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Peninsula cities call for new Bus Rapid Transit options Unswayed by proposal for bus-only lanes, council members urge VTA to study more alternatives by Gennady Sheyner
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proposal to create busonly lanes on El Camino Real between Palo Alto and San Jose has hit a political speed bump, with a committee of elected officials from all the Santa Clara County cities along the corridor coming out against the controversial reconfiguration
and requesting an analysis of alternatives. The El Camino Rapid Transit Policy Advisory Board includes city council members Lenny Seigel from Mountain View and Cory Wolbach from Palo Alto. Chaired by Los Altos Mayor Pro Tem Jeannie Bruins, the group
has been meeting monthly with staff from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) to offer feedback about Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), the VTA’s proposal to greatly improve bus ridership along the busy artery. Of the seven options the VTA has analyzed in its draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR), none has faced more scrutiny, criticism and opposition from the committee than the proposal to transform the left lanes of El Camino into
bus-only lanes. This alternative, according to the draft environmental analysis, would shrink the time it takes to ride the bus from Palo Alto to San Jose from the current 85 minutes to 48 minutes. Staff from the VTA and supporters of the dedicated-lanes proposal see this configuration as the most promising way to encourage people to switch from cars to buses. Other alternatives on the table include “mixed-flow” lanes, in which Bus Rapid Transit shares
the right lane with cars, and combinations of mixed-flow and dedicated lanes. The VTA’s board of directors is scheduled to make a decision about the alternatives in December or January. On Wednesday, in a continuation of its Sept. 30 discussion, the advisory board directed VTA staff to explore in its environmental analysis two new alternatives, each with four variations. One (continued on page 12)
EDUCATION
School board expresses support for new school ‘The time for innovation is now,’ parents tell board by Elena Kadvany
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Neighborhood hostels prompt concerns Single-family homes are being converted into daily rentals, shared housing by Sue Dremann
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trend in converting houses into hostels and hacker spaces has some residents in Palo Alto’s neighborhoods crying foul. The homes, which are being rented out on online marketplaces such as Airbnb.com, take in as many as 16 people at a time, some in bunk-bed settings, for rentals that can range from a day to months. City officials say they are somewhat hampered by laws that do not allow them to limit the number of
non-related persons living in a single-family home. But the living arrangements may violate the city ordinance that governs single-family homes. Specifically, rentals for fewer than 30 days or for business purposes by workers who don’t live in the home are not permitted. Residents turned out to a College Terrace Residents Association meeting earlier this month to raise the issue, which they said amounts to young entrepreneurs setting up a business in their neighborhood. Some residents told the College
Terrace board that the strangers smoke cigarettes and talk on cellphones on the street at night to avoid disturbing housemates, but that has made the residents’ children feel afraid to play outside. Renters of these spaces, who are reportedly visiting teachers, scholars, students and interns, said the shared housing is the only way they can afford to live in Palo Alto. The College Terrace residents (continued on page 10)
he Palo Alto school district office was imbued with excitement and enthusiasm on Monday night as both the school board and community members agreed that the moment is ripe to open a new, innovative middle and high school in Palo Alto. This proposal — which community members hailed as a “bold” and “much-needed leap forward in education,” among other laudatory descriptors — is a preliminary recommendation from a subcommittee of the district’s Elementary Management Advisory Committee (EMAC), which has been charged with coming up with ways to creatively address Palo Alto’s enrollment challenges. The secondary-schools subcommittee presented its preliminary research, findings and proposals at a special board study session Monday. The recommendation is for the district to use Cubberley Community Center at 4000 Middlefield Road for an integrated middle and high school — a school that would not only reverse growing enrollment at the district’s other middle and high schools, which the subcommittee repeatedly described Monday night as “too big,” but would also be designed from scratch with desirable educational elements like choice programming, project-based learning, individualization and social-emotional connectedness. Subcommittee members said that the district is unusually primed to make this proposal a reality. There is broad parental
and student appetite for innovative educational options in the district; the district has a willing partner in the city to redevelop Cubberley; the Institute of Design at Stanford, the d. School, has already committed a fellow and a staff member to work with the district on next steps; and there are major local investors who are “ready to participate in bold secondary initiatives,” the subcommittee’s presentation states. “Land (is) available, (there is) enrollment that would indicate we should offload students to a new campus, (there is) an appetite for innovation, funding sources, competition — it seems to us that we’re at a very unique moment in time,” said subcommittee member Mark Romer, a parent in the district. The subcommittee is also proposing changes for Palo Alto’s existing secondary schools, including an expansion of “core” and “house” programs. In such programs, cohorts of students move through several years of school together with the same teachers, a model that increases feelings of connectedness and student engagement. More than 20 community members — mostly parents representing a wide range of schools, both public and private, as well as grade levels — urged the board to support the subcommittee’s proposals. Many parents of elementary school students expressed trepidation about entering middle schools so large that they feel (continued on page 14)
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We’re at a very unique moment in time. – Mark Romer, a member of a Palo Alto schools committee, on conditions that are prompting the proposal of a new middle and high school. See story on page 5.
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NEW HALLOWEEN TRADITION ... When out trick or treating this Saturday, be on the lookout for teal-colored pumpkins. National nonprofit Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) is encouraging families to make Halloween safer for kids with food allergies by placing a teal-colored pumpkin in front of their homes to indicate that they will be handing out nonfood treats like stickers, bubbles, glow sticks, bracelets, pencils and bookmarks. The Teal Pumpkin Project, which was launched as a national campaign in 2014, seeks to raise awareness of food allergies and promote inclusion of all trick-or-treaters so that Allhallows Eve is a fun and positive experience for all, according to the FARE website. Last year, households from 50 states and seven countries participated in the project, and 100,000 households have pledged to participate this year, including some in Palo Alto. To see a map of participating homes in Palo Alto, visit bit.ly/1kSKlBt.
CHANGING THE NARRATIVE ... After a year of intense community conversation about how to change the narrative around teen mental health and well-being in Palo Alto, Gunn High School student newspaper The Oracle is taking a concrete step to do so. In partnership with the student group ROCK (Reach Out. Care. Know.) and suicide-prevention program Sources of Strength, The Oracle this week launched a new online series called “Changing the Narrative,” which will feature personal stories of “strength, hope, healing and growth” to be published every other week. “‘Changing the narrative’ is a phrase we like to define as changing the conversation and shifting the mindset on campus,” The Oracle website states. “We want to help change the narrative by normalizing everyday struggles and showing the beauty of vulnerability.” The series kicked off this week with a deeply personal piece penned by an Oracle staff member about her own struggle with depression and suicidal ideation, which she eventually overcame. Past Oracle articles on overcoming loss and one student’s experience with an eating disorder are also posted online in the new section. In the coming month, Gunn student news network TBN will also broadcast a ROCK video on the theme of “I am stronger
because...” while ROCK begins delivering “appreciation-grams,” which will be available around campus for students to send to their friends. Any student who wishes to share a story for “Changing the Narrative” can contact oraclegunn@gmail. com. The new series is posted at gunnoracle.com/category/changing-the-narrative. IN THE AIR ... Palo Alto’s ongoing crusade against tobacco may soon spread to local apartment buildings and condominium complexes. On Nov. 10, the council will consider a recommendation from Public Works staff that smoking be banned in the common areas of all multifamily buildings — a proposal that the council’s Policy and Services Committee debated in the spring. At that time, the committee balked at the new restriction and requested that staff return with more information, including an analysis of filtration and ventilation systems for smoke and the feasibility of cleansing apartments that had been occupied by smokers to turn them into non-smoker units. According to a new report, staff couldn’t find much information about “cleansing” technologies. Staff did, however, cite a 2006 report from the U.S. Surgeon General, which concluded that “separating smokers from nonsmokers, cleaning the air, and ventilating buildings cannot eliminate exposure of nonsmokers to secondhand smoke.” The report from the city’s Public Works Department also alludes to research showing that “particles from second-hand tobacco smoke can settle into dust and onto surfaces and remain there long after the smoke has disappeared. Some studies suggest the particles can last for months.” The recommended change to the city’s smoking ordinance would ban smoking in both indoor and outdoor common areas, though it would also allow landlords and homeowner associations to designate outdoor smoking areas if they meet specific criteria (including having receptacles for cigarette butts). The council will also consider other measures for limiting smoke, including a licensing program to regulate tobacco sales and the inclusion of e-cigarettes in the ordinance. In recent years, the council has banned smoking at parks, open spaces, outdoor dining areas and the main streets of downtown and California Avenue. Q
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New rules target ‘revolving door’ between City Hall, developers Committee considers banning board members from also serving as applicants by Gennady Sheyner
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Project Rally volunteer tutor Phoebe Yip, right, helps first-grader Frank Sosa Garcia, far right, with a spelling exercise, as fellow tutor Suzanne Nole, left, waits for her student to join her at the table at Fairmeadow Elementary School on Oct. 21.
EDUCATION
Closing the achievement gap, one student at a time New tutoring program supports young East Palo Alto, low-income students by Elena Kadvany
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an one-on-one, targeted tutoring provided to disadvantaged students in their very first years of school help reduce the achievement gap? The Palo Alto school district and one East Palo Alto youth program think — and hope — so. The school district has partnered with East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring (EPATT) to launch Project Rally, a pilot early literacy program that targets primarily Palo Alto Unified students who are from East Palo Alto. Project Rally is one of the first tangible results out of the district’s minority achievement
and talent development advisory committee, which issued in May a set of strategic recommendations to address Palo Alto’s longstanding achievement gap. The recommendations strive to shift what the committee’s final report described as a “tale of two cities: a Palo Alto for a high-achieving majority of students, with access to enrichment opportunities and high expectations, and a Palo Alto in which access and expectations for students of color and students from lower-resourced backgrounds are limited.” The committee’s work — which emphasized the power-
ful, long-term impacts that early education and interventions can have on student success — dovetailed with a similar effort at East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring, a nonprofit that provides tutoring and tennis lessons to K-12 students and coaching to their parents. EPATT was hoping to expand to provide individualized literacy support to young students from East Palo Alto who attend school in Palo Alto through the district’s Voluntary Transfer Program (VTP), said EPATT Academic Director Kesha Weekes. “Our big thing is helping kids
a poster child for backdoor negotiations. This occurred despite the facts that Garber was hired by the city rather than by the developer to work on the project and that he resigned from the commission after accepting the assignment. Steve Emslie, a former planning director and deputy city manager, had a more direct role in 27 University Ave. as the chief negotiator on behalf of the city with billionaire philanthropist John Arrillaga. The negotiations became the subject of intense community opposition and a scathing June 2014 Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury report that took the city to task for its failure to govern transparently. Emslie resigned from his position shortly after the council shot down the project and swiftly transitioned to Goodyear Peterson Hayward Associates, a developmentconsulting firm whose client list includes Palantir and The Sobrato Group. Earlier this year, he was part of a development team that proposed a
he revolving door between Palo Alto City Hall and the high-stakes world of private development is opaque and well-used. In a city that depends on architects to volunteer their time for local boards and commissions, it’s not unusual for a member to switch places during a meeting and assume the applicant’s chair. That’s what happened to Randy Popp, former chair of Palo Alto’s Architectural Review Board, who stepped down from the dais during a June meeting so that he could represent in front of the board a developer looking to build two Marriott hotels on San Antonio Avenue. In doing so, Popp didn’t violate any local policies or state laws. He did, however, face criticism from neighborhood leaders for the dual role and resigned from the board shortly after the meeting. Former planning commission Chair Daniel Garber faced similar scrutiny from the community in 2012 for his work on 27 University Ave., a controversial project that included four office towers and a theater and became
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access the curriculum that’s in front of them because they’re in Palo Alto,” Weekes said. “They’re getting the best of the best — the best teachers, the best
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Lupe Talakai, far right, a tennis coach with Project Rally, gives Ernesto Galvez a high five after the kindergartner successfully hit a ball through a goal after school at Fairmeadow Elementary School.
resources, the best curriculum. Palo Alto has the luxury of reading specialists, aides, TOSAs (teachers on special assignment) — all these awesome things, and yet you can be a student and go through kindergarten to 12th grade and come out undereducated after all that. We want to bridge that gap.” So EPATT teamed up with the district to launch Project Rally, which now provides about 23 kindergarteners and first-graders with literacy tutoring and tennis lessons. On a recent Monday afternoon at Fairmeadow Elementary School, a group of about 10 firstgraders sat at tables in a classroom, each with his or her own tutor, practicing sounding out each letter of the alphabet. Outside, a group of about 10 kindergarteners learned fundamentals of tennis with two EPATT tennis instructors. The groups switched after an hour. There is no set curriculum; rather, these students’ teachers provided Project Rally with (continued on page 11)
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Parents ask for new charter school in East Palo Alto KIPP Bay Area Schools will seek to open school in 2017
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leading charter school organization said Monday it would seek to open a new elementary school in East Palo Alto in the fall of 2017. KIPP Bay Area Schools, which operates 11 high-performing charter schools in cities, including Oakland and San Jose, will seek authorization for a new school through the Ravenswood City School District and, if turned down by the Ravenswood board, will appeal to the San Mateo County Board of Education, a KIPP official said. The announcement came at the end of an emotional community forum at St. Francis of Assisi Church convened by a group of East Palo Alto mothers and the community-organizing group Innovate Public Schools, which helps low-income parents lobby for better schools. The mothers described, in English and Spanish, how their children had been shortchanged by slow, indifferent bureaucracy and inadequate resources in the Ravenswood school district, and declared their sense of urgency for better options. Already, they said, more than 1,100 children leave the district each morning for schools in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and other districts through the Voluntary Transfer Program, known as the Tinsley program. “It’s clear from the Tinsley pro-
gram that there’s a huge demand,” said Ligia Rivera, mother of a fifth-grader and a 10th-grader. “But our question is simple: Why can’t we have schools like the ones in Palo Alto and Menlo Park right here in our community?” Rivera showed slides of Ravenswood’s results on the new Smarter Balanced standardized test released last month, indicating that about 80 percent of district students are below gradelevel standards in English and math. “We understand that the (Ravenswood) district is working hard to improve the current situation,” she said. “We thank them and realize that each individual is doing their best to make a difference, but we know the school system is like a boat, and boats are really slow to turn. “Simply put, our kids cannot wait for four or five or six years to make a change,” Rivera said. In 15 months of working with Innovate, Rivera said, the parents had met with various public and elected officials and learned about charter schools, including KIPP. Especially attractive to the parents were KIPP’s longer school days, individualized learning programs, intervention programs for below-grade-level students and “a university culture that begins in kindergarten,” she said. “As parents, it is our right to
choose where our children can go to school,” Rivera said. “Just because we are a low-income community and cannot pay for private education does not mean our kids should not have educational opportunities.” Rivera and other mothers spoke before a panel of public officials that included East Palo Alto Mayor Lisa Yarbrough-Gauthier, City Councilman Ruben Abrica, Sequoia Union High School District Trustee Laura Martinez, representatives of the San Mateo County Office of Education and April Chou, chief growth and operating officer for KIPP. All five trustees of the Ravenswood district declined invitations to attend or failed to respond, the mothers said. However, Ravenswood Superintendent Gloria Hernandez-Goff sat in the front row of the auditorium, which held about 200 people. Toward the end of the meeting, Yarbrough-Gauthier said she was worried about the fate of the 4,000-student Ravenswood school district if more and more children leave for other options, such as through Tinsley or to attend charter schools. “I know we want to do what’s best for our students, but if we take more students out of our schools what happens to our school district? What happens to the children who are left behind?” she said.
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The Rev. Lawrence Goode of East Palo Alto’s St. Francis of Assisi Church welcomes guests to a forum on education. At left is a panel of local education and government officials, including East Palo Alto Mayor Lisa Yarbrough-Gauthier. At right is a group of mothers who testified about the educational experiences of their children. The KIPP announcement comes on the heels of news last week that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, plan to open a new private, tuition-free school in East Palo Alto that eventually will go from pre-K through eighth grade. Two other low-tuition or tuition-free private schools, the K-8 Beechwood School and the 6-12 Eastside College Prep, also primarily serve students from the Ravenswood district. In addition, three charter schools currently operate within the district’s boundaries: the K-6 East Palo Alto Charter School and the 7-12 East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy, both operated by the charter organization Aspire Public Schools, and East Palo Alto Academy High School, which was launched by and receives support from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. In 2010, Ravenswood trustees declined to renew the charter of a Stanford-sponsored East Palo Alto Academy Elementary School, citing low test scores.
In 2011, Ravenswood trustees denied a petition by charter operator Rocketship to open a new elementary school in East Palo Alto that eventually would have served 650 children. In an interview following Monday night’s meeting Superintendent Hernandez-Goff said she had met numerous times with the parent group, as well as with representatives of Innovate and KIPP. “What I’ve shared with them is that it’s my job to help every single child in the district,” she said. “The charter rules and regulations are very clear, and I know that KIPP has a pretty solid curriculum and academic programs so there’d be no reason to turn them down. I tell them, ‘That’s your job; I’m doing my job.’ “I see my job as not to facilitate charter schools into the district but to really work at turning around our district and improving educational options for parents and kids,” Hernandez-Goff said. Q Contributing Writer Chris Kenrick can be emailed at ckenrick@paweekly.com.
TRANSPORTATION
City changes direction on proposed bike projects Council asks: Is Palo Alto over-sharrowing?
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alo Alto officials are reconsidering several highprofile bike plans, even as staff has made progress on implementing the city’s wideranging 2012 bicycle master plan. Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello, in an update to the City Council on Monday night, acknowledged that “some of the planning efforts have moved more smoothly than others” and that a few projects faced “assorted challenges.” “We’re recommending rethinking some of those projects as we move forward,” Mello said. Among the projects now being rethought is a proposal to extend the nation’s first bike boulevard on Bryant Street further north to
Lytton Avenue. This proposal is now being revised as residents voice concerns about hazardous traffic conditions, and changes to on-street parking and expressed distaste for bright green lanes running through Bryant’s quieter residential sections. Another downtown project that is now heading in a new direction is the proposal to create an “enhanced bikeway” on Homer and Channing avenues, between the Homer tunnel on Alma Street and the eastern end of downtown. The dramatic proposal would turn the right lane on both Homer and Channing into rightturn only lanes at intersections, exempting bicycles. This, according to planning staff, would cre-
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ate a “semi-dedicated east-west bikeway from the tunnel at Alma Street to Guinda Street.” “We’re proposing some pretty significant changes,” Mello said of the Homer and Channing concept, noting that staff has yet to receive much input from residents and property owners. “Before we move forward with this type of plan, we’d like to look at some less drastic concepts that still meet the project goals.” Those goals include making it easier for cyclists to travel north and south between the Homer tunnel and downtown. At the same time, transportation planners are still working on a host of other projects, including speed humps and shared-lane
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A proposal for an “enhanced bikeway” on Homer and Channing avenues is one of several bike projects that Palo Alto is now reconsidering as part of its effort to improve downtown’s bicycle network. markings (also known as sharrows) on Greer Road and widened bike lanes on Fabian Way, which would be transformed from four lanes to three lanes to support a new two-way left turn. Staff is also considering a slew of trafficcalming measures for the city’s most heavily traveled route, Park Boulevard. Though the details are
yet to be hashed out, staff is recommending exploring a physical separation between car and bike lanes on Park “due to the heavy traffic and large number of turning conflicts in the vicinity of Page Mill Road.” As planning for the bike projects advances, staff is also rethinking the ways in which it is
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he Palo Alto school board gave the green light to Superintendent Max McGee on Tuesday night to try to resolve two sexual-harassment investigations at the district’s high schools by authorizing him to invite the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to the district for a conversation. The board voted 4-0, with President Melissa Baten Caswell abstaining due to the late hour of the vote, to authorize McGee to speak with leadership from the federal agency to “discuss the district’s strengths and identify areas of improvement so we can ascertain precisely what they would like to see in order to have full confidence that we have been proactive in upholding and honoring students’ civil rights and are aligned with Office for Civil Rights’s mission,” McGee wrote in a staff report that recommended the new approach, which he described Tuesday as “proactive” and “collaborative.”
In April 2014, the Office for Civil Rights opened its investigation at Paly to look into whether the school responded properly when allegations of student sexual harassment or assault were reported. The next month, the agency opened an investigation at Gunn in response to a family’s complaint that the school failed to “appropriately and effectively respond to notice of sexual harassment at the school.” Jan Tomsky, managing partner of Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost, one of the district’s primary law firms, explained to the board via speaker phone Tuesday night that the further along the Office for Civil Rights gets into an investigation, the more likely it is that the agency will want to include a monitoring agreement in a resolution. Monitoring agreements can include obligations to send the Office for Civil Rights documents, updates on efforts like creating new policy or implementing extra
ing on in the district — professional development, additional training, curriculum for students — as well as any documents the agency requests. Wade also recently requested and received direct technical assistance from the Office for Civil Rights to review and reform the district’s Uniform Complaint Procedures (UCP), Palo Alto’s process for investigating and resolving reports and complaints of sexual and other discriminatory harassment. Townsend also initially opposed Dauber’s motion to waive the board’s two-meeting rule, saying she was concerned about the lack of transparency around a vote taken late at night without members of the public present to give comment. “I think this is the wrong way to do it,” she said. Dauber responded, saying, “To miss an opportunity to have a productive conversation because we want to wait another couple of weeks — I think that there’s just no benefit and (a) potential cost.” McGee said he will return with an update at the next board meeting. The Office for Civil Rights investigations at Paly and Gunn followed several others in the district around allegations of discrimination and bullying. Two of those cases resulted in resolution agreements. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
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engaging the public. One method that is coming into vogue now is what’s known as “tactical urbanism” — the quick implementation of a project on a temporary basis to solicit immediate feedback. Mello said staff is considering bringing such tactics to Palo Alto streets, particularly as the city moves ahead with changes downtown. City Manager James Keene said tactical urbanism allows cities to “try something and, if it doesn’t work out, move away from it. “Rather than having to go out with a full-blown process, (it’s) to test things out in a short period of time and see what happens,” Keene added. Council members Monday enthusiastically supported the staff’s work and lauded recent progress on the various bike projects. They also offered suggestions and posed several broad questions about the bike improvements. One question that emerged: Is the city over-sharrowing? Councilwoman Liz Kniss said some bicyclists have indicated to her that they don’t feel comfortable with all the new sharrow road markings that encourage cars to share the road with bikers. In response, Mello acknowledged that one of the takeaways for staff from the planning process is that the city “needs to be more deliberative about where we use sharrows.” “Using them on every corridor doesn’t make sense,” Mello said. “There’s aesthetic issues around that. Also, people would start to ignore them and they would blend into the background. I think we
School districts can seek resolution agreements prior to the conclusion of an Office for Civil Rights investigation by entering into negotiations. A benefit of resolution agreements, district staff noted Tuesday, is that they help the district avoid being issued an official letter of findings that identifies where a district or school is out of compliance. “Findings have proved to be a challenge for us in the past in the sense that they can be damaging,” particularly to the many school staff members involved in an investigation, Chief Student Services Officer Holly Wade told the board. “I think that we would like to move forward.” Tuesday’s vote came after a motion from board member Ken Dauber to waive the board’s twomeeting requirement in order to do as McGee proposed and move the district forward quickly on these two cases, which were opened more than a year ago and remain pending.
staff training, as well as to allow site visits and interviews — all conditions that Tomsky said can be negotiated. Tomsky added that, in her experience, monitoring agreements have generally lasted for about six months. She also told the board that there is no downside to conversing with the Office for Civil Rights. “I think to the contrary, it suggests a desire to reach a resolution,” she said. “We need to be collaborative,” McGee said. “We need to be proactive rather than reacting and rather than waiting.” Members of the board have also consistently described the Office for Civil Rights as unresponsive, frequently not even returning the district’s phone calls, and have expressed frustration about what feels like drawn-out investigations. Board member Camille Townsend noted that the federal agency has a large backlog of cases across the country, asking, “In the big picture, are we better off to wait and see what happens?” “What are we doing in the process? ... Have we taken steps since the investigations?” she continued. “Are we giving all this information to OCR in the process? ... Are they asking? Are they interested?” Wade said the district does send updates to the Office for Civil Rights on any related efforts go-
VIDEO: An uncertain future As part of this week’s cover story, starting on page 27, Palo Alto Weekly Photographer/Videographer Veronica Weber interviewed three families about the circumstances that forced them to leave Iraq and the threat of losing their Assyrian culture. Most are unsure of where they will end up. Watch the video on PaloAltoOnline.com or the YouTube.com/paweekly. have to be more strategic about where to use sharrows going forward,” such as restricting them to the most heavily used areas. Councilman Tom DuBois suggested that the city focus bike improvements on streets that run parallel to the city’s main arterials
and avoid removing driving lanes from these prominent streets. “We need parallel routes for Oregon and Embarcadero and University,” DuBois said. “We do hear about it when cars start cutting through on local streets. I think that’s what we want to avoid.”
