Palo Alto Weekly March 6, 2015

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Vol. XXXVI, Number 22 Q March 6, 2015

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Palo Alto divided over limits on office space City Council agrees to protect retail but is split over annual office cap

by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto’s polarizing de- competing motions, clashing phibate over the growth of of- losophies, complex amendments fice space hit a stalemate riddled with bullet points and deep Monday night when a deeply di- disagreement among both the pubvided City Council agonized over lic speakers and the council on the the topic for more than four hours big question of the night: whether before deciding to wait before im- Palo Alto should set an annual cap posing any dramatic restrictions. on office development.

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providing insufficient time to answer that question, the council ultimately voted to schedule another hearing on the topic for March 23.

The debate roughly split into two camps. On one side were Marc Berman, Greg Scharff and Cory Wolbach, all of whom opposed moving forward with a cap on new office space. All three said that the city’s time and resources would be better spent on addressing not so much new development

itself but rather its impacts on traffic and parking. The argument echoed the view of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and numerous business leaders who argued that restrictions would threaten downtown’s vitality without achieving anything useful.

Berman ticked off a list of initiatives that the city is already pursuing to address traffic and parking woes, which include a new downtown Residential Parking Permit Program

limiting the amount of time employees can park in neighborhoods; a new Transportation Management Association that will offer local employees incentives to switch from commuting by car to other modes of transportation; and an expansion of the city’s free shuttle system.

“We need to dedicate those resources to the programs and policies that will get the biggest (continued on page 10)

BUSINESS

City tries to get a piece of the ‘sharing economy’ Palo Alto looks for ways to regulate and tax short-term rental services like Airbnb

by Gennady Sheyner

I Veronica Weber

Swingin’ in the sun Reyn Johnson, 4, left, gets a hearty push from his grandmother Joanna Reynolds as he swings with twin sister Mabel Johnson at Mitchell Park during the siblings’ quick break from preschool on Wednesday.

YOUTH

Students speak to experiences, good and bad Palo Alto youth ask community to focus on student issues year-round — and to follow up

by Elena midst Palo Alto’s ongoing community conversation about youth health and well-being — one that so often cries out for the youth voice — a room full of parents, students, school administrators, city leaders and community members gathered Sunday evening to hear just that.

On a stage at First Congregational Church, 12 Palo Alto and Gunn high school students talked to a

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Kadvany standing-room-only audience about their academic, social and personal experiences, both good and bad, as part of “Listening to Youth Voices,” a forum organized by community leaders and organizations. The forum was moderated by Becky Beacom, a health educator with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.

The students’ comments came at a time of deep reflection for the two high schools, with numer-

ous policy proposals and changes aimed at reducing student stress already in place or on the horizon, from the superintendent’s enforcement of a districtwide homework policy to a potential change in bell schedule for Gunn.

Several of the students called for change beyond oft-discussed issues like heavy homework load, oversubscribed advanced placement (AP) classes and rigorous schedules.

“We aim our arrows at false targets,” said Gunn senior Jessica Luo, reading a letter she had written to her ninth-grade self.

“That’s because it’s easier to think of culture as a tumor that can be attacked, to throw policy changes like block schedules and homework restrictions at the tumor in the hopes of shrinking it. But the (continued on page 11)

t’s called the “sharing economy,” but Palo Alto officials are growing increasingly concerned that the city isn’t getting its fair share from Airbnb and other services that allow visitors to rent rooms in local homes without paying hotel taxes.

On Monday night, the City Council is scheduled to consider new laws the city could adopt to regulate an industry that didn’t even exist 10 years ago.

While services such as Airbnb are increasingly popular among users, they enjoy an ambiguous relationship with the city’s zoning code. The short-term rental of dwelling units or bedrooms for fewer than 31 days is technically prohibited in Palo Alto; the city’s code defines “dwelling units” as rooms that constitute a “separate housekeeping unit, occupied or intended for occupancy on a nontransient basis.” The city further defines “transient” occupancy as one lasting fewer than 31 days.

But the city’s code does allow residents to use up to 25 percent of their homes’ gross floor area (or 500 square feet, whichever is less) for something called “home occupation.” This refers to an “accessory activity” conducted in a dwelling unit by the home occupant “in a manner incidental to residential occupancy.” Home occupation must not generate traffic or parking beyond what would normally be associated with residential occupancy.

Some Palo Altans who have waded into the waters of the sharing economy are unequivocal in their appraisals of such companies. Daniel Gold has been shar-

ing his Palo Alto home through Airbnb since last year and touted the service to the council in January.

He said his experience with Airbnb highlighted for him how “overburdened the real estate market was here in Palo Alto.”

His guests have included Stanford University students who may not otherwise be able to afford to stay locally and would have to rely on lodging in other communities.

“It’s important to me that these people are able to work here and study here and be able to afford it — not having them stay in outer boroughs like Mountain View, where real estate is cheaper,” Gold said.

He also noted that offering students short-term rentals allows them to spend money in Palo Alto, which translates to tax revenues for the city.

Taxation is very much one of the issues that the council is exploring, following a successful ballot measure Palo Alto voters approved last November.

The measure raised the city’s transient-occupancy-tax (TOT) rate — commonly known as the hotel-tax rate — from 12 percent to 14 percent and specified that “rental agents” who collect rent but do not directly operate transient lodgings are “subject to the same obligations as a hotel operator to collect and remit the TOT. “Staff is in the process of notifying Airbnb and other brokers, websites and providers of the requirement to collect and remit the (continued on page 15)

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All I hear is, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I got mine and the rest of you can take a walk.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dan Garber, a Palo Alto businessman, characterizing advocates for restrictions on new office development. See story on page 5.

Around Town

IN LIMB-O ... Someone has walked off with Ranjit Steinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leg. The specialized prosthetic limb, which the 2009 Gunn High School graduate was counting on to carry him to a Paralympic victory, was stolen from his car in San Francisco overnight Tuesday, which coincidentally was also his birthday. Steiner, a multiple Athlete of the Year while a student at Gunn, lost the leg he was born with after contracting bone cancer, he told the Weekly. But it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop him from running. Steiner got the $30,000 sprinterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prosthesis, which helped him win the bronze medal at nationals. On Tuesday morning, Steiner jumped into his car and was halfway to work when he felt â&#x20AC;&#x153;the helicopter effectâ&#x20AC;? of wind rushing through his hair, he said. He looked back and saw the passenger-side window of his car had been smashed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anything of value was gone,â&#x20AC;? he said, including his laptop and a bag. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I hope my legâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s here,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and I started looking under the seats.â&#x20AC;? It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

The custom-made limb isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really useful to anyone else, he said, since it is specially fitted to his leg. But it is designed with top-ofthe-line knee and foot units that provide the necessary power and torque for Steiner to run 100- and 200-meter races and to perform the long jump, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without that leg, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do high-level training. ... If someone stole my walking leg, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Whatever,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he said.

Steiner is hopeful that someone will find and return the limb. He has heard of people finding stolen prosthetic limbs, usually after the thief opens the bag and finds the limb inside. A gofundme.com site has been set up to help raise money for a new limb. Anyone with information about Steinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leg can contact him at ranjit@steiner.at.

LETâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS ... Forty business-savvy Gunn High School students competed in a Future Business Leaders of America competition on Saturday, Feb. 28, at Westmoor High School in Daly City, with 24 students moving on to the state competition, which will take place in Santa Clara in April.

Gunn students competed in events testing their business knowledge and skills against 26 other schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; students. The club came home with 32 awards. Winners include Lynn Serizawa, who took first place in â&#x20AC;&#x153;spreadsheet applicationsâ&#x20AC;?; Jo-

seph Ng, who placed third in â&#x20AC;&#x153;business proceduresâ&#x20AC;?; Alisen Chung, who placed fourth in â&#x20AC;&#x153;computer applicationsâ&#x20AC;?; and Christopher Yang, who placed fourth in â&#x20AC;&#x153;word processing.â&#x20AC;? Other students placed in areas including management decision-making, impromptu speaking and parliamentary procedure.

The top state winners will go on to compete in the national conference, which will be held in Chicago in the summer.

WE LOVE YOU, GUNN ... Gunn High School students got a loving, aerial surprise last week when an airplane pulling a banner that read, â&#x20AC;&#x153;WE LOVE YOU, GUNN,â&#x20AC;? written in Titan red, flew over the school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a very sweet gesture, and a lot of people were talking about it,â&#x20AC;? sophomore Chloe Sorensen wrote in an email to the Weekly.

The banner was organized by former Gunn English teacher Marc Vincenti, also co-founder of the student well-being campaign Save the 2,008. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A friend of mine, musing aloud a couple of weeks ago â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as we were wondering if there were anything we could do to help lift the gloom at Gunn â&#x20AC;&#x201D; finally just sighed and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The only thing, really, that could help Gunn at all right now would be a great big hug,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Vincenti wrote in an email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This was my idea for the next best thing to that.â&#x20AC;? View a photo of the banner, taken by Tim Hill, in the Weeklyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online photo gallery at paloaltoonline.com/photo_gallery.

RALLY TIME ... Residents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park and their supporters plan to rally in front of City Hall on Monday, March 9, to show their support for preserving the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sole mobile-home park and to thank city and county officials for setting aside $16 million for its preservation. The future of Buena Vista has been mired in uncertainty since 2012, when the owners first proposed closing the park and redeveloping the site at 3980 El Camino Real. The City Council is scheduled to consider an appeal from residents next month to forestall the closure. Residents and their supporters are preparing for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;good, vigorous rally in support of Buena Vista,â&#x20AC;? said Winter Dellenbach, a Barron Park resident who founded the group Friends of Buena Vista. Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event will begin at 5:30 p.m. in front of City Hall at 250 Hamilton Ave. Q

Upfront Corporation endured in 2013 over its proposed housing development of 12 single-family homes and 60 apartments. The plan fizzled when voters overturned in a referendum a zone change that would have allowed the construction to proceed.

Bonnie Packer, president of the Housing Corporation’s board of directors, elaborated on these points in a letter that she read to the council Monday. Packer wrote in her letter that the Housing Corporation chose “the best offer based on price, contingencies and the closing timeline” and pointed out that all of the loans that the Housing Corporation acquired to develop the housing development in 2013 were “paid off with interest,” including the one it received from the city.

Gonzalez also emphasized during the interview that the home on the Maybell site that she has been occupying since September 2013 was never designated for affordable housing. Gonzalez said that the Housing Corporation’s board of directors agreed to rent the house to her after it stood vacant for six months, with no takers. Packer’s letter indicated it was marketed through Craigslist.

“It was hard to find a tenant,” Gonzalez said. “Everyone knew there was a possibility of redevelopment, and we weren’t going to provide anything more than a month-to-month lease.”

Had the Housing Corporation prevailed in the referendum, it would have given the Maybell house tenant a 30-day notice to relocate once the properties were ready to be demolished.

Furthermore, Gonzalez noted, the four single-family homes on Maybell are not part of the Housing Corporation’s inventory of af-

NONPROFIT

Housing Corporation fends off ‘whispers of suspicion’

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he Palo Alto Housing Corporation, a nonprofit that in 2013 tried to develop a controversial housing complex on Maybell Avenue, is fending off criticisms from residents who have questioned both the rental of one of its houses to its executive director and the sale of the Maybell property via her husband.

Several members of the Housing Corporation’s board of directors attended Monday’s meeting of the City Council to defend Executive Director Candice Gonzalez from accusations that her use of the Maybell home constitutes a possible conflict of interest. Her lease and her husband’s involvement in the sale of the property by the Housing Corporation to Golden Gate Homes in April 2014 were both subjects of speculation last week, with dozens of readers questioning the arrangements on the Weekly’s online forum, Town Square, and one vocal opponent of the Maybell development summarizing his concerns in an open letter to the council.

Though a private nonprofit organization, the Housing Corporation has strong ties to City Hall. It is contracted by the city to administer its below-market-rate housing program and receives millions of dollars in loans to develop affordable housing.

by Gennady Sheyner Former City Council candidate Tim Gray, in his letter to the council, called for more information about both Gonzalez’s housing situation and her involvement in the sale of the property. This included information about how much she’s paying in rent, whether Golden Gate Homes offered the highest bid and “all contracts that are related to staff, managers, and board members, in the operations of PAHC,” Gray wrote.

“In light of the recent disclosures that presented at least the appearance of conflicts of interest around the subsequent sale of the Maybell property and the use of the property for the personal benefit of PAHC employees, it would seem wise to deliver a report to the citizens that provided factual answers to both the issues that have come to light in recent reports, and some additional questions that have only been the subject of community whispers of suspicion,” Gray wrote.

Officials from the Housing Corporations have asserted that they’ve done nothing improper. In an interview with the Weekly, Gonzalez stressed that she had nothing to do with the property sale, having recused herself from all discussions and decisions as soon as her husband, real estate broker Ted O’Hanlon, submitted a bid on be-

File photo/Gennady Sheyner

Leaders of development nonprofit say they’ve done nothing wrong in renting Maybell home, working with chief’s husband

Candice Gonzalez of the Palo Alto Housing Corporation half of Golden Gate Homes.

The board ultimately chose Golden Gate over other buyers even though one or two other bids were higher. Gonzalez said the board chose Golden Gate Homes because the higher offers all included contingencies and longer timelines for closing the deal.

In one case, she said, a bidder stipulated that the Housing Corporation get the city’s approval to have the Maybell property subdivided into 34 fee-simple lots before the deal is closed, she said.

That approval would have been next to impossible to secure given the intense battle that the Housing

fordable housing. It would have run counter to the organization’s mission to provide “stable, longterm housing” to offer a month-tomonth lease to a low-income family for a property that was expected to be demolished, Gonzalez said.

According to Packer’s letter, the Housing Corporation’s board approved the rental of the house to Gonzalez’s family at a fair market rate “after considering comparable rents and ensuring that this was an ‘arms-length’ transaction.” Gonzalez declined to say how much she is paying in rent, citing her privacy, but she said her rent is higher than what the home was advertised for. She also noted that as part of the deal, the organization filled out all the required conflict-of-interest disclosures.

“Everything we did was professionally and legally done,” Gonzalez told the Weekly. “The board stands by its decisions 100 percent. They know everything we’ve done has been ethical and legal.”

Palo Alto officials, meanwhile, have their own questions that they want the Housing Corporation to answer. On Monday, just hours before Packer made her presentation, City Manager James Keene submitted a letter asking the Housing Corporation to provide “clarification” on several issues. These include its policy for interim use of properties purchased for the purpose of redevelopment; its policies for choosing brokers to represent them in sales and purchases of properties; and its rules and guidelines regarding “real or perceived conflicts of interest and nepotism by staff and board members.”

Packer told the Weekly the organization plans to respond to Keene’s questions “as soon as possible.” Q

DEVELOPMENT

Office building planned for three Cambridge Avenue parcels

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developer’s proposal to enliven a mostly commercial street parallel to California Avenue with a new three-story office building earned a mixed reception on Thursday from city officials, who urged the developer to further refine the design.

The plan from Steve Pierce on behalf of Cambridge Investments, LLC, targets three buildings on Cambridge Avenue. It calls for demolishing the existing building at 380 Cambridge and renovating 400 and 410 Cambridge. The proposed replacement would be 35,000 square feet, with 33,400 square feet of space reserved for offices.

The overriding goal, Pierce said, is to “really create a much better experience on Cambridge,” which currently houses a mix of small businesses, residential units and office buildings, including the Palo Alto Weekly’s headquarters.

While the Architectural Review

by Gennady Sheyner Board agreed on Thursday that this is a worthy goal, members were skeptical about the building’s ability to achieve it.

Board Chair Randy Popp said the proposed building is “just not exciting” and likened it to a building in an office park. The new development, he said, would span a major stretch of a street in an important commercial area.

“We really need a building that’s going to be great here,” Popp said.

“It needs to be something that we can all say, ‘It’s the best possible solution for the site.’”

During the discussion — known as a preliminary hearing — board members offered initial reactions to the proposal but didn’t take any votes. But others shared Popp’s concern and urged the applicants to make the design more interesting.

Vice Chair Robert Gooyer called the proposed building “awfully big” and “a bit bland.” He also rec-

ommended the developer include parking on the ground floor.

“It doesn’t jump out at me,” Gooyer said. “Part of it is that because it looks so large, so rigidly segmented, it comes across as one large structure.”

Board member Alexander Lew had mixed feelings about the lack of windows in the back of the proposed buildings, which abut a residential neighborhood. He also called Cambridge “not that great of a street” and said the city should be looking at ways to make roads around California and University avenues better than they are.

He also asked whether the developer considered demolishing all three buildings and starting from scratch.

Pierce said in response that one reason for preserving two of the three buildings was to make the project financially viable. Both buildings are sound, he said; ac-

Gennady Sheyner

Development receives mixed reviews from Palo Alto’s architecture board

A proposal to create a three-story office building by demolishing 380 Cambridge Ave. and renovating 400 and 410 Cambridge was sent back for further refinement by Palo Alto’s architecture board. cording to a staff report, 400 and 410 Cambridge were built in 1971 and 1963, respectively.

Board member Kyu Kim said he had no problem with Pierce’s proposal to merge the three Cambridge sites, but like others he advocated for further design revisions. He urged the architect to do a better job in “giving a pedestrian rhythm to the building.”

“I think there has to be some kind of interest introduced to the project so it doesn’t feel like one long building,” Kyu said.

The proposed development is

just the latest in a stable of commercial projects that have recently been introduced (and, in most cases, approved) in the rapidly changing California Avenue Business District. These include a nearly finished three-story building at 260 California Ave., former site of Club Illusions; an under-construction four-story, mixed use building at 2650 Birch St.; a recently approved mixed-use development at 385 Sherman Ave.; and Stanford University’s recently approved residential project at 2500 El Camino Real, which includes 70 housing units. Q

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Community Health Education Programs

News Digest Spate of auto burglaries hits downtown For a complete list of classes and class fees, lectures and health education resources, visit pamf.org/education.

March 2015 Dr. Marvin Small Memorial Parent Workshop How to Stay Connected to Your Kids March 10, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

PAMF Sunnyvale Center 301 Old San Francisco Road, 2nd Fl. Conference Center, Sunnyvale • (408) 730-2810

Dr. Tom McDonald Memorial Lecture Series Is a Vegetarian Diet Right for You? March 10, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

PAMF Palo Alto Center 795 El Camino Real, 3rd Fl. Conference Center, Jamplis Building • (650) 853-4873

Dementia Caregiver Education Series: Legal Planning Tips March 12, 1 to 2:30 p.m.

PAMF Sunnyvale Center 301 Old San Francisco Road, 2nd Fl. Conference Center, Sunnyvale • (408) 730-2810

Advancements in Cataract Surgery March 18, 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Sunnyvale City Senior Center 550 E. Remington Drive, Sunnyvale • (408) 730-7360

Detox Your Home March 24, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Cupertino City Senior Center 21251 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Cupertino • (408) 777-3150

Take Control of Your Headaches March 24, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Sunnyvale Public Library 665 W. Olive Avenue, Sunnyvale • No registration required

Don’t Turn Green, Live Green March 31, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

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Police are investigating nine vehicle break-ins that occurred Tuesday night, March 3, in Palo Alto.

The auto burglaries happened between 6 and 10 p.m., and most were reported in the downtown area. Three of the break-ins occurred on the upper floors of City Parking Garage R, at 528 High St., and four took place in the downtown area on Webster Street, Hamilton Avenue, University Avenue and Lytton Avenue, police said. The other two auto burglaries occurred on El Camino Real.

In each incident, the burglars smashed the car windows to gain entry. Thieves took backpacks, bags or briefcases left inside the vehicles in plain view, police said. Electronic devices, including laptops and tablet computers were stolen in eight of the break-ins.

Although police do not believe the suspects targeted any particular make or model of car, seven of the nine vehicles targeted were rental cars, police said. There have been 65 auto burglaries reported in Palo Alto this year, police said.

Police advise residents and visitors to lock their unattended vehicles and close all windows, as well as take valuables with them or keep things out of sight.

In response to the spate of auto burglaries, uniformed officers are increasing their patrols, and plainclothes detectives are also out looking for the thieves, police said.

