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678 College Avenue, Menlo Park Offered at $2,298,000 Allied Arts Home With Mediterranean Charm Showcasing light-filled rooms with lovely details, this 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 2,050 sq. ft. (per county) has a detached 2-car garage with 1 additional bedroom/bonus room of 230 sq. ft. (per seller) on a lot of 7,800 sq. ft. (per county). The interior presents crown molding, natural hardwood floors, and dual-pane windows throughout. A gracious living room features a brick fireplace, while the formal dining room provides a vaulted trey ceiling. A breakfast nook with bar seating adjoins the generous sky-lit kitchen. The updated master suite includes a media center and a private patio, while a jetted tub accentuates the master bath. One of the large bedrooms offers a walk-in closet, and the den presents a built-in desk. The partly covered terrace is the perfect size for outdoor entertaining. Steps from both Nealon Park and Safeway, you will also be near the Allied Arts Guild and downtown Menlo Park. Nearby schools include Oak Knoll Elementary (API 961), Hillview Middle (API 950), and Menlo-Atherton High (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
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Upfront
Local news, information and analysis
Teachers agree to use online homework system New requirement to use Schoology intended to prevent stressful stacking of tests, projects
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by Elena Kadvany
he Palo Alto Unified School District’s secondary school teachers will be required next school year to use online school management system Schoology to post all course information, homework and grades under a new contract with the Palo Alto
Educators Association (PAEA). All secondary teachers will now have to post their course syllabus, instructional materials, assignment handouts, graded homework assignments and assessment due dates on the Schoology site. Test and quiz dates would be posted on the Scho-
ology calendar, with the exception of pop quizzes, according to a staff report on the new contract. Posting of assessment, test and quiz results will be required at least every three weeks, the report states. The contract, which the Board of Education discussed but is not slated to ratify until its June 9 meeting, met with praise from board member Ken Dauber. “The universal use of Schoology has really long been a goal of
many in the district,” Dauber said. “Having our teachers step forward to make that commitment is going to be of great value to students and parents in the community. This will help us not only with obvious issues like enabling students to be better organized and better able to track their work — and parents — but it will also help us with issues like test and projecting stacking. “The ability to look across a student’s workload and understand
when things are due is really difficult to do without a tool like this and will become much easier to do,” Dauber said. “I think this is a really important moment, and I appreciate the fact that we’ve arrived here.” The requirement regarding Schoology follows the airing of a grievance the teachers union filed against Gunn High School Principal Denise Herrmann in (continued on page 16)
HOUSING
Buena Vista closure OK’d Palo Alto City Council vote clears the way for mobile-home park’s shuttering by Gennady Sheyner n a decision that may signal the ria on April 14 to revise his methodend for Palo Alto’s only mo- ology, he responded with a scathing bile-home park, city officials letter in which he declined to peron Tuesday affirmed the property form the assignment and accused owner’s right to shut down the the council of pressuring him. Prior to Tuesday’s hearing, attorBuena Vista Mobile Home Park. By a unanimous vote, the City neys for the Buena Vista Residents Council approved the Jissers’ clo- Association argued that the city sure application, paving the way should hire a different appraiser for the family to commence the and start the closure process anew. The Jissers’ attorney, Margasix-month process of evicting the park’s roughly 400 residents. In a ret Nanda, countered that local decision that several council mem- law does not require the value of bers characterized as difficult but schools and safety to be specificalfair, the council also directed staff ly assessed and accused the counto hire an appraiser to review the cil of rewriting the law on the fly. methodology used in the Reloca- By insisting on the revised scope, tion Impact Report, which ana- Nanda argued, the council “has lyzed how much relocation assis- skirted the border of influencing tance the residents should receive. appraisals with political ideology.” “The City Council is clearly not Despite emotional testimony from residents and attorneys at a licensed appraising body,” Nanthe Tuesday meeting, the council’s da wrote in a memo prior to Tuesvote was in some ways a foregone day’s hearing. “The City Council conclusion. On April 14, members has no authority to engage in the unanimously approved the closure act of appraising by amending an application on a tentative basis by appraiser’s scope of work — parrejecting an appeal from the Bue- ticularly with the unabashed inna Vista Residents Association, tention of affecting the valuation which challenged the adequacy of outcome of the appraisals.” By opting for the peer review, the the Relocation Impact Report. Yet in a nod to the residents’ concerns, council charted a middle course. the council on Tuesday agreed to Councilman Greg Scharff made the hire an appraiser who would con- motion to go ahead with the review, duct a peer review of the appraisal which was suggested by City Attorin the Relocation Impact Report. ney Molly Stump, and his colleagues The council also agreed to allow quickly added their voices of support. “I think this is a fair process that each resident to appeal the appraisal of his or her property to takes into consideration the concerns that have been raised today,” Scharff a hearing officer within 30 days. The council’s decision to com- said. “I think it’s the right approach.” Councilman Cory Wolbach mission a peer review was prompted by concerns that the prior agreed, though he also stressed appraisal, conducted by David Bec- the need to reach some sort of caria of Beccaria & Weber, failed conclusion in a process that ofto specifically consider the city’s ficially kicked off in November vaunted school system and the 2012, when the Jisser family filed park’s safe conditions in determin- its closure application. ing the value of living in Palo Alto. After the council directed Becca(continued on page 13)
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Last look at Ohlone’s pond
Ohlone Elementary School third-grader Kylie Yen, center, takes a close look at a branch covered with mosquito-fish egg sacks while Naomi Tan looks on during their last day of visiting the school’s farm before the end of the school year. The farm features a native garden (with the pond), vegetable garden and live animals, including chickens, goats and sheep.
HOUSING
In Buena Vista aftermath: sadness, hope Mobile-home park residents to continue fighting to save their homes
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esidents of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto said they are expecting eviction letters any day now since the Palo Alto City Council voted on Tuesday to allow the owner to close the property. But amid the worry and tears, they are still hopeful that they can work out a deal with the owners, the Jisser family, despite more than two years of difficult and sometimes bitter battling. The overall mood at the park this week was sad — but also optimistic with an undertone, for some, of defiance.
by Sue Dremann “It’s the start of a new phase,” Melodie Cheney, a board member of the Buena Vista Homeowner’s Association, said one day after the city’s verdict. “Hopefully, we can get everyone to the bargaining table.” The Jissers have twice rejected residents’ offers to purchase the park, which is home to 400 residents, including dozens of children. But circumstances change. Prometheus, the Jissers’ development partner, pulled out of an arrangement that would have given the family an estimated $30 million if 180 high-end apartments for tech workers were permitted there.
“He has not said what he wants or even if he wants to sell it,” Cheney said of patriarch Toufic Jisser, adding that she is hopeful a deal to purchase the park might be worked out with the help of funding from Santa Clara County, the City of Palo Alto and nonprofit groups. County Supervisor Joe Simitian has been working to find funding and to approach the Jissers. So far, $19 million has been identified, including $11 million in county funds and $8 million from the City of Palo Alto. (continued on page 14)
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THIS IS A SUMMARY OF COUNCIL AGENDA ITEMS. THE AGENDA WITH COMPLETE TITLES INCLUDING LEGAL DOCUMENTATION CAN BE VIEWED AT THE BELOW WEBPAGE: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/agendas/default.asp AGENDA–REGULAR MEETING–COUNCIL CHAMBERS JUNE 1, 2015 6:00 PM Study Session 1. Discussion of the City of Palo Alto 2014 Performance Report, National Citizen Survey™, and Citizen Centric Report Special Orders of the Day 2. Presentation by Matt Schlegel Regarding His Running in the Tsuchiura, Japan Marathon Consent Calendar 3. Approval of First Amendment to Contract No. S15157589, With Khalid Salman A Mohammed for the Support and Maintenance of SAP Payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) Modules to Add $116,000 for a Total Amount Not to Exceed $200,000 4. Request Approval of Authorization of Indemnity Agreement With Santa Clara Stadium Authority to Allow Provision of Requested Law Enforcement Services to Levi’s Stadium Relating to Super Bowl 50 to be Held at Levi’s Stadium on February 7, 2016 ( WWYV]HS VM H :L[[SLTLU[ (NYLLTLU[ ^P[O 7HSV (S[V 7VSPJL 6Ń?JLYZÂť (ZZVJPH[PVU 7(76( 9LNHYKPUN 9L[PYLTLU[ 4LKPJHS )LULĂ„[Z" (KVW[PVU of Resolution Amending the Memorandum of Understanding Between [OL *P[` HUK 7(76(" (KVW[PVU VM 9LZVS\[PVU -P_PUN [OL ,TWSV`LY *VUtribution Under the Public Employees Medical and Hospital Care Act 6. Approval of an Amendment to Contract No. C12141854 With the City of Inglewood for Handling, Processing, and Collections of Parking Citations and Fees 7. Adoption of a Resolution Fixing the Employer’s Contribution Under the Public Employees Medical and Hospital Care Act (PEMHCA) With Respect to Non-CalPERS Elected Council Members Action Items 8. PUBLIC HEARING: Approval of a Record of Land Use Action (RLUA) to Allow the Demolition of an Existing 10,800 sq. ft. Two-Story Mid*LU[\Y` 4VKLYU 6Ń?JL )\PSKPUN HUK *VUZ[Y\J[PVU VM H 5L^ ZX M[ ;OYLL :[VY` 6Ń?JL )\PSKPUN MVY HU 0UJYLHZL VM 5L[ 5L^ ZX M[ The New Building would Have One Level of Below Grade Parking and a Roof Terrace and is Located in the Community Commercial (CC(2)) Zone District at 2555 Park Boulevard. The Requested Action Includes Approval of Architectural Review and Approval of a Design Enhancement Exception Request to Allow Two Stair Towers and a Roof Top Canopy Structure to Exceed the Height Limit by Ten and Thirteen Feet 9LZWLJ[P]LS`" (KVW[PVU VM H 9LZVS\[PVU *LY[PM`PUN [OL -PUHS ,U]PYVUTLUtal Impact Report (EIR) and a Statement of Overriding Considerations. The Planning and Transportation Commission Has Recommended ApWYV]HS VM [OL ,09 ,U]PYVUTLU[HS 0TWHJ[ (ZZLZZTLU[! *LY[PĂ„JH[PVU VM an Environmental Impact Report and Statement of Overriding Considerations + PZJ\ZZPVU HUK +PYLJ[PVU [V :[HŃœ 9LNHYKPUN ,Z[HISPZOTLU[ VM HU 6Ń?JL R&D Annual Growth Limit Applicable to Downtown, the California Avenue Area, and the El Camino Corridor on an Interim Basis STANDING COMMITTEE ;OL *V\UJPS (WWVPU[LK 6Ń?JLYÂťZ *VTTP[[LL :WLJPHS 4LL[PUN ^PSS IL VU Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 5:00 PM and will discuss: Review of RFP Responses for CAO Evaluation and possible recommendation to Council for Contract. AGENDA–SPECIAL MEETING–COUNCIL CHAMBERS JUNE 4, 2015 6:00 PM 1.
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I felt like my heart just tore apart. — Nicolas, 11, a Buena Vista Mobile Home Park resident, upon hearing the City Council’s vote Tuesday to close the park. See story on page 5.
Around Town
A NEW TRADITION ... At Gunn High School’s graduation ceremony this Wednesday, June 3, there will be no caps decorated with bejeweled college names or fanciful logos. The senior class agreed to ban all college-related cap decorations this year and instead celebrate something of significance to them, said Principal Denise Herrmann, who brought the idea to students this spring. Graduation “is a time to celebrate what students have accomplished in their K-12 education, not to provide advertising for colleges and universities,� she continued. “The students were encouraged to decorate their caps with something that is meaningful to them — music, sports, passions, hobbies, high school successes, etc.� Student Noa Livneh penned an opinion piece in Gunn’s student newspaper The Oracle last month in support of the ban. “Not only does decorating grad caps defeat the purpose of graduation, it makes many students anxious and sends a message to the community saying that all that matters about high school graduation is the college on top of the cap,� she wrote. In a counter-piece, student Erica Watkins argues that the ban is an ineffective, symbolic gesture that sends the wrong message about the school’s approach to school-related stress. “As stress is a healthy, common part of life, it would do all of our students a greater service to teach us how to deal with it rather than eradicate it,� she wrote. “We are all moving on to the real world, and that is an accomplishment that students should be able to show to their community, whatever it is they are doing after high school.� The pro-ban camp prevailed, however, and the senior class held two cap-decorating parties after school this week to get in the spirit. Senior Rose Weinmann, for example, chose to decorate hers with two words, “think responsibly,� borrowed from an ad in The Economist. DROUGHT? WHAT DROUGHT? ... Let there be water! In honor of graduates and their families, Stanford University will ever-so-briefly turn on 18 of the campus’ 21 fountains for Commencement Weekend. The fountains, which were shut down and drained in response to the state’s prolonged drought, will be brought back online beginning June 1, with the Tanner Fountain in front of Memorial Auditorium and the Serra Fountain in front of
the Hewlett Teaching Center, according to the Stanford Report. The White Memorial Fountain, located in White Plaza, will start flowing June 4, along with the fountain in front of Old Union. All 18 fountains will be operating by June 9. But never fear, water savers: The fountains, which require about 60,000 gallons of the liquid gold, will be shut off the day after graduation, June 15, and the water will be stored and used throughout the summer for routine tree irrigation. FIRE TRUCKS FOR OAXACA ... The City of Palo Alto has initiated efforts to donate four surplus fire vehicles to its sister city of Oaxaca, Mexico. For years Palo Alto has supported Oaxacan firefighters by sending surplus vehicles (nine trucks have been sent to Oaxaca, a city located about 300 miles south of Mexico City) and emergency supplies. To assist with this effort, Tacolicious, a restaurant in downtown Palo Alto, is hosting a fundraiser on Friday, May 29, with Manuel Maz, the fire chief of Oaxaca, Palo Alto Mayor Karen Holman and Palo Alto Fire Chief Eric Nickel. The event will raise funds to transport the four vehicles from Palo Alto to Oaxaca. The vehicle donation has been financially supported in the past by Neighbors Abroad, Palo Alto Kiwanis International, Palo Alto Rotary and Palo Alto University Rotary. “We are delighted to be able to give these vehicles to our sister city knowing how much they are appreciated and the care they will receive,� said Marion Mandell, vice president for Oaxaca for the sistercity nonprofit Neighbors Abroad of Palo Alto. For more information, visit firetrucksoaxaca.eventbrite.com. BRACELETS FOR COUNSELING ... Two Palo Alto High School seniors started selling handmade bead bracelets this week to support Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS), a Palo Alto nonprofit that provides on-campus counseling to Paly and Gunn students, student news website the Paly Voice reported. Seniors Claire Chevallier and Emma Chiu began selling the bracelets earlier this month, hoping to support a service on their campus that has been overloaded after several teen deaths by suicide in the district this year, the Voice reported. All proceeds will go directly to ACS. The bracelets, available in several colors, are $25 each and can be purchased by contacting either Chevallier or Chiu on Facebook. Q
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Stanford student speaks out against ‘culture of retaliation’ Investigator: Fraternity members harassed woman they wrongly assumed reported them to Title IX office option of reporting. “I was afraid of what would happen if I did,” she wrote in the Daily op-ed. Stanford’s Title IX office decided to open an investigation into SAE last summer after hearing about the May party and two alcohol-related hospitalizations that also occurred that night, Bloch-Horowitz said. This was not the first time that the university had heard of misconduct at SAE or that the fraternity had been sanctioned over alcohol use and harassment of women. Bloch-Horowitz’s involvement in the Title IX case occurred over the summer, when an independent investigator hired to look into SAE approached her. She said she decided to speak to her because it was “the right thing to do,” she told the Weekly. They spoke for about half an hour; Bloch-Horowitz recounted what she had witnessed at the event. She wasn’t concerned about her name getting out — she had been promised confidentiality both in writing and during the conversation with the investigator — and felt comfortable knowing that there were other students cooperating, she said. (The university said a total of 30 people were interviewed for the investigation.) “All I did was tell the truth about what happened and what I felt, and somewhat naively, I never thought that telling the truth would put me
‘Given the retaliation I faced for merely being thought to have reported harassment, I don’t know if I could face actually reporting a case of assault.’ —Tess Bloch-Horowitz, sophomore, Stanford University Some members of SAE erroneously assumed she was the reason the university had slapped their fraternity with a two-year housing suspension earlier in the year. The sanction followed a sexual-harassment investigation into a party hosted by SAE in May 2014, which the university in December said infringed upon the rights of female students in attendance “in a discriminatory manner.” Female students were “subjected to highly offensive material” that contained graphic sexual content and offensive comments regarding domestic physical abuse of women, the university said. SAE leadership declined to comment for this story. Bloch-Horowitz attended that party — and even got up and walked out with several other women after a series of sexist jokes were told, she said — but did not report it to the university. She said she and the other students who left talked about being offended but didn’t consider the
in a situation like this,” she said. SAE members found out that she spoke to the investigator and began spreading rumors, blaming her for the loss of their house in December despite the fact that the university told them that no individual had filed a report in the first place, Bloch-Horowitz said. Together with her parents, she decided to contact the investigator to find out how SAE had gotten her name in the first place (a question that still remains unanswered, she said). Then the retaliation got even worse. Once the investigator learned about the harassment against Bloch-Horowitz, that set off a series of events that had the unwelcome effect of making the harassment greater, she said. The investigator called Title IX Coordinator Catherine Criswell, who then emailed SAE’s leadership and legal adviser, who then reached out to every member to “warn them to stop their behavior,” her Daily piece states.
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Stanford University statement released last week curtly revealed that members of the school’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity had in recent months engaged in “intimidating and retaliatory conduct, including acts of cyberbullying, directed at another student based on a false belief that the student had reported Title IX concerns about SAE.” The next day, that student stepped forward, offering the public a rare view into a Title IX investigation at a university that has come under fire over the past year for its handling of students’ sexualassault complaints. Tess BlochHorowitz, a sophomore, penned an opinion piece published in the student newspaper, the Stanford Daily, titled, “On living in fear of telling the truth: My experience with SAE, retaliation and Title IX.” Bloch-Horowitz, herself a member of Stanford Greek life, wrote about being harassed by members of the fraternity to her face during a spring-break trip in Mexico (which she cut short, feeling unsafe), behind her back to friends and on social-media platforms. (She shared a screenshot from the anonymous polling app Whatsgoodly, showing a poll titled, “Does Bloch report things?” with the percentage of voters who selected “everything,” “she hates fun” or “f--- her.”)
by Elena Kadvany
Stanford University’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has lost its house indefinitely, but not its charter, after a university investigation found that its members engaged in acts of intimidation and retaliation over sexual-harassment reporting. “As I had feared, this only increased the harassment,” she wrote. When she returned to campus, Bloch-Horowitz met with Criswell, who told her the university would be moving forward with a new investigation “with or without my cooperation or consent,” Bloch-Horowitz said. Bloch-Horowitz said she decided to share her story publicly after she returned from Cabo, wanting both to set the record straight and to confront the culture around reporting on campus. “SAE decided to target me by making my name synonymous with reporting. The irony is that while I was not that person to begin with, their actions have forced me to become someone who is willing to embrace the title and finally stand up and speak out against them,” she wrote in the Daily. “I am a victim of harassment and retaliation, and this experience has been among the hardest I have ever had to deal with,” she wrote. “I cannot imagine what it must be like for victims of violence and assault. Given the retaliation I faced for merely being thought to have reported harassment, I don’t know if I could face actually reporting a case of assault. And I am not willing to become a cautionary tale, an example of the reasons why people shouldn’t report.” She’s insistent that her speaking out is not about her case but instead a “culture of retaliation” — and fear — that permeates life at Stanford and many other colleges. “Obviously, that’s very real at Stanford,” she told the Weekly. She said after her piece came out, she started receiving emails and hearing from other students who said they had gone through the same thing — or worse, she said. For retaliating against BlochHorowitz, deterring another stu-
dent from reporting a Title IX concern and violating an alcohol suspension, Stanford last week declared SAE an unhoused fraternity, indefinitely. The fraternity will also be placed on probationary status for three years — still a recognized student organization, but “considered a chapter not in good standing,” the university said. SAE can appeal these sanctions. Bloch-Horowitz questioned the university’s discipline in light of a condition of the fraternity’s previous suspension: that any further misconduct could result in additional consequences, “up to and including loss of charter recognition.” “Stanford’s decision to allow SAE to keep their charter, despite their knowledge of SAE’s failure to change and their ability to impose that sanction, makes me question how seriously they take retaliation,” she wrote in the Daily. “By not following through, is Stanford telling us that retaliation doesn’t matter enough? ... And are they telling future victims that they shouldn’t bother to come forward, because their voices will not be heard?” Bloch-Horowitz said it feels like mixed messaging from the university, which has stated it “finds most egregious and will not tolerate conduct that intimidates students for speaking out when they believe they or others have been wronged.” However, she said her personal interactions with administrators have been positive. “I guess they’re trying to be diplomatic, but it’s very, very difficult,” she said. “When it comes to an issue like this, there’s no decision that can be made that will make everyone happy. I think a lot of times universities are trying to reach compromises when you shouldn’t be compromising ... on the safety of your students.”
Despite the negative impact of the retaliation, it has spurred BlochHorowitz to action. As part of a new Violence Intervention and Prevention program within Greek life, she’s going to be leading a working group with the Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse (SARA) office and Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life “to foster a culture that condemns retaliation and supports those who come forward.” The group will provide resources, offer prevention education and advocate for policy changes to protect both victims and witnesses of sexual assault or sexual harassment. Bloch-Horowitz said she was overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from both friends and strangers after her piece was published. She said she hasn’t heard from any SAE members. Some administrators thanked her for sharing her story and “working to do something to try and create change on a level that they can’t really necessarily reach,” she said. But she said the most challenging thing to hear, ironically, was from those who called her brave for speaking out. “I take that as a compliment, of course, but at the same time, it makes me sad. I wish it didn’t take bravery to tell the truth,” she said. “I don’t want to live in a culture where it’s brave to speak out against what’s wrong. I want to live somewhere where that’s the norm.” To read Bloch-Horowitz’s op-ed piece, go to http://bit.ly/1dyzppi. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com. The Palo Alto Weekly has created an archive of past news articles, social media reaction and other content related to the ongoing sexual assault issues at Stanford University. To view it, go to storify.com/paloaltoweekly.
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Upfront
News Digest Palo Alto looks to rethink animal services
With Palo Alto’s animal services limping toward an uncertain future, the City Council’s Finance Committee on Tuesday agreed to spend $250,000 to evaluate the next steps for the much maligned but popular operation. The funding allocation for animal services ultimately won support from all four council members, despite the fact that neither the committee nor staff know at this time how the money will be spent. Everyone agreed, however, that major changes are in store for a service that now costs the city about $900,000 annually and that was recently described by the city auditor as “outdated and inadequate to meet modern animal-care standards.” Now, staff is considering several options for the shelter’s future. One would be to partner with a regional animal-services nonprofit such as the Palo Alto Humane Society, which would then raise funds and operate the shelter. Another plan would involve a partnership between the city and a local nonprofit, which would then lead the fundraising effort for shelter improvements. The funding allocation was one of several big-ticket items that generated a robust debate at the Finance Committee’s final budget-review session. While the committee voted unanimously to recommend approval of City Manager James Keene’s budget for fiscal year 2016, it did so only after rejecting Keene’s requests for sustainability consultants and for a third code-enforcement officer. Another position, a recreation superintendent, only remained in the budget after a 3-1 vote, with committee Chair Greg Schmid and Councilmen Eric Filseth and Greg Scharff supporting it and Councilwoman Liz Kniss dissenting. Q — Gennady Sheyner
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In the latest sign of Palo Alto’s hotel boom, Marriott has proposed to build two five-story hotels on San Antonio Road that between them would include 301 rooms. The proposal, which the city’s Architectural Review Board will consider for the first time on June 4, calls for the merging of two commercial sites at 744 and 748 San Antonio Road and constructing two separate Marriott hotels. One would be a Courtyard by Marriott while the other would be AC by Marriott, a brand that is firmly established in Europe and geared toward a more hip, urban and cosmopolitan clientele. The two buildings would be separated by an interior courtyard featuring a swimming pool and a spa, according to the conceptual landscape plan. Marriott’s new hotel complex would replace two small commercial buildings east of Middlefield Road, including the building currently housing the automobile-service shop Street FX Customs in a largely commercial area near the city’s border with Mountain View. According to the proposed site plan, each building would be five stories tall. Courtyard by Marriott would have 148 rooms, while AC by Marriott would have 153. The complex would include 235 parking spaces, 186 of which would be in an underground garage while the rest would be in a surface lot. With the local economy thriving, hotel vacancy rates at historic lows and hotel-tax revenues on the rise, the city has seen a number of hotels recently open its doors. These include the Epiphany Hotel at 180 Hamilton Ave., which replaced Casa Olga in downtown last year, and Homewood Suites by Hilton, which has taken over property once occupied by Palo Alto Bowl on the southern end of El Camino Real, and Hilton Garden Inn, less than two blocks north of Homewood at 4214 El Camino. On the northern end of El Camino, Westin is in the process of building an annex, a project that is expected to be completed next year. Q — Gennady Sheyner
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A tenfold expansion of the Bay Area Bike Share program was unanimously approved May 27 by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. The expansion to more than 7,000 bicycles, set to be completed by 2017, would introduce the program in the East Bay and come at no cost to taxpayers, MTC officials said. Palo Alto, Mountain View and Redwood City could get up to 155 bikes split among the three cities, though bike sharing has not proven to be particularly popular and the cities may decide to abandon bike sharing altogether, according to MTC officials. A Palo Alto bike has a usage rate of 0.21 trips per day, fewer than both Mountain View (0.48) and San Jose (0.39). Since the program launched in 2013, Palo Alto has experienced fewer than 5,000 total trips. Bike sharing, a subscription service where bikes are available at docking stations for short rides, was first introduced in the Bay Area in 2013 with 700 bikes at 70 docking stations in Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Francisco, Redwood City and San Jose. Q — Bay City News Service
Upfront DEVELOPMENT
Palo Alto cap on office development threatens projects underway City Council set to consider details of ordinance to limit commercial growth by Gennady Sheyner
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alo Alto’s push to limit growth in office space may jeopardize as many as 10 proposed developments, some of which have been going through the city’s planning process for more than two years and are now on the verge of final approval. The fate of these “pipeline” projects is one of the main questions that the City Council will debate on June 1, when it considers next steps for an emergency law capping office growth. The council unanimously endorsed in March a cap of 50,000 square feet for new office and research-anddevelopment space downtown, in the California Avenue area and along El Camino Real. The urgency law, which will require eight votes to pass, is part of a broad package of initiatives that the city is now undertaking to address the unwelcome consequences of recent office development. Those consequences include more traffic, less parking and rising rents that make life difficult for small businesses. City data show that between fiscal year 2001 and today, the city has seen its office and research-anddevelopment space increase by 346,322 square feet. The bulk of this growth, according to the data, took place in Stanford Research Park, the downtown area and around California Avenue. Over the same period, the city has lost 20,172 square feet of retail space, according to a report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment. While the entire council agreed on March 23 that office growth needs to be curbed and that an annual cap is a good way to do it, the details have yet to be hammered out. Among the most crucial details are the 13 commercial and mixed-use projects currently in the pipeline, 10 of which are located in the three targeted commercial areas. Altogether, the developments would add close to 150,000 square feet of office and research-and-development space, with more than two-thirds going up in the California Avenue area. Among the more prominent projects on the list is 441 Page Mill Road, a three-story mixeduse building that would replace four dilapidated single-family dwellings on a largely commercial block. After two years of public hearings, the project by Norm Schwab last year secured the blessing of the city’s planning commissioners but ran into an obstacle in January, when the City Council declined to grant the developer a requested zone change and requested a new financial analysis. The building, which in-
cludes offices and 10 apartments, would add 16,006 square feet of net new development, according to planning staff. Another long-simmering project that now finds itself in planning limbo is 2555 Park Blvd. The proposal has been in the pipeline since fall 2013 and has just made its way to the final step of the approval process, with the City Council set to make a decision on June 1. The developer, Campbell Avenue LLC, has proposed replacing an existing two-story office building with a new threestory one, adding 13,666 square feet of office space.
