Palo Alto Weekly March 24, 2017

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXVIII, Number 25

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March 24, 2017

Crimes in Palo Alto take a dip Page 5

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Meet the terribly fun, no-pressure orchestra Page 18

Pulse 14 Transitions 15 Spectrum 16 Eating Out 24 Movies 25 Title Pages 27 Home 29 Q News Schools’ mental health providers face budget cuts

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Q Arts TheatreWorks’ play has authenticity, heart

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Q Sports Stanford in Sweet 16 of NCAA Women’s tourney

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Crime in Palo Alto takes a dip But assaults, burglaries and arson rise in 2016

by Sue Dremann

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alo Altans called police far fewer times in 2016 than in any of the past seven years — 10 percent less often than in 2015 — and the city experienced lower crime overall than in 2015.

But some types of crime saw increases last year, including assaults, burglaries and arsons, according to

a recent update of crime statistics by the Palo Alto Police Department.

The department tallies crimes under Uniform Crime Reporting, a federal program that provides a nationwide perspective on crime.

While Palo Alto’s year-over-year figures are too narrow to substantiate trends, the numbers are an

improvement over 2015, which had the highest total of eight significant types of crimes since 2009.

Among violent crimes, the city saw 35 assaults in 2016, a nearly 30 percent jump over 2015 and the highest number since 2011. Between 2012 and 2015, assaults in the city were significantly lower, averaging 24 incidents per year.

But the number of assaults last year is still only half of the 70 that occurred in 2010 and nearly half

of those in 2009 (63 assaults). The statistic does not include simple assaults, which don’t involve physical contact but rather an attempt or a threat, according to the FBI. The incidents of robbery, homicide and rape in 2016 hovered at around the same levels as in 2015: There was one homicide, the same as in 2014 and 2015; 28 robberies; and 10 rapes, according to the police data. Those 10 rapes still exceed the number in any year back to

2009, however, with the exception of 2015, when 13 were reported.

Of the nonviolent crimes, burglaries and attempted burglaries grew by 4.4 percent in 2016. The city had 221 burglaries and attempts in 2016, an increase over the 212 in 2015. One hundred of those burglaries were residential, compared to 98 in 2015, police spokesman Lt. James Reifschneider said. (continued on page 9)

LAND USE

Council moves toward compromise on vision for growth Restores programs to Comprehensive Plan, picks a ‘preferred’ development scenario

by Gennady Sheyner

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Veronica Weber

Sid Simon, who turns 100 on March 26, sits in the music studio in his Palo Alto home, where he still plays the recorder everyday. His late wife was a professional pianist.

COMMUNITY

Doctors said he wouldn’t survive birth Palo Alto resident Sid Simon proves them wrong: celebrates 100th birthday

by Linda Taaffe

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elivery-room doctors in Detroit didn’t expect Sidney Simon to survive when he came into the world three months early on March 26, 1917, weighing only 1.5 pounds. He has exceeded all expectations, and then some: The longtime Palo Alto resident will celebrate his 100th birthday on Sunday.

“When somebody asks me how did I manage to get to be so old, I tell them, ‘Because I didn’t die. If you don’t die, you get older,’” he joked Wednesday while sorting through birthday cards at his Eichler home after his morning water-aerobics

workout at the YMCA. One hundred is just another number to a man who has defied the odds throughout a life that has spanned two World Wars, Prohibition and the Great Depression and witnessed today’s tech boom. He once beat a Hall of Fame tennis player at doubles; developed a barnacleresistant patented paint that allowed Navy ships to stay at sea longer during World War II; and taught himself how to play the recorder to help pass time while recovering from a debilitating car accident that left him bedridden. (He ultimately joined the Midpeninsula Recorder

Orchestra, where he’s still a member 50-plus years later.)

“Yeah, I’ve done a lot of things in my little life; it took me 100 years to get this far,” he said.

After Simon’s rocky start, his family moved to Los Angeles when he was 2. Simon discovered his lifelong passion for tennis when somebody gave him a racket, and he played pickup games at the public park.

He became good enough to compete in various city and high school tournaments, which led to one of his most-talked about matches: a doubles match (continued on page 13)

esponding to an uproar of criticism from residents and community volunteers, members of the Palo Alto City Council swiftly rescinded on Monday night their controversial Jan. 30 decision to strip all programs from the city’s guiding land-use document, the Comprehensive Plan.

By a unanimous vote, the council voted to restore the more than 350 programs that were pegged for removal from the Comprehensive Plan, which the city is in the midst of updating and which will ultimately guide the city’s policies on growth until 2030. In doing so, council members reversed a decision that aimed to clean up the sprawling document but that ended up creating a political mess.

Councilman Cory Wolbach, who in January led the way in the council’s 5-4 vote, once again took the initiative. This time, however, he proposed both restoring the programs to the body of the document (which also includes higher-level goals and policies) and listing them in an “implementation plan,” which would be periodically reviewed by the council and staff.

The decision to reconsider the action came at the beginning of the council’s long discussion about city-growth scenarios and, in many ways, it set the tone for the rest of the evening’s conversation. Unlike the tense January discussion, which seemed to widen the fissure between the council’s political factions, Monday’s

hearing saw more consensus and collegiality. Wolbach’s motion was seconded by Councilman Tom DuBois, who in February had likened the abrupt removal of programs as a “hijacking of democracy.”

The January action also faced a sharp rebuke from the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC), a 17-member volunteer group that has been helping the council with the mammoth update effort. In a joint letter, committee co-chairs Daniel Garber and Arthur Keller wrote that the council’s removal of the programs “threatens to disrupt the delicate balance of trust that all the members of the CAC have painfully forged over the last year and a half.”

“Changing the rule set during the final months of the committee’s work is destabilizing and will cause us to revisit many of our assumptions and actions to date,” Garber and Keller wrote.

Wolbach said Monday night that it was his “excellent conversations” with members of the citizens group — rather than the vitriolic reaction from some colleagues — that prompted him to reconsider the prior action. He also said he wanted to abide by the advice that he would give to children.

“I’ll tell them that if they leave a mess, they should clean it up,” Wolbach said.

The other four council members who supported the change in (continued on page 12)

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We’re kind of dipping our toe in one place and sticking our thumb in the dike in another place. —Karen Holman, Palo Alto councilwoman, on the city’s growth revision. See story on page 5.

Around Town

OFF TO THE CAPITAL ... The Palo Alto City Council normally relies on lobbyists to carry its message in Washington, D.C. Last week, however, Mayor Greg Scharff, Vice Mayor Liz Kniss and Councilmen Adrian Fine and Cory Wolbach took on the role of lobbyists themselves when they traveled to the nation’s capital for the National League of Cities Conference.

They met with Congressional leaders, legislative staffers and policy administrators, including members of the Federal Aviation Administration. While the trip, was smooth and productive, there were few grounds for optimism. Kniss said that what she found most discouraging in D.C. was “such a negative feeling for California.�

Several council members referred to a fashionable new acronym making its way around D.C. in the Trump administration: ABC, short for “Anything but California.�

The attitude may have explained the recent decision by the feds to freeze an expected grant to Caltrain for its long-awaited electrification project. Wolbach said he and others are now awaiting Trump’s “skinny budget� (a preliminary and abridged precursor to the proposed budget) to see if the electrification project makes it in. Wolbach said the group’s meeting with the FAA was particularly reassuring, with the agency indicating that it has recently undertaken several studies into airplane noise, a topic that has generated a groundswell of community interest. Scharff said Monday that one of the most useful components of the trip was talking to Republican senators, who he said shared the city’s concerns about cuts in transportation. “I’m still hopeful the feds will step up and do the right thing and fund electrification,� Scharff said.

RUFF RECEPTION ... Palo Alto officials often talk about the need to add a new dog park in the northern half of the city, where none currently exist. Recent proposals have been dogged by environmental regulations, concerns about tree health or good-old-fashioned opposition from neighbors in the proposed area. According to a new memo from Daren Anderson, from the Community Services Department, a December meeting focused on

building a park in a large grassy area near the edge of Pardee Park (away from the oaks) elicited a mixed reception from the roughly 70 people in attendance. While roughly half supported the idea, the rest opposed it, citing the location’s close proximity to homes, the fact that the park is already heavily used “and shouldn’t be overly programmed.�

Staff encountered a different obstacle in Bowden Park, which is best known for its prominent sculpture of a car with human legs.

Bowden Park was initially identified as one of the most promising locations for a dog run, but staff had since found challenges in relocating the public art. Now, the top contender is Peers Park. A December community meeting about adding a dog park at Peers Park attracted about 25 people, most of whom supported the idea. The Parks and Recreation Commission is set to consider this site — and other possible options — at its March 28 meeting.

HONORING TERMAN JUNIOR ... In recent weeks, as the community hotly debated the value of renaming David Starr Jordan and Terman middle schools given their namesakes’ advocacy of eugenics, it was suggested that the name Terman could be retained not in honor of Lewis Terman, a Stanford psychologist who promoted eugenics, but his son, Frederick, an accomplished Stanford electrical engineer with no found connection to eugenics.

While some argue only a new name will firmly disavow the more problematic aspects of the elder Terman’s legacy, others urged caution in castigating the son for his father’s sins. In 2015, a local stretch of U.S. Highway 101 at Shoreline Boulevard was named to honor Frederick. A resolution proposing the naming, introduced by state Sen. Jerry Hill, hails Frederick “one of the most successful American administrators of science, engineering, and higher education in the 20th century.�

It is likely a citizens committee (or committees) will be tasked with recommending new names for both schools to the Board of Education, which voted last week to rename the schools by the start of the 2018-19 school year. Q

Upfront brink of being full,” said Christine Tam, director of school and community-based services. The high schools’ new wellness centers have increased drop-ins and referrals to ACS, she said.

On average, the nonprofit serves between 650 and 800 students each year across the schools.

This year, the district is paying Adolescent Counseling Services $100,000, up from $90,000 last year. The nonprofit also receives $106,000 from the City of Palo Alto through the Human Services Resource Allocation Process, which provides grants to organizations that provide direct services to residents.

Palo Alto high school students have also long had access to two Stanford University fellows, who are at each high school four hours a week. A child and adolescent psychiatrist who oversees the fellows is also available at each high school

EDUCATION

Behind the psychological safety net Palo Alto school district uses array of nonprofit service providers to support students’ wellness

by Elena Kadvany

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lementary students can access free counseling services from one of three different nonprofits: Counseling and Support Services for Youth (CASSY), Acknowledge Alliance, and Family & Children Services of Silicon Valley (FCS).

CASSY is the largest provider, covering eight campuses: Duveneck, El Carmelo, Escondido, Fairmeadow, Juana Briones, Nixon, Ohlone and Walter Hays.

Acknowledge Alliance provides counseling at Barron Park, Hoover and Palo Verde, while Family & Children Services is at Addison.

Both CASSY and Acknowledge Alliance have steadily increased their contracts with the district over the years to meet a growing

Services (ACS) is the primary on-campus counseling provider.

Five days a week, the nonprofit provides each of the middle schools with one part-time licensed psychotherapist and two or three interns and each of the high schools with one full-time psychotherapist and five or six interns. Paly also has an additional part-time licensed supervisor.

The nonprofit is at about 90 percent capacity across the five schools and is “often times teetering at the

E L E M E N TA RY

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Duveneck El Carmelo Escondido

Nixon

Ohlone

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CASSY: • 8 clinicians, 250 hours total weekly* • 219 students (through Feb.) • Contract: $396,500

Walter Hays

Plus: one part- or full-time staff psychologist per school

ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE:

Hoover

Palo Verde

Plus: one part- or full-time staff psychologist per school

• All PT: Four supervised interns; two teaching staff; one or two teachersupport staff • 90 students counseled last year • Contract: $117,000

FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES:

Addison Plus: one part- or full-time staff psychologist per school

• One FT supervised intern • 30-40 students served this year (estimate) • Contract: $12,500

MIDDLE

ACS:

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Jordan

Terman

Plus: one part- or full-time staff psychologist per school (plus regular counselors and a dedicated special-ed therapist)

• One part-time clinician and two or three clinical interns per school • 650 to 800 students served annually (includes high schools) • Contract: $100,000**

ACS:

Gunn

Palo Alto

Plus: two full-time staff psychologists, one fulltime wellness coordinator and one full-time wellness outreach worker per school (as well as regular counselors, climate/wellness TOSAs and dedicated special-ed therapists) Plus: AACI series of parenteducation classes, served 120 parents since 2014

Secondary level services t Palo Alto Unified’s middle and high schools, Adolescent Counseling

Fairmeadow

Barron Park

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What’s available at the elementary level

demand. Since 2011, CASSY’s presence has grown from six schools to eight, and its overall level of service has tripled — to 250 hours a week — since 2012, Executive Director Christy Hayes said in an interview.

Through February, CASSY had provided 219 elementary students with ongoing individual or group therapy this school year. It also provided consultations to 631 parents and to 1,627 school district staff.

Similarly, while Acknowledge Alliance started at one school, it is now counseling at three campuses, where it provided individual, group and family counseling services to about 90 students last year.

In addition to counseling, CASSY provides consultations with parents and staff, staff training and classroom lessons for students. Its services vary by school and even by year depending on students’ needs and a school’s culture, Hayes said.

The most common issues the nonprofit sees among elementary-aged students at all the schools stem from peer relationships and social skills, but Hayes said in Palo Alto they see “a lot of anxiety for younger kids.”

This year, the school district provided CASSY with $396,500, and the nonprofit raises about $38,000 itself to fully fund the costs, which it does in other school districts as well, Hayes said.

Acknowledge Alliance, which was founded on the belief that children succeed when they have a caring, supportive adult at school, provides not only counseling services to students, but also resources and support for teachers and principals.

Its contract this year is for $117,000.

Family & Children Services of Palo Alto is providing a supervised counseling intern to Addison for $12,500 a year. The district has also referred a “handful” of students to the nonprofit as part of the district’s three-session counseling program, the cost of which is only partially funded by the district, said Maryanne McGlothlin, director of grants and communications.

Family & Children Services has also sent its counselors to the schools on a pro-bono basis in times of crisis, she said. (Many other organizations have done the same. The school district also has a standing contract with Palo Alto grief-support nonprofit KARA that it activates in times of crisis, such as a student death by suicide or teacher death, said Brenda Carrillo, director of student services and wellness for the district. For the last two years, the district has paid KARA $10,000 for those services.)

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cross the Palo Alto school district each week, amid math classes and history tests, band practice and recess, many students are receiving help of a non-academic nature to support their mental health. At El Carmelo Elementary School, students attend group therapy and also learn about mindfulness during class from a Counseling and Support Services for Youth (CASSY) therapist. At Palo Alto High School, students from Mandarin-speaking homes who walk into the school’s new wellness center are connected with a counselor from nonprofit Asian Americans for Community Involvement.

The mix of services that await students needing support for everything from stress about school or relationships to a diagnosable mental illness illustrate the increasing expectation that school campuses, rather than hospitals, doctors’ offices or private therapists, are places where students can access highquality mental health services.

As the school district grapples with a multi-million dollar budget shortfall, contracts with at least two of the nonprofit service providers are being eyed as potential places to cut.

But the nonprofits, and some community members, say that cutting from the district’s mental health budget couldn’t come at a worse time: Demand for counseling and related services has never been higher — or more utilized.

Simultaneously, the organizations themselves are operating on tight budgets, and at least one organization, Adolescent Counseling Services, has said it is unable to sustain the level of counseling it provides Palo Alto’s middle and high schools without greater funding from the school district.

So what does this network of vital services include, and just how much is the district spending on it?

for a half day every week.

The fellows help about 15 to 20 students each year, providing short-term consultation rather than ongoing treatment, said Steven Adelsheim, director of Stanford’s Youth Center for Mental Health and Wellbeing. The fellows also consult with school staff and have provided education and training at the schools.

Stanford’s contract, which this year was about $62,800, is one of two that district staff have proposed cutting.

The other is one of the district’s newest contracts, with Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) of San Jose.

In 2015, the nonprofit started providing part-time counselors who speak Mandarin, Spanish and later Korean to the high schools.

Today, the counselors are at Paly

* individual/group therapy

• At Paly: one full-time clinician, one part-time licensed supervisor, six interns • At Gunn: one full-time clinician, five interns • 650 to 800 students served annually (includes middle schools) • Contract: $100,000**

AACI: • Three counselors (Mandarin-, Spanish- and Korean-speaking) one day/week per school, plus after-school clinic at district office • ~20 students served per week • Contract: $83,700

STANFORD: • Two fellows, 4 hours per week per school*** • 15 to 20 students served per year • Contract: $62,820

** contract covers both middle and high schools

***also available to K-12

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Upfront COMMUNITY

Gordon and Betty Moore to receive rare honor Tall Tree ‘Global Impact Award’ has only been bestowed once before

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ongtime philanthropists Gordon and Betty Moore will on May 16 become only the second recipients of Tall Tree Global Impact Award, the award co-sponsors — the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and the Palo Alto Weekly — have announced.

The special award recognizes a community member whose work has had a long, significant influence beyond Palo Alto in the areas of technology, education, environmental stewardship, medicine, the arts or other fields. The Moores, who have funded countless scientific, environmental conservation and health projects and initiatives, were selected unanimously for the award, Chamber officials said.

The only other recipient was former Stanford University President John Hennessy in 2013.

Through the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the couple has funded groundbreaking science research, science and tech museums and health initiatives. They have preserved more than 170

hectares of Andes and Amazon forest and funded conservation of marine ecosystems along North American coasts, according to the foundation’s website.

In the San Francisco Bay Area the foundation has distributed more than $284 million, including $50 million in 2001 to jump-start a campaign by the nonprofit Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) to preserve coastal land. In 2007, they donated $2.3 million toward POST’s purchase of Mindego Hill in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

In 2011 the foundation gave $15 million to the newly formed The Living Landscape Initiative, a partnership of five environmental groups to help protect important open space areas and ecosystems.

In 2016 the foundation gave $2 million to the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority toward the permanent protection of the 2,748acre Coyote Highlands property.

“The Moores are true icons of social entrepreneurism, using the power of doing well to do good,”

Chamber CEO and President Judy Kleinberg said in an email. “Their social and scientific philanthropy is doing as much, and perhaps more, to change our world in positive ways as our region’s advancements in science and engineering.”

Moore was born in San Francisco and met Betty Irene Whittaker while at San Jose State University.

They married in 1950.

He co-founded Intel in 1968 and became president and CEO in 1975. He was elected chairman and CEO in 1979 and remained CEO until 1987 and was named chairman emeritus in 1997.

