwood floors in
living area. Award winning schools.
Alan & Nicki Loveless
CalBRE #00444835 & 00924021
650.325.6161
Atherton
Sun 1:30 - 4:30
$4,995,000
90 Almendral Wonderful opportunity to build your dream home in
desirable West Atherton location. 5 BR/5 BA
Natalie Comartin
CalBRE #01484129
650.324.4456
East Palo Alto
Coming Soon!
$985,000
2881 Drew Ct Fully upgraded 3 bedroom, 1 bath,1,260 sq.ft home
in the Village on a 12,700 sq.ft. lot.
Jane Jones
CalBRE #01847801
CalBRE #018478
Palo Alto
PENDING!
$830,000
765 San Antonio Rd #56 Top floor in Greenhouse complex.
Updates throughout! Access to 101 & 280. Top PA schools!
2 BR/1 BA
Hossein Jalali
CalBRE #01215831
650.323.7751
Redwood City
Sun 1:30 - 4:30
$849,000
2083 Oregon Ave Charming 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom home on a
quiet street in desirable Woodside Plaza.
Karen Fryling/Rebecca Johnson
CalBRE #01332193, 01326725
650.324.4456
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Your Realtor and You
Silicon Valley REALTORS® 2015 Leadership Installed, Awards Presented
California Association of REALTORS®
(C.A.R.) 2015 President Don Faught administered the oath of office to the Silicon Valley
Association of REALTORS® (SILVAR) 2015
leadership on Jan. 14 at Menlo Circus Club in
Atherton. C.A.R. 2005 President Jim Hamilton
and SILVAR 2015 Region 9 Chair Carolyn
Miller served as emcee.
Chris Isaacson, a REALTOR® with Coldwell
Banker, Woodside, was installed as 2015 President; Karen Trolan, a REALTOR® with Alain
Pinel Realtors, Los Gatos, President-elect; and
Phyllis Carmichael, a REALTOR® with Coldwell Banker, Los Altos, Treasurer.
Joining the lead officers as 2015 board
directors are David Tonna (Alain Pinel Realtors), past president; Carolyn Miller (RE/MAX
Real Estate Services), Region 9 Chair; Davena
Gentry (Sereno Group), Menlo Park/Atherton
District Chair; Robert Reid (Keller Williams
Realty), Palo Alto District Chair; Katherine
Frey (Alain Pinel Realtors), Los Altos/Mountain View District Chair; Mark Burns (Referral
Realty), Cupertino/Sunnyvale District Chair;
Alan Barbic (Coldwell Banker), Los Gatos/
Saratoga District Chair; John Tripp (Foundation Trust), NAR Director; Jeff Bell (Coldwell
Banker), Eileen Giorgi (Keller Williams Bay
Area Estates), Gene Lentz (Oliver Luxury Real
Estate), Cassie Maas (Alain Pinel Realtors), Bill
Moody (Referral Realty), Directors At-large;
and Clayton Nelson (Clayton Nelson & Associates), Affiliate Chair.
Isaacson is past chair of SILVAR’s Menlo
Park/Atherton District and has served as Director At-Large and C.A.R. Region 9 Director.
He told members the business of real estate has
changed, but what hasn’t changed is the value
REALTORS® bring to their clients and their
adherence to the REALTOR® Code of Ethics.
The 2014 Appreciation Awards were
presented by 2014 President David Tonna
and Executive Officer Paul Cardus to Carolyn
Miller (RE/Max Real Estate Services), REALTOR® of the Year; David Hamerslough (Rossi,
Hamerslough, Reischl & Chuck), Affiliate of
the Year; Lehua Greenman (Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage), Spirit of SILVAR; Ryan
Nunnally (Alain Pinel Realtors), President’s
Award. 2012 President Suzanne Yost (Alain
Pinel Realtors) was recognized for her work as
2014 Region 9 Chair.
A past president, Miller has served in almost
every committee, most notably the PRDS Standard Forms Committee and the Silicon Valley
REALTORS® Charitable Foundation. She was
praised for her commitment to improving the
community and schools, and contributing her
time “without thought of reward or gain.”
This year’s installation sponsors were
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage; Sereno
Group; Supra; MLSListings Inc; SILVAR’s
Menlo Park/Atherton, Palo Alto, Los Altos/
Mountain View, Cupertino/Sunnyvale and
Los Gatos/Saratoga districts; HSBC – Kenneth
Chan; Princeton Capital; Alain Pinel Realtors –
Los Gatos; and HomeFolio – Kirk Bailey.
***
Information provided in this column is
presented by the Silicon Valley Association of
REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at
[email protected].
NEW LISTING:
1571 FAIRWAY DRIVE
LOS ALTOS
OPEN: SAT & SUN 1:00-4:00
OFFERED AT $4,500,000
JUST COMPLETED TUSC AN MANOR
W I T H F A I RWAY V I E W S
Just completed, this home is a modern
interpretation of a classic Tuscan manor – from
the stone cladding on the walls to the red tile
roof and perfectly selected landscaping. Inside,
hand-hewn walnut floors contrast beautifully with
sleek, smooth-finished walls. Exceptional finishes,
dazzling light fixtures, and wood-framed windows
and doors combine to create a sophisticated,
contemporary ambiance with a nod to the gracious
elegance of Old World styling. Energy-efficient,
eco-friendly features are found throughout,
including solar electricity.
The spacious floor plan revolves around a
tremendous great room complemented by a
formal dining room and separate media room. The
home’s 5 bedrooms are thoughtfully arranged over
two levels with flexibility for a variety of lifestyle
needs. Rounding out the appeal of this new home
are views out to the verdant fairways of the Los
Altos Golf & Country Club from this wonderful
corner lot of almost one-half acre.