‘This would mean the loss of the very office workers who now support Palo Alto’s vibrant economy and robust retail environment.’ —Judy Kleinberg, CEO, Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce Two nearby projects, at 2747 Park and at 3045 Park, were proposed last fall, and each has an application that is currently deemed incomplete. The two developments would add 28,200 square feet and 29,120 square feet of new development, respectively. If the council agrees on June 1 to go along with a staff recommendation, the new office cap would not apply to projects with pending applications that are deemed “complete” by the end of the fiscal year, June 30, even if they have yet to secure the final vote of approval from the council. This means that the proposed development at 429 University Ave., the former site of the Shady Lane boutique, and the projects at 441 Page Mill, 2555 Park and 3877 El Camino Real (the lattermost of which would add a comparatively paltry 4,020 square feet) would all be exempt. Though it has yet to be implemented, the proposal to cap office growth has already generated plenty of community debate, with some characterizing it as too weak and others saying it’s too heavy-handed. The Chamber of Commerce came out strongly against the cap in March, with Chamber CEO Judy Kleinberg arguing it would have a “chilling effect on business productivity, with the possible unintended consequence of forcing businesses that want to grow to move to more business-friendly cities.”
“This would mean the loss of the very office workers who now support Palo Alto’s vibrant economy and robust retail environment and who are a major source of revenue for the City’s General Fund,” Kleinberg said in a statement before the council’s earlier discussion. Several high-tech giants, including Hewlett-Packard Co., SAP, Google and VMWare also issued letters slamming the proposed cap. Their concerns were largely addressed, however, when the council decided that the cap should only apply to three commercial areas and not to Stanford Research Park, where most hightech campuses are based. Others have argued that the cap doesn’t go far enough and urged the council to adopt a moratorium on office growth. Local resident and land-use watchdog Jeff Levinsky called a moratorium the “simplest approach of all” and one that would give the city the needed “breathing room” to develop solutions to the problems of excessive growth. Barron Park resident and recent City Council candidate Lydia Kou made a similar point and said a temporary moratorium is needed to “close all the development loopholes and clean up zoning.” The council, for its part, has taken a hard line when it comes to new office developments. Last November’s election brought a slow-growth “residentialist” majority to the council, which is now taking an increasingly skeptical and at times adversarial stance toward commercial proposals. In one of its first land-use actions, the council demanded a new financial analysis for the 441 Page Mill application. More recently, it upheld a citizen’s appeal of a fourstory mixed-use project at 429 University and mandated a host of design changes for the project. In addition to deciding which way to go with the pipeline projects, the council is set to consider the exact boundaries of each commercial area where the cap would be in effect; the commercial uses that would be governed by the cap; and the criteria that the council would use in choosing between competing office projects. If the council formally adopts the criteria that were proposed on March 23, applications would be judged based on their intensity of use, their parking and traffic impacts, quality of design, environmental quality and the “monetary and/or non-monetary value of public benefits offered.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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Upfront EDUCATION
Report: Early education, math key to closing Palo Alto’s achievement gap Committee’s most urgent recommendations to return for school board approval June 9 by Elena Kadvany
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fter years of piecemeal efforts to reduce the achievement gap between minority and other students in the Palo Alto school district, the Board of Education expressed support Tuesday night for a set of robust and ambitious recommendations on the issue. Superintendent Max McGee’s minority-achievement and talentdevelopment committee presented Tuesday its top 12 recommendations, which urge the district to tackle problems as complex as an underlying and unconscious narrative of bias that “permeates the system at all levels,” one committee member said. Other recommendations include regularly testing young students on reading and math to provide early intervention help when necessary; evaluating the district’s myriad intervention and support programs; and creating an “equity coordinator” position to monitor the district’s efforts to increase opportunity, access and diversity. “This is the beginning of a historical day in Palo Alto Unified School District,” McGee told the board Tuesday. “While we have seen episodic improvements in serving (historically underrepresented students) ... it has been far too long since we’ve seen a systemic approach.” Several board members stressed that early intervention and the
placement of students into subjectmatter lanes deserve heightened focus and attention. The regular diagnostic testing of pre-kindergarten through second-grade students in math and literacy is the committee’s No. 1 recommendation. Board member Terry Godfrey reflected on a “College Readiness” report prepared by a former district administrator in 2013 that showed elementary school students’ proficiency scores on standardized tests in elementary school were powerful predictors of their ability to complete A-G subject requirements in high school. (A-G, the coursework required by the California State University and University of California systems, is considered one measure for college readiness.) “I carried that report with me for ages. ... I just thought, ‘Oh my god, how can we let this happen?’” Godfrey said. “Being there early often feels like the right thing to do.” Parent and co-chair of the group Parent Advocates for Student Success (PASS) Sara Woodham echoed Godfrey’s sentiments, saying, “It’s so much easier to solve these problems with our younger children than it is to ask our high school staff and teachers to address issues that literally — they get these kids overnight, but these issues with the kids have been
building for years and years. It starts with early education.” Board member Heidi Emberling suggested that further “low-hanging fruit” around early education could be to expand enrollment in the district’s six-month Springboard to Kindergarten program, aimed at children about to enter Palo Alto schools with no previous preschool experience, but noted that child care and transportation are barriers for some families. Board member Ken Dauber raised the topic of laning, which begins in middle school mathematics classes. The committee, unable to find consensus on what has historically been a contentious topic of debate in Palo Alto, recommended that the district start by creating clear objective and well-communicated information about laning, especially for parents of historically underrepresented students. Committee co-chair Judy Argumedo, who oversees the district’s Voluntary Transfer Program (VTP) and English Language Development, said that she herself as a new parent in the district was unaware of how to get her daughter — who loves math and gets straight A’s in the subject — into a higher lane math class when the family moved to Palo Alto from Los Angeles. Parents must fill out a waiver in
MENTAL HEALTH
Simitian: ‘Significant’ need for inpatient psych beds for teens County supervisor pushes for analysis feasibility of opening unit in Santa Clara County
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fter several months of researching the demand for adolescent inpatient psychiatric services in Santa Clara County — and the utter lack of hospital beds for youth in crisis — Supervisor Joe Simitian is bringing to the Board of Supervisors a request for staff to analyze the feasibility of opening an inpatient unit for children and adolescents. An average of 20 adolescents each day are receiving inpatient psychiatric care outside of the county, according to Simitian’s report to his colleagues. Teens in crisis who seek emergency care at local hospitals are sent outside of the county to be hospitalized, with the closest available beds to Palo Alto at Mills-Peninsula Health Services in San Mateo. Teens from all over the county can be sent to fartherflung hospitals in San Francisco,
by Elena Kadvany Berkeley, Fremont, Vallejo, Concord and even Sacramento. Adolescent inpatient psychiatric units in the Bay Area run as large as 34 beds at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley and as small as 17 at Mills-Peninsula. Four-hundred and twenty-four Santa Clara County youths who were either uninsured or on MediCal visited out-of-county hospitals from last July through this February, and each stayed an average of 6.6 days, according to Simitian. There were 653 duplicated visits by Santa Clara County youth to out-of-county hospitals during the same period. More than 200 commercially insured youth and 189 uninsured or Medi-Cal beneficiaries were sent for treatment outside of the county after seeking care at the nonprofit EMQ Families First’s new Crisis Stabilization Unit in Campbell.
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“To the extent that this is a question of medical economics, I think the numbers pretty clearly indicate we have a real and significant need right here in Santa Clara County,” Simitian said Monday. “This is a tangible, specific, fixable shortcoming in the system,” he added. After hearing from a parent in the community about the local dearth of inpatient beds for teens, Simitian said, he and his staff began looking into the issue. He said he was startled to discover this reality, especially in one of the largest counties in the country. But with fresh leadership at the top of his organization — the county hired a new Department of Behavioral Health Services director in November — and a clear, demonstrated need, Simitian said he’s “cautiously optimistic” that the county can help
order to do so, but fewer than 10 students of color at all three middle schools requested parent waivers in a recent year, Argumedo said. She added that documents about the waiver process were not translated into other languages; only one informational parents night was held; and the district’s rubric for assigning students to various lanes was not provided to parents ahead of time. “It’s not transparent. Parents aren’t aware, and it becomes this really dicey situation that’s really not clear and ultimately is harming students,” said committee member Avani Patel, a former teacher from the Ravenswood City School District. “Parents shouldn’t have to know the system in order to get their kids into a position to take advantage of the opportunities that we have,” Dauber added. In its report to the board, the committee also notes that a subjective process for math laning in middle school “has created a significant divide among students.” Sixth-grade teachers recommend students for a certain lane based on a nine-point rubric and placement test, the results of which can affect students’ opportunity to take higher-level classes in high school. Committee members described Palo Alto’s laning process as deserving of further review. Eighth-grade Algebra 1 is also often considered a gatekeeper class to success in high school and college, and subjective misplacement for minority students can have a devastating, long-term impact. A 2010 study that looked at math placement in nine school districts in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties found that disproportionate numbers of African American, Latino and Pacific Islander students were forced to repeat Algebra I in freshman year, which derails their path to comlocal teens access inpatient psychiatric care closer to home. The county’s primary concern is to create a safety net for lower-income families whose adolescents are on Medi-Cal or uninsured, but having an inpatient unit within the county would be a communitywide benefit, Simitian said. “It’s both a question of, how do we make sure that the kid who is getting help gets it in the best possible set of circumstances but also that we don’t essentially allow the existing system to be a deterrent for families who just aren’t able or willing to send a youngster off to a remote location,” he said. Simitian will be requesting at the June 9 Board of Supervisors meeting for staff to prepare a report within the next six months on the feasibility of either opening or contracting for an inpatient psychiatric unit to be located in the county. Staff will be asked to look at potential impacts on youth and families; potential cost-savings and expenditures of opening or contracting for such a unit; the appropriate size of the unit given the known population; feasibility of creating or contracting with a “flex” unit to account for known decreases in the patient popula-
pleting the A-G requirements. Dauber noted that the end of sixth grade “is a very early time to be making the kind of decisions that have this kind of consequence” and urged the committee to further explore the process. Board President Melissa Baten Caswell pointed to the Cupertino Union School District, which she said recently created an expectation that all students get to algebra by eighth grade, with positive results. Community and board members, although optimistic and supportive of the committee’s report, expressed concern that the ambitious set of recommendations could, like much of the district’s past work on complex equity issues, fall by the wayside. “If you don’t have the follow-up plan, you really suffer,” said Godfrey, citing the failed implementation of the district’s homework policy, which was similarly crafted over several months by a large committee committed to solving a pervasive issue in the district. One of the committee’s recommendations is to continue the group as a standing district committee that will run throughout the year. The new equity coordinator will also be a dedicated, district-level person charged with overseeing implementation at both the district and site levels. “If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always gotten, as the saying goes,” McGee said. “We hope this report changes these current practices that have led to historically inequitable outcomes.” The committee’s 12 most urgent recommendations will return to the school board for approval as part of a budget discussion at its June 9 meeting. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
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tion during summer months; feasibility and benefits of opening a unit within the County Hospital system versus issuing a request for proposals; and any additional considerations discovered during research on the subject. Simitian said his office has had preliminary conversations with hospitals and organizations in Santa Clara County and will continue to work with them throughout the process. “The challenge is to figure out what works and what doesn’t, and I think we know that these beds are an integral and essential part of the continuum of care,” he said. “To be here in the largest county in the Bay Area and be without that resource, that seems to me — it’s startling, at least to me.” The Board of Supervisor’s meeting will begin at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, June 9, in the Board Chambers, 70 W. Hedding St., San Jose. Q
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Neighborhoods
A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann
IMMIGRANT POWER ... The Federal Aviation Administration’s recent rollout of new flight paths for commercial jets over Palo Alto has residents taking notice. Now a group of the city’s immigrant Chinese population is getting organized around the issue, according to Stewart Carl, a founder of the noise-control group Sky Posse. About 30 Chinese-speaking residents gathered recently to discuss the problem, with Palo Alto Realtor Juliana Lee translating many of the documents from English to Chinese, Carl said. Lee did not respond to a request for comment, but several members of the Chinese immigrant community called the Palo Alto Weekly this week to express their frustration with the overhead noise, which often begins at 5:30 a.m. and continues past midnight, they said. DUST OFF THAT BROKEN TOASTER ... Residents with broken small appliances, lamps, bicycles, computers, clothing, jewelry, toys or grandfather’s clock can come to the Repair Café in Palo Alto on Sunday, May 31, to give those old favorites new life and keep them out of the landfill. The quarterly event provides experts who show people how to fix their goods and takes place at the Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Information: repaircafe-paloalto.org. NEIGHBORHOOD PANTRY ... Nonprofit group Neighbors Helping Neighbors has had a large number of Asian families added this month to its list of people who need emergency bags of groceries in Palo Alto. Two families are multi-generational with young children, according to the nonprofit. The group needs packaged and fresh foods suitable for Asian meals: tofu, Napa cabbage, carrots, green onions, beef, chicken, pork, soy sauce and teriyaki sauce. Other needed items include fresh fruit, juice pouches and popcorn. Fresh eggs, whole grain cereals and almond milk are especially appreciated. Those wishing to drop off items can do so at Middlefield Meadows Club House, 114 Flynn Ave., Mountain View, on Friday, May 29, 2:30 to 6:30 p.m., or Saturday, May 30, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. More information: NeighborsHelpingNeighbors2013@gmail.com Q
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Frank Ingle points towards the two-story house being built next door where windows are being installed that could look into the bathroom and bedrooms, left, of his Eichler home on Richardson Court.
ZONING
Residents seek to keep their Eichler neighborhoods from growing — upward Recent city approvals of ‘McMansions’ prompt advocacy
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esidents in five Palo Alto Eichler neighborhoods said they plan to ask the city to institute zone changes that limit homes to one story on their blocks, marking the single-largest movement for such a change in the city’s history. The goal, to cap the construction of towering residences in 1950s-era neighborhoods, is coming in response to a series of recent approvals by the City Council of large, two-story homes, they said. The new homes are out of character with the neighborhoods and intrude upon privacy, members of the ad hoc Palo Alto Eichler Association said during a May 19 presentation before the Midtown Residents Association. The Eichlers’ expanses of glass let in natural sunlight, but neighbors in adjacent two-story remodels can see inside bedrooms, bathrooms and other spaces. The controversy isn’t new, particularly in the communities developed by Joseph Eichler. Palo Altans have been lobbying for so-called “single-story overlays,” which ban the addition of second
by Sue Dremann floors, in specific neighborhoods for nearly two decades. In February, the City Council conceded that guidelines for reviewing proposed homes and protecting the character of neighborhoods are flawed and should be revised. Three large remodels in the Midtown and Palo Verde neighborhoods sparked the residents’ movement, they said. Residents initially challenged approval of a 27-foot-tall remodel on Richardson Court, but they dropped the appeal after a compromise with the homeowner in August added opaque glazing and repositioned the second-story windows. In Palo Verde, residents opposed a blocky, two-story home in the 3500 block of Louis Road in May 2014. The applicant revised the plans. Residents lost their appeal over a third residence when the council approved a home on Corina Way in February. Frank Ingle, who lives on Richardson Court in the 35-home Faircourt subdivision, lives next to the new home over which residents reached a compromise. Preserving the neighborhood’s
character is as important as his privacy, he said. For Richard Willits, however, the issue is privacy, he said after the Midtown association meeting. “It’s that our homes typically have two floor-to-ceiling glass walls,” he said. Willits lives in the 213-home Royal Manor tract bounded by Loma Verde Avenue, Louis Road, West Bayshore and Greer roads, and Kenneth Drive. His neighborhood group is working to obtain the required number of signatures to petition for the overlay. In neighborhoods with covenant restrictions (CC&Rs), 60 percent of homeowners must approve of the overlay. In neighborhoods without restrictions, 70 percent approval is required, according to city code. Other neighborhoods considering single-story overlays include Faircourt, in the area of Richardson Court and Murray Way; the Triple El “extension,” east of Greer Road and Elsinore Drive; and the remainder of the Greer Park North subdivision, including Metro and Moffett circles and adjacent Eichlers on the north side of Greer and east side of Amarillo.
Adjacent Van Auken Circle already has an overlay, Chief Planning Official Amy French said. The city has approved overlays for eight neighborhoods in the past 20-plus years: Walnut Grove in 1992, followed by Adobe Meadow/Meadow Park, Greenmeadow, Garland Park/ Charleston Meadows, Triple El, and small portions of Duveneck/ St. Francis, Barron Park and Midtown, according to the city. The Planning and Transportation Commission rejected a bid by 89 Fairmeadow residents in 2010 after other residents came forward in opposition. A citygenerated survey to all 300 residences received a low response, with those for and against nearly evenly split, and the petition eventually died. Some neighborhoods have CC&Rs, or “covenants, conditions and restrictions,” which specify that only single-story homes are allowed unless a threemember, neighborhood architectural-review committee approves of an exception. But Ingle said (continued on page 13)
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Residents hope to drown out airplane noise with complaints New FAA rules have increased noise to levels some Palo Alto residents say are unbearable by Sue Dremann
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hen Amy Christel moved from Barron Park to her new Midtown Palo Alto home last summer, she welcomed the time she could spend outdoors in her garden. But the roar of low-flying commercial aircraft has her running for cover. “I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve rushed from the garden. The planes are flying so low I can read the number on the tail. My perception was, ‘Oh my God, we bought a house under the airtraffic path,’” she said. Christel initially wondered if she was only noticing the air noise because she was spending more time outdoors. But even the birds have changed their activity. “They fly away; they seek shelter. That’s the impulse I have, too,” she said. Palo Alto residents such as Christel are starting to complain to San Francisco International Airport since the Federal Aviation Administration booted up its Next-
Gen program in March. The new flight rules force aircraft to travel within a narrow corridor to free up airspace for future traffic growth. The U.S. Congress mandated the FAA to revise flight areas to make room for commercial drones and military use and to prepare for an overall increase in commercial air traffic. Some detractors of the plan have called the paths in which commercial planes now fly “superhighways.” Pilots are also instructed to use a continuous-descent pattern — coming down diagonally — as opposed to a descent in steps. That causes the engines to throttle back to reduce speed more rapidly, which increases noise, members of a Palo Alto anti-airplane-noise group, Sky Posse, have said. The problem has become so pervasive that some members of Congress, including Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jackie Speier, formed the Quiet Skies Caucus to address the issue. Three major flight paths cross over
Palo Alto, according to SFO. Christel said that data she and her husband have collected from San Francisco International Airport show that more than 100 flights a day travel less than three minutes apart within a 2-mile swath of their house. Looking at data during a 24-hour period for three Thursdays in October 2014 and February and April 2015, Christel and her scientist husband discovered the traffic over Midtown had increased 96 percent for flights traveling at 3,000 to 5,000 feet altitude, while the highest altitude flights of 5,000 to 6,000 feet decreased by 40 percent. “They’ve brought the planes down lower,” she said. The noise problem isn’t limited to Midtown. Cheryl Lilienstein of Barron Park said there is more noise since NextGen kicked in on March 5. “We’ve lived here in Barron Park over 20 years, and I remember plane noise being intermittently but minimally distracting, but the frequency and intensity
has really changed,” she said. Tiffany Pan, a Crescent Park resident, said she has definitely noticed the difference, and she has complained to SFO. She called the airport at midnight, after planes came roaring low overhead. The flights often awaken her at 5 a.m., she said. “I have a one-story house. Before, I occasionally could hear it, but now it is consistently coming by one by one. We have no control,” she said. Xu Jie, who lives near San Antonio Road, said he fears what the summer will bring when it is too hot to keep windows and doors closed. “How can we get sleep? This is an issue that affects everyone’s rights,” he said. Some neighborhood associations are using social media to inform residents of ways to complain. Barron Park resident Alison Raleigh, a member of Sky Posse, said she has lodged close to 100 complaints to SFO regarding excessive noise over the course of a single weekend. SFO spokesman Doug Yakel said the new flight rules are not entirely to blame. “As this pattern first began in March 2015, it may not correlate very highly to the stats (Christel mentions). More likely is that it is a result of several factors under review, including increased air service at San Carlos Airport as well as vectoring (direction by air traffic control) of traffic into SFO. “We’re actively involved in the Palo Alto concerns and have at-
tended Palo Alto City Council meetings to ensure we’re hearing directly from the community. We also continue to work with airlines at SFO and the FAA to review these concerns,” he said in an email. Jon Zwieg, a member of Sky Posse, said the group is actively pursuing a variety of approaches to get the FAA to listen. The group is looking to enlist Reps. Eshoo and Sam Farr (D-Central Coast) to write a congressional rider into the Appropriations Act regarding airplane-noise reductions. Sky Posse and other groups have called for a change in the 65-decibel metric used by the FAA to determine acceptable airplane noise. In April, the Office of Management and Budget green-lighted a study to see if the metric should be changed to address the increased noise pollution. Sixty-five decibels has been the standard since the 1970s when air-traffic volume was far lower than it is today. Eshoo could not be reached about sponsoring a rider for SFO. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
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“It should be resolved and this chapter in the story of Buena Vista should be closed in a reasonable time, so that all parties can move forward with whatever next steps they should pursue,� Wolbach said. In its discussion, the council reiterated several times that its options are limited. With its role in the hearing process more akin to a judge than to a legislative body, the council struggled to address the concerns of the park’s residents without infringing on the Jissers’ right to sell their land. Nanda argued in both her written and oral testimony that the council failed miserably in the latter task. She accused the council of a “blatant overreach� in its attempt to modify the scope of appraisals and contended that the appeal process for individual appraisals is “entirely procedurally improper� and “must be dismissed.� The process, which allows Buena Vista residents to challenge their appraisals in front of a hearing officer, is not in the city’s closure ordinance, she wrote in a brief. By adding it to its approval of the closure application, the council “has stepped outside the limitation of its own ordinance and engaged in the act of legislation, not adjudication,� she said. Nanda also strongly objected to a February decision by City Man-
ager James Keene to set aside $8 million to assist with a possible purchase of Buena Vista, subject to the council’s approval. In her letter, she characterized Keene’s action as evidence that he is advocating against the park’s closure. The city manager, she wrote, “acted in a way that was prejudicial to my client and has tarnished the procedural fairness of this appeal proceeding.� “The Jisser family’s rights have been infringed upon as well as their trust in the fairness of this proceeding,� she wrote. By approving the closure application, the council is now free to revert to its usual role as a legislative body and come up with other ways to assist the residents of the low-income and mostly Hispanic community. Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, a leading proponent of preserving Buena Vista, has secured $8 million in county funds, with another $3 millions possibly available, which can be added to the city’s contribution for a possible purchase of the park. Last month, the county selected the housing nonprofit The Caritas Corporation to put together an offer for the Jissers to consider. After the hearing, James Zahradka, supervising attorney for Law Foundation Silicon Valley, which is representing the residents, called the council’s vote to deny the residents’ appeal “disappointing,� but called the peer review that the council
commissioned “very important.� “It gives a chance for at least that aspect of the relocation assistance to be fair,� Zahradka told the Weekly. “It’s a big step, a big improvement over what was gonna be a very lowballed appraisal by an appraiser who we thought was compromised.� Even so, the vote dealt a blow to the residents, who found themselves staring at the prospect of imminent eviction. Erika Escalante, president of the Buena Vista Residents Association, said the residents are “very disappointed� by the vote to approve the closure application and suggested that the city could have done a bit more. Yet she told the Weekly that the council’s decision to commission the peer review will at least allow the residents to get a fair review on the appraisals. “I don’t think you can ever be mentally prepared,� she said. “Since it’s been such a long process, you’re thinking this whole time is that we’ve been positive and that something good will come out of this. Joe Simitian is ... trying to put resources together to save the park. You don’t really think that the day is finally here. Until now.� Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com. The Weekly has compiled an archive of news coverage, video and photos capturing the many voices of the people involved in the fight over Buena Vista. Go to storify.com/paloaltoweekly.