Betty Moore was born in Los Gatos and received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Jose College, according to her foundation biography. She has led the foundation in the area of health care, creating the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative in 2003. The nursing initiative works to improve nursing-related patient outcomes in adult-care hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area

Courtesy Susanna Frohman/Mercury News

by Sue Dremann

Gordon and Betty Moore will become the second recipients of the Tall Tree Global Impact Award. and Greater Sacramento, according to her biography.

She has served on the board of El Camino Hospital in Mountain View and volunteered at the Palo Alto Senior Day Care Center. She also served as a member of the Filoli Estate governing board and on its fine arts committee.

The Moores have two sons, Kenneth and Steven.

In addition to the Moores, other Tall Tree awardees this year include Winter Dellenbach (Outstanding Citizen), Jim Shelby

(Outstanding Professional/Business Person), Presidio Bank (Outstanding Business) and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (Outstanding Nonprofit).

The Tall Tree Awards will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto.

More information about the awards, including ticket information, can be found at paloaltochamber.com. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Upfront Palo Alto crimes, 2009-2016

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Five suspects nabbed after hit-and-run Arson*

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The Palo Alto Police Department has released statistics on 2016 crimes. In addition to the categories above, the department tracked homicides (there was one last year), burglaries and burglary attempts (221), and larceny or theft (1,161), which includes auto burglaries and other property crimes.

Crime (continued from page 5)

The total number of burglaries in 2016, though, was only two-thirds of the number in 2012, which hit a high of 332.

The burglary figures do not include auto burglaries (break-ins of locked vehicles) or thefts from autos (a theft from an unlocked vehicle), which are classified under larcenies or thefts.

The city saw a 27 percent drop in auto burglaries and thefts from autos in 2016, compared to 2015, Capt. Zach Perron said — a total of 504 (367 auto burglaries and 137 thefts from auto) in 2016 versus 695 in 2015 (488 auto burglaries and 207 thefts from auto),.

Larceny or thefts, which also include some non-auto-related

Mental health (continued from page 7)

and Gunn for one day each per week as well as at the district office to provide after-school “clinic” hours three evenings a week for three to four hours. They currently serve about 20 students each week, according to AACI. AACI has also organized parent-education classes in Mandarin, Korean and Spanish to help parents whose first language is not English understand mental health.

AACI’s contract has doubled since last year; the district is now funding the nonprofit $83,700.

District staff have suggested — but not yet recommended — cutting the Stanford and AACI contracts by half, leaving AACI services only at the high schools and eliminating the Stanford fellows program. (The district would retain Stanford’s psychiatrist consultations and other activities.) This would save the district $80,000.

Carrillo said she doesn’t expect any of the other mental health providers’ contracts to be up for review as part of this budget cycle.

At a March 7 budget discussion, Superintendent Max McGee said the Stanford fellows provide

property crimes, dropped about 17.5 percent last year, according to the Uniform Crime Reporting statistics. The term “larceny” includes both petty (misdemeanor) and grand (felony) thefts, as well as attempts, Reifschneider said.

There were 65 stolen vehicles and attempted thefts of motor vehicles in 2016, about the same as in 2013 and 2014, according to the police data.

Palo Altans made the fewest calls to the police department last year than any year since 2009 — 52,366 calls, of which 5,534 were for offenses and 969 were for accidents; in 2015, they called 58,243 times, of which 6,729 were for offenses and 1,025 related to accidents, according to the police.

Comparing Palo Alto’s crime stats to neighboring city Menlo Park’s, the latter’s larceny rate has risen for the past two years,

from 408 in 2014 to 492 in 2016.

But burglaries dropped — 101 last year compared with 142 in 2015 — and aggravated assaults dropped from 17 to 13, a continuing decline from 2014, when there were 24, according to Menlo Park Police Department statistics.

Robberies in Menlo Park also continued a significant decline, dropping from 16 in 2014 to seven in 2016. There were no homicides last year.

To understand how the FBI classifies crimes, a manual is accessible online at ucr.fbi.gov (click on “User manuals” and then “SRS User Manual”). Palo Alto crime data is available at papd.org (click on “Police Information” and then “Statistics”). Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

an “expensive service” that is “of some limited value” given a decline in demand for the fellows in the last two years.

Sarita Kohila, AACI interim president and CEO, said she sees a “critical” need for the district to keep culturally competent mental health services in students’ and parents’ native languages.

“It’s much easier for a person who can speak the language and has been in this culture ... to be able to explain to the parents and empathize with them (and to) relate to them a little bit better — as well as to the kids,” she told the Weekly.

Carrillo said her department hopes any cuts would have little impact on students. She said AACI’s Korean parenting classes have not been well-attended. But last spring, according to AACI, about 15 to 20 parents participated in the class; this fall only four attended — but the nonprofit attributes the drop to the district advertising the classes via email rather than by distributing fliers in Korean at the schools.

School board members discussed a list of $3.8 million in potential budget cuts on March 7. Vice President Ken Dauber was the only trustee to explicitly voice opposition to cutting either

AACI’s or Stanford’s contract.

The board will discuss the 201718 budget again in April.

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dolescent Counseling Services has become increasingly concerned about its ability to sustain its services, primarily due to a sharp rise in salaries.

Competitive annual salaries for their licensed psychologists have almost doubled in the last two years, from about $50,000 to $93,000, Executive Director Philippe Rey said. The district’s contract with ACS has seen $10,000 annual increases in the last several years, but it’s not enough, he added.

Adolescent Counseling Services is now asking the district to increase its contract by $50,000 for next year in order to maintain the same level of service. The nonprofit has pushed for different models of service, such as having more interns and fewer psychologists to cut costs, a proposal Rey and other staff said was quickly rejected by the school district.

“This puts us at a situation where, how much are we willing to sacrifice to complete our mission of our agency?” Tam said.

A manhunt for suspects in a downtown Palo Alto hit-and-run on March 17 concluded at a Waverley Street shed, where three people who were involved in the collision were reportedly hiding, police said.

Palo Alto police, aided by officers from neighboring jurisdictions, two K-9 units and a California Highway Patrol helicopter, scoured downtown streets for more than two hours Friday afternoon after the suspects’ vehicle struck a bicyclist on Homer Avenue, causing her major injuries.

Around 6 p.m., a police dog led officers to the shed on the 700 block of Waverley. Police arrested Jonah Theallo Johnson, 20, of Oakland, Johntaeja S. Carpenter and Johnquaeja Dupreshamichelle Carpenter, both 18 of Stockton, on an assortment of charges. Officers determined that Carpenter was the driver and charged her with felony hit-and-run, police stated in a news release.

Two other suspects who police said were in the vehicle — D’Marco Aaron Hal, 18, of Oakland, and Daniel Lamar Lesley, 18, of Lathrop — were captured earlier in the afternoon, closer to the scene of the incident.

Police determined that Hal also was the outstanding suspect from the December burglary of the downtown Apple Store.

The bicyclist, a woman in her 40s, suffered several broken bones and other injuries. She is expected to survive, police said.

The three refused commands to surrender and had to be taken into custody with the help of the K-9 team.

All five suspects were booked in the Santa Clara County Main Jail around 2 a.m. Saturday morning. Q —Sue Dremann and Gennady Sheyner

Electricity-rates surge could bring shock Despite a wet winter that recharged Palo Alto’s hydroelectric supplies, the city’s electric customers could be in for a shock in July, when rates are expected to go up. The forecast, which the City Council Finance Committee reviewed on Tuesday, shows electricity rates going up by 12 to 14 percent this year and then by another 9 percent in July 2018.

With capital costs rising, cash reserves drying up, electric sales dipping and costs outpacing revenues, city officials say the adjustment is necessary.

The projections are preliminary and the numbers may still change.

But staff suggested Tuesday that the increase may end up being even higher than the 12 percent in the current forecast.

It’s not all bad news for the Palo Alto ratepayer, however. Other utility rates are expected to remain relatively steady, with gas and wastewater rates showing no increase. Water rates, however, are expected to go up by 4 percent thanks to the rising costs of wholesale purchases from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, the city’s supplier.

Altogether, the rate changes are expected to add 4 percent — or about $11.92 — to Palo Alto’s median residential bill, which last year was $282.78. Next year’s projected rate bumps — 9 percent for electricity; 2 percent for gas; 7 percent for wastewater; 6 percent for water; and 3 percent for refuse — would add another $15.97 to the bill.

The council won’t set the new rates until June, when it approves the budget for Fiscal Year 2018. Q —Gennady Sheyner “It’s just not viable.”

Other providers said they’re struggling in a challenging economic environment.

“We are having a hard time finding staff — not just because of the amount we’re able to give but a baseline nonprofit salary is so difficult to have and be able to have a decent standard of living around here,” Acknowledge Alliance’s Kremer said.

Across the six districts Acknowledge Alliance serves, schools on average are covering about 35 percent of the nonprofit’s costs, Kremer said.

In the meantime, the district is considering some alternative models. Staff are looking, for example, at the possibility of allowing health care providers like Kaiser to send clinicians to the schools and serve students through their

insurance, Carrillo said.

“Schools overall are being called upon to broaden their scope when it comes to looking at supporting students,” Carillo said.

She noted research shows schools are ideal places for students to access mental health services, given that securing private services presents barriers of access, cost and stigma.

“If we see that trend moving up, in the future, maybe 10 years, five years down the road, I think the education mental health landscape will look differently,” she said. Q For a sidebar article on the district psychologists and other mental health professionals who work on the schools’ campuses, go to PaloAltoOnline.com.

Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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Upfront

Comprehensive

Public Agenda

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A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to meet in a closed session to discuss real property negotiations regarding Terman Apartments at 4230-70 Terman Drive. The council will then consider 670 Los Trancos Road, a proposal to build a single-family home with a guest house in the Open Space district; consider two ordinances updating the city’s below-market-rate housing program; and hold a public hearing on 900 North California Ave., an appeal of an approval of three new single-family homes, one of which would have a second unit. The closed session will begin at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, March 27. Regular meeting will follow at 5:15 p.m. or as soon as possible after the closed session in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITEE ... The committee will discuss the city’s fraud, waste and abuse hotline. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION... The board will discuss a recommendation for reporting high school grade point averages, a potential contract with an independent investigator for Office for Civil Rights cases, vote on a contract for Gunn High School’s Central Building Project and vote on next year’s school calendar, among other items. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear an update on the proposed bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101; discuss the ongoing Buckeye Creek hydrology study; and consider sites for a new dog park. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the environmental analysis for the Comprehensive Plan update and the commission’s process for reviewing the draft plan. The commission will also discuss annual limits for office and research-anddevelopment projects. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

January — Mayor Greg Scharff, Vice Mayor Liz Kniss and Councilmen Adrian Fine and Greg Tanaka — similarly switched their positions Monday night, ensuring a unanimous vote. That spirit of collegiality and compromise largely held up over the next three hours, as council members with starkly different points of view slowly haggled their way toward a compromise on a “preferred scenario” that will be in environmental analysis for the updated Comprehensive Plan.

This time, Wolbach was the sole dissenter in an 8-1 vote.

The motion outlining the council’s “preferred scenario” was crafted by Scharff, who took a more cautious approach on housing than some of his political allies.

The council has already approved six different scenarios to be studied, each with its own set of policies on growth and projections for housing and jobs. The most ambitious in terms of housing is Scenario 6, which calls for adding 6,000 units between now and 2030. Midtown resident Grant Dasher was one of dozens of residents who called or emailed the council in recent weeks urging members to “go big” on housing and pursue a plan for 6,000 new units.

“If we really are serious about

densifying California Avenue and downtown areas to support housing growth, it’s a pretty reasonable number,” Dasher told the council Monday.

Other residents argued that the consequences of adding 6,000 new units would be too difficult for the city to absorb.

“The impact to the infrastructure, schools, parks, roads and services would be unbearable,” Pat Markevitch, former member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, wrote in a letter to the council.

Addressing both views, Scharff proposed a preferred scenario that has between 3,545 and 4,420 new housing units, which is still at the higher end of the scale (two of the six scenarios featured 2,720 units).

Wolbach and Fine both argued that this doesn’t go nearly far enough and made a motion favoring the 6,000-unit preferred scenario.

“Housing is the No. 1 concern in the community,” Fine said.

“Palo Alto for decades has not pulled its weight. Here is an opportunity for us to show leadership, make a moderate change in the community and support the environmental goals in the S/ CAP (Sustainability/Climate Action Plan).”

Wolbach and Fine’s proposal ultimately faltered by a 4-5 vote, with Scharff joining the four slow-growth “residentialist” council members — DuBois, Eric

Filseth, Karen Holman and Lydia Kou — in defeating it.

The council was similarly cautious on jobs and asked staff to evaluate a preferred scenario that adds between 9,850 and 11,500 new jobs. While some council members called for a lower number (the lowest projection on the menu was 8,865), others said smaller numbers would be simply unrealistic given existing zoning and employment trends.

Holman, who was in the former camp, argued that allowing more offices would further exacerbate the city’s gaping jobs-housing imbalance.

“We’re kind of dipping our toe in one place and sticking our thumb in the dike in another place,” Holman said.

Her proposal for a lower number faltered by a 3-6 vote, with only Kou and Wolbach joining her.

Filseth, who voted with the majority, said Palo Alto has historically done a good job in finding a balance between being a purely residential suburb and an urban setting with a vibrant downtown and a strong tech-innovation economy.

“I think what most people want is for us to keep this balance,” Filseth said. “Most people don’t want Atherton and they don’t want the Mission District either.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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It is Time for City Council to Enforce the CUP Current divisive debate between neighbors and the Castilleja School is a direct result of City Council failing to enforce the existing city approved Conditional Use Permit (CUP). The issue is not whether Castilleja shall have more students or whether Castilleja can tear down residential homes or whether Castilleja can build an underground garage.The fundamental issue is will City Council enforce its own approved Conditional Use Permit (CUP). Failure of City Council to enforce the CUP is dividing the neighborhood.

City council, by its silence, is making a mockery of the CUP process.

enrollment for Castilleja in an incremental manner.” City Council then assured neighbors, that the 415 student enrollment, is “CAST IN CONCRETE” and the city would NOT allow future enrollment increases.

In 2002, just one year after City Council approved the 415 student enrollment, Castilleja had illegally broken the agreement by having 416 students. Every year thereafter, for 15 consecutive years, Castilleja illegally increased enrollment and violated the CUP. By 2012, student enrollment was illegally at 450 students. As of today, Castilleja has an illegal over enrollment of 23 students. For 15 years, City Council failed to enforce the 415 student CUP. City Council, by its A little history...

Stan Shore actively participated in the two years (2000 and silence, has communicated to Palo Alto residents that they 2001) of heated negotiations where neighbors, Castilleja will not enforce the CUP process and is making a mockery of and City Council all agreed to an enrollment increase from the CUP process which sets a very bad precedent.

385 to 415 students. At the end of the 2001 negotiations, Palo Alto Planner, John Lusardi said in his CUP approval Castilleja has been in violation of their CUP for 15 years. 15 letter to Castilleja: “The approved Conditional Use Permit years of CUP violations is ENOUGH! City Council needs to does NOT provide for any increase in students over 415, instruct Castilleja, that effective September 2017, Castilleja and any subsequent request for additional students will must reduce enrollment to 415 students for the next 15 not be favorably looked upon by the City ... the city is years. not willing to continue to approach increasing school —Stan Shore, a 25 year Palo Alto resident Page 12 • March 24, 2017 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

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where he and his partner defeated Bobby Riggs at the tennis club where they all were members in North Hollywood.

“We were both about 15 years old. I remember Bobby had just come back from Kalamazoo where he had won the National 15 and Under and was starting his career.”

The defeat was quite an upset at the time.

Simon continued to play in tournaments until he tore his rotator cuff during a match when he was 86, which ended his time on the court.

Simon’s proudest accomplishment, however, was his 55-year marriage to pianist and Stanford University music professor Naomi Sparrow, whom he met at a Young People’s Socialist League gathering in Berkeley in 1943 and married two weeks later.

He had graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and was working as a chemist at the Mare Island Navy Base. She was about to leave for Chicago for three months to teach music.

“I met her ... and that was the beginning. We looked at each other and said, ‘Let’s get married’ and went to the Justice of the Peace. She left (for Chicago) two days later,” said Simon, who referred to her as his bride from that day on until her death in 1998.

“We never had an argument in our whole life. You know why?

She was always right. There was nothing to argue about. She was so wonderful. I was a very lucky guy.”

The duo came to Palo Alto in 1954 when Simon took a job as paint chemist at Benjamin Moore.

Two years later, Simon said they got lucky and found their “forever home” in a new Joseph Eichlerdeveloped tract for $26,500.

Simon later persuaded Eichler to build the Eichler Swim & Tennis Club on Louis Road, where Simon has been a member for more than 40 years.

Simon credits his longevity to the raw onion he eats daily but acknowledges that it could be related to his many years of healthy living and his circle of friends.

“You need friends and activities when you get older,” he said. “Relationships keep you alive.”

One of Simon’s three grandchildren, Joshua Miller, said people seem to flock to Simon.

“He has a sharp wit and is always in a good mood,” Miller said. “He’s pretty special. I walk around and see how he connects with other people. ... I feel like I can learn a lot from him.”

It shouldn’t be surprising to learn that Simon plans to celebrate his birthday with a series of parties over the course of three days with his family and “only” 50 or so of his closest friends.

“Being old isn’t so bad,” said Simon. Q Associate Editor Linda Taaffe can be reached at ltaaffe@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

Board of Education (March 17)

Renaming: The board voted to rename David Starr Jordan and Terman middle schools before the start of the 2018-19 school year, to provide funding for curriculum on eugenics at the secondary schools, to use bond funds to the extent possible to cover the cost of renaming and to direct staff to return this spring with a recommended renaming process. Yes: Unanimous

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City Council (March 20)

Celebrate this beloved 60-year tradition supporting the Cantor Arts Center

Policies: The board’s policy review committee discussed policies on earthquake emergency procedure, tobacco-free schools, certification, evaluation/supervision, district residency and others. Action: None

Comprehensive Plan: The council selected a “preferred scenario” to be analyzed in the Environmental Impact Report for the Comprehensive Plan Update. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Holman, Kniss, Kou, Scharff, Tanaka No: Wolbach

Council Finance Committee (March 21)

Utilities: The committee heard a presentation on preliminary financial forecast and projected rate changes for electric, gas, wastewater and water utilities.

