Palo Alto Weekly November 23, 2018

Vol. XL, Number 8 Q November 23, 2018

Expert: Major wildfire could happen here Page 5

IN SIDE TH I S I S S UE

Donate to the HOLIDAY FUND page 4

Pulse 15 Eating Out 19 Movies 22 Puzzles 35 Q Books Kid-lit celebrates all kinds of families Q Home Tips for organizing your holidays Q Sports Palo Alto, M-A in CCS football showdown

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When it matters most, patients turn to Stanford Health Care “The care that I got at Stanford is the reason I’m sitting here today.”

–Cindi U.S. News & World Report, again, recognizes Stanford Health Care in the top 10 best hospitals in the nation.

When Cindi woke up, unable to speak or move her left side, doctors at her local hospital told her it was too late for treatment for the stroke she suffered in her sleep. Instead, they arranged for her transfer by helicopter to Stanford. Brain-imaging software developed at Stanford identified that Cindi could benefit from a surgical procedure to remove the clot in her brain, despite the number of hours that had elapsed since her stroke.

“I am literally standing on this Earth as a wife and a mother because of that procedure,” said Cindi. “It saved my life.”

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With the unprecedented loss of life and property of our neighbors to the North, it’s time to put “business as usual” aside and help the victims of the Camp Fire. I invite you to join me in supporting one of the many charities donating directly to the families affected by the tragedy. Let’s show the world how Californians take care of their own.

-Derk

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

Conditions locally are ripe for wildfire Cal Fire says the agency is poised to respond

by Sue Dremann

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alo Alto and the Bay Area are at great risk for a large fire similar to the Camp Fire in Butte County, a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) spokesman said.

The Bay Area is currently vulnerable to a possible fire that

could spread into residential areas because of low humidity, dry vegetation and light winds, Cal Fire spokesman Jim Crawford said.

“We’ve had some pretty extreme conditions in the last month. It’s never really changed,” he said, noting the sustained, offshore winds that bring drier air.

This week’s rain notwithstanding, the average relative humidity in the Los Altos/Palo Alto mountainous areas has been below 50 percent this month, according to National Weather Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data. The historical November average humidity is about 68 percent. Even more concerning, the vegetation or “fuel” moisture last week was only 5-7 percent — exceedingly

dry — according to NOAA. Local foothills and the Santa Cruz Mountains have a similar fuel load and topography as that near the town of Paradise. Hilly canyons there channelled winds and increased the wind speeds to carry the fire, Crawford said.

“We have places that are similar to that, with roads and houses on ridge tops and in valleys and canyons. When you look west of the (Interstate) 280 area in Palo Alto

and unincorporated areas such as around Stevens Creek, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, these places are very fire prone. In conditions like this, the fuels are primed to burn,” he said.

If a wildfire breaks out in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Cal Fire would immediately respond, Crawford said. It has two local units: Santa Clara and San (continued on page 10)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

DNA leads to arrest in 1973 cold case Hayward ex-convict accused in murder of Stanford graduate

by Palo Alto Weekly staff Editor’s note: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence. convicted murderer was arrested Tuesday in the unsolved 1973 killing of a 21-year-old Stanford University graduate. Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office investigators used DNA testing and a public genealogy database, similar to the method used to find accused “Golden State Killer” Joseph James DeAngelo in April, to identify John Arthur Getreu, 74, of Hayward.

Getreu was taken into custody in connection with the death of Leslie Marie Perlov, who was last seen on Feb. 13, 1973, at her workplace in Palo Alto, sheriff’s officials said in a press release.

Her car, a 1972 orange Chevrolet Nova, was found parked John Arthur by a gate to Getreu an old quarry near Old Page Mill and Page Mill roads later that day, sheriff’s officials said.

The keys were missing. On Feb. 16, 1973, her body was found under an oak tree in the area that is now known as The Dish.

Elena Kadvany

Fourth-grade students at Mariano Castro Elementary School in Mountain View plot earthquakes that have occurred along the San Andreas Fault during a lesson led by the nonprofit Environmental Volunteers, a Holiday Fund grant recipient.

HOLIDAY FUND

Nurturing the next generation of stewards Environmental Volunteers teaches kids, adults to see a larger world

by Elena Kadvany

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Have you ever felt an earthquake?” asked Environmental Volunteers team coordinator Nancy Mayo of energetic fourth-graders sitting cross-legged Monday in a classroom at Castro Elementary School in Mountain View.

Several hands shot up in affirmation as students recalled the experience.

“It felt intense,” one girl said.

“I actually went under my bed.”

Several other enthusiastic comments followed during a classroom lesson on earthquakes, the follow-up to a field trip the students recently took to learn about tectonic plates and quakes at Los Trancos Preserve near Los Altos Hills.

Both lesson and field trip were organized by Environmental Volunteers, a Palo Alto nonprofit that works to level the playing field for thousands of low-income elementary students each year — most of whom otherwise would only receive an hour of science instruction each week

— by providing hands-on, interactive science education in local school districts, said Executive Director Elliott Wright.

The nonprofit received a $5,000 grant from the Palo Alto Weekly’s Holiday Fund this year to support Environmental Volunteers’ public education series — lectures, art exhibits, bird walks and other hands-on nature and science education opportunities for all ages.

Since 1972, Environmental Volunteers has worked to inspire in young students a passion for science and nature. The nonprofit was founded in Portola Valley by a group of women who called

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OPEN HOUSE

A PET PROJECT... After years of debate on what to do about its cramped and costly animal shelter, Palo Alto now appears to be on the cusp of a resolution.

The City Council is scheduled to approve on Monday a contract with the nonprofit Pets In Need to take over operations of the East Bayshore Road facility, which would undergo some renovations as part of the agreement. But before they could begin to take care of Palo Alto’s animals, staff from the Redwood City-based organization directed their energies to the northern part of the state, where the Camp Fire has devastated communities and left many animal owners short of supplies since it ignited on Nov. 8. In response, Pets In Need launched a campaign to gather pet supplies for fire victims. Within days, it had enough pet food, blankets, dog beds, water bowls, toys and treats to completely fill a giant rescue van. On Monday, a team of four drove the supplies to Chico, where they dropped them off at Wags and Whiskers, a pet-rescue organization. “We saw posts on Facebook from different organizations and shelters saying they need different supplies and we thought we can easily help in that way by asking the community,� Jacqueline Stewart, development coordinator for Pets In Need, told the Weekly. “They sure did deliver.� Upon arriving at the Chico strip mall where the shelter is located, the group was struck by the almost “business as usual� atmosphere, with people dropping off and picking up donations and inquiring about vaccines and rescued animals, said animal care manager Anamarie Johnson, who took part in the trip. One woman came up and asked for a leash, having failed to grab one while escaping the fire. The small shelter was also housing 75 animals that were being fostered at homes

devastated by the fire. “They are all being cared for,� Johnson said. “A lot of them are in crates, but there were volunteers coming in to make sure that the dogs were getting walked.� The animals, she said, are available for adoption.

Pets In Need chose the small shelter because unlike some of the better-known ones (such as those run by various chapters of the Humane Society) they receive relatively few donations.

Anyone wishing to make a donation can find information at wagsandwhiskerspetrescue.com.

WATER FIGHT ... The feud between Rinconada Masters, a swimming club that has been in Palo Alto since 1972, and Team Sheeper, the new operator of Rinconada Pool, took on an increasingly personal tone this week, when swimmers made an impassioned, last-ditch plea to the council to allow the club to remain in the pool. The swimmers were referring to the new fiveyear deal with Team Sheeper for pool operations that the council is scheduled to approve on Dec. 10. While the contract would keep most existing swim programs in place, Team Sheeper has declined to renew the Rinconada Masters program, opting instead to run their own masters program.

According to city staff, Team Sheeper based its decision on safety concerns — namely, the failure of Rinconada Masters to always have an adequate number of lifeguards on duty.

Carol Macpherson, who founded Rinconada Masters 47 years ago, choked back tears in describing Team Sheeper’s decision not to renew the contract. “I think this is age discrimination and the city is allowing this to happen,�

Macpherson told the council Monday. “This will take away my livelihood and this is very unfair.�

Several swimmers said Rinconada Masters has made proposals to address Team Sheeper’s concerns, but these offers were always rejected. David Levinson, who has been swimming with the team since the late 1970s, urged the council to keep the club afloat. “Whether you allow us to continue as a venerable Palo Alto institution or whether you consign us to oblivion — that decision is in your hands,� Levinson told the council. Q

Upfront ELECTION 2018

CITY HALL

Election results shift in Ravenswood school board race

Fire Chief Eric Nickel to leave in January

As ballots continue to be counted, winner of third open seat undecided

Veteran firefighter accepts job in Santa Barbara

by Elena Kadvany

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Tamara Sobomehin

Laura Nunez

A portion of vote-by-mail ballots, paper ballots cast at vote centers and all provisional ballots remain uncounted as of Wednesday, according to the San Mateo County Elections office.

Sobomehin and Nunez ran on a reform slate together called “Recharge Ravenswood,” which sought to convey their “goal to inspire and facilitate renewed energy around the participants

UTILITIES

Taking the ‘waste’ out of wastewater Palo Alto explores building new plant to treat, sell recycled water

by Gennady Sheyner

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Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week

Veronica Weber

alo Alto’s new plan for water management calls for building new plants, forging new partnerships and — trickiest of all — convincing residents that their wastewater is good enough to drink.

The city is now rethinking how it uses its wastewater, with the goal of converting it from a burden to a resource. The city’s Regional Water Quality Control Plant, which serves Palo Alto, the East Palo Alto Sanitary District, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Stanford University, treated about 7.5 billion gallons of wastewater in 2017 — of which 97 percent was dumped into the San Francisco Bay. The remaining 3 percent was treated further and then ferried by the city’s “purple pipes” to parks in Palo Alto and to Mountain View, where it is used to irrigate the Shoreline Golf Links and the landscapes of corporations at North Bayshore area.

On Monday night, members of the City Council concurred with staff’s assessment that given the recent drought, the raging wildfires and the general uncertainty brought about by climate change, resiliency should be at a premium.

And with the Santa Clara Valley Water District looking to expand its own water portfolio, the city is hoping to secure a tidy profit by making a deal with the district to build the new infrastructure.

In short, the city wants to take

by Gennady Sheyner fter six years on the job, list of vacancies at the highPalo Alto Fire Chief est echelon of City Hall. The Eric Nickel plans to city is still without a permastep down from his position nent planning director, chief in January to take the helm transportation official, develof the Santa Barbara Fire De- opment services director and partment, City Manager James chief financial officer. It may also be without a permanent Keene announced Tuesday.

City of Palo Alto UtiliNickel, who was ties general manager hired as fire chief in next year, when Ed October 2012, will Shikada, who curleave on the heels of rently serves in that several notable accomrole, replaces Keene plishments. He was at as city manager. the forefront of the In a statement, city’s contentious neKeene cited a range gotiations with Stanof factors for the staff ford University over a departures, includnew fire-service conEric Nickel ing a competitive job tract, which concluded in August with a new five-year market and the Bay Area’s contract. The same month, the exceptionally low unemployFire Department became one of ment rate. He also pointed to only 10 fire agencies out of 874 the retirement of baby boomin the state to receive accredi- ers and the general shortage of tation from the Commission senior-level executives availof Fire Accreditation Interna- able for key positions in local tional, a process that included government.

“All around us in the Bay numerous peer reviews and exArea and in California as a pert validation.

Nickel also led the recent ef- whole, cities and other public forts to ramp up medical servic- agencies are finding it excepes by adding a fourth ambulance tionally challenging to recruit and to institute a cross-staffing for senior leadership positions,” model in which a three-person Keene said. “It’s not a surprise crew is charged with staffing that our employees, who are the different emergency vehicles, top in their fields, continue to depending on the call. The be sought after by other cities move, which made possible the and employers.”

Keene said Nickel’s last day elimination of 11 positions in the Fire Department in 2017, with the city will be Jan. 11. He faced some criticism from the lauded Nickel for his work to “transform the Fire Department firefighters union.

Nickel’s impending depar- into an innovative, efficient and ture adds to the city’s growing data-driven organization.” Q Courtesy Eric Nickel

and policies of the Ravenswood district” while also acknowledging the ongoing, “often unseen work of teachers and staff,” Sobomehin said in a previous interview.

They did not return requests for comment.

Incumbent Ana Pulido and newcomer Stephanie Fitch have held on to their early leads. Fitch trailed Pulido by 30 votes as of Tuesday.

Pulido has won 14.3 percent of the vote (1,906 votes) and Fitch, 14 percent (1,876 votes).

The county elections office is posting updated results daily on its website at 4:30 p.m. Results of the election will be certified

by Dec. 6. Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.

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lmost two weeks past Election Day, candidate Tamara Sobomehin has pulled into third place in the Ravenswood City School District Board of Education race, nudging out a candidate with whom she ran on a slate for the East Palo Alto and east Menlo Park board.

According to semiofficial results, Sobomehin led Laura Nunez by 84 votes on Monday, with her lead increasing to 96 by Tuesday. Sobomehin, who oversees development and strategy for youth technology nonprofit StreetCode Academy, has won 1,854 votes, or 13.9 percent of the vote, compared to Nunez’s 1,758 votes (13.1 percent) as of Tuesday. Nunez teaches at public charter school East Palo Alto Academy.