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the process can be fraught with problems. Faircourt homes, where he lives, are restricted to a single story, according to its 1957 CC&R, but enforcing that rule would pit the homeowner seeking the twostory exception against three others who are on the committee. That might lead to litigation, Ingle said. The neighborhood doesn’t even have an existing architectural committee, given that the original three members — Joseph Eichler and his sons, Richard and Edward — are deceased. To obtain a single-story designation from the city, a neighborhood must be defined by natural or man-made boundaries, such as streets or parks, and 80 percent of existing homes within the designated area must be single-story, according to the city ordinance. There are also hefty fees to be paid, Ingle said. French said the fees total nearly $8,000. Mayor Karen Holman and Councilman Tom DuBois had asked the council’s Finance Committee to consider waiving the fees, but the committee voted on May 26 not to authorize a waiver at this time, French said. “The discussion centered around a desire for additional information at a later time. For ex-
ample, the committee is interested in information regarding the numbers of neighborhoods that could be affected, whether waivers should be considered to be permanent or temporary, and other factors,� she said in an email. But other options besides singlestory overlays could also be considered, said Steven Eichler, grandson of Joseph Eichler, after the Midtown meeting. In 2010, the City of Los Angeles adopted a historicpreservation overlay in Granada Hills to protect Joseph Eichler’s only subdivision in Los Angeles. Other “Eichler zones� are possible through preservation or conservation districts, he said. Palo Alto established one such conservation district when it added the South of Forest Avenue (SOFA II) overlay, which established specific criteria to guide new housing and major additions based on the characteristics of the neighborhood. But former Planning and Community Environment Director Curtis Williams in 2008 warned the adoption of such overlays could likewise be difficult to obtain. “Staff notes that any approach to this issue, either an overlay similar to the single-story combining district or neighborhood plan standards, would be very time and staff intensive, and is likely to be highly controversial,� he wrote. Q
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Now is the time for everyone to regroup, Cheney said. “Mr. Jisser, please come to the table. Please let us know what you want. Then we can have some kind of stability,” she said. Buena Vista board member Mary Kear agreed. The Jissers’ hopeful plans to get the property rezoned to allow for the denser development might now be snagged by neighborhood opposition, considering how the Maybell project, also in Barron Park, was soundly defeated by opponents in 2013, she said. If Kear and Cheney are evicted, they fear losing work or having to make hard choices over basic necessities due to sky-high rents elsewhere, they said. “Three quarters of my paycheck would go to rent. I’d have to decide between food, rent or medical care,” Cheney said. Kear could move in with her sister, but that would be three hours away from her job, she said. Maria Martinez, who lives in one of the 12 studio apartments that are rented — not owned like the mobile homes — will get no compensation under the park closure plan. (The owner of an average two-bedroom mobile home would receive about $60,000 as a lump-sum payment, according to figures provided by the Jissers’
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Umbelina, left, and Maria Martinez, sisters who live at Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, consider their future in the mobile home Umbelina renovated on her own. attorney in March.) Martinez isn’t sure if, when the eviction notice comes, she will even get the six months the mobile-home owners will receive. Under state law, anyone who lives in a rental unit for more than a year gets two months, she said. “I’ve lived here for seven years. I help babysit for my sister who lives here too in a mobile home. There are six in her family, and she is the sole provider,” she said. Losing her home will mean also losing her family, she said. Several members live in units within the park, including nine children.
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COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SUMMIT ... The City Council and the Planning and Transportation Commission are holding a summit focusing on the update of the city’s Comprehensive Plan. The summit will begin at 8:55 a.m. on Saturday, May 30, in the El Palo Alto Room at the Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to discuss the 2014 Performance Report and the annual National Citizen Survey; consider a proposal to demolish an existing 10,800-square-foot two-story office building and construct a new 24,466-square-foot three-story building at 2555 Park Blvd.; and discuss the establishment of an annual office cap downtown, on California Avenue and on El Camino Real. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 1, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission is scheduled to elect its chair and vice chair; approve design guidelines for the 2015 Electric Cost of Service Analysis; and consider a resolution to adopt drought charges and a 4 percent water rate increase. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to discuss 744748 San Antonio Road, a request by M10 Dec, LLC, for two new hotel buildings with 301 rooms, with surface and underground parking. The board will also consider 341 S. California Ave., a request for three new signs advertising Le Bou Wood-Fired Bistro. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 4, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL APPOINTED OFFFICERS COMMITTEE ... The committee is scheduled to review responses to the city’s request for proposals for consulting services to evaluate council-appointed officers. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 4, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for the Architectural Review Board. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 4, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
At the City Council hearing, two of the children, Angel Martinez and Elissa Guzman, cried when they heard the council approved the closure, they said. “I felt really bad, ‘cause there are tons of good memories here. I don’t want to have to leave this home,” Angel, 8, said. Brother Nicolas, 11, agreed. “I felt like my heart just tore apart. I learned to ride my bike here, and we have so many good memories — the posadas and all the parties. The important thing is no matter where we go, we are all one family. Nothing can stop us from all being one family,” he said. But Umbelina Martinez, Elissa’s mother, said she doesn’t know how she will find housing. She is the sole supporter for six, including three girls, her younger brother, and her elderly mother. She has already lost everything except for her family, she said. “After a divorce, I lost my house, I lost my credit. Everything crumbled down,” she said. But Buena Vista gave the family a new chance, she said. Umbelina works as a waitress at the Four Seasons and Rosewood hotels and is studying to become a naturopathic doctor while raising her family. Above her head, a framed picture on the wall states “Live, Laugh, Love.” “I want to be a certified doctor of natural medicine,” she said, displaying two certificates for nutrition counseling she has already earned. “When I came here, this place was just junk. It didn’t have water or a way to cook. It took me eight months and $35,000. I worked 10 hours a day, six days a week to fix it up, and eight months later it was finished,” she said. “We all got full of hopes. We did everything we could do. Last night was about breaking down all of the dreams we built,” she said of the council’s decision. Cheney said many people plan to stay until they are dragged out because they have nowhere else to go. “Ninety percent of the people here say, ‘I’m not going anywhere.’ Let the sheriff take me out of here in handcuffs.” Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
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November, accusing her of violating the union contract by asking all teachers to use that specific online tool to post homework. The grievance alleged that Herrmann violated Appendix C, Section 1, of the union contract, which merely states, “In order to provide readily available and inclusive access to learning expectations, secondary teachers are expected to electronically post homework assignments, instructional materials, and test and quiz dates ... in a timely manner.” It does not specify that Schoology must be the online tool used. The grievance was resolved after Herrmann clarified to Gunn teachers that she was asking, not demanding, that they use Schoology. School sources said the debate over Schoology continued to be a major sticking point in union negotiations throughout the school year, with the district insisting on the new mandatory language. The agreement, which the district and teachers union arrived at after more than six months of bargaining, also includes a “memorandum of understanding” that establishes a transition period for teachers currently using websites they created on their own to post their class materials, according to the staff report. This was a point of contention in negotiations before the grievance was filed, with the union offering Herrmann what PAEA President Teri Baldwin called a “compromise”: Links to teachers’ external websites could be posted
on Schoology. But Herrmann noted that the practice doesn’t take advantage of the “power of the Schoology software” — particularly the calendar feature — to provide students and parents a full picture of their school loads. The district will provide ongoing teacher training on Schoology, which some have described as clunky and not user-friendly, and will create a committee of teachers and district staff to “explore the various learning management systems currently available,” the report states. The new contract, which the union has ratified, includes a range of other provisions, including a 4.5 percent increase to the 2013-14 certificated salary schedule, retroactive to July 1, 2014, and a 0.5 percent one-time “off schedule” increase. The salary increase is negotiated every year, so a new contract negotiation in the fall will determine pay levels for next school year and, if implemented as in the past, will be retroactive to this July 1. The district will also launch a two-year pilot program for districtcollected student input into teacher evaluations at the high school level. Another memorandum of understanding commits the district to forming a committee of teachers and district/site staff to discuss working conditions for both special-education and general-education teachers in the areas of prep time, training and caseloads. In other business Tuesday, the board unanimously approved a new bell schedule for Gunn in which classes will meet in 75-minute periods starting in the next school year. Q
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Council Finance Committee (May 26)
Budget: The council recommended approving the fiscal year 2016 budget, with several revisions. These include elimination of a requested $190,000 for sustainability consultants and a decision not to hire a third code-enforcement officer. Yes: Unanimous
Board of Education (May 26)
Gunn schedule: The board approved a new bell schedule for Gunn High School. Yes: Unanimous Election results: The board accepted the final vote count and results of the May 5 special parcel-tax election. Yes: Unanimous
City Council (May 26)
Buena Vista: The council approved the closure of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park and directed staff to commission a peer review to assess the methodology of the appraiser who worked on the Relocation Impact Report for the closure application. Yes: Unanimous
Parks and Recreation Commission (May 26) Master plan: The commission reviewed the matrix comments for the Parks, Trails, Open Space and Recreation Facilities Master Plan. Action: None
City Council (May 27)
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Solar: The council recommended keeping Palo Alto CLEAN, a feed-in-tariff program for solar energy, and maintaining the existing rate of 16.5 cents per kilowatt hour. Yes: Berman, Burt, DuBois, Holman, Schmid, Wolbach No: Filseth, Scharff Absent: Kniss
Historic Resources Board (May 28)
262 Kingsley Ave.: The board approved a proposal to demolish a two-car garage and rear portions of an existing home and to build a one-car garage and a two-story addition at the rear of the home. The board included several conditions, including a 25-foot minimum setback and retention of leaded-glass windows. Yes: Bernstein, Bower, Bunnenberg, Makinen, Wimmer Absent: Di Cicco, Kohler 203 Forest Ave.: The board reviewed and commented on a proposal by Ken Hayes Architects to construct a 4,999-square-foot residential addition to a 4,626-square-foot commercial building. Action: None
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CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a public hearing at the regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, June 15, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider Adoption of Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Extending for 22 Months and 15 Days Urgency Interim Ordinance 5325 Placing a Temporary Moratorium on the Conversion of Ground Floor Retail and “Retail Like” Uses to Other Uses Citywide; Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act under Section 15061 and 15308. BETH MINOR City Clerk
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Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Counterfeit check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Abandoned bicycle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 5 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 5 Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Alcohol or drug related Alcohol transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous Brandishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disobey court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Firearm disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Illegal lodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1 Park hours violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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Violence related. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 Theft related Burglary undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraudulent tax return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto burglary attempt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 False ID to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of stolen property . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Receive stolen property . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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Transitions Births, marriages and deaths
Nancy Cuddeback
Nancy Cuddeback, a longtime Palo Alto resident, died on April 22. She was 87. She was born on July 17, 1927, in El Paso, Texas, but the family moved soon after to California. Her father’s farm-machinery business required the family to relocate at least 17 times, but she attended high school in Willows and Chico, California, graduating from Chico High School. She went on to study at Chico State College, where she met John Cuddeback; they married in 1948. After graduating in 1949, she moved with John to Mountain View, where she taught kindergarten at the old Whisman School for two years. They soon began raising a family and moved to Palo Alto in 1962. She and John became members of the Wesley Methodist Church in 1967, and she was an active participant in the congregation for the rest of her life. She and John loved to travel and camp, and throughout their lives they visited all 50 states, the Canadian provinces, Africa, England, Ireland, other areas of Europe and the Holy Land. During their travels, Nancy enjoyed visiting the homes of famous figures she admired. They also attended 40 elder hostels over a 20-year period. Always a nature lover, she supported the Save the Redwoods League from a young age and was a longtime member of Mono Lake Committee. Locally, she volunteered with the South Palo Alto Food Closet. She is survived by her husband, John Cuddeback of Palo Alto; her daughters, Alice Gunn of Menlo Park, Betsy Taylor of Palo Alto and Carol Hoffman of Elk Grove, California; five grandsons; and four great-grandchildren. A memorial service was held on May 23 at Wesley Methodist Church. Memorial donations can be made to the Audubon Society, Save the Redwoods League, Yosemite Conservancy or Save the Bay.
Edwin Cole Daly
Edwin Cole Daly, a novelist and former Menlo School headmaster, died on May 11 of lung cancer at the Palo Alto Commons. He was 78. He was born on Sept. 14, 1936, to Edwin Philip and Gertrude Cole Daly in Marshall, Illinois. While in high school there, he began writing fiction at the Handy Writers’ Colony. He later attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, for two years before he transferred to Yale University, graduating there as a senior scholar in 1958. In 1956, his novel “Some Must Watch” was released with Scribner’s — making him
the first undergraduate at Yale to publish a novel — and it received a favorable review from The New York Times. “A Legacy of Love,” his second novel, came out in 1958. After Yale, he entered a graduate philosophy program at Stanford University, but he left to teach at Menlo School in Menlo Park. He later became the head of the lower school and eventually headmaster in 1975. He retired in 1986 to his Woodside home, where he lived with a series of dogs: Ralph, Chloe and Noah. For the last five years of his life, he lived in Palo Alto, where his care was managed by his former wife, Jane Wyman. He was predeceased by his sister, Barbara Sheppard; he is survived by his former wives, Jane Fowler Wyman and Nicki Greene Moffatt. No memorial service is planned. Memorial donations in his honor can be made to Pathways Hospice, 585 N. Mary Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
Sita de Leeuw
Sita de Leeuw, a teacher and longtime Stanford resident, died on May 18 in Palo Alto, following care for acute myeloid leukemia. She was 86. She was born Margaret Ingeburg Schwarz on Dec. 12, 1928, in Nuremberg, Germany. At age 12, she began an escape from Nazi Germany with her family, which brought them to Prague in 1939, to London by airplane and then across the Atlantic Ocean to Ellis Island. The family lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, before settling in Chicago with other family members. Sita went on to attend Roosevelt College there and, during her studies, met Karel de Leeuw, a young University of Chicago mathematician. They married on June 19, 1951. His teaching appointments led them to Princeton University, Dartmouth College and eventually Stanford University. Following her passion for teaching and inspiring children, particularly disadvantaged ones, Sita earned a master’s degree in early childhood education from the College of Notre Dame in Belmont in 1966. After receiving certification as a Montessori instructor, she taught at the Montessori School in East Palo Alto, later serving as director. For many years, she and her husband enjoyed raising her family, teaching, traveling and taking academic assignments abroad. However, in August 1978, her husband was murdered in his office by a graduate student in the mathematics program. After a long criminal trial, the family steadily began to
recuperate and continued to live on the Stanford campus. After 1979, Sita became close to George Heaton, an engineer and friend. With him she pursued various spiritual interests and activities, including becoming involved with the Palo Alto Quaker community and Adyashanti. She continued to identify strongly with her Jewish heritage and background. She was known for devotion to friends and family, her large gardens and many pets, her love of nature, and her singing and free-form dancing. She was predeceased by her husband, Karel de Leeuw, in 1978. She is survived by her longtime companion, George Heaton of Stanford; her children, Leslie (Joe Friedman) de Leeuw of Mill Valley, California, Becky (Dave) Iremonger of Newark, California, and Eric (Laura) de Leeuw of Seattle; brother-in-law, Mark de Leeuw; five grandchildren; four nephews; and George’s children, extended family and close friends. A memorial service is being planned. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the Palo Alto Friends Meeting, Pathways Home Health & Hospice and CaringBridge.
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Steven Roland Whitehill
Surrounded by his loving family, Steven Roland Whitehill, 57, passed away on May 18, 2015 in Mountain View, California after an 11 year battle with brain cancer. He was born on January 12, 1958 in Palo Alto, California to Kenneth and Elizabeth Whitehill. Steve grew up in Palo Alto, California and graduated from Cubberly High School in 1976. After high school, he received his AS degree in Environmental Horticulture and Design from Foothill College then attended California Polytechnic-San Luis Obispo where he received a BS in Ornamental Horticulture. He and his wife Valerie owned Whitehill Landscape Inc. for 27 years and its subsidiary, Water Management Resource. Steve and Valerie married in 1985 in Palo Alto, California and spent 30 happy years together raising a family and growing their business. Steve was an involved and loving father to their three children, Victoria, Christine and Matthew; and was very active in the community. In 1992, Steve became president of the California Landscape Contractors Association, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CLCA) and was named the CLCA Member of the Year. He was very committed to water management and was a member of the Green Industry Council, Association of Irrigation Consultants and Santa Clara Valley Water District Landscape Advisory Board. In 1996, he received the Landscape Sweepstakes award from CLCA. Steve was very committed to volunteering in his community. He coached many sports teams for his children and installed a reading garden for Lincoln Elementary School in Cupertino and a community garden at McClellan Ranch Park. He also enjoyed jogging, vegetable gardening, hiking, camping, cooking, and bike riding with his family. Steve is survived by his spouse Valerie of Cupertino, California; his children Victoria of San Francisco, California, Christine of Menlo Park, California and Matthew of Chicago, Illinois; Mother, Elizabeth Whitehill of Palo Alto, California; and brother, David Whitehill of Franklin, Tennessee. Steve was preceded in death by his father, Kenneth Whitehill and brother, Peter Whitehill. A celebration of Steve’s life took place on May 26th at Blackberry Farm in Cupertino. To honor Steve, flowers may be sent to the Whitehill family residence or donations made to the Steve Whitehill Memorial Fund that has been established in the CLCA Landscape Educational Advancement Foundation. Please send donations to CLCA Headquarters at 1491 River Park Drive, #100, Sacramento, CA 95815. PAID
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Editorial No beds for teens A disturbing lack of in-patient mental health services for adolescents
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t was a shock to us and many readers to discover that when local teens facing an acute mental health crisis need hospitalization, Stanford University’s world-renowned children’s hospital must turn them away. And even more surprising, in the entire county — the sixth largest in California and the largest north of Los Angeles — not a single hospital, including the county-funded Valley Medical Center, offers such services. When local adolescents in crisis are taken by parents, police or paramedics to the Stanford or other emergency departments and they are deemed to need hospitalization, they wait — often for many hours — while the emergency-room staff tries to find an available bed at one of the few Bay Area hospitals with adolescent psychiatry units. And an ER staff person must physically stay with them constantly until they are transferred. When and if a bed is located, policies dictate that the teen must be transported by ambulance, a humiliating and costly practice, often not covered by insurance. With all the attention teen suicides have received since the first Palo Alto contagion in 2009, the resources that have been poured into programs and services to address adolescent mental health needs, and all the focus on de-stigmatizing mental illness, the common assumption was that acute cases were being gently handled within our local hospitals by physicians familiar with the unique conditions facing Palo Alto youth. Incredibly, not so. Thanks to a local family that shared its story with the Weekly, the distressing reality of this inadequate system is now out in the open. With 50 students at Paly and Gunn high schools alone having been hospitalized during this school year, dozens of families have discovered this gap in available resources. The nearest inpatient facilities are at Mills-Peninsula Hospital in San Mateo, which has only 17 beds, and Fremont Hospital, with 25 beds. St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco has 20 and Alta Bates in Berkeley has 34. According to Supervisor Joe Simitian, who is asking county staff to look into the problem, each year more than 600 youth in Santa Clara County are being referred elsewhere for treatment. And when a bed can be found, the long distances place added strains on families needing to participate in therapy sessions and conform to strict visiting policies and hours. There are many explanations offered for why acute inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents is so sparse, but they all boil down to finances. Most challenging is that hospitalizations of adolescents largely occur during the school year, leaving specialty units with few patients during summer months. Staffing becomes a challenge, and maintaining a secure unit that has empty beds during the summer is costly. Hospitals make money by keeping their beds filled, and setting aside beds that can only be used by limited types of patients reduces flexibility. Insurance-coverage limitations on mental health inpatient services are another challenge. Interestingly, the economics support a 15-bed adolescent inpatient eating disorders clinic at El Camino Hospital, operated in partnership with Stanford, but admissions are limited to youth who are medically compromised due to abnormal eating behavior. In addressing the soaring rates of adolescent mental health needs, Stanford’s Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has focused its attention on educational outreach in schools and the broader community and on increasing staffing in its outpatient child and adolescent psychiatry clinic. There are no current plans to develop inpatient services. Patients come from all over the world to be treated for virtually every physical condition imaginable at Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Medical miracles occur almost every day, often at tremendous and uncompensated expense, and our local community is fortunate to have leading experts in most medical specialties at our doorstep. That makes it particularly hard to understand why neither the children’s hospital, which is more than doubling in size and adding 149 beds, nor the adult hospital, which will add more than 350 beds as part of its expansion, are considering these needs. While preventative mental health programs and outpatient treatment should remain important priorities, we urge health care leaders to address the lack of services for those teens needing acute inpatient care. World-class communities and institutions should not be quietly shipping their most vulnerable off to other places for treatment.
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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions
Consider everything
Editor, When my husband and I bought a house in Palo Alto nearly 50 years ago, two people working together could afford the down payment. We bought here because we wanted the Palo Alto schools for our children’s education. Coming from New York City, we appreciated the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a university town. We felt enriched by the multi-ethnic mix of people who were our neighbors and friends. As real estate has become more expensive, that rich mix of culture is being lost. I feel aghast that the residents of Buena Vista (BV) are being forced to move so that the owners can sell to a high bidder to build expensive homes. The City of Palo Alto can afford additional funds to buy the site and bring it into compliance so that the friends and neighbors can stay in this area. We Palo Alto residents can donate to this worthwhile project. I beg you to consider all plans to keep all the BV residents in Palo Alto. Lois Salo Ross Road, Palo Alto
Preventing loss
Editor, The residents of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park are our neighbors, and they are in imminent danger of losing their homes, a catastrophe for these families that will also tear a gaping hole into the heart of our community. Written into Palo Alto’s Comprehensive Plan is the recognition that Buena Vista is the site of “essential affordable housing,” and that the city has a duty to “maintain and preserve” this site “if feasible.” We have an opportunity to protect that resource. The city has another $6 million in its housing fund beyond the $8 million it already set aside for the Buena Vista acquisition. Santa Clara County has set aside $8 million, and another $3 million from the fund could be added. The city should match or surpass the County. I also encourage foundations and individual donors to step up to the plate to save the homes of our neighbors. The loss of hundreds of our neighbors so that more expensive housing can be built is wrong and a black eye for Palo Alto. The relocation payment amounts will not sustain sensible relocation. This forced displacement isn’t just inconvenient for these families. It is a devastating loss of home, school, community and employment. The City Council must not let this happen. We must not let this happen. Eileen Altman Mission Drive, East Palo Alto
Deserve independence
Editor, Thank you for your advocacy to save the Buena Vista low-income housing project. It has been pointed out that the $14.5 million that the residents had access to in 2013, plus the $8 million from the City of Palo Alto’s low-income housing fund, plus the $8 million from Santa Clara County, totals the approximately $30 million Prometheus Group is alleged to have offered for the land. I say alleged because there is no hard evidence that this offer ever existed. Anyone willing to live in a trailer to get their children into Palo Alto schools is akin to two gentlemen who started a company in a garage during the Great Depression. Involving a nonprofit to own and run the park ignores the evidence that the residents are capable of running it as a conversion to a condo complex: They obtained competent legal representation and expert advice about condo conversions for mobile-home parks. The experience of several mobile-home parks in Santa Cruz shows that housing costs are higher when residents are tenants of a nonprofit organi-
zation, which adds the expense of an extra layer of administration. Several nonprofits appear to be attracted by the paternalistic opportunity to provide services, for a fee. The residents deserve to become homeowners, receiving ownership of the land in exchange for paying the mortgage. Margaret Fruth El Camino Way, Palo Alto
Crucial opportunity
Editor, After nearly three years of hard work, Buena Vista Mobile Home Park (BV) residents and their many supporters in the Palo Alto community have reason to rejoice now that the nonprofit Caritas Corporation has signed a contract with the county to put together a deal to purchase and manage Buena Vista. This is a giant step in the right direction for securing the park and ensuring a future in Palo Alto for its 400 residents. Much work lies ahead to raise sufficient funds and to create an offer acceptable to the Jisser family, owners of the park. As a longtime resident of Palo Alto and former neighbor of BV, I urge all citizens and all members of the City Council to do
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Keeping Searsville Dam in place is a good solution Cautious path forward provides opportunity to assess impact, risks by Shani Kleinhaus and Lennie Roberts n May 1, the day Stanford University released its plans for Searsville Dam, an article titled “1000 dams down and counting” was published in the journal Science. This study showed that stream ecosystems are resilient and respond quickly and positively to dam removal. It also cautioned that current models are not very effective at predicting downstream effects. With that in mind, what should be the fate of Searsville Dam? Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society and the Committee for Green Foothills started grappling with this question in 2011 when we were asked to support dam removal. Although removing a dam that no longer serves its original purpose of water storage is clearly an appealing idea, we were concerned about the many unknowns and decided not to take a position at that time. We did not doubt that dam removal would facilitate passage of steelhead trout to their upstream historic spawning areas, but what were the likely impacts to other habitats and sensitive species that live in the watershed? We were also concerned about increased flood risks to the 8,400 homes and businesses in the creek’s historic floodplain in East Palo Alto, Palo Alto and Menlo Park.