Councilman Greg Scharff concurred and said that riding a bike on streets like Alma, Middlefield Road and El Camino is “not fun” and that the city should, where possible, keep the cars and the bikes separated. “We want to keep our arterials for the cars,” Scharff said. “ Q
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aren’t alone in their concerns. All over Palo Alto, homes are being rented out on daily and weekly bases, despite the city’s ordinance that requires a 30-day minimum stay. Luxury homes in Crescent Park and downtown, cottages in College Terrace and Barron Park, and Eichlers in Charleston Meadows are all up for rent at prices ranging from $30 for a bunk bed or pull-out couch to more than $2,000 a night for a large house, according to their online ads. The potential conversion of a home into a boarding house caused alarm in Barron Park in 2014 after an applicant sought to build a two-story home with eight bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. Public outcry caused the applicant to withdraw his plans, and he submitted a new proposal in March for a 5,539-square-foot, single-story home, which includes a 2,863-square-foot basement. This second proposal adds 1,000 square feet to the original plan, neighborhood watchdogs noted, but city officials said they can’t restrict the number of bedrooms or bathrooms in a home, and single-story homes don’t require a public review. A search of Airbnb on Wednesday found more than 300 rentals in Palo Alto. Of those, 101 were
for entire homes, 175 were for private rooms in a home and 31 for shared, dormitory or bunk-bedstyle rooms. The shared-room rentals are clearly geared toward young techies, with listings offering games, camaraderie, lightningfast Internet access and an inexpensive place to land. They have names like Hacker House, International Home for Startups and Hacker’s Hostel. “Amazing bunk bed in Hacker Kingdom,” one post for a rental in the Ventura neighborhood advertised. “We have Internet. We got board games. We currently don’t have a shower unless you don’t mind showering in an ultra clean sink.” Photos show a hallway of closet-like rooms, each containing two metal bunk beds against a brightly painted cinderblock wall. That setup will cost $30 per night with a $5 cleaning fee. For a short-term rental, reviewers said, it was the perfect place for guys who need a place to crash. Two homes on Princeton Street near College Avenue that were advertised on SUpost, Stanford University’s online marketplace, show wooden bunk beds in a tightly configured space. “We are looking for quiet, responsible housemates to live together with us in our lovely and very large house. Each room is shared between two, four or six
people with separate rooms for males and females. Up to 16 people will be living in the house,” the ad notes. But young entrepreneurs offering congenial, collaborative living spaces aren’t the only ones getting on the rental bandwagon. “Super Bowl 2016,” a home on Homer Avenue, is attempting to cash in on the demand when the football championship is hosted in the Bay Area. The entire house is for rent at $2,000 a night, with six beds and space for eight guests, according to its Airbnb advertisement. Staying for just a few days is clearly the aim for some renters. One Midtown house that accommodates 10 people was recently used for a company off-site meeting, according to a reviewer on Airbnb. While home-owning entrepreneurs didn’t respond to requests for interviews prior to this newspaper’s press time, renters at some of the shared housing said the setups are essential in exorbitantly pricey Palo Alto. “It’s very expensive — very expensive to stay here. I couldn’t believe the prices here. Even Stanford is expensive. Most people have to share or go farther away,” said Oscar Rueda, a scientist visiting Stanford University for two months from Cambridge University on a travel grant. Rueda is living in part of a rented cottage behind Hacker House, a commu-
nal-living space in Barron Park. On Wednesday evening, students came and went noiselessly on bicycles and on foot. Hilary Griffin, who rents a large home across the street from Hacker House, said the inhabitants have been quiet. But while looking for a home to rent, she came across a shared house in Old Palo Alto on Waverley Street near the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ house, she said. Inside the Tudor-style home, “There were 16 people living there. It looked just like a frat house. ... There were dishes in the sink that must have been four days old. They were guys working from Google. The poor Realtor was running around trying to clean up, picking up towels off the floor,” she said. The issue has already come to the attention of the Palo Alto City Council, which in March rejected regulating Airbnb rentals due to a lack of urgency of the problem. City staff had only received seven complaints about the issue last year, two of which had been deemed invalid. The council directed staff to monitor the situation and agreed to bring it back for discussion next year. Planning Director Hillary Gitelman said that the city cannot legally regulate the number of people who live in a household. “We can, however, regulate the number of units (defined by the
number of kitchens), and we can regulate short-term rentals,” she said in an email. A short-term rental would be one that is less than 30 days, which would constitute transient occupancy and not residential use, she said. The city does investigate complaints when properties are being rented out on a short-term basis to multiple persons, she said. City code also does not limit the number of bedrooms or bathrooms that can be constructed within a residence. It regulates the overall size and use as a residence, rather than as a hotel, she said. Palo Alto Municipal Code 2.33.010 defines a hotel as any structure or portion of a structure that is occupied or intended for occupancy by transients for dwelling, lodging or sleeping. It includes any hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, studio hotel, bachelor hotel, lodging house, morning house, apartment house, dormitory public or private club, mobile home or house trailer in a fixed location. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
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in-depth assessments of the students’ strengths and weaknesses in a range of categories, from phonetic awareness to socialemotional skills. Tutors adjust their sessions to what each student needs to work on. “The point of one-to-one is to be exactly what somebody needs,” Weekes said. This group of children will receive individualized attention three days a week for the entire year, with some time also dedicated to social-emotional learning and developing skills like how to listen to instructions and how to deal with disappointment or conflict in the classroom. Weekes said EPATT conducted a focus group this summer with kindergarten and firstgrade teachers in Palo Alto to talk about what they would like this population of students to work on. Among their observations, the teachers said that “by and large, students coming from East Palo Alto are passive in their learning,” Weekes said. Project Rally, she hopes, will help instill in these students at a young age a different mindset: “Learning is not something that happens to me; it’s something that I do.” Project Rally also plans to work with the students’ parents. The minority achievement committee found through focus groups with parents and teachers that there are many barriers that prevent parents from being as involved in their children’s education: transportation, time constraints, child care needs, language differences and a lack of knowledge and understanding of how to navigate the school district. “These parents have the same aspirations for their children as those from high SES (socioeconomic status) families but additional support from the district could have a significant impact on their engagement and connectedness,” the committee’s final report reads. As a pilot program, Project Rally began this fall at only two schools (Fairmeadow and Hoover Elementary), but the district and EPATT hope to expand next year to include second-graders and students from other schools. And while the program primarily aims to serve East Palo Alto students, students who qualify for free and reduced lunch are also accepted. The program will use existing school district assessments to track the students’ progress throughout the year, Weekes said. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com. Families who are interested in applying to the program can visit projectrally.net. Project Rally is also looking for more volunteer tutors; those interested can email info@projectrally.net.
News Digest Palo Alto looks to expand health programs The City Council agreed on Monday night that “ Healthy Cities/ Healthy Community,” a the priority that was adopted by the council at its January retreat, should be more than just a feel-good priority. To that end, council members voiced unanimous support for adopting a resolution that will focus on four areas: healthy culture, healthy environment, healthy food access and healthy workplace. It includes 28 different commitments, ranging from “promote the connection between health and happiness” to “encourage walking to meetings and use of stairway.” The way by which the resolution was recommended, however — by a committee of stakeholders that has been meeting every month to discuss ways to promote healthy living — drew criticism from council members. The stakeholder meetings have not been publicized and the committee’s work has taken place with little input from either the council or the broader community. Councilman Tom DuBois was one of several council members who expressed concern that he wasn’t even aware the citizens committee existed. “I do object to the process and would like it to be more transparent,” DuBois said. The committee included city staff, local commissioners and officials from Stanford University, and representatives of local nonprofits, the Palo Alto Unified School District and citizen groups. The council voted unanimously to send the proposed resolution to its Policy and Services Committee for further refinement before the document returns to the full council for adoption. Q — Gennady Sheyner
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Two students who streaked at Palo Alto High School last week were the first since the administration, led by Principal Kim Diorio, cracked down on the student tradition in the 2013-14 school year. A student ran nude across the football field during a Spirit Week rally on Oct. 19, and another student did the same at a night rally event on Oct. 22, student news outlet the Paly Voice reported. Diorio released a statement last week, saying the administration took the incidents “very seriously.” She reminded students that anyone involved in the “illegal activity of streaking will be subject to disciplinary action,” which may include suspension, as outlined in Paly’s Student Handbook. Seniors who are caught streaking will be suspended for two days and will meet with Palo Alto Police Department school resource officers, the handbook states. If the streaking continues, seniors can be barred from participating in senior activities, including graduation. Q — Elena Kadvany
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To take action now, or later, on counseling After four school district surveys have yielded the same results — that there is a difference in satisfaction with counseling services at Palo Alto and Gunn high schools — and one Gunn committee spent a school year analyzing how to close that gap, some Board of Education members are wondering whether a proposal to convene yet another counseling committee is the right route to take. The recommendations of the first committee have largely languished. A new high school counseling survey again showed not only higher student satisfaction with counseling services at Paly but also relatively low rates of satisfaction across the board at both high schools. While the majority of surveyed students (64 percent) said they know there is an adult on campus who cares about them, only 32 percent of students said that school counselors are a resource for them in “dealing with the demands at school.” Twenty percent of students said counselors are not a resource for them. And while 39 percent of Paly students reported that the school counseling staff has helped them develop problem-solving skills like balancing extracurricular activities and academics and resolving personal conflicts, at Gunn, that number is significantly lower. Only 28 percent of Gunn students said counselors have supported them in learning these skills, and 23 percent said that they haven’t. Paly has long had in place a teacher-advisory model, which connects each student with one teacher-adviser (TA) for all four years. Gunn, by contrast, has a traditional counseling model, with a group of staff members providing guidance counseling, college and career advice and social-emotional support. The survey results came with a staff recommendation to create a new counseling committee composed of students, parents, teachers, staff and administrators from both Paly and Gunn, which would be asked to issue recommendations by next December, to be potentially implemented in the fall of 2017. Superintendent Max McGee said Tuesday that “the key question before us is not if the Gunn system or Paly system is better,” but how to improve counseling services for all students. Q — Elena Kadvany
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AGENDA–REGULAR MEETING-COUNCIL CHAMBERS NOVEMBER 2, 2015 6:00 PM Special Orders of the Day 1. Proclamation Welcoming the Delegation of Visitors From our Sister City, Enschede, The Netherlands, and Congratulating Onno van Veldhuizen on his Recent Inauguration as Mayor 2. Selection of Applicants to Interview for the Parks and Recreation Commission Consent Calendar 4. Approval of a 3-Year Contract Extension With SAP America for Maintenance and Support, Contract Number C14151181 in an Amount Not to Exceed $742,811 5. Finance Committee Recommends Approval of Fiscal Year 2015 Reappropriation Requests to be Carried Forward Into Fiscal Year 2016 6. Finance Committee Recommends Amendment of Municipal Code Section 2.28.080 Regarding City Council Budget and Table of Organization Amendment Approvals 7. Approve and Delegate Authority to the City Manager to Execute Amendment Four With Elster Solutions, LLC to Extend the Term of an Equipment and Fully Managed Services Agreement (EFMSA) Through December 31, 2017 at no Additional Cost; to Delegate Authority to the City Manager to Enter Into and Execute a Subsequent Extension of the EFMSA Term Through 2018 at no Additional Cost Action Items 8. Comprehensive Plan Update: Comprehensive Plan Structure, Including Goals, Vision Statements, and Related Issues for Each Element (Part III: Land Use and Community Design) 9. PUBLIC HEARING: Adoption of an Ordinance Amending Title 5 (Health and Sanitation) and Title 18 (Zoning) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code to Require All Businesses to Subscribe to Recycling and Compost Services and Comply with Refuse Sorting Requirements
COUNCIL AND STANDING COMMITTEE The Special Finance Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 6:00 PM to discuss: 1) Library Bond Oversight Committee Quarterly Reports Transmittal; and 2) Pension Liability: Discussion of Options for the Future.
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A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to discuss the Land Use and Community Design chapters of the Comprehensive Plan and consider an ordinance that would require all businesses to recycle and compost. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to consider a report from the Library Bond Oversight Committee and discuss options for reducing the city’s pension liability. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will convene for a budget study session at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider design guidelines for the city’s Net Energy Metering Successor Program. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 4, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to consider 3170 Porter Drive, a proposal by Stanford University to demolish an existing 67,580-square-foot building and construct a 96,626-square-foot building. The board will also review facade changes and new signage proposed for Stanford Shopping Center. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.
alternative would involve a rightlane transit lane; another would focus on curbside transit lanes. The analysis would involve looking at each alternative with just buses; with buses and private shuttles; with buses and highoccupancy (carpool) lanes; and with buses, private shuttles and high-occupancy lanes, according to a report from John Ristow, the VTA’s director of planning and program development. The board asked staff to return with a contract amendment that could be sent to the VTA board, enabling the additional work. Siegel is among the leading proponents of studying the option of Rapid Transit lanes that could be shared with emergency vehicles, private buses, local buses and high-occupancy vehicles. He said in an interview that the system would also make more sense if the new BRT stations were in-
tegrated with the local bus system so that commuters wouldn’t have to run across the street from the standard bus stations (which are near the curb) to the new BRT stations, which would be built in islands near the left lane. Another option Siegel said should be considered is having the lane dedicated to buses only during certain times of the day. “The idea is to not have a virtually empty lane reserved for one or two buses,” Siegel said. Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, a former Palo Alto mayor, has been more forceful in his opposition to designating left lanes on El Camino for Bus Rapid Transit. In recent meetings, both with VTA officials and with the Palo Alto City Council, Simitian advocated for the transit agency to complete its first BRT project in San Jose before moving on to El Camino. That project, which runs along Santa Clara Street, Alum Rock Avenue, Capitol Avenue and Capitol Expressway, is now facing significant delays
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A rendering of two street configurations for Bus Rapid Transit: a ‘dedicated-lane’ proposal and a ‘mixed-flow curb lane.” Wednesday with a proposal by Oliverio that the VTA consider smaller-scale pilot projects that could be implemented in the short term and that would require little more than a painted curb. Oliverio acknowledged that “nothing we do will make everyone happy.” He suggested going with a small project that would not require a full environmental analysis. “I’d rather just move forward and try something,” he said. The committee of council members agreed that a pilot should be considered and directed VTA staff to return at a later meeting with further analysis of what it would take to implement the trial. While the VTA has yet to determine what analysis of the eight new options would cost, an early estimate from the agency suggests that the additional study would take between one and two years to complete and cost between $1 million and $2 million. Under the current schedule, construction would begin in 2018 and be completed by 2020. The advisory board is scheduled to approve on Nov. 18 a letter to the VTA board urging the additional work. The board of directors would then consider the request in December. If it approves the contract amendment, VTA would then spend three to four months to conduct a preliminary analysis that would determine which alternatives merit a more thorough environmental analysis. Siegel said in an interview that if the study shows that having transit in the right lane makes sense, this alternative would prompt significant savings over the dedicated-lane proposal. “We’d end up saving a lot of money over the rather expensive proposal for changing the medians all the way up and down El Camino,” Siegel said. “If we’re right, it would save money.” Q
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like “factories” and “community colleges,” parents said. Jordan Middle School is the largest with 1,130 students this year. Jane Lathrop Stanford (JLS) is next with 1,112 students. Terman still remains small with 749 students this year, though its campus is also smaller than the other two middle schools’. Those with experience in the district’s various choice programs — particularly Connections at JLS and Ohlone Elementary School’s philosophy, which emphasizes independence, personalization and socialemotional learning — said the experiences were overwhelmingly positive, and they wished for more of them throughout the district and at higher levels. Several parents talked about making the decision to leave the public school district for private schools upon facing large middle and high schools that they said can’t deliver the same level of student-teacher connection or relevant, personalized instruction. “My husband wanted our son to know his teachers well and be known by them. ... With schools the current size of our middle schools and high schools, we realized that was going to be re-
ally difficult to achieve,” parent Callie Turk said. “He’s now in a private school with small class sizes where those relationships blossom naturally.” Another mother called the size of Palo Alto’s middle schools probably the “strongest deterrent” for her family in attending public school. She looked at alternative options for her two children, one of whom is now attending a private middle school. School board members expressed their support for a new school, though they had limited time to ask questions of the subcommittee. More than two hours of the three-hour meeting were taken up by the presentation and public comment. “This is exciting. This is innovative,” board Vice President Heidi Emberling said. “It’s aligned with our goals for students; it increases both peerto-peer connections and connections with trusted adults on campus; (it) promotes our focus on professional learning communities (and) on teacher professional development — investing in our best resources for students, which are our teachers. “If we want to move the needle, particularly for our under-resourced and historically underrepresented students, we can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results,” she added.
Board members Terry Godfrey and Ken Dauber asked the committee to consider what resources the district might need in order to open a 13th elementary school and a new secondary school at the same time, if the board were to decide to do so. (Though a majority of the EMAC’s elementary subcommittee has preliminarily recommended that the district not open a new elementary school, three members of that group penned a “minority report” expressing the opposing view.) Dauber also asked to hear more about why the new school would be a choice program rather than a neighborhood school. The subcommittee said Monday that many choice programs in the district are oversubscribed, with many parents applying to more than one. “My sense is that we in Palo Alto have sometimes missed an opportunity to do good things across all of our schools by doing those things in our choice schools,” Dauber said. “I would read the interest in choice programs from middle school parents as a desire not to drive across town to a different school but to have the school where they are provide them the benefits that they are talking about.” Board President Melissa Baten Caswell asked that the costs for opening a new school, both capi-
tal and ongoing operating costs, be brought to a budget study session the board is holding next Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 6 p.m. She also stressed that the district not leave behind the existing middle and high schools in the excitement of a new school, which if approved would take years to open. “What do we do in the interim? Do we just sit here and wait? I don’t think so,” she said. The secondary subcommittee is also proposing that the district create a separate task force to delve into the actual design and development of a new school, with a goal to provide recommendations in June 2016. The entire enrollment committee is slated to bring a final report to the board in December. The district also plans to host at least one town hall meeting in November to discuss the committee’s work. “I believe the recommendations of the enrollment-management committee would set the district on a path to build more relevant, relationshiporiented learning communities that would serve the needs of our 21st-century students,” Turk said. Her final words to the board, which were echoed throughout the night by many other parents and community members: “Be bold.” Q
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of Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (Oct. 26)
Bicycles: The council heard an update about the city’s ongoing and proposed bicycle and pedestrian projects. Action: None Healthy City: The council approved a Healthy City/Healthy Community resolution, which includes more than two dozen “aspirational” policies that the city will pursue to promote health. Yes: Unanimous
Board of Education (Oct. 27)
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BPRC process: The board authorized the superintendent and chair of the board’s policy-review committee to bring a proposal back to the board about the BPRC’s process for considering potential policy changes or ideas from the community. Action: Unanimous BPRC backlog: The board approved changes to how its policy-review committee processes minor policy changes and updates. Action: Unanimous OCR resolution: The board authorized the superintendent to invite the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to the district for a conversation about potential resolution agreements for two open sexual-harassment cases being investigated by the federal agency. Yes: Dauber, Emberling, Godfrey, Townsend Abstained: Baten Caswell
Council Policy and Services Committee (Oct. 27)
Revolving door: The committee recommended updating the city’s existing “revolving door” policy so that it applies to all department heads. The committee also directed the City Clerk to survey past and present Architectural Review Board on a new policy that would ban active board members from presenting projects to their colleagues. Yes: Unanimous
Parks and Recreation Commission (Oct. 27)
Baylands Center: The commission heard an update about the city’s plan to renovate the Baylands Nature Interpretive Center and to consider improvements to the boardwalk leading up to the center. Action: None
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Planning and Transportation Commission (Oct. 28)
Zoning: The commission recommended a series of minor revisions and clarifications to the city’s zoning code as part of a first annual code update. Yes: Alcheck, Fine, Gardias, Michael, Rosenblum, Tanaka Absent: Downing
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four-story project for the busy intersection of Page Mill Road and El Camino Real. Situations in which a commissioner or former staff member appeals to the city on behalf of a private client arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t common, but neither are they particularly rare. Former architectural board members Heather Young and David Solnick, both architects, have each made presentations to their former board colleagues. Current Historic Resources Board member Margaret Wimmer straddled the blurry line in January, when she represented a homeowner who wanted to make alterations to a historic home on Lincoln Avenue. Now, Palo Alto officials are looking to tighten the rules and end this practice. Under a proposal that the City Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Policy and Services Committee discussed Tuesday night, current
board members and commissioners would no longer be allowed to appeal to their colleagues on behalf of private entities. Committee Chair Pat Burt and Councilman Tom DuBois both strongly supported adopting the policy, while Councilmen Marc Berman and Cory Wolbach requested more time to deliberate before making a decision â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a request that was ultimately granted by their colleagues. During its discussion, the committee didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t name any names and made only vague references to recent incidents in which a commissioner or staff member appeared to have a conflict of interest. DuBois alluded to the Architectural Review Board chairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent predicament as â&#x20AC;&#x153;an uncomfortable situationâ&#x20AC;? and lobbied for a rule change that would put an end to such situations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it would be very odd to be on a lot of these commissions and boards and then get up and pitch to the colleagues that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been working with while
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Appointments made to key commissions With the relationship between the City Council and the Planning and Transportation Commission hitting a low in recent months, the council on Monday night appointed a new member that it hopes will help restore cooperation between the two bodies. (Posted Oct. 29, 8:35 a.m.)
Caltrain to hold hearing on fares, parking fees Early next month the public will be able to comment on the proposed changes to Caltrain fares and station parking fees, Caltrain officials said Wednesday. (Posted Oct. 29, 8:11 a.m.)
Palo Alto to require â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;pre-screeningsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Seeking to add some transparency to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development process, Palo Alto officials on Monday unanimously instituted a new rule that requires developers seeking zone changes to participate in special â&#x20AC;&#x153;pre-screeningâ&#x20AC;? hearings in front of the City Council. (Posted Oct. 27, 2:06 p.m.)
Man, 31, fatally shot in East Palo Alto East Palo Alto Police are investigating a shooting that left a 31-year-old city resident dead Sunday night. (Posted Oct. 26, 8:19 a.m.)
VIDEO: On this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Behind the Headlines Conflict in City Government: On this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s half-hour webcast, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Behind the Headlines,â&#x20AC;? Editor in Chief Jocelyn Dong, Publisher Bill Johnson and reporters Elena Kadvany and Gennady Sheyner discuss conflicts within Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s governing boards. (Posted Oct. 23, 4:34 p.m.)
Zuckerberg, Chan to open new school Philanthropist couple Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are investing in yet another educational venture, this time in their own backyard: a private, pre-K through eighth-grade school in East Palo Alto that will integrate health and education to serve disadvantaged children. (Posted Oct. 23, 9:45 a.m.)