Anyone with information pertaining to these incidents is asked to call the 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be emailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent via text message or voicemail to 650-383-8984. Q — Palo Alto Weekly staff

Palo Alto launches business registry Palo Alto may be a haven for high-tech workers, but exactly how many employees come to the city everyday and how they get here has long been a mystery based on educated guesses, rough estimates and vague projections.

On Monday, the city took a significant step toward replacing some of the guesswork with actual data when it unveiled its long-awaited business registry, an online tool that requires every business to provide the city information about its workers and their commute patterns. Each business will have to pay a flat fee of $50 to cover administration expenses.

The City Council approved the registry in September, with council members agreeing that the information about local employment trends is critical to the city’s efforts to reduce traffic and alleviate downtown’s parking congestion. The council is now considering whether to cap office development, and it has recently funded the launching a Transportation Management Authority, a nonprofit that will offer incentives to workers to switch from cars to other modes of transportation. The employee data is expected to assist with both efforts.

The registry requires every employer with a “fixed place of business” in Palo Alto to register annually. It does not apply to businesses that are located in other cities but operate locally.

Businesses have until March 31 to register, though there will be a grace period of 30 days to “inform and educate the business community about the requirement before any enforcement actions are necessary.” Q — Gennady Sheyner

Plan to collect food scraps wins support Banana peels and apple cores may look like garbage to most Palo Alto residents, but city leaders are increasingly viewing such food scraps as a key ingredient in a decade-long drive to reduce the amount of local waste that gets shipped to landfills.

That was the consensus at the Tuesday night meeting of the City Council’s Finance Committee, where members voted unanimously to support several aggressive new proposals aimed at encouraging more composting. The committee endorsed a curbside-collection program that would allow residents to dump their food scraps and food-soiled paper into their green yard-waste bins and a new regulation requiring commercial customers to compost.

The new push for more composting aims to bring Palo Alto’s rate of diverting waste from landfills from 78 percent to about 82 percent.

Councilman Greg Scharff expressed concerns about funding, as the most costly services will result in higher rates for customers.

Scharff proposed that staff evaluate spreading the rate increase over more than three years. Council members also encouraged staff to continue exploring partnering opportunities with the private sector.

Phil Bobel, assistant director of Public Works, said staff is talking to neighboring cities but noted that potential collaborations are complicated by the fact that each city has its own contracts and schedules.

The full council will review the proposals later this spring. Q — Gennady Sheyner

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Office for Civil Rights investigates Stanford University Student alleges university violated Title IX in handling of her sexual-assault case

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leging the university’s investigation took more than twice as long as the 60 days recommended under Title IX and that the consequences imposed on her assailant, whom a university panel eventually found responsible for sexual misconduct and violation of university policy, fell short of his crime.

“I filed a complaint because I want future survivors at Stanford to receive better treatment than I did and feel safer on campus than I did, (to be) more protected by the university than I was,” Francis told the Weekly Wednesday.

Francis’ complaint alleges Stanford failed to provide her with a prompt and equitable resolution for her sexual-assault complaint; promptly and equitably respond to sexual-violence complaints, reports and incidents; and provide prompt and equitable response to notices of sexual violence, (which) “allowed students to be subjected to a hostile environment on the basis of sex,” Francis said.

The male student found responsible for assaulting Francis, a graduating senior whom she was instructed by the university not to name due to confidentiality issues, was at first suspended for five quarters — a suspension that would begin in the summer, after he graduated from Stanford — and required to complete 40 hours of community service and participate in an educational program on sexual-assault awareness.

Francis appealed these sanctions, demanding the student be expelled.

In response, Vice Provost of Student Affairs Greg Boardman ruled against expulsion, instead adjusting the sanctions to delay the male student’s diploma for two years and allowing him to return to campus in fall 2016 to attend graduate school.

Francis also filed a police report in her hometown of Juneau, Alaska, where the assault took place. The Juneau district attorney decided in August not to bring charges against the male student, also an Alaska resident, citing in-

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Mothers Symposium returns with theme of ‘resilience’ Event organizers hope to provide community, connection to local mothers

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ince 1998, a group of local mothers has organized a symposium to talk about the experience of motherhood through the lens of topics like balance, self-compassion, happiness and calm (“Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood” was the title of the 1999 event).

This year on Saturday, March 7, the 12th Mothers Symposium will focus on resilience and the power of purpose.

Sharon Murphy, one of this year’s panelists and one of the original symposium co-founders, sees resilience not as a departure from past event themes but rather an extension.

“All of those themes that we’ve had in the past, as I look at it, are about how to re-focus our purpose,” she said.

The mothers symposium, now a biennial event, is dedicated to that, Murphy said, as well as to cultivating community, connections and a sense that mothers are “all in the trenches together.”

Attendees will also learn about resilience from a diverse set of panelists and a keynote speaker, whose backgrounds range from pediatric pain management to women’s leadership and technology.

Murphy, who is now retired,

by Elena Kadvany worked in experimental oncology and then as a research microbiologist before giving birth to her two daughters. As a mother, she served as PTA president and taught parent education at PreSchool Family, a Palo Alto organization that provides resources and education to families with Sharon Murphy young children.

She also developed and managed the Jewish Community Center-Xerox Parent Resource Center for three years, and, most recently, the City of Palo Alto’s Family Resources program for 11 years.

Murphy will be joined by panelists Julie Good, a clinical associate professor of pediatric pain management and pediatric palliative care at Stanford University, and Sherri Lassila, a career and life coach with a focus on women’s leadership. Lassila currently co-leads the Women In Management Groups Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is also the founder of the business school’s Professional Reboot Program, a two-day workshop for

women looking to return to work after any sort of career break.

Keynote speaker Pat Christen is the CEO of HopeLab, a Redwood City technology company whose founding product is Re-Mission, a video game aimed at helping young cancer patients relieve stress and improve well-being. Players operate a robot that travels through the bodies of fictional cancer patients, destroying cancer cells, battling bacterial infections and managing side effects associated with cancer and cancer treatment, according to the company’s website.

Prior to HopeLab, Christen served as president and executive director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Murphy recently sat down with the Weekly to talk about resilience, the experience of mothering in Silicon Valley and the importance of parent-education programs. This interview has been edited for length.

Q: How and why was this year’s theme of resilience chosen?

A: Most of us, I think, learn to be mothers. A few people that I’ve known and observed kind of come by it naturally if they’ve had a family with a lot of kids and really good relationships with their moms and

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by Elena Kadvany tanford University has joined the growing list of universities under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights for violations of federal gender-equity law Title IX, according to a list released by the office Wednesday.

The investigation was opened at Stanford on Feb. 26 as the result of an Office for Civil Rights (OCR) complaint filed in December by student Leah Francis, who is alleging the university failed to promptly and equitably provide a response to and resolution for a sexual-assault report she filed in January 2014.

Francis said she was sexually assaulted off campus on Jan. 1, 2014, by a male student with whom she had a previous romantic relationship but was not dating at the time.

Francis ignited a firestorm of student activism and attention around sexual assault on the Stanford campus last June when she publicly challenged the administration’s handling of her case, al-

Stanford University student Leah Francis leads a chant during a rally in support of victims of sexual assault at White Plaza on June 5, 2014. sufficient evidence. Under Alaska law, the standard for determining whether an assault is rape hinges on whether the victim verbally says “no” or does something to indicate strong lack of consent.

Francis joins the numerous college students across the country who have turned to the Office for Civil Rights in the hopes that the federal government will help to spur what they see as much-needed sexual-assault reform on their campuses. As of March 4, there were 106 sexual-violence cases under investigation at 101 universities across the country. Stanford as all of that. That’s because they’ve already learned a lot. So it’s not something that we do without learning. We just have to learn it. And it’s wonderful; it’s transforming; it’s many, many things that are wonderful. It’s also difficult and stressful.

So most of the themes of the Mothers Symposium, I would say, are about those things that we need to keep a grip on and that we need to have supported as mothers doing this in-the-trenches work that doesn’t get much (recognition).

(This is) a day to support each other and ... to develop this common sense of what we’re about, which is purpose, to provide us with the resilience that you need when you’re in the trenches and it’s difficult and you lose sight of what the real importance is.

Q: When you say resilience, what does that mean for mothers?

A: For mothers, I think it means the ability to keep the larger purpose in mind — the deeper purpose, maybe — and to bounce back from the difficulties that are presented every second. There’s nobody who’s helping you manage your time and who’s saying, “OK, now you get to set aside time to do this, and no, this deadline doesn’t have to be paid attention to.” We’re all torn from stem to stern. There you are with a child that you know needs you, no questions asked.

I think we need moments like (this), once every two years now (the Mothers Symposium used to be once a year). I think we need big things outside ourselves that help us.

We need things inside ourselves that we can only do ourselves and that we

well as Washington and Lee University in Virginia, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Point Park University in Pennsylvania were among the latest, putting that number over 100. These cases were either initiated by the federal body or, as in Francis’ case, as a result of complaints filed by individuals.

The Office for Civil Rights does not disclose any details about its investigations other than when they were opened, though when they conclude, the office will disclose whether a resolution agreement to address compliance concerns at a particular school has been signed or there was insufficient evidence of a Title IX violation.

“Stanford is aware of the Office for Civil Rights investigation and will cooperate fully,” university spokeswoman Lisa Lapin wrote in an email.

“Our policies for investigating and adjudicating sexual misconduct claims are in compliance with both the letter and spirit of Title IX.” Lapin said she is unaware of any prior Office for Civil Rights investigation at Stanford.

Francis said she hopes the office will look into not just her case, but the many other cases of sexual-assault survivors at Stanford that she’s aware of and make sure that all survivors are “treated with dignity and respect.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com. pay attention to. In an ideal world, we would all be strong and do it. This is a day to help us narrow our focus, come back to what’s important, to be mindful of the things that we really want. That’s somewhat unique for everyone, and there’s no dictation as to what you should do or you shouldn’t do. Take the time to discover it, to nurture it and cultivate it.

Resilience, though, might imply in the business world or elsewhere, some new measure of perfection. Don’t give us that. We don’t need that. I hope in the concept of resilience is an unspoken acceptance of: “Things don’t go right all the time, and that’s OK.” In fact, it may be better. It’s out of crises that we sometimes discover what’s really important.

But one of the tough things about Silicon Valley is that there is so much success here. The individuals who started so many things — we grew them. It makes everybody think that they should do that too. I hope (resilience) doesn’t mean being successful in spite of the odds.

I hope it’s deeper, something very internal, more like mindfulness. I hope that’s more what it’s like because we don’t need another goad to be perfect and the best.

Q: Were these things you thought about when you were a young mother?

A: As a young mother, I went to a parent-education program, PreSchool Family, which is still here. I think those (programs) — there are many in the community — I think they’re very important, because it’s (continued on page 14)

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bang for our buck and that will not complicate things,” Berman said. “I’m worried that a cap will absolutely distract us for minimal gains and, frankly, for detriment and damage in some areas.”

Wolbach agreed and said that while he is in favor of “slowing” office construction, he opposes capping development unless it is accompanied by significant efforts to control traffic and promote transportation and housing. Berman’s motion, which was seconded

by Wolbach, directed staff to consider ways to extract revenue from new and existing developments to support the city’s transit efforts.

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“Saying we’re going to cap office development or stop office development and somehow we’ll find resources to deal with transportation, deal with housing isn’t going to work,” Wolbach said.

On the other side of the scale were the council members who favor slow-growth policies: Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth and Vice Mayor Greg Schmid. All three supported the idea of exploring an office cap as part of the city’s update of its Comprehensive Plan, its guiding land-use document. Under that proposal, which ultimately fizzled, the cap would be set in the range of 20,000 to 40,000 square feet of new office or research-anddevelopment space per year.

Supporters of the cap sided with the residents, neighborhood leaders and land-use watchdogs who argued that the rapid pace of office development is the root cause of the city’s worsening traffic and parking problems and should be addressed in conjunction with all the parking and traffic initiatives. Filseth said that the

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idea of setting an office cap isn’t that complex, a proposition that Berman fiercely contested.

“The idea of slowing down office growth and letting housing catch up, (providing) relief for retail, this is not a complicated idea,” Filseth said.

DuBois warned that the city is in danger of a “monoculture in zoning,” with office development gradually spreading and retailers being priced out. The trend was one of the major themes of Mayor Karen Holman’s “State of the City” address last month. She noted that since 2008 the city has gained 537,144 square feet of office and researchand-development space while losing 70,514 square feet of retail.

“The status quo is ... pushing out diversity,” DuBois said Monday.

DuBois also proposed a series of amendments to Schmid’s proposal of an office cap. These included an elimination of all zoning exceptions and a revision to the city’s parking requirements based on new assumptions that offices pack in more employees per square foot than previously. The two amendments were

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A building on the 430 block of Hamilton Avenue used to house a florist shop, the Mango Caribbean restaurant and dry cleaners. The cleaning business remains, but Boxfish office headquarters moved into the other spaces. ultimately rejected by the council es that have recently departed befor being too broad and too arbi- cause they were priced out, includtrary, respectively. Holman, who ing a local plumber he has used.

“When you say ‘office cap,’ all I normally supports slow-growth policies, declined to support Schmid’s hear is, ‘I got mine and the rest of proposal primarily because of the you can take a walk,’” Garber said.

Randy Popp, an architect who tacked-on amendments.

Councilman Pat Burt criti- chairs the city’s Architectural cized both motions, calling Review Board (but who specithem “premature” and chiding fied that his comments represent his colleagues for hastily pro- his personal views and not the posing “polarizing alternatives” board’s), characterized the proand “mischaracterizing” each posed cap as “metaphorically other’s positions. He vehemently slamming a door shut” and preopposed DuBois’ proposal to dicted that the proposal would change the city’s assumption fail to achieve its desired effects.

“Capping growth as you have about employee density, which would shift the requirement from suggested ... would be a tragic misone parking space per 250 square step. ... More people will cram into feet of development to one space existing buildings and the problem will be exacerbated in ways we canper 175 square feet.

He also provided his colleagues not predict,” Popp said.

But for residents like Ben Lerner, with a memo containing more than 20 bullet points and laying out the a restriction on office developments problems, issues and options that is a perfectly reasonable response to the problems of worsening trafthe council should consider.

“We have a bunch of half-baked fic congestion and parking. Lerner ideas,” Burt said. “I don’t feel said he supports a cap, even though we’ve gone through an adequate he would prefer a “full moratoprocess to make a really thought- rium” on new office development until these problems get solved. ful, adequate recommendation.”

Terry Holzemer took a similar At least one idea, however, had no trouble winning consensus. stance and said the city desperately The council unanimously agreed needs a “limit, cap or moratorium that the city should expand its on development before we do any protection of ground-floor retail more work on approving projects space to prevent its conversion that impact our communities.”

In the end, though the council to offices throughout the city.

Though the idea was quickly didn’t adopt a cap or consider a full embraced and adopted almost as moratorium, members indicated an afterthought, Burt called it a that they may limit office growth in the near future. In addition to “very significant measure.”

Specifically, it directed staff to the three council members advocome back with an interim ordi- cating for a cap, two others exnance prohibiting the conversion pressed support for it even as they of retail and service space to any criticized the specific proposals.

“It’s not an onerous tool but other use. It also requested that staff consider options to expand something we can use as a careground-floor retail locations and fully crafted measure that would “reconsider definitions of retail potentially add quality to what and services along with their we do and ability to control our location throughout commercial future,” Burt said.

Holman agreed and said that areas as quickly as possible.”

The council’s decision not to it’s time to act. Palo Alto, she move ahead with an office cap said, “is known for studying provides at least a temporary re- things to death and sometimes we prieve for business owners, Cham- do it to such an extent that things ber of Commerce executives and happen that we can’t reverse.

“If we don’t make any changes local architects who attended the about office development at this meeting to blast the proposal.

Architect Dan Garber, a former time, it seems like the data we’re planning commissioner, argued trying to collect is being collected that the council’s consideration of in a mercurial environment,” Holan office cap is already changing man said. “We can’t sit here and the marketplace and prompting not act.” Q higher rents in anticipation of a Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner restricted supply of office space. can be emailed at gsheyner@ He cited various service business- paweekly.com.

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tumor just comes back because the disease is somewhere else.

“The culture and the system are not some monster looming above Palo Alto. The system is made up of your actions and the actions of the people around you,” she said.

She urged her freshman-year self to swim against the current and to challenge “all the little assumptions we take as truth,” from the value of attending a name-brand college and taking extracurriculars for the sake of appearance rather than passion to the need to stack achievements against one’s peers.

“How do we fight the invisible enemy?” Luo asked. “The enemy is fought through noticing, through asking yourself, ‘Is this really true? Is this really what I think and not what the culture says?’ Doing this is hard. When someone asks you what your hopes and dreams are, making a joke about getting into Harvard is a lot easier than admitting to yourself that you really don’t know right now.”

Gunn junior Marek Harris similarly spoke of himself and his peers entering high school already steeped in a “preconceived idea that they have to do well.”

Paly sophomore Cezanne Lane told the audience about her progression from “ecstatic and curious to tired and worn out,” a result of memorizing and rushing through homework assignments and studying instead of actively engaging.

“School has become less and less about learning and exploring the world for me in all of its greatness and more and more about the amount of APs that you’re planning on taking next year and what will look good when applying to college and your exact test average compared to the guy next to you,” she said.

“I think that’s become a really big problem, and I think that may be why I don’t love school anymore,” Lane added. “Because instead of learning, I’m doing school.”

School board member Ken Dauber echoed Lane’s sentiments: “We want schools where comprehension is prized over compliance and completion.”

Many students also spoke to the need to keep the community’s focus on school issues throughout the year, not just when there are dedicated events like Not In Our Schools week, Unity Day or in the event of a student death by suicide.

They offered suggestions — large and small — for how to do this, from asking teachers to simply check in with them by asking how their weekends were to vowing themselves to invite a student eating lunch alone to join them. Many spoke fondly of teachers and programs that have made their experiences at school positive ones. Luo said her physics teacher has text hanging in the back of his classroom — so that he can see it while he’s teaching — that reads, “Have you connected with a student today?”

“I really like that because I think that’s one of the really im-

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portant parts of our school that we need to emphasize more. Even when we’re advocating policy changes and ways to concretely change how much homework we have or something like that, we should keep in mind that there’s this other side to changing the culture as well,” Luo said, adding that she will feel heard by the adults in the community when they make efforts to connect with students on a more personal level.

Several students also suggested that Camp Everytown, an intensive weekend retreat that explores issues like racism, stereotypes and bullying, be expanded from the select number of Gunn and Paly students who attend each year to all high school students.

During an open-mic period after the panelists spoke, a student who attends a local private school told about his diagnosed depression and suicidal thoughts to stress the importance of helping people with depression and mental illness seek professional medical help.

“Although I am here with you today, I do not think that would be the case if I hadn’t received the proper medical care and treatment,” he said.

Some of the student-panelists called for improved special-education and counseling services, for more teacher collaboration to decrease test and project stacking and for better communication around district-level policy changes that deeply and directly affect students’ lives.

Lane said that many Paly students, herself included, didn’t know what the homework policy was until recently.

“I’ve attended a lot of meetings and a lot of different conversations with people who are titles in this community. And I think people will sit, and I think people will listen, and I think they’re willing to do that and I think they’re interested — I just think as a student there’s a bit of a disconnect,” Lane said. “We don’t know what is happening.”

Gunn sophomore Shannon Yang, who spoke during the open-mic period, said students want to know that the decision-makers in the community will “bring reform to what students are saying and follow up.”

In closing remarks, school board member Dauber vowed that he and others in leadership positions will put action to words and, as Yang said, follow up.

“My job now, and I think our job, is to turn those ideas into action that will benefit our youth,” Dauber said.

Sunday’s forum was one in a series of independent events focused on student wellness in recent weeks, from a sleep-education night for parents to a community conversation held this week. There will be another youth forum on Friday, March 27, at 6 p.m. at the Mitchell Park Community Center, at 3800 Middlefield Road. Q www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • March 6, 2015 • Page 11

Robert Rauschenberg at Kennedy Space Center with Apollo 11 launch vehicle assembly in background, July 15, 1969.

