Palo Alto Weekly July 27, 2018

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Vol. XXXIX, Number 43

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July 27, 2018

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President Hotel evictions revive talk of renter protections Palo Alto council members weigh proposals to limit rent hikes, add relocation assistance

by Gennady Sheyner

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s residents of downtown’s historic President Hotel brace for eviction, Palo Alto’s elected officials are preparing new measures that would assist local renters at a time of escalating rents.

The new proposals will likely

come too late to help the residents of the Birge Clark-designed building at 488 University Ave., who were ordered by the building’s new owner, AJ Capital, to vacate their apartments by Nov. 12. But if adopted, the ordinances could offer some relief to renters who find

themselves facing a similar plight in the future.

A proposal that Councilman Cory Wolbach plans to introduce in the coming weeks would focus on “displacement protection” for residents facing steep rent increases. New rules would require property owners to provide relocation assistance to evicted residents — a provision similar to the one the city has for mobile home parks, Wolbach told the Weekly.

He also said the city could consider more diligently enforcing its requirement for one-year leases, a rule that he said is not often followed. In cases of “exorbitant rent increases” or evictions without just cause, the council could require more extensive relocation assistance, he said. This, he said, is different from “traditional rent control,” in which rent increases beyond a certain threshold are prohibited by law.

“The idea is that there would be a financial disincentive against exorbitant rent increases,” Wolbach said. “If the landlord decided to pursue an exorbitant rent increase, they would have to provide relocation assistance of substantial amount.”

The approach is a marked departure from the proposal the council considered — and rejected — last (continued on page 8)

DEVELOPMENT

Commission resists push to scrap downtown development cap Planning commissioners buck City Council direction with vote not to eliminate 350,000-square-foot limit

by Gennady Sheyner

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The art of the protest High school teacher and protester Amy Ryan-Maiten speaks on July 24 following the 2018 Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations at Stanford University, which involved two top Australian ministers and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense James Mattis. Read the story on PaloAltoOnline.com.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Appeals court hears arguments in Brock Turner case Justices to issue opinion within 90 days

by Elena Kadvany Editor’s note: Readers should be aware that this article includes graphic language. n attorney for Brock Turner, the former Stanford University student who served three months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus, argued in the state’s Sixth District Court of Appeal in San Jose on Tuesday that there was insufficient evidence that his cli-

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ent committed the three felony crimes of which he was convicted in 2016.

Mill Valley attorney Eric Multhaup, who filed an appeal on Turner’s behalf in December, argued that the jury had to engage in “speculation” to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Turner committed the crimes.

“They filled in the blanks in the prosecution’s case,” Multhaup told the three presiding justices. “That’s

imagination. That’s speculation.”

A Santa Clara County jury found Turner guilty of assault with the intent to commit rape, sexual penetration with a foreign object of an intoxicated person and sexual penetration with a foreign object of an unconscious person. He served half of his sixmonth sentence, which incited outrage around the globe and led (continued on page 8)

divisive proposal to eliminate the cap on commercial development in downtown Palo Alto ran into a wall of resistance Wednesday night, when the city’s Planning and Transportation Commission opted not to advance the change.

In a decision that ran counter to wishes of the City Council majority and that overruled the recommendation of the city’s planning staff, the commission voted 4-0 to keep in place — at least for the time being — the existing 350,000-squarefoot limit on non-residential development in downtown.

Commissioner Michael Alcheck abstained from the vote, saying that the issue was too political and that the decision should be left to the council. Commissioners Przemek Gardias and William Riggs were absent.

The vote followed testimony from about 20 residents, including members of the group Palo Altans for Sensible Zoning (PASZ), which favors slow-growth policies and which is spearheading a November initiative that would halve a different, citywide cap on non-residential growth. Every speaker urged the commission to keep the downtown limit in place. They pointed to downtown’s ongoing parking and traffic problems and argued that taking up the issue at this time — just months before the voters weigh in on the office-growth measure — is an affront to democracy.

“Why are we rushing to do this?” asked Arthur Keller, a former planning commissioner who co-chaired

a citizens group that helped revise the city’s Comprehensive Plan, a master document that guides landuse decisions. “You should say ‘no’ and not implement this change. Instead, implement changes that we need, like rental protections.”

Some pointed to the pending evictions of residents from President Hotel, an apartment building on University Avenue that the new property owner, Adventurous Journeys Capital Partners, is looking to convert back into a hotel. By scrapping downtown’s development cap — under which new hotels are currently counted — the city is just making it easier for the new property owner to proceed with its plan and eliminate 75 apartments, said Joe Hirsch, a member of the PASZ steering committee and one of the leaders of the November initiative.

Though it’s not clear what impact, if any, the downtown cap will have on the President Hotel proposal (which is subject to a different zoning dispute between the city and AJ Capital), Hirsch and others argued that removing the cap would only make it easier for property owners to convert downtown’s residential buildings into commercial ones.

“We urge you not to be a part of the process that will in essence evict the residents of (President Hotel) apartments, some of whom have been living in downtown Palo Alto for a long period of time,” Hirsch said.

The tense tenor of the discussion (continued on page 7)

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WITH A SIDE OF WAHLBERG ... The downtown Palo Alto Wahlburgers may have had its most profitable day yet when one of its owners, actor Mark Wahlberg dropped by Tuesday afternoon for the special visit announced on the franchise’s Twitter account just hours before.

About 75 people packed the restaurant at 185 University Ave. capturing the moment in photos and videos. Wahlberg, 47, made his way through the crowd, signing baseball caps and pictures along the way. “The Departed� star was seen on his Instagram Story hugging Palo Alto Police Lt. Kara Apple and other officers, whom he thanked for their service, and happily greeted customers who eagerly took selfies with him. He made his way behind the counter to shake hands with restaurant employees who cheered him on as he filmed a promotional video for a new episode of “Wahlburgers,� an A&E show documenting Wahlberg and his family as they run a burger chain, that aired Wednesday at 10 p.m. He also gave a shout out to the reigning NBA champions, the Golden State Warriors.

NEW DEVELOPMENTS ... ...

Fresh off their month-long recess, members of the Palo Alto City Council are preparing for a Monday night showdown over office space. Specifically, the council will consider what to do about a citizen initiative to revise the city’s recently updated landuse bible, the Comprehensive Plan, to slash by half the amount of office and research-anddevelopment growth that would be allowed citywide between now and 2030. Just before heading out for its break, a deeply divided council commissioned a study to evaluate the potential impacts of the initiative. Now, the results are in and they are sure to give both camps plenty of ammunition.

The study by the firm Economic & Planning Services found that

the change would have very little impact in the near-term, though it could cost the city a loss of about $1 million if the pace development picks up and the new cap actually becomes a constraint. The potential loss of development could also lead to a reduction of up to $50 million in development-impact fees — though this also means that there are fewer impacts that need mitigation, so the funding isn’t as necessary. Significantly, while it looked at fiscal impacts, the study does not consider traffic, parking and other factors that are at the heart of the citizen initiative.

Because the initiative has received more than enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, the council can either adopt it outright or place the decision in voters’ hands.

LEGACY SET IN STONE ... This Sunday, Rinconada Library will mark its 60th anniversary with a celebration honoring Edward Durell Stone, the iconic architect who designed the building. Built in 1958, the previously named Palo Alto Main Library was a testament to the popularity of modernist architecture in California. Although Stone became disenchanted with the style in the ‘50s and eventually developed a highly personal style, he never considered himself “antimodernist,� said library associate Robert Skolmen, who will give an overview of the architect’s work at the event. Despite his distaste for the austerity of modernism, Stone equipped the library with a functional plan, large windows and open and flexible interior spaces — all elements that would be considered modernist. The library currently has a display of 36 images showcasing Stone’s work on view through Aug. 31 of his designs in Palo Alto, including the Civic Center and the Stanford University Medical Center, as well as buildings in Peru and India.

Representatives from Group 4 Architecture firm, which renovated the building in 2014, will also discuss how they strived to maintain Stone’s original vision while updating key functions and spaces.

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Upfront EAST PALO ALTO

Six candidates to run for East Palo Alto City Council Two incumbents, four newcomers competing for two seats

by Elena Kadvany

Gennady Sheyner

From left, Asher Waldfogel, Susan Monk, Ed Lauing, Doria Summa and Michael Alcheck — five of seven Palo Alto planning commissioners — discuss a controversial agenda item on the downtown commercial-development cap on July 25.

She was raised in San Francisco before moving to East Palo Alto.

The four newcomers are Patricia Lopez, a resident who has spoken out against RV evictions in the city; Planning Commissioner Court Skinner; tech executive Regina Wallace-Jones; and community member Court Skinner Randal Fields.

Skinner has lived in East Palo Alto for 30 years and served on the Planning Commission since 2004, according to his campaign website. He promises on his website to “work to keep East Palo Alto a friendly, inclusive community that is culturally diverse and a dynamic leader in San Mateo County.” His campaign will Summa noted that 18 months have passed since the council’s controversial 5-4 vote. Since then, she said, the council has taken a unified stance to encourage more housing and curtail the impacts of commercial development. Given its new focus, the direction from January 2017 should be reconsidered, she said.

“Removing the commercial cap from downtown will disincentive housing and create more offices that will contribute to the existing problems that our former council members in 1986 were smart enough to see,” Summa said, referring to the year a study of downtown development was conducted.

Some of her colleagues argued that the commission should focus on more important priorities — namely, reforming the zoning code to support below-market-rate housing — rather than remove an existing restriction on commercial growth.

With its vote, the commission effectively threw the hot-potato issue back to the council to deal with.

The five members who supported the removal of the downtown cap — Mayor Liz Kniss and council members Adrian Fine, Greg Scharff, Greg Tanaka and Cory Wolbach — argued that the restriction is unnecessary because of other restrictions that the city has in place.

The Comprehensive Plan already includes a citywide cap of 1.7 million square feet on new office and research-and-development space through 2030 — a threshold that would be halved to 850,000 square feet if the November initiative is successful. In addition, the city recently adopted an annual cap of

Courtesy Court Skinner

— and the fact that this item was even being debated — seemed to catch some planning commissioners and city staff off guard. Commissioner Doria Summa, who vehemently opposed the removal of the downtown cap, said the commission didn’t learn that the item would be on its agenda until reading about it in a newspaper on Friday. Deputy City Attorney Albert Yang acknowledged after the hearing that staff did not expect the issue to be this controversial.

The proposal to scrap the cap was prompted by the City Council’s 5-4 vote in January 2017 to remove from the Comprehensive Plan the policy that established the 350,000-square-foot limit and that required the city to perform a study when development reaches 235,000 square feet, which it did in 2013, on

the effects of development growth on traffic and other issues.

Following the adoption of the revised Comprehensive Plan late in 2017, planning staff is now turning the plan’s guidelines into actual zoning laws. For the downtown cap, this means eliminating the development-cap program, which has been in existence since 1998.

Rather than doing that, planning commissioners argued that they don’t have enough information to remove the cap and that doing so would be inconsistent with other council priorities, including encouraging more housing and protecting residential neighborhoods from the traffic and parking problems resulting from more commercial development.

Furthermore, given the politically delicate nature of the exercise — as evidenced by a crowd of residents protesting the change — the planning commission agreed that the decision is best left to the council.

