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is the border between Menlo Park and Palo Alto. Menlo Park City Council voted on Palo Alto City Council is wading Sept. 29 to reject the application from into a lawsuit between the city of Menlo Park and a developer representing a developer Oisin Heneghan of N17 Russian billionaire who wants to build Development. The property is owned by Russian billionaire Vitaly Yusufov, towers rising 39 stories. The development is proposed at the who is the son of Russian President former Sunset Magazine headquarters Vladimir Putin’s energy minister. Heneghan sued the city of Menlo at Middlefield and Willow roads, next to the San Francisquito Creek, which [See FOE, page 18] Daily Post Staff Writer
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Appraisal may come out after all With the election 22 days away, Palo Alto City Council will hold a special meeting tomorrow to possibly release the secret appraisal it used to decide to buy a portion of the Cubberley Community Center for $65.5 million — eight days after the city refused to release it.
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‘ENERGY CEASEFIRE’: President Trump has announced an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine to get them to stop bombing one another’s refineries. The announcement follows a U.S. deal to purchase Russian diesel fuel. Trump is also calling on Ukraine to dump President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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PAPAL SURGERY: Pope Leo XIV announced he will undergo lung surgery this week. Doctors discovered a localized nodule in his lung.
SALES TAXES: Palo Alto’s current sales tax rate of 9.25% will jump to 9.75% if voters on Nov. 3 approve Measure J, a new tax to fund the $65.5 million purchase part of the Cubberley Community Center. If voters approve the mass transit tax RMT, the sales tax rate will go to 10.25%.
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San Carlos officials want a public plaza downtown, but downtown business owners want their street and customers back. About 50 people, including more than 30 business owners, met with City Manager Kathy Kleinbaum on Thursday at West Park Bistro and voiced their frustrations regarding the six-year road closure of the 700 block of Laurel Street. Business owners are worried after a [See STREET, page 18]
Student sues school, claims racism fabricating a racially charged quote of his in the yearbook. “I can’t breathe,” the yearbook quote A former Mountain View High School student has filed a lawsuit al- said, referencing the final words of leging that he was subject to years of George Floyd. The quote was attributracism, including students calling him ed to student Amir Ware on the varsity the N-word, football coaches making football page, but Ware said he never comments about his race and someone submitted the quote. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
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fictitious entities seem real, the lawsuit states. He also created a phone number After over a year of internal inves- for “Michael Davis,” the suit said. Caminar is a mental health and subtigations, the mental health nonprofit Caminar has sued its former chief fi- stance use treatment service located at nancial officer, claiming he embezzled 375 Cambridge Ave. in Palo Alto. Caminar regularly receives allocations from close to $100,000. The suit says former CFO Richard the Santa Clara County Behavioral Williams created a fake company called Health Services Department. In 2023, “CA REsource Consulting,” a vendor San Mateo County awarded Caminar a contact named “Michael Davis,” a fake $12.9 million contract to provide sertaxpayer identification form known vices at its Cordilleras Mental Health as a W-9 and banking information for Rehabilitation Center at 200 Edmonds Caminar to make payments, according Road outside Redwood City. The Post previously reached out to to the lawsuit filed Oct. 2. The address associated with the fake Williams via LinkedIn to get his side of company was actually the same address the story but did not receive a response. of a company Williams owns, Mission He has since deleted his profile. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe Holdings, to which he sent the nearly said a criminal case has not been sent $100,000, according to the lawsuit. Williams fabricated emails, docu- to him yet, but Redwood City is prements and work products to make these paring it. BY NORAH SHEPPARD-HUTCHINS Daily Post Staff Writer
Zuck gives million to museum Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have donated $1 million to the San Mateo County Historical Association to help complete a new rooftop terrace at the San Mateo County History Museum, the association announced Oct. 6. The 2,897-square-foot terrace will be built as the final phase of the museum’s multiyear expansion, extending
from the third-floor event space of the new Taube Family Carriage House and Automobile Gallery, museum officials said. The space is designed to host community gatherings, civic and business events, celebrations, and private functions. The terrace is expected to open in early 2028.
