Palo
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Vol. XXXVI, Number 26
Q
April 3, 2015
Schools to hire
mental health
therapists
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RETAIL UNDER FIRE
City poised to stop offices from replacing shops
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Seniors section
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Pulse 18
Title Pages 31
Eating Out 27
Movies 29
Puzzles 51
QArts YMCA’s Dance for All: truly inclusive
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QHome Real estate: conﬂict of interest?
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QSports Gunn boys having a tennis turnaround
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Local news, information and analysis
With sense of urgency, district to hire mental health therapists
School board president: ‘There is a crisis’
by Elena Kadvany
F
acing what multiple Board
of Education members and
the district superintendent
called a public health crisis at
Palo Alto’s two high schools, the
board voted unanimously Tuesday night to allocate $250,000
in district funds to hire two fulltime licensed mental health therapists as soon as possible.
The board waived a two-meeting requirement necessary to take
action in order to approve the
funds immediately and not wait
until the board’s next meeting on
April 21 after board member Ken
Dauber made two motions to take
both actions.
“Being able to move quickly
to do something when there is a
crisis — it’s our job,” board President Melissa Baten Caswell said
prior to the vote.
The principals of both high
schools provided statistics that
demonstrate the extent of the
mental health crises on their
campuses: There have been 16
Palo Alto High School students
hospitalized so far this school
year (there were 25 total last
year) and 212 students identified
as high-risk or at-risk in the four
days following a student death by
suicide earlier this month, Principal Kim Diorio said. As of last
week, 42 Gunn students this year
had been hospitalized or treated
for “significant suicide ideation,”
Principal Denise Herrmann said.
“Our mental health team right
now is really quite exhausted, as I
can imagine Gunn is also feeling,”
Diorio told the board.
Both principals said the nonprofit Adolescent Counseling
Services (ACS), which provides
on-campus support at Gunn and
Paly through one certified therapist at each campus and a team
of interns, is at full capacity. The
certified therapist also coordinates and oversees the interns on
top of counseling students, Herrmann said.
She added that an additional licensed therapist could lighten that
load, as well as support school
counselors to do initial assessments of students and take lead(continued on page 14)
EDUCATION
Union rebukes Gunn
principal over homework
‘directive’
Grievance accused Denise Herrmann
of violating contract
by Elena Kadvany
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participated in the U.S. State Department’s five-day Experience America trip to San Francisco,
exploring how developing technologies in their nations might contribute to the world economy.
LAND USE
City eyes emergency law
to protect retail
Palo Alto looks to extend ground-floor requirement
in commercial areas
by Gennady Sheyner
W
ith several longtime
retail establishments
recently shutting down
and being replaced with offices
in downtown Palo Alto, city officials are looking to adopt an
emergency law to halt the trend.
The City Council will consider
on April 6 an interim ordinance
that would ban the conversion of
retail to office space in the city’s
main commercial areas, including
University Avenue and California
Avenue. If approved, the “urgency”
ordinance would take effect for
about 45 days, though the council
would have the option of extending
it to up to two years if the conditions necessitating it persist.
The proposed interim law was
sparked by widespread concern
among the council about the dwindling supply of shops and services.
In downtown, Jungle Copy, Rudy’s
Pub and Zibbibo are some of the
notable retailers that have recently
left. City officials are also concerned that a similar pattern will
take place around California Avenue, which has already lost several retail establishments, including
Bargain Box and Avenue Florist.
The overall loss of retail was
a subject in Mayor Karen Holman’s “State of the City” speech
in February.
According to a report from planning staff, the city had a net loss of
about 70,500 square feet of retail
between 2008 and 2015.
If the council moves ahead with
the interim ordinance, it will become the city’s second stop-gap
law aimed at curbing the recent office boom. Earlier this month, the
council directed staff to craft an
interim ordinance that would cap
new office construction around
University Avenue, California
Avenue and El Camino Real at
(continued on page 16)
ithin three months of
taking over as principal of Gunn High
School last August, Denise Herrmann found herself confronted
by several challenges that were
especially huge for an administrator new to the district and not
yet fully familiar with the parent
community or her own school
staff.
From the outset, Herrmann
heard Gunn parents raising
alarms about the volume of
homework and the lack of consistency in how teachers were using
Schoology, an online program
the district adopted to standardize communications with students and families.
Then two teen suicides — one
on Oct. 15 by a 2014 Gunn graduate and another on Nov. 4 by a
Gunn junior — brought renewed
trauma to a campus just beginning to feel it had moved beyond
the cluster of student suicides in
2009 and 2010.
Then another gut-punch. On
Monday, Nov. 10, just six days after the second suicide, the teachers union served Herrmann with
a formal grievance, accusing her
of violating the union contract by
asking all teachers to use Schoology to post their homework
assignments beginning with the
new semester in January.
The union demanded that Herrmann issue a written retraction
to the parent community and
teachers and explain that the
teachers’ contract only requires
that they “electronically post”
homework assignments, without
mandating that it be on any particular platform.
Eventually, after many drafts
and confidential meetings involving Palo Alto Educators Association (PAEA) President Teri Baldwin, a union
representative
from the California Teachers Association
and Assistant
Superintendent
Scott Bowers,
Herrmann in
late November
Denise
verbally apoloHerrmann
gized to staff
and made clear
she understood teacher compliance could not be required but
repeated her hope that her request
be followed.
The entire tussle over homework and the grievance itself
would normally have never
come to light, since the union
contract also requires that any
grievance be kept confidential.
When the Weekly in December
heard rumors of the grievance,
Herrmann, Superintendent Max
McGee, Bowers and Baldwin all
declined to comment, asserting
its confidentiality and stating it
had already been resolved.
Two weeks ago, however, responding to a Public Records
Act request made in January by
the Palo Alto Weekly, the district
turned over the grievance documents and emails among school
officials about the dispute.
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Aging is like an extreme sport.
Susanne Stadler, co-founder of At Home with
Growing Older, speaking at a housing conference
sponsored by the nonprofit Avenidas. See story on
page 32.
Around Town
MEYER’S MEMORIES ... When
the Stanford University Alumni
Association marked Meyer
Library’s final day of operations
in August 2014 with a Facebook
post titled, “Goodnight, Meyer,”
the response was huge. Five
hundred comments were made,
including some remembering the
library as a study haven, others
bidding it good riddance and
many celebrating the building
as a venue for crazy moments.
The 40-day demolition of Meyer
Library began in February and
will end mid-April, and soon the
site will be transformed into a
landscaped open space with
walkways and benches. Most of
the library’s resources have been
moved to the new Lathrop Library
in the old Graduate School of
Business, but Meyer’s memories
will live on: Bats made a home
for themselves in Meyer’s upper
reaches and would occasionally
send students under their desks
or prompt them to avoid the top
floor altogether; Meyer was also a
hot spot for pranks and mayhem,
including naked fraternity
pledges running through the
library’s lobby, impromptu Band
performances and a loinclothed
Tarzan swinging between floors;
in recent years, the giant “Beat
Cal” banner hung proudly across
Meyer; and initially the library
allowed students to smoke on the
third floor, but a spate of spilled
ashtrays and burned upholstery,
general disregard for rules and —
the final straw — a wastepaperbasket fire forced officials to ban
smoking in the library.
ON THE BIG SCREEN ... Some
Silicon Valley scientists can now
see their work in a whole new
light — and so can millions of
visitors — at the Smithsonian’s
National Air and Space Museum
in Washington. The Smithsonian’s
Dynamic Sun Video Wall, which
was designed and built by
scientists at Lockheed Martin’s
Advanced Technology Center
in Palo Alto and colleagues from
the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory, combines six 50-inch
monitors to create a 7-foot-by-6foot display of the sun in super
high-definition: 4,096 by 4,096
eyepopping pixels. To compare, a
high-definition TV can only display
1,920 by 1,080 pixels. The video
wall will demonstrate to visitors
why images at this resolution are
needed to study and predict solar
behavior. “We’re honored that
our work in Silicon Valley is part
of the nation’s leading aerospace
museum,” said Karel Schrijver,
NASA’s principal investigator
for the Atmospheric Imaging
Assembly and a Lockheed Martin
Senior Fellow. “Our systems use
precise optical technologies to
analyze a star that’s nearly 93
million miles away, and we use
tremendous computing power to
visualize the data, to understand
the sun’s ever-changing
magnetism and the solar storms
that it powers. That’s important
because the sun’s behavior can
disrupt and damage satellites and
power grids.”
SINGAPORE SPRING ... Palo Alto
Superintendent Max McGee and
a group of 12 Palo Alto and Gunn
high school students (six from
each school) will be spending their
spring break in Singapore working
on research projects on topics
like “identification of novel antibiofilm compounds” and “twodimensional materials as catalysts
for the oxygen reduction reaction.”
The high-level science research
projects and very-extended field
trip are part of a pilot research
partnership McGee launched
this year, connecting the Gunn
and Paly students with students
at the National Junior College
in Singapore. The 12 students
will be working for a minimum
of 30 hours in the college’s labs
over spring break, but the entire
project extends through next
year, McGee said at the March
24 school board meeting, at
which the board gave its official
blessing to the trip. McGee gave
a proposal of the program to the
schools’ science departments and
asked them to send his way any
students who would be interested
in participating. The purpose of
the program and trip, McGee said,
is “to pursue advanced scientific
research and learn what real
research is like ... as we prepare
(students) for careers that don’t
exist, which will include working
with peers and colleagues around
the world.” The students will learn
how to read and analyze scientific
literature, develop a formal
research proposal, conduct lab
research and prepare final papers
on their research, which McGee
said ideally will be submitted for
publication. They will also present
their research to the school board
this fall. Q
Police: Suspicions of theft triggered
Palo Alto murder-suicide
Investigation suggests Marc Alvin Miller thought
Vincent DePaul Collins was stealing from him
by Gennady Sheyner
T
he Palo Alto man who police said fatally shot the
apartment manager at the
Alta Torre Apartments before
killing himself in the building’s
elevator believed that the manager was stealing items from his
apartment, the police investigation concluded.
Marc Alvin Miller, 69, shot the
building’s manager, Vincent DePaul
Collins, 70, four times on the afternoon of March 19 in the manager’s
office of the Fabian Way complex
for low-income seniors, according
to police. He then entered the building’s elevator and shot himself once
in the head with a 9 mm Smith and
Wesson handgun.
Since that afternoon, Palo Alto
officers have been interviewing
residents, friends and family members of the men to determine the
possible motive for the shooting.
The investigation revealed that
on Feb. 8, Miller called the police
to allege that Collins had been
entering his apartment when it
HOUSING
was unoccupied and stealing
miscellaneous objects. Police
said an officer responded to the
call but could find no evidence
that a crime had been committed.
“The officer interviewed (Collins), who denied that he had committed any theft or had even been
inside the suspect’s apartment
without his permission,” Palo
Alto police said in a statement.
Police did not specify which items
were purported to have been stolen,
though officers say they were per-
County had gone from $593,000
as of January 2010 to $853,000 as
of January 2015, a 44 percent increase. In Palo Alto, the trend was
more significant, with the median
price going from about $1.1 million to $2.2 million, an increase of
100 percent.
admitted as evidence
Attorneys for the residents are
hoping that council members will
consider the new analysis during
sales would likely produce a mis- their deliberations of the Jissers’
closure application. However,
leading result.”
The range of the six sales from Margaret Nanda, who is repreBuena Vista was from $3,000 to senting the Jisser family, is argu$29,000, according to the initial ing that the Brabant report should
appraisal. Yet Brabant notes that not be admitted into the record,
he is aware of at least three Buena citing the city’s appeals proceVista homes that were bought for dures. The procedures state that
$50,000 or more. In one of the the “evidentiary record is closed”
three examples, a home that was and that new documents “shall not
bought for $50,000 in the 2003- be offered as a basis for decision
04 time frame was appraised for on appeal, except that Council
$16,000 by Beccaria & Weber. may allow new evidence if a party
can demonstrate
Another home,
that newly disin the park’s
Space
110, ‘It ... appears that most covered and relevant evidence
was appraised of the shortcomings
exists that could
for $30,000,
not have been
even though have resulted in an
discovered with
it was sold in undervaluation of
the exercise of
July 2012 for
homes.’
reasonable dili$50,000.
As part of his
—James Brabant, a certified gence during the
review, Brabant
real estate appraiser initial proceeding before the
interviewed the
Hearing Offiowner of the
cer.” In this case,
mobile home
in Space 110, Hariberto Avalos, she argued, the information could
who confirmed that he bought have been commissioned and subthe home for $50,000 in July 2012 mitted months ago, during the iniand that the home was in good tial hearing process last year.
The Residents Association,
condition. Avalos also reportedly
said that he was unaware of the Nanda wrote, “must not be perpending park closure at the time mitted to benefit from attempting
and would not have purchased it to shirk previously established
appeal procedures because they
if he had known.
“He was notified of the clo- feel entitled to do so.” There is no
sure about three months after he loophole, she wrote, that allows
bought the home,” Brabant’s re- the admission of the appraisal and
the accompanying Trulia listing,
port states.
Brabant also notes that the prior which purport to demonstrate the
appraisal didn’t make adequate rising housing values.
“The proposed evidence is nei“date of value” to account for the
fact that local property values ther relevant, nor can be shown
have been skyrocketing. He noted to have not (been) obtainable
that the median price for resi- during the hearing procedure
dential properties in Santa Clara by a party exercising reason-
New report challenges
Buena Vista appraisals
Attorneys clash over whether assessment should be
by Gennady Sheyner
W
ith Palo Alto officials
preparing to rule on the
fate of the Buena Vista
Mobile Home Park later this
month, residents of the park are
challenging a key property appraisal that was used by the park
owner to determine how much
compensation the evicted residents would receive.
The attorneys for the Buena
Vista Residents Association have
recently submitted to the city a
new Appraisal Review Report
that vehemently criticizes the
home appraisals used by the Jisser
family in their Relocation Impact
Report, a key document in the closure process. Now, with less than
two weeks to go until the City
Council considers the adequacy
of the Relocation Impact Report
— among the last steps in the protracted closure process — attorneys for the two sides are squabbling over whether the critical
new appraisal should be admitted
as evidence.
The new report was crafted by
James Brabant, a certified real estate appraiser, at the request of the
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley,
Sidley Austin LLP, and Western
Center of Law and Poverty, firms
that have been working with
the Buena Vista Residents Association. Brabant reviewed the
appraisal of Buena Vista homes
that was conducted more than two
years ago by Beccaria & Weber
and that was used to calculate the
value of the mobile homes. Brabant’s nine-page report concluded
that the analysis included in the 32
appraisals by Beccaria & Weber
was “flawed and does not provide
reasonable estimates of in-place
market value.”
“It also appears that most of the
shortcomings have resulted in an
undervaluation of homes,” Brabant wrote.
Brabant’s assessment takes issue with the sales data that was
used by Beccaria & Weber, a
key consideration in determining
how much compensation residents
should receive when they move
out. The Beccaria & Weber appraisal relied on 13 mobile-home
sales, six of which took place in
Buena Vista and five in neighboring communities, including
Mountain View, Sunnyvale and
Redwood City. Brabant’s report
notes that even though the Beccaria & Weber report appraised 32
mobile homes with a great variation in size, type and age, only 13
homes’ values are used throughout the “comparable sales” analysis for almost all 32 appraisals.
“It looks like a very small sampling of sales was chosen from
a potentially large data base that
could produce misleading results,” Brabant wrote.
Brabant noted that in some cases, two mobile homes were sold
in the same park for two very different rates. Yet the appraisal only
considered the sale with the lower
price. For example, the appraisal
relied on a home in Mountain
View’s Sahara Village that sold
for $15,000 in 2012. Yet Brabant
points to data showing that other
homes in the complex were recently sold for $34,000. Others
went for $22,000 and $20,000.
“The lower sale at $15,000 was
utilized in all 32 of the appraisals,” Brabant wrote. “Focusing on
the lower sale and ignoring higher
sonal items with no obvious monetary value. Miller had allegedly
told several friends that he believed
Collins had stolen from him, though
according to the
police, the
friends told
Miller that he
had “likely
just misplaced
the items.”
Though
some neighbors
suggested that Marc Alvin
Collins’ strict Miller
e n fo r c e m e n t
of complex rules, particularly its
parking policies, may have contributed to the dispute, police said
that the investigation did not uncover any motives for the shooting
murder aside from the suspected
theft. After the March 19 incident,
Palo Alto police searched the
homes of both Miller and Collins
and didn’t find any evidence suggesting that Miller’s property had
Courtesy Richard Salter Storrs Library.
CRIME
Courtesy Collins family
Upfront
been stolen by Collins.
Police said that since Alta Torre
Apartments opened in 2010,
there has not been a single theft
or burglary reported at the
facility. Collins
had worked at
Alta Torre as a
manager since
the building
opened.
The March
incident was
Vincent DePaul the city’s first
homicide since
Collins
October 2009,
when Bulos Zumot was arrested
for killing his girlfriend, Jennifer
Schipsi, and setting their shared
cottage on fire. On Jan. 9, 2015,
a man in his 20s died after being
punched once in the face on Dec.
21, 2014, following an altercation
outside of a downtown bar. The
primary suspect in that case has
been charged with involuntary
manslaughter. Q
able diligence,” Nanda wrote on
March 25. “Moreover, admitting
the additional evidence would be
extremely prejudicial to the Park
Owner. The prejudice outweighs
any probative value the proposed
evidence may offer because the
evidence is clearly not relevant
and because it has been put forth
in a way that intentionally circumvents the agreed upon procedures
governing the process.”
But while Nanda is criticizing
the residents for submitting lastminute documents in an attempt
to sway a decision, attorneys for
the residents note that the Jissers’
attorney employed the same practice during the May 2014 hearings
in front of Hearing Officer Craig
Labadie. During the last of the
three hearings, Nanda agreed to
revise the package to offer residents a 100 percent rent differential (the difference between their
Buena Vista rents and the rents at
their new homes), rather than the
40 percent proposed in the report.
The last-minute addendum, wrote
Nadia Aziz, an attorney with the
Law Foundation, was done “at the
end of the hearing, after all the testimony had concluded, and with no
opportunity for the Residents Association to question the owner or
its witnesses about the addendum.”
“Given that the Hearing Officer allowed the owner to make
last-minute additions to the RIR
regarding the appraisals described
in the RIR, without rebuttal and
without any mechanism to appeal
those unknown future amounts,
the City should allow this report
to serve at least as rebuttal of the
methodology of the appraiser that
will likely be performing those
appraisals.”
The report comes at a critical
time for the roughly 400 Buena
Vista residents who would be
evicted if the mobile-home shutters. The Jisser family, which
owns the park at 3980 El Camino
Real, has been trying to close the
park since fall of 2012.
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Upfront
CRIME
Palo Alto man dies after fight in San Jose
24-year-old taken to Stanford Hospital hours after the clash
P
olice are investigating the
suspicious circumstances
surrounding the death of
a man who was in a fight at a
downtown San Jose restaurant
and taken to a Palo Alto hospital
early on March 28, a San Jose
police spokesman said.
Police have not released his
name, but he has been identified
as a 24-year-old Palo Alto man,
Sgt. Enrique Garcia said.
Around 4:50 a.m., Palo Alto
police notified officers in San
Jose of a man who was taken to
Stanford Medical Center with
head trauma, Garcia said. Stanford medical staff pronounced
the man dead that morning.
A preliminary investigation
indicates the man was involved
in a fight at Myth Taverna &
Lounge located at 152 Post St. in
San Jose. He was taken to Stanford a few hours after the fight,
Garcia said.
The Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office said this week that
it would not release the name of
the man until cleared to do so by
San Jose police, but as of Thursday the department had not re-
sponded to press inquiries.
Anyone who witnessed the
fight or has information on
where the victim was before
reaching Stanford is asked to
call San Jose police Detective
Sgt. Raul Martinez or Detective Jorge Santiago at 408-2775283. Those who wish to remain
anonymous may call Silicon
Valley Crime Stoppers at 408947-STOP (7867). Tipsters may
be eligible for a cash reward if
the information leads to an arrest
and conviction of the suspect. Q
— Bay City News Service
RELIGION
Muslims and Jews share stories,
questions over Palo Alto feast
Interfaith groups draw 100 to unusual ‘Halaqa-Seder’ celebration
by Chris Kenrick
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Courtesy Shafath Syed
J
ews and Muslims mingled
in Palo Alto Sunday evening
and talked with one another
about their faiths in a first-of-its
kind “Halaqa-Seder.”
A crowd of about 100 professionals, seated at small tables that
were equally divided between
members of the two religions,
shared dinner and discussed reenactments of Muslim and Jewish
perspectives on the story of Moses,
who is revered in both traditions.
The “Halaqa-Seder” — a nod
to the Islamic tradition of gathering to learn about theology and
the Jewish Passover observance
beginning Friday, April 3 — was
jointly organized by two interfaithminded organizations, the San Jose-based Islamic Networks Group
and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Silicon Valley.
“When we started out we didn’t
know what we’d find out or where it
would lead, but basically we wanted
to open the door,” said Diane Fisher,
director of the Jewish Community
Relations Council of Silicon Valley.
Maha Elgenaidi, founder and
president of the 22-year-old Islamic Networks Group, said her
organization expanded into interfaith work a few years after the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in response
to many queries and invitations
from churches and synagogues.
Interest in Sunday’s Halaqa-Seder was so great that the event had
to be moved from a private home
in Los Altos Hills to a larger venue
at the Mitchell Park Community
Center on Middlefield Road.
Volunteer readers presented
brief re-enactments of both Jewish and Muslim versions of Moses’ story as well as Muslim and
Jewish women’s roles in the story.
Participants were then asked to
discuss their reactions with their
table companions.
Questions and comments from
Participants in an interfaith dinner gathering of Jews and Muslims
discuss the story of Moses Sunday evening, March 29, at Mitchell
Park Community Center.
both sides were plentiful, including
the nature and relative authority of
various religious texts, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, segregation of the sexes in mosques and
synagogues and issues posed by
radical fundamentalism.
A Jewish participant, who asked
not to be identified by name, explained that Jews are encouraged
to continually re-interpret, challenge and discuss the meaning of
the Torah and other texts.
“This is the way you’re supposed to learn it deeply,” she said.
Seated across the table, Atherton physician Isha Abdullah described her recent pilgrimage to
Mecca, a once-in-a-lifetime obligation of every Muslim who is
capable of making the journey.
Discussions were so intense that
Ameena Jandali of the Islamic
Networks Group had trouble interrupting with a microphone to
announce dinner, a buffet that
included halal and kosher dishes.
No alcohol was served.
