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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 the California Community Foundation’s NorCal Wildfire Relief Fund, or 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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City prepares for smaller council With loss of two members from the City Council, will fewer be better? by Gennady Sheyner

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n Oct. 3, 1924, a small item in the Santa Cruz Evening News offered a headline that to today’s reader would surely be a chin-scratcher: “Palo Alto One of the Most Efficiently Run

of American Cities, says speaker.” The speaker was M. E. Malcolm, Palo Alto’s city attorney, and one of his talking points was the virtue of having a 15-member council, which even then was

uniquely large for a city of Palo Alto’s size. “The speaker, in explaining the provision in the charter calling for a council of 15 members, showed that by having on the city board such a larger number of officials, the city was enabled to run its government with a perpetual smoothness, entirely obviating the unsettlement attendant upon

the complete changing of an administration,” the article stated. “This was made possible, he said, by having five members of the council elected every two years, thus always keeping on the board 10 holdover members.” Few observers today would use the word “efficient” to describe the Palo Alto City Council, which routinely debates issues well past

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en years ago, Adriana Barajas was not on anyone’s list of “most likely to succeed.” Then 14 years old, she was hanging around with gang members and bouncing from school to school. “I come from a home of gangs and violence and drugs,” said

Barajas, a soft-spoken, petite woman with glasses, a keen intelligence and a solidity beyond her years. “I got kicked out of every school I was in. I was in a probation-center school. I was not going to graduate.” But a hug changed her life.

Heather Starnes-Logwood, executive director of Live in Peace, an East Palo Alto nonprofit working to keep students in school, delivered the reassuring gesture when she first met Barajas at school. “I see something in you,” Starnes-Logwood said. Barajas did graduate — barely, she said — from high school in 2012, with the help of Live in Peace. The organization has aided more than 123 East Palo Alto and Belle Haven neighborhood students at risk of dropping out to graduate high school through a collaboration with the Sequoia Union High School District, Starnes-Logwood said. Live in Peace was selected by

San Mateo County in 2015 to design a three-year program to engage 80 district students who were at the greatest risk of dropping out. The Students Who Achieve Greatness (SWAG) program identifies the most challenged students and uses “out of the box” methods, including independent study and life coaching, to help them graduate. The students work daily with tutors, case managers and others. But even with the help they receive to graduate high school, many students feel lost after graduation. Some, like Barajas, have responsibilities heaped on them. At 17, she was pregnant.

midnight and still somehow fails to get through its agenda, pushing already outstanding items further into the future. This week’s discussion of zoning revisions, for example, began at 5:30 p.m. and concluded seven hours later with frayed tempers, procedural squabbles and a confusing outcome. One council member — Tom DuBois — tapped out shortly after 11 p.m., noting that he couldn’t think clearly anymore. The rest slogged on for another hour and a half and adopted a motion that Councilwoman Karen Holman described as “clear as mud.” By the time Mayor Liz Kniss called for the vote, over Holman’s objections, it was evident that the rest of the zoning changes on the table would be deferred to a future date. With all the other meeting agendas in December already filled with items that have been carried over from prior months, it could be months before those changes return to the council. The Dec. 3 discussion also perfectly encapsulates Palo Alto’s civic culture, which is big on data collection, community involvement and council debate. On the one hand, this overabundance of democracy is a safeguard against the city doing anything drastic without proper outreach or analysis. On the other, it ensures that issues that take months to act upon elsewhere, here take years, if not decades. Palo Alto’s quest to build a “fiber to the premise” network, for instance, has been studied since the late 1990s, with little to show for all the work other than a stack of outdated studies. The city spent nearly a decade updating its Comprehensive Plan, a process that finally concluded in November 2017 (eight months later, the council had already amended the new document). It took the city close to two years to negotiate a contract with the nonprofit Pets In Need to take over operations of the local animal shelter. Though few would attribute the slow pace exclusively to the council’s large size, having more council members asking questions, requesting information and proposing amendments every week certainly doesn’t help speed matters along. But would a svelter seven-member council improve efficiency? The city will find out next month when the 2014 voter-approved new council size becomes a reality. With the era of the large council

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Around Town A HOUSING SOLUTION ... The local nonprofit Palo Alto Housing scored a huge victory on Thursday morning when the Architectural Review Board unanimously approved its proposal to build a 59-unit project for low-income and disabled residents in the Ventura neighborhood. The development at 3705 El Camino Real is the nonprofit’s first bid to build in Palo Alto since 2013, when voters overturned in a referendum its plan to construct 60 units for lowincome seniors and 12 singlefamily homes on Maybell Avenue. Unlike that project, the new four-story building near Wilton Avenue would consist entirely of below-market-rate units, some of which would be designated for individuals with disabilities. With the board’s endorsement, the project has overcome its most significant hurdle before it goes to a largely sympathetic City Council. While the board’s approval spells good news for local proponents of affordable housing, the design didn’t sit well with some area residents, who complained about the neighborhood impacts of the new development. Todd Lewis, who owns two residential buildings on Wilton Avenue, told the board that while he supports the goals of the project, he and other neighbors have a problem with height, density, the number of people and the number of cars the project would bring. One board member, Robert Gooyer, also voiced some reservations about the project’s mass. “It still looks like a large, four-story shoebox to me,� Gooyer said. His colleagues noted that the size and density of the building are fully consistent with the council’s recent zone changes, including the creation of the new “affordable housing overlay zone� that allows more density. The Palo Alto Housing project is the city’s first application under the new zone. “This is what the council wants us to build at this time. This is the shape of it,� board member Peter Baltay said. Chair Wynne Furth said she was “delighted� to see the project move ahead. MEETING THE DEADLINE ... If all goes according to plan, the Palo Alto History Museum could

become an integral component in celebrating the city’s 125th anniversary in 2019. The idea of creating a museum has been in the works for years, with sights set on housing local history in the historic Roth Building downtown. The museum’s board of directors was at risk of losing its lease on the Homer Street site if it didn’t raise $1.75 million last month. The City Council had set the deadline last year in exchange for a yearlong extension of the museum’s lease at the building. The fundraising effort gained the final push it needed from the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which each donated $250,000. The funds will be used to help renovate the Birge Clarkdesigned building, which has been empty for 18 years. “Palo Altans are excited to see the Roth Building become a worldclass museum, accessible from downtown and drawing visitors from around the world to share what makes this community special,� Museum President Rich Green said in a press release. Museum representatives are scheduled to report to the council on Dec. 17. COMBAT HOLIDAY THEFTS... Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the Palo Alto Police Department has reinvigorated its “Lock It or Lose It� campaign, an effort to pass along tips to prevent car and home burglaries. Officials emphasize hiding valuables from plain sight and the risk at hand if “your property is left unlocked.� In a 30-second video posted Monday on the department’s Twitter account, officials point to two main methods car burglars use: pulling door handles until they find one left unlocked and peering through windows in search of property. Drivers can prevent their vehicle from becoming a target by never leaving valuables inside and locking their car doors. The department is hopeful the tips will help keep the city’s burglaries on a downward trend. As of Nov. 15, the department has recorded 392 car burglaries, 102 thefts from vehicles and 81 residential burglaries. Q

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Council (continued from page 5)

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he reasons for Palo Alto’s long meetings are both cultural and structural. On the one hand, most council members like to comment on most items most of the time — a habit that members always vow to shake during their annual retreats but that they never get around to shaking. It doesn’t help, however, that Palo Alto, a city with 67,000 residents, has a larger City Council than any city of comparable size — an anomaly that became a

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officially coming to an end, those who support the shift from nine to seven predict it will bring some much needed efficiency to City Hall. Others, including most members in the council’s “residentialist” minority, fear the change will make it harder for council members to have meaningful relationships with both their constituents and with regional agencies. Regardless of who is right, the move is already forcing city staff and council members to grapple with the changes that the smaller council will necessitate, including slimmer council committees, lower thresholds for proposing new legislation and, perhaps positively, new opportunities for residents to get involved in governance.

The Palo Alto City Council chambers, circa 1960, featured a 15-seat dais. The council met in what is now the Palo Alto Art Center on Newell Road. fixed reality 109 years ago, when voters approved the first City Charter, calling for a 15-member council. The decision led to a 15-member council called the Board of Freeholders, who over a series of meetings in 1908 crafted the city’s first charter. The city’s first governing body, the Board of Trustees, voted 4-1 in January 1909 to place the charter on the January 1909 ballot and voters adopted it by a 355-225 vote. The only trustee to oppose the new charter was attorney Joseph Hutchinson, the president of the Board of Trustees and a big-government skeptic. (Hutchinson’s story did not have a happy ending; the city’s “first

mayor” killed himself in September 1910 by inhaling gas in his Professorville home, according to newspaper accounts.) For the Board of Freeholders, which included civic leaders, attorneys and Stanford University professors and which was operating in a growing town run largely by volunteers, bigger was clearly better when it came to council size. C.W. Charles, an attorney and a freeholder, was among the proponents of this view. In January 1909, weeks before the charter vote, Charles gave a talk at Mullen’s Hall espousing the advantages of a large city council, according to the Daily Palo Alto Times. (Charles’ story also

did not have a happy ending; the judge who helped frame the city’s charter was killed at a rail crossing in December 1916 when an automatic gate struck him, according to newspaper accounts.) So the group came up with a system that Malcolm described as “unique in formation,” in which different non-salaried commissions — including public works, safety and library — handled most administrative functions with the help of a bare-bones staff. Fifteen council members, all spurred by “public spirit” and working without a salary, handled the legislative functions. Accounts from the era suggest that the system functioned pretty well until mid-century, when it suddenly didn’t. The city’s population exploded after World War II, most of south Palo Alto was annexed in 1951 and demand for services surged. To meet growing demands, Palo Alto approved a charter change in 1950 to create a city-manager form of government. By that time, residents were also questioning whether Palo Alto really needed to have more council members than any other California city save Los Angeles. The council considered a reduction in council seats in 1950 but put off the idea so that it could focus on the other charter reforms. “I think back in 1919, there was a justification for the larger council because the council had to do everything,” said Steve Staiger,

Palo Alto’s city historian. “You had this new streetcar system, you had this little library, you had a lot of things in the city that other towns of its size didn’t have. Then there was a reality check in the 1960s. Times have changed and people figured, ‘We don’t need it anymore.’” The move to reduce the council began in February 1963, when the City Council appointed a panel called the Mayor’s Charter Review Committee to study the size reduction and other possible reforms. Nine months later, the committee recommended gradually reducing council from 15 seats to nine in three two-seat increments, starting in 1966. Joseph S. Lawry, who chaired the committee, wrote in his argument that the reduction of the council from 15 seats to nine was a “compromise between the views of those who experienced great satisfaction with the 15-member council that has existed for 54 years and those who see a changing situation brought about by area growth.” “It was therefore the recommendation of the committee that the effectiveness of the council would be improved and its work expedited by a reduction in size to nine,” Lawry wrote. Not everyone shared this view. Former mayors Frances Dias and J. Pearce Mitchell both opposed (continued on page 8)

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City manager turns down raise Palo Alto City Manager James Keene, who is retiring this month after 10 years of service, has informed the City Council that he will not be accepting a raise, Mayor Liz Kniss announced Wednesday afternoon. (Posted Dec. 6, 9:35 a.m.)

Palo Alto again eyes City Hall upgrades After balking earlier this year, Palo Alto officials are preparing to move ahead with significant technological upgrades to the Council Chambers, a project that aims to both boost the city’s broadcasting capabilities and make the City Council’s main meeting room more accessible to individuals with disabilities. (Posted Dec. 6, 9:07 a.m.)

Mother of slain man seeks help finding shooter The mother of a 22-year-old man who was shot and killed at a birthday party in East Palo Alto on Oct. 14 is frustrated by the lack of progress in arresting his assailant. (Posted Dec. 5, 6:06 6.m.)

Palo Alto backs housing ‘subregion’ Palo Alto signaled its support this week for joining other cities in Santa Clara County in forming a new “subregion” to collectively tackle the regional housing challenge. (Posted Dec. 5, 2:06 p.m.)

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School board approves new general council The school board enthusiastically approved Komey Vishakan, the district’s compliance manager, as Palo Alto Unified’s first-ever general counsel on Tuesday night. (Posted Dec. 5, 8:36 a.m.)

