Palo Alto Weekly November 13, 2015 by Palo Alto Weekly

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Vol. XXXVII, Number 6

November 13, 2015

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Spectrum 18 Eating Out 24 Movies 25 Holidays 27 Puzzles 61 Q Arts Shere energizes Cubberley Artist Studio Program

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Q Sports Stanford women’s soccer opens NCAA tourney at home Page 63

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Local news, information and analysis

New laws target toxic chemicals in Palo Alto Proposed ordinances would amortize CPI’s plating shop; update city’s hazardous-materials ordinance by Gennady Sheyner

s Barron Park residents know all too well, residential streets and industrial operations often make for a toxic mix when it comes to neighborhood harmony. A decade ago, residents of Chimalus Drive became alerted to that

fact when they detected a noxious odor in the air. The smell turned out to be nitric-acid gas that was released by Communications & Power Industries (CPI), a manufacturer of microwave- and radiofrequency products that operates a plating shop on Hansen Way. Resi-

dents became further alarmed in March of 2008, when the company spilled about 20 gallons of hydrochloric acid into its rear driveway, and again two months later, when 50 gallons of wastewater containing copper and nickel were inadvertently released into Matadero Creek. Though there haven’t been any reported incidents at CPI since 2008 and the company has significantly reduced the quantity of deadly chemicals it uses, concerns

about the toxins being stored so close to homes remain widespread in Barron Park. On Monday night, the City Council will consider the most dramatic action to date to address this concern: a law that would require businesses using high quantities of hazardous materials to be located at least a football field away from residences, schools, day care centers and other areas where occupants may be particularly susceptible to the effects.

In addition, council members will consider a separate ordinance that would require CPI to relocate or close its plating shop by 2026. The council’s Nov. 16 discussion will follow years of studies and counter-studies, pleas from residents and protests from CPI. In 2012, CPI argued in a letter that its recent facility upgrades and its March 2012 decision to reduce (continued on page 9)

EDUCATION

School proposals garner mixed responses Enrollment committee divided on need to open new schools by Elena Kadvany

Palo Alto Housing Corporation

Rafael Alvarez and Valeria Padilla enjoy a healthy snack during homework club at their Palo Alto apartment complex. The after-school program, run by the Palo Alto Housing Corporation, is supported in part by the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund.

HOLIDAY FUND

After-school program builds kids’ life skills Children develop teamwork, leadership through Palo Alto Housing Corporation homework club and recreational activities by Matt Rupel

t was 5:25 p.m. on a Friday when a group of about 25 kids from the Palo Alto Housing Corporation’s Residential Services Program dashed up the basketball court at Palo Alto High School. A little boy volleyed an orange ball towards the basket. It hit the corner of the rim and rebounded into the kinetic frenzy of children below. A whistle rang out in the court and Kate Young, the director of resident services at the Palo Alto Housing Corporation (PAHC), cupped her hands around her mouth. “Alright guys, great job! Let’s

bring it in,” she shouted. A collective groan came out from the mass of players. This is the PAHC’s afterschool club. For four days out of the week, kids who live at one of the nonprofit’s below market rate housing complexes meet up in a study room and work diligently on their studies. On Fridays, they get to go to a special activity, which, for the beginning of the school year,

has been a basketball program. The after-school program received a $2,500 grant last April as part of the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund to help maintain free or low-cost activities in the program, helping to keep spots open to kids from all economic backgrounds in one of PAHC’s complexes. “We try to provide that support and those opportunities for these kids to grow, not just academically, but also to build skills like teamwork and communication, to be leaders and work in small teams,” Young said. “In a variety (continued on page 14)

ivisions between the members of the Palo Alto school district’s Enrollment Management Advisory Committee came to light Tuesday night during a school board discussion of the state of enrollment growth in the district and how to best address it. In October, the group’s elementary subcommittee preliminarily recommended that the district not do what has long been discussed — open a 13th elementary school — and instead made other proposals to work with what some of its members said is stable, not growing, K-5 enrollment. The group’s secondary subcommittee then made a twopronged recommendation: to open a new, innovative middle and high school at Cubberley Community Center while simultaneously implementing reforms at the existing secondary schools. The new-school proposal has garnered excitement from parents and others (including Sal Khan, founder of online-education platform Khan Academy, and David Kelley, founder of Palo Alto design firm Ideo, whose comments on the topic were read on their behalf). Yet within both the elementary and secondary groups, several members disagree on the path forward. Three elementary members, including former Palo Alto school board trustee Diane Reklis, have penned a “minority report” that suggests the district does, in fact, need an additional elementary school. “While overall enrollment is not directly forcing our hand, our

elementary schools are not adequate for the 21st century education our students deserve and our teachers are prepared to deliver,” the report states. Another minority-report author, Erin Mershon, told the board the subcommittee didn’t tackle the problems it was charged with solving, including keeping overflowed students within their intended geographic cluster of schools; determining where children moving into a new Stanford University housing project, University Terrace, would go to school and how that impacts other students in the area; managing the impact of the district’s “choice” programs on students and schools; and downsizing schools with large enrollment. “If we open another elementary school, we could solve almost all of these problems,” Mershon said. “We could remove portables. We could make room for class-size reduction. We could have the ability for flex space on each of the campuses. Currently, the district’s largest elementary school, Ohlone, enrolls 607 students, and its smallest, Barron Park, 288 students, according to the district. The minority report makes four main recommendations: Q Open a 13th elementary school, possibly a K-8 immersion school at a district-owned site at Garland Elementary; move the district’s Spanish immersion program there to make room for the new Stanford housing students at Escondido Elementary School. (continued on page 12)

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RECIPE FOR

ROAST TURKEY O LID AY

ROAST TURKEY Ingredients:

12 pound whole turkey 3/4 cup olive oil

This is a delicious recipe for a perfectly browned, moist roast turkey. 1. Preheat oven to 350°.

2 tablespoons garlic powder

2. Rinse turkey and remove giblets. Put turkey in roasting pan.

2 teaspoons dried basil 1 teaspoon Kosher salt

3. In small bowl combine olive oil, garlic powder, dried basil, ground sage, salt & pepper. Apply mixture to outside of turkey.

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

4. Put quartered onion, garlic and lemon inside turkey.

1 spanish onion quartered

5. Add water to bottom of roasting pan and cover turkey (either lid or foil).

1 teaspoon ground sage

1 whole garlic head (peeled cloves) 1 whole lemon halved 2 cups water

6. Bake 3 – 3 1/2 hrs or until thigh reaches 180°F (85°C). Remove bird & let stand for 25 minutes before carving. Enjoy!

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It’s age discrimination among adults. —Cory Wolbach, Palo Alto City Councilman, on raising the minimum age for buying cigarettes to 21 years. See story on page 7.

Around Town WITH HONOR ... Palo Alto’s veterans received a warm welcome, a standing ovation and a special City Council proclamation Monday as part of the city’s Veterans Day Recognition Event. A crowd of residents, city employees and veterans packed into the Council Chambers for the two-hour event, which featured a flag presentation by U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, speeches by City Manager James Keene, and Police Chief Dennis Burns and a video called “Memorial Day” created by former Paly student Darren Reis. The city also singled out for special recognition several veterans, including Cliff Vrooman, 91, who served as a gunner and radio operator in England during World War II and who earned a Purple Heart; Gary Higgins, who served in the Vietnam War and who this year was named “Veteran of the Year” by state Sen. Jerry Hill; and Todd Seeley, an Army veteran who served in Iraq’s Diyala Province in 2009 and who is currently a project manager in the city’s Public Works Department. The crowd also heard from another city employee with war experience: John Preston, a Marine who served in Iraq and now works in the Palo Alto Fire Department. A musician who released his first album a year ago, Preston performed a song called “Your War Is Over,” which he said he composed after returning from war and when he was going through “the hardest time of my life.” At the time, Preston said, he was struggling with alcohol and his best friend was going through a meth addiction. He wrote the song for himself and for his friend, as a way of saying, “It’s time to wake up,” he said. Since then, he’s been touring the country and addressing veterans who may be going through similar problems and struggling with PTSD, addiction and thoughts of suicide. “As veterans of our country, we get a mission and we accomplish it,” Preston said. “So mine right now is saving the lives of veterans.”

CANS FOR FINES ... Library delinquents in San Mateo County have a chance this holiday season to redeem themselves with charitable food donations, library officials announced Monday. Starting on Nov. 16, outstanding fines will be waived for donations of nonperishable boxed or canned food to any of the county’s 12 branches, including those in Atherton, East Palo Alto, Portola Valley and Woodside. All donations go to the Second Harvest Food Bank for San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Second Harvest distributes more than 45.5 million pounds of food every year, and last year the library program collected more than 36,000 pounds of food — enough to feed 1,400 families for a week, library officials said. The donation drive lasts until Dec. 31. THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT ... Nowadays there really is an app for everything. There are game apps, cooking apps, finance apps, every kind of app imaginable. But if given the chance to build your own app, what would it be? The Congressional App Challenge for the 18th Congressional District has launched again, and U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo is inviting high school students to compete by creating and exhibiting an app for mobile, tablet or computer devices around science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. The challenge ends at midnight EST on Jan. 15, 2016. Students must upload a YouTube or Vimeo video explaining the app and what they learned through the competition process. The apps will be judged by a panel of individuals in the academic, software and entrepreneurial fields. The winning app in each participating congressional district will be displayed in a U.S. Capitol exhibit. “This is an extraordinary opportunity for students in our congressional district, and I’m excited to help foster their interest in science, technology, engineering and math education,” Eshoo said in an announcement. “The next decade is estimated to create approximately 8.5 million STEM job opportunities, but during that same time it is also estimated that the U.S. will face a shortage of 1 million STEM graduates. The Congressional App Challenge seeks to address this disparity by encouraging students to create their own app and pursue an education in STEM fields.” For more information, visit congressionalappchallenge.us. Q

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City to debut proposals for new public safety building Community meeting will be held Nov. 18 for California Avenue area location by Sue Dremann As part of the plan for a new headquarters, the police and emergency-services departments would move from City Hall; in their new location, they would be near the North County Courthouse in the California Avenue area, according to a draft presentation for the Nov. 18 meeting by contractors RossDrulisCusenbery Architecture Inc. and Watry Design Inc. Cost estimates, as adopted by the City Council in June 2014, are $47 million for a 44,500-squarefoot building, $10 million for property acquisition and $9.6 million to build a parking garage in the same area. The council identified three potential locations for a new building and parking structure during a May study session. Existing parking lots C-6 and C-7, at 250 Sherman, were the council’s preferred sites. The public safety building would be bounded by Sherman Avenue, Birch Street and Park Boulevard; the parking structure would be located between Birch

and Ash streets on Sherman, according to the draft plans. The structures would replace the existing parking lot while adding about

Palo Alto mulls raising age for buying tobacco Proposal by two City Council members would set minimum age at 21 by Gennady Sheyner

staff to draft an ordinance raising the age, Councilmen Marc Berman and Cory Wolbach opposed the move. All four agreed that tobacco products are deeply harmful, but they split on whether to make a distinction between different stages of young adulthood. Burt had no issue with doing that. “It’s completely reasonable for us to consider restrictions to sales of harmful material for those who are not fully adults yet,” Burt said. Wolbach, however, said adults have the right to make decisions, even “really bad” ones like smoking cigarettes. He said that while he despises tobacco, he cannot support legislation that would raise the legal age for buying it to 21. “It’s age discrimination among adults,” Wolbach said. Berman agreed and, to demonstrate his reasoning, proposed an even more radical move: banning tobacco sales for everyone. When that proposal predictably fizzled, Berman made the point that if something is so harmful that it should require prohibition, it shouldn’t be sold to anyone in the community. Like Wolbach, he took issue with

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Two designs for a new public-safety building in Palo Alto are under consideration, including this threestory design that would be located across Sherman Avenue from the North County Courthouse in the California Avenue area.

PUBLIC HEALTH

ith Palo Alto’s crusade against tobacco rapidly gathering force, two members of the City Council on Tuesday floated a proposal to raise the minimum age for buying cigarettes to 21. The proposal, made by Councilmen Pat Burt and Tom DuBois, came in the midst of a lengthy discussion by the council’s Policy and Services Committee about updates to the city’s ever-evolving smoking ordinance. Over the course of the meeting, the four-member committee unanimously agreed to recommend a ban on electronic cigarette sales at all locations where traditional cigarettes are currently banned; to recommend a ban on smoking at all apartment complexes where non-smokers reside; and to pursue a licensing program that, for the first time, would keep track of cigarette vendors and require them pay an annual fee to the city. There was far less consensus on the proposal to raise the legal age for cigarette purchases beyond the state threshold of 18. While Burt and DuBois voted to direct

on the south side of California Avenue, according to architectural renderings. This design would include a public plaza. The two-story design would have a larger footprint extending horizontally almost the entire block to Park. It would lack a public plaza and would include fewer streetlevel parking spots. The building would not be visible from most locations along California Avenue. The public parking structure could be a structure with no ground-level commercial space or

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lans for a new public safety building in Palo Alto will get an airing on Nov. 18 when the city holds a community meeting to evaluate the site at 250 Sherman Ave. A new building was listed as the city’s top infrastructure priority in its June 2014 Infrastructure Plan, following attempts since 1985 to replace the existing public safety building, which opened in 1970 at 275 Forest Ave. The police headquarters no longer meets seismic and code requirements for an essential-services building. Continued delay places the community at risk in a major earthquake, city and emergency services officials have said. A new building would allow emergency and police services to operate continuously during and after a major earthquake. It would house the police department, 911 Emergency Dispatch Center, the Emergency Operations Center, the Office of Emergency Services and the Fire Department’s administration.

150 additional public spaces. Design options under consideration include: a three-story, 50-foot-tall (maximum) building and basement with two levels of underground parking as well as 22 street-level parking spots; or a two-story, 35-foot-tall structure above two basement levels with below- and above-grade parking. The three-story public safety building would have a more compact footprint than the other option, would extend about half the block between Birch and Park and would be visible above the existing Keeble and Shuchat building

a proposal to raise the buying age. “I haven’t heard any rationale for why someone who is 20 should be treated differently from someone who is 21,” Berman said. The unexpected discussion about raising the tobacco-buying legal age sprouted out of a recommendation from Public Works staff that the council support efforts in the state Legislature to raise the age limit. This includes, most notably, Senate Bill 151, a proposal by state Sen. Ed Hernandez to change the state’s legal age (he withdrew the bill in July just before a scheduled hearing). Burt and DuBois both supported this recommendation. Burt then proposed taking things a step further and pursuing a local ordinance to that effect. Santa Clara County recently passed an ordinance raising the legal age to 21 in unincorporated areas. And while questions remain whether cities and counties can legally adopt a stricter threshold than the state, City Attorney Molly Stump cited the determination by the county’s legal

counsel that they could. She said her office will have to explore the subject further before returning to the committee with more information. It will ultimately be up to the full nine-member council to determine whether the city should make the change. But while the proposal to raise the smoking age remains hazy and controversial, a recommendation to include electronic cigarettes in the existing ban is heading toward almost certain adoption. The committee agreed that the devices, which turn nicotine and other chemicals into vapors, should be treated like regular cigarettes. Berman said e-cigarettes are something that “really scare me.” He said he was worried about all of a sudden seeing Palo Alto’s youth adopting this habit. “I worry a lot that they’re going to transition to real cigarettes, and we’re going to be back to where we were 20 years ago, before the gains were made,” Berman said. Committee members had previously expressed support for including e-cigarettes in the ban, and they reaffirmed that position Tuesday night when they directed staff to return with an ordinance that achieves this. There was far more discussion and uncertainty, however, about a proposal to ban smoking at multifamily buildings. The committee considered this issue earlier this year but balked at making the change. Instead, they asked staff to evaluate whether it’s possible to isolate smoking areas in build-

ings and protect individual apartments from second-hand smoke through the use of air-cleaning systems, ventilation and air-conditioning systems. On Tuesday, Public Works staff and several public-health experts testified that preventing second-hand smoke from spreading is extremely difficult, if not impossible. Their testimony in many ways echoed the 2006 finding by the U.S. Surgeon General that “separating smokers from non-smokers, cleaning the air, and ventilating buildings cannot eliminate exposures of nonsmokers to secondhand smoke.” Suzaynn Schick, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, said “third-hand smoke” can persist for days, months and years. It can also travel as a vapor and can combine with other chemicals to form a “very toxic, lung-specific carcinogen.” Liz Williams, project manager for American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, pointed to a 2005 conclusion from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, which concluded that “ventilation cannot eliminate the (continued on page 13)

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Council switches gears on Midtown bike project Palo Alto to study ‘hybrid’ design involving Matadero Creek, area streets by Gennady Sheyner

espite political and technical roadblocks, Palo Alto officials signaled Monday night that they they are still looking at Matadero Creek as part of an east-west route for bicyclists in the Midtown area. By an 8-1 vote, with Tom DuBois dissenting, the City Council directed staff to consider a “hybrid” design that would incorporate portions of the Midtown Creek and other area streets to create a new bike trail between the Caltrain tracks on the west and U.S. Highway 101 to the east. In addition, staff will consider other alternatives for an east-west route, including new bike amenities along Loma Verde Avenue, Colorado Avenue and other streets in the area that is roughly bounded by Oregon Avenue in the north and East Meadow Drive in the south. Proposed by Councilman Pat Burt, the hybrid design is a marked departure from the type of off-road recreational trail that city officials had in mind in 2012,

when they approved a bike master plan that identified the Matadero Creek trail as a possible alternative to improve the city’s east-west connections. The master plan called for a feasibility study for using the levees along the creek for bicyclists and pedestrians. But the trail project hit a series of snags this year, with dozens of Midtown residents protesting that the trail would intrude on their privacy, threaten their security and pose safety hazards for users. At the same time, transportation planners learned that building the trail would require the city to navigate through a series of physical obstacles installed by the Santa Clara County Water District, which has jurisdiction over the creek. Sarah Syed, a city senior transportation planner, told the council Monday that some parts of the channel are narrow and leave little room for anything other than the district’s maintenance ramps. In addition, the district installs floodcontrol structures that limit access

along the creek during the rainy season between October and April. Located at Louis, Middlefield and Greer roads, these barriers cross the entire channel and would make it difficult to maintain a year-round bike path. Furthermore, the ramps that the water district uses would create a series of steep dips for local cyclists. Syed said that given the various obstacles, the project has evolved “from studying primarily the Matadero Creek trail to taking a much closer look at many onstreet alternatives.” But the council agreed that while the initial vision no longer seems feasible, the dry creek can still be a part of the solution. Burt suggested that staff work with water district staff to explore opportunities to use parts of the Matadero Creek. At the same time, he requested that staff explore other “collector” streets (a category between a busy artery and a quiet neighborhood street). “If we’re going to have a really

strong bike system, we need more ‘ands’ and fewer ‘ors,’” Burt said. “We need not just a single decent route for folks to go essentially across town, south of Oregon. We need more than one.” He also noted that opportunities in a “built-out community to take advantage of off-road paths are going to be very few.” “We shouldn’t too readily give up on taking advantage of those opportunities to the degree that they’re feasible,” he said. “That’s why I want to continue to look at options in using the Matadero Creek right-of-way.” DuBois disagreed and cited the opposition that the project encountered from Midtown residents and from a specially appointed Citizens Advisory Committee, which includes Midtown residents and bicyclists. Both this committee and the city’s Pedestrian and Bicyclist Advisory Committee supported staff’s recommendation to abandon the feasibility study for the Matadero Creek channel and to evaluate other options. “I think we should listen to them,” DuBois said. The city, he said, should invest

its resources in bike improvements along Loma Verde and East Meadow. Between 2008 and 2012, these two streets had the most vehicle-bicyclist collisions, he said (10 and nine, respectively). “I think that’s kind of concerning, so I’d like to see us spend money there,” he said. DuBois’ motion to scrap the Matadero Creek trail fizzled by a 2-7 vote, with only Mayor Karen Holman supporting it. Others shared the view of Councilman Cory Wolbach that the project should be subject to further study. “We haven’t really had a chance to study the hybrid option,” Wolbach said. “We might rule it out in the future, but I want to make sure we really thought about it before we ruled it out.” Once DuBois’ motion to remove Matadero Creek from consideration failed, the council voted 8-1 to study a series of options, including the hybrid approach, before identifying a preferred alternative. The council also asked staff to evaluate bike improvements for East Meadow and to return to the council with a budget amendment to fund these new studies. Q

Correction

The Nov. 6 article, “Living authentically,” incorrectly stated that 15 percent of respondents to a National Center for Transgender Equality survey “almost” left school due to harassment. Instead, they did leave school. The story also incorrectly stated that there are more than 40 families in a transgender support group organized by a Palo Alto parent. Rather, there are 40 members. The Weekly regrets the error. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, jdong@ paweekly.com or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

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the quantities of stored hazardous materials have greatly enhanced safety. According to CPI, processing tanks were equipped with seismic anchors, certain storage tanks were relocated and an assortment of sensors, scrubbers and monitoring systems were installed to create what the CPI report calls “an advanced, stateof-the-art facility with layers of redundant safety technologies.” Given these proactive steps, CPI argued in a letter, “There is no rational or reasonable basis for the city to consider the termination of CPI’s vested use of its property by way of a zoning amendment and then amortizing its use.” “CPI has a tremendous investment in its facility and an ongoing interest in operating safety for the benefit of its employees, nearby residents, other users of Stanford Research Park and the community at large,” the letter states. “CPI will not abandon a facility that has served as the headquarters for its business for almost 60 years and where it conducts the majority of its most important manufacturing.” Over the past five years, both the city and CPI commissioned further studies — followed by supplemental studies — in hopes of determining just how dangerous the facilities are. The city’s consultant, AECOM, evaluated five different hypothetical disaster scenarios, including two “extreme” situations. The only one that was shown to pose a potential problem was the release of nitric acid, which could affect people’s health up to 92 feet from the release point. Then last year, in response to Barron Park residents’ concerns, AECOM did additional analysis that considered a massive earthquake that could result in a damaged building and a mixing of chemicals at the CPI site. The scenario, which AECOM deemed

“highly unrealistic,” was shown to potentially affect residences up to 616 feet away. CPI’s consulting firm then came back with its own analysis showing that an earthquake of this magnitude has a 0.75 percent chance of occurring over the next 50 years. In its August 2014 report, the firm Albus-Keefe and Associates noted that this probability is well below the state code, which requires similar structures to be designed for earthquake events “with a probability of exceedance equal to 2 percent in 50 years.” These assurances have done little to assuage concerns from the community and the council, which decided in October 2014 to move ahead with the amortization. In addition, the council directed staff to put together a broader ordinance that would regulate hazardous materials in close proximity to residential zones. The decision came despite assurances from CPI President Bob Fickett that “we are not the enemy” and that CPI “take(s) the health of the community and our employees very seriously.” “In the 60 years, there’s never been any harm to any community members,” Fickett said. On the other side of the debate were the roughly 20 residents from Barron Park who came to support the amortization. Lydia Kou framed it as an issue of health and told the council that “it’s time to put the residents first,” while Samir Tuma called the existing proximity between the plating shop and the neighborhood an “unsafe situation.” Ultimately, the council voted 8-0 to move ahead with amortization. “In the end, it comes down to the safety of the people who live in our community, and we’re in charge of that safety,” Councilwoman Liz Kniss said during the October 2014 hearing. Now, the council will have a chance to review and possibly approve the two proposed ordi-

Brave new world Max Grubb, 16, a Boy Scout with Troop 80 in Mountain View, assists Pat Hyver, right, and her husband, Gregory Hyver, center, as they “walk” in the New York City Veteran’s Day Parade through Google Cardboard, a virtual-reality 360 degree experience that uses a smartphone, headphones and a cardboard viewer. The activity was part of the Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities event at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System on Nov. 11.