Islamic scholar Ali Ataie and
Los Gatos Rabbi Laurie Hahn
Tapper recited blessings over the
food in Arabic and Hebrew.
The Halaqa-Seder also conclud-
ed with a Hebrew blessing and a
Muslim call to prayer.
Farid Senzai, who teaches Middle East politics at Santa Clara
University, said, “I learned a lot
about Judaism just in the short
period we were here.”
Senzai said many of his students
are “absolutely shocked to find out
that Islam speaks so highly of Jesus or Moses, and the similarities
that exist among these faiths.”
Jewish participant Robert
Chaykin, who is a member of the
Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission, said, “I was
very surprised at how many references there are in the Quran and
Hadith (collected sayings of the
prophet Muhammad) to Jewish
figures,” adding that he’d like to
learn more through critical study
of the Islamic texts as he has done
continually with the Torah.
“Our purpose is to build relationships across faith, ethnic and
cultural barriers that others might
see, and strengthen them,” Fisher
said. “We also just want to enjoy
each other’s culture and faith.” Q
Contributing Writer Chris
Kenrick can be emailed at [email protected].
Upfront
Grievance
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I
n concept, more consistent use
of Schoology would reveal, on
a day-to-day basis, the total
homework load on each student,
enabling teachers to better coordinate their assignments and
course plans and prevent any unnecessary burdening of students.
It would also allow parents easier
access to information about their
children’s schoolwork.
But the union’s grievance
against Herrmann — the first such
formal complaint in more than a
decade in the Palo Alto Unified
School District — claimed that
her “directive” to use the online
system violated the union’s collective-bargaining agreement.
The one-page grievance cited
meetings between union members and Herrmann over use of
Schoology as early as September,
in which they warned her about
pressuring teachers to use the
platform. Then on Oct. 22, Herrmann sent a message to parents
explaining her expectation that
all teachers post their homework
assignments on Schoology, along
with time estimates for how long
the assignments would take to
complete. This expectation had
been communicated to Gunn
teachers at a staff meeting earlier
that month.
Herrmann’s expectation —
later characterized by her as an
admittedly “naïve and bold” yet
“passionate” request — and the
ensuing debate over Schoology
revealed fissures in the relationships between the new principal,
the union and some, but not all,
teachers. Her efforts to relieve
student stress were perceived
by some at Gunn as dismissive,
pushed out quickly from top
down without consideration of the
teachers themselves, some school
sources said.
But Herrmann saw Schoology as a system, already in place,
with which she could fulfill her
required role as school administrator to ensure compliance with
the district’s homework policy,
which was adopted in 2012 but
is widely acknowledged to have
been implemented irregularly at
the schools. Herrmann said she
“took that on” herself in terms of
pushing out that message to the
school’s instructional supervisors,
who oversee each department.
“In the (homework) policy, it
clearly states that the principal
will have a system in place to
make sure the staff is following
the homework policy and things
like that,” Herrmann said. “I
thought it was a pretty simple solution. I definitely underestimated
that the reluctance that some staff
members would have to taking
that on (as) a regular part of their
work.”
As a compromise to Herrmann,
the union offered that teachers
post links on Schoology to external websites that many of them
have built over the years, Baldwin
said, accomplishing the goal of
having everything in one central
place. Many teachers post home- January interview about homework information and much more work. “I think it would be better
— videos, Powerpoint presenta- if it were a better tool, but it’s all
tions, links to resources — on in- we have right now, so let’s use it
dependent, self-built Google sites and it will help us to understand
and some reportedly objected to homework (loads) a little better.”
having to transfer or duplicate this
Minutes from the Oct. 29
elsewhere, Baldwin said.
meeting of Gunn’s Instructional
Herrmann called this idea a Council, a regular staff meeting
“step in the right direction,” but with the heads of all departments,
one that doesn’t take advantage note that “some teachers are reof the “power of the Schoology luctant to spend time transferring
software” — particularly a cal- their assignments from Googledendar feature
ocs to School— to provide
ogy. Though the
students and
PAEA contract
parents a full ‘I presented this
states that aspicture of their expectation as a
signments must
school loads.
be posted onchallenge
—
not
as
“Again, it’s
line, it doesn’t
trying to say, a directive.’
specify with
we have this
soft—Denise Herrmann, which
tool that can
principal, Gunn High School ware.”
do all of these
The minutes
amazing things
mention offers
to support kids
for tech supin their time
port, an upcommanagement,” Herrmann said. ing Schoology training and Her“Are we doing our part to try to rmann’s commitment to “work
make sure that they are benefiting with teachers not yet on Schoolfrom that?”
ogy, asking what they need to ease
Baldwin said the union’s ex- the transition.”
pectation and impression after
But Herrmann’s attempts to
the first meeting was that teach- help teachers move toward use of
ers would not be expected to use Schoology, and her continued diSchoology. But the grievance rection on that point, became for
states that Baldwin and Gunn the union the “catalyst” for filing
union representatives met again the grievance, Baldwin said. The
with Herrmann — who stuck to union saw Herrmann as unwillher vision of teachers using the ing to settle and called the Oct.
software — on Oct. 17 to “re- 22 letter to parents “an attempt to
mind” her that the requirement undermine teachers and influence
violated the union contract.
current negotiations.”
Five days later, Herrmann sent
Baldwin hand-delivered the
her message to parents.
grievance to Herrmann on Mon“I am appealing to the ‘spirit of day, Nov. 10, when Herrmann
the law,’ not the ‘letter of the law,’” was coordinating the school’s reHerrmann wrote. “I presented this sponse to the suicide days earlier.
expectation as a challenge — not
“The timing was awful,” Balda directive. Just as hospitals use win said, but under the teachers
a consistent medical electronic contract, the union was under a
record system to improve patient 10-day timeline (not counting
care, I believe schools need to use weekends) to file the grievance.
a consistent learning management
The grievance alleges that Hersystem to improve student learn- rmann violated Appendix C, Secing. Electronic medical records tion 1 of the union contract, which
allow any medical professional in states that “In order to provide
the hospital (doctors, specialists, readily available and inclusive
nurses, CNAs, etc) to access real- access to learning expectations,
time information about the patient secondary teachers are expected
and coordinate care. Electronic to electronically post homework
learning-management systems assignments, instructional materiallow any education professional als, and test and quiz dates ... in a
in the school (teachers, special timely manner.”
education teachers, counselors,
Baldwin said it was not a single
administrators, etc.) to access re- teacher or group of teachers who
al-time information about the stu- prompted the grievance but rather
dent’s assignment to coordinate the decision of the union’s execuassignments across departments.” tive board.
“When the contract was beeachers have said that Scho- ing violated, in what we saw, the
ology does not differentiate executive board decided (to file
between types of assign- a grievance),” she said. “Some
ments or tests, so a journal entry teachers weren’t necessarily in
for an English class and a biology favor of it, but we have a contract
midterm exam are weighted the that we need to uphold.”
In fact, several teachers wrote
same, creating a color-coded “red
flag” day that indicates a heavy to Herrmann the week the grievance was filed to express their
workload or multiple conflicts.
Some also complain that enter- support for her and their disaping assignments in the system’s pointment that the union did not
calendar function can take up to take into account all teachers’
four hours of additional time each voices on Schoology, according
week that would be better spent to emails released to the Weekly.
“Please know that you have the
on working directly with students.
“It’s a difficult tool to use,” support of many people on our
Gunn physics teacher Lettie staff, and I know I’m not alone
Weinmann told the Weekly in a when I express my utter gratitude
T
for your commitment to us as a staff
and school community!!” wrote one
staff member, whose name was redacted to protect privacy, on the day
the grievance was filed.
On Nov. 16, another staff member wrote to Herrmann: “I hope
this skirmish is but a regrettable
bump in the road of a long period
of your valuable presence at Gunn.
I deeply hope that we can overcome this current difficulty and
can devise a way to have a real and
(dare I say it) full-throated conversation about this and many other
issues certain to arise as a faculty
and come to an understanding in
which all teachers feel heard, parents’ concerns are taken into consideration, and our students are
given the very best education we
can possibly give them.”
One staff member criticized
the union directly for the timing
of the grievance.
“I just wanted to share that I
wish the same kind of mindfulness of the mental health (of) our
principal was used when serving
her a grievance on Monday afternoon,” the staff member wrote in
a Nov. 13 email, copying Baldwin.
“We all are very emotionally exhausted, and it seems rather insensitive to serve our new principal
with a grievance at this very moment (especially since our entire
staff was not in agreement that we
wanted this grievance to be filed)!
“Teri, I hope that moving forward that you can encourage our
staff to work through our differences with our principal first before filing grievances,” the email
continues. “I do not agree with
this line of action at all, and am
rather upset that the union is not
listening to my voice!!!”
Herrmann verbally summarized the grievance to staff at
a meeting on the afternoon of
Monday, Nov. 24, she said. In an
official written response, Herrmann apologized for any miscommunication and defended
what she intended as a “passionate
request,” not a directive, to post
assignments to Schoology. This
response was provided to union
leadership but never sent to staff,
as the union felt that Herrmann’s
Nov. 24 verbal communication
was sufficient, she said
“I would like to characterize my
actions as a bit naïve and bold but
not manipulative or dictatorial,”
she wrote. “I wrongly assumed
that the request to consistently
use Schoology school-wide would
be readily accepted by the Gunn
staff. As a new principal, I saw a
student need and a parent need,
and I also saw that we had no data
about nightly/weekly homework
load and thought a small adjustment in our communication as a
school could meet that need.”
Herrmann wrote that she stands
by the request so that “students
can more easily plan and manage
their time” and staff who provide
academic and non-academic support can find students’ workloads
in a single place.
Some teachers and the union
have objected to this reasoning,
saying it places an excessive burden on the teachers to “nanny”
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linked to the online version of this article, posted on PaloAltoOnline.com.
their students. In a statement
sent to the Weekly, Baldwin said,
“There is apprehension that programs like Schoology do not promote the sort of organization and
self-management skills that young
people need to acquire for success
in life after high school. Teachers
know that one-size-fits-all approaches to education are never
in the best interest of the students
they strive to serve every day.”
In an interview, Baldwin added
that inter- and cross-departmental
communication and coordination
is essential to monitoring homework loads and practices.
“All teachers are all on Google
Apps and can share information
through their Google Drives,
which many already do. They
collaborate via Google Docs and
Calendars and this can help them
monitor homework loads,” Baldwin said. “I am sure there are
many other ways, that if the teachers were asked which ways would
be the most productive/useful for
them while they are creating lesson plans, they would be happy to
collaborate with administrators to
implement.”
C
entral to the debate over
Schoology is the district’s
homework policy, which
mandates limits of the amount
of homework per night for each
grade level and expects assignments that are designed to “deepen understanding and encourage a
love of learning,” the policy reads.
The policy also requires teachers
to post assignments so that they
are available to students inside
and outside of school, to monitor time spent on homework and
to coordinate with each other on
deadlines and tests to “minimize
student over-extension.”
In February, shortly after a
third student death by suicide,
McGee sent a districtwide memo
requiring all faculty and staff to
take immediate steps to review
and follow the policy, stressing
that “compliance is expected
and required,” not encouraged
or recommended. McGee asked
all principals to work with their
staffs to develop a plan to ensure
implementation. He also echoed
Herrmann, writing that he frequently hears that “one of the biggest stressors” for students and
parents is having multiple tests or
assignments due on the same day.
McGee also pointed to a segment of the homework policy that
requires teachers to “post assignments in a manner that is clear,
consistent and easily observed by
the student both in and outside the
classroom. The use of online communication tools is strongly encouraged at the secondary level.”
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Special Orders of the Day
2. Selection of Applicants to Interview on April 15, 2015 for the Human Relations Commission, the Public Art
Commission and the Utilities Advisory Commission
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4. Approve and Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Construction Contract with Cal Electro Inc. in the
Amount of $514,000 for the Electric Underground Rebuild and Re-conductor Project, Phase III Along and
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Accessibility Improvements and Adoption of a Budget Amendment Ordinance in the Capital Project Fund
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on an 11,000 s.f. Site in the Downtown Commercial (CD-C (GF)(P)) Zone District Located at 429 University
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Upfront
News Digest
Stanford investigates cheating allegations
Stanford University officials are investigating reports of an increased number of students engaging in cheating, according to a
March 24 letter by Provost John Etchemendy to staff and faculty.
The Office of Community Standards received “an unusually high
number of troubling allegations of academic dishonesty” at the end
of winter quarter, he said.
“Among a smattering of concerns from a number of winter courses,
one faculty member reported allegations that may involve as many
as 20 percent of the students in one large introductory course,” he
wrote. The Office of Community Standards is investigating the allegations and students are being notified, he added.
The honor code was written by Stanford students in 1921 and is the
university’s statement on academic integrity, according to the Office
of Community Standards. Violations include copying from another’s
examination paper or allowing another to copy from one’s own paper;
unpermitted collaboration; plagiarism; revising and resubmitting a quiz
or exam for regrading, without the instructor’s knowledge and consent;
giving or receiving unpermitted aid on a take-home examination; representing as one’s own work the work of another; and giving or receiving aid on an academic assignment under circumstances in which a
reasonable person should have known that such aid was not permitted.
Etchemendy did not name the class in which so many students are
accused of dishonesty. But according to The Stanford Daily, multiple
sources with knowledge of the situation identified the class as CS 106A:
Programming Methodology. The class covers introductory computer
programming and is one of the most popular classes at Stanford. Q
— Sue Dremann
City set to hire assistant city manager
Palo Alto City Manager James Keene is preparing to fill one of
City Hall’s senior leadership positions in May, when Suzanne Mason
starts her new job as the assistant city manager.
Mason, who currently serves as director of human resources for
the County of Napa, is set to start her new position on May 5, pending the City Council’s confirmation of her appointment on April 6.
The position has been vacant since former Assistant City Manager
Pamela Antil resigned a year ago to take a job in San Jose.
Keene said Thursday that Mason was selected after an “extensive
national search and recruitment process that included comprehensive
input from a broad spectrum of community stakeholders.” He touted Mason’s more than 30 years of experience in local government,
which he said will be “a tremendous asset to this executive position
with a broad portfolio of responsibilities.”
Mason spent the bulk of her career with the City of Long Beach,
where she started working in 1984. This included stints as deputy
city manager and director of human services.
In addition to a salary of $220,000, Mason will receive an unusual
perk: a monthly stipend of $2,500 for housing.
“The City is finding, however, that the high cost of housing in the
region and specifically Palo Alto is creating barriers to attracting
experienced, high-quality applicants,” the announcement states. Q
— Gennady Sheyner
Grad student accused of poisoning lab mates
A former Stanford University graduate medical student faces
charges of poisoning her fellow lab mates in a series of incidents
that occurred last September, according to court documents filed in
Santa Clara County Superior Court.
The 26-year-old student was arrested on Nov. 11 and is charged
with four felonies after allegedly spiking her lab mates’ water with
paraformaldehyde in a Stanford School of Medicine lab.
The graduate student, who no longer attends Stanford, had been
working in the lab for three years. She was a Singapore National Science Scholar at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research,
according to online government reports.
But she appeared to be under duress at Stanford, witnesses in the
lab told police. Described as shy, meticulous and a good student, she
once expressed that she was stressed out, according to a police report.
The student allegedly admitted to tainting colleagues’ water bottles with paraformaldehyde and to destroying her lab mate’s stem
cells. Prior to that, she had started putting dish-washing liquid in her
own water at home and drinking it. She progressed to spiking her
water with random chemicals she found at the lab, she told police.
The student told police she was under the treatment of a psychiatrist
and was being treated with antidepressants. She checked herself into the
hospital after the investigation began and remained on a psychiatric hold.
University officials asked that the name of the lab and the persons
involved not be published due to privacy considerations for the victims.
The student’s attorney said the student may pursue an insanity
defense. She is scheduled to appear in Santa Clara County Superior
Court on May 15. Q
— Sue Dremann
Upfront
BUSINESS
New nonprofit creates micro-businesses
EPAMade aims to help single mothers gain job skills, become entrepreneurs
by Sue Dremann
A
new nonprofit in East Palo
Alto teaching single mothers and young women entrepreneurship through microbusinesses is helping to transform
their economic status and the
young women’s self-image.
Guided by professionals, the
organization EPAMade is the latest example of how young Silicon
Valley and Bay Area professionals are engaging in social entrepreneurship to uplift residents
economically and set them on the
path to economic parity.
Launched last fall, EPAMade
funds micro-businesses through
donations. But founder Allen Lu
said that, unlike the traditional nonprofit model, he expects each enterprise won’t have to return to donors
for additional funding. Each is to
become self-sustaining and, when
profitable, will return the donor’s
investment by giving 100 percent
of profits to other East Palo Alto
nonprofit groups, he said.
EPAMade has established order-fulfillment operations such as
a book-distribution service for authors and enterprises that include
T-shirt silk screening, jewelry,
home decor and clothing. The
organization has plans for a thrift
shop and possibly a community
cafe and a salon.
On March 28, it held its first
pop-up sale at a home on Weeks
Street to familiarize the community with the group and its products.
Additional pop-ups are planned at
the home every two weeks from 9
a.m. to noon, Lu said.
Lu is an eCommerce professional with a degree in information systems from Carnegie Mellon Uni-
versity and marketing credentials.
He launched two online brands for
American Eagle Outfitters, developed eCommerce brand strategy
for GNC and worked as vice president of technology, supply chain
and distribution at ModCloth before producing the film “Linsanity” on basketball star Jeremy Lin.
His wife, Ayaka Lu, co-chief
steward, holds a degree in communication design and human
computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon and has worked in
education design, including for
the Pittsburgh Penguins and Mr.
Rogers’ Neighborhood company.
The Lus previously founded
TL Made, a similar program in
San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood that spawned successful businesses such as TL Clean,
which partners with the city to
clean parks, he said.
“We feel that sustainable businesses create a healthy ecosystem
versus charity,” Lu said during a
tour of the micro-workplaces last
Saturday. Some of the assembly
takes place in sheds; more complicated processes are handled at the
nonprofit New Creation Home Ministries for single mothers, he said.
In a shed near an old greenhouse, volunteers and young
mothers hand-painted clay pots
filled with flowering succulents,
purchased from a friend of Lu’s
who has a nursery in Half Moon
Bay. EPAMade plans to sell the
arrangements online to groups
and at events such as San Francisco’s Urban Air Market. The
organization is also in talks with
Whole Foods Market, Lu said.
EPAMade’s model looks at
the needs and tastes within the
community it serves. In the Tenderloin, it took advantage of residents’ creativity to start cottageindustries such as handmade
leather goods. The same industry
is beginning in East Palo Alto,
with resident-made knit caps and
jewelry. EPAMade’s online store
even offers jewelry pieces named
after the city’s Gardens neighborhood streets: “The Jasmine” earrings and “The Wisteria” necklace, to name a couple.
Some of the greatest opportunities are business-to-business, Lu
said. EPAMade is doing distribution and packaging of 5 million
of “Crazy Love” author Francis
Chan’s books, has partnered with
a soy-candle company and makes
lip balms, whole-leaf teas and
other home-decor items.
In keeping with fostering dignity, it
produces “I (heart) EPA” T-shirts and
baby wear as well as throw pillows
with an adorable sea otter design.
But the Lus’ vision is about more
than making money; it’s also about
creating a secondary, affordable
economy that serves the needs of
residents and keeps money local,
he said. Corporate businesses and
those with owners residing outside
of the city have “no vested interest
in the community,” he said. And
many goods and services within
East Palo Alto fail to address the
economic needs of residents.
“Many people here can’t afford to
shop at Nordstrom Rack,” he said.
EPAMade strives to address
that issue by offering goods and
services that residents can truly
afford. That’s why he’s looking at
a space for a thrift store, he said.
A secondary economy would
help keep capital from bleeding
out of the community, and it could
help fight higher costs of living.
East Palo Alto residents especially face gentrification and
housing costs that are disproportionate to their wages. An Able
Works study found that a single
parent needs to earn $70,000 to
stay in the Bay Area, Lu said.
Higher wages are only one part
of the solution, he said.
“If we are providing free child
care and food for employees, we
can fight the challenges of marginalization. It frees up their capital,” he said.
Lu said he hopes that EPAMade will also spread to other com-
munities.
“Our bigger vision is replication. We want to develop business
templates and send staff to train
people to put together these models,” he said.
But he is mindful of the stereotype of the outsider who comes
into East Palo Alto and tells residents what to do.
“I’m willing to serve, but I’m not
here to prove anything,” said Lu,
who doesn’t live in East Palo Alto
but plans to move his family there.
More information about EPA
Made is available at epamade.
com. Q
Staff Writer Sue Dremann
can be emailed at sdremann@
paweekly.com.
Midtown East-West Bicycle
and Pedestrian Connector Project
Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 6 to 8 P.M., Palo Verde Elementary
School, 3450 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303. Contact:
[email protected] or call (650)329.2442, More
Information: www.cityofpaloalto.org/bike
Community Meeting Notice
The City of Palo Alto is hosting a second public workshop
to explore the potential east-west Midtown Connector
alternatives for bicyclists and pedestrians. We are looking
for feedback on the issues and opportunities for each of the
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information is available at www.cityofpaloalto.org/bike.
When: Tuesday, April 14, 6-8pm
Where: Palo Verde Elementary School
3450 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303
Contact: [email protected]
Or call (650) 329-2442
More Info: www.cityofpaloalto.org/bike
Sue Dremann
Linda Rascon, left, a young mother, paints pots with Danika Park, operations steward, and Ayaka Lu,
co-founder of the nonprofit organization EPAMade, which empowers young women and single mothers
through community-focused micro-businesses.
The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against individuals
with disabilities. To request an accommodation for this meeting
or an alternative format for any related printed materials,
please contact the City’s ADA Coordinator at 650.329.2550
(voice) or by e-mailing [email protected]
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Upfront
Classes to help you and your baby
Buena
(continued from page 7)
Grandparents Seminar
Monday, May 4: 6pm to 8:30pm
Designed for new and expectant grandparents, this class examines
changes in labor and delivery practices, the latest recommendations
for infant care and the unique role of 21st century grandparents in the
life of their grandchild.
Infant & Child CPR
Saturday, May 9
two classes 9am to 11:30am & 12pm to 2:30pm
This 2-1/2 hour course provides an opportunity for new parents,
grandparents and other childcare providers to learn the techniques of
infant and child CPR and choking prevention. Infant and child manikins
are used for hands-on training.
Infant Massage
4 Fridays, May 29 – June 19: 11am to 12:30pm
4-week Class
Learn the techniques of infant massage along with tips to relieve gas,
aid digestion and soothe the soreness of vaccination sites on your
baby. Recommended for infants from one month of age to crawling.