A sign at the Shoreline Golf Links golf course in Mountain View indicates that the course is irrigated by recycled water. the “waste” out of wastewater.

To do that, Palo Alto officials are exploring two separate strategies.

One would effectively improve existing recycled water while keeping it non-potable. While the council currently sells water to Mountain View, other entities — including Stanford Research Park — have been reluctant to tap into the water source because of its high salt content, which they fear would damage redwoods.

Building a small plant on the

west side of the regional water plant site would address that concern, said Phil Bobel, assistant director at Public Works. Using reverse osmosis to remove salt, the city would create “enhanced recycle water” that could be used principally in irrigation.

“It would feed higher quality water to our existing pipeline system so that we can get more customers along that pipeline but who (continued on page 12)

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to pass a resolution honoring Sikh Awareness Month and hold a study session with Assemblyman Marc Berman. The council then plans to meet in a closed session to discuss existing litigation, James Judge Luckey vs. City of Palo Alto before returning to its regular meeting to consider making zone changes to encourage housing development and approving a contract with Pets In Need. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 26, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The closed session is expected to go from 6:15 to 6:45 p.m.

CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to interview candidates for the Architectural Review Board, the Parks and Recreation Commission and the Planning and Transportation Commission, The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Plan; get updates on the horizontal levee conceptual designs for the Regional Water Quality Control Plant and on the Renzel Marsh; and discuss the replacement of the synthetic field and a new restroom facility at Cubberley Community Center. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE ... The council plans to review a staff proposal to save $4 million in the General Fund and discuss the city’s long-term forecast for 2020-2029. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave.

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Palo Alto looks to sweeten the deal for housing developers City Council considers zoning revisions to promote residential projects

by Gennady Sheyner

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fter falling well short of their goal to build 300 housing units this year, Palo Alto leaders are preparing to pass on Monday night a series of revisions in the zoning code that they hope will make it easier for residential developers to get their projects approved.

The proposed zone changes would represent the City Council’s most significant action on housing since members adopted it as one of their top priorities for the year.

The changes would, among other things, create a “housing incentive program” that offers developers substantial density bonuses; reduces parking requirements for residential projects; eliminates the “site and design” review process that has long been in place for residential and mixed-use projects; and establishes a “minimum density” requirement for parcels zoned as high-density residential.

The zone changes are a response to both the council’s increasing willingness to support housing developments and to new state laws — namely, Senate Bill 35 and the

State Density Bonus Law — that offer developers streamlined approval processes (in the case of the former) and bonuses that allow denser construction (in the case of the latter).

The city’s new housing incentive program, for example, would give its own density bonuses to developers who willingly forego the state’s “streamlining” provisions and parking exemptions and instead submit to the city’s architecturalreview process.

In some cases, those bonuses would be substantial.

In the area around California Avenue, for example, the allowed floor-area-ratio (the ratio of the building’s floor area to land size) would be ramped up from 0.6 to 2.0 for the residential portion of the project. In the downtown area, residential floor-area-ratio (FAR) would be increased from 1.0 to 3.0, while in commercial areas around El Camino Real, it would be raised from 0.5 and 0.6 (depending on the zone) to 1.5.

To sweeten the deal further, the city’s program, unlike SB35, does

not require a developer to designate half of the units as “affordable housing.” The only affordablehousing requirement it would have to meet is the city’s “inclusionary zoning” law, which requires 15 percent of all residential developments to be dedicated to affordable housing.

Jean Eisberg, the city’s consultant who had been leading the code-revision effort, wrote that the local housing-incentive program would provide builders with a “real alternative” to state laws.

Another change would replace the existing RM-15 zone, which allows up to 15 housing units per acre, with a new RM-20 zone, which allows 20. With the city’s new “minimum density” requirement, a developer would have to build at least 11 units per acre in such a zone (in RM-30 and RM-40 districts, they would have to build a minimum of 16 and 21 units per acre, respectively).

The proposed ordinance was crafted over a series of seven meetings in front of the Planning and Transportation Commission, which

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on Oct. 10 voted 5-1, with Doria Summa dissenting and William Riggs absent, to support the changes. Supporters of the code revisions framed it as a moral imperative at a time when so many people are facing the threat of displacement because of sky-high rents and insufficient housing supply.

Despite repeated talks about addressing the housing crisis, council members have only approved one significant housing development this year: a 57-unit development at 2755 El Camino Real that is branded as “workforce housing.”

The council’s only other significant action on housing this year was the approval in September of an “affordable housing” zone that grants some concessions on density and parking to developers of below-market-rate housing.

The nonprofit developer Palo Alto Housing is looking to use the new zone in its pending application for a 59-unit affordable-housing project at 3705 El Camino Real, near Wilton Avenue.

Approval of the zone changes would represent a major a victory for the council’s most fervent housing advocates: Adrian Fine, Cory Wolbach and Mayor Liz Kniss.

A year ago, the three submitted a memo calling for the city to put together a work plan for revising the zoning code to address the housing crisis.

“While Palo Alto may never be a truly affordable place to live, the City Council has an obligation to

current and future residents to explore policies that expand housing choices for people of different incomes, generations and needs,” the memo stated.

The planning commission generally agreed that the city needs more housing, though its members had significant disagreements over how far the zoning changes should go.

Vice Chair Susan Monk and Commissioner Michael Alcheck both pushed for the most aggressive approach. Monk argued on Oct. 11 that the city is “at risk of losing an entire generation of people if we don’t take a more liberal approach to our housing-production needs.”

Not all of the changes were embraced by planning commissioners. Summa, as the sole dissenter, took issue with the new parking standards. Currently, the city requires 1.25 parking spaces for each studio apartment, 1.5 spaces for a one-bedroom unit and two spaces for apartments with two or more units. The new standards require one parking space for a studio or a one-bedroom apartment and two spaces for units with two or more bedrooms.

Within half a mile of a Caltrain station, parking requirements would range from 0.5 spaces for a “microunit” to 1.6 spaces for apartments with two or more units. Housing developments for seniors, meanwhile, would be required to provide 0.75 spaces per (continued on page 11)

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Perlov, who lived with her widowed mother in Los Altos Hills, went missing after finishing her shift as a clerk at the North County Law Library in Palo Alto in the afternoon. Her mother, Florence Perlov, reported her daughter missing later that day. Leslie Perlov always called if she would be late, her mother told police, according to an article in The San Francisco Examiner on Feb. 16, 1973.

Friends said she may have gone to the scenic spot near Frenchman’s Hill off Page Mill Road in search of a locale she wanted to have painted as a present for her mother, according to the Examiner.

Perlov’s body was lying in a clump of bushes in the foothills above the campus, barefoot and with her blue scarf wrapped tightly around her neck, according to an article in the Stanford Daily on Feb. 20, 1973.

The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office determined she had been strangled to death by a ligature. Police reported that she had not been sexually assaulted. However, her skirt was pulled up and her pantyhose were stuffed in her mouth.

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themselves the “Walkie Talkies,” Wright said. The women went out for walks together and became increasingly concerned about the connection between protecting local nature and the lack of environmental education in schools.

Gathered around a kitchen table, they developed a curriculum and then started taking students out to the Bay to explore and learn, Wright said.

Today, Environmental Volunteers is headquartered in the EcoCenter, a public nature center in the Baylands Nature Preserve, and works with 145 schools throughout the Bay Area, including in the Palo Alto Unified, Ravenswood City and Mountain ViewWhisman school districts. More than 100 volunteers serve 10,000 students each year, according to the nonprofit. Environmental Volunteers also works with homeschooled students.

Greater than half of the nonprofit’s programs were delivered to schools where 40 percent or more of students are enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program, and 43 percent were located at “extreme” low-income schools, where 70 percent or more of students are on the lunch program.

“They don’t get access to the same science education nor the same access to field trips and natural sciences” as better-resourced students, Wright said.

Environmental Volunteers’ lessons are aligned with California’s Next Generation Science Standards for kindergarten through

With guidance from Environmental Volunteers docents, third-graders from East Palo Alto Charter School discover the plants and animals that call tide pools their home at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve.

For some of the students, it was their first time seeing the ocean in person. sixth grade. In 2011, the nonprofit launched a transportation fund to provide subsidies to enable lowincome youth to go on science and environmental education field trips.

“There are so many Bay Area children who, despite their proximity to the Bay, redwood forests, oak woodlands and coastal trails, never get the opportunity,” Wright wrote in a recent fundraising message.

He recalled a fifth-grader from East Palo Alto named Francisco who had seemed very stressed out, Wright said, until they arrived at the Fitzgerald Marine Preserve in Moss Beach on a field trip.

“We rounded the corner at this

specific spot at Fitzgerald — you turn the corner and then can see the whole ocean. As we turned that corner and he looked out, I won’t ever forget what he said. He said, ‘I never knew the world was this big,’” Wright said.

The Castro Elementary School students who recently went on the trip to Los Trancos delved deeper into the world of earthquakes on Monday. The students were split up into small groups for activities, including testing structures they built from Play-Doh, toothpicks and straws on a shake table to understand how buildings can be damaged in earthquakes. Another group plotted real earthquakes of varying magnitudes on a large

map of California, the colorcoded pins eventually creating an image of the San Andreas Fault snaking down the state. With a third group, volunteer Drew Thompson demonstrated the impact of shifting tectonic plates using two pieces of paper and a pile of sand.

The students were noticeably energized by the hands-on activities and full of questions.

“That’s what science does,” Mayo told the group of students.

“It makes us think about things and gives us more questions.”

The earthquake curriculum is a mainstay of Environmental Volunteers but was recently overhauled to align with the state’s

After the discovery of her body, police launched a regional manhunt for a blond man whom witnesses saw near Perlov’s car before she went missing, according to a 1973 article in The San Mateo Times. An off-duty policeman said he remembered seeing a “young man with long, blond hair,” who was standing near a gray car while talking to someone in Perlov’s car.

Police were unable to locate that man or find any possible motives for her murder at the time.

Cold-case investigators recently looked deeper into Perlov’s case and submitted multiple pieces of evidence for DNA examination, which found “an unknown male DNA profile.” That sample was sent this past July to Parabon NanoLab for further evaluation, sheriff’s officials said. The Virginia-based DNA technology company developed a profile based on the sample and sent it to a public genetic genealogy database that matched it with Getreu based on the DNA of his relatives. Investigators obtained DNA samples from the 74-year-old man that were sent to the county crime laboratory for further testing, sheriff’s officials said.

On Nov. 9, the lab found the new DNA from Getreu matched the DNA samples gathered from

the crime scene. According to the lab report, “the probability that a random, unrelated individual could be included as a possible contributor to this deduced profile was approximately 1 (in) 65 septillion.”

Getreu has been booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose.

as a security guard by California Plant Protection Services of Palo Alto. That August, he was credited with having chased off potential arsonists at a Redwood City industrial plant, according to an article in the San Mateo Times.

The Redwood City fire inspector told the Times that Getreu claimed he’d arrived at the plant at 10 p.m. and found an open door and kerosene poured on a pile of paper and several wooden matches on the floor. Desks and cabinets had also been rifled through, the inspector said, but nothing of value had been taken, the article stated. The three teens that Getreu said he’d scared away were never found.

What’s known of Getreu’s past Though Getreu was unknown to local law enforcement, he had been convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 1963 rape and murder of a 16-yearold girl while living in Germany, where he had been living with his father, a U.S. Army officer, according to The Newark Advocate newspaper in Ohio, where the Getreus once lived. The girl was the daughter of the chaplain of the Army’s 8th Infantry Division.

“I am deeply sorry for her parents, and if I could do something to bring her back, I would do it,” a 19-year-old Getreu said in court.

Because he was a foreigner and considered a juvenile under German law, the court said that he could be released on parole after serving two years and allowed to return to the United States, the 1964 article stated.

By 1972, Getreu was employed

Other possible suspects The Sheriff’s Office in 1970s considered serial killer Ted Bundy as a possible suspect in Perlov’s murder, as there were similarities between her case and his other victims. Bundy had taken a summer class at Stanford in 1967.

San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto theorized that the murder was the work of a cult called the Death Angels allegedly responsible for the so-called Zebra street killings in San Francisco, but no one was ever brought to trial.

In March 1974, police began investigating whether there was

new Next Generation Science Standards, Wright said. Another new program coming in 2019 is a biodiversity curriculum.

The nonprofit is also currently running a matching challenge grant to reach schools on Environmental Volunteers’ waitlist.

Wright became Environmental Volunteers’ executive director this spring, replacing longtime director Allan Berkowitz, but he’s not new to the organization. He worked alongside the nonprofit in previous jobs at the Nature Conservancy, Palo Alto tree nonprofit Canopy and Sempervirens Fund in Los Altos, which works to preserve local redwood forests and parks.

The implications of his new role, however, feel particularly impactful in 2018, he said. The nonprofit estimates there are 130,000 additional children whom Environmental Volunteers could serve — thousands of unrealized future environmental stewards.

“What I’ve realized is that all of the conservancy wins that we have today are nothing without tomorrow’s generation as advocates and supporters,” Wright said, “because if we don’t have the next generation with us, we’ll see a rollback on every single win we’ve had.” Q This year’s Holiday Fund goal is to raise $350,000 for programs serving kids, families and others in need. More stories about the work of funded nonprofit agencies and instructions for donating to the fund online are posted at PaloAltoOnline.com/holiday_fund. Or go to page 4 of this edition.

Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com. a link between Perlov and the murder of another woman found strangulated within a few hundred yards of where Perlov’s body had been discovered. Janet Ann Taylor, 21, was the youngest daughter of Stanford athletic director Charles Taylor. She had been visiting the campus before she went missing.

Neither were wearing shoes, and their purses were missing.

Getreu’s arrest comes just months after investigators resolved a separate cold case from the Stanford campus: the 1974 murder of Arlis Perry. Stephen Blake Crawford was identified as the primary suspect in the 19-year-old woman’s death, which also remained unsolved for decades. Perry was sexually assaulted and found with her body laid out in ritualistic fashion inside Stanford Memorial Church.

On June 28, Crawford died by suicide inside his San Jose apartment as deputies were preparing to serve a search warrant. Q

LEARN MORE ONLINE PaloAltoOnline.com Watch the June 29 “Behind the Headlines” webcast in which Palo Alto Weekly journalists discuss the latest developments in the grisly 1974 murder of Arlis Perry at Stanford Memorial Church. The webcast is posted at paloaltoonline.com/news/ section/behind_the_headlines.

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Wildfire

Steps to prevent, and prepare for, a wildfire

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Mateo-Santa Cruz. The Santa Clara Unit, headquartered in Morgan Hill, covers Santa Clara, Alameda and Contra Costa counties and the western portions of San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties; the San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit covers the area from San Francisco to Watsonville.

Cal Fire has “cooperative fire-protection agreements” with Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, which provide equipment and staffing. And almost every regular fire department, including Palo Alto's, has a coordinated response arrangement with Cal Fire, he said.

The agency works in an alliance with 14 fire departments in Santa Clara County, including NASA Ames, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara County Fire Department.

Cal Fire’s San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit works with 20 fire

A firefighter douses hot spots along Page Mill Road, where a brush fire ignited after a car crashed into the hill in 2014. departments, including Menlo Park and Woodside fire protection districts.

“No one department can do it by themselves,” he said of fighting wildfires.

When the call comes, more than 500 firefighters from the

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significant challenges in the area it covers, according to Cal Fire. The wildlands are adjacent to some of the most populous areas in the state. Controlled burns, the most economical means of reducing vegetation and thus fire risk, are difficult to do on a large scale because there are no longer meaningful buffers between urban and wildland areas. Cal Fire has a number of programs and offers grants for fire prevention, but methods such as chipping and brush removal are expensive and time consuming, Crawford said.

Because of human encroachment into the hills, the risk for loss is also great. Crawford is deeply concerned by those liabilities.

“When I think of all of the assets at risk, it makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. We’ve been very fortunate not to have had a large wildland fire here,” he said.

But he predicted that a

homes, even if they haven’t yet received an evacuation order. People who have a harder time getting around or are disabled should evacuate earlier.

• Residents should have an emergency plan for their family and an evacuation plan.

• People can join a local county Fire Safe Council, which offers chipping services so people can rid their properties of trees and shrubs that would provide fuel for a wildfire. The council also provides other fire-prevention programs. In Santa Clara County, visit sccfiresafe.org for more information.

Additional recommendations on how to prepare for wildfires can be found at readyforwildfire.org. Information about Cal Fire’s Santa Clara Unit is available at fire.ca.gov/SCU. Q —Sue Dremann devastating wildfire in Palo Alto, Woodside, Los Altos Hills and other local open space areas is “inevitable,” and it will likely come with losses of homes and businesses and, potentially, life.

The Cal Fire Santa Clara jurisdiction had one of the state’s most devastating fires in 1991. The Tunnel Fire in the Oakland Hills killed 25 people (the Griffith Park Fire of 1933, which was the deadliest fire in state history prior to the Camp Fire, killed 29). The Oakland fire ranks as the third most damaging in terms of destroyed structures, according to Cal Fire data.

Environmental changes are likely to continue the trend of more costly and deadly fires in California, according to Crawford.

“Until we see a change in our climate, that won’t be the exception. It will be the rule,” he said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.

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two Cal Fire units are available to fight a wildland fire, Crawford said. More personnel can be deployed from other areas if needed.

The agency’s first attack will take place on the ground rather than by air.

“Our goal is to catch all fires at less than 10 acres,” he said.

Statewide, Cal Fire’s jurisdiction typically includes zones where a fire would threaten state lands, but in the Bay Area, it responds to fires in virtually all of the wildlands. Its mission is to protect watershed lands, whether publicly or privately owned, he said. The agency has worked with Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District and has responded to fires on Stanford University lands, he said.

Cal Fire also has air tactical bases in the north bay near Santa Rosa and one in Hollister, he said. The bases house fixedwing aircraft and are spaced so that any location can be reached within 20 minutes. Aircraft from Hollister would reach a Palo Alto fire within 12 to 15 minutes from the time the agency receives a call. Three planes out of either location could respond.

Two would carry retardant — a combination of water, clay and fertilizer. The water cools down the fire; the clay and other materials help keep the fire from spreading, he said.

The planes can each make two fire-retardant drops before returning to the base to reload.

A third plane carries an airtactical team, which acts like airtraffic control to guide the drops, Crawford said. If needed, Cal Fire can send an additional three aircraft from the Santa Rosa base and from other areas.

Helicopters that make water drops are also part of Cal Fire’s arsenal. They fly out of the Alma Helitack, a base for helicopters near state Route 17 in Los Gatos.

These aircraft can be in Palo Alto within six minutes, Crawford said. Unlike fixed-winged aircraft, which must return to base to reload, the helicopters can use a long snorkel to suck up water from a nearby lake or small pond, he said.

But the Santa Clara Unit has

umans cause 95 percent of wildland fires and can therefore play a big role in fire prevention, according to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) spokesman Jim Crawford. Here are some of his tips on how to prevent and prepare for a wildfire right now.

• A Cal Fire burn ban is currently in place, so residents should not light fires outside or have a barbecue other than with a propane tank.

• People should not use mechanical tools such as mowers, grinders and weed whackers right now. Residents should wait until the risk of wildfires lessens and then clear a defensible space around their homes.

• If a fire starts nearby or approaches one’s property, residents should leave their

Firefighters battle a 15-acre grass fire near “The Dish,” a grassy open area west of the Stanford University main campus, along Junipero Serra Boulevard in 2007.

Upfront which the City Council approved in March). She pointed to Reichental’s involvement on the city’s Connected Cities working group, which reviews telecommunication projects, and to emails that she obtained through a Public Records Act request that show executives from AT&T and Crown Castle asking Reichental for advice with their applications (there is no evidence in the packet of emails, which the Weekly has reviewed, that suggest Reichental had expedited these projects).

On Monday night, Galena West, chief of the FPPC’s Enforcement Division, informed Fleming the agency will need additional time, beyond the initial 14-day period, to determine whether additional investigation is appropriate.

City Manager James Keene plans to formally announce Reichental’s departure next week, just days after the city announced the resignation of Fire Chief Eric Nickel, who is leaving in January to serve as fire chief in Santa Barbara. Reichental will work as Oracle’s global industry solutions leader for the public sector.

Reichental told the Weekly that he began discussing his next career move with City Manager James Keene about a year ago.

Over the summer he informed Keene his plan to leave at the end of the year to pursue other careergrowth opportunities.

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by Gennady Sheyner pursue the needed improvements gradually and on a piecemeal basis.

During his tenure, Reichental has balanced his duties as chief information officer with various speaking and teaching engagements, Jonathan including stints Reichental as a professor at UC Berkeley, Duke University and University of San Francisco.

Reichental has also been a frequent speaker at technology conferences, a habit that prompted a resident to file a formal complaint against him recently with the Fair Political Practices Commission. The complaint alleges that Reichental has violated the state’s gift laws by allowing entities from the telecommunications industry to pay for his trips. The complaint states that between 2013 and 2017, Reichental took at least 28 trips that were paid for by enterprises outside of the city.

His statements of economic interests list trips to Dubai, Ecuador,

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alo Alto Chief Information Officer Jonathan Reichental plans to resign from his position next month to take on a new role at Oracle, the Weekly has learned.

Reichental was hired by the city in October 2011 and has been at the forefront of the city’s various tech initiatives, including the implementation of the PaloAlto311, a website that allows residents to lodge complaints; the installation of Wi-Fi at all public facilities; and the city’s Open Data platform, a public database of the city’s budget, employee salaries, infrastructure and building permits, as well as many other datasets.

He has also been City Hall’s leading evangelist for upgrading technology. He led City Hall’s conversion from desktop computers to laptops and tablets; renovated the Information Technology Department to create an open floor plan; and has advocated for improving the Council Chambers by installing new LED screens and upgrading the outdated broadcast system.

Despite his urging, the council balked at the $2-million renovation earlier this year, opting to

Ireland, Germany, among others.

The complaint also points to a trip to China that, according to Reichental’s statement of economic interests, was paid for by TMForum, a trade association of telecommunication companies. When asked about this trip, Reichental told the Weekly the trip was actually paid for by the Municipality of Yinchuan, China and that TM Forum was an event coordinator. He said he made a few clerical errors on his forms and that he intends to fix them by filing amendments.

“All the trips were reported and permissible under FPPC rules,” Reichental said in an email to the Weekly. “It’s my normal process to call the FPPC advice line before I commit to trips to ensure they are compliant.”

He also noted that the never gets paid for the trips.

The complaint against Reichental was filed by Jeanne Fleming, who has vociferously opposed Verizon’s effort to install wireless equipment on local utility poles (she unsuccessfully appealed Verizon’s application for 11 installations,

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unit, though they would see reductions of between 20 and 40 percent if they are designated for affordable housing.

Summa questioned the city’s assumptions on the new parking requirements.

“My concern is that when we underpark affordable-housing complexes, we do two things: We hurt the people who live there who want to conduct their lives in pretty much the same manner as the rest of us, which unfortunately is very car-centric,” Summa said at the Oct. 10 meeting. “And we also hurt the existing residences nearby, and this causes opposition to the projects.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

“I did briefly entertain several opportunities, but finally a few months ago I found exactly the right organization and role,” Reichental said. “Serving the community of Palo Alto has been an honor and a privilege. I will be forever grateful for the opportunity Jim provided me, and I will take the most amazing experiences and memories with me.” Q

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aren’t using it because they are concerned about salt,” Bobel said.

The other, far more ambitious, complex and controversial project, would use advanced treatment techniques to convert wastewater into the drinkable kind. Such a plant could take up to 10 years to plan and construct, Bobel said, and it would require both a deal with the water district and — because the new water plant would have to be built on parkland — it would need the approval of Palo Alto voters.

Bobel said the if the city pursues a deal with the water district, a new plant to purify the water could either be constructed at the Regional Water Quality Control Plant, on a piece of Baylands parkland that was “undedicated” by the voters in 2014 or farther south, in Sunnyvale or San Jose. Under the latter option, treated water would be shipped from Palo Alto to the advanced-treatment plant.

These challenges and complexities notwithstanding, staff believes that the new system could bring great benefits to Palo Alto. It would allow the city to get paid for its wastewater; it would help the city meet its water-supply needs; and, most importantly, it would dramatically reduce discharge into the Bay and help the city meet regulatory requirements.

“We know the regulations are going to get more and more stringent over discharging to the Bay,” Bobel said. “We can probably reduce us some long-term grief if we can reduce the discharge to the Bay. And sending the water south would do that.”

According to Public Works staff, the plant has the treatment capacity to produce 4.5 million gallons per year of non-potable water.

The city and water district have been talking about a possible deal for months. Both have representatives on the Joint Recycled Water Advisory Committee, which also includes officials from Palo Alto, East Palo Alto and Mountain View.

Garth Hall, deputy operating officer at the water district, said the district is looking for new supplies to meet an expected rise in countywide demand for water.

“We know from our planning that we have additional needs in 2050 and beyond that can’t be directly served by imported water.

We have to look at drought-proof sustainable supplies,” Hall said.

“And we know the City Council, like our district, has sustainability as one of its missions.”

One point of negotiations will be the length of the contract. Bobel said he expects the agreement with the water district to cover a period of about 40 years, a period that several council members suggested was too long.

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“We can understand why it has to be that long,” Bobel explained.

“If the district is going to spend big bucks either building the water plant and/or a pipeline system south, they’ve got to have this exist for long enough to recoup the investment.”

While council members had some reservations about the potential terms with the district — including the prospect of locking in a rate for too long a period — they generally supported the idea of turning recycled water into potable water. Councilman Tom DuBois, who sits on the Joint Recycled Water Advisory Committee, argued that the city should consider ways to diversify its water supply over the long term.

“I believe as a council we should really look at coming together and analyzing how we can get a large potable water treatment plant in Palo Alto that helps us decrease Hetch Hetchy water over 40 years,” DuBois said.

Councilman Cory Wolbach, who also serves on the committee, concurred that “recycled water is the future.” He lauded the goals of supporting neighbors and promoting sustainability but said his top priority is ensuring a secure supply for residents.

“We have to do everything we can to guarantee that our local community will have access to safe drinking water in perpetuity,” Wolbach said. “For me, that value has primacy in all

these discussions.”

Several residents, including former mayors Pat Burt and Peter Drekmeier, also spoke in favor of exploring new ways to purify and reuse water. Burt pointed to the recent string of devastating wildfires as evidence that the city is already facing the impacts of climate change. In addition to threatening residents, the fires are decimating the forests that are essential to protecting snowpacks. This recent trend, Burt argued, underscores the importance of securing stable water supplies.