Palo Alto Historical Association youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re actively on this board,â&#x20AC;? DuBois said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something we want to have happening.â&#x20AC;? Wolbach and Berman werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so sure. Wolbach wondered whether this new restriction would significantly shrink the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s applicant pool for board seats and suggested a survey of past and present board members and applicants. Berman agreed, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would be very hesitant to create any more onerous rules that would create a consequence of really narrowing the applicant pool to just retired applicants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really not getting the best review you possibly could,â&#x20AC;? he said. Burt agreed that there is â&#x20AC;&#x153;potential that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d limit our candidate pool considerably with such a prohibition.â&#x20AC;? Yet he also noted that most architects in Palo Alto work on single-family homes and, as a result, are unlikely to face public hearings in front of the board, which typically deal with larger project. Burt said he favored a new policy that would ban active board members and commissioners from appearing in front of their own board. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not necessarily the fault of the architects who serve but by the nature of it, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as close to certainty an appearance of a conflict of interest or a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;revolving doorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as we have â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with some degree of frequency,â&#x20AC;? he said. Ultimately the committee stopped short of adopting the change and directed the City Clerkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office to consider conducting the survey that Wolbach requested before resuming the discussion next month. In addition to considering this rule change, the committee unanimously agreed to expand the list of city officials who would have to wait at least a year after leaving office before they could represent any other person or entity before City Hall. Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s existing policy already includes such a requirement for most senior officials, including the four council-appointed officers (city manager, city attorney, city auditor and city clerk), assistant city managers, planning director, police chief, fire chief and assistant city attorney. The new change would expand the policy so that it applies to all department heads. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.
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Diana Mary Thurman April 26, 1937 – October 19, 2015
Diana Mary Thurman passed away peacefully at her Menlo Park home on Monday, October 19th following a courageous battle with cancer, at the age of 78. She was surrounded by close family and friends. Born in San Francisco in 1937 to Italian immigrants, Diana attended Presentation High School (Class of 1955) where she acquired close friendships that lasted her entire lifetime. She moved to the Peninsula in 1962, eventually purchasing her home in Menlo Park in 1971, where she continued to live for 44 years. Diana worked for Macy’s for many years before becoming selfemployed, then retired in the early 1990’s. She lived an active, healthy lifestyle and attended Aqua-Fit water aerobics classes at Menlo Park Rec Center several times each week for nearly 20 years. She was also an active volunteer at Nine Lives cat shelter in Redwood City as well as in the surgical recovery unit at Kaiser Hospital in Redwood City. Diana leaves behind an enormous number of people who loved her and is survived by her daughter Sheryl Samuels, brother David Desideri, niece Jennifer Desideri, grandchildren Courtney Clark and Chris Clark (Evelyn), five great-grandchildren (Christian, Kaylyn, D’Andre, Adrianna, Sienna), and her beloved cat “Yoshi”. She will be most remembered for her ability to light up any room with her vibrant personality and beautiful sense of humor. Her family wishes to thank the many people who remained by her side during her illness, as well as the Kaiser Cancer Treatment Center, Kaiser Oncology Department, and Kaiser Palliative and Hospice care teams. A Celebration of Life in Diana’s honor will be held in the Sequoia Room at the Arrillaga Family Recreation Center at 701 Laurel St., Menlo Park, CA on Saturday, November 7 at 3pm. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that donations in Diana’s name be made to The American Cancer Society (cancer.org/donate). PAID
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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Oct. 21-27
Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Counterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 9 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parking violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . 13 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of alcohol by minor . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous Disturbing the peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Education code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Illegal lodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Medical aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Spousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Burglary attempt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Burglary undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . 11 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Prohibited weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Registrant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto
Webster Street, 10/21, 6:37 p.m.; elder abuse/physical. 352 University Ave., 10/24, 12:50 p.m.; battery/simple.
Menlo Park
1100 block Henderson Ave., 10/21, 11:02 a.m.; battery. 400 block Ivy Drive, 10/21, 1:30 p.m.; assault. 1100 block N. Lemon Ave., 10/22, 8:46 a.m.; spousal abuse.
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Dr. Lila Rita Seldin Kramer, a Palo Alto resident since 1959 and local psychiatrist, died on Sept. 17 surrounded by family. She was 87. She was born on May 17, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York, to Dr. Harry M. and Tena E. Seldin. She grew up in Brooklyn and in Putnam Valley, New York, before completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She went on to receive her M.D. from New York University and became certified as a Jungian analyst through the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She did her residency in psychiatry and served on the clinical faculty at Stanford University. She also ran a private practice in Palo Alto for many years. An adventurous individual, Lila enjoyed backpacking in the High Sierras (she climbed Mount Whitney), skiing black diamond trails, rafting and traveling the world. Closer to home, she cultivated a plot at the main community garden in Palo Alto for decades, created ceramic art for many years at the Palo Alto Art Center, read avidly and cooked many dishes — among them chocolate cake, meatloaf, brisket, matzo balls, chopped liver and cabbage rolls. She was also an early feminist and served as a mentor to a number of younger women. She also loved listening to Frank Sinatra; eating lobster; going to the opera at Davies Symphony Hall; watching Shakespeare plays in the redwoods at University of California, Santa Cruz; and spending time with family and friends. She was predeceased by her son-in-law, Alex Fried. She is survived by her daughter, Linda Kramer, and her partner, Steven, of West Newton, Massachusetts; her son, Ron (Kim) Kramer of Palo Alto; and grandchildren, Sara, David, Hannah and Abby. She is also survived by sisters, Evelyn (Bill) Rakower and Marlene (Mel) Cohen; and many nieces, cousins, extended family members and friends. Memorial donations can be made to Palo Alto Animal Services (cityofpaloalto.org/animalservices) or an organization of the donor’s choice.
James N. “Jim” Shoolery, a longtime Palo Alto resident and researcher at Varian Associates, died on Sept. 24, surrounded by family. He was 90. He was born on June 25, 1925, in Worland, Wyoming. He grew up in Albany, California, and went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1948, and completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in 1952. In addition, he served in the U.S. Navy as a radar operator on the USS Wabash from 1943 to 1946. Following his studies at Caltech, he began working in 1952 at Varian Associates in Palo Alto, striving to create useful instruments for other chemists. He quickly focused on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a technique for chemical analysis, and he helped to assemble Varian’s first highresolution NMR spectrometer. Among other efforts, he continued to help develop and spread awareness of the method, and, in 1961, he lead Varian in defining the A-60 instrument as a “mass market” and “user-friendly” product for organic chemists. To educate scientists on the potential uses of NMR spectroscopy, Jim organized the creation of NMR Applications Laboratories in Palo Alto, at the Pittsburgh airport and
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in other countries. In 1990, he retired from Varian. During his career, he published over 200 papers and received five patents. He was awarded the American Chemical Society Sargent Award in 1961 and the Anachem Award for contributions to analytical chemistry in 1982. In 1993, Industrial R&D magazine named him Scientist of the Year, and he became a Varian Fellow in 1989. Jim and his second wife, Judy, lived in the College Terrace neighborhood of Palo Alto from 1971 to 1996, before moving to Half Moon Bay in 1998. His family remembers his affinity for humor and puns, enjoyment of adventure and travel, and love for family and friends. He is survived by wife, Judith Shoolery of Half Moon Bay; his three sons, John Shoolery of Palo Alto, Bryan (Chandra) Shoolery of Arroyo Grande, California, and Mark (Kyle Borg) Shoolery of Hollywood, California; two stepsons, Jim (Lorraine) LaRoy of Minnetonka, Minnesota, and John (Debra) LaRoy of Novato, California; stepdaughter, Jeanne (Scott) Powley of Neenah, Wisconsin; brother-in-law, James G. (Sandra Renshaw) Lindberg of Des Moines, Iowa; and by 13 grandchildren. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 11 a.m. at the Community United Methodist Church in Half Moon Bay. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Shoolery Endowed Scholarship at Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy St., Kalamazoo, MI 49006; or to Community United Methodist Church, 777 Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 94019.
JoAnne Sanford 1938 – 2015
JoAnne Sanford, my wife of 28 years, passed away on October fourteenth, surrounded by her family after a long fight against Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. JoAnne was the light and love of my life. She cherished her family and was cherished by them. She is survived by her husband, Peter Kindschi, sisters; Nancy and Susan, two children; Wendy Olson and Gerry Cochran, four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Born in 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, she grew up in Lansing, Michigan. It seemed that there wasn’t anything she couldn’t do. An accomplished artist, she enjoyed life to the fullest and travelled the world. JoAnne was adventurous, intelligent, fun, optimistic, resourceful, creative, brave, tenacious and loving. She was a joy to be around even in her most trying times with P.S.P. She was wonderful, very loved and will be greatly missed by all who knew her. We love you so very much JoAnne! PAID
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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, November 16, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider Review and Direction Regarding a Draft Ordinance Regulating Hazardous Materials Users Such as Communications & Power Industries, LLC (CPI PU 6ɉJL 9LZLHYJO HUK 4HU\MHJ[\YPUN AVUPUN Districts When Such Uses Are Close to Homes, Schools, Elder Care Facilities and Other Sensitive Receptors, and Establishing A Schedule for Amortizing Non-Conforming Uses.
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Henry Sakae Wakabayashi April 5, 1920 – October 8, 2015
Henry Wakabayashi passed away peacefully on October 8, 2015, in Palo Alto, California, at the age of 95. Henry was born on April 5, 1920, in Hanna, Wyoming, the second son of Zenjiro Wakabayashi and Yoriko Shijo, both of whom were from Yamanashi, Japan. Henry spent his childhood in Hanna, Wyoming, a town that began as a coal supply location for the Union Pacific Railway. Henry earned both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wyoming. After graduation, Henry was drafted into the U.S. Army and destined for the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit which was one of the most decorated and honored combat units in the history of the U.S. army. Midway through basic training, Henry was selected to attend the U.S. Army Engineer School’s officer candidate program at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, where he received his commission as second lieutenant and also met his future wife, Seiko Nishio, who was a volunteer USO hostess at St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C. They married in 1947 and raised their family in Rockville, Maryland. Assigned to General Douglas MacArthur’s staff at GHQ Tokyo, Henry worked in rebuilding the war damaged city. After his discharge, Henry joined the U.S. Army Reserve, and retired in 1980 as a full colonel. In civilian life, Henry’s work involved complex classified engineering programs for the U.S. Department of Defense at the Pentagon. After retirement, Henry and Seiko traveled extensively in the United States and abroad, including a trip around the world in 1990. Henry was a charter member and served two terms as president of the Japanese American Veterans Association of Washington, D.C. He was a passionate Washington Redskins fan, and enjoyed golf and bridge. Henry loved outdoor cooking, particularly Chesapeake Bay seafood, which he served to friends and family as host of many summertime backyard crab parties over the years. In retirement, Henry began taking art classes at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. After Henry and Seiko moved to Palo Alto in 2005, Henry continued with art classes and projects. Although Henry worked in various media including charcoal, sculpture and printmaking, he especially enjoyed drawing with pencil and pen & ink. Over the years, friends and family cherished receiving Henry’s annual hand-drawn and hand-lettered Christmas cards, often featuring seasonal images of cranes. Henry is preceded in death by his parents, brothers Fred Wakabayashi and Roy Wakabayashi, sister Ruth Kumagai, and daughter Lynn Wakabayashi. Henry is survived by loving daughter Karen Imatani, and Karen’s family: beloved grandson Kyle Imatani, and son-in-law Kenneth Imatani. Henry’s family will remember him as thoughtful, generous and considerate. He served as a role model for his family and grandson. He will be deeply missed. Friends and family are invited to a memorial service on Friday, November 6, 2015, at 2:30 pm in the University Auditorium at the Vi at Palo Alto, 620 Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 4243 Manuela Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306. Arrangements by Cusimano Family Colonial Mortuary, Mtn.View. PAID
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Editorial The perils of innovation Visionary school proposal has delicate road to travel
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nnovation’ is a word we all love to use to distinguish our region’s culture and values from other places and to impress upon our children as important to their future in a rapidly changing world. Innovation within a start-up or a large corporation is much easier, however, than in a public agency, where risk-taking is rarely rewarded and policy-makers can become balled up dealing with many diverse and competing interests. After all, government agencies aren’t supposed to pick and choose whom they will serve, nor cater to those with wealth and influence in a community. This tension is one of the reasons the preliminary recommendations of a school district task force on the state of our middle and high schools are simultaneously exciting and a bit worrisome. The committee, dubbed the Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (EMAC) and convened in April by Palo Alto Superintendent Max McGee to address enrollment growth, has outlined a set of recommendations that could bring about the most significant change in the Palo Alto school system in decades, if not in history. Seizing on a confluence of events, the committee has recommended the district open a new combined middle and high school at the former Cubberley High School site (now Cubberley Community Center). As proposed, it would offer an innovative project-based experiential learning model and serve as an incubator of new programs for the rest of the district. It is envisioned as a ‘choice’ program similar to Ohlone, Hoover and the Spanish and Mandarin immersion programs, with enrollment likely determined through a lottery. The ambitious idea emerges at a time when almost everyone agrees the current middle and high schools are too big, the district is swimming in money and a new generation of highly affluent parents with strong (and divergent) opinions on education is financially able to consider sending their children to any one of dozens of local private schools. Palo Alto’s public schools have more competition today than ever before. Thus the committee’s recommendations set the stage for a muchneeded discussion about the future of Palo Alto’s secondary schools. The school board has a challenging process ahead of it. We share the excitement about the possibilities and are pleased to see McGee instigating the conversation. We are also happy that McGee preceded this initiative with a similar assessment of the needs of under-represented minority students, who consistently perform not only well below other district students but also less well than minority students at high-achieving districts comparable to Palo Alto. Shrinking this achievement gap has been one of McGee’s personal priorities since arriving more than a year ago and must be woven into contemplated new middle and high school models. The committee tried hard to balance its enthusiasm for a designfrom-scratch new school with recommendations for also improving the current middle and high schools, which it said should implement smaller learning groups, schools-within-a-school and other strategies for improving social-emotional connectedness and making the schools feel less overwhelming. As further exploratory work takes place in the months ahead, we urge McGee and the school board to look carefully at the challenges of creating a special ‘choice’ secondary school, with distinctly different offerings from other secondary schools. While a third high school will almost certainly have to be a smaller magnet school with more limited and distinct offerings from Paly and Gunn, it is more difficult to see why innovations envisioned for the new middle school should not be equally applicable to Jordan, JLS and Terman. Why shouldn’t it function as a simply a fourth neighborhood middle school, where all four schools move forward together in adopting new learning strategies so all students and families can benefit equally? With a deeply entrenched, decentralized district culture in which each school is given broad authority to operate independently with programs of their choosing, we can think of no example of where a great innovation developed at one site has been replicated elsewhere. This is, for example, how we currently have two high schools with different bell schedules and counseling systems and three middle schools with different approaches for providing smaller learning environments and 13 elementary schools using different bullyingprevention programs. It’s also why we haven’t seen the enormously popular “Ohlone Way” philosophy implemented across the district. The vision presented by the enrollment committee is exciting, but the district needs to demonstrate that it can create a great program and then effectively implement it across the schools. Otherwise, there is great risk of starting yet another innovative and exciting program that can only be enjoyed by a lucky group of families, an outcome that would only deepen feelings of there being “haves” and “have nots” within our district. Q Page 18 • October 30, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions
Urban solutions Editor, Palo Alto’s downtown is overrun with workers in buildings given carte blanche to minimize parking. We cannot back charge them or the City Council for the mess, but a payroll tax on employers could fund new garages. San Francisco charges a 1.125-percent payroll tax on holders of business licenses. Just copy it. We should install meters in parking impacted areas, including neighborhoods. Give up on administrating a program that the city cannot get off the ground, even with chickenfeed rates of $233 for six months. Smart meters could collect full market parking fees and the city could use the proceeds combined with a San Francisco-style business tax to bond parking garages because it is going to get worse very soon. High-speed rail soon will be here in 2018. Palo Alto can expect total gridlock with 20 trains during peak hours that will block crossings, unless the tracks are trenched or elevated. Does anyone believe that a reprehensible, regressive sales tax that is promoted by Silicon Valley manufacturers is going to pass, let alone whether 15 percent of the revenues will be sufficient to provide for crossings for street traffic? The prognosis is dismal, but now that Palo Alto has made the decision to urbanize our town it is time to go all the way: tax business payrolls, build parking garages and install parking meters. That will generate the cash needed to address the parking mess generated by the planning department and the inevitable increase in traffic with the arrival of high-speed rail. Soften the blow of meters by allowing residents to park free at all meters and garages. Mill Valley allows its residents to do so. Palo Alto could do the same with tags or FasTrak-style transponders for residents. After all, as Neilson Buchanan notes, “This is Silicon Valley.” Richard Alexander Santa Rita Avenue, Palo Alto
Affordable, not dense Editor, Yes, we should build more affordable housing. Not high density, the root cause of the affordability problem. Cities tend to zone for the highest assessments. Choosing industry without housing for the workers impacts residents’ quality of living in two ways: by doubling the daytime population and the car population — increasing congestion and diminishing air quality — and by increasing the selling price of all the houses that
already exist, forcing out existing residents, especially renters. The density of structures when rich buyers succeed in making cities permit teardowns and erection of mansions, on lots intended for cottages, is also unpleasant. Affordability is also associated with density, but it need not have the same obnoxious effects. A 2,000-square-foot house renting for $2,000, if it is shared by four working couples, each paying $500, is quite affordable, but cities discourage it, and often forbid it, because they want a richer population. Or you could have even more sharing and some public rooms, like Ronald McDonald House. And in situations where the city has an interest in recruiting a certain kind of resident, like teachers, housing could be built, high rise, that the teachers, who are not paupers, could afford. The cities need to assess the different kinds of unhoused populations to see what could be done for each. Stephanie Muñoz Alma Street, Palo Alto
Admired, used Editor, I appreciate the Gennady Sheyner article devoted to Avenidas; however, I must take issue with two of the statements quoted as well as the lack of appreciation shown to the building housing the senior center. In the first place, the only de-
scription of the building is that it is 88 years old. No mention is made of the fact that it is a historic Birge Clark-designed building and, in my opinion, one of the treasures of Palo Alto. The building is gorgeous from all three approachable directions: the beautiful arcaded front; the side view of the three large arched dining room windows from Cogswell Plaza; and the beautiful tiled patio in the rear defined by the older building plus the new dining room. I hope that Lisa Hendrickson is misquoted in saying that people don’t come to see the building. I, for one, love the sight of the building. As for Bruce Heister’s direct quote that some think the “the building is depressing, that it’s tired looking,” I’m left speechless. I realize that they’re doing fundraising for the renovation, but such comments, if accurate, are completely out of line. I can’t really speak for the repairs required, but I know that the building functions reasonably well, with the dining room serving as a multipurpose room for dances and events. More recreation space would obviously be a plus, especially with a growing senior population, but many communities don’t have any facility nearly as lovely as ours. I would like to examine carefully the plans for the renovation and the additions. Gary Breitbard San Jude Avenue, Palo Alto
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Can one person, or a few, make a real difference in the world? by Jay Thorwaldson
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ost of us raised in the 1960s-70s era well remember when renowned cultural anth ropologist Margaret Mead gave the world some sage advice: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” That line, or a slightly longer (also trademarked) line also quoted widely, could have been the theme of a “Make a Difference Day” in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto last Saturday — part of a national day dedicated to demonstrating how small groups and individuals can indeed make a difference. Sometimes making a difference takes a bit of time and effort; causes vary from a simple planting of a tree or trees to helping others who are going through hard times. But hundreds of local volunteers, from Palo Alto and Gunn high school students to adults and young children, turned out for a day focused on Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. Nationally, millions turned out. Locally, projects ranged from planting trees at Palo Alto’s Bol Park to working on the still-emerging park and nature center at the historic Cooley Landing in East Palo Alto. The environmental group Acterra sponsored creating flower arrangements to take to seniors at Lytton Gardens in Palo Alto, while Project WeHOPE had people package toiletries for the homeless and sort food at
the nonprofit Ecumenical Hunger Program in East Palo Alto. Palo Alto’s Duck Pond and the Junior Museum and Zoo got some sprucing up as well. The local effort was spearheaded by Leif Erickson, head of the Palo Alto-based Youth Community Service (YCS) organization. It was co-sponsored by the Palo Alto Family YMCA, Palo Alto University Rotary, Rotary Club of Palo Alto, Bayshore Rotary, Kiwanis Clubs, East Palo Alto-based Live in Peace and the cities of Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. The Palo Alto group Neighbors Helping Neighbors organized food restocking and food-packing projects. But it was individuals who showed up to do the work, locally and nationally, who ultimately made the difference. The turnout was the result of personal decisions to spend time, effort and resources to improve things in ways both small and large, with or without individual recognition. Yes, there are skeptics and scoffers at “dogooders.” But those who dig in personally to strive to make a difference invariably report that it is deeply satisfying, even if their efforts never “go viral” to become national or international sensations. Local examples stand out, including YCS’ engaging young people in positive community efforts that “build community” at personal and collective levels. Make a Difference Day echoes recent events in Palo Alto that highlighted local examples of individuals and groups making a difference. On Oct. 14, Project WeHOPE presented major awards to two longtime community leaders: Bill Somerville of Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, now based in Oakland but with a deep history of funding programs
and efforts on the Midpeninsula; and Luisa Buada, executive director of the Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto, who has spent nearly four decades helping create health centers for the disadvantaged throughout California, including once working with Cesar Chavez on health centers for migrant workers. Buada, who received a “Trailblazer Award,” opened her first community health center in 1980 in Salinas, followed by centers in Watsonville, Berkeley and East Palo Alto. She took on direction of the Ravenswood center in 2001, when it was struggling and in danger of closing, and restored it to health. It now has a new building on Bay Road, with the help of principal benefactors John and Susan Sobrato. Somerville, a self-described maverick grant-maker, received the “Legacy Award” for his half-century of supporting beneficial community projects, including 17 years as executive director of the Peninsula Community Foundation. The Rev. Paul Bain, presenting the awards, called Somerville “the man with the magic wand ... standing out on a limb waving his wand and making magical things happen.” He played a key role in funding Project WeHOPE’s “Dignity on Wheels” van to provide showers and facilities for homeless people — now being emulated elsewhere. But in addition to the major awards, there were six individuals, a business and an organization recognized by Project WeHOPE Associate Director Alicia Garcia. The individuals included two youngsters: 14-year-old Kara Reiss and 11-year-old Ben LeRoy, both recognized with a “Young Ambassador Award.” Reiss proposed and spearheaded a WeHOPE project last year to create a kennel for
the dogs of homeless people — a reason some homeless decline to go to shelters. The kennel is due to open soon. LeRoy, nicknamed “Blessing Ben,” raises money on his own to buy gift cards and bus passes that he gives to homeless people with inspirational notes that he writes — his own idea. Other individual awards went to: Q Porsche Bunton, a community worker for San Mateo County who helps homeless people use Word and Excel to create resumes and seek jobs, received an “Advocate for the Underserved” award. Q Ali Shirkhani, also a county employee working in the Center for Homelessness division, where he is a “beacon of hope and support” for homeless clients, received a “Heart for the Homeless” award. Q Keicy Fleming, affiliate with the Santa Clara County HomeFirst agency, also received a “Heart for the Homeless” award for working “tirelessly and enthusiastically to help the homeless.” Q Karen Gitter, an ambassador for Whole Foods and the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution who volunteers for the Second Harvest Food Bank, received an “Education” award. IKEA of East Palo Alto received an “Outstanding Employer” award for hiring WeHOPE clients and helping them stabilize their lives. And an “Above and Beyond Partner Award” went to Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center for working with WeHOPE for teaching clients basic financial-management skills. Margaret Mead would be impressed. Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well.com. He also writes periodic blogs on PaloAlto Online.com.
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What old or now outdated item do you still enjoy having around? Asked Town & Country Village. Interviews and photos by Chrissi Angeles, Muna Sadek and Sam Sciolla.
Christine Ricks
Mike Menz
Astrid Maier
Jovy Brooks
Richard Roberson
Avy Avenue, Menlo Park Patent assistant
Emalita Court, San Bruno Scientist
Forest Avenue, Palo Alto Journalist
Willow Road, Menlo Park Software developer
Encina Avenue, Palo Alto Sales representative
“A pressure cooker. I enjoy having it around because it reminds me of past home cooked meals. It’s just timeless for me.”