Stanford report details sexual violence The national #MeToo movement’s reckoning with sexual violence trickled down to Stanford University, where over the past year officials received reports of allegations of misconduct from years and decades past (Posted Dec. 4, 2:40 p.m.)

City makes zone changes to spur more housing With Palo Alto falling far short of its housing goals for the year, city officials approved on Monday a slew of zone changes that they hope will ramp up residential production in 2019 and beyond. (Posted Dec. 4, 12:30 a.m.)

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Council (continued from page 7)

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here is no clear-cut consensus in Palo Alto today on whether a smaller council is a good thing. When the Palo Alto council placed the seat-reduction measure on the ballot in 2014,

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council (Dec. 3)

Housing: The council began its discussion of zoning revisions to encourage housing and took a series of votes on citywide and downtown-specific zone changes. The council voted 6-0, with Tanaka absent and Filseth and Holman recused, to approve citywide zoning changes to convert the RM-15 to an RM-20 zoning district and create a “minimum density” standard. It also voted 6-1, with Kou dissenting, to approve downtown zoning changes, including a maximum average unit size of 1,500 square feet, creation of a “Housing Inceptive Program” that offers more density to residential developers; allowance of residential-only development in the CD(C) district (except in the GF overlay) and a suspension of the “in-lieu parking fees” for commercial developers for a year. The council then approved by a 5-2 vote other citywide changes, including one that allows developers to use rooftop gardens to fulfill their requirement for private open space. Yes: Filseth, Fine, Kniss, Scharff, Wolbach No: Holman, Kou Absent: DuBois, Tanaka

Board of Education (Dec. 4)

Elections: The board named Jennifer DiBrienza as president and Todd Collins as vice president for 2019. Yes: Unanimous General counsel: The board approved an employment contract with Komey Vishakan as the district’s new general counsel. Yes: Unanimous PAPD MOU: The board approved a revised memorandum of understanding with the Palo Alto Police Department. Yes: Collins, Dauber, Dharap, DiBrienza No: Baten Caswell First interim budget: The board heard a report on the first interim budget. Action: None

City Council (Dec. 4)

Compensation: The council discusses salary increases for its four councilapproved officers: city manager, city attorney, city clerk and city auditor. Action: None

Council Finance Committee (Dec. 4)

Audit: The committee recommended accepting the audit of the city’s financial statements. Yes: Unanimous Chambers: The committee recommended approving proposed upgrades to the Council Chambers, including upgrades to the broadcasting system. The committee voted 2-1 to pursue these changes at the same time, rather than through a phased approach recommended by staff. Yes: Kou, Scharff No: Filseth Absent: Tanaka

Utilities Advisory Commission (Dec. 5)

Resilience: The commission discussed CPAU’s role in promoting community resilience. Action: None Underground systems: The commission discussed rules and regulations regarding community requests for fully undergrounded utilities. Action: None

Architectural Review Board (Dec. 6)

3128 El Camino: The board approved a proposal for changes to the McDonald’s restaurant, including a remodel of the exteriod façade, landscaping, signage and seating. It directed its subcommittee review further revisions to the Yes: Gooyer, Furth, Lew, Thompson No: Baltay 3705 El Camino: The board recommended approving the design of the proposed 59-unit apartment complex for low-income residents at individuals with disabilities. Yes: Unanimous

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it did so by a 5-4 vote, with one supporter, Councilwoman Nancy Shepherd, saying she was “51-to49” on the issue. Voters approved the switch by a solid but unemphatic majority, with 10,495 voters supporting Measure D (53.7 percent) and 9,048 opposing it (46.3 percent). Much like their predecessors 50 years ago, supporters of the reduction (including Kniss and former mayors Betsy Bechtel and Mike Cobb) framed the move as a way to introduce some efficiency to a council where it’s been sorely lacking. Roger Smith, the founder Silicon Valley Bank, led the drive for the 2014 measure. His reason, as he told the Weekly at the time, was simple: Time is money. “I’ve never talked to someone who prefers to have nine bosses to seven bosses,” Smith told the Weekly shortly after the election. Others, particularly those who consider themselves residentialists, have been skeptical about the switch. Opponents of Measure D, including former Vice Mayor Greg Schmid and current council members Tom DuBois, Eric Filseth and Lydia Kou, maintain that fewer seats will result in less representation and less citizen participation. Palo Alto, they say, is unlike any other city in the area because it operates its own utilities and has to deal with a giant and complex entity called Stanford University. Reducing the council size, they wrote in the argument, would “put power in the hands of fewer people.” “On one extreme, a one-member council would be highly efficient, but no one wants a dictator,” the opposition argument stated.

‘If we want to have more efficient and more engaged meetings, that’s up to each of us as council members.’ —Councilman Adrian Fine There is, of course, plenty of room between a lonely dictator and a nine-member council — a space large enough to accommodate every city in Santa Clara County except San Jose. Nine out of 15 municipalities in the county function with five-member councils (Campbell, Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill and Saratoga); four have seven (Gilroy, Mountain View, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale). The only two cities with more than seven are Palo Alto and San Jose, which has 10 council members (and an elected mayor) and a population of more than 1 million. The City Council began to grapple with the new reality in late October, when it voted to reduce the size of its standing committees from four to three members and changed the rules for “colleagues memos” — a common tool used by council members to introduce

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the change and called the move “an unnecessary and unwise concession to certain minority groups in an attempt to upset our present efficient and well-balanced city government.” A 15-member council, they wrote on the opposing argument, “represents all the people and gives every segment of the electorate a chance at direct representation.” “To cut it to nine is illogical. How can nine be more representative than 15? The fallacy of that argument is apparent on the face of it. We have a fine, wellproven and well-functioning city government. To tamper with it is dangerous.” It’s easy to see why the majority of the voters in 1963 didn’t buy this argument. At the time, the council at war with itself as members of the pro-growth “establishment” feuded with slow-growth “residentialists” over everything from development proposals to meeting minutes. Jay Thorwaldson, who began covering the council for the Palo

Alto Times in 1966, said the political climate was epitomized by Halloween night in 1966, when all six residentialists boycotted the meeting, depriving the establishment of the votes it would need for routine actions (two council members, Robert Debs and Bob Cooley, almost got into a fistfight and had to be separated by the city manager). The boycott, Thorwaldson said, was emblematic of the type of obstruction and inefficiency that characterized the council of the 1960s. Thorwaldson recalled staying at City Hall until 4 a.m. during some meeting nights. “That became a real problem. For example, you were supposed to pass a budget by June 30 but the council on June 30 might still be dealing with things from the May 21 meeting or something,” Thorwaldson said.

Mayor Liz Kniss listens as City Councilman Adrian Fine, center, asks a question during a council meeting on Dec. 3. new legislation. The maximum number of colleagues who can co-sign such a memo was reduced from four to three, though City Attorney Molly Stump suggested that two would be a legally safer choice. Both rule changes were required to ensure that the city complies with California’s Ralph M. Brown Act, which requires subcommittees to have fewer members than the majority of the primary body. Other changes may soon be on the way. Early next year, the council will move ahead with revisions to its policies and procedures, a process that the Policy and Services Committee kicked off on Nov. 14. As part of this revision process, council members are weighing new reforms, some of which are almost certain to revive the tension between democracy and efficiency. One area on which there is currently no clear consensus surrounds the “consent calendar,” a list of agenda items that get approved simultaneously, with no council discussion. Today, it takes three council members to remove an item from consent and schedule a full hearing on it. But with a smaller council, some members would like to see the threshold to remove an item drop to two council members — or even one. Council members who tend to be most cautious and skeptical about new development have tended to also be more wary about streamlining the approval process or limiting public debate. Kou and Holman, who both lean toward slow city growth, support making it easier to remove items from the consent calendar. Holman argued that requiring three votes to pull an item from the consent is a higher hurdle for a seven-member council than it is for the current council. Councilman Adrian Fine, who has regularly talked about the need for the council to be more efficient, pushed back against a proposal to make it easier to pull items off the consent calendar. Over the past two years, he said, the council has taken many items off consent and ultimately passed all of them except the renovation of the Council Chambers, Fine said. “There is a cost to staff, the city and to residents both in terms of policy, in terms of council time and in terms of dollars spent,”

Fine said about pulling items off consent. “I think it’s an important consideration.” DuBois, who also tends to lean toward slower city growth, suggested that the council adopt a new policy that would allow any member to effectively continue any item to the next meeting, thus giving members more time to consider the item’s implication. Councilman Cory Wolbach, who is favors more city growth, rejected the idea and suggested that it would allow the council minority to engage in obstructionism. “It’s like a filibuster, but you don’t even have to keep talking,” Wolbach said. The council members did agree on one thing: A smaller council will make it harder for members, and the city, to maintain a regional presence. DuBois said the council members currently serve in 37 “liaisons” roles with local organizations (including nonprofit Palo Alto Housing and Avenidas) and regional organizations (such as the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, which operates Caltrain, and the Association of Bay Area Governments, which sets housing targets for Bay Area municipalities). In recent interviews, both Fine and DuBois brought that up as one of their major concerns when it comes to the seat reduction. “When they are spread out among seven members, it means each of us has to do a little more,” Fine told the Weekly. To deal with the increasing workload, DuBois recommended that the city allow non-elected residents to serve in some of these liaison roles to ensure that the city doesn’t lose its voice — an idea to which no one objected. DuBois said he is also concerned that the smaller council will increase the role of money in local politics by making it easier for wealthy donors to target one or two candidates with their contributions. When that happens, money will have a greater influence on decisions, DuBois said. Some cities, including Mountain View, have voluntary campaign limits to prevent large campaign contributions. Palo Alto does not, though DuBois believes it should. “Some kind of campaign-finance (continued on next page)

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limits should really be considered once we get down to seven seats,” DuBois told the Weekly.

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overnment watchers often point out that fewer seats won’t, in of itself, make the council more efficient and effective. It will also take discipline from the people filling these seats. Thorwaldson, who is also the former editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, said he believes council conversations “expand according to the time available.” Under his theory, members of the smaller council will simply talk for longer because — all of a sudden — they will be able to. Longtime council observer Herb Borock agreed. Reducing the council size may make things more efficient for developers and employers who want to see their projects encounter less questioning and opposition, he said. But it might not do much to constrain council meetings. “Each member will just talk more,” Borock said. Council members themselves have publicly acknowledged on many occasions that they need to do a better job limiting their comments. “If we want to have more efficient and more engaged meetings,

that’s up to each of us as council members,” Fine told the Weekly. Earlier this year, at the council’s annual retreat, Fine urged his colleagues to “figure out where we can be a little more quick and a little bit more efficient in terms of using our time on council and staff’s time and the public process to reach efficient, sustainable and transparent decisions.” Fine also challenged Kniss, who as mayor presides over meetings, to “keep us on a time clock and make sure that we do our meetings efficiently and rapidly and crisply.” Kniss agreed that council members should be more “succinct” but suggested that requiring members to talk less may be an exercise in futility. The time restrictions, she said, have been suggested every year that she’s been on the council but never pursued. “Apparently it doesn’t seem to be part of our process to limit our comments,” Kniss said. That idea is now once again resurfacing. During the Policy and Services’ Nov. 14 discussion, several council members said they would support having a digital timer tracking how long every council member has spoken. Wolbach proposed having a chess clock at meetings to nudge members to wrap it up. “Not binding, but just a little bit of public shaming,” Wolbach said. Another idea that some members believe will make the council more efficient and effective

is prohibiting council members from making new legislative proposals during council meetings without first vetting them with staff. Holman cited the infamous January 2017 meeting in which the council’s five-member progrowth majority approved a series of changes to the Comprehensive Plan by a 5-4 vote. These included the removal of every policy from the plan, which staff had neither analyzed nor recommended. That action that was widely criticized and ultimately rolled back. At the Nov. 14 meeting of the Policy and Services Committee, Holman made a push to adopt a policy preventing the council from making significant changes to proposals in the 11th hour, a habit that both extends meetings and breeds citizen mistrust. Her suggestion prompted a debate over what exactly constitutes a “significant” change. Holman herself won’t be around to see whether such a policy will be implemented; she, Wolbach and Greg Scharff will all be off the council next year. But the council’s newest member, Alison Cormack, seems to share her view about late-night surprises. When asked at an October debate what she would do about last-minute legislative proposals, her answer was simple: Vote no. Whether the seven-member size will usher in a new era of efficacy for the city and council is yet to be seen. But those favoring the

