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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

City audit jobs saved — for now Finance Committee reverses course in recommending approval of fiscal year 2019 budget

by Gennady Sheyner

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recommendation to dramatically downsize the Office of the City Auditor in Palo Alto, made last week by the City Council’s Finance Committee, was quickly reversed on Wednesday, following input by

both the current city auditor and a former one.

As part of its Wednesday vote to recommend adoption of the fiscal year 2019 budget, the committee agreed to rescind its May 15 decision to eliminate five out of

six positions in the Office of the City Auditor, leaving City Auditor Harriet Richardson as the office’s sole employee. The committee had also recommended using 80 percent of the savings from the position cuts to contract with outside firms for performance audits.

On Wednesday, City Manager James Keene recommended taking more time to consider the staff cuts, and Richardson

expressed major reservations about the quality of work produced by outside firms.

The city of Stockton, for example, eliminated its audit function several years ago and switched to a consultant to work as its internal auditor. The city is now spending about $450,000 annually and is not getting real performance audits, Richardson said. Instead, the auditor mostly deals with “internal

control reviews” and helps departments develop policies and procedures. Modesto has also outsourced its audit function, Richardson said, but there is no indication on the city’s website whether the contractors are actually doing any work.

Richardson also cited Valley Metro, a transit agency in Arizona that recently hired a (continued on page 12)

EDUCATION

Board approves superintendent’s contract Don Austin to start position July 1

by Elena Kadvany

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Bee-autiful blooms A bumblebee at the Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden pollinates a white foxglove flower, among the many flowers in bloom at the public garden in Palo Alto.

EDUCATION

Should Palo Alto students be required to study computer science?

Students, advisory committee debate K-12 computer-science graduation requirement

by Elena Kadvany

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Palo Alto Unified School District committee’s recommendation to make computer science a high school graduation requirement has sparked opposition among students who say there is already an imbalance between STEM and humanities in the schools.

Members of the Computer Science Curriculum Design Advisory Committee argued to the school board on Tuesday night that computer science teaches skills beyond programming — critical thinking, problem solving,

logic and the like — and that making instruction more widely available would level the playing field between the haves and the have-nots in Palo Alto. The group is recommending that computer science be treated like a core subject, offered in various forms from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade and required to graduate from high school.

The potential of an additional graduation requirement is making some high school students bristle, however. They don’t debate computer science’s benefits

but emphasized the importance of maintaining choice for students who are more passionate about history, social sciences and the arts.

“Because of where we are, students are aware of the growing power of computer science,” said Gunn High School student Claire Cheng. “My mom supports me coming out tonight, but once I go home, she’s going to frequently remind me that computer science is a much more practical way to get a job. It takes courage for these students to pursue something that

they’re passionate about despite their parents, their environment and their peers,” she said.

A group of Gunn students lobbied the school board earlier this year for more advanced and honors humanities courses, which they said are less available than advanced STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) classes.

Students also worried about fitting another course into what feel like already heavily schedules. Paly senior Richy Islas, Palo Alto High School’s student board representative, said that the additional requirement could be particularly stressful for students with disabilities who take academic planning classes on top of their regular courses.

The committee proposed high school students satisfy the graduation requirement by taking either one semester-long introductory (continued on page 11)

ith little discussion, the Palo Alto school board voted 4-1 Tuesday to approve a three-year contract with Don Austin, the district’s new superintendent.

Board President Ken Dauber cast the sole dissenting vote, stating only that his decision was “based on my participation in the process” and that he “would have preferred a different outcome.”

Austin is currently the superintendent of the K-12 Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District in Los Angeles County, where he was hired in 2014. He previously worked as an assistant superintendent, high school and middle school principal, high school activities director and middle school teacher in Southern California.

Under the contract, Austin will be paid $300,000 and live in a district-owned property with a monthly rent of $1,800.

Austin was selected after the board launched a national search to find a replacement for former Superintendent Max McGee, who resigned in September.

Austin has been described by supporters as a leader and team builder who has made strides in Palos Verdes on student mental health, facilities and the budget.

Critics, however, have voiced concerns about a lack of transparency and his management style.

Board member Melissa Baten Caswell said Austin has a “history of effectively bringing teams together and mentoring people.”

Austin will start his position in Palo Alto Unified on July 1. Q

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A LOOSE CAP ... It took years for the Palo Alto City Council to adopt a permanent cap on office development. This week, in a matter of seconds, the council almost inadvertently dismantled it. The debate appeared to have been settled on April 30, when the council agreed by a 5-4 vote to make the annual 50,000-squarefoot cap permanent (it applies to downtown, California Avenue and El Camino Real). The council also agreed, after much debate, to scrap the â&#x20AC;&#x153;beauty contestâ&#x20AC;? provision that aimed at pitting developments against one another during hot construction years and to add a provision allowing developers to â&#x20AC;&#x153;roll overâ&#x20AC;? unused square footage into the following year. On Monday, the office cap returned to the council for a formal â&#x20AC;&#x153;second readingâ&#x20AC;? on consent calendar, a list of items that get passed routinely and without debate. Councilwoman Karen Holman and Councilwoman Lydia Kou, who believe in office restrictions but oppose the new provisions, said they would vote no. Councilman Adrian Fine, who is more bullish on growth and who thinks the office cap is a bad idea altogether, said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d do the same, as did did Mayor Liz Kniss.

The four dissenting votes wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have made any difference had not Councilman Greg Tanaka declared, to the evident surprise of his colleagues, that he would also vote against it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know what that means?â&#x20AC;? City Manager James Keene asked after it became apparent that the council is on the brink of killing the cap. Realizing what was about to happen, Holman and Kou quickly switched their vote from â&#x20AC;&#x153;noâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;yes,â&#x20AC;? ensuring that the office cap will be adopted on a â&#x20AC;&#x153;permanentâ&#x20AC;? basis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at least for the moment.

BRIDGING THE GAP ... The worlds of tech and academia are colliding through a new partnership between VMware and Stanford University.

The Palo Alto-based enterprise software company has provided $15 million to create the VMware Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leadership Innovation Lab, which will conduct research into ways companies can address

gender inequity at the workplace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This initiative enables Stanford researchers and students to better understand why womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advancement in the workplace has been interrupted and to design solutions that, working closely with companies and other organizations, will bring about meaningful change,â&#x20AC;?

Provost Persis Drell said in a press release Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are calling this new endeavor a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to underscore our goal of creating broad research collaborations that break down barriers across organizational contexts,â&#x20AC;? said sociology Professor Shelley Correll, the labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inaugural director. At the heart of the labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work is exploring ways to create inclusive workplaces.

TUNE INTO POLITICS ... After forming their friendship at Palo Alto High School and carrying their bond through college, two local women have launched a new weekly podcast that aims to educate voters up and down the state on races and measures they can expect to see in their primary and general election ballots.

Hanako Gallagher and Jamie Livingston, who finished at Paly in 2013, are hosts of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Undecided California,â&#x20AC;? which has aired four episodes since debuting May 3 and have collectively covered propositions 68 through 72. What motivated the duo to embark on the venture? â&#x20AC;&#x153;After I graduated from college, I was basically unemployed, and I really needed to get back into the research grind,â&#x20AC;?

Livingston said during a recent talk to Paly students covered by student newspaper The Paly Voice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I called her (Gallagher), and I told her â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hey, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s make a blogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and she said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How about a podcast?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;,and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how it started.â&#x20AC;? The third episode featured Helen Hutchinson, president of the League of Women Voters of California. Gallagher is considered â&#x20AC;&#x153;the numbers sideâ&#x20AC;? of the podcast (aided through her dual degree in statistics and linguistics from the University of Washington), and Livingston is using her bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in political science from Sonoma State University in the real world. Q

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Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

PAKISTANI DINNER AND FRIENDSHIP ... Evergreen Park resident Samina Sundas will host a neighborhood Iftar (sunset) dinner at her home on June 10, 7-9:30 p.m. The meal is in celebration of Ramadan and anyone is welcome who would like to build friendship, neighborliness and understanding.

Seating is limited and an RSVP is suggested as soon as possible by registering at Eventbrite, tinyurl. com/y98kb7cw.

BARRON PARK TRAFFIC AND SAFETY ... The Barron Park Association is encouraging neighborhood residents to use the city of Palo Alto’s 311 application to report traffic and safety hazards.

The association has submitted a master list of more than a dozen hot spots to the city’s Transportation Department, association President Jon Affeld said. Residents can monitor the progress or create additional items for the city to check by using the 311 app at tinyurl.com/ yc25ssny. Residents can get more information and learn tips about bicycle safety for students at the Safe Routes to School website, tinyurl.com/ybc4muso.

SHARE FAIRE ... Have you ever wanted to learn more about chicken care or do you have tools, clothing or household goods to share? Transition Palo Alto is inviting all neighbors to attend its Share Faire on June 10, 1-3 p.m. at Mitchell Park Bowl, 3700 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto.

Neighbors will share skills and knowledge about tool care, science and crafts, improv and more.

HOPSCOTCH AROUND THE BLOCK ... As part of its downtown streets improvements, Palo Alto plans to close the following blocks to traffic from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. during construction: Hawthorne Avenue, between Waverley Street and Middlefield Road, blocks with major construction will be closed through May 31; Hawthorne Avenue, between Alma and Bryant streets, will be closed May 23-June 8; University Avenue, between Cowper Street and Waverley Street, will be closed 24/7 through June 15.

Access will be provided to residents.

GAS LEAK CHECK ... City of Palo Alto Public Utilities has begun an annual mobile and walking gas-leak detection survey.

Approximately one half of the city is covered each year. The city’s contractor, Manesco Corporation, will walk residential streets through September. All city contractors and surveyors carry City of Palo Alto Utilities identification cards. A map of the walking survey area is available at tinyurl.com/y8pfy7fs.

COLLEGE TERRACE

College Terrace residents concerned about coyotes Expert finds three coyotes on residential streets in recent weeks

by Sue Dremann

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ungrii Flea-Bagius. Carnivorous Vulgaris. Grotesques Appetitus. Evereadii Eatibus. Santa Clara County Wildlife Specialist Peter Gotcher used these names to describe the inherent nature of coyotes that were recently seen roaming College Terrace streets.

have to hunt something every day and you don’t get regular dental checkups,” Gotcher said.

The three he spotted in College Terrace were most likely fleeing hardships in their natural habitat. The injured coyote likely came down from the hills because it would be easier to get

‘They’ll eat everything and anything’ —Peter Gotcher, wildlife expert Concerned about a recent spate of coyote sightings and the disappearance of two neighborhood cats, members of the College Terrace Residents Association called upon Gotcher, a wildlife expert, to investigate in early May. A wiry man in a brown leather cowboy hat and boots, he had been on the College Terrace coyotes’ trail for about two weeks. In just one week, Gotcher had found three different coyotes “so far,” he told association members at a May 16 presentation.

In the morning hours the week before, he spotted a male with an injured paw and a mated pair, he said.

The number of coyotes — Canis latrans or “laughing dog” — as they are known to scientists, didn’t surprise him. He worked with other adjacent neighborhoods when they had multiple coyote sightings two years ago and regularly encounters all manner of wildlife. More surprising to him is that people think having wildlife in the urban setting isn’t normal.

“People ask me, ‘How did I get a skunk in my back yard? I live in a gated community,’” he said.

Wildlife get past fences and into yards and they roam down streets in large part because humans make it convenient for them to do so. Culverts, which bring runoff into creeks in winter, provide prime den locations when the creeks dry out in April and May, he said. And people provide easy food and water sources for the generally energyconserving coyote.

Gotcher asked the residents to look at life from the coyote’s point of view. It is not a pretty life. Plagued by mange and heart worms, “it’s a hard life when you

around in the flatlands; the pair seemed to have been kicked out of the pack and were seeking new territory, he said.

Given the abundance of fruit trees, garbage, pet food and the animals that feed on them — rats, squirrels, birds, mice, rabbits and the occasional house cat or small dog — a residential neighborhood can be a prime location for easier pickings, he said. And coyotes are not picky, as his names for them have noted.

“They’ll eat everything and anything,” Gotcher said, flipping his slide show to a photograph of an orange Scrunchie that passed through a coyote’s digestive system.

They will search compost piles; they’ll destroy irrigation lines. Drip-irrigation systems make a loud whistling noise that is music to the coyote’s sensitive ears. The sound is like a mouse’s squeak, he said.

The county doesn’t plan to trap the coyotes. It’s not legal to trap wildlife in most cases in California and coyotes don’t do well when relocated. These coyotes are not a hazard to humans. When encountered, they ran away, he said.

But residents can manage the neighborhood coyotes by surrounding yards with a sixfoot-high fence that is secured underground and creating a “defensible” space by clearing brush and ivy from around a house, he said.

Coyotes have a strong sense of smell, so there’s the obvious: securing garbage- and recycle-bin lids. But residents should pick up fallen fruit and feed birds in spill-proof feeders so seeds on the ground don’t attract rodents.

Sue Dremann

Around the Block

Wildlife expert Peter Gotcher, hired by the College Terrace Residents Association to investigate possible coyotes in the neighborhood, shares his findings with the group on May 16.

Pet food and water left outdoors, including in feral-cat feeding stations, are also attractants, he said.

Small pets are also potential prey. Owners should keep small dogs and cats indoors, particularly at night. To prove his point, Gotcher showed a slide of a lineup of collars and tags from cats and small dogs hanging in his work cubicle.

“I have to call someone and say, ‘Do you have a cat named Fluffy?’” he said.

Gotcher also had advice for encounters while walking small dogs. Keep pets on a fixedlength leash. Retractable leashes allow dogs to travel at an unsafe distance from their owners, he said. Some dogs also become frantic and can break out of a collar, running directly into the path of the coyote.

Gotcher recommended using a pet harness instead and practicing picking up the dog by the harness. Also get the pet used to a loud noise such as a whistle or air horn to scare away a coyote, he said.

A photo popped up on the slide-show screen: a Bichon Frise sporting a deluxe outfit made of Kevlar, metal spikes and Dayglo plastic bristles, purportedly coyote-proof. It elicited howls from the audience.

The best defense is being aware of one’s surroundings, Gotcher said. If one encounters

a coyote on a trail one can walk around it, giving a wide berth. If the destination would lead to a dead end, it is best to choose another route. Keep turned to face the coyote and keep an eye on it, but also on where one is going.