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nances, which were the subject of a community meeting last month. If it votes to support both, it would spell the beginning of the end for CPI’s plating shop as well as the beginning of a new process for reviewing manufacturers looking to set up shop near schools and homes. The most significant change in the broader hazardous-materials ordinance is a new tier, called “Tier 2,” for companies that use toxic materials in quantities that exceed the city’s threshold and that use substances deemed as “toxic” or “extremely hazardous” by state and federal regulators. This tier would include 14 facilities in Palo Alto, four of which are buildings on the CPI campus. The change would reform the current system, which includes two tiers but in which every one of the more than 400 companies with hazardous materials is classified in the lower tier. In addition to the CPI buildings, the list of facilities that would fall under the new Tier 2 includes buildings operated by Genencor International, Hammon Plating, Hewlett Packard, ONED Materials, the Palo Alto Research Center, Space Systems Loral and Target Discovery. Aside from CPI, none of the companies that would be classified as Tier 2 are located close enough to residential areas for concern, based on the proposed ordinance. But the new law would ensure that new Tier 2 facilities would not be allowed within 300 feet of “residences, schools, daycare facilities, homes for the elderly, convalescent homes and similar uses whose occupants may be more susceptible than the general population to adverse ef-

fects of exposure to toxic chemicals and other pollutants.” Similarly, schools, residences and other such organizations would be prohibited from locating in industrial zoning districts within 300 feet of Tier 2 facilities. The new ordinance would also have a third tier, which would cover users whose hazardous materials exceed even higher thresholds — the ones outlined in the California Accidental Release Program. Currently, no facilities of this sort exist in Palo Alto, according to a report from the Department of Planning and Community Environment. An inventory put together by the Palo Alto Fire Department and its consultant, AECOM, shows that while CPI isn’t the only facility with high levels of hazardous materials, it has by far the the greatest variety of toxic chemicals. Between them, CPI’s four Tier 2 buildings house 36 chemicals that are deemed “toxic” or “highly toxic.” One of these buildings, the plating shop, uses 18 such chemicals. The shop is also the only one of the four that is listed as having “extremely hazardous substances.” Another CPI facility, known as Building 1B, is listed as using 15 chemicals deemed “toxic” or “very toxic.” No other building on the 14-facility list uses more than four such chemicals. If the council approves the new ordinance, the three CPI buildings that stand within 300 feet of the Barron Park homes would be deemed “legal and non-conforming,” which means they once complied with the city’s zoning laws but no longer do so. However, CPI would not need to relocate them. The new ordinance would also

categorize 419 companies under Tier 1, a list that includes gas stations, nail salons, paint retailers and manufacturing businesses. Unlike Tier 2 companies, these businesses use hazardous materials that are not deemed “toxic or highly toxic by the state Fire Code” or classified as using “extremely hazardous substances” by federal regulators. Tier 1 companies would continue to be governed under the city’s existing program, which requires each of the facilities that store, use or handle more than 55 gallons, 500 pounds or 200 cubic feet of regulated material to submit to the city a “Hazardous Materials Business Plan” that lists the inventory of chemicals used. The ordinance calling for CPI to phase out its plating shop by 2026 could mean the shop’s closure or relocation to a different part of the campus that its at least 300 feet away from residents. The deadline is based on an amortization study that the city commissioned in 2012, which concluded that 20 years would be a reasonable termination date, with the countdown starting in 2006, when CPI last made a major upgrade to the plating shop. CPI, for its part, argued that amortization should be based on at least a 40-year period. In its own study, the company argued in 2012 that it can “neither move its plating process from its current campus location, outsource its plating process to another location/vendor, nor move its entire manufacturing plant elsewhere without significant detrimental financial loss in investment to CPI.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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News Digest Two bills aim to lower volume on airplane noise Responding to an upswell of concern from constituents about airplane noise, U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo is co-sponsoring a pair of bills that she hopes will restore some peace to local skies. Both of the bills propose reforms to the federal agencies charged with monitoring and mitigating airplane noise. One bill, known as the Quiet Community Act, would re-establish the Office of Noise Abatement and Control, which was created by Congress in 1972, and remained in effect before getting defunded in 1982 during the Reagan administration. At that time, the White House argued that noise issues were best handled at the state or local government level, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Funding for the EPA office was phased out in 1992. The second proposed bill, known as the FAA Community Accountability Act, would require the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to work with local communities to limit noise impacts any time new flights are being planned or implemented. Both proposed acts were prompted by the soaring number of complaints from Palo Alto and nearby communities about the new flight plans recently implemented by the FAA as part of its transition to the Next Generation Air Transportation System, known as NextGen. The effort, which aims to standardize arrival and departure routes through the use of GPS-based technologies, has created what residents say amounts to highway lanes over Palo Alto, with flights now flying in greater numbers and at lower altitudes. Q — Gennady Sheyner

CDC to conduct suicide-cluster study in Palo Alto At the Palo Alto school district’s request, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has agreed to conduct an in-depth epidemiology study of the community’s teen-suicide clusters, Superintendent Max McGee said Tuesday. The district has been working for several months to engage the CDC with the support of the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, which formally filed the request for the study on behalf of the district. These epidemiology studies, called an “Epi-Aid,” are “investigations of serious and urgent public health problems in response to formal request for rapid assistance from states, federal agencies, international organizations, and ministries of health from other countries,” a CDC report states. Epi-Aids are short-term investigations designed to address emergencies, said Sara Cody, the county public health director. Cody is also a parent in the district. Cody is working with the CDC to develop core objectives for the study, which she said will likely include comparing Palo Alto to nearby cities and understanding if there are obvious risk factors and/or protective factors associated with the community’s suicide clusters. The school district and other community stakeholders, such as youth suicide-prevention collaborative Project Safety Net and Stanford University, will also be involved in drafting objectives, McGee said. He said the district is eager for the CDC’s expertise to address what he called a “public health threat” in Palo Alto. The investigation should be conducted fairly quickly, McGee said, and an executive summary will be issued within a few weeks of a CDC team visiting Palo Alto. A full, formal report would be issued after several months, he said. Q — Elena Kadvany

Teacher resigns after sexual-harassment case A Palo Alto High School teacher has received $150,000 from the school district in exchange for his resignation following accusations that he engaged in inappropriate behavior with a former student, according to an agreement obtained by the Weekly. The Board of Education approved the resignation agreement with Kevin Sharp on Oct. 27, with Sharp’s resignation effective Oct. 31. Superintendent Max McGee signed the agreement on Oct. 21 and Sharp on Nov. 1. The agreement states that Sharp, who was on paid sick leave this semester, would remain so through Oct. 31. Sharp, who taught English at Paly since 2004, was the subject of a district personnel investigation and a separate sexual-harassment investigation conducted by a district law firm in 2014 and 2015 into allegations that he had “groomed” a former female student to facilitate a consensual sexual relationship that began after graduation. The resignation agreement states that neither party is admitting any “wrong doing, violation of the law or breach of any agreement.” Palo Alto Unified also agreed to provide only limited information about Sharp if a prospective employer contacts the district. However, the district did already report the circumstances involving Sharp to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, the agreement states. Q — Elena Kadvany

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A celebration of life, relationships Barron Park residents observe Indian Diwali, the Festival of Lights

festival of enlightenment, of the triumph of good over evil, will take place in Barron Park this Sunday, Nov. 15, when residents join together for Diwali, the ancient Hindu Festival of Lights. The event, which is open to all those who live in the Barron Park neighborhood, is the latest in a series of Barron Park Association-sponsored diversity activities, which strive to share the cultures of new immigrants with their neighbors and build community. It will include a henna booth, Indian music, dance, food and chai, and plenty of good spirits during the three-hour event that starts at 2 p.m. at Barron Park Elementary School. Beyond observing a tradition, the Barron Park festival has taken on a broader significance for its organizers. “I’ve been here six years, and we didn’t know each other,” Nita Ganapathi said of the 12 to 14 people on the Diwali committee. But just working together as organizers is enabling them to form relationships, within and without the Indian community. Committee member Lydia Kou agreed. “I’ve learned about their culture. They are very giving people. I’ve just enjoyed the friendship, rather than walking by with a solemn ‘Hello,’” she said. “And they know how to party.” Ganapathi and fellow committee member Jaya Pandey smiled. “We break into a dance at the drop of a hat,” Ganapathi said. Diwali marks the start of the Indian new year and takes place after the fall harvest. Its traditions date back to at least the mid-first millennium A.D., according to scholars. It celebrates the three aspects of the feminine: power, wisdom and abundance, Ganapathi said. And it is about cleansing the negativity inside oneself. Pandey said Diwali is preceded by Navratri (also known as Navrathri), which goes on for nine nights and 10 days. Navratri is a time to pay homage and respect to ancestors and to the Divine Mother Durga — the mother of the universe. A large lamp stays lit for all nine days, worshiping the nine forms of Devi, the female goddess. “It is a light to the sky, to the heavens,” Ganapathi said. Hindus then celebrate Diwali for five nights. The main celebration typically occurs on the new moon, the darkest night, in late October or in November. Every state in India has a variation on Diwali, Pandey and Ganapathi said. People clean and repair their homes and businesses and add

colorful decorations. They honor important relationships and friendships. Lights — from hundreds to thousands — fill every room and are kept burning throughout all of the days of the festival. On other festival days, there are special bathing rituals in some regions, and women decorate their hands with henna, the symbols of which are thought to bring blessings and protection. The third night of Diwali honors Lakshmi, the goddess of material and spiritual wealth, fortune and prosperity. People dress in their finest or new clothes and jewelry and open their doors and windows, lighting the way with lights and lanterns for Lakshmi to enter and bring prosperity. The new clothes and cleaned homes and businesses also signify life’s transitory nature, Pandey said. “Everything is impermanent. You don’t have to possess things,” she said. In the two days following the main celebration, spouses celebrate their mutual love and devotion and siblings celebrate their

loving relationships. Ganapathi said that Diwali also offers a sense of continuity. “All of the generations get together, and it’s a way to pass on the culture,” she said. For expatriates like Ganapathi and Pandey, handing down traditions to younger generations can be somewhat problematic because, in a sense, the elder generation is stuck in a time capsule, she said. “What we did 20, 30, 40 years ago, we’re stuck in that,” she said of traditions they’ve imported to the United States. But in India, the culture is continually growing — assimilating both the ancient and the modern. “It continually accepts new things into it,” she said. It’s the universal values — the concepts of love, devotion, friendship and neighborliness — celebrated in Diwali that remain constant, they said. And ultimately, that’s what they hand down. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Organizers of the Barron Park neighborhood’s Diwali cultural celebration include, clockwise from top, Nita Ganapathi, Lydia Kou and Jaya Pandey.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Nov. 9)

Los Arboles: The council approved a single-story overlay zone for the Los Arboles tract. Yes: Unanimous Midtown: The council directed staff to explore a “hybrid” design for the proposed Midtown Connector bike route, which would include segments of the Matadero Creek and surrounding streets. Yes: Berman, Burt, Filseth, Holman, Kniss, Scharff, Schmid, Wolbach No: DuBois Styrofoam: The council supported an ordinance banning the sale and distribution of plastic foam at local businesses. Yes: Unanimous

Board of Education (Nov. 10)

Parcel tax: The board heard the 2014-15 fiscal report for the last year of a parcel tax approved in 2010. Action: None Strong Schools Bond: The board heard an annual report from the Citizens’ Oversight Committee for the district’s $378 million Strong Schools Bond. Action: None Budget: The board heard a first interim budget update, including revenue changes and sources as well as expenditures for the 2015-16 year. Action: None Enrollment: The board discussed preliminary research, findings and recommendations from the district’s Enrollment Management Advisory Committee. Action: None Gender-identity policy: The board discussed a new policy, “Gender Identity and Access,” that protects the rights of transgender and gender non-conforming students. Action: None

Council Policy and Services Committee (Nov. 10)

Bryant Street Garage Fund: The committee heard a presentation from the Community Services Department and local high school students about programs and services that have been funded through grants from the Bryant Street Garage Fund. Action: None Smoke: The committee recommended including e-cigarettes in the city’s smoking ordinance and pursuing a ban on smoking at multifamily complexes. The committee also split 2-2 on a proposal to raise the minimum age for buying tobacco products to 21 years. Burt and DuBois supported the change, while Berman and Wolbach dissented. Yes: Unanimous

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Police announce breaks in East Palo Alto homicides Manhunt on for alleged killer, another arrested for multiple shootings by Sue Dremann

n what police describe as a turning point in East Palo Alto’s crime-solving efforts, the department on Nov. 6 announced the arrest of one man and a warrant for another in connection with two separate homicides. Police Chief Albert Pardini at a press conference identified the men as Antonio Sotelo-Moreno, 25, of East Palo Alto, and Warren Morrison Jr., 23, of Stockton. Pardini was flanked by Don O’Keefe of the U.S. Marshal Service, Northern District of California; John Warren, chief inspector for the San Mateo County District Attorney’s office; East Palo Alto Criminal Investigations Division Commander Jerry Alcarez; and East Palo Alto Operations Bureau Commander Jeff Liu. Sotelo-Moreno was arrested in Apatzingan, Michoacan, Mexico, on Oct. 30, for the Aug. 17, 2014, shooting of four people near Purdue Street at around 11:35 p.m. Police found the four victims while investigating an alert from the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system.

Two 18-year-old Hispanic men and a 20-year-old Hispanic woman were transported to Stanford Hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. The fourth victim, 18-year-old Nazario Barajas, died at the scene. Police arrested one suspect, Herson Cruz, 23, of Menlo Park, on Dec. 29, 2014, after a lengthy investigation by the East Palo Alto Criminal Investigations Division and the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office. Cruz was picked up after an off-duty officer saw him at Starbucks in East Palo Alto, Pardini said. Sotelo-Moreno evaded police, fleeing to Mexico shortly after the crimes. Police enlisted the U.S. Marshals Service to locate and arrest Sotelo-Moreno. Mexican authorities apprehended him acting on information from the U.S. Marshals Service Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force. Liu said little information can be released regarding the case at this time, but it appears gang-related. A U.S. citizen, Sotelo-Moreno

was quickly transported back to the Bay Area on Nov. 4 and booked into the San Mateo County Jail. He faces one count of homicide, three counts of attempted homicide and one count each of negligent discharge of a firearm and possession of a firearm by a felon. He is being held without bail and is scheduled to appear in San Mateo County Superior Court on Nov. 12, Pardini said. O’Keefe said the U.S. Marshals has worked with the city before, and it continues to work closely with East Palo Alto on select cases. In Morrison’s case, police and the DA’s office identified the Stockton resident as being connected with the Oct. 25, 2015, death of Jarmal Magee, 31, an East Palo Alto resident, who was gunned down at approximately 9:30 p.m. Police responded to the 300 block of Wisteria Drive after receiving numerous 911 calls reporting multiple gunshots followed by someone screaming. Officers found Magee suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was treated at the scene and transported to a local hospital, where he died. Police and the DA’s office identified Morrison, who allegedly had an argument with Magee sometime prior to the shooting. There is no evidence that the incident was gang-related,

School (continued from page 5) Q Begin planning for a new neighborhood school to be built at the adjacent district-owned sites of 525 San Antonio Road and Greendell School on Middlefield Road. Q Maintain Barron Park and Juana Briones elementary schools as neighborhood schools but encourage each school to take on a particular theme or interest, such as STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics), to focus program and staff development and to become a model for similar programs at other schools. Q Mitigate the overflow of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, such as by having enough capacity for new students who arrive after registration date and implementing stricter protocols for intra-district transfers. (Mershon said the latter is already underway this year.) Disagreement Tuesday night was not limited to the elementary school proposals. Parent Todd Collins, also an elementary subcommittee member, spoke during the meeting’s public comment time as an individual to challenge the secondary group’s conclusion that the middle and high schools are too

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Alcarez said. Police are still seeking witnesses. A $5 million warrant is out for Morrison’s arrest. He has not yet been located, police said, but he is believed to still be somewhere in the community. “He is considered to be armed and dangerous. Do not approach this individual,” Pardini said. Anyone who sees Morrison should call 911 or the police dispatch center at 650-321-1112. These two cases represent a new chapter for East Palo Alto’s law enforcement and highlight how police can successfully bring serious and violent crime cases to a close with the community’s help, Pardini said. Residents’ willingness to come forward enabled investigators to identify the suspects. The arrest marks a turning point, Alcarez said. “I think the community is tired of burying these young men,” he said. Pardini said the most significant change since he began leading the department a year ago has been outreach to the community. He walks the precincts with his officers twice a week, and people are now approaching them with tips about crimes. As a result, calls to dispatch are up 4.5 percent in the past six months, Pardini said. And “calls to the tip line are now up 70 percent,” he added. The “snitch mentality,” in which people felt that talking to the police was a violation of the code or to be feared, is being broken down thanks to outreach and because people are tired of crime, he said. Victims and witnesses understand they will be protected through the Witness Protection Program, he added. The department is also assess-

ing 20 cold cases. Pardini has hired a part-time cold-case investigator, Michael Stasko, who led a 30-person homicide detail for the San Francisco Police Department. Stasko’s position is being funded through a grant that will expire at the end of the fiscal year, but the department will keep looking for other sources of funding. East Palo Alto has had four homicides so far this year compared to five for all of 2014, Pardini said. One of the four cases, the one involving Morrison, has been concluded; the other three are still actively being investigated, he said. Between 2009-2013, the city experienced 35 homicides. It has solved 12 of them, or 34.3 percent, he said. The department has 36 swornofficer positions, including Pardini’s, with three still unfilled. Staff for those positions are in the process of being trained. He expects to reinstitute specialized divisions, such as traffic and gangs, sometime in the spring. As part of the department’s outreach, the department holds quarterly town hall meetings and shows a PowerPoint presentation to educate parents on how to keep their kids out of gangs. Liu said that has led to several arrests. In one case, three juveniles involved in bullying were arrested for various other crimes, including burglary and carjacking. The department is encouraging the community to continue to help solve crimes. Anyone with information regarding these or other cases or with information regarding Morrison’s whereabouts is asked to contact the department at 650-321-1112, anonymously by email at epa@ tipnow.org or by text or voicemail to 650-409-6792. Q

large. Enrollment at Palo Alto and Gunn high schools this year sits at just under 2,000 students each, with 1,979 at Paly and 1,886 at Gunn. (The high schools have not yet reached the capacity they were built for, which is 2,300 students.) “But so what, right? There’s a school of thought that even if their recommendation is completely wrong, what’s the worst thing that can happen?” Collins said. “We build a new school. Capital costs are viewed by many people as practically free. We’re told that there are donors waiting in the wings to fund part or all of a new school. So why would anybody be against building a new, innovative school? “I actually think a lot is at stake,” he continued. “We are not a district that’s light on its feet. We spent three years debating the school calendar. The decision to open a new secondary school, the bond to fund it, the design of the building, choice versus neighborhood enrollment, the impact of traffic — not to mention, that’s even before you get to the new educational program that would be there. “This program would consume our complete attention for the entire next five to seven years, plus in turn, our entire current budget surplus for every year thereafter.”