Last year, the closure effort
scored two big victories. In February 2014, the city signed off on
its Relocation Impact Report, an
analysis that offers compensation
packages to the roughly 400 residents. In October, Labadie concurred that the report is adequate,
paving the way for the park’s closure. Residents are now appealing
the Labadie decision, and the City
Council is set to hear the appeal
on April 13 and 14.
The new correspondence comes
despite an explicit decision by the
City Council in January to limit
the new arguments from each side
to 10 pages. In addition to various
letters about appeals procedures
and the new report, both Nanda
and the Residents Association
followed up with a 10-page “prehearing statement” summarizing
their respective arguments.
Nanda wrote in her pre-hearing statement that the arguments
raised by the Residents Association have already been considered
and addressed by Labadie and
noted that local law “clearly con-
templates that it is the Hearing
Officer to whom the decision as
to the adequacy of the mitigation
assistance is given.”
“The Park Owner met the burden of proof by a preponderance
of evidence,” Nanda wrote.
Attorneys for the residents
maintain in their pre-hearing statement, as they had all
throughout the process, that the
relocation measures proposed by
the Jissers “lack substance and
create no realistic expectation
that residents will be able to find
and secure comparable housing in
a comparable community.”
“The families who live at Buena Vista will likely be forced to
move farther from their jobs and
families, to leave the high-quality
schools that their children are attending, and to say goodbye to the
community that they have built
in the years — or even decades
— that they have lived in the
park,” the Residents Association
stated. “The proposed mitigations
are not sufficient, and the City
Council should deny the owner’s
request to close Buena Vista.” Q
Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner
can be emailed at gsheyner@
paweekly.com.
CityView
A round-up
of Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (March 30)
City Clerk: The council met in a closed session to consider the appointment of
the new city clerk. Action: None
Board of Education (March 31)
Prenatal Yoga
Monday, May 4: 6pm to 8:30pm
This program incorporates graceful stretching, toning, posture and
body mechanics most applicable in pregnancy and in the birthing
process. Ongoing monthly classes can be started at any point in
your pregnancy.
For class registration or information, call (650) 724-4601
or visit classes.stanfordchildrens.org. To learn about our
services for moms and babies, visit startstrongbaby.com
W NDER
what to do with old CFL’s and
ﬂuorescent tubes?
Mental health therapists: The board approved the allocation of $250,000 in
district funds to hire two full-time licensed mental health therapists, one for
each high school. Action: Unanimous
City Council (April 1)
City Clerk: The council met in a closed session to consider the appointment of
the new city clerk. Action: None
Utilities Advisory Commission (April 1)
Fiber: The commission heard an update on the Fiber to the Premise Master
Plan. Action: None
Sustainability: The commission heard an update on the city’s Sustainability/Climate Action Plan and its implications for utilities long-range planning. Action: None
Financial plans: The commission approved the gas and electric financial plans for
fiscal year 2016. Yes: Cook, Eglash, Foster, Hall, Melton, Waldfogel Absent: Chang
Architectural Review Board (April 2)
180 El Camino Real: The board approved the master sign program proposed
by Stanford University for Stanford Shopping Center. Yes: Unanimous
Drop Them Off At The Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Station
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• Every Saturday
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2501 Embarcadero Way
Palo Alto, CA 94303
• First Friday of the month
3pm – 5pm
Limitations
• 15 gallons or 125 pounds of
HHW per visit.
• Must be a Palo Alto Resident
(driver’s license or vehicle registration)
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Upfront
Mental health
(continued from page 5)
ership on planning workshops on
coping skills, time management
and other “upstream” services to
support students’ mental health
and well-being.
“When we’ve been going
through our crisis, it’s been very
significant when we have licensed
(therapists) versus other volunteers and interns,” Herrmann said.
“We’re thankful for every person
who comes to our campus, but we
definitely know someone who is licensed ... has the training to model
groups for us and has the training
to do some of those upstream prevention and anti-stress workshops.
I see this person being a member
of our school counseling team,
making sure it’s both preventative
as well as responsive.”
Shashank Joshi, a Stanford
University adolescent psychiatrist
who has led much of the suicideprevention work in Palo Alto since
2009, told the Weekly Wednesday
that the two new hires will prove
crucial not only for treatment, but
also prevention.
“I think this is a very important
step to take, not only with regard
to the difficult year we’ve had, but
also to get needed support for students at earlier phases before distress turns into crisis,” Joshi said.
“Having more licensed therapists
on site, given the size of our high
schools, is a needed step as part
of a comprehensive school-based
suicide prevention and wellness
promotion strategy.”
Dauber said Adolescent Counseling Services’ on-site licensed
therapist at Gunn told him that
there are students expressing suicidal ideation nearly every day and
that staff are overwhelmed and
cannot meet the need. He also noted that local private practices are
in high demand and full with waiting lists. Joshi said the community
does not yet have a “well-designed
system” for outside referrals that
can meet the current demand.
Diorio also stressed the importance of having a permanent licensed therapist who gets to know
the students and school community rather than a person brought in
on a temporary, emergency basis.
Baten Caswell said that she
wants to make sure that the schedules of ACS and school counselors
are not completely full, so there is
“some extra breathing room” to
give prompt help to both at-risk
students and others who need help.
“If it’s only always the crisis-situation kids, then we will never get
in front of it,” Baten Caswell said.
Dauber echoed this earlier in
the board’s special meeting Tuesday night, urging his colleagues
and superintendent to think about
potential upstream expenditures
as next steps.
“These are downstream expenditures,” Dauber said of the
$250,000 in district funds. “We
really also need to invest upstream
in order to reduce this level of distress,” with the most important
“upstream” issue being sleep.
Dauber pointed to a letter a
group of health professionals recently sent to the board urging
that Paly and Gunn start school
no earlier than 8:30 a.m., in accordance with a recent American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
recommendation.
The letter, first sent to the board
on March 18 with 35 signatures,
now has 92 signatures from a range
of local and regional health professionals, many of whom specialize
in sleep or adolescent psychiatry.
“We don’t have any doctors on
the other side telling us that that
would be a bad move,” Dauber said.
Dauber has also proposed that
the board eliminate academic
classes during zero period, a topic
of heated debate in the community that will return to the board for
discussion at its April 21 meeting.
“There are reasons that I am
worried about zero period and I
believe that if all the facts were
publicly known that the public would share my concerns.”
Dauber said, noting that the board
is informed of facts about students
that, due to student privacy, are
not shared with the public.
Joshi told Dauber that “sleep
deprivation cannot be ruled out as
having played a role in at least some
of our tragedies,” Dauber said.
Dauber also suggested the district keep support for staff in mind
with many teachers “working with
post-traumatic stress symptoms.”
“Our staff is also hurting and
that’s something we need to address in the next step,” he said.
He also suggested investing in
professional development to educate teachers about the connection
between sleep and teen health and
to help them redesign courses so
that there is less homework, particularly in Advanced Placement
(AP) and honors courses.
Board member Heidi Emberling also urged the district to
ensure it is providing sufficient
mental health support at its elementary schools and to focus on
teaching social-emotional learning and coping skills at an early
age.
Board member Camille
Townsend requested more information about the role that the two new
licensed therapists would serve at
Paly and Gunn in the full context of
the mental health services currently
offered at both the high school and
middle school level.
“If you look at part of the picture, it does not help us,” she said.
Townsend was wary of putting
the funding to a vote before having a more full-fledged report
and discussion, but she ultimately
voted in support of it after her
colleagues indicated support for
Dauber’s two motions to waive
the two-meeting rule and make
the $250,000 available now.
Townsend also asked Superintendent Max McGee to look
at bringing in an outside agency,
such as the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC),
to help the district better evaluate
and gather data on the current suicide contagion.
McGee said that the two mental
health positions could be filled either by one of the district’s partner
organizations or from an outside
agency. He also wrote in a staff
report for Tuesday’s meeting that
he plans to recommend at least
$500,000 from the district’s reserve funds be earmarked for student health and wellness supports.
The new therapists would see
students as well as work with
school counselors and psychologists, Adolescent Counseling Services staff and teachers to coordinate support, interventions and
education on all student mental
health issues.
The $250,000 was put to the
board as part of several proposed
resource allocations for the 201516 school year; the board will vote
on the rest of the proposals, most
of which relate to new staffing
throughout the district, on April
21. Q
Staff Writer Elena Kadvany
can be emailed at ekadvany@
paweekly.com.
For more coverage on teen well-being, go to the Weekly’s Storify page
at storify.com/paloaltoweekly/
30TH ANNUAL GAMBLE GARDEN
Spring Tour
Friday & Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
April 24 & 25
Tour 5 private Palo Alto gardens
Featuring local gardens designed and planned
as family retreats, for resort living,
and for gracious home entertaining.
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Grievance
(continued from page 9)
Public Agenda
A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week
ogy, the first and most important
sentence ... is neglected, and that
is the requirement,” McGee wrote.
Meanwhile, Herrmann is continuing her efforts to better grasp
the amount of homework assigned
and teachers’ modes of communication around homework. She
said some parents reported to her
that they saw an increase in use of
Schoology at the start of second
semester in January.
Herrmann and Gunn’s instructional supervisors also created an
online survey that teachers took
this month, answering questions
on average amount of weekly
homework assigned, strategies
for finding out the actual time
students spend on assignments,
methods for electronically posting assignments, policy for accepting late work and ideas for
streamlining the implementation
and monitoring of the homework
policy, according to minutes from
Gunn’s March 4 Instructional
Council meeting.
Herrmann said she and staff
plan to look at the survey data
after spring break and “highlight
the areas that need our greatest
attention,” including targeting
specific courses where there are
discrepancies between teachers’
and the course catalog’s homework estimates or between individual teachers instructing the
same course. She said she hopes
to tackle quantity first, then shift
gears to focus on teacher support
and training around quality of
homework assignments.
Herrmann stressed that while
she disagrees with the teachers
union, she has the utmost respect
and support for Gunn’s teachers.
“My greatest goal was to make
sure that staff understood any
reasoning or greater good that I
was trying to accomplish and how
much I respect the teachers and
that I would only ask them to do
something in such a consistent
way if I thought (a) they would be
able to do it because they’re really
talented people; and (b) because
it would make a difference for
kids,” Herrmann said.
Meanwhile, school sources say
the debate over Schoology is a
major sticking point in current
union negotiations, perhaps because the district is seeking clear
authority under the contract to require use of the program.
One thing is certain: The grievance against Herrmann revealed
details about the union’s role in
school politics that rarely are seen
by the public, including a willingness to challenge a brand new administrator.
Barbara Harris, the district’s
director of elementary education, wrote a sympathetic email
to Herrmann after the grievance
was filed last fall: “You will be
just fine. This is just showing you
the real deal of what you will be
facing leading in this district.” Q
Staff Writer Elena Kadvany
can be emailed at ekadvany@
paweekly.com.
CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to discuss the cost-of-services
study and the city’s policy for recovering user fees and consider an
interim ordinance to prohibit conversion of ground-floor retail to other
uses. The council will also meet in a closed session to discuss the
status of the city’s labor negotiations with the Palo Alto Police Officers
Association and the International Association of Fire Fighters, Local
1319. The regular meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 5, in the
Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The closed session
will follow.
COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to consider
the Fiscal Year 2016 Water Utility Financial Plan and adopt a resolution
amending the city’s water rates, which includes a 12 percent rate increase starting on July 1. The council will also consider raising the residential rate for the refuse service by 9 percent on July 1; and approve
the Fiscal Year 2016 Waste Water Collection Financial Plan. The meeting
will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, in the Council Chambers at
City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee will
consider various modifications to the City Council’s procedures and
protocols. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8, in the
Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to hear an informational update on the pump station at Hale Street and Palo Alto Avenue.
The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 9, in the Council
Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
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.
Water board supports removing dam
The San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board has
sent Stanford University a letter saying the agency supports “alternatives
that focus on dam removal” as the university moves toward a decision on
what to do with Searsville Dam and its reservoir. (Posted April 2, 8:17 a.m.)
Paly teacher burned in science accident
A Palo Alto High School teacher suffered first- and second-degree
burns after a fire broke out during a science experiment on Wednesday
morning, the Palo Alto Fire Department said. (Posted April 1, 4:43 p.m.)
Stanford expands financial-aid program
Stanford University has expanded its financial-aid program for
the first time since it was established in 2008 in response to both
the rising cost of a Stanford education and increasing needs from
students and their families. (Posted April 1, 12:40 p.m.)
Governor orders reduction in water usage
Gov. Jerry Brown today, April 1, issued an executive order for
statewide mandatory water-use reductions, the first-ever order in
California’s history, according to the governor’s office. (Posted April
1, 12:28 p.m.)
Suspicions of theft triggered murder-suicide
The Palo Alto man who police said fatally shot the apartment
manager at the Alta Torre Apartments before killing himself in the
building’s elevator believed that the manager was stealing items
from his apartment, the police investigation concluded. (Posted April
1, 8:48 a.m.)
Crosstown Shuttle service increases April 1
The City of Palo Alto’s free Crosstown Shuttle is increasing the
frequency of its service to provide better access to local schools
and community facilities, the city has announced. The shuttles
will run every 30 minutes between 10 a.m. and 2:40 p.m. (Posted
March 31, 1:31 p.m.)
Local attorney eyeing U.S. Senate race
Los Altos Hills resident George “Duf” Sundheim is floating a
trial balloon for a possible run for Barbara Boxer’s United States
Senate seat, which she plans to vacate at the end of this year. (Posted
March 30, 7:18 p.m.)
CITY OF PALO ALTO
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City
Council will hold a public hearing at the regularly
scheduled meeting on Monday, April 20th, 2015 at
6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the
Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto,
to consider Adoption of Local Amendments to the
California Green Building Code and the California
Energy Code as Recommended by the Finance
Committee.
BETH MINOR
Acting City Clerk
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Upfront
Community Health
Education Programs
For a complete list of
classes and class fees,
lectures and health
education resources, visit
pamf.org/education.
April 2015
Mondays, April 13, 20 & 27, May 4, 11 & 18, 1 to 3 p.m.
Alexandra Morris, Alzheimer’s Association
PAMF Sunnyvale Center
301 Old San Francisco Rd., Second Floor Conference Center, Sunnyvale • (408) 730-2810
Dr. Tom McDonald Memorial Lecture Series
Autism Spectrum Disorder Update
April 14, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Brian Tang, M.D.
PAMF Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
PAMF Palo Alto Center
795 El Camino Real, Third Floor Conference Center, Jamplis Building • (650) 853-4873
Genetics and Your Health
April 14, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Monique de Bruin, M.D., MPH
PAMF Medical Oncology
Mountain View Center
701 E. El Camino Real, Mountain View • (650) 934-7380
Ankle 101: Common Problems and Their Treatments
April 22, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Andrew Haskell, M.D., PAMF Orthopedics
San Carlos Center
301 Industrial Road, Conference Room A, San Carlos • (650) 853-4873
Pain Management: An Alternative Approach
April 27, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Avi Mamidi, PAMF Pharmacy Services
San Carlos Library
610 Elm Street, San Carlos • Rhea Bradley, Librarian at (650) 591-0341, ext. 237
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Veronica Weber
Dementia Caregiver Education Series:
Savvy Caregiver Workshop
The Institute of the Future offices are located in the former space of
a home fixture and remodeling store at the corner of Emerson Street
and Hamilton Avenue.
Retail
(continued from page 5)
50,000 square feet annually.
In describing the need for a new
ordinance, a staff report notes
that “existing ground-floor retail
protections may not be sufficient
where they exist and may be needed where they do not (exist).”
The core area around University Avenue already has a “groundfloor retail” requirement, and
in recent years, several council
members have proposed spreading this protection to some of
downtown’s peripheral blocks.
Holman, Vice Mayor Greg
Schmid and Councilman Greg
Scharff have been pushing for
greater preservation of retail space
since November 2012, when they
released a memo urging the council to expand the protection zone.
The council ultimately agreed
in 2013 to protect a vibrant block
of Emerson Street, between Hamilton and Forest avenues.
At the time, the move to shield
retail space had plenty of critics.
Several developers argued against
the proposal, noting that some
sections of downtown aren’t wellsuited for retail. The Emerson
Street regulation passed by a 6-3
vote, with former council members Nancy Shepherd, Larry Klein
and Gail Price all dissenting.
Today’s political climate suggests that the new proposal will
sail through with little opposition
Monday. During the council’s
March 2 discussion, the council
was split on the subject of capping
new office development (members ultimately adopted a revised
proposal on March 23), but every
council member voted to move
ahead with a law to protect retail
space from conversion to offices.
“It should be a no-brainer to
... expand ground-floor retail
throughout the city,” Scharff said
on March 2, then proceeding
to add the interim ordinance to
staff’s work list.
The issue of retail being displaced is far from new. The council had previously grappled with
it in 2001, when the city adopted
several interim ordinances that
ultimately made way for a permanent one. The 2001 law required certain commercial areas
to have retail on the ground floor
of buildings, though the law also
allowed certain “conditional”
uses (including financial services, day care centers and trade
schools), subject to a permit.
In the current effort, staff is
proposing that the council adopt
an interim ordinance based on
the prior laws but with broader
applicability. This could either
mean “all commercial zones” or
designated zones where the problem of retail conversion has been
most acute.
Permanent policies, meanwhile, should each be tailored
to specific districts “after consultation with property owners,
merchants and restaurants in the
vicinity,” the staff report states.
The long-term effort would prioritize the rapidly changing California Avenue, with downtown as
the second priority. Q
On the cover: Signs advertise the Palo Alto Rug Gallery’s closing
sale on University Avenue at Cowper Street. The building also
housed the House of Bagels, Shokolaat, Modern Living Furniture
and Accessories, and Plan Toys. It is slated for demolition to make
way for a multi-story office building. Photo by Veronica Weber.
G U I D E TO 2015 S U M M E R C A M P S F O R K I D S
For more information about these camps, see our online
directory of camps at www.paloaltoonline.com/biz/summercamps/
To advertise in this weekly directory, call: 650-326-8210
Arts, Culture, Other Camps
Community School of Music
and Arts (CSMA)
Hi Five Sport
Mountain View
50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture,
Musical Theater, School of Rock, Digital Arts, more! One- and two-week
sessions; full and half-day enrollment. Extended care available. Financial
aid offered.
www.arts4all.org
650.917.6800 ext.0
Atherton
Hi Five Sports is thrilled to present our fourth multi-sport competitive
summer camp to the San Francisco Bay Area! Through experienced,
passionate and patient coaching, we believe the timeless lessons that
only sports can teach will stay with the kids for the rest of their lives.
www.hifivesportsclub.com
650.362.4975
Menlo School Sports Camps
Atherton
Explore nature this summer from your own backyard. Environmental
Volunteer summer camps return with a new series of programs. Handson activities, field trips and creative fun make science accessible to kids
ages 6-11.
www.Evols.org/Explore
650.493.8000
Menlo camps are designed for boys and girls grades 4-12 to learn from
Knights coaches and staff -whether it’s preparation for an upcoming
season or simply for fun and to stay in shape in a high energy, positive
setting. Join us this summer to develop skills, foster athleticism and
promote sportsmanship in camps covering a range of sports - baseball,
basketball, football (skills, lineman, and safe tackling camps) lacrosse,
soccer, tennis, track & field, volleyball, water polo.
www.menloschool.org
650.330.2001 ext. 2758
Foothills Summer Camps
Nike Tennis Camps
Environmental Volunteers Summer Camp
Palo Alto
Palo Alto
In this historic, popular, traditional day camp your child will play on miles
of trails, woodlands, fields, streams, Boronda Lake, and enjoy spectacular
views of the bay area. Transportation to and from Foothills Park is provided
each day.
www.cityofpaloalto.org/foothillscamps
J-Camp Oshman Family JCC
Palo Alto
Exciting activities for kindergarteners through teens include swimming,
field trips, sports and more. Enroll your child in traditional or special focus
camps like Studio TV Production, Jr. Masterchef, Elsa and Anna’s Dance
Camp, Beach Bonanza and many others!
www.paloaltojcc.org/summercamp
650.223.8622
Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC)
Palo Alto
PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of
fun opportunities! Neighborhood Adventure Fun and Junior Varsity Sports
Adventure Camp are for the more active and on-the-go campers! New
this year: E.P.I.C. Camp – Energetic, Peers, Independence & Community for
the older kids! Returning are FAME - Fine arts, Music and Entertainment
and Operation Chef for out of this world cooking fun! Swimming twice
per week, periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp
activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer
Camps! Open to campers from all communities! Come join the fun in Palo
Alto! Register online.
www.paccc.org
650.493.2361
STANFORD EXPLORE
Stanford
A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research
EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford! Stanford EXPLORE offers high
school students the unique opportunity to learn from Stanford professors
and graduate students about diverse topics in biomedical science,
including bioengineering, neurobiology, immunology and many others.
explore.stanford.edu
[email protected]
Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford University Campus
Week-long jazz immersion programs for young musicians in middle
school (starts July 13), high school (July 19 and July 26), and college, as
well as adults (August 2). All instruments and vocals.
stanfordjazz.org
TechKnowHow® LEGO®
and Technology Summer Camp
Palo Alto
Menlo Park/Sunnyvale
Fun and enriching technology classes for students, ages 5-16. Courses
include LEGO® projects with motors, MINDSTORMS® EV3® & NXT®
Robotics, Computer Game Design, Arduino™ Electronics, iPad® Movie
Making, and a Tech Camp for girls. Classes feature high-interest, ageappropriate projects based on the S.T.E.M. curriculum. Half and Full day
options. Early bird and multiple week discounts are available.
www.techknowhowkids.com
650.638.0500
TheatreWorks Summer Camps
Palo Alto
In these entertaining camps for grades K-5, students enjoy juggling,
clowning, puppetry, playwriting, acting, improvisation, music, dance and present their own original pieces at the end of each session.
www.theatreworks.org/learn/youth/summercamps
YMCA Summer Camps
Throughout Silicon Valley
At the Y, youth of all ages make new friends, build character and learn new
skills. With hundreds of unique camps and 30+ convenient locations, you’ll
find a camp that’s right for your family. Financial assistance is available.
www.ymcasv.org/summer
408.351.6473
Athletics
Camp Campbell
Santa Cruz Mountains
For close to 80 years, Bay Area youth have forged life-long friendships
and benefited from character-defining experiences at Camp Campbell
through nature hikes, campfires, archery and many other fun outdoor
activities. Financial assistance is available.
http://www.ymcacampcampbell.org/
831.338.2128
Stanford University
Junior Overnight and Day Camps for boys & girls, ages 9-18 offered
throughout June, July and August. Adult Weekend Clinics (June & Aug).