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everything possible to facilitate the acquisition of Buena Vista by Caritas Corporation. This opportunity to preserve existing affordable housing in our community simply must not be lost! Caryn Huberman Yacowitz Lincoln Avenue, Palo Alto
Drivers beware
Editor, In April, a small no-turn-on-red traffic sign without a time designation was planted on California Avenue at the southwest corner that is not easily seen. There is no corresponding sign across the street on the light post, where it would be more conspicuous. Many drivers make right turns onto El Camino Real going south (as we have for decades). Are we to wait for a green light 24/7 when there is no traffic on El Camino? Our police will soon catch on to this absurd situation and start issuing tickets to unsuspecting drivers. I called the non-emergency police phone to report this over a week ago. The sign is still there without an update. Also, there is no equivalent sign on California Avenue on the other side of El Camino Real that would restrict right turns going north. So what’s going on? What is the reason for this new sign? Ruth Lowy Thain Way, Palo Alto
Shani Kleinhaus Lennie Roberts No dam-removal project located above a similar highly developed flood zone has ever been attempted. We asked ourselves, what are the risks to cities downstream? And what opportunities are associated with the dam that could be lost if it is removed? Since we wanted more information before taking a position, we expressed an interest in comprehensive studies of options that included evaluation of all the risks and trade-offs. We were invited to join the 25-member Searsville Alternatives Study Advisory Group, which began meeting in early 2013. Other stakeholders included local elected officials, regulatory agencies, environmental and conservation interest groups, representatives of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, and residents concerned with upstream and downstream
Causing harm
Editor, In their failure to bring a proposal to ban smoking in multiunit dwellings to the attention of the full Palo Alto City Council, Policy and Service Committee members Cory Wolbach, Marc Berman, Pat Burt and Tom Dubois demonstrate a distinct lack of moral courage. The Committee wants to allow smokers to smoke in their own homes. This may sound reasonable until you consider that this means non-smokers — in their own homes — are forced to breath secondhand smoke from their smoking neighbors. The adverse health effects of cigarette smoke are known around the world and certainly to the over-educated population of Palo Alto. Nevertheless, our elected officials are choosing to protect the harm-doers and punish the innocent bystanders. It is the less fortunate who suffer the most under this policy. Wealthy residents, who can afford a single-family home, are able to pay the price for breathing clean air, while the less affluent, who rent apartments or purchase condominiums, are stuck inhaling toxic fumes. Interestingly, a study published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine finds that people are far more likely to quit
flooding risks. For two years we heard presentations from many disciplines, asked questions, and reviewed studies, models and engineering and technological solutions. Our Advisory Group evaluated risks, discussed benefits and trade-offs, and considered alternatives, with each stakeholder contributing his or her own unique perspective. As representatives of environmental organizations working in the communities of the San Francisquito watershed, we focused not only on fish passage but also on the larger suite of habitats and resources and the potential results of any action on the myriad species (and people) that share the watershed. A particular concern was the potential loss of open water at Searsville reservoir (at a great cost to bat species); potential loss of up to 200 acres of wetlands and wetland/ riparian forest (at a great cost to migratory bird species); and unavoidable sedimentation of the creek downstream and the Bay (with potential impacts to several endangered species and increased flood risks). Stanford’s Faculty and Staff Steering Committee also intensively studied Searsville’s options on a separate, parallel track. Their recommended course of action: Create an opening at the bottom of the dam to drain the reservoir and flush out the fine
smoking when they stand to lose money if they fail. This suggests that an enforced ban accompanied by fines could actually help smokers kick the habit, a win for everyone. Jaclyn Schrier Alma Street, Palo Alto
Rigid rules
Editor, I’m having trouble making sense of Palo Alto’s new drought rules. I have several garden timers on my property that do not enable setting the specific days of the week to water, but rather only the number of days between waterings. Am I really supposed to reconfigure all these systems so that I can water only on Tuesday and Friday (given my even-numbered house address), or will the city allow me to water even less often — that is, every four days? I hope the latter approach is acceptable — but then, common sense doesn’t always prevail in these matters. Shouldn’t the focus be on the amount of watering rather than on the days of watering? And how about having a rule that forbids installing a new lawn on a property as part of fixing it up before selling it? (Congratulations to the city, though, for considering limiting the number of chain stores on California Avenue; you’re making sense there!) Caroline Rose Paradise Way, Palo Alto
sediment, with the intent that this will allow fish passage and provide attenuation of peak flood flows. Some habitats will be restored under this plan, while others will be reduced, relocated or lost. A major advantage of this option is that it is reversible; if models of sediment impacts and risks of downstream flooding prove inaccurate, and adverse impacts become evident in the watershed, the opening in the dam can be closed. The Searsville Alternatives process now begins an intensive new phase of public and environmental-agency review. This process will be rigorous, particularly since many questions remain and details need to be fleshed out. There will be many opportunities for public engagement, and shovels in the ground will be several years away. We thank Stanford University for inviting us to participate in the Searsville Alternatives Study Advisory Group and thank the other stakeholders who made it such an engaging educational experience. We are glad the collective wisdom of this process has chosen a cautious path forward. Q Shani Kleinhaus, environmental advocate for the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society, and Lennie Roberts, legislative advocate for the Committee for Green Foothills, can be reached at advocate@ scvas.org and lennie@greenfoothills.org respectively.
Show your work
Editor, David Beccaria claims that, in his firm’s appraisal at the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, the value of schools and safety is already embedded in his figures. Although appraising is a formal process, it does involve some degree of discretion in the choice of “comparables” to consider. Mr. Beccaria should be able to explain his methodology and explain where and how he considered the value of schools and safety in the calculations. The Palo Alto City Council can then have a basis for determining whether Mr. Beccaria’s appraisals are accurate. Arthur M. Keller Corina Way, Palo Alto
Enlightened self-interest
Editor, As a longtime Palo Alto and Barron Park resident, I urge the City Council to leave no stone unturned to save Buena Vista Mobile Home Park. Besides the heart-breaking impact on families who will lose their homes and schools, what will be the social cost of the inevitable job losses, likely homelessness and squandered academic potential? Saving Buena Vista is enlightened self-interest in all respects and certainly the lowest-cost option for achieving
the city’s goals for low-income housing. Christine Witzel Whitsell Avenue, Palo Alto
Some missing
Editor, I really enjoy strolling on the improved California Avenue in Palo Alto even despite some old and some horrendous “art” (to my taste). It still retains a village atmosphere but is modern at the same time. I really like how some restaurants have made some sidewalk cafes as in Europe. So now I believe there are enough such places to get something to munch and the Avenue really doesn’t need any more restaurants. Losing “Know Knew Books” was a tragedy for the whole community. I hope we can encourage landlords to get a similar establishment again on California Ave. Perhaps the landlords can be persuaded to seek a bookstore and offer lower than market rents. I hope so, as I’d patronize it, and I’m sure many other shoppers would also. Let’s look at Castro St. in Mountain View for inspiration, which has three bookstores. Surely Palo Alto could use at least one book store on Cal Ave. Otherwise I hope the powers that be keep up their good work. Lorin Krogh Encina Avenue, Palo Alto
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Arts & Entertainment Meredith Truax
A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Elizabeth Schwyzer
Ben Moon
Above: Icelandic folkpop band Of Monsters and Men is likely to preview songs from their forthcoming album, ‘Beneath the Skin.’ Below: Bay Area band Cathedrals released its debut track, “Unbound,” last year.
Among the headliners at LIVE 105’s BFD Concert are American indie rockers Modest Mouse. g Jennifer Skog
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hile Memorial Day is widely accepted as the unofficial start of summer, Bay Area concert-goers — and specifically modern rock fans — are more likely to celebrate at LIVE 105’s BFD festival on Saturday, June 6. “LIVE 105’s BFD has become the unofficial kick-off concert for the summer season,” said Aaron Siuda, vice president of Live Nation Northern California. Concert producer and promoter Live Nation partners with San Francisco-based radio station Live 105 on the annual 12-hour event. Most of the attention will go to the Main Stage headliners. American indie rockers Modest Mouse released their sixth album, “Strangers to Ourselves,”
About the cover: Above and below: Shoreline Amphitheatre hosts the 21st annual LIVE 105 BFD. Photos by Steve Jennings/LIVE 105. Center, left to right: Featured bands include Of Monsters and Men (photo by Meredith Truax), Modest Mouse (photo by Ben Moon) and Cathedrals (photo by Hana Hayley).
LIVE 105’s BFD features big names, local bands by Yoshi Kato in mid-March, while Icelandic folk-pop practitioners Of Monsters and Men is likely to showcase songs off its long-anticipated sophomore album, “Beneath the Skin,” which will be released June 9. Dance rock outfit Panic! at the Disco, melodic poly-stylistic practitioners Cold War Kids and hard-driving Australian brother band Atlas Genius round out the main-stage lineup. But BFD has done a thorough job with its curation of other spaces, including the Bud Light Festival Stage, the Local Band Stage and Bud Light Subsonic Tent. “Think about all of the major acts that started on the side stages of BFD over the last 20 years: The Killers, Incubus and Death Cab For Cutie,” noted
Siuda. “When you can get that much talent on one show, it becomes more about the overall event than a single artist on the lineup. And that’s why the show is consistently so popular.” Among the acts gracing the Festival stage are twenty one pilots, Death from Above 1979 and Best Coast, all of whom have headlined or will soon be doing their own shows at venues such as the Fox Oakland Theatre and the Fillmore and The Independent in San Francisco. The French producer/DJ Martin Solveig, rapper/producer/ Stanford alumna K.Flay and The Limousines from San Jose have scheduled sets at the Subsonic Tent. And an undetermined-atpress-time competition winner will open up the Local Band
stage. One highly buzzed-about band will be doing a sort of homecoming performance on the Festival Stage. Cathedrals vocalist/cosongwriter Brodie Jenkins and multi-instrumentalist/co-songwriter Johnny Hwin are also both Stanford grads who met not on The Farm but in San Francisco, where their duo is based. She was a creative writing major who wrote for the Stanford Daily; he got his bachelor’s degree in psychology and his master’s in management science and engineering. “We overlapped at Stanford — Johnny’s two years older than me,” explained Jenkins, a Sebastopol native. “We had a bunch of the same friends but somehow never crossed paths.” Cathedrals released its debut track, “Unbound,” on SoundCloud about a year ago and have since built up an enviable profile. “Live 105 has been so supportive of us, specifically Aaron Axelsen, who has become an incredible friend to Cathedrals,”
Jenkins said of the station’s music director/assistant program director who is also an on-air personality. “He’s been playing us on Live 105 since we first started.” A member of The Jenkins (a mother-and-daughters country trio with mom Nancy and older sister Kacie) prior to reaching college, Jenkins remained involved with music during her undergraduate years. She sang in Maiden Lane (“a really fun rock band with a bunch of dudes”) and the Stanford a cappella group Talisman. But she didn’t have time to venture south to catch any previous BFDs. Aside from her oncampus extracurricular activities, “I was just buried in books the whole time,” she admitted with an animated laugh. After graduating, Jenkins continued to pursue music on the side while taking on video game design jobs. “I really liked it,” she said of the work. “It’s a (continued on page 24)
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Arts & Entertainment CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a public hearing at the regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, June 15, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider Approval of a Mitigated Negative Declaration and a Site & Design Review and Design Enhancement Exception Application for a Three Story Mixed-Use Building on a 27,000 Square Foot Site Zoned Service Commercial (CS) At 441 Page Mill Road. The Project has been Revised to Contain 19,093 Square Feet of *VTTLYJPHS :WHJL 6É&#x2C6; :[YLL[ 7HYRPUN :WHJLZ HUK (WHY[TLU[ <UP[Z 0UJS\KPUN -P]L )LSV^ 4HYRL[ 9H[L <UP[Z HUK 0UJS\KLZ H 9LX\LZ[ MVY ;OYLL ¸6É&#x2C6; 4LU\š Concessions Under Palo Alto Municipal Code Section 18.15 and the State Density Bonus Law and Based on a Revised Economic Analysis. Environmental Assessment: A Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) has been prepared. The Planning and Transportation Commission has recommended approval of the project and the MND. BETH MINOR *P[` *SLYR
Now in its 21st year, LIVE 105â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s BFD kicks off summer with twelve straight hours of rock.
Summer concert (continued from page 23)
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really chill gig, and I got to be creative.â&#x20AC;? Jenkins and Hwin, who hails from the East Bay, were both between musical projects when a mutual friend from Stanford introduced them via email, listing the many things they had in common, including the kind of music theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d made and even the fact that they used the same Tumblr profile layout. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We ended up meeting about a week later, both of us feeling a little skeptical about what the outcome would be,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins admitted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And we ended up writing a song in the first hour.â&#x20AC;? Creating a noirish sound that utilizes techno-pop instrumentation at times and dark rock guitars and drums at others, Cathedrals has developed very publicly and communally through social media and a network of artisans. Its Facebook page is updated regularly, and so far every song has been uploaded for free soon after completion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honestly, I think nowadays you have to take that approach if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re an independent musician,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not trying to make music in a box. So as far as getting it out there and sharing it, you kind of have to treat it like a (tech companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s launch) and really put all your effort into it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much music out there, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just so oversaturated,â&#x20AC;? she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the same time, the Internet is an incredibly wonderful and powerful tool that can spread your music across so many platforms if utilized correctly.â&#x20AC;? Featuring bass guitarist/keyboardist Jonathan Herrera and drummer Mitchell Wilcox in live settings (and increasingly in the studio, too), Cathedrals currently has an EPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of
material and is recording a full album thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scheduled for release next year. The pairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complementary personalities have helped the group as a business as well as a creative outlet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Johnny has always been an entrepreneur,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Though weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both creative people, he was able to apply small business tactics and start-up approaches to our band.â&#x20AC;? Hwin is also a community organizer involved with The SUB, a San Francisco-based creative collective started in a warehouse in The Mission. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place innovators, artists and musicians hang out,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins explained. The good news that places like The SUB can still thrive despite todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tech-driven rents isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lost on the former member of the software industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;San Francisco and the Bay Area are going through a huge change, and not all of that change is good,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins noted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But there are still some incredibly brilliant people in the city, and The SUB draws people together and gets them talking and creating and working together.â&#x20AC;? Cathedrals has enmeshed itself with The SUB, as evidenced by the ambitious debut video for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unbound.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was absolutely huge, a collaboration between a bunch of people from The SUB as well as friends and other artists,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins said of the shoot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also had Maria Kochetkova, who is a principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet, perform. She was just incredible and so amazing to do that with us. Unlike some duos with defined songwriting duties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; singer writes the lyrics, the other half programs and plays on the tracks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Cathedrals is a fluid musical partnership. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just feel like you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allocate roles,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our songwriting process can be so
different with each song. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Want My Love,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; for instance: One day I just wrote the entire song a cappella in the shower.â&#x20AC;? After recording a scratch vocal and a basic piano line, she sent it over to Hwin who then created an arrangement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A very similar (thing) happened with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Unbound,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Johnny was playing it on the acoustic guitar, and it was mostly lyrically finished when he sent it over to me. I stepped in and changed up the lyrics and the melody lines, and together we produced it to this dreamy landscape.â&#x20AC;? After participating in the famed Treasure Island Music Festival and selling out two nights at The Independent, Cathedrals recently had a unique and memorable performance opportunity that beautifully suited its artistic sensibilities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a twilight concert at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t planned at all,â&#x20AC;? Jenkins noted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They reached out to us, and we said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hell, yes! We will do that!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; It fit perfectly with everything we love. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We got there really early, so we got to walk around the grounds. And we started playing just as the sun was setting,â&#x20AC;? she recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It had that really kind of golden light turning into darkness â&#x20AC;&#x201D; very â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cathedralsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in my mind, as far as our aesthetic goes!â&#x20AC;? Q Freelance writer Yoshi Kato can be emailed at yoshiyoungblood@earthlink.net. What: Live 105 BFD 2015 Where: Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View When: Saturday, June 6, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Cost: $37.50-$69.50 Info: Go to live105.cbslocal.com or livenation.com.
Arts & Entertainment
Tony Eppstein
Cycles of life Poets and friends Henri Bensussen, left, and Maureen Eppstein will read their work in Palo Alto on Friday, June 5, at Waverley Writers.
Two poets return to Palo Alto for shared reading by Elizabeth Schwyzer
Courtesy Henri Bensussen
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In her first poetry collection, “Earning Colors,” Henri Bensussen writes about both the natural world and human interactions.
Courtesy Maureen Eppstein
y friend’s body is a brown leaf,” writes Maureen Eppstein in “Going Dark,” a poem from her recent chapbook, “Earthward.” “ ... the fierce flame of her will/ refuses to surrender./ It’s not death’s darkness she resists/but the loss of a self transfixed/by what is beautiful.” That same enthrallment with life she witnesses in her dying friend is evident throughout Eppstein’s collection of 26 poems. Beguilingly simple, founded in close observations of nature, these poems unfurl to reveal the writer’s keen sensitivity, sense of humor and clear acknowledgment that every life ends with death. On Friday, June 5, the former Palo Alto resident and Stanford University employee will return to town to read from her new collection. She’ll be joined by fellow poet Henri Bensussen, also formerly of Stanford. Both longtime attendees of Palo Alto’s hallowed Waverley Writers — a free, monthly poetry reading founded in 1981 — Eppstein and Bensussen separately retired to Mendocino County, where they’re each active in the writing community. Their Palo Alto visit marks more than 15 years since their departures — Bensussen and her partner left the region in 1999, Eppstein and her husband in 2000 — yet both are well-remembered by area poets. Janice Dabney, who shared a writing group with Bensussen and Eppstein and worked alongside Eppstein both on the Waverley Writers Steering Committee and at Stanford, spoke of both writers as “very good people” and recalled not just Eppstein’s poetry but also her humanity. “She was very supportive of me being a gay person,” Dabney recalled. “She made a point of putting her money where her mouth is, which is a good summary of Maureen: She’s not a person who sits
Maureen Eppstein’s third chapbook, “Earthward,” centers around themes of life and death, using nature as metaphor. idle and spouts philosophies; she gets out there and acts and makes the world a better place.” Those on the Mendocino Coast speak in equally glowing terms about both women and their work. Norma Watkins, secretary of the Mendocino Coast Writers Confer-
ence and creative-writing instructor at Mendocino College Fort Bragg campus, explained of Bensussen, “Henri was my student in the past and writes this delightfully quirky prose and poetry. She has a very odd and wonderful imagination so that when you begin reading one of her poems, you never know where it’s going to go.” Director of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, Karen Lewis, said of Eppstein, “You can tell from her work that she has a daily, connected presence in nature. Her nature metaphors are especially remarkable.” Lewis also described a new project of Eppstein’s: a collection of short essays based on her youth in New Zealand and her immigration to the United Kingdom. Those essays can be found at tinyurl.com/ ll4ls69. Bensussen, too, mines her own past for material. In “Chimney Rock,” a poem from her new and first chapbook, “Earning Colors,” birds of prey serve as metaphors for partnership and a departure point for a meditation on separation and divorce: “Peregrine falcons nest in a hollow/under the cliff’s rim. They mate/for life, unlike us or elephant seals.” Later, she shows herself, standing alone as birds swoop overhead: “Vultures hunt the dead, veer close/when they notice me. I stare them off. Pose — /Still Life: Woman in Love, Once.” Both Bensussen’s “Earning Colors” and Eppstein’s “Earthward” are published by Finishing Line Press, a small publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky. Bensussen explained that she entered the manuscript in a poetry contest with Finishing Line, and though she did not win, they offered to publish the chapbook anyway. As for the collection’s title, “When you send in a poetry manuscript, it has to have a thread or theme,” she explained. “I realized
I had quite a number of poems centered around the idea of color.” Like Eppstein, Bensussen has a deep connection to nature, one fostered by her studies in biology and many years of birding and gardening. Upon moving to Mendocino, she explained, “I became immersed in the natural history of the area, and also fascinated by how people interact. Often, someone says something and it sends me off on a poetic journey.” “Earning Colors” is full of evidence of such journeys. Friends’ stories and strangers’ cast-off comments pepper the collection, giving the sense of a writer moving through a crowded room, picking up on snippets of conversation. In “Blood Test,” it’s an “overly friendly” nurse whose question about the origins of Bensussen’s name sends the writer into reflections on “disruptive history,/as tubes fill with dark pulses of my life.” Life and death draw close in both Bensussen and Eppstein’s work. “Earthward,” Eppstein’s third poetry chapbook, is “really about the cycles of life and death,” she explained. “It’s centered around the poem ‘Going Dark,’ which was written for a friend in New Zealand as a memorial. She suffered from multiple sclerosis for 40 years, gradually losing more and more of her use of her limbs. Toward the end of her life, we would have conversations about how she was afraid of losing the self that could be moved.” The self that can be moved is
on full display throughout “Earthward,” and the scenes that move the poet are often those drawn from nature. In “Osprey with Fish,” Eppstein writes with simple power of three lives: the bird, the fish and the woman who watches their flight: Undercarriage of leg and talon joins two bodies similar in sleekness, twinned as life and death conjoin in a continuum of nourishment. Huge wings slow over forest, a fading cry. Q “Earning Colors” and “Earthward” are available at Books Inc., Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, and online at finishinglinepress.com. Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com.
What: A reading by poets Maureen Eppstein and Henri Bensussen Where: Waverley Writers, Palo Alto Friends Meeting House, 957 Colorado Ave. When: Friday, June 5, 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free Info: Go to tinyurl.com/l4lvwgh or call 650-424-9877.
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Arts, Culture, Other Camps Camp Argo
Athletics
Menlo Park
Camp Campbell
Castilleja Summer Camp for Girls Santa Cruz Mountains
Boys and girls, ages 4 to 12. Age appropriate arts, crafts, collaborative games and sports, interpersonal development, personal goals and more. Safe, learning environment. One week sessions starting June 8 through July 31. Register online. www.campargo.com 562.761.7539
For close to 80 years, Bay Area youth have forged life-long friendships and benefited from character-defining experiences at Camp Campbell through nature hikes, campfires, archery and many other fun outdoor activities. Financial assistance is available. http://www.ymcacampcampbell.org/ 831.338.2128
Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA)
Hi Five Sport
Mountain View
50+ creative camps for Gr. K-8! Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Sculpture, Musical Theater, School of Rock, Digital Arts, more! One- and two-week sessions; full and half-day enrollment. Extended care available. Financial aid offered. www.arts4all.org 650.917.6800 ext.0
Environmental Volunteers Summer Camp
Palo Alto
Explore nature this summer from your own backyard. Environmental Volunteer summer camps return with a new series of programs. Hands-on activities, field trips and creative fun make science accessible to kids ages 6-11. www.Evols.org/Explore 650.493.8000
Foothills Summer Camps
Palo Alto
In this historic, popular, traditional day camp your child will play on miles of trails, woodlands, fields, streams, Boronda Lake, and enjoy spectacular views of the bay area. Transportation to and from Foothills Park is provided each day. www.cityofpaloalto.org/foothillscamps
J-Camp Oshman Family JCC
Palo Alto
Exciting activities for kindergarteners through teens include swimming, field trips, sports and more. Enroll your child in traditional or special focus camps like Studio TV Production, Jr. Masterchef, Elsa and Anna’s Dance Camp, Beach Bonanza and many others! www.paloaltojcc.org/summercamp 650.223.8622
Pacific Art League
Palo Alto
Calling Creative Kids ages 9-17. Discover the joy of visual art and self expression. Instructors are professional artists. Camps include Cartooning & Comics, Animation Basics and Drawing Our Favorite Pets. Supervised lunch available. www.pacificartleagure.org 650.321.3891
Palo Alto Community Child Care (PACCC)
Palo Alto
PACCC summer camps offer campers, grades 1st to 6th, a wide variety of fun opportunities! Neighborhood Adventure Fun and Junior Varsity Sports Adventure Camp are for the more active and on-the-go campers! New this year: E.P.I.C. Camp – Energetic, Peers, Independence & Community for the older kids! Returning are FAME - Fine arts, Music and Entertainment and Operation Chef for out of this world cooking fun! Swimming twice per week, periodic field trips, special visitors and many engaging camp activities, songs and skits round out the fun offerings of PACCC Summer Camps! Open to campers from all communities! Come join the fun in Palo Alto! Register online. www.paccc.org 650.493.2361
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Stanford
Atherton
Hi Five Sports is thrilled to present our fourth multi-sport competitive summer camp to the San Francisco Bay Area! Through experienced, passionate and patient coaching, we believe the timeless lessons that only sports can teach will stay with the kids for the rest of their lives. www.hifivesportsclub.com 650.362.4975
Menlo School Sports Camps
Atherton
Menlo camps are designed for boys and girls grades 4-12 to learn from Knights coaches and staff -whether it’s preparation for an upcoming season or simply for fun and to stay in shape in a high energy, positive setting. Join us this summer to develop skills, foster athleticism and promote sportsmanship in camps covering a range of sports - baseball, basketball, football (skills, lineman, and safe tackling camps) lacrosse, soccer, tennis, track & field, volleyball, water polo. www.menloschool.org 650.330.2001 ext. 2758
Nike Tennis Camps
Stanford University
Junior Overnight and Day Camps for boys & girls, ages 9-18 offered throughout June, July and August. Adult Weekend Clinics (June & Aug). Camps directed by Head Men’s Coach, Paul Goldstein, Head Women’s Coach, Lele Forood, and Associate Men’s and Women’s Coaches, Brandon Coupe and Frankie Brennan. Come join the fun and get better this summer! www.USSportsCamps.com 1.800.NIKE.CAMP (645.3226)
Player Capital Tennis
Atherton
Have some fun in the sun playing tennis at Player Capital Tennis’ Summer Camps. June 15th-August 14th, Monday - Friday, 9am-1pm and 1pm5pm. Ages 4-18. Camps held at Holbrook-Palmer Park and Valley Church. www.playercapital.com 650.275.3027
Stanford Baseball Camps
Stanford Campus
Stanford Baseball Camps have gained national recognition as the some of the finest in the country. These camps are designed to be valuable and beneficial for a wide range of age groups and skill sets. From the novice 7 year-old, to the Division 1, professionally skilled high school player, you will find a camp that fulfills your needs. www.Stanfordbaseballcamp.com 650.723.4528
Stanford Water Polo
Stanford
Ages 7 and up. New to sport or have experience, we have a camp for you. Half day or fully day option for boys and girls. All the camps offer fundamental skill work, scrimmages and games. www.stanfordwaterpolocamps.com 650.725.9016
Summer at Saint Francis
Mountain View
A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research EXPLORE biomedical science at Stanford! Stanford EXPLORE offers high school students the unique opportunity to learn from Stanford professors and graduate students about diverse topics in biomedical science, including bioengineering, neurobiology, immunology and many others. explore.stanford.edu explore-series@stanford.edu
Sports & Activity Camp (ages 6-12): This all-sports camp provides group instruction in a variety of fields, indoor & outdoor court games and activities. Saint Francis faculty and students staff the camp, and the focus is always on fun. The program is dedicated to teaching teamwork, sportsmanship and positive self-esteem. After camp care is available. www.sfhs.com/summer 650.968.1213 x650
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Stanford University Campus
Week-long jazz immersion programs for young musicians in middle school (starts July 13), high school (July 19 and July 26), and college, as well as adults (August 2). All instruments and vocals. stanfordjazz.org
TechKnowHow® LEGO® and Technology Summer Camp
Palo Alto Menlo Park/Sunnyvale
Fun and enriching technology classes for students, ages 5-16. Courses include LEGO® projects with motors, MINDSTORMS® EV3® & NXT® Robotics, Computer Game Design, Arduino™ Electronics, iPad® Movie Making, and a Tech Camp for girls. Classes feature high-interest, ageappropriate projects based on the S.T.E.M. curriculum. Half and Full day options. Early bird and multiple week discounts are available. www.techknowhowkids.com 650.638.0500
TheatreWorks Summer Camps
Palo Alto
In these entertaining camps for grades K-5, students enjoy juggling, clowning, puppetry, playwriting, acting, improvisation, music, dance and present their own original pieces at the end of each session. www.theatreworks.org/learn/youth/summercamps
YMCA Summer Camps
Throughout Silicon Valley
At the Y, youth of all ages make new friends, build character and learn new skills. With hundreds of unique camps and 30+ convenient locations, you’ll find a camp that’s right for your family. Financial assistance is available. www.ymcasv.org/summer 408.351.6473
Redwood City
June 15-August 14. Weekly indoor sports day camp for kids 6-13 years old. Fun filled sports and games directed by Skyhawks. Full day 9am-4pm camp includes lunch and optional after camp care. www.sportshouseonline.com 650.362.4100
Wheel Kids Bicycle Club
Palo Alto
Wheel Kids is Palo Alto’s premier adventure and exploration summer day camp for boys and girls 5-15 yrs old. Camps run weekly from June 8th – July 31st, offering a range of cultural, recreational and environmental learning opportunities, all based on our daily bicycling adventures. Join us this summer as we teach your kids safe bicycle riding skill & habits, help build their self confidence and esteem, and begin a life-long journey of health and fitness while helping improve our environment. www.wheelkids.com 650.520.6524
Academics Alexa Café
Palo Alto High School
At Alexa Café, girls ages 10-15 collaborate around café tables and learn to code apps, produce films, design websites, develop wearable electronics, and more. Discover a passion for technology in this unique environment that emphasizes leadership, philanthropy, and more. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324
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Palo Alto
Casti Camp offers girls a range of age-appropriate activities including athletics, art, science, computers, writing, crafts, cooking, drama and music classes each day along with weekly field trips. www.castilleja.org/summercamp 650.328.3160
Harker Summer Programs
San Jose
K-12 offerings taught by exceptional, experienced faculty and staff. K-6 morning academics – focusing on math, language arts and science – and full spectrum of afternoon recreation. Grades 6-12 for credit courses and non-credit enrichment opportunities. Sports programs also offered. www.summer.harker.org 408.553.0537
iD Game Design and Development Academy
Stanford
Get immersed in game design at this 2-week, pre-college summer academy! Teens ages 13-18 design video games, develop apps, model 3D characters, mod with Minecraft, and more. Tour a development studio and create a portfolio. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324
iD Programming Academy
Stanford
Get immersed in technology at this 2-week, pre-college summer academy. Teens ages 13-18 code apps, program with C++ and Java, mod with Minecraft, engineer robots, and program websites. Tour a development studio and create a portfolio. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324
iD Tech Mini
Palo Alto High School
Kids ages 6-9 will have a blast at iD Tech Mini, where half day options let aspiring innovators discover a love for tech. Campers make new friends and learn hands-on STEM skills in a kid-friendly environment. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324
iD Tech Camps
Stanford
Code, game, create! At iD Tech Camps, students ages 7-17 code apps, design video games, mod with Minecraft, engineer robots, build websites, produce movies, and more. Kids meet new friends and gain a competitive edge. www.iDTech.com 1.888.709.8324
Mid-Peninsula High School
Menlo Park
Mid-Pen offers summer courses designed to help students make up high school credits and a diverse range of enriching courses that go beyond traditional curriculum. In addition to courses in math, science, English, Spanish, and SAT/ACT prep, we invite students to enhance their skills in innovative classes that include: College Essay Workshop, Research Writing Workshop, Drama, Music Video Production, and Fine Arts courses in Surface Design and Mixed Media. We also hold basketball and volleyball clinics suitable for beginning to advanced players. All high school students are welcome to attend. Summer session runs from June 22 to July 23, 2015. www.mid-pen.com 650.321.1991
One Me
Palo Alto Westin Hotel
Students aged 12-16 will find direction and inspiration through introspection and self-awareness, discovering how they learn and are motivated, addressing and understanding habits, improving communication skills, understanding the brain, understanding personality and ego states, emotional regulation, and welcoming challenge. www.oneyou.education 408.839.6965
Professional Tutoring Services of Silicon Valley
Los Altos
Academic camps offering Algebra I & II, Geometry, and Spanish I, II, III in small groups. Four sessions starting June 15 through July 27. Sign up for all four or just one. Perfect for high school and junior high students taking high school level courses. $250 and up. Register online. www.ptstutor.com/summer-camps.html 650.948.5137
Purposeful You
Palo Alto Westin Hotel
Students aged 12-16 will learn best practices in organization and goal setting; study techniques; communication with administration and teachers; strengthening memory; answering to the question; outlining, writing, and citing resources; emotional regulation; stress and test anxiety management, attention and motivation. www.oneyou.education 408.839.6965
Summer at Saint Francis
Mountain View
Summer at Saint Francis provides a broad range of academic and athletic programs for elementary through high school students. It is the goal of every program to make summer vacation enriching and enjoyable! www.sfhs.com/summer 650.968.1213 x446
Write Now! Summer Writing Camps
Palo Alto / Pleasanton
Improve your student’s writing skills this summer at Emerson School of Palo Alto and Hacienda School of Pleasanton. Courses this year are Expository Writing, Creative Writing, and Presentation Techniques. Visit our website for more information. www.headsup.org Emerson: 650.424.1267 Hacienda: 925.485.5750
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Art and Music Festival Free food, skate competitions, live bands and art workshops: This Saturday, May 30, East Palo Alto’s Bell Park (550 Bell St.) will be home to the fourth annual Art and Music Festival. Check out the free, family-friendly event between noon and 6 p.m. and catch the music of Rafa, Hip Hop Orchestra and History Through Hip Hop. Try your hand at graffiti art at the T-shirt-making workshop, or join an interactive community dance lesson. The Art and Music Festival is organized by East Palo Alto’s Youth Action Team, a group of young people working together to ensure a strong arts culture in their community. To learn more, go to tinyurl.com/mzh8tgx or call 510-294-0554.