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Apartments to replace Chipotle
A developer has applied to build an eight-story building with 156 apartments in Palo Alto, replacing the Chipotle at the corner of El Camino Real and Sheridan Avenue. The 85-foot building would have 200 parking spaces and retail space on the first floor, developer Tim Walling of Redondo Beach said in the application on Thursday. The project covers two properties at 2675 El Camino Real and 450
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Don’t let the deceptive language of Measure J fool you. It does NOT set aside funds for developing Cubberley. Nor does it fund preparing for natural disasters, maintaining a safe, clean downtown or any of the other services listed in the Measure. What it does—and all it does—is permanently raise the sales tax to 10.25%. Measure J would simply hand the revenue to City Hall—which already has a budget of $1.4 BILLION a year—to spend on anything it wants.
49ers win in Seattle
Brock Purdy engineered two scoring drives in the fourth quarter and the 49ers rallied to beat the Seahawks 32-29 yesterday in Seattle on a 43-yard field goal by Eddy Pineiro with 1:56 to play. The win for the 49ers (5-0) offered a small bit of payback for their two late-season losses to Seattle (32) last season, including a 41-6 defeat in the divisional round of the playoffs with a short-handed roster. The game featured an NFL season-high seven combined turnovers, an ejection of 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw and no touchdown drives of more than 25 yards before San Francisco took over trailing 2621 late in the third quarter. Purdy finished 19 of 29 for 189 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. The 49ers failed to score a touchdown in their final two games against Seattle’s formidable defense last season. They got into the end zone three times in the first half to take a 21-13 lead but it was the defense that did much of the work. Greenlaw ejected for 49ers Greenlaw was ejected after head-butting Seattle’s Ernest Jones IV after he delivered a late hit on the Seahawks sideline. The infraction came in the second quarter when Darnold scrambled and was hit late by Greenlaw after going out of bounds. Greenlaw was flagged for a personal foul. Several Seahawks defenders immediately confronted Greenlaw after the hit and Greenlaw responded by head-butting Jones, who wasn’t wearing a helmet. Jones was bleeding after the hit and Greenlaw was ejected. Greenlaw has been ejected at least two other times in his career.
In a completely cynical act, the City used taxpayer dollars to poll residents and find out what we cared about, then used the results to try to manipulate us into approving Measure J’s permanent, unrestricted sales tax hike. Here’s documentation: The email below from City attorney Tim Shimizu to Mayor Vicki Veenker regarding the language in Measure J.
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To finance the development of Cubberley, the City should propose a one-time Special Tax or Bond Measure. Either would ensure that the funds raised were spent on Cubberley and only Cubberley. However, if our free-spending City wants a permanent increase in the sales tax, the revenue from which it can dip into at will, it should explain why to voters. In the meantime:
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No on Measure RTM — cut the waste first The mass transit bureaucracy in the Bay Area is once again asking hard-working taxpayers to open their wallets for yet another bailout. The Regional Transportation Measure (RTM) is a half-cent sales tax that would support out-of-control spending by Caltrain, BART, VTA, Muni and other transit agencies. We have played this game before. In 2020, Caltrain executives begged voters to pass Measure RR, a one-eighth-cent sales tax. They claimed the money would be a critical lifeline because the system’s very survival was at stake. Voters believed the scare tactics and approved it. Now here we are in 2026, and Caltrain and its fellow agencies are already back, claiming they need more money.