The secondary subcommittee did recommend the district take a “both, and” approach by forming small-learning communities within its three middle and two high schools by extending existing pathway programs and rolling out “core teams” or “house systems” systemically. Within core teams or “houses,” cohorts of students move together through school with the same teachers, which would improve connectedness, enable more teacher-student engagement, and “make our large schools feel more personal and accessible,” the subcommittee’s report states. The entire enrollment management committee is expected to issue a final report with recommendations to the board in December. There will also be a public town hall meeting to discuss their proposals before then, likely the week of Nov. 30, Superintendent Max McGee said Tuesday night. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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health danger posed by secondhand smoke, and smoking does not belong indoors.” Given the difficulty of protecting apartments from secondhand smoke, the Policy and Services Committee voted to simply ban smoking at multifamily complexes. This recommendation went well beyond the recommendation from Public Works staff to limit the ban to common areas, balconies and outdoor areas close to doors and windows. Phil Bobel, assistant director of Public Works, argued that enforcing the ban would be far more difficult if it were also extended to individual apartments. The committee, however, was not swayed. Enforcement of the ordinance, Berman said, will be a challenge — but it’s not that different from enforcing other nuisance issues, including noise. “We all know we need to do a better job enforcing the gas leafblower ban,” Berman said. “This is the same thing, but I don’t think it being difficult is necessarily a reason not to do it.” The committee also discussed a proposal by staff to partner with Santa Clara County for a program

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to regulate tobacco sales. Members agreed that such a partnership should be pursued. Burt said he didn’t think enforcement would be a problem and noted that only 20 to 30 local businesses currently sell cigarettes. It shouldn’t be too onerous, he said, for staff to require these places to get licenses and to then collect annual fees. “I wouldn’t have a problem charging enough to fully cover whatever (the cost of administrating the program) is,” Burt said. “It may mean we don’t have little mom-and-pop gas stations selling cigarettes because they choose to not pay a $700 fee, or whatever it

might be. So be it, in my mind.” In addition to tobacco and ecigarettes, the proposed prohibition would also apply to medical marijuana. While the council will have the option of exempting marijuana use in its ordinance, the committee decided toward the end of Tuesday’s long discussion not to delve into this topic just yet. DuBois was the only council member who spoke on the topic, and he doesn’t favor the exemption. “I think smoke is smoke,” DuBois said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a public hearing at the special meeting on Monday, November 30, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider Adoption of an Ordinance establishing a Single Story Overlay District for 72 Homes Within the Greer Park Tract #796, by amending the Zoning Map to re-zone the area containing from R-1 Single Family Residential to R-1(S) Single Family Residential with Single Story Overlay. Environmental Assessment: Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act per section 15305. The Planning and Transportation Commission recommends rezoning only the 47 WHYJLSZ ^P[O MYVU[HNL VU 4L[YV *PYJSL HUK 4VɈL[[ *PYJSL BETH MINOR City Clerk

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss the status of its labor negotiations with the city manager, city attorney, city auditor and city clerk. The council will then hold a joint session with state Sen. Jerry Hill; consider an ordinance regulating hazardous-materials users and “sensitive receptors” such as residences and schools; and consider an ordinance regarding amortization of uses at Communications and Power Industries. The council will also discuss the leasing policies, fees and charges at the Palo Alto Airport. The closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 16, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Regular meeting will follow in the Council Chambers. CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for the Parks and Recreation Commission. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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underground levels; or a structure over two floors of underground parking with no ground-level commercial space; or a structure over two floors of underground parking and ground-floor commercial space. The Option A garage, with 460 spaces, would not be set back from the street and would rise 35 feet with four parking levels. Renderings show the building as a solid mass along Birch Street. Option B would have the largest setback of the three options. It would rise 35 feet with four levels of aboveground parking and two levels of underground parking. The structure would have 463 parking spots. Option C would have 460 spaces in three stories, with an additional two basement levels. It would add a 27-foot-tall retail space along Birch. The sight lines for the parking structure would be nearly even with existing buildings along Birch on that side of the street (the same side as Antonio’s Nut House), but the retail building would extend into view. The Nov. 18 meeting will allow officials to hear public input on the site evaluation before City Council review on Dec. 14. The meeting will take place from 7-9 p.m. in the Escondido Elementary School Multipurpose Room, 890 Escondido Road, Stanford. The 52-page draft community presentation can be viewed by going to cityofpaloalto.org and searching for “public safety November 18.” Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will convene for a special meeting to hear the middle schools’ annual Single Plan for Student Achievement reports for the 2015-16 year. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The committee will consider a recent audit of the city’s financial statements and a budget-amendment ordinance closing the Fiscal Year 2015 budget. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to review the final Environmental Impact Report for 1050 Page Mill Road, a proposal to demolish two existing structures totaling 265,895 and replace them with four buildings with the same square footage; consider a resolution for adopt a Complete Streets policy; and review a recommendation for a proposed extension of the Bryant Street Bicycle Boulevard. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 18, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY/SCHOOL LIAISON COMMISSION ... The board plans to meet at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to hold a scoping meeting for preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for a 33,323-square-foot office building at 2747 Park Blvd. and a 29,120-square-foot office building at 3045 Park Blvd. The board will also review plans for 1700 Embarcadero Road, a request by Jones Palo Alto Real Property LLC, to demolish an 18,000-square-foot building (Ming’s) and construct a 62,000-square-foot automobile dealership. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PUBLIC ART COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider allocating up to $4,800 for Dan Gottwald and Scott Watkins for installation of temporary art, “Chime,” in King Plaza and an additional $1,000 for permits and costs associated with the installation. The commission will also discuss the Public Art Master Plan; consider opportunities for collaboration between Zero1 and the Palo Alto Art Center; and see a presentation from Chris Treggiari and Peter Foucault about the Mobile Arts Platform and the process for community outreach related to the Public Art Master Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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Frank S. Morsman, Jr. 1931 – 2015

Frank S. Morsman Jr., 84, a life-long Palo Alto resident, died Sunday, November 1st, 2015, at home following complications of metastatic prostate cancer. Frank leaves behind the family he embraced: Long-time pal Bill Rose, Bill’s wife Jeana, at Frank’s side throughout; Madeline, Joseph, Corey and Cameron for whom he was like an uncle; closest compatriots George and Joey Cattermole and the family of Chef Michael Galano of Cupertino. Frank was a dear, kind man with an unforgettable, fascinating personality. Frank appeared to have come into life fully formed with Edwardian manners. His childhood home was the original “Leland Manor” - Palo Alto architect Birge Clark’s contribution to the 1939 World’s Fair, one of 12 “Houses of Tomorrow” built for the exhibition. Back in the day when Palo Alto actually had a chess club, Frank was an avid member, and he remained a student of the game his entire life. Interest in analytical philosophy led Frank to study with Benson Mates at UC Berkeley, and though without degree Frank became a steady presence in the Stanford philosophy department for much of the early 1960s - part of the circle that gravitated around Stanford philosopher Donald Davidson. Frank had a charming, eccentric style with a rich expressive voice. In the early 1980s, Frank caught the acting bug and appeared as a downat-the heels composer living in a dusty Mexican village in the independent film, “The Stars in Their Courses”. The film won numerous awards and was nationally broadcast, an achievement that astonished no one more than himself. Long-time residents of Palo Alto will recall seeing Frank sauntering about town, from the original Kepler’s in Menlo Park to the Palo Alto Co-Op, from Printer’s Inc. bookstore through the streets of Old Palo Alto and back again. Cheerful in rumpled dark suit and tie,

flourishing a walking stick, he was always ready with a joke or a story, eager to chat with a passing stranger or neighbor. In his later years, the suit gave way to t-shirts, sweaters and wide brimmed sunhats. Eventually the walks became confined to his neighborhood where he would rise early each day to make his rounds – thoughtfully placing his neighbors’ newspapers onto their porches to save them the trip up to the sidewalk and back. Cultivated, extremely witty, slashingly clever and unfailingly polite, Frank had an optimistic humanitarian streak, possessed delightful verbal flair and had an inimitable prose style. His passions ranged from Bach’s Sixth Brandenburg (“Such restrained, dignified joy!”) to the operas of Mozart and Verdi. Santayana, Wallace Stevens, Shakespeare, and operatic tenor Jan Peerce moved him deeply, but it was the lifelong study of sociology, logic and economics that clearly defined him. Dating back to his formative years during the nuclear hauntings of the Cold War, Frank was absorbed by the relationship between political institutions and the economy. He spent his final days critiquing Stanford Professor Emeritus John Manley’s latest work on Marx, a project that brought him great purpose and closure. Like a visitor from a gentler, funnier, more learned and soulful age, Frank came from a longago time when important books and classical education mattered. To visit his personal library is to be reminded that for the intellectually curious of preceding generations, reading - reading deeply, shaped their view of human existence. Assessing humankind with all of our vanities and foibles, Frank’s wry, ruminative outlook never stole the twinkle from his eye or dimmed his delight in life itself. How we miss him… Services will be private. Memorial donations can be made to American Cancer Society or to a charitable organization of donor’s choice. PAID

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POLICE CALLS

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Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft related Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 6 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Parking violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Theft from auto attempt . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 8 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . 12 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Driving under influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Open container. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 3 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Concealed weapon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disobey court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 False info to police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Illegal lodging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 4 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Violence related. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 8 Found bicycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Gang validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Medical call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Parole violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prohibited weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Property for destruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Registrant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Matadero Avenue, 11/4, 6:47 p.m.; domestic violence/battery. Park Boulevard, 11/6, 9:01 a.m.; domestic violence/battery. 300 Pasteur Drive, 11/7, 8:57 a.m.; battery/simple. Ross Road, 11/10, 10:54 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

COMMUNITY MEETING SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL FOR MONROE PARK Review and comment on Draft Walk and Roll Map and Route Improvements

Tuesday, November 17, 7:00 – 8:30 PM Courtyard Marriott Ballroom 4320 El Camino Real, Los Altos The Palo Alto Safe Routes to School program is documenting suggested routes to school and identifying opportunities for engineering improvements and enforcement which, when combined with safety education and promotion activities, will encourage more families to choose alternatives to driving to school solo. More info: Contact Sylvia Star-Lack at saferoutes@cityofpaloalto.org or (650) 329-2156

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RenĂŠ Girard

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RenĂŠ Girard, an acclaimed Stanford University French professor and member of the AcadĂŠmie FranĂ§aise, died on Nov. 4 at his Stanford home, following a long illness. He was 91. He was born RenĂŠ NoĂŤl ThĂŠophile Girard on Dec. 25, 1923, in Avignon, France. H is fat her served as a curator for the MusĂŠe Calvet and later the Palais des Papes, where the pope resided during the Avignon papacy. Girard pursued training as a librarian and archivist at lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ă&#x2030;cole des Chartres, where he wrote a dissertation on the topic of marriage and private life in 15th-century Avignon. He graduated in 1947 as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;archivistepalĂŠographe.â&#x20AC;? That year he also assisted in organizing a painting exhibition for a festival at the Palais des Papes, which was attended by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and other well-known figures. Soon after, Girard traveled to Bloomington, Indiana, to begin his academic career at Indiana University. He completed his Ph.D. in 1950 with a dissertation entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Opinion on France, 1940-43.â&#x20AC;? In the following years, he served on the faculties at Johns Hopkins University, Bryn Mawr College, Duke University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. While at Johns Hopkins, he helped to organize a packed

conference in 1966 that brought French theory and structuralism to America and included Lucien Goldmann, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida as participants. According to a Stanford News Service story, Girard joked that he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;bringing la peste to the United States.â&#x20AC;? In 1981, Girard came to Stanford to take a post as the inaugural Andrew B. Hammond Professor in French Language, Literature and Civilization. Girardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s academic work spanned several fields, including anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology and theology. He was particularly interested in the roots of conflict and violence and how imitation influences human behavior. His first book, entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deceit, Desire and the Novelâ&#x20AC;? (published in 1961 in French, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;65 in English), explores these ideas by examining the work of Cervantes, Stendhal, Proust and Dostoevsky. His catalog of almost 30 books also includes the controversial â&#x20AC;&#x153;Violence and the Sacred,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the Worldâ&#x20AC;? and the 2007 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Achever Clausewitzâ&#x20AC;? (or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Battling to the End: Politics, War, and Apocalypseâ&#x20AC;? in English). Girard was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, twice a Guggenheim Fellow, a Chevalier de la LĂŠgion dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;honneur and a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. In 2005, he was elected to the AcadĂŠmie FranĂ§aise, the premier authority on the French language, as one of the 40 immortels â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a distinction once held by figures including Voltaire and Victor Hugo. He also received the

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Order of Isabella the Catholic from King Juan Carlos of Spain and a lifetime achievement award from the Modern Language Association. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Martha Girard, of Stanford; his two sons, Daniel Girard of Hillsborough and Martin Girard of Seattle; his daughter, Mary Girard Brown, of Newark, California; and nine grandchildren. Plans for a memorial service have not yet been announced.

Memorial service Edward â&#x20AC;&#x153;Edâ&#x20AC;? William Lillibridge, a former Palo Alto resident and Stanford University graduate, died on Oct. 17, following three years of living with neuroendocrine cancer. He was 68. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 11:30 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, with a reception to follow. A military interment will take place on Nov. 19 at 1:30 p.m. at San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery in Santa Nella, California.

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Jeffrey Phillip Donnelly was born in Thousand Oaks, California, on Oct. 20, 1963, the fifth of six children. He died November 3, 2015. He attended Cal Poly Pomona where he earned a chemical engineering degree; he next served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy on the USS Truxton, a nuclear ship. He completed his MBA at Stanford and worked in the Silicon Valley semiconductor equipment industry: CEO of Blackhog; a VP at KLATencor; and most recently the COO at Zeta Instruments. Jeff had a passion for business and for the economic relationship between Japan and the U.S. He had plans to relocate his family to Japan, teach business in Tokyo, conduct research and write. Jeff was a friendly and optimistic person. He was a man of the world, logging over 2 million miles on his travels. He and his family enjoyed many outdoor activities together around home and on frequent vacations: skiing, bike riding, hiking and backpacking. Jeff loved cycling with friends and family. Jeffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart belonged to his college sweetheart, Edita, married 27 years, and his three children Dana (20), Conner (18), and Eve (13). He is survived by 5 siblings, 7 nieces and nephews and his parents-in-law. Jeff was at a very happy place in his life. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. Wake: Friday, November 13, 4pm to 8pm. Alta Mesa Funeral Home, 695 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306, (650) 493-1041 Memorial Service: Saturday, November 14, 10am to 12pm. Grace Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverly, Palo Alto, CA 94303,(650) 494-1212 Reception following at The University Club, 3277 Miranda Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to: Parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Nursery School in Palo Alto (www.parentsnurseryschool.org/); Cal Poly Pomona School of Engineering (https://secure.qgiv.com/for/?key=calpolyadvancement); Opportunity Fund (http://www.opportunityfund.org/); or Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition Vision Zero (http://bikesiliconvalley.org/donate/). PAID

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Marguerite Anderson March 20, 1920-November 1, 2015

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Marguerite Anderson, a longtime Palo Alto resident, passed away on Nov. 1, at 95 years of age. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1920, and grew up in Urbana, Ohio. During World War II, she worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Canton, Ohio, where she met her future husband, Horace. They founded and operated three Anderson Appliance and Television stores. After Horace joined Lockheed as an engineer in 1956, they moved with their 9-year-old son, Howard, to Lancaster, California. They moved to Palo Alto in the early 1960s when Horace was transferred to Lockheed in Sunnyvale. Horace became the first Black member of the Palo Alto Unified School Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board. Marguerite was active in many community groups. Her first love was the Mid-Peninsula YWCA where she served on the board of directors for many years, as president from 1971-73, and later as staff for the YWCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior adult programs. In 1970 Marguerite and former Palo Alto City Manager June Fleming were Mid-Peninsula YWCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s representatives to the YWCA National Convention that adopted the Imperative to Eliminate Racism, which guided YWCA programs all over the country. An avid gardener and grower of many exotic succulents, she served as president of two garden clubs and won many blue ribbons at garden shows. Marguerite also served on the boards of Stevenson House and the Senior Coordinating Council of Palo Alto. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Avenidas in 1999. Marguerite is survived by her son, Howard, and his wife, Michelle, of Long Beach, California; and her granddaughter, Autumn Anderson, of Palo Alto. Services will be held at St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado St., Palo Alto on Monday, Nov. 16 at 4 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church. PAID

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Editorial False hopes of FAA noise legislation Two congressional bills have little chance of changing new airplane flight patterns

group of 14 House Democrats and one Republican introduced legislation in Congress last week that would require the Federal Aviation Administration to involve local communities as it implements a new flight-navigation system called NextGen. It is the second of two bills that, while well-intentioned, seem more designed to appease constituents than actually solve the problem with aircraft noise that is plaguing many metropolitan areas around the country, including the Peninsula. The independent GovTrack.us gives both bills a 2 percent chance of being enacted. The “FAA Community Accountability Act,” a five-page bill that would require greater consultation with local residents before new approach and take-off routes and protocols are established, was introduced by Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Phoenix). It would require the appointment of nine regional FAA “community ombudsmen” to serve as advocates for and liaisons to communities affected by FAA flight-routing changes. It would also require more public notice of changes and opportunities for public comment. Most relevant for our area, it would require the FAA to reconsider flight path changes already made if the ombudsman or an airport notified it that the flight routes were “resulting in a significant adverse impact on the human environment in the vicinity of the airport.” The FAA would then be required to make a public report assessing those impacts and describing changes to be made or the justification for not making any changes. Another bill, introduced in July by New York Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens), does even less. The “Quiet Communities Act of 2015” (H.R. 3384) would re-establish a Noise Abatement Office within the Environmental Protection Agency with a broad mission to promote the development of effective state and local noise control programs, conduct noise research, develop educational materials on the effects of noise and to carry out a study of “airport noise” and the effectiveness of noise-abatement programs at airports around the country. The seven-page bill would appropriate $21 million to establish the new office, which was shut down during the Reagan Administration. In the remote chance that either of these bills moves forward in a Congress that is getting little done on any front these days, they seek to address the problems not by legislating clear mandates but by establishing additional processes for public input. That is not nearly enough. As has been quite clear from the work being done by concerned residents on the Peninsula and elsewhere around the nation, getting heard is not the problem. An arrogant federal agency has simply ignored the input and protests, including those from our local members of Congress. Rep. Anna Eshoo, who is one of 14 co-sponsors of Gallego’s bill and recently joined Meng’s bill, issued a press release last week that gave both the bills and Eshoo’s role more import than they deserve. Under the headline “Eshoo unveils legislative package to reform FAA,” her office quoted her as saying “The bills I’ve introduced require the FAA to plan with communities when implementing NextGen, and restore the EPA’s Office of Noise Abatement and Control, which was defunded more than three decades ago.” Although we’re happy to see Eshoo co-sponsoring these bills, they hardly constitute a “legislative package” of reforms deserving of being heralded by a press release. We hope her primary efforts are continuing to focus on discussions directly with Administration and FAA officials and in trying to persuade Republican committee chairs to hold oversight hearings on the NextGen program. There are only two ways residents of the Peninsula and other areas around the country might obtain relief from the excessive noise that has resulted from the FAA’s new flight routing system: carefully drafted detailed legislation that has broad bipartisan support (which neither of these bills have) or political pressure from congressional Democrats brought to bear on the White House and the FAA. Eshoo has already registered the concerns of her constituents in letters and conversations with the FAA. But rather than unlikely-tosucceed legislative efforts, we hope she works with other members of Congress to step up political pressure during the final year of the Obama administration. Eshoo’s constituents have come up with some sensible solutions of increasing the altitude at which planes cross over populated areas before reaching the bay and distributing the arrival flight paths over a larger area so the impact is shared more equally among communities. The slow, virtually moribund legislative process isn’t the answer. Hard ball politics is. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

School pros and cons Editor, Your editorial “The perils of innovation” (Oct. 30) rightly holds that “Visionary school proposal has a delicate road to travel,” highlighting the fact that a deep study is called for. We’re from Mumbai, India, and are on a short visit here, so my observations may be colored. However, I felt like thinking aloud. We’ve no separation at all in India. In a 10-year school system, we have two kindergartens, followed by elementary (one to five) and secondary (six to 10), all with a single location and management. We have two-year predegree “Junior Colleges,” where there are options for science, arts and commerce streams. Here in the case of our grandkids, in grades one and three at Fairmeadow, the middle school is adjacent. Only to shift to a nearby high school later would be a problem. If the proposed combined school gets functional by next academic year, it would be a boon for us. To quote the advantages: 1. If combined, parent-teacher cooperation might be more easily attained during the long span of time at the middle school level itself — a welcome relationship with and attachment to the school, staff, administration. Also, students could have opportunities to get to know each other better. 2. The secondary program plan would provide educational continuity for a longer period of time and a broader range of courses for students in the secondary school. A continuity of staff (guidance for student for six years) would exist, and the entire secondary staff could work together longer. The disadvantages could be: 1. The plan naturally mandates a subject-centered, rather than student-oriented, program for the teachers. Students would have little opportunity for close identification with a teacher. 2. Departmentalization would be required and could mean decreased flexibility for teachers to explore a variety of subject areas. Subrahmanian Harihara Subramania Starr King Circle, Palo Alto

Too personal Editor, Apparently my guest column touched a nerve. Frankly, the angry and personal tenor of the comments was surprising. To those who believe I am selfcentered and disrespect rules, I would ask you to read more carefully. Certainly I believe rules apply to me and have adhered ever since reprimanded. My intention

was merely to question why there have to be rules and to clarify what, exactly, they are. To me, it is extremely difficult to divine the rules of my particular list serve, as many postings seem to contradict the stated guidelines. The two I posted, subsequently deleted, were items I thought were of interest to many and would make the cut. I honestly do not understand why posting a piece of furniture for sale, offering housing for rent or scalping football tickets is any less “commercial” than a new business letting us know they have a solution to dead lawns. Yet those kinds of postings appear regularly. The rules seem inconsistent and arbitrarily applied — that’s all I was saying. When someone asks what the best dry cleaners is, or repair place for BMWs, who’s to say that those who respond don’t have a financial interest in their suggestion? And as for a gathering to answer questions about Airbnb, why is that objectionable? It was an information share; no money changed hands. I am not being disingenuous — I really don’t understand the distinction between what is commercial and what isn’t. I also wonder if there isn’t a bit of subjective culling going on. My hope has always been for the list serve to announce events, issues and opportunities of possible interest to my neighbor-

hood. I appreciate that many read the column but wish the ensuing dialogue had been a little calmer, with fewer assumptions made about my character. Megan McCaslin Edgewood Drive, Palo Alto