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‘The Stranger’
Summer’s here, which means it’s time to plan a visit to the gardens of Filoli. Between June 2 and Sept. 13, a collection of sculptural works will be on display in the estate’s courtyards, terraces and fields. Admission is $8-$18; members are free. Go to filoli. org or call 650-364-8300.
You might have read it in high school, but how well do you remember Camus’ “The Stranger?” Brush up on your French lit this Monday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m. when Stanford’s Another Look Book Club will discuss the classic text. The free event is open to the public at Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa St. Go to events.stanford.edu or call 650-723-0011.
Dance
‘Bleu!’
Dive into the Mediterranean sea in “Bleu!” an interactive theater and dance production from Italy’s Compagnia T.P.O. They’ll be at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall Friday-Saturday, June 5-6, with this show for all ages. Tickets are $15-$30. Go to live. stanford.edu or call 650-724-2464.
Music
The Manhattan Transfer Once upon a time, a New York City cabbie dreamed of forming a vocal quartet. More than 40 years later, The Manhattan Transfer is a household name. The 10-time Grammy Award-winning band comes to Palo Alto’s Oshman Family JCC (3921 Fabian Way) this Sunday, May 31, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $50. Go to paloaltojcc.org/arts or call 650-223-8700.
Theater
‘Reckoning with Dad’ Love him, hate him or miss him, your father’s an important figure in your life. On Monday, June 1, Women’s Jewish Theatre honors this central relationship with a dramatic production at Palo Alto’s Oshman Family JCC (3921 Fabian Way). Tickets are $20-$30. Go to paloaltojcc.org/arts or call 650-2238700. Q
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Eating Out BY RUTH SCHECHTER | PHOTOS BY VERONICA WEBER
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Grilled oysters at Shell Shock include herb butter, left; the “Shuck Me” with barbecue sauce, bacon, jalapeño and tomatoes; and the “Shuck You” with chorizo, onions, tomatoes and salsa verde.
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Point Reyes, generous Pacifics from Washington and crisp Fanny Bays from British Columbia, plus some less common West Coast selections like Fat Bastards and Shigokus. Every oyster ($2.75$3.75 each) tasted fresh from the ocean and needed only a squeeze of lemon to bring out its best. Shell Shock takes the oyster experience to another level, with numerous concoctions that showcase an interesting balance of flavors and textures. Shooters feature raw oysters in champagne, beer, tequila, sake or vodka creations ($12-$19 for two), and grilled options marry oysters with
The “Dare Devil” features a raw oyster topped with a quail egg, roe, ponzu and Sriracha sauce. barbecue sauce, cheese, bacon or salsa ($12-$16 for four). Though I’m more of a purist when it comes to sucking these morsels
down, I tried the half-shell sampler: six of the restaurant’s more popular prepared raw selections ($24). Winners were the Dare Devil with salmon roe, a quail egg and Sriracha hot sauce; the truffle hamachi with extra bite from diced jalapeño; and the prosciutto di Parma with a miniscule sliver of ham and pickled onion, all served on big meaty Pacifics. But it’s not all about bivalves here. Sandwiches like lobster rolls and oyster po’ boys are offered at lunch, as well as salads and several variations of tacos with ahi tuna, soft-shell crab, steak or — you guessed it — oysters. A seared ahi rice bowl ($14) was generous but a bit bland, despite a tangy dipping sauce served on the side. Loaded with rice, cabbage, avocado and a poached egg, it was lovely to look at but underwhelming. Appetizers were more exciting. Pigs on a Stick ($10) comprised four chunks of braised pork belly on long skewers with a truffle miso butter glaze so rich I wanted to lick the plate. Spicy chicken wings ($14) were battered, fried and dipped in a sticky glaze that was heavy on the sweet and very light on the spicy. Mini crab tacos ($11.95) were artfully arranged with chunks of fresh crab in crunchy but teeny-weeny shells. Hamachi shots ($12) were a knockout: two shot glasses loaded with small chunks of super-fresh yellowtail in a broth of cilantro
and tart citrus ponzu juice. Add a dollop of wasabi and ... wow. Dinners spotlight fish and seafood, with a classic cioppino ($15), steamed lobster ($44), fish and chips ($14) and miso-glazed Chilean sea bass over kale and jasmine rice ($34). You can’t talk about Shell Shock without talking about presentation. The hamachi shots came in a metal carry-all tray filled with ice; the oyster platter was presented on what looked like an oversized white porcelain cake stand. Each dish came glistening with colorful touches like a dab of roe, a golden quail egg, a smattering of peanuts or a sprinkle of chives. Each dish I shared was a delight to look at, though some lost impact by being overwhelmed by too-large serving ware. Tables are set with rectangular white plates that seem to seldom be used by patrons sharing dishes. The oyster platter took over a small table for two. Function did not always seem to follow form. An irreverent vibe comes across in the names of the menu offerings, with cocktails called Ladykiller, Shameless, Rude Boy, Little Geisha Girl and Booty Call, and food options named Break an Egg, A-Salt and Battered, Elvis Pigsley and Blood Bath. Someone had a good time coming up with these. Shell Shock offers quite a few enticements to keep the crowds coming. A generous happy hour
starts at 4:30 p.m. and picks up again after 9 p.m. with specials on cocktails and oysters. The restaurant, which opened in early December, has a lot going for it but still needs a little tweaking. Multiple dishes arrived at the same time despite our request to stagger the meal. Some oysters were marred by chips of shell. Service was inconsistent: One afternoon, the attention was well-timed and solicitous; another visit had us practically begging for the bill. Shell Shock is a visual treat, and its menu is fun and fresh, both in content and attitude. It’s a great addition to Castro Street and fills a culinary niche too long neglected in the area. Go ahead and give it a spin. Q Shell Shock Oyster Bar & Grill, 124 Castro St., Mountain View; (650) 988-8880; shellshockrestaurant.com Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., 4:30-10 p.m.
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To paraphrase trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth in “The Dark Knight”: Some people just want to watch the world burn. Those people will be lining up for “San Andreas,” the latest action spectacular to demolish the evercrumbling Golden Gate Bridge of our movie nightmares. Since there are, proverbially, two kinds of people in the world, some will eagerly gobble their popcorn as they eat up this attimes terrifying vision that lays waste to Los Angeles, Nevada’s Hoover Dam and especially San Francisco, while others will run screaming — not from falling rubble but from their local multiplexes. I can’t tell you which kind of person you are, but I can say that “San Andreas” succeeds at exploiting a proven disaster-movie formula without troubling itself much with little things like plot, character and dialogue. What’s immediately apparent is that screenwriter Carlton Cuse (TV’s “Lost” and “Bates Motel”), or perhaps the credited story authors Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore, are big, big fans of James Cameron’s “The Abyss,” which features an estranged couple re-bonding in a crisis and a centerpiece scene in which rising waters in a cramped space threaten to drown two characters. As you may have guessed, that stuff happens in “San Andreas” as well, without the needless distraction of the audience wondering how it’ll all turn out. This is a movie comfortable with cliche: the Cassandra-like seismologist (Paul Giamatti: “No one listens to us until the ground shakes”), the Ultra-Capable Dad (Dwayne Johnson’s L.A. Fire De-
CEO), the Ingenues (Alexandra Daddario as Blake — Ray and Emma’s daughter — and Hugo Johnstone-Burt as her love interest Ben), and the Plucky Kid (Art Parkinson as not-very-funny comic relief Ollie). Earthquakes haven’t been exploited at the movies as much as one might think (most prominently in 1974’s “Earthquake,” which brought us the Sensurround gimmick), but those with long-memories can cross-reference 1997’s “Dante’s Peak” and “Volcano,” which are more or less the same movie as “San Andreas,” except with geysers of lava. But Hollywood counts on short memories these days, and so Johnson drags poor Gugino (who deserves so much better) around in a chopper, a plane, a truck and a speedboat for variations on pedal-to-the-metal “holy crap!” nearmisses. “San Andreas” nominally mitigates the unsavory damselin-distress vibe here by stocking Blake with her-father’s-daughter tactical know-how, which more or less keeps those twitty Brits Ben and Ollie alive until Ray arrives to do the heavy lifting. But none of this really matters. The bottom line is that the
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Ex Machina (R) Century 16: 9:05 & 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 10:40 a.m., 1:30, 4:25, 7:15 & 10:05 p.m. Far From the Madding Crowd (PG-13) Century 20: 10:35 a.m., 1:30, 4:40, 7:35 & 10:30 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1, 4 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 9:50 p.m. Home (PG) ++
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Ninotchka (1939) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:30 & 9:15 p.m. Pitch Perfect 2 (PG-13) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:10 & 10:40 a.m., 12:05, 1:35, 2:55, 4:30, 5:50, 7:30, 8:50 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 10:25 & 11:15 a.m., 1:10, 2, 3:05, 4, 4:55, 5:55, 6:50, 7:45, 9:40 & 10:35 p.m. Poltergeist (PG-13) Century 16: 9:50 a.m., 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 10:25 a.m. & 3:40 p.m. In 3-D at 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55 & 10:40 p.m. San Andreas (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 10 a.m., 1, 4, 7 & 10 p.m., Fri & Sat 12:01 a.m. In 3-D at 9 & 11 a.m., noon, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 10:50 p.m., Fri & Sat 9 p.m. Century 20: 10:25 a.m., 1:15, 4:05, 6:15, 7, 9:05 & 9:50 p.m. In 3-D at 11:50 a.m., 12:35, 2:40, 3:20, 5:30 & 8:20 p.m. In X-D 3-D at 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:40 & 10:40 p.m. In D-BOX at 10:25 a.m., 1:15, 4:05, 7 & 9:50 p.m. In 3-D D-BOX at 11:50, 2:40, 5:30 & 8:20 p.m.
Tomorrowland (PG) ++1/2 Century 16: 9:05, 10:15 & 11:15 a.m., 12:05, 1:20, 2:20, 3:15, 4:25, 5:25, 7:25, 8:30 & 10:40 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:35 p.m. Century 20: 10:20, 10:45 & 11:25 a.m., 12:25, 1:25, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:35, 6:35, 7:35, 8:40, 9:40 & 10:40 p.m.
The Mark of Zorro (1940) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sat & Sun 3:45 p.m.
Wild Tales (R) +++1/2 Century 16: 10:20 a.m., 1:15, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:25 p.m.
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Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) Currently closed for renovation Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128) The following is a sampling of movies recently reviewed in the Weekly: Tomorrowland 00 1/2 In director Brad Bird’s new science fantasy, “Tomorrowland,” an elaborate fable favoring optimism over cynicism, flying cars are just the tip of the space mountain. As branded Disneytainment, the film cheerily endorses the futurism of Disney Parks, as piloted at the 1964 World’s Fair where young Frank Walker (Thomas Robinson) seeks approval of his prototype jet pack. There Frank discovers a portal into a thriving tomorrow’s-future-today land defined by scientific advancement. Ejected from this greenhouse of Eden, Frank grows into a cranky professor (George Clooney) waiting out the seemingly inevitable end of the end times. Luckily, there’s an inventive young woman named Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) who also earns an invitation to Tomorrowland. But getting in and staying in are two different prospects, and Casey and Frank end up forming an uneasy alliance, abetted by the mysterious child Athena (Raffey Cassidy). Admirably, “Tomorrowland” is a rare cinematic beast: an original genre story. Bird’s film critiques the dark-ifying of adventure embodied by movies like the recent, dour Superman reboot. Frank and his antagonist David Nix (Hugh Laurie) despair for the human race and its ability to tackle problems like climate change and war. But the kids are still alright, and young Casey acknowledges that although “it’s hard to have
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ideas and easy to give up,” hope is all, and there’s salvation in science and innovation. Despite dollops of wonder and special effects, and at least one effective burst of Rube Goldbergian action, this well-intentioned film lumbers when it should be tripping the light fantastic, like the vintage-Zemeckian creature it seems to want to be: “Tomorrowland”’s more “Tron” than “Back to the Future.” Rated PG for sequences of sci-fi action violence and peril, thematic elements, and language. Two hours, 10 minutes. — P.C.
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Home Front LIGHTING SALE ... FabMo will offer a special sale of imported glass and metal lighting fixtures, donated by Policelli Lighting and Design Showroom in San Francisco, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, at 970 Terra Bella Ave., Suite 8, Mountain View. No appointments are necessary. The lighting fixtures will include contemporary, traditional and classic pieces, including chandeliers, sconces, table lamps, low-voltage pendants and lighted mirrors. Info: fabmo.org HONEY HARVEST ... Kendal Sager, a longtime beekeeper, will teach a class, “Hands-on Honey Harvest” from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, at Hidden Villa, 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. The class will cover how to tell when honey is ripe and ready to harvest and how to spin frames to remove honey from the comb. Participants take home a bottle of raw honey. The class is designed for ages 13 through adults; participants are asked to wear clothes that can get sticky (and bring some to change into). Cost is $55. Info: 650-949-8650 or hiddenvilla.org
LEARN TO MAKE ROSES ... Bron McInerney will be teaching a free workshop on how to make “Wallpaper and Fabric Roses” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, June 2, at the FabMo distribution center, 970 Terra Bella Ave., Mountain View. McInerney is making these roses for table centerpieces for the upcoming Mountain View Senior Center fashion show. Bring a glue gun to share. Info: fabmo.org LEARN TO SEW ... Christine Hopkins will teach a class on
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Maija McDonald opened up a composting container, which contains shredded newspaper, yard trimmings and worms, during the compost basics class.
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t 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 25, about 45 people gathered in room H-1 of the Cubberley Community Center to get their hands dirty. The question at hand was: Does the compost smell bad or does it just smell? An important distinction for those unfamiliar with the smell of successful compost. The composting basics class occurs once a month and is organized through the Santa Clara County’s partnership with University of California Cooperative Extension. The UCCE is a network of 64 Cooperative Extension offices across California, which work to create a collaborative link between local issues and UC research. In Santa Clara County some of the cooperative programs include Master Gardeners, Nutrition Family Consumer Sciences and the Small Farm Program. The composting class, which is free and requires pre-registration online or via phone, is two hours and lays out the basics of composting, how composting can save water and how it reduces methane emissions; this last workshop also included an introduction to worm composting. Any Palo Alto resident who attends one of the composting workshops is eligible to get a free composting bin from the city. “So what is compost? To me
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REPAIR, RE-USE ... The next Repair Cafe, where people bring their broken stuff and work with volunteers to learn how to repair it themselves, is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 31, at the Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. One can learn how to diagnose problems, take things apart and put them back together again, where to find repair solutions or watch volunteers do the job. Objects to be repaired can include clothing, bikes, computers, small appliances, lamps, small furniture or jewelry — anything that can be carried in. There is no fee. Info: repaircafepaloalto.org
Composting workshops will be held monthly, June through October, in Palo Alto.
compost is a community, it’s an ecosystem,” Cole Smith, the composting education program coordinator, explained to the audience with a table in front of him covered in composting materials such as leaves, egg shells and orange peels. “I see the compost pile as an incubator, just like you’re incubating chicken eggs, but what you’re incubating is fungus, bacteria and bugs,” Smith said. Fungus, bacteria and invertebrates consume and break down the composing materials, such as fruit and vegetable scraps, turning them into a nutrient-rich soil amendment referred to as humus. The water-saving benefits of compost come from the nutrientrich material’s capacity to improve soil texture and structure; this enhances the soil’s capacity to retain moisture thereby decreasing water runoff, he said. This is a benefit of using compost, but compost can be bought, so why make it? Composting at home reduces methane emissions from landfills. “Americans throw, as you can see, almost 40 million tons of food waste away every year,” said Smith, pointing to a PowerPoint slide titled “The Anatomy of America’s Garbage.” He went on to explain the path (continued on page 36)
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of food waste from the garbage can to the landfill. The bad smell that comes hand-in-hand with landfills is caused by anaerobic bacteria â&#x20AC;&#x201D; bacteria that thrives without oxygen, and most importantly, produces methane. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, methane is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas in the U.S. that is emitted by human activities.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Food-waste management is just under 30 percent of all the methane emissions,â&#x20AC;? Smith said, citing a study done by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, â&#x20AC;&#x153;so this is a big issue.â&#x20AC;? When composting is successful, it produces an oxygen-rich environment in which methaneproducing bacteria cannot thrive; therefore composting at home reduces the methane emissions. The aerated environment is created through a layering of â&#x20AC;&#x153;brownsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dry, woody materials like dry leaves â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and â&#x20AC;&#x153;greensâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; moist, green
materials like fruit peelings. The layering aims to balance the air and moisture of the compost pile: Moisture is essential for the composting to happen, and air keeps the pile from going anaerobic. The class expands on all the details of maintaining this balance, options for how and where to store the composting pile, what to compost and what not to compost, how to tell when the compost is done and finally a quick explanation of the more compact option of worm composting. After the presentations were finished the audience broke up in two groups to either ask questions about composting basics or learn more about worm composting. Attendees lingered after to ask questions. Maija McDonald, a long-time Palo Alto resident, did the worm-composting presentation at the end of Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s discussion on composting basics. McDonald has been volunteering with the composting education program since the mid-1990s and during that time she received her master composter certification through the Master Composter Training program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would just like to inspire people to do it and to show how easy it is,â&#x20AC;? McDonald said. Q
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100 1st St. #217 Los Altos8 Limited to Hartenbaum Trust for $1,625,500 on 4/29/15 692 Benvenue Ave. J. & V. Green to Duterme Trust for $2,860,000 on 4/29/15; previous sale 7/87, $370,000 1468 Club View Terrace B. & P. Tomlinson to I. Tsyganskiy for $4,400,000 on 4/28/15; previous sale 8/11, $2,900,000 1038 Mundell Court Melville Trust to C. MacDonald for $2,850,000 on 4/28/15 166 Pepper Drive M. & J. SonBell to P. Sarkar for $2,550,000 on 4/29/15; previous sale 12/00, $1,517,000 1752 Selig Lane Baruch Trust to J. Huang for $1,780,000 on 4/27/15 250 Yerba Buena Place Ward Trust to Wan Trust for $4,058,000 on 4/29/15; previous sale 7/99, $1,135,000
Los Altos Hills
13640 Burke Road L. Radkowski to D. & S. Rosenthal for $4,850,000 on 4/27/15; previous sale 12/99, $1,035,000
Menlo Park
641 10th Ave. E. & J. Eilers to A. Flores for $1,380,000 on 4/10/15; previous sale 1/04, $644,000 789 16th Ave. R. & D. Chew to M. Husain for $1,375,000 on 4/14/15; previous sale 7/03, $760,000 4320 Fair Oaks Ave. Pacheco Trust to H. Lashkari for $1,280,000 on 4/10/15 712 Harvard Ave. S. Mashhoon to N. Baniasadi for $3,412,000 on 4/15/15; previous sale 10/13, $1,652,000 383 Hedge Road M. & A. Hamid to W. & E. McCabe for $2,800,000 on 4/15/15; previous sale 3/11, $1,525,000 543 Marsh Road Equity Growth Asset Management to X. Pan for $736,500 on 4/16/15; previous sale 9/99, $271,000 219 Newbridge St. A. Hope to C. Olesiewicz for $651,000 on 4/14/15 1378 Sevier Ave. Owens Trust
to B. Collyer for $5,350,000 on 4/10/15 116 Russell Ave. S. Yount to H. Tanner for $1,649,000 on 4/15/15; previous sale 8/13, $1,365,000 1390 Westridge Drive Strongin Trust to Hinter Trust for $3,198,000 on 4/16/15
SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton
Mountain View
Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $3,700,000 Highest sales price: $4,200,000
Total sales reported: 8 Lowest sales price: $725,000 Highest sales price: $2,280,000
East Palo Alto
Palo Alto
Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $505,000 Highest sales price: $740,000
Redwood City
Total sales reported: 8 Lowest sales price: $1,200,000 Highest sales price: $7,000,000
Los Altos
Portola Valley
Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $1,625,500 Highest sales price: $4,400,000
Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $1,649,000 Highest sales price: $5,350,000
Los Altos Hills
Redwood City
Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $4,850,000 Highest sales price: $4,850,000
Total sales reported: 17 Lowest sales price: $402,000 Highest sales price: $1,900,000
Menlo Park
Woodside
Total sales reported: 9 Lowest sales price: $651,000 Highest sales price: $3,412,000
Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $2,500,000 Highest sales price: $2,500,000 Source: California REsource
to C. Chen for $720,000 on 4/14/15 1315 Trinity Drive Grobman Trust to Selleck Trust for $2,200,000 on 4/15/15; previous sale 6/05, $1,135,000
Mountain View
536 Calderon Ave. Togami Trust to K. Palla for $1,430,000 on 4/27/15 133 Frederick Court M. Afshar to C. Tai for $1,260,000 on 4/28/15; previous sale 5/05, $680,000 332 Jessie Lane A. Mirenda to J. Manson for $2,000,000 on 4/29/15 1939 Rock St. #3 E. Gindraux to B. Oyman for $725,000 on 4/24/15; previous sale 5/07, $495,000 2747 St. Giles Lane Kelly Trust to Tahmassebi Trust for $2,280,000 on 4/24/15; previous sale 1/04, $990,000 532 Tyrella Ave. #3 P. Fu to
XChange Solutions for $725,000 on 4/27/15; previous sale 12/13, $550,000 831 Warner Court P. Lee to L. Zhong for $1,600,000 on 4/24/15; previous sale 2/12, $985,000 875 Washington St. G. & D. Alon to R & A Karma Holdings for $1,420,000 on 4/28/15; previous sale 11/10, $525,000
Palo Alto
559 Barron Ave. First Position Real Estate to R. & S. Rana for $2,610,000 on 4/24/15; previous sale 1/87, $211,500 155 S. California Ave. #G202 P. Damany to D. & M. Ko for $1,200,000 on 4/29/15 133 Coleridge Ave. T. McLennan to Harkecho Limited for $1,750,000 on 4/29/15 2724 Cowper St. Reese Trust to T. Buyukbezci for $2,250,000 on 4/24/15 2726 Kipling St. P. & A. Noble
to C. Wong for $2,500,000 on 4/29/15 3717 Ortega Court R. & J. Kanodia to J. Yu for $2,400,000 on 4/28/15; previous sale 7/86, $380,000 644 Seneca St. N. Al-Kadhi to Crystal Cove Cliffs for $7,000,000 on 4/29/15; previous sale 10/11, $3,925,000 4115 Wilkie Way K. Gruener to Z. Zhang for $2,250,000 on 4/29/15
Portola Valley
131 N. Balsamina Way Hernstadt Development to J. Marguet for $2,450,000 on 4/13/15; previous sale 2/14, $1,500,000 21 Deer Park Lane Bair Trust
1935 Alameda de las Pulgas Buchholz Trust to S. & L. Heumann for $1,525,000 on 4/10/15 1862 Barton St. H. Plain to J. Breeding for $1,900,000 on 4/14/15; previous sale 7/13, $1,500,000 4 Clinton Court TJ Development Group to K. Rajendran for $805,000 on 4/10/15; previous sale 8/14, $475,000 631 Clinton St. J. & H. Ellis to J. Nagra for $1,260,000 on 4/13/15; previous sale 7/00, $527,000 4024 Farm Hill Blvd. #1 P. Fasi to Copperhall Trust for $740,000 on 4/10/15; previous sale 8/10, $445,000 4004 Farm Hill Blvd. #105 Carlomagno Trust to M. Torres for $710,000 on 4/16/15 1127 Fernside St. P. & A. Lyons to D. & J. Stevenson for $1,353,000 on 4/10/15; previous sale 10/10, $675,000 1458 Hudson St. #102 Goltz Trust to S. Tang for $540,000 on 4/16/15 1269 Jefferson Ave. Aragona Trust to E. Nazarewicz for $924,000 on 4/16/15 828 Lakeshore Drive R. & B. Herman to A. Diggi for $1,278,000 on 4/10/15; previous sale 5/97, $405,000 441 Leahy St. Spurlock Trust to E. Fronberg for $1,050,000 on 4/14/15 3035 Mcgarvey Ave. C. & E. Stary to P. Hevey for $1,400,000 on 4/13/15; previous sale 5/12, $850,000
731 Myrtle St. Look Investments to L. Polovets for $1,300,000 on 4/16/15; previous sale 9/14, $885,000 205 Pender Lane J. Chace to V. Cochrane for $1,085,000 on 4/10/15 263 Roosevelt Ave. Dunham Trust to J. Willett for $895,000 on 4/16/15; previous sale 6/08, $575,000 3552 Spring St. F. & L. Estrada to E. Luevano for $402,000 on 4/14/15; previous sale 9/03, $490,000 2798 Washington Ave. Rinaldi Trust to E. Mattias for $1,150,000 on 4/15/15
Woodside
45 Still Creek Road C. & L. Burton to A. Emigh for $2,500,000 on 4/10/15; previous sale 11/95, $455,000
BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto
217 High St. replace cabinetry and bar sink, install tile and vanity in bathroom in common area, $5,336 259 Coleridge Ave. install roofmounted PV system, $n/a 1530 Escobita Ave. re-roof main house, $10,000; re-roof detached garage, $4,975 3355 Cork Oak Way demo pool and associated equipment, $n/a 410 Sheridan Ave., Unit 331remodel kitchen, bathroom, replace can lights, floor heaters, $35,000 500 Kingsley Ave. landscaping, including new gas fire pit at rear and arbor, $23,756 199 Heather Lane remodel bathroom, $6,064 761 Allen Court replace Sheetrock in bedroom, replace four
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‘Show me the numbers’: the trap of quantitative analysis
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ne unique aspect of Silicon Valley’s real estate market is that many buyers and sellers, whether they are engineers or financiers, are used to fact-driven methodology. When it’s time to justify the single-most important number of any real estate transaction — “fair value” of a particular home — many demand more “numbers” to back it up from comparative market analysis. However, interpreting these numbers can be quite tricky, as human psychology plays a big role. If not handled properly, the quantitative analysis can become a trap, especially for buyers in today’s competitive market. Firstly, comparative market analysis is backward looking, as it’s based on closed transactions, i.e., data points come from transactions closed within a certain time period in the past. It differs from valuation analysis based on future projections that are used often in evaluating income properties and most financial instruments. If the property market remains stable, transactions closed two months ago may provide a rather accurate indicator for today’s value.