Corporations avoid paying Instead of forcing the working-class to pay, you’d think the transit agencies would tax major corporations since they benefit from a service that brings their employees to work every day. But corporations like Salesforce, Genentech and Meta funded a signature-gathering effort to put RTM on the ballot as a sales tax. Corporations can avoid paying very much in sales taxes, but they hit the working class. Instead of constantly asking the public for more money, these transit agencies should eliminate redundancy and put the brakes on lavish union contracts that lock in massive pay raises year after year. Taxpayers cannot be expected to underwrite unchecked oper-
ational costs when agencies refuse to implement basic efficiencies recommended by civil grand juries. For example: • In 2019, jurors labeled the VTA as one of “the most expensive and least efficient transit systems in the country.” • This year, jurors found that VTA failed to fix past governance issues, mismanaged the nearly $13 billion San Jose BART extension, and lacked proper oversight and transparency. • In 2020 in Alameda County, a civil grand jury found management and unions blocked BART’s independent inspector general who was appointed to root out fraud and waste. • In 2011 and 2012, jurors in San Francisco slammed the $1.5 billion Central Subway project as a “waste of money” and criticized Muni’s fleet maintenance issues. Scare tactics To convince uninformed voters to approve this new half-cent tax, these transit agencies are resorting to their favorite tactic: fear-mongering. They’re predicting a total collapse of mass transit. Caltrain has already released a list of train stations it will close if the sales tax isn’t approved. Do not fall for it. We have heard these doomsday predictions before, and every time, they have turned out to be a bluff. The Bay Area deserves an efficient, accountable transit network, not a blank check funded by everyday citizens to protect corporate interests. Vote “no” on the RTM.
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Dear Editor: Redwood City Measure E, a purported rent control measure, is 45 pages long! It creates a bureaucratic nightmare. Read the text. It will wreak havoc on existing nonprofit housing providers, making it difficult for them to even maintain their affordable units in a safe, livable way. Based on my experience as a former council member Dear Editor: As this newspaper and mayor of Redwood City, it will inhas pointed out, Measure J calls for a evitably increase an already fragile city permanent, unrestricted 10.25% sales budget. Redwood City already has a rent tax, ostensibly for the purchase of land control ordinance that goes beyond state Palo Alto taxpayers have already paid law requirements. Vote “no” on E. for once. Yet City Council refuses to reJim Hartnett lease the appraisal they claim justifies Redwood City paying $65 million for the property. So what do council members Pat Burt and Julie Lythcott-Haims want to Dear Editor: Menlo Park’s downtalk to the press about? How unhappy town is a unique mix of many problems they are with a former colleague, Lydia that can only be solved if we come Kou, because she opposes Measure J. Their disingenuous attack on former together as a wealthy, talented peoCouncilmember Kou is nothing more ple. State housing requirements, retail than a shameless attempt to divert at- vacancies, office space shortages, old tention from the money-grabbing, irre- buildings, dilapidated parking lots, sponsible and disgracefully deceptive outdated light fixtures and fragmented measure that they and the executive sidewalks will all remain if Measure P team at City Hall concocted, long after passes. P adds an enormous burden of legal delays and fees. Lydia Kou had left council. Instead of Measure P, I appeal to all It’s time for them to stop with the debrilliant, talented, interested people to flecting and release the appraisal. They come together, working with the city, should explain why the sales tax is perand develop a detailed, visual downmanent when they say it is intended to town plan of the entire area from El fund a one-time project; explain why Camino Real to University Drive and Palo Alto taxpayers should pay tens of Oak Grove Avenue to Menlo Avenue. millions of dollars for land they already Then pass a bond, with a vote of the bought, and explain why they want votpeople, to bring the whole thing, iners to hand City Hall a blank check. cluding all the parking lots, to fruition. We’re waiting. Build the housing, replace all the Jeanne Fleming Palo Alto [See LETTERS, page 8]