Kudos for story Editor, We would like to commend Elena Kadvany and the Palo Alto Weekly on the excellent recent article on transgender youth in Palo Alto area schools. As therapists specializing in transgender and gender non-binary children and teens, we know how important it is for them and their families to have their stories told, and told well, in the media. We know that this article will support many youth and families throughout the Peninsula and San Jose area in taking the next steps in their gender journey. Hooray for the Palo Alto Unified School District for making schools more supportive of our transgender youth. Readers might find this listing of Peninsula and San Jose adult and child gender specialists and support agencies helpful: www. genderidentityawarenessnetwork. com/resources.html Jen Cheaney, Intern Sage DeRosier Finn Vivian Gratton Maureen Johnston LaDonna Silva

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The Cubberley plan: Isn’t the issue over-crowded schools? by Rita Tetzlaff

ike many in our community, I am excited by the Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (EMAC) proposal presented at the Palo Alto Unified School District board meeting on Oct. 26. We welcome focus not only on the academic excellence of our schools, but also on the social-emotional well-being of our students. We know our students need to connect with teachers and fellow students, and that attending overcrowded schools hampers these relationships. The work the committee did is amazing, but nonetheless, I am conflicted because the proposal makes only a slight dent in our secondary school over-enrollment, which is the problem the EMAC was asked to address. I wholeheartedly support project-based learning. With parent support, Stanford support and philanthropic capital, PAUSD is well-positioned to develop a project-based learning program. The EMAC report favors opening a small innovative school for grades 6-12 at Cubberley rather than a comprehensive neighborhood middle school. But with only 700 to 1,050 students, this new combined middle and high school would not substantially mitigate the overenrollment at the other secondary schools, and is not consistent with the wishes of our community. The committee’s research shows that 75 percent of our community prefers choice programs in our current

neighborhood secondary schools over opening a new choice school. If our community is energized by project-based learning, then with the support of Stanford and philanthropists dedicated to funding such programs, tracks or smaller learning communities could be established in each of the secondary schools. The committee discusses the “competition” with private schools, suggesting that a new innovative school might lessen the “leakage” of the 240 secondary school-age students in the district who attend private schools, but the committee neglects to add these additional students into their enrollment projections. Even without counting these students, the committee admits that the proposed new middle school and high school do not succeed in lowering the population of the other secondary schools to the target capacity range. Complicating matters, the real capacity at our current middle schools is much lower than the stated capacity. The EMAC indicates the stated capacity figures may or may not be possible or advisable, and are not representative of actual capacity or potential capacity at each school. As an example, Jordan, with 19 acres, cannot possibly have the same capacity as JLS, with 26 acres, yet both have the same stated capacities. And equally concerning, the proposed new middle school and high school are themselves well below the suggested target range in size. Schools lower than that range have much higher operational costs per student, due to the disproportionate staffing. It is suggested in the report that private funding sources be identified to offset the ongoing operational costs, which would mean that the 700 to

1,050 students at these two schools would benefit from private funding not available to the other students in the district. Is the intention to replace the district’s current, highly valued central fundraising model to allow individual school sites to raise private funds for operational costs? I hope not. While all our middle and high schools currently exceed the target range, both high schools have recently benefited by extensive building projects that have increased their capacities. The middle schools have not. A fourth full-sized, comprehensive middle school is needed at Cubberley to alleviate crowding at the middle schools. The problems of over-enrollment go beyond exceeding a school’s reasonable physical capacity. The EMAC findings also indicate that over-enrollment leads to the creeping up of class size, the lack of open space, limitations on courses and pathways, and the limitation on student-teacher interaction. The EMAC recommends a set of standards be created, including setting maximum classroom sizes and creating capacity models, such as a square-feet-perstudent formula. The “School Size Study Report: Impact of Smaller Schools,” prepared for the Maryland State Department of Education, which much of the EMAC findings are based upon, indicate that more than half of their schools use “target utilization rates” or a square-feet-per-student standard and maximum class sizes to evaluate optimal school size. Yet these recommendations, which directly impact secondary school over-enrollment, are omitted in the final proposal. In the meantime, for both the middle schools and high schools, there are many strategies that can be implemented as ear-

ly as next fall to address over-enrollment and promote connectedness. The middle schools currently all group students into “teams” that share core teachers. Teaming could be continued into grades 9 and 10. Students at all the secondary schools would benefit from enforced maximum class sizes to facilitate teacher and student interaction, and additional counseling staff at numbers proportionate to school population would improve student well-being. The establishment of “houses,” where several classes of students would be grouped together throughout the grades, has been a successful strategy for high schools to create a sense of belonging in larger schools, provide continuity and soften transitions, as have academic interest tracks or “schools within a school.” The board has stated that the school district is flush with money and has told the EMAC that now is the time to spend it, but these funds should be used in a way that actually addresses overcrowding and gives the most benefit now to all the district’s secondary school students rather than creating “haves” and “have nots.” The new task force should be charged with implementing the many strategies recommended for reducing over-enrollment, increasing connectedness and social-emotional welfare of our students, establishing project-based learning tracks in all our secondary schools, and redeveloping Cubberley as a neighborhood middle school. Q Rita Tetzlaff, the mother of twin girls who attend Jordan Middle School, has held positions as director of product marketing, division controller, and business manager for software and services security companies.

Streetwise

What activities do you enjoy on a rainy day? Asked outside Whole Foods Market on Emerson Street in Palo Alto. Interviews and photos by Chrissi Angeles.

Judy Steinhart

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“Reading or working out at the gym. I like nonfiction; my husband is a writer, so Peter Steinhart books.”

“I have a pool table, or I like sitting inside my Jacuzzi so I can enjoy the rain.”

“Nesting, a good book, knitting and I’m good! I’m working on a scarf with cables in it.”

“I really enjoy reading. ... (And) I like swimming at Rinconada Pool.”

“We like to go to the library. ... My son stomps in the puddles. We are not afraid to play in the rain. ... And cooking or baking.

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Arts & Entertainment Sahba Shere

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

Sahba Shere painted “Monochrome Diptych 2” at her Cubberley studio earlier this year. The work is now on exhibit at 425 Market St., San Francisco.

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Sahba Shere brings energy to Cubberley Artist Studio Program by Elizabeth Schwyzer

The canvas is covered with blue paint. But it’s not that simple. A gauzy streak of white runs along the length of its base like a fog bank settling over the land. At the right and left edges, thick brush strokes give way to brighter passages of turquoise, suggesting a brilliant blue sky peering out from behind heavy mists. Above, the blue grows even darker, vivid, a rain-cloud about to burst. What might look at a passing glance like a painting done in a single hue is in fact a vivid, layered study of color. This is “Color Field in Blue,” one of Sahba Shere’s works from a recent series devoted to color theory. Yet color doesn’t tell the full story, either. In other works, there’s little of it to be seen at all. Black strokes slash across white spaces like skid marks: evidence of dynamic motion and energy. Sometimes, black and white work together in a busy, frenetic dance of drips and ripples, echoing the intricate complexity of a human brain or the formations of stalactites. Here and there, there’s a dribble of red. To step inside Shere’s Palo Alto studio is to find oneself awash in visual sensations. Her primary medium is acrylic paint, though many works also incorporate ink and other

media. Some works hang on loose sheets of velvety Japanese Yupo paper. Here and there, there’s a dusting of glitter. Without exception, Shere’s current works are abstract, though she has worked in the past as a figurative painter and documentary photographer. Many of her paintings are done on canvas and on a large scale — 60, 72 and 80 inches wide — though others are smaller, inviting a more intimate viewing. In the center of them all stands the artist. At just over 5 feet tall in stylish leather boots and trendy jeans, her shiny brown hair falling around her shoulders and her wrists adorned with chunky bracelets, Shere could almost be mistaken for a recent graduate of Palo Alto High School. In fact, she’s 48 years old, and the mother of a Paly grad and sophomore. A Canadian-born artist of Indian descent, Shere has lived in Palo Alto for the past decade and is one of the 25 artists who currently make up Palo Alto’s Cubberley Artist Studio Program, or CASP. Inducted one year ago, she has quickly embraced her role and the space it affords, transforming the former chemistry lab into an attractive working studio and exhibition space complete with modern track lighting and clean white walls. “I work all the time,” she explained during a recent interview at her studio, F7 at the Cubberley Community Center. “I wanted to separate my studio from my home.” Having previous lived and worked in Paris

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“Color Field in Blue” is among the works on view at 555 California St., San Francisco, through Jan. 2.

Artist Sahba Shere will take part in the 15th annual CASP Holiday Open House on Saturday, Nov. 21.

and in Bangalore among other cities, Shere has painted everywhere from home studios to garages to tiny rented rooms in urban areas, but the opportunity to work in an artists’ enclave like CASP was new to her. “I love working alone ... for a certain amount of time,” she said. “But here, at the end of the day, I can break out a glass of wine and sit down with other artists. A lot of us have become good friends. We really help each other.” The closeness between CASP artists will be on display along with their works next weekend when the program holds its annual Holiday Open House event on Saturday, Nov. 21. The free celebration is a chance for the public to visit the CASP studios, meet the artists, see (and even buy) their work and learn more about the nature of the program. Founded in 1987, CASP provides 23 citysubsidized, affordable art studios, and has increasingly turned its attention to engaging the public through workshops, discussions and exhibitions, many of which are held at the CASP Cultural Café, a former studio that’s been transformed into a dedicated gathering place. In 2014, the program also rewrote its mission and adapted its policies to welcome new members, include a wider range of artistic genres and encourage artistic collaborations. Studios are now rented on a four-year basis, and CASP artists are eligible for no more than two consecutive terms. Reflecting on the changes CASP has

seen in recent years, Rhyena Halpern, Palo Alto’s assistant director of the Community Services Department, noted, “At one time, the program was very introverted. Artists came there and you didn’t really see them or hear them. It was almost invisible.” These days, the program is much more focused on reaching out into the larger community, she explained. “Now we have a meeting space where artists can gather. Some of the artists are staring to paint their doors, which helps with placemaking and identity. We just finished a logo for the program, and we’re printing banners, brochures and door plaques.” And that’s not all. On exhibition as part of the Holiday Open House will be works from CASP’s MakeX, a makers studio where teen mentors support their peers in learning how to use technology tools and software to create new projects. And this past Thursday, Nov. 12, CASP hosted its first-ever Meet the Artists evening, including refreshments, a pop-up exhibition and a dynamic PechaKucha-style group presentation where each artist was given no more than two minutes to share six slides of their work. According to Halpern, Shere is “proof of why this program is so great.” “She just fits in with all of that new energy,” Halpern said. “She’s really positive, open, happy, and thrilled to have the studio (continued on page 22)

Arts & Entertainment

Won’t you be my neighbor? Palo Alto Players pays a visit to ‘Clybourne Park’

hat happens to a dream deferred? That’s the provocative question Langston Hughes chose to open his 1951 poem, “Harlem.” “Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?” Hughes goes on to ask, positing various alternatives before arriving at the final italicized line that might almost be a threat: “Or does it explode?” Eight years after the publication of “Harlem,” playwright Lorraine Hansberry borrowed from Hughes’ poem when she published a largely autobiographical play about a black family hoping to move from Chicago’s dilapidated south side to the more affluent and whiter Woodlawn neighborhood, and the racism the family confronts in the process. She titled the work “A Raisin in the Sun.” More than 50 years later, playwright Bruce Norris used Hansberry’s work as the launchpad for his “Clybourne Park,” a tragicomic two-act play set in that same Woodlawn neighborhood but split in time between the 1950s and the early 20th century. Palo Alto Players’ current production gathers a talented cast under the direction of Jeanie Smith to tackle the seething tensions and countless bigotries betrayed by both whites and blacks, men and women, the middle and the working classes, then and now. The gift of “Clybourne Park” is in the reminder that the habit of us-versus-them thinking lies deep in our human marrow; the play’s weakness is its vain attempt to reveal the rottenness at the core of every last bone. As Act One opens, white married couple Bev (Betsy Kruse Craig) and Russ (Todd Wright) are preparing to move out of their suburban house. He sits in an armchair in khakis and a pajama shirt eating ice cream from the carton while she flits about, alternately nagging him and directing the hired help, Francine (Damaris Divito). Over the course of the first act, this strained but controlled domestic scene slowly devolves from tension into chaotic conflict thanks to a series of interruptions: an inconvenient phone call, an unexpected visitor, an increasingly antagonistic conversation about race, and finally, the searingly painful memory of Bev and Russ’ son, a Korean War veteran who was accused of military misconduct and killed himself sometime after his service. At the scene’s climax, the gloves come off, and the faster the insults fly, the more still Francine becomes, until the stage resembles a whirlpool, with the young black woman and her husband, Albert (Fred Pitts), standing in silence center stage, hands folded and heads bowed as the white folk circle dizzyingly around them, spitting threats at each other. “I am ashamed of every one of

REVIEW THEATER us,” Bev eventually says to Francine and Albert. It’s an irrelevant offering, as unwanted as the chafing dish she tries to unload on them. In under an hour, Norris has introduced just about every flavor of bigotry there is: racism, sexism, classism, religious intolerance, prejudice against those with developmental disabilities and those with mental illness. Confronted with narrow-mindedness at every turn, audience members will likely find themselves empathizing with Francine and Albert, helplessly stuck in the middle of a mess. Post-intermission, the curtain rises on the same living room but transformed (thanks to scenic designer Patrick Klein): the walls covered in graffiti, the floors and lintels littered with empty bottles. It’s 2009, and a young white couple has purchased the run-down property in what is now a predominantly black neighborhood. It’s immediately evident that though the times and the characters have changed, the actors remain the same; the meddling neighbor and his pregnant wife from 1959 (Michael Rhone and Kelly Rinehart) now play the new homeowners; Divito and Pitts play Lena and Kevin, members of the neighborhood association who object to the height of the architectural plans for the remodel. Craig now plays the white couple’s lawyer, Wright the construction worker who barges in at inopportune moments in the negotiation.

Once again, what begins as a pressurized but contained scene soon spirals out of control as characters unveil their prejudices in sharp dialogue delivered with Albee-esque savagery. This time, though, there are gestures toward deeper questions. In an impassioned monologue, speaking a little too emphatically as if she knows she won’t be understood, Lena speaks of her connection to the neighborhood, invoking “ my history and my parents’ history ... there’s just a lot of pride, and a lot of memories in these houses, and for some of us, that connection still has value.” Yet like the questions Hughes raises in “Harlem,” Lena’s plea for a discussion about values goes largely unanswered; the fractured dialogue soon sinks to the level of racist jokes and flat-out name calling. The clever casting of dual roles does much to convey the enduring nature of racism and gives the actors a chance to attack the theme from multiple angles. Both as Lena and as Francine, Divito nails the thinly veiled resentment of her black female characters who find themselves repeatedly ignored and interrupted, while Rhone makes both of his characters deliciously dislikable for their myopic white man’s privilege. Only one actor in this production is tasked with three roles: Casey Robbins plays the well-intentioned but hapless 1950s minister, then the lawyer for the neighborhood association, and finally, Kenneth,

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In Act One of “Clybourne Park,” Damaris Divito plays Francine, the hired help of a 1950s suburban white couple; Fred Pitts plays her husband, Albert.

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space, which has been important to her for the creation of new work.” For Shere, her CASP studio has been a place of tranquility and focus as well as a site for community gatherings. In September, inspired by her travels in Asia, she hosted a traditional Japanese tea ceremony in her studio, welcoming other CASP artists and members of the public to participate for free. She also brought fellow Paly parents to her studio earlier this year for a parent support group meeting.

“It was nice to have it here, surrounded by art, which can help give you perspective,” she noted. “Other parents were amazed these studios were here — they never knew.” One of Shere’s goals for 2016 is to launch a free salon series at her studio. She envisions guest speakers sharing their expertise in a range of creative fields and members of the public engaging in discussion. It would be a way both to share her work more widely and to give something back to the community that she feels has given her so much. “I love where I live. I love the people I know around here. I love

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to know what they’re doing and to talk about it,” Shere explained. “I just want to build conversation and culture, and being around art is a great way to connect. Even startups need to start with a creative idea, I think.” In Shere’s case, many of her best creative ideas find her when she’s traveling. She tends not to paint much when she’s on the road but to photograph extensively, coming home with images captured in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Vietnam or Thailand and allowing those memories to direct her in the studio. Even recent travels to Kentucky and Vermont inspired her to produce canvases rich with the colors of turning leaves. Yoga and meditation are also sources of creativity, Shere explained. “When you go deep inside, you’re excavating emotions,” she said, noting that in periods of transition, particularly when living abroad and finding the cultural adjustment difficult, she would “get What: 15th annual CASP Holiday Open House Where: Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Saturday, Nov. 21, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost: Free Info: Go to goo.gl/b4gRtA or sahbashere.com or call 650329-2227.

in front of the canvas and kind of meditate,” often settling on a mental image taken from nature and using that as the starting point for her painting. Sometimes, visions of color even come to her in her dreams. Those who attend the CASP Holiday Open House on Nov. 21 will find examples of Shere’s practice in works like “Vermont,” a riot of vivid oranges and yellows shot through with veins of brown and green, and “Reverie,” in which a single, wavering black line anchors a brooding swirl of deep blues and purples. Other works, including the blue canvas from her color theory series and many of her monochrome paintings, are currently on view in San Francisco; Peninsula businesses including Google have exhibited her work in the past. As someone who has lived and traveled internationally, Shere acknowledged that Palo Alto presents some real challenges for a working artist. But CASP, she said, goes a long way to mitigating those challenges. “Being in Palo Alto, the real estate market is very tough,” she admitted. “For them to build an art center right in the middle of this tech world — it’s a wonderful thing.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com.

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the son of Bev and Russ, who appears in the play’s final moments in a flashback. Sitting in the living room in his military uniform in the early morning, he begins to write his suicide note, only to be interrupted by Bev, who flutters around, utterly oblivious to her son’s plight, before returning to bed. By framing the play with Kenneth’s suicide, Norris implies there can be no happy ending to this endless story of the ways we reject and fail one another. Leavened though it is by zinging one-liners and delivered here by a uniformly strong cast, “Clybourne Park” is likely to send viewers home with a sense of hopelessness. Like Hughes’ “Harlem,” Norris’ play offers little in the way of redemption. The only choice, it seems, is that between a festering sore and a heavy load. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Elizabeth Schwyzer can be emailed at eschwyzer@paweekly. com. What: “Clybourne Park,” presented by Palo Alto Players Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Through Nov. 22. Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; FridaySaturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. Cost: $29-$43 Info: Go to paplayers.org or call 650-463-4900.

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Event Holiday Stroll ’Tis the season for carolers, roasted chestnuts and shimmering lights. Downtown Los Altos will host its 13th annual Holiday Stroll this evening, Friday, Nov. 13, 5-9 p.m. Participants can sample refreshments and find unique gifts at any of downtown’s 50-plus shops. Go to downtownlosaltos.org.

‘A ArtWorlds’ Ex Experience lively cultures, spirited music and robust flavors from around m the globe without leaving Silicon Valley. th With the launch of a new international W art and music event series, ArtWorlds, ar Mountain View’s Community School M of Music and Arts (CSMA) celebrates the African American tradition through th the th h paintings and mixed media work of artist Bryan Keith Thomas. The event ar r also a l features a conversation with the artist, an African-inspired meal th with South African wines, and a live w performance by Stanford University pe student a cappella group Talisman, st whose songs tell stories from around w the world, particularly Africa and the th African diaspora. Af Community School of Music and Arts

The inaugural ArtWorlds will take place Th tonight, Friday, Nov. 13, 6-8:30 p.m., to at CSMA’s Tateuchi Hall and Mohr Gallery, 230 San Antonio Circle, G Mountain View. The event is free. M To learn more, go to arts4all.org or call 650-917-6800, ext. 305. 65

As part of the inaugural ArtWorlds event, the Community Sch School of Music and Art will display mixed Thomas. media works by artist Bryan Keith Thomas

Dance ‘Mainframe’ How have computers changed the way we see our bodies? San Francisco-based dancer and choreographer Katherine Hawthorne’s new work, “Mainframe,” addresses this question through

the medium of dance. Six performers will interact with six Macintosh monitors in a preview show at Mountain View’s Computer History Museum tonight, Friday, Nov. 13, with performances at 6:30, 7:15 and 8 p.m. The performances are free; museum admission is $7.50. Go to khawthorne.net or call 650-810-1010.

Music Play Date Children’s music duo Play Date is bringing its Ninja Pajama Party to the Peninsula. Kids are invited to come in their favorite pajamas and dance along to songs at this interactive performance. Free shows will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the Atherton Library, 2 Dinkelspiel Station Lane (3 p.m.) and at the East Palo Alto Library, 2415 University Ave. (7 p.m.). Go to iloveplaydate.com.

Concert Anat Cohen Celebrated clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen comes to Palo Alto’s Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, on Saturday, Nov. 14, with her unique style of jazz intertwined with classical music and South American influences. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $35$50. Go to paloaltojcc.org or call 650-223-8649.