“Although I have a Kindle and I read electronically, I actually prefer to read a physical books, papers. ... I actually feel like I remember it better.”
“Vinyl. Because the quality is better than digital files. ... And it’s much nicer to hold. ... The covers look nice.”
“I like old wine openers as opposed to the new ones because the new ones are just too overengineered.”
“I like my old CD player ... even though I can do it on my iPod. ... I have 180 CDs.”
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David P. Discher
A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Elizabeth Schwyzer
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n attorney, a seismologist and a lactation consultant, teachers and nurses, life coaches and college counselors, Costco employees and hotel event planners. They may not have a lot in common professionally, but there’s one place where they form a tight alliance. That place is the roller rink.
Peninsula Roller Girls practice the art, sport of roller derby by Elizabeth Schwyzer
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Top: Damas de los Muertos players take a lap around the track together during a home game. Above: San Mateo attorney Jennifer Emmaneel, aka Claw Breakher, talks strategy with her team. Page 20 • October 30, 2015 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
Tall and short, petite and heavy, ranging in age from their 20s to their 50s, the Peninsula Roller Girls may not look at first like the most cohesive team. That is, until they don their skates, knee pads and helmets and get ready to jam. This Monday, Nov. 2, the Peninsula Roller Girls hold open tryouts at their home rink in Redwood City. They’re looking to induct newcomers (“fresh meat” is the insiders’ term) to their sport: a discipline that welcomes women from all walks of life, that trains them in strength and agility, strategy and teamwork, that leaves its loyal participants bruised and battered but also elated, empowered, fiercely determined and ready for more. No longer the staged, theatrical form of entertainment it was when Leo Seltzer first popularized roller derby in the 1930s and ’40s, 21st-century roller derby is a legitimate competitive sport, and one with unique roots as an all-female event. At its most elite end are teams like New York’s Gotham Girls Roller Derby, Portland’s Rose City Rollers and the U.K.’s London Rollergirls who duke it out at annual championship bouts (for the first time this year, ESPN3 will broadcast the final day of the International WFTDA Championships, to be held in Saint Paul,
Minnesota, on Sunday, Nov. 8). At the same time as the sport has shifted the emphasis to serious athleticism, most modern teams retain some aspect of roller derby’s spectatororiented roots, whether by applying makeup before a big bout or going by special derby names. Since its foundation in 2011, Peninsula Roller Girls has gained national recognition by the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, or WFTDA. It’s one of a handful of Bay Area leagues — among the others are the Oakland-based B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls and San Jose’s Silicon Valley Roller Girls — and it’s one of the only leagues the region that holds its practices at an official indoor roller rink; the charmingly dated Redwood Roller Rink dates back to the 1950s. It’s also the closest league to Palo Alto; a number of PRG skaters and officials live or work in the city. Other participants commute from as far away as Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose just to be part of the league. Board president Megan Stanton, whose derby name is Sinnabar or Sinna (“for my red hair and also a nod to my work as a seismologist”), has been with the Peninsula Roller Girls since its early days. Like many of her teammates, she’s a working mother who
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Damas de los Muertos player Sheracuda, right, is a 43-year-old lactation consultant who credits roller derby with building her strength and making her proud of her body. still finds time to train three times a week, travel for out-of-town bouts and serve on committees for the league: a nonprofit corporation run entirely by volunteers. Like most of the women in the league, she had no background in either skating or contact sports when she got started. “We moved to the Bay Area and I didn’t know anybody; I needed to meet people,”
she recalled, remembering that she found the newly formed league through an alternative mothers group online. Now a member of the league’s travel team which is made up of the most experienced players, Sinna said, “I probably looked terrible my first few years. I was a little overweight at the time. I was Bambi on skates. But I really liked it.” PRG is comprised of two home teams — Damas de Los Muertos and the Psycopathogens — who play each other at home games. The travel team is comprised of the top players from both teams. More recently, PRG has also launched a junior league and is actively recruiting younger players, particularly teenage girls. The basic structure of a roller derby bout consists of two teams of 14 women who each engaging in one hour of competition. The bout is divided into two 30-minute halves, each of which is divided into 2-minute jams in which five women from each team compete. The goal is to get one women from each team — the designated “jammer” — to break through the opposing team’s line of “blockers” and skate ahead. For each member of the opposing team she passes, the jammer earns one point. Because the game consists of blocking jammers as they push against opponents in an effort to break through the wall, roller derby is a full contact sport, and injuries are common. All leagues are required to have emergency medical technicians on hand at public bouts, and even home games must be attended by those with up-to-date certification in CPR and first aid. Though it can be a fairly brutal game, roller derby bouts are also kid-friendly; supportive partners often bring their children to watch mom duke it out on the track.
The basic play of roller derby doesn’t sound too complicated, but in practice (and for spectators new to the sport), it’s far from simple. Sinna said it takes months for the rules and strategies of the game to make sense. That’s why PRG offers a boot camp for new players. Inductees can zoom through the course and earn their certification, or repeat it for many months, as some do, until they feel ready to move ahead. One of the things PRG members pride themselves on is the league’s inclusivity and welcoming nature no matter a new player’s skill level. Jennifer Emmaneel, aka Claw Breakher, is an attorney who joined the league three years ago and spent the entire first year learning the basics before she began competing. “I had zero experience in any sport,” the 40-year-old announced. “I grew up chunky and pretty much accepted that I would never be an athlete.” Yet when a friend convinced her to check out the league, she found herself excited about playing a sport for the first time. She attributes that change to the attitude of the women she met. “Nobody excluded me,” she remembered. “Even though I was self-conscious, nobody ever discouraged me. “Whenever I felt I couldn’t do it, somebody grabbed me and yanked me back onto the track.” Claw Breakher’s friend Sheridan Ross, derby name Sheracuda, is a 43-year-old lactation consultant. Though she has been skating since she was 6 years old, she knew next to nothing about roller derby two years ago when she came to her niece’s birthday party at the rink, saw a flier for the league, and signed up on the spot.
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The Peninsula Roller Girls’ two home teams — Damas de Los Muertos and Psychopathogens — battle it out on the track. “When I first joined, I thought, ‘I’m not going to tell anyone here what I do for work; they’re probably all thugs,” she remembered. Now the coach of the junior derby team and a member of the training committee, Sheracuda has little patience for the lingering reputation of roller derby as a scripted entertainment, a la World (continued on next page)
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Wrestling Federation. “Some people still think we’re pulling hair and knocking out teeth, but it’s like, ‘No, you get a penalty for fighting,’” she said. “These bruises are real. This sprained ankle is real. We work really hard and we don’t screw around.” Referring to her husband as a “derby widow,” Sheracuda said they recently went on vacation to Victoria, Canada, where the first thing she did on arrival was look up the local roller derby team and go meet the players, much to her husband’s chagrin. “The international derby community is amazing,” she noted. Out on the track, Sheracuda coaches a small group of women on blocking technique. Kitted out in a mouth guard, elbow and knee pads, a helmet and skates, she looks like she means business. Other players sport biceps and shoulders covered in tattoos; a few wear short shorts over tights, but most sport athletic leggings. Three and four at a time, they skate forward to practice a new blocking technique, pushing their torsos tightly against each other, their skates dancing beneath them as they attempt to keep the pressure of the wall steady. Eventually, the pressure breaks them apart and they scatter, laughing, then regroup to try again. Against a landscape where most sports begin as male pursuits with
female participation as an afterthought — baseball and softball, soccer and women’s soccer, football and powderpuff football — roller derby remains decisively a women’s sport first, with “men’s roller derby” only recently gaining traction. It’s clear the women of Peninsula Roller Girls find it empowering to be part of a sport that celebrates their particular gifts and strengths as women, a sport that pushes them to develop their innate power, their competitive and playful spirit, their technical ability and their strategic skill. For Sheracuda, roller derby has been even more: It’s the first place she has ever felt proud of her body. “For the first time in 43 years, I love that I am so f---ing strong,” she said. “I’m never going to be a size 6. I’m a strong size 16, and I’m OK with that.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com. What: Peninsula Roller Girls tryouts Where: Redwood Roller Rink, 1303 Main St., Redwood City When: Monday, Nov. 2, 8:3010:15 p.m. (arrive by 8 p.m.) Cost: Free Info: Go to peninsularollergirls.org or goo.gl/pCvaSR, or email info@ peninsularollergirls.org.
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In “Samudra Manthan,” Mohini the enchantress offers the nectar of immortality to a demon who has disguised himself as a god.
Demigods and demons Classical Indian dance company to perform operatic ballet by Karla Kane
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ealous gods, greedy demons, flirtatious romances, fiery battles, magic powers and fabled elixirs: All this drama, music and more is featured in in “Samudra Manthan: Churning of the Milky Ocean,” a classical Indian operatic ballet presented this Sunday, Nov. 1, in Woodside by Peninsula-based Vishwa Shanthi Performing Arts. “Samudra Manthan” translates from Sanskrit as “churning of the ocean” and is a well-known story in Hindu mythology. It tells an intricate tale of demigods and their nemeses, the demons, who wrestle for control over the universe. The foes must form an uneasy alliance with each other in order to churn up the cosmic ocean in search of the Nectar of Immortality. Many treasures are discovered in that wondrous milky sea, and the ensuing competition over access to them ensures yet more drama and epic adventures. The show is choreographed in the style of Bharatanatyam, an ancient Indian dance traditionally performed in the Hindu temples of the Tamil Nadu state. The art form is said to have divine origins, with the god Shiva and his consort the goddess Parvati handing it down to a sage, Bharata, who then shared it with the people as a way to express and celebrate the glories of the gods and goddesses. Bharatanatyam choreography is a very precise blend of dance and acting, with vibrantly costumed and bejeweled performers utilizing dramatic facial expressions, rhythmic foot movements, graceful wrist and hand gestures and stylized, sculpture-like poses. “For millennia, dance was performed in temples as a form of worship,” explained Vishwa Shanthi’s artistic director, Shreelata Suresh. “It served to elevate and give form to the spiritual
emotions of temple audiences.” While Bharatanatyam originally evolved as a visual aid to interpreting the sacred Vedic scriptures, it has now developed into an internationally popular form of secular entertainment and even as a medium for commenting on modern social issues, she said.
‘For millennia, dance was performed in temples as a form of worship ... It served to elevate and give form to the spiritual emotions of temple audiences.’ —Shreelata Suresh, Artistic Director, Vishwa Shanthi Performing Arts Vishwa Shanthi’s “Samudra Manthan,” while deeply rooted in the ancient texts, is designed to be enjoyed and appreciated by audiences of all ages and cultural backgrounds. “The beauty of the dance-drama is that one does not need to know the intricacies of the dance form,” she said. The colorful visuals, enchanting rhythms and magical story appeal to children, she said, and each episode is preceded by an explanatory slide written in English to aid audience members less familiar with the tale. While Bharatanatyam dances are often solos, with the principal dancer taking on a number of different characters through changes in facial expression and body language, Vishwa Shanthi’s show boasts a cast of 35 (including Suresh, who also choreographed it), drawn from local communities. The script was
written and composed by Chennaibased poet PR Venkatasubramanian and is sung by Guru V Krishnamoorthi. “Samudra Manthan” is one of several productions in the repertoire of the San Mateo-based Vishwa Shanthi, which also offers dance instruction for all ages and has as its mission to present fresh, accessible interpretations based in tradition. “Vishwa Shanthi means ‘universal peace,’ and we seek to promote peace through dance, yoga and allied arts,” Suresh said. “So while keeping the spiritual core, we encourage the broad appeal and performance of Bharatanatyam in the modern world.” Fifty percent of proceeds from ticket sales at the Nov. 1 production will go to World Arts West, a San Francisco nonprofit that promotes diversity in the arts and connects a number of Northern California dance companies representing a wide variety of international dance forms. And with Vishwa Shanthi’s “Samudra Manthan,” the cultural immersion doesn’t just stop with the performance itself. “There will be Indian food, arts and crafts also, so that you enjoy a full Indian experience,” she said. “The audience will see Indian mythology come alive.” Q Freelance writer Karla Kane can be emailed at karlajkane@ gmail.com. What: “Samudra Manthan: Churning of the Milk Ocean” Where: Woodside Theater, 199 Churchill Ave., Woodside When: Sun., Nov. 1, noon and 4 p.m. Cost: $10-$50 Info: Go to goo.gl/9424Fv or call 650-248-3269.
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Community Race against PH Pulmonary hypertension — a rare lung disorder — affects people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds. This Sunday, Nov. 1, Stanford University hosts the annual Race against PH, a 5K fun run and walk to raise awareness of the disease and funding for medical research. The race starts at 9 a.m. at Pac 12 Plaza, Galvez St. and Nelson Road. Registration is $15-$35. Go to goo.gl/BcZYaR or call 800640-9255.
Books ‘The Secret Chord’
Bel Air Films
It’s no secret: On Monday, Nov. 2, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks will appear at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, to discuss her new novel, “The Secret Chord,” which centers on the life of King David. Her talk begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10-$40. Go to goo.gl/FYuqQv or call 650-3244321.
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What’s better than stimulating art and conversation? Art, conversation and caffeine, of course. On Thursday, Nov. 5, at 11 a.m., environmentalist and educator Will Travis will give a free talk at the Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, about climate
From India to Pakistan to Sri Lanka, the San Francisco South Asian Film Festival presented by 3rd i brings movies from South Asia and the diaspora to Palo Alto’s CineArts Theatre, 3000 El Camino Real, on Sunday, Nov. 1. Don’t just think Bollywood; the festival incorporates everything from cult classics and independent art-house films to documentaries and features. Among the selections playing in Palo Alto this year are “A Thin Wall,” a documentary about the 1947 partition of India and subsequent violence and displacement, and “Jai Ho,” which takes a look at the musician A.R.Rahman, the so-called “Mozart of Madras” who composed the soundtrack to “Slumdog Millionaire.” Film screenings begin at noon. Tickets are $10 per film, or $38 for all four films (available online only). For tickets go to goo.gl/oL16bX. For more information, go to thirdi.org.
Above: Among the films playing at the San Francisco South Asian Film Festival in Palo Alto is “Petals In the Dust: The Endangered Indian Girls.”
change and sea-level rise in the Bay Area. Peet’s Coffee & Tea will be served. Go to goo.gl/if4RHE or call 650-329-2366.
Crafts Basket sale This Sunday, Nov. 1, head to Palo Alto’s United Nations Gift Shop at 552 Emerson St. for a great selection of handmade baskets in time for the holiday season. Among the handmade, fair-trade baskets for sale are Namibian palm, Zulu wire and Swazi sisal baskets as well as those made by the Wounaan tribe in Panama. The sale runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Go to unamidpen.org or call 650-326-3170.
Design Bike rack design competition Love bicycles? Got a flair for design? The city of Los Altos is seeking imaginative entries for its bike rack design competition. The deadline is Monday, Nov. 23, and racks will be installed by mid-May 2016, in time for National Bike to Work Week. Go to goo.gl/mxx2lO or call 650-947-2720. Q
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Eating Out
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a menu that is not meant to be modified.” The FAQ also explains the notable absence of add-ons like soy sauce, wasabi or ginger: Each sushi burrito already comes with its own “unique sauce and taste profile” so that these “traditional condiments are not needed.” The restaurant is also very much geared toward quick eating. Each Sushirrito is served in a cardboard take-out box. For those who opt to wait in long lines for food, the perennial question is: Is it worth it? At Sushirrito Palo Alto, I would say no. Skip the lunch-time rush hour by going before noon or after 1 p.m. But, if you’re like me, a taste of Sushirrito might just leave you craving a genuine sushi roll — or an authentic burrito. Q
PALO ALTO’S SUSHIRRITO DRAWS CROWDS WITH SUSHI-BURRITO HYBRIDS
by Elena Kadvany / photos by Veronica Weber
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n San Francisco, waiting in a long line to eat a coveted meal is almost a rite of passage. In suburban Palo Alto, not so much. Lines down the block do sprout up occasionally — on hot nights at downtown ice cream sandwich shop CREAM, for example. And on the same block of University Avenue almost every weekday at lunchtime, you’ll see a line for Sushirrito. A small Bay Area chain that serves sushi in burrito form, Sushirrito is the epitome of trendy food: fast, casual, made-to-order fusion food with ingredients like “wasabi dust” and “teri-mayonesa.” The company claims to offer the world’s first sushi-burrito hybrid. For those who can’t fathom what a sushi-burrito might look like, think of a burrito-sized sushi roll with seaweed wrap instead of tortilla, sushi rice instead of regular rice and Asian-fusion fillings like ahi tuna, agave-soy salmon, pork belly and Sriracha aioli. The downtown Palo Alto restaurant, Sushirrito’s first outside of San Francisco, opened in January on what might be the trendiest block of University Avenue, between Umami Burger and Chantal Guillon, with CREAM, Lululemon and Blue Bottle Coffee as neighbors. Sushirrito owner Peter Yen came up with the concept (and trademarked it) in 2008 when he was a downtown San Francisco worker who craved sushi that wasn’t expensive or time-consuming to eat, but was still high quality. Three years later, Yen teamed with Ty Mahler, formerly executive chef at Roy’s Hawaiian Fusion in San Francisco, to open the first Sushirrito. They soon opened two more nearby in San Francisco, and Sushirrito laid claim to the 448 University Ave. space several months after Sabrosa Taqueria shuttered last April. The Palo Alto Sushirrito, open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., immediately attracted a following — so much so that the restaurant puts out a retractable line divider (like those at airports) for the inevitable queue. On a recent weekday around noon, the line stretched from the register up to but not quite out the
door. Twenty minutes later, more than half a dozen people were standing outside. The menu is relatively small, with eight sushi-burrito choices, one salad and one side (Asian-fusion nachos with spicy tuna, ginger guacamole, green onions, nori and melted pepper jack cheese). Pick up a laminated menu to scrutinize while you wait in line, which moves pretty quickly through the modern, minimalist restaurant. As you approach the counter, employees can be seen behind a glass wall hand-rolling each sushi-burrito down an assembly line. I had heard rave reviews of the signature “Geisha’s Kiss” ($12) — yellowfin tuna, tamago omelet, piquillo peppers, lotus root chips, cucumber, lettuce, ginger guacamole, yuzu tobiko (flying fish roe) and sesame soy sauce — but it fell flat. The proportions of rice, sauce and fillings were just right, but the piquillo peppers, thick and red, were a mismatch with the chunks of fresh yellowfin tuna. Proportions are huge: think the size of a real burrito. Sushirritos come cut in half. All fish served at Sushirrito is sourced from Royal Hawaiian Seafood, which focuses on responsibly produced fresh and live seafood. All fish is delivered and cut daily, according to the restaurant’s website. The winner was the “Mayan Dragon” — chicken katsu (fried cutlet), potatoes, julienne carrots, pickled red cabbage, ginger guacamole and shaved jalapenos in a rich, flavorful Japanese curry sauce ($9). The chicken katsu was crispy, and the thick curry sauce contrasted in a ying-yang kind of way with the fresh, crunchy veggies. As a veggie-lover but non-vegetarian, I thought I’d give Sushirrito’s only vegetarian option a try. The “Buddha Belly” comes with spicy Japanese eggplant, portobello mushroom fries, shaved cabbage, carrots, ginger guacamole, kale and roasted garlic tofu sauce ($9). It was incredibly over-salted to my taste, with little complexity of flavors, but my bona fide vegetarian co-worker was head over heels about it. For carnivores, there’s also the
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Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@paweekly.com. Sushirrito, 448 University Ave., Palo Alto; sushirrito.com; 650600-9696
The Geisha’s Kiss at Sushirrito incorporates yellowfin tuna, tamago omelet, piquillo peppers, lotus root chips, cucumber, lettuce, ginger guacamole, yuzu tobiko (flying fish roe) and sesame soy sauce. “Porkivore” with oven-roasted substitutions or modifications, pork belly, and the “Caballero” which is unfortunate. An FAQ list with sake-asada beef. The most at the restaurant includes the anbasic sushi burrito, the “Satori” swer to the question: “Why can’t I — kanpachi yellowtail, cucumber, customize or make my own?” The answer: “Sushirrito is a pickled red onion, sweet corn, red tobiko, avocado and wasabi mayo chef-driven restaurant concept. We want to share a particular culinary — might be closest to true sushi. Sushir rito allows no experience with you by designing
ShopTalk by Daryl Savage
BIRD DOG IS BORN ... A conversation with Chef Robbie Wilson about his new downtown Palo Alto restaurant leaves the listener exhilarated. Wilson’s enthusiasm is palpable for Bird Dog at 420 Ramona St. Taking over the former site of Mandarin Gourmet, which closed a year ago, Wilson and his crew have transformed the old Chinese restaurant into a work of art. From the white marble podium that greets diners at the front entrance to the clean lines of the cork and white oak floors, the feeling is one of simple elegance, a look that fits the restaurant’s focus on fresh, contemporary American cuisine. “We practically gutted the whole place. All we kept was the east wall and the west wall,” Wilson said. Keeping an ear out for acoustics, they “chose specific materials to control the noise fac-
tor,” he added. “We want people to be able to talk to each other comfortably. And we made sure there is plenty of room between the tables.” Wilson noted there is nothing pretentious about the restaurant. “We’re not using fancy stemware, there will be no linen on the tables — just good, delicious food that is locally-sourced.” The chef was quick to point out a few whimsical aspects to Bird Dog. For example, the audio from Julia Childs’ old black-and-white TV show, “The French Chef,” will be playing in the restrooms. “Julia Childs was an inspiration to me,” Wilson said, adding, “We’re not taking ourselves too seriously.” For example, in the lounge, a large ceramic squirrel emerges from white bowls of bar mix containing marcona almonds and pistachios. And colorful, wooden, life-sized
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birds in various stages of flight are positioned throughout the restaurant. A Dallas, Texas native and now a Menlo Park resident, Wilson said he has lived in every major city. So why Palo Alto for his newest venture? “I’m inspired by all the innovation around here,” he said. “I love to feel and watch the buzz. It’s a good catalyst.” Wilson is partnering with his wife, Emily, along with a couple of investors, and expects that he or Emily will be at Bird Dog almost daily. “But I do need a break. We’ve got a 15-month-old son,” he said. Scheduled to go live next month, the restaurant will be open seven days a week for dinner only. “We have a small staff and we don’t want to be doing too much too soon,” he said. Wilson wouldn’t reveal the exact dollar amount spent on the massive redo, but acknowledged, “It’s more than a million and less than five million.” That’s quite a range.
Got leads on interesting and news-worthy retail developments? Daryl Savage will check them out. Email shoptalk@paweekly.com.
OPENINGS
Element Pictures
“Room” centers on the lives of Ma (Brie Larson) and her son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who are imprisoned by her kidnapper and rapist.