Photograph by James Dean. Courtesy James Dean and NASA Art Collection, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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Robert Rauschenberg’s “Stoned Moon” Projects, 1969–70 December 20–March 16

Community examines rail-crossing hazards After a 35-year-old woman died when a bullet train struck her car at the Ravenswood Avenue crossing in Menlo Park, the community is searching for ways to prevent more tragedy. (Posted March 4, 9:54 a.m.)

Google unveils new HQ plans Google has unveiled plans for an office campus that will undoubtedly be called extraordinary. (Posted March 2, 12:08 p.m.)

Stanford upholds frat housing suspension Discover an iconic artist’s depiction of the Apollo 11 Mission, the launch that put the first man on the moon. Rarely seen art is accompanied by photographic documentation and artist’s notes never before on view.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

328 LOMITA DRIVE STANFORD, CA 94305 0 8 6 ( 8 0 6 7 $ 1 ) 2 5 ' ( ' 8 This exhibition is organized by the Cantor Arts Center in close collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Works in this exhibition are on loan from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, Special Collections at the Getty Research Institute, and a private collection.

We gratefully acknowledge support for the exhibition from the Cantor Arts Center’s Halperin Exhibitions Fund and the Contemporary Collectors Circle.

After reviewing an appeal filed by a Stanford University fraternity whose housing privileges were suspended in December following a sexual-harassment investigation, the university has decided to uphold its initial decision to suspend Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s (SAE) on-campus housing for two years, according to a university statement. (Posted March 2, 11:31 a.m.)

VIDEO: Conversation with Stephanie Martinson Armed with a matter-of-fact cheerfulness and her fellow Palo Altans’ willingness to help, Stephanie Martinson, a part-time speech pathologist at the VA, mom and founder of Racing Hearts, is on track to save a lot of lives. She talks with Lisa Van Dusen about her journey. (Posted March 1, 9:19 a.m.)

Police seek man who exposed himself to girl A man driving a newer black hatchback exposed himself to an 11-year-old girl as she walked her dog last Sunday, Palo Alto police reported. (Posted Feb. 28, 6:36 p.m.)

Teens share stories in ‘Youth of the Year’ Silicon Valley luminaries heard stories of parental neglect, local poverty and domestic violence Thursday night as teenage participants in the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula competed in a speaking contest. (Posted Feb. 27, 9:48 a.m.)

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CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to have a joint session with the Human Relations Commission; discuss short-term rentals and home-occupation uses in residential neighborhoods; adopt the long-term financial forecast for 2016-25; and meet in a closed session to discuss the city’s labor negotiations with the Utilities Management and Professional Association of Palo Alto. The regular meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 9, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The closed session will follow.

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will take action on the high schools’ Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) reports, the second interim budget and discuss quarterly goals. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, at school district headquarters, 25 Churchill Ave. COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to discuss a recent audit of the city’s utility meters and consider changes to the city’s green-building ordinance. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss reforms to the planned-community process and hear an update about the city’s new Transportation Management Association. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to elect its officers and consider items that will be discussed at its joint meeting with the City Council. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the city’s Community Development Block Grant priorities; consider the funding for the Human Services Resource Allocation Process for the years 2015-17; discuss projects for the Housing Issues Subcommittee; and hear an update on the Civility Roundtable. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

Upfront TECHNOLOGY

South African brothers create app to help fight Ebola

by My Nguyen

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lthough the Ebola crisis has been snuffed out of the news cycle in the U.S. these days, the epidemic continues to ravage parts of West Africa. And health workers are increasing their efforts to combat Ebola, including using smartphone applications to monitor the situation on the ground.

Malan and Philip Joubert, brothers from South Africa who recently moved to Palo Alto to expand their app-development company, Journey, saw the demand for mobile solutions, so they created the Ebola Care app to help aid organizations in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The app has several core functions, including contact tracing, which identifies and diagnoses people who may have come into contact with an infected person; quarantine management, which tracks and manages the 21day quarantine period of a patient; psychological assessments to determine the well-being of health workers; social work to build case

files for orphaned children; survivor surveys, which are assessments of Ebola survivors upon leaving treatment centers; verification that supplies have been distributed; and event feedback, which captures thoughts from the community after educational events.

Malan said the app is designed to work well on low-end Android phones, which make up the vast bulk of smartphones in West Africa. If there is no wireless signal, the data is stored in a mobile relational database until there is, he said. Then the data is uploaded to the cloud where it can be accessed by approved agencies.

The app, built on the Journey platform, launched last November, a month after three U.S. residents contracted the Ebola virus and one man visiting the United States from Liberia died from the disease.

“We had been following the Ebola crisis for a while, but like everyone else we didn’t think we could help,” Philip said. “When I arrived in California, Malan and I

started talking about Ebola, and it occurred to us that the challenges facing aid organizations in West Africa are actually similar to the challenges we solve for our business customers every day.”

Initially, their goals for employing the mobile technology were “quite humble,” the brothers said.

“We wanted to help a couple of organizations fighting Ebola.

It turns out that there was a huge demand for the mobile solutions we were building, and we’re now helping more than 20 organizations,” Philip said.

Malan and Philip contacted GlobalGiving, a nonprofit organization that provides a global crowdfunding platform for grassroots projects, and the organization helped distribute the apps and smartphones, which were donated by tech companies, individuals and other organizations.

“Based on early successes with organizations like More Than Me (a group that provide girls in West Point, Liberia, education, health

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Mobile technology is being used to prevent spread of deadly disease

Counselors use the Ebola Care app in Freetown, Sierra Leone. and social services), we received a donation of 1,000 smartphones,” Malan said. “This helped us scale our work very fast. By simply being consistently responsive to the needs of the organizations on the ground, the project got a life of its own.”

All 1,000 smartphones haven’t rolled out yet but are being distributed in batches of a few hundred, Malan said.

“Depending on the organization and the work they do, the apps can be very leveraged,” he said.

“Some organizations might issue a phone to a team lead with five to 10 workers reporting to them, and each worker helps dozens of people in a week, so the ‘reach’ of a single phone can be huge.”

Being digital, the app replaces paper forms and gives decision makers real-time access to data from the field, Malan said.

“A large part of fighting Ebola is about making smart decisions: Should this person be quarantined?

Should we provide more health care to this area? In which zones is an outbreak spreading?” he said.

“Accurate and timely data leads to better decisions, which results in less mistakes and smarter resource allocation, which in turn prevents infections and saves lives.”

The feedback from health workers using the app has been overwhelmingly positive, Malan said, but the brothers are setting a higher standard on how successful the app is by looking at the “quantifiable change on the ground,” he added.

“As Africans, we’ve seen the kind of damage that well-intentioned but ultimately misguided, aid efforts can create,” Malan (continued on page 14)

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said. “So we ask hard questions to make sure we’re creating real value: Do organizations actually use the app? Do they keep using it? Is the data they collect actionable and actioned? Does the utility of the app extend beyond the Ebola crisis and make their lives better on a sustainable basis?

“It’s just like building a startup: You have to talk to your customers all the time, you have to hear them out, look at what they do and keep asking yourself, ‘How can I

make their lives better?’” he said.

The brothers are trying to raise funds to expand the app to 10,000 health workers over the next year and to add additional features like education, chronic-disease tracking and hospital management.

“If we’re serious about preventing something like this from happening again the root problems need to be tackled. We see the Ebola Care app as a good proof point that apps delivered in this manner can add massive value to aid organizations,” Malan said. Q Digital Editor My Nguyen can be emailed at mnguyen@ paweekly.com.

Mother (continued from page 9)

hard to do alone. For me, it was a lifesaver. It became my family. It was a community of people in the same boat. And we also had some parent education along with it, so we learned things, which I needed. I felt overwhelmed by the responsibility.

(I was) afraid to make mistakes.

Q: Do you think that mothering today — and in Palo Alto and the Bay Area — requires more resilience, more understanding of these kind of things you’re talking about?

A: I think the Bay Area has probably a faster-paced existence because of the tech world and the number of people here now. It’s gotten pretty intense. It feels crowded. It feels like there’s less space for exploration.

I think that everyone — and mothers — need to learn the beauty of saying, “no,” of being limited.

Saying “no” means that you’re not going to have that experience and you’re not going to know about that. We teach our kids very little; we model. And to model that, to say, “No, I won’t have time for that because I want to do this well. ... I will do a good job but my best I’m reserving for something else.” Q

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City Council (March 2)

Office cap: The council discussed a proposal to create an annual cap on new office and research-and-development space and continued the discussion to March 23. The council also directed staff to consider expanding ground-floor retail protections in the city’s commercial areas. Yes: Unanimous

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Finances: The committee heard the latest update on tax revenues and adopted a staff proposal for mid-year budget reconciliation. Yes: Unanimous Waste: The committee recommended approving staff proposals for diverting more organic waste from landfills, including a new residential curbside-pickup service for food scraps. Yes: Unanimous

Utilities Advisory Commission (March 4)

Wastewater: The commission discussed the long-term facilities plan for the city’s wastewater-treatment operation. Action: None Topics: The commission adopted a list of potential discussion topics for its upcoming joint meeting with the City Council. Yes: Unanimous

Architectural Review Board (March 5)

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451 University Ave.: The board discussed proposed changes, including a rooftop terrace, for 451 University Ave., a building that was formerly occupied by the Apple Store. The board voted to continue the discussion and to solicit feedback from the Planning and Transportation Commission. Yes: Unanimous 380-410 Cambridge Ave.: The board discussed but did not vote on a proposal to merge three parcels at 380, 400 and 410 Cambridge Ave., demolish one of the buildings and to build a 35,000-square-foot development at the site. Action: None

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Wednesday, April 15: 7:00pm to 8:30pm Dads of Daughters: The Joys and Challenges of Raising Teen Girls Julie Metzger RN, creator of our “Heart to Heart” program, hosts an evening for fathers who seek understanding and open communication with their preteen and teenage daughters. ®

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TOT,” a new report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment states.

Letters sent by the city to companies last week note that the updated TOT ordinance went into effect on Jan. 1 and that the city expects remittance of taxes by March 30.

Other cities, such as San Luis Obispo and San Francisco, have gone further with taxation, adopting requirements that homeowners who rent out their homes pay transient-occupancy taxes and also that they acquire administrative permits for short-term rentals. Enforcement in both cities is based on complaints.

The new staff report also states that if voluntary compliance is not obtained, “additional enforcement steps could include use of subpoenas to gather information and potential legal action to obtain compliance with TOT requirements.”

The city’s dilemma over how to regulate Airbnb extends to Uber, Lyft and other poster children of the sharing economy, which encourages peer-to-peer collaboration between service users and providers but often pits entrepreneurs and customers against established laws and bureaucratic structures that never envisioned these kinds of services.

This past Monday night, as the council considered how new ride-sharing services could help solve the city’s traffic problems, council members expressed both caution and enthusiasm about Uber and Lyft. Councilman Greg Scharff, a regular user of Uber, praised the service for its convenience while Vice Mayor Greg Schmid cautioned that these services may not work as well in Palo Alto as they do in denser communities such as New York or San Francisco.

A skeptical Councilwoman Liz Kniss noted that the city doesn’t know anything about the background of the drivers involved in these services or about the companies’ impacts on the taxi industry.

She has taken a similarly critical view of Airbnb, suggesting in a colleagues memo last December that the city needs to get a better grip on regulating the company and understanding its impacts.

This past Monday, Kniss pointed out that the city has received numerous complaints from residents about Airbnb and suggested that short-term rentals are “one of the areas where we need to have oversight, if not control.”

“The problem is that I’m not sure that this economy is sharing with us, the cities,” Kniss said.

“That’s one of my biggest concerns.”

Kniss, along with now-Mayor Karen Holman and former council members Larry Klein and Gail Price, co-signed the colleagues memo calling for new regulations. The memo estimated that Palo Alto has about 300 to

400 listings on Airbnb per night, about the same as San Jose, and highlighted various issues posed by its business model: the collection of transient-occupancy tax, whether zoning regulations should allow such rentals, and the impacts on parking and traffic in residential neighborhoods.

“San Jose, San Francisco and a few other larger cities have been negotiating agreements with Airbnb and other similar businesses on taxation and other matters,” the memo states. “Our situation may be different than these larger cities in some respects, but we believe it’s time for us to review what has been done and consider what additional steps Palo Alto should take.”

The council memo notwithstanding, data from city staff suggest that complaints about Airbnb rentals have been minimal. In the past year and a half, the city’s code-enforcement staff has received seven complaints from residents affected by short-term rentals. In two of these cases, the

rental did not violate code. Four other cases were addressed and closed and one is ongoing, according to the report. The city has also received 10 complaints in the past year about home occupations (which may or may not relate to rental operations). To date, code-enforcement activity has affected only a “small fraction of home occupations and short-term rentals” in Palo Alto, the report states.

If the council chooses the most aggressive approaches for regulating and taxing short-term rentals, the rule changes are expected to draw significant time and effort from a planning staff that is already juggling a hefty suite of new parking and traffic programs. The staff report estimates that it would take a minimum of eight to nine months to develop a new ordinance, obtain community feedback and go through the approval process. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Christina McNamara Roche

Alice Tallmon Roberts

November 14, 1914 – February 4, 2015 Alice Tallmon Roberts, a 75year resident of Palo Alto, died Wednesday February 4. She was 100. A native of Morgan Hill, she was preceded in death by her husband, John F. Roberts, Jr. A long time member of OES, PEO, DAR, Avenida’s Art Class, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church and past member of the Palo Alto First Methodist Church. She was a caregiver over the years to family and friends, loved children, flowers, art, music, horses and dogs and was known for her bright smile and stylish clothes. She is survived by her children, Sondra Erickson (James), John F Roberts III (Lila), Margery Flowers (Donald), Carolyn Karhu (John), 14 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, one great, greatgrandchild, and sister Evelyn Pilgrim of Sequim WA. A memorial celebration will be held on Monday, March 23, 1:00 p.m. at the Woman’s Club of Palo Alto, 475 Homer, Palo Alto.

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OBITUARY

Douglas Michael McDonnell July 4, 1961 – February 8, 2015

Douglas Michael McDonnell, 53, passed away peacefully in his sleep on February 8, 2015.

Doug was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey and lived in Newark, California. Doug (also known as “Bug” to his family and friends) attended Menlo-Atherton High School (Class of ‘79), UCLA, and graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California, in Moraga, in 1984. Over a 25-year span, Doug worked for noted architects Albert A. Hoover, and Bill H. Bocook, of Hoover & Associates and B. H. Bocook, Architect, Inc. in Palo Alto. His office designed many projects throughout Northern California including the renovation of the Stanford Sunken Diamond, the award winning William and Flora Hewlett Foundation building, and an AIA design award winning office building in Menlo Park.

Doug adored his family, friends and animals, and his passion for life and positive energy were infectious. He shared his boundless creative ideas and wonderful sense of humor with everyone he met in every aspect of his life - work, school, vacations and family gatherings. Doug had an amazing ability to create memorable moments and lasting friendships wherever he went. Forever outgoing, ebullient, selfless, caring and kind-hearted, Doug will be greatly missed by his parents Philip A. and Catherine McDonnell of Atherton; by his seven adoring brothers and sisters and their spouses: Philip J. McDonnell (Pat) of Menlo Park; Dennis McDonnell (Celeste) of Atherton; Adrienne McDonnell (Barry Staw) of Kensington; Corinne Chavez of Danville; Kevin McDonnell of Pleasanton; David McDonnell (Ardis) of San Ramon; and Carolyn Beckwith (Dave) of Menlo Park; and by his 15 cousins, 13 nieces and nephews, as well as 6 great nieces and nephews.

A Memorial Mass and Celebration of Doug’s Life will be held on Saturday, March 14, 2015, at 1:30pm at The Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue in Menlo Park. His interment will be at Holy Cross in Menlo Park. In lieu of flowers, contributions to Douglas M. McDonnell’s memory can be made to Saint Mary’s College of California, P.O. Box 4300, Moraga, CA 94575, or www.tessfoundation.org at 655 Oak Grove Avenue #53, Menlo Park, CA 94026 or any charity of the donor’s choosing.

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December 6, 1941 - February 20, 2015 Palo Alto, California

Christina passed away peacefully with her children by her side on Friday, February 20, 2015 after a long illness.

Christina was born in Limerick, Ireland and later moved to England to become a mid-wife and eventually a registered nurse. In 1972 she moved to Palo Alto with her former husband, Aidan Roche, where they raised their three children. Christina also began working for Kaiser Permanente in Redwood City as an RN and worked there for over 20 years.

Christina was a devoted mother, traveling all over the country to visit her children and support them in their accomplishments.

Christina loved Palo Alto, whether it was attending her children’s sporting events at Palo Alto High School, walking in the Baylands, swimming at Eichler Swim and Tennis Club, or enjoying coffee at the café in Midtown near where she lived.

Christina will be deeply missed by her family and friends, who will remember her warm greeting of “Oh dears” whenever she ran into you. She loved a good giggle and you knew it was coming when her shoulders started that slow shake and sooner or later the laughter burst out.

Family and friends will celebrate Christina’s life with a memorial service on March 7th, at 10:00 AM at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Palo Alto. All are welcome to attend; smiles and laughter will be the orders of the day.

Christina is survived by her 3 children, Kieran Roche (Elaine) Julie Roche Schram (Robert), and Colin Roche (Colleen) and her 6 grandchildren: Julia, Connor, Mandy, Declan, William and Nora, as well as her sisters and extended family in Ireland.

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

Feb. 25-March 3

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Defrauding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Abandoned boat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 5 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 9 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Brandishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disobey court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 3 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Menlo Park

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING of the City of Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan Update Leadership Group 5:00 P.M., Tuesday, March 10, 2015, Mitchell Park *VTT\UP[` *LU[LY 4H[HKLYV 9VVT 4PKKSLÄLSK Rd, Palo Alto, 94301 The City of Palo Alto’s Comprehensive Plan Update 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 650-3292428 or Consuelo.hernandez@cityofpaloalto.org.

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.

Feb. 25-March 3

Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft related Attempted burglary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Burglary undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Prior burglary reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prior theft reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 5 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous APS referral. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Gang info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of switchblade . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

San Antonio Road, 2/27, 11:19 a.m.; battery/simple.

Clark Way, 3/2, 5:45 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Menlo Park

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400 block Ivy Drive, 2/25, 10:06 a.m.; battery.

1200 block Sevier Ave., 3/1, 8:35 a.m.; battery.

400 block Ivy Drive, 3/3, 4:12 p.m.; battery.

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Robert Clark Sleeper, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died on Feb. 11. He was 76.

He was born on Ma rch 17, 1938, in La rch mont, New York, to George E. Sleeper Jr. and Winifred McCargar. A descendant of California pioneers, he grew up in Berkeley, California, and went on to study at Art Center in Los Angeles, from where he earned a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in illustration.

He spent his career working in commercial art, graphic design and illustration, working for both companies and independently.

He married Marina Gysbers on Feb. 24, 1962, and in 1966, they moved to Palo Alto, where he lived for the rest of his life. He enjoyed painting, visiting museums and all things art. His Christadelphian faith was also important to him, and he attended services for many years in Redwood City.

He is survived by his wife, Marina Sleeper of Palo Alto; his son, Jan R. Sleeper of Sonoma, California; his son, David A. Sleeper of Palo Alto; and his grandchildren, Joshua J. Sleeper, Jeremy R. Sleeper and Jordan M. Sleeper of Sonoma. He is also survived by his brother, Edward A. Sleeper of San Mateo; his sister, Susan Jarvela of Novi, Michigan; his aunt, Beatrice McCargar Groner of Menlo Park; and five nieces, three nephews and many cousins.

Antigone T. Bellas, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died suddenly on Feb. 11. She was 77.

She was born on June 14, 1937, in Detroit, Michigan, to Peter and Potoula T h e o ph el i s.

She studied at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1959. She married Neil Bellas and settled in Palo Alto in 1964.

She worked as a dental hygienist for many years, until 1981 when she founded a dental temporary personnel agency called Dentu Temps.

She and her husband attended services for many years at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross in Belmont, where they both sang in the choir for about 25 years. In her later years, Antigone helped to care for her husband who struggled with Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease.

