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Subscription Form El Ravenswood 2019 Survey Former Trustee Concerned Over Possible Name Change For The Cesar Chavez Academy 7 Chronology Of The Naming Of A School 8 Events Calendar 9 Us-101 Pedestrian And Bicycle Overpass
11 Letters from the Ravenswood Post 13 Recently Planted Trees Vandalized For The Third Time! 15 Local News 16 Fireworks On The Fourth Of July 17 Newly Renovated Mcdonalds Re-Opens Its Restaurant 18 Two Recently-Elected Council Members Fight For
Building Moratorium In Menlo Park 19 Staff Transitions 23 About The Ravenshood Family Health Clinic 24 City Employee Acknowledged For 12 Years Of Exemplary Service To The City 25 Mildred Marie Simon. March 12, 1936 – May 20, 2019 26 Thurman Smith And Family Reunion 28 Public Agency ProfilePeninsula Energy JUNE-JULY 2019 EL RAVENSWOOD 1
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ast Palo has had a checkered history regarding its identity. Over the years some have desired to be associated with Palo Alto whereas others have wanted to retain a separate identity. The area’s original naming, however, is attributed to Isaiah Woods who bought 5.74 square miles of land in the 1840’s and named it Ravenswood. The state of California had not adopted a constitution and it was not until the constitution’s adoption in 1949 in Monterey, that counties were established. Ravenswood was in San Francisco County until, San Mateo got separated from San Francisco County in 1856. Little surprise then that when the school district serving the area was broken away from the Redwood City School District, in 1891 the new District was named Ravenswood City School District. Other agencies with the same geographical footprint such as the Ravenswood Open Space Recreation District also bore the name ‘Ravenswood’. In 1925, the name East Palo Alto informally became the name of part of the area when a group of residents met and voted that “East Palo Alto” be the official name of the area between Cooley Avenue and the Bay as distinct from other neighboring areas, North Palo Alto and Ravenswood. In the same year the City of Palo Alto sponsored a state assembly bill that would have allowed, if passed, Palo Alto to annex East Palo Alto. The then Governor, Friend Richardson however vetoed the bill. In April of that same year the Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce called for a meeting to discuss the incorporation of the area identified as North Palo Alto, Ravenswood and East Palo Alto Over the decades, however, there has been an on-going battle as to what name the area should be called: Ravenswood, East Palo Alto, Runnymede, Dumbarton and Nairobi have all been bandied around with no consensus as to what the name should be. Nairobi is however the only name ever presented to the voters in a referendum that failed. The name East Palo Alto seems to have taken hold, however and it is of little surprise that by July 1963 when the United States Postal Services was assigning a five-digit code to every address throughout the country East Palo Alto ended up being associated with Palo Alto and consequently was assigned to the 94303 zip code. Most of the area covered by the zip code is in Palo Alto, and in fact listing of zip codes in San Mateo County by Zip-codes.com does not list East Palo Alto as part of San Mateo County. Its listing of zip codes in Santa Clara lists 94303 but does not mention East Palo Alto either! East Saint Louis, with a population of 27,006 has two zip-codes San Ramon, incorporated the same year as East Palo Alto has two zip codes. La Honda with a population of less than 2000, has its own zip code! East Palo Alto with an estimated population of 29,000 has no zip code and to add insult to injury its zip code is associated with a neighboring community located in another county that had unsuccessfully attempted to annex it but was successful in buying and annexing portions of its eastern boundaries and having the county boundaries redrawn to affirm that annexation. I agree with Louis Moorer, the city needs to revisit the issue of a new zip code for East Palo Alto. Let Palo Alto keep the current 94303 zip code. East Palo Alto has nothing in common with Palo Alto, in fact, East Palo Alto should initiate whatever efforts necessary to recover areas annexed by Palo Alto prior to East Palo Alto’s incorporation. And while the City is at it, (fighting to get its own zip code) it should consider changing the city’s name as well! After all the community has been lying to itself for years, reaffirming, with its name, a mistruth regarding its geographical location vis a vis Palo Alto. The city is located, geographically, north of Palo Alto! Nairobi sounds pretty good to me not because it is my birthplace, but it is one of the names that has been considered in the past, and the only name that was ever put to voters in a referendum. Changing the zip code would be a good first step towards such a goal, regardless of what name voters choose to give to the city.
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Former Trustee Concerned Over Possible Name Change For The Cesar Chavez Academy
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ormer Trustee of the Ravenswood City School District and current City of East Palo Alto city council member, Ruben Abrica delivered a letter to the Ravenswood City School District Board of Trustees meeting in June expressing concern regarding a sign bearing the name ‘Ravenswood Middle School placed next to the iconic “Cesar Chavez Academy sign.’ He noted that the Cesar Chavez Academy sign ‘for many years has announced the pride the community has felt since the successful struggle to rename the school.” The school, according to his letter, was named after Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers and civil rights leader, following his death in 1993. The school was previously named Kavanaugh Oaks School in apparent gratitude to the Kavanaugh family that donated the land to the District in the early fifties and was one of two schools occupying the largest school campus in the District. Prior to it being named after the labor leader, it was named the Ravenswood Middle School in the District’s first attempt to have one middle school in the entire District. The effort failed apparently due to safety issues for students and teachers. The former trustee raised the question as to whether the District had made a decision to change the school’s name from Cesar Chavez Academy to the Ravenswood Middle School and
The signage on Bay Road at issue. should that be the case he demanded that the public be provided with the details as to when the decision was publicly made and when and whether community input was solicited. The Middle School was a source of great controversy particularly amongst the District teachers who in a letter and petition of no confidence in Gloria Hernandez-Goff, the previous superintendent, called for the school board to terminate her contract. The teachers were upset with the Superintendent after they found out that parents knew where teachers would be assigned for the following year before the instructors themselves were notified. The teachers also alleged that
there was “zero teacher input” in the planning of the middle school. Superintendent Hernandez-Goff however insisted that a representative committee met over several months and presented its recommendations to the board of trustees as to the advantages of having a comprehensive middle school. At the time of publication, El Ravenswood had not received a copy of the Committee’s report to the board of trustees, and there is no indication that the committee discussed a namechange. for the school, however both Trustees Gaona Mendoza and Wilson have both indicated that the board has not had any discussion about a name change for Cesar Chavez Academy.