Camps directed by Head Men’s Coach, Paul Goldstein, Head Women’s
Coach, Lele Forood, and Associate Men’s and Women’s Coaches, Brandon
Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Come join the fun and get better this
summer!
www.USSportsCamps.com
1.800.NIKE.CAMP (645.3226)
Stanford Baseball Camps
Stanford Campus
Stanford Baseball Camps have gained national recognition as the some
of the finest in the country. These camps are designed to be valuable
and beneficial for a wide range of age groups and skill sets. From the
novice 7 year-old, to the Division 1, professionally skilled high school
player, you will find a camp that fulfills your needs.
www.Stanfordbaseballcamp.com
650.723.4528
Stanford Water Polo
Stanford
Ages 7 and up. New to sport or have experience, we have a camp for
you. Half day or fully day option for boys and girls. All the camps offer
fundamental skill work, scrimmages and games.
www.stanfordwaterpolocamps.com
650.725.9016
Summer at Saint Francis
Mountain View
Sports & Activity Camp (ages 6-12): This all-sports camp provides group
instruction in a variety of fields, indoor & outdoor court games and
activities. Saint Francis faculty and students staff the camp, and the
focus is always on fun. The program is dedicated to teaching teamwork,
sportsmanship and positive self-esteem. After camp care is available.
www.sfhs.com/summer
650.968.1213 x650
Summer Camp@SportsHouse
(Powered by Skyhawks)
Redwood City
June 15-August 14. Weekly indoor sports day camp for kids 6-13 years
old. Fun filled sports and games directed by Skyhawks. Full day 9am-4pm
camp includes lunch and optional after camp care.
www.sportshouseonline.com
650.362.4100
Wheel Kids Bicycle Club
Palo Alto
Wheel Kids is Palo Alto’s premier adventure and exploration summer day
camp for boys and girls 5-15 yrs old. Camps run weekly from June 8th
– July 31st, offering a range of cultural, recreational and environmental
learning opportunities, all based on our daily bicycling adventures. Join
us this summer as we teach your kids safe bicycle riding skill & habits,
help build their self confidence and esteem, and begin a life-long
journey of health and fitness while helping improve our environment.
www.wheelkids.com
650.520.6524
Academics
Alexa Café
Palo Alto High School
At Alexa Café, girls ages 10-15 collaborate around café tables and learn to
code apps, produce films, design websites, develop wearable electronics,
and more. Discover a passion for technology in this unique environment
that emphasizes leadership, philanthropy, and more.
www.iDTech.com
1.888.709.8324
Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls
Palo Alto
Casti Camp offers girls a range of age-appropriate activities including
athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking, drama and
music classes each day along with weekly field trips.
www.castilleja.org/summercamp
650.328.3160
Harker Summer Programs
San Jose
K-12 offerings taught by exceptional, experienced faculty and staff. K-6
morning academics – focusing on math, language arts and science – and
full spectrum of afternoon recreation. Grades 6-12 for credit courses and
non-credit enrichment opportunities. Sports programs also offered.
www.summer.harker.org
408.553.0537
iD Game Design and
Development Academy
Stanford
Get immersed in game design at this 2-week, pre-college summer
academy! Teens ages 13-18 design video games, develop apps, model
3D characters, mod with Minecraft, and more. Tour a development studio
and create a portfolio.
www.iDTech.com
1.888.709.8324
iD Programming Academy
Stanford
Get immersed in technology at this 2-week, pre-college summer academy.
Teens ages 13-18 code apps, program with C++ and Java, mod with
Minecraft, engineer robots, and program websites. Tour a development
studio and create a portfolio.
www.iDTech.com
1.888.709.8324
iD Tech Mini
Palo Alto High School
Kids ages 6-9 will have a blast at iD Tech Mini, where half day options let
aspiring innovators discover a love for tech. Campers make new friends
and learn hands-on STEM skills in a kid-friendly environment.
www.iDTech.com
1.888.709.8324
iD Tech Camps
Stanford
Code, game, create! At iD Tech Camps, students ages 7-17 code apps,
design video games, mod with Minecraft, engineer robots, build websites,
produce movies, and more. Kids meet new friends and gain a competitive
edge.
www.iDTech.com
1.888.709.8324
Mid-Peninsula High School
Menlo Park
Mid-Pen offers summer courses designed to help students make up high
school credits and a diverse range of enriching courses that go beyond
traditional curriculum. In addition to courses in math, science, English,
Spanish, and SAT/ACT prep, we invite students to enhance their skills in
innovative classes that include: College Essay Workshop, Research Writing
Workshop, Drama, Music Video Production, and Fine Arts courses in
Surface Design and Mixed Media. We also hold basketball and volleyball
clinics suitable for beginning to advanced players. All high school
students are welcome to attend. Summer session runs from June 22 to
July 23, 2015.
www.mid-pen.com
650.321.1991
One Me
Palo Alto
Westin Hotel
Students aged 12-16 will find direction and inspiration through
introspection and self-awareness, discovering how they learn and
are motivated, addressing and understanding habits, improving
communication skills, understanding the brain, understanding personality
and ego states, emotional regulation, and welcoming challenge.
www.oneyou.education
408.839.6965
Professional Tutoring Services
of Silicon Valley
Los Altos
Academic camps offering Algebra I & II, Geometry, and Spanish I, II, III in
small groups. Four sessions starting June 15 through July 27. Sign up for
all four or just one. Perfect for high school and junior high students taking
high school level courses. $295 and up. Register online.
www.ptstutor.com/summer-camps.html
650.948.5137
Purposeful You
Palo Alto
Westin Hotel
Students aged 12-16 will learn best practices in organization and goal
setting; study techniques; communication with administration and
teachers; strengthening memory; answering to the question; outlining,
writing, and citing resources; emotional regulation; stress and test anxiety
management, attention and motivation.
www.oneyou.education
408.839.6965
Summer at Saint Francis
Mountain View
Summer at Saint Francis provides a broad range of academic and athletic
programs for elementary through high school students. It is the goal of
every program to make summer vacation enriching and enjoyable!
www.sfhs.com/summer
650.968.1213 x446
Write Now! Summer Writing Camps
Palo Alto /
Pleasanton
Improve your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson School
of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton. Courses this year are
Expository Writing, Creative Writing, and Presentation Techniques. Visit
our website for more information.
www.headsup.org
Emerson: 650.424.1267
Hacienda: 925.485.5750
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MID-PENINSULA HIGH SCHOOL
SUMMER SCHOOL
June 22 - July 23, 2015
Enriching course offerings including:
• Athletics • Fine Arts
• English
• Math
View our website for full class listings
www.mid-pen.com
Monday-Thursday from 9:30-2:30
Small Classes, Grades 9-12
www.mid-pen.com | 650.321.1991
A weekly compendium
of vital statistics
POLICE CALLS
Palo Alto
March 25-31
Violence related. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
Theft related
Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Counterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Vehicle related
Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 6
Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 2
Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 8
Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Alcohol or drug related
Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Drunken driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Open container. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2
Smoking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Miscellaneous
Disobey court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Dumping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Misc. muni. code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1
Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1
Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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he room is packed, and the bass is pumping. More than
30 people are on their feet, dancing to the rhythm of
the music. Facing the two instructors at the front of the
room, they follow along: stomping their feet, clapping their
hands, bending their knees to the beat. Most of the dancers are
teenagers, though some are much older and a few are younger.
And though their movements aren’t all precisely synchronized,
the group is clearly united in spirit.
You can tell, because every single person in the room is grinning.
Welcome to Dance for All, held every Saturday afternoon at
the El Camino YMCA in Mountain View. Dance for All is just
what the name implies: a class that’s open to everyone. Many of
the participants have disabilities, but not all; there are no rules
about who can and can’t take part.
Launched nine months ago by experienced dance instructors
Teresa Maldonado Marchok and Mercy Forde, both of whom
are also mothers of teenagers with disabilities, the class has
quickly gained a devoted following. Most weeks, there are between 25 and 30 dancers on the floor. The music — primarily
pop, R&B and rap arrangements — is catchy and increasingly
boisterous as class progresses.
In some ways, Dance for All is your average dance fitness
class. The routines, a blend of hip hop and aerobics, look a
little tricky at first, but most people seem to catch on quickly.
Marchok and Forde wear Lycra outfits and athletic shoes; fitted with head mics, they demonstrate and call out the moves
enthusiastically, sometimes jogging out into the crowd to give
a quick correction or a high five. In addition to high-energy
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At left, Darin Li and his father, Qiang, attend Dance for All
every week. Below, Qiang and Darin lead the conga line
during a Dance for All routine.
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dance routines, they spend part
of every class focusing on skills
like core strength, flexibility and
balance.
What’s not so normal are the
levels of enthusiasm and camaraderie the class inspires, even
in passersby who stop at the door
to watch and are often drawn in
to dance along. Dance for All is
downright irresistible.
That’s the conclusion Darin Li
has come to, though it took him
a while. Li is 13 years old and in
the seventh grade. He’s into swimming, karate and movies, and he
loves math. He’s also autistic.
When his father, Qiang, started
bringing him to Dance for All
back in July, Darin wasn’t having
any of it. He sat outside the studio, watching through the window
while Qiang dutifully took part in
class each week. For two months,
Darin refused to enter the room,
until the day Marchok put on what
unbeknownst to her was Darin’s
favorite track: “Gangnam Style,”
by South Korean pop star Psy. In
a flash, Darin was up on his feet,
dancing.
Now, he and Qiang are regulars
on the dance floor.
Qiang and Darin discovered
Dance for All through their involvement with Youth Drama for
All, a Mountain View-based nonprofit that since 2007 has offered
performing-arts opportunities for
teens from both mainstream and
special-needs classes. Marchok
and Forde both contributed to
Youth Drama for All as choreographers. About three years ago,
they realized that to take their
work with students to the next
level, they needed a dedicated
space and more instructional
time. That’s when the YMCA
stepped up, offering a dance studio for free.
According to Lisa Zuegel,
whose 15-year-old son Jeffrey
takes part in Dance for All, the
YMCA is “a phenomenal place
for encouraging people with differences.
“The fact that Dance for All
is happening here at the Y is not
inconsequential or coincidental,”
Zuegel said. “When the kids come
here, they are in an environment
that is by its nature inclusive and
connects people in community.”
Many families who attend
Dance for All also take advantage
of the YMCA’s other resources,
including the swimming pool and
family changing rooms, both of
which they say are particularly
useful and welcoming to those
with special needs.
Chief Operations Officer for
YMCA of Silicon Valley Elizabeth Jordan stopped in to Dance
for All last week to observe and
share her thoughts.
“The cool thing is, you can’t
always tell who has a disability
and who doesn’t,” she noted after watching class for a few minutes. “People really value that in
their Y membership: the diversity
and inclusivity.” As Jordan sees
it, being part of a group like the
Dance for All community builds
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compassion and enriches lives. “I
think if people come to the Y and
experience this, they’ll develop
more empathy,” she said.
Jordan noted that in her own
childhood, she didn’t have access
to such an open and inclusive
community.
“When I was growing up, if I
saw someone who seemed different, my parents would say, ‘Shhh!
Don’t look; don’t ask questions.’
We really want the opposite here:
We want to develop curiosity. This
is how the general population gets
to appreciate what it means to be a
community.”
To that end, Dance for All is
open to anyone who wants to try it
out. For those who decide to make
it a regular thing, a YMCA membership is encouraged; financial
assistance is available for those
who can’t afford the fee. As word
spreads about the class, interest
continues to grow.
On a recent Saturday, students
knelt on stability balls to practice
their core strength and balance.
One boy who was new to class sat
on the floor with his mother, shifting restlessly. When it was time
to dance again, he bolted from
the room, eventually settling in a
chair just outside the door.
Half an hour later, as the class
fell into place for a conga line to
Pitbull’s rap rendition of “Shake
Señora,” he came tearing back in
and ran the length of the room,
laughing.
Allowing students to participate
at the level that works for them —
and for their families — is exactly
what Dance for All is all about.
“In here, any behavior is anticipated,” Jordan said. “It’s all
good.”
“Kids will often do utterances
or physical stims that in another
environment might be off-putting,
and here it’s OK,” added Marchok. “No parent should ever be
embarrassed.”
For the moment, Dance for
All is clearly making a difference to the 30 or so people who
participate regularly. But Jordan,
Marchok, Forde and others see
the potential for a much broader
impact. They’re talking about establishing a program where teens
and young adults can volunteer in
the class as buddies, and are also
thinking about how they might
train instructors to offer similar
programs at other YMCAs in the
region and even beyond.
Jordan, who oversees the operation of all 11 YMCAs in the
Silicon Valley, hopes the other
centers will eventually adopt the
program. “If we can attract this
many people to one Y, I can’t
imagine why we wouldn’t scale
it,” she said.
In addition to building their student and volunteer base, Jordan
and the Dance for All team are actively looking for ways to integrate
existing students into the larger
community, and to help shift attitudes about ability and disability.
For a start, they intend Dance for
All to prepare students to take part
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What Marchok and Forde know
well, and what is amply evident
after just one class, is that these
young people are brimming with
capability and with joy. Yet too
often, they’re separated from the
communities that would benefit
from getting to know them better.
“It wasn’t until I started speaking with parents of teens with
disabilities that I learned the
term, ‘fake social,’” Jordan said.
“That’s when someone tolerates
your child and pretends they’re
welcome, but you can tell they’re
just being politically correct.”
Regardless of where such behavior stems from, Jordan said,
“We want to help the community
get beyond that.”
At the end of class, after the
hugs and the high fives, a small
group of students stuck around
to chat, discussing what they like
most about Dance for All (the
friends, the exercise, the music)
and what their favorite songs are
(like Darin, most favor “Gangnam
Style”). Marchok and Forde stood
nearby, brainstorming with Jordan
and parents about the future of the
class. Their conversation returned
again and again to an emphasis on
inclusion and integration rather
than separation.
“This is not a special-needs
dance class,” Marchok asserted.
“It’s open to everyone. Any time
you can include everyone, you’re
sending a message that it’s truly
inclusive. That’s a great message
for society.”
Jordan nodded in agreement.
“What’s really important,” she
said, “is linking people.” Q
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“The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis. The King James
Version” (1989) is among the works now on display as part
of “Promised Land: Jacob Lawrence at the Cantor.”
The American scene
Cantor Arts Center debuts new collection
of Jacob Lawrence paintings
F
orging a successful career
as a visual artist is no mean
feat, even for the wealthy
and well-educated. For an African American raised in Harlem
during the Depression, with little
art training and not much hope of
gallery representation, the odds
were astronomical. This, however, is the improbable story of
Jacob Lawrence, now considered
one of the most influential black
artists of the 20th century.
“Promised Land: Jacob Lawrence at the Cantor” gives viewers
the opportunity to enjoy the full
arc of the artist’s work, from paintings to drawings and an illustrated
book. The exhibition, on view now
through Aug. 3, is the result of a major gift to the Cantor Arts Center
from the late Dr. Herbert J. Kayden
and his daughter, Joelle Kayden, a
Stanford MBA alumna. The museum now owns one of the largest
Jacob Lawrence collections in the
country, a collection that will be utilized for both display and classroom
instruction (the exhibition layout
and design was planned by an undergraduate class led by Elizabeth
Mitchell, the Cantor’s curator of
drawings, prints and photographs).
Mitchell spoke of Lawrence as
a “phenomenal draftsman and incredibly sophisticated storyteller,
adding that this collection demonstrates “his great capacity to use
fresh, vivid colors and the abstracted human form to express a socially
relevant narrative.”
Lawrence, who was born in 1917
and died in 2000, was part of the
post-World War I migration of
blacks from the South to the northern states, where they sought a better life. After his parents divorced,
Lawrence’s mother took him and
his siblings to New York, settling
in Harlem in the late 1920s. The
northern Manhattan neighborhood
was densely populated and teeming with noise and activity. Fearing
that the quiet and withdrawn Jacob
would fall into a street gang, his
mother enrolled him in an art class
at the local library. That class would
prove to be the catalyst for what
would become an illustrious career.
It was Lawrence’s first introduction
to art materials and artistic expression. With little exposure to art history, books or museums, the young
artist had only the world around
him for inspiration. Luckily, his
teachers recognized his talent, and
he was encouraged throughout his
youth to pursue his artistic endeavors, eventually taking free classes
offered at the Harlem Arts Community Center.
As art critic Robert Hughes noted, Lawrence was “younger than the
artists and writers who took part in
the Harlem Renaissance,” but was
influenced by “the Harlem cultural
milieu.” Although several noted
artists — including Charles Alston
and Augusta Savage — guided and
encouraged him, Lawrence was essentially self-taught. Working with
inexpensive materials, he captured
the Harlem he saw each day: street
peddlers, cafes, children playing in
the street and the interiors of crowded tenement apartments. From the
very beginning, and throughout his
long career, Lawrence worked in a
Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation
by Sheryl Nonnenberg
In works like “Builders No. 3” (1973), Jacob Lawrence focused on the contribution of black workers and
tradesmen to the development of the country.
figurative style because it was the
best way to tell a story.
In his “Philosophy of Art,” written for an exhibition at the Whitney
Museum and later quoted in “A
History of African-American Artists” by Romare Bearden and Harry
Henderson, Lawrence stated, “My
pictures express my life and experience. The things I have experienced
extend into my national, racial and
class group. So I paint the American scene.”
In one of the earliest pieces included in the Cantor exhibition, “At
Times It Is Hard to Get a Table in
a Pool Room” (1943), Lawrence’s
unique vision is revealed in broad,
flat areas of densely saturated color.
A stylized figure of a beat cop, portrayed in deep blue, walks past the
entrance to a pool parlor. Inside, its
denizens sit lined up on a bench,
waiting for a chance to play. The
work is a study in geometry and
strong, contrasting primary colors.
The rectangles of the Pool Parlor
sign, with its simplistic depiction of
two pool cues and brightly colored
balls pops out from the scarlet red
wall of the building. The piece is executed using gouache, resulting in
a much more opaque pigment than
oil paint. Lawrence’s use of gouache
— and tempera, in his earliest works
— was born of necessity rather than
choice; they were the least expensive materials to obtain. Lawrence
was able to experiment with media
later in life when he was enrolled as
a Works Progress Administration
artist. He found that mixing his own
colors and working on a small scale
best suited his subject matter.
Bucking the prevailing style of
Abstract Expressionism (and at
the risk of being labeled “naive”
or “primitive”), Lawrence’s style
was figurative, precise and carefully composed. He began every
piece with a well-developed underdrawing, rendered lightly in graphite. Any revisions or reworking
would be done at this stage. Once
the drawing was finished, he would
begin to apply a fast-drying medium in overlapping brushstrokes.
When he painted a series, such as
“The Life of John Brown,” a group
of 22 paintings based on the life of
the controversial white abolitionist, Lawrence worked on all of the
panels simultaneously, applying the
same color to every panel in order
to keep the hues uniform.
The result, as can be seen in the
“John Brown” series on display at
the Cantor, is a moving and consistent narrative. Figures are rendered in Lawrence’s own stylized
version of Cubism, elongated and
without detail, with overlapping
areas of vivid color creating depth
and dimension. A sense of action
is generated by strong diagonals,
and the flat, saturated color elicits
emotion as we follow Brown’s path
to the noose.
In a later series also included
in “Promised Land” at the Cantor, “Eight Studies for the Book of
Genesis,” (1989), Lawrence’s palette is characteristically bold, but
his draftsmanship is freer and more
expansive. There is high drama in
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
of the City of Palo Alto
Comprehensive Plan Update
Leadership Group
Among the Jacob Lawrence works
on view at the Cantor Arts Center is
“At Times It Is Hard to Get a Table
in a Pool Room” (1943).
5:00 P.M., Tuesday, April 7, 2015, Palo Alto Art Center,
1313 Newell Rd, Palo Alto, 94303
The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against
individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation
for this meeting or an alternative format for any related
printed materials, please contact the City’s ADA
Coordinator at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing
[email protected].
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Leadership Group will be meeting to discuss community
engagement opportunities for the City’s 2030
Comprehensive Plan. The group’s primary role is to assist
with community engagement during the Comprehensive
Plan Update planning process. If you have any questions
or you would like additional information about the
Comprehensive Plan Update, please contact Consuelo
Hernandez, Senior Planner, at 650-329-2428 or
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each panel, as God, clad in brightly
colored robes, creates heaven and
earth. Lawrence may have worked
in diminutive scale and with humble materials, but his message was
always forceful and impressive.
In part because of his strong
narrative sense, Lawrence has
been compared to George Grosz
and José Clemente Orozco, both
of whom used painting as a form
of social commentary. Lawrence
did observe and relate the story of
the African-American people as
he saw it, but not necessarily as a
means of protest. His reaction to
the disturbances surrounding the
Civil Rights Movement is graphically portrayed in “Ordeal of Alice”
(1963), as demonic figures hover
menacingly around a young black
child attempting to enter a segregated school. Lawrence resisted
pressure from young militant art
students to label himself a “Black
Artist,” later explaining, “I worked
out of my experience, and if somebody wants to call that black art,
that’s all right.”
The artist spent the latter part of
his career as an educator, eventually becoming a professor of art at
the University of Washington. He
continued to paint, focusing on the
theme of builders and the contribution of black workers and tradesmen
to the development of the country.
Among the works from this period
are “Construction” and “Builders
No. 3,” both of which are included
in “Promised Land,” and both of
which reinforce Lawrence’s virtuosity as a colorist and a storyteller.
Lawrence was a pioneer on
many fronts: the first black artist
to be represented by a New York
gallery (the Downtown Gallery, in
1941) and to receive recognition by
the National Institute of Arts and
Letters in 1953. His most powerful
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who depicted America as he saw it,
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Freelance writer Sheryl Nonnenberg can be emailed at [email protected].
What: “Promised Land:
Jacob Lawrence at the Cantor”
Where: Cantor Arts Center, 328
Lomita Drive, Stanford
When: Through Aug. 3. Gallery
hours: Wednesday-Monday, 11
a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m.-8
p.m. Faculty Panel, “Jacob Lawrence and the Harlem Renaissance,” Thursday, April 23, 5:30
pm. Lecture, “Pool Parlors and Beat
Cops: The Colorful Noise of a Jacob
Lawrence Street Scene,” Thursday,
May 7, 6:30 pm.
Cost: Free
Info: Go to museum.stanford.edu or
call 650-723-4177.
SEE MORE ONLINE
PaloAltoOnline.com
Watch a video interview with Jacob
Lawrence in the online version of this
story at PaloAltoOnline.com.