She was predeceased by her husband, Neil Bellas, in 2007; and her brother, George Theophelis of Detroit. She is survived by her three sons, John Bellas of Los Altos, Peter (Paula) Bellas of Danville and Michael Bellas of Los Altos; four grandchildren, Kristina, Maria, Sofia and Nicolas Bellas; and her sister, Barbara Bruce of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Services were held in February at Spangler Mortuary in Los Altos and at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations

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March 27, 1953 - February 2, 2015 Greg Nelson (born Charles Gregory Nelson), a long-time Palo Alto resident, died on February 2, 2015 after a 17 year battle with brain cancer. Greg grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he attended the University Laboratory School.

He moved to the mainland to attend college and graduate school. He lived in Juno, Alaska for a year before settling permanently in the Bay Area.

Greg received his B.A. degree in Mathematics from Harvard in 1976, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1980, where he worked under the supervision of Bob Tarjan on program verification and algorithms for automatic theorem proving. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he invented a method of combining decision procedures for different logical theories into a decision procedure for the combination of the theories (often called the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nelson-Oppen methodâ&#x20AC;?) that has become influential in the automatic theorem-proving community. In 2013 he received the Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning for his pioneering contributions to theorem proving and program verification. Greg was a Renaissance computer scientist, combining a deep understanding of mathematics and theory with a strong ability to design and implement systems. He brought his passion for precision and correctness to all of the work he did. He made significant contributions in the areas of programming language design (as a member of the Modula-3 committee), distributed systems (Network Objects), constraint-based graphics editors (Juno and Juno-2), window systems (Trestle), optimal code generation (Denali), and multi-threaded programming (Eraser). He had a profound influence on the many students who he hosted for internships and advised on their thesis research, as well as the many colleagues with whom he collaborated throughout his professional career, first at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and later at DECâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Systems Research Center and HPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research laboratories.

He was a brilliant researcher and teacher. His commitment to excellence, evidenced in his own work, inspired others to do the same.

Greg loved being physically active. As a boy he excelled at gymnastics and tennis, and enjoyed body surfing. He loved being in the

mountains and in the wilderness, hiking, backpacking, skiing, and kayaking. His favorite sport was volleyball, and he regularly played in pick-up games until the brain tumor recurrence made that impossible. For many years at the research labs where he worked he organized weekly volleyball games for the staff and interns, which was a great opportunity for people to get out from behind their screens into the fresh air, get some exercise, and socialize. He encouraged people of all abilities to play, and created a fun environment that fostered both good sportsmanship and development of skills.

Greg had many interests. He enjoyed playing pool, poker, backgammon, chess, cooking, ballroom dancing, traveling, hosting dinner parties, spending time with friends and family, and learning about new things.

He was a life-long reader, spending many hours every week at the library. He was equally likely to be found reading an economics or physics textbook as a book on history, or a biography, or a novel. A well-used copy of The Random House Unabridged dictionary was usually by his side.

In addition to his intellectual brilliance, Greg will be remembered for his adventurous spirit, humor, modesty, personal integrity, kindness, generosity, courage, and optimism. The latter two qualities were especially evident in the last few years as he faced his illness with an equanimity and grace that inspired all who knew him. Even as the illness took away his ability to enjoy so many of the things he loved, Greg was grateful for what he had, and that he lived to see his daughter graduate from high school and start college.

Greg is survived by his wife, Sharon Perl and daughter Julia Nelson of Palo Alto, brothers David Nelson (married to Loretta) and Michael Nelson (married to Karen), and mother Alice Nelson of Honolulu, Hawaii. He was preceded in death by his father, Charles Edward Nelson, his brother Richard Nelson, and twin sons Adam and Andrew, who died in infancy.

A memorial gathering will be held at the Stanford Faculty Club at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 8. Friends, family, and colleagues are welcome to join us in celebrating Gregâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life.

Memorial donations may be made to the National Brain Tumor Society (http://braintumor. org).

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Susan Vogel takes notes in the legacy-letters class led by Rabbi Hugh Seid-Valencia as he discusses the many approaches to writing ethical wills at the Moldaw Residences.

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fter the death two years ago of her husband, Susan Vogel could not bear to listen to the violin string quartets they had both loved.

In the 52 years of their marriage, she had listened as Manfred Vogel, a rabbi and professor at Northwestern University, practiced his violin almost daily. When he died it became “impossible” for her to hear the music without feeling overwhelmed with grief.

Over time, music gradually has regained a place in Susan Vogel’s life; today she even counts it as one of the most important parts.

Through the process of drafting “legacy letters” for her two

children and seven grandchildren, she has mined her memories and realized that her husband’s music — carried forward by one of their sons, a cello player — is actually one of the things she values most.

Vogel is part of a small group of residents at Moldaw Residences retirement community in south Palo Alto that meets almost weekly to work on legacy letters with guidance from Rabbi Hugh Seid-Valencia.

The writing process, she said, has given her a way to express some of her deepest thoughts and values, which she would never consider voicing out loud. It’s also prompted changes in her daily life.

“It’s very hard to talk about my values with my children and grandchildren. If I were to start they’d say, ‘Oh Mom, not again.’ It’s not something you have an opportunity to do,” Vogel said. “Even my husband — and he was a rabbi — was never the one teaching or preaching to the kids. He was very laid back.”

The fact that the letters, at least initially, were not meant to be shared until after she’s gone somehow made it easier for her to put thoughts to paper. In the future, she said, “They’ll always be able to hear my voice and perspective when they read through my memories.” (continued on page 20)

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During the regular gatherings of the legacy-letters group, members share their thoughts and some read what they’ve written.

Seid-Valencia reads examples of legacy letters, alternatively known as “ethical wills,” from the textbook “So That Your Values Live On: Ethical Wills and How to Prepare Them” edited by Jack Riemer and Nathaniel Stampfer.

The book includes long lists of writing prompts, suggesting that people consider formative events in their lives, important lessons learned, mistakes they’ve made, meaningful scriptural passages, things they’d like to be forgiven for, people who influenced them and important causes.

Seid-Valencia has presented workshops on ethical wills at a number of senior communities and synagogues in the Bay Area.

“Many of the seniors with whom I work have never heard of this literary form, and quite a few of them are immediately struck by its appeal,” he said in an email.

“A few have used the experience of writing a legacy letter to start conversations with family members about what should be included. After we spend time writing in the sessions, I ask for volunteers to share their work, and this often sparks lively dialogues about the lessons we learn through experience.

“My impression is that these conversations help seniors connect with each other in a deeper way than might otherwise be possible,” Seid-Valencia said.

Vogel, a retired professor at Northern Illinois University who continues as a researcher in the field of learning disabilities, has authored or co-authored six

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Rabbi Hugh Seid-Valencia reads an ethical will, also known as a “legacy letter,” from the book, “So That Your Values Live On: Ethical Wills and How to Prepare Them.”

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books and scores of articles during her career, but she had never attempted writing memoirs.

She’s always done her best writing late at night, in her study, surrounded by generations’ worth of family photos and mementos of a fulfilling career.

“I can sometimes work until 2 or 3 or 4 in the morning — that’s my best writing time and it’s been that way since our children were young. My writing simmers first in my head for quite a long time, and then it’s all there and I can spill it all out,” she said.

While working on the legacy letters, Vogel also has taken up the task of converting old family videotapes — including tapes of her husband conducting the wedding ceremonies of both of their sons — into DVDs. In addition, she’s working with a friend to use decoupage to transform old lace doilies, handmade by her Yiddishand Polish-speaking grandmother, into decorative plates.

The personal reflections sparked by the legacy letters project also prompted Vogel to make changes in her current life in the form of listening to more music and spending more time with family.

“Writing my legacy letters gave me the strength to express the importance of music in my life and to be able to listen first to the cello and gradually to string-quartet music,” including the Bach cello suites played by her son, she said.

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the most important part of my life has always been to be a mother, to be available for them and to spend time together even though I had a very full, demanding and satisfying career,” she said. “The second most important part of my life that I want to share with my children had been for over 50 years listening to my husband practice the violin daily and play string quartets weekly, especially the late Beethoven quartets.”

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lo “now gives me the same pleasure, and he tries to make time to play for me, especially my favorite Bach cello suites,” Vogel said.

“I now see that both my sons spend a great deal of time with their children and share in their passions. I see this is the legacy we have left them. I want them to know how gratifying it has been for me to see this emerge.” Q Contributing writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly.com.

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END-OF-LIFE CARE ... Former Stanford School of Medicine Dean Philip Pizzo will speak about recommendations to reform end-of-lifecare in the United States that were made recently by a committee of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

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PUNCH YOUR CARD ... The Community Tuesdays program at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center enables nonmembers to attend classes at the fitness center as well as daytime lectures or musical offerings with the purchase of a Community Tuesday Punch Card.

Punch cards good for five or 10 activities cost from $55 to $110. They can be purchased at the Goldman Sports & Wellness Complex. On March 10, there will be a presentation on “Reducing Gunfire in the Bay Area and Beyond,” and on March 31 pianist Nancy Fox will present “Getting to Know You: Jewish Angles on the Music of Rogers & Hammerstein.” For information, contact Michelle Rosengaus at mrosengaus@ paloaltojcc.org or 650-223-8616. Q

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UNA Film Festival: “Grandmother to Grandmother: New York to Tanzania” 2-3:30 @ Avenidas. Free.

Lecture: “Overhauling End-of-Life Care in America” 2:30-4pm @ Avenidas.

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Parkinson’s Support Group 2-3:30pm @ Avenidas. Call Robin Riddle@650-724-6090 for more info. Free.

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Breakfast with longevity expert Dr. Laura Carstensen 7am @ Garden Court Hotel. Tickets $100.

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Garden Club: “Succulents” 1-2:30pm @ Avenidas.

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Home for All Ages Housing Conference 8:30am-4pm @ Mitchell Park Community Center.

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Mar 16

Partner/Spouse Caregiver Support Group 12-1:30pm @ Avenidas. Drop-in, free.

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Workshop: “Making the Most of Your Long Term Care Insurance Policy” 2-3:30pm @ Avenidas. RSVP required.

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Senior Legal Assistance appts Santa Clara County residents, 60+.

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St. Pat’s Luncheon 11:15am-12:15pm, La Comida @ Avenidas. $3 for 60+.

Polewalking Workshop 2:30-5pm @ Avenidas.

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Mar 24

Avenidas Walkers 10am. Call 650-387-5256 for trailhead info or to schedule. Free.

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Mindfulness Meditation 2-3pm @ Avenidas. Free.

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Mar 19

Caregiver 101: “Activities for Engaging Your Loved Ones with Dementia” 3-4pm @ Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center, 270 Escuela, Mountain View.

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Lecture: “How to Optimize Brain Health” 1:30-2:30pm @ Avenidas. Call 650289-5400 to register. Free.

Caregiver 101: “How to Hire Agency Caregivers” 3-4:30pm @ Avenidas.

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Anti-Oxidant Screening 9am-12pm @ Avenidas.

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Arts & Entertainment A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Elizabeth Schwyzer

Two weeks before the show opens, Gunn High School students rehearse the finale of the 1934 Cole Porter musical, “Anything Goes.”

The curtains rise on Gunn and Paly musicals story by Elizabeth Schwyzer | photos by Veronica Weber. tor, his tone a mixture of equal parts affection and exasperation.

Next week, the curtains will rise on “Anything Goes,” this year’s musical-theater production at Gunn High School. Today is the first day they’ve rehearsed with a rough version of the set: an impressive tiered structure representing the ship, with vertiginous staircases rising to platforms high above the stage where key scenes Justin Cooper plays Wall Street broker Billy and dance numbers will take place.

Crocker in Gunn High School’s production of The set is clearly adding an element “Anything Goes.” of excitement to rehearsal, and Shelby struggles to rein in the attention of 43 he year is 1934, and aboard the luxury giddy teenagers.

“We need to stay focused, people,” he ocean liner the S.S. American, sailors and starlets gad about, flirting and calls from his seat in the house. “Take a deep hatching secret plans. Everyone seems to breath.” be having a ball, dancing about with mops and belting out lusty show tunes. ne hour later and four miles across It’s when the seas get rough that things betown, a butler in tails approaches gin to fall apart: Some sailors sway left while two dapper gentlemen, proffers others go right. A few simply stand stock still cocktails from a tray held aloft and then and look around blankly. There’s a wave of scoots away, tap dancing the entire time. nervous giggling.

Here at Palo Alto High School’s Haymar“Who’s on book?” a voice eventually cries. ket Theater, dress rehearsals are underway “I am, but I don’t know where we are!” for this year’s musical-theater production.

“Arghhh!”

Last spring, Paly junior Will Kast had “Dude!” exclaims director Jim Shelby, never heard of “The Drowsy Chaperone.”

Gunn High School’s veteran theater instruc- Tonight, Friday, March 6, Paly’s theater de-

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partment opens its production of the show — an uproarious parody of 1920s musical theater — with Kast playing the lead character, Robert.

For those who aren’t familiar with it: “The Drowsy Chaperone” had its stage debut in 1998 and made it to Broadway in 2006, where it won a series of accolades, including Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Book and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical.

Originally written as a gag wedding gift for a theater director and his fiancée, it was simply too good to remain an inside joke. The production is a play within a play, and tells the story of a lonely modern-day theater lover who puts on a record of his favorite musical in an attempt to cheer himself up. Known simply as Man in Chair, he narrates the musical as its characters come to life, transforming his drab apartment into a snazzy Broadway set.

Now a senior, Kast described his part in “The Drowsy Chaperone” as a dream come true: It’s his first time playing the lead in a musical, he’s learned to tap dance for the role, and in one of his main numbers — “Accident Waiting to Happen” — he even gets to rollerskate blindfolded across the stage.

Yet for all the razzle-dazzle, what Kast and so many of his 31 fellow cast members talk about isn’t just the thrill of treading the boards: It’s the joy of being part of the theater family.

“The Paly theater community is very close-knit,” Kast observed. “By the time you’re a senior, you’ve had great experiences with just about everyone and usually end up marrying or proposing to about 10 percent of your classmates onstage, so it’s hard not to get close with the group.” And even aside from the social benefits, Kast said, there’s a certain self-assurance that transfers from the stage to the rest of school life.

“Knowing that I can break out into song and dance at any moment gives me a strange burst of confidence from time to time,” he admitted. “It isn’t something that I would ever do, but knowing that I can helps me relax and stress less.”

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he Drowsy Chaperone” will likely be the last musical performed in the old Haymarket Theater, which was built in 1918 and seats 520. Construction is now underway for a new performing-arts center adjacent to Embarcadero Road. The new theater will seat close to 600 and will include an orchestra pit, full fly loft and green rooms, among other amenities.

The last musical to be performed on the Haymarket stage also marks the first musical-theater production at Paly in two years, since 2013’s “Legally Blonde: The Musical”

Arts & Entertainment Alia CuadrosContreras, center, plays showbiz hopeful Kitty; Paul Bleich, left, and Elizabeth McCole play gangsters posing as pastry chefs in “The Drowsy Chaperone” at Palo Alto High School.

Senior Cara Kienitz plays Broadway star Janet van de Graaff in Palo Alto High School’s production of “The Drowsy Chaperone.”

Jackson Kienitz, left, as best man George and Will Kast as Robert the groom learned to tap dance for their roles in “The Drowsy Chaperone.” ran away with BroadwayWorld. com’s San Francisco Bay Area Award for Best Production Performed by Youth.

It’s a similar story over at Gunn High School, where next weekend, “Anything Goes” opens on the Spangenberg Theatre stage, following Gunn’s 2013 production of “Into the Woods,” which tied for first place for set design in the Stage’s Top Honors Awards.

Since musicals are a biennial affair at both Paly and Gunn (unlike other theater productions, of which there are four annually at each school), there’s a special excitement surrounding auditions, casting and rehearsals for these major productions, not to mention the student (and in some cases professional) effort that goes into set design and construction, costumes, props, lighting, sound, choreography, vocal direction and instrumental performance. In addition to large casts, both shows boast a full live orchestra and a huge stage crew.

With shows going up just one week apart, one might think the Gunn and Paly theater departments would feel a sense of rivalry. That doesn’t seem to be the case at all.

The schools collaborate on an annual theater trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, and both send student delegations to the Northern California Thespian Leadership and Tech Conference at Santa Clara University each year.

Here on home turf, despite their packed schedules, theater students make an effort to support each other’s shows.

“Announcement, people!” one cast member called out at the start of rehearsal at Gunn last week. “‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ opens at Paly next Friday. They’re offering us comps to see the production, so let me know ASAP if you want a ticket!”

Both “The Drowsy Chaperone” and “Anything Goes” are set on the Eastern seaboard in the early 20th century, introducing a range of particular theatrical challenges: period costumes, dated dance styles and era-appropriate New York accents.

Though they’re nearly a century removed from the characters they’re playing, students at both schools seem smitten with the whole interwar period aesthetic.

“It’s so good,” said Gunn senior and the show’s student director Dakota Baker, speaking about Cole Porter’s music for “Anything Goes.” Baker’s responsibilities range from helping Shelby run rehearsals to rewriting entire scenes to make them more politically correct for contemporary audiences.

Meanwhile, senior Sondrine Bontemps, who plays Bonnie in the production, pointed out that part of what gives “Anything Goes” its infectious, madcap energy is the fact that it was written during the Great Depression, when Americans needed a good distraction from significant financial stress.

“People went to the theater to escape their lives,” Bontemps noted, “so naturally, this show is nothing but fun. I love the huge dance numbers in this musical.

It’s extremely exciting to have an

entire cast tap dancing on stage.”

Like Kast in Paly’s production of “The Drowsy Chaperone,” Bontemps sees a connection between the no-holds-barred spirit of musical theater and the management of school and life stressors.

“High school can be overwhelming at times, and I believe it’s essential to find a welcoming and supportive group of people where you feel you belong,” she said. “Theater isn’t just a group; it’s a family.”

For Bontemps, musical theater feels like a way of life: She just finished auditioning for university musical-theater programs across the country, and plans to pursue musical theater professionally after graduation. The same is true of Paly senior Cara Kienitz, who plays Broadway star Janet van de Graaff in “The Drowsy Chaperone,” and who recently accepted a scholarship to attend New York University (NYU) as a performing-arts major.

“Janet has been one of my dream roles for a very long time,” Kienitz said. “I love playing her because of all of her fun dance numbers and her over-the-top personality.

“Theater has made me more outgoing,” she added. “I have decided this is what I want to do for a career.”

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et students like Kienitz and Bontemps are actually in the minority. Most students, said Paly musical director Kathleen Woods, go on to vastly different careers, and think back fondly on their high school theater days.

What: “The Drowsy Chaperone” and “Anything Goes” Where: Palo Alto High School’s Haymarket Theater, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, and Gunn High School’s Spangenberg Theatre, 780 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto When: “The Drowsy Chaperone,” Friday, March 6 to Saturday, March 14, with shows Thursday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.; “Anything Goes,” Thursday, March 12 to Saturday, March 21, with shows Thursday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 4 p.m.

Cost: $10-$15 Info: Go to palytheatre.com or call 650-329-3857; go to gunntheatre.org or call 650-354-8258.

Among those who think of theater more as a hobby than a career path is Hannah Nguyen, a Paly senior and stage manager for “The Drowsy Chaperone.” During dress rehearsal, she slipped away for a few minutes to talk about why she chooses to spend her extra-curricular time in a dark theater, calling cues.

“I just really like the community of theater: People are passionate and driven to do well,” Nguyen explained, adding that she hoped to continue to pursue theater in college as a side activity. Up on stage, the cast launched into a big dance number.

Though she was an actor in the Paly musical production two years ago, Nguyen said it’s working invisibly behind the scenes that really gives her satisfaction. “If something goes wrong, everyone looks your way, but if it goes right you can take credit,” she said, before excusing herself and hurrying back to her job.

According to Woods, “Only about five to seven kids a year go on to become professional actors,

directors, filmmakers or theater teachers, but theater education is good for everybody.” The seasoned theater instructor has been teaching since 1980 and joined Paly eight years ago; Shelby has been with the Gunn theater department since 1983.

For Shelby, the best reward is seeing the way his students learn to work together over the course of rehearsals.