“Turning your back gives them the bad advantage,” he said.

Coyotes sitting or standing on a trail aren’t necessarily going to stand their ground or challenge a person. They are curious to figure out what the two-legged creature is up to, he said.

And in the eyes of a coyote, humans can look pretty weird.

People look like bright splashes of paint. Brighteners in laundry soap give off ultraviolet specks on clothing that the coyote can see, he said.

Although rare, children have been attacked by coyotes, notably at playgrounds in southern California where the park was adjacent to open space. But that shouldn’t create unnecessary fear. As always, adults should keep a close watch on children — and keep their eyes off their mobile devices, he said.

“Kids are more in danger from a two-legged predator than a four-legged predator,” he said.

More information about managing neighborhood coyotes, including fencing, can be found at tinyurl.com/yc8sgwob. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Residents submit signatures to put development initiative on ballot Group seeks to cut citywide cap on new office and R&D development by half

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ith the hand-off of a half-foot-tall stack of signed petitions Tuesday, Palo Alto residents seeking to set a new and smaller limit on office growth in the city launched what they hope will be a “vigorous debate” leading up to a November vote on the matter.

Former Palo Alto Vice Mayor Greg Schmid and members of the group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning have been gathering signatures of registered voters since mid-April to qualify the initiative for the November ballot. Shortly before noon, they gave the signatures to City Clerk Beth Minor, who will count them to ensure the group collected the necessary 2,407 and forward them to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters for validation.

At issue is the city’s cap on new office and research-and-development space between 2015 and 2030, which the City Council last fall set to 1.7 million square feet

in the Comprehensive Plan, Palo Alto’s guiding land-use document. That amount of growth — about 113,000 square feet a year — is far too much, according to Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning.

It would result in more congestion, less available parking, more traffic and an even greater lack of affordable housing, the group alleges.

Palo Alto’s average annual rate of growth for non-residential areas was 58,013 square feet per year between 1989 and 2014, according to an analysis that the city conducted before adopting its updated Comprehensive Plan last year.

“What we’re doing in this petition is saying, ‘Let’s cut that 1.7 million in half to 850,000, which gets us back to the long time historical growth rate,’” Schmid told the Weekly. “So we’re not stopping growth, but we are definitely interested in limiting it so we have a better balanced

community. That’s our goal.”

Commercial growth has exacerbated the city’s already gaping jobs-to-housing imbalance, which is estimated at about 3-to-1. On Monday night, the City Council officially agreed to make permanent a 50,000-square-foot annual limit on office and research-anddevelopment projects in downtown, around California Avenue and along El Camino Real.

But that cap leaves the rest of the city with no growth limits, Schmid noted. The Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning initiative would pertain to the entire city, including Stanford Research Park, where more than 150 companies like VMWare are located and thousands of workers are employed.

Though the group members want to see their ballot measure succeed, Schmid said he believes that the journey to November will be as worthwhile as the destination.

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Members of the group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning (from left) Suzanne Keehn, Becky Sanders, Ceci Kettendorf and former Vice Mayor Greg Schmid submit 3,000 signatures to City Clerk’s office staff (from middle to right) Kim Lunt, City Clerk Beth Minor, David Carnahan and Irma Mora on May 22.

“We would be delighted to have a debate with other people in the city on this issue. We think it would be something every resident would be interested in hearing about, so we’re looking forward to a nice vigorous debate,” he said.

“It’s a wonderful experience to have an important issue — ‘What is our community going to be like in the future?’ — settled by the people themselves in open debate,” he added. “We’re looking forward to having the ‘Ancient

Agora of Athens.’ Everyone interested can get together with their point of view and decide themselves.”

In keeping with the spirit of a grassroots effort, residents rather than paid hourly workers collected the signatures, Schmid said.

“It was very hard work,” he said. “I mean, just to go door to door, to be outside markets ... and libraries ... was a lot of hard work.

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Both locations have a multiple types of housing, including singlefamily homes. It is also bordered by housing in the Peter Coutts development.

Stanford spokeswoman Jean McCown said the university has no long-term goal for buying up College Terrace, though it strives to provide a variety of housing to faculty.

But she reiterated what she said a year ago when the same question arose during a May 31 College Terrace Residents Association meeting: “Single-family

homes in neighborhoods is what a lot of faculty want.”

Stanford owns about 30 singlefamily homes throughout Palo Alto. About 120 homes in Menlo Park owned by Stanford are sold on ground leases, with most in the Stanford Hills and Stanford Creek areas, according to McCown.

Stanford does rent out some of its neighborhood housing and offers ground leases for its other College Terrace properties, she said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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The seven older homes and two vacant lots are part of the university’s estimated 23 properties in the College Terrace neighborhood. They will become housing for faculty, said David Kirk, project manager for redevelopment properties.

Contractors have already begun working on the first home, at 2070 Columbia St. Construction of all of the homes is expected to finish

by October 2019. Faculty will be able to obtain ground leases for the homes, in which Stanford retains ownership of the land.

College Terrace residents say they have long desired the houses to be repaired or rented. They said the empty residences, colloquially called “ghost” houses, erode the quality of their neighborhood, although the university has kept up the yards.

City planning documents show the university has applied to replace single-story homes with two-story residences. The properties are at 2040 and 2070

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Columbia St.; 2255 and 2035 Oberlin St.; 2320 Princeton St.; 2100 Cornell St.; 1015 Stanford Ave.; 739 and 757 College Ave. The existing original homes range from about 809 square feet to 1,452 square feet; the new ones will range from 2,249 square feet to 2,623 square feet. Each will have a detached garage.

Some residents expressed dismay that a few of the better-kept older houses won’t be renovated, including the one at 1015 Stanford Ave. That house is particularly lovely inside and has a great front door, they said. The residents asked university officials to consider salvaging the clear-grain redwood and other features from some of the homes.

Kirk said demolition of the houses proved more cost-effective than renovating them. Many of the homes are small and are therefore undesirable for faculty.

The residents, concerned the university is trying to buy up the neighborhood, questioned Stanford staff about the university’s long-term plans to acquire properties. College Terrace is adjacent to Stanford and sandwiched between the new 180-unit University Terrace faculty housing development on California Avenue and Escondido Village on Stanford Avenue.

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removed from the application) and submitted an analysis for each site. In some places, the company deemed the vault as infeasible because the site is in a flood zone, which would require installation of sump pumps and potentially lead to safety issues. In another case, the site is constrained by a storm-drain channel and a large tree that would have to be removed to make room for the vault. Another site has insufficient space for a vault and would require use of private property, according to the company.

Rather than going down with the radio equipment, Verizon opted to go up. After a series of public hearings, the company settled on a design that places antennas atop existing poles and screens them with â&#x20AC;&#x153;a taper shroud,â&#x20AC;? a narrow cylindrical enclosure that tapers as it descends.

The radio equipment in the middle of the pole would be contained in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;box shroud,â&#x20AC;? a metallic enclosure that looks exactly how it sounds.

While the design was enough to narrowly win the Architectural Review Boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approval, it fell far short of swaying many of the residents whose houses are located near the pole sites. Appellants rejected Verizonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arguments about the vaults and argued that the telecom giant is simply trying to save money at the expense of residents.

Jerry Fan, one of dozens of residents who attended the meeting, said he and his neighbors donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to live in an â&#x20AC;&#x153;antenna farm.â&#x20AC;?

A multibillion-dollar company like Verizon can afford to install its equipment without undermining the aesthetics of local neighborhoods, said Fan, who was representing appellant Francesca Lane Kautz.

Jeanne Fleming, who founded the group United Neighbors concurred.

There are solutions, she said, to every â&#x20AC;&#x153;so-called engineering problemâ&#x20AC;? raised by Verizon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only problem is that these solutions can cost more than Verizon wants to spend. But there is absolutely no reason why Palo Alto should compromise the character of its lovely neighborhood to save Verizon money,â&#x20AC;? Fleming said.

But other residents welcomed Verizonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan, which they argued would provide them badly needed cellphone coverage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I speak on the phone routinely with folks around the works, and I have to apologize for Palo Alto routinely because of my terrible cellphone service,â&#x20AC;? said Bryan Polich, a Midtown resident.

While the Verizon design didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win any plaudits from the council, most members agreed that in the

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Godfrey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a CS-versus-humanities conversation,â&#x20AC;? she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need it all.â&#x20AC;?

Board President Ken Dauber said he supports a graduation requirement as an effective means to address inequities in access to computer science. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we believe that computer science is a critical skill for being a citizen in the modern world then we should not accept, we really canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accept a situation in which our female students and underrepresented minority students are not participating in that at the same levels,â&#x20AC;? he said.

He asked staff, however, to take studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concerns into account and evaluate whether the current graduation requirements are â&#x20AC;&#x153;paying their weight in terms of value.â&#x20AC;?

Gunn senior Advait Arun, the school boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s student representative, ambitiously urged a total rethinking of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the way we do high school,â&#x20AC;? which he described as defined by burdensome â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and not necessarily helpful â&#x20AC;&#x201D; academic requirements. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all working under a system collapsing under its own weight,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Arun and others urged the board to gather more input from students, parents, teachers and even alumni before making a decision on computer science. Board member

Melissa Baten Caswell requested involving more directly the high schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; education councils, or leadership teams.

Under the committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal, there would be computer-science teachers on special assignment at the elementary, middle and high schools, overseen by lead teachers.

The lead teachers would get time to work on curriculum and professional development. Coding would also be incorporated into existing curriculum by classroom teachers.

The district would have a preK-12 computer-science department and steering committee, as it does for core subjects.

Rolling out computer science districtwide would cost an estimated $1.9 million next year, $1.4 million in the 2019-20 school year, $2 million in 2020-21 and $2.6 million the following year.

The California Department of Education is in the midst of finalizing statewide content standards for computer science for elementary through high school grades.

Interim Superintendent Karen Hendricks said staff will take board membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; comments into account with an eye toward picking up the committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposals in the next school year. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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erizon Wireless overcame a spotty and, at times, hostile reception from a large group of Palo Alto residents Monday night to secure the City Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s permission to install wireless equipment on 11 utility poles.

In a long, contentious and emotionally charged meeting that was frequently interrupted by heckling and applause, the council voted 6-3, with Council members Karen Holman, Lydia Kou and Greg Tanaka dissenting, to give Verizon the green light to mount its wireless nodes. In doing so, it rejected seven separate appeals from residents, including one from the group United Neighbors that was formed to oppose the project.

Most of the opposition focused on Verizonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refusal to place its equipment into underground vaults, a design that the company used in Piedmont and Santa Cruz (among other cities) and that was favored by the Palo Alto Architectural Review Board. Some people argued that the proposed nodes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; each of which includes an antenna and boxes containing radio equipment â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are unsightly and unacceptable in residential areas.

Verizon has maintained that it studied the underground option at each of the 18 sites that were initially proposed (seven were ultimately

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course or any of the existing year-long courses offered at Paly and Gunn.

To avoid adding more units to the overall graduation requirements, the computer-science course could replace required units in historysocial studies, Career Technical Education or electives, the committee proposed. Doing so, the committee acknowledged, would reduce choices in those areas for students.

Currently, 519 students at both high schools, or 13 percent of the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total high school population, are enrolled in computerscience courses. Only 26 of them are minority students and 157 are female, according to the committee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we do nothing,â&#x20AC;? one student committee member said in defense of the computer-science requirement, â&#x20AC;&#x153;we are promoting the opportunity gap.â&#x20AC;?

Several board members described opposition to the graduation requirement as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;distractionâ&#x20AC;? and urged staff to focus on integrating computer science into existing curricula, such as math or science classes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we integrated this well at the lower grades, by the time it gets to high school, whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s required or not is not the most important question,â&#x20AC;? board member Terry

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“They were spending an average of about $1 million for contracts and getting very voluminous reports,” Richardson said.

“I do recall those reports weren’t well-received by the agencies.”

Though Richardson did not object to the Finance Committee’s original May 15 recommendation, this week she advocated for a more cautious approach. She noted that her staff is working on City Hall’s pending switch to a new Enterprise Resource Planning system, a complex project that involves many city departments.

“I think it’s important for you to think about whether this is the right time to think about contracting out and what you will get for

audit work to consultants ignores the value of in-house auditors who provide continuing oversight,” said Erickson, a Palo Alto resident who now works as city auditor in San Jose.

Erickson and Richardson weren’t the only ones questioning the outsourcing plan. During the May 15 discussion, Finance Committee member Lydia Kou expressed her discomfort with the idea. At the beginning of Wednesday’s meeting, Kou said that, after giving the matter more thought and hearing from the community, she was rescinding her prior vote to eliminate the positions.

The office, she noted, was created in 1983 by a vote of the people.

“To eliminate it and to cut it out without any discussions with the auditor herself — that was not wise at all,” Kou said.

The committee’s Wednesday vote restores all five performanceauditor positions in the 2019 budget. The office’s long-term future, however, remains hazy. At the end of its meeting, the committee voted 3-1, with Kou dissenting, to revisit the topic after its summer break and consider other staffing models.

Committee Chair Greg Scharff, who proposed scuttling the five positions, said Wednesday that the goal was to boost the office’s productivity. Richardson had told him that she believes the office should be able to produce about 10 audits per year; their current goal is six audits.

Scharff said he has no problem “taking a step back” but did not back away from his earlier position that the office isn’t as productive as it should be.

“I view it as very unfortunate that audits are taking longer than they should and that we’re having productivity issues in the auditor’s office,” Scharff said.

The committee’s recommendation means that the City Council will now be confronted with what Keene described as a “status quo” budget. The biggest change will take place in the Fire Department, which will see 11 positions eliminated. The staffing change has already been implemented, however, and the budget will reflect — rather than shape — the new reality in the department, which is now relying more on cross-staffing.

Another change will be in the

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between having vaulted equipment in his own neighborhood and a pole with silent antennas, Scharff said he would opt for the latter.

“When you weigh it — when you weigh the aesthetics, when you weigh the noise, when you weigh safety — when you weigh all those things, the better choice is to put it on the pole,” Scharff said. “It’s completely quiet. It doesn’t make a sound, and you can barely see it compared to the pole.”