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An Open Letter from Residents and Family Members;
Students, Alumni, and Employees of the Palo Alto School District;
Healthcare Professionals and Youth Advocates—
To the School Board and the Superintendent
We need your help.
We all must get something done.
We’re publishing this urgently, but not out of blame or panic. This is simply a key
point in time, summoning us to speak our piece. We believe there’s little reason that our
city’s fate will change—unless together we change it.
Parents are questioning whether it’s safe to send their kids to Palo Alto’s high schools.
Shaken, they’re considering private schools or even a move out of town, even if it would
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about what to do and at their wits’ end. People in town are worried about losing all sense of
feeling, becoming numb and paralyzed—even as new public quarrels are erupting. Kids are
shrugging to the grownups fatalistically: “Chill. Don’t worry. School will never change.”
You must prove them wrong.
We’re asking you for swift but well-judged change—shaped to a plan that is based on
longtime community experience, reverence for young life, and substance, not show.
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change them—even if there were time enough to do all this.
It’s self-evident that the central factor in our teenagers’ lives is school. (They’re in the
last four years of a thirteen-year trek.) And the central fact of school is the shared work
of students and teachers. (In fact, teenagers spend more time with teachers than with
any other adults, including their parents.)
And at the heart of that shared work: acts of caring.
Myriads of them. Homework done with genuine interest by the students; then
returned to them with tailored feedback. Hands raised not for grades but with life
and spirit; then called on encouragingly and with genuine curiosity. Eureka moments
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attention. A favorite cap left behind; a classroom Lost & Found.
At a recent public meeting Paly’s principal said it all: what her students want most
from school is to feel that my teacher cares about me. And in fact, such caring can be determined enough (as we’ve seen at schools across the land) to stop bullets.
Ready to leverage such caring right now, ready to go, is the plan set forth in the community initiative “Save the 2,008.” Its six proposals aren’t a wrecking-ball aimed at our
schools—just a toolkit for some overdue renovations. And it isn’t expensive. Only one
of its six measures will cost any real money (and for that, surely, we have lots of generW[Q\aIVL¹^MV\]ZMKIXQ\ITº[XQZQ\QV\W_V<PMÅ^MW\PMZUMI[]ZM[IZMR][\IUI\\MZWN getting real about some things that have gradually gotten out of hand.
Over the years, as we looked on from a distance, our high schools have inadvertently
given way to larger class-sizes, larger helpings of homework (unchecked by good communication), more enrollment in APs (without good consultation), more distraction from
social media, more grade-reporting, more cheating.
These spew and mix together into a toxic brew that smothers teachers’ caring and our
kids’ ability to receive and feel that care.
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teenagers’ lives—their high schools, their sheltering niches as Titans and Vikings, their
gateways to becoming grown-ups—has caused them to quietly shrug, lose heart, shut
down their faces, as they slowly abandon faith in the adult world that lets it all happen.
But you can reverse this.
“Save the 2,008”—to disperse the toxic brew and throw open some windows on
human connection—asks you to:
1. Shrink classes to a friendlier size, creating a closer feeling between classmates as well
as stronger teacher-student ties (which are sometimes lifelines). Of all the things that
can ease school pressures, this is perhaps the most powerful: reducing class numbers has
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kids), giving teenagers a nightly voice in their workload.
3. Foster wiser decisions about AP course loads, through timely meetings among parents,
kids, and school guidance counselors—who can speak to the emotional nourishment of
sleep, time with peers, dinnertimes, downtime, cultural time, exercise, developmental assets.
4. Stand between our kids and the all-day siren song of their phones—so that on
campus they’re not submerged in a world of texting, taunts, Instagram, and Snapchat.
On the wane in our kids is the life-skill of conversation (for job interviews, doctors’ visits,
dating). As in our middle schools, student phone-use should be banned.
5. Slow the bombardment of grade-reports so our kids have room to ride out the ups and
downs of adolescence. No teenager who’s holding on through his parents’ divorce, or through
her loss of a best friend, should be without the needed time to “coast” until life looks better.
6. End the existing climate of cheating—the demoralizing atmosphere that kids feel
obliged to breathe, just to compete. It churns up so much anxiety, test after test and
paper after paper, that it’s a mental-health issue.
All six of these measures will free up teachers to care (glances in class that say, “I see
you” and “I hear you”; accurate grades and fair due-dates; the readiness to champion
each child) and students to make the most of that caring (they will be less sleep-deprived,
less distracted, more trusting).
The measures are complementary: students won’t waste the new accessibility of their
teachers on in-class texting, nor will they need so desperately to cut moral corners, because
their study-time will be in check. And a teacher with a total student load of 120 instead
of 150 may have the creative energy to make evening phone-calls to parents (to their great
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The plan in full is at: www.savethe2008.com.
Founded last fall on behalf of the 2,008 students and teachers at Gunn, “S2K8” is
clearly pertinent to Paly too. It is realistic and doesn’t overreach. High schools don’t
create teenage despair nor can they cure it, but they can make it more bearable, more
survivable. And “S2K8,” too, indicts no “villains” (certainly not the teens whose phones
help ease the loneliness of existing life at school).
We believe that changes to the wider world—in child-rearing, competitiveness, culture—might be nice, even necessary, but are bound to be the work of years; whereas we
want hope for our young people now. And ours isn’t an appeal to therapists or cultural
leaders or doctors, valuable as they are, or to outside experts or Caltrain, since it would
be unwise to put our fate in the hands of people we never voted for, never hired.
You and we can immediately move to change school life. This plan was before you last
fall. It’s too late, now, to implement some of the six proposals this year. But four of them can
be up and running before the end of this school year, and all of them by the start of the next school year.
(And the adjustment to homework will kick in sooner and more reliably than the District’s.)
Yes, like a few of us, you might prefer a couple of the proposals to the others, or want to
attach a seventh. But we mustn’t let Palo Alto become like our nation’s Congress—picking
bills apart, piggybacking onto others, obstructing and demanding and gridlocked. We can’t
let the perfect be the enemy of the good, or let the future take the place of now.
Our Palo Alto problem is larger than all of us signing here, larger than you, larger
than all of us put together. But if, humbled by that, we throw in with this hometown
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we can re-awaken joy in our town.
For the sake of our community, our parents and teachers, and our high-schoolers, we
urgently and resolutely ask you to unite behind the action-plan of “Save the 2,008” and
make it happen.
Sincerely,
Willa Akey
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mustard, ketchup and mayo.
by Sheila Himmel
Mountain View’s new Five Guys keeps menu tightly
focused on hamburgers, fries
N
o milkshakes. No drive-thru. No breakfast, chicken, fish or coffee. Five Guys is tightly focused on
burgers and fries.
Now open in Mountain View,
the Virginia-based chain stakes
its particular claim to the growing
“fast casual” sector of the restaurant business — slightly slower
than fast food, with friendly cashiers.
Expect to wait 10 minutes. Complimentary ballpark-style peanuts
are available to stave off hunger.
The burger itself is built on the
McDonald’s model, a quarterpound of all-beef burger. It does
look and taste homemade, though,
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and is infinitely customizable with
16 toppings.
Burgers are hot and come
wrapped in foil; fries are wrapped
in paper bags. Especially with the
fries, avoid moisture by removing
contents from the wrap as soon as
possible. The lightly grilled bun
is a nice touch. It’s a very soft,
white-bread bun.
The hot-dog bun is even softer, fairly melting into the nicely
splayed and griddled Kosher-style
hot dog ($3.99).
Do not have a BLT until tomato
season. These were like paper on
the tongue.
A little bag of fries ($2.69) will
be enough for most people. A
sign tells you where the potatoes
come from today. On my visits,
they came from St. Anthony CBC
Farms, a corporation in Idaho.
The fries are delicious, crispy and
browned on the outside, still fluffy
inside. (Order them extra-crispy to
be sure.)
As at In-N-Out, there is a secret
menu. Different stores have different policies, but the possibilities
include cheese fries and five-patty
burgers.
Vegetarians also should ask
for options, but the regular menu
includes grilled veggie ($3.29),
grilled veggie with cheese ($3.99)
and grilled cheese ($3.99) sandwiches.
Calorie counts are, scarily,
prominently displayed.
And for the gluten-free, all burgers and dogs are available bun-less,
wrapped in iceberg lettuce.
Drinks are all Coca-Cola products, from a bottle of Dasani water
($2.09) to Gold Peak iced teas. In
swooping red Coke machines, they
are clearly identified as low-cal,
no-cal and caffeine-free. Refills
are free.
For comparison’s sake, I asked
the burger fan in our family. He
remains devoted to his first love,
saying of Five Guys, “It doesn’t
taste as fresh, both the fries and the
burgers, but also they don’t have
that special In-N-Out sauce that is
the best part of the burger.”
As at In-N-Out, red and gleaming white tiles cover the walls at
Five Guys. Loud oldies music,
which causes people to yell into
their cellphones, encourages fast
eating. It may take 10 minutes to
get your food, but you can be out
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Reservations
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seating
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A young Maria (Tatiana Maslany) and her husband Fritz (Max
Irons) seek to escape Nazi clutches in 1930s Vienna.
She was framed
‘Woman in Gold’ arbitrates the ownership
of a classic Klimt
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A Nazi-enabled “finders keepers” claim comes under scrutiny
in the based-on-a-true-story drama, “Woman in Gold.” In 1998,
Gustav Klimt’s shimmering 1907
oil, silver and gold portrait, “Adele
Bloch-Bauer I,” is the pride of Vienna’s Belvedere Gallery. But for
one Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), a Jewish refugee and longtime resident of Los Angeles, the
woman in gold is Aunt Adele and
the painting a stolen family heirloom, albeit one valued at over
$100 million.
Enter burgeoning attorney
Randol Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds), whose mother (Frances
Fisher) enlists him to hear out
her friend Maria and advise her
about a possible art restitution
case against the politically savvy
but firmly entrenched Austrian
government. The skeptical Randy — as Maria flirtily takes to
calling him — initially finds his
head turned by the potential payday. On this thorny subject, the
screenplay is careful to establish
Maria’s in it for the justice, and
eventually, the case becomes a
personal crusade for Randy that
touches something deep in his
Jewish roots.
Those roots include being the
grandson of composer Arnold
Schoenberg (and you better believe a tear or two will be shed
listening to his music before the
final fadeout). The inherently fascinating tale of the painting’s path
out of the upper-crust Bloch-Bauer family’s possession through
Nazi hands and into the touristdraw gallery — only to have its
next resting place contested in
the U.S. Supreme Court — not
only brushes the famous com-
poser and Chief Justice William
Rehnquist (Jonathan Pryce), but
also the Führer himself and Estée
Lauder’s son, gallery owner Ronald Lauder.
“Woman in Gold” primarily
concerns itself with the turn-ofthe-millennium legal battle (abetted by Austrian investigative reporter Hubertus Czernin, played
by “Rush”’s Daniel Brühl) and
the odd-couple bonding of persnickety Maria and relatively
callow Randy. Yet a significant
portion of the film takes place
in Nazi-controlled Vienna just
before the outbreak of WWII.
There, we glimpse the painting’s
creation and track the dangerous
days for the Blochs that precede
a narrow escape for young Maria
(the brilliant Tatiana Maslany of
“Orphan Black”). As for Mirren
and Reynolds, she handily turns
Maria into a “character” and he
effectively tamps down his tics,
the two playing off of each other
most effectively in the dry comicrelief beats.
The approach of screenwriter
Alexi Kaye Campbell and director Simon Curtis (“My Week with
Marilyn”) can be corny, commercial, predictably platitudinous and
tear-jerkingly weepy. But if Curtis
and company lay it on a bit thick,
it’s also an inevitably thoughtprovoking dramatization of facing
the “ghosts” of the past on an individual level and a national one. As
one character muses, “The past is
asking something of the present,”
that something being the familiar
refrain, “Never forget.”
Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and brief strong
language. One hour, 49 minutes.
— Peter Canavese
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Stanford Theatre: 6:05 & 9:45 p.m.
Get Hard (R) Century 16: 2:20, 4:50, 7:30 & 10:10 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:20 & 11:50
a.m., Sun 9 & 11:30 a.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 12:25, 1:50, 3, 4:30, 5:30,
7:05, 8:05, 9:35 & 10:40 p.m.
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The Gunman (R)
Century 20: 10:05 p.m.
Home (PG) ++ Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 12:55, 3:20, 5:45 & 8:15 p.m. In 3-D
Fri & Sat 9:15 & 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:35 & 7:05 p.m., Sun 9:05 & 11:30 a.m., 10:05
p.m. Century 20: 10:35 & 11:40 a.m., 1:20, 2:20, 3:50, 4:55, 6:25, 7:25, 9 &
9:55 p.m. In 3-D at 12:35, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10 & 10:35 p.m.
Insurgent (PG-13) Century 16: 10:45 a.m., Fri 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:45 p.m.,
Sat & Sun 1:35, 4:25, 7:25 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:10 &
7 p.m. In 3-D at 11:10 a.m., 2, 5, 7:55 & 10:45 p.m.
It Follows (R)
Century 20: Noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45 & 10:20 p.m.
Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) ++1/2
Century 16: Sun 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 1, 4:15, 7:20 & 10:30 p.m.
McFarland, USA (PG) ++
Century 20: 12:15, 3:15, 6:50 & 10 p.m.
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) (Not Rated)
Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 3:50 p.m.
Public hearing notice
The Passion of the Christ (2004) (R)
Century 16: Sun 2 & 7 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 & 7 p.m.
Fiscal Year 2015/2016 Groundwater Production
and Surface Water Charges
Topic:
Fiscal Year 2015/2016 Groundwater Production and Surface Water Charges
Guild Theatre: Sat at midnight
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1957) (R)
Run All Night (R)
Century 20: 10:40 a.m., Fri & Sat 1:35, 4:20 & 7:10 p.m.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) ++1/2
Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:40, 7:30 & 10:25 p.m.
Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:55 p.m.
Serena (R) +1/2
Guild Theatre: 11:45 a.m. & 4:30 p.m.
Who:
Santa Clara Valley Water District Board of Directors
What We Do in the Shadows (Not Rated) +++1/2
Guild Theatre: 2:15, 7:15 & 9:30 p.m.
What:
Public hearings on proposed fiscal year 2015/2016 Groundwater Production and
Surface Water Charges
Wild Tales (R) +++1/2
Palo Alto Square: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sat 10:05 p.m.
When:
April 14, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. – open public hearing
April 16, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. – open house;
7:00 p.m. continue hearing in South County
April 28, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. – continued public hearing;
hearing closes at conclusion
Where:
April 14 and April 28, 2015
Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Room
5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118
April 16, 2015
Morgan Hill City Council Chambers
17555 Peak Ave., Morgan Hill, CA 95037
The Santa Clara Valley Water District (water district) has prepared an annual report on the
Protection and Augmentation of Water Supplies documenting financial and water supply
information, which provides the basis for recommended groundwater production and surface
water charges for fiscal year 2015/2016.
Woman in Gold (PG-13) ++1/2
Century 16: 9:05 & 11:45 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 8 & 10:40 p.m.
Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 2:10, 5, 7:40 & 10:25 p.m.
+ Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding
Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260)
Currently closed for renovation
Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View
(800-326-3264)
Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City
(800-326-3264)
CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
(493-0128)
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
information about films playing, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies
ON THE WEB: Additional movie reviews at PaloAltoOnline.com
The report includes financial analyses of the water district’s water utility system; supply and
demand forecasts; future capital improvement, maintenance and operating requirements; and the
method to finance such requirements.
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Michael
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The water district will hold a public hearing to obtain comments on the report, which will be
available at the hearing.
Based upon findings and determinations from the public hearing, including the results of any
protest procedure, the water district Board of Directors will decide whether or not groundwater
production and surface water charges should be levied, and if so, at what level, in which zone or
zones for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015.
All operators of water-producing facilities within the water district or any person interested in the
water district’s activities with regard to protection and augmentation of the water supply may
appear, in person or by representative, and submit comments regarding the subject.
For more information on the public hearing, please visit our website at www.valleywater.org, or
contact Darin Taylor at (408) 630-3068.
Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate persons with disabilities wishing to attend
this public hearing. For additional information on attending this hearing including requesting
accommodations for disabilities or interpreter assistance, please contact the Office of the Clerk of
the Board at (408) 630-2277, at least three business days prior to the hearing.
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WORLD WAR II THEME ... The
Menlo Park Library will be focusing on World War II-themed books
in upcoming events, including
Christine Witzel’s collected missives of her mother, Virgilia Witzel,
“She Also Served: Letters from
a Navy Wife,” on April 4 and author Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
speaking about her classic memoir “Farewell to Manzanar” on May
2. Both talks are free and take
place at 11 a.m. in the Menlo Park
City Council Chambers, 701 Laurel St., Menlo Park. Info: menlopark.org/library or email weaver@
plsinfo.org
PREMIERE EVENT ... Best-selling
mystery writer Jacqueline Winspear will talk about her newest
novel, “A Dangerous Place: A
Maisie Dobbs Novel,” at 7:30
p.m. on Wednesday, April 29, at
Kepler’s, 1010 El Camino Real,
Menlo Park. This one sets Maisie
on a return trip to England from
India, stopping off in Gibraltar
just in time to get entangled in a
murder. Tickets are $20 to $40,
available from brownpapertickets.
com/event/946305.
POEMS FROM THE HEART ...
In the latest book of poetry by
Eavan Boland, “A Woman Without
a Country,” the writer explores
nationhood and identity from the
perspective of one who has lived
in multiple lands. Boland is the
Melvin and Bill Lane Professor
and director of Stanford’s Creative
Writing Program and the Bella
Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp
Professor in Humanities. Published by W.W. Norton, her book
is available on amazon.com.
PHOTOS OF THE DEAD? ...
Kepler’s is planning its 60th anniversary celebration and is looking
for photos of The Grateful Dead
in Kepler’s, for use in a new book
about The Dead that’s in the
works. Anyone with photos (or
favorite memories) from the early
days can email them to nicole@
keplers.com.
Items for Book Talk may be
sent to Associate Editor Carol Blitzer, Palo Alto Weekly,
P.O Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA
93202 or emailed to cblitzer@
paweekly.com.
Benjamin Benschneider
INSIGHTS INTO AUTISM ... Los
Altos teen Georgia Lyon has revealed her identity as the author
of “How to Be Human,” which
chronicles her experience growing up with autism. A senior at
Pinewood School in Los Altos,
Georgia wrote under the pen
name “Florida Frenz.” Her book
deals openly with her special
challenges, including learning to
read facial expressions, making
friends and juggling life as a high
school kid. Her book is available
at amazon.com.
A monthly section on local books and authors
Erik Larson will appear at Kepler’s Books on Monday, April 13 to
discuss his latest novel, “Dead Wake.”
Troubled Waters
Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake’
brings Lusitania disaster to life
by Michael Berry
“Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania” by Erik Larson; Crown Publishers, New York, 2015; 430 pages; $28
E
rik Larson always manages
to find the unexpected stories in history.
Ever since his 1999 bestseller,
“Isaac’s Storm,” an account of the
Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Larson has crafted nonfiction sagas with
all the suspense
and narrative drive
normally associated with fiction. In
2003’s “The Devil
in the White City,”
he wrote about a
serial killer at the
Chicago World’s
Fair. “Thunderstruck”
(2006)
found the connections between the
birth of radio and
the murder trial of Dr. Hawley
Harvey Crippen. And with 2011’s
“In the Garden of Beasts,” Larson
chronicled an American family’s
tragic experiences as residents of
Hitler’s Berlin.
Now, in “Dead Wake: The Last
Crossing of the Lusitania,” Larson
addresses a tragedy many readers
might think they know too well.
The centennial of the disaster is
May 17, and in its honor, Larson
weaves a gripping tale of hubris,
bad timing and unexpected courage.
On Monday, April 13, Larson will discuss and sign “Dead
Wake” at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park.
Cunard’s gigantic and luxurious Lusitania set sail from New
York on May 1, 1915, bound for
Liverpool, England, with a full
roster of first-,
second- and thirdclass passengers,
including a record
number of children
and infants. The
fastest civilian ship
of its day, Lusitania seemed unstoppable, with no need
for anyone to worry
that Germany and
England were at
war or that Germany had posted
warnings that travelers booking passage on English
ships “do so at their own risk.”
Larson’s narrative includes
scenes aboard the Lusitania, with
its irascible Captain William
Thomas Turner and diverse assortment of passengers (whom he
referred to as “bloody monkeys”),
as well as descriptions of life
aboard U-boat 20 under the leadership of Kapitänleutnant Walther
Schwieger — known for his focus
on his missions and his compassion for his crew. The book’s title
comes from the maritime term
for “the disturbance that lingers
on the surface of the sea long af-
ter the passage of a vessel — or a
torpedo.”
Many people assume they know
the story of the Lusitania, but often they are wrong about even the
most basic facts.
Reached by phone during a
book tour stop in Kansas City,
Larson said, “I think the biggest
misconception is that the Lusitania was a World War I equivalent
of Pearl Harbor. ‘Boom! Ship
sinks. We’re in the war.’”
Larson would ask friends and
family how long they thought it
was between the time the Lusitania was sunk and the U.S. entered World War I. The estimates
ranged from two days to two
months.
“Guess what? It’s two full
years.”
One of Larson’s first major
research stops was the Hoover
Institution Library at Stanford
University. It was there he had the
first inkling of the scope of the
material available to him.
“I realized that there was this
tremendous trove of archival materials that, in my view, had not
been used to maximum advantage,” Larson said. “What I saw
was a body of material of a richness that I had never encountered
for any of my past books, all these
wonderful elements for what suddenly occurred to me might be
an exercise in nonfiction narrative suspense. It seemed to allow
me an opportunity to put on my
‘Hitchcock hat,’ if you will, and
construct a narrative that was
three parts maritime thriller, one
part informative, necessary history.”
Larson’s research took him
“pretty far afield,” with so much
time needed in Europe that he and
his wife decided to base themselves in Paris for six months.
Larson said he hates to fly and
that traveling by train via the
Chunnel made his intensive trips
more comfortable as he visited the
National Archives of the United
Kingdom, Cambridge University
and the University of Liverpool,
home of the Cunard Archive.
“Dead Wake” is filled with
highly memorable characters and
first-hand witnesses, from Boston
bookseller Charles Lauriat, traveling across the Atlantic with irreplaceable editions by Dickens and
Thackeray, to Theodate Pope, the
first female architect licensed in
Connecticut. Winston Churchill
plays a significant clandestine
role in the saga, and a short story
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle offers
an early glimpse of a future where
submarines are formidable nautical weapons.
Larson also recounts episodes
from the private life of the widowed President Woodrow Wilson.