“A large production like this one is like a large snowball that needs pushing down a hill,” he noted. “It’s a challenge to get it rolling, but once it starts and picks up momentum, there is just no stopping it. There is so much joy coming to rehearsals every day and hearing Cole Porter’s peerless music, which the cast has truly learned to love. It’s a real privilege to be part of helping these great kids learn about working together, whether they’re musicians, techies or singer-actors tapping their hearts out, and finding essential truths about ensemble, focus and bringing their A-game ... and (continued on page 26)

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Arts & Entertainment

The examined life Esteemed psychologist and author Dr. Irvin Yalom to speak in Palo Alto

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n 1989, a Stanford professor of psychology published a collection of stories inspired by his work with patients. He wrote about their struggles to come to terms with what he called the four “givens” of the human experience: mortality (the inevitability of death), freedom (the ability to determine our own lives), existential isolation (the impossibility of

being completely known by others) and meaninglessness (the absence of an overarching reason for our lives).

Personal, vulnerable, revealing and beautifully written, Irvin Yalom’s “Love’s Executioner” became a New York Times bestseller and demystified the process of therapy for thousands of readers. With 1999’s “Momma and

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the Meaning of Life,” Yalom once again exposed the process of the therapeutic encounter for a popular audience, gently guiding readers to a deeper understanding of the value of therapy.

Now, the 83-year-old psychotherapist and author has published “Creatures of a Day,” a book whose subtitle, “And Other Tales of Psychotherapy,” points to its similarities with his earlier collections. Yet “Creatures” is its own beast: a book that circles around the crisis of our mortality and finds redemption in our capacity for growth, in love and in language.

On Saturday, March 14, Yalom will give a talk at Palo Alto’s Lucie Stern Community Center.

The title of his latest book comes from the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who writes in “The Meditations”: “All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral. ... Always reflect that soon you will be no one and nowhere.”

Over the phone last week, Yalom talked about his book as a teaching tool and the stories in it as narratives that emphasize the importance of the therapeutic relationship.

“My primary secret audience always is the young psychotherapist,” he explained. “Earlier on in my career I wrote textbooks and I smuggled stories into them, but in these books I let the narrative do the teaching. I am trying to show how important it is that there be a genuine and important relationship between therapist and patient. And I am trying to say to students, ‘Look: You don’t need to be so hidden.’”

It’s a very different vision of therapy from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic model that requires that the therapist maintain a dispassionate distance, and even from the approach to clinical therapy espoused by more contemporary psychologists. Yalom acknowledged that not everyone in his field shares his enthusiasm for self-disclosure.

“I am rather far out on the continuum of therapists who feel it’s help-

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then when it crystallizes into a brilliant, show-stopping number, it just doesn’t get any better than that!”

Shelby and Woods’ devotion to teaching and enthusiasm for musical theater is mirrored in their students, who spend 10 hours each week in rehearsals and even more in the weeks leading up to the show, which becomes nearly a full-time job during production.

For some, that level of commitment is daunting, but students say the long hours and hard work are well worth it.

As junior Julia Axelrod, who plays Angel Serenity in “Anything Goes” at Gunn, explained, “Being

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Author and psychotherapist Irvin Yalom will speak at the Lucie Stern Community Center on Saturday, March 14. ful to reveal oneself,” he admitted.

In “Creatures of a Day,” Yalom reveals himself to both reader and patient, allowing the reader into the sanctity of the one-on-one therapy session. Though he works carefully to conceal the true identity of his patients by changing names and combining elements of various cases, he himself appears in these stories without such disguise. In one story, he admits to his own curiosity about a patient’s life steering him away from the central issue; in another, he acknowledges that his impatience makes him push too hard. In “Get Your Own Damn Fatal Illness,” Yalom describes returning to a patient’s letters after her death, only to realize he hadn’t read them carefully the first time. Yet all along, he tempers his admissions of his shortcomings with a confident narrative voice and a generous attitude toward both himself and his patients.

Among the most powerful stories in the collection is “Show Some Class for Your Kids,” in which Yalom recounts a session with a nurse who reports having been “scorched” by life and who carries a deep well of grief and resentment, yet who is still able to help her own patients face the end of their lives with dignity.

When asked what he has learned about himself over more than 50 years of work as a therapist, Yalom spoke about his work with people who are terminally ill.

“I always have a few patients in my practice with a lethal illness, and I have learned a tremendous amount about myself through working with them,” he said. “Early on, when I started working with groups

of people with cancer, I heard many people say, ‘What a pity that we had to wait until now, until we’re riddled with cancer, to learn how to really live.’ Terminally ill people talked about living authentically, without being so defensive or hidden. I thought, Perhaps there’s some way to use our foreknowledge of death to learn how to live and not wait until we have a fatal illness.”

How can one learn to live authentically and without unnecessary defenses?

For example, Yalom suggested, “Draw a line from left to right on a sheet of paper. The left edge of the paper represents your birth; the right is your death. Mark on that line where you are now. Meditate on that for a while.”

Is therapy appropriate for everyone? Yalom tends to think so.

“I think everyone can profit from some form of therapy. It’s a way of learning about yourself. It’s the whole idea of Socrates: The unexamined life is not worth living. I agree completely.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com.

in a show takes a lot of time, so it forces me to be more efficient and on task regarding school work. Theater is also an incredible confidence booster, and a lesson in teamwork and thinking on your feet.”

Axelrod also described the theater community at Gunn as a place where students who might appear to lack commonalities discover a shared interest and mutual respect.

“The theater community is so diverse, and there are so many different types of students, but we are super close because we spend so much time working together,” she said. “Theater is a safe place; everyone is kind and accepting, and stepping into the theater provides an escape from the outside world.”

And while creating a make-believe world on stage may not seem

to have much to do with one’s personal and emotional life, Axelrod pointed out that acting can help get to the heart of things.

“An aspect of theater is examining characters’ relationships and emotions,” she noted. “I’ve felt much more aware of my own emotions and relationships with others since I started theater.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com.

What: Dr. Irvin D. Yalom, presented by the Center for the Study of Group Psychotherapy Where: Lucie Stern Community Center ballroom, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Saturday, March 14, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Cost: $50 through March 12, $60 on-site. Two CEUs available.

Info: Go to csgp.org.

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Arts & Entertainment

Worth a Look Theater ‘Les Miserables’

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“Do You Hear the People Sing?” ask student revolutionaries in Peninsula Youth Theatre’s production of “Les Miserables.”

Heartbreak. Passion. Resilience. Victor Hugo’s story of a French peasant who serves a 19-year jail sentence for stealing a loaf of bread for a starving child, “Les Miserables” has captured the imagination of theatergoers worldwide since its musical adaptation in 1980. Now, Mountain View’s Peninsula Youth Theatre presents the challenging full-length version of the musical — all three and a half hours of it. Directed by Michael Champlain with music direction

by Dan Shaindlin, PYT’s production includes “Les Mis” hit songs “On My Own” and “One Day More.”

Student groups are welcome, though the show includes some mature content and may not be appropriate for young children. The production runs from Saturday, March 7, through Sunday, March 15.

Tickets range from $10-$22. For a full schedule of performance times and castings, go to pytnet.org.

For tickets, go to mvcpa.com or call 650-903-3000.

Art ‘Emotional Landscapes’

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If you didn’t know to look for it, you might almost miss Gallery House, the art exhibition space tucked inside Printers Cafe at 320 California Ave., Palo Alto. Just a few steps past the glass cases of tempting baked goods lies a haven for regional visual art.

Tonight, Friday, March 6, catch the opening reception for “Emotional Landscapes,” a show of acrylic paintings and prints by Sydell Lewis and mixed-media paintings by Midori McCabe.

In Lewis’ works, panels of abstract geometric lines reminiscent of geological striations give way to aerial views of earth, with white clouds floating over fields and urban landscapes. McCabe’s bright, kinetic canvases combine the grace of calligraphy with the dynamism and boldness of Jackson PolAmong the works included in “Emotional Landscapes” lock’s action paintings. at Gallery House is “A Venetian Tale” by Midori “Emotional Landscapes” runs March McCabe.

3-28; the gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday. On Friday, March 6, from 6-8 p.m., Gallery House will hold an opening reception for the show, with artist talks beginning at 7 p.m.

To learn more about the artists, go to miko4art.com or sydellart.com. For more about the gallery, go to galleryhouse2.com or call 650-326-1668.

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Community Workshop: Thursday, March 19 6:30 - 8 PM at the Elks Lodge, Palo Alto Room, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto The workshops will be hosted by the Engineering Services Division of the Public Works Department.

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‘Musique de Joie’ In the era of MP3s and Internet streaming, it’s easy to hear recorded music of all kinds from the comfort of your home. But there’s nothing like witnessing music played live, especially for children. This Sunday, March 8, at 2 p.m., Mountain View’s Community School of Music and Arts (230 San Antonio Circle) will host a free, family-friendly concert at the Tateuchi Hall.

“Musique de Joie” features faculty members and accomplished concert pianists Klara Frei and Temirzhan Yerzhanov, who will perform a sprightly Georges Bizet piano duet, “Jeux d’enfants” (“Children’s Games”), as well as lively works by composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Witold Lutoslawski. The concert is aimed at children of all ages — as well as their parents.

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Had a hard day? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Forget your stupid boss, your ridiculous employees,â&#x20AC;? co-owner Eduardo Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ignoti advises. Relax, enjoy and feel a little Italian while dining.

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a different purpose. Customers can relax in the lounge area with a drink (and not be annoyed by the televisions over the bar), pull up a bar stool (and enjoy soccer without the sound), explore the wine room (always 57 to 58 degrees) and dine casually near the street scene or more privately farther back (with white tablecloths).

Be sure to visit the restrooms.

To describe them would be to spoil the effect. Suffice it to say, they glitter.

On the whole, service was

excellent. You get the idea that real people are behind this restaurant, and that they care.

Sometimes plates were cleared a little too expeditiously, while tablemates were still eating.

A larger lapse occurred when our server listed specials but not prices and, foolishly, we didn’t ask. So it was an unhappy surprise when two specials turned out to be much more expensive than other items in their categories. Lobster bisque, though delicious, cost $14. The soup of the day and the minestrone were half that. And the beet salad was $15. OK, you pay for lobster and Arte Ristorante’s delicious spaghetti carbonara is a balance of salty pancetta, tangy Parmigiano cheese and a shallot cream sauce.

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perhaps for someone else to pry delicate pomegranate seeds from their nests, peel and cook beets and deal with the juicy messes of both.

The server clearly knew the menu, and steered two of us to share spaghetti carbonara ($17) and ossobuco ($27), both terrific and reasonably priced. Portions are generous. A person would have to be very hungry to down both a primo and a secondo in one sitting. Keep in mind that you really want to save room for dolce.

For the carbonara, noodles were cooked just enough to absorb flavors, and the supporting players were evenly spread so that in just about each mouthful you got a

chew of pancetta with creamy sauce. Wisps of Parmigiano were sprinkled on top.

Ossobuco also had depth of flavor in the incredibly tender veal shank braised in onions, tomatoes, carrots, celery and more.

One of D’ignoti’s hometown dishes is braciole alla messinese ($22), rolled beef scallopini. He learned to cook from his grandmother.

“She never trusted the younger generation of women, so she taught me instead,” he explained.

The wine list is a joy, and servers clearly enjoy sharing it. Each varietal list goes in order of price.

There are lots of good choices, especially among the voluminous

Italian whites, in the $30-$40 range. Then there is a small multihundred-to-$1,800 range. With no half-bottles, there could be more selections by the glass. On the other hand, they have invested in a wine dispenser that protects the open bottles and precisely measures the pour.

A glass of Italian Barolo ($20) may be worth the memory. Or, go local with a refreshing aperitif such as Jardesca, from Sonoma ($12).

Desserts include chocolate mousse, chocolate cake, maybe an almond cake. Have the tiramisu ($7). A deep glass of light cake plunged in mascarpone, coffee liqueur and rich chocolate, this tiramisu lives up to its translation: “Carry me up.” You walk out happy. Q Arte Ristorante 473 University Ave., Palo Alto; 650-329-8300; arteristorante.com Hours: 11:30 a.m.- 9 p.m.

Monday-Thursday; 11:30 a.m.10 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday.

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000 1/2 (Aquarius) Andrei Zvyagintsevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leviathanâ&#x20AC;? is a film of ideas. The title alone works on two levels, borrowed from Thomas Hobbesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 17th-century treatise of the same name that argues for sovereign rule to avoid an anarchist society, and at the same time alluding to a biblical sea monster churning the waters of Chaos. Although the most accessible of the directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four features, the drama sometimes waivers between pretension and profundity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at best recalling the Russian art cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ivanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Childhoodâ&#x20AC;?) and Aleksandr Sokurov (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mother and Sonâ&#x20AC;?).

But this film of ideas took courage to make.

The narrative, co-written by Oleg Negin who also collaborated with Zvyagintsev on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Banishmentâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elena,â&#x20AC;? begins with a simple premise: Auto-repair shop owner Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov) must fight to keep his home and land from being seized by the crooked mayor (Roman Madyanov) of a remote fishing village near the Barents Sea in northern Russia. The tension escalates between the working-class citizen and iron-fisted government in this thinly veiled political parable criticizing Vladimir Putinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regime. Like the waves repeatedly crashing against the rocks, the volatile Kolya slams against a corrupt, powerful system bent on crushing any opposition.

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Director Andrey Zvyagintsevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moody political parable, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Leviathan,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; is rich with metaphor. the 2014 Cannes Film Festival reveals a tangled web of secrets and Oscar nominee for Best For- and lies. The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s humor helps eign Language Film, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leviathanâ&#x20AC;? keep the portentousness in check, offers more levels of interpretation particularly as Kolyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s losses as the story unspools. Kolya and mount and he begins to resemble his former military buddy Dimitri a present-day Job tested by God. Cinematographer Mikhail (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), a hotshot Moscow lawyer, try to black- Krichmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stunning images mail the mayor after exhausting complement the narrative. The attempts to work through the legal cool gray dawns and barren landsystem. At the same time, tempers scapes express Kolyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s despair flare at home, where Kolyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s un- and isolation. The bones of a dead happy second wife Lilya (Elena whale on the beach counterpoint Lyadova) and his teenage son from the live whale roiling the wahis first marriage (Sergey Pokho- ters while Lilya contemplatively daev) complicate matters. When a watches. These leviathans, dead local priest enters the picture and and alive, take on another form as warns against kicking up Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a monstrous machine with a deanger, the Orthodox Church also structive claw threatens to demolcomes under Zvyagintsevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fire. ish the home that Kolya has loved Each character makes self-serving all his life.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Exotic Marigold Hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reopens for romantic old folks 00 1/2 (Palo Alto Square, Century 20) One wedding, one divorce, two fraught business deals and a still-impressive ensemble cast populate â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Second Best Ex(continued on next page)

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ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE ®

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

otic Marigold Hotel,” a certified follow-up to 2011’s “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.” When, in a pre-title sequence, Maggie Smith’s Muriel Donnelly calls a cup of tea “tepid nonsense,” it’s fair to wonder if we’re in for two hours of the same. Though the film won’t be to everyone’s taste, returning screenwriter Ol Parker and returning director John Madden keep a collective eye on the quality control, delivering an amiable sequel that will surely please fans of the first film.

Whereas the first film derived from a novel, Parker’s screenplay this time is original, and he does a fair job of loosening and fray-

ing the bows he neatly tied three years ago. All of the still-living characters from the first film return, played by the same actors, and the sequel proposes romantic complications for the couples while offering up some fresh romance for the unattached.

The opening shot is a surprise, placing Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel) and Muriel — co-managers of an Indian hotel “for the Elderly and Beautiful” — in an iconic American landscape.

Their overseas jaunt sets up the investment consideration of an American hotel magnate (David Strathairn), who promises to send an undercover hotel inspector to check out the Jaipur establishment and a potential second

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A la Mala (PG-13) Century 16: 11:20 a.m., 4:35, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m., Fri & Sat 2 p.m.

Century 20: Noon, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:20 p.m.

Century 20: 1:05, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:35 p.m.

American Sniper (R) ++

Birdman (R) +++ Aquarius Theatre: 1:30 & 9:55 p.m.

Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 4:45, 7:35 & 10:25 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:55 p.m.

The Birds (1963) (PG-13)

Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 3:20 p.m.

Bolshoi Ballet: Romeo and Juliet (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 12:55 p.m. Century 20: Sun 12:55 p.m.

Chappie (R) Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 12:05, 1:35, 3:05, 4:35, 6:10, 7:35, 9:10 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 12:05, 2:55, 5:50 & 8:45 p.m.

The DUFF (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:50 a.m., 1:25, 4:15, 7:15 & 10 p.m.

Century 20: 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:30 p.m.

Fifty Shades of Grey (R) ++ Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1:50, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:45 p.m.

Focus (R) Century 16: Noon, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55 & 10:35 p.m.

Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 12:10, 1:45, 2:45, 4:25, 5:25, 7:05, 8:05, 9:40 & 10:45 p.m.

The Imitation Game (PG-13) +++ Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 2:15 & 4:55 p.m., Fri & Sat 7:40 & 10:20 p.m., Sun 10:40 p.m.

Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m.

Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) ++1/2 Century 16: 10:45 a.m., 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 & 10:45 p.m. Century 20: 1:15, 4:20, 7:25 & 10:30 p.m.

The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) Century 16: 11 a.m., 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8 & 10:15 p.m.

Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 1:30, 3:40, 5:55, 8:15 & 10:40 p.m.

Leviathan (R) +++1/2

Aquarius Theatre: 12:30, 3:45, 7:05 & 10:10 p.m.

McFarland, USA (PG) ++ Century 16: 10:40 a.m., 1:40, 4:40, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 12:30, 3:35, 7 & 10 p.m.

Paddington (PG) Psycho (1960) (R)

property. That promise serves as the spine for this mostly conventional light farce, with Sonny nearly unraveling while trying to please the presumed inspector (Richard Gere’s Guy Chambers) and not ruin, through inattention, his pending wedding to Sunaina (Tina Desai).

Eight months have passed since the events of the first film, and Evelyn and Douglas (Judi Dench and Bill Nighy) have gotten off on the wrong feet in their relationship (it doesn’t help that Douglas is still married to Penelope Wilton’s Jean). Meanwhile, Sonny’s mother (Lillete Dubey) and Madge (Celia Imrie) find romances in unexpected places, and Norman and Carol (Ronald Pickup and Diana Hardcastle) troubleshoot their relationship in an irreverent subplot that adds a touch of tartness to the confection. As for Muriel, her withering wit remains intact, even in the face of new business and personal crises.

Though Gere’s American twinkle makes for a slightly jarring addition to this essentially British comedy, “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” shows little strain in maintaining its cute factor, thanks to the drily winning personalities of the likes of Smith, Dench and Nighy, and the comic ebullience of Patel.

Believe it or not, Parker quietly clears room for a “one last ride” sequel if this film performs well (and why wouldn’t it?). For now, “Second Best” offers viewers one more chance to savor late-blooming romance, played out across long summer days and sultry Jaipur nights. As the film’s carpe diem message goes, “There’s no present like the time.”

Rated PG for some language and suggestive comments. Two hours, 2 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

“THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR!” -Todd McCarthy, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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“A REMARKABLE FEAT OF ACTING.” -A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:30 & 3:55 p.m.

Stanford Theatre: 5:30 & 9:45 p.m.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1957) (R)

Guild Theatre: Sat at midnight

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) ++1/2 Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 12:15, 1:50, 3:10, 4:40, 6, 7:35, 8:55 & 10:25 p.m.

Palo Alto Square: 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7 & 8:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.

Selma (PG-13) +++ Century 20: 7:10 & 10:10 p.m.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (G) ++ Century 20: 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:05, 6:40 & 9:10 p.m.

Still Alice (PG-13) ++1/2 Aquarius Theatre: 4:15 & 7:30 p.m.

Century 20: 4:35, 7:20 & 9:50 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:25 a.m. & 2 p.m.

Sunset Boulevard (1950) (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m.

Unfinished Business (R) Century 16: 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m.

Century 20: 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8 & 10:35 p.m.