Councilman Adrian Fine concurred and noted that the application had successfully gone through the city’s approval process and has earned the approval of the Architectural Review Board and former Planning Director Hillary Gitelman.

DuBois said he was skeptical about Verizon’s assertion that underground vaults would be infeasible at all 11 sites. He suggested that the company consider each design in the context of its setting, rather than picking one preferred option for every site.

“In some places, poles might be appropriate; in some places, vaulting might be appropriate,” DuBois said.

Tanaka, for his part, focused his questions on the financial arrangement between Verizon and the city. Under the existing agreement, Verizon has to pay $270 annually for each pole — an amount that Tanaka claimed is well below

what the city should be charging.

He also had broader concerns about mounting equipment on top of telephone poles, given the city’s ambition to eventually move utilities underground.

Aside from opinions about the substance of the proposal, the council also expressed grave concerns over the behavior of the people attending the meeting. Audience members ignored Mayor Liz Kniss’s repeated requests not to clap or jeer for public speakers, with a few continuing to clap or wave their hands in approval or disapproval. One man stood up after every speaker to respond with either a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down gesture to the comment spoken.

After Kniss tried to ask the audience a question about cellphone usage and was greeted with angry shouts, she called for a 10-minute recess.

Even Holman, who sympathized with the most of the criticisms of Verizon, took issue with the tone of the meeting and chided the audience for its behavior.

“I’m disappointed that, for whatever reason, that this community decided it’s OK to yell, to show one’s behind to the speakers, to stand with middle fingers projected toward the council,” Holman said. “It’s not acceptable.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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consulting auditor. A staff member at the agency told Richardson the contractor’s work does not meet the government standards for auditing and that the reports often have to be rewritten.

She also discussed her experience in the Washington State Auditor’s Office, her former employer. The state brought her in to “transition out of contracting because the cost was so high for contracting,” Richardson said.

your money,” Richardson said.

The committee also heard from several public speakers, at least two of whom had been employed in the Office of the City Auditor.

Former City Auditor Sharon Erickson vehemently criticized the committee’s May 15 recommendation and appealed to the committee to reconsider it.

In-house auditors, she said, are there to “follow up on recommendations and make sure the residents of Palo Alto actually see the benefits of service improvements and cost savings.”

“The proposal to outsource all

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context of a utility pole, the proposed equipment is a relatively benign addition. Holman and Kou dissented and argued that the city should insist on underground vaults.

“It’s a box on a pole, and I don’t see what’s elegant about it,” Holman said of the proposed design.

“It’s setting the bar very, very low.

I don’t think it’s acceptable in this community.”

Kou suggested that if the sites don’t work for vaulting, Verizon should just move to a different site.

“If that vault doesn’t work for you, just don’t do it. It’s just as simple as that,” Kou said.

Their proposal to mandate the use of vaults ultimately fell by a 4-5 vote, with Councilman Tom DuBois and Tanaka joining them.

The council then voted 6-3 to accept the motion from Councilman Greg Scharff, who proposed rejecting the appeals and allowing the plan to move ahead. Scharff acknowledged that utility poles are inherently unattractive but suggested the Verizon equipment would be hardly noticeable in the context of the pole.

Insisting on vaults, meanwhile, would require Verizon to install a pump and equipment that according to company officials would generate noise. Given the choice

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Office of Sustainability, which will no longer be a separate entity. The position of chief sustainability officer, held by Gil Friend, will be eliminated and the office’s function will be subsumed within Keene’s office and the various departments implementing the city’s new sustainability plan that was developed by Friend.

The status quo is not, however, expected to last for too long. As part of its recommendation, the Finance Committee agreed that at least $4 million needs to be trimmed from the $214 million general fund in the coming year.

As such, it adopted a $210 million budget, with the $4 million in cuts to be identified over a series of meetings that the committee plans to hold after the council’s July break.

Following last week’s direction from the committee, Keene brought forward a list of ideas that the city can explore to reduce costs and address its ballooning pension liabilities. These include regionalizing police dispatch, “civilianizing” the medical-response positions in the Fire Department that are currently occupied by firefighters and creating new cost-sharing arrangements with the Palo Alto Unified School District for Project Safety Net and the

Cubberley Community Center.

Rather than make the cuts as part of the budget process, Keene suggested revisiting the various proposals after the summer break.

“I don’t think we ought to have ad hoc decisions,” Keene said.

“I think we want to be able to endorse the most cost-effective ones and the ones that provide the most value to the community.”

The Finance Committee agreed, with Vice Mayor Eric Filseth calling the proposal “pragmatic and sensible.” But Filseth also underscored the need to make the budget cuts in the coming months and noted that every delay will only add to the budget pains down the road.

“The reality is that this year, we are on line to spend $8 million more on pensions than we have. ... And we don’t have the money to pay for it,” Filseth said. “The way we fund it is, we write an IOU that our children will have to pay for.

“By the time we have to pay it back, it won’t be $8 million. It will be $30 million or $40 million by the time our children will have to pay it back. They will pay in the future for the services we are consuming now.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

Board of Education Policy Review Committee (May 18)

Suicide prevention: The committee discussed proposed revisions for the district’s suicide prevention policy.

City Council (May 21)

Verizon: The council denied seven appeals and affirmed the planning director’s decision allowing Verizon to install wireless equipment on 11 utility poles. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Kniss, Scharff, Wolbach No: Holman, Kou, Tanaka Charleston-Arastradero: The council approved a series of contracts, including two contracts totaling $8.8 million with O’Grady Paving, Inc., for implementation of the first two phases of the Charleston-Arastradero streetscape project. Yes: DuBois, Filseth, Fine, Holman, Kniss, Scharff, Tanaka Wolbach No: Kou

Board of Education (May 22)

Superintendent contract: The board waived its two-meeting rule and approved a three-year contract with new superintendent Don Austin. Yes: Baten Caswell, Collins, DiBrienza, Godfrey No: Dauber Computer science: The board discussed a committee’s proposal to teach computer science K-12, including as a high school graduation requirement.

Action: None Special education: The board discussed a staff proposal to allocate $2.4 million over two years to improve special education. Action: None CSEA negotiations: The board waived its two-meeting rule and accepted staff recommendations on reopening negotiations with the local California School Employees Association (CSEA) chapter. Yes: Unanimous Interim HR director: The board approved a contract amendment for the interim assistant superintendent of human resources. Yes: Unanimous Solar panels: The board adopted a notice of exemption for the installation of solar panels at six schools and approved recommended layouts for the panels, directing staff to look for alternative placement for two panels that were removed from the plan for Palo Alto High School. Yes: Unanimous Calendar: The board adopted a school-calendar board policy with one paragraph removed. Yes: Unanimous

Planning and Transportation Commission (May 22)

Capital Improvement Program: The committee reviewed the Capital Improvement Program for the years 2019-2023 and found them to be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. Yes: Gardias, Lauing, Riggs, Summa, Waldfogel No: Monk Absent: Alcheck

Council Finance Committee (May 23)

Budget: In its wrap-up session on the Fiscal Year 2019 budget, the committee voted unanimously to recommend approval of the budget, which includes a $210 million General Fund and which calls for $4 million in to-be-determined cuts. The committee also voted 3-1 to consider ways to improve productivity in the Office of the City Auditor later this year. Yes: Filseth, Scharff, Tanaka No: Kou

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Vintage movie theater to get makeover In response to overwhelming public support, The Menlo Park City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a proposal by a new local nonprofit to rebuild the Guild Theatre at 949 El Camino Real. The makeover will include turning the vintage movie theater into a ‘state-of-the-art’ music and events venue. (Posted May 23, 3:02 p.m.)

Residents seek to cut office growth With the hand-off of a half-foot-tall stack of signed petitions Tuesday, Palo Alto residents seeking to set a new and smaller limit on office growth in the city launched what they hope will be a “vigorous debate” leading up to a November vote on the matter. (Posted May 22, 4:53 p.m.)

Paly principal returns from medical leave With a handful of days left in the school year, Palo Alto High School Principal Kim Diorio has returned from a medical leave to support the transition to a new principal. (Posted May 22, 1:29 p.m.)

Tree trimmer dies in accident at Stanford A 36-year-old man died while working on trees with a chainsaw at a Stanford University housing complex in Palo Alto on Saturday afternoon, Palo Alto fire officials said Monday. (Posted May 21, 4:55 p.m.)

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County part of $60M lead paint settlement Ten California cities and counties have announced a $60 million settlement with one of three paint companies on the hook for cleaning up lead paint hazards in older houses. The agreement announced May 16 resolves part of an 18-year-old lawsuit filed against the three companies by Santa Clara County in Superior Court in 2000. (Posted May 20, 8:27 a.m.)

Lawsuit: Stanford violated students’ rights In a class-action lawsuit filed May 17, a group of Stanford University students allege that the university has repeatedly violated state and federal anti-discrimination laws in its response to students with mental health disabilities, including those who have been hospitalized for suicide attempts. (Posted May 18, 3:16 p.m.)

New PAUSD principals named The Palo Alto school board unanimously approved new principals for Palo Alto High and Escondido and Fairmeadow elementary schools on May 22. Adam Paulson, currently the assistant principal of teaching and learning at Paly will replace Kim Diorio at Paly; Marcela Simoes de Carvalho will replace retiring Chuck Merritt at Escondido; and JLS Middle School administrator Iris Wong will take over at Fairmeadow. (Posted May 18, 1:35 p.m.)

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Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 9 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/major injury . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 8 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 8 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 3 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 5

Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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El Camino Real, 5/7, 7:00 p.m.; battery/ sexual.

Columbia Court, 5/12, 7:09 p.m.; domestic violence/misc.

Stone Lane, 5/14, 4:53 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

El Camino Real, 5/15, 12:00 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Pasteur Drive, 5/17, 10:49 p.m.; battery/ felony.

Pasteur Drive, 5/18, 10:02 a.m.; sexual assault/misc.

El Camino Real, 5/20, 12:41 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Embarcadero Road, 5/21, 9:49 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Wilkie Way, 5/21, 5:22 p.m.; child abuse/physical.

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Don Kazak, first Weekly reporter, dies at 71

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on Kazak, who joined the Palo Alto Weekly staff when the paper was launched in 1979 and remained for almost 30 years as a reporter and editor, died May 16 in Palo Alto from complications of hypertension. He was 71.

His death came just a month after his only sibling, Dolores Sobczak, was killed in a freak accident in Chicago, when she and their 97-year-old mother were hit by a car in a parking lot. The elder Kazak was seriously injured but is expected to recover, according to the family.

Kazak was a highly respected journalist who covered Palo Alto city government, breaking news, Stanford, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto and many regional topics.

He especially enjoyed writing columns about people and issues in the community. He was a prolific writer and became well-known and trusted by Weekly readers over three decades.

Since his retirement from the Weekly in 2009, he worked with a wide range of local individuals writing their memoirs after extensive interview sessions done over many months.

“Don was a vital part of the Weekly’s early success as we sought to establish our credibility and serious intentions,” founder and Publisher Bill Johnson said.

“He was not only a talented reporter and writer but a deep thinker filled with curiosity about complicated issues, the motivations of people and the many unique qualities of the Palo Alto and Stanford region,” Johnson said. “He never developed the cynicism about institutions and people that is common among journalists, and he always was drawn to the positive instead of controversy. And that made him a superb ambassador of a new publication seeking the support and confidence of readers.”

Palo Alto Weekly Editor Jocelyn Dong, who worked alongside Kazak for many years, recalled that he especially enjoyed sharing his knowledge of the profession with less-experienced reporters.

“Don was the classic old-school journalist who knew how to dig for facts. When I started covering land use, he showed me how to read environmental analyses,” Dong said.

“Even recently, in retirement, he gave me advice on covering Stanford’s development issues.”

A two-finger typist, Kazak loved his old Royal manual typewriter and was resistant to the conversion to computers. His colleagues always knew when he was writing because of his loud, two-finger keyboarding.

Kazak was born and raised in

Chicago and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University. He was a reporter and sports writer at Lerner Newspapers in the Chicago area before moving to Palo Alto in 1972. He was an administrator and counselor for the Palo Alto Drug Abuse program for three years before consulting for Santa Clara and San Mateo counties on public health issues and drug-abuse prevention until he became the first reporter hired by Palo Alto Weekly in 1979.

Kazak was a voracious reader of books and magazines on politics, culture and society and was the Weekly’s longtime book-section editor.

He also liked to share music and lyrics with friends and was a passionate Chicago White Sox fan.

According to his niece, Mary Sobczak, Kazak and his sister enjoyed a mutual love of music and of Bob Dylan in particular.

“Somewhere, I can imagine a continued conversation between them about ‘Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door,’” she said.

Joel Davidson, a longtime friend who worked with Kazak to start the Palo Alto Drug Abuse “Collective” in the 1970s, remembered

Don for his love for traveling throughout the West Coast in his RV with his dog and finding a beautiful place to read, write and reflect.

In his farewell column in the Palo Alto Weekly on April 3, 2009, Kazak quoted from a Dylan song called “Three Angels” and said that Dylan’s lyrics had a way of “making me see things differently than I otherwise would.”

“Reporters tend to see the worst of things because that’s our job.

But we also see the humanity and kindness that people have, which goes a long way to help make sense of things.”

“When I’ve met people for the first time or have taken calls from someone I don’t know,” he wrote, “there has often been an easy, assumed familiarity on the part of the other person because he or she may have felt they have known me through my writing. It’s part of being in a community together.”

In addition to his mother, Johanna, and niece, Mary, Kazak is survived by another niece, Karen Sobczak; a nephew, John Sobczak; three grand-nieces, and six great-grand-nephews and -nieces.

A family service will be held in Chicago. Q

Carmo de Bomparto Trindade December 16, 1934 – May 11, 2018 Resident of Palo Alto Dr. Carmo Trindade passed away peacefully in Palo Alto at the age of 83.

Born in Karachi (prepartition India), Carmo was one of six children. After leaving High School he attended Dow Medical College and received his Medical Degree four years later.

In 1958 he moved to England to complete his internship in general surgery. He then completed his residency at the Nuffield Orthopedic Center in Oxford, and obtained his FRCS. He later moved into academic work and taught anatomy at the University of London. In 1974 he moved to Palo Alto and continued teaching anatomy at Stanford University for a few years. After renewing his Medical License in California, he moved back into clinical orthopedics first at the Valley Medical Center in San Jose and then at Kaiser Hospital in Redwood City.