Action: None

Council Rail Committee (March 22)

March 31, April 1 & 2

Grade separation: The committee discussed the best way to facilitate the Context Sensitive Solutions process to achieve grade separation on the Caltrain corridor. The committee voted to create a Technical Advisory Committee to help evaluate various alternatives for grade separation. Yes: Unanimous

For event or ticket information, call 650-723-2997 or visit museum.stanford.edu/TM

Historical Resources Board (March 23)

Accessory dwelling units: The board discussed accessory-dwelling units and the council’s recent changes to zoning regulations governing these units.

Action: None

Online This Week

These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAlto Online.com/news.

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Brocker turner judge recall postponed The group working to unseat Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky for alleged judicial bias has decided to delay placing a recall on the ballot until next summer given the cost of mounting a special election this November. (Posted March 21, 3:12 p.m.)

‘Operation Sunny Day’ defendants strike deal

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The first murder case that went to trial as a result of “Operation Sunny Day,” an investigation into a string of crimes involving East Palo Alto gangs, concluded on Friday when four defendants struck plea deals with prosecutors. (Posted March 21, 3:29 p.m.)

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Oakland Shooting victim from EPA A man who was fatally shot in East Oakland earlier this month has been identified by police as 26-year-old Rene Cabrera of East Palo Alto. (Posted March 21, 12:07 p.m.)

Larry’s AutoWorks closes for good Popular car repair shop Larry’s AutoWorks closed down Friday and there are no plans for it to reopen. Owner Larry Moore told the Voice on Monday that he and his wife had decided to retire after lining up the sale of their shop at 2526 Leghorn St. (Posted March 20, 4 p.m.)

Three teens busted for burglary Palo Alto police have arrested three teenagers who they said sneaked into an unoccupied home in the Greer Park North neighborhood through an unlocked window last month and made off with jewelry, several laptops and an e-reader. (Posted March 20, 3:22 p.m.)

Two-alarm house fire contained Palo Alto firefighters contained a two-alarm fire found in the attic of an Old Palo Alto home on Sunday. (Posted March 19, 12 p.m.)

Overpass damage wider than expected A dump truck that crashed into the Embarcadero Road overpass at U.S. Highway 101 in Palo Alto earlier this month resulted in a 45-foot-wide crack, Caltrans has found after further investigation, according to a spokesman. (Posted March 17, 5:09 p.m.)

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto

March 15-21 Violence related Battery/simple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence/battery . . . . . . . . . . 1 Family violence/battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Burglary attempt/residential . . . . . . . . . 1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 7 Driving without license . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

A weekly compendium of vital statistics Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Vandalism to vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/prop damage. . . . . . . 8 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Casualty/fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Missing juvenile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Penal code/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Psych hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Psych subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Terrorist threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Menlo Park March 15-21

Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Attempted homicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Spousal abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 3 Expired registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism to vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Alcohol or drug related Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous APS referral. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Assist outside agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Informational report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbal disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Violation of protective order . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Joy Doyle

Richard “Hardtack” Edward Mesak

April 30, 1930 – March 7, 2017

June 5, 1957 – March 11, 2017

Joy Fairchild Doyle, an aptly named California native, passed away in Palo Alto on March 7 at the age of 86.

Born in Oakland on April 30, 1930, and raised in Piedmont, where her businessman father served briefly as mayor, Joy moved with her family to Longmeadow, Mass. She graduated from Classical High School and attended Middlebury College before transferring, fortuitously, to Elmira College in New York.

“What name could be more perfect for our girl with the laughing heart than ‘Joy’ and what nickname more suitable than ‘Joychild,’” the 1952 Elmira yearbook opined, adding that “Joy is always fun.”

Young William Curtis Doyle certainly thought so. An impoverished Cornell University engineering student attending school on a Navy ROTC scholarship, Bill found Joy, and vice versa.

The summer after college, Joy worked for the New York Herald-Tribune’s Fresh Air Fund. Joy and Bill, young people from radically different worlds, wed Sept. 13, 1952 at the Navy Chapel on Treasure Island, after which, the Springfield Daily News reported, “Ens. and Mrs. Doyle left for a wedding trip of unannounced destination.”

Living in Philadelphia, while Bill fulfilled his Navy obligation aboard the escort carrier Kula Gulf, Joy gave birth to daughter Sharon on July 20, 1953. Not quite three years later, Joy gave birth on Jan. 31, 1956 to son Michael while living in Buffalo.

The family escaped wintry Upstate New York and moved to Los Altos in 1960.

Joy threw herself into her new community, joining the El Camino Hospital Auxiliary, the American Association of University Women, the Assistance League of Santa Clara County and, in 1962, the Peninsula Volunteers. She pitched in at the PV’s Turnabout Shop on El Camino Real, selling and at times modeling hand-me-downs.

“Clothes may not be new,” the Los Altos News noted in a 1963 story about a PV fashion show featuring Joy at the Menlo Circus Club, “but they look elegant.”

The family moved to Maryland in 1971,

returning to California the next year. In 1981, Joy and Bill relocated to Austin, Texas, where Bill had been appointed vice president of Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.’s new division. Joy made fast friends during the Austin years, whom she would continue to visit annually after she and Bill returned, once more, to California. For their final, extended chapter, Joy and Bill moved into the Palo Alto complex that opened in 2005 as Classic Residence by Hyatt, subsequently renamed the Vi. Joy loved the Sierra Nevada mountains, where she and Bill owned a summer cabin for many years. She loved the discipline of dance. She had worn at her wedding – perhaps a foreshadowing – a “ballerina gown of blush pink,” according to the newspaper’s account.

Several decades later she practiced ballet at the Zohar School of Dance. When dance was out of reach, she took up Tai Chi. She loved fashionable clothes, both on herself and, in her self-described role as ‘the fashion consultant,’ on others. She loved reading, and she loved the far-flung travel she and Bill engaged in.

Joy touched many young lives, as a volunteer tutor at Los Altos High School; one student, Marie Mendy, grew particularly close. Joy touched many older lives at the Vi, as a friend and neighbor.

Bill passed away Nov. 27, 2015.

Characteristically, Joy hobbled her way to help out at a volunteer center the following month, but the loss of the spouse she called “BDH” and “Bear” cost her dearly.

Joy is survived by her daughter Sharon and son-in-law Paul Rubenstein, of Burke, Va.; son Michael and daughter-in-law Elizabeth Doyle of Arlington, Va.; granddaughter Erin and her husband Hunt Mayo of Dallas, Texas; granddaughter Carson and her husband Jon Champ of Alexandria, Va.; grandsons Brendan Doyle of New York City and Matthew Doyle of Los Angeles; granddaughter Margaret Doyle of Charlottesville, Va.; and great-granddaughter Harper Grace Mayo.

Memorial donations may be made to a favorite charity, or to the Peninsula Volunteers. www.penvol.org/donate/ PAID

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Richard Edward Mesak, age 59, passed away on March 11, 2017 at his home in Pescadero, CA with his wife and daughter and childhood friend by his side after a courageous fight against appendix cancer.

Richard was born June 5, 1957 in Oakland and was raised in Woodside, CA by his parents, Richard “Dick” Mesak and Jeanne Olcott Mesak, with his sister Jeannine Mesak. He graduated from Woodside Elementary School (for locals) in 1972 and Woodside High School in 1976. He attended Sacramento State College and Canada College where he received an AS degree in Business. He received a California Real Estate License in 1978 and a General Contractor License in 1991. After college, he began work in the real estate sales industry and construction, and then enjoyed working for California Water Service Co. for nearly 30 years.

Richard married Susan Shadek on September 26, 1992 in Woodside, CA one year after meeting her (and her black stallion) riding the trails of Woodside. He became a doting father on September 6, 1996 when their daughter was born.

Richard loved life and all people and always had a twinkle in his eyes. He had many passions and interests; among those dearest were cooking, endurance and trail riding, skiing, boogie boarding with his daughter and friends, swimming, tennis, biking, running and hiking just about anywhere; especially in Tahoe and Aspen and the beach, and fishing the Gualala as a youngster. He was an avid horseman in all categories and Shack member. He loved history, reading, antiques, making models, collecting guns and vehicles, and knowing everything about family history. He had an exceptional ability to connect to people and loved talking with them - he always extended his hand and showed so many acts of kindness to others whether they were friends or strangers.

Richard was a contributor to many charities; including serving on the committee of Special Olympics for several years, Ronald MacDonald House and civil servants.

Richard is survived by his wife Susan, daughter McKenna, stepmother Ada Mesak, brother-in-law John Shadek, step brother Bruce Paisley, and cousins Pamela Ellings, Leslie Sherwin, Nanette Frost, Janice Cook and Norm Hantzsche. He is preceded in death by his sister Jeannine Mesak, his mother, Jeanne Olcott Mesak and his father Richard H. Mesak.

The family is especially grateful to friends for their many acts of kindness and huge support and Sutter Home Health. A celebration of Richard’s life will be held Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 2 p.m. at the Woodside Village Church, 3154 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to: Camp Kesem: donate.kesem.org/kesemlovestots UC San Diego Regents: Dr Lowy’s Fund #4197 (Appendix Cancer/Peritoneal Metastasis Research): https://giveto.ucsd.edu/ make-a-gift?id=ca458796-ede2-4411-b403-1a4d864b7d2d UCD: UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center & Cancer Programs, Jonathan Evans, jodevans@ucdavis.eduPrograms, Jonathan Evans, jodevans@ucdavis.edu PAID

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Transitions

Births, marriages and deaths

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after he went missing the previous Friday. Police reported that his death was an apparent suicide.

A final journal entry indicated he was depressed and tired of being alone and hearing voices, according to his mother, Karen Robinson of Redwood City, a well-known longtime waitress at the former Cookbook restaurant in Palo Alto’s Town &

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Robinson said her son had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was 21 and had faced a difficult struggle over the past dozen years with both the mental illness and addictions.

She said despite his struggles, he was usually friendly and polite, but a therapist he met with

on Friday told Robinson he seemed especially depressed and hopeless. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was my baby,â&#x20AC;? she said of her loss.

Spears was born on April 8, 1985, in San Jose, but spent most of his life in Palo Alto and Redwood City.

Spears is survived by his father, Claude Victor Spears, Sr.; a sister, Jessica Spears; and eight step-siblings, Jennifer Honey Spears (with whom he was especially close, Robinson said),

Claude Victor Spears, Jr., Buck Spears, and Ginger, Eileen and Jennifer Spears Lafratta.

To assist in the significant cost of cremation and arrangements, family friend Rosemary Berk of East Palo Alto has created a Go Fund Me account, at www.gofundme.com/funeralser vices-for-jacob-spea rs .

Also, the family requests longer-term donations in Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name to the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) at www.nami.org. Q

Daniel Arthur Logan Daniel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Danâ&#x20AC;? Logan passed away surrounded by his loved ones on March 3, 2017, in Palo Alto due to complications from pneumonia. He was 72 years young.

Dan dedicated his lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work to social justice issues, youth mentoring, and community building. Dan was married for 47 years to the former Christine Ann Austin of Neosho, Missouri. In 1969, working for separate youth development programs, Dan and Chris met in the judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chambers of the Kansas City Juvenile Court.

Dan is survived by his wife, son Eliot Joseph Logan, daughter Cheryl Annette Logan, son-inlaw Salvador Jorgensen, and grandchildren Milo Alexander and Carmela Marie Jorgensen, who were the lights of Danâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. He will be greatly missed by brothers Bruce Logan of Rocklin and Charles Logan of Sutter Creek, sister Carolyn Logan Fisher of San Rafael, as well as numerous nephews, nieces, and cousins.

Dan graduated from Salinas Union High School in 1962 and received his BA in history from Stanford University in 1966. He completed a Masters in Social Work in 1969 at George Williams in Downers Grove, Illinois.

Dan especially loved history, social justice, geography, and genealogy. He was a lifelong student, attending classes at Stanford through the week before his death.

Social justice was the theme of Danâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career, dating from his civil rights work in the 1960s, when he traveled to Mississippi as a student volunteer to register voters to helping divert young adults with drug problems from the penal system in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s. Though he was a volunteer with many nonprofit organizations, Danâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire professional career was Y-oriented.

He served as the Executive Director of the Urban Services Branch of the Greater Kansas City YMCA in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s, and then as Vice President for Financial Development during the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s. In 1991 he moved to Palo Alto and became the Executive Director of the Palo Alto Family YMCA, where he served until he retired in 2006. He raised more than $10 million to make the Palo Alto Y a more inclusive place for people of low income, in poor health, or with disabilities.

In 1992 Dan received the Fundraiser of the Year Award from the North American YMCA

Development Organization, and in 2005 the YMCA of the Mid-Peninsula awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. Upon retirement, he wrote many guest editorials for the Palo Alto Weekly and served as a volunteer at the Y. Dan traveled extensively throughout the world, visited all 50 states, and once won a bet by sleeping at least one night in each of Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 58 counties.

He treasured family gatherings, especially annual camping trips to Yosemite. Dan loved music, and his first job was as a radio DJ in high school; he amassed a collection of hundreds of 45 records, which he schlepped to wherever he lived. As a musician himself, he restored and played an antique organ.

Baseball became his passion once the Giants moved to San Francisco in 1958. He switched his allegiance to the Royals when he moved to Kansas City in 1969. Returning to the Bay Area in 1991 presented a dilemma though. Dan decided to follow both teams, and when his dream came true and the two faced off in the 2014 World Series, he split his support.

Always a participant and never a spectator, Dan lived a full and active life despite overcoming physical challenges, including adapting to a wheelchair for the last 14 years following an accident. Dan was always available to listen to friends and family and to offer his support when needed. He touched innumerable lives and was an inspiration and mentor to so many who knew him. The family expresses deep gratitude to the wonderful community of friends and medical professionals who supported Dan in his times of need.

Dan will be remembered as a kind and gentle person, a giving and supportive mentor, a knowledgeable resource for any local political question, and a loving and caring brother, husband, father, and grandfather.

Friends are invited to a memorial service for Dan, to be held at Grace Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverley Street in Palo Alto, California, on April 1 (no fooling) at 2 p.m. A reception will follow at 3 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, please consider gifts in Danâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory to the YMCA of the Silicon Valley Logan Family Endowment Fund (http://www. loganfamilyfund.org) or to your favorite charity.

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Editorial Making amends Admitting its January “irrationality,” council backtracks on Comp Plan

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aced with a strong backlash from residents across Palo Alto’s political spectrum and angry colleagues who felt disrespected, the City Council majority that had in January abruptly voted to remove the implementing programs from the draft revision to the Comprehensive Plan reversed course with a do-over Monday night.

The mea culpa was offered by Councilman Cory Wolbach, who had authored the surprise Jan. 30 motion to remove the programs and place them in an appendix. After receiving much criticism from the community and members of the Comprehensive Plan’s Community Advisory Committee, Wolbach said he wanted to clean up the “mess” he had created. The council unanimously agreed.

It was a welcome move by Wolbach and an attempt to re-establish a more congenial atmosphere on a new council that has been unable to find its bearings.

But unfortunately Wolbach, who ran for City Council in 2014 on a platform that emphasized improving civility in Council interactions, managed to undermine his own attempt at rehabilitation by unleashing needless pot shots at DuBois (for his “inaccurate op-ed” in the Weekly), a former mayor, presumably Pat Burt (for “misrepresentations”), and Board of Education member Todd Collins (for a “hyperbolic and inaccurate” letter to the council expressing concern about the impact on schools of the targeted growth in housing in the draft Comprehensive Plan).

Not exactly the way to re-build bridges.

Councilman Adrian Fine similarly didn’t help himself by unapologetically saying that it was “democracy in action” for the council to have reversed its vote after a community outcry over the council’s “irrationality.” A better form of democracy would be to act more thoughtfully and rationally in the first place.

For his part, Mayor Greg Scharff thankfully pivoted away from the hard-edged leadership posture he has taken thus far and took a notably more constructive and inclusive approach as he effectively led the council through a series of Comprehensive Plan issues that could have ignited new antagonisms among members.

By the end of the evening, Scharff ended up crafting a compromise and joined the four slower-growth council members (DuBois, Filseth, Holman and Kou) in passing a reasonable “preferred” plan for housing and job growth to be used in the final environmental assessment of the revised Comp Plan. We hope to see more of this version of Scharff going forward.

A failure to communicate

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he city’s voicemail box for questions is full and unable to take additional messages. Emailed questions go unanswered. A website is nearly impossible to navigate. A complicated and poorly explained process for getting permits leaves people confused and frustrated. And outreach is so poor that it reinforces the perception that the city doesn’t care how its actions may impact the public, and especially the business community.

That is the state of the rushed implementation of the new residential permit-parking program in the Evergreen Park and Mayfield neighborhoods, approved by the City Council in January and taking effect in a week, with enforcement set to start on April 24.

Given the poor communication, both residents and employees of nearby businesses are in for some big surprises when the permit-only parking signs go up and new two-hour restrictions are implemented.

The new Evergreen Park and Mayfield parking programs are not simple and threaten to severely disrupt the California Avenue business district and the customers on which it depends. With only 125 permits being issued to employees for parking in each of the two neighborhoods, the easily predictable result will be large increases in the number of employees having no place to park and therefore needing to move their cars every two hours, depriving shoppers of spaces and creating unnecessary congestion.

And at the end of the year, the parking lot behind Starbuck’s will close for more than a year while a new parking garage is constructed. That will further reduce the available parking by 160 spaces.

This week, businesses were given less than 24 hours notice, through email, of a meeting held yesterday to explain the program and its complicated permit system.

There is no excuse for such poor communication about a program that has so much potential for disruption. Q

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Hypocritical complaints Editor, At last Monday’s council meeting, several residents complained about how hard it was to drive across town because traffic had gotten so bad.

I don’t have that problem.

Around town, I ride my bike. I’ve been riding my bike around Palo Alto for 50 years. I remember riding my bike home from the May Fete parade when I was 4 years old. It’s fun and easy.

Seems to me, complaining about traffic when you are driving is being hypocritical.

Deb Goldeen Birch Street, Palo Alto

On renaming schools Editor, I was the minority of one on Palo Alto Unified’s Renaming Schools Advisory Committee. I voted for financial responsibility and rational, logical decisions.

The Board of Education must consider their fiduciary responsibility: 1. Specifically, what programs will be sacrificed by diversion of time and funds to rename the schools? Will renaming bring greater benefit to the district than the programs that will be downsized?

2. What is the amount of funds and staff time that will be diverted from other programs? What is the maximum?

3. What evidence or metrics support the assertion that changing school names will improve students’ academic experience significantly more than other programs already in effect?

4. What metrics will be used to prove that results were worth the cost and justify diversion of staff time and district funds?