“Reducing our reliance on distant and vulnerable supplies makes us more sustainable and more self-reliant,” Burt said.

In addition, he said, the plant could be the first to use 100 percent carbon-free electricity, a key feature for such an energy-dependent project.

Drekmeier, policy director for Tuolumne River Trust, made

the case for “advanced purified water.” In most communities, it would actually be an improvement over their current tap water.

“We’re very fortunate that we get this pristine snowmelt from the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park,” Drekmeier said.

“But I think most people would agree that our drinking water is too high quality for flushing toilets and watering lawns. We need to diversify.”

Like others, he acknowledged that the city would have to fight the “yuck” factor, but suggested this challenge is not insurmountable.

“A few years ago, we served beer made from advanced treated water at the Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards,” Drekmeier said. “It was more popular than the tap water.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Nov. 19)

Water: The council held a study session to discuss proposals to expand use of recycled water. Action: None Smart grid: The council approved a new strategic plan for implementing a “smart grid” system by 2023. Yes: DuBois, Holman, Filseth, Kniss, Kou, Scharff, Tanaka, Wolbach Absent: Fine

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POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Nov. 14-Nov. 20 Violence related Arson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Assault w/ a deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Checks forgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Lost/stolen plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Vehicle accident/mnr. injury . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/prop. damage . . . . . 10 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 7 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 4 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Miscellaneous Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Disturbing the peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Indecent exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 3 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Other/misc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Poss. of stolen property . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Menlo Park Nov. 14-Nov. 19 Violence related Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Elder abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sexual battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Abandoned auto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 1 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vehicle accident/mnr. injury . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/unspecified injury . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Miscellaneous Disturbing/annoying calls . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Trespassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Violation of court order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto Embarcadero Road, 11/8, 2:22 p.m.; assault with deadly weapon.

Colorado Place, 11/8, 2:40 p.m.; child abuse/physical.

551 High St., 11/9, 3:34 p.m.; arson/ misc.

2500 Block El Camino Real, 11/11, 6:06 p.m.; battery/simple.

480 E. Meadow Drive, 11/12, 5:20 p.m.; arson/misc.

Byron Street, 11/13, 3:17 a.m.; domestic violence/battery.

Webster Street, 11/16, 2:07 p.m.; elder abuse/physical.

Rorke Way, 11/16, 10:02 p.m.; family violence/misc.

Menlo Park 1200 Block Crane St., 11/14, 4:22 p.m.; elder abuse.

2200 Block Sharon Road, 11/17, 12:40 p.m.; sexual battery.

500 Block Glenwood Ave., 11/19, 7:02 a.m.; spousal abuse.

See a Stanford pediatrician at Peninsula Pediatric Medical Group Access to Excellence. genpeds.stanfordchildrens.org

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Samuel Albert Ingebritsen October 11, 1931 – October 5, 2018

Sam was born and raised in Wisconsin and passed away October 5, 2018 at Stanford Hospital, with loving family around him. He was the middle of five children in his family. During high school, Sam participated in sports, played trombone in the band, and was valedictorian of the class of 1949.

He then attended the University of Wisconsin on an NROTC scholarship. While there, he played trombone in the university marching band and in a Dixieland band called the “Riverboat Rascals.” He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and majored in accounting and naval science.

On the day after graduation, Sam married Ann Stevens in their hometown of Lancaster. Within a few days, they were on their way to Bremerton, Washington, where Sam reported for naval duty on the U.S.S. Essex. He served as a communications officer, going on two extended tours of the Far East.

In 1956, Sam and Ann, with their first child in tow, returned to Madison, Wisconsin, where Sam completed his law degree in two years and was selected for the Order of the Coif. The growing family then moved back to the West Coast, where Sam was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School. They fell in love with the Bay Area, bought a house that is still the family home, and raised four children there.

Sam practiced law for many years, working for a variety of clients. After retiring from his law and business career, he enjoyed working part-time for the admissions office at Stanford Graduate School of Business for another 20 years until 2013.

He was an avid reader of history and biography, retaining and applying what he had read to prevail in debates or regale his listeners with entertaining historical anecdotes. Sam continued to enjoy making music with and for family and friends throughout his life, as a self-taught pianist and as a member of the Ladera Community Church choir for over 50 years. Above all, he loved and was loved by his nine grandchildren and welcomed them into his life and home, as they came and went after school, stayed for longer periods as housemates, or shared their activities via text messages, photos, and videos. Despite worsening emphysema in the last two years, Sam attended the high school graduation of his youngest grandchild, danced at his two eldest grandchildren’s weddings, and was looking forward to meeting his first great-grandchild in person.

His survivors include Ann, his wife of 65 years; his sister Betty Schneider; his four children, Steven, Jean, Jim, and Sarah Ingebritsen; nine grandchildren (one named Samuel); one great-grandchild (also named Samuel); and many more extended family members and friends.

A celebration of Sam’s good life will be held at Ladera Community Church, 3300 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 1st PAID

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The Merrie Olde Christmas Carolers (David Saslov, Gina Silverman, Cheryl Young and Ken Malucelli) sing at Palo Alto’s holiday tree-lighting ceremony in 2017. Photo by Veronica Weber.

Holiday events that will get you in the spirit

by Karla Kane

W

hen deciding on the theme for this year’s holiday concert, Ragazzi Boys Chorus Artistic Director Joyce Keil turned to nature for inspiration.

“I noticed how many composers set texts that positioned the contrasting stories of roses growing from the bleak hard snowy frozen ground, of the sadness of loss with the joy of hope for peace in the world, and the paradox of light in the midst of winter,” she told the Weekly. The concert, “For the

Palo Alto tree-lighting ceremony What: Live entertainment, cookies and hot cocoa will be offered as part of Palo Alto’s annual holiday

Beauty of the Earth,” includes the hymn of the same name as well as various other seasonal music that celebrates nature’s gifts. “We all have different interpretations when it comes to faith, but we all can count on the coming again of the beauty of the Earth, the blooming of the rose, the outbreak of spring and the renewal of hope in the midst of the dreariness of winter,” she said. The chorus, which includes around 200 boys from the local community, will

perform Dec. 1 at 5 p.m. at First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, and Dec. 2 at 3 p.m. at Messiah Lutheran Church, 1835 Valota Road, Redwood City. The organization’s alumni chorus, Ragazzi Continuo, will present “An English Christmas,” featuring English carols and seasonal songs from the past to the modern era on Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 178 Clinton St., Redwood City, and Dec. 2 at

Menlo Park tree-lighting ceremony

tree-lighting ceremony.

Where: Lytton Plaza, Palo Alto.

When: Nov. 30, 6-7 p.m.

More information: cityofpaloalto. org/gov/depts/csd/events/holiday_ tree_lighting.asp.

What: Menlo Park’s tree-lighting event will feature a visit from Santa Claus along with other treats.

Where: Fremont Park, Menlo Park.

When: Nov. 30, 5:30-7 p.m.

More information: menlopark. org/treelighting.

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Where: Downtown Redwood City When: Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

More information: hometownholidays.org/HTH/index. html

Where: All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 555 Waverley St., Palo Alto.

When: Dec. 1, 8 p.m.

More information: calbach.org/ season#buonnatale.

Caltrain Holiday Train

‘’Twas the Night Before Christmas’

What: The J. Gilbert Smith House will be decorated in 1930’s holiday splendor for an exhibition of Christmas gifts, including toys, books and more, from yesteryear.

Where: Los Altos History Museum, 51 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos.

When: Through Jan. 6.

More information: losaltoshistory. org/exhibits/presents-from-thepast.

What: Caltrain’s festive Holiday Train will make nine stops along the Peninsula, boasting lights, entertainment, characters and a chance for locals to donate a new, unwrapped toy to the annual toy drive.

Where: The train will stop in Redwood City at 6:10 p.m. and Mountain View at 7:25 p.m. on Dec. 1; and Menlo Park at 7:05 p.m. on Dec. 2.

More information: holiday-train. org.

Hometown Holidays

‘Buon Natale’

What: Redwood City’s annual downtown celebration includes snow and a tree-lighting.

What: The California Bach Society will celebrate five centuries of Italian Christmas and Advent music.

‘Presents from the Past’

Ragazzi Boys Chorus will present “For the Beauty of the Earth” in Redwood City and Palo Alto.

2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto. For tickets and more information, go to ragazzi.org and ragazzicontinuo.org.

Below are some more holiday offerings, listed in roughly chronological order. As usual, there are plentiful “Nutcracker” productions for ballet lovers (see sidebar). For more event listings, or to submit your own, check out the Midpeninsula event calendar at PaloAltoOnline.com/calendar.

What: Dancers Repertory Theatre presents the annual dance and theater production of the classic holiday poem.

Where: Woodside Performing Arts Center, 199 Churchill Ave., Woodside.

When: Dec. 2 and 9, 1:30 and 4 p.m.; Dec. 8, 3 p.m.

More information: twasthenight. org.

Hanukkah on the Square What: Chabad Mid Pen hosts a Hanukkah celebration featuring festive refreshments, a glow-in-thedark menorah, music and games.

Arts & Entertainment Where: Courthouse Square, downtown Redwood City When: Dec. 2, 4-5:30 p.m.

More information: redwoodcity. org/Home/Components/Calendar/ Event/34339/2569?curm=12&cu ry=2018.

Mountain View tree lighting What: The City of Mountain View will hold its community tree-lighting ceremony, including a visit from Santa Claus. Donations of canned food for the Community Services Agency are encouraged.

Where: Civic Center Plaza, 500 Castro St., Mountain View.

When: Dec. 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

More information: mountainview. gov/depts/cs/events/treelighting. asp.

‘The Christmas Ballet’ What: Smuin presents its annual holiday performance, incorporating classical ballet and contemporary dance into a two-act show (“Classical Christmas” followed by “Cool Christmas”) suitable for all ages.

Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View.

When: Dec. 5-9, 7:30 p.m., plus 2 p.m. matinees on weekend.

More information: tickets. mvcpa.com/eventperformances. asp?evt=252.

band, who will lead dancing both in English and Hebrew, arts and crafts, dreidel games and a candlelighting ceremony.

Where: Stanford Shopping Center, The Plaza (near Neiman Marcus), Palo Alto.

When: Dec. 6, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

More information: paloaltojcc. org/Events/hanukkah-celebrationat-stanford-shopping-center-11.

‘Metropolitan Klezmer’ What: Metropolitan Klezmer will perform a family Hanukkahcelebration concert incorporating a variety of fresh sounds and eclectic arrangements.

Where: Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto.

When: Dec. 8, 5:30 p.m.

More information: paloaltojcc. org/Events/metropolitan-klezmer.

Friends of Music Holiday Musicale What: The Friends of Music at Stanford present their annual holiday showcase featuring the Stanford Philharmonia, Stanford Chamber Chorale, Early Music Singers and other guests.

Where: Memorial Church, 450 Serra St., Stanford.

When: Dec. 8, 2:30 p.m.

More information: music. stanford.edu/events/friends-musicholiday-musicale.

‘The Santaland Diaries’

‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’

What: TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents a staged version of David Sedaris’ comedy, starring Max Tachis. The one-man show (for mature audiences only) chronicles the misadventures of a departmentstore elf.

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

When: Dec. 5-23, 8 p.m. plus 3 p.m. matinees on weekends.

More information: theatreworks. org.

What: Peninsula Youth Theatre’s production of “The Elves and the Shoemaker” is a premiere adaptation of a classic folk tale about two helpful elves.

Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View.

When: Dec. 7-8, multiple showtimes.

More information: pytnet.org/ boxoffice/the-elves-and-theshoemaker.

Hanukkah Celebration at Stanford Shopping Center What: The Oshman Family JCC hosts a free family Hanukkah celebration with a musical performance by Noa Levy and her

‘PACO Holiday Extravaganza’ What: The Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra will be joined by special guest TwoSet Violin and dancers from Pacific Ballet Academy for its annual performance of holiday music.

Where: Smithwick Theatre, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Palo Alto.

When: Dec. 9, 3 p.m.

More information: brownpapertickets.com/ event/3695012.

Gryphon Carolers What: The Gryphon Carolers and All-Star Band will perform their annual concert of holiday songs from around the world.

Where: Woodside Village Church, 3154 Woodside Road, Woodside.

When: Dec. 9, 6:30 p.m.

More information: brownpapertickets.com/ event/3818186.

‘Christmas Time is Here’ What: Grammy-winning jazz legend Dianne Reeves will sing holiday standards.

Where: Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St., Stanford.

When: Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m.

More information: live.stanford. edu/calendar/december-2018/ dianne-reeves.

‘The Snow Queen’ What: When the Snow Queen’s spell captures a young boy, his best friend sets out on a quest to save him in this whimsical adventure presented by Bayer Ballet (suitable for age 3 and up).

Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View.

When: Dec. 14, 7 p.m. and Dec. 15, 2 p.m.

More information: tickets. mvcpa.com/eventperformances. asp?evt=263.

‘Winter’s Gifts: Journeys’ What: The Choral Project and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra present their annual “Winter’s Gifts” concert, with a theme of journeys both physical and emotional. The concert will include choral works from various faith traditions and cultures.

Where: First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto.

When: Dec. 15, 8 p.m.

It's ‘Nutcracker’ season!

Tchaikovsky’s seasonal ballet classic “The Nutcracker” is once again well represented by dance companies and schools around the Midpeninsula.