What We Do in the Shadows (Not Rated) +++1/2 4:40, 7:15 & 9:40 p.m.

Guild Theatre: 2:30,

Century Theatres at Palo Alto Square Fri – Sat 3/6/2015 – 3/7/2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 Sun – Thur 3/8/2015 – 3/12/2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30

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+ Skip it ++ Some redeeming qualities +++ A good bet ++++ Outstanding

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260)

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Harrell Remodeling is offering a workshop on “Remodeling for Indoor/Outdoor Living” from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 7, at 1954 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View. The free workshop includes a light breakfast. Info: 650-230-2900 or harrell-remodeling.com THE DIRT ON DIRT ... UC Master Gardeners will give a free workshop on “Soil Management for Vegetable Gardens” from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 7, at the Palo Alto Demonstration Garden, 851 Center Drive, Palo Alto.

They will talk about improving soil structure, using amendments and fertilizers, and growing and cutting in cover crops. Info: Master Gardeners at 408-282-3105, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or mastergardeners.org LOW-WATER SUCCULENTS ...

UC Master Gardener Roberta Barnes will discuss “Succulents” — including growing, caring and propagating them — from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Friday, March 13, at Avenidas, 450 Bryant St., Palo Alto. She will also demonstrate how to plant a small container with succulents. The talk is free.

Info: Master Gardeners at 408282-3105, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, or mastergardeners.org REPLACING LAWNS ... Kim Raftery, owner of Raftery Garden Design, will offer a class on how to shrink or replace a front lawn from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 14, at the Gamble Garden Carriage House, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto.

Raftery will talk about removing

(continued on page 36) 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, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email cblitzer@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

Downtown North

Eric Rosenblum, co-founder of Palo Alto Forward and a member of the Planning and Transportation Commission, rides his bike down Bryant Street as he escorts his neighbor and his daughter (not pictured) to Addison Elementary School.

A walkable, bike-able, friendly community story by Carol Blitzer photos by Veronica Weber

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alkability is what attracted Eric Rosenblum and his wife Titi Liu to their Downtown North neighborhood in 2012. They loved that they could walk to restaurants, ice cream or the kids’ schools.

After college, the couple spent 10 years living in China, before settling in South Palo Alto, which Rosenblum describes as “much more suburban.”

“We see people a lot more here,” he said.

An additional motivation for the family was to find a place where their son, who has vision problems, could get around by himself, either by foot or bike.

“We had friends in Downtown North, and we were jealous. We asked them to keep their eyes open” for a house, Rosenblum said. They waited more than a year.

Besides being close to University Avenue’s amenities, Rosenblum’s family enjoys their easy access to Johnson Park, where neighbors started a “mash up.” Every Friday last year, families from his daughter’s third-grade class at Addison Elementary School would meet up at the park with

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Left: Many of the homes in the Downtown North neighborhood, such as this one on Everett Avenue, harken back to turn-of-the-last-century. Above: This home on Webster Street is typical of the more modern versions that are replacing some of the older ones. potluck dishes to share.

He’s never found the park crowded and said the kids can play on the jungle gym without having to wait their turn.

“Johnson Park is like a block party every week,” he said.

A major potluck has been held for the last few years at Johnson Park the weekend before Memorial Day, with close to 80 people in attendance, longtime resident Geoff Ball said. There’s even a booth set up to

tell neighbors about the Emergency Preparedness Committee, as well as a fire truck that “draws the kids.”

Downtown North’s location also encourages walking and biking to nearby spots.

“We’re close to everything downtown. I like being close to services” like banks, and “the library is a good substitute for a home office,” Ball said.

“We spend more time exploring new places,” Rosenblum added,

FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS (and nearby): Discovery Children’s House — Montessori, 437 Webster St.; Downtown Children’s Center, 555 Waverley St.; First School, 625 Hamilton Ave. FIRE STATION: No. 1, 301 Alma St. LIBRARY: Downtown branch, 270 Forest Ave. LOCATION: between San Francisquito Creek and University Avenue, Alma Street and Middlefield Road NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Geoff Ball, neighborhood preparedness coordinator, ghball@aol.com PARKS: Cogswell Plaza, Lytton Avenue between Ramona and Bryant streets; El Camino Park, 100 El Camino Real; El Palo Alto Park, Alma Street at El Camino Real; Hopkins Creekside Park, Palo Alto Avenue from El Camino Real to Middlefield Road; Johnson Park, Everett Avenue and Waverley Street POST OFFICE: Hamilton, 380 Hamilton Ave. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Addison Elementary School, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto High School SHOPPING: University Avenue, Stanford Shopping Center

noting they’ve biked to Stanford for concerts, and they’re very close to Caltrain.

“We will go for weeks without driving cars. That’s a luxury,” he added.

While the Rosenblum/Liu family was attracted by the walk-ability, Geoff and Camille Ball came to Downtown North in 1977 because of the trees, Geoff Ball said.

By then the downtown area was “really suffering, a pretty sorry space in terms of retail,” he said.

Some of the actions taken by the City Council then to induce people to return downtown have come back to haunt them — especially by offering breaks in parking responsibilities that encouraged people to travel by car, he said.

But that dynamic is shifting, he said, and he’s noticed more bicycles.

Rosenblum agreed that many more residents are biking rather (continued on page 36)

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than driving. He bikes with his daughter to Addison before returning downtown to his office — which sports a huge indoor bike-parking area.

Although car parking has become a major issue for some of his neighbors, Rosenblum said “the tradeoff of living close to friends and work — you just can’t calculate that. It’s worth a lot,” he said.

“So much about the neighborhood is great. People are overly obsessed with parking,” he added. Q Associate Editor Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@paweekly.com.

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HOME SALES

Home sales are provided by California REsource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from the County Recorder’s Office. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks.

Los Altos

100 1st St. #208 Los Altos Limited to Singh Trust for $897,500 on 2/13/15 1943 Annette Lane Frederickson Trust to Gibeau Trust for $2,775,000 on 2/13/15; previous sale 9/89, $565,000 1502 Country Club Drive Marie Trust to Peir Trust for $3,600,000 on 2/6/15; previous sale 11/84, $450,000 150 W. Edith Ave. #15 Prorock Trust to C. Jiang for $950,000 on 2/9/15; previous sale 8/84, $98,000 2452 N. Foothill Blvd. Kirby Trust to P. Zucker for $1,810,000 on 2/6/15; previous sale 12/98, $980,000 153 Fremont Ave. N. McVernon to Kuo & Yu Trust for $1,556,000 on 2/6/15; previous sale 8/11, $890,000 914 Regent Drive S. Hur to B. Lui for $2,600,000 on 2/13/15; previous sale 10/13, $1,980,000

Los Altos Hills

13075 S. Alta Lane Stewart Trust to ALTA Inc. for $2,925,000 on 2/11/15 26810 Ortega Drive Andersen Trust to Banatao Trust for $4,210,000 on 2/11/15

Menlo Park

1112 Henderson Ave. Charles Trust to L. Ma for $545,000 on 1/16/15 675 Monte Rosa Drive #822 T. Martino to S. Yang for $600,000

on 1/20/15; previous sale 10/06, $495,000 1027 Valota Road N. & R. Adair to Casaretto Trust for $935,000 on 1/23/15; previous sale 4/11, $400,000

SALES AT A GLANCE Los Altos

Palo Alto

Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $897,500 Highest sales price: $3,600,000

Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $1,750,000 Highest sales price: $4,950,000

Los Altos Hills Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,925,000 Highest sales price: $4,210,000

Woodside

128 Audiffred Lane M. & A. Williams to Thunder Trust for $3,200,000 on 1/20/15; previous sale 11/95, $605,000 375 Woodside Drive F. Tabrizi to M. Liang for $3,100,000 on 1/26/15; previous sale 10/05, $1,955,000

Redwood City Total sales reported: 11 Lowest sales price: $585,000 Highest sales price: $1,395,000

Menlo Park

Woodside

Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $545,000 Highest sales price: $2,007,000

Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $3,100,000 Highest sales price: $3,200,000

BUILDING PERMITS

Source: California REsource

Mountain View Total sales reported: 5 Lowest sales price: $395,000 Highest sales price: $1,680,000 on 1/21/15; previous sale 3/12, $430,000 2156 Sterling Ave. T. Zappert to Seelig Trust for $2,007,000 on 1/21/15; previous sale 10/12, $1,400,000

Mountain View

114 Bentley Square P. Su to H. Peng for $1,680,000 on 2/13/15; previous sale 12/11, $970,000 767 Burgoyne St. N. & M. Bocalan to H. & B. Dickins for $1,660,000 on 2/6/15; previous sale 9/04, $531,000 127 Easy St. Robson Homes to S. & A. Gillen for $1,438,000 on 2/6/15 280 Easy St. #423 B. Seaborn to K. Tseng for $462,000 on 2/10/15; previous sale 11/93, $94,000 255 S. Rengstorff Ave. #168 V. Kuang to P. & N. Gries for $395,000 on 2/6/15; previous

sale 7/14, $318,000

Palo Alto

3433 Cowper St. Young Trust to Goldsilverisland Homes for $1,950,000 on 2/6/15 258 Middlefield Road Chapin Trust to Equity Smart Investments for $1,750,000 on 2/6/15 1051 Parkinson Ave. Mcgrath Trust to W. Gwyn for $4,950,000 on 2/10/15; previous sale 4/11, $3,875,000 3477 South Court Tanaka Trust to W. Wu for $2,680,000 on 2/6/15; previous sale 3/95, $335,000

Redwood City 650 Bair Island Road #1301 One Marina Homes to C. Liang for $1,035,000 on 1/22/15 650 Bair Island Road #1305 One Marina Homes to R. Urbina for $927,500 on 1/23/15 3212 Bay Road S. Lal to J. Cis-

neros for $649,000 on 1/22/15; previous sale 4/08, $440,000 505 Carlos Ave. Levie Properties to CD Investors for $749,500 on 1/23/15 1 Chart Lane C. Venkataramani to I. Passos for $1,010,000 on 1/23/15; previous sale 2/09, $735,000 1730 Lauren Lane Valota Development Partners to P. Lai for $1,395,000 on 1/16/15 1750 Lauren Lane Valota Development Partners to C. O’Neill for $1,395,000 on 1/16/15 802 Mediterranean Lane J. Gimbel to K. Srinivasan for $1,049,000 on 1/22/15; previous sale 7/89, $403,000 1727 Oak Ave. L. & M. Gotelli to S. & S. Harper for $880,000 on 1/22/15; previous sale 2/06, $697,500 253 Oak Ave. #201 K. & R. Tipton to J. Yort for $585,000

Palo Alto

220 Tennyson Ave. re-roof detached garage, $3,000 3233 Bryant St. demo pool and associated equipment, $n/a 4005 Miranda Ave. ADA upgrades to accessible path of travel and parking stalls, $n/a 3652 South Court install 20 square torchdown over roof sheathing, $6,500 733 Seminole Way remodel bathroom, $7,000 405 Waverley St. revised accessible upgrades outside, $n/a 1290 Dana Ave. demo pool; equipment and spa to remain, $n/a 479 Ferne Ave. addition and remodel, $107,500 4075 Campana Drive extend wood-burning fireplace flue, $n/a 3125 Louis Road revise load path of hip at front of building, $n/a 2090 Williams St. change roofline, $n/a 601 Forest Ave. Forest Villa Homes, facade improvements, including replacing wood shingles with cement siding and replacing 18 windows and four sliding glass doors, $98,000

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Efi Luzon Does It Again.

Intero Real Estate Closes Sale of Macy’s in Record Time Efi Luzon, Senior Vice President of Intero Commercial and managing director of the Luzon Team, a commercial REALTOR with Intero Real Estate Services, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc., recently represented the buyer for the purchase of the Macy’s at the Sunnyvale Town Center.

The sale happened in a record 3 days to a private development firm. “I think this sale is a great opportunity to reinvent this area into the thriving Silicon Valley community it should be. It is my job to keep these transactions moving forward no matter how long it takes, and I’m glad we were able to close this deal so quickly,” says Luzon.

apartment buildings, hotels, shopping centers and land for development. Luzon has exclusively represented some of the largest commercial transactions completed in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Some of his most notable deals have included the sale of the Hyatt Rickey’s property in Palo Alto, Downtown Sunnyvale Town & Country, and the H&M retail store in San Francisco.

He also solely put together the buyer and seller for a transaction that encompassed half of the rental inventory of apartment buildings in East Palo Alto, totaling approximately 1,300 units, assembling over 80 different owners, with an aggregate sale price of over $100 million.

As well Luzon represented the sale of the Palo Alto Lumber Yard and Palo Alto Hyatt Cabana now known as the Crowne Plaza Palo Alto.

Based out of Intero’s Los Altos office, Luzon is the leading commercial real estate agent in the greater Bay Area and U.S. He has over 27 years of real estate experience both nationally and internationally. His expertise is in selling investment real estate such as

“Once again, Efi has made the impossible possible. Only someone as experienced as Efi could successfully put together a deal like this and make it happen in record time.”

-Tom Tognoli, President and CEO of Intero Real Estate Services states.

Efi Luzon Senior Vice President, Intero Commercial and managing director of the Luzon Team

(650) 465-3883 ELuzon@InteroCommercial.com www.EfiLuzon.com

2015 Intero Commercial is a division of Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved.

All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker. Lic. # #00991651

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

Sand Hill Estates, Woodside

Holmes Ranch, Davenport

5 Betty Lane, Atherton

$35,000,000

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Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Cutty Smith Lic.#01343305 & 01444081

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Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Greg Goumas Lic.#01242399, 00709019, 01878208

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Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas and Karen Gunn Lic.#0187820, 01804568

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1413 PITMAN AVENUE, PALO ALTO Offered at $3,498,000

OPEN HOUSE SAT 3/7 & SUN 3/8 1:30-4:30PM

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OUTSTANDING HOME IN PALO ALTO’S PRESTIGIOUS CRESCENT PARK NEIGHBORHOOD Located on one of Crescent Park’s most desirable tree-lined streets, this spacious single story home features 4 bedrooms plus a family room situated on a generously-sized lot of 8,610 sq ft. A gracious living room with beam ceilings, built-in cabinetry and a fireplace welcomes the visitor to this inviting home. The open kitchen-family room has expansive sliding glass doors which open to a private center courtyard. This home is ideal for everyday living and indoor-outdoor entertaining.

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4 Bedrooms & 2.5 Bathrooms

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1218 West Selby Lane, Redwood City Offered at $1,498,000 Picturesque Home with Detached Guesthouse Prepare to be charmed by this 1 bedroom, 1.5 bath home of 1,050 sq. ft. (per county) with a detached 1 bedroom, 1 bath guesthouse on a lot of 8,470 sq. ft. (per county). This private home boasts a wood-shingled exterior and park-like front lawn. French doors, elegant molding, and original hardwood floors refine the interior, and multiple storage options are at your fingertips. Featuring a wood-burning fireplace and a gorgeous oversized window, the large living room opens to the lovely dining room. Beautiful tile finishes grace the kitchen, and built-in shelves, a walk-in closet, and bathroom access enhance the spacious bedroom.

The guesthouse adjoins the one-car garage and workshop. An enclosed deck and a paved terrace with a rustic fireplace complete the property. Set between El Camino Real and Woodside Road, this home enjoys easy access to conveniences. Within steps of Selby Lane School, the home is also nearby Woodside High (buyer to verify eligibility).

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Main Residence: 7,820 sq. ft.

2-car Garage: 496 sq. ft.

Cabana: 306 sq. ft.

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3-level home custom-built by Owen Signature Homes | 6 bedrooms | 6 bathrooms 3 half baths | Elevator to all 3 levels | Theatre | Fitness center Recreation room with full bar | Cabana with fireplace | Barbecue kitchen Detached 2-car garage | ~.65 acres | Menlo Park schools

#1 IN MARKET SHARE IN ATHERTON MARY GULLIXSON 650.888.0860 mary@apr.com License# 00373961

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Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. Square footage and/or acreage information contained herein has been received from seller, existing reports, appraisals, public records and/or other sources deemed reliable.

However, neither seller nor listing agent has verified this information. If this information is important to buyer in determining whether to buy or to purchase price, buyer should conduct buyer’s own investigation.

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Joe & Mary Merkert 650.387.5464 / 650.303.2221 jmerkert@apr.com / mmerkert@apr.com

Lynn Wilson Roberts

WOODSIDE

$28,888,000

Sophisticated country living. 14,000 sq. ft. residence on 3.5+/acres. Chef’s kitchen, 13,000 bottle wine cellar, 4 master suites. Guest and Carriage house.

Judy BogardTanigami

LOS ALTOS

$4,795,000

650.207.2111 Built in 2006. 5bd/5.5ba home features 2 family rooms, judytanigami@gmail.com theatre, and wine cellar. 16,552+/- sf lot.

Erika Ameri LOS ALTOS

$4,695,000

650.255.6987 At the end of one of Los Altos’ most coveted streets, this lwr@wilsonroberts.com spectacular custom home has been constructed with extraor-

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$4,695,000

Stunning 5bd/3.5ba home situated on a serene 1+/-acre lot surrounded by majestic oaks.

dinary attention to detail.

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WOODSIDE $4,200,000 650.255.6987 lwr@wilsonroberts.com Just a mile from Woodside Road, but away from the hustle

650.543.1206 jcitron@apr.com

and bustle. Swimming pool, spa, lush lawns, stable, decks, view to the bay, vineyard, in law unit and much more.

J.Stricker/ S.TenBroeck 650.823.8057 jstricker@apr.com

EMERALD HILLS $ UPON REQUEST Stunning modern home on over an acre with glorious views, 5bd/4ba, 4400+/-sf, huge windows, magnificent entertaining yard.

Monica Corman LOS ALTOS

$2,500,000

Exceptional 4bd/3.5ba custom-built home, 2883+/- sf, on a 9476+/- sf lot. Los Altos Schools with Oak Elementary.

650.543.1164 mcorman@apr.com

MENLO PARK

$1,850,000

Very charming and classic 3bd/2ba home in downtown Menlo Park, close to everything. Menlo Park Schools.

SOLD

Ellen Ashley 650.888.1886 eashley@apr.com

Angie Galatolo MENLO PARK

$1,795,000

Charming University Heights 4bd home sold in 8 days with multiple offers. Updated with professionally designed outdoor areas.

650.704.8168 agalatolo@apr.com

LOS ALTOS

$1,749,000

Picturesque creekside setting! 13,000+/- sf lot located across the street from Los Altos Golf & Country Club.

