Palo Alto Weekly December 22, 2017

Palo Alto

Vol. XXXIX, Number 12

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IN SIDE

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Pulse 13 Movies 20 Puzzles 24 Q Arts Accessible art: Groups offer autism-friendly shows Q Home DIY: Turn wine bottles into holiday centerpieces Q Sports Tournament time for many prep basketball teams

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Local news, information and analysis

Pension changes cloud Palo Alto’s budget outlook New forecast shows dramatic impact of CalPERS adjustments

by Gennady Sheyner

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ity leaders rarely talk about service reductions during flush economic times, but that’s exactly what’s happening in Palo Alto, where the budget outlook is being dampened by a growing and unpredictable pension bill.

The challenge of projecting and addressing the city’s pension obligations to its retirees will be one of the first issues that the City Council will tackle in the new year. It is also one that the council’s Finance Committee wrestled with on Dec. 5, its final meeting

of the year, when it discussed the city’s new long-term financial forecast.

The news isn’t entirely bleak.

Under the default scenario presented by staff, the city will see a revenue shortfall in the General Fund of $2.6 million in Fiscal Year 2019, which will begin on July 1. The forecast assumes that this will be followed by four years of smaller budget gaps, followed by four years of

revenue surpluses.

City Manager James Keene told the Finance Committee that he will be presenting a plan to achieve “structural fixes” for the budget gap in the coming months, a task that he said was a high priority.

“Like with anything, the sooner we make structural fixes, the better the future is,” Keene said.

But while the projected 2019 gap is relatively modest by Palo

Alto’s historical standards, things get more precarious further in the future. The city’s long-term forecast assumes, in its default scenario, that CalPERS will continue to see a rate of return on investments (or “discount rate”) of 7 percent, a rate that the pension fund’s own consultant had deemed unrealistic. The consultant, Wilshire Associates, (continued on page 8)

EDUCATION

School board urges accountability in equity plan Special-education teacher: Plan is ‘long overdue’

by Elena Kadvany

F Veronica Weber

Youth artists, from left, Jocelyn Hernandez, Alejandro Canche, Mikey Arroyo, Jennifer Mancia and Nathan Jovel stand in front of the large mural in a stairwell at the Ravenswood Health Center in East Palo Alto, which was painted by fellow teens in the East Palo Alto Mural Music & Arts Project. The educational project was paid for in part by the Palo Alto Holiday Fund.

HOLIDAY FUND

Reclaiming their city one brush stroke at a time Holiday Fund grant provides young East Palo Alto artists tools to foster neighborhood change

by Linda Taaffe

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hances are you’ve seen the work of the Mural, Music & Arts Project while passing through East Palo Alto.

The colorful murals, conceived and painted by youth artists, blanket the city’s parks, public buildings and schools.

Each painting — depicting current events and themes such as unity and community — is designed to not only beautify the city but also foster positive neighborhood change.

Founded in East Palo Alto in collaboration with the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula and

the Ravenswood City School District in 2001, the organization began as a summer project to help connect local youth with mentors through art and music programs emphasizing community development and academic achievement.

Since then, more than 5,000 youth artists have produced a hundred songs and created 554 public art works installed in East Palo Alto and surrounding communities, as well as San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles.

According to East Palo Alto police, the 400 feet of murals the

group has installed in the city’s parks have helped transform areas once overrun with crime into community gathering places.

The number of recorded gun shots at Jack Farrell Park dropped from 2,400 in 2011 to 630 in 2014 after the group installed a 1,200-square-foot mural there in 2012 as part of the city’s Fit Zone Program, Police Chief Albert Pardini told the media in 2015.

“By the end of the (parks beautification) program, we noticed there was a significant reduction in gun violence where the murals (continued on page 9)

eedback on a plan for closing the achievement gap in Palo Alto Unified was clear on Tuesday night: Parents are desperate for action and the Board of Education wants specific goals that will hold the district’s feet to the fire on a complex issue that has resisted change for years.

The school board and community members were largely supportive of the new two-year plan, which was presented by new Equity Coordinator Keith Wheeler at the school board meeting.

Wheeler has proposed the district explicitly focus on how its approximately 2,000 AfricanAmerican and Hispanic students, some of whom are low-income or have disabilities, are underachieving academically and how to address structures at schools that contribute to the lower performance. He developed the plan with feedback from teachers, staff, students and parents, including in-home visits to many families.

The plan has three main focuses: improving school climate and culture for these students; providing personalized learning plans to improve academic outcomes; and hiring and retaining a more diverse workforce.

Board members urged Wheeler to add specific, clear goals to hold both staff and the board accountable for progress. Trustee Todd Collins suggested they be “S.M.A.R.T.” goals, a common acronym for specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.

Collins also suggested that the district be clear that the superintendent and principals are primarily responsible for progress at the schools and that the district’s

resources — both money and time — be carefully focused.

“We are a district with a short span of attention. When we try to do (more than) a couple things at once we usually fail at all of them,” he said, urging Wheeler to prioritize an achievable number of goals.

Several board members also expressed an interest in using the California Department of Education’s new accountability website — which provides data on districts’ performance in areas such as academics, graduation rates, English language learner progress and student safety — to set goals in the equity plan.

Board member Terry Godfrey said the plan should also be driven by other data on the performance of minority and lowincome students, such as California’s standardized Smarter Balanced test and the rates at which students complete requirements to enter the state college system, known as “A-G.” She also suggested scrutinizing data in the earlier grades to identify “leading indicators” for students who might be struggling.

She also asked Wheeler to return with cost estimates for the recommendations.

Several board members agreed, at Collins’ suggestion, to make equity a standing, monthly agenda item at board meetings so they can more closely monitor progress.

For parents, teachers and community members who have been working to move the needle on this issue for years — some even a decade — Tuesday night was déjà vu. (continued on page 8)

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I feel that this district has paid a lot of lip service to this issue for a long time.

HAIL TO THE NEW CHIEF ...

Palo Alto’s new police chief, Robert A. Jonsen, won’t officially start his new position until Jan. 9, but he didn’t wait long to make his City Hall debut.

Jonsen, who was the Menlo Park police chief at the time of his hiring, introduced himself to the community at the Dec. 11 City Council meeting, where he pledged to do his best to “provide leadership and stability for a department full of amazing men and women who truly give their all and who truly want to serve this community every year with professionalism, integrity and respect.” Jonsen also noted the obvious contrast between himself and retired Police Chief Dennis Burns, who concluded his department career a year ago. “To state the obvious, I lack his height and I clearly lack his full head of hair,” said Jonsen, his gleaming scalp unblemished by strands. “But what I can assure you is that I have a heart of equal size and I will engage with you, as my predecessors have set a standard and an expectation that I know all of you have in this great community.”

The council swiftly approved Jonsen’s contract, which includes a $260,000 salary along with a $3,000-per-month housing stipend for 18 months.

The idea behind the stipend is to support Jonsen’s transition “by allowing him to live and fully immerse himself in Palo Alto over his first year and a half in the job,” according to a report from Human Resources Department.

“This will be conducive to building necessary relationships with members of our community as quickly and completely as possible.” City Manager James Keene, who made the decision to hire Jonsen, said the choice was made after an “extremely competitive process” with an “outstanding pool of

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Stanford Shopping Center is pulling out all the stops to ease the holiday shopping experience this season for customers and employees as Christmas Day fast approaches. The mall is piloting a program with Filld, a Mountain View-based company that delivers gas through an app available on the Apple store and Google Play. While tackling their shopping lists, users can request a fill-up for their parked vehicle. Once a shopper shares his/her car’s location, schedules a time and releases the car’s gas flap, the company sends a small truck to finish the job.

Customers, who don’t need to be present for the fill-up, are charged the lowest rate among the three closest gas stations in the area, plus a small delivery fee. The service will be available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. The company uses double-filtered gasoline at 87 and 91 octanes. “This firstof-its kind alliance recognizes the simple fact that there’s never a good time to stop for gas,” Filld CEO Michael Buhr said in a press release.

DEFINING MIDDLE CLASS ...