Inside-out ‘Room’ gets into psychology of captivity 000 1/2 (Guild) As per Plato’s “allegory of the cave,” perception can be a prison or an escape. In her novel, “Room,”
Emma Donoghue refashioned Plato’s allegory as a story of a boy born into captivity who knows
nothing better or worse until, inevitably, the scales fall from his eyes. Now, Donoghue has adapted her novel into a screenplay, the new medium allowing for a powerful dramatic treatment of differing perceptions, co-dependence and unconditional love. “Room” opens seven years into the captivity of “Ma” (Brie Larson), who was kidnapped as a teenager and shut into a domestic prison by a deranged rapist she calls “Old Nick” (Sean Bridgers). Two years into her indefinite prison sentence, Old Nick impregnated his captive, giving Ma a companion in Jack. Now 5 years old, Jack (Jacob Tremblay) understands only what his mother has told him about his existence: that their cramped hovel, aka “Room,” is the world entire. As the Victorian novelist Samuel Butler once wrote, “Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances,” and indeed, Jack sees his tiny universe in fabulist terms, no doubt inspired by “Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland,” the cruelly apt centerpiece of blonde wanderer Ma’s limited library. When Old Nick punches a code and walks through the door every night, fiercely protective Ma banishes Jack to a wardrobe, where his view through slats becomes yet more limited, and he counts the thrusts of sexual assault instead of sheep. Pushed to what we can only assume is a new, and not her first, breaking point, Ma sets her sights on escape and thus begins, as gently as she can, to clue Jack into reality. Scared and chastened, Jack argues, “I want a different story!” “No!” Ma replies. “This is the story that you get!” Though few can know the extremity of this specific situation and the extent to which it frays nerves, many can relate to an unhappy reality and a powerful yearning to transcend it. Director Lenny Abrahamson does a fine job of cradling this delicate story and its inherent intensity rather than squeezing it for every ounce of exploit-
ative emotion. The understated approach allows “Room” to be, above all, a performance piece for its remarkable central duo. Larson doesn’t neglect, or overplay, a single emotional beat, while Tremblay channels not only the obvious childhood essentials of curiosity and mood swings, but also the less obvious ones of philosophical searching and raw emotional depth. Together, they make the most potent pairing on screen this year. “Room” raises fascinating existential questions about the worlds we create and choose to believe in, while also examining how children process trauma. “Room” is hardly perfect, with its insistence on a child’s ability to bounce back belying a larger truth of post-traumatic life, but try to overlook it. For two hours, Larson and Tremblay make their struggles our struggles, Ma and Jack’s perceptions challenging our own. Rated R for language. One hour, 58 minutes. — Peter Canavese
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Movies
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Robert Redford plays veteran CBS news anchor Dan Rather in “Truth.”
‘Truth’ and consequences Newsroom drama revives ‘Rathergate’ 000 (Aquarius) The aphorism known as “Hanlon’s Razor” goes something like this: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.” The saying might well map the territory in which the new dramatic film, “Truth,” kicks around as it examines the prismatic circumstances of the CBS News scandal eventually
dubbed “Rathergate.” Writer-director James Vanderbilt (“Zodiac”) adapts journalist and news producer Mary Mapes’ memoir, “Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power.” Naturally, then, the film’s sympathies lie with two-time Emmy winner Mapes (Cate Blanchett) and with legendary CBS News anchor Dan Rather
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(Robert Redford, icon as icon). Both journalists lost their jobs and, in many eyes, their credibility as journalists in the wake of a bobbled “60 Minutes Wednesday” piece on George W. Bush’s stint in the Texas Army National Guard. Covering a one-year period beginning in 2004, “Truth” tracks the investigation and circumstances leading to the piece’s airing, the swift blowback challenging the authenticity of memos framed as smoking guns (Stacy Keach excels as the memos’ slippery source), and the subsequent internal judgments leading to Mapes’ ouster and Rather’s resignation. Mapes’ team of investigators includes Lt. Colonel Roger Charles (Dennis Quaid), who earlier helped her break the Abu Ghraib story, and archetypal journos Mike Smith (Topher Grace) and Lucy Scott (Elisabeth Moss, conspicuously overqualified for her small role). Vanderbilt employs all the cliches of the behind-the-TV-news genre, but also convincingly portrays how the sausage gets made and subjected to scrutiny from without and within the CBS News division, overseen by President Andrew Heyward (Bruce Greenwood). “Truth” argues that while the memos in question may have been authentic, as Mapes and Rather continue to maintain they were, their veracity was somewhat beside the point, tragically distracting from a larger truth that held the potential to change the outcome of the 2004 election. As such, Vanderbilt also holds to account Republican efforts to command the conversation. Unavoidably, the film projects a liberal leaning as it lionizes Rather and lionesses Mapes, positioning the former as the latter’s benign, even heroic father figure in contrast to her abusive biological father (Blanchett’s finest moment here comes in a scene laying out the emotional cost of Mapes asking her father to stop speaking out against her publicly). Though the at-times clunky “Truth” cannot pretend to be free of its own leanings, Vanderbilt allows a reading of Mapes’ tragic errors while painting a melancholy picture of TV-news’ slow, painful descent from holder of the public trust into a modern corporate product. “I was there,” Redford’s Rather reports ruefully, “the day they figured out the news could make money.” Rated R for language and a brief nude photo. Two hours, 1 minute. — Peter Canavese
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MOVIE TIMES All showtimes are for Friday to Sunday only unless otherwise noted. For other times, reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. Bridge of Spies (PG-13) Century 16: 9:20 a.m., 12:40, 4, 7:20 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 11:20 a.m., 1, 2:40, 4:20, 6, 7:40 & 9:20 p.m. Burnt (R) Century 20: 11:25 a.m., 2, 4:40, 7:35 & 10:10 p.m. Palo Alto Square: 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 & 9:45 p.m., Sat 11:15 a.m. Crimson Peak (R) Century 16: 10 a.m., 1, 4:10, 7:30 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 2, 5, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m. Goosebumps (PG) Century 16: 9 & 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m. In 3-D at 10:25 a.m., 1:05, 3:50, 7 & 9:35 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 1:25, 4, 6:45 & 9:25 p.m. In 3-D at 11:55 a.m., 2:40, 5:20, 8 & 10:35 p.m. He Named Me Malala (PG-13) ++1/2
Century 20: 11:25 a.m.
Hotel Transylvania 2 (PG) Century 16: 9:15 & 11:35 a.m., 2, 4:20, 7:05 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:30 a.m., 1:55, 4:15, 7 & 9:30 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:45, 4:35, 7:30 & 10:25 p.m.
The Intern (PG-13) ++
Jem and the Holograms (PG) Century 16: 10:05 a.m., 3:55 & 9:50 p.m. Century 20: 4:25 & 10 p.m., Fri & Sun 10:55 a.m. Kanche (Not Rated)
Century 16: 9:30 a.m., 12:35, 7:35 & 10:40 p.m.
Labyrinth of Lies (R)
Palo Alto Square: Fri & Sat 4, 7 & 9:50 p.m., Fri 1 p.m.
The Last Witch Hunter (PG-13) Century 16: 9:10 & 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 5:20, 8 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:50, 4:30, 7:10 & 9:50 p.m. The Martian (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 9:05 a.m., 12:20, 3:40, 7:05 & 10:30 p.m. In 3-D at 10:10 & 11:20 a.m., 1:30, 2:40, 4:45, 5:55, 8:05 & 9:10 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:20 p.m. Century 20: 1:30, 4:45 & 8:05 p.m. In 3-D at 11:30 a.m., 2:45, 6 & 9:15 p.m. In X-D 3-D at 12:40, 3:55, 7:10 & 10:20 p.m. In D-BOX at 1:30, 4:45 & 8:05 p.m. In 3-D D-BOX at 11:30 a.m., 2:45, 6 & 9:15 p.m. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (PG-13) Meet the Patels (PG) +++
Century 20: 6:45 & 9:55 p.m.
Aquarius Theatre: 2:45, 5:15, 7:30 & 9:40 p.m.
MET Opera: Tannhauser (Not Rated) Century 16: Sat 9 a.m. Century 20: Sat 9 a.m. Palo Alto Square: Sat 9 a.m. My Fair Lady (1964) (Not Rated) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m. Century 20: Sun 2 p.m. National Theatre: Hamlet (Not Rated)
Guild Theatre: Sun 11 a.m. (sold out)
Once I Was a Beehive (PG) Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:55, 4:45, 7:40 & 10:30 p.m. Our Brand is Crisis (R) Century 16: 9 & 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:20, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:30 p.m. Pan (PG)
Century 20: Fri & Sat noon & 3 p.m., Sun 11:20 a.m.
Rock the Kasbah (R) Century 16: 1:10 & 7:10 p.m. Room (R) +++1/2
Century 20: 7:15 p.m., Fri & Sun 1:45 p.m.
Guild Theatre: 2:30, 5, 7:30 & 10:10 p.m.
Shaandaar (Not Rated)
Century 16: 3:45 p.m.
Sicario (R) Century 16: 10:15 a.m., 1:15, 4:15, 7:25 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 2:10, 5:05, 7:55 & 10:45 p.m. South Pacific (1958) (Not Rated)
Stanford Theatre: 7:30 p.m., Sun 3 p.m.
Steve Jobs (R) ++ Century 16: 10 & 11 a.m., 1:05, 3:05, 4:05, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15 & 10:15 p.m. Fri & Sun 9 a.m. & 12:05 p.m. Fri & Sat 2:05, 5:05 & 11:15 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m., 12:25, 1:55, 3:25, 4:55, 6:25, 7:50, 9:25 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 12:55, 4, 7 & 10 p.m.
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Palo Alto nonprofit is helping Assyrian Iraqi refugees find a home in the U.S. photos by Veronica Weber / story by Sue Dremann argaret Petros prayed in St. Mary’s Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Church in Campbell, a lace scarf covering her head. Light through the stained glass windows — rose, turquoise and amber rays — fell on her shoulders as rituals dating back to the earliest days of Christianity were spoken in ancient Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ. She listened as Father Michael Barota sang in the undulating, melismatic melody so commonly associated with the Near and Middle East. Some of the hymns are as old as 1,700 years. The deacon read from the book of Isaiah: “Comfort my people. The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God will stand forever.” “Nishqlun ture shlam l-ammakh.” “The mountains carry peace to your people.” St. Mary’s has come to be that mountain of peace for Petros and other immigrant Assyrians, the indigenous people of Iraq whose culture and history dates back 7,000 years. After millennia of living in northern Iraq and Iran, they are now fleeing from persecution because of their faith and ethnicity. The Islamic State group (ISIS) is driving out by the millions the Assyrians and other indigenous peoples of Iraq and Syria: the Chaldeans, Syriacs and Yazidis. Some have ended up in the Bay Area, where they hope to find refuge. Petros, executive director of Palo Alto-based nonprofit Mothers Against Murder (MAM), and a small group that includes an attorney, a therapist and church leaders are helping a handful of Assyrian Christian refugees obtain asylum in the United States. Returning to their homeland would mean death, advocates and refugees said. The work they are doing is an
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extension of Mothers Against Murder’s mission to help victims and witnesses of violent crime, said Roger Smith, a Palo Alto philanthropist and the retired head of Silicon Valley Bank. He started MAM in 2003 when he saw the justice system dragging out the prosecution of murder cases. He hired Petros, a Los Altos resident, in 2009 to run the victim-advocacy group after hearing of her determination and effectiveness from the former director of Santa Clara County’s Victim Witness Assistance Center, Joe Yomtov. Petros had spent 20 years with the center working on victims’ and victim families’ rights. “She has a huge heart. She’s just passionate about this, and she takes each case so personally,” Smith said. Petros came to Smith with stories about the plight of the Assyrian refugees: the 12-year-old girl
who froze to death in the mountains after being forced from her family home; the boys who were murdered by the Islamic State group because they watched a soccer match on TV. “Where this ties together with MAM is that all of these cases try to get help from the system,” Smith said. That system often turns its back on the victim witnesses and families, he said. In both domestic murder and asylum cases, people are dealing with trauma and the threat, or reality, of death at the hands of another. Many of the victims of murder and asylum come from similar backgrounds where English is not their primary language or they might not speak English at all, he said. “They are coming in from systems where the bureaucracy is a bigger hurdle than in this country, and they don’t know what to do.
Margaret helps these people to try to establish themselves in our great country,” he said. o date, Mothers Against Murder has helped 12 Assyrian Christian families — 29 adults and 26 children, Petros said. Herself an Assyrian Christian refugee, Petros experienced persecution in Iraq and fled to the U.S. with her family in 1980 when she was 15. “I lived in a town that was 95 percent Christian. My first and best friend was Muslim. We were inseparable. As children, you don’t know any different. I remember her mom was a teacher. She made sure at the beginning of the school year that we sat together,” she recalled. But as the Muslim population increased, so did the animosity. She remembered the garbage man
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Above: Parishioners of St. Mary’s Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Church in Campbell sing hymns during Sunday mass on Oct. 18. Top: Margaret Petros, left, executive director of the Palo Alto nonprofit Mothers Against Murder, listens to Shoshan (not her real name) during an interview with the Palo Alto Weekly on Nov. 10. Shoshan, an Assyrian Christian, has become separated from her family, who have taken refuge in Kurdistan. Petros helped her apply for asylum in the United States.
who called her mother a foreigner; the vice principal who called the Christian students bad names. Christian and Muslim students initially received religious instruction separately during religious class, but one day the school stopped Christian studies, she said. “We were allowed to go out in the playground while the Muslims studied. But then they said we made too much noise and had to stay in the classroom as observers. The year we left, they handed us the Koran to have to study, and that’s when my father said it was time to leave,” she said. Her parents secretly sold their home, and then fled to Jordan in October 1979 because they could not get an immigration visa to the U.S. directly from Iraq. But a paternal uncle living in the U.S. petitioned for the family. They spent two years in Skokie, Illinois, before the harsh winters drove them to California, she said. Their experiences pale in comparison to what is happening now, she said. Friends who are exiled in Greece say they are seeing bodies wash ashore every day — “hundreds of bodies,” Petros said. And since 2003, every church she had visited was bombed. “My own church that I was baptized in was bombed,” she said. Then the Islamic State group invaded Mosul in June 2014 and took over a 1,600-year-old church, the first and oldest in Mosul. “It was devastating to hear the news of ISIS overtaking Mosul. I knew it was over for all the Christians. It turned out to be worse than I ever believed for all the minority people. I was frustrated, feeling helpless while watching the beheadings, tortures, kidnappings, rapes and the other horrific brutalities the world witnessed, until the call came to me to help (continued on next page)
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Martin Franso, far left, Anoeil Arakis, second from left, and other members of St. Mary’s Assyrian Chaldean Church join hands and dance the traditional “Khigga” dance of the Assyrian people while singer Salim Lazar and his band play during the church’s annual celebration in Milpitas on Oct. 2.
Who are the Assyrians? Ancient people of the Near East now struggle with exile after seven millennia in their homeland he modern Assyrians are descendants of a people who date back nearly 7,000 years to before the rise of the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations in the Near East. They were among the first Christians, with the founding of the Assyrian Church of the East by the apostles Thomas, Bartholomew and Thaddeus in 33 A.D. The Syriac Orthodox Church, founded by St. Peter, began in 37 A.D., according to multiple historical references. Aramaic, the language they speak, was the language of Jesus Christ. Assyria ceased to be a national entity in the seventh century after the Arabic invasion, which gave rise to the spread of Islamic religion and the Arabic language through much of the region, according to historians. But the indigenous Assyrians, who have lived continuously in the same region, retained their Christian faith and the Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic) language. Assyrians remain in their ancestral homelands in modern-day northern Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. But they have also spread to more than 26 other countries worldwide. There are an estimated 3.3 million Assyrians throughout the world, according to the nonprofit group Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization: 1.5 million live in Iraq and 700,000 live in the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria). There are about 400,000 in the U.S. They have largely emigrated because of massacres, such as the Assyrian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire during World War I and the 1933 Simele massacre by the government of Iraq. Many fled during the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and thousands were exiled to Iran by Saddam Hussein’s
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regime before the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. There have been so many massacres of against Assyrians — more than 33 major incidents between 339 and 1992 — that Assyrians commemorate Aug. 7 as Martyrs Day, according to data complied by AINA, the Assyrian International News Agency. Church leaders and many who are famil-
The Assyrian flag hangs along with the cross in a spartan room that two refugee boys from Iraq share in a relative’s house in Santa Clara. The boys recently received asylum status but are awaiting their father, who remains in Iraq and has applied to join them.
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iar with the current situations in Iraq and Syria say the spread of Islamist extremism and Islamic State group (ISIS) could spell the end of Assyrians living in their homeland. Religious minorities represent 36 percent of those in Iraqi refugee centers, while accounting for only 3 percent of the total Iraqi population, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Most recently, more than 150,000 have been forced out of their homes in their native Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq. They live in temporary shelters with poor living conditions. Many have been beheaded, raped or shot by Islamist militants, said Vladimir Moghaddasi, a board member of the Assyrian Evangelical Church of San Jose, which is working to help refugees. They are escaping “by various methods ranging from obtaining refugee status and fleeing or flying to other countries to using human traffickers to bring them through the mountains to Turkey and then to Eastern Europe and finally to the rest of the world,” he said. Assyrians are not the only indigenous people of the region whose history dates back thousands of years and are now being persecuted. Chaldean Christians, who trace their ancestry to Babylonia, Syriac Christians, and Yazidis, a Kurdish ethnic community practicing a faith rooted in Zoroastrianism and ancient Mesopotamian religions, are also being killed, said Margaret Petros, executive director of Mothers Against Murder, a nonprofit Palo Alto-based organization that is working to help refugees obtain amnesty in the U.S. Q — Sue Dremann
in August,” Petros said. A childhood friend living in Manteca asked if Petros would help “Shoshan” (not her real name), a 26-year-old newlywed who was living in California and pregnant with her first child. Her husband was stuck in Kurdistan at her parents’ home. (Read about Shoshan’s plight, “Palo Alto’s Mothers Against Murder helps ISIS victims,” Palo Alto Weekly, Nov. 14, 2014). Shoshan is a Chaldean, another indigenous group of Christians. The Islamic State group gave her family an ultimatum to convert to Islam or “die by the sword,” Petros said. Shoshan had a valid visit visa to the U.S., which was good for a year until early 2015. “Coming close to being murdered by ISIS and having two uncles murdered by terrorists since 2003 qualified her for MAM’s humanitarian services. We helped and were successful in getting this young woman the white card to stay in the U.S.,” Petros said. Petros got a licensed therapist to evaluate Shoshan’s trauma. A volunteer Assyrian immigration attorney in Los Angeles, Monica Mansouri, reviewed the asylum application for completeness. Petros mailed the asylum package to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, which allowed Shoshan to stay in the U.S. until it made a decision on her application. But Shoshan could not work, so she moved to southern California to stay with relatives. Mothers Against Murder purchased airplane tickets for Shoshan and her aunt to return to the Bay Area for her asylum interview in San Francisco. A professional Assyrian translator accompanied her to the interview at no cost. Shoshan stayed at Petros’ home for a few days during the process. The U.S. government finally granted her asylum on Jan. 20, 2015. Her son was born two days later. But Shoshan’s husband has still not received approval of the I730 Asylee Relative Petition that Petros completed on Shoshan’s behalf in March. “The baby is now 9 months old and has not met his father,” Petros said. “It’s extremely difficult. I’ve been the advocate, the social worker, the sister, to help through this crisis and very difficult time. She is in a much better place than millions of people under the threat of ISIS, but you can imagine how fragile life can be in a foreign country.” hameram also waits for her husband. She was attending a relative’s wedding in the Bay Area with their three teenage children when the Islamic State group took over Iraq. Her husband told her not to come back. Like most of the refugees in this story, she asked to be identified by a pseudonym to protect loved ones back home.
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A 16-year-old boy shows a photo of his village, located north of Mosul in Iraq, that he left behind. From left, Assyrian Evangelical Church of San Jose Pastor Ladimer Alkhaseh, church board member Vladimir Moghaddasi, and Margaret Petros talk about how to assist Assyrian refugees who have fled persecution and violence in Iraq and are seeking asylum in the U.S.
bout 250 families belong to St. Mary’s, which has become a refuge, Barota said. If they were to return to Iraq, they would be in grave danger, not only because of their faith and ethnicity but for their connection with the West. “There is kidnapping in Iraq, and people think that they are connected with the Western Christians, and the West will pay a ransom. The (U.S.) government has nothing to do with us, but they think we are spies for the West and they take revenge on us,” he said. On a recent Sunday, Barota raised the book of Holy Scriptures, encased in silver, and blessed the congregation. Women bowed heads covered in lace and men made the sign of the cross. They were elders and the middle-aged, new parents and children of all ages — the present and future of the Assyrian and Chaldean people. “The church is our salvation. It is where we preserve our lan-
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guage, traditions, even our social life. But it is not only a matter of faith. It’s a matter of survival. It’s our identity,” Barota said. At the spaghetti luncheon after Mass, Petros is back at work. Shameram’s daughter handed her official government papers the family received in the mail. Petros will read the documents and confer with Tawadross if necessary, and they will keep the pressure on the government so that Shameram’s husband’s petition does not fall through the cracks. Mothers Against Murder’s work has attracted the attention of Father Ladimir Alkhaseh of the Assyrian Evangelical Church of San Jose. “It is an existential threat to Assyrians. This can and may well spell the end of Assyrian existence on their native lands. Without that, their culture, their Aramaic language will be lost in
“It is very difficult. It is only gatherings they had in Iraq. The children don’t feel entirely safe. war, war, war. We didn’t have any door was always open, and people Her daughter said the Muslim peace there; only for a couple of came starting with breakfast and kids won’t talk to her in school. “If you pass them and say hi, years in the late throughout the 1970s,” Shamday. Now their they won’t answer or look at you. eram said. friends and fam- In lunch, they came and talked But Islamic ily are scattered with other girls, but they left when State members throughout the I came,” she said. Sometimes they ask where she are not Iraqis, world, having and they have fled with their is from in Iraq. She doesn’t want no love for its suitcases to Aus- to say. They try to goad her into people’s long tralia, Kurdistan admitting that she is from a Chrishistory, she said. and Turkey. She tian town, she said. “They ask if I am Kurdish. I say, “They take has lost contact ‘No, not Kurdish.’ everything from with them. “They say, ‘What are you, the person — Shameram everything. You hopes her hus- then?’ – Father Michael Barota, priest, band’s visa will “I don’t like it when they ask have only what St. Mary’s Assyrian Chaldean Church soon be pro- about my last name. ... It’s a little you can carry in scary,” she said. “But they can’t a small suitcase cessed. with you,” Shameram said. “No “When my children do some- hurt me. They have a lot of secuone knows what is happening. In thing very beautiful in their life, rity in the school. They can’t do one second, thousands are dis- he cannot experience it,” she said. anything because (this is) a Chrisplaced.” Sometimes, even in the U.S., her tian country.” (continued on next page) Shameram, 51, and her children, an 18-year-old daughter and 14- and 16-year-old sons, live with her aunt and her aunt’s family in Santa Clara. They received asylum four months ago after a year of waiting. The Assyrian family came to Petros through Father Barota. Mothers Against Murder’s pro bono attorney, Heba Tawadross, helped the family file for work authorization in May. The family received notification of asylum on June 1. Now Shameram has a job making sandwiches at a supermarket delicatessen and her daughter works part time. All three children are A students. Shameram, who has a college education and used to work as a bank accountant, received help from the International Rescue Committee in San Jose to become acclimated and find work. Today, she grins when she speaks of her new sandwich-making job. She wants to be a useful member of American society, and she wants her children to have a good life, she said. Shameram plans to return to college to learn computerized bookkeeping so she can work at a bank again. Father Michael Barota, the priest at St. Mary’s Assyrian Chaldean Church in Campbell, gives communion to parishioners during Sunday But she misses the big family mass on Oct. 18.
‘The church is our salvation. It is where we preserve our language, traditions, even our social life. But it is not only a matter of faith. It’s a matter of survival. It’s our identity.’
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the melting pot of the West,” said church board member Vladimir Moghaddasi, who spearheads efforts to help refugees. “Many are helping, but it is in no way nearly enough given the magnitude of the situation.” His church and other Assyrian churches and civil organizations are financially helping indigenous displaced people within Iraq and Syria through other humanitarian or Christian organizations, but their resources are limited, he said. The situation in Iraq and Syria, where there are also Assyrian Christians, is dire, he added. But here in the Bay Area, Petros and Tawadross do what they can, chipping away one case at a time. Some cases take a very long time — more than a year — to process. The government doesn’t see the asylum as an emergency, Tawadross said. “They need an expedited process. That’s what we’re asking for,” she said. In one case, the daughter in a family that’s been waiting for more than a year will soon turn 21. Then she will have to apply separately as an adult, starting her application process over again, Petros said. Mothers Against Murder operates on a very limited budget,
Petros said. Tawadross is Mothers Against Murder’s only pro bono attorney, and there is only one pro bono therapist who counsels the refugees. The group is in need of translators fluent in Assyrian, Arabic and English. Asked how she handles the emotional burdens of helping traumatized victims of murder and genocide, Petros said she relies on faith. “I do pray a lot. When I’m struggling, I’m just kneeling down and praying. The Virgin Mary is right next to my bed with a candle. There must be a higher power out there. Sometimes when there is nothing I can do, I make peace,” she said. And the way she makes peace is by practicing deep compassion and love, she said. “That’s really what life is — it’s about the love.” Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com. About the cover: Margaret Petros, executive director of the Palo Alto nonprofit Mothers Against Murder, is helping Assyrian refugees who are seeking asylum after fleeing from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS. Photo by Veronica Weber.