5. Will renaming two schools lead to impassioned pleas for other schools’ names to be changed?

Despite the strong emotional pleas, the arguments to rename schools are fallacious. There is no evidence that school names have harmed or negatively influenced the education of students nor contributed to bullying, racial and gender slurs, discrimination, etc.

The attitudes, actions and disregard of staff and students allow a dysfunctional environment to continue.

There is no evidence that changing the names will benefit the educational experience nor make school environments more welcoming, inclusive or improved.

Changing names is a “magic bullet” to eliminate the problems that characterize all district schools.

The cost of changing names will divert resources from other programs.

A school is defined more by its staff and its policies, actions and behavior than by a school name.

No metrics have been proposed to measure the effects of renaming.

Renaming because of objectionable beliefs should apply to Walter Hays, Ohlone, Hoover and Nixon.

Stan Hutchings Rinconada Avenue, Palo Alto

Other issues at stake Editor, For those who — sincerely fervent to give our students a feeling of safety — have advocated school renaming, I hope they’ll direct the same sense of purpose at the academic fraud at Gunn and Paly where, according to our 2015-16 surveys, four of 10 students plagiarize, seven of 10 copy others’ homework, four of 10 obtain test questions or answers from schoolmates, and seven of 10 collaborate on assignments meant to be done solo.

Surely a child under the psychological cloud of a school named for a eugenicist must feel similarly depressed — amidst competition for college admissions — to observe a peer cribbing test answers from the inside of a water-bottle label or to learn that a classmate’s

essay was edited by a professional tutor.

And a child who’s graduated from a more encouragingly named middle school may find it an even harder landing, now, to arrive at, say, Paly, where a three-year, 20-student cheating conspiracy was uncovered by Verde, where teachers give different classes different versions of an exam and where Principal Kim Diorio noted last school year that students “taking an extremely challenging or rigorous course load tend to be more apt to cheat.

They feel desperate to get the A at any cost. It’s serious.”

Our high schools — with their relentless grade reporting mandated by the district, over-subscription to APs and classes so overcrowded that kids can’t get asneeded support — force our young into a slippery hold on their integrity and their social-emotional health. If Superintendent Max McGee wants “to ensure that every student is safe and feels safe,” then there is no minority more deserving of his protection than the 18 percent of our teenagers who still, courageously, miraculously refuse to sully themselves or the names of their high schools by cheating.

Marc Vincenti Los Robles Avenue, Palo Alto

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Guest Opinion Homeless man’s dignity rose above malice of café patron

by Lynel Gardner

W

hen I was a kid, poverty was as real as baseball, apple pie and the pledge of allegiance to the flag. In elementary school, not only did you have to learn your ABCs, but you also had to figure out how to trade your government cheese with the other kids before lunch was over.

But our kind of cheese wasn’t considered real currency in the cafeteria. Everyone knew that the cheese we ate was for poor people. And every day at lunch, we learned something that our teachers could never teach us in the classroom: The “American Dream” came at a price.

A price that some of us could not afford.

And the best thing we could do for one another was to watch out for those kids who believed too much in “hope.” We knew that if you believed in hope, you might start believing that things are going to get better. And when they don’t, some kids don’t know how to pick themselves up off the ground again. They end up using up all their energy believing and hoping.

So at the ages of 5 and 6, we knew that we had to choose between two things: either dreaming or surviving. We chose to survive. And that was that saddest day of our lives. As we got older, the dreamers

Even for a man who has nothing, no one can put a price on human dignity, respect and self-worth. By pushing this man to his destination, I hope that it gave him at least one moment to be seen as a human being again. would tell us that we needed to “pull ourselves up by our own boot straps.”

But what the dreamers did not know was that we only had one pair of boots in our household. And they had to be handed down. Boots that were either too big or too tight. But we we were taught to be grateful for what we had. Whether or not we believed in God. It seems as though not much has changed, now that I have become a man.

The poor keep getting poorer and the rich keep getting richer.

On a recent day at Starbucks in Palo Alto near Stanford Avenue, a homeless man was trying to get a bite to eat. He ate alone at the table for the physically challenged. He was in a wheelchair and had a physical deformity that did not allow him to lift his head, his wrists were bent inward, he could not open his hands, and his back had curvature so bad that he could not sit up straight. This forced him

to eat somewhat like an animal.

He looked like a cross between the elephant man and the hunchback of Notre Dame. Well, after awhile people started to treat him like that. His appearance and actions were so offensive and uncomfortable to some people that it made them angry. I just saw a man struggling with every ounce of his being to try to hold his sandwich and his coffee steady enough to eat and drink.

But the beauty of this guy was that he was one of only a few people in the room who was able to see his own dignity and humanity, while at the same time not feeling sorry for himself. He refused to take free food from one patron and my help holding his coffee.

Don’t get me wrong — not everyone treated this man in a dishonorable way or felt sorry for him. But there was one guy who had had enough. A guy who felt that the homeless man was not of the right status to be among Stanford University students and high-tech engineers. This man began to harass the homeless man and tell him that he had to leave. Even when the homeless man wanted to use the bathroom, the other man claimed to represent the baristas, and told the homeless man that he had to leave.

I watched with surprise as the baristas stood behind the counter in silence. I had spoken to the baristas earlier about the homeless man and they did not seem to know much about him. But after almost 15 minutes of watching this man being harassed by this patron, I had had enough. I thought this man’s attack was

unwarranted and without merit.

The attacker said that the baristas were his friends and that they were closing the cafe. I then said that this man is my friend and closing time is in 10 more minutes. Then four other people began to join me in helping to defend the homeless man, with one group offering him money as he left, although the man hadn’t asked for it.

I eventually pushed the man in his wheelchair to the bus stop, and we said our goodbyes. And yes, he wanted me to push him according to his preference, but what is it for me to practice a little bit of humility so that this man can have just one moment to feel like he is deserving of respect by another human being?

Even for a man who has nothing, no one can put a price on human dignity, respect and self-worth. By pushing this man to his destination, I hope that it gave him at least one moment to be seen as a human being again.

I spoke with a sergeant of the Palo Alto Police Department, and we shared our mutual respect for the homeless of one of the most affluent cities in the world. We discussed how he knows that some of the homeless he deals with on a daily basis have millions and choose to live outside the system. We both agreed that everyone should be treated as a citizen deserving of respect. Q Lynel Gardner works in Palo Alto, lives in the Bay Area, and is an actor, playwright and filmmaker; he works with at-risk youth. He can be reached at lynel_gardner@yahoo.com.

Streetwise

How do you think self-driving cars will affect traffic?

Asked at Mitchell Library in Palo Alto. Question, interviews and photographs by Sophie Pollock.

Jane Moss

Kenneth Ng

Robert Somera

Alejandra Aguilar

Kasey Wyatt

Retired Ferne Avenue, Palo Alto

Pastor Moreno Avenue, Palo Alto

Postman Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

Student Orlando Drive, San Jose

Student South Court, Palo Alto

“It will put more cars on the road and give people who can’t drive more access to transportation.”

“In the short term there could be some hiccups, but in the long term I support it.”

“It’s something drivers will have to get used to.”

“People might feel more comfortable relying on technology, which might lead to less accidents.”

“Traffic is typically caused by accidents, so hopefully self-driving cars will prevent accidents.”

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Cover Story

Cathy Humphers Smith leads the Terrible Adult Chamber Orchestra (TACO) through a tribute to composer John Williams at the group’s February meeting.

t a recent meeting of the Terrible Adult Chamber Orchestra (TACO), after musicians found their seating sections, chit-chatted and tuned up, the group launched into its first piece. The melody was recognizable — Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” — albeit at a slower pace than the brisk tempo with which listeners may be more familiar.

“Let’s do it a little faster?” conductor Cathy Humphers Smith asked the group, which reacted with hesitation and some nervous laughter.

“Let’s do it again, for fun, at the same tempo?” she countered. After another, somewhat smoother time playing through, Humphers Smith beamed at her ensemble.

“Give yourself a hand, that was beautiful.”

TACO’s mission is to give people of all skill levels the chance to share a love of playing classical music in an enjoyable, inclusive environment without the pressure to perform, be perfect, or even practice regularly. It’s a matter of valuing process over product, Humphers Smith said, “and the process is joyful.”

As the group, which meets at the Los Altos Youth Center, carried on through its February repertoire, a violinist interjected, “I’m not very good,” to which Humphers Smith offered a reassuring reply: “Then you’re right where you need to be, with us!”

TACO, its website states, is for “non-perfectionists who want to laugh together.” Inspired by Scotland’s “Really Terrible Orchestra,” Humphers Smith said that people who may feel intimidated by the idea of playing in an

orchestral group find the humorous name welcoming.

“The ‘terrible’ word really clicked. Some people don’t get the humor of it at first, and they’re initially offended. ‘Well of course you’re not terrible, you’re terrific,’” she said. “But by calling it ‘terrible,’ it makes people feel welcome and invited, like it’s possible.” “TACO” was chosen as the official acronym because it “seemed catchy and fun,” she said. “Hey, it’s California; we like Mexican food.”

On the last Sunday of each month (September-June), around 60 to 70 folks from TACO’s nearly 500-strong membership list turn up at the Los Altos Youth Center, instruments and music stands in hand, to sight-read and play from 2 to 5 p.m., with a break to socialize and snack midway through.

The group’s been thriving since it was founded about seven years ago, quickly outgrowing its original headquarters in Humphers Smith’s Los Altos living room.

Kerstin Karlsson, center, on violin, says TACO gatherings are one of the few places she’s comfortable playing when she’s “feeling rusty.”

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“My husband and I had been talking about ways to make music accessible. We both had a lot of experience in different musical settings and we wanted to have a place where classical music could also be a social thing, when you just sit around and play,” she said.

After a six-month trial period at her home, Humphers Smith sought out a larger venue and more structure to help manage the quickly expanding program.

“By word of mouth, it started growing, and we realized people really like getting together once a month to sight read music,” she said. By registering TACO as an official class with the Los Altos Recreation Department, the group is able to use the city’s youth-center space, and TACO is now a nonprofit under the fiscal sponsorship of the Los Altos Community Foundation, which provides not only funding but also oversight of its $5,000 annual budget. Membership dues are $10 per monthly session or $25 for three sessions, and members are also asked to take turns bringing an appetizer to share. Volunteers (often family members of the musicians) help with registration and setting up.

Flutist Joan Segall of Palo Alto has been a part of TACO since the beginning and is currently on its board of directors. Segall, like many TACO members, played music growing up, then put her instruments away when the responsibilities of adulthood took over. TACO has given her a chance to rediscover the joys of music.

“What I love is, it gives a place for those of us who are not professional to play without any pressure,” she said. “It’s fun and relaxed; there’s no audition. I love that it’s people from age 18 to 90.

It’s just a total treat.”

Some people come faithfully each month; others, only occasionally. And while most live locally, TACO draws members from far and wide. One oboe player

lives in Japan but plays with the group when he’s in the area on business. A string player who lives in the Netherlands joins in when he’s visiting his daughter.

“That’s kind of the fun of it, that it can be a different group each time,” Humphers Smith said.

She’s amassed a huge library of sheet music and puts together a program of six to eight pieces per month (members can access the music ahead of time but are not obligated to), adding up to 60-70 pieces a year (considerably more than most performance orchestras, which play around 18 pieces per year). Most are arrangements aimed at musicians on a student level. Humphers Smith said she aims for variety in style as well as difficulty. She and often starts off with something baroque, then tries something symphonic, then moves on to something from a musical or an arrangement of a pop song. At the February gathering, in addition to the Mozart piece, the TACO players delved into the theme song to “Game of Thrones” and a very challenging medley of themes by John Williams, among others.

Because attendance varies from session to session, “it’s always totally unbalanced, and that’s OK,” Humphers Smith said, explaining that most orchestras have space for only a few of each instrument. With TACO, “there’s no one saying, ‘this is written for two flutes and two this and that.’ I’m not going to exclude anybody.” At most TACO gatherings, flutes are prevalent while violists, for example, are rarer.

“What I’m noticing today is, we don’t have any percussion,” she said at the February gathering.

“All the percussion instruments are back there. If anyone wants to, you are welcome to give it a try, because it’s fun.” Two violinists eventually did.

Scott King, who plays the double bass, called himself a “total newbie musician” who picked

Cover Story up the bass a few years ago after in 40 years; I don’t know if I can falling in love with jazz. He now read music anymore; I don’t know leads a jazz quintet, but is find- if I’m good enough; I don’t know ing TACO a welcoming place to if I’ll bring you down.’ I’m like, better his sight-reading skills and ‘I’m not judging; this is all posigain a foundation in classical mu- tive. If the best thing you can do sic. “These guys are fantastic; we is follow along and see where we have the same mindset. They love are and hit the first note of each music and they don’t mind a few measure, that’s great.’”

Humphers Smith has the genmistakes,” he said.

Sight-reading unfamiliar pieces tle, supportive manner one might of music (rather than rehearsing look for in a teacher or therapist, or memorizing in order to perfect so it’s not surprising to learn she has considerable and perform), experience as like translating both. a foreign lan- ‘What I love is, it Growing up, guage, provides gives a place for she sang in choa specific type those of us who ruses and played of mental exercise, Humphers are not professional piano, and in college was a Sm ith sa id. to play without any music major with “Sight-reading plans to work in orchestral music pressure. It’s fun education, is something you and relaxed; there’s music until anxiety can only do with no audition. I love over having to a lot of people perform a senior playing a lot of that it’s people recital led her to instruments in a from age 18 to change course. big space. It’s a She embarked hard, challenging 90. It’s just a total on a career in mind and body treat.’ clinical social game, satisfying when it all comes – Joan Segall, work. When her together, and board member, TACO children reached elementary very gratifying when you’ve stayed in the game! school, she found her way back It is a practice in mindfulness fol- into music education by becomlowed by exhilaration,” she wrote ing a volunteer classroom docent with the nonprofit Music for Mion TACO’s blog.

“We’re harder on ourselves (as nors. She eventually took a job as adults). We know what the profes- Music for Minor’s program direcsional music sounds like; we’re tor but missed working with peonot patient with ourselves,” she ple hands-on. She then worked said. But “there’s a real benefit to for 10 years directing children’s playing the music for one’s mental choruses, in addition to working with the San Jose Peace Chorale health.”

Getting a chance to try out dif- (now South Bay Song Center). As ferent instruments and styles, as a pianist, she’s also played as an well as practice sight-reading, accompanist for school producsocialize with like-minded folks tions, weddings and other events. and play without performance “I’m not a great pianist but I’m a anxiety are some of the many functional pianist, and I like sharreasons members are attracted to ing,” she said.

Leading an orchestra is a comTACO. “There are people who play plicated job, and Humphers Smith with us who have played in other has worked hard to hone her congroups and stopped for health ducting skills, taking courses at problems,” Humphers Smith said. San Jose State University in choral “(People) contact me and say and orchestral conducting. While things like, ‘I haven’t practiced someone playing an instrument

Emily Kinney plays her trombone (a purple plastic model made by pBone) at the most recent gathering of TACO. The group meets the last Sunday of the month at the Los Altos Youth Center. follows the sheet music by reading the notes of his or her instrument’s part, the conductor must follow along with all the different sections at once. “You have to get used to reading all that. You have to learn how to use your hands to communicate your style, emotion and feeling, and you have to keep the tempo,” she said. “There’s a lot to learn and a lot to practice to be able to keep everybody together.

It’s a fun challenge.” She also brings in guest conductors from time to time.

While TACO is not intended to be a performance orchestra, occasionally, the group does share its sound in public, including at outdoor summer concerts during downtown Los Altos’ First Friday events and a holiday community sing-along.

“I realized that when opportunities come up to share our music we can do it and it doesn’t have to be mandatory — it’s an option,” Humphers Smith said. Family

TACO members, from left, Andrew Large on trumpet, John Tseng on trumpet, Tim Nguyen on tenor saxophone and Bob Crow on baritone saxophone share smiles as they study their sheet music.

and friends are always welcome to drop by and listen during the regularly monthly gatherings, she added. TACO is, by design, meant for adults, but Humphers Smith said there has been talk of trying a “shrimp TACO” or “taquito” session at which children and adults could play together.

At the February meeting, a few kids tapped on iPads on the sidelines and clarinetist Helen Morris’ husband dropped by while taking their puppy for a walk. Morris, who’s originally from Manchester, England, has been playing with TACO for about two years as a way to fit music back into her busy lifestyle. “I hadn’t played for years and I wanted to start again,” she said. “It’s low stress and it’s a community thing, a social thing, too.”

Such comments, if you’ll pardon the pun, are music to Humphers Smith’s ears.

“You can make music in a way that makes you tense, anxious,

perfectionistic, so self-conscious and self-critical,” she said, “or you can do it in a way that’s emotionally healthy ... that’s kind of the goal.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

TACO meets the last Sunday of the month at the Los Altos Youth Center. For more information, go to tacosv.com.

About the cover: At top: TACO players react to their rendition of “Star Wars.”Below left: Violist Elaine Miller chuckles after the group’s first attempt to master the end of the “Star Wars” theme.

Bottom right: Conductor Cathy Humphers Smith leads the group with gentle encouragement and plenty of humor. Photos by Veronica Weber.

Alison Kline, left, and daughter Katherine Kline laugh as they give percussion a try during an especially difficult piece of music. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • March 24, 2017 • Page 19

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impressive gift. In one panel of the scroll, or Stanford University which Chen likened to a comic book in graduate student Yu-chuan how it tells a story through sequenced ilPhoenix Chen, a craving for lustrations, a man is seen carrying a lingzhi mushrooms led to a surprismushroom, the sacred fungus intended as ingly fruitful journey. After the goddess’ present. In another, a figure presenting a paper in Berkewearing leaves or feathers is seen on a ley a few years ago, Chen checked out a mountain where lingzhi mushrooms grow. nearby farmers market. He was seeking According to legend, Chen said, a woman matsutake mushrooms, known for their retreated into the wilderness after fleeing distinctive scent, delicious flavor and high political turmoil, where a Taoist taught her price. Alas, it was spring and, the vendor to find and eat mushrooms and medicinal explained, matsutakes can only be found in herbs, through which she eventually atthe autumn. Though he was disappointed tained immortality herself. A third panel in that quest, his conversation at the mardepicts people harvesting the precious ket led him to what eventually became fungus. This scene shows “human managehis dissertation topic and the focus of the ment over the sacred organism; how they exhibition he’s curated at the Cantor Arts see themselves controlling lingzhi mushCenter: “A Mushroom Perspective on Sarooms,” he said. cred Geography.”