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We voters are not good at handling complex issues like this. This is why parking, add more parking for enlarged we elect qualified representatives and buildings, replace old sidewalks and work with staff and consultants to crosswalks, new light fixtures and make good decisions with public input and thus avoid chaos. Please be responmore! City government is doing its best, sible and vote “no” on Measure D. King Lear but has neither the time nor money to Former Los Altos Mayor prepare this plan. Great creations like the Menlo Fund and good people like our educated council candidates could take the lead. Dear Editor: If passed, Los Altos Please put an end to Measure P and Measure D will be “Paying it Forward” come together to improve our down- to future generations of Los Altos restown. The time is short. idents and visitors. Without Measure We can do this! D in place, I am convinced that within Sam Sinnott five to 10 years, the Los Altos Village Menlo Park will be replaced by another Santana Row. One may think that a good or nightDear Editor: Measure D in Los Al- marish prospect, but either way the tos is a pending disaster awaiting vot- citizens of Los Altos should make the er approval. Let’s go through one (of key decisions by direct vote. That’s demany) examples why Yes on D would mocracy. The Yes on D campaign is a David be a disaster. State-mandated affordable housing on parking plaza 7 and 8 vs. a Goliath of absentee landlords, dewill take away about 200 public park- velopers, special interest groups, and ing spaces. These must be replaced on the politicians they have put into office. another parking plaza with a parking And in the campaign waged by the opstructure. If not replaced, then down- ponents of Measure D, they have provtown business will suffer or the afford- en themselves to be philistines. able housing project would be blocked, Our downtown. Our decision. Los thereby opening the door to the build- Altos, pay it forward. Vote “yes” on er’s remedy, a method of bypassing lo- Measure D. cal zoning laws that will result in highJohn Fennell rise buildings in downtown. Los Altos To build a new parking structure under the Measure D rules, the voters would have to approve a new measure Dear Editor: The ACLU and League costing the city over $100,000 in elecof Women Voters strongly oppose Prop tion costs. This measure would likely 39, which the Post has endorsed. not pass. People would rather have our Despite its claims of making elections existing parking plazas than a multistory more secure, Prop 39 would impose parking structure and with no further costly, unnecessary barriers to voting — analysis they will tend to vote “no.” If costing hundreds of millions of taxpayer the replacement of public parking is not dollars — while purporting to address approved, then our housing plan would problems that do not exist in California’s either be blocked and builders remedy enabled, or the lack of public parking already-secure election system. Prop 39 would mean longer lines for would significantly reduce downtown [See VOTER, page 10] business.
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ATHERTON 99 Tallwood Court, 94027, 4 bedrooms, 3970 square feet, built in 1958,
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REDWOOD CITY 2004 Gossamer Ave., 94065, 5 bedrooms, 2965 square feet, built in 1998, Angeline and Erickson Mar to Geetanjali and Gurinder Bahl for $2,575,000, closed Aug. 28 (last sale, $544,000, 04-22-98) 8 Friendly Court, 94063, 6 bedrooms, 2431 square feet, built in 1947, Hopeforfriendsca LLC to Alexandria and Marie Vu for $2,700,000, closed Aug. 28 (last sale, $899,000, 06-26-17) 428 Santa Clara Ave., 94061, 4 bedrooms, 1270 square feet, built in 1959, Deshays Trust to Brandon and Mary Morales for $3,050,000, closed Aug. 27 (last sale, $1,873,636, 10-26-17) 351 Montwood Circle, 94061,
SAN CARLOS 937 McCue Ave., 94070, 3 bedrooms, 1150 square feet, built in 1946, Rhino Capital Investments LLC to Rhodes Trust for $2,500,000, closed Aug. 26 (last sale, $1,600,000, 04-26-26) 2164 Brittan Ave., 94070, 4 bedrooms, 1815 square feet, built in 1947, Rebecca Stuart to Volpe Living Trust for $2,600,000, closed Aug. 27 (last sale, $1,390,000, 06-13-17) 886 Heather Drive, 94070, 3 bedrooms, 2120 square feet, built in 1959, Jadallah Living Trust to Perez Family Trust for $3,635,000, closed Aug. 24
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Palo Alto’s objections He listed three major concerns about the project: slowing down firefighters and ambulances, harming the environmentally important San Francisquito Creek, and adding traffic on Middlefield Road and University Avenue, which already get backed up during commute times. Heneghan’s proposal calls for three towers, the tallest at 39 stories. That would be the tallest building between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The development would contain 665 apartments, a hotel, office space and a preschool. Congressman Sam Liccardo asked the U.S. Department of Treasury on Sept. 24 to look into the funding sources behind the development. “Public sources raise serious questions about Vitaly Yusufov’s ties to the Russian government and individuals linked to organized crime, warranting immediate review,” Liccardo said in a letter.