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The old Green Oaks School now bears the name of the new Ravenswood Middle School.
Gloria Hernandez-Goff Ravenswood Comprehensive Middle School (RMS) welcomed its first cohort of 6th grade students in August 2017. The school will be matriculating a new cohort each year until it becomes a full middle school serving grades 6-8.
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Currently the first cohort of the new Ravenswood Comprehensive Middle School has occupied the old Green Oaks Campus which, according to some locals who attended the school in the early sixties was a middle school. Renovations are however currently underway in the Cesar Chavez Academy portion where classrooms are being converted into science laboratories. Earlier this year, there was some controversy over the change of the name of Ronald McNair School to Los Robles Magnet Academy, a Spanish immersion school that was established in 2012with some parents crowding a board meeting and San Francisco 49ers Academy, a special school serving middle school students located at the Costano campus will be relocating to the Ravenswood Comprehensive Middle School this fall.
“Costano “was the name selected from a contest organized by residents in the University Village in East Palo alto as the name for the school built in 1955. The historical background behind the naming of Costano Elementary school became a permanent record in the school Lobby. Residents on Sept 12, 1955 presented a framed history of the Costano Indian which appeared in a local newspaper. (Sept 15 1955)
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1864 Charles Kavanaugh an immigrant from Kilkenny town in Ireland bought 131.6 acres of land along Bay Road within the then town of Ravenswood.
at the corner of Euclid and Donohoe. The school was located at the corner of Euclid and Donohoe.
1948 Ravenswood School closes.
1873 Local landowners (Lester Cooley, Samuel Carduff, John T. Doyle, Robert Doyle, Mathew Crow, Charles Kavanaugh, Jeremiah Clarke and Colonel Atherton McKendry) petitioned the SM County Board of Supervisors to establish a public school in the Ravenswood District.
1891 A petition submitted by local farmers to the Board of Supervisors, was accepted and Ravenswood School District was separated from the Redwood City School District.
1892 On January 9th The Ravenswood (City) School district became official with the following trustees elected on January 14 William Cooley, William Carduff and Constable Maloney. Boundaries were as follows: Westerly to the Middlefield Road; Southerly to the San Francisquito Creek; Easterly to the San Francisco Bay; Northerly to the boundary line of the Redwood City and Menlo Park School districts.
1918 First school in Ravenswood constructed on a three- acre site donated to the District by Charles and Alice Weeks poultry colony ranchers.
1919 Ravenswood School opens its doors
1950 The Kavanaugh family began subdividing their ranch and selling as well as giving away parcels of land. It was around this time in the early fifties that the family granted the land currently occupied by Cesar Chavez/ Green Oaks and St. Francis of Assisi. Kavanaugh House next to St. Francis of Assisi Church on Bay Road.
1956 Construction of Brentwood, Kavanaugh and Costano completed.
1981 Opening of Ravenswood Middle School formerly Kavanaugh Elementary School Site.
1983 April 12th A brawl involving 30 students at the Ravenswood Middle School ends up with 3 Hispanic students requiring medical attention.
April 26th 22 students involved in the April 12 brawl suspended.
April 28th A parents meeting held, over 150 parents attended to debate the April 12 incident (Middle School student demographics- 36% Hispanic, 50% Black.
Kavanaugh House next to St. Francis of Assisi Church on Bay Road.
May 2nd 5 students faced expulsion. 17 students face community service hours. Ruben Abrica- a member of the School District’s Bilingual Education Committee.
December 5th Conflict Resolution Center is established at the Ravenswood Middle School.
1993 Ravenswood Middle School is named Cesar Chavez.
2017 Ravenswood Comprehensive Middle School (RMS) welcomed its first cohort of 6th grade students in August 2017. The school will be matriculating a new cohort each year until it becomes a full middle school serving grades 6-8.
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EVENTS CALENDAR | PAST , UPCOMING AND ONGOING June 26 Wednesday, Farewell to Andreas Connell, Executive Director Nuestra Casa. June 1 Saturday Accessory Dwelling Unit & Garage Conversion Resource Fair 9:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M. East Palo Alto Community Church 2201 University Avenue.
June 15 Saturday Juneteenth Festival at University Circle 1900 University Avenue. 510-677-9228 for information.
June 28 Friday,12 Annual One East Palo Alto Dr Faye McNair-Knox Legacy Luncheon to support its annual Sponsored Employment Program, 11:30 A.M-1:30 P.M. Four Seasons Hotel, East Palo Alto
June 2 Sunday, “Meet the Tree Whisperer, A Benefit Event for Canopy with Dave Muffly”, 10:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Eastside College Preparatory School, 1041 Myrtle Street, East Palo Alto.
June 28 Friday Celebration of former EPA CAN DO Executive Director, Robert Jones, Hotel Nia, Menlo Park. Call 650-4739838 or e-mail. July 12 Friday, 12th Annual Smith/Edwards Family Reunion-Fish Fry 5:00P.M.-9:00 P.M. Girls Club of the Mid-Peninsula, 2400 Ralmar Street, East Palo Alto. June 17 Monday, Free Advance Care Planning Workshops for Caregivers, 9:00-Noon, Faith Missionary Baptist Church, 835 Runnymede Street, East Palo Alto. 650532-2396.