The interconnection between human Matsutakes (their Japanese name meanculture and the natural world, including ing “pine-tree mushrooms” after the habitat specifically with mushrooms, is still evithey’re found in), the vendor told him, grow dent today, Chen said, even though many near Mount Shasta, considered by Native in modern societies may feel far removed American cultures a sacred mountain. from their food and its origins. Lingzhi “I started to think about some connection mushrooms are still considered medicibetween rare mushrooms and sacred landnally beneficial; other types are cherished scape, and how people understand that,” he (and studied) for their psychedelic propersaid. Soon he was diving into research and ties, while locally, mushroom devotees forlearning about another mushroom — the age in the woods for the rarest delicacies. lingzhi, whose names in many Asian lanChen isn’t the only fungus fan in his guages translate to something like “divine family: he credits his young daughter with fungus” or “soul/spirit mushroom” — that helping stoke his interest. “[She] is a huge has for millennia been associated with samushroom lover,” he said, pondering its cred spaces and magical and/or medicinal particular, earthy-yet-otherworldly appeal. properties, and quite often appears in East “It’s something between meat and vegetaAsian art. Traditionally, people relied on ble ... a mushroom is such a special, unique spiritual guidance, such as from a religious organism.” teacher or shaman, to find them.

On March 30, Chen will give a lecture “Since sometime around the first cenon his work at the Cantor, following a tury CE, people in China have venerated reception. lingzhi mushrooms and their spiritual “I think oftentimes art history has been habitat,” Chen said, adding that some histreated as something elite, but I want to say torians think there may be a link to ancient art history also has a lot to do with someIndian legends about a healing elixir.

The relationship between humans and Lingzhi mushrooms appear in the “Gathering of Immortals at the Peach Festival” scroll thing physical and material. It’s important to me to really show that strong resonance their environments has always been a com- made of ink, color and silk, created by Qiu Ying during the Ming dynasty in China. with our everyday life,” he said of his explex one, with humans venerating, fearing, hibit and his ongoing research on interacdepending on and seeking to master the tions between culture and nature. “It has natural world. By communing with somea lot to do with how we eat; how we treat thing rare or difficult to find, people feel a different food and how humans engage in heightened connection to the power of their these relationships.”Q environment, as well as a sense of mastery.

Many physical interactions with nature, Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane including drinking spring water, dipping can be reached at kkane@paweekly.com into hot springs with healing qualities, and Exhibition finds connections between sacred spaces consuming certain herbs, flowers and, yes, and lingzhi fungus in East Asian art mushrooms, “help us to perceive the very abstract, conceptual idea of sacredness; to

by Karla Kane • photos by Veronica Weber bodily consume the sacred mountain,” he centerpiece is “Gathering of Immortals at the Peach said.

Festival,” an incredibly detailed, 23-foot-long illustrated Chen, who’s working toward his doctorate in art hisscroll from 16th century China, which first caught Chen’s tory, was surprised — and thrilled — to find the lingzhi eye when he arrived at Stanford as a curatorial research mushroom represented in numerous works from Chinese, assistant six years ago.

Japanese and Korean culture in the Cantor’s collection, “That painting really shows close interwhich he mined to create the small exhibition currently action between humans, sacred landdisplayed in the second-floor Lynn Krywick Gibbons scape and mushrooms,” he said. “It’s Gallery. amazing that we have this in the The curvy, long-stemmed lingzhi is portrayed A Japanese medicine box made of lacquer on leather Cantor’s collection.” in the exhibition through a variety of meshows a mushroom motif on the side.

The scroll depicts the birthdia, including paintings, ceramics, day party of the Queen of the jade and wooden carvings. The West, a powerful goddess What: “A Mushroom Perspective on Sacred Geography” from Chinese mythology.

“Two Recumbent Where: Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive Stanford The goddess may offer Deer,” a 17th century When: Exhibition runs through May 15, Wednesdaya taste of divine fruit jade sculpture from Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Thursdays until 8 p.m.).

— the “peach of lonChina, features two Yu-chuan Phoenix Chen will give a lecture on Thursday, gevity,” which grants deer with mushrooms.

March 30, at 6:45 p.m. (reception at 6 p.m. on the Geballe immortality — to her Deer were believed Balcony) in the Cantor auditorium. party guests if they to be skilled in finding Cost: Free bring her a suitably sacred mushrooms Info: Go to museum.stanford.edu in the wild.

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Family feuds and filial piety ‘Calligraphy’ paints a picture of international drama between sisters, mothers and daughters

by Karla Kane

REVIEW THEATER (directed by Leslie Martinson) boasts a cast with an impressive pedigree, including Emily Kuroda as Noriko, a role she previously inhabited in the show’s original Los Angeles production. Kuroda may be best known to audiences for another work exploring motherdaughter relationships: the television show “Gilmore Girls,” in which she played strict Mrs. Kim. In “Calligraphy,” Kuroda exhibits the multiple sides of Noriko: the proud, strong matriarch; the shy, flirtatious young girl (seen in flashbacks/memories); and the frightened woman dealing with illness and the ravages of time.

The character of Natsuko is an interesting one. Most of the time she’s manipulative, bigoted, unpleasant and downright cruel to her family members. Yet Houston’s script gives her many humorous lines, and Jeanne Sakata’s performance lights up the stage, showing the hurt and vulnerability behind her bitterness, and the sparks of joy she gets from activities done in secret, such as ballroom dancing, which she keeps hidden from her daughter out of a misguided sense of propriety. One gets the sense that, had she allowed herself to move past her resentment, she could have led a much different, happier life. Portraying the younger generation, Elizabeth Pan as Sayuri and Mia Tagano as Hiromi don’t have quite as much to work with, character-wise, as their elders.

Tagano’s Hiromi is calm, almost saintly, as the dutiful daughter and cousin. She’s a steadying presence for the production (and a stand-in for the playwright, who, like Houston, has a British husband, although he’s only mentioned, never seen).

Pan’s Sayuri can come off as an airhead, a 40-year-old wannabe teenager, but then again, given the overbearing monster of a mother she feels duty-bound to serve, her small rebellions make sense, and she draws audience sympathy.

The contrast between the cousins — the American who clings to her Japanese identity and the Japanese

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Estranged sisters Natsuko (Jeanne Sakata) and Noriko (Emily Kuroda) share a persimmon in “Calligraphy.”

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wo elderly sisters, separated by an ocean as well as years of hostility and pain, and the two daughters who are determined to reunite them before it’s too late, are at the heart of “Calligraphy,” Velina Hasu Houston’s multicultural family drama, now given its regional premiere by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley at Palo Alto’s Lucie Stern Theatre.

Inspired in part by the playwright’s own family, “Calligraphy” tells the tale of Noriko Jameson.

Shunned by her Japanese kin after marrying and moving to the United States with an African-American G.I. (as was Houston’s mother), Noriko has lived for years in Kansas and has a close relationship with her biracial daughter, Hiromi, who is devoted to keeping up the Japanese traditions and cultural ties her mother was forced to leave behind. After her husband’s death, Noriko moves nearer to her daughter’s family, in California, where it soon becomes apparent that her increasing confusion and agitation is not simply a widow’s grief but the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease.

On the other side of the Pacific, back in Japan, Noriko’s domineering older sister, Natsuko, lords over her own daughter, the free-spirited Sayuri, demanding daughterly devotion and adherence to custom.

While her American cousin strives to maintain her half-Japanese heritage, Sayuri gloms on to all things Western, even opting for a blonde wig. Despite their differences, their mothers’ feud and the distance between them, Hiromi and Sayuri have a tight bond, in regular contact via video chat. They hatch a scheme to get the estranged siblings, both of whom are suffering from poor health, back together to mend fences in their twilight years. But the decades of animosity will not be swept aside so easily, as Natsuko continues to stew over her kinder, gentler younger sister’s choices, as well as her own lifelong jealousy, and her relationship with her daughter seems to be on the verge of collapse as well. Noriko’s dementia and growing dependence on Hiromi strain their relationship, too.

TheatreWorks’ production

woman who longs to escape it — is compelling. Rounding out the cast is William Thomas Hodgson, who appears as Noriko’s late husband Eamon, the man who stole her heart and took her away from her family and motherland. He appears to Noriko in sweet memories and delusions as her dementia causes her to lose touch with reality.

Clean and streamlined set design

by Erik Flatmo utilizes projections to move between the U.S. and Japan, past and present — whether in Noriko’s fragile mindset or the real world. Gorgeous animated images of a persimmon orchard (a cherished childhood location for the sisters) are an especially striking element.

The play’s title is “Calligraphy” in part as a nod to Noriko’s dedication to the difficult craft and Hiromi’s attempts to carry on the art form and tell her mother’s story, and in part as a metaphor for the “bold strokes” of living, which fade as people age. “Calligraphy’s” strokes are a bit too heavy-handed at times, especially toward the beginning of the play, when exposition about the rules of Japanese filial piety and the differences between American and Japanese parenting run rampant. The repetition of stereotypes quickly feels over-the-top. However, the story’s roots in Houston’s own very personal experience growing up with an African-American father and a Japanese mother who eventually struggled with dementia — along with the overall high quality TheatreWorks brings to its productions — give it the necessary sense of authenticity and heart. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be reached at kkane@paweekly.com

American Hiromi (Mia Tagano) writes in calligraphy while her Japanese cousin Sayuri (Elizabeth Pan) looks ahead.

What: “Calligraphy” Where: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto When: Through April 2, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

Cost: $35-$79 Info: Go to theatreworks.org

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Eating Out

As Kneaded Bakery owner Iliana Berkowitz bakes her bread overnight five days a week at a commercial production facility in San Mateo.

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enturies ago in France, peasants would bake what’s called a miche — a 20-kilo, circular loaf of naturally leavened bread that was both cheap and long lasting.

Iliana Berkowitz’s spin on that historical artifact is her “mini miche,” a more reasonably sized one-kilo round made from whole wheat, rye and sourdough. Inspired by the miche at famous Paris bakery Poilâne, Berkowitz’s is a deep brown-and-amber color, dotted with crevasses, air pockets and a sprinkling of white flour. It’s chewy, dense and full of flavor. She also makes a “sesa-miche” topped with sesame seeds.

Berkowitz, a Palo Alto native who graduated from Gunn High School, is the owner and founder of As Kneaded Bakery, a new Community Supported Bakery (CSB). It’s a different take on the more familiar CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture, through which farms sell seasonal produce directly to consumers via a subscription services.

The 28-year-old launched As Kneaded Bakery last year, working her way from baking at home as a college student in Washington, D.C., to working on the bread program at Parc Bistro, a French restaurant in Philadelphia.

She grew up in a Jewish household in Palo Alto, where there was always food in the house and on the mind, she said in an interview with the Weekly.

“Culinary things were a big deal in my family all the time — not just the eating of food but the careful analysis of food,” she said. “Nothingg was just, j yyou eat it and it’s

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yummy and it sustains you. It’s like, ‘What is it about this?’ Very particular, always parsing and eating and tasting and talking about that along the way.”

Along with essays for her anthropology major in college, Berkowitz would give herself “baking assignments.” She amassed a collection of cookbooks and kept a blog.

After college, she moved to Philadelphia, where she sold bread at a specialty food store and then found work shaping croissants at a bakery before spending two and a half years at Parc Bistro.

Like many Bay Area transplants, Berkowitz eventually returned home. She made bread for Facebook for a year before working for a bakery based out of a San Mateo commercial kitchen, where she realized she, too, could rent space and launch her own business.

As Kneaded Bakery was born as a popup, which eventually grew into a bread club, offeringg a varietyy of breads that reflect

Every week, Iliana Berkowitz’s 40 bread club subscribers get a different freshly baked loaf, like the flax sunflower loaf.

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PA L O A LT O N AT I V E T URNS HER PA SSION FOR BAKING BRE AD INTO A BUSINESS

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Berkowitz’s background — the classic French baguette, miche, challah and others — to subscribers on a weekly basis. The model was inspired by several success stories Berkowitz knew of, including Josey Baker, who runs uber-popular San Francisco bakery The Mill.

Every Friday, Berkowitz’s 40 subscribers get a different loaf that she has baked that week. March 3, for example, was an herbed baguette; later in the month they will see a mini miche, baltic rye, flax sunflower and honey rye porridge (a “superbly moist loaf” with rye flour and a porridge made from rye flakes, according to the As Kneaded website).

They also get a detailed email from Berkowitz with information (and photographs) about what they’ll be getting that week, updates on her business and the endearing sign-off, “Love and Loaves.”

In a November email, she explained the process behind making her “hopped-up beer” bread, inspired by the San Leandro brewery where she held her inaugural pop-ups. The brewery also let her use nutrient-dense spent grains leftover from making beer, which she mixes with beer syrup and barley to make the bread.

All of her bread uses natural leavening, or sourdough, which is pre-fermented — meaning a portion of the flour used to bake it has been fermented in advance.

Subscribers can opt in or out as they please, Berkowitz said. They pick up the weekly loaves at a certain time at designated locations in Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Mateo or San Leandro. A four-week month costs $36 for bread or $18 for the baguetteonly club; five-week months go for $45 and

$21, respectively.

If you prefer to buy your bread “as needed,” Berkowitz joked, it’s also for sale at numerous local stores, though bread club members get access to some varieties not available for wholesale. (For a list of where to find her breads for sale, go to askneadedbakery.com/ wheretoshop.)

At a weekend farmers market in San Mateo, she’s testing out a line of what she calls “noshes,” or ready-to-eat items like a French bostock, a thick slice of her challah topped with orange simple syrup, citrus marmalade, almond cream and sliced almonds. Bostock toppings will change depending on the season, and she’s experimenting with savory versions, she said.

In a nod to her Jewish heritage, Berkowitz also makes bialy, a cousin to the bagel that’s baked instead of boiled, with a small dip in the middle rather than a hole. She serves it traditionally, with onions and poppy seeds.

For those who want to buy bostock and bialy locally, she’s debating whether to rejoin the East Palo Alto farmers market.

As Kneaded’s bread club is, admittedly, a stepping stone for Berkowitz toward opening a brick-and-mortar bakery. She’s entering an increasingly competitive field in the Bay Area, which is in the midst of a bread renaissance of sorts, with places like The Mill, Manresa Bread and others finding enormous success in bringing bread back to its roots.

She called the region a “breeding ground” for increasing knowledge and interest in bread.

“It’s being seen as a craft more now,” Berkowitz said. “It feels good to be a part of that wave of people doing bread.”

She’s also proud to be a woman in a traditionally male industry — not making delicate cupcakes at home, she said, but baking “large, rustic breads” overnight five days a week and being able to lift 100 pounds of ingredients over her head.

It’s important “for more women to be doing bread,” Berkowitz said. “It’s very foundational. It would be nice for young girls in the kitchen to have female bread bakers to aspire to be.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@paweekly.com.

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As it turns out, that’s not such an unusual occurrence of late. The 83-year-old star also received top billing for last year’s “Wild Oats” with Jessica Lange and 2014’s “Elsa & Fred” with Christopher Plummer. But it was her supporting turn as a spiteful dowager in 2011’s “Bernie” that put some pep back in MacLaine’s career.

And so perhaps it’s no coincidence that “The Last Word” casts MacLaine as another spiteful dowager — but one who’s eminently redeemable. The star plays Harriet Lauler, a retired businesswoman with obsessivecompulsive personality disorder and a death wish. After a failed suicide attempt, Harriet decides that she ought to see to one last project: her legacy. And so she marches right down to the local paper, throws her weight around with the editor, and hijacks the one-woman obituary department, Anne (Amanda Seyfried). Harriet tells Anne, “You are going to help shape a legacy instead of just transcribing it.”

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Logan (R) +++ Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

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Cluny Brown (1946) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:40 & 9:35 p.m., Sat.-Sun.

The Metropolitan Opera: Idomeneo (Not Rated) Century 16: Saturday Century 20: Saturday Palo Alto Square: Saturday

Get Out (R) +++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

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Hidden Figures (PG) ++1/2 Karate Kid (1984) (PG)

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Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: 5:30 & 9:10 p.m., Friday

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Power Rangers (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Sense of Ending (PG-13) Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun. The Shack (PG-13)

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Smurfs: The Lost Village (PG) Century 16: Saturday Century 20: Saturday Song to Song (R)

Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun.

Wilson (R) Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun.

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

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

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By Velina Hasu Houston BUY TS E TICK AY! Now thru April 2 D TO

Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 EMILY KURODA & WILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON / PHOTO KEVIN BERNE

Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 327-3241) tinyurl.com Aquariuspa Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View tinyurl.com/Century16 Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City tinyurl.com/Century20

CineArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (For information: 493-0128) tinyurl.com/Pasquare Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (For recorded listings: 266-9260) tinyurl.com/Guildmp Stanford Theatre: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 324-3700) Stanfordtheatre.org

Find trailers, star ratings and reviews on the web at PaloAltoOnline.com/movies

‘The Last Word’ (continued from previous page)

Heche); get a fun new job and, later, return to the company that was her life’s work to do something audacious; and, oh dear, befriend a little black girl named Brenda (Ann Jewel Lee). From the mouth of this babe: “You gotta be something.” Aww. Naturally, while shadowing Harriet, Anne accrues life lesson after life lesson, as well as a boyfriend in Thomas Sadoski’s radio-station manager Robin (fun fact: Seyfried

and Sadoski married earlier this month, so “The Last Word” was good for something).

In spite of its heart-tugging ruthlessness, I’d be lying if I said “The Last Word” were without its simple pleasures. It’s still fun to watch MacLaine ply her trade, and the film’s R-rating signals a (mostly superficial) willingness to be more than a TV movie. Pellington knows his movie is more or less bad, but there’s an audience for it.

Rated R for language. One hour, 48 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

City of Palo Alto Director’s Hearing 250 Hamilton Avenue, Flexible Meeting Room April 6, 2017 at 3:00PM Action Items QUASI JUDICIAL MATTER / PUBLIC HEARING. 240 Hamilton Ave [16PLN-00351]: Request for a Preliminary Parcel Map for an Existing Mixed Use Condominium Building Consisting of Two 9LZPKLU[PHS <UP[Z 6UL 6ɉJL <UP[ HUK 6UL 9L[HPS Unit. Environmental Assessment: The Proposed Project is Categorically Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act Pursuant to Section 15315 Which Exempts Division of Land in Urbanized Areas into Four or Fewer Parcels. For additional information please contact the project manager Graham Owen at graham.owen@cityofpaloalto.org For additional information contact Alicia Spotwood at alicia.spotwood@cityofpaloalto.org or at 650.617.3168.