The professional company Menlowe Ballet will continue its annual tradition of presenting its original mash-up of “The Nutcracker” and the beloved holiday film “It’s a Wonderful Life.” “It’s a Wonderful Nutcracker” is this year boasting an expanded second act and runs Dec. 14-16 and 21-23 at the Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center, 555 Middlefield Road, Atherton. There will also be a sensory-sensitive performance on Dec. 16. Go to menloweballet.org/nutcracker.

More information: choralproject. org/event/winters-gifts-journeyspalo-alto.

‘Jingle! Angels! Silent!

Merry!’

What: San Francisco Choral Artists will offer a variety of seasonal singing.

Where: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto.

When: Dec. 15, 8 p.m.

More information: sfca.org/ concert_programs/jingle-angelssilent-merry.

‘Nat ‘King’ Cole & Me’ What: Gregory Porter sings the songs of his greatest influence, Nat “King” Cole.

Where: Memorial Auditorium, 551 Serra Mall, Stanford.

When: Dec. 15, 7:30 p.m.

More information: live.stanford. edu/calendar/december-2018/ gregory-porter.

‘Heartfelt Season 2018’ What: Bravissimo Dance Studio presents a tale of a Grinch, Santa Claus and more, told through dance.

Where: Canada College, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City.

Other local “Nutcracker” productions include Pacific Ballet’s (Nov. 23-25, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., pacificballet.org/nutcracker), Dance Connection Palo Alto’s (Nov. 30-Dec. 1, Foothill College, danceconnectionpaloalto.com), Western Ballet’s (Nov. 30-Dec. 2, MV Center for the Performing Arts, westernballet.org/performancesthe-nutcracker), Ballet America’s (Dec. 7 & 9, Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway St., Redwood City, americanballet.com/nutcracker) and Peninsula Ballet’s Dec. 21-24 and 28-29, Fox Theatre, peninsulaballet. org/nutcracker). Q

When: Dec. 15, 4 p.m.

More information: brownpapertickets.com/ event/3612774.

Italian Christmas market What: Mitchell Park Community Center will host “Bay Area’s Natale,” an Italian Christmas market, where Italian-style crafts and foods will be sold, carols sung and more.

Admission is free.

Where: Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

When: Dec. 16, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

More information: bayareaitalianevents.com/events/ bay-areas-natale-italian-christmasmarket.

‘A John Rutter Christmas’ What: Schola Cantorum presents a concert of cozy Christmas carols

by John Rutter, followed by a singalong of holiday tunes.

Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View.

When: Dec. 16, 3 p.m. (continued on next page)

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New York ensemble Metropolitan Klezmer will perform a family Hanukkah concert at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto.

The Choral Project will perform with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra for “Winter’s Gifts: Journeys.” www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • November 23, 2018 • Page 17

Arts & Entertainment (continued from previous page) More information: scholacantorum.org/concerts/ajohn-rutter-christmas. ®

Holiday organ recital: Robert Huw Morgan What: Stanford University organist Dr. Robert Huw Morgan will present his annual holiday recital.

Where: Memorial Church, 450 Serra St., Stanford.

When: Dec. 16, 1:30 p.m.

More information: music. stanford.edu/events/holiday-organrecital-robert-huw-morgan-2.

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‘Gypsy Soul Holiday Experience’ What: Eclectic jazz-pop duo Gypsy soul puts its own spin on holiday music.

Where: Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St., Redwood City.

When: Dec. 16, 6 p.m More information: clubfoxrwc. com/event/1728470-gypsy-soulholiday-experience-redwood-city.

‘Messiah Sing’ What: Schola Cantorum’s annual singalong (age 12 and up) of Handel’s “Messiah” will be presented with Sinfonia Schola Cantorum. Scores will be available.

Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View.

When: Dec. 17, 7:30 p.m.

More information: tickets. mvcpa.com/eventperformances. asp?evt=241.

‘An Irish Christmas’ What: The music and dance of the Emerald Isle comes to the Peninsula for a performance of Irish dancing and singing with a holiday theme.

Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View.

When: Dec. 20, 7 p.m.

More information: tickets. mvcpa.com/eventperformances. asp?evt=256.

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir What: The OIGC will perform a concert of gospel and spiritual music holiday music.

Where: Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View.

When: Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m.

More information: tickets. mvcpa.com/eventperformances. asp?evt=242.

ARE YOU READY FOR WINTER STORMS?

Winter solstice bike ride What: GreenTown Los Altos will lead an 8-mile bike ride starting

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has placed an El Niño Watch for the 2018-19 winter rainy season. This early-season prediction doesn’t guarantee an El Niño, but learning what to do before, during and after storms of any size will help you stay comfortable and safe.

at Peet’s in Los Altos, visiting “Christmas Tree Lane” in Palo Alto and stopping for hot chocolate on the way back.

Where: 367 State St., Los Altos.

When: Dec. 21, 6:30 p.m.

More information: eventbrite. com/e/winter-solstice-night-bikeride-tickets-50814414281.

‘Music in My Soul’ What: The Taylor Street Stop and friends will perform holiday hits and classics from the Great American Songbook.

Where: Angelica’s, 863 Main St., Redwood City.

When: Dec. 22, 8:30 p.m.

More information: angelicaswm. tunestub.com/event. cfm?cart&id=284574.

Holidays at Filoli What: Filoli will be hosting holiday decor and special events throughout the season.

Where: Filoli Historic House & Garden, 86 Cañada Road, Woodside.

When: Through Dec. 23; schedule varies.

More information: filoli.org/ events/holidays.

About the cover: Smuin dancer Oliver-Paul Adams performs in Rex Wheeler’s “Christmas Tree Rock,” part of Smuin’s The Christmas Ballet.” Photo

by Keith Sutter.

Arts & Entertainment Editor Karla Kane can be emailed at kkane@paweekly.com.

PROTECT YOUR FAMILY AND PROPERTY • Visit cityofpaloalto.org/preparedness for help preparing family emergency plans and emergency kits.

Make sure your emergency plan includes pets, neighbors who need extra help, and safe routes to high ground. Keep an emergency kit stocked and handy at home, work, and in the car. Kits should include drinking water, a first aid kit, essential medicines, food (remember special diets and pets), cash, a radio, flashlights and extra batteries stored in a water-tight plastic bag.

• Know Your Flood Hazard Area and insure your property sufficiently. Identify your flood zone designation at cityofpaloalto.org/floodzones. Homeowner insurance policies don’t cover flood damage so purchase flood insurance if you are in a high-risk flood area.

• Clean out roof gutters, downspouts, landscape inlets and swales to avoid clogged lines that could cause flooding. Ensure sump pumps are connected and functioning, and garage flood vents are unobstructed so that flood water can flow freely.

• Know what to do after a storm. DO NOT TURN GAS BACK ON YOURSELF. Call City of Palo Alto Utilities for service at (650) 329-2579.

• Don’t handle live electrical equipment in wet areas. Call (650) 496-6914 to verify the safety.

KEEP THE RESOURCES BELOW HANDY OR IN YOUR PHONE SANDBAG LOCATIONS • Palo Alto Airport (end of Embarcadero Road) • Mitchell Park (600 E. Meadow Drive) • Rinconada Park (Hopkins Avenue at Newell Road)

FLOOD WARNING AND CREEK LEVELS • Visit cityofpaloalto.org/creekmonitor to monitor real-time creek level information at five locations on San Francisquito, Matadero and Adobe Creeks, rainfall rates and totals at Foothills Park, and Bay tide levels.

GENERAL INFORMATION: • Non-emergency Fire/Police: (650) 329-2413 • Public Safety Social Media cityofpaloalto.org/papdconnect (650) 329-2420 (recorded message) • Radio stations KCBS 740 AM/106.9 FM KZSU 90.1 FM • Weather information: weather.gov

• Sign up at sfcjpa.org/floodwarning to receive text or email notifications for potential flood conditions for the San Francisquito Creek watershed.

CITY CREW SERVICES • Power outage and electrical problems Palo Alto Electric Operations (650) 496-6914 • Gas/water leaks and sewer spills Palo Alto Utilities Dispatch (650) 329-2579 • Blocked storm drains and mud slides Palo Alto Public Works (650) 496-6974 (weekdays 7am to 4pm) (650) 329-2413 (after hours) • Fallen trees Palo Alto Public Works (650) 496-5953 (weekdays 7am to 4pm) (650) 329-2413 (after hours)

Visit cityofpaloalto.org/creekmonitor for links to essential Palo Alto-specific storm information.

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Maria Menendez and her daughter, Sofia Rayward, pose for photos in front of Palo Alto’s holiday tree in Lytton Plaza.

Correction The Nov. 8 story “Finding Juana” misspelled the last name of museum co-curator Perlita Dicochea. The Weekly regrets the error. To request a clarification or correction, contact Editor Jocelyn Dong at jdong@ paweekly.com, 650-223-6514 or P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto 94302. Q

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Zack Osorio (left) visits Maria (right) to discuss her transportation needs.

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Kassundra Dunn, Homeless Outreach Worker, displays some of the clothing available to homeless patients through Ravenswoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clothing Closet.

Photos: Rachel Tarantino

Season of Giving Dear Friends, For 17 years, Ravenswood Family Health Center has stood as a beacon of hope in the underserved communities of San Mateo County. We offer a variety of health care services including prenatal, pediatric, family medicine, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health, integrated behavioral health, pharmacy, imaging, lab, health education and more! These services are made possible because of the support we receive from community members like you.

Finally, thanks to the support of individuals like you, our patients continue to have access to high-quality vision care. Since opening our Optometry Clinic in 2015 we have served 533 pediatric and 3,173 adult patients, and we have distributed 1,562 eyeglasses from our Optical Shop.

This holiday season we invite you to learn more about our patient programs and to give the gift of good health to the most underserved and at-risk in our communities.

Warm regards this holiday season, Luisa Buada, RN, MPH &KLHI ([HFXWLYH 2IĆ&#x201C;FHU

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You make it possible for us to extend good health to patients beyond the four walls of our exam rooms. Accessing health care services is essential for helping patients on their journey to recovery and to good health. With Ravenswood Family Health Center located in an area where public transportation is limited, our patients need a reliable source of transportation to get them to and from their medical appointments. You help us implement solutions to ensure our patients have access to the health care they need.

Your generosity also helps give Ravenswoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most underserved patients a second chance in life. Your support enables our Health Care for the Homeless Manager to gather professional clothing for homeless patients. Many homeless patients who have passed through the doors of our Clothing Closet have come away with the attire they need to get employment and maintain a professional appearance at work. This resource gives many of our patients the FRQĆ&#x201C;GHQFH WKH\ QHHG WR VXFFHHG DQG WR OLIW themselves out of homelessness.

These programs are possible thanks to the support we receive from our community.

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Our Mission To improve the health of the community by providing culturally sensitive, integrated primary and preventative health care to all, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status, and collaborating with community partners to address the social determinants of health.

Gift of Access

Board of Directors

Advisory Council

Patricia Bresee, Chair Maya Altman Greg Avis Caretha Coleman Greg Gallo Lily Hurlimann Rose Jacobs Gibson Dr. Ross Jaffe Jim Koshland Richard Levy John A. Sobrato Dr. Frederick St. Goar Jane Williams Gordon Russell

are actively developing this exciting program and look forward to launching it in the near future.

When Zack is able to help a patient secure a ride, he is overjoyed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just knowing that I can help someone, and seeing them smiling and being thankful is really gratifying,â&#x20AC;? he shares.

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Melieni Talakai, Chair Senseria Conley, Vice Chair Julio Garcia, Treasurer Manuel Arteaga, Secretary Nancy Alvarez, Parliamentarian Vernal Bailey Marcelline Combs Ana GĂłmez Jonathan Lindeke Siteri Maravou Elizabeth Salas Raymond Mills, Board Liaison Sherri Sager, Board Liaison

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Even with existing support services, many patients still face severe transportation barriers. To address this gap, Ravenswood is developing an innovative pilot program that uses a cutting edge digital health application called Hitch Health to connect patients to transportation. Hitch Health would allow patients to schedule free rideshare services to and from Ravenswood through a simple text message. We

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After a vision disorder is detected in a child, a common and simple intervention is often prescription eyeglasses.

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Dr. Menchavez (left) poses with Ashley (right) after her eye exam.

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RAVENSWOOD FAMILY DENTISTRY Tayischa Deldridge, Health Care for the Homeless Manager.

1807 Bay Road East Palo Alto, CA 94303 Tel: 650.289.7700

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After Ashley failed her pediatric vision test at Ravenswood, she was referred to Dr. Sonia Menchavez for a more thorough exam. After examining her eyes, Dr. Menchavez determined that Ashley had poor vision and this was likely the reason she had been walking into WKLQJV DQG KDYLQJ GLIĆ&#x201C;FXOWLHV LQ VFKRRO 'U 0HQFKDYH] SUHVFULEHG JODVVHV WR KHOS FRUUHFW $VKOH\Ĺ?V H\HVLJKW 6LQFH wearing her glasses, Ashley has been doing well in school, and stopped falling!

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Ashley (left) and her mom, Carina (right), are excited to pick a new pair of glasses at Ravenswoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Optical Shop!

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STRETCH YOUR GIFT THIS HOLIDAY SEASON! Photo: Rachel Tarantino

Donations postmarked by January 31, 2019 will be matched dollar for dollar!