What does it mean to be middle class in Palo Alto? That’s a question the Weekly is looking to answer with help from residents across different zip codes, regardless of their income, through a survey. Answers from the simple, eight-question form will be used for an upcoming story that will incorporate data from the U.S. Census. The informal, qualitative survey isn’t intended to be comprehensive and participants can remain anonymous. Residents interested in being interviewed for the article can provide their contact information at the end of the survey. Responses will be accepted through Jan. 5. To fill out the survey, visit bit.ly/2Bcc0cI. Q

Upfront YEAR IN REVIEW

Words to remember As 2017 comes to a close, we recall what Palo Altans said — and why

It’s not an overarching monitoring and Big Brother-type thing.

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any are the ways to take stock of a year.

Photographs can sum up powerful moments of raw emotion (see the photo essay “2017: From behind the camera lens” on page 16), while words reveal people’s perspectives and their attempts to shape public policy.

This year, as issues of unrelenting traffic congestion, the woeful unaffordability of housing and missteps in the Palo Alto Unified School District made the headlines, city leaders and residents

Some of the council seems to think (HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’) is a docudrama, and we need to change zoning to keep up with the scripts.

— Derek Moore, Palo Alto school district chief technology officer, on monitoring software for student computers that concerned some students. Feb. 10

alike weighed in.

To help you think over what happened this past year and what it all meant, here’s a playback of some of the comments that were selected as the Palo Alto Weekly’s Quote of the Week.

And keep an eye out for next week’s edition of the Weekly, in which we continue our look back at the year almost passed. We’ll give you our reporters’ takes on how the city changed in 2017. Q —Palo Alto Weekly staff

— Pat Burt, former Palo Alto mayor, on allowing startups in single-family homes. May 5

— Greg Tanaka, Palo Alto City Councilman, on cracking down on illegal parking with $400 fines.

April 14

My hope is that this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

— Erika Escalante, president of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park Residents Association, on the county Housing Authority’s purchase of the site, preserving 117 homes. May 18

— Laura Prentiss, a Paly parent, on uproar surrounding the PaloAlto Unified School District’s handling of a specific case of alleged sexual assault.

May 19

— Mike Becker, who lives in his RV, after it came to the city’s attention that dozens of people were parking their RVs on El Camino Real and living there. June 30

If we wait until the wrecking ball starts ... there’s no turning back.

The city has a very narrow definition of what a religious institution is and what it can provide.

— Randle Mixon, pastor of First Baptist Church, on Palo Alto’s crackdown on what types of groups and businesses could rent space at the church. July 21

— Nicole Naraji, Gunn High School alum, on the value of circuitous routes in life. June 2

— Phil Bobel, assistant director of Public Works, on a new waste facility that will send sewage sludge to another city for processing, replacing an environmentally harmful sludge incinerator. Aug. 4

— Ed Lauing, member of the Planning and Transportation Commission, on banning marijuana dispensaries. Sept. 1

— Jan Holiday, a La Comida board member, on moving the senior lunch program back to Avenidas senior center after the facility’s remodel. The two groups did not come to an agreement about sharing space in the future. Aug. 18

— Elaine Meyer, University South neighborhood resident, on the council’s revised Comprehensive Plan and the need to limit new housing construction. Oct. 27

— Liz Kniss, Palo Alto City Council member, on requirements that new developments pass subjective aesthetic standards. Sept. 8

— Eileen Wall, Park Boulevard resident, on drivers during rush hour speeding the wrong way down opposing lanes. Nov. 10

— Terry Godfrey, Palo Alto Unified Board of Education president, on an error that led to the school district paying an unexpected $6M more to its union members.

Sept. 15

— Larry Moody, East Palo Alto mayor, on how the city has become safer and more prosperous. Nov. 24

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Pension changes (continued from page 5)

concluded in November 2016 that a more likely discount rate for the coming decade is 6.2 percent.

So far, the pension fund’s executive board has chosen not to adopt the 6.2 percent rate, mindful of the fact that doing so would

significantly raise the pension obligations of cities throughout the state. It did, however, agree a year ago to lower its assumed discount rate to 7 percent and to phase the change in over three years.

But what would happen if CalPERS chose to go along with the presumably more realistic 6.2 percent rate? According to a new analysis put together by

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council

The council did not meet this week.

Board of Education (Dec. 19)

Equity plan: The board discussed a proposed two-year equity plan for closing the achievement gap. Action: None Parcel tax: The board heard a fiscal report on parcel tax expenditures in 201617. Action: None Financial report: The board gave positive certification to the county that the district can meet its financial obligations through the end of the fiscal year and next two years, and approved budget revisions in a first interim financial report.

Yes: Collins, Dauber, DiBrienza, Godfrey Absent: Baten Caswell Copiers: The board authorized the district to lease 11 copiers from Pacific Office Automation. Yes: Collins, Dauber, DiBrienza, Godfrey Absent: Baten Caswell County committee: The board selected President Ken Dauber to serve as its representative on the County Committee on School District Organization. Yes: Collins, Dauber, DiBrienza, Godfrey Absent: Baten Caswell Committee assignments: The board approved its committee assignments for 2018. Yes: Collins, Dauber, DiBrienza, Godfrey Absent: Baten Caswell Calendar: The board waived its two-meeting rule and approved a schedule for board meetings in 2018-19. Yes: Collins, Dauber, DiBrienza, Godfrey Absent: Baten Caswell Residency policy: The board waived its two-meeting rule and approved a new policy on district residency. Yes: Collins, Dauber, DiBrienza, Godfrey Absent: Baten Caswell

Parks and Recreation Commission (Dec. 19) Recreation: The commission heard updates about lighting at Cubberley Community Center and a proposal to install pickleball courts at Mitchell Park tennis courts. Action: None

Architectural Review Board (Dec. 21)

380 Cambridge Ave.: The board discussed a proposal to construct a threestory building with retail and office use at 380 Cambridge Ave. The board criticized the design for being too blocky and monolithic and agreed to continue the discussion to a future meeting. Action: None 4256 El Camino Real: The board had a study session on a proposal to build a new 51,226-square-foot, five-story hotel at 4256 El Camino Real. Action: None

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the city’s actuary, John Bartel, the change would create a $11.1 million deficit in the city’s 2019 budget, followed by deficits of $8.3 million and $6.9 million in the two subsequent years.

For the committee, the new analysis represented a red flag.

If the 6.2 percent discount rate is “the real one,” Finance Committee Chair Eric Filseth said, the city’s budget gap becomes much larger.

Even without the potential CalPERS change, the new longterm forecast gave the Finance Committee several causes for concern. It does not, for instance, factor in the growing costs of the city’s pending infrastructure projects, which include a new public-safety building, a new bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101 and two new parking garages. Nor does it consider potential new projects, such as an updated animal shelter, the reconstruction of Cubberley Community Center or new athletic fields near the Baylands.

But for the Finance Committee, labor costs were the biggest wildcard. The long-term forecast assumes annual salary increases of 2 percent for city workers.

Filseth and Councilman Greg Tanaka both said they were skeptical that the number would be this low and pointed to recent contracts as evidence. Both

suggested that the city should plan for larger salary expenses increase down the line.

Filseth, who has made tackling the pension problem a top priority, said the city’s assumptions on employee costs will have significant consequences for the public.

“The choices we make, the decisions we arrive at and the accommodations and negotiations we reach with labor groups — these are going to have potential impacts on the community for decades to come,” Filseth said.

Tanaka, an avowed fiscal hawk who frequently casts the council’s sole dissenting vote on major budget items, challenged staff’s assumption that employee costs will stabilize in future years. He cited the city’s recent move to bring employee salaries up to market levels, an effort that led to salary increases well above 2 percent for all labor groups.

“We have a hard time holding the line on everything,” Tanaka said, referring to the council’s history of approving salary raises.

The forecast does, however, include some good news on the revenue front. Tax receipts are steadily rising and Administrative Services Department staff expect to see an increase of 4.2 percent (or $5 million) in 2019, compared to 2018. Budget officials also expect to see

revenues go up by about 3 percent in future years, even as they acknowledged the difficulty of making long-term economic predictions.