Film ‘Haute Cuisine’ In the French comedy-drama “Les Saveurs du Palais” or “Haute Cuisine,” a chef faces a test when she is appointed as the personal cook for the president of France. Tonight, Friday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m., the Alliance Francaise of Silicon Valley will host a screening of the film along with a wine tasting. The event takes place at The Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St. Tickets are $12-$17. Go to mvcpa.com or call 650-903-6000. Q

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Eating Out C’est magnifique Mademoiselle Colette brings a taste of Paris to Menlo Park By Elena Kadvany photos by Veronica Weber

leepy downtown Menlo Park has woken up with the arrival of Mademoiselle Colette, an elegant French patisserie that has sold out every day since opening last month. Owner Debora Ferrand, who was born in Brazil but raised in France, has successfully imported some of the best elements of Parisian dining to the Peninsula. She opened the pastry shop at 816 Santa Cruz Ave., the former home of Sugar Shack, in early October. Mademoiselle Colette (named after a late family member) serves classic French pastries, brunch and lunch menu items, coffee, tea and wine. The patisserie was packed on a recent weekday morning, with the indoor tables full and a line in front of the gorgeous glass pastry case. Delicate pastries — lemon and chocolate tarts, merveilleux, moelleux au chocolat, raspberry eclairs — sat atop white marble counters. Employees were replenishing the diminishing stock as I left later that morning. One of Mademoiselle Colette’s most popular menu items, the pain au chocolat ($4), is small but satisfyingly crisp, and the chocolate on the inside packs a rich punch. Ferrand said the patisserie’s pastry chef, a

At Mademoiselle Colette in Menlo Park, pastries and coffees are served on mix-and-match gold-rimmed china. young French man named Orphée Fouano, makes two to three kinds of chocolate that become the innards of the pain au chocolat, often referred to as a chocolate croissant in English. Hiding inside the merveilleux ($5.50), a ball-shaped cake that originated in Belgium, is cream and a meringue so light it dissolves in the mouth. The exterior is covered in chocolate shavings and topped with a small chocolate sphere stamped with the name of the shop.

Mademoiselle Colette is the place to linger over a highquality pastry like the raspberry eclair.

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Mademoiselle Colette doesn’t stoop to using American butter. Instead, they bake and cook with French butter that Ferrand said has “much more fat” than its American counterpart. All the pastries are served on charming mix-and-match plates — some with delicate designs, others scalloped with thin gold rims — that make you feel like you’re visiting a Parisian apartment. Espresso is served in beautiful gold-rimmed black cups. Sugar cubes are available in small silver buckets. Inside, the space is thoughtfully decorated. Framed French drawings adorn the walls, and there’s a display of black-and-white French postcards and books penned by French novelist Colette. If you’re going for lunch, don’t miss the croque madame sandwich ($11.50): a slice of chewy, fresh bread topped with Parma ham, Emmental cheese and a perfectly fried egg. A generous side salad of arugula and cherry tomatoes is the perfect complement to the sandwich’s rich flavors. The Colette Parisian salad ($12), with arugula, ham, cubes of Gruyere cheese, cherry tomatoes, asparagus, green beans and hard-boiled egg, was refreshing and heaped with the ingredients. Though pleasing any time of year, it would be best enjoyed on a hot

summer day in the outdoor back patio with a glass of French wine. Other lunch items include the classic niçoise salad ($14), a burrata salad ($13.50), chicken salad ($13) and soup of the day ($9). Brunch on the weekends includes items like eggs Benedict. Portions are large. There’s also happy hour, which runs from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, with cheese and charcuterie plates, foie gras and wine. The wine menu ranges from an $8 glass of French rosé to a $22 glass of Barnaut Grande Réserve champagne. Ferrand, an Atherton resident, said she was excited by the high demand for her new shop, but wholly unprepared to meet it. She had been searching for a place to open a pastry shop since moving to the area about a year ago. Previously, she lived for several years in Texas, where she attended Le Cordon Bleu with an emphasis on baking and pastries. She also studied at famed chef Alain Ducasse’s cooking school in France. Given Mademoiselle Colette’s popularity, Ferrand explained, they recently bought a machine that will help them double the production of the pain au chocolat and croissants, but they’re still strapped on the rest of the pastries. “We were really, really not expecting the craziness,” she said. “It’s very exciting and it’s cool, but it’s hard to manage because we never imagined being sold out every day like that.” She said she wants the patisserie to be a piece of Paris in Menlo Park — a place where customers relax over a pastry or cup of coffee. Mademoiselle Colette is not meant to be a place for a quick bite, nor a fullservice restaurant. “We’d like to be a place (where) people come, take their time, have a cup of coffee or tea or glass of wine, eat some food,” Ferrand said, adding that the “very efficient American way” is not what she’s trying to cater to. It’s fitting that she found a home for Mademoiselle Colette in Menlo Park, where things move a bit slower and customers seem more than happy to linger over a high-quality pastry. Bienvenue à Menlo Park, Mademoiselle Colette. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com. Mademoiselle Colette 816 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park; 650-644-8469; mademoisellecolette.com Hours: Tues.-Wed., 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thurs.-Sat., 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Happy hour: Thurs.-Sat., 3-6 p.m.

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‘Spot’ clean Journos muckrake Church scandal in ‘Spotlight’ 000 1/2 (Palo Alto Square) Heading up the highly skilled ensemble cast are familiar actors playing the staff of the Boston Globe circa 2001: the special “Spotlight” investigative team of Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton), Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams), and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) — lapsed Catholics, all — and their newly arrived Jewish editor, Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber). The Spotlight team reports to assistant managing editor in charge of investigations, Ben Bradlee Jr. (John Slattery of “Mad Men”), whose lineage helps to link this great newspaper film to another, “All the President’s Men.” Dogged reporting turns out to be only part of the story here. The Spotlight team generally chooses

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“Mark my words ... if it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.” This rueful truth offered from a Boston lawyer to a Boston journalist lingers over “Spotlight,” Thomas McCarthy’s hot-button fact-based drama. The film is a lousy-withheroes story of bringing to light the Catholic Church’s scandalous cover-up and protection of childabusing priests, as well as a broad indictment of all those willing to look the other way. Director McCarthy (“The Visitor,” “The Station Agent”), who co-wrote “Spotlight” with Josh Singer (“The Fifth Estate”), assembled a village to make this uncommonly thoughtful film about institutions religious and journalistic, and the community they serve, in this case Boston.

“Spotlight” assembles an all-star cast to play the investigative reporting team of the Boston Globe that uncovered the child abuse scandal inside the Catholic Church. its own stories to investigate and report, but Baron quickly asserts there’s a lot more beneath the tip of the iceberg of the sexual abuse story. Given the paper’s 53 percent Catholic subscriber base, Baron’s move is a gutsy one, and though Robinson hesitates, his

journalistic pride gets the better of him. In unearthing the story and facing his own failings, Robinson employs a lifetime of experience and tries mightily to exploit some choice connections like his buddy Jim Sullivan, a lawyer for the archdiocese

rendered achingly credible by Jamey Sheridan. Meanwhile, Robby’s staffers wear down shoe leather interviewing reluctant victims — starting with angry activist Phil Saviano (Neal Huff) — and involving lawyers on both sides, including victims-rights crusader Mitchell Garabedian (Stanley Tucci). McCarthy resists oversimplification of the story, preferring to find deeper truths in the journalistic procedure itself and in the character-rich performances of the ensemble (happily, he mixes in brilliant unknowns with his star players). Smart and stinging, “Spotlight” excels not only in depicting the stonewalling around scandal but also the double-talk conversations from within and without the Globe that don’t say — but don’t not say — “Don’t go there.” “Spotlight” shows we can do better. Rated R for some language including sexual references. Two hours, 8 minutes. — Peter Canavese

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a mountainous cave-in, trapping the titular group of workers 2,300 feet below the ground. Management had ignored warnings of a rock fall, and screenwriters Mikko Alanne, Craig Borten and Michael Thomas (along with story-credited José Rivera) devote a significant portion of the story to the damage control of the mining company and the Chilean government, represented by President Sebastián Piñera (Bob Gunton) and his man on the ground, Minister of Mining Laurence Golborne (Rodrigo Santoro). The 33 have something of a de facto leader in Mario “Super Mario” Sepúlveda (Antonio Banderas), whose big personality also becomes a magnet for media attention once the cave-in becomes a national, then a global, news story. Not unlike in “Ace in the Hole,” something of a circus descends on the mine: first family and friends clamoring for rescue and information, then TV crews breathlessly reporting the drama and science of the accident and the rescue efforts. At the mine’s gates, María Segovia (Juliette Binoche) — sister of alcoholic miner Darío Segovia (Juan Pablo Raba) — becomes the loudest voice representing the families, and director

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“The 33” tells the story of the Chilean miners trapped underground for more than two months folowing the collapse of the San José Mine. Patricia Riggen plays Binoche’s scenes with Santoro for a weird intimation of romantic possibility (though the real Golborne had a wife and kids at home). For all this, and a broken drill bit here or there, the film’s best shot at drama remains inside the mine, with characters like Lou Diamond Phillips’ guilt-wracked shift foreman, the miners’ Elvisloving song leader (Jacob Vargas) and a miner (Oscar Nunez of “The Office”) whose personal comedy of a competing wife and mistress makes great copy for the media. “The 33” throws this and a whole lot more at the wall, but nothing much sticks. Though the film is technically a U.S.-Chile co-production, the Hollywoodization of the story is thick. While

that’s good when it comes to the elaborate recreation of the site, it’s difficult to square the grayer, chubbier Chileans of real life (filmed for a coda here) with the younger, more photogenic “33” of the film, played entirely in English by a dubious swath of mostly non-Chilean actors (and seriously, folks, check out those abs on Phillips). Banderas gives another entertainingly overripe performance, and Phillips is genuinely affecting in radiating the pain behind his eyes, but there’s too much stilted acting here and too little psychological insight to render an interesting story of humanity in crisis. Rated PG-13 for a disaster sequence and some language. Two hours. — Peter Canavese

MOVIE TIMES All showtimes are for Friday to Sunday only unless otherwise noted. For reviews and trailers, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. Movie times are subject to change. Call theaters for the latest. A Connecticut Yankee (1931) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri & Sat 5:45 & 9:05 p.m.

Meet the Patels (PG) +++ Aquarius Theatre: 2:15 & 10:10 p.m.

Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri & Sat 7:30 p.m., Sat 4:10 p.m.

Miss You Already (PG-13) Century 20: 10:50 a.m. & 1:40 p.m.

The 33 (PG-13) ++ Century 16: 10:20 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 11:45 a.m., 3:05, 7:05 & 10:10 p.m.

My All American (PG) Century 20: 11:05 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 & 10:15 p.m.

A Fool There Was (1915) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sun 2 p.m.

The Peanuts Movie (G) Century 16: 9:15, 10:55 & 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m., Fri & Sat 1:25 & 3:55 p.m. In 3-D at 10:05 a.m., 12:30, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: 10:45 a.m., 12:40, 1:25, 2:20, 4, 4:50, 6:30, 7:15 & 9 p.m. In 3-D at 11:50 a.m., 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 9:45 & 10:40 p.m.

Akhil (Not Rated)

Century 16: 6:45 & 10:20 p.m.

Bolshoi Ballet: Jewels (Not Rated)

Century 20: Sun 12:55 p.m.

Bridge of Spies (PG-13) Century 16: 9:25 a.m., 12:40, 4, 7:20 & 10:35 p.m. Century 20: Noon, 3:20, 6:50 & 10:05 p.m. Burnt (R) Century 16: 1:05 & 10:15 p.m. Century 20: 4:45, 7:35 & 10:10 p.m. Fantasia (1940) (G) Century 16: Sun 2 p.m.

Century 20: Sun 2 p.m.

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Not Rated) Century 16: 10:30 a.m., 2:30, 6:25 & 10:15 p.m. Regeneration (1915) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Sun 3:20 p.m. Room (R) +++1/2

Aquarius Theatre: 4:40 & 7:30 p.m.

Goosebumps (PG) Century 16: 9:10 & 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 8:10 & 10:45 p.m. Century 20: 10:40 a.m., 1:15, 3:55, 6:45 & 9:25 p.m.

Sicario (R) Century 16: 10:15 a.m., 1:15, 4:10, 7:25 & 10:20 p.m. Century 20: 5:05, 7:55 & 10:45 p.m., Fri & Sat 2 p.m.

Hotel Transylvania 2 (PG) Century 20: 4:20 & 7 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:30 a.m. & 1:55 p.m.

Spectre (PG-13) Century 16: 9, 9:50, 10:45 & 11:40 a.m., 12:35, 1:30, 2:25, 3:20, 4:15, 5:10, 6:05, 7, 7:55, 8:50, 9:50 & 10:40 p.m., Fri & Sat 11:30 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 a.m., 12:45, 1:30, 2:30, 4:15, 5, 6, 7:45, 8:30 & 9:30 p.m. In X-D at 11:55 a.m., 3:30, 7 & 10:25 p.m.

The Intern (PG-13) ++ Century 20: 10:45 a.m., 1:35, 4:30, 7:30 & 10:25 p.m. The Last Witch Hunter (PG-13) Century 20: 11:20 a.m. & 9:20 p.m.

Spotlight (R) +++1/2 Palo Alto Square: 1, 2:30, 4, 5:30, 7 & 8:30 p.m., Fri & Sat 10 p.m.

Love the Coopers (PG-13) Century 16: 9:20 a.m., noon, 2:40, 5:20, 8 & 10:45 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:50 & 10:30 p.m.

Steve Jobs (R) ++ Century 16: 10 a.m., 4:05 & 7:15 p.m. Century 20: 10:55 a.m., 1:45, 4:35, 7:25 & 10:20 p.m.

The Martian (PG-13) +++ Century 16: 9:05 a.m., 12:20, 3:40, 7:10 & 10:30 p.m. In 3-D at 10:40 a.m., 2, 5:20 & 8:35 p.m. Century 20: 1, 4:10, 7:20 & 10:30 p.m. In 3-D at 11:35 a.m., 2:50, 6:10 & 9:25 p.m.

Suffragette (PG-13) +++ Century 20: 11:15 a.m., 1:55, 4:35, 7:20 & 9:55 p.m. Guild Theatre: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 & 9:45 p.m. Truth (R) +++

Aquarius Theatre: 1:15, 4, 7:05 & 9:55 p.m.

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

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

CinéArts at Palo Alto Square:

Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264)

3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-0128)

Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264)

Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700)

Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260)

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The Galbraith family: back row, from left, Jacqueline, 13; William, 10; Alexis, 12, Zachary, 8; on couch, from left, Jonathan, 4; Benjamin, dad; Olivia, 7 months; Jessica, mom; Victoria, 2; and Abigail, 6.

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here’s not much time to determine who’s been naughty or nice when it comes to gift-giving in large families. By mid-October, Jenna and Matthew Adams of Mountain View had already drawn names for their Christmas gift exchange. With five daughters ranging from 4 to 14 years old, Jenna’s four siblings and Matt’s six, plus grandparents ... the list just keeps growing. Jenna recalls that as a child growing up in Centralia, Wash., her mom would take the five kids to the local mall where they’d “buy small things for each person. We loved buying, wrapping, opening,” she said. With a total budget of about $20, they could pick up little things, such as lip gloss, nail polish and hair doodads (at least for the sisters). “When we got older, like high school and college, we had outgrown lots of little junky things,” she said, and so they began a gift rotation (oldest gives to the next oldest and so on and so on, with the youngest giving to the oldest). Today, with most of her siblings married, they are continuing the rotation, only by family rather than individual. And they try to stick to a budget of about $25. “The idea is more thinking about something you love and want to share, rather than spending a lot,” Adams said. One year, she gave the book “Merry Christmas, Everywhere” by Arlene Eribach, which looks at Christmas in different counChr ttries and includes instructions for craft projects. t ““I filled the box with stuff to make the projstu

ects and sent it right after Thanksgiving — not expensive, things like a cake mix, a roll of streamers, grains to sprout,” she said. “It gets to be so much stuff. I don’t need more stuff. I’d rather have one smaller useful thing that brings the family together than individual sweaters from Aunt Shirley that nobody likes,” she said. Other ideas include a movie along with a large popcorn bowl and smaller ones for family night at the movies. More personalized gifts have included advent calendars with family names or a box of favorite things, from hand lotion to chocolates. And, of course, there’s always that gift card to Amazon, she added. When Jennifer and Ben Galbraith got married, they gave gifts to every person in the family, Jennifer recalled. “A couple years into that, I was exhausted. We’d try to get together for Christmas, then we were hauling these gifts in our cars, on an airplane. It got to be too much,” the Palo Alto mother of eight said. Soon she was in the “let’s talk” and rethink this mode. Both she and her husband come from large families, often with money short and lists long. “Because I came from a big family — my dad was a professor — we learned to be really frugal. My dad was overjoyed for one of those sprayers for his fruit trees. ... I realized I wasn’t a very good gift giver because I’d always given very practical gifts,” she said. (Early in their marriage her husband gave her high-end bread pans, knowing she’d never spring for them herself;

she got him a set of drinking glasses from Walmart. “I was just very very practical,” she added.) When the children were younger (they now range from 13 years down to 7 months), she’d load them into the van on a Saturday, take them to the Dollar Store, give each $1, set a timer and let them go their separate ways. “That was actually fun. We got really funny gifts and laughed at the random things we unwrapped from the younger children,” she said. Later they tried drawing names, cutting down the number of gifts from 45 to 10. Even drawing names can get complicated in large families. So far, they’ve tried exchanging gifts with first cousins, whole families and individual members of the extended families (such as an uncle matching with a nephew). This year the Galbraiths are breaking the pattern; rather than exchanging gifts (on her side of the family), they’re contributing to a travel fund to enable more members of the extended family to get together for Christmas. “Some people can’t come to Christmas because of cost,” she said, noting that one brother is getting a Ph.D. in Oklahoma, and another lives in Victoria, Canada, and is married with four children. “One of the benefits of having a large family is you have a support system for life; siblings are with you forever. We have 45 distinct relationships. I want to cultivate that. “When we drew names, it was a lot more manageable,” she said. But the downside was it took seven years to rotate through to that sibling again, she added. So within their family of 10, they don’t draw names, but give to each one. They accomplish this by taking two children at a time out to dinner and to a shopping center, where each child picks out and pays for gifts for all their siblings. The children accumulate their money via allowance plus tasks, such as babysitting, feeding the cat or walking the dog.

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he challenge: find holiday gifts for everyone within locally owned stores along the Peninsula — all under $15. Below is an eclectic list of clever gifts and stocking stuffers found in Palo Alto stores. Instead of resorting to gift cards or crowded big-box stores, check out the small but mighty gift shops and boutiques bundled within downtown areas. These shops have a higher concentration of unusual gifts and rare brand labels to impress everyone on your list, even when you’re on a budget. An abundance of books, cards, stationery and traveler’s accessories can be found at Paperwhirl.

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It’s hard not to smile upon entering Palo Alto Sport Shop & Toy World. Emoji stickers priced at $7 per pack are a humorous approach to pleasing any phone fanatic. Tickle the fancy of any video gamer with Lucky Forest mushroom banks, which resemble the mushrooms found in old-school Nintendo games at $12 each. Vintage ABC’s diverse assortment of $13 rubber stamps are a choice gift for artists of all levels. A bounty of kitschy gifts can be found next door at Five Ten Gifts. Give your favorite foodie a brightly hued set of flower or heart shaped measuring spoons or cups for $10. For an even more festive food-themed touch, pack them into one of DCI’s juicy-looking, fruit-shaped zipper pouches for $9. Kikkerland’s travel sewing kit is a $4 steal suitable for anyone, and its travel chopsticks make a great companion at $10. Q Editorial Intern Chrissi Angeles can be emailed at cangeles@paweekly.com.

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Sometimes the gifts don’t involve hard cash: One year the oldest, Jacqueline, gave each of her siblings a “date” — taking 2-yearold Victoria to Eleanor Pardee Park and pushing her on the swings for an hour, going on a walk and getting a bagel with 4-year-old Jon Jon; or paying for two brothers to go to a movie with her. “They loved it. Getting attention from an older sibling is really cool,” Galbraith said. On Ben’s side of the family, they’re planning to do a cousin exchange, and then buy something for each adult couple. With eight kids, they’re very conscious of keeping things fair on Christmas morning. “My husband is a stickler to make sure each kid gets the same number of packages to open,” she said. So one day in early December she and her husband go to his office, plug the laptop into an overhead projector and fill in a spreadsheet, assuring that each child’s gift gets the same “wow factor.” “I started adding up — so, if you have 90 just immediate family, then one gift from each couple, plus parents, plus Santa: more than 100 gifts! It’s mindboggling, isn’t it? “I think we need to think more about going in together for gifts, or service-oriented, or dates — it can get out of hand,” she said. Q Freelance writer Carol Blitzer can be emailed at cblitzer@sbcglobal.net.