ED GRAZIANI
(650) 947-2992
JEN PAULSON
(650) 996-7147
[email protected]
www.EdGraziani.com
CalBRE # 01081556
[email protected]
CalBRE # 01221390
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202 Vehicles Wanted
130 Classes &
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215 Collectibles &
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133 Music Lessons
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220 Computers/
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135 Group Activities
245 Miscellaneous
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Alta Mesa Cemetery Lots - $5000 each
260 Sports &
Exercise Equipment
Kid’s
Stuff
345 Tutoring/
Lessons
Online Writing Tutor
355 Items for Sale
3DVDsLittlePeople,PlanetHeroes,T
3LearningLaptop/pads age3-7years
3T KRU RainJacket $5
Boys Costumes size5-8years
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Nike ShinpadsAge4-7y$4
240 Furnishings/
Household items
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417 Groups
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425 Health Services
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455 Personal Training
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602 Automotive
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620 Domestic Help
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500 Help Wanted
624 Financial
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BackPack for 2-6 year old
Wanted 1960’s TEEN Magazines $3
140 Lost & Found
403 Acupuncture
Pro-Form XP 400 exercise Bike - $75
or bes
235 Wanted to Buy
Scottish Country Dance Palo Alto
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& Body
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devices, semiconductor & venture
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Across
1 “American Horror Story” actress
Lily
5 Outdo by a little
10 Get droopy
13 Just slightly
14 Vice ___
15 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral name
17 Quip, Part 1
19 2003/2005/2007 AL MVP, familiarly
20 Feller’s warning
21 Quip, Part 2
23 Do master
25 “Game of ___”
26 Get in
28 “___ Can Cook”
29 Dog’s foot
32 Floor space
34 Metamorphic stage
38 Quip, Part 3
42 Bat maker’s tool
43 “I’ll take ‘Cartoons’ for $200, ___”
44 Control
45 Elusive swimmer
47 3/17 honoree, for short
50 “Nuts!”
54 Actress Mira
58 Quip, Part 4
60 Of a pelvic bone
61 Affleck flick
62 Quip, Part 5
64 Bit of sarcasm
65 Cinema seater
66 “___ perpetua” (Idaho’s motto)
67 Beats by ___ (brand of audio
equipment)
68 Add fuel to the fire
69 Explanations
Down
1 Flat floaters
2 Took the hit, financially
3 Tropical
4 OK to ingest
5 Wear out your welcome
6 Leftorium proprietor on “The
Simpsons”
7 Estrada of “CHiPs”
8 Half a fitness motto
9 Like some fog
10 Like berries and oysters
11 “Fanfare for the Common Man”
composer Copland
12 “Grand Canyon Suite” composer
Ferde ___
16 Adobe creations?
18 Dusseldorf denial
22 Jazz pianist-singer Diana
24 ___ firma
27 Cassette parts
29 Good buddy
30 Abbr. on a rap sheet
31 Feature of Algonquin Round
Table discussions
33 Acts as accomplice
35 City in 2016 sports news
36 Solemn words
37 Mitt Romney’s wife
39 Words after “know” or “settle”
40 Pearly whites
41 Excuse given by those who hire
artists and pay nothing
46 ___ test
48 Get ___ on the knuckles
49 Reporters and their entourage
50 Key using all the black keys, for
short
51 Drew in
52 Deadly sin
53 Citrus peel in a mixed drink
55 Like Joyce
56 More than mean
57 Non-dairy spreads
59 Cuatro y cuatro
63 “A spider!!”
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LANDSCAPING
*Yard Maint. *New Lawns. *Rototil
*Clean Ups *Tree Trim *Power Wash
*Irrigation timer programming.
19 yrs exp. Ramon, 650/576-6242
[email protected]
R.G. Landscape
Yard Clean-ups, debris removal,
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650/468-8859
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Half Moon Bay: 4BR/2BA
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815 Rentals Wanted
ESTATE MANAGEMENT
850 Acreage/Lots/
Storage
751 General
Contracting
A NOTICE TO READERS:
It is illegal for an unlicensed person
to perform contracting work on any
project valued at $500.00 or more in
labor and materials. State law also
requires that contractors include
their license numbers on all advertising. Check your contractor’s status
at www.cslb.ca.gov or 800-321-CSLB
(2752). Unlicensed persons taking
jobs that total less than $500.00
must state in their advertisements
that they are not licensed by the
Contractors State License Board.
759 Hauling
J & G HAULING SERVICE
Misc. junk, office, gar., furn.,
mattresses, green waste, more.
Lic./ins. Free est. 650/743-8852
(see my Yelp reviews)
767 Movers
Sunny Express Moving Co.
Afforable, Reliable, Refs. CalT #191198.
650/722-6586 or 408/904-9688
771 Painting/
Wallpaper
DAVID AND MARTIN
PAINTING
Lic. #52643
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805 Homes for Rent
Tired of Mow, Blow and Go?
Owner operated, 40 years exp.
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Ref. Call Eric, 408/356-1350
Quality work
Good references
Low price
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J. Garcia Garden Maintenance
Service
Free est. 21 years exp. 650/366-4301
or 650/346-6781
Real
Estate
(650) 575-2022
Glen Hodges Painting
Call me first! Senior discount.
45 yrs. #351738. 650/322-8325
STYLE PAINTING
Full service painting. Insured.
Lic. 903303. 650/388-8577
775 Asphalt/
Concrete
Roe General Engineering
Asphalt, concrete, pavers, tiles, sealing,
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995 Fictitious Name
Statement
ATALACO
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 600010
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Atalaco, located at 702 Garland Drive,
Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
ALLEN TAVAKOLI
702 Garland Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 01/07/2015.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on January 7, 2015.
(PAW Jan. 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 2015)
ADORE HANDCRAFTED
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 600011
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Adore Handcrafted, located at 702
Garland Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303,
Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
KAREEN TAVAKOLI
702 Garland Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 01/07/2015.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on January 7, 2015.
(PAW Jan. 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 2015)
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Assistant.ai
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 599861
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Assistant.ai, located at 443 Waverley
Street Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by: A
Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
SPEAKTOIT INC.