The City Council plans to discuss the city’s financial trends, pension obligations and rising infrastructure costs on Jan. 22, its first substantive meeting of 2018. The council also plans to meet in a closed session early in the new year to discuss the city’s labor challenges and consider negotiation strategies.

Councilwoman Karen Holman, who also sits on the Finance Committee, urged her colleagues and staff to keep these conversations public to the extent possible under bargaining rules. She also stressed the need to be clear and specific in discussing “service reductions.” For residents, there is a big difference between saving costs by keeping vacant positions open (as the city had done in response to the 2008 recession) and actually cutting back on services like tree trimming and street sweeping.

“If we just go out and say, ‘To fill this gap we’re going to need service reductions,’ it ain’t going to be a happy reception,” Holman said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be e-mailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

School board

recommendations in 2015 that laid the foundation for this next phase of work.

Muñoz and other parents urged the board to support Wheeler, whom many described as energizing and ready to tackle this work.

Palo Alto High School specialeducation teacher Laura Bricca said the plan is “long overdue.”

“I stand here today both hopeful because I’m inspired by the people who are currently in this district trying to attack this problem and I’m inspired by our students,” she said. “I’m also fearful because I feel that this district has paid a lot of lip service to this issue for a long time.

“I think we’re really good at talking about equity and access and we have not done a good job at implementing what’s required to address it,” she said.

Among the plan’s specific recommendations is to expand DreamCatchers, a nonprofit that provides after-school tutoring to minority and low-income middle school students, to the ninth grade. The district is also in talks with the nonprofit to add a summer program for fourth- and fifth-graders.

While several parents, many speaking through a Spanish translator, spoke to the

importance of DreamCatchers for their children, one questioned why families are so dependent on an outside organization for educational support.

“The degree of need for DreamCatchers is also a reflection of the deficiencies we have in our own district,” said parent Sara Woodham, who serves on the nonprofit’s board of directors. “Frankly, DreamCatchers is really filling a void, and folks are desperate when we have to basically outsource what we should probably be doing a much better job at.”

Board Vice President Jennifer DiBrienza later commented that despite the need for clear goals and accountability, the district faces a much larger problem: Its very educational environment has been built to serve a particular population, continually leaving minority and low-income students behind.

“If we keep things as they are and just try to put in a new program here and put in a new program there, this structure is still in place that’s making it happen,” she said.

The board is set to vote on the equity plan at its Jan. 30 meeting. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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“I have no more patience to see the same movie playing over and over again for these kids,” said parent Carmen Muñoz, who served on the district’s Minority Achievement and Talent Development committee. The group penned a set of

Correction

The Dec. 15 cover story “Home schooling grows up” misspelled Kirill O’Neil’s first name. The Weekly regrets the error. To request a correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at 650-223-6514, jdong@paweekly. com or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302.

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Holiday Fund (continued from page 5)

went up,” said Dany Cesena, director of outreach for the Arts Project.

“By coming out ... and working on small arts projects, people were able to reclaim their city. We were super stoked. After the beautification project, people have come out to enjoy the public space.”

As for the students, they’ve been able to acquire the skills and determination to become leaders in their community, he added.

Each summer, the Arts Project hires up to 25 student artists between the ages of 14 and 24 to work in its Teen Mural Program.

Some of the youth are referred to the program; others join to fulfill community service hours ordered by a judge. Many are just looking for a fun after-school activity.

All participants go through a 10-week curriculum that weaves reading, writing, math and business skills with color theory, perspective drawing and painting. The students contribute to every stage of a project from voting on the mural’s design to priming the walls and painting the mural to planning its installation and holding a public unveiling event. Through constant fundraising and grants — like this year’s $5,000 grant from the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund — the organization is able to pay each student about $1,000, Cesena said.

“A lot of kids in East Palo Alto kind of go through a lot in their lives,” Cesena said. “Their families are also dealing with really deep struggles — financial, social, emotional and other. The idea behind the program is to round up kids and have them work on arts projects, get some financial incentive and help them do better in school, as well as learn different kinds of skills that they don’t normally get in daily life.”

For Nathan Jovel,18, who joined the Arts Project six years ago after the group visited his middle school, the experience has encouraged him to consider a career in industrial design.

Jovel said he already had an interest in drawing and music and thought the program would be a good way to fulfill community service hours required as part of his school curriculum.

“It was something to do after school and got me away from the house,” he said.

What he didn’t realize is how much he would get out of the program, he added.

Since working on five murals through the program, Nathan, who now is almost done with high school, said he can see the improvement in his drawing skills.

Before, it was difficult to organize all of his ideas on paper, he said.

“I didn’t really know how to get started. That was the hardest part,” he said.

Now Jovel regularly helps with the group’s mural projects from concept to completion.

Students in the Teen Mural Program are currently finishing a 320-foot mural around the exterior perimeter of the Ravenswood Family Health Center on Bay Road.

The project depicts healthy family activities — a grandmother reading to her granddaughter, children playing in a park, families dancing and playing music together — in 20 separate panels. Grant money from the Holiday Fund has helped cover the cost of materials and stipends for the 20 student artists creating the project, which includes a 20-page coloring book in several languages for children visiting the health center. The group plans to unveil the project this spring.

Cesena said the organization hopes to continue to expand the arts programs into more areas.

“I really enjoy seeing how much of a difference programs like this can have on people’s lives,” Cesena said. “People find it difficult to work with troubled youth because, well, they can be hard to work with. But in this program, we can give them a paint brush or a microphone and tell them to create something, and they are more than happy to create and do something positive.” Q More information about the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund, including how to contribute and a list of people who’ve already donated, can be found on pages 10 and 11.

Online This Week

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

East Palo Alto extends RV parking ban Finding that a staff-imposed emergency ban on recreational vehicle parking is fully justified, the East Palo Alto City Council voted on Tuesday night to extend the moratorium on RV parking along the dead-end portion of Weeks Street. (Posted Dec. 20, 4:59 p.m.)

Four children struck by cars Road conditions played a role in two separate collisions on Wednesday morning where four children riding their bicycles were struck by cars in Palo Alto and suffered minor injuries, police said.

(Posted Dec. 20, 9:25 a.m.)

‘Sunny Day’ defendant strikes plea deal A 24-year-old man who pleaded no contest on Friday to manslaughter charges in the shooting death of an alleged gang member could receive five years and four months in state prison for the crime as part of a plea deal, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office said. (Posted Dec. 19, 9:50 a.m.)

Coroner names murder-suicide victims Two women found dead from gunshot wounds on Dec. 13 at an East Palo Alto home, in what police have determined was a murder-suicide, were named by the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office. (Posted Dec. 14, 9:18 p.m.)

Holiday giving: places to volunteer, donate A number of local organizations are seeking donations and volunteers to help them make this holiday season brighter for those in need. The Christmas Bureau, Ecumenical Hunger Program and LifeMoves are among those still seeking community assistance.

For a full list of nonprofits, go to bit.ly/HolidayGivingPA. (Posted Nov. 21, 8:26 a.m.)

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Support our Kids with a gift to the Holiday Fund Last Year’s Grant Recipients 10 Books A Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 Abilities United. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,000 Ada’s Café . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Adolescent Counseling Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,000 All Students Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Bayshore Christian Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Building Futures Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 CASSY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 Community Legal Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,000 Community Working Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Downtown Streets Team. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 DreamCatchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,000 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Family Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 Foundation for a College Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 Friends of Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Grace Lutheran Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,000 Health Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,500 Hidden Villa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Jasper Ridge Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 JLS Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Jordan Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Kara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 The Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,000 Marine Science Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Midpeninsula Community Media Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Mural Music & Arts Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Music in the Schools Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 New Creation Home Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 New Voices for Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,000 One East Palo Alto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Palo Alto Art Center Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Palo Alto Community Child Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,000 Palo Alto Friends Nursery School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,000 Palo Alto School District Music Department. . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Palo Alto Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Parents Nursery School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,000 Peninsula Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Peninsula HealthCare Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Project WeHOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,000 Pursuit of Excellence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 Quest Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 Ravenswood Education Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 Silicon Valley Urban Debate League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,000 St. Francis of Assisi Youth Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 St. Vincent de Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,000 TheatreWorks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,000 YMCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,500 Youth Community Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,000 Youth Speaks Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,000

Non-profits: Grant application & guidelines at www.PaloAltoOnline.com/holiday_fund

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ach year the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund raises money to support programs serving families and children in the Palo Alto area. Since the Weekly and the Silicon Valley

Community Foundation cover all the administrative costs, every dollar raised goes directly to support community programs through grants to non-profit organizations.