June 7 Friday, East Palo Alto Academy 2019 Graduation, Stanford Memorial Auditorium, 551 Serra Mall, Stanford. 8 JUNE-JULY 2019 EL RAVENSWOOD
June 22 Saturday, Drive Forward Electric Financial Empowerment Workshop, Peninsula Family Service and Peninsula Clean Energy, Menlo Park Senior Center, 9:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. 100 Terminal Avenue, Menlo Park.
July 15 Monday,EPACANDO Below Market Rate Condo Lottery drawing 6:00 P.M. at the Community Room 2415 University Avenue, East Palo Alto.
July 13 Saturday, 12th Annual Smith/Edwards Family Reunion- Family Day at the Park, 12:00 P.M- 8:00 P.M. Rengstorff Park 2015 Rengstorff Avenue, Mountain View.
July 26 Friday Nairobi College Reunion 2019. Morning Session at Cooley Landing 2100 Bay Road. Afternoon Session Eastside College Preparatory School1041 Myrtle Street, East Palo Alto.
Eastside College Preparatory School1041 Myrtle Street, East Palo Alto, 9:00 A.M.- 10:30 P.M. July 28 Sunday, Nairobi College Reunion, Eastside College Preparatory School1041 Myrtle Street, East Palo Alto, 9:00 A.M.- 11:00 A.M. July 31 Wednesday Peninsula Clean Energy’s Net Energy Metering (NEM) Program Workshop, July 31st, 6:30P.M.-8:00 P.M 2075 Woodside Road, Redwood City. August 10 Saturday, Tree Walk: Remarkable Trees of East Palo Alto with local arborist Uriel Hernandez, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Visit canopy.org/get-involved/tree-walksign-up/.
July 27 Saturday Nairobi College Reunion.
August 23 Friday, Remembering James (The
Musical) Eastside College Preparatory School, 7:30 P.M. August 24 Saturday, Remembering James (The Musical) Eastside College Preparatory School 2:00 P.M. and 7:30 P.M. August 25 Sunday, Remembering James (The Musical) Eastside College Preparatory School, 2:30 P.M. Saturday, September 7 EPA-EMP Original Good’s (OG’S) Community BBQ, 12:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M. Baylands Park 999 E. Caribbean Drive, Sunnyvale. October 19, Saturday 15th Annual EPA T-Ball Pitching Machine Golf Classic, a fundraiser for the EPA T-Ball Pitching Machine Baseball Program, The Club at Sunrise, 5483 Club House Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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EVENTS CALENDAR | PAST , UPCOMING AND ONGOING
2nd and 4th Thursday of the month, Ravenswood City School District regular board meetings 7:15 PM in the District Office Board Room, 2120 Euclid Avenue, East Palo Alto. Tuesdays (varies), Menlo Park City Council 7:00 P.M. 701 Laurel Street, Menlo Park. 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, West Bay Sanitary District regular board meeting 7:00 P.M. 500 Laurel Street, Menlo Park.
1st and 3rd Mondays, Kiwanis Club of the Bayshore Community Club Meeting, 12:00-1:30 P.M. 1875 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
4th Thursday, The Peninsula Clean Energy Board of Directors usually meets on the fourth Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m. Meetings are held at the Peninsula Clean Energy office, 2075 Woodside Road, Redwood City, CA 94061.
Every Thursday, East Palo Alto Bayshore Rotary Club meeting 7:00-8.30 P.M. East Palo Alto YMCA 550 Bell Street.
1st and 3rd Tuesday, East Palo Alto City Council Meetings 7:30 P.M., 2415 University Avenue, East Palo Alto. 1st Thursday of the month, East Palo Alto Sanitary District, 7:00 P.M. 901 Weeks Street, East Palo Alto.
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3rd Tuesdays, Menlo Park Fire Protection District regular board meeting 7:00 P.M. 170 Middlefield Street, Menlo Park.
July 7, 1955
Menlo Park Sanitary District providing services to University Village in East Palo Alto
September 9, 1955
Ground-Breaking Ceremonies for East Palo Alto Fire Station .
October 22, 1955
Jack Farrell Park is dedicated and formally named after Jack Farrell the Superintendent of the Ravenswood Park, Recreation and Parkway District. Ravenswood Post October 20, 1955 “First recreation director in all of California to have a recreation facility named after him.
October 20, 1955
Ravenswood School is demolished (the front section, first addition and auditorium) The new section built in 1941 remains as the Ravenswood Elementary School district special school.
November 6, 1955
Dedication by Bishop Merlin J. Guilfoyle of St Francis of Asssi Church.
Ravenswood Post (Letter to Editor August 11, 1955)
“Belle Havenites Resent Pressure Methods Used by Real Estate Operators in Home Selling Spree” says Homeowner
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rs. Ethel Anderson, who owns a home at 1219 Windermere in Belle Haven area, has just recently come down from her residence in Sacramento, where she teachers, to find a ‘deplorable” situation among home owners in that area. Because she has felt that her former neighbors have been put through undue pressure by real estate operators, she began to investigate just how her neighbors really felt. Following is a letter which she has written to the people of Belle Haven through the Ravenswood Post, We are proud to publish it. “We like it here” say Belle Haven homeowners. Residents in the Belle Haven area are organizing to resist high pressure salesmanship that would change the character of this attractive modesthome neighborhood. One of the older residents stated: “We have always had an integrated, unrestricted community, with a friendly feeling toward a normal number of “minority” residents. Some Negroes and Orientals have owned their homes here from the beginning of the subdivision.
