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Young Woman Faces Breast Cancer After Birth of Baby During a routine 38-week ultrasound for her second pregnancy, Parul felt a lump in her left breast. For most women, a clogged milk duct or pregnancy-related hormones would be suspected. But for Parul, who had a known genetic risk for breast cancer, the lump set off alarm bells. Before she could schedule a breast workup, her water broke. She delivered a healthy baby girl two weeks early. When her milk came in, she could no longer feel the lump. But her instincts drove her to push for an evaluation. “My husband wheeled me in my C-section gown to the neighboring breast clinic for an ultrasound and a biopsy,” said Parul. Just days after leaving the hospital, she received the news. At 32 years of age, she had cancer. “We had two glorious days at home with our happy family when I got the call that the biopsy results were in and it was malignant,” she said. She was seen at Stanford within a week of her diagnosis. Less than a month later, her treatment began. “When Dr. Telli told me I would need to stop breastfeeding my newborn, it was only then that I started crying,” she recalled. Because she had a high-grade, aggressive type of cancer, she needed to try to rapidly wean the baby, said her medical oncologist Melinda Telli, MD, assistant professor of oncology at Stanford Medicine. “These kinds of cancers tend to grow very quickly, and they can be very life threatening.”
Treatment would consist of 12 to 20 weeks of combination chemotherapy, followed by surgery, neither of which was compatible with breastfeeding. “Because we knew her BRCA status, we could more optimally select therapies,” said Telli. She further explained that for Parul’s type of breast cancer, how a patient responds to chemotherapy is directly related to their long-term survival. By administering chemotherapy first, her medical team could assess Parul’s response and adjust the therapy if needed. After 12 weeks, Parul had no sign of cancer in the breast or lymph node, a complete response to treatment. Understanding her genetic risk and treatment options helped guide Parul’s medical decisionmaking. She selected to have bilateral mastectomies, according to her surgeon Amanda Wheeler, MD, both to help prevent a recurrence and to avoid further treatment with radiation. That was in 2014. Four years later, she remains cancer free, well past the peak risk for recurrence. “It’s important to take the time to do the research, be comfortable with your care team and plan out the best course of action,” said Parul. “That was one of the things I loved about Stanford. Dr. Telli and Dr. Wheeler just sitting down with me, and very clearly walking me through this. Th is is what we see. Th is is what it means. These are the trade offs. They’ve been so amazing at a time when I needed it most.”
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Parul credits her health today to the care she received at Stanford, and to the knowledge she gained from genetic testing. A doctor recommended Parul receive genetic testing when she was just 29 years old because of her family history. Her mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer in her early 30s. A simple saliva swab showed that Parul was positive for a mutation in the BRCA 1 gene, putting her at a much higher lifetime risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. “If I hadn’t gotten the genetic testing, it would have probably been a year later, once I stopped breastfeeding, that I would feel my lump again,” she said. “And by then, the end of this story would be very different than what it is today.” “I’m a very big proponent of genetic testing,” said Parul. “It’s what probably saved my life.”
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alo Alto’s plan for a bike bridge over U.S. Highway 101 sped ahead on Monday morning, when city officials formally signed agreements with multiple agencies, paving the way for construction of the longdelayed project to begin next year
and conclude in 2020. At a small, makeshift space off of the Adobe Creek trail in south Palo Alto, agency representatives signed agreements that allow the city to go out to bid in January. Once built, the new bridge at Adobe Creek will provide
year-round Baylands access to pedestrians and cyclists, who today rely on a seasonal undercrossing that’s typically only open between April and October. Among the 60 people at the event were representatives of organizations involved in the project — such as the city of Palo Alto, Google, Caltrans and Santa Clara County Valley Water District — and everyday commuters who have kept a close eye on the bridge’s progress.
In their opening remarks, Assistant City Manager Ed Shikada and City Manager Jim Keene praised the milestone for the project, which officials have been discussing for at least six years. The proposed bridge is a key component of both the council’s 2014 infrastructure plan and the 2012 Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure Plan. “It’s been a really long journey,” said Shikada, Keene’s soon-to-be successor.
Keene proudly reminded the audience that Palo Alto has a 10 percent bike-to-work commute rate and emphasized the importance of fostering a bike-friendly city. The city estimates that about 74,000 trips will be taken across the new bridge annually. State Assemblyman Marc Berman commended the city on its accomplishments in upgrading (continued on page 8)
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Hundreds of apartments proposed in E. Palo Alto Property owner plans to replace 160 rentcontrolled units, add 445 market-rate units by Sue Dremann he largest owner of apartments in East Palo Alto is proposing to demolish 160 rent-controlled units and to replace them with 605 apartments, some of which would rent at market-rate, owner Sand Hill Property Company announced Wednesday. The proposal at Woodland Park Communities would not cause the eviction of current residents, a rarity among developers, the company said. Sand Hill would designate 160 apartments in the new development as rent controlled, available to the existing tenants, and would add 445 apartments for rent at market rates. The redevelopment would affect less than 10 percent of the 1,800-unit Woodland Park Communities, which is located west of U.S. Highway 101. Sand Hill would relocate the 160 tenants to similar residences within the same neighborhood during construction, then give them a “right to return” at their same rental rates, according to the company. Woodland Park’s buildings, which include multistory apartments and single-family residences, are between 50 and more than 100 years old, putting them at “the end of their useful life,” the company stated in a press release. “They were built before the city
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Ron Whiteside, center, a volunteer tutor for eight years and also advisory council member for the Youth Club at St. Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo Alto, helps students Kayle Manriquez, left, and Zuri Bermudez, right, with their homework after school on Dec. 11.
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A brighter future Catholic Charities Youth Club gives students tools to succeed in and out of the classroom by Linda Taaffe
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he two portable classrooms behind St. Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo Alto bustled with activity in the days leading up to this week’s community Posada festival. Students in the Catholic Charities Youth Club were practicing songs and readings for the big holiday event commemorating Joseph and Mary’s journey to Bethlehem.
“I want to be the ant! I want to be the ant!” one third-grader excitedly yelled out as he prepared to read from the pages of “Hey Little Ant,” which he and his classmates performed at the event. In the adjacent classroom located across a large wood deck, more than a dozen fourth-graders gathered at the front of the room
waving their hands high above their heads while singing “Jingle Bell Rock.” As soon as the clock hit 5:20 p.m., however, it became clear that the after-school club was about much more than just fun and games. The room quickly quieted down as the students found a desk, table or comfortable space on the floor to put themselves, opened their books and teamed up with a group leader or volunteer to practice their reading, writing and math skills. For most of the students, the year-round academic enrichment program is the only place where they have access to a strong
support system designed to help them overcome language, economic and other social barriers that otherwise might hold them back in life. “We give kids as much support as possible to succeed,” said Sarah Burton, division director of Youth and Child Development Services at Catholic Charities, which has operated the East Palo Alto program since 2015. “This is really a place where we can move (students) forward and help them see a better future for themselves.” The results have been significant. (continued on page 11)
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LIGHTING UP THE SKY ... Heads were turned to the sky on Wednesday evening in Palo Alto and much of the state after a mysterious light — that turned out to be a meteor — appeared in the air. Many people in the city took to social media where they shared pictures of the spectacle visible from driveways, the Palo Alto Caltrain station and through trees around 5:30 p.m. as the sun was setting. Many left comments describing the awe and wonder at the images. Some speculated that the light was a SpaceX rocket, but that doesn’t appear to be the case based on tweets from the Elon Musk-owned aerospace company that delayed launching its satellite, GPS III SV01, to Saturday. The American Meteor Society received 120 reports of the bright fireball and confirmed it was a meteor mainly spotted in Northern California, but also seen from Nevada and Oregon. ADDING ALL-INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUNDS ... El Carmelo Elementary School is one of seven locations that will add an all-inclusive playground through funding from Santa Clara County. The Board of Supervisors approved Tuesday a second $10 million round of matching funds for all-inclusive playgrounds to be built at schools and parks throughout the county, including at El Carmelo and in Mountain View, Cupertino, Santa Clara and San Jose. The groundbreaking playgrounds are designed to include children and parents with physical or cognitive disabilities, with careful consideration paid to smooth surfacing; custom climbing, sliding, swinging and spinning zones that improve balance, spatial orientation, focus and motor skills; and spaces that encourage quiet play. The first such playground, the Magical Bridge Playground at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto, opened in 2015. More than 10,000 children in Santa Clara