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The following is a sampling of movies recently reviewed in the Weekly: Beauty and the Beast00 Disney’s live-action animated remake of its 1991 classic “Beauty and the Beast, “ proves dispiriting. Director Bill Condon (“Dreamgirls,” “Mr. Holmes”) only manages to breathe life into the material when he diverges from the original film, as in the sumptuous bookends set in the pre- and post-curse castle of the French prince of swell hair (Dan Stevens). There, Madame de Garderobe (Broadway goddess Audra McDonald) sings a new number as the screen fills with gloriously costumed waltzers. Once the prince is cursed to live as a beast, his castle enchanted, and his attendants turned into furniture, not much changes about “Beauty and the Beast,” except our enjoyment of it. The story’s intact, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s songs remain (with four nice-enough but narratively unnecessary new songs

by Menken and Tim Rice), and there’s still plenty to look at it. But the tone is all wrong: the warmth is gone, and Condon’s version of the spectacle feels cluttered, claustrophobic, and hurried in ways the original doesn’t. So why should anyone see the remake? Beyond curiosity, I can’t think of many compelling reasons. Rated PG for some action violence, peril and frightening images.

Two hours, 9 minutes. — P.C. “Kong: Skull Island”001/2 Warner Brothers and Legendary Entertainment are throwing more “A” money at more”B” material with “Kong: Skull Island,” the second installment of a burgeoning “MonsterVerse” inititated in 2014’s “Godzilla” reboot. The watchwords, then, are “dumb fun,” and on that level, “Kong: Skull Island” must be said to deliver. Oscar winner Brie Larson stars opposite Tom Hiddleston, with support from Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, and an ensemble populated with some familiar character actors. The only problem with casting heavyweight talent: We expect more than an inherently flimsy B-movie scenario is likely to deliver in terms of characterization and dialogue.

Bound to explore the remote Skull Island, they lobby for a military escort of men just released from Vietnam War duty (led by Jackson). Upon arrival, and a very hairy meeting with giant ape Kong, the mission immediately becomes one of exfiltration (a.k.a. “get the hell out of here”). That action builds to the fulfillment of the “MonsterVerse” promise of monster-onmonster action. “Kong: Skull Island” is all very silly. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for brief strong language. Two hours. — P.C.

Book Talk

CLINTON COMES TO TOWN...

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Bill Clinton and Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, will be at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park on April 18 to sign her new book, “It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired and Get Going.”

The Stanford University graduate dedicated much of her early life to volunteering. She spent part of her youth as a public figure in the White House leading her school’s service club and later, while at Stanford, worked as a tutor and volunteered at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Today, as vice chair of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, she helps lead the work of the foundation across various programs. Her book, combines facts, charts, photographs and stories to give readers a deep understanding of the world around them and how anyone can make a difference.

The book signing will be held at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 18, at Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Tickets are $15 (includes book and admission for family of four) and must be purchased in advance. For more information, go to keplers.com.

LETTERS FROM STANFORD...

Stanford University graduate Alison Carpenter Davis gives readers a glimpse of student life at Stanford through a collection of hand-written and electronic correspondence spanning 125 years that she compiled for her newly released book, “Letters Home from Stanford.”

From first letters home freshman year and firsthand accounts of historical events to questions about self and everyday life — like how to do laundry — the collection weaves together a sense of the heritage, history, and shared experience common to college students.

Readers can walk the campus with Lucy, a member of the pioneer class who headed west to Stanford in 1891; celebrate the end of World War l with Hope; and throw snowballs in the Main Quad with Elaine in 1962.

“Letters Home from Stanford” is available at the Stanford Bookstore and at Amazon.com.

NOTORIOUS RBG DAY...

Celebrate the life and times of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on March 25 during Notorious RBG Day at Books Inc. in Mountain View. The event, held as part of Women’s History Month, will feature readings from the New York Times Bestseller “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik. There will be an RBG look-alike costume contest, a ‘build-your-own” crown craft station and refreshments. The event starts at 3 p.m., Saturday, March 25, at Books Inc., 301 Castro St., Mountain View.

A monthly section on local books and authors

HOW A

poetry-writing teen

BECAME

THE HEROINE

Author Lauren Horowitz sheds ‘Light’ on her fantasy trilogy

by Anna Anna a Medina M di Me dina n na ollywood d sscreenwriter creenwriter andd cr novelist Lauren Horowitz li t L H it may no longer live in Atherton, but her experiences growing up along the Midpeninsula fueled her inspiration for the poetry-writing female heroine in her awardwinning “Light Trilogy” — a young adult fantasy series infused with lyrical prose, nail-biting adventure and a hidden world of mythical beings.

As a young girl and budding writer, Horowitz’s favorite pastimes were hanging out at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park and at the Las Lomitas School computer lab, where her teacher Nancy Lund inspired her to write her first novel (about horse camp) in fourth grade. Horowitz said although she continued to write, she spent her high school years as a “secret writer,” not showing anyone her work.

Years later, while working as a screenwriter for The CW Network in Hollywood, Horowitz remembered wondering why there weren’t very many heroines in novels who are writers or poets.

“I thought, what if there was this girl who was growing up and she processed the world through her writing, the way I very much did when I was that age?,” she told the Weekly in a 2016 interview.

This inspired her to write her 2015 debut novel “Shattered Blue: Book One of the Light Trilogy,” which has garnered numerous awards, including finalist honors in the fantasy category of the 2016 International Book Awards; the young adult category of the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Award; the best new fiction and best fantasy categories for the USA Book Award; and silver in the Young Adult Fiction category of the 2016 IPPY Award.

Horowitz, who now splits her time between Los Angeles and Hawaii, released the second book in her series this month. “Renegade Red” continues to follow female protagonist Noa as she simultaneously navigates universally teenage issues like relationships and school and larger issues such as the threat of a ruthless “faerie” regime bent on enslaving and wiping out most of the faerie population.

The romantic The ro roma mant ma nttic aattraction ttra tt raact ctio ionn bet io bbetween etwe tween Noa Noa andd bbattling att ttli ling bbrothers roth thers Callum m and d JJudah d h continues tii tto lleave ffans decidedly divided in discussions on social media sites dedicated to the heated debate.

For the release of the new book, Horowitz has been visiting schools and bookstores in the Bay Area.

She will be at Linden Tree Children’s Books, 265 State St., Los Altos on Friday, March 24.

In a phone interview last week, The Weekly chatted with Horowitz about writing, poetry and (perhaps most importantly) whether she’s “Team Callum” or “Team Judah.”

What continues to prompt you to write?

I just can’t even imagine not doing it. When I don’t write, I start to feel bottled up and anxious. It’s kind of like stress relief in a weird way. I try to write in the morning.

It’s as much mental health as anything else.

What led you to study English and writing at Harvard?

When I got to Harvard, people there were really unabashed about having a particular passion and just going after it with abandon. I said, “If that’s the case and everyone here is amazing in their own

way, I’m way, way I’m gonna cchoose English.” I class, and it took a creative writing w hhappened d tto bbe with one of my favorite novelists, Jamaica Kincaid.

We are like kindred souls. She was so encouraging in the idea that I had a voice that was worth listening to. It was like a revelation, and she was a mentor. She was my biggest critic; she pushed me, she pushed me so hard.

What inspired you to write the “Light Trilogy”?

I was going through a really stressful time in my life. I was in the process of buying my first house; it was kind of like a crisis of “adulting.” I thought, “I don’t know what escrow is! I don’t know what all these things are!” I felt like “Oh my god, I’m gonna get smashed by all this adulthood.” That put me back in my high school self; I wanted to write my high school self feeling the crushing adulthood and that gave me Noa, who is like the secret artist who is dealing with having to take care of her entire family, and what she finds is that as she lets her art out, there’s suddenly so much magic in the world.

I didn’t write for publication, by the way. I wrote it for myself and didn’t show it to a soul.

Author Lauren Horowitz visits Kepler’s Books on her 2016 book tour for her debut novel “Shattered Blue.”

You weave poetry into your writing; What role does poetry play in your novels?

Poetry for me is like the unfiltered soul, I think. It is my soul, It is Noa’s soul. (It) speaks truth she doesn’t know how to speak in regular words and gives her strength.

There are no rules; there’s no grammar. (It’s) as much visual as it is written. (It) is physical. It’s an animal. Poetry is an animal — finding a way to let out the animal, let that “girl beast” out.

The novel is my poem to the world.

What is the best writing advice you’ve received?

“Your voice is important,” from Jamaica Kincaid, and that’s what I try to pass on, that’s the stone on the ground. In terms of craft, write every day.

How does the screenwriting process differ from the novelwriting process?

With screenwriting, particularly television, from the very beginning, even if you’re the creator of a series of a pitch, it is so collaborative. The writer is one piece of huge team. From the very beginning, you’ve got producers in there giving you notes and many hands doing the soup. If a network buys the pitch, the network gives notes.

(There are) notes from studios, (and) you redo it. By the end of getting the pilot made, there are tons of people in your creative kitchen. You get so many perspectives — in that way the collaboration is super awesome.

It was a revelation doing a novel.

I was like, “Wait a minute. I, the writer, get to decide who the character is?” In that way, I’ve kinda fallen in love with (writing) novels because they’re mine, and that’s what’s really great with them.

With a novel, the novel is the art.

One last question: Are you “Team Callum” or “Team Judah”?

I’ll never tell. The battle rages on social media. It’s so funny. Q Editorial Assistant and Intern Coordinator Anna Medina can be emailed at amedina@ paweekly.com.

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Home&Real Estate

OPEN HOME GUIDE 44 Also online at PaloAltoOnline.com

A weekly guide to home, garden and real estate news, edited by Elizabeth Lorenz

If plastic bags are put in loose, “We actually have to shut down this machine twice a day because the plastic tangles up,” said Phil Bobel, assistant director of public works for the City of Palo Alto.

Home Front

ZOOMING IN ON BUILDING ... A new San Francisco start-up claims to make it easier to search for local remodeling projects than going to the city’s website. BuildZoom’s website has an online buildingpermit map of Palo Alto as well as other cities across the U.S. organized by type of project and other details about your neighbor’s work. Simply key in an address and instantly see the details of what’s happening to homes in your neighborhood.

CONTAINER GARDENING ...

Get the scoop on container gardening, something that allows you to garden anywhere, even if you only have a small patio, with a class on Wednesday, March 29, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. In this class, you’ll learn the basics of container gardening: soil, water, fertilizer, container materials (clay, plastic, etc.), container sizes and common pests. You’ll also learn about a wide variety of plants that do particularly well in containers.

Taught by UC Master Gardener Laura Monczynski, the class will be held at the Los Altos Public Library, 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. For more information go to mgsantaclara.ucanr.edu/events.

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 elorenz@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

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VINTAGE SHOP ... The Artisan Shop at the Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park — operated and staffed by the Guild’s Auxiliary, whose purpose is to provide support for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford — is looking for donated items to sell. The Artisan Shop accepts vintage donations for selling in the shop. Such items can include crystal candlesticks, goblets, vases and clocks; fine linens; vintage clothing (such as christening gowns, dresses and purses); vintage jewelry like brooches; small antiques; and fine china (bring a place setting and a photo of the rest). The shop also accepts sterling silver, collectibles (such as Hummel or Delft). Make an appointment before dropping off items by calling 650-325-2450.

Artists are invited to contact the Artisan Shop if interested in consigning goods for sale. Allied Arts Guild is located at 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park.

Talking

trash

P

hil Bobel, assistant director of public works for the City of Palo Alto, admits something that most people won’t. He sometimes does “lid tipping.”

That means he and his staff purposely go around lifting the lids of people’s compost bins to see if they put in food waste.

“About 40 percent (of Palo Alto customers) are currently composting,” Bobel said, basing his analysis on the lid-tipping venture.”Hopefully our analysis is a little light.”

“We did a little informal survey — (we) looked in the green container. We didn’t dig around.

If food scraps were buried by yard waste, we wouldn’t see it.”

He says lots of people are grossed out by the idea of putting food waste in their compost bins, but he hopes to change their minds.

He said, “Yes, a home compost bin will attract rodents if it has food waste in it.”

But the big green bin that is picked up weekly by the city and has a heavy lid on it should be safe from rodents.

If you’re squeamish, you could also put the food waste into a compostable bag before putting in the bin, he added.

There is no restriction on types of food that can go in the compost bin. The contents of the bins eventually end up at the recycling plant in North San Jose where all Palo Alto trash goes. Compost goes straight into a special oxygen-less vault where it’s broken down, the methane captured for energy, and then the residual compost is spread on crops throughout the Gilroy area.

The other big trash item he would

Recycling Facts The do’s and don’ts of recycling in Palo Alto

by Elizabeth Lorenz

like to see more Palo Altans putting into their compost bin is foodsoiled paper. Paper towels, Kleenex (yes, even from that recent cold!), and cardboard pizza boxes can all go in Palo Alto’s compost bins.

Palo Alto has one of the more advanced recycling and composting programs on the Peninsula, compared to many neighboring cities like Menlo Park and Los Altos. Those cities have more limits on things like where you can put food-soiled paper, and you cannot put electronics in the bins in Menlo Park whereas you can in Palo Alto. It’s also tricky when you move from city to city to follow individual cities’ rules, even about where to place oversized, folded cardboard. In Menlo Park, it goes next to the cart. In Palo Alto, Bobel emphasizes, all cardboard needs to go in the cart.

Not breaking down cardboard boxes is one of the worst no-nos, he said. “They try to stick a whole cardboard box in the blue container. When they jam it in, it makes it harder to be emptied. It causes us more pain in dealing with the box.

Cardboard boxes next to rather than in... every week we have to have the driver get out if non-recyclable packaging is left in it.”

If people were sorting perfectly, it (garbage collection) would cost less,” Bobel said. Trash and recycling “sort lines,” the conveyor belts where all the stuff ends up, can be more expensive because human monitors need to watch items going by to make sure there is nothing that isn’t supposed to be there.

“What’s confusing is we can deal with plastic bags (like dry-cleaning

For more information go to http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/ depts/pwd/zerowaste/whatgoeswhere or for San Mateo County cities go to www.recology.com/recology-san-mateo-county/. Los Altos: http://www.missiontrail.com/LosAltos/ Examples of what can go in Palo Alto’s blue recycling bin: • Aerosol cans (empty, non-hazardous) • Appliances, (e.g., toaster, blender) • Cans ( food, beverage, pet food) • Foil, foil trays, pans • Furniture • Hardware ( keys, nails, screws) • Household items (pots, pans, trays, utensils) • Paint cans (empty, dry, no excessive residue) • Pipe • Scrap metal (plumbing fixtures, small auto parts) • Sporting goods • Tools • Toys • Trays • Umbrellas • Books (e.g., hard/soft cover, telephone) • Boxes (e.g., cereal, cracker, tissue, shoe, mailing) • Carbonless paper • Cardboard (flatten, unwaxed) • Catalogs • Egg cartons • Envelopes (plastic window OK) • Frozen food packaging • Magazines • Manila folders • Newspaper • Non-metalic wrapping, tissue paper • Photographs (NO Polaroids/ instant photos) • Shredded paper (tie in a clear plastic bag) • Bags (bread, dry clean, grocery, newspaper, produce, merchandise, zip lock)

• Bubble wrap • Case wrap (beverage container, snack flats) • Liners (cereal box) • Plastic packaging wrap (e.g., wrap from toilet paper, napkins, paper towels, diapers) FILM PLASTICS (Please place inside a clear plastic bag and knot the top of the bag) • Bottles (e.g., beverage, laundry and household cleaners, personal care products, prescription) • Baskets • Buckets • Cartridges (e.g., toner, ink jet, printer) • Coolers • Computer housing • Food containers (e.g., cottage cheese, margarine, yogurt, take-out) • Shelving PLASTICS (all types, with or without a number) Note: Polystyrene like Styrofoam is NOT accepted • Appliances (e.g., coffee maker, microwave oven) • Camera • Calculator • Cell phone (inside clear tear-resistant bag) • Computer (e.g., desk top, lap top) • Computer mouse, cables • Home entertainment (e.g., game system, DVR, VCR, stereo, radio) • Keyboard • Printer • Shaver - electric • Vacuum cleaner ELECTRONICS (anything with a computer chip) Note: Televisions and computer monitors NOT accepted

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Home & Real Estate 1935, 2bd, 1,113 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/29/1981, $49,000

Menlo Park

Atherton

30 Fredrick Avenue Brown Trust to Still Trust for $5,800,000 on 02/24/17; built 1942, 4bd, 3,520 sq.ft.

53 Magnolia Drive Efros Trust to Munzig Trust for $6,675,000 on 02/22/17; built 2000, 3bd, 4,390 sq.ft.

94 Wilburn Avenue N. Beilin to Manriquez Trust for $2,800,000 on 02/24/17; built 1947, 3bd, 2,170 sq.ft.; previous sale 02/09/2007, $1,950,000

East Palo Alto

1419 Camellia Drive M. James to X. Wang for $747,000 on 02/22/17; built 1954, 3bd, 1,130 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/16/1975, $19,000

Los Altos

Mountain View

335 Costello Drive Gainey Trust to Otte Trust for $3,736,000 on 03/02/17; built 1956, 5bd, 3,536 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/02/1999, $1,503,000 1115 Covington Road Robinson Trust to F. Feng for $2,660,000 on 03/01/17; built 1975, 4bd, 2,496 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/03/1975, $86,500 41 Marvin Avenue Rossetti Trust to H. & D. Pandya for $3,600,000 on 03/06/17; built 1905, 3bd, 2,769 sq.ft.

1300 Oak Avenue E. & M. Song to J. Lai for $2,552,000 on 03/03/17; built 1952, 5bd, 2,256 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/29/2011, $1,350,000 195 West Portola Avenue Mailander Trust to Borello Oaks for $1,600,000 on 03/03/17; built

890 Berkeley Avenue Lapierre Trust to AK Development for $5,500,000 on 02/24/17; built 1941, 3bd, 1,970 sq.ft.

984 Creek Drive Still Trust to Reasenberg Trust for $5,250,000 on 02/22/17; built 1951, 4bd, 3,070 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/14/2010, $1,825,000 610 Hamilton Avenue E. Miner to N. Korzhenkova for $665,000 on 02/24/17; built 1952, 2bd, 910 sq.ft.