They, as well as the new neighbors who have moved in, have maintained and improved their homes and gardens so that the whole area reflects a uniform pride in home ownerships. To sell out and move because we don’t like their color would be ridiculous.” It is not true that only “colored people” are interested in buying here. A number of white families have built homes near Belle Haven School within the last year, and according to a spokesman for one of these groups, “We are not selling. Why should we? We knew that some of our neighbors were Negro when we bought here last winter. They are good neighbors, and their children are among the best behaved in the community. Since our children will attend schools, and later will work at jobs with people of all races, we prefer to bring them in a mixed community. This is California not Mississippi or Georgia. We are proud to live in Belle Haven.” Another satisfied home owner made this statement: “Our home was one of the first in this area. It is not for sale and never has
been. Nevertheless within the last few months eight real estate salesmen, going from door to door, have called on us urging that we list our home for sale now “while you can still get a good price for it, since the area is going colored and prices will go down.’ We are definitely not frightened by such talk, for we like it here!’ Other comments were; ‘The high pressure realtors have not been fair to our community. They have directed their advertising of homes in this area specifically toward minority groups. By distributing leaflets in segregated Negro sections of San Francisco, by radio broadcast emphasizing the “unrestricted” listings in Belle Haven, they have made a direct appeal to Negro buyers. No such effort has been made to attract other buyers who would be interested in our attractive homes at a modest price. In response to an owneradvertisement last week, listing a home in belle Haven. But omitting the usual realtor’s “unrestricted” label, there was an overwhelming response from white home-seekers. Many of them
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stated, ‘ We prefer to live in a friendly, unsegregated district where everyone is welcome.” Six couples who were definitely interested had to be turned away disappointed because the home had already been taken by the first family that inspected it. The Belle Haven Improvement Association is a forward looking group of home owners dedicated to the purpose of “keeping our community clean and attractive, keeping out commercial developments or multifamily residences that would alter the character or appearance of the area. It is to the credit of this club that it specifically states in its by-laws that no discrimination shall be shown, in membership or in office holding because of race or creed. This is, after all, the year of 1955, not 1910. The Supreme Court of the United States has at last made segregation unlawful. We hope that our local realtors will try to bring their practices
up to date and give us all a fair deal. Mrs Ethel P. Anderson. Peninsula Realty Co. 1035 El Camino Real Menlo Park DA 5-0041 Andrews Realty Co. 656 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park DA 2-4629 Elsie M. Finley & Son Realtors 1929 University Avenue, East Palo Alto, DA 3-0094; 720 Willow Road, MP. Da 3-2484 Floyd Lowe, Realtor 171 University Avenue Palo Alto Crosby & Diegelman Realtors 1365 El Camino David Ingram, Realtor 1702 El Camino Real, Atherton H.A. McKechnie, Realtor 455 El Camino MP
Ravenswood Post (September 1, 1955)
Negro Mother Writes Views On ‘Sell Out’ Dear Editor, I am a Negro mother who recently bought a home in Menlo Park and would like you to know how I feel, and many of my friends who have bought. So many people fear staying here because we have bought. But don’t they realize that if we worked hard and did without many things to get here, we are not going to loose it all because someone thinks he is better than we are. Why don’t the people who are afraid of Negroes try to make friends with some of us so they can see if we are degrading or not? I can’t say that all Negroes are going to act as I do, but I can say that anybody, any color with enough pride
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and “get-up” to buy a home as nice as these, surely will step it up. Many of us have never lived in nice homes, but have worked in them or read about them. So we try to improve our living conditions and move up to the standards of the ads on new homes. As for our character, it seems good enough if we work in your homes as domestics, why not as neighbors? Some of the white people here don’t’ realize that we are suffering just as much as they are when we buy in this community. Sometimes our children suffer too. All that is necessary in this community is for everyone to mind his own business and go about it as if we were any other “desirable” color. But
Magnuson & Associates, Realtors 814 Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park Dick Wright & Co 801 El Camino MP Seybold & Ferguson 1025 El Camino MP Cornish & Carey 3351 El Camino at Stockbridge-Atherton Richard Cottrell 801 El Camino MP Tower Realty and Investment Company 1263 El Camino Real Menlo Park Spade Realty 401 El Camino Mnelo Park Robert Coate Realtor 1074 El Camino Menlo Park
believing that there are still some who believe in “Love Thy Neighbor” policy we are trying hard to be pleasant as possible. As for the Real Estate Companies, that their jobs. If people fall for it, they’re not as smart as they would have us believe. If the next person approached by this Real Estate would expose the name, I think this nonsense would stop. I’m for keeping this community as it has always been-clean, quiet, safe and neighborly. Menlo Park is getting more publicity than Mississippi and will be the laughing stock with so much “sell out.” The real estate (whatever one it is) is burning both ends of the candle. The sell out can stop..... But it is up to you. Mrs .W. M. Irving 1264 Madera Avenue, Menlo park, Calif
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Families Benefit From RV Safe Parking Pilot Program
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fter months of complaints about parked RVs on city streets and the public health concerns that the community faces due to improper disposal of waste by residents of these vehicles. After Stanford students, in solidarity with some residents protested publicly and at city council meetings about the mistreatment of RV dwellers and the lack of sympathy towards the increased rents leading to gentrification and the gradual displacement of persons that have lived in East Palo Alto for years. After Bay Road between Pulgas and Cooley Landing as well as Tara Road became the preferred location for as many as 46 RVs with the attendant problems of expired vehicle registration, emptying of household goods and furniture onto the street, lack of toilet facilities which the city eventually provided at the public’s cost, a feeling of unsafety by residents seeking to travel down Bay Road to Cooley Landing and the Bay Trail, East Palo Alto City Council finally took some action. On July 17, 2018, the City Council declared a Shelter Crisis and authorized the temporary use of 1798 Bay Road for the “RV Safe Parking Pilot Program (RVSPPP).” The program would be operated by Project We Hope. RV dwellers were given 30 days up to February 15th, to apply to be part of the Safe Parking Program. On February 5, 2019, the City Council took action to reduce overnight parking for oversized vehicles. At the same
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LEFT: Concrete blocks line Bay Road from Pulgas towards Cooley landing to prevent additional RVs from parking. RIGHT: What Bay Road looked like prior to the Safe Parking Program. time however, the council authorized a deferred enforcement program for those RVs and occupants that had applied for the RVSPPP within 30 days of the pilot program declaration. Project WeHope in April notified city staff of its intent to begin operations of the RVSPPP by May 1, 2019. According to city staff, oversized vehicles Citywide were notified of the launching of the RVSPPP and of the city’s intent to begin enforcement, as of May 1, 2019, Project WeHope began issuing RVSPPP Certificates of participation in the Program as of May 1st. By that date, signs advertising the RVSPPP were posted on the four streets with the most oversized vehicles: Bay Road (from Pulgas Avenue to Cooley Landing Park), Demeter Street, Pulgas Avenue (from Weeks Street to Bay Road), and Weeks Street (from Pulgas Avenue to the end of the road near the Bay Trail). At the same time city officials installed large concrete blocks along Bay Road east towards Cooley Landing ostensibly to prevent other recreational vehicles from parking along that section
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of Bay. Several vehicles are however still parked along Tara Road a private road. City officials expect to deal with the property owner soon about those vehicles. On May 14, 2019, a Grand Opening celebration was held at the project’s location. The Community and Economic Development, Public Works, and Police Departments, along with the City Attorney’s Office, collaborated to prepare signage which is being installed throughout the City to enforce the newly adopted Ordinance As of June 1, 2019, a total of 15 vehicles have been accepted onto the RVSPPP site. Project WeHope has issued thirty Waitlist Certificates for the month of June. This is the first 30-day extension offered to participants who remain on the Waitlist. Each Waitlist Certificate qualifies the participant for deferred enforcement during the month of June on public streets for the RV listed on the Certificate.