County have “major disabilities” and over 20,000 receive specialeducation services in schools, according to Joe Simitian’s office. “It’s gratifying, and frankly, it’s just the right thing to do — to provide all-inclusive places to play and socialize,” said Santa Clara County Board President Simitian. “I’m so pleased that our County stepped up to help create more of these innovative playgrounds for all.” El Carmelo is the second Palo Alto Unified school to receive funds from the county to build an inclusive playground. Addison Elementary School secured a $300,000 matching grant earlier this year to build a “reduced” scope playground that organizers hoped would serve as a model for other school districts. THINK TWICE BEFORE THE BITE ... Many food festivals are gaining popularity for their all-youcan-eat (and/or drink) deals, but the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office is warning the public of potential scams for such events such as “All You Can Eat Pupusas” or “Bottomless Brunch and Never-Ending Mimosas.” Prosecutors have learned that some of the food festivals never took place. One of the events was promoted in a local newspaper for Jan. 6 and on Facebook for Jan. 13, Instead, the scammers took the ticket payments, typically gathered through PayPal or Shopify, without issuing a refund to the customers.The tickets can range between $15 and $105 for “VIP” treatment, according to the District Attorney’s Office. The trick also has been applied to other types of events, including fun runs. To avoid falling victim to the scam, the public is encouraged to judge if the event website is professional, find a contact name or telephone number for the festival, verify the event is scheduled through the venue; review the refund policy; and produce a form payment that includes fraud protection. Anyone who already paid for an event that turned out to be a scam is advised to seek a refund through the event’s payment processor or their credit card company; change their credit card; or contact a law enforcement agency or District Attorney’s Consumer Mediation Unit at 408-792-2880 to file a consumer complaint, which can also be done online at sccgov.org. Q
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Stanford, school districts to study English learners Collaborative develops long-term research projects to benefit districts by Elena Kadvany which will hopefully result in findings that other school districts can learn from, Nayfack said. “We’re trying not to fit into that traditional mold of research where you’re in and you’re out and the utility to the district is more token than at the center of what you’re trying to do,” she said. The research collaborative was created in 2016, modeled after an existing, decade-long partnership between Stanford and the San Francisco Unified School District, which is currently conducting more than 40 research projects. In San Francisco Unified, Stanford faculty have studied early literacy methods, new ways of identifying students at risk of not graduating, and English-language-learner programs, among other topics. When Dan Schwartz became dean of the School of Education in 2015, he wanted to replicate the San Francisco Unified partnership to amplify Stanford’s impact in its own community, Nayfack said. He reached out to the superintendent of Sequoia Union at the time,
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he Stanford University Graduate School of Education has launched a longterm research partnership with nine local school districts to study the experiences and outcomes for students whose first language is not English. The Stanford-Sequoia K-12 Research Collaborative will study 30,000 students who attend the Sequoia Union High School District and its eight feeder districts, including the Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto and the Menlo Park City School District. The collaborative is taking a mutually beneficial approach to research, said Michelle Nayfack, the associate director of research practice partnerships for California Education Partners, a nonprofit that is coordinating the research. Rather than having faculty drop in for a single study that might not help a school district, the collaborative is bringing together professors and district administrators to develop research questions jointly,
James Lianides, who insisted on involving all of the high schools’ feeder districts, Nayfack said. The Stanford-Sequoia K-12 Research Collaborative was officially launched in fall 2017 with a focus on English language learners. Across the nine districts, despite their varied demographics, sizes and resources, supporting these students is a shared problem, Nayfack said. Students’ primary languages in the participating districts include Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Hmong and Russian, according to Stanford. The collaborative is now running six research projects driven by the districts’ priorities. The most ambitious is one tracking the trajectories of English learners from kindergarten through 12th grade at all nine districts. For the first time, all of the districts will be able to monitor students as they progress from school to school and to study the impact of key indicators, such as attendance or gradepoint average. The researchers and districts spent most of the 2017-18 school year developing a shared data set to aid this project, Nayfack said. Sequoia Union Superintendent Mary Streshly noted the benefits in partnering with the university. “In education we don’t always have the luxury of basing our decisions on deep program evaluation,” Streshly stated in a press release. “It’s usually more anecdotal, as
Students from Ravenswood Middle School and Cesar Chavez Elementary School in East Palo Alto greet each other on the first day of school in 2017. Ravenswood City School District is participating in a new long-term Stanford University research collaborative studying English-language learners. opposed to a structured study. Or we’re looking at research (based) on what we’d consider a similar school somewhere else, like New York City.” Other projects include studying long-term English learners, or students who have not learned enough English to be redesignated as proficient after six or more years in school; and how teachers with few English learners in their classes can use design thinking to better support them. Five Graduate School of Education faculty, four doctoral students and numerous staff from two School of Education research centers are involved in
the collaborative. While the idea of universities partnering with school districts on research projects is not novel, Stanford believes this collaborative’s long-term nature and focus on real-world impact set it apart. “What we’re hoping for is to make long-term matches where these folks will work together over time and co-develop all the research questions and think about how to use the findings in their practice,” Nayfack said, “and maybe, it leads to new research questions.” Q Staff Writer Elena Kadvany can be emailed at ekadvany@ paweekly.com.
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infrastructure over the past nine years, pointing to the improvements to road quality, the Rinconada fire station replacement project, the recently opened Baylands Golf Links, Municipal Services Center and animal services center. “Residents don’t realize how much work goes into the infrastructure assets that we have in Palo Alto — how many nights were spent at the Lucie Stern Center eating cold pizza, pouring over all the details of what are Palo Alto’s infrastructure assets, prioritizing what the backlog is and figuring out how to pay for it,” said Berman, a former Palo Alto City Council member. Under the city’s agreement with Google, which owns property on West Bayshore Road, the tech giant has donated a permanent easement to the city for the bicycle and pedestrian bridge. The agreement provides to the city both a temporary easement for construction and, once construction is complete, a permanent, non-exclusive easement. According to a report from the city’s Public Works Department, the permanent easement will allow the city to reconfigure a driveway and parking stalls; install bridge structure and piles; and put up landscaping, lighting and signage. The landscaped area will also
Peter Allen and Barbara Millen, both Palo Alto residents and bikers, chat with Lisa Chung, a staff member for state Senator Jerry Hill, on Dec. 17 as they look at a sketch of the pedestrian/bike bridge that will be built over U.S. Highway 101 in the next two years. serve as a bioretention area that will treat stormwater runoff. According to the city, there will be no net loss or increase in private parking stalls on Google’s property. The city’s agreement with Caltrans sets the terms of maintenance of the overpass, which will be in the state right-of-way. The agreement obliges the city to take pre-eminent responsibility for project maintenance. This will likely require the city to seek a maintenance-service contract for work such as structural repairs and graffiti abatement, according to the Public Works report. The report also noted that the state has waived any future encroachment-permit fees. At the ceremony, Santa Clara Valley Water District board
Director Gary Kremen noted the environmentally beneficial aspects of the project, including reduced carbon emissions thanks to increased bicycle commuting. Mark Golan, Google’s chief operating officer for real-estate investments and development, pointed out that the area is a “key gap in bike network.” “The bridge will greatly improve the regional bicycle network, enabling thousands of new and safe commuting and recreational bike and walking trips for residents,” he said. For supporters of the project, the new agreements are a welcome bit of news for a bridge that has been hampered by an extraordinarily long design process and escalating
costs. Initially envisioned as an “iconic bridge,” the overpass underwent a design contest in 2014 that included evaluation by a panel of independent experts, the city’s Architectural Review Board and ultimately the City Council. After some debate over two design options — a prominent, red arch and a slender, ribbonlike bridge — the council opted for the latter, only to abandon the design when the engineer’s cost estimates far exceeded the city’s expectations. The city then scrapped its plan for a bridge with “Wow!” factor and settled for a more basic, 12-foot-wide structure. The new bridge will include an overlook area with benches and signage as well as lights to illuminate the bike path at night. Peter Allen, a Palo Alto resident since 1985, travels 10-mile loops out on the baylands levees every week and said he would use the bridge for recreational biking. “It’s just a good project for everyone, and it’s nice to see this officially moving forward because there have been bumps on the road,” he said. Greg Unangst, a member of the Mountain View Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee, said he discovered the current undercrossing in the 1980s. “Here we are 40 years later finally getting a bridge,” Unangst said. Sonia Micek, another longtime resident, attended the ceremony with her husband, Eugene Micek. Like Unangst, she didn’t know the undercrossing existed for a long time. “It took us 10 years to even
realize we can come this way,” she said. “For the last 20 years we’ve enjoyed it very much. It’ll be exciting (the access) will be available year-round.” She said every year she had been disappointed by delays in the bridge project but is now hopeful that it’ll finally be built. “It’s a relief that we’ve come to this point. It took longer than anyone ever anticipated. We live on the other side (of the highway) and it’s nice for us to be able to walk here,” she said. “It’s very peaceful to see nature close by, to get away from the urban setting, so it’ll be exciting to see it finished.” Though the project’s cost has increased to $16 million (up from initial estimates of about $10 million), much of the funding will come from state and regional sources. The Santa Clara County Recreation Trails Program has provided a grant of $4 million, while another $4.35 million will come from the One Bay Area grant program. Mayor Liz Kniss recalled that during her time working at Sun Microsystems her colleagues had told her the commute would be much easier “if only the bridge was open year-round.” She lauded the project as an opportunity to cut down the time residents spend on their commutes. “I think this is truly an example of everybody working together, bringing the money together, bringing the excitement together,” she said at the ceremony. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner and Editorial Assistant Christine Lee can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com and clee@ paweekly.com.