1020 Hermosa Way Hermosa Way Limited to Brewer Trust for $6,850,000 on 02/23/17; previous sale 07/15/2014, $2,450,000 1301 Hobart Street Knowles Trust to Tailo Trust for $3,315,000 on 02/17/17; built 1952, 3bd, 2,260 sq.ft.; previous sale 01/07/1988, $232,500 301 Homewood Place X. & Z. Wang to J. Pinzon for $2,205,000 on 02/21/17; built 2008, 3bd, 1,665 sq.ft.; previous sale 05/27/2011, $1,065,000 1059 Ringwood Avenue D. Galante to U. Salim for $1,420,000 on 02/22/17; built 1946, 3bd, 1,200 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/19/2003, $630,000 2140 Santa Cruz Avenue #A305 Basler Trust to Adams Trust for $830,000 on 02/17/17; built 1978, 2bd, 1,160 sq.ft.; previous sale 02/25/2005, $499,000 1330 University Drive #53 M. Shiver to S. & M. Sharif for $1,400,000 on 02/22/17; built 1973, 2bd, 1,490 sq.ft.; previous sale 09/22/2016, $1,400,000 21 Willow Road S. & S. Young to S. He for $1,200,000 on 02/23/17; built 1976, 2bd, 704 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/23/2003, $455,000 243 Willow Road Skeff Trust to S. Hom for $1,437,000 on 02/16/17; built 1958, 3bd, 1,390 sq.ft.

119 Flynn Avenue #A Kors Trust to C. & F. Ardel for $695,000 on 03/03/17; built 1972, 2bd, 858 sq.ft.

400 Ortega Avenue #207 Bartunek Trust to S & L Trust for $928,000 on 03/06/17; built 1975, 2bd, 1,278 sq.ft.; previous sale 07/14/1975, $45,400 1880 Peacock Avenue Peacock Avenue Limited to N. & M. Lackritz for $2,400,000 on 03/06/17; built 1950, 3bd, 877 sq.ft.; previous sale 10/19/2015, $500,000 928 Trophy Drive M. Trontell to S. Yi for $2,200,000 on 03/06/17; built 1972, 4bd, 2,030 sq.ft.; previous sale 01/04/1996, $409,000 Palo Alto 597 Barron AvenueHenshel Trust to Wong Trust for $1,950,000 on 03/06/17; built 1950, 2bd, 1,154 sq.ft.

560 Chaucer StreetPrendergast Trust to H. & I. Kodesh for $4,500,000 on 03/06/17; built 1935, 4bd, 2,821 sq.ft.

3433 Cowper StreetGoldsilverisland Homes to M. Li for $3,688,000 on 03/03/17; built 1952, 3bd, 990 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 02/06/2015, $1,950,000) 360 Everett Avenue #6AOmega Trust to Windham Trust for $2,935,000 on 03/03/17; built 1961, 3bd, 2,064 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 05/17/2016, $2,935,000) 318 Hawthorne AvenueBabulak Trust to K. Chang for $2,800,000 on 03/01/17; built 1950, 3bd, 1,776 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 11/13/2009, $1,652,500) 950 Matadero AvenueSchwab Trust to C. Chuong for $3,754,000 on 03/03/17; built 1952, 4bd, 2,358 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 06/27/2014, $3,205,000) 280 Stanford AvenueA. Rink to Novanet Singapore for $2,550,000 on 03/01/17; built 1937, 2bd, 908 sq.ft.

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HOME SALES

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and thin wrap from new toys or appliances) if you ball them up in a thicker plastic bag and squeeze all the air out and tie it up and put it in the recycling bin. We can fish those out.â&#x20AC;?

Otherwise, if such plastic bags are put in loose, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We actually have to shut down this machine twice a day because the plastic tangles up.â&#x20AC;?

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probably gets burned as fuel.

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Bobel says if enough residents said they wanted double bins to sort different recycling or compost, the city would probably provide them. Since compost has grown and garbage has diminished, people may change their ways. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a tall kitchen garbage can. When we started composting, it became my compost container. My (smaller green) compost container is garbage now.â&#x20AC;? Q

1937, 2bd, 1,430 sq.ft.

3321 Waverley StreetP. Scally to X. Li for $2,600,000 on 03/02/17; built 1948, 3bd, 1,235 sq.ft.

3719 Starr King CircleElevation Homes to Y. Sun for $2,230,000 on 03/02/17; built 1952, 3bd, 1,382 sq.ft. (Previous Sale 01/29/2016, $1,670,000) 2563 Waverley StreetG. & S. Trimble to C. & M. Rand for $2,080,000 on 03/01/17; built

Portola Valley

29 Linaria Way Emanski Trust to Tang-Lopez Trust for $2,505,000

on 02/16/17; built 1962, 3bd, 2,340 sq.ft.

Woodside 757 Woodside Drive Yu Trust to Woodside Limited for $2,750,000 on 02/17/17; built 1955, 4bd, 3,240 sq.ft.; previous sale 12/11/2014, $2,030,000

1492 Webster Street, Palo Alto

families, this Craftsman home is located on a rare

Dating back to 1917 and owned by just three

CRAFTSMAN ESTATE

MAJESTIC NORTH PALO ALTO

subdividable lot of more than one-half acre. The spacious ďŹ&#x201A;oor plan includes 6 bedrooms and 4.5 baths arranged over 3 levels with approx. 4,223 sq. ft. of living space. The property also includes a large detached garage and workshop. Located in the greater Professorville neighborhood, this home beneďŹ ts from access to acclaimed Palo Alto schools, and is just 2 blocks to Elizabeth Gamble Garden and Rinconada Park plus less than one mile to Stanford University.

OFFERED AT $9,890,000

SHOWN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

(650) 475-2030

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www.LeannahandLaurel.com This information was supplied by reliable sources. Sales Associate believes this information to be correct but has not veriďŹ ed this information and assumes no legal responsibility for its accuracy. Buyers should investigate these issues to their own satisfaction. Buyer to verify school enrollment.

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A Luxury Collection By Intero Real Estate Services

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$3,700,000

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See our entire luxury collection at www.InteroPrestigio.com ©2017 Intero Real Estate Services Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate and a wholly owned subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc. All rights reserved.

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7965 Pool Station Road, Angels Camp | Listing by: Mia Park & Heather Victoria, Lic.#01390597&01401841

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Woodside 1590 Cañada Lane Woodside, CA 94062 650.206.6200

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Los Altos 496 First Street, Ste. 200 Los Altos, CA 94022 650.947.4700

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Alto Weekly • March 24, 2017 • Page 33

DELEON REALTY SEMINAR SERIES You are cordially invited to DeLeon Realty’s Seminar Series.

Gain insight from Michael Repka, the managing broker and general counsel, and Deleon Realty’s esteemed buyer agents.

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Pacific Union is pleased to welcome Rich Bassin

Pacific Union Real Estate 1706 El Camino Real, Suite 220 Menlo Park, CA 94025

Rich Bassin 650.400.0502 rich.bassin@pacunion.com License # 00456815

Rich has been a top producing agent for over 35 years with a special emphasis in new construction particularly in Atherton and Menlo Park. Rich has become an expert in helping owners downsize and take advantage of their property’s potential even after they’ve sold. This is just one of the reasons we are proud to announce his new affiliation.

Contact Rich to see how you might also manage to benefit from your home’s legacy beyond the sale! www.pacificunion.com

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740 Vera Cruz Avenue, Los Altos Must-Have Modern Farmhouse Sunny farmhouse character merges with contemporary luxury in this single-story 6 bedroom, 4.5 bath residence of approx. 4,300 ?= 2@ I<1> <8-:?J 5:/8A05:3 3->-31 ;: - /;>:1> 8;@ ;2 ;B1> UY YTT ?= 2@ I<1> ?A>B1EJ A58@ 5: VTUZ @41 4;91 5? 1D@>-B-3-:@8E ŋ:5?410 C5@4 /81>1?@;>E C5:0;C? C501 <8-:7 4->0C;;0 Ō;;>? -:0 - 0-FF85:3 /412p? 75@/41: E1@ @41 ;<1: /1:@>-85F10 8-E;A@ -88;C? /-?A-8 warmth and easy indoor-outdoor living. Flexibly designed bedrooms include an in-law suite, while the spacious living areas glide outwards to a sprawling, freshly landscaped backyard. Nestled between San Antonio Center and downtown Los Altos, you will enjoy quick access to highly desired Los Altos schools.

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13415 Country Way, Los Altos Hills Offered at $3,988,000 Victorian-Inspired with Endless Charm Sporting a white picket fence and wraparound porches, this Victorianinspired home of approx. 3,700 sq. ft. (per county) exudes timeless beauty and enjoys 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, and an additional 1 bedroom, 1 bath guesthouse of nearly 700 sq. ft. (per plans), all on a lot of approx. one acre (per county). Open gathering areas provide a highly livable layout, while two fireplaces, crown molding, and oak floors lend refinement. The island kitchen has been masterfully remodeled, and the fully functional guesthouse showcases a large kitchenette. Also included are a three-car garage and alluring outdoor spaces featuring fruit trees and a spa. Enjoy easy access to gorgeous Foothills Park, Palo Alto Hills Country Club, and ®

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881 University Avenue, Los Altos Offered at $2,788,000 Ideally Located and Inviting Alongside a calm cul-de-sac, this appealing 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath home of approx. 2,200 sq. ft. (per county) occupies a centrally located lot of approx. 0.29 acres (per county). The fine interior accented with crown molding, hardwood floors, and oversized picture windows offers a versatile home office and comfortable gathering areas, and the bedrooms are sized for flexibility. Outdoors await fruit trees, an inviting front porch, and a spacious backyard with patios. Within moments of downtown Los Altos, you can stroll to Covington Elementary (API 975), and quickly access Pinewood School campuses, Blach Intermediate (API 958), ®

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Please join DeLeon Realty at our April Seminar. Gain insight into tax issues relating to real estate from Michael Repka, the managing broker and general counsel of DeLeon Realty. Also, hear the latest market updates from Ken DeLeon, the most successful real estate broker in Silicon Valley, along with his team of talented area specialists, who focus on specific neighborhoods throughout the area.

To RSVP, please contact 650.543.8500 or by email at RSVP@deleonrealty.com Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club, Grand Ballroom 3000 Alexis Drive, Palo Alto Seminar is for prospective clients only, no outside real estate professionals permitted.

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810 Miranda Green St Sun Deleon Realty

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6 Bedrooms 84 Nora Way Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

3239 Maddux Dr. $3,198,000 Sun Keller Williams Palo Alto 454-8500

795 Ames Av $2,888,000 Sat/Sun 12-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

780 Rosewood Dr $6,750,000 Sun 2-5 Alain Pinel Realtors 323-1111

HALF MOON BAY 3 Bedrooms 212 Garcia Ave $1,325,000 Sat 12-3/Sun 1-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141

881 University Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$2,788,000 543-8500

6 Bedrooms $4,998,000 543-8500

LOS ALTOS HILLS 13415 Country Way Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

$3,988,000 543-8500

13686 Page Mill Rd Sun Sereno Group

$5,975,000 323-1900

120 N. Castanya Way Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,349,000 529-1111

155 Willowbrook Dr. Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,995,000 323-7751

1319 Westridge Dr Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,350,000 851-1961

450 Golden Oak Dr Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,500,000 851-1961

20 Cordova Ct Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

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25 Willow Rd #49 Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

PORTOLA VALLEY 160 N. Balsamina Way Call for price Sun Coldwell Banker 323-7751

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3 Bedrooms 2162 Menalto Av Sun Miles McCormick

$1,695,000 223-1829

668 Partridge Ave Sun 2-4 Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,498,000 462-1111

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List Price: $11,900,000

$6,395,000 323-1111

355 Lloyden Park Ln Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

740 Vera Cruz Av Sat/Sun 1-5 Deleon Realty

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339 Seale Av Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$4,985,000 462-1111

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Situated on the corner of a flawless Central Atherton neighborhood road is this serene 1.14-acre (approx.) property. Wondrously park-like, with towering redwood groves, heritage oaks and myriad flora enveloping the home and sprawling grounds. A sweeping, shady driveway leads to the original 1952 ranch-style home—one of only a few left in the prestigious Menlo Circus Club locale. At approximately 3610 square feet, the 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath home flows openly from voluminous room to room offering vintage amenities throughout.

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304 Oakwood Pl Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$1,995,000 324-4456

28 Sneckner Ct Sun Deleon Realty

$2,998,000 543-8500

1031 Henderson Ave Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,595,000 323-1111

1337 Sherman Ave Sat/Sun Coldwell Banker

$3,598,000 325-6161

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2025 Nassau Dr Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

5 Bedrooms 1256 Nancarrow Way $1,688,888 Sat/Sun 1-4:30 Coldwell Banker 323-7751

SUNNYVALE 3 Bedrooms - Condominium 250 Santa Fe Ter #213 Sat/Sun 12-6 Coldwell Banker

4 Bedrooms 650 Woodside Dr Sat/Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$2,998,000 851-2666

12424 Skyline Blvd Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

$3,999,999 324-4456

2190 Ward Way $4,498,000 Sat 2-4/Sun 1-4 Dreyfus Sotheby’s Realty 847-1141 618 Manzanita Way Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

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161 Willow Rd Sun 1-5 Alain Pinel Realtors

$2,798,000 323-1111

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Michelle@MichelleEnglert.com

MOUNTAIN VIEW

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155 Kings Mountain Rd Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker

$8,695,000 851-2666

$14,995,000 851-2666

6 Bedrooms

2 Bedrooms - Condominium 550 Ortega Av #B226 Sat/Sun 1-4 Intero Real Estate

$1,398,800 325-6161

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$4,495,000 324-4456

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$1,588,000 529-1111

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1040 Hermosa Way Sun 2-4 Coldwell Banker

650-387-4405

$2,098,000 321-1596

56 Walnut Av Sat/Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

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608 Hope St Sat/Sun Midtown Realty

$990,000 776-9226

340 Jane Dr. Sun Alain Pinel Realtors

$5,750,000 529-1111

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1 2009 film set in 2154

45 Actor Spall of “Life of Pi”

7 Backs of boats

46 One’s in a lifetime?

11 A.D.A. member’s degree

47 Mineral-fortified red wine?

14 “Everybody Loves Raymond” star

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35 Hagman’s “I Dream of Jeannie” costar

5 Spain’s has no official lyrics

36 Beyond reinflation

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40 Most likely to squee over a Pi Day pie

15 Grade

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8 The 100% truth (accept no imitations!)

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54 Cyrano’s protrusion

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44 Cool with Green Day

17 “Mean ___” (recurring Jimmy Kimmel segment)

55 Like Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve specials

10 If it’s blue, it doesn’t mean you’re pregnant

46 Sound of a belly laugh

18 Frozen kids?

58 “Foucault’s Pendulum” author

11 Priest of Stonehenge days

20 ID for a taxpayer

61 CEO painter?

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21 Aptly named card game

63 Often-spiked drink

13 How some people like their cereal

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65 Frozen food bag bit

19 O3

24 “Entourage” actress Mazar

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68 Blow it

26 “Where do I even begin ...”

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28 Corleone patriarch in “The Godfather”

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement JOHN DUNEC SIMULATION FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN626564 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: John Dunec Simulation, located at 748 Chimalus Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JOHN LAWRENCE DUNEC 748 Chimalus Drive Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 02/01/2017.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 16, 2017.

(PAW Mar. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2017) GPG HANDYMAN SERVICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN627504 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: GPG Handyman Services, located at 476 W Taylor St., San Jose, CA 95110, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): GENTILE PROPERTY GROUP, LLC 188 Kilmer Ave. Campbell, CA 95008 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2/08/17.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 14, 2017.

(PAW Mar. 24, 31; Apr. 7, 14, 2017) MANY RIVERS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN627772 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Many Rivers, located at 165 Santa Rita Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): CECILIA JONES 165 Santa Rita Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/20/2017.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on March 20, 2017.

(PAW Mar. 24, 31; Apr. 7, 14, 2017)

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Phillip A. Bond 401 B St., Suite 1530 San Diego, CA 92101-4238 (619)235-6800 (PAW Mar. 17, 24, 31, 2017) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: REUEL VAN ATTA Case No.: 17PR180660 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of REUEL VAN ATTA. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: RENN VAN ATTA in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: RENN VAN ATTA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the person-

al representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on May 12, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 12, of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Heather Ledgerwood, Esq. WealthPLAN, LLP 1960 The Alameda, Suite 185 San Jose, CA 95126 (408)918-9030 (PAW Mar. 24, 31, Apr. 7, 2017)

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997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WILLIS W. NELSON Case No.: 17PR180613 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of WILLIS W. NELSON; WILLIS WAYNE NELSON. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: THOMAS S. NELSON in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: THOMAS S. NELSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held on April 27, 2017, at 9:00 a.m. in Dept.: 12 of the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, located at 191 N. First St., San Jose, CA, 95113.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

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Sports Shorts USA RUGBY IT IS . . . Palo Alto High senior Marion Sellier has been selected to join the USA Rugby high school All-American Tropical 7s Tour in Orlando, Fla. the week of April 11.

Sellier, who will be playing at Brown University in the fall under Hall of Fame coach Kathy Flores, plays for the Silicon Valley Rugby Club. Most recently, Sellier participated in the Las Vegas Invitational earlier this month with the Atavus Varsity AllStars.

KICK IT AROUND . . . Kick for Charity is a nonprofit summer soccer camp for kids. All our profits go to the East Palo Alto Kids Foundation.

The camp is for kids ages 6-12 and will be held the weeks of June 12th and 19th. More information will be forthcoming.

Olympic gold medalist Simone Manuel became the first woman to swim under 46 seconds in winning the 100-yard freestyle for Stanford.

She also won the 50 free.

One united team, one title, one big party Stanford waited 19 years to return to the top

by Rick Eymer o one would have predicted the Stanford women’s swimming and diving team would have to wait 19 years to win a national title following that achievement in 1998.

After all, a steady flow of Olympians and Olympic hopefuls continued to stream through The Farm. Each successive coach seemed as capable and inspired as the late George Haines in 1983 and the late Richard Quick, who coached teams to 12 national championships between 1984 and 1998, though “only” seven were at Stanford.

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Still, the Cardinal consistently finished among the nation’s best, recording 11 national runner-up trophies, five since 1998, amid the growth of great programs like Texas, Georgia, California, Auburn and Florida. Those are the only other schools to have won more than one NCAA title. The only interlopers were USC and Arizona.

It took Florida 28 years to win its second title and the Gators have never been far away. The Cardinal was the runnerup both times. Georgia has won seven (continued on next page)

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OPENING ACT . . . The fifth-ranked Stanford men’s swimming and diving team set a school record in the 800-yard freestyle relay to open the NCAA men’s swimming and diving championships Wednesday night in Indianapolis. Freshman Grant Shoults, senior Tom Kremer, sophomore Abrahm DeVine and junior Liam Egan combined go 6:12.66. The meet continues through Saturday.