council reduction are hoping the upcoming change will help Palo Alto to succeed in 2019 in meeting its two key goals: increasing the city’s housing supply and making a decision on grade separations, the physical separation of Caltrain tracks from local streets at four rail crossings. The latter issue is particularly urgent, given that the city is competing for county funds with Mountain View and Sunnyvale, cities that are well ahead of Palo Alto in their design plans. During the council’s February retreat, City Manager James Keene cited the “ticking clock” on the grade-separation issue and noted his concern about the speed

of the city’s decision-making. “Our beloved ‘Palo Alto Process’ is not well-aligned with the crisis aspect of this issue,” Keene said at the retreat. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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Support our Kids with a gift to the Holiday Fund Last Year’s Grant Recipients 10 Books A Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 49ers Academy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Able Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Acterra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Ada’s Café . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Adolescent Counseling Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 All Students Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Art in Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Art of Yoga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Bayshore Christian Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Buena Vista Homework Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 CASSY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Downtown Streets Team. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 DreamCatchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 East Palo Alto Kids Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 East Palo Alto Tennis & Tutoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Ellen Fletcher Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,000 Environmental Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Family Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Foundation for a College Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,000 Friends of Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Get Involved Palo Alto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Health Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Hidden Villa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 JLS Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,000 Kara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 Live in Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Marine Science Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Music in the Schools Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 New Creation Home Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 New Voices for Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,000 Nuestra Casa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 One East Palo Alto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Palo Alto Art Center Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Palo Alto Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$4,000 Peninsula Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Peninsula HealthCare Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Project WeHOPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 Quest Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Ravenswood Education Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Rosalie Rendu Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$3,500 Silicon Valley FACES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Silicon Valley Urban Debate League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 St. Francis of Assisi Youth Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Stanford Jazz Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,500 YMCA East Palo Alto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$7,500 YMCA Ross Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Youth Community Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000 Youth Speaks Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$15,000

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ach year the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund raises money to support programs serving families and children in the Palo Alto area. Since the Weekly and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation cover all the administrative costs, every dollar raised goes directly to support community programs through grants to non-profit organizations. And with the generous support of matching grants from local foundations, including the Packard, Hewlett, Peery and Arrillaga foundations, your tax-deductible gift will be doubled in size. A donation of $100 turns into $200 with the foundation matching gifts. Whether as an individual, a business or in honor of someone else, help us reach our goal of $350,000 by making a generous contribution to the Holiday Fund. With your generosity, we can give a major boost to the programs in our community helping kids and families.

Give to the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund and your donation is doubled. You give to non-profit groups that work right here in our community. It’s a great way to ensure that your charitable donations are working at home. As of Dec. 5, 144 donors have contributed $187,325 to the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund. 14 Anonymous ......................$107,325

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James W. & Nancy E. Baer............... 200

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The Ely Family.................................. 250

Julie Jerome..................................... 500 Bonnie Berg ........................................ * Gallo Family .................................... 500 Ann & Don Rothblatt ...................... 500 Caryn Huberman Yacowitz ................. *

Page & Ferrell Sanders..................... 100 JoAnne N. Zschokke........................ 100 Ralph R. Wheeler ............................ 300 Bert Fingerhut & Caroline Hicks ...... 250

Shirley R. Ely .................................. 1000

Kaaren & John Antoun ................. 1500

Luca & Mary Cafiero ........................... *

Richard Johnsson .......................... 7000

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

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

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Jennifer DiBrienza & Jesse Dorogusker.......................... 500

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Eric Hahn & Elaine Hahn ........ 1000 Bob & Dee Crawford.....................* Diane & Bob Simoni ................. 200 Jan Thomson & Roy Levin .............* Donald & Adele Langendorf .... 200 Irvin & Marilyn Yalom ............... 100 Brigid Barton ............................ 500 Jerry & Bobbie Wagger .................* John & Florine Galen .....................* H. Anton & Carolyn Tucher ...... 250 Phil Fernandez & Daniel Sternbergh ......................* Bob & Micki Cardelli......................* In Memory Of Francine Mendlin ..................... 250 Bob Donald ...................................* In Honor Of Lucy Berman’s clients.............. 2500 Jill ............................................. 200 Scott......................................... 200 Polly ......................................... 200 Hayley ...................................... 200 Jake .......................................... 200 Garrett ..................................... 200 Gil ............................................ 200 Joe Simitian ...................................* Businesses & Organizations deLemos Properties .................. 200

Previously Published David Labaree .......................... 300 Bruce Campbell........................ 200 Janis Ulevich ............................. 100 Mike Gordon............................ 250 Bill Reller........................................* Ellen & Mike Turbow ................ 200 Xiaofan Lin ..................................50 M D Savioe....................................* Ron Wolf.................................. 200 Marcia & Michael Katz ............. 200 Tom Goodrich .......................... 100 Leif & Sharon Erickson ............. 250 Stephen Levy ........................... 500 John & Meg Monroe................ 500 Daniel Cox ............................... 200 Richard Zuanich........................ 200 Kieschnick Family ..........................* Deborah Williams..................... 500 Joan & Roger Warnke ...................* Havern Family ........................ 5000 Bill Johnson & Terri Lobdell ..... 1000 Mike & Jean Couch .................. 250 Tony & Judy Kramer ......................* Peter Stern ....................................* Dorothy Saxe............................ 100 David & Nancy Kalkbrenner ..... 100 David & Lynn Mitchell .............. 450 Barbara Riper ................................* Nancy & Joe Huber .................. 100 Sue Kemp ................................ 250 Richard Baumgartner & Elizabeth Salzer ..........................* Sally & Craig Nordlund ............. 500 Ted & Ginny Chu...........................* Stev & Mary Chapel ....................50 Ruth Hammett ......................... 100

Drew McCalley & Marilyn Green ....................... 100 Roy & Carol Blitzer ........................* Judith Appleby ......................... 200 Carolyn Brennan ...........................* Susana & Doug Woodman ...........* Jody Maxmin.................................* Pat Burt .................................... 250 Larry Baer ................................. 500 Arthur Keller .................................* Lawrence Naiman .................... 100 Pamela Mayerfeld .................... 100 Eileen Brooks............................ 500 Scott & Jan Kilner ..................... 500 Andrea Smith ........................... 100 Braff Family .............................. 500 Eugene & Mabel Dong............. 200 Debby Roth .............................. 200 Phil Hanawalt & Garciela Spivak .................... 1000 Lani Freeman & Stephen Monismith............... 100 Tom & Ellen Ehrlich................... 350 Robert & Barbara Simpson ............* Gwen Luce....................................* Robert Aulger................................* Pat & John Davis .........................50 Art & Peggy Stauffer ................ 500 Kroymann Family ..................... 250 Mahlon & Carol Hubenthal ...........* Karen & Steve Ross .......................* Wileta Burch .................................* Mandy Lowell ...............................* George & Betsy Young ..................* Tom & Pat Sanders ........................* Gerald & Joyce Barker .............. 200 Brigid Barton & Rob Robinson .. 400 Jim & Alma Phillips ................... 500 Peggy & Boyce Nute......................* Michael & Cathie Foster ........... 500 Diane Moore .................................* Linda & Steve Boxer ......................* Chuck & Jean Thompson ......... 100 In Memory Of Er-Ying & Yen-Chen Yen .......... 250 Janet Hermsen ......................... 200 Ray Bacchetti............................ 250 Nancy & Bob Lobdell .....................* Ruth & Chet Johnson ....................* Tracy & Alan Herrick ................. 100 Bob Fenster ...................................* David, Zoe & Ken ..................... 100 Mrs. Nancy Yih..............................* Thomas W. & Louise L. Phinney ....* Leo & Sylvia Breidenbach ..............* Corrine Aulgur ..............................* Duncan Matteson .................... 250 Pam Grady ............................... 300 Elliot Eisner ....................................* Nate Rosenberg ....................... 200

Her baby’s father left her, and she was caring for her mother. Those first years of her baby’s life were “very, very difficult,” she recalled. She became a manager at a Dollar Store, working long hours. The money was OK, but she wanted a career. She wanted to give her son a sense of what is possible — to set a good example for him, she recalled. “So I decided to take this risk and hope for the best,” she said. Enter the Gap Year program, Live in Peace’s “next step” for students after high school. The 12-month program, which begins in August of each year and currently has 20 students ages 18 to 24, received a $5,000 Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund grant last year. Students receive life coaching and skill-building lessons to help them enter and graduate from college or a trade school. They learn about financial literacy, investing and career exploration, gain computer and life skills, and discuss the topics ranging from the effects of trauma to birth control to how to date and marry well. The students go on retreats to help shape their vision for their future. In addition, they have access to weekly counseling, reading coaches, academic tutors, attorneys and mentors in their field of interest, Starnes-Logwood said. Students are required to find at least parttime employment and must enroll

in a training program or accredited coursework. Each student who successfully completes the program receives a $5,000 scholarship toward trade school or junior college along with continued coaching and support. Gap Year helped Barajas, now 24, to gain the skills and confidence to enroll in the national Year Up mentoring program at Facebook. While participating in the Gap Year program, she’s receiving through Year Up five months of instruction in business, career development and information technology on the Facebook campus, which will be followed by a six-month internship. “I’m getting all A’s in my classes,” she said. She will work at the IT help desk for her internship, starting in February. When she finishes at the end of June, Facebook might offer her a job. If it doesn’t, Year Up will help place her at another company, she said. Once listed in Starnes-Logwood’s cell phone address book as “Adriana Mad,” her moniker has now changed to “Adriana Glad” in the space of a few months. “I never thought tech would be one of my passions,” Barajas said. And she is learning and enjoying “the challenge of all of the hard things” she added. “I’m a completely different person. A lot of it has to do with the support from Live in Peace and the Gap Year program. They are like the family I’ve always wanted,” she said. At a house on Beech Street in

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to receive a “Healthy Cities Award” from the Santa Clara County Health Department. It then plans to meet in a closed session with real property negotiators to discuss payments for easements at 361 California Ave., 341 California Ave., and 2453 Ash St., for construction of the new California Avenue garage. The council then plans to consider a new five-year operating and revenue-sharing agreement with Team Sheeper for operations of the Rinconada Pool, consider a construction contract for the California Avenue area parking garage; and consider elimination of the zoning provision relating to grandfathered uses and facilities. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 10, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The closed session is scheduled to take place between 5:10 and 5:45 p.m. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will convene for a budget study session from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 11, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to consider a proposal to rezone 2321 Wellesley St. from R-1 to RMD (NP) to accommodate a two-family residence; consider a request from the applicant for a new hotel 3200 El Camino to eliminate the 50-foot special setback on Hansen Way; and consider changes to the zoning code pertaining to wireless communication equipment to reflect new FCC regulations. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 12, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. CITY/SCHOOL COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to meet at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 13, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The agenda was not available by press time.

In Honor Of Melissa Baten Caswell ...................*

HISTORIC RESOURCES BOARD ... The board plans to hold a special meeting to tour the historic “Tobey House” at 567 Hale St., at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 13.

Businesses & Organizations Alta Mesa Cemetery & Funeral Home...................... 2000 Bleibler Properties................... 1000 Communications & Power Industries .................... 500

BOARD POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE ... The school board’s policy review committee will tentatively discuss policies on topics including legal counsel, school-sponsored trips, admissions and district residency. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 14, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave., Room A.