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Ware said he discovered that the yearbook had printed the “I can’t breathe” quote on May 22, 2025, when fellow students frantically texted him. Ware’s mom emailed Glazer and Volta to complain. Ware “was publicly shamed and disgraced and requested an equally public clarification and apology,” the suit said. According to the lawsuit, Volta told Ware it “would be hard to make that happen” and offered instead to “put something” in the student newspaper. But no story ever came out.
dents to bring back yearbooks they already had for an “immediate correction.” The school put yellow tape or black marker over the quote in redistributed yearbooks, a photo in the suit shows. But the tape only drew more attention to the quote, the suit said. At a track and field banquet on June 3, Ware said he wasn’t acknowledged even though he broke school records and helped the team get to a state championship for the first time in school history. Coach Mark Rutner apologized for the oversight after the banquet, an email shows. Ware is now on the track team at College of San Mateo.
sion and inflicting emotional distress. “He was ostracized by his peers and experienced daily distress at school. Yet no investigation of racism against Mr. Ware ever occurred,” said the lawsuit, filed in federal court on Tuesday. Menlo Park City Council is set to The Post couldn’t reach Volta on discuss the possibility of re-opening Friday to get the district’s side of the part of the 600 block of Santa Cruz story. Avenue that has been closed since Ware said he went to Mountain View 2020. High School for one week during his Council tomorrow will discuss ei- sophomore year before going on inther removing or reducing the plaza dependent study after a series of racist Yearbook correction attempted size and re-opening the travel lane, or comments from his peers. The school stopped handing out the maintaining the road closure. Ware said the same thing happened yearbook six days later and asked stuSanta Cruz Avenue closed in 2020 as a junior, and he stuck around for a because of the Covid pandemic to al- semester as a senior in the 2024-25 low outdoor seating for restaurants. school year. The rest of the street reopened for cars in 2023. However, council voted to Constantly judged keep part of the 600 block closed, turnOn the football team, Ware said Saturday, Oct 17TH, 11:30AM to 1PM ing it into a public plaza and adding a he was constantly judged for how he bike lane. Grace Lutheran Church, Brown Hall, 3149 Waverley St, Palo Alto looked and treated differently because he was one of only five black players. Garbage is accumulating One white player repeatedly called Join the Daughters of Norway, Ali El-Safy, owner of Bistro Vida Ware the “full N-word” with a hard “R,” Sigrid Undset Lodge, in celebrating Leif and Bar Loretta, previously told the the suit said. Erikson, the first known European to set Post how he wants the road reopened Ware’s teammates and coaches foot on Continental North America. for cars in front of his businesses at 641 teased him about his weight, joking and 639 Santa Cruz Ave. that he was thin “just like a starving Enjoy a Viking soup lunch, food and craft “The garbage gets overflowed; it African child,” the suit said. demos, and shop becomes disgusting by the end of the Coach Rick Esparza allegedly Scandinavian baked week. The tables are sticky and dirty, benched Ware for dropping a pass, goods and wares. and I’m tired of it,” El-Safy said. “They while several white players kept play(the city) put those there, but they don’t ing after bigger errors, the suit said. maintain it.” Ware said he tried to laugh off the Reservations a must. Also on the block with the remaining daily episodes of racism, but he felt $15 per person. To make a reservation, email our Program Director street closure is the former Left Bank like he didn’t belong. He returned to indaughtersofnorway32@gmail.com Children under 6 are free. by Thursday 10/15. restaurant, which closed in June, Tilak dependent study for his final semester and Walgreens. of high school.