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MENLO PARK

6 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms - Condominium

86 Michaels Wy Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$8,998,000 462-1111

1204 Sharon Park Dr #79 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

5 Bedrooms $1,195,000 323-7751

2 Bedrooms

BURLINGAME

140 Forest Ln $2,300,000 Sun 1-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474

5 Bedrooms 1148 Bernal Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,800,000 323-7751

CUPERTINO

3 Bedrooms - Condominium 1100 Sharon Park Dr 6 $799,000 Sun 2-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200

3 Bedrooms

3 Bedrooms 21991 Oaknoll Ct Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$1,498,000 (408) 335-1400

EAST PALO ALTO

659 Marsh Rd Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker 2010 Oakley Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate

$1,435,000 324-4456 $1,700,000 543-7740

4 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms 2881 Drew Ct Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 163 Verbena Dr Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$985,000 325-6161 $695,000 947-2900

823 Paulson Cir $2,195,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 324-4456 2191 Gordon Ave $2,895,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

5 Bedrooms 104 Laurel St Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

LOS ALTOS 3 Bedrooms - Condominium 1 W Edith Ave A205 Sat Sereno Group

$1,748,000 947-2900

3 Bedrooms 1505 Cedar Pl $2,148,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 323-7751 510 Outlook Dr $2,288,000 Sat/Sun Sereno Group (408) 741-8200

MOUNTAIN VIEW 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 1993 Plymouth St #8 Sat/Sun 11-4:30Sereno Group

3 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms

4 Bedrooms

5188 Selinda Way Sat/Sun 1-4 Sereno Group

$1,780,000 (408) 335-1400

$4,998,000 324-4456 $5,400,000 462-1111

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4 Bedrooms 812 La Mesa Dr $2,690,000 Sun 12-4:30 Coldwell Banker 851-1961 6 Blue Oaks Ct $4,998,000 Sat/Sun 2-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474 1390 Westridge Dr $3,198,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 851-1961

REDWOOD CITY

1413 Pitman Ave Sat/Sun Sereno Group

$1,995,000 324-4456 $1,788,000 323-1111 $1,900,000 321-1596

4147 Barrymore Dr $849,000 Sat/Sun Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740

5 Bedrooms 1730 Peregrino Way $4,000,000 Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 206-6200

SAN MATEO 3 Bedrooms 630 Parrott Dr Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,888,000 324-4456

SUNNYVALE 2 Bedrooms 680 Crescent Call for price Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 325-6161

WOODSIDE 2 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms 1218 West Selby Ln Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$1,498,000 543-8500

3 Bedrooms 2774 Delaware Ave $895,000 Sat/Sun 12-4:30 Coldwell Banker 325-6161 2232 Harding Ave $995,000 Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666 246 Beresford Ave $1,149,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111

4 Bedrooms

LOS GATOS

960 Berry Ave $2,689,000 Sat 2:30-5/Sun 2-4 Sereno Group (408) 335-1400

$765,000 947-2900

PALO ALTO 947 Embarcadero Rd Sun Coldwell Banker 76 Roosevelt Cir Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 3434 Ashton Ct Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

4 Bedrooms

$3,195,000 462-1111

4 Bedrooms

569 Lowell Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker 860 Lincoln Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

75 Belle Roche Ave Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$3,295,000 323-7751

SAN JOSE

117 Glenwood Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,085,000 851-2666

4 Bedrooms 555 Manzanita Way Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$9,950,000 462-1111

740 Whiskey Hill Road Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$5,250,000 462-1111

95 Roan Pl Sun

$2,195,000 851-2666

Coldwell Banker

136 Otis Ave $1,700,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

5 Bedrooms 83 Tum Suden Way $2,699,000 Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate Services 543-7740

6 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms 4774 Raspberry Pl Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$728,000 325-6161

330 Jane Dr Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$5,950,000 851-2666

$3,498,000 323-1900

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For homeowners or renters who are advanced in years or disabled, tasks like replacing smoke detector batteries, flipping a mattress or washing the windows can be a major challenge.

Seniors and the homebound who live on the Peninsula or in the South Bay may now request free assistance with such household tasks through the REALTOR® Service Volunteer Program (RSVP) for the week of May 4-8, 2015. The deadline for seniors to request assistance is Friday, March 20.

RSVP is a community outreach program offered each year to qualified seniors who cannot otherwise perform certain household tasks due to physical and financial constraints. This free assistance is offered by members and affiliates of the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®, the local trade associations of the real estate industry on the Peninsula and in the South Bay. During RSVP Week, teams of REALTOR® volunteers and affiliates (professionals who provide industry-related services) will visit senior citizens and perform various cleaning and maintenance tasks free of charge. Seniors may request to have light bulbs replaced, furnace filters changed, windows cleaned, mattresses turned, new smoke detector batteries installed, and other light housekeeping tasks.

The REALTORS®’ community outreach program was launched in 2001.

Last year 180 volunteers from SILVAR assisted 123 senior households.

“RSVP has the unique opportunity to help seniors and the homebound stay in their properties longer,” said Eileen Giorgi, SILVAR’s RSVP Committee chair. “The little we do in someone’s home can make the difference between their remaining independent, or having to give up that independence to some form of caregiving and dependence on strangers. RSVP has the unique opportunity to help seniors and the homebound stay in their home longer.”

Seniors residing in the communities of Atherton, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, Woodside, Portola Valley, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Saratoga, Monte Sereno and Los Gatos may apply for this free service by contacting the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® at (408) 200-0100 for information and an application. Seniors may also visit www.silvar.org to download an application and submit to SILVAR before the March 20 deadline. *** Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at rmeily@silvar.org.

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement GUNN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION GUNN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION GUNN FOUNDATION THE GUNN FOUNDATION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 600326 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Gunn Senior High School Foundation, 2.) Gunn High School Foundation, 3.) Gunn Foundation, 4.)

The Gunn Foundation, located at 780 Arastradero Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Trust.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ANN KELLY (Trustee) 268 Margarita Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 BETH SEARS (Trustee) 888 Robb Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94306 JOSE E. GARCIA (Trustee) 777 San Antonio Rd., #29 Palo Alto, CA 94303 JOAN LIN (Trustee) 931 Curlew Lane Palo Alto, CA 9433 JAMES LUBBE (Trustee) 3430 Notre Dame Dr. Santa Clara, CA 95051 KIMBERLY COWEL (Trustee) 2534 Hayward Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 JEAN HSIA (Trustee) 3126 Floweers Lane Palo Alto, CA 94306 LYNN DRAKE (Trustee) 3415 Louis Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 LYNNE RUSSELL (Trustee) 3149 Ramona St. Palo Alto, CA 94306 MARKUS FROMHERZ (Trustee) 4020 Amaranta Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 RENI NARAYEN (Trustee) 4246 Manuela Ct. Palo Alto, CA 94306

Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/01/1968.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 15, 2015.

(PAW Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 6 2015) BILINGUAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 600922 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Bilingual Speech & Language Services, located at 503 Palo Alto Ave., Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MARTHA VERONICA GONZALEZ-BEINEKE 503 Palo Alto Ave. Mountain View, CA 94041 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/10/2014.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 2, 2015.

(PAW Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 6, 2015) AKAMAI REAL ESTATE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 601326 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Akamai Real Estate, located at 970 Palo Alto Ave., 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): SETH SWENSON 970 Palo Alto Ave. 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 February 11, 2015.

(PAW Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 6, 2015) PALO ALTO SMART THERAPY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 601185 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Palo Alto Smart Therapy, located at 825 San Antonio Rd., Suite 202, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): KRISTA REGEDANZ PH.D. A PSYCHOLOGICAL CORPORATION 825 San Antonio Rd. Suite 202

Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 1/1/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 9, 2015.

(PAW Feb. 13, 20, 27, Mar. 6, 2015) HDS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 601629 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: HDS, located at 3260 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): HDS MERCURY, INC. 3260 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 19, 2015.

(PAW Feb. 27, Mar. 6, 13, 20, 2015) AFFIMITY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 601771 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Affimity, located at 5581 Camden Ave., San Jose, CA 95124, Santa Clara County.

The principal place of business is in Delaware County and a current fictitious business name statement is on file at the County Clerk-recorderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office of said County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): AFFIMITY 5581 Camden Ave. San Jose, CA 95124 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06/20/2014.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 23, 2015.

(PAW Mar. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) PLACE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602071 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Place Architectural Design, located at 3208 Bryant St., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by:

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The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): JIAN SHEN 3208 Bryant St. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/27/2015.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 27, 2015.

(PAW Mar. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) TAN BOYS INSURANCE PARTNERSHIP FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 602082 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Tan Boys Insurance Partnership, located at 870 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A General Partnership.

The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): JOSEPH TAN, Trustee, Caleb Tan 2012 Irrevocable Trust, a General Partner 870 East Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 JOSEPH TAN, Trustee, Joshua Tan 2012 Irrevocable Trust, a General Partner 870 East Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 JOSEPH TAN, Trustee, Noah Tan 2012 Irrevocable Trust, General Partner 870 East Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 JOSEPH TAN, Trustee, Joseph Tan Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 Irrevocable Trust, General Partner 870 East Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 TAN BOYS INSURANCE PARTNERSHIP, a General Partnership 870 East Charleston Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 27, 2015.

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HOOP BERTH . . . The Menlo College women’s basketball team received a reprieve from the NAIA and was awarded an at-large bid into the national championships that get underway on Wednesday. The 13thranked Oaks (22-5) were upset in the Cal Pac Conference tournament semifinal, 51-49, by UC Merced after going undefeated in the regular conference season. Menlo enters the tournament as a No. 4 seed and will meet No. 5 seed Briar Cliff (23-9) at 10 a.m. PT Wednesday. No. 19 Briar Cliff lost to top-ranked Morningside, 77-62, in the semifinals of the Great Plains Athletic Conference tournament, after finishing fourth in the regular season, to earn its 12th all-time trip to the National Championships.

Menlo won its fourth-straight Cal Pac regular-season title this season and is making its seventh all-time appearance at the tournament.

On the cover: Palo Alto’s Alison Lu (21) was among the top defenders in a 5-0 win over Santa Teresa in a CCS Division I soccer semifinal on Wednesday.

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ith little rain pelting the landscape these days, there is much talk about drought. The Palo Alto girls soccer team would agree, but that discussion has nothing to do with the weather.

It has been 33 years since the Vikings have shared a Central Coast Section title in soccer. It has been 35 since the girls have claimed one. Clearly, the program is long overdue for one or the other.

Palo Alto is now just one victory away from joining the 1982 team (co-champ) or 1980 squad (outright champ) following Wednesday’s 5-0 triumph over visiting Santa Teresa in a CCS Division I semifinal.

The No. 2-seeded Vikings (172-1) advanced to their first title match since 2009 and will take on No. 1 Mountain View (17-2-1) on Saturday at Valley Christian at 10 a.m. The Spartans advanced with a 1-0 victory over No. 5 seed Carlmont (13-8-2) at Milpitas High in the other semifinal.

The Vikings and Spartans split

Palo Alto junior Heidi Moeser (24) and her teammates are heading to the CCS Division I soccer finals on Saturday at Valley Christian (10 a.m.) after beating Santa Teresa, 5-0, in the semifinals Wednesday.

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Gunn wrestler, coach head to state meet for final time Cramer has few goals left after pinning big one at CCS

Horpel plans to step down as head coach after 40-year career

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unn senior Ian Cramer still has a few goals left to achieve as he heads into the 2015 CIF State Wrestling Championships this weekend in Bakersfield.

One big item, however, has been checked off his list — one he has been chasing for quite some time.

Cramer remembers seeing “The Wall” the first time he walked into the Gunn wrestling room. He was in the sixth grade.

“There’s a big drawing of Coach (Chris) Horpel doing a famous move and a list of all their CCS individual champions,” Cramer said of his first visit.

It was at that moment that Cramer wanted his name on the wall, as well.

“Since the moment I walked into the room and saw it,” he confirmed. “I didn’t completely understand how they got their names on it, but I knew they had to be (continued on page 59)

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HOOP HONOR . . . Hamilton College senior guard Joseph Lin of Palo Alto has been selected for the 2015 NESCAC Men’s Basketball All-Conference Team. Lin was placed on the second team and was one of 10 players that received all-conference honors. He was named the NESCAC Men’s Basketball Player of the Week on Jan. 12 after he handed out a team-record 16 assists on Jan. 9.

Lin leads the conference with 6.4 assists per game and he is ranked third with 1.8 steals per game and 12th with 13.5 points per game. He was even better in NESCAC games as he ranked fifth with 15.0 points per game, fifth with a 3.0 assist-to-turnover ratio and fifth with a free-throw percentage of 85.2 percent against conference opponents.

Palo Alto girls will play for first title in 35 years

Gunn senior Ian Cramer (left) will seek to medal at the state meet while head coach Chris Horpel is making his final trip.

he drive to Bakersfield will be the same and Rabobank Arena will be familiar as ever. But, the 2015 CIF State Wrestling Championships will be different for Chris Horpel.

This will be his last one as Gunn’s head coach.

“I think it’s time for somebody else to be the head guy,” said Horpel, 63. “I’ve had a good run and it has been a blast. I love the kids I work with, all 40 years worth.”

Time has taken its toll on Horpel, a former All-American wrestler at Stanford, and his body is telling him to step away.

“I keep adding to my injury list,” said Horpel, who has taken an active coaching role during his career. His instruction often is on the mat.

He has a ruptured disc in his lower back and neck. He needs double knee replacements, despite having three surgeries on (continued on page 59)

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CCS soccer (continued from previous page)

Girls Division III Top-seeded Sacred Heart Prep rolled into its second straight title match with a 5-1 romp over No. 12 King’s Academy at Westmont High in Campbell on Wednesday.

The Gators (18-2-1), who have outscored two opponents by 15-1 in the postseason, will take on No. 7 Sacred Heart Cathedral in Saturday’s finals at Valley Christian at 3 p.m.

The Irish (10-8-5) eliminated No. 6 Menlo School (12-5-4) in penalty kicks, 4-3, after the teams had tied at 1-1 in regulation at Palo Alto High.

Menlo erased a 1-0 deficit in regulation with a late goal in the first half as senior co-captain Alexandra Walker took a free kick, senior Leah Swig controlled and assisted on Emily Demmon’s goal.

Sacred Heart Prep had no need for PKs as junior Tierna Davidson scored unassisted in the fourth

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minute and sophomore Sophie Amid-Hozour tallied the eventual winning goal in the 16th minute.

Brigid White, one of only four seniors on the team, scored in the 46th minute off an assist from freshman Mia Shenk. Davidson got her second goal in the 72nd minute with Lauren Von Thaden assisting and Shenk wrapped things up in the 75th minute with sophomore Olivia Athens assisting.

Should SHP win its second outright section title on Saturday, the Gators will tie the school record for single-season wins (19) set last year.

Boys Division I Top-seeded Menlo-Atherton saw its season come to an end in a 2-0 loss to No. 5 Bellarmine in a semifinal match at Milpitas.

The Bears finished the year 16-4

while the Bells take a 15-4-4 record into Saturday’s section title match.

Boys Division II Third-seeded Gunn played 100 scoreless minutes with No. 2 Leland (13-1-8) and wound up falling in penalty kicks, 3-2, in a semifinal at Valley Christian in San Jose on Wednesday night.

The Titans finished 15-4-3 after winning the SCVAL El Camino Division title this season.

Boys Division III Sacred Heart Prep survived penalty kicks for the second straight match and advanced to the championship match with a 3-1 shootout win over No. 4 seed Santa Cruz at Westmont High in Campbell.

The No. 8-seeded Gators (13-27) will play No. 2 Sacred Heart

Cathedral (15-3-4) in the finals Saturday at Homestead High at 12:30 p.m.

After playing to a 1-1 tie and winning in PKs (5-4) over No. 1 Pajaro Valley on Saturday, SHP nearly duplicated that effort in Wednesday’s semifinals.

After Santa Cruz had gone ahead, the Gators tied the match in the 65th minute after a corner kick found Cam Chapman. He first headed the ball into a group in front of the goal and, when the ball bounced back to him he returned a shot into the back post.

Once in penalty kicks, sophomore keeper Zach Haire (returning from illness) made three huge saves to send SHP into its second CCS Division III title match since 2013, when the Gators tied Menlo.

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their SCVAL De Anza Division matches with each other this season, but Mountain View won the division title by one point.

“I think we have a really good shot at them,” said Paly junior Jacey Pederson, who provided the first and fifth goals against No. 6 Santa Teresa (15-7). “I’m definitely looking for the win.”

Is this the Paly team that ends the title drought?

“Could be,” said coach Kurt Devlin. “Hopefully, the motivation is if we didn’t get the league title we could get this.”

Devlin had a feeling this year’s squad could reach the finals after he took over the program for the 2011-12 season.

“From the beginning, I think it’s always been a goal,” Devlin said of reaching the CCS final.

“Our seniors, I think three or four of them, have been contributors since they were freshmen, so that year I knew that in the future the team was going to be good. And then Jacey (Pederson) comes into the scene, and then Alison Lu and other juniors behind them, and all of a sudden it’s that much more talented. And the rest of the players, being role players or not, they’ve all done well, they’ve all contributed.”

Palo Alto will be playing for its first outright title since the 1980 team went 19-0 and won the section title when there was just one division.

Palo Alto put the match away with three goals in the opening half. Pederson lofted in a shot from 30 yards out in the 25th minute, junior Nika Woodfill made it 2-0 in the 22nd minute and and sophomore Natalie Maloney con-

nected in stoppage time on a cross from Woodfill.

The offensive onslaught continued in the second half with defender Alison Lu knocking home a shot from in front of the Saints’ goal in the 38th minute. In the 24th minute, a Santa Teresa player was called for a hand ball inside the penalty box and Pederson tallied her second goal on the penalty kick and now has 26 goals this season.

Palo Alto’s defense blanked the Saints’ senior standout, Tegan McGrady, who is headed to Stanford in the fall. Paly sophomore Lauola Amanoni was all over McGrady, who wound up being a non-factor in the match.

“Defensively, they were fantastic,” Devlin said of his squad.

“The girls were energetic and were rewarded for their effort.”

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Paly’s Lauola Amanoni (16) help blank Stanford-bound Tegan McGrady (19) of Santa Teresa during a 5-0 CCS semifinal win by the Vikings that saw Jacey Pederson (right) celebrate two goals, here with Emily Tomz (10) and Talia Malchin (5).

Menlo School’s Emily Demmon (11) celebrates her goal that tied the CCS Division III match at 1 against Sacred Heart Cathedral on Wednesday and sent it to overtime, where the Irish won on penalty kicks.

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Pinewood girls making most of trip to CCS Open Division

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Prep turnovers. Another layup

by Eackles off an inbounds pass from Bade gave Pinewood a 45-43 lead with 45 seconds left.

Eastside Prep had two chances to tie after that, but Chacitty Cunningham was called for an illegal screen with 31 seconds to play, and after Hing missed the front end of a 1-and-1, Tahaafe couldn’t get her shot to fall.

Hing then made two free throws with 11.5 seconds remaining to put Pinewood ahead 47-43. Brije Byers converted a drive with three seconds left to cut the deficit to two, but Eastside Prep was out of timeouts, so Pinewood allowed the clock to run out instead of inbounding the ball.

After scoring eight points in a span of five possessions early in the third quarter, Graham was held scoreless for the rest of the game as Pinewood beat Eastside Prep for the third time this season — including twice to win the West Bay Athletic League (Foothill Division title.

“I think we bring the best out of one another,” Eastside Prep coach Donovan Blythe said. “They’re a great team. They deserve to move on. We’re in the same league so I’m cheering for them.”

Pinewood now has a rematch with Sacred Heart Cathedral. The Panthers outscored the visiting Fighting Irish, 26-7, in the fourth quarter to win the previous matchup this season, 61-48, on Dec. 20 at the Presentation Shootout.

“It’s a great thrill,” Schlepper said of reaching the final. “That was the goal after last year’s state championship. The girls were put to the question, if you want to go Open (Division) you have to work really hard to get there, because the way we have to play to win is like we did in the last 3:30 of this game, where you get a stop, get a score, run our sets to perfection

and get to the basket.”

Scheppler hopes to have Kailahi for Friday’s title game. She missed the final four minutes after she landed awkwardly after a drive to the basket and appeared to injure her left knee. Kailahi missed four games earlier this season with a right knee injury.

In Open Division consolation action, No. 8 Palo Alto (22-4) dropped a 76-60 decision to No. 4 seed and host Scotts Valley (24-4) to end its first time in the division at 0-2.

The Vikings were led by Lauren Koyama’s 15 points while Alexis Harris added 12 and Maddy Atwater had 10.

“Scotts Valley shot the ball very efficiently,” said Paly coach Scott Peters. “Don’t have the numbers, but it must have been 60 to 70 percent from the field (22 of 26 from the foul line). They executed very well.”

Palo Alto will return to Division I for the CIF NorCal playoffs and discover its seed on Sunday.

Division I The last time Menlo-Atherton reached a CCS title game, the Bears fell to North Salinas in the Division I finals in 2010. Five years later, Menlo-Atherton has a chance to avenge that loss.

The No. 2-seeded Bears (24-5) will face top-seeded North Salinas (23-2) in Saturday’s section finals at Santa Clara University at 6 p.m. M-A will be seeking its first CCS title since winning the Division II crown in 1993.

The Bears advanced to the finals with a 55-52 overtime win over No. 3 and host Piedmont Hills on Wednesday while North Salinas moved on with a 51-43 triumph over No. 4 Silver Creek.

Freshman Greer Hoyem scored eight straight points (of her teamhigh 20) to help give the Bears a

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by Harold Gutmann he Pinewood girls showed a knack for playing their best basketball in crunch time last season when they won the CIF State Division V championship. That quality appears to have carried over to this season, as well.

Second-seeded Pinewood scored 10 straight points late in the fourth quarter to beat No. 6 Eastside Prep, 47-45, in a Central Coast Section Open Division semifinal Tuesday night at Milpitas High.