Courtesy Donna Rutherford

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Courtesy Ruben Abrica

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in middle school, also teaches Spanish and intercultural studies at De Anza College in Cupertino.

Rutherford is also a longtime resident with an extensive record in public service. She served on the City Council from 2000 to 2008 and was mayor in 2004. She ran unsuccessfully for a seat in 2012.

In 2013, she was appointed to fill a vacancy left by David Woods, who had resigned, according to the League of Women Voters.

She was then elected again in November 2014.

Rut h e r fo r d also served three terms on the Board of Donna Education and Rutherford is on the board of the San Mateo County Mosquito & Vector Control District.

50,000 square feet on new office and research-and-development growth in the downtown area, around California Avenue and along El Camino Real.

Commissioner Asher Waldfogel led the charge Wednesday by making a motion to support the staff recommendation to remove the downtown cap. He then immediately said that he plans to vote against his motion. The council, he argued, has created a number of contradicting policies in the new plan, which seeks to (among many

Courtesy Regina Wallace-Jones

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ix candidates have filed the necessary paperwork to run for a seat on the East Palo Alto City Council in the November election, including current Mayor Ruben Abrica and Councilwoman Donna Rutherford.

Abrica, a decades-long resident, served on East Palo Alto’s first City Council in the 1980s, according to an online biography.

He was again ele ct e d i n Ruben Abrica 2004 and in 2014. He has served as mayor twice before and also on the Ravenswood City School District Board of Education from 1990 to 2002.

Abrica, who immigrated to the United States from Mexico

focus on housing, transportation, parking, communication with the city, businesses, community programs and a “trash free, pollution free, clean city.”

Skinner is also the founder of Computers for Everyone, a nonprofit that provides East Palo Alto and east Menlo Park residents in need with low-cost, refurbished computers. He is also on the board of several local entities, including Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto; Creative Montessori Regina Learning Cen- Wallace-Jones ter, a preschool and day care center; and the East Palo Alto Senior Center.

Wallace-Jones, currently the chief of staff and head of product operations at eBay, emphasizes on her campaign website the need for “fresh thinking” on the council.

“I am running for City Council because I believe East Palo Alto has everything inside of it that it needs to achieve our greatest vision of success,” the 16-year resident writes her the website.

“Our city is at a crossroad in its

relatively young history and we need leadership that will say yes to comprehensively solving problems for all of us.”

Her top campaign issues are affordable housing; traffic and congestion; economic development; education and tech enrichment; and community building.

Through her work with the city’s Technical Advisory Committee, Wallace-Jones is partnering with the Ravenswood school board to “assist in transitioning district employees who will be laid off due to budget insolvency issues,” her website states.

Wa llace-Jones previous worked as a tech executive at Yahoo and Facebook.

She is also the founding board president of StreetCode Academy in East Palo Alto, a board member for Women Who Code and a partner of the Lean In Foundation, a global women’s advocacy organization supported by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.

Lopez and Fields could not be reached for comment.

Whoever is elected in November will join Lisa Gauthier, Larry Moody and Carlos Romero on the council. Their terms end in 2020. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com. other goals) promote housing and limit the number of downtown employees who are parking in residential neighborhoods. By eliminating the downtown cap, the city is “solving a non-problem,” he said.

He also pointed to the unfortunate timing.

“Taking this one right now just looks like it’s undermining the democratic process, and we shouldn’t do that,” Waldfogel said. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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

Teen burglar arrested after asking for Wi-Fi Palo Alto police arrested a 17-year-old Palo Alto boy who they said climbed through a window into an occupied home on East Charleston Road early Sunday morning and woke up the residents by asking them if he could use their Wi-Fi network before allegedly burglarizing the home. He also is accused of committing an overnight burglary in the 3800 block of Middlefield Road. (Posted July 25, 2:49 p.m.)

Neighbors drop appeals of gym Two resident groups challenging the opening of Training Spaces gym on Alma Street withdrew their appeals. (Posted July 23, 4:37 p.m.)

Former TV reporter enters council race Veteran TV reporter Pat Boone this week declared his intent to seek a seat on the Palo Alto City Council. (Posted July 19, 4:42 p.m.)

School district names new business officer The Palo Alto school district could have its first new chief business officer in a decade in Jim Novak, the current assistant superintendent for business services in a large Southern California K-12 school district. (Posted July 18, 7 p.m.) www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • July 27, 2018 • Page 7

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Renters (continued from page 5)

October, when council members Tom DuBois, Karen Holman and Lydia Kou suggested exploring renter-protection measures. A memo from the trio focused on limits to rent increases and rules for protecting tenants from evictions without just cause.

Palo Alto’s rent has soared by 50 percent since 2011, the council members stated in their memo, a rate that they said is unsustainable given that the median income in Santa Clara County has risen at less than one-tenth of that rate.

While the growth in the regional tech economy has been a “boon to many,” the memo states, “that growth has been accompanied by negative disruptions, including a steep increase in demand (for housing) that has severely degraded our housing affordability and resulted in many long-term renters being forced out or having to spend inordinate amounts of their incomes on housing.”

The idea of exploring rental protections did not advance, with some council members framing it as “rent control,” a characterization that DuBois disputed. Wolbach was among those who voted against the memo. Though he said that he generally favors the thrust of the memo, he questioned the sincerity of DuBois, Holman and Kou (all of whom favor slower city growth) and said he opposed the proposed process for exploring the topic, which did not include reviews by the council’s advisory commissions. At the council’s February retreat, Wolbach proposed including rental protection as a potential priority for 2018, though that idea did not win support from his colleagues. Now, he believes it’s time to revisit the idea.

“We had a couple of false attempts,” Wolbach told the Weekly this week. “I think that now, there is a lot of attention in the community and on the staff and council about why we need to have these conversations.”

DuBois, who like Wolbach and Vice Mayor Eric Filseth is running for re-election in November, said he still hopes the council will

consider some proposals from the memo. One other possibility, he said, is to provide legal assistance for residents facing eviction, a program that San Francisco voters approved in June when they passed Measure F. DuBois also said that he favors exploring policies that, while not actually freezing rents, would limit how much they can be raised.

“I do think some caps on the amount of rent increases would be something that we should consider,” DuBois told the Weekly. “Saying that a landlord can’t raise rent by 50 percent in a year — I’d say that’s not rent control. It’s just limiting how quickly you can change it.”

DuBois also expressed frustrations that Wolbach voted against exploring renter-protection policies just a few months ago but is now raising the issue.

“It’s unfortunate, particularly because of the (President Hotel) situation, that we weren’t having that discussion already,” DuBois said.

DuBois wrote on the Palo Alto Weekly online forum, Town Square, that he would welcome Wolbach to work with him on renter protections, an issue that he wrote is “too important to make it a political football to be supported only when your ‘team’ agrees with you.”

“I listen and vote based on the quality of a proposal before us on council and am happy to collaborate with any of my colleagues,” DuBois wrote Wednesday.

While council members consider new laws, residents of President Hotel are looking for new homes.

On July 20, they received what initially appeared to be hopeful news: Palo Alto’s city planners had determined that AJ Capital cannot proceed with its plan to convert the building to a hotel because of the zoning code, which — while allowing renovations of grandfathered buildings (those that went up before the zoning code was written) — specifies that these buildings would need to retain “the same use” (in this case, residential). Though the city’s determination has placed AJ Capital’s plan in jeopardy, some residents have already “cut their losses and left,” resident Pemo Theodore told the Weekly.

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to consider placing on the ballot an initiative measure to reduce the citywide cumulative cap on office and research-and-development; re-adopt a resolution placing a 1.5 percent transient-occupancy-tax increase on the November ballot; and consider an ordinance regulating the unnecessary idling of vehicles.

The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, July 30, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. UTILITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to provide feedback about rules for pad-mounted equipment in underground electric construction; discuss the Natural Gas Capital Improvement Plan; and discuss the Recycled Water Distribution System Business Plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 1, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD ... The board plans to review the design for the proposed public safety building at 250 Sherman Ave. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 2, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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“It has been a huge cost to all of us and we still do not know what the future holds for The President Hotel and our apartments,” Theodore told the Weekly in a July 20 email.

On Monday, the company confirmed that despite the city’s determination — which it is disputing — residents are still required to move out by Nov. 12.

“We did not want there to be any confusion due to questions raised in recent articles as to what, if any, effect our discussions with the City have on the time you have remaining in the building,” Timothy Franzen, president of AJ Capital, wrote in the letter. “You should continue with your efforts to find new housing, and we encourage you to take advantage of the expert relocationservices firm that we have engaged to assist in your efforts.”

Franzen wrote that the company “fully appreciate(s) the burdens and difficulties of finding and moving to new homes, which is why we have offered the additional time and financial support.”

A group of tenants attended the meeting of the Planning and Transportation Commission on Wednesday night to thank city officials for their efforts to preserve the President Hotel as housing. Diane Boxill, a piano teacher who has lived in the building for 30 years, said it will take continued participation from the city to protect residents from the “massive monolith that can dispense with us in its wake.”

“The (President Hotel) community is diverse in age, ethnicity and professions but united in a kind of neighborliness that is fast becoming a memory of the past,” Boxill said.

Though the commission was not scheduled to discuss the President Hotel, several members acknowledged that the topic of renter protections is becoming increasingly urgent and indicated that they are eager to tackle it. Commissioner Asher Waldfogel asked the city’s legal counsel what tools the commission has to address rent protection, evictions and rent increases.

“We heard clearly that these are issues,” Waldfogel said. “What can we do?” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

Turner (continued from page 5)

to the contentious recall this June of the judge who oversaw the case, Aaron Persky. Turner was also required to register as a sex offender for life.

Multhaup and Deputy Attorney General Alisha Carlile, on behalf of the state Attorney General’s Office, presented their respective oral arguments in front of Associate Justices Franklin Elia, Wendy Clark Duffy and Adrienne Grover on Tuesday.

Initially, the appeal argued for a new trial on the basis that Turner was deprived of his right to due process and that the jury was prejudiced for several reasons, including the exclusion of evidence of Turner’s credibility and honesty and the prosecution’s repeated descriptions of the assault taking place behind a dumpster.

In May, Multhaup withdrew all of the appeal’s claims except for one: insufficiency of the evidence, court documents show.

After filing the appeal, Turner “took stock of the likelihood of success of the pending arguments, and of the potential consequences in the trial court if one or more of the arguments were successful on appeal” — including a retrial and possible resentencing, a May 13 withdrawal notice states.

On Tuesday, Multhaup focused instead on two new arguments.

He argued that because Turner was fully dressed when two Stanford graduate students observed him “engaged in aggressive thrusting” on top of the partially unclothed, unconscious woman, known anonymously as Emily Doe, outside a fraternity party in 2015, he was engaging in “outercourse” rather than demonstrating an intent to commit rape.

Multhaup defined outercourse as a “version of safe sex” during which the participants are fully clothed and there is no “penile contact.”

Elia rejected this argument, telling Multhaup that the Supreme Court has ruled that a defendant’s exposure of him or herself is not required to provide intent to commit rape.

For the other two charges,

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council

The council did not meet this week.