“His story was very tragic. In
August of 1914 he loses his wife,
just at about the time World War
I blows up. Here he is facing this
world crisis and he’s alone and
he’s grieving. And then come
1915, he falls in love with this
40-something widow, Edith Galt.”
Larson found himself hooked
by Wilson’s letters to Galt. “These
were incredibly passionate, with
this outpouring of need and loneliness from a guy I had thought of
as kind of stiff, prim and proper,”
he said.
Also compelling is the contrast
between the captains of the two
vessels fated to meet in the North
Atlantic.
“Turner was a staunch sailor of
the old school who was confronting something his training never
prepared him for: a wholly novel
situation,” Larson said of the man
who ended up being blamed for
the disaster, despite the fact that
an ultrasecret spy group, working
under the British Admiralty, knew
the ship was at risk.
As for the captain of U-20,
Larson at first imagined him to
be a cold-blooded, stereotypical
villain, perhaps with a scar and
monocle. The truth proved more
complicated.
“Turns out Schwieger was a
nice guy,” Larson said. “Young,
handsome. Humane, by all accounts. Well-loved by his crew.
Well-liked throughout the Submarine Service. And yet here is
someone who, at the press of a
button, killed 1,200 people. How
do you rationalize that?”
To gain first-hand experience
with transoceanic travel in preparation for writing “Dead Wake,”
Larson embarked on a Cunard
voyage, one that took him through
especially stormy waters. As he
contemplated the coming weeks
of air travel required for his book
tour, he said of the cruise, “That
was great. I will take the Queen
Mary 2 in a Force 10 gale over a
one-hour flight in a regional jet.
It spoke to my Scandinavian soul,
I guess.” Q
Freelance writer Michael Berry can be emailed at mikeberry@
mindspring.com.
What: Erik Larson signs and
discusses “Dead Wake”
Where: Kepler’s Books, 1010
Camino Real, Menlo Park
When: Monday, April 13, 7:30
p.m.
Cost: $35 (includes book)
Info: Go to keplers.com or call
650-324-4321
SEE MORE ONLINE
www.PaloAltoOnline.com
Watch a video Erik Larson discussing
“Dead Wake” in the online version of
this story at PaloAltoOnline.com.
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APRIL 2015
LivingWell
A monthly special section of news
& information for seniors
Beyond
ramps
and
grab
Age-friendly design should be stylish,
colorful and fun, architect says
STORY BY CHRIS KENRICK
Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and Palo Alto Weekly present the
36TH
ANNUAL TALL TREE DINNER
Honoring
Outstanding Citizen Volunteer
Fran Codispoti
Outstanding Professional
Sharon Keplinger
Outstanding Business
Stanford Federal Credit Union
Outstanding Nonprofit
Acterra
Master of Ceremonies
Hal M. Mickelson
April 21, 2015
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bars
Large sliding doors eat up less space, and easily accessible storage reduces the chance of forgetting
where things are in a “smart” apartment designed by Susanne Stadler’s architecture firm. She promotes
human-centered design that can be playful, such as the rock-climbing grab bars in the shower.
G
rowing old is “hard work” but it can be fun, Berkeley architect Susanne
Stadler insists.
Stadler is co-founder of At Home with Growing Older, a group that
includes social workers, psychologists and designers interested in promoting
home-like settings, rather than institutional ones, as a “major contributor to
healthy aging.”
She addressed a March 21 housing conference
at Mitchell Park Community Center, which drew
nearly 200 local residents to discuss the housing
concerns of seniors. A large majority of those attending the conference, which was sponsored by
Avenidas and the City of Palo Alto, said they do
not plan to move and want to stay in their homes
for the rest of their lives.
Age-friendly design goes well beyond ramps
and traditional grab bars to include beautiful,
“human-centered” design for all generations, playfulness and integration into the larger community,
Stadler said, showing photos that included senior
housing attached to a Swiss sports complex and a
Reception: 5:30-7pm
Dinner and Program: 7-9pm
Crowne Plaza Cabaña
Event Tickets and Raffle Tickets can be
purchased at Paloaltochamber.com
You do not need to be present to win
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bathroom conceived as a “living
room,” with places to sit down and
colorful, sporty-looking grips to
provide support.
“If we can get past our denial and avoidance — not look
at aging as a weakness but as a
fact of life — then we can talk
about what we need and ask for
help when we need it,” she said.
“Home is the base for our wellbeing, and it should support the
physical and emotional changes
that age brings.”
Stadler’s own views about aging shifted dramatically when
she moved from her native Austria to Berkeley to attend graduate
school 30 years ago.
“In Austria I was used to adults
being old in a certain way,” she
said. “It seemed that age dictated
a certain dress code and code
of behavior — certain ‘dos and
don’ts’ — dignified, demanding
respect from others.
“In Berkeley, things were different. People of all ages and
abilities were out and about, and
you couldn’t judge people’s status in society by their clothes. It
was more colorful, bolder and
definitely more fun. I was hooked,
and I’ve been here ever since.”
Still, Americans can learn from
Europe’s greater experience with
aging societies and its track record
on integrating seniors into centers
of community life, she said.
In Salzburg, Austria, for example, Stadler said her mother’s
Mirabel Senior Residence is attached to “one of the city’s most
popular cafes (Fingerhut, or
“Thimble”), which is buzzing all
day long.
“The senior residents have a
private entry into the cafe. In that
way the cafe, if desired, becomes
part of their larger living space.”
In Basel, the 15-year-old St.
Jakob Park soccer stadium —
Switzerland’s largest sports arena
— incorporates a retirement home
with more than 100 apartments, a
gym and a shopping mall.
Stadler advises seniors to be
proactive in making sure their
homes work for them. Older
people often adapt to annoyances rather than make even small
changes that could improve their
daily lives, she said.
“Most of us adapt to inconveniences for many, many years,
but then there comes a time for
everybody — an illness, a broken
bone, knee surgery, hip replacement — when suddenly we notice
that something is off in our environment.
“Take a fresh look at your house
now and say, ‘Is my bed really in
the right room? Why does it have
to be in the room where it’s been
for the past 30 years? Where else
would I like to wake up?’”
She displayed a photo of a bathroom that uses colorful grips designed for climbing walls, rather
than traditional grab bars, for
support.
“We can learn from the tools
and gadgets of extreme sports —
aging is like an extreme sport,”
she said. “But instead of being
about impairment, it can be
about stretching yourself, being
playful. We do need the same
supports, but also the same
imagination that has gone into
these tools.”
Stairs aren’t always bad but can
be great exercise tools, she said.
“Consider building in the incentive for daily exercise in your
home — putting an exercise bar
wide-spaced open shelving, displaying a series of large paintings.
“All of us have too much, and
people don’t have a chance to
display what they have,” she said.
“These displays can be changed
quite easily.”
Becoming an “activist” for
human-centered design means
‘If we can get past our denial and avoidance
— not look at aging as a weakness but as a
fact of life — then we can talk about what we
need and ask for help when we need it.’
—Susanne Stadler, co-founder, At Home with Growing Older
on the wall or a soft floor in the
hallway so, as you walk by, you
can do your daily exercise,” she
said.
Age-friendly design doesn’t
have to be something new, she
said. Sometimes it’s already there,
such as in a Frank Lloyd Wrightdesigned interior with a wall of
discovering your home’s potential to adapt to you and expecting
practical, creative and elegant solutions, she said.
In a separate presentation,
Coldwell Banker Realtor Nancy
Goldcamp said nearly 85 percent
of seniors say they want to stay
in their current house for the rest
of their lives and that, statistically,
70 percent of them will remain in
the home where they lived at their
65th birthday.
Clients over the decades have
told her that, after fixing up their
homes to put them on the market, they regret they did not make
the improvements earlier so they
could have enjoyed them, Goldcamp said.
She showed a series of “before-and-after” photos of minor
improvements that made homes
more livable, including adding
stairs from a deck to a lawn, refreshing an unused balcony and
adding walls to create a separate
unit for a graduate student or a
caregiver.
Transition specialist Cindy
Hofen of Managing Moves &
More, Mountain View, implored
conference-goers to begin decluttering and “right-sizing” their
possessions now, even though
they do not intend to move.
“Close your eyes and think of
your home as a clutter-free zone,”
she said. “Creating space creates
Courtesy Avenidas
Living Well
Berkeley architect Susanne
Stadler says age-friendly design
should be practical, creative
and elegant.
opportunity.
“Keep only things that speak to
your heart and disperse the rest. If
it doesn’t bring you joy, it doesn’t
belong in your house. Q
Contributing writer Chris
Kenrick can be emailed at [email protected].
Kensington Place invites family caregivers
to a lively presentation by Elaine K. Sanchez
A Daughter’s Journey:
Mile Markers
RSVP to
through Dementia 650-363-9200
Friday, May 1 from 6:30pm-8:30pm
and Saturday, May 2 from 1:30pm-3:30pm
Stanford Park Hotel, 100 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA
Family & Friends Welcome • Refreshments Served
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laine K. Sanchez is an author, speaker and co-founder of CaregiverHelp.com. She has been described as
part Erma Bombeck and part Garrison Keillor, but don’t let the entertainment value of her presentation
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proven strategies for interacting with persons with Alzheimer’s can help you, just as they have helped
thousands of other family caregivers across the country. Please join us.
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Living Well
Making the decision to move, selling
your home, and moving is a big job.
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Skilled Nursing:
AGE OF LOVE ... The 2014 documentary “The Age of Love,” which
follows the adventures of 30 seniors
in Rochester, New York, who sign
up for a first-of-its-kind speed-dating
event for 70- to 90-year-olds, will be
screened on Tuesday, April 7, from
1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Schultz Cultural
Arts Hall at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, 3921 Fabian
Way, Palo Alto. The price is $15 at
the door, or one punch on the JCC’s
Community Tuesday Punch Card.
Information: Contact Michelle Rosengaus at [email protected]
or 650-223-8616.
END-OF-LIFE CHOICES ... Jacie
Rowe, Northern California organizer
for the death-with-dignity group
Compassion & Choices, will offer
an update on California Senate Bill
128, the End-of-Life Options Act,
recently introduced in the legislature.
He also will discuss legal challenges
to current laws regarding assisting
another to die and the possibility of
a voter initiative. Rowe will speak at
Avenidas on Tuesday, April 9, from
2:30 to 4:30 p.m.; the talk is free. Call
650-289-5400 to register.
DRAMA AND COMEDY ... The Avenidas Thursday movie offerings for
the month of April include “Secret
Life of Walter Mitty” on April 9,
“The Fault in Our Stars” on April 16,
“About Time” on April 23 and “Wish
I Was Here” on April 30. All screenings are at 1:30 p.m. and include
popcorn and drinks. Get tickets at
the front desk at Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto. The cost is $2 or
free for Avenidas members.
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“SMART DRIVER” REFRESHER ...
Even the most experienced drivers
can benefit from brushing up on
their driving skills. AARP will offer
its Smart Driver Refresher Course
on Tuesday, April 7, from 2 to 6:30
p.m. at Avenidas. Students will learn
how to drive more safely in today’s
challenging environment and how
to manage and accommodate
common age-related changes in
vision, hearing and reaction time.
Pre-registration at the Avenidas
front desk is required, and, to be eligible, students must have taken the
two-part AARP Smart Driver course
within the past three years. Price
is $15 for AARP members, $20 for
non-members (checks only).
SKIN-CANCER SCREENING ...
Palo Alto Medical Foundation dermatologist Renata Mullen will be
available to check questionable
changes on the skin on Wednesday, April 22, between 3 and 4 p.m.
at Avenidas. Free checks are available for people age 50 and older,
with no disrobing allowed and a
waiver required. Call 650-289-5400
to make an appointment.
Items for Senior Focus may
be emailed to Palo Alto Weekly
Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick at [email protected].
APRIL 2015
Living Well
Don’t let aging
uproot you.
Apr 1
April Fool’s Day Luncheon with music
by Toot Sweet
11:15am – 12:15pm, La Comida @ Avenidas.
$3 for 60+
Apr 2
Movie: “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
(2012)
1:30-4pm @ Avenidas. 0/$2
Blood Pressure Screenings
10:00-11:30am @ Avenidas. Drop-in. Free.
Apr 3
Chinese Style Dance-Exercise Demo
2:30 – 3:30pm @ Avenidas. Free
Apr 6
UNA Film Festival: “Fed Up! Genetic
Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and
Sustainable Alternatives”
2-3:30 @ Avenidas. Free.
Who says you have to leave your
home just because you’ve gotten
older? Avenidas Village can help
you stay in the home you love.
Apr 7
NEW! Try it! Rosen Movement
11:30am – 12:30pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in. Free.
Apr 8
Parkinson’s Support Group
2-3:30pm @ Avenidas. Call Robin Riddle
@ 650-724-6090 for more info. Free.
Open House:
Thursday, April 30, 10am
Apr 9
Presentation: “Securing Death & Dignity
Rights in CA,”
2:30 – 4:30pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400
to register. Free.
Space is limited so please RSVP
to (650) 289-5405
to reserve your space today!
Caregiver 101: “Making the Right
Choice,”
3-4:30pm @ Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center,
270 Escuela, Mountain View. Call 650-289-5499
to register. Free.
Your life, your way, in your home
Complete schedule or info about Avenidas events, call 650-289-5400
Apr 10
Garden Club: “Herbs for a Gourmet
Kitchen,”
1-2:30pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400 to
register. Free.
Apr 13
16mm Film Screening: “Gold Diggers
of 1933”
2:30-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free.
Partner/Spouse Caregiver Support
Group, 11:30am-1pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in. Free.
Better Breathers Group
1:30-3pm @ Avenidas. For info call 408-998-5865.
Free.
Apr 14
Tuina
10-11am @ Avenidas. Free.
Apr 15
Mindfulness Meditation
2-3pm @ Avenidas. Free.
1-on-1 computer tutoring appts.
available
Call 650-308-4252. $5/$10
Apr 16
Workshop: “A New User’s Intro to the
Mac,”
2-4pm @ Avenidas. Pre-registration required.
Call 650-289-5400. $5/$10.
Book Club: “The Boys in the Boat” by
Daniel James Brown
3-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free.
Apr 17
Presentation: “I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just
Not You” Introduction
1-3pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400 to register. Free.
Apr 20
Senior Legal Aid appts available for
Santa Clara County residents, 60+
Call 650-289-5400 for an appt. Free.
Massage Appts. available
1:30-4pm. Call 650-289-5400 for appt. $35/$45
Calendar of Events
Apr 21
Armchair Travel: “Surprising Lithuania,”
2:30-3:30pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400
to register. Free
Apr 22
Workshop: “Getting started with iPhoto,”
1-3pm @ Avenidas. Pre-registration required.
Call 650-289-5400. $5/$10.
Skin Cancer Screening
3-4pm, @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400 for appt. Free.
Apr 23
Caregiver 101: “Monitoring Medications
– Enhances Quality of Life,”
3-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400
to register. Free.
Apr 24
Therapeutic Nail Care appts available
9am-3pm @ Avenidas
Call 650-289-5400 for appt and price.
Apr 27
16mm Film Screening:
“On the Waterfront”
2:30-4:30pm @ Avenidas. Free.
Partner/Spouse Caregiver Support
Group
11:30am-1pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in. Free.
Apr 28
Avenidas Walkers
10am. Call 650-387-5256 for trailhead info
or to schedule. Free.
Apr 29
Reiki appts. available
9am-12pm @ Avenidas. Call 650-289-5400
for appt. $30/$35.
Apr 30
Avenidas Village Coffee Chat
10am @ Avenidas. RSVP required.
Call 650-289-5405
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NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING
of the City of Palo Alto
Architectural Review Board [ARB]
8:30 A.M., Thursday, April 16, 2015, Palo Alto Council
Chambers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue.
Plans may be reviewed at the Development Center at 285
Hamilton Avenue or online at: http://www.cityofpaloalto.
org/planningprojects; contact Diana Tamale for additional
information during business hours at 650.329.2144.
252 Ramona Street [13PLN-00431]: Request by Tony
Carrasco for Major Architectural Review of a proposal to
demolish one existing single story residence and construct
a new two story building with two residential units in the
RMD(NP) zoning district. No exceptions are required.
Environmental Assessment: Exempt from the provisions of
the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per CEQA
Section 15303(b). This item was continued from the March
5, 2015 ARB Hearing.
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The City of Palo Alto does not discriminate against
individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation
for this meeting or an alternative format for any related
printed materials, please contact the City’s ADA Coordinator
at 650.329.2550 (voice) or by e-mailing ada@cityofpaloalto.
org.
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OPEN HOME GUIDE 48
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Real Estate Matters
Representing both buyer and seller:
a conflict of interest?
by Michael Repka
A
lthough the
practice is
completely
legal and widely
accepted in California, it seems
impossible for one
real estate agent
to zealously represent both the buyer
and the seller in
the same transaction, even when the situation is properly
disclosed. Simply too much conflict of
interest exists. Nevertheless, many agents
salivate at the thought of getting twice the
commission from the same transaction,
and many clients accept this practice, not
realizing how much more other agents’ clients might have been willing to pay.
In practice, some agents even offer a
commission discount if the sellers pick
their offers. This is a violation of the
rules that apply to Realtors® if not properly disclosed to other interested buyers
in advance, which is rarely done. A good
attorney would cringe at the notion of representing both the plaintiff and the defendant on the same case, yet many real estate
agents represent both sides without even
blinking an eye.
Fundamentally, there are three problems
with “double-ending” a deal. First, a good
agent knows a lot about the client’s situation and has access to much confidential
information. Second, an agent cannot possibly fight for the highest price for the seller while also arguing the lowest price for
the buyer. Third, there is a risk that a listing agent will not do everything possible to
bring in competing offers when that agent
already has a buyer.
The underlying conflict stems from the
Home Front
VEGGIES WITHOUT WATER? ...
The City of Palo Alto will offer a
free workshop on “Sustainable
Edibles” from 9 to 11:30 a.m. on
Saturday, April 4, in the Community Room at Lucie Stern Community Center, 1305 Middlefield
Road, Palo Alto. Focus will be on
growing warm-season veggies
while using less water, incorporating organic maintenance techniques, reducing use of plastic
and making one’s own compost.
Registration is required. Info:
tinyurl.com/sustainableedibles
WHAT’S WRONG? ... A team of
master gardeners will help figure
out what’s affecting plants and
suggest “Less Toxic Pest Control”
for managing diseases and pests
commission model that is widely used in broad because, in most offices, the agents
the real estate industry. Most agents suc- are independent contractors who operate
cessfully close only a limited number of with very little interaction. Put another
transactions per year, but they are paid way, independent agents in a particular
extremely well when they do make a sale. office compete against each other in the
Thus, the difference between two transac- same way they compete against agents
tions and three transactions has a mate- who pay to be affiliated with another ofrial impact on an agent’s annual income. fice. Generally, there is no financial incentive for an agent to
You must also conaccept an offer from
sider much of the
another agent in the
first sales commisGenerally, sellers get
same office unless
sion goes towards
the listing agent
an agent’s business
the short end of the
referred the client.
expenses, such as
there is a
monthly fees to the
stick when it comes to However,
large incentive for
affiliated office,
unethical conduct
dues to MLS and
dual representation,
when an agent reRealtor ® associaceives commission
tions, and advertiswhich may cause
(or a referral fee) if
ing to get new clitheir own client gets
ents. Do the math
buyers to conclude
the home.
and you will see why
Most agents are
so many agents are
they will have a
good people, but the
willing to represent
competitive advantage commission-based
both the buyer and
model creates the
seller.
if working with the
temptation to put
A less obvious
their finger on the
problem
occurs
listing agents.
scale. By way of
when a listing agent
example, assume a
finds a buyer and
home has been on
then gets a friend
to write up the offer, often taking a large, the market for a few weeks. Three someand generally undisclosed, referral fee. In what interested parties circle the opportumany ways, this is an even worse set-up be- nity, then one party decides to submit an
cause the sellers do not know they should offer. A good agent would inform every interested party to stir up some competition,
be on guard.
One of the problems that makes it hard and generate a higher price, but those calls
to fix the flawed dual-agency situation in may never be made by a listing agent who
California is the definition of dual agency is submitting an offer for a personal client.
Short of lobbying to get the law changed,
itself. Any transaction in which the listing
agent and the buyer’s agent are licensed there are a few ways wise clients can prounder the same managing broker is clas- tect themselves:
sified as dual agency. This may be overly
Q Make sure you get a copy of every of-
from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday,
April 4, at the Palo Alto Demonstration Garden, 851 Center Drive,
Palo Alto. Participants are asked
to bring samples (or photos) of
insects or plants (a fresh, small
branch — not just one leaf). No
pre-registration is required. Info:
UC Master Gardeners at 408282-3105, between 9:30 a.m. and
12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or mastergardeners.org
REPLACE THAT LAWN ... BayFriendly Qualified Designer Sherri
Osaka, owner of Sustainable
Landscape Designs, will teach a
class called “Replace Your Lawn
with Drought-tolerant Plants” from
1 to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April
4, at the Common Ground Garden, 687 Arastradero Road, Palo
Alto. She’ll cover creating a waterefficient and low-maintenance
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landscape, removing a lawn
without chemicals, installing a
simple drip-irrigation system and
drought-proofing plants to require
less water. Cost is $42.
Info: commongroundgarden.org
SPICE UP YOUR COOKING ... UC
Master Gardener Ida Heller will
offer a free talk on growing “Herbs
for a Gourmet Kitchen” from 1 to
2:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10, at
Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo
Alto. Heller will talk about growing,
harvesting and using herbs from
the garden, including cooking
tips. Info: UC Master Gardeners at
408-282-3105, between 9:30 a.m.
and 12:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, or mastergardeners.org
YEAR-ROUND FRUIT ... UC Master
Gardener Candace Simpson will
teach a class on “Beauty and Abun-
fer that is submitted, including the buyer’s
agent’s name and contact info, along with
any correspondence.
QAsk that any offers submitted in person
are also emailed so there is an electronic
record.
Q Ask for the name and phone number
of every agent who downloaded the disclosures.
QRequest a log of the listing agent’s follow-up with all interested agents.
QRequire written disclosure of any commission, referral fees or other financial incentives to the listing agent based on the
acceptance of any particular offer.
Generally, sellers get the short end of the
stick when it comes to dual representation,
which may cause buyers to conclude they
will have a competitive advantage if working with the listing agents. Initially, this
sentiment is logical, but you must ask yourself, “Do I really want to trust this agent to
help me when I am attracted to the agent
just because I think this agent might mess
over their other client?”