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In new era, Palo Alto firefighters respond to all kinds of emergencies, including growing number of medical calls Story by My Nguyen | Photos by Veronica Weber

siren screamed as Engine 66 raced down El Camino Real on its way to a medical call. Once there, the threeman crew jumped out of the fire truck packed with hundreds of gallons of water and thousands of feet of hoses. Lugging potentially life-saving equipment, they made their way to the third floor of the Clark Building of Palo Alto Medical Foundation, where a 51-year-old woman was lightheaded, sweating and feeling like her heart was racing — symptoms of supraventricular tachycardia. Seconds count with most medical emergencies, so the firefighters quickly took the woman’s history, monitored her heart rate and breathing, set up an IV to deliver fluids and treated her with a fastacting antiarrhythmic drug, which essentially stopped her heart for less than a minute and restarted it. “I feel weird,” the woman said. “That means it’s working,” a firefighter told her, adding that people who are treated with adenosine often say they feel weird

after the drug takes effect. After treating the woman, paramedic and firefighter Tyler Ecoffey sighed with relief as he peeled off his latex gloves. “You don’t get to do that every day,” he said of administering the shot of adenosine. It wasn’t the first medical call the three were deployed to that September day, and it wouldn’t be their last. In the next 24 hours, the Palo Alto firefighters would respond to four calls involving chest pains or shortness of breath, one person who fell due to a medical issue and one residential carbon-monoxide incident. While many people maintain an image of firefighters hanging around the fire station waiting for a blaze, today’s firefighters do far more than battle infernos. They are the first ones to respond to chemical and environmental emergencies, including suspected chemical odors or a natural gas leak. They are called to rescue a hiker who has fallen off a steep embankment and people trapped

Above: Firefighter and paramedic Doug Slezak talks to an 11-yearold boy who is being transported to Stanford Hospital after feeling faint and lightheaded on Nov. 9. Top: From left, Palo Alto Fire Department’s Engine 66’s Fire Captain Barry Marchisio, firefighter Mike Ortiz and paramedic and truck driver Eric Heller get into their uniforms before heading out to a call concerning a smoke-like odor at Stanford Shopping Center on Nov. 5.

in cars after a crash. They also assist victims of heart attacks, strokes and other trauma. Fire departments across the Bay Area, including the Palo Alto Fire Department, have evolved into multifaceted agencies in which firefighters are expected to have knowledge of and maintain adept skills in emergency medical services, technical rescue, hazardous materials, firefighting apparatus and equipment operation and maintenance, public education, disaster preparedness and, of course, fire fighting. And because of this, there is no “typical day” for Palo Alto firefighters — each 24-hour shift brings new kinds of training exercises as well as new challenges.

Medical calls dominate

alo Alto firefighters know well the ebb and flow of fire service: One minute, they’re watching TV or chowing down on lunch, the next they’re racing toward an emergency. And when the printer churns out a call sheet, chances are it’s some kind of medical problem. More than 60 percent of the fire department’s calls for service are medical in nature, Fire Chief Eric Nickel said. The calls have been increasing due to a growing and aging population, he added. “Palo Alto is a very vibrant community, but we also have a large portion of the community that is older,” he said. “Seventeen percent of the community is aged 65 and older, and that’s considered a high-risk group not only for fires but also medical emergencies. “We fully expect to see in the next 10 to 15 years our emergency medical calls for service to increase, and that’s where we’re trying to position the department,” he said. In response to the rising demand, city officials have made several changes in the department, which is the only one in Santa

Clara County that provides ambulance service. Changes include an expanded medical-response operation and a greater emphasis on emergency planning. In January, the department adjusted its staffing so that every fire apparatus and station (there are six year-round stations in the city; a seventh operates during the summer months) has at least one Advanced Life Support paramedic to handle serious emergency calls. That’s in addition to crews of firefighters who are trained as emergency medical technicians, capable of administering oxygen, using automated external defibrillators and performing CPR and other basic life support. The City Council, in October, approved the purchase of two Type III ambulances to add to the city’s existing three full-time ambulances, which are strategically positioned in northern, central and southern portions of the city. The goal, Nickel said, is to reduce the city’s reliance on the county’s ambulance provider and continue to meet the department’s target of getting to medical emergencies within 12 minutes, 99 percent of the time. “My ultimate goal is to have an ambulance at every fire station that’s cross-staffed by the engine company,” Nickel said. Firefighters responded to 7,829 calls in fiscal year 2014, according to the City of Palo Alto 2014 Performance Report. Of those calls, 4,757 were medical/rescue-related — a 31 percent increase from fiscal year 2005, when the department responded to 3,633 medical/ rescue situations. And while medical calls have shot up, the frequency of residential structure fires has decreased dramatically. In 2005, the department responded to 58 structure fires compared to 15 in 2014. Firefighters at Station 6, located on the Stanford University campus, will respond to on average six calls in a 24-hour period. And

when Eric Heller, a paramedic and truck driver, arrives on the scene of a call, it’s not a fire hose he pulls out, it’s a pair of latex gloves and a medical bag. A majority of the medical calls he gets dispatched to are alcoholrelated — “Students who are intoxicated,” Heller said. Other frequent incidents include carversus-bicycle crashes and sports injuries. “Often times, we respond to the elderly population,” Heller added. “We have a lot of convalescent homes that seem like they’re only increasing over time, so our calls to those are very frequent.” Heart attacks, strokes, falls and chronic respiratory issues are common refrains on the dispatch radio, so the practice of sending both a fire truck — equipped with oxygen, defibrillators and other first-aid essentials — and an ambulance is commonplace. It takes Palo Alto firefighters eight minutes or less, 90 percent of the time, to respond to a medical call, according to department statistics. The fire department uses a system that relies on GPS to dispatch the closest available unit (ambulance, fire engine or ladder truck). The system can also look at traffic patterns. “If it’s a critical call, the paramedic usually takes the lead and the EMT-trained firefighter will assist the paramedic,” Heller said. Cardiac arrest is a common call. Typically, a fire engine with three firefighters and an ambulance with two medics will be dispatched. “We never know exactly what the situation will be until we arrive on scene,” said Mike Espeland, a paramedic and firefighter on Truck 66. At a cardiac-arrest incident, they are performing multiple vital tasks: controlling the person’s airway, performing chest compressions, watching the heart monitor (continued on next page)

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and getting the defibrillator ready, putting an IV together, getting the appropriate drugs, supervising the patient, documenting the scene and explaining what’s going on to the patient’s loved ones and comforting them. “It’s not enough. Five people on a full arrest, in my opinion, is not enough. We need another two bodies, at least,” said David Villarreal, another firefighter on Truck 66. Extra hands and bodies may look excessive, but it is important in addressing the critical needs of the patient, the firefighters said. “I can’t walk away from a patient to get stuff and bring it back, so I need to delegate to other people,” Heller said. “Everything is done simultaneously ... and all the steps are done peripherally while I’m dealing with the patient.” Responding to a medical call is no different than responding to a structure fire or motor vehicle ac-

By the numbers From July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014, the Palo Alto Fire Department responded to a variety of incidents.

Fire: 150

Medical/ rescue: 4,757

False alarm: 1,044

Service call*: 396

cident, the firefighters said. “There’s so much going through your head, and you’re filtering it through real quick,” Heller said. “You’re thinking about the same kinds of things (how many victims, what kind of injuries, what kind of equipment to bring in, etc.) ... so you can get an idea in your head even before you get to the scene.” There are also medical calls that require not just medical skills but also rescue skills, like car crashes and industrial accidents, Fire Captain Barry Marchisio said. “We not only have the skills and abilities to extricate the person from the problem but ... also the ability to treat that person medically,” he said. When Villarreal responds to a car crash, the first thing he thinks about, he said, is where to park the 60-foot truck he’s driving. “It has to be in a location that is suitable and useable,” he said. Then Villarreal assesses the situation: Is extrication needed, in which case they use hydraulic shears and cutters, or medical aid? “Usually when we get called, it’s a big wreck and we’re cutting people out of cars,” he said. “So when I’m driving in, I’m trying to figure out where I want to put the truck. Then second is how bad is the wreck, how many cars are involved and what kind of car is it. “The training I have goes into play now. I feel like I’ve been doing this for so long (that) when I start cutting up a car ... the technique is so far removed; it just happens. It’s second nature,” he said. In a multivehicle crash, the firefighters have to assess the victims and decide who needs to get to the hospital first, which isn’t always the most critical victim, the firefighters said. “The worst-off patient generally isn’t really the one we want to get out first,” Villarreal said. “It could be the person that is not as badly injured but is viable. We have to make those decisions ... and it’s difficult.”

Training never stops Hazardous condition: 207

Other**: 1,275

or the firefighters at Station 6, their 24 hours on is also spent in training exercises to prepare for potential emergencies: building collapses, vehicle acci-

dents, structure fires and the like. “We do a lot of drills,” said Manny Macias, a firefighter on Truck 66. “We set aside two to three hours a day just to do training, and we don’t do the same training every day because we want to be diverse in what we do.” On this particular day, the crew staged a mock rescue in the San Francisquito Creek to practice how to rescue someone in steep terrain. “One of the reasons we do drills is to keep our skills up,” Marchisio said. “A real call won’t happen exactly the way it will happen during a drill, so we have to be able to modify our operations and recover from the mistakes we might make, and training gives us the opportunity to practice that.” When the firefighters and paramedics arrive on scene of the mock rescue, they assess the situation with urgency — quickly locating the victim and considering the best approach for access and rescue. In this case, the firefighters performed a high-angle rescue, using the aerial ladder on Truck 66 as a high point to lift the victim out of the creek. “Obviously the rescue of the person is important, but you have to go in and figure out what’s going on and make the scene safe before you go in and do what has to be done,” Truck 66’s Fire Captain Will Crump said. The paramedics made their way down to the victim, a 40-year-old male with a head wound (played by a dummy), to give him initial medical care while the firefighters set up the hauling system. Extending Truck 66’s 100foot aerial ladder skyward to its full height, a stokes basket was suspended from a rope that was passed over a pulley system, which itself was attached to the top rung of the ladder. The process called for precision, as the firefighters made sure every rope, knot and pulley was secured in place. The victim, strapped to a backboard to prevent possible spinal and neck injuries, was placed in the stokes basket. Slowly — and methodically — the firefighters pulled the victim up with commands from a point person. Once the victim was out of the creek and on level ground, the

Station 6 Battalion Chief Bobby Davis and Shane Yarbrough, who is training to be a battalion chief for Station 2, review procedures in Davis’ office. firefighters and paramedics gath- jor university that creates its own ered around to review the training problems, and we have thousands of acres of wildland, and that’s a session. “I like to give everyone an op- whole different type of fire probportunity to share what they saw, lem,” Marchisio said. “We have a what they did, what went well, and railroad that goes through town what they could have done better,” and two major freeways and the said Crump, who has been a fire- baylands and all the rescue issues fighter for almost 20 years and that happen out there.” was a corpsman in the Navy. “To me, everyone’s voice is valuable. I A state of readiness think when you do a drill and after the drill you talk about it, what side from responding to you learn is more ingrained.” calls and training, personOther hands-on exercises the nel at Station 6 wait for firefighters perform include high- calls, write reports, exercise, eat rise structure fires (which are done and watch TV. in a training tower at Station 6), For dinner, the crew pools ventilation, forcible entry, auto ex- money for groceries, and on this trication and confined space and day, Marchisio made one of his trench rescues. specialty dishes: chicken marsala. Practicing the life-saving skills The firefighters dined like family and techniques until they become on the hearty pasta dish, Caesar instinctive is critically important, salad and bread, sharing stories, Crump said. laughing and poking fun at one Still, no matter how many drills another. and training sessions they con“Everyone gets along,” said Maduct, Macias said he is mindful cias, who has been a firefighter for that each real call they get could 22 years. “We’re having fun, but be the single worst moment for the I guarantee you when those bells person on the other end of the line. ring, everyone switches to a dif“We see people on their worst ferent mode, and it’s completely day, “ he said. “Our job is to do business. And that’s how it has to whatever we can to make things be because we have to have a way better.” to relieve our minds, and I think And the biggest thing firefight- we do it by joking around and ers can do, Macias said, is to be laughing.” compassionate, as well as preAfter the dishes were done, pared to “go above the call of the crew wound down. Some of duty” when emergencies strike. the firefighters called home; oth“We have a downtown area ers took showers or watched TV that has high-rise buildings. We (continued on next page) have two major hospitals, a ma-

Total: 7,829 *Includes non-emergency calls for assistance from such people as the elderly or disabled persons who are not injured; flooding caused by plumbing or rain; utilities issues such as wires down or leaking hydrants; problems with smoke detectors or carbon monoxide detectors; unusual odors that are not natural gas or a hazardous material; and animal rescues. **Other calls include alarm testing, station tours, training incidents, cancelled calls and good-intent calls (i.e., a person genuinely believes there is an actual emergency when it is not an emergency).

Source: City of Palo Alto 2014 Performance Report

Firefighter and paramedic Carlos Gracia, center, loads a ladder back onto a fire engine while firefighter Mike Ortiz, right, puts oxygen tanks back onto the truck following a training exercise outside of Station 6 last week.

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From left, firefighter Mike Ortiz, firefighter and paramedic Carlos Gracia and Fire Captain Barry Marchisio place a fire hose back onto the truck after a training exercise.

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(Their favorite show: “Cops”). Heading for bed, some went to private rooms and others to dormitory-type sleeping quarters furnished with twin beds and oldfashioned tube TVs. (The firefighters bring their own pillows and sleeping bags or sheets and comforters.) If there’s a call in the middle of the night, bells and lights go off in the sleeping area, and the firefighters have to jump out of bed and be on the fire apparatus, ready to go. “We’re always in a state of readiness,” Ecoffey said. “We sleep, but it’s not a deep sleep.” After dinner, on occasion, the firefighters go out together to get ice cream or frozen yogurt, which also gives them the opportunity to meet the public. “Most of the time when we’re interacting with the community

with laughter. The fire station is older — it was built in the 1960s — with a lot of history. The walls are lined with photographs from the past, awards and fire memorabilia. There’s a fire pole, a classroom for training, a full kitchen, a small gym, eight walnut-colored upholstered recliners and bathrooms for both men and women, although there are no female firefighters at Station 6. During the morning meeting, they are briefed by Fire Captain Barry Marchisio — the father figure of their unique extended family, the firefighters said — on the daily objectives, including training for the day and any special assignments or important information. When a call does come through, whether it’s a medical problem or a fire, each person knows he can count on the others, firefighter Manny Macias said. “Everyone here brings something to the table,” he added. The nature of their shift work allows some of the firefighters to hold second jobs. The firefighters are permitted to undertake second jobs with permission from Fire Chief Eric Nickel. “The city has a policy that allows outside employment for any city employee with department head approval,” Nickel said. “There are several restrictions on outside employment, such as outside employment can’t interfere with primary city employment, no conflict of interest and department head approval is required annually.” it’s during an emergency,” Crump said. “We actually get a lot of positive feedback for being out in the community on non-emergencies. People will see us out, and they always come up and strike up a conversation with us.” Macias, who is a self-described “people-person,” said he enjoys talking to people and educating them on what being in the fire service entails because people may not know what firefighters actually do — “just like how we don’t know what a lot of people in the city do for a living.” “That’s how I like to connect with people,” he said. “And the best way to connect with parents is through their children. You get the kids interested about firefighting and fire prevention, and their parents will want to know too.” Building a rapport with the community is especially difficult for the firefighters because none of the department’s more than 90 firefighters (members working in the six fire stations as well as su-

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irefighters work and live together for 24 hours, so they can’t help but bond in a way people in other professions aren’t able to do. The firefighters at Station 6 in Palo Alto are no different. Long hours and a shared lifestyle have brought them closer together, they say, ensuring that they aren’t just co-workers, but family. Twenty-four firefighters work at the fire house, with an average of eight firefighters per shift. The shifts (A, B and C) are kept intact for the most part because while being able to work together during an emergency is absolutely necessary, so is being able to live with one another. “Every shift has their personalities, and every shift thinks they’re the best,” paramedic and firefighter Mike Espeland joked. “It’s like any other job: ‘Birds of a feather flock together.’ “We’re pretty similar in the fact that we do or don’t like to train, how we do or don’t like to joke around, how we do and don’t like to run calls. All of that plays into who you are living with.” The firefighters start their work day promptly at 8 a.m. There are apparatus and equipment checks and daily chores before the crew sits down for their morning meeting. On a recent day, the crew members gathered around a circular table large enough to seat eight brawny firefighters. As one sipped on a cup of hot coffee and another read the newspaper, they chatted about sports and current events, occasionally taking jabs at one another as the fire house filled

Firefighters at Station 6 (clockwise from center bottom) Fire Captain Barry Marchisio, Brian Kerezsi, David Villarreal, Mike Espeland, Carlos Gracia, Eric Heller, Mike Ortiz and Battalion Chief Bobby Davis laugh as they joke with Heller, who cooked dinner. Every evening the firefighters take turns cooking. The actual number of staff holding second jobs is relatively low, Nickel said, with 12 who have authorization. The majority of these people, he said, teach fire science and entry-level fire academy training at local junior college fire technology programs. Some moonlight as business owners, like firefighter David Villarreal, who co-owns a wine bar on California Avenue with his wife, Lori Romero. The two live in Campbell but spend most of their time in Palo Alto and wanted to open a place where people their age (Romero is in her 40s) can have a glass of wine and socialize, Romero said. Everyone has his own reason for working a second job. Extra income is a big one, but for paramedic and firefighter Eric Heller, working as a part-time fitness instructor gives him an outlet to relieve stress from the job, he said. Macias, who owns two businesses, including West Coast

Designz, a screen-printing facility in San Jose, said he just likes to keep busy. “I have to be doing something,” he said. All agree none of them got into fire service for the pay. They’re firefighters because it’s something for which they have a passion, they said. Many of the firefighters have been friends or have worked together for years, raised families together and enjoyed numerous outings — on and off the clock. The family dynamic of the fire house is beneficial for the firefighters, whose work can often times be extremely stressful. Although the firefighters are trained to do everything possible to save lives, much of what they do involves death. There are different ways to cope, but the best way is to talk with one another, they said. After a serious call, Macias said he goes back to work “because this place is what keeps me

pervising chief officers) call Palo Alto home. “Most firefighters live outside of the area and commute in, unlike a lot of places where the firefighters are able to live in the city they work in and are able to be a part of the community,” said Crump, who commutes from Burlingame. Statistics from the fire department show only 32 firefighters live in Santa Clara County (in cities including Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos Hills, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale), 14 live in Alameda County, 13 in Contra Costa County, 12 in Santa Cruz County, and the rest are scattered around the Bay Area or even outside of it. To build a bond with the community, the firefighters take part in events like block parties, the city’s Art and Wine Festival and Chili Cook Off, as well as unionsponsored events, they said. But the high numbers of out-oftown firefighters could matter tre-

mendously after a natural disaster like an earthquake, if emergency responders aren’t able to make it into the city, Fire Chief Nickel said. “It’s an issue that all fire departments in the Bay Area are facing right now,” he said. “Particularly in Palo Alto and on the Peninsula, the home values here are so steep, even with salaries and benefits firefighters get, they can’t afford to live in Palo Alto.” A majority of the firefighters live one-and-a-half to two hours away, Nickel said, “so you have to drive a great distance and when a disaster strikes, it’s going to be probably days before our crews can get back into the city.” Fortunately, Palo Alto has active neighborhood preparedness groups that are trained and prepared, so if an emergency does strike, community members are able to step up, he added. Regardless of where they reside, longtime firefighters like Crump, Espeland and Macias said they

grounded.” “I do this job because I love it so much, but there are calls that screw with your head. There are times on TV, I can’t watch things because it will come up and ... I’ll get emotional. I’ll be driving and see something, and I’ll remember a call I got,” he said. Villarreal added: “All I do is talk to these guys. It’s therapeutic. I don’t bring it home.” Eventually 8 a.m. arrives again, and the firefighters are free to go home unless the oncoming shift is short staffed and someone is “forced in,” meaning a firefighter is required to stay for an additional 24 hours of duty. It’s part of the job, they say. “You have to wear 20 different hats and know how to adapt to each situation individually, which is kind of crazy, but I wouldn’t trade this job for anything,” Macias said. “And the best thing is my little boy looks up to me, and thinks I’m a hero.” Q wouldn’t leave Palo Alto to work for a department closer to home or for one that pays more because they’re too invested in the community they serve. “It’s a generational thing,” Espeland said. “We came from a generation where our parents worked somewhere for 30 years, and we grew up knowing that and that’s what we do. We’ve committed a lot of time, energy, blood, sweat and tears to this place, so it’s a little hard to walk away.” Q Digital Editor My Nguyen can be emailed at mnguyen@ paweekly.com.

About the cover: Palo Alto firefighter and engineer Mike Espeland heads off to inspect a smoky smell at Stanford Shopping Center on Nov. 5, one of a variety of calls the department handles these days. Photo by Veronica Weber.

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HOMESTEADING 101 ... Learn how to both save water and plants on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2-5 p.m., at the Common Ground Garden, 687 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. Participants will learn about water-saving methods such as rain catchments, rain tanks and greywater systems. To attend, participants are asked to donate a minimum of $25. Info: bit.ly/ WaterCatchment SANDBAG DAY ... Pick up sandbags on Sunday, Nov. 15, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Municipal Service Center, 3201 E. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto. Volunteers and City of Palo Alto staff will be available to help load sandbags into vehicles. Info: cityofpaloalto.org/storms UNDER THE GROUND! ... Learn all about what’s going on deep under ground on Sunday, Nov. 15, 12:30-2:30 p.m., at the EcoCenter, 2560 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. During this program, kids can learn about how plates move, rocks form and the earth shakes. This is the third of a four-part series called Kid Powered! from Environmental Volunteers. The sessions are open to first- through fifth-grade students, and the suggested fee is $20 per child per session. The last program day will be “Walk with the Animals” on Nov. 22. Info: evols.org/ kidpowered RHODODENDRON EXPEDITION ... Hear about a rhododendron hunting trip on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. in Room 12 of the Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. The De Anza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society will present a program from Jason Martinez of the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum on his plant hunting trip in the Sikkim Himalayas and West Bengal regions of India. During the trip, the searchers located all but three species of rhododendrons endemic to that part of the Himalayas. The program is free, and refreshments will be served. Info: deanza-ars.com ROSE CARE ... Learn how to care for roses through the winter on Thursday, Nov. 19, 7-8:30 p.m., at Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Road, Palo Alto. During the free program, Master Gardener Martha Carpenter will explain how to choose and plant bare-root roses, offer pruning tips, and discuss rose diseases and how to manage them. Info: mastergardeners.org/2015-1119/Winter-Care-of-Roses 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.