Parks and Recreation Commission (July 24) Parks: The commission heard a presentation about Palo Alto Recreation Foundation and its goals and collaboration opportunities. Action: None Cubberley: The commission heard a presentation from Concordia, LLC, about the Cubberley Master Plan Community Co-Design Process. Action: None

Planning and Transportation Commission (July 25)

Downtown: The commission voted not to remove a zoning policy that establishes a 350,000-square-foot cap on non-residential development in the downtown area.

Yes: Lauing, Monk, Summa, Waldfogel Abstained: Alcheck Absent: Gardias, Riggs

Multhaup argued that there was no concrete evidence to prove at what point Doe lost consciousness and could thus not consent to being Brock Turner digitally penetrated by Turner. Multhaup said the jury had to “speculate” about when that happened in what he said was a 30-minute period after Turner and Doe left the fraternity party.

During the trial, the jury heard a slurred, incoherent voicemail Doe left for her boyfriend on Jan. 18, 2015 at 12:16 a.m. Shortly after, two Stanford graduate students intervened after they saw Turner on top of an unmoving Doe. Turner testified that Doe was conscious and consented throughout their interactions.

Clark Duffy questioned Multhaup’s time frame, suggesting that he was asking the justices to “draw the inference” that Doe could have lost consciousness toward the end of the 30-minute period, whereas Turner himself told a police officer that night that he and Doe were outside together for about five minutes.

The three justices repeatedly reminded Multhaup that their role is not to reweigh evidence that was presented during the trial or consider alternate conclusions the jury could have reached.

Carlile similarly argued that Multhaup was asking the court to “act as a super fact-finder” and reject the jury’s verdict in favor of his own “far-fetched version of events.”

The evidence was “ample” for the convictions, she argued, from the graduate students’ testimony that Turner fled after they confronted him and did not offer an explanation for why he was with Doe to the fact that she was unconscious for several hours and had a blood alcohol level three times the legal driving limit in California of 0.08.

Multhaup countered that Turner fleeing — or him kissing Doe’s younger sister without permission at the fraternity party earlier in the evening — does not amount to “affirmative evidence” that would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he intended to rape Doe. There is rarely direct evidence to demonstrate intent to commit a crime, Elia told Multhaup.

“You look at the entire circumstances. You can’t just surgically remove these” pieces of evidence, the justice said.

The court has 90 days to issue an opinion.

Alaleh Kianerci, the Santa Clara County deputy district attorney who prosecuted the Turner case, attended the hearing. She declined to comment to the Weekly. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

Upfront

Neighborhoods

A roundup of neighborhood news edited by Sue Dremann

CUBBERLEY PLAN WANTS YOU ... The City of Palo Alto is looking for six to eight residents to become “community fellows” as part of an 18-month project to develop the Cubberley Community Center Master Plan. Community fellows will assist the project team in engaging the community in the design process, collaborate with and advise the project team regarding on best ways to engage the community and be table hosts at community meetings.

The application deadline is Aug. 24.

More information about becoming a community fellow is available at tinyurl. com/y7sa9nas. For questions, contact Bobbie Hill at bhill@concordia.com or 304-541-2653 or Kristen O’Kane at Kristen.O’Kane@cityofpaloalto.org or 650-463-4908. More information about the master plan design project can be found at tinyurl.com/yclkgv2d.

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT ... After a 10-year absence, Palo Alto Police Department is reintroducing National Night Out, a campaign promoting police-community partnerships and neighborhood safety. All neighborhoods are invited to participate. The event takes place Aug. 7. A block party, a cookout at a park or other community gatherings can add to the festivities and bring neighbors together, the department said. Officers and emergency personnel will be available to neighborhoods holding a National Night Out event. They also will greet the community and socialize outside the police station at 275 Forest Ave. “National Night Out helps spread awareness about crime prevention programs and the impact that citizens of Palo Alto can have on reducing crime, drugs and violence in the city. Local neighborhoods and homeowners’ associations play a critical role in assisting the police department in these efforts and can help make our neighborhoods safer,” the department said in a statement.

Anyone interested in hosting an event or who would like police to attend should contact janine.delavega@ cityofpaloalto.org by July 30.

REPORTING COYOTE SIGHTINGS ... The Santa Clara County Vector Control District is asking people who have seen coyotes in the College Terrace and Barron Park neighborhoods to contact the district office. Officials want to determine if any of the animals’ behaviors indicate that they pose a threat to health and safety. Residents should report all sightings by calling the district at 408-918-4770 or by filling out an online form at tinyurl. com/yclsvvk4. Residents also can request inspection services on their properties. Q

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Around the Block

Elena Krasnoperova, center right, founder and CEO of FamTerra, speaks during a monthly women’s coworking and networking event on July 18 at Crossroads Community Church in Palo Alto. The group, hosted at the church’s Sacred Space Coworking, was organized by local entrepreneur Dèa Wilson, center, as a way to introduce women entrepreneurs to each other for collaboration.

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Sacred space Crossroads Community Church offers respite for isolated entrepreneurs, artists and parents

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S

ilicon Valley might be the capitol of startups, but it also can be a lonely place for home-based entrepreneurs, artists and stay-at-home parents.

But Sacred Space Coworking at Crossroads Community Church, located at 2490 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto, offers a place for building relationships, working and spiritual solace. It’s a chance for freelancers, artists, students, stay-at-home parents, new residents and others to share ideas and learn from each other, said Brandon Napoli, a church board member and self-described “lead servant,” on a recent afternoon.

Napoli moved to Palo Alto from Brooklyn about 1 ½ years ago. The idea for Sacred Space came out of his own pain and loneliness of working from his home, he said.

He was an economic development professional who did micro-financing to under-served entrepreneurs, and he was in the midst of a transition to a different job, he said.

He began volunteering at Crossroads as a way to connect with people. He noticed that most church spaces were dormant on weekdays

when there aren’t services.

“So I thought, ‘Why can’t I create a working community here?’ I saw a need that I had, and I didn’t think I was unique. It is a growing trend. Neighbors could come and create a place and community to share like-minded passions,” he said.

Napoli said Sacred Space is about creating common values that members of the church and the larger community share: gratitude, stewardship, contemplation, productivity, hospitality, creativity, peace building and working together collectively as guiding principles for community.

“We have space in Palo Alto, and that’s a cherished thing. We ultimately want to be a place of resource,” Rev. Jake Duckworth said.

To that end, the church hosts 25 different meetups. Some are spiritually themed, others are not.

There’s a “Meditate in a Historic Church” meetup on Wednesday afternoons; “Shut Up and Write!,” which brings together people who want to write for social time and an hour of writing in silence; poetry workshops; and a workshop

on qualitative research for startups.

Elena Krasnoperova, founder and CEO of FamTerra, a mobile and web applications company that helps families manage co-parenting, communication and scheduling, described Sacred Space as “a WeWork with a soul,” referring to the New York-based business that rents shared office spaces.

“It’s about having more of a heart. They focus on under-represented entrepreneurs. As a female and an entrepreneur, I definitely fall into the category,” she said.

She started a local chapter of Founding Moms, a national group for mothers who are entrepreneurs, and uses Sacred Space for the meetings, she said. She also attends the Women’s Coworking Day, where female entrepreneurs meet monthly and discuss their businesses and ideas.

Krasnoperova said she isn’t a religious or a spiritual person.

“Yes, it’s in a church, but to me that’s not the point of it. Churches have traditionally been a community-building and a communitystrengthening place. I wish sometimes that I belonged to a church for the community it provides,” she said.

The church also offers daycare for toddlers and preschoolers, parking, reflective outdoor spaces, Wi-Fi and printing, and it’s an easy walk to Midtown restaurants and shopping.

Use of the “hot desk” space, an open area with individual and large tables with seating, is by donation

so far. The coworking space also offers conference rooms and a lounge at hourly fees.

“We didn’t want to create a barrier with a price. Initially, we just want neighbors to respond,” Napoli said.

Since opening in late January, Sacred Space has had more than 230 unique visits, he said. Some Sacred Space users have come into the church. Many use the sanctuary as a place of meditation and to walk away from their screens.

But it’s the importance of community that leaps out most to Napoli — when perfect strangers meet and make connections and see the “remarkable importance” of face-to-face human contact, he said. It’s when someone suddenly realizes the person they need to talk to, who sheds light on helping them solve their problem, lives two blocks way and they never knew it.

And the value of having Duckworth often present to provide pastoral care to those in need is a service amenity that isn’t found in other spaces, he said. Entrepreneurship, parenting, and moving to a new neighborhood can be stressful.

“In corporate life, where would I go if I needed someone to talk to?” he said.

More information about Sacred Space Coworking can be found at sacredspace.io. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Elder Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sexual Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sex Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Driving w/ a suspended license . . . . . 14 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 7 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 9 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 4 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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Miscellaneous Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Misc penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Other/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prowler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Resisting arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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July 18-July 24

Violence related Assault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Assault w/ a deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ a suspended license . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Parking/driving violation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 6 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Alcohol or drug related Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1

Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fire call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Gang validation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Prohibited weapon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

S. California Avenue, 6/15, 3 p.m.; sexual assault/oral copulation.

Alma Street, 6/27, 4 p.m.; sexual assault/foreign object.

Middlefield Road, 7/17, 2:31 a.m.; sex crime/misc.

Pasteur Drive, 7/17, 3:48 p.m.; elder abuse/physical.

Middlefield Road, 7/20, 1:23 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Maddux Drive, 7/21, 10:31 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Alma Street, 7/22, 9:51 p.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Menlo Park

300 block Sharon Park Drive, 7/18, 12:11 p.m.; assault.

1400 block El Camino Real, 7/19, 2:48 p.m.; battery.

3600 block Haven Avenue, 7/19, 6 a.m.; child protective services referral.

1200 block Henderson Avenue, 7/23, 8:23 p.m.; assault w/ a deadly weapon.

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Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

Ethel Burnham Meece Ethel Burnham Meece, 98, died at her Palo Alto home on July 10.

She was raised in Oklahoma City and graduated from Claussen High School in 1938.

She received a bachelor’s degree from the Western College for Women (now part of Miami University) in Oxford, Ohio in 1942 and a master’s degree from Harvard Medical School in 1946. She taught biology at Santa Clara University before teaching the same subject at Castilleja School from 1968 to 1991. She later worked for Roche drug company, ensuring experiments in animal care met industry standards.

She also led wildlife tours at Jasper Ridge for Stanford University. She was married to Edward Meece, co-founder of Pacifica Radio and symphony activist, from 1947 until his death in 1999; she was then married to Ely Brandes, economist and SRI researcher, from 2006 until his death in 2013.

She is survived by her sons Eric Meece of San Jose; Edward “Ted�

Meece of Portland, Oregon; and Gordon Meece of Morgan Hill; and three grandchildren.

Services will be held on August 3, 3-5 p.m. at Channing House in Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations should be made to the Castilleja School Scholarship Fund or Symphony Silicon Valley. Q

Raymond Austin Williams Jr. Former Palo Alto resident Raymond Austin Williams Jr., 84, died at his home in Pebble Beach on August 11, 2017. He was born in Drumright, Oklahoma, and lived in Palo Alto for 44 years. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in 1959 and a master’s degree in business administration from New York University in 1968. He served in the United States Navy during the Korean War. He began his career at IBM, leaving to co-found Amdahl Corporation. He then founded, co-founded or became an initial investor in a number of Silicon Valley companies, including Ventritex, Advance Cardiovascular Systems and Grid Systems, Inc. He served as an advisor to entrepreneurial programs at the University of Washington.