East Palo Alto recently, Gap Year students got a lesson in time management from Tom Tryggstad, area director of Young Life EPA/EMP, a nonprofit ministry that attends to youths’ spiritual needs and helps students in multicultural communities to succeed. Armed with worksheets, the students watched part of a TED talk by author Manoush Zomorodi on the television. Zomorodi discussed how overuse of social media and cell phones has caused people to lose the ability to “space out” and have the kind of creative dreaming that can lead to big ideas. Tryggstad instructed the students to access a setting on their phones to track their daily use. Much to their surprise, many found it was up to nine hours a day. The students came up with ways to reduce their phone use: charging the phone only 50 percent so that every percentage would be valued for important communication; leaving the phone at home during work hours; using the “do not disturb” mode. Starnes-Logwood said such lessons help reshape thinking and build skills that are critical to success in college and in life. According to a study by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, only 11 percent of all low-income students enrolled in college reach graduation. But a 2014 Pell study found that college graduates earn a median income that’s 1.6 times that of a high school graduate, which is critical if students want to continue living in the Bay Area. Angela Langi, a poised young woman who studied at the MenloAtherton High School Computer Academy, is a classmate of Barajas. She said the Gap Year program has provided her a great support system. “It helped me show my most professional side. I’m training for project management,” she said. “I want to be a project coordinator in recruiting to hire people of color at Facebook or from East Palo Alto and to give back to my community.” Gap Year classmate Julian Escalante, who is beginning a project-management internship at Facebook, said he didn’t do well in high school. “Before, I didn’t think I had much of a future,” he said. Now, he’s a straight-A student. Starnes-Logwood said the Gap Year program has a waiting list of about 50 students, and it needs more funding to expand. Barajas reflected on the impact of Live in Peace and its programs: “I can’t ever stress enough what they mean to me,” she said. Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com. 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.

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Pulse A weekly compendium of vital statistics

POLICE CALLS Palo Alto Nov. 28-Dec. 5 Violence related Assault w/ a deadly weapon. . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dependant adult abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . . 6 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. parking/traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Theft from auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Vehicle accident/mnr. injury . . . . . . . . 13 Vehicle accident/prop.damage. . . . . . 16 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence fo drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Miscellaneous Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Outside assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 4 Unattended death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Menlo Park Nov. 28-Dec. 4 Violence related Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Burglary undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Residential burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Theft undefined. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Auto recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Auto theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/ suspended license. . . . . . . 10 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle accident/unspecified injury . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Alcohol or drug related Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 1 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Miscellaneous Coroner case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CPS referral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Disorderly conduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fire call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Info case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Juvenile problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Mental evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Psychiatric evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant arrest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

774 Emerson St., 11/21, 5:30 p.m.; assault with deadly weapon. Willmar Drive, 11/27, 9:52 a.m.; dependant adult abuse/finance. Webster Street, 11/30, 1:34 a.m.; sex crime/misc. Colorado Avenue, 12/01, 4 p.m.; battery

Menlo Park

Bayfront Exit/Dumbarton Bridge, 12/02, 3:37 p.m.; child abuse.

Editorial A stealth agenda Eleventh-hour move by city staff and a lame-duck council may decide fate of President Hotel

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n a perfect demonstration of what is wrong with Palo Alto city government these days, an attempt to sneak through a series of actions that would pave the way for the new owners of the President Hotel Apartments to proceed with their hotel project has quietly appeared as the last agenda item on Monday night’s penultimate City Council meeting of the year. With an agenda description that is indecipherable and doesn’t mention the relevance to the President Hotel proposal, the city staff is asking the council to dispense with normal review by the Planning and Transportation Commission and rush to adopt changes to the zoning ordinance that were secretly requested by A.J. Capital, the boutique hotel company that is in the process of evicting the last remaining tenants from the President. The staff report buries any reference to the President Hotel controversy and neglects to disclose that each of the proposed zoning changes was demanded by A.J. Capital as part of a scheme that also sought to squelch continued opposition to the conversion by the remaining tenants. It also deceptively attempts to hide the real intention by citing as an example a restaurant wanting to convert to a retail store, as if that was a pressing problem deserving urgent council action. The proposed new ordinance isn’t about restaurants or retail stores. It’s about the President Hotel Apartments. According to reporting by Weekly reporter Gennady Sheyner, who obtained previously undisclosed city documents and emails through a Public Records Act request, A.J. Capital has pressured the city staff to to get the zoning changes approved by Dec. 18, the day after the last City Council meeting of the year. And for reasons that no one has yet explained, the staff has followed A.J.’s roadmap to a T. Over the last two months, with the city staff’s knowledge and after private consultations with Councilman Greg Scharff, A.J. quietly approached all the remaining tenants in the apartment building offering them a deal that would give them several months of additional occupancy at reduced rent, plus additional relocation money, in exchange for their silence, but conditioned on the council approving by Dec. 18 the needed zoning changes that would allow A.J. to move forward unimpeded in its conversion of the 75-unit apartment building back to a hotel. The zoning changes needed by A.J. Capital are the lifting of the current cap on downtown commercial development and the elimination of “grandfathered building” provisions that prevent a change in the use of a property that is not in compliance with today’s zoning rules. What’s more, A.J. wants an exemption from parking requirements. There is legitimate room for debate on each of these proposed changes had they come before the city in an appropriate and transparent way, followed normal procedures for consideration by the planning commission and absent a manipulative tenant agreement designed to take advantage of and buy the silence of the tenants. The involvement of former senior-level city staff members as paid consultants to A. J. Capital has done nothing but raise suspicions of deals crafted behind the closed doors of City Hall conference rooms. A disingenuous attempt has been made to suggest it’s merely a coincidence that these zoning changes were scheduled for the final meetings of the year while citizens are distracted by the holidays and a new seven-member City Council potentially less sympathetic to A.J. Capital will be seated in January. (One, the downtown cap, has been moved to a January agenda, according to City Manager Jim Keene.) City staff, Mayor Liz Kniss and whomever else was involved were wrong to rush this proposal forward and allow the city to become a supporting actor to the three-way deal A.J. Capital is trying to pull off. Instead of facilitating a conversion in use that will sacrifice 75 units of housing for the creation of another hotel, the city should instead be taking advantage of the current zoning rules to block this conversion. Unfortunate as it is that current tenants are being displaced, earlier council action already requires that substantial relocation assistance be paid to them by the new owner. If the City Council truly believes that it didn’t go far enough in helping evicted tenants, it would be far smarter for the city to pay those few remaining tenants additional relocation benefits than to give A.J. Capital the gift, worth millions of dollars, of zoning changes that will enable the elimination of badly needed housing. This staff proposal should never have made it onto the council’s agenda and should be pulled or resoundingly rejected. The city doesn’t need another late-night controversial decision in the waning days of the current council. If nothing else, the results of the Nov. 6 election should have made that very clear. Q

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

Unfair commenting time Editor, Once again, Mayor Liz Kniss has shown disdain for the public. The published City Council agenda states: “Council reserves the right to limit duration of Oral Communications period to 30 minutes.” It is customary to allow each speaker three minutes to make his or her comments. I and seven others (at the last minute two others joined us) addressed the council last Monday evening during Oral Communications. Mayor Kniss, without so stating, limited each speaker to just two minutes (there is a timer by which she can do that), even though if each of us had used the customary three minutes, the total elapsed time would have been no more than 30 minutes. I was the sixth speaker and noticed what she was doing in time to use part of my minutes to object to that unnoticed change in customary practice. Why would she do so, unless Mayor Kniss feels that she and her fellow council members don’t need to hear from the public? Once again, how disrespectful of Mayor Kniss. How disdainful of the citizens of Palo Alto! When a limited number of citizens care deeply enough about their city to address the council and explain their concerns, the council, led by a respectful mayor, should care enough about them to allot them their customary three minutes. It would have been the right thing to do. So, beware, if you wish to address the council, you may not get the customary three minutes that mayors in the past have properly allowed. Joe Hirsch Georgia Avenue, Palo Alto

Stanford University deserves some credit Editor, Stanford purchased two homes that share property lines with mine. It has renovated one and will tear down and rebuild the other. It has had any number of contractors, caretakers and engineers on and off the properties. Not that that is unusual. What is unusual was the bad attitude and hubris of all the people involved, including a stack of legal papers delivered Thanksgiving week regarding a trivial matter with a “sign it or else” dictate that, upon consulting with a lawyer, I found was unnecessary in the first place. Stanford management is a bad neighbor. I made my feelings known at the meeting held by county Supervisor Joe Simitian requesting community input on Stanford development. Whether or not my comments were well-received or ignored, I don’t

know. But I did also get to listen to other residents voice their concerns, a good deal of which was about traffic, a problem for which Stanford is not the primary source. Another concern was the potential impact on schools, which seemed valid. But then there was a contingent of residents who ranted about how Stanford people use our dog parks and our restaurants and our public services, etc., and how Stanford should pay to put Caltrain underground and build bike paths through Palo Alto and fix the traffic problems and so on and so forth. Do people not understand that Stanford put Palo Alto on the map? Without Stanford there would be no Palo Alto, no Silicon Valley and no tech revolution? I still think they can be and often are a bad actor when it comes to community relations. However, their contribution to the intellectual and cultural enrichment of our area is incalculable. That background seems to be totally lacking in the minds of most of the residents at the meeting. Deb Goldeen Birch Street, Palo Alto

Castilleja still needs to collaborate Editor, It is past Thanksgiving with no word on when the Draft Environmental Impact Report will come out on Castilleja School’s plans that negatively impact the neighboring community. In its submission, the school plans to direct traffic currently spread around its campus and funnel it into a garage via the Bike Safety Boulevard at an intersection already riddled with congestion, near misses and accidents. Does this make sense? Let’s ask how this school can latch onto residential laws of grandfathered square footage yet build a garage as a business. Merging lots and building underground garages are prohibited in residential zones. The conditional-use permit (CUP) was required because it is a business operating in a single-family neighborhood. It should abide by residential laws.

The school’s recent advertisements tout the successes of lowering their car trips yet still requests that a garage be built. With this success, why is there need for a garage? If they are increasing their student population by a modest number each year, their transportation-demand-management (TDM) plans should continue to evolve without the need for a garage. Why do they keep pushing for a plan that will cause extra years of disruption to build something not required? To create a true TDM plan, traffic should be counted at all hours of the day and the number of events reduced drastically to maintain it. Other communities near Bowman International School and Cubberley Community Center have worked with neighbors to get their buy-in to their projects. Castilleja should be a good neighbor and do the right thing now regardless of the process. Kimberley Wong Emerson Street, Palo Alto

‘No’ to Verizon cell towers Editor, My family is against setting up Verizon cell towers in our Palo Alto neighborhoods. I talked to many of our neighbors; none of them agree that towers should be set up in our neighborhood. The reasons are very clear: 1. These cell towers’ huge radio frequency will affect our children and adult’s health. 2. If our city allows Verizon to set up a tower in our neighborhood, there are three other big mobilephone operators who will also want to do that. It will cause a huge radio-frequency disaster. 3. These towers will generate lots of noise and heat, which will affect our neighborhood. 4. Based on my more than 20 years of telecom experience, weak cell signal will not affect our life because every home has Wi-Fi. I would like to ask for the city to reverse its wrong decision on setting up the towers. Jian J. Shi Villa Vista, Palo Alto

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Alexander Charles Andrew Fodor February 2, 1988 - November 4, 2018 Palo Alto, California Alexander (Zander) Fodor passed away November 4, 2018 on the Sonoma Coast. Alexander was studying developmental biology at the University of Washington and planning a future with his girlfriend when he suffered a tragic accident. Zander will be sorely missed by his family, friends and colleagues. Zander was born in Berkeley, California and moved with his family to Palo Alto, California in 1989 where he grew into a young man full of character with a zest for life. As a child, Alexander loved all aspects of nature and was always finding and helping lost animals. After graduating from Palo Alto High School in 2006, he attended Franklin and Marshall College where he studied Biology and Evolution. His passion and love of animals drove an ambition to be near the sea and pursue research in invertebrate biology. He entered the graduate program in Biology at the University of Washington where he completed his Master of Science and was pursuing a doctorate studying tunicate development at Friday Harbor Laboratories. Zander especially enjoyed teaching younger students and exploring biodiversity and research with the many visitors of Friday Harbor. Alexander is survived by two brothers, Nicholas and Lucas, his mother and father, Janelle and Stephen, grandparents, Waldene and Larry Benoit, partner Teresa Schaut and many loving aunts, uncles and cousins. A remembrance and celebration of his life will be held at the family home in Palo Alto, Saturday 8th of December. A fund has been established in his memory to support graduate students at Friday Harbor Laboratories. Contributions can be made through the University of Washington online (web link: https://www.washington.edu/giving/make-a-gift/?source_ typ=3&source=FHLDIS), or by mailing checks to: University of Washington, Box 355055, Seattle, WA 98195. Please address checks to “University of Washington” and add: “In memory of Alexander Fodor” in the memo line. PAID OBITUARY

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Jean Walls Morosco Olmsted Jean Walls Morosco Olmsted, a resident of Palo Alto for 46 years and avid volunteer, died Nov. 12 at the age of 93. She was born in Los Angeles, and graduated from Escondido High School in 1943. During World War II, she worked afternoons with classmates to package lemons, so that the regular packagers could assist with wartime production. On a full academic scholarship, she attended Stanford and graduated in 1947. In 1948, she attended the Radcliffe Management Training Program. She moved to San Francisco and worked at the Public Welfare Department, when she met Franklin Olmsted, a USGS Water Resources Department geologist, and they were married in 1955. Work assignments moved the two throughout the United States. Her husband was transferred to the Menlo Park regional

headquarters, and the two bought a house in Palo Alto. From 1975 to 1994, she worked at Syntex’s U.S. headquarters in Palo Alto in the Regulatory Affairs department. Following her retirement, she and Franklin worked with many other volunteers to remove invasive plants from Foothills Park. She was a member of the Peninsula Camellia Society and the Charleston Meadows Association. She also took on an active role in city planning discussions, with the goal of safeguarding neighborhood character and pedestrian access. She and her husband were also avid travelers. She visited every continent, except Antarctica. She and her husband once rented an apartment in London and spent several weeks there watching plays. She is survived by her children, Ann Olmsted of Palo Alto; and Warren Olmsted of Palo Alto. A memorial gathering will be held Saturday, Dec. 15 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Fireside Room at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 505 E. Charleston Road, Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Second Harvest, Peninsula Open Space Trust or Opera San Jose.