And with the generous support of matching grants from local foundations, including the Packard, Hewlett, Peery and Arrillaga foundations, your tax-deductible gift will be doubled in size. A donation of $100 turns into $200 with the foundation

Give to the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund and your donation is doubled. You give to non-profit groups that work right here in our community.

It’s a great way to ensure that your charitable donations are working at home.

matching gifts.

Whether as an individual, a business or in honor of someone else, help us reach our goal of $350,000 by making a generous contribution to the Holiday Fund.

With your generosity, we can give a major boost to the programs in our community helping kids and families.

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Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund c/o Silicon Valley Community Foundation 2440 West El Camino Real, Suite 300 Mountain View, CA 94040 The Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund is a donor advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization.

A contribution to this fund allows your donation to be tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Steve Fasani ................................. * Emmett Lorey .............................. * Becky Schaefer............................. * Kathy Morris ................................ *

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As of Dec. 18, 2017, 285 donors have donated $259,405

Yoko Nonaka ........................... 100 Our loving parents Albert & Beverly Pellizzari ..................... * Don & Marie Snow .................. 100 Carol Berkowitz ....................... 200 Bertha Kalson .............................. *

21 Anonymous ..................... 8,535

Previously Published

Mandy Lowell .............................. *

Brigid Barton......................... 1,000

Marsha Alper ........................... 250 Ronald Popp ................................ *

Bobbie & Jerry Wagger................. *

Margot Goodman .................... 100

Bill Reller ...................................... *

Al & JoAnne Russell ................. 300

Peter Stern ................................... *

Yen-Chen & Er-Ying ................. 250

New Donors

Helene Pier .................................. *

Robert & Barbara Simpson ........... *

Sally & Craig Nordlund ............. 500

Dr. Nanci Yuan ...................... 1,000

Annette Isaacson ..................... 100

Edward Kanazawa ................... 100

Robyn Crumly .......................... 100

Joe & Marlene Prendergast .......... *

Jim Byrnes ............................... 100

John & Meg Monroe ................ 500

Don & Bonnie Miller................. 100

Vic Befera ................................ 100

Carol & Roy Blitzer ....................... *

Ruth & Chet Johnson ................... *

David Backer ............................ 500

Boyce & Peggy Nute..................... *

John & Mary Schaefer .................. *

Sally O’Neil & Ken Bencala ....... 100

Robert Lobdell ............................. *

Leonie Walker .......................... 100

Ralph Britton............................ 200

Suzanne & Bert Bell...................... *

Chris & Beth Martin ..................... *

Wendy Sinton .............................. *

Pam Grady ............................... 250

Dena Goldberg ........................ 500

Carolyn Brennan .......................... *

Judith Appleby ......................... 300

Nancy Peterson ........................ 100

Mike & Lennie Roberts ............. 150

Margaret Fisher.......................... 50

Kathleen Kelly .......................... 200

Patti Yanklowitz & Mark Krasnow ....................... *

Drew McCalley & Marilyn Green ....................... 100

Carol Kersten ........................... 200

Janice Bohman......................... 250

Lee & Judy Shulman ................. 100

Phil Fernandez & Daniel Sternbergh ..................... *

Helen Rubin ............................. 500 Tracy & Alan Herrick ..................... * Ken Sletten .................................. *

Betsy & George Bechtel............ 100

Nate Rosenberg ....................... 150

Erika Jurney ............................. 100

Lawrence Yang & Jennifer Kuan .................................. 1,000

Marcia Katz ............................. 200

Veronica Tincher .......................... *

Bob Donald.............................. 100

Steve & Diane Ciesinski ............ 500

Beth Marer-Garcia ...................... 25

Ron Wolf ................................. 200

Michael Couch......................... 250

Duncan Matteson .................... 500

Richard Mazze ......................... 100

Richard Zuanich ....................... 150

John & Florine Galen .................... *

Greg & Penny Gallo ................. 500

Thomas Rindfleisch ...................... *

Julie & Jon Jerome ....................... *

Braff Family.............................. 500

Wendy Max ............................... 50

Sally & Abdo Kadifa .............. 1,000

Chris Kenrick ........................ 1,000

Eileen Brennan ......................... 500

Judith & Warren Goodnow ...... 300

Art Stauffer.............................. 500

Dr. David Zlotnick ..................... 250

Arthur Keller ................................ *

Don & Dee Price......................... 45

Kenyon Family ......................... 500

Janet H. Hermsen..................... 200

Diane Finkelstein ...................... 150

Jan Thomas & Roy Levin ............... *

William DeBord ..................... 1,000

Jack Sutorius ............................ 300

Sandra & Scott Pearson ............ 500

Bruce Campbell ....................... 200

Linda & Steve Boxer ..................... *

Diane & Bob Simoni ................. 200

As a Gift For

Margo Sensenbrenner.................. *

Eugene & Mabel Dong ............. 200

David & Mindy Sitzer................ 100

Dennis Clark ............................ 150

Ned & Judy Lund.......................... *

Barbara Riper ............................... *

Leif & Sharon Erickson ............. 250

Ada’s Café ................................. 50

Debby Roth.............................. 200

Harry & Susan Hartzell ............. 100

Irvin & Marilyn Yalom ............... 100

Carol & Mahlon Hubenthal ......... *

Arden King ................................ 25

Jim & Alma Phillips ................... 500

Guy DiJulio .................................. *

Herbert Fischgrund .................. 200

Richard Alexander ................. 1,000

Robert Raymakers & Bonnie Packer .................... 100

Hal & Carol Louchheim ............ 400

Scott & Jan Kilner..................... 500

Elizabeth Salzer & Richard Baumgartner ............................. *

Shari & Donald Orstein............. 300

Stephen & Nancy Levy.............. 500

Luca & Mary Cafiero ................ 500

Elaine Hahn ................................. *

Dennis & Cindy Dillon .................. *

Jerry & Linda Elkind ...................... *

Elaine & Eric Hahn........................ *

Tom & Pat Sanders ....................... *

Carolyn Reese .......................... 300

Arna & Hersh Shefrin ................... *

Bill Johnson & Terri Lobdell .... 1,000

Teresa Roberts....................... 2,000

Marilyn Sutorius ....................... 300

Tony & Priscilla Marzoni................ *

Barbara Klein & Stan Schrier......... *

Keith Clarke ............................. 200

Joanne Koltnow ....................... 300

Bob & Joan Jack ....................... 250

Anna Olsen .............................. 150

Havern Family ....................... 5,000

Hal & Iris Korol ......................... 250

Constance Crawford .................... *

Pat & Nancy McGaraghan ........ 250

Dorothy Kennedy ..................... 200

Kaaren & John Antoun.......... 1,500

Susie Richardson & Hal Luft.......... *

Shirley Ely ................................ 500

Gwen Luce and Family ................. *

Ellen & Tom Ehrlich .................. 400

Nancy Moss ................................. *

Sallie & Jay Whaley ...................... *

Janis Ulevich ............................ 100

Richard & Tish Fagin................. 200

Marilyn, Dale, Rick & Mei Simbeck........................... *

Nancy & Jim Baer ............................

Hamilton Hitchings .................. 250

Chuck & Jean Thompson ......... 100

Ann Burrell & Allen Smith ...............