Twelve generous donors are matching up to $73,500! Please write â&#x20AC;&#x153;2018 Year-End Campaignâ&#x20AC;? on the memo line and include this remit slip.

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Eating Out Comfort food Chicken Parmesan meatballs served in an iron skillet, above, are among the rotating menu items at The Post in Los Altos.

by Dale F. Bentson Photos by Magali Gauthier

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That’s the confident vow from owner Vickie Breslin who recently opened The Post in downtown Los Altos.

Breslin was already familiar with the property, having worked at First and Main Sports Lounge for years. It is in the historic Copeland Building, which was built in 1911 and once housed the Los Altos Post Office. When the sports bar closed, she signed a lease and also took over the adjacent space, Estatements consignment shop.

She then hired the Midglen Studio Architects in Woodside to create a “modern, rustic feeling restaurant,” Breslin said.

Uniting the two spaces took some doing, but the results work. While the old First and Main dining room had cosmetic updates, the Estatements side was completely gutted and rebuilt into a sleek, contemporary 16-seat bar with booths and The Post, 395 Main St., Los Altos; 650-935-2003; thepostlosaltos.com Hours: Sunday, 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Monday, 4-9:30 p.m.; Tuesday-Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Thursday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Reservations

Alcohol: Full bar

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Parking: City lots

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Happy hour: 4-7:30 p.m. daily

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tables for dining and imbibing.

Breslin is a born-and-bred Peninsula native who has spent 15 years in the local restaurant business doing everything from event planning to bartending. When First and Main closed, she said, “it was time to strike out on my own and I knew Los Altos better than anyplace else.” Breslin’s intent is to provide comfort food “you can feel good about.”

On my visits, the bar was loud when busy, but the dining room was subdued and filled with families. A wall with windows separates the two. While The Post is bar-centric, the food was not an afterthought.

Servings were generous. Service was good, though on one occasion, our table wasn’t bused before the next course arrived.

For starters, the chicken Parmesan meatballs ($15) served in an iron skillet oozed with mozzarella, pomodoro sauce and basil leaves — comfort food of the highest order. Breslin plans to rotate different kinds of meatballs, including pork, beef, lamb, chicken and prosciutto.

The whimsical Totcho’s ($12) were tater tots blanketed with melted cheddar cheese, bacon jam and ranch dressing. It’s a riff on nachos, fun as bar bites, but not quite up to the other appetizers.

The cauliflower hot wings ($11) were terrific. Roasted cauliflower was tossed with buffalo wing sauce and drizzled with ranch dressing.

The wing sauce had a slight zing but could be amped up on request.

That was a table favorite.

The fresh, delicate, seared ahi tuna ($16) was served with seaweed salad, pickled ginger and wasabi, with a ginger-soy sauce. It was meltin-your-mouth delicious.

For entrées, the American heritage pork shoulder ($24) had been slow-cooked with beer, citrus, red chilis and onion, served with

cilantro rice and roasted spicy squash, and topped with tangerineserrano salsa and crema. Sounds complicated but it had ample flavor, texture and color.

The wild salmon ($28) was plated with lemon quinoa, kale, asparagus and shaved pecorino and topped with a lemony beurre blanc sauce.

The red-orange salmon was very fresh. Fortunately, the kale was unobtrusive.

The tasty spinach and roasted garlic ravioli ($19) were wrapped in a pomodoro sauce with house-made ricotta cheese and basil. Pomodoro sauce is thicker and less chunky than a marinara but with the same basic ingredients.

The fried chicken ($24) came with mashed potatoes, a large homemade buttermilk biscuit, sausage gravy and a mountain of vegetables. It was an enormous serving of goodness. The biscuit and gravy alone would have made an appetizing meal. The chicken was crisp and juicy. My single complaint was that the half breast had been cut in half again, but not a good cut, and each bite resulted with a splinter of bone in my mouth.

Desserts, all large, were $9.

The warm chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich was locally sourced but the bread pudding and brownie sundae were house-made and delectable.

The Post creates its own cocktails along with craft beers and a reasonably priced wine list that pairs well with the comfort food menu. There’s a daily happy hour and brunch on Sundays.

At first glance, the corner of First and Main looks like it has for years.

Once inside, though, the vibe says good food, good libations and good times for families and friends. Q Freelance writer Dale Bentson can be emailed at dfbentson@ gmail.com.

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Movies OPENINGS

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope’s (Sarah Silverman) friendship is tested in “Ralph Breaks the Internet.”

Friends who click ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ by liking too much 000 (Century 16 & 20)

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“Life’s complicated.” Those words of wisdom sum up the best parts of “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” a satisfying sequel to 2012’s animated Disney feature “Wreck-It Ralph.” When the new film opens, life seems pretty simple for videogame characters and best friends Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope von Schweetz. But Vanellope’s yearning for something different sends the two on an adventure that puts their friendship to the ultimate test.

Six years after the events of the first film, Litwak’s Family Fun Center Arcade gets an upgrade: Wi-Fi. Its possibilities become too tempting to ignore when Vanellope becomes homeless following accidental damage to her racing game, Sugar Rush. Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) plunge into the internet on a quest to

repair her game, but in the process Vanellope stumbles onto her dream game, Slaughter Race. This wider, vastly more unpredictable digital space — a “Grand Theft Auto” pastiche — amusingly appeals to Vanellope, whose smiley little-girl appearance has always belied an edge, while terrifying her hulking but more sensitive buddy Ralph.

But what truly scares Ralph is the possibility of losing his best friend to a whole new world. And so “Ralph Breaks the Internet” spins from being a simple quest to restore the status quo into something far more interesting: an exploration of insecurities and an earnest examination of the meaning of true friendship. Ralph must confront his “needy, clingy, self-destructive behavior” and become profoundly selfless in his love to be the best friend that he can be.

In exploring the internet, directors Rich Moore and Phil Johnston up the ante from the previously established universe of Game Central Station. Where the first film played with a coterie of real and knockoff video-game characters (who return for the sequel), the new installment does the same for the much bigger world of the World Wide Web. This means the appearance of many brand-name internet destinations (such as eBay, on which a major plot point hinges) and a few invented ones (Alan Tudyk plays KnowsMore, the Jeeves-y embodiment of a search engine). The filmmakers also serve up funny variations on click bait and pop-up windows, such as the somehow endearingly slimy JP Spamley (an uncredited Bill Hader).

The adventure also allows for a snake-eating-its-tale synergy when Vanellope, established last time as a princess, meets her Disney kin on the corporation’s website. Disney fanatics will love the cameos by all the Disney princesses, satirically teased about their pre-feminist tendencies and largely played by the original actresses who voiced them; the sequence also tees up Vanellope’s own “I Wish” anthem, “A Place Called Slaughter Race” (music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Phil Johnston and Tom MacDougall).

If a plot thread involving the YouTube stand-in BuzzzTube (presided over by Taraji P. Henson’s Hollywood agent-like algorithm Yesss) makes mastering the internet too easy, its shallowness — and side trips to the Dark Net and the hurtful cyber bullying of comments areas — productively acknowledges real-life dangers, with stellar animation and designs shoring up the storytelling of Johnston and Pamela Ribon’s witty script. Add the relatable message of curbing one’s own smothering instincts when it comes to the important people in one’s life, and you get a useful all-ages fable for our time.

Rated PG for some action and rude humor. One hour, 52 minutes.

— Peter Canavese

MOVIES NOW SHOWING A Private War (R)

Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun.

The Girl in the Spider’s Web (R)

Century 16: Fri. - Sun.

A Star is Born (R) ++1/2 Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

Green Book (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

An American in Paris (1951) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri.-Sun.

Instant Family (PG-13) + Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

Beautiful Boy (R) +++

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun.

Bohemian Rhapsody (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Boy Erased (R) ++1/2

Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun.

Can you Ever Forgive me? (R)

Aquarius Theatre: Fri. - Sun.

Creed II (PG-13) Century 16: Fri.-Sun. Century 20: Fri.-Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (2018) (PG) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (PG-13) Century 16: Fri.-Sun. Century 20: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Free Solo (PG-13) Century 20: Fri. - Sun. Guild Theatre: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

The Old Man & the Gun (PG-13) Palo Alto Square: Fri. - Sun. Ralph Breaks the Internet (PG) Century 16: Fri.-Sun. Century 20: Fri.-Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Robin Hood (2018) (PG-13) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. Century 20: Fri.-Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun. Smallfoot (PG) ++

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

Widows (R) Century 16: Fri. - Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri. - Sun.

Century 20: Fri. - Sun.

The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les desmoiselles de Rochefort) (French, 1967) () Stanford Theatre: Fri. - Sun.

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

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Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 327-3241) tinyurl.com Aquariuspa Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View tinyurl.com/Century16 Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City tinyurl.com/Century20 CineArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (For information: 493-0128) tinyurl.com/Pasquare Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (For recorded listings: 566-8367) tinyurl.com/Guildmp ShowPlace Icon: 2575 California St. #601, Mountain View tinyurl.com/iconMountainView Stanford Theatre: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (For recorded listings: 324-3700) Stanfordtheatre.org

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A monthly section on local books and authors

A guide to children’s books that celebrate diversity and kin

by Debbie Duncan

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amilies have always been important in stories for young people. Many of the best books published in 2018, even for teens, feature families that 50 years ago would have been considered non-traditional, or even illegal. This year’s suggested

Simon & Schuster/McElderry

“Bear Can’t Sleep” by Karma Wilson, illustrated by Jane Chapman; $18; Simon & Schuster/McElderry; ages 4-8.

This oversized picture book about a bear who knows he should be hibernating but can’t fall asleep would make an excellent addition to any family library. Bear’s friends, alarmed at his wakefulness, all have solutions for his insomnia. But alas, he’s “in a sad, furry heap” because “he still can’t sleep.” Until … Bear comes up with his own idea. “Bear Can’t Sleep” is a clever tale told in rhyme, starring a cast of animal characters who show tons of personality in their suggestions and facial expressions. Parents and kids who like this book will be pleased to know there are three other Bear stories to keep everyone entertained at bedtime.

“Blended” by Sharon M. Draper; $17; Atheneum/Dlouhy; ages 8-12.

Mom’s house, Dad’s house. Dad’s week, Mom’s week. What this means for 11-yearold Isabella is a “weekly whiplash” as she’s shuttled back and forth between her divorced parents, who do not get along. “Exchange Day” happens on Sunday in front of the Apple Store at the mall. “ … I am exchanged like a wrong-size pair of jeans.”

Izzy hates Sundays. Her parents’ contentious custody arrangement happens just as she’s trying to figure out who — and what — she really is, especially because Mom is white and Dad is black. What she knows without a doubt is that she loves to play the piano, and thank goodness Isabella’s dad and mom support her musical aspirations.

So do her parents’ new partners and her soon-to-be stepbrother, an older teen who’s “totally cool.” But can a black-and-white Isabella blend her life story as well as she plays her recital piece on the black-andwhite keys of the piano?

Short chapters and a swiftly moving plot that doesn’t shy away from hot topics such as racism, racial profiling and police brutality keep this contemporary novel steaming toward a conclusion readers will not see coming.

“Merci Suárez Changes Gears” by Meg Medina; $17; Candlewick; ages 9-12.

Sixth grade is a rough ride for many kids, and that’s definitely the case for Merci

Candlewick

Scholastic/graphix

“Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction” written and illustrated by Jarrett J. Krosoczka; $15; Scholastic/graphix; ages 12 and up.

If “Dreamers” is the important immigration book of 2018, “Hey, Kiddo” best illustrates the impact a parent’s drug dependence and incarceration has on a child and indeed an entire family. Krosoczka is known to younger readers as the author of the popular and funny Lunch Lady series.

This compelling graphic memoir, told from the point of view of his 17-year-old self, tells a much darker — though still at times humorous — story of having to live with his grandparents from the age of three because his heroin-addicted mother was unable to care for him. Joe and Shirl may have foul mouths, but they provide the love and stability Jarrett desperately needs. His mom, Leslie, is more like the messed-up older sister whom Jarrett visits in prison or halfway houses and exchanges cards and letters with. Aunts, uncles, art teachers, schools and one good friend are the extended family and community who help Jarrett not only survive, but thrive.

(Palo Alto teens may especially appreciate seeing the rejection letter he received from his dream school, the Rhode Island School of Design, which accepted him as a transfer student a year later.)

Atheneum/Dlouhy

Holiday House/Porter

“Dreamers” written and illustrated by Yuyi Morales; $19; Holiday House/Porter; ages 4 and up. (Available in Spanish as “Soñadores.”)

Beautiful, bold and brilliant only begin to describe what I believe to be the best picture book published in the United States this year. “Dreamers” is a universal story of a mother and her young son coming to a new country. It’s also a local story, set primarily in the Bay Area, of an immigrant making mistakes and taking “thousands of steps” in a strange land before finding a home for herself and her child in the public library. So many books! And they’re free! Individual titles of children’s books that inspired the artist, annotated at the end of “Dreamers,” soar off library bookshelves as the immigrants “learned to read, to speak, to write, and to make our voices heard.” Multicolored mixed-media collages help tell this important and uplifting saga. Morales describes in greater detail her immigration story in an author’s note, and invites young readers and listeners to tell their own.

holiday reading list includes books where kids can meet big and small families, immigrants, blacks, whites, Cubans, multi-generational, poor and very wealthy families. And for parents who can’t get enough bedtime books, there’s one of those, too.