Waitlist Certificates are valid for up to thirty days and may be extended in 30-day increments, for a maximum of 120 days while the participant continues to await an RVSPPP spot or remedy any obstacles to entry. Clients admitted into the RVSPPP facility on Bay Road, have requested electricity for charging cell phones and/ or use of fans during the warm weather. City staff is exploring various options that would be cost-efficient and ensure guaranteed fire safety. In addition, in a recent report to the City Council , Michelle Daher, noted that Project We Hope, together with Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center have a total of six RVSPPP families actively participating in job training programs. In addition, the families are also being offered financial literacy, and communication skills courses, along with seminars for preparing resumes, and interviewing. Ms. Daher further reported to that four families that had applied for the RVSPPP prior to the February 15, 2019 deadline have been successfully been relocated into stable housing.
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Recently Planted Trees Vandalized For The Third Time!
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he ginkgo trees at Jack Farrell Park have been vandalized again! Michael Hawkins, Canopy’s Program Manager sent out a plea seeking help.Young planted trees at Jack Farrell Park had been vandalized again, for the third time. ‘I don’t know that any of us has the resilience to continue this cycle of planting and replanting just to see these trees cut again,” he complained. The first time the trees were vandalized, Uriel Hernandez then an employee of Canopy, posted an open letter to the community that was posted at the park. In the letter, he noted that there was no effort to impose the trees on the community saying that a lot of positive feedback on the planting was received and that changes the community
wanted to see went into the final design. “We just want to bring more trees and green spaces to East Palo Alto neighborhoods” he pleaded. Vandalizing the trees, he said, ‘was a waste of community resources’ including the ‘the time and energy of the neighbors who planted the trees.’ That original plea had little impact. In the most recent incident four of the tree could not be saved and had to be cut down. Michael Hawkins at 650-964-6110 x1 or C: 831-239-6747 wants to hear from you with suggestions as to how to deal with trees at Jack Farrell Park. El Ravenswood at 650-3234477 would also like to hear from you about the park, the trees and the vandalism or e-mail at: info@ eastpaloaltoinformation.com.
Should East Palo Alto Get Its Own Zip Code? Louis Moorer who has unsuccessfully run for membership on the East Palo Alto City Council is reactivating the discussion on whether East Palo Alto should have its own zip code. The City Council at its meeting in early July asked staff to dig up a report submitted to the council previously by Melvin Gaines, then a management analyst with the city. In a recent conversation Mr. Moorer noted that the Cities of Menlo Park and Palo Alto had several zip codes and that even Stanford had its own zip code. ‘East Palo Alto’ he said, ‘should have its own zip-code!’
New video cameras installed after attacks on pedestrians Former City Council Aspirant-Louis Moorer
City installs video cameras at the new Pedestrian 101 Overpass following two attacks on pedestrians after its grand opening on May 18.
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LOCAL NEWS
Fireworks On The Fourth Of July
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he City of East Palo Alto says it received 172 calls this past July 4th relating to fireworks and that with 10 police officers six of them being additional officers deployed for just that day, responded to all of them. The officers made three arrests that night, all unrelated to fireworks; two were domestic violence related and the third was for driving under the influence. No citations were issued relating to fireworks according to the city. “The department does not have a data base that sorts call for service by police beat” responded the Chief to a Public Records Act Request, and therefore there is no way to tell which neighborhood was the most impacted by fireworks. The number of calls was up by 41% this year. Currently the East Palo Alto Department has thirty-six budgeted positions, with three vacancies and three officers off work ‘due to workrelated injuries.’
With that many officers out the department is operating at 75% capacity. In the Belle Haven neighborhood, according to several Nextdoor postings, this year’s fireworks was far worse in magnitude than ever and expressed concern about the likelihood of New Year’s Eve being the same.
TOP RIGHT: Fireworks debris stuffed in a recycle bin at a house on Holland Street that held a fireworks show. BELOW LEFT: Fireworks debris on cars on Holland Street. BELOW RIGHT: Type of fireworks used on Holland Street.