443 Waverley Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on January 5, 2015.
(PAW Jan. 16, 23, 30, Feb. 6, 2015)
ETCHED IN STONE
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 600298
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Etched In Stone, located at 644 Azule
Ave., San Jose, CA 95123, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
DAVID A. BECERRA
644 Azule Ave.
San Jose, CA 95123
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 12/19/2003.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on January 15, 2015.
(PAW Jan. 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 2015)
Api.ai
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 600295
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Api.ai, located at 443 Waverley Street,
Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: A
Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
SPEAKTOIT INC.
443 Waverley Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on January 15, 2015.
(PAW Jan. 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13, 2015)
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
VICTOR GARZA
5497 Spinnaker Walkway #4
San Jose, CA 95123
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on January 22, 2015.
(PAW Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 2015)
MAISON ADVISORS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 600721
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Maison Advisors, located at 621 High
Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by: A General
Partnership.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
WENDY KANDASAMY
247 Ferne Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
ADAM TOUNI
685 High Street #2B
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on January 28, 2015.
(PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015)
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE
OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
File No. 600792
The following person(s)/ entity (ies) has/
have abandoned the use of the fictitious
business name(s).
The information given below is as it
appeared on the fictitious business
statement that was filed at the County
Clerk-Recorder’s Office.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME(S):
STANFORD TERRACE INN
531 Stanford Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON:
07/31/2013
UNDER FILE NO.: 581230
REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES):
WILD RANGE INC.
531 Stanford Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY:
Corporation.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara
County on January 29, 2015.
(PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015)
NexMove
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 600184
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
NexMove, located at 826 Rorke Way,
Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
JEANNE YUE
826 Rorke Way
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 02 Jan. 2015.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on Jan. 13, 2015.
(PAW Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 2015)
STANFORD TERRACE INN
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 600794
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Stanford Terrace Inn, located at 531
Stanford Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: A Limited
Liability Company.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
STANFORD GROUPS LLC
531 Stanford Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 10/19/2010.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on January 29, 2015.
(PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015)
SUMO
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 599912
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
SUMO, located at 450 Serra Mall,
Building 380, Stanford, CA 94305, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: A General
Partnership.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
EDWARD DAI
655 Escondido Road
Stanford, CA 94305
MOOR XU
2070 University Avenue #219
Berkeley, CA 94704
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on January 6, 2015.
(PAW Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 2015)
PALO ALTO DESIGN STUDIO
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 600964
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Palo Alto Design Studio, located at 1128
Oregon Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94303,
Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: Married
Couple.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
KYU YOUNG KIM
1128 Oregon Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94303
HANNA JOO
1128 Oregon Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on February 3, 2015.
(PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015)
GENESIS PAINTING & DECORATING
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 600563
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Genesis Painting & Decorating, located
at 5497 Spinnaker Walkway, San Jose,
CA 95123, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
997 All Other Legals
T.S. No.: 9986-2072 TSG Order No.:
00266636 A.P.N.: 127-21-017 NOTICE OF
TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT
UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED
02/09/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION
TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY
BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU
NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE
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OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU,
YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER.
NBS Default Services, LLC, as the duly
appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in
that certain Deed of Trust Recorded
02/17/2005 as Document No.: 18238005,
Book No.: N/A, Page No.: N/A, of Official
Records in the office of the Recorder of
Santa Clara County, California, executed
by: CONAN S. YEM, AN UNMARRIED
MAN, as Trustor, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC
AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR
CASH (payable in full at time of sale
by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a
state or national bank, a check drawn
by a state or federal credit union, or
a check drawn by a state or federal
savings and loan association, savings
association, or savings bank specified
in section 5102 of the Financial Code
and authorized to do business in this
state). All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said
Deed of Trust in the property situated
in said County and state, and as more
fully described in the attached legal
description. LEGAL DESCRIPTION THE
LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS
SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF SANTA
CLARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND IS
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 6, BLOCK
4, AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN MAP
ENTITLED “TRACT NO. 1580” WHICH
MAP WAS FILED FOR RECORD IN THE
OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE
COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA, ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1955
IN BOOK 62 OF MAPS AT PAGE(S) 56.
Sale Date & Time: 02/26/2015 at 10:00
AM Sale Location: At the gated North
Market Street entrance to the Superior
Courthouse at 190 N. Market Street, San
Jose, CA. The street address and other
common designation, if any, of the real
property described above is purported
to be: 3619 LUPINE AVENUE, PALO ALTO,
CA 94303 The undersigned Trustee
disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other
common designation, if any, shown
herein. Said sale will be made in an AS
IS condition, but without covenant or
warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances,
to pay the remaining principal sum of
the note(s) secured by said Deed of
Trust, with interest thereon, as provided
in said note(s), advances, if any, under
the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of
the Trustee and of the trusts created by
said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $452,222.50
(Estimated) as of 01/23/2015. Accrued
interest and additional advances, if
any, will increase this figure prior to
sale. It is possible that at the time of
sale the opening bid may be less than
the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO
POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you
should understand that there are risks
involved in bidding at a trustee auction.
You will be bidding on a lien, not on the
property itself. Placing the highest bid
at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be
aware that the lien being auctioned off
may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may
be responsible for paying off all liens
senior to the lien being auctioned off,
before you can receive clear title to the
property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size
of outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county
recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you
a fee for this information. If you consult
either of these resources, you should
be aware that the same lender may
hold more than one mortgage or deed
of trust on the property. NOTICE TO
PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown
on this notice of sale may be postponed
one or more times by the mortgagee,
beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant
to Section 2924g of the California Civil
Code. The law requires that information
about trustee sale postponements be
made available to you and to the public,
as a courtesy to those not present at the
sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and, if
applicable, the rescheduled time and
date for the sale of this property, you
may call, 916-939-0772 for information
regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this
Internet Web site, www.nationwideposting.com, for information regarding
the sale of this property, using the file
number assigned to this case, T.S.#
9986-2072. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the
scheduled sale may not immediately be
reflected in the telephone information
or on the internet Web site. The best
way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. If
the Trustee is unable to convey title for
any reason, the successful bidder’s sole
and exclusive remedy shall be the return
of monies paid to the Trustee and the
successful bidder shall have no further
recourse. NBS Default Services, LLC 301
E. Ocean Blvd. Suite 1720 Long Beach,
CA 90802 800-766-7751 For Trustee Sale
Information Log On To: www.nationwideposting.com or Call: 916-939-0772.