He is survived by his wife Carol Williams of Pebble Beach; his son Austin Williams, daughter-in-law Lauren Williams and granddaughter Sadie Williams of Atherton; and his son Reid Williams of New York City.

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Jon Ferraiolo spends time with his daughter, Nikki Ferraiolo, and grandson, Theo, alongside his wife, Karen Kang, at their home on March 13. Nikki Ferraiolo, who lives in Washington. D.C., flies out to visit her parents about once a month. Watch a video, see more photos and read about ALS research at paloaltoonline.atavist.com.

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he disease that will eventually end Jon Ferraiolo’s life showed up first in his throat and his tongue. Recovering from a lingering cold at the time, he attributed his difficulties with swallowing and his slurred speech to that ordinary ailment.

But 15 months later, in July 2014, a doctor gave Ferraiolo a devastating diagnosis: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease. The progressive neurodegenerative illness affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord, which lead muscles to stop working and to atrophy. After his speech became slurred, he lost use of his fingers, hands, arms and legs.

Eventually, he will stop breathing.

But the disease does not affect the software engineer’s mind. He is fully aware of everything around him.

More than 20,000 Americans have ALS at any given time, according to the ALS Association.

Famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died of the disease on March 14. Other notable persons who were afflicted include baseball great Gehrig, pitcher Jim “Catfish” Hunter, U.S. Senator Jacob Javits, actor David Niven, singer Dennis Day and jazz musician Charles Mingus, to name a few.

“He has a pretty terrible disease.

For the most part, he faces it with courage and dignity,” his wife, Karen Kang, said recently in their Palo Alto home.

In fact, ALS isn’t stopping Ferraiolo, 64, from leading a full

A vibrant

life

life. Not knowing whether he has months or years left, he and Kang decided to transcend ALS as best they could. They have found acceptance, peace and happiness, they said. Life is marked not by drudgery but by milestones: the birth of a grandson; the weddings of two daughters; the publication of a book that he hopes will change the world; visits and celebrations with friends. With the help of technology, caregivers, family and friends, Ferraiolo is still doing what he wants to do and said he enjoys each day.

Ferraiolo forms his words slowly now, using his breath to help coax out the sound.

“My joke about ALS is: Surrender your pride and dignity. After that it’s pretty easy,” he said.

Getting the diagnosis

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hen symptoms started to manifest in 2013, the couple went from specialist to specialist seeking an answer — an ear-nose-and-throat physician, a few neurologists.

One doctor thought Ferraiolo had

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gastric reflux.

They even went to a singing teacher when someone suggested that the mechanics of singing and breath control would help him to project his voice.

“We were on a wild goose chase,” Ferraiolo said.

A neurologist specializing in neuromuscular diseases at Stanford University Medical Center’s Neurosciences Center delivered the diagnosis.

“She did further testing and sat us down and said, ‘Has anyone talked to you about ALS?’” Kang recalled.

“We just looked at each other.

And I said to her, ‘How sure are you of this?’ And she said, ‘About 70 percent.’

“At that point, I’m looking at Jon and I’m trying to say (to myself), ‘Don’t fall to pieces. Don’t start crying and sobbing because Jon will think that there is no hope, and there’s a 30 percent chance that this diagnosis isn’t right,’” she said.

When they got home, they let the diagnosis sink in.

“We just sat together holding hands and crying. It was really a

very devastating diagnosis,” Kang said. “They didn’t tell us anything about what to expect. We had seen the movie about Lou Gehrig, so we sort of knew what happened, and I read something online about it.

“It was just really scary. How are we going to manage this? What’s going to happen? What is life going to be like?” she said.

Ferraiolo recalled considering how the disease would affect Kang and their children.

“For me, it was much easier than for you. I know things happen — when you get older things happen. My ticket was ALS. Other people get cancer or Alzheimer’s. I thought, ‘Well, I’ve had 60 years of great luck.’ I worried more about the women in my family than me.

And they take it much harder.”

Kang had already planned a 40th wedding anniversary trip to France for that September. They wanted to go to the place where they met during the Stanford-in-France overseas-study program and to visit the cow pasture where they had camped out during their first trip together. So they did. Ferraiolo could still walk 10 miles a day then

and carry his luggage, she said.

A year later, bringing three pints of coconut ice cream home on his bicycle, Ferraiolo lost his balance and did a faceplant on the pavement. The disease was progressing.

“The voice went first. The second thing to go was my thumbs. I only had four fingers working on each hand. Then the arms went and now the legs,” said Ferraiolo, who’s in a wheelchair.

He’s able to rotate and move his chair using specialized headgear activated by the sides of his head.

“It’s been glacial, very slow.

Three and a half years after the diagnosis, it’s been a pretty linear decline,” he added.

“He had a slow decline and then stability, and then it felt like he fell off a cliff” in May 2016, Kang said. Though he’d been compensating for the loss of motor control in some muscles by using others, eventually those too gave out.

Suddenly, he couldn’t get on the Pilates equipment at his private sessions and he couldn’t handle their regular walk to Starbucks. He had to quit driving.

“I lost a whole bunch of functioning seemingly quickly,” Ferraiolo said.

Life before ALS

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hen they met at the St a n fo r d -i n - F r a n c e program in September 1974, Kang was a 19-year-old Mills College student majoring in English and Ferraiolo was a Stanford University computer-science

Jon Ferraiolo closes his eyes as caregiver Elisapesi Tautakitaki rinses shampoo off his hair during his morning shower on May 9.

Due to Ferraiolo’s limited mobility, he relies on caregivers for all of his self-hygiene, including shaving, brushing his teeth, putting on clothes and using the bathroom.

Jon Ferraiolo and Karen Kang greet Nancy Sallaberry, center, at the “Quest for a Cure” fundraiser hosted by Sallaberry and her husband, Paul, at the Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club in Menlo Park on April 21. Sallaberry was diagnosed with ALS in 2014 and organized the fundraiser with longtime friends Augie and Lynne Nieto, who run Augie’s Quest to Cure ALS. The event raised nearly $1 million, which was donated to the ALS Therapy Development Institute. undergraduate. She grew up on a farm in Gresham, Oregon; he was raised in relative affluence in suburban Chicago, the son of a doctor.

Their worldviews were initially as different as their backgrounds.

“Jon and I would argue about life philosophy and attitude. I’ve always been a sunny person with a positive attitude, and when I met Jon he had kind of like this

‘My joke about ALS is: Surrender your pride and dignity. After that it’s pretty easy.’

—Jon Ferraiolo darker side to him. He said he was kind of prone to depression, and he said it wasn’t good to be happy all of the time or to try to be happy all the time.”

Ferraiolo thought that being mildly depressed helped temper stronger emotions. It meant one didn’t get too excited about things.

“You wouldn’t get too depressed. You could kind of control where you were,” Kang recalled.

“I thought that was the most ridiculous life philosophy,” she continued. “I said, ‘It’s much better to be happy, so why don’t you try for happiness? And there’s so much to be happy for, and there’s so much to be grateful for. Depression should not be the rule but the exception.’”

They could not have known how much her way of thinking would make them resilient when he developed ALS. Although they were falling in love in France, the relationship didn’t last. She returned

to a boyfriend in the States; he eventually reunited with an old girlfriend.

“But she broke up with me. I couldn’t stop talking about Karen,” he said.

In fall 1975, they met again in Woodside at an overseas-program reunion. Much to her surprise, Ferraiolo came with a new attitude.

“He had found a way to be happy and to like himself or love himself, and I felt like ‘We’re two equals.’ Before, when we were in France I felt like he was dependent on me for his happiness, and I told him I wasn’t willing to take that burden on. It would mean that I could never be sad,” she said.

It was a conscious decision, he said: “I listened to her argument and concluded that she was right.

It made no sense to be unhappy.”

They married and had three daughters, Nicole, Natalie and Allison, filling their lives with soccer games and breaking up sibling rivalries.

“Jon was a marvelous father and a marvelous husband and partner. He changed diapers and helped cook and clean,” Kang said.

They also had demanding careers: she as a branding strategist for high-powered Silicon Valley people; he as a software architect, engineering manager and product manager on Adobe products such as Illustrator, Acrobat and Premiere. He became known for developing the Precision Graphics Markup Language, the original Scalable Vector Graphics language specification (a standard for non-blurry text and graphics), and as a major contributor to the EPUB standard for digital books.

By the time he was diagnosed with ALS, his speech difficulties were making long phone conversations at his job at IBM

impossible. He went on disability as soon as he received the diagnosis and started taking care of his affairs.

Living with the disease

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ang pulled leg warmers over Ferraiolo’s feet and up his calves as he lay immobile in bed on a sunny March morning.

“These are the leg warmers that dancers use. Like in FlashDance.

We need to get one of your sweatshirts and I’ll cut it” to have that sexy off-shoulder look, she said.

“I’m a maniac,” he replied.

“You’re a maniac? You’re going to do that dance?” she asked.

She had added an electronic door chime to an ankle cuff that Ferraiolo wears, so he can ring the bell using his other heel whenever he needs help.

Kang turned him on his side and put a cloth sling underneath her husband to lift him from the bed.

Pepe, their chocolate-colored miniature poodle, barked loudly.

“I’m just at everyone’s beck and call,” she said, smiling. “It’s alright.

It’s alright, I’m used to it.”

The mechanical lift, shaped like an upside-down U with handles, straps and a sling seat, whirred over the bed. The device lifted Ferraiolo, who is 5-feet-8-inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. The metal arm swung him to his wheelchair and the lowered him into the seat.

Kang unhooked the sling and gently slipped it out from under him.

“Do you want your kilt or shorts?” she asked. His sister,

Massage therapist Marcus Lares works on Jon Ferraiolo’s lower back muscles during his weekly appointment on March 8. For the past two years, Lares has worked with Ferraiolo, targeting tight muscles and working to loosen Ferraiolo’s arms, legs, feet, back and neck, which have severely tightened due to ALS.

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Bobbe, made the kilt, which allows him to move more freely than if he is wearing pants.

Kang wheeled Ferraiolo to the door, now dressed and with Pepe on his lap.

“You know, between Jon and Pepe, they keep me going,” she said, attaching a leash to the dog as they prepared for a walk. Pepe whined anxiously and bolted for the door, taking the lead. Kang guided the wheelchair down the street in their Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood.

Construction workers renovating a nearby house banged loudly as the couple strolled past verdant landscaping in the dappled morning light.

Kang struggled to keep the wheelchair level around a sloping driveway. Curves are the hardest.

“There’s one thing I’d like people to understand — that they park too far up on the sidewalk. Especially with the motorized wheelchair, you can’t get through,” she said.

She stopped momentarily. The tulip magnolia petals had fallen, littering the ground around the wheelchair with pink blossoms.

Ferraiolo took in the beauty of the plants and flowers as the couple rounded a curve. He recited a William Wordsworth poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” with Kang joining him, and they smiled.

“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of garden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

As ALS has made it difficult for him to travel, he has had to rely more and more on his “inward eye” and his memories to give him joy, Kang said later, recalling the final verse: “For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.”