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of Palo Alto government action this week
City Council (Dec. 17)
DEC. 20 + 21 TRUNK SHOW
Keene: The council approved a proclamation of appreciation for retiring City Manager James Keene. Action: None Simitian: The council held a joint study session with Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian. Action: None History: The council approved the transfer of $667,000 in “transfer of development rights” funding to Palo Alto History Museum. Yes: Unanimous Rail: The council heard public comments about proposed grade-separation alternatives and deferred its own discussion until early next year. Action: None 429 University Ave.: The council aoorived the mixed-use project at 429 University Ave. Yes: Filseth, Fine, Scharff, Tanaka, Wolbach No: DuBois, Holman, Kniss, Kou Salaries: The council approved a 5 percent salary increase for City Attorney Molly Stump and 4 percent salary increases for City Clerk Beth Minor and City Auditor Harriet Richardson. Yes: Unanimous
Board of Education (Dec. 18)
First interim budget: The board approved the district’s first interim budget report. Yes: Unanimous Absent: Baten Caswell Calendars: The board discussed the next three years of proposed school calendars, which will return on consent at the board’s next meeting. Action: None
Parks and Recreation Commission (Dec. 18)
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Updates: The commission heard updates about the city’s aquatics program and the design of new pickleball courts. Action: None Ecology: The commission heard a presentation from Grassroots Ecology and heard an updated on the Baylands Comprehensive Conservation Plan. Action: None
Architectural Review Board (Dec. 20)
Hotel: The board approved the design of proposed demolition of Hotel Parmani at 3200 El Camino Real and the construction of a new four-story hotel, with some conditions relating to lighting fixtures and locations for pick-up and drop-off locations. Yes: Baltay, Furth, Lew, Thompson No: Hirsch Wireless: The board reviewed a proposal by Vinculums and Verizon for seven wireless communication facilities, including pole-mounted equipment at six poles and one facility involving a pole-top antenna, pole-mounted equipment and ground-mounted equipment next to an existing pole. They continued their hearing on two Barron Park nodes until a later date and voted 4-1 to deny the applications for the other five nodes. Yes: Baltay, Furth, Hirsch, Thompson No: Lew
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of East Palo Alto was founded, to now-outdated building codes, and were not well maintained by the previous ownership,” the press release states. The company hasn’t yet determined how tall the buildings will be, but estimates four to eight stories, depending on what they are neighboring. Buildings next to the tall University Circle complex or U.S. Highway 101 could be taller and those next to residences would be shorter, said Mike Kramer, chief investment officer of Woodland Park Communities. “We currently have no plans beyond these,” Kramer said. The development would also increase parking to approximately 620 spaces (up from the current 155 off-street slots), seek to improve nearby transit options and improve pedestrian and bicycle access, the company said. “Our proposal has been informed by years of discussions with our residents, our neighbors and the community. We will continue our engagement and outreach and will partner with East Palo Alto to create a community informed plan all of us can be proud of,” Kramer said in the statement. The new redevelopment, Euclid Improvements, will be located on two properties behind the University Circle business park and Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley. The largest parcel is at the corner of Manhattan Avenue and West Bayshore Road, bordered by O’Connor Street and Euclid Avenue. An adjacent, smaller development would be at the corner of O’Keefe Street and Euclid. The company plans to submit the project application to the city
Rent-controlled apartment buildings on Euclid Avenue in East Palo Alto are among the properties that could be redeveloped, according to a new plan by the properties’ owner, Sand Hill Property Company. this summer. If approved, construction could begin in 2021. The first apartments would be completed by 2023 at the earliest, Kramer said. The company sent a letter to Woodland’s residents last week informing them of the proposed development. Representatives held meetings with those residents on Monday and with the broader Woodland Park community on Tuesday, with plans for additional community meetings during the next several months. Sand Hill’s chief housing officer Candice Gonzalez, who was hired in July after serving 10 years as CEO of the affordable-housing developer Palo Alto Housing, reaffirmed the company’s commitment to its current tenants in a statement: “Constructing new rent-controlled homes is relatively unprecedented in the industry, but it is vital that we protect current tenants and preserve affordability. The core principles that inform our plans are no displacement, having a community-informed plan, creating better parking and
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mobility, and constructing safer, healthier buildings.” The announcement may help alleviate some concerns among residents and city leaders, who have feared for years that the large chunk of affordable housing would be converted to high-end apartments or condominiums. Woodland Park has had a rocky history since being acquired in 2007 by Page Mill Properties, which fueled concerns and distrust. The properties were engulfed in lawsuits over the city’s rent-stabilization ordinance and steep rent increases by Page Mill. Investors sued, including over a $100 million failed investment in the company by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. Chicago-based Equity Residential purchased Woodland Park in 2011, but the company’s ownership was controversial. Tenants filed a class-action lawsuit in September 2014 alleging Equity Residential charged unlawful and exorbitant late fees. In August, then-East Palo Alto Mayor Ruben Abrica, a resident of Woodland Park, recognized Sand Hill’s efforts to improve the properties and tenants’ experiences in his State of the City address. “(Woodland Park Communities) has acted differently, and I have seen that they have tried to restore the trust between management and the tenants, they have addressed more directly issues of parking, of maintenance, of security, and they have also done additional activities for the children and for the families,” he said. In October, the company apologized to tenants for a gaffe by its management company after residents who tried to pay their rent were refused if they could not show identification that matched their lease agreement. A company attorney told the East Palo Alto Rent Stabilization Board that Sand Hill was trying to protect residents’ privacy. The City Council in December also recognized Woodland Park Communities with a proclamation for “its effort to improve relations and services to tenant families.” Q Staff Writer Sue Dremann can be emailed at sdremann@ paweekly.com.
Faced with a threat of a lawsuit, the Palo Alto City Council approved in one of its final actions of the year a highly contentious downtown development project that just two months ago was rejected by the city’s own planning staff and panned by its Architectural Review Board. With its 6-3 vote early Tuesday morning, the council handed a long-awaited victory to Elizabeth Wong, a developer who for five years has been seeking approval to construct a four-story mixeduse building at 429 University Ave. The process has included at least four architects, dozens of public hearings and two appeals, the latest by Wong herself. Council members were well familiar with the project, having already approved it in February 2017. At that time, the council attached to its approval three conditions: that Wong’s architects add a decorative design to the exterior wall, that they improve the landscaping plan and they include more “craftsmanship-related detailing” in the exterior. This year, the Architectural Review Board held three hearings on Wong’s project to determine whether she had met those conditions. By a 2-1 vote, the board decided on Oct. 4 that it did not. Wong promptly filed an appeal and her attorney, Timothy Kassouni, submitted several letters laying out numerous objections and threatening litigation. Wong last Friday submitted new plans with revisions that included a sunscreen on the first floor, window screens on the second and a modified balcony on the third. Interim Planning Director Jonathan Lait promptly changed his mind about the earlier denial. “With these recent changes made by the applicant, a meaningful effort has been made to address the concerns raised by the ARB and the (Planning) Director’s decision,” Lait wrote. Q —Gennady Sheyner
Paly student fatally shot in East Palo Alto A Palo Alto High School student was fatally shot early in the morning on Dec. 13 in East Palo Alto, the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office has confirmed. Danilo Perez, 19, a senior at Paly and resident of East Palo Alto, succumbed to his injuries at the scene, East Palo Alto police said. Perez attended Ohlone Elementary School, Frank Greene Middle School (then known as Jordan) and Paly, according to Superintendent Don Austin. Officers responded at 12:29 a.m. Thursday to an activation of the ShotSpotter gunshot-detection system in the 1200 block of Beech Street and found Perez suffering from gunshot wounds, according to police. Police have not announced any arrest or suspect information in the shooting. Anyone with information about the case is asked to send an email to epa@tipnow.org, or a voicemail or text message to 650-409-6792. Tips can be made anonymously. Q —Elena Kadvany
Officials unveil creek flood protections Under dark clouds and an eventual downpour, government staff and representatives on Friday unveiled the completed first phase of a San Francisquito Creek project that aims to protect 1,000 homes from a 100-year flood event during an extreme high tide. The $76 million Phase 1 project, which included the restoration of 22 acres of marshland, is designed to protect East Palo Alto homes against sea-level rise that could be 10 feet higher than today, officials said. The project improvements include a widened creek channel in East Palo Alto and at the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course (now known as the Baylands Golf Links), which will help move water faster to the bay and prevent backups; a horizontal levee that is adaptable to sea-level rise; enhanced habitat and environmental improvements for wildlife and endangered species; improved pedestrian and bicyclist connections between the creek and adjacent marsh, as well as better trail access. Local agencies created the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority — a five-member coalition including representatives from the cities of Menlo Park, East Palo Alto and Palo Alto, the San Mateo County Flood Control District and the Santa Clara Valley Water District — to fix flooding after storms in February 1998 caused the creek to overflow. The floods affected 1,700 homes and businesses in the three cities and caused more than $28 million in damage. Q —Sue Dremann www.PaloAltoOnline.com • Palo Alto Weekly • December 21, 2018 • Page 9
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
Child Care Facility Improvement Grants Children’s Center of the Stanford Community . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Children’s Pre-School Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Friends of Preschool Family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Grace Lutheran Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 The Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Palo Alto Community Child Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$10,000 Palo Alto Friends Nursery School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Parents Nursery School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000 Peninsula Family Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5,000
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ach year the Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund raises money to support programs serving families and children in the Palo
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Richard & Tish Fagin.................... 100 Margo Sensenbrenner .....................* Al & Joanne Russell ..................... 300 Harry & Susan Hartzell ................ 100 Frances Codispoti ........................ 500 Hal & Carol Louchheim ............... 400 Herbert Fischgrund...................... 200
In Memory Of Bob Kirkwood ..................................* Julia Schwartz ..................................* Lee Domenik ....................................* Marts Beekley, M.D. .........................* Margaret McAvity - “Granny” .........* Carol Berkowitz................................* Don Kenyon ................................ 100 Judge Bart Phelps .............................* Ernest J. Moore ........................... 200 Jacques, Nancy, Wanda & Jimmy George ...............................* Sally Landy & Betty Meltzer ........... 50 Mary Floyd & Susan Thomas ......... 50 Jack Sutorius ............................... 300 In Honor Of Marilyn Sutorius .......................... 300 Physicians, Kaiser RWC ....................* Businesses & Organizations Palo Alto Business Park ....................*