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LOCAL NEWS
Newly Renovated Mcdonalds Re-Opens Its Restaurant
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cDonalds at Bay Road and University has finally reopened its restaurant for the sitting public. For the last few months, only the drive-through was available for the public. According to Anthony Ewell the restaurant owner, the renovation has expanded the restaurant’s capacity to quickly hand customers. Customers will now be able to self-order and pay for their food at ordering stations on site. Cashiers will however still be available to take orders. In addition, Mcdonald’s now also has an app dowloadable to smart phones that would allow for remote ordering and pick up and delivery by a ridesharing company. Renovations will include the installation of murals reflective of East Palo Alto’s history on two large walls in the restaurant. “Details about the images are being worked out” said Mr. Ewell.
TOP: Workers put final touches prior to reopening the restaurant to the walk-in-public. BELOW: Anthony Ewell the resturant owner.
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LOCAL NEWS
Two Recently-Elected Council Members Fight For Building Moratorium In Menlo Park
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n early June, Cecilia Taylor, elected to the Menlo Park City Council in November in the first district elections in the City of Menlo Park, called for a ‘citywide non-residential building moratorium including hotels’. She also asked for no- increase in the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) for existing non-residential construction including hotels’ In a jointly signed letter with her recently elected colleague Councilmember Betsy Nash, they argued that the moratorium would ‘ensure that the City’s General Plan and the El Camino Real and Downtown Specific Plan would ‘reflect current community values and permit the city to revisit present day challenges and opportunities. The Connect Menlo General Plan update adopted by the Menlo City Council in 2016 projected a total development potential throughout the entire city as approximately 4 million square feet of net new nonresidential development, up to 5,350 additional residential units, and 400 hotel rooms. The Bayfront Area, adjacent to the Belle Haven neighborhood bore the bulk of that development potential with approximately 3.66 million square feet on non-residential development, 4,500 residential units, and all of the 400 hotel rooms. The moratorium, they suggested would allow Menlo Park to analyze the jobs/housing imbalance by District, review current zoning and determine where and how additional housing can be ‘encouraged’. It would also allow amongst other things allow the city to review the net
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costs of development, develop impacts on quality education, community services, emergency series, clean air and clean water, and transportation as in ‘traffic and access to public transit’ Noting that her district already had ‘significant and irreversible development impacts including ‘unprecedented development and influx of traffic’, inadequate affordable housing, lack of local quality education, poor air quality and exposure to flooding, she suggested the moratorium should cover the development of all ‘new residential construction with over 100 units and any increased FAR for existing residential development over 100 units. The Menlo Park City Council elected not to proceed with a moratorium at its June 11 meeting. The Council However agreed that there was ‘a need to re-examine existing land use policy documents to assess whether they reflected current community values” according to a report prepared on the issue by the City Attorney’s Office. As a first step in this process, the Menlo Park City Council agreed to amend the zoning code as well as other related applicable documents to ensure that project approvals involving large or impactful projects be made by the City Council rather than the Planning Commission. The council also formed a subcommittee of Mayor Mueller and City Councilmember Nash to examine additional housing opportunities in the downtown area, particularly near transit, and to determine whether the existing development caps in all areas of the City (other than District 1) should be adjusted.
Cecilia Taylor The subcommittee, according to the city attorney’s report, would orchestrate the development of a work plan summarizing the issues to be analyzed and subsequently make recommendations to the full City Council on proposed amendments to the general plan, specific plan and/or zoning ordinance. The council in addition formed another sub-committee comprised of Mayor Mueller and Mayor Pro Tem Taylor to examine the need for decreasing both non-residential and residential density in District 1 and to address allocating for District 1 use, revenues generated by development in the district. Mayor Pro Tem Taylor is hoping to have the council see the negative implications for her district of the rezoning of the Bayfront. “I would like my colleagues to see what we experience as well as experience what we see” she told El Ravenswood recently.
TRANSITIONS
Andres R. Connell
Supervisor Slocum presents a county resolution to Andreas.
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he Executive Director of Nuestra Casa, a local Latino educational and leadership development organization is calling it quits after over ten years of leadership over the organization. Nuestra Casa was established in 2002. Nuestra Casa came into existence from a local planning effort which brought together local Latino organizations to discuss the political, economic and social conditions for Latinos in East Palo Alto. From that initial meeting a work plan was developed identifying and addressing the major challenges facing immigrant
Latino residents. The plan outlined how the Latino community would contribute ‘in a more organized way to the future development of East Palo Alto.’ Andres R. Connell was hired as the organization’s Executive Director in January 2009. Since then, Nuestra Casa has provided educational and leadership development programs to increase the civic participation of the Latinos and Latinas in East Palo Alto as well as neighboring communities. Andreas spearheaded efforts for Latino representation in community collaborative projects such as the Youth Empowerment Systems initiated by
One East Palo Alto and the Promotora Community Health Leadership Program with the Ravenswood Family Health Clinic. Miriam Yupanqui took over the leadership of the organization as of June 4. “I am proud that Miriam Yupanqui will be taking over leadership of the organization particularly because she was born and raised in East Palo Alto, went to college and has come back to lead Nuestra Casa” he told El Ravenswood recently. “Her appointment fulfilled a strong desire shared by several of our local non-profit leadership that there exist within each organization a succession plan that would open doors particularly to younger generations, born and or raised in communities such as East Palo Alto” At a June 26 party, Andreas Cornell was bid farewell by amongst others, Supervisor Warren Slocum, other nonprofit leaders and community members. Miriam Yupanqui was introduced as the new Nuestra Casa leader. Andres and his family are relocating to Florida.
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TRANSITIONS
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iriam Yupanqui is an East Palo Alto native. She graduated from Carlmont High, in the Sequoia Union High School District. She is a member of the first graduating class at College Track and graduated with a B. A. in Global Studies from UC Berkeley (2006) and a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Southern California (2010). Miriam is also a graduate of the Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley-Latino Board Leadership Academy and the Redwood City Chamber of Commerce Leadership Program. Before assuming the role of executive director for Nuestra Casa she was a program manager at Family Connections as well served as board chair (2018) and board Vice Chair (2017) of Nuestra Casa del East Palo Alto. Miriam is among the next generation of non-profit leaders who have chosen to come back to the communities they grew up in and continue the ‘work’.