NBS Default Services, LLC, Vanessa
Gomez, Foreclosure Associate This communication is an attempt to collect a
debt and any information obtained will
be used for that purpose. However, if
you have received a discharge of the
debt referenced herein in a bankruptcy
proceeding, this is not an attempt to
impose personal liability upon you for
payment of that debt. In the event you
have received a bankruptcy discharge,
any action to enforce the debt will
be taken against the property only.
NPP0241357 To: PALO ALTO WEEKLY
02/06/2015, 02/13/2015, 02/20/2015 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No.:
2014-CA006823 Loan No. XXX47100
Order No. 5921178 APN: 158-44-003
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED
OF TRUST DATED 10/28/2010. UNLESS
YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR
PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC
SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION
OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING
AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT
A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the
highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check
drawn on a state or national bank, a
check drawn by a state or federal credit
union, or a check drawn by a state or
federal savings and loan association,
or savings association, or savings bank
specified in section 5102 of the Financial
Code and authorized to do business in
this state. Sale will be held by the duly
appointed trustee as shown below, of
all right, title, and interest conveyed to
and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and
pursuant to a Deed of Trust described
below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or
implied, regarding title, possession, or
encumbrances, to pay the remaining
principal sum of the note(s) secured
by the Deed of Trust, with interest and
late charges thereon, as provided in
the note(s), advances, under the terms
of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon,
fees, charges and expenses of the
Trustee for the total amount (at the
time of the initial publication of the
Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated
to be set forth below. The amount
may be greater on the day of sale.
BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS
THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor:
VINCENT ISOLA AND CRYSTAL ISOLA,
AS TRUSTEES OF THE ISOLA LIVING
TRUST UAD 6/28/04, F/B/O VINCENT
ISOLA AND CRYSTAL ISOLA AND THEIR
HEIRS, and PLAZA BANK, as Beneficiary
Duly Appointed Trustee: R.E.F.S. Inc.,
A California Corporation Recorded:
11/3/2010, as Instrument No. 20940203,
in Book n/a, Page n/a, of Official Records
in the office of the Recorder of Santa
Clara County, California. Date of Sale:
2/27/2015 at 10:00 AMÂ Place of
Sale: At the Market Street entrance to
the Superior Courthouse, 190 North
Market Street.,San Jose, CA Amount
of unpaid balance and other charges:
$1,039,928.75 Street Address or other
common designation of real property:
185 MOFFET BOULEVARD, Mountain
View, CA 94043 A.P.N.: 158-44-003 Legal
Description: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED
IN SAID DEED OF TRUST. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for
any incorrectness of the street address
or other common designation, if any,
shown above. If no street address or
other common designation is shown,
directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a
written request to the beneficiary within
10 days of the date of first publication of
this Notice of Sale. The property herein
is being sold AS IS. The beneficiary
under said Deed of Trust heretofore
executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default
and Demand for Sale, and a Written
Notice of Default and Election to Sell.
The undersigned caused said Notice
of Default and Election to Sell to be
recorded in the County where the real
property is located and more than three
month have elapsed since such recordation. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS:
If you are considering bidding on this
property lien, you should understand
that there are risks involved in bidding
THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE
TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS
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at a trustee auction. You will be bidding
on a lien, not on the property itself.
Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you
to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the
lien being auctioned off may be a junior
lien. If you are the highest bidder at the
auction, you are or may be responsible
for paying off all liens senior to the lien
being auctioned off, before you can
receive clear title to the property. You
are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority and size of outstanding
liens that may exist on this property by
contacting the county recorder’s office
or a title insurance company, either of
which may charge you a fee for this
information. If you consult either of
these resources, you should be aware
that the same lender may hold more
than one mortgage or deed of trust
on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY
OWNER: The sale date shown on this
notice of sale may be postponed one
or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant
to Section 2924g of the California Civil
Code. The law requires that information
about trustee sale postponements be
made available to you and to the public,
as a courtesy to those not present at
the sale. If you wish to learn whether
your sale date has been postponed,
and if applicable, the rescheduled time
and date for the sale of this property,
you may call 877-484-9942 or visit this
Internet Web site www.USA-Foreclosure.
com, using the file number assigned to
this case 2014-CA006823. Information
about postponements that are very
short in duration or that occur close
in time to the scheduled sale may not
immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet
Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the
scheduled sale. If you would like additional copies of this summary, you may
obtain them by calling (949) 474-7337.
If the trustee is unable to convey title
for any reason, the successful bidder(s)
sole and exclusive remedy shall be the
return of monies paid to the trustee and
successful bidder(s) will have no further
recourse. If the sale is set aside for any
reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall
be entitled only to return of the deposit
paid. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor,
the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s
Attorney. Date: 2/2/2015 R.E.F.S. Inc., A
California Corporation Gabrielle Leach,
Senior Trustee Officer R.E.F.S. INC. A
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION IS A DEBT
COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT
A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED
WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. FEI
# 1064.244935 PUB DATES: 02/06/2015,
02/13/2015, 02/20/2015 PAW
the will or estate, or both, of DAVID W.
HAGELBARGER.
A Petition for Probate has been filed by:
ANN M. EDENS in the Superior Court of
California, County of SANTA CLARA.
The Petition for Probate requests that:
ANN M. EDENS be appointed as personal representative to administer the
estate of the decedent.
The petition requests the decedent’s
will and codicils, if any, be admitted to
probate. The will and any codicils are
available for examination in the file kept
by the court.