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June 21, 1936 – October 29, 2018 Don Kenyon passed away on October 29 at the gates of the Stanford Football stadium, just around the corner from where he was born on June 21, 1936. He spent his life in Palo Alto a star of Paly sports, and avid fan of Stanford Women’s Basketball, a supportive spectator of his grandchildren’s from AYSO to Varsity Water Polo. He often and unabashedly avowed his love for his wife and partner in life, Carol, with whom he celebrated 60 years of marriage on August 9th 2018. They met at the University of Utah where Don created many fond memories as a Sigma Chi. After graduation he was a pharmacist at Kenyon’s Pharmacy in Palo Alto. His was a life of routine on paths well-tread, by bike around Palo Alto, by cross country ski in Park City, Utah, and by foot in his beloved mountains in Lake Alpine. What he enjoyed most was time with friends and family and the simple delights of a garden welltended, a persimmon pudding recipe perfected, and volunteering at the Palo Alto Food Closet and Avenidas. He was a founding member of the Beyond War Foundation. His spirit lives on in his son Paul, who Don was proud to see embrace his love of Lake Alpine, and his daughter Robbyn with whom he delighted in discovering new foods, movies and unexpected adventures. His brothers Bob and Bill remained a big part of Don’s life through their weekly calls and reunions in Lake Alpine, Alaska and Palo Alto. Don is survived by his daughter Robbyn McHugh (James), son Paul Kenyon, wife Carol Kenyon, and grandchildren Camila and Kian Mchugh. The family will be celebrating Don’s life at a private family memorial service and asks that everyone celebrate Don in their own way. For those that are so inclined, Don’s favorite charities were DST Palo Alto Food Closet and Avenidas. PAID

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January 30, 1923 - November 21, 2018 Helen Maxine Reeves, 95, of Palo Alto California passed away on November 21, 2018 at Ageway board and care in Union City, California. Born January 30, 1923, in Stanberry Missouri, she is predeceased by her husband, Judson Mak Reeves of Palo Alto, California and her son, Stephen Wayne Reeves, also of Palo Alto. Maxine was a loving mother to Sandra Reeves Tebow and Janice Reeves Sanford. She was also a loving grandmother to Greg Kassaw and Beverly Kassaw Scruggs, Alexandra Tebow Wong, Patrick Tebow, Michael Tebow, and Jacqueline Tebow Peñafiel. She also had ten great grandchildren; Emily Duhon, Kaleb Kassaw, Erin Kassaw, Jacob Kassaw, Tommy Wong, Matthew Wong, Madison Tebow, Charlotte Tebow, Avery Tebow, and Maverick Peñafiel. Maxine joined the Navy during World War II and was stationed at Oak Knoll Naval Base in Oakland, California where she and Jud met, courted and married in 1946, eventually settling in Jud’s hometown of Palo Alto. Maxine was a homemaker who volunteered at her children’s school in the PTA and as a room mother. She earned her Associate of Science Degree in Library Science from Foothill Community College later in life and worked with the Consumers Cooperative. She was an avid reader and crossword puzzle enthusiast who loved to keep abreast of current events. Along with her husband, she was active in the Elks Lodge of Palo Alto and in their Wheeler RV group spending many happy days traveling all over California and the United States. They loved to travel in general and frequently went to Europe and to Great Britain as well. Maxine and Jud enjoyed a long and happy 54 years of marriage until Jud passed away in 2000. A graveside service is planned for Friday December 21, 2018 at 1:00 pm at Alta Mesa Cemetery, Palo Alto. PAID

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Loyal E. (Gene) Apple Loyal E. Gene Apple, a veteran and advocate for the blind, died Nov. 5 at the age of 86. He was born in McCurtain, Oklahoma and spent his early childhood there, and in Independence, Missouri and Wasco, California. He then graduated from William Jewell College in Missouri and attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary before marrying his first wife, Grace Newman, who he went on to have two children with, Guy Apple and Gracia Apple. He also went on to have a daughter, Claire Apple, with his wife Marianne May Apple. In 1995, he was drafted into the army, but was blinded in an army training incident and went through blind rehabilitation training at the Hines Veterans Administration. Following this, he began his career with the Blinded Veterans Association as a Field Service Representative in the Midwest and he went on to Washington, D.C., as National Field Service Director. In 1960, he became Chief of the Blind Rehabilitation Section at the Veterans Administration Hospital, where he had been a patient. The programs he spearheaded at this position were later adopted as national standards. In 1967, Gene transferred to VA Hospital, Menlo Park to organize and establish the new Western Blind Rehabilitation Center. While at this post, he was an adjunct professor at Western Michigan University. In 1975, he worked at The American Foundation for the Blind in New York City to reorganize and direct the program. He also served on the Executive Committee of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind, before taking a break from his career in 1980. At this time, he sought a doctorate in Marketing at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In 1991 he returned to the Western Blind Rehab Center in Palo Alto. In 1995, he and his wife retired to Columbus, North Carolina. Here, he explored his love of clay and wood sculpting, even winning several prizes for his artwork. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Marianne May Apple of Columbus, North Carolina; his first wife Grace Newman of Menlo Park; his children, Guy S. Apple of Redwood City; Gracia A. Mahan of Bend, Oregon; Claire Apple of Pittsboro, North Carolina; and his grandchildren. Memorial donations can be made to The National Library Service for the Blind, The Library of Congress, The Lewy Body Dementia Association or the Polk County Transportation Service.

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runs away, following a friendly toad into the mysterious woods her family has owned for decades but that she’s never been allowed to explore. There, she meets hunky Jesse Tuck (Eddie Grey), who quickly takes her under his wing and teaches her about the joys of climbing trees while forbidding her from drinking from a certain spring. Soon the plot point around which “Tuck Everlasting” revolves is revealed: The spring is magic and grants immortality to those who drink from it. Jesse, along with mother Mae (Kristine Reese), elder brother Miles (Travis Leland) and father Angus (Jonathan Rhys Williams) all unwittingly drank from the spring nearly a century ago and haven’t aged a day since. Meanwhile, a smooth-talking carny known only as the Man in the Yellow Suit (Michael Gene Sullivan) is in hot pursuit of the Tucks, desperate to know the secret to their longevity so he can exploit it, and willing to use Winnie as collateral. Winnie’s mother has the local constable (Colin Thomson) searching for the missing girl, aided by his young deputy Hugo (David Crane), nervously taking on his first case. Jesse is stuck at age 17, on the cusp of adolescence and manhood, forever. Once he confesses the Tuck family secrets to Winnie, he gets an idea. He urges her to wait six years until she, too, turns 17, then drink the water so that she can join him in eternal life as his wife and partner in hijinks. (Yes, it is somewhat creepy that a nearly-adult male is grooming an 11-year-old to commit

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t is Friday night at the year-old Rustic House Oyster Bar and Grill in downtown Los Altos. Couples sip cocktails next to parents grabbing a night out with their kids and nobody but me seems annoyed by the muted TV screens flashing frenetically around the massive, U-shaped bar at the center of the action. But aside from the screen overload and an uninspired dessert menu, Rustic House is a self-assured restaurant that makes few other missteps. Rustic House offers seafood standards, including oysters, along with artisan pizzas, excellent beers on tap and tasty cocktails. Its friendly service take diners to an easy-going place that is at once down home and upmarket. It has brought a vibrant, something-for-everyone vibe to the corner of Main and Second streets. The Los Altos location is the little sister to a 3-year-old Rustic House in San Carlos. The new owners

took over the spot that was vacated abruptly by Turn Bar and Grill last August. Half Moon Bay resident Jerry Beltramo and his son-in-law Dave Parks own both Rustic Houses while Parks also operates two other San Carlos restaurants: The Office Bar and Grill, site of Parks’ former real estate office, and 3 Pigs BBQ. “One of our goals with the Los Altos Rustic House is to offer something for the whole community, to be a place where everyone feels welcome,” said Beltramo (no relation to Menlo Park’s famed, now-retired, liquor store family). “We already know so many familiar faces and that actually feels very emotional.” Some customer loyalty may be inspired by the fact that Rustic House charges no corkage fee for the first bottle of wine, increasingly a rarity at local restaurants, given how tempting it must be for owners to squeeze some of their often-narrow profits out of wine sales and markups. (Plus, the bar stays open an hour later than the kitchen, until 11

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2015, allowing for financial services on the ground floor, offices on the second and residential units on the third. Bank of the Orient opened its first Palo Alto branch in the adjacent groundfloor space in August. Since opening in 1975, Ulferts has gained international recognition, expanding its showrooms beyond Hong Kong. Palo Alto will be the company’s third Bay Area location. The retailer opened a showroom at the 52,000-square-foot Ulferts Center in Dublin in 2006. It later opened a second site at the Ulferts Center in Milpitas. —L.T. CHO’S TO CLOSE ... Fans of Cho’s unassuming potstickers and pork buns panicked in 2014, when the owners of the longtime Palo Alto

p.m. on weekends.) Rustic House brings in oysters daily from a variety of purveyors, offering at least three selections on the changing raw menu. Flavorful Hood Canal oysters from Puget Sound, Kumamoto, originally from Japan but long cultivated on the West Coast, and the diminutive Kusshi were on offer during my visits. Prices range from $8.95 for three of the Hood Canal variety to $42.95 for a dozen of the Kumamoto or Kusshi. Even the most ardent connoisseurs of the bivalve have to admit that raw or grilled oysters are, on some level, a pricey vehicle for accompanying sauces and enhancing flavors. Rustic House gets it, offering four excellent sauces with each order from the raw bar, including a light Rustic wash (vinegar, shallots and jalapeños) and a tangy and peppery chipotle mignonette. The grilled bourbon oysters (three for $10, six for $18 and a dozen for $32) were my favorite: good-sized,

Chinese restaurant announced plans to close after receiving a 60-day notice from their landlord. Customers launched a petition to keep the hole-in-a-wall California Avenue restaurant from closing. Happily, owner Cho and wife, Daisy Yu, soon secured a new space and were able to reopen in downtown Los Altos in 2015. But come Jan. 25, 2019, Cho Yu plans to retire and shutter the restaurant, according to a Facebook post. “After 39 long years of serving the community his beloved food, Cho is finally moving on with his retirement,” the post reads. “There are no immediate plans for reopening in the near future. We apologize if this inconveniences anyone.” —E.K. Compiled by the Weekly staff; this week written by Elena Kadvany and Linda Taaffe. Got leads on interesting and news-worthy retail developments? The Weekly will check them out. Email shoptalk@ paweekly.com.