Karen Kang uses a feeding tube to provide Jon Ferraiolo one of his daily nutrition supplements as he breathes in medicine from a nebulizer machine to keep his lung capacity at a healthy level. Though the couple employs a full-time caretaker to administer Ferraiolo’s medications, nutrition and other needs, Kang takes on many of the caregiving roles in the evenings and on weekends.

The couple used to go to Edgewood Plaza Shopping Center for coffee, but Kang doesn’t like to drink it in front of Ferraiolo anymore. He can no longer take liquids by mouth, and he misses the taste of coffee, he said.

One joy they’ve added to their life since the diagnosis is Pepe, who is part of Ferraiolo’s therapy, lifting spirits and bestowing affection.

Kang calls Pepe their designer dog: She asked a breeder for a pet with characteristics that would complement Ferraiolo’s condition, and as a result, Pepe is strong enough to jump on his lap, is gentle enough to be a good lap dog and possesses a lively personality.

“Pepe has been such a godsend.

He wakes Jon up in the morning with kisses,” she said.

Back at the house, Kang donned medical gloves. She brought out two plastic bags containing solutions of Radicava, a drug that can help some ALS patients by slowing their symptoms. Ferraiolo started the treatments in December, late after the onset of his disease, so it isn’t known what benefits he will derive.

He said he feels less tired, his breathing isn’t as difficult and he isn’t twitching as much all over since he has started the Radicava.

“I used to have twitching in my hands all of the time. You could feel your hands moving, but it was a disconnect. You couldn’t stop the tremors,” he said.

‘I don’t really pity myself and I don’t really look for other people to pity me or to pity Jon or our life together because there is a lot of joy in life.’

—Karen Kang He lost 25 pounds in a year because of them, he added.

Kang straightened tubing and inserted it into one of the bags.

She hung it from a stand, adjusting the drip flow as Ferraiolo watched television. She attached the line to a port embedded in his upper chest.

Facts about ALS Average life expectancy: Two to five years after diagnosis; half live three or more years.

Incidence of ALS in the U.S.: Two per 100,000 people.

Demographic most affected: Military veterans, particularly from the Gulf War, are approximately twice as likely to develop ALS. Gender: 20 percent more common in men than in women, though the difference drops with age.

Race: 93 percent in the U.S. ALS Registry database are Caucasian, but the disease affects all races worldwide.

How ALS is acquired: Five to 10 percent of cases are inherited; the cause of the rest is not known. ALS is not contagious.

Average age at diagnosis: 55 years.

Sources: The ALS Association, U.S. Department of Defense

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It will take about 20 minutes for the treatment to finish, and then they’ll start the second bag.

Meanwhile, she attended to another procedure to clear his lungs of mucus. Setting up a nebulizer that can push air deep into his lungs, she filled a plastic reservoir in a face mask with drugs and placed the mask over his nose and mouth. The nebulizer machine whirred, spreading the medicine in a fine mist as he breathed, opening and relaxing Ferraiolo’s lungs.

It was also time to eat. Ferraiolo cannot drink liquids, so Kang feeds him medicines and additional nutritional supplements through a port embedded in his stomach. She crushed the medications and added liquid to another container, stirring to dissolve. She raised Ferraiolo’s shirt to access the port.

“It’s just a little button like this.

You just open it,” she explained.

She attached a tube and used a large, cylindrical syringe to flush his line with water. She then poured the medications and nutritional supplement, a thick, pallid, milkshake-like substance, into the syringe. The liquid flowed directly into his stomach.

“Chocolate cake? Baked salmon?

What are you eating?” she said, as the liquid disappeared.

“I don’t taste or even feel it,” he said.

They keep CNN on with closed captions because the nebulizer drowns out the sound. When the device finished dispensing the medication, she hooked Ferraiolo up to a cough-assist machine. It exercises his lungs to make them stronger by pushing in air and helps dispel mucus. He exhaled loudly into the mask, and Kang measured the amount of exertion on a meter.

It tells her if he is meeting targets for keeping his lungs strong.

At night he wears a ventilator, a non-invasive device that pushes air in and out of his lungs.

“It waves my diaphragm muscles. I get short of breath at night if I don’t have it. I sleep better. I used

to wake up many times in the night because my breathing would stop,” he said.

Recently, they were able to add a computer screen above his bed so he can be entertained while on his back. He used to wake up in the night with nothing to do for hours, unable to move or get up on his own. It was boring, he said.

The computer screen uses eyegaze technology to allow him to surf the internet. The device uses infrared light to read his eye movements. He uses the same device on his computer. He can type by moving his eyes across the monitor. He wrote an entire book, the self-published “Holy War for True Democracy,” using only his eyes.

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“I can type with my eyes as fast as people do with their fingers,” he said.

At mealtime recently, Kang sat down next to him in the kitchen.

Forkful by forkful, she fed him: scallops, stir-fried tomatoes and onions, sweet potatoes.

Ferraiolo ate hungrily; often he doesn’t have the energy to eat as much as he needs. He stops eating when he is tired and not when he’s full.

“It’s really rough when the food is really good. You want to keep eating,” he said.

Kang ate her dinner in between feeding Jon his mouthfuls.

“A lot of times I’ll sit here and eat with Jon. I’ll take a bite and he’ll take a bite and I’ll take a bite.”

Care for the caregiver

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ang said she feels fortunate that they can afford help. Caregivers come in the morning to wash, shave and dress Ferraiolo; a masseur gives him therapeutic massages that help keep his muscles from freezing up.

She squeezes in personal time or work when they are there; in the afternoons, she takes over caregiving.

“One of the hardest things is the everydayness of it. I’m a very creative person and I like to have a lot of change in my life and do different things. And yeah, it can wear you down a bit,” she said.

Ferraiolo gives Kang space and time to herself. He’s told her to take a vacation, to go off with her sister or to hire more caregivers. She takes line-dancing, goes to an exercise class and walks with friends.

She also receives mental health support.

“I had never seen a therapist before, but a friend whose husband had passed away from ALS said that she would like for me to see a therapist — not because I might think I need it right now — but to find a therapist before you feel like you are desperate and you need to talk to someone. There’s a tendency to put a happy face on, and you don’t often show everything that’s going on in your life. And sometimes, if you just keep pushing all of this stuff down and you never let it surface, it can have bad consequences,” she said.

It’s important for not only Kang to have a life beyond ALS but also

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“I know that people so often will just kind of put him in a box because he’s a person with ALS. But he has many interests beyond ALS, and he’s a very intellectual person and likes to engage, so with Jon I’d like people to see that he’s ... a person with a personality and a history and a future.

“I would wish that people would see me in the same way,” Kang continued, “because sometimes people come up to me — and everyone’s well-meaning — but there’s a sad face that approaches you and, like, that your life is really terrible and (they’re) commiserating and feeling bad or sorry for you. And for the most part I don’t feel sorry for myself.

“There are days, yes, that aren’t going so well. Every once in a while, every three months, I can go in the closet and I’ll have a good cry and just kind of wallow in selfpity for an hour. But beyond that I don’t really pity myself and I don’t really look for other people to pity me or to pity Jon or our life together because there is a lot of joy in life,” she said.

Ferraiolo reflected on living with ALS. “We both have blessings and burdens. Even people who are healthy have burdens like family issues, emotional issues, and employment issues, financial issues. I’ve got problems; you’ve got problems.

Everyone has problems. I’ve got another problem with ALS, but I’m not different than anyone else.

Everyone has issues. But because I have ALS, I don’t have to work anymore, so I have less stress and I can focus on experiencing love with family and friends. And I also think life is quite amazing, if you take the time to pay attention. So I have no regrets. I think I have the burden of ALS and the blessings along with it.”

Pursuing a vibrant life

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erraiolo was talking almost nonstop on a warm day this past April. Someone told him he was talking too much and that he’d use up all of his energy.

But it was an exciting day: Daughter Natalie was getting married.

In his bedroom, the caregivers helped to dress him for the wedding to be held in their backyard.

They put his arms through the sleeves of a freshly pressed white shirt and buttoned his cuffs. Underneath, he wore his “The Greatest Dad in the World” T-shirt, which Natalie made for him when she was young. The print is now faded from many washings.

In the garden with Pepe wearing a tuxedo and dozing on his lap, Ferraiolo escorted Natalie down the aisle as Kang pushed the wheelchair.

The wedding was the latest in a series of milestones.

“Since he was diagnosed, our oldest got married. She just had our first grandchild in December.

Also in December one of our twins, Allison, got married. In April, the second twin, Natalie, got married,”

Powered by passion

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Ferraiolo’s book rallies citizens to create a ‘true democracy’

on Ferraiolo isn’t letting his fertile mind sit on the sidelines because he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease. The terminal illness has robbed him of use of his arms, hands and legs, but the Palo Alto resident didn’t let that stop him from writing a 147-page, self-published book, “Holy War for True Democracy,” using only his eyes.

With the help of a Tobii eyegaze device that uses an infrared reader to scan the movement of his pupils, Ferraiolo can track a digital keyboard on his computer monitor and click with an onscreen mouse.

Ferraiolo’s book focuses on the dangers of technology to power authoritarian rule. He argues that Americans need to undertake the equivalent of a “holy war” to save democracy from becoming a totalitarian, autocratic state that manipulates the public using the media to spread rhetoric and false claims.

He calls for the formation

and politics. The organization would work with news organizations and aggregators to show a “trustworthiness” icon next to the byline of news stories. Readers would see at a glance the author’s trustworthiness.

Asked how Democracy Guardians would ensure “judges” don’t introduce their own political filters, Ferraiolo said that each judge would have to back their rating with factual information that can be verified and that provides an unbiased interpretation.

Judges would receive specialized training.

The project is still theoretical. Ferraiolo is currently stuck on how to get people to let go of their extreme polarization.

Currently, very few people seem open to something that embraces all points of view, he said.

But Democracy Guardians’ success would depend on judges putting aside their personal and party political beliefs in order to protect the democratic system above all else.

“Maybe things will change in a couple of years as we all tire of the tribalism,” he said.

Ferraiolo got his “holy war” analogy based on the risks that those who’ve believed in democratic government were willing to take through history. They were fueled by passion, dedication and sacrifice, he said — the characteristics of a holy war.

In the book, Ferraiolo asks the reader to consider not only the state of our democracy today, but to examine the reality of

democracy historically. In mankind’s history, there has never been “true democracy,” he wrote.

Such a state includes the right for every adult to vote; citizenship that is available on an equal basis to all adults regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, economic status or political inclination; and voting directly on elected government positions and legislation rather than indirectly through elected representatives. In a true democracy, all citizens are fully informed by science-based and objective facts that show all sides of the discussion fairly, he said.

This form of democracy is an ideal that will probably never be achieved completely, he acknowledged. But the more a nation achieves these goals, the greater its fulfillment to the democratic idea of government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Trustworthiness of the media is the most pressing concern for keeping a government democratic because of the media’s vital role in educating citizens about important issues, he noted. But powerful individuals have manipulated the messages people receive by buying up networks and newspapers.

New technologies are also being used to erode democracy. The

Kang want people to know there are many more good times than bad, they said.

It takes reaching out to people sometimes — to make one’s needs known and to help others feel comfortable.

The more people can talk about an illness, the less there is stigma.

When people are confronted with something totally foreign, there’s a tendency to stare, Kang said.