The petition requests authority to
administer the estate under the
Independent Administration of
Estates Act. (This authority will allow
the personal representative to take
many actions without obtaining court
approval. Before taking certain very
important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to
give notice to interested persons unless
they have waived notice or consented
to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be
granted unless an interested person files
an objection to the petition and shows
good cause why the court should not
grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held
on March 18, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. in Dept.:
10 of the Superior Court of California,
County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N.
First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.
If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing
and state your objections or file written
objections with the court before the
hearing. Your appearance may be in
person or by your attorney.
If you are a creditor or a contingent
creditor of the decedent, you must file
your claim with the court and mail a
copy to the personal representative
appointed by the court within the later
of either (1) four months from the date
of first issuance of letters to a general
personal representative, as defined in
section 58 (b) of the California Probate
Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of
mailing or personal delivery to you
of a notice under section 9052 of the
California Probate Code. Other California
statutes and legal authority may affect
your rights as a creditor. You may want
to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
You may examine the file kept by the
court. If you are a person interested in
the estate, you may file with the court
a Request for Special Notice (form
DE-154) of the filing of an inventory
and appraisal of estate assets or of
any petition or account as provided in
Probate Code section 1250. A Request
for Special Notice form is available from
the court clerk.
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(PAW Feb. 6, 13, 20, 2015)
Request for Proposal: Compensation
Consulting Firms
The East Palo Alto Sanitary District
(District) is requesting proposals (RFP)
from interested, qualified and experienced Compensation Consulting Firms
(Consultant) to design a compensation
structure, conduct a compensation
study and a job classification comparison for its employees.
Please contact the District office by
email [email protected] or phone (650)
325-9021 to obtain a copy of the
request for proposal. The deadline for
receiving proposals is February 19, 2015.
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ESTATE OF:
DAVID W. HAGELBARGER
Case No.: 1-15-PR175816
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contingent creditors, and persons
who may otherwise be interested in
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FOOTBALL SACKED . . . The
Menlo College Board of Trustees
announced Sunday that they have
voted to end the school’s football
program, citing scheduling issues
and financial “realities” according to a press release issued. On
a campus where over 50 percent
of the approximately 750 students
are involved in athletics, the news
brought shock and sadness, as well
as understanding. Menlo was bucking the trend by continuing to support football at the NAIA level (and
NCAA Division III) without the benefit
of participating in a conference. The
school was a member of the Northwest Conference between 2006-10
and was the only school outside of
Washington and Oregon. Menlo had
explored the possibility of joining
other conferences as a football-only
associate member since then. “This
difficult decision reflects a strong
commitment to the future athletic
program needs and the stability of
our entire student population,” Menlo
Athletic Director Keith Sparato said.
“Menlo College has struggled for
years over the football program’s
financial viability. The cost, and the
inequity of the expense of football
compared to other athletic programs
were major contributing factors to
this decision.” Menlo College has
been the only non-NCAA Division I
institution sponsoring football in the
Bay Area since 2004.
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Menlo-Atherton sophomore Megan Sparrow (31) controlled the boards against Hillsdale’s
Emily Nepomuceno (13) and Raichel Tjan during the Bears’ 44-32 victory Wednesday.
inebacker Sean Barton still has a couple of
months left on his LDS Mormon mission and
remains in Africa. Offensive tackle Jack Dreyer goes to school a few miles away in San Mateo.
In June, both will be Stanford football teammates.
Barton originally signed in 2013 and will enroll
with the current group of players who officially
handed in their singed letters of intent Wednesday.
While Dreyer and 21 other high school seniors
delivered their signatures, only 20 will join Barton.
Two others, fullback Houston Heimuli, who hails
from Woods Cross, Utah (Barton’s hometown) and
linebacker Gabe Reid, will take their Mormon missions and report for duty in the summer of 2017.
Stanford signed nine players rated four stars or
better and the group as a whole was rated anywhere
from No. 13 (PrepStar) to No. 27 (ESPN).
Overall, the Cardinal signed 11 offensive players,
four of them linemen, 10 defensive players and a
punter.
“Most of these guys are national recruits,” Stanford coach David Shaw said. “We canvass the nation
looking for Stanford guys. It’s never us vs. them. We
compete against geography and the local schools.”
Stanford will be looking to improve upon its 8-5
finish this past season, which culminated with a 4521 win over Maryland in the Foster Farms Bowl.
Shaw filled the team’s most immediate need on
the defensive line with Wesley Annan and Dylan
Jackson, both of whom have a strong chance to play
as freshmen.
Shaw thinks there are a lot of players who could
make an immediate impact, including five-star wide
receiver Trenton Irwin and four-star athletes Frank
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PREP ROUNDUP
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
M-A girls among
hoop threesome
in first place
Challenge awaits
new Stanford coach
win some games,” said Menlo-Atherton
head coach Markisha Coleman. “We’re
pretty deep at every spot. When they come
out, they fight and play hard. You have 12
girls that are committed and play hard for
each other.”
Despite allowing only two field goals
and five points in the second quarter, the
Bears held just a 19-15 halftime lead after
committing 10 turnovers. M-A limited its
miscues to just four after halftime.
By Rick Eymer
irst-year Stanford softball coach Rachel Hanson understands the challenge ahead of her.
It’s one of the reasons she wanted to coach at
the school.
A flurry of bad luck and injuries sabotaged the
Cardinal last year, despite producing one of its top
offensive teams in school history. Stanford missed
the postseason for the first time in 16 years; all under
former coach John Rittman.
Hanson, meanwhile, led Dartmouth to its first ever
Ivy League title and a spot in the postseason. Hanson
also directed the softball program at the University
of Dallas to its best season in school history.
“This is where I always wanted to be,” Hanson
said. “I love coaching intelligent women and being
in the hunt for a national championship. I got here
in a fun way.”
She graduated from Trinity College in 2005, the
year Stanford won its only conference title, after
helping the Tigers win a conference title. She still
holds Trinity’s record for most games started (156).
Hanson assumes leadership of a team that returns
its top 10 offensive players and its top pitcher.
