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nyone interested in how union contracts are put together in Menlo Park may want to attend an informational meeting on Tuesday, April 23, at 7 p.m. Sponsored by Councilman Ray Mueller the meeting comes just as the city starts a new round of negotiations, expected to take a couple months, with its employee unions on April 16. City Manager Alex McIntyre and Human Resources Director Gina Donnelly will attend to help answer questions. Email menlofuture@gmail.
com if you plan to attend. The location for the meeting will be announced closer to the date.
Menlo Park school is vandalized Vandals didn’t steal anything, but they left a calling card. Explicit graffiti spraypainted across the walls of La Entrada Middle School greeted Menlo Park police responding to a burglar alarm on Easter Sunday, March 31. Officers also found a busted window and small fire set outside an interior office door,
Volunteers sought for rail board The Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board needs volunteers for its advisory committee to represent San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. The nine-member group advises the board of directors on the needs of rail customers. It meets the third Wednesday of each month at 5:40 p.m. in San Carlos, one block from the San Carlos Caltrain Station. Go to caltrain.com/cac or call 508-6223 to get an application, which are due by Friday, May 3. A
Christina Patton pitches perfect game Woodside High School’s Christina Patton pitched a perfect game April 2 to lead her team to a 11-0 victory over Menlo-Atherton in a Peninsula Athletic League Ocean Division girls softball game. Menlo-Atherton batters struck out 15 times during the Bears’ loss to visiting Woodside. M-A (1-2, 4-9-1) managed just
two ground outs and a pop-up in foul territory. It was a six-inning game, so of the 18 outs, all but three were strikeouts by the right-handed Patton, a junior at Woodside High. The Woodside Wildcats now have a record of 11-4-1 overall and 2-0 in the PAL Ocean Division. Patton has a record of 10-4-1
and pitched a 7-inning nohitter earlier this season against Watsonville, said Coach Mike King, who is in his 10th season at Woodside High. At the plate, Patton batted 2 for 4, including a double, in the April 2 contest. Second baseman Rebecca Pilakowski fielded a tough ground ball to help preserve the perfect game.
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“since (Menlo Park) doesn’t seem to want to play by the rules, i.e. respect its established zoning, then I think that prospective developers need to have easy access to case studies which demonstrate what the city actu-
ally does. Just the facts.� Mr. Carpenter’s recent comments to the council suggest that he views the attempt to force Stanford to modify a project that follows all specific plan requirements as disastrous for future development in Menlo Park: “Don’t be at all surprised if other developers now simply walk away from the zoo that is called the City of Menlo Park,� he wrote in an email on April 3. “(Menlo Park) is now a city without any credibility when it comes to zoning and planning — even thinking about removing parcels from the specific plan and moratoriums less than a year after the Specific Plan was adopted are clear signs of lunacy.�
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