non-briny beauties dropped on the grill for a few minutes and bathed in a decadent sauce of chipotle chilies, garlic, butter, brown sugar and a dash of bourbon. The ceviche ($12.95) was an ample serving of lemon and lime juicecured shrimp, tomatoes, onions and jalapeño served with a mountain of house-made tortilla chips. A heavy hand with the diced tomatoes made this starter too reminiscent of salsa but the tangy heat was nicely balanced and the copious shrimp were fresh and plump. A grilled artichoke ($10.95) had a nice smoky flavor and the accompanying lemon-garlic aioli was tangy and on point. The sauteed prawns ($15.95) made for an intensely flavored, savory appetizer comprised of five medium-sized shrimp in a slightly sweet bourbonbutter sauce studded with pancetta and diced shallots. The lobster roll ($23.95) is the Maine variety, served chilled with a mayonnaise-and-herb dressing. I am partial to a Connecticut-style roll — warm lobster meat unadulterated with anything but butter — but Rustic House’s sandwich, bursting with hunks of sweet lobster and very lightly dressed, won me over. The accompanying steak fries were fresh-from-the-fryer perfection: crispy and piping hot. Also crispy and delicious were the beerbattered fish and chips ($16.95), which evidenced just the right ratio of batter to flakey cod. The grilled mahi mahi entrée ($27.95) arrived with a large dollop of creamy mashed potatoes and a side of flavorful roasted carrots. A few seconds too long on the grill can quickly dry out this firm, sweet fish, but Rustic House’s chef perfectly executed our moist piece of line-caught mahi mahi, made citrusy with a lime glaze and a salsa of tropical fruits. We also ordered a trio of tacos, one wild Alaskan cod and two grilled shrimp ($15.95 for two; $6.95 for an add-on). The large soft tacos were served in cute little holders, with each taco standing at attention and drizzled with yummy chipotle aioli. Crunchy-cool cabbage,

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avocado salsa and a generous serving of seafood inside each corn tortilla made these my new favorite seafood tacos (sorry, Sancho’s). We were less taken by the pricey Rustic House pasta ($24.95), a surprisingly smallish-bowl of linguine, prawns, clams and sun-dried tomatoes in a bland white wine sauce. On each of my three visits, enthusiastic young servers checked in frequently, cheerfully answered questions and brought out food and drinks in record time. On one visit, my dining companion and I sat at the bar, near the kitchen, and ended up being the lucky recipients of an extra shrimp appetizer, which the server said he preferred to see eaten rather than thrown away. A nice, neighborly gesture. Rustic House’s dessert menu is basically a list of the most overoffered, yawn-inducing desserts in modern America: s’mores, New York-style cheesecake, key lime pie, flourless chocolate cake and, of course, tiramisu. The key lime pie ($6.95) wasn’t bad, with the right balance of sweetness and tartness, and a generous serving of vanillatinged whipped cream on the side. This restaurant won’t win any awards for innovative cuisine, but it offers well-executed seafood comfort food and American standards in a fun and friendly atmosphere. Bonus tip: Costco sells 20-percentoff gift cards good at both Rustic Houses and the other San Carlos restaurants owned by the family. Q Freelance writer Monica Schreiber can be emailed at monicahayde@yahoo.com.

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ging expert Walter Bortz, widely known as the “running doctor” who completed 45 marathons while advocating the correlation between exercise and longevity, can no longer run. At 88, the retired Stanford University professor, physician and author of titles such as “Dare To Be 100,” “Living Longer for Dummies” and “Roadmap to 100” is personally experiencing some of the health trials he’s spent a career studying and writing about. During a recent interview at his Portola Valley home, seated in a comfortable chair with a walker by his side, Bortz shared what it’s like to be a senior. Advanced age “used to be something I observed in other people, and now it’s happening to me,” Bortz said. “So instead of being objective, it’s subjective.” Bortz, who until recently was an active runner, is scheduled to undergo back surgery to address spinal stenosis. He holds out hope that the surgery might enable him to get back to the running routine he loves so much — or at least to walk

comfortably. He considers the surgery as a minor disruption in his quest to stay true to one of his cardinal tips for successful aging: “Don’t slow down.” He remains firmly convinced that regular, sustained vigorous exercise is key to living 100 years in good health. “Use it or lose it,” he said. “My mantra is ‘100 healthy years.’ Our birthright, our warranty is 100 healthy years if we don’t screw it up.” With his engagement and curiosity undiminished, Bortz said he continues to travel and lecture and is at work on his next book — about aging — with the tentative title of “Aging Is Negotiable.” Running — around Stanford’s Angell Field, up Portola Valley’s Windy Hill, and on tracks and paths throughout the world — has been one of the great passions of his life. But he admits he might have overdone it on the marathons. “The Greeks said, ‘Everything in moderation,’ and I was not moderate. I think I just wore (my legs) out, just gone from too much use,” said Bortz, who ran the Boston Marathon in 2010 to celebrate

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For decades, local aging expert Walter Bortz has promoted how to live “100 healthy years.” Now that he’s 88, he reflects on how he’s following his own advice. his 80th birthday and then again in 2013. “I never had any distinction as a runner — I was once interviewed by PBS for coming in last in the Boston Marathon — but I love to run,” he said. “I’m terribly upset

when I see runners running and I can’t do it. It bothers me.” On death and dying, Bortz aligns himself with the message of surgeon and writer Atul (continued on page 25)

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Gawande in the book “Being Mortal”: People should consider their deepest values and strive to maintain them as much as possible even in the final weeks and days of life. “We want to die actively, not inactively,” Bortz said. “My wife died here in this house after falling out of bed and hitting her head. She had advanced Alzheimer’s. No pain, no tubes, no loneliness.” He was delighted to share that in the past year and a half he has found new love and companionship with Jeanne Kennedy of Palo Alto, whose photo sits among the many family images in his memento-filled home. (Kennedy, contacted separately, confirmed that she is equally delighted.) Bortz began his career in the 1950s, practicing medicine in Philadelphia with his father, geriatrics trailblazer Edward Bortz, who chaired an early White House Conference on Aging and helped found the AARP. “I was an only child, and I worshipped him,” he said of the relationship. At his father’s death in 1970, Bortz, then 40, took up running and exercise to deal with his overwhelming grief. “I knew exercise was the best treatment for depression, and I was devastated, clinically

depressed,” he said. That same year, Bortz and wife, Ruth Anne, left Philadelphia and moved their four children to California, buying the home in Portola Valley he still occupies. Bortz began practicing at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic, a precursor to today’s Palo Alto Medical Foundation. “When I joined the clinic they said, ‘You are our anointed gerontologist,’ and I loved it,” he recalled. He served as a physician for local senior communities Channing House, the Sequoias and Casa Olga. He made house calls and began teaching Stanford medical students, which he has continued to do. Among his proudest achievements, he said, was chairing a board that got a senior center built in East Palo Alto. He also took on national leadership roles in the American Medical Association, the American Geriatrics Society and the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation. Though he’d published extensively in medical journals, Bortz never considered writing for a general readership until he befriended Norman Cousins, then a nationally prominent writer and editor in the 1980s. “Cousins was brilliant — he espoused the idea of attitude and wellness,” Bortz said. “He told me, ‘Walter, you’ve got to stop writing these scientific articles and write a lay book.’ He wrote a wonderful

blurb for my first book and got Bantam to print 75,000 copies.” That first book, “We Live Too Short and Die Too Long,” came out in 1991. Over the next two decades — on top of a busy medical and teaching schedule — Bortz

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Operating and scholarship funds partially provided by the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties and the Schwartzman Family Scholarship Fund.

Mitchell Park, 600 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto. 310-212-7008 / info@ usyvl.org / usyvl.org/locations/ palo-alto. Run by the league and volunteers, the youth volleyball program allows boys and girls of all skill levels from ages 7 to 15 to play and learn the sport in a fun, supportive and co-ed environment. Youth volleyball starts April 9, and registration is currently open online.

Winter Lodge Ice Skating Classes 3009 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. 650-493-4566 / winterlodge.com Winter Lodge has offered ice skating classes and family recreation for over 60 years. There are group lessons for ages 4 and up. Check for class schedule online.

Health & Fitness Studio Kicks 796 San Antonio Road A, Palo Alto. 650-855-9868 / info@ studiokickspaloalto.com studiokickspaloalto.com. Studio Kicks is a family fitness center offering cardio kickboxing classes and training in martial arts for children and adults.

Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto / 600 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto. 650396-9244 / taoist.org/usa/locations/ palo-alto. The Taoist Tai Chi Society of the USA, a charitable organization with nationally accredited volunteers, holds classes designed to improve balance, strength, flexibility, relaxation and health. Beginner classes are held a few days each week.

Class Guide Uforia Studios 819 Ramona St., Palo Alto. 650-329-8794 / uforiastudios.com. Uforia Studios offers exercise classes incorporating dance (Pop and Hip Hop), cycle classes (Revolutions and Revolutions: Road) and strength and cardio (Grit). View available classes and reserve online.

Avenidas 4000 Middlefield Road I-2, Palo Alto. 650-289-5400 / avenidas.org Avenidas offers a plethora of classes, as well as lectures and workshops, for Midpeninsula seniors focusing on topics such as general health, physical fitness, languages, humanities, computing, music and writing. Membership costs, fees and class descriptions are listed on the website.

Special needs Bay Area Friendship Circle 3921 Fabian Way, Suite A023, Palo Alto. 650-858-6990 bayareafc.org / info@BayAreaFC.org The Bay Area Friendship Circle offers programs for children, teens and young adults with special needs ages 2 to 22 year-round as well as winter and summer camps. Trained teen volunteers provide one-on-one friendship and support. This year’s winter camp will be on Dec. 26 and 27. To register for programs or camp visit the website.

Language courses Berlitz Learning Center 159 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. 650-617-0720 / berlitz.us/paloalto Berlitz provides adult and youth language instruction in Spanish, German, French, English and other languages.

Private lessons, tutoring, testing services and cultural agility training for businesses are also available.

German-American School of Palo Alto GAIS Campus, 475 Pope St., Menlo Park. 650-520-3646 / contact@ gaspa-ca.org / gaspa-ca.org Started in 1960, the German-American School of Palo Alto (GASPA), a Saturday school, teaches immersive German language classes, which also cover culture and traditions. Sessions are available for all skill levels and students ages 3 to 18. No prior knowledge of German is required.

Language classes at the Palo Alto Adult School Palo Alto High School, Tower Building, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. 650-329-3752 adultschool@pausd.org paadultschool.org/class/worldlanguages Classes are offered in Spanish, French, Italian and Mandarin Chinese. The classes cover beginning and advanced skills and sometimes literature and arts.

Arts Art with Emily 402 El Verano Ave., Palo Alto. 650-856-9571 / emilyjeanyoung@ gmail.com / artwithemily.com Emily Young teaches mixed-media and multicultural art classes in small groups for children and adults at her studio in Palo Alto, as well as individual lessons. Classes will resume January 2019.

Art & Soul Webster Street Studio,

2326 Webster St., Palo Alto. 650-269-0423 / artandsoulpa.com Art & Soul runs after-school art clubs throughout the week at Walter Hays and Ohlone elementary schools and Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, in addition to a club on Wednesdays at its studio. Programs allow children to explore drawing, painting and sculpture techniques, as well as develop their observational skills. Art & Soul also offers Art & Wine events for private groups. Summer registration opens Jan. 7.

watercolor, printmaking, digital art and more. Winter registration open online.

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2100 El Camino Real Suite C, Palo Alto. 650-324-2373 newmozartschool.com / info@ NewMozartSchool.com New Mozart School of Music offers music lessons and classes year-round to students of all ages and abilities. Piano, violin, viola, cello, voice, guitar, flute and early childhood music classes are available.

600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. svboychoir.org / info@svboychoir.org. Silicon Valley Boychoir (SVB) offers rehearsals, musicianship classes and performance opportunities to boys ages 7 to 17. Auditions by appointment are available.

Palo Alto Art Center 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto. 650-329-2366 / cityofpaloalto.org gov/depts/csd/artcenter Palo Alto Art Center classes and workshops — teaching children, teens and adults — cover such areas as ceramics, painting, drawing, jewelry, sculpture, Adobe PhotoShop and more.

Pacific Art League 668 Ramona St., Palo Alto. 650-3213891 / info@pacificartleague.org pacificartleague.org The classes and workshops at the Pacific Art League are taught by qualified, experienced instructors for children and adults with varying experience. Instructors teach many mediums, including drawing, painting,

Children’s Health Council 650 Clark Way, Palo Alto. 650-326-5530 / info@chconline.org chconline.org Children’s Health Council holds a variety of classes touching on childbehavior issues, dyslexia, anxiety and depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism and other topics related to encouraging all children’s success. All classes are taught by the organization’s experts.