Last year’s Cardinal team set a single-season
school record for RBI (302), was second in runs
(331), batting average (.316) and slugging percentage
(.450) and third in doubles (88) and triples (17).
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by Andrew Preimesberger
T
he Pinewood, Palo Alto and MenloAtherton girls all have something in
common this week when it comes
to basketball. All three teams are in first
place in their respective divisions with all
three clinging to a one-game lead.
Pinewood is 8-0 in the West Bay Athletic
League (Foothill Division) and 16-2 overall
after beating rival Eastside Prep, 68-62, in
overtime on Tuesday.
Palo Alto is 8-0 in the SCVAL De Anza
Division and 18-2 overall after holding off
Saratoga, 56-44, on Wednesday.
And Menlo-Atherton improved to 8-1
(16-5 overall) in the PAL South Division
with a 44-32 triumph over previous coleader Hillsdale on Wednesday.
All three teams control their own destiny
with their respective league races coming
to a close.
Menlo-Atherton is three wins away from
clinching its league title after knocking
Hillsdale (7-2) out of a share of first. M-A
has now won six in a row and 10 out of its
past 11 games.
“If you’re playing team basketball, you’ll
Don Feria
Prep basketball: Sequoia at MenloAtherton, 6:15 p.m. (girls, boys at 7:45
p.m.;); KCEA (89.1 FM)
Women’s basketball: Stanford at
Arizona St., 7 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks;
KZSU (90.1 FM)
By Rick Eymer
Don Feria
STATE HONORS . . . Five members
of the Sacred Heart Prep football
team that won the Central Coast
Section Open Division title and finished 13-0 this past season have received statewide honors from Cal-Hi
Sports. Ben Burr-Kirven was named
to the Overall State First Team Defense and to the Small Schools first
team on defense.Defensive back JR
Hardy also made the Small Schools
First Team on defense. Lineman
Thomas Rogers was named to the
Small Schools First Team Offense
and lineman Justin Harmon was
named to the Second Team on offense as well as Third Team Junior.
Defensive back Mitch Martella was
named to the Small Schools Second
Team Defense.
Cardinal ranked from 13th to 27th and
fills immediate need on defensive line
M-A sophomore Ilana Baer (22) led the
Bears with 12 points.
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Sports
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Julia Lodoen
Will Chisholm
CASTILLEJA SCHOOL
MENLO SCHOOL
The junior midfielder scored
the tying goal in a 1-1 soccer
deadlock against secondplace Crystal Springs and
added the game-winner in
a 1-0 victory over Pinewood
to keep the Gators on top of
the WBAL Skyline Division.
The junior had the gamewinning goal plus two assists
in a 4-3 soccer victory over
King’s Academy, moving the
Knights into second place,
and then converted two PKs
in a 2-2 deadlock with firstplace Sacred Heart Prep.
Honorable mention
Olivia Athens
Sacred Heart Prep soccer
Greer Hoyem
Menlo-Atherton basketball
Stella Kailahi*
Pinewood basketball
Lauren Koyama*
Palo Alto basketball
De’Jeane Stine
Menlo basketball
Alexandra Walker
Menlo soccer
Ryan Brice
Pinewood basketball
Derek Chou
Sacred Heart Prep soccer
Liam Dunn
Menlo basketball
Alex Gil-Fernandez*
Gunn basketball
Jesus Ortega
Menlo-Atherton soccer
Mason Randall*
Sacred Heart Prep basketball
* previous winner
Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com
Prep roundup
(continued from previous page)
“At halftime I told them they
need to rebound and take care
of the basketball,” said Coleman,
who played at Eastside Prep before playing at Stanford. “That
was our main focus in the second
half, to take care of the ball. This
was a big game for both teams so
we just settled down and started
playing M-A basketball.”
M-A took a 30-25 lead into the
fourth period, saw Hillsdale go
on a four-minute scoring drought.
The Knights managed only seven points on two converted field
goals in the quarter.
With just over two minutes left
in the game, M-A sophomore Ofa
Sili made back-to-back layups and
the Bears took a safe 40-27 lead.
Sili finished with 10 points and
fellow sophomore Ilana Baer led
with 12.
“This was a really big game
for us,” said Sili, who had recovered from an injury three games
ago. “Although I was tired and
my knee was hurting, I knew I
couldn’t give up. I kept trying to
put up every shot I could and luckPage 62 • February 6, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
ily they went in.”
The Bears won despite missing
18 free throws (10 of 28).
In the SCVAL De Anza Division, Palo Alto remained in first
place by a game over Mountain
View following its big win over
host Saratoga.
“This was one of the most
physical games in the key that we
have played this year,” said Paly
coach Scott Peters. “It was hardfought throughout; the game was
won in the trenches. Positioning
was tightly contested close to the
basket. Coco Lovely, Skylar Burris, and Julie Chandler stood out
in defending the low post area.”
Lovely tallied 17 points with
sophomore Lauren Koyama leading the way with 20. Paly limited
Saratoga to just four points in the
second quarter while taking a 3319 halftime lead.
In the WBAL Foothill Division,
Pinewood knocked Eastside Prep
(5-2, 15-4) into third place following the wild overtime game this
week. sday night.
Eastside Prep senior Chaccity
Cunningham’s 3-pointer tied the
game at 56 with four seconds
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Prep roundup
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to play and sent it to overtime.
Pinewood wrapped up the win
in OT by making 12 of 13 free
throws. Senior Gabi Bade was 9
of 9 for the game — five coming in overtime — and finished
with 20 points, 14 coming in the
second half.
Pinewood, which came into the
game ranked No. 8 in the state
and No. 13 in the nation by MaxPreps.com, was 20 of 25 from the
line while Eastside Prep made 13
of 17.
The host Panthers, who started
the game with its six-player roster, finished with just three players. Senior Destiny Graham had
20 points, 20 rebounds and five
assists for Eastside. She fouled
out in the OT period while fouling Bade on a 3-point attempt
with 54 seconds left. Bade made
all three free throws for a 62-60
lead.