Andrea Smith........................... 100

Godfrey Family......................... 100

Roger Warnke.......................... 300

Bonnie Berg ................................. *

Dorsey & Katherine Bass .......... 300

Jennifer DiBrienza & Jesse Dorogusker ........................... 250

Ellen & Mike Turbow ................ 200

Judith & Hans Steiner ............... 100

Bjorn & Michele Liencres ....... 1,000

Ruth Hammett ............................. *

Sue Kemp ................................ 250

Stanford Federal Credit Union................................. 5,000

Fran Codispoti ......................... 500

Carroll Harrington .................... 100

Lijun & Jia-Ning Xiang .............. 100

Cathy & Howard Kroymann ..... 250

Palantir ............................... 5,000 DeLeon Realty ..................... 5,000

Nigel Jones ................................ 50 Anna Messner.......................... 250 Marian Adams ......................... 100 Patricia Bubenik ....................... 200 Ken & Michele Dauber ............. 500 JoAnne Zschokke ..................... 100 Vermeil Family.............................. * Susan Osofksy.......................... 200 Dawes Family ........................... 250 Hoda Epstein ............................... * Tom & Nancy Fiene ...................... * Nina & Norman Kulgein .......... 250 Barbara Rieder ......................... 100 Karen & Steve Ross ...................... *

Charles & Barbara Stevens ........... *

David & Nancy Kalkbrenner...... 100 Jacqueline Rush ....................... 100

Thomas W. & Louise L. Phinney .... * Leo & Sylvia Breidenbach ............. * Florence Kan Ho .......................... *

In Honor Of Lucy Berman’s clients ............ 2,500 Kathryn Avery .............................. *

Organizations Palo Alto Weekly Moonlight Run & Walk ...................... 53,745 Sponsors of Moonlight Run:............

Palo Alto Medical Foundation ........................ 5,000 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation ........... 5,000

Richard Johnsson .................. 7,000

Diane Sikic ................................... *

Mike & Loren Gordon .............. 250

Cynthia Costell ........................ 100

Phil Hanawalt & Graciela Spivak ................... 1,000

Gordon Chamberlain ............... 300

Dave & Lynn Mitchell ............... 300

Daniel Cox ............................... 200

Nancy & Joe Huber .................. 100

Micki & Bob Caredelli................... *

Bruce & Jane Gee..................... 250

John & Pat Davis .......................... *

Ann & Don Rothblatt ............... 500

Joan Norton ................................. *

In Memory Of Lee Domenik.............................. 50

Betty Gerard ............................ 100

Felecia Levy .............................. 100

Rosalie Shepherd ..................... 100

Jim Lewis ..................................... *

Elizabeth Kok ............................... *

Diane Moore................................ *

Leonard Ely .............................. 250

George & Betsy Young ................. *

Carol Bacchetti ............................ *

Don & Adele Langendorf ......... 200

Peery Foundation ................ 10,000

Ted Linden ............................... 200

Merrill & Lee Newman ............. 250

Virginia & Don Fitton ................. 25

Jody Maxmin ............................... *

Arrillaga Foundation ........... 10,000

Mary Floyd ................................. 35

Denise Savoie & Darrell Duffie ...... *

Wealth Architects................ 5,000 Facebook ............................ 5,000 Lakin Spears........................ 2,000 Bank of the West ................ 1,000

Mike & Cathie Foster ............... 500

Ted & Ginny Chu.......................... *

Gerald & Joyce Barker .................. *

Packard Foundation ........... 25,000

Ken Sletten .................................. *

Diane Doolittle ............................. *

Judy Ousterhout .......................... *

Roger Smith ............................. 300

Ruth Rosenbaum ..................... 100

In Memory Of Ando & Barbara MacDonell...... 100

Hewlett Foundation ............ 25,000

In Honor Of Ms. Georgia Lee......................... 25

Glenn Affleck............................. 25

Jacques & Wanda .................... 250

Good Bear & Co. Charitable Fund ................. 5,000

Georgia Lee ............................... 35

Lani Freeman & Stephen Monismith ............................ 100

Judy Kramer................................. *

Elliot W. Eisner ............................. *

Zorro ....................................... 100

Page & Ferrell Sanders.............. 100

Dorothy Saxe ............................... *

Eric Demant ............................... 50

Alta Mesa Cemetery & Funeral Home ................. 1,800

Peter Ullman ................................ *

Laurie Jarrett ................................ *

Lawrence Naiman .................... 100

Katharine Rogers King ................. *

Attorney Susan Dondershine .... 200

Organizations Harrell Remodeling ...................... *

Ellen Place Lillington................. 200

Steven Feinberg .................... 5,000

Ernest J. Moore ........................ 200

Bleibler Properties .................... 500

David & Virginia Pollard............ 150

Freddy & Jan Gabus ................. 250

Boyd Paulson, Jr. ......................... *

deLemos Properties .................. 500

Hugh McDevitt ........................ 250

Susan & Doug Woodman ........ 150

August Lee King ........................ 30

Communications & Power Industries .............................. 500

www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 22, 2017 • Page 11

Upfront

News Digest Judge rules against city on Edgewood penalties A court decision regarding whether developer Sand Hill Property Company is required to pay $700,500 in penalties for failing to keep an operating grocery store at Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center came down to the American Heritage Dictionary definitions of the words “use” and “operate.”

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Peter Kirwan found the words are not synonymous and that the City of Palo Alto understood the difference despite fining Sand Hill’s entity, Edgewood LLC, $500 to $5,000 in daily fines over a two-year period because the developer could not find a replacement grocer after previous grocery store The Fresh Market pulled out.

The city maintained that its amended planned-community zoning ordinance for the property specified that developer John Tze was required to have an operating grocer at the more than 20,000-square-foot site.

But Kirwan sided with Tze, finding that the dictionary definitions are distinct: “use” is the manner or purpose for which something is used; “operate” refers to running or controlling the function or use.

He said Sand Hill was not required to actually ensure operation of a grocery store on an uninterrupted basis.

He therefore negated $248,250 in penalties issued through April 3, 2017. The court also will allow further hearing on the remaining penalties after both sides submit supplemental briefs. Q —Sue Dremann

Nanny faces dozens of molestation charges A former Palo Alto elementary school volunteer and nanny accused of child molestation 23 years ago was arraigned on 34 counts of felony child molestation on Friday in Santa Clara County Superior Court in Palo Alto.

David Shwenke Tupou (aka David Tupou Schwenke), 50, was originally charged with two counts of child molestation on one Palo Alto girl and pleaded not guilty in April. But since then two other victims have come forward to testify they were also abused by him. During a Dec. 1 preliminary hearing, the three Palo Alto victims, who are also sisters, said Tupou molested them from 1991-1995 and in 1997-1999.

Tupou is charged with lewd or lascivious acts on a child under the age of 14 and lewd or lascivious acts on a child under 14 years of age by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear. He is currently serving a 63-year sentence for the unrelated 1998-1999 sexual abuse of a minor in San Jose.

Tupou also worked for the Palo Alto Unified School District from 1991 to 1992 as a language tutor and volunteered in at least five Palo Alto elementary schools in 1993 and 1994, including Hoover, Juana Briones, El Carmelo, Addison and Walter Hays, mostly in kindergarten classes. Q —Sue Dremann

Inmates had elaborate escape plan Two robbery defendants who escaped from the Palo Alto courthouse on Nov. 6 allegedly orchestrated an elaborate plan by phone from the jailhouse, according to court documents filed by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.

East Palo Alto residents John Bivins, 47, and Tramel McClough, 46, are accused of making a brazen escape from the courthouse located at 270 Grant Ave., which triggered a nearly three-week manhunt.

Investigators found that McClough had allegedly called his girlfriend Marquita Kirk on Nov. 5 to discuss positioning two different getaway cars near the Palo Alto courthouse.

Bivins and McClough were arrested in February for allegedly taking $64,400 worth of cellphones and other merchandise from a Verizon store in Sunnyvale in an armed robbery.

As they were being led by a sheriff’s deputy to the courtroom for a hearing on the robbery, they managed to elude the deputy who was supervising them and fled out a side exit door.

Police apprehended McClough at a Walmart Supercenter in Stockton on Nov. 21. Bivins was taken into custody in San Leandro on Nov. 26.

Both men are charged with one count of escaping from jail after being charged and confined. Q —Sue Dremann

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ...The council has no meetings scheduled for this week.