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An Independent Hauling Company
LICENSE #1151355 C-36
SPECIALIZES IN RESIDENTIAL CLEANINGS • Vacant & Occupied • Weekly, Biweekly or Periodical
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(650) 499-9937
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Plumbing, Electrical Painting, Windows, Doors, Ceramic Tile, Decks, Fences, Dry Rot Linoleum, Dry Wall
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Over 10 Years of Experience | Honest & Reliable
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Serving the Bay Area Since 1989 • LIC# 778428 Class A/B/C36
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thedoorguy@gilmoredoorsandhardware.com LICENSE #1110634
HARDWOOD FLOORS Refinishing, Installation & Repair
Roofing
Tree Service
ROOFING TREE TRIMMING, TAPIA
Family business, serving the Peninsula for over 30 years Dry Rot, Gutters & Down Spout Repair
& REMOVAL
FULLY INSURED / LICENSED & BONDED
Safe, affordable, reliable service.
(650) 367-8795
(650) 868-9586
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Legal Notices We can handle all your Legal publishing needs Contact Brandon Heinrichs at (650) 328-7700 or email: bheinrichs@padailypost.com
Hardwood / Engineered / Laminates
Employment To place an ad call (650) 328-7700
Seeking LIVE-IN Caregiver JOB 6 Years of Experience
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Caregiver Jobs Days, Nights, Weekends Experience Required Apply online or call
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NOW HIRING Family owned business located in San Carlos. PARTS COUNTER - FULL TIME Sales associate experienced in automotive parts. Hours: Monday to Friday from 7:30am-4:30pm Spanish is a plus.
Starting at $26/hour, plus benefits
RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL
FREE ESTIMATE (650) 691-0321 Golden Years Hardwood Floors 25+ Years in Business - LIC #912658
HZ Concrete Engineering Inc. LC# 850097 • Foundations, retaining walls, basement • Sidewalks, patios, driveways • Plaster, stucco, new & addition • Asphalt, pipelines, drainage
Mobile:
(408) 718-7928
or email: hectorzarate@aol.com
Please inquire only by email regarding pay and other questions at:
CHERYL@HOUSEOFWRECKERS.COM
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Best Steak & Martinis in Town SINCE 1974
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CAMINO COINS SINCE 1958
Same Highest Prices Paid! Same Extensive Inventory! Bullion - Coins
650-348-3000 846 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park | Monday–Friday 8:30 A.M.–4 P.M.
SHOP FAIR TRADE
SUPPORT
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FANTASTIC SELECTION OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS
UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION
GIFT SHOP
552 Emerson St, Downtown Palo Alto (650) 326-3170
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EAT LOCAL! “Restaurants are the shared kitchens and dining rooms of a thriving society.”
BEST ROOFTOP PATIO Private Rooms for Graduation Parties and Special Events
Trellis Restaurant
Taco TUESDAY
Mon-Fri 11am - 2pm | Mon-Sun 5pm - 9pm FOR RESERVATION OR TO PLACE AN ORDER, PLEASE CALL 1 (650) 326-9028.
1077 El Camino Real, Menlo Park www.TrellisRestaurant.com
PORCHETTA NIGHT
IS BACK! Saturday, October 17th
Join us for a special Porchetta Night featuring slow-roasted, crispy Italian porchetta paired perfectly with a beautiful Barolo.
341 California Avenue, Palo Alto (650) 473-9616 info@italicorestaurant.com Sun–Thu 5–9pm Fri–Sat 5–9:30pm
crab/shrimp/ lobster tacos with chips, slaw & a roll
3 Amigos Platter
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PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
Do you OPPOSE the plan to use downtown parking for high-rise housing?
Then vote YES on Measure P. “I see us moving forward into a brick wall… at some point the piper has to be paid.” —Councilmember Drew Combs On Paying to Replace the Lost Parking
“Measure P offers a common-sense solution.” —Palo Alto Daily Post Endorsement of Measure P
Measure P Protects Downtown Menlo by giving Menlo Park residents a VOTE to change City Council’s reckless plan to give away our downtown parking plazas.
YES ON P to Protect Downtown Parking
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YES ON P to Protect Your Voice on the Future of Your Downtown
“Viable, logical alternatives exist that don’t threaten our local businesses.” —Daily Post Endorsement of Yes on P
Get the Facts at SaveDowntownMenlo.org
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