Palo Alto Weekly February 22, 2019

Vol. XL, Number 21 Q February 22, 2019

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Nationally ranked teams ready for final Page 40 Spectrum 16 Eating Out 20

Movies 21

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Puzzles 43

Q A&E French photographer chronicles the City by the Bay

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Q Shop Talk Can’t do yoga? Stretching studio to open soon

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Q Title Pages Uncovering hidden histories of local black residents Page 24

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Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common irregular heart rhythm, affecting over two million Americans each year. Without detection and treatment, atrial fibrillation can cause stroke and heart failure.

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INTERO – A BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY AFFILIATE IS PROUD ONCE AGAIN FOR THE $250,000,000 sale of the iconic I. Magnin building in San Francisco’s Union Square by

HALL OF FAME AGENT EFI LUZON! The I. Magnin building, located at 233 Geary St. in San Francisco’s historic Union Square, was sold by Macy’s to Efi Luzon’s client Sand Hill Property Co., the well-renowned and most prolific developer in the Bay Area, located in Palo Alto, CA.

“This is a transaction that was many years in the making,” said Efi Luzon, Senior Vice President of Intero Commercial. “I am proud to have represented my client and effectively navigated such a complex deal for such an iconic property.”

Luzon’s $250 million transaction is the third largest transaction in the 16-year history of Intero. In fact, Luzon has the top-three transactions in the history of the company, which include: • Large multi-unit transaction in Palo Alto, CA - $412,500,000 • Vallco Mall Cupertino, CA - $320,000,000 • I. Magnin building San Francisco, CA - $250,000,000 • Number one agent in California Number two agent nationally - 2017 RealTrends & The Wall Street Journal

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Upfront

Local news, information and analysis

City to ask Google to expunge data In bid to woo telecom giant, Palo Alto shared confidential utility data over several years

by Gennady Sheyner

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hen Google announced in March 2010 its plans to bring ultra-highspeed internet to a few lucky communities, Palo Alto officials literally danced with joy.

The city’s decadelong effort to

build Fiber to the Home, a municipal fiber network, had stalled, and officials here, like elsewhere, were pinning their hopes on the Mountain View-based giant to deliver 1-Gigabyte-per-second internet to all residents and

businesses. While they didn’t jump into a frozen lake like the mayor of Duluth, Minnesota, Palo Alto’s managers and Utilities employees boogied to the Village People’s “Y-M-C-A” in a video for Google’s amusement.

Its efforts turned out for naught, as Google chose Kansas City, Missouri, in 2011 to showcase its fiber-optic service. But while Palo Alto’s hopes for fiber

fizzled once again, its desire to cooperate with Google did not.

Even after Google shifted its sights elsewhere, the city provided the search giant with sensitive, confidential information about the city’s transmission systems, manholes, infrastructure-maintenance plans and properties — at least four times, according to newly released documents.

The first “confidentiality

and non-disclosure agreement (NDA)” that the city and Google Fiber signed Oct. 17, 2012, and three later non-disclosure agreements, were obtained by the community-organizing group The Partnership for Working Families and labor think tank Working Partnerships USA through public-record requests (continued on page 10)

CITY HALL

Future of auditor’s office uncertain City considers using consultants to staff small but critical operation

including transportation’s woes, sky-high housing costs, and a “yawning income divide,” remain troubling but are, in a sense, “old news.”

More disquieting, he wrote, are indicators that the region’s “fundamentals” — which have driven the area’s economic vitality — could be changing.

Among the factors, he wrote, large companies are “acquiring smaller ones at a pace we’ve never seen, changing the messy way innovation has typically happened here, perhaps even stifling it.”

“Fewer startups are getting their seed funding,” Hancock

by Gennady Sheyner ith City Auditor Harriet Richardson concluding her Palo Alto tenure this month, city officials are preparing to hire a consultant to manage the office while the City Council considers its long-term future.

The small but busy office has been wracked with controversy over the past year, hampered by in-fighting between Richardson and several members of her staff and by uncertainty over its future. Last May, the council’s Finance Committee briefly flirted with outsourcing its services entirely, a proposal that it ultimately scuttled after criticism from former city auditors and several members of the council and members of the community.

At one point, staff from the auditor’s office had even considered taking legal action against the city, though they ultimately chose not to once the council decided to retain the positions.

Despite the internal discord, the auditor’s office has been on the frontlines in recent years in identifying problems and recommending solutions to key municipal programs, including Palo Alto’s increasingly costly animal-services operation (which was just outsourced to the nonprofit Pets In Need), its buggy business-registry system and its

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Lunar light show The Super Snow Moon, the biggest full moon of the year, rises this past Tuesday above Hoover Tower at Stanford University.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Report: Inequality on the rise in Valley Index of region highlights spiking housing costs, income gap

by Gennady Sheyner

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espite a sizzling economy and an influx of wealth, Silicon Valley remains a bastion of inequality, with more residents now struggling to afford the growing costs of housing, child care and transportation, according to a newly released snapshot of the regional economy.

The 2019 Silicon Valley Index, which was released last week

by Joint Venture Silicon Valley, paints a troubling picture of a region where home prices continue to skyrocket, where tech giants are voraciously gobbling up startups and where more people are leaving than coming in.

These trends are casting a shadow over the region’s continuous economic expansion, with $50 billion in venture capital

flowing to area companies and average annual earnings reaching $140,000, more than double the national average.

In his introduction of the annual report, Joint Venture President and CEO Russell Hancock called this year’s report a “Rorschach test,” with plenty to both cheer and worry about. Hancock noted that some of the challenges,

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—Tom DuBois, Palo Alto City Councilman, on city’s non-disclosure agreement with Google Fiber. See story on page 5.

Around Town

FUTURE LITIGATOR ... A Menlo Park teenager and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient Addy Raquel who plans Palacios to become a lawyer has been named the inaugural recipient of a scholarship created to honor retired Judge LaDoris Cordell.

Addy Raquel Palacios, a sophomore at East Palo Alto Academy, will receive full tuition to attend the Intensive Law & Trial program at Stanford University, a 10-week program that exposes high schoolers from around the country to the theory and practice of law. (Tuition for the 2019 program is about $4,000.)

In Cordell’s 40-year career, she served as a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge, as a member of the Palo Alto City Council, as Stanford’s vice provost and special counselor to the president for campus relations and as the independent police auditor for the city of San Jose. Recent attempts to end DACA, which protects young people whose parents brought them to the U.S. illegally, sparked Addy’s interest in a legal career. “Once I become a lawyer, I would like to help make sure laws protect human rights and create a just society,� she said.

The scholarship was created by Envision, which provides career and leadership programs for K-12 students, and will be awarded to one East Palo Alto Academy student annually.

THE BLOOM AND THE BOOM ...

When Houzz proposed to include a roof-deck on a prominent downtown building across the street from City Hall in 2017, some city leaders were more than a little skeptical. While some on the council lauded the proposed amenity as a welcome addition to the downtown area, others noted that it would allow the building at 285 Hamilton Ave., which is already far larger than the zoning code allows, to be even bigger.

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The issue is heading to the council, where the sentiment has gradually turned in favor of roofdecks since 2017. In late January, the council revised zoning rules to allow new downtown residential developments to meet their open-space requirements by installing roof-decks. And last week, as the council moved to eliminate a long-standing cap on new nonresidential development in downtown, several council members talked about their desire to see more vitality and change in the area. Meanwhile, planning staff have proposed broadening the roof-deck policy further, so that it applies not just to buildings that are too tall to meet code but to those that are too dense as well. And it does offer one concession to those concerned about too much noise: It would allow amplified music on roof decks but specify that such music not be audible beyond the property boundaries. Despite noise concerns, John Shenk (whose firm, Thoits Brothers, owns the building at 285 Hamilton Ave.) argued at a planning commission meeting in October that the “vibrancy of the roof-deck is wholly compatible with such environments, and it’s something we want to have.� On Monday, it’ll be up to the council to decide whether it agrees. ‘OH THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!’ ...

The Palo Alto Library has opened three Pop-Up Libraries in the city to help the public dive into a good e-book. The collection includes books from the “Crazy Rich Asians� trilogy by Kevin Kwan, and titles by Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ daughter Lisa Brennan Jobs and comedian David Sedaris.

The pop-ups can be found at the YMCA of Silicon Valley, Cafe Venetia at the Palo Alto Caltrain station and City Hall’s first-floor lobby. The project, part of a national experiment run by book distributors Baker and Taylor and their e-book collection, Axis 360, is set to run through April. Users simply connect to the pop-up’s Wi-Fi network and download a title that will be on their electronic devices for up to three weeks.

It’s open to everyone with a smartphone, tablet or computer, regardless of whether they have a library card. Q

Upfront RECREATION

City purchase would add land to Boulware Park Palo Alto ready to make an offer to AT&T, though property has no listed price

by Gennady Sheyner

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

Trail construction set to start in East Palo Alto New construction on a critical segment of the Bay Trail connecting East Palo Alto to Menlo Park is expected to begin in September. (Posted Feb. 19 , 12:17 p.m.)

Three sexual assaults reported at Stanford Three separate sexual assaults against female students at Stanford University are alleged to have occurred over the weekend, according to campus officials. (Posted Feb. 17, 10:24 p.m.)

Rollover crash injures three Three people were injured in East Palo Alto on Thursday night when the convertible sports car they were in rolled over on University Avenue, near the Dumbarton Rail tracks, according to the Menlo Park Fire Protection District. (Posted Feb. 15, 4:13 p.m.)

County seeks developer for teacher housing With five North County school districts now offering support and funds, Santa Clara County officials are seeking a developer to build a teacher housing complex in Palo Alto. (Posted Feb. 15,

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fter coveting it for more than two years, Palo Alto is preparing to make an offer on a Birch Street property that city leaders hope to transform into parkland as part of a broader plan to redevelop Ventura neighborhood.

The City Council will consider on Monday night its options for purchasing a portion of the 1.65-acre property that AT&T owns at 3350 Birch St., adjacent to Boulware Park. The site includes an AT&T building, which the company is not selling, and an undeveloped 0.64-acre section near the intersection of Ash Street and Lambert Avenue AT&T had put on the market in early January.

If the city buys the property, it would be able to expand the 1.5-acre Boulware Park and add a recreational amenity to a dynamic neighborhood where parkland has been in relatively short supply. The neighborhood barely meets the city’s parkland standard, which encourages having park space within half a mile of all homes. The few parks it does have are either very small (Sarah Wallis Park), relatively hard to get to or both (Boulware).

A Comprehensive Plan policy calls for neighborhood parks to be at least 2 acres in size.

The council has been discussing the possible purchase of the AT&T site since fall 2016, when officials first learned that the company was exploring a sale.

Last June, when the council was discussing raising the city’s hotel-tax rate to pay for infrastructure and new community amenities, the AT&T site was one of the projects that council members cited in their arguments for the higher rate. Mayor Eric Filseth, who supported raising the hotel-tax rate by 2 percent, pegged the move as a chance for the council “to invest in the community” and add new recreational amenities.

“I really want to buy the AT&T (site) next to Boulware Park, for example, and we have no chance to do that if we don’t do something here,” Filseth said at the June 18 hearing.

Though voters decided to raise the hotel tax rate to 15.5 percent in the November election, rather than the 16 percent for which Filseth and others had lobbied, Palo Alto has other options to pay for the site. The city collects parkland development-impact fees, which will have a balance of $2.7 million after all the other scheduled park-improvement projects are accounted

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Employees at Instart Logic play soccer with neighborhood kids in 2017 at Boulware Park in Palo Alto during their weekly pick-up soccer games after work. The city of Palo Alto is thinking of buying land to add to the Ventura neighborhood park. for, according to a new report from the Administrative Service Department.

The city also collects “parkland dedication fees” that are earmarked for development or

rehabilitating community parks, and the city may have up to $1.2 million available in this account.

Even so, the report notes that (continued on page 8)

Public Agenda A preview of Palo Alto government meetings next week CITY COUNCIL ... The council plans to hold a closed session to discuss the city’s labor negotiations with the Service Employees International Union, Local 521, and to consider real property negotiations over a property at 3350 Birch St. The council then plans to hold a hearing to consider a proposal for a roof-deck at 285 Hamilton Ave., and for zoning changes to allow roof decks at other non-complying buildings in the downtown area; and to authorize the city manager to explore, negotiate and potentially submit an offer to buy the property at 3350 Birch St., next to Boulware Park. The closed session will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 25, at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. Regular meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. or as soon as possible after the closed session.

COUNCIL POLICY AND SERVICES COMMITTEE ... The committee plans to hear a presentation on Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority about the new transit plan, including bus service reductions in Palo Alto. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The board will vote on priorities for the Cubberley Community Center master plan and discuss the district’s second interim budget, expanded transitional kindergarten and a guiding document for the superintendent’s “PAUSD Promise,” among other items. There will be informational reports on legal expenses, chronic absenteeism, Title IX and Public Records Act requests. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear an update on dedicated pickleball courts; get a presentation on the Rinconada Park improvement project; and discuss the Parks and Open Space five-year capital improvement plan. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26, in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. SCHOOL BOARD BUDGET SESSION ... The board will hold a special study session on the district budget. The agenda was not available by press deadline. The meeting will begin at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, at the district office, 25 Churchill Ave. LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMISSION ... The commission plans to meet at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Community Meeting Room at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. The agenda was not available by press time.

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Auditor’s office (continued from page 5)

inconsistent code-enforcement program.

In approving its annual budget last summer, the council agreed to retain all five performance auditor positions (which former Councilman Greg Scharff had previously recommended eliminating). The Finance Committee also recommended by a 3-1 vote, with Lydia Kou dissenting, that the council should revisit the topic of the office’s

long-term future later in the year.

Kou stressed the importance of keeping a fully staffed Office of the City Auditor, which was created in 1983 by a city vote. The city auditor is one of four positions — along with city manager, city attorney and city clerk — that is appointed directly by the council.

Now, with Richardson’s departure, the office is preparing for a transition period. A new report from the office of City Manager Ed Shikada recommends hiring the consulting

CityView A round-up

of Palo Alto government action this week

City Council The council did not meet this week.

Architectural Review Board (Feb. 21) 695 Arastradero Road: The board approved the proposal to construct a one-story mortuary at 695 Arastradero Road. Yes: Baltay, Furth, Lew, Thompson No: Hirsch Wireless: The board held a study session to discuss AT&T’s proposal to install small wireless cell facilities in the downtown area. Action: None LET’S DISCUSS: Read the latest local news headlines and talk about the issues at Town Square at PaloAltoOnline.com

company Management Partners to oversee the office’s ongoing work on an interim basis. The agreement is expected to span between four to six months, with compensation coming from salary savings related to Richardson’s departure. The Human Resources Department will also assign a manager to provide “ongoing personnel supervision� to the auditor’s office, according to the report.

At the same time, the city is preparing to put out a request for proposals for another

consultant who will help the council consider broader longterm changes for the office. The consultant would help compare Palo Alto’s city auditor function with those of other government agencies and consider whether some of the office’s responsibilities should be shifted from the auditor’s office to that of the city manager (whose programs are routinely overseen by the auditor).

The report from Shikada’s office notes that the resources needed to staff the city auditor’s office “could be provided

in a variety of manners, ranging from entirely in-house staffing to project-specific consultant engagement, or a combination of resources.� “Given the City Council’s ongoing review of the city’s strategy for fiscal stability, including the costs and funding necessary for city-employee pensions, this is an appropriate time to review organizational options for resourcing the city’s audit function.� Q Staff Wr i ter Genna dy Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com.

Boulware Park

buying the property and expanding Boulware Park remains popular at City Hall. The Parks and Recreation Commission and the council have often talked about the need to bring more recreational amenities to Ventura and had identified the land as the ideal opportunity. The city is also now in the midst of creating a master plan for a large section of Ventura, including the commercial campus currently anchored by Fry’s Electronics. “Acquisition of the property would allow for the expansion of Boulware Park, which could then meet standard neighborhood park acreage and potentially integrate the street

right-of-way between parcels,� the report states. “The property’s location proximate to the North Ventura Coordinated Area Plan study area also enhances potential connectivity with the Fry’s site.�

The property is being marketed by CBRE Group, a commercial real-estate firm that has indicated that it wishes to receive offers by late this month, according to the city.

The council will discuss the Birch property on Monday night and will likely direct staff to negotiate with CBRE about a possible purchase. Q Staff Wr i ter Genna dy Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@paweekly.com.

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the purchase is far from certain.

The property currently does not have a listed price and the city’s offer will be made “at fair market value, to be determined with the seller,� the report states. “Considerations will be cost and availability of funding, including whether acquisitions should be designated as a priority over other parks improvements and whether this potential acquisition should be prioritized over other city parks and recreation projects,� the report states.

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and published in The Washington Post earlier this week. Palo Alto is one of nine municipalities that provided information in response to the requests (San Jose; Boulder, Colorado; Clarksville, Tennessee; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Lenoir, North Carolina; Midlothian, Texas; Lithia, Georgia; and Dalles, Oregon, are the others).

In surveying the information, the nonprofits focused on Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real estate deals in San Jose, where it is planning to build a campus. Working Partnerships

USA filed a lawsuit in November alleging that the city had signed â&#x20AC;&#x153;legally questionable NDAs with Google,â&#x20AC;? according to the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statement. These agreements â&#x20AC;&#x153;refused to disclose critical public records while negotiating the sale of huge swaths of public land to the company for a new mega-campus.â&#x20AC;?

In Palo Alto, by contrast, the non-disclosure agreements focused on technical information pertaining to utilities, including unspecified customer information and GIS data, the reports show.

The city had signed at least four non-disclosure agreements with Google â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in 2012, 2013, 2014

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and 2016 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as part of its effort to partner with the telecom giant on a fiber-optic system. The agreement that the city signed in April 2014, a time of particularly intense information sharing, provides for disclosure to Google of confidential information that â&#x20AC;&#x153;could be useful to a person in planning an attack on critical infrastructure.â&#x20AC;?

Despite these efforts, Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cooperation with Google appeared to net the city little benefit. In July 2016, Google Fiber announced that it would not be building a fiber network in Palo Alto, San Jose, Mountain View or any other municipalities that it had identified as â&#x20AC;&#x153;potential Fiber cities.â&#x20AC;? The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exploration that year of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;co-buildâ&#x20AC;? agreement, which called for the city to build a municipal system in parallel with Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s network, also fizzled.

The documents suggest that throughout the negotiations, the city viewed NDAs as a proper mechanism to ensure that the

company would not share or misuse sensitive information. In 2012, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former Chief Information Officer Jonathan Reichental signed an agreement with Google

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Confidential informationâ&#x20AC;? shall be defined as information ... that could be useful to a person in planning an attack on critical infrastructure.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D;2014 agreement, city of Palo Alto and Google as part of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continuing effort to explore a fiber build-out.

The agreement doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t indicate exactly what information the city had shared, though it required Google to use a â&#x20AC;&#x153;reasonable

degree of care to protect confidential information and to prevent any unauthorized use of disclosure of confidential information.â&#x20AC;?

At times, Googleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s requests for information appeared to have exceeded what was covered in the agreements. In August 2013, Google asked for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data pertaining to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s utility system. Deputy City Attorney Albert Yang suggested that this request was not covered by the 2012 agreement, which Yang noted covered a specific purpose that Reichental was pursuing with Google. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather not take the position that the existing NDA can be expanded to the new issue we are dealing with here,â&#x20AC;? Yang wrote to Josh Wallace of the Utilities Department.

As a result, Google and the city signed an additional NDA related specifically to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data maintained by the City of Palo Alto Utilities Department in order to evaluate a potential business transaction.â&#x20AC;?

The agreement defined â&#x20AC;&#x153;confidential informationâ&#x20AC;? as â&#x20AC;&#x153;all information, data, analyses, documents, ideas, records, reports, notes, interpretations, opinions, forecasts and materials provided by the city, in oral, written, electronic, computer-readable, or other tangible or intangible form, whether in draft or final form, whether or not it is labeled, marked or otherwise identified as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;confidentialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;proprietary information.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

The following year, as Google expanded further its national fiber program, it listed Palo Alto as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;potential Fiber city.â&#x20AC;? Seeking to be selected, Palo Alto officials began working on a Google Fiber City Checklist, a packet of details on everything from manhole locations, underground utility routes, streetlights, lot lines, utility poles, pavement conditions and zoning designations.

As part of the process, the city and Google signed another nondisclosure agreement for the purpose of â&#x20AC;&#x153;assessment and provision of a fiber optic network in the city,â&#x20AC;? according to the document. The agreement included information about transmissionsystem operations and â&#x20AC;&#x153;critical infrastructure information,â&#x20AC;? defined by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to mean â&#x20AC;&#x153;specific engineering, vulnerability, or detailed design information about proposed or existing critical infrastructure.â&#x20AC;? This includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;details about the production, generation, transportation, transmission or distribution of energyâ&#x20AC;? that â&#x20AC;&#x153;could be useful to a person in planning an attack on critical infrastructureâ&#x20AC;? and that are â&#x20AC;&#x153;exempt from the mandatory disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.â&#x20AC;?

Palo Alto wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only city working with Google on a document release. In early April, Reichental received an email

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from his counterpart in Mountain View, Chief Information Officer Roger Jensen. In the past, Jensen wrote, Mountain View “hasn’t released full maps of sensitive infrastructure information such as water lines.”

“We usually only release this information on an as-needed basis, for specific streets or areas.

Is PA releasing all of this information to Google? I’m operating under the assumption everything we give them is going to show up on Google Earth,” Jensen wrote.

Reichental had no such qualms, partly because of the non-disclosure agreement.

“We are sharing our non-public information under an NDA,” wrote Reichental, who resigned last year to take a position with Oracle. “This also prohibits use outside of the Google checklist.”

As it awaited Google’s decision on its next batch of “fiber cities,” Palo Alto also began exploring in 2015 a different type of relationship with the telecom: a “co-build” concept in which the city and Google would consider building parallel networks.

Championed by City Councilman Tom DuBois, the concept called for the city to lay its own conduit while telecoms expand theirs. DuBois argued that this was a “critical time” to talk to Google and other telecoms precisely because they were preparing to make announcements on new projects.

Mountain View-based Google asked cities bidding to become Google Fiber cities to provide sensitive data about municipal utilities and other public infrastructure systems under nondisclosure agreements.

With the City Council backing the co-build model, the city and Google signed yet another non-disclosure agreement in June 2016. Signed by Reichental, former City Manager James Keene and current City Manager Ed Shikada (who was at the time serving as assistant city manager and general manager of utilities), the agreement doesn’t specify exactly what type of information the city would be releasing to Google, though it states that the parties “desire to evaluate, negotiate and possibly enter into a business transaction that would include shared responsibility for construction of a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network in Palo Alto” and includes “utilities customer data”

in its definition of “confidential information.”

The new effort prompted an exchange of emails between the city and Google about a potential Master Encroachment Agreement that the city would sign with Google.

The effort did not, however, pan out. By late 2016, Google had pivoted away from fiber, apparently deeming a broad expansion too costly. In early 2017, city utilities staff informed the council in a report that Google had advised staff “that they are exploring more innovative ways to deploy their network, which may include implementing wireless technologies.”

DuBois, who now works at Google (he did not in 2015, when the city was considering the

co-build), told the Weekly that the council was not briefed on staff’s non-disclosure agreements with Google. He did not, however, see anything wrong with sharing the information.

“The fact that we were applying to be a Google Fiber city was not a secret or confidential,” DuBois told the Weekly in an email. “When building a network, gas lines, sewer pipes, electrical upgrades, etc., it may require sharing details of the location of utilities, which would fall under FERC and need to be kept confidential. I am happy that staff made sure this remained confidential and not public.”

And while it’s not clear what Palo Alto ultimately got out of the arrangement, DuBois said the city’s intention at the time of the agreement was to build out a network.

“In general, I don’t think it should be shared with private companies, except when hired by the city to perform work for city services and such information is needed for safe construction and planning (to prevent digging through gas lines, power, etc.),” DuBois wrote. “Given the scale of a citywide broadband network, it likely would have been necessary to share this information if the build-out happened.”

When asked about Google’s policies for protecting sensitive utility information, a spokesperson for Google Fiber indicated in

a statement that the company has followed its agreement with the Palo Alto. The agreement prohibits the company from using the information in any way not related to the fiber effort.

“We’ve complied with the terms of our agreement with the city, which requires us to treat all confidential information as such,” the spokesperson stated in an email.

Even so, the city may soon take action to request that the company actually delete the data it had provided, given that Palo Alto and Google Fiber are no longer in negotiations.

Claudia Keith, chief communications officer for the city of Palo Alto, told the Weekly that it is “standard practice for the city to enter into non-disclosure agreements when providing third parties with utility information, since there can be security reasons to limit public availability of information on our facilities.”

She also indicated in response to the Weekly’s inquiries that the city will ask Google to return or destroy the sensitive utility information.

“And, while we have no reason to believe there has been any compromising of this information, we will be requesting the return/destruction of materials as per the NDA,” Keith told the Weekly. Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com

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And while rental rates in the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas remained steady in 2018, they were significantly higher than in any other metro area in the nation (in these two areas, rental rates are $3.42 and $3.20 per square foot, respectively; New York is a distant third at $2.67 per square foot).

Housing supply has not come anywhere close to keeping up with demand: While the region has produced close to 18,000 new units over the past two years, the new projects have not come close to making up for insufficient building over the prior decade, according to the report. The Index estimates that between 2007 and 2016, Silicon Valley created a housing shortage of about 38,000 units, which would be needed to accommodate the region’s growing population.

Furthermore, new buildings are generally priced for the wealthy.

Only 8 percent of newly approved residential units in Silicon Valley are affordable to residents who earn less than 80 percent of the area median income. For most potential first-time homebuyers, local prices remain far out of reach. The report shows that only 22 percent of potential-first-time homebuyers in San Mateo County — and 30 percent in Santa Clara County — can afford a median-priced home.

The lack of affordable housing, the report notes, “results in longer commutes, diminished productivity, curtailment of family time, and increased traffic congestion.”

“It also restricts the ability of crucial service providers — such as teachers, registered nurses, and police officers — to live near the communities they work,” the report states. “Additionally, high housing costs can limit families’ ability to pay for basic needs, such as food, health care, transportation, child care and clothing. They can push residents to live with one another for economic reasons and can increase homelessness.”

Despite a recent push by traditionally growth-averse cities like Palo Alto to encourage more housing, the pace of construction

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wrote. “Our high costs (including salaries) are causing innovative companies to look elsewhere.”

For the third year in a row, Silicon Valley has seen more people move out than move in, the report states. Between July 2017 and July 2018, Santa Clara County had a net “out migration” of domestic residents of about 15,000, trailing only Los Angeles and Orange counties. Strikingly, foreign immigrants are also leaving in greater numbers than coming in. Between July 2015 and July 2018, the region gained 61,977 foreign immigrants but lost 64,318 to other parts of California and the United States.

“The influx of foreign immigrants into the region is more than fully offset by the number of Silicon Valley residents moving to other parts of the state and nation; those who choose to stay within California are heading to regions such as the Sacramento

and Stockton/Tracy areas where housing costs are significant lower,” the report states.

The report also takes note of the region’s slowing population growth, which is due primarily to the region’s slow and declining birth rate.

At the same time, Silicon Valley remains a diverse region. The report showed that in 2017, Asian residents made up 34 percent of the population, marking the first time that they have represented the largest share of the region’s population (in 2007 they accounted for 28 percent of the population). The percentage of white residents has decreased from 40.4 percent in 2007 to 33.5 percent in 2017, the report states.

The report also underscores the region’s failures, despite recent statewide and local efforts, to increase residential development and lower housing costs. Median home prices in Silicon Valley skyrocketed in 2018, going up by a whopping 21 percent and reaching $1.18 million, the report states.

In 2017, the Asian population in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties exceeded the population of white people for the first time, while the proportion of black individuals shrank and the percentage of Hispanics or Latinos grew when compared to data from 2007. remains sluggish. The number of residential units that were permitted in Silicon Valley in 2018 — 8,400 — was actually lower than in 2017, when more than 9,000 units received the green light.

The report underscores the region’s growing income gap, with the number of high-income households (earning $150,000 or more) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco rising by 35 percent in the past four years and 2 percent of households claiming 27 percent of the wealth.

Furthermore, more than a quarter of Silicon Valley households have household incomes above $200,000, compared to 11 percent statewide and 7 percent nationally.

But for those at the lower end of the income scale, it has become considerably more difficult to afford basic needs. One of the more startling statistics in the new report is the rising cost of child care, which has gone up by 52 percent since 2012 and now stands at about $20,900 annually for infants. The cost of transportation needs for a family of four has gone up by 18 percent since 2014 and is now about $6,300.

The report points to income disparities that persist between “residents of various races and

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ethnicities, and between men and women at the same level of educational attainment.” The tech industry continues to be dominated by men. Only 18 percent of highly educated women between the ages of 24 and 44 worked in technical occupations in 2017, compared with 43 percent of their male counterparts.

The report also showed that women made up just 28 percent of the workforce at Silicon Valley’s largest tech companies in 2017, and a mere 19 percent of technical roles and leadership positions.

One finding that is unlikely to surprise readers is the growing commute times. Even though the average number of miles driven

by Silicon Valley residents has declined for three consecutive years (reaching 22 miles in 2017), solo commuting remains the most popular option — one chosen by 72 percent of Silicon Valley workers (down from 75 percent a decade ago). The report notes that the average commute time has gone up by 20 percent over the past decade, adding an additional 43 hours of driving time per commuter annually. In 2017, 6.5 percent of employees spent more than three hours on their daily work commutes.

Likely driven by traffic congestion, the share of commuters taking public transportation rose, from 4.9 percent in 2011 to 6.5 percent in 2016. Ridership on Caltrain, a popular commute option on the Peninsula, rose between 2010 and 2018 by 45 percent.

The cost of transportation needs in Silicon Valley went up by 4 percent over the past four years, the report found, even as it decreased statewide by 12 percent over the same period.

“Changing transportation costs affect our residents’ ability to get around and still afford their other basic needs,” the report states.

“And the amount of time wasted due to long commutes and traffic delays affects the everyday lives of our residents — taking time away from work, participating in the community, or being with family and friends.” Q Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be emailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com

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Violence related Armed robbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Child abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Domestic violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sex crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Commercial burglaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Credit card fraud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Elder financial abuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Grand theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Identity theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Online scam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Shoplifting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving with suspended license . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/minor injury . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . 4 Vehicle impound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vehicle tampering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle tow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Alcohol or drug related Drinking in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drunk in public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Possession of paraphernalia . . . . . . . . 3 Sale of drugs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Under influence of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Miscellaneous Animal call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Concealed weapon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Found property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Located missing person . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lost property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Misc. penal code violation . . . . . . . . . . 4 Other/misc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Outside investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Psychiatric hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Public nuisance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sick and cared for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Suspicious circumstances . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vandalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Violation restraining order. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Warrant/other agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Feb. 13-Feb. 19 Violence related Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Theft related Fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Petty theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Threat undefined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle related Auto burglary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bicycle theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Driving w/suspended license . . . . . . . . 4 Hit and run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Misc. traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vehicle accident/injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vehicle accident/no injury. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alcohol or drug related Driving under the influence . . . . . . . . . . 2 Drug activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Possession of drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

VIOLENT CRIMES Palo Alto

180 El Camino Real, 2/12, 7:26 p.m.; armed robbery.

Cowper Street, 1/29, noon; child abuse.

Addison Avenue, 2/6, 3 p.m.; child abuse.

Forest Avenue, 1/22, 10:30 a.m.; sex crime.

300 blk. California Ave., 1/29, 4:30 p.m.; battery.

Hamilton Avenue, 2/16, 1:42 p.m.; domestic violence.

300 blk. University Ave., 2/18, 8:15 a.m.; battery.

El Camino Real, 2/19, 8:49 p.m.; domestic violence/court order violation.

Menlo Park

Hedge Road, 2/19, 10:22 a.m.; battery.

Transitions Births, marriages and deaths

Joseph Kott No matter how daunting a task, Joseph Kott believed that Palo Alto and the greater Silicon Valley region could become a national model for how to cope with a deluge of motor vehicles.

The Palo Alto chief transportation official from 1998 to 2005 dedicated most of his life to pursuing ways to get drivers out of their cars, becoming a prominent thought-leader in the push to create a regional transportation system aimed at reducing traffic congestion.

He co-founded Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities to advance alternative transportation systems in cities nationwide; served as a private consultant at local, regional and state levels; taught sustainable urban and regional transportation planning at various universities, including Stanford and San Jose State; and mentored emerging

planners for more than three decades.

On Feb. 14, Kott died of heart failure while at his Oakland home with his wife, Katherine. He was 71.

“Joe was a true pleasure to work with. He always had a smile on his face and was ready to talk to any resident who wanted to talk, ask questions or give opinions,” former Palo Alto Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto said Tuesday.

Kishimoto said Kott represented a “changing of the guard” of transportation professionals who had been trained to get cars through town as fast as possible.

He understood that “streets are for people in all modes of transportation and there has to be a balance to allow people to get places by walking, biking, transit, as well as ... vehicles,” she said.

Kott worked as Palo Alto’s chief transportation official during a time when the city was coping with an overflow of traffic caused by hordes of commuters coming into the city every day.

While not all of his forwardthinking ideas earned him praise in Palo Alto, colleagues

William D. Iaculla Artist / Sculptor — Palo Alto

Acclaimed Artist / Sculptor and long time Palo Alto Resident, William D. Iaculla, passed away peacefully on February 11, 2019 at the age of 91.

Bill is survived by his Sister, Della Kozy, Long Time Partner Philip Warman and many Beloved Family Members and Friends.

Bill’s Education included, DePaul University, Chicago. B.A. 1951. Art Institute of Chicago B.F.A. 1954 (Sculpture, Painting and Ceramics). San Jose State University M.A. (Sculpture) 1968. Foothill College (Graphics) 1981-1982.

Bill was an Educator and Mentor to all. He taught School in Millbrae for over 30 years. He was a long time Member of the Palo Alto / Pacific Art League, were he gave Lectures, Juried Shows and Taught Art and Sculpture until the age of 85.

Art was Bill’s Life Passion. His personal Exhibits and Awards are too numerous to mention, but truly Amazing and Prolific. His Art Works were eclectic, colorful and always avant-garde. His Life Works included Paintings, Wood Sculptures, Metal Sculptures, Ceramics, Resin Geometric Forms, Archival Paper Art, Life Forms and Bronze Castings.

Bill’s Art Themes were derived from his Family Roots, a remote southern town of Ricigliano, Italy, were his Father Joe was born.

The town dates back to 1320 B.C., inhabited in turn by Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. The town’s history is filled with classical art, satire, animals, dreams and fetishes, all of which have become part of Bill’s Creations.

Bill always Preached Peace and expressed the importance of being Non-Judgmental to others.

“I am an Artist for justice and peace, my works are influenced greatly by world conflicts, 9-11, violence and revenge in repeated disasters of war.”

— William D. Iaculla May He Rest in Peace!

The Family will be holding a Private Vigil for Bill.

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considered him a hands-on visionary who didn’t shy away from new and sometimes controversial traffic-calming proposals, such as roundabouts.

Kott continued an active career in city and regional planning for the remainder of his life. He earned a doctorate from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia in 2012 and held master’s

degrees in regional planning and transportation and traffic engineering. He was a charter member of the American Planning Association and maintained certification with the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Kott is survived by his wife of 45 years, Katherine (Kitto) Kott; son Paul Thomas Kott; daughter, Amy Elizabeth Rands; brother-in-law

William Dean Brown; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his parents, son Andrew Joseph Kott and siblings Shirley Brown and Raymond John Kott.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., on Saturday, March 9, at Corpus Christi Church in Piedmont. A reception will follow.

Alan Lawrence Kaganov December 7, 1938 – February 2, 2019

Alan Kaganov, 80, died in his home in Los Altos Hills on February 2, 2019 after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis, which he fought with his characteristic combination of optimism, scientific analysis and creativity.

Even two days before he died, he was in discussion with colleagues on ways to improve the oxygen delivery systems that were sustaining his life.

Holder of 15 US patents, Dr. Kaganov was a pioneer in biomedical engineering. He helped to develop treatments for many conditions including heart arrhythmia, internal issues, spinal and circulatory diseases and drug-delivery systems.

In 2017, Alan and his wife, Carol M. Kaganov, established the Kaganov Research Initiative at Duke University. This unique program aims to advance the diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of pulmonary diseases by fostering new collaborations across Engineering and Medicine at Duke, where he earned his BS in 1960 in Mechanical Engineering. He received Duke’s Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award in 2004.

Alan’s undergraduate degree was just the beginning of his trailblazing career which focused on the new field of Biomedical Engineering, first at Johnson & Johnson.

Along the way he earned an MBA from New York University in 1966 in corporate finance.

He received his Doctor of Science degree from Columbia University in 1975. Alan and Carol established a Professorship at Columbia as part of their legacy, and he served on its Engineering Board of Visitors starting in 2010.

His varied career focused on developing innovative new technologies at major medical device companies as well as start-ups, moving from R&D roles to general management. first at the Davis and Geck division of Lederle, then part of American Cyanamid.

He moved on to Baxter Healthcare in Illinois, where he was General Manager of the Fenwal Division, and then — recognizing his entrepreneurial spirit as well as R & D skills — he was made Vice President of Technology and New Ventures. A chance to become CEO led to EP Technologies in Palo Alto, CA, a start-up that produced steerable catheters for treating arrhythmias. It was acquired

by Boston Scientific, where he became Vice President of Acquisitions and Strategic Planning.

Alan joined U.S. Venture Partners in 1996 where served as a venture partner, partner and senior advisor for over 22 years. He distinguished himself as an incisive, passionate and successful investor, and as a mentor to many executives in the firm’s portfolio. He cofounded Aptus Endosystems in 2002 and served as its chairman. Other board positions included NewUro, Neuros Medical, Atricure, St. Francis, A-Med Systems, Spinal Elements, and Flextronics.

“Alan had an unusual combination of personality, skills and experience that made him a great venture capitalist.

He could not only identify and articulate the strategic issues, but based on his strong technical background and experience, he was an unusually valuable resource to entrepreneurs. And he was also a nice guy that everyone loved,” remarked Phil Young, a longtime general partner and current senior advisor at USVP. Alan was especially proud of his contributions to the Stanford University Bio-Science Lab, Bailard, Inc., where he was a healthcare advisor, and the Gladstone Institute, where he was on the Board and established an innovative Fellowship. He has been a generous supporter of the San Francisco Symphony and the Smuin Ballet, where he was an avid audience member as well as on its board. Alan was a passionate traveler, gardener, investor, and dedicated fan of the NY Yankees, the NY Giants and the Duke Blue Devils basketball team.

Alan Kaganov was born in Brooklyn, NY, on December 7, 1938, son of Morris and Sally Kaganov, and grew up in Miami Beach, FL, where he attended high school. He is survived by his wife of 51 years, Carol Kaufman, from Albany, NY., sister Debby (Gil) Wolfenson, brother-in-law Henry Kaufman and wife, Meryl Unger, nephews Andrew (Jennifer) Wolfenson and Barry Wolfenson, nieces Carin (David) Blatteis and Erica (Dan) Asher, and eight grand-nieces and nephews.

A celebration of Alan Kaganov’s life will be held in late February. In lieu of flowers, contributions in honor of Alan L. Kaganov may be sent to: DUKE UNIVERSITY – KAGANOV INITIATIVE, attention “Judge” Carr, Sr. Assoc. Dean for Development and Alumni Affairs, 305 Teer Engineering Building, Box 90271 Durham, NC 27708. Or, call (919) 660-5385, or email gifts.Duke.edu PAID

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Editorial Don’t give up on rail As high-speed rail project is scaled back, leaders should look for new options

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t is hard to argue with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to abandon the original vision for a high-speed rail system enabling travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles in just two hours and 40 minutes.

The $77 billion project, originally estimated to cost $44 billion, was already on life support when State Auditor Elaine Howle released a blistering report in November entitled “California High-Speed Rail Authority: Its flawed decision-making and poor contract management have contributed to billions in cost overruns and delays in the system’s construction.”

The auditor found that the rail authority rushed the construction-planning process, didn’t adequately oversee contractors and consultants and began construction before needed land was acquired and agreements with local government and railroad operators completed. The project had become a pipe dream, and even supporters had soured on its prospects for delivering what had been promised.

Newsom had little choice but to scale back the project to a route between Bakersfield and Merced and abandon any pretense that high-speed rail would eventually connect San Francisco and Los Angeles.

When voters approved the high-speed rail proposal in November 2008 through Proposition 1A, California and the rest of the nation were in the midst of the Great Recession following the collapse of financial markets two months earlier. The hugely ambitious infrastructure project had strong support from unions, elected officials, environmentalists, the Obama administration and 53 percent of California voters. But as the price tag and bureaucratic miscues skyrocketed and no private investment surfaced, the dream became an albatross.

Back in late 2008 and 2009, local highways flowed at the speed limit even at rush hour. Commute times were reasonable. Housing prices beyond the Midpeninsula weren’t anything like what they are today, and employees commuting from places like Tracy or Merced were few and far between. Google, Facebook and other tech companies employed a fraction of the people they do today.

More than 10 years later, the transportation needs of our region are dramatically different and the original vision for a modern rail system needs to be re-invented, not thrown out. The scaling back of high-speed rail is an opportunity to study and build a system that addresses real problems affecting average people instead of providing a service that air travel already handles at a competitive price.

Silicon Valley and the Central Valley desperately need to be better connected, both to serve the thousands of people who are commuting tremendous distances to jobs here and to spread the economic successes of our region to places like Modesto, Merced and Fresno. Making these Central Valley cities more accessible will help them attract companies and employees that we no longer have room for here, and it will allow growth to occur in areas of inexpensive housing and an abundance of available workers.

Fresno’s population is now well over a half million, more than Sacramento. Modesto has more than 215,000 residents; Merced 83,000 and Turlock 74,000. Yet they remain largely detached from our strong California coastal economy.

The quality of life for workers who spend up to five hours or more a day commuting, largely driving alone, to Silicon Valley is intolerable, inhumane and unsustainable. It leads to unhappy employees, families and employers, high turnover and little or no time for community connections, attending school events or coaching kids’ sports teams.

The success of the ACE (Altamont Corridor Express) train that connects Stockton with San Jose over the Altamont Pass shows what is possible even on tracks shared with freight trains and with travel times of almost two hours between Tracy and San Jose.

A modern, dedicated and faster rail system, whether high-speed or not, that connects our region with the Central Valley deserves careful study while construction proceeds on the 160-mile stretch of the scaled back high-speed-rail project between Bakersfield and Merced.

By continuing to allow massive amounts of new office development in the Bay Area with less housing than those new developments require, we make our already dire regional transportation and housing crisis steadily worse. Our political and corporate leaders need to formulate a realistic vision and conduct a feasibility study for a rail system that will eventually connect the south Bay with high-speed rail in Merced. Let’s not let the failure of the original vision for a full north-to-south high-speed-rail project stop us from seeking rail solutions to the transportation crisis we face today. Q Page 16 • February 22, 2019 • Palo Alto Weekly • www.PaloAltoOnline.com

Spectrum Editorials, letters and opinions

This week on Town Square Town Square is an online discussion forum at PaloAltoOnline.com/square In response to ‘Former Palo Alto transportation head Joseph Kott dies at 71’ Posted Feb. 20 at 11:30 a.m. by Stuart Berman, a resident of Old Palo Alto Joe was ahead of the game in seeing the traffic problems that would beset Palo Alto in the future and he tried to offer timely solutions with visionary yet practical plans. I was sorry to see the opposition that he often faced and even sorrier to see him leave his position at the City of Palo Alto.

Was it because of the roadblocks to progress that he faced? I don’t know, but I have missed him since he departed Palo Alto. And now he is lost to us forever. I’m sad the he is gone.

Posted Feb. 16 at 4:53 p.m. by Bill Ross, a resident of College Terrace Ms. McCown’s response is inadequate. The code is clear there is a violation. Stanford strives for academic and athletic excellence; I would hope it would take the same approach with compliance with the law. The city should proceed with enforcement and also inspect the unoccupied homes which the University has purchased to ensure they presently comply with building and fire code provisions. The University should comply with the law as any homeowner should not advance excuses for noncompliance.

In response to ‘Editorial: Council repeal of downtown cap is setback for housing’ Posted Feb. 15 at 8:24 a.m. by Neilson Buchanan, a resident of Downtown North Now is time to find a reset button and push it hard. Affordable housing can be created for various groups of citizens for whom market rate housing does not work.

There is no quick, mass programs to “fix” housing deficits; but, Palo Alto citizens can selectively and deliberately promote better policy than the Council has chosen.

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Posted Feb. 20 at 2:30 p.m.

by Tricia Dolkas, a resident of Downtown North Joe was an amazing, unique man. No matter what the issue and whether you agreed with Joe or not, he was a man with 100 percent integrity. His passion for getting people into more environmental transportation modes couple with his patience with people’s natural hesitation to change made him a rare person who was humble, gracious, smart and compassionate. He will be missed.

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In response to ‘Stanford construction site could be in violation of city law’

by John Raftrey and Lori McCormick

Posted Feb. 16 at 10:19 a.m. by R. Davis, a resident of Crescent Park If Stanford University actually owns these vacant lots, shouldn’t they be allowed to store lumber there even if it is a potential eyesore?

Not defending Stanford but ‘back in the day’ if you owned an empty lot and were building right next door, this wasn’t an issue.

On the other hand, Stanford University is getting a bit too big for its britches and their objectives often conflict with the residents of Palo Alto.

Then again, if it wasn’t for Leland Stanford, there probably wouldn’t be the City of Palo Alto as we now know it as the larger town of Mayfield was rejected as a university site.

Pretty ironic to say the least.

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Off Deadline ‘Unicorns,’ ‘angel investors’ report should be expected/required reading

by Jay Thorwaldson

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ver it able “invasion of u n ic o r n s” bolstered by a surge of “angel investors” is hitting Silicon Valley big time this year, according to a new report detailing economic trends and reality in the region.

No, this is not a fantasy, even though unicorns are exceedingly rare this side of myth and imagination, songs and children’s books.

In the real world, of which Palo Alto is usually considered a major part, a “unicorn” is a private company that has amassed a worth of $1 billion or more. That amazing sum has usually been achieved with the help of “angel investors,” defined as individuals or investor groups that have invested $100 million or more in the once-mythical-seeming sci-fi world of high-technology.

The annual “Silicon Valley Index” was unveiled Feb. 15 at an annual “State of the Valley” conference in San Jose — attended by more than 1,300 corporate leaders, government officials, media and citizen observers. The conference is sponsored by the industry-based Joint Venture Silicon Valley, which has published the Index early each year since 1995.

The Index is a comprehensive examination of trends and statistics that comprise the economic world of Silicon Valley, a region that encompasses Santa Clara and Alameda counties and a large portion of the San Francisco Bay region generally.

But the report is vastly more than an annual yearbook of trends and statistics. It

Letters A faulty vision Editor, My father, John H. Weakland, a pioneer in modern psychology and development of family therapy and brief therapy, is surely roiling in his grave with the news that his lifelong workplace, the MRI, plans to sell its building to fund a grant-giving foundation and will cease to exist as a center of psychology research, teaching, and practice.

I’m sure that his longtime colleagues, Paul Watzlawick and Dick Fisch, Dad’s co-founders of the Brief Therapy Center, are doing the same. Their legacy was an institute with an international reach and reputation that brought visiting therapists from around the world.

It greatly concerns me that your article (“Therapists to lose home

is candid in its assessments of real-world trends, bolstered by statistics and observations that sum up the actual day-to-daypocketbook world of the region.

Five years ago, the Index detailed a reality affecting many thousands of residents and workers when it reported that the “middle class” in “The Valley” was shrinking as an economic class. Instead, the lower economic end — those struggling to survive in a highcost area — was growing while the upper end, the vastly wealthy, was also expanding, creating a huge sinkhole gap in between.

The cost of housing is a significant focus of the Index this year, reflecting the fact that housing costs are the highest in the nation.

The overall average monthly cost of housing is $2,351 while the average rental cost is $2,911.

“We need more housing. We needed it yesterday,” Joint Venture CEO Russell Hancock said of the crisis. “We need to be building all kinds of housing. It needs to be dense, it needs to be vertical, it needs to be situated in reasonable proximity to mass transit options.

“We need to be strong, forceful advocates for that kind of housing.”

But Hancock is aware of the challenges, including resistance of local communities to a surge in housing development, such as the widespread resistance in the early 2000s when the Association of Bay Area Governments published a housing-allotment report by community, based mostly on where the jobs were.

Palo Alto, which has been job-heavy since the fast-growth 1950s and 1960s, was far up the list. But the city is also known for being environmentally conscious with a citizenry averse to intense development anywhere.

Hancock acknowledges that Palo Alto is

at landmark Mental Research Institute,” Feb. 9, Palo Alto Online) reviews the large decline in MRI revenues over the past several years — a timeframe that parallels the tenure of the current executive director. Ms. Suberville was hired in January 2016 and developed a plan to utterly change the MRI: sell its sole financial asset and become director of a new granting foundation.

She describes herself on LinkedIn as a “social entrepreneur.” Her background prior to the MRI was executive director of the FrenchAmerican Cultural Society. Can she be knowledgeable enough about the field of psychology to make such significant changes or to lead a foundation that honors MRI’s historic past?

To so utterly change the MRI, and reduce it to a business entity, truly appalls me.

Brief Therapy Center Director Karin Schlanger, a student and

“already fairly intensely built. There’s not a lot of developable land.

“But we have built more around California Avenue, so Palo Alto is moving in the right direction,” he said in a phone interview this week.

Besides, housing is not just a Palo Alto problem, he noted: “It is a regional issue and everybody has to do their part.” How big a part is yet to be determined, despite literally decades of discussion and debate locally.

One solution is to build more housing in outlying areas, where there is more open (and affordable) land.

But that alternative is dependent on having better transportation from home to workplace — something better than spending three or more hours on jammed freeways, burning high-priced fuel and polluting the air.

Such outlying areas have yet to be really heard from about a major surge in housing construction, but assuming a better level of acceptance than one might find in Palo Alto and neighboring communities it is worth considering.

If, that is, transportation can be improved.

Enter the challenges of electrifying CalTrain on the Peninsula and moving forward with the pet project of former Gov. Jerry Brown: high speed rail.

New Governor Gavin Newsom has already begun to cut back the visionary concept of super-fast trains zipping back and forth from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

His plan at present is to run the line from San Francisco to, say, Fresno or Bakersfield.

Newsom now says a reason for high-speed rail is to promote the economies of the valley areas.

Hancock agrees with the idea of highspeed rail, but with additional elements

friend of both my father and Dick Fisch, has dedicated her life to the Center. They will be displaced from the sale of the Institute’s building. As one of the fundamental legacies of the MRI and its core therapists, the continuation of the Brief Therapy Center should be a primary concern, and should be very well cared for by this “new MRI.” If not, Ms. Suberville’s vision is truly faulty.

Joan Weakland Manuela Court Palo Alto

Rail at grade is best Editor, We have many priorities to meet in the Palo Alto rail upgrade: Safety is paramount for the local community and rail riders. We also need a cost-effective solution that minimizes noise, improves traffic flow and provides rapid

— namely that getting people back and forth from home to work efficiently will perpetuate the economic miracle of Silicon Valley, keeping unicorns off the endangered-species list.

“That’s a better style of living than people spending three hours driving from Livermore, Stockton, Salinas,” he said of the autoclogged freeway alternative.

High-speed rail “relates back to housing,” he notes.

“It makes it possible for people to locate where housing is affordable because they can hop on a train and still get to jobs in Silicon Valley. They could be living in Merced or even Fresno and still get to work in 45 minutes.”

This year’s Index was compiled and written (except for the cover letter by Hancock) under the supervision of Rachel Massaro, of the spinoff group, Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s Institute for Regional Studies. Her vivid writing illuminates virtually every page.

The Index is available online at https:// jointventure.org/download-the-2019-index.

Having reported on Joint Venture Silicon Valley since it was headed by Rebecca Morgan, prior to Hancock’s coming aboard as CEO in 2003, I was not surprised by its excellence.

Anyone who needs or desires to know about the region where they live or work ought to at least peruse this remarkable work. In my view, it should be expected, if not required, reading for every government official in the region.

It also would be a rich source of realworld knowledge for high school, community college, college and even graduate students, with or without unicorns. Q Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be emailed at jaythor@well.com.

train service. The best option for rail service in Palo Alto is rail at grade, with underpasses for cars and pedestrian bridges over the tracks.

Palo Alto is already using the auto-under-rail approach successfully at Oregon Expressway and Embarcadero Road. It would be enhanced by building welcoming bike/pedestrian bridges. This solution can be implemented at Palo Alto Avenue, Meadow Drive and Charleston Road at reasonable cost if non-critical turns are eliminated. Traffic flow can be improved because some traffic lights can be removed.

The solution to the complexity of turns at Meadow and Charleston at Alma Street is to treat those intersections as a unit. The priority for Charleston should be to feed traffic to and from 101 into south Palo Alto with straight underground lanes. Minimal turns are needed there. For example, a

car that wants to turn left from Charleston onto Alma can be diverted to a left-turn lane built as a tunnel or flyover at Meadow, skipping the need for that turn at Charleston. All the needed turns can be mapped out in a way that saves a lot of space and generally circumvents the need to take private property.

The citywide tunnel will simply be unaffordable for the city of Palo Alto. It is also incompatible with the existing valuable infrastructure at Oregon and Embarcadero and will disrupt several creeks. A viaduct option will also be very expensive, noisy and unsightly.

Rail at grade with auto underpasses and pedestrian overpasses will be the most cost-effective solution with reasonable noise and excellent safety. It is the most realistic approach.

Adam Brand Ramona Street Palo Alto

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Stanford Continuing Studies presents

Our Sublime but Vulnerable World: The Photography of Camille Seaman

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For more than a decade, internationally celebrated photographer Camille Seaman has documented the rapidly changing landscapes of Earth's polar regions. Her large format photographs of icebergs that appeared in her prize-winning book, Melting Away, are both sublime and intriguingly intimate because, as she says, “I treat these as portraits of individuals, much like family photos of my ancestors. I seek a moment in their life in which they convey their unique personality.”

This remarkable work was followed by a second book, The Big Cloud, in which Seaman manages to portray immense supercell storms on the Great Plains as spectacular individual “portraits,” each one with a distinct personality. Seaman's ability to personalize the landscape derives, she believes, from her Shinnecock tribal heritage, which taught her from an early age to recognize all living beings—trees, spiders, fish, and even ice—as individual members of one, enormous family.

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Pace Gallery presents work of muralist JR

an Francisco is a photographer’s dream: a dramatic skyline, crooked streets, the Golden Gate Bridge and little cable cars going, as the song says, “halfway to the stars.” But this is not the focus of French photographer JR, whose work is on view until March 24 at Pace Gallery, Palo Alto. “JR, The Chronicles of San Francisco — Sketches” attempts, instead, to capture the essence of the city through its residents. The resulting photos, video installations and lightboxes reveal the rich diversity, quirky eccentricities and “anything goes” attitude of those who live in the City by the Bay. JR, who prefers to use pseudonymous initials, was born in 1983 and began his artistic career as a graffiti tagger. A chance encounter with an old camera left on a subway changed his life as he began documenting his fellow taggers on the street. He garnered the attention of the gallery world and, in 2011, a TED prize allowed him to further extend his practice to creating large-scale murals of everyday people. In 2017 he joined forces with Agnes Varda, a noted documentary filmmaker, to create “Faces Places,” a film about working class people in rural France. It won prizes at prestigious film festivals and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2018.

So what would bring JR, who now lives and works in New York City, to San

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Francisco? In an interview in France Today Magazine, the artist explained, “I want to work in depth on all the layers of the city because there are some very big problems with homeless people there and I want to visualize that by going to different neighborhoods.”

In order to do this, JR and his assistants parked a 53-foot trailer truck, with a photo studio outfitted inside, around 22 locations in the city. Passersby were invited to participate by posing, in any way they chose.

Nearly 1,200 people took part in the project, which yielded thousands of black-andwhite images.

In a statement about the project the artist explained, “Every person is presented at the same size, captured with the same light. No one is more important than another. It is not a group photo, but rather a group of photos.

I work with the individuals as they decide how they want to be represented. The mural aims to be a picture of society, not depicting good and bad, but rather showing that both sides are present in everyone.”

Smiling San Franciscans take selfies in JR’s “The Chronicles of San Francisco, Glass #3, USA, 2018.” Photo by JR/Courtesy Pace Gallery

Just how the images are presented at Pace is quite unique. Entering the gallery, one encounters two almost life-scale, laser-cut dioramas that consist of ink-jet prints of hundreds of individuals. There are some famous faces (former SF Supervisor Mark Leno, filmmaker and California First Lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom) but most are just ordinary people on the street. There are groupings with themes, like folks taking selfies, petting their dogs, dancing or singing. Their figures are compressed, packed together, yet each has a sense of singular identity.

Continue on into the inner gallery and the prints are now hanging on the wall and enclosed in frames. These works have thematic titles, like “Chinese New Year,” “Theatre” and “Ballerina.” They still consist of individual portraits, but are grouped and overlapped to create a sense of depth within the frame.

In some cases, there is the barest inclusion of background — the vertiginous hills or the famous “painted ladies.” These references add to the recognition of a specific geographic place but it is clear that JR really had his lens trained on humanity.

Clusters of drag queens, protestors, the Gay Men’s Chorus and the homeless take center stage in these dramatic tableaux. No one is looking directly at the camera, and because they are posing, there is an odd stillness in the overall effect. For some reason, the paintings of Norman Rockwell, who famously used his friends and neighbors as his models, come to mind. There is that same stoicism and feeling that the models reflect and represent a bigger, broader picture. They are the warp and weft of a complex metropolis where social ills abound but, more importantly, where a pervasive feeling of tolerance prevails. True to his aim, JR has created a democratic panorama filled with many ethnicities and diverse causes but where all his subjects are uniquely, proudly themselves.

There are two video works in which the characters, some of whom were used in the framed pieces, move like automatons. In one, a Chinese dragon jumps and gyrates to the beat of a Taiko drummer, while figures

JR’s photo murals, including “The Chronicles of San Francisco, Balloons, Close up, Work in progress, USA, 2018,” attempt to capture the essence of a city through its residents. in the foreground clap. These works are fun, dynamic and an interesting counterpoint to the static quality of the other pieces.

In the gallery press release, Pace states that these works are “derived from and inspired by” a large-scale mural project by JR that will be presented in May at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. SFMOMA describes the final project as: “a digital mural that scrolls across a seamless bank of screens, bringing together the faces and untold stories of the people we encounter every day.” The mural will be installed in the Roberts Family Gallery, which is free to the public.

The exhibition reflects JR’s keen interest in people and how they reflect the urban setting in which they live. How well did he manage to capture San Francisco?

Quite successfully, I would say. In one print, there is a unicorn in the background. If these mythical creatures did exist, San Francisco would be the logical place to find one. Q Freelance writer Sheryl Nonnenberg can be emailed at nonnenberg@aol.com.

What: “JR, The Chronicles of San Francisco — Sketches.”

Where: Pace, 229 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto.

When: Through March 24, TuesdaySaturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cost: Free.

Info: Go to pacegallery.com/ exhibitions/12981/the-chronicles-of-sanfrancisco-sketches.

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Eating Out How a beloved family recipe inspired Ladera Foods From pantry to production: the story of a local granola company Story by Kate Bradshaw | Photos by Magali Gauthier

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he roots for one of the Midpeninsula’s most popular granola brands and a growing local business can be traced back to when Brian Tetrud, the CEO of Ladera Foods, was a kid growing up in the community of Ladera.

He was one of three children and the son of two doctors. His health-conscious mother, Karen Butterfield, an internist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, decided to create her own granola recipe after a local brand raised its prices. After some experimentation, Butterfield arrived at a concoction that quickly became

popular with family and friends, Tetrud said. “It was clear we had a winner.”

After graduating from MenloAtherton High School, Tetrud attended Ithaca College and then worked in renewable energy. He was in Washington, D.C. in 2010, when his mom came to visit, and in passing, suggested starting a business with their family granola recipe.

Tetrud decided to give it a shot.

He spent about a year gathering feedback and learning how to build a food business. He talked to Kevin Bianchini, owner of Bianchini’s Market in Ladera, to

Brian Tetrud, Ladera Foods’ chief operating officer, adds cooked granola to a machine that then weighs it into individual bags at the company’s Redwood City headquarters.

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Local food & retail happenings

BELCAMPO MOVES ON ...

Hyper-sustainable meat company Belcampo is closing its Palo Alto and San Francisco locations to make way for its first commissary kitchen and a major new project in San Mateo. Belcampo Meat Co. announced the news on Feb. 15. The location at Town & Country Village on El Camino Real stopped serving cooked food on Monday and will close for good on March 2. The company plans to open the commissary kitchen in San Francisco this spring, then a 7,000-square-foot flagship restaurant at the Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo this summer “as part of a new growth strategy for Northern

California,” the announcement reads. The shift will allow Belcampo to focus on growing other parts of its business: e-commence, food delivery and “large-format premier dining experiences,” the company said. CEO and co-founder Anya Fernald, a Palo Alto native, opened the first Belcampo butcher shop and restaurant in Larkspur in 2012 before opening the Palo Alto site in 2014. There are now eight Belcampo locations, including in Oakland, Santa Monica and Los Angeles, and plus a forthcoming New York City outpost opening next month. “It’s bittersweet for me — we have had an great run in both our Peninsula and San Francisco locations but

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figure out how to package the product and sought guidance from the founders of other granola companies, including southern California-based Bear Naked. He obtained the necessary permits and approvals and with the help of a lawyer incorporated the business.

Tetrud had about $100,000 to invest in the company, his mother provided a loan and he took out other loans. He also raised money from friends and family.

Finally, in July 2011, he launched the granola at Bianchini’s Market. Manufacturing started in Redwood City, later moved to San Mateo and is now back in Redwood City, off of Seaport Boulevard.

“It started out as a one-man show,” said Tetrud, now 30. He started doing just about everything himself — demonstrations, food production, deliveries, sales and accounting. “It helped me understand every aspect of the business.”

However, to expand the business, he had to enlist the help of people in the community, he said.

He’s kept things local, hiring fellow M-A grads Dylan Torres as director of sales and John Eberli as marketing manager and social media guru. Now, about a dozen people are involved in the operation, the equivalent of about seven

we could not be more thrilled to partner with Bohannon Development Company and bring the Belcampo experience to the Hillsdale Shopping Center,” Fernald said in the announcement. — E.K. A NEW ‘MOTION’ ... A new kind of fitness studio aimed at loosening up your muscles between workouts is preparing to open at Town & Country Village. Motion Stretch Studio offers assisted, one-on-one stretching sessions with a private coach. The goal is to help clients improve their range of motion, increase flexibility, rid themselves of general aches and pains and rejuvenate their bodies. Founder Jamie Weeks — CEO of Honors Holdings, which owns and operates Orangetheory fitness studios across the nation — told Atlantan Magazine last fall that he felt like something was missing from his fitness routine. “I wanted a place

Ladera Foods sells three granola flavors: almond-pecan, cocoaalmond and vanilla-quinoa. full-time employees. A number of the employees are also from Ladera.

The business has evolved and now generates revenue from three sources: retail, catering and copacking (packaging other companies’ products). On the retail front, Ladera Foods’ granola is sold in 1,500 stores and through Amazon. The company also supplies local corporate catering entities that feed employees at Stanford University, Twitter and Paypal, among others.

Setting up shop in Silicon Valley brings with it pros and cons — on the positive side, Tetrud said, there have been a number of investors and supporters who have provided helpful business advice. However, retaining talent has been a challenge due to competition in the job market.

Over the years, the company has expanded to sell three types of granola: the original nine-ingredient recipe, which contains cinnamon and cardamom; cocoa almond, which Tetrud describes as a healthful version of “Cocoa Puffs”; and a nut-free vanilla-quinoa granola, which contains seeds

where I could go and get stretched; massages weren’t doing it, and I was too intimidated to do yoga.

So two of my friends and I came up with our own concept,” he said. According to the company’s website, the studio’s sessions can help increase a person’s flexibility and recovery time, regardless of their fitness level. Since its founding in 2017, the Georgia-based studio has opened about nine sites in Texas and southern California and is preparing to expand into Florida, New Jersey, Washington and South Carolina, according to the company’s website. The Town & Country location will be the first in Northern California.— L.T. FAREWELL, YOGURTLAND ...

One local frozen yogurt shop is no more. Yogurtland in downtown Palo Alto closed in early December, the company’s customer relations department confirmed. The

instead of nuts for protein.

Despite the variations, Tetrud said “it’s the same product we grew up with.”

The recipes, he said, are simple, and the granola contains less sugar than other brands.

“It’s just made of stuff you’d find in your pantry,” he said. “That is something we’ve stuck to our guns about.”

Eberli, 28, says that granola is surprisingly versatile. Tasked with marketing a crunchy snack most people associate with breakfast or camping, he said he tries to attract customers who don’t already eat it.

“Don’t think about it as a cereal,” he said. Instead, he suggests, think about it as a topping — add it to yogurt, salads, fruit or oatmeal, or as a supplement for a baking project.

“It is a premium granola, but we like it that way,” Tetrud said. “We want it to be the best.”

For recipes and serving suggestions, see Ladera Foods’ Instagram at @laderafoods. Q Almanac News staff writer Kate Bradshaw can be emailed at kbradshaw@almanacnews. com.

company was unable to provide further information about the location, which was a franchise.

Yogurtland had offered self-serve frozen yogurt at 494 University Ave. since 2011. It’s unclear whether the closure is related to the ongoing effort to convert the President Hotel Apartments, which housed Yogurtland and other retailers on the ground floor, into a luxury hotel.

The new owner’s recently submitted application for the hotel conversion calls for preserving existing groundfloor retail and creating a hotel lobby and a lounge in the existing apartment lobby and vacant retail spaces. — 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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DATE: FEBRUARY 28, 2019, REGULAR MEETING TIME: 9:30 AM PLACE: ISAAC NEWTON SENTER AUDITORIUM, COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER 70 WEST HEDDING STREET, 1ST FLOOR, SAN JOSE, CA 95110

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Book Talk

BREAKING UP THE BOYS’ CLUB ... Bloomberg TV journalist Emily Chang takes on Silicon Valley’s boys’ club in her new best-seller “Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley.” Chang draws on her deep network of insiders to open the boardroom doors of male-dominted venture capital firms and the Valley’s tech industry. The book includes interviews with Tim Cook, Peter Thiel, John Doerr, Reid Hoffman and others, as well as hundreds of tech engineers, founders, investors, executives and entrepreneurs. In her book, she reveals how Silcion Valley became so sexist despite its utopian ideals, why ‘bro culture’ endures despite decades of companies claiming the moral high ground and how women are finally starting to speak out and fight back. Originally published in February 2018, the new paperback version is set for release on March 5 and includes new material. For more information about Chang’s upcoming tour dates, go to bit.ly/BroTour.

A monthly section on local books and authors

Hidden histories Book sheds light on Santa Clara County’s black pioneers

by Linda Taaffe

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his family in 1892. (His son Fran later opened Fran’s Market, which operated on the corner of Lytton Avenue.) (as well as other ethnic groups) Adkins said after World War II, moved from their original comPalo Alto, as well as San Jose, be- munities along Ramona, Homer, came attractive for different rea- Channing, Bryant, Cower and sons — technology and industry.

Fulton streets into other neigh“Employers recruited African- borhoods once restricted to white Americans from black colleges residents, she added. from around the country to work Adkins’ quest for information here,” she said. Roy L. Clay Sr., has taken her from San Francisco, founder of Rod-L Electronic who down to Monterey and finally to became known as the “Black Santa Clara Valley, where she disGodfather of Silicon Valley,” and covered that five mulatto families technologist Frank S. Greene, settled in San Jose in 1777 as part who developed highof the original pueblo speed semiconductor established during the computer-memory sysSpanish era. tems at Fairchild SemiShe published her conductor R&D Labs, first book “African were among those early Americans of San tech pioneers to settle Francisco,” in 2012, in Palo Alto. followed by “African Adkins said one of Americans of Monthe biggest surprises terey County” in 2015. she didn’t expect to Adkins said she defind while researching cided to publish a third Author Jan Palo Alto was the story book on black pioneers Batiste Adkins of Eichler Homes. in Santa Clara County “I kind of assumed there were after discovering that many of San restricted convenants there be- Francisco and Monterey’s early cause that was the case through- residents had left those areas and out the Bay Area. That did not migrated to Santa Clara Valley. surprise me. But what did sur“I thought this was so intriguprise me were the Joseph Eichler ing. I wanted to continue finding homes.” out about these people who miThe Palo Alto real estate devel- grated,” she said. oper did not discriminate. He built Adkins said she spent counthomes and established nondis- less hours sorting through black criminatory policies in the 1950s, newspapers published in San she said.

Francisco to piece together details “His feeling was if you had the about these early residents. She money and you could afford to also found many of their histories buy, he would sell,” she said. on “little sheets of paper” tucked That’s why in the 1950s and away in boxes stored in libraries ‘60s many African-Americans and the county archives. For her Santa Clara County research, she tracked down descendants for as many of the area’s original families featured in the book as possible. In some cases, she searched for two or three years to locate ancestors, she said.

Adkins said these AfricanAmerican families came to Santa Clara County during various migration waves.

“Their challenges were about the same, but the reasons for coming were different,” she said.

Adkins said she learned that Santa Clara Valley was a very attractive place for early settlers who came out from the Midwest and south looking for new opportunities prior to 1940.

Students pose in front of a school for black children. Many local children attended the San Jose School for Colored Children, which operated from 1865 to 1874. Courtesy of History San Jose. Reprinted from (continued on next page) “African Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County,” Arcadia Publishing 2019.

ecades before Ronald the area’s early African-AmeriMcDonald House opened cans because many of these stoits doors as a residence ries have never been documented.

“This is history that’s not readfor families of seriously ill children undergoing treatment at ily available,” she told the Weekly in a telephone interStanford University view last week. “These Medical Center, there are hidden histories.” was McDonald Home.

Adkins said she beNamed after Sam Mcgan researching the Donald, one of the earstories of early black liest African-American settlers after her sturesidents to settle in dents starting asking Mayfield (south Palo about the role AfricanAlto), it was founded Americans played in in 1919 as the Stanford local history.

Convalescent Home for Sam McDonald “I didn’t have the Underprivileged Children but renamed in 1959 to honor answers, and when I went to get the countless hours McDonald de- information, I couldn’t find anyvoted to the home and its children. thing,” she said. “I didn’t have McDonald, the grandson of information about where people freed Louisiana slaves and su- lived, what kind of opportunities perintendent of buildings and were available or why they came grounds at Stanford’s stock farm, to the area. That prompted me to is among the dozens of early do the research myself. I wanted African-American residents in to learn and know more ... and Santa Clara County featured in that’s how it started.”

Palo Alto, she said, attracted author Jan Batiste Adkins’ newly released book, “African Ameri- settlers for many reasons. The cans of San Jose and Santa Clara first group of African-Americans County.” The book traces the his- began settling there just before the tory of local people of African turn of the 20th century to work heritage and their roles in every- for the Southern Pacific Railroad thing from agriculture and tech- or on the Stanford campus for the nology to politics and education university and its employees.

The earliest of these residents through 185 photos with accompanying text to tell their stories. were porters who lived on Fife The book, released on Jan. 28, is Avenue in Mayfield near the Stanpart of the “Images of America” ford train station, which served as a stop between San Francisco and series by Arcadia Publishing.

Adkins, an adjunct faculty Monterey, Adkins said.

According to Adkins’ book, member and English composition and literature professor at San there were nine African-AmeriJose City College who has been cans living in the city in 1900, inresearching local black history cluding “Pop Harris,” an escaped for more than a decade, said she slave who opened a shoe repair hopes her book will shed light on shop on the Stanford campus with

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VIRTUAL REALITY REVOLUTION ... Blake J. Harris, best-selling author and regular guest on the podcast “How Did This Get Made?,” will be at Books Inc. in Mountain View at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 26, to talk about his book, “The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality.” In the book, Harris tells the dramatic, larger-than-life true story behind the founding of Oculus and its quest for virtual reality. He draws from more than 100 interviews with key players in the VR world to weave together a narrative that captures the breakthroughs, breakdowns and human drama of trying to change the world.

Books Inc. is located at 317 Castro St., Mountain View. For more information, go to booksinc.net.

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GUY KAWASAKI’S LIFE STORIES ... Venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, the Silicon Valley guru of guerilla marketing and author of 14 books, including “The Art of the Start,” is coming to Kepler’s Books on Monday, March 4, to share personal stories from his newest book, “Wise Guy.” After working with some of the biggest tech companies in the world, including a stint at Apple in the 1980s, Kawasaki went on to become the poster child of reinvention, solo-prenuership and a champion of self-branding.

Today, he’s a chief evangelist for Canva, an online graphic-design tool, a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

“Wise Guy” is a collection of personal stories from Kawasaki’s childhood in Hawaii, his education at Stanford and UCLA, the ups and downs of working for Steve Jobs, and taking up surfing at 60.

Kepler’s Books is located at 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. The event will be from 7:30-9 p.m.

To RSVP, go to keplers.org.

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Public Notices 995 Fictitious Name Statement

Seaman “Pop” Harris, an escaped slave who settled in Palo Alto in 1892, stands in front of the bootblack shop he opened on the Stanford campus. Courtesy of Palo Alto Historical Association. Reprinted from “African Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County,” Arcadia Publishing 2019.

Hidden histories (continued from previous page)

“They wanted to work in agriculture or have their own farms and businesses,” she said. “Santa Clara Valley was considered a prime agricultural place.”

Adkins said the number of early African-Americans living in Santa Clara County was small, but those pioneers created opportunities for the next generation.

“They overcame great odds of slavery, racial discrimination and economic struggle,” she wrote in the book’s introduction. “They ultimately developed communities with churches, businesses, schools and and social and cultural organizations ... that still exist throughout Santa Clara County today.”

Sam McDonald Park, the

967-acre open space preserve in neighboring San Mateo County created on a portion of property that McDonald bequeathed to Stanford for use as a park for children, is among the monuments that still stand today. Q Associate Editor Linda Taaffe can be emailed at ltaaffe@ paweekly.com.

What: Author Jan Batiste Adkins will talk about her new book “African Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County.”

Where: Mitchell Park Community Center, El Palo Alto Room, 3700 Middlefield Road When: Sunday, March 3, 2-4 p.m.

Cost: Free.

Info: Go to pahistory.org/ programs.html.

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THE CAR DOCTOR FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650609 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: The Car Doctor, located at 710 San Antonio Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94303, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): SCHALLER AUTOMOTIVE INC. 710 San Antonio Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/21/2009.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 25, 2019.

(PAW Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2019) DEL REY PLAZA FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650819 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Del Rey Plaza, located at 2105 South Bascom Ave., Suite 230, Campbell, CA 95008, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): DEL REY PLAZA INVESTORS LLC 2105 South Bascom Ave., Suite 230 Campbell, CA 95008 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/29/2019.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 30, 2019.

(PAW Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22, 2019) AUTO DETAILING CONCEPTS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650826 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: Auto Detailing Concepts, located at 3980 El Camino Real #104, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): MAURICIO NARANJO 3980 El Camino Real #104 Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/04/2019.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on January 30, 2019.

(PAW Feb. 8, 15, 22; Mar. 1, 2019) NEW WEST FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650988 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: New West, located at 555 Bryant Street No. 140, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Limited Liability Company.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): WOWA WEST LLC 555 Bryant Street No. 140 Palo Alto, CA 94301 Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above on 01/15/2019.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 1, 2019.

(PAW Feb. 8, 15, 22; Mar. 1, 2019) DisasterAWARE Enterprise FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650960 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: DisasterAWARE Enterprise, located at 2107 North 1st Street, Suite 660, San Jose, CA 95131, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KAAZING CORPORATION 2107 North 1st Street, Suite 660 San Jose, CA 95131 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 1, 2019.

(PAW Feb. 15, 22; Mar. 1, 8, 2019) KATALYST COACHING KATALYST CONSULTING FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN651240 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: (1) Katalyst Coaching, (2) Katalyst Consulting, located at 580 W. Crescent Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94301310, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: An Individual.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): KATHERINE LATIMER WOLF 580 W. Crescent Drive Palo Alto, CA 94301310 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 8, 2019.

(PAW Feb. 15, 22; Mar. 1, 8, 2019) MACWEB.COM HUCKLEBERRY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: FBN650944 The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: 1.) MacWeb.com, 2.) Huckleberry, located at 2635 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306, Santa Clara County.

This business is owned by: A Corporation.

The name and residence address of the registrant(s) is(are): WEB BROADCASTING CORP. 2635 Park Blvd.

Palo Alto, CA 94306 Registrant has not yet begun to transact business under the fictitious business name(s) listed above.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on February 1, 2019.

(PAW Feb. 15, 22; Mar. 1, 8, 2019)

997 All Other Legals NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No. 18-20884-SP-CA Title No. 180474804-CA-VOI A.P.N. 182-41-046 ATTENTION RECORDER: THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE TO AN ATTACHED SUMMARY IS APPLICABLE TO THE NOTICE PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR ONLY PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE 2923.3 NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 07/22/2004. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, (cashier’s check(s) must be made payable to National Default Servicing Corporation), drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state; will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made in an “as is” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust,

with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale. Trustor: Eugene Thomas Wheelock and Ann D Wheelock, husband and wife Duly Appointed Trustee: National Default Servicing Corporation Recorded 08/12/2004 as Instrument No. 17945725 (or Book, Page) of the Official Records of Santa Clara County, California. Date of Sale: 03/07/2019 at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Gated North Market Street entrance of the Superior Courthouse, 191 N First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $1,050,433.77 Street Address or other common designation of real property: 14188 Stanford Court, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.

If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The requirements of California Civil Code Section 2923.5(b)/2923.55(c) were fulfilled when the Notice of Default was recorded. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information.

If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 714-730-2727 or visit this Internet Web site www.ndscorp.com/sales, using the file number assigned to this case 18-20884SP-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: 02/06/2019 National Default Servicing Corporation c/o Tiffany and Bosco, P.A., its agent, 1230 Columbia Street, Suite 680 San Diego, CA 92101 Toll Free Phone: 888-264-4010 Sales Line 714-730-2727; Sales Website: www.ndscorp.com Rachael Hamilton, Trustee Sales Representative A-4684107 02/15/2019, 02/22/2019, 03/01/2019

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

Home Front NATIVE ALL YEAR ... The UC Master Gardener Program of San Mateo and San Francisco counties will host a class on “Creating Year-round Interest in a Native Garden” on Saturday, March 2, 10 a.m. to noon. The workshop will be held at the Veterans Memorial Senior Center, 1455 Madison Ave. in Redwood City. In this beginning overview class, participants will learn how to use California natives for yearround color and how to conserve water and provide habitat for wildlife. Master gardener Delle Maxwell’s Portola Valley garden has been on the Going Native Garden Tour many times. For more information, contact mgsmsf@ucanr.edu. To sign up, go to smsf-mastergardeners. ucanr.edu.

SHADE LOVERS ... If you have a shady corner in your garden, you might want to add a container with plants that enjoy less sun.

Summerwinds Nursery will host a free 30-minute talk on “Shade-loving Plants for your Containers” on Sunday, March 3, at 9 a.m. Learn tricks for caring for a colorful and texture-rich arrangement made for a shady location in your garden. Design experts will walk you through the creation of a shade-plant arrangement. To register, go to summerwindsnursery.com.

Summerwinds Nursery is located at 725 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto.

GARDEN TOUR DATES ... The 2019 Going Native Garden Tour will be held on Saturday, May 4 (southern Santa Clara Valley), and Sunday, May 5 (north to San Francisco), from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The free tour is organized by the California Native Plant Society (Santa Clara Valley Chapter) in association with UCCE Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County. Since 2003, the native garden tour has showcased gardens featuring California native plants. The tour features approximately 60 gardens, most of them in private homes, which are open for self-guided tours. To register, go to gngt.org.

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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NEIGHBORHOOD SNAPSHOT

Midtown Palo Alto offers neighborliness along with easy walking to shops and parks

by Elizabeth Lorenz photos by Veronica Weber

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my Lee and her husband moved to Midtown while she was pregnant with their first daughter in the summer of 2012. A friend had prompted her to consider moving from Redwood City to Palo Alto because of the city’s reputable schools.

Lee found a home to rent on a frontage road near Oregon Expressway with only seven homes on it (she asked that the exact street not be named). Their baby, who is now in first grade at El Carmelo School, was born just months after the couple moved into the neighborhood.

One of the things she discovered early about Midtown was its convenient location.

“I pretty much knew that I could walk pretty much everywhere,” she said.

The parks are another perk of the neighborhood.

“The parks are so beautiful,” she said.

The family often spends time at nearby Hoover and Bowden parks, a contrast to her childhood neighborhood in Orange County, where there was only one “big giant park” to which her mother had to drive her.

Midtown, named because it is roughly in the middle of Palo Alto, sits between Oregon Expressway and Loma Verde Avenue, and West Bayshore Road and Alma Street. With about 5,000 families living in a mix of homes from Eichler to Craftsman style, the neighborhood has its own shopping district, including a grocery store.

“I feel like all of our neighbors are neighborly,” Lee said, often comparing notes on things like smelling a skunk in their yards, or how family members are doing after catching the flu.

Unlike Lee, Webster Street resident LeAnn Baum found Midtown accidentally when she

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LeAnn Baum said it was “luck” that she and her family found Midtown when they moved from San Francisco. “We love the low-key atmosphere of Midtown as compared to the busier downtown area of Palo Alto,” she said. “Midtown has a nice balance of nice parks, shops, restaurants and other amenities.” and her husband moved from San Francisco.

“While we love Midtown, we didn’t choose our house because it’s in Midtown. It was luck,” said Baum, who has two children, 5 and 6 years old.

“We love the low-key atmosphere of Midtown as compared to the busier downtown area of Palo Alto. We appreciate being off the beaten path,” she said.

“Midtown has a nice balance of nice parks, shops, restaurants and other amenities.”

Back in the late 1960s, Annette Glanckopf had a story similar to Baum’s. She was working at IBM in Palo Alto and living in San Francisco. She began to think her commute was a bit too long so she decided to rent a house on Ramona Street in Midtown. In 1972, when all of her friends started buying homes, she started looking too and settled on a fixer upper she said was originally a commune on Bryant Street.

After she had the floors fixed and broken windows replaced,

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she moved in and eventually married.

“I’d fallen in love with the bones,” she said of her home.

She’s seen a lot of change over the last 46 years with more than half of the homes on her block torn down and rebuilt.

She loved the easy walk to

the train when she commuted to work, and still loves the proximity to the grocery store and is excited about Mike’s Cafe reopening in her neighborhood. Q Elizabeth Lorenz is the Home and Real Estate Editor at the Weekly. She can be emailed at elorenz@paweekly.com.

Longtime Midtown resident Annette Glanckopf has seen a lot of change on her block of Bryant Street. More than half of the homes on her block have been torn down and rebuilt.

CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOLS: Grace Lutheran Preschool, 3149 Waverley St.; Love’n’Care Christian Preschool, 2490 Middlefield Road; Mini Infant Center of Palo Alto, 3149 Waverley St.; Ohlone Kids’ Club (PACCC), 950 Amarillo Ave.; Palo Alto Friends Nursery School, 957 Colorado Ave. FIRE STATION: No. 4, 3600 Middlefield Road LIBRARY: Mitchell Park branch, 3700 Middlefield Road LOCATION: between Oregon Expressway and Loma Verde Avenue, Alma Street and West Bayshore Road NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: Greer Stone, gstone22@gmail.com; midtownresidents.org PARKS: Bowden Park, 2380 High St.; Greer Park, 1098 Amarillo Ave.; Hoover Park, 2901 Cowper St.; Seale Park, 3100 Stockton Place POST OFFICE: Cambridge, 265 Cambridge Ave.; Main, 2085 East Bayshore Road PRIVATE SCHOOLS: Keys School, 2890 Middlefield Road; HeadsUp! Emerson School, 2800 W. Bayshore Road; The Girls’ Middle School, 3400 West Bayshore Road PUBLIC SCHOOLS: El Carmelo, Fairmeadow, Hoover, Ohlone and Palo Verde elementary schools; Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School; Gunn and Palo Alto high schools SHOPPING: Midtown Shopping Center, Middlefield Road and Colorado Avenue; also Middlefield Road at Loma Verde Avenue

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Situated on nearly one full acre in Atherton, this 4 bedroom, 3 bath 3,130 square foot home is ideal for entertaining. Full of charm and character, from the custom floor tiles to the warm wooden beams, 1 Edge Road offers privacy, great flow and gorgeous trees. With an updated kitchen and generous size bedrooms, there’s little missing from this great home.

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232 Coleridge Avenue, Palo Alto 3,085 Sq Ft | 28,750 Sq Ft Lot Offered at $20,000,000 | 232Coleridge.com This classic beauty built in 1925 is situated on one of the most desirable streets in prestigious Old Palo Alto. The homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distinctive stucco façade, deeply recessed ^O|psdbO lBbO_ MddoĂ&#x203A; sWaJOoOM JB_Kdb| BbM zodtUVs Wodb UoW__O zdo^ BoO MO bWbU features of the Spanish Colonial Revival style that is the iconic architectural signature of the City of Palo Alto.

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THE ADDRESS IS THE PENINSU THE EXPERIENCE IS A IN PINEL

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LOS ALTOS $3,695,000

PALO ALTO $3,600,000

STANFORD $2,850,000

8140 Pescadero Creek Road | Land Q. Grimm/D. Chesler | 650.400.7879 License # 01405453 | 00675583

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MOUNTAIN VIEW $2,198,000

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19862 Veronica Drive | 4bd/2ba Arti Miglani | 650.804.6942 License # 01150085 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-4:00

990 Ticonderoga Drive | 4bd/3ba Carolyn Botts | 650.207.0246 License # 01249573 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:30-4:30

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MENLO PARK $1,598,000

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SAN JOSE $1,398,000

380 San Carlos Avenue | 3bd/2ba Renee Cassar | 650.759.7289 License # 01934491

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1943 Mount Vernon Court #310 | 2bd/2ba David Chung/Sunny Kim | 650.489.6251 License # 01215151 | 01871036 OPEN SAT & SUN 1:00-5:00

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Square footage, acreage, and other information herein, has been received from one or more of a variety of different sources.

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Sports Shorts ON THE LINKS ... Stanford senior Brandon Wu matched his career best finish by placing second on Wednesday at The Prestige Presented by Charles Schwab at the Greg Norman Course at PGA West.

He carded three back nine birdies in cool, pressure-packed conditions and closed with an even-par 71, but came up one short to Victor Hovland of Oklahoma State, who closed with a 66. Wu completed the 54-hole tournament with a score of 7-under 206 to collect the fifth runner-up showing of his Stanford career. Stanford shared sixth in the 16-team event with a total of 24-over 876, combining for a strong last day total of 7-over 291. The Cardinal B squad claimed 13th at 40-over 892, shooting 308 on Wednesday. David Snyder (74) also snagged a top-20 for Stanford, finishing at 5-over 215.

Isaiah Salinda (75) tied for 24th at 6-overe 219, while Henry Shimp the team’s best final round with a 69 and tied for 33rd at 8-over 221.

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WEEKLY HONORS ... Stanford women’s basketball player Alanna Smith earned this week’s Naismith Trophy National Player of the Week for her performances in the Cardinal’s road sweep of UCLA and USC. Smith, who picked up her third Pac-12 Player of the Week nod, had double-doubles in both games and averaged 22.5 points, 12.5 rebounds and 3.5 blocks in the victories. She had 22 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks in the Cardinal’s 65-51 win at UCLA. After losing the nail on her right index finger in the opening minutes at USC, the senior gutted out 23 points, 12 rebounds, three blocks and hit the game-winning layup with 3.1 seconds remaining in a 69-67 win. Smith also surpassed 1,500 career points against the Trojans, becoming the 16th player in program history to hit the mark.

Eight of her 18 career doubledoubles have come in the last 16 games … Stanford junior Makenzie Fischer was named Mountain Pacific Sports Federation/Kap7 Player of the Week on Tuesday. Fischer has won the award in each of her three weeks of eligibility this season. … Stanford senior Josh Sharma was voted the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for his efforts in a home sweep of USC and UCLA over the weekend. The Cardinal posted a 7976 victory over USC on Wednesday and a 104-80 win over UCLA on Saturday at Maples Pavilion.

Pinewood’s Hannah Jump drives in for a layup in last year’s Central Coast Section Open Division title game against Mitty.

CCS OPEN DIVISION

Another go-around between two good teams Pinewood and Mitty are meeting a fourth straight time for the title

by Glenn Reeves he Central Coast Section’s Open Division in girls and boys basketball turns seven this year. Pinewood and Mitty have each been included in the girls Open Division all seven years and are both playing in their fifth Open final. Mitty has won all four previous championship game appearances. Pinewood has

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lost in the final in each of the last four years, the last three years to Mitty and in 2015 to Sacred Heart Cathedral.

The 2019 final is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday at Santa Clara University. And Pinewood, which went on to beat an undefeated Mitty team ranked No. 1 in the nation in triple overtime in last year’s NorCal Open Division

competitors. It depends on who brings their game and who hits their shots.’’

Mitty is led by senior Haley Jones, considered the nation’s top prep female player, a threat to get a triple-double every time she steps on the court.

Pinewood senior Hannah (continued on page 42)

CCS SOCCER

Menlo, SHP, Priory represented in the finals

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by Rick Eymer est Bay Athletic League cha mpion Men lo School became the latest league representative to reach a Central Coast Section girls soccer championship game. The fourth-seeded Knights traveled to Santa Cruz County and celebrated the trip with a 2-0 CCS Division I victory over top-seeded host Soquel on Wednesday night.

Menlo (19-1-2) meets thirdseeded Christopher (12-4-2) for the championship on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Fremont High.

The Knights are seeking their first CCS title since 2016 and their

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final, would like to reverse a trend and win its first CCS Open Division title.

“We’re looking to win CCS,’’ said Pinewood senior Klara Astrom after scoring 25 points in an 80-43 win over Valley Christian in the CCS semifinals Wednesday. “They’ve done it for three years now. We’ll see. They’re great competitors and we’re great

Menlo senior Sophie Jones (right) has helped the Knights reach Saturday’s CCS Division I championship contest.

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seventh overall.

Christopher advanced via penalty kicks against Aptos.

After 62 minutes of scoreless play, Menlo snapped the stalemate in the 63rd minute when senior Sophie Jones fired a free kick and junior Sidney Peña kicked it in.

Freshman Carolina Espinosa delivered the Knights’ second goal on a deflection in the 74th minute.

The Knights fended off an indirect free kick in the 52nd minute and limited Soquel’s chances from there. (continued on next page)

Sports STATE WRESTLING

Menlo-Atherton sends seven girls to the state championships Palo Alto represented by three wrestlers and Gunn has a pair

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will have to be at their peak level.

They want it. But whether we go there and win or not the main thing is to have a lot of fun.’’

Evelyn Calhoon (121), Lauren McDonnell (137), Abby Ericson (160) and Folashade Akinola (189) won individual CCS championships. Paola Ramirez (116), Angie Bautista (126) and Anna Smith (131) contributed second-place finishes. M-A finished with 221.5 points, Half Moon Bay was second with 170.

“Having been to state before, it helps me relax,” Calhoon said. “I know what to expect.”

Gunn’s Alia Drescher racked

up five pins en route to a third place finish and a bid to the state championships next week in Bakersfield.

After falling in the first round, Drescher set off on a six-match win streak that included victories over three of the top six seeds.

Titan sophomore Mikayla Silverman also secured herself a spot at the state championships, placing fourth at 150.

Palo Alto’s Alexandra Lee placed fourth at 121 to qualify for the state meet.

Gunn’s Audrey Tsien was sixth at 160 and Palo Alto’s Amelia Clough sixth at 189. Lee, Drescher

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by Glenn Reeves here wasn’t a whole lot in the way of uncertainty about it. You’re hard to beat when you have seven wrestlers in the finals.

Menlo-Atherton won its third consecutive Central Coast Section girls wrestling championship Saturday at Independence High.

Now the Bears will see what they can do about improving on last year’s fourth-place finish at the state finals.

“This is the best team we’ve put together,’’ said M-A coach Phillip Hoang. “There are some real good teams out there. Everybody

Gunn’s Alia Dreschler won six straight matches to place third and advance to the state meet. and Silverman are joined by Palo Alto’s Ashley Wang, who made it to the 121 final.

Calhoon, who will compete in soccer in college at Brown, pinned Wang in 0:34.

“It was the first time my soccer

teammates were watching,’’ Calhoon said, pointing to the large contingent of spectators decked out in M-A colors in a section of the stands. “I feel bad they drove (continued on page 43)

Prep soccer (continued from previous page)

SHP’s Alexa Schlotter dribbles the ball upfield. fourth in the West Bay Athletic League and won a play-in game to qualify for the CCS. The Gators missed the tournament after finishing 6-13-1 last season.

This wealth of athletic ability in the WBAL is not restricted to soccer. Entering play Thursday there are no less than six WBAL teams still alive in the various CCS basketball tournaments.

Three of them, Pinewood, Menlo and Eastside Prep, all play in the Open Division.

Menlo is the lone WBAL boys soccer team remaining while Eastside, Sacred Heart Prep and The King’s Academy are all playing basketball Thursday.

Boys soccer Menlo School, which finished second to SHP in the West Bay Athletic League, downed North Salinas 3-1 to reach Saturday’s Division II title match. The Knights play Mitty at Fremont at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

The third-seeded Knights (182-2) will be looking for their first CCS title since sharing it with Sacred Heart Prep in 2013.

“It feels awesome. To be able to play in the finals is a great honor, but we’re also looking to win it.” senior Max Colowick said.

“Ideally we’ll have even more games.”

Menlo and North Salinas played to a scoreless first half, both teams had chances. Menlo junior goalie Adam Kasser stopped several shots in the first half.

In the second half, junior Trevor Perez got Menlo on the board with a goal in the 62nd minute.

Seven minutes later, Colowick converted on fellow senior Connor Nelson’s corner and Menlo led 2-0 with 21 minutes left.

Junior Aaron Morgan delivered the final blow, scoring on a feed from senior Ben Lasky with 11:20 remaining. North Salinas scored on a free kick in stoppage time.

“We came into the game a little nervous, complacent from our previous game,” Colowick said “(At halftime), we pointed out our flaws: we were nervous on the ball and we weren’t really settling the ball, we were playing long over the top which doesn’t play to our strengths because we’re not a big, physical team. Once we calmed down the ball, started passing the ball like we normally do, play simply and make decisions early, it showed on the field. We got through their midfield.”

The Sacred Heart Prep boys soccer team wasn’t always the

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Menlo is joined by three other WBAL teams, including secondplace and fifth-seeded Notre Dame Belmont (13-7-1), which plays Leigh (12-6-3) for the Division II title.

In Division IV, third-place Priory (13-4-3) plays fourth-place Sacred Heart Prep (11-5-6) for the championship at Del Mar High with a 5:30 p.m. starting time.

No. 5 Priory, in its second CCS championship game and its first since 2008, took a page out of Menlo’s notebook and traveled to top-seeded Monte Vista Christian (13-3-4), where it earned a 5-1 decision.

Junior Amaya Gray scored four times. She got the Panthers on the board in the 27th minute, with an assist from Vivian Yt chuang, who later added a goal. Gray scored again two minutes later, on an assist from Kate Hooper.

Kaela Marcheck also recorded an assist.

Gray also scored four times and had an assist in a first-round victory over Gunderson. Maya Blevins and Hooper also scored.

The Gators advanced with a 3-2 victory over visiting Seaside on Tuesday.

Sacred Heart Prep scored twice in the first half and then fended off a two-goal rally from Seaside to advance.

Juliana Rosen scored the third goal, on an assist from Elle Lessing. Rosen helped create the first goal with a beautiful crossing pass that found Sasha Bellack wide open for the score.

Megan Tinsley found an opening in the final five minutes of the first half and fired home the second goal.

The Gators last reached the championship game in 2016, losing to Menlo School. They won a CCS title in 2015. SHP is seeking its fourth overall title.

Sacred Heart Prep finished

Priory coach Henry Arredondo addresses the team during halftime. most athletic team on the field but the Gators continually won all season because of a dedication to tactical and technical efficiency.

Sacred Heart Prep’s 2-1 loss in the semifinals of the Central Coast Section Division I tournament to visiting Monterey on Wednesday was a result of extremely strong play from the Toreadores (21-2) and their quickness.

The Gators (18-1-2) managed Monterey’s speed effectively enough to keep themselves in the game until the final whistle. The difficulty was in responding to the Toreadores’ quick first few steps in reaching or protecting a loose ball.

Even then Sacred Heart Prep created plenty of opportunities and credit the Gators for not rushing themselves even as the clock became their enemy.

No. 4 seed Monterey is will face No. 6 Prospect, which beat No. 2 Menlo-Atherton, 4-0.

The Bears (12-8-3) could not keep up with the speedy Panthers (16-6-1), who played long ball most of the night, allowing their forwards to use their speed to outrun defenders.

M-A goaltender Charlie McCoy’s ability to stop 1-on-1 attacks kept the score down. The

back line also took a lot of balls to various parts of the body that would have reached the net.

Bears’ midfielders Jude Carabetta-Goncalves, Emmanuel Preciado and Jose Baillon each created scoring opportunities in the second half.

For Sacred Heart Prep, The bad news is losing three seniors: Tommy Hogan, Brian Tinsley and John Carrington. The good news is that the rest of the team will be returning following a championship season, in which SHP won its first league title in four years and its 16th overall.

Next year’s team will be looking for its first CCS title since 2013. The seniors helped forge a foundation for that pursuit.

Monterey scored first and Sacred Heart Prep responded with a goal from Alexi Stavropoulos on an assist from Kyle Nilsson.

The Toreadores scored around in the second half and the Gators spent the remainder of the time working hard for the equalizer.

Stavropoulos had a pretty chance in front of the net that got loose from the goalie but was knocked away by a Monterey defender. Liam Johnson had a couple of solid attempts, including a free kick that just went over the net. Q

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David Hickey

Kristin Leung is an important part of Pinewood’s game plan.

Girls basketball (continued from page 40)

Evelyn Calhoon, Lauren McDonnell

Abby Ericson, Folashade Akinola

M-A WRESTLING

M-A WRESTLING

The two seniors each won a CCS girls wrestling title over the weekend to advance to the state meet.

Evelyn won her title at 121, recording a pin in 0:34.

Lauren won her title at 137, recording a pin.

The two seniors each won a CCS girls wrestling title over the weekend and advance to the state meet. Abby won the 160 title, on an injury default. Folashade won her fourth CCS title, recording a major decision.

Honorable mention Ashley Wang, Alexandria Lee Palo Alto wrestling

Mikayla Silverman, Alia Drescher Gunn wrestling

Paola Ramirez, Anna Smith* Menlo-Atherton wrestling

Angie Bautista Menlo-Atherton wrestling David Hickey

Jump, also among the top prospects in the nation, has played with Jones on the club level and they will be teammates again next year at Stanford. If Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer didn’t have to coach her own game Friday night, she’d likely be sitting courtside at Santa Clara, as she was Wednesday for the semifinals at Piedmont Hills.

The CCS girls basketball championships began in 1977, so long ago that Peterson beat Camden -two schools that long ago ceased to exist -- in the final.

Mitty won its first CCS championship in 1985 with current coach Sue Phillips as the point guard.

That started an incredible run of 29 consecutive CCS championship game appearances for the Monarchs.

Pinewood is making its 22nd CCS championship game appearance since Doc Scheppler took over in 1995.

There are other sub-plots scattered throughout the meeting of two of the top basketball minds this side of Steve Kerr (Mike Montgomery has retired). Let’s just say this will be interesting.

That’s because it’s playoff time, the time coaches and players obsessed with attempting to refine their craft have been waiting for.

“We’re just excited this week is finally here,’’ Scheppler said.

“This is why you do all the stuff, why you put in all the work, so you can be at your best when you play these games.’’

No. 2 Pinewood played at a very high offensive level in the win over Valley Christian, using

a 24-0 run to take a 47-20 lead at halftime.

“That was our best offensive show of the year in terms of efficiency and finishing at the rim,’’ Scheppler said. “And when we didn’t get a good look at a 3 we’d get the offensive rebound.’’

No. 1 Mitty (24-2) took care of No. 4 St, Ignatius, 78-51 in Wednesday’s other semifinal.

Pinewood (24-2) defeated St. fundamentally-sound man, point- that knocked off St, Mary’s of Francis 61-39 in the quarterfinals. ing toward getting better and Stockton, another undefeated “The coaching cliche is always better -- usually with our backs team ranked No. 1 in the nation, in the NorCal Open semifinals, to take one game at a time,’’ against the wall.’’

He was still ruminating on how before losing in the NorCal final Scheppler said. “But that doesn’t mean you can’t work on the skills Eastside Prep scored 39 points in to a Miramonte team that feathe first half on Pine- tured Sabrina Ionescu, considered your girls will have to wood’s senior night. the favorite for National Player of have against Mitty and “They gave us every- the Year with Oregon. other elite teams, hanthing they had and we Jump and Astrom were juniors dling the ball, handling had to dig down deep,’’ last year when Pinewood took it pressure, handling douScheppler said. “They a step further, outlasting Mitty in ble teams. We’ve been hit eight 3s in the first that epic triple-overtime NorCal preparing all year to half. It’s not like we final before losing to Windward play Mitty again.’’ were playing terrible, in the state Open Division chamJump scored 22 but we weren’t laser- pionship game. points against Valley focused like we’ll need And now the clock is ticking Christian and led the to be to beat the top down on their final games in a team with 11 rebounds.

Pinewood’s teams.’’

Pinewood uniform. It’s not too Trinity Copeland had Annika Decker Pinewood outscored difficult to figure how they’d like eight rebounds and AsEastside 40-13 in the this season to play out. They’d trom six. Pinewood had second half and won 79-52 And like to help take Pinewood that 15 offensive rebounds.

“We’re going to need that Fri- the theme song for this post-sea- one final step, one win further than it’s ever gone before. Q day,’’ Scheppler said. “If we do son has defense in the main bar.

“It’s D we’re playing, not 3s that against Mitty we’re going to we’re raining,’’ Scheppler rhymed. win.’’

It’s been a special four years for Jones presents all sorts of probAbout the cover: lems for every team Mitty plays, Pinewood as the program elevatPinewood senior Hannah ed from Division V small-school Pinewood included.

Jump drives to the basket “It’s not so much their half- power to the highest level of high during last year’s Central court sets that creates issues as school girls basketball, the CaliCoast Section Open Division it is their offensive rebounds and fornia Open Division. title game. Photo by Karen Jump and Astrom were freshtheir style of play that creates Ambrose Hickey. men starters on the 2016 team easy baskets,’’ Scheppler said.

The popular perception of Pinewood is, “all they do is shoot 3s.’’

Not exactly. Scheppler also ATHLETES OF THE WEEK spends plenty of time on defense.

Pinewood got very few open looks at 3-pointers against Mitty in last year’s NorCal Open final, but won the game by hanging around in a defensive slugfest until Mitty ran out of gas in the third overtime period.

“We’re more conservative on defense than many teams we play,’’ Scheppler said. “We play man. We play good man,

Klara Astrom will have a big impact on Friday’s outcome between Pinewood and Mitty.

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Juliana Rosen Sacred Heart Prep soccer

Alexa Thomases Menlo soccer

Cole Kastner Menlo basketball

Connor Nelson Menlo soccer

Kyle Nilsson Sacred Heart Prep soccer

Isaiah Saams-Hoy * Eastside Prep basketball

Miguel Tostado Menlo-Atherton soccer

Andrew Wang* Palo Alto wrestling *Previous winner

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all this way.’’

While her soccer teammates didn’t get to see Calhoon in action for long, they were undoubtedly pleased with the result.

“It was a nice way to go out after four years of hard work for me and my teammates to do this in front of this big crowd,’’ Calhoon said. “I’ve never been on a team quite like this one.’’

McDonnell defended the crown she won last year with a pin in 3:31 over Annie Hua of Fremont, the same opponent she met in last year’s final. McDonnell will be out to improve on her fifth-place finish at last year’s state meet.

“This time I will look to show what I learned the past year,’’ McDonnell said.

She isn’t sure where she will attend college, but said none of the schools she’s applied to have a women’s wrestling team.

“I’d like to start a club team or an intramural,’’ McDonnell said.

Wherever she goes she will look back with pride at the legacy she and her teammates created at M-A. “The girls that are coming back will have a great future maintaining the culture of the team, the camaraderie and friendships,’’ McDonnell said.

Ericson won the 160-pound title by default.

“I wish I would have known earlier,” Ericson said. “We both came on the mat and shook hands and then it was over,” In the match with historical significance everyone on hand was waiting for, Akinola took a 12-6 decision over Juliannah Bolli of Silver Creek, joining Gunn’s Cadence Lee as the second fourtime CCS champion in the annals of girls wrestling.

Akinola set the tone in introductions when she did a cartwheel after being announced.

“I practiced around the corner,’’ she said, with a laugh.

Her athleticism was also on display once the match started.

Across 1 Bodily pouches (and not something like what Santa carries, unfortunately) 5 Airline to Adelaide 11 Adversary 14 How some sit by 15 Lacking the resources 16 Hedwig, for one 17 Midday song by The Moody Blues, out of order?

19 Cup edge 20 Blissful 21 Jots down 23 Throat problem, briefly 24 “Forgot About ___” (2000 single) 26 Frigid 27 Oscar winner 29 Stylish, to some 32 “We try harder” rental company 35 “Forever Mine” singer Day 37 Ray of sunshine 38 “Good Will Hunting” campus 39 Comedian Black who was Anger in “Inside Out” 40 GOP fundraising org.

41 It’s red, white, and blue for a bunch of countries 43 “Love Story” author Segal 44 “The Duchess of Alba” painter 45 Croquet need 47 “Far out!”

49 “Smallville” villain Luthor 50 “Moonrise Kingdom” director Anderson 51 Addis ___ (Ethiopia’s capital) 55 Breed of chicken once known as Indian Game 58 Vexation 59 Kimono sash 60 Punny Stephan Pastis comic strip, out of order?

63 Guitar master Paul 64 “Honor Thy Father” author Gay 65 River from Lake Victoria

At times she seemed to be almost playing with her opponent as well as playing to her fans in the crowd.

Akinola placed second at last year’s state meet -- an impressive achievement considering she was coming off an ACL injury.

Her goals this year include nothing less than both individual and team state championships.

In the boys side of the CCS wrestling championships, Palo Alto took fifth place with 113.5 points. The dynastic program at Gilroy won its 16th consecutive CCS championship.

Andrew Wang, the No. 3 seed at 126, earned a berth at the state meet, advancing to the final

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Other Paly wrestlers who made it up on the CCS podium were Peter Graham (fifth at 113) Adar Schwarzbach (sixth at 132), Dara Heydarpour (fourth at 138) and

Cade Creighton (fourth at 145).

Gunn’s Timothy Waymouth took sixth at 152 and Dash Lee placed fifth at 182. Lee ends his season with a 26-13 record. Waymouth ends his season with a 28-8 record. Q

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12 Boo-boo 13 They give shade 18 ___-Provera (birth control injection) 22 “But she’s calling ___” (“Mr. Brightside”) 24 Off-the-highway eatery 25 It pairs with steak 28 Parking person 29 Malia’s sister 30 Buffoonish 31 1970s song whose first two words denote the first two letters 32 Letters on a boom box 33 ‘80s “This Old House” host Bob 34 Persevere, out of order?

36 Some side dishes 42 Country singer Campbell

44 Fail to bring up a memory 46 Is 48 Cassette contents 50 During 52 Eagle’s perch 53 Disney “princess” fond of reading 54 Adams who photographed Yosemite 55 Target of some over-the-counter medicine 56 Toe the line 57 Go after flies 58 Went 40 in a 20 zone, e.g.

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67 Like some tomatoes 68 Boat bottom Down 1 Building locations 2 Mature 3 Disperse 4 “All ___ go!”

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