The best approach here is to find a good
agent who understands your needs and
your financial goals. Trust this agent’s
counsel, yet never forsake vigilance. Q
Michael Repka, managing broker and
general counsel for DeLeon Realty, Palo
Alto, formerly practiced real estate and
tax law in Palo Alto. He serves on the
Board of Directors of the California Association of Realtors. He can be reached
at [email protected].
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dance: Year-Round Fruit from the
Home Garden” from 7 to 9 p.m. on
Mondays, April 13 through May
11, at Palo Alto High School, 50
Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. The
class will focus on soil preparation,
irrigation, space-saving techniques
for planting, and requirements for
specific fruits and berries.
Advanced registration is required.
Cost is $73. Info: 650-329-3752
or paadultschool.org
FLOWER SHOW FUNDRAISER
... Filoli’s annual Mother’s Day
weekend flower show event, “Voyages...with an International Flair,” is
set for Thursday, May 7, through
Sunday, May 10, at 86 Cañada
Road, Woodside. The event will
feature floral displays, table settings and garden vignettes created by more than 90 designers;
live music; exhibitors from nurser-
ies, garden clubs and horticulturists; teas, champagne brunches,
box lunches, flower-arranging
demonstrations and an Opening
Night Preview Party where visitors
can meet the designers. Tickets
are $30 for adult nonmembers,
$25 for adult members and $10 for
children ages 5 to 17. Info:
filoli.org for ticket info (they sell out
quickly) for Opening Night Reception, Friday or Saturday teas, and
champagne brunch Q
Send notices of news and events related
to real estate, interior design, home
improvement and gardening to Home
Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610,
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[email protected].
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THE 29TH ANNUAL
PALO ALTO WEEKLY
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Your Realtor and You
Silicon Valley Realtors Oppose Wood-Burning Fireplace Ban
Silicon Valley Realtors have come out
strongly opposing a Bay Area Air Quality
Management District (BAAQMD) proposal that would mandate the replacement of
all wood-burning fireplaces with gas-fueled, electric or Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) certified heating devices
upon the sale or transfer of residential
or commercial property. The Air District
wants to ban wood-burning fireplaces in
any new home construction and require
that they be removed or converted before a
home is sold or rented.
In a letter addressed to BAAQMD, Chris
Isaacson, president of the Silicon Valley
Association of Realtors, stated, “We cannot
over-emphasize the impact this rule would
have on the Silicon Valley housing market.
What little it does to reduce winter time air
pollution does not warrant the substantial
difficulty it would cause for people who are
trying to sell their homes.”
According to the Realtors, implementation of this rule would be complicated,
costly, ineffective, overreaching and intrusive to residents. Installing gas and electrical inserts or EPA-certified heating devices
into a fireplace would be costly. The units
alone can cost thousands of dollars.
The Realtors contend such a proposal
will not correct the problem of air pollution. There is no evidence that the people
buying or renting a home would violate
“Spare the Air” restrictions, or ever burn
wood.
“This rule punishes everyone for the bad
acts of a few. If implemented, this rule will
hamstring the real estate market, costing
home sellers potentially thousands of dollars. This rule is a broad brush that does
not even attempt to target the actual bad
actors,” said Isaacson.
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to increase Spare the Air days and step up
its enforcement. The Air District could
also provide incentives to homeowners
who install the suggested gas-fueled, electric or EPA-certified heating devices.
“Figure out the areas where people are
burning excessively and target those areas
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a goal, then incentivize homeowners to
remove or retrofit. This harsh and excessive regulation is not the right way,” said
Isaacson.
The Air District has scheduled public
meetings in each county. The next meeting will be held on April 6, 6 p.m. to 8
p.m. at the Redwood City Public Library.
For questions or comments about the
proposal, contact the Air District’s Wood
Smoke Hotline at (415) 749-4989, or email
[email protected].
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Information provided in this column is
presented by the Silicon Valley Association
of Realtors. Send questions to Rose Meily
at [email protected].
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Colleen Haight BRE#01923202
650-275-3307
Christina Stafford BRE#01843009
650-275-2286
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Get to Know the DeLeon Difference
Listing Team
DeLeon Realty specializes in making your home our
priority. With your satisfaction as our motivation,
our listing team will negotiate until we secure the
highest possible price for your home. In addition,
we will take time to familiarize you with the escrow
process and guide you along every step.
Design Team
An expert in maximizing your home’s value, our
listing coordinator will collaborate with one of our
in-house interior designers to make your property
shine. Our designer will work directly with vendors
on cost-effective improvements, confirming the work
is done beautifully, within budget, and on time.
Marketing Team
Our marketing team partners with a professional
videographer and a photographer to ensure your
home receives the recognition it deserves. In addition
to extensive media advertising, our team will also
create a custom website for your property, which will
include a photo gallery and a video tour.
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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services Sand Hill Estates, Woodside
6 Quail Meadow Drive, Woodside
5 Betty Lane, Atherton
$35,000,000
$24,800,000
Price Upon Request
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Cutty Smith Lic.#01343305 & 01444081
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Greg Goumas Lic.#01242399, 00709019, 01878208
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas and Karen Gunn Lic.#0187820, 01804568
10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills
333 Raymundo Drive, Woodside
25 Oakhill Drive, Woodside
$11,488,000
$9,000,000
$8,500,000
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas & John Reece, Lic.#01878208 & 00838479
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas and Karen Gunn, Lic.#0187820, 01804568
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305
13195 Glenshire Drive, Truckee
18630 Withey Road, Monte Sereno
138 Bolivar Lane, Portola Valley
$6,900,000
$6,500,000
$6,488,000
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208
Listing Provided by: Albert Garibaldi, Lic.#01321299
Listing Provided by: Irene Reed & Greg Goumas, Lic.# 01879122 & 01878208
1730 Peregrino Way, San Jose
195 Brookwood Road, Woodside
16251 Maya Way, Los Gatos
$4,000,000
$3,995,000
$3,249,000
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305
Listing Provided by: Virginia Supnet, Lic.#01370434
Listing Provided by: Dominic Nicoli, Lic.#01112681
See the complete collection
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All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker.
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650.206.6200
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807 Santa Cruz Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650.543.7740
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496 First Street, Ste. 200
Los Altos, CA 94022
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Residential
real estate
expertise for the
mid-peninsula.
NICKGRANOSKI
Broker Associate
Alain Pinel President’s Club
DRE #00994196
www.NickGranoski.com
[email protected]
650/269–8556
DELEON REALTY
PALO ALTO
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Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.
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Happy Easter
and
Happy Passover
THIS WEEKEND OPEN HOMES
EXPLORE OUR MAPS, HOMES FOR SALE, OPEN HOMES, VIRTUAL TOURS, PHOTOS,
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3641 Louis Rd
Sat/Sun
Coldwell Banker
FOSTER CITY
2 Bedrooms - Condominium
603 Emerald Bay Ln
Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker
$818,000
324-4456
LOS GATOS
4 Bedrooms
2086 Channing Ave.
$2,995,000
Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200
5 Bedrooms
3 Bedrooms
11005 Troy Rd
$1,450,000
Sat
Pacific Union International 314-7200
MENLO PARK
2 Bedrooms - Condominium
1100 Sharon Park Dr 2
$799,000
Sat 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200
3 Bedrooms
659 Marsh Rd
Sun 1-4:30
Coldwell Banker
$1,435,000
324-4456
4 Bedrooms - Townhouse
168 Sand Hill Cir
$1,695,000
Sat
Pacific Union International 314-7200
4 Bedrooms
3492 Janice Way
$2,195,000
Sat/Sun 1-4
Yarkin Realty
322-1800
945 N California
$4,988,000
Sat/Sun 12-4:30 Coldwell Banker
325-6161
PESCADERO
3 Bedrooms
601 Farmin Rd.
$1,149,000
Sat/Sun 12-4pm Coldwell Banker
462-1111
PORTOLA VALLEY
4 Bedrooms
205 Cervantes Rd
Sat/Sun
Kerwin & Associates
REDWOOD CITY
MOUNTAIN VIEW
103 Evandale Ave
$978,000
Sat/Sun 12-4 Realty World-Martinelli Properties 578-1300
3383 Oak Knoll Dr
$3,198,000
Sat/Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors
462-1111
1005 Lake View Wy.
$4,498,000
Thu 5:30-8:30pm Coldwell Banker 851-2666
PALO ALTO
SAN JOSE
3 Bedrooms
5 Bedrooms
3520 Middlefield Rd
$1,899,000
Sat
Midtown Realty
321-1596
3727 Cass Way
$2,498,000
Sat/Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 454-8500
1730 Peregrino Way
$4,000,000
Sat 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200
WOODSIDE
4 Bedrooms
2 Bedrooms
512 Military Way
Sat/Sun
Coldwell Banker
$2,198,000
325-6161
5 Bedrooms
2915 Woodside Rd
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$7,750,000
473-1500
901 Siskiyou Dr
$2,595,000
Sat/Sun
Cowperthwaite & Co.
851-8030
3 Bedrooms
2775 Middleﬁeld Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Phone: (650)321-1596 Fax: (650)328-1809
$1,850,000
325-6161
3492 Janice Way, Palo Alto
Call
650 • 833 • 1337
www.yarkinrealty.com
Yarkin Realty • 152 Homer Avenue • Palo Alto, CA 94301 • License #01857154
$1,895,000
851-266
901 Siskiyou Drive, Menlo Park
4 BED | 2.5 BATHS | 2 CAR GARAGE | 13,200 +/- SF LOT
OPEN HOUSE
SAT. & SUN.
1:30 - 4:30
Desirable Sharon Park
Neighborhood
Offered at $2,595,000
901 Siskiyou Drive, enjoys a light-filled floor plan with a spacious
living room/dining room ensemble as well as an updated eat-in kitchen
with skylights and stainless steel appliances. The family room is open to
the kitchen and inviting back yard, creating a delightful indoor/outdoor
dynamic. The rear grounds are fenced and have a lush lawn, bordered by
colorful plantings, a patio with fire pit, and shaded patio perfect for
BBQ’s, plus play area. The home is convenient to downtown Menlo Park,
Stanford University, Hwy 280 and neighborhood Sharon park with
walking trails, lake, and play grounds. Desirable Las Lomitas school district.
cowperthwaiteco.com
Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.
Buyer to verify all information to their satisfaction
CONTACT
Peter Cowperthwaite
Broker | BRE 01012887
650 851 8030
Virtual tour: 901Siskiyou.com
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115 Announcements
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Foothill College Plant Sale
FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY
Master Sinfonia
Room 4 rent in Sunnyvale - $900/month
Garden Pots For Sale - $ Various
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270 Tickets
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201 Autos/Trucks/
Parts
BMW 2009 328i - $18,000 ob
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202 Vehicles Wanted
Cash for Cars
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Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid.
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All Paperwork Taken Care of.
Call 800-731-5042 (Cal-SCAN)
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Any condition. Top $$ paid. Finders Fee.
Call 707-965-9546 or email
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Stanford music tutoring
USED BOOKSHOP AT MITCHELL PARK
Seasoned, Architect
130 Classes &
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Airline Careers
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Financial aid for qualified students.
Job placement assistance. Call Aviation
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German Language Classes
Older Car, Boat or RV?
Do the humane thing. Donate it to the
Humane Society. Call 1- 800-743-1482
(Cal-SCAN)
240 Furnishings/
Household items
Hope Street Music Studios
In downtown Mtn.View. Most Instruments
voice. All ages & levels 650-961-2192
www.HopeStreetMusicStudios.com mirror (wooden frame) - $15 145 Non-Profits
Needs
DONATE BOOKS/HELP PA LIBRARIES
Stanford Museums Volunteer
150 Volunteers
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Adults read content from newspaper
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Acorn Chinese Learning Center
Children Mandarin & Cantonese
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Co-op Preschool-Schedule a tour!
Piano Summer Camp
355 Items for Sale
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455 Personal Training
Over 50’s outdoor exercise group
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Business
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500 Help Wanted
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245 Miscellaneous
135 Group Activities
330 Child Care
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Pooh Duvet Cover Pillow Case
fairly new desk - $60
Piano lessons in Menlo Park
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Coachella 2015 Weekend Ticket $475.00
Mega Bloks 8134 $14
210 Garage/Estate
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133 Music Lessons
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560 Employment
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Orkopina Housecleaning
Spring Cleaning Sale.
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748 Gardening/
Landscaping
D. Brent Landscape Maintenance
*Bi-monthly or weekly
*Reliable, attentive
*Contact Dan, 650/288-8663
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J. Garcia Garden Maintenance
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Free est. 21 years exp. 650/366-4301
or 650/346-6781
LANDA’S GARDENING &
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*Yard Maint. *New Lawns. *Rototil
*Clean Ups *Tree Trim *Power Wash
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759 Hauling
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1 Make it through the season intact?
11 Second of 24
15 Protected sequence in some spy
movies
16 Biological transmitter
17 Station wagons, in Stratford
18 Go to sleep, with “out”
19 Distort
20 “It’s ___ bad ...”
21 Record label with late-night
TV ads
22 Word div.
23 As a result of
24 Extensive
25 Harkness ___ Mansion (part of
Harkness Memorial State Park in
Waterford, CT)
28 Depilatory brand name
29 ___ above the rest
30 Believer in good and evil
32 Petty tyrants
34 Level usually checked along with
triglycerides
35 Was winning
36 Trap set under the kitchen window, say
40 Some TVs
44 Show set in Baltimore, with “The”
45 Christmas crooner Perry
47 Venomous snake
48 Dakota du Sud, for one
49 Dog’s decoration?
51 “___-la-la...”
52 Work on a nameplate
53 In again
54 Golfer Inkster
55 Restrain, as breath
56 Like Bill Murray and Bob
Odenkirk, by birth
58 “You ___ out?”
59 It’s a real peach
60 Pericles’ princedom
61 Palace of Westminster structure,
before its renaming after Queen
Victoria
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Down
1 Like some events
2 “So tell me ...”
3 Spread brand invented in Italy
4 Wear down
5 Prefix meaning “outer”
6 “___ you get in?”
7 Narrative
8 Just so
9 Banking info
10 Sentiment in Taylor Swift’s
“Wildest Dreams”
11 Russian letter that makes the
“ya” sound
12 Unusual collection
13 Hit the gym
14 Low jewelry
26 The Jackson 5’s fourth #1 hit
single (and Mariah Carey’s sixth)
27 Verdi opera
31 “La Di Da Di” rapper with Doug E.
Fresh (1985)
33 Furniture wood
36 Slightly, in Shetland
37 ___ Lions (Penn State athletes)
38 It gets fired up on the farm
39 Baroque violinist and composer
Giuseppe
40 Hard, like rain
41 World Series of Poker champ
Mike, nicknamed “The Mouth”
42 Path for a jet
43 Dye company worker
46 “Children of a Lesser God” Oscar
winner
50 They may help to lift wings
54 Medieval Japanese land manager
(hidden in MOJITOS)
57 Cologne compass point
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Notices
995 Fictitious Name
Statement
DMW ADVISOR
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 601558
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
DMW Advisor, located at 112 Monroe
Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by:
An Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
WEIMIN DONG
112 Monroe Dr.
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 2/18/2015.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on February 18, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 13, 20, 27, Apr. 3, 2015)
MISS VIETNAM OF NORTHERN
CALIFORNIA HOA HAU AO DAI BAC CALI
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 602191
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Miss Vietnam of Northern California Hoa
Hau Ao Dai Bac Cali, located at 10180
Calvert Drive, Cupertino, CA 95014,
Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by:
An Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
HUYEN TRAN
449 La Herran Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95051
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 March 3, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 13, 20, 27, Apr. 3, 2015)
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VIETNAM BAC CALI
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 602281
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Miss Vietnam NorCal Hoa Hau Vietnam
Bac Cali, located at 10180 Calvert
Dr., Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by:
An Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
HUYEN TRAN
449 La Herran Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95051
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 March 5, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 13, 20, 27, Apr. 3, 2015)
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE
OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
File No. 602076
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):
BOXWERKS LLC
1332 Parkinson Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON:
09/03/13
UNDER FILE NO.: 582377
REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES):
BOXWERKS LLC
1332 Parkinson Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY:
Limited Liability Company.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara
County on February 27, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015)
TREPIC, LLC
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 602541
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Trepic, LLC, located at 2065 Alma Street,
Palo Alto, CA 94301, 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):
TREPIC, LLC
2065 Alma 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 March 11, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015)
SAIL INTERNET
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 602657
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Sail Internet, located at 728 Alester Ave.,
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):
KEVIN DEAN FISHER
728 Alester Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 19 Feb., 2015.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on March 16, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015)
TextFormations
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 602592
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
TextFormations, located at 342 Lastreto
Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, Santa
Clara County.
This business is owned by: A General
Partnership.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
AMYROSE MCCUE GILL
342 Lastreto Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
LISA REGAN
1315 Dwight Way, Apt. J
Berkeley, CA 94702
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 March 12, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015)
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE
OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
File No. 602612
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):
SYMBOLIC IMAGING, LLC
1332 Parkinson Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
FILED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY ON:
09/01/2011
UNDER FILE NO.: 555563
REGISTRANT’S NAME(S)/ENTITY(IES):
SYMBOLIC IMAGING, LLC
1332 Parkinson Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
THIS BUSINESS WAS CONDUCTED BY:
Limited Liability Company.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk Recorder of Santa Clara
County on March 13, 2015
(PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015)
MayView Community Health Center-MV
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 602649
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
MayView Community Health CenterMV, located at 900 Miramonte Avenue,
Mountain View, CA 94040, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by:
A Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
MayView Community Health Center, Inc.
270 Grant Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 06/01/2000.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on March 16, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015)
MayView Community Health CenterCNC
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 602647
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
MayView Community Health CenterCNC, located at 785 Morse Avenue,
Sunnyvale, CA 94085, Santa Clara
County.
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This business is owned by:
A Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
MayView Community Health Center, Inc.
270 Grant Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 03/01/2005.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on March 16, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015)
MayView Community Health Center-PA
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 602673
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
MayView Community Health Center-PA,
located at 270 Grant Avenue, Palo Alto,
CA 94306, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by:
A Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
MayView Community Health Center, Inc.
270 Grant Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 06/01/2000.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on March 16, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015)
ART AND SOUL
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 602653
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Art and Soul, located at 2326 Webster
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):
ALYSSA LEVITAN
2326 Webster St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
ANJU CHUGH
1183 Amarillio Ave. Apt. 3
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 3/05/15.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on March 16, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015)
ELACRITY
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 601957
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Elacrity, located at 2225 East Bayshore
Rd., Suite 200, 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):
BRIAN FAEH
1818 Walnut Dr.
Mountain View, CA 94040
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on N/A.
This statement was filed with the
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(PAW Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015)
M CUTIE BEAUTY & SPA
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 602086
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
M Cutie Beauty & Spa, located at 1634 E
Capitol Expressway, San Jose, CA 95121,
Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by:
A Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
NMDD INC.
2751 Corde Terra Cir.
San Jose, CA 95111
Registrant/Owner began transacting
business under the fictitious business
name(s) listed above on 11/13/2014.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara
County on February 27, 2015.
(PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2015)
STARLIGHT SOLAR
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 602930
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Starlight Solar, located at 364 Poe St.,
Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.
This business is owned by: An
Individual.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
MARIO BARAJAS
364 Poe St.
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 April 23, 2015.
(PAW Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2015)
CALL TO GEEKS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No.: 603183
The following person (persons) is (are)
doing business as:
Call To Geeks, located at 839 Miller
Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara
County.
This business is owned by:
A Corporation.
The name and residence address of the
owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are):
TECWORLD INC.
839 Miller Ave.
Cupertino, CA 95014
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 March 27, 2015.
(PAW Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2015)
997 All Other Legals
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE
OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY
OF SANTA CLARA
Case No.: 115CV277522
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner: DURLE FORREST ROLAND
filed a petition with this court for a
decree changing names as follows:
DURLE FORREST ROLAND to FORREST
PENDLETON.
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons
interested in this matter appear before
this court at the hearing indicated
below to show cause, if any, why the
petition for change of name should not
be granted. Any person objecting to the
name changes described above must
file a written objection that includes the
reasons for the objection at least two
court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the
hearing to show cause why the petition
should not be granted. If no written
objection is timely filed, the court may
grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING: June 16, 2015, 8:45
a.m., Room: 107 of the Superior Court of
California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N.
First Street, San Jose, CA 95113.
A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
shall be published at least once each
week for four successive weeks prior to
the date set for hearing on the petition
in the following newspaper of general
circulation, printed in this county:
PALO ALTO WEEKLY
Date: March 3, 2015
Thomas E. Kuhnle
JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT
(PAW Mar. 13, 20, 27, Apr. 3, 2015)
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No.
CA-14-618649-AB Order No.: 8425922
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED
OF TRUST DATED 8/5/2003. 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, check
drawn by 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 to the Financial Code and
authorized to do business in this state,
will be held by duly appointed trustee.
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(s): UMAR AUSAF SIDDIQUI
Recorded: 8/12/2003 as Instrument
No. 17262767 of Official Records in
the office of the Recorder of SANTA
CLARA County, California; Date of Sale:
4/10/2015 at 11:00:00 AM Place of Sale:
At the North Market Street entrance
to the County Courthouse, 191 North
Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113
Amount of unpaid balance and other
charges: $795,586.43 The purported
property address is: 800 E CHARLESTON
RD 22, PALO ALTO, CA 94303 Assessor’s
Parcel No.: 127-66-022 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 714730-2727 for information regarding the
trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web
site http://www.qualityloan.com , using
the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-14-618649-AB
. 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. The undersigned
Trustee disclaims any liability for any
incorrectness of the property address
or other common designation, if any,
shown herein. 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. 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. If the sale is set aside for any
reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be
entitled only to a return of the deposit
paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor,
the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s
Attorney. If you have previously been
discharged through bankruptcy, you
may have been released of personal
liability for this loan in which case this
letter is intended to exercise the note
holders right’s against the real property only. As required by law, you are
hereby notified that a negative credit
report reflecting on your credit record
may be submitted to a credit report
agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of
your credit obligations. QUALITY MAY
BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR
ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND
ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date: Quality
Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street
San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For
NON SALE information only Sale Line:
714-730-2727 Or Login to: http://www.
qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line:
(866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan
Service Corp. TS No.: CA-14-618649-AB
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4/3/2015
PAW
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF:
MICHIO SHIMIZU
Case No.: 1-15-PR-176191
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may
otherwise be interested in the will or
estate, or both, of MICHIO SHIMIZU.
A Petition for Probate has been filed by:
KRISTINA CUNNINGHAM, Interim Public
Administrator of the County of Santa
Clara in the Superior Court of California,
County of SANTA CLARA.