Above: Tony Jung, CLEAResult technician, moves from room to room looking for heat loss and carefully inspects windows for signs of a draft. Right: A reading on Jung’s infrared camera shows the differences in wall temperature where walls have adequate insulation or have none at all.

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esidents don’t need to rub a magic lamp to save energy at home, but they can still turn to a genie — the Home Efficiency Genie. This program provides residents with free expert advice, discounted home assessments and a resource for how to move forward with energy-efficiency projects. The Home Efficiency Genie Program launched on July 1 by the City of Palo Alto Utilities department (CPAU) and CLEAResult, a company that specializes in energy efficiency consulting and energy program management. Since its start in Palo Alto, CLEAResult staff have served 140 customers as of Nov. 11, according to Jeff Strauss, CLEAResult program manager. “Palo Alto was looking for something a little more technical,” he said. “This will be more of a whole-home approach, incorporating diagnostic testing.” Through the program that is subsidized by the city ($900,000 over the three-year contract), CLEAResult offers locals three options: free energy advising and

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utility bill analysis; a $99, basic inhome efficiency assessments or a $149, comprehensive assessment. The free options includes an overthe-phone review of utility bills and a look of use rates over time for water, gas and electric services. By evaluating these, the energy adviser can help the homeowner prioritize efficiency improvements, find contractors, evaluate contractor bids, and answer any questions. The basic in-home assessment includes free efficiency items, such as high-efficiency showerheads and faucet aerators, overview of consumption patterns, and assessments of the HVAC system, insulation, lighting, windows and more using a pressure test to measure draftiness. The comprehensive option includes the basic

features plus a diagnostic duct leakage test, infrared camera scan and energy software modeling. Regardless of service level, homeowners will get to work oneon-one with an energy adviser throughout their upgrade process, Strauss said. To learn more about the program, homeowners can visit efficiencygenie.com. So far, Strauss said, the in-home assessments have been the most popular, with 46 completed assessments, nine scheduled assessments and numerous utility bill reviews and phone consultations. Jack Sack, a resident of Barron Park, was one of the first Home Efficiency Genie Program

participant and sought the service because he wanted to make homeefficiency updates based on measurements. He had already done small energy improvements himself, such as change lightbulbs, but wanted to do more. That’s when he enrolled in the basic in-home assessment, which included the blower door test. After working with the technician and energy adviser through the audit, Sack received a 45-page report that detailed every inch of his home. The report listed improvements from sealing duct work to upgrading the heating system. (continued on page 34)

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Jung seals off a door while preparing to install a house pressurizing meter during an energy audit on Oct. 14 in Palo Alto.

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With the report in hand, Sack weighed the different options with the energy adviser who then connected him with pre-qualified contractors who could do the work â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all of which is included in the $99 program option. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just made it so easy for me,â&#x20AC;? Sack said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe the benefits you get from it.â&#x20AC;? When interviewed a few weeks ago, Sack was in the final bidding

stages for about four energy-efficient updates. In his home, he and his spouse decided to switch their heating system. This move made sense because their current furnace was reaching the end of its lifespan and it was only 72 percent efficient, Sack said. In addition, they are going to have the duct work replaced, update the attic and floor insulation, and seal voids in the ceiling and floor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are 20-year decisions you are making,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done anything in 20 years, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot you can probably do.â&#x20AC;?

Jung moves from room to room of a house in Palo Alto inspecting air vents or spaces where cold air seeps through; in this case he takes a closer view where speakers have been installed recently.

Throughout the process, Sack worked with CLEAResult technician Tony Jung and energy adviser Scott Mellberg to find options that worked best for his goals and budget. And as a Palo Alto native who has lived here his whole life, and now resides in the Duveneck/ St. Francis neighborhood, Mellberg said he understands local concerns and conditions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A single solution wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t solve all the problems,â&#x20AC;? Mellberg said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We take the time to explore their comfort and efficiency concerns.â&#x20AC;? For CPAU, the Home Efficiency

Genie program fit with its continued efforts to save energy at home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For 20 years or so, that city has offered audits,â&#x20AC;? said Lacey Lutes, CPAU program manager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We heard from our residents that they were interested in going deeper.â&#x20AC;? Lutes said this program really walks residents through energysaving improvements and that feedback has been positive so far. Plus, this program fits in with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overall energy goals and its participation in the Georgetown University Energy Prize competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are engaging our residents

to drive energy savings,â&#x20AC;? said Catherine Elvert, CPAU communications manager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Home Efficiency Genie should be a really great program to catapult those savings.â&#x20AC;? Q Associate Editor Brenna Malmberg can be emailed at bmalmberg@paweekly.com.

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Dear Friends,

Luisa Buada Chief Executive Officer

ince opening our new health center in East Palo Alto on May 5th, we have received local, regional and national recognition. Silicon Valley Business Journal awarded our new health center with the 2015 Structures Award for Community Impact. It’s an incredible feat given the pool of nominees, which included the $60 million Stanford Cancer Center South Bay. Hats off to our architect, INDE Architecture, and our general contractor, Rudolph & Sletten. We also received recognition and additional funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for being a national model for health care quality and cost efficiency. Ravenswood ranked 1st in the Bay Area, 4th in California, and

Ravenswood ranked 1st in the Bay Area, 4th in California and 18th in the nation among 1,153 health centers for quality.

achievements possible. Thank you for believing in quality health care for all Silicon Valley residents. Wishing you happy holidays,

Luisa Buada, 18th among 1,153 health centers Chief Executive Officer nationwide. Receiving this recognition is a testament to the high quality health care that we provide. It also validates our stewardship of the the important investments that our donors have made in support of our programs and services. Locally, Ravenswood’s Ty Deldridge, Health Care for the Homeless Manager, received Midpen Media Center’s Local Heroes Award for her tireless work connecting the homeless with our health care services. Ty’s work and personal story truly embody the holiday spirit of giving It was the generous support of people like you that made these Ravenswood Family Health Center

Our Mission To improve the health of the community by providing culturally sensitive, integrated primary and preventative health care to all, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. Photos: Federica Armstrong

Board of Directors Julio Garcia, Chair Melieni Talaka, Vice Chair Karen Hernandez, Treasurer Karen Blackwell, Secretary Senseria Conley, Parlamentarían Marisela Alvarez Nancy Alvarez Adrian Amaral Manuel Arteaga Vernal Bailey Marcelline Combs Jonathan Lindeke Siteri Maravou Elizabeth Sosa Raymond Mills, Board Liaison Sherri Sager, Board Liaison

Advisory Council Patricia Bresee, Chair Maya Altman Greg Avis Caretha Coleman Chris Dawes Greg Gallo Rose Jacobs Gibson Lily Hurlimann Dr. Ross Jaffe Jim Koshland Dr. Phil Lee Dr. Richard Levy Gordon Russell John A. Sobrato Dr. Frederick St. Goar Jane Williams

Meet Local Hero, Ty Deldridge

he Midpen Media Center’s 9th Annual Local Heroes Awards honored five midpeninsula residents for contributions to the community. Ty Deldridge, Ravenswood’s Health Care for the Homeless Manager, was among those honored. A proud resident of East Palo Alto, Ty often sees her clients around town. They sometimes hide when they see her, perhaps feeling guilty for using drugs the night before. “I tell them today is a different day. Start over now. I’m here for them no matter if they used drugs an hour ago or a minute ago,” explains Ty. Ty works tirelessly on behalf of her homeless clients. During the day, she links them with Ravenswood’s behavioral health counseling, medical and dental services. She also helps clients secure housing, food and other basic needs. She also promotes her clients’ interests as a board member of San Mateo County’s Health Care for the Homeless initiative. Ty

At the age of 9, Ty escaped the chaos by moving in with her grandmother. While her grandmother was strict, Ty enjoyed the rhythm of a normal life. Ty went to school. Her grandmother went to work. Dinner was served every night. When Ty was 17, her mother checked into a drug treatment program. Ty was pregnant at the time. “I think God cleaned her up right when I needed her most. I was still in school and needed someone to watch the baby after she was born.” Clean and sober for years now, Ty’s mother has become her best friend. Ty is driven by her clients’ success stories. “The best ones for me are when my clients get their kids back,” Ty explained. “They’re going to teacher conferences. They’re living a normal life. It makes me jump for joy.

also serves as a liaison with the City of East Palo Alto, supporting the city’s efforts to address homelessness in the area. Homelessness is often rooted in mental illness and substance abuse. Ty knows firsthand the turmoil caused by addiction. Her mother’s heroin addiction threw her childhood into chaos. “I was scared. I couldn’t sleep,” Ty recalled. “There were all these people in and out of the Watch Midpen Media Center’s house. My mom would disappear video documentary about Ty at for days. Sometimes we’d find www.MyHeroTy.org. her in jail.”

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he U. S. Department of improvement is not a depart- April 2014. Health and Human Ser- ment. It’s part of each staff “It is critical for our Call vices recently awarded member’s job.” Agents to deliver excellent performance-based funding Since joining Ravenswood customer service because to health centers demonstrat- in 2012, Laila has worked they are often the first point of ing quality improvement, cost closely with the CEO, the contact for our patients,” exefficiency, and growth in the Medical Director and Board plained Laila. “They set the number of patients served. of Directors to implement sys- tone for the patient’s experiRavenswood ranked 1st in tems and processes for as- ence with us.” the Bay Area, 4th in Early this year, our California and 18th call center operators among 1,153 health completed intensive centers nationwide in customer service trainthe amount of perforing. “We learned how mance-based fundto be calm and respect ing received. patients who might “We have shatbe upset about their tered a few of our health conditions,” reown performance recalled Call Agent, Alma cords and have sigAguayo. nificantly enhanced The training encourour patients’ experiaged operators to take ence with us,” exLaila Gulzar, Quality Improvement Officer and RN Trainer ownership of quality plained Laila Gulzar, improvement through sharing Quality Improvement Offi- sessing performance, creating cer and RN Trainer. “But that and executing action plans, best practices and working together to create scripts adis just the beginning of what and measuring results. dressing common patient conwe’re capable of.” Recent quality improve- cerns. Laila is working to create ment efforts are paying off. “I don’t think there is a a culture in which every em- For example, our call cenployee takes responsibility ter operators have achieved limit to quality improvement,” for identifying improvement a staggering 25 percentage Alma explained. “I think even opportunities. “During new point improvement in patients though we’re doing well now, employee orientation, I al- rating their customer service we can still do better.” ways emphasize that quality experience as “Great” since

• Adult Medicine

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We also enoveva is a single scheduled an mother working appointment night shifts to supfor Genoveva port her three children. She to see Dr. Rayrecently had a painfully mond Perez for swollen eye and dropped a checkup. It had by our new health center been 8 years for treatment because she since she had simply couldn’t afford to be seen a doctor. sick. During her folGenoveva was able to low up visit, Dr. see Optometrist, Dr. Sonia Perez diagnosed Menchavez, without an appointment and started treatment right away. Genoveva with type 2 diabetes. That’s when Health Coach, Elva GonzaPrior to the opening of our new health center, patients often waited 4 to 6 months to lez, stepped in to help Genoveva manage her diabetes medications and make dietary get eye care through San Mateo County.

changes that make sense with her Mexican culture. Elva coaches her in Spanish which is Genoveva’s preferred language. Genoveva is not about to let her diabetes spin out of control. Her children rely on her to earn a living and to cheer them on during their soccer and volleyball games. But, Genoveva’s full-time wages aren’t enough to pay for health insurance plus rent and groceries. So, she relies on the generous support of people like you to help pay for the life-saving diabetes treatment she gets at Ravenswood.

Join Genoveva’s care team. Donate at JoinTheCareTeam.org.

A Perfect Day for the 7th Annual Ride & Yoga for Ravenswood

orgeous weather graced the popular cycling and yoga event at the Brody Family home in Atherton on October 11th. The event attracted 110 people who

participated in a 30-mile ride through Portola Valley, a 50-mile ride along the coast or an invigorating outdoor yoga class. Nearly $38,000 was raised for our programs and services.

I was thrilled to participate. As both a resident of East Palo Alto and a Palo Alto Medical Foundation employee, I know how important it is that • Ravenswood continues to offer its services to area residents who would otherwise fall through the cracks in our healthcare system. – Erik Ryszkiewicz

A special thank you to our sponsors! Presenting Sponsor

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$100 $250 $500 $1,200 $2,000 Other:

pays for one patient’s lab work pays for one optometry visit pays for one potentially life-saving mammography pays for one mom’s prenatal care pays for one year of diabetes care $ `

Mail check with this slip to

Ravenswood Family Health Center 1885 Bay Road East Palo Alto, CA 94303

Or, donate online at JoinTheCareTeam.org

Ravenswood Family Health Center is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

INDE Architecture

El Camino Hospital

Opportunity Fund

GNU Group

Ravenswood Shores Business District

Quest Diagnostics Suhr Risk Services

Have a question? Contact Jason Wurtz, Fundraising & Marketing Manager at jwurtz@ravenswoodfhc.org or 650-617-7829

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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

83 Linda Vista Ave. Elder Trust to LV Investors for $7,600,000 on 10/09/15

Los Altos

660 Covington Road QTIP Trust to J. Wang for $2,700,000 on 10/22/15 4388 El Camino Real, #119 H. Fan to S. & M. Howarth for $1,150,000 on 10/20/15; previous sale 07/22/2013, $740,000 5100 El Camino Real, #209 G. Greenstein to P. Robertson for $1,520,000 on 10/19/15; previous sale 10/19/2007, $910,000 2020 El Sereno Ave. Norman Trust to S. & T. Dunevich for $2,200,000 on 10/20/15 1524 Kathy Lane Barnoski Trust to A. Varadarajan for $2,700,000 on 10/19/15; previous sale 01/1972, $55,000 430 Lassen St., #6 K. Dibacco to Greathouse Trust for $1,550,000 on 10/22/15; previous sale 08/21/2009, $730,000

Los Altos Hills

11545 Crestridge Drive Layman Trust to Narayanan Trust for $2,800,000 on 10/22/15 27220 Ohlone Lane P. & W. Sharma to K. Kannan for $5,000,000 on 10/22/15; previous sale 04/21/1998, $2,250,000

Menlo Park

950 Continental Drive Knoerle Trust to J. Zhuang for $2,750,000 on 10/09/15

3751 Klamath Lane M. & C. Biondolillo to B. & L. Vroom for $1,230,000 on 10/19/15; previous sale 05/31/2012, $750,000 2844 Ramona St. Fox Trust to A. Ganesh for $3,730,000 on 10/20/15; previous sale 09/12/1991, $358,000 2320 Tasso St. S. & S. Felt to R. & K. Mediratta for $3,150,000 on 10/21/15; previous sale 07/19/2013, $2,400,000 2570 Webster St. Webster Investment to B. Guo for $4,350,000 on 10/22/15; previous sale 07/17/2012, $1,690,000 2301 Williams St. J. Wang-Lu to B. Fahimian for $1,310,000 on 10/21/15; previous sale 09/28/1982, $54,000

SALES AT A GLANCE Atherton

Menlo Park

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $7,600,000 Highest sales price: $7,600,000

Los Altos

Total sales reported: 1 Lowest sales price: $2,750,000 Highest sales price: $2,750,000

Mountain View

Total sales reported: 6 Lowest sales price: $1,150,000 Highest sales price: $2,700,000

Total sales reported: 16 Lowest sales price: $500,000 Highest sales price: $2,265,000

Los Altos Hills Total sales reported: 2 Lowest sales price: $2,800,000 Highest sales price: $5,000,000

Palo Alto Total sales reported: 10 Lowest sales price: $1,230,000 Highest sales price: $4,728,000

Woodside

Total sales reported: 3 Lowest sales price: $979,000 Highest sales price: $6,950,000 Source: California REsource

Mountain View

217 Ada Ave., #1 Bharwani-Tom Trust to T. Tran for $1,301,000 on 10/20/15; previous sale 08/14/2007, $800,000 320 April Place Angus Trust to T. Wan for $1,985,000 on 10/26/15 115 Beacon St. C. Tseng to H. Yu for $1,255,000 on 10/20/15; previous sale 01/18/1996, $280,000 242 Bonny St. Andrade Trust to S. Julka for $1,150,000 on 10/23/15 791 Bryn Mawr Court, #60 D. Poll to Lee-Wu Trust for $890,000 on 10/26/15; previous sale 04/20/2011, $515,000 198 Escuela Ave. E. Tejada to Ho & Co Inc. for $1,300,000 on 10/22/15; previous sale 06/23/2000, $435,000 1661 Grant Road A. & C. Hirst to Y. An for $1,288,000

on 10/20/15; previous sale 05/28/2004, $640,000 152 Holly Court X. Guo to Su Trust for $1,035,000 on 10/21/15; previous sale 11/04/2010, $485,000 13 Morning Sun Court Raterman Trust to M. Ng for $795,000 on 10/19/15 1885 Peacock Ave. B. & J. Ghaziani to Mountain View Peacock for $500,000 on 10/19/15; previous sale 06/17/2015, $1,020,000 873 San Lucas Ave. Ayala Trust to P. Gupta for $1,225,000 on 10/23/15 2255 Showers Drive, #352 T. Lipp to N. Gupta for $1,125,000 on 10/23/15; previous sale 09/10/2010, $549,000 2554 Sun Mor Ave. Horton Trust to J. & L. Coste for $2,265,000 on 10/22/15 512 Tyrella Ave., #B Norga Trust to J. Shen for $1,175,000 on 10/26/15

532 Tyrella Ave., #19 J. Herrera to R. & C. Pothineni for $705,000 on 10/19/15; previous sale 09/16/2003, $385,000 532 Tyrella Ave., #31 W. Reilly to C. Atkins for $780,000 on 10/23/15

Palo Alto

101 Alma St., #805 P. Lee to Tree Lined Properties for $1,500,000 on 10/23/15; previous sale 04/21/2000, $505,000 3527 Arbutus Ave. Cline Trust to X. Ma for $2,510,000 on 10/26/15 611 N. California Ave. Bossen Trust to California Investment for $4,728,000 on 10/23/15; previous sale 04/11/1991, $236,000 788 Cereza Drive A. Hagen to Elements Gold Venture for $2,300,000 on 10/23/15 634 Fulton St. T. Davidson to PJS Arhome Limited for $2,000,000 on 10/20/15

1595 Canada Lane J. Vannini to T. Mikkelsen for $6,950,000 on 10/09/15; previous sale 01/23/2002, $1,450,000 240 Lindenbrook Road Eagle Vista Equities to J. Thomason for $979,000 on 10/09/15; previous sale 02/24/2005, $745,000 125 Summerhill Lane A. Haag to H. & L. Ferdows for $3,200,000 on 10/09/15; previous sale 04/18/2014, $2,750,000

BUILDING PERMITS Palo Alto

153 Lois Lane residential new AC unit in side yard, $n/a 3770 Louis Road remove two existing furnaces and replace with new furnace in hall closet and associated duct work, $n/a 746 Homer Ave. roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 156 Hamilton Ave. Unit A: use and occupancy only for Mangosteenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nail & Spa, $n/a 346 College Ave. replace all windows in Units A, B, C, D and E, $19,810

2468 Indian Drive replace main service panel, $n/a 1701 Page Mill Road 1300003114: revision to ADA egress and exiting, $n/a 1069 Moreno Ave. new attached second dwelling unit with kitchen and bath, includes upgrading and relocating electrical service, $72,000 1050 Page Mill Rd 1 Machine Zone: tenant improvement and use and occupancy for tenant space on two floors, no exterior work, $467,773 2768 Byron St. permit canceled by owner Oct. 2 gas line repair, $n/a 150 Southwood Drive residential addition and remodel of kitchen, dining and laundry room, includes relocating existing window in bedroom, $46,407 455 Charleston Road PASHPI Financials/ Stevenson House: Building C: voluntary seismic upgrade, remodel 29 living units (see 1400002073 for workflow), $2,500,000 153 Lois Lane residential new AC unit in side yard, $n/a 3770 Louis Road remove two existing furnaces and replace with new furnace in hall closet and associated duct work, $n/a 746 Homer Ave. roof-mounted PV system, $n/a 156 Hamilton Ave. Unit a: use and occupancy only for Mangosteenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nail & Spa, $n/a 346 College Ave. replace all windows in Units A, B, C, D and E, $19,810 2468 Indian Drive replace main service panel, $n/a 1701 Page Mill Road 1300003114: revision to ADA egress and exiting, $n/a 1069 Moreno Ave. new attached second dwelling unit with kitchen and bath, includes upgrading and relocating electrical service, $72,000

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Positively Green

The importance of good ventilation by Ciro Giammona n previous columns, I have mentioned the term “building science,” an approach to building or remodeling a home that takes the laws of physics into consideration. In the “old days” builders had practical experience and rules of thumb passed down from generation to generation that helped guide the building design and construction techniques they used. For example, they knew what standardsize lumber to use depending on the span and load, and that a rot-resistant wood (like redwood) made a better siding product than a wood species without natural protection. (As a side note, there are numerous modern day, green alternatives to wood siding of any species — perhaps a topic for a future column!) Builders of yore knew that without adequate ventilation, a basement was likely to be musty and damp. Likewise, a few screened vents in the roof eaves and some kind of attic vent would help keep the house cooler in the summer. When deliberate energy conservation measures began to be incorporated into homes to make them “tighter” and more efficient, a more holistic and scientific approach to building became necessary and building science was born. One might think of a home as a “living structure,” because it is occupied by living things. Those living things breathe, take showers, heat water and food and do other activities that create warm, moist air inside the home. When that warm, moist air finds its way to cooler spaces, it condenses on the surfaces, similar to the way a glass of iced tea “sweats” on a countertop. If condensation is allowed to accumulate in enclosed spaces,

bad things happen. Wood rots, and insulation becomes saturated with moisture, rendering it ineffective. Good ventilation in the living space of the home and in the attic helps keep the moist air moving, ultimately replacing it with dryer air, so that condensation and its eventual damage is minimized. There is an incredible amount of data available showing the measureable improvements in temperature control and energy conservation achievable with proper attic ventilation. One of our roofers and ventilation specialists, Fred Worrell of Worrell Roofing, has plenty of real-life success stories to tell. On a project in Palo Alto, after installing roof ventilation and a radiant barrier, our client noticed that the house temperature

Good ventilation in the living space of the home and in the attic helps keep the moist air moving, ultimately replacing it with dryer air, so that condensation and its eventual damage is minimized. was more comfortable, and during a recent heat spell, the air conditioning was not needed during that time. Then there is the not-so-happy-ending stories on other projects. A previous roofer had omitted adequate roof ventilation and the 15-year-old roof had to be replaced, along with a large amount of roof framing, because of dry rot from condensation. Modern homes are much “tighter” than older homes. In the past, the small unsealed gaps in windows, doors, interior and exterior trim and other joints in materials, along with the lack of insulation, provided a means of air movement and ventilation. With the push for energy conservation, seal-

2125 Prospect Street, Menlo Park Q

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Nestled in a quiet cul-de-sac, very close to Stanford University, shopping, biking and hiking trails

5 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms

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ing and insulating the building envelope became essential. These new measures kept the warm or cool air in, but also kept moisture and indoor pollutants in as well. Reports of “sick home syndrome” and increased allergies or illness soon followed. Building science once again can be used to address inadequate ventilation in the home. The main idea is that slightly positive air pressure in the home (compared to outdoors) can help push stale air out, while bringing in fresh or filtered air to replace it. This can be accomplished in a few different ways, but one of our HVAC specialists, Bill Shepherd of Shepherd Plumbing Heating and Air Conditioning, has impressive stories about dramatic improvements in clients’ quality of life because of proper ventilation. He tells of one family who suffered from allergies and mold sensitivities because of damp soil conditions in their home’s crawl space. The dampness migrated up through the floor and into the home. In addition to foundation and drainage repairs to help dry the space, Shepherd installed a dehumidifier and a heat recovery ventilator, a device that brings in fresh air and transfers the heat or coolness of the stale air to the fresh air as the stale air is exhausted. This produced the necessary positive air pressure in the home, bringing in fresh air while pushing out pollutants, and avoided wasting the energy they had already paid for to heat or cool the home. The family noticed immediate improvements in their health. Building science has created many other improvements in people’s lives. As our study and application of building science expands, we can expect to see those improvements find their way into all of our buildings, new and old. Ciro Giammona is CEO of Harrell Remodeling Inc., Mountain View. He can be emailed at cgiammona@ harrell-remodeling.com.