Suárez, a scholarship kid at a fancy private school who lives with her big, multigenerational Cuban immigrant family in Florida, where it’s always hot and sweaty (bad news for Merci’s curly hair). She’s worried about her beloved abuelo, especially after Lolo (continued on next page)

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This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): NAVID IRANPOUR 955 Escalon Avenue Apt. #407 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on N/A. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on October 30, 2018.

(PAW Nov. 9, 16, 23, 30, 2018) TRIVIAL PURSUITS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN647973 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Trivial Pursuits, located at 3943 El Camino Real Apt. 14, 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): HARSHIKA VEERENDRA AMIN 3943 El Camino Real Apt. 14 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 10/01/2018.

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is brought home in a police car after trying to pick up the wrong set of twins — who are Vietnamese — instead of his grandsons.

Something is going on with Lolo, but the adults don’t tell Merci he has Alzheimer’s until he causes a major accident. At Seaward Pines Academy, the sixth-grade queen bee, Edna, aka “the boss of the universe,” makes life miserable for Merci. The school counselor isn’t much help. Merci, however, doesn’t give up. She tries. She makes new friends in ways that surprise her. She shows humor and compassion, even for Edna.

Merci Suárez learns to accept the challenges and changes in her life and is definitely a character worth knowing.

“Unpresidented: A biography of Donald Trump” by Martha Brockenbrough; $20; Feiwel and Friends; ages 12 and up. (Publishes on Dec. 4.)

The first young-adult biography of the 45th President is extensively researched and clearly presented. Brockenbrough was an editor of the Stanford Daily. She explains in the foreword that she looked for patterns of behavior in the president’s life, a life that has been “richly documented.” Here are concrete examples of a history of practicing racial discrimination, bullying, dodging the truth (and the draft), ties to the Mafia,

business and marriage failures, longtime financial connections to Russia and most especially and repeatedly, lying. Trump was, after all, the most vocal “birther,” or proponent of the claim that President Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. Trump also has a long history of clashes with the press, even as he benefitted from the immense amount of publicity he has received from the media.

In reviewing the first 18 months of this administration, Brockenbrough gives Trump credit for cooling tensions with North Korea and passing a major tax cut, while faulting him for (among other things) violence at white supremacist rallies, exaggerating and fabricating dangers posed by immigrants and inadequately responding to Hurricane Maria. Much of the book is a detailed accounting of the connections Trump and his team had — and continue to have — with Russia.

The text for this necessary, teenfriendly tome is in an easy-to-read font, and nicely broken up by photos, pullout quotes and tweets. It includes 52 pages of endnotes, a bibliography and an index. Teens who read “Unpresidented” today may be eligible to vote in 2020.

They should know the facts. So should we all.

Debbie Duncan is a Stanford University writer and author of books for children and adults.

997 All Other Legals NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (UCC Sec. 6105) Escrow No. 13018D NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s), business address(es) of the seller(s) are: LAYERS LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 441 EMERSON STREET, PALO ALTO, CA 94301 Whose chief executive office is: 30 LIBERTY SHIP WAY, SUITE 3225, SAUSALITO, CA 94965 Doing Business as: PATXI’S CHICAGO PIZZA (Type — FRANCHISED PIZZA RESTAURANT) All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the seller(s), is/are: PATXIS PIZZA The name(s) and address of the buyer(s) is/are: PATXI’S LIMITED, A WYOMING CORPORATION 466 E. FOOTHILL BLVD. SUITE 356 LA CANADA, CA 91011 The assets being sold are generally described as: ALL STOCK IN TRADE, FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT AND GOODWILL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY And are located at: 441 EMERSON STREET, PALO ALTO, CA 94301 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: CAPITOL CITY ESCROW INC, 3838 WATT AVE, STE F-610, SACRAMENTO, CA 95821-2665 and the anticipated sale date is DECEMBER 17, 2018 The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.

[If the sale is subject to Sec. 6106.2, the following information must be provided] The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: CAPITOL CITY ESCROW, INC, 3838 WATT AVE, STE F-610, SACRAMENTO, CA 95821-2665 THIS BULK TRANSFER INCLUDES A LIQUOR LICENSE TRANSFER. ALL CLAIMS MUST BE RECEIVED PRIOR TO THE DATE ON WHICH THE NOTICE OF TRANSFER OF THE LIQUOR LICENSE IS RECEIVED BY THE ESCROW AGENT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL. Dated: OCTOBER 6, 2018 Buyer(s): PATXI’S LIMITED, A WYOMING CORPORATION LA2144543 PALO ALTO WEEKLY 11/23/18

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Book Talk SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY ... Books Inc. is offering 15-percent discounts on books, as well as other shopping surprises, at all of its locations as part of its Small Business Saturday celebration on Nov. 24. Launched in 2010, Small Business Saturday is held the Saturday after Thanksgiving to encourage holiday shoppers to patronize local, independent brick-and-mortar businesses.

Books Inc. is located at 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto and 317 Castro St., Mountain View.

HOLIDAY BOOK PARTY ...

Kepler’s Books is hosting its annual holiday party in Menlo Park on Sunday, Dec. 9, from 3-5 p.m. to thank its loyal customers. The event will feature special discounts, champagne and chocolate, as well as experts available to help shoppers select the perfect books for everyone on their holiday shopping lists.

Community volunteers will be standing by to gift wrap all purchases. Members of the Keplers Literary Circle will receive an additional 10 percent off on all purchases. Kepler’s is located at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. To join the Literary Circle or RSVP to the holiday party, go to keplers.com.

“THE TESTAMENT OF MARY” ... Irish novelist Colm Toibin will be at Kepler’s Books to talk about his book “The Testament of Mary” at 1 p.m., Monday, Dec. 3. In the short novel, Toibin boldly offers readers the story of Jesus’s last week, as told from Mary’s perspective in her old age. She does not believe that her son was the son of God and refuses to co-operate with the writers of the gospels, who regularly visit her and provide her with food and shelter. Since its release in 2012, the book has been made into a one-woman play and a Broadway show. The seminar is $48 and includes a copy of “The Testament of Mary,” which should be picked up at Kepler’s (and read) prior to the meeting date. To purchase tickets, go to keplers.org. Q

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Professional organizer Lori Krolik suggests stocking wrapping supplies separately from “regular” gift wrap, and having ample bins for decorations.

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HOMES OF GINGERBREAD ... They might not be brickand-mortar homes, but they are edible. The city of Los Altos will hold its 31st Annual Gingerbread House Exhibit starting Tuesday, Nov. 27 and running through Thursday, Dec. 6. The homes can be viewed in the Hillview Community Center, Room 2, weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. - noon. Hillview Community Center is located at 97 Hillview Ave. in Los Altos.

MAKE YOUR OWN CHEESE ...

Just in time for some holiday revelry, Los Altos Hills’ Hidden Villa has invited local farm experts to teach participants how to craft cheese. In addition to learning, you’ll have the opportunity to sample creations from neighboring Bay Area farmers and pick herbs and edible flowers from Hidden Villa’s organic garden to add different notes to your own cheese. The class will be held in the Duveneck House on Sunday, Dec. 2, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The cost is $70, and the class is aimed at ages 16 and up. To register, go to hiddenvilla.org.

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REDUCE FOOD WASTE ...

Thanksgiving is over and maybe you’re making turkey soup. If you still have leftovers, the city of Palo Alto has some tips for reducing food waste, as well as how to prepare for your next holiday feast. If you can’t eat everything right away, freeze leftovers and enjoy them on a night when you don’t have time to cook. When cooking your next holiday meal, try to make only what you need so you don’t go too far over your budget.

Ask your guests to bring a food storage container and send them home with leftovers. This way, you won’t be stuck with too much food and everyone gets to enjoy leftovers the next day.

For tips on how to shop smart, store food properly and eat what you’ve purchased, visit the city’s Food: Too Good To Waste web page at cityofpaloalto.org/ foodwaste.

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by Lori Krolik

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ometime in early November, time starts to move at warp speed as the holiday season gets closer and closer.

The holidays, meant to be festive and fun-filled, often become a time of being stressed and overwhelmed.

There are so many things to do: meals to cook, people to entertain, parties to attend, as well as items Lori Krolik to keep track of (gifts, decorations, ornaments and more).

Adopting some good organizing strategies can make your holiday season calm enough to enjoy it while it’s happening.

Inventory Before you start buying, wrapping, decorating, baking or planning meals, take inventory of what you already have. This includes decorations, wrapping paper and holiday cooking supplies. You’ll save yourself precious time and won’t make the mistake of buying more than you need.

Getting in the holiday spirit often comes with a lot of stuff — ornament boxes, trees or menorahs, indoor lights, outdoor lights and more. It looks so festive when it’s

up, but what about the rest of the year?

Make sure you have ample bins and containers to hold all of your decorations. Remember, when you take everything down, you’re more likely to do it if it’s easy to put things away. Store seasonal decorations in an out-of-the-way place since they are only accessed once a year.

Create containers of things you use for holiday entertaining so you don’t clutter your kitchen with holiday table linens and serving pieces you only use once a year.

Wrapping Paper Holiday wrapping supplies should be stored separately from “regular” gift wrap supplies to keep that holly-covered paper from getting mixed up with the birthday cake kind.

There are various types of giftwrap containers that allow your rolls to be stored upright or horizontally. Either can work well, but it’s important to let those containers define the number of rolls of wrapping paper you have on hand. If you have more rolls than will fit in the container, it’s time to edit your supply.

Also, avoid buying extra-long rolls of wrap. They’re hard to store and take up way more space than needed.

Are you more of a bag person

than a wrapper? Store your gift bags by size and upright (sort of like files in a drawer), versus flat in a container. This way you can easily thumb through your supply to find what you need.

Traditional file boxes work well as an inexpensive yet practical container for gift bags.

Depending how much wrapping “accessories” you like to have on hand, like tissue paper and gift tags, clear shoebox-sized containers work best for storing these items. Try to have one container for each category so you’re not having to untwist ribbon as you’re trying to grab some tissue paper.

Additional tip — loose ribbon can be rolled and held together with a paper clip to keep it from becoming a tangled mess.

Cards Receiving cards from family and friends is one of my favorite holiday traditions, but what do you do with them once you ogle over how much Cousin Tommy has grown or look over your college roommate’s family vvacation photo? Sure, there are tons of Pinterest boards with creative displays and crafty projects, but who has time for that? Saving them because you think you should usually results in them being shoved in a cabinet or drawer. If you truly

want to appreciate the cards you receive, save them in a container by year. Is that still a bit too much?

Apply the 80/20 rule to who makes it into your holidaycard photo archive. Only save those from close family members and friends. Either way, you can forget about the card from your doctor and mechanic (a nice gesture, but not worth holding onto) or cards without personal messages or family photos. They are not worth sacrificing your storage real estate or time to find a place for them.

Gifts Just because you receive a gift does not mean you need to keep it.

To quote Marie Kondo, “The true purpose of a present is to be received. Presents are not things, but a means for conveying someone’s feelings.” Embrace the joy you feel when you receive a gift but don’t keep it out of obligation. On the flip side, don’t be a “spreader of gift clutter.” Many of our friends and family members are fortunate to have enough stuff. Experiential gifts (trips, concert tickets) go a long way toward creating lasting memories. Q Lori Krolik is a certified professional organizer and the owner of More Time for You in Palo Alto. Her website is moretimeforyou.net.

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GRAPPLING WITH IT ... The twotime defending Central Coast Section champion Menlo-Atherton girls wrestling team opens its season in a big way this weekend, hosting the Bear Bash Girls High School Wrestling Tournament on Saturday, scheduled to run between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. One of the fastest growing sports in the country, M-A has been a trendsetter in the area, growing from a single wrestler (former state champion Chelsea Wilson) less than six years ago to finishing fourth in last winter’s state championship in Visalia. The Bears return all three state medalists in Fola Akinola (state runner-up), Lauren McDonnell (fifth) and Abby Ericson (sixth).

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OVER THE HILLS ... The Palo Alto boys, Menlo School girls and Castilleja girls are all headed to the CIF State Cross Country Championships at Woodward Park in Fresno on Saturday. Palo Alto races in Division I at 8:30 a.m., Menlo School races in Division IV at 11 a.m. and Castilleja competes in Division V at 1 p.m. Several individuals also qualified out of the Central Coast Section championships at Toro Park in Salinas over the weekend.

Menlo and Castilleja each qualified by winning team titles and Palo Alto advanced by finishing third. Paly’s Henry Saul, who will be at Yale in the fall, won the boys Division I title in 15:27.2, the fastest time of any race. Castilleja’s Tevah Gevelber won the Division V race in 19:07.8.

Menlo-Atherton High and Sacred Heart Prep each had two individual qualifiers. M-A’s Ethan Mimeles is going in Division I boys and Sara Osterberg reached in Division I girls.

Sacred Heart Prep sends two boys in Division IV: Max Cluss and Calvin Katz. In Division II girls, Woodside’s Sarah Perry advanced, as did Priory’s Eszter Horvath in Division V girls. Eastside Prep’s Carlos Anye Nunez and Priory’s Jason Sadler also reached the state meet in Division V. Woodside resident Anna Mokkapati won the girls Division IV girls title and advances as an individual. St. Francis’ Colton Colonna, a Los Altos Hills resident, won the boys Division II title and advances along with the D-2 team champs Lancers.