“You read about how ALS patients are trapped and imprisoned in their bodies. People think that must be terrible. ... It’s very hard for people to understand how it is possible for someone to be paralyzed and to be happy,” Kang said.

“I’ve talked to people with breast

cancer and Parkinson’s disease who are just shut-ins, and no one comes over. It doesn’t have to be that way.

It may be years of living with the condition. Are they just going to be hermits? You have to open up the blinds and let the sunshine in. It’s not healthy for the person, the family and society,” she said.

Every month Ferraiolo and Kang have multiple visitors. Sometimes guests stay overnight and sometimes they come for afternoon tea.

“I would just encourage people, if they do have a loved one with an illness and that loved one feels comfortable about it, let everyone in the family know that it’s fine to visit,” Kang said. “I just think that there’s no shame in having an

‘If everyone perseveres and stands for what they believe, I think things will turn out OK in the long run.’

—Jon Ferraiolo of a nonpartisan nonprofit seri vice, Democracy Guardians, to analyze and rate statements in the media — in all of its forms, including social media — and create a trustworthiness scale so that politicians, government and news organizations will be forced to be more honest in their communications.

As a global, crowd-sourced internet service, Democracy Guardians would create reviews of people and organizations that provide information on government Kang said this summer.

After grandchild Theo was born, Ferraiolo and Kang made the arduous trip to Washington, D.C., to visit. It was their last trip, and it was tough. He developed a lung infection and spent miserable hours on the plane sitting in an awkward position. No one was strong enough to straighten him up. They had to lug a wheelchair and his breathing equipment.

But now Nicole and Theo come to visit frequently. They put the infant in Ferraiolo’s lap and fold the new grandfather’s hands over the boy’s tiny body.

Some people hide away when they get the diagnosis of a degenerative disease. But Ferraiolo and

Jon Ferraiolo reads news articles online using his eye-tracking software at his home workstation on May 9, with his dog, Pepe, beside him.

2016 election also saw for the first time the major impact of social media — particularly through Facebook — to influence public and political opinion, the book notes.

During an interview at his home, Ferraiolo reflected on the hard work that lies ahead if democracies are to thrive and survive.

“The underpinning of the battle is that everyone has to keep pushing for the right thing. We all have differences of opinion, and I think we need to respect everyone including people who we think are wrong or evil. If everyone perseveres and stands for what they believe, I think things will turn out OK in the long run. If we are apathetic or afraid or timid, we might fall into autocracy and a police state because of the technology an autocratic government can deploy,” he said.

Ferraiolo said he welcomes anyone who would like to help make Democracy Guardians a reality. More information about the project and his book are available through democracyguardians. org. He can be contacted at jon. ferraiolo@democracyguardians. org. Q — Sue Dremann illness. It’s not something that you did to make this happen. It’s not a poor reflection on your life. It just is. And all of us have something going on in our lives.

“Every time I look around, you know, there are friends with issues — health issues with parents or children or other loved ones or partners — and I just think that it takes a village. Not only to raise a child but also just to be and to live,” she said.

All of the little things that people worry about, that they’re concerned about, all of those things don’t really mean anything because life’s all about enjoying and living to the (continued on next page)

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Cover Story

Left: Karen Kang pushes Jon Ferraiolo as he escorts his daughter Natalie Ferraiolo down the aisle during her wedding on April 14 at their home in Palo Alto. Above: Maureen McNulty, a longtime family friend of Jon Ferraiolo and Karen Kang, marries Natalie Ferraiolo and Paul Manning as Ferraiolo and Kang watch the ceremony. (continued from previous page)

fullest in the moment that one is in, she said.

“It’s not wishing for something in the future, not just thinking about the past and how maybe the past was so great, but truly living in the moment. I want people to know that you can live in the moment with someone that you love who has ALS and find great joy in that, that just because someone has a disability or is not the same person in terms of their capabilities,

they really are the same person inside. And hopefully that’s the same person that you fell in love with. And that person is still there.

“Even if their voice changes and they can’t walk anymore or they can’t hug you anymore, they’re still that person, and they still love you the same. And certainly I still love Jon the same, or maybe even more, because we have time to think about what we have, and hopefully we’ll have a lot more time in the future.

“But you never know that. You

never know that, if you have ALS. You never know that if you’re a perfectly healthy person who walks outside, crosses the street and has an accident and is no longer around. So I think all of us should strive to live every day like it’s your last day,” she said.

Ferraiolo and Kang recalled a trip they took to Hawaii in 2017.

The disease had progressed significantly. It was April Fool’s Day, and he was in a rented floating wheelchair, relaxing as foot-high waves lapped at his legs. A 3-foot

sneaker wave suddenly tipped the chair over, knocking Kang, who was on one side supporting the chair, off her feet. She was pinned under the chair, and the weight broke her leg.

Ferraiolo was face down in the water, his face buried in sand. He couldn’t breathe and he couldn’t move.

He wondered, after all he had been through with ALS, if this would be the end — if he would die on a vacation island, smothered by sand and water. One way

or the other, he accepted his fate in that moment, he recalled.

He’d had a good life with no regrets.

But it was not the end for Ferraiolo. Two burly Hawaiian men came to the rescue.

When they lifted Ferraiolo up and everyone began frantically brushing the sand out of his nose and eyes, they found him laughing. Q Jon Ferraiolo and Karen Kang are fundraising for the ALS Therapy Development Institute, which is dedicated to finding new drugs and therapies for ALS patients.

More about the institute and the fundraising effort can be found at fundraise.als.net/curejon.

Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com. Weekly Staff Photographer/Videographer Veronica Weber contributed to this story.

About the cover: Karen Kang and Jon Ferraiolo go for a stroll around their Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood with their dog, Pepe, on March 8.

Photo by Veronica Weber.

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Jillian Bader stars as Maria in Foothill Music Theatre’s “The Sound of Music.”

Review by Karla Kane Photos by David Allen or its big annual summer musical, Foothill Music Theatre has chosen one of the biggest this year, in terms of familiarity and place in the Broadway pantheon: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “The Sound of Music.” With its heartfelt production, the community theater group helps reinforce why the show has remained a favorite since it was first staged in 1959.

It’s based on the true story of the von Trapp family, who fled Austria after its merger with Nazi Germany in 1938 and immigrated to the United States, where they worked as a touring choral group, the Von Trapp Family Singers (and eventually opened an alpine-style resort in Vermont). “The Sound of Music,” loosely based on matriarch Maria von Trapp’s memoirs, dramatizes the meeting of spritely, music-loving nun-in-training Maria, widowed navy captain Georg and his seven children, for whom Maria works as a governess. Georg and Maria butt

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What: “The Sound of Music.”

Where: Smithwick Theatre, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills.

When: Through Aug. 5; see online for detailed schedule.

Cost: $15-$36.

Info: Go to foothill.edu/theatre.

heads and then fall in love, and the family learns to sing madrigals together. In the meantime, Austria is on the precipice of coming under Nazi German control, something the von Trapps are unwilling to become a part of.

The show was the final collaboration between Broadway legends Rodgers and Hammerstein, and probably their most popular, thanks to both the wholesome story and especially the immortal songs: “My Favorite Things,” the solfege musical training guide “Do-Re-Mi,” the titular number and so many others. Admit it; you’re humming them now. Some may scorn it as corny or overrated; I am not one of those people. Notice how, while the melody of “My Favorite Things” remains constant, the chords underneath switch from minor to major as the verses progress. Hear how the climactic “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” ascends, as befitting its lyrics. Much of the music is written in homage to the waltzes and folk music of Austria (including the yodeling “Lonely Goatherd”) while other bits are meant to echo the type of complex choral arrangements sung by the real von Trapps. Best of all is the simple “Edelweiss,” a tribute to his beloved homeland that the captain sings as he is preparing to leave it, and which sounds so convincing it’s hard to believe it was not already an Austrian folk song. It’s a poignant farewell, extra so because it may

have been Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final collaboration. If done right, there shouldn’t be a dry eye in the house.

Foothill’s production (directed by Milissa Carey with musical direction by William Liberatore) sticks mostly with the original Broadway structure, rather than the iconic 1965 film version (although I think the film works better, song-orderwise), including two songs that were cut from the movie (“How Can Love Survive?” and “No Way To Stop It”), plus the two that Rodgers wrote for the film (“I Have Confidence” and “Something Good”).

To follow in the footsteps of Mary Martin (Broadway) and then Julie Andrews (film) is not easy, but Foothill made a brilliant choice with Jillian Bader, who boasts a pure, beautiful singing voice and the perky persona to go with it as Maria. Scott Solomon, as Captain von Trapp, struggles as a singer, meaning, alas, that “Edelweiss” is less successful than it should be.

Similarly, Ryan Rathbun is out of his league, vocally, as the teen suitor turned eager new Nazi recruit Rolf. Madison Colgate, who plays Rolf’s paramour and eldest von Trapp daughter Liesl, is excellent. So too are Aaron Hurley as the shifty music promoter family friend Max Detweiler and Elizabeth Claire Lawrence as the captain’s glamorous, wealthy, preMaria love interest, who proves too

agreeable to getting along with the Third Reich for von Trapp’s taste.

Rachel Michelberg proves up to the operatic role of Maria’s mentor, the Mother Abbess, and I was especially impressed by the beautiful harmonized singing of the nun ensemble, who do a marvelous job with their classical church-choirstyle pieces. The young von Trapp children (double cast) are charming, including the three Hutton siblings (Grace, Billy and Mary, who play Louisa, Kurt and Gretl) who share the stage with their mother, Leandra Saenz, playing Sister Sophia. Fitting, for such a familycentric show.

The costumes, by Mae Matos and Lisa Rozman, look great, as does the alpine backdrop by Kuo-Hao Lo, although the staircase draped in green blankets to stand-in as a mountain looks a bit sketchy.

The audience at the matinee I attended was full of enthusiastic children, and Foothill’s production makes a great introduction to this old-fashioned but beloved musical.

Solfege and family and moral resistance are, judging by the standing ovation, still a few of our favorite things. Q Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

Maria (center: Jillian Bader) and the von Trapp children (clockwise from left: Billy Hutton, Madison Colgate, Jake Miller, Anna Savage, Jane Quiazon and Mary Hutton) sing during a thunderstorm in Foothill Music Theatre’s “The Sound of Music.” www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • July 27, 2018 • Page 17

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Eating Out More than a hobby, friends form avid home winemaking group

by Elena Kadvany

R

oman Beyer is an unlikely winemaker.

He’s a mechanical engineer from Michigan who came to Silicon Valley 30 years ago to study at Stanford University and never left. He’s had a long career in failure analysis, investigating accidents and authoring publications with titles like “Ergonomic Analysis of Extension Ladders” and “The Warning Label Development Process.”

He knew next to nothing about wine until 10 years ago, when he joined a group of local home winemakers.

He’s now the avid leader of his own group that makes thousands of bottles of wine each year, the grapes crushed, fermented, pressed, aged and bottled in his Los Altos Hills home.

Since 2012, Beyer has recruited friends and family to assist with what is now a serious home winemaking operation. He now has seven partners, none of whom have worked in the wine industry. There’s a retired physician, former tech executives, a general contractor, a real estate agent and engineers, all hailing from Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Palo Alto, save one who lives in Santa

Cruz. They each pay about $1,500 per year to cover the cost of raw materials, from grapes and barrels to additives and lab testing.