In San Jose, Menlo School took
over sole possession of second
place in the WBAL Foothill Division race with a 59-41 victory
over host Notre Dame-San Jose
Football
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Buncom IV at cornerback, safety
Ben Edwards, cornerback Quenton Meeks and safety Justin Reid.
Offensive linemen Brian Chaffin and Nick Wilson and running backs Cameron Scarlett and
Bryce Love are also four-star
athletes.
Chaffin, a center out of North
Carolina, was the first to send in
his signed letter, which arrived
in the Stanford football offices
shortly after 5 a.m.
Irwin and fellow Parade first
team All-American receiver JJ
Arcega-Whiteside join a relatively
inexperienced group of receivers
and both could make an immediate impact.
“I’m impressed with how mature this class is,” Shaw said.
“There are guys who are physically ready for college football.
There’s a chance for these guys
to play.”
Devon Cajuste, Michael Rector
and Francis Owusu are the top
returning receivers and standout
Christian McCaffrey will become
a full-time running back.
Others in the mix include Rollins Stallworth, Gautam Krishnamurthi, Dontonio Jordan, Connor Crane, Addison Johnson and
Isaiah Brandt-Sims. Jay Tyler,
who scored 127 touchdowns during his high school career in Louisiana, also signed as a receiver.
Justin Reid, meanwhile, has ties
to the NFL as his older brother,
Eric, plays for the San Francisco
49ers.
“I’m not surprised,” Shaw said.
“We knew we had a good chance.
But he and his brother are great
students. He came on a visit and
had a blast.”
The linebackers include Mustafa Branch, a unanimous top-40
on Tuesday night. The Knights
(6-1, 14-4) raced to a 35-14 halftime lead before cruising in the
second half.
Hannah Paye, Kenzie Duffner
and De’Jeane Stine all had 15
points for Menlo with Duffner
adding 13 rebounds. Olivia Pellarin finished with six points and
nine rebounds.
Boys soccer
With Jesus Ortega scoring four
goals, Menlo-Atherton took over
first place in the PAL Bay Division soccer race with a 7-0 romp
over visiting Half Moon Bay on
Wednesday. The Bears (7-2, 10-3)
moved ahead of Burlingame (6-12), which was tied by Carlmont,
2-2.
M-A has 21 points and Burlingame has 20, with Sequoia (62-1) right behind with 19. Mario
Rodriguez and Efrain Garcia also
scored for the Bears, with one
goal unaccounted for. The Bears
have won five straight and seven
of their past eight.
In the West Bay Athletic
League, Menlo School dropped a
3-1 decision to host Harker and
all but lost any hope of catching first-place Sacred Heart
inside linebacker, consensus top50 inside linebacker and 2015
Semper Fidelis All-America Bowl
participant Jordan Fox, and Casey
Toohill, the 28th-rated outside
linebacker by PrepStar.
Irwin is a consensus top- 90
national recruit who is rated as
the sixth-best wide receiver by
Rivals and earned All-America
first team honors from Parade,
MaxPreps and Scout.
Arcega-Whiteside is rated 45th
at his position by PrepStar and
62nd by Rivals. Tyler, a 5-8 receiver and kick returner out of
Gretna, La., is a top-100 rated national athlete by ESPN.
On the offensive line, Austin
Maihen joins Chaffin, Dreyer
and Wilson. Chaffin is a unanimous top-10 center who is ranked
as his as third by PrepStar and
played in the Under Armour
All-America Game. Wilson is a
highly regarded four-star guard
who Rivals has as the ninth-best
guard in the nation while earning a spot in the 2015 Semper Fidelis All-America Bowl. Dreyer
is a unanimous top-90 tackle that
Rivals as rated as the 34th-best
player at that position.
Heimuli is the nation’s secondbest fullback as judged by Scout,
ESPN and PrepStar while checking in at fourth with Rivals and
ninth with 247Sports. Reagan
Williams is the second-rated fullback from Rivals and third at the
position by Scout and 247Sports.
Jake Bailey completes the recruiting class as the lone special
teams player. Both a place kicker
and a punter.
Other signings
Sacred Heart Prep senior Ben
Burr-Kirven also made it official
on Wednesday by signing with
the University of Washington.
He’s slated to play linebacker for
the Huskies. Q
Prep. The setback also puts the
Knights’ Central Coast Section
playoff hopes in jeopardy.
Menlo (5-2-1, 7-5-2 overall)
couldn’t match the Eagles intensity in the opening minutes as
Harker sought to defend its home
field on Senior Day. Junior Will
Chisholm tallied the Knights’
lone goal.
In Atherton, Sacred Heart
Prep improved its lead over the
WBAL field by handing visiting Eastside Prep a 3-0 defeat.
The Gators (7-0-1, 11-1-3) improved their unbeaten streak to
10 straight and took a big step toward clinching a seventh straight
league crown.
Matthew MacFarquhar scored
the eventual winning goal in the
first half off an assist from Philip
Petrakian, who made it 2-0 later
in the half following an assist
from Eric Hausken.
In the SCVAL De Anza Division, Palo Alto gave up its first
goal after eight straight shutouts
and suffered their first league
loss, 1-0 to visiting Monta Vista
on Tuesday. The Vikings (7-1, 112-2) remained tied for first place
with Homestead (7-2).
In the SCVAL El Camino Di-
vision, Gunn notched its second
straight shutout and remained
atop the division standings with
a 2-0 victory over visiting Saratoga. Senior Sean MacPherson
scored twice, in the 15th and 41st
minutes. Alex Ruber and Bryant
Cervantes provided the assists as
the Titans improved to 7-0-1 in
league (10-4-2 overall).
Girls soccer
Palo Alto stayed tied for first
place in the SCVAL De Anza Division following a 2-0 win over
host Saratoga. The Vikings (7-1,
13-1), who are still deadlocked
with Mountain View, won their
fifth straight and now have outscored the opposition by 46-5 this
season.