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Margaret Petros briefs Doler Benyamin, right, his wife, Najwa, and their three children as the family prepares to find out if they have been approved for asylum at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Asylum Office in San Francisco in January. The family fled their home in Mosul, Iraq, after the Islamic State group took control of the city last year.
Driven by compassion Margaret Petros fights the system for victims’ justice argaret Petros is a tiny, dark-haired woman whose personal strength is immediately apparent when one meets her. The mother of three has used that strength for more than two decades to help victims of violent crime, not only one-to-one but throughout California by changing state law. Her advocacy has resulted in financial and other support for victims of child abduction and for police officers who were victims of violent crimes. Child abduction by a parent was not a crime eligible for victim compensation at the state level when Petros worked as a supervisor at the Santa Clara County Victim Witness Assistance Center earlier in her career. State victim compensation looked at such abductions as having no traumatic effect on either the non-offending parent or the victim, despite research that showed the victims are very much traumatized, she said. With support from the Vanished Children’s Alliance, the center worked with state Assemblyman Ted Lempert to pass AB 1803, which made child victims and their nonoffending parents eligible for compensation for the first time in 1999. But the bill’s passage meant a compromise. The abduction has to last at least 30 days before injury is presumed and victims can be eligible. “It left some legitimate and serious victims out and there was always confusion with the local Victim Witness Advocates around the state,” she said. As a member of the California State Child Abduction Task Force, she pushed to remove the
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waiting period. It took two years of advocacy to get the California Victim Compensation staff to support additional legislation. AB 1140 abolished the 30-day eligibility requirement and reinstated a $7,500 funeral/burial benefit. The bill eliminates a restriction barring domestic violence victims from compensation if they refuse to work with law enforcement at the scene of the crime, and it adds online harassment as a crime for which victims can be compensated, among other provisions. Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB1140 on Oct. 7. “We have made a huge impact. I’ve saved some families thousands of dollars in funeral expenses,” she said. When a 23-year-old immigrant lost her mother to murder, cemetery staff talked her into signing a $23,000 burial contract. Petros stepped in.
“I went to the manager. I said, ‘It doesn’t look good for a cemetery to do this.’ It’s not easy, but I always found a good, compassionate person who wants to do the right thing,” she said. The manager got a donor to contribute to the costs, and the San Jose Police Association raised funds. The woman ended up paying nothing, she said. “The tendency in this culture is that ‘We’ve arrested the criminal; we’re done. We’ve prosecuted the criminal; we’re done.’ But it doesn’t end for us until the victim is healed — at least as much as they can — to get on with their lives,” said Petros, who is now the executive director of the Palo Alto nonprofit Mothers Against Murder. “When a victim sent me a text, ‘Happy Mother’s Day. You’re like my mother,’ I feel blessed.” Q — Sue Dremann
Margaret Petros speaks with Heba Tawadross, an attorney providing pro bono legal advice to Assyrian families through the Palo Alto nonprofit Mothers Against Murder, at a condo that is occasionally used to shelter victims of violence. Petros, Tawadross and nonprofit founder Roger Smith of Palo Alto (not pictured) were meeting to discuss the current status of Iraqi families they are helping.
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LAST CALL ... Submit your garden by Saturday, Oct. 31, for inclusion in the Going Native Garden Tour 2016. To qualify, you must live in San Mateo or Santa Clara counties and have a garden that is comprised of 50 percent or more of California native plants. Info: bit.ly/SubmitGarden READY TO COOK? ... Master new cooking skills and prepare for the holidays with classes offered by Sur La Table, 855 El Camino Real, Suite 57, Palo Alto. Programs for November include, but are definitely not limited to, “Croissants from Scratch” (Elizabeth Prado, Nov. 1, 9 a.m., $69); “Secrets of Great Sauces” (Peggy Aoki, Nov. 3, 11 a.m., $69); “Date Night: Cozy Fall Dinner” (Joe Sivils, Nov. 6, 6:30 p.m., $79); and “Autumn-Inspired Desserts in Jars” (Elizabeth Prado, Nov. 8, 9 a.m., $79). Sign up before seats are gone. Info: 650-289-0438, cooking073@surlatable.com or bit.ly/SurLaTablePaloAlto SPOOKY SCIENCE ... See spooky critters and explore natural science on Sunday, Nov. 1, 12:302:30 p.m., at the EcoCenter, 2560 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. This is the first of a four-part series called Kid Powered! from Environmental Volunteers. The sessions are open to first- through fifthgrade students, and the suggested fee is $20 per child per session. Other program days include “It’s Raining Fun” on Nov. 8, “Under the Ground!” on Nov. 15 and “Walk with the Animals” on Nov. 22. Info: evols.org/kidpowered DOCUMENT SHREDDING ... Gather up old paperwork and head to the Sunnyvale Materials Recovery and Transfer (SMaRT) Station on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 8 a.m. to noon. Located at 301 Carl Road in Sunnyvale, the SMaRT Station will be shredding and recycling documents from residents of its partner cities: Mountain View, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. Residents must bring proof of residency. Info: bit.ly/ DocumentShredding
Vipul Vyas and his son, Arjun, 5, check out their Halloween decorations outside of their Walnut Grove home on Oct. 27.
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he Walnut Grove neighborhood looks a little different this week. White ghosts haunt the bushes of an Eichler home. Tombstones
protrude from front yards while pumpkins populate doorsteps. It’s the residents who are most out of character, but it’s only because it’s
Don’t be spooked, it’s a family-friendly neighborhood by Brenna Malmberg / photos by Veronica Weber
almost Halloween. This weekend, the quiet, winding streets will fill with young trick-ortreaters and their parents, such as Vipul and Kristan Vyas and their son, Arjun. As the couple walks through the neighborhood with their Paw Patrol-clad 5-year-old, Vipul said they expect to see fog machines, lights, pumpkins and hay bales. The Halloween decorating includes the Vyases, though Vipul
admitted that his wife really does most of that work. Their home of five years, a 1953 Burke and Wyatt/Eichler, features a ghostly welcome and a scattering of tombstones behind a little graveyard fence. Down the road, and even across the street, the houses look different, architecturally so. The (continued on page 33)
HOMESTEADING 101 ... Learn how to start a winter garden on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2-4 p.m., at the Common Ground Garden, 687 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. Edible garden and permaculture consultant Andrew Harwell will teach participants how to grow vegetables, coordinate the garden with the kitchen and find the best winter crops. The class costs $35. Info: commongroundgarden.org Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email bmalmberg@paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.
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Homes along Lundy Lane, top, Ely Place, bottom, in the Walnut Grove neighborhood.
neighborhood, which was once a walnut grove, started in the 1950s and today is about half midcentury modern homes (Eichler or Burke and Wyatt) and half ranch style. Another architectural piece to note is the number of onestory homes, stemming from the single-story overlay that was put in place more than 25 years ago. “The push for the overlay is actually why the neighborhood association got started,” Vipul said. Today, the Walnut Grove Homeowners Association continues to unite residents to discuss city happenings, such as the Charleston-Arastradero corridor traffic and changes, and to socialize at their block parties. Vipul said the potlucks that bring out 50 to 75 people are a great chance to meet one another. In addition, as head of the association, Vipul likes to bring in city experts to encourage people to come out and learn more about the community. The gatherings include a mix of ages, from retired homeowners and empty nesters to renters and families with kids. Vipul estimates that about 30 to 40 percent of the families have children, including his own. Tom Crystal, who moved to Palo Alto in 1965 for school, is now one of the retired members
of the neighborhood and has been living in Walnut Grove for more than 30 years. During this time, he has watched the trees get bigger but the development stay small. “The neighborhood has not changed an awful lot in 50 years,” he said. “You won’t see any monster homes happening in our neighborhood. There is not a lot of pressure to develop. The only way to go is up, and we have already said no to that.” The absence of development has kept the area calm, making it good for retirees, like himself, and children. Other nearby benefits used by all include the libraries, schools and community center. Even though the area lacks development, the association members like to track projects happening nearby, such as the traffic calming along the Charleston-Arastradero corridor. “People have been calling for the calming of the school corridor,” Crystal said. “There are so many students running up the corridor that safety comes as a high priority for people who live here.” Crystal said people who move here for the schools will also find that it has easy access to just about everything they need at a price that is “as close as you can get to affordable housing.” Q Associated Editor Brenna Malmberg can be emailed at bmalmberg@paweekly.com.
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FACTS CHILDCARE AND PRESCHOOLS (nearby): Crescent Park Child Development Center (Peekaboo), 4161 Alma St.; Montessori School of Los Altos, 303 Parkside Drive; Palo Alto Infant Toddler Center, 4111 Alma St. FIRE STATION: No. 4, 3600 Middlefield Road LIBRARY: Mitchell Park branch, 3700 Middlefield Road LOCATION: between East Charleston Road, Alma Street and Adobe Creek NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Walnut Grove Homeowners Association, Vipul Vyas, vipul. vyas@gmail.com PARKS: Greenmeadow Park (private); Mitchell Park, 600 E. Meadow Drive POST OFFICE: Cambridge, 265 Cambridge Ave. PRIVATE SCHOOLS (nearby): Palo Alto Prep School, 2462 Wyandotte St.; Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, 450 San Antonio Road PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Fairmeadow Elementary School, JLS Middle School, Gunn High School SHOPPING: San Antonio Shopping Center, The Village at San Antonio
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Home & Real Estate HOME SALES
Home sales are provided by California REsource, a real estate information company that obtains the information from the county recorderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offices. Information is recorded from deeds after the close of escrow and published within four to eight weeks.
Atherton
8 Faxon Road Bird Trust to ACM Trust for $8,675,000 on 09/25/15; previous sale 03/14/1996, $2,195,000 46 Marianna Lane Locke Trust to Evans Trust for $3,350,000 on 09/25/15; previous sale 05/15/1997, $1,270,000 27 Sargent Lane Jessup Trust to Perica Trust for $4,618,000 on 09/29/15 134 Stockbridge Ave. M. & F. Nohmura to J. Kwok for $5,600,000 on 09/29/15; previous sale 05/31/1979, $500,000
East Palo Alto
2248 Cooley Ave. Lane Trust to W. & R. Salgado for $422,000 on 09/25/15 1175 Cypress St. N. Hekmat to M. Mahmoudieh for $650,000 on 09/30/15; previous sale 08/14/2009, $235,000
Los Altos
104 Alvarado Ave. Collins Trust to T. & G. Angelos for $3,500,000 on 09/29/15 171 Del Monte Ave. Del Monte Ave. Limited to G. & M. Sucharczuk for $3,550,000 on 09/30/15; previous sale 05/02/2013, $980,000 420 Juanita Way Lefkowits Trust to Petrak Trust for $3,600,000 on 09/25/15 550 Magdalena Ave. D. & S. Baek to Kannan-Alamelu Trust for $3,682,000 on 09/28/15; previous sale 06/30/2000, $1,650,000 359 W. Portola Ave. W. Postola to Z. Zheng for $3,850,000 on 10/02/15 290 Quinnhill Road C. Angin to A. & T. Shpunt for $2,600,000 on 09/24/15 217 Santa Rita Court Sensenbrenner Trust to Y. Wong for $3,000,000 on 09/30/15; previous sale 04/10/2014, $1,550,000
Los Altos Hills
12800 Alto Verde Lane Alto Verde Lane Limited to Kianpour Trust for $4,248,000 on 10/01/15; previous sale 09/10/2015, $3,995,000 24269 Dawnridge Drive Aarons Trust to S. & S. Lim for $3,308,000 on 09/23/15; previous sale 09/21/2005, $2,400,000 26925 Orchard Hill Lane Van Trust to Schott Trust for $4,200,000 on 09/30/15
SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton
Mountain View
Total sales reported: 4 Lowest sales price: $3,350,000 Highest sales price: $8,675,000
Total sales reported: 19 Lowest sales price: $860,000 Highest sales price: $2,800,000
East Palo Alto
Palo Alto
Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $422,000 Highest sales price: $650,000
Total sales reported: 14 Lowest sales price: $835,000 Highest sales price: $5,000,000
Los Altos
Portola Valley
Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $2,600,000 Highest sales price: $3,850,000
Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $2,525,000 Highest sales price: $2,525,000
Los Altos Hills
Stanford
Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $3,308,000 Highest sales price: $4,248,000
Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $3,200,000 Highest sales price: $3,200,000
Menlo Park
Woodside
Total sales reported: 7 Lowest sales price: $840,000 Highest sales price: $2,900,000
Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $6,500,000 Highest sales price: $6,500,000 Source: California REsource
Menlo Park
694 Creek Drive Pugh Trust to L. Jay for $2,250,000 on 09/25/15; previous sale 02/03/1998, $750,000 339 Lexington Drive B. & N. Shiah to T. Marty for $2,200,000 on 09/24/15; previous sale 10/23/2002, $935,000 1131 Menlo Oaks Drive B. Coffey to C. Liang for $1,006,000 on 09/25/15; previous sale 01/13/2010, $330,000 131 Newbridge St. G. Turner to C. Thomas for $840,000 on 09/28/15; previous sale 10/14/1971, $17,500 182 Oak Court M. Martini to K. Vandenbergh for $1,275,000 on 09/28/15 2369 Sharon Oaks Drive S. Lascar to H. Wei for $1,700,000 on 09/30/15; previous sale 04/17/2002, $869,000 2260 Tioga Drive MVCJ Limited to R. Trihy for $2,900,000 on 09/25/15; previous sale 06/08/2012, $2,165,000
Mountain View
1016 Asbury Way Shah Trust to X. Cao for $1,200,000 on 10/02/15; previous sale 03/21/2011, $745,000 330 Chatham Way Nichols Trust to M. & N. Zayats for $2,070,000 on 09/24/15 140 Flynn Ave. A. & M. Tomlin to J. & C. Yan for $1,200,000 on 10/05/15; previous sale 05/28/1992, $315,000 1722 Fordham Way Harvey Trust
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to S. Vasudevan for $2,210,000 on 09/23/15 763 Leona Lane T. & V. Davis to J. Baron for $1,915,000 on 09/30/15; previous sale 06/03/2009, $830,000 1232 Levin Ave. Knechtel Trust to R. & R. Kaul for $1,875,000 on 09/30/15 643 Mercy St. Koker Trust to G. Lovelace for $1,406,500 on 09/30/15 2526 W. Middlefield Road R. Robinson to S. & S. Batra for $860,000 on 09/25/15; previous sale 08/07/2013, $550,000 1456 Nilda Ave. Smith Trust to J. & S. Zhu for $1,800,000 on 09/25/15; previous sale 07/23/1991, $76,000 521 Preston Drive Liberty Trust to C. Frueh for $2,420,000 on 10/02/15 722 Reflection Way MV Reflection 2013 to N. Devsharma for $1,485,000 on 09/30/15 2126 Reinert Court J. Ballou to P. Dowell for $1,175,000 on 10/02/15; previous sale 04/23/1996, $260,000 364 N. Rengstorff Ave. R. Leni to D. Hall for $1,160,000 on 09/23/15; previous sale 08/10/2000, $450,000 1962 San Ramon Ave. Acumentum Penny Lane to J. Wu for $1,250,000 on 09/30/15; previous sale 03/08/1995, $417,000 1200 Satake Court Satake Trust to C. Koumouzelis for $2,800,000 on 10/02/15; previous sale 02/17/2010, $1,567,000 436 Sierra Vista Ave., #2 Guichard Trust to W. Bai for $900,000 on 09/30/15; previous sale 11/19/1993, $176,000 253 View St. Comken Inc. to K. Esmail for $1,255,000 on 09/28/15; previous sale 09/15/2010, $955,000 2426 Villa Nueva Way N. Flis-
ram to Y. Huang for $1,800,000 on 09/29/15; previous sale 06/22/1984, $214,000 928 Wright Ave., #503 S. Carter to A. Fernandes for $925,000 on 10/05/15; previous sale 06/16/2006, $530,000
Palo Alto
101 Alma St., #1005 S. Yue to Chen Trust for $835,000 on 10/02/15; previous sale 09/15/1992, $365,000 894 Altaire Walk C. Byun to M. Fu for $1,329,000 on 10/05/15; previous sale 06/09/2009, $690,000 1002 Amarillo Ave. Gex Trust to Ahluwalia Trust for $2,000,000 on 09/28/15 3189 Berryessa St., #4 Sterling Park to G. McGee for $1,459,000 on 09/29/15 450 N. California Ave. Carrano Trust to X. Chen for $5,000,000 on 09/30/15; previous sale 08/06/2009, $2,600,000 463 N. California Ave. X. Chen to C. Chan for $4,098,000 on 09/30/15; previous sale 04/10/2012, $2,558,000 141 S. California Ave., #B306 Lemon Trust to A. & M. Sung for $1,088,000 on 10/02/15; previous sale 04/10/1990, $255,000 555 Chaucer St. Bjork Trust to Dondo Chaucer Limited for $3,900,000 on 10/02/15; previous sale 04/24/1992, $815,000 1605 Edgewood Drive A. Vandervoort to N. Miao for $3,873,000 on 09/24/15 3751 El Centro St. Defrenza Trust to ST Fund I for $1,650,000 on 10/02/15; previous sale 10/1979, $70,000 1058 Loma Verde Ave. E. Stefik to L. Susan for $2,075,000 on 10/01/15; previous sale 03/14/1996, $404,000 681 Loma Verde Ave. Murphy
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Trust to Palo Verde Venture for $2,601,000 on 10/01/15; previous sale 02/03/1973, $31,000 753 Maplewood Place Thom Trust to J. & K. Mostofizadeh for $2,300,000 on 10/05/15; previous sale 07/01/1987, $355,000 3315 Stockton Place Lufkin Trust to A. Desai for $2,350,000 on 09/25/15
Portola Valley
149 Corte Madera Road Clark Trust to A. & S. Doherty for $2,525,000 on 09/29/15; previous sale 08/22/2003, $1,149,500
Stanford
907 Lathrop Place Berek Trust to Leland Stanford University for $3,200,000 on 10/02/15
Woodside
475 Moore Road Shott Trust to Vidalakis Trust for $6,500,000 on 09/25/15; previous sale 07/10/2013, $5,125,000
BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto
856 Warren Way water main line replacement approved material, $n/a 2073 Edgewood Drive temporary power, $n/a 172 Lois Lane 15000-01179: add outdoor barbecue, raise rear porch slab, add handrails and decorative walls, change interior layout at master bath/walk in closet, change electrical service from overhead to underground, $n/a 4062 Ben Lomond Drive replace water line, no work in the public row, $n/a 4047 Manzana Lane install NEMA 14-50 outlet for electric vehicle charger, $n/a 666 Tennyson Ave. remove nonbearing wing walls at laundry enclosure and reroute dryer exhaust, $1,000 499 Lytton Ave. damaged window and associated dry rot repair, $5,000 260 Parkside Drive residential roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 3175 David Ave. residential Level 2 EVSE outside the garage, $n/a 417 Monroe Drive install new dedicated gas line to new cooktop equipment, $n/a 3539 Louis Road roof cleaning and coating, $9,471 737 Loma Verde Ave., Unit# 1 Apt. 1: water heater replacement, $n/a 1850 Middlefield Road replace four doors and two sidelights, $9,000 939 University Ave. 1500000730: revise master bathroom and bedroom layouts, structural changes and new footing added at kitchen, and structural change to beam at basement, $n/a 3340 Saint Michael Drive sewer lateral replacement, $n/a 3101 Middlefield Road, Apt. 1 Unit 1: remodel kitchen and bathroom, replace sub panel within the unit, master plans approved and plan checked under 1500001477, $11,000 969 Matadero Ave. structural upgrade to pool to add automatic pool cover, electric service upgrade, and running electric and water for rain water catch basin, add barbecue and fire pit, $17,000 927 Dennis Drive remove and replace water heater in garage, $n/a 175 Island Drive re-roof, $15,000 868 Southampton Drive addition and remodel, $60,000 1359 Martin Ave. 15000-02450: revision to add two windows on first story, $n/a 500 University Ave. demolish single-story commercial building (application extended), $n/a 500 University Ave. foundation and below-grade parking for future new three-story office/retail building with occupied roof deck and two split levels of belowgrade parking with 62 parking
spaces (plans for office building will be submitted as a revision to this permit, application extended), $13,858,000 2465 Louis Road roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 562 Kendall Ave., Apt. 13 furnace replacement, $n/a 2796 Cowper St. 14000-02671: revision to exterior wall framing of garage, $n/a 3466 Thomas Drive residential service upgrade for PV-ready panel, $n/a 675 El Camino Real Sprint: modify existing rooftop telecommunication facility, $25,000 3805 Louis Road 14000-02575: relocate furnace to attic and install new AC unit in side yard, $n/a 221 Kingsley Ave. 15-71: porches changing from wood frame to concrete and revise wood framing in bathroom, $n/a 1143 Greenwood Ave. 15-1553: revision includes revised roof design over side patio, relocate side wall, underpinning structure due to foundation settlement, $n/a 221 Kingsley Ave. 15-73: revision to garage car pit foundation, $n/a 923 Bautista Court re-roof, $11,550 3349 Vernon Terrace 15-2393: revised plans includes additional square footage at rear residence, add bathroom remodel, $n/a 3320 Thomas Drive roof cleaning and coating, $9,785 410 Sheridan Ave. replace water damaged exterior framing and shear walls for units 103, 217, 331 and 445, $67,000 359 Creekside Drive copper repipe, $n/a 1125 University Ave. new pool house with new tankless water heater and bathroom, $43,635 1865 Bryant St. residential gas leak repair in the main after the meter, $n/a 221 Kingsley Ave. 15-70: change exterior basement stairs from wood to concrete, shifting basement mechanical room door, structural change to retaining wall above grade, change steel tube column size, entry steps to concrete, retrofit to I-Beam anchor, $n/a 325 Curtner Ave. re-roof, $30,000 1240 Parkinson Ave. 15-1728: revised foundation design at living room, $n/a 450 Loma Verde Ave. replace water heater, $n/a 918 Moreno Ave. remove and replace 11 windows, $6,833 2000 Bryant St. residential install NEMA 14-50 outlet for electric vehicle charger, $n/a 323 Curtner Ave. re-roof, $40,000 853 La Para Ave. demolish existing structure, $n/a 2275 Amherst St. Historic Category 2: install NEMA 14-50 outlet in detached garage, $n/a 432 University Ave. tenant improvement for existing tenant lululemon, includes partial demolition of ceiling soffits at sale floor, relocate interior door, relocate kitchenette sink, $50,000 1812 Edgewood Drive tear off existing roofing, install syntactic underlayment, install composition shingle back, $15,000 853 La Para Ave. new two-story residence, includes covered patio with attached garage and two tankless water heaters, $590,000 853 La Para Ave. demolish existing garage, $n/a 853 La Para Ave. demolish existing single-family residence, $n/a 853 La Para Ave. temporary power, $n/a 853 La Para Ave. demolish existing structure, $n/a 940 Commercial St. Foster Art & Wilderness Foundation: Phase 3 scope of work includes new restrooms, break room, replace exterior doors and windows, landscaping, remove a curb cut, new backflow device, replace street trees, $292,000
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1376 Fairway Drive, Los Altos Offered at $1,988,000 Pristine Home in Excellent Location Boasting a private yet central location, this extensively remodeled 3 bedroom, 2 bath home of 2,518 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a hilltop lot of 15,360 sq. ft. (per county). Offering vaulted ceilings, crown molding, and white oak floors, fine spaces include an immense living room with a fireplace, a gleaming island kitchen, and a master suite with a private deck. The home also enjoys a wet bar, a large rear terrace, and an attached two-car garage, and you will be steps away from Rancho Shopping Center, McKenzie Park, and Loyola Elementary (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
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330 Jane Drive, Woodside Offered at $4,488,000 Luxury Estate in Exclusive Setting Nestled within the gated community of Meadow Vista, this extensively remodeled home offers 7,930 sq. ft. (per county), 6 bedrooms, 6 full and 2 half baths, luxurious amenities, and a leafy lot of just over 3 acres (per county). You will have countless entertaining options thanks to the home’s well-appointed design and flexible spaces, like a loft with a kitchenette, a suite with a wet bar, and a wine room suited for over 1,500 bottles. Spacious rooms include a home office, a dining room with a butler’s pantry, an open, gourmet kitchen, and a two-story great room, and all bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms, including the two opulent master suites. The rear courtyard provides a lawn and views of the mountains, while the attached four-car garage offers a rear ATV exit. In spite of this home’s exclusive woodland setting, you actually will be just minutes from Roberts Market, popular dining venues, and Menlo Country Club. Excellent nearby schools include Woodside Elementary (API 965) and Woodside High (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
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52 Atherton Avenue, Atherton
1 Faxon Road, Atherton
6 Quail Meadows Drive, Woodside
650 Berkeley Ave, Menlo Park
$23,995,000
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59 Leon Way, Atherton
191 Meadowood Drive, Portola Valley
415 Olive Street, Menlo Park
101 Alma Street #1103, Palo Alto
$4,795,000
$3,595,000
$2,495,000
$2,100,000
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1335 Trinity Dr, Menlo Park
2142 Gordon Ave, Menlo Park
57 N. Gate, Atherton
101 Alma Street #503, Palo Alto
$1,975,000
$1,849,000
$1,749,000
$1,399,000
2 BD / 2.5 BA
3 BD / 1.5 BA
2 BD / 1 BA
2 BD / 2 BA
Sophisticated and spacious Sharon Hills
Living room, dining area, sun room, eat-in
Charming cottage in Central Atherton,
Corner unit is ready for you to move
townhome. Large master suite, 2nd
kitchen. Freshly painted inside and out.
updated interiors, inviting venue for
in or renovate. 24hr Security, on-site
bedroom is en-suite. Bonus storage.