They sometimes call themselves “the startup winery.”

The group purchases grapes from growers, from Napa and Sonoma to Paso Robles, though they prefer to buy locally. Early on, Beyer realized that quality wineries prefer to sell in tons rather than pounds, hence his motivation for forming a group. They now buy about four to five tons each year.

Each fall, as harvest kicks into high gear, Beyer’s home becomes a hive of activity. As soon as they get the call from growers, the men jump into trucks to harvest their grapes — mostly red, but not exclusively — and bring them back to Beyer’s house. A concrete, covered patio overlooking the rolling foothills is turned into a “crush pad” where they mash the grapes and put them into containers to ferment.

Once fermentation is done, the group presses the wine and pumps it into barrels to age. They typically age red wines for two years in the barrel and one in the bottle. The bottles are stored in a

Photo courtesy Roman Beyer

Above: Members, family and friends help with the bottling of cabernet merlot and syrah wines in 2015. Top: A 2015 pinot noir produced, from grape to bottle, in the Los Altos Hills home of a latein-life winemaker. Photo by Adam Pardee.

refrigerated cellar elsewhere on Beyer’s property.

A downstairs room that Beyer and his wife originally built as a casual space to enjoy wine has been transformed into a fullblown wine cellar, with more than a dozen American and French oak wine barrels, a bottling machine and a cleanup room stocked with winemaking equipment and chemicals. Everywhere are wine bottles, glasses and wine-related art (including, hanging on one wall, a patchwork quilt featuring colorful bottles). In one drawer are stacks of wine labels drawn

by Beyer’s daughter, including a black-and-white tree with the name “Romanbauer,” a nod to Rombauer Vineyard’s famed chardonnay.

It was in this 255-square-foot room that Beyer first thought about making wine. After building the addition to the house, he realized he couldn’t fill it with just bottles, and wondered what he would have to do to get a barrel. He reached out to a friend who happened to make wine at home. The friend was leaving his winemaking group, so Beyer, impressed by the quality of their wine, took his place.

Winemaking quickly became more than a fleeting interest. Beyer left the group two years later to start his own troop of hobbyist winemakers.

Beyer is still a “data collector” at heart. He coordinates blind tastings to check the wine’s progress and creates schedules to organize who is doing what during the busiest times. He consults with experts, including Woodside Vineyards’ Brian Caselden, who Beyer considers a mentor, and a local Home Vintners Association. He sends other members what one called “homework” — mostly articles and books about winemaking.

“I think because I’m a problemsolver, the engineering side of solving these different problems in making the wine is what I found fascinating,” Beyer said. “Even today it’s a matrix of many, many different possibilities and problems that you can come up with.”

There is very little regulation of home winemaking for personal consumption. Under federal law, they can’t make more than 200 gallons a year for a household with two or more adults or 100 gallons for a one-person home, but are otherwise left to their own devices.

The members love both the technicality and camaraderie of winemaking. Most of their children help out with the harvest and bottling every year. The group has no website or Instagram; it’s grown solely through personal connections.

Marc Anker, a retired doctor who lives in Palo Alto, knew little about wine when he joined and was skeptical about the quality of homemade wine. Now, he said he no longer buys wine. He brings their bottles to restaurants and social gatherings.

“It’s great to know how to make wine. But I would love this whole process if it was mediocre wine,”

Anker said. “This is not mediocre wine.”

The group’s wine has won local awards, including a 2013 chardonnay from Woodside that took home “double gold” for best white wine in the Santa Clara County Fair’s annual amateur winemaking competition.

Over a recent lunch on the picturesque patio, Beyer, Anker and David Lautzenheiser (a semi-retired tech executive who’s looking forward to his fifth harvest with the group) uncorked recent vintages. They moved from a crisp 2016 Vermentino from Los Carneros to a deep but drinkable 2014 merlot from Jaeger Vineyards in Napa and finally, a peppery Barbera from a grower in Plymouth, just outside Sacramento.

They sipped each wine with unbridled enthusiasm, enjoying the fruits of their labors. Q Staff writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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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, August 13, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. or as near thereafter as possible, in the Council Chambers, 250 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, to consider adoption of an Ordinance amending Title 16 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code to modify and increase the Citywide Transportation Impact Fee (Chapter 16.59) and PUKLĂ&#x201E;UP[LS` Z\ZWLUK HWWSPJH[PVU VM [OL L_PZ[PUN HYLH ZWLJPĂ&#x201E;J Transportation Impact Fees for the Stanford Research Park/El Camino Real CS Zone (Chapter 16.45) and the San Antonio/ West Bayshore Area (Chapter 16.46); and amending the Municipal Fee Schedule to update the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Transportation Impact Fees in accordance with these changes, all in furtherance of implementation of the Comprehensive Plan. ;OL *P[`^PKL ;YHUZWVY[H[PVU 0TWHJ[ -LL PZ H VUL [PTL MLL VU new development and redevelopment throughout Palo Alto to fund transportation improvements to accommodate and mitigate the impacts of future development in the City. This Ordinance is within the Scope of the Comprehensive Plan ,U]PYVUTLU[HS 0TWHJ[ 9LWVY[ ,09 JLY[PĂ&#x201E;LK HUK HKVW[LK on November 13, 2017 by Council Resolution No. 9720 (Continued from May 7, 2018).

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Home Front GARDENING DEMOS ... The 7,300-square-foot Palo Alto Demonstration Garden — which has “edible” and “water wise” sections — is open to the public the first Saturday of every month with free workshops from 10 -11 a.m. and an “open garden” afterward. Work days, when master gardeners are there working, are Mondays from 10 a.m. to noon. The edible landscaping section uses a wide variety of seasonal vegetables, fruits, and flowers, while the water wise garden showcases beautiful landscaping with low water plants. The Palo Alto Demonstration Garden is located at 851 Center Drive in Eleanor Pardee Park.

COOL-SEASON VEGGIES ... The UC Master Gardener program will offer a free class, “Looking Ahead to Cool Season Vegetables”, on Saturday, Aug. 4, 10 - 11:30 a.m. at the Palo Alto Demonstration Garden, 851 Center Drive. Early August is the best time to plan and prepare for cool-season gardens. In this hands-on workshop, master gardeners will show participants how to start seedlings of favorite cool-season crops and take care of them until they are ready to plant in the ground in late August.

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Cost is $50 for adults. Hidden Villa is located at 26870 Moody Road, Los Altos Hills. To sign up, go to hiddenvilla.org.

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Jennifer Fisher said having to tear the brick facade off the exterior living room wall to eliminate what was a haven for termites turned out to be an unexpected and major bump in the “remodeling” road.

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A cottage to call

Ambitious Menlo Park redo leaves 1940s home light and liveable

Story by Elizabeth Lorenz | Photos by Veronica Weber

W

hen Jennifer Fisher embarked on her third home-construction project in 2017, redoing her kitchen, a bathroom and re-configuring some rooms, she had previous experience to draw from — but remodeling the 1940s cottage would still mean surprises in the walls and unforeseen expenses.

The good news was she knew how to pick her kitchen cabinetry and to paint her window frames dark. She also knew that if she spent money now to fix termite damage, she wouldn’t have to deal with it again.

In the end, the home that she loved when she first walked into it two decades ago is liveable and has the features she meticulously planned for. She first bought the two-bedroom, one-bath cottage in west Menlo Park in 1996.

“I loved this house. When we came in and sat in this house, I said, ‘Oh my God, this is my house.’ It had beautiful bones,” she said.

During her first remodel of the cottage in the 1990s, she moved out and spent a year adding 900

square feet, including a second floor with two bedrooms and two bathrooms.

She and her family lived in the house for nearly 15 years before buying a lot on the same street and building a larger Spanishstyle home that Fisher had a careful hand in designing. They rented out the cottage until last year, when Fisher had a life change. She sold the Spanish house and began to remodel the first floor of the cottage, including the kitchen, a bathroom, dining room, bedroom, living room and entryway.

“We almost gutted the first floor,” she said. In the end, “We didn’t move any interior walls.”

A major bump in the road was the exterior brick facade on the living room wall was stuck directly on plywood, a haven for termites. The bricks were torn off, the fireplace redone carefully with a gas insert and the new wood siding cut to match the chimney’s curves. The interior wall structure was also made inhospitable to future termites. That was $20,000 Fisher hadn’t planned on.

Inside, an existing first-floor

Construction workers cut a large rectangular opening in the kitchen wall of Jennifer Fisher’s cottage, making the top portion curved instead of squared off. bedroom had a “charming” bay window, but a wall chopped up the view through the adjacent dining room. With an opening made in the wall, the sight lines from the dining room could fall on the back wall, which was fitted with shelves to create a cozy library.

“I like to have flow and sight lines,” she said, but “I wanted to have separate rooms.” As a compromise, she opened the library wall, then opened the wall that divided the kitchen from the dining room.

One of her contractor’s employees cut a large rectangular opening in the kitchen wall, making the top portion curved instead of squared off. Fisher loved it.

She drew from experience in her Spanish house to carefully measure the depth of each cabinet drawer so that her ladles and spatulas would fit without catching,

and her pans would slide smoothly into deep drawers. She had the quarter-sawn oak cabinets added in the early remodel taken out and replaced with hard-baked white lower cabinets. The kitchen has only one upper cabinet, small with a glass door to hold glassware, and a cabinet for sheet pans above the double wall ovens.

The Wolf gas range has six burners, and the double Thermador electric wall ovens which she bought in the 1990s were reinstalled “because they worked better than new ones,” she said.

The large butcher block island has bright blue open shelving underneath, and the microwave oven sits under the island as well.

Throughout the first floor, Fisher chose a finish called “Level 5 drywall” that has been spread with (continued on next page)

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two coats of “mud” and sanded lightly to remove tool marks. Then a thin skim coat was added, sanded lightly and checked with a halogen light to look for any imperfections. This produces a smoother finish with a consistent texture.

Fisher calls the home’s architecture Arts and Crafts with a touch of Spanish.

When remodeling an older home, Fisher wisely advises, “You have to not freak out.”

The original living room was always too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer.

It had no roof insulation and the eaves hung way over the back patio, making it impossible to put out chairs for entertaining. Fisher boldly had the roof removed, had foam insulation put in, and the roof eaves cut back.

After the new living room’s brick facade was removed and wood siding added, Fisher wanted to keep the deep window sills inside.

So the builder preserved them by double framing the wall.

She gutted and re-tiled the first floor bathroom, taking out the bathtub and replacing it with a curbless shower. She was able to use extra painted tiles from her former home to line the shower and floor, combined with emerald green and white “star and cross”

RESOURCES: Primary contractor: Jesse Ososki (jesseososki.com) Cabinetmaker Bay City Cabinets (South San Francisco) Landscape contractor: Hugo Castillo, hugo_castillo78@hotmail.com Masonry: Jimenez Masonry, jimenezmasonry@live.com Audio/Video/Internet: Universal Home Systems, universalhomesystems.com Pool: Corby Pools, corbypools.com Length of project: 7 months from demolition to completion.

patterned wall tile. She even had enough tile to cover the new pool wall in the backyard.