Paly was pressed early by the
Falcons, but broke the scoreless
match in the 36th minute when
Jacey Pederson got around the
Saratoga defense and drove the
ball inside the near post for a
1-0 advantage. In the second half
Pederson scored on a free kick
from about 25 yards out.
In the PAL Bay Division, Menlo-Atherton snapped a two-match
losing streak with a 7-0 romp over
visiting San Mateo. Molly Briggs
tallied twice for the Bears (4-3-2,
7-4-3), who out-shot the Bearcats
by 29-0. Josephine Cotto, Julia
Moreton, Ellie Purpura, Jordan
Olesen and Margaret Child all
tallied goals for M-A.
In the SCVAL El Camino Division, Gunn got goals from Natalie
Hill in the first half and Lucy Augustine in the second on the way
to a 2-0 victory over host Monta
Vista. Robin Waymouth provided the assist on Hill’s goal while
Augustine’s was unassisted. The
Titans improved to 5-3 in league
(8-5-1 overall).
In the WBAL Foothill Division, Sacred Heart Prep opened
up a five-point lead over secondplace Menlo School following a
4-2 victory over host Harker. The
Gators moved to 7-0 in league (21
points) and 13-2-1 overall while
second-place Menlo (5-1-1, 8-3-4)
tied King’s Academy, 1-1.
SHP tallied three goals in the
first half with freshman Mia
Shenk scoring twice in the first
seven minutes. Sophomore Olivia Athens scored in the 20th and
66th minutes after assisting on
Shenk’s second goal while McKenna Angotti assisted on Shenk’s
first tally. Q
Softball
asked to pitch, without much
preparation time. Kylie Sorenson
and Tylyn Wells once again will
be called upon for innings, though
they’ve had plenty of time to get
ready.
Sorenson, a sophomore, hit a
team-high .363 last year. Wells,
one of six seniors, hit .317. Fellow
seniors Leah White (.356), Erin
Ashby (.342) and Hanna Winter
(.333) followed Sorenson. Junior
Kayla Bonstrom (.333) was another of the six hitters over .300.
Senior Cassandra Roulund hit
.290, with 15 doubles and 38 RBI.
Alyssa Lombardo batted .500 in
limited appearances.
“I am so proud of the seniors for
their commitment to using tough
times for good,” Hanson said.
“Last year was an opportunity to
learn things and grow.”
Stanford (30-25 overall, 5-19 in
the Pac-12) won its first 13 games
last year before things turned.
Even with all the struggles in conference play, Stanford managed
wins over No. 2 UCLA and No.
10 Washington. The Cardinal also
lost in extra innings to nationally-ranked Arizona and Arizona
State, both on the road.
“It’s great to build off that,”
Hanson said. “We have great returners on the offensive side and
we have that to rely on. But offense is streaky and we’ll have to
play better defense.”
Stanford, which opened its season Thursday against Virginia at
the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe,
Ariz., was picked by coaches to
finish ninth in the nine-team Pac12.
“We’re trying to make sure the
culture is in the right place,” Hanson said. “We’re focused on the
process. I’d like to see resiliency
and a relentlessness in bouncing
back from failure.”
This season, the Cardinal will
play eight teams currently ranked
in the top 25, including No. 2 Oregon and No. 3 Alabama, and 14
teams that appeared in last year’s
NCAA tournament.
“The blueprint for excellence is
to be the best version of yourself,”
Hanson said. “To be the best, you
have to play the best and you have
to beat the best.”
Bonstrom led the team with 44
RBI last year, while fellow juniors
Jessica Plaza and Kaitlin Schaberg were two of the top defensive
players. Plaza and Ashby shared
the team lead in home runs, each
with six.
Schreyer and Sorenson lead a
strong sophomore class that also
includes Bessie Noll and Lauren
Bertoy.
In addition to Snyder, Hanson also like what she sees from
freshmen Whitney Burks, Kaitlyn
Lagattuta, Victoria Molina, Adren
Pettit, Savannah Schulze and Lauren Wegner.
“Some of the freshmen are in the
mix and pushing for spots,” Hanson said. “I’m also excited that they
will get to learn from the seniors.”
Hanson brought assistant
coach Dorian Shaw (Michigan,
2011) with her from Dartmouth
and coaxed former All-American
Megan Langenfeld, a national
team player, to join her from Arkansas.
OK, so Langenfeld, raised in
Bakersfield and a UCLA grad,
didn’t need that much coaxing.
“She wanted to get back to California,” Hanson said of her pitching coach.
Langenfeld helped the Bruins
win the 2010 national title. She
hit .706 (12 for 17) and was 3-0 in
the Women’s College World Series. Langenfeld was 53-9 with a
1.42 ERA at UCLA.
Hanson had never been to
Northern California before beginning the hiring process. She’s like
to make it her home. Q
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Sophomore pitcher Madi
Schreyer was thrust into the unenviable position of having to assume most of the innings pitched
last year. She’s better prepared for
it this season.
“She shouldered the load last
year and learned a lot from it,”
Hanson said. “It will be exciting
to watch her this season.”
Freshman Haley Spencer, who
accumulated some impressive
pitching and offensive numbers
while playing at Christian Brothers High in Sacramento, joins
Schreyer.
“She will have to immediately
jump in and play like a veteran,”
Hanson said of Spencer, who also
first base. “She’s a quality pitcher
with a great mentality.”
Stanford had a pitcher transfer
out of the school following her
freshman season for a second
straight year. Carly Hoover, a
South Carolina native and considered the top recruit out of high
school, transferred to LSU during
the summer.
Hoover won her first two decisions during last year’s opening
weekend and then missed the rest
of the season with a pectoral injury, which is usually associated
with weight-lifting and/or throwing a ball side-armed.
Kelsey Stevens transferred
to Oklahoma following an AllPac-12 freshman season in 2013
with the Cardinal.
The combination of Stevens’
transfer, Hoover’s injury and
pitcher Nyree White leaving the
team for personal reasons put a
strain on Schreyer, who threw
242 1/3 innings and appeared in
47 of the team’s 55 games last
spring.
Four position players were
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