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Pulse

RESTAUR ANT & BAR

A weekly compendium of vital statistics

POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Dec. 7-20 Violence related Assault with a deadly weapon . . . . . .1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Domestic/family violence misc.. . . . . .3 Domestic/family violence battery . . . .6

Theft related Counterfeiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Elder abuse/financial . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Vehicle related Auto burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Auto burglaries attempt. . . . . . . . . . . .3 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Bicycle parts theft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . .8 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Vehicle accident/mnr. injury . . . . . . . .9 Vehicle accident/prop. damage . . . .30 Vehicle evading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

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Cover Story

2017: From behind the camer a lens Palo Alto’s year in photos Text and photos by Veronica Weber

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Photo courtesy Andrew Benwell

Andrew and Risa Benwell watch the solar eclipse with their sons, Samuel and Daniel, in front of the Stanford Dish on Aug. 21.

hoosing the best photographs to summarize 2017 is no easy task.

It involves looking through thousands of images to find the ones that not only captured the news but the people and places that defined the year.

These are moments when the community came together to stand up against perceived injustices, to support their neighbors or to simply share an experience. In March, for example, the Ravenswood City School District hosted a forum that brought the East Palo Alto Police Department and neighbors together to address fears about the city’s immigration policies as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began to increase its roundups of undocumented workers across the country.

And in August, when the transnational solar eclipse passed over California for the first time in 38 years, people gathered on neighborhood streets and hiking trails, outside offices and at NASA Ames to watch 76 percent of the sun disappear behind a shadow.

In October, countless local volunteers came together to pack more than seven truckloads of emergency supplies headed for Santa Rosa, as well as participate in other relief efforts for the victims of the North Bay fires.

There were moments when communities spoke out, such as in May, when a Palo Alto High School student organized a GoFundMe campaign and distributed “I Stand With Victims of Sexual Assault”

Above: During a public forum in March, East Palo Alto Police address community concerns about immigration raids and encourage residents to continue to come forward to report crimes. The department assured the community that it would not ask residents’ immigration status. Above right: Brandon Gregg, a participant in the accelerated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) study at Stanford University, sits in a chair wearing the TMS device, which sends magnetic pulses to the brain that can help alleviate severe depression. Right: Tyler Briend, 6, looks through his toy viewfinder while sitting on “Mama Bear,” one of many sculptures at the new Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital created to help families navigate the center’s corridors. The grand opening of the new hospital was celebrated Oct. 27.

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wristbands following news that a male student had allegedly sexually assaulted a classmate but was allowed to remain on campus for months afterward.

There also were the protesters who organized outside of Palo Alto’s City Hall to rally against President Donald Trump’s attempt to institute a travel ban against primarily Muslim countries. In November, students at Stanford University staged a walkout when the Stanford College Republicans invited Robert Spencer, a speaker with anti-Islam and anti-Jihad views, to speak on campus.

And there were moments of reflection, too, such as when Palo Alto Police Chief Dennis Burns looked back on his 35 years with the department during his final days on the job; or when U.S. Marines veteran Frank Aldama spoke about his struggles trying to find employment and housing in the area. Like many others who lost their housing due to escalating rent, Aldama found himself living in an RV along El Camino Real.

And then there was Brandon Gregg, who has suffered with severe depression for more than 40 years. He shared how an experimental new study being led at Stanford University finally offered him relief from his symptoms.

Moments like these defined the community in 2017. Q Staff Photographer/Videographer Veronica Weber can be emailed at vweber@paweekly.com.

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“Digital DNA,” the 7-foot-tall egg-shaped sculpture made of computer circuit boards installed in Lytton Plaza, was among the sculptures that the Palo Alto Public Art Commission decided to remove from the city’s public-art collection in November. “Go Mama” was also selected for removal.

Fatima Ladha, a member of the Muslim Student Union at Stanford University, stands with the hundreds of fellow students outside the Mitchell Earth Sciences Building to rally against speaker Robert Spencer, creator of the “Jihad Watch” blog, who was invited by the Stanford College Republicans to speak on campus on Nov. 7.

U.S. Marines veteran Frank Aldama contemplates what it’s been like living in his RV on El Camino Real. “I would never wish this on anybody,” he said.

Palo Alto Police Chief Dennis Burns stands in his office at City Hall in the final days before his retirement.

On the cover: Clockwise from top left: Kira Od and John Lau, center, gather for the Tech Stands Up rally on March 14 to promote political engagement at tech companies; Domestic violence survivor Maria De Lourdes Cordova Diaz stands in front of the entrance to the YWCA in San Jose where she received shelter after fleeing an abusive partner; Anna SimonRooke holds her daughter Laura Simon-Rooke, 2, as they chant “love trumps hate” during a protest following the inauguration of Donald Trump; Juniors from Palo Alto High School hand out “I Stand With Victims of Sexual Assault” wristbands to students on the quad on May 17 following news reports that a male student sexually-assaulted a girl on campus in October 2016 and had remained on campus until May.

Volunteers, from left, Margaret Winters, Sandy Carnahan, A.J. Fouladpour, Susan Carnahan, George Chechopoulos and Elaine Farge, sort through the many piles of donated goods including food, water, personal hygiene items, pet supplies, diapers and bedding collected at Seaport Storage Center in Redwood City to be distributed to evacuees of the North Bay fires.

Clouds drift over water channels at the Palo Alto Baylands as the sun sets on a clear February evening. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 22, 2017 • Page 17

Arts & Entertainment A weekly guide to music, theater, art, culture, books and more, edited by Karla Kane

Lesley Robertson, a violist with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, meets a young listener at an Azure Concert at Stanford.

by Karla Kane here’s no shortage of performing-arts events on the Midpeninsula, but for members of the neurodiverse community, who can feel overwhelmed by intense stimuli and unwelcome in some traditional arts environments, the area’s high-quality concerts, plays and ballets aren’t always fully accessible. Local groups are trying to change that by offering autism- and sensoryfriendly, judgment-free performances in a variety of genres.

Concert pianist Stephen Prutsman and his wife, Sigrid Van Bladel, who are parents to a teenage son with autism, founded the nonprofit Autism Fun Bay Area (autismfunbayarea. org) back in 2012, with the goal of making the performing arts more open to potential audiences for whom such events are challenging due to disability, behavior and/or sensory issues. Autism Fun Bay Area partners with local arts organizations and offers around 15 free performances a year that are open to all, but tailored to the those impacted by autism and related challenges (especially, Prutsman emphasized, those like his own child, who have moderate-to-severe developmental disabilities on the autism spectrum).

“My kid cannot go to the typical movie, a typical concert,” Prutsman said. “He’ll make too much racket for the people around him to enjoy the show, and they paid good money to be there. My dream is that on any weekend of the year families like ours ... can participate in all these kinds of activities. The parent can relax, the kiddo can relax and the community can relax.”

At Autism Fun Bay Area performances, such as the “Holiday Jazzmatazz” held at Stanford University on Dec. 9, audience members are free to make noise, “stim” (self-stimulating repetitive gestures such as

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rocking or flapping hands) and leave their seats. The concerts sometime include musicians with autism, and often feature interactive elements, such as a meet-and-greet with performers and an “instrument petting zoo,” where instruments can be explored hands-on.

‘We’re letting everybody experience the show in whatever way they need or want.’

—Syche Phillips, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley acting marketing director The benefits for audiences of these “shushproof” events, Prutsman explained, are multiple. Not only is everyone able to engage with top-notch art, but also there is a sense of social support and community built in to the experience, where everyone can feel free to be themselves and not worry about stigma.

“Our lives are measured by the quality of the moments of our lives,” Prutsman said.

“Our task is to try and find moments where we can relax and actually enjoy those moments. Not only is that good for us but that’s way better for our kids than looking constantly for ways to ‘fix’ them.”

Prutsman is a longtime faculty member of Stanford’s St. Lawrence String Quartet’s (SLSQ) summer seminar, and since 2013 has partnered with SLSQ and other Stanford music programs to produce the Azure concert series on campus, which Prutsman hosts and which offers classical and jazz concerts throughout the year.