Wonderful backyard. Las Lomitas School
outdoor living.
management, gym, pool & much more.
Maya Sewald & Jason Sewald,
Maya Sewald & Jason Sewald,
Tom LeMieux, 650.465.7459
Amy Sung, 650.468.4834
650.346.1228
tom@tomlemieux.com
amy@amysung.com
650.346.1228
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1531 Tyler Park Way, Mountain View Offered at $1,988,000 Modern Luxuries, Original Charm Extensively updated and elegantly appointed, this 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom home of 3,381 sq. ft. (per county) offers a centrally located quarter-acre lot (per county). Deep porches, white oak floors, and a variety of handsome woodwork underline the home’s authentic character, while spaces that include formal living and dining rooms, a tastefully remodeled kitchen, and a den with a fireplace provide plenty of room for both everyday living and entertaining. The gracious master bedroom is privately arranged with another bedroom that can easily transition into an office, while the walk-out lower level offers large, flexible spaces. Other features include a detached two-car garage, a private backyard with a paver patio, new paint, and fantastic new landscaping. This home is just steps away from the exciting facilities of Cuesta Park, and is also within walking distance of both Mountain View Shopping Center and Grant Park Plaza. Fantastic nearby schools include Benjamin Bubb Elementary (API 920), Graham Middle, and Mountain View High (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
www.1531TylerPark.com
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Ken DeLeon CalBRE #01342140
Michael Repka CalBRE #01854880
Sunday 1:30 - 4:30 pm
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his estate property was built in 2007 with inspiration from villas in the European countryside. Presiding over approximately one acre, the homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mediterranean style is immediately apparent with its tiled roof, wrought iron accents, and a tiered fountain outlined in mosaics. Inside, the timeless allure combines the consummate appeal of modern luxury with everything imaginable for the quintessential California lifestyle. Hand-hewn hardwood or antiqued limestone tiles ďŹ nish the ďŹ&#x201A;oors of every room, ceilings are architecturally detailed, and graceful arches span room openings, windows, and French doors. Completing the appeal of this special property is its premier location in the heart of central Atherton â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one of the most exclusive cities in the country. s 4HREE LEVEL %UROPEAN VILLA BUILT in 2007
s (AND HEWN HARDWOOD OR ANTIQUED limestone flooring throughout
s !PPROXIMATELY TOTAL SQ FT (per appraiser, buyer to confirm)
s 2ESORT INSPIRED GROUNDS WITH fireplace, barbecue kitchen, bocce court, pool, and spa
s 4OTAL OF BEDROOMS LIBRARY BONUS room, 7 full baths, and 2 half-baths s -AIN RESIDENCE WITH BEDROOMS FULL BATHS AND HALF BATHS
s !PPROXIMATELY ONE ACRE OF beautifully landscaped grounds s CAR GARAGE WITH FULL BATH
s 'UEST HOUSE WITH BEDROOM BATH s 4OP RATED -ENLO 0ARK SCHOOLS fireplace, and kitchen s ,OWER LEVEL RECREATION MEDIA ROOM full bar, plus wine cellar and tasting room
This information was supplied BY 3ELLER AND OR OTHER SOURCES Broker believes this information to be correct but has not verified this information and assumes no legal responsibility for its accuracy. Buyers should investigate these issues to their own satisfaction.
Hugh Cornish
Valerie Soltau
650.566.5353 hcornish@cbnorcal.com
650.464.3896 valeriesoltau@gmail.com
CalBRE# 00912143
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valeriesoltau.com
Offered at $12,880,000 www.247Atherton.com
1523 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto A?@;9 A58@ $1?501:/1 !Ŋ 1>? %@A::5:3 1-@A>1? You will have no shortage of entertainment options within this immaculate 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of 3,309 sq. ft. (per /;A:@EJ @4-@ ?5@? ;: - 8;@ ;2 ] VVY ?= 2@ I<1> /5@EJ 5348E /A?@;95F10 -:0 .1-A@52A88E -<<;5:@10 @41 2>1?4 2>11 Ō ;C5:3 5:@1>5;> showcases open living areas that connect to the fantastic rear terrace by a wall of folding glass to enable seamless indoor/outdoor living. The expertly planned layout includes a main level designed to be handicap-accessible while featuring a professional-grade 01?53:1> 75@/41: @C; ;ő /1? -:0 - ?;<45?@5/-@10 9-?@1> ?A5@1 D@>-;>05:->E @;A/41? 8571 >-F585-: 4->0C;;0 Ō ;;>? - /A@@5:3 1031 LED lighting system, whole-house wiring, and striking custom cabinetry accent the remarkable interior, which is perfectly sized for large-scale gatherings. With easy access to Stanford University and Palo Alto Golf Course, this home’s ultra-modern blend of style and convenience is simply unmatched. Duveneck Elementary (API 956) is within walking distance, while other excellent schools nearby include Jordan Middle (API 934) and Palo Alto High (API 905) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
www.1523Hamilton.com Offered at $4,988,000
OPEN HOUSE
Sunday 1:30 - 4:30
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menlo park
property details valeriesoltau.com
1650 Oak Avenue 4 BEDS · 3 BATH 2,760 SQ FT · 15,200 SQ FT LOT
“I am deeply rooted and commi ed to this community and can’t imagine living anywhere else.”
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OFFERED AT
$3,750,000
Walk to downtown, bike to Stanford or hop on 280, you’re just minutes away. Beautiful and classic, this tastefully remodeled home is in coveted West Menlo Park on one of the few larger lots in town. In addition to a gourmet kitchen, the home has a large family room surrounded by picture windows, a fireplace and a wet bar. The picture windows continue throughout the home bringing in light and overlooking the sparkling pool and many lounging areas in the backyard. The master suite is gorgeous and has a luxurious marble bath.
14545 Deer Park Court, Los Gatos Offered at $3,988,000 Private Estate with Panoramic Views Astonishing views can be glimpsed throughout this sprawling 5 bedroom, 5.5 bathroom estate home of 6,172 sq. ft. (per county), which occupies an immense hilltop lot of 3.72 acres (per county). Faced by a brick motor court, this highly customized residence offers soaring ceilings, cherry hardwood floors, multi-zone heating and cooling, and crystal-studded chandeliers. Airy living areas include a sunken great room, a formal dining room, and a lavishly remodeled kitchen opening to a family room. The immense master suite provides an opulent bathroom, while a well-appointed in-law apartment is upstairs. Entertain on the extensive rear terrace, which overlooks the infinity pool and spa. Other terrific features include an off-grid solar energy system, five fireplaces, and a four-car garage. This home’s stunning location is near trails leading into Heintz Open Space, and you will also have easy access to parks like Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve. Top schools nearby include Blossom Hill Elementary (API 951), Fisher Middle (API 932), and Los Gatos High (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
www.14545DeerPark.com
OPEN HOUSE
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Ken DeLeon CalBRE #01342140
Michael Repka CalBRE #01854880
Sunday 1:30 - 4:30 pm
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Sand Hill Estates, Woodside
5 Betty Lane, Atherton
11627 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills
$35,000,000
$24,800,000
$23,995,000
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Cutty Smith Lic.#01343305 & 01444081
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Greg Goumas Lic.#01242399, 00709019, 01878208
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019
Ano Nuevo Scenic Ranch, Davenport
91 Selby Lane, Atherton
$19,800,000
$16,900,000
$14,688,000
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello, Lic.#01343305
Listing Provided by: Catherine Qian, Lic.#01276431
Listing Provided by: Nancy Gehrels, Lic.#01952964
26140 Rancho Manuella, Los Altos Hills
26880 Elena Road, Los Altos Hills
10440 Albertsworth Lane, Los Altos Hills
291 Atherton Avenue, Atherton
$13,888,000
$12,888,888
$11,488,000
Listing Provided by: David Bergman, Lic.#01223189
Listing Provided by: Dan Kroner, Lic.#01790340
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas & John Reece, Lic.#01878208 & 00838479
349 Manuella Avenue, Woodside
245 Mountain Wood Lane, Woodside
669 Hayne Road, Hillsborough
$9,980,000
$8,250,000
$7,950,000
Listing Provided by: Dana Cappiello & Cutty Smith, Lic.#01343305 & #01444081
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Lic.#01242399
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019
138 Bolivar Lane, Portola Valley
1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside
40 Firethorn Way, Portola Valley $6,888,000
$6,488,000
$5,850,000
Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208
Listing Provided by: Irene Reed & Greg Goumas, Lic.# 01879122 & 01878208
Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Tom Dallas, Lic.#01242399, 00709019
See the complete collection
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Menlo Park 807 Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 650.543.7740
Los Altos 496 First Street, Ste. 200 Los Altos, CA 94022 650.947.4700
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1990 Valparasio Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 This Atherton-like estate in west Menlo Park was completely remodeled in 2001 with every detail considered. Walk through the enchanting. The home offers four bedrooms with two master suites, three bathrooms with approximately 2500 square feet of living area arranged over 2 levels, and an approximately 7275 square feet lot.
List Price: $2,825,000 www.1990Valparasio.com Denise Villeneuve, REALTOR® 650.274.8560 denisev.homes@gmail.com PeninsulaHomesByDenise.com
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2775 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto • Phone: (650)321-1596 Fax: (650)328-1809 See our local listings online at — www. midtownpaloalto.com
787 MAYFIELD AVENUE, STANFORD Open House Saturday & Sunday, 1:30 - 4:30PM
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Shari Ornstein 650.814.6682 sornstein@apr.com CalBRE# 01028693
BRE# 1900986
516 Thompson Avenue, Mountain View Offered at $1,198,000 Quiet Setting, Ideal Location Updated and sky-lit, this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,116 sq. ft. (per county) offers a lot of 5,403 sq. ft. (per county). Accented by beamed ceilings and new interior colors, the home’s charming spaces include a living/dining combo with a fireplace and a sunny master suite. Other features include a two-car garage, a new paver patio, and fresh landscaping. Steps from local parks and conveniences, this home is also walking distance from Monta Loma Elementary (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:
www.516Thompson.com
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Ken DeLeon CalBRE #01342140
Michael Repka CalBRE #01854880
Sunday 1:30 - 4:30 pm
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List with DeLeon Realty before December 15, 2015 for the Spring 2016 market and you will receive: • a $1,000 gift card to The Home Depot. • 25 hours of handyman time. • a special pre-marketing plan* for your home, including: - exposure on DeLeon Realty’s Spring Showcase website. - inclusion in DeLeon Realty’s newsletter (65,000 copies). - inclusion in newspaper inserts (64,500 copies). • our industry-leading marketing plan, including: - full-page newspaper ads. - Google & Facebook ads. - Chinese newspaper & radio ads. - 12-page custom brochures. - professional photography. - a professional-quality video. - a 3-D tour. This is in addition to the complimentary services we provide to all our sellers, including: • free property inspection. • free pest inspection. • free staging**.
*Pre-marketing for Spring Showcase will roll out the first week of January 2016. * *Includes all fees associated with design, delivery, set-up, de-staging, and the first month of furniture rental. Disclaimer: This offer applies to listings with a signed listing agreement between Nov. 1, 2015 through Dec. 15, 2015. This is a limited-time offer for homes which will be listed to the MLS by May 1, 2016. Past listings and transactions are excluded from this offer.
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DeLeon Realty will cover all of the following at no additional charge: • Staging* • Property Inspection • Pest Inspection *Includes: Design, Installation, 1 Month of Furniture Rental and Removal
Our clients love the personal attention they receive from Michael Repka, from beginning to end. Additionally you will receive a suite of free services from the DeLeon Team, including interior design, construction consulting, handyman work, and dedicated marketing to local and foreign buyers. ®
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1155 CARVER PLACE, MOUNTAIN VIEW Beautifully renovated | 3 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | Listed at $1,798,000
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Coldwell Bankerr
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Palo Alto Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $6,999,888 728 Addison Ave Experience European Luxury Modern Mediterranean estate custom-built in 2014, perfect floor plan for entertaining. 5 BR/3.5 BA Alex Comsa CalBRE #01875782 650.325.6161
Woodside $4,549,000 12424 Skyline Blvd Estate home on 5 acres w/ gorgeous ocean views.Chef ’s kitchen, spacious decks & tennis ct! 4 BR/3 full BA + 2 half Valerie Trenter CalBRE #01367578 650.323.7751
Menlo Park Sun 1 - 4 $3,895,000 60 Politzer Dr Beautifully landscaped w/ brick walkways & patios, sunny seating areas and places to play. 6 BR/5 BA Pat McDonnell/ Sophie Kirk CalBRE #01926896/ 01926401 650.324.4456
Menlo Park Sat/Sun 1:30-4:30 $3,275,000 865 Middle Ave Beautifully built, this sun drenched home features quality craftsmanship inside and out. 4 BR/4.5 BA Hossein Jalali CalBRE #01215831 650.323.7751
Portola Valley Sun 1:30-4:30 $2,998,000 130 Fawn Ln Prime Central Portola Valley. Updated country home located on 1+ acs of tree-studded land. 4 BR/2 BA Dean Asborno CalBRE #01274816 650.851.1961
Palo Alto Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $2,800,000 1453 Kings Ln, Palo Alto Great opportunity to remodel/develop. Cul-de-sac. One of the most desirable neighborhoods. 3 BR/2 BA Lea Nilsson CalBRE #00699379 650.325.6161
Menlo Park Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $1,099,998 1050 Almanor Ave Quaint cottage style home. Hardwood floors, newly painted inside. Award winning MP schools 2 BR/1 BA Glenn Bartkowiak CalBRE #01934275 650.324.4456
Emerald Hills Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $979,000 642 Park Rd Beautiful vws from this private retreat! Peaceful 2/3 ac lot. Charming cabin w/hdwd flrs. 2 BR/2 BA Buffy Bianchini CalBRE #00878979 650.851.2666
Redwood City Sat/Sun 12:30 - 4:30 $968,000 1031 Harrison Ave Corner lot in Mt Carmel Ranch style home in soughtafter neighborhood. Opportunity to update, remodel, build new. 3 BR/1.5 BA Gil Oraha CalBRE #01355157 650.325.6161
Santa Clara Sat/Sun 1 - 4 $958,000 1952 Fraser Pl Desirable newer home set in a quiet cul-de-sac. Convenient to shopping, Hwy 101 & 880. 4 BR/2.5 BA Gil Oraha CalBRE #01355157 650.325.6161
San Mateo Sun 1 - 4 $898,888 1351 Wayne Way Very clean well appointed kitchen. Living areas have been updated w/ new crown molding. 2 BR/2.5 BA Glenn Bartkowiak CalBRE #01934275 650.324.4456
East Palo Alto Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $850,000 2115 Myrtle Pl Stunning newer home Corner lot in East Palo Alto Gardens. Lots of features. Easy access to commute, shopping. 4 BR/3 BA Jane Jones CalBRE #01847801 650.325.6161
Redwood City $788,000 1336 Hancock St Well located commercial/residential zoned. Many permitted uses for this property. 2 BR/1 BA Paul Skrabo CalBRE #00665727 650.323.7751
San Jose Sun 1 - 4 $759,000 371 Pamlar Ave Extra features & big lot End of the road privacy, remodeled kitchen & baths, bonus 4th bedroom, large sunroom 3 BR/2 BA Gordon Ferguson `CalBRE #01038260 650.325.6161
Menlo Park Sat/Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $650,000 2140 Santa Cruz Ave #A207 Popular 1BD/1BTH unit at Menlo Commons. This unit overlooks pool & inner courtyard. 1 BR/1 BA Beth Leathers CalBRE #01131116 650.324.4456
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Alain Pinel Realtors
COME ON IN
LOS ALTOS $4,395,000
MENLO PARK $3,750,000
PALO ALTO $3,600,000
324 Live Oak Lane | 5bd/3.5ba Rick & Suzanne Bell | 650.941.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30
1650 Oak Avenue | 4bd/3ba Valerie Soltau | 650.462.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:00-4:00
519 Tennyson Avenue | 3bd/2ba Linda Walker Smith | 650.941.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30
PALO ALTO $2,898,000
REDWOOD CITY $2,498,000
LOS ALTOS $2,295,000
3105 Louis Road | 5bd/3ba C. Li/J. James | 650.323.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30
542 Live Oak Lane | 5bd/3.5ba Estela Freeman | 650.462.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30
1361 Country Club Drive | 2bd/2ba Rick & Suzanne Bell | 650.941.1111 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30
REDWOOD CITY $1,950,000
MOUNTAIN VIEW $1,898,000
PALO ALTO $1,695,000
849 Mohican Way | 3bd/3ba Evelyn Fisher | 650.529.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30
1114 Blue Lake Square | 5bd/3ba Derk Brill | 650.323.1111 OPEN SUNDAY 1:30-4:30
135 Bryant Street | 2bd/2.5ba D. Simons/U. Sanchorawala | 650.323.1111 BY APPOINTMENT
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This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 9, 2015. (PAW Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015) AB COACHING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610097 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: AB Coaching, located at 918 Cowper 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): ANTONIA BENQUE 918 Cowper St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 14, 2015. (PAW Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015) INTERSECTIONS IN EDUCATION CONSULTING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 609967 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Intersections in Education Consulting, located at 3347 Greer Road, 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): CALLIE TURK 3347 Greer Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 9/22/15. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 7, 2015. (PAW Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015) AMAR REALTOR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610178 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Amar Realtor, located at 505 Hamilton Ave. #100, 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): STANFORD REAL ESTATE NETWORKS, LLC 1208 E. Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 9405 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 12/7/2010. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 15, 2015. (PAW Oct. 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 2015) KM LUXE TRAVELS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610116 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: KM Luxe Travels, located at 251 High Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual.
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997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOSEPH ROBERT KEATING, aka JOSEPH ROBERT KEATING, JR. Case No.: 1-15-PR-177484 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JOSEPH ROBERT KEATING, aka JOSEPH ROBERT KEATING, JR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JAMES J. RAMONI, Public Administrator of Santa Clara County in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: JAMES J. RAMONI, Public Administrator of Santa Clara County be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on November 6, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date
of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Mark A. Gonzalez Lead Deputy County Counsel 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300 San Jose, CA 95110 (408)758-4200 (PAW Oct. 16, 23, 30, 2015) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GREGORY L. CHESSON Case No.: 1-15-PR-177329 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of GREGORY CHESSON. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SUZANNE FERRY (aka SUZANNE CHESSON) in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: SUZANNE FERRY (aka SUZANNE CHESSON) be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held on November 16, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 10 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Kristin R. Wu, Esq. 550 Hamilton Avenue, Ste. 100 Palo Alto, CA 94301 (650)321-5005 (PAW Oct. 16, 23, 30, 2015) NOTICE TO CREDITOR’S OF BULK SALE AND OF INTENTION TO TRANSFER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE (UCC Sec. 6101 et seq. and B & P 24073 et seq.) ESCROW # 0126008003-PC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat a bulk sale of assets and a transfer of alcoholic beverage license is about to be made. The name(s) and business address(es) of the seller(s) is/are Siam Orchid PA LLC 496
Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301 Doing Business as: Siam Orchid All other business name(s) and address (es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the seller(s), is/ are: (if none, so state) NONE The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller is: SAME The name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) is/are: Thyme LLC The assets being sold are generally described as: furniture, fixtures, equipment, inventory and liquor license and are located at: 496 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301 The kind of license to be transferred is: 41-On-Sale Beer and Wine Eating Place #505044 Now issued for the premises located at: 496 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301 The anticipated date of the bulk sale 11/18/15 and upon approval by Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at the office of OLD REPUBLIC TITLE COMPANY located at 1000 Burnett Avenue, Suite 400, Concord, CA 94520 or E-Fax to 925-265-9040. The amount of the purchase price or consideration in connection with the transfer of the license and business including estimated inventory is $ 195,000. It has been agreed between the Seller/ Licensee and the intended Buyer/ Transferee, as required by Sec 24703 of the Business and Professions Code that the consideration for the transfer of the business and license is to be paid only after the transfer has been approved by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Dated: October 18, 2015 Buyer(s): Thyme LLC /S/ Winston Haddaway By: Carol Swaniker 10/30/15 CNS-2808633# PALO ALTO WEEKLY NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. CA-15-668547-HL Order No.: 7301502294-70 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 3/8/2006. 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): Harry Wong and Maryanne A Wong, husband and wife Recorded: 3/30/2006 as Instrument No. 18867478 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, California; Date of Sale: 11/20/2015 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: At the North Market Street entrance to the Superior Courthouse located at 190 N. Market Street San Jose, California 95113 Amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $1,696,662.02 The purported property address is: 1421 DANA AVE, PALO ALTO, CA 94301 Assessor’s Parcel No.: 003-23-043 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
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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 888988-6736 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-15-668547-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: 888-988-6736 Or Login to: http://www. qualityloan.com Reinstatement Line: (866) 645-7711 Ext 5318 Quality Loan Service Corp. TS No.: CA-15-668547-HL IDSPub #0094281 10/30/2015 11/6/2015 11/13/2015 PAW ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA Case No.: 115CV287081 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: ARVIND PURUSHOTHAM and ROHINI S. CHAKRAVARTHY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: A.) PARTHA SRINIVAS PURUSHOTHAM to PARTHA SRINIVAS PURUSHOTHAM RAO B.) NITIN SRINIVAS PURUSHOTHAM to NITIN SRINIVAS PURUSHOTHAM RAO. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: January 5, 2016, 8:45 a.m., Room: 107 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: PALO ALTO WEEKLY Date: October 21, 2015 Thomas E. Kuhnle JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT (PAW Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 2015)
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ALL-CENTURY . . . Stanford women’s volleyball alumna Logan Tom was named the Pac-12 Player of the Century, as announced this week when the Pac-12 Networks revealed the Pac-12 All-Century Women’s Volleyball roster on ‘Pac-12 Sports Report’. The Cardinal is well-represented on the all-century list with a conference-best nine players named to the 16-member squad, which was broken down by setters (4), middle blockers (3), outside hitters (8) and libero (1). Stanford all-century representatives are: Foluke Akinradewo (middle blocker, 2005-08), Kristin Folkl Kaburakis (outside hitter, 199497), Kristin Klein Keefe (outside hitter, 1988-91), Ogonna Nnamani Silva (outside hitter, 2001-04), Bev Oden (middle blocker, 1989-92), Kim Oden (middle blocker, 1982-85), Lisa Sharpley Vanacht (setter, 1994-97), Logan Tom (outside hitter, 1999-02) and Kerri Walsh Jennings (outside hitter, 1996-99).