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However, with structurally limited supply and increasing demands, sales prices these days are setting new benchmarks every day. Therefore, if we stick to the data points in the past, we might be one step behind the curve. By the way, an example of a forward-looking approach in real estate evaluation is to estimate how much a home is worth in 10 years, then discount it back based on an acceptable annual return rate, for instance, 7
‘In today’s highly competitive market, the process of evaluating residential real estate is more of art than science than ever before.’ to 8 percent to beat inflation. This approach involves many assumptions or uncertainties, thus is not often used in valuing real estate. Secondly, we need to remind ourselves of the nonhomogeneous nature of real property. In the case of publicly traded stocks, each company does operate different businesses. However, the valuation of those stocks are based on the same cash those businesses
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generate. This does not apply to real estate where even for the same home, each owner may receive different benefits. Therefore, it most often does not make sense to rely solely on data, or quantitative analysis, while ignoring the qualitative part of the evaluation. Lastly, and the most important element in today’s market, is competition among buyers. For the transactions in which I recently participated, multiple offers were the norm. If a property is priced below its market value based on past data points, it has the effect to bring more competition and end up being sold at a larger premium over the market average. While each property settles its market value under its unique supply-and-demand situation, it has become more and more difficult to determine the fair value in order to define an effective bidding strategy for buyer clients. In today’s highly competitive market, the process of evaluating residential real estate is more of art than science than ever before. Quantitative analysis has to leave the center stage to market momentum until the market becomes more rational. The rapidly changing market today also provides an excellent opportunity for real estate professions to add value. Q Xin Jiang is a Realtor with Alain Pinel Realtors in Palo Alto. She can be reached at xjiang@apr.com.
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6988 Hwy 20 Smartsville, California Custom made 1800 sq ft home on 4.75 acres of riparian woodlot overlooking the Yuba River. Three bedroom, 2 bath. Natural drought resistant landscaping. Fenced Pasture and Barn with two 12 x12 stalls. Above the fog, below the snow. $599K. Please call for an appointment.
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windows, remodel bathroom, $14,600 455 Charleston Road PASHPI/ Stevenson House LLP: Bldg. B — voluntary seismic upgrade, remodel 32 living units, $3,000,000; Bldg. C — voluntary seismic upgrade, remodel 29 living units, $2,500,000 345 Forest Ave. Apt. 100 eliminate sink from breakroom, $n/a 14 Roosevelt Circle re-roof, $7,584 292 Carolina Lane expand master bedroom, reduce size of laundry room, relocate skylight, $n/a 4329 El Camino Real ADA updates, $n/a; block out interiorside windows on two bedrooms, install graphic film over window facing courtyard, $n/a 2061 Tasso St. re-roof garage, $n/a 240 California Ave. Norge Dry Cleaning: re-roof, $40,000 249 Kipling St. add new concrete steps, replace glass door, $25,000 3793 La Donna Ave. remodel kitchen, bath, install stackable washer/dryer in closet, $25,000 3001 Bryant St. new A/C unit, $n/a 3781 Nathan Way re-roof, $12,500 3708 Starr King Circle copper re-pipe entire house, $n/a 2570 Webster St. new electrical for exterior barbecue, $n/a 3645 Ramona St. remodel bathroom, $n/a 2445 Faber Place Suite 103 Pluribus Networks: tenant improvement, $12,100 879 Talisman Drive replace rotted beam at front, $24,999 3101 Middlefield Road, Apt. 3 revised plans to include remodel kitchen, bathroom, $n/a 3363 Louis Road install 13 retrofit windows, $9,047 730 Josina Ave. re-roof, $16,395 3708 Carlson Circle re-roof, $13,400 250 Lowell Ave. unconditioned storage use changed to movie room, slab lowered for stadium seating, $n/a 325 Channing Ave., Unite 119 reframe fireplace facade, $n/a 801 Welch Road revised office layout, $n/a 2745 Alma St. re-roof carport, $4,552 1501 Page Mill Road Hewlett Packard: Phase 1 of tenant improvement, including lobby, office and conference room, $339,690 2491 Greer Road remodel two bathrooms, including adding one window, $28,300 2040 Cowper St. voluntary seismic upgrade, $n/a 81 Encina Ave. install 125A meter pedestal for Caltrain, $n/a 3960 El Camino Real remodel restroom, $12,000
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285 Bryant Street, Palo Alto Offered at $1,298,000 Fresh, Bright Townhome Near Downtown Palo Alto Breezy, bright spaces updated with modern amenities await inside this 2 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom home of 1,260 sq. ft. (per county) that lies just moments from downtown Palo Alto. Open living areas are arranged on the main level, both bedrooms are upstairs, and a bonus room is in the finished lower level. Boasting stainless-steel appliances, the upgraded kitchen opens to the spacious living and dining room ensemble, which includes a gas fireplace. The immense master bedroom presents two closets and a custom mural, and the sky-lit upstairs bathroom offers dual vanities. Perfect for a media room, the lower-level bonus room provides a projector screen. Rear exterior upgrades include a bluestone patio, flowering plum trees, and drip irrigation. Here, you will be within steps of Johnson Park and exciting University Avenue hotspots. With close proximity to Caltrain, you will also be near excellent schools, including Addison Elementary (API 947), Jordan Middle (API 934), and Palo Alto High (API 905) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
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301 Camille Court, Mountain View Offered at $1,288,000 Private Living, Excellent Location Tucked behind a hedge-lined lawn, this 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,444 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a lot of 6,970 sq. ft. (per county) in centrally located Cuesta Park. Details like dual-pane windows, plantation shutters, new paint, and substantial closet storage grace the interior. The large living room and light-filled dining room connect to a generous, fresh kitchen with granite countertops, stainless-steel appliances, and a breakfast bar. Extensive closet storage and a beautifully updated bathroom complete the master suite. A partly covered deck opens to a terrace in the private backyard. Other fine features include a hall bathroom with dual granite vanities and a two-car garage with both laundry and storage rooms. With easy access to Highway 85 and Route 237, you will love being within steps of both Grant Park Plaza and Mountain View Shopping Center, and just moments from Stevens Creek Trail and Cuesta Park. The home is also near Bubb Elementary (API 920), Graham Middle, and Mountain View High (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
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5 Bedroom | 4.5 Bathroom 3,396 sq.ft. living (per assessor) 8,712 sq.ft. lot (per assessor)
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his luxurious newer home in Palo Alto on a sunny, large lot with beautiful gardens and lawns has designer touches throughout. Recently upgraded gourmet kitchen with custom cabinets and designer concrete countertops, stone gas-burning fireplace with antique, reclaimed wood mantles in living and family rooms, stunning new top-grade hardwood floors, Hubbardton Forge lighting throughout, expansive, light-filled master suite, radiant heated master bath floor, and convenient upstairs laundry. Five bedrooms, four and one-half baths. Downstairs ensuite bedroom makes an excellent home office or nanny suite. Finished garage, with coated floor and new cabinetry and workbench. Briones Elementary (API 941), Terman Middle (API 968) and Gunn High (API 917) – buyer to verify.
4264 WILKIE WAY, PALO ALTO
Offered at $4,188,000 JUST LISTED! OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY & SUNDAY 12:30PM - 4:30PM
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269 Stockbridge Ave Atherton This very private retreat waits at the end of a long, oleander-lined drive within the Las Lomitas School District. The acre-plus flag lot contains a five bedroom, four bath Ranch-style house, a detached three-car garage with storage above, and a cabana with a kitchenette and full bath. The landscaped grounds encompass an arbor overlooking a manicured lawn, an expansive patio and pool, raised vegetable beds, and mature perimeter trees.
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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services
Sand Hill Estates, Woodside
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5 Betty Lane, Atherton
$35,000,000
$25,000,000
$24,800,000
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
6 Quail Meadow Drive, Woodside
10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills
245 Mountain Wood Lane, Woodside
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138 Bolivar Lane, Portola Valley
1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside
1730 Peregrino Way, San Jose
$6,488,000
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45 Vista Verde Way, Portola Valley
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Nestled among majestic oaks in a prestigious neighborhood in the heart of Saratoga, this 5 bedroom, 4½ bathroom, 6,100± sq. ft. home expresses an understated elegance honoring the architectural character & integrity of the original Willis Polk designed 1917 Blaney Estate Carriage House. It features custom Roder doors & windows, radiant heat, travertine & wood flooring, custom Plato cabinetry, numerous outdoor areas including a full outdoor kitchen, fire wall, bocce court, fire pit with stone bench surround and a 825± sq. ft. guest house.
Offered At $9,650,000 Heather Crane 408.529.0532 hcrane@interorealestate.com www.HeatherCrane.com Lic.#01846215 2015 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.
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2500 Melendy Ave., San Carlos
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Sophisticated Sharon Heights 1230 SHARON PARK DR. #62 Bright and spacious 2 bedroom 2 bath 3rd floor condo with a sep. den/ study, Great view of the Golf Course. Fireplace, eat in kitchen, dining L, built in’s and private patio. Ready to move in! Community pool and recreation room, convenient to shopping, and transportation.
OFFERED AT $1,495,000
JEAN RIGG
shawnna.sullivan@cbnorcal.com
650 400 8707 www.1230sharonpark.com jean@jeanrigg.com
CalBRE#00856563
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(650) 716-7303
643 Tennyson Avenue Mediterranean in Old Palo Alto Approximately 5400 square feet of high quality living space provides 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, formal living and dining rooms, a grand kitchen, two family rooms, a gym, laundry room, storage room and large wine cellar. Rooms are of generous proportions with quality detailing and fine finishes. A park-like rear yard with towering redwood trees invites outdoor dining and entertaining. Old world features and finishes give this very modern home a feeling of timelessness and permanence.
List price $7,998,000
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727 Loma Verde Avenue, Unit B, Palo Alto Offered at $988,000 Centrally Located Condo In Peaceful Setting Set back within a private, tree-shaded complex, this tri-level 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom condominium offers 1,554 sq. ft. (per county). Granite-tiled countertops, a full backsplash, and stainless-steel appliances complement the kitchen, which also provides fine cabinetry with a pull-out pantry. The informal dining room displays a convenient dry bar, while the sunken living room enjoys transom windows and a fireplace. Upstairs awaits the master suite with a walk-in closet, the convenient laundry closet, and a spacious bedroom that adjoins the gleaming hall bathroom. The top level, which can be used as either a third bedroom or a family room, offers vaulted ceilings with a ceiling fan. A private deck adjoins the backyard, perfect for outdoor entertaining. Offering fine features like a swimming pool and underground parking, this complex is just steps from local amenities, including Philz Coffee, and is also near Hoover Park, Route 101, and the Baylands. Excellent nearby schools include Palo Verde Elementary (API 961), JLS Middle (API 943), and Palo Alto High (API 905) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
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72 Juniper Drive, Atherton $6,450,000 5 BD/5+ BA/6,150 SF
Extensively updated with classic and timeless style in serene Lindenwood neighborhood. Private setting with pool and spa. Menlo Park schools. Tom LeMieux, 650.465.7459 tom@tomlemieux.com
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168 Sand Hill Circle, Menlo Park $1,595,000 4 BD/2 BA/2,060 SF
316 Highland Avneue, San Mateo $1,588,000 3 BD/2.5 BA/2,350SF
Light end unit with view of Sharon Heights Golf Course near the Rosewood Hotel. Quiet location with remodeled Kitchen and Baths, Las Lomitas schools.
Built new in 2007 this home is centrally located to downtown San Mateo & Burlingame. 316highland.com
Jennifer Pollock, 650.867.0609 Deanna Tarr, 415.999.1232
Sia Glafkides, 650.302.3333 sia@pacunion.com
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1 7 3 S I E R R A V I S TA A V E # 1 0 , M O U N TA I N V I E W Inviting Mountain View Townhome
â&#x20AC;˘ Two spacious bedrooms - Both with private decks â&#x20AC;˘ Two and one half bathrooms â&#x20AC;˘ Open floor plan with large living area, wood burning fireplace and French doors leading to backyard â&#x20AC;˘ Serene private backyard â&#x20AC;˘ Attached garage â&#x20AC;˘ 1,196 sq. feet living space approx.
OFFERED AT $799,000
L I S T E D B Y Timothy Foy calBRE# 01446621 Cell: 650.387.5078 Tim@midtownpaloalto.com Midtown Realty, Inc. â&#x20AC;˘ 2775 Middlefield Road â&#x20AC;˘ Phone: 650.321.1596 â&#x20AC;˘ WWW.MIDTOWNPALOALTO.COM
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DELEON REALTY SUMMER SPLASH
DeLeon Realty is excited to announce the July Summer Splash. Buyers often want to buy homes during the summer so they can get settled before the new school year. However, real estate agents have traditionally advised sellers to wait until the fall because the low inventory causes buyers to lose focus. In response to what buyers and sellers want, DeLeon Realty is breaking with tradition and releasing some of the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best listings between July 13th and July 26th. There will be special incentives for anyone who buys a DeLeon listing during the Summer Splash, including a $5,000 gift FHUWLĂ&#x20AC;FDWH WR )OHJHO¡V ,QWHULRU 'HVLJQ +RPH )XUQLVKLQJV 7KDW¡V ULJKW 'H/HRQ 5HDOW\ ZLOO DWWUDFW PRUH BUYERS by giving them $5,000 to spend at one of Silicon Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best furniture stores Check out the next issue of The DeLeon Insight or visit www.DeLeonRealty.com for more information. Or give us a call at:
650.488.7325
Disclaimer: This is a limited time offer. This promotion only applies to homes originally listed by the DeLeon Team between the dates of July 13, 2015 and July 26, 2015 as part of the Summer Splash. The home must be in contract by July 31,2016. The transaction must close by September 1, 2015 and the Gift Certificate must be used by March 31, 2016. There is no cash value to the certificate. Lost certificates will not be replaced. The certificate will be issued in the Buyersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; names and they are non-transferable. Please check our website at www.deleonrealty.com for further details.
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1115 Tahoe Lane, Palo Alto Offered at $998,000 Park-Side Detached Home In Central Location Facing a quiet park in a serene yet strategically located neighborhood, this 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home offers 1,858 sq. ft. (per county). The trilevel interior is lined with dual-pane windows and provides open common areas on the main level, bedrooms on the upper level, and a family room/ fourth bedroom on the top level. Boasting granite countertops with a full backsplash, the island kitchen boasts bar seating and stainless-steel appliances. One bedroom presents a walk-in closet, while the master suite offers a walk-in closet and a bathroom with a soaking tub and dual vanities. On the top level sits a full bathroom and a light-filled private bedroom. Additional amenities include a private paver patio and an attached two-car garage. Moments from U.S. 101, you will also be steps from Greer Park, nearby the Baylands trails, and a fiveminute drive from Midtown Shopping Center. Top-ranking schools include Palo Verde Elementary (API 961), JLS Middle (API 943), and Gunn High (API 917) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
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1 ADOBE CREEK WAY, LOS ALTOS Something Very Special in Old Los Altos
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The allure of this residence begins at the front courtyard and continues with an A-frame atrium hallway. Enormous entertainment rooms span the main living area, accommodating gatherings both intimate and grand. Multiple sets of sliding
doors open to the deck, where an oldgrowth redwood tree stands as a natural part of the thoughtful design. The kitchen, HMRMRK ERH PMZMRK VSSQW ¾S[ WIEQPIWWP] one to the next, all with sky-high ceilings and views of the deck. Teenagers or in laws are in for a delight with the amenities on the lower level, including a large recreation room and plenty of restful spaces. Other highlights include incredible storage, a jewelcolored guest powder room, access to the top schools and world class companies of the area, and a peaceful retreat for body and mind.
• 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths • Atrium hallway crowned with soaring sky-lit A-frame design • Kitchen includes black granite countertops and tremendous island with counter seating, Thermador 5-burner stovetop plus double oven, warming drawer, Sub-Zero refrigerator, soft close drawers in all shapes and sizes, paneled dishwasher, skylight, and a bay window over sink • Breakfast room with menu-planning desk and doors to the deck • Pantry/utility room with organized spaces for paperwork, household supplies, dry goods, plus a laundry center with a sink and ironing board • Living and dining expanse features a built-in hutch, beverage serving station, built-in library, stoneWYVVSYRH ½VITPEGI WSJ½X YT PMKLXMRK ERH HVEQEXMG views • *SVQEP SJ½GI [MXL [SVO WXEXMSR ERH ½PI GEFMRIXW
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xperience your own private redwood preserve tucked in an exclusive culde-sac just steps from the vibrancy of University Avenue, Shoup Park, and the charming downtown Village. This home is a private jewel in one of the most picturesque neighborhoods in the Bay Area.