“It’s really high-quality music,” at the same level as any concert that the group produces, said Sara Langlands, project

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manager for the SLSQ at Stanford. She described the performances as having a welcoming atmosphere, where audience members are free to move, make noise and exit and enter the auditorium as needed.

“All behavior is welcome. It’s OK to enjoy the music. I do think that over the course of five years, people have really embraced that,” she said. She noted that participants have gone on to start similar Azure concert series in other cities, which is especially gratifying.

And it’s not just audience members who benefit: She said many musicians “come away from it completely awed and transformed, and happy to be engaging with people in a way that they have found unexpectedly meaningful.” She pointed to a letter from violinist Deanna Choi, a former SLSQ Seminar participant, who wrote, “I’m sure it touched those families of the children with autism, but it also affected me. It changed how I related to people with autism and other developmental disorders; it altered the way I see music, and how to adapt music based on my audience.”

Other local arts groups are now offering sensory- and autism-friendly performances as well. Menlowe Ballet recently presented its first sensory-friendly version of “It’s A Wonderful Nutcracker”: an abridged version of the original ballet with a company member offering on-stage narration, softened house lights and a gentle atmosphere where kids and adults with a range of behaviors felt free to express themselves during the show.

Other organizations, including Peninsula Youth Theatre and Peninsula Ballet, also hold autism-friendly performances and as awareness and acceptance of the neurodiverse population increases, it seems likely that more will follow suit.

For the first time, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is offering a “sensory-sensitive”

performance of its current show, the madcap comedy “Around the World in 80 Days,” on Dec. 27 at 7:30 p.m., with general-admission seating and a discounted ticket price (theatreworks.org/special-events/sensory-sensitive/).

According to TheatreWorks’ Acting Marketing Director Syche Phillips, the idea of offering this special performance has been about six months in the making. For a theater company that relies partly on a loyal subscriber base, part of the challenge was finding a potential show date that could be specially dedicated to an accessible performance without alienating season ticket holders who expect a more traditional (dark theater, quiet audience, formal atmosphere) experience. Since the holiday show is usually the most family-friendly, as well as longrunning, it seemed the perfect opportunity, Phillips said.

At the Dec. 27 performance, house lights will remain half-lit and a few of the more startling sound and lighting effects will be slightly altered, she said, “but the big thing is that we’re a no-shush performance. We’re not going to be forcing them to stay in their seats; we’re letting everybody experience the show in whatever way they need or want.”

TheatreWorks will also be providing extra outreach materials in advance to let audience members know what to expect when they’re at the theater, increasing the comfort level for guests. Phillips said she hopes TheatreWorks will be able to continue offering similar events in the future.

“It’s a very reasonable amount of accommodations. I wish we could do it at more shows during the year,” she said. “It’s a simple thing to do to expand accessibility.” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@ paweekly.com.

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As with most romances, “Call Me by Your Name” runs on conflicted emotions and social obstacles, here found in the subtext readable on faces and in anxious body language (as well as in two Sufjan Stevens songs penned for the film: “Mysteries of Love” and “Visions of Gideon”). Interest turns quickly to mutual annoyance then again to pained longing.

When everything but the two men falls away, what remains is a deep connection, the nature of which the film doesn’t need to spell out.

Some will see it as pure love, some as purely sexual desire, some as unadvisable, some as improper.

But an eleventh-hour monologue by a key character carefully, tenderly acknowledges its specialness to Elio and refuses to judge it as anything but a milestone to be cherished.

Working from André Aciman’s 2007 novel, Ivory has crafted one of the finest screenplays of the year, and using it, Guadagnino has coaxed from his cast a film unmatched this year for lifelike rhythms and attention to human behavior. Since it’s also a travelogue filigreed with fragments of antique European art, literature and philosophy, it’s also a gorgeous, reflective film that unfolds at a deceptively lazy pace: In point of fact, there’s not a moment in it that isn’t necessary.

Rated R for sexual content, nudity and some language. Two hours, 12 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

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Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

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Pitch Perfect 3 (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. The Shape of Water (R) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun.

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FROM Home Front EMP TY MAKE ORNAMENTS ... It’s never too late to add ornaments to your tree. Come to Hidden Villa Farm on Saturday, Dec. 23, from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. and again at 1:30 p.m. to make ornaments from natural materials.

The program is covered by your entrance fee. Hidden Villa Farm is located at 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. For more information, go to hiddenvilla.org.

MARKET REPORT ... According to a new report from Coldwell Banker, the Silicon Valley luxury home market saw a rise in both total sales and the median sales price in November year-overyear. A total of 68 residential properties priced $3 million and higher were sold last month, a 58 percent increase from 43 sales in November 2016 and up from 54 closings in October 2017. The median price for luxury properties sold in November rose to $3.633M from $3.6M in November of 2016, a gain of 2.3 percent. The price was also up from $3.62M in October 2017. The data is based on sales transactions recorded in Santa Clara County by the Multiple Listing Service. Sales in the upper end of the market remained steady. Of the luxury home sales in November2017, 34 were homes priced $4 million and higher, a rise from only 20 in the prior year’s month and 18 in October 2017. The most expensive home sale in Silicon Valley in November was a 5,440-square-foot home in Los Altos with four bedrooms and five baths that brought in $18.600M after 53 days on the market.

IRISH SODA BREAD ... If you’d like to learn something easy to bake, come to Hidden Villa Farm on Saturday, Jan. 13, from 10 a.m. to noon and learn to bake Irish soda bread, a simple, noknead loaf that’s ready to eat in an hour. You can add cheese, herbs, spices, fruit or nuts to this basic recipe, as well as whole-grain and gluten-free variations. Cost is $20 per person. To register, go to hiddenvilla.org. Hidden Villa Farm is located at 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills.

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MATERIALS NEEDED: Reindeer:

Snowman:

• Empty wine bottles • Elmer’s glue or other white glue • Hot glue gun with glue sticks • Twine • Red pompom • Brown felt • 2 unsharpened pencils

• Empty wine bottles • Hot glue gun with glue sticks • White paint • Paintbrush • 1 strand of red ribbon • Black pompoms

To make a reindeer bottle:

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Peel off the labels completely and dry the bottles.

3

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While the bottle is drying, trace and cut out two antlers using brown felt.

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Hot glue an unsharpened pencil to the back of each antler (to hold them up), and place in opening at top of bottle.

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Hot glue a red pompom on your bottle for the reindeer nose.

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Continue to wrap twine around the bottle, turning it slowly while pressing the twine down to make sure it stays in place.

Continue wrapping twine around your bottle until the entire bottle is glued.

To make a snowman bottle:

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Wrap red ribbon around the neck of your bottle (this is the scarf).

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOAN DEATON, aka JOAN J. DEATON, JOAN JANIS DEATON, JOAN WALSH Case No.: 17PR182480 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JOAN DEATON, aka JOAN DEATON WALSH, aka JOAN WALSH aka JOAN J. DEATON aka JOAN JANIS DEATON. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: GREG DEATON in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: GREG DEATON 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 March 2, 2018 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: Richard L. Ehrman Thoits Law, 400 Main Street, Suite 250 Los Altos, CA 94022 (650) 327-4200 (PAW Dec. 22, 29, 2017; Jan. 5, 2018)

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THE DOTTED LINE . . . Palo Alto High grad Mikey Grandy, who played football at College of San Mateo, committed and signed with Texas during Wednesday’s Early Signing Day. He also received offers from Arizona State, Fresno State, Hawaii, Louisville and UCLA. Grandy (6-5, 305) is ranked the ninth overall offensive tackle in the country and No. 6 overall prospect in California, according to 24/7Sports. Grandy has three years of eligibility and plans to enroll in January.

SPORTS AWARD . . . Stanford senior midfielder Andi Sullivan was named the Honda Sport Award winner for soccer Wednesday.

Sullivan was chosen by a vote of administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools. Finalists also included Imani Dorsey (Duke), Jessie Fleming (UCLA) and Savannah McCaskill (South Carolina). Other past winners include Sacred Heart Prep grad Abby Dahlkemper (2014) while at UCLA and Palo Alto and Stanford grad Teresa Noyola (2012). With this honor, Sullivan becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the Honda Cup, which will be presented on a live telecast on CBS Sports Network on June 27 in Los Angeles. Sullivan is a two-time MAC Hermann Trophy finalist.