After retiring from that position, he worked several years on Medico-legal cases, then at the Veterans’ Hospital in Palo Alto as an orthopedic specialist in the compensations and pensions department. He finally retired in March of 2016.

Carmo is survived by his wife Naomi of Palo Alto, his sons Jason (Anjali) and Michael (Kathleen), as well as grandchildren Maya, Neel, Dominic and Nikolai. He is also survived by his sister Elvira, sister-in-law Ann and brother-in-law Roy, and many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews in Canada and in Australia.

Services were held at Alta Mesa Memorial Park where he was also laid to rest.

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Jane Lucinda Keedy Melin Jane Lucinda Keedy Melin, a former resident of Palo Alto, died on April 25 in her home in Portland, Oregon.

She was born in Wellington, Delaware.

At age 13, she and her brother Robert were orphaned with the loss of their father in 1934 and mother in 1944. She attended the Green Farm Academy in Westport, Connecticut during her formative years, where she played field hockey and competed in high jump on the track team in addition to her studies. She went on to graduate from the University of Denver in 1954 with a bachelor’s degree. After graduating, she traveled the world and served

at the 7th U.S. Army Tank Training Center in Vilseck, Germany in 1958. While she was married to Jack Deering Melin, she had three children. The two oldest were born in South Africa, where the family lived for several years. They moved to Palo Alto in 1965, where their youngest daughter was born. They spent many years in Palo Alto until they divorced in 1977. She moved to Sacremento following her divorce and became a real estate agent.

Once an orphan herself, she spent time throughout her life volunteering for organizations dedicated to assisting orphans and orphanages.

She is survived by her brother and her three children, Leslie Melin of Portland, Oregon; Laura van Zandt of Houston, Texas; and Michael Melin of Mammoth Lakes as well as her two grandchildren.

Her family will not be holding an official memorial service, per her request. Q

Maejong “Dee Dee” Johnson-Zawaydeh November 10, 1948 – May 2, 2018 Maejong “Dee Dee” JohnsonZawaydeh was surrounded by family when she passed away on May 2, 2018.

Born in San Francisco on November 10, 1948, Dee Dee lived in the Bay Area for most of her life. She attended Ravenswood High School and San Francisco State University.

Dee Dee held several administrative positions before joining the Stanford Athletic department. After a stint in the track office, she became the Administrative Assistant for Stanford Women’s basketball, a position she held for 30 years.

Dee Dee showed her love of family, friends, and the Stanford community by cooking – chicken soup, lasagna, jook, “strawberry stuff,” and thousands of Christmas cookies every year. Her interests were varied. She wrote screenplays, self-published a book, studied Arabic and handwriting analysis, watched the TV show “Friends,” visited with miniature horses, and was a professional belly dancer. Dee Dee enjoyed exploring new places and was especially fond of discovering the local food scene wherever she traveled.

She loved Paris and Hawaii and traveled to each as often as possible.

Dee Dee is survived by her three children, LaRon, Errol “Scoot”, and Chi Johnson; her two daughters-in-law, Emmie Johnson and Deb Sandweiss; her five grandsons, Khalid, Khalil, Donovan, Brandon, and Quinn Johnson; her three brothers and their wives, Daleson “Nick” (Darlene), Jon (Beverly) and Challen (Leona) Yee; three nephews, four nieces, and one great niece. She was preceded in death by her father, Dale Foo Yee, her mother Roberta Mae (Jong) Yee, and the father of her children, Aaron Johnson, Jr. A Celebration of Dee Dee’s life was held at Stanford Memorial Church. Burial took place at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, CA. PAID

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Editorial Hirokawa for sheriff After Laurie Smith’s 20 years as sheriff, a strong challenge to is overdue

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n spite of being opposed by four challengers, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith could squeak out the necessary 50 percent plus one vote on June 5 to avoid a run-off in the November election.

That would be a shame in our opinion, as we think her longevity in the office and her shaky performance deserves a head-to-head campaign with the only other qualified candidate in the race, former Undersheriff John Hirokawa.

Smith has presided over a department that has been operating under a cloud of controversy for a long time. The most recent has been her oversight of the county jails and the 2015 murder of an inmate, Michael Tyree, by three deputy sheriffs. She has attempted in this campaign to deflect responsibility for all that is wrong at the jails to Hirokawa, who as undersheriff was the No. 2 in the department and, among a host of other operational responsibilities, oversaw the assistant sheriff who was directly running the jail.

The finger-pointing about who should be held accountable for serious deficiencies in the Sheriff’s department and jail aside, the other three challengers do not have close to the law-enforcement management experience needed to oversee the 1,800-person, $350 million agency. Between Smith, 66, who is asking for a sixth, fouryear term, and Hirokawa, who like Smith went up through the ranks over his more than 35 years with the department until retiring in 2016 at age 61, we think Hirokawa is the better choice.

Significantly, Hirokawa is supported by 11 former police chiefs, including recently retired Palo Alto Chief Dennis Burns, and retired San Jose Independent Police Auditor and former Superior Court judge LaDoris Cordell, who also chaired a blue-ribbon committee appointed after the jail murder of Tyree. He is also endorsed by county Board of Supervisors President Joe Simitian and the Deputy Sheriffs’ Association. (Smith was endorsed by the other four county supervisors.)

In addition to overseeing the jails since 2010, the Sheriff’s department is responsible for law enforcement in the county’s unincorporated areas and provides police services to several smaller cities, including Los Altos Hills and to the VTA. It also provides security at all county courthouses and grants Stanford University police its deputized law-enforcement status even though Stanford officers are university employees and supervised by a police chief hired by Stanford.

Smith has retained her seat over the last 20 years by being an astute politician who has nurtured all the right relationships and made sure the communities contracting with the Sheriff’s Office for police services are happy. That’s commendable, but we believe the troubled department needs stronger leadership. A run-off election campaign will help confirm whether John Hirokawa is the person to bring it.

Hendrickson for judge

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n the event that Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky is recalled on June 5, voters need to choose one of the two candidates running to replace him. If he is not recalled, then the election for his successor will not matter, so voters opposed to the recall should not withhold their vote from this race thinking that it would benefit Persky to do so.

Both candidates are experienced and respected attorneys and both have opted not to weigh in on the Persky recall or the Brock Turner case.

Cindy Hendrickson is a veteran Santa Clara County prosecutor and one of six assistant district attorneys serving as part of District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s management team. She has been in the DA’s Office for 23 years and over her career has overseen prosecutions out of the north county courthouse in Palo Alto and the department’s Family Violence Unit. She is a 1990 graduate of UCLA School of Law and has an undergraduate degree from Stanford.

Angela Storey, who jumped into the race in late February, began her legal career handling insurance litigation for Farmers Insurance and then did construction and business litigation. Since 2013 she has been in private practice with her husband in San Jose, where she mostly handles civil cases. Storey graduated from Santa Clara University Law School in 2001 after receiving her undergraduate degree from UCLA. Hendrickson’s extensive experience in the criminal court system and her management experience make her the easy choice in this election.

Previous recommendations Yes on Recall of Judge Persky No on Regional Measure 3

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Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Letters Cell towers are dangerous Editor, I attended the City Council meeting Monday night hoping to prevent the installation of Verizon cell towers on our telephone poles. I am especially concerned about the dangerous radiation from them, which will affect all of us all the time.

Many in the audience also spoke about this.

When it was the council’s turn to question and make their decisions known, Mayor Liz Kniss asked the audience: “How many own cell phones?” All, except myself, raised hands. She said, “Well then...” as if to say there may not be much concern for radiation danger.

However, there has been mainly positive information disseminated about cellphones, while the real known dangers are not commonly told. So people are not well-informed.

Barbara Lilley Emerson Street, Palo Alto

No basis for recall Editor, I am one of the nearly three dozen members of the Stanford Law School faculty who oppose the recall of Judge Persky. Your editorial of May 11 supporting recall rehashes many of the points that have been widely discussed.

But it makes two points that warrant a brief reply.

First, the editorial suggests that recall is “democratic” and was rarely used in the past. That is

precisely why recall of Judge Persky should be opposed.

The rule of law is about avoiding mob rule and enabling independent judges to apply the law as best they can. That recall has almost never been used reflects that fact that the public has understood the high bar to recall and that it should not be used to express anger over a single, lawful sentencing decision that followed the recommendation of the probation office.

If the bar is lowered in this case, it will soon be lowered in other cases of unpopular decisions protecting, for example, immigrants, abortion rights, gun control

legislation and the like; and the mere threat of that will undermine the independence of the judiciary.

Second, the editorial speculates that future victims of sexual assault will not press charges because of this decision. To the contrary, it is far more likely in this Me Too era that victims will eagerly press charges in response, in part to the criticism of the Brock Turner sentence.

In any event, while such conjecture might bear on the wisdom of the sentence, it provides no basis for recall.

A. Douglas Melamed Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford

This week on Town Square Town Square is an online discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square In response to “Synchronized green lights in University Avenue’s future” Posted May 21 at 10:06 a.m.

by Bruce McCaul, a resident of Cresent Park Too bad the Newell/Clark pedestrian bridge being built over U.S. Highway 101 near Home Depot doesn’t have a couple of lanes for cars. Such a project could have been coordinated with the Newell bridge project over San Franscisquito Creek and provided Dumbarton traffic with an alternate route. Newell is alredy one of the designated arterials for Palo Alto, although Clark Avenue in East Palo Alto would need some repurposing.

In response to “A charitable legacy, ensured” Posted May 20 at 9:34 a.m.

by Matt James, a resident of Portola Valley Well-deserved praise — all of us who live in this community have countless ways that the Packard family has touched our lives — whether it is the generous support to Stanford, local community grantmaking or my personal favorite, helping lock up so much open space so that many of us can experience (at least a little) what the Packard family experienced in those early days. ... Thanks for this profile.

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Guest Opinions Idea to outsource audit staff is stunningly bad

by Sharon Erickson

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alo Alto voters created Palo Alto’s independent Office of the City Auditor in 1983 to serve as an internal watchdog over city operations. On Tuesday, May 15, after only a few minutes of discussion, the Finance Committee of the City Council voted unanimously to eliminate five of the six positions in the City Auditor’s Office effective June 30 and replace them with outsourced services.

This was a stunningly bad idea, and on Wednesday, May 23, the committee rescinded that action. However, on a 3-1 vote (Lydia Kou dissenting), they voted to study the matter further. This leaves the Office of the City Auditor and those five jobs in limbo.

The proposal to outsource all audit work to consultants (leaving only the city auditor to oversee a contracted function) ignores the value of independent in-house auditors who, unlike consultants, provide continuity of review and oversight. The auditors who would lose their jobs under this proposal have indepth knowledge of city programs. They have worked extensively with city staff to understand operational problems and find workable solutions.

As Palo Alto’s city auditor from 2001-2008, I had the privilege of serving as the public’s eyes and ears inside City Hall. Together with my in-house staff, I gained a deep understanding of Palo Alto’s operations. This allowed us to write tough but fair reports with the overarching goal of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of Palo Alto government. Having an in-house audit staff was crucial to my ability to offer meaningful recommendations for improvement.

It is Palo Alto taxpayers who will lose out if the in-house staff is laid off and the office is reduced to a single person. Losing these auditors will deprive the public of employees who understand the city’s operations and who have collectively built institutional memory.

Palo Alto’s Office of the City Auditor has had its ups and down over the years, but it has a long history of issuing award-winning and value-added performance and financial audits. Its purpose is to promote honest, efficient, effective and fully accountable city government. The strength of the Office has been its ability to dive deep into the City’s operating environment.

Outsourcing may sound like a good idea, but the City will likely end up with highly paid consultants who spend minimal time on site and who gain only a very high-level understanding of City programs and services.

Once outsourced, it is unlikely that in-house positions could easily be added back, and here’s why: City staff (in any city) rarely like

having full-time auditors around. They do come to respect them if the auditors do tough but fair work, but reinstating audit positions in the future would be difficult after the office is broken apart. I believe the wiser and proactive approach is to keep the office we have.

The staff in the Office of the City Auditor are there to provide the public with objective analysis and information needed to make decisions that help create a better future for Palo Alto. The City Charter specifies that the city auditor is hired by the City Council and therefore, is independent of the city manager.

This allows the City Auditor’s Office to independently review programs and operations overseen by the city manager.

Why should residents care? Recommendations from the Office of the City Auditor to improve operations as varied as police, fire, libraries, revenue collection, recreation programs, street maintenance, city planning, and animal services (among others) have provided accountability and transparency in Palo Alto’s programs and finances.

Over the years, these recommendations have directly impacted the delivery of city services — better coordination of street cuts and street repair, improved contract-processing times, adoption of an employee-ethics policy and implementation of a whistleblower hotline, improved efficiency in library staffing to better align with high-demand times, improved monitoring of water usage in parks and park maintenance, establishment of

utility risk-management procedures and provisions for purchasing natural gas and electricity, improved controls over overtime pay, improved ambulance billing practices, better inventory controls, streamlined planning-permit processes, identification of informationsecurity control vulnerabilities, improved practices related to workers’ compensation claims to reduce injuries as well as costs to the city, and improved code-enforcement practices to more quickly deal with eyesore properties — as well as additional sales and use tax, transient-occupancy tax and utility tax recoveries for the city.

On June 18, the City Council will be asked to approve the Finance Committee’s recommendation to further study the potential outsourcing and elimination of five of the six positions in the Office of the City Auditor.

To maintain and encourage accountability, transparency and continuous improvement in the City of Palo Alto, I urge the council to reinforce the importance of the independent Office of the City Auditor and eliminate this proposal from consideration.

This is not the time, either in the history of our city or our country, to diminish accountability in government. Q Sharon Erickson is a resident of Palo Alto. She grew up in Palo Alto and served as Palo Alto’s city auditor from 2001-2008.

Since 2008, she has been the city auditor of San Jose. She can be emailed at sharon. winslow.erickson@gmail.com.

School shootings: We are not immune

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n March 28, I was in my freshman biology classroom at Palo Alto High School, about to take a test about evolution. Over the rustling of papers, chatting of friends after lunch, and shuffling of chairs, an intercom announcement could barely be heard over the white noise.