Offered at $5,798,000 650-917-5811 Direct terricouture.com terri.couture@cbnorcal.com Page 50 • May 29, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com CalBRE #01090940
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Menlo Park $1,850,000 Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 2010 Santa Cruz Ave Mediterranean style on a large lot. Minutes to Stanford. Top Menlo Park Schools. 4 BR/2.5 BA Sophie Kirk/Pat McDonnell CalBRE #01926401/01926896 650.324.4456
Menlo Park $1,788,000 Sun 1:30 - 4:30 3 Oliver Ct Exquisite +/-2680 sq.ft. TH with den in desirable Sharon Heights w/mountain views 2 BR/2.5 BA Fereshteh Khodadad CalBRE #00851932 650.325.6161
Redwood City $1,495,000 Sat/Sun 1 - 4 811 Mohican Way Approximately 2,370 sq ft. Situated on a 6,900 sq ft lot in beautiful Emerald Hills. 4 BR/2.5 BA Julie Ray CalBRE #01881349 650.324.4456
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400 Marlowe Street | 5bd/5ba J. Buenrostro/N. Mott | 650.323.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30
28080 Laura Court | 5bd/8ba Judy Bogard-Tanigami | 650.941.1111 BY APPOINTMENT
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2139 Wellesley Street, Palo Alto Offered at $1,788,000 Stylish Home Boasts Rooftop Terrace A one-of-a-kind terrace tops this remodeled 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home of 1,144 sq. ft. (per county), which also features a detached one-car garage with an additional bathroom and a lot of 3,124 sq. ft. (per city). Inside, rich details include Porcelanosa tiles, LED lighting, a Nest thermostat, Andersen dual-pane windows, and a speaker system that connects to the rooftop. Offering a wall-mounted fireplace, the living room is ringed with clerestory windows and adjoins the curved kitchen, which includes quartz countertops, wrap-around bar seating, and stainlesssteel appliances. Both indoor bathrooms feature glass-topped vanities, and the master suite includes dual vanities, a heated bathroom floor, and a jaw-dropping walk-in closet. The incredible rooftop terrace offers a fire-pit, a hot tub, and an outdoor kitchen with granite countertops. Just steps from Cameron Park, the home is also near Stanford University and California Avenue. Escondido Elementary (API 927) is within walking distance and Jordan Middle (API 934) and Palo Alto High (API 905) are also close by (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
www.2139Wellesley.com
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Michael Repka M h lR k CalBRE #01854880
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PALO ALTO WEEKLY OPEN HOMES
EXPLORE OUR MAPS, HOMES FOR SALE, OPEN HOMES, VIRTUAL TOURS, PHOTOS, PRIOR SALE INFO, NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDES ON www.PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL TIMES ARE 1:30-4:30 PM
ATHERTON
2011 Fallen Leaf Ln Sat Sereno Group
4 Bedrooms
$1,998,000 947-2900
4 Bedrooms - Townhouse
100 Fair Oaks Ln Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$3,888,000 462-1111
LOS ALTOS HILLS
1 Adam Way Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$4,995,000 323-1111
14700 Manuella $4,975,000 Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 644-3474
6 Bedrooms 118 Selby Ln $14,980,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111
EAST PALO ALTO 2251 Terra Villa Sat/Sun 12-4 Alain Pinel Realtors
$645,000 323-1111
3 Bedrooms $1,450,000 712-2460
FOSTER CITY 4 Bedrooms $2,149,000 325-6161
LOS ALTOS 2 Bedrooms - Condominium 1 W Edith, C216 $1,348,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200
3 Bedrooms 1608 Belvoir Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$1,698,000 941-1111
4 Bedrooms 1395 Fairway Dr Sun 1-4 Sereno Group
$7,998,000 947-2900
1 Bedroom - Condominium 21 Willow Rd #13 Sun 12-5 Coldwell Banker
$699,000 726-1100
2 Bedrooms - Condominium
EL GRANADA
642 Greenwich Ln Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker
5 Bedrooms
MENLO PARK
4 Bedrooms
346 Avenue Granada Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker
3 Bedrooms
25311 W Fremont Rd Sun Sereno Group
$3,795,000 947-2900
1230 Sharon Park Dr 62 Sun 1-4 Menlo Realty
$1,495,000 400-8707
2 Bedrooms 3 Oliver Ct Sun Coldwell Banker 164 Sand Hill Cir Sun Sereno Group
984 Monte Rosa Dr Call for price Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200
$1,788,000 325-6161 $1,549,000 323-1900
3 Bedrooms 659 Marsh Rd $1,435,000 Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 1807 Doris Dr $4,395,000 Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 529-1111 1969 Palo Alto Way $2,198,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 760 Hobart St $3,698,000 Sun Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111 508 San Benito Ave $1,475,000 Sat 1-4 Intero Real Estate 206-6200 885 Harvard Ave $2,350,000 Sat/Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200
168 Sand Hill Cir $1,595,000 Sun 1-4 Pacific Union International 314-7200
4 Bedrooms 1045 Atkinson Ln Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$3,495,000 462-1111
2010 Santa Cruz Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker
$1,850,000 324-4456
2030 Sterling Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$3,388,000 462-1111
678 College Ave Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty
$2,298,000 543-8500
$3,388,000 543-8500
Sun
Alain Pinel Realtors
4264 Wilkie Way
$7,250,000 323-1111 $4,188,000
Sat/Sun 12:30-4:30 Coldwell Banker 325-6161
6 Bedrooms Coldwell Banker
$7,998,000 325-6161
4 Bedrooms
6 Bedrooms 1740 Oak Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$5,795,000 462-1111
MOUNTAIN VIEW
380 Portola Rd Sun
Coldwell Banker
4 Portola Green Cir
2 Bedrooms 1885 Peacock Ave Sun Coldwell Banker
$849,000 941-7040
529 Anza St. $1,198,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141 116 Flynn Ave Sat/Sun Sereno Group
$599,000 947-2900
Sun
604 Park Rd
2 Bedrooms - Townhouse
Sun 1-4
$799,000 321-1596
148 Cottonwood Ct Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$1,050,000 462-1111
301 Camille Ct Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty
$1,288,000 543-8500
Alain Pinel Realtors
1256 Crompton Rd Coldwell Banker
100 Danbury Ln Sun
Alain Pinel Realtors
1125 Palomar Dr Sun 1-4
Alain Pinel Realtors
Coldwell Banker
$988,000 543-8500
3 Bedrooms
Sun
Coldwell Banker
$1,698,000 323-1111
Sat/Sun
Coldwell Banker
WOODSIDE
2139 Wellesley St Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty
$1,788,000 543-8500
3 Bedrooms
941 Loma Verde Ave Sat/Sun Sereno Group
$1,968,000 323-1900
50 Ranch Road Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 900 Midglen Wy
1523 Hamilton Ave Sun Coldwell Banker
$5,495,000 325-6161
Sun
1730 Webster St Sun Coldwell Banker
$5,795,000 324-4456
4 Bedrooms
3246 Waverley Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$3,599,000 323-1111
755 Forest Ave $3,998,000 Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 520-3407 $2,350,000 (408) 335-1400
656 Hale St Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors
$3,498,000 462-1111
1400 Cowper St Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
$5,495,000 462-1111
2340 Carmel Dr $3,498,000 Sat/Sun Keller Williams Of Palo Alto 520-3407
$1,598,000 462-1111 $1,925,000 462-1111 $1,495,000 464-7459
$2,198,000 851-2666
4 Bedrooms
2070 Channing $2,995,000 Sun Pacific Union International 314-7200
4 Bedrooms
323-7751
SAN CARLOS 2500 Melendy Dr
530 Barron Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
462-1111 $1,966,000
5 Bedrooms 70 Fox Hollow Ln
727 Loma Verde Ave B Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty
324-4456
4 Bedrooms
Sat/Sun 1-4
$1,725,000 323-1111
$2,150,000
$1,475,000
811 Mohican Wy $1,298,000 543-8500
851-2666
3 Bedrooms Sat/Sun
173 Sierra Vista Ave #10 Sat/Sun Midtown Realty
Coldwell Banker
$4,800,000
REDWOOD CITY
529 Anza St $1,198,000 Sat/Sun Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141
3 Bedrooms - Condominium
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1499 Edgewood Dr
PORTOLA VALLEY
742 Torreya Ct Sat/Sun 2-4 Sereno Group
543-8500
5 Bedrooms
$3,998,000 462-1111
4208 Rickeys Way J Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
North Palo Alto 650.513.8669 | kevin@deleonrealty.com South Palo Alto 650.581.9899 | alexander@deleonrealty.com www.deleonrealty.com | CalBRE #01903224
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7 Trinity Ct Sat/Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors
3 Bedrooms - Townhouse
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1780 Newell Rd
$3,268,000 462-1111
2 Bedrooms
SPECIALISTS
$998,000 Deleon Realty
1314 Cloud Ave Sun Alain Pinel Realtors
PALO ALTO
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643 Tennyson Ave
5 Bedrooms
3 Bedrooms
DELEON REALTY
1115 Tahoe Ln
Coldwell Banker
740 Whiskey Hill Road Sun
Alain Pinel Realtors
3 Vineyard Hill Rd Sun
Alain Pinel Realtors
555 Manzanita Way Sun
Alain Pinel Realtors
$2,380,000 325-6161
$2,299,000 529-1111 $3,500,000 323-7751
$4,980,000 462-1111 $8,495,000 462-1111 $8,980,000 462-1111
5 Bedrooms 680 Manzanita Way Sun
Alain Pinel Realtors
$10,200,000 323-1111
118 SELBY LANE, ATHERTON | $14,980,000
65 SELBY LANE, ATHERTON | $11,800,000
OPEN SUNDAY 1:30- 4:30
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www.118selby.com
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These adjoining properties can be purchased together for $13,960,00
555 MANZANITA WAY, WOODSIDE | $8,980,000 www.555manzanita.com
740 WHISKEY HILL ROAD, WOODSIDE | $4,980,000 www.740whiskeyhill.com
OPEN SUNDAY 1:30- 4:30
3 VINEYARD HILL RD, WOODSIDE | $8,495,000 www.3vineyardhillroad.com MARY GULLIXSON
650.888.0860 mary@apr.com
License# 00373961
240 CINNABAR ROAD, WOODSIDE | $13,800,000 www.240cinnabar.com
BRENT GULLIXSON 650.888.4898 brentg@apr.com License# 01329216
gullixson.com
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OIV CAPITAL LIMITED FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604338 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: OIV Capital Limited, located at 419 Lambert Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MICHAEL HU 14463 Liddicoat Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Registrant/ Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/30/2010. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 29, 2015. (PAW May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2015) MAY MAY MILLER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604506 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: May May Miller, located at 4285 Los Palos Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): CI ZHANG 4285 Los Palos Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/17/2009. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 4, 2015. (PAW May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2015) MOUSDRVR MUSIC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604055 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: mousdrvr music, located at 345 Sheridan Ave. #410, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): JUSTIN DAVIN CADY 345 Sheridan Ave. #410 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 22, 2015. (PAW May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2015) KANPAI FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604507 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Kanpai, located at 330 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): OKURA INTERNATIONAL INC. 211 E. El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 05/01/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 5, 2015. (PAW May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2015) TBD TECHNOLOGIES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604414 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: TBD Technologies, located at 4023 Villa Vista, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): FRANKLIN SCHELLENBERG 4023 Villa Vista Palo Alto, CA 94306 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 May 1, 2015. (PAW May 15, 22, 29, June 5, 2015)
GARLIC CITY PROPERTIES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604565 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Garlic City Properties, located at 5870 Winged Foot Dr., Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): SOARING EAGLE PROPERTIES, LLC 5870 Winged Foot Dr. Gilroy, CA 95020 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 4/21/15 This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 5, 2015. (PAW May 15, 22, 29, June 5, 2015) PALO ALTO CREAMERY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604852 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Palo Alto Creamery, located at 566 Emerson St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ROBERT FISCHER 566 Emerson St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/15/09. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 13, 2015. (PAW May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2015) REPOSADO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604853 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Reposado, located at 236 Hamilton 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): ROBERT S. FISCHER 566 Emerson St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 9/30/08. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 13, 2015. (PAW May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2015) MILESTONE FINANCIAL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604981 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Milestone Financial, located at 4970 El Camino Real #230, Los Altos, CA 94022, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): BEAR BRUIN VENTURES, INC. 4970 El Camino Real #230 Los Altos, CA 94022 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 May 18, 2015. (PAW May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2015) LITTLE BYTES PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604996 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Little Bytes Pediatric Dentistry, located at 853 Middlefield Rd., Suite 2, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MICHELLE HAGHPANAH, D.D.S. 3732 Feather Lane 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 May 18, 2015. (PAW May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2015)
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CONNECTING PEOPLE CP FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604276 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Connecting People, 2.) CP, located at 780 Maplewood Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): CHRISTOPHER PERALTA 780 Maplewood Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 4/27/15. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 28, 2015. (PAW May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2015) PALO ALTO VINEYARD CHURCH FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604880 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Palo Alto Vineyard Church, located at 744 San Antonio Road # 22, 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): VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF THE PENINSULA 445 Sherman Ave., Suite S Palo Alto, CA 94306 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 May 14, 2015. (PAW May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2015) BCU GROUP BLOCKCHAIN UNIVERSITY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604189 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) BCU Group, 2.) Blockchain University, located at 1172 Castro St., Mountain View, CA 94041, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): BCU GROUP LLC 1172 Castro St. Mountain View, CA 94040 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 3/1/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on April 24, 2015. (PAW May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 2015) PEACEFUL PATHWAYS IN HOME PET EUTHANASIA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 605015 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Peaceful Pathways in Home Pet Euthanasia, located at 3414 Bryant St., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): JENNIFER WINNICK, DVM 3414 Bryant St. Palo Alto, CA 94306 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 May 19, 2015. (PAW May 29, June 5, 12, 19, 2015) SAN JOSE SWIM AND SPORT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 604666 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: San Jose Swim and Sport, located at 421 N. 1st. St., San Jose, CA 95112, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Corporation. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): TEAM SHEEPER SWIM & SPORT, INC. 501 Laurel St. Menlo Park, CA 94025 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 May 8, 2015. (PAW May 29, June 5, 12, 19, 2015) THE COPPERSMITH FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 605094 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: The Coppersmith, located at 233 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301,
Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): PALO ALTO BUSINESS GROUP LLC 547 Emerson St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 5/21/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on May 21, 2015. (PAW May 29, June 5, 12, 19, 2015)
997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-14-652026-HL Order No.: 100726105 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 11/30/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 to the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. BENEFICIARY MAY ELECT TO BID LESS THAN THE TOTAL AMOUNT DUE. Trustor(s): MANAR ZARROUG, A MARRIED MAN AS HIS SOLE AND SEPARATE PROPERTY Recorded: 12/6/2007 as Instrument No. 19674605 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, California; Date of Sale: 6/10/2015 at 9:00 AM Place of Sale: At the North Market Street Entrance of the Santa Clara County Superior Courthouse, 190 N. Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $6,315,537.58 The purported property address is: 996 LAUREL GLEN DR, PALO ALTO, CA 94304 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 182-43-037-00 NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 800280-2832 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site http://www.qualityloan.com , using the file number assigned to this foreclosure by the Trustee: CA-14-652026-HL . Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any
incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee’s Attorney. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street San Diego, CA 92101 619-645-7711 For NON SALE information only Sale Line: 800-280-2832 Or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-14-652026-HL IDSPub #0082561 5/15/2015 5/22/2015 5/29/2015 Title Order No.: 150014012 Trustee Sale No.: 14-00533A Reference No.: 09-01157 APN No.: 120-43-003 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A NOTICE OF DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT DATED 2/24/2009. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 6/4/2015 at 10:00 AM, A.S.A.P. Collection Services, as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Notice of Delinquent Assessment, recorded on 2/25/2009 as Document No. 20146317 Book n/a Page n/a of Official Records in the Office of the Recorder of Santa Clara County, California, property owned by: Booker T. Wade Jr. WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a State or national bank, a check drawn by a state of federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state.) At: At the gated North Market Street entrance Superior Courthouse, 190 N Market St., San Jose, CA 95113 Said sale shall be subject to a 90 day right of redemption period per the requirements of the California Civil Code section 5715(b). All rights, title and interest under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment in the property situated in said County, describing the land therein, under Assessors’ Parcel Number: 120-43003 The street address and other common designation, if any of the real property described above is purported to be: 605 Forest Ave Palo Alto, CA 943012623 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum due under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment, with interest thereon, as provided in said notice, advances, if any, estimated fees, charges, and expenses of the Trustee, to-wit: $92,089.81 Estimated Accrued Interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale The claimant, Forest Villa Homeowners Association under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved
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THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (714) 573-7777or visit this Internet Web site at www.priorityposting.com using the file number assigned to this case 14-00533A. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE A DEBT COLLECTOR Date: 4/23/2015 For Sales Information Please Call (714) 573-7777 or go to www.priorityposting.com A.S.A.P. Collection Services, as Trustee by: Platinum Resolution Services, Inc., as Agent Stephanie Strickland, President P1140647 5/15, 5/22, 05/29/2015 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No. 14-21741-SP-CA Title No. 140602337-CA-MAI ATTENTION RECORDER: THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE TO AN ATTACHED SUMMARY IS APPLICABLE TO THE NOTICE PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR ONLY PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE 2923.3 NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 05/07/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, (cashier’s check(s) must be made payable to National Default Servicing Corporation), drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state; will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made in an “as is” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: Judith A Wilczak, and Joseph L Wilczak, wife and husband as joint tenants Duly Appointed Trustee: NATIONAL DEFAULT SERVICING CORPORATION Recorded 05/30/2007 as Instrument No. 19449587 (or Book, Page) of the Official Records of Santa Clara County, California. Date of Sale: 06/19/2015 at 11:00 AM Place of Sale: At the North Market Street entrance to the County Courthouse, 191 North Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $1,862,485.50 Street Address or other common designation of real property: 26101 Duval Way, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022-4463 A.P.N.: 175-48-060 and 175-48-059 PARCEL ONE: PARCEL A, AS SHOWN ON THAT MAP ENTITLED, “RECORD OF SURVEY OF PORTION OF LOTS 33 AND 34, SUBDIVISION OF LOT 3,
TAAFFE PARTITION (1/70) AND PORTION OF LOT 1, M and M TAAFFE SUBDIVISION (1/72)”, WHICH MAP WAS FILED FOR RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ON AUGUST 18, 1976 IN BOOK 376 OF MAPS, AT PAGE 48. PARCEL TWO: ALL OF THAT NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR ROAD PURPOSES, AND INCIDENTAL THERETO, CONVEYED TO STATE OF CALIFORNIA BY DEED RECORDED NOVEMBER 30, 1962 IN BOOK 5812, PAGE 25 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: A PORTION OF LOT 35, AS SAID LOT IS SHOWN UPON THAT CERTAIN MAP ENTITLED, “MAP OF THE SUBDIVISION LOT 3 OF THE TAAFFE PARTITION IN RANCHO LA PURISSIMA CONCEPTION”, WHICH MAP WAS FILED FOR RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, ON AUGUST 6, 1897 IN BOOK 1 OF MAPS AT PAGES 70 AND 71, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING FOR REFERENCE AT THE MOST WESTERLY CORNER OF SAID LOT 35; THENCE ALONG THE SOUTHWESTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT SOUTH 27 DEGREES 43’ 47” EAST 20.42 FEET TO THE SOUTHEASTERLY LINE OF ROBLEDA AVENUE AS SAID AVENUE IS SHOWN UPON SAID MAP; THENCE ALONG SAID SOUTHEASTERLY LINE NORTH 50 DEGREES 16’ 03” EAST, 41.46 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 75 DEGREES 26’ 15” EAST, 152.08 FEET TO THE GENERAL NORTHERLY LINE OF DUVAL WAY (50.00 FEET WIDE); THENCE ALONG LAST SAID LINE SOUTH 58 DEGREES 43’ 57” EAST, 9.47 FEET, ALONG A TANGENT CURVE TO THE RIGHT WITH A RADIUS OF 429.97 FEET, THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 16 DEGREES 00’ 00”, AN ARC LENGTH OF 120.07 FEET, SOUTH 42 DEGREES 43’ 57” EAST, 115.76 FEET, ALONG A TANGENT CURVE TO THE LEFT WITH A RADIUS OF 109.99 FEET, THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 50 DEGREES 30’ 05”, AN ARC LENGTH OF 96.95 FEET, NORTH 86 DEGREES 45’ 58” EAST, 40.00 FEET, AND ALONG A TANGENT CURVE TO THE RIGHT WITH A RADIUS OF 169.99 FEET, THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 17 DEGREES 12’ 17”, AN ARC LENGTH OF 51.04 FEET TO A POINT OF REVERSE CURVATURE, SAID POINT BEING THE TRUE POINT OF COMMENCEMENT. THENCE FROM A TANGENT THAT BEARS SOUTH 76 DEGREES 01’ 45” EAST, ALONG A CURVE TO THE LEFT WITH A RADIUS OF 20.00 FEET, THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 64 DEGREES 54’ 52”, AN ARC LENGTH OF 22.66 FEET; THENCE NORTH 39 DEGREES 03’ 23” EAST, 53.82 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 67 DEGREES 56’ 37” EAST, 313.11 FEET TO THE NORTHEASTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 35; THENCE ALONG LAST SAID LINE SOUTH 29 DEGREES 41’ 32” EAST, 38.77 FEET; THENCE NORTH 67 DEGREES 56’ 37” WEST, 310.99 FEET; THENCE ALONG A TANGENT CURVE TO THE LEFT WITH A RADIUS OF 20.00 FEET, THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 73 DEGREES 00’ 00”, AN ARC LENGTH OF 25.48 FEET; THENCE ALONG A TANGENT CURVE TO THE LEFT WITH A RADIUS OF 20.00 FEET, THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 94 DEGREES 59’ 49”, AN ARE LENGTH OF 33.16 FEET TO THE SOUTHEASTERLY CONTINUATION OF THE CURVE DESCRIBED ABOVE WITH THE RADIUS OF 169.99 FEET; THENCE ALONG LAST SAID CURVE FROM A TANGENT THAT BEARS NORTH 55 DEGREES 56’ 26” WEST, ALONG A CURVE TO THE LEFT WITH A RADIUS OF 169.99 FEET, THOUGH AN ANGLE OF 20 DEGREES 05’ 19”, AN ARC LENGTH OF 59.60 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF COMMENCEMENT. PARCEL THREE: ALL OF THAT EASEMENT FOR ROAD PURPOSES AND INCIDENTS THERETO, CONVEYED TO STATE OF CALIFORNIA BY PARCEL 2 OF THE DEED RECORDED NOVEMBER 30, 1962 IN VOLUME 5812, PAGE 21 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING FOR REFERENCE AT THE MOST WESTERLY CORNER OF SAID LOT 35; THENCE ALONG THE SOUTHWESTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT SOUTH 27 DEGREES 43’ 47” EAST 20.42 FEET TO THE POINT OF INTERSECTION THEREOF WITH THE SOUTHEASTERLY LINE OF ROBLEDA AVENUE AS SAID AVENUE IS SHOWN UPON SAID MAP, SAID POINT OF BEING THE TRUE POINT OF COMMENCEMENT; THENCE ALONG SAID SOUTHEASTERLY LINE NORTH 50 DEGREES 16’ 03” EAST, 41.46 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 75 DEGREES 26’ 15” EAST, 152.08 FEET TO THE GENERAL NORTHERLY LINE OF DUVAL WAY (50.00 FEET WIDE); THENCE ALONG LAST SAID LINE SOUTH 58 DEGREES 43’ 57” EAST, 9.47 FEET, ALONG A TANGENT CURVE TO THE RIGHT WITH A RADIUS OF 429.97 FEET, THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 16 DEGREES 00’ 00”, AN ARC LENGTH OF 120.07 FEET, SOUTH 42 DEGREES 43’ 57” EAST, 115.76 FEET; ALONG A TANGENT CURVE TO THE LEFT WITH A RADIUS OF 109.99 FEET, THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 50 DEGREES 30’ 05”, AN ARC LENGTH OF 96.96 FEET, N. 86 DEGREES 45’ 58” E. 40.00 FEET, AND ALONG A TANGENT CURVE TO THE RIGHT
WITH A RADIUS OF 109.99 FEET, THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 37 DEGREES 17’ 36”, AN ARC LENGTH OF 110.64 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 34 DEGREES 03’ 34” WEST, 50.00 FEET TO THE GENERAL SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID DUVAL WAY; THENCE ALONG LAST SAID LINE FROM A TANGENT THAT BEARS NORTH 55 DEGREES 56’ 26” WEST, 40.00 FEET, ALONG A TANGENT CURVE TO THE RIGHT WITH A RADIUS OF 159.99 FEET, THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 50 DEGREES 30’ 05”, AN ARC LENGTH OF 141.02 FEET, NORTH 42 DEGREES 43’ 57” WEST, 115.76 FEET, AND ALONG A TANGENT CURVE TO THE LEFT WITH A RADIUS OF 379.98 FEET; THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 11 DEGREES 37’ 33”, AN ARC LENGTH OF 77.10 FEET; THENCE NORTH 75 DEGREES 26’ 15” WEST, 174.45 FEET TO SAID SOUTHWESTERLY LINE OF LOT 35; THENCE ALONG LAST SAID LINE NORTH 27 DEGREES 43’ 47” WEST, 35.60 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The undersigned mortgagee, beneficiary or authorized agent for the mortgagee or beneficiary pursuant to California Civil Code Section 2923.5(b)/2923.55(c) declares that the mortgagee, beneficiary or the mortgagee’s or beneficiary’s authorized agent has either contacted the borrower or tried with due diligence to contact the borrower as required by California Civil Code 2923.5/2923.55. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 714-730-2727 or visit this Internet Web site www.ndscorp. com/sales, using the file number assigned to this case 14-21741-SP-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: 05/20/2015 Tiffany and Bosco, P.A. As agent for National Default Servicing Corporation 1230 Columbia Street, Suite 680 San Diego, CA 92101 Phone 888-2644010 Sales Line 714-730-2727; Sales Website: www.ndscorp.com/sales Lana Kacludis, Trustee Sales Supervisor A-4525928 05/29/2015, 06/05/2015, 06/12/2015 PAW
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FALLS IN FINAL . . . Stanford sophomore Carol Zhao fell one step short in her bid for an NCAA singles crown, falling 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 to North Carolina’s Jamie Loeb on Monday afternoon at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Trailing 4-2 in the second set, Zhao managed to force a third set for the second straight day. However, Loeb won five games in a row after a 1-1 start to secure the title. Zhao had entered Monday’s contest with an 11-1 career record in three-set matches, including a 9-1 mark this season. Zhao was seeking to become Stanford’s first NCAA singles champion since Nicole Gibbs in 2013. The Cardinal has produced 16 all-time collegiate singles champions (14 NCAA, 2 AIAW). An All-American for the second consecutive season, Zhao had won 15 in a row since her last loss on March 22 against USC’s Sabrina Santamaria. Zhao concludes her sophomore season at 35-5 overall, 21-2 in duals (all at the No. 1 spot), 14-3 in tournament play and 22-3 against nationally-ranked opponents.
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he only time Stanford junior All-American Mariah Stackhouse ever led after the first hole in her match-play competition with Baylor’s Haley Davis was when she sank her final putt on the 19th hole to win in sudden death. They were the final two golfers on the course. Sophomore Casey Danielson and freshman Shannon Aubert put the fourth-seeded Cardinal on the board, though the third-seeded Bears also won twice at the NCAA championship final on Wednesday at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla. Everything rested on the shoulders of Stackhouse and Baylor’s senior All-American, who took the lead on the third hole and was unwilling to let it go. “I actually thought a lot about it last night,” Stackhouse said. “It felt kind of silly, but I envisioned some kind of crazy finish with me having to hit huge shots. I knew I was going to be down and I was going to have to do something crazy to come back.” Stackhouse birdied the final two holes just to force a playoff. “We have worked hard for this all year,” Stackhouse said. “It’s do or die. There are two holes left. (continued on page 62)
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CARDINAL CORNER . . . Five former Stanford soccer players have made the final rosters for the Women’s World Cup, which will be played in Canada beginning June 6. In addition to the United States national team’s Kelley O’Hara (‘10) and Christen Press (‘11), the Cardinal will be represented by New Zealand’s Ali Riley (‘10) plus Mexico’s Alina Garciamendez (‘13) and Teresa Noyola (‘12), the former Palo Alto High standout. The rosters became official on Monday and Stanford’s streak of representatives in the World Cup extends to seven such tournaments. Julie Foudy (‘93) was the first, as an undergraduate in 1991. The total increases to eight, with Press making her first appearance. This will be Riley’s third World Cup, and the second for O’Hara, Garciamendez, and Noyola. All five were members of the Stanford’s NCAA runner-up team in 2009 . . . The last regatta of the 2015 season has arrived and the No. 14 Stanford men’s team will compete in two events at the IRA National Championships Friday through Sunday on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J. . . . Stanford softball player Kayla Bonstrom was named an NFCA Second Team All-American at first base, as announced by the organization Wednesday. Bonstrom becomes the 16th All-American in Stanford history and is the 12th Cardinal player to be selected to either the first or second team. Stanford’s 16 All-Americans have combined for 31 honors alltime. Bonstrom is the first Stanford player to earn All-America recognition since Jenna Rich (‘12) was named to the third team in 2012 and the first Cardinal player to be named to the second team since Ashley Hansen (‘12) in 2009. The national accolade comes after Bonstrom earned All-West Region First Team honors at first base two weeks ago. Bonstrom also was named to the AllPac-12 First Team.
Stanford men hope to follow women as national champs
Stanford’s Quirine Eikenboom (facing) and teary-eyed Lauren Kim enjoy the post-match celebration.
By Rick Eymer
y the time the eighthranked Stanford men’s golf team arrives in South Florida to begin its quest for a NCAA championship, it should be familiar with the golf course at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton. The Cardinal has been preparing for this weekend all year. Stanford opens play Friday, along with 29 other teams. Weather conditions should be slightly improved over the lightning and rain that caused multiple delays during the women’s championships, which was won by Stanford on Wednesday. The weather report calls for partly cloudy skies, clearing by Saturday, with temperatures expected to reach into the 90s. The chance of rain rises to 60 percent beginning Sunday and continuing into Wednesday. “That’s the nature of South Florida, it’s always unpredictable,” Stanford coach Conrad Ray said. “We dealt with weather last year. You have to be ready for anything.” The Cardinal finished last year’s tournament first in stroke play and third in match play. Cameron Wilson won medalist honors. Patrick Rodgers, who finished second at the PGA Wells Fargo Championship earlier in May, also was on the team. Freshmen Jeffrey Swegle, the Midwest junior champion two years ago, and Franklin Huang, last year’s champ at the California State Amateur, have filled the roster spots of the departed Wilson and Rodgers. Sophomore Maverick McNealy, with junior David Boote and sophomore Viraat Badhwar, have helped fill the leadership role. McNealy, currently the topranked collegiate golfer in the nation, has won six titles so far, tying with Rodgers for second-best in a season in Stanford history, behind only Tiger Woods’ seven titles. The Pac-12 Player of the Year, McNealy is also a finalist for the Ben Hogan Award as the nation’s top collegian. “It’s hard to believe that he’s putting together one of the best seasons all-time in program history,” Ray said. “His stroke average is the lowest. That’s pretty rarified air. It comes down to his work ethic and tenacity.” McNealy, Boote and Badhwar learned from Rodgers and Wil(continued on page 62)
SHP baseball hoping to write its own history in CCS finals
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Should the Gators win on Saturday, it will be the first section baseball title in school history. “Coach (Anthony) Granato has talked about being the first to achieve a goal,” said Daschbach. “That’s something he’s talk about all year. The first championship is always remembered. In baseball, hopefully we’ll be that reference, if everything goes well Saturday.” The last time Sacred Heart Prep played in a CCS baseball championship game, none of the current players had been born and Granato probably hadn’t started playing baseball yet. SHP met rival Menlo School in that 1989 Division 2A title game. The Knights won, 8-2, and went on to win three more section crowns. Sacred Heart Prep, meanwhile, went on to miss the next 25 title games. Now, that streak is over. The No. 4-seeded Gators (2012) checked that off their baseball bucket list as Daschbach lined an RBI double in the bottom of the first inning that scored senior Cole March, who had singled. “Unbelievable,” said Daschbach. “Definitely fun to be a part of that.” The Gators made that advantage hold up thanks to a masterful pitching performance from senior Will Johnston, who retired 16 of 17 Carmel batters after getting out
of a bases-loaded, no-out situation in the first inning. He also got out of a first-and-third jam in the top of the sixth. Johnston finished with a fourhit, seven-strikeout effort. He walked two batters in the first inning and none the rest of the game. “I was a little nervous with the bases loaded,” confided Daschbach. “But, he (Johnston) has been the guy to go to all season. With Will J on the mound, you know the other team isn’t going to get a lot of runs.” Johnston (8-3) now has pitched 17 innings in his past two outings, while allowing just two runs. He still can pitch three innings in the championship game since there is a 10-inning limit per week. The section finale will be a matchup of varying degrees of playoff experience. Carmel has won seven CCS titles while SHP is looking for its first. The teams last met in the section playoffs in 2011, with Carmel posting an 8-5 quarterfinal victory. Carmel also ended SHP’s season in 2005 with a 3-2 win in the semifinals. Sacred Heart Prep is competing in the postseason for the 13th straight year, last missing the playoffs in 2002. For the past three seasons, the Gators have lost to the eventual CCS champion. “It’s time to end that streak,” said Daschbach. “All season,
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by Keith Peters t all started in the fall when the Sacred Heart Prep football team made history by going 13-0 and winning the Open Division of the Central Coast Section playoffs. The ball kept rolling into basketball season as the Gators made history again by playing in the Open Division for the first time, going 1-2 and showing they could hold their own against the section’s best teams. With two players who already had played on the football and basketball teams, the SHP baseball squad picked up the challenge. “It’s really been an amazing year,” said junior third baseman Andrew Daschbach, who along with senior Mitch Martella has played on all three squads. “The early success has inspired others to be great.” The SHP baseball team is making its own bit of history this spring, qualifying for its second CCS championship game ever — the first since 1989 — with a 1-0 victory over No. 8 seed Monterey (17-13) on Tuesday night at San Jose Municipal Stadium. Sacred Heart Prep will face No. 7 Carmel (23-7) in Saturday’s title game at San Jose Municipal at 1 p.m. The Padres eliminated No. 14 Aragon, 4-3, in Tuesday’s other semifinal.