The Petition for Probate requests that:
KRISTINA CUNNINGHAM, Interim Public
Administrator of the County of Santa
Clara be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the
decedent.
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 April 24, 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.
Attorney for Petitioner:
Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County
Counsel
Office of the County Counsel
373 West Julian Street, Suite 300,
San Jose, CA 95110
(408)758-4200
(PAW Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2015)
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE
(U.C.C. 6104, 6105)
ESCROW #: 0126007405
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to creditors
of the within named seller that a bulk
sale is about to be made of the assets
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BOYS’ PREP TENNIS
Gunn is
turning it
around
ON THE TEAM . . . Stanford junior
Jordan Burgess was one of 12 players selected to the USA Volleyball
roster for the 2015 World University
Games that will take place July 2-12
in Gwangju, South Korea. Burgess, a
human biology major from Fort Myers, Fla., joins Arizona libero Laura
Larson as the two representattives
from the Pac-12 Conference. The
World University Games roster is
part of USA Volleyballís High Performance programís Collegiate National
Team.
After 1-11 league
season, Titans are
solid contenders
by Keith Peters
T
THE FARM WEEKEND . . . It will
be a busy weekend at Stanford this
weekend with the 40th annual Stanford Invitational track and field meet
among the highlights. More than
3,300 athletes — open competitors,
entrants from 109 four-year colleges,
plus community colleges and high
schools — will converge on Cobb
Track and Angell Field on Friday and
Saturday. Action begins each day
with field events at 9 a.m. Also on
Friday, the Stanford women’s tennis
team will host Oregon at 1:30 p.m.,
and the Cardinal baseball team will
host Washington in Sunken Diamond
at 7 p.m. On Saturday, women’s
tennis will host Washington at noon,
women’s water polo will host San
Jose State at 1 p.m., baseball hosts
Washington at 4 p.m. and men’s volleyball welcomes USC at 7:30 p.m.
ON THE AIR
Friday
College softball: Stanford at Washington, 5 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area
College baseball: Washington at
Stanford, 7 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area;
KZSU (90.1 FM)
Saturday
College softball: Stanford at Washington, 2 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area
College baseball: Washington at
Stanford, 4 p.m.; Pac-12 Bay Area;
KZSU (90.1 FM)
Men’s volleyball: USC at Stanford,
7:30 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks
Sunday
Women’s lacrosse: Stanford at
Colorado, 11 a.m.; Pac-12 Networks
Monday
College baseball: Stanford at Pacific, 6 p.m.; KZSU (90.1 FM)
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Harvard-bound senior Andy Zhou has helped turn around Gunn’s tennis program by fashioning an
unbeaten record while leading the Titans toward a CCS playoff berth.
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Randle seemed destined for greatness at Stanford
Senior will leave
as team’s career
scoring leader
Lichti knew his
scoring record
would be broken
by Mark Hostutler
by Mark Soltau
P
T
rior to his much-ballyhooed arrival in Silicon
Valley, before he ever
strolled the Main Quad of Stanford’s tree-lined campus, Chasson
Randle was in rarefied air.
As a high-school senior in 201011, the native of Rock Island, Ill.,
shared the state’s Mr. Basketball
honors with Connecticut-bound
Ryan Boatright. In doing so,
Randle joined hoops royalty in
the Land of Lincoln, as previous
winners of the award include Nick
Anderson, Kevin Garnett, Darius
Miles, Shaun Livingston, and
Derrick Rose.
Four years later, Cardinal fans
have discovered that the company
a man keeps says a lot about him.
On Tuesday night at Madison
Square Garden, Randle became
Stanford’s all-time leading scorer, surpassing Todd Lichti, with
24 points in a 67-60 victory over
Old Dominion in a Postseason
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SWIM HONOR . . . Stanford freshman Simone Manuel has been
named the Pac-12 Women’s Swimming Freshman/Newcomer of the
Year. Manuel earned the award after
winning individual national titles in
the 50- and 100-yard freestyle, becoming the first Cardinal swimmer
to win both events in the same year
since Jenny Thompson in 1993. A
member of two NCAA winning relay
teams, she anchored the 400 free
relay that set an American record
and was part of the victorious 400yard medley relay that also lowered
the U.S. record.
he boys on the Gunn High
tennis team started it all, so
long ago. The Titans won
the first-ever Central Coast Section title in 1972, starting a string
of seven straight section titles —
a record that remains to this day.
And then there was the historic
200-match winning streak that
stretched from 1969-79, setting a
national record at the time. Today,
it is merely the state mark.
That prosperity, however, didn’t
last. Gunn did go on to win two
more CCS titles in 1980 and ‘81
and fell in the finals in 1986. The
Titans haven’t been back since.
The program most likely
reached its low point last season
when the Titans went 1-11 in the
SCVAL De Anza Division.
“I think we were 1-19 overall,”
said Gunn coach Jim Gorman,
perhaps trying to remove that image from his mind.
While it hasn’t quite been a
worst-to-first scenario, the Titans
have turned it around this season
and are among the leaders in the
tough SCVAL De Anza Division
race. The division had five of
its seven teams in the CCS team
Stanford senior Chasson Randle (5) became the team’s all-time
leading scorer on Tuesday night.
odd Lichti knew it was only
a matter of time before
someone surpassed him as
Stanford basketball’s career scoring leader. Turns out it took 26
years.
“It was always going to be broken at some point,” said Lichti,
48. “In jest, I just sometimes say I
babysat it for a while.”
Lichti, a 6-foot-4 shooting
guard from Mt. Diablo High in
Concord, starred for the Cardinal
from 1985-1989 and had the rare
ability to dunk with either hand.
Fearless, creative and clutch, he
amassed 2,336 points, was a fourtime All-Pac-10 First Team selection and was consensus Second
Team All-American as a senior.
Tuesday night, he slipped to
No. 2 on the Stanford scoring list
when senior guard Chasson Randle collected 24 points to lift the
Cardinal into the championship
game of the Postseason NIT with
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Sports
Paly grad Pederson all set to open
MLB season on Monday with Dodgers
with the Giants at AT&T Park on
April 21.
Pederson isn’t thinking that far
in advance, though. He’s thinking
about what he can do on a daily
basis to become a better, more
consistent player. He has two hitting instructors in Mark McGwire
and John Valentin who stress putting a good swing on a good pitch.
“You don’t get many pitches to
hit and I don’t want to give up one
just for the sake of giving one up,”
said Pederson, who batted leadoff
against the Giants. “These pitchers don’t make many mistakes.
I’m just looking for a good pitch,
maybe something up, that I can
put a good swing on.”
Pederson took plenty of good
swings through five years in the
minor leagues. He accumulated 84
homers, 271 RBI, and 113 stolen
bases in 441 games. He owns a
.302 batting average in the minors.
He became the first Pacific
Coast League player to hit 30
(33 total) home runs and steal 30
bases, which he accomplished last
season with the Albuquerque Isotopes.
He spent 27 days in the majors
last September and would probably like to be a little more productive than hitting .143, with
no extra base hits or RBI. He did
manage nine walks to put up a
pretty good on-base percentage
of .351.
“I show up every day and go
through the process,” Pederson
said. “McGwire and Valentin are
helping me become as consistent
as possible. There are going to be
great days and bad days. What’s
important is to come back with
the same routine.”
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly, a quality left-handed hitter in his days with the New York
Yankees, told MLB Network what
he likes about Pederson.
“He’s got that swing that stays
in the strike zone; he’s going to
have to keep it under control,”
Mattingly said. “He swings hard
and swings hard all the time, He’s
got power to all fields. To me, this
guy is a baseball player and that’s
what I think I like about Joc as
much as anything.”
Randle
one of the Quad Cities along the
Illinois-Iowa border. He was a
straight-A student and the valedictorian of a class of 350. The
African and African-American
Studies major is set to graduate
with both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in four years.
At 6-foot-2 and 185 pounds,
Randle is projected to be a second-round pick in this June’s
NBA draft. And Dawkins, who
knows a thing or two about what
it takes to make it at the next level,
is quick to attest to Randle’s readiness.
“First of all, I think (the NBA)
is getting a great competitor, a
guy who has been shouldering
the load,” said Dawkins, the 1986
Naismith Player of the Year at
Duke and nine-year veteran of
the League. “When we’ve been
down with injuries and different
things that happened to our team
throughout the season, he never
once raised an eyebrow and said,
‘That’s too much for me to handle.’ He accepted it, and I really
respect that.”
Randle’s transition from the
wing to the point this season has
made him more of an attractive
prospect.
“He’s a winner,” said Dawkins.
“And I think he’s a guy who can
play multiple positions. You can
play him on the ball as the lead
guard, and you also can play him
off the ball because he’s such a
good scorer. He brings versatility and depth to your backcourt.
If I had a pick, I’d be taking
him.”
Stanford (23-13) went after
its third NIT title in the past 25
years, and its second since 2012,
on Thursday night against Miami
(25-12), which scrapped its way to
a 60-57 win over Temple in the
other semifinals. For results, go to
www.pasportsonline.com.
Randle, of course, was hoping
to go out a winner.
“To win an NIT championship
. . . for the seniors it would mean
we went out on top,” said Randle.
“And that is something special.”
As was Stanford’s postgame
celebration on Tuesday.
“The best thing I could see is
when we went to the locker room,
and we were celebrating the win,”
said Dawkins. “Just all of (Chasson’s) teammates jumping up and
hugging him. It was great to see
that type of emotion, that kind
of shared experience. For him to
do it on this stage is a heck of an
honor.”
“They say this is The World’s
Most Famous Arena, and I believe it,” said Randle. “When
you walk in here and see what’s
hanging in the rafters, you’re kind
of in awe. It’s great for me to be
able to break the record with this
group of guys. We have no quit in
us. When things weren’t working
well for us today, we persevered
and kept fighting.”
The Cardinal survived despite
squandering a 21-point lead and
matching its season average for
turnovers with an uncharacteristic
10 in the first half. Q
(Mark Hostutler is a freelance
writer based in Philadelphia.)
P
(continued from previous page)
National Invitation Tournament
semifinal.
Randle made history from the
free-throw line with 33.3 seconds
left in the first half. His 2,350
points rank third in the Pac-12
record book behind only the totals of UCLA’s Don MacLean
(2,608) and Arizona’s Sean Elliott
(2,555). Lichti tallied 2,336.
“It’s a great honors just to be
able to have my name behind it,”
Randle said of the record. “But,
at the same time, it’s not just me
who helped get myself in there .
A lot of my teammates, family,
coaches, everybody helped me
get here, starting back at Rock Island. At Stanford, Coach (Johnny)
Dawkins pushed me every single
day, told me that you practice how
you play. And he made sure that I
was getting after it.”
It only seems appropriate that
Randle broke the record in such
a hallowed arena, at what New
Yawkers refer to as The Mecca.
“He’ll always remember this for
the rest of his life,” Dawkins said
of Randle. “But having done it at
the Garden in front of a terrific
crowd, I think it means that much
more to him.”
“Stanford came out red-hot tonight,” said Old Dominion coach
Jeff Jones. “Chasson Randle was
terrific, and down the stretch, he
was the difference.”
Randle came to Palo Alto as a
four-star recruit from Rock Island,
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Men’s basketball
Former Stanford standout
Brook Lopez of the Brooklyn
Nets was named NBA Eastern
Conference Player of the Week for
games played Monday, March 23,
through Sunday, March 29.
Lopez led the Nets to a 3-1
week behind a conference-best
28.8 points, 8.5 rebounds (10th in
the conference) and 2.25 blocks
(tied-third in the conference). Q
Shirley Pefley
by Rick Eymer
alo Alto High grad Joc
Pederson isn’t too concerned if he’s going to
open the Major League Baseball
season on Monday as the Los
Angeles Dodgers’ starting center fielder. He’s just trying to get
better.
“It’s about the team,” Pederson
said after collecting two hits, including his sixth home run of the
spring, against San Francisco Giants starter Matt Cain on Sunday.
“I want to do what I can to help
win ball games.”
Pederson, who swung at Cain’s
first pitch in both at-bats, took the
team lead in home runs, snapping
a tie with Yasiel Puig. Only Cubs’
phenom Kris Bryant has hit more
during spring training. Pederson
is batting .368, among the National League’s top five, and is
also among the NL leaders with
21 hits, 13 runs and 43 total bases.
Yeah, he can help.
“He’s talented,” Dodgers infielder Adrian Gonzalez said of
Pederson earlier in the spring.
“He doesn’t have any physical
limitations — he hits the ball hard
and has a great eye at the plate.”
If Pederson breaks camp with
the Dodgers, he will be able to
celebrate his 23rd birthday in San
Francisco. L.A. opens a series
Palo Alto High grad Joc Pederson is leading the Dodgers in spring
training with six homers and is No. 2 with 12 RBI.
Lichti
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a 67-60 win against Old Dominion at Madison Square Garden in
New York. Randle took his 2,350
points into last night’s championship game against Miami.
“I think I’ve heard about every
point he’s scored in the last two
months via Twitter,” laughed Lichti, who lives in Melbourne,
Australia with his wife, Sue, and
10-year-old son, Bronx.
Lichti, who owns a wine distribution business, watched most of
the first half of Tuesday night’s
game on television. He met Randle last October when he returned
to The Farm for the 100-year celebration of Stanford men’s basketball, which coincided with his
25-year reunion.
“He seemed like a great guy,”
Lichti said. “I spoke to a few people who had been around him for
four years and they just couldn’t
say enough about him as an individual and the quality of person
he was. More than happy to see
it (record) go to such a classy individual.”
Lichti, who was the 15th overall pick in the first round of the
1989 NBA Draft by the Denver
Nuggets, battled through injuries to play six seasons. Then he
was recruited by former Cardinal
teammate Andrew Vlahov and
played four years professionally
in Australia, where he averaged
16.5 points, 5.4 rebounds and 2.7
assists.
He never mentioned his scoring
record to his son, who found out
several months ago.
“He knows I went to Stanford
and played professional basketball and takes great pride in that,”
said Lichti. “He got updates every
time Stanford played, not necessarily to see if they won, but to
see if my record was going to be
broken.”
Lichti and his wife named their
son after an Australian rugby
player.
“When they won the last game
(Vanderbilt), I said, ‘Well, Stanford has won and it’s great news
and Chasson’s 11 points away,’ ‘’
Lichti said. “Bronx walked up to
me -- he’s a great kid with a beautiful heart -- and just patted me
on the back and said, ‘Sorry, dad.
Are you okay?’ ‘’
Lichti was just fine.
“I guess when I think about it,
it’s certainly a point of pride it
has stood up for so long,” he said.
“Quite frankly, I was probably
lucky Adam Keefe didn’t break it
20 years ago. We could easily be
talking about him right now.”
When his record fell Tuesday
night, Lichti tweeted congratulations to Randle and the Stanford
basketball program.
“I didn’t want to say anything
the last month because I didn’t
want to disrupt his preparation,”
said Lichti. “It’s been fun to watch
Chasson’s progress. I couldn’t be
happier for him.”Q
(Mark Soltau is a veteran Bay
Area sportwriter working for
Stanford Athletics)
Sports
PREP BASKETBALL
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Eastside
girls need
to reload
Panthers return only
three players from their
state runner-up team
by Rick Eymer
f Eastside Prep basketball coach Donovan Blythe
thought it was difficult playing with just a six-girl roster this
season, just wait. His toughest job
is ahead.
Somehow and some way, Blythe
must replace half his team next
season as he loses seniors Brije
Byers, Chacitty Cunningham and
Destiny Graham to graduation.
Not only were the seniors the
heart and soul of this year’s team,
they produced the bulk of the offense that took the Panthers all the
way to the CIF State Division V
championship game last week at
Haas Pavilion in Berkeley.
Unfortunately for the Panthers,
their first trip to the finals did not
result in the trophy they wanted as
they settle for second-place hardware following a 40-36 loss to La
Jolla Country Day.
Freshman Kayla Tahaafe scored
12 points and Cunningham added
11 in her final game as the Panthers wrapped up a 25-6 season
with their first-ever state appearance. The Torreys — who sent
Candice Wiggins, among others, to Stanford — captured their
fourth state championship.
Eastside Prep lost their first
game in the calendar year to a
school other than Pinewood,
I
Maya Miklos
PALO ALTO HIGH
GUNN HIGH
The sophomore was the winning pitcher in three softball
games -- striking out 16 in
11 innings with no earned
runs and only seven hits in
addition to having seven hits
of her own plus driving in six
runs.
The junior runner won the
three events and ran on the
winning 400 relay in a dualmeet win, then won the 800
in a meet record and PR
of 2:17.58 and ran a PR of
25.33 in the 200 at the Firebird Relays.
Honorable mention
Jennifer Campbell
Gunn swimming
Sophia Donovan
Menlo lacrosse
Emily Katz
Menlo-Atherton softball
Gillian Meeks*
Gunn track & field
Nikky Price
Menlo lacrosse
Grace Zhao*
Palo Alto swimming
Ahmed Ali
Palo Alto golf
Andrew Cho
Palo Alto swimming
Jeff Herr
Menlo golf
Cole March
Sacred Heart Prep baseball
Max Ting
Menlo golf
Justin Wenig
Gunn baseball
* previous winner
Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com
Tennis
(continued from page 53)
have that spark at the top.”
With Zhou and Russell leading
the way at No. 1 and 2 singles,
Gorman has been able to move
last year’s top players down in the
order, thus strengthening the team
top to bottom.
“My No. 1 and 2 singles players
from last year are playing No. 1
doubles,” explained Gorman.
The lineup shift has paid off
in a 4-3 victory over former CCS
champ Monta Vista and got the
Titans to within 4-3 (a loss) to
2014 CCS runner-up Saratoga
this season.
In the Monta Vista match, the
Titans were trailing by 3-2 but
Zhou had won his first set, 6-1,
and Russell had grabbed a 6-2,
4-0 lead in his match. At that
point, both Monta Vista opponents surprisingly quit — perhaps realizing they had no chance
to win.
Gunn still has a home match
against Saratoga on April 16 and
a road match against Monta Vista
on April 21 to cap the regular season.
“At full strength, were in the top
three (in league),” said Gorman,
who didn’t have Russell for the
Paly match due to illness.
Eastside Prep senior Destiny Graham (right) had 10 rebounds in the
state finals and will leave a big hole to fill.
which beat La Jolla in last year’s
title affair.
Eastside Prep proved it belonged, manhandling the Torreys
on the boards. Turnovers proved
costly and a couple of crucial
misses were difficult to overcome.
The Panthers, winners of nine of
their last 11, beat two other teams
— Mitty and Bishop O’Dowd —
which played for state titles.
Eastside Prep lost to four teams
all season, including three times
to Pinewood. Those teams had a
combined record of 89-30 (.746
winning percentage). Not bad for
a team that suited up six players
all year.
Graham, heading for Arizona
in the fall, scored nine points and
grabbed 10 rebounds. She had her
eye poked with 2:06 remaining
in the first quarter and the injury
bothered her the rest of the way.
Graham, who scored three
times on putbacks, gave Eastside
While Gorman would like to
win the division title, his primary
goal is qualifying for CCS. That’s
the first step for the Titans in their
return to tennis respectability.
The Menlo School boys, meanwhile, continue to be the frontrunner for the No. 1 CCS seed
after compiling a 17-1 record
heading into spring break. The
Knights are 9-0 in the West Bay
Athletic League after sweeping a
doubleheader from visiting Priory
on Tuesday after an earlier match
was rained out.
Menlo now has won 225
straight league dual matches, an
ongoing state record. The Knights
rank No. 3 all-time in the state for
most consecutive league victories in any sport and are closing
in on the No. 2 mark of 230 by
Mira Costa (Manhattan Beach)
girls volleyball from 1985-2004.
The state record is 289-0-5 by the
girls’ soccer team from Bonita
Vista (Chula Vista) from 19822004.
Menlo’s immediate goal, however, is to win a seventh straight
CCS team title this season and tie
Gunn’s record.
The Titans still have one record
that hasn’t been touched, however,
a 29-28 lead with 4:03 left in the
third quarter. That was the last
time the Panthers were on the
right side of the scoreboard.
Torreys’ Alaysia Styles, who
blocked eight of her team’s 11
shots, scored 19 seconds later.
Mai-loni Henson, who led La
Jolla in scoring, rebounding and
assists, added a basket late in the
third to send the Torreys into the
final period with a 32-29 advantage.
Cunningham hit a 3-pointer
midway through the final quarter
to tie the game, though the Panthers could not get over the hump.
There nine lead changes and
four ties overall in the contest.
Now it will be up to Tahaafe
and fellow freshmen Ra’Anna
Bey and Alayah Bell to carry on
the Eastside Prep tradition next
season.
And for Blythe to find enough
players to round out his team. Q
Keith Peters
tournament last season.
The Titans would like to be
among that group this season and
are in position to do so after beating rival Palo Alto, 6-1, on Tuesday to improve to 6-2 in league
(10-4 overall) prior to yesterday’s
match against visiting Homestead.
The win over Paly was significant in a number of ways. Gunn’s
earlier 7-0 victory over the Vikings was its first since 2002 and
the season sweep was probably
the first for the Titans in more
than 20 years.
The matchup featured two of
the most successful programs in
CCS tennis history as the schools
have combined for 15 section
crowns. In addition to Gunn’s
streak, Palo Alto had one of its
own — 86 straight wins that ended in 1994.
The Vikings haven’t reached
the CCS finals since 1999 and
likely won’t be back this season,
after graduating seven seniors.
Gunn, on the other hand, picked
up two key players this season and
it has contributed to the Titans’
big turnaround.
First to join the team was senior Andy Zhou, who played as
a freshman but sat out the past
two seasons while working on
raising his national ranking for
recruitment purposes. The hard
work paid off as Zhou is headed
to Harvard in the fall.
“As much as I wanted to play,
I just didn’t have time,” Zhou explained of his two-year absence.
“But, this is my senior year and I
wanted to contribute as much as
possible.”
Zhou has done just that while
fashioning an unbeaten season,
mainly at No. 1 singles.
The other key component to
Gunn’s success is sophomore
Conrad Russell, like Zhou a nationally ranked junior.
“I did talk to Conrad before the
season,” Zhou said. “I just asked
him if he wanted to play. He made
the right decision, and the team
has benefited.”
The talent and enthusiasm that
Zhou and Russell have brought to
the team has changed the atmosphere and outlook for the program.
“It’s a huge difference in practice,” said Gorman. “It’s nice to
Don Feria
Mackenzie Glassford
Amit Rao is enjoying Gunn’s
successful season.
and that’s 10 straight appearances
in the CCS finals (1972-81). Menlo is second with nine (1997-05). Q
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