The teacher told us to quiet down to hear the announcement. It took a few moments to register what the man over the speaker was repeating: “This is a code red. Get to your classrooms immediately. This is not a drill.”

No one was scared at first. We sort of looked at each other relieved that we did not have to take the test. The teacher at the front, who was holding the tests and was just about to hand them out, rolled her eyes a little and sighed. A lock down. How inconvenient.

Everyone sprung into action after that, enthusiastic that something interesting was actually happening at Paly for once. We closed the blinds, barricaded the doors and turned the tables on to their sides to form a barricade for ourselves in the corner of the room.

Within minutes, I found myself half-squished between two cabinets, with some boy’s knee digging into my thigh on one side and my friend on the left side of me. I was already

receiving texts from multiple group chats: “What is going on???” “Stay safe u guys.” “I love you all.”

For the next 30 minutes, we sat there, unsure of what was going on. My back started to hurt, and we started getting restless. Students were sharing whatever updates they could find on the internet about the safety of our school, where we spend seven hours every day. Whether Twitter or Facebook updates, forwarded emails from PAUSD, or pictures from outside sent by someone’s parent working at Stanford, my peers were willing to show and share with the class any updates or news at all they could find.

Everyone felt a sense of desperation.

Around the 40-minute mark, we started to get more and more squirmy and impatient.

More and more people kept adjusting their position or pulling out their cell phones.

My foot fell asleep. I started playing trivia games on my phone and occasionally leaned against the cabinets I was squashed between and closed my eyes. I waited like this for 45 more minutes.

While it was happening, it was not that scary for me. I was relieved because I had not studied for the test and happy that I was in a class with my friend so I was not alone.

The strange thing is, I was not supposed to be in that class at all. I was technically on my prep, so I would have been in the MAC (Media Arts Center) or the library studying, but that day in particular, there was a badminton game, so I was going to have to leave

biology early. I decided to take the test during fifth period instead, and because of that, I was safely inside a classroom when the code red happened. If I had been in the MAC like I was supposed to be, I honestly do not know if I would have been able to get into a classroom before the barricades were up.

Looking back on it now, I ask, “Why was I so calm?” It seems more traumatic in retrospect, but during it, I was pretty lighthearted about it all.

However, not everyone was calm; many around me were frightened. When students stood up or peered toward the door, snaking their head around the barricade, a girl hissed, “Get back down right now. Do you want to get shot?” Or “If you’re gonna talk, you might as well get out of the barricade and scream because you obviously want to get shot, and I don’t.” At the time, I thought she was being overly dramatic, but I realize now that it is not my place to judge her feelings, and she was obviously terrified.

There have been more than 15 school shootings in the United States since 2018 started — and last week’s tragedy at Santa Fe High School in Galveston County, Texas, only reinforces what students have been rallying about since the Parkland, Florida shooting in February: There seems to be a problem here, does there not?

I do not think this is so much of a question about guns or what they do, I think this is a question of basic human dignity. Our government has shown that it could care less about

a citizen’s life. All elected officials do is talk, talk, talk, but nothing ever happens.

If the legislature was even willing to reconsider and take action toward gun reform and background checks, maybe it would at least save the thousands of students attending Paly, their parents, and my entire community the fear of their kids being shot up while trying to earn an education. Like the Second Amendment, attending school is a right and also a law.

I do not see how a government can have two pieces of legislature that constantly threaten each other and seem to be at odds.

The Second Amendment was written allowing people to own guns for defense, not to shoot innocent people at point-blank range.

Reform is already a controversial topic in Washington, D.C., but I wish that parents would further extend it to a household conversation because these last few months have shown me that no one is unaffected by this.

I bet you think this would never actually occur in your city or to your kids or your community. I bet the communities of Parkland and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut never thought it would happen to them either. Just because we live in Palo Alto, or the Silicon Valley, or California does not mean we are immune to this. It will happen again, and we could be next. Q Ellie Wong is a freshman at Palo Alto High School and a lifelong Palo Alto resident.

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Cars drive along Arastradero Road in south Palo Alto, a busy thoroughfare that passes 11 schools. Major changes to the Charleston-Arastradero corridor will begin in the coming month.

Palo Alto looks to complete its transformation of the Charleston-Arastradero corridor

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Hill Road and, more recently, at San Antonio Road).

Pedestrians will find new “refuge islands” as well as widened sidewalks and crosswalks at current danger spots. And everyone will see new trees, shrubs and “bioretention” areas — landscaped islands that both slow down traffic and treat stormwater.

Which is exactly why city officials balk at any suggestion that the latest phase of the CharlestonArastradero transformation will further slow down traffic for the sake of bicyclists — a criticism that has haunted the streetscape project ever since 2008, when the city’s reduction in the number of lanes along a portion of Charleston-Arastradero sparked outrage in Barron Park and beyond.

“This is a multi-modal, complete-streets safety project,” Chief Transportation Official Joshuah Mello told the Weekly during a recent interview. “It’s a wholesale improvement of the entire corridor.”

It is also the only project that the City Council deemed important enough to include on its 2014 list of infrastructure priorities — a nod to the project’s critical importance, its high cost and its long, rocky history. And coming in the wake of waves created by the ongoing Ross Road project, which triggered an angry petition calling

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for it to be reversed, the Charleston-Arastradero streetscape plan is also a chance for the city to restore its credibility with a public that has grown increasingly skeptical about “traffic-calming” proposals.

Minutes before the council voted to approve more than $9 million in construction contracts, Councilman Greg Scharff told the small crowd that stuck it out to the end of the seven-hour-long meeting that the lesson of CharlestonArastradero is simple: Perseverance pays off. Mayor Liz Kniss predicted that it will make a “dramatic difference” for all users of the busy street. And Councilman Cory Wolbach, who used the road to get to school in the 1990s, said the proposed improvements will “save lives.”

“When I was going to Gunn — by bus, by car and by bike, occasionally even walking — back in the 1990s, it was a nightmare going up and down CharlestonArastradero,” Wolbach said.

The city’s controversial 2008 switch from four- to two-lanes on Arastradero made things safer — and more sane, he said. The next phase of reconfigurations will further these goals, he said.

“My regret is we weren’t able to do this sooner,” Wolbach said.

Yet for all of its purported benefits, Charleston-Arastradero

is also the only project that requires a trigger warning for certain crowds. In 2013, more than four years after the city implemented its lane-reducing “road diet,” a large number of Barron Park residents complained about the change and argued that it has slowed traffic to a crawl, making it all but impossible for them to exit homes during school-commute periods. Many pointed to increasingly congested traffic on Charleston-Arastradero as

the basis for their opposition to a proposed housing development on Maybell Avenue, which was overturned in a referendum in November 2013.

The current project — which is being undertaken in three phases — is notable for not including any reductions in the number of lanes on the road. Its aim is to “moderate” car traffic, not slow it down.

Mello said.

“And when I say ‘moderation’ I don’t mean creating congestion,”

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on’t call it a bike project.

Yes, Palo Alto is full of bike projects, from the unfolding reconstruction of Ross Road to the extension of the famous Bryant Street Bike Boulevard. And yes, bicyclists will see plenty of improvement when the city completes the latest upgrades on the Charleston-Arastradero corridor, a 2.3-mile south Palo Alto artery (the conjoined Charleston and Arastradero roads) that passes by 11 schools, eight residential enclaves and a smattering of shopping centers, parks and senior facilities.

But as city officials will quickly tell you, the latest stage of the project — which an exhausted but enthusiastic City Council approved just before the stroke of midnight Tuesday — will have much to offer motorists, pedestrians and everyone else who uses the busy commuter route. Drivers will get a new traffic light to help them make the difficult left turn from Louis Road onto Charleston; additional lanes to give cars more room at the often-congested Alma Street intersection; new dedicated right-turn lanes at Middlefield Road; and SynchroGreen traffic signals throughout the corridor that will track “cohorts” of cars and adjust green lights to facilitate a smoother traffic flow (a similar system has been installed at Sand

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“Residents deserve more time ed poster-boards along the corridor describe the changes to come, to weigh in on the design, based as do the temporary markings at on the fact that the original plans places where new bulbouts will are quite old and the city has be installed. Residents who live changed so much in the intervenalong the corridor will receive up ing years,” Sanders wrote. “Cirto three separate notices before cumstances have changed. Plus, work commences, the earliest of we don’t want another Ross Road which would start next month. situation.”

Avivit Katzir, In many cases, whose five chilthey will also get a knock on ‘We’re actually going dren have been biking to Palo their door from to be improving Alto’s schools staff, just to since third make sure they operations.’ grade (two of are aware of the — Joshuah Mello, work to come. chief transportation official, them still bike “I think it’s City of Palo Alto to JLS) said she believes the latsafe to say the est changes are majority of people in Palo Alto know about counter-intuitive and “odd.”

“I always felt that biking to this project,” Mello said.

Even so, many residents remain school was safe and that the comskeptical or downright opposed to munity is aware of young bikthe latest slate of changes. Becky ers and the bike lane. ... Seeing Sanders, a Ventura neighborhood the changes at Ross Road, (the) resident and co-chair of the um- Louis Road and Amarillo interbrella group Palo Alto Neigh- section, and the proposed plan of borhoods, urged the council in Charleston-Arastradero Corridor a letter last month not to move looks wrong to me,” Katzir told ahead with a grant application to the Weekly in an email. “I felt that fund the project. She said there’s my kids biking ... are becoming a “growing rumble in south Palo less safe due to the implemented

Mello said, correctly anticipating the next question. “I mean designing a roadway so that people can travel in continuous speed along the corridor. We’re actually going to be improving operations.”

The new streetscape project includes a list of improvements geared to improve traffic flow, Mello said. Near the rail crossing, a westbound lane on Charleston at Alma Street will be lengthened to create more room for cars and help them get through the rail crossing faster. And the “adaptive” signals, he said, will track cohorts of cars and respond in real-time to traffic conditions to facilitate a smoother and more comfortable drive.

Holly Boyd, a senior engineer at Public Works who is managing the streetscape project, said staff had reached out to residents around the corridor and solicited their ideas before formulating the final design. As a result, the city made a few dozen tweaks to the design, including change to striping and readjustment of median islands so that residents would not lose their ability to turn into their driveways.

“We tried to listen to people and accommodate them,” Boyd said,.

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there are also people who have kids and who recognize that the street was very dangerous, and so they say, ‘Let’s go on with this.’”

For Liberman, the biggest problem with the project is its cost. The city continues to grapple with an estimated shortfall of $76 million in its infrastructure plan, a list that also includes a new publicsafety building, two new garages, two rebuilt fire stations and a bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101.

Given the scarcity of resources, the city should have re-evaluated the Charleston-Arastradero project and reconsidered whether the latest set of improvements is really necessary.

“It makes no sense to approve one project in isolation without viewing it as just one of a collection of projects approved years ago but for which there isn’t sufficient funds for all of them now,” Liberman wrote to the council last month.

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She specifically criticized the proposal to expand sidewalks, which she noted would narrow the road and “force motorized vehicles and bikers to merge into a narrow lane.”

Art Liberman, the former president of the neighborhood group Barron Park Association, said he continues to see polarization in his neighborhood about the corridor’s recent changes. Some see them as a boon to bicyclists; others view them as a disaster for drivers during busy commute times. A traffic analysis released earlier this year indicated a delay of 51 seconds at the intersection of Arastradero and El Camino Real during the peak afternoon commute, the third longest wait citywide.

“There are people who are still infuriated that they can’t get out of Barron Park and use Arastradero to go to Foothill,” Liberman said. “There are people close to Arastradero, on Georgia and Donald and Coulombe, who have a difficult time getting out. But

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“There’s a lot of motor memory that (continued from previous page) works when you’re driving or bicycling,” Ellson said. “Overriding the motor memory main objective of the project — slowing is not just a matter of changing behavior, down traffic and making biking safer — it’s a matter of rewiring your brain. It takes has already been achieved with the lane people time, and it’s uncomfortable.”

But for all the criticism, Ellson is heartreduction.

“I just don’t understand why staff is ened by the results so far. During a recent pushing ahead right now on this one proj- interview, Ellson watched a video that was ect, when there’s been no discussion of (in- taken at the intersection of Arastradero and frastructure) priorities,” Liberman told the Donald Drive during a busy school commute. A large group of students crowded Weekly.

Some on the council share his view. inside a green “bike box,” waiting for the Councilwoman Karen Holman chided light to turn green. To their right is a stastaff on Monday night for not presenting tionary car, awaiting its turn. The light the project in the context of the broader switches and the bicyclists take off in an infrastructure picture, though she ulti- exuberant but orderly wave, while the drivmately voted along with her colleagues in er awaits her turn on the four-way stop.

“What used to happen approving more than $9 on the intersection was million for the first two there was a blind curve phases of the three-phase ‘I just don’t down the street and the project. (Phase 1 extends understand why kids would be on the right from Miranda Avenue side of the road and they’d to Clemo Avenue, while staff is pushing cross on the wrong side of Phase 2 covers Charles- ahead right now road and they would ton between Alma and on this one project, the ride the wrong way, apMiddlefield.) proaching the intersection Kou raised similar con- when there’s been from Arastradero into cerns and voted against no discussion of traffic that was turning the two contracts with priorities.’ the corner.”

O’Grady Paving, Inc. The bike box had iniBut for project propo— Art Liberman, resident, tially created a “brouhanents, the waiting game Barron Park neighborhood ha” because of the green has gone on long enough for improvements that are not cosmetic but marking, which could be unsettling for the driver next to the youthful mob, she said. critical.

Among the project’s biggest benefits, But behaviors have changed; people have Mello said, is the creation of a continuous gotten used to it; and, from her point of east-west bikeway along the corridor. One view, things are now far safer.

Ellson said she expects some people to of the most significant gaps in the bikeway, he said, is along El Camino Real, techni- be unhappy with this project, just as with cally a state highway that currently doesn’t Ross Road and almost any other traffic have bike lanes crossing it. As such, El project. But she pointed to a variety of feaCamino creates a key deterrent for potential tures that will make a big difference for students, including a new ramp for Terman bikers, Mello said.

“The theory is that someone’s trip on a students that will allow them to enter the bike is defined by the most stressful mo- school without needing to weave through ment on their trip,” Mello said. “Ninety vehicles. A new multi-use pathway near percent of your trip can be comfortable but Gunn High School will make it safer for if 10 percent is uncomfortable, you’re less kids using all forms of transportation, from bikes to scooters. likely to make the trip at all.”