The home is surrounded by what Fisher calls a “monastic garden,” built on axes with geometric shapes like traditional Moorish gardens in Spain. The front garden is made up of in-ground brick-edged vegetable beds surrounded by various dwarf and small fruit trees. Q Home and Real Estate Editor Elizabeth Lorenz can be reached at elorenz@ paweekly.com.

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Throughout the first floor of her cottage, homeowner Jennifer Fisher chose a finish that was spread with two coats of “mud” and sanded lightly to produce a smoother finish.

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Legal Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement SJ DEVELOPMENT & REALTY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN643923 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: SJ Development & Realty, located at 1601 S De Anza Ste. 260, Cupertino, CA 95014, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): JIANG SHI 1601 S De Anza Ste. 260 Cupertino, CA 95014 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 29, 2018.

(PAW July 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018) PALO ALTO YOGA THERAPY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN643666 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Palo Alto Yoga Therapy, located at 111 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): LELAND STANLEY FERGUSON 111 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business

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THE PENINSULA’S FREE CLASSIFIEDS WEBSITE TO RESPOND TO ADS WITHOUT PHONE NUMBERS GO TO WWW.FOGSTER.COM under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 22, 2018.

(PAW July 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018) COLORADO APARTMENTS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN643667 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Colorado Apartments, located at 111 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): PAMELA GAYLE HELLER 111 Colorado Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/01/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 22, 2018.

(PAW July 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018) ZING LEGAL FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644202 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Zing Legal, located at 21500 La Loma Drive, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KAREN KRAMER 25100 La Loma Drive Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 09/12/2012.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 6, 2018.

(PAW July 13, 20, 27; Aug. 3, 2018) WESTERN RECOVERY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644302 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Western Recovery, located at 2200 Geng Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): WESTERN SERVICE CONTRACT CORP. 2200 Geng Road, Suite 200 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 2/18/2004.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 10, 2018.

(PAW July 20, 27; Aug. 3, 10, 2018) BAGEL AND DONUT BASKET FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644444 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Bagel and Donut Basket, located at 1705 Branham Ln., San Jose, CA 95118, Clara County.

This business is owned by: A General Partnership.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TYHUOY NGOV 1208 Lynn Ave. San Jose, CA 95122 VOEUT HENG 1208 Lynn Ave. San Jose, CA 95122 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 7/13/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 13, 2018.

(PAW July 27; Aug. 3, 10, 17, 2018) STANFORD SMILE DESIGN FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644275 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Stanford Smile Design, located at 1805 El Camino Real Suite 202, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): BABAK MOSTAAN DDS 26100 Duval Way Los Altos Hils, CA 94022 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 06.25.2008.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 10, 2018.

(PAW July 20,27; Aug. 3, 10, 2018)

MEDALLION RUG GALLERY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN643597 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Medallion Rug Gallery, located at 353 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): POLYTEX CORPORATION 370 Convention Way Redwood City, CA 94063 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 03/01/1987.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on June 20, 2018.

(PAW July 20, 27; Aug. 3, 10, 2018) TAQUERIA EL GRULLENSE M & G INC. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644506 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Taqueria El Grullense M & G Inc., located at 3636 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306274, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): TAQUERIA EL GRULLENSE M&G INC. 3636 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94306274 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/17/2018.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 17, 2018.

(PAW July 27; Aug. 3, 10, 17, 2018) JAMAICA ON WHEELS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN644544 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Jamaica On Wheels, located at 33 Encina Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): ALACIA STACIAN HAFNER 33 Encina Ave. Apt. 530 Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on July 18, 2018.

(PAW July 27; Aug. 3, 10, 17, 2018)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee Sale No. : 00000007453046 Title Order No.: 730-1802276-70 FHA/VA/PMI No.: ATTENTION RECORDER: THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE TO AN ATTACHED SUMMARY APPLIES ONLY TO COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR, NOT TO THIS RECORDED ORIGINAL NOTICE. NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 02/09/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 02/17/2005 as Instrument No. 18238005 of official records in the office of the County Recorder of SANTA CLARA County, State of CALIFORNIA. EXECUTED BY: CONAN S. YEM, AN UNMARRIED MAN, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by California Civil Code 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States). DATE OF SALE: 08/20/2018 TIME OF SALE: 10:00 AM PLACE OF SALE: AT THE GATED NORTH MARKET STREET ENTRANCE

OF THE SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE, 191 N. FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA 95113.

STREET ADDRESS and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 3619 LUPINE AVENUE, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94303 APN#: 127-21-017 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein.

Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $396,323.99. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property.

You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 714-730-2727 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site www.servicelinkASAP. com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case 00000007453046.

Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. FOR TRUSTEE SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: AGENCY SALES and POSTING 714-730-2727 www.servicelinkASAP.com BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP as Trustee 20955 Pathfinder Road, Suite 300 Diamond Bar, CA 91765 (866) 795-1852 Dated: 07/10/2018 BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER and WEISS, LLP IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. A-4663451 07/20/2018, 07/27/2018, 08/03/2018

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TRACKING DEVICE . . . The Menlo i Greyhounds track and field club produced a pair of national champions at the USATF Junior Olympics in Greensboro on Tuesday.

The girls 15-16 3,200 relay team of Kendall Mansukhani, Issy Kym Cairns, Kyra Pretre and Charlotte Tomkinson raced 9:23.89 to grab the gold. The boys 17-18 3,200 relay team of Tanner Anderson, Ryan Wilson, Alex Greg Scales and Jason Gomez raced 7:43.75 for their victory.

UP TO PAR . . . Palo Alto resident Lauren Sung, a 14-year-old soonto-be freshman gained entry into the U.S. Women’s Amateur, to be played at the Golf Club of Tennessee in Kingston Springs beginning Aug. 6. Sung was the first alternate in the qualifying tournament at the Sequoyah CC in Oakland in early July, and when another golfer earned an exemption it opened a spot for Sung. She’ll be joined in the 156-player field by Stanford commits Rachel Heck, a high school junior in Memphis, and Brooke Seay, a prep senior in Rancho Santa Fe. Cardinal sophomore Albane Valenzuela met several requirements to earn an exemption as well.

ON THE AIR Friday Saturday USA swimming: U.S. Championship meet, Irvine, noon, KNTV

Sunday USA swimming: U.S. Championship meet, Irvine, noon, KNTV

Monday USA swimming: U.S. Championship meet, Irvine, 9 p.m., NBCSN

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Ledecky, Manuel continue search for gold Stanford’s Drabot, Neal, Sweetser each finish among the top five Rick Eymer tanford swimmers Katie Ledecky and Simone Manuel opened the Phillips 66 National Championships at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center in Irvine with impressive victories Wednesday evening.

Cardinal junior Katie Drabot turned in a nice performance in the women’s 200 fly as NCAA champion Ella Eastin was forced to withdraw from the B final after finishing 12th in the prelims.

Incoming Stanford freshman Jack LaVant put on a show during the trials of the men’s 200 fly and Cardinal junior Megan Byrnes finished seventh in the

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fastest heat of the women’s 800 free, which Ledecky once again dominated with the second fastest time of the year.

Ledecky, who owns 19 of the top 20 times in the 800 free overall, set the pace early and then settled into a nice rhythm to win by 10 seconds. Byrnes swam 8:31.04.

“My goals. They’re out in front of me and I am always chasing them,” Ledecky said.

It was Ledecky’s 14th national title and her sixth title in the 800 free.

Stanford grad Lia Neal also turned in a solid performance as the meet continues through Sunday. Preliminaries are at 9 a.m. and finals are at 6 p.m.

Manuel won the 100 free title, semifinal swim in Budapest, so I reversing last year’s race in which can’t complain.”

Stanford sophomore Lauren she finished second to Mallory Pitzer and incoming Comerford. She won freshman Zoe Bartel her second national swam in the prelimititle in the 100 free and naries of the 100 free. her first in three years.

LaVant, swimming With a time of 52.54, with North Texas, reManuel served notice corded the third fastshe’s intent on lowering est time (1:55.89) in her American record, the prelims and moved currently at 52.27. She into third place alldid set a championship time in the 17-18 age meet and U.S. Open regroup. Stanford grad cord. Neal swam 53.95 Simone Manuel Bobby Bollier is secto place fifth.

“I’m happy with it,” Manuel ond on the list at 1:55.67. Michael said. “I definitely think there’s Phelps appears untouchable for room for improvement, but it is the foreseeable future with his my third-best time behind my 1:53.93. Q

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Goalies influence the net results

Several Stanford club teams finish in top 6 Rick Eymer nthony Rethans arrived a little late to the party. The Bellarmine Prep grad, who will continue his water polo career as a goalie at California in the fall, joined the Stanford Water Polo Club program as a freshman in high school.

Most of his teammates with the 18U A team, which reached the championship game of the USA Water Polo National Junior Olympics on Tuesday, had already formed a strong connection over the previous couple of years in younger age groups.

He never felt like an outsider crashing the party.

“This club is unique,” Rethans said after Stanford celebrated its

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second-place showing following a 9-7 loss to top-seeded United Cozy Boys at Stanford’s Avery Aquatic Center. “I felt welcomed right away. Everybody was welcoming.”

As a result, Rethans and the other top goalies in the program like Alex Nemeth (SHP), Noah Smith (Menlo-Atherton), Joe Gallagher (St. Francis) and Josh Poulos (Menlo School) are paying it forward. The guys with the driver’s licenses never considered themselves above younger goalies such as Griffen Price (14U) and Gates Gamble (12U).

“I guess the way to explain it is that there aren’t any jerks here,” Rethans said. “No one would do or say anything mean-spirited.

Griffen is a super nice kid and he

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USA swimming: U.S. Championship meet, Irvine, 8 p.m., NBCSN

Stanford junior Katie Ledecky won her sixth national title in the 800 free during Wednesday’s opening night of the Phillips 66 National Swimming Championships in Irvine.

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HIT THE BEACH . . . Stanford grad Alix Klineman and teammate April Ross are seeded third for the AVP Hermosa Beach Open, which got underway with qualifying on Thursday . . . Stanford grad Brittany Howard and teammate Kelly Reeves are also entered, as are Cardinal alum Karissa Cook and teammate Katie Spieler.

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HOOP IT UP . . . Stanford sophomore women’s basketball player Alyssa Jerome earned a spot on Canada’s senior women’s national team that will participate in a four-game exhibition series in China and Japan beginning Wednesday.

The 12-member squad is made up of eight professionals and four collegians. Jerome is the youngest player on the roster . . . Stanford grad Vanessa Nygaard, who led the Windward girls to a state title in March, is serving as an assistant coach with Carla Berude for the USA U17 World Cup team competing in Minsk, Belarus. The Americans completed the preliminary round unbeaten (3-0) with a 107-50 victory over China on Tuesday.

The Stanford 18U A team reached the national championship game of the USA Water Polo National Junior Olympics on Tuesday at Avery Aquatiuc Center. listens. What am I going to say, ‘smile less?’ “ That says a lot about how the program develops its players. The older ones take the time to share their experience. Price listens so well he may become the first Sacred Heart Prep freshman to start at goalie since Gators’ coach

Brian Kreutzkamp has been running things.

“I’m honestly excited. I know I can play at that level,” Price said.

“I know the team is good and there are high expectations but all that means is I have to step up my game and that’s only going to make me and the team better.” Q

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