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Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources. Such information has not been veriﬁed by Alain Pinel Realtors. If important to buyers, buyers should conduct their own investigation.

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655 Kingsley Avenue, Palo Alto Offered at $4,798,000 Tuscan-Inspired Luxury in Professorville Charmingly remodeled and boasting an array of luxuries, this centrally located 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath villa of 3,627 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a corner lot of 6,313 sq. ft. (per county). Hand-blown glass lighting fixtures, copper sinks, and white oak floors adorn the gorgeous interior, which includes a highly customized gourmet kitchen, a sensational master suite, and a lower level with a family room. Offering a backyard retreat with a fireplace, this exciting home is blocks from University Avenue and moments from parks, local shops and cafes, and excellent Palo Alto schools. For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.655Kingsley.com

Ken DeLeon CalBRE #01342140

Michael Repka CalBRE #01854880

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672 Sand Hill Circle, Menlo Park Offered at $1,488,000 Atrium-Style Townhome on Golf Course Tucked away in a sought-after neighborhood, this 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom multi-level townhome of approx. 2,390 sq. ft. (per seller) offers an atrium-style design overlooking Sharon Heights Golf Course. Displaying updated colors and lighting fixtures, the home also enjoys terrific features like central cooling, a sunny kitchen, an office, a master suite with soaring ceilings, and an attached two-car garage. Located steps from one of the neighborhood’s swimming pools, this fine home is also near Sand Hill Road, Woodside’s Horse Park, and top Las Lomitas schools. For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.672SandHill.com

OPEN HOUSE

Ken DeLeon CalBRE #01342140

Michael Repka CalBRE #01854880

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28 Arastradero Road, Portola Valley Elite Country Estate and Vineyards Bursting with European grandeur, this richly updated 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath home of approx. 5,800 sq. ft. (per county) boasts a gated 1?@-@1 ;2 -<<>;D Y \ -/>1? I<1> /;A:@EJ 1-@A>1? 8571 @4>11 ŋ >1<8-/1? 3;80 <8-@10 ŋ D@A>1? ;:ED /;A:@1>@;<? -:0 Ō ;;>? ;2 8591?@;:1 -:0 A@/4 C45@1 ;-7 19.1885?4 @41 9A8@5 81B18 5:@1>5;> C4581 @41 <>;<1>@E 5:/8A01? @4>11 B5:1E->0? - @4>11 /-> 3->-31 - ?@-.81 - C5:1 9-75:3 /188-> -:0 - /A?@;9 <;;8 C5@4 - ?<- &41 1?@-@1p? 185@1 ?1@@5:3 5? 95:A@1? 2>;9 <>1?@535;A? );;0?501 ">5;>E -:0 1D/1<@5;:-8 "-8; 8@; ?/4;;8? I.AE1> @; B1>52E 18535.585@EJ For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.28Arastradero.com Offered at $6,798,000

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Saturday & Sunday 1:00 - 5:00

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Paciﬁc Union, the Bay Area’s leading luxury real estate ﬁrm, proudly announces the opening of our Palo Alto office.

Pacific Union has opened a new office in Palo Alto, the firm’s first in Santa Clara County, and the next step in our Silicon Valley evolution. Our expansion into Palo Alto underscores Pacific Union’s commitment to provide our Silicon Valley real estate professionals with the finest tools, technology, and support, enabling them to deliver an elite level of service to our clients, each and every time.

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12444 Robleda Road, Los Altos Hills Offered at $3,988,000 Stylishly Updated Home with Poolhouse Be enchanted by this terrific gated property of approx. 0.81 acres (per county), which features an extensively updated 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath home and a 1 bedroom, 1 bath poolhouse with a combined living area of approx. 5,000 sq. ft. (per county). Exciting features like randomplank oak floors, LED lighting, cathedral ceilings, two wet bars, and three fireplaces add exuberant luxury to this home. The property also provides a paver motor court, a three-car garage, and a pool, and is just moments from downtown Los Altos and excellent Los Altos schools (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.12444RobledaRoad.com

OPEN HOUSE Ken DeLeon CalBRE #01342140

Michael Repka CalBRE #01854880

Sunday 1:30 - 4:30 pm

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NEW PRICE 418 Albion Avenue, Woodside

OPEN HOUSE Sunday 2:00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4:00 pm Available for private showings

Premier Location in Central Woodside U Remodeled home on approximately 3 acres* U 4 or 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, plus lower-level studio apartment with full kitchen and bath U Approximately 4,370 sq. ft.* U Pool, spa, and tennis court U Acclaimed Woodside School* Offered at $6,595,000 / www.418Albion.com )\`LY [V JVUĂ&#x201E;YT ZX\HYL MVV[HNL HUK LUYVSSTLU[

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#73 Agent Nationwide, per The Wall Street Journal

Information deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.

191 MEADOWOOD DRIVE, PORTOLA VALLEY 3 BEDROOMS

3 B AT H R O O M S

LISTED - $3,495,000

Let your Imagination Soar! Rare chance to build the home youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always envisioned. 2+ acres. Nice flat pad. 7,000 +\- allowed. New 1 ,000 sf cottage (included in 7,000). Zip line through the trees? Second stor y with patios overlooking Windy Hill? Family compound? Wonderful location near trail heads. Bike to Ormondale then onto Georgia Lane and the Prior y.

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First, contact Michael Repka of DeLeon Realty. Unlike most real estate agents, Michael holds two law degrees and has years of experience as a real estate attorney, giving his clients a unique advantage as most other brokerages do not provide an in-house attorney to help clients. In addition, the expertise and marketing available through the team at DeLeon Realty are the very best in the business. Meet with Michael to discuss any preliminary questions about selling your home and let him tell you more about what makes DeLeon Realty’s innovative approach to real estate so successful.

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28001 Arastradero Road, Los Altos Hills Spacious and Convenient Custom Residence >-:0 ?<-/1? C5@4 @4;A34@2A8 01@-58? 01Ĺ&#x2039; :1 @45? <>5B-@1 <>;<1>@E C45/4 5:/8A01? - /A?@;9 .A58@ Y .10>;;9 Y Y .-@4>;;9 4;91 of 6,025 sq. ft. (per county) and a lot of 1.07 acres (per county). Rich elements like plantation shutters, intricate skylights, and oak 4->0C;;0 Ĺ&#x152; ;;>? C588 59<>1?? E;A> 3A1?@? C4581 - /1:@>-8 B-/AA9 ?E?@19 9A8@5 F;:10 41-@5:3 -:0 /;;85:3 -:0 /;:?501>-.81 ?@;>-31 1:-.81 /;:B1:51:@ 1B1>E0-E 85B5:3 &41 ;<1: 8-E;A@ 5:/8A01? - @C; ?@;>E 3>1-@ >;;9 -:0 - ?<-/5;A? 05:5:3 >;;9 C4581 @41 5991:?1 5?8-:0 75@/41: ;<1:? @; @41 2-958E >;;9 &1>>5Ĺ&#x2039; / ?<-/1? 8571 - 4;91 ;Ĺ&#x2018; /1 -: 1D@1:?5B1 9-?@1> ?A5@1 -:0 @C; 8;2@? 1:4-:/1 @41 4;91 C45/4 -8?; <>;B501? @C; ?@-5>/-?1? @C; C1@ .->? @4>11 Ĺ&#x2039; >1<8-/1? -:0 -: -@@-/410 @4>11 /-> 3->-31 &41 ?5F-.81 3-@10 3>;A:0? ;Ĺ&#x160; 1> - 21:/10 @1::5? /;A>@ -:0 - 41-@10 8-< <;;8 C5@4 - ?<- )5@45: 9;91:@? ;2 "-8; 8@; 588? ;82 -:0 ;A:@>E 8A. @45? 4;91 5? -8?; :1-> 1D/1881:@ ?/4;;8? 8571 5D;: 8191:@->E I " ]YYJ &1>9-: 50081 I " ]Z\J -:0 A:: 534 I " ]U[J I.AE1> @; B1>52E 18535.585@EJ For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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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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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

Sand Hill Estates, Woodside

5 Betty Lane, Atherton

$35,000,000

$24,800,000

11627 Dawson Drive, Los Altos Hills $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

291 Atherton Avenue, 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

$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

245 Mountain Wood Lane, Woodside

13075 S. Alta Lane, Los Altos

40 Firethorn Way, Portola Valley

$7,750,000

$7,500,000

$6,888,000

Listing Provided by: David Kelsey, Lic.#01242399

Listing Provided by: The Troyer Group, Lic#01234450

Listing Provided by: Greg Goumas, Lic.#01878208

138 Bolivar Lane, Portola Valley

1100 Mountain Home Rd.,Woodside

38 Haciendas Drive, Woodside

$6,488,000

$5,850,000

$4,995,000

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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2015 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto All information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This is not intended as a solicitation if you are listed with another broker.

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14303 Saddle Mountain Drive, Los Altos Hills Offered at $4,498,000 Handsome Home with Breathtaking Views Delivering breathtaking bay views, this 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home of 4,895 sq. ft. (per county) sits on a hilltop lot of 1.14 acres (per county) and offers an elegant interior featuring crown molding, recessed lighting, and spacious living areas. Fronted by a private courtyard, the main gallery opens to a sunken living room, a formal dining room with a butler’s pantry, and a family room that adjoins an island kitchen with a large breakfast area. Upstairs, one bedroom may easily convert to an office, while the immense master suite connects to a large patio overlooking the gorgeous grounds, which include a heated pool and spa, a stone terrace, and an outdoor barbecue. Additional features include two staircases, three fireplaces, an attached three-car garage, and an extensive paver driveway. Within moments of Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club, this home is also near Stanford University and Ladera Shopping Center. Excellent nearby schools include Nixon Elementary (API 955), Terman Middle (API 968), JLS Middle (API 943), and Gunn High (API 917) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

www.14303SaddleMountain.com

OPEN HOUSE

Ken DeLeon CalBRE #01342140

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Sunday 1:30 - 4:30 pm

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12101 Oak Park Court, Los Altos Hills Offered at $3,988,000 Astounding Views from Hillside Home Soak in extravagant views of Silicon Valley throughout this hillside property of 1.6 acres (per county), which holds a multi-level 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom home of 4,081 sq. ft. (per county). This huge, private lot enjoys a gated paver driveway, mature oaks, vegetable planters, and multiple citrus trees. Dignified yet comfortable, the home hosts hand-hewn pecan wood floors, wool carpets, crown molding, oversized casement windows, a central vacuum system, and ceilings that soar to over 12 feet. Large, elegant spaces include a sunken living room, a formal dining room, a luxurious master suite, and an island kitchen that opens to a family/breakfast room ensemble. Intriguing additional features include a three-car attached garage, three fireplaces, and a heated pool with a raised spa. Just moments from Interstate 280, this home will place you near Los Altos Golf and Country Club and charming downtown Los Altos. Excellent nearby schools include Gardner Bullis Elementary (API 947), Egan Junior (API 976), and Los Altos High (API 895) (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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Los Altos Hills BY APPT ONLY $5,750,000 26856 Almaden Ct 5BR/5.5BA elegant estate. Great City/Bay view! 1 Acre lot. Close to Google & Stanford Maryam Tabatabaei CalBRE #01376198 408.996.1100

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

Palo Alto $2,800,000 1453 Kings Lane Great opportunity to remodel/develop. Cul-desac. One of the most desirable neighborhoods. 3 BR/2 BA Lea Nilsson CalBRE #00699379 650.325.6161

Menlo Park Sun 1 - 4 $2,400,000 35 Hallmark Circle Two bedrooms, two and half baths, den. Sep dining room. Over 2600 sq ft. 2 BR/2.5 BA Sue Crawford CalBRE #00587710 650.324.4456

Palo Alto Sat/Sun 10am-5pm $2,199,000 291 Creekside Drive “Beautiful newly renovated Eichler home in the heart of Greenmeadow Community.” 4 BR/2 BA Elena Talis CalBRE #01396001 650-325-6161

Redwood City Sun 1 - 4 $2,149,000 15 Woodleaf Ave This wonderful single story home is 3,184 square feet w/three-car garage on a large lot. 3 BR/2.5 BA Doug Gonzalez CalBRE #00895924 650.324.4456

Palo Alto $2,098,000 Sunny corner lot approx. 8,573 sq.ft. with 4 BR/3 BA house ready for your updates. Remodel or build new. Mackay-built home with potential galore near schools, library, swim club. Lovinda Beal CalBRE #00925698 650-851-1961

Menlo Park Sun 1:30 - 4:30 $1,698,000 2131 Avy Ave www.2131Avy.com Elegantly remodeled Prime Menlo Park Townhouse. 3 BR/2.5 BA Jan Strohecker CalBRE #00620365 650.325.6161

Woodside Sun 1 - 4 $1,395,000 610 Woodside Wy This wonderful home has an open floorpln w/ decks & spa w/vws of western hills. WDS Schls. 1 BR/1 BA Margot Lockwood CalBRE #01017519 650.851.2666

Woodside $1,198,000 330 Ridge Rd Updated home w/ open LR, hi ceilings & remodeled kitchen w/ an additional 1/1 in law apt. 2 BR/2 BA Valerie Trenter CalBRE #01367578 650.323.7751

Redwood City Sat/Sun 1 - 4:30 $998,000 3607 Page St Charming updated home w/ great floorplan. Beautifully landscaped park-like lot. 3 BR/1.5 BA Dan Ziony CalBRE #01380339 650.325.6161

Santa Clara $958,000 1952 Fraser Place 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

Redwood City $699,000 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

Mountain View $689,000 701 N Rengstorff Ave 18 Modern end unit, fully remodeled kitchen & bathroom, crown moldings & inside laundry 2 BR/1 BA Gordon Ferguson CalBRE #01038260 650.325.6161

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27390 Deer Springs Way, Los Altos Hills Offered at $2,988,000 Exquisite Home with Panoramic Views Awaits Customization Breathtaking views can be admired from almost every room in this exquisitely crafted 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath home of 2,511 sq. ft. (per plans) that sits on a lot of approx. 1 acre (per survey). In the final stage of a luxurious remodel, this carefully detailed home awaits your customized finishes while offering a terrific gourmet kitchen, an attached twocar garage, and an enchanting outdoor retreat with a heated pool. Nearby trails loop through the scenic foothills, while top Los Altos schools are easily accessible (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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117 Lyell Street, Los Altos Offered at $1,988,000 Quiet Charm in Desirable Location Local attractions are within easy access of this peaceful 3 bedroom, 2 bath home of 1,647 sq. ft. (per county), which occupies a lot of 7,721 sq. ft. (per county) in a sought-after neighborhood. Updated with new paint and new flooring, the residence includes a fireplace, an attached twocar garage, fruit trees, and a large, gated backyard. Near Shoup Park and steps from downtown Los Altos, you will be an easy stroll from Covington Elementary (API 975) and near other top Los Altos schools (buyer to verify eligibility). For video tour & more photos, please visit:

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FLIGHT VC FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610030 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Flight VC, located at 2625 Middlefield Rd., #880, Palo Alto, CA 94306, 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): UPRISING CAPITAL, LLC 2625 Middlefield Rd., #880 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/01/2015. 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. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): KATHRYN TSENG MOHAMMED 251 High Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A.

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MELISSA MENZIES 780 Maplewood Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 14, 2015. (PAW Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 2015)

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RADHIKA BEAUTY SALON FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610486 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Radhika Beauty Salon, located at 2033 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: Married Couple. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): SAVTANTAR KUMAR 330 Curtner Ave. #7 Palo Alto, CA 94306 VANDANA KUMAR 330 Curtner Ave. #7 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 26, 2015. (PAW Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, 2015) MY WAY LIMO FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610452 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: My Way Limo, located at 465 Polk Ct., Gilroy, CA 95020, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): YEHIA HELWA 465 Polk Ct. Gilroy, CA 95020 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/23/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 23, 2015. (PAW Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) GENESIS RENTAL PROPERTY TEN FORTY FULTON GREENWOOD PLACE TOWN HOMES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610627 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) Genesis Rental Property, 2.) Ten Forty Fulton, 3.) Greenwood Place Town Homes, located at 779 Holly Oak Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: A Trust. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): Samson Family Trust MARK SAMSON, Trustee 779 Holly Oak Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Samson Family Trust SHARON SAMSON, Trustee 779 Holly Oak Dr. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 6-19-2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 30, 2015. (PAW Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015) TAKE POINT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610522 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Take Point, located at 30 Gladys Court Apt. 2, Mountain View, CA 94043, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): ERIN ASHBY 30 Gladys Court Apt. 2 Mountain View, CA 94043 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A.

LEGACY GROUP FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610582 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Legacy Group, located at 1575 Tenaka Place #D7, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): SAMANTHA E. SANTANA 1575 Tenaka Place #D7 Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Registrant/Owner began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/15/2015. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 29, 2015. (PAW Nov. 13, 20, 27, Dec. 4, 2015) Golden Acorn Music FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 610583 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Golden Acorn Music, located at 109 McFarland Ct., Apt. 319, Stanford, CA 94305, Santa Clara County. This business is owned by: An Individual. The name and residence address of the owner(s)/registrant(s) is(are): MATTHEW D. FERNALD 109 McFarland Ct., Apt. 319 Stanford, CA 94305 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 29, 2015. (PAW Oct. 13, 20, 27, Dec. 4, 2015)

997 All Other Legals 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

THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 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

ing 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) NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (U.C.C. §6104, 6105) ESCROW #: 0126008230 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to creditors of the within named seller that a bulk sale is about to be made of the assets described below. The names and business address of the Seller(s) is/are: ThuLan Ly 2033 El Camino Real Palo Alto, California 94306

The location in California of the Chief Executive Office of the seller is: same as above As listed by the seller, all other business names and addresses used by the seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the buyer are: None The names and business address of the Buyer(s) is/are: Savtantar Kumar and Vandana Kumar 2033 El Camino Real Palo Alto, California 94306 The assets to be sold are described in general as: All stock in trade, furniture, fixtures, equipment and other property And are located at: 2033 El Camino Real Palo Alto, California 94306 The business name used by the Seller(s) at those locations is: “Stanford Beauty Salon “ The anticipated date of the bulk sale is : December 3, 2015 At the office of Old Republic Title Company @ 1000 Burnett Avenue, Suite 400, Concord, CA 94520. The bulk sale IS subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2. If so subject, the name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is as follows: Old Republic Title Company @ 1000 Burnett Avenue, Suite 400, Concord, CA 94520 or E-Fax to 925-265-9040 or Fax 925-363-2276. The last day for filing claims shall be : December 2, 2015 which is the business day before the sale date specified herein. Dated: 10/30/2015 Buyer(s): /s/ Savtantar Kumar /s/ Vandana Kumar Seller(s): /s/ ThuLan Ly 11/13/15 CNS-2813744# PALO ALTO WEEKLY

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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 chang-

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