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ALL-AROUND RECOGNITION ...

Stanford’s Elizabeth Price and Rachel Daum earned All-Pac-12 women’s gymnastics honors. Price earned first-team recognition on vault and bars, and second-team honors on floor. Daum claimed the first All-Pac-12 award of her career, being named to the second team in the all-around. Price becomes a five-time All-Pac-12 selection after earning first-team recognition on vault in 2015 and claiming first-team honors in the all-around last year.

The duo will help Stanford compete for its 10th NCAA championship bid in the past 11 seasons when the Cardinal travels to the NCAA Seattle Regional on April 1 for a 4 p.m. start . . . Menlo College junior outfielder Jordan Getzelman was named Player of the Week in the Golden State Athletic Conference.

World record holder Katie Ledecky won the 1,650 free in a meet record 15:07.70, helping the Cardinal score big in the event.

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Saturday College softball: Stanford at California, noon, Pac-12 Bay Area College baseball: Utah at Stanford, 4 p.m., Pac-12 Mountain

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by Glenn Reeves he Eastside Prep girls basketball team is making it a habit of playing for the state Division V championship.

When the Panthers take on Rolling Hills Prep of San Pedro on Friday at 10 a.m. at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, it will be their third consecutive appearance in the state championship game. They lost to La Jolla Country Day 40-36 at Cal’s Haas Pavilion in 2015, then beat Village Christian of Sun Valley 57-50 last year at Sleep Train Arena.

Junior point guard Kayla Tahaafe will be making her third start in the state finals. There is, of course, no question in terms of her preference between last year’s elation and the tears of 2015.

Eastside’s Kayla Tahaafe (5) leads her team in scoring, rebounds, assists and steals.

The grief she felt after the loss to La Jolla Country Day was in part due to the three seniors on the team going out on a loss. She was one of three freshmen on that team along with Alayah Bell and Ra’Anna Bey. But last year was different. It was her team.

“Last year my role was a lot different,’’ Tahaafe said. “I had to take on a leadership role and we all had to work together.’’

This season Tahaafe has taken on much more than the point guard’s traditional job of ball distribution. She leads the team in scoring (14.6 points per game) and rebounding (7.9) as well as assists (5.7) and steals (2.9). (continued on page 51)

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national titles and finished second eight times. Stanford was the runnerup the first time the Bulldogs won a title, in 1999, and the last time, in 2014.

It seemed like only a matter of time before the Cardinal would win another title. It just never seemed like it would take 19 years.

All that dissolved into one great party last weekend, with the Cardinal getting contributions from everybody who qualified to swim.

They all partied like it was 1998.

“I’m really proud of the path this program has been on over the past five years,” Stanford coach Greg Meehan said. “Our team, from the very first day, bought into the culture we were trying to put in place here and they never wavered.”

The Cardinal had 13 different All-Americans combine for 47 All-America honors, eight individual national championships and two relay titles during the four-day NCAA championship meet inside IUPUI Natatorium.

This is Stanford’s ninth NCAA women’s swimming title and 10th overall, the most in the nation.

Georgia and Texas each have seven NCAA championship trophies.

The Cardinal also earned its 37th straight top-eight finish or every year the NCAA has sponsored a championship meet.

Stanford’s 526.5 points were the most since the Cardinal totaled 649.5 in 1993. Cal was second with 366 points. It is the largest margin of victory at the NCAA championships since 2003, when Auburn finished ahead of Georgia, 536-373.

“We have an amazing group, and we were inspired by our seniors day-in and day-out,” said Meehan. “It takes a lot of people to make this happen. I have the best coaching staff, an amazing alumni group, and incredible parents.”

The 1998 team won with 422 points and featured swimmers like Olympic gold medalists Misty Hyman and Catherine Fox and Olympian Siobhan Cropper.

In 2010, it came down to the final relay, when Florida finished

fourth to win it, 382-379 1/2.

In 2001, Georgia edged Stanford, 389-387 1/2, and last year, the Bulldogs outscored the Cardinal, 414-395.

This year, four of Stanford’s 10 national titles came on the final day. Junior Simone Manuel was the highlight as the first woman to break 46 seconds in the 100-yard freestyle.

Manuel obliterated her own American and NCAA records, previously at 46.09, with a finish of 45.56. She finished the first 50 yards in 21.90 and won by nearly a full second. It was her second individual national title of the meet and her second career victory in the event.

“This is the reason I wanted to come back,” said Manuel, an Olympic gold medalist. “I wanted to win a national championship with this team. It is a surreal feeling to see all your hard work pay off.”

Sophomore Ella Eastin also won her second individual NCAA title of the meet on Saturday. She stormed to a first-place finish of 1:51.35 in the 200 butterfly. The victory came one day after Eastin clinched back-to-back national championships in the 400 individual medley.

Freshman Katie Ledecky clinched her third individual national title on Saturday with another record-setting swim in the 1,650-yard freestyle at 15:07.70 to set the pool and meet records.

“I’ve had a lot of fun this whole year,” Ledecky said. “It’s been a blast. I’m really proud of my teammates for everything they’ve done, both in the pool and in school. We’ve been on this journey together all year, and we wanted to finish strong.”

Ledecky is the first Stanford swimmer to win the NCAA title in the event since 1992, and just the third Cardinal overall, joining three-time winner Marybeth Linzmeier (1982-84) and two-time champion Janet Evans (1991-92).

Behind Manuel and Ledecky, Stanford won every individual freestyle event. Manuel won the 50 and 100, while Ledecky won the 200 free and 500 free earlier this week. The pair also helped Stanford to the 400 and 800 free relay titles.

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Sacred Heart Prep grad Ally Howe was fourth in the 100 back and swam on the winning 400 medley relay.

One of those relay titles was the final event of the meet, and Stanford ended it in fitting fashion. The Cardinal broke its own American and NCAA records in the 400 free relay. Manuel, Ledecky, Hu and Neal combined to finish in 3:07.61.

“We really wanted wanted to win that relay for Lia,” Meehan said. “Give her a victory lap. She set this whole thing in motion five years ago when he committed to our program as an Olympian out of high school. There’s no better moment for a senior to win her last event at the NCAA championships when you win a team title.”

Neal was the anchor leg in that relay that put an exclamation point on an illustrious career. It was her seventh All-America performance of the meet, and the 26th of her career, tied for fifth-most in school history.

“It was like a fairy tale ending,” Neal said. “It’s the best ending I could ever ask for. The timing of it is so surreal. I’m just happy I got to experience it with this group of girls.”

Stanford dominated the 1,650 free. In addition to Ledecky’s victory, freshman Megan Byrnes finished third at 15:50.87 and Leah Stevens finished fourth.

Stevens won heat five of six with a personal-best finish of 15:52.36 -- a time that topped all but three in the final heat. Byrnes and Stevens also rank third and fourth all-time at Stanford in the event.

In all, Stanford scored a whopping 51 points in the 1,650 free.

To put that in perspective, Stanford would have outscored all but 18 teams at the NCAA championships with just that event.

Junior Janet Hu earned her seventh All-America honor of the meet when she qualified for the consolation finals of the 200 backstroke. She finished seventh in the final and 15th overall with a finish of 1:52.13.

Sophomore Kim Williams was the 25th seed but jumped into the finals of the 200 breaststroke with a personal-best effort of 2:09.07 in the prelims. She topped that performance with a finish of 2:08.84 in the consolation finals to place 15th place.

Three Cardinal were just outside the finals in the 200 back as Allie Szekely (1:53.11) was 20th, Ally Howe (1:53.29) was 23rd and Erin Voss (1:53.37) was 24th.

Senior Nicole Stafford finished her Cardinal career in the 200 fly with a 29th-place finish of 1:56.99, while junior Lindsey Engel was 23rd in the 200 fly at 1:56.42.

Freshman Katie Drabot placed 26th with a career-best time of 16:10.99 in her NCAA debut 1650 free.

Several Cardinal swimmers look to return to Indianapolis to compete at the U.S. World Championships Trials, June 28-July 2.

Those that qualify will head to the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, where Meehan will serve as head coach for Team USA, July 14-30. Q

Stanford prepares to meet Texas for the second time this season. The Cardinal won the an earlier meeting in November.

WOMENS BASKETBALL

Cardinal, Longhorns tangle in Kentucky Stanford hopes to advance to its second straight Elite Eight

by Rick Eymer xpect No. 14 Texas to play better this time around.

No. 6 Stanford will need to play a little better too.

The teams meet Friday at 6:30 p.m. in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament in Lexington.

It’s been over four months since the Cardinal (30-5) topped the Longhorns (28-5) in a nonconference contest at Maples Pavilion.

The Cardinal beat Texas, 71-59, in early November.

“We played them early. We played them at home,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.

“Our team is playing with confidence, but you know, I’m sure they’ll remember; that probably wasn’t a fun trip back to Austin.”

Stanford junior Brittany McPhee had a career game against the Longhorns, scoring 28 points on 11-of-15 shooting (.733), the most efficient performance from the floor for a Stanford guard against a ranked opponent with records dating to 1999-00 (minimum 10 field goals made).

Four-time All-American Candice Wiggins is second on that list, converting 55.6 percent in games against No. 16 Minnesota on Nov. 20, 2005 (10of-18) and No. 23 UTEP on March 24, 2008 (15-of-27).

Including McPhee, Stanford guards have made 10 field goals in a game against top-25 teams nine times since 1999-00. Wiggins has seven of them.

McPhee is coming off another big game. She scored 21 points in Stanford’s 69-48 victory over Kansas State in Monday’s NCAA tournament second round game.

Texas advanced with a 78-50 win over Central Arkansas and an 84-80 squeaker against North Carolina State.

The Texas-Stanford winner meets the Notre Dame-Ohio State winner on Sunday with a berth in the Final Four at stake.

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Stanford is 7-4 all-time against Texas, 1-1 at neutral sites and 0-1 in the NCAA tournament. That meeting took place in Stanford’s first trip to the NCAA tournament under VanDerveer in 1988, exactly 29 years ago Friday. Stanford lost to the top-seeded Longhorns in overtime of the Sweet 16.

Perhaps Texas will try to take McPhee out of the game. Kansas State did a pretty good job of making Karlie Samuelson a nonfactor, allowing McPhee to get loose.

Should the Longhorns attempt the same strategy against McPhee, it could open things for Samuelson.

In her last six NCAA tournament games, Samuelson is 21-of35 (.600) from behind the arc.

No one has found an answer for Alanna Smith, who has taken advantage of every opportunity that presents itself lately. She scored 19 points in the win over the Wildcats.

The Cardinal is one of five Pac12 teams in the final 16 and the conference has been successful thus far. The Pac-12 is 12-2 so far in the NCAAs. Include the WNIT and the Pac-12 is currently 16-3 in the postseason.

Erica McCall has had doubledigit rebounds in six of her last eight NCAA tournament games.

Stanford set a school record with 211 blocks last season and its 197 this year are second all-time.

Samuelson attempted just three shots against Kansas State, making a pair of 3-pointers, the fewest she’s attempted since Jan. 2, 2016 when she went 0-for-1 against Arizona, 57 games ago.

“Karlie is just the quintessential team player,” VanDerveer said. “She doesn’t get upset about not scoring. She keeps talking to people. Yeah, maybe they were up into her but that allowed Alanna to get in there and make a few baskets, and that opened it up for Brit. Q

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Palo Alto falls short of state berth The Vikings will return plenty of experience

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Alto coach Peter Diepenbrock said. “The story of the game was us giving up too much around the basket.’’

Logan (28-5) had a decided size advantage with 6-foot-9 Edra Luster at center and outrebounded Palo Alto, 40-27.

Logan also had an edge in experience. All five of its starters were seniors. Palo Alto started one senior, point guard Miles Tention, along with four juniors.

The other factor, the one seen most vividly on the scoreboard, was the way shots started falling for the Colts from the late third quarter on. They were 9 of 31 from the floor and trailing 37-24 before hitting their last three shots of the third quarter.

And then they made seven of their first nine shots in the fourth quarter. There were four 3-pointers made during that stretch of hot shooting.

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by Glenn Reeves alo Alto’s boys’ basketball season ended with a 6561 loss to James Logan in the championship game of the Northern California Division I regional, one game shy of playing for a state final. Regardless, the Vikings showed character in reaching as far as they did.

Some late heroics by the Vikings -- two foul shots by Max Dorward and a 3-pointer by Spencer Rojahn set the stage for Jack Simison’s floater in the lane, which tied the game at 54-54 with 5.2 seconds left, and sent it to overtime.

But Logan’s momentum was not to be stopped and Paly went down to a 65-61 defeat, much to the disappointment of a large and enthusiastic Palo Alto rooting section at Santa Clara University.

“We had a hard time guarding them around the basket,’’ Palo

Palo Alto senior Miles Tention scored 16 points in his final high school game.

“They got here for a reason,’’ Diepenbrock said. “They hit two or three 3s and had momentum, then made sure they rode that momentum.’’

Palo Alto (26-5), which shot 50 percent in the first half, cooled off a bit as the game progressed.

“Their defense seemed to affect us,’’ Jared Wulbrun said. “We weren’t expecting that much pressure. That’s something we need to work on for next year, trying to be more calm in that kind of situation. They were getting two, three, four chances in a row. It kind of

wore us down.’’

And so Palo Alto’s remarkable post-season road-warrior run of success came to an end. The Vikings were seeded ninth out of 16 teams in the NorCal Division I bracket.

They beat No. 8 Fremont of Oakland, No. 1 Dublin and No. 4 St. Mary’s of Stockton, all on the road, before losing to No. 3 Logan relatively close to home, at Santa Clara.

The Vikings were the lowest seed to reach a NorCal final in any division or gender.

“We knew we had a very good team with a lot of potential,’’ Diepenbrock said. “It was frustrating some of the opportunities we had that we didn’t take advantage of, at Bellarmine, at St. Francis, at M-A. Going into the playoffs we wanted to show how good we could be. We did that, showed a lot of mental toughness.

We lost to a very physical, seniorladen James Logan team. Overall, this team showed what it was capable of.’’

Dorward led Paly with 17 points and seven rebounds. Tention scored 16 in his last high school game.

“I’m most definitely going to miss these guys,’’ Tention said.

“It was a family.’’ Q

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

PREP BASEBALL

Pitchers step up with solid efforts Vikings with two-game lead in the SCVAL

by Rick Eymer baseball action. The Vikings alo Alto’s Ryan Chang edged visiting Saratoga, 1-0, in a threw a three-hitter, Pine- classic pitching duel.

Ethan Stern, in his first game wood’s Bo Fick tossed a five-inning no-hitter, Sacred since the Paly basketball season ended, collected a pair Heart Prep’s Cole of hits, including a Spina and Dominic triple, against Falcons’ Cacchione combined hurler Brian Tatman, on a five-hitter and who allowed five hits.

Menlo School’s Griff Chang did not allow McGarry and Sam a runner past second Rosenberg combined base in the contest, on a two-hitter. and following Payton It was a good week Stokes’ double in the for pitchers as several fourth, Chang (3-0) set schools opened league down nine of the final play and the Vikings 10 batters he faced. He continued their domi- Ryan Chang struck out the side in the seventh. nance of the SCVAL. John McGrory collected three Ryan Chang made sure an unearned run stood up as he pitched hits and drove in a run as Sacred a three-hitter to keep Palo Alto Heart Prep opened its Peninsula undefeated in De Anza Division Athletic League season with a 7-3

victory over host Woodside.

Spina (2-0) went the first four innings. Both pitchers struck out five batters.

Menlo baseball opened Peninsula Athletic League Ocean Division play Tuesday with a 10-3 victory over host The King’s Academy in Sunnyvale.

McGarry (3-0) struck out nine, allowing three runs on a pair of hits, and walking two in five innings. He also doubled for one of his four hits against TKA. Menlo sophomore Sam Rosenberg didn’t allow a hit the rest of the way, throwing the final two innings.

Jackson Haun drove in three runs and Pinewood opened PSAL South play with a 10-0 victory over visiting Priory, supporting Fick’s gem. Q

much last year.

Rolling Hills (32-3) is a surprise entrant from Southern California in the state title game.

The Huskies were the No. 5 seed in the SoCal playoffs, but then proceeded to reel off four decisive wins. They routed No. 1 seed Heritage Christian 74-49 in the semifinals, then defeated No. 3 Bellarmine-Jefferson 68-56 in the final.

“They like to pressure and play man-to-man,’’ Blythe said. “We match up well size-wise.’’

Despite its small-school status Eastside has played a daunting schedule full of the best teams in Northern California. Selected for the Central Coast Section

Open Division playoffs, thereby recognized as one of the eight top teams in the CCS, Eastside went into the NorCal playoffs as the No. 1 seed and played like it, winning its first three games by an average margin of more than 45 points per game before a 66-58 win in the NorCal final over No. 2 seed Priory.

Now a state championship is within the team’s grasp.

“We came into this season with the mentality that we wanted to get back-to-back state championships for ourselves and for the school,’’ Tahaafe said. “We knew if we could do that it would leave us with a real great sense of accomplishment.’’ Q

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“Kayla is one of the best point guards in the state,’’ Eastside coach Donovan Blythe said.

Sophomore 3-point shooting specialist Zion Gabriel helps out with the scoring (14.2 per game) and sophomore Mina Tameilau aids Tahaafe on the boards (6.4 per game).

With no seniors on the team and the 5-8 Tameilau the tallest player in the rotation, Eastside (22-8) has reached the state finals despite lacking senior leadership and size. Not that those so-called ‘deficiencies’ mattered

Kayla Tahaafe EASTSIDE PREP BASKETBALL The junior point guard led the Panthers to the NorCal Division V championship on Saturday, scoring 29 points and recording 12 rebounds in a win over Priory.

Jackson Haun PINEWOOD BASEBALL The junior pitcher struck out 16 batters in a 10-2 victory over Westmoor on Friday. He averages 9.05 strikeouts per seven innings over 90 career innings.

Honorable mention Alexandra Chan Menlo track and field

Mackenzie Glassford Palo Alto softball

Emily Kim Gunn softball

Kayla Mahan Eastside Prep basketball

Tatiana Reese* Priory basketball

Grace Zhao Palo Alto swimming

Jeffrey Lee-Heidenreich* Gunn track and field

Alex Liang Palo Alto swimming

Terrance Matthews-Murphy Menlo-Atherton track and field

Robert Miranda Menlo track and field

Casey Morris Menlo-Atherton tennis

Naveen Pai Palo Alto track and field * Previous winners

Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com

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