The improvements at Gunn and Terman Penny Ellson, a pioneer of the city’s hugely successful Safe Routes to School will be among the first features implementProgram and a long-time proponent of the ed in the next stage of the project. With the Charleston-Arastradero project, believes contracts approved this week, contractors the time is more than ripe for moving plan to start construction on Phase 1 and forward. A resident of the Greenmeadow Phase 2 in the coming month and to comneighborhood southeast of the corridor, plete them within a year. After that, work Ellson has been watching the transforma- will kick off on Phase 3, which includes tion of Charleston-Arastradero since about the segments between Clemo Avenue and 2000, when a slew of new developments Alma, and between Middlefield and San began cropping up along the corridor, in- Antonio Road (the segmentation of the cluding the Arbor Real housing develop- project was driven by grant deadlines that ment that replaced the Hyatt Rickey’s hotel; required the city to prioritize sections of the the new Elks Club; and the Taube-Koret corridor closest to schools).

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Alarmed by the potential traffic increase of the project will conclude in 2020. For from these projects, Ellson and a group of project proponents, the hope is that resiconcerned residents reached out to the city dents will adapt to — and embrace — these to raise their concerns. The effort resulted changes.

“We may be in a situation five years from in a temporary construction moratorium and the adoption of a new “traffic impact now where Ross Road is ancient history and fee” that developers must pay the city to people are saying, ‘This is a great thing,’” City Manager James Keene said. “We’ve fund street improvements, she said.

Since then, the street has undergone two had people trying to stop the California Avreconfigurations that were initially tested enue improvements. It was decried as if it on a trial basis and later permanently ad- was going to create the worst situation ever. opted. The first one, finalized in 2008, Now, it’s a jewel.” Q boosted the road’s traffic capacity and Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be created a right-turn lane into Gunn. The emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com. second one, which was made permanent in 2012, reduced the number of lanes on About the cover: Students leaving Arastradero, added bike amenities and Terman Middle School bike past made many people angry. traffic heading east on Arastradero Ellson said she understands the critics’ Road on May 21. Photo by Veronica concerns. Drivers, like bikers and pedesWeber. trians, often go into “autopilot mode” when

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

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alo Alto is, it’s safe to a say, a tree-loving community. After all, it’s even named after a historic arboreal specimen. For three decades it’s been designated as a “Tree City USA” by the National Arbor Day Foundation. And who could forget the public outcry in 2009, when around 50 mature street trees along California Avenue were suddenly felled? But even generally tree-loving Palo Altans may not think about the importance of trees on a day-to-day basis. For its latest public-art installation in King Plaza, the city, along with artist Konstantin Dimopoulos, hopes to attract attention to the issue of global deforestation by turning some of the magnolia trees in front of city hall bright blue.

“The tree is a symbol of our city,” Public Art Director Elise DeMarzo said at an opening reception for “The Blue Trees” on May 16. Dimopoulos’ project, she said, “perfectly aligns with our mission” of bringing thought-provoking, temporary artwork to the site, as well as of the city’s commitment to its urban forest.

Dimopoulos, who’s created “Blue Trees” installations at locations around the world, uses an eco-friendly, harmless blue paint to color the trees, which he said can last from a few months to a year, depending on weather conditions, and can be easily removed if necessary.

Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos uses an eco-friendly pigment to temporarily paint trees blue, with the goal of raising awareness about deforestation.

The Egypt-born, New Zealandraised artist, now based in Tennessee, relies on crews of local volunteers to color the trees. According to Public Art Program Coordinator Nadya Chuprina, 22 community members contributed to Palo Alto’s grove of “Blue Trees,” including several who turned up on Monday, May 14, and returned to paint more on Tuesday and Wednesday, causing the process to be finished two days earlier than anticipated. The roots, trunks and lower branches of the rows of trees on the left side of the plaza (facing city hall) sport the blue paint, while the upper branches and leaves retain their natural golden-brown and green hues. The visual look is striking but it also bears a message.

“I’m not an environmentalist; I am an artist,” Dimopoulos told the reception audience, wanting to distinguish himself from the biologists and ecological experts who work to combat environmental issues. Despite that caveat, “We have a lot more in common than we have differences,” he said, about the sometimes-connected fields of arts and sciences.

What started as a “guerilla” work has turned into an internationally commissioned, ongoing installation. “The Blue Trees” project began around 2005, when Dimopoulos saw footage of Southeast Asian forests destroyed by slash-andburn agriculture and development and wanted to raise awareness of the issue by attracting attention in

urban settings. He drew inspiration from the Greenpeace activists who colored seal pups with spray paint to dissuade people from hunting them for their pelts (and, more recently, conservationists using dye to protect rhinoceroses from poachers hunting them for their horns). While Palo Alto’s magnolias are (probably) not at risk from poachers, the vivid visual cue does, he hopes, cause passersby to stop and think about the plight of the world’s forests.

The gregarious Dimopoulos quoted songwriter Joni Mitchell (“They took all the trees, and put ‘em in a tree museum”), physicist Albert Einstein and others over the course of his brief talk, emphasizing that he believes “Blue Trees” can impact “how we relate to nature” and remind people of the interconnectedness of human action and the global environment. “What happens in Vegas,” he said, “can no longer stay in Vegas.”

The artist was joined at the reception by Palo Alto Urban Forester Walter Passmore and Canopy (Palo Alto’s urban-tree-supporting nonprofit) Community Forestry Program Manager Elise Willis, who spoke about her organization’s South Palo Alto Tree Initiative and upcoming Great Oak Count, among other outreach efforts.

“Those trees, they’re shouting at us. You can’t pass them by,” Willis said of the blue-hued magnolias. The installation ties in well, she said, to Canopy’s attempts to

nurture childlike curiosity and excitement about trees as well as to raise awareness of their importance to the ecosystem.

Dimopoulos recounted children at past installations expressing delight over encountering the blue trees, often wanting to hug them.

A local child, in fact, reacted in just that way at the Palo Alto reception, while adults took selfies (visitors are encouraged to share via social media using the #bluetrees hashtag).

Passmore, who became Palo Alto’s first urban forrester in 2012, after the California Avenue fracas (to which he alluded at the event), called “The Blue Trees” “a starter on a conversation.”

“People should look at these trees painted blue and go, ‘Whoa!

What’s happening?’ This simple act will hopefully have repercussions across Palo Alto,” he said.

So far, so good, according to DeMarzo, who told the Weekly that, after the bright blue trees catch the eyes of onlookers, their first question tends to be “Are the trees OK?” Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

What: “The Blue Trees” Where: King Plaza, 250 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto.

When: Ongoing.

Cost: Free.

Info: Go to thebluetrees.net.

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‘Chef Darren’ to debut Local filmmaker premieres new work

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edical professionals told Bernie and Linda Weiss “not to expect much” of their profoundly deaf son, Darren.

He would probably never speak, they said.

“Chef Darren: The Challenge of Profound Deafness,” is Menlo Park filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman’s latest work, a documentary on Darren’s journey from a childhood isolated by deafness to the opening of his own award-winning restaurant in Southern California. The film will premiere June 3 in Palo Alto.

“Many of my films are inspired by challenges others face that would have stopped me,” Fadiman said. “It (the film) is a microcosm of what I think is important in life, which is to get through places that appear impassable and impossible.”

With “Chef Darren,” Fadiman tells the story of Darren and his

parents facing the challenges of deafness together as a family.

“Every waking moment was a language lesson (for Darren),” Bernie said. “Everything had to be taught.”

Bernie and Linda trained Darren to communicate using a strict auditory method. Their goal was twofold: to have Darren be not only able to understand his parents, but also capable of producing intelligible speech on his own. They did not let him use sign language in hopes that he would focus on producing speech orally. Fearing backlash from other deaf individuals, the Weiss family was initially very private about the specifics of their story.

“That was our cross to bear,” Bernie said.

While making “Chef Darren,” Fadiman found the topic of

parenting a deaf child to be extremely sensitive.

“I had to be careful because the deaf community has very special and particular ideas about the way you should approach communication,” Fadiman said. “Bernie and Linda chose a path for how their profoundly deaf child would learn to communicate. One of the hardest things for me was making sure that other approaches (to parenting deaf children) didn’t sound wrong.”

Bernie and Linda struggled to share Darren’s story when he was young for this very reason.

“We avoided the deaf community,” Bernie said. “We didn’t want Darren to grow up thinking of his deafness.”

According to Bernie, Darren’s speech was “well-settled” by late adolescence, and it wasn’t until then that Darren began to interface with other deaf people. By the time he graduated high school, Darren had taught himself sign language and befriended other deaf people in his community.

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Chef Darren Weiss cooks with his son Noah in a still from the documentary about his life. from a young age, Darren is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in New York. His restaurant, located in Manhattan Beach, is known for “locally sourced ingredients and the rich flavors of the Pacific Rim,” according to the restaurant’s website.

For Fadiman, watching Darren and his wife, Sawalin, then raise their own family was just as inspiring as Darren’s personal story of perseverance and success in his chosen career.

In the film, Fadiman emphasizes the family dynamic of Darren, Sawalin and their son, Noah. Sawalin is also deaf and communicates solely in sign language. Noah is hearing, and communicates with his father both orally and through signing.

Fadiman first met Darren’s father when they were high school students in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They have been friends for 65 years.

In her four decades as a filmmaker, Fadiman has gotten used to the recognizable titles of “Oscarnominated” and “Emmy-winning.”

She has produced 25 films, seven of which have appeared on PBS. Fadiman debuted her first film, “Radiance,” in 1978 and hasn’t stopped

making films since. In 2008, she co-authored the book, “Producing with Passion: Making Films That Change the World” with author Tony Levelle.

Fadiman hopes to connect those attending her screening to the Palo Alto nonprofit Abilities United, an organization committed to inclusion of and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Abilities United is co-hosting the event and will present Heidi Feldman, a professor of developmentalbehavioral pediatrics at Stanford University, who will lead a discussion on child language disorders at the screening.

“I’d like to introduce the Abilities United community to a new audience,” Fadiman said. Q Editorial Intern Josh Code can be emailed at jcode@paweekly. com.

What: “Chef Darren: The Challenge of Profound Deafness.”

Where: Lucie Stern Community Center ballroom, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

When: Sunday, June 3, 3-5 p.m.

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Exhibition â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Over Here: Americans at Home in World War Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Los Altos History Museum (51 S. San Antonio Road) will mark the closing weekend of its current free exhibition, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over Here: Americans at Home in World War I,â&#x20AC;? with special activities, including a costumed re-enactor, WWI-themed crafts and more, to coincide with Memorial Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 26-27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (times for specific activities vary). The exhibition is a nationally touring collection of photographs created by the National Archives to mark the centennial observation of the United Statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; involvement in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The War to End All Wars.â&#x20AC;? On Saturday, visitors can build a trench periscope and on Sunday, make remembrance poppies to commemorate military personnel killed in war. On both days, James

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CITY OF PALO ALTO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Palo Alto City Council will hold a Public Hearing at the special meeting on Monday, June 4, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider (Quasi-Judicial): 2755 El Camino Real [16PLN-00464]: Adoption of an Ordinance amending Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC) Title 18 (Zoning) Chapter 18.30 (Combining Districts) to add a new Combining District to allow for higher density multi-family housing that includes a workforce housing component to be located on Public Facilities zoned properties within TPSLZ VM Ă&#x201E;_LK YHPS [YHUZP[ Z[H[PVUZ" HKVW[PVU VM HU 6YKPUHUJL HTLUKPUN the Zoning Map to apply the new Combining District to the Subject Property H[ ,S *HTPUV 9LHS" HUK :P[L HUK +LZPNU HWWYV]HS [V HSSV^ JVUZ[Y\J[PVU of a 57 unit multi-family residence at the Subject Property. Environmental Assessment: An Initial Study (IS/MND) was published for public comment on January 19, 2018 for a circulation period ending on February 20, 2018. A Final MND was published on May 18, 2018. Zone District: Public Facilities (PF).

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Eating Out

The Bap: Almost every cuisine has been adapted to Chipotle’s fast-casual, build-your-own model. In Redwood City, customers can now create their own Korean bibimbap bowl at The Bap, which opened this month at 2090 Broadway.

At the modest, fast-casual eatery, choose your base (brown or white rice or a salad mix) then add vegetables (from pickled cucumber and sprouts to roasted seaweed, kimchi and burdock root), proteins (bulgogi beef, pork, chicken or tofu) and sauces (gochujang or a house soy sauce). Or, opt for a wrap version with your choice of protein, brown rice, kimchi, pickled radish, cabbage, diced onion and cilantro. The Bap also serves fried chicken, plates of Korean short ribs and bulgogi and daily specials including salmon dup bap — grilled salmon over rice with fish roe — and japchae glass noodles, stirfried with vegetables.

The Courthouse 2021: The Courthouse 2021, described on its website as an “American farm-fresh restaurant” opened at 2021 Broadway in April. Co-owners Fadi Hanani and Mark Khoury took over the space after Mediterranean restaurant Mandaloun recently closed. The menu is wide-ranging, with an entire section devoted to dishes made in a wood-burning oven. Entrees are split into “hoof,” “sky” and “sea” sections with mesquite-grilled steaks, woodroasted whole fish and roasted Cornish game hen, among other dishes. At the highest end of the menu is a 32-ounce, bone-in prime ribeye that has been wet aged for 35 days. It’s served with a bourbon-bone marrow reduction and truffle oil for $65. Cocktails play up the restaurant’s proximity to the Redwood City courthouse with names such as “Hung Jury Manhattan” and “Moot Point Margarita.”

Downtown Redwood City has a thriving restaurant scene with ample outdoor seating.

Once ‘Deadwood City,’ now diverse dining scene is growing

by Elena Kadvany | Photos by Veronica Weber

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he Redwood City dining scene was a “little spotty” when Donato Scotti opened his Donato Enoteca on Middlefield Road in 2009.

It was hard to draw new customers. People didn’t stay out late to eat or drink. There wasn’t sufficient infrastructure — the mix of retail, residential, office space, community events and the like that restaurants rely on for business — to support a more vibrant dining scene, Scotti said. An uninviting nickname took hold: “Deadwood City.”