Pinewood (24-2) will face No. 5 Sacred Heart Cathedral (16-10) in Friday’s title game at Santa Clara University at 6 p.m. Eastside Prep (21-5) faced No. 1 seed St. Ignatius (21-5) for third place last night.

The Panthers from Los Altos Hills won despite shooting an uncharacteristic 1 of 26 from behind the arc, including 0 of 18 in the first half.

“If we can win a game shooting 1 for (26) from 3, that’s a joke,” Pinewood coach Doc Schlepper said. “I always tell our girls if we get our shots, we’re going to win.

And we got our shots, couldn’t hit ‘em, but we found a way. Got to the basket, got some layups, made our free throws at crucial times, and when you’re down six with 3:30 to go, I think our poise held up.”

Freshman post Stella Kailahi had 13 points and senior guard Marissa Hing added 12 in the win, while freshman guard Kayla Tahaafe had 15 points and Arizona-bound center Destiny Graham had 12 for Eastside Prep (21-5).

Pinewood trailed 43-37 midway through the fourth quarter when it made its decisive run. Hing made two free throws, and then Chloe Eackles and Gabi Bade both made layups following Eastside

Pinewood senior guard Marissa Hing had 12 points in a 47-45 CCS Open Division semifinal win over Eastside Prep.

25-13 halftime lead. With the Pirates in foul trouble and the Bears hitting threes and scoring in the paint, it looked like an easy victory for the Bears.

However in the second half, the Pirates began chipping away and held a 44-43 lead with 15 seconds remaining. With just 2.3 seconds left in regulation, M-A’s Megan Sparrow drew a foul and converted a free throw to send the game to overtime. Three starters for Piedmont Hills fouled out in the fourth quarter, but with a minute left in overtime the Pirates still led by two. With 44 seconds remaining, Hoyem scored, drew a foul and hit the free throw to regain the lead at 50-49. Ilana Baer and Carly McLanahan converted two free throws each to put the game away.

Division IV Menlo School advanced to its third consecutive CCS championship after a convincing 58-45 win over visiting Soquel in Atherton.

Second-seeded Menlo (18-8) plays top seed Notre Dame-Belmont (13-13), a 37-32 winner over The King’s Academy, in Saturday’s championship game at Independence High at 2 p.m.

Menlo came out strong going ahead early against Soquel and grabbed a 29-9 lead with 5:24 left in the second quarter. It was 38-28 at the half.

Menlo sophomore guard Sam Erisman paved the way with a team-high 18 points while both Hannah Paye and Mackenzie Duffner chipping in 12 points.

The Knights used a full-court press to pressure Soquel and limit Natalie Diaz, who scored 31 points in the quarterfinals. Diaz did finish with 20 and had only two by the time Menlo had gone up by 20 in the second quarter.

Soquel turned the ball over 26 times.

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Upset victory gives Priory boys a shot at their first CCS title

by Andrew Preimesberger lways a bridesmaid and never a bride. That pretty much describes the Priory boys when it comes to the Central Coast Section basketball playoffs.

The Panthers have played in five Division V championship games in program history, the first in 2002 and the last in ‘14, and are still waiting for something more than just a pat on the back.

Priory, however, will have an opportunity to take that final step when it play for the CCS Division V title on Saturday at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont at 8 p.m. The No. 4-seeded Panthers (16-9) will face No. 6 R.L. Stevenson (19-7).

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Wednesday at Santa Clara High, 48-44, while Priory upset top seed Pinewood, 50-47.

Junior Scott Harris scored 17 of his 19 points in the second half to help rally Priory from a 20-point deficit. The Panthers trailed by 17-4 after the first quarter and were down 37-25 heading into the final period. Pinewood (17-9) was still on top, 43-39, with 3:25 left in the game when Priory continued its rally to reach the championship game.

Pinewood had won the past four section titles, including last year over Priory, 47-46. Pinewood, however, played again without scoring leader Ryan Brice. Jordan Riches filled in with 14 points, 10 rebounds and three blocked shots.

By reaching the title game, Priory will earn a berth in next

week’s CIF NorCal playoffs.

While Priory won’t have to worry about facing Pinewood, another familiar foe from the West Bay Athletic League will be there — Sacred Heart Prep.

The No. 4-seeded Gators saw their 16-game win streak end in a 64-59 loss to St. Francis in the Open Division semifinals on Tuesday at Independence High.

SHP The No. 4-seeded Gators dropped to 23-3 overall while top-seeded St. Francis improved to 22-4. Sacred Heart will place for third place and will visit No. 3 Mitty (16-9) on Friday at 7:30 p.m. The Monarchs lost to to No. 2 Serra, 55-52, in overtime on Tuesday.

“We had a lot of people think we’d get beat by 20,” said SHP senior Corbin Koch, who led all scorers with 28 points. “Every-

one underestimates the heart and determination that our team has.

As long as we keep buying into our system and what’s going on, I think we’ll be fine.”

With five seconds left in the fourth quarter, St. Francis senior Joseph Mihanovic sank two clutch free throws to make it a five-point lead and seal the win for the Lancers.

In the fourth quarter, Sacred Heart came storming back from a deficit when Koch hit a huge 3-pointer from the top of the key for a 60-57 game. The Gators, however, never got any closer since taking the lead with 4:45 left in the first quarter.

With six seconds left in the game and St. Francis up 62-59, SHP’s Mitch Martella got an open look at a 3-pointer, but it rattled off the rim and the Lancers took

possession — leading to two converted free throws.

Division IV Menlo School rolled to a 62-37 victory over Terra Nova at KaiserPermanente Arena in Santa Cruz on Tuesday and into the CCS championship game this weekend.

The No. 2-seeded Knights (18-7) will face No. 1 Santa Cruz (226) on Saturday at Independence High at 4 p.m. The Cardinals advanced with a 55-48 win over No. 4 Pacific Grove (19-6).

Menlo senior Liam Dunn paved the way, scoring 13 of his gamehigh 22 points in the second quarter. The Knights led by 27-21 at the half. Menlo pulled away with a 22-8 third quarter.

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Stanford women face a new hoop scenario at Pac-12s Cardinal takes a No. 3 seed into conference tournament after an up-and-down regular season marks by an uncharacteristic nine losses

By Rick Eymer t’s a crazy scenario that seems to defy description. The Stanford women’s basketball team has shown this season it can beat the best, and has also shown it can lose to the not-so-best.

No other women’s team in the country has beaten both the topranked team in the nation and a power conference champion, and has lost to a pair of teams with losing records in the same season.

The 19th-ranked Cardinal (219) owns wins over top-ranked and defending national champion Connecticut and Pac-12 champion Oregon State. Stanford lost to teams seeded 10th and 11th in the Pac-12 Conference tournament, which got under way Thursday in Seattle.

Stanford, seeded third, plays its first game Friday at 2 p.m. at Key Arena in Seattle.

The Cardinal will meet either No. 6 UCLA or No. 11 Arizona, who met Thursday. The Wildcats beat Stanford this season.

“I would not rule out anybody,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said of the potential tourney champ. “It’s been a competitive season and any team can get on a roll and continue to play well.

Last year, USC came out as a 5

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seed and ran through the tournament.”

It’s hard to tell whether the Cardinal is entering the tournament on a roll, or on a down note. Stanford is coming off a 62-55 loss at Oregon last weekend. A few days earlier, the Cardinal toppled Oregon State.

To make matters worse, standout sophomore Karlie Samuelson will miss the rest of the season with a foot injury.

“This team responds well when we’re backed into a corner,” VanDerveer said. “This is one game and that’s it. I like that pressure for our team.”

Arizona and the Bruins have been Stanford’s tournament opponents more than any other conference team. The Cardinal is a combined 15-1 against them, 8-1 versus UCLA and 7-0 against the Wildcats.

Stanford enters the tournament as something other than the top seed for the first time. Of course, the last time the Cardinal finished out of first place was in 2000, a full two years before the tournament’s inception. Overall, Stanford has never finished below third after finishing sixth in 198687, the first year the then Pac-10 sponsored women’s basketball.

The Ducks, who beat the Cardi-

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nal for the first time more than 10 years, met seventh-seeded Washington State on Thursday.

Stanford owns a 34-3 all-time record through the first 13 years of the conference tournament and has never lost a quarterfinal game.

The Cardinal is 12-0 all-time in the quarterfinals, 12-1 in the semifinals and 10-2 in the finals.

The No. 3 seed is 18-11 all-time at the Pac-12 Tournament. It’s 8-3 against the No. 6 seed and 1-1 against the No. 11 seed.

Stanford is currently 21st in the NCAA RPI and has played the nation’s 15th-toughest schedule. Ten of its 30 opponents are in the RPI top 25, something only one other school can claim (UCLA; 12).

In hindsight, the roller coaster ride that has been Stanford’s season should not come as a surprise.

First of all, Chiney Ogwumike left a void in the All-American category when she graduated and left for the WNBA. The Cardinal returned solid players in seniors Orrange, Bonnie Samuelson, Taylor Greenfield and Erica Payne but it also had to rely on sophomores and freshmen like Lili Thompson, Karlie Samuelson, Briana Roberson, Erica McCall, Brittany McPhee and Kaylee Johnson.

Orrange was named to both the

All-Pac-12 squad and the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team, Thompson earned her first All-Pac-12 nod, Bonnie Samuelson was picked All-Pac-12 honorable mention and Johnson earned a spot on the Pac12 All-Freshman team.

Connecticut and Oregon State are a combined 54-4 and Stanford is 2-0 against them. Throw Washington and California into the mix and the Cardinal is 5-1 against teams with a combined 96-20 mark.

Oregon and Arizona are a combined 23-35 this season and Stanford is a combined 1-2 against them.

In other words, when the sophomores and freshmen are good, Stanford is very, very good.

Thompson scored 24 points in the win over the Huskies. In fact, she scored at least 24 in four of the first five games she played.

She never did it again afterward, though she hit 21 in a win over USC and reached double figures in all but six games in which she played.

Johnson grabbed 22 rebounds in a game twice in her first eight games. She’s reached 17 twice since and had 14 double-digit games. She also has five doubledoubles, more than the rest of her teammates have accumulated

combined.

“Kaylee has done real well for us, especially rebounding,” VanDerveer said. “Brittany is just a high-energy player and that’s exactly what we need eight now.”

Roberson has reached double figures eight times, McPhee has done so three times, McCall seven times and Karlie Samuelson six times.

It’s just been a year of extreme peaks and valleys. Four different underclassmen have combined to score at least 20 points in a game eight times. The talent is evident but the consistency is not.

It should make for an interesting tournament. Stanford could win three straight and capture its 11th conference tournament title, or it could bow out in the quarterfinal.

Against Oregon, Orrange played her 140th game in a Cardinal uniform, just the eighth player in Stanford history to reach that number. She joined Kayla Pedersen (150), Jeanette Pohlen (150), Rosalyn Gold-Onwude (148), Jayne Appel (147), Chiney Ogwumike (145), Nnemkadi Ogwumike (145) and Joslyn Tinkle (142).

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Alexandra Walker

Ian Cramer

MENLO SCHOOL

GUNN HIGH

The senior co-captain helped the Knights post a pair of CCS Division III soccer wins, getting one goal and assist in an opening win before scoring the winning goal in a 2-0 upset of No. 3 Harbor in the quarterfinals.

The senior wrestler went 5-0 with four pins and a 5-1 win in the finals to capture the 138-pound title, his first, at the CCS Championships and qualify for the State Meet.

He improved to 31-1 with 25 pins this season.

Honorable mention Olivia Athens Sacred Heart Prep soccer

Zoe Enright Menlo soccer

Destiny Graham Eastside Prep basketball

Greer Hoyem Menlo-Atherton basketball

Emily Katz Menlo-Atherton softball

Jacey Pederson* Palo Alto soccer

Alex Gallo Menlo-Atherton soccer

James Giaccia Palo Alto wrestling

Alex Gil-Fernandez* Gunn basketball

Darius Riley Eastside Prep basketball

Alex Ruber Gunn soccer

Alex Szeptycki Sacred Heart Prep soccer * previous winner

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among the best wrestlers in school history.”

Cramer set a goal to join the Wall of Fame. Six years later, that goal is a reality.

The Gunn senior earned his place on the wall by winning his first title at the Central Coast Section Championships with a 5-1 victory over Max McCann of Monta Vista on Saturday night at Independence High in San Jose.

Cramer, who finished second last year at 132 pounds, improved to 31-1 with 25 pins while earning his second trip to the State Meet, set for next weekend at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield.

This marks the 11th year in row that Gunn has qualified for state in wrestling.

Cramer beat McCann for the fourth time this season and the sixth time in his career.

“Max is a really great opponent,” said Cramer. “He really rises to the occasion when the pressure is the highest. Last night was probably my toughest match against Max yet. It feels so good

to have beaten him, since it was such a tough match. He really made me work for it.”

Cramer becomes one of only five male CCS champs from Gunn. Dwight Miller won titles at 103 and 112 pounds in 1973 and ‘74 under coach Bill Sperry, Dan Gebben won at 165 pounds in 1979, Zack Blumenfeld (171) in 2009 and Stefan Weidemann (152) in 2011.

“I am really proud of Ian’s performance,” said Gunn coach Chris Horpel. “He was ranked first all season and had a target on his back because of it. Even still, he dominated the weight class and lived up to his ranking.”

During Horpel’s 12-year tenure, Gunn had 14 finalists and four won titles — including Cadence Lee at the girls’ section meet. Now, Cramer is finally one of them.

“It’s a great feeling of accomplishment that I’m going to be up there,” Cramer said.

Cramer heads to the state meet ranked No. 7 in California by The California Wrestler. The top six are all returning medalists.

“I have goals for the state meet,” said Cramer. “I want to be on the

Gunn senior Ian Cramer (top) posted a 5-1 win over Max McCann of Monta Vista to win his first CCS wrestling title, at 138 pounds, and qualify for the CIF State Meet. Cramer is 31-1 with 25 pins this season. podium (top 8). The goal is to take first, but that will be tough.”

One big goal perhaps within Cramer’s reach is the school record for single-season victories.

Miller (1973 and ‘74) and Nic Giaccia (2008) hold the mark with 35.

“Dwight Miller really set the bar high,” Cramer said.

Miller also was Gunn’s first state meet entrant, in 1973, when he finished third. No Gunn boy has ever won a state title in wrestling, even though Cadence Lee did it twice for the girls. Other than Miller and Lee, Gunn wrestlers have fared no better than the seventh — by Floyd Williams (1978) and Erik Duus (1984).

At 31-1, Cramer heads to the state meet with the fewest losses in program history.

The only setback came in the finals of the Mid Cal Invitational, where Cramer took second to a

wrestler from Buchanan (Fresno).

Unfortunately for Cramer, he won’t have a chance to avenge that defeat since his opponent dropped weight and will compete at 132 pounds.

Also advancing to the state meet was Palo Alto’s James Giaccia at 126 pounds following a 4-3 decision over Eric Loredo of San Benito. Giaccia opened with an 8-0 major decision over Joshua Garnica of Sobrato, pinned Orion Bautista of Pacific Grove in just 29 seconds, pinned Anthony Pacheco of Palma in 4:56 before dropping an 11-4 decision to Gio Zacarias of Aptos. Giaccia bounced back with a 5-3 decision over Vinnie Santiago of Wilcox to reach the third-place match.

Palo Alto’s Chioke BryantAnderson was fifth at 170 pounds and Menlo-Atherton’s Donald La Haye was fifth at 182 pounds.

Only the top three finishers ad-

vanced to the state tournament.

Gilroy won its 13th straight team title with 282 points. Bellarmine finished second and the SCVAL’s Fremont High placed third in the 75-team field. Gunn finished 21st with 42 points with Palo Alto scoring 39.5.

Gunn’s David Abramovitch was 1-2 at 126 pounds, Tanner Kerrins was 1-2 at 132, Aaron Schultz was 0-2 at 145, Thomas Chang-Davidson was 0-2 at 152, and Kirill Demyanenko (2-2) placed ninth at 285.

At the fifth annual CIF Girls Wrestling State Invitational Championships at the Visalia Convention Center, Palo Alto senior Alexa Austin’s prep career came to an end Saturday with a 13-6 loss to Priscella Lopez of Edison in the second round of the consolation bracket. Austin went 0-2 for the second straight season in the state meet. Q

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with his wife, Sandi. The long wrestling season, however, often interferes with the couples’ vacation schedules.

“I planned my departure from Stanford,” he said. “People didn’t think I could do it, but it did. I think I can switch gears and be the photographer/surfer dude. My Newport Beach upbringing is too much a part of me.”

Horpel recorded an undefeated season in 1970 at Newport High and set the national high school pin record by pinning 34 of 36 opponents. At Stanford, he set the school career record (56) and season (18) pin records.

Horpel began his coaching career as the assistant coach at Stanford (1975-76) while training for the ‘76 Olympics. After the Montreal Olympiad, he was assistant coach at Palo Alto High (197677), head coach at Gunn (197778), and assistant coach at UCLA (1978-79). In 1979-80 Horpel was named the head coach at Stanford and remained in that position for 22 years before taking over as the Director of Wrestling.

In his 24 years on the Farm, coach Horpel achieved three impressive goals: made Stanford wrestling competitive nationally, enabled Stanford’s wrestling program to be financially self-sufficient, and made Stanford one of the top two academic wrestling teams in the U.S. (Stanford’s team GPA has averaged between a 3.2 and 3.4 every year).

Horpel has been at Gunn for 12 years, guiding the Titans to five league titles and three undefeated seasons. He also produced one to six state meet qualifiers each year for 11 straight years.

When he started at Gunn, he had 12 wrestlers for 14 weights.

He built that up to 35 wrestlers at one point and doesn’t want to see the program return to its early beginnings.

Horpel plans on coaching the Terman Middle School team this spring, where he will continue to impart his three rules: have fun, get in shape and learning something new.

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his knees. He has undergone hip surgery and even tore an ACL following one knee surgery.

“I can still roll around with these guys, but something always gets tweaked,” he said. “I like sports that throw you around and slap you in the face. (But) The older you get, the more brittle you get.”

Once he made his decision to step aside, Horpel set out to make this final season as enjoyable as possible.

“I’ve been trying to appreciate everything,” he said, whether it was a dual match, a tournament or the league finals.

While he hopes to stick around and help out the program since Gunn will be hosting the SCVAL Championships next season, it won’t be as the head coach. It’s time, he says, to start enjoying the things that he missed.

Horpel grew up in Newport Beach and learned to surf. He now enjoys windsurfing and traveling

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JANE JONES 650.325.6161 CalBRE #01847801

SAN JOSE | OPEN SAT&SUN 1:30-4:30

MICHELLE CHANG 650.325.6161

812 LA MESA DR $2,690,000 Spacious, mid-century modern Ladera home [MXL SJ½GI QIHME VSSQ ERH VIG VSSQ 7TIGXEGYPEV ZMI[W ERH I\GIPPIRX WGLSSPW 0E1IWE GSQ &6 &%

SAN MATEO | SAT/SUN 1:30-4:30

MENLO PARK | OPEN SAT/SUN 1:30-4:30

REDWOOD CITY | OPEN SAT/SUN 12-4:30

GIL ORAHA 650.325.6161

GINNY KAVANAUGH & DEAN ASBORNO 650.255.2147

WOODSIDE | OPEN SUNDAY

LOS ALTOS | PENDING

ALEXANDRA VON DER GROEBEN 650.325.6161

PORTOLA VALLEY | OPEN SUN 1:30-4:30

2881 DREW CT $985,000 Turnkey home in the Village. 12,700 sq.ft lot. Quiet cul-de-sac. This unique lot meets the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s requirements for a detached 2nd dwelling unit.

SUNNYVALE | OPEN SAT/SUN 1:30-4:30

JACKIE COPPLE 650.325.6161

JCopple@cbnorcal.com CalBRE #00694380

680 CRESCENT AV Call for Price Enjoy this ideally located Sunset Oaks end unit townhouse w/ Cupertino schls; inside PEYRHV] GEV KEV RIEV 7YRR]ZEPI 7IRMSV

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