SHP junior Andrew Daschbach brings a .443 batting average into Saturday’s CCS Division II title game. we’ve had a never-quit mentality.” Sacred Heart Prep had to go 11 innings to beat No. 13 Palma, 1-0 last Wednesday. Three days later, the Gators rallied from a 5-0 deficit to topple No. 12 Burlingame, 11-6. Tuesday’s win over Monterey was just another example of SHP’s determination to join the history-making football and basketball teams. “Football definitely gave us a major confidence boost,” Daschbach said. “Then we looked forward to basketball having the
same success in the Open Division. The baseball guys saw that. Hopefully, in future years, the baseball team will have the opportunity to play up there with the big boys.” Daschbach and his baseball teammates did have a shot at winning the PAL Bay Division crown and earning an automatic berth into the Open Division. But, Carlmont spoiled that dream. Perhaps, all worked out for the best for SHP, whose 20 wins rank behind the 22 won in 2008 as the most in program history. Q
STATE SWIMMING
Paly girls appropriately provide a big first
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with 48 while CCS champ Mitty was 14th with 50.5. For the boys, Northgate won with 192 while Paly had 72. Gunn was 22nd with 33 points. While athletes stayed home for various reasons, most to train with their club teams for the summer season, those who attended the first state meet were rewarded with fast times and invaluable experience. Moreover, history won’t record who wasn’t there, but who was. “The kids really got into it,” said Dye. “It was fun and exciting.” If there was one local individual standout, it was Paly’s Zhao. In addition to leading off the recordsetting 200 free relay team in 22.80, she finished second in the 50 in a personal best of 22.79, an automatic All-American time. She also clocked a personal record of 1:01.96 while taking third in the 100 breast, also an All-American time, as Stanford recruit Ella Estin won in 1:00.33. Gunn senior Jennifer Campbell also was busy on the final day as she splashed to a silver medal in the 200 free in 1:46.41 and a fourth in the 500 free in 4:50.28, both All-American times. She
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t was just two weeks ago that the Palo Alto girls swam away with the 200-yard freestyle relay at the Central Coast Section Championships. Evidently, that wasn’t good enough. Last Saturday, the same Vikings relay team swam off with a state title at the the first-ever CIF State Swimming & Diving Championships at the Clovis Olympic Swim Complex at Clovis West High. The quartet of sophomore Grace Zhao, junior Kayleigh Svensson, freshman Zoe Lusk and freshman Claire Lin stopped the clocks in 1:33.88 to establish a meet record and lower the school mark of 1:34.50 from 2011. And, it was an automatic All-American time. The record-setting effort was the icing on the cake for the Palo Alto swim program as the girls finished sixth in the state as a team while the boys took eighth. Both squads were the top pointgetters from the Central Coast Section. “I could not be more happier or more proud,” said Palo Alto coach Danny Dye. JSerra of Orange County won the girls’ title with 201 points with Paly tallying 97. Gunn was 15th
Palo Alto’s 200 free relay team of (L-R) Grace Zhao, Kayleigh Svensson, Zoe Lusk and Claire Lin won the gold medal at the CIF State Swimming & Diving Championships. also led off the 200 medley and 200 free relay teams that finished 12th and 14th, respectively, in 1:46.85 and 1:37.33. The Palo Alto boys were led by sophomore Alex Liang, who finished second in the 200 IM in 1:48.21, finished 11th in the 100 fly (49.21), and anchored the 400 free relay team to third place in 3:04.41 with a sizzling 44.81. All three races produced automatic All-American times. The 400 relay squad of Daniel Sing, Andrew Cho, Winston Wang and Liang clocked the No. 2 time in school history. Palo Alto junior Reed Merritt
started the day by taking second in the 1-meter diving, finishing with 554.05 points for his secondbest total for 11 dives. Castilleja freshman Izzi Henig finished third in the girls 100 free in 49.55, a personal best and automatic All-American time. The Gunn boys had one finalist in sophomore Michael Lincoln, who finished seventh in the 500 free in 4:33.53. Teammate Daichi Matsuda was 15th in the race in 4:36.46. Junior Trent Tosky was 12th in the 200 IM in 1:52.91 and swam on the 200 medley and 200 free relay teams that finished 13th and
15th, respectively. The meet officially got under way a day earlier with Palo Alto junior Mimi Lin capping a stellar diving season by finishing third. Lin scored 489.85 points for her 11 dives. Lin came into the state finals after winning her first CCS crown the previous weekend with 482.60 points in Santa Clara. Prior to that, Lin won her third straight SCVAL De Anza Division crown. Menlo-Atherton sisters Talbott and Mia Paulsen finished seventh and 11th, respectively, in the state finale. Talbott scored 455.20 points and Mia had 439.30. Q
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Menlo tennis wraps up another championship year by Keith Peters nother season is in the books for the Menlo School boys tennis team, and what a season it was with CIF NorCal and Central Coast Section team titles, a section doubles crown plus a 28-1 record. And don’t forget the streaks as the Knights won the CCS and NorCal titles for a seventh time each and extended their ongoing state record for consecutive league dual-match wins to 228. “Overall, it was a great, great season,” said Menlo coach Bill Shine, who wrapped up his 19th season with a 456-46 record. Menlo ended only the third season with 28 victories in a quiet
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mark of 107-5, ranking No. 3 alltime among the best four-year periods in program history. “Next year will be the test,” said Shine. “We lost three of our singles players. St. Ignatius has all its singles players back and three top freshman coming in. It’ll be interesting.” Menlo will return current juniors Nathan Safran, Kylee Santos, Dylan Pace, David Roy, Morgan, Leschly and Michael Quezada. Sophomores coming back include Mark Ball, Sam Korman and Borie while the current freshman class of Bo Leschly, David Quezada, Tucker Matta, Clark Safran and Siddharth Chari will provide plenty of experience. Q
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You’ve got to get through to even have an opportunity to win the championship. That’s the kind of stuff you dream for as a golfer.” She made it short and sweet on the first playoff hole, giving the Stanford women their first-ever national golf championship and touching off a celebration. “All I could think about was that our team had just won and we didn’t have to play any more holes,” Stackhouse said. “I looked back at the team thinking ‘do we celebrate, what happens now?’ and then this feeling of joy rushed over me. Lauren (Kim) is always the first person I look to because she’s my best friend on the team, and I’ve got to run and get this bear hug.” The victory was Stanford’s second NCAA title of the school year and 107th overall. The Cardinal also won the women’s water polo championship on May 10. In many ways it was an improbable run to the top. The road to the championship, which took six days to complete, was anything but smooth. Stanford finished seventh at the Pac-12 Conference and second at the NCAA St. George Regional. The Cardinal was in fourth place following four rounds of stroke play. The Cardinal had to beat Arizona and Pac-12 champion USC on the same day, an exhausting physical and mental grind, to make it to Wednesday. The Bears seemed to be in charge most of the way, seemingly gaining momentum when Laura Lonardi tied Danielson on the 14th hole after a disastrous trek on the treacherous 13th hole, a battle Lonardi managed to win despite needing seven shots to complete it. The 13th proved unlucky for a lot of golfers. Danielson took advantage of Lonardi’s poor 17th to regain the lead and sealed it with a sweet 3-shot victory on the 18th. “I knew Casey was a key match for us right out of the gate,” Stanford coach Anne Walker said.
son, and are passing that knowledge along to Swegle and Huang. “We have a strong, deep team,” Ray said. “Depth is the key. I don’t think we talk about that enough. The teams that win titles are winning at the five, six, seven slots. We try to develop that. Franklin and Jeff have come into their own this year.” Huang finished 11th overall to help Stanford win the Pac-12 title by 14 strokes over Oregon and then finished in a tie for 18th, with Badhwar, to help the Cardinal finish second at the Chapel Hill Regional. Swegle has been among the top 25 in three tournaments. “Franklin is solid,” Ray said. “He hits it straight and keeps fighting.” Stanford was the only team that traveled outside of its time zone to compete in the regional, which also included top-ranked Florida State. Traveling to the Eastern Time zone again should not present any problem. The Cardinal already has been to Georgia, Mexico, Texas, Illinois and Texas for tournaments. Stepping onto an unknown course should be made easier because of preparation; and watching the women’s tournament play out on the Golf Channel. “You can watch the women and see how they deal with tough lies,” Ray said. “You can study the yardage book and talk to people about the course. When we get there, it should not feel like the first time. We learn as much as we can before we even get there.” Among the top five golfers, each has finished at least as high as 12th in a tournament and has combined for 17 top-10 finishes. “They are quietly getting better,” Ray said. “This team is capable. The culture of hard work is the best way. There are not a lot of redundant things. They study the game. It sets up our guys for success.” Golf, as much as any other sport, is about playing defense. “It’s just as much about manag-
ing a bad shot and your emotions, Ray said. “I rarely worry about offense.” The tournament consists of four rounds of stroke play; with the top eight seeds advancing into match play. The overall individual champion is also determined through stroke play. Stanford is one of six Pac12 teams that qualified for the championships along with Oregon, UCLA, Arizona State, USC and Washington. The Bruins, led by Atherton resident Jonathan Garrick, were eighth at the Pac12 tournament and fourth in the Noblesville Regional. The Ducks finished fifth and Colorado’s David Oraee qualified as an individual. Arizona State, third at Pac-12s, finished second at the Rancho Santa Fe Regional, while USC and Washington, fourth and fifth at Pac-12s respectively, were third and fifth at the Bremerton Regional. The Golf Channel will televise the final round of stroke play and all three rounds of match play. Stanford grad and PGA Tour veteran Notah Begay III will serve as the on-course reporter. Q
only the second time his team swept through the competition with three 7-0 scores. In the semifinals and finals, Columbia-bound Victor Pham picked up two victories and cruised in the final, 6-0, 6-0. Gunther Matta, who is set to play for Cal next season, won twice at No. 2 singles. Vanderbilt-bound Vikram Chari went 3-0 for the weekend in singles and freshman Siddharth Chari picked up two wins in singles over the weekend. Lane Leschly and Gabriel Morgan teamed to win twice at No. 1 doubles. Alex Neumann and Clarence Lam collected a pair of wins at No. 3 doubles. Freshman Clark Safran and Michael Quezada won
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Stanford head coach Anne Walker kept her eye on the prize while discussing her team’s NCAA championship.
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“I thought if we can get Casey’s match then we had a real shot at it.” Aubert never trailed in her match, eventually opening a fivehole lead and ending it on the 15th hole. Lauren Kim never led in her match, although she gave herself a chance by closing to within 2 down on the 16th. Quirine Eijkenboom also shot a solid round but her opponent was a little better. Stackhouse fell to 3 down following the eighth and fought back to 1 down three times before sinking a clutch shot on the 18th. It could not have been more dramatic. “The most important shot I hit was definitely my approach shot into 17,” Stackhouse said. “She hit that great shot out of the hazard on 16, I was ‘oh my gosh, you’ve got to be kidding me.’ That was a true golf shot. I was thinking I had to set myself up for possibly birdie. As soon as it came off the club face, I felt ‘this is money,’ and it felt really good.” Kim could barely contain herself watching Stackhouse on the final hole of regulation. “I just couldn’t watch,” she said. “I couldn’t look. I was getting really nervous and trying to stay calm for my teammates and also inside I was shaking. When she made the putt on 18, I just went nuts and I was screaming.”
Mariah Stackhouse clinched the victory on the 19th hole. The NCAA adopted match play for the women this season. It seems to have won some fans. “I definitely like the format a lot better than stroke play,” Kim said. “It brings more of a team aspect into it. In stroke play, you’re focused on team and also individual simultaneously. With match play, it’s all team, and it’s so great to just be a family and experience this all together.” Q
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at No. 2 doubles against Dougherty Valley. On Friday, Menlo defeated Lowell of the San Francisco Section. Vikram Chari picked up a 6-0, 6-0 win at No. 1 singles. Clark Safran won 6-0, 6-0 and Neumann took a 6-1, 6-0 decision at two and three, respectively. William Bori also rolled at No. 4 singles with a 6-2, 6-1 victory. In doubles, juniors Lane Leschly and Morgan prevailed 6-0, 6-0 at No. 1. Kylee Santos and Dylan Pace also swept at No. 2 doubles, and Bo Leschly and David Quezada won 6-0, 6-3 at No. 3 doubles. The Menlo senior class of Pham, Vikram Chari, Matta and Lam departs with a four-year
way by defeating Lowell (SF), Acalanes and Dougherty Valley at NorCals, all by 7-0 scores. “Very disappointing,” Shine said of the competition that concluded Saturday at the Natomas Racquet Club, marking the Knights’ 12th overall NorCal crown. “My biggest job (at NorCals) was just keeping the guys focused. CCS is a much-bigger deal.” Top-seeded Menlo’s toughest competition for NorCals wasn’t even there as Bellarmine stayed home, despite having only two seniors graduate on Saturday morning. Not having the Bells in the two-day event dropped the caliber of talent way off. Shine said he believes this is
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Sports ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
CCS TRACK & FIELD
A final push for state meet Paly, Gunn athletes look for return trips at the section meet by Keith Peters li Givens qualified for the 2014 CIF State Track and Field Championship in three events. On Friday, he’d like to make it in four. Gunn juniors Maya Miklos and Gillian Meeks also want more. Miklos was second in the Gunn junior Maya Miklos is the CCS leader in the 300 hurdles 300-meter hurdles and Meeks was (43.89) following the semifinals. third in the 3,200 a year ago at the Central Coast Section champion- long jump to her schedule with a isa Crowe was seventh in the 800 in 2:14.99 and teammate Kathryn 17-0 3/4 leap. ships. The Gunn girls, meanwhile, Mohr advanced in the pole vault All three will have the opportunity to make the necessary im- should be among the team lead- with a clearance of 11 feet. Sacred provements and win a few more ers on Friday after solid efforts at Heart Prep’s Ma’ata Makoni will compete in both the discus (110the semifinals. individual titles than Miklos provided 10) and shot put (37-4). a year ago when the For the boys, Menlo-Atherton the only local vic2015 section finale tory with her CCS- senior Adam Scandlyn missed in gets under way Frileading time of the 1,600 but qualified in the 800 day at San Jose City 43.89 to win the 300 with a personal best of 1:56.79 College. Field events hurdles. She also (No. 5 in school history) in perbegin at 4 p.m., with clocked 15.34 to haps the most competitive event running at 6 p.m. qualify third in the for the boys as the top 12 qualiGivens came away fiers all were under 1:57.00. He’ll 100 hurdles. from last year’s meet Meeks also ad- be joined by Priory senior Ross with just one victory, vanced in two Corey (1:56.94). in the 100 meters Sacred Heart Prep senior Garevents as she fin(10.83). He also was ished second in the rett Mack also made it in the 800 third in the 200 and 1,600 in 5:01.44 and with a personal best and school helped the Vikings fifth in the 3,200 record of 1:56.95. SHP teammate finish second in the Menlo’s Lizzie Lacy in 10:55.59. Gunn Daniel Hill advanced in the 3,200 1,600 relay. He’s qualified once again in senior Amy Watt also advanced, with a 9:31.74 clocking while the those races after clocking 10.97 with a 16-0 3/4 mark in the long Gators’ Connor Cody and Griffin Kraemer made it in the triple and 21.99 in the sprints at the jump. Other qualifiers for the CCS fi- jump with marks of 41-8 and 41-4 CCS semifinals last weekend at 1/2, respectively. SJCC. He’s also running on the nals included: Menlo-Atherton’s Marquise For the girls, Menlo School se1,600 relay and scheduled in the nior Lizzie Lacy finished fourth Reed leaped 21-5 to finish third long jump after leaping 21-3 1/2. Charlie Badger Dami Bolar- in the 3,200 in 10:55.40 to move in the long jump, a six-inch perinwa, Kent Slaney and Givens on. Menlo-Atherton junior Annal- sonal best. Q make up the 4x400 quartet that finished second in the semifinals in a season best of 3:24.69, which now ranks No. 1 in the section. Bolarinwa also advanced in the 400 with a personal best of 50.79, earning him sixth overall. “It was a great day,” said Paly coach Kelsey Feely. “Not always in the ways that we expected, but everybody gets to race again Friday at the CCS finals.” The Paly girls will send their 400 and 1,600 relay teams plus Julia Asin in the 400, Catherine Yu in the 300 hurdles and Anna Dukovic in the long jump. The 400 relay team of sophomore Marion Sellier, senior Catherine Yu, senior Anna Dukovic and senior Julia Asin ran 49.08 to grab the eighth and final qualifying spot. In the 1,600 relay, Paly ran 4:04.48 with Titi Bolarinwa, freshman Adee Newman, Yu and Asin finishing eighth. Asin also qualified in the 400 with a 59.34, Yu advanced in the 300 hurdles with a personal best Palo Alto junior Eli Givens (right) is qualified for the CCS finals in of 46.42 and Dukovic added the four events, including the 100 meters.
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Grace Zhao
Vikram Chari, Gunther Matta
PALO ALTO HIGH The sophomore was second in the 50 free (22.79) and third in the 100 breast (1:01.96), both PRs and led off the gold medal-winning 200 free relay that clocked a school-record 1:33.88 at the CIF State Championships.
MENLO SCHOOL The seniors teamed to win four tennis matches in straight sets and capture the CCS doubles crown before helping the Knights go 3-0 and win a 12th CIF NorCal title by defeating all three opponents by 7-0.
Honorable mention Julia Asin
Andrew Daschbach
Palo Alto track & field
Jenna Campbell*
Sacred Heart Prep baseball
Eli Givens*
Gunn swimming
Palo Alto track & field
Will Johnston
Castilleja swimming
Malcolm Slaney
Izzi Henig
Sacred Heart Prep baseball
Mimi Lin*
Ravi Levens
Palo Alto diving
Gunn baseball
Gillian Meeks*
Alex Liang*
Gunn track & field
Palo Alto swimming
Maya Miklos*
Reed Merritt*
Gunn track & field
Palo Alto diving * previous winner
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CCS BOYS’ TRACK & FIELD RECORDS Event 400 relay 1600 110 HH 400 100 800 300 IH 200 3200 1600 relay Long jump Discus Shot put Triple jump High jump Pole vault
Time 41.54 4:08.7 13.84 45.51 10.37 1:50.7 36.60 20.84 8:58.44c 3:15.8 25-3 1/4 204-10 63-9 50-11 1/2 7-3 17-6 1/4
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Team Year Independence 1988 Mark Stillman Willow Glen 1977 Arend Watkins Silver Creek 1997 Bill Green Cubberley 1979 Rubin Williams Valley Christian 2002 Rick Brown Los Altos 1970 John Montgomery Independence 1988 Rubin Williams Valley Christian 2002 Gordon MacMitchell Gunn 1973 Los Altos 1970 Johnny Johnson Pacific Grove 1964 Nick Kay Los Gatos 2003 Bob Brannen Los Gatos 1964 Harold Rucker Silver Creek 1986 Jeff Rogers Overfelt 1985 Nico Weiler Los Gatos 2007 (MacMitchell’s time was converted from hand time)
CCS GIRLS TRACK & FIELD RECORDS Time 46.55 4:47.56 13.52 53.92 11.39 2:07.79 41.71 23.47 10:09.5 3:49.90 20-6 165-10 50-7 1/4 43-1 1/2 6-0 13-8
Name Alejandro Barrientos Vashti Thomas Leslie Maxie Jeneba Tarmoh Alicia Follmar Tisha Ponder Jeneba Tarmoh Cory Shubert Tisha Ponder Darlene Tulua Julie Dufresne Vashti Thomas Jennifer Grimaldi Tori Anthony
Team Mt. Pleasant San Lorenzo Valley Mt. Pleasant Mills Mt. Pleasant Saratoga Del Mar Mt. Pleasant Del Mar Valley Christian Del Mar Carmel Harbor Mt. Pleasant St. Ignatius Castilleja
Year 2006 2000 2008 1982 2006 2005 1996 2006 1983 2005 1996 1996 2005 2008 2001 2007
Malcolm Slaney
Event 400 relay 1600 100 hurdles 400 100 800 300 hurdles 200 3200 1600 relay Long jump Discus Shot put Triple jump High jump Pole vault
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12424 SKYLINE BLVD. $4,549,000 )WXEXI LSQI SR EGW KSVKISYW SGIER ZMI[W WIT WXYHMS GEV KEVEKI GLIJ ´W OMXGL STIRW XS *6 QWXV WXI XIRRMW GX WTEGMSYW HIGOW [ EQE^MRK ZMI[W
VALERIE TRENTER 650.888.6930
valerie.trenter@cbnorcal.com CalBRE #01367578
Greg.Stange@CAMoves.com CalBRE #01418179
70 FOX HOLLOW LN $2,198,000 'YWXSQ UYEPMX] FYMPX &( &% LSQI MR TVIWXMKMSYW )QIVEPH ,MPPW 7IVIRI TVMZEXI WIXXMRK [ ETV\ WJ SJ PMZMRK WTEGI SR E EG MR E KEXIH GSQQYRMX]
GIL ORAHA 650.889.0889 CalBRE #01355157
4264 WILKIE WAY $4,188,000 2I[IV LSQI SR PK PSX 6IGIRXP] YTKVEHIH KSYVQIX OMXGLIR LEVH[SSH žSSVW GSRZIRMIRX YTWXEMVW PEYRHV] (S[RWXEMVW IRWYMXI FIHVSSQ *MRMWLIH KEVEKI
FOSTER CITY | OPEN SAT/SUN
TOM HUFF 650.325.6161
TomHuffHomes@Yahoo.com CalBRE #00922877
642 GREENWICH LN $2,149,000 0MZI E PMJI WX]PI ]SY EP[E]W HVIEQIH SJ ;MHI [EXIV PSGEXMSR GPSWI XS IZIV]XLMRK *SWXIV 'MX] LEW XS SJJIV GEV KEVEKI
MENLO PARK | PENDING
MENLO PARK | OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30
1902 VALPARAISO AVE $2,129,888 659 MARSH RD $1,435,000 JENNIFER LOVAZZANO 6IWMHIRGI 7* GSQQIVGMEP WTEGI ENAYAT BOROUMAND 6IQSHIPIH &( &% [ GLMG WX]PI XLMW 650.704.2260 650.324.4456 SR 'SVRIV 0SX +VIEX -RZIWXQIRX LSQI LEW MX EPP +YIWX GSXXEKI FIEYXMJYPP] jennifer@lovazzano.com Enayat@boroumand@cbnorcal.com PERHWGETIH JVSRX VIEV ]EVHW TPYW PSGEXIH SV FYMPH RI[ LSQI 0SW 0SQMXEW 7GLSSPW CalBRE #01230431 CalBRE #01235734 [[[ ZEPTEVEMWS GSQ NYWX QM XS *EGIFSSO
1523 HAMILTON AVE $5,798,000 0IZIP 'YWXSQ ,SQI &YMPX F] 'YVVIRX 3[RIVW MR 1EWXIVW 3RI SR )EGL *PSSV TPYW SJ½GIW %QE^MRK +VERH 'LIJ ´W /MXGLIR 0EVKI 0SX
PALO ALTO | OPEN SAT/SUN
REDWOOD CITY | OPEN SUNDAY
2500 MELENDY DR $2,380,000 &IEYXMJYPP] PERHWGETIH KVIEX JSV IRXIVXEMRMRK MARGOT LOCKWOOD 650.400.2528 ½VITMX 'LIJ ´W OMXGLIR GEV KEVEKI &YMPX MR WYVVSYRH WSYRH ERH SYXHSSV WTIEOIVW 0EVKI homes@margotlockwood.com CalBRE #01017519 PSX
MENLO PARK
GREG STANGE 650.325.6161
WOODSIDE |
SAN CARLOS | OPEN SAT/SUN
SHAWNNA SULLIVAN 650.325.6161
PALO ALTO | OPEN SUNDAY
NANCY GOLDCAMP 650.400.5800 www.nancygoldcamp.com CalBRE #00787851
190 E OKEEFE ST 13 $1,150,000 7TEGMSYW XS[RLSYWI MR KEXIH GSQTPI\ [ ]EVH ½VITPEGI GEV KEVEKI VIQSHIPIH OMXGLIR [SVOWLST ERH PEYRHV] EVIE MR YRMX [[[ 3OIIJI GSQ
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