NUESTRA CASA ANNUAL BUDGET 2016-18 (Form 990 submittals)
2018
Revenue
$ 467,957.00
Expenses
$ 389,750.00
NUESTRA CASA GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION 2018 Executive Director
Program Director
Andres Connell Julio Garcia
BOARD MEMBERS Miriam Yupanqui, Chair
2018
Diana Luis, Vice Chair
2018
Rigo Rosas, Treasurer
2018
Kelly Hunt, Secretary
2018
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Miriam Yupanqui-New Nuestra Casa Executive Director
TRANSITIONS
David Rages
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avid Rages previously the Program manager at Kinship Edgewood has been appointed the Community Engagement Manager at EPACENTER ARTS. He grew up in East Palo Alto in the eighties and nineties and started working with youth when he was still a youth himself. As early as 1991 he was coaching both YMCA basketball and the Ravenswood Little League Baseball Program prior to graduating from high school. He continues to coach in the little league program to this day. He graduated from Carlmont High School
in 1995 and was accepted at the College of William and Mary in Virginia where he soon was leading the gospel choir. Following his graduation, he worked with the Fred Finch Youth Center in Oakland where he dealt for the first time with youth mental health. He started working at Edgewood in 2007 as a case manager working with families in San Mateo and in 2014, he was deployed to the Kinship Program in San Francisco as a manager. “I am excited to work with EPACENTER to ensure that local youth have access to art programs in their community” “I am an East Palo Alto native and I will pay very close attention to the needs of those the center will be serving.
EPACENTER ARTS describes itself as a youth development organization that seeks to ‘increase opportunities for East Palo Alto youth to amplify their talents, realize their potential, and impact their world through art and design.” Youth between the ages of 12-25 engage in creative processes to develop their intrinsic voices and the creative, critical thinking and social-emotional skills they need to succeed. Culturally-responsive instruction in the digital, visual, literary and performing arts during the school day, after-school and during the summer months, engages youth in organizational decision-making and key leadership roles, and links youth to meaningful summer employment opportunities, college and careers. It is currently building a 25,000 square foot facility at the corner of Bay Road and Pulgas Avenue. Construction began in early October 2018 and is scheduled for completion by June 2020.
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TRANSITIONS
Ravenswood Family Health Clinic gets new Development Associate
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aleria Sandoval is the new Development Associate at Ravenswood Family Health Clinic (RFHC). She will be working on RFHC’s marketing and fundraising efforts including launching the YearEnd and Spring fundraising campaigns, spreading awareness of RFHC and its services via their website, various publications, and more! Valeria is native to the Bay Area and graduated from University of California, Berkeley in May of 2018 with a Bachelor’s in Environmental Sciences. Valeria is no stranger to Ravenswood— she started working as a Development Assistant in August 2018! She is very excited and looks forward to working on Ravenswood’s new projects ahead! She replaces Rachel Tarantino, who left on June 20 after serving in that capacity for two years.
Rachel Tarantino, Former Development associate at Ravenswood Family Health Clinic.
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COMMUNITY
About The Ravenshood Family Health Clinic
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avenswood Family Health Center (RFHC) also known as the South County Community Health Center is a federally qualified health center based in East Palo Alto. Established in 2001 the Center’s purpose is to meet the healthcare needs of the community by providing culturally sensitive integrated primary and preventive health care regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. The Center’s vision is to have engaged and empowered patients who actively manage their health and are advocates for healthy living within their families and the community. The Center provides a comprehensive array of health care services including pediatrics, family practice, women’s health, dentistry, integrated behavioral health, optometry, pharmacy, mammography, ultrasound, x-ray, lab, health education, and health coverage enrollment. Over the years, the center has grown from a small single-site clinic to a multi-disciplinary health care facility that operates medical clinics, a dental clinic and Center for Health Promotion. RFHC is linked to an extended network of social services, health and educational agencies. It has most notably strengthened safety net services for uninsured residents of south San Mateo County providing, in addition to primary medical care and fullservice dental care, behavioral health services. The Health Center is led by Luisa Buada a veteran health care administrator with extensive experience in management and organizational development. In addition to establishing several clinics across California, she was the consultant in the development of the Ravenswood Family Health Center. She was appointed the Chief Executive Officer in November of 2003.