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 .......................... 5,000 Bill Johnson & Terri Lobdell ....... 1,000 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..1,000 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 Julie Jerome................................. 500 Bonnie Berg .....................................* Gallo Family ................................ 500 Ann & Don Rothblatt .................. 500 Caryn Huberman Yacowitz ..............* Shirley R. Ely ............................. 1,000 Luca & Mary Cafiero ........................* Steve & Diane Ciesinski ............... 500 Jennifer DiBrienza & Jesse Dorogusker ..................... 500 James W. & Nancy E. Baer........... 200 The Ely Family.............................. 250 Page & Ferrell Sanders................. 100 JoAnne N. Zschokke.................... 100 Ralph R. Wheeler ........................ 300 Bert Fingerhut & Caroline Hicks .. 250 Kaaren & John Antoun ............ 1,500 Richard Johnsson ..................... 7,000 Bruce Gee & Jane Gee ................ 250 Eric Hahn & Elaine Hahn .......... 1,000 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.........................* John Pavkovich............................ 500 Eileen Stolee................................ 100 Sallie Whaley ....................................* Ann Burrell & Allen Smith ................* Patti Yanklowitz .......................... 150 Linda Selden.....................................*
Dena Hill ..................................... 500 Michael Patrick............................ 200 Bonnie Packer ............................. 100 Romola Georgia ...............................* Martha Shirk ............................... 500 Christina Kenrick ...................... 1,000 Dawes Family .............................. 250 Ken Bencala & Sally O’Neil .......... 200 Nina & Norman Kulgein ...................* Tom & Nancy Fiene ..........................* Lee Zulman ......................................* Merrill & Lee Newman ................ 250 Judy & Lee Shulman .................... 200 Donna & Jerry Silverberg ............. 100 Victor Befera ............................... 100 Kay & Don Remsen ..........................* Beth & Peter Rosenthal ............... 300 Robyn H. Crumly..............................* Charles & Barbara Stevens ...............* Amado Padilla & Deborah Farrington.................. 500 Jerry & Linda Elkind ..................... 500 Donald & Virginia Fitton ................ 25 Don & Bonnie Miller.................... 100 Roger V. Smith ............................ 300 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 Francine Mendlin ........................ 250 Bob Donald ......................................* Bill Land ...........................................* Emmett Lorey...................................* Ted Linden................................... 200 Marie & Don Snow ..................... 150 Ben Barres ................................... 100 Kathleen Morris ...............................* Our Loving Parents Albert & Beverly Pellizzari ............................* August L. King .................................* In Honor Of Melissa Baten Caswell ......................* Lucy Berman’s clients................ 2,500 Jill ................................................ 200 Scott............................................ 200 Polly ............................................ 200 Hayley ......................................... 200 Jake ............................................. 200 Garrett ........................................ 200 Gil ............................................... 200 Joe Simitian ......................................* Businesses & Organizations Alta Mesa Cemetery & Funeral Home ....................... 2,000 Bleibler Properties..................... 1,000 Communications & Power Industries....................... 500 deLemos Properties ..................... 200
Over the past school year, 85 percent of students in the program have improved their reading scores by two or more levels on standardized literacy tests, and 74 percent have improved their grades in math, according to academic information collected by Catholic Charities throughout the year. At the start of the year, about 39 percent of students were reading below grade level, compared to only 9 percent by the end of the year, Burton said. She said some students advanced as many as six reading levels during the year. Focused on closing the achievement gap, the nonprofit program this year was supported in part by a $10,000 grant from the Palo Alto Weekly’s Holiday Fund. The students receive structured academic-enrichment activities with one-on-one tutoring, homework support, instruction from guest chefs, artists, environmental experts and other community partners, as well as meals and family counseling, if needed, during four hours after school every day and during the summer. The 80 to 100 students enrolled in the program receive about 336 hours of academic support each year. These services are all provided by five employees (including three who work part-time) and about 20 volunteers. Initially launched in 2004, the program wasn’t always focused on academics. Lawrence Goode, a pastor at St. Francis, started the afterschool program at the church to provide boys in the neighborhood a safe space to hang out after the community experienced a significant spike in gun violence in late 2003. Over the past 14 years, the program evolved from a safe haven for boys to a co-ed recreational center for students of all ages and then into today’s accredited after-school program focused on literacy and math exclusively for third- to fifthgraders from six feeder schools in the Ravenswood City School District, which encompass East Palo Alto and a portion of Menlo Park. “We really looked at the needs of the community and decided to focus our time and energy on younger students and closing the achievement gap,” Burton said. Studies show that students who can’t read at grade level by third grade are more likely to drop out of high school and experience higher levels of poverty and crime, she said.
Based on those studies, “We see that many youth in East Palo Alto have a higher chance of becoming incarcerated than attending college,” she added. Most of the students in the program come from families whose annual incomes fall significantly below the poverty level, and about half of them are considered chronically homeless. In addition to these challenges, many come from homes where English is not spoken, said program director Amy Hafter, who works onsite in the classrooms. “While their parents are extremely supportive, they don’t necessarily have the language skills to support them with their school work,” Hafter said. The program provides students that “little extra support to give them the confidence to be confident learners in the classroom,” Burton said. “But it’s not just about academics, it’s about supporting this young person as a person and not just as a student. We take a holistic approach.” Hafter said the Youth Club also has helped foster strong family and community ties. Students from the six feeder schools, who might not otherwise know one another, are now spending time together while developing their social skills, she said. Parents also play a large role in the program, she said. Those who can’t afford the monthly $40 enrollment fee contribute in other ways, such as volunteering during special events or helping out in the classroom. Hafter, who was hired this fall, said she hopes in upcoming months to partner with engineers and coders from Facebook and other local companies to bring their skills into the after-school club. “Most importantly, this program gives children a vision,” Hafter said. “When I grew up, it was a question of ‘Where will you go to college? What career will you have?’” That vision isn’t always communicated to these students, she said. “It’s of pivotal importance that we give them the vision to move beyond their circumstances, to let them know that ‘You, too, have opportunities,’” Hafter said. Q Associate Editor Linda Taaffe can be emailed at ltaaffe@ 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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Christmas Service
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Family Service with Carols & Pageant Prelude - Early Wind-Brass Music Featuring - The Whole Noyse Candlelight Service with Choir
CHRISTMAS DAY - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 10am
Eucharist with Carols
FIRST PALO ALTO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WHERE HOPE IS RENEWED Christmas Eve Services 5:00 PM Family Service 8:00 PM Lessons & Carols Christmas Day Service 11:00 AM
All are Welcome to Share the Joy
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Shaké Keshkekian Shaké Keshkekian, an employee of Stanford University and longtime resident of Palo Alto, died Nov. 24, at the age of 84 . She was born in Khartoum, Sudan where she was raised. She went on to study arts at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, and got her degree at the school of librarianship at Northwestern Polytechnic in London. She worked at the Stanford Library Cataloging department at Stanford University for 35 years, and became the head of the history unit and was promoted to senior librarian. A dedicated member of St. Andrew’s Armenian Church in Cupertino, she acted as a grandmother to the two children of the Goumas family next door, her neighbors of 22 years. The six children of the Bonwit family in Reno, Nevada also refer to her as their grandma. She was predeceased by her sister, Shoushan “Susan” Keshkekian and her cousin Rebecca Rindlisbacher. She is survived by her cousins Regina Schacher (Christian Schacher) of Affoltern am Albis, Switzerland; and Sahag Yacoubian (Esther Brand) of Wadenswil, Switzerland; and her first cousins once removed Tatjana Buchmann (Jerome Buchmann) of Mannedorf, Switzerland; Roman Noth of Bonstetten, Switzerland; Mika Yacoubian of Wadenswil, Switzerland; Mae Yacoubian of Wadenswil, Switzerland; and Luca Rindlisbacher of Zurich, Switzerland. Services were held on Dec. 6, at St. Andrew Armenian Church, Cupertino followed by a burial alongside her sister at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Andrew Armenian Church, KQED, the American Diabetes Association, Palo Alto Medical Foundation or Stanford Hospital.
John Ovenshine John Thomas Ovenshine, a longtime resident and active community member, died suddenly on Nov. 28, at his home in Palo Alto. He was 56. He was born in Santa Monica on June 19, 1962, four minutes after his twin brother, Gordon O ve n s h i n e. His family moved to Palo Alto in 1965, after which he attended Walter Hays Elementary School, Jordan Middle School and
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A LOOK BACK AT T hroughout the year, we consistently check our calendars to keep track of our kids’ dance recitals and doctor’s appointments, count down the days to the start of a much-needed vacation, mark the day we got engaged or started a new career, or remind ourselves to call Mom on her birthday. Calendars not only help us manage our schedules but serve as a way to look back and remember the moments that defined the year. As I looked back through my own calendar this year, I discovered many events and moments that defined Palo Alto in 2018. Below, I’ve compiled photos from some of these key moments that unfolded over the past 12 months.
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Karen Kang uses a mechanized lift to lower her husband, Jon Ferraiolo, into his wheelchair as the couple prepares to step outside for a walk with their dog, Pepe. After being diagnosed with ALS in 2014, Ferraiolo lost the ability to walk. Kang reflected on their relationship, which has lasted for more than 43 years: “I want people to know that you can live in the moment with someone that you love who has ALS and find great joy in that, that just because someone has a disability or is not the same person in terms of their capabilities, they really are the same person inside. And hopefully that’s the same person that you fell in love with.” Photo by Veronica Weber.
MARCH 14, JUST AFTER 10 A.M.: After the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in which 17 students and faculty were killed, hundreds of students from Palo Alto High School walk out of their classrooms and head to the corner of Embarcadero Road and El Camino Real to stand alongside students from Castilleja School during a nationwide protest denouncing gun violence. Photo by Veronica Weber.
JAN. 17, 11:37 A.M.:
JANUARY
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson talks about foreign policy before a crowd at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Tillerson was fired by President Donald Trump two months later. Photo by Veronica Weber.