Jamir Shepard (left) has caught 19 of the 33 touchdown passes thrown by Jackson Chryst this season. The pair hope to connect a few times Saturday in their CCS Open Division I football playoff game at Menlo-Atherton.

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A big week for local football fans Palo Alto and Menlo-Atherton meet in CCS D-1 semis; SHP in D-3 hunt

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t’s still just the semifinals, but Saturday’s Palo Alto at Menlo-Atherton football game is the one everyone locally has been waiting for.

“It’s great for the community,’’ Menlo-Atherton coach Adjir Ravipati said. “Everyone is excited about it.’’

“It’s pretty cool from a geographic standpoint,’’ Palo Alto coach Nelson Gifford said. “It’s what makes high school football fun.’’

The Central Coast Section Open Division I game is scheduled for a 1 p.m. kickoff. No. 3 seed Palo Alto is 10-1 after a 3521 win over Los Gatos. No. 2 seed M-A is 9-2 after a 45-28 win over Milpitas. Both those quarterfinal games were played last Saturday at Salinas High.

M-A is the undefeated champion of the Peninsula Athletic League’s Bay Division. Palo Alto finished second in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League’s De Anza Division, behind Wilcox, the only

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Saturday College football: Stanford at UCLA, noon, Pac-12 Networks College women’s volleyball: California at Stanford , 7 p.m., Pac-12 Bay Area

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by Rick Eymer tanford senior wide receiver JJ Arcega-Whiteside was ready to play against California last week. After an extra week of rest and rehab he’s feeling great and the news couldn’t be better for Cardinal junior quarterback K.J. Costello.

“He started practicing last week and he has an insane amount presence,” Costello said. “Every opportunity I have with him I’m grateful for.”

Arcega-Whiteside missed Stanford’s loss at Washington with an ankle injury he suffered in the

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first quarter of a loss to Washington State the previous week.

The Biletnikoff Award semifinalist was having a great season and still leads the Pac-12 with 11 touchdown receptions (tied for fifth nationally) despite missing the equivalent of seven quarters.

Arcega-Whiteside ranks third with an average of 83.8 receiving yards per game.

Arcega-Whiteside’s return comes at a good time. Junior tight end Kaden Smith, a finalist for the John Mackey Award, (continued on page 35)

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breakup Palo Alto aligned with the SCVAL and M-A with the newly-formed PAL. The previous game between the two took place in the 2007 CCS Large Schools final with Palo Alto winning 14-7. Considering the many attractive aspects to this year’s matchup, maybe it is worth the wait.

While the teams haven’t played in 11 years, the players are plenty acquainted with each other. For

STANFORD FOOTBALL

Stanford receiving good news on passing front

College men’s basketball: Stanford at Battle 4 Atlantis (tentative), 8:30 a.m., ESPN

team it has lost to and the No. 1 seed in the Open Division I playoffs. The Chargers host No. 4 Salinas on Friday at 7.

And the weird thing is that Paly and M-A, despite their close proximity, have not played since 2007. At one time they were in the same league -- the South Peninsula Athletic League. That league broke up when schools such as Cubberly, Ravenswood and San Carlos were shut down due to enrollment drop in the late 1970s and early 1980s. After the

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example, the standout wide receiver for each team -- Paly’s Jamir Shepard and M-A’s Troy Franklin -- both attended Jordan Middle School. Franklin, only a sophomore, has already received numerous Division I scholarship offers. And Shepard, a junior, has had a huge breakout season.

“Can you imagine Jamir and Troy on the field at the same time?’’ Gifford mused.

Nice junior high nucleus.

Gifford, Palo Alto’s first-year coach, has engineered a dramatic turnaround as the Vikings have gone from 3-8 to 10-1. He installed a spread offense that has showcased the talents of his skill position quartet: quarterback Jackson Chryst (passed for over 2,500 yards and 33 touchdowns), running back Aiden Chang (1,100 yards rushing, 13 touchdowns) and wide receivers Shepard (55 receptions, 19 touchdowns) and Paul Thie (43 catches, 10 TDs).

The Paly defense, while not as big or as deep as the M-A unit, has performed at a high level with some juggling of personnel and positions in response to injuries. In the win over Los Gatos linebacker Seattle Hmelar began the game in street clothes on the sideline due to an injured foot. But when inside backer Dwayne Trahan went down, Hmelar put pads on, got into his uniform, had his foot and ankle taped and went out and played.

“They’re fun to watch on film although I don’t know if fun is the right word,’’ Ravipati said.

“They’re explosive on offense and play physical and fast on defense.

Shepard is definitely a Division I kid. Chang breaks a lot of tackles. They don’t have a lot of weaknesses. It will be a big challenge going against a potent offense like that.’’

After starting the season 2-2, M-A has won seven in a row. In six games against PAL opponents the Bears scored 218 points and allowed 18. The defensive unit is led by tackle Noa Ngalu, a

Washington commit, and inside linebacker Daniel Heimuli, who has winnowed down a multitude of scholarship offers to five finalists: UCLA, Oregon, Washington, Utah and Alabama.

Quarterback Jack Alexander returned to action for M-A against Milpitas and completed 12 passes for 225 yards and four touchdowns. The Bears are deep at the skill positions and on the line.

“It’s pretty phenomenal just how talented they are, the number of guys they can bring in,’’ Gifford said. “They pose a huge challenge for anybody. We’ll have to play our very best game. Their defense is just monstrous. We’ve got to find a way to block them.’’

In 2016 the Bears lost their first two games then won 12 in a row and advanced to a state final.

Ngalu and Heimuli, who played on that team as sophomores, are around to remind their teammates of that history and to lead the effort to duplicate that success.

“They’re juiced to play,’’ Ravipati said. “There’s a little bit of added energy to play Paly, but our guys are motivated most of all to keep their season going as long as they can.’’

“This is going to be a lot of fun,’’ Gifford said. “We hoped to be in this situation and it’s not totally unexpected. We got through

Menlo-Atherton quarterback Jack Alexander threw four touchdown passes in the win over Milpitas.

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Inside linebacker Daniel Heimuli (5) is one of the leaders on defense for MenloAtherton.

Sacred Heart Prep quarterback Raymond Price III will be looking for running room against Sacred Heart Cathedral.

Los Gatos and did our part. Now we’re getting a chance to compete for a championship.’’

Sacred Heart Cathedral at Sacred Heart Prep, Saturday at 1 p.m.

This battle of the Sacred Hearts has taken place once before at playoff time, in 2008 when Cathedral beat Prep 38-21 in the CCS Small Schools championship game. That was SHP’s first CCS title game appearance following the school’s decision to initiate a football program in the late 1990s. The Gators have made five CCS finals since then and won them all.

SHP (10-1), the No. 2 seed in the CCS Open Division III playoffs, defeated St. Ignatius 13-7 last Saturday at Gilroy High. The team bus was in Morgan Hill on the way to Alisal High in Salinas when head coach Mark Grieb got word that the game had been switched to Gilroy.

“It’s been an interesting week,’’ Grieb said. “You’ve just got to keep it all in perspective after the loss and destruction caused by the fires up north.’’

No. 6 seed SHC (6-5), a program that dates to the 1890s, defeated No. 3 Live Oak 20-0 in the first round. St. Ignatius is a common opponent that SHP defeated by six and SHC, SI’s ancient rival, defeated by five.

“They’re very athletic,’’ Grieb said. “They’re tough, they play hard. It’s pretty obvious watching film that they’re a WCAL school.

The kids play real hard and know how to handle contact.’’

Running back Anthony Heard is SHC’s offensive standout.

“They spread you out and run a zone blocking scheme that opens holes for him,’’ Grieb said. “Everything centers around him and his success.’’

SHP’s fly offense features multiple ball carriers. Tevita Moimoi leads the team with 812 yards rushing and 8.3 yards per carry.

John Willard has rushed for 542 yards and 8.1 per carry. Fly back Tommy Barnds has rushed for 474 yards and 7.8 per carry. Having continued success on the ground

against an SHC defense accustomed to facing physical WCAL offenses will be a key. “(SHC) has a swarming defense, tough up front, they really fly around,’’ Grieb said. “The key for us all year has been the ability to hand the ball to multiple guys

and hit the defense in multiple spots, make them cover the entire field. The other part of that is having a quarterback who can run.

(Raymond Price III) has added that ‘x’ factor. If Tevita or John or Tommy is not getting their yards, Ray can.’’ Q

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Tevah Gevelber

Henry Saul

CASTILLEJA CROSS COUNTRY

PALO ALTO CROSS COUNTRY

The junior runner won the Central Coast Section Division V individual title with a time of 19:07.8 at Toro Park in Salinas, helping the Gators win the team title and advance to the State meet in Fresno. She ran the fastest time of any local runner.

The senior runner won the Central Coast Section Division I individual title, racing the day’s top time of 15:27.2 at Toro Park in Salinas, helping Palo Alto finish third and a berth in the State meet in Fresno. He won by 13 seconds over the field.

Honorable mention Eszter Horvath Priory cross country

Maddi Page, Kamila Wong Palo Alto tennis

Sara Osterberg Menlo-Atherton cross country

Sarah Perry Woodside cross country

Kyra Pretre Menlo cross country

Charlotte Tomkinson Menlo cross country

Max Cluss Sacred Heart Prep cross country

Calvin Katz Sacred Heart Prep cross country

Ethan Mimeles Menlo-Atherton cross country

Carlos Anye Nunez Eastside Prep cross country

Jackson Chryst, Paul Thie Palo Alto football

Jason Sadler Priory cross country *Previous winner

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

Sports STANFORD WOMEN’S SOCCER

Cardinal women host quarterfinal match

by Rick Eymer he top-seeded and topranked Stanford women’s soccer team hosts No. 10 Tennessee in an NCAA quarterfinal at 2 p.m. Friday at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium. The game will be televised by Pac-12 Networks.

The Cardinal (20-0-2) advanced to the quarterfinal for the ninth time in the last 12 seasons, beating No. 23 Wisconsin, 1-0, on Sunday. Stanford’s programrecord unbeaten streak stands at 44 games, tied for fifth-longest in NCAA Division I. The Pac-12 champion Cardinal has won six straight postseason matches with a 20-1 goal difference at home.

Tennessee (16-2-3) brings a seven-match unbeaten streak into the contest, which includes NCAA wins over Louisville (2-1), Arizona (3-2) and Texas A&M (3-0). The Lady Vols, who reached the quarterfinal round for the first time in its history, and Stanford are meeting for the fourth time. Stanford lost at home to Tennessee the last time

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the schools met as part of the Nike Invitational in 2006. The Cardinal is 2-1 in the three previous meetings.

Stanford is in its 28th NCAA appearance, which spans the past 29 years. The Cardinal owns an overall 56-20-7 (46-11-4 under current coach Paul Ratcliffe) mark in NCAA play.

Stanford’s 59 goals ties UCLA for the national and Pac-12 lead.

Stanford’s .955 won-lost percentage leads the NCAA, while it’s Pac-12-leading 0.441 goalsagainst average ranks third.

Catarina Macario ranks sixth, nationally, and first in the Pac12 at 1.94 points per game. She also leads the Pac-12 in goals per game (0.76) and ranks third in total points (33). Macario’s eight career postseason assists are a program record, passing the previous mark (7) shared by Christen Press and Chioma Ubogagu.

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is day-to-day and Stanford coach David Shaw hopes he’ll be ready to go by the end. Colby Parkinson’s emergence as a tight end has helped soften the blow and with Arcega-Whiteside and senior receiver Trenton Irwin healthy, opponents will have to pick whom to double.

Stanford ( 6-4, 4-3) will still have its hands full with it travels to play UCLA (3-8, 3-5) at noon Saturday in the Rose Bowl. The Bruins are coming off their best game of the season, a 34-27 victory over USC and possibly knocking the Trojans (who need to beat Notre Dame to become eligible) out of bowl consideration.

“That is about as well as they played up front. They really blocked well,” Shaw said. “(Joshua) Kelley hit the holes and ran throw arm tackles. It was a big game for him and a big game for them. They are a physical group up front and have been getting better and better.”

Kelley earned Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week honors after rushing for 289 yards on 40 carries, the most yardage in the USCUCLA rivalry and third-most in Bruins history.

“If there’s such a thing as running angry,” Shaw said, “he ran with passion.”

While the young Bruins

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Stanford kicker Jet Toner has been practicing all week and could be ready to go against the Bruins. continue to be get better, Stanford continues to heal and rescheduling the Big Game may have been a blessing in disguise.

“It hurts not to be able to play but the extra week helped us get guys back healthy,” Stanford senior safety Frank Buncom said.

We still have our sights on winning these last two games to get the best bowl game possible.”

The Cardinal was also given an extra 48 hours of down time, many using it to catch up on sleep and relaxing after mid-terms.

Classes were also canceled due to the poor air quality on Friday.

Shaw was ecstatic that Smith was one of the three finalists for the Mackey Award.

“All awards are awesome and its great to have him as a finalist,” Shaw said. “He deserves to be

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there. He’s having a special season and he’s a special talent. He’s a complete tight end and hopefully he’ll be healthy enough to put a cap on a really great season.”

Costello had an epiphany regarding the value of a tight end.

Before arriving at Stanford, he never had one.

“He opened my eyes to why tight ends are so valuable,” Costello said. “There aren’t a lot of people who can guard him effectively. He can create separation down field, has incredibly soft hands and has a feel for the game.”

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