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Forood said. “Her game has matured a lot and she plays well with the lead.” Davidson, who won 29 matches last year, including an 18-3 record in dual matches, mostly from the No. 2 singles slot, won a tourna-
osh Garnett and Kyle Murphy are two of the reasons why guys like Kevin Hogan, Christian McCaffrey, Barry Sanders and Remound Wright are enjoying banner years and No. 8 Stanford is dominating Time of Possession in the Pac-12 Conference football statistics. The two offensive linemen on the left side have been moving people off the line to create space for the running backs and keeping people away from Hogan all season. The result is that the Cardinal averages 221.1 rushing yards and owns a conference-best 174.6 rating in passing efficiency. These days they’re also creating their own highlight reels. The Cardinal (6-1, 5-0 Pac-12) travels to Pullman for an important game against Washington State (5-2, 3-1) on Saturday night and another 7:30 p.m. kickoff to be televised by ESPN. The offensive line once again will figure prominently. The Cougars, suddenly a contender for the division title after finishing 3-9 a year ago, bring a three-game winning streak into the contest — the second-longest active streak in the conference to Stanford’s six-game streak. “They’re playing well, their protection is better and their quarterback (sophomore Luke Falk) is playing at a high level,” Cardinal coach David Shaw said. “They’re making plays down field and the defense is getting takeaways.” Garnett is the most experienced of the linemen, having appeared in 48 games (25 starts) and becoming the first true freshman to start a game in more than a decade. In Stanford’s 31-14 victory over Washington last weekend, he made two blocks on the same play, the first flattening a lineman in the backfield and the second sending a cornerback into orbit. The video of the blocks has accrued over three million views. Garnett’s high school highlight video, on You Tube, from Puyallup in Washington, has significantly fewer views but is no less entertaining. Murphy, who has appeared in 47 games (22 starts) at Stanford, was caught on tape waving his hands as an eligible receiver. No one was near him and Hogan seemingly barely acknowledged his existence. Hogan, McCaffrey and company, though, think highly of the dynamic duo, as they do of center
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Stanford’s Caroline Doyle hits a return while fellow junior Taylor Davidson watches during their victory in the doubles finale at the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional on Tuesday at Stanford.
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Titles provide good start for Stanford Rick Eymer
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inning a regional tournament in October can help in May, when the men’s and women’s collegiate tennis teams are competing in in the national championships. That’s good news for Stanford, which had three different champions crowned at the USTA/ITA Northwest Regional Championships in Seattle and at Stanford’s Taube Family Tennis Center. Sophomore David Wilczynski needed to grind through three sets to beat hometown favorite Mitch Stewart of Washington, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, to win the men’s singles title on Sunday in Seattle. Junior Taylor Davidson won the women’s singles title at Stanford, and then joined with fellow junior Caroline Doyle to win the doubles title. The Cardinal men’s doubles team of Nolan Paige and Maciek Romanowicz fell, 6-2, 6-2, in their final to USF’s Vasco Valverde and
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OF LOCAL NOTE . . . Menlo School grad John Wilson came up with 13 saves in goal to help the Johns Hopkins men’s water polo team defeat MIT, 11-9, on Sunday to win its 16th CWPA Division III Championship in New London, Ct. Wilson, a sophomore, faced 22 shots and was named to the all-tournament first team as Johns Hopkins improved to 16-8 all-time in the division title match, including 10-6 when playing MIT for the title. Junior Bret Pinsker from Palo Alto High had a goal for the winners. Also on the Johns Hopkins roster are Menlo grads Spencer Witte, Andreas Katsis and Dimitri Herr. . . . Pacific senior Hailie Eackles from Pinewood School was named to the West Coast Conference preseason team in women’s basketball this week at the WCC Tip-Off in a vote of the conference’s head coaches. Eackles, a second team All-WCC selection last year, is the Tigers’ top returning scorer . . . Sacred Heart Prep grad Ben BurrKirven, a freshman linebacker at the University of Washington, had a total of seven tackles, tying him for third on the team, during last Saturday’s 31-14 loss to host Stanford in Pac-12 action . . . Former Menlo School soccer goalie Timmy Costa earned his ninth shutout of the season to help Whitworth hold off Puget Sound, 1-0, on Sunday in Tacoma, Wash.
Success on offense can be traced to outstanding blocking
Stanford’s Taylor Davidson (left) and Caroline Doyle accounted for the singles and doubles titles. Nils Skajaa. It takes mental toughness and physical fitness to survive the grueling five-day, two-matches a day tournament, tendencies that play well under the bright lights of a national stage. “Taylor always had a fiery spirit,” Stanford women’s coach Lele
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Stanford soccer teams will take shots at Pac-12 titles Cardinal cross country squads race at conference championships; volleyball looks to move up in the standings by Rick Eymer he nationally No. 4-ranked Stanford women’s soccer team will attempt to claim its 10th Pac-12 title this weekend when it plays host to No. 16 USC and UCLA. Stanford and USC, the Pac-12ís top two teams, squared off last night. The Cardinal took an 8-0 record into the match (14-2 overall). On Sunday, Stanford will host UCLA at 3:30 p.m. (Pac-12 Networks). The Cardinal wrapped up its regular-season road schedule last week, earning a 2-1 double-overtime win at No. 25 Washington State and a convincing 3-0 victory at Washington. The Cardinal finished the regular season with a 7-1 record on the road. This week, Haley Rosen and Jane Campbell were named the Pac-12 Offensive and Goalkeeper of the Week for their standout per-
23 Cardinal men are fifth-year seniors and cross country AllAmericas Jim and Joe Rosa. The twins have not raced together in a cross country race since the 2012 NCAA Championships. Also in the lineup is Collin Leibold, a graduate transfer from Georgetown, who will make his Stanford debut. The No. 10 Stanford women will feature Aisling Cuffe, the 2013 Pac-12 champion. The Cardinal will be aided by two middledistance All-Americans who will make their cross country season debut, Rebecca Mehra and Claudia Saunders, a two-time NCAA 800-meter outdoor runner-up. Sophomore Elise Cranny will not race. On Thursday, Cuffe was named Pac-12 Womenís Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year. A biology major and a fifth-year senior, Cuffe carries a 3.54 cu-
mulative GPA while assembling a collegiate career that is among the best in the country.
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Graham Schuler and right guard Johnny Caspers, both in their third year in the program, and right tackle Casey Tucker, in his second year. Murphy moved to left tackle after Andrus Peat went in the first round of the NFL draft. Tucker, considered one of the top five offensive tackles in the nation out of Hamilton High in Arizona, took over on the right side. “Every week we’ve gotten a little better,” Murphy said of the O-line. “With backs like Christen, all you have to do is get the play started.” Shaw was almost ho-hum about Garnett’s block. After all, he’d already seen the high school tape. “Josh is having a good season,” Shaw said. “He’s made some phenomenal blocks. He’s had three or four pancake blocks a game for the past month. That one just happened to be highlighted. He’s playing at a high level.” Murphy, who feels more comfortable on the left side, has never caught a pass though he did play fullback for his sixth grad Pop Warner team, but lined up as a wide receiver and is convinced he would have at least made a first down if the ball came his way. “We have so many different players who can make big plays,” he said. “I was the last option on the play.” His coaches prefer he concentrate on his offensive line play and that’s just fine with him. “He’s one of the better tackles in the conference,” Shaw said. “He has a chance to be special. There is good synergy between him and Josh and the communication is solid.” Falk is the reigning Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week after throwing for 514 yards on 47-of62 passing in the Cougars’ 45-42
ment for the first time when she beat Fresno State’s Mayar Ahmed, 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 on Tuesday. Davidson and Doyle won the doubles title with a 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory over California’s Klara Fabikova and Olivia Hauger. “It feels amazing,” Davidson said. “There are no words to describe it. I wasn’t playing well in the first two sets and I knew if I wanted to take it I had to step up.” All three Cardinal winners earned trips to the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., which begins Nov. 12. “It’s very prestigious to win the Northwest Regional Championship,” Forood said. “Anyone who has ever done anything here has won this tournament.” Davidson extended Stanford’s winning streak at the event to six years, becoming the fifth different Cardinal to win over that span — joining Carol Zhao, Kristie Ahn (who won it twice), Krista Hardebeck and Nicole Gibbs. Zhao beat Davidson, her doubles partner, in last year’s singles championship match. Zhao is taking the fall season off. “I’ve never played in New York,” said Davidson, who grew up in North Carolina. “The whole thing is mind blowing.” Compiling a 55-17 overall record through her first two seasons, Davidson was tested for the first time in tournament play, having won all of her previous matches in straight sets while not allowing more than four games in any set. She has also won her last six threesetters, dating to May of 2014. “It tells you she’s in good physical shape,” Forood said. “It’s been a long weekend and she’s played a lot of matches. It’s very important
because this sets the tone for the year.” Stanford reached the Elite Eight before losing to Georgia in last year’s NCAA tournament. The team returns virtually intact, with a group of highly touted freshmen who have impressed their teammates and coaches. “Playing my teammates is as good as it gets,” said Davidson, who has played doubles with freshman Caroline Lampl. “Whatever I encounter on the court, I’ve seen it many times in practice. My teammates are my toughest competitors and my biggest supporters.” Forood also got a good look at the freshmen during the tournament. In addition to Lampl, the class consists of Melissa Lord, Naomie Rosenberg, Menlo School grad Elizabeth Yao and Kimberly Lee. “I’m excited about the freshmen,” Davidson said. “They came in and impressed every one of us. I know they will step up when the season comes.” Said Forood: “They are hugely talented players, all of them.” Castilleja grad Paulette Wolak returns for her second season with the Cardinal. She walked on last year and found herself in the regular lineup at times. She still had to prove herself all over again. “She continued to play all summer,” Forood said. “The fact she started in doubles was important.” Speaking of doubles, Davidson and Doyle approached Forood about playing doubles for the tournament. This was their first tournament together. “We practiced a day and a half,” Davidson said. Wilczynski was an all-Pac-12 honorable mention as a freshman, going 22-14 overall, including 13-9 in dual meets, mostly out of the No. 3 slot, though he became the first Stanford player to play at least once at all six singles spots. Q
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formances last weekend. Rosen was a dangerous threat in both games and led Stanford in points (5), goals (2) and shots (7) on the weekend. Campbell earned her sixth shutout of the season with three saves at Washington, despite challenging weather conditions with rain falling throughout the duration of the match. She also made three saves to limit No. 25 Washington State to one goal in 108:30 minutes and help lead Stanford to a double-overtime victory. Clinching a Pac-12 title also will on the mind of the Stanford men’s team. The Cardinal (5-0-2 Pac-12, 12-1-2), unbeaten in 14 straight matches, takes a No. 4 national ranking on the road for the final time this regular season for matches at Oregon State (2-2-1, 7-5-1) on Friday (5 p.m.) and Washington (21-2, 6-3-5) on Monday at 7 p.m. (Pac-12 Networks).
Stanford is coming off a 3-1 win over visiting San Diego State on Monday as junior Jordan Morris celebrated his 21st birthday with a goal and an assist. Also, Stanford senior defender Brandon Vincent was named one of 10 student-athletes selected as finalists for the Senior CLASS Award in collegiate soccer. Cross country Stanford freshman Grant Fisher will make his collegiate debut Friday at the Pac-12 Cross Country Championships at the Colfax Golf Club. Fisher, the only high school runner in history to win two Foot Locker national championships and run a sub-4 mile, will be an intriguing addition to Stanford’s lineup, which will be the strongest it has fielded this season. Among the changes or additions expected to run for the No.
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Stanford offensive lineman Josh Garnett (51) became an internet sensation by leveling a Washington defender last week. victory over Arizona last week. He averages 412.1 yards and has thrown for 26 touchdowns. He averages a touch over 55 passing attempts per game. Gabe Marks became the first WSU player to catch four touchdowns in a game. “Washington State is a great team and they are going to throw the ball 40-50 times,” Cardinal defense end Aziz Shittu said. “It’s going to be a test of wills all nights. You may not get to him the first 20 rushes but you have to keep on going.” The Cougars, picked to finish fifth in the North Division, have scored 170 points in conference to Stanford’s 225, but have allowed the fifth-most points (145) while the Cardinal have given up the third-fewest (121). NOTES: Coming off his second straight 300-yard game, McCaffrey increased his national lead
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in all-purpose yards and now averages 259.71. He is also tied for ninth in rushing with 953 yards. Hogan ranks 19th in completion percentage at 66.7, while senior inside linebacker Blake Martinez is tied for fourth in tackles, averaging 11.4 per game. As a team, Stanford ranks 18th in rushing offense (221.1), 19th in third-down conversion and 32nd in scoring defense at 20.6 points/game . . . Washington State, which features the Air Raid Offense, ranks second in passing (414.0) and 28th in third-down conversion (44.8) . . . Stanford and Washington State have played two common opponents: Oregon State and Arizona. The Cardinal beat the Beavers in Corvallis, Ore., 42-24, and the Wildcats at home, 55-27. The Cougars defeated Oregon State, 52-31, and Arizona, 45-42, both at home. Q
Women’s volleyball Stanford swept visiting Arizona State, 25-17, 25-23, 25-9, in a Pac12 Conference match Wednesday in Maples Pavilion The 14thranked Sun Devils, who beat Stanford in four sets nearly four weeks ago, had a chance to move into a tie with the Cardinal in the conference standings. Stanford (8-3, Pac-12, 14-5 overall) instead distanced itself a little bit and enters Friday’s 8 p.m. match against visiting Arizona with an opportunity to sneak into second place depending on how other matches play out this weekend. Stanford freshman Hayley Hodson led all players with 14 kills on .345 hitting to go with eight digs, two blocks and an ace. Q
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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
M-A controls football destiny after big upset
SHP boys miss out on a title
After an 0-3 start to season, Bears are two more crucial wins away from winning PAL Bay Division title
Castilleja, SHP girls join Menlo, Gunn boys as league champions by Keith Peters s expected, the Sacred Heart Prep and Castilleja girls plus the Menlo School and Gunn boys put the finishing touches on their regular-season water polo titles this week. Perhaps unexpected, the Sacred Heart Prep boys did not join in the title celebration as the Gators dropped a 12-7 decision to visiting Bellarmine and lost the regular-season crown in the West Catholic Athletic League. “We certainly showed our youth and inexperience tonight,” said SHP coach Brian Kreutzkamp, whose team fell to 5-1 in league (14-6 overall). “They came to play and beat us in every single aspect of the game.” The Bells held a 4-3 halftime lead before pouring it on in the third period with a five-goal outburst to take a 9-4 advantage. Sacred Heart Prep, which dropped its third straight contest — losing twice on Saturday in the North-South Water Polo Challenge while finishing fourth — failed to convert any of its seven power-play advantages. Junior Jackson Enright tallied three goals and senior Finn Banks added two for SHP with junior goalie JC Marco stopping 13 shots. “I am hopefully we can turn this around and play them again in a few weeks,” Kreutzkamp said of the upcoming WCAL playoffs. The rivals actually could meet again this weekend in the Memorial Cup, a 16-team tournament held at Bellarmine and Gunn. SHP and Bellarmine would only meet if they both advance to the finals at Bellarmine on Saturday at 5:10 p.m. The WCAL playoffs begin Tuesday with the finals set for Nov. 7 at Sacred Heart Prep. In Atherton, host Menlo School won the PAL Bay Division crown for the 21st time in 23 years with a 20-5 dunking of Woodside. Senior James Thygesen led the way with four goals with Niko Bhatia, Ben Wagner, Miller Geschke and Sam Untrecht all adding three goals. The Knights (6-0, 12-11) put the game away quickly by taking a 9-0 first-quarter lead. It was 12-4 at halftime. Menlo-Atherton, meanwhile, finished second in the Bay Division following a 26-8 romp over visiting Carlmont. The Bears (5-1, 13-6) got nine goals from Mostyn Fero, five from Christian Huhn
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by Ari Kaye enlo-Ather ton has grabbed control of the PAL Bay Division football race. Now, it’s up to the Bears to hold on to it. The next two games will determine just that. Thanks to last week’s stunning 17-14 defeat of defending champion Sacred Heart Prep, MenloAtherton is in perfect position to take the Gators’ title. The Bears are 3-0 in the division (4-3 overall) after their fourth straight victory. M-A first needs to defeat host Terra Nova (1-2, 3-4) on Friday night in Pacifica at 7 p.m. Should the Bears win and Sacred Heart Prep knock off visiting Burlingame (3-0, 7-0) in a 3 p.m. contest, M-A will sit all alone atop the standings. However, the Bears still must play at Burlingame on Nov. 6 in what could decide the division title. If M-A falls to Terra Nova and SHP beats Burlingame, it’ll be a three-way tie for first. The important thing is that the Bears control their destiny, thanks to a standout effort on Senior Day against the Gators. “I’m so proud of the way our kids played,” said M-A first-year coach Adhir Ravipati. “They did not break. There was a couple of times at the end where it looked like it might break for us, but they hung in there and made the plays when they needed to.” The Bears ran the ball effectively on offense, forced turnovers on defense and converted kicks on special teams. The victory was especially sweet for the senior class, which was previously winless against the Gators. “They really wanted this one bad,” Ravipati said of his seniors. “For those guys it’s definitely something they’ll remember.” The Bears offensively stuck with their usual run-heavy game plan, and handed the ball off 29 times to junior running backs Jordan Mims and Stavro Papadakis. Although Mims did not replicate his school-record 324-yard rushing performance from last week, he and Papadakis did rack up 163 yards on the ground against an improving Gators’ defense. Sacred Heart Prep came into the contest riding high on a threegame winning streak while averaging 44.5 points a game. The Gators, however, were held scoreless in the second half after battling to a 14-14 deadlock by intermission. Menlo-Atherton opened the third quarter by driving 67-yard in 6 1/2 minutes to set up a 35-yard field-goal attempt from senior kicker Dylan Calderon. The senior calmly knocked down his fourth field goal of the season, and the
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The junior running back/ linebacker rushed 12 times for 79 yards and added nine tackles to help the Bears upset defending PAL Bay Division champion Sacred Heart Prep, 17-14, and remain unbeaten and tied for first in league play.
Collins, a senior, had 38 kills in three volleyball wins while DiSanto, a junior, had 44 kills and 34 digs as the Bears stayed perfect in the PAL Bay Division and beat state-ranked St. Francis in nonleague play.
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Honorable mention Gillian Bressie Menlo water polo
Maddy Ellison Sacred Heart Prep golf
Kirby Knapp Menlo-Atherton volleyball
Gillian Meeks* Gunn cross country
Jessie Rong Menlo golf
Maddie Stewart* Menlo volleyball
Finn Banks* Sacred Heart Prep water polo
Dylan Calderon Menlo-Atherton football
Jack Gray Menlo-Atherton football
JC Marco* Sacred Heart Prep water polo
Kent Slaney* Palo Alto cross country
Christian Wiseman Menlo-Atherton football * previous winner
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and three each from Jorge Pont and Alex Hakanson. On Tuesday, Gunn wrapped up its third straight SCVAL De Anza Division regular-season title with a 9-5 win over host Los Gatos. Senior Calder Hilde-Jones led the Titans (10-1, 14-5) with three goals with Jack Mallery adding two. In Los Altos, Palo Alto (8-3, 11-11) bounced back from a tough loss to Monta Vista last week and defeated the host Eagles, 12-10. Girls Sacred Heart Prep wrapped up another 6-0 season in the WCAL with a 16-7 dunking of host Presentation on Wednesday. The Gators (16-4 overall) jumped to a 7-0 first-quarter lead and cruised from there. Junior Maddy Johnston led the way with five goals with senior Malaika Koshy adding three. Addi Duvall, Nadia Paquin and Layla Waters all finished with two goals each. Sacred Heart Prep will host one half of the 13th annual NorCal Championships starting Friday. The No. 2-seeded Gators open against Clovis North at 1:05 p.m. Semifinals are at Sacred Heart
Prep on Saturday at 11:10 a.m. and 12:20 p.m., with the championship match set for 5 p.m. In the PAL Bay Division, Castilleja and the Menlo School boys wrapped up perfect division seasons at the expense of their Woodside opponents. Castilleja (7-0, 11-6) won its second straight Bay Division title with a 9-2 victory in the Wildcats’ pool. Senior Celia Aldrete, who scored the winning goal in overtime to give the Gators their firstever PAL title last year, poured in six goals against Woodside. The Menlo-Atherton girls, meanwhile, topped visiting Carlmont, 6-3, to finish 4-2 in league (7-9 overall). Annabelle Paris tallied four goals to lead the Bears. In Los Gatos, defending champion Gunn (7-4, 9-6) fell to to the Wildcats, 7-4, and dropped to the No. 3 seed for the upcoming SCVAL De Anza Division playoffs. In the PAL Ocean Division, Menlo School lost a shot at an outright title following a 9-4 setback to visiting Mercy-Burlingame. The Knights (11-1, 14-8) will share the division crown with Mercy. Q
Bears retook the lead and held it. A key interception by Jack Gray in the fourth quarter ended one potential scoring drive while a missed 30-yard field goal attempt by the Gators on their final drive resulted in M-A fans storming the field to celebrate. In other games Friday: Palo Alto (2-2, 3-5) plays host to Homestead (1-2, 3-4) in SCVAL De Anza Division action at 7 p.m.; Gunn (0-4, 0-8) visits Santa Clara in SCVAL El Camino Division play at 7 p.m.; Menlo School (12, 5-2) visits South San Francisco (0-3, 2-5) in the PAL Ocean Division and Pinewood (3-2, 4-2) visits Anzar in Mission Trail Athletic League eight-man action at 6 p.m. Girls golf Menlo School put itself in solid position to earn a possible at-large berth into next Tuesday’s Central Coast Section Tournament at Rancho Canada (East Course) in Carmel Valley by shooting a 408 and tying for first place with Harker at the West Bay Athletic League Tournament at Poplar Creek in San Mateo. The Knights were led by sophomore Sophie Siminoff, who carded three birdies in her 3-over round of 74. Menlo’s other contributing scores included an 81 by Jessie Rong, an 83 by Clarie Wilson, Nicole Henderson’s 84 and Lauren Yang’s 86. Sacred Heart Prep finished third in the team race with a 421 with Lauren von Thaden leading the way with a 78 while teammate Isabelle Chun carded a 79. On Tuesday, Gunn failed to win a third straight SCVAL Tournament title at Santa Teresa Golf Course in San Jose. Lynbrook won with a 395, followed by Palo Alto (413) and the Titans (417), who already had a CCS berth secured by winning the league dualmatch title. Lynbrook’s Jessica Luo was the individual champion with a 2-over 73. Palo Alto’s Stephanie Yu and Gunn’s Lydia Tsai each shot 74 while tying for second with Lynbrook’s Angela Liu. Other Gunn scorers included Margaret Redfield, who tied for fifth with a 77 while Tiffany Yang shot 86), Isha Mohan an 86 and and Lucy Lamb carded a 94. At the PAL Championships at Poplar Creek, Menlo-Atherton won the team title. The Bears, who shared the regular-season title with Aragon, carded a 441 to hold off the Dons (476). Menlo-Atherton had three players among the top 10 — Naomi Lee (72), Abigail Pederson (75) and Christiana Park. Lee finished second, Pederson third and Park seventh. Q
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