Parents Place 200 Channing Ave., Palo Alto. 650-688-3040 parentsplaceonline.org/peninsula A resource center for parents, (continued on next page)

The Midpen Media Center 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. 650-494-8686 / info@midpenmedia. org / midpenmedia.org The center offers workshops for a range of media arts, including video production, photo enhancement, studio work and more. The center suggests starting with one of its free hourlong orientation sessions.

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Class Guide (continued from previous page) Parents Place on the Peninsula offers workshops on subjects ranging from sibling rivalry to building a child’s selfesteem and confidence. Parent and child activity groups are also organized. View upcoming workshops online.

School days Emerson School 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto. 650-424-1267 / emersonschool@ headsup.org / headsup.org/ emerson-school Emerson School provides a full-day, year-round program for grades one to eight, teaching a personalized, Montessori curriculum. Lessons draw from classical subjects and other areas,

including art, music, foreign language, physical education, communication, life skills and more. Apply online.

Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School 450 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. 650-494-8200 / hausner.com Instructing children in kindergarten through eighth grade, Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School provides strong academics, instruction in Jewish studies and the Hebrew language, enrichment opportunities and after-school programs. Schedule a tour online.

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HeadsUp! Child Development Center serves infants, toddlers and preschoolers (to age 6) with a full-day program, year-round. The Montessori curriculum focuses on building thinking skills and personal values. A bilingual Chinese-English preschool classroom is also available.

International School of the Peninsula 151 Laura Lane, Palo Alto. 650-2518500 / istp@istp.org / istp.org International School of the Peninsula is an independent bilingual immersion day school with two nurseryto-fifth-grade programs in French and Mandarin Chinese, as well as an international middle school program. Some of the programs offered include media and technology, music, gastronomy and athletics.

Oshman Family JCC Leslie Family Preschool 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. 650-223-8788 / earlychildhood@ paloaltojcc.org / paloaltojcc.org/ preschool The Oshman Family JCC’s preschool program provides one- to fivedays-per-week options for children 18 months to 5 years old (ages 2 to 4 at Congregation Beth Am), with an emphasis placed on experiential learning, family involvement and play. Parent/caregiver participation programs are available for children 12 to 23 months old. School resumes Jan. 7.

Living Wisdom School of Palo Alto 456 College Ave., Palo Alto. 650-462-8150 / info@ livingwisdomschool.org LivingWisdomSchool.org Offering daily yoga, meditation, and

experiential, project-based learning, Living Wisdom School has 24 years of proven success and serves students in transitional kindergarten through Grade 8. It offers a 1:6 teacher-student ratio in kindergarten; an integrated arts program which includes music, theater, art and dance; a balanced approach to technology; and afterschool care.

Milestones Preschool 3864 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. 650-494-0550 preschool@abilitiesunited.org milestonespreschool.org Milestones Preschool offers a yearround, project-based program that fosters the social, emotional, cognitive and physical development of children ages 2 to 5.

Sand Hill School 650 Clark Way, Palo Alto. 650-6883605 / info@sandhillschool.org sandhillschool.org Located at the Children’s Health Council, Sand Hill School teaches children from kindergarten through eighth grade with language-based learning differences, and assists with the attention and social difficulties that go along with them. Apply online.

Sora International Preschool of Palo Alto 701 E. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto. 650-493-7672 / info@sorapreschool. com / sorapreschool.com Sora International Preschool is an English-Japanese bilingual preschool for children 3 to 6 years old. The school combines an early-childhood play experience, instruction in Japanese and English, and exposure to both cultures through traditional events.

Something for everyone Palo Alto Adult School Palo Alto High School, Tower Building, 50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. 650-329-3752 adultschool@pausd.org paadultschool.org Computer, language, cooking, writing, art, outdoor and finance classes — and many other offerings — are available through the Palo Alto Adult School. Winter quarter begins Jan. 14.

Stanford Continuing Studies Littlefield Center, 365 Lasuen St., Stanford. 650-725-2650 continuingstudies@stanford.edu continuingstudies.stanford.edu Stanford Continuing Studies organizes classes in liberal arts and sciences, creative writing and professional and personal development. Courses are held in the evenings or on Saturdays. Stanford Continuing Studies also presents lectures, performances, conferences and other events.

Class Guides are published quarterly in the Palo Alto Weekly, Mountain View Voice and the Almanac. Descriptions of classes offered in Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Atherton, East Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Portola Valley and Woodside are provided. Listings are free and subject to editing. Due to space constraints, classes held in the above cities are given priority. To inquire about submitting a listing for the next Class Guide, email Class Guide editor Christine Lee or call 650-223-6526. To place a paid advertisement in the Class Guide, call the display advertising department at 650-326-8210.

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

Home Front HOLIDAY TRASH COLLECTION ... In Palo Alto, garbage and recycling collection will not occur on Christmas or New Year’s Day. If your regular collection day falls on or after one of these holidays (this year it’s Tuesdays), your collection day will be moved to the following day for the rest of the week. Regular collection schedules will resume the following week. Remember to place your carts at the curb before 6 a.m. Call GreenWaste of Palo Alto customer service at 650493-4894 if you have collection questions. The Household Hazardous Waste Station will be closed on Saturday, Dec. 22, and Saturday, Dec. 29. Learn more at cityofpaloalto.org/hazwaste. REPAIR HELP FOR SENIORS ... Palo Alto senior center Avenidas connects seniors with belowmarket-rate handyman services throughout the Midpeninsula. Cities served are: Atherton, East Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Portola Valley, Stanford, Redwood City and Woodside. For repairs, call 650-289-5426 or email jsheffield@ avenidas.org. The handyman program provides services for a wide range of jobs, including the installation of smoke detectors, grab bars and wheelchair ramps; carpentry; computer-system repairs; electrical work; plumbing; security; and general yard work and gutter cleaning. The labor charge is $50 per hour with a one-hour minimum. Clients pay for the cost of materials and a onetime travel fee per job. Workers are primarily retired individuals who use their skills to help older adults keep their homes in good condition. HOME COMPUTER HELP FOR SENIORS ... Senior center Avenidas offers in-home computer support for local seniors through its “Generations Lab” program. The Lab can assist seniors with everything from computers to televisions and smart devices, at a lower rate than many commercially available services. To schedule an appointment, call 650-289-5409.

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f you ever wander through nursery aisles during the winter, you may see lots of plants put out with their roots exposed, especially roses and fruit trees. Most of these bare-root plants — pear, stone fruit and apple — are sold this way in winter and early spring because they are dormant during this time. According to Sunset Magazine’s website, bare-root plants typically cost 30 to 60 percent less than the same plants purchased in containers later in the year. Once planted, they also tend to establish more quickly and grow better initially than containerized plants. Palo Alto master gardener Romola Georgia is an expert on bare-root fruit trees. She said the most important advantage to buying such trees is that you get a chance to look at the roots before they go into the ground. She has 28 fruit trees growing on her 6,000-square-foot lot in Barron Park. One thing to avoid are roots that go “round and round,” she said, because they have been growing in a container too long and have become “root bound.” Avoid roots that are broken or look too short. Once you choose your trees, take them home and plant them. Georgia suggests digging the holes for them before you go to the nursery. She notes two things that she and other master gardeners have learned: Don’t add amendments to your soil, and be sure to cut new fruit trees down to only about 22-24 inches in height. “A lot of nurseries might recommend amendments,” Georgia said. “Master gardeners have found that’s not a good idea. We

In about a month, local nurseries will start selling bare-root roses wrapped in burlap or paper, rather than placed in containers with their roots buried in soil. Bare-root plants typically are less expensive and tend to establish more quickly than containerized plants. are recommending against putting amendments.” Instead, fill the hole back up with the dirt you removed to create the hole, and add mulch at the top. This way, the roots will be established faster in one type of soil. Cutting the fruit tree “so there’s just a stick,” Georgia said, may seem harsh, but it helps new branches arise from nodes below your cut and helps the roots get established. The other advantage is your tree can be low-growing, only allowed to grow arm’s height high, or about 6 to 7 feet, which makes harvesting much easier.

With some bare-root vegetables and fruit, such as artichokes, asparagus or strawberries, you can add as many as three plants to one hole and make your plants denser, Georgia said. Bare-root roses are very similar to bare-root fruit trees, said Georgia’s colleague, Roberta Barnes. “Look for well-spaced branches and avoid anything that has leafed out. The nursery should have their bare-root plants kept moist,” she said. These plants are very

perishable, she said, so fewer and fewer nurseries carry them. Be prepared to plant very soon after bringing them home. There also are many other bare-root plants, such as grapes and berries, that might be available at your local nursery. Barnes recommends using nursery staff as a resource to show you how to properly prune bare-root roses or fruit trees. Q Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and Real Estate Editor at the Palo Alto Weekly.

Send notices of news and events related to real estate, interior design, home improvement and gardening to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 94302, or email elorenz@ paweekly.com. Deadline is one week before publication.

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2018 REPRESENTATIVE SALES

PALO ALTO ESTATE Offered at $19,950,000

1250 CAÑADA ROAD, WOODSIDE Offered at $13,500,000

135 WILLOWBROOK DRIVE, PORTOLA VALLEY Offered at $6,550,000

1305 WESTRIDGE DRIVE, PORTOLA VALLEY Offered at $5,998,000

216 WALTER HAYS DRIVE, PALO ALTO Offered at $5,498,000

245 WASHINGTON AVENUE, PALO ALTO Offered at $5,450,000

1116 RAMONA AVENUE, PALO ALTO Offered at $4,650,000

152 MELVILLE AVENUE, PALO ALTO Offered at $4,500,000

863 MELVILLE DRIVE, PALO ALTO Offered at $3,998,000

10 FRANCISCAN RIDGE, PORTOLA VALLEY Offered at $3,798,000

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THE ADDRESS IS THE PENINSU THE EXPERIENCE IS A IN PINEL

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SAN GREGORIO $4,995,000

MENLO PARK $4,598,000

LOS ALTOS $3,595,000

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STANFORD $2,795,000

MENLO PARK $2,398,000

BURLINGAME $2,298,000

2434 Waverley Street | 3bd/2ba Denise Simons | 650.269.0210 License # 01376733 BY APPOINTMENT

1098 Cathcart Way | 5bd/3ba Monica Corman | 650.465.5971 License # 01111473 BY APPOINTMENT

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SUNNYVALE $2,188,000

PALO ALTO $1,985,000

WOODSIDE $1,850,000

MENLO PARK $1,795,000

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150 W. Meadow Drive | 3bd/1ba Janie Barman/John Barman | 650.759.1182 License # 01270223 | 01281597 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-4:00

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MOUNTAIN VIEW $1,589,000

SAN MATEO $1,288,000

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The CIPS Institute provides training in international business issues, including currency conversion, cultural awareness, legal and tax requirements, transaction principles of international real estate, and specifics about the real estate markets in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. The course is taught by David Wyant, NAR International Instructor of the Year for 2017, 2012 and 2009. There are currently over 4,000 CIPS designees from the U.S. and over 35 other countries.

The Diamond award is the highest level award for global achievement that recognizes those global councils that have consistently performed at the highest level for six years. The award is given to association global councils that have earned Platinum status for five consecutive years. SILVAR’s Global Business Council was honored with the Platinum Global Achievement Award for five consecutive years from 2013-2017.

Other REALTOR® associations earning Diamond status are Houston Association of REALTORS®, Arcadia Association of REALTORS® and Orlando Regional REALTORS® Association, REALTOR® Association of the Palm Beaches and Greater Ford Lauderdale (2017) and Miami Association of REALTORS® (2016).

“The benchmarks for success over the past six years have been the commitment of SILVAR to think globally, the resolute efforts of our Global Business Council,” said Cardus.

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The GBC provides SILVAR members information, resources, networking and skills training to enhance their professionalism and success in their local markets with international and multicultural clients and customers. Each year the GBC provides a host of programs related to global real estate, including the Certified International Property Specialist Institute (CIPS).