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COMMUNITY
City Employee Acknowledged For 12 Years Of Exemplary Service To The City
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amal Fallaha, the City of East Palo Alto’s public works director was acknowledged in early July for his 12 years of exemplary public service to the City of East Palo Alto. Kamal previously served as a consultant and was eventually hired as the city engineer before becoming the city’s public works director. He previously worked with the state as an engineer. During his tenure with city the has brought in great resources to improve the city’s infrastructure. Vice-Mayor Wallace-Jones acknowledged that the city made a serious faux pas in deviating from its tradition of acknowledging the years of service of city employees by not acknowledging Mr. Fallaha last year. Mr. Fallaha was lauded for the Safe Routes to School Program, a trafficreduction-street resurfacing-and sidewalkconstructing program that encourages children and their parents to walk and or bike to schools instead of using cars. He was applauded for the many miles of streets that have been resurfaced and for the pedestrian overpass that was just recently completed over the 101 Freeway allowing for the reconnection of two parts of the city of East Palo Alto that had been separated by the construction of the freeway in the late fifties. Mr. Fallaha, who is originally from Syria, studied engineering at the A & M University in Texas. Like many other immigrants from countries across the world, he had hoped to go back to his country to help in its re-building. Alas however, he noted in accepting the acknowledgement, East Palo Alto has become his country and he pledged to continue to make it the gem-city in San Mateo County. 24 JUNE-JULY 2019 EL RAVENSWOOD
OBITUARY
Mildred Marie Simon March 12, 1936 – May 20, 2019
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ildred Marie Simon was born on March 12, 1936 the fifth and youngest child of Jean and Louis Marie Julian of Rayne, Louisiana. She was affectionately known as “Becky” or “Millie and attended Our Mother of Mercy Grade School and Acadia Parish Training School for high school in Rayne, Lousiana. She moved to East Palo Alto in 1957 with her two sisters Mary and Marjorie and her youngest son William (Billy -Ray) and worked at Raytheon Semiconductor in Mountain View for 30 years retiring as a Line Supervisor. She however continued working post-retirement as a caregiver for Marched CareGivers and Pathways Home Health and Hospice. Mildred was an active member of St. Francis of Assisi Church serving as a Eucharist Minister and was a founding and very active member of the Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver (KPC) Court 155. She served variously as Secretary, Mistress-at Arms, Inner and Outer Guard and Junior Daughter Counselor among others and was also a member of St. Vincent de Paul, Legion of Mary, the Archdiocese Council of Catholic Women and the African American Council of Catholic Women. Becky is survived by her children, PeeWee and Billy-Ray. Sister Verna Mae Winston, grandchildren, Quincy Julian, NaLini Madison, Temina Adger, Sophia Julian, Amber Julian and Tenedra Windom, great grandchildren Lucas Madison. She was preceded in death by her parents Jean and Louise Marie Julian, her children Rosaline and Frances Simon, siblings Orian Julian, Mary Robinson and Marjorie Goodwill and longtime friend Mercile Strauss. Funeral Mass was held on Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 at St. Francis of Assisi Church 1425 Bay Road East Palo Alto. She was buried at Skylawn Memorial Park San Mateo, California. JUNE-JULY 2019 EL RAVENSWOOD 25
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COMMUNITY
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eninsula Clean Energy (PCE) is the official energy provider for San Mateo County offering clean energy at rates it considers competitive. Fifty percentage of the energy PCE provides, according to its website, comes from renewable sources, solar and wind energy. Peninsula Clean Energy was formed, by a consensus of all the elected bodies in San Mateo County cities and the County Board of Supervisors in 2016 as a Joint Powers Authority Agency.
The agency, according to its website, hopes to invest its earnings into lower costs for consumers, while supporting cleaner power and boosting the county’s economy. Its overall mission is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through providing consumers with clean energy from solar and wind. PCE is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of elected representatives from each of the 20 participating cities and towns. The county has two representatives on the governing board.
WHAT ABOUT SOLAR CUSTOMERS? Peninsula Clean Energy solar customers can enroll in the Net Energy Metering program. Net Energy Metering (NEM) is a special billing arrangement that allows customers with solar PV systems to get the full retail value of the electricity their system generates. Your meter tracks the difference between the amount of electricity your solar panels produce and the amount of electricity you use during each billing cycle. When your panels produce more electricity than you use, you receive a credit on your bill.
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The City of East Palo Alto is represented by Council member Carlos Romero with Council member Larry Moody serving as an alternate. The City of Menlo Park is represented by Council member Catherine Carlton with Mayor Ray Mueller as the alternate.The agency meets monthly on the first Thursday of every month. Since 2016 PCE has served, according to its staff, over 97% of the county “saving tens of millions of dollars and over a billion pound of carbon emission.”
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Please Find El Ravenswood At These Choice Locations Want to be an El Ravenswood distribution location? Please contact El Ravenswood at info@eastpaloaltoinformation.com EAST PALO ALTO Above All Insurance, 907 Newbridge Street # B; | Boys and Girls Club-East Palo Alto, 2031 Pulgas Avenue; | Brentwood School, 2086 Clarke Avenue; | Cesar Chavez & Green Oaks, 2450 Ralmar Avenue; | Ravenswood Child Development Center, 952 O’Connor Street, | Community Development Department, 1960 Tate Street; | Costano School, 2695 Fordham Street; | County Services Building-Lobby; 2415 University Avenue; | East Palo Alto Academy, 1040 Myrtle Street; | East Palo Alto Charter School, 1286 Runnymede Street; | East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy, 1039 Garden Street; | East Palo Alto Police Department, 141 Demeter Avenue; | East Palo Alto Senior Center, 560 Bell Street; | East Palo Alto YMCA, 550 Bell Street; | Ecumenical Hunger Program, 2411 Pulgas Avenue; Gregory’s Enterprise & Barber Shop, 1895 E. Bayshore Road; | Jones Mortuary, 660 Donohoe Street; | Oakwood Market, 2106 Oakwood Drive; | Peninsula Park Apartments, 1977 Tate Street; | Rainier’s Service Station, 1905 E. Bayshore Road; | Ravenswood City School District, 2130 Euclid Avenue; Ravenswood Family Health Center, 1885 Bay Road; | Ronald McNair School, 2033 Pulgas Avenue; | San Mateo Credit Union, 1735 Bay Road; | St Francis of Assisi, 1425 Bay Road; | St Johns Baptist Church, 1050 Bay Road; | Stanford Community Law Clinics, 2117 University Avenue; | Starbucks-East Palo Alto, 1745 East Bayshore Road;
MENLO PARK Belle Haven Library, 415 Ivy Drive; | Belle Haven School, 415 Ivy Drive; | Esquire Barber Shop, 830 Newbridge street; | Job Train, 1200 O’Brien Drive; | Jonathan’s Fish & Chips, 840 Willow Road; | Markstyle Barber Shop, 828 Willow Road; | Menlo Park City Hall, 701 Laurel Street; | Menlo Park Senior Center, 100 Terminal Avenue; | Mt Olive AOH Church of God, 605 Hamilton Avenue; | Project Read-Menlo Park, 800 Alma Street; | Tony’s Pizza, 820 Willow Road; | Tutti Frutti, 888 Willow Road; Willow Cleaners, 824 Willow Road; | Willow Oaks School, 620 Willow Road