JAN. 24, 11:51 A.M.: A week before her 79th birthday, Liliane Kuhn shares her story of how Jean and Marie Maurier took her into their home in rural France for four years when she was a child to help her escape the Nazis during World War II. Photo by Veronica Weber.
JAN. 24, 2:46 P.M.: Jordan Washington, 4, plays in a classroom in the Child Development Center during its final months before the Ravenswood School District shut it down due to budget cuts. Photo by Veronica Weber. Page 14 • December 21, 2018 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com
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THE MONTHS MARCH 29, AROUND 2:15 P.M.: Brian and Bridget Miller give their daughter Brianna a long hug after an anonymous caller threatened to “shoot up” the school, prompting Palo Alto police to put the campus on lockdown. The call was later deemed a hoax. Photo by Veronica Weber.
APRIL 10, 4:02 P.M.:
APRIL
Dozens of Canada geese roam the grounds of newly landscaped Baylands Golf Links prior to its reopening following years of planning and construction. The 55acre reconfigured course includes 18 golf greens, rolling hillsides and native vegetation. Photo by Veronica Weber.
MAY
MAY 8, 10:37 A.M.:
APRIL 11, 2:30 P.M.:
As the June primary election edges closer, Judge Aaron Persky hosts a press conference to speak out about the recall measure brought against him following his controversial 2016 sentencing of Brock Turner, the Stanford Universityathlete who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman on campus. “The recall will set a dangerous precedent for judges,” Persky said. He was later recalled in the election. Photo by Adam Pardee.
On National Pet Day, Stanford University student Christian Fong celebrates by taking his black cat Alphonse out for a stroll on the campus grounds. Photo by Veronica Weber.
MAY 15, 1:21 P.M.: After receiving a standing ovation from the audience at Mitchell Park Community Center, San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow sits beside his mother, Ann Stow, to speak about the severe brain damage he endured after he was attacked and beaten unconscious at Dodger Stadium in 2011. Stow also spoke of efforts to stop bullying and encouraged others to be “upstanders.” Photo by Adam Pardee.
About the cover: Lauren Speiser, a student from Castilleja School, joins hundreds of other students from Castilleja and Palo Alto High School as they say #neveragain to mass shootings during a protest against gun violence on March 14, 2018, a month following a mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Photo by Veronica Weber. Cover design by Douglas Young.
MAY 27, 12:42 P.M.: After announcing her resignation in March, Palo Alto High School Principal Kim Diorio takes a selfie with the Class of 2018 before addressing the crowd at De Anza College in Cupertino in what was her last baccalaureate ceremony as principal at Paly. Photo by Adam Pardee.
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JULY
JULY 11, 10:28 A.M.: Numerous RV and car dwellers relocate to Bay Road after the city of East Palo Alto officials force them off Weeks Street due to public safety concerns. The city approved a pilot project to convert a public lot into a temporary parking area for homeless outreach, but many RV dwellers argued that the pilot program did not provide permanent shelter and opted to remain on Bay Road. Photo by Veronica Weber.
SEPTEMBER
SEPT. 23, 7:08 P.M.:
Hundreds of residents gather at the intersection of El Camino Real and Embarcadero Road during a vigil supporting Palo Alto resident Christine Blasey Ford just days before she was scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about a high school incident in which Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (now Supreme Court Justice) allegedly sexually assaulted her. Photo by Veronica Weber.
NOV. 15, 3:51 P.M.:
AUGUST
AUG. 25, 9:20 A.M.:
Dozens of friends, family members and neighbors of Wamaitha Kaboga-Miller gather outside the East Palo Alto Senior Center to participate in a volunteer-led search party for the Palo Alto resident, who was reported missing after she was last seen in East Palo Alto on Aug. 17. In September, police discovered Kaboga-Miller’s body in her car off Highway 84. According to police, she died in an auto accident that sent her car into the bushes and out of public view. Photo by Veronica Weber.
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NOVEMBER
Smoke and hazardous air settles over Palo Alto as the Camp Fire in Butte County more than 200 miles away burns out of control, forcing many people to wear masks when outside. The fire, which burned from Nov. 8 to Nov. 25, is considered the state’s deadliest fire, killing 86 people and burning 153,000 acres and 19,000 structures. Photo by Veronica Weber. Q
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teamL ab explores the
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Pace Gallery presents encore exhibition by Japanese art collective by Sheryl Nonnenberg
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ince opening in 2016, Pace Gallery has presented a varied, blue-chip roster of artists such as David Hockney, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson and James Turrell (to name a few) in its Palo Alto space. The current exhibition returns to a favorite theme of the gallery: the intersection of art and technology. “Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity” marks a second appearance by the Japanese conglomerate teamLab, with six new monitor works on view until Jan. 13, 2019. For those who don’t remember the first exhibition, it was a massive effort, staged in a popup space (a former car dealership) in Menlo Park. Twenty interactive, immersive exhibits were situated throughout the building in a museum-type installation, with none of the objects for sale. During the course of its 10-month run, more than 200,000 entry tickets were sold, which is probably one reason the gallery has invited the group back for a smaller, more intimate show where all the works are available for purchase. “This show will mark a homecoming of sorts, since teamLab helped get it all started with Pace in the Bay Area. It will be an amazing opportunity to welcome new audiences to the gallery to experience teamLab’s signature digital worlds,” Pace President Elizabeth Sullivan said. “Digital” is the key word in understanding the basis of teamLab’s working method. All of their art is made by computer, using complex graphic algorithms. Some pieces also include recorded video. “Everything we do is digital,” teamLab founder Toshiyuki Inoko said, “and everything is the latest technology, so it is natural for us to explore and experiment.” When asked if he ever thought the collective, which began with five employees, would grow to 500 and become so successful, Inoko laughed and said he did not. “We are a tech company,” he explained, “and we originally started with web design and system integration.” Collective member Kazumasa Nonaka added that not all of the teamLab employees work on the art-related exhibitions, and that the technology part of the business supports their artistic efforts. This past summer, the group opened a museum with more than 60 continuous
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Japanese collective teamLab’s “Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity” is on display at Pace Gallery in Palo Alto through Jan. 13. The exhibition consists of digital monitor works that evolve and change in real time.
Nonaka acknowledged the patience required but pointed out that the pieces in the show were designed for discerning collectors. “This can be purchased, taken home, when you will have more time to watch and get closer.” There are two works that take a more abstract approach: “Enso” and “Impermanent Life” (both 2017). These pieces operate on a continuous loop and depict swooping black brush strokes against a grey background. The strokes change and move in a circular manner, influenced by the Zen paintings made by monks for thousands of years. “We wanted to explore the nature of calligraphy,” said Inoko, “and the circle is a symbol of unity, the world and totality.” As with the “Waves of Light,” watching the strokes flow and reform across the nine monitors is mesmerizing; one can imagine sitting in a living room and enjoying a meditative session of quiet reflection while gazing at the continuously changing scene. The largest installation, for —Toshiyuki Inoko, which the show is named, is a riot teamLab founder of color, movement and transfiguration. It gives a feeling of standing over a tide pool, watching the technology, but the imagery reflects a plants and flowers gently wave from very traditional approach, and one that side to side, followed by an explosion of is uniquely Asian, the use of “ultrasu- blue, red, purple, yellow petals that take bjective space.” Nonaka explained that, over the screen. Befitting its name, this unlike Western art, which relies upon nine-channel work loops continuously. If you can’t pop into the gallery, stop various uses of perspective to achieve depth and space, the teamLab artist by and look into the front windows. strives to give the viewer the feeling of All of the pieces will be running, with being one with the art. He cited “Waves several changing (“Waves of Light” of Light” (2018), a piece that involves a will transition from gold leaf to a black continuous series of calligraphic lines background) after dark — very approthat look like waves ebbing and flowing priate for an exhibition that addresses the contrasting concepts of continuity in the ocean. “This piece was not rendered in per- and impermanence. Q spective because that separates us from Freelance writer Sheryl the world,” he said. “We want the view- Nonnenberg can be emailed at er to get inside the frame.” nonnenberg@aol.com. “Our work is all about continuity,” noted Inoko. “It is about the flow of life, What: “Continuous Life and Death at the of time, of water — the rhythm of life.” Now of Eternity.” That sense of continuity is sometimes Where: Pace Gallery, 229 Hamilton Ave., presented in a very literal way, as in the Palo Alto. “Fleeting Flower Series, ChrysantheWhen: Through Jan. 13. Pace Gallery is mum Tiger” (2017). In this single-chanopen Tuesday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to nel work, thousands of colorful flowers 5 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. bloom, flow, float and eventually form Cost: Free. a large peacock that slowly moves his Info: Go to pacegallery.com. head. Stay a while longer and the flowers morph into a tiger. Taking in the full sequence requires over five minutes of READ MORE ONLINE watching — perhaps a major effort for PaloAltoOnline.com the average gallery/museum goer who For more arts and entertainment stories, go only spends seconds in front of a work to PaloAltoOnline.com/arts. of art. installations in Tokyo. It was an immediate sensation. “At this pace, we estimate that we will have around four million visitors a year,” Nonaka said. Most of the pieces displayed at Pace have facets of nature (water, flowers, birds, etc.) as subject matter. “We want to always explore the relationship between humans and nature, and also the boundaries between humans and nature,” Inoko explained. The way the teamLab artists explore this relationship may use ultra-modern
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Chef-driven Camper brightens the Menlo Park dining scene C Story by Dale F. Bentson | Photos by Veronica Weber
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n case you haven’t heard, no insect repellent is needed at Camper restaurant in Menlo Park. They don’t serve s’mores or roasted weenies and patrons need not arrive in Airstreams. It’s not that kind of camper. In this case, Camper is a homonym for “happy camper” — the convergence of experience and skill and making diners happy. That’s the restaurant’s goal, according to chef-partner Greg Kuzia-Carmel and managing partner Logan Levant. On each of my visits, I left a
happy camper. Camper is the latest incarnation of 898 Santa Cruz Ave. LB Steak preceded it and Marché before that — all good restaurants but a bit too formal and pricey for everyday consideration. Camper isn’t inexpensive but it is in step with today’s prices for casual-upscale dining and has a neighborly vibe. The idea for Camper germinated at a mutual friend’s dinner party where Levant and KuziaCarmel met. Add Roland Passot
Greg Kuzia-Carmel, partner and executive chef, and Logan Levant, managing partner, sit in the main dining room of Camper.
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of the Left Bank restaurants and La Folie in San Francisco as a silent partner, who had an interest in the departed LB Steak, and the enterprise was born. Kuzia-Carmel, who grew up in upstate New York, started cooking to earn some extra money while in high school. He discovered his calling and has since cooked in Michelin-starred restaurants in Spain, Per Se in Manhattan and Quince in San Francisco. Levant’s background was in public relations, but for over 10 years she owned and operated the acclaimed Buttercake Bakery in Los Angeles. She also co-authored the cookbook “The Kitchen Decoded.” T hey overhauled the 4,000-square-foot space into an efficient contemporary restaurant with 72 indoor seats, about 100 on a patio and a private dining room that seats up to 50. Spare but not spartan, industrial hard surfaces of wood, metal, and quartz were softened with pillows, pendant lanterns, a colorful backlit bar and outdoorsy artwork on the walls. Camper is inviting, a glowing gem box on the corner of Santa Cruz Avenue and University Drive. For starters, the chicken and dumpling soup ($11) featured floating gnocchi, dill, carrots, celery and Cipollini onions. The broth was flavorful, the gnocchi yielding and luxurious. The creamy burrata ($17) from family owned Di Stefano Cheese was surrounded with braised artichokes, sunchokes, dried chicories and speckled lettuce. Pork and duck terrine ($9) with toasted pistachios was a nice balance of fatty and meaty, served with toast, coarse mustard and pickled vegetables. La Quercia acorn-fed jamon ($12) was a handsome plank of the best Iowa ham, possibly the best in the U.S. Not quite Iberian quality, but Menlo Park is much closer than Barcelona. Chef-driven restaurants are obsessed with finding the best quality ingredients. Kuzia-Carmel has used his relationships with specialty growers in Northern California to source the freshest and finest, and because of that, his menu is ever evolving. Of the main dishes, I loved the suckling pig ($37) with butter beans, fava beans, Cipollini onions, dandelion greens and pear.
The housemade squid ink tagliatelle at Camper in Menlo Park is served with Dungeness crab and a tomato cream sauce. The pork was fork tender and the beans mimicked the creamy texture of the meat. The skewered Rosa Bianca eggplant (a rosy-lavender Italian heirloom globe-shaped eggplant) was accompanied with babaganoush on a bed of quinoa and flavored with mojo de ajo za’atar — like a salsa verde with more herbs ($22). The housemade squid ink tagliatelle ($24) with Dungeness crab, ginger, chili and tomato cream was a luxurious layering of earthy and elastic, silky and savory. The overnight braised and smoked Tuscan-style short rib ($40) with creamy red corn polenta, spring onions and carrots was bit chewier than I expected but succulent, and the polenta was dreamy good. No toasted marshmallows but Camper’s desserts were worth saving room for. The brûlée sweet corn grits with roasted fruit and sweet cream gelato ($9) was a tad too grits-y for my companion but she loved the fruit and ice cream. The caramelized milk jam pudding with Chantilly cream and pecans ($9) was so good I considered ordering a second. The apple crisp ($9) with oat crumble and sweet cream gelato was a delight. Black walnut and chocolate gelatos ($10) were dense and buttery. In all, Camper offers a focused menu that still allows for plenty of choices for vegetarian and
gluten-free diners. While there were several cabernet sauvignons, the wine list tilted toward less ponderous varietals such as pinot noir, sangiovese, zinfandel, merlot and Rhone blends that pair well with the chef’s fare. Service was excellent on my visits. I commend the restaurant for their strong staff in these days when staffing is a major issue in restaurants everywhere. Camper is another welcome, chef-driven, high-quality addition to the local restaurant scene. It is easy to foresee Menlo Park and environs filled with happy campers. Q Freelance writer Dale Bentson can be emailed at dfbentson@ gmail.com. Camper, 898 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park; 650-321-8980; campermp.com Hours: Lunch: Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dinner: Monday-Saturday, 5-10 p.m. Closed Sunday.
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PEDEGO ROLLS OUT ITS E-BIKES ... Pedego has rolled out its electric bicycle fleet in Palo Alto. The Orange County-based company celebrated the grand opening of its newest Pedego Electric Bikes store at Town & Country Village at 855 El Camino Real on Dec. 15. Pedego Palo Alto, the company’s 144th store worldwide, sells and rents the company’s electric bikes as well as offers guided bike tours around the Stanford University campus, the Baylands and other scenic bike paths in the area. Founded by CEO Don DiCostanzo and Terry Sherry in 2008, Pedego bikes are equipped with a throttle and pedal-assist option and are powered by 250- to 500-watt motors, making it easier and quicker to ride up hills and long distances. Riders can travel up to 60 miles on a single battery charge. Pedego has been lauded by bike enthusiasts young and old and has been featured in AARP, Newsweek and the New York Times. The company offers everything from standard bikes built for one to stretch cargo bikes with multiple child seats. “Palo Alto is a fun college town in an exciting technology community, a perfect place for riders to enjoy Pedego electric bikes,” DiCostanzo
said in a press release. Pedego Palo Alto is open Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. —L.T. PALO ALTO GETS ITS OWN ‘BABKERY’ ... Palo Alto now has its very own babkery: a dedicated babka bakery. On Dec. 13, owner-namesake Ayelet Nuchi opened Babka by Ayelet at Town & Country Village. The Jewish pastry is ubiquitous in her native Tel Aviv — like cupcakes in the United States, Nuchi said — and becoming increasingly popular in the United States. “A butter and yeast dough with varied fillings create a comforting cake with a lot of love and history, especially in my childhood home,” Nuchi wrote on the bakery’s website. Nuchi, a pastry chef, has run a catering company since 2000. Last summer, she decided to focus solely on her most popular catering item: babka. Babka by Ayelet will serve not only the classic babka flavors of cinnamon and chocolate but also Nuchi’s recipes for nutella, raspberry-cream cheese, apple, maple-pecan, halva and two savory flavors, tomatomozzarella and butternut squash. The bakery will also serve tea and
coffee and espresso from Four Barrel Coffee in San Francisco. The renovated, bright space (previously a blow-dry bar) has a large, green velvet couch, marble tables and chairs and bookcases filled with books about baking, cooking, fashion and design. There is also outdoor seating. Babka by Ayelet will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The bakery is located at Suite 15 in the shopping center’s Building 1, next to clothing store Marine Layer. —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.
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Cheney day blues ‘Vice’ dissects George W’s shadowy V.P. 0001/2 (Century 16 & 20, opening Christmas day) “Vice,” written and directed by Adam McKay, proceeds to lay out the true story of how former Vice President Dick Cheney wrote his own ticket as V.P. under President George W. Bush, wreaking havoc around the globe in pursuit of power, profit and patriotism. With a well-researched, legally vetted original screenplay, “Vice” proves as strikingly original in form as Oliver Stone’s “JFK.” McKay enlists his “Big Short” star Christian Bale to play Cheney. Bale’s canny and uncanny performance nails Cheney’s speech pattern and facial expressions but also holds the complex humanity of a loving husband and father capable of compartmentalizing to the nth degree. Aided by a 45-pound weight gain and prosthetics designed by Oscar-winner Greg Cannom, the 44-year-old Bale astonishingly embodies Cheney from
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Aquaman (PG-13) Century 16: Fri.-Sun. Century 20: Fri.-Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri.-Sun. Ben is Back (R) ++1/2
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Bohemian Rhapsody (PG-13) Century 16: Fri.-Sun. Century 20: Fri.-Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri.-Sun. Bumblebee (PG-13) Century 20: Fri.-Sun.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (PG-13) Century 16: Fri.-Sun. The Favourite (R) Century 20: Fri.-Sun. Palo Alto Square: Fri.-Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri.-Sun.
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Christian Bale and Amy Adams star in the drama “Vice.” constitutes a montage of Cheney’s “heartless” decisions juxtaposed to the moment when he was literally heartless in an operating room. All in all, “Vice” offers infotaining Hollywood history that’s equal parts funny and horrifying in its high-stakes political gamesmanship. McKay dares what no one else has with a wide-release Hollywood film: put in the glaring spotlight the top-notch political operative and tenacious survivor that is Dick Cheney. Rated R for language and some violent images. Two hours, 12 minutes. — Peter Canavese
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age 22 to age 71. McKay tracks Cheney through his appointment as the youngest chief of staff in U.S. history (for Gerald Ford), his stint as a Congressman for his home state (highlighting his ultra-conservative voting record), and his fateful tenure as vice president under George W. Bush, essentially skipping past Cheney’s time as Secretary of Defense under George H. W. Bush and as CEO of Halliburton. McKay’s heavy-handed symbolism feels like a direct gambit to shine a light on his fact-sourced account for the benefit of a broad audience. “Beware the quiet man...” goes the anonymous epigraph, and McKay returns consistently to the image of Cheney the fly fisherman, patiently standing alone in a lake as he reels in fish after fish to feed his family, and perhaps his ego. The final climax
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Mary Queen of Scots (R) Century 20: Fri.-Sun.
Aquarius Theatre: Fri.-Sun.
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri.-Sun. Mortal Engines (PG-13) Century 16: Fri.-Sun. Century 20: Fri.-Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri.-Sun. The Mule (R) Century 16: Fri.-Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri.-Sun.
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940) (Not Rated) Stanford Theatre: Fri.-Sun. Spider-man:Into the Spider-Verse (PG) Century 16: Fri.-Sun. Century 20: Fri.-Sun. ShowPlace Icon: Fri.-Sun. Welcome to Marwen (PG-13) Century 20: Fri.-Sun.
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A weekly guide to home, garden and real estate news, edited by Elizabeth th L Lorenz orenz
Home Front SURPRISE, SURPRISE ... For the second year in a row, the Town of Atherton topped the list for most expensive residential real estate in the country, according to real estate website PropertyShark. Atherton topped the list of the 100 priciest ZIP codes, with a median home sale price of $6.7 million in 2018. The town’s median home sale price increased 35 percent from last year, when it was $4.95 million, according to PropertyShark. Silicon Valley is home to 30 of the country’s priciest ZIP codes. Neighboring Menlo Park was 28th on the list at $2.36 million, Palo Alto came in No. 6 with a median price of $3.75 million, the Los Altos Hills-Los Altos area that shares a 94022 ZIP code came in No. 7, the 94024 area of Los Altos was No. 9, Portola Valley No. 8, Mountain View No. 50 and No. 51. For the sake of comparison, Beverly Hills was No. 11 with a median home sale price of $3.21 million; Santa Monica was 5th with $3.76 million.
IN THE DARK? ... It’s getting dark before 5 p.m. these days, and some night you might walk outside and wonder why it’s darker than usual. It could be that the streetlight near your home or office is out. The city of Palo Alto’s Utilities Department has a simple online form, a phone number and an app to report outages and their precise locations. Call 650-496-6914 or submit a report via the PaloAlto311 mobile app to report streetlight outages in your neighborhood, or go to cityofpaloalto.org navigate to the utilities department and click on the gold “Online Services” tab to find the “Street Light Out” form. Allow five business days for repairs to be made. 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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BAKE BREAD ... If baking bread isn’t something you’ve had much experience with, come to Hidden Villa Farm on Saturday, Jan. 12, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. This activity will include collecting garden herbs to flavor bread dough, sifting flour, kneading dough and enjoying fresh bread in the company of others. The cost is $30 per person. To register, go to hiddenvilla.org.
Homeowners trying to sell are left with some uncertainty
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he residential property market in Palo Alto has cooled down meaningfully in the last six months or so. The median home price of all homes sold in Palo Alto has dropped to $2.79 million in the second half of 2018, 10 percent lower than $3.1 million in the first half. The average number of days a home is on the market before it is sold is 23, nine days longer than the 14-day average in the first half. Price reduction has become the new norm. One out of four homes listed in Palo Alto since July 1 has reduced its listing price. The last time Palo Alto had more than 60 reductions in the late half of the year was 2012. The market back then had just started recovering after the financial crisis of 2009. This year’s sudden shift is more than seasonality and has left many home sellers in an awkward position. Multiple factors have contributed to this slowdown. First of all, we had slightly more inventory than usual late in the year. There were 567 new listings on the Multiple Listing System as of Dec. 7, or 11 percent more than all of 2017. Secondly, home prices seem to have risen too much and too quickly in the last two years. The median price of all sold homes in Palo Alto rose from $2.4 million in 2010 to $2.6 million in the first half of 2017, then $2.81 million in
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the second half of 2017, and finally $3.1 million in the first half of 2018. This decline in affordability, coupled with rising mortgage interest rates Xin Jiang and the increasing uncertainties of the global economy, including the trade war between the U.S. and China, have made potential buyers think twice and more before making a move on a home purchase. However, not all buyers have disappeared. A partially updated home on an oversized 10,000-square-foot lot in the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood listed below $2.9 million in November received 7-8 offers, and was sold for over $3.5 million, or more than 20 percent over asking. Another old home in Crescent Park, listed at $4.5 million in the same month, received 3 offers and was sold for over $5 million, closing in 6 days. When the market slows down, buyers become pickier. Predictably, location plays an even bigger role in a weak market than a hot one. Among the 63 homes that lowered their prices in the second half of this year, close to 60 percent were originally listed for below $3
million, and most of them in “less desirable” locations. The million-dollar question being asked at this time is where the market is heading in 2019. The market is very likely to continue its current downward trend after an extended eight-year trend upward. It’s possible, based on the active listings in the middle of December, to see another 10- or 15-percent increase in inventory. There were 43 active Palo Alto listings in the Multiple Listing System as of Dec. 9. In the second half of this year, 44 homes listed for sale were pulled off the market, and most of them will likely come back in spring 2019. Moreover, as Palo Alto’s median home price is still near a record high, sellers who have planned to put their homes on the market will likely follow through in the near term. As the recent market change has showed, buyers may not jump in immediately even if they see an ideal home within their budget. In fact, many buyers waited for price reductions to make their initial moves in the fall. In 2019, homes may stay on market longer than the typical one week that we all got used to in the past few years. Home prices may continue to be soft as well. How should sellers and buyers prepare for a slower or a more
normal market? When the tide is changing, the process of bringing a home to the market, including house preparation, marketing and setting the price becomes more critical. If the initial listing price is set too low, sellers will be disappointed to find offers are not coming in as high as they expect. If priced too high, houses will receive very limited interest, lose momentum and get buried in many other listings. Sellers may also have to become more flexible to work with offers with contingencies or take over a few repairs as buyers no longer take homes as they are. For sellers who don’t have cash-flow issues, providing direct financing to buyers may be considered to get a higher sales price. On the other hand, the market will allow buyers, especially those at the entry level, to finally pick and choose a bit. However, buyers should always carefully weigh the pros and cons of a few hundred thousand dollars in savings in the near term versus the risk of rising interest rates, and more importantly, the future probability of finding the right home in the right neighborhood if they miss the one in front of them. Q Xin Jiang is a Realtor for Alain Pinel in Palo Alto. She can be emailed at xjiang@apr. com.
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Menlo-Atherton’s Daniel Heimuli (5) keeps Lincoln quarterback Raymond Spriggs, Jr. from going anywhere in the state championship game.
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Taking a look at the journey to a state title Palo Alto’s two losses are to state champs in turnaround season by Glenn Reeves gave Menlo-Atherton football coach Adhir Ravipati three days to let the greatest win in M-A football history sink in. The Bears came out on top Saturday night at Sequoia with a 21-7 victory over Lincoln of San Diego for the CIF 3-AA state championship. So, what’s up now that you’ve had a chance to take a deep breath? “Right now I’m just worried about guys passing finals,’’ Ravipati said on Tuesday evening. Business as usual, paying attention to the nuts and the bolts and the details that enabled the M-A
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team to do what it did. This was Ravipati’s fourth year as head coach at M-A and his second trip to the state finals. “This senior class means a lot to me,’’ he said. “These are the first guys that had me all four years. Seeing their growth and development as players and as people is most satisfying to me. I’m grateful and thankful they bought into what I asked them to do. M-A was 3-7 the year before they started high school. A lot of them had been rejected by private schools and came to M-A because they had no choice.’’ Ravipati made one of his first orders of business as head coach
to emphasize academics by instituting a mandatory study hall. He wanted to make sure the best talent in the school was academically eligible and on track, motivated for college. “Our team GPA has been raised every year,’’ Ravipati said. “This year it was 2.8, the highest ever. Our goal is to get it to 3.0.’’ Ravipati was also thinking about the circumstances surrounding his team’s previous trip to the state finals. The 2016 M-A team, on a 12-game winning streak after a win over Manteca for the NorCal championship, traveled to Southern California to play Paraclete of Lancaster.
Shortly before leaving, Aisea Mataele, a player on the M-A freshman team with numerous relatives in the program, was admitted to Stanford Hospital in serious condition. The team made the trip and lost to Paraclete 39-21. A couple days after returning young Aisea died from a rare infection. “Aisea was basically M-A royalty.’’ Ravipati said. “We’ve had a lot of Mataeles play at M-A and his mother was from the Fonua family. He had uncles on our coaching staff, cousins on the varsity. It hit us real hard. Something (continued on page 30)
COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL
Stanford returns home with NCAA championship Cardinal goes five sets to beat Nebraska in title tilt by Rick Eymer tanford junior setter Jenna Gray sent her coach a secret message and she delivered it during a press conference, using a microphone, on the eve of the Cardinal’s biggest volleyball match of the year. After being excused from the podium, Gray stuck around and asked her coach, Kevin Hambly, a question like she was a reporter. “If you could pick a favorite player, she could be blonde, she could be a setter, who would it be?” Hambly’s answer was just as telling. He got it. Gray was really
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saying “Don’t worry, we got this.” It wasn’t easy but Stanford stayed cool, stayed calm and responded to what junior outside hitter Kathryn Plummer called “a crummy set,” by grabbing a late lead and delivering the knockout blow in the form of sophomore Meghan McClure’s back row attack that found an opening between a pair of would-be Nebraska blockers in the fifth set of one of the most gut-wrenching women’s volleyball matches every played at the championship level. In other words, it was as though the Cardinal planned a dramatic ending.
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CARDINAL CORNER ...Stanford forward Oscar Da Silva felt he needed some work on his shooting. Boy did that ever work out. “The motivation is that Oscar has put the time in over the past two weeks getting reps,” Stanford coach Jerod Haase said. “The motivation should be for everyone on the team if they put in quality work, good things are going to happen.” Da Silva scored a career-high 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for his second career double-double and his first in over a year and Stanford beat San Jose State 78-73. KJ Okpala added 25 points and six rebounds and Daejon Davis had 14 points and eight assists for the Cardinal (6-4), who have won four of their last five. Stanford travels to USF (11-1) for a 2 p.m. contest on Saturday. ... DiJonai Carrington had career bests with 33 points and 13 rebounds to help No. 8 Stanford beat host No. 9 Tennessee, 9585, in a nonconference women’s basketball game. Kiana Williams and Alanna Smith each added 16 points for the Cardinal (8-1), which beat a previously undefeated top 10 team a second straight game. Stanford knocked off then No. 3 Baylor, 68-63, on Saturday. Lacie Hull added 14 points and Maya Dodson had 10 points and nine rebounds as Stanford ended a two-game losing streak in the series. The Cardinal travels to Buffalo (7-2) for a 9 a.m. game Friday. ... Stanford sophomore Michaela Gordon earned a spot in the main draw of a 2019 USTA Pro Circuit tournament by winning the Blizzard Wild Card Challenge for American college players at the USTA National Campus. Gordon beat Duke sophomore Kelly Chen, 3-6, 6-4, 6-0, to earn a main draw wild card into a USTA Pro Circuit $60,000 women’s event to be determined. Gordon cruised past Pepperdine’s Ashley Lahey 6-4, 6-2 in the semifinals. ... Trevor Rasmussen’s upset victory over a ranked opponent and a sudden victory decision by Mason Pengilly propelled the Stanford wrestling team to a 21-15 nonconference win over Northwestern. The win gave Cardinal head coach Jason Borrelli the 100th dual victory of his career as Stanford moved to 3-0 on the season heading into its next match at the Southern Scuffle on New Year’s Day.
Stanford coach Kevin Hambly gets a confetti bath from his players after winning the national title. The top-ranked Cardinal earned its 28-26, 22-25, 25-16, 15-25, 15-12 victory over sixth-ranked Nebraska at the Target Center in Minneapolis by preparing so thoroughly that luck could not play a
major role in the outcome. “We scraped,” Hambly said. “I’m really proud of the way that they came back after that fourth (continued on page 31)
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like that really makes you realize that high school football is an amazing experience, but it is still just a game.’’ The defense never rested The defensive unit put together by Ravipati and defensive coordinator Drew Ryan was the single biggest reason for the team’s success. The Bears started the season with a 28-0 win over Bellarmine and finished by holding a Lincoln team that had scored 54 points in the SoCal final to 7. Of course it helps when your defense is built around a couple of high Division I recruits in tackle Noa Ngalu, who signed his national letter of intent Wednesday with the University of Washington, and inside linebacker Daniel Heimuli, who has narrowed more than 30 scholarship offers to five finalists: four Pac-12 schools and defending national champion Alabama. “Those will be some big shoes to fill,’’ Ryan said immediately following the conclusion of the state championship game. “We’re going to have to replace our whole front. But in the (secondary) we’ve got nearly everybody coming back.’’ M-A had a number of playmakers on offense as well. But how often does a team win a state championship having used six different players at quarterback? That was the case with the Bears this season. Starter Jack Alexander played in only seven of the team’s 15 games. Freshman Matt MacLeod, fresh from the frosh-soph team, came off the bench to lead the comeback win over Wilcox in the CCS final. Wide receiver Justin Anderson and running backs Feleti Malupo and Jaeden Barker manned the position early in the season. Standout wide receiver Troy Franklin played a key role taking a direct snap out of the Wildcat formation in the state championship game. Biggest scare? In the CCS championship game Dec. 1 the Bears trailed 21-0 before getting their feet under them. They were still behind 28-14 in the fourth quarter before rallying with three touchdowns to pull out a 33-28
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The Stanford-bound senior scored 68 points and had 21 rebounds to help the Panthers win the ‘Iolani Classic. She was 25 of 38 from the field (.658), including 15 of 24 (.625) from 3-point range.
The senior linebacker played an instrumental role in leading the Bears to the state Division 3-AA title on Saturday. He led the Bears in tackles, including a sack that ended a Lincoln-San Diego drive.
Honorable mention Klara Astrom Pinewood basketball
Natalie Cai Gunn wrestling
Kayla Lin Gunn wrestling
Annika Shah Palo Alto basketball
Alexa Thomases Menlo basketball
Ashley Wang Palo Alto wrestling
Evan Dray Gunn basketball
Jonny Ebrahimian Menlo soccer
Deston Hawkins* Menlo-Atherton football
Cole Kastner Menlo basketball
Treavon Norton Menlo-Atherton football
David Tafuna Menlo-Atherton football *Previous winner
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victory over previously undefeated Wilcox. Yes, they gave up 28 points in that game. But the defense came up big once again by forcing seven turnovers, three in the fourth quarter to set up the game-turning touchdowns. M-A went on to make a long trip to the far north of the state to beat Eureka, 27-20, for the NorCal championship, and then came back home to defeat Lincoln at Sequoia for the state title. Wilcox didn’t go into any kind of funk after that CCS final loss, but bounced back to win the NorCal title over Capital Christian of Sacramento and the state 3-A championship over Kaiser of Fontana. M-A and Wilcox both state champions. A good year for the CCS and for local prep football. Imagine what Palo Alto was thinking The Vikings, in their first year under head coach Nelson Gifford, improved from 3-8 to 10-2 with both their losses to state championship teams: M-A and Wilcox. “And we competed,’’ Gifford said. “You could make the argument we played those teams better
than the teams they played in the championship games.’’ So the Vikings had a great turnaround season and finished 10-2. Now if they could just figure out a way to beat a state champion ... oh wait, hold on, they did beat a state champion. Back in the third week of the season, Paly defeated McClymonds 29-20 and that would be the last game Mack lost as it went on to win the 4-A state title, its third consecutive state championship. “The sense of satisfaction I got was when we had our banquet,’’ Gifford said. “The kids got up and spoke and it was clear that everyone was just so happy the way the season turned out. We all want to win championships, but you have to understand you can’t measure success that way. Instead look at whether you performed to your best capability, whether you put in the time and work and underwent the sacrifice. To a person on our team, everyone felt that way. There were not a lot of what-ifs.’’ Q
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Sports the fifth set. It speaks volumes for all her hard work to be able (continued from page 29) to come through in that big of a moment.” Senior Tami Alade hit .417 in set. It’s hard to turn that around. They were saying a lot to each garnering six kills and added eight other because they have great blocks. Plummer had 19 kills and leadership. They said they were 10 digs. Audriana Fitzmorris colin this together. All I said is, ‘this lected 14 kills. “Being able to go through this is why we play volleyball. This is what you dream of. This is why process with my teammates, my you came to Stanford, to be in this friends, makes it all 10 times greater,” Fitzmormoment. So, just relax ris said. “The people and let’s start playing make the experience.” our game.’” Stanford benefited After losing to Florifrom a crucial reverda in last year’s nationsal of a serve by Sidal semifinals, every reney Wilson that first turning Cardinal (34-1) was ruled out only to committed themselves be changed to an ace, to never feeling that her fourth of the night. kind of pain again. Kate Formico added a “It’s an amazing pair of aces. feeling,” said Stanford Jenna Gray “Our team ... I can’t libero Morgan Hentz, named co-Most Outstanding describe how much I love them Player, with Plummer. “It’s look- and the chemistry we have off ing back and seeing your hard and on the court,” Hentz said. “They’re amazing.” work paid off.” In the first set, Nebraska fought Hentz recorded her career-best 32nd dig on match point and got off five set points, before the Carthe ball to Gray, who put it in the dinal ended it. With the score perfect spot for McClure. It was 26-26, a crosscourt strike by Neassist number 57 for Gray and braska’s Lexi Sun went wide as McClure’s seventh kill of the she faced a block of Fitzmorris and Campbell. On set point No. 6, night. She also had 19 digs. Freshman middle Holly Camp- a long rally ended when Sun was bell turned in her best effort of the stuffed by Gray. After Nebraska (29-7) evened season, recording 15 kills and hitthe match, the following two sets ting a team best .483. “She was clutch,” Hambly said. were one-sided. Stanford domi“She has a huge swing for us in nated the third and the Huskers
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Audriana Fitzmorris and Tami Alade (6) were two major reasons Stanford beat Nebraska for the national title. dominated the fourth, setting the stage for an exciting finish. Of course, that was to be expected. The two schools have combined to win the past four NCAA championships and 13 overall. The question was how Stanford would react after being completely overmatched in the fourth set. “We had to put it all out there,” Hentz said. “Nebraska kept coming back but we were able to fight
back as well.” Stanford extended its winning streak to 32, broke a tie with Penn State for the most NCAA titles and won its second title in three seasons. Added Plummer: “I think we did a real good of coming out of that crummy fourth set and I’m just really proud of these girls.” Under Hambly, Stanford became the first school to win national championships with three
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different coaches. It was his first title in his second appearance in the championship match. Illinois reached the title match in 2011. The NCAA team title was Stanford’s 118th, a record. It was the 54th by a Stanford women’s program and the victory extended Stanford’s streak of academic years with at least one NCAA championship to an ongoing record of 43. Q
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