Members of this year's GBC core team are chair Tess Crescini, SILVAR board directors Mark Wong and Joanne Fraser, Mitra Lahidji, Atsuko Yube, past president David Tonna, Alicia Sandoval, Jimmy Kang, Ketan Jashapara, Daisy Wong and Lisa Wendl. Past chairs who led the team in obtaining past Platinum awards are Jennifer Tasto, Davena Gentry and Mark Wong. *** Information provided in this column is presented by the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS®. Send questions to Rose Meily at rmeily@silvar.org.

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Sports Shorts SOCCER HONORS ... Stanford men’s soccer forward Amir Bashti, defender Tanner Beason and goalkeeper Andrew Thomas were named to the United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division I Men’s All-Far West Region first team and midfielder Logan Panchot earned a spot on the third team as announced Wednesday. It’s the first all-region selection for each.

FOOTBALL HONORS ... Firstteam selections Walker Little and Paulson Adebo were among 13 Stanford student-athletes to earn All-Pac-12 football honors as announced by the conference office. Junior quarterback K.J. Costello, senior wide receiver JJ Arcega-Whiteside, junior tight end Kaden Smith and junior offensive guard Nate Herbig were secondteam offense selections, while senior punter Jake Bailey and junior kicker Jet Toner were secondteam specialists. Fifth-year senior cornerback Alijah Holder, senior running back Bryce Love, fifth-year senior linebacker Bobby Okereke, sophomore tight end Colby Parkinson and junior defensive end Jovan Swann earned honorable mention. COACHES WANTED ... Sacred Heart Prep has the following coaching opportunities for the upcoming spring season (Feb. 1st - May 15th): Baseball (varsity assistant coach and JV assistant coach); Boys Golf (varsity assistant and JV head coach); Coed Swimming (varsity assistant and JV assistant coach); Coed Track & Field (jumps coach and throws coach). Please contact Frank Rodriguez (frodriguez@ shschools.org or 650.473.4031) with questions or expressions of interest.

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Middle blocker Tami Alade, the Pac-12 women’s volleyball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, leads the nation with a 1.79 blocks average and ranks ninth in the country with a .404 hitting percentage.

NCAA VOLLEYBALL

Stanford’s final weekend at home Cardinal playing for a Final Four berth by Rick Eymer ll four NCAA Women’s Volleyball Regional sites have their own unique match-ups, though nothing quite compares to the Stanford Regional, where three of the four teams have a combined 15 national titles among them. The other 13 teams have combined for 10 NCAA titles. Top-ranked and top-seeded Stanford (30-1) meets Pac-12 Conference rival Washington State

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(23-9) for the third time this season on Friday at 5:30 p.m. Unseeded Washington (20-12) takes on No. 8 Penn State (25-7) at 3 p.m. Stanford and Penn State are the only two teams who have competed in every NCAA tournament and each has won seven national titles. Washington won a title in 2005 and is the last conference team to beat Stanford, in Nov. of 2017. Two years ago Stanford won the national title with seven losses and most of those players are still

around. They all agree Penn State is every bit as talented as any team in the nation. Four of the Nitanny Lions losses were in five sets and only one, to Stanford, was outside the Big Ten, which has five teams ranked among the top 10 and six remain among the Sweet 16. Penn State posted a pair of sweeps over Howard and Syracuse at home to start the tournament. The Nittany Lions are hitting .265 on the season and average 2.87

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NORCAL FOOTBALL

Zeroing in on the task at hand Bears looking ahead to Division 3-AA bowl game by Glenn Reeves

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fter the events of the last few days Menlo-Atherton football coach Adhir Ravipati is all in on keeping his team’s focus on the game ahead, the Northern California 3-AA bowl game against Eureka at McKinleyville High School on Friday at 7 p.m. Last Friday the Bears won their second Central Coast Section Open Division I championship in the last three years in almost surreal fashion, rallying from a 28-14 deficit with a 19-point burst in a five-minute span of the fourth quarter to beat Wilcox 33-28. Freshman quarterback Matt MacLeod came off the bench to spark the comeback, Division

I skill-position recruits Justin Anderson and Troy Franklin made big plays and the M-A defense came up with four fourth-quarter turnovers. Then on Sunday the team learned it was being sent over 300 miles to Eureka, which won a coin flip to extend its season, for its NorCal playoff game, while Wilcox was getting a home game against Capital Christian of Sacramento. On Monday the all-Peninsula Athletic League selections came out and M-A players, as expected, were well represented. Lineman and University of Washington-commit Noa Ngalu was (continued on next page)

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VOLLEYBALL HONORS ... Menlo College’s Maggie McDonald and Sofia Salim were named to the All-Southwest Region Team by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. McDonald earned her second such honor and Salim was named for the first time … Junior Kathryn Plummer earned AVCA Pacific North Region Player of the Year and a total of six Stanford women’s volleyball players were selected for all-region honors by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Joining Plummer on the 14-player team were senior Tami Alade and juniors Audriana Fitzmorris, Jenna Gray and Morgan Hentz and sophomore Meghan McClure. Cardinal head coach Kevin Hambly was tabbed the Pacific North Region Coach of the Year.

blocks per set. Penn State is led by junior libero Kendall White, Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, and Big Ten Freshman of the Year Jonni Parker. White recently set a school single season record in the rally-scoring era in digs (531). Parker leads the team with 330 kills and 396.5 points on the season. Setter Bryanna Weiskircher runs the offense with 10.89 assists per set, while outside hitter Nia Reed averages a team-high 3.24 kills per set. The Nittany Lions are coached by Russ Rose, who is in his 40th season at the helm of the program and registered his 100th career NCAA Tournament win last week, most in DI women’s volleyball history. Three of the four remaining Pac-12 teams are bunched at Stanford. Oregon plays at Minnesota, a team the Ducks knocked off earlier in the season. And don’t short change the West Coast Conference, which saw all five of its qualified teams win in the first round. BYU and San Diego are still standing. The Cardinal beat Loyola Marymount, 25-20, 25-15, 25-17, on Saturday at Maples Pavilion to reach the Sweet Sixteen. Stanford is the only Division I women’s volleyball program to have 15 wins against teams ranked in the AVCA top 25 this season. Stanford is 15-1. The Huskies finished in a threeway tie for sixth in the Pac-12 but own wins over San Diego and Washington State and have lost to Illinois and Oregon. “It’s tournament time and everything changes,” Stanford setter Jenna Gray said. “We can’t get comfortable because we know teams are playing their best at this time of the year. We know about Washington State and they know about us. Regardless, it will be great.” Stanford extended the nation’s longest home winning streak with its 34th straight victory at Maples and reached the 30-win plateau for the 19th time in program history. The Cardinal also matched the school record for consecutive wins in a season with 28. The teams that make it to Saturday, when there’s a Final Four

Justin Anderson hopes to have another big game Friday night against Eureka.

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named Bay Division MVP. Highly-recruited linebacker Daniel Heimuli was named defensive player of the year for the second consecutive season. Franklin, Anderson, OL David Tafuna, RB Deston Hawkins, LB Joe Posthauer and DB Malik Johnson were all first-team choices. On Monday evening the CIF announced the game with Eureka was being moved to McKinleyville, 15 miles north of Eureka, on account of poor field conditions at Eureka High.

A lot of distractions. So Ravipati has attempted to remain steadfast in getting his team ready to play a 12-0 Eureka team with a Montana at quarterback -- Cruz Montana, who has thrown 25 touchdown passes and only three interceptions this season. “He’s an athletic kid with a good arm,’’ Ravipati said. “He’s accurate and can throw on the run. They’re a base Wing-T team that runs a lot of spread. They’re well-rounded, real multiple, a big challenge for our defense. They’re a little different from what we’ve seen so far this year.’’ As far as the M-A quarterback situation is concerned, junior

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M-A’s Noa Ngalu (52) was named the Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division MVP. Colorado to play the top team in that state, Valor Christian. And if they can come out on top of Eureka they will come back home to

host the 3-AA state championship game next week against Lincoln of San Diego, most likely at Foothill College. Q

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Justin Anderson, Troy Franklin*

The Duke-bound senior made an immediate impact for the Knights, scoring three goals and recording four assists in Menlo’s first three games, all by shutout. She recorded two goals and two assists in her high school debut.

M-A FOOTBALL The two receivers were instrumental in helping the Bears beat Wilcox for the CCS title on Saturday. Franklin scored twice, including the game winner. Anderson scored once, intercepted two passes and returned kicks.

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Evelyn Calhoon Menlo-Atherton wrestling

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Jack Alexander won the job in preseason practice but has only played five games due to injuries. He started the Wilcox game at less than full strength and Ravipati made the unusual move of bringing in a freshman quarterback in a CCS championship game. “Jack was playing through an injury,’’ Ravipati said. “He’s a big reason we’re here. I tried something different to try to get a spark. Football is a game of momentum. Matt did a great job and I’m proud of how Jack handled it. He was doing everything he could to coach Matt up.’’ MacLeod completed 10 of 18 passes for 116 yards. On Tuesday Ravipati said he was not ready to name a starter for the Eureka game. “I’m trying to temper expectations,’’ Ravipati said. “I want to see how Jack feels and let them compete in practice.’’ The defense came up with seven turnovers in all against Wilcox, three fumbles and four interceptions, the big reason a comeback from a 21-0 first-half deficit was possible. “We practiced trying to rake the football out,’’ Ravipati said. “And we thought that if they were forced to throw that we would match up well and get some turnovers through the air.’’ Anderson intercepted two passes, caught a touchdown pass from MacLeod and had a 17-yard punt return that set up the winning touchdown. Franklin caught a touchdown pass from Alexander in the first half that was set up by a Heimuli interception, and scored the winning touchdown with 3:33 left on a 17-yard run after taking a pitch from MacLeod. “Big-time players,’’ Ravipati said. “In the playoffs you need stars to play like stars.’’ The team will travel to Eureka on Thursday. “We’ll practice Thursday evening and stay the night,’’ Ravipati said. “On Friday we’ll do a study hall, a film session and a walkthrough before the game.’’ It’s a long trip. But the Bears made an even longer one during the regular season, going to

Daniel Heimuli was named the PAL Defensive Player of the Year a second straight season.

Priory basketball

Avery Lee Menlo basketball

Ashley Wang Palo Alto wrestling

Jai Despande Sacred Heart Prep basketball

Liam Johnson Sacred Heart Prep soccer

Guy Manor Kehillah Jewish basketball

Raymond Price III Sacred Heart football

Adar Schwarzbach Palo Alto wrestling

Andrew Wang Palo Alto wrestling *Previous winner

Watch video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to PASportsOnline.com *Troy Franklin not available for photo.

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berth at stake, will have earned it. “It’s hard to play Washington State,” Stanford coach Kevin Hambly said. “We had to prep for them late in the season and we’re still looking for as much information as we can. I’m not wishing to play Washington State.” Washington State opened the tournament with a pair of four-set wins at home last against Northern Arizona and Tennessee. The Cougars are hitting .237 as a team and are led by senior outside hitter Taylor Mims, who averages 3.79 kills per set. Middle blocker Jocelyn Urias leads the team with a .328 attack percentage, while junior libero Alexis Dirige anchors the defense with 4.33 digs per set. Against the Lions, junior Kathryn Plummer posted her eight double-double of the season with a match-high 16 kills on .519 hitting to go with 10 digs and three blocks. Sophomore outside hitter Meghan McClure added 12 kills on .440 hitting and six digs, while opposite Audriana Fitzmorris turned in eight kills on 17 swings with just one error to hit .412. The junior also put up four blocks for the Cardinal. Stanford recorded its secondhighest hitting percentage of the season as a team at .438, while holding LMU to a .144 clip. The Cardinal defense worked well,

with 11 blocks and 33 digs in the sweep. Stanford finished with just one ace, registered by Fitzmorris on match point. Gray recorded 33 assists to go with two kills and two blocks while running the offense. Senior Tami Alade led the team with five blocks, while freshman Holly Campbell added four. Junior libero Morgan Hentz finished with a match-high 13 digs along with

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seven assists. Loyola Marymount, the last team to sweep Stanford at home (the second round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament), was led by senior opposite Sara Kovac’s 12 kills. Junior outside hitter Savannah Slattery added seven kills for the Lions. As for the upcoming weekend? “We expect great matches,” Hambly said. “We’ve been practicing for this all year.” Q

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