ON THE AIR High school football: Division 2-AA state championship: Cajon vs. Serra (replay), 3 p.m., NBCSCA High school football: Division 2-A state championship: Grace Brethern vs. St. Francis (replay), 9 p.m., NBCSCA

Thursday College football: Alamo Bowl: TCU vs. Stanford, 6 p.m., ESPN

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Matt Dorward (11) and the Palo Alto boys basketball head to the Lahainaluna Invitational after hosting Carlmont on Saturday at 6 p.m.

Teams rev up for holiday tournaments Paly boys heading to Hawaii, Pinewood girls playing at St. Francis tourney

by Glenn Reeves hile most schools won’t return to competition until after New Year’s Day, there are several others who will stay in the gym during the break to prepare for holiday tournaments.

The Priory girls’ basketball team competes this weekend at the Steve Geramoni Tournament in Belmont. The Panthers (2-5) opened against Miramonte, a Northern California powerhouse, on Thursday night. The host Tigers played San Joaquin Memorial. Soquel, Washington, Valley

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Christian and Moreau Catholic are also entered.

The tournament concludes Saturday, with games scheduled all day.

Castilleja (3-5) competes at the Seaside Sweet 16 tournament beginning with a 6:30 p.m. game against St. Mary’s Academy (5-5).

The tourney continues through next Friday.

On Wednesday, Palo Alto, Priory and Menlo School each opens a boys basketball tournament in faraway places.

The Vikings (2-2) are competing in the Lahainaluna

Invitational at the Lahaina Civic Center, a four-day event that includes pool play and bracket play.

Menlo plays Costa Mesa in the opening round of the Orange Tournament and Priory is entered in the SoCal Holiday tournament.

There are also two local girls tournaments opening on Thursday. Pinewood (7-1) plays Lowell at 3 p.m. and Palo Alto (4-2) meets Aptos at 7:45 p.m. in the first round of the St. Francis Holiday Tournament.

Eastside College Prep hosts the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic, which also features Menlo, Sacred

Heart Prep and Menlo-Atherton.

The host Panthers meet Page-Arizona at 6 p.m. Thursday. Eastside will also play Whitney YoungChicago on Friday at 6 p.m. and Central-Fresno at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 30.

The Bears (2-4) meet Whitney Young on Thursday at 4:30 p.m.

Sacred Heart Prep (6-1) opens against University-San Francisco at 1:30 p.m. and Menlo opens with KIPP King at home at 6 p.m.

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STANFORD FOOTBALL

Stanford heads to the Alamo Bowl Cardinal and Horned Frogs meet for the third time

by Rick Eymer tanford has never beaten TCU in football. Of course, it’s a small sample size. The Horned Frogs have won both meetings.

Offensive coordinator-in-wait Tavita Pritchard was Stanford’s starting quarterback for both losses, in 2007 and in 2008.

Thursday’s 6 p.m. matchup (ESPN) between the 15th-ranked Cardinal (9-4) and 13th-ranked TCU (10-3) at the Alamodome in San Antonio could serve as some payback for Pritchard.

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handed Pritchard his first loss as a starting quarterback. They met at Stanford on Oct. 13, 2007, one week after the Cardinal’s heralded upset over USC. Against TCU, Pritchard’s fourth-down pass was batted away.

The Cardinal plans to arrive in San Antonio on Friday and will spend the week practicing in the area.

Stanford is making its 29th appearance in a bowl game, including a school-record ninth straight.

In fact, the current streak of nine consecutive winning seasons is the longest since a 10-year run

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OAKS BIG DAY . . . The Menlo College women’s basketball team earned its biggest upset in program history, beating NAIA No. 3 Campbellsville (Kentucky), 8274, at the Hoop N Surf Classic in Honolulu on Wednesday. Ashlyn Monk scored eight of her 18 points in a decisive second quarter that gave the Oaks, who shot 54 percent from the field, the lead for good.

Monk was 5-of-8 from the field and made all six of her foul shots.

The teams combined to turn the ball over a staggering 59 times and were called for a combined 47 fouls, including two technical fouls on Campbellsville. Menlo had two players foul out. Madison Michelis recorded a double-double with 17 points and 13 rebounds.

Aliyah Brantley added 16 points and Celina Pagan had 13 for the Oaks (10-2), who host the Peninsula Classic beginning Dec. 29 with a contest against Midland College.

Stanford’s David Shaw will be coaching in his seventh bowl game as the head guy. ended after Bill Walsh left Stanford in 1978 to take over a failing 49er franchise.

David Shaw will be coaching in his seventh bowl game as a head coach, easily the most by a single coach in Stanford history.

The Cardinal roster lists nine players from the state of Texas, the most from any state not named California.

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football is life,” Stanford senior safety Brandon Simmons told the school’s website. “You go to a lot of camps and meet a lot of people.

You play each other throughout your careers, and that’s where you get to know each other and make those connections. When you get a Stanford offer, you can’t pass it up.”

Sophomore long snapper Richard McNitzky was born in Corpus Christi, but his family moved to San Antonio when he was two

years old.

“I grew up watching the Alamo Bowl and went to it every year with my family,” said McNitzky.

“Now to get to play in front of my friends and family is a dream come true.”

As has been the case for most of the last two months, Love has been held out of practice and continues to rehab an ankle injury. He played in the closing four games and surpassed 100 yards rushing in each.

“It’s been working so far,” said Shaw, who continues to limit Love’s on-field participation during practice.

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the season last week and then ran into Miramonte and lost.

While it might seem like a good early-season win for the Panthers, who came into the game having lost two of their first five games, Eastside coach Donovan Blythe didn’t want to make too much of it.

“We’ve got a long way to go,’’ he said.

An aggressive defensive approach in recent years has been characteristic of Eastside (4-2), the two-time defending state Division V champion. The Lancers managed only 11 field goals in 46 attempts (23.9 percent) and committed 16 turnovers. Most of their damage came at the foul line, where they were 18 of 25, compared to 7 of 13 for Eastside.

Four-year starter Kayla Tahaafe led Eastside with 14 points. The Panthers had no seniors on last season’s state championship team, but this season’s roster includes four freshmen, a nice infusion of new talent. One of them, 6-foot Marley Langi, was particularly impressive. She scored 12 points with 10 of her 12 scored in the final 10 minutes of the game. She made two of the three Eastside 3-pointers.

“She’s a good player,’’ Blythe said.

Bri Claros hit a shot at the buzzer to lift the Pinewood girls basketball team past host Cardinal Newman, 53-52, in a nonleague contest that had the feel of something important.

The Panthers (7-1) got a little revenge for their 2-point loss to Cardinal Newman in last season’s NorCal Open Division Regional semifinal. This may have been a preview of a rematch in March.

Klara Astrom continued performing at a high level. She produced a double-double, her first of the season, with 17 points and 10 rebounds. She’s reached double figures in scoring in all but one game and averages 16.6 a game.

After recording 22 rebounds over her first four games, Astrom has added 33 more the past four and averages 6.9 boards.

Hannah Jump, who averages 15.9 points a game, added 15 against Cardinal Newman on 6-of-11 shooting. She also had six rebounds.

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Love has run for 1,973 yards this season and knows the Stanford ground game will be tested by the Horned Frogs, who rank fourth nationally against the run.

“We’ve watched them on film and they are very physical,” he said. “It will be a great challenge.”

Current offensive coordinator Mike Bloomgren, who accepted the head job at Rice, will finish the season with Stanford, with the blessing of both schools, before assuming full-time duties with the Owls.

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The junior center scored a combined 36 points and had 17 rebounds in a pair of Pinewood victories over Valley Christian and Cardinal Newman. Astrom recorded a double-double in the win over Cardinal Newman.

The senior forward recorded a pair of multi-goal games to help Menlo-Atherton beat Aragon in a PAL contest and then beat Salinas to finish third at the Firebird Classic.

The Bears are undefeated in league play.

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