In the last decade, that has changed dramatically.

New apartment buildings, high-profile companies and a flurry of startups have flooded Redwood City, fueling a growing restaurant scene. More employees stay after work to eat and drink — Scotti said he often sees young people out when he gets off at midnight, a scene that hadn’t existed before — and others are choosing to move there.

Restaurants, including Donato Enoteca, have extended their hours, according to Amy Buckmaster, CEO of the Redwood City Chamber of Commerce. The city launched a restaurant week in 2015, during which participating

restaurants offer special prix-fixe menus.

“The days of ‘Deadwood City’ are over!” exclaimed a Facebook post announcing the restaurant week.

Buckmaster said there’s been a “progressive flow” of new restaurants opening in the last five years, which she also attributed to the arrival of major companies, including cloudcomputing company Box, consulting firm McKinsey & Company, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and others. Stanford University is building a satellite campus there. (In a sign of the times, electric car company Tesla recently submitted plans to the city to build a showroom and service center on Veterans Boulevard.)

At least six restaurants opened in the downtown area in the first five months of 2018, with more set to open in the coming months. The new eateries represent a wide range of cuisines, from Mediterranean to fast-casual Korean to plantbased dining. Redwood City’s dining scene is anything but homogenous. In a single block on Broadway Street, diners can choose from Mexican, Korean, Russian, American or Vietnamese restaurants.

Read on for more about the restaurants that have opened this year.

The downtown Redwood City dining scene is anything but homogenous, with fast-casual Korean (above, left), Russian (right), Vietnamese and American restaurants in the same block.

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Dhaba Xpress: Nazreen Mohd Ayub, who’s from Singapore, and Dolly Khatri, a native of India, are running the kitchen at the newly opened Dhaba Xpress. Mohd Ayub is in charge of biryanis and meat dishes, while Khatri oversees vegetarian dishes and dessert. They opened the casual Indian restaurant at 312 Arguello St. in mid-April.

Dhaba Xpress primarily does takeout and is currently open for lunch only, though customers can pick up dinner orders.

Diners can build their own combination meals from vegetarian or non-vegetarian entrees such as goat curry, shrimp masala or shaahi paneer, with sides of rice, roti, raita and salad. The menu changes daily.

Pasha Mediterranean: Pasha brought Mediterranean food and a lively hookah scene to downtown Redwood City when it opened at 837 Jefferson Ave. in early 2018. Owner Serkan Bikim also owns Hummus Mediterranean in San Mateo. The vast menu has Mediterranean staples (gyros, kebabs, kofte and the like) as well as a hamburger, pasta and pizzas. The restaurant hosts live music, DJs, belly dancers and other events, making good use of its large outdoor patio.

Orenchi Ramen: In a coup for the local ramen-obsessed, South Bay ramen darling Orenchi opened at 2432 Broadway in February. The restaurant, which got its start in Santa Clara in 2010, is known for its tonkotsu ramen and long lines. This year’s Michelin guide said the wait is well worth it for the “rich and utterly delicious bowl of tonkotsu ramen full of chewy noodles, roasted pork, and scallions.” There’s also a soy sauce ramen, salt ramen and a limited supply of tsukemen, or dipping noodles.

Orenchi Redwood City’s menu is largely the same as the original Santa Clara restaurant, with slightly different appetizers and beer.

West Park Farm and Sea: A trio of local restaurateurs who originally hail from Turkey teamed up to open West Park Farm and Sea at 855 Middlefield Road in April. Chef Mehmet Ali Ozturg learned to cook from his father in Turkey but worked in a range of cuisines after moving to the United States 15 years ago. Cem Bulutoglu owns a Mediterranean restaurant in San Francisco and Onur Alkanoglu runs West Park Bistro, an American restaurant in San Carlos. Bulutoglu described West Park Farm and Sea as “casual California cuisine, healthy, organic (and) plant-based” with vegan and gluten-free options. The menu includes salads, wraps and rice bowls. There are also small plates, like Japanese eggplant with tahini-yogurt sauce and a bowl of bright-pink beet hummus served with sheets of lavash bread.

The restaurant uses Mary’s Organic Chicken, grass-fed beef and wild seafood, Bulutoglu said. There’s also beer and wine.

Why did the group decide to open a new venture in Redwood City?

“We see the potential here in Redwood City,” Bulutoglu said. Q Staff writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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maybe make 20 years from now, as a fresh take on a classic character starring an actor ideally suited to take the baton for Harrison Ford. But commercially, Disney has decided that now is the right time to slot another “Star Wars” movie and bank more profits.

Ehrenreich is just fine, but unlike Chris Pine’s engagingly loose take on William Shatner’s Captain Kirk, Ehrenreich’s performance feels weighted with baggage, scared straight by Ford, three directors and an acting coach. What’s left is swagger and a smile but not a whole lot of soul.

No doubt that has something to do with the film’s patchwork construction, which fails to finesse a compelling emotional throughline for the character.

Without one, “Solo” becomes all about the trappings. Some of those are admittedly pretty nifty, like the science-fiction variations on action norms. An opening air chase plays like something out of “The Fast and the Furious: Corellia Drift,” and there’s a kinetic train robbery sequence that could be a “Snowpiercer” set piece cut for being too pricey. But Solo actually gets duller as it goes along, marking foregone conclusions.

Someone should’ve had the good sense to make a Lando picture instead, and let Glover write it. Still, given its shaky path to the screen, Lucasfilm can be pleased that this one resembles the Millennium Falcon: a bit beat up, perhaps, but it scrapes by in a tight spot.

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The story is set in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area following a devastating earthquake along the Hayward Fault with most of the action taking place around the UC Berkeley campus, Lake Anza and the San Pablo Reservoir, as the heroine, Lily, searches for her sister. In the book, Bledsoe, a science writer by trade, explores the roots of human behavior, including the nature of our DNA and how we’ve evolved.

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A NEW LOOK AT CINDERELLA’S STEPMOTHER ... Palo Alto author Danielle Teller released her new book, “All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother” on May 23 at Books Inc in Palo Alto. Her fictional story takes a new look at the classic “Cinderella” tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella’s evil stepmother.

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by M Michael icha ic hael el Berry Berry aving written novels about Elizabethan England, the modern-day South Pacific and the Middle East during the lost years of Jesus Christ, San Francisco author Christopher Moore brings his creative focus much closer to home with his new book, “Noir.”

Set in the Bay Area in 1947, “Noir” is a celebration of the fog-shrouded City-by-the-Bay at a time of dramatic and dangerous transition. Like Moore’s other work — such as “Fool,” “Island of the Sequined Love Nun,” and “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal” — the novel is fueled by a steady stream of banter, slapstick and intricate wordplay. There’s also a serious side to the proceedings that prevents the narrative from being merely a highly efficient joke machine.

Reached by phone, Moore talked about re-reading Raymond Chandler’s and Dashiell Hammett’s hard-boiled oeuvre as preparation for penning “Noir.”

Moore ticked off some of the essential elements of noir films and literature.

“There has to be a dangerous dame. There has to be a guy

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who’s down on his luck. There has to be fog, liquor, cigarettes.”

All of those characteristics are evident in the opening scenes of “Noir.” A knock-out blonde known as Stilton (like the cheese) captures the eye of Sammy “Two-Toes” Tiffin, the bartender at Sal’s Saloon in North Beach. Sammy does his best to chat her up, even though he’s distracted by the fact that his boss is dead in the stockroom, having been bitten by a deadly black mamba.

From there, the plot only becomes more complicated and zany, encompassing crooked cops, cryptic government agents in dark attire and an Air Force general with connections to a mysterious plane crash in Roswell, New Mexico.

There’s plenty of action in the book, but it’s the metaphorladen language that drives the narrative.

“The diction doesn’t come from books, but more from movies and cartoons,” Moore said.

Born in Toledo and raised in Mansfield, Ohio, Moore, 61, came to California to study photography at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara. When that plan didn’t work out, he lived for a while in Cambria and worked an eclectic series of jobs, from hotel night auditor to rock ‘n’ roll DJ. Moore published his first novel, “Practical Demonkeeping,” in 1992, and has since published 15 other novels. He spent three years living in Kauai before settling in San Francisco in 2006.

“At the point I moved here, I could pretty much live anywhere in the world I wanted to, and this is the place I chose,” he said.

In addition to reading crime fiction in preparation for writing “Noir,” Moore studied Bay Area history in the postwar era.

“I didn’t know that the whole West Coast changed demographically because of the defense industry — including shipbuilding and munitions.

I was surprised, for example, at how the Sunset District was built to house troops returning from the war, who were starting families. You needed a place for them to live. From what I understand, the district was just a lot of sand dunes, until post-war.”

The venerable institution of the Bohemian Club, famous for the secrecy in which its members comport themselves at their forest hideaway in Sonoma County, plays a role in “Noir.”

Although he found academic papers detailing its rituals, Moore didn’t worry about the accuracy of his portrayal.

“Because the club was so exclusive, it wasn’t important for me to get it right, because no one was going to go, ‘Oh, they don’t have a map of the camp on the wall.’”

Moore’s favorite writers of humorous fiction include Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins. Also on the list is John Steinbeck. Two of Steinbeck’s comic novels directly influenced “Noir”: “Cannery Row” and “Sweet Thursday.” Both books feature “a diverse group of friends trying to make it in changing times,” Moore said.

With their clever concepts, strong narrative structure and pithy dialogue, Moore’s novels might seem destined for adaptation in Hollywood. Most of his books have been optioned or purchased at one time or another, but none of those deals have ever produced an actual movie or television series.

What’s the hold-up?

“I don’t know,” Moore said.

“I met with some of the most

powerful agents in Hollywood last week, and they don’t know either.”

Asked whether he is frustrated by the situation, Moore said, “It’s like being frustrated with traffic. There’s nothing you can do about it. What I decided to do in 1990 was go on and write more books. Thank goodness I did, instead of putting my energy into trying to push a rock up a hill.”

Winding down a national book tour, Moore saw “Noir” debut at No. 3 on the New York Times’ best-seller list. Asked about the effect of touring on his career, Moore acknowledged that it is a great opportunity to interact with fans and new readers, but “unless you’re the fired director of the FBI or you lost the presidential election, book tours have never made economic sense to me. And I’ve been doing them for 25 years.”

The news is grim in his 1947era book, but many people are experiencing tough times today, too. An outspoken critic of the Trump administration, Moore uses his Twitter feed (@TheAuthorGuy) to comment on the daily news.

“I think everybody needs to remain aware and woke,” he said. “There are some things so absurd about the current administration that you just can’t parody them. I think you just have to keep pointing your jester’s stick at it and say, ‘You just have to see how absurd, and silly and ridiculous this is.’”

Moore is scheduled to hold book signings at various Bay Area bookstores. For more information, go to chrismoore. com/events. Q Freelance writer Michael Berry can be emailed at mikeberry@mindspring.com.

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Home Front NAVIGATING PERMITS ... The city of Palo Alto’s Building Division will hold an informational workshop for residents, designers and contractors interested in pulling building permits for residential kitchen and bathroom remodels. The Building Division staff will instruct participants on how to navigate the city’s website to find the forms needed for a permit as well as checklists with inspector tips to pass field inspections.

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The Modern Architecture + Design Society will hold the sixth annual Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour on Saturday, June 9, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets to see all homes are $40 in advance online; $50 on the day of the tour.

Details on ticket purchases and descriptions of all participants with photos can be found on the 2018 Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour event page at siliconvalleymodernhometour. com. Homes include one in Palo Alto, one in Los Altos Hills and others in Sunnyvale and Cupertino.

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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The Woodside estate will hold its annual flower show Friday, June 1 through Sunday, June 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The cost is $30 for members and $35 for non-members.

Filoli’s Annual Flower Show is a showcase of floral arrangements and exhibits by professional designers and amateurs in the Bay Area. This year’s theme is “California Kaleidoscope” in honor of the rich history and environment of California.

Food, beer and wine will be for sale at the Tennis Court.

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t’s easy to think growing roses should be done by experts or professional gardeners.

But, if you’ve just bought a house and it has established roses, or you have a blank spot in your garden, you may be surprised to know that it’s fairly easy to keep roses happy.

“They are pretty hardy,” said Jerry Georgette, consulting rosarian for the Peninsula Rose Society. Don’t let his intimidating title fool you. Georgette is easy to talk to, even for a nonrose expert. (His email address and phone number are posted on the society’s website as a resource for anyone with questions or concerns about their roses.)

“It’s a myth that they need to be fussed over,” Georgette said. The main things, like with many plants, is water and grooming, he said. Ideally, roses prefer water at a “low” level like a drip system, to avoid water directly on leaves. Each plant needs about 5 gallons of water per week, with the water going directly down to the roots and not splashing on the leaves, which could open the door for fungal diseases such as powdery mildew, black spot or rust.

If you have well-established roses, they may not have been fertilized in a while. You can use a monthly or a “slow release” fertilizer, which takes about 6-9 months until the next application. The granular fertilizer can be put into holes

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by Elizabeth Lorenz around the plant, roughly four around the perimeter of the rose plant. This helps the plant stay healthy to fight off diseases and helps it produce more flowers.

As the blooms fade, cut them off (also known as “deadheading”) just above a “leaflet,” where a stem has five leaves on it. This will stimulate more blooms and more growth. Cutting roses for indoor use also will help encourage growth, the same way as you cut back the faded blooms. Cut fresh flowers about 1/4 inch above a node (spot where a new branch is about to grow) pointing outward.

A final yearly pruning in California doesn’t need to be done until October, but it’s important to encourage the plant to go dormant for winter. Prune the rose plant in the shape of a bowl or vase, leaving the middle part open so air can circulate and sunshine can penetrate. Cut out any cross branches. Stop pruning for winter so cutting doesn’t

stimulate any winter growth.

Winter is the best time to buy bare-root roses, which are simply wrapped in burlap and can be put right into the ground. In spring and summer, most nurseries have roses in containers, which can be planted any time.

Any rose needs about six hours of sun per day. To help figure out how much water to give your plants, Georgette suggests a soil-moisture meter, akin to a meat thermometer, which is available for a few dollars at a hardware store, to help determine when to water.

Sandy soil will require more water, clay probably less, and a mix of sandy loam probably somewhere in the middle.

“People select roses for their favorite colors and fragrance,” Georgette said. But often those two things don’t go together as many roses have been bred for disease resistance and lack fragrance. He encourages people to select a range of roses so you’ll end up with some fragrance and

some strong plants.

Once you plant your roses, it’s good for them to have companion plants, which will attract good insects and look nice as well. Suitable companions are sweet alyssum, irises or other bulbs, lobelia, peonies, catmint, lavender, lantana, thyme, sage, verbena or yarrow.

If you want your roses to grow vertically, a climbing rose planted on a trellis or arbor will work, or if you have a small patio, add a tree rose for some height.

If you’re not sure which kinds of roses you like, Georgette encourages people to visit several nearby rose gardens or attend a rose society meeting. Local gardens, which often have old garden roses with heavenly fragrances, include Elizabeth Gamble Garden at 1431 Waverley St. and the Palo Alto Veterans’ Administration hospital at 3801 Miranda Ave. in Palo Alto, or the Filoli estate in Woodside. Q The Peninsula Rose Society meets the third Tuesday evening of the month at the Veterans Memorial Center, 1455 Madison Ave. in Redwood City. Its website is peninsularosesociety.org.

The rose society will also be included in the Filoli Flower Show from June 1-3.

Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and Real Estate Editor at the Palo Alto Weekly. She can be emailed at elorenz@ embarcaderopublishing.com.

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995 Fictitious Name Statement GREAT PALO ALTO LIVING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN641881 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Great Palo Alto Living, located at 2701 Alma Street (Office), Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

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(PAW May 11, 18, 25; June 1, 2018) VIN VINO WINE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN641787 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Vin Vino Wine, located at 437 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

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(PAW May 11, 18, 25; June 1, 2018) BYTES CAFE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN641900 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Bytes Cafe, located at 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, Santa Clara County.

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(PAW May 11, 18, 25; June 1, 2018) CHARRON PROPERTIES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN642135 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Charron Properties, located at 1225 Emory Street, San Jose, CA 95126, Santa Clara County.

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STATE SWIMMING . . . MenloAtherton senior Izzi Henig made her final high school swim meet one to remember. Henig finished second in the 100 free (49.35) and fourth in the 50 free (22.95) at Saturday’s state swimming and diving championships at Clovis West. She also swam on both free relay teams that finished 10th and 12th in the state. Henig had a hand in all 56 points M-A accumulated, which was good for 13th place. Gunn was the top local finisher, cashing in on an abundance of talented swimmers to score 84 points and a ninth-place showing.

Freshman Melanie Julia and junior Sarah Snyder highlighted individual success. Julia finished fifth in the 100 breast with a time of 1:02.26 and helped the 200 medley relay place fourth, along with Milan Hilde-Jones, Grace Tramack and Snyder, who was ninth in the 200 free (1:49.09) and also swam on the 400 free relay, with Ashley Stahmer, Hilde-Jones and Tramack, that finished fifth in 3:26.27. Senior Zoe Lusk helped Palo Alto accumulate 76 1/2 points for a 10th place finish. She was fourth in the 200 IM (2:01.47) and was seventh in the backstroke in 56.13.

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GOLF HONORS . . . Stanford sophomore Andrea Lee was named All-America first team by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association for the second straight year and fellow sophomore Albane Valenzuela earned an honorable mention citation. Lee was medalist three times and helped the Cardinal advance to match-play at the NCAA championships for the fourth straight time. Lee was the best player on the course in the final round of stroke play, shooting a course-record tying 7-under 65. She tied for second overall, the highest individual finish for a Stanford golfer over the past two decades. Valenzuela, an AllPac-12 performer with three top-10 finishes, was tabbed fourth in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, and is the list’s top Swiss golfer. Lee was fifth in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.

Junior Henry Saul (far right) and senior Sam Craig are two of Palo Alto’s top distance runners, with Reed Foster, who have a chance to qualify for the CIF state meet.

CCS TRACK AND FIELD

Long distance relationship breeds success Palo Alto runners among several athletes to contend for spots in state meet

by Glenn Reeves he half-miler, the miler and the two-miler. Palo Alto’s distance runners have established a fruitful division of specialization. And now Reed Foster in the 800, Sam Craig in the 1,600 and Henry Saul in the 3,200 have all qualified for Friday’s Central Coast Section track and field championships at Gilroy High.

Four years of competing for their school is drawing to a close for Foster and Craig, who are both seniors.

Saul, a junior, still has one more year at Paly. Training on a more or less daily basis with a quality group of teammates, a group that included Kent Slaney, who graduated last

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at the Arcadia Invitational, sec- that next step and get past that ond only to Menlo’s Robert Mi- barrier.’’

Making it to state randa, the defending won’t be easy. Last CCS champion, who year there were three ran his CCS-best time runners at the CCS triof 9:08.05 in that same als who ran under 4:20. race at Arcadia.

This year there were 10.

The top three plac“This is definitely ers in each event at the the most competitive CCS finals automatiyear in CCS,’’ Craig cally advance to the said. “A lot of amazing state meet. runners. But I’m hopCraig reached a goal ing to keep on improvof his to get under the ing and get to state.’’

4:20 barrier in the Reed Foster This group of lo1,600 last Saturday at the CCS trials when he ran a PR cal distance runners are all high of 4:19.21 to qualify for the finals. achievers in the classroom, as “I was real happy with that,’’ Craig said. “It was great to take (continued on page 46)

NCAA TENNIS

Stanford has that championship feeling National title No. 20 may be sweetest of all

by Rick Eymer t happens every spring and it still seems to take the college women’s tennis world by surprise.

Junior Melissa Lord rallied to beat Fernanda Contreras, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5, and clinch Stanford’s dramatic 4-3 victory over Vanderbilt in the NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis championship match at Wake Forest.

Contreras saved three match points before Lord delivered.

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When Contreras hit match point into the net, Lord dropped her racket and instead of waiting for the dog pile to come to her, she raced toward her teammates and the celebration was on.

The win was Lord’s first clinching point of the season.

“When it was 5-4 me, Emily (Arbuthnott) was still playing,” Lord said. “Having a teammate right next to me also playing (continued on page 47)

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year and is running for MIT, has been a benefit to all.

“It’s been really nice how the camaraderie makes you motivated to do well,’’ Foster said. “And with us being in different events we’re not directly competing.’’

“Having this strong a team has been an amazing experience,’’ Craig said.

Foster and Saul both go into Friday’s finals having run the secondfastest times in their events this season among CCS competitors.

Foster has a best of 1:54.09 in the 800, second only to Bellarmine’s Alex Scales (1:53.46), a double winner at last year’s CCS finals in the 800 and 1,600. Saul has a best of 9:12.37 in the 3,200, run

Castilleja grad Paulette Wolak is surrounded by a combined 51 years of coaching experience at Stanford. www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • May 25, 2018 • Page 45

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Arguments for and against the June 5, 2018 ballot measures Proposition 68 – Bonds for environment, parks and water Proposition 69 – Transportation funding Proposition 70 – Cap and trade agreement vote Proposition 71 – Effective date for ballot measures Proposition 72 – Property tax exclusion for rainwater capture systems Measure 3 – Toll increases on Bay Area bridges Plus information on California primary and recall processes

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The senior ended her high school career by placing second at the state meet in the 50 free and fourth in the 100 free. She also swam on both M-A free relay teams and had a hand in all 56 points the Bears scored.

The senior won the Northern California Boys Singles Badminton title over the weekend at Independence High, finishing with a 4-0 record. He placed second at the Central Coast Section tournament.

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Honorable mention Jessica Eagle* Menlo-Atherton track and field

Maggie Hall Menlo-Atherton track and field

Luci Lambert Sacred Heart Prep track and field

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Nick Anderson Menlo-Atherton track and field

Keyshawn Ashford Priory track and field

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Moorea Mitchell Castilleja track and field

Charlotte Tomkinson Menlo track and field

Menlo tennis

Clark Safran Menlo tennis

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well. Foster, who is coached by Paly assistant Michael Granville, the national high school recordholder in the 800, will join Slaney at MIT. Craig is headed to the University of Chicago. Miranda, the Menlo star, is headed to Yale.

Other entrants with high hopes in the boys meet include: Gunn’s Jared Freeman, who qualified with the top mark in the discus at the CCS trials with a mark of 151-8.

Menlo-Atherton’s Nick Anderson, who had the second-fastest qualifying time in the 110 high hurdles at 14.85. Anderson, who has a season-best time of 14.63 in the hurdles, also qualified in the long jump.

Priory’s Keyshawn Ashford, who was timed in 10.91 in the 100 at the trials, was tied for thirdfastest among qualifiers.

Sacred Heart Prep’s Kyle Schott, who advanced to the final with a mark of 43-3 1/2 in the triple jump, sixth among qualifiers.

On the girls side Menlo-Atherton should be among the contenders for the team championship along with Silver Creek and Santa Cruz.

The Bears will score in the sprints with Jessica Eagle and Maggie Hall, and in the relays.

Eagle was the fastest qualifier in the girls 100 with a time of 12.02 and Hall was fourth at 12.21. In the 200, Hall was second (24.88) and Eagle sixth (25.40). The 4x100 relay team of Autriyana Hardy, Hall, Malia Latu and Eagle had the second-fastest qualifying time, behind Silver Creek, with a time of 48.34.

The 4x400 team of Brooke Olesen, Hall, Latu and Lena Kalotihos, was fifth at the trials in 4:01.75.

Latu, a freshman, also made the 400 final, qualifying fifth in 59.18.

Silver Creek, with Arianna Fisher, Jazlynn Shearer and Aniyah Augmon, will score heavily in the sprints, hurdles, relays and jumps. Santa Cruz is led by distance standout Mari Friedman who has the fastest time in the CCS by a large margin in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 and anchors her school’s 4x400 relay.

Menlo School’s Charlotte Tomkinson had the fastest qualifying time in the 800 (2:14.49).

Teammate Kyra Pretre was sixth (2:18.48) and M-A’s Kalotihos ninth (2:18.98).

Sacred Heart Prep freshman Luci Lambert had the third-best mark among qualifiers in the 1,600 at 5:05.03.

Menlo’s Alexandra Chan was sixth in the 100 hurdles (15.71).

Castilleja’s Tevah Gevelber was seventh (11:16.37) and Gunn’s Maansey Rishi 10th (11:23.29) in the 3,200. Gunn’s Ria Sood was seventh in the 300 hurdles (46.33).

Menlo’s Makayla Conley, Gunn’s Kyla Tracy and Woodside’s Katherine Meade all qualified in the high jump, clearing 5-0. Castilleja’s Moorea Mitchell qualified 10th in both the shot put (36-3) and the discus (109-7). Q

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Stanford won its third straight Pac-12 championship on the way to its national title.

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helped a bunch. I feel like we’ve done this before. It was like our freshman year when Taylor Davidson clinched. It was a little bit of déjà vu.”

The top-seeded Commodores helped set Stanford’s season in motion, thoroughly drenching the Cardinal in a 7-0 victory in the second match of the season.

The Cardinal (24-3) has won nine NCAA titles in 18 years under coach Lele Forood, who has compiled a 438-43 record (.911) during her tenure.

Forood, a former Stanford AllAmerican who played for Anne Gould and coached under Frank Brennan (510-50), completed her 28th overall year as coach.

Associate head coach Frankie Brennan, who turned down several head coaching positions over the years, completed his 23rd season with the program.

Forood takes the ‘sun will rise tomorrow morning’ approach, knowing it’s not life and death.

She’s the same in defeat as she is in victory. Her players thrive because she never puts pressure on them and they are always better at the end of the season than when they started.

“I think we just have confidence in who we have on this team and we we don’t care about some of the externals,” Forood said. “We know who we are. We know we’re pretty good. We have to go out and prove it. We just have confidence in the group and we’re a

good team.”

Stanford began its winning streak with a 4-3 win over UCLA. It wasn’t until Tuesday that the Cardinal played another 4-3 match. Stanford was a combined 16-1 in NCAA play through the quarterfinals.

No. 15 seed Stanford finished the season on a 20-match winning streak to win its 20th national title (19th NCAA), setting a landmark for parity in the sport by winning its third national title seeded No. 12 or higher.

Stanford has been the national runner-up on seven other occasions.

“We definitely celebrated as a team,” Stanford’s No. 1 singles player Michaela Gordon said.

“We had dinner and we tried to realize just how great of a job we did.”

This one might have been the sweetest of all considering that early-season setback. Of course, Stanford played that match without Lord.

Lord was not the only difference. It was also the continual improvement from players like Janice Shin, Emma Higuchi and Kimberly Yee that give the Cardinal strength in numbers.

Shin was 12-1 at No. 5 singles and 25-4 overall. Higuchi went 14-0 at No. 6 singles and was 29-6 overall. Yee, who clinched Stanford’s win over USC, played doubles, most often with Caroline Lampl and the tandem was 18-5. She was 3-2 with three other partners.

Emily Arbuthnott, with a teamhigh eight clinch points, was 27-8

overall, including 11-2 at No. 4 singles and 4-0 at No. 3 singles.

Lampl (21-7), Gordon (21-10) and Lord (19-4) made singles play a power.

Castilleja grad Paulette Wolak was the lone senior and graduates with two national championships after walking on as a freshman.

She appeared in 19 singles matches and 24 doubles matches (9-15) during her career and stuck with the Cardinal because she was a good teammate and could challenge others in practice.

Menlo School grad Elizabeth Yao was 2-4 in singles play this year. Noamie Rosenberg and Taylor Lallas also played.

Stanford’s historic 2016 title as the 15th seed was 4-3 win over No. 12 Oklahoma State. The Cardinal’s 2010 run to the championship as the eighth seed including a startling upset over top-ranked and top-seeded Baylor in the quarterfinals, setting in motion its current record of 20-3 in NCAA play when seeded higher than its opponent.

Top-seeded Vanderbilt (27-4) took the doubles point and won at No.1 singles to take a 2-0 lead.

Stanford responded with singles wins from Lampl at No. 3, Janice Shin at No. 5 and Emma Higuchi at No. 6.

Arbuthnott went three sets before losing at No. 4, turning all eyes on Lord and Contreras on court two.

“Every single person on this team puts forth the effort, every single person helps us win a